Dear Dolphins,

Some exciting things are happening these days! The list of books that I have written a story for, or that are quoting me as an expert, is growing. Three new books are coming out in the next few months - two were written by stars of "The Secret" and will be released in January. The other one is "CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL: Life Lesson for Loving the Way You Live" (HCI, October 2007) By Jennifer Read Hawthorne, co-author "Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul". I have a story in this book under the topic of “Commitment”.

NEW!! The Financial Stress Reduction Workshop Train-the-Trainer Program:

In Zero to Zillionaire, I mentioned the idea given to me by Michelle Anton that I should teach others to lead my workshops. It’s been cooking on the stove in the back of my mind, and now it’s bubbling over and ready to serve. Next year I will be certifying coaches, therapists, financial professionals, consultants, etc. to teach the Financial Stress Reduction® Workshops in their area. It will be a perfect fit for people who want to coach a program with an already proven brand, two books, and an active website getting lots of traffic. They will be in their own business, not an employee or franchisee, teach my program, be listed on my site, make a profit on selling the books, and get ongoing coaching from me on how to make a six-figure income as a seminar leader. Let me know if you want to receive information on the program when it becomes available.

If you’re in Los Angeles and want to take the workshop from Chellie herself, better hurry and enroll in the October course – it might be the very last one!!!

Be sure to check out our Dolphin Club bonus gift for September, graciously donated by my friend, Suzanne Falter-Barnes. She is a specialist in on-line marketing and you will want to get on her newsletter list at www.getknownnow.com and be up-to-date on the latest tips. If any of you would like to contribute a gift for our members, please email me at Chellie@chellie.com and we’ll give you some great advertising, too. Join the Dolphin Club today and get the Wealthy Spirit screensaver, special reports, and extra bonus gifts every month!

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

ARTICLE: Fat Cat

After marriages, divorces, loves, friendships, careers, volunteer activities, hobbies, and all of our life’s adventures, my roommate, Shelley, and I have settled into a comfortable domestic routine. The conclusion is inescapable: we have devolved into two old ladies with cat.

We are a polygamous family; two working women and one big, fat orange cat, the sun around whom our moons revolve like the sister-wives around Bill Paxton in Big Love. We used to have another cat, also. Yoda was a scrawny little calico gal, feisty and territorial, who ran circles around Mr. Kitty. But her heart gave out one day when she was 15, probably frustrated from trying to get Mr. Kitty to jump around with her.

Mr. Kitty (“They call me Mister Kitty!”) doesn’t jump much. He weighs 28 pounds. He used to weigh 30 pounds, but we put him on a diet. I couldn’t make it work. He turned his nose up at the diet cat food and I crumpled when his big, sorrowful eyes looked at me accusingly. I could hear him thinking, “What’s this dreck you’ve put in my food dish? Cat tofu?” When the veterinarian called to check in on how the diet was going, I had to sheepishly say I just couldn’t feed him the diet food because he didn’t like it. The vet was exasperated. “What do you think he’s going to do about it? Leave home?”

My introduction to Mr. Kitty came late one night when I arrived home to find a large, brown-paper note taped to the front door, upon which was scrawled “We have another cat. Otherwise, he is going to DIE!” I laughed and walked in to meet our new Lord and Master. Shelley had found him in a friend’s backyard, where he was being attacked by a dog. Naturally, she rescued him and brought him home. He purred when I petted him, then reached for me when I stopped, so I pet him some more. The hook was in. I work for him. He controls the vertical, he controls the horizontal. He returns control to me on a limited basis when he is, for the moment, satiated.

I have had dogs before, and don’t get me wrong, I love dogs. But they are all-love-all-the-time and it gets a bit exhausting, don’t you think? Mr. Kitty is a master of the only thing that drives lab rats crazy: intermittent reinforcement. Sometimes he loves you…and sometimes he doesn’t. It’s your job to figure out what he wants and when he wants it.

As a speaker and author, I read a lot of self-help books. Mr. Kitty always has an opinion about them. When I was reading Who Moved My Cheese, Mr. Kitty stretched and sharpened his claws on the carpet, as if to say, If They Move Your Cheese, Claw Them to Ribbons. His advice from The Power of Food Now involves how to identify and control the primary food giver, and he makes it clear The Fat Cats Next Door will feed you, too, if you play your cards right. In his opinion, Cats are from Mars, Dogs are from Venus, and his hero is The Fattest Cat in Babylon. Babylon may be dried and dust, but Mr. Kitty, the fattest cat in Brentwood, lives to eat another day.

And only the finest, juiciest cat food will do, so I have to go back to work now. My life has purpose and meaning: I have to bring home the cat food. One day I’m going to write down Mr. Kitty’s wisdom in a new book. I’m going to call it The Fat Cat’s Guide to Living Rich so You Don’t Have to Work Like a Dog.

CHELLIE’S UPCOMING APPEARANCES:

Radio and Teleclasses

Chellie on the radio October 7, 2007: Chellie appears with host Carol Allen, author of Love is in the Stars on her radio show from 11:00 am - 1:00pm PST. You can stream it live at www.karmaair.com or listen to the podcast at your leisure. For more information, visit www.karmaair.com or contact Carol at carol@carolallenastrology.com.

Live Events

October 20, 2007: Get Financially Fit for Life is the title of the women’s financial fitness event being organized by the University Women, and Chellie has been asked to be the kick-off speaker. For details, contact Patricia Fishman at pfishman@metlife.com.

October 25-28, 2007: Victor de Rosal, Chairman of the W8Forum, has invited Chellie, along with Marci Shimoff and Bob Doyle of The Secret to give a keynote presentation “The Wealthy Spirit – Strategies for Financial Stress Reduction” at the W8 Global leaders Forum in Manzanillo, Mexico. For details, contact Laura Walsh at laura@w8forum.org.

Financial Stress Reduction® Workshops New evening classes begin Monday, August 13, 2007 and Wednesday, August 15 from 6:00 – 8:30 pm and the daytime class begins Tuesday, August 14 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 the LA Times, 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 was released by Sourcebooks in the spring of 2006.

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