Stacey Shipman

 With a larger crowd than last year, July’s breakfast event was once again full of energy (even for so early in the morning!)  We welcomed 4 guests and a lot of familiar faces.  

With Janet LaBerge of Dirty Deeds at the helm, you are guaranteed a smile and/or a belly laugh, she’s promised to start every meeting with a joke. This is the place to be if you want to start your day off on the right foot.  

Sponsor Beth York of Beth York Real Estate provided a touching account of how her hobbies and extracurricular activities provide the foundation of the work she does in real estate.  Beth started her business (or what she calls “The Big WHY”)  

Beth York in her hot pink skydiving suit

• To be around for the moments I want to remember, even if my children forget.
• For the moments my children will remember, even when I’m not around to remind them.

How does being a competitive skydiver and skydiving coach apply to her real estate business?   

• There is always someone better/smarter/funnier/taller/younger/ older/etc.— than you (SO FIND THEM AND ASK FOR HELP.  BE A STUDENT, LET THEM TEACH YOU!)  How boring would life be if we didn’t keep learning?
• Show up, do your best.  Every time, work on making YOUR BEST, Better.  Beths’s mantra: Right here, right now, my personal best!
• If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough.
• If it’s worth working for, its hard working for
• Focus, stay in the moment, and the rest of the world falls away.
• Risk is rewarding

And isn’t this the perfect message for all business owners or professionals?  Our personal lives are not separate from our professional lives.  One teaches us things that benefit us in the other.  Thanks, Beth for sharing your story! (And showing up in your hot pink diving suit!  Cool!)  Beth, in my opinion is a real life example of “feel good living”.  

Another feel good moment – when Christy Kendrick of Acme Glass shared her new 20 second introduction.  Her intro was good enough to win her the honor of “best introduction” Congratulations, Christy!  

The event concluded with a fun table networking exercise created by the Membership team – 2 truths and 1 lie.  Each individual wrote down two truths and one lie about themselves and the rest of the table members had to guess the lie.  What fun, and proof that this network is 1) full of interesting people who have a lot going on outside of their work life and 2) full of creative people – some of those lies were GOOD!  

If you missed this breakfast, you have an opportunity to catch up next month.  Holiday Inn Rockland, 7:30am, Thursday August 26.  Visit the SSWBN calendar for more information and a list of events until then.  

Stacey Shipman,
Staceyshipman.com  

 Interested in contributing to the SSWBN blog? Contact Katie Howard:   khoward@sswbn.org

In addition to listening to some members do their 3-min talk, participating in a networking exercise and eating a tasty lunch, we had some fabulous raffles.

South Shore Women’s Business Network
Contacts * Coaching * Collaboration

Interested in blogging about SSWBN events here? Contact Katie Howard at khoward@sswbn.org

]]> http://www.sswbn.com/wrapping-up-sswbns-july-lunch/feed/ 0 http://www.sswbn.com/from-the-boardroom-july-2010/ http://www.sswbn.com/from-the-boardroom-july-2010/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:02:56 +0000 khoward http://www.sswbn.com/?p=1483 A year goes by so quickly! And what a year we had – a very successful one.  As I transition out as your president I want to take a minute to highlight some of the success we enjoyed:

We secured staff: Katie Howard, Director of Operations, Deb Anders, Business Development Consultant and Gerri Presby are the glue who hold this Network together. They are your go-to people when you have Network related questions.

New website, complete with a blog, easier navigation, calendar listings and event registration.  We hope you like it as much as we do!

Successful Professional Development…

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Stacey Shipman

A year goes by so quickly! And what a year we had – a very successful one.  As I transition out as your president I want to take a minute to highlight some of the success we enjoyed:

We secured staff: Katie Howard, Director of Operations, Deb Anders, Business Development Consultant and Gerri Presby are the glue who hold this Network together. They are your go-to people when you have Network related questions.

New website, complete with a blog, easier navigation, calendar listings and event registration.  We hope you like it as much as we do!

Successful Professional Development Day: The May 6th Communication Revolution, the first if its kind for SSWBN, was a huge success with close to 80 people in attendance, outstanding speakers, satisfied sponsors and an event that exceeded budgeted revenues!  Not bad for the first time.  Thank you to all those who helped plan, sponsored or attended the event.

Averaged 10 to 12 new or renewing members per month.   When other organizations like ours were closing their doors, we grew!  Welcome to all new members who joined us in the past 12 months.

We provided more handshakes, smiles, laughter and hugs than any other Network!  And that is the essence of coaching, contacts and collaboration.

Thank you for a great year, for believing in me to be your president and leading the organization into a positive future.  It is a year we can all feel good about.

I’m proud and honored to join the ranks of presidents who served before me.

And finally I feel really good about paying this role forward by introducing to you your 2010-2011 SSWBN president, Janet LaBerge of Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap!

Thank you again, and here is to another great year!

Stacey

Stacey Shipman
2009-2010 SSWBN president

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Paula Lind

Paula Lind Advises How to Get SSWBN Business ‘Automatically’

Paula Lind, from O’Donoghue Insurance Agency in Hanover, joined the South Shore Women’s Business Network in March 2009.  As our newest NOVA, Paula said:
“I make a point to contact people in the Network when I have a need for their profession.  The Lunch and Learn events have been helpful for specific business issues where I need advice.   The SSWBN website has so much to offer each of our businesses.  I look at the website frequently to find information that will help me with my business.  The website has a well organized directory that makes finding people easy.

“The opportunity to introduce myself and my business at every luncheon and breakfast has created wonderful referrals for me.  I have found that any clients I have acquired through the Network are quality clients, and a pleasure with whom to do business.

“My advice to Network members and potential members is this:  don’t participate in the Network just to receive business referrals.    Get to know the members, join committees, ask for advice from other SSWBN professionals.  The business will come automatically.  If you are sincere about your membership as an opportunity to meet great people, it will only enhance your business relationships and friendships.

“Since I have joined the network I have made friendships that will last a lifetime.  People who are part of the SSWBN have a certain quality and good nature about them.   This is something all the members seem to have in common.   I look forward to meeting more people and developing great friendships and business relationships in the future through the SSWBN.  I love it.”

Roberta Sousa

Send announcements for Movin’ On Up to Roberta Sousa Roberta.Sousa@Rocklandtrust.com

Greetings!  There are many exciting accomplishments from our members who have used their Contacts, Coaching and Collaboration…

Congratulations to Barbara Case, Vice President at Moors & Cabot Investments, the new author of the financial column for the South Shore Women Web-zine.  Be sure to read her new column!

Allison Q. Guido, CS, General Manager of Almar Building & Remodeling Company is excited to announce that Almar recently achieved  Elite Status with Mastic Home Exteriors, meaning that they have demonstrated exceptional abilities, skills, experience, and reliability, and have passed Mastic’s rigorous screening to be one of their top recommended Siding Installation companies.  We congratulate them on their success!

Lois Wood of Lois Wood Graphic Design is proud to share the recent Business Profile published in the Duxbury Clipper.  Congratulations Lois on your wonderful article!

Outstanding! Sherry Alpert, Principal of Sherry Alpert Corporate Communications, LLC, of Canton, won a prestigious Bell Ringer Award from the Publicity Club of New England for “Product Service Publicity: Consumer Campaign.”  Sherry launched a national public relations campaign on behalf of RR Auction, for the online auction of a  $10.50 check that astronaut Neil Armstrong signed hours before going to the moon.  More than 1,300 media outlets ran the story.  The award recognizes excellence in communications and public relations.  Great job, Sherry!

The Boston Globe recently announced the recent election of Attorney Emily Smith-Lee of Smith Lee LLC to the Sharon School Committee.  Emily hopes to make a difference in the lives of the school children in her community, and we all congratulate her!

In awarding the 2010 President’s Awards to Adam Cupples of Strategis and Patty Funder of LaserLight, outgoing SSWBN President Stacey Shipman recognized Adam “for his tireless support and creativity on the SSWBN marketing materials.  If you ever wondered ‘how’d this get done,’ now you know.”  Adam’s contributions include the development of the website look and several branding campaigns for Network activities, including the Communication Revolution for the Network’s Professional Development Day.

Stacey recognized Patty for serving as Managing Editor for the Network’s monthly newsletter (“Writing is my other business love,” said Patty).  “Patty devoted countless hours to editing and formatting the monthly publication for members and guests.  Her writing skills and publishing experience made it easy for members to tell their stories and make their announcements in clear, effective and professional writing style.”

Do you have an accomplishment or award you would like to have published?  This is a great place to let us know.  Give us the opportunity to celebrate with you!!  As always, I look forward to receiving your announcements and sharing them with the members.  Please email them to me by the 18^th of the month.

Roberta

Roberta Sousa
Roberta.Sousa@Rocklandtrust.com
781.878.7440.

Kristen Ford Hernandez

Send your connections to Kristen Ford-Hernandez:  kristen@premierepros.com

What an exciting Celebration! we had!  It was great to see so many of you in attendance and I am looking forward to a wonderful year with our new president.

Jennifer McCauley Logue of McCauley Logue Communications sends along a heart-felt thank you to Janet Laberge of Dirty Deeds for passing along some of the discarded furniture she collected as part of her clean-out business. “I’m the superintendent of my church Sunday School, and we recently celebrated the opening of our newly renovated Sunday School room,” Jennifer said. “As part of the renovation, we decided to create a nursery area where parents could bring infants during worship if needed. But with the major renovation project, our budget was tight.  Enter Janet: She provided our church with a beautiful (and free!) loveseat, rocker/glider and end table — exactly what we needed!  Janet is a living example of the ‘pay it forward’ principle, and her generosity will benefit our congregation for many years to come!”

Barbara Case of Moors & Cabot Investments has been a member of the Network since 1998.  In that time she has developed her business through contacts, coaching and collaboration.  Earlier this year those relationships, both business and personal, played a huge part in supporting and guiding Barbara with the care of her parents and loss of her father. “There are many to thank,” she said, “including:

• Lynda Chuckran, Welch Healthcare, for her wealth of knowledge, help and guidance, and the excellent care provided to her Mom at a Welch facility;
• Veva Johnson, Professional Bookkeeping, for her wisdom, senior facts and friendship always;
• Barry Gordon, Gordon, Mond & Ott, for outstanding legal advice, follow-through and protection of my parents’ assets, proving that while it is never too late to plan, it is always better to do so earlier;
• Diane Sargent, South Shore Elder Services, for pointing me in the right direction for proper in-home support;
• And the endless cards, plants, gifts, notes, inquiries and visits from so many of the SSWBN members that means so very much.”

Janet Laberge from Dirty Deeds shares a number of thank-yous this month.  First, to Cheryl Arlanson Russo of Arlanson Law Offices for hiring Dirty Deeds to do a clean out for one of their clients in Hanover.  Secondly, thank you to Raquel and Bob Mullaney of Comfort Keepers in Plymouth for using Dirty Deeds for a clean out at their lovely Plymouth home.  Thanks to Attorney Rebecca Coletta of Coletta Law Office in Hanover, for referring a friend to Dirty Deeds to assist in cleaning out her friend’s father’s house after his death.  Thanks to Karla Wood, a case worker at South Shore Elders, for referring a client who needed a couch removed and for letting Dirty Deeds know of another client who was in need of some furniture for his new apartment.  South Shore Elders does a wonderful job with the elders that they serve.  Lastly, Dirty Deeds thanks Joe Hernandez of Premiere Pros for referring a client in Hingham.

Joe and I are sincerely grateful to Beth Sobiloff from Birchwood Enterprises for providing Search Engine Optimization services on our Premiere Pros site.  We have been getting an increase in telephone calls all stating that they found us on Google.  Thank you Beth!

Enjoy the Summer and please remember to get out there and make those connections!

Kristen Ford-Hernandez
Premiere Pros
Email: kristen@premierepros.com

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant.
There is a fuel in us which needs to beignited with sparks.
~ Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Barry Gordon

By Barry Gordon,
Attorney at Law
bgordon@gmo-law.com

Give Up the Pit Bull and the ‘Three Rs’ of the Legal Process

“Walking out of [your] office it appeared the planet had decreased in mass, or perhaps I shed a few pounds, as my tread was lighter than it has been in weeks:  Thank You.” – Quote from a recent client

What I have found in my practice as a lawyer for more than 40 years is how much energy people spend looking backwards.  I have often heard clients say something like:  “I want a lawyer who is a pit bull.”

Sometimes you do –  but most of the time you don’t.  The reasons why you do not are many, not the least of which include:  you do not know why you want a pit bull, you cannot afford a pit bull, and in all likelihood you will not get the results you want from a pit bull.

We all know the traditional “Three Rs:  Readin’, ‘Ritin’ and ‘Rithmatic.”  Learning them often entails a struggle; BUT they are far easier to deal with than the other “three Rs:  Resentment, Revenge and Regret.” These Three Rs drain us, cause a tremendous amount of stress and severely hinder us and often prevent us from achieving success in our personal and business lives.

So, shedding as much Resentment, Revenge and Regret as possible constitutes the first step on the road to success.  It is a complicated process, and you cannot accomplish it alone.  Working with specific professionals will speed this process along.

Depending upon the issues, these professionals may be lawyers, counselors including psychologists, financial advisors, accountants, social workers and other facilitators.

Each professional will give you the specific support you need and will ask questions, challenge you, and allow you to express your thoughts.  They will help you to disgorge all the anguish, anger and frustration that you could not discuss with anyone else.

Without forgetting the past, you can forgive and move forward.

Okay, so all of this does not sound like it came from a lawyer.  Yet here I am saying it, because I have seen (and heard from) clients who let go of their “pit bull” demands, and achieve peace and success in even the most contentious of legal proceedings.  And sometimes all it takes from me is good, focused listening.

Of course, there are times when you need a pit bull — and we are fully capable to provide those services as well.

Call Barry Gordon at Gordon, Mond & Ott, P.C. for an in-depth consultation from an attorney who listens.

Barry Gordon is an attorney in Quincy, MA who is President of Gordon, Mond & Ott, P.C.  A graduate of Northeastern University and Boston University School of Law, he represents families, businesses and financial institutions. His concentrations include real estate and business.  Barry is a member of the Massachusetts Bar, the Florida Bar, SSWBN,  the South Shore Chamber of Commerce and the Art and Business Council of Boston.

Katie Howard

From the Director of Operations

Dedicated to the success of our members through Contacts, Coaching and Collaboration – our mission.Dear Members and Colleagues.

Happy Summer!

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Check here to see my latest post on our Celebration! event that took place on June 24^th.  Stayed tuned to our blog for event recaps, community resources and more.

As always, my goal is to provide our members with Contacts, Coaching and Collaboration.

Interested in making the most of your membership? Contact me!  I will create a customized plan for your business. Reach me at 781-696-9901 or at khoward@sswbn.org.

Katie

This picture of Janet LaBerge, New President of SSWBN’s Board of Directors says it all!

In Janet’s acceptance speech she spoke about doing business with people we know and trust. Her message of peeling off the layers (she really did), and getting to know each other was well received. Janet’s motto of “paying it forward” is going to be the fire behind SSWBN’s mission of Contacts, Coaching and Collaboration.

Stacey Shipman, SSWBN’s “Feel good Living” leader last year was the master of ceremonies awarding a President’s Award to both Patricia Funder of LaserLight Skin Clinic and Adam Cupples of Strategis. Congratulations!
Stacey’s determination to successfully lead SSWBN through a challenging time was recognized last night. She acknowledged the people and businesses who have given so much to SSWBN  – our partners, team leaders,  Board of Directors and staff members.

SSWBN’s Educational Foundation awarded seven $1000 scholarships to deserving women following their dreams.

A big Thank you to Peg Holda and Tina Dwyer of South Shore Hospital for sponsoring this event and supporting SSWBN since it began in 1991.

Over 130 people attended SSWBN’s 19^th year celebration at the newly renovated Raffael’s at South Shore Country Club. 2011 will be a year-long celebration of this organization – our 20^th year! The night ended with dancing from Red Hot Entertainment…and the last song was a favorite from Meatloaf and Janet stormed the dance floor.
A FUN evening indeed.

Monday, August 30, 2010
Squirrel Run Golf Club
Plymouth, MA

This outing is targeted at golfers at all levels of skill and experience, as well as non-golfers seeking a unique networking opportunity. Projected attendance: 80-100.

Eagle Sponsor:  $1750 (exclusive)

• Company name/logo featured in all pre/post-event marketing
• Three (3) minute spotlight speaking opportunity at After Hours
• Company name/logo featured on three (3) email blasts to list of over 2000 members and affiliated organizations
• On-site banner display – if applicable
• Company name featured in all pre event press releases and submissions to local media calendars, including Community Newspapers, Patriot Ledger and Enterprise
• Featured at all SSWBN events and announcements
• Registration for one Foursome for golf and four After Hours admissions
• Marketing materials placed in each goodie bag given to golfers

Birdie Sponsor:  $1000

• Company name/logo featured in all pre/post-event marketing
• Provides assistance in the distribution of awards, raffle prizes, auction, etc.
• On-site banner display – if applicable
• Registration and After Hours for two golfers
• Marketing materials placed in each goodie bag given to golfers

Par Sponsor:       $500

• Company name/logo featured in all pre/post-event marketing
• Registration and After Hours for two golfers
• Choice of (1) Tee Sponsorship or (1) Greens Sponsorship

Tee Sponsor:

A large sign is placed at the tee stating who has sponsored that tee for all the golfers to see while teeing off.  $125 (two for $225)

Greens Sponsor:

A large sign is placed on the green stating who has sponsored that green for all the golfers to see while in the area.  $125 (two for $225)

Customized sponsorships also available! If you are interested in any of the above sponsorship opportunities, please contact Debbie Anders at 781-749-8883 or danders@sswbn.org

For more information about SSWBN’s Golf Outing Check HERE.