Dec 8 & 9 | Grand Connection Grand Giving Conference
Name
Dec 8 & 9 | Grand Connection Grand Giving Conference
Created 1 year 5 months ago
Organizer Susan Jarema
Dec 8 & 9 | Grand Connection Grand Giving Conference
Topics
Business Giving Networking
Timezone
Timezone: Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Event date(s): -

Registration ends: Fri, Dec 9, 2022 2:00 PM (1 year 4 months ago)

Description

REGISTER for this fun and inspirational EDUnetworking event of 2022! This 2 day virtual conference on zoom is FREE FOR EVERYONE. Join us for Grand Talks, inspiration, networking and gifts for all attending.

The Grand Giving conference is about pursuing your purposeful passion while contributing and giving to others in a bigger, better way.

Experts from our community will share their wisdom and short stories to inspire and support us to make a bigger impact in this world through Grand Giving. There will be many networking breakout rooms to connect, create opportunities and collaborate together.

When: December 8 & 9, 2022
10:00 am – 2:00 pm PT
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
6:00 pm – 10:00 pm GMT

Amy McLaren, the Author of Passion to Purpose (and co-founder with Stu McLaren of Village Impact) will be sharing her keynote Passion to Purpose.

 

During this presentation Amy will share three ways to build a business, while overcoming that internal doubt that often prevents us from doing the things that we love, achieving the things we want and having the impact we are capable of.

You’ll learn:
– Three ways to move forward with confidence on your ideas (even when you’re constantly second guessing yourself)
– How to incorporate giving into your business through the products you sell, your community and your company structure
– A simple way to create more fulfillment and meaning from your work

 

Location: Free on Zoom for Everyone!  (Please invite all your friends, clients and work colleagues who are looking to ignite their purpose).
Agenda: Inspiring Grand Talks, Networking Breakouts, Inspiration, and Fun!

 

You Never Know Who You Will Meet!
Members have made many lasting relationships in the group that have turned into collaborative ventures, podcast interviews, partnerships, referral partners and good clients! The opportunity is to meet with like minded businesses to share skills, receive advice and collaborate! Strategic alliances are an essential part of succeeding in your grand adventure.

 

What to Expect:
The Grand Connection community is a welcoming group of like-minded businesses with a focus on Grand Giving. At our partner networking events we connect, create, and collaborate by practicing introductions in small breakout groups and share ideas on a common theme. Between each round, you will have the opportunity to meet experts who will share valuable tips to help your business grow. You will get many opportunities to meet new business owners and fine tune your 30 second pitch in this fun, lively, structured event on zoom. Please have your camera, good lighting and microphone available. Practice your short introduction ahead and have a short write-up prepared to share in the chat.

Speakers
Passion to Purpose
Amy McLaren Founder Village Impact

During this presentation Amy will share three ways to build a business, while overcoming that internal doubt that often prevents us from doing the things that we love, achieving the things we want and having the impact we are capable of.

You’ll learn:
– Three ways to move forward with confidence on your ideas (even when you’re constantly second guessing yourself)
– How to incorporate giving into your business through the products you sell, your community and your company structure
– A simple way to create more fulfillment and meaning from your work

"The Power of Creating a Growth-Oriented Mindset to Flourish and Thrive"
Anne Ferrier Crook Certified Integrative Health Coach

A.) Come learn how to harness the power of a growth-oriented mindset to shift out of "surviving" to fully thriving! We will focus on the difference between a “fixed mindset” and a “growth-oriented mindset,” and how we can approach any challenges in life through an empowered perspective that propels us forward. Come get inspired to transform your life to flourish and thrive!

3 Key Takeaways:

1.) The difference between a “fixed mindset” and a “healing (growth-oriented) mindset”

2.) How to identify & interrupt limiting thoughts/beliefs to transform your health and reclaim your life to flourish and thrive

3.) Creating an “inspired vision” that pulls you towards vibrant health and deeper fulfillment

 

B.) Quote: Self-care is the most selfless act because it allows us to give the world the BEST of us versus what's “left” of us.

 

C.) Question for Breakout Room:

What are several ways you are currently using a “growth-oriented mindset” in your life to flourish and thrive? What is your “inspired vision” you'd like to more fully step into during 2023?    

Business Education +2
Energy Healing +12
Setting Yourself Part from Your Competition
Blaney Teal The Frugal Techie Business Coach

A) How to increase your leads, appointments, sales and referrals. Stop lowering your price to make a sale. Give more value instead.  I'll share a free tool that will keep your calendar booked and create raving fans. 

B) My favorite quote is “Done Bears Perfect Every Time”

C) How do you see yourself using marketing incentives in YOUR use case? 

Business Marketing +1
Marketing Technology +3
The Leader Within: Choose to Uplevel your Self-Image
Carol Metz Murray CPMM Connect Potential Motivate Magnify

Are you experiencing burnout, overwhelm or debillitated by stress.  Are you being held back from playing bigger and bolder in your business, life or career.  The Leader Within calls us to Uplevel our Self-Image, become naked in our authenticity, and to step forward into our greatness. 

  1. Mirror, mirror on the way -  Uncover the dusty side and the clear side of your mirror
  2. To see yourself through the eyes of another - fully accept who you are
  3. To Consciously choose to BE the Leader in your Own Life.
You and Success - Breaking free from ordinary to extraordinary
Chuck Groot Success Surgeon
  1. Successful entrepreneurs agree that it is the action steps that create our success. But first, decide what success is to you.
  2. You need to make a commitment to yourself and stay the course. When the going gets tough, you need to get going – not running.
  3. Make sure the shoe fits. You can’t walk far with shoes that are too small. Are you really doing what brings you joy and happiness?

Success is Not Final; Failure is Not Fatal: it is the Courage to Continue that Counts

 -Winston Churchill

How can you ensure that you will keep the commitment you make?

Business Education
Business Development Business Vision +3
3 P's of Stepping Into Your Grand Purpose
Dagmar Fleming Success Coach / Author / Speaker

You know that your life has a BIGGER PURPOSE than your next business strategy or revenue level, but you don't know what that grand mission is.

Your bigger purpose is calling you, but you can't quite put your finger on it. It keeps you up at night. It nags at you.

What if that yearning led you to explore the depths of your Soul to identify this purpose so you can live a rich life of legacy, authenticity, and impact? Learn the 3 key P's to help you unveil your dreams and fulfill your destiny.

It's time for you to rise up. Tune in to find out how.

Key takeaways:

  1. Choose thou thy work, for all souls must labor, never be free from the pathway of Light.
  2. Each step thou taketh but heightens the mountain; all of thy progress but lengthens the goal.
  3. Take ye the power, take ye the wisdom. Shine as a light among the children of men.

Question:

What unique gift are you bringing to the world? Are you sharing it with others?

Business Mindset
Business Mindset +10
The Power of Purpose in Business: Inspire Your Customers & Employees With Social Purpose.
Deb Alcadinho Social Impact Expert

Learn how to inspire your customers, employees & community by placing People, Planet and Purpose equal with Profit. 

3 takeaways

  1. What is Social Purpose
  2. Why your customers, employees, and community care
  3. How to get started.

“Individually our impact is limited, but collectively we have the power to change the world!” ~Deb Alcadinho

Breakout Q: What positive benefit can you make to people or the planet, that doesn’t include what your business ‘does’? 

Business Education +2
Marketing Business +10
Your Eyelids are Getting Heavy - Rejuvenating Sleep is Coming and so is Motivation!
Deborah Myers Acupressurist & Health Care Educator

Self-help Acupressure can make a difference in helping you be all you want to be. 

Your body and your brain need rest so you can accomplish all you want to do

Learn how you can:

       1.  Fall asleep and go back to sleep 

                       2. Have more clarity, focus, productivity, and vitality

                       3.  Boost your immune system 

“Self-help acupressure is a simple way to be the best partner with your body!”

Are your sleep patterns affecting your day, how you feel, and what you can accomplish? 
If you awoke more rested and ready for your day, what do you see changing? 

 

Energy Healing
The 3-Level of Relationship
Denise Belisle Serenity Expert

a) 3-level: I, the relationship you have with yourself. WE, the relationship you have with the people very close to you. THEY, the relationship you have with society. 

b) “You are the most important key to successful relationships because when you are at ease with yourself you will easily adapt to the other levels.” 

c) What can I do to raise the quality of my relationships with myself and others around me?

Health & Well-being Mindset
Personal Development Mindset +5
Marketing without Social Media? Is it possible?
Diana Lidstone Strategic Marketing & Growth Accelerator

Key takeaways:

  • What the guru’s aren’t telling you about marketing with social media and why it may not be working for you
  • 3 key principles to build your successful marketing plan without using social media
  • social media as a marketing method/tactic isn't mandatory to attract clients

 

QUOTE:  Work less and earn more without using social media  (Diana Lidstone)

 

QUESTION: 

1.      Are you actually getting clients directly from your time on social media?  

If not – what other marketing methods might YOU use?

 

 

Are Your FEARS Paralyzing You?
Dina Legland RN, Certified Life & Wellness Coach

A) During our time together you will discover how we have the ability to control our fear. We have a choice to make decisions for ourselves & live in freedom every moment of everyday with no guilt by using a 4 stage process to conquer FEAR that feels TOXIC like CANCER. 

3 Key Take Aways….

  • Understanding that FEARS have Layers
  • First Step is to Identify the Fear
  • 3 Quick Tools to Help Move Through Fear

B) “How Very Little Can Be Done Under The Spirit Of FEAR.”   ~Florence Nightingale

C) What is the one thing that keeps you up at night?

Sales Mastery
Eric Lofholm Sales Mastery

Eric Lofholm will share his top 3 sales increasing ideas.

 

what is your best lead generation strategy?

Passion + Purpose = Big Impact
Eryn Price Founder of The Mastectomy Guide/RMT

3 takeaways: 

1 - What are you most passionate about?  

2 - What gap in the world presently exists that relates to your passion?  

3 - How can you fill that gap in a way that solves a genuine problem, thereby improving the world around you? 

Quote: “Bring purpose, passion and problem-solving together and you've got a recipe for creating big impact, both personally and professionally” ~ Eryn Price

Questions:  What are you passionate about? What gap in the world presently exists that is related to your passion? How can you solve the problem the gap presents? 

Top 2022 LinkedIn Changes
Iris Culp Chief Inspiration Officer

Learn about the major changes LinkedIn made to how it prioritizes content during the last several months. We will touch on the four most powerful section on one's profile. Plus will include changes that others have taught as “hacks” to help LinkedIn's algorithm work in one's favor, that are no longer relevant. 

Anyone remember the book "Who Moved My Cheese”? LinkedIn did that in 2022! Come and grab a few highlights from this short, information packed session! 

Business
Digital Marketing Social Media Marketing +4
Why Financial Freedom Can Leave You Shackled To Your Fears & Doubt
Jeannie Dougherty, CMC, PQ Coach Money Expert & Mental Health Strategist

Money is a game in your head that you can't win.

Are you an entrepreneur who needs a significant cash infusion in the next 90 days? I'm going to show you how you can shift from an out of control money mindset to winning money strategy. 

 

1)Getting out of your own financial way and make your money work for you. 

 

2)Use will use proven time and money saving strategies. 

 

3) Learn my #1 money hack to accelerate your income in shaky economic times. 

 

I can show you how to shift years pain, worry, and financial burden in 15 minutes a day.  You deserve to be healthy, happy, and financially sound. 

Get Publicity to Get Booked!
Jill Lublin 4x Best-Selling Author, International Speaker, Master Publicity Strategist

If you want to be the #1 influencer in your industry, you’ve got to get bigger media visibility. Based on her international bestseller, Guerrilla Publicity, Jill shares simple strategies to help you go from unknown to newsworthy. 

  • Proven secrets to understand what the media outlets want
  • Get instant, actionable techniques to boost your visibility.
  • Learn how to drive prospects to your door and profits to your pockets!

Your Message Matters - and Jill is a messenger of messengers! 

 

Business Marketing +1
PR (Public Relations) Public Relations +2
3 Ways Authors Can Add Recurring Income From Their Books
Judy Baker Book Marketing Mentor

Making money from your book is easier than you think. You can do more with your book without going broke or crazy when you know how. I will reveal 3 Ways to Grow Your Impact and Add Recurring Income From Your Book.

You will be ready to take action:

  1. Why Bundling Your Book Will Bump Up Sales
  2. The New World of Selling Direct Without Tears
  3. Simple Strategies to Turn Your Book Into an Evergreen Cash Machine

Question: What is your biggest disappointment after publishing your book and what would you like instead?

Marketing
Book Marketing Email List Building +2
The Puerta Vallarta Dream
Julie Ann Owner Casa de Influencia

Julie Ann's purposeful passion was created by the energy of the grand giving from her community.  Following the tragic passing of the love of her life, her community of over 400 grand givers, supported her financially and with love, during their intensive care in a private hospital in Mexico. She shares how this tsunami of grand giving, gave her the energy to create their dream retreat center in Puerto Vallarta, re-purposing her grief into the legacy of The House of Influence, a co-creation event center to connect, collaborate and create content. You will learn:

There is one force that connects us all.

U are the U in Universe U create it.

Learn how to recognize your true nature

 

 

 

 

Health & Well-being Leadership +1
Spiritual Development Manifestation +1
Surpass Paid Ads with Digital PR
Julz Vitality PR Strategist

You will learn: 

-How DIGITAL MARKETING compares with PODCASTING & VIDEOMERCIALS
-Best Use for your MARKETING BUDGET
-Some Ads Stats and PR Facts you may have overlooked

Bonus: You'll gain clarity about using PR for Marketing and Lead Generation

Business Marketing +1
Client Attraction Lead Generation +3
Move toward income stability in one week with this 40-minute day habit change
Larry Kaul Founder of Solopreneur Inc.

How to move toward income stability in one week with this 40-minute day habit change.

  1. Know what you love to do, how you make money, and what drains your energy
  2. Create an achievement plan that you will be able to easily execute
  3. Build a habit system that requires only 40-minutes day of behavior change

Quote - "If you can support your lifestyle doing what you love, you'll never work a day in your life."

What do you love to do the most?

What do you use to make money?

What drains you?

Use the following list to prompt the discussion:

  • I love to learn
  • I love to create
  • I figure things out
  • I create order from chaos
  • I light up the room
  • I awaken insight
  • I gather and lead people
  • I guide people to grow
  • I advocate for you
  • I love to support you

Categories created by Jonathan Fields

 

Learn, Earn, Lead - Profit Wise
Margaret Johnson CEO & President at Women and Money Inc.

One of the biggest myths in business is that a profitable business can't go bankrupt. They can, and they do. 

Learn what you need to do to protect your business. Understand what profit is and identify the three types of profit.

  • 10 Questions to interview your Accountant. 
  • 10 Questions to ask your Financial Advisor. 
  • Why you need a good Lawyer.  
Business Education +1
Business Success
Your Book as a Grand Gift
Melody Owen Founder of Author Nation

3 Takeaways

  • A book is good for personal development - a gift to yourself
  • A book is transformative for readers - a gift to others
  • A book is a legacy that can live forever - a gift to the world

When planning a book take all three of these into consideration when developing your book concept and content.

 

Quote: “One book can completely change a person's life.” - Melody Ann

 

Question for breakout room: What book would you write that would transform both you and the reader? How do you think writing a book might make you a better professional for your clients? How would your book impact the lives of the people who read it?

Business Marketing
Book Marketing Book Publishing +1
The Most Important Tool You Need to Restore a Relationship
Mike Stewart Relationship Coach

This presentation will share the most important tool you need in your tool belt to restore a relationship. 

1.            You will learn that you have the power to restore the relationships in your life

2.            Why it is important to set boundaries 

3.            How to shift your emotions from negative to positive with the people in your life.

Discover grand giving with practical and personal examples of the do's and don'ts. Have you ever been in a relationship with someone you love and yet felt alone. You love one another but can't seem to communicate on the same wavelength. You feel like you have tried everything but nothing seems to work.

Family & Parenting
Marriage
The Secrets of Empowering Negotiation
Richard Kaye Business Growth Strategist

What if you knew the seven “magical” words which could decrease what you pay for something or increase what you get paid for something?

Everything you do is a negotiation—it’s time to up level your negotiation skills and strategies.

This session is for your personal as well as your business life.

Business
Business Development
5 Ways to Increase your Energy & Vitality
Sheri Mills Functional Nutrition Coach

You will learn how your diet and timing of your meals will give you more energy throughout your day.  What are the best foods to have that will help you jump start your day and continue to give you energy.  

A)You will learn what foods to eat in moderation, foods to avoid and what to add into your daily intake, most important meal of the day and examples, digestive reset.

B) “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”  (Hippocrates)

C)  How do you start your day to ensure you have energy that will last?

Health & Well-being
Anti-inflammatory Eating
What Makes a Niche Profitable?
Sherri Coffelt Results Coach

We've all heard, “Your Niche Will Make You Rich”, but what exactly makes a niche profitable?

You'll discover:

  1. The 3 components of a profitable niche
  2. The foolproof way to discover how to easily attract your ideal client
  3. The quick test to ensure your niche meets the profitable niche criteria

When you have CLARITY on your profitable niche, your CONFIDENCE will soar, and the CASH will begin to flow.

Let's do this!

 

Quote:  When you have CLARITY on your profitable niche, your CONFIDENCE will soar, and the CASH will begin to flow.

Breakout Room: What gets in your way or stops you from declaring your profitable niche?

 

 

Business Marketing
Client Attraction Business Development +6
How to Pick the Right Tech for your Business
Steven Logreira Business Automation Consultant

In this presentation Steven will give you the blueprint to ensure that you don't waste precious time and money looking for the right tech to help you scale your business.  In this talk you will walk away with an action plan to ensure you make better choices when it comes to picking the right “Tech Tools” for your business.

Three Takeaways…

  1. Understand the problem you're solving
  2. Realize the value of why you're solving this problem
  3. How to solve that problem by implementing the tech solutions

“You can't solve a problem with the mindset that created it”  ~Albert Einstein

Business IT consulting and services +1
Technology Sales