Following the successful book launch on 1st December 2020
"Women in the Modern Business World"
is now an Amazon bestseller.
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This has given them the motivation to rise beyond themselves and become entrepreneurs, each contributing to making the world a better place. The contributors will be sharing their personal stories, practical tips and recommendations, which are sure to inspire and motivate you to rise to new heights in your business.
The New Paradigm For Empowering Women
Today’s woman is a goddess in her own right; informed and conscious of her limitless potential. There’s a lot of talk about women’s empowerment, but what is it exactly? An empowered woman proudly owns the ability to take charge of and enjoy her time, skills, acquisitions, and earnings. It entails the freedom to manage risk and construct their preferred economic reality.
All of these thirteen women from across the world excel in their respective domains, radiating inspiration through their accomplishments. This eclectic mix of Global Women comes all from over the world
They share their stories, narrate significant life experiences, and offer nuggets of wisdom from the decisions- and mistakes- they’ve taken so far. This is not just a book for women. There’s a lesson in it for everyone. Especially for men who appreciate an insightful understanding of women, this book is a must-have!
The Global Woman platform, captures the identity of a woman who uses her principles and abilities to initiate a genuine global community, devoid of unhealthy competition and selfish pursuits.
The Book
- We must accept the fact that we have no control over what lies ahead. Step out into unknown territory, trust your inner voice, and align with the universal manuscript. You don’t have to see the top of the stairs. Just take it one step at a time.
- This book spotlights not just their successes, but also their struggles and how they overcome challenges every day to become an inspiration to others.
- The essence of this book revolves around celebrating the woman- her culture, her diversity, her versatility. She is the ultimate agent of innovation, transformation moderator, values disseminator, and anchor of humanity.
- One of the greatest obstacles to our greatness is our fear of the unknown. We’d rather stay in one familiar spot than take a step towards the uncertain. But no real progress is made that way. We must bid our safe space goodbye and step out into the unknown.
Uniting Professional Women of The World
Meet The Contributors
Online Entrepreneur and Multiple Business Owner
Lisseth Barrios is an online entrepreneur and owner of multiple businesses where she focuses on creating outstanding and lifetime experiences for her clients and social media fans. She is originally from Guatemala City and immigrated to Canada at a very young age. She graduated as a translator and self-educated herself in order to escape the ‘rat race’ and knew there was another way to expand and marvel than following the traditional educational system.
Lisseth always had the entrepreneurial mindset, she went from beauty consultant, to network marketing, health coach to real estate investor and many other avenues that provided more experience in self-development and business journey. She is passionate about helping and inspiring people to improve their lives emotionally, spiritually, physically and financially. She is making a phenomenal difference in adding value to women’s lives. Over the years, Lisseth joined different Women’s Associations and Real Estate Associations in Canada in order to be surrounded by like-minded people.
LISSETH BARRIOS
CAROLINE NIJLAND
Caroline Nijland started her business Helios Infinitas in July 2018. Her company is providing advisory
services, business development, project and operational management, training and lobbying in the field of renewable energy and private sector investments. Since 2001
Caroline has been involved in
the field of rural electrification through the use of solar energy in Sub-Saharan Africa.
She has
extensive experience in setting up and managing medium scale electricity companies there. From 2007 till 2018 Caroline was the General Director of the Foundation Rural Energy Services in The Netherlands. She attracted substantial amounts of funding from international organisations like the European Commission, the World Bank and from various governments and companies.
She has also
dealt with many governments regarding for example tariffs negotiation and licenses for concessions.
As a child, Caroline was raised in Crete, Cameroon and France where she got acquainted with the
solar energy environment.
LAURA GÖTZ
Founder of This is your potential
Dr. Laura Götz is the founder of This is your potential, a transformational coaching platform for women. From early on, she knew that her purpose in life was helping women stay happy and healthy, that is why she chose to work in the field of obstetrics and gynecology.
In order to ensure holistic therapy for her patients, Dr. Götz deepened her studies in psychosomatic medicine and personal development, which led her to create Femindipity, a groundbreaking healing technique for women of all ages dealing with psychosomatic pain, anxiety or life crisis.
Wanting to give back to her birth-country of Romania, she initiated a charitable online movement called Women from A to Z where she educates women on health through social media platforms and works on improving the general doctor-patient relationship. Her message has reached hundreds of thousands and her ultimate goal is to make a permanent mark on the Romanian medical system.
Being an experienced fiction author, Dr. Götz has a number of medical titles planned for 2020 and the most anticipated one is her self-help book called Connect with your feminine body in which she details her personal healing technique.
MAAIKE DRIESSEN LAVERMAN
Founder of the Institute for Personal Energy
Maaike is an International Speaker and the Founder of the Institute for Personal Energy where she combines all her skills and experience as certified health and wellness/energy coach, Touch4Health instructor, mentor, coach, and teacher of the “A Wellness Revolution''. Maaike teaches coaches-to-be, both worldwide online and live in Amsterdam, how to reprogram their clients for better results. She is also a Color-, Nutrition-, and Emotional Stress Release Therapist.
Maaike is from the Netherlands and has worked both there and abroad, but returned to Amsterdam in 1997 where she and her husband raised their 3 children. She developed Your Energy Survival Kit for adults, to help her clients access a higher quality of life, increase productivity, reduce the risk of burn-out and sick leave.
Maaike believes children are increasingly under pressure and for them she has developed Your Easy Learning and Living Kit, which she teaches in schools.
She is on a mission to help people boost their energy, lower their stress levels and regain their crucial balance with simple but powerful tools that can be used in just a few minutes, anyplace, anytime.
Maaike has also had the privilege of being featured in various International Magazines highlighting her expertise in Energy and Stress Management & Coaching and also been interviewed by AwellnessRevolution about her expertise on stress & energy management and re-programming.
Maaike says she runs her own practice, helping her clients release deep traumas as she is living her great passion for helping people regain their optimal mental and physical health, after whatever life has challenged them with.
PAM LOB
PAM LOB
Pam Lob is a sassy woman who turned her life upside down as she created a life she wanted to live - and a healthy body to go with it! After years of battling her own health issues, Pam had to face the death of her husband. It would have been easy to give up and hide, but she didn’t! Pam is now more passionate than ever!
Pam has a myriad of health qualifications and years of personal development, including Art of Feminine Presence. She is not your usual health practitioner. Pam is a healer, health educator, and joy bringer.
She supports and inspires women struggling with health issues, menopause, weight problems, stress, and anxiety who want to feel healthy, joyful, energised, and fulfilled. Pam’s mission is to share her unique combination of strategies and secrets so that every woman can have the same opportunities she had to get better, in every sense of the word.
MICHELLE WYNGAARD
Principal dentist and proprietor of Dynamic Dental Studio
Michelle Wyngaard is the principal dentist and proprietor of Dynamic Dental Studio, now in its 10th year of business. In her 23 years of experience as a general dentist, she developed a particular interest in smile makeovers. Michelle became increasingly aware of learning from her patients how stress has a direct impact on oral health.
Studies show that stress is a link to underlying mental health which is becoming increasingly prevalent in all societies and as a dentist, she is privileged to examine for early signs of stress diagnosis in the mouth. Michelle is currently embarking on becoming a certified coach to help more patient’s transformation in self-confidence and self-worth. She educates her patients about being proactive in oral health care and smile psychology on your health benefits.
Michelle’s philosophy is that she believes that creating a healthy and beautiful smile can be life-changing for her patients. Michelle says, "Your smile is the first and last thing people remember you by; it is your most valuable but underutilised asset at your disposal".
Therefore, invest wisely in the POWER of your smile to enjoy the opportunities it brings in life.
Michelle also developed an interest in further transformation of her patients’ lives through mind-set therapy to help them become the best version of themselves so that they can live a life of FULFILMENT with HAPPINESS from the inside out. She soon realised that the external smile-makeover did not always make her patient completely happy.
As we are at the cusp of digital dentistry, Michelle embraces technology to mobilise her dental care and education to an accessible platform she is developing for the future for busy lives. She has completed and continues to do extensive postgraduate courses both abroad and online in her field and attends numerous conferences across the globe.
Michelle continues to be an advocate for transformational dentistry, and how it can boost your self-confidence together with mind-set therapy. She calls herself a go-to smile dentist and Michelle’s purpose and vision is to transform a million smiles in her lifetime.
ELIZABETH YANG
Elizabeth Yang (楊安立) is the founder and owner of the Law & Mediation Offices of Elizabeth Yang and has been practicing law since 2007. She specializes in Intellectual Property Law, including Patent, Copyright and Trademark Prosecution and Litigation; Business Law, including corporate entity formation, contract drafting, contract disputes, litigation; Family Law, including divorce, child custody, child support, alimony, and asset division; and Estate Planning, including establishing wills and trusts. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
Elizabeth was admitted to the United States Patent & Trademark office in 2007. At the age of 19, she earned her Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley in two and a half years. Her IP practice is primarily focused on Intellectual Property litigation at the Federal District and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Elizabeth's practice also includes complex business litigation, patent prosecution and trademark prosecution.
In 2016-2020, Elizabeth was awarded the "Top 100 Civil Lawyers" award and the "Top 40 Lawyers Under 40" award by the National Trial Lawyers Association. In 2017-2020, Elizabeth was recognized by Thomson Reuters Super Lawyers as a "Rising Star" ranking her in the top 2.5% of lawyers in California and also presented with the Lawyers of Distinction award, recognizing her as the top 10% of lawyers in the United States.
In 2017, Elizabeth published her first best-selling book, "The Big Secret" alongside Jack Canfield, author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Then in 2018, Elizabeth published her second book, "Stress-Free Divorce" to assist parties going through this very difficult time of their lives. Elizabeth is currently working on her third book, entitled "Social Marriage", which will be released in Fall 2020.
ANGELA SOONG
ANGELA SOONG
Angela Soong is a prolific portfolio landlord, owning many residential and commercial properties. She currently runs her own investment portfolio, a lettings company and a building consultancy. Angela´s profession includes being a property developer, an investor, an expert in commercial building conversions and a specialist in management of tenants. Her hard work has made her achieve financial freedom. Angela also has her own buildings team on developments, refurbishments and extensions, and she loves creating and designing homes. Previously, Angela was the second head of the science department in a local school, rising from her graduate job as a qualified Biology & Chemistry Science teacher. As a successful entrepreneur, Angela has past experiences in retail, food, restaurants and she has also owned a health & wellbeing business for over a decade.
But Angela´s life wasn't always this successful. Like most traditional females of an ethnic minority background, she had to go up against a strong culture of beliefs… Angela decided to let the light shine out from within, and stop believing that she wasn’t good enough! When she was in the darkness of her depression, having severe panic attacks, she came to think, “What if …? Despite the fear of disappointing her elders, she walked out of an unhappy marriage and life.
Today Angela takes the driver's seat, she is a loving mother of two beautiful children providing the best education and care and teaching self leadership, starting from home. She helps grandma boost her small state pension, guides and supports her partner, and helps many friends acquire their first homes.
Angela´s passion is to be able to teach more young people about money, finance & self leadership skills; how to lead from the heart and entrepreneurship. Her new vision is to travel to the far east in the near future, to develop a well being healthcare centre. The proceeds will support the need to build new schools for deprived children in poor countries. Angela says she hopes her story inspires and empowers more women to believe, shine and reveal their inner potential!
KATE BELLOSILLO
CEO of Kyani Philippines Inc
At home and at work, everyone calls her Mommy Kate not only because she has eight lovely children – all of them wonderful and successful professionals – but because of her nurturing heart.
Six years ago, she set up Kyani Philippines Inc., a subsidiary of an American global health and wellness company. From ground zero, it has consistently been one of the top 10 performing markets out of over 60 countries worldwide. Kate says: “Every peso you make in Kyani means you have helped a life become better. The more money you make simply means you have blessed many more lives.
Kate also served as president of a local Zonta club which won several awards for advocacy projects like Real Men Respect Women.
As president of a local Rotary club, her Light it Forward Challenge that aims to provide light to poor communities without electricity has gained much support.
Last year, Kate was recognized as one of ten empowered Filipina Entrepreneurs by the ASEAN Women Entrepreneurs Network. She received her award from the Princess of Thailand.
CARLA COHEN
Founder of the Women’s Health Revolution
Carla Sridevi Cohen is the founder of the Women’s Health Revolution. Her mission is to shift the health and minds of all female changemakers.
She is passionate and skilled at alleviating emotional and physical pain for her clients, helping them heal and experience deep peace. Alongside her healing work of 30+ years, she has selflessly served millions through her volunteer work for a global organization with spiritual roots, Embracing the World; dedicated to relieving human and global suffering. As a Master Healer, she is certified in 20+ healing modalities, combining years of tenacious technical and intuitive study of the human body, plant medicine, and emotional intelligence to create immediate results.
NICOLE BEISSLER
Strategic Coach and Award Winning International Speaker
Nicole is originally from Germany, but since 2017 she is partly living in her second home country Spain, when she is not travelling the world for business.
Working for a FTSE100 company as Head of Continuous Improvement with some wide experiences in various industries. She is leading an Integration of an €1.9bn acquisition in Iberia and supporting the business going through a change process.
She is a Strategic coach, an award winning international Speaker and an Expert on how to build up Resilience in difficult times.
Change is her passion. We all face challenges on a regular basis and Nicole helps her clients to deal with it in a professional way by helping them to understand the origin of their fear for change and afterwards build up the resilience and courage to deal with it. Sometimes being courageous means, to take a decision that may turn your life or business upside down – this is also part of her work and style of leadership – to turn things upside down and look at it with a different perspective. Therefore, she combines her coaching sessions with Yoga breakouts and meditation.
Transformational Leadership Expert
Inga Phoenix Kokalevská is a mentor in the field of transformational leadership. She has interdisciplinary leadership experience and has been teaching, training, coaching, mentoring people for over 20 years in various professional environments - from the academic through the non-profit to the private sector. She is trained in psychoanalysis, which enabled her to bring together her two great passions - psychology and unlocking human potential - for focusing on the idea of transformational leadership as the necessary strategic tool for global growth.
She emphasizes the importance of raising the next generation of leaders who will challenge the status quo, create deeper and more synergistic collaborations with leaders from other industries, and bring humanity to the new level of evolution. Therefore, she makes it her mission to support the young generation in developing such leadership skills that will allow them to lead society through a conscious transformation towards more selfless values.
She believes that giving the new generation a higher purpose and empowering them with a strong vision of a better future will help address one of current biggest, yet overlooked social problems - the rise of anxiety, fears, depression and suicidal thoughts among adolescents and young adults over the last decade. She also sees the necessity in educating women in psychological literacy, so they can better understand and fulfil their specific psychological needs and the ones of their children, and raise the new generation more consciously.
ELONA LOPARI
Career and Leadership Business Strategist
Career and Leadership Business Strategy is her passion. Elona Lopari is a driven business owner dedicated to helping women professionals find the right career, grow as leaders and start the business they love. Her specialty is mindset and confidence coaching, because she believes that success in any area of our lives begins and ends with our thoughts and self belief.
Right after graduating college with a Business, Management and Finance degree she began working at Drug and Beauty Retail Company named Walgreens Boots Alliance, as a management trainee. The fierce determination, keen business insights and ability to lead and influence others promoted Elona in human resource roles, and eventually in leadership roles within the company. Her corporate cumulative experience was over 13 years.
There was a moment in Elona´s corporate career where she started to feel bored and unfulfilled. She felt like something was missing. Feeling this way, Elona started looking for answers and came across a long personal development journey into finding another path that would fulfill her and help her use her professional experience and passion for coaching - and put that all together in starting her own business. This is where Elona came across coaching as an industry, and specifically personal and professional coaching.
Ever since, she has been able to help women professionals and executives find fulfilling work, grow as leaders and build the business that they love while pursuing their passions and lifestyles.
Mirela Sula
Mirela Sula, CEO & Founder of Global Woman
Mirela Sula, originally from Albania, has been based in London UK since September 2012. She has worked in media and education for the last 20 years and has speaking experience all around the world. Her background takes in psychology and counselling, journalism, teaching, coaching, women’s rights and media training.
Mirela is CEO and the founder of Global Woman magazine and Global Woman Club, with the recent acquisition of ‘The Businesswoman Today’, an online network platform exclusively for women in business. Mirela is also the organiser of the Global Woman Summit and Global Woman Awards. She has appeared on London Live TV, BBC Radio 4 Women’s Hours, Sky TV and also featured at the “Evening Standard” and “The Guardian”.
In 2014 Mirela created Migrant Woman Talks, a platform for women to share their stories and experience of life in a new country. By the end of 2018 Mirela had created 24 Global Woman Clubs for women in 16 countries and has helped hundreds of women to unlock their potential, set up their goals and achieve their dreams.
Mirela has received many awards for her work, including the ‘Inspirational Award for Women 2015’ for Human Rights, the ‘Best Up-And-Coming Inspirational Influencer’ Award from The Best You, in 2017 and the Universum Donna Award 2017 from the Universum Academy of Switzerland. She received The Best Book of the Year from The Author’s Awards in 2016 for her book, ‘Don’t Let Your Mind Go’ and her new book, ‘50 Inspiring Stories of Migrant Women – From Struggle to Success’, was launched at the Houses of Parliament in December 2017 and that same month Mirela won the “Entrepreneur of The Year Award” from the Wealth Dragons, and ended the year in the list of the OOOM 100: THE WORLD’SMOST INSPIRING PEOPLE. In April 2018 Mirela was in Los Angeles to receive “The Orbits” Award at the “Diplomats Diversity”.
Mirela is passionate about empowering women worldwide and always stands up for inclusion, diversity, gender balance and supporting the next generation. Her mission is to create a global movement to improve the future for women, by economically empowering each woman. Mirela uses her years of experience in teaching and leadership to inspire and motivate women around the world, working with them to deliver career and life changing results beyond expectation. Her aim is to reach one million women entrepreneurs by the end of 2020 for her Global Woman Club.
The Organisers
Giovana Vega
Director of Global Woman Club Amsterdam
Founder of Trading for Women
Giovana is a King Juan Carlos University-certified Forex Trader, international motivational speaker, and money mindset strategist who grew up in Peru. Arriving in Holland in 1997, she learnt Dutch, studied bookkeeping and took on a Finance job that helped her discover a passion for currency interactions.
In 2014, Giovana launched her personal journey into the world of trading and investing and has never regretted that decision. Founder also of “Trading for Women,” her business revolves around money-mindset, wealth-creation and lifestyle.
Giovana is committed to helping women take charge of their financial future. One of such ways is by creating financial awareness, something she does with her book “Trading for Success, 8 Secrets Why Women are Better Forex Traders.”
As an authority in the field of trading, Giovana helps successful female business owners understand the dynamics of wealth creation even without a financial background. With a unique model called the “Wealth Accelerator,” she teaches clients how to leverage their unique strengths to succeed in the world of financial trading.
Giovana is also author. In total, she has authored 4 books in the area of trading, leadership and empowerment. The “Phenomenal Global Woman Project,” a book Giovana co-authored, has been adapted as a film documentary and she has featured in international magazines such as “Star People” and “Global Woman Magazine.”
Giovana is the Director of Global Woman Club Amsterdam, a platform that connects professional woman around the world. Giovana is also the 2019 winner of the Global Woman Award as the Director of the Year.
Giovana has twice been a guest on Dutch National TV channel RTL4. For being an inspiration to women, she has been selected as 1 out of 10 finalists for TEDxAmsterdamWoman
Kicki Pallin
Executive Assistant of Mirela Sula, CEO at Global Woman
She has also held management positions in both the airline industry and the hotel business.
Publisher: GW Publishing
Prepared by: Kicki Pallin
Editor & Project Coordinator: Trevor Clarke
Art Design: Nevila Samarxhi
Would you like to join the Global Woman Book Project in 2021?
As a participant, you will be a part of this life transformational experience, where you will be featured not only in the book, but the project will also be featured in the Global Woman Magazine and on Social Media. We had 3 successful book projects in 2018, and 3 other amazing projects in 2019.
The good news is that we have now launched the new book project for 2021, but this year we are focused on one book only, which will include 16 contributors who want to write a chapter.
This book will be a collection of stories from inspiring Global Women. As a participant, you will be a part of this life transformational experience, where you will be featured not only in the book, but the project will also be featured in the Global Woman Magazine and Social Media.
Why are we doing this project?
In a world that is dominated by men, it’s time to bring in a new era and a new paradigm, which brings women to a higher level of consciousness.
The pen is in your hand, and you choose your destiny.
The world needs to see you, to hear you and we are here to support you in this journey.
Increase your influence & be recognized as an expert
- Maximize your impact to inspire more people.
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Get More Clients & Grow Your Business.
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Book more speaking gigs.
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You are the author of your story.
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You write the story of your life.
How do you benefit from being part of this?
You WILL be an International Co-Author.
Being part of this book will give you the opportunity to share your story in your own dedicated chapter.
Sharing your story will help increase your speaking opportunities and get you invited to more stages.
Prospective clients want to hear your story as people do business with people they know, like and trust.
You will be part of an amazing group of women who like you have the courage to share their journey and their inspiration.
As a collaborative book, all authors will share in the production costs and marketing; therefore, maximizing it’s reach to inspire and impact more people.
This opportunity is limited to 15 authors for our project in 2021
This opportunity is limited to 15 authors for our project in 2021
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