In keeping with Client Show & Tell & reveling in receiving a brand new iMac (webcams & imovie & photo booth, oh my!),  Alexandra Franzen kindly agreed to be recorded for a Grown-Up Gigs video interview! I got to ask her all about what led her from breaking free of the cube to creating a super Renaissance Soul career (”Writer / Editor / Organization Freak”), why she gave notice without knowing what the heck she was gonna do (& why it worked for her!), the rewards & challenges of  growing up in a non-traditional family (her Mom was an opera singer! her bro is a saxophonist!) & why she’s blowing up right about now.

Also, I wrote a When I Grow Up jingle which is at the beginning & end of this video (and – let’s face it – probably every one I do in the future). So many reasons to watch & enjoy!

Grown-Up Gigs with Michelle Ward & Alexandra Franzen from WhenIGrowUpCoach on Vimeo.

You can visit Alexandra by heading over to her website, reading/commenting on her blog, or tweeting her up. She doesn’t like Facebook, though, so don’t look for her there. You won’t find her.

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I realized last week that this past Saturday, the 19th, marked 3 whole months as a Woman of the World / full-time creative career coach / jailbird from Corporate America. I can hardly freakin’ believe it (I think May went by in about a day & a half), but it’s true. Here’s a summation of what’s been rockin’ & what’s been less rockin’ since then:

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The second Law of Attraction video is up on Spring, along with a giveaway! Enter by 12p Eastern today for your chance to win a Bring Your Own Sunshine print (aw).

Get Danielle LaPorte’s Nuggets of Genius in your own home, on your own time.  The Digital Firestarter Sessions from my “cult leader” are taking the Interwebs by storm!
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Yup. I’m video happy.

Ever since I got such an incredibly amazeballs response to my video announcing the scholarship winner, I’ve gone a bit nuts. I created a YouTube channel complete with Nancy the Ballerina Nurse & Bruce the Strumming Businessman (those are my logo people) as the wallpaper, & made a video for each group coaching session I’m offering to my scholarship applicants. And no, you can’t see ‘em if you’re not a scholarship applicant (if you are, the link’ll come with my personal email)- they’re hidden because YouTube is cool like that. But what you can see is an About Me video I made for the scholarship applicants, but realized I didn’t need to keep it private. Since there seem to be a lot of new peeps here lately, I put on my Genius Cap & the lightning bolt hit: put it on my blog! Here it is:

If you wanna keep your eyes on/subscribe to my channel, it’s right here.

Please feel free to let me know a bit more about you in the comments section. Also, let me know if it’s too damn long. God forbid I talk for under 8 minutes. Jeez Louise Louise.

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I have a feeling that you know who I’m fighting , so say it with me: Vampires!

Since my last day at my day job on March 19th, I’ve been feeling like I was on vacation. Not sit-around-in-my-pajamas-eating-Bon-Bons vacation, but my-work-doesn’t-feel-like-work vacation. I was wondering when I would start feeling like I wasn’t on vacation, & when The Blahs came upon me & wouldn’t leave, I took out my camera & fought for My Purpose.

Please ignore both my opening expression (honestly, I think Vimeo searches within the video & finds the least flattering freeze frame) & the cardboard box with the hole in it behind me. You were so not supposed to see that.

Fighting for my Purpose from WhenIGrowUpCoach on Vimeo.

Wondering what I’m doin’ with my first week as a self-employed woman of the world? Let me tell ya about it!

It’s Soul Week (& I’m Resisting the Hell Out Of It!) from WhenIGrowUpCoach on Vimeo.

And here are the links that I refer to/promised ya in the video:

• Jess LC’s Makeunder My March series
• Kelly Rae Roberts talking about Soul Camp, which was my inspiration for Soul Week
• My Simply Fearless Fempreneur coach, Cassandra Rae

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This week has been a roller coaster, but once I thought I was at the bottom I was shot back up to the top again. In that instant, I made this video.

Spoiler alert: I don’t cry, but I almost cry. Through the whole damn thing. So it almost adds up to a real cry. Please don’t ask for a refund.

How to Really, Truly, Deeply, Honestly, Thoroughly, Trust (& Become an Optimist) from WhenIGrowUpCoach on Vimeo.

Yes I did.

I’m going to be a full-time creative career coach when I grow up, which will specifically be on March 22, 2010.

Cue the tears sobs of gladness (did you expect anything else?):

I Quit My Job! from WhenIGrowUpCoach on Vimeo.

I did something scary last week! Wanna hear about it?

Turning Molehills Into Mountains & Back Into Molehills! from WhenIGrowUpCoach on Vimeo

If you wanna see the challenge that started it all / Jess LC’s awesome bullying, click here.

(And yes, I changed from a Flip video to a Photobooth video & still can’t get a decent freeze frame to start the video. It’s my curse. I’ve accepted it. Let’s all move on).

HEEEEY YEEEEEWWWWWWW GUUUUUUUYS! (Sorry, I had to have a Goonies moment – please excuse me. And please don’t tell me if you actually clicked on the link. It would make me feel old)

The 2nd episode of Spring is up today! In this installment, we focus on intentions, goals & resolution – the differences between them, why some work (& others don’t!), & how to bring more of the good stuff into your life. There are some really concrete, awesome exercises in here, if we do say so ourselves! And I say that I’m gonna put my money where my mouth is & post the letter I wrote to Future Michelle on New Year’s Day up here tomorrow. If you don’t know what the heck I’m talking about, watch the video & you, too, can steal Jess LC’s incredible idea!

My intro video is up on Spring today & will be front & center on the homepage until next week! Drop by & hear me talk about My Story along with why it’s important to find The One Thing That Gets You Out of Bed. I’d love your eyeballs to view it, your ears to hear it & your fingers to comment on it! If your mouth is left out, then give it some leftover ham. That’ll make it happy.

Our January installment will be up the week of the 4th, & will contain a juicy hour of talk on intentions, resolutions, & goals along with a great freakin’ giveaway (seriously, I’m pissed that I can’t enter). We taped this weeks ago & I’m still inspired by all the gems (& clarity!) that Jess LC, Jess & Carolyn threw out there. You won’t wanna miss it, so mark your calendars & come on by!

OK, but come by now though to watch my intro video. Man, I’m needy!