Just a quick update! I have to scoot soon because my Dad just returned from a trip to New York with a bushel of apples and 6 gallons of juice to make hard cider with!
What a whirlwind! This past weekend was the first Chicago Leadership Summit! We had an incredible turnout (standing room only!) as Art Jonak, Keith Schreiter and David Bertrand flew out to Naperville for some fast-paced training that left everyone feeling pumped up and excited to use their new skills!
Friday Art spoke for our generic local Meetup group and I had an awesome opportunity to pick his brain afterwards over dinner (well — by dinner I mean great food at 1am). Poor Art! Haha, he must have been TIRED after flying in, teaching all day and then being forced to converse with the crazy Chicago team after the event.
The next day was our Vitamark specific training which was inspiring and innovative!
At Portillo's after the event
My Mom did a great job organizing the event! Although she was a bit NUTS driving all of the speakers back and forth to the airport — seperately…. I’m sure it was a great opportunity to get her questions answered. We took the guests to Portillo’s for a real Chicago hot dog experience and they loved it!
Keith and I sucking in our Portillo's food babies for the picture. haha
I ordered a mondo meal for Keith (who triumphantly devoured a Dipped Italian Beef with Hot Peppers, a Chicago Hot Dog with everything, Cheese Fries and a slice of Chocolate Cake! phew!) Haha, check out his facebook profile for pictures.
Art and Keith getting ready to devour Portillo's!
Mark, Adri and my sister Stephanie at my house this past summer
Next week we have Coach Mark Davis flying in from Melbourne, Australia to do a session for our Chicagoland Networking meetup group on making money by becoming famous on the internet (or something along those lines. :-P).
Can’t wait to see Mark again! He’s crashing at our place so I’m sure we’ll have plenty of time to catch up.
Ciao for now! I’ll let you know how the cider turns out!
Rachel Mazza 