Best-selling Author Introduces Innovative Program to Help Financial Professionals Connect with Women and Address their Hidden Emotional Issues with Money.

"Secrets of Successful High Earners" Seminar Motivates Women to Increase Their Earnings and Become Financially Empowered

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. -- Financial professionals recognize women are a key market. But, they are just beginning to realize that understanding and reaching this segment takes new and different approaches to prompt women to take action. The Secrets of Successful High Earners, a proven seminar program developed by Barbara Stanny & Company, enables financial professionals to better understand women and to help women overcome the emotional barriers that too often hold them back. Based on the extensive research of best-selling author and leading authority on women and money Barbara Stanny, the seminar was specifically designed to empower women to take action financially and to provide proven tools to increase their earnings.

"As women, we know we need to focus on our finances. Yet, too many of us are ignoring our money entirely," said Stanny. "Agents and advisors want to know how to speak with women in a way that resonates, inspires movement and opens the dialogue around the softer, emotional side of money. The Secrets of Successful High Earners helps women overcome the disconnect between what we know and what we do. It helps us to dig down to the heart of our personal financial issues and resolve them."

Designed specifically to help women identify and resolve the psychological blocks that stand between them and financial success, the program pinpoints the strategies thousands of women have used to not only manage their money better, but also earn more of it. During the interactive seminar, women will learn:

* Common traits of high earners,

* Five simple steps to increase earnings,

* Myths of financial success,

* Signs of under-earning, and

* Techniques to create a personal action plan.

"Barbara's seminar is the first one I've found and conducted for clients and prospective clients that deals with women's unique emotional issues surrounding money," observed Kristi Gray, a seminar licensee in Washington. "For planners and coaches who have a passion for helping women the seminar is easy to conduct, as well as informative for participants. The workshop presents easy-to-digest content and defined steps to help women take charge of their finances - be it earning or saving more."

Citing numerous studies that women are not taking active responsibility in managing their money, Stanny noted, "Women currently control 51.3% of the wealth in the US, and by 2010 it is estimated they will control 60%. Women literally hold the purse strings in a majority of purchasing decisions and tend to live longer, yet the financial industry has not addressed the emotional issues around money that hinders them from reaching financial goals. Financial advisors asked me to develop a way to break through these blocks to help women. It isn't just money itself, but also the power that money provides. This seminar aims to empower women financially and to help them take control of their lives."

Stanny, who earned a master's degree in psychology, has spent more than a decade documenting women's financial practices and developing proven techniques to help women transform their lives by gaining power over their finances. She has packaged these insights into a comprehensive seminar that can be licensed by advisors and counselors to aid women in becoming strong, savvy, and financially empowered investors, employees and citizens.

The turnkey Seminar-in-a-Box provides professionals everything they need to conduct a two-hour, interactive seminar to both attract new female clients as well as to enhance their relationships with existing female clients. The box provides a complete package to plan, deliver and follow-up on the program with a leader's guide, training DVDs, participant workbooks, presentation slides, attendee gifts and marketing materials.

About Barbara Stanny & Company

Barbara Stanny, founder and driving force behind Barbara Stanny & Company, is America's foremost authority on the complex relationship between women and money, and a passionate advocate and role model for women's personal empowerment. She is a proponent of women doing both the "inner" psychological work as well as the more practical "outer" work of financial planning. Barbara grew up relying on her father (the "R" of H&R Block), then her husband, to manage her money. A devastating financial crisis became a personal wake-up call and the start of her journey to help all women over a decade ago.

A noted speaker and author, Stanny has penned three best-selling books:

* Prince Charming Isn't Coming: How Women Get Smart About Money;

* Secrets of Six Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to Up Your Earnings & Change Your Life; and

* Overcoming Underearning[R]: Overcome Your Money Fears & Earn What You Deserve.

For more information, please visit www.barbarastanny.com.