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Welcome to THE RUBY BOOKS !

~ where we’re finding, shaping and sharing
one of the strongest forces on the planet ~.

the force of GIRLS!

GREAT news:

EVERYONE is in possession of an INNER-GIRL

It’s TRUE!

Do you doubt it?

Then try this:

Read these…

“You have a masterpiece inside you.”
~ Sadie Mae Fizzy, age 13

“Change the part of you that doubts yourself.”
~ Erin Wickings, age 12
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“Our honesty is the well from which we draw our power.”
~ Rachel Paoletta, age 19

“Art’s my heart, not my hobby.”
~ InspireMeSo, age 13

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“It’s not what you look like that makes you who you are, It’s what you do that makes you who you are.”
~ Gigi E. Berrios, age 11

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Now, notice how you feel.

THAT FEELING is the proof.

THAT FEELING is the GIRL IN YOU responding to the GIRL IN THEM.

THAT FEELING is SUCH. GREAT. NEWS!!

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Whadaya say?  Will you join us in the serious, fun work of realizing a world where the dominant voice sounds like this?

“All you need to know is that you’re beautiful in every way and loved by your friends and family : ) It may not feel like that, but it’s true : ) ♥”
…………………………………………………….~ Allyson Williams, age 13

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Let’s get the GREATNESS that IS the GIRL VOICE
out into the world, expressing full-force!

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Jeanne & Ruby

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Ruby News!

Austin Effect #1: Pieces Come Together

Sometimes there’s so much going on and inter-connecting *on every front* that it’s hard to get words around it all.

But while you may not be able to articulate it, you sure can sense it.  There’s an inner-knowing that’s dancing around going, “I know! I know!”

I’ll bullet point my *so much* in an effort to articulate how it’s all working together on my behalf.

Ruby’s central message:

“Your Life is a true story in which you star AND you get to share.”

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  Your Life is a True Story…

•  That’s Ruby’s central message because it’s the way I, Jeanne, experience life… at best.
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•  Getting clear about Ruby’s central message has given me something big:  The courage to share from my treasure-trove of true stories (‘sharing’ is the part of the message that trips me up).
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•  The WAY to share happened organically… on Facebook.  I call it ‘FB memoir’.
  

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  FB memoir – The 1980′s

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  FB memoir – The 1990′s

•  ‘FB memoir’ is posting a picture from earlier in my life and I telling about it.  One picture + a paragraph a day.  If I don’t have a photo to get across the part of my true story that comes next I am creative and use a scan of a journal entry or a Ruby illustration.
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•  It’s adding up to… the true story I have always wanted *to share*… but not known how!
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•  I see that ‘FB memoir’ is a scaffold.  I will be able go back into it and flesh it out with more from The Jeanne Books.
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•  Exciting reciprocity:  Ruby’s Belief gave rise to ‘FB memoir’ and now… ‘FB memoir’ is informing Ruby.  Making me so much more confident in what I have to give girls around telling THEIR stories!
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•  The best feeling in the world:  I now know what it is that is uniquely my offering!  I know my angle!!  I can own it and talk about it!  Because I AM LIVING IT!
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•  Important piece:  All of this is coming together for me because of…
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•  My recent decision to up and MOVE.  From the known wonderfulness of Beacon, NY to the UNknown wonderfulness of Austin, TX.
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•  It sometimes feels like such bad timing to be moving NOW when everything is coming together and there’s so much to do with The Jeanne Books and The Ruby Books, but…
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•  It’s *exactly because* I’ve put myself WAY outside of my usual thoughts and activities that everything is now popping.
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•  Reality check:  I get on a plane in two days.  I can’t be writing when there is so much still to be put into boxes…
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•  More soon… from the road to Austin!

What matters?

The road… and traveling it.

Realize it!

 :)

Jeanne & Ruby

P.S. If you check out my ‘FB memoir’ in the Photos section of my Jeanne Demers page, please feel free to ‘Like’ what you like… or even comment.  I gather from talking to people in real life that lots more people are reading along than is evidenced in the ‘Like’ numbers.