Barbara Mannino - Writer

03/08/2024

March 8 is the Voices of Women Summit in honor of International Women’s Day


Tomorrow, we begin!!

I am so proud to have been asked to be included in this online event known as the Voices of Women Summit and be shoulder-to-shoulder with some very powerful and influential women around the world.

I speak about Story: It Changes Everything at 6:00 p.m. EST.

Grab your complimentary ticket now! https://barbaramannino--checkingout.thrivecart.com/voices-of-women-summit/

Join me on this epic event! I'm excited to both share and tune in to the other women speaking because there is always another viewpoint to consider and more to learn.

Six-time entrepreneur, Kimberly Crowe, has gathered together one of the most amazing collections of influential women from around the globe.

This one-day event will be inspirational and impactful everywhere. Imagine getting to personally interact with these women and hear their personal journeys and insights on passions like these….

• 3 Steps to Shift to Success
• The Art of Caregiving- Navigating the Caregiving Journey
• From Empty Nest Woes to Inspired Wows
• The Faces of Illness
• How to Raise Your Child to Shine - Proven Tools to Nurture Your Child/ren to Become Successful Adults
• How Every Busy Working Mom Can Overcome Stress, Anxiety And Worries In Record Time
• Real Women Change the World: Letting the Good Girl Die so the Real Woman Can Live
• Craving Peace: How to Love Your Body in a World of Impossible Standards

A wide range of experts, like me, are coming together to get you where you want to go!

Be sure to sign up for my presentation at 6 p.m. EST, so you can interact with me and support me as I get the word out about a topic important to me and to others.

Story: It Changes Everything
Barbara Mannino – Creating Impact and Presence Online. In Person. Onstage.

Click here https://barbaramannino--checkingout.thrivecart.com/voices-of-women-summit/
to join us for FREE Online March 8, 2024!

See you tomorrow!

03/02/2024

When You’re Comfortable in Your Own Skin Fabulous Just Is

This article caught my eye for so many reasons.

102! Iris Apfel was 102 when she recently passed. 102 marks a great run, doesn’t it?

But for reasons more personal: I saw, “Iris,” a documentary that opened the New York Film Festival, on a Self in Balance weekend retreat at Mohonk Mountain House, a retreat and a place where I spent many fabulous first January weekends with my Mohonk soul sisters and head soul sister, Anne Elizabeth Quinn.

The last of my reasons ties the first 2 together.

Iris Apfel came into her own or the public eye late in her life. And what a second chapter this self-proclaimed “geriatric starlet” had: She became known as a true celebrity of pop fashion and the talk of New York and beyond following her “Rara Avis: Selections From the Iris Apfel Collection,” her 2005 Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit that displayed her raid on her closet (82 ensembles and 300 accessories) in the museum’s Costume Institute.

She was showcased in magazine spreads and ad campaigns, sought after on the lecture circuit, attained Instagram stardom (she had 3 million followers), and was an author of 2 coffee table books which shared in words and photos who she was.

And there’s the connection for the 3 reasons this story caught my eye... beyond Iris Apfel’s long run and the bright bombastic of her dress was her energy, her joy, her bold delight in being who she was. She was fabulous just as she was because she was comfortable in her own skin. What better way to live a life at any age?!

And that was all about those January retreats at Mohonk: We moved on from the previous year to catapult ourselves into our best selves for the new year, and we did this year after year. Again, a wonderful, healthy practice at any age and a commitment that served my soul sisters and me well.

In 2010, fashion-designer Duro Olowu told The Guardian that Ms. Apfel’s work had a universal quality. “It’s not a trend,” he said. “It appeals to a certain kind of joy in everybody.”

A certain kind of joy ... What a wonderful statement to make about someone. What a wonderful way to live.

RIP Iris Apfel. Hats off to your incredible spirit and your life well-lived ... and to the lessons you leave for all of us.

She came to fame in the fashion world in her 80s and 90s, and her wildly eclectic closet of clothes formed a hit exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

02/23/2023

Check this out...Soapbox Wisdom...tomorrow at 10 am...Everyone's Talking AI! Christine and I are, too! We'd love to have you listen in.

09/27/2022

09/27/2022

Interesting thoughts on writing...

“And if you are to love,
Love as the moon loves;
✨
It does not steal the night,
It only unveils the beauty
of the dark.”

🌙 Isra Al-thibeh
🎨 Kat Fedora Artist

08/22/2022

So pleased to be on Christine Rothdeutsch's Make It Click podcast. We'll be talking brand content and how when done right content is the #1 way you can connect with your prospects and deepen relationships with your customers. We air tomorrow, Tuesday, August 23rd, 11:30 a.m. Would love to have you join us so tune in.