Hang around here for a while and you’ll meet the most interesting women!

For example, several weeks ago, a good girlfriend invited us to dinner to meet a multi talented musician, author, poet, actress, activist born in Southern Colorado near the New Mexico border from an educated and  political Hispanic family.

Her name is well known in New Mexico circles, but not just as an entertainer. She’s not afraid to speak up and take action when her people and community need a leader to bring attention to the plight of the rural areas of Colorado and New Mexico. She has become the keeper of the language and culture of the people.

Her Name: Veronica Ortiz. In some circles she is known as “The Gypsy Nun”.

We were treated to a delicious Cuban dinner, an eclectic and fun mix of guests and a performance of delightful and beautiful songs sung in spanish, a soothing voice and a strumming guitar. It was a delightful evening, but even more engaging were the stories told by this greying woman of the world, who now sticks close to her home of  El Rito, a rural setting, which, while beautiful, is suffering from lack of water as a result of drying up wells from years of drought.

It’s a Problem. People Need Water!

And the discussion was…how is it possible that the government in this great United States of ours, one of the richest nations in the world, cannot seem to provide for the basic needs of it’s people! People Need WATER! And because this is an aging and economically depressed rural area, the people cannot afford to pay for the infrastructure needed to pipe in water. The problem is falling on deaf ears.

But rather than dwell on it, Veronica just does what she can to help her community AND she has many stories to tell of her younger days growing up on a sheep ranch in a family of 13 children. She talks with a focus on the benefits of her experiences…

as a nun in training at a Benedictine Convent…

Deciding to leave the order to travel and follow her love of music and creativity…

The consequence of that ending in divorce and separation with her children…

Winning recognition and awards as an artist, actress, as well as activist…

As a multimedia maven and as a natural communicator, I am passionate about revealing the remarkable stories of GutZy Women!

Our stories are important and for many years were hidden away from the history books, but couldn’t be stopped as women LOVE to talk and we pass stories on by  word of mouth, woman to woman and then pass the down to our children. But often they get lost, as they have in my family.

Just exactly why I LOVE this medium called the internet with all of it’s capabilities to communicate, connect, educate, archive and inspire! Won’t you join us?

Don’t forget to come back when Part 2 is unleashed! 

In the meantime, there is much to gain from the TONS of INFO at my website

AND, there is MORE to gain from Veronica’s Wisdom…

“We dream about what will happen as more and more women artists gain the resources they need to express their creativity fully.  We are convinced that they will change the world.”

Martha Richards   

Founder & Executive Director
The Fund for Women Artists

Debbie Ducic, founder of GutZy Women and Kay Singleton, founder of Alpine Artist, finish off this series of three videos by revealing the struggles many women face when the responsibility of care giving eclipses the desire to self actualize their creative talents and gifts.

This video reveals one woman’s process that many others go through when they find themselves unable to do it all.

This story has a happy ending…one that creative and entrepreneurial women across the world can draw strength and wisdom from.

Creative people who want to attract income from the thing they love doing will benefit from this video.  Take a look and then tell us about YOUR story. GutZy Women want to know!

Learn more about GutZy Women Here:  

Here’s another great resource in the support of women in the arts:

SWAN Day (Support Women Artists Now Day) is a new international holiday that celebrates women artists.
It will be an annual event taking place on the last Saturday of Women’s History Month (March). The first SWAN Day will take place on Saturday, March 29, 2008

As a symbol of international solidarity, over 100 SWAN Day events have been scheduled around the world

By focusing attention on the work of women artists, SWAN Day will help people imagine what the world might be like if women’s art and perspectives were fully integrated into all of our lives. The public is invited to attend SWAN Day events and to make donations to their favorite women artists. The long term goal of SWAN Day is to inspire communities around the world to find new ways to recognize and support women artists as a basic element of civic planning.

You can get involved…contact GutZy Women to find out how. 

Kay Singleton of Alpine Artist shares her advice, tips and strategies that have proven successful for her with Debbie Ducic, founder of GutZy Women in this second interview video in a series of 3.

Kay, like many other artists who are dedicated to their passion, wanted to find other avenues to sell her work, so decided many years ago that a website would be that avenue. http

www.AlpineArtist.com

She knew that was just the beginning of her efforts online so she studied how to optimize it for the search engines, added a blog, sends out a regular eNewletter, and just recently has added her art to a few international art websites that sell the works of artists all over the world.

Watch this video to discover what those sites are AND what the surprising bonus is from taking that action!

Artists of all types can benefit from this valuable discussion between two GutZy Women who understand the power of the internet to grow their businesses which also happen to be their passions!

LEARN MORE HERE:

For all you artists out there who dream of  making a living doing what you LOVE…listen up!

GutZy Women has found a few women artists who have made a point of overcoming their fear of technology and and the internet in order to get more recognition, more awards and more income getting their creations out into the world and are reaping the rewards of their efforts.

One of those artists is Kay Singleton, of Alpine Arts. As you’ll learn in the video, Kay has been an inspiration to me for many years because she is a sincere, caring, spiritual and loving person as well as an incredibly talented Creatress.

She has many talents…painting, sculpting, home decorating, decorative tile, writing, speaking, song writing, poetry, singing, guitar playing..I mean SHE IS AMAZING!

But on top of all that, she is very good at marketing herself, both by traditional means AND on the internet. Not with just a website of her own, but through other local and international websites featuring art you can buy online.

Not one to rest on her laurels, Kay continually reinvents herself. In this video she talks about how she sees that all of her talents are coming together to create new forms of multi-media presentations for many different kinds of applications.

So what is she doing about it? Why, creating a new website to introduce it…thats what.

Stay tuned…this is only part one in the series. Kay has so much more to offer!

To find more GutZy Women and valuable articles and resources click here:

Debbie Ducic of GutZy Women and David Skul of Relativity roll play the do’s and don’ts of social networking in this series of videos. The point is to compare real life to relationship building online.

This video shows how spamming turns people off and then offers a better way to approach getting information about your business out to the people you meet online as well as in real life.

This is a fun rendition of an important message. Click here to see more