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Ready to feel more fulfilled and welcome new successes into your life?
Dr. Verna Cornelia Price will give you some of the tools you'll need to get started at the Body Life Expo™

Do you believe you have the power to change your life for the better? Dr. Verna Cornelia Price does. A nationally recognized motivational speaker, Dr. Price believes that everyone can be extraordinarily successful when they learn to tap into their personal power. What’s more, she has developed the tools to help you take immediate steps toward a more fulfilling life.

Dr. Price will lead a one-hour seminar, The Power of You!, at the upcoming Body Mind Life Expo™, to be held March 4-5, 2006 at the Minneapolis Convention Center (www.101expos.com). The seminar, which will be on Saturday at 10 a.m., will be based on her book, The Power of People: Four Kinds of People Who Can Change Your Life.
"For too long, women in particular have given away our personal power. It’s time to take it back, to understand that you are extraordinarily powerful," says Dr. Price. Although her seminar is geared to both genders she explains that unlike women, most men are taught to tap into their personal power from an early age.

"We have mixed up what power really is. We have believed what society has told us that some people have power and that some don’t. That if you don’t have the right position, or the right amount of money, then you don’t have power. In reality, everyone has power. And when you learn to use it, there are two natural outcomes:

You have a whole new sense of who you are. You feel fulfilled.
Your life begins to change. You begin to see new successes in your life."

Dr. Price says that using your personal power involves the following strategies:

Understand how you are currently allowing the people around you to use the power in your life. "People can play the roles of adders, subtractors, multipliers or dividers." A subtractor, for example, takes away your power.
Create an action plan for getting the subtractors and dividers out of your life, and for attracting adders and multipliers into your life. "Your life begins to change when the scenery changes. Changing the people and/or their attitudes, increases your power source."
Learn how you are using your own personal power. "Are you being a subtractor to yourself? If so, you need to learn how to become an adder."

For example, Dr. Price says you may be acting as a subtractor to yourself if you constantly waste time. "How much time do you spend exercising versus sitting in front of the TV? How you use your time will eventually equal the quality of life you have," she says.

To become an adder to yourself, she suggests learning to restructure your time. "Put into your life the kind of life you want to have. If you want to be physically fit, then structure fitness into your life."

She adds that women tend to subtract their power through their own words. "How often do you hear women say, "Oh, I can never get that right!" or "I’m so (fill in the blank)!" The adder strategy is to speak only what you want, and only what you want to become. We’ve been teaching these principles to men for a long time. Women are just catching up."

Dr. Price also says there is a way to keep from being sucked into the drama created by the subtractors in your life. "Subtractors want their drama to be your drama. For women, it’s time for us to stop this craziness. Once people get it, once they start putting these principles in place and taking these strategies to heart, they change."

The Body Mind Life Expo™ is the Midwest’s largest health, wellness and natural products expo. In addition to hundreds of exhibitors representing cutting edge products and services, and nonstop informative speakers, the public also is invited to Ask the Pro Before You Go by visiting the official expo Web site at www.101expos.com. This enables people to contact experts representing a number of wellness-related specialties before attending the expo.

Show hours are March 4th from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and March 5^th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $3 with the half price coupon available on the Web site (www.101expos.com), and free to kids 17 and under when accompanied by an adult. Further information is available on the expo hotline: 612-798-7256.

Benefiting Other Area Women

One dollar of every paid admission will be donated to WomenVenture, anonprofit economic development agency for women. WomenVenture’s mission is to assist women in securing their own economic success and prosperity. WomenVenture helps women start and grow their own businesses, change or develop careers, and train for well-paying jobs in non-traditional industries.

This year’s Body Mind Life Expo™ is sponsored by KSTP Channel 5 TV, KSTC Channel 45 TV, and Icelandair.

Media Note: For additional information, or to schedule an advance interview with Dr. Verna Cornelia Price, contact Media Relations, Inc. at 612-798-7220.

Biography – Dr. Verna Cornelia Price

Dr. Verna Cornelia Price, author and motivational speaker is also the president and principal consultant for J. Cameron & Associates and JCAMA Publishers is an innovative person known for creating programs and processes which increase organizational effectiveness and individual performance. Dr. Price began her professional career as a preschool teacher whose leadership resulted in the creation of a parent advisory council. She has worked with several organizations including Junior Achievment as a program director and senior marketing manager where she created the Urban Outreach Program to integrate business education programs into inner-city schools and organizations. At the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Verna’s leadership as a director and professor resulted in the creation of a First -Year Experience Program for all incoming freshmen. She also co-founded a multi-discipline academic minor in leadership for undergraduate students.

Dr. Price has custom designed a multiple intelligence approach to helping her clients rethink leadership and the role of personal power in the workplace. Her Clients include large corporations such as Target Corporation, Coca-Cola Bottling Company, and Honeywell as well as Not-For–Profit and Educational organizations such as The College of St. Catherine, Westminster College, The Midwest Urban Leagues, The National Youth Leadership Council and national and international private and public schools.

She has also created a unique Power of People Professional Development Seminar series based on her book, The Power of People: Four Kinds of People who Can Change Your Life that empowers and equips organizations with strategies for motivating and inspiring employees to excellence. Seminar topics include The Power of People, The Power of You, Vision and Excellence, Effective Teams, The Power of Motivation, Motivational Leadership and Cross-Cultural Communications. Dr. Price received her Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Adminstration from the University of Minnesot. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and the College of St. Catherine where she teaches in the Leadership Challenge, a Women’s Leadership Certification Program. She is married to Shane Price and is the mother of three, Justice Cameron and the Twins, Cornelius and Ktyal.