Book Release - Catherine DeVrye...
Catherine has just released her new book...

"Paper Clips Don't Grow on Trees" (remember when your parents said money didn’t grow on trees!) is about how to eliminate waste and stimulate value; minimize expense without reducing service to customers. It aims to have every employee in larger organisations be more cost conscious like a small business owner-and offers 99 chapters of practical savings tips for businesses of any size. And of course, eco-friendly is also eco-nomic.

Earlier in the year she won the prestigious Empire State Building Run-Up challenge, and through her sport of mountain running she is used to charging several kilometres straight uphill. She knows how to take pain.

But it is knowing how to control her brain that is the most important part, she says. "Sport for me is all about the mind. Throughout my career I've learnt that the physical is important, but what sets you apart and gives you that extra edge is if you can keep you head together."

SCOTT WILLIAMS ... SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER - Top Australian MC/comedian/speaker Scott Williams wants to work with NZ clients and is offering an excellent deal of free travel ex Brisbane to any Australian or NZ venue.... be quick this is for all bookings until 31 December 2010. To see Scott's bio click here

CONGRATULATIONS TO ROD ORAM ... Rod has been awarded the BDO sponsored "Individual Award" - Vero Excellence in Business Support.

The awards recognise excellence in the field of business support, honouring organisations and individuals that make real contributions in providing quality proudcts and services that make like easier for business owners. To see Rod's bio click here

ANTHONY ACKROYD TO STAR WITH NICOLE KIDMAN
Anthony Ackroyd (Click for profile and video) and Nicole Kidman will star in the Kevin Rudd movie “Kevin Dudd - Hey Big Spender” a movie based on the first term of the Australian Labour Government – they are about to start shooting in Sydney and Canberra and release will be 2010.
http://www.urbancinefile.com.au/home/view.asp?a=16734&s=News_files

MELISSA MOON WINS 2010 EMPIRE STATE BUILDING STAIR RUN
Our congratulations to Kiwi mountain runner Melissa Moon - Melissa won the women’s race at the Annual Empire State Building stair run up 86 flights from the lobby of New York’s tallest building to the outdoor observation deck in 13:13 on 2 February 2010. More than 300 runners from 19 states and 17 countries climbed 86 floors (1,576 stairs) and Melissa knows from her mountain running successes how mental toughness plays an important part in these events.

NEW BOOK FROM MIKE MOORE ..."Saving Globilization" - why globilization and democracy offer the best hope for progress, peace and development!

Globalisation has produced more wealth in the past 60 years than the rest of history put together. Hundreds of millions of people have been lifted out of extreme poverty, and the worst results are in countries that are the less globalised. A recession, even a depression, means de-globalisation and that will cost millions of people hope and opportunity. De-globalisation is a real a threat to security, peace and development.

TONY ADAMS IS THE FASTEST TAP DANCER IN THE WORLD ..... again!
New Zealand's Tony Adams has joined a select group of two times holders of a Guinness World Record™ by reclaiming his place as the fastest tap dancer in the world. From a standing start, the Wellington-based share broker and motivational speaker hit the floor with a staggering 17.6 taps per second on average for the 60-second time period – peaking at a mind-boggling 23 taps a second. His total of 1,056 taps in the minute smashes the previous record of 784 set in the United Kingdom in April this year.

Tony credits his latest achievement to nine months’ of intensive fitness training with two-times world mountain running champion Melissa Moon. "I went from being a non-runner to regularly running half marathons as part of the preparation for my second attempt at the record," says Tony. "We applied the mental strategies that Melissa Moon uses in her mountain running and combined them with the tactics and training of a track sprinter. But I have to say I’m pleased I don’t have to run up the hills of Wellington any more as she just about killed me at times." Tony’s achievement is even more extraordinary considering he was crippled like Forrest Gump as a young boy. His mother Mary Adams, now 83, put him to tap dance at the age of three to straighten and strengthen his calliper-bound legs in an effort to avoid surgery.

NEW BEST SELLER! - ALLAN & BARBARA PEASE
Allan and Barbara's new best seller "Why Men Want Sex and Women Need Love" has featured in "Body & Soul", "New Idea" and Sunday Telegraph – NSW; Sunday Herald – VIC’; Sunday Mail – QLD; Sunday Mail – SA; Sunday Times - WA

ROB HAMILL'S DOCUMENTARY
Rob, a speaker, promoter and producer is co-producing a doco "Brother Number One" ... it's a New Zealand documentary on the torture and murder of his younger brother and yachtie Kerry, by the Khmer Rouge in 1978. It follows Rob's journey to Cambodia to retrace the steps taken by his brother and sailor John Dewhirst, speaking to eyewitnesses, perpetrators and survivors ...
http://bno-documentary.blogspot.com/

STEVE GURNEY ... and the ANZAC team have now completed a massive 2160 km outrageous kite buggy adventure - the first time the Sahara Desert has been crossed by Wind Power and also the longest kite buggy journey ever accomplished! .... click here to find out more about this incredible journey and why they did it!!!

BOOK RELEASE - 'NO CEILING' .... BY HEATHER SWAN
Here's what Dr. Glenn Singleman (BASEjumper) M.B.,B.S. Dip.Comm has to say about "No Ceiling"

"Why would you jump out of a perfectly serviceable aircraft?" and "Why would you jump off a perfectly good cliff?" If I had a dollar for every time I have been asked these questions I would be a rich man. Over the years I have waxed lyrical on the virtues of overcoming fear, the science of the emotional brain, the advantages of physical and mental fitness and the self confident joy inspired by achieving the impossible. But from now on, thanks to my beautiful wife Heather, I will only have to respond to these questions with one simple answer - Read 'No Ceiling' and you will understand.

This book is the result of a 6-year journey of physical, mental and emotional extremes. Over those long years, Heather transformed herself from a 'safe' corporate mum into a world-class extreme sport athlete capable of challenging an iconic world record. As well as changing her body-habitus (from 36% fat to 15% fat), she changed her attitude to life, her attitude to love, her attitude to family and her attitude to the 'glass ceiling' that is supposed to prevent women from achieving their full potential. She endured setbacks, tragedy, humiliation and pain to ultimately triumph in the most macho of male dominated sports: rockclimbing, mountaineering, skydiving and BASEjumping. Throughout the most gruelling of extreme boot camps she never lost touch with her femininity, her emotional balance and her radiant beauty. The world record she ultimately achieved shattered conventional wisdom and prejudice about the 'role' and 'limits' of women (and men!).

'No Ceiling' is not a book about extreme sport. It is a classic human 'vision quest' drama set in a world that is foreign to most people; a world of eccentrics, misfits, athletes, scientists, visionaries and breathtaking landscapes. At times Heather's journey might seem outrageous but the woman taking it is intelligent, funny, vibrant and insightful. Her words speak with a clarity and passion that transport the reader into foreign panoramas and subcultures with sympathy and understanding.

I could be accused of bias since I accompanied Heather on much of the journey but the evocative writing inspired me beyond the amazing facts of the story. I couldn't stop turning the pages even though I knew what happened next. I'm proud that we can add the descriptor 'author' to Heather's impressive list of talents: world record holding extreme sportswoman, mother, wife, vegetarian chef, journalist, marketing manager and professional speaker. She is truly a woman with "No Ceiling".

"Heather Swan is not merely a highly competent adventurer who writes. She is a fabulous writer who has amazing adventures! Ultimately I sell words, and No Ceiling is a compelling, pulse quickening read - it's a love story too. Heather's my new role model!"
-- Margaret Gee. Literary agent

"I'm over the top about Heather Swan's book! What a fantastic read"
- Advance review from German publisher

"It's brilliant - I like Heather’s style of writing- its "real"- it's well balanced with mother/wife/her emotions / her feelings (which are so touchable) and she is able to portray completely the circumstances she had to endure. And it’s all readable there’s no "padding". I am almost there with her - apart from I am snug & warm in bed with my belly content. Definitely one to be read in one go!"
-- Jill Myers

"When you pick up this book you get the impression that Heather has the "extraordinary" gene but when you read on you realise that she is a very normal person with very normal fears and insecurities. The difference is that Heather has learnt to conquer self limits and that makes her story extraordinary...."
-- Christie Armadio, proof reader for No Ceiling

KIM CHAMBERLAIN ... professional speaker, author, trainer and RISK TAKER! In the 1970’s Kim was inspired by a teacher working in East Africa who came to her school to give a talk … In 2008 she and her husband left NZ with their 2 children to live in Uganda! Despite a sizeable amount of research and even a trip over there, they had ...

no work to go to
nowhere to live
no source of income
no schooling for the children
not even a visa
They left their comfortable life in Wellington with just a suitcase each, 2 day’s accommodation in a guest house and a belief that it would work out!

Hear about the risks they took, the challenges they faced - dealing with poisonous snakes, regular power cuts, no water, no petrol, bugs in their underwear, burglary, electrocution, bribes and cannibalism against a backdrop of a beautiful country and becoming part of a very supportive international community.

Kim will share with you the 3-step formula she has successfully used all her life to achieve her goals; from the very small to the very large! In the same way her teacher inspired Kim to make a life change, you will be inspired to take that first step!

Fee: NZ$2,500 + gst + travel within NZ

Inquire about Kim's availability in NZ by calling Sherryl on: (09) 232 1886