Debbie Cloyed and Bianca Smith have shared a 20-year friendship built on a mutual passion for travel, global awareness, and charity.  They also share a basic recipe for happiness:  optimism, self-confidence, benevolence, integrity, and laughter.  They offer cultural lessons, travel know-how, and inspiration for loving life through three fun, engaging work-shops. Suggested Topics: "Looking Yourself in the Mirror- Believe in yourself."  Look in the mirror and be proud.  We've all heard it a million times.  Know what it means- to value your own unique strengths, to develop a creed of personal integrity and a basic tenet of benevolence, to build good karma and feel good about yourself by helping others.  This workshop offers fun easy ways to get involved in your community, set personal goals, give up gossip, learn to laugh at yourself, manage fear, and make time (and money) for what matters most to you. "You Are Safe" Debbie and Bianca have traveled to over 33 countries, many places that they were advised not to go as young women.  What did they discover?  That the world is basically a safe and familiar place.  People across the globe are doing the exact same things as Americans here- hanging out with their friends and family, celebrating birthdays and weddings, worrying about their jobs and government, contemplating faith, and daydreaming about crushes or trying to make marriages work.  This heartwarming, exciting workshop offers a multimedia look at what it's like to live in "exotic" countries, enhanced by stories of Debbie and Bianca's own amazing travel experiences, from emergency surgery in Bangkok to interviewing the President of Honduras, to spending time with the IRA in Northern Ireland.  There will also be travel tips and travel photography tips, suggestions for global charity and outreach, recipes from other countries and other such activities designed to promote understanding in our newly global world. "A Woman Can Be All Things" Debbie and Bianca were lucky to be raised by metropolitan parents who raised them equal to their brothers, but we all know this is not always the case.  This confidence-building workshop light-heartedly exposes the double standards and the either-or categorization experienced by women across America, and presents fun, positive ways to celebrate the different sides of you.  Fun quizzes and activities help women rediscover the dreams, hidden desires, or special talents they possess.  The goal is to find that "one special thing" and learn how to make it a priority.  Also, ways to enjoy life as a strong female in the 21st century- inspirations for meditation, calm, acceptance, confidence and living life to the fullest- one small detail at a time. **  Debbie and/or Bianca are available to speak separately on their areas of individual expertise. Debbie - "Meet the World Through Your Own Unique Vision" - A Photography Workshop on travel, glamour, and fashion photography. Bianca- "Educational Outreach - The Bridge to Multicultural Understanding" - A workshop utilizing Bianca's training in multicultural education and experience working with international students and their parents. Speaker Information: What does it mean to be happy and fulfilled in a global world?  To trust in the world as you do in yourself?  Debbie and Bianca are pleased to offer their travel expertise and their contagious philosophy for living a life of meaning and laughter.  These two women are guaranteed to light up people's hearts and minds with their vision of a bigger world and a world of possibilities.  Bianca grew up down the street from Debbie outside of the nation's capitol, Washington, D.C.  She was raised by her strong Mexican mother, who instilled in Bianca a life-long passion for education and travel.  From an early age, Bianca was consistently active in her community and student government.  She studied abroad in Spain, completing her undergraduate degree in International Studies.  By her early twenties, Bianca had traveled to over twenty countries, including a moving "roots trip" through Mexico.  She earned her TOEFL certification when she returned a second time to Spain, living (again!) just around the corner from Debbie.  Bianca returned to D.C. to obtain her master's degree in Multicultural Education, under a state grant program.  While teaching ESL full time and earning her degree, Bianca ran a tutoring program for foreign students, developed a separate program for their parents, and organized trips to take students overseas.  She has just recently moved to Los Angeles to partner back up with Debbie to develop a travel show based on their shared commitment to global awareness and charity. Debbie was the wild(er) one of the two.  She graduated early from high school in the top 5% of her class, graduated magna cum laude from The College of William & Mary in two years, spent six months studying and working abroad in London, a month backpacking Western and Eastern Europe, and another six months living in Thailand (where she had an emergency appendectomy!).  She lived next door to Bianca in Barcelona, Spain, learning Spanish and working on a novel.  She has since lived in Los Angeles, working as a photographer.  Throughout it all, she has traveled still to a dozen other countries, and remained committed to promoting education and community outreach.  Debbie and Bianca love to share their varied, unique travel stories and "life stories" as a way to inspire confidence, cultural understanding, and positive attitude, especially in women and youth, but as a message meant for the human race. Together, they've traveled to over thirty countries, bungee-jumped off abandoned bridges, white-water rafted the jungles of Honduras, backpacked Europe, interviewed IRA in Northern Ireland and Basque students in Spain, gone cliff-diving, caving, skydiving, rock-climbing, deep-sea fishing, and done more dancing and "living life to the fullest" than most people could imagine, even outside of our adventures on The Amazing Race 7. "We believe in laughing when you want to cry, trying your hardest when everyone else wants to quit, believing in yourself and the basic benevolence of the universe, and leaving the world a better place than you found it.  Make your own way.  Don't make excuses.  Do it before you're ready.  And for goodness sake, learn to laugh at yourself."