Coffee became lunch,as two busy women tried to find the time to chat & catch up. Patsy Anderson, Organizer/Promoter of the Award-winning Women’s Expo in March 2015 www.womensexpo.com is my choice for being grateful that she’s in my life!
We had lunch at Olde Mill Cafe-super Savannah chicken salad sandwich which we shared. I’ll let Debbie explain what is on the sandwich, 4 Frederick Road before Ellicott City, Main Street. I plan to return!
Patsy is busy helping others design and plan their Expo. Patsy’s CEO of www.womensexpoforum.com
& Six Figure Woman is a part of that business-she is a Concept Designer & will help any business’ bottom line.
We caught up with each others lives and businesses. What else are two entrepreneurial friends going to chat about? Our transitions taking place in our businesses. Patsy is a Trainer for CEOSpace. I shared how I need to drill down my niche. Patsy gently suggested midlife women with challenges/disabilities often in transition as an entrepreneur…
The confidence people with challenges/disabilities is needed to gather the courage to step out of their “comfort zone”. I believe they can start/grow their business. I thought about it-it really was the determination to never give up that make
some great entrepreneurs! This is a survival struggle now…The skills honed by having a disability are perceived to be a weakness, a hindrance to success, when that determined, never-gonna quit attitude sustains the business/company!!
In Abundance!
Marcia Merrill, m.merrill9@verizon.net
AKA The Transition Chick!
About transitionchick
Having literally reinvented her career (and redefined her goals and herself) many times over, Marcia Merrill has definitely earned the title of being known as the Transitions Chick!
Before she answered her true calling, namely coaching, she was a Staff Analyst for a consulting company; a Resource librarian; and taught English, Spanish composition, and English as a second language in all levels of schools, from elementary through to doing substitute teaching during her graduate schooling.
Her fervent desire to continually learn and explore different avenues led her to obtain two Masters degrees, the first in Bilingual/Bicultural Education and Instructional Systems Development from the University of Maryland, and the second in Counseling Psychology from Loyola College, Maryland.
Marcia draws upon not only her solid academic background and her 25+ years as a Career Counselor/Coach, but also her own personal transitions that she has weathered and emerged from victoriously. She definitely ‘walks the walk and talks the talk’ and her primary objective is to help women achieve the level of contentment and success they desire from their life and their career or business. Whether it’s transitioning from an entry level position to an executive manager, changing jobs to realize their hopes and dreams, to learning how to cope with the setbacks that life in general sometimes throws at us, Marcia always applies her caring and creative problem-solving skills to her clients.
Her mission statement, “Fall in love with your LIFE & your work (and in that order!)” shows how Marcia prioritizes her life, and her clients easily achieve the same balance in their lives from her superb coaching skills.
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