Hot Pink YOUniversity

It was 2010, several months after my father died, a few months before my 40 th birthday that I chose “YES” in my life.   I had been wanting to travel with Jana Stanfield for several years.   I met her at an event for the National Wellness Conference, but before that had been familiar with her inspiring songs and messages of positivity.   Her life sounded so exotic, compelling, intoxicating…traveling the world, going to Bali, helping orphanages.   So, after my father died I had a gift of some financial freedom which allowed me to look into traveling with Jana and volunteering.   I looked so forward to Bali as Jana had spoken about many years prior at this conference and googled Jana’s website to see the when and the where of her next trip….what I was met with was disappointment as her next voluntour adventure was to Vietnam.   VIETNAM??? I couldn’t possible go there !   In my mind I had the black and white images of newscasts of the war as a kid growing up, images of bodies, death, wa

Have you ever participated in something that was so fun, that when you came away from it you felt on top of the world, elated, excited to be alive!!!?   Well, as I write this I am still picking the mud out of my ears and rubbing my sore but happy muscles from the Dirty Girl Wisconsin Run in Waukesha, Wisconsin, August 19, 2012.   What a fun, fabulous way to spend a weekend with your gal pals…while honoring a good cause like the American Breast Cancer Foundation.   This non-competitive, dirty 5k was incredible in the energy and positivity of the women who came to “run”…and the women from Hot Pink YOUniversity went from marvelous to muddy in about 10 minutes into the run, it was unavoidable fun! I have only had this grand elated feeling a few times in my life and I don’t know about you, but I want MORE of it!   In this ultra-serious, fast-paced, westernized culture we live in, we are busier with home- improvements than with self-improvements.   We get caught up in the have more