Think Big with Central Minnesota Women Shine: Create and Celebrate our Expanding Community

How you see yourself is also the way you see the world. Do you have to change your vision to get a different picture or should you rather enlarge it and expand it? The latter will definitely help you to 'Think Big'..."  Central Minnesota Women Shine Harvest Festival and Country Store is an opportunity to shine a light on your unique contribution and ours while helping to fund the creation of Central Minnesota Women Shine 501c3. 

Central Minnesota Women Shine provides resources and solutions for women ventures, projects and initiatives. All women just as all men are all part of the solution to create thriving communities in Central Minnesota and in the global marketplace. Yet we know many women have had a difficult time balancing roles and accessing needed resources to realize success.  Dale Hellickson of Sheets Galore is excited to contribute a set of queen size sheets from his business, Sheets Galore. You will find these golden 1,500 count thread sheets on the silent auction table along with Dale's contact information. 

Dale Hellickson, supporter of CMWS and owner of Sheets Galore

Mary Lynn Goenner, Independent Consultant at Scentsy  will join the festivities. Mary Lynn will contribute a surprise item from her Scentsy collection for the silent auction. She is a highly successful and informed business woman and committed to the mission and goals of Central Minnesota Women Shine. Stop by and introduce yourself, share stories, exchange contact information and resources.

Dara Westra of Performance Design Training Center, has accessed her creative abilities and internet know-how to create a QR (Quick Response Code). Add fun and value to the celebration. If QR is new to you, this is the perfect opportunity to practice and or raise your IT IQ. Put on your explore and discover attitutde if  you are new to this technology and we will walk you through the steps to be sure you uncover the secret message and access your prize.

Quick Response Code: The 21st Century Coupon

Christiane Lavanoux  of I Game Attitude says, " To increase your potential means to sharpen, refine and define all of your feelings so you can share the slightest of them. Then it becomes easy to choose: you just pick up and amplify the emotion that moves and thrills you, that awakens and sets in motion your desires and even your most crazy dreams. What is your dream? What moves and thrills you? Expanding access to affordable, whole health products and services; Netweaving, (networking the women's way) to build durable, mutually beneficial relationships;  Women in leadership news and views about and by women; Women ventures, including product development and manufacturing. 

Central Minnesota Women Shine Organizational Board

Central Minnesota Women Shine is here to support and celebrate your expanding vision of self and the world. Together, we are netweaving talents, resources and solutions to create sustainable wealth and wellness in Central Minnesota. 

Do you like this post? Leave a comment, share it with a friend, connect with us on Facebook and  Twitter. Join us at Central Minnesota Women Shine Harvest Festival and Country Store.

LL&L,

Mary Margaret

Central MN Women Shine Harvest Festival: A Celebration of Abundance

 It's harvest time in Central Minnesota.  What better time to celebrate our abundance, share talents and connect than to gather country store fashion with a 21st Century flair. CMWS Harvest Festival and Country Store is the premier fundraising event to kick off CMWS Wealth and Wellness Initiative. Join us on October 17th from 4:30 to 9:00 pm at Mind Body and Spirit Event Center, located between Mind Body Spirt store and Jules Bistro.

CMWS Harvest Festival, downtown St. Cloud

Contribute and or shop products and services crafted, owned and or sold by area folks like the vintage dress seen below. Name your price for the products you bring in. Consider adding an item to our silent auction collection. Purchase tickets for any or all of the 4 fairy tale play sets to be raffled.  These along with items from the children's corner of the store will bring hours of creative fun and learning over the long winter months.

4 Fairy Tale Play Sets

Be sure to bring your stash of cash, bag of gold, check book or credit card as there will surely be a treasure or two you will want to buy. Sign up for an introductory membership to this 21st Century Initiative at a 20th Century price of just $12.00!

You will find the flapper style dress below on CMWS silent auction table. View and share more treasures on CMWS facebook wall: http://www.facebook.com/CMWS4WealthAndWellness

Flapper dress made for Anna White circa 1956
Find this and more treasures at CMWS Silent Auction.

Central Minnesota Women Shine is a concept, a feeling and a belief in our power to thrive. It is women co-creating solutions for women ventures, projects and initiatives. We invite all stakeholders in the future of St. Cloud and its surrounding communities to stop by and celebrate our women, contribute to the cause, share business cards, stories and solutions. Shine a light on your treasures and ours at Central Minnesota Women Shine Harvest Festival and Country Store. All proceeds from contributed items will go to CMWS Wealth and Wellness Initiative.

Mary Margaret, CMWS Netweaver

Photo: Eric Aubry
Gravatar allows us to upload a favorite photo of our self that follows us as we visit each other in the virtual world. If you don’t have your gravatar yet, go grab it at http://en.gravatar.com/. With gravatar, I always welcome you with my best smile and invite you to smile back on me as you  comment on and/or like my posts, products and solutions.

If you haven't yet liked CMWS on FB, please do so http://www.facebook.com/CMWS4WealthAndWellness Facebook like button and comments are the bumper stickers of the 21st century. Comment and or share this blog with friends to expand our solving power. Crisscross local stores, streets and neighborhoods with web-based roadmaps and sites to expand our wealth and wellness.

LL&L,

Mary Margaret

Central MN Women Shine Weaving the Fabric of Community

Central Minnesota Women Shine Netweavers offer a 4 step, 4 facet process to enhance the inner vitality of self and other, co-create solutions that complement the systems in place, provide a conduit to contribute to peaceful prosperity and sustainable financial/material well being. I'm packing up my bags just now to join the CMWS netweavers to tweak the bylaws that will guide us in developing a nonprofit organization that will profit everyone.

We are filled with gratitude for the community members who have already contributed to CMWS Harvest Festival. Sheets fit for a goddess, hand crafted windows, home grown produce and more have been contributed for the CMWS country store, silent auction and fairy tale playset raffle to channel the funds needed for the 501c3 registration.

Dara Westra, of Performance Design Training Center has found the time to create the flyer for this joyful celebration and post it on Central MN Women Shine website.

I'm off to the Ace. Hope to connect with you there.

LL&L,

Mary Margaret

Central MN Women Shine: Express 4 facets of Power and 4 facets of Abundance

All new things begin with an idea...

"Imagination! The future in colorful pictures! According to a Chinese proverb “a picture is worth 1000 words”. The pictures our minds capture are yet another way to express our imaginative power and make our dreams come true. When we imagine our minds are already taking flight, leaping and dancing toward what the future holds, all we have to do is join in!", say the go to ladies at I Game Attitude in the Newsletter, Fall, 2011 

Central MN Women Shine is a co-creative venture and process weaving a tapestry of visions into a richer, healthier Central Minnesota landscape that includes all of our colors and shapes. We are leaping and dancing toward a vibrant future.

What's unfolding today?

CMWS Founding Mothers & Organizational Board

Central MN Women Shine has signed a contract with nonprofit consultant, Marlys Johnson and the Initiative Foundation to develop governance including bylaws, a full board of directors and a first year business plan.

Meet, collaborate and co-create with founding Mothers: Mary Margaret White-Levilain, (far left) and Dara Westra, (second from the right) netweaving talents and solutions with organizational board members: Mary Smith, second from left; Sandi Bernard, third from left and Cynthia Prather, far right.

We Invite Central MN Women to join us each Thursday from 4:30 to 6:30 pm at the Ace Bar and Grill. 

Marla Waseka CMWS Netweaver

Meet CMWS Netweaver, Marla Waseka, of the Olive Branch Retreat. Marla along with business partners, Jessica Town-Gunderson and Sheila Burski have created An Inspirational Women's Entrepreneurs Retreat. Visit the all new Olive branch blog for a full description and an invitation to access a secret business tool that few are aware of .

What role will you play in expanding the wealth and wellness of your 4 human facets? How will you serve the higher purpose of self, family, community and the world?


Express and develop your Power and Abundance with CMWS Netweavers and expand your solving power:

• Join us every Thursday for a netweaving of Central MN Women
• Read and share our Friday Blog
• Visit our website now in construction: http://centralmnwomenshine.com
• Connect with us on Facebook and Twitter

 I Game Attitude offers this definition of 4 facets of Power in a blog post. The excerpt below offers the story in short:

4 expressions of Power as there are 4 expressions of Abundance.

• Emotional Power ~ sound inner vitality and balance
• Social Power         ~ sound cooperative attitude
• Thinking Power   ~ determination, will, leadership
• Physical Power     ~ physical strength to act on your

 To learn more about CMWS Netweaving and Investment opportunities contact us at centralmnwomenshine@gmail.com or call Mary Margaret at 320-266-5614.