My Ignited Experience! Part 1: Tony Robbins :D

So every year, the company that we are partnered with throws a big International Convention in Salt Lake City. They have won several Stevie awards for Best Live Event. Every year, you wonder how are they going to one up this year. At the 20th Anniversary convention, they gave every single one of us attending ipads so we could share the truehealthassessment that they came out with! This year, Tony Robbins headlined the star studded cast of speakers, along with Brendon Bruchard, Jen Groover, Denis Waitley and Dr. Oz!

Since it is over and you can't attend it this year, I thought I would share highlights! (Let me know if you would like to attend next year!  Literally 3 days worth of amazing training for $239.) So, I'll share in the order I experienced it...

He spoke from the stage...

and then got down into the crowd!

So Friday morning started with Anthony Robbins and an unusual 90 minute seminar (if you'd like to do his 50 hour seminar in Dallas October 23-26, 2014, let me know & I may be able to get you special pricing!) We had donated $10 to The True Health Foundation for seats right on the floor in the Celebration Zone for this session and wow, were they worth it! When Tony Robbins came out, you could feel the excitement! We all have the potential to electrify a crowd like that - he shared with us a couple of things to help us be able to do that!

It all starts with a Strategy - a Plan - a System. Call it what you want - it's like laying out the tracks for the rail road, the highways for cars. You must build a brand. And then, Do more for others than anyone else does consistently! We must overcome our fears and concerns and share what we have to offer. Reality is the key - you must first believe in yourself and all that you offer and then others will follow suit! When you have this set, you know where you are going and it is easier to get others to see it too! 

Ahhhhhhhhh....wooh! :D

We must put ourselves in peak state. This helps us to become a greater influencer. Before meeting with someone, get your mind set and the rawness of enthusiasm and passion will carry you through any mistakes you might make! Think of when you are in love - Nothing is wrong - all is right in the world - you'll do anything for that person! This is a great peak state to be in! (So right now, stand up and jump up & down and scream WOOOOooooOOOOhhh! for 10 seconds. Yes, even if you are in Starbucks! You will meet some great people who want to know what you are reading! Now, how do you feel - incredible, right!? If not, do it again until you do and quit being so hard - have fun! We only get one chance to do this life - let's do it right!) On a sheet of paper, draw a line down the middle - now, take a minute and write down all the emotions you feel daily - positive on the left and negative on the right - Go! How many did you get!? Is there a balance of emotions - interesting, huh!? See what happens the next time you have a meeting and put yourself in Peak State first! There is magic in it! :D

So what is your story? We must share our story to connect with others - it is important that we are clear what our story is to truly share it! Our story is our Vision - our driving force that lights the way to our desires. De-sire at its Latin roots means "Of the Father." So take time out and make it crystal clear so you can have uber-focus(my word for it) to your destination of success!
What is your limiting story? You know the one! The one that keeps us from living up to our true potential. Our reason for not achieving the things we want to but just never get around to. Write it down right now - this blog does not time out. DOdooDOdoDOdooDoo DOdoDOdoDO-doDOdoDOdo DOdooDOdoDOdooDoo-DO-do-DO-do-DO-do-DO duhnduhn (yes, this is totally the Jeopardy music, but if you need more time, take it - this is important!)
NOW, are you ready for this!? Ready or not, here it comes...
Divorce the limitations you set on yourself! Focus on what you do want and Let it Go - Let it Go! the limitations, that is! This is going to take lots of action, focus - get really clear on what you want in life and Go For It! Do it with emotional intensity and WIT - Whatever It Takes - attitude! All the while giving yourself and others grace as God gives us! If you fall, and we most definitely will a couple times, we just get back up remind ourselves of the purpose and vision that we have set before ourselves and go until we are there. It's all about our passion that we put into it!

Here is the Success Cycle: The more we live to our potential --> the more apt we are to take action --> and get results which builds --> belief in ourselves and others belief in us which creates certainty, thus us living more to --> our potential and --> so on and --> so on...-->!

  

People respond to certainty! & Perfect practice in mind = no failures - it's always better! Before you talk to someone rehearse it in your mind and set it! Before you know it, that certainty will come easier and easier! But, we have to get started. Don't let fear get in the way of you living your best life!

Anthony Robbins in motion behind me! Woo Hoo! :D

The Quality of Our  Life = The Quality of Our Emotions

So, daily I am applying these lessons I learned and I hope you will too! I am also doing the intensive in October in Dallas and I can't wait to see where I will go from here! My goal is to empower people to be their best selves - I focus on the physical, but will never get anywhere if the mindset is not there for change! I am working to incorporate this into my nutrition and wellness programs! Together, we can make a difference!

And, since I have gone long with Tony's part, I am going to make this a 2 or 3 parter! No regrets - I have shared what needs to be shared! I'd rather this all sink in than share more...till next time,

Go and Live with Passion! ~ me and Tony Robbins

The Marilyn in Me...the last 1/2 of my life so far!

Being Marilyn

My Headshot (my Norma Jeane phase)

     So people ask me all the time, "How did you become Marilyn Monroe!" Well, it goes way back to when I was little and all these guys would lean down to me and say, "Do you know that your mother looks like Marilyn Monroe!?" Well, at the time, I didn't even know who she was, but my mom looked like her - she must be beautiful!

     As the years went by and I was living in my passion of performing and singing, I was working at Disney World and Universal Studios came to Florida, putting a big ad in the paper  looking for look-alikes with Marilyn, of course, being one of them. I told my husband at the time that I thought I could be Marilyn! I don't think he believed me, but I think that made me even more determined! I went and bought pictures of Marilyn and taped them to our bathroom mirror. I bought a blonde wig and wore this really fun white dress I had with fringe! I was so committed to looking like Marilyn and I did catch their attention with my look! I even made the newspaper with some other gals wanting to be Marilyn! It's in a box somewhere - before everything was digital! :D

Performing with "Elvis"

     At the audition, they asked,  "Wow, you look great, but do you know anything about Marilyn Monroe?" Woah, I hadn't thought this all the way through. "Uh, well, I know she was a sex symbol and she sang Happy Birthday Mr. President to JFK."  They laughed. "Well, we need you to know a little more than that! At Universal Studios, you will be walking the streets, meeting everyone, and we want guests to feel like they are really meeting Marilyn Monroe. There will be fans of hers that will know a lot about her and you need to know how to respond to them so they feel like they are meeting the real thing! We love your look and would love to have you study her and come back in a month and re-audition."

     Yea! So I totally immersed myself into Marilyn Monroe! Every day, I watched a movie with her in it and I read books about her life and worked on speaking like her. One of the best lessons the gentlemen at the audition shared was to get the "essence" of Marilyn - that this was the most important part. So my mirror got some more work out - speaking and moving my lips the way she did. I learned that she was self conscious about her teeth from something an agent once said to her, so it made sense why she moved her lips the way she did, trying to hide her teeth! Poor thing! She was so self conscious. But she was determined to not let anything get in her way of becoming a movie star! (I told you - I immersed myself!) I drove my ex-husband crazy (still not believing in me - thus the ex attachment) with my new Marilyn obsession. Another great lesson learned: I became, like her, determined to make this happen and worked tirelessly at it to achieve it! What a gift! :D

Me & friends in the Universal Studios - Florida souvenir book

     So the big day comes and I audition and the one question that I remember them asking me was, "What is your favorite present that you ever received?" So I answered with the first thing that came into my head. "I remember one Christmas getting an orange from my foster family and I carried that orange around all day with me - it was so special to me." They stopped and asked, "Did that really happen?" I replied, "Yes!," and they said, "Okay, don't go that deep! We want the happy, effervescent Marilyn - the one that everyone perceives from the screen." I learned my second great lesson from them. People want happy - they want to be entertained and have a good time. Brilliant - it has helped me to be a true entertainer all these years!

At an event with the Rotel's Hot Tomatoes & members of Jerry Lee Lewis' band

     I got the part and have been being Marilyn for 20+ years! It is the greatest blessing! I have done hundreds of fun parties and events and met thousands of amazing people. It is so energizing to constantly meet new people! I get to do what I love: sing and make people happy! What an amazing thing to get to make people feel really special when Marilyn sings, "Happy Birthday Mr. President!" I was even the featured picture in People magazine with the review for the show, The Next Best Thing! Talk about a great week: I got remarried (to a man who really believes in me) on 7/7/07, honeymooned in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and had my picture in People magazine. Maybe we should have gone to Vegas!

The article in People - Check out their caption - Ha! :D

     To date, I have outlived Marilyn almost 12 years and my secret is taking care of my health - my job depends on it! I am currently writing a book to share the Marilyn I have come to know over the years and insights that I have learned through Being Marilyn - my title. It has been such a great gift to represent her and I want to share the lessons I learned along the way that have shaped me into the woman I am today - even without my blonde wig and white halter dress, I still can hold a room! I want to share these insights with other women and share the beautiful, misunderstood, witty, woman that Marilyn Monroe was that most don't know! I will also share Tips to Try at the end of each chapter to help women come outside their comfort zone and be their best self - confident and free to be sexy, vibrant and everything that was fun about Marilyn! Life is to be enjoyed - we all take ourselves a little too seriously, like me and my answer of an orange - as my favorite present!? What was I thinking!?

Pic from a birthday party - one of my favorites!

with the fabulous David Born as "Robin Williams"

  Live, Laugh & Love 

Notice,

in all 

these 

Marilyn

pics, 

I am

smiling!

SMILE!

It makes you very attractive!

     So years ago, I threw out the idea of writing this book, and I have been saying that I am doing it for years. I went to a mastermind meeting yesterday and got inspired! Be bold & Step through Fear is my takeaway from this meeting! (I highly suggest getting into a Mastermind group - We are the average of the 5 people we hang out with!) Marilyn stepped out of her comfort zone and once again, so shall I - look for my book - coming soon! Wait, I have to really declare it. Thanks Kerry Sheppard. Okay, here it goes. Coming February 14th, 2015! What a great Valentine's present! Wish me luck! :D

For more pictures, video & booking information, please go to 

http://www.gigmasters.com/Magic/Marilyn-More