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Mastermind Coaching Group for Women Solopreneurs
Event on 2011-11-16 10:00:00
Are you self-employed? Do you feel overwhelmed by the responsibilities and challenges of being your own boss? Do you long for support and collaboration with like-minded colleagues?
This group is for you!
Facilitated by an experienced coach and fellow solopreneur, this group blends group coaching with traditional mastermind principles that will help you identify your business and personal challenges, explore new resources, brainstorm solutions, and set goals. There is magic and synergy that occurs in a group of people with focused intention, and the collective wisdom and creativity generated by a group can fuel your success in ways you may not yet imagine. Together, we will support each other, share information and ideas, hold each other accountable for goals and plans, challenge and push when needed, and celebrate our wins.
Through this group, you will gain
• Greater income
• Increased productivity
• Renewed energy and enthusiasm for work
• Expanded resources (brain power, contacts, ideas)
• Collaborative, supportive peer relationships
• The opportunity to contribute to the success of others
The details: Beginning on September 9th we will meet twice monthly for two hours every first and third Wednesday. In addition, you will have one ½ hour individual coaching call per month. The group will be limited to six participants, which will be selected based on business type, motivation, availability, and willingness to contribute. A six-month minimum commitment is requested.
Your facilitator: Kristy Swanson is a certified professional coach, a trained therapist, and a lifelong solopreneur whose passion is helping women create successful work that is aligned with their core personal values. She is an avid cyclist, nature lover, education junkie, and chef.
For more information and to reserve your place in the group, please email Kristy at kristy@brightworkscoaching.com, or call her at 425-280-5894.
at Postal code 98033, US
Various Venues
Kirkland, United States
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David Bromberg / Ollabelle
Event on 2011-09-18 19:30:00
He’s played with everyone, he’s toured everywhere, he can lead a raucous big band or hold an audience silent with a solo acoustic blues. Here’s the story of David Bromberg, or at least some of it . . .
Born in Philadelphia in 1945 and raised in Tarrytown, NY, “as a kid I listened to rock ’n’ roll and whatever else was on the radio,” says Bromberg. “I discovered Pete Seeger and The Weavers and, through them, Reverend Gary Davis. I then discovered Big Bill Broonzy, who led me to Muddy Waters and the Chicago blues. This was more or less the same time I discovered Flatt and Scruggs, which led to Bill Monroe and Doc Watson.”
Bromberg began studying guitar-playing when he was 13 and eventually enrolled in Columbia University as a musicology major. The call of the Greenwich Village folk scene in the mid-’60s drew David to the downtown clubs and coffeehouses, where he could watch and learn from the best performers, including primary sources such as his inspiration and teacher, the Reverend Gary Davis.
Bromberg’s sensitive and versatile approach to guitar-playing earned him jobs playing the Village “basket houses” for tips, the occasional paying gig, and lots of employment as a backing musician for Tom Paxton, Jerry Jeff Walker and Rosalie Sorrels, among others. He became a first-call, “hired gun” guitarist for recording sessions, ultimately playing on hundreds of records by artists including Bob Dylan (New Morning, Self Portrait, Dylan), Link Wray, The Eagles, Ringo Starr, Willie Nelson, and Carly Simon.
An unexpected and wildly successful solo spot at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival in Great Britain led to a solo deal with Columbia Records, for whom David recorded four albums. His eponymous 1971 debut not only included the mock-anguished “Suffer to Sing the Blues,” a Bromberg original that became an FM radio staple, but also “The Holdup,” a songwriting collaboration with former Beatle George Harrison, whom he met at his manager’s Thanksgiving dinner festivities. Harrison also played slide guitar on the track. Through Bromberg’s manager, Al Aronowitz, David also met the Grateful Dead and wound up with four of their members, including Jerry Garcia, playing on his next two albums.
Bromberg’s range of material, based in the folk and blues idioms, continually expanded with each new album to encompass bluegrass, ragtime, country and ethnic music, and his touring band grew apace. By the mid-’70s, the David Bromberg Big Band included horn-players, a violinist, and several multi-instrumentalists, including David himself. Among the best-known Bromberg Band graduates: mandolinist Andy Statman, later a major figure in the Klezmer music movement in America, and fiddler Jay Ungar (who wrote the memorable “Ashokan Farewell” for Ken Burns’ PBS documentary, “The Civil War”).
Despite jubilant, loose-limbed concerts and a string of acclaimed albums on the Fantasy label, Bromberg found himself exhausted by the logistics of the music business. “I decided to change the direction of my life,” he explains. So David dissolved his band in 1980, and he and his artist/musician wife, Nancy Josephson, moved from Northern California to Chicago, where David attended the Kenneth Warren School of Violin Making. Though he still toured periodically, the recordings slowed to a trickle and then stopped.
After “too many Chicago winters,” in 2002 David and Nancy were lured to Wilmington, Del., where they became part of the city’s artist-in-residence program and where David could establish David Bromberg Fine Violins, a retail store and repair shop for high quality instruments. Frequent participation in the city’s weekly jam sessions helped rekindle Bromberg’s desire to make music again, as did the encouragement of fellow musicians Chris Hillman (The Byrds, Desert Rose Band, Flying Burrito Brothers) and bluegrass wizard Herb Pedersen, and David’s manager, Steve Bailey. The jams also led to the formation of Angel Band, fronted by Nancy and two other female vocalists, with David serving as an accompanist.
With the release of Try Me One More Time, his 2007 solo return to the studio, David continued his musical revitalization, playing shows on his own, backed by (and supporting) Angel Band, his own David Bromberg Quartet, and reunions of the David Bromberg Big Band, the configuration depending on the circumstance. As 2010 draws to a close, David is completing an ambitious new album entittled Use Me, which features David collaborating with friends like John Hiatt, Levon Helm, Los Lobos, Tim O’Brien, Vince Gill, Widespread Panic, Dr. John, Keb’ Mo’ and others. 2011 promises to be another eventful year in the history of David Bromberg.
at The Triple Door
216 Union Street
Seattle, United States
Do-it-Yourself Public Relations (PR): Get the Publicity You Want
Event on 2011-09-24 11:00:00
“PR” is how you affect the image that others form of you or your business. It’s about what you can do to get more, positive publicity to achieve customer/consumer awareness and action. Whether you’re self-employed, working for a small business or charitable organization, planning an event, or getting geared up to promote yourself as an author, chef, or specialist – this is a key step to creating the image you want. Even on a bare budget, you’ll learn to work wonders using your own creative efforts.
The class is on Saturday September 24, from 11-3:30 at College of Marin (Kentfield Campus). Cost is . To register call 415-485-9318.
Taught by Cathy Balach, a consultant for small businesses, startups and nonprofits specializing in strategic marketing and PR.
at College of Marin
Laurel Avenue and Sir Francis Drake Boulevard
Kentfield, United States
Hi,my name is Anne,I did the following:
Q&A: Do you have to pay self employment tax if your business didn’t profit?
I have a business, I made some money and I had a lot of expenses. I still made over 0, but had a lot more expenses so will the deductions taking me ‘into the red’ mean I don’t owe taxes on the gross amount made?
These are useful and collceted by Anne!
Question: What’s the easiest way to reduce self employment tax?
Can I still put money in an IRA for my 2007 taxes?
And if so, can I get the savers credit with another credit to reduce my taxes even further?
I am under the income limit to qualify for the savers credit.
Any tips appreciated!
