Tuesday night I was invited to attend a FREE training seminar for Pure Romance. It is a series of trainings that are designed to help us run our business effectively and make sure that we give you, the customer, the best advice and education possible. After all, the Pure Romance mission is to educate, empower and entertain women.
This was my first PRU sessiona nd I hve not made it to any of the local team meetings, so I really didn't know anyone. So I did what I do best and started people watching. As I was looking around I notices that there were ALOT of full figured women. Don't get me wrong, there were some skinny people too, but about 85% of the consultants had curves! I think we are just more confident in our skin and really like to feel sexy. Taking ownership of your body is KEY to being sexy. I don't care if you are large, small, skinny, chunky, tall, short, blonde brunette or redhead, if you walk and talk and act like you are confident, you are sexy! Once you get to that point its a really empowering feeling.
Patty Brisbane, Founder of Pure Romance
Since this was the first meeting in the series we just went over a lot of the basics, how to book parties, what we should and should not say. How we need to be professional in everything we do and just get our name out there. What I did learn, though, was how and why the company got started. Paty Brisbane, our founder, wanted to create a safe, fun environment for women to learn about their sexuality and give them the opportunity to purchace romance enhancing procuts in the comfort of their home, or in a party setting with all their friends. The point of the company and women's secual health. It made me understand why men (of any sexual orientation) can't see our demo. It is really not geared towards them and it could make women feel uncomfortable to talk about their G-Spots or their preference on vaginal or clitoral pleasure. Oh hell even kegal excersizes and why using a trainer or ben wa balls would be so much more beneficial for them. I know my generation is a lot more open about stuff like this. I think facebook is to "blame" because it allows us to know everything about everyone. But there are still some women who get squimish when you start talking bout sex. Especially when you use medical correct terminology.
It goes back to what I was saying before about how we need to own our bodies. We can't be afraid of them. We need to stand up for ourselves and our sexual healh and pleasure but we need to take one step at a time. That's where I come in. If you invite me into your home, I will work with you to take that ownership. Thats the first step and once you are educated, you will be empowered!
Let me start off by saying I HATE crowds. I get a little anxious when there's a lot of people around. Stores get busier and busier as it gets closer to Christmas and I'd just rather stay at home. It's bad enough that I have to pass THREE malls on my way home and that it takes at least 20 mins longer than it should due to all the traffic. I always do my Christmas shopping in November so I don't have to deal with all the crazies and fight for "deals" that are really not any better than any other time of year. I'm a very good shopper and get a lot of bang for my buck no matter what time of year it is.
For those of you who don't know what a Dirty Santa Shuffle is, it's much like a white elephant where you open and steal gifts, the twist was that all the gifts were pure romance produts. There was a $20 buy in and I provided all the wrapped gifts. The gifts ranged in value from $15 to $30. The idea was that you would open or steal a gift that was already open. Most people didn't steal. Possibly because there were nervous or because they wanted to see the new exciting gift in the huge bundle of gifts to open. The Coochy and the Thumbs up g-spot vibrator where the hot ticket items. We also had, two bullets (one silver bullet and one waterproof bullet), an arousal cream, Just Like Me lubricant, Golden Girl, Body Dew, Entice, handcuffs, the vanilla bondage kit and the deluxe massage mitten that found good homes. I don't think that anyone will be dissappointed with their gifts. 
Of course you can't have a good party without snacks or food! I wanted to play off the holiday theme so I got a little creative with my foods. We had a three tierd dessert stand that had full sized vanilla and chocolate winter cupcakes, mini red velvet snowman cupcakes and chocolate chip cookies with red and green colored white chocolate. I also had a snow man cheese ball. I think this was the hit of the spread! Everyone thought it was really cute and super delicious. Everyone was amazed that I made it myself lol. It really wasn't that hard at all! I think I gave the recipie to just about everyone. I also had pinwheels. I made them in gree tortillas so that I could stack them and make it look like a chirstmas tree but the recipe didn't make enough to make a tall tree so it was just a small abstract looking tree but yummy none the less. One of my friends stuck his foot in his mouth when he suggested that I teach his girlfriend (one of my best friends) how to make tastey stuff like this hahah. I don't think he will be living down that comment for a while. The first thing to go where the mini pigs in a blanket. Next time I will make a lot more of those! The only place I messed up on the food was the asparagus rolls. they were kind of dry, and needed some kind of sauce but I was just looking for a quick vegitarian dish that I could make easily. I don't think I will try them again. We also had plenty of wine and beer! Next time though I will listen to my gut and get shiner and not miller light like my husband suggested I know that we were trying to save money but I think a better beer is a better investment. Especially since they first guy that showed up immediately asked if we had Shiner...they had to make a beer run right off the bat! and now we are stuck with a full case of Miller and we dont even really drink!
