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Ladies Who Launch: Embracing Entrepreneurship & Creativity as a Lifestyle
Ladies Who Launch: Embracing Entrepreneurship & Creativity as a Lifestyle
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Authors: Victoria Colligan, Beth Schoenfeldt, Amy Swift
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Category: Book

List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars(25 reviews)
Sales Rank: 89461

Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1

ISBN: 0312359543
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.11082
EAN: 9780312359546
ASIN: 0312359543

Publication Date: May 1, 2007
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Ladies Who Launch is the first company to define the feminine approach to launching a business and to make the connection between starting a business and bringing creativity into your life with self-esteem and happiness. The nationally acclaimed Ladies Who Launch program has enabled thousands of women across the country to break out of 9-5 and thrive in entrepreneurial enterprises that reflect their true passions, skills, and desires. Located in more than 40 cities in the United States, the Ladies Who Launch incubators ? workshops that give women the support and encouragement they need to embark on making their dreams reality ? have inspired women to start businesses, grow existing companies, and tap into their creativity to develop essential services and products and enjoy the lifestyle of their dreams while doing it.

Available for the first time in book form, the 4-step incubator process, using self-tests, inspiring stories, and practical information, gives women the courage to dare to follow a cherished but unfulfilled dream. Through this unique program women are encouraged to
Imagine it ? allow a secret desire to come to lightSpeak it ? choose a dream to pursueDo it ? take effective action to make it realityCelebrate it ? revel in successes, reward effort, and be good to yourself along the way
Ladies Who Launch provides a proven approach to igniting a fire under a long-smoldering dream, have more fun, and catapult a lifestyle, relationship or occupation to an infinitely higher level.

?If you want to pop the lid off anything you ever thought you couldn?t do, shouldn?t have or couldn?t achieve, you?ve bought the right book. All the tools you need to ignite a fire under a long smoldering dream, catapult a lifestyle, relationship, or career to a higher level are right here. Women tend to think of dreams as bigger than themselves, pies in the sky, morsels of imagination saved for a rainy day?in other words, out of reach. Well, guess what? Ladies Who Launch will reprogram how you think about your dreams so that they are as real as the coffee you drink each morning. They?re real and they?re all yours! To be truly happy and inspired by the life you?re living, you can take steps to wake up and launch your dreams right now. It is time to start believing that you can have what you really want. With the help of Ladies Who Launch, you will.?
--Victoria Colligan & Beth Schoenfeldt

www.ladieswholaunch.com

VICTORIA COLLIGAN and BETH SCHOENFELDT, co-founders of Ladies Who Launch, created their company as a blend of on-line social networking and offline support system. The offline support system takes the form of Incubators ? inventive, supportive, networking workshops that take place in more than 30 cities across the country. They also act as a marketing, public relations, and distribution channel for the thousands of women who are members of Ladies Who Launch. They have been featured in women?s and business publications including Fortune, the LA Times, The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, Working Mother, and much more. AMY SWIFT has been a close and early collaborator with Ladies Who Launch as a brand communications strategist, writer and as the leader of the Los Angeles and Orange County Ladies Who Launch Incubators.





Customer Reviews:   Read 20 more reviews...

4 out of 5 stars Must Read For New Business Owners   January 6, 2008
  2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I found this book to bevery validating of my own journey starting my Business & Life Coaching practice a few years ago. Imagine it, Speak it, Do it, and Celebrate it, are simple ways to remeber the content. I encourage all my female clients in business to read this book.


1 out of 5 stars Not worth the time   December 29, 2007
  5 out of 10 found this review helpful

I found this book trite and a waste of time. There are much better books to consult. The website for Ladies Who Launch is also pretty much worthless, unless you want to read about the success of celebrities and such. Their organization isn't as wide-spread and helpful as they would have you believe.

I didn't find anything that was of help. And as others have mentioned, some of the language in the book was sickening.

I'm just not impressed.



5 out of 5 stars I wish Ladies who launch was around when I started my business 6 years ago   December 22, 2007
  1 out of 2 found this review helpful

Not only am I a LWL member in Los Angeles and am very grateful for Amy Swift and leader Jen Sincero. I bought the book and recommend it to all of my girlfriends that are frustrated in their overpaid corporate jobs. Hard to believe that the almighty dollar does not make for a women's happiness. Ladies Who Launch gives you the courage to launch from within, plan your exit stategy and first and foremost believe in yourself. Like I wrote above, if only this book and this nationally recognized networking group were around when I began my business, I would not have felt so isolated. The growing numbers of women that are choosing freedom in their hearts and their souls versus "working for the man" are and will reap what they sow. Like Alicia Key's sings "I am superwomen, yes I am" The LWL team Victoria, Beth and Amy and all the other leaders certainly are and if their isn't an incubator by you just yet, purchase this book and become a leader in your own area. I thought fashion moved fast, I think Ladies Who Launch might move faster.


1 out of 5 stars Disappointing and unoriginal   November 29, 2007
  12 out of 13 found this review helpful

This book is a complete re-hash of "you can do it" pop-psychology. It offered absolutely nothing new in terms of real concrete getting things done. The repeated references to "take time for yoga" and have parties to sell your products to friends is annoying.

The surveys and "studies" mentioned in the book are invalid in terms of how they were conducted; no marketing expert or sociologist would give them any credence.

The book appears to be a marketing tool for the author's own business, a franchise of Incubators which cost hundreds of dollars to join. Don't waste your money; the book itself is an advertisement for a poor product.




4 out of 5 stars Cool gift for lady entrapreneurs...   November 21, 2007
  1 out of 4 found this review helpful

Just gave this book to a friend who recently started her own business... the perfect gift!


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