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Each day something wonderful happens for me or someone that I put out an ASK FOR, because I have learned that when I need something if I put it out there and ASK wonderful things happen, and so today I thought that I would share three recent ASK Stories that recently happened to show you how powerful an ASK can be.

1. One of my members Laura Jorge of the For You/NAFE network had a slight stroke on Nov 17^th and had to go to the hospital. The stroke left her right side numb, she cannot walk and also with some speech problems. The other day because she has no insurance they were just going to send her home, as they said they could not find any nursing home that offers physical therapy  to take her so they had no choice but to send her home.  What made me even angrier is that when the doctor told her he had to send her home because she had no insurance she said to him “I have no family and no one to care for me”, his response was “It’s not my problem”, well those where the wrong words for me to hear and thank heavens I am blessed with some dynamic members who have been nursing home administrators and hospital administrators. These dynamic people got on the phone and made calls and gave me all kinds of information and one of them, Carol Rock contacted a Nursing Home owner of 6 homes and shared the story and now it looks like they may take her in one of their homes.  Thank heavens for people with heart, there still are some out there. It would have been terrible to send someone home that cannot walk, hardly talk, still using a bedpan to take care of themselves, and all because they have no insurance.

Laura has worked for over 20 years and paid into the social security system and is only 56 so does not yet qualify for SS help,  but she is a human being and should be treated as one.  I was so amazed as to how many of my members also got on the cause and were making calls to people they know, and in fact we sent an email to the social worker that if they put her out on the street we would have the Media including TV and adult protection at the hospital when they forced her to leave> So I guess they did not want all that attention, as they are on the ballot to sell their hospital to a group of doctors and at this time bad PR of turning a woman out on the street that cannot walk, or talk and who has no one to care for them would not be a good thing to do,  as now they are saying it would not be safe to send her home since she has no one, a far cry from a few days ago when they said she had to go home because she has no insurance.  Her church has jumped in and they are trying to raise funds to get her Sister here from South Africa.  I have put out another great ASK for people with air miles that might want to donate some that could be turned into a ticket for her sister so let see what happens from that.

People I find are wonderful and when you ASK you also give them the opportunity to serve another.

2.   Recently a client called me and said there was a big medical conference in a town          and he wanted to send two of his people to it, but it was a little out of his budget

      and he said “Robbie you know everyone, can you get some free tickets.”  Well

      It seems when someone asks me for something it suddenly becomes my mission

      as I love helping others. So immediately I put out an email to my members and

others I knew to see if anyone had a ticket and got no response that any one had     any tickets, Then I remembered I knew someone who owned Business Journal in the area and that perhaps they could get me three Press Passes, one for the two guys and one for me since I would also need to be there, since I was responsible for getting them there. .In a very short time she emailed me back and said it’s all arranged but you will need to write the story for our Journal and get it to me right away after the event.

      Well yes I am a writer, but have not done much writing on covering a Health

      Conference. My strength is in business or women’s articles, but because the

      favor needed to be done so my client’s guys could get to event I said yes.

      Event had over 800 people and top people from all over the world so I was

      glad that I got asked to do this as I made some fantastic connections and

      got to interview top health leaders not only from CA but from across the

      Country as well.  They, my clients sales team also learned a lot and made

      some fantastic connections, some they had been trying for months to reach.

      So here you can see why the power of SHOWING UP is so important.

I also learned a lot about our health system, never dreaming that a few weeks later I would be dealing with our health system for a member. I wrote the article that ended up being a front page story that got circulated to hundred of thousands of their subscribers and there was my name as the author, and all my contact information at the end of the long article. You can view that article in the current issue of the Inland Empire Business Journal on the front page Its titled Southern CA Health Care Summit – A Look Into the Future of the Health Care Industry, by Robbie Motter. Wow it sure pays to ASK, and already the paper got calls about what a great article and several have even called me to learn more about what I do. The guys that I got into event went back to their boss my client and  told him they learned a lot from being there with me on how to work a room and become a power networker. I also had to step out of my comfort zone and write a health article which was totally new to me.

3        About two and ½ years ago I heard a gifted young pianist name Kyle Shafiee who at that time was attending a high school in Orange Country for the Performing

Arts. He was magnificent and I thought, would it not be great if I could open the

      door for this young man to meet Carlo Ponti (Sophia Loren’s son) who is the

      Concert Maestro of the San Bernardino Symphony> I knew that the former

Mayor of San Bernardino,  Judith Valles also a friend,  was responsible for     bringing Carlo Ponti  to SB , and that my great friend June Durr had worked for Judith when it was being done.

      So I called June and she got tickets for Kyle and his family and a friend and I

      to attend his last concert for the year that year which is always the one that

      has a young entertainer guest performer. Kyle was so thrilled to be able to go

and after the concert they have a champagne  reception and Kyle was able to be there and meet Carlo Ponti We had also arranged to get a CD of Kyle’s work to Carlo prior to the meeting. At the reception Carlo said to Kyle, “I am flying back to Italy tomorrow but when I return I want to audition you, but 2008 has already been filled, but we will see about having you as our guest artist for the performance in 2009. It was a dream come true for this young performer, just meeting Carlo Ponti for Kyle who was 17 at the time was a gift in itself, but to also get auditioned by him with the possibility of getting to play was more than he ever dreamed of.  When Carlo came back he did audition him and loved his passion and gave him two songs to learn and booked him for his guest for 2009.  On Nov 21^st I had the honor of sitting in the audience to hear Kyle play at the San Bernardino Symphony and he was magnificent and what was more exciting was that there where more than 134 pages of music Kyle had to learn to play that night and Kyle used no music> He played it all from memory and Carlo was loving every minute of it as did the orchestra as it was a magnificent performance I was thrilled as I watched his fingers go over the keyboard it was magical.  After at the Champagne reception Carlo told my friend June who helped me get him there, how Kyle Shafiee was outstanding and we would be seeing more of him and that he planned to book him again. At this reception we also arranged to give Carlo’s assistant two more tapes of two more outstanding performers I recently came in contact with ,Cristina Fontanelli, who lives in NY who has already sung for the Boston Pops. and Leisa Breen a magnificent singer from the Palm Springs area, so who  knows, perhaps they too will be singing and performing for the San Bernardino Symphony.  And again it is starting from an ASK….

Go to Kyle’s website and hear the music yourself and learn more about this talented performer. http://www.kyleshafiee.com/cds.htm  Remember getting him there all stared with an ASK…

The morale of this is that nothing is impossible and that whatever it is you want is at your fingertips, just reach out and let people know what it is you want or need.

I have hundreds of stories like those above that have happened because I put it out there and ASKED, but it starts with you, you have to ask yourself some questions, what is it you really want and need, who do you know that you can ASK, and remember they may not be the person that can help you but perhaps it is someone in their data base that has the connection. 

It is truly about SHOWING UP and the POWER is in the ASKING, start doing it and you too will see the magic that can happen.

November lots of great things happened for me because of people opening doors for me,  I did a television taping for my network that aired on a local television station and got a copy of the interview that I will be able to post on  For You Network Murrieta For You page, that door opened for me from Ruthee Goldkorn the Executive Director of the Ms. Wheelchair Ca event. I took one of my members with me Fannioe Green, so she got to experience her first Television interview as I thought how better to say how great a network is and has been for a member than to have the member share their story of what being a member has been to them.

I spoke at the Menifee Chamber this month and that opened the door for a presentation I will be doing in Dec for another group. I held a big fundraiser to benefit Ms Wheelchair CA and the money earned from the fundraiser allowed them to pay their balance for the Float they will have their winner on for the Rose Bowl Parade, I spoke for a group in Riverside,  and that opportunity came from the groups found Lisa Ramsey. I met with a corporation that I was referred to by one of my members Yvonne Navarrete, with reference to a women’s conference they will do in January and they hired me and I was able to recommend my friend and partner June Davidson as perhaps another speaker and they met with her and hired her as well.

Already Dec has much happening, I am doing a Marketing and PR workshop for the Resource Center for Non Profit Management in Riverside Dec 1^st that is open to their members and others that might want to attend.

I am leaving for VA Dec 2^nd to see my daughter Lori, and then will be driving to NY to attend a NAFE breakfast and will reconnect with two individuals John DePrima and Sue Schuessel that worked for me in New York 25 years ago. Reconnect with Md friends Paula Constantino, perhaps Shirley Foote, and friends in VA Jane Croskery that I have not seen for years as well as spend time with my daughter Lori and grandchildren Jessica and Joey in VA before flying back on the 8^th in time to run my Murrieta For You/NAFE meeting on the 9^th.

I will be doing a presentation on Dec 14^th for a Youth group, and maybe attending an event on Dec 18^th at the Playboy Mansion in Hollywood, and will be doing a radio interview on the 30^th as well as doing my own Blog Talk Radio Show live from NY on the 6^th. with my guest Connie Harryman who lives in South Carolina.

Life is wonderful and most of the things I learn about or do come from SHOWING UP and ASKING. And I am always honored when I can use SHOWING UP and ASKING to help others as well,  as my recent SHOW UP stories relate above. As it’s not about US but how we can HELP others that is important.

Until my next blog, keep SHOWING UP and ASKING doe what it is you need and want, believe me it works.

Robbie Motter