Meeting Location & Time

MOM'S INC. is now WOMEN BALANCING BUSINESS! New name, same great group! Please visit our new web page to see what's happening starting in June 2015:


Thanks for your interest...we look forward to meeting you!

PLEASE NOTE NEW MEETING DAY AND LOCATION:
Mom's Inc. Silver Spring Chapter meets the 3rd TUESDAY of every month from 10:00 AM until Noon at:

The Olney Library, 3500 Olney-Laytonsville Road (Rte.108), Olney, MD 20832 in the Small Meeting Room.

Mark Your Calendar (topics and speakers are subject to change)

COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT in honor of Mother's Day:
Baby Shower - we will collect baby items at our May and June meetings to donate locally for new mothers needing a little help to bring baby home! Please bring your unwrapped contributions for baby boy and girl layettes - onesies, receiving blankets, pacifiers, crib sheets, etc. Mom's Inc. will provide the diaper bags to fill with your donations.

Speakers List

  • 5/19/15 - Guest Speaker - Sheila Martel, Producer, Writer & Mentor and Member Spotlight - Annette M. Bergmann, Realtor - Berkshire Hathaway Home Services, PenFed Realty

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Member Presentation - Dec 18 - Susan Kirk

Networking is not a dirty word!

In today’s fast-paced world, everyone is trying to get our attention.  So how do we stand apart?  How does our message get heard?  Creating meaningful connections is one way to make that lasting impression. 


Come hear a piece of my journey as a woman, wife, mom, cancer-survivor, business owner and world changer.  You will hear how networking changed my business, my life and those trapped in slavery around the world.

Susan
Susan Kirk
Shop For Freedom Manager
Justice Ventures International
240-338-1592

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Nov. 20th Speaker Intro - Tara Bryant - Barter System

Did you know that the age-old practice of barter continues to contribute to billions of dollars in commercial transactions each year? In today’s challenging economic environment, business owners are realizing that conserving their cash is a smart and necessary way to protect the future growth of their company.

Instead of purchasing the items you need or want with cash, joining an established barter trade exchange gives you the ability to make these purchases with trade dollars that have been earned by selling your company’s product or service specialty or excess inventory or production capacity to other active barter members.

Speaker:

Tara Bryant
Trade Broker

Originally from Buffalo, NY – she comes to Barter System with 15+ years of professional experience in Sales and Service. With an extremely well rounded set of talents obtained from her education in Business Administration from Buffalo State College and more practical hands-on skills obtained from diverse employment with Fortune 500 and International companies ranging from Lucent Technology to Elsevier Science. She is professional, prompt and enjoys helping clients reach their professional goals.
 

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Nancy Daniel - Remembering the Vision & Creating the Future



Founder, Moms Inc. - Nancy Daniel


For those of you who couldn't make it yesterday to Nancy's service, it was a moving ceremony.  We learned so much about Nancy - her love and support spread wide and deep beyond we could ever know.  She backpacked through Europe by herself in her early twenties, raised 2 kids on her own through her thirties and forties, and she received a master from Brown University but dedicated herself to help business moms succeed.

The last long conversation I had with Nancy was about her vision behind Moms Inc.  As we are the only chapter that still operates, I intend to carry on the torch and try to continue Nancy's vision, one that saw many of us through thick and thin while building our business and family.

Please join me for a visionary day to start setting the course for Moms Inc. on Wednesday, November 20th.  The regular meeting starts at 10 am with a speaker from Barter Systems, but we will wrap up at 11 am.  We will then have a pot luck lunch to exchange thoughts and ideas about Moms Inc.from 11 am to 1 pm.

Please let me know if you would like to attend.  I can be reached at Yihung.Mohs@dreamdinners.com

Thank you, and enjoy every minute - good and bad, happy or sad.  See you in a few weeks.

Yihung
President, Moms Inc. Silver Spring




Thursday, September 5, 2013

How Can Group Buying Sites Work for You? Jamie Ratner - CEO of Certifikids Share the Secret - September 18

You can make the most amazing product in the world, but if nobody knows about it, it won’t sell. Marketing your business can be both challenging and expensive. As a small business owner, finding creative ways to reach your customer is key. The daily deal sphere can be a great tool in your marketing efforts, if you know how to successfully work with these sites.

CertifiKid is a leader in the family-focused daily deal market. CEO, Jamie Ratner has built this business from a kitchen table idea into a bi-coastal success, and gained a wealth of information along the way. She will share how to successfully use daily deal sites as a marketing platform for your business, no matter what your business is.

A lifelong expert in finding a great deal, Jamie started a blog as a way to share her tips and find a little “mom time” for herself. After months of curating savings for her readers, it became clear to her that none of the deal sites were focusing on what families wanted or needed. While she would love a massage at half off, she doubted the spa would welcome her two toddler entourage. Literally at her kitchen table, the idea for CertifiKid was born. Build a daily deal site that took care of families, while helping support local businesses too.

Three years later, CertifiKid is multimillion dollar business, employing local parents and supporting small businesses in eight cities from coast to coast. CertifiKid has helped millions of families save, and thousands of small businesses earn, money. Jamie considers it part of her mission to help small businesses find successful ways to work with deal sites.

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Jamie Ratner

Certifikid LLC, CEO & Founder
Your Playground for Great Family Values
website - email - facebook - twitter - press

“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising” ~Mark Twain

Monday, August 5, 2013

Twitter as a Marketing Tool - Melanie Spring - Aug 21

Do you tweet?  Do you tweet for marketing?  Do you tweet effectively for marketing?

Inspiring others to do big things drives Melanie Spring, Chief Inspiration Officer of Sisarina, to grow businesses through teaching them how to do their own marketing. With a background in marketing along with skills in web design and development, she puts a lot of care into listening to her clients. Building her 4-year-old business through connections on Twitter, Melanie knows how to take an online platform and engage it even offline.
www.sisarina.com

melanie spring

Sisarina : get branded.chief inspiration officer
240.479.9743
www.sisarina.com
@sisarina & @melaniespring

Saturday, June 8, 2013

June 19 - Speaker Bio

Whether you are an entrepreneur, new in business or seasoned, a business owner or manager, you make dozens of decisions each day.  Many of those decisions must be made without the benefit of extensive data or analysis. Decision-making is a crucial leadership skill.  Using research results from interviews with more than 60 leaders in the public, private, academic, nonprofit and political sectors, this program uncovers leaders’ secret skill for success. Both men and women leaders agree.  Intuition is their most valued and unrecognized skill.  Leaders know how to turn down the noise and turn up their insight to make better decisions.  The program includes practical, proven steps to demystify decision-making.
  • Learn the factors that go into decision-making
  • Deepen your ability to sense and understand people
  • Learn to assess context by looking up and out
  • Develop self-awareness by clarifying values and triggers
  • Discover your ability to listen to and trust your intuition
  • Find ways to talk about intuition in the workplace
Shelley Row, P.E., describes herself as a “recovering over-thinker.”  Shelley is a professional engineer with 30 years in the industry of which ten years were as an executive in the federal government. She is an award-winning leader and sought-after speaker. At the peak of her career, she and her husband took a year off to live in France; the culmination of a long-term goal.  She is the author of three books about their life abroad. Her research on intuition and leadership started when she learned to think less and live more. She transformed from a woman engineer to a woman executive, from setting goals to achieving goals and from having a dream to living her dream.

Today, Shelley is the President and CEO of Shelley Row Associates LLC.  Shelley provides leadership development programs and executive coaching in decision-making, intuitive leadership and goal achievement. Shelley is an ICF coach-in-training.

Follow Shelley on Twitter @shelleyrow

Sign up for Shelley’s newsletter on her website: www.shelleyrow.com

 

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

May 15 Speaker Bio - Sherrie Borden

Be More Successful with Positiveness and a Smile!
 
How Energy Leadership™ Can Create More Energy for You and Your Business
 
presented by Sherrie Borden

Understanding how important the integration of physical and emotional health are to personal and workplace well-being, Sherrie Borden partners with clients from all backgrounds and circumstances to find and achieve career and life transitions and balance with purpose and integrity. Sherrie motivates clients to discover and achieve their true potential, facilitating the transition from negativity and stagnation to positive energy and success.
 
Sherrie’s positive attitude, extensive knowledge, and expertise in networking inspire her clients to develop meaningful goals for themselves and take significant strides to reach those goals. Recognizing that a strong coaching relationship is a partnership, Sherrie provides a safe, secure, and confidential environment that makes it easy for individuals to discover their true passions, the next step in their career, or achieve a more balanced and healthier lifestyle.
Sherrie is a certified Energy Leadership Index™ Master Practitioner. Energy LeadershipTM is the process that develops a personally effective style of leadership that positively influences and changes not only yourself, but also those with whom you work and interact, as well as your organization as a whole.
 
A Certified Association Executive, Sherrie has worked for a number of health care nonprofits and is also a past president of the American Academy of Physician Assistants. She earned her master’s degree in public health policy at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.
Sherrie’s coach training is from the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching and she is a member of the International Coach Federation.


Sherrie Borden, CAE, CPC

Energy Leadership Index™ Master Practitioner

202-390-9301




Wednesday, April 10, 2013

How to Market Effectively at Fairs? April 17 Rountable Topic

Moms Inc. has signed up for a table at Celebrate Mama in Rockville (11 - 4 on April 27), so all members are welcomed to bring in flyers and business cards for display.  Meanwhile, if you have marketed your service at a fair, you know there is MUCH behind just showing up to make it a success.

Linda Quinones is an independent Director with the Pampered Chef. She has been with the Pampered Chef for 18 years and has trained over 100 new consultants to start their own Pampered Chef businesses. She attracts new customers through vendor events. She will share her expertise on selecting a vendor event, and how to make the most of the event, before, during and after. 

Kathy Kitts is the Founder & CEO for NeuGrowth - Center for Brain-Training.  She will bring
a different angle to this topic: why get a vendor table at an event at all? And how to make your money back even before the event happens.

For the past 24 years, Kathy has been involved in creating brain stimulation programs for babies and kids. She has also created classes and summer camps for kids in places like The Smithsonian Associates, Maryland Science Center, and The Levine School of Music. She enjoys speaking to groups about her experiences. She started applying the programs with her own two kids, now 24 and 19, who benefitted enormously. Her latest offering is an after-school program called GlobalKids! where kids “visit” countries around the globe, trying on traditional clothes, sampling food, learning songs or dances, and doing some art projects while practicing a few words in the language of that country. Ms. Kitts also offers seminars and workshops to corporations and nonprofits.

Additionally, Kathy has a new radio program called, "The Resilient Brain,” which airs Saturdays at noon on Perfect World Network Radio. You can listen in by going to www.PWNradio.net/search/KathyKitts. That has been a lot of fun! Ms. Kitts is currently learning about TV production and plans to one day create a television show for parents of babies and preschoolers.

 Ms. Kitts earned a degree in Behavioral and Social Sciences and Microbiology from University of Maryland. She learned about the brain and very early learning at The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential, in Philadelphia, PA. In addition to her two sons and husband, she has a Jack Russell Terrier named Skippy, and 3 cats.

She hopes to continue spreading the word about the incredible opportunities we have to help our kids, and the incredible potential all babies have!

Come join in the roundtable discussion with your questions and input!

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

March 20th Member Presentation: Marsha Smith on "SuperWoman Syndrome: I’ve Fallen but I’ll Get Myself Up, Thank You!!!"


MSS Concierge of Maryland, LLC
MS. MARSHA SUGGS SMITH 

Ms. Marsha Suggs Smith began MSS Concierge of Maryland, LLC in 2010 after her education leadership career, to help clients reclaim their personal time. "We want to 'make your life free and easy.'  No matter the job, we can handle your requests. "

“My demanding life as a wife, mother and executive, provided the management and lifestyle experiences that are so important to helping my clients." I was a team leader, educator and coach in Montgomery County Public Schools.  I was a local, state, national and international union leader traveling throughout the United State and the world.  I know how difficult it is to complete your ‘to-do list’.”

While at home, Ms. Smith was a typical wife and mother to her husband, Reynauld and their son, Husan.  “My nephew, Alex came to live with us at the age of 11, a critical age for any child.  Three males and me!  At one point, we even had a male dog.  So everyone pitched in to clean, cook and wash. 

Education was very important to us, so my husband, also a teacher, and I said, “If we go to work every day, the boys’ jobs are to work at school.”  And they did.  Both excelled as scholars, athletes and in the arts (music for Husan and drawing for Alex).  Today, Husan is in education and Alex is in the hospitality industry.“

Ms. Smith currently is a Second Vice Chair of the Montgomery College (MD) Board of Trustees and Vice President of Ivy Vines Charity, Inc., the Charitable Foundation of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Theta Omega Omega Chapter. She has a bachelor's degree in education from Tuskegee University, a Master’s Degree equivalent and an Advanced Professional Teacher Certificate. 

For confidential and professional personal assistance, you can contact Marsha at MSSConciergeofMD@aol.com or call 301-529-9003.  Check out our new website, http://www.MSSConcierge.com .

Friday, February 15, 2013

Feb 20th Speaker Bio - Ellyn McKay of CEO Vision

Ellyn has more than 25 years experience working with entrepreneurs in all aspects of business: strategic planning, human resources, finance, marketing and branding. She has developed a proven methodology that helps each business owner translate her vision into reality by creating a concrete strategy, organizational structure and high-performing staff.
Ellyn was also on the ground floor in working to strengthen women-owned businesses. In the early 1990s, she was instrumental in establishing the successful Washington office of the American Woman's Economic Development Corporation (AWED), the first organization in the U.S. to provide training and business counseling to aspiring and established women entrepreneurs.

She has been a consistent leader in working with women's businesses, playing key roles in the Women Presidents' Educational Organization (WPEO), the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) and the National Women's Business Council. In addition, she has provided management consulting and human resources expertise in the for-profit sector.
Ellyn graduated cum laude from Georgetown University with a degree in Psychology and earned a master's degree from American University in Industrial Relations.

Ellyn McKay
CEO Vision, LLC
www.ceovisionllc.com
ellynmckay@ceovisionllc.com
(301) 346-0090
Hope you'll follow me on Twitter: @ceo_vision

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Know When to Hold ‘Em or Fold ‘Em: How 5 Critical Support or Systems Decisions Can Keep Profits Flowing Rather Than Sanity Going - by Tassey Russo, Level Up Solutions


If only you had a business that ran itself, right? A lean, mean, efficient business “machine” that kicked out profits with so little of your hands-on involvement that you could refocus your time and energy on attracting more clients and bringing in more revenue.

Are you running your business or is your business running you instead?  You’re working hard and working long hours, your plowing through lots of information and how-to manuals, but your task list keeps growing and you feel a sense of overwhelm most of the time. It’s time to “hold’em or ‘fold’em” - to continue as you are, or decide to end the overwhelm and ‘rev’ the engine of your business profit “machine.”  

Join Tassey as she addresses how some critical decisions can be more easily made when you determine to manage your business to repeatedly deliver quality service and reliable revenue with a minimum of effort. Learn how to cast a critical “eye” on how work is getting done, and how to know what works or doesn’t work , and how managing your business can be approached differently so that business growth or success can be reclaimed  …  on your terms and with increasing profits.  

By Tassey Russon
Level Up Solutions
http://www.levelupsolutions.com/