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Cablegram of Lower Cape Cod “Building Powerful Women”
Monthly Newsletter October, 2015 http://www.bpwlowercapecod.org/blog
BPW/LCC MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of BPW Lower Cape Cod’s local organization shall be to achieve equity for all women in the
workplace through advocacy, education and information
Coaching for Small Business Speaker: Helen Kosinski
Professional Certified Coach specializing in Small Business Coaching
She will share her effective formula on:
5 Questions to Transform Your Relationship with Time
TIME is a PRECIOUS commodity. Most people would agree that it never feels like there is enough time. In her work with overwhelmed business owners and corporate leaders, Helen Kosinski, owner of Better Than Ever Coaching, successfully supports them as they leap to the next level, even when they have no idea where they will find the time or the energy to make their vision a reality. Helen learned how to use her time effectively during her 20+ year corporate career, where she managed multi-million dollar development projects, as she concurrently completed her MBA at Boston University part-time. Helen opened her coaching business in 2005, after leaving her Information Technology career in the financial services industry. She enjoys working with her clients in a variety of ways: 1-to-1 coaching (over the phone and in-person), group coaching in programs such as
the 6-week tele-program, Get Clients Now! ™ and Women’s Walking retreats in the Spring and Fall. She offers a 30-minute complimentary coaching meeting over the phone to anyone who would like to discover the power of working with a coach. To setup your coaching meeting, you can reach Helen via her website: www.BetterThanEverCoaching.com, via email: [email protected] or by phone (508) 896-5779. Join us for our October 20 meeting at Fanizzi’s (details inside) to learn the 5 questions you can ask yourself to start to transform your relationship with time.
Menu & Réservation Information on Page 3
A Message from your Co-President Irene Paine
Dear BPW members,
I am checking in the rearview mirror at the hot summer we left behind, the blood moon we got to experience so dramatically in late September, and the wonderful dinner meeting we had at the Lobster Claw Restaurant in Orleans. I have to thank our September guest speaker, Carol Penfield, R.N., M.S., of Chatham Health and Swim Club. During her presentation, she turned our faces gently towards the mirror of health. Her presentation reminded us that our modern foods and sedentary lifestyle (compared to our grandparents) are not all that well tolerated by our bodies. Can you believe 1 out of 3 babies born this afternoon
in the US will develop diabetes during their lifetime? Tragic, and for most, preventable by embracing ”lifestyle medicine.” I’m not liking much of what I see in the mirror, a 20-pound weight gain over the past four years, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. I decided to take her up on the challenge of getting myself back on the right track so I can be as vigorous in my eighties as my two grandmothers were. I am a new member in her 18-class Complete Health Improvement Program. Don’t we all want to live as well as we can?
I can now look forward to losing this weight over the next four years (maybe less, we’ll see!) instead of gaining 20 more. That’s a 40 pound difference in four years! These are goals I set for myself, everyone is different. This will also bring down my blood pressure and my cholesterol levels. So, I’m doing it! Exercising and changing my shopping list to more plant based foods, NO processed foods. And it’s all costing me far less than one trip to the hospital emergency room with chest pains. Yes, I’ve been there. I encourage you all to internalize the fact that 33% of women in this country will die heart disease, this number so high mainly because of our lifestyles, not so much through genetics. So, I’m up on my pony, and encourage you to look into a healthy program that fits your geographic area.
Time? It’s easier to manage the time it takes to get to the gym and back than it is to manage everything from a hospital bed. Just sayin’. Take some time outdoors for a brisk walk around one of our dozens of beautiful ponds, this one is the reservoir at Bell’s Neck in Harwich. You’ll get your body moving, and dish yourself out some stress reducing endorphins while you’re at it. It’s fun! Thank you, Carol Penfield, for getting me outside and exercising. So, I can’t wait to see what our October guest speaker, Helen Kosinski, will set me on fire about. Oh, that’s right, she will transform my relationship with time! I will manage it, rather than time managing me! See you at Fanizzi’s!
Your co-president, Irene Paine
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Dinner Reservations for Fanizzi’s Restaurant, Provincetown must be made by Friday October 16. Cost is $26
5:30 – 6:00 pm Networking and cocktails 6:00 pm Dinner and Program
Salad: Caesar salad
Entrée Selection: * means gluten free
Chicken Piccata
Chicken, Veal or Eggplant Parmigiana
Mustard Nut Crusted Cod*
Grilled Salmon*
Marinated Sirloin Tips*
Chicken Pot Pie
Dessert: Chocolate Cake Coffee/Tea
Location: Fanizzi’s Restaurant 539 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA 02657
http://wwwfanizzisrestaurant.com
Parking: in front of Fanizzi’s OR at the Surf Side Hotel (left off of Bradford into parking lot)
To Reserve: EMail reservation with menu choice to: [email protected]
Guests: Please list all guest names so we can prepare nametags in advance.
NOTE: if you reserve and do not cancel, you will be charged! Can’t make it? Please cancel via eMail by Monday night.
Questions? Visit our website
Season Programs / Restaurant Information
Sept 15th, 2015 - Disease Prevention & Health Lobster Claw Restaurant, Orleans Oct 20th, 2015 – Coaching for Small Business Fannizi’s Restaurant, Provincetown Nov 17th, 2015 – All Creatures Great and Small Scargo Café, Dennis Dec 15, 2015- Kicking the Clutter The Fairway, Eastham Jan 19th, 2016 – Who Cares for the Bees Hearth and Kettle, Orleans Feb 16th, 2016 – You Can Paint like Van Gogh 400 East, Harwich March 15, 2016 – Find the Time to Volunteer Montano’s, Truro April 19th, 2016 – Transitioning in Your Life Beacon Room, Orleans (Saturday) May 14st, 2016 – Dance, Dance, Dance for Scholarship Fundraiser, Live Band! Elks Club, Eastham June 21st, 2016 – Installation Van Rensselaers, Wellfleet
Networking
Networking is from 5:30pm to 6:00pm during each meeting. Please bring business cards as we do have a business card holder for Display! Feel free to add to it.
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Marylou Jelinek SenCorp White/Director of Services (C)617-803-9729 (E)[email protected] Marylou Mansfield Preschool teacher/Director/Retired Author (H)774-316-4378 (C)508-250-1017 (E)[email protected]
Abigail Adams, Manager of Business Development Christine Hermes, Consultant: The Pampered Chef Cheryl Kimberley, Front Office Mgr, Cape Cod Sea Camps Marylou Mansfield, Writer Colleen Murphy Carol Penfield, Owner: Chatham Health and Swim Club
Directory: If there are any changes that need to be made to the directory for your profile, please contact Rita Shields as soon as you can. [email protected]
Raffles: Kudos to Trisha Debs who won a prize for the scholarship raffle. A beautiful quilted computer bag. The door prize raffle went to Abigail Adams. She took home a Starfish necklace.
SPECIAL EVENT: Enterprising Women Conference hosted by Cape & Plymouth Business. This event is scheduled for Thursday November 19th, 2015 at the Cape Codder Resort & Spa in Hyannis. The keynote Speaker is Betsy Myers, Founding Director, Bentley University Center for Women & Business. Betsy is a leadership expert who served as Chief Operating Officer of Barak Obama’s Presidential campaign and was President Clinton’s White House Senior Adviser on women’s issues. Visit the website to register!
Scholarship Information:
Each year, BPW of Lower Cape Cod raises money so that we can provide a $1000.00 scholarship. The purpose of this scholarship is to recognize local women in transition as they obtain training and education leading to career advancement, either in their present profession or business, or in their endeavors toward a new profession or business.
Board Meetings: Normally, we have our Board meetings the Monday after our monthly meeting for planning, ideas and collaboration. Meetings start at 6pm at Joan Barnes’s. The address is 8 Cummings Road in Orleans. Any member is welcome to attend to check it out and determine if they want to participate.
Website: You can access it today by clicking HERE. I have added a section called Cape Cod Restaurants in the Events 2015-2016 Section. I will be adding more restaurants where we have met and dined in the upcoming weeks. We also want to load up a photo album, so if you have pictures you can send to me, please email them to me at [email protected] Thank you.
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Fall Board
The Board of Directors will be meeting on Saturday, October 24, at Lowell’s Restaurant in Mendon, Massachusetts. This will be a one day meeting with the focus on the direction we want BPW/MA to go with its mission.
There will be an open forum discussion on events currently in the news about women’s equality and discrimination.
Also, this is an opportunity for any Local or District officer to receive training and/or a refresher session on the duties of each position.
Pat Bolduc will be attending this meeting. If any members would like to join her that day, please reach out and give her a call.
State Renewal Notices
Renewal notices have gone out to any member who has not renewed since 2013. The deadline for these renewals is September 30. Lower Cape is collecting our dues. Mail to PO Box 1793, Orleans MA 02653.
If you did not receive a reminder and think you should have, please send an email to [email protected] with “Renewal Status” in the subject line.
An updated membership directory will be published before Fall Board.
The Massachusetts Conference for Women Once again BPW/MA will be a supporting organization of the MA conference for Women. Hopefully you already have your ticket. If not, there are other ways to experience this great event. This year the organizers have added an opening night. This will allow time for networking, more time for visiting the exhibitors and visits with career coaches and authors. Click here to learn more.
If you have any member news that you would like to share, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected] or [email protected] and we can add it to our newsletters. The following Members are up for October Renewal: Nicole Dursi O’Connell
COLLECT Keep us, oh God, from pettiness; let us be large in thought, in word, in deed. Let us be done with fault-finding and leave off self-seeking. May we put away all pretense and meet each other face to face - without self- pity and without prejudice. May we never be hasty in judgment and always generous. Let us take time for all things; make us grow calm, serene and gentle. Teach us to put into action our better impulses, straightforward and unafraid. Grant that we may realize it is the little things that create differences, that in the big things of life we are at one. And may we strive to touch and to know the great common human heart of us all, and O Lord God, let us forget not to be kind. Mary Stuart
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Secretary’s Report: BPW Meeting BPW Meeting September 15th, 2015
Sept. 15, 2015 Sarah Ciampa introduced speaker, Carol Penfield/Nurse Practitioner and owner of The Chatham Health Club. She spoke about Disease Prevention and Staying Healthy. Flyer in Cablegram of upcoming Program at the Health Club. Meeting called to order by Co President Irene Paine at 7:30 PM Secretary's report: Motion to accept as written in the Cablegram. Motion carried. Treasurer's report: Checking account - $3858.44; Reserve account - $2155.49; Scholarship fund - $2564.14 = $8578.07. Filed for audit Programs: Next meeting to be held at Fannizi's Restaurant in Provincetown; "Coaching for Small Business" with Helen Kazinski speaking. Legislative report: Rep. Peake visited Denmark to an Engineering Firm for the purpose of 'Green Energy'. Cape Wind - because of major utilities pulling out, it is no longer an active issue. Taxi drivers versus Lyft and Uber drivers - discussion of equal insurance and certifications. New Business: Budget presented by Rita Shields. Motion to accept with no changes. Motion carried Motion to have a Dance (instead of a dinner meeting that month) as a Scholarship fundraiser - saturday, May 14, at the Elks in Eastham. Motion to accept. Motion carried. Motion to adjourn at 8:00. Motion carried. Rita Shields, Acting Secretary
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BPW Budget for 2015-2016
The 2015/2016 Budget is based on a membership of 50 members. Of each $45.00, $21.00 is for BPW/MA and
$24.00 is for Lower Cape BPW
2014/15 Proposed 2014/15 Actual 2015/16 Proposed
INCOME
Membership 1000.00 1047.00 1000.00
BP Bucks 100.00 70.00 100.00
Misc. Income 2.0
TOTALS 1100.00 1119.00 1100.00
EXPENSES
Membership 150.00 104.00 150.00
Program Expense 200.00 104.00 200.00
Special Program 60.00 115.00 225.00
Cablegram/Postage 100.00 67.00 100.00
Directory 250.00 180.00 250.00
Public Relations 125.00 115.00 125.00
Website Maintenance 50 0
Misc. Board Expense 50.00 50.00
TOTALS 1100.00 735.00 1100.00
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Presented by: Carol Penfield R.N., M.S., Nurse Practitioner and owner of Chatham Health & Swim Club. Carol presented her meeting using a PowerPoint presentation to stay on point. Below are excerpts from each slide. How you live your life day to day directly affects your health. This includes primary care, early detection and lifestyle medicine which treats the cause of the cause because it addresses all aspects of day to day life such as Nutrition, exercise, effective management of stress, restorative sleep, smoking and substance cessation, social support, love, relationships, Depression, return to happiness, meaning/purpose. The Problem: Healthcare does NOT make Health. There is no single pill or procedure that will “fix” chronic illness. What about our genes? Genes are the loaded gun… lifestyle pulls the trigger. Why is the information not getting to you? Medical research spends 3.4% of funding on nutrition annually. USDA, FDA, RDA, lobbyists, etc. control what the population hears. The ‘EPIC’ study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine studied 23,000 people’s adherence to 4 simple behaviors – not smoking, exercising 3.5 hr/wk, eating a healthy diet, and maintaining a healthy weight. In those adhering to these behaviors, 93% of diabetes, 81% of heart attacks, 50% of strokes and 36% of all cancers were prevented. Nurses Health Study: 80% of all heart disease and 91% of diabetes could be eliminated if women adopted lifestyle practices including exercise, normal body weight, smoking cessation and simple nutritional changes. Diabetes Prevention Project: Shows that individuals with baseline glucose intolerance can reduce their risk of developing diabetes by 58% just by increasing their physical activity and losing 5-7% of their body weight. Cleveland Clinic: Analysts concur that health care expenditures could be reduced by $930 billion over 5 years if L.M. were applied to all patients. Digestive Health: Protecting your normal and vital microbiota. Stress, sugar and alcohol increase permeability of the gut. Permeability of the intestinal barrier affects the regulation of the inflammatory response – So, get back to basics! Our immune system was not designed to keep up with our newer environment & foods. Cancer prevention: Lengthen your telomeres! Turn off the bad genes and turn on the good. Protein recommendations = less than 10%. Increased plant-based fats and foods. Meditation changes gene expression. Fiber. Dr. Ornish’s prostate cancer research showed 70% decrease in tumor growth cells and gene expression in just 3 months. Fear is not a sustainable motivator because it is negative. Find what your passions and interests in life are. That is positive. Strategies to healthy behavioral changes are Make a plan and realistic goal. Get support. Stay accountable. Monitor the right things. Positive re-framing and screen for triggers. Carol Penfield is available for private medical consultations and accepts insurance. [email protected] Office 508-945-7761 or Chatham Health & Swim Club: 508-945-3555. www.chiphealth.com The CHIP (Complete Health Improvement Program) format
18 classes (90 minutes each) lead by Carol Penfield, Nurse Practitioner
Meeting 2x week for 6 weeks, then 1x week for 6 weeks (or 2x week for 10 weeks)
Includes initial and final health assessments
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2-3 sets of labs: Cholesterol panel and FBS at weeks #1, #6,#12 (or #10)
High quality video education session 20-40 min with discussion and Q&A
Recipes, cooking tips and food sampling
Text book with supportive research, workbook, cookbook, pedometer
Exercise education and fitness opportunities
Research-based tools and strategies to help you make changes for good
Support from the dynamics of a group. It is hard to change on your own.
P.O. Box 1793 Orleans, MA 02653
October
BPW of Lower Cape Cod Officers & Committee Chairs
2015-2016
Officers: Presidents – Sarah Paine Curley and Irene Paine
1st Vice President-Programs – Marcia Tyler and Laura McCullough 2nd Vice President Membership –Annette Cyr
Secretary – Nikki Dursi Treasurer – Joan Barnes
Committee Chairs: By-Laws – Annette Cyr
Cablegram/Webmistress – Nicole Dursi Community Service – Finance – Rita Shields
Legislation – Dottie Smith Membership – Annette Cyr
Membership Directory – Rita Shields Name Tags – Nicole Dursi Networking – Annette Cyr
Nominating – Pat Bolduc and Roberta Annese Parliamentarian – Rita Shields
Programs – Marcia Tyler and Laura McCullough Public Relations- Irene Paine
Reservations – Marcia Tyler Scholarship – TBD