WOMEN THRIVE VOLUME 2. AUGUST 2021
MEET A WOMAN WHO OWNS MORE THAN 100 PAIRS OF SHOES PODCASTS & FEEL GOOD READS
HOW TO BECOME A SPEAKER
SPECIAL FEATURE ASHLEE FAY BRANSTETTER
BODY, SOUL, GODESS
UPCOMING EVENTS AND RETREATS
WOMEN STORIES SPIRITUALITY , EMPOWERMENT AND SEF CARE
SEX & COCKTAILS
WELCOME TO AUGUST/SEPT ISSUE
I am so excited for this issue of the Women Thrive August / September Issue of our magazine. This month is our Special Edition magazine covering Women Empowerment, claiming your power and breaking down status quo. Embracing your feminine and masculine energies, embracing your sexuality and standing in your authentic truth. August is also a special month, not because it is the favourite season of the year, which is the Leo season, but August brings lots of opportunities as well as September brings the harvest season that for me is synonymous with cultivating and reaping the fruits of your labour and taking the moment to celebrate all you have accomplished this year. As well as planning for a successful completion of the year.
Keep walking, keep striving, keep embracing, keep harvesting, experiencing and enjoying every moment, as you read through the pages of this month's Women Thrive Issue. As always our team have poured in love and joy writing & selecting these articles for you.
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Meet a woman who owns more than 100 pairs of shoes DR. CATHERINE BAUDINO FEATURED IN DAILY MAIL
Catherine Baudino, 68, is a successful life-coach and lives in Westminster. Owns 200 pairs, Cheapest: £60, DEAREST: £1,000, Total cost: £20,000 She says: 'Shoes don't complete an outfit, they're an intrinsic part of it. I was five when I got the first pair I loved — red pumps. I still remember their impact on me. 'When I got older, I bought my first designer pair. They are a classic look and I still wear them. My mother wore heels every day and so do I. They make your legs look better and improve your posture, they enhance your presence. 'My collection has taken a lifetime to amass. I have 100 in my bedroom and the same in the cellar. 'Three years ago, I bought some £500 black Louboutins I really love and wear to nice evening-dos. And now I've got my eye on some lovely Jimmy Choos.'
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WOMEN THRIVE MAGAZINE EMBRACE YOUR FEMININE POWER In this issue you will find exclusive interviews and member / entrepreneur features, highlighting women with different stories and ideas. We hope you enjoy Volume 2 of the Women Thrive Magazine. As our readership and content grows we are planning on launching a digital platform of our Women Thrive Magazine, that will become your go-to place for inspirational women stories, business content, mindset, spiritually infused articles, special features and collaborative articles. We invite you to submit your articles now, to have an opportunity to get a FREE initial article feature in time for our up-coming launch in first week of October. The Women Thrive Publishing Platform is a place for business owners and entrepreneurs not only to self publish but also reach a global entrepreneurial audience that are mainly women. As a platform our goal is to have independent publishing platform that offers exposure opportunities to business owners and entrepreneurs. Keep an eye out for further announcements.
MAKING BUSINESS BOSS MOVES - SEAL THE DEAL EVENT: Did you miss this LIVE and inperson event hosted by our Club Member Natasha Orumbe from The Baker Squad?
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Feel Good Reads This Month's Recommended Books
The Younger Self Letters: How Successful Leaders & Entrepreneurs Turned Trials Into Triumph (And How to Use Them to Your Advantage) featuring Raimonda Jankunaite
GIRL MADE WORTHY™ was inspired by a journey. A journey filled with disappointment, brokenness, unforgiveness, and a lack of self-EVERYTHING: self-identity, self-love, self-worth...and experiences I never imagined having to face. By Sandra S. Sutton Church But Not As You Know It!: The Time for Playing Church is Up! By Natasha Orumbe #Mindset: A Mindset of Change by Derron Rowan. #Mindset, is a manuscript that you can refer to over and over again, that will continually give you inspiration, motivation, and encouragement.
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Ashlee Fay Branstetter Broken to Blessed: One Woman’s Journey from Rock Bottom to a 7 Figure Empire
“Broken to Blessed: One Woman’s Journey from Rock Bottom to a 7 Figure Empire” I
t Is POSSIBLE! What’s possible
It has now been dubbed the QVC
you may be asking? The answer is
of Facebook, but it didn’t start off
ANYTHING you put your mind to. I
that way.
know this life can be cold, hard, and even downright cruel at times,
About 3 years ago, life happened
and this can cause you to truly
to Ashlee like it has for so many of
doubt if the life you so desperately
us also, and she hit a Financial rock
desire is possible.
bottom. She opened her bank account to find a balance of -$54.
If you’ve ever felt helpless or
With her husband away valiantly
hopeless due to your current
serving his country in the military,
circumstances in life, then this
this was especially devastating
article is for you. In this article, we
with three precious little mouths at
highlight a real life Wonder Woman
home to feed. This is when Ashlee
and Titan of servant leadership,
had a vital choice to make. With
and not only will her story show you
her back totally against the wall,
it’s possible but also with a little
she could throw in the towel and
hard work, a little determination,
fold, or she could take action and
and a lot of faith, it’s probable.
being the warrior that she is, take action is precisely what she did.
Allow me to introduce you to
When she sat down to pay bills
Ashlee Fay Branstetter. She’s the
utterly broken, she turned to her
owner & CEO of Ashlee Fay
faith and prayed. She felt God tell
Designs which is now a 7 figure
her it was time to go all in on her
business and a massive shopping
side gig (creative tumbler, shirt, &
network hosting over 30 boutiques
bow designs). Reluctantly, she
and businesses on the network.
went for it.
She began doing live sales weekly
Hopefully from this day forward,
by promoting her products over
anytime you see the number 54,
Facebook and she rapidly built an
may it be a sign of faith for you
audience and the dollars started
and remind you of this incredible
flooding in. But the true fulfilment
story of trial to triumph. If Ashlee
didn’t come until the night someone
could leave you with any parting
asked her how she got started.
thoughts,
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more surviving. You are living and
she emotionally shared her epic $54 story thinking it would kill her influence & credibility, but After a God-prompt,
you
are
powerful
beyond
measure. Lastly she would tell you inviting God into her business was the
game
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going
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From
flooded with messages from
impossible, But GOD can and will
women sharing how incredibly
always
build
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nothing
so
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trusting,
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Embrace Your Ambition because your dream is possible. and
evolution into the transformative Titan of servant leadership we know her as today.
Now, between her mobile app, her podcast, her academy, and the
“Embrace Your Ambition” movement she founded, she spends all her days pouring her heart and soul into educating, equipping, and inspiring women that the can overcome any adversity and fulfil their goals and dreams too.
of
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"Self care is not selfish, its a necessity"
Self Care is not selfish - Meet Nicola Bryant, the founder of Shop and Love This, a beauty and self-care subscription and gift boxes for you and your loved ones. As a single mum of 3, Nicola knows first hand just what it feels like to juggle parenthood, business a career and still find the time for self-care. She had to learn the hard way to start taking better care of herself and as a result o f the passion to for self car and beauty products, she started her own beauty gift boxes.
Loving yourself is a concept that sadly, can all too often be truly foreign to women in today’s hustle and bustle of western culture. We were never taught to take care of ourselves first, for most of us, the teaching was to love and care for others first and foremost. When you are born, the first person you learn to love is your mother and then your father and siblings, then as you grow older as a woman you are conditioned to then devote all your time and energy to loving a mate. Someone you are supposed to cater to and pour all of your love into for better or worse, but my mum always told me growing up "you cannot pour from an empty cup" My first real relationship was the start of many traumatic experiences that taught me many things on my journey to finding myself, embracing the skin I'm in, and loving myself fully. I became still and super conscious of the energy I was attracting. As I began to learn who I was I realized that I needed less validation from others and took more time learning and loving myself.
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I learned to treat myself the way I wanted my spouse to treat me, that I didn’t need a man to find value in myself, nor to do things special for me. I took myself on dates and praised myself daily. I wrote myself notes, booked spa days, and bought myself flowers. Loving myself and treating myself kindly made me evolve in so many ways, I'm truly in the best stage of my life.
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What to Listen on Podcasts Our Selected Favourite Podcast Episodes This Month TRENT SHELTON PODCAST, Episode 72 - Gratitude is the Attitude that Gets You to the Highest Altitude with the legendary motivational speaker Marcus Black
LISA JOHNSON'S brand new Podcast 'Making Money Online' Episode 009 "How to Stay Motivated When Money Isn't Coming In" - is a great episode to remind you that anything is possible even when it seems impossible.
The Content Download Podcast by Cate Butler Ross Recent episode with Raimonda Jan - 'From too scared to speak out to becoming champion of women empowerment - why knowing your purpose is the secret to finding your voice"
“Lack Mentality” and Your Body by Shannon Sukovaty Have you ever been low on funds and found yourself making choices to eat things you normally wouldn’t or even worse over-eating? Or, have you ever found yourself just not exercising at all solely because you “Can’t afford” that gym, that class, that workout? Being stuck in a lack mentality does more than just keep financial abundance from finding its way into our lives, it also affects our health and wellbeing physically and mentally. It’s a scientific fact that stress can cause us to gain too much visceral fat around our belly. This can be very dangerous and lead to a multitude of health issues with the liver, the heart, and other vital organs.
Living in a “lack mentality” where you are stressed out all the time also causes our mental health to suffer. It can cause us to stay frozen in fear and quite literally keep us from accomplishing any of our goals. The more you keep a lack mindset and repeat old or learned behaviours about having or not having enough the more your relationships, wealth, and health will suffer, keeping you in the ever-rotating hampster wheel of chasing what you want and never actually getting it. I think most of us have been there at one time or another. So how do we get ourselves out when we just keep digging the hole deeper, and deeper? It’s simple, but not easy. We train our
You will want to find a safe space to connect your bare feet to the earth, preferably natural earth and not concrete, or man-made turf.
minds AND our bodies how to “flip the switch” to a prosperity mindset. Most everyone has heard of how to work on their abundance or prosperity mindset, but are you doing it for your body as well? When we take actions that are abundant and prosperous for our physical body it helps us connect to our mind, and ultimately our soul, so we can make soul-guided choices that keep us in abundance in all areas of our lives. One way to “unfreeze the fear” is using a technique called grounding. This is simple to do but extremely powerful.
Once you are in a safe space, where you know you won’t step on anything that could hurt your foot, plant both of your feet solidly in the ground. Feel the dirt or grass. Wiggle your toes around in it. Allow yourself to feel the texture against the bottom of your feet. Take a few deep breaths lifting your hands up to the sky over your head, and back down. Once you feel relaxed, take your right foot and extend it forward until only your big toe is touching, then trace a large circle to your right with your toe, then return your foot completely to the ground. Continued on the next page...
Repeat this on the left. Do this eight times with each foot. Each time feeling the earth, inhaling and exhaling comfortably. As you are making the circles try repeating some positive affirmations. I love the “I AM” chant, making sure all adjectives are in the aspired state so they can’t change (example: I Am Wealth, I Am Health, I Am Abundance). Since energy is stored in all cells of our bodies and our thoughts are energy and our body is energy, you are now programming your physical and mental body into an abundance and prosperity state. So, remember when you are working on changing that lack mentality, include your physical body along with mindset to not just change it but keep it changed for good.
Body, Soul, Goddess by Shannon Sukovaty
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Cocktails & sex. BY RELATIONSHIP COACH BECKS FLYNN. It was a warm late summer evening, where people everywhere seemed so happy. It's amazing how a bit of sunshine and blue sky can have an impact, if only it could always be like this. Suddenly I noticed him. He stood there so confident, so sure of himself… I took a second glance, I wanted to take note of his distinguishing looks… Oh, my stomach flipped! He was tall, had dark hair, a groomed beard, dressed smart but casually, it was as though he had an air of authority…. Such confidence. Oh, it turned me on! “Danielle, Danielle, did you hear me?” ….said, Sharon. “Oh, yes, sure!” Gosh, I am distracted…. I thought. “Sorry, lovely, I recognised someone. What were you all talking about again”, I said? We chatted, we laughed, and our girly get together was as good as it normally is, if not better. I am positive I am laughing more because He’s here.
I slip in between Him and this other guy, “excuse me, I would like to order some drinks if I may, can I just get in here please….?” I ask. “Sure, no problem,” he says and smiles….. “ you, don’t I?” Is what he followed “I know with….. I look up, smile and reply with, “ye, you do know me”
The band was playing my favourite song, “Don’t Stop Believing”, you know the one by Journey! And, all I can think of is him…… surely, he won’t remember me? It's been a few years now. Suddenly, loud and clear I hear, “Danielle, I think it’s your round, 3 Pornstar Martinis love!” “Ye, sure, I can’t carry them on my own. one of you will have to come with me” I replied. As I walk over to the bar, He is there! I check myself over, trying to recollect, what am I wearing again…. As I look down, oh yes, I look damn good! I thought to myself. As I am wearing a black off the shoulder fitted top, skinny leather jeans and heels.
As the evening drew to a close, I thought, that’s it, He's gone. And, as I turned, there stood before me a tall dark haired handsome guy. It was him, my stomach flipped. “Oh, hello again.” “I remember, you’re Danielle from Facebook….. I noticed you on my Friends wall and I asked you out, but you declined.” He said. That's right, and you are Alex! I replied.
As I walked out, he stood there before me…. Oh shit! He knows! I thought. He walked towards me, and said, “Can I kiss you?” “Oh, yes, of course!” I replied I wanted him to kiss me, I could not ignore his gorgeous smile, his laugh, his looks…. I wanted him to kiss me!
So, what about catching up…. Do you fancy it? Said Alex. “Ye, actually I do. Call me”, I replied, as I walked away. Again, smug…. Remembering an old quote, “If you really want something, you will find a way!” If he wants me, then he will find a way! ““Where from and how?” He said…. “Well, that is for you to figure out”, I replied, as I walked away with three Pornstar Martini’s. “Danielle, Danielle, who is that?” Shaz retorted…..Followed with, “He’s bloody HOT!” “Some guy, let’s just leave it.” I said, brushing them off. The band continued to play, the atmosphere was electric, it was a great evening and I was feeling smug with myself. I planned an escape; I would go to the toilet and then plan to leave….
He grabbed me and pulled me closer, I could feel his body next to mine, he was kissing me, his soft lips on mine, I was lost, in another place, I wanted more…! As I left, a girl grabbed my arm and said, “you don’t want him, he is a player. Trust me.!” I looked, laughed, and walked on. Within 24 hours, I was standing in the hallway of his apartment….
with me…. I am going away in 5 weeks with my brother and friends, come!” Taken back, I paused and politely replied, I will think about it, thanks. Wow, too soon! I turned over, faced the wall and fell asleep. Suddenly, I woke up, did this really happen….?!
He took me on a tour, it was so grand, with ceilings that reached heaven, ornate fittings, rooms the size of a football pitch, I was pleasantly surprised.
As I looked around, I noticed my clothes scattered all over his bedroom, he was lying there next to me. I knew I had to leave.
He turned over, and started to kiss my body, his hands touching every part of me, kissing my thighs, higher and higher he He poured me a glass of chilled champagne…. went, I could not resist! And, then I And we talked for hours. Actually, he talked gasped, he pushed himself into me! My for hours. As the night went on, I was slowly back arched, I was in his arms, my legs turned off, isn’t a conversation two way? wrapped around his waist, we did not He took my hand in his hand, he led me to his stop. It went on and on. bedroom and said, let's relax….. I knew, I knew instantly what was coming next, part of We never spoke a word, I put my clothes me wanted it…. I was running on adrenaline. on and asked him to drop me home….. He said he would be in touch. And, part of me was apprehensive. It was too late, he unbuttoned my top, he was To be continued.... kissing my neck, my breasts, my navel, and I no longer wanted it to stop. I wanted more! It happened, he pushed himself into me…. I gasped, it felt amazing, he explored every part of my body and I his. It was sensual, yet passionate. As we laid there, I was still catching my breath …. “he said, come away
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