Downtown Women’s Club DWC+ Teleclasses

The Healthy Holiday Survival Guide:  3 Easy Steps to Maintain (or lose!) Weight During the Holiday Season

Gayle Hilgendorff is a health and leadership coach who left as a Partner in a global consulting company to found her own business focused on helping other professional women achieve their best, professionally and personally, through better health. Her experience with executive career coaching, her health coaching certification, and her own busy life, corporate career, growing business, and great health make her an expert who is seen as believable, understandable, and credible.

Gayle's book: 'Feel Great.  Be Great.  Easy Steps to Better Health for Busy Women' will be published in 2012.

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How to Define Success as an Entrepreneur

Too often entrepreneurs are pressured to grow their businesses in a particular way and end up building a venture that is not satisfying.  In other words, their business is not working for them. The true opportunity of being an entrepreneur is having work and life on your terms. And it is possible! This class is designed for all of the business owners out there who want more out of their experience of running their own business.

Our discussion will help you evaluate how well your business meets your needs, specifically exploring:

• Why you started your business
• What role you play and how that has changed
• What you want your business to be known for
• And your philosophy on growth

Adelaide Lancaster and Amy Abrams are entrepreneurs, speaker and the authors of The Big Enough Company: Creating a business that works for you (Portfolio/Penguin). They are also the founders of In Good Company, a first-of-its-kind community, learning center and co-working space for women entrepreneurs in New York City. They live in Philadelphia and Brooklyn respectively with their families.

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Learn How To Move Out of Your Comfort Zone with Vicki Donlan

• Do you feel stuck in your career and life?
• Do you feel as though others have found themselves and you are lost?
• Do you sometimes wish you could walk in someone else's shoes even for a day to see what it feels like to be anyone else but yourself?

If you answer yes to one or more of these, then it is time you learn how to Move Out of Your Comfort Zone.

Vicki Donlan is a business coach assisting executives and business owners in achieving excellence in what they do. Her extensive experience working with small businesses, growing and selling her own, and having a far-reaching network cause her to be a resource every businesswoman and entrepreneur needs. Her first book HER TURN Why It’s Time for Women To Lead in America was published in September 2007.

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The buzz is always about facebook and Twitter, but LinkedIn is the hidden jewel of a comprehensive social media strategy to build your business. This session will focus on the 'must-dos' in order to make your online biography stand out among the crowd and act as a powerful magnet to attract the people you want to bring into your sphere.Carol McManus is America's LinkedIn Lady.  A self-described 'recovering corporate executive' Carol left her position as Sr. Vice President of Real Estate Operations for Coldwell Banker in 2007 to pursue her own coaching, consulting and leadership training company – WHY WAIT FOR SUCCESS.

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Julie Steelman developed the easy-to-master “Effortless YES! Selling System”™. She spends her time helping business owners overcome their aversion to selling in an honest, transformational and interactive style. Her ability to see the possibility for life-long prosperity in her client’s businesses, has made her the highly sought after expert in her field. She is also the author of Effortless Yes: Demystify the Selling Process.

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7 Delicious Strategies for Unleashing Your Bold, Brilliant & Rich Potential!

In this tele-class international empowerment coach, Karen Fagan will provide you with proven strategies and the exact steps to take to claim and access your fullest potential in all areas of your life. She will teach you how to release all that holds them back – fear, struggle, etc and provide a path to personal freedom; so that you will achieve amazing results both personally and professionally.

How to boldly claiming one’s inner truth – how to connect with it and verbalize in order to take meaningful action to create lasting change.

How to live empowered and never feel disempowered again. Learning to end the struggle of self sabotage and move beyond fear.

The 3 most important steps to take unleash your fullest potential and why you must take them now.

Karen Fagan is an international empowerment coach, motivational speaker and writer. Her mission is to empower women, teach them to live on purpose and achieve amazing results in their life. Karen believes when a woman claims her voice not only does she transform her life, she makes better decisions for herself, her family and her business.

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Nice Girls Just Don't Get It with Carol Frohlinger, J.D.

Link to Presentation:

http://www.slideshare.net/ErinMurphyDWC/06162011-dwc-teleclass-nice-girls-just-dont-get-it-with-carol-frohlinger-jd

We'll cover:

• what "nice girls" are and what it is that they just don't get
• why even extremely successful women can be caught in "nice girls" traps
• seven essential strategies to living the life you want

Carol Frohlinger, J.D., is a co-author of Nice Girls Just Don't Get It: 99 Ways to Win the Respect You Deserve, the Success You've Earned, and the Life You Want. She co-founded Negotiating Women, Inc., a consulting company focused on retaining and advancing women in the workplace. Carol also co-authored Her Place at the Table: A Woman's Guide to Negotiating Five Key Challenges to Leadership Success.

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Getting Unstuck: How to Transform Your Obstacles into Assets for Greater Success with Claudette Rowley

Link to Presentation:

http://www.slideshare.net/ErinMurphyDWC/04142011-dwc-teleclass-getting-unstuck-how-to-transform-obstacles-into-assets-for-greater-success-with-claudette-rowley

During this teleclass, participants will discover how each obstacle they encounter has a hidden asset they can use to enhance their career and business success. Participants will:

• Learn how to identify the asset in an obstacle.
• Understand when an obstacle is “perspective dependent”.
• Uncover how to reap the benefits of being stuck.

Bio: Claudette Rowley MSW, CPCC is a leadership and career coach, organizational development consultant and author who specializes in helping people and organizations come into alignment so they can grow and evolve. For more information on Claudette’s services, books and blog, please visit www.metavoice.org or email her at claudette@metavoice.org.

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The Top Five Time Wasters and What to Do About Them with Christine Louise Hohlbaum

Link to Presentation:

http://www.slideshare.net/ErinMurphyDWC/06022011-dwc-teleclass-the-top-five-time-wasters-and-what-to-do-about-them-with-christine-louise-hohlbaum-8129226

Learn why multitasking is a myth, how to focus and how to do more with less!

Attendees will walk away with:

· A new perspective on their time relationship;

· An ability to disengage from clock combat;

· The capability of prioritizing through laser-like focus techniques.

Christine Louise Hohlbaum is the author of THE POWER OF SLOW: 101 WAYS TO SAVE TIME IN OUR 24/7 WORLD. Along with her public relations practice, Christine occasionally dips into the world of film and TV as an actor.

For timeless tips: www.powerofslow.wordpress.com

For her audio Wisdom course to learn how to find time to live your passion: http://bit.ly/go_slowly

More about Christine at http://christine.presskit247.com

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5 Signs Your Wardrobe Is Toxic…and How To Detox It Forever! with Ginger Burr

Link to Presentation:

http://www.slideshare.net/ErinMurphyDWC/05192011-dwc-teleclass-five-signs-your-wardrobe-is-toxicand-how-to-detox-it-forever-with-ginger-burr

Do you feel a sense of dread each time you get dressed?  Here are five tell-tale signs your wardrobe is toxic:

1.      It’s overflowing – everything is squished in 2.      It’s a mess – clothes are everywhere, and there’s no discernable system or way to find things easily. 3.      Big or small, there’s nothing in it you want to wear 4.      It’s filled with separates that refuse to mix and match 5.      You simultaneously have two or three different sizes hanging up

On this call we will look at concrete solutions for tackling this chronic issue.  You will learn:

•       The myth of the timeless wardrobe •       Almost effortless closet organizing •       The #1 thing you should never, ever buy •       Three things you should never compromise when creating a wardrobe and personal style •       The #1 thing every closet and wardrobe needs (besides someone who will pick up after us)

Ginger Burr is a notable speaker and leader in the field of fashion and style.  A notable speaker and leader in the field of fashion and style, Ginger has been celebrated by The Boston Globe, Women's Health Magazine, Worth Magazine, VegNews Magazine, Elegant Wedding Magazine, cnn.com, ABCNews.com, Fox TV News and WHDH Television's Chronicle.

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