February The Month of Love

Hi Love!

Let's begin February by celebrating the best female leadership news we have heard so far. While everyone is prepping for Valentine's Day ,lets focus on all of leaders that are paving the way for women worldwide. Did you know:

1. Soyeon Yi is Korea's first female astronaut. ( Leading women in aeronautical engineering)
2. Supermodel Tyra Banks and The Honey Company Founder Jessica Alba are going to host Celebrity Apprentice.   ( Leading models/actors that want to transition into being a mogul)
3. Female Leaders in Latin America will lead the world ( Leading women in business) 
4. Leslie Berland has become the new Chief Marketing Officer for Twitter. ( Leading women in social media)
5. Rihanna's album is now #1 on itunes (Leading a new wave of music and art)

-- Love Rae

Conquering Work Wear with Julian Chang

Hi Love!

Quick tips for conquering work wear. 

Start with basic one-piece wonders, such as wrap or sheath dresses like our Beena dress. With a conservative scoop neckline and textured finish, it pairs perfectly with a tailored blazer and classic pumps.If you work setting is more casual and creative opt for a turtleneck dress and flowy and printed vest like our Ariana, which pattern is bold but not over-bearing. Pair with dainty earrings and solid leather tote for a comfortable and completely chic look. So as much as it may take you to pull yourself out of bed after a long weekend, let your looks motivate you to be the star of the office, without outshining your actual work of course!

Want an up close look of the Beena Dress and a few of my favorites check out the links below.

1. Beena Dress
2. Farah Dress
3. Jane Romper
4. Ariana Vest
5. Flora Top

To get a hold of this dress and more, please visit:  http://www.julianchang.com/


-- Love Rae

Driving Change with Anastasia Zamyshlyaeva

Hi Love!

What does the fall of Communism and the crumbling of the Soviet empire have to do with the newest generation of enterprise ‘data-driven applications’ and the modern data management Platform as a Service (PaaS)?

Ask Anastasia Zamyshlyaeva: Her earliest memories date back to the collapse of the USSR, a time when long-held habits were being crushed, and survival took patience and dedication. And while weathering constant changes and challenges, it was also important to think big.

Those characteristics serve her well in her current role as VP Product Management, Platform, at Silicon Valley standout Reltio. Here, she oversees the strategy and roadmap of the Reltio PaaS, which helps companies turn data into knowledge assets. In the process, it shatters the old beliefs that IT must combine multiple technologies to manage different types of data, and that business users must purchase standalone tools to do their own analysis. For the record, her background includes extensive experience in big data and enterprise software, including the design of core components of the Informatica Master Data Management (MDM) tool. She’s also conducted research in distributed graph computing.

While all technology goes through constant transformation, the primary driver of most changes now is data. Mastering this dynamic field—while keeping the long view—requires a unique blend of skills, experience and temperament. And it’s how Anastasia drives change.

-- Love Rae

Odd Mom Entrepreneur Out: Eliminate Guilt, Grow Your Business and Elevate Your Life

Hi Love!

Co-Authors Demote Phrase 'Mom Entrepreneur' in New Book, Available Feb. 2

Best-selling Author Rachel Olsen and co-author Flesché Hesch explain why the trendy term is outdated and provide tips

for starting a business, managing family and building a support system in 2016

Two women are on a mission to eliminate a phrase that yields 15 million search results on Google: mom entrepreneur. Rachel Olsen, Founder, Best Mom Products digital magazine and Flesché Hesch, Business Consultant and Founder, The Bizy Mom announce the release of their co-authored book, Odd Mom Entrepreneur Out: Eliminate Guilt, Grow Your Business and Elevate Your Life available on Amazon.com Feb. 2, 2016.

This collaborative book -- which encourages a shift in the family and work support system so that mom entrepreneurs are simply entrepreneurs -- includes insights of 11 business influencers and provides how-to steps in starting a business and managing family. Topics include:

Motherhood:

• Time Management Tips
• Money and Marriage
• Financial Planning
• Self-Care
• Get Your Body Back after Baby

Business:

• Accountability
• Create Information Products (i.e.) books, online courses
• Evaluate Mom Friendly Businesses
• Identify if your Idea is Financially Viable
• Create buzz through Public Relations and Social Media
• How to get into Retail Stores

“The name of the book came from the reality of where we are in society with accepting moms in dual roles of running a successful business and family,”shares co-author Flesché Hesch. “By drawing attention to it, we hope to make the phrase mom entrepreneur obsolete in the future while acknowledging how support systems must change in order to have happy, healthy and thriving families.”

According to the National Women’s Business Council, the number of women-owned firms has grown 68 percent since 2007, compared with 47 percent for all businesses.  

“With celebrity mom entrepreneurs Jessica Alba paving the way with The Honest Company, Reese Witherspoon starting Draper James and movies like JOY showing the realities of what it takes to start an empire and manage family, we are now seeing that reflection in mainstream media,”adds co-author Rachel Olsen.

Book Contributors Include Business Experts:

Colleen Arneil, PhD, Founder and Course Instructor, ColleenArneil.com

Erin (Cox) Day, Hayhouse Author, One Hot Mama: The Guide to Getting Your Mind and Body Back After Baby

Liz Goodgold, Celebrity Commentator and Branding Consultant, Redfire Branding

Mindee Hardin Harp, Juicebox Mom Consulting and Inventor of Boogie Wipes

Mary Ellen Juetten, Founder, TrakLight IP Software Platform

Elena Lipson, Self-Care Lifestyle Coach, ElenaLipson.com

April Perry, Co-Founder, Power of Moms + Learn.Do.Become.com

Ali Schiller, Founder and Coach, Accountability Works

Mary Beth Storjohann, CFP and Founder, Workable Wealth

Odd Mom Entrepreneur Out is available through online retailer Amazon.com starting February 2, 2016 in hard copy for $6.99 and ebook for $4.99.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

RACHEL OLSEN is a well-known media and marketing strategist, Amazon bestselling author of the Barbara Corcoran endorsed book Shark Tank MOMpreneurs Take a Bite Out of Publicity, and Founder of the entrepreneur magazine Best Mom Products.  She lives in San Diego with her husband and two daughters.

FLESCHÉ HESCH, MA is known as the Business Advisor for Moms and the founder of the TheBizyMom.com where she teaches women how to successfully launch and grow lucrative businesses that put family first. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and 2 sons.

Buy it now on Amazon: Odd Mom Entrepreneur Out: Eliminate Guilt, Grow Your Business and Elevate Your Life

-- Love Rae

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU Announces Alienware and Killer Networking

Hi Love,

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU Announces

Alienware and Killer Networking as Presenting Sponsors

for “The Art of Video Games” National Tour’s Final Stop in Miami

─ Organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum ─  

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU announces a new partnership with Alienware and Killer Networking as Presenting Sponsors for The Art of Video Games exhibition in Miami (on view Jan. 23 - April 17). This will be the public’s final opportunity to experience the exhibition, with Miami serving as the final leg of its national tour which originated at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. and included showings in New York, Seattle, Phoenix, Ohio, Michigan and Tennessee.

The opening reception is free and open to the public on Saturday, January 23 (4-8 p.m.) at the museum, located at Florida International University (10795 S.W. 17 Avenue, Miami, Florida 33199). 

“We at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum are honored to partner with Alienware and Killer Networking for The Art of Video Games exhibition,” says the Director of the Museum, Dr. Jordana Pomeroy.

“As Presenting Sponsors, their generous support continues a legacy of engagement with Florida International University and has enabled us to feature an exhibition at the Frost Art Museum that exemplifies how creativity shapes and drives technology,” adds Dr. Pomeroy.

(Pictured - Dr Jordana Pomeroy, Director of the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU)

“By teaming up with Florida International University’s Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum for The Art of Video Games exhibition as Presenting Sponsors, we have another great opportunity to be active in the community that is at the heart of Alienware,” said Frank Azor, General Manager of Alienware. “It was almost 20 years ago that Alienware started in Miami and even though we’ve evolved to a global community of gamers it’s great to have this incredible exhibit conclude in the South Florida community that’s been so instrumental in our success.” 

(Pictured - Frank Azor, General Manager of Alienware)

-- Love Rae

The Art of Video Games

Hi Love,

The Art of Video Games is one of the first major exhibitions to explore the 40-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking graphics, creative storytelling and player interactivity. The exhibition features some of the most influential artists and designers across five eras of game development, from early pioneers to contemporary designers. Video games use player participation to tell stories and engage audiences. In the same way as film, animation and performance, video games are a compelling and influential form of narrative art.  

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, 2006, Shigeru Miyamoto, Executive Producer; Eiji Aonuma, Director;
Satoru Takizawa, Art Director; Eiji Aonuma, Satoru Iwata, Producers, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo of America, Inc.

Alienware and Killer Networking are actively involved with the Miami presentation of this exhibition, including through a showcase of their most impactful and innovative solutions that have been a shaping force in the history of PC gaming.

Alienware has long been a leader in the PC gaming space with a nearly 20-year track record of gamers developing solutions for gamers.

Some of the most iconic gaming PCs in history bare the Alienware logo and many will be on display in a separate installation during the run of the exhibition.

Similarly, Killer Networking has set the standard for consistent and reliable connectivity, a well-earned reputation bestowed by countless gamers and a valued component to many Alienware solutions.

More About the Exhibition 

Video games are a prevalent and increasingly expressive medium within modern society. In the forty years since the introduction of the first home video game, the field has attracted exceptional artistic talent. An amalgam of traditional art forms - painting, writing, sculpture, music, storytelling, cinematography - video games offer artists a previously unprecedented method of communicating with and engaging audiences.

New technologies allow designers to create increasingly interactive and sophisticated game environments while staying grounded in traditional game types. Five featured games, one from each era, are available in the exhibition galleries for visitors to play for a few minutes, to gain some feel for the interactivity. The playable games (Pac-Man, Super Mario Brothers, The Secret of Monkey Island, Myst and Flower) show how players interact with the virtual worlds, highlighting innovative new techniques that set the standard for many subsequent games.

The Smithsonian American Museum invited the public to help select the video games in this exhibition. A pool of 240 games was selected by the exhibition’s guest curator, Chris Melissinos and an advisory group consisting of game developers, designers, industry pioneers and journalists. More than 3.7 million votes were cast by 119,000 people in 175 countries.

Rez, 2001, Tetsuya Mizuguchi, producer; Jun Kobayashi, director; Katsumi Yokota, art director and lead artist,
SEGA Dreamcast, © SEGA. All Rights Reserved

The Art of Video Games is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum with generous support from the Entertainment Software Association Foundation; Sheila Duignan and Mike Wilkins; Mark Lamia, Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk; Rose Family Foundation; Betty and Lloyd Schermer; and Neil Young. The C.F. Foundation in Atlanta supports the museum’s traveling exhibition program, Treasures to Go. 

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About Alienware

Alienware products are designed for gaming and can be identified by their science-fiction-themed designs. Established in 1996 by Nelson Gonzalez and Alex Aguila, Alienware assembles desktops, notebooks, workstations, and PC gaming consoles. According to employees, the name "Alienware" was chosen because of the founders' fondness for the hit television series The X-Files, which also inspired the science-fiction themed names of product lines such as Area-51, Hangar 18, and Aurora. The company's corporate headquarters is located in The Hammocks, in Miami, Florida.

About Killer Networking

Rivet Networks is the owner of the Killer Networking family of high performance products, designed to be the benchmark for all superior system networking standards. Through its line of products, Rivet delivers unprecedented speed, intelligence and control for gamers and performance users alike. The company and its employees share a strong passion for high-performance computing and the gaming industry and are dedicated to driving continued innovation and new products in the market. 

About The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University opened its current 46,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art building in November 2008. Admission to the Museum is always free. The Frost is an American Alliance of Museums accredited museum and Smithsonian Affiliate, and is located at 10975 SW 17th Street, across from the Blue Garage and adjacent to the Wertheim Performing Arts Center. Hours of operation are Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. and Sunday noon - 5 p.m. Closed on Mondays and most legal holidays. For more information, please visit thefrost.fiu.edu or call 305-348-2890.

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU receives ongoing support from: The Steven and Dorothea Green Endowment; the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor and the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners; Agustin Venero and the Venero Family; The Miami Herald; and the Members & Friends of The Frost Art Museum. 

-- Love Rae

Love Incorporated: The Business of Doing What You Love

Hi Love,



Available on Valentine's Day (February 14) is Love Incorporated by Jennifer Noel Taylor.

Love Incorporated is a guide for anyone that feels stuck in a mundane job that has little meaning. If your life feels more like a treadmill than an expression of your passionate heart-centered calling, Love Incorporated will help you tune into what your Heart is really telling you.And what happens after you jump off the treadmill to pursue your true calling... Do you still find it difficult to make ends meet?

Love Incorporated will show you how to overcome the unique challenges involved in creating a life doing what you love. In the book, Jennifer describes how she discovered her life mission and took a Leap of Faith. She quit her high paying job as a Software Developer and pursued her true calling. She thought she had displayed such great courage to follow her Heart, so she was surprised to discover that things did not flow very well! She was not prepared for the sheer amount of challenges involved in trying to turn her true passion into a business! After quitting my job and following my passion, I thought I would be rewarded with instant success. Boy was I wrong!

Through many setbacks and “learning experiences” (i.e. mistakes) she made some discoveries about how to actually be successful doing what you love. Years of study, trial error, self reflection, and working with mentors, kept leading her back to the same place...

Everything she discovered could be summarized by the Four Key Insights that make up this book. These insights are a guide to creating a business (and life) doing what you love! You don’t need to sacrifice your passion, Spirit or Integrity to have an abundant business.

And in fact, doing what you love is actually instrumental in creating success! 

May this book inspire you to follow your wishing heart and live your true calling!

Jennifer graduated from Cal Poly (San Luis Obispo, CA) with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science and a Minor in Philosophy. After graduation, she started her first job as a Software Engineer at a big company in San Diego. Like so many people, she felt incredibly trapped and depressed at a job that paid the bills but didn’t speak to her passion in life. I constantly suffered from “a case of the Mondays,” this weighty sense of foreboding at the beginning of each work week.

Even though she was incredibly bored at her day job, she started pursuing her true passion at night: massage school! She studied massage at the International Professional School of Bodywork, Esalen Institute in Big Sur, and the Maui Academy of Healing Arts.

While working on people, she started to feel the “energy fields” emanating from people. She became fascinated by energy healing and studied various energy healing modalities including Reiki.She met Richard Gordon, the founder of Quantum-Touch, at his lecture on Maui. She fell in love with the vision of Quantum-Touch and received a very clear message from the Universe that Quantum-Touch was her true calling. Shortly after she met Richard, she quit her job and took a Leap of Faith. She finally followed her Heart. She took over as CEO of Quantum-Touch in June 2002. When you are following your Heart, doors will open almost magically.

She has dedicated her life work to helping people discover the healing power of their Love. She strives to integrate spirituality and business by implementing business practices that include spiritually rewarding jobs, loving spiritual service to the world, environmental responsibility, and financial abundance. Quantum-Touch has grown from a small United States company to an international Corporation with a community of  over 50,000 people. 

Here's the trailer: Love Incorporated 

-- Love Rae