Win Two Tickets to the WorldChanging Business Fundraiser and Telesummit
Rarely do I find myself gobsmacked (translation: speechless) by a new offering a coach comes up with, but this list had me calmly and neatly wiping a strand of drool from my face – figuratively speaking, but still!
This is the list of speakers Coach Coco has rounded up for her forthcoming “WorldChangingBusiness Fundraiser & Telesummit”…
***Lynne Twist – author of “The Soul of Money”
***Tim Sanders – author of “Love Is the Killer Ap,” and “The Likeability Factor”
***Bo Burlingham – author of “Small Giants” and Editor-At-Large of Inc. magazine
***Andrew Savitz – author of “Triple Bottom Line”
***Mark Albion – author of “True To Yourself,” founder of Net Impact, and contributor to Social Venture Network
***Romanus Wolter, author of “KickStart Your Success” and Success Coach for Entrepreneur Magazine
***Matt Bauer, President, BetterWorldTelecom
***Anne & Christopher Ellinger – Zings.org
***Dr. David Simon – author of “The Ten Commitments,” and co-founder of the Chopra Center
***Michael Port – author of Book Yourself Solid and founder of The Think Big Revolution
***Kent McBride – co-founder of Make-The-Difference Network
***Kim George – author of Coaching Into Greatness
The theme of the TeleSummit is how to make money AND meaning…how cool is that?? 
More details here:
http://www.worldchangingbusiness.com/andrea.html
I know Coco is still working on her registration page, so you won’t see much at the link yet…HOWEVER…I’m excited to be able to raffle off 2 complimentary tickets. Want to enter?
Post your comment here at the Money and Meaning Blog on one or more of the following points:
– Why is it important to you to make meaning in your business?
– What is the best example of a business that makes meaning AND money, that you have come across this year?
– When faced with a choice between making money and making meaning, which do you choose?
– How can coaches play a role in helping others create more meaning in their lives?
– If you could have any help imaginable as you create a meaningful business, is there something specific that comes to mind?
All posts (one per person please) will be entered in a draw for the two tickets at Noon Eastern on Friday October 6, and the two winners announced via email.
For those of you who’d like to reserve a spot in this Fundraising TeleSummit, the dates are October 23-26, 2006, so pencil it in. I think you’ll be as delighted as I am to know that in addition to top-notch content, Coco’s using this launch to as an opportunity to also raise $100,000 for microdevelopment causes that help families around the world move out of poverty.
Click for more details here: http://www.worldchangingbusiness.com/andrea.html
And just click below to post your winning-est comment per above…
Dr.Bernice Johnson Reagon founded the all female singing group, “Sweet Honey in the Rock” over 30 years ago. And more than 20 women have been members – a number of them
have left and returned as the seasons of
their lives have changed. Dr. Johnson, the recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, retired several years ago. However, “Sweet Honey” is still packing in diverse crowds across the nation and around the world. Therefore, I salute Bernice Johnson Reagon as the person who has most significantly modeled for me how to make meaning and money: she has inspired me and countless others to do work that we love,to support others in doing good in the world,and to be about the business of building teams and communities wherever we find ourselves.
Andrea,
Yes, a fabulous collection of speakers…NO DOUBT!
Thanks,
James
When being YOU is the only choice!
Making meaning wins out every time. The money will follow where good has been sown.
The Telesummit sounds awesome! My personal belief is that we will know that we as a society have moved forward in consciousness when we are able to finally get the issue of money out of the way and all be doing the right (soul) work that we were put here to do.
I have been making meaning my entire life, in service to others. As a social worker, psychotherapist, and now coach. The tricky part for me is the underlying belief that making money can be tied to the making meaning effort. I once did a sermon on prosperity in which I descibed social work as being based on the premise of poverty. Social workers work with people who have little money or resources (financial or emotional), work for organizations that are always struggling to make ends meet and work for very low salaries because they are doing good, fulfilling work.
I have been working to shift my beliefs that it is more honorable to make meaning than to make money.
The help I would like is more coaching around charging effectively for the meaningful work I want/do do in the world.
I also shy away from making meaning in highly visible ways. I really have no need for fame and want to find away to make money and meaning that allows me to stay somewhat invisible.
Why is it important to you to make meaning in your business?
Business in itself is soulless. Those of us that have come bruised and battered out of the corporate world know this. Money comes for those that seek it, meaning can be more difficult. We sell ourselves to make money, and at the end of the day, week or our life, are we happy with what we have created? To sleep at night, I need to have meaning in my business. If I have changed one persons life to the good, that in itself is meaning. Thus, I strive to create meaning and ultimately joy in my business.
If you could have any help imaginable as you create a meaningful business, is there something specific that comes to mind?
What a provocative and mind-soaring question, Andrea?
I’d seek help and insight from:
1. My late dad whose humility and clarity glowed in the messy world like a pure moonbeam
2. My 4-year old daughter whose simplicity and skipping glee about life reminds me of what is real
3. My high-school french teacher whose standards were so impeccable that she instilled a lifelong respect for quality
4. My former therapist who taught me that there are little Zen-masters that show up in our lives every day and my job is to pay attention and listen!
4. Robert Middleton whose marketing teaching at http://www.actionplan.com is wise, generous and exacting
5. My knowledgeable coach, a certain TF of MSOCI, who has helped me enormously so far and who keeps my eye relentlessly on the bigger picture
5. My former rabbi who was both earthy and spiritual, if such a combo is possible – he reminded me about the community I belong to (way bigger than that of my specific faith!)
6. Anna Quindlen and Barbara Kingsolver who write with such affectionate and unblinking wisdom about the human condition, and
7. Malcolm Gladwell and Daniel Pink whose brains and ability to connect the dots astonish and inspire me!
Yes! Sounds like a wonderful Summit!…..While I do wish to increase (actually HAVE) an/my income, I find it hard to jump on board with all of the “Millionaire” talk and mentality. I do not need millions, nor do I think a million should necessarily be allocated to ANY ONE place! How is there balance and peace in that concept? (My ‘issues’ are obviously showing!)
How do we….er, I….. place a (financial) value on meaning, when those that need it most have limited resources? I work with others in terms of making choices around nourishing Self. Is health truly only available to those with above average income? I find it hard to essentially say “I can only assist you if your wallet allows, otherwise, good luck!”
I would very much like to move past my limitations I continue to choose around money and meaning! I am ready to Consciously Evolve so that I can help others to do the same!
Coaches have an unbelievable opportunity to help others create more meaning in their lives. It’s actually inherent in the job description. I think so many people have left non-fulfilling jobs to become coaches just for this reason – to create more meaning for others, thus creating meaning in their own lives. Although the money is great, there is no better feeling than when a client tells me about a breakthrough.
No wonder you drooled, Andrea – that’s a pretty good line up!
In terms of chosing beween meaning and money, I find I lead with meaning… but it can often get trumped by money. I do think that all (well, nearly all) of the work I do has and creates meaning; but I’m hungry to create LOTS of meaning for LOTS of people, and I notice that one of the barriers for me in doing that is “… but you can’t earn money too” when trying to scale meaning up.
Yes, I know: as soon as you write it down it looks silly, but there you go.
Michael
http://www.BoxOfCrayons.biz
I just read about KickStart a SF based business that encourages rural entrepreneurship by providing tools that Africa’s poor can afford. It is called ApproTEC and operates on the simple maxim: “The greatest good to the largest nunmber in the shortest time at the least cost”. The company designs and makes affordable waterpumps and other tools for farmers and estimates that 45 million dollars in wages and profits has been generated and they are on a roll and expanding into three more countries and rollout new inventions.
I am really excited about imagination and business savy being put to use to help the world and generate money at the same time. It is what I really hope to do in my coaching business. I know that coaching is great at helping people to discover what they are passionate about and that when people are passionate and connected to their values and intentions that really matter – that is when things flow and work in an easy and relaxed and very positive and successful way. So bottom line is lots of meaning can translate into lots of success including lots of money. Greasing the wheel, priming the pump, clearning the channel, making way for the energy to really move unimpeded. Watch out!
What is the best example of a business that makes meaning AND money, that you have come across this year?
My husband and I recently completed a design project for a new hotel in Lebanon, NH. Just Wednesday, we attended the “Sneak Preview” event showcasing the grantees from their interesting business mode described below.
David Leatherwood, CEO of Norwich Partners, and Eric Sachsse, President, formed a partnership in 2003 with Jenny Williams, a local developer and philanthropist, to purchase the Residence Inn by Marriott and to build the Courtyard by Marriott, both at Centerra Park in Lebanon, NH. Leatherwood had a longtime ambition of dedicating a percentage of hotel profits to charity, so he and Williams established the Children’s Fund of the Upper Valley (www.childrensfunduv.org), a component fund of the Upper Valley Region of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.
Through revenue from their hotels, they are committed to contributing at least $1 million to the Fund over the next ten years. The fund was established with a preference for supporting organizations, such as CHaD (The Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth), and projects that improve the lives of children in the local community, through quality healthcare, childcare, arts, and educational initiatives.
The Children’s Fund is particularly interested in entrepreneurial philanthropy, which helps the grantees expand their own organizational or fundraising capacity; and in programs or projects that expose children and teens to the joys of volunteerism and giving.
Current grantees are: Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth (CHaD), Montshire Museum of Science, Vermont Institute of Natural Sciences (VINS), The Upper Valley Haven, The Family Place, Children’s Literacy Foundation (CLiF), Child Care Center in Norwich, Youth in Action (Hanover), and the Hopkins Center for Performing Arts at Dartmouth College.
How can coaches play a role in helping others create more meaning in their lives?
I think the best way for coaches to help others create more meaing in their lives is to walk the talk. The focus of my coaching practice is working with gay men to create thriving lives and one way I do that is by sharing my thriving gay life. Many clients have commented on realizing they can do a lot based on hearing what I’m involved in. My community activities include volunteer publisher of a GLBT community newspaper, serving on the organizing committee of a statewide GLBT organization, working on campaigns of progressive politicians and providing success skills training to single mothers on welfare. As coaches who walk our talk we inspire our clients and others to create meaning in a good way.
The idea of meaning is so important not only for me but for my clients. I find that for the people I work with (grad students and professors) they often have become so demoralized that’ve lost touch with the reason they were attracted to academia to begin with. For them, meaning has to come before status or recognition in their field — they’re not usually in it for the money. But it brings great meaning to my life to help such accomplished people rediscover their own abilities and talents and be reminded of what they love about their field.