This week on the Chic Perspectives Show I had on Julie Sue Auslander President, Chief Cultural Officer of cSubs, LLC (CSMS), Lindsey Peddar founder of Beauty Ticket and BeautyTicket.com and Jacqueline Edelberg Author of How to Walk to School
This week on the Chic Perspectives Show I had on Julie Sue Auslander President, Chief Cultural Officer of cSubs, LLC (CSMS), Lindsey Peddar founder of Beauty Ticket and BeautyTicket.com and Jacqueline Edelberg Author of How to Walk to School
First in line was Jacqueline Edelberg who wrote the book, How to Walk to School: Blueprint for a Neighborhood School Renaissance (Foreword by Arne Duncan and Afterword by Rahm Emanuel).
Jacqueline has been the driving force behind the Nettelhorst School’s dramatic turn around, a story that has been featured on Oprah and Friends, NPR, CNN, 60 Minutes, Education Weekly, and in the local Chicago media.
A community organizer, writer, and nationally recognized fine artist, Jacqueline has led workshops for the Community Schools Initiative, Northside Parents Network, and Chicago Public Schools on how public schools and reformers can improve public education.
Her influential book has a very simple message: Every kid, in every community, deserves a great neighborhood public school. Jacqueline led eight moms in a Chicago diner to make our dreams come true. They succeeded because they treated the school like a business start-up.
The Library journal had this to say about the book and the blueprint it lays out.:
“This is a fascinating account of the collaboration between a public school principal, Kurland, the parents of young children considering her elementary school, and the community that transformed a failing public school into an outstanding and revitalized one. In the face of disastrous, widespread public school system failures across America, parent dissatisfaction, and teacher despair, the Chicago-based Nettlehorst School’s success story is a beacon. Edelberg, one of the Nettlehorst parents, and Kurland offer educators hope that change can happen in any public school, given the right mix of parent-teacher patience, willpower, community involvement, pluck, creativity, collaboration, and ability to overcome adversity. They provide a blueprint that schools can use for revitalization projects, detailing, for instance, how to procure donations from area businesses and to ask questions that will get answers about difficult educational problems such as coping with dysfunctional and unsatisfactory teaching. VERDICT: This book is essential reading for all elementary school parents and teachers, especially those who have lost their faith in the American public school system and are looking for ways to improve it. Here are solutions and inspiration.â€
You can take a virtual tour to see the transformation @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPZr6BYJSGc
Jacqueline shared her about when she and a friend ventured inside Nettelhorst, their neighborhood’s underutilized and struggling public elementary school, the new principal asked what it would take for us to enroll our children.
Stunned by her candor, we returned the next day armed with an extensive wish list. The principal read our list and said “Well, let’s get started, girls! It’s going to be a busy year…â€
They were eight park moms who galvanized neighborhood parents and then organized an entire community to take a leap of faith, transforming a challenged urban school into one of Chicago’s best, virtually overnight.
If eight park moms could pull their little neighborhood school out of its twenty-five year nose-dive, surely other driven parents could do the same thing.
Jacqueline’s work is sparking the possibilities for a national grassroots school reform movement that would pull us all out of the giant mess we’re in, now wouldn’t that be something?
Check out the whole story at www.howtowalktoschool.com
or listen to NPR’s Chicago Matters piece:
http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=2055
or her other NPR interview:
http://kcurstream.umkc.edu/walt/WALT_1-13-2010.mp3
and “Never doubt that a group of small thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”–Margaret Mead
Next up on the Chic Perspectives Show was Emerging Entrepreneur Lindsay Pedder, CEO BeautyTicket.com
Laid-off from an executive position at a premium skin care company (and seven months pregnant), Lindsay used her new found time, beauty background and business school education to start BeautyTicket.com a discount site for Premium Beauty Brands. BeautyTicket.com just celebrated its first anniversary and is projecting aggressive growth for year two.
Lindsay talked about
While not quite as risky as being an entrepreneur, being an employee is risky too
Network, network, network
A good business plan is key to understanding what you are trying to do
Follow the business plan but allow for flexibility
Know how you are going to make money
Understanding the market, the customer and the space is key to being competitive
It was harder to start without investors but worthwhile in the long run
If you have a partner make sure it is the right one
The family work life balance is more intense as an entrepreneur but far more rewarding
Twitter @beauty_ticket
And finally was Julie Sue Auslander is an established women business owner, bordering on Expert, (25 years of success) in the Professional Services arena.
Julie Sue Auslander is President and Chief Cultural Officer of cSubs, LLC (CSMS), where she guides Inc. Magazine’s 5000 to reduce their spends 15-20% on publications, memberships, site licenses and online services.
Julie spoke with a unique perspective and wit on innovation, leadership, targeting a market, building a customer base; customer loyalty, systematizing processes; the emotions of hiring and firing, taking risks, overcoming fear, and the personal growth that comes with business growth.
Julie has created an employee/client centric eco-system, through an internal culture that fosters total team engagement, believing if given what they need to succeed, her team would channel their own efforts toward a high quality customer experience.
Formerly, Julie Auslander presided over her prior company’s liquidity event to a public company, overseeing a $14 million budget. She sits on the Advisory Board of the Center for Women and 50 Top Women owned Business in New Jersey.
Julie is an expert blogger on FASTCOMPANY (www.fastcompany.com/blog/julie-auslander/company-you-keep). She earned her MA and M.Ed from Columbia University and most recently, was awarded a scholarship to the 2008 tuck-WBENC Executive Program at Dartmouth College.
Julie talked about what makes her company unique: As a woman-owned company, we have found many innovative ways to support the needs of families and honor the individual as we continually inspire growth in our business by serving our clients. Regardless of the challenges experienced in the difficult situations encountered in business life, we actively manage our thoughts, feelings and actions to attract what we want and what our clients need.
At cSubs, we continually recreate our business from an intention of serving. Our strategies used in sales and marketing feel right because we under promise and over deliver. Wanting more from life, working less, finding deep satisfaction, making more money and having fun while accomplishing our goals is our way of life.
All of us at cSubs are rewarded for listening to our inner voice and feeling you’re part of something bigger than yourself. This notion of having a business serve its employees and its customers with ethics that live in our actions not on our mission statement, has become the foundation of my company’s mission and the reason for its success.
Julie Sue Auslander, M.ED, WPO, WBEPRESIDENT / CHIEF CULTURAL OFFICER of CSUBS | Subscriptions Simplified
jsauslander@csubs.com_ www.csubs.com Visit Julie’s blog: http://csubs.com/blogs/jsa
A Service of CSMS, LLCA Nationally Certified Women’s Business Enterprise
Thanks everyone for listening and thank you again to my fabulous Chic Entrepreneur guests.
Remember – Heel to Heel We Rise.
Tune in again next week for more Chic Perspectives on women succeeding with style.
Elizabeth
In today’s Wellness Minute Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy explain what happens if you get a massage after you exercise. Sure it always feels good to get a massage but do massages after exercises reduce the lactic acid build up from exercise? Or increase the blood flow? Not exactly. A new study seems to contradict what all those massage therapists tell you about the health benefits of massage. But who cares – Dr Fitness loves getting a massage to melt that soreness away. Listen right now to hear Dr Fitness’ tips. Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s Wellness Minutes improve your health in 3 minutes a day or less. iTunes Follow us on Twitter @FatGuy and @DrFitness6 Be our Friend on Facebook
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Mary Lea Quinn’s best friend is about to turn 70! Having a natural affinity for seniors, many of her friends over the years have been just a few years old than her. Educated at Auburn University, and then University of Denver, Mary Lea holds both Bachelors and Masters degrees in Social Work. She is currently the Director of Community Relations for SarahCare Adult Day Care Centers. She is also the founder of the Atlanta chapter of the National Aging in Place Council (www.ageinplace.org). Mary Lea can be reached at (770) 476-8400. Visit SarahCare on the web at www.sarahcare.com.
Before Jeff Young worked with senior adults, he worked with animals. In fact, that’s how he developed his passion for seniors – by sharing a common interest in canaries with a senior. After semi-retirement from the pet business, Jeff was approached by a friend to simply provide maintenance services at a skilled nursing community. The next thing you know, Jeff is the Admissions Director for Briarcliff Haven, a 165 bed skilled nursing facility and subacute rehab center. To contact Jeff, or arrange a tour, call (404) 875-6456. Briarcliff Haven is also on the web at www.briarcliffhaven.com.
We have shared the statistic before—only about 30% of family businesses transition to the second generation. In the event of divorce, the succession rate is even smaller, and only 10% of spouses continue to operate the family business together after divorcing.
While most couples prefer to avoid having the difficult conversation about “what if” we were to ever divorce, the wisest approach for financial well-being and the continuation of your business is to plan a comprehensive strategy upfront.
Our guest on Thursday, June 10th is Tamar Oberman Faulhaber, Esq with Vernis & Bowling of Atlanta, LLC, who will provide a comprehensive view of this topic. You can plan on coming away from this interview with a good understanding of Georgia law and of what can happen to you and your business when you are not prepared for the break-up of a marriage. As important, you will come away armed with knowledge and with a sound strategy on how to avoid the pitfalls.
Our guest:
Tamar Oberman Faulhaber, Esq.
Tamar Oberman Faulhaber was born and raised in Oak Park, California. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with Honors in Philosophy from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania in 1990, where she was also a Marquis Scholar. She earned her Juris Doctorate from UCLA Law School in 1993, where she served as editor of UCLA Law Review and was a recipient of a Child Abuse Fellowship.
Tamar clerked for the Honorable Alford J. Dempsey, Jr., in the Fulton County Superior Court for approximately five years. She served on the Rules Committee to establish and maintain the Fulton County Family Division which served as an example as a successful model of a Family Court to other counties in the State. Tamar also served on the Forms Committee of the Fulton County Family Law Information Center to assist citizens of the State to represent themselves in domestic matters.
Tamar volunteered with the Family Law Center for the San Fernando Valley in California and with Victim/Witness division of the DeKalb County Solicitor’s Office in Georgia, assisting victims of domestic violence in family law related matters.
Tamar is a trained Guardian ad Litem and Domestic Mediator, and over the past fifteen years, she handled all types of Family Law matters from Paternity and Legitimation actions, Juvenile Court matters, Domestic Violence cases, Divorces, Custody cases, Child Support matters, International Custody disputes, Contempts, Appeals, and Jury Trials.
In addition to the practice of Domestic Relations Litigation, Tamar also taught Domestic Relations Law as an adjunct professor at John Marshall Law School in Atlanta.
Tamar is admitted to practice law in California, Arizona, and Georgia.
Tamar Oberman Faulhaber, Esq., Vernis & Bowling of Atlanta, LLC, 7100 Peachtree Dunwoody Road, Suite 300, Atlanta, Georgia 30328, Phone: (404) 846-2001, Fax: (404) 846-2002, Email: TFaulhaber@Georgia-Law.com, Website: www.Georgia-Law.com
On today’s show Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy opened with Andrew Wood with Muve. His company has created a device called The Gruve which is a positive feedback activity based wellness solution to monitor and increase your activity 
and help you lose weight. You wear the Gruve on your waistband of your pants and it records all the activity you are doing throughout the day. You then plug it into your computer and you can literally see a minute by minute graph of your daily activity. The Gruve is based upon the work of Dr James Levine’s non-exercise activity thermogenesis or NEAT. They created this device because one of the main differences between fat people and thin people is that thin people move more throughout the day than fat people do. And we are not talking about thin people exercising like crazy and running marathons they are just moving around more. Created with help from the Mayo Clinic the Gruve encourages and tracks all of your movement – in accordance with the NEAT method of exercise and weight loss management. It actually vibrates when you are sitting around too long in order to encourage you to get off your butt and move a round a little bit. During their research in creating the Gruve they discovered that Gruve users increased their activity behavior and that caused a drop in their blood pressure and blood lipid levels along with weight loss. To learn more about getting your Gruve on check out their website www.muve.me
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In today’s Wellness Minute Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy explain how seasoning with rosemary can detox your foods while you grill. As everyone by now is aware grilling your food a t super high temperatures can release cancer causing toxins into your meat. So you’re supposed to marinate the meat so this does not happen. But marinating takes time and foresight which most people don’t have. So it seems that adding the spice rosemary to meat also detoxes it and reduces the carcinogens. Now all you have to do is like how rosemary tastes in order for this to work for you. Listen right now to hear Dr Fitness’ tips. Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s Wellness Minutes improve your health in 3 minutes a day or less. iTunes Follow us on Twitter @FatGuy and @DrFitness6 Be our Friend on Facebook
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On today’s show Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy closed the show with Bill Cortright – this guy has gained and lost 100 pounds 3 different times and has now kept the weight off for almost 3 decades. His work early in his career was in health
and military clinics. He learned how to determine which diet worked best for which person. He is doing amazing work in weight loss management in Latin America and now in the US. He is opening Symbio Centers – that help people achieve total wellness and permanent weight loss through his BioFit Program. At the center a team of nutritionists, therapists, and lab testers will work with fitness professionals to create a complete lifestyle management program. Bill found that by running extensive metabolic tests to determine how their clients handle stress they can also determine how their body is processing and interacting with food and then create a completely customized hormone balancing diet and exercise program for each individual client. You can learn more about his weight loss philosophy through his new book The Stress Response Diet and Lifestyle Program. Please go to his website www.srdiet.com to learn more.
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In today’s Wellness Minute Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy explain how to prepare an orange. Most people just peel the skin off an orange when they are ready to eat one. Not Dr Fitness – he uses tools and technique. First cut the top and bottom off the orange with a sharp knife. Then score the skin around the contour of the orange. Then simply lice between the membrane of each orange segment. Or you can do what the Fat Guy does and just peel the skin off of it. Listen right now to hear Dr Fitness’ tips. Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s Wellness Minutes improve your health in 3 minutes a day or less. iTunes Follow us on Twitter @FatGuy and @DrFitness6 Be our Friend on Facebook
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