Especially For Women with Ann Barczay SloanIntroducing: DC Cordova
CEO, Excellerated Business Schools® / Money & You® Program
“The Universe is abundant and there is only ONE PERSON
who can deny you ANYTHING! YOU!
Get this one and you’ll create freedom.”
Article Part One
Long-ago connections, new re-connections
DC Cordova ─ the brilliantly successful subject of this article ─ and I first met in Los Angeles in the early years of this century (that sounds so antique, doesn’t it?) We were both attending an IBI (now CEO Space) Forum, and DC was a good friend of a woman who’d been my business consultant for a while: the late Rachel Best. I stood more or less quietly on the sidelines as Rachel and DC chatted – simply content to hang out in DC’s charming yet powerful presence.
Since those faraway days, my life has gone through numerous twisted turns, several psycho-spiritual and geographical relocations – and now here we are: a new turn of the spiral! I have morphed into a Featured Columnist for an internationally known on-line business publication (wow, I’m so impressed with myself!) and I get to converse one on one with the incalculably more impressive, unutterably more internationally known educator, global entrepreneur, and dedicated humanitarian, DC Cordova!
Who is DC Cordova and what is she all about?
A powerful summary of her achievements can be seen at: http://www.dccordova.com . Here is an excerpt:
DC Cordova
CEO, Excellerated Business Schools®/Money & You® Program
DC Cordova is the CEO of Excellerated, the international organization that presents the famous Money & You® Program and the first ever Business School for Social Entrepreneurs, the Excellerated Business School® for Entrepreneurs. Since 1979, DC has led Excellerated to pioneer high-speed, experiential entrepreneurship educational programs that have transformed the lives of tens of thousands of participants – and through them, millions of people around the world.
To date, Excellerated is a global organization with more than 70,000 graduates from over 60 countries, with entrepreneurial programs mainly conducted in both English and Chinese languages in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Brunei. In Europe other Excellerated programs have been translated and presented in various languages, including Spanish, French and German. These programs’ markets will continue to expand globally.
I have chosen to skip the next lengthy paragraph, but let’s at least look at its first sentence:
Her graduates read like a “Who’s Who” list of wealth/business gurus, including her partnership of nine years with Robert Kiyosaki of the Rich Dad/Poor Dad Series…
If you’re curious about the numerous other celebrities, see Notable Grads on http://www.Excellerated.com .
For the sake of brevity, I am omitting a lengthy summary of DC’s writings and media appearances… But I can’t resist including an additional “short” list of DC’s achievements:
[DC] is a Founding member of the Transformational Leadership Council (TLC); a facilitator for the Pachamama Alliance Symposium; a Founding Faculty member for Humanity Unites Brilliance (HUB); and the Asia Pacific Business Developer for WOMBAT – a breakthrough Media for Transformation company; and Director of International Relations for the Women’s Information Network (The WINonLine.com)
She is a “Connector” because she has a special gift for bringing together projects and people from around the world. She is considered an Ambassador of New Education and a Mentor of Nurturing for her work with high-level entrepreneurs and persons of high influence.
Primary Web sites:
Money & You®
http://www.moneyandyoublog.
Excellerated Business Schools®:
DC’s site:
Click below to get special details on Money and You ─ DC Cordova has decided to share the first step of the program with you:
And now, at long last – the interview!
Now that I have loaded you up with background information, let’s proceed to our interview. FYI, DC and I conducted and recorded it via phone ─ unlike my usual method of using an e-mail questionnaire.
This has resulted in an unexpected bonus. Unhampered by space limitations of my questionnaire, DC got deeply into her flow of conversation and shared much more information about her activities, past and present, than could fit into my usual article page count.
Unwilling to deprive my readers of any of DC’s rich material, I have decided to write this interview into two parts. Therefore the second half of this article about our super-achieving yet delightfully accessible subject will appear in TNNW in my January 2010 column.
Hi DC ─ I so appreciate your taking time to share yourself with me and our National Networker readers!
“You’re very welcome, Ann… It’s an honor for me to be able to empower women and networkers!”
First of all, how would you briefly describe what you do ─ your elevator speech, if you will?
“I do three things:
First: For the past 30 years I have been presenting entrepreneurial transformational programs. I have two main programs: Money & You® (3 1/2days) and Excellerated Business School® for Entrepreneurs (8 days.) We teach Sales and Marketing, People and Organization, Money and Finances: all the things that an entrepreneur needs to know. Money & You® is based on the principles of Buckminster Fuller and other masters. It’s taught through left/right brain teaching techniques. We have several other programs – Money & You® is our signature program – it’s transformational entrepreneurial education.
Second, I am a bridge between the Asia-Pacific region and North America. After working in both regions for over 20 years, I am now considered an authority on the difference of the Chinese and North American cultures, as well as with the Islamic world.
Third (and my favorite) is my mission, which is to transform educational systems around the world to eradicate poverty and hunger.”
And how exactly do you accomplish all of this astonishing work?
I meet with business people, leaders – people of tremendous influence. My first was Fidel Castro in 1984, at the height of the Cold War. I had a transformational experience around him. I realized that if I were to work with leaders around the world, I could leverage my mission more easily. I was only 34 years old. It overwhelmed me tremendously…
When we don’t see ourselves in a place in the future as grand as we really are, it’s hard to see the opportunities in front of you. I was only 34 years old and I didn’t work with people of tremendous influence ‘till about six or seven years later, when I started working in Singapore and I first met Dr. Dato’ Jannie Tay. She began to introduce me to amazing leaders and persons of influence.
What exactly do you do when you meet with these top leaders?
“When I go to a new country I ask: ‘Who is the most influential entrepreneur in this country, in this city?’ When they tell me who it is, I arrange for an introduction through our powerful network of successful entrepreneurs, or I literally go knock on doors. Very few people turn me down because they always want to meet someone who has met Fidel Castro.
I have met with Heads of State, Prime Ministers, Ministers of Education. Over the years, I began to learn you need to meet with people of tremendous wealth because they influence the politicians world wide.”
That all sounds amazing! So this is the way you got started?
“Yes, that’s how I started my task as an ‘Ambassador of New Education’. This evolved from my doing transformational programs and being supported by our graduates to share with persons of influence. I represent the industry of transformational education: an industry of New Education.”
So then do you tell these leaders about your programs?
“I don’t talk about my programs much; I don’t share that ‘I do a program called Money & You® and Excellerated Business Schools®…’ Not at all! I talk about left and right brain teaching techniques; and how present-day education in most countries is hundreds of years old. We need to teach teachers how the brain takes in information using the kinesthetic, visual, and auditory modalities. We need to begin to teach teachers to use cooperative studying, where children with various levels of knowledge help teach each other. At present we are teaching separation and competition. The Bell curve is a very antiquated system.”
That’s so powerful and so true!
“The awareness that I bring to billionaires, ministers, and persons of high influence is that we have to come from a place of abundance. Most people live in a world of scarcity. We have to move them to sufficiency – and from sufficiency we move them to abundance. But that’s a process that most people have to go through.
Bill Gates has spent nearly 20 billions of dollars in attempting to correct the educational system in this country. He has failed in many ways ─ because no one has told him that a personal transformation needs to occur in order for the teachers, principals and educational leaders not to feel wrong about what they have been doing. They are products of their own system; we are all products of our own environment ─ unless we have learned from masters like Buckminster Fuller, Dr. Georgi Lozanov (Creator of Suggestopedia, the basis for Accelerated Learning) and others.
We then present new ideas, a new menu of new references for the leaders to delve into – and huge new doors, new portals are open for them… I am a walking portal, so to speak! We tell them: ‘Go learn about Left / Right Brain Education! Go learn how the brain works! Go and learn about subjects like eco-capitalism!‘”
Eco-capitalism ─ what a great term!
“Yes, I am an amazing library for them – and then when they say: ‘What do you personally do?’ I mention that we conduct business schools that churn out social entrepreneurs – and I have social proof that they will go out and create change in their own industries. They will become agents of change – and all I have to do is to put them through this experience – because education is a process of discovery. They discover for themselves where to best contribute to others.
They also find out that first you contribute, and then the money comes. This is true for people of little money, and for people who are millionaires who have found out that money is not it – that they can still be unhappy even with all the money they have ever wanted to accumulate. There are those who have inherited tremendous amounts or come into a family with tremendous money but they fight, everyone’s unhappy, no one trusts each other… and they find out sooner or later: ‘Oh my God, I am not happy!’ and that’s when the idea of making a contribution to society or leaving a legacy can be introduced to them…
So that’s what I do. I am a messenger of this beautiful technology created by masters.”
Super-powerful stuff, DC! So now I have to ask: What makes your company, your programs unique?
“We were pioneers of left/right brain teaching techniques; created the original transformational entrepreneurial program. My mentors literally created the industry and I inherited the work. We are the sixth oldest transformational company in the world, the first one in the arena of business. We have social proof: look at the caliber of graduates of our programs and what they have created… Go see our list of Notable Grads in our Web site: http://www.Excellerated.com !
Most of us came from Est, the original personal development program that made history in the 70s: Bobbie DePorter, Marshall Thurber, Robert Kiyosaki, Sondra Ray, and others. Many of the educators that use left/right brain teaching techniques are either graduates of our programs, or students of our graduates. Best selling authors like Robert Kiyosaki of Rich Dad/Poor Dad was my business partner for nine years. We published his first best selling book, If You Want to be Rich & Happy, Don’t Go to School? His best work is based on our teachings.”
Est – of course! I did the Est training back in the old days when Werner Erhard was still around.
“Yes, that’s great! And by the way, journalists who do research on the background of some of today’s top money gurus eventually discover that some started their education and profession with Money & You®. We are very proud of that.
All of this goes along with my mission – because I don’t want to leave this planet before this essential issue is handled.“
Now we’re getting to the heart of it, DC. What exactly is your mission, the aim of what you do?
“My Mission is to transform educational systems around the world to eradicate poverty and hunger.
My Purpose is to Uplift Humanity’s Consciousness through Business. I do this through our Excellerated Business programs.”
And your humanitarian / philanthropic activities?
“We contribute to many foundations that are created by our graduates of Money & You® and the Business School. We support over 1000 Chinese orphans from the earthquake in China and their new families. We have many other organizations that we support. So we not only do the transformational work, we also support Foundations that we believe in.
This is so great ─ thank you, DC! Now, as I know you have much more to share with us, I propose we publish Part 2 in next month’s issue of this Newsletter.
“Good idea… Thanks, Ann!”
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Next month, in Part Two of this article, DC answers such questions as:
-- Which of your projects are you currently most excited and passionate about?
-- How far does your network extend?
-- What’s the achievement / accomplishment you’re most proud of at this time?
Reminder: DC has decided to share the first step of the program with you!
Click below to get special details ─
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Key Words:
DC Cordova, Money & You, Excellerated, Transformation, Education, Left/Right Brain Education, World Leaders, Buckminster Fuller, Asia Pacific, China, Ann Barczay Sloan, The National Networker, TNNW
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Ann Barczay Sloan, M.A.
Author & Editor / Creative Writing Coach
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Featured Columnist,
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Author of the forthcoming book:
How to Use the Pieces of a Broken Heart:
Recipes for Rebirth
http://AnnBarczaySloan.
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DC Cordova is so impressive! Thanks for letting me know about this fantastic person.
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