Girlfriends Guide to Girl! Power
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Girlfriends Guide to Girl! Power
Dawniel Patterson-Winningham
Dawniel Patterson-Winningham is a successful corporate performance coach for a fortune 100 firm. In addition to this outstanding achievement she is a private life coach specializing in helping people achieve the dream of leaving their 9 - 5 and becoming entrepreneurs. She currently writes a Girl! Power monthly column for 2 online magazines. She is CEO of her own publishing company called Twin Power Publishing, in which she not only publishes her own books, but also coaches aspiring authors on completing their own self published titles. She provides pro-bono coaching to non-profit entities looking to expand the reach of the people they assist. She is the mother of 3 including twins and currently resides in Katy, Tx; a suburb of Houston.
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Girlfriends Guide to Girl! Power - Dawniel Patterson-Winningham
The Girlfriends Guide to Girl! Power
Dawniel Patterson-Winningham
Smashwords Edition October 2011
Girl! Power 2011
In this photo:
Left Angie Cathro – Author of I Know Why The Tattered, Torn, and Bruised are Beautiful, 2011 Available for purchase on amazon.com
Right (Afro)Tamika Booker – Banker/Model
Cover and Internal Design: HRD Design
Author Photo: Melissa Westbury/Shabby Chic Photography
Girl! Power Photo: Pat Whitty
DeedeeGIRL!© Dawniel Winningham, 2011. Except as provided by the Copyright Act [date, etc.] no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the author.
Cover and Internal Design: HRD Design
Author Photo: Melissa Bliss/Shabby Chic Photography
For more information on increasing your Girl! Power or to share how girl power has changed your life, I would love for you to visit my web site at: www.yourgirlpower.com
Follow me: www.twitter.com/yourgirlpower
On Face book www.facebook.com/authordawnielpattersonwinningham
Dedication
To my twins Hope and Faith, know that your mother loves you and wants the best for you always! Here is your instruction manual for life…
To all of the women who will love my son Tyler, here is your head start to happiness…
To all of the women I know and those I have not yet met, here is my gift to our generation and those to come. Use this information wisely…
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, She doesn't have what it takes.
They will say, Women don't have what it takes.
~Clare Boothe Luce
CONTENTS
DEDICATION
WHAT GIVES ME THE RIGHT?
INTRODUCTION
TO MY YOUNG GIRLFRIENDS…
TO MY COLLEGE GIRLFRIENDS...
TO MY CAREER GIRLFRIENDS…
TO MY MARRIED GIRLFRIENDS…
TO MY SINGLE GIRLFRIENDS…
TO MY DIVORCED GIRLFRIENDS…
TO MY MOMMY GIRLFRIENDS…
TO MY TROPHY GIRLFRIENDS…
TO MY DESIGNER GIRLFRIENDS…
TO MY PARTY GIRLFRIENDS…
TO MY (PLUS SIZED) GIRLFRIENDS …
TO MY GIRLFRIENDS WHO LOVE THE ENVIRONMENT (ALL OF US)…
TO MY SILVER GIRLFRIENDS…
GIRL! POWER DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
GIRL! POWER PARTY IDEAS
10 RULES FOR BEING A GREAT GIRLFRIEND
CLOSING THOUGHTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Foreword
What gives ME the right?
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.~Roseanne Barr.
As a professional coach I encounter many, many women, and I always find myself lending advice about situations and issues that they face daily. As I work to coach them on business, inevitably there comes a point, sometimes very quickly, where business and personal meet. It is at that point that I find myself giving advice on both.
Let’s face it. As women our emotions guide us. More than likely if I am having problems at home, they impact my work. The faster I get over my problems at home, the better my work becomes. We carry our problems everywhere we go like a purse.
In my professional capacity I advise professionals on how to improve their relationships, performance, and persona. Naturally personal aspirations and challenges become a part of that conversation.
In short I have years and years of providing advice to women just like you. Old or young, it doesn’t matter. It must be something in my eyes that says Ask me!
, and they do.
When it comes to me and my girlfriends, I am most often the one that has the most to say, right, wrong, or indifferent about how they should handle a particular situation.
Because I love to write, I thought to myself, let me get this on paper. We all need help, regardless of our station in life, or at least a different perspective on how to handle things.
Some of this you may know already. When you know better, you do better (sometimes! *smile*). Some of this may be a first for you. As the world changes, those life lessons that we have taken for granted have begun to be lost in translation… and in some cases, just lost.
This is an attempt to share some of what I was taught by Big Mama, my mama, my aunts, and a series of friends and acquaintances throughout the years. Share this book with your best friends, with your daughters and your sisters.
Donate a copy of this book to the library for the lost girl who doesn’t have the support system she may need to be successful in this big, cold world. Start a Girl! Power group and make sure you and your crew stay grounded.
Most importantly, use this book yourself, even if you spend your head nodding every chapter, saying to yourself, Dee is Crazy,
or shaking your head and saying, She is wrong for that.
Sometimes my information may not be just the right thing for you, and that is fine.
With that being said, when you do finish this book, I challenge you to do something! If you feel the advice I am giving is not right for you, then I challenge you to figure out what is the right thing for. My feelings won’t be hurt that you didn’t take my advice (well slightly, but I will heal).
My motive behind this book is simple. In order for the world to be successful, we as women must be successful. Happiness for women is a must. We must love ourselves unconditionally. Girl! Power is what ensures the success of the Human Race. Without Girl! Power there is no future. As your power grows, so does the power of the women around