Talk:Becoming a Bee/@comment-123.98.137.2-20120404232421

In the late 70's I was facing the choice to stay in South Dakota and learn to live on the family farm or return to Australia and marry the American I'd fallen in love with. I was reading a multitude of 'alternate' texts like Whole Earth catalogue, Grass Roots, Earth Garden etc., and came across geodesic domes-biospheres~ and KNEW that was the only way I'd survive out there! Long story short..., we returned to OZ and married (and I kept reading those texts, trialling many alternate ways of being a conscious 'earthian'~although never created a Dome to live in).

1999 a friend gifted me a place in The World (peace) Game at Collingwood Town Hall. Although I'd basically stayed on the 'alternative route'.., becoming a Rudolf Steiner trained teacher.., I was also a single parent of 3 teens. In that community I was working many p/t jobs, an active member of LETS(local energy transfer system).., and pretty much insular to the rest of the world. Playing 'the Game' and being introduced to Bucky in more detail, opened up a whole new segment of life PLUS I met my future husband there & started learning more with a whole new sphere of friends!!!

The 'gifter' of my place in the game, was a friend and employer who was also a successful business woman, member of GENI, had done Money & U.., and the journey to learning more about becoming a successful business woman myself had begun.

I joined my husband's health business, but found I was not business minded enough to be financially successful, so took a detour into public education in marginal areas of Australia for a while. I still had a health/ sustainability focus, however I got to see that for the change I wanted to see in the wider community to happen.., I needed an aligned network and I needed to change!

With the birth of our first grandchild I realised I wanted to be my own boss.., which led me to recommit to our health business, and I'm approaching this FOB project as a structure to cause me to learn the theories and principles that will have me transform and FLOURISH as a business partner who in turn empowers other business people (especially mum's who choose to work from home) to achieve their highest potential in their chosen area of business :~)