Birth Center developments

Life's been a whirlwind of possibilities, opportunities, and movement lately! What a crazy week. For those of you who haven't quite caught up with me and my birth center plans, here's a little recap of my week:

Monday - visited Morning Star Birth Center in St. Louis Park, MN and met with the founder. She is now my new mentor/joint venture partner! :) Her name also happens to be Paula, I think that's a good sign.
Tuesday - visited the women at the Natural Source to meet my new office-mate and signed a 6 month contract for office space. I plotted out office hours and hope to gain some more exposure for my coaching/doula work as well as generate interest in the birth center project.
Wednesday - Paula came up to St. Cloud and we went scouting for properties. We discussed other business development topics/ideas and tentative next steps. I am trying to keep from getting overwhelmed! Then I took my mom canoeing down the Sauk River. It was awesome.
Thursday - discussed recent developments at my networking meetings and got a lot of positive feedback. Then I spent the rest of the day outside fulfilling my passions for outdoor activities: I went golfing for the first time (and didn't do half bad!), played volleyball in a local bar league and actually won 2 of the games, then played ultimate frisbee. I was still full of energy at the end of the day!!!
Friday - met with my sister's friend, Larissa, to fill her in on what I'm planning and hope to get her involved. I also did my first women's empowerment workshop that evening out at my friend's hair salon and felt like it was a great success!

I am now creating a survey to send out to my contact list (and hoping they forward it on) to gather information on the geographic region I plan to serve with my birth center. I am also researching the demographics and birth stats of the surrounding counties, as well as grant opportunities. I need to learn as much as I can about my service area as well as the city government I'm going to have to deal with...

I'm continuing to connect with people, network, share my dreams, and instigate conversation. Meanwhile... I'll just keep sending energy into the universe to send me the funds or the means to obtain funding since I didn't win the lottery on Wednesday.