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About Me

CV Of A Single Mom: 3 years: Sleep deprivation; Nursed: 18 months; worked 2 jobs (sometimes 3) for 18 years; cleaned the house," bought the bacon and fried it up in the pan;" cleaned some more, chauffered, taught him to ride a bike, throw a pot, swim, snorkel, hit a ball, use a computer, plant a garden, drive (that was harrowing!) Paid for piano lessons, flute lessons, drum lessons, violin lessons, karate lessons, private Hebrew Day School, his bar mitzvah, tutoring, child-care & day camps, Space Camp, FL; Got him his 2 heart operations, moved 1000 times; Traveled to Phoenix, Yosemite, WA, DisneyWorld FL, the Yucatan, San Diego, Oregon, Montana & more; introduced him to every type of ethnic food, environmental activism, people from all parts of the world, the importance of education and working for yourself.

Location:
United States, Spokane, WA
Current organization:
Garden of Lia
Current role:
Executive Director
Gender:
Female
Areas of expertise:
organic gardening/Permaculture, Network Marketing, Personal Financial Coaching and Counseling, Herbs & Vitamins
I am:
Activist, Educator/Teacher, Environmentalist, Foodie, Jewish, Life mentor, Marketer, Parent, Social entrepreneur, Writer/Editor
Languages:
English, Spanish
My website links:
Garden of Lia, My Fortune
Universities:
SF Art Institute, Sonoma State University , SF School of Massage Therapy

More About Me

I'm passionate about

Feeding people good healthy food, organic gardening, Food Not Lawns, recycling, residual income, working from home, being my own boss, life-long learning, solar-power, Garden of Lia & Fortune!

An idea worth spreading

There is enough food to feed everyone! Make love, not war! Outlaw sales of products in your town if you cannot recycle the packaging! Stop industrialized farming practices! Compost. FEED THE CHILDREN!

Talk to me about

ur garden, non-prof formation, grants, leading volunteers, how 2 earn residual income/work from home,$ growing edibles, food, soil, sustainability, alt. energy, Earthships, land for sale:CA, s.men 62+

People don't know that I'm good at

Writing (better than speaking), crafts, rocking babies to sleep, throwing pots (ceramics) pruning fruit trees, cooking, helping people start a home-based business, mentoring, teaching, brainstorming.

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    A reply on Conversation: Which are the 3 most important qualities of a leader?

    Jul 30 2011: Integrity
    Commitment
    Experience (been in your shoes)

  • A comment on Conversation: Where do you think consciousness comes from?

    Jul 28 2011: Read Dawkins: The Selfish Gene. Maybe all it is is a survival mechanism. What is "mind?" Where does it exist? You can create experiences with creative visualization: injured athletes who "practice in their mind" (hypnotherapy) do better when they return to play than those who "weren't working" and practiced "in real life" every day for 2 weeks. In your mind, you can do it PERFECTLY each time. Where's the "greater mind?" didn't we create that?

  • A reply on Conversation: Can a person excel in life with out a degree?

    Jul 28 2011: Well, google won't hire anyone without a degree--from a prestigious school, no less! But not all of us can work for google. A degree in this economy means nothing! I know Ph. Ds who are earning minimum wage. No-one's hiring. My friend is an artist, has her MFA. I told her: "The difference between you and a large pizza is a large pizza can feed a family of 5." My sisters tell me to get a job at Walmart! i know 19 year olds who build a business, are now 23, and earn over $50,000 A MONTH! I had a 3.98 average in school Know what my degree could get me, when my son was 3 years old?? An "overnight" job in a group home, for $7.00/hr! And what was I supposed to do with my kid??!! Each person must decide for themsleves the value of an education. I say go, get a good liberal-arts education, if you have the money or can work while you go to school. i don't think the degree is worth the paper its printed on anymore. Learn a skill. Sales, fixing a car, a computer, brain surgery, growing food, building earthships, leading people. These skills will be worth something in the future, not a degree in business administration, or history, or even computer programming--that you can learn on your own. Be well read, know how to inspire people, be around successful people, not negative people, learn to save 10-20% of your income, and learn to invest it. Invest in self-improvement, read books like: Think & Grow Rich, be part of a larger community, that gives back, grow your own food, recycle, mentor a child. this adds more to society than paying for a degree!
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    A comment on Conversation: Can a person excel in life with out a degree?

    Jul 28 2011: Your worth in the marketplace is determined by your skills. A college education does not make you smart about money--not even making money. If you are an employee, you have no leverage. You need to build something for yourself. J.Paul Getty said: "I'd rather have 1% of 100 peoples' efforts, than 100% of my own." You cannot work 100 hrs/day, but you can have 100 people working for you. The best way to do this is Network Marketing. Also, I have met with people who had college degrees, the Mercedes in the garage, $800,000 home, nice clothes and jewelry, etc, but they were drowning in debt. (Most of them lost everything when their companies went bankrupt in 2008-2010) Block after block of foreclosure in Silver Creek, SJ! They don't understand personal finance, just as the fast-food worker earning $8/hr. doesn't understand personal finance. Bill gates dropped out of college, Tiger Woods, too, and so did a lot of other wealthy people, who went on to create large companies. That's a business SYSTEM; they created a system, they have a system, just a franchise owner or network marketer does. Stop thinking like an employee-brain, and start thinking about what you can create for yourself! As an employee, they can hire or fire you at will! There's no security in that! Now i work with people who got laid off after 28 years in their company, 2 years short of the pension. Other people I know with 401(k)s lost everything in the stock-market crash. You have very little control over that money! The only way to start over when you are 60 is network marketing. Just because you went to college, and you could memorize facts and reguritate them for an exam, does not make you smart. Do you create value in the marketplace? Are you a leader? Lots of college students are just brain-washed media drones; brain dead, without 1 original thought in their entire life, spending evry spare minute watching Jersey shores or Kardashian, like my nephew. And they think they will wind up billionaires!

  • A comment on Conversation: Why does it seem that only the highly educated or the filthy rich are interested in socialism when in is a known failure on planet earth

    Jul 28 2011: Kibbutzim didn't work? Hippy communes didn't work? Now, elder co-ops don't work? They do. Did you ever really read Mien Kampf? The work of syphilitic mad-man! I don't think there is any "pure socialism", just as there is no "pure capitalism" (and no pure democracy--we haven't had a democracy in this country since I was a young girl) The markets don't regulate themselves; our government doesn't take care of it's citizens; not the weakest of us, not even our veterans! Create community, grow food and trade, feed the poor, educate the children for free (not just to prepare them to be a slave labor force for giant corporations) and forgive all old student loans (anyone who wants to go to college should be allowed to go to college, especially if they major in sustainability, public administration, alternative energy, social entrepreneurship, alternative energy, sustainable agriculture) etc. etc.

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