We had a great Summer Mixer last Saturday and returned to our regularly scheduled meetings in full force this week with a lot of great guests and great number of tips - a great start to ourIt was great to see everybody again bright and early after our Summer Mixer.

Mike kicked off the meeting with a little med ball exercise that not only got our bodies moving, but also helped get everybody's brains primed for the meeting ahead.

We'd like to thank our guests for visiting our chapter.  One of the great parts of the meeting is to be able to meet and greet a variety of other local San Diego business professionals and owners.

• Phillip Solomon - Electrical Contractor (Solomon Electrical Services)
• Jill Addison - Video Producer 
• Anthony Clark - Travel Consultant (Worldventures)
• Cindy Freeland - HR Attorney (Schor Freeland, LLP)
• Ryan Clardy - Payroll solutions (Canopy HR Solutions)
• Jeff Greco - Online Data Backup (BackupRight)

Our newest member, and massage therapist, Florence Casiez, is 100% official now, receiving her official LeTip name badge. If your tense, call Florence! 

Duds by Dudes

It's pretty amazing learning how Brian's idea to make beer money back in college turned into San Diego's fastest growing print shop. Not only does Duds by Dudes do screen printing, they have expanded their service offerings to include any kind of promotional items - they can put your logo on pens, usb drives, bags, shot glasses, you name it.  These are the breadcrumbs that help your customers come back and find you.

Helping People Heal

Our second speaker, John McConnell PhD, discussed how to listen and provide help when you encounter somebody in emotional pain.  

One of the things that I love about our group is the over all excellence and dedication of the members, and John is a great example of that.  Not only does he have extensive experience and affordable rates, he also offers the first session risk-free and if he can't help the client, he will find a different therapist for them.  He works with couples to discover new ways to respond to old troubles.

Raffle

Mikel, Rich and Brian donated the raffle prizes this week.  Thanks to everybody that participated and congratulations to the winners.  I know I'm enjoying my original Mikel Bruce mug and I'm glad Phillip won the ratcheting allen wrench - being and electrician I think he has a pretty good chance of finding it useful.

Les Tips (that's French)

We had 35 tips this week with  escrow tips, showing that there is business waiting for the guests should they decide to join.  Sue set a new personal (and chapter) record with 11 tips this week alone! Go Sue!

Did you do your visitation?

Remember, visitation is coming up - don't forget to visit your partner!

Something to chew on:

A reputation is not made on what you are going to do.

- Henry Ford

Have a great week!