Hello and welcome to wisdom included I'm Shelley Carney this is a collaborative
gathering place especially for women to
share personal stories support and
advice wisdom included at the recent
women of light convention I spoke with
several inspiring women leaders
including the sister cofounders of the
event in this interview I talk with
Maria Tedjamulia about her role in
creating this event and what it's like
to work with her sister on such a large
endeavor maria shares her excitement for
the vision and project planning that
went into this event hello and welcome
to wisdom included I'm Shelley Carney
and I'm here at the Albuquerque
Convention Center for the women of light
convention and I'm speaking with Maria
one of the founders of the convention
hello good how are you thank you so much
for talking with me and tell me your
last name I didn't catch Tedjamulia
Maria Tedjamuliia. Wasn't gonna get that
it's Indonesian many people don't read
it very easily so tell us what is your
story what is my story goodness I am a
mother first of all and but I am also an
entrepreneur I'm a creator and I have a
background and I have my MBA I have a
background in working in corporate
America and when I decided to made the
choice to to have children I also chose
to be at home with my children
and I but I really had this desire to
still continue to reach out and to and
to connect with women and to continue to
be inspired and and to serve with each
other and so my sister and I decided to
to put on a convention and so it's been
something that I've been able to do from
home while being a stay-at-home mom but
had been able to also been able to apply
the things that I've learned in my
education and in my training background
I also have a background where I've been
doing events for more than 15 years in
different agencies and organizations and
so it's been neat to be able to produce
an event this scale and to be able to
connect and really be inspired and and
serve with women who are just full of
light
so why the women of light what made you
decide to go with that sort of a theme
well women are innately creators we have
that creative energy about us you know
there's it's just a part of who we are
and our nature are we create children we
create you know we recreate our homes we
create our communities we create our
families and light is the power and
intelligence that makes light and vision
possible and that is that what that
means is that the creative power that's
a creative power and so when we are
thinking about you know women what do we
have in common what kind of one thing
would draw women together what would
what do we all what's what we all have
inside and it's the little answer that
is light we all have light in our eyes
and our souls in our hearts it seems to
me I've spoken to with some other ladies
today who are business owners and their
businesses aren't just a solopreneur
they're not entrepreneur they're family
businesses they always include their
husband their children their sisters so
what's it like working with your sister
in a family business like that it has
been an honor and privilege it's really
cool because my sister and I have
different strengths and because we're
sisters we're very more aware of the of
where each other has strengths and so
we've been able to play on each other's
strengths to be able to make things
happen and it's really phenomenal
because when you're able to bring the
yin and the yang together it's like very
very cool and very creative so tell me a
little bit about what she does and what
you do and how that complements each
other so Andrea is has been focused on a
lot of the vision of the event a lot of
the connecting gathering and really
helping us all in the vision and and for
me myself I'm more of a logistics person
I say you know okay all right you share
with me the vision but let's get it done
let's let tell me let's let's figure
this out how to do it you know get the
project plan and and you know the to-do
lists and the and just really put all
the pieces you together and so at the
both are important because without the
vision there's nothing to work towards
but also without that without the pieces
of putting together that's also
important and not to say that you know
we've been exclusive in those roles
because we both have been able to be
visionaries and
she's also a very exigent excellent
planner as well and so it's we just been
really neat to be able to play with each
other's strengths and be able to
complement each other and more
importantly to learn from each other and
to be able to really share that light in
connection that comes through being
sisters and being family and knowing
each other in a way that is so intimate
and close now I've seen both of your
husband's here as well and you both have
children so tell me how that works so
yeah so our families are definitely
involved
we have many family members here working
with us on the show many friends and
everybody has been coming together
that's it really is a family endeavor
and does that work well for you here
your husband's all in they are all in I
have an amazing husband and so does
Andre well actually all of our family we
have been parenting parents our parents
of that so a little bit of background on
Andre and I our parents grew up or we
grew up in a family with parents who are
an event producers themselves and so we
grew up on the trade show floor just
like how we are here you're running
around as little seven eight nine year
olds while Dad was hanging Piper drape
and and we were just you know had fun
and so it's with this experience too we
have definitely been pooling in the
resources from our parent you know our
family business it really is a true
family endeavor now for those who are
watching why is an entrepreneur or a
hopeful on to entrepreneur why should
they come to a trade show or a
convention like this trade shows and
conventions like this are super powerful
in connecting with a lot of diverse
groups of people so you'll see here
today we have people from all over the
world literally are the farthest
attendee that I know of is coming from
Latvia she came from Latvia here and
then we have people from all over the
United States about I don't want to give
out percentage but there's a good chunk
of women who are here from all over the
world and so being an exhibitor and an
event like this allows you exposure and
to be able to connect in that one-on-one
piece that that may not be available in
other venues
and the speakers were wonderful and I
heard a lot of great compliments about
Elizabeth Smart and the breakout
sessions it was very helpful learning
experience so what what do you think
that women should be getting out of
those the breakout sessions have been
phenomenal so they've been mess we've
hand selected more than 22 presenters to
speak at our breakout sessions and each
of those women have been individually
selected for their messages of hope love
and light and so our goal is that
whenever that they come from the the
sessions on there that they're inspired
that they are able to see don't have the
self-reflection time where they are able
to look within themselves and be able
identify ok alright where do I need to
go individually because we're not gonna
tell them where to go we feel that that
that intuition that light within each
one of us guides us to our higher good
whatever that is and you know we are we
are non-denominational we are not
affiliated with any specific faith or
even um you know just political or
anything like that but we were truly are
for all women and we've been we believe
that that that light is within all of us
that guides us to whatever our higher
good is what's ahead for women if light
and how can people get involved so women
of light we this is the first of many
more events and conventions that we're
gonna be having and we have are going to
be having a group that we're gonna be
starting on Facebook were you able to
connect with other women like yourself
so come join us to like our page on the
women of light on Facebook and we're
going to continue to announce other
things other events other other
opportunities for women to be inspired
and to connect and to serve with each
other thank you so much for taking so
much Shelley I think it's a bit of
privilege and thank you and for wisdom
included at the women of light
convention in downtown Albuquerque I'm
Shelley Carney. Maria and her sister
Andrea believe in the creative energy of
women and they want to focus the light
inside of every woman toward bringing
hope beauty healing and change to our
world if they can put together such a
phenomenal event in so little time
imagine what they will accomplish over
the next year learn more and get
involved with the women of light by
visiting their website at
thewomenoflight.com and like their
Facebook page to stay informed sisters
Maria and Andrea works so well together
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