Ten years ago, Cathleen Fillmore sold her house, quit her teaching job and moved to Nova Scotia to dedicate herself to her writing, something shed wanted to do since she was six years old. And she found, very quickly, that this, in fact, was NOT the life she wanted. Cathleen did not want to spend her life behind a computer in her pajamas and only hang out with other writers. So she began to write business articles, started a local branch of the Canadian Association for Professional Speakers and a newsletter for speakers.  Three years later, Cathleen moved back to Toronto and began consulting with speakers and opened Speakers Gold bureau. She still does lots of writing, mostly in area of professional speaking.  It just wasn’t the writing she originally intended.