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Day 1108 – The Course That Bret Helped Build – Rebel Race, New Windsor, NY

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Through a series of events, Bret landed a temp job helping with the Rebel Race. He started helping in Monkton, Maryland and was invited to New York as well. While it was a little hard to be without him for nearly 2 weeks, it was a really great experience for him. It also makes us both VERY thankful for each other!

No picture today, but I wanted to share a video Bret found on YouTube of the race. It’s AWESOME. We were watching and he’s telling me things like “yep, I built that….that’s where I had to dig a pit….that’s where I bush-wacked a path…etc” then he was talking about how on the race day his main job was taking water and supplies to different water stations and staff at obstacles….and he says “oh man, I took water to that guy a LOT….oh hey! That’s me!!!” So, if you watch the video, he is seen at 7:20 and he’s wearing a yellow shirt.

Enjoy!

Day 1099 – A New Hairpiece From Randie at Faye Daniel Designs

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Today I hung out at K&B Bridals and Event Planning in Bel Air, Maryland. I had a great time brainstorming with Bridget (the owner) and Randie from Faye Daniel Designs. She does customer bridal accessories, including jewelry and hair pieces. I always love catching up with her and hearing her ideas. She’s an all around awesome woman!

Here’s one of her new pieces!!

Day 1094 – Networking with DC Wedding Vendors

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So, I have spent more time in DC the past 5 days than I have in my whole life combined!

Today I met up with a small group of Christian Wedding Vendors for lunch and sharing. It is SO refreshing to talk with vendors who understand how you think about business and how it relates to your relationship with God. Amazing women! I met up with Susie of Photography by Susie at her home and we traveled around the city together all day. It was great to have someone to travel around with!

We all met up at Ted’s Bulletin in DC. Let me just say this was THE coolest restaurant I have ever been to! First, here’s the MENU!

While we were waiting for food, we were all having different conversations and I ended up catching up with and sharing all the awesome things God has been doing in my life and business with the lovely lady in front of me, Sarah Danaher of Ampersand Photography! She was actually the one who got me in touch with this awesome community of Christian wedding vendors! I am deeply indebted to her for that.

Anyways, while we were talking she thought of a verse and pulled out THE most used bible I have seen in a while! I’m talking cover falling off, underlined and highlighted and notes written everywhere. It was truly a beautiful thing…so much so that I had to take a picture!

Also in attendance were Heather Behlendorf of Heather Bee Photography, Allison Harper of Alison Harper & Co and Meghan Hale of Meghan Hale Photography. What a WONDERFUL group of ladies!

What? The food? You want to see that too? That was almost as good as the company….

And what’s this? A homemade Pop Tart?? Yes please!

Day 1093 – Final Thoughts From Vicki Irvin’s 2012 Extreme Women Entrepreneurs Event

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Today is my last day at the event, so I wanted to share my top “take-aways”:

1. Don’t fear what people think of you. There will always be people who don’t like you, so just let it go. For example, I try to not write AS much about how awesome my life is, my relationship with Christ, my business and my marriage….because I know there are people who don’t experience that….but I want to stop keeping those things to myself. I have a great life and I want to share my joy.
2. Don’t fear what people think of your business. There will always be people who don’t like you, so just let it go.
3. People want to know how messed up your life is, it makes you more real.
4. I need to write more books.
5. I need to become a public speaker.
6. Infuse my personality into everything related to my business.
7. Going to an event like this will turn my husband into an entrepreneur overnight. (Seriously, he’s already writing a book and thinking about several small business ideas.)

I HIGHLY recommend this event, sign up for updates for next year here! Even if you are a guy…there were several guys in attendance. You NEED to make this happen for you next year!

Day 1092 – Lessons Learned from Stedman Graham (Oprah’s Man)

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Since yesterday, I have learned SOOO much at this conference! It has completely changed how I think about my business. I also have a TON of new ideas for side projects and books to write.

The highlight of today was hearing Stedman Graham speak. You probably know him best as “Oprah’s man” but after hearing him speak, he is completely in his own category in my mind.

He shared SO many encouraging things and I’d love to just type them all up…but I don’t want to just give away his information, you know? BUT, I will share something that he shared, written by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (taken from this page)

“And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. don’t just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead or the unborn couldn’t do it any better.

If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well. If you can’t be a pine at the top of the hill, be a shrub in the valley. Be be the best little shrub on the side of the hill.

Be a bush if you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a highway, just be a trail. If you can’t be a sun, be a star. For it isn’t by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.”

Later in the evening, there was a pink and white party for some of the attendees. I got a picture with Mara Glazer, her assistant, Kara Anderson AND Bridget Moore of K&B Bridals and Event Planning.

I am honored to be good friends with Mara! Even more so after she asked Stedman if we could get a picture with him!! He’s so nice and down to earth in person. He actually shook my hand and thanked ME after we took the picture. Awesome guy!

And randomly….they had this beer at the party….this was the same company that made our root beers in Virgina!!

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