LAURIE'S
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Laurie considers all of her personal accomplishments just
as important as her professional achievements.
Personal accomplishments include those trials and
lessons we must all learn that often come with tragedy,
obstacles, betrayal, losses, set backs and disappointments.
These have played a large role in the success of her life
and work. She has the unique ability of being able to carry
on no matter what. A quality she learned watching her
parents as they rose above the challenges time and again.
A Short List of Her Professional Accomplishments Include:
2010: Completed and published
"The Top Ten Ways to Grow My Business"
a self directed home workshop, a must for
every business owner
"Couples Unite" 12 workshops to support couples
who want an enriched and quality relationship.
On September 13 Laurie was inducted as a lifetime
member of the prestigious registry, Biltmore Who's
Who in Business. With only 133 Canadians in the
registry of 50,000 business leaders worldwide Laurie
feels honored to have been recognized in this way
for her work and challenges she overcame along
the way.
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2009: Invited to be cast in the film The Gratitude Experiment
along with Bob Proctor and a host of other mentors
Licensed to provide Certification Training and develop
workbooks and learning materials to support the The
Opus and subsequent films produced by Doug
Laurie developed her at home workshop mini series
and plans to publish 100 titles to complete the set.
Added a men's magazine to her line up of publications
to be revived and launched in 2010.
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2008: Invited to become part of the professional team of
speakers who provide presentations for the Continuing
Education Department of Clemson University, South
Carolina. Laurie has traveled to 18 major cities in the
US to share her message of empowerment and
communication.
Family repsonsibilities and grandchildren moved Laurie
from Nova Scotia to Alberta Canada.
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2007: Laurie becomes a talk show host on World Talk Radio
and broadcasts globally for a year. Her shows are
still archived and available for listening.
Laurie celebrated her birthday 07/07/007 and
considers that a pivotal time in her career and life.
Published Women of Wisdom Magazine and took it to
the World Holistic Health Conference in Toronto,
March 2007 where she was also a featured speaker.
Laurie reinstates herself as a member of the
National Speakers Association.
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2006: Published and launched the second edition of Kids
Kronicle, an empowerment magazine for children.
Laurie traveled to Taiwan to share her workshops at
which time the PEP™ program was translated into
Chinese.
Later in 2006 the program was translated into Spanish.
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2005: Graduated a group of 6 women from inner city Halifax
who turned their lives around with the gift of the PEP
Program, funded in time and money by Laurie.
Laurie submitted an article to be published and was
one of 3 Canadians to be featured in Walking with the
Wise Entrepreneur along with Donald Trump,
Dr. Deepak Chopra, Chuck Norris, Suze Orman
and other celebrities.
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2004: Laurie expanded her product line by authoring two
sister programs, PEP™ Finance helping us to change
our beliefs about money and PEP™ Wellness to
empower us to take responsibility for our health.
Also she began to market 21 Days to
Happiness, a self directed workshop.
At this time to meet the needs of her visually impaired
clientele, Laurie records adaptive learning materials
so they could actively participate in her on line
workshops.
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2003: Laurie spent this year redefining herself
and her business. She describes it as a year of physical
and emotional recovery from harsh legal and financial
set backs of which she now knows were part of
her continued growth and development.
Laurie makes her way to California to begin mentoring
with Mark Victor Hansen, co author of the
Chicken Soup for the Soul Series.
She would make 3 more trips in all to learn how
to effectively market her own product line.
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2002: Laurie authored a 10 week process for parents,
teachers and all caregivers of our children called
"10 Ways to Build Confident Children",
aka PEP™ Parenting
Laurie begins to professionally record her teachings
on CD.
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2001: VOIP, voice technology became available and Laurie
embraced this opportunity to take her workshops
internationally.
This technology is commonplace today and is still used
each day to deliver the workshops Laurie has created.
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2000: PEP™, Personally Empowered People became licensed
trademarked and registered with Industry Canada.
The Aboriginal Healing Foundation purchased the PEP™
Program for band members of Big Cove First Nations
in New Brunswick, Canada.
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1999: After a season of broadcasting live on The Golf Show
with CHUM radio in Halifax, Laurie is invited to submit
a proposal for her own show which she successfully
acquires. The show is later syndicated to the
sister station in Vancouver BC. At this time
Laurie also provides a professional live talk show
for the band members in Big Cove.
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1998: A 30 acre retreat centre Brentwood,is purchased and
Laurie hosts clients, events, healing circles and
workhops for the next 4.5 years.
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1997: Laurie authors the PEP™ program, a program that
has been running successfully for 13 years.
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1996: Laurie returns to Nova Scotia after spending 2 years
on the west coast where she sought mentors and
support in an effort to create her own product line of
personal and professional development programs.
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1995: Entrepreneurial Excellence, 150 hours of education for
those wanting to have their own home based business
was a project that Laurie became passionate about, as
she continued to grow as a business owner.
Loving Leadership vs Controlled Management was yet
another program she took to market. She created 150
hours of training materials to support those wanting to
become effective leaders.
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1994: The Road to High Places, becomes Laurie's first
workbook to be published. This is a weekend retreat
that later became part of the Camp Davis Series of
workshops.
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1992: Laurie with the support of her husband Ron
opens her doors for business.
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1991: Laurie works as an Image Consutlant for the Dylex
Corporation, one of nine across Canada.
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1991-1980 Beauty Consultant and top producing Senior
Sales Director with Mary Kay Cosmetics.
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1984-1970 Classroom teacher and during the last five years
of her tenure Laurie served as a vice principal of
her school.
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Hope you enjoyed reading about some of
what Laurie has achieved in her adult lifetime.
We know she has only just begun!
