You Can Do Well While Doing Good

Want to send a low-income East Bay woman to biz school? Join the Women's Initiative for Self Employment raffle and help bring one more woman closer to developing a business plan and becoming a confident leader of her own life and owner of a successful business! Raffle tickets are just $25 and may be purchased from me - call: 510.919.2944; email: dewhitaker@openingeyes.net; or stop me (I'll have them with me) if you'd like to support Women's Initiative in this way.  

                                      You can do well while doing good!

WIN! WIN! WIN!

4 blissful nights at a luxurious Lake Tahoe cabin

 iPad Mini

$300 cash

Dinner for 6 at B-Side BBQ 

Friends' spa day at 17 Jewels Salon

PLUS: Cocktails for a Cause (and say 'so long' to tax day!): The raffle drawing is on Monday, April 15th at Monaghan's Bar and Restaurant,  2820 Mountain Blvd., Oakland. Twenty-five percent of the proceeds from cocktails sold during the Women's Initiative evening are being generously donated by owner, Sharon Monaghan.

Please join me to raffle, share a sip and be merry! 

AMAZING OPPORTUNITY

Walk with me for peace on the Golden Gate Bridge, International Women's Day,

March 8, 11am

On International Women's Day, thousands of people will show their solidarity with the women of Afghanistan, Iraq, Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan and other war-torn countries. Women for Women International's Join me on the Bridge campaign started in 2010 when women from Congo and Rwanda joined together on the bridge connecting their two countries, showing that they could build the bridges of peace and hope for the future. This action sparked a massive global movement, and last year they were joined by thousands of people on 464 bridges worldwide in 70 countries. Women are peace builders and with equality at the peace negotiation tables and within governing bodies of their countries they will build a more peaceful world.

WHY: We will walk in solidarity to demand peace, an end to violence against women and children, and a place for women at the peace negotiation tables.

WHERE: Warming Hut on Crissy Field 11am

WHEN: Thursday, March 8, 11am, proceeding to GGBridge at 11:30

**Participants can walk part or all of the Golden Gate Bridge. Of course, children are welcome.

For more information and to RSVP, visit joinmeonthebridge.org or contact me at dewhitaker@openingeyes.net.

Hope you can Join me on the Bridge!

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JOLT a Wake-Up Call: Are you the person you want to be, doing what really matters to you? If not now, when?

Unfortunately, it too often takes a literal JOLT - like Thursday’s Bay Area earthquakes - that impels us to ask, “Is this all there is?”, “Am I content with my life?” and “What am I waiting for?” Fortunately, there was no damage or loss of life as a result of the October 20th, 3.9 magnitude tremblors, so we’re not in an ‘it’s too late’ state.

Since they did strike, how can we capitalize on this disconcerting wake-up call? How about deciding to live consciously with gratitude and wonder? How about looking at what’s unsettling or unsatisfactory in our lives and/or in the world around us, and deciding that enough’s enough. That we’re going to make a change, beginning with clarifying what’s not O.K., identifying a new goal, making a plan and then following through, step by baby step. Maybe it will require guidance and support. Get it. Maybe there will be failures along the way. Consider them learning opportunities. And as there is progress, celebrate!

It takes concerted practice to live consciously, plus courage and persistence to shift the status quo. But if you’re engaged in what matters to you and you’re committed to be(com)ing the person you want to be, you won’t need to ask, “If not now, when?” when the next JOLT happens. Why wait?

Workshop Series for Women: 7 Keys to Living a Passion-Fueled Life

Attend the informational telecall: Friday, Oct 14, 4:30-5:00 - 712.432.0075; Access Code:419355#

What does it take to move from mere surviving to thriving? Exhausted to energized?

Bored to excited? Anxious to calm? Unclear to focused? Sad to happy?

In essence what does it take to live a passion-fueled life,

moment by moment, day by day, year by year?

It takes: vision, action, self-care, learning, connecting, conscious attitudes and sharing.

Join Dana on a journey exploring and activating the

7 keys necessary to creating the personal and professional life YOU want to live.

For a full description of the workshop series go to: 7-Keys to Living a Passion-Fueled Life

Groups (of 8 maximum) are currently forming in San Francisco, Marin County, Oakland, CA and Bend, OR.

Attend the informational telecall: Friday, Oct 14, 4:30-5:00 - 712.432.0075; Access Code:419355#

Information/Sign Up: dewhitaker@openingeyes.net

TRANSFORMING LIVES Book Talk: 7 Keys to Living a Passion-Fueled Life...Lessons from Women Who Know...

Julie’s Coffee and Tea Garden

cordially invites you to meet

photojournalist and career/life coach

DANA E. WHITAKER

who has explored the life-changing

power of microfinance in her book,

Transforming Lives $40 at a Time

Women + Microfinance: Upending the Status Quo

Please join Dana on a virtual global tour, meeting women

who -- with the help of microfinance business and personal training, loans and other financial services -- are transforming their lives inside and out. Learn from them and Dana’s own journey about what it takes in attitude and action

to live a passion-fueled life!

When: Wednesday, October 12th, 7:00-9:00pm

Where: Julie’s Coffee and Tea Garden

1223 Park Street, Alameda, CA

Highlights of the book are viewable at: www.openingeyes.net

*Each book purchase will benefit an organization whose clients are included in Dana's book.