Anna Weselak

As an educator and a teacher with a Masters Degree in Education, Anna Weselak brings to the training field her experience in education, business, and non-profits. Through leading an active life in community and volunteer organizations for over thirty years, Anna has strengthened her leadership skills and knows the importance of interpersonal relationships, teamwork and effective communication.

Weselak runs her own consulting business, Weselak & Associates. She holds seminars, classes, and workshops for a variety of businesses, agencies, and organizations. She has been recognized for many of her accomplishments including: Lombard Woman of the Year, listed in six editions of Who’s Who, an Illinois School Board Association Those Who Excel Merit Award, and The Business Ledger Annual Achievement Award and their Most Influential Woman in Business Award. She is a past president of the Illinois PTA and past president of the National PTA. She was named an Outstanding Alumni of Northern Illinois University from the College of Education.

As the CEO of Weselak & Associates, Anna heads a national company servicing a diverse client base by customizing seminars, workshops, and classes to meet the individual needs of each client while being focused on each participant in every class and seminar.

Anna Weselak
Weselak & Associates
aweselak@weselak.com
www.weselak.com
630-889-0626

“Saying Yes One More Time”

The focus of this chapter is on how to blend active community involvement with entrepreneurship to reach levels of achievement that I never expected to reach. I started my own business to enable me to have a flexible work schedule that allowed me to spend time with my family and the opportunity to continue my involvement in volunteer organizations that give back to my community. Taking on leadership positions in a variety of organizations has strengthened my business and satisfied my thirst to be a leader by just saying”yes” to new opportunities to make this a better world for everyone.

Joyce Klaver

Thirty years have passed quickly since establishing a profitable student housing rental company with my wonderful husband and two sons. This expanded into a management company with our oldest son to ultimately take over the reins leaving me time to ponder my place in the scheme of our planet. My desire to help and inspire other women who  have also put their personal dreams on the back burner was the leading force changing the direction of my own life. To that end…or beginning, I took a leap of faith and became an accredited life coach, timeline therapist and hypnotherapist in my mid 50’s. Now I’m able to do what I’ve always dreamed of doing! That is encouraging others to overcome their personal obstacles and to find their true value with coaching and women’s empowerment seminars.

I’m passionate to feed the often repressed hunger of my “sisters of the heart” struggling to make their own changes however big or small.

Joyce Klaver
Joyce.Klaver@yahoo.com
Clear-Horizons.com

Late Bloomer

There was a time I believed that my most magical days were behind me. A deeper, more insistent part argued that I had much to offer. My journey, inspired by the wonderful women who’ve led the way grounded me with the fortitude to push on. This story (our story) shows how we wonderful, feminine souls band together, connecting our pearls of wisdom as each of us strive to become what we’re meant to be.

Christine Merrill

Partnering with clients to help them achieve their health and wellness goals. When someone chooses to commit to be healthy, their lives change! Whether it’s through massage therapy, diet, exercise, supplements or all of the above it’s a thrill to help figure the best course for their needs. Christine Merrill graduated from Massage Therapy School in 2002 with honors. Since graduating, she has completed over 120 hours of continuing education credits. She has added a certification in Lifestyle Education, so that health coaching can be incorporated into her business, Christine Merrill Health. She taught Massage Therapy for 2 and a half years to over 80 students. She is a member of ABMP, is nationally certified with NCBTMB, and is licensed in the State of Illinois. Christine is also certified as a therapy dog handler, volunteering at local hospitals in the Chicago area. Christine, a mother, raised two children. She has led woman’s Bible Studies over the years.

She loves to exercise and lives a healthy lifestyle. Being with her family is one of her greatest joys. She enjoys riding on the back of her husband’s Harley. Spending time outdoors, working in the garden, taking a walk with her dogs, being near water, dancing, sharing laughter and soul conversations with friends, reading a good book, listening to great music, spending time with God, learning something new, cooking a meal for others and serving others are all things that excite her.

Christine Merrill
Christine Merrill Health
Christine@merrillhealth.com
merrillhealth.com/
630-750-6238

Finding my calling through faith

A story of how my life and my career evolved through passions, heartache, struggles, prayer and joys. Detours, blessings and changes when I least expected.

Mihaela Marcusanu

Dr. Mihaela Marcusanu is a Professional Life and Mindfulness Coach who helps extremely busy people slow down and un-burden themselves, thus living lives they can’t wait to get up in the morning for. She coaches from the heart using intuition and creativity, with the added benefit of a very diverse life experience and a strong problem solving background.

Besides coaching, Mihaela offers seminars, workshops, and retreats. She can be reached for inspirational speaking engagements on work/life balance, living a happy and authentic life, and mindfulness (mindful work, mindful life).

Mihaela is the Founder of “Yes to Happiness” – a company with the mission to serve the human potential by being a catalyst for people’s growth through self-awareness and self-leadership.

Her blog (at www.mmarcusanu.com), as well as her poetry books, express her own personal and spiritual growth over the years. She is an avid reader, always ready to open the next inspiring book and learn something new to pass on.

Mihaela Marcusanu
Yes to Happiness
happy@mmarcusanu.com
www.mmarcusanu.com/
224-619-2776

Journey to Happiness

It takes a baby a long time to walk, and in a similar way, it takes an adult a long time to learn to first hear, then to follow and surrender to the beat of her own drums.

This is a story of traversing the deep dark forests of lost meaning to find my own inner clearings; it is my journey back home, back to my true self, hidden under so many heavy layers.

Deborah McPhee

Deborah McPhee is an Independent Beauty Consultant with Mary Kay Cosmetics, specializing in grooming corporate women for over 17 years. She recently received her BA in Business from DePaul University in Chicago. She can usually be found attending teddy bear tea parties with her two granddaughters. In her spare time, she volunteers with victims of domestic violence. “I want every woman to know the warning signs. Even in a happy relationship, you should always have an exit plan. Hopefully, you will never need it.”

Deborah McPhee
Mary Kay Cosmetics
Deborahmcphee@gmail.com
www.marykay.com/dmcphee
312-533-1994

Choices

The choices we make shape our lives, and we have to live with them, whatever they may be. My story takes us through the day I was kidnapped and how I escaped. What choices I made in my life got me to that day as well as the choices that I have made for a successful recovery.