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| Vol 2007 - Issue 11 | November 2007 |
Post Office Box 23874 Chattanooga, TN 37422
NOVEMBER MEETING
The Impact of Domestic Violence in Your Workplace
Charlotte Boatwright, founder, president and CEO for the Coalition Against Domestic & Community Violence of Greater Chattanooga, Inc. will discuss the impact of domestic violence on business. Charlotte is a registered nurse, licensed professional counselor and Rule 31 Family Mediator. She has spent 35 years in health care and has a doctorate in health care administration.
Hot Topic: This month's hot topic will be "Surviving the Holidays". Join us as we discuss how we cope with the added stress of the holidays and how we maintain our business at the same time. Do you have a tip to share? We hope these Hot Topics will provide you with a new idea or two.
To sign up for the event, either email Nesha at Nesha_steele@bsbst.com or try out our Event Registration section on our Website. Click here to register for lunch or go to www.chanawbo.org and click on Event Registration.
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Luncheon:
Thursday, November 15 |
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MISSION STATEMENT Empower women business owners through education, opportunity and support, to achieve success economically, socially, and politically |
NAWBO
CHATTANOOGA
BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2006-2007 President
- Celeste Friend |
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President's
Column
By Celeste Friend
Hi Ladies,
As we head yet again into the Holidays, I pause to consider where we’ve been – and where we want to go with NAWBO. At the November meeting, I would like to have a discussion on this subject. We need your input about what is valuable to you and how NAWBO can become even more valuable to you. What does your business (or life) need? Perhaps, as a group, we can find a way to fill these needs. Sometimes, we aren’t able to verbalize the need, but we know where we want to be and the path between here and there is blocked. Let’s see where a brainstorming session takes us!
Celeste Friend, CFP(r)
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Spotlight on Good Taste: Chef Melanie Cox
Chef Melanie Cox, owner of Without Reservations Personal Chef Service, is inspired by Annie Dillard's quote “How we spend our days, is, of course, how we spend our lives”, and spends her days doing things so that that when she looks back in 50 years, she'll be happy about how she's spent her life. Certainly, Melanie's clients will be happy.
Melanie is a native of tiny Sunshine, North Carolina, near Golden Valley in Western NC's foothills, and came to professional cooking by an interesting path. She has a Master’s Degree in Counseling/Student Development, and expected her career would always involve working with college students, but when her family moved to Winston-Salem, there were no openings in her field. Melanie served as a Regional, and later Metro Division, Director for the American Heart Association, and was later a stay-at-home mom. When her children were older, Melanie says, "I stumbled on the personal chef business, and realized that it was EXACTLY what I wanted to do. Cooking has always been one of my favorite things, and I’d thought about the culinary school/restaurant idea, and dismissed it because of the long hours involved in restaurant work. Becoming a personal chef took care of that little problem."
Melanie says she has two favorite things about being a personal chef: being the heroine of someone's kitchen, allowing them to eat the type of meals that they want to eat even if they don’t have the time or inclination to cook, and also putting together social events, small dinner parties and events for clients which allow them to be a guest at their own parties.
Without Reservations opened in Chattanooga in 2005, after Melanie's husband's career brought them to town. Melanie loves being a woman business owner because "It’s mine – I get to do things the way I want to. Right now, I still have young children, so it’s important to me to be there for them. Owning my own business allows me to make that a priority." Melanie's family includes her husband, Doug, and three beautiful daughters: Katy is 13, Elisabeth is 10, and Abigail, whom the Cox's adopted from China at age 11 months, just turned 7. When asked what we might find surprising about this personal chef who creates such culinary delights, she divulges, "I love McDonald’s french fries".
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