Meet Alicia

Meet Alicia Arenas

Alicia Arenas is the Founder and CEO of Sanera, The People Development Company. In her words, “We are all about helping entrepreneurs live the dream of having a rock-solid, successful business.” Sanera shows business owners and executives how to brand themselves powerfully in a sea of competitors, radically improve employee productivity, potently communicate, become influential leaders and to very simply manage the “people function” of their businesses.

Her first business dream-come-true was selling homemade Christmas ornaments out of her mother’s kitchen when she was seven and she has dedicated herself to her business owners ever since.

Alicia has several certifications and credentials and an impressive work history at family-owned and several Fortune 500 companies. But what she values more than that is the compassion and care she’s learned from living with a brother who has severe Autism and the spiritual heritage received from her missionary parents.

The Fun Stuff

Allright. So that was the “official” bio. Now let’s have some fun! I am full of a comprehensive array of useless information, but hopefully  some of it will be entertaining.

Things I Like

1. My Hubbie. Scratch that -- I love him!

2. My Puppy. She’s not a puppy, she’s actually 13. But we still call her “Pups.” Here’s a link to one of her You Tube videos.

3. Nice People.

4. Creating contemporary art (haven’t decided if I’m going to post any yet).

5. Singing & writing music (yeah…not sure if I’ll post that either). Update: Well, it’s October 31, 2009 and after many requests, I’m posting a video of my friends Michael Long, Jeff Schechter and I playing around (we didn’t remember all the words and hadn’t practiced) with a Sting song. But we had lots of fun:

Things I Don’t Like

1. Mean people.

2. Clowns. They are not cute and they are not funny. They are evil and should be destroyed.

3. Green food, except lettuce, broccoli, Granny Smith apples and pickles.

4. Acid reflux (I can’t eat pickles).

5. Dishonest people.

Things You Really Don’t Need to Know About Me

1. I refuse to eat the last bite of a hot dog. If you want to know why, just Tweet me. I promise to tell you the answer.

2. I have a dent in my nose. You are reading the blog of quite possibly, the most uncoordinated person on the planet.  Case in point, the dent in my nose. In sixth grade, always the last to be chosen for either softball team, I was strategically placed in the outfield -- waaaaay out in the outfield. I was actually pretty relieved because no one ever hit the ball that far, until the ill-fated day. The pitch was thrown and unfortunately, the ball was smacked hard. It flew in my direction and I had no choice but to try and catch it. So I put up my mitt, the ball ricocheted off the top of my glove and slammed into my nose. In one motion, my glasses flew apart, I was falling down and blood…well there was lots of blood. That’s how I got the dent in my nose.

3. The only way I can put on mascara is if I have my mouth open. I’ve tried to do it with my mouth closed and it just doesn’t work. Isn’t that weird?

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