It takes a vision, lots of determination, energy, courage and hard work to start you very own magazine. It is not for the faint hearted but once you got your own publication up and running there are numerous rewards.

One person who took the plunge is Sirrka Wolke, founder and editor of “Tribe Magazine”.

Sirrka says: ”I love success and abundance, I just didn’t want to sell-out to get it. There is no point following a path to riches if you are not able to enjoy the riches when you get there. Or the journey itself. Life doesn’t start when… It is now. So I figured I had better be doing something I love today! ”

Sounds like good advice to follow. We all should take note.

Tribe Magazine is available for free online and offline. To find out more and to get past and current editions, go to: www.tribemagazine.com.au

Here are some of the rewards you get when you have your very own publication:

• you control the content
• you can counter all the fear mongering and gloom and doom of the main stream press
• you can educate your readers so they gain knowledge to make informed decisions
• you are in a unique position to empower people
• you control the advertising that appears in your magazine, especially on the children’s pages
• you can get your own and other children/teenagers involved in writing and contributing and teach them valuable skills
• you can get direct feedback from you readers and interact with them
• you can build a community (or in Sirrka’s case a “tribe”) around your magazine
• you control the distribution of your magazine and can avoid waste

These are some of the points we covered in our interview today, if you would like to hear more, listen to the show here:

Sirrka has made a special offer to our listeners: You get 20% off your first lot of advertising in Tribe Magazine when you mention that you found Tribe Magazine through our show.

She has also a passion for children being involved in creating the magazine, so there is a special section devoted to children. Contact:

junioreditor (at) tribemagazine.com.au to find out more. (Replace (at) with @ and leave no spaces).

Tribe Magazine has a distribution of 30,000 copies and is distributed around Sydney and the Southern Highlands. It will keep growing and hopefully will go national in the not too distant future.

Sirrka is a woman of many talents and has sldo written a book “FitKid7 – 7 Simple Steps for a Fit and Healthy Child”. She also created a Cd for Children so they can go to sleep easily. (Adults love it too!). You can find both of them here: www.fitkid7.com

Sirrka also started a service where she sends an uplifting and motivating SMS to your phone on a regular basis. Interested? Go to www.tribemagazine.com.au to find out more.

Till next time

Connie

It seems that the quest for happiness and fulfilment is as old as humanity itself. Happiness is a very subjective thing – it is a bit like the old cliché that one man’s food is another man’s (or woman’s) poison.

One Buddhist blessing contains the words “may all beings be happy”. The Self Help Industry is booming, lots of people are aware that something is amiss in their lives but they just don’t know what. We live in a time of unprecedented wealth and technological advances that even our parents wouldn’t have dreamt of – at least in the so called “developed world” – and yet there seems to be increased unhappiness and more suicides than ever before.

One intriguing healing method is called the MEM or Mace Energy Method, named after Dr. Mace. It has been around in one form or another for close to 50 years but has only come to the forefront and into the public eye over the last 10 years. We talked to Sherrie Hatfield who has been practising MEM for a number of years. You can find Sherrie and more information here http://www.themacemethod.com 

Want to go straight to the source? Dr. Mace’s website is www.macemethod.com
You can find a list of practitioners there if you are interested in having a session yourself.  Dr. Mace  has written a fascinating book – you can find it here:

What makes the Mace Method so attractive when you need to deal with emotional issues?

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