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An Interview with Sharon Pannone

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Over the next few months, we’ll be showcasing entrepreneurs that are doing some pretty awesome things on the Internet and in their local communities. This interview is a part of that series.

An Interview with Sharon Pannone

1. Tell us a little about yourself, your company and your passion.

My company is Step-Forward-Coaching, creating it allows me to live one of my biggest passions each day, helping others understand how the The Law of Attraction works and how to apply it to their daily life. I love helping my clients realize that they are naturally creative, resourceful and whole and all the answers are within.

I have overcome many obstacles in my life and have walked through my own storms knowing they were allowing me to expand and become a better more positive me.

This attitude has lead many people in my life to say “I want what you have” so I started my company which allows me to co-create with my clients to help them live in the positive of their NOW which allows them to manifest and live their desires.

2. What is your start-up story?

I am in the process of my start up now, I walked away from a life that no longer served me and the vibrational level I am now living.

I am working with like minded people to make this world a better place and to create a ripple effect as I step-forward in my own life and business.

My clients are looking at improving their lives, they are wanting more, and they are searching for clarity. While I am still in school improving my co active coaching skill with CTI through January of 2011, I am working with clients, as well as booking my motivational speaking engagements at a 50% discounted rate.

3. What motivates you to get up and do what you do every single day?

I am motivated by life, the gift of helping others discover a new way of being. I love helping others to peel back the disbelieving layers that have built up over time, to discover who they really are and the power of their connection to Source. I love when they start to live in their “positive NOW” and ride the wave to manifesting what is is they want. The joy and energy of being apart of this stepping-forward for me, is why I am here.

4. What is your definition of success?

Success for me is a day filled with joy and happiness. When I am able to help others see just how magnificent they are. When I catch myself in a negative vibration and I immediately switch it to a positive and feel that energy shift. When I look around and see all those things I want manifesting in my life.

5. Who has been your biggest influencer?

So many but the top three would have to be Source which for me is God, Abraham Hicks, and nature

6. What has been your greatest business achievement to date?

Launching my website which my BSETC team helped me to create – I love it!

7. What are you working on right now that the world should know about?

I’m working on getting on stage, I want to spread the energy of tuning into “The Good Vibration Station” and I am also doing a daily YouTube video, “365 Days Till Now.”

8. If people want to find you, where is the best place for them to do so?

E-mail:  stepforwardcoaching@gmail.com
Website:  www.step-forward-coaching.com
YouTube Channel: StepForwardCoaching “365 Days Till Now”

An Interview with Amethyst Wyldfyre

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Over the next few months, we’ll be showcasing entrepreneurs that are doing some pretty awesome things on the Internet and in their local communities. This interview is a part of that series.

An Interview with Amethyst Wyldfyre

1. Tell us a little about yourself, your company and your passion.

I’m Amethyst Wyldfyre and with my Divine Business Partner Mikael Sami Kumara I have formed A Business Awakened. This partnership – which serves through the portal “TheEnergyJourney.com” has been created to serve evolving, heart centered entrepreneurs to learn how to manage and master their personal power, to align and connect their power more fully to their passionate purpose and from this union to create more positive impact and profitable results.

2. What is your start-up story?

OMG – well this could take several pages if you wanted the whole thing! I started this path when I left my old career behind and began to explore aspects of myself that I didn’t even know existed! Through that exploration – because I was willing to Let OUT parts of my self that I’d kept hidden even from me – I found my path into serving others to reclaim their own lost, hidden or denied power. Part of the journey involved -as Erin would say- being “thrust into Entrepreneurship” There aren’t too many job listings in corporate for an Energy Mastery Coach! That’s why a big piece of our work is helping people with BOTH sides of the equation – not just in managing their own personal power but also in managing and mastering the power of a business entity – because the business can and does have a life of it’s own! We work to help people get into “right relationship” with their business.

3. What motivates you to get up and do what you do every single day?

I love working with people – I love seeing them blossom – I love being able to serve them with techniques that empower them – I love being able to see the results that they get in their own lives and also the results they create in the lives of others after moving through the work that I do with them! It’s a JOY to make the connection with my Divine Clients!

4. What is your definition of success?

Having my work, my family, my personal joy, and my service back to the basket of life all be in balance!

5. Who has been your biggest influencer?

Probably Marianne Williamson – back in 2001 she was the first connection I made into the “self growth” and personal development field that had something to say that I resonated with strongly – and that changed my life significantly and continues to do so. Since then I’ve also been blessed with some incredibly brilliant mentors and mastermind trainers including Kevin Nations who has helped me to clearly see the value in my work and Lisa Sasevich who has helped me to learn how to sell my work without being salesy.

6. What has been your greatest business achievement to date?

This year I was selected for a Be the Change Award as a “Movement to Watch” by Suzanne Evans – and in 2009 my CD Divine Union – A Crystal Singing Bowl Healing Journey received an award at the International New Age Trade Show in Denver – those are nice personal achievements – but my greatest achievement of all has been watching one of my clients – NY Times Best Selling Author and Internet “grandmother” Suzanne Falter Barns – become FULLY and Complete aligned with her passionate purpose – and become fully and completely embodied in her personal power. She is now on track to break 7 figures with her business but most importantly she’s now SERVING at a much higher level a greater number of people who are going to be going out there and serving more people themselves. I love that pebble in the pond effect.

7. What are you working on right now that the world should know about?

I’m working on further refining the work that I deliver through my Core Path – Energy Foundations for Divine Wealth Intensive with my new Divine Business Partner – Mikael Sami Kumara. We’ve really seen through our work how important it is to get abundantly clear energetically around not only receiving wealth but more importantly containing it – so that it builds into a center of power and can then be channeled in generative ways – ways the build more wealth as well as distribute it in ways that influence and create positive and systemic change in the ways our world works.

8. If people want to find you, where is the best place for them to do so?

http://www.theenergyjourney.com

An Interview with Angela Croft

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Over the next few months, we’ll be showcasing entrepreneurs that are doing some pretty awesome things on the Internet and in their local communities. This interview is a part of that series.

An Interview with Angela Croft

1. Tell us a little about yourself, your company and your passion.

I’ve always felt a calling and passion to work with people and support them to be their best selves. For the first ten years of my career, I practiced psychotherapy and worked individually with adults, families, and kids… and also with groups. I love seeing people have those light bulb moments that start them on a path in which life has become a little easier and there is more room for joy and the expression of their full potential. I believe the world is a better place when people are connected to their passion, joy, purpose, and potential and this led me to make the transition to become a career and life coach. I LOVE the challenge, reward, and fun of running my own business…and the creative freedom and expression this allows me.

My clients are creative, motivated, insightful people who are on the verge of making a quantum leap in their career and life that will allow them to express more of who they are and provide them with greater freedom, fulfillment and happiness. I help them connect with their passion, purpose and potential and release the thought, energy and belief patterns that are holding them back. I guide and inspire my clients to access their own internal resources and I provide them with transformative tools and techniques for keeping themselves un-stuck and moving in the direction of their dreams. There is an art and science to creating a life that brings you joy and fulfillment and reflects who you really are…and it takes a good deal of courage, faith and perseverance to make the dream a reality. I love living this path for myself and supporting others to do the same.

2. What is your start-up story?

While I was working as a family therapist at a children’s mental health center just outside Toronto, I kept having the recurring desire to travel extensively. I was also becoming more and more drawn to the world of coaching. I had travel pictures and inspirational material tacked up on the board above my desk…and I also had a clear view of a landing path to Toronto Pearson airport—so I had lots of good material to keep my dream well fed! My husband is a professional guitarist and about a year or so after I started feeding my dream he got an offer to go on tour with the National Broadway tour of “Mamma Mia”. I quit my job, and we packed up our life and hit the road for over three years.

We were in a new city almost every week and we saw all but a handful of the States and Canadian provinces in the process. It was an amazing journey and I completed my coach training on the road. Because of the type of travel visa I was granted, I wasn’t allowed to earn an income while stateside, so I began building my practice on a pro-bono basis while doing other business-building work like designing my website, generating creative content, and learning about marketing. I also spent a lot of time clarifying my vision and honing my sense of purpose- all of which prepared me well to launch the income-generating business that I now run from our home base in Toronto.

3. What motivates you to get up and do what you do every single day?

A sense of infinite possibility and a sheer love of what I do. So many of us are just beginning to scratch the surface of how unbelievably capable we are of creating and living our dreams, and I thrive on being a part of that field of possibility in my work and with my clients.

4. What is your definition of success?

Creating a life that is true to who you are, and allows you to express your full creative, passionate, purposeful potential.

5. Who has been your biggest influencer?

A vast array of brilliant, creative, courageous entrepreneurs (like you, Erin!) and spiritual teachers come to mind. Lately, David Neagle and Suzanne Evans (of helpmorepeople.com) have been hugely influential in expanding my concepts of what’s possible in business and in life.

6. What has been your greatest business achievement to date?

Developing and launching a business while living a transient existence on the road. It was a huge challenge to keep a focused momentum going while transitioning to a new environment every week and figuring out the basic necessities of life like where we were going to eat and find food… and sometimes dealing with less-than-lovely hotels!

7. What are you working on right now that the world should know about?

Currently I am working one-to-one with people and helping them to catalyze quantum leaps in their work and personal lives. I use powerful transformative tools and exercises in addition to the strategic clarity and accountability that coaching provides, to help them make the change they desire with much greater success, ease, and enjoyment than going it alone.

I’m also working on developing a group format as well as at-home study modules that will accentuate the work and provide additional access to the benefits of coaching, learning, and transformation. So, for anyone who wants the heads-up on when this is available, scoot over to my website and sign up for the newsletter and I’ll be sure to let you know when this is launched!

8. If people want to find you, where is the best place for them to do so?

You can reach me at www.angelacroft.com or at 647-346-0085.

I’m on Facebook under “Angela Croft Coach Consultant Catalyst” as well as on Linkedin.

An Interview with Carol Griffin

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Over the next few months, we’ll be showcasing entrepreneurs that are doing some pretty awesome things on the Internet and in their local communities.  This interview is a part of that series.

An Interview with Carol Griffin, Sculptor & Painter

1. Tell us a little about yourself, your company and your passion.

I came to New York City almost 22 years ago to model. After about eleven years of that, including some time spent in Paris and Germany, I was literally driven from within to begin creating with my hands. I started with stone sculpture, and have been carving stone pieces since 1999. About eight years ago I had an opportunity to study color and painting, and now I’m in love with color as well. I guess you could say that my passions are natural stone and color – and beauty!

2. What is your start-up story?

I knew I wanted to create, but I didn’t know where or how to begin. I’d visit art stores and look at the various tools and paints and wish I knew how to use them. At that time, I wasn’t able to attend art school. Then one day at Pearl Paint, a large art supply store in New York City, a sign posted on the bulletin board described stone carving classes for beginners. My heart did a flip-flop, and I continue to feel the same excitement about sculpture today. Through studying stone carving, I came into contact with others in the art field, and one thing has led to another.

3. What motivates you to get up and do what you do every single day?

There are times when it’s difficult to sleep, because I’m excited to begin a new project, or I’m thinking of a way to solve a technical problem with my work – and I HAVE to get out of bed! Actually, I need to motivate myself to go to sleep, because I’d really like to work all the time!

4. What is your definition of success?

Success, to me, is enjoying what you do, being able to work each day, excited about the possibilities for that day. It’s also having others appreciate and benefit from what you do. The world has enough in it that isn’t beautiful; this creates within me a desire, a need, to counteract some of the ugliness of the world with beauty.

Whenever someone tells me how much he appreciates one of my paintings or sculptures, I feel that I have been successful in enriching someone else’s life in some way. I made a bust of my late grandfather and gave it to my grandmother several years ago. She cried when she received it. Her deep appreciation, for me, was the essence of success.

5. Who has been your biggest influencer?

Artistically, the person who has influenced me the most is the sculptor Lorrie Goulet. I studied with her in New York several years ago and have kept in touch. Her philosophy, work ethic, and esthetic really resonate with me. She’s eighty-five years old now, and still carving stone and wood almost every day!

6. What has been your greatest business achievement to date?

I’d have to say that it’s been the forging of meaningful relationships: with galleries, framers, art suppliers, fabricators . . . It’s easy for me to interact and become friendly with people, and I really enjoy meeting and working with others. This ability has proven to be an asset time and time again.

7. What are you working on right now that the world should know about?

I’m working on a series of figurative sculptures with an eye toward having a solo show in two to three years (it takes a long time to carve a stone sculpture!). I’m also working on incorporating more patterns into my abstract paintings, using the colors of natural stone as well as the colors of home décor and fashion. I’m finding all this . . . well, plain old fun!

8. If people want to find you, where is the best place for them to do so?

My email address is cgriffin6@mac.com, and my telephone number is (646) 770-2746. My Facebook “Like” page is http://bit.ly/cYwlFB. I’m also on Twitter at http://twitter.com/CarolCGriffin. As you know, I’m overhauling my website, and that should be completed within the next month; that address is http://www.carolcgriffin.com.

An Interview with Mich Fredericks

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An Interview with Mich Fredericks

1. Tell us a little about yourself, your company and your passion.

My name is Mich Fredericks, I am an expat who has accomplished her travel dreams and delving into living a fulfilled life as an entrepreneur. My passion for coaching has stemmed since late adolescence and has now flourished into an online coaching business helping 20 – 30 somethings with what’s been coined by Alexandra Robbins.

2. What is your start-up story?

My startup story began on a grim note. After graduating with a Professional Certification in Coaching I did countless research on how I could do it properly. I invested thousands of dollars in establishing an official International Business Company after a flood paperwork then discovered that paypal was finally released in my home country (South Africa). I had to fly back home to set up the paypal account and with the help of Erin and Trina my dreams of having an online coaching business slowly came to fruition.

3. What motivates you to get up and do what you do every single day?

Motivation comes from without but inspiration comes from within. I have learned to keep what’s going inside me on regular check. If that means time out from everything then I do that, if it means doing an extra pilates workout then so be it. What I know I tend to forget is that I want to help and take care of everyone else but neglect myself. Once my life is in check and in order, only then can that exude through my life and business.

4. What is your definition of success?

Success to me isn’t necessarily something that the media portrays and attaches to material things. Who wouldn’t want a Bentley? Success is all encompassing into the areas of life that is seen and the areas that aren’t. It’s the areas of life, body, soul and spirit.

5. Who has been your biggest influencer?

Ali Brown, Anne McKevitt and Erin Blaskie hands down!

6. What has been your greatest business achievement to date?

Launching the website is definitely the greatest achievement.

7. What are you working on right now that the world should know about?

Currently working on an ebook that will be coming soon. It will be announced on my website and in my ezine.

8. If people want to find you, where is the best place for them to do so?

Website: www.quartercrisiscoach.com.

My twitter handle @michfredericks

An Interview with Geoff Zimpfer

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Over the next few months, we’ll be showcasing entrepreneurs that are doing some pretty awesome things on the Internet and in their local communities.  This interview is a part of that series.

An Interview with Geoff Zimpfer

1. Tell us a little about yourself, your company and your passion.

The Webinar Marketing Pro – Helping Small Business Make BIG Money Using Webinars Without Spending a Fortune!

2. What is your start-up story?

After promoting live events and webinars for Tony Robbins, Brian Tracy, Les Brown and hundreds of Fortune 1000 clients, I now bring my experience and passion for helping small business leverage the power and speed of Webinars to quickly boost their list, grow sales and reach new markets.

3. What motivates you to get up and do what you do every single day?

My passion to see other entrepreneurs succeed in reaching their dreams and goals by leveraging technology and systems.

4. What is your definition of success?

Having someone say “thank you” you’ve helped me grow my business and free up more time in my business and personal life – while making more money!”

5. Who has been your biggest influencer?

Tony Robbins, Jim Rohn, Jay Abraham, Dan Kennedy, Seth Godin, Michael Gerber.

6. What has been your greatest business achievement to date?

Being featured in Erin Blaskie’s Blog! Woohoo!

[Editor's Note: Geoff, you are amazing but too funny!]

7. What are you working on right now that the world should know about?

Creating an automated, Done4You Webinar Marketing & Replay System that boosts your leads, grows your list and converts more prospects to sales, with no manual labor, no tech training and with little time.

8. If people want to find you, where is the best place for them to do so?

www.FreeWebinarMarketingHelp.com