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5 Leadership Coaching Services That Will Make Leaders Out of Followers

January 30, 2012 By Fred Phillips 1 Comment

As a coach, what type of leadership coaching services can you offer your clients? Can you truly teach someone to be a leader? Or, is a leader born and not made?

There is not enough space here to fully debate the issue over whether a leader is born or made, but as a coach, you can provide leadership coaching services that will make them be the best coach they can be.

5 Leadership Coaching Services That Will Make Create Leaders

  • The value of learning
  • The value of building relationships
  • Be a true visionary
  • Be a coach
  • Be positive

The value of learning permeates all aspects of a leader’s life and career. Teaching your clients the value of learning is essential in building leadership skills. Learning is a process that goes non-stop; learn more about your employees, your business, your markets, your competitors, and don’t forget to learn more about yourself. Self-awareness is one of the most undervalued skill when teaching leadership.

Another essential leadership coaching service you can offer your clients is to teach them the value of building relationships. The foundation of any leader’s domain is their relationships with peers, co-workers, and other business leaders. Without these relationships, a leader cannot lead. Relationships are the core ingredient of any leader’s success. As a coach, you can teach your clients to proactively build trust and relationships, network with others, influence others, and effectively manage others. Your services will teach that relationships do matter!

Though some people are born visionaries, it is certainly possible to teach somehow how to increase their ability to set sights on the future and achieve goals that others may not think possible. You can teach your clients how to focus on a task, how to set a clear and positive direction, and how to be decisive. You can create a roadmap for client to develop a personal vision and a clear direction. Most leaders are visionaries; some were born that way, but for many, it is a learned skill.

Most leaders are also coaches. They know how to empower others, guide others, teach others, and provide feedback in various situations. You can also stress the importance of inspiring and motivating others. You can use your coaching skills to teach others how to coach. Every leader will need to use coaching skills at some point in time.

Leaders tend to be glass-half-full people. Teaching your clients ways to turn a negative into a positive will benefit them as leaders. Success is a product of optimism, positive reinforcement, and a belief that you can make positive changes. Providing your clients will a framework of positive thinking and leadership will certainly help them become the leader they are striving to be.

Your leadership coaching services must work these five qualities into one comprehensive and consistent package. Stressing these qualities in every session will make your coaching indispensable to people who desire to become leaders. As a coach, you can offer your leadership coaching services to help your clients become learners, relationship builders, visionaries, coaches, and optimists. If you can do that, you can turn a follower into a leader!

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Fred Philips
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My Career Coach College

January 29, 2012 By Fred Phillips Leave a Comment

If you were starting a career coach college, what courses would you offer? What skills do you think are the most important for a successful career coach to possess? Well, if it were my career coach college, I would offer as wide a variety of subjects as possible so my college could provide all the necessary skills needed to graduate students who will go on to successful and rewarding employment in the career coaching field.

Here are the main courses at my career coach college and the course descriptions.

Social Networking 101

Discover why Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites are not just for kids. They are for people who want to promote themselves and advance their career or business. In this course, students will learn everything there is to know about social networking and how to transfer this knowledge to their clients.

Linkedin 101

Learn how to use Linkedin to further your career and the careers of your clients. Learn how to create informative and keyword-rich profiles that engage the reader. You will also become knowledgeable on how to use groups and connections to benefit your business and your client’s careers.

Marketing Yourself 101

Everyone needs to sell themselves. You will learn techniques and skills that will help your clients market and promote themselves in the job market. You will learn skills that will help them get jobs and promotions.

Job Searching Strategies 101

In this course, you will given all the tools and knowledge necessary to help your clients begin their search for a job. Whether they are just entering the job market or starting a new career, this course will help you help them become experts in finding job opportunities.

Job Searching Strategies 201

This is a follow up to Job Searching Strategies 101, and offers skills and knowledge on how to find better jobs in a chosen field. This course will provide you with ways to help your client move up in their particular profession.

Marketing Your Business 101

Many career coach colleges may overlook this one, but my college will have a detailed course on marketing and promotion. No matter how great a coach you are, you will need to market your business. This course will provide you with strategies and techniques to successfully market your practice, whether you have been in business for a long time or are just starting out.

Choosing a Career 101

You may have clients who know what career they want to enter and you may have clients who have no clue what they want to do. This course will teach you ways to help your clients make this most important decision. This course will be filled with questions, exercises, life scenarios, and other ways to help your clients select a career path.

Organization for the Disorganized

A skill that any good career coach college should teach, organization is a key to running a smoothly operating coaching practice. This course will teach you how to keep all you legal papers in order, how to become a good manager of time, and how to keep notes and information on your clients organized and easily accessible. It’s not a good career coach college if it doesn’t offer a class on organization.

If you want to be a coach, you need training and education. Sure, it’s possible to rent an office, hang out a sign with your name and coaching title, and start advertising for coaching clients. But, without the proper training and education, do you think clients will be beating down your door? No way! You need training – the kind of training a good career coach college can offer. Like mine!

Hope you took some great value out of this post today! I’d love to hear your feedback, so make sure you leave a comment with your thoughts or questions. And also, you can click on the Twitter button below to retweet this article…Thank you!

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Bizarre Ways to Get Coaching Training

January 23, 2012 By Dave Iuppa 1 Comment

“Bizarre ways to get coaching training.” OK. I picked that title to get your attention. But I am so committed to it that I looked up the word “bizarre” and what do you suppose I found? The definition, of course… “strikingly out of the ordinary.” Hum. Here are three sensible, if perhaps strikingly out of the ordinary ways to become a trained coach. Learn by following these examples.

Who else Helps Their Client Play a Different Role?

How about a director? Are they involved in coaching training? Yes. A dear friend of my three daughters, literally a forth daughter, just graduated from Northwestern as a theatre major and she is a professional director. She is a great mix of tenderness and steel. She shows you what is called for and lovingly encourages you to play the role, but if necessary, she reminds you, in no uncertain terms, why we are all here. So perhaps a rich presentation of the desired role, followed by a sensitive invitation to step into that role, followed – if necessary – by an intense meeting of the minds to explain that it is simply time to step up, play the role, and move ahead is a required skill for a coach.

Who else Holds Their Clients Accountable as a Model for Coaching Training?

Who could be a better model for accountability coaching training than a real hard-ass boss? That’s right, a “show me your scales you heartless reptilian SOB” who takes “sorry I just couldn’t get it done” for what it is – a protest. A protest of a three year old crying, holding their breath and stamping their feet. And certainly not the behavior of a person aspiring to be a true adult, who has made a commitment, and who will do whatever it takes to meet that commitment. That is often exactly the job of an accountability coach.

Who else Lifts the Hearts of Their Clients and Makes Them Sing?

Contrast these images with that of a conductor, who demands at least as much but motivates by tapping into the inner drive that elevates our spirit and our very soul to heights beyond our own imagining, by showing what can be. Yes, when it comes to coaching training, learning to inspire is among the necessary skills for anyone who calls themselves a coach!

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Dave Iuppa
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Now on Alltop – JTS Advisors is One of the Best Career Coaching Blogs

January 16, 2012 By Fred Phillips Leave a Comment

JTS Advisors Coaches Training Blog, one of the most informative online career coaching blogs, was recently added to Alltop.com. If you don’t know anything about Alltop, that might not sound like big news.

But, for those familiar with Alltop, it is big news. Very BIG news!

Alltop only lists the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the crème de la crème. JTS Advisors Coaches Training Blog was selected as one of the best of the best when it comes to career coaching blogs.

Every site chosen must meet Alltop’s strict guidelines and requirements before inclusion on the site. JTS Advisors passed the test and has now joined the best of the best. People seeking high quality information on the coaching profession can turn to Alltop, confident that only top-notch sites will be listed. Guess who they will find when looking for career coaching blogs: that’s right, the JTS Advisors Coaches Training Blog.

Alltop.com is a Palo Alto-based website created by Gary Kawasaki, a best-selling author and all-around smart guy who knows plenty about online business. The site is basically an online library, or an electronic magazine rack, that contains thousands of topics and listings of high-quality sources, sites, and blogs within these topics.

Alltop provides online surfers with a great way to follow their favorite topics and get all the relevant news fresh from the blogosphere. They cover the headlines of the best and most relevant sources on a variety of topics. Alltop then groups these into collections and displays the five most recent headlines. Their topics run from A to Z, adoption to zoology, and everything in between, including career coaching blogs.

Alltop is similar to the New York Times Bestseller Lists. They do all the work to find online surfers the best sites from different niches and categories, and then they present these sites to readers, so they can find what they want when they want it.

What’s especially great about Alltop is that they not only list known sites, they tend to focus on high-quality new and unknown sites. In some ways, they are helping out the underdog and the undiscovered. With inclusion on Alltop, JTS Advisors will now be discovered by millions of Internet users around the world.

The Top 3 Reasons to be Included on Alltop

  • Your site will be included with only the best. They only select sites and blogs of high quality.
  • Your site will be discovered by inclusion on their website.
  • Satisfaction that your site has been judged to be of high quality.

JTS Advisors coaches training blog contains informative articles on all aspects of the coaching business. From helpful tips on how to market and promote your coaching business, to starting a career in coaching, to specific suggestions on how coaches can better serve their clientele, the JTS Advisors career coaching blog has something for everyone interested in coaching.

5 Reasons Why JTS Advisors is One of the Best Career Coaching Blogs

  • Informative articles
  • Entertaining articles
  • Easy to read and navigate.
  • Covers every aspect of the coaching profession including marketing tips, networking, working with clients, and niche coaching.
  • Offers products that help you become a better coach and expand your practice.

There are several career coaching blogs which dispense information on the coaching profession. JTS Advisors can now point to their inclusion on Alltop as proof that they provide readers with high quality information and well-written articles on all aspects of the coaching business.

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What You Should Know About an Effective Leadership Coaching Program

December 30, 2011 By Jeffrey T. Sooey Leave a Comment

Investing in a high quality leadership coaching program is therefore necessary for anyone who is keen on success because quality leadership is critical in all aspects of personal and professional life. In order for you to realize the full benefits of a leadership program, you must identify the best leadership coach or trainer. This requires research and consultation with professionals in leadership training as well as those who are going through the program. Your personal preparation is another important aspect that significantly influences the level of success you achieve from the program. Identifying a top leadership trainer and adequately preparing for the program are therefore the two most important factors you need to focus on.

Identifying a Top Leadership Coaching Program

When evaluating a leadership coaching program, look at their approach to training and the structure of their program. Look for those who are offering flexible, balanced and situation specific programs as opposed to packaged solutions that are meant to fit everyone without considering their leadership experience, level or background. A leadership coaching program should be customized to the circumstances and environment of the individual. It is the most effective option and you need to find a coach or trainer who can apply this approach.

Is the program accepted by associations and other institutions? Although this is a basic requirement when looking for a provider to deliver leadership training, it’s often overlooked. This indicates that the individual or organization is legally in the coaching business and has managed to meet some basic requirements expected by other entities.

Personal Preparation

Before going into a leadership program there is a certain amount of personal preparation required of the individual. You must begin by assessing your strengths and weaknesses in regards to leadership. You will also need to set out your expectations and goals of going into the program. These goals and expectations must be realistic as well as quantifiable and need to be shared with your coach or trainer.

You must also be willing to learn and implement the lessons of the program. This will require a lot of adjustment which in some cases may cause discomfort especially when working to adjust habits that reduce your effectiveness in leadership.

Having identified a top leadership coaching program and after adequately preparing yourself for it, you can expect to learn and gain experiences that will make you a more effective leader in and outside the workplace. Effective leadership results in a number of benefits for both the individual as well as those around them. It brings about greater productivity along with improved relationships which are critical for the success of business, social and personal projects.

Considering the benefits gained through leadership coaching programs, there has been great demand for providers, coaches and trainers. Those who are qualified and experienced enough to deliver quality coaching should do so. Not only will they make a decent living, but more importantly they will be helping improve leadership standards that have been shown to be a most crucial factor in personal and economic development.

Hope you took some great value out of this post today! I’d love to hear your feedback, so make sure you leave a comment with your thoughts or questions. And also, you can click on the Twitter button below to retweet this article…Thank you!

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4 Reasons the Republican Candidates Need Leadership Coaching Services

December 29, 2011 By Fred Phillips Leave a Comment

Now that the Republican debates are in full swing and the candidates are making appearances all across the country, it is becoming obvious that the candidates could use some leadership coaching services. If they had a good leadership coach, they would know when to keep their mouths closed!

Most candidates for political office are big thinkers, even if they don’t always seem like it on television. Rick Perry may not seem like an astute thinker, but it is doubtful he would have reached the governor’s mansion in one of the largest states in the nation without presenting some big ideas. The ideas may not all be wonderful, and they may not be helpful to a nation mired in a depression, but they are most likely big!

Though big thinkers believe all their ideas are the next great leap forward, it is true that many of them are merely ego driven and should never reach the public forum. Big thinkers need someone who can offer an objection opinion and new perspectives on that big idea. This is where professional leadership coaching services come in. Cast in the light of a coach’s perspective, some of their ideas may not appear as dazzling as the candidates originally thought.

The personal lives of all candidates are dissected and debated. Would JFK have ascended to the presidency if his personal life were public fodder for Fox News or CNN? Would Franklin Roosevelt have been elected to four terms if his affair had been made public? It is highly doubtful. In this media-crazed world, those candidates would have needed to use a good leadership coaching service!

But, back to the Republican candidates and their need for leadership coaching services. Though Obama’s approval rating is below 50%, it doesn’t appear that any of the Republican candidates have a chance to unseat the incumbent. They could and should be doing a better job!

Top 4 Reasons the Republican Candidates Need Leadership Coaching Services

  • A good leadership coach could give them a few lessons on honesty and owning up to their past. Americans seem to be a very forgiving people and are often willing to forgive a few transgressions. Own up to your sins, ask forgiveness and then tell us how you can help the nation climb out of this recession.
  • Be in touch with the electorate. Did multi-millionaire Mitt Romney really make a $10,000 bet with another candidate on national television while millions of Americans are losing their homes, jobs, and retirement accounts? Good coaching would instill better leadership qualities in the candidates before they go on TV and make asses of themselves.
  • Memo to the candidates – you are not always right. Good leadership coaching services can teach you that arrogance remain private and is not for public consumption.
  • A good coach would counter the gaggle of yes men and women who surround most candidates. A good coach would serve as the “no” man or woman to balance things out.

The services of a good coach are a valuable commodity for leaders in both the private and public sectors. All our candidates for political office could use a healthy dose of leadership coaching. Handlers, PR personnel, and advisors just don’t seem to be doing much good. Mitt, Michelle, Newt, and the rest of the gang – you should all hire professional leadership coaching services, take a few weeks break to work with your coaches, and then get back out on the campaign trail. You’ll be better candidates because of it and, we the people, will be much happier!

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The Diary of a Wimpy Leadership Coach

December 15, 2011 By Fred Phillips Leave a Comment

The book, and the movie, The Diary of a Wimpy Kid, was about a sixth-grade kid navigating the choppy waters of middle school, not about a leadership coach. But, I borrowed the title to tell you what you should never be as a coach – a wimp!

While the wimpy kid had to face all sorts of cafeteria bullies and hallway Neanderthals, coaches have to face businesspeople, managers, CEOs; and professionals who can sometimes act like bullies.

Why would someone hire a professional and then not listen to their advice? Why would a client bully a coach? Yours is not to ask why, yours is to coach that bully; by using the 3 Cs of coaching, you will never be thought of as a wimpy coach.

The 3 Cs that Will Make You a Great Leadership Coach

Here they are; the keys that a wimpy kid and a wimpy coach need – the three Cs of coaching. The three Cs of coaching can turn a wimpy coach into the stud of the coaching profession!

Confidence

You are the coaching professional and you have the power to change lives. Confidence is noticeable and contagious. The only way to instill confidence in your clients, and confidence is one of the most important traits needed to be a leader, is to exude confidence. Confidence is a necessary trait for a good leadership coach. Leadership begins with confidence. If you lack confidence, you are a wimpy coach!

Capability

When coaching people, you don’t need super powers, but you must be capable. Being capable is comprised of intuition, training, continuing education, and experience. All good coaches have some level of intuition; an ability to understand the client’s needs and desires, the capability to suggest correct choices for your client, and a sixth sense to feel the resistance and hesitation a client may have. Coaches must also receive the proper training and then continue to educate themselves on new coaching theories and techniques.

The last component of a capable leadership coach is experience. This can include your experience in both the business world and the coaching profession. Experience takes time to collect, so new coaches may have to rely on their intuition, training, and continuing education to prevent them from becoming wimps. If you lack the capability, you will come across as a wimpy coach! No one is going to take advice from a wimp!

Chutzopah

Don’t read this the wrong way – this isn’t quite arrogance. Yes, it can sometimes be misread as arrogance, but it is closer to fearlessness. A coach who dares to tread where no one else has gone, will be a coach that gets results (and more clients than he or she can handle!). Chutzpah is one part conceit, one part arrogance, one part confidence, and one part spunk. With chutzpah, the wimpy coach becomes a fearless coach and a fearless coach will move mountains and reach the stars.

Don’t be a flabby coach or a 90-pound weakling coach, be a stud coach. Leadership coaches who master the three Cs, will be in high demand. So, let the wimpy kid have his diary, you start to use the three Cs to become the best damn leadership coach you can be. Coaching is no place for wimps!

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Maximize Your Growth with a Coaching Mastermind

December 14, 2011 By Dave Iuppa Leave a Comment

A coaching mastermind multiples the intelligence and insights of the members of the mastermind group. Napoleon Hill said that an additional mind, a group consciousness, is created which is greater than the sum of the individual minds. As a coach, you are well advised to form a mastermind group of coaches with likeminded values and goals.

Craft Your Mastermind Team Carefully

When forming a coaching mastermind group, it is critical that you select your members carefully. To propel you on your way to coaching excellence, demand the best of your coaching partners. And make sure that you share values, goals and work ethic. Notice that I did not say technical capability. This is because diversity on this level is one of the things that makes the mastermind group so valuable. Different perspectives and new insights are the benefit of the master mind. And if you have ever been part of a dynamic and successful mastermind, you know the exhilaration that comes from stacking one idea upon the next, similar to the exhilaration experiences at a poker table, when one bet feeds on another, round after round – but without the inevitable disappointment that occurs as the house of cards comes tumbling down.

Three Principles for Operating a Successful Mastermind Group

The benefit of the mastermind group is the generation of new and creative thoughts that come from the synergistic union of diverse minds with different techniques and experiences, but with a similar set of values and goals. Therefore, the mastermind must be allowed to think and synthesis new thoughts from the inputs of the individual members – patience is required. The drive of the individual minds must be tempered by an appreciation of the contribution of the most soft-spoken member – acceptance is required. And yet to achieve the best result, ideas must eventually be vetted against a standard of common values and ethics – judgment is required.

Getting the Most from Your Coaching Mastermind Group

Therefore, getting the most from your coaching mastermind group is not easy. Demand. Accept. Judge. Collect. Consolidate. Learn. Grow. It is as easy, or as difficult as 1-2-3-4-5-6. But believe me it is worth the effort, in the short term and in the long.

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Five Traits Needed to be a Leadership Coach

December 11, 2011 By Fred Phillips 1 Comment

Thinking of becoming a leadership coach? Just starting your coaching career? Or are you contemplating a decision to specialize at this point in your coaching career?

Being a leadership coach is an extremely rewarding career. Fame, fortune…! Well, perhaps not fame and fortune right away, but it’s a great way to earn a living. You help people discover how to use their own talents and personality traits to achieve career and life success. Their success means your success. A true win/win situation – w-hat could be better than that?

However, is leadership coaching the right choice for you? Do you have what it takes to be a successful coach?

5 Traits Needed to be a Leadership Coach

  • Passion for coaching
  • Persistence
  • Flexibility
  • Integrity
  • Trustworthiness

If you are currently in the coaching field, you already know you have the passion and love for helping people. If you are currently deciding whether or not coaching is right for you – ask yourself if you have the passion. A passion for coaching is very similar to a competitive nature. Just as a competitive person will out work, out think, and flat out try harder than their opponent, a person with a passion for coaching will do everything it takes to help clients achieve their goals or reach their dreams. Now, that’s leadership!

Persistence pays off in the coaching business. You need to be persistent to achieve anything of value in life, and you must be able to convey that sense of persistence to your clients. Lead by example; your persistence will show your clients the determination, dedication, and drive it takes to lead and succeed.

Doing the same things and expecting the same result is the definition of insanity. A leadership coach needs to be flexible when dealing with clients. Be open to suggestions, new ideas, experimental methods, and any scenarios that may benefit your clients. On first look, flexibility may seem contradictory to persistence, but it actually goes hand-in-hand with it. If you are persistent in achieving a goal, you will be flexible enough to try anything and everything.

Integrity is one of the most valued commodities in the coaching business. In an industry where sales is an integral part of the business, some coaches go too far when making claims. Hype does not mean help. Maintaining honesty and good character, even when promoting yourself, will provide value in the long run. Though it often seems like we live in a world where only hype and promotion count, integrity still matters.

In a recent interview, after becoming the winningest coach in Division I college basketball history, Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, was asked what he thought was the most important trait for a successful coach to possess. He answer was trustworthiness. Coaching young college basketball players at the highest level is very similar to coaching clients to succeed. As a leadership coach, taking the advice of the most successful college basketball coach in history would be a very wise move.

If you possess a passion for coaching, persistence, flexibility, integrity, and trustworthiness, it’s time to hang out your shingle and start your career as a leadership coach. With those five traits, your going to be very successful!

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Questions To Ask Before Deciding On A Life Coach Training School.

December 2, 2011 By Dana Bosley Leave a Comment

If you only had five questions to ask when deciding on a life coach training school what would they be? Below you will find my top five questions and the reasons why.

People generally want to know what to expect before embarking on a new venture like enrolling in a life coach training school. It’s the fear of the unknown that frightens people. I assure you, most coaches won’t bite. It’s their job to bring out the best in you and provide you with a good experience. However, below I have provided you with a place to start, as I understand that it is not easy to find the life coach training school of your dreams.

Frequently Asked Questions About Life Coach Training Schools

  • What sort of curriculum does the school offer?

There are a number of different types of life coach training schools majoring on various methods of coaching. For example, there are life coaching training schools that major on wellness, business, Christian coaching, neurolinguistics, Law of Attraction, transformational, to name a few. Check out which type you are interested in.

  • Does the school have a business program included?

Unfortunately, one of the hardest things for coaches after securing their certificate is getting clients and growing their business. If you are not an already accomplished business person then you may not have a clue how to run a successful business no matter how excellent a coach you are. Be sure to ask if they have a business program and how extensive it is.

  • Is the school accredited?

If in the future you want your business to be accredited, or you want to join the International Coaching Federation (ICF) then it is important that you check to find out if your school is affiliated with the ICF and if they give credits toward full membership.

  • How much does it cost?

Not every life coaching training school is forth coming with this information. This may be your first question, as it was mine. I was on a limited budget and did not want to proceed with finding out further details about the course until I found out the cost. So ask. They will most likely try to sell you on a payment plan, but if it is out of your price range, don’t be intimidated.

Besides Asking Questions—Here Are Other Ways You Can Find Out Information

  • Read testimonies from former students and then see if you can find out if they have successful coaching businesses of their own.
  • Read reviews on the school or check out the coaching instructors websites to see what others have to say about the training.
  • When asking your questions, take notice as to how you are treated, as you can tell a lot about the school by how they field your questions.

There are some wonderful life coaching training schools available out there, but it does take a little effort to find the perfect one for you. Take your time, do your research and then invest in a program. It was one of the best investments of my life and I hope it will be for you too. Happy hunting.

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Dana Bosley
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