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/> </a></div><p>Yep, that&#8217;s you.  We are launching the new and improved version of our blog, featuring YOU!  That&#8217;s right, we want to hear all about you.  We&#8217;ve always been about celebrating women in business, and in that order&#8230;. now we get to hear it straight from you.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.alyandandrea.com/archives/1680/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>InspireMeToday.com&#8217;s Gail Lynne Goodwin</title><link>http://www.alyandandrea.com/archives/1453</link> <comments>http://www.alyandandrea.com/archives/1453#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:56:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Aly &#38; Andrea</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Featuring Rock Star YOU]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rock Star 101]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Your World Tour of Success]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Aly and Andrea]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gail Lynne Goodwin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Global Hug Tour]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspiration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspirational stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[InspireMeToday.com]]></category> <category><![CDATA[motivation]]></category><guid
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/> </a></div><p>We don’t know a whole ‘lotta grandmas who have flown in Black Hawk Helicopters over the most dangerous parts of Iraq. None who have flown via bungee with Cirque de Soliel.  Nor a grandma who has a Grammy Award winning son-in-law (Song of the Year, for Lady Antebellum’s <em>Need You Now</em>).  Oh, WAIT&#8230;. we do know one. One who has done all that and more (wait ‘til you hear the story!). Meet our most loving and giving friend, <strong><a
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/> </a></div><p>We interview nothing short of a LOT of amazing women in business.  Each of them show their own unique qualities (we call them rock star qualities), but the most successful ones have one thing in common.  They have made mistakes.  They also learned from those mistakes and later leveraged those mistakes to know “what not to do.”  <a
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style="text-align: center;">WE ARE!  We usually post messages on our blog about awesome women and what they’re doing to change the world and make it a better place to live and work.  But this one is about getting YOU ready to change the world!  We invite you to join us for the the <em><a
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