Today I was driving down to Encinitas, Ca for a speaking engagement when I looked over at the Beach and realized how lucky I really am. It had to be one of the most beautiful days I’ve seen at the beach in a long while. I don’t live by the ocean, but I do see the beach at least once each week.
I presented to the Encinitas Coastal Rotary Club on social media for my company Square Martini Media. (Thanks to Katherine Wichmann Zacharias for the invitation)! Afterward, I was answering questions with a few folks but my mind was wandering as I gazed over their shoulders out the window into the ocean. I had one thing on my mind-DOLPHINS.
My BFF, Shelley Swisher, always knew I’d be a broadcast journalist and she was right!
On April 8, I’ll be live on the air with two internet radio shows on www.wsradio.com. The first show is about entrepreneurism and the second show is….you guessed it, Twitter Talk Radio!
It’s my great honor to co-host a show about small business owners with Rieva Lesonsky. Rieva is truly amazing. She is a small business expert and she writes, speaks and helps small businesses all over the country. We’ll be interviewing successful entrepreneurs and experts and talking about three major themes:
Friday I’m off to Las Vegas for Affiliate Summit West. This is my first trip to this conference and my first venture into Affiliate Marketing. I’m excited to start learning about this new area. I signed up to cover this event on a press pass representing Six Figure Moms Club. I really think there might be some opportunities for reengineering your careers in this area so I want to learn more and pass it along to you guys.
As I sit here in my San Diego kitchen looking out the windows at the cloudy morning sky on this Christmas eve morning, I wonder about all of you. It’s quiet in my house as everyone else is still sleeping. I am drinking my first cup of coffee from my new favorite coffee mug. I’m very particular about coffee mugs. This one says ” I heart Harveys. seatbeltbags.com“. It’s white with red letters. But, what I love about it is the shape and the skinny handle. It’s tall and slender. I’m giving you details because today is all about the details.
If you’ve been following along, you know that my love affair with Twitter has been going on for a few months now. This past weekend, I had the great pleasure of meeting the author of The Twitter Revolution, Warren Whitlock…again. Not only did I meet Warren but I also had the honor of joining him at TwitCastRadio when he interviewed Adaptive Blue about Glue, a cool new tool that enhances your web browsing experience. Can you imagine what I asked when it came to my turn for an interview question? Of course, you’re right! I asked how the new tool could interface with twitter! You’ll also hear Mari Smith stepping in for a few seconds too. (You can hear our interview by clicking on the links above.)
Six Figure Moms, What are you REALLY grateful for? As I’ve read other blogs and articles, I’ve been thinking about this question all week. I decided I wanted my post to be narrow so I’ve asked myself this question:
“If you only get to give one answer, what ONE thing are you most grateful for?”
My answer is STRUGGLE. I’m so thankful for the struggle I have in my life and for so many reasons.
- Struggle makes me continue to grow and think about things from a multitude of perspectives.
- Struggle reminds me that I’m alive.
I was working on another project this morning at my kitchen table with the window open. It’s a typical Santa Ana fall weekend in San Diego where it feels like the threat of fires. When you’ve lived here through both the Cedar and the Witch Creek fires, your sensors are up for that kind of stuff in the fall. Both of those fires came within a mile of my home. Luckily, we survived with minor damage and big messes from both. Comparitively speaking, over 400 homes in my community were lost last year. It was a devastating time.
I’m truly amazed at feedback I’ve received in response to my post on Proposition 8: Why Should the Majority Get to Choose How the Minority Lives?. In addition to the 16 comments on the blogpost itself, I’ve received emails, phone calls, twitter tweets & direct messages, facebook messages, phonecalls and people walking up to me to chat. It’s been so enlightening. Below are some demographics about the folks that have reached out to me:
- 90% of the group voted no for Prop 8.
- Most of them have someone in their family that is gay and therefore directly affected by the law.
Since last week’s election, you have inevitably saw some of the statistics covering how President Obama maximized social media tools to connect with his constituents. During his campaign, he reached out to connect with people using the internet through Facebook, Linked In, My Space, Twitter, and other social media tools. He even paused to email a thank you note to his team before his acceptance speech. Undeniably, he had many competitive advantages over John McCain, but one cannot debate that social media played a huge part in his election.
Yes, I know. This topic is controversial…especially to working mothers. Well, I guess I mean to say to any mother or any parent for that matter.
As some of my Twitter buddies know, I was in Hollywood over the weekend. As I drove down Santa Monica boulevard, I knew I’d be late for a meeting with Denise Wakeman of The BlogSquad (more on Denise coming soon) due to all of the Proposition 8 demonstrators lining the street. The level of energy was noticably high as people yelled and sang and honked their car horns on every block in support of gay marriage. Today, as I drove through my conservative San Diego neighborhood lined with demonstrators in the rain, the energy was much different. These demonstrators equally as passionate, had showed up to urge us all to Vote “Yes”.