Getting out of your comfort zone

Have you ever worked on a project that suddenly takes on a life of its own, expanding by the minute and becoming an entirely different being to the one you embarked on?

That’s what happened with our 5 Days to Feeling Fabulous.  It started back in April with just a few people gathering at The Clarity Centre as part of the Health Providers group within Company of Women. Fay Chapple, the CEO of Clarity, ever the gracious hostess, was talking to the women about getting the word out about what they do and using video as the medium.  

By the end of that meeting, we were putting together a Health Summit and over time, as the excitement and buzz grew, so did the group. 

Fast forward just five months and we have hosted our first Health Summit, with 30 experts and over 530 people who signed up to participate.   Incredible.  Who knew?

It just shows you how when you have a dream, you can make it a reality.  For many of the health providers this was, quite frankly, a real stretch.  Some didn’t have websites but were told they had to have one to participate, otherwise what was the point as people couldn’t reach or check them out.  Many had never done workshops before, let alone in front of a camera.

As the providers arrived to do the taping at Clarity, they were visibly nervous and yet when they were finished, you could see that a weight had been lifted and the process was not as painful as they first feared.  They realized they could do this and there was a sense of empowerment, and a bounce to their step as they left. 

However the real kudos has to go to Fay and Spenser Chapple. This tech-savvy duo set up the website and turned the videos into the summit. This took countless hours and their hard work in doing that for all of us has to be acknowledged. 

This week as the positive feedback flows in from people who have watched the webinars, I can see we have all grown so much through this project.  There’s a certain air of confidence emitting from the providers who lent their expertise to the program.  They’ve come a long way… in fact you could say it was Five Months to Feeling Fabulous.  How cool is that.

PS - You can still watch the webinars, just register at www.5daystofeelingfabulous.com

Five days to feeling fabulous

All week we have been taping the webinars for our Five Days to Feeling Fabulous Online Health Summit and it has been fascinating to watch.  We have thirty women involved in this project, all experts in some aspect of the health spectrum and we’ve taken a broad sweep in our definition of health, to include how you look, because if you look good, chances are you feel good too.

The women are from Company of Women or the Clarity Centre and we have been meeting for several months now to plan this Health Summit, so the energy and excitement has been building.  Some are presenting information on their own, others are being interviewed and we also have a roundtable discussion about alternative health therapies.

But what has really surprised me is how good the women are;  how knowledgeable they are on their area of expertise.  I know, I should have thought that all along, but when you know people in a different capacity, you don’t always get to witness their talents.  You don’t always get to watch them in action. And I am learning so much too.

 All of them, without fail, have been a bit nervous when they arrive, but once the camera starts rolling, they are terrific, just anxious to make sure they’ve covered their key points.

It has also become clear that each modality, often originating with the ancient Egyptians,  has a place in a wide spectrum of health care and that one treatment can lends itself well and lead to another.  One of the women commented on how much fun it has been to just get together with like-minded women who share a common passion of wanting people to be healthy and live a fulfilled life.  

I am also learning that the abundance approach that we foster in Company of Women is perhaps more unique than I first thought and that in other groups, it is very much everyone for themselves.  Well,  right now I am proud of our Company of Women/Clarity community.   

Ladies – you rock.

PS  Make sure you check out and register for our Health Summit – it is August  19-23, it’s free so treat yourself – www.5daystofeelingfabulous.com