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Posts Tagged ‘oprah winfrey network’

23 Secrets To Improve Your Life

Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

I don’t even know where to begin. I am still on a high after a magnificent weekend with my mom in Toronto attending Oprah’s Lifeclass Tour. So many of you have tweeted me and Facebooked me asking for all the juicy details. So today will be a mixed bowl of those details, life lessons, and what I learned. Hold on tight, and come along with me on a ride of fun and education…

It all started Sunday. My husband was leaving on a business trip, and I was leaving for Toronto. We kissed our two boys goodbye, and headed to the airport for our respective flights. Walking in, I had to laugh. My mom and I showed up at the airport in the exact same outfit, completely unplanned. Quite typical of us. We were excited, and off on our first mother-daughter trip in almost a decade!

Mom and I at the airport en route to our mother-daughter getaway

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I’m Leaving On A Jet Plane… For Oprah!

Friday, April 13th, 2012

Okay, if you are a loyal reader, then you WILL know the answer to this question.

Who is my #1 after my family?

Yes, bingo!

OPRAHHHH!!!

On Sunday, my mom and I are off on a mother-daughter bonding trip to see Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra, Iyanla Vazant, and my girl Oprah Winfrey in Toronto.

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Making Your Passion Your Paycheck

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

By Guest Blogger Maya Brenner

As a child, I always loved stones, beads and all things that sparkled. I used to take my mother’s hippie turquoise jewelry apart, only to put it back together, re-worked into a much better design… at least in my opinion. Years later, when it came time to choose a career, I pursued a master’s degree in social work. My interest in jewelry hadn’t exactly diminished, but I saw it more as a hobby at that time. Certainly not something one could have as a career.

So, I was 25 years old, working in New York City with drug-addicted adolescents and making beaded jewelry at night to calm my nerves. I always kept the latest issue of US Weekly on my desk at the office, and was fascinated with the celebrities and their style— something that my co-workers always found time to tease me about. I hated the clothes that social workers were expected to wear—our clothes needed to be conservative and not too stylish or revealing so as not to elicit “inappropriate” attention from the clients. Nothing even close to what I was seeing in the fashion magazines.

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