Robin
Hankins
Founder / CEO
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The
creation of Pearls of Wisdom Councils, Inc. (POWC) is a
direct response to meeting with more than 7,500 women in
various kinds of businesses. As I listened over the last 15
years to the common frustrations and concerns that women in
business have, I saw the need for a particular kind of group
meeting, which did not exist locally.
I have been in
business for myself for the past 20 years and I know what
it’s like to feel alone, overwhelmed, exhausted and too
busy to spend time with friends and family.
The new group
meeting I envisioned would be a women’s business
roundtable. Besides providing meaningful business support,
the group would also serve as an advisory board and
marketing department, something most small businesses or
practices do not have the resources for.
I decided to move
forward with my idea, but I didn’t have the name. I
was telling a friend about the concept and she said, “Oh,
everyone gets to share their pearls of wisdom.” Then I
remembered that my grandmother’s middle name was Pearl.
And I knew this would be the name.
Through mentoring,
brainstorming and multi-dimensional marketing, POWC carries
you and your business to places you may never reach trying
to do it alone. At Pearls of Wisdom council meetings,
you’ll participate in brainstorming “to grow your
business”; support – “because you don’t have to do
it alone”; mentoring, where you give and receive
“guidance through the rough spots”; and, friendships
“that last a lifetime.”
I hope you join
this incredible and amazing group of women …
Because it’s how
women do business!
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Robin
Tuthill
POWC
Advisory Board
Editor, Bay Area Women's Directory |
Robin
Tuthill, born and raised in St. Petersburg, Florida, has
been a writer and editor since 1980. She first wrote for the
afternoon newspaper, the Evening
Independent, specializing in medical features. Later,
she worked in hospital public relations, technical editing,
and academic editing and writing. As a freelance writer, she
has been published in Ms.
Magazine, Law and Order, University of South Florida
Magazine, and the St.
Petersburg Times.
In the early
‘90s, Robin earned a master’s degree in religious
studies and taught comparative religion courses at the Emma
Curtis Hopkins Theological Seminary in Clearwater, where she
also served as Dean. In 2002, she authored the Instructor’s
Manual and Test Questions to accompany World
Religions Today, a college textbook written by three
religious studies scholars and published by Oxford
University Press in New York.
Robin has
facilitated “Freeing the Writer Within” workshops and
ongoing writing groups since 1995. She created the workshop
based on Natalie Goldberg’s “writing practice,” as
outlined in her bestselling book, Writing
Down the Bones.
Since 1996 Robin
has partnered her editing talents with the entrepreneurial
spirit and business talents of Robin Hankins. Together they
created Intuition for
Women magazine and published the popular monthly
magazine for seven years.
Robin presently
edits and writes for Pearls of Wisdom Councils, Inc. and the
Bay Area Women’s
Directory. She also assists people in composing their
spiritual wills, a written record of values, beliefs, life
lessons learned, and hopes for the future.
Robin is a
passionate gardener and is learning all about the flora and
fauna of Chicago, where she re-located to in September 2005
with her partner and their two toy poodles. “While it
wasn’t a time of life where I expected to move to another
state and wholly different lifestyle, we’re looking at it
as a great adventure and feel excited about exploring new
territory,” Robin says.
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