Kickstarter: Funding for Artists and Other Creatives

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artist-pigeesHere’s a new source for funding I didn’t know about. Check it out!

Kickstarter is a unique funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, explorers…submit their projects for funding and if approved, are added to the site for any and all visitors to donate to them. http://www.kickstarter.com/

Arts Grants Finder: Funding Opportunities for Australian Artists

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got-money-3hThis is a great resource for art grants for Australian artists. The site is kept very current and is easily searchable.

http://www.artsgrantsfinder.com

The Purpose Prize for Social Entrepreneurs

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kisslifeHere’s a very cool prize I just heard about:

The Purpose Prize awards $100,000 prizes to five social entrepreneurs who are 60 years or older and are trying to improve their communities through their work.

As a society, little has been done to support the remarkable efforts of these individuals, which further supports the notion of a decline in the second half of life, rather than a time of creativity, invention and contribution.

These awards were created to honor and support the elders in our communities who are making a difference.

Civic Ventures, 123 Townsend Street, Suite 505, San Francisco, CA, 94107, phone: 415-430-0141, fax: 415-430-0144
info [at] civicventures.org
http://www.templeton.org/prizes/the_purpose_prize

Quit Wanting the Spectacular and Missing Out on What’s Right Inside of You!

EFT/Tapping, Using Energy to Create, Your Biz Success No Comments

pigees-jump3hHave you noticed how so many people want and expect to ‘make a difference,’ be ‘big,’ be or do something spectacular and important?

What if we all just really ‘got it’ that it’s enough to be ourselves and to give being who that is the very best we can? It may be even more than enough.

Why do we feel like we need to make a big splash and change the world? We really don’t, you know.

Just being you is enough. If you are you enough to stand up for yourself or your kids or your co-worker, if you are you enough to enter an art competion, if you are you enough to write an essay about a pet peeve to the NY Times, wouldn’t that be more effective than hiding at home afraid to make a peep? Wouldn’t that make a difference?

One song, one piece of art, one article, one EFT session can….

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99 for 99….

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If you are an entrepreneur, energy, EFT or health practitioner or coach, this is for you!

What if someone gave you a major boost in your business succes right now?

What would it do for your business if you could get the guidance you need in order to get off the ground, out of that stuck place or off that plateau?

See, I think each of us has an awesome responsibility as coaches and energy practitioners and people who help others. I believe we need to 1. do what we’re really good at and serve through that; and 2. get the awareness out about that. If we don’t, how can the people who want our services, help and guidance find or use us? They can’t!

Being ’successful’ at your business is not about you, personally. It’s about the fact that you have been good to your word and provided valuable services, and have gotten the word out about it enough that people foound you and were served by you.

The common compensation for that is usually money, and the spreading of the word about you. So when you think of the word ‘money,’ it’s a very narrow view to think, “I shouldn’t make money off my service,’ or ‘I can’t be spiritual if I make money,’ or I should give it all away for free.’ That’s mistaken thinking.

All money is doing is greasing the skids so you can keep doing what you do best. And if you are so good at it that you start to make more than you need, you can joyfully turn around and help others do it, too. Not too bad an idea, eh?

Or maybe you think of marketing as intrusive, pushy or hard to do. What if I told you that all it is in truth is a building of relationships. Where each time you got together with anyone, it’s an opportunity to shine with how much you adore what you do. That’s excting!

Instead of introducing yourself by saying something dull and unexciting like, “I’m an energy practitioner,” and seeing people’s eyes glaze over, what if you said, “I help small business owners create outstanding success where their highest values shine through every aspect of their products and services”? Do you see how that would generate more interest and keep the focus off you and onto what you do for them?

Are you already at a good place and just need a little boost to get up to the next step?

Great! I want to be there by your side, providing a solid platform of support with my own knowledge, skills and expertise in business and marketing and the use of energy practices to help you move forward like greased lightning. We need you and your skills! Don’t hold them back!

jump2-5Imagine if you got started out of that hole right now!

Imagine jumping off that plateau right now!

Well, I want to help you get there, so I’m doing the unheard of!!

I know there are those of you who only need a small boost to get going in a big way, and for some my regular session fees of $575 each, or the usual $757 a month package for three months doesn’t work. But there’s a way around that…

Maybe you never thought of this: just three 45-minute sessions with me are enough to set you up for 6 to 12 months because I give you so much business and marketing info and very deep tapping support.

Since there are so many people who need that boost, I’m doing an experiment – I’m going to make 99 sessions available for $99 each. How do you like them apples? Here’s a chance to get my best support and not break your bank.

You can sign up for one, three, ten - as many as you like (you can even start with three, so we can get your next 6 months lit up and rocketing away).

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Before: “I need more clients and don’t know how to get them with my small email list…”

After: When we got off the phone yesterday [after our tapping on getting new clients calling me] I checked my email to find a session request from a new client!

Harmony

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Here’s what you get in your 45 minute session(s):

  • Get absolutely clear on how to clarify and align your ideals, expectations and goals

What’s important about that? Well, obviously if you don’t know where you’re going, you’re going no where but where you are. Ouch. Let’s get you solidly ON your own Path and light up your Map.

  • Discover the exact steps that are perfect for you to take to reach your goals

How many times have you begun something and gotten stuck, side-winded or even thrown backwards? You have to know what to do first, then next and next and next, or you get all twisted up, frustrated and discouraged.

I help you determine exactly what to do overall, and the mini and even nano steps to get there. You discover how to do that yourself in the easiest way possible so you feel the power of self-choice and real creation at its best. It’s funny how nano steps can turn into a quantum jump!

  • Find and cheerfully erase setback and holdups and see for once and for all how to create your perfect success

How many times do you say, “I need to get rid of this anger (fear, baggage, etc.)”? What if all that was just raw, creative energy hiding a very powerful secret that, once I unlock it for you, your life will literally never, ever be the same again? And will shine like you never, ever dreamed it could? I have a feeling you’d like that….

  • I also will reveal to you all the proprietary and behind-the-scenes marketing info that I feel you can use either right away or down the line (these are tips and tactics that I virtually never share with anyone except my Millionaire Marketing MasterMind pals).

I’ve had over 40 years in business. Many of those years were down and dirty discouraging years where I didn’t know up from down. And I sure learned a LOT from those years! Enough that I have pulled out into a completely new realm of success I didn’t know I had in me.

I want that success for you, too. So I don’t hold back. I openly share with you the same tips and tactics I use, myself, in giving teleclasses, speeches, writing and publishing books and ebooks, creating and editing audios, making products and groups of products, websites, marketing….you get it. It’s yours for the asking.

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Before: “I can’t seem to focus, don’t know what to do or what steps to take, and I feel like it’s all too much for me…”

After: You have kept me focused and on track and that is good!  I know what to do next and am anxious to get on with it – it is no longer a “big deal” – it has shrunk to a manageable size that I can handle from here.  Thank you for helping that happen.
Y’vonne

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I invite you to poke your head out of where you are right now long enough to see the world with a bigger eye.

I invite you to allow me to come along with you for one or more sessions where I can show you your blind spots and help you clear them and re-engage your True You energy.

And I invite you to step INTO a whole new level of success, so you can do what you do best as you serve the planet and be so successful you can turn around and offer others who want to do the same a big hand. Sounds like fun to me!

You get inspired and energized in each session, and get off the phone buzzing with new juice.

I record each and every session, so you can re-listen, review and take close notes and implement the strategies and tactics you get.

These will go fast! So - Get yours now: $99 Click HERE
You may want to sign up for more than one.

YES! THERE IS A WAITING LIST! Make sure you sign up as soon as you can, because otherwise you may be stuck on the waiting list way out in June – it’s going to take a while to do all 99 sessions, and you probably don’t want to be at the end!

You’ll find out how to easily schedule your session after you sign up.

I may not ever do this again for so low a fee, so get yours now while you can! I really look forward to working with you!

Get yours now: $99 Click HERE

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Harriete Estel Berman: Artist Contracts Guidelines!

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ponderHave you ever wondered about your artist’s contract?

Or if the one you’re signing is really and truly on the up and up?

Check out this whole long list of documents, guidelines and such that you can use in your own work.

Here’s a partial list of what Harriete has for you:

Artist Fundamentals

Professional Guidelines (Get the one page handout with a list of all the topics in the Professional Guidelines on her site: http://www.harriete-estel-berman.info/profguidelines/profguide.html

INVENTORY RECORD: Documentation and Provenance
Condition Report Form
Guide to Professional Quality Images
Working with Digital Images Effectively

Juried Opportunities
TOP TEN TIPS for Getting Into a Juried Exhibition, Show, Book or Magazine
Juried Exhibitions
Comparison of Jury Ranking Systems
Artist Checklist: Exhibitions

Fundraising Auctions

Open Studios
Open Studios: Artist Checklist
Open Studios: Guide for Art Organizations

Contracts
Exhibition Contract
Model Release Form
Model Consignment Contract

Additional documents
Artist Checklist: Claims for Damaged Work
Discounts
Resources for Legal and Professional Advice

And she has an ASK Harriete your professional questions: Questions and Answers about the Professional Guidelines. Advice for artists, crafts people and the arts community. Information to assist artists and crafts people in their professional develop. http://www.askharriete.typepad.com

Artist contracts, guidelines, etc.
http://www.harriete-estel-berman.info

SU-Per Horse is Finished!

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SU-Per Horse has landed and is ready for The Rescue!

SU-Per Horse is 12″ tall, 6″ wide and 6″ deep. Black Virginia Soapstone.

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The Cost of Free – and Why So Much is Free Online

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computer-joy[Guest post by Art Licensing Expert, Tara Reed]
I love the internet! It has given people access to information and resources never before possible – and much of it is FREE!

So much is free, in fact, that many have become irritated when they actually have to pay for services and information.

I have been meaning to write this post for some time now… not to make anyone feel bad or negatively rant and rave, but to make sure those who don’t create and sell content online stop to think about the “cost of free.”  I have been asked many times, “Why do you do all of this?”  “How are you making any money if you give all these things away for free?” and other similar questions.
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Stuck? Stalled? Crumble the Impossible!

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crumbleI sometimes have dreams that last all night…or seem like it, anyway – and last night I had one more.

I think the stage started getting set for it at 5:30 am yesterday when a friend in NM called me to warn me about the tsunami. I’m just not a morning person, and I felt ‘off’ all day. I couldn’t seem to get to the mental clarity I’m so used to enjoying. Even as we were all sitting in the school parking lot up on the hill waiting for the all-clear, I was silently tapping on how I felt, but never could seem to get all the way out of the mood.

When I got home, I got a note from a friend who is a psychologist, talking about how she had been in ‘right-brain’ all day as she and her own family had been up on a hill on the other side of the island. That made sense to me! We were in ’survival’ mode, and right brain had prevailed over.

And then last night in my dream – all night, it seemed to me – I saw a from-above, slow-time re-enactment as the Earth shuddered broke itself free from constriction – in Chile and Japan – and how her waters reflected those changes.

What came next surprised me. An enormous Sticky Something appeared right in front of me. Try as I might, I couldn’t get through, over, under or around it, and even if I tried backing away from it, it held me like glue.

I felt smothered, angry and frustrated. But as soon as I remembered that I could tap on it and started mentally tapping (in my dream!) it started to do something that really jolted me.

After the Jolt, the Impossible ended up falling away from me. There was a voice at the end, that said, “even the impossible crumbles one day.” The dream replayed itself over and over and over again until it felt like someone had etched into my head.

“Even the impossible crumbles one day.” I awoke with that echoing through my mind. The huge Sticky Impossible disappeared. I felt as if nothing could stop me, and that I could do anything I wanted.

How would you like to feel as if nothing was impossible, too? You can! Go here:  http://bit.ly/crumble-it

I’d like to show you the Jolt. It’s actually quite soft, while being lightning fast, painless and simple. You can incorporate it easily into your own life so you, too, can end up feeling unstoppable, and that nothing is impossible.

I invite you to sample this next week’s Round Table Tapping Group teleclass to Crumble the Impossible.

You get a full palette of goodies during the Round Table Tapping Group 3 Sundays a month at 4pm NY time – and this week, if you’re feeling slowed down, on an endless plateau, or totally stuck and just can’t seem to resolve it, I’m going to show you how to Jolt that softly and surely into empowerment and freedom.

You’ll feel like nothing can stop you, just as in my dream. I want you to feel free and empowered to live your own Deep Dream, too!

So whether you feel slowed down, on an endless plateau, or totally stuck, please join me to Crumble the Impossible on SUNDAY, MARCH 7th, from 4 to 5:30pm NY time.

Get the teleclass and audio here: 29.97 http://bit.ly/crumble-it

Join the Round Table Tapping Group – which includes Sunday’s Crumble the Impossible: here: $59.97 (3 calls mo.) http://bit.ly/round-table-tap-group

aloha -
Angela

p.s. THANKS AGAIN! I can’t tell you how very gratifying it was to get home yesterday and find all your messages – thanks again – you mean so much to me!!

2010 EFT/Tapping Summit: Did You Miss Out?

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sm-erghWhat happens when brain chemistry and incorrect beliefs mix? Not good stuff, I assure you. And what would happen if that could be resolved?

I’ve been working with a businessman who, several years ago, had suffered so severely from job, money and family problems that a deeply ingrained voice of self-doubt convinced him to jump out a window in an attempt to end his emotional pain. In our session, he laughed as he said, “I couldn’t even do that right!”

No laughing matter. In any way shape or form. (Can you see the still-present self-doubt? “I can’t do anything right!” Guess what we resolved!)

sm-happinessImagine if he had had EFT/Tapping to help ease himself out of the pain!

I remember that pain, having gone through it for so many years myself. It’s absolutely unbearable. It throws your chemical balance off so you don’t think straight. You can’t think. You can’t concentrate. You have the most amazing imaginings about what people think of you and are saying behind your back; about your own place and abilities in the world – all of them so wrong, so bizarre, so outlandish they make the world as painted by Hieronymus Bosch look like fun.*

Imagine if everyone in the world had EFT/Tapping right at their fingertips!

It’s not called the Emotional FREEDOM Techniques for nothing. Wondering what I’m talking about? Go here and register and turn your whole life around – even if it’s a great life, you can make it better!

I want the entire universe to know

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Jobie Summer: Financial Advisor on Socially Responsible Investing

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jobie-summerMy guest this week on the Daring Dreamers Showcase at IDareYouRadio.com is Financial Advisor, Jobie Summer. Jobie specializes in advising other financial advisors, particularly in the area of Socially Responsible Investing. GO HERE TO LISTEN.

When we first met, I didn’t realize how relevant the information she shares is for those of us who are not financial advisors. But when it became clear to me that her knowledge and her products would be as interesting and helpful to others, too, I asked her to be my guest so she could talk about what you need to know as an investor or future investor.

You’ll hear:
•  how Jobie helps other advisors market their practices
•  how she helps create change in our economy
•  why Socially Responsible Investing is so importnat
•  what to do to get your financial advisor up to date
•  what you can do to make a huge difference in the economy and environment as a shareholder

Jobie Summer is the founder of Resources for Advisors. She has been a leading financial advisor for nearly 15 years. She has been recognized with many National awards as well as having many designations: she is a Certified Financial Planner, Certified Estate Planner and Certified Fund Specialist.

What is unique about Jobie is that

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Money: Got Challenges?

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sm-disappointment-2“Agh! Such chaotic times!!” That’s what a good friend of mine said to me yesterday. We were speaking about how, while life seems to be speeding by at an unprecedented rate, so many people we know are having such difficult times on so many levels.

She said, “if it isn’t money, it’s relationships, if it isn’t that, it’s business – you name it, people are practically flipping out crazy exhausted or swamped in fear and overwhelm!” (And then we tapped on our mo.ney beliefs….)

Maybe you can relate to the fear and craziness, too. I can – remember I told you I was going to do more carving and get my artwork out there more? It’s been like wading through half-set superglue with all the previously hidden beliefs that have been coming up begging to be cleared. I’ve tapped myself silly these last few weeks. And it’s helped – a lot.

Here are some of the phrases I hear from some of my coaching clients recently – are any of them what you hear yourself say?

I’m scared
I never have enough mo.ney
I hate feeling such dread every day
I feel like a failure
I feel disappointed and even bitter at times
It wasn’t supposed to be like this

Or…
I have mo.ney but I want more!
I don’t know how to get it

Or…
I don’t know what I want to do
I don’t even know who I am

Or…
I’m shy
I have low confidence
Why would anyone pay me for this tapping thing?
I want to make a difference but I feel like a fraud if I can’t ‘get there’ before I help others to do it

If you said yes to ANY of those, I heartily invite you to do yourself the huge favor of joining me this weekend for the first Round Table Tapping Group Teleclass.

sm-creativity-2If you’d like to…
•  quit your day job
•  grow your business substantially
•  make money and get to
•  do what you like for rest of your life
•  become an effective leader
•  help others to succeed
•  get your income to skyrocket
•  feel amazingly good – expanded, free, excited, calm and happy
You can do that!

In this 90-min teleclass (that includes tapping on your issues and Q&A afterwards), you’ll get major support in doing exactly that. Imagine the power of the group tapping on your challenges and desires – it expands the energy by multiples!

I suggest that you just come for one call and see how much better you’ll feel afterwards, and how much more open to options and opportunities you’ll be. If you’re new to tapping, you’ll probably be surprised as you come off the call tingling with energy!

I said I’ve been tapping a lot on myself – I want to make sure you have the advantage of being able to tap through your stuff with someone who’s been there, done that and come out the other side – me.

===> Not only are you going you feel better, but you’ll have more room for expanded options, ideas and opportunities that you simply don’t see right now if you’re in a constricted state.

You’ve heard me say that success is a feeling; that life is a journey. And if you can feel good along the journey, you’ve already created success – all you need to do now is expand it!

So it’s imperative to shed the dread, shun the fear, drop the depression, blues, I’m-a-failure and I-can’t, and come along and tap those things into usable creative energy you can use to feel…not good…not better…but GREAT. I’ll help you do that.

I invite you to register now and grab your seat. Of course, if you got the whole kit and kaboodle and did all three calls in the upcoming month, you’d get Sunday’s call and two others, too, for the price of two classes. Your choice. Feel great once, or feel great three times for not much more.

Ditch Dread & Fear & Open to More Money Doing What You Love
HERE: $29.97

Round Table Group: 3 Calls:
HERE: $59.97

I look forward to seeing you on Sunday!

Body-Surf is Finished!

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Here it is, all done. It was really hard to photogrpah becuase of the similarity in colors of stone, but if you look carefully in the part that sticks out from the wave, it’s the horse’s neck and right arm sticking out.

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More Money! More Gumption!

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sm-inspirationI have a question for you. Where do we get off thinking everything ought to be hunky-dory easy as pie? What happened to “challenges develop character?” What happened to what my folks used to call gumption?

“Aw,” my father would say to me, “you’ve just run out of gumption!” He was saying that I had no initiative or courage, that I didn’t have the gumption to try. [The word is supposedly Scottish, of unknown origin].

Well, he may have been right. In our world, we’ve come to expect things to be easy. We have indoor toilets and bathing, running water – running HOT water, electricity, paved roads, automobiles, schools, warm clothes, easy communication…all things absolutely no one took for granted anywhere in the world not even a hundred years ago.

Nonetheless. There’s still room for gumption.

It’s an inner adventure now, and it’s time to rev up your gumption and stand firm – even within the chaos of the world – and commit to even more strongly living your deepest dreams, becoming successful in the way YOU want to be successful – using your natural skills gifts and talents.

Soooo…what’s in the way? “Oh I can’t do that!…No matter what I do it isn’t good enough…What would people think?…People would laugh at me…My husband would never let me do that…I don’t have the money!…I’m scared of ( _ _ fill in ___ )…etc.

Aren’t you tired of all the same old stories? Haven’t we resisted our destinies, futures, successes, our potentials, our Dreams enough????

I’m amping up the challenge to you. I’m scaling up my deepest dreams, my own depth of dreaming, and I’m doing it. You can, too. It’s not that difficult, especially when you have support.

I’ve found that it’s really a matter of a combination of being OK with me, knowing I’m providing value, working with a great coach, and planning my time better. You can do that!

So I put together two hefty tapping groups for you gumptious people who want to tap on, clear and transform your fears and resistance to success and transform the energy into creativity. We meet three times a month, and inexpensively, at that.

I also created a forum where you can discuss tapping from A to Z and connect and help each other open to more money and success, and meet and make new connections and buddy-tap. And build up your gumption.

It’s no fun living a life of fear or numbness. I can tell you that from long experience of having done it. The fear and the dread is unbelievabl e. But when you have a tool to clear it, there really is no excuse. Especially when you can use the same energy for building a new life, the dream your heart has yearned for since you were born.

Once you really get it that you have the key to your future at your fingertips and how to use that key on a steady, consistent basis, your life will utterly shift. Then what? It’s up to you to decide!

I invite you to join me when we start on the 20th and 21st (Saturday and Sunday at 4pm NY time). Here’s where to go to rev up your gumption: http://DeepentheDream.com/deepen.html

I look forward to meeting with you and seeing you turn what used to be problems into launching pads for major massive exciting fun and success.

aloha -
Angela

p.s. And if you live here on Oahu, you can even come to my live tapping group on Wednesday nights – we’ll be working on MORE MONEY! Here’s where to grab your seat: http://EFTinHawaii.com

81,000 People Can’t Be Wrong!

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sm-talkWhen you were a kid watching Superman or Wonder Women, did you wish that you could have super powers like they did? I sure did.

And not just to fly or kick someone’s butt, either. I just wanted to be less scared. I was painfully shy. I wanted to feel powerful, whatever the situation.

Well, now I have something even better. I have tapping. And if you’re not familiar with it, I think you’re going to love it for what it will do for you.

And if you do know about tapping, you’ll be delighted about this year’s Tapping Summit. Last year, Nick Ortner and crowd attracted over 81,000 people to the first World Tapping Summit. Not too shabby for a relatively ‘new’ modality.

And you may have heard…the doors for the 2010 Tapping World Summit are officially open!

This is a FREEbie online event, and it’s the biggest event in the EFT / Tapping world.

You may be familiar with these top EFT / Tapping practitioners in the world: Carol Look, Patricia Carrington, Brad Yates, Bob Doyle, Carol Tuttle…They’ll be presenting…and in fact, there will be over 18 instructors in all with over 20 presentations…

I heartily invite you to take a look here at what you will experience, at no charge to you: http://bit.ly/2010-tapping-summit

You can listen to all of presentations or just a few of them – you get to pick the topics that interest you.

If you’re looking to create a prosperity mindset, clarity and creativity, more energy, higher focus, better physical and emotional health – and much, much more – then you’ll want to register for this FREEbie online event: http://bit.ly/2010-tapping-summit

I suggest that you go there right now as you’re thinking about it. Once you register, you can listen in as the practioners present live; and you can also opt to the audios for listening later on at your convenience, and reviews later on when you want to hear that one particular thing she said, or that one point he made…go for it!

aloha -
Angela

P.S. Remember, this Event is brought to you at no charge…

P.P.S. – You don’t have to travel or book a room anywhere… you get to experience the entire event from the comfort of your own home.

http://bit.ly/2010-tapping-summit