I am now wishing I had been able to chat in person at Shine!
Love that you are telling it like it is.
Also, a little regretful that I did not make the Tweetup, especially being a woo woo yoga girl. (wink)

I felt like there was this underlying theme of trying to squash our awesomeness during the event. Not from the amazing women I met, but from the “leadership”.

Girl, let us shine in our own right, right here, right now!

Once I came home, I really felt like “wow, I do have some frustrations in my current biz, but I am working on them . . . And I am awesome without being in a $100,000 program.”

Keep it up and stay fantastic.

: ) Ana

One of the issues I have with starting a business where someday others may “know” me like they do you is that one of my all time most prized possessions is my anonimity. It's always been something I've valued greatly and been keenly aware of. If you ask me what's the worst thing that can happen to me personally, it's becoming famous or infamous (seriously, the worst!). I'm a very private person so its' been a HUGE leap for me to have agreed with myself to create a business where I'll shortly be “out there”. But…it feels right so I'm going with it and we'll see what happens. If I get too scared, I can always register with an alias!! LOL. ypadgett

Great post.

You were one of the people I wanted to meet while I was there and, I must admit, I felt almost stalkerish going up to say hello to the people I've been following online to say hi for exactly the reasons you stated. I didn't want to make them feel uncomfortable, plus I didn't want them to think, “OK this chick obviously has too much time on her hands if she feels like she knows me.”

But then I told myself they're just people and this might be my only chance to say hello to some of them.

Putting “guru” status on someone is weird, though.

Great Tweet-up, by the way. It was my first ever.

Most of Shine was fabulous. I would have changed a few things, but I'm sure most people feel that way about anything and everything in life, so no big deal.

I was amazed, however, at the number of people totally chucking what they are doing after hearing the viewpoint of just one person. Sure, that one person is very successful. But it's still just the viewpoint of one person. Someone else who is just as successful might say to do the complete opposite. Both views could be right. Both could be wrong.

But I saw a box of 5,000 brand new business cards go in the trash because of these comments. That's a minor example, really, since biz cards are cheap. Do we really want to chuck what we are doing at a moment's notice because one person said to? Shouldn't we give it a little thought and look inside ourselves first?

Maybe sometimes we do need to take the leap and chuck it without thinking it through because it smacks us in the face and we realize we were on the wrong path or there is a better way.

lol re an info product on how to deal w/ fame.