You are one of the hardest working women I know.

Aug 31, 2018 | Business

If someone has ever said that to you, this special message is for you:

It’s Labor Day weekend, the official end to summer. Here’s to you, working woman, for all of the projects you are thinking about launching in the Fall, the impact you already see yourself making, and to the many ways you imagine paying it forward with intensity. Relax and dream…

You are told “you are the hardest working woman” for a reason….You empower people to live their dreams and make our community and your companies great. You are watched and maybe they even wish you would slow down a little and take better care of yourself. Enjoy…

I salute you. I look forward to the many ways that we might collaborate in the 4th quarter and beyond. The October 4, 5, and 6 Women’s Retreat I’m creating will have a unique way you can attend it and still be present at those special celebrations that might seem like conflicts. Nuggets of gold, transformational tips, career and leadership development, phenomenal conversations await you live and virtually. Get ready… 

I wish you, along with the other 74.6 million working women in the civilian labor force, a peaceful, rejuvenating, slow, happy holiday.

This message comes with appreciation for the awesome difference you make, and to the family, faith, friends, children, and colleagues that support your labors.

  • Almost 47 percent of U.S. workers are women.
  • More than 39 percent of women work in occupations where women make up at least three-quarters of the workforce.
  • Women own close to 10 million businesses, accounting for $1.4 trillion in receipts.
  • Female veterans tend to continue their service in the labor force: About 3 out of 10 serve their country as government workers (Source)

Let’s talk soon,

Joel Martin, President & Owner, Triad West Training, Coaching & Consulting, Positively Powerful Women’s Retreat

Take a chance. Try out that new idea.

Jun 26, 2018 | Coaches Corner, collaboration, Diversity & Inclusion, empowerment

Take a chance. Try out that new idea.

 

It was an awesome day to pivot to transformative leadership with joyful, vibrant, contributing women who are “paying it forward with intensity”. I “invented” a new way for women to connect, collaborate and be informed based on two models that inspired me. Yes, I was anxious since I’d never done this before. The vote is in. it worked! Truthfully, I am honored and delighted. 100% of the surveys said “Yes They would recommend attending the next Summit to others. When asked this question, here is what two of our guests said:

  • A million times yes! Raw conversations with real solutions, networking, breaking through the imposter syndrome. All ages and races – diversity. REMINDER THAT I ‘M NOT ALONE! Biggest ‘aha’ moment of the Summit, “To realize that the thing I’m being told is a pain is truly an asset to my development. It’s fine-tuning how I use it for good not evil.
  • (I) enjoyed the speakers and their diversity, the sub-groups and topics…(my aha was) that we are more alike than we are different. Every speaker was transparent.

Looking at this event “from a distance” here’s what I learned about taking a chance and trying out a new idea.

Just keep breathing!

  1. Have the end result you want in mind.
  2. Make it known – in public. Declare it.
  3. Ask for what you need, want, to bring it to life. You have a 50/50 chance of getting it.
  4. Let people know how important they are to you.
  5. Say what you care about. Don’t lose heart. Keep going.
  6. Trust that you are not alone in wanting to pass it forward with intensity.
  7. No matter what the result is, be happy. You did it!

I appreciate the AZ Diamondbacks, Heritage Center, ASU Center for the Study Race and Democracy, Jason’s Deli and Pauline Sandell who made sure we had more than enough food to eat, Co-facilitator Ilana Ruber Lowery, Photographer Elena Thornton, the best speakers ever Deborah Cox, Choo Tay, Anna Maria Maldonado, Angela M. Allen, Debbie Castaldo and Linda Walton. We love all of the guests who attended, in the first “two-part format” Positively Powerful Women’s Leadership Summit. (We are looking fierce with our D’back caps!)

The Positively Powerful Women’s Leadership Summit

The Positively Powerful Women’s Leadership Summit

Apr 30, 2018 | 0 comments

PPWA globeJoin Facilitators Dr. Joel P. Martin and Ilana Lowery, speakers and content-matter experts for a highly effective, dynamic, flexible, and interactive, women’s gathering. The World Café style multi-generational dialogs will include the issues and challenges we face and the solutions, resources, and information we need to deal with our health, businesses and nonprofits’ performance and $well being. Let your voice be heard! It’s new, fresh and we want you to be involved.

Positively Powerful Participant Guide and light refreshments are included.

The Positively Powerful Speakers who will lead off are:

  • Anna Maria Maldonado, Director of Sales & Marketing, Care1st Health Plan of Arizona, Inc. (Health Advocacy)
  • Dr. Angela M. Allen, Banner Alzheimer’s Institute and Dementia Care Initiative Coordinator (Care Giving, Alzheimer’s)
  • Debbie Castaldo, Vice President of Corporate and Community Impact for the Arizona Diamondbacks, also the Executive Director of the Arizona Diamondbacks Foundation (Performance)
  • Linda Walton, Author, doctoral candidate and Founder of Achieving My Purpose (AMP – Personal Purpose)
  • Deborah Cox, Assistant Executive Director of ASU Center for the Study of Race and Democracy (Social Activism And Voting)
  • Choo Tay, CEO/President of media88 President & Publisher, AZToday (What you need to know about social media)

 

 

$35.00 Early Registration Ends June 7th – $50.00 Late Registration 

If you are a woman undergraduate or high school student 18+ years of age who would like to attend the Summit, please contact the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at csrd@asu.edu.

 

The World Café is a “structured conversational process that facilitates and encourages discussions in small groups and then links groups’ ideas within a larger group to access the collective knowledge and wisdom of participants in the room.”

Hong Yee Mei, 2018 Positively Powerful Educator Says, “I Never Gave Up!”

Hong Yee Mei, 2018 Positively Powerful Educator Says, “I Never Gave Up!”

Apr 3, 2018 | empowerment, leadership, positively powerful woman

Hong Yee Mei, 2018 Positively Powerful Educator Says, “I Never Gave Up!”

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Hong Yee Mei, 2018 PPW Award Recipient

Positively powerful people are visionary leaders.  They make their vision into reality without any evidence, permission, or authority from others that it will occur. Yee Mei is one of these leaders. She is a Positively Powerful Woman Award recipient of 2018 and this is how she brought her vision for an Asian woman’s empowerment training to life, and why. 

The flame she never gave up.

Yee Mei says “I watched my Mother and learned from her. I wanted all women to know that life is more than just duty and obligation. Women want to do better, they just don’t know how. 10 years ago I wanted to have a women’s training but there was no one who could do this until Dr. Joel Martin came to work with Milestone. She’s a transformational trainer who focuses on women’s leadership and empowerment.”

Yee Mei watched her Mom die from cancer never having taken the trips that she wanted to take. Even when Yee Mei said she would take care of everything, her Mom said, “No, I will wait for your father.” Her Mother put family first as a dutiful wife and mother. Yee Mei continues, “When Mom passed away in 2004 I was shocked. It spread so quickly. I spent Mom’s final days with her in the hospital.”

This experience, as well as others having to do with women’s beliefs, became a flame within Yee Mei for a women’s empowerment training.  Yee Mei is a single Mum who refused to let stereotypes stop her from having her baby, Caleigh. Most ordinary people, women especially, give up on their dreams and don’t think that they even deserve one because of the prevailing beliefs about women, marriage, family, values.

Don’t give up your dream!

Unlike too many who give up too soon, Yee Mei Hong never thought her dream for Women’s Empowerment was impossible. 10 years after she imagined it, talked it over with Milestone CEO Douglas Chee, she declared it. Then on 2016 October 28, 29 and 30th, 110 women joined Yee Mei and Dr. Joel Martin in the manifestation of both of their dreams and declarations. With Yee Mei Hong’s successful pioneering of the Women’s Empowerment Workshop in Malaysia, they have created “her-story”. She has produced two Women’s Empowerment Events for Asia.

Meet Hong Ye Mei, May 17, 2018.

Manager and Co-founder of Milestone Trainings in Malaysia, Yee Mei has had 20 years of experience in the transformational training industry. In the last 6 years, she has been instrumental in building Milestone Trainings from an idea to an organization that has seen 1368 new students in the transformational training program in 2017. This work which bears the hallmark of her role and contribution has changed the lives of the graduates and cascaded into their families, workplace, and communities.

Essence Ventures: The Power of Values and being Valued.

Essence Ventures: The Power of Values and being Valued.

Jan 4, 2018 | Business, Coaching, collaboration, conference, Diversity & Inclusion, empowerment, Events, global, leadership, marketing, positively powerful woman, ppwa 2017, PPWA 2018, relationships, STEM, strength, techology, transformation, Women

Essence Ventures: The Power of Values and being Valued.

“Values are the morals that we live by. They reside deep within us, and they affect our emotions. They are tough to alter, and often reside in our unconsciousness” (Source: How To Be A Positively Powerful Person! The Spirit-Filled Edition. Dr. Joel Martin). 

Values keep us healthy — emotionally, spiritually, and physically. They are the ones that we must unquestionably keep, and the ones that must direct our actions. Our values are our strengths. As a consultant, executive coach and facilitator, I’ve been called me ‘The Transformation Generator’ for a reason.  My unwavering promise is that I make sure the people I work for achieve their ULTIMATE goals in life and business. I value what they value and their missions as my own. The value that keeps me motivated is commitment. 

Dr. Joel P. Martin, now President of Positively Powerful / Triad West, Inc. and daughter, Cybel Martin, now ICG Local 600 Director of Photography.

So, I had an emotional response when I read that Essence magazine, a client of my ad agency years ago, is Black owned once again. The values Essence personified were acknowledgment, respect and commitment. They were committed to bringing equity and equality as “a marquee lifestyle brand for African American women.”

Congratulations to “@Essence Ventures LLC, a company launched in 2017 by Shea Moisture founder Richelieu Dennis. As a result, the Essence brand has returned to a 100% black-owned independent company, after 12 years of being owned by Time.….As part of the new deal, Essence President Michelle Ebanks will continue in her role and join its board of directors. In addition, Michelle Ebanks, along with a Black female-led executive team, will have an equity stake in the business….Said Ebanks in a statement. “In addition, it represents a critical recognition, centering and elevation of the Black women running the business from solely a leadership position to a co-ownership position.” Derek Dingle adds, “The “groundbreaking” transaction “demonstrates that a number of African American entrepreneurs can execute with vision and wherewithal to return valuable institutions to African American ownership – a rare event in contemporary Black business history.” @blackenterprise @Essence Read more here.

BOCA Advertisement created by JPMartin Associates for the Black Owned Communications Alliance. Photograph by John Pinderhughes.

Dr. Joel P. Martin is a marketing, coaching, training, and consulting professional. The former owner and operator of a full-service NYC-based advertising agency, she founded Triad West, Inc. more than 15 years ago to provide clients with expertise in developing leaders; diverse and inclusive cultures; and aligned high-performing teams. She specializes in transformative leadership development and empowerment programs for Women.  Dr. Martin provides services across the U.S. and globally. She has earned an MA in Psychology, Ph.D. in Communications and admission as a Fellow of the Wharton Business School. She is the founder of the Positively Powerful Woman Awards & Programs celebrating its 11th year. Triad West, Inc. is a woman  owned and operated WBENC certified corporation.