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Clients
utilize Mary’s speaking skills and topics in a variety of
formats: as a keynote speech, breakout session, half-day seminar, full-day workshop, or a
series of monthly or quarterly continuing education meetings. Titles are flexible and
content can be combined to fit your meeting theme, objectives, and time frame.
MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION
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NEW
PROGRAM:
Staying
Inspired Through Challenge and Change
Dealing with challenge and change is a given in today's world. How
well we respond to that challenge and change determines our success
or failure. Discover what successful people do to keep themselves
inspired, energized and creative on a daily basis. This program will
help participants:
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Identify the five major unconscious energy zappers that lead to
mediocrity and failure and how to shift to inspired
action
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Maximize the Law
of 17 Seconds to increase inspiration and enthusiasm in times of
frustration and more importantly, despair
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Learn a dynamic
four-step process to transform thinking patterns from what isn't
wanted into what is wanted
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Practice three
strategies that lead to remarkable results in business, with clients, family, and personal performance.
Click here to listen to an
mp3 excerpt of this program
This is a powerful,
interactive program to get people back on track, thinking with a
leader's mind, and inspiring them to take on new challenges and
impending change with enthusiasm.
Call (888) 600-3421
or email Mary Marcdante for more
information and to discuss your upcoming event.
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Lead and Live
with Enthusiasm
Enthusiasm, however you define it, is at the
core of all success. Whether you're hoping to achieve a big dream, heal your
body, find peace of mind, influence a client, push for a promotion, derive
more pleasure from your community or church, or have deeper committed
relationships with those you love, enthusiasm can help. Strengthening
people’s "enthusiasm muscle" keeps people mentally and emotionally fit and
raises morale at work and home. Based on Mary's new book, Living
with Enthusiasm.
Participants will learn:
The secret to waking up
with enthusiasm and keeping enthusiasm alive even in the most difficult
of times
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How to beat the blues, shake out
the cobwebs, and raise their energy within sixty seconds
Five critical reasons why
enthusiasm is important
Six characteristics of enthusiastic people
Seven strategies to keep
enthusiasm alive during challenging times
Highly interactive, informative, and
entertaining. Great for an opening keynote or breakout session.
If you're involved in an industry dealing with
aging issues, view this PDF file to see how Mary successfully adapted this program to
"Aging with
Enthusiasm." File includes a testimonial letter and
article used for a virtual conference following the
real-time
conference. real-time
conference.
Lead and Live
with Enthusiasm
can also be titled to fit your theme, objectives or audience. Examples:
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Leading with Enthusiasm
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Serving with Enthusiasm
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Managing with Enthusiasm
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Building Your Business with Enthusiasm
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Volunteering with Enthusiasm
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Nursing with Enthusiasm
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Healing with Enthusiasm
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(Your theme) with Enthusiasm
Click here for
more information
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APPRECIATION/COMMUNICATION
I'm So Glad You
Asked!: The Power of Appreciative Communication
Appreciative communication is the single most powerful tool we have to
create what we want in life and help others create what they want. Words can
move people forward or hold them back. This information-packed program
inspires people to go beyond small talk, create more connected and
meaningful conversations at work and home, and talk comfortably about what
is most important to them. This is a highly participatory, insightful and
inspiring in-the-moment program and audiences loves it!
Whether
they’re communicating in person, by phone, or online, participants will
learn:
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The secret
to sustaining powerful, positive self-talk
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Three
strategies to build rapport and get people to listen
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The four
appreciation styles and how to appreciate different personalities
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The
different ways men and women appreciate and what to do to make both feel
valued
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How to turn
criticism into useful feedback and positive action
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How to
recover from a verbal blunder
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The
six-step power praise system for getting better results with others
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Gain
invaluable ideas and insight on how to use gratitude to build stronger
relationships at work and home
This is a
great keynote, and even better, a half-or full-day seminar or retreat for
team-building, customer service, and personal development.
If
you're involved in healthcare, Mary can adapt this program for
better patient, employee and physician satisfaction.
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STRESS MANAGEMENT/LIFE BALANCE
Press Any Key to
Continue or Quit...
Technology is designed to increase our
productivity and improve our health. Vacations are meant to rejuvenate us.
Project teams and flex time are implemented to avoid burnout and strengthen
relationships. So why are U.S. companies spending over $200 billion
a year to treat employee stress? One of the key reasons: Lack of daily
positive reinforcement. This life-saving, interactive, and fun program gets participants making immediate
and lasting lifestyle changes during the program.
Participants will learn:
The secret to maintaining balance
How to immediately turn confusion into clarity and action
Three techniques to manage information
overload in less than five minutes
Four communication strategies to deal with
stressed out co-workers, bosses, and family members
Five practical and enjoyable ways to create
and sustain personal change on a daily basis
A great keynote or breakout session to help
balance a highly technical meeting, conference, or convention.
HEALTH &
WELLNESS/LAUGHTER
Let Your Laughing Heart Lead
the Way
This inspiring and delightful
program demonstrates the powerful relationship between laughter, health, and
success. Research shows that Heart Disease is the number one killer of men
and women. Cancer accounts for nearly one-quarter of deaths in the United
States, exceeded only by heart diseases. Depression affects 19 million
people annually and the numbers are increasing every year. Research also
shows that a daily dose of laughter and joyful emotions can help prevent
these diseases, relieve the stress associated with living with these
diseases, and increase overall health, happiness, quality of life and
longevity. A great program for Heart Health events.
Participants will:
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Experience the power of
simulated laughter to reduce stress.
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Explore the latest research
on laughter and its impact on heart disease, cancer, and depression and
how to apply it immediately to their daily lives.
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Discover the five laws of
abundant heart-healthy living.
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Take personal responsibility
for creating joy on a daily basis and shift negative energy.
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Learn how to create a
laughter club and laughter team at work, home and in your community.
They'll talk about this one for
a long time! A great keynote or breakout session to energize participants
and create more fun and connection at your event.
Click here
for more information on "Laughing Heart" and a brochure you can print for
your committee.
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NEW
PROGRAM FOR 2007!
Turn Stress into Success with The Smile Diet
This program combines the best of Mary’s research and
programs on stress, communication, appreciation, and laughter along
with the real-life success stories of people who did the 21-Day Smile Diet, and took action to change
their lives, creating unique and remarkable results for themselves,
their families and organizations that anyone can duplicate for
greater happiness and health. Based on Mary’s book, Living
with Enthusiasm: How the 21-Day Smile Diet Can Change Your Life.
As one Science
Fair Judge wrote in the LaGrange (IN) News about 9-year old
Tiffany's family experiment with The Smile Diet, “I think this
would be a great county-wide experiment for everyone to do.”
This is an inspiring, entertaining program that has
audiences thinking, laughing, and taking positive action.
Great for
Chamber of Commerce, Women’s Health Keynotes, and Community
Networking Events. If you’re planning a Girlfriend’s Weekend
Retreat, this program can be a full-day or 2-day event.
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WOMEN'S
HEALTH / RELATIONSHIPS
My Mother, My Friend
Thousands of
questions and 400 personal interviews later, it became clear to Mary Marcdante
that health is the number one topic most women need to talk about with their
mothers -- and most often avoid or overlook -- followed by nine more topics
including money, aging and
death and dying. My Mother, My Friend is based
on Mary's book by the same name and gives women the skills, confidence, and
language to talk about these important issues positively and gracefully.
Participants will learn:
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Two powerful
words and four questions that will open the door to a new way of
relating between mothers and daughters
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The ten most important topics
to talk about that are often overlooked or avoided through the years
including health, money, aging, resolving conflict, and end-of-life
issues
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Seven proven steps to strengthen,
heal, and celebrate the powerful and complex bond between
an adult daughter and her mother
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Three powerful communication
techniques to support each other in making healthier choices
A perfect keynote program for
Women's Health and Leadership Conferences, Appreciation Luncheons, Holiday
Brunches, Mother's Day, and Valentine's Day. Or create a special
Mother-Daughter event for your organization!
Click
here to view or download pdf brochure.
Variation of this program:
My Mother, My Body, My
Self-Image
Click
here to view or download pdf brochure
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WOMEN'S CONFERENCES
If you are planning a WOMEN'S CONFERENCE Mary will
customize her topic areas, programs, and titles specifically for your women's group. Or
ask Mary to create a new program just for your group. Clients utilize her dynamic programs
for HEALTH, LEADERSHIP, and BUSINESS conferences. Check out her life-changing
keynote based on her book, My Mother, My Friend: The Ten Most Important Things To Talk About With Your
Mother.
CUSTOMIZED PROGRAMS
If you are looking for a ONE-OF-A-KIND PROGRAM
ask Mary to create a
presentation unique to your organization's culture and communication or personal
development issues. Applauded for her research and interviewing skills, she will create a
highly personal and memorable experience for your participants that gets them involved and
keeps them connected long after your meeting is over.
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