OVERVIEW
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Do you believe that your happiness is in your hands, or somehow beyond your
control? Are you running your life, or just running for your life on the hamster wheel?
Anne-Marie Faiola is a successful serial entrepreneur, author, crafter, lifestyle
coach, mom, and founder and CEO of Best Day Ever™, an all-inclusive lifestyle
brand with one unifying message: happiness is a choice. And it’s a choice you
make – or don’t make – every day of your life.
As a wife and mother running multiple business ventures and overcoming
obstacles on a daily basis, Anne-Marie understands the difficulties busy women
face in achieving balance. She launched Best Day Ever™ to help women who feel
tired, uninspired and stuck on the hamster wheel to take control, attain happiness
and live an authentic life on their own terms. An engaging, dynamic and energizing
speaker, Anne-Marie’s practical, step-by-step strategy for making every day your
best day ever is literally life changing for her listeners.
Anne-Marie’s core philosophy – “Success doesn’t happen overnight. It’s about
replicating small victories every day” – offers her tried and true approach to
making big changes via small actions. And her combination of real-life stories
and thought-provoking exercises create a powerful emotional connection and
transformational experience for audiences large and small.
Her success story is as unique and inspiring as Anne-Marie herself. A master
soapmaker, Anne-Marie turned her passion into a booming business as CEO
of Bramble Berry®, Inc., a soapmaking supply business she founded in 1998,
growing it from humble beginnings in her living room to serving over 66,000
customers worldwide. Bramble Berry® has been featured in magazines such as
Women’s World Daily, Better Homes and Gardens, HomeArts, and Parents Guide,
and mentioned in Cosmo Girl, Teen Vogue and Allure. Among many honors and
awards, she’s been named Small Business Person of the Year (Small Business
Association, Washington State) and Business Woman of the Year (Women’s
Business Owners Association, Washington State).
Living Your
Best Day Ever
Anne-Marie Faiola has collected her best
lifestyle practices and advice to help
women everywhere live a more vibrant
and positive life. In her book, Living Your
Best Day Ever: Inspiration and Strategies
for Every-Day Success, Anne-Marie reveals
how many aspects of everyday life can
be vastly improved just by making small
positive changes, helping to make every
day your Best Day Ever. All of Anne-Marie’s
knowledge comes from her personal
experiences with choosing happiness every
day. The methods she has worked through and
discovered have changed her life for the better
and she is passionate about sharing them.
BIOGRAPHY
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Anne-Marie Faiola is a successful serial entrepreneur, author, crafter, lifestyle coach, mom, and founder and CEO of Best Day Ever™, an all-inclusive lifestyle
brand with one unifying message: happiness is a choice. Through classes, merchandise and other resources for daily inspiration, Best Day Ever™ helps women
find their best life and live it by choosing to be happy, healthy and confident every single day.
Faiola is also a master soapmaker and CEO of Bramble Berry®, Inc., a soapmaking supply business she founded in 1998. The company grew rapidly from its
humble beginnings in her living room and now serves over 66,000 customers worldwide. Bramble Berry® has been featured in magazines such as Women’s
World Daily, Herb Companion, HomeArts, Parents Guide, Herb Quarterly, Better Homes & Gardens, special-interest publications and mentioned in Cosmo Girl,
Teen Vogue and Allure.
Passionate about helping other soapers learn and grow their craft, Faiola expanded the Bramble Berry® network to include the popular soapmaking
instructional website TeachSoap.com, the blog Soapqueen.com, the YouTube channel SoapQueen.tv and the brick-and-mortar crafting store Otion, in
Bellingham, Washington. She authored Soap Crafting: Step-by-Step Techniques for Making 31 Unique Cold-Process Soaps (Storey Publishing, 2013) and Pure
Soapmaking: How to Create Nourishing, Natural Skin Care Soaps (Storey Publishing, 2016), an Amazon No. 1 Bestseller.
Faiola began her professional career with a brief (and admittedly ill-fitted) stint as a correctional officer after earning her bachelor’s degree in psychology with
an emphasis in criminal justice. While launching and running multiple businesses under the thriving Bramble Berry® brand, she earned an MBA from Heriot
Watt Business University and an Entrepreneurial Masters designation from the MIT Birthing of Giants program. She also holds a Master Soapmaker
Certification from the Handcrafted Soap & Cosmetic Guild, as well as a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP) designation from the South Puget Sound
Community College.
As a wife and mother running multiple business ventures and overcoming obstacles on a daily basis, Faiola knows a thing or two about how to achieve balance. She
launched Best Day Ever™ to help women who feel tired, uninspired, and stuck in life attain happiness by ditching the “should” treadmill, finding balance and living
an authentic life on their own terms. With Best Day Ever™, she hopes to spark the sense of independence, confidence and optimism that resides in every woman.
Faiola has appeared on Martha Stewart Living Radio, Disney Radio, DIY’s Craft Lab and the Home Shopping Network. She has been recognized as Small Business
Person of the Year (Small Business Association, Washington State), Business Woman of the Year (Women’s Business Owners Association, Washington State),
Best Small Business (Whatcom County) and has appeared on lists such as Puget Sound Business Journal 40 under 40, Best Boss in America (Winning
Workplaces and Fortune Small Business).
Faiola resides in Bellingham, Washington, with her husband Chris, and their two children, Jamisen and Lily. When not spending time with her family, sitting
on a number of nonprofit boards and running her soapmaking and life-coaching empires, she is an avid reader and passionate crafter. A tireless
entrepreneur, Faiola recently launched Handmade Beauty Box, a DIY beauty box, which received recognition by numerous media outlets including TODAY,
InStyle, Woman’s World and Fox and Friends.
SPEAKING TOPICS
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FROM CORRECTIONAL OFFICER TO ENTREPRENEUR: THE ANNE-MARIE FAIOLA STORY
How do you find your special strengths and build a business on them? How can you make the leap from employee to entrepreneur without risking your security?
Anne-Marie has been there and back – through a devastating divorce and dead-end jobs, to building a successful company and being named one of the USA’s Top
50 entrepreneurs (at the same time she was starting a family). She takes us on a tour of an entrepreneur’s life and learning journey, and shares the hard-won
wisdom that has propelled her to success:
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Always have a side hustle; how your day job can propel your dreams
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How Your Passion + Your Experience = Something The World Needs
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Fail smaller, fail smarter
BOUNCING BACK
No life is free of disappointments, devastating events or flat-out failures, and the stresses they create can literally kill us. At times of crisis, it’s human nature to find
ourselves paralyzed into inaction, or distracted by details that keep us mired in our messes when we should be moving forward. How can you handle the challenges life
throws at you, to bounce back stronger and smarter than you were before? What can you do to take back the wheel, when it feels like life is careening out of control?
Anne-Marie will share her “survival kit” of techniques for coping with and moving through challenges – tapping, meditation, and stress reduction – and reveal the
Power of a Plan in dealing constructively with the aftershocks these upheavals inflict on us.
HOW TO HAVE YOUR BEST DAY EVER, EVERY DAY
Do you wake up every morning groggy and already tired at the prospect of another day on the treadmill? Are you stressed out from trying to balance the
demands of family and work? Have you forgotten what “me time” feels like? Does the promise of having your best day ever, every day sound too good to be true?
Like you, Anne-Marie knows what life’s like when you’re pulled in too many directions – and she’s found a way to make it work for her. In this talk she’ll share
her formula for having your best day ever, every day; practical steps you can take, starting now, to energize your outlook, shake off stress, and recharge your
relationships at home and work. In this talk, you’ll learn about:
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The Pillars – keys to health and equilibrium
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How to use good to crowd out the bad
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How big journeys are best traveled with baby steps
The power of a plan in cutting challenges down to size
Accountability, and how to make it work for you
THE POWER OF THE SLOW TRUDGE
Overnight success – everyone dreams of it. But do you want to count on it? The fact is, those “overnight success” stories you read or see on the news leave out the
many thousands of baby steps – the Slow Trudge – it took to get there. If you can master the slow and steady march, you’ll get where you’re going, and be ready
for success when you arrive. Anne-Marie’s message on mastering the power of the Slow Trudge will change how you look at success and what you need to reach
it. In this talk, she’ll cover…
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Following your passion vs. paying your mortgage; yes, you can do both, with the right preparation and game plan.
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When to make the break; how to know the timing’s right to quit your day job and take the plunge
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The importance of a side hustle; how to use your day job to power your dreams
ASK AND RECEIVE; THE POWER OF BUILDING AN INTENTIONAL LIFE
How good are you at asking for what you really want, whether it’s a raise or a better relationship? As women, we’ve been trained to take what we’re given, and
taught to do more with less. Is it any surprise then that we’re paid less than our male colleagues, or expected to do more than our fair share at work and home?
Don’t let yourself be dismissed because you don’t know how to speak up. Learn the power of creating clarity around what you want, and building a life that’s
intentional by knowing how to ask for it – whether it’s creating a non-negotiable list of qualities you demand in a mate or getting the salary you deserve.
AnneMarie will share her insights, tips and tricks for getting what you want:
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Why women are held to a higher standard
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How to define your goals and needs
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…and why we’re paid less
How to ask for what you want
How to handle it constructively if you’re turned down