Unlocking Secrets For Women

Domestic Violence…. a story I know well…

admin — Tue, 21 May 2013 01:17:34 +0000

I decided to do something different from now on and hold my interviews in my kitchen. It’s real, authentic, natural and an easy way for women to share their stories.

When I first met Kamal Dhillon, she had not yet written her book. She has connected with me several years back when I was producing television and had asked me if I knew of someone who could help her tell her story. I don’t know if I was any help to her back then, but she clearly felt she needed to write her book.

Black and Blue Sari is her work, BLACK AND BLUE SARI - her story and she is one of my friends and a true personal woman hero. Kamal wrote her book as part of her healing and the healing of her children. Black and Blue Sari is her story of truth, pain, trauma, and all that is ugly to us as humans and yet found her way to forgiveness and hope. It was my honor to interview her.

More on Kamal here Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/news/Peace+serenity+through+forgiveness+Kamal+Dhillon+survived+years+abuse+shares+message+hope/7690667/story.html#ixzz2TswIGvLC

Kamal Dhillon, pictured with her dog P.J., is the recipient of the Courage to Come Back Award in the social-adversity category. Dhillon was beaten by her husband for several years before fleeing in the middle of the night with her children. She now offers talks about domestic violence and counsels battered women.

If you need help….. go to : When Love Hurts

Listen to Kamal’s brave and transparent story right here as she shares with me in my kitchen:

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

Sandpiper Golf Course – Jim and Candace take a golf cart ride!

admin — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:47:18 +0000

Join Jim and I for a fun ride on a golf cart around the spectacular Sandpiper Golf Course in Harrison Mills, B.C. www.prettyestatesresort.com

Come and joins us for some fun!! By the way.. if you haven’t guessed by now, Candace knows NOTHING about Golf except that she ISN’T supposed to be on the golf course!

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Rowena’s Inn on the River, Harrison Mills, B.C.

admin — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:19:45 +0000

Special thanks to Betty Anne -owner of Rowena’s Inn on the River, Harrison Mills, B.C. for her amazing vision for the property that has been in her family for many years. Betty Anne is now soul owner after the passing of all her siblings and parents. She has envisioned an amazing bed and breakfast that is so much more. We enjoyed a wonderful weekend that can only be described in my video blog (see link below) and we ended the day with a golf cart driven by Jim around the amazing property that includes a 2100 foot air strip!

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www.prettyestatesresort.com

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Street Cat Designs- Right out of Beautiful, Vancouver, British Columbia

admin — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:38:07 +0000

At the recent large home show in Vancouver, held at BC Place, I came across a booth that made me instantly walk over! I love jewelery, who doesn’t, but I particularly love jewelery that is truly unique and innovative. After introducing myself to the designer, Pam Jackson, I oohed and awed over her unique and classy designer bracelets that she intricately crocheted out of silver and gold wire!! Yes, you heard me.. she crocheted this gorgeous piece of jewelry!! Please feel free to check out her designs for yourself!! Pamela, they are truly gorgeous, made in BC!

Check her out at

http://www.streetcatdesigns.net/aboutus.html

Gorgeous!

UBC Sauder School of Business “Miss Representation” Panel Jan. 17, 2013

admin — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:56:37 +0000

Once again, thanks to my friend Stephanie Morgan-Black from the Vancouver Board of Trade, Women’s Leadership Circle I was invited to be part of another Miss Representation panel. This time it was hosted by the UBC Sauder School of Business.

I absolutely love this documentary as it provides a format for many diverse discussions, opinions and life changing opportunities for ALL people, everywhere. Miss Representation is making a difference while providing an opportunity to change the way our youth experience media and the every present negative values that advertisers insist on to sell things we fundamentally don’t need.

My passion is that one day, everyone, everywhere, will understand what it is to treat one another with the highest level of human dignity we can provide. Let’s honor the human race we are all a part of and become great “Citizens of the World” using COURAGE in exchange for fear, and do what we can to provide respect to all.

Using the power of our higher intelligence we have the responsibility to lift up one another, sharing this world with honor, regardless of gender, race, values, or any other barrier our limitations create.

Please enjoy the dialogue and interviews and find out more about what you can do to change the direction of the world we created in media by committing ourselves to be messengers of catalytic, positive change, ultimately achieving ” Gender Blindness”.

Interview with Denise Baker, Assistant Dean, Hari B. Varshney Business Career Centre

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Interview with Bob G. Elton, Former CEO BC Hydro Corporation

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Interview with Darlene Forst Producer at Skydance Entertainment Inc.

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PANEL DISCUSSIONS-

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Moderator, Mary Lynn Young, Associate Dean of Faculty of Arts at UBC, Candace Newton-Chaput, President, Unlocking Secrets for Women Resources Inc., Bob Elton, Former CEO BC Hydro, Darlene Forst, President Sky Dance Entertainment Inc.

Jeremy’s Place- A Compassionate Response in Memory of a Precious Child

admin — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:56:43 +0000

Recently, I was invited to the Open House of The Honourable Linda Reid for Christmas celebrations. As usual, there are always amazing people to meet and this time was no different. My husband Jim and I were introduced to many amazing people that support Linda and the work she does on behalf of all of us. After giving Linda a hug, she pointed to a woman I had already noticed across the room and said ” you need to know about this woman”.

Seeing this sweet woman’s warm smile, I introduced my husband and myself and began tolistento an amazing story of a precious child who lost his little life to domestic violence. I listened to how this family began the work of healing with the support of others and their committment to prevent this from happening to another child. Sadly out of heartache comes all the efforts that make a difference in the life of others. Through community support and a successful goal to provide education around this tradgedy, this amazing womanand her group of volunteers, work out of their home in a small office, with little to no funding to ensure that educational tools, pajama’s and other items are provided to benefit those victimized by domestic violence. I witnessed repeated acts of violence growing up and was a victim myself. Although I left home at the young of 12 the effects remain and the value of a child is marred by self doubt and blame. I have worked very hard in spite of many circumstances and situations to grow and learn. I didn’t have many tools back then, and did the best I could to gain as much information and education as I needed while trying to raise my own 4 children, without this much needed support in my own life.

I value the work and focus that Jeremy’s foundation is committed to. Had I have had these resources when I was growing up, perhaps my life would have looked different. But for now, all I can do is be grateful for lesson’s learned and lend my support and story to organizations such as this that are working with the little that they have to make a difference to children everywhere!

Thank you to everyone at Jeremy’s place for this unsung hero’s work benefiting many. Your efforts are not unnoticed and although often unseen, they make the life of a child who has experienced domestic violence, or witnessed it, a hopeful one!

For more information on Jeremy’s Memorial Foundation click here:

Bless you and in all that you do! I support your work

L,J,K – (love, joy, kindness)

Candace Newton -Chaput

Thoughts- Is life fair? Our new book series kicks it off with breasts and cancer!

admin — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 05:20:35 +0000

Tonight a new friend has just had both breasts removed because of cancer and is also ironically the author of the first book in our newest series called The Not So Common Sense Guide to ______ Breastfeeding- (Stay tuned to our new series on many topics by many experts and ordinary people coming soon).

In her new ebook, she wisely shared her sage but practical experience for all the moms who struggle with the “natural” task of breast feeding and at the same time gave honor to the breasts that fed her babies, just before having her surgery to remove them. How ironic that what naturally gave life to her babies was going to harm her if not removed!

I texted her to let her know I was thinking of her after her procedure today and she was being very brave, yet was vulnerable about the pain she was in at the time. She has been silence since… I hope it’s because she is resting comfortably and without pain.

I sit here in my family room after working all day and thinking that it’s bed time after watching Oprah’s behind the scenes program about building her network and trying to listen for lessons to be learned for myself. While recovering from pneumonia and wondering why things have to be so darn hard for so many people, I think about my friend her and another dear friend in the US who is trying to keep a dream and business alive in spite of set backs. There is just so much going on and no one is immune.

My new friend with the breast surgery today is a very brave single mom with 3 teenagers who has been reluctantly unemployed in spite of her amazing talent, gifts and resume. For her to have to have this surgery, so intensely dramatic and so close to the holidays without a viable income, is too much to ask of one person. I hate cancer. It has no good purpose, yet it seems to have it’s way far too much. In spite of these challenges I am reminded of what the real Dr. Patch Adams told me a few years back when I discussed with my him my baby granddaughter’s cancer (whom by the way is fully recovered). He said “don’t let cancer define her”.. in other words, don’t let cancer rear it’s head and steal attention from all the good things in life.. I guess I just feel that cancer doesn’t deserve that much of a platform. So tonight I honor my new friend and think of her physical challenges she is embarking on and say ” good for you Julie to ensure that it doesn’t take much of a chunk out of your life” (literally speaking) I say to you look at this challenge in the face, the way you have all your others and say what I heard from Fran Drescher when we interviewed her in LA a few years ago…. cancer???? SCHMANCER!!!!

Lots of love and good thoughts out to you my new friend…. looking forward to seeing you up and around and with a less saggy pair of boobs!! lol…

Stay tuned for one of the first books in our new series by our newest author, who has just overcome cancer!!

L, J, K

(Love, Joy, Kindness)

Candace

So Excited to offer you FREE Help……today and Wednesday!

admin — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:49:56 +0000

I am very excited to offer you this amazing relationship support from New York Times Best Seller, Laura Doyle!!!

Today and Wednesday Nov. 15, 2012 she is offering a free phone call for singles and marrieds who want to learn what they can do to find the love of their lives or keep the love alive!! Many of you know that I met my wonderful husband Jim, as a result of reading The Surrendered Single after discovering her book on a trip to LA! The book changed my life and I met the man of my dreams… you can too! Learn how here http://www.mcssl.com/app/?af=1500390

This is NOT a “quick fix” magical false promise manipulation, but rather a true and honest inward growth that allows you to see what might have been keeping you from experiencing real love in your life.

Do yourself a favor.. it’s free…. contact Laura and sign up for her free phone call! You won’t be sorry!
Are you ready to super-charge your relationship?

I am writing this to tell you about an extraordinary woman and a life-altering seminar that will inject passion, intimacy, and fulfillment into your relationship – immediately (and it’s f*ree!). My colleague and New York Times best-selling author, Laura Doyle, has created a unique, simple, and highly effective philosophy that has helped hundreds of thousands of women in 26 countries achieve the relationships that have always dreamed of.

Laura is partnering with the co-founder of “Heart’s Desire,” Gladys Diaz, to present an eye-opening tele-seminar called:

“Mind-Blowing Relationship Tools that Work Immediately”

Monday, November 12th
9:00 PM Eastern

Mindblowing Relationship Tools That Work Immediately

In this transformational seminar, you will hear about a controversial – yet completely natural – approach to relationships that’s guaranteed to give you the joy and intimacy you have always craved. Specifically, you’ll learn:

• The indispensable first step to achieving a passionate relationship.
• What makes you totally irresistible to your man (and it’s not about the way you look!).
• 3 phrases that guarantee intimacy to get the connection you crave.
• Why he’ll want to do more for you when you start doing less for him.

And so much more!

At the end of this Free call, you’ll be excited to apply these secrets immediately to achieve the relationship of your dreams. You will learn how to make yourself happy in a way that will make him want to please you. Watch him become more manly when you become more womanly (this is the fun part!).

If your relationship has become stagnant – or if you want to strengthen an already amazing relationship – you owe it to yourself and your man to attend this seminar. You have nothing to lose, but your unfulfilled desires!

Here is the link to the site for more info and registration:

Mindblowing Relationship Tools That Work Immediately

Date: Monday, November 12th 2012

Time: 9:00 PM Eastern
(that’s 8 PM Central, 7 PM Mountain, 6 PM Pacific)

Ill be there! Will you?
LJK, Candace

P.S. Spots on this f*ree call are limited. Reserve yours now!

Please Help Me Remember Your Name- Laverne Gfroerer

admin — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:36:23 +0000

Please Help Me Remember Your Name

Laverne Gfroerer - Music for Healing

An elderly woman was standing in line at the bank, arm in arm with her son Gordon. She had progressing Alzheimer’s and was wending her way graciously through increasing moments of confusion and fog. A woman, obviously a long-time friend, greeted her with loving enthusiasm and the elderly woman looked, for a moment, lost. Then she gathered herself together, smiled and said, “I know that you know me, and that I must know you, but my memory is not very good these days. Please help me remember your name.”

Her son, so moved by her grace as this illness took hold, by how she was able to not pretend to know someone, but simply state how things were for her, wrote a song, a moving tribute of a son to a mother. It is a gift to us all. Here is one verse of the song.

Please Help Me Remember Your Name

written by Gordon Light

Please help me remember your name, my mind goes to sleep, I’m a little ashamed

I don’t mean to slight you but I’m asking again, please help me remember your name.

A time may well come when the dark is at hand, when memory dries up and comes to an end.

And who will I be if I forget who I am? Stay close, I’ll be needing a friend,

To help me remember my name, when it’s slipped from my mind and I just can’t explain.

In the grim muddy moments of confusion and pain, please help me remember my name.

Wes Foster lies in his room at Kiwanis Care Centre in North Vancouver, gentle music playing (Finding the Still Point, music for healing). The music is beautiful, peaceful, the Vancouver Chamber Choir in one of its best moments. Foster Is 65, former principal clarinet of the Vancouver Symphony, and an amazing musician and human being.

He was stricken with early onset Alzheimer’s at 56 and now cannot speak or feed himself, but today he knows us and holds our hands tightly. The music has brought him back from the shadows. His brilliant smile and alert eyes connect and we know beyond the shadow of a doubt that for a brief moment he understands. This is both tragic and miraculous, and makes us understand how vital it is that friends find the courage to keep connected, to keep the essence of this man, now so altered, in their hearts.

Andy Hackh was a kind and gentle spirit, manager and stage manager for opera companies and orchestras across the country. He also worked with the Vancouver Chamber Choir for a while and lived for a number of years on the North Shore. In his late 50s he began to struggle with dementia. One night he was beaten in an alley and the dementia took hold. He died at 62 in Riverview Psychiatric Hospital, unable to communicate, lost in a world we can’t understand. The only thing that reached inside and brought back his smile was his opera music, which the care aides played constantly to soothe his anxiety.

Wishing to honour those who struggle with debilitating illnesses, and their remarkable caregivers, the Vancouver Chamber Choir is creating the third and final CD in their Music for Healing Series. Titled A Quiet Place, music for healing III, it completes the circle begun by Finding the Still Point – music for healing, designed for use in palliative care and in alternative therapy sessions, and Unexpected Gifts – music for healing II (the family set – dialogues for families in crisis), designed for families going through the serious illness or loss of a child.

So often those who are struck with debilitating diseases become invisible. Friends and colleagues don’t know how to be with them as they change, so they stay away. It can be a lonely time. The intention of this project is to bring them back into focus, the music providing a time of respite and inner calm. It is our way of saying, ‘You do not stand alone.’

A Quiet Place will be funded by individuals, businesses or circles of friends who wish to dedicate lines or pages in the CD booklet in honour of loved ones who have struggled, or are still struggling with illness. Besides the pages for Foster and Hackh, a number of pages are already being funded for dedication for other North Shore residents:

Marion Haney, long time teacher and resident of the North Shore who handled Alzheimer’s with amazing grace.
Blaine Woit, who struggled courageously with ALS at a too early age and never lost his spirit.
Roger Dancey, stricken with Parkinson’s and the dementia that eventually accompanied it, but a loving gentleman to the end.
Dorothea Douglas-Henry/Yates who lived lovingly despite dementia claiming her memory.

If you would like to participate in this project in some way please contact Laverne Gfroerer at vernsdtr@telus.net or 604-985-3280. More information about sponsorship of this project can be found at www.vancouverchamberchoir.com and click on the box A Quiet Place.

Laverne Gfroerer is a CGA on the North Shore, a professional singer with the Vancouver Chamber Choir for 30 years and creator (with conductor Jon Washburn) of the Music for Healing series. She is a volunteer healing touch practitioner who works with many people who are struggling or facing their mortality.

CURRENTLY THEIR PROJECT IS SEEKING DONORS TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE FOLLOWING CD PROJECT FOR HEALING:

Contact Laverne (above) to see how you can contribute to these beautiful works of healing:

THE OPTIONS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

Fill one page of 5 Dedications to go on the lining of the CD- each dedication is $500

Fill one page of 25 dedications of a one liner -each dedication is $100

A corporate sponsor wishing to contribute to this great project.

Relationship expert, Bob Grant on Between the Sexes

admin — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 01:43:18 +0000

Are you having challenges in your relationship and you want quality advice that is beneficial and practical! Go to our Radio Shows and sign up for free and you can also see the great products Bob has to offer.

Between the Sexes with Dr. Russell Kennedy and Candace Newton-Chaput

http://betweenthesexes.ca/

LJK, Love, Joy, Kindness

Candace