by dawnbarton | Sep 9, 2020 | Joy
In my fifty years of life, I’ve learned that joy and pain often go hand in hand. And I think I’ve experienced more joy than many ever will because I have experienced more pain than most will. I am someone who has lost a sweet, precious daughter. I have been raped—the...
by dawnbarton | Sep 9, 2020 | Writing
It’s no secret that I’m not much of a reader, mostly because I have a gnat’s attention span. But lately, I have been turned onto, and loving, Audiobooks. The great thing about them is you still get to say, “I read a book,” and you look...
by dawnbarton | Nov 28, 2019 | Favorite Things
Hi Sweet Friend! What happens when you take a driven, goal-oriented woman and keep her home for months before a book tour? I’ll tell you. She gets REALLY bored and begins to fill goal-achieving voids with Christmas decor and overthinking about the things that...
by dawnbarton | Oct 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
Every October, for Breast Cancer Awareness month, I share this photo. I suspect more for myself than for anyone else. It reminds me of how far I’ve come and how good our God is, but it also takes me back to the very moment that photo was taken. I was six months...
by dawnbarton | Oct 6, 2018 | Direct Sales
Brace yourself, I’m going to talk about the holidays. I know it’s early. I am not one of those people who have a Christmas tree up in October (or even November), and I scowl when I see holiday decorations out in August and September. BUT if you want to have a strong...
by dawnbarton | Sep 6, 2018 | Giveaway
a Rafflecopter giveaway You are Unstoppable! Sounds great doesn’t it? Nothing gets in your way, you can do it all, you are mightier than any superhero on their best day because you my friend are Unstoppable. Or are you? Unstoppable is relative. Some days being...
by dawnbarton | Aug 8, 2018 | Direct Sales
Let’s be honest here, Direct Sales (or Network Marketing) gets a bad rap. It can evoke a “talk to the hand” palm in your face so fast that any newbie to the direct sales world can find herself derailed before she can even say “Have you tried this amaz—” But the truth...
by dawnbarton | Jul 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
By my count, I have attended about 478 million leadership or motivational conferences in my lifetime. I am a conference aficionado, and I love a good “conference high.” In January 2018, I signed up to attend the Making Things Happen Conference in Chapel Hill, NC. I...
by dawnbarton | Jul 7, 2018 | Unstoppable Joy Book, Writing
Hands down, one of the most amazing things that has happened during my giant leap of faith is that God has quite literally brought the exact people in my path that I needed for every step of this journey of writing a book. And one of those people on one of those steps...
by dawnbarton | Jul 1, 2018 | Mompreneur, Uncategorized
For the last couple of weeks, I have been struggling with the woman I seem to be transitioning into. Moving from a fast-paced career to one of the stillness of writing has been hard, but not just in the act of writing — I’m actually getting a grip on that — but in the...