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Your Next Bold Move    January 2012
Topic: Expanding Your Small Business

Guest: Dr. Vivian Varese
It’s important to continue to look for ways to grow and expand your business. Running a small business requires us to continue to look for ways to keep your business current. What ways are right for you that match your interest and will continue to bring in the right amount of income? Watch how our guest Dr. Vivian Varese thinks about expanding her successful medical practice and getting teaching more people how to take care of their health and well-being.


Your Next Bold Move    December 2011
Topic: Job Search Strategies

Guest: Kelly Villaneuva
Kelly Villaneuva shares job search strategies. Are you looking for a job? Have you been laid off and trying to figure out what to do next? Our guest, Kelly Villanueva, a senior human resources leader in a financial company, was the person whose job it was to tell employees when their jobs were eliminated and now it has happened to her, personally. Learn strategies and tips from an expert in the field that you can use to build your network and find a new work or career opportunity.


Your Next Bold Move    November 2011
Topic: Building a Fitness Business

Guest: Kelly LaCasse
Kelly LaCasse, Fitness Trainer and Nutritional Advisor Figure out what you are good at and what you have a passion for and then go for it! Our guest, Kelly LaCasse has made a complete turn around, going from a full time 9-5 Operations Manager job to starting a fitness business, her dream. And she needs help. If you are someone who is interested in totally transforming your body, contact her for an appointment, or if you have any tips, suggestions, lessons learned on how to build a fitness business, she needs to learn that too!


Your Next Bold Move    October 2011
Topic: Get your Career Path on Track

Guest: Lauran Star
Create a mission that will guide your career. Our guest Lauran Star, author, coach, and speaker will guide us through the steps to create a personal mission statement that will put your career on the right track. The program is for those of you looking to change careers, re-invent yourselves or just change jobs.


Your Next Bold Move    September 2011
Topic: Using Horse Wisdom to Develop Your Personal Leadership

Guest: Monique Morimoto Flaherty
Monique Morimoto Flaherty is a coach and consultant and an expert in Equine Guided Coaching, a unique approach using horses to help align your priorities and develop your leadership.


Your Next Bold Move    August 2011
Topic: Strategies for Healthy Aging

Guest: Wayne Peacock
Join our guest Wayne Peacock, a life coach who specializes on how to live healthily as he shares the secrets as to aging gracefully, joyfully and pain free.


Your Next Bold Move    July 2011
Topic: Transforming Your Relationship with Money

Guest: Jayn Krasco Stillson
Inadequate education or training about how to manage our money makes many of us challenged with how to manage our money. The way we think about money sometimes keep us from behaving responsibly with our money and often doesn’t allow us to feel successful. Learn from our guest money management expert, Jayn Krasco Stillson, jayn@jaynyk.com, in this episode how to shift your relationship with money so you can become more successful and feel more powerful.


Your Next Bold Move    June 2011
Topic: Is Starting a Business for You?

Guest: Debbie Bercume and Sherry Dutra
Turbulent times have placed a large number of people at a decision point in their career – should they stay in the same field if impacted by a reduction, or take a new path and try something different? The research shows that small businesses are on the rise. Is starting a business the right path for you? Sherry Dutra and Debbie Bercume will share success stories and 4 tips to help you navigate and decide whether starting your own business is the right decision for you.


Your Next Bold Move    May 2011
Topic: Money, Investing, & the Rest Your Life

Guest: Paul Saganey, CEO of Integrated Financial Partners
Paul Saganey is a highly regarded financial advisor to those individuals thinking of retiring, those who are retired, and high net worth families. Paul’s firm Integrated Financial Partners is a financial planning firm with offices located throughout the country. Paul shares with us his firm’s proprietary Lifetime Income Model to help reduce the fear of what to do with your money, how to plan for retirement, and to build your confidence ...


Wake Up With Wendy    April 2011
Topic: Create Your Future with a Vision Board

Guest: Kathy Bowen, CPC.
Happiness is linked to your success and reaching your goals. If you can love what you are doing, you will be successful. Kathy will explain how each of us can create a individualized plan called a Vision Board to help us focus on creating happiness right now and to shape our future in wonderful and unexpected ways. Be inspired, make yourself happy and create your future. It doesn’t get any better than that!


Wake Up With Wendy    March 2011
Topic: The Couple’s Retirement Puzzle

Guest: Roberta Taylor and Dr. Dorian Mintzer, authors Roberta and Dorian’s new book, The Couple’s Retirement Puzzle: 10 Must Have Conversations for Transitioning to the Second Half of Life is coming out in a few weeks. Learn about how to redefine your sense of retirement and how to make the transition as you learn how to navigate the often difficult and uncomfortable issues related to this big life transitions.


Wake Up With Wendy    February 2011
Topic: Invest in Your Relationship

Guest: Dr. Andrew Miser, Ph.D.
Dr. Miser is an expert is creating extraordinary marriages and love partnerships. Being focused on your relationship is a key challenge for couples in the later stages of their marriage when they are “empty-nexters”. Learn how to renew your partnership and actively design a life that is fulfilling and exciting.


Wake Up With Wendy    January 2011
Topic: Market Yourself By Telling Your Story

Guest: Dr. Sharon Livingston
Dr. Livingston is an expert marketing interviewer with over 20 years of experience helping people and companies market their products and services. Throughout her career, she has interviewed over 60,000 consumers about their emotional response to advertising. Companies like AT&T, Novartis, Whirlpool, Lipton, and American Express as well as famous people like Stephen Covey and Brian Tracy, to name just a few. Dr. Livingston has a natural ear for sales, story, and psychology, which together pack a marketing wallop you won't find elsewhere. Get a proven world class interviewer on your side to help you sing out your product’s praises and make your audience melt into a pool of pure desire where they can’t help but experience insatiable hunger for all you have to offer. Learn how to romance your markets to help them genuinely fall in love with you and your products.


Wake Up With Wendy    December 2010
Topic: Job Transition Begins with You

Guest: Michael Neece is a corporate executive refugee from several Fortune 50 companies. He knows what it’s like to be laid-off and be out-of-work for many months before landing a new opportunity. He is the Founder of www.InterviewMastery.com the most widely used job interview program in the world used by job seekers in 73 countries. Michael is the former "Interview Master" for Monster.com. Michael is also co-founder of PongoResume.com, the Internet's most widely used online résumé and cover letter-builder.
Michael’s latest venture is JobTacToe.com to help solve the emotional challenges of lack of guidance, procrastination and isolation during job hunting. JobTacToe turns job hunting into an addictive online game. Michael has been an executive at Hewlett Packard, International Data Group (IDG), and Fidelity Investments. Michael is a frequent contributor to the media including NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox News, Financial Times of London, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, US News & World Report, The Christian Science Monitor, LA Times, The New York Times and many other online publications including MSNBC.


Wake Up With Wendy    November 2010
Topic: Celebrating Breast Health

Guest: Lesley Macomber
This year while ruff housing with her children, she quite accidentally discovered a breast lump, which turned out to be malignant. Lesley has completed her treatment and is creating her “new normal” life. Her story is inspirational and uplifting. She shares wonderful resources for anyone going through the same medical diagnosis as well as resources that might help prevent breast cancer.


Wake Up With Wendy    October 2010
Topic: Re-Inventing Your Career

Guest: Randi Bussin is a talented certified career coach and personal brand strategist.
Her job is to help people get a job. She gives advice to help you figure out what work/job is the right one for you, what steps to take first if you want to change careers, and how to make over your career by reinventing yourself by developing a personal brand. Randi shares her six tips to successfully reinventing your career.


Wake Up With Wendy    September 2010
Topic: Surround Yourself with Passion

Guest: Beth Helenius is a full time manager at a healthcare company where she has worked for many years.
Her passion for health and exercise has followed her career and now also her hobbies. Beth inspires us to look at the passion in our lives and bring it more fully into our work, our play-time, and our hobbies. Surrounding ourselves with our passions, makes our lives richer and more fulfilling.


Wake Up With Wendy    August 2010
Topic: Aging Gracefully

Panel: Wendy Capland, Founder of The Magic Parties and CEO of Vision Quest Consulting with Kate Harper of Kate Harper Coaching, and Melanie Holden of Physica Center for Healing and Education.
Special Guest: Wynne Miller.
Wynne is an inspirational woman as she talks about how to age gracefully and the challenges we all face. Join our expert panel of girlfriends as we support and feel inspired ourselves. It’s not possible to listen to Wynne and not feel hope, inspiration and peace as we deal with the challenges of aging. Even the day we shot this segment, the camera people were moved by her story!


Wake Up With Wendy    July 2010
Topic: Fear and Change

Panel: Wendy Capland, Founder of The Magic Parties and CEO of Vision Quest Consulting with Kate Harper of Kate Harper Coaching, and Melanie Holden of Physica Center for Healing and Education.
Special Guest: Cindy Loughran
Cindy has had many changes in her work in the last few years. She has felt “called” to start a new business but she says her friend told her to “Stop talking about it and just get started!” It took her 3 years to feel confident enough to put her first foot forward. Join our expert panel of girlfriends as we cheer Cindy on and talk about our own fears at work.


Wake Up With Wendy    June 2010
Topic: Dieting, Weight Loss and Health Management

Panel: Wendy Capland, Founder of The Magic Parties and CEO of Vision Quest Consulting, Kate Harper of Kate Harper Coaching, and Melanie Holden of Physica Center for Healing and Education.
Special Guest: Donna Iacopucci
Donna has been struggling with her weight for many years. Join our expert panel of girlfriends as we support her as she has started a health management program at her local hospital. Donna has lots of good insights to share with anyone struggling with weight and health management challenges.


Wake Up With Wendy    April 2010
Topic: How to Deal with Being Out of Work

Panel: Wendy Capland, Founder of The Magic Parties and CEO of Vision Quest Consulting with Jen Cohen of Seven Stones Leadership, Kate Harper of Kate Harper Coaching, and Melanie Holden of Physica Center for Healing and Education.
Special Guest: Paula Field
Paula has been out of work for a year and a half and sorting through her options and making some hard decisions. Our expert team helps her along her hard journey to get re-employed. Follow Paula starting on May 1, 2010 as she blogs about her journey. Watch the show here and then click on our blog link http://magicparties.blogspot.com/ to post a comment and give her ideas, resources or just a shot of inspiration as she moves forward.


Wake Up With Wendy    March 2010
Topic: Marry Your Passion and Your Work

Description: Sue Blaney Sue Blaney is an author and speaker. Sue shares her story about moving from working in the fast lane for an advertising firm and realized through a life crises that she was working too hard and was missing out on spending enough time with her family. She used this crises moment in her life to re-invent herself and her work. Sue’s story is helpful if you are someone looking to re-create your work life and will help you answer the question, “Is what you’re doing what you want to be doing?” Sue’s work can be found at PleaseStoptheRollercoaster.com


Wake Up With Wendy     February 2010
Topic: Keeping Yourself Healthy Through Food

Description: Debra Stark is just another woman on the search for balance, harmony and a good piece of chocolate. Debra intro-duces us to the right foods to keep us healthy and vibrant. Debra is the owner of Debra's Natural Gourmet, a natural food store in West Con-cord, Massachusetts, which opened in 1989. National television shows like "20/20" have featured Debra's Natural Gourmet, rated one of the top 100 natural food stores in the country, and Inc. Magazine selected Debra's Natural Gourmet as a home-town powerhouse business. Investor's Business Daily and Cooking Light Magazine have chronicled the success of her store as well. Au­thor of three cookbooks, the third, Blue Ribbon Edition, has just come out. Debra's Natural Gourmet was awarded Yankee Magazine's Best of New England - Readers' Choice" award for 2010. Debra will bring cookbooks with her. Debra knows she owes it all to her mother who fed the family natural and organic long before it was popular! www.debrasnaturalgourmet.com


Wake Up With Wendy     January 2010
Topic: Balancing Work with Your Passion

Description: Join our guest Barry Levy, Barry S. Levy, M.D., M.P.H.. Barry is a Physician, Consultant, Writer and Performer of a cabaret show called, “Damaged Care”; The Musical Comedy About Healthcare in America (Damaged Care Productions, Inc., (www.damagedcare.com) as he talks about balancing his passion for performing with his day job. This episode raises the question, how can one have multiple interests and fit them into one’s life in a way that continues to pay the bills, has you feel deeply satisfied?


Wake Up With Wendy     December 2009
Topic: Energy Medicine Heals

Description: Lynne Rothstein, Psychotherapist and Energy Medicine Practitioner shares her story about making a change in her work that helps people with a wide range of physical and emotional issues heal faster. Learn about energy medicine and how it can be used to heal you. Learn a technique to give yourself energy and mood enhancement and finally hear how a courageous woman made a major change in her life.


Wake Up With Wendy     November 2009
Topic: Hearing the Call to Change Your Life

Description: Jen Cohen of Seven Stones Leadership, Kate Harper of Kate Harper Coaching, and Melanie Holden of Physica Center for Healing and Education help us get clearer about what is calling for us to do next in our personal and/or professional lives.


Wake Up With Wendy     October 2009
Topic: Get Started and Create Your Future

Description: Don Arnoudse, Executive Coach and founder of The Praemia Group advises, “Create your future; don’t wait for it to show up.” Don has had many major career changes over the years that required lots of courage and faith. Don shares his success in making these career changes. He says follow his three suggestions to help you make the leap, “Do what makes you come alive, serve others, and don’t do it alone. He encourages those looking for a new career move or new job to have the courage to go against the grain.


Wake Up With Wendy     September 2009
Topic: What’s Next for You? Check Your Childhood for Clues

Description: Lisa Campion is a psychic who shares her story about discovering her psychic abilities when she was just a child. Lisa believes we all were born with psychic and intuitive abilities and we just need to learn how to use them to help us. Through her story, Lisa teaches us how to listen to our inner guidance and use it to help us make important decisions in our lives. Lisa shows us that we can discover many of our gifts and what’s next in our lives if we look at our childhood for clues.


Wake Up With Wendy     August 2009
Topic: Creating Joy in Every Part of Your Life

Description: Johanna Lyman, Founder of Romance Recovery shares her story of moving from a career as a financial planner to her current work as a spiritual love coach and channel. Johanna inspires us to follow what makes us happy at work and tells us how to do it. Learn how she made such a drastic career move and learn how you can too. Her message, "Don't do work or a job you hate, quit or at least start looking for what's next while you still have an income." Bottom line she says, "Follow the joy!"


Wake Up With Wendy     July 2009
Topic: Life Purpose Work

Description: Cindy Loughran, CEO and Founder of New Leaf Touchstone takes us along on her journey to find her life purpose as it blossomed out of a challenge she faced in her current work. “The amazing thing, says Cindy, is that you don’t have to go on a lifetime search for your life purpose, it’s usually right in front of your nose and woven throughout the life you currently live. It’s really quite amazing.”


Wake Up With Wendy     June 2009
Topic: Natural Breast Health

Description: Jackie Bell, Natural Healing Consultant teaches us natural healing techniques to care preventatively for our breasts. “It’s the same idea as brushing and flossing your teeth to prevent tooth decay, says Jackie, the better you care for your breasts by the healthier they’ll be.” Jackie also talks about thermography, the screening tool gaining popularity for breast care.


Wake Up With Wendy     May 2009
Topic: Manifesting Anything and Everything You’ve Ever Wanted

Description: There is a guaranteed methodology that allows us to manifest every single thing in our lives. Melanie Holden, Energy Healer and Author teaches us how to do this brilliantly as she shares her story about the incredible things she has created in her life in spite of adverse circumstances. Through her story, we too can see what’s possible.


Wake Up With Wendy     April 2009
Topic: Awaken Your Inner Voice

Description: Amidst the busy-ness of the day to day, how do you find your voice and how do you express it in the world. Anna Huckabee Tull, Award Winning Singer and Song Writer sings for us and tells her story as to how she found her voice, inspiring us to find ours.


Book Wendy to speak at your next event.

Wendy is available to speak at conferences, in corporations, and at inspiring events and programs on the topics of women, their leadership, and the magic of discovering their next bold move.

Speaking Topic Outline

For speaking inquiries, please contact info@themagicparties.com

May 20, 2010, Vision Voice and Victory, The Changing Face of Women’s Leadership, Cambridge, MA. For more info email info@visionquestconsulting.com


Partying with the Sisterhood, Westford Community News, August 20, 2009
Magic Parties Launch, Westford Community News, July 2, 2009
Womenade - Socializing with a purpose, Boston.com, September 23, 2009