general + announcements

beloved subscribers – please read

New in town? Welcome. You can subscribe to my RSS feed, or my not-so-daily email - which is the best way to go, really. xoxo Danielle

I posted this week that I'm switching to a new subscriber database system. It's a little scary for a media person to mess with her d-base, but the new set up means I can send better looking emails whenever I want. Creative control. Gotta have it.

IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO, please either:
a) go to my White Hot Truth site and subscribe to the 'SOMEWHAT DAILY EMAIL' or the 'MONTHLY ROUNDUP' - it's on the home page.
b) open the email I sent you a few days ago titled 'Confirm White Hot Truth' and click on the obvious link.

In a few days, I will shut off the old system (Feedburner) and exclusively send out my new pretty emails (with AWeber). Don't miss out on the love. (For you RSS people, everything remains the same.)

Please & Thank You,
Danielle
xo

 

if you rec’d an email from me…

...that SAID:
"CONFIRM White Hot Truth and away we go!"
please please open it and click on the link to update your e-subscription.

I'm changing the program I use that manages all of my fabulous e-subscribers. The new program will allow me to send out my posts so they're stylin' and pretty.

(FYI, for anyone who cares, I'm switching from Feedburner, ugly and controlling; to A-Weber, which is customizable and flexible.)

Since I'm tryin' to, like, build an empire of conscious multi-media and rocking wisdom, every subscriber who cares about my content is precious and deeply appreciated. So check your email and click the link.

Or better yet - go to the upper right of my home page where it says GET HOT, SUBSCRIBE - and do just that.

With Love,
Danielle
xo

PS... you may receive two WhiteHotTruth identical daily emails from me for the next few days - one from the old system, and one from the new (which will look way better.) SO sorry for the potential annoyance. Change can be a bitch and technology can be even bitchier.

PPS... if you're getting me via RSS - you're free and clear, no changes required. Fhew.

 

best moment of peace for 2009

An hour or a day or a week of solitude. What was the quality of your breath? The state of your mind? How did you get there?

The monastery was peaceful. Those five days when the Man and the Boy went camping, now THAT was peaceful (read: get to have long baths with magazines, write at 3am, eat breakfast at noon, watch documentaries in the day time.)

But this week, this week has a quality of Love Boat peace to it - exciting and new. And I've come aboard. I made way for the peace by declaring December the Universal Month of Tying Up Loose Ends. And I've given myself the space to meander. Time management systems have their place, but not for the immediate now. I'm clearing my in box. I'm having lunch with my Man, tea with the girls. I'm following the rabbit hole of new blogs and spiritual texts and iTunes. Hell, I may even put my kid's baby photos in an album - the ones that have been sitting in a shoe box for five years. I may...bake something. But probably not.

Nothing's changed on the outside. I still have tons of email. There are new projects that I'm so excited to ignite, that I can barely sit still when the promise of it all runs 'round my heart. There's laundry in the living room right now, and my TV producer is waiting for me to deliver my next segment. But peace is my call to make. 1-800-Life-is-good-cause-I-say-so. I'm letting the GO! GO! GO! of 2009 unwind from my spine. Flexi plexi meander. Peace in. Peace out.

 

yo, canada! tune into to CBC TV + me

Every Wednesday between 6pm to 8pm EST (4pm to 6pm PST) I'm on CBC TV's new national show, Connect With Mark Kelley. Look for this fancy lead in:

It's a total honour, because the CBC is a national treasure, the show is GOOD, and because Mark Kelly is such a total hotty. This is him smiling at me saying something really hilarious but searingly smart.

Want to see the show from wherever you are? I'd like that to. Email the producers and tell them to upload my stuff for y'all south of the border, and for any one who misses the show on Wednesdays. And if you catch the show and dig it, fan mail to the producers raving about my wry wisdom is good karma for everyone.

The Connect website
Connect on Twitter
Connect on Facebook
Email the producers fan mail about moi, or leave a comment on the blog

 

vancouver: gwen bell workshop saturday november 28

I'm really thrilled to be hosting Gwen Bell's Mind Body Tech Workshop in Vancouver on Saturday Nov. 28, 10am - 1pm. Location TBD. We're going to have a brand-mind-body-bending blast. Guaranteed.

Also, we'll be having a casual meet up a few nights before the workshop, so come on out! Wednesday Nov 25: Chill Winston in Gastown, 3 Alexander Street. 7pm.

CLICK HERE FOR WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION + REGISTRATION
http://vanmindbodytech.eventbrite.com/

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My Burning Questions with Gwen

 

new york + vancouver, let’s get all fiery

I've just locked in dates for Vancouver + New York Group Fire Starter Sessions! I'll also be doing a cocktail evening talk in NYC - details on that forthcoming.

: Saturday September 26: New York, 10:00am to 1:00pm
: Saturday, October 17: Vancouver, 10:00am to 1:00pm

For details, check out my new GIGS + EVENTS page.
NYC will book up quickly and my Van gig is half sold. So, if you feel the love, click quick. Contact me directly to reserve your space: d@daniellelaporte.com

Lovelove,
Danielle

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vancouver group fire starter date set

I'm offering Group Fire Starter Session in my favourite city in the world: Vancouver!

WHEN: Saturday, October 17 @10:00 to 1:00pm
WHERE: TBD (likely Gastown)
COST: $200

Got the mojo, but need the game plan? Have the strategy but need the emotional clarity? From start-ups to 9 to 5'rs who want to break out, this is a special opportunity to get strategically inspired and practically informed. It's a jam session-meets-lecture-meets tribal pow wow. We cover lot's of ground, from guerrilla marketing to life purpose. It's the business of life, really. Take notes.

3 hours. First come, first served. About 20 people per session. Happily, there's already a line up, so if you're game, I suggest booking in soon.

Contact me directly to reserve your space: d@daniellelaporte.com

"In addition to providing a joyous ass-kicker of an evening, you, yourself, are an excellence magnet of the highest order. Thank you. I expect to be reverberating with juicy goodness somewhere in your orbit for years to come."
- Colleen Wainwright, The Communicatrix, Los Angeles

"An excited, thankful update: my blog readership went up 60% last month. THANK YOU, THANK YOU a million times over for all of your practical inspiration. I really feel blessed."
- Lindsey Lewis, Yoga teacher, and Writer, Vancouver

“Your work is like a blazing path into my highest good with my business. I can't thank you enough for your authenticity, humor, and straightforward honesty. Your Fire Starter sessions are something I would do over and over again.”
- Lauren Harkness, Jewelry designer, Seattle

 

i’d eat books for breakfast if i could

Announcing my Amazon a-store. Think of it as private tour through my neuroses and brilliance. Enjoy.

CLICK HERE TO HEAD ON OVER.

 

muhammed ali + me + lance armstrong + seth godin ++ = holy smokes

I did a deeply thoughtful interview about fearlessness with Ishita Gupta of Seth Godin's Six Month MBA Program a while back. How honoured am I to be sandwiched between Muhammed Ali and Lance Armstrong?! NEVER thought that would happen. Tho', on my best days, I do float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.

Check out their powerful creation and pre-order the free e-book on FearlessStories.com.

For more fun:
The fab entrepreneurs of Bodacious asked me about my fashion/personal inspiration. My answer: Georgia O'Keefe...her austerity is divine. I also happen to like Geishas, monks and a lot of what Donna Karan does that is NOT black. Read the whole bodacious interview here.

And the very Sassy Minx, Lisa Clark put some very penetrating questions to me about truth and feminism. My answer about my "White Hot Truth": Love is light. God is Love. Intuition is Queen. Cash is King.
Read the whole sassy interview here.

 

’sup to you.

Things do not change. We change.
- Henry David Thoreau