This week’s Daring Dreamer: Artist and Art Licensing Expert Tara Reed.

I invite you to pay close attention to this Daring Dreamers Showcase, because in a time when more people – especially artists! – are complaining about how hard it is, Tara has only seen more and more success. (Find her at ArtLicensingInfo.com)

Listen to this – it will surprise you and blow you away!

At a particularly powerful time in her life, she was smart enough to ask herself the right questions and listen to the answers and take action on them. She has given herself the gift of a powerful marketing seminar, which allowed her to learn how to do what her dreams came up with.

In this interview, you’ll hear how to ask the same kinds of educational questions so you, too, can fly through this trying time with freedom, fun and financial gain.

Artist Tara Reed is a mom and an artist whose business is licensing her art: making it available to compaines who place it on various merchandise. She calls herself an artist “by passion, not education,” because she has no formal art training, yet has made her work work for her.

During her 2004 divorce, she realized she had to make a decision:  take the safer route and get a traditional job with a boss and benefits, or continue with her desire to build her own business on her terms. As a Daring Dreamer, you can guess which she chose!

Only four years later, Tara created ArtLicensingInfo.com – the go-to site for artists to learn from a variety of experts in the art licensing industry. She’s passionate about teaching other artists what licensing is all about, why do it, and how to take the steps to do it.

Click on the logo to the left or HERE to listen to our interview.

AND: This is fantastic – wait until you see this! If you are a creative professional, looking for a better way to work and grow your business, you’re going to love it!

Tara created The Goal Wheel for Artists™ (I use it, myself and love it – it’s easy to use because it’s designed for us right-brainers!). It is created specifically for artists and creative professionals who want to set & achieve goals while still working from a place of inspiration. Click HERE or on the logo below to get it!

And if you would like to hear a great call Tara did for SEO (search engine optimization) for artists, go HERE.

Did you find this article and interview useful? Comments are open!

Today the tables are turned!

I was interviewed by Success Coach Kate Beeders on her Success Radio Show this weekend. Find Kate here: successcoachingwithKate.com.

It was such fun – Kate’s a good interviewer. In our conversation, you’ll hear all about passion, creativity…how I first decided never to be bored and always be as passionate and alive as possible…and my renegade EFT ideas that say don’t neutralize that energy!

I also fill you in on my tapping books and why I still think they’re the best around; my how-to-get-out-of-being-broke money books, and lots more. HERE’s where to get Part One, and HERE’s where to get Part 2.

My guest this week on the Daring Dreamers Showcase is Financial Advisor, Jobie Summer. Jobie specializes in advising other financial advisors, particularly in the area of Sociall Responsible Investing.

When we first met, I didn’t realize how relevant the information she shares is for those of us who are not financial advisors. But when it became clear to me that her knowledge and her products would be as interesting and helpful to others, too, I asked her to be my guest so she could talk about what you need to know as an investor or future investor.

You’ll hear:
•  how Jobie helps other advisors market their practices
•  how she helps create change in our economy
•  why Socially Responsible Investing is so importnat
•  what to do to get your financial advisor up to date
•  what you can do to make a huge difference in the economy and environment as a shareholder

Jobie Summer is the founder of Resources for Advisors. She has been a leading financial advisor for nearly 15 years. She has been recognized with many National awards as well as having many designations: she is a Certified Financial Planner, Certified Estate Planner and Certified Fund Specialist.

What is unique about Jobie is that she has combined her extensive knowledge and experience as a financial advisor with her background as an educator to teach financial advisors how to integrate Socially Responsible Investing (known in the industry as SRI) into their practice. She also delights in helping financial advisors  have success in the marketplace.

She does this through private coaching, educational seminars and her proprietary system called the SRI Marketing Kit.  Jobie has created tools to help financial advisors build their SRI practice faster, smarter and with the least amount of effort so their clients can make a bigger difference in the world with their resources.

To tune in to this week’s Daring Dreamers Showcase with Jobie Summer, click HERE or on the logo to the left. In order to learn more about Jobie Summer and resources for financial advisors, visit ResourcesforAdvisors.com.

I had the very good fortune recently to be introduced to one of California’s foremost stone sculptors, Patricia Bengston.

I’m particularly pleased to have met her because she’s a shining example of a Daring Dreamer – someone who doesn’t take Normal for one minute, who bucks the odds to live her Deepest Dreams – not because of any rebellion, necessarily, but because it’s simply who she is and what she does.

I hope by seeing this example of someone who really lives her passion will help you live yours, too. Don’t let the of the numbing, everyday trance that surrounds us that says, “get a job, be norrrrmaallll…” overtake you!

I was really taken with her work. I love the raw, mythical quality of it, and how she allows the stone to be stone, rather than trying to make something pretty-pretty out of it. It’s stone: heavy; plain; figured; textural; translucent; eternal; even humorous.

I love how her forms give you an inkling of a story, but not much more than will tickle your own frames of reference and put you on the beginning of a path to create your own stories from the images.

Below is one of the pieces I loved the most. Although these are all maritime themed, not all of Bengston’s works are. See more here: InternationalAssociationofWomenSculptors.com.

Here’s what she has to say on her site: PBengtson.com

“As a seeker of knowledge, with ten years of landscape and (color) field painting in 1972, I returned to finished my education, to find answers in my search of the ‘unknown’.

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Every few months last year I was invited to deliver a teleclass for GlobalTeleclass.com. I’m grateful that I was invited again for this February – here are the details for not just my teleclass next week, but all the others available to you for zero cost.

On GlobalTeleclass.com you can get a fantastic array of FREEbie teleclasses by the very top Health, Personal Development and Sales & Marketing leaders.

If you want a boost in your business, a way to create better health for yourself or someone in your family or circle of friends, or want to find out how to increase your confidence and self-esteem, here’s where to find the best of the best: GlobalTeleclass.com

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Kate Beeders, Business Success Coach, uses MTT/EFT and LOA tools to get her clients out of the mud and into success. Listen in as she tells us about the hell-trip she transformed into “I can do anything I want!”

Kate shares with us what she does to increase her success; a couple of new business tips; and how the revelation “that I really could change my thoughts” has completely changed her life.

You’ll be inspired to hear how she left “safe corporate America” to live the life she chose, and how she is creating her independence; why climbing Le Gros Piton in St. Lucia was such a pivotal experience for her; and what she will be doing in the next 12 months – it’s NOT your “regular” goal!

Kate helps people eliminate whatever obstacles are blocking their success.  The powerful technique she uses is a Meridian Tapping Techniques (MTT/EFT). Kate combines the Law of Attraction with tapping to get optimum results.

Her radio show, “Tapping to Success with Kate,” can be heard on 1120 AM (in Boston) and also can be heard/seen live over the internet.  Kate’s show can also be heard on Energy Talk Radio in San Francisco and Spirit Bond Radio in the UK. She has articles published on emofree.com and selfgrowth.com.

I invite you to check out her website: SuccesscoachingwithKate.com, and you can either click on the logo to the left or CLICK HERE to listen to this week’s Daring Dreamers Showcase with guest Kate Beeders (approx 25 min).

In my experience as a Business Success Coach, professional Artist, published Author and Radio Show Host, I’ve found that in order for me to live what I dream, I’ve had to be daringly and sharply decisive, unwaveringly committed to my success, and lovingly relentless about holding my Vision.

I found that, when I got really clear about who and how I want to be, what I want to do and how I want to do it, if I follow a very specific path using very specific steps, I can do pretty much anything I want. Who wouldn’t want that? Want to know how?

There are 6 Crucial Keys, and I want to share them with you.

I’m passionate about you living your Dream! I want you to stop dithering and complaining and blaming and wasting your energy on shame, guilt, resentment or envy. I want you to stop thinking so much and wondering what other people think of you and wondering if… and how… and when…. I want you to start just doing it. NOW.

How much time do you have left on this planet? None of us knows, and it can go in a nano-second. Will you be delighted with what you’ve done? Or disappointed?

Keep reading, because I’m going to give you the site where you can get the recording!

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My friend and fellow EFT Expert, Stefan Gonick, has done the EFT/energy practice world a huge service. Here’s the note I got from him this week – read it and jump on over to his new sites, especially if you are a practitioner and want to share your articles, and if you are a newbie and want to read the forum!

New Free EFT Resource Sites:
1. EFT and Energy Psychology Article Library and Newsletter
2. EFT and Energy Psychology Forums and Practitioner’s Corner

EFT and Energy Psychology Article Library and Newsletter
I have created a new free, self-service EFT article library. At this site, you enter your own articles using a built-in word processor-like editor, and your articles are published immediately without waiting for approval. Your articles will then be sent out in a weekly newsletter similar to the one on Emofree.com. Each article has an author bio section where you are welcome to provide a description of yourself and have links to your sites. I invite you to add all of your articles to this new library: EFT Articles

EFT and Energy Psychology Forums and Practitioner’s Corner

I have also created a new EFT discussion forum site. This is a community where people can ask questions about EFT and experienced EFT practitioners can share their expertise. This is an excellent way to get greater exposure and new clients.

I am running these forums with a very open policy regarding posts. In these forums tasteful self promotion and marketing is allowed. These forums are also based on trust, so posts are displayed immediately instead of waiting to be approved. The forums are still monitored so that spam or inappropriate posts will be deleted if necessary. EFT and Energy Psychology Discussion Forums

I invite you to join these forums! As is typical with a new forum, there aren’t that many posts yet, but there are already about 100 members and growing. There will be lots of posts as the ice gets broken.There is a special Practitioner’s Corner forum for practitioners to share questions and concerns about their practice and the future of EFT.

Warm regards,
Stefan