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Dawn Lorraine Skincare Announces Fundraiser for See Jane Do

Dawn puts her passion into action by providing skincare products that are safe for women.  Her organic products are free of synthetic fragrances or parabens.  Following the Passion into Action Conference where she featured her skincare line in the expo area she was so inspired, she decided to help raise funds for See Jane Do by offering proceeds of purchases (for her moisturizers) by Saturday. 

 

Dawn says,"After this weekend's conference, I feel inspired to support the cause. Many of you loved the Organic cremes I had at the table. Ive decided to make a donation to See Jane Do for any purchases of those products this week. You can call or go to my online store on my website they are APRICOT ENZYME MOISTURIZER, LEMON DROP MOISTURIZER AND JASMINE ENZYME TREATMENT MOISTURIZER.

 

You have until Sat. Please enter the promo code: seejanedo."   Dawn's website is:  www.dawnlorraine.com

 

Your purchase will help sustain the See Jane Do radio show and other elements of our program.

 

Thank you Dawn for your generous offer and for participating in our first Passion into Action Conference!

 

 

 

 

 

Passion into Action Package on KVMR Today!

To support our favorite radio station, KVMR,  the launching pad for See Jane Do , we are offering a special "thank you" gift for new and renewing members during the Tuesday Music Magazine today.

We are providing a See Jane Do Passion into Action package that includes a CD set featuring the keynote presentations of Nina Simons, co-founder and president of Bioneers, Best Selling author and activist, Gloria Feldt and former UN Ambassador for the Status of Women, Linda Tarr-Whelan.  The package also includes either Linda's new book, Women Lead the Way or Gloria Feldt's best selling book, Send Yourself Roses (co-written with Kathleen Turner.

Plus we're including a special bonus featuring the panel discussion including, Rachel Barge and a special presentation from Reinette Senum.

 

This special "thank you" gift will only be available today.  You may become a member online by visiting www.kvmr.orgor call 530-265-9555 during the show between 4:00-6:30 PM.

The Official Program of the Passion into Action Conference

Did you miss the conference or want to read about your favorite speaker or workshop leader?  We're providing you with an extensive program of the Passion into Action Conference to acknowledge the important work our presenters and sponsors are doing.

Thanks again to our keynote speakers, workshop leaders, volunteers, expo participants, sponsors, video crew, friends and family and to you for joining us in an extraordinary day.

Click here to view the program or visit www.seejanedo.com

Over 250 Extraordinary Janes Put Their Passion into Action

We woke up Saturday morning to dark clouds and heavy snow.  Little did we know that almost three hundred women would trudge through the sleet to participate in the first See Jane Do Passion into Action Conference.  The event sold out on Friday and we could only cross our fingers and hope that women in our community were ready to connect, inspire, and show the world that women are taking the lead in a big way.

As we pulled into the parking lot shortly after 8:00 we were awe struck that there were hardly any spots to be found.  Inside, the lobby was a buzz with hundreds of women laughing and energized for the day to come. 

The day kicked off with the See Jane Do video that chronicled the year of our program as we set out to capture the stories of everyday women doing extraordinary things for the planet.  Following we were graced by the captivating stories of Sandy Schmidt founder of Women of Worth and Mary Elizabeth Young and Cathe' Fish, members of Women's Earth Alliance.

Co-founder and president of Bioneers, Nina Simons shared the importance of finding your own story and following your passion to enhance the planet.  Gloria Feldt reminded us that to create a movement we must actually move into action.  She said the conference included the most evolved group of women she has ever spoken to.  Former UN Amassador for the Status of Women, Linda Tarr-Whelan was in awe that so many women showed up and stressed the importance of balanced leadership.

Musicians, Catherine Scholz and Sista Kat lit up the room with their inspiring lyrics and over twenty-one organizations and businesses presented opportunities to live better lives and support one another. Seventeen workshop leaders shared their passions through hands-on sessions and twenty volunteers stepped up to optimize your experience.

NCTV and The FARM volunteered their time to document this historic event and our sponsors reinforced the importance of women gathering together to make a difference.

We now feel more than ever, that there is much work to be done.  That we must all do our part and follow our passion in order to create a sustainable future for the generations to come.  Many women and men have worked together to enable us the privilege of where we stand now.  Now it's our turn to get things done and we'll do it together. 

Thank you to everyone who participated and for your support of creating a platform for women's voices and stories.  We hope you'll join our Extraordinary Jane Campaign and participate in future endeavors. 

Passion into Action and Kathleen McIntire

"We often think, I am only one person, what effect can little ole me have?  But if each one of us lived our passion we could move mountains! " ~Kathleen McIntire

Kathleen has a gift for bringing women together, especially women who are seeking connection, clarification and a deeper meaning to the way they move in the world.  Her quest to live an authentic life has led her through the Ecuadorian rain forest, a meaningful partnership with Pachamama Alliance, and monthly rituals and circles for women.   

Kathleen shares how she discarded what appeared to be a "dream life" years ago and transitioned into the healing arts.  We are thrilled that she is co-leading the workshop, Living Your Passion with Mary Elizabeth Young where they will explore living a life that expresses what you love and the importance of listening and intuition.

1.     How are you putting your passion into action?

The way I live my life.  I am doing the things I love most.  My passion is creating a world of love and bringing the Divine Feminine fully to our planet.  The journey I co-lead to the Ecuadorian rainforest and sacred feminine volcano was with the intention to unleash love and the divine feminine fully to our planet at the womb of the mother.  The rituals and ceremonies I lead.  My website www.SoaringInLight.com, the book I am writing. I am also a facilitator for The Pachamama Alliance’s Awakening The Dreamer Changing the Dream.  Other organizations I am involved with: Bioneers, Cultivating Women’s Leadership, The Nobel Women’s Initiative, Women’s Earth Alliance.

 

2.     What do you love most about the work you are doing?

I love the feminine energy.  I love balancing the feminine with the masculine to create equilibrium and wholeness.  I love ritual and ceremony. I love bringing the divine to the mundane and the mundane to the divine.  Connection.  Bringing truth forward. I love working with women.  I made a commitment about 10 years ago to let go of anything I was doing from the place of duty and to have everything I do in my life come from wholehearted love.  I love my life, my work is an integral part of my life.

 

3.     What were the motivating factors that inspired you to get involved and share your passion?

I had a life that looked like the “dream” life, an extremely successful husband, all the material things – living in London with a chauffeur and fancy everything but who I was was hidden and suppressed in the world I lived in.  I was dying inside.  I needed to fully be who I am at my essence and bring that forward in the world in all that I do.  Doing what I love.  To really know WHO I am and to live that fully – that was the motivation.    

 

4.     Who were the some female role models or mentors that inspired your work and passion?

Mother Mary, Mary Magdalene, the Divine Feminine.  I just completed a year of working with Lynne Twist getting really clear on my intentions and goals bringing forth my deepest essence.  I am also involved with the Nobel Women Peace laureates and have learned so much traveling with them.  They are ordinary women who are beyond extraordinary because of their passionate commitment that informs every action they take.  I have also been influenced by Angeles Arrien whom I studied with for three years.  It was through her work that I made the commitment of living a life of wholehearted love and letting go of “duty”.

 

5.     Why is the work you are doing so important for everyday women?

I believe that so many of us get caught up in a life that others have designed for us and what  makes it easier for all those around us.  We have forgotten who we are and what lights up the fires of our hearts.  We have numbed ourselves, put ourselves to sleep and quit feeling.  I believe the heart holds the answers for us.  The feminine qualities like intuition have been suppressed in our society.  I feel it is important to learn to cultivate spaciousness to learn to listen to the inner ears of our hearts.  Our passions live in our hearts.  Each of us holds a precious thread of the tapestry of life…. We need to truly know what that thread is and have the opportunity to beam out our unique essence.  Being and doing what we love!  Imagine a world of everyone in touch with what they LOVE, we would have a world based in love and not the paradigm of fear we are in now as a collective. 

 

6.     Why is it so important for women to participate in an event like the Passion into Action Conference?

Passion is the fire of the heart!  We often think I am only one person, what effect can little ole me have?  But if each one of us lived our passion we could move mountains! 

 

7.     What are you hoping will be the biggest take-away for women at the Passion into Action Conference?

Having avenues to get in touch with their passion and the tools to bring their passion out into the world be it their immediate world or the larger world.

 

8.     What is your message to women around the world?

The feminine is powerful.  Look how running water can soften the most jagged edges of a huge rock.  The feminine is the creatrix.  Embrace who you are, embrace your essence and BEAM that out in all you do!

Passion into Action: Only 50 Tickets Left!

 "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

~Anne Frank

The countdown continues towards the first See Jane Do Passion into Action Conference!  We are thrilled that so many people are participating in this event.  This conference serves as a platform for our voices and is designed for everyday women to connect, inspire, and activate into action.  It's about real women with real solutions. 

Space is limited and less than fifty tickets are available.  We will have our program available online shortly with workshop descriptions.  For those who are unable to attend, we'll document the highlights to share with everyone. 

We hope you can participate in this extraordinary event!

Sista Kat and Catherine Scholz to Perform at Passion into Action!

Two talented singers, Sista Kat and singer-songwriter, Catherine Scholz will share their passion for music at the See Jane Do Passion into Action Conference this Saturday.

Sista Kat's beats and rhythms are woven into many See Jane Do programs and evoke inspiration and gratitude.  Female reggae and hip hop musicians are few and far between but Sista Kat shines on with songs like Inner Strength and Life is Love. 

In addition to her love for music, she also puts her passion into action as a farmer in the Sierra Foothills and is a mother of three. 

Catherine Scholz is an award winning singer-songwriter whose rich voice and moving lyrics mesmerize her listeners.   

Catherine manages to juggle her music career, motherhood, and her business, Cat's Web Weave Wordpress design and consultation. 

She'll perform her new song, Right Here Now. 

We are thrilled to include both of these incredible women in the event.  For performance times please refer to the conference agenda at www.seejanedo.com.

 

Tickets are Moving Fast!

Only five days remain until the Passion into Action Conference and tickets are moving fast! 

Invest
This event could very well be an investment in your future whether your seeking tools to fund your passion and business, connect with a group of like-minded women to support the good work you're doing, or finding your voice and simplifying your life. 

Create
Unlike most conferences where panelists talk about tips and tools the Passion into Action hands-on workshops are about actual "doing" at the event.

Connect
In addition to networking opportunities during breaks, sessions and meals we will also have an optional Birds of a Feather so like-minded folks can flock together.

Share
A table will be available for your materials and information.  Please also bring lots of business cards.

Celebrate
Following the event, the Copper Top Lounge in Grass Valley is hosting a post-conference party.

We hope you'll join us along with seventeen talented workshop leaders, three amazing keynote speakers, two musicians, twenty-one non-profits and businesses and 250 fellow women for this inspiring event.

We suspect this conference will sell out.  To purchase tickets locally please visit BriarPatch Co-op in Grass Valley.  To purchase tickets online go to www.seejanedo.com.  Tickets are $45 in advance and include lunch. 

Best,

Elisa and Jesse

Passion into Action and Shawn Tuttle

"My work through Project Simplify has been fueled by the desire to help people fan their own flames, to remember that they, and only they, are the heroines of their lives."  ~Shawn Tuttle

Shawn Tuttle is a simplifier.  As the founder of Project Simplify she helps people live and work in the flow rather than the clutter.  Shawn enables her clients to take control of their experience and live organized and authentic lives. With email overload, social media, the demand for multi-tasking and gadgets galore, Shawn's timing couldn't be better. 

In addition to following her passion as a Natural Professional and a simplification coach Shawn is an accomplished speaker and writer.   We are thrilled that Shawn is leading the workshop, Live in the Flow in the Taking Care of You track at the Passion into Action Conference. 

Shawn shares the source of her spark and the true meaning behind passion.

1.    How are you putting your passion into action?

My passion is helping people live and work in the flow of their authentic selves (I call this being a Natural Professional). For the last several years, this has meant helping women organize the information that is making them feel ineffective, disorganized, and out-of-control. Expanding on this, the theme this year is the Natural Professional, and I'm on fire with it! I just launched a year-long participatory book project, and will be introducing a six-week online program in the spring.

 

2.    What do you love most about the work you are doing?

Empowering women to take control of their experience. Ironically, while we've become socially engrained to separate ourselves from our work, this is exactly the realm of our life where we can develop habits that transform our lives! Rather than settle for being tossed on choppy waves out at sea, we can learn to navigate back to peaceful waters. Whether one on one, writing or speaking, supporting women on this journey is incredibly satisfying.

 

3.    What were the motivating factors that inspired you to get involved and share your passion?

Passion is so interesting--consider it's Latin origin: to suffer. We each experience hardship in life. Once we've made it through a tough situation we realize that by sharing our experience, we might help make someone else's journey a little bit easier.

In my case, I got involved in a debilitating situation in which I completely lost touch with my Self--long story. Suffice here to say that once I got out of the situation, I felt like I was about as tall as an acorn. Actually, a pea. And yet, there remained the tiniest flicker of a spark that refused to be extinguished.

The next several years were dedicated to nourishing that spark into a roaring blaze. My work through Project Simplify has been fueled by the desire to help people fan their own flames, to remember that they, and only they, are the heroines of their lives.

 

4.    Who were the some female role models or mentors that inspired your work and passion?

The inspiring women in my life were, and continue to be, all who have the clarity and courage to sing their song. Looking back, in high school I read Jane Austen's books. Besides loving her writing, her choice not to marry despite the prevailing norms and legal status of women at the time made a huge impression on me.

The fact that women of that day (who didn't have the family support that Jane had) would join a convent instead of marrying in order to pursue their literary interests opened a door in my mind--one that led to an entirely different world where heart-based passion could prevail against confining societal standards. 

 

5.    Why is the work you are doing so important for everyday women?

Quite simply, if we don't learn how to navigate our own daily life, we will be pulled in a million directions. While they may seem minor, effectively dealing with email, handling interruptions, and getting clear on priorities is the way to make space for what's important to us.

I encourage women to allow the possibility that it can be done differently. That their intuition isn't just an inner sense that pops up every once in a while, it's an essential ingredient for creating the world we've dreamed possible.

These hint at the values of the Natural Professional, values we don't get from the mainstream workforce… yet.

 

6.    Why is it so important for women to participate in an event like the Passion into Action Conference?

Making dreams come true in this world can be really tough! What better way to support and be supported, celebrate our journey, and remember that we are working towards common dreams than to get together with this same intention? Big kudos to See Jane Do for planting the seed and holding the space for this event. The energies of every single participant, from attendees to speakers to organizers, will nourish this vision to bloom.

 

7.    What are you hoping will be the biggest take-away for women at the Passion into Action Conference?

My desire is for women to give themselves permission to sing their song a little bit (or a lot!) louder. Whether an idea is sparked, a relationship developed, or determination solidified, may each and every woman gather what she needs to take the next step on her journey.

8.    What is your message to women around the world?

Give yourself permission to follow your dreams!! Big steps, small steps, hops, crawls, and jumps--all are good, just keep moving. The world will be richer for it. No need to wait until it's perfect. Now is the right time. Dream. Do. Be. 

The See Jane Do Passion into Action Conference takes place on Sat. January 23rd, 2010 at the Holiday Inn in Grass Valley, CA.  The event includes keynote speakers, Nina Simons, Gloria Feldt, and Linda Tarr-Whelanplus over fifteen workshop leaders.  For tickets go to www.seejanedo.com or BriarPatch Co-op in Grass Valley.