Have you been downloading our Bond Girl Coaching Cards? Here is a link to the next set in the series. We plan to ultimately have a boxed set of all the cards for sale. But these are free for you to print out (instructions are on the printout). I’m very excited by these! They are my gift to you.
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This morning I checked out Forbes.com – and guess what I found? A whole op-ed piece on Bond Girls!
As pointed out in Forbes, “Some feminists rail that Bond Girls are hypersexualized and two-dimensional. (They are called girls, after all.)” But Bond Girls are “generally from working-girls stock…their ranks include an astrophysicist, Oxford professor, pilot..circus [owner]…”
The thing about Bond Girls is that they are ordinary women caught in extraordinary circumstances. They actually live where a governnment employee on an expense account (a/k/a James Bond) drops into. They have wonderful lives – Bond has to go where he’s told and doesn’t really have an anchor and place. Bond Girls are sensual and have enough time management skills (while otherwise running their enterprises!) to take advantage of this gorgeous guy when he’s in their midst – and in fact, to usually get out of the trouble that he somehow gets them into. They aren’t paid or trained to be spies or to take on action-adventure (a la Charlies Angels, Lara Croft or Sarah Connor from the Terminator movies), but they get on just fine. They aren’t “Eek Girls.”
I’m going to be smiling all day that Forbes is talking about Bond Girls. Hey – we know that Bond Girls run their own businesses and manage their own money… I even mention Forbes in my book as a great magazine to read to keep a pulse on All Things $. I love that Forbes is now keeping track of All Things Bond Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl.
Yes yes, can you tell, it’s “catch up on blogs” day! The Glam Flash newsletter from Glam.com ran a great article that details feng shui color tips, which I don’t really go into in my podcasts, book or blog. Have a look – it’s well written and follows what I know as well. I didn’t poke around the site all that much in their “what is feng shui” so they might be trying to sell you something on Tarot.com (which is the link that comes from Glam.com) – always beware, of course, but have fun!
OK in skimming the blogs for the Avon/007 perfume, I found two entries I am in love with, from Stylefrizz.com. Check these out:
Chocolate or Honey-Dipped Sunglasses…
Or, for those of you who are afraid that you could only eat, like, one lens, a chocolate bar with the calories all marked out for you to count!
So what do YOU think a Bond Girl smells like? Avon is having a go at figuring this out for us, apparently. According to Now Smell This, quoting an Avon spokesperson, “Bond Girl 007 is a sexy cocktail of velvety florals, cool freshness and warm woods; the notes include white peach, orange blossom, jasmine, calypso orchid, freesia, amber, cashmere wood and patchouli. The bottle is meant to recall a woman’s body; the cap is meant to be ‘a stealthy homage to a Bond spy gadget’.”
That’s a lot of “notes” for one fragrance! I’ll be very curious to see how it smells. Being a “one note woman” myself (I wear Jo Malone and layer it if I want more “notes”), sometimes fragrances like this smell a little confusing to me. Then again, we could say they smell “mysterious” – and that’s all Bond Girl!!
P.S.: Love that the Avon spokesperson also notes that Bond Girls are “… one of the most widely known aspects of the films — they’re empowered, feminine and glamorous.” Yup – that’s what we’ve said, huh Bond Grrrrls!
Yesterday, had a few fun emails from friends and acquaintances I have not heard from in a LONG time. Turns out View From The Bay re-released my first appearance (the “Decluttering Episode”) over Memorial Day — and a lot of folks saw it. Loved hearing from them! So here it is again, in case you missed it when I posted it the first time. Click here.
This podcast is a recording of the new Thursday Night Fempower(R) Lifestyle Training group’s Second Session. These Grrls have agreed to have their first meetings taped and made public, to instruct those of you who are curious about the process.
The second teleconference in each month is not based upon our standard motivational Curriculum. It is based upon what came up for each Grrl during the previous 2 weeks, as a follow on from the first session of the month and the Weekly Update.
If you are following along, you have heard Session One (based on the Curriculum), then read the Weekly Update (and the Testimonials), and now we are to Session Two. It deals with setting Goals and Steps for accomplishment – because the Thursday group had some issues with respect to how exactly to do just that.
Each member uses her “Bond Grrl Name,” which I have found helps women really be truthful, honest, and forthright in what she discusses with the group.
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Hey Bond Grrrls!
I read this great article on Emily Wilska’s website, OrganizedLife.org. She recommends getting rid of 50 things in the next 3 weeks – whether they are a book you haven’t re-read (or never read at all), a mate-less earring, or even bigger.
This is a great way to look at “cleaning out” – as long as you get to 50, you’re all set. Big or small, love this idea, because it’s kinda a game – and more importantly, a fun way to rid yourself of 50 things you don’t need!
Here is the link: http://www.organizedlife.org/tip.html
And don’t forget we have the De-cluttering View From The Bay, and a number of Podcasts (here is the link to Podcast 2, our first clutter/clearing related one), in our archives for you!
This Coffee Chat podcast is with Alison Armstrong of PAX Programs Incorporated. PAX, which is an acronym for Partnership, Adoration and Xstacy, creates peace between the sexes by providing unique and immediately useful information to women on understanding men. Their products, CDs, DVDs and workshops can be found at UnderstandMen.com.
As stated on their website, “PAX…is passionate about altering our society’s culture by transforming the way women relate to men. [PAX provides] extraordinary information with which women can profoundly affect their relationships with men of all ages and in all circumstances. [PAX is] dedicated to having this priceless information in the hearts and minds of one million women. [PAX intends] to accomplish this with fun, integrity, intelligence, courage and in partnership with both masculine and feminine forms of power.” Read more about PAX’s mission by clicking here. Sounds like fEmpowerment, no?
As promised, please find the links to:
* Alison’s website
* writing to Oprah about how you felt hearing about Alison in this Podcast;
* watching Alison on Utube:
– “How Women Speak: There Is No Point!” (part 1 of 3)
– “How Women Speak: Life-Threatening Details” (part 2 of 3)
– “How Women Speak: It’s All About Flow” (part 3 of 3)
– “How Women Think: What Focus???” (part 1 of 3)
– “How Women Think: How Do You Get Her Attention?” (part 2 of 3)
– “How Women Think: Multi-Tasking During Sex?” (part 3 of 3)
– “How Women Feel: Crashing The System” (part 1 of 2)
– “How Women Feel: The Rage Monster” (part 2 of 2)
– “How to NOT Change A Man: Why Criticism Doesn’t Work”
– “How To Change A Woman: The SLIGHTEST Criticism Will Do”
I hope you enjoy this podcast, and please let me know if there are other experts you might like to hear interviewed on our Coffee Chats.
If you have comments on this episode, call the Listener Comment Voicemail at +1 (206) 350-3537, e-mail sandy [at] beabondgirl [dot] com or leave a comment below.
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One of my Bond Grrls is in Morocco, and recently sent me information on Halal Meat. It sounds very similar to Kosher butchering (the animal is humanely treated, etc.) – but now another friend who has a blog that I love (hey, it’s pictures… say no more) did a post on Halal Meat, and included a great link to the New York Times article on why we should all be checking into this more.
Here’s the link to his blog, SFPhotorama.com (scroll down to see the photos of the San Francisco Halal butcher shop).