We do not live in the world-The world lives in us. This is powerful knowledge not to be taken lightly!
We do not live in the world-The world lives in us. This is powerful knowledge not to be taken lightly!
Connections, authenticity, love, freedom, knowledge and financial security — these are the things I am passionate about. I’m convinced that the inspiration you need, to have the life you were born to live, comes from self-realization. This is a gift you need to give to yourself as soon as possible. The fantastic Danielle Laporte put it best when she wrote, “The desire to be real is everyone’s divine imperative.” The feelings we put forth into the world — good or bad — affect the state of the collective mind. I believe that, with this knowledge, it is our duty to be responsible with our thoughts and emotions. When we do our best to project love, compassion, faith and peace into the universe, what we get back, from my experience, is magic — an inner peace that never dissipates. What could be better than that!
Hello
I am on a Journey. I do not know where it is taking me, but I cannot help myself from sharing what I learn. If I can inspire you to take any step towards tapping into your inner being, your authentic self, your essential silent partner, whatever you want to call her, all my time, my insecurities and my pushing my fears of rejection aside will be well worth it.
My Past
I left college during my second year in fashion design after receiving a modeling contract to work in Japan. During my modeling career, I realized that I needed to partake in the business side of the industry. I was young, confident and had nothing to lose. I became a talent agent in Vancouver, Canada and soon realized that I had my own vision, so I opened my own modeling and talent agency with a woman I admired. Together, we rocked! We had a successful extras department, a commercial talent department, an acting school and a casting facility. I employed hundreds of people and began to finance other women’s talent agencies. We were living it up and I had the time of my life. I will be forever grateful for what I experienced during those exciting years.
Then I fell in love, sold my business and moved away. Yep, this was a shock to my system. I fumbled around, trying to figure out how I could fit into my husband’s family business. Being innovative, creative and entrepreneurial does not quite cut it in the traditional Italian family with four brothers and a father set in his ways. Bookkeeping was suggested! I gave it a shot, but just who was I kidding?! At that time, I was not conscious of my ability to create the life I wanted. I look back now and see the repeating patterns in my life. You can do this too if you want to be really honest with yourself.
Our authentic self is a driving force. It wants us to design the life we want. I found my passion by accident when we bought our first home and started renovating — I was hooked. Here was a new passion that I could implement into the family business. I began helping my husband create the career of his dreams as a developer and builder of prefabricated modular homes. I became a self-taught interior designer and business coach for my husband and, over the past decade, helped design and market over three hundred homes in our retirement communities throughout British Columbia. I also used this passion to design and build our second home, which we use as our vacation house. Now that was my University education! The beach house is another business I started this year. You can visit the site at www.lovethisplace.ca to see my work.
I am a mother of three loving children. They are a driving force for me to be all I can be. I want them to grow up understanding that the ego is a false sense of self, and to follow their hearts’ desires, which is the universal goal for mankind. Happiness is contagious, feeling good is contagious — bring it on!
All you need is Love is a beautiful song we sing in our house when someone is feeling out of sorts. It is our mantra. What is yours?
My future
I hope to inspire you to follow your heart. Rid your head of thoughts where the mind makes up stories about who and what you are. It’s constricting and false. If your thoughts make you feel bad, if they cause you pain, they are not real. Just try to let go, find your faith and give it to your higher priestess waiting to show you where your joys lie. Just writing this helps me to understand my purpose more and more. Like I said before, I am on a journey, and I am not completely sure where it is going to take me, but I am ok with that. I would rather begin ship as Seth Godin would say, to be brave and confident enough in my knowledge to share what I believe I know and have learned, as a business woman, as a mother and as a woman who is health conscious (I begin my yoga teacher’s training course this January), and one who is experienced in fashion and travel. Most of all, I am conscious that the world around us reflects how we as a society are feeling. My message is simple — we need to live simpler lives, trust that we can design the life we want and share our “feel good” stuff! Nothing is more powerful than putting one’s self out there, raw, naked and honest.
1) I will be writing and sharing what inspires me — my art, my new money making business ideas, the construction and design of my next home, a beautiful poem or song and, hopefully, one day my own yoga video! Whatever ride my essential self takes me on, I will be ready to jump on. Hope you will too.
2) I will connect you with those who inspire me, those who I feel are doing great work. Artists, coaches, designers, entrepreneurs, businesses, change agents and more.
3) This site will grow organically as will I, so stayed tuned!
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