Isabel Hogue

Two ways you can help Honduras - IU Medical Brigade needs dollars and doctors

IU Medical Brigade needs dollars and doctors

Item 1, dollars: Lafayette's Michelle Metcalf  has been selected for Indiana University's Medical Brigade 2011.

Michelle Metcalf is from Lafayette, and now is a medical student at Indiana University, Bloomington. She has been selected to join the IU Medical Brigade team in Honduras for one week in March 2011. Michelle was chosen because she is exceptional, hard-working, and devoted to the service of others. Medical Brigade students must raise their own funds for the trip.

I am proud to support Michelle's participation in the 2011 mission to Honduras, and want to make sure you know about it so you'll have an opportunity to help. Here's how to help:

BOTTOM LINE: Make a Christmas contribution of $10, $20, @30 or more to encourage one of Lafayette's promising young people. Go to Michelle Metcalf's secure website and make a donation right now.

DETAILS: March 2011 IU Medical Brigade
Location:   Honduras
When:    March 13, 2011 12:00 AM - March 19, 2011 12:00 AM
How:    Medical Brigade volunteers set up medical clinics in pre-identified communities to provide healthcare where access is limited. Each community receives a brigade every 3-4 months and between brigades the in-country team maintains relationships with the communities to provide follow-up and conducts community health worker trainings to empower local leaders to perpetuate a consistent level of healthcare. See VIDEO AND LEARN MORE ABOUT IU MEDICAL BRIGADE

Item 2, doctors: Do you know a medical professional who would like to give one week of his or her time to go to Honduras and help? The IU Medical Brigade is looking for DOCTORS (M.D.s including Physicians Assist., and N.P.s) who will volunteer to help. Volunteer medical professionals are needed.

BOTTOM LINE: Send me the name of an adventurous medical professional who wants to make a difference, and I'll give the information to Michelle.

Your contribution of $10, $20, @30 or more will touch not only Michelle's life, but also change the lives of other students, medical professionals, and people in Honduras.

Go to Michelle Metcalf's secure website and make a donation right now.

Highlights of the West Central Indiana Chamber Expo

The West Central Indiana Chamber of Commerce Business Expo today was a great event!

Around twenty businesses were on hand to greet the public and to support each other.

Jami White and her team did a fantastic job of organizing the expo - thank you all !!!

Some of the highlights for me included:

• Enjoying the hospitality offered by the Wabash Valley Bible Baptist Church youth. I really appreciated the effort the young people put in - serving lunch and setting up a bake sale. (Whoever made those pumpkin-cheesecake muffins - wow!)
• Meeting Mike Hutchison, owner of Bactrain Consulting. Mike has a terrific system for business contingency planning and disaster survival. If you haven't looked into this, you should. Especially when your livelihood, and the livelihood of others, depends upon keeping your business going.
• Learning about the regional business group CORR 41/52 sponsored by the Hoosier Heartland Small Business Development Center (HHSBDC). Susan Davis, Heather Clark-Reynolds, and their team offer a wide range of helpful services to area businesses. Check out the calendar of seminars and workshops coming up in our area. Also keep track of events by liking them on FaceBook.
• Inviting several of the women business owners to the Association of Women Business Owners meeting in West Lafayette. I had a great conversation with Susie Nelson (AC Electric of Lafayette) and Michelle Mickle (Scentsy Independent Consultant) about stepping out of the comfort zone and about the joy of growing up in a large family.
• Feeling happy because Marilyn Renner did a fantastic job explaining to people how owning and using a legal service plan can make a difference in their lives.

I only regret that I don't have time or space enough here to say more about the people I met today and the wonderful products and services they offer.

Come find me @ West-Central Chamber Business Expo 10/23

Stop by the West Central Indiana Chamber of Commerce Busines Expo!

I'll be there representing Indiana Benefit Alliance and PrePaid Legal Services.

WHEN: Saturday, October 23
The Expo will be open to the public from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

WHERE: 
The Wabash Valley Bible Baptist Church is located at 2320 East US Highway 41, Attica, Indiana, between Williamsport and Attica. 

WHO:
Corporate sponsors:  Main Source Bank, Chris Dalton and Andy Briles of Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance, Starr Associates, Farm Credit Services, B&P Chem-Dry of Western Indiana, Homecare by Design, Crossroads Restaurants, Warren County REMC, and Old National Bank.
 
Exhibitors include:  Rainbow Realty, The Gutter Group, Wright Implement, Fowler State Bank, Scentsy, The Broadwater Group Financial Services, Indiana Benefit Alliance, Jeannie Byers Designs, CORR41.biz, AT&T Craft's Appliances, Beauty Control, Texas Refinery Company, Lia Sophia Jewelry, Warren County Solid Waste District, Bactrian Continuity Inc., Prepaid Legal Services, Woodland Manor Nursing Center, The Waters of Williamsport, St. Vincent Williamsport Hospital.

WHAT ELSE: Susan Davis from the Small Business Development Center will be on hand for one-on-one (free!) consulting !

Attend Endless Referrals Live! - West Lafayette - 8/25/2010

The path to success is giving.

Register now to attend “Endless Referrals Live” featuring Bob Burg.

"Endless Referrals Live"
WHERE: at the University Plaza Hotel at 3001 Northwestern Avenue, West Lafayette, Indiana
WHEN: from 7:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., on Wednesday, August 25th, 2010.

Advance ticket price is $57, and tickets at the door are $97.

Think Big!

To get even greater value - register your sales associates, employees, fund-raising team, and special clients.

Learn how generate a constant stream of interested and eager referrals.

Bob Burg is author of the sales classic Endless Referrals: Network Your Everyday Contacts Into Sales, and co-author of the international bestselling The Go-Giver.

His newest book is Go-Givers Sell More.

Click here now to register!

Space is limited. Go online now and reserve your seat for “Endless Referrals Live” featuring Bob Burg.

Click here now to register!

Bob Burg - Endless Referrals Live – West Lafayette

I'm inviting you to attend

Bob Burg - Endless Referrals Live !

Learn how to leverage your network of everyday contacts into a never ending stream of new prospects. Bob is known for his powerful presentations filled with useful information delivered in a dynamic and humorous style which keeps his audience engaged and able to put their new skills to work immediately.

Date: Wednesday, August 25, 2010   http://www.burg.com/events/west-lafayette/

Time: 7:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Location: University Plaza Hotel West Lafayette, IN

Contact me to receive a Discount Code for a discounted ticket price when you register for the event online!

Contact Isabel Hogue

2010 Indiana SHRM Conference

Look under the Colonial Life banner to find me

at the 2010 Conference of the Indiana State Council for the

Society of Human Resource Management 

August 16-18, 2010 - downtown Indianapolis

I will be among the conference exhibitors as part of a team representing Colonial Life.

I am proud to represent Colonial Life -- a single-source provider of: 

• exclusive services to employers to help them enhance and better manage their benefits program - at little or no charge
• benefits counseling and benefits statements that help employees understand and appreciate what's available to them at work
• personalized enrollment options that save time and money
• personal insurance products

Colonial Life has sponsored the SHRM Employee Benefits Survey since 2007.

Read the executive summary of the 2010 survey.

See how Colonial Life's one to one counseling makes your benefits count (short video).

Life lessons about the challenges facing retired Americans

MY EXPERIENCE as a caregiver for my mother taught me many lessons about the challenges facing retired Americans and their families.  I understand the limitations of Medicare and Medicaid, the necessity of planning ahead for long-term care, and the emotions that cause families to shy away from discussing this part of retirement planning.

MY GOAL is to help individuals, families, and small business owners to plan ahead to put themselves in the best possible position, so that they will have resources and choices to ease the impact on their loved ones of a crisis that could cause financial disaster.

PEOPLE COME TO ME BECAUSE I HELP THEM to be safe, secure, and protected from financial catastrophe.  I am a licensed insurance agent.
My key to success: Always trying to learn more and serve others.