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In This Issue:
I had an amazing time at Lisa Marie Platske’s Leadership Success Summit – what a wonderful group of fabulous business women (and a few lovely men!) were there, sharing experiences, ideas, resources, and support! I loved every minute of it and stayed the whole time, reveling in the fabulous energy of a great pod of Dolphins! Are you attending conferences these days? Get out and about sharing and learning with your comrades in life and business! It’s so much fun – and entertaining and educational at the same time…and hello! You can make a lot of connections and money at these groups, too with the fabulous networking that is available! I sold 5 workshops with several more in the pipeline for later… I’m speaking at a book signing at Renata Joy’s Soothe Your Soul bookstore in Redondo Beach on Saturday, February 20th and Debbi Chambers Manifest Success conference in San Diego March 18-20. The details are listed below under “Upcoming Appearances”. Let me know when you’re coming so I can be sure to look for you there! Love and hugs, Opportunities: Chellie’s Financial Stress Reduction® Telecourses will begin May 6th and 7th helping people make more money and have more time off for fun, too! Small class sizes mean not everyone can participate in the next session. Live Financial Stress Reduction Workshops in your area: We have an amazing team of Financial Stress Reduction® Coaches who can help you survive the storms and take advantage of the new opportunities surrounding you right now. Find the next live workshop in your area: Click here http://www.chellie.com/financial-workshops-local.html Don’t see your city? Become a certified Financial Stress Reduction® Coach yourself! Our next training will be held April 7-11, 2010. We’d love to have you join us! For details, click here http://www.chellie.com/financial-certification-program.html Want to be friends on Facebook? Click here: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=feed&id=582747567# Are you a Fan? Join Chellie’s Facebook Fan page – Click here: My Twitter address is www.twitter.com/chelliecampbell Big Business or Small"Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man – for precisely the same reason."—Douglas Noel Adams, author of “Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy” I’ve been happy as a poker player with pocket aces with my little workshop business, helping people, getting kudos and getting paid. I find people to invite to the workshop by going to networking groups where I’ll see old friends and make new ones. I eat breakfast, lunch and dinner for a living. I hold my workshops in the den at my house. I put the coffee on, ten to twelve people show up, I teach them, they go home, I turn the coffee off. I love my income. I love my overhead. I love my commute. I love my life. T. Harv Eker is the president of Peak Potentials Training. He’s in the workshop business, too. He has a big vision, a big company and he’s making big money. His game plan is masterful—he contacts the presidents of various networking groups and offers free passes to his Millionaire Mind Intensive 3-day seminar for each member of their group. They do all of Harv’s marketing for him by advertising this wonderful free benefit to their membership. It’s a classic win-win-win scenario: Harv wins, the organization wins, and the members win. Brilliant! So I got my free pass and I went to the seminar. There were some twelve hundred people at the one I attended in Los Angeles in 2004. For three days, Harv gave an informative, fun, involving seminar. “You have a millionaire mind!” everyone high-fived each other on cue. And for three days, from eight o’clock in the morning until ten at night, he sold you—masterfully—the next ten programs that you are going to need if you are really committed to improve your money and your life. The programs come with high price tags—I remember one was $3,995—but then he gives you a big discount because he really cares about you and wants to help. So he slashes the price to $2,995, throws in the $1,000 CD set for free along with it, and then discounts the whole price again. But you have to take advantage of this offer right now, because this course is almost sold out and he only has 50 spaces left… Need I tell you that hundreds of people jumped up out of their seats and ran to the back of the room to give the waiting employees their credit cards? Because they “have a Millionaire Mind!” And Harv has a Millionaire Bank Account. He told us he makes over a million dollars a weekend. Fabulous. I was watching a master at work. I saw what was possible when your vision was huge. Do you think I sound jealous or sad that my business is so much smaller than his? Well, I admit I wasn’t too fond of him in the beginning when one of my favorite networking groups started touting his financial seminar from the podium every meeting and not mine. He was Oz, the Great and Powerful, and I was Dorothy, the Small and Meek. Was my vision too small, I wondered? Should I be doing what he’s doing? (I hate it when I should on myself.) But I got over it. Some people would rather come to me and sit with 12 people in a living room for 8 weeks than go to a hotel and sit with 1200 people for 3 days. Some will prefer personal attention over mob psychology. I will always find “My People”. Harv will always find his. You will always find yours. There’s no such thing as competition. Listen, my hat’s off to Harv. You go, Harv! (Hand clapping, fee stomping, whistles!) He’s figured out a great program and a way to sell it that is gangbusters. I believe he’s helping a lot of people with his programs, too—I know some of them. I think you should go buy his book and go to his free seminar, if only to see these kinds of sales techniques in action. And tell him I sent you—my ambassador code is 108029. I’ll get a commission, by gum! Harv is a master of the big picture seminar business, like Tony Robbins and Werner Erhard before him. Hey, if you want that big picture, go ahead and get it. Have 48 or 4,800 employees. Get 25,000 emails a day. Train thousands of people. If that’s what you want, if that’s what Zillionaire means to you, then go for it! It’s your movie and you can write the script that way if you want. For me, I’m rather more in alignment with comedian Steven Wright, who said, “Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy. Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now.” The Big Blockbuster Movie isn’t my movie. I am too aware of the big price one pays for the big picture. T. Harv Eker names it in his book: “Are you willing to work sixteen hours a day? Rich people are. Are you willing to work seven days a week and give up most of your weekends? Rich people are. Are you willing to sacrifice seeing your family, your friends, and give up your recreations and hobbies? Rich people are.” No, non, nein, no, no. Nope. Not me. Not willing to pay. If you want the big goal, good for you. Be my guest. Go read one of the big boys’ books. But make sure you take a good squint at the price tag for that life, too. The big vision doesn’t come cheap. Sign me up for the Small Independent Film, the smaller vision, a smaller goal, and a smaller price, thanks. I don’t have ten workshops, I just have one. One workshop that works is all I need. I say what the price is and that’s the price all the time for everybody. I purposefully did not create a business. I created a job for myself. The downside is that when you just create a job for yourself, it is totally dependent on you and without you it ceases to exist. So I think about Harv’s model and my model. And when Michelle Anton calls me up and says, “The next level for you, Chellie, is to train other people to lead your workshops. Here’s your $2 million plan: You do two trainings a year with 100 people, at $10,000 a person.” I listen. That game plan would shift my focus from training individuals to training trainers. I can still work on a scale small enough to suit my skills and my needs and yet increase the reach of my work through others. (Note: I cooked that idea on the back burner and then started training Financial Stress Reduction® Coaches in 2008. For details, click here http://www.chellie.com/financial-certification-program.html ) Every time I examine my business and whether or not to expand, I filter everything through my goal within the goal: I want to be small and happy and rich. I want a life full of fun, hobbies, family and friends every day that I’m alive. I want to have dinner with my buddies. I want to play poker. I want to go to the movies with my 85-year-old daddy while he’s still here with us. I want to help plan the baby shower for my niece. I want to be happy every day. I want a business that I run, not one that runs me. I want work that gets me to a life, not work that is my life. $200,000-300,000 a year sounds just ducky to me. If that sounds good to you, you’re in luck—I have the program for that. Excerpt from “Zero to Zillionaire” by Chellie Campbell (Sourcebooks, 2006). Please feel free to copy this article and use it wherever you like. Just include the following “author box” for attribution: Chellie Campbell is the creator of the Financial Stress Reduction® Workshops, and author of The Wealthy Spirit and Zero to Zillionaire. She has been prominently quoted as a financial expert in the Los Angeles Times, Good Housekeeping, Lifetime, Essence, Woman’s World and more than 50 popular books. She can be reached at Chellie@chellie.com Special note to Dolphin Club members: A Meeting of Wealthy Spirits! Have you had a fan overhear other people talking about you? Erik Dreyer-Goldman is featured on page 361 of “The Wealthy Spirit” and while having coffee overheard two women talking about the book…to read all about it, go to the Dolphin Club Forums here http://www.chellie.com/members/forum/viewtopic.php?t=372 This is one of the best subscription values on the web today! For only $25 per month, you can join with other Dolphin Business Leaders, advertise your products and services, network, and share ideas in our private Forums. Only Dolphin Club members are eligible to receive our Affiliate 20% referral bonuses, and will receive advance notice and discounts on all workshops and special events. Our membership continues to grow, and our web site gets over 100,000 hits per month. If you want to find a wonderful business professional, be sure to check our listings on the home page at www.chellie.com. The Dolphin Club is an exclusive club for graduates of the Financial Stress Reduction® Workshops. For information, contact Chellie@chellie.com. Wealthy Spirit Wisdom Recommends: CHELLIE’S UPCOMING APPEARANCES: Television: Chellie’s January 18th appearance on ABC TV: From a 3-year old online interview with Media Bistro on Financial Advice for Freelancers, ABC TV News contacted me to appear on their cable show “Good Money” on Monday, January 18th. To see the video, go to www.abcnews.com/video/playerIndex?id=9596427 Live Events: February 20th 8:30 – 2:00 pm Redondo Beach, CA: Soothe Your Soul bookstore in Redondo Beach is having Chellie for a talk and book signing of “The Wealthy Spirit”! Owner Renata Joy is delightful – meet us both at 415 N. Pacific Coast Highway, Redondo Beach, CA 90277. Phone 310-374-2153 February 25th 1:00 – 10:00 am Norco, CA: “10 Tips to Win in 2010” is Chellie’s talk for the BIA Women’s Council at Villa Amalfi Hidden Valley golf Club, 10 Clubhouse Drive, Norco, CA 92860. For details and information, call 949-553-9500. March 18-20, 2010 San Diego, CA: Chellie will appear with Peggy McColl, Gail Lynne Goodwin, Deborah Chambers, and other fabulous speakers at the first annual Manifest Success and Peace Summit being held at the San Diego Sheraton Hotel. For information and registration, go to www.manifestsuccesssummit.com or contact Deborah at debbi@debbichambers.com. March 28, 2010 Santa Monica, CA: Chellie will be a keynote speaker at Natalie Pace’s financial retreat. Natalie wrote the bestselling “You Vs. Wall Street” and is a dynamite stock picker. For information contact Natalie@nataliepace.com or visit www.nataliepace.com. April 7-11, 2010 Redondo Beach, CA: Become a certified Financial Stress Reduction® Coach yourself! Our next training will be held April 7-11, 2010. We’d love to have you join us! For details, click here http://www.chellie.com/financial-certification-program.html Radio, Teleclasses & Print: March 10, 2010 10:00 am PT: Chellie on Own It, Sister Radio show with Whitney Wogan. The purpose of Own it Sister is to help women embrace their worth, embody their wisdom and claim their wealth while being supported by the power of a dynamic Sisterhood. We will talk about the body, mind, and spirit of a woman’s relationship with money. Listen on the web at www.ownitsister.com/radio/. Print: Chellie’s article “Selling is Serving” was featured in the June “How to Make More Money in Your Coaching Business” issue of Choice, the magazine of professional coaching. Print: Partners Federal Credit Union featured Chellie in their cover article “Walking the Talk: Chellie Campbell shares her amazing financial turnaround” in the Fall issue of Partners Magazine. Click here to read the PDF online: http://viewer.zmags.com/showmag.php?mid=wqffgw&pageid=8#/page8/ Podcast: Chellie Interviewed by John Assaraf, author of The Answer and featured teacher in The Secret – audio now posted at ww.chellie.com under “Press Room”. John and I had a great conversation about money, business, and success – at the end of it, he said, “You're a breath of fresh air! I love your attitude and the wisdom you've imparted around the world." |
The next Financial Stress Reduction® Workshop Telecourses are beginning soon: 8 Monday Evenings 8 Tuesday Afternoons
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Chellie Campbell is the creator of the popular Financial Stress Reduction® Workshops, and the author of The Wealthy Spirit and Zero to Zillionaire, both published by Sourcebooks, Inc. She is one of Marci Shimoff's “Happy 100” and I of 18 who wrote a story for Marci’s current NYT bestseller Happy for No Reason. Chellie contributed stories to Jack Canfield’s recent books You’ve Got to Read This Book! and Life Lessons from Chicken Soup for the Soul , and is 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. She is prominently quoted as a financial expert in The Los Angeles Times, Pink, Good Housekeeping, Lifetime, Essence, Woman’s World and more than 40 popular books. For more information, visit her web site www.Chellie.com or email her at Chellie@Chellie.com. CONTACT CHELLIE! |
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