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Carolyn Evans of Saladmaster | Recipe for Life

February 1st, 2012

Carolyn Evans is a career woman that for over 30 years has helped establish Saladmaster cookware as a leader in healthy cooking solutions. Below is her Recipe for Life, the way she lives her life in balance – body, mind, and spirit.

Her job with Saladmaster is about changing lives with healthy cooking solutions. For the last four years, Carolyn has been the Director of Marketing for the last four. With proposals for partnering hitting her desk each day, she helps decide whether their missions match.

Recipe for Life | Carolyn Evans

Recipe for Life | Carolyn Evans

Her job with Saladmaster is about changing lives with healthy cooking solutions. She helped orchestrate a high profile partnership with The Cancer Project. The Cancer Project teaches “Food for Life” classes, which inform people how to eat a more nourishing diet with healthy ingredients and less oils. Many of The Cancer Project instructors use Saladmaster cookware in their cooking demonstrations. S She helped orchestrate a high profile partnership with The Cancer Project. The Cancer Project teaches “Food for Life” classes, which inform people how to eat a more nourishing diet with healthy ingredients and less oils. Many of The Cancer Project instructors use Saladmaster cookware in their cooking demonstrations. S

Meat of the Recipe (Passion or Purpose): Serving others is the meat (or in this case-tofu) of Carolyn’s Recipe for Life. aladmaster cookware is constructed of top quality metal – 316Ti titanium stainless steel, MADE IN AMERICA – which provides the maximum resistance to chemical reactions with the salts, acids, and alkalis in the food being prepared. This ensures the food being prepared contains no metal by-products from chemical reactions with metals in the cooking process.

Health of Carolyn’s Recipe: Starting from the inside out, Carolyn starts each day with prayer and then has steel cut outs, with berries and a kale, banana, pear and green grape smoothie made with Silk soymilk. A green, a bean and a grain are part of Carolyn’s nutritious diet philosophy. Carolyn also fits in about 20 minutes of exercise 3-4 times a week and hydrates with plenty of water throughout the day.

Nourishment of the Recipe (Centering): Organization is key. With Saladmaster in over 40 countries, Carolyn must be strategic in her workday so she can stay balanced. Just the amount of emails she receives can be overwhelming!

Binder of the Recipe (Her network): Carolyn is very close to her family; her mother and husband are her rocks!

Complexity of the Recipe: Carolyn is in an international business so she has friends scattered throughout the world and a wonderful network close to home. She has a monthly dinner group in her neighborhood. The age range is expansive and she appreciates the wisdom shared. Monthly gatherings over lunch or dinner feed her soul and quarterly the gals let their spouses join them.

Recipe on a budget (Financial goals): Carolyn and her husband have a very sound plan that they established young. They have a four-tine approach to the way finances are handled. They give to their church, save a portion, use a portion for bills and allocate a portion for play. They have always believed in living below their means because that alone is a great key to financial freedom.

Spice of the recipe: (Hobbies and interests): Carolyn loves to travel and likes the experience to include food, shopping, culture and scenery. Either domestic or abroad, she enjoys the new discoveries.

Consider if what Carolyn includes in her balanced recipe resonates with you. Recipe for Life is about personal development and encourages you to do one thing each day that your future self will thank you for!



Kristen Houghton’s Recipe for Life

January 14th, 2012

Kristen Houghton has lived the subject of her two books And Then I’ll Be Happy! and No Woman Diets Alone – There’s Always a Man Behind Her Eating a Doughnut. Once a schoolteacher, with the responsibilities of a mother and wife, she left the world of teaching to become a full-time writer and never looked back. Now as a lifestyle journalist, she helps women be their own catalyst for change by making happiness the #1 priority. She is a speaker on the subject of women, happiness and making positive life changes in the New York tri-state area, Miami and Los Angeles.

Kristen Houghton

Kristen Houghton

Meat of the Recipe (Passion or Purpose): Kristen is a lifestyle journalist and the author of two books, And THEN I’LL BE HAPPY, Stop Sabotaging Your Own Happiness and Put Your Own Life First, a serious look at why women lose their identity and vision and put everyone else before them and No Woman Diets Alone – There’s Always a Man Behind Her Eating a Doughnut, The Writer’s Review calls it a hilarious tongue–in–cheek look at marital adventures. Her literary work includes interviews and reviews for HBO documentaries, The Oprah Winfrey Network, and The Style Channel. Her portfolio includes writing for More, Today, the innovative twodaymag.com, and numerous other in-print and online magazines.
Health of Kristen’s Recipe: Tired of being tired, Kristen found a balance between diet and exercise. She does ballet and eats healthfully.
Nourishment of the Recipe (Centering): Reinvention! Kristen quit postponing her life and took action. Writing is as important to Kristen as breathing so while teaching International languages and cultures to high school and college students, she began to make a plan to become a full-time writer. Kristen wrote to get her name out and was noticed and offered a position by the Hearst News Organization to write about relationships on a national level. This break led to more paying gigs and the momentum continues. Kristen continually works to create the person she was meant to be. On her desk sits this quote “You are not what you were born but what you have it in yourself to be.” Kristen’s attitude toward work and life was improved by following her dream.
Binder of the Recipe (Her network): Kristen’s biggest fan may be her husband, but she also has a huge following from the online community, the world of writers, those she interviews, as well as her wonderful fans and readers.
Complexity of the Recipe: Kristen is a natural networker. Other writers, those friends who support her and those she meets in the philanthropic world all feed her relationships and her understanding of human nature.
Recipe on a budget (Financial goals): Personal happiness and satisfaction comes first in Kristen’s life. Living your life on your own terms is her mantra and believes if you have a dream, start first by pursuing while keeping your day job. Just keep doing what you love and keep your sight on the goals allowing flexible guidelines. Above all, invest in yourself.
Spice of the recipe: (Hobbies and interests): Kristen was a teacher of languages and cultures and her research of areas of the world continues. She is an avid scuba diver with her husband, Alan.
Reinvention is the act of becoming “the you,” you were meant to be. In order to adopt this whole-heartedly Kristen had to drop the guilt of not being the go-to person in everyone’s lives and guard her time to work on her own needs and goals. Her personal decision has led others through her articles and books to be catalysts for change and stop postponing their happiness.

http://www.kristenhoughton.com/



Recipe for Life | Paula McQueen

December 18th, 2011

I interview friends and acquaintances each month for my Recipe for Life newsletter. This interview is a from a friend from my elementary school years, Paula Smith. Paula is now Paula McQueen, a leader in non-profit fundraising for children in India. Paula oversees events and meets with church leaders to find those who will sponsor children for India Gospel League.

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”
Woodrow Wilson

Paula McQueen | Recipe for Life

Paula McQueen | Recipe for Life

Paula McQueen’s Recipe for Life
Paula and I have known each other since grade school (Paula Smith), but lost touch in our teens when she moved away. In our forties, we reconnected and it was as though we never lost touch. Her boys grown and divorced, she started down a new career path in non-profit work for India Gospel League. Today I share her Recipe for Life!

“Meat of the Recipe” – Workday and Projects:
Paula oversees the fundraising development to attract new donors and to make the current donors stay involved. “We currently care for approximately 2400 children and have sponsors for only about half of them. I work closely with our small staff to create new ways to reach out to our potential new donors. It costs a donor just $30 a month to care for a child’s ever need.” Paula oversees events and meets with church leaders to find those who will sponsor children. It is eternally rewarding work.

“Health of the Recipe” – Mental and Physical Well-being: Paula is incredibly active. She enjoys biking, hiking, roller-blading, golfing and skiing. Having lived in Minneapolis a majority of her adult life and now in Ohio, she enjoys the outdoors and the activity in the parks and on the lakes.

“Binder of the Recipe” – What holds a recipe together? Paula’s relationship with God keeps her grounded. She feels God colors all of her relationships with friends and family. She is at her very best when she knows she is living out her life according to His plan.

“Spice in the Recipe” – Excitement: Paula travels to new places and loves to learn new things. The anticipation of the possibilities in each new day invigorates her!

“A Recipe on Budget” – Financial Freedom: Paula believes that abundance is not about your bank account, but instead life is about the investment we make in others. She believes in giving back and helping those who are less fortunate.

“Complexity of the Recipe” – Network: Paula’s relationship with God is paramount. She has been blessed with amazing family and friends and her mother tops the list! With the transition of a new job and city, she is finding incredible support from those in her church and from her close-knit staff.

“A Nourishing Recipe” – Staying Grounded: Luckily Paula repeated the adage, “If you love what you do, you won’t work a day in your life.” She says she does not have to work very hard to keep it together, because she feels called and fulfilled to work for India Gospel League.

Connecting with others through friendship and through interests makes the world richer. I am pleased to share stories of those that put a unique twist on their passion and seek to create a recipe for life.
Visit Paula’s organization online:
web | www.iglworld.org
twitter | www.twitter.com/indiagl

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