Within each of us is the potential to live a much fuller life, one where you wake up enthusiastic about the day ahead and throw yourself into everything you do - not because you have to, but because you want to.  In this workshop you will learn the art of creating your life as you want it.  Learn to lead with emotional courage, let go of self limiting beliefs and create a fresh new vision for your business and community.  Through powerful hands on exercises, group work and motivational talks, you will break through personal barriers that have been stopping you from reaching your greatest potential.  Learn that your dreams of owning a business is possible!

Entrepreneurship is one of the most promising strategies for creating genuine opportunity in rural communities. Nurturing locally owned businesses puts the economic future of the community in the hands of its own members – people committed to its future. That builds local leadership and reduces dependency on outside forces.  

Entrepreneurship is especially important today, as opportunities shrink to attract large employers to remote rural areas. Companies that formerly looked to rural communities for lower wage labor are now moving offshore for even lower wage labor. We are not starting from scratch in family farm and ranch communities. We have the good fortune to have inherited communities with strong traditions of self-employment and entrepreneurship. We should never lose sight of the value of that. We should nurture it and build on it. 

Afternoon break out sessions will help in developing business plans, provide information on business management and how to develop strategies to tap markets beyond the local area.