Al was in California back in February, and we didn’t think we’d be going back again that soon. But this was just too big an opportunity, at just the right time, to pass up.
The two of us will be winging our way to Laguna Niguel this Thursday for The CEO Factor Retreat, April 3rd-5th. Our business coach, Melanie Benson Strick, hasn’t thrown a live event for a while now, so in addition to the whole learning and networking and “sharpening the saw” thing, we’re excited to see how she runs a show.
As for the “CEO” in “CEO Factor,” it doesn’t stand for the traditional “Chief Executive Officer” is this arena. Melanie explains:
By CEO I do not mean someone who works 80+ hours a week, wears a power suit, and sits in meetings all day.
I’m talking about a Chief Entrepreneurial Officer, who has figured out how being a LEADER and surrounding himself or herself with the right team, actually creates more FREEDOM and more MONEY to have the kind of lifestyle they have always wanted.
CEOs know what allows them to create and PLAY (yes this is supposed to be fun!) their biggest game and anything short of that is simply not going to cut it.
Sounds great to us. 
Truth be told, we’ve struggled with the team thing over the years. We’ve worked with three VA (Virtual Assistant) services in the last three years – one stepped out of her own biz to pursue a different opportunity, another wasn’t reponsive to any emails, and the third, well, we liked her, and might consider working with her again if we can only get out of our own way.
Which is part of what this Retreat is about. The word “bottleneck” gets used a lot, and we certainly could be moved out of the way to see more things get DONE in our business without feeling like we have to be the “doers.”
It’s also going to be an amazing opportunity to network and mastermind with other big-thinking 6-and-7 figure biz owners from around the globe, which is literally PRICELESS. Some of the rad entrepreneurs we’ll be hanging out with include:
- Beth Schneider, www.ProcessProdigy.com
- Chris Haddad, www.HaddadInk.com
- Michele Pariza Wacek, www.MichelePW.com
- Kelly O’Neil, www.UplevelStrategies.com
- Bernadette Doyle, www.ClientMagnets.com
- Wiley Long, www.ThePaleoDiet.com
- Sheri McConnell, www.SheriMcConnell.com
- Evan Marc Katz, www.EvanMarcKatz.com
- Ira Bloomfield, Twitter.com/MarketWelby
- Milana Leshinsky, www.Milana.com
Good old-fashioned face time with any one of these extraordinary business owners — let alone solid, interactive, immersive, transparent FUN with all of them! — is a gift from the gods for us, two NH spousal-preneurs and parents of two young boys who are determined to accelerate results and bring back bleeding-edge success strategies to bold-reaching businesses throughout New England.
For peeps who may be interested and who like to cut to the chase (courtesy of Melanie’s sales page):
Here’s a brief summary of what you’ll receive when you attend The CEO Factor™ Retreat:
- A highly interactive and experiential 3 days with tangible tools you can put into action immediately
- Live hot seats & Q&A sessions designed to help you get specific answers about YOUR business right on the spot
- A specific process for focusing on passion versus drudgery so you spend 80% or more of your time doing what you love
- A step-by-step system for identifying patterns and blocks holding you back and EXACTLY what to do to get past them
- Simple and systematic ways to exponentially increase revenue and profit
- A tool to help you clarify your role as a leader and the legacy you want to leave behind
- An assessment that will help you make sure the team you have in place is the one that can take you to 7 figure mark or higher
- Direct access to me and my coaching team
- Participation in a live mastermind where you will be able to implement strategies and try out tools right on the spot with other like minded entrepreneurs who will be there to support you and give you 5x the brain power you would have on your own
You’ll also get…
- Lunches & Continental Breakfast each day…
- Dessert Reception the night before to kick off the event in style
- Special Surprise “Hollywood” Type Event (this could definitely be a first for you!)
You will also walk away from this event with a:
- Roadmap in your hand that gives you the exact steps you need to take to achieve the success you want in your business
- 7 figure financial plan (balancing growth w/ investing)
- 7 figure dream team blueprint so you know exactly who to hire next
- Role Descriptions of key team members, including YOU as the CEO, so everyone knows what their focus should be
- Cutting edge tools and resources that every 7 + figure business owner has to have to create and sustain their empire business
Right event, right time, right person to have it, we’re sure of it.
If you own a business, you know your business evolves in strange and beautiful ways over the years. This year, we’re taking cues from the Universe and really upping our biz game, so we can help more passionate professionals, businesses, and organizations use social marketing tools more strategically and effectively, so they can get their message, mission, and vision out there to their Ideal Audiences. To fulfill our own mission and vision (and continue to have FUN in the process!), we have got to let go of the doing and LEAD with confidence and clarity.
Melanie is just the phenom to show us how to do just that…and so much more.
(And as if we needed any additional signs from the Universe that this is the right thing to do, we were able to name our price for a rental car on Priceline.com for the first time ever. This victory made us way happier than it probably should have.)
