Inspirational Women – International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day is 8 March – this year it’s 101 years of this celebration!

It’s an honour to be asked to speak in Gilgandra, my hometown, at the Cooee Heritage Centre. The same building that contains some of our town’s fascinating history, including our own piece of family history – my 97 year old Grandmothers WW2 Air Force uniform, beautifully displayed on a model in a glass case.

I’ve been pondering the women in my world who inspire me and cheer me on. They’re the ones who’ve gone before me, teaching, mentoring and encouraging me; those running alongside, and those who follow, eager to learn and to make a difference in their world.

Hopefully many women are able to celebrate International Women’s Day, and reflect on their own story, a thought I shared with Elizabeth Smith as she interviewed me for the article below, in The Gilgandra Weekly, 22 February edition.

YOU are more inspiring than you know!!

Tickets are available for only $20 from Betty’s Boutique, 38 Miller Street  Gilgandra, (02) 6847 2605.

100 Days of Gratitude – Day 53

Georgia Lush & Kerri PottharstI’m grateful for a very special person who I spent time with tonight at a Women in Business Function.  Georgia Lush was my first Personal Coach and my first Coach Trainer.  As you can imagine, she’s had a significant impact in my life.  This photo was taken last time we were in the same room together, with Kerri Pottharst.

Georgia also joined the Coaches Connect call this morning, that I host each month, and her contribution to the call and her encouragement is always such a blessing to me.  Georgia has had two gorgeous babies since my early coaching days when she supported and challenged me to turn my life around, and she’s now stepping back into coaching, and doing it in style!  I’m grateful for both our telecall this morning, and our dinner together tonight!  And of course Grateful that Georgia is who she is, and that she shares her gifts with the world.  It’s so exciting to see her really shine as I did tonight.
Love Kerrie

Mothers Day

Mothers Day is a special one – there’s no way you’d be here except that you had a mum! I hope you had a fantastic weekend – I spent Saturday at a beautiful location on the outskirts of Orange at Mary Brell’s Women, Wine and Wisdom. I wrapped up the day with “Wisdom in Everyday Life” and we had a lot of fun with that and everyone left buzzing – which I think is the general idea of a girls day out!

Mothers Day was spent with my whole family, Mum was blown away with the gift we gave her – a digital photo frame so she can enjoy all her favourite pictures of her grandsons – and us too of course!

I thought I’d share something I wrote in 2007 for Regional Business Magazine – it was of course, for regional women, but no matter where you are girls, you are amazing, full of potential and most likely more gorgeous and talented than you realise. Please translate this into your own scenario and celebrate the life your mum gave you.

Please click here – tribute-to-country-women

Have a wonderful day!

Possibilities are endless and other random thoughts

Possibilities are endless! An exciting thought – certainly keeps me on my toes and this week has been full-on keeping up! It’s good to remember that with all the opportunities and the busyness it brings we can still create opportunities for essentials like taking time out! So I’ve been prioritising my time out and exercising this week, when it could have been pushed to the side (easily!) and I really enjoyed my swimming this morning. (Of course I still have some emails to catch up on!)

I’m off to Orange tomorrow with clients and friends to speak at Women, Wine & Wisdom – the third of the “Women, Wine & Wellbeing” series I’ve spoken at, with my dear friend Mary Brell – a very inspiring woman who created this series of events for regional women. More on that later – I’m still pulling it all together! Just thought I’d share some ponderings I wrote earlier in the week… hope it’s useful! Love Kerrie

Have you ever been really clear on the outcome you wanted – but been delivered a completely different and sometimes unappealing outcome – to find that it was actually better than you really wanted? I have often. This is why I’ve learned and continue to learn to be detached from the outcome. Let’s just go in open minded, core values guiding (such as generosity, authenticity, empowerment) and see what happens. I’ve been thrown some ugly looking outcomes that soon after I’d been so thankful for. If the door hadn’t been slammed in my face I wouldn’t have seen the gorgeous French doors to my left.

I find it useful to step back and look at the bigger picture. Is this outcome so, so important? Can you take this path with your core values intact, being true to yourself? What other possibilities are out there? I’ve discovered that possibilities are everywhere. Like the air we breathe but we don’t see evidence of it until we start looking.

Have a wonderful weekend, think big, and remember to make your mum feel oh-so-special!

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