What are your and your girlfriends’ dreams?

I ran into an old coworker girlfriend yesterday. “B” and I both left the corporate world several years ago to start our own businesses. We were/are passionate entrepreneurs who didn’t fit in a 8-5 office environment and our friendship bonded over our dreams and schemes to follow them.

B hasn’t had an easy road to her dreams. She’s had to deal with legal and financial issues that weren’t her fault. She put her house and everything she owns on the line to pursue her dreams and, fortunately, she still has her home and dreams. She now is in the process of starting over but she knows she’ll be okay because she still has passion and friends who support her.

Sometimes we have to start over on the road to our dreams. Thankfully we have our girlfriends to accompany us on this journey and to help us find our way toward the life we dream of and deserve.

Is a friend dreaming of a new job?
Have a girlfriend who is a passionate entrepreneur?

Support your girlfriends in achieving their goals. And celebrate together any steps in the direction of your/her dreams. Be a better friend … because life really is better together with your girlfriends!

CONGRATS to the Winners of the Crystal Light + Lilith Fair + Girlfriendology Twitter Party!!

We gave away 10 tickets to the 2010 Lilith Fair concert series plus a whole lotta tasty treats with our sponsor, Crystal Light, last week.

Thanks to all the girlfriends who participated and
to our sponsors: Crystal Light and Lilith Fair!

Why does Oprah say she’ll never diet again?

Because she read the book we’re reading for the July Girlfriendology Book Club (per your recommendation!): “Women Food and God,” by Geneen Roth. JOIN US …

Monday, July 26th from 7-8pm ET

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This week on Girlfriendology …

* Slacker’s Guide to Friendship – So where does Girlfriendology get off thinking you should try to be a better friend? What right do we have to add guilt to your booked-solid, multiple-hat-wearing, juggling babies and daggers kind of life? Before we try to respond to all that, we read the following blog recently and had to share it. Thankfully, the author/blogger kindly agreed to … Read More »

* Top 10 Reasons to join the #CrystalLightLilith Twitter Party with Girlfriendology! - Use #CrystalLightLilith (and follow @CrystalLight and @Girlfriendology) for TODAY’s Crystal Light – Lilith Fair Twitter Party and win fabulous prizes like five sets of tickets to Lilith Fair! (Rules/info here.) Plus samples of Crystal Light Pure Fitness and more! What are the Top Ten reasons to join the #CrystalLightLilith Twitter Party? Drumroll please …Read More »

* 10 Lessons from Savvy Blogging Summit - Held in Breckenridge, CO, this conference was hosted by five fabulous female frugal bloggers and positioned to, as their tag line states, take your blog to new heights. Unlike other (primarily) women blogger conferences which tend to focus on drama, swag bags and parties, this conference was all about learning how to make our blogs into successful businesses and connecting with other bloggers (which is always fun!). Since you couldn’t all attend, here’s my version of girlfriend advice – 10 lessons I learned at … Read More »

* Girlfriend Recommendation: Family Movie Night, The Jensen Project - Sometimes you just have to share a girlfriend recommendation, right? Well, this one is going out to all of you with kids and who want to spend some quality time together. This Friday night is the second movie created by a production company (working with P&G and Walmart) that develop movies for ‘Family Movie Night.’ (They were the ones that introduced us to ‘The Secrets of the Mountain‘ previously!) Their goal is to create quality entertainment that … Read More »

* Be a Better Friend to a Friend Looking for a Job – As girlfriends, and in these ‘economic times’ as well as changes in our/friends’ lifestage, most of us have friends who are unemployed or may just need to find a different job. It’s a tough time to look for a job and a rough road to navigate – especially by ourselves. As someone who wants to be a better friend, we need to be there for each other in good and bad, happy and sad, employed and ‘OMG, What am I going to do with my life?’ times. So, here’s some girlfriend advice on being a friend to a friend looking for a job … Read More »

* Girlfriends help make Dreams a Reality – Do you share your dreams with your girlfriends? Well, you might want to! As your friend, we want to share in your dreams (and celebrating when we reach our dreams!). With the support of our girlfriends, as well as their ideas, connections and assistance, we are more equipped to achieve our goals and see our dreams become reality! Accountability girlfriends can help us stay on track and offer suggestions. Girlfriend groups (like an entrepreneurial group or a blogger network), can give us the power of … Read More »

This Week’s Girlfriendology Classics:

* Girlfriend Advice for Finding a new Job - Career coach and girlfriend, JULIE BAUKE, shares great girlfriend advice for interviewing well.

* Entrepreneurial Girlfriends Helping Each Other – I love my passionate friends who are supportive and inspiring. Thanks girlfriends!

* Great girlfriends deserve great girlfriend gifts – right? Here’s our girlfriend advice for some fun friend-filled books and girlfriend gifts!

* Thankful for friends - Especially those friends who become family. You know who they are!

* Girlfriends, Moms, Sisters – Ode to the women who bless our lives.

The Latest Girlfriendology BUZZ:

* We need YOUR girlfriend stories! Every week we’ll feature one story of girlfriends who inspire, assist, challenge, celebrate our friendship. Share your story!

Join us Monday for #FNI – Foodies’ Night In Twitter Party on Monday, 4-6pm EST with girlfriends from Cooking With Caitlin. Come talk food with some great foodie friends!

Girlfriendology BlogTalkRadio guest: JANNA ANTENORCRUZ

Did your mom have a lot of friends growing up? Are you following in her ‘friendship footsteps? And, actually, how much do you know about your mother and her childhood? Girlfriend JANNA ANTENORCRUZ believes we need to pass along our stories to our children – of our childhood. She’s recording women’s stories on her site Mommy’s Piggy Tales. She’ll share the power of stories on Friday – 2-2:30pm EST on BlogTalkRadio. LISTEN TO THIS INSPIRING GIRLFRIEND!

Thanks RACHEL BERTSCHE for sharing great insights in finding new friends, like her blogging/book journey called “MWF seeking BFF.” LISTEN IN – you’ll be inspired!

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Inspiration

“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child and the smiling faces. Smell the rain and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential and fight for your dreams.”

Ashley Smith

Tags: Book Club, Crystal Light, Girlfriend Gifts, girlfriends, Lilith Fair, women food and god

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