Delaney Tosh – Surge Strategies Group

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Jan 172012
 

The Surge Group supports leaders and teams to work to their authentic advantage, enhance leadership, make better business decisions, develop and follow through on innovative strategies. Our clients break the rules — their own, self-limiting rules.  We facilitate energizing discussions and exercises in order to DISRUPT the status quo, creating a shift to more creative thinking towards improving innovation performance; focusing attention on the key elements and actions that drive business performance.

What’s the best part for you of being part of yoUnlimited?  Connections with incredible people who inspire.

Favourite Books:  “Co-active Coaching” by Whitworth, Kimsey-House & Sandahl.  “A Billion Bootstraps” by Phil Smith & Eric Thurman.  “Invisible Acts of Power, Channeling Grace in Your Everyday Life” by Caroline Myss.

What qualities do you admire in others:  Honesty, courage, being of service, willingness to bring awareness to own thoughts and beliefs, joyfulness in the mundane.

What’s on your bucket list?  More travel, learn to play the cello, set up a women’s collective in a slum in Mumbai.

What is the best advice you have ever received?  When I was 14 years old, my grandmother’s  wish for me was that I listen to my own heart and have that courage to follow through on my own dreams and not let others distract me from achieving those dreams.

What or who inspires or moves you?  Children who laugh with joy even when their lives are less than joyful.

Advice you would pass on to yourself at 19?  Let go of self-imposed limitations and be bold!  …and I would tell myself to travel more.

Who is your favourite community organization for charity?  Dirty Wall Project. http://dirtywallproject.com.  I love what Kane Ryan has started. He embodies all the qualities I value most in others.

What brings you to your knees?  That we have a world in which children are made to suffer – child prostitution, child soldiers, poverty….

What is the lesson you learn over and over again?  To listen to the quiet voice inside me; it is always right.

Who or what motivates you?  My family, friends, clients,  business partners, people at their most courageous and giving and compassionate and myself; my inner voice that guides me to keep growing and trying.

Favourite quote…  “I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.” Elizabeth Gilbert

Delaney was a model at the November 2010 yoUnlimited event and is the creator of “Girls Can Be” Women’s Collective, an initiative of the Dirty Wall Project – join Delaney at the July 8th Fundraiser

Contact Delaney

PO Box 55028 Stn. Cadboro Bay, Victoria, BC, V8N
P:  250-412-7819
E:  delaney@surgestrategies.com
W:  http://www.surgestrategies.com
T:  http://www.twitter.com/delaneytosh
LI: www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Delaney/Tosh

Fiona Prince, Prince Heron Communications

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Jan 172012
 

An approved facilitator for the BC Provincial Government, Fiona is an instructor in the Continuing Studies Program, and Associate Faculty at Royal Roads University School of Communication and Culture.   She assists others through workshops and coaching, to discover and appreciate their communication and working styles, while  focusing on strengths and talents.   Fiona believes that  “Most problems in the workplace occur because of misunderstandings caused by different communication styles.  When people understand  how and why they occur, they can participate in developing strategies, goals and tactics to overcome them, moving forward with less stress and more fun.”

What’s the best part for you of being part of yoUnlimited? Seeing the personal and professional growth that happens for people between events.

Favourite Books: Please Understand Me II by Dr. David West Keirsey and People Patterns by Stephen Montgomery provide me with a framework for understanding myself and others.

What qualities do you admire in others: I value people who balance service to others with taking care of themselves and those who work to their strengths and ask for help when and where they need it.

What is your favourite activity? Learning and sharing

What is the best advice you have ever received? It’s not what you do but how you do it that makes all the difference.

What or who inspires or moves you? Rabbi and Chani Kaplan, who came to Victoria to raise their family and strengthen the Jewish community; they lead by example.

What is your personal philosophy? Miscommunication is inevitable. Sometimes I don’t even understand myself

What brings you to your knees? People who do not see their own potential

What is your most proud moment? When something I say or do helps another person move closer to their own goals.

When do you feel your healthiest? After a long walk

Favourite quote… “The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it” – Chinese Proverb

Fiona participated in the Networking Panel in November 2010 and also provided Laser Coaching Sessions as an exhibitor at that event.

Connect with Fiona

M:  4407 Wilkinson Road
P:  250.418.5982
E:  fiona@princeheron.com
W:  www.princeheron.com
F: www.facebook.com/princefiona
T:  www.twitter.com/princeheron
LI:  www.linkedin.com/in/fionaprince

Michele Powell – Tell Mia

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Jan 172012
 

Offering up an array of services and products,  TellMia’s guiding principles include providing great customer service, high quality, well priced products and current information towards finding or reclaiming your sexual happiness. Encouraging and supporting exciting sex lives, TellMia provides fun, educational Adult Home Parties, Individual Coaching,  and Workshops wherer you are invited to learn/shop in a comfortable, non-judgmental environment.

What’s the best part for you of being part of yoUnlimited?  Being inspired by bright, motivated talented women.

What is your favourite place in the world?  New York City, the perfect combo of history, culture, diversity & cool people.

Favourite Books:  Reallivenudegirl by Carol Queen

What qualities do you admire in others:  Self awareness, good communication skills, and an open mind.

What or who inspires or moves you?  Anyone following their dreams.

What is your personal philosophy?  I try to live my life with integrity, honestly and passion.

What moves you to tears?  Goodbyes.

Where do you find your joy?  My kids, my friends, lover, and my business.

What brings you to your knees?  A kiss with his hands in my hair.

What is the lesson you learn over and over again?  It works out in the end and if it is not worked out, it is not the end.

Who or what motivates you?  A desire to be acknowledged, financially successful, and respected.

When do you feel your healthiest?  When walking in the fresh air.

Connect with Michele:

Linda Hunter, Author and Event Planner

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Jan 172012
 


Linda is an event planner and professional writer who is dedicated to service and open to possibility.  The author of “An Unforgettable After-Grad”, she has over 20 years of conference and event planning experience and has successfully produced five unforgettable After-Grad events for Parkland Secondary School.  Linda lives in Sidney, British Columbia where she shares her heart and her home with her husband, her mother, and three grown children.  She divides her time between conference & event planning and writing her second book.


What’s the best part for you of being part of yoUnlimited? The energy from the other women and the new things I learn each time.

What is your favourite place in the world? Any place that family is gathered, and if it’s by the ocean, even better!

Favourite Books: The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck , Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

What qualities do you look for in others: Honesty, integrity and authenticity.

What’s on your bucket list? A trip to India, attend a meditation retreat and to learn Spanish.

What is the best advice you have ever received? To accept rather than resist those things I cannot control or change, from my father-in-law when at 59 he was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.

What or who inspires or moves you? Small children learning to walk, blind people who ski, fearless adventure seekers, those who overcome adversity or tragedy.

What is your personal philosophy? Take only what you need, and share what you have.

Advice you would pass on to yourself at 19? Don’t worry about what anyone else thinks, just do it!

Who is your favourite community organization for contribution? Food Bank – food is life.

What moves you to tears? The song “Amazing Grace”.

Where do you find your joy? In my gratitude walks, cooking, and watching my children interact.

What brings you to your knees? Suffering, images of war.

What is the lesson you learn over and over again? Be myself, I AM ENOUGH!

When do you feel your healthiest? On vacation, when I am swimming in the ocean.

Favourite quote… Ring the bells that still can ring, forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.  Leonard Cohen


Linda will be speaking at the summer 2011 yoUnlimited event on “Celebration, Traditions, and the “Open” Dinner Table”, part of the Living with Grace Series,

Contact Linda:

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