Insights and Inspiration to Help Excavate Your ‘Glinda’ Within!

Finding Your “IT” Factor

What do I want to be when I grow up? Is this my bliss? What is IT that I am really suppose to be doing with my life?? Those are the questions that have prompted a plethora of probing conversations. Some happen over non-fat, half-caff lattes with friends, others on the phone with life coaches and many, many others appear spontaneously, self-induced, typically on Sunday nights when we’re trying to find a reason to go to work on Monday morning to a job that undeniably feels like — work. So where is “IT” hiding and how do I get me some of that?

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‘Creators of Cool’ Revealing Their Success Secrets

Michelle Shaw

Shaw Treatment ~ body care products for a better you and a better world.

In starting Shaw Treatment we spent nearly a year of planning, researching and ‘doing our homework’. And when we finally launched our first 3 products in the summer of 2006, the customer response confirmed that we were indeed on the right track! From that point on we referred to it as the “WOW Factor.”

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Glinda Girl Trunk Show Temptations

Shopping and noshing go together like peas and carrots. Taunya’s Tempting Tortellini is an ideal for your next pamper party. Mmm mmm good!

Taunya is not only the smart and saavy entrepreneur behind powerhouseinc.ca ( a must for every small business owner, in my humble opinion), she’s the fab friend who hosted the first ever Glinda Girls Trunk Show. Her friends threatened to short-sheet her sleeping bag on their upcoming gal pal camping trip if her Tempting Tortellini wasn’t on the menu! Taunya’s personal and professional mission statement is “Make it happen”. Definitely something you can sink your teeth into!

Taunya’s Tempting Tortellini

1 20-ounce package fresh three-cheese tortellini

Blend together:

1/2 cup mayo
1/2 cup olive oil
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
1 1/2 tsp Dijon mustard
1 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp black pepper
1/4 tsp dried oregano
1/4 tsp thyme
1/4 tsp basil
1 garlic clove, pressed

In a separate bowl combine:

2 cups chopped celery
1 13 3/4 ounce can artichoke hearts, in water, chopped
3/4 cup chopped green onions
1/2 cup drained oil-packed sun-dried tomatoes, chopped
1/2 cup kalamata olives, pitted, coarsely chopped

Add cooked pasta

Toss in 1/2 cup grated parmesan

Mix in dressing 1/4 cup at a time.

~ for information about hosting a Glinda Girls Trunk Show write us at hello@glindagirls.com ~