Wow!  W-O-W!  There is a lot to tell you today!  And it’s all such fun stuff!!!

First, we had a wonderful speaking engagement Wednesday night.  I can’t tell you how great it was to be doing a Sony Style store presentation in my home town.  I loved it!  The staff at the Seattle store were so good to us.  They were so excited for the event, had posters up everywhere.  For the last week, they’d been handing out fliers.  Thank you so much Seattle store!  Let’s do it again soon!

Since we were local, my mom and aunt had the opportunity to come.  That was super fun.  My beautiful mom is to the right, and my beautiful Korean aunt is to the left.

The manager had secured 25 chairs.  But we had 51 people show!  Isn’t that awesome!

There were even women who had been in our CONFIDENCE workshop all weekend!   I looked at Carmen, one of our workshop attendees, and said “Your not tired of listening to me talk all weekend!”  🙂  What a huge compliment to see a number of our CONFIDENCE ladies in the audience from our most recent workshop to several ones past.

It’s been a BIG week for all of us.  There is so much happening at once, I’m trying to not to go cross eyed.  🙂

But I have some great news!  The SOARORITY! Forum is underway!  Chopping Block, our amazing web/blog designers, are donating their time, talent and services to the SOAR! Community!  They are amazing!  They are building us an awesome forum to call our own.  SOARORITY! will be going live very, very soon so stay tuned!

The SOAR! Blog is also going “officially” live on Monday morning!  Have you noticed that new “blog” tab on the SOAR! website?  I just spent the last hour hammering out the SOAR! blog schedule for the YEAR with Karen, my business coach.  I’ve got exciting news ladies!  The SOAR! Blog schedule is going to be beautiful!  Every week of the month, it will have it’s own enriching, yummy exercise for you!  By the end of the year, the Archives on the SOAR! blog are going to kick booty resource for anyone wanting to SOAR! with their business dreams!

We will kick off the SOAR! Blog this Monday morning with an important photo exercise.  This will be our first photo exercise of the year!  And the nature of this exercise is grounding you for the upcoming year.  You’ll get to see the SOAR! Recipients results throughout the week next week, as they’ve been working on this exercise since I met them.  And then you will have the opportunity to post your results on the SOARORITY! Forum!

When February 1st comes, the first Monday of the month, Karen and Fay will be posting the first business coaching exercise.  And get this…they will continue this rhythm throughout the year.  You will get to read and try the business coaching exercises that the SOAR! Recipients are doing, every first Monday of the month!  Isn’t that awesome!   So much more to share about what will happen next, but I’ll let you savor that yummy news first.  🙂

One last thing, as we transition the SOAR! blogging to it’s new home on the SOAR! website, I’m excited to return to the blogging topics I did before SOAR!  For all of you who are dying about the Comfort Photo Contest, yes, the Five Finalists are coming!  The voting will start soon!  I haven’t forgot.  🙂  Just got a little sidetracked—you could say.  🙂  And I’ve also got a handful of new photo recipes for you to try!  Thank you for supporting this wild ride we’ve all been on.  I still can’t believe what has been birthed!

Say a prayer for our SOAR! Recipients!  They all flew to San Francisco today.  They are meeting for the first time.  We’ve put them in a private home—all to themselves.  They have their first coaching session from 2pm-4pm today, and then they will be brought into the beautiful Wise Women Embrace.  It’s going to be an intense weekend.  And yes, we’ve got video support with them so you will get to see the highlights of their weekend!

Have a wonderful weekend ladies!  See you back on Monday!

Much, much love, Me Ra

p.s,  Thanks to all the volunteers that are getting the SOAR! Hall of Fame together!  Email Christine Barker if you’d like to be involved!  You can email Christine at soarsisters@gmail.com.