Fundraising Conference Supporting Literacy
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GET “HAPPY FOR NO REASON”
AND SUPPORT FAMILY LITERACY!
Sunday, October 4, 2009
8:30am – 4:00pm
Richard Nixon Library
Yorba Linda, CA
Visit the beautiful Richard Nixon Library and enjoy a continental breakfast and delicious catered lunch in the rose garden!
Enjoy an amazing and talented line-up of best-selling authors and thought-provoking speakers!
AND feel great about supporting Family Literacy in Orange County!
The Read to Succeed conference raises funds to support Family Reading Inc., a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help families develop a positive home learning environment by developing habits such as a full family reading time for 20 to 30 minutes daily. The program consists of interactive educational and entertaining presentations – “edu-tainment.” Family Reading Inc. enjoys partnerships with schools, libraries and community organizations inspiring children and parents and supports the "Drop Everything And Read" (DEAR) and Silent Sustained Reading (SSR) programs.
CONFERENCE SPEAKERS:
Sheryl Roush
TOPIC: “Sparkle-Tude!®: How Parents Can Stay Motivated to Raise Healthy Children”
Known as the Sparkle-Tude® Expert, Sheryl Roush helps individuals and organizations rekindle the spirit, raise the bar and create excitement. Her inspirational message is one of humor, heart and hope. As an internationally top-rated female motivational speaker, she has presented nearly 3,000 programs in nine countries, and on programs alongside Olivia Newton-John, Geena Davis, Jane Seymour, Mark Victor Hansen, Art Linkletter, James Ray, Suze Orman, and more. Sheryl was twice crowned “Ms. Heart of San Diego” and “La Reina de Esperanza” (Queen of Hope) honoring her contributions to women and children in the community. She President of Sparkle Presentations, Inc., and is a 12-time author, and creator of the Heart Book Series, which includes: Sparkle-Tudes!™, Heart of a Military Woman, Heart of a Woman, Heart of a Mother, Heart of a Woman in Business, Corazón de Mujer, and Heart of the Holidays. Her writing has appeared in San Diego Family Magazine, Wise Women, the San Diego Business Journal, and Montel Across America.
This Mother’s Day Sheryl was interviewed on by Montel Williams. <http://www.sparklepresentations.com>
<http://www.HeartBookSeries.com>
Marci Shimoff
TOPIC: How to overcome stress and toxins in today’s fast paced world.
Marci Shimoff is the author of the new instant runaway bestseller, Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out, which offers a revolutionary approach to experiencing deep and lasting happiness. She is a featured teacher in the international film and book sensation, The Secret.Chicken Soup for the Soul, including Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul and Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul, have met with stunning success, selling more than 13 million copies worldwide in 33 languages. President and co-founder of the Esteem Group, she delivers keynote addresses and seminars on self-esteem, self-empowerment, and peak performance. Her writing has appeared in national women’s magazines, including Ladies Home Journal and Woman’s World.
Marci is also the woman’s face of the biggest self-help book phenomenon in history, <http://www.happyfornoreason.com>
Dr. Ann Corwin, PhD, M.Ed aka The Parenting Doctor
LUNCHEON KEYNOTE
Creator of “The Child Connection Parenting Program”
Dr. Corwin has made it her life’s work to develop practical parenting programs for parents and children. With a Ph.D. in Marriage, Family and Child Therapy and Masters Degree in Education and over twenty five years of experience in parenting consulting and child development education, she has helped thousands of parents – with children ages birth to five years and beyond. Dr. Ann focuses on prevention and helping families learning to help themselves! Her parenting skills development workshops and parent coaching programs have immediate solutions to child discipline behavior issues such as hitting and biting, respect and discipline, poor sleeping habits, relationships and school, toilet learning, new siblings and sibling rivalry, separation anxiety and much more.
<http://theparentingdoctor.com>
Garett Guenot, aka The "Purpose Guy”
Garett Guenot is a purpose coach, author, and speaker who has dedicated his life to helping others discover what they were born to do. Garett is President and CEO of PurposeGuy LLC, a company designed to teach individuals to discover their purpose in life and inspire them to pursue their dreams with excellence. For over 10 years Garett has been studying the art and science of personal development , in a quest to determine the common skills and traits of fulfilled and successful people. In the process, he discovered that true success is a combination of 3 things. Successful people pursue their passion, expand their purpose to benefit others, while progressively realizing their vision and dreams. Garett holds a degree in psychology, a certification in Organizational Leadership, and has received training in counseling and marriage and family therapy from California State University Fullerton.
Seth Sherwood
FOUNDER
Seth Sherwood is the founder and executive director of Family Reading Inc., a nonprofit family literacy development program. He specializes in motivating parents and children to develop a positive and healthy home learning environment. Seth and his band perform at libraries and
schools in Orange and Los Angeles Counties. Seth enthusiastically enjoys helping individuals, families and organizations develop success habits allowing them to achieve their goals. As a child he regularly visited his mother’s native country of Guatemala. He completed a two year Peace Corps tour in 1983, working in agricultural projects in Chile and in a refugee camp in Honduras. Before making the transition to Family Reading Inc., Seth was a school teacher in Orange County for 16 years, and a skilled trainer for with Dale Carnegie.
PLUS:
- Miss California 2009, Kristy Cavinder
- Channel 4 Traffic Newscaster Paul Johnson
LOCATION:
Richard Nixon Library
18001 Yorba Linda Blvd.
Yorba Linda, CA 92886-3949
Phone (714) 993-3393
<http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/>
http://www.nixonlibraryfoundation.org/
Map
Cost: $89 per person
Includes Continental Breakfast and a delicious catered Lunch in the Rose Garden! Your choice of turkey, roast beef or vegetarian sandwich.
FREE AMPLE PARKING.
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Bring an open heart and mind…and we’ll guarantee that you’ll be uplifted and have fun!
Sheryl Roush Speaks at Dental Conference
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San Diego based internationally top-rated speaker Sheryl Roush is presenting the keynote address March 27 for the Alliance of the American Dental Association in Baltimore, Maryland. To boost workplace morale and offer tips for improving overall performance, Sheryl’s presentation on Sparkle-Tude!™ provides insights, ideas and inspiration that attendees can apply immediately. Her style is highly engaging, lighthearted, and interactive, and her attitude is contagious.
Following her high-energy conference opening program, Sheryl will then present a breakout session workshop entitled "7 Secrets of Leadership for Women" How to Authentically Connect and Communicate. According to noted research by Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D., and Howard Gardner, Ph.D., there are seven multiple intelligences, or modalities of how people listen, learn, lead, speak, manage and process information. Sheryl simplifies the extensive research into easy-to-use real-life application for leaders, speakers, trainers, and sales and marketing professionals.
Sheryl is President/CEO of Sparkle Presentations, Inc., and has presented nearly 3,000 prgrams in nine countries and on conference programs alongside celebrities including: Olivia Newton-John, Geena Davis, Jane Seymour, James Ray, Marcus Buckingham and Suze Orman.
Sheryl is a 12-time author, with her business and inspirational gift books featured at Borders, and on Amazon.com, and at www.HeartBookSeries.com. Her most recent book is Heart of a Woman in Business, and is currently collecting short stories for her Heart of a Military Woman book.
Quotations on Success
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Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so.
—Marcia Wieder
When you are grateful — when you can see what you have — you unlock blessings to flow in your life.
—Suze Orman
There are two ways of meeting difficulties; you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
—Phyllis Bottome
Life isn’t about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
—George Bernard Shaw
When the vision on the inside becomes more compelling and powerful than what is observed on the outside, then the universe is at your command.
—James Arthur Ray
A man’s fortune must first be changed from within.
—Chinese Proverb
You have to start by changing the story you tell yourself about getting older…The minute you say to yourself, ‘Time is everything, and I’m going to make sure that time is used the way I dream it should be used,’ then you’ve got a whole different story.
—Diane Sawyer
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up… persisting… eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?
—Anthony Robbins
In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
—Eric Hoffer
When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
—Katherine Mansfield
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
—Winston Churchill
Your self image is your pattern!
Every thought has an activity visualized.
Every activity belongs to a pattern.
You identify with your pattern or thought.
Your patterns leads your life.
—J G Gallimore
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you;
Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
—W. Clement Stone
If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it, even if I did not have the ability in the beginning.
—Mahatma Gandhi
Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.
—Meryl Streep
It’s the little things you do that can make a big difference. What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can you do today that will make you more effective? You are probably only one step away from greatness.
—Bob Proctor, The Secret
The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work; then the faith and belief that it can work; then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one doubt or disbelief.
—Eileen Caddy
Listen to that voice inside you that says you can accomplish anything. Trust that feeling that tells you, you can achieve all that you hope for. Believe that everything you want is waiting for you. Hold on to the knowledge that nothing is impossible. Remember that each person who has ever achieved a goal started out with only a dream.
—Jason Blume
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
—Art Linkletter
Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities.
Seize common occasions and make them great.
—Orison Swett Marden
Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be happy, old age without regret and life a beautiful success.
—Louisa May Alcott
Most successful people begin with two beliefs:
the future can be better than the present,
and I have the power to make it so.
—David Brooks
Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
—Howard Thurman
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
—John D. Rockefeller
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
—Sir Winston Churchill
Plan your hours to be productive.
Plan your weeks to be educational.
Plan your years to be purposeful.
Plan your life to be an experience of growth.
Plan to change.
Plan to grow.
—Iyanla Vanzant
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can — there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
—Sarah Caldwell
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
—Lewis L. Dunnington
My greatest luxury is silence.
—Jean-Georges Vongerichten, chef
