Get Real Beauty :: Author Jude Grimm

Foster School of Business: University of Washington

 

On May 13th, I was an invited guest speaker for Dr. Jessica Stone at the Foster School of Business for her senior graduating class. Please feel free to view her letter of appreciation. 

Sincerely-Jude

 

 

 

 

 

May 19, 2008

Dear Jude,

On behalf of my colleagues and our students at the Michael G. Foster School of Business, I wish to thank you for the outstanding guest lecture you shared with the Advanced Business Communications participants this month. These graduating seniors can be a tough crowd at times, yet you worked with them as if you’d known them for years.

The students have already begun to act on some of the suggestions you offered regarding their looking and acting with the confidence, passion and grace it takes to succeed in today’s business environment. Your professional coaching–offered with clear but gentle critique–were extremely helpful to the members of this class. I’ve also begun to carefully consider my own progress and ask how my levels of both stress and joy lead to productivity and accomplishment.

Dean Jiambalvo has charged the members of the Michael G. Foster School of Business faculty with the task of building one of the finest-top ranking- business schools in the United States. You’ve helped me to do my part in this grand plan by sharing your time, knowledge and skill with our graduating senior class.

Thank you so much for your generosity and for what you’ve done for our students. It means a great deal.

Yours most sincerely,

Jessica H. Stone, Ph.D.

Integrated Marketing Communications

Michael G. Foster School of Business

University of Washington-Box 353200

Seattle, Washington

 

Pretty in Pink

I was amazed when a friend told me that a family just moving here from Thailand purchased a box of tampons and put them on display in there home because they had thought the box was so pretty. If we think pretty is…is pretty does than this is a classic display of American marketing and know how. The choices for biodegradable shampoo are merely 5% of what is currently on the market for consumers to choose from to make healthy conscientious choices. The choices for non polluting feminine hygiene products are about 1%. That means that 99% of the products offered to women on a daily basis are chlorine bleached (that releases dioxin), filled with rayon (made from processed wood fiber), polyester, polyethylene, polysorbate 20 and phthalates from the artificial fragrance that are made to adhere to our skin. A woman uses over 10,000 tampons in her female experience of life and it’s amazing how are choices are pretty much made around the design of the box and the message of marketing. The only two companies that I currently know of that are made from organic cotton and chlorine free are Seventh Generation and Natracare. Women’s feminine organ diseases are on the rise. There are some critical links to what we choose to consume both internally and externally. Think twice the next time you are standing in front of the tampon aisle and ask yourself really how pretty is this product and would I consider putting it into my mouth? Women, it’s the same thing!

I don’t like beauty…I LOVE IT!

I know you picked me as your perfect match to help you realize how beautiful you really are and the real beauty of this truth is that you were born that way! Buckminster Fuller said “Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.” I think it is that way about beauty. We are born unique with our own beautiful  blueprint that is ours to embrace and instill a higher sense of compelling values to life and our contribution to others. Real beauty comes from the inside outward and it is through those eyes that we see in each other our unique gifts. Great marketing makes us forget what is ours and asks us to replace our unique self with someone else’s self. I remember living in Hawaii and being awed by the natural beauty of every woman, man and child from there. The rich dark skin, beautiful eyes and full features that embraced the my reflection were like legend pools. I would have traded my skin, my hair and my eye color on the spot and was amazed that they wanted to make the same trade with me. I thought long and hard about this and realized that so much of what we see in the magazines, television and movies is about what other people think we should look like. A tree doesn’t look at the tree next to it and wonder why it can’t look duplicate itself to become the same, so why do we? Get close to a mirror. So close that you can only see your eyes and nothing else around you. You cannot change your fingerprints and your features are yours alone. You are looking at the most beautiful person in the world and it’s you. Know that you are extraordinary in what you bring to this life. Become what you want others to be: leaders, visionaries, environmentally conscious, inspirational, spiritual and brilliant. You are living proof of your natural born beauty!

Women who care

Ichat with women radio   To listen to my interview with Pam and Rochelle go to archives at www.chatwithwomen.com and type in Jude Grimm 

I was honored to be invited onto the chat with women radio show last month. These two women really care about women and all people who care about the women in their lives. I was thrilled to be a part of an amazing circle of influence of Pam and Rochelle and uplifted in knowing we can be beacons of light to each other when we rise to the opportunity to move forward and contribute in the way that we were meant to. Catch their show daily on www.chatwithwomenradio.com