Start your own business

As mentioned for an earlier challenge (quit your job), I left my last job in October with the goal of creating the 'dream vocation'.  So far, though the money is coming in slower than I had naively hoped, things are going great.  I've started a business called "Spark Northwest" doing personal and organizaional development.  As a 'workshop artist' I create open workshops and corporate workshops that are as heavily 'experiential education' based as the audience will allow (for I think that this is where lasting transformation really happens).  The closest network of consultants and trainers doing similar work is the "Applied Improv Network" of which I just had a great time at one of their annual international conferences (in Banff) and for which I just created a social networking site that is buzzing with activity (see www.appliedimprov.com).  You can find out more about my biz and our open workshops at the Spark link above.  Besides workshops on collaborative brainstorming, team-building and more, we also do open workshops like the upcoming 'soul-tech: restoring balance to our tech-intense lives' which was just featured in the National section of the LA Times, picked up by the Chicago Tribune, and then led to some local radio interviews.  Woohoo! (: