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Learn the secret from author and inspirational speaker Lisa Nichols

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Inspirational speaker Lisa Nichols has given hundreds of speeches, but the one she remembers most fondly was her very first.

SHARON ASCHAIEK -- Special to the Toronto Sun

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On Sept. 17, renowned motivational speaker Lisa Nichols will share her ideas on achieving personal and professional success as part of The Phenomenal View, a speaker series sponsored by The Toronto Sun. To find out more about this event, other speakers in the series and to purchase tickets, visit www.phenomenalview.com.

She was more than a little nervous, but the response to it was overwhelming and full of emotion -- all of which was her own, since she was the only person in the room.

"I often talk about me standing in the front of the bathroom mirror before I had ever spoken publicly and delivering my first speech, and I remember sobbing, laughing, seeing people high-fiving," Nichols recalls. "To this day, no matter what I'm doing, I always remember that first speech."

For Nichols, it was a personal leap forward that helped her eventually transform a company she started in her living room into a multi-million dollar business, and become known worldwide as the breakthrough specialist on personal empowerment.

PERSONAL STORIES

Sharing the personal stories of how she got to where she is today is key to how the life and business coach helps others achieve their own success.

"Someone once called me 'America's permission slip to play bigger,' and that comes from someone who has walked the journey," says Nichols, a charismatic teacher of the laws of attraction recently popularized in the hit self-help book and film (in which she was featured) The Secret. "I consider myself to be a hands-on teacher and I teach not from something I read so much as something I've lived through. I understand the depth of darkness as much as the possibility of light, and I'm willing to take risks on stage to share the journey with people."

On Sept. 17, Nichols will aim to motivate and empower business executives as part of a professional growth event run by the speaker series The Phenomenal View. During the day-long event, Nichols will demonstrate how participants can find the inner courage to be their personal best.

"I'll discuss and teach people how to break past anything that has limited them in the past. It's about surpassing their limitations, setting new marks and doing things they haven't even imagined," she says.

Concrete steps to achieving goals will be covered, she says, to help people get to where they want to be in five to 10 years.

'FEEL THE SHIFT'

"Many people talk about change or transformation, but they are mistaking thinking and talking for action -- the only thing they're working are their jawbones!" she says. "We'll be creating practical, realistic steps for them to get to their day of strong empowerment, of moving reality. People will feel the shift before they even leave the room. It's where education meets application, and they get the results right there."

Nichols, who has also co-authored two best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul books and been a guest expert on Oprah, says the event will take an holistic approach, focusing on both personal and professional success.

"I will help define what success looks like -- fiscal success, spiritual success, relationship success. I've coached billionaires who learned how to make money and forgot to bring their life along," she says. "Success defined in totality by how we embrace and create it in everything we experience."

The third in this four-part speaker series sponsored by The Toronto Sun, the event will take place at The Royal Ambassador Event Centre, which is set on 55 acres of parkland at 15430 Innis Lake Rd. in Caledon. The Phenomenal View's stated mission is to provide events that help you change your thinking, change your behaviour and change your life. To find out more and to purchase your ticket, visit www.phenomenalview.com.

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