About PF
What is Positive Focus you ask? It is many things, but most of all it is a passion – a lifestyle – a dream – to live life to the fullest.
Positive Focus, a 501c3 non-profit organization headquartered in Chicago, inspires and empowers people to shift into living a life of fulfillment and positivity with unconditional joy, love and abundance.
Through events focused on inspiration, service, personal growth, wellness and fun, PF inspires people to live a life of fulfillment and positivity. This dynamic, high energy, fun and loving organization is for all who believe anything is possible and for those wanting to bring a positive outlook to their life.
Whether you are already a positive person or inviting positivity into your life, WELCOME TO PF! Positive Focus is a leader in inspiring change to a positive (and fun!) life.
Grow with us through a Positive Focus!
PF Event Categories:
Gives Back: empowers people to live life to the fullest through serving and giving to others.
Mind-Body-Spirit: inspires and educates people to live life to the fullest in mind, body, and spirit.
Fun-Social: simply fun events on living life to the fullest for people who like to focus on the positive.
PF Divisions:
Adults: PF empowers adults to live life fulfilled through unconditional love and gratitude for self, others, and life.
Kidz: PF empowers children to live life fulfilled through unconditional love and gratitude for self, others, and life.
Green: PF empowers people to live life fulfilled through sustainable resources and loving our environment.
Regardless of what events you choose to attend, all meetings are designed to lift you up, inspire and support you as you create the life of your dreams and simply have a lot of fun and laughter along the journey.
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Why PF? Because life is meant to be enjoyed! Through a positive focus, amazing experiences become more meaningful and your contrasting experiences allow you to grow and evolve. Because inspiration, creativity, and play nurture that spark you need to move things forward in a positive direction! Because you deserve to live your life to the fullest, so surround yourself with people who will inspire and empower you.
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Our Vision:
To spread positivity globally through virtual and physical communities allowing people to see love over fear, abundance over lack, diversity over differences, and peace over conflict.
To inspire and empower each person we see through personal demonstration and shining a light to their inner power.
To see the world as 1 person 7 billion times rather than seeing the world as 7 billion people.
To be kind, compassionate, and have lots of fun and laughter along the journey.
To personally demonstrate a quote we hold close to our hearts:
“Be the change you want to see in the world.” ~ Gandhi
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Team Positive Focus is a dedicated group of amazing people who are looking to spread kindness around the world. We are coaches, motivational speakers, healers, and mostly we are world citizens dedicated to personally demonstrating being the change we want to see in the world.
PF Leadership:
Carol Miller
Founder-President
About Carol: Carol is a creative consultant, writer, and expert in law of attraction and living life fulfilled. She has over 10 years of management background, 7 years of public relations/marketing, event planning, and a lifetime of writing and inspiring people. Her purpose is to inspire and uplift people to live life fulfilled through loving guidance, support, cheer leading and lots of fun and laughter and being a beacon of light shining positivity on those she meets.
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Kirsten Swanson
Executive Vice President
About Kirsten: Kirsten, always on the go and loving the outdoors from biking, swimming, and running, loves surrounding herself with positive people and energy. She inspires people to find the positive in life through fitness and fun.
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Shantal Alonso
VP Communications & Business Development
Event Coordinator for Mind-Body-Spirit Events
About Shantal: Shantal is a creativity & transformational life consultant, event & program manager, Reiki practitioner, Raindrop Technique facilitator and holistic marketing consultant for individuals and organizations. Her passion is to empower individuals to transform their lives and nourish their creative dream-making process by providing creative and holistic “soul-lutions” for personal growth and healing. A native Spanish speaker, Shantal holds a B.S. Degree in French Literature from Georgetown University, with minors in Marketing and Italian, and recently graduated from the University of Chicago Law School.
To learn more about Shantal, visit her website: www.evoyoution.com
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Dr. Sharyl Truty
Vice President Membership, Board Secretary
Event Coordinator for Mind-Body-Spirit Events
About Sharyl: Sharyl is a board-certified family practice and sports medicine physician who also actively practices acupuncture. She has a particular interest in the mind-body aspects of Integrative Medicine and is currently in private practice at Seton Family Health Center and also faculty at the St. Joseph Family Practice residency program in Chicago, IL.
To learn more about Sharyl, visit her website: www.drtruty.com
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Steffani Fort-LeFevour
Board Member
About Steffani: Steffani is an actress, a fitness specialist and an expert in the law of attraction and living your best life. She has been teaching the law of attraction to kids and adults for over 8 years and applying it in her own life for over 20 years. Her passion is to help others to focus on their ultimate lives and consciously create the life of their dreams.
To learn more about Steffani, visit her website: http://abcliving.blogspot.com/
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Gary Jacob:
Board Member
About Gary: coming soon
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Lena Salonikas
Board Member
About Lena: Lena is a Success Coach and Mind Trainer who works with people and businesses to experience passion and purpose in all aspects of life while creating success on their terms. She leads a monthly Law of Attraction discussion group that focuses on your experiences with living the universal laws rather than just learning about them.
To learn more about Lena, visit her website: http://www.lenasalonikas.com/
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Cathy Landerholm
Volunteer Coordinator
About Cathy: Cathy has over 30 years of volunteer experience for a variety of organizations including: Lincoln Park Zoo, Misericordia, Chicago Cares, Fleet Feet, Chicago Marathon, homeless shelters, food pantries, and Mi Casa Su Casa in Houston, TX. She has been a Girl Scout leader, church choir singer and PADS Lunch volunteer. She loves to make a difference in someone’s life and will do what she can to help. Cathy leads the PF Gives Back programming which includes: free hugs, random acts of kindness, and volunteering with other service organizations. Cathy looks forward to more monthly events to meet the growing and never ending Gives Back ambitions of the Positive Focus members. “The rewards of Giving Back do so much more for the soul on a level so personal and deep, it’s practically a selfish act.” ~ Cathy Landerholm.
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Positive Focus would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude for the MANY people who volunteer their time with us as change agents towards positivity. From organizing and hosting events, to attending events, we are honored to be on this path with you. A special thanks to Rossi Dimitrova as our inspired photographer, Dawn Waibel our Fun-Social Coordinator, Michael Reyes our cheer leader, and James Marlow as our webmaster.