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Allan, the Feng Shui instructor who teaches how to properly
arrange a person's home to balance the person's life,
says Wilson's message is really about personal energy,
and how to direct it to achieve one's goals.
Pattern, who became friends with Wilson
when the radio host was top producer in marketing and
sales for the IBM Corporation, says she believes that
inner beauty is the key to becoming a goddess.
"You don't have to look like
Cleopatra to be a goddess," Pattern says.
O'Hanlan, who has lived in Southern
Nevada for 20 years, concurred.
"The women who are goddesses
can be mothers, showgirls, college students, casino
workers or Ph.D's," says O'Hanlan, who reasoned
that with such a diverse culture and occupational climate,
Southern Nevada is "not a bad place" for women
to embrace the concept of inner beauty.
"In Southern Nevada, we have
come of the age when we need a program like this. There
are a lot of things that women need to know," O'Hanlan
says.
Each week on her radio program, Wilson
helps area women learn to nurture themselves, celebrate
their femininity and still achieve their dreams.
"The gift from the goddess is
really a gift you give yourself," Wilson says.
"We are all goddesses and we need to recognize
that, honor ourselves, and accept nothing less than
honor and respect from others."
Wilson, who recently self published
"The Gift from the Goddess," which offers
the same message as her radio program, achieved a great
deal of honor and respect from others in the 1980s when
she was an IBM marketing executive based in San Diego.
It was during that time, while she
was struggling with stress-induced health problems,
that Wilson noted a pattern among her fellow women executives.
They had all been convinced that success
came only to women who ignored and suppressed their
femininity and forced themselves to conform to the male-dominated
corporate structure.
"They were moving up in business
but they were moving down in self esteem," says
Wilson, who holds a masters degree in communications
from Northwestern University.
This revelation set Wilson on a path
of research and self discovery that resulted in the
development of a highly acclaimed seminar series.
For more than 10 years, Wilson's seminars
have helped hundreds of women at companies large and
small throughout the Southwest learn to regain pride
in their femininity and embrace all that makes them
uniquely women.
In the process of teaching the seminars,
however, Wilson says she learned as much from the attendants
as they did from her.
Those encounters made her realize
there was a hunger for fulfillment among women and a
larger need for help and support that she could provide
through her seminars.
This realization led to her book --
and then to her weekly radio show.
In recent weeks, show topics have
ranged from how to achieve respect in the workplace
to how to enjoy the gift of a really great date.
Her guests have included attorney
Andrew Edenbaum, who addressed sexual harassment; psychologist
Ron Hennessey, who discussed relationships, and entertainer
Rich Little.
"He was on to address the
gift of laughter," Wilson says. "To be a true
goddess, laughter and a sense of humor is very important." |
