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Get Over It & Get Started – Self-help with a spine.

It’s tough love in paperback with a big payoff – your life, fully realized. Learn how to recognize when you are using your victim mentality as an excuse, then learn how to overcome all those excuses to live the life you desire.

Get Over It & Get Started, autographed copy

Social media is all the rage, but an online network can only go so far. Meaningful networking requires leaving the safety of your home and meeting real, live people. Face-to-face networking, what was once the only way to network, has now become a source of fear and stress. Funny that in a world where we are so connected to one another we still find it difficult to actually connect.

It doesn’t have to be.

Networking should be as easy and natural as petting a friendly dog. A well-trained, friendly dog is remembered and welcomed nearly everywhere. Even people who don’t particularly like dogs will warm up to a good dog. Dogs, as many studies have shown, can lower your blood pressure and increase many feel-good hormones. Dogs see the real person within and are not afraid to introduce themselves to strangers. Wouldn’t it be great to have those kinds of social skills? Wouldn’t you love to see networking as a joy, rather than a task? As you go through this book, you will see that what seems to come naturally to a particular Golden Retriever can be easily translated into human actions and attitudes that will make you, too, a master networker.

Nose-to-Nose Networking, autographed copy

Hope Heart (Hope Speaking logo) T-shirts.

As seen at the 2010 and 2011 Seattle Brain Cancer Walk and other team fundraisers.

Originally designed by Mélanie Hope as a tattoo, the Hope Heart logo has become a symbol of strength and unity. Many have asked to wear the T-shirts for their teams in cancer walks, victim advocacy groups, even demonstrations.