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Ariane de Bonvoisin - Founder and Chief Change Optimist
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Ariane at the Oprah Conference This October

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Ariane will be a keynote speaker at the Oprah conference in South Africa this October.

Ariane Talks about Getting Unstuck

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Getting unstuck in life can depend equally on big and small changes.

Ariane’s Blog

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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Change

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Last night I was at a book party here in NewYork for Kerry Kennedy's new book, Being Catholic Now: Prominent Americans Talk About Change in the Church and the Quest for Meaning. She interviewed dozens of high profile people and asked them some tough...

Posted: 9/9/08
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How to Become a Change Optimist

Last week I did a podcast with a wonderful reporter, Allan Hunkin, who has interviewed some of the top experts in the life improvement space-folks like Jack Canfield and Robert Kiyosaki. The focus was on sharing insights I had discovered from interviewing...

Posted: 8/27/08
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Creating a 4-Hour Work Week

It's rare that I blog about someone I interviewed on my Change Nation podcast. As you probably know, every week I speak to some expert, celebrity, author or another amazing person going through a life change. My focus is to find some great wisdom to...

Posted: 8/11/08
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Tales from Seattle...and More

One of the most amazing things about being an author is the opportunity to visit new people in new places. I've always loved Amazon and wondered what the company was like. All I knew is what most people know-it is based in Seattle (a beautiful city...

Posted: 8/5/08
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The 9 Principles of Change (and How You Can Make Them Work For You)

People often ask how to make change easier in their own lives. They want to make a change, have tried it will varying degrees of success, but are still trying to figure out if there's some magic formula to it all. Of course, I can't tell you a secret...

Posted: 7/24/08
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Change and the Chicken

One of the things we do when we want to change something is we remain very vague. After all, the less specific we are, the better chance we have of seeing that change come to pass, right? Wrong! I want a new job...I want a boyfriend/girlfriend...

Posted: 7/14/08
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What Can We Learn From Nadal's Win?

"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." —Helen Keller So, yesterday's Wimbledon tennis final between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer was...

Posted: 7/7/08
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