Meet our CWW Network guest host,
Pam Hoelzle, Seattle Business Consultant! A gifted, entrepreneurial expert, dynamic  speaker and inspirational writer Pam Hoelzle has owned service companies grossing $13 M+ 5 Mfranchise division,  launched startups, owned product and services businesses, sold companies, hit home runs and... struck out in business and in life...

A humble leader who has proven herself by succeeding, failing and succeeding again, Hoelzle shares not only the highs but the lows of life and business. Her powerful vulnerability, skilled intuition and mastery in the art and science of transforming people and business has proven effective locally in Seattle, internationally and on both coasts.  Pam teams with entrepreneurs and visionaries across industries to grow businesses and lives. A visionary, Pam gets what it takes to succeed in the conceptual age. She is a master at working with people, galvanizing tribes, a visionary, synthesizer of cross industry paradigms and a whole brain thinker. Pam conducts individuals and teams from where they are to where they want to be... along the way goals and dreams become reality and hilarity happens!

Not What I Thought... Inspiration and Hilarity for the Business of Life
By Pam Hoelzle

"Ever whisper, this is not the life I ordered, not what I expected?

I don't know about you, but if you would have told me 20 years ago how my life was going to turn out… I would have told you- you were crazy or shot myself…

After a summit to nearly storybook; multi-million dollar business, dream home, married to high school sweet heart with 2 cool kids my life turned south; downgraded to a C level movie no one wanted to experience, …especially me.

My unexpected life taught me that happiness isn’t dependent on what happens. No happiness is entirely a choice; an attitude and although life isn’t controllable – happiness is!

Join me for Not What I Thought together we will share inspiring stories of individuals who are soaring like eagles amidst unexpected lives, slightly altered flight plans and semi-singed wings."

Not What I Thought is a conversation, a conversation we want to engage in with you. A conversation to remind all of us that even amidst uncertain, volatile and tragic times we are never victims. Regardless of what life serves up, you and I always have choices. How will we respond? What will we believe? Who will we become? Possibilities abound... Always.
 
Share your Not What I Thought story - engage in the conversation online and on the radio and invite your friends. Encouragement to soar like an eagle in a world of slightly clipped wings and crooked flight patterns…

My Success Story - Elys Brewda
Recipes for success abound just like recipes for the perfect pie crust. And like pie crusts, it is a matter of personal taste. Some people think success looks like Donald Trump or like film celebrities. Some think success looks like famous athletes or powerful politicians. For many people, money and its byproducts give them the feeling of success. When it comes to a definition of success it is not a one size fits all.

When I was a young woman in my twenties, I felt successful because I was educated. I felt successful because I was attractive and slender. I felt successful because I had married well. I felt successful because I had travelled the world. And now as a mature woman I can see that much of what I defined as success was transitory. I am no longer slender. I am no longer married. I’m unable to accomplish physically what I could do so easily as a young woman.

At this juncture I feel more successful than I have ever felt in my entire life. My life has been a great adventure. I have known great love. I have met amazing people. I have experienced betrayal, great losses and deep depression. I rose from the ashes of each negative experience, dusted myself off and began anew. As a result, I developed greater resilience and more compassion for myself and for others.

My father was my role model for success. He was a poor immigrant from Eastern Europe. He was a farmer and never made a lot of money. In spite of that, he was the happiest of people. He always marched to his own drummer. He lived his life the way he wanted. He left a beautiful legacy in his children. Just before he died he called us all together. At the dinner table sat his family including grandchildren and great grandchildren. Before we began the meal, he said to all of us, "I’m the wealthiest man in the world. Look at the priceless jewels sitting around this table."

In many ways I didn’t get the life I ordered. I believe that I have something much better. I have found the path to inner peace. I have learned how to make a life, not just a living. I have been able to make a difference, not just a dollar. I have inspired many people to uncover their potential and step powerfully into their unique brilliance. I am leaving this world a better place than I found it. That is my definition of success.

Pam Hoelzle Resume

InspireU: Founder 2004-current
Business Consulting/teaming with founders to increase; sales and grow profitability. Teaming to scale, turn around, start-up and divest. International, East Coast, West Coast.

Co-Owner, Third Dimension Salons 1986-2001
Co- owned and led this ( $12.6 M co salons/$5M franchise division) company; 500 associates serving over 30, 000 clients a week in 40 companies owned and 20 franchised service units. As Co-Owner Pam was responsible for the business model, strategic planning, marketing, education/ training and the leadership team which led to a profitable divesture to an international company.
 
Kera Vita Inc Co-Founder 1993-2003
Co-designed Kera Vita hair care brand with past V.P. of Revlon Realistic and built to seven digit revenue stream with exclusive distribution in Third Dimension Salons. Brand was re-engineered and received Nordstrom beta approval in 2004.

Education
Degree: B.S. in Marketing, University of Illinois, 1987
Degree: Masters In Teaching: Seattle Pacific University, 2002-2004