With a background and passion for fashion and lifestyle trends, I read many blogs and ezines. Each week I receive a report from Splendora Style Forecast. Amongst the usual celebrity fashion sightings and alerts to some of fashion’s more fabulous things, Gina Pell, content chief and founder, writes and brings attention to some phenomenal issues that beautifully meld with the goings on in the world of lifestyle, fashion and culture.
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We are going to try to provide all sorts of examples of great branding at the same time we discuss the problems, concerns and ways that companies do not speak to women or consumers in a way that encourages them to become brand evangilists.
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I attended the opening of a new restaurant chocolate lounge last night. The theme and star of the show was chocolate in as many forms as you can imagine: drinks, truffles, sandwiches of mango, strawberry and chocolate, truffles filled with caramel and salt accompanied by champagne, guava martini’s with a spicy kick, and cognac.
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With the historic American election now completed and the world’s celebration of that change now in place, it is a new day.

A new day for everyone to review how they are going to move forward and make the kind of changes that incorporate new technologies, new ways to communicate, bring new ideas to the forefront and act upon them, engage others to take the initiative to make change, share how we can all work together to make the change that will dictate how we can live better lives than we did before.
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Ghandi said:

“We must be the change we want to see in the world.“

As a dynamic, innovative and smart group of women we want to discuss the ways in which we can make changes and come up with new ideas, so the world begins to see us as important, modern, insightful contributors. By creating offline and online branding experiences that help you find the products and services that represent who you are, living your best life.
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• Audacity of Hope, Barak Obama

• Groundswell, Charlene Li, Josh Bernoff

• Banker to the Poor, Muhammad Yunus

• Meatball Sundae, Seth Godin

• Tribes, Seth Godin

• The Soccer Mom Myth, Michelle Miller, Holly Buchanan

• Stroke of Insight, Jill Bolte Taylor

• Made to Stick, Chip Heath and Dan Heath

• Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill

• Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell

• Blink Malcolm Gladwell