Next Meeting Monday 6th February at 7:30pm
New House Country Hotel, Thornhill, Cardiff 7:30pm Speakers Alex Beard and Laura Leigh Clarke
Topics are New Year, New breakfast, New you and Finding your Money Mojo
Our first speaker is Alex Beard with New Year, New breakfast, New you
Born in Zimbabwe, Alex is really a child of the world. Having cast her proverbial hat down all across the globe, she has infused her culinary credentials with numerous intrepid and epicurean experiences, and now works as a personal chef to some of the country’s most powerful people.
As a toddler, Alex would peer precociously from a work top chair into simmering pots and floured bowls as she quietly watched her mother prepare family meals and delicious desserts from scratch. Inspired, she was soon mixing and seasoning for her mother, and before long she was baking her own cakes. Her passion for food extended into her teenage years as she first cut her teeth peeling spuds during a work experience stint at a hotel before landing a Saturday job at a local Italian restaurant. Apparently a ‘pot washer’, Alex was soon at the chopping board perfecting her dexterity and learning on the go as she peeled potatoes and chopped onions.
It was at this time that the streak of fervent independence and determination that has characterized her career became apparent. Leaving home at 15, Alex’s talent and passion was recognised by the restaurant’s head chef who offered her a full time position. From this point she never looked back.
Less than three years later she was working at Raymond Blanc’s two Michelin starred Le Manoir aux Quat Saison where her skills were honed and expanded. During her four years under Raymond’s tutelage she did various demonstrations with him on TV and at huge public events such as the London Food Show. Led by Le Manoir’s executive chef Gary Jones, Alex also cooked for HRH The Queen Mother and distinguished guests during her majesty’s birthday celebrations at a private residence in Oxfordshire.
While working at The Vineyard at Stockcross, for John Campbell, the desire to step out on her own became overwhelming and she soon hatched the plan for her first ambitious venture. Bringing her enthusiasm and initiative to a traditional but failing Welsh pub, Alex changed it into a gastronomic enterprise and turned its fortunes around. An emphasis on quality ingredients and innovative dishes helped establish the pub a solid reputation, as well as clientele from all over the surrounding areas.
Next came a fine dining catering company that offered a diverse range of services, from high end canapé parties and complete wedding meals to private nine course dinners in private homes with specially selected wines. Despite the complexities of running a business, however, Alex never ventured far from her true delight, cooking. During this period she held many private cookery classes as well as demonstrations at events such as the Llangollen Food and Flower Show and the Cowbridge Food Festival.
Though she has come a long way from her worktop perch in Zimbabwe, in many respects Alex has gone full circle as she seeks to pass on the love of quality fresh ingredients and simple but delicious meals that she picked up as a young girl while watching her mother. Inspired by the experience from her own private lessons, she implemented and designed the cookery school at Llanerch Vineyard as well as designing other kitchens for private and commercial clients.
Now, as CEO of Alex’s Supper Club, and with a TV show in development, her success continues and her passion is undimmed as she aims to bring the joy of cooking to the masses, with a mission to get 1 Million people who don’t currently cook, cooking just one meal a day from scratch.
Our second speaker is Laura Leigh Clarke and her topic is Finding your Money Mojo
Laura Leigh Clarke is a money coach, author and speaker who began her career turning around the sales departments of several UK companies.
Her book “Wire Yourself for Wealth” will hit the shelves in June, published by Hay House. In it she describes for 7 point strategy for turning financial carnage into monetary heaven.
She speaks regularly to audiences around the UK at various events, from business groups to inspirational gatherings, and is often featured in the UK media, including BBC radio, On FM, Star FM.
Laura also writes for Network She magazine.
She also runs seminars and money coaching courses, helping people turn their finances and business around.
By using her unique personal profiling system and helping people to let go of their emotional baggage she enables them to conquer the problems that have been holding them back and to discover the drive and passion that allows her clients to star in their own success story.
Find Your Money Mojo
Imagine you have a little Warren Buffett, Lady Gaga or Deborah Meaden sitting in your brain, just waiting to unleash their genius on to your life.... The thing is if you don’t know what your wealth type is, how do you tap into it?
Find Your Money Mojo is all about identifying your type, so you know with surgical precision, what type of strategy you should be using every day, so you can cultivate your Mojo and make heaps more cash, effortlessly.
You will discover each of the eight wealth types, and the pathways to success for each. Armed with this clarity over what you should, (and shouldn’t!) be doing in your enterprise, you can then focus on dropping the fear and emotional clutter around taking the next big step which is going to sky rocket your success – and don’t worry, she’ll show you how to do that too!
In this talk you will:
discover what the wealth types are
gain increased clarity around the tasks to focussing on, given your profile
and learn precisely how to make money in a way that is fun and easy for you
Previous Events
Next meeting Monday 5th December 2011
Pendragon Public House Excaliber Drive Thornhill, Cardiff 7:30pm Christmas Drinks.
Monday 7th November 2011
New House Country Hotel, Thornhill, Cardiff 7:30pm Speaker Rob Parson and his Topic The Heart of Success and Harry Singha - The Power of Meaning.
INTRODUCING ROB PARSONS…
Rob Parsons is an international speaker and best-selling author. He has had a successful career as a senior partner in a law firm and co-founded one of the UK’s most successful legal training and consultancy firms. He is the founder and Chairman of Care for the Family, a national charity which aims to strengthen family life and help those hurting because of family difficulties.
Rob has spoken to over three-quarters of a million people in corporate and family-life events around the world. He has built an reputation as a keynote speaker. Corporate clients include: Alcatel, AstraZeneca, AXA, Barclays Bank, BBC, Birmingham Social Services, Boots, BT, BUPA, Chambers of Commerce, Costains, DTI, DVLA, Ford, Gerling NCM, Halifax plc, Heath Lambert, Honda UK, IMB, KPMG, Lloyds TSB, National Grid, NHS Trusts, npower, PriceWaterhouseCooper, Sir Robert McAlpine, the National Assembly for Wales, the Northern Ireland Assembly and the Scottish Parliament.
His best-selling books include The Heart of Success, and The Money Secret, a practical wisdom on managing finances, and The Sixty Minute… series on marriage, parenthood and family life, the ground-breaking book on work-life balance. To date, almost a million copies of his books have been sold worldwide in 12 languages.
Rob is married to Dianne, lives in Cardiff in South Wales and has two adult children.
BOOKS
• The Heart of Success
• The Money Secret
• Loving Against the Odds
• The Sixty Minute Family
• The Sixty Minute Father
• The Sixty Minute Marriage
• The Sixty Minute Mother
• Teenagers! What Every Parent Has to Know
• What Every Kid Wished Their Parents
Knew … and Vice Versa
“Rob Parsons is one of the most inspirational speakers in the country today ... motivating, practical and giving you the sense that somebody has just turned the light on.”
Rosemary Conley, Chairman, The Rosemary Conley Group
“Rob Parsons has an uncanny ability for asking some of life’s most challenging questions in an unobtrusive way.”
Jill Garrett, Director of Leadership Development, Caret
“We asked Rob to come and inspire, challenge and motivate our conference of 300 partners, directors and managers. He certainly did this and more … so much so that we’ve booked him again!”
Tim Richardson, Development Leader, Financial Services Division, PwC Global
“Rob Parsons was a first rate speaker, with the ability to get his audience to ask themselves some fairly hard questions without spoon-feeding or antagonising them.”
“... I wish I had heard that lecture ten years ago.”
“... The subject matter was very thought-provoking and the delivery little short of an art form!”
“... my side is still sore from the number of points in the lecture when I was jabbed by my wife who kept saying ‘that’s you!!’”
From a KPMG leadership lecture
“... a superb, thought provoking address.”
“ ... such entertainment that those around me were laughing till the tears rolled.”
“... I’ll never forget what you said and I’ll be putting it into practice.”
From an evening with the Royal College of Surgeons
THE HEART OF SUCCESS
“…an influential, recent book for executives who have it all in the workplace and not much outside of it.”
Wall Street Journal (Europe)
“Before you read one more book on how to climb the corporate ladder, read this: it will help you make sure the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”
Kevin Kaiser, Adjunct Professor of Finance, INSEAD and Vice President of Product Development at btfinance.com
“I would recommend CEOs to give a copy of this book to every manager in their company.”
Jim Wright, Vice President of Human Resources, SmithKline Beecham
“This book is too important to be read only once.”
Patrick Parkinson, Professor of Law and Pro-Dean, University of Sydney
“I run a £200 million part of the BBC with more than 3,000 staff based at 50 different locations. I didn’t have time to read Rob’s book at work – it had to wait for my holiday! – but I’ve tried very hard to apply his lessons since. Now I’m asking all my managers to focus on creating a culture of achievements rather than long hours, for themselves and their teams too.”
Andy Griffee, Controller, BBC English Regions
THE SIXTY MINUTE FAMILY
“This is no ordinary self-help manual. Elegantly and compellingly written, with both sensitivity and humour, it offers an insight into the everyday challenges experienced by real-life families and of how they can be overcome.”
Ned Temko, The Observer
Make time to read this book because it could save you an eternity of pain and regrets. With wit and insight Rob Parsons gets to the heart of what makes families work…Reading this may be the best 60 minutes you will ever spend.
Suzie Hayman, BBC radio agony aunt and author of Teach Yourself Parenting Your Teenager
“I would recommend this book to anyone, whatever their family circumstance, as it’s a book of encouragement and a challenge to look beyond our own experience to the needs of those family members who surround us.”
Jeremy Todd, Chief Executive, Parentline Plus
TEENAGERS! WHAT EVERY PARENT HAS TO KNOW
“In the battlefield that is the parenthood of teenagers, this book is not just wonderfully enlightening, but strangely comforting.”
Prima Magazine
“Insightful and practical. It will help every parent navigate those turbulent teenage years.”
David Lumsdon, Educational Psychology Academic and Professional Tutor, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
“This incredible book will save not just our relationships with our children, but our sanity. And the really lucky ones will discover it before their kids are teenagers.”
Parentalk
Harry Singha share with us The Power of Meaning
Harry is an internationally acclaimed speaker, entrepreneur, author and the Chairman of the Youth Coaching Academy International. Harry has now trained thousands of individuals from over 40 countries in Coaching and Leadership. Harry is blessed to have taken the challenges from his own life and learnt to use them and has committed his life to inspiring others to do so through his Light Up Your Life seminars and programmes.
Harry is a Social Entrepreneur, Facilitator and Team Leader for the Anthony Robbins Global Youth Leadership Summit. His clients have included HM Treasury, Jamie Oliver’s Foundation and is the former Chair of the London YES Group!
The Power of Meaning
Harry’s ‘The Power of Meaning’ is the inspirational presentation, where Harry shares his own Journey and how he took the Worst Day of his life and turned it into his Best Day. Harry will share some of the most powerful distinctions he has learnt along his adventure and how you may apply these in your own life and support others to do so to! You will leave inspired.
Monday 5th September 2011
New House Country Hotel, Thornhill, Cardiff 7:30pm Speaker Max Chadwick and the topic is Life Alignment.
Max Chadwick BA (Hons), LC Dip, is a practicing life coach, workshop leader and trainer.
Max work’s freelance mainly in the areas of personal development, training, domestic violence and employment.
Working one-on-one or in groups, Max utilizes his experience as a Life Coach and trainer to help people to align themselves with who they really are and with the reality of their life situation. Everything else follows on from that.
Organisations he has worked with include John Lewis, British Gas, Flying Start, Atal-y-Fro, Women’s Aid, Parkinson’s UK, A4E, Working Links and Cardiff and Merthyr Councils etc.
Several programmes Max has developed are now being used by organizations and their staff. Some examples are ‘Pattern Changing’ to help women who have been or are in abusive relationships, and ‘Ready, steady Work’ which is used to help the long term unemployed back into work.
Everybody wants to be happy. This is natural. But what we think or feel will make us happy is often misguided at best and damaging at worst.
People think ‘ I want to be more confident’ or ‘I want better relationships’ or ‘I want to make the right decisions about my career’ or ‘I want to raise my self esteem’
We desire these outcomes because we want to be happy, and we believe these attitudes, circumstances, and choices will lead to happiness. They may in the short term, but in and of themselves they won’t.
What leads to a state of lasting happiness is being ourselves; and then living our life from this state of being.
What is it to be authentic then? And why is it so hard to be ourselves?
It isn’t. We just haven’t had many good role models for it. We’ve learned of nothing better.
But it is a real possibility, and with this comes the opportunity to live authentic lives.
This is the motivation behind Life Alignment.
This programme is Integral in approach, which means it will look both inside a person at mindsets, values, and cultures and outside at their skills and behaviours, as well as to the wider organisational and social systems etc.
My experience of working with thousands of people as a life coach in various settings, has led me to the inescapable conclusion that very few people are living to their full potential.
This is not just potential in terms of being captains of industry or making vast sums of money (nothing wrong with either of these if done from an authentic centre) – but potential in terms of being an authentic human being and having a real relationship with life.
So if you would like to experience some of what Life Alignment is about, the Yes Group meeting will give you a chance to see it for yourself.
Two Meetings in June. the 6th and 27th. See below for full details.
Climbing Mount Improbable with International Speaker Eric Edmeades
Yes Group Meeting Monday 27th June 2011
Entrepreneurial and personal success is, statistically, improbable. Many more people start out on the journey than make it to the top. And yet there are proven paths; solid steps and sound strategies that can get you to your goal.
Join Eric on an incredible journey that started when he founded his first company in his living room in Bristol and that led him all the way to Hollywood where he now owns companies in special effects, 3D camera technology and film production.
Eric's talk will tech you practical, powerful and proven strategies that you can employ to create the business and personal success you deserve.
Eric is not a motivational speaker; he is an entrepreneur with a very motivating, inspirational and informative style. Eric delivers practical and useable strategies that you will find easy to implement and hard to ignore. During his talk, you will learn about:
a) Starting and managing small businesses.
b) Getting your business working for you.
c) Building effective teams.
d) How to live a compelling and fun life while building financial success.
Ultimately, Eric will help you how to understand one of the greatest transformations a person can make in their lives -- how to make money from being, rather than from doing.
"The only true measure of success in life is the number of days that you are truly happy."
www.EricEdmeades.com
Find out more about Eric click here
Yes Group Meetin g Monday 6th June 2011
3 Secrets to a High Performance Business and Personal Life.
This will be a fun and interactive evening, and you will leave with some powerful ways to improve and transform your Business and Personal life.
Imagine improving your business results by 40% in one year, with the skills and techniques to do it again the year after, perhaps doubling your profitability in 2 years.
Imagine improving the quality of your personal life so people start asking you what you are doing so they can have some of that.
Imagine achieving more than you ever have done before and doing it in less time.
Come along on … and find out about these 3 Secrets to a High Performance Business and Personal Life.
About John Cato
John Cato is Chairman of Cato Associates ( www.catoassociates.com ). John is also the Chairman of the Bristol YES Group.
John is the Founder of TEN-10, The Entrepreneurs/Executives Network for high performance businesses, bringing outstanding speakers, high performance strategies and peer group masterminding to small to medium businesses.
John has run a successful blue chip consulting business since 1989, with clients such as Hewlett Packard Labs, Westinghouse Signals, Nationwide Building Society, Nuclear Electric and Renishaw plc. While consulting with these blue chips, John's role as consultant included project management and business trouble shooting. John has been on the board of the British Computer Society, Chairman of the BCS in Bristol and on various other professional groups. John is the author of a genre best seller book on User/Customer Experience Design published by Addison Wesley Longman. He is a Chartered IT Professional (CITP), and has been a Member of the Institute of Information Scientists (MIIS). John has lectured nationally and internationally by request of professional organisations and conferences.
John is a Master Practitioner in NLP, and a qualified Associate Certified Meta Coach (ACMC) at the Institute of Neurosemantics, and has been invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). He has coached and mentored small to medium businesses and brings his deep experience to executives and entrepreneurs alike.
John has recently been researching a wide range of Business and Personal Performance Improvement strategies, and has reduced and simplified them so they are accessible to everyone. These will be available in John's book, due to be published later this year, 'Secrets of Guru Josie'. “Secrets of Guru Josie” contains over 100 secrets of Business and Personal Success including the 3 Secrets John will introduce you to this evening. To reserve your copy, email john@catoassociates.com .
Yes Group Meeting Monday 4th April 2011. First Speaker Cathie Brown, Topic Will the real Cathie Brown stand up!
About The Evening Will the real Cathie Brown stand up!
I may not be sexy, beautiful or even have the perfect body. I may not be everyone's first choice, but I am ME and I don't pretend to be anyone else. I may not be proud of some of the things I've done but I am proud of who I am TODAY!! I may not be exactly where I aim to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be. I AM GRATEFUL TO BE ME – Author Unknown
In this inspirational talk, Cathie shares with you her unique perspective in overcoming many of life’s challenges, including her recent assessment of grade 3 breast cancer and how she saw each challenge as a gift, that has been essential in providing the clarity of purpose she enjoys today.
In this talk you will discover that who you are is already enough. The reason many people doubt this is because we’ve been conditioned to believe that who we are is based on the job we do, or the possessions we have, or how we look or what other people think of us. As such, we frequently fall short in one or all areas and feel incomplete and not good enough. But possessions, achievements and other peoples’ opinions do not define who we are. The truth is there is nothing wrong with you and nothing missing. The only thing ‘wrong’ is your thoughts about who you are! And so the invitation for all attendees is simple: Will you dare to be ‘wrong’ about who you think you are? If so … then it’s time to unveil the REAL You!
Our second speaker is Allan Kleynhans his presentation will cover the Laws of The Mind and is titled 'Out of The Matrix'. He will cover s imple strategies and tools for people to use so they can take complete control of how they feel moment to moment, consciously creating their life from the inside out and in alignment with the divinity their soul wants to express. His talk will also contain personal stories of his own transformation and the results he has created in different areas, moving from an emotional wreck to a powerful leader in control of his emotional state .
He is an expert at assisting people to create change consciously, no matter how large the obstacle or challenges facing them. He has overcome severe personal challenges, from being homeless and addicted to drugs to running a very successful speaking business, his own fire walk seminars for some of the biggest companies in the world and coaching some of the most succssful sportspeople in the world. He has a very unique story and it inspires and enthuses his audience to conquer their own obstacles with renewed intensity.
Allan Kleynhans says “I live and work from the core belief that people are born with enormous reserves of power and energy. Encouraged, taped and channeled correctly, this energy allows people to create and perform at an outstanding level. From a leadership perspective, when you get individuals to invest themselves emotionally in a common vision with purpose, you build an unstoppable team. In today’s world change is inevitable, while growth is optional. Embracing change and growth is the key to long-term success. I look forward to working with your team to make that happen.”
Allan Kleynhans is a highly entertaining and thoroughly effective Professional Speaker and Peak Performance Coach. He is an expert in assisting and empowering people and organisations to create sustainable change. He specializes in Peak Performance Training, Coaching and Consulting for individuals, athletes, teams and corporations. A skilful facilitator, trainer and NLP practitioner, Allan has been studying the science of human behavior, peak performance and success conditioning since 1988.
An expert authority on the dynamics of human potential and self-esteem, Allan helps his clients create extraordinary results both personally and professionally. He regularly facilitates public and corporate seminars and workshops on personal and emotional mastery and the psychology of spiritual leadership. His initial interest in behavioral conditioning began in 1986 when he was conscripted to the South African Defense Force. He returned home from Angola two years later and realized support for South African soldiers, who had been deployed and were suffering with post-traumatic stress disorder, was non-existent. So began his study into the dynamics of the mind and human behavior, and in 1989 he left home to further his education abroad.
He has studied and worked with the biggest names in the self-improvement industry like Anthony Robbins, Jim Rohn, Deepak Chopra, Brian Tracy, Zig Ziglar, Tom Hopkins, Bob Proctor, Randy Gage, Robin Banks, John Kehoe and Landmark Education. In 2001,
Allan returned to South Africa to be part of the transition taking place there and worked with companies like SA Breweries, Standard Bank, Old Mutual, Ithala Finance Corporation, Liberty Group, Investec, Discovery Life, Pelican M.I.S. Systems, RE/MAX Address, NIMAS (Medical Aid Society), Maxiprest Tyres, Hirsch’s Homestores, Rennies Shipping, African Bank, National Ports Authority, Homenet, The Ignition Group, Boxer Superstores and Spar Group. He also worked with many of South Africa’s Springbok rugby players and during the South African rugby season of 02/03, he worked with the Natal Sharks on their successful Currie Cup campaign.
Allan is a founding member of the Professional Speaking Association of Southern Africa (PSASA), and a regular contributor to the annual KZN Head Prefects Leadership Academy, which provides leadership training and mentoring for the in-coming Head Prefects of KZN district schools. He has spoken at many schools aroundSouth Africa and is passionate about working with kids to develop their self-esteem and potential. Allan returned to the UK on a full-time basis in 2008 and lives in London. Allan has been described as ‘brilliant and articulate, a moving and inspiring speaker with a passion for people and a real desire to make a difference’.
Drawing from his own experiences and personal transformation, he is guaranteed to bring your meeting to life with his dynamically entertaining and unconventional style. His expertise and passion for his subject ensures he will add massive long-term value to your audience. More than just ‘rah-rah’, Allan leaves his audiences with real take home value and practical tools that help expand this value through time.
Testimonials
“RE/MAX is continuously exposed to numerous top speakers and Allan definitely rates amongst the best we’ve ever had. His energetic approach certainly rubs off onto his audience. He was so popular the first time, we asked him back more than once.” Chris & Lisa Pearson, Broker/Owners, RE/MAX Address
“Thank you for a fantastic speech at our Keyman Conference. The feedback from Management has been great. I think your approach was most refreshing, the team said it has made them have a good look at out business from another angle. We will certainly apply some of the principals you shared with us going forward. Thank you again for your input.” Ian Ochtman, General Manager, Maxiprest Tyres
Thank you Allan, from the whole team, for a fantastic experience. It was awesome! ” Ian Mountain, General Manager, South African Breweries Ltd
“On behalf of my family and our management team, I must thank you for an amazing and truly remarkable experience. I must also congratulate you and your team for a professional seminar, which we all thoroughly enjoyed. It was a life changing experience for me personally and I know many of my team share the same sentiment!” Allan Hirsch, CEO, Hirsch’s Homestores
