About Debra:

Founder and CEO [Chief Excellence Officer],

Debra Dowdell:

Transformational Coach and Trainer/Leader/ Facilitator, as well as Speaker.

A persuasive communicator with attention to detail. A passionate, focused, creative, hard-working team member and entrepreneur!    

· Extensive background of 20 years, which includes  Public Accounting and Finance, Coaching/Consulting, Management, Marketing, HR and Recruiting, Leadership, and Sales.

· Became an Entrepreneur in 1998 which eventually allowed me to become the confident, determined and passionate person I was meant to be!

 · Developed a highly effective, strategy-focused program of business coaching and team-building. Past clients have gone on to create new businesses and re-ignite existing businesses.

 · Creator of  The Confidence Revolution— Inspiring people to “go confidently in the direction of their dreams” - Henry David Thoreau


· Many years of successful experience with leadership and coaching in: group formats, one-on-one, and hosting events/seminars/workshops.

· Member of Toastmasters since January 2010, and achieved Competent Communicator [CC] and Competent Leader [CL] awards. Also served on the club's Executive Board in the role of V.P of Education, and planned many chapter events. 

Traits and Values:

Attention to detail, integrity, dedication, compassion, loyalty, accountability, flexibility, joy, passion and love!


Fun Stuff and Passionate Interests:

Being a Mom (best role EVER!), reading, hiking and walking,  nature, health/wellness and nutrition, meditation, volunteering, loves music, and red wine!


I love working with people!! I am driven by a passion to help people in their lives and their businesses—to do more, to live more, to love more! 

I help entrepreneurs Follow their Passion, and Silence their Fears!

 Life is Amazing – Live it Well!!


"Make no small plans, for they have no power to stir the soul."     

- Machiavelli

Copyright (c) 2013 BlossomNow and Thrive Group. 

 A little bit about MY story:

A few years ago,I found myself to be desperately unhappy, not in the place in life I wanted to be (lots of reasons having to do with relationships and work), as well as unhealthy and overweight.

Around that time, I was reading a book by Michael E. Gerber called eMyth Mastery. “Have you ever read a book or blog that was written just for you?”  Michael Gerber may as well have dedicated the book to me (no offense to his wife Ilene).
On page 24 of the Foreword....he wrote:

“Lying there on the floor, I came to the realization, that I was marking time, that I was living in a closet of my own making, a small, tight, breathless closet called My Life, and I had closed the door behind me, thinking at the time that I was living in the real world.”
   
He wrote about people who had given up on their dreams and life in general. He called them “the insufferably walking dead” shuffling through life.

THAT WAS ME!

I began to look at my life with TRUTH and began to create what I called the WHY’s in my life – WHY my life was important and meant something.

I decided what were the things in my life that meant everything to me and were utterly vital to my Health, Wealth, Relationships, and Joy – and those things became my WHY’s!
   
For me, it was things such as:

-getting control of my health and weight again;

-getting control of my finances and being able to provide for my daughter, which eventually included buying a lovely home that backs onto a provincial park, near a beach;

-I remembered that I wanted to be a role model for my daughter...I wanted her to know that I had determined to follow my passion about being a successful entrepreneur, allowing me to have a fantastically flexible work schedule so I could spend more time with her;

-and lastly, I wanted to be joyful again, embracing life and loving life! 

So what you have before you, is still a work in progress, BUT I'm a genuinely joyous, abundant, happy, peaceful, healthy, hard-working, dedicated entrepreur who loves life, and lives my life with enthusiasm and joy every day!