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Career Coach Offers Free Career Strategy Session K


Kelly M. Lewis


elly M. Lewis, certified career coach and owner of Kelly M. Lewis Coaching and Associates, in Edina, is offering a free career strategy session to those interested in finding their life’s work. She helps clients, from young adults to mid- career changers, step into their true calling. Lewis uses a variety of methodologies, testing and


coaching tools to help people identify their natural talents and choose careers aligned with those talents to allow them to reach their potential. With more than 17 years of business management experience, she has helped such companies as Target, U.S. Bank and PepsiCo with talent management


and career destination planning. “The key to a career you love lies in its alignment with who you truly are: your in- nate talents, aptitudes and personality,” Lewis says. “Work doesn’t feel like ‘work’ if you are doing what you were designed to do.” Lewis is also an adjunct instructor at WomenVenture, a nonprofit organization in


St. Paul that helps women achieve economic success through career and entrepreneur- ial development.


Location: 4820 W. 77th St., Ste. 104, Edina. For more information or to schedule a com- plimentary career strategy session, call 952-456-8467, email Kelly@KellyMarieLewis. com or visit KellyMarieLewis.com. See ad, page 20


Happily Ever After Conference Presented by Divorcing Divas


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avigate Your Way to Hap- pily Ever After, a conference


presented by Divorcing Divas, will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on October 26, at the Minneapolis Marriott West, in St. Louis Park. This fifth annual day of encouragement, inspiration and empowerment is for those that are considering divorce, getting divorced or are divorced already. The first keynote speaker will be Jamie Hansen, financial advisor with Morgan


Stanley, who will present Planning for Your New Beginning. The second speaker, Anne Tressler, with Tressler Law, will discuss “Myths, Misinformation, and Misinterpretations: Separating Reality from the Drama.” There are 15 breakout sessions scheduled, from which participants choose four.


Topics include “Take Control of Your Financial Life Before, During and After Divorce,” “How to Avoid Becoming a Financial Victim,” “The Chemically Dependent Divorce,” “When Mental Health Unravels a Marriage,” “Forgive Them? Are You Kidding? With Forgiveness Comes Peace and Contentment,” and “Rewriting Your Legacy: Healing the Breaks.”


Cost: $75 includes full day of conference, choice of four breakout sessions, breakfast, lunch, coffee breaks and cash bar reception with fashion show, door prizes and raffles. Location: 9960 Wayzata Blvd. For more information, call 612-720-4974 or visit DivorcingDivas.com.


Breast Cancer Conference


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he 12th Annual Living with Breast Cancer Breast Cancer Aware-


ness Association (BCAA) Educational Conference will be held from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on October 12 at the Min- neapolis Convention Center. Founded by the BCAA, this conference seeks to provide education and resources for providers, caregivers, survivors and anyone interested in learning more about breast cancer. The day begins with coffee,


yogurt, breads and a plenary session. Afterward, participants will choose from 12 seminars of 75 minutes each. Renowned breast health experts will share information on prevention, treat- ment and survivorship. “This program crosses all bound- aries and supports a broad range of healing philosophies and possibilities, from surgical options and the latest updates in oncology to mind, body and spirit practices,” says Ann Harris, BCAA co-founder.


Highlights include an expert panel opening session, Breast Health, Interventional Nutrition and New Technologies in Breast Cancer, featur- ing moderator Bill Manahan, M.D., and panelists Carolyn Torkelson, M.D., Gregory Plotnikoff, M.D., and Keith Knutson, Ph.D. The conference offers an assort- ment of speakers and seminars, a resource center and a fashion show. Vendors will be on site as well, and a luncheon is included.


Cost: $59 regular registration;$45 Sur- vivor; $45 Lunch and afternoon only; $20 Student. Location: 1301 Second Ave. S., Minneapolis. For more informa- tion, call Ann Kvaal at 651-487-7632 or email Info@bcaamn.org.


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Photo courtesy of BCAA


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