Owner BB  Webb will be speaking at the Paulding County Chamber of Commerce Georgia Power Luncheon event June 6th at 11am in Paulding County.  Her talk, ‘Build Your Business. Find Your Twirl,’ explores key tenants she’s learned in building a successful business and with equal importance, how to maintain your passion in the midst of challenge and growth.  To register online click here and go to upcoming events.

Being an entrepreneur is easier said than done and in a challenged economy, all the more tenuous.  BB Webb shares colorful stories and lessons learned to help guide other business owners and their employees into creating successful, profitable enterprises that can prosper far into the future! Her talk, ‘Build Your Business. Find Your Twirl!’ will inspire both the seasoned and budding entrepreneur into a journey of new possibilities and empowered direction.  As a former actress, BB brings with her an energetic, unique delivery and hard earned experience as an entrepreneur!  With a spirit of creative fun and discovery she shares inspired ‘takeaways’ that will help you grow your business in new and profitable ways!

Key talking points include:

• Mining Your Assets, Rising Above the Rabble!
• Surrounding Yourself with the RIGHT People
• Cash is STILL King!
• Navigating the ‘Hard Stuff’
• Play to Your Passion.  Find Your Twirl!

BB will be speaking at four Wedding Market Expos this year.  For more information on where to buy tickets, contact: www.weddingmarketexpo.com

August 6-8, 2013 – Austin, TX – Palmer Events Center

September 10-12, 2013 –Lakeland, FL – The Lakeland Center

October 22-24, 2013 – Atlanta, GA – Gwinnett Center

BB’s topics include:

 ‘Building Your Business.  Find Your Twirl’ (description above) and ‘Mining Your Assets, Rising Above the Rabble!’

BB Webb continues her message of a self-empowered, professional focus as she shares stories of entrepreneurial near disaster and her inspired solutions to rise above the fray.  With both laughter and tears she’ll send you away with perspectives on how to muscle through the tough times and have you working on an action plan that will create greater abundance and focus on the possibilities available to you!  Be prepared to focus on your strengths while refusing to become a part of what BB calls the ‘Limited Laggard – Honey Boo Boo’ mindset, embracing the inspired, creative, forward moving professional you were born to be!

Key Talking Points Include:

• Making Things What They Are!
• The Importance of Relationship. Business IS Personal!
• If It COULD Work, What Would It Look Like?
• Who Do You Need To ‘Fire’ From Your Life?
• Your Roadmap For Change And Support Along The Way

To contact BB to speak at your next event, contact her at bbwebb@arrivingwithbbwebb.com  (photo by Derek Wintermute)

If you didn’t catch Christine Pullara’s Channel 11 Atlanta and Company television interview with Carl House owner, BB Webb, click here or below for a link to the interview!  Tune in to hear BB share about the building of Carl House, wedding trends, her team and vision for Carl House moving forward as well as her outlook as a speaker, writer and entrepreneur.

Please tune into our Upcoming Events link to learn more about exciting things coming to Carl House in November and over the holidays.  As always, we thank you for visiting Carl House!

It’s interesting to witness our own lives.  I’m an introspective extrovert. Odd combo, eh?  I’ll get back to that.

On this monumental 10th year since the idea of creating Carl House first popped into my head, I am feeling a deep sense of gratitude, appreciation and awe….in the creative process, how an idea, an intent can change our world and how tenacity and going within (there’s that extrovert-introvert mix), can create things we never imagined in any definite form when we first find ourselves at the beginning of any grand adventure.

In the summer of 2002 I was handling a rental situation in the house that would become Carl House.  The renters were 4 young men who had NO appreciation of this beautiful home (beautiful even before the major renovations), as they painted over old wood, were late on rental payments and were basically making a mess of things, me undone with the wreckage before me!

New to the area, still working to find my groove with a project or business that might satisfy my creative urges, serve the community and create revenue….I was standing in what is now the Frassrand Room, (named after a beloved Grandmother-in-law, Mama Grace, who told the naughtiest jokes), and I literally heard a voice say,

‘This would make a GREAT place for people to gather and have parties!’

‘Huh?’ I remember saying aloud, looking around to hear who was speaking. God reaches us in the most uncanny ways and I was SO thankful, (being that chatty extrovert that I am), that I was actually listening.

Yes, it can happen that quickly, our lives shift and these sparks of inspiration can change thousands of lives and we ALL have the power, the creativity in our souls, to create ANYthing we can imagine.  Read that again, it’s true. The biggest secret, I surround myself with phenomenal people who can execute these visions of mine!

Herbert Kaufman said,

‘Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ‘coaches’ ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.’

I am infinitely proud of the team I have assembled at Carl House and it’s taken 10 years to gather this particular and stellar group. Lead by the extraordinary savvy of General Manager, Dawn Tibbles and the incomparable talent of my CFO, Robin Ramsey, (a more persistent and meticulous soul I’ve yet to meet), two better women leaders I’ve yet to find.

And me, this week, I’m headed on a cycling trip from Pittsburgh to Washington D.C., testing my physical meddle with 362 plus miles of pedaling and more pedaling. An overdue outlet for getting my business on this particular groove. I’ll all the way be incubating new directions for Carl House, our hotel out back, a bridal boutique on my property next door and well, there is a tv series I’m looking to produce. You’ll never guess, it’s a story about entrepreneurs….

…..how astounding folks I’ve met created something from nothing….just an idea that with perserverance and against TREMENDOUS odds, turned into a business which serves people, offers amazing products and as happened to me, made these particular owners feel alive with their own abilities to create, share and tell the story of, WOW, how they got ‘here’. (if I’ve peaked your interest, visit my other venture, Arriving with BB Webb and my front page video)!

With gratitude for the many people who have come through my doors, graced the halls of my beautiful Carl House, shared who they are and through thick and thin, taught me about the power of grace, love, tenacity and forgiveness.

To quote my mother the adventurer, entrepreneur, pilot, writer, traveler, precious and severe in her tenacity to ‘do right’, as she lay quietly in her hospice bed, knowing her transition was near,

‘Remember the good times,’ she reminded me, ‘onto the next grand adventure.’ Kitty Vogel, 1925-1998.

To me, it’s all about love!  And so it is….onward we go.

From my heart to yours,

BB Webb, Owner