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- If you want more clarity, more focus, more money and more fun, then contact Joanne Victoria now.
Joanne Victoria is the right author, consultant or speaker for your business, association, meeting and event if:
• You want to reach a higher level of success
• You want a content-rich presentation, laced with a unique style of humor
• You want yourself and your people to be positioned properly and headed in the right direction.
"Joanne is a business woman with excellence in her coaching approach, more specifically to help us with our business foundation--knowing our vision and mission before we get into goal setting. This approach allows you a much bigger picture of you and where you want to be."- Judy Cullins, Author,
Joanne Victoria, with over 25 years experience, is the owner of New Directions in the Silverdale, WA, located in the Greater Seattle area
Joanne works with small business owners, entrepreneurs and business professionals who want more clarity, more focus, more money and more joy in their work. Joanne is the author of four books including: Lighting Your Path – How To Create the Life You Want, Vision With a Capital V – Create the Business of Your Dreams and Pushy For a Moment – Instant Solutions to Everyday Challenges.
Joanne’s observations on what people can to do succeed have been reported in the San Francisco Chronicle, Success Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, and national television and radio programs.
“Your mastery at providing simple actions people can take to create a positive future is amazing. Your experience easily connects with audiences, inspiring them to pursue these practical action steps for success.”- Steven Bullard, Entrepreneur / Bremerton, WA
Her clarity and laser-like approach helps clients discover, understand and use their core values as they face each day.
“You have given us wonderful insights in how to walk a little different path and live a better life.” Mark LeBlanc, Author, Growing Your Business! , 2007 President, National Speakers Association
Joanne has owned her own California real estate company, was Chief Operating Officer of an investment company, CFO of a construction company and is currently owner of New Directions.
Numerous clients, including professionals, corporations, associations and entrepreneurs, have relied on her expertise and experience in the areas of personal and business development, marketing, and management.
"Joanne Victoria really epitomizes the character of presenters we respect - compassionate yet followable guidelines and an eye on the ball that never wavers, so neither does that of her clients."-Andy Greider, Senior Communications Consultant, Carrol&White, Atlanta GA
Her consistent ability to clearly communicate to an audience of 10, 100, or 1000, with humor, style and a direct, yet sensitive approach, enables her to relay a message that is well understood and long remembered.
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- All mysteries ++ more to come.
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Slides, Anyone?
I added a few slides of my books to my blogspot. I'm not sure yet if they should stay on or not.Do you have more trouble loading my blogspot with the slides up? Do you like them or are they too distracting?
A Christmas Tree Already
On the way home from work yesterday, I passed a house that already had a lighted and decorated Christmas tree up and showing by the window.Is it not too soon for that? In my mind, the day after Thanksgiving is when the Christmas Season starts. That's when it's fair game to put up a tree and decorations and start shopping. The way things are going this year, I'll be lucky if I get organized enough to decorate a few days before Christmas.
With our dog, Rascal, who lives up to her name, we'll probably go with a fiber optic small tree on top of an end table. One of these days I may pull put the larger tree from the box in the basement and set it up, but not until our doggy is a little more sedate. I don't feel like chasing her to get ornaments out of her mouth. I will be putting up knick knacks, lights inside and decorations on the walls, so it will still look Christmasy. No lights outside because for some reason we have no outlets outside.
While we're on the subject of Christmas trees and such, be sure to add holidays in your books. You can mention decorations and lights or Easter eggs and baskets, or even mattress sales in your descriptions to ground the reader as to the season.
Now, back to that tree I saw. What about you? When do you decorate for Christmas? What do you put up?
Winners and Losers at the CMAs and Life
I love country music and almost every country performer. While watching the CMAs, I enjoyed seeing the winners accept their awards. On the other hand, it was hard for me to see the losers do their best to appear gracious and for the most part succeeding.For every winner, there's a loser. In life and in books, it's the same way. How people react to their good and bad fortune shows what their characters are made of. You don't have to tell a reader who the good guy or bad guy is. Let their actions speak for themselves. The readers are smart enough to figure it out.
PS Can't finish this blog without saying - You Rock, Taylor Swift! You are one smart, talented teenager! Congrats on all your awards, especially, Entertainer of the Year!!!
CMA Awards Tonight and Twitter
One of my favorite shows is on tonight - the CMA Awards. If you're a country music fan, you're probably like me and will be glued to the TV 8pm EST, or in my case 7pm, in the flatlands of Illinois.Almost all my favorite performers will be there, except I hear that Rascal Flatts can't make it.
I'll be on Twitter during the show also. That's part of the fun of it - discussing and dissecting outfits, performers, songs and even commercials, kind of like I'm at a giant party with people who all go for the same thing and want to share.
What about you? What kind of music do you like? Do you tweet during a favorite show or event?
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When RASCAL wakes up, you'll hear from her and/or her Mom - that would be me, Morgan Mandel.
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I had a successful book signing at the Waldenbooks in Cumberland MD, which the manager described as “a little off the beaten path.” She gambled and ordered a big stack of The Troubleshooter in hard cover, and they all sold.
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Early Endorsements for “A Circle of Souls”
Linda Fairstein, NYT Bestselling Author: "A fascinating debut - this novel takes the reader to the darkest places in the human soul, from a writer with the authenticity to lead us there. A stunning thriller and an important read."
Judge Judy Sheindlin, star of the Judge Judy Show: "The seminal work of this fine author kept me glued to my chair until the adventure was over and the mystery solved. A great read!"
Book Synopsis:
The sleepy town of Newbury, Connecticut, is shocked when a little girl is found brutally murdered. The town s top detective, perplexed by a complete lack of leads, calls in FBI agent Leia Bines, an expert in cases involving children.
Meanwhile, Dr. Peter Gram, a psychiatrist at Newbury s hospital, searches desperately for the cause of seven-year-old Naya Hastings devastating nightmares. Afraid that she might hurt herself in the midst of a torturous episode, Naya s parents have turned to the bright young doctor as their only hope.
The situations confronting Leia and Peter converge when Naya begins drawing chilling images of murder after being bombarded by the disturbing images in her dreams. Amazingly, her sketches are the only clues to the crime that has panicked Newbury residents. Against her better judgment, Leia explores the clues in Naya s crude drawings, only to set off an alarming chain of events.
In this stunning psychological thriller, innocence gives way to evil, and trust lies forgotten in a web of deceit, fear, and murder.
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