Here’s one we never miss.  Its the 9th Annual eWomen Network International Conference & Business Expo! We’ll be posting, tweeting, vlogging, and blogging all weekend long… wait ’til you see this!  Women entrepreneurs from all over the place are rockin’ the beautiful Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas… ?

Click here to see the entire Rock Star U interview with Jennifer Abernethy She’s known as America’s Sales Stylist, and her approach to helping clients grow their business literally oozes rock star coolness.  That’s why we love The Sales Lounge and the woman who built it, Jennifer Abernethy.  Every time we speak with her, it is so Read the rest of this entry »

So imagine that you’re an acorn that fell off the tree and you’re just minding your own business lying in the grass being… an acorn.  Along comes an 8-year-old with big shoes and you just pray that he doesn’t have the mind to crush you.  After all, you’re just trying to do your job being a good acorn and you never did anything to that kid… It’s like that in life sometimes.  You’re minding your own business, trying to do your job—being a wife, a mother, an IT analyst, a professor, a buyer, whatever you strive to do… and all of a sudden someone comes along and thinks they’re bigger and better than you, or their kids are better than yours, or their career is more amazing and important than yours, and before you can blink it seems like their life mission is to crush you.  Stomp you.  Smash your dreams and put you down and put obstacles in your way just because “they can.”  Or “they don’t like you.”  Or maybe you are starting to believe the whispers of your imagination that say “you aren’t good enough.” Really?  Not so fast.  Let’s get this straight: There are people all over the world who push and shove, but that doesn’t mean you have to become victim of pushers and shovers.  Rock stars are not victims.  There are people who will do anything to climb their way up whatever their personal ladder of success may be, including bury you in the process.  But being buried isn’t always such a bad thing. Go back to the acorn analogy.  Have you ever thought about what can happen when an acorn gets buried?  If you find yourself in a circumstance where you’re “buried” in obstacles (including people who seem to create obstacles for you), do what the acorn does in Read the rest of this entry »

There’s a one-act play out there that should be mandatory in all marital counseling, pre-marital counseling, and dare we say Sales Training. “Defending the Caveman” takes a hilarious peek at the fundamental differences between men and women, and how, going back to the days of cavemen, the same truths were born.  We’ve seen it a few times (our last was with @raymondmcanally as Caveman) and its just as funny -and just as true- each time.  For example, Caveman truth: Men take pride in being the “hunters” while women take pride in being “the gatherers.”  This got us thinking.  We, as women, are GREAT not just at gathering shoes and purses at Nordstom’s half yearly sale, but we are really great at gathering information, which is code word for listening, paying attention, empathizing and planning how to help…. all at the same time.  Makes for a great entrepreneur, dontcha’ think!

Lets face it.  Doing business, and certainly succeeding in business, as a woman is often a very different experience than as a man. Dare we say its all about perception?  Dare we say the woman who worked her way to the CEO position did so through tireless hours of learning, perseverance, and straight up ass-busting (not ass-kissing)?  She did not sleep her way there, or bat her eyelashes to get there.  Her confidence is not arrogance or snobbiness, her work ethic is not child-neglect, her perseverance is not stubbornness, and her smile is not fake.  She is the master of organizing and time management, and the genius of relationship building.  She can bring home the bacon and fry it up in a pan.  She is the Waooh-man.  And no doubt, She is a Rock Star.

So we asked a few successful women we know one question:
” Of all your “rock star” qualities, which is the one quality that best serves you in building your World Tour of Success as a woman?”

Here’s what a few of the very cool ladies said… Read the rest of this entry »

As the old saying goes, money can’t buy happiness, we disagree.  We say it can.

“Now that I no longer have to worry about having a roof over my head or where my next meal will come from, I am happy.  Money now pays my bills, but it also pays for my housekeeper.  The fact that I do not have to do laundry, I promise, makes me crazy-happy!” -Aly

But money does not buy joy.  When we truly seek and find joy, regardless of our circumstances, happiness will follow.  Remember this:  Happiness can always exist without joy, but joy will never exist without happiness.  Here’s how we know:

Suffice to say, there was a period in our lives encompassed by circumstances seemingly straight out of a bad Hollywood script.  A really bad one.  It was the script that intertwines a pile of sh-doo-doo, and then adds a little more on top of that.  Yeah, that one.  Skip to scene four and open with single mom, six kids (we were in junior high), food stamps, and nearly homeless.  We said nearly.  And by “nearly,” we mean by a thread.

So, yes, we were in a dumpy house.  But the car was even dumpier.  Is that a word?  Having experienced that tin can on wheels, we say it is a superlative, noun, and a verb.  Dumpier must be a word.  This car was a chocolate brown station wagon that we affectionately called, “The Dragon Wagon.”  (says big, echoing voice) Read the rest of this entry »