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J ANE NORTHRUP IS MY INSPIRATION. Because she’s living an amazing story with clarity and conviction.
Jane started Authority Staffing last year, as a way to bring ex-convicts to full employment. But that’s a tiny fraction of the story.
You see, she’s doing this because her deep Christian faith has given her concrete direction. Even including the name of the company itself and the fact that it’s for-profit.
USUALLY I PROFILE FOR-PROFIT COMPANIES but I was so fascinated by this story that I just had to share.
I was introduced to Lucy Wallace by Stephanie Heacox, who I talked about last week. Lucy heads up Alchemy of Movement, where she delivers extremely energetic dance classes in Boulder.
But Lucy discovered an opportunity to bring dance into women’s prisons. At first she thought this might just be an occasional class, but over the last year it’s become amazing.
STEPHANIE HEACOX is launching a great new business, Senior Homeshares. It’s built on a powerful personal motivation to address pain and reduce anxiety.
You see, a few years ago, her mother was in the usual end-of-life bind about housing. She couldn’t sustain the family home, but didn’t want to move into Assisted Living or one of the other services for people who need support.
The financial burden was part of it, of course, but also the difficulty of making decisions to become dependent on others.
MASSAGE THERAPY is an interesting field. Despite having been around for many decades (and in the East, centuries), it’s still breaking into peoples’ awareness.
Yet it’s such a powerful addition to creating a healthy life.
I’ve been talking with Becky Garcia, who heads up Garden of Healing Massage Therapy here in Windsor. And I’ve had a chance to peek behind the scenes of the creation of her heart-centered service.
HAPPY LUCKY’S TEAHOUSE is a little shop in downtown Fort Collins. They have the largest tea selection in Colorado, as displayed on their ever-growing “Great Wall of Tea” alongside teapots, accessories, and silk scarves.
Silk scarves? What’s that about?
It turns out that those scarves were an important part of the genesis of this business. Read the rest of this entry »
YESTERDAY WE EXPERIENCED some great innovations in the business community.
At the Quid Novi Conference, I talked to all kinds of business leaders, all the way from startups to firms making billions of dollars. What a great environment for learning from the best!
I was also honored to have Small Fish and Quid Novi award three of the most amazing, incredible innovators in Colorado!
MEDICAL CARE is going through traumatic changes in this country. You might not be aware, but primary care family physicians are disappearing rapidly – either by being gobbled up into large care groups, or going out of business.
The net effect of this is that quality of primary care is going down and options are disappearing.
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JOHN MORRIS HAS AN AMAZING STORY.
After a devastating snowboarding accident in 2005, John went through all kinds of turmoil. He’ll be incapacitated for the rest of his life.
But that propels him into making an amazing contribution to the disabled community. Read the rest of this entry »
ON MONDAY I talked about Change Composites’ Umbo Helmet which they submitted for the Blue Ocean Challenge at CSU.
It was a day of great innovative ideas in a wide range of areas.
Today, I’m very pleased to see that this company just won second place in the competition yesterday, landing $5000 in prize money and nation-wide recognition.
Kudos to a great team with a powerful mission. You’re going to change the world!
DO YOU SEE THAT BUMP in the middle of the shield?
That’s an Umbo. It’s used to deflect swords and better defend the soldier.
So it’s interesting that a new company designing a better bike headgear has chosen to call it an Umbo Helmet.
This is a group with a mission, for sure.
The Values-Based Business 