Dear Dolphins,

Lots of PR has been coming my way lately. I appeared on the LA KTLA Morning Show on January 2nd and it went really well! The hosts were wonderful and we had a great conversation for about 5 minutes about “Tips for Becoming a Zillionaire in 2007”. The clip is on my Press page so check it out (click here to view the clip).

The editor of the FishbowlLA section of www.MediaBistro.com invited me to write an article for their site and I am featured as “Amateur Player of the Month” by the Ladies Poker Association at www.ladiespokerassociation.com. I was tickled with founder Crystal Osgood’s introduction telling how I played against her in a tournament:

“In 2005 I was sitting at a Ladies Event at the Commerce Casino and seated across from me was an attractive women playing perfect poker. She was so sweet and kind when I spoke to her that I was taken aback when I got into a hand with her. She not only check-raised me in a hand, but in a later hand she slow played me perfectly when holding a straight to my two pair. I shot her a look that could kill and she just smiled back genuinely while raking in the pot.”

(Note to self: always be on best behavior, no matter where you are and think it won’t matter.)

My thanks to the Women Entrepreneurs of Santa Clarita Valley who gave me the 2006 Speaker of the Year Award. They are a lovely and lively group of women – visit their web site at www.weofscv.com.

Our online membership club, The Dolphin Club, now has 132 members and counting…Click on the Dolphins at right to find out more and start swimming with us now for fun and profit.

Wishing you all smooth seas, sunny skies, and treasure ships at your docks!
Love and blessings,
Chellie

ARTICLE:

The Twelve-Step Program for Financial Stressaholics

I was speaking at a 12-step meeting recently, and this Twelve-Step program for Financial Stressaholics suddenly came to me. With a wink and a nod to Alcoholics Anonymous and twelve-step programs everywhere, here are the twelve steps to treat your money disorders – spending bulimia and income anorexia:

1. We admitted we were powerless over money—that our checkbooks had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Budget greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will, insurance, checkbooks, and retirement accounts over to the care of a Financial Advisor that we understood.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of our debits and credits.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our accounting errors.

6. Were entirely ready to have our Financial Advisor remove all these defects of our accounting software.

7. Humbly asked her to adjust our bank reconciliations.

8. Made a list of all persons to whom we owed money and became willing to pay them all.

9. Made direct payments to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would overdraw our bank accounts.

10.Continued to take financial seminars and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11.Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with our Financial Advisor, praying only for knowledge of her retirement plan for us and the power to invest enough money in it.

12.Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to income anorexics and spending bulimics and to practice these principles in all our finances.

Live long and prosper

CHELLIE’S UPCOMING APPEARANCES:

January 25, 2007: The NAWBO Ventura County Chapter has invited Chellie to be the guest speaker at their dinner meeting from 6-8 PM. She will speak on how to go from Zero to Zillionaire in your business and your life! For more information and reservations, contact Julie Merrick at 805-504-6006 or Julie@spadayplanningservices.com.  

February 1-3, 2007: Chellie will be a presenter at the Visionary Business Conference: Creating Business from the Inside Out which will be held at the LAX Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles . You will learn to connect business and spirit, implement spirit-driven strategies to make a living and have a life, and become a visionary leader. BJ Gallagher, Jamie Walter, and Linda Landon are also on the program. For more information and to register, visit www.speakerservices.com/visionarybizor call 310-822-4922.

March 2, 2007: Chellie is one of the keynote speakers at the “New Ways to Build and Grow Your Practice” meeting of the AAMFTCA meeting. Contact Lynne Azpeitia at lynnemazpeitia@yahoo.com or visit www.aamft.org for more information.

Financial Stress Reduction® Workshops in Los Angeles: New evening classes begin Monday, February 19, 2007 and Wednesday, February 21 from 6:00 – 8:30 pm and the daytime class begins Tuesday, February 20 from 1:00 – 3:30 pm for the 8-week series. Achieve extraordinary results in your money and your life! Call 310-476-1622 or visit www.chellie.com for more information.

A LITTLE ABOUT CHELLIE . . .

Chellie Campbell is a former musical comedy actress and past owner of a business management firm who’s been a professional speaker for over sixteen years. She’s the author of The Wealthy Spirit: Daily Affirmations for Financial Stress Reduction (Sourcebooks, 2002), a GlobalNet book-of-the-month selection. Chellie has been quoted in Good Housekeeping, Lifetime, Essence, Woman’s World and many books, and she’s featured in How to Run Your Business Like a Girl by Elizabeth Cogswell Baskin and Money, A Memoir: Women, Emotions, and Cash by Liz Perle. Her new book, Zero to Zillionaire: 8 Foolproof Steps to Financial Peace of Mind (Sourcebooks, 2006) has just been released.

CONTACT CHELLIE!

Chellie can be reached at chellie@chellie.com or call 310-476-1622.

Campbell Consulting Company
409 Bonhill Road,
Los Angeles, CA 90049