All Topics in Chicago
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From zero to launch: A walk-through of the website process
Lisa Ghisolf, President & Founder, Gizmo Creative Factory, Inc.
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
I’ll share my step-by-step process (honed since the days of just HTML) for WordPress website creation or redesign. We’ll touch on content audits, theme selection (or should you go custom?), launch checklists, and post-launch care. Also freelancer or client management. MORE >
Great for those who want to launch or relaunch their sites and those who work with clients. -
Vision – See Yourself There “Before” You Get There!
Cherise N Ragland, Producer, Actress, Public Speaker, Author
TOPIC CATEGORY: Motivational
Cherise Nicole speaks from a chapter in her book, "You Can Soar" on Vision! Vision is the faculty or state of being able to see. Cherise encourages participants to get a vision for their future. Without vision you can't see where you're going. When you receive a vision and idea, or a dream, it's BIGGER than you! It's for the betterment of others you're being entrusted to care for it and nurture it just like a baby. Her motto is, if you can "see" it, you truly can achieve it! MORE >
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You Have Everything You Need To Succeed!
Cherise N Ragland, Producer, Actress, Public Speaker, Author
TOPIC CATEGORY: Motivational
In This Session Cherise Nicole speaks from a chapter in her book "You Can Soar" on You Have Everything You Need To Succeed! Cherise encourages listeners that they already have everything they need for success RIGHT NOW! She encourages people to stop waiting for "perfect conditions" before moving forward pursuing their dreams. MORE >
People are waiting on your creativity, your crazy invention, your amazing recipe, your book, and your home product solution. As long as you're convinced that you need more money, more time, or another degree you'll never get started. It only takes paper and pen to write a business plan, when you believe in yourself, others believe as well and you will attract everything else you need. -
Courage Is The Master of Fear
Cherise N Ragland, Producer, Actress, Public Speaker, Author
TOPIC CATEGORY: Motivational
Cherise Nicole speaks from a Chapter in her book "You Can Soar" on Courage Being The Master of Fear. Sometimes life's blows damage people's confidence and leave them with a broken or bruised wing? How can one soar when they've been broken on the inside? Cherise will motivate people to move out of their comfort zone and extinguish the excuses and lies that cripple people from moving forward in life. She motivates listeners to action! MORE >
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You Can Soar! There’s Purpose In Your Pain
Cherise N Ragland, Producer, Actress, Public Speaker, Author
TOPIC CATEGORY: Motivational
Cherise Nicole speaks from her book "You Can Soar" encouraging her listeners to believe they can reach their dreams despite adversity, whether they grew up in a dysfunctional household, experienced poverty, divorce, physical or sexual abuse, an absentee parent, struggle with inadequacies, low self-esteem, or a sense of loss because of the painful effects of their past. MORE >
The bald eagle uses strong winds from a storm to lift it higher above the clouds. The storm actually gives the eagle an opportunity to glide and rest its wings. Cherise will motivate you to "action" and teach you how to turn your heartache into a heartbeat, take lemons and make lemonade, and allow the abrasive sandpaper of life to smooth you. There’s purpose in your pain and like an eagle, you can SOAR above it all! -
Leaving a Video Legacy
Dan Gelfond, Former Steven Spielberg Project Interviewers, Personal History Interviews
TOPIC CATEGORY: Entertainment
Former Spielberg project interviewers recount their stories from 4 years of conducting interviews with Holocaust Survivor's around the world. 17 years of interviewing parents and Grandparents after the project was over are also detailed. Funny, moving and inspirational stories from these experiences are presented. Video clips are also shown along with tips on how to gather a life story. MORE >
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Get Off Your Buts! How to Make Progress Instead of Excuses
Tammy Cook, Productivity Coach, Tammy Cook Coaching
TOPIC CATEGORY: Self-Improvement
“I was going to do that last week – but...” Are you tired of feeling like you’re always struggling to catch up, while you only wind up falling further and further behind? If you’re ready to start making small changes that will have a HUGE impact on your life, step up to the plate and… Get off your “but…”s! MORE >
Tammy’s 3 easy-to-remember keys give you immediate, actionable tools to use to begin conquering procrastination and creating new habits.Tammy will share tools and techniques that will enable you to;
• Increase personal productivity at work AND at home
• Conquer procrastination
• Reduce pressure & stress
• Develop a highly effective mindset
• Feel better mentally and physically
• Have more energy
• Increase self-discipline… AND self-esteem!
• Have time left over for things you really WANT to doDiscover how to live a limitless life and finally… FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL!
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Raising Innovative Children
Stephen A. Di Biase, Ph.D., President, Premier Insights, LLC.
TOPIC CATEGORY: Educational
"10 Secrets for Raising Innovative Children" describes what parents can do to help their children build upon their natural tendencies to be innovative while offering a buffer to the potential damage they'll experience when they begin their formal education at age 5. There is significant evidence that from age 5 to age 20 the typical person experiencing the traditional US educational system will lose almost all of their capabilities for being innovative. MORE >
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Becoming An Innovator
Stephen A. Di Biase, Ph.D., President, Premier Insights, LLC.
TOPIC CATEGORY: Self-Improvement
"10 Keys To Unlock Your Innovative Self" offers the reader a short, simple, easy and fun treatment teaching anyone how to use the basics of innovative behaviors for becoming a more effective problem solver leading to a higher quality of life. Specifically, this treatise touches on why every human being is an innovator at birth, how we can maximizes, this natural trait, the importance of curiosity, imagination, inquiry, methods of learning, the importance of play and passion and how to use the scientific method while being careful of formal education. MORE >
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Retirement Plans: What You Know, What You Think You Know and What You Really Don’t Want To Know
Sanford J. Prizant, President, The Prizant Group, Ltd.
TOPIC CATEGORY: Financial
This is an all-inclusive presentation (Think of those all-inclusive resorts!) that was given to the practice managers at the American Association of Orthopedic Executives in April of 2015. The goal was to reaffirm conventional knowledge, educate on present day plan design and fee disclosure issues, and warn of the terror that an IRS/DOL audit will bring upon your house. This presentation is about one hour and is extremely fast paced, informative, and entertaining. MORE >