About Magie
Magie, born Magdalena De La Cruz Cook Garcia, grew up in a Mexican orphanage with 68 other children. After missing her chance to play for the Mexican National Basketball Team, she earned a scholarship to the University of Charleston, where she began making fresh salsa. After graduating and facing homelessness, Magie won a Fresh Salsa competition and received $800 to start her business, Maggie’s All-Natural Fresh Salsas & Dips.
With limited resources, she built her business from scratch, learning production, distribution, and sales. Through perseverance, Magie expanded her brand nationwide, eventually selling her company to Campbell’s Soup for $231 million in 2015.
Magie then returned to Mexico to serve as the US Program Director of her orphanage, helping to rescue 31 children from human trafficking. Today, Dr. Magie shares her story with corporate audiences, inspiring leaders to leverage personal strengths and build resilience during times of change.
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Overcome Any Adversity & Discover Your True Potential
People think they need better time management, but they actually need better energy management. In a world where people feel like they are always playing catch up with a never-ending to-do list, understanding energy management can be incredibly helpful. Understanding energy helps us become more present, focused, efficient, less stressed, sleep better, and have better quality relationships.
In this keynote, Alison encourages participants to look at energy as a currency, asking questions like:
How do you spend your energy each day?
Do you save your energy for when you need it?
What habits deplete your energy and what habits are life-giving?
Audiences will follow Alison through practical exercises to experience a shift in their own energy in real time. Energy is contagious, and through the lens of understanding coherence, participants have the opportunity to understand the energy of stress and anxiety and how to transform that into an energy of presence, patience, and calm.
Through heart-centered consciousness and learning to master your own energy, the three C’s – connection, community, and coherence – become the pillars and foundation upon which a strong life and, in turn, a strong business is built.
Leadership Mindset with Magie
In this thought-provoking keynote, Alison looks at life like a game where we all have the choice to take part and become key players in our own lives. Are you a conscious or unconscious player? Are you a victim or a victor in your own life?
Alison offers various practical thinking tools to help you become not only an active and conscious player of life but a thriving and joyful one too.
Helping Individuals Transition from Surviving to Thriving and Finding Joy and Fulfillment in Their Lives:
- Awareness of Choice
- Adopting a creator’s mindset by shifting energy patterns
- Taking inspired and aligned action
Cultivating a Joyful Mindset by Focusing on Gratitude and Mindfulness:
- Tools for Self-Reflection
- Creating a Supportive Culture
- Overcoming Limiting Beliefs
- The Power of Resilience: bouncing back stronger after setbacks
- Taking responsibility for one’s happiness and fulfillment
Awards & Publications
Books published
Awards received
Author of Mindful Success™ - How to Use Your Mind to Transform Your Life
Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) – The University of Charleston, 2022
Hall of Fame – National Association of Women Business Owners, 2022
Hall of Fame – The University of Charleston, 2015
Founder of Speaker Mastery™, speaker coaching for women motivational speakers.
Woman of the Year – Hollywood Dreams International Film Festival, 2019
Nobel Entrepreneurial Prize – The Voice of Michoacan, Mexico, 2014
More About Magie
As a successful Latina businesswoman, Magie was the CEO and founder of Maggie’s All-Natural Fresh Salsa’s & Dips, a company that grew into a multi-million-dollar business within 4 years and distributed products across 38 states to major supermarkets such as Wal-Mart, Sam’s Club, Whole Foods, and many more. Her personal journey to success didn’t come easy.
From her childhood and throughout her young adulthood, Magie had to overcome a number of economic and business setbacks that forced her to get resourceful and look for other paths to reach her goals. This is her story.
Magie had us laughing, crying, and rejoicing! She was a breath of fresh air and exactly what we needed!
The best keynote in the 20 years of our conference!
Magie takes you on a journey that will inspire you to rise above your challenges!
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