“I am in this for the long game, I love the support I get from other women and I have met some wonderful ladies who are like me and just moving their companies forward. I don't have an expectation that everyone or even anyone in the group will do business with me, I do have an expectation that if I need a sounding board, I have a solid group of women who have my back and will be honest with me. I have a group of women who if I have a question or a resource need, someone will know where / who to contact and the referral will not be a skeezy sales person - it will be someone who is trust worthy and will do well by me (eg: not rip me off). I believe in mentoring, giving back and making sure we support each other. If I get any business on the side from this - awesome - so I'm probably not the average joe with expectations that this will bring me double the business, etc - but this group fills a great need that is out there - women supporting other women in succeeding in thing goals and dreams. Love what you and Darla are doing - keep doing it!” -Lydia Dahl
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“November 2014 was the first meeting I attended with Womanition at the Four Points Hotel on 75th street and 63rd Ave. in Edmonton. Since that day, my life has never been the same! Shortly after meeting with Dorothy Briggs, I became the facilitator of the Leduc Womanition Connect Group. I have been running the Leduc group since February 2015. February 2019 marks the beginning of my 4th year as the facilitator for the Leduc Womanition group. When I first saw a Womanition Magazine, I was determined to find a way to be featured in this beautiful, professional magazine. I have now been featured in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and am about to be published once again in the 2019 issue of the Womanition Magazine. It was actually through a client of mine that I became introduced to Dorothy Briggs. I had been carrying a copy of the 2014 Womanition Magazine around in my briefcase. One day when we were working in my client’s office, she asked me if I knew about Womanition? I pulled out my magazine from my briefcase and said, “Do you mean this Womanition?” She agreed and of course I wanted to attend the next meeting in Edmonton! That’s where I met Dorothy Briggs for the first time. I have received greeting cards in the mail from people congratulating me for being featured in the Womanition magazine. These people are not in the magazine. They don't even live in Edmonton! The first time I was featured in the magazine, my credibility shot up so much that I had 14 ladies come up to me and ask for my services. I will run the Leduc Womanition Connect Group and be in the Womanition Magazine for as long as I live in Alberta...not that I am planning to move any time in the future. Being part of Womanition has had a positive effect on my life. I will forever be grateful to Dorothy Briggs for believing in me enough to allow me to manage the Leduc Womanition group. As for business, most of my business comes through Womanition now. Yes, I still get clients through LinkedIn itself, but now it is 70% from Womanition and 30% from LinkedIn. Womanition has taught me so much about business and how to do business, as well as great people skills. Dorothy is truly inspired as a visionary for her Womanition business. I love her forever for being my friend and for loving me back.” -Christine Till
