Business & Career

Reach for the Stars to Achieve Your Best

Reach for the Stars to Achieve Your Best

by Elinor Stutz CEO, Smooth Sale You know in your heart that special project or job you want in place but it is seemingly unattainable. Reach for that distant star! Start by working backwards and create a list of major milestones

Business Gifts: The Art of Gift-Giving

Business Gifts: The Art of Gift-Giving

  by Elinor Stutz The art of gift-giving is very similar to building repeat business and referrals.  Our friend was ecstatic when she saw the purse we picked out for her while on our trip in France. It was the perfect style for her age, b

The Journey to Equality: One Woman’s Perspective

The Journey to Equality: One Woman’s Perspective

by Elinor Stutz CEO, Smooth Sale As we age, we begin to see change in our society.  I am not old enough to have witnessed women gaining the right to vote but am enjoying seeing women run for political office.  Just this year, I have personal

Health & Wellness

Metabolic Balance: Connect to Your True Good Health

Metabolic Balance: Connect to Your True Good Health

by Myra Nissen, CCH, RSHom(NA) Nationally Certified Homeopath Certified Metabolic Balance® Coach When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.

Flu Season: 10 Best Practices to Keep You Well

Flu Season: 10 Best Practices to Keep You Well

by Myra Nissen, CCH, RSHom(NA) Nationally Certified Homeopath Influenza or “flu” refers to the many strains of viruses that are more intense than the viruses that cause the common cold. Symptoms include fever, aching muscles, headache, fatigu

Ayurveda-Ancient Medicine for Today

Ayurveda-Ancient Medicine for Today

   by Myra Nissen, CCH, RSHom(NA) Nationally Certified Homeopath  When I graduated from Pacific Academy of Homeopathy I was fortunate to be engaged by a small retail chain in the San Francisco Bay area called Elephant Pharmacy. “Elephant”

Home & Garden

How to Create Mural Magic on Just About Any Wall!

How to Create Mural Magic on Just About Any Wall!

Debra Disman Principal, ArtiFactory Studio Lest you think that only smooth interior walls or whitewashed exterior ones can provide the surface for a merry, mysterious, magical or mystical mural, let me relieve you of that misconception straight a

Mural, Mural on the Wall

Mural, Mural on the Wall

  Debra Disman Principal, ArtiFactory Studio It Takes a Village to Make a Mural! Did you ever wonder how those magical murals you so enjoy are created? How did the artist get from an idea or a concept, to the finished painting, mosaic,

Designing for Oneself is Not So Easy

Designing for Oneself is Not So Easy

   Beryn Hammil SF Bay Area Interior Designer  “The cobbler’s children have no shoes”…   is an expression used to indicate that the cobbler is so busy making shoes for his customers that he doesn

Money

The “B” Word: It’s Not as Bad as You Think

The “B” Word: It’s Not as Bad as You Think

Consumer Advocate Lynn Ballou Offers Top 10 Tips for Getting Real About Budgeting  By Lynn Ballou Certified Financial Planner™ CFP® Board Ambassador for the SF Bay Area  One of the big news stories of the

Clean Up Your Finances-Part Two

Clean Up Your Finances-Part Two

by Lynn Ballou Certified Financial Planner ™ CFP Board Ambassador-SF Bay Area In Part 1 of this 2 part series Don’t Just Clean Your House, Clean Up Your Finances, I shared 5 of 10 tips to get your spring cleaning started.  Following are t

Don’t Just Clean Your House, Clean Up Your Finances

Don’t Just Clean Your House, Clean Up Your Finances

by Lynn Ballou Certified Financial Planner ™  CFP Board Ambassador-SF Bay Area Consumer Advocate Lynn Ballou Offers Top 10 Tips for Getting Your Financial House in Order! While tax season is in full bloom and

Relationships

Relationship Success: It Starts with Knowing What You Want

Relationship Success: It Starts with Knowing What You Want

by Kristin Southwick CA Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist  Do you understand your own needs and desires in your relationships with others? I find that many people’s view of themselves and their wants are actually quite different from

Fertility Planit: the Facebook for People Wanting to Get Pregnant!

Fertility Planit: the Facebook for People Wanting to Get Pregnant!

As I shop online for nursery items and prepare to give birth to my first child, a son, in April 2011, I have to acknowledge the amazing journey that brought me to this point. by Karin Thayer Founder Fertility Planit For years I endured a rolle

Honoring Your Authentic Sexual Identity!

Honoring Your Authentic Sexual Identity!

by Katherine Forsythe, MSW Intimacy, Sexuality, and Relationship Counselor  In the past several months, we’ve been chatting about our sexuality as a woman – the unique way each of us articulates our own womanhood. This is our final insta

Style & Beauty

2011 & 2012 Fall Winter Fashion Trends

2011 & 2012 Fall Winter Fashion Trends

  by Michele Benza Image & Fashion Style Consultant Warm, wearable and elegance is how I describe this year’s fall trends. I salute and embrace last century fashion with its colors, shapes and prints. We’ve all heard the expression

Thierry Mugler

Fashion Trends: Are We Doomed?

  by Michele Benza Image & Fashion Style Consultant   It seems that our society has become ultra-casual in dress and manners.  Dress codes have evolved, however there are still certain conventions that must be respected.   Not so lo

Cosmetic Trends: Fresh Faced!

Cosmetic Trends: Fresh Faced!

  by Michele Benza Image & Fashion Style Consultant  Makeup should highlight the features and expose the inner beauty of women.  Makeup, used properly, has the amazing power to make it possible to refin

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Virgo, Don’t You Deserve So Much More?

Virgo, Don’t You Deserve So Much More?

by Jamie Kahl SF Bay Area Astrologer The Best and Worst of Virgo Virgo (August 23-September 22), if you’re ambivalent about your perfectionistic ways, it’s no wonder.  On the one hand, your attention to detail means that your work life te

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