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Need some Holiday Cheer or an uplifting message of Less Fear, More Fun this season? Learn from a local Daring Adventurer and midlife Fashionista how Crisis can be turned into a Freeway of Opportunity in service to others.
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DonnaLyn Giegerich MBA CIC RYT is an integrated business & wellness spokesleader motivating corporate teams and individuals on how to overcome adversity with grace, grit and style. She is a national spokeswoman, midlife model, seasoned businessowner and co-founder of KickCancerOverboard.org, an empowering paradigm sending folks affected by cancer to Bermuda for FREE each year.
Winding down a busy year empowering others in business and life as a speaker/coach and advocate...Loved the 50+ speaking engagements but have to admit the end of year wind down is gladly welcomed!..Had a blast meeting, greeting and speaking about Daring Adventures from the Empowerment Panel in service to others at the NJWomens Conference this weekend. MacEvents, Spring Lake did a fabulous job in their inaugural year launching a well run event to celebrate all things female. Thanks Meridian and other major sponsors for supporting women in wellness at the Expo. Met several new businesses like Hot & Soul Yoga at Centrex while milling through the expo with established businesses such as Sexy Amore of Brielle, Posch Boutique, Rumson and Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Red Bank. Back to the office now until the next Daring Adventure on the horizon!
Yiks! Pumpkin Powder in October?!! Yogis know to resist nothing so we're celebrating this crazy weather and continuing our Daring Adventures in service to others...just back from presenting "Can Leaders Influence Hardiness?" in Atlantic City at the GSC-SHRM 20 yr Annual Convention...lets just say being Resilient has its benefits!..For those of you not familiar with the acronym, its the Garden State Council -Society of Human Resource Managers big annual gathering to celebrate the future of HR leadership here in NJ...lots of meet and greet, thought provoking presentations and a super keynote from Ryan Estis...grateful to be in the presenting mix after some Wild West Leadership Training Tucson style in the gorgeous state of Arizona...Happy to touch down in the comfort of Red Bank now for some balancing yoga classes at the Atlantic Club and Navesink Fitness...Love my yoga pals and look forward to ramping things up for wonderful women this weekend at the inaugural NJWomensExpo at Brookdale Community College...please say hello if you can attend! Will be speaking from the Empowerment Panel at 11am and then leading in the Zen Garden with dear yoga instructing friends at 2:45pm...Come on out and learn about the beauty and basics of Yoga and Meditation... Namaste and Networking at its best!
Spent the weekend expanding my mind around somatic therapies at the Open Center in NYC, the world’s largest holistic learning center. Oh how life has gotten so much more daring since I studied Prana Yoga and received RYT certification there in 2006 with holistic MD, Dr Jeff Migdow. It was so great to be back in a place that celebrates integrated health and wellness and welcomes the community to indulge in life long learning amidst bubbling fountains, fine organic food and a quaint lobby library. This session was all about Reflexology as another stress reducing technique to restore our weary bodies, minds and spirits..from the bottom up! My goal was to learn the paradigm to share with several important people in my life: my husband that endures treatment based neuropathy, my yoga students that love relaxation and anybody else I might encounter climbing mountains in life(literally and figuratively) that need a relaxing technique to take them deeper down into their bliss body. So if you’d like a treatment that will knock your socks off, ping me for an appointment…I’m at your feet!
Was thrilled to VIP this week with friends at the Bryant Park Hotel, NYC to celebrate Fashion Week . We attended to support and admire the work of one of our favorite designers, NJ based Thomas Lavone. The man’s got a large heart beating for fashion but an even bigger brand bringing classic beauty with flair to the runway for women of all sizes. Hoorah! Super fabrics, knockout designs and a passion for service to community make him a designer I’m proud to wear and support. Check out his Spring 2012 line at thomaslavone.com
Awaiting Hurricane Irene after experiencing our first earthquake this week... Wow!... We really are living a Daring Adventure! Life doesn't get nuttier than all this! So grateful to finally be able to start blogging about all the Daring Adventures we've experienced in the past five years...now that we've received a fabulous reprieve from a non stop tumultuous dual cancer couple crusade. We believe our challenge showed up in a peculiar way so that we might be able to serve others in a meaningful way through our journey. If we can keep living a highly experiential life between stem cell transplants, endless rounds of chemo and monster surgery, then hopefully someone will be inspired to do similarly...without all the drama. This is what I tell my audiences in my empowerment speeches in the wellness, corporate and education space. My life mantra has always been "Life is a Daring Adventure or Nothing at all" as Helen Keller has said so well. I've made it my personal mission to live in the spirit of her ideals and feel lucky to be able to share some resiliency tips with you...
Here are my four P's to help you persevere: First.. develop broad PERSPECTIVE around the entire landscape of your life. Sure today might be terrifying but don't forget about all the amazingly wonderful days that you enjoyed to the fullest. Hopefully, the good days have outweighted the challenging ones in many ways. Second..continue to surround yourself with fabulous PEOPLE..we cant control much in life but we can choose to fortify our network of family & friends with generous and kind folks that share many of our values and interests. We can also decide to drop off energy vampires in the spirit of love and surrender around what no longer serves us. I believe we're here to be happy and in service to others, not miserably "stuck" in relationship with others. Thirdly, we can choose to be PASSIONATE in our lives including our hobbies, work, wellness and lifelong learning pursuits. The choice is ours alone. Commitment to self care as a top priority allows us to show up for others at our best most often. Lastly, I've found the most rewarding benefit of any challenge, large or small, is to help someone else navigate their slippery slope in the spirit of hope to cope...Some call it PAYING it forward so that they have an easier time managing their stress and transforming it into a Daring Adventure of their very own!
