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Get Inspired

I Believe She’s Amazing

by Julie

Last summer, while attending Special Event Boot Camp, my partner Elisa and I had the pleasure of meeting the inspirational trail-blazer and humanitarian, Kim Bourne MacGregor. This past fall, Kim launched a grassroots movement to unite and inspire 1,000,000 women around the world to recognize the amazing women in their lives-in memory of her dear [...]

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“It was meant to be”

by Julie

I often catch myself saying “It must have been meant to be!” Hmmm. Is this really the case? I find when I’m “doing” I have an awful lot of “it was meant to be” experiences. Likewise, when I’ll delaying, procrastinating, thinking and sitting, I tend not to have so many of those moments. Is it [...]

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Meet the Mad Hatter…

by Julie

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A ring master of sorts, our mad hatter is accustomed to behaving erratically around friends, frequently mixing up words and phrases, and otherwise discombobulating his afternoon teas. What makes our hatter remarkable is his ability to transform a neat and orderly affair into an upside-down, topsy-turvy, cirque-tacular experience. The reasons behind his “madness” are as [...]

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Feeling Uninspired?

by Julie

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It happens to all of us. Sometimes we “have it” and sometimes it elludes us. The “it” I’m talking about is inspiration. When I’m excited and passionate about a project – everything seems to flow. On the flip side, when I am unmoved or even bored by what it is I’m doing – everything seems [...]

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Six Impossible Things

by Julie

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Image via Wikipedia “Sometimes I dream up six impossible things before breakfast” – Alice, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland For the second year running, my incredible sisters/business partners and I are embarking on one of the most challenging endeavors undertaken by our company. We are self-producing another full-scale cirque production in which all proceeds will [...]

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Trail Blazers

by Julie

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“Do not follow where the path leads. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Anonymous Making your own way is scary – that’s a fact. Why is this the case? The road “less traveled” can sometimes seem to be a daunting and intimidating prospect. I suppose we all have to struggle [...]

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Stress, Anxiety, and Internal Warfare

by Julie

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“Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.” -Natalie Goldberg Stress. Who needs it? Anxiety (fearing fear) – even less helpful. Beating yourself up, repeatedly telling yourself that you’re no good, [...]

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Reaching for the Stars

by Julie

On Saturday, my fabulous husband Nikola Danaylov of Singularity Symposium posted two videos which are goose-bump worthy enough to re-post on this blog. The brilliant marketing execs at Red Bull are sponsoring a project which is truly mind-blowing and (literally) out-of-this world amazing. In a nutshell, ex-military man Felix Baumgartner will attempt to break the [...]

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Making Your Deadline

by Julie

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“Challenges make life interesting, however, overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. ” Mark Twain Some people call it “shipping.” Some call it “being on time.” I prefer to look at it as arriving at your final destination – and you got there because you committed to your deadline. This past week I felt like [...]

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Notable and Quotable

by Julie

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Last week I had the incredible experience of attending the Canadian Special Events & Meeting Expo educational sessions and seminars hosted by some of the top event producers known in the industry today. There were some fantastic quotes which I wanted to log via this blog for our mutual reference and on-going benefit. Even if [...]

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Rags to Riches

by Julie

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Image via Wikipedia Hands down, one of my favorite television shows of all time is CBC’s The Dragon’s Den. I love watching fellow Canadian entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to dragons (aka self-made millionaires and billionaires) Kevin, Brett, Arlene, Robert and Jim. What a fantastic concept! Go on the show, present your idea, gain free publicity [...]

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“I can’t” and the Defeatist Mentality

by Julie

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re probably right.” – Henry Ford A little piece of me died inside yesterday when I heard a mother say to her (very talented) teenage daughter: “You can’t make art your career because it’s too competitive.” Sigh. I honestly can’t think of a worse dream-crushing [...]

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If it ain’t broke – fix it anyway!

by Julie

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The problem with routine is just that – it’s a routine! The old saying “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is true in some situations and in certain circumstances. There are many benefits to having a routine, or a personal list of goals (similar to the list you had last year), or a process [...]

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Us and Them

by Julie

Image via Wikipedia I am grateful to have had the chance to vacation in the Caribbean last week. What an eye-opening experience. Without going into specifics, to get to the resort which we were staying at, from the airport we had to drive an hour and a half in a state-of-the-art tour bus through several [...]

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“Average” Isn’t Good Enough

by Julie

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Mediocre, in the middle, so so, average… It’s time for a change. How was your day today? If you answered “fine” or “alright I guess” it’s time to consider how you can make your day “great” or “fabulous” (not in a superficial way, but in a deep-down, sincere and meaningful way). This is possible, but [...]

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The Importance of Failure and Imagination

by Julie

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In the spirit of giving, this video was sent to me by a very dear friend, and I couldn’t wait to pay it forward to share with you. This is super-star author J.K. Rowling giving an address to a group of Harvard graduates on their convocation day. It is certainly worth twenty-minutes of your time. [...]

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