My Symphony Of Life Ana

On this episode my co-host is my husband T.Mic! He’s heard throughout our other shows and this is his third time joining me on My Symphony Of Life. Let’s welcome him to the show! We’re going to discuss an article that we read on Positive family relationships linked to healthy marriages at http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/29041. This article caught our attention and on this episode we talk about our past, relationships with our parents and see how our past experience has prepared us for our relationship and our marriage. It’s a wonderful article that I do encourage you to read it. Based on my experience in the past, it is truly in my own symphony of life that we do at times carry what we’ve learned from our parent’s relationships to the current relationship. With that being said, relationships always have room for improvement to not only better ourselves as individuals but most importantly better our relationships. T.Mic and I will also continue this topic on the next show. T.Mic and I discuss our home remodeling that we have going on. We’re going to share what we’re doing to our house and please forgive us for the past pictures (floral wallpaper with floral carpet)…lol! =) We’re not only remodeling our house, we’re remodeling our lives both personal and in business. We thank you for being part of our journey.  We’d like to hear your response to the article and you can email us at feedback@audiosmaximus.com. Please join me in welcoming our featured guest Shannon Cunningham LeBlanc . She’s a Photographer, Travel Consultant http://www.paradisevacationescapes.com, Leader and successful female Entrepreneur. Let’s welcome her to the show! I’m so excited that I had the opportunity to sit and chat with Shannon at my studio! Shannon came on the show to share with all of us about the Woman’s Global Network and the chapter she started here in Baton Rouge, LA. It’s such an exciting time for all of us and I do hope that you continue your growth both in your personal life and in your business (if you have one). 

I’m Ana the host of My Symphony Of Life…. Welcome back! We’ve got a lot to catch up since our last post. First I’d like to start by saying Thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking the time to download, listen to our shows as well as voting for this show on iTunes. You are the reason why we do this! You are an integral part of our community and network. T.Mic and I were both sick for 3 weeks. We’re both doing a lot better! With the cold/congestion that we both had our voices were not up to par and the cold/congestion that had made us very tired so we rested ate light food and we’re both doing great! You see during this time we’ve been sick we’ve come to the realization for this particular show from the new season six and the break down of the different topics each week that certain topics bring more interest to you than other topics. We’d like to know if you’d like to hear more about crafting or diy projects. Know that based on the breakdown of the craft shows you do love this topic more than another topic. You see in my own symphony of life from when my nephews were at the age of two years old I’d come down to Louisiana to visit them during the summer. We’d do all types of craft projects, we’d sing songs, and go to the park. Throughout crafting my own symphony of life throughout my pre teen, teen, adulthood I’ve always incorporated crafts in my life whether it would be with my nephews, my bible study class in which I’d share a craft project with the bible study, crafting with kids I’ve babysat with to my own unique style of crafting techniques that I’ve learned along the way. It’s in crafting my own symphony of life that crafting has brought me joy, it has brought me closer to my family members, friends, it has brought me closer to kids to teach at their levels and it has brought me great joy to continue to teach and reach people at this level. So, with that being said crafting and DIY projects will be every other week. I feel I reach people on different levels and bring out their inner creativity in perhaps they didn’t know it was there all this time and perhaps they did know it was there and need that extra creative tug. That is why I am here! That is why I am here to revamp my symphony of life. That is why I am able to reach all of you. It’s a new creative vision, it’s a new creative noble purpose to live it will passion in all that I do…… most importantly for you to live it with passion for you to be the conductor you were meant to be in your creative life. I will also continue featuring guests such Entrepreneurs, Author’s, Life Coaches, Blogger’s, and Podcaster’s as well as empowering topics for your life in order for you as a person to grow. My featured guests that I have do share their own symphony of life on both personal and business levels that is great for you to grow as well on both personal and business levels (for those who do have businesses). I’m learning along with you by talking to them and having that interaction with them. This is why I’m able to reach you. It’s a new aspiration in life to better your self with knowledge, empowering yourself to better yourself as a person and business owner. It’s a mission to provide enrichment and education so that you can be the person you can be. Make the conscious effort starting today to be present for life’s moments. Making a decision that I’m going to make that step, I’m going to make a active choice to be who I know I can be. You are talented, its time to showcase them and it’s time for you to live this moment we have now with at true noble purpose today. If you’re unsure of your purpose, it’s my goal to help you with that based on our enrichment, empowering and education topics. Now to our featured guest! My featured guest is Renae Christine of Rich Mom Business! She’s the founder and author of www.richmombusiness.com. She has a wonderful vlog at youtube.com/renaechristine. She’s

Hello I’m Ana the host of My Symphony Of Life. Welcome back to another show! I’d like to take the time to thank you for listening to my symphony of life and allowing me to be part of your journey. This show is all about me helping people like you conduct your own personal growth by providing enrichment, empowering and educational topics in which you can grow in order for you to create your hearts desire and live with passion inside out. All of our topics do just that! Do you have a topic, that you would like to hear more of, would you like me to share more of your favorite hobbies, do you know someone that I should talk to on this show?  If you have a topic, show idea or a guest I should talk to, please provide the feedback by emailing me at feedback@audiosmaximus.com. I do look forward to reading your comments as well as responding to them as well. ! On this episode we’re going to share 2 crafts for you. The first one is a frugal craft Jar Craft To De clutter & Organize Kitchen Drawers by Kathy Penney over at Sparkles and a Stove. Her website is www.sparklesandastove.com. She was first featured on episode 29 and I do encourage everyone to go back and listen to that show at www.audiosmaximus.com Kathy Penney - One of my resolutions this year is to declutter my home and get organized.  The first room I am starting with is my kitchen because we use it every day. When my husband and I bought our house I thought how huge my kitchen was with all the cabinets and drawers (and it was compared to a little one bedroom apartment!) but 7 years and 2 kids later that kitchen seems a lot smaller! The drawers are stuffed  full of little gadgets, utensils, and odds and ends and it made finding what I was looking for seem like a prize in a scavenger hunt. I wanted an inexpensive storage solution to declutter and organize my kitchen drawers and came up with this easy inexpensive jar craft! (If you need help staying on track with your own resolutions check out this free New Year’s resolution printable.) To Get Your Craft On You Will Need: Ball, Mason, or Empty Pasta or Jelly Jars (as many as you need to hold the items from your drawers) Spray Paint (I used 2 colors for a variety and make sure the paint works on glass.) If you do not want to use spray paint you can use an all surface paint in a can with a brush or a glass paint such as the one by Coloration. All surface paints will adhere to the glass but can scratch so work best on decorative items such as the canisters. Ribbon (Again I used 2 to coordinate with the colors of the jars.) Embellishments (can be found at any craft store) Decals, Stickers, or Paint Pen to put sentiment (Optional) To Get Your Craft On: First I spray painted the jars in a bright blue and green to match my kitchen colors. It took about three coats for the jars to no longer be transparent. A reader suggested using a primer so that may reduce the number of coats needed. Once the jars were dry I measured the jar with the ribbon, cut it, and tied a ribbon around the neck of each jar. I used a green gingham to accent the blue jars and a green print with pinks, blues, and browns on the green jars. Next I hot glued these blue and green flowers from The Paper Studio to dress them up even more. I put the big flowers on the large jars at the base and the smaller flowers on the side of the small jars.  There are flowers, jewels, or you could even do polka dots using a small sponge. There are infinite possibilities to personalize the jars.  Finally I used my silhouette to cut out white vinyl letters saying “Choose To Be Happy”. I love the idea that for the most part our happiness is our own choice. I also thought the upbeat saying went well with the bright happy colors. If you want to do a message but don’t have a Silhouette, you can do stick on letters or even a paint pen. One of the newly organized drawers looked like this. Wow it actually closes now! And the jar craft that helped declutter and organize the

Hello I’m Ana the host of My Symphony Of Life. Welcome back to another show! I’d like to take the time to thank you for listening to my symphony of life and allowing me to be part of your journey. Do you have a topic idea, would you like me to share more of your favorite hobbies, do you know someone that I should talk to on this show?  If you commented or thought of an answer for all three questions, please provide the feedback by emailing me at feedback@audiosmaximus.com. I do look forward to reading your comments as well as responding to them as well. With all of my past guests I’ve formed friendships and with that being said on this show my featured guest is Claire Mitchell of The Girl Means Business. The Girl Means Business was created to inform, inspire and to show that there is a better way to do things. Claire’s www.thegirlsmeanbusiness.com. For all of you who have a business, you’ll l enjoy this show because Claire is going to talk about “Why Your Business Needs A Vision”. I’m also going to talk about Pinterest and your business. Let’s get started creating your own symphony of life. Pinterest is your business!!!! For our network visit us at www.Pinterest.com/audiosmaximus and for My Symphony Of Life, visit me at http://www.Pinterest.com/mysymphonyoflife To me Pinterest is all about the love of photo pinning and what I mean by that is it’s a photo sharing site in which you can create, categorize and collect all that does inspire you. Here's some information about Pinterest: For your business, It’s important to make that first impression by creating one powerful profile and what I mean by that is you need to add a quality picture of your company, share a little bit about your business, the companies social media sites, and the website as well. Note that you have 200 characters to make a strong first impression. Let’s make every word count! With Pinterest for your business it’s important to have strong visual “picture” content in order to make Pinterest a power house tool for your marketing endeavors.  Visual learners will love you for it! You maybe on other social media sites, which is great. However, with Pinterest you’ll be able to gain momentum with this wonderful versatile tool by perhaps run competitions, contests or sweepstakes. If you decide to run contest, make sure to define the goals for the contests, etc. Note, perhaps you can co-sponsor contests and cross promote. You’ll be able to create your own custom service/product board, rearrange, delete, have a group board (where you can invite people/mastermind group) and if you put a picture in the wrong board you can simple edit it and put it in the correct board it’s supposed to be in. Add a pin. I say Pin, Pin, Pin, by curating your pictures and organizing them in the boards that you’ve created.  Create content by always pinning! However, it’s important to pin strategically! As well as follow people strategically! With that being said, you can search key terms and follow those who do share the same interests.  Freeze Frame! You can upload a pin a picture you’ve taken from the sales meeting and in turn you can share the pictures taken from the sales meeting on the board that you’ve created. You can also create a private board in which you can invite people to. When describing your post in order to get the most views you need to put hashtags in your post. This will allow users to search for keywords within the Pinterest community. For example #audiosmaximus, #podcast, #blog, and #crafts. If you have products or services that your looking to promote, you need to put the $. What that does is when your in the description and you notate $1.00 or the amount of the product or service it will categorize the item under gifts. When you have pictures you can put a watermark in which will define that it’s your picture and also put your website or business name on it as well. It’s also a place where you can meet like minde

I'm Ana the host of My Symphony Of Life and welcome back! I’d like to take the time to thank you for listening to My Symphony Of Life. You are the reason why we do this! You are an integral part of our community and network. If there is a topic you’d like to hear more about or if you know someone who’d be perfect for me to talk to, please email me at feedback@audiosmaximus.com. If you missed episode 30, I encourage everyone to go back and listen to that show! Our last featured guest was Mary Kay Hoal. She’s very passionate in providing privacy and safety for children. She’s the founder and president of YourSphere Media Inc., publishers of the kids’ social network Yoursphere.com. Mary Kay is also the online safety expert who has created such an environment for children. It is the first of its kind online social network for children that focuses on fun, interaction, creativity and safety. I also encourage everyone to connect with her at all her social media sites to stay updated on what she has going on as well as information that she has for parent’s abroad. Remember to let her know that you heard her on My Symphony Of Life and let her know I sent you. Thank you! Get ready! This duo has been featured guests here on My Symphony Of Life before. They really don’t need introductions…. This show is all about expressing your inner creativity! Let’s begin conducting your Symphony Of Life! Mari McCarthy of Create Write Now will share journaling ideas as well as prompts. Her website is www.createwritenow.com. Kenn Nesbitt is a children’s poet and author of When the Teacher Isn’t Looking. He’s going to show us how to write Haiku poem. His website is www.poetry4kids.com. Get ready to be inspired!

 I'm Ana the host of My Symphony Of Life. If you missed episode 29, I encourage everyone to go back and listen to that show! Our last featured guest is a blogger, founder and author of sparkles and a stove Kathy Penney. I also encourage everyone to connect with her at all her social media sites to stay updated on what she has going on. Remember to let her know that you heard her on My Symphony Of Life and let her know I sent you. Thank you! This show is about empowering and educating parent’s by providing resources about Social Networking for their children. With that being said, On this episode I have the pleasure of talking to Mary Kay Hoal. I’m so excited to talk to her it’s because as a mom myself, it’s good to have these resources available so that I can teach my children instead of all what they might find on social media sites. I can feel good knowing that there’s a website out there that I can refer my children to. Mary Kay is very passionate in providing privacy and safety for your children. She’s the founder and president of Yoursphere Media Inc., publishers of the kids’ social network Yoursphere.com. Mary Kay is also the online safety expert who has created such an environment for your child. It is the first of its kind online social network for children that focuses on fun, interaction, creativity and safety. Mary Kay is going to discuss 5 ways you as parent’s can combat cyber bullying. She’s going to share some resources that you as parent’s can use for you children. Mary Kay is going to share her tips that she’s learned along the way in her entrepreneur adventures. Get ready! This duo has been featured guests here on My Symphony Of Life before. They really don’t need introductions…. The next show is all about expressing your inner creativity! Mari McCarthy of Create Write Now will share journaling ideas as well as prompts and Kenn Nesbitt is a children’s poet and author of When the TeacherIsn’t Looking. He’s going to show us how to write Haiku poems. Get ready to be inspired!