We received a post from one of our regular contributing experts for your World Tour of Success, Kelly Stallings, and wanted to share it with you on the general blog.  Kelly is a psychotherapist and author of “Life is Mental: Think Thin to Live Thin.”  Here, she shared with us why so many resolutions never see a day past January and how to change that for yourself.  While access to Kelly is normally reserved for our WTOS members, we bent the rules a little here and said, “Welcome to February, friends!” Here’s what she wrote: Read the rest of this entry »

As a follow up to our last post, “How to Beat Adversity, Obstacles, and Other Crisis In Your Life,” we wanted to share with you the most important component on that list. The umbrella over it all, for us. We want to share it with you not to shove it down your throat or be obscene about it, but because it is who we are at the core and we always want to be transparent about that. Emphasis on always. Introducing our F-word. We have a few of them, but not the one you think. Failure is one of our favorites, because we have such a gratitude for the opportunity Read the rest of this entry »

We all have crisis. If you are not in it now, you’ve been in it before, and you will likely be in it again. And perhaps again, and again. We (Aly and Andrea) happen to be in it now, personally, and in an unimaginably huge way. Perhaps because we are motivational speakers, and most see us as just about the “happiest people they know,” you probably don’t believe us when we say this is a very sad, difficult family crisis we are going through right now. It is. We’ll tell you all about it another day, but we know we’ll get through it, past it, and beyond it. The question for you becomes, how do you get past your life-crisis? Better yet, how will they shape you?
We did not become the “adversity experts” for no reason. We have been here, in the middle of awful, many times before and we have a system. We know the critical components to beating and thriving amongst the adversity. Here are some of our favorites:

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So its snowing (even in Texas!).  Its the holidays.  And you, my friend, are about to be in the know about all things Family Winter Vacation.  That’s right, we are talking about it on the MomItForward #gno panel (that’s girl’s night out) with the coolest snowmamas on the planet, and you SO need to join us: Tuesday December 15, 2009 8-10pm CST.  Check out the details here- learn how to participate in #gno and even find out how to win up to $900 in lift tickets and classes from Park City Mountain Resort @snowmamas! Seriously. Cool.  We’ll serve virtual hot chocolate. RSVP here for the chat, fun, sharing, and coolness.  Other awesome guests: @eric_hoffman @katjapresnal @krista_parry @makeandtakes @meishalawson  @pclinda @snowmamas @takingthekids  

We did a flip-flop today and it was so fun! Not a real one- we retired from that kind of cheerleading after college. BUT, we will never retire from the best kind of cheerleading– the kind where we get to lift up other women in business, empower you, motivate you, Read the rest of this entry »