Anyone out there know a fabulous speaker named Kathleen Ronald???
I do…..she’s a hoot!
Just to express to you the POWER OF NETWORKING, let me tell you she and I met at the Women on the Move Conference that I helped promote and attended here in Sac on September 28th.
She had the most hilarious talk about networking ever!
I told her that night that I was a mini her and that we had the exact same personality, only a ‘few’ years apart. She said, “ah huh, that’s nice” and I think she thought I was nuts but I was so jazzed to meet her….you know like when you meet someone and you totally ‘get’ the connection (they might not but you do for sure!).
If you haven’t checked out Kathleen’s site or services you should, go to Speaktacular.com.
So we chatted during the event and realized that I could help her figure out how to take her website to the next level and she could help me take my speaking to the next level – so we decided to do a trade! Then the fun begins….
Because our schedules are both hectic we set up some phone coaching for both of us to do ‘our magic’ on one another….I’ve given her a ton of info now for her website that she can take to her designer or of course I gave her some referrals as well and we’re set to talk about me in the next week.
But the funny part is that it was Kathleen’s Birthday (I won’t tell you how many candles…) in October and she was having a big party on November 4th. Now since I was going down to L.A. (she lives in the LA area) for Ali Brown’s workshop from the 7th to the 11th anyway, I figured, what the heck – I’ll go down early and go to her birthday party! (Knowing that you never know which connections can lead to others – and I just had a feeling that I needed to be there.)
So, here’s Kathleen’s cake – the Birthday Cake Inferno as I like to call it in this shot (my camera takes dark photos frankly because I have no idea how to lighten it)…..it was pretty elaborate with a tiara on top, banner, feathers and some high heeled dress up shoes to boot!So, not only did I come down from Northern California only ONE month after meeting Kathleen but so did one of my other clients who knows Kathleen AND another gal I met at a Sacramento eWomenNetwork event who lives in San Jose (2 hours away)!
This is such a small world and it’s so easy to make yourself known, get out there, meet and network with a ton of people and every day you close the gap on your connections and your circle of influence gets larger and larger and larger – it’s an awesome way to do business really.
Katrina Out –
