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In this liberating and thought-provoking episode, Paul Jordan talks with Gillian Viljoen, a Personal Freedom Coach who helps individuals break free from internal limitations and live with authenticity, clarity, and courage. Gillian shares her deeply personal journey of transformation—and the powerful insights she now uses to help others find freedom from within.
🕊️ In this episode:
If you’re feeling stuck, disconnected, or ready to take bold steps toward the life you truly want, Gillian’s wisdom and presence will inspire you to rise.
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In this insightful episode, Paul Jordan speaks with Karol Fule, founder of Trust and Buy, a platform that helps coaches, consultants, and creators build trust that leads to sales—without pushy tactics or hype. Karol unpacks the psychology behind buyer behaviour and shares his unique approach to creating genuine client relationships that convert.
🧠 You’ll learn:
If you want to grow your business in a way that feels aligned, authentic, and effective—this conversation is packed with value.
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In this inspiring episode, Paul Jordan sits down with Lisa Richardson, a transformational coach dedicated to helping women rediscover their power, purpose, and potential. With warmth and wisdom, Lisa shares her journey of personal evolution—and how she now supports others through life transitions, identity shifts, and inner healing.
🌟 What you’ll discover:
If you’re navigating change or longing for a deeper connection with who you truly are, Lisa’s perspective will uplift and guide you.
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In this captivating episode, Paul Jordan speaks with Liz Drury, an accomplished voiceover artist whose work brings stories, brands, and messages to life. Liz shares her fascinating journey from TV production to the voiceover booth and gives a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to succeed in this creative industry.
🎙️ Highlights include:
Whether you're interested in voiceover as a career or simply love hearing how people reinvent themselves, this episode offers inspiration and insight in equal measure.
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In this soulful and empowering episode, Paul Jordan sits down with Marla Koupla, a transformational guide who helps women reconnect with their inner wisdom, embrace their truth, and create lives of deep alignment. Marla shares her personal journey through awakening, healing, and spiritual growth—and how she now supports others in doing the same.
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If you're feeling called to something deeper or seeking clarity on your next chapter, this episode offers guidance, grace, and grounded insight.
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In this heartfelt and thought-provoking episode, Paul Jordan speaks with Frances Strickland, a passionate advocate for personal transformation and purpose-led living. Frances shares her journey of reinvention, the lessons learned through life’s transitions, and how she now empowers others to step into alignment with who they truly are.
🌱 In this episode:
If you're navigating change or seeking clarity on your next chapter, this conversation will encourage and equip you to move forward with confidence and heart.
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In this energising episode, Paul Jordan chats with Aisha Ejaz, founder of The Forward Focus CEO Circle, a transformative community for high-performing female entrepreneurs. Aisha shares her powerful mission to help women lead boldly, grow their businesses with clarity, and build lives they truly love.
🔥 What you’ll discover:
Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting out, Aisha’s insights will inspire you to lead with purpose and move forward with focus.
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In this health-focused episode, Paul Jordan sits down with Brian Meder, a passionate Nutritional Health Coach who helps people transform their wellbeing through food, mindset, and sustainable habits. Brian shares the story behind his mission—and the simple but powerful strategies he uses to help clients regain energy, confidence, and control.
🥦 Highlights include:
Whether you’re looking to improve your energy, ditch unhealthy habits, or simply take better care of yourself—this conversation is full of inspiration and practical wisdom.
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In this powerful episode, Paul Jordan sits down with Chris Wilson, a seasoned speaking coach who helps professionals unlock their authentic voice and speak with confidence. Chris brings a wealth of experience to the table—sharing what it really takes to overcome nerves, connect with an audience, and communicate with clarity.
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Whether you're delivering webinars, pitching your business, or speaking from the stage, this episode is packed with tips to help you find your voice and own the room.
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In this inspiring episode, Paul Jordan interviews Erika Dittmer, a dynamic speaking coach who helps professionals step into the spotlight and speak with power, poise, and purpose. With a background in education and a passion for helping others shine, Erika reveals the mindset shifts and communication strategies that turn nervous speakers into confident messengers.
🎯 What you'll learn:
Whether you're prepping for a keynote, webinar, or just want to be more persuasive in conversations, Erika’s insights will help you speak with impact.
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In this uplifting episode, Paul Jordan speaks with Joy Harris, founder of Relationships Over Income, a movement dedicated to helping people build meaningful connections and lead heart-led businesses. Joy shares her passion for prioritising purpose over profit and reveals how authentic relationships are the true foundation of lasting success.
💬 In this episode:
If you’ve ever felt burned out by the grind or disconnected from your why, Joy’s message is a timely reminder that real success starts with human connection.
👉 Tune in now and realign with what matters most.
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In this heart-opening episode, Paul Jordan chats with Heather Garbutt, an experienced Love and Relationship Coach who helps people heal from past pain and build deep, authentic connections—starting with themselves. With a background in psychotherapy and decades of helping clients navigate emotional transformation, Heather shares powerful insights on love, loss, and self-worth.
💞 What you’ll discover:
Whether you're looking to improve your current relationship, attract a healthy partnership, or simply reconnect with yourself, this episode offers guidance, warmth, and hope.
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In this episode, Paul Jordan speaks with Aggie Wojciechowska, founder of CFO for Growth, a company that helps businesses scale sustainably with sound financial strategy. With years of high-level finance experience, Aggie brings a refreshing clarity to the numbers that drive success.
💡 Inside this episode:
If you're a business owner looking to grow with confidence—or simply want to get smarter with your numbers—this conversation is a must-listen.
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In this episode, Paul Jordan sits down with Jon Goehring, a seasoned voiceover artist whose rich tones and versatile delivery have brought countless projects to life. Jon shares his journey into the world of voice acting, from his early inspirations to building a thriving freelance business.
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Whether you're curious about the voiceover industry or looking for inspiration from someone who's turned passion into profession, this conversation delivers.
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Paul Jordan interviews John Lambert from Onvou
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No matter what the nature of your business, you should be outsourcing work at some point, and sooner rather than later.
What can be outsourced? Pretty much anything. Website creation, copywriting, video creation and editing, logo design, any kind of admin task (and believe me, that covers a huge range of activities).
Now, when outsourcing work, there are some basic points you always need to cover, and these include:
Ownership and copyright of deliverables.
For example, images – be sure you have the full rights to use these as you wish and the creator does not. Some of the outsourcing sites address these points in their general terms and conditions. You may additionally need to raise your own explicit contracts for this.
More useful points next time …
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Webinars are a great sales tool for many businesses offering people-centric-services.
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Did you know that online education is a HUGE growth market? According to edapp, eLearning is expected to exceed a staggering $1 trillion by 2027; it exceeded $250 billion in 2020. That. Is. A. Lot. Of. Zeros! $1,000,000,000,000!
I am pretty sure you can work out for yourself that the opportunities therefore are gargantuan. Huge. HERCULEAN.
Covid has contributed to this steep rise as people looked to upskill and re-skill during time off work or redundancy. Or just learn a new hobby or pastime.
You can find courses for pretty much anything you want. Dog training. Guitar Playing. Becoming a pilot. Cooking. The list is pretty much endless.
So, if you work on a one-to-one basis with your clients, whatever you do, then you should seriously consider getting yourself in front of a bigger audience. An online course is the way forward. You can reach across the globe in your spoken language. You can speak live to your clients. You can sell courses and still provide one to one support as you wish.
Don’t take my word for it, go do some googling. The Opportunities are almost infinite.
Whatever skills and knowledge you have, there are people on our planet that want it. People eager to learn and willing to pay a good price to learn it.
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Cyber Security - Part I
$8,440,000,000,000 or eight point four four trillion dollars in English. Elon Musk could buy a vast fleet of Teslas with that.
That’s the cyber-crime loss for 2022.
$23,840,000,000,000 twenty-three point eight four trillion dollars – that’s the estimate for 2027 by Statista a very well-respected source of statistics. Roughly three times as high.
If that doesn’t grab your attention, then it should.
Cybercrime is bigger than I can find a verb for.
Whilst it might not seem the most relevant topic for online marketing, please give it the attention needed. If your website got hacked you would probably immediately lose revenue. And your brand reputation that you worked at so hard for so long may get decimated in a heartbeat.
Covid gave rise to increases in cybercrime: more people using computers more often from home. An abundance of scam emails purporting to be covid test results. Or selling masks. Just the mention of the word “Covid” induced a knee-jerk {or should that be mouse click?} reaction in millions of people, who would instantly click a link in an email without first exercising any due diligence. Not knowing where the link leads to.
Next time we’ll take a whistle stop tour of what can happen.
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If you want to outsource work successfully, you'll find some invaluable advice in this video
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Welcome to the world of Webinar Expert, where we teach you how to crush your next online presentation and leave your audience begging for more! You'll find tutorials, hints, tips and access to some free downloadable resources to help you create and present your webinars effectively.
Are you tired of giving boring webinars that put your viewers to sleep? Do you want to know how to make your webinars stand out from the rest? Well, you've come to the right place!
Here at Webinar Expert, we have a team of experienced presenters who know how to captivate an audience and keep them engaged. We've been teaching people just like you how to become webinar rockstars for years, and we've got the tips, tricks, and strategies to help you do the same.
Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting out, we've got everything you need to take your webinars to the next level. From choosing the right topic and crafting the perfect script, to designing killer slides and delivering your presentation with confidence and charisma, we'll show you how to do it all.
So if you're ready to become a webinar expert and take your online presentations to the next level, hit that subscribe button and join us on this exciting journey!
I hope you will use webinars in your business to massively increase your leads, drive sales and appointments.
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As the owner of CFO for Growth, I have been talking to small business owners to learn about their businesses and find out what challenges they face in developing and growing their sales, increasing profitability, as well as business & financial planning.
In today’s interview, I talk to Paul Jordan who owns Learn Digital Marketing Expert, a provider of an online training course that teaches complete digital marketing skills to small business owners and people who are just starting out with an online business. It also teaches people how to outsource work.
Paul also runs Vivity Internet Marketing, an online marketing agency for business owners who want to outsource their online marketing. His agency offer complete marketing services including website creation, sales funnel building, email marketing, video creation and production, graphic design, Facebook advertising, social media marketing, content creation, chatbot creation and much more. Paul’s company can also build online training courses.
I can certainly recommend Paul’s services and online products. If you want to get in touch with him, I’ve provided his contact details here for you:
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Have you ever wondered how to add various images of people to your websites without having to worry about copyright infringement? Paul has a few tips and tricks for generating images of people who aren't actually real for you to use on any of your creatives! In this video, Paul also covers how to use these images, and some neat tricks on Windows to make file renaming - for the images or any other batch of files - an absolute breeze!
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As the co-founder of Onvou, I have been talking to small business owners to learn about their businesses and find out what challenges they face in running their businesses.
As we are heavily involved in online business solutions, I was looking forward to speaking with Paul not only from my passion for local and small businesses but also to see if we could learn new things that may help us in our marketing strategy and I wasn't disappointed.
In this interview I talked to Paul Jordan, the owner of an online training course called Learn Digital Marketing Expert. Paul tells me the course is designed to teach people complete digital marketing skills. It’s aimed at small business owners and people who are just starting out with an online business. It also teaches people how to outsource work.
Vivity Internet Marketing is Paul’s other business, which is an online marketing agency for business owners who want to outsource their online marketing. Vivity offer complete marketing services including website creation, sales funnel building, email marketing, video creation and production, graphic design, Facebook advertising, social media marketing, content creation, chatbot creation and much more. Paul’s company can also build online training courses.
I can recommend Paul’s businesses and if you want to get in touch, his contact details are here for you:
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As the owner of LDM Expert and Vivity Internet Marketing, I have been talking to small business owners to learn about their businesses and find out what challenges they face in developing and growing their sales together with online marketing.
In today’s interview, I talk to John Lambert who is the co-founder of Onvou, a leading provider in hospitality voucher systems.
OnVou is a premium online marketplace for exclusive deals and special offers on luxury lifestyle experiences. With premiere travel destinations across Thailand, a world of adventure and excitement are only a click away. Get started on your journey today. Our primary goal is to establish ourselves in 3 more countries this year beginning with The Philippines.
I can whole heartedly recommend Onvou and if you want to get in touch with John, I’ve provided his contact details here for you:
Email: john@onvou.co
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As the owner of LDM Expert and Vivity Internet Marketing, I have been talking to small business owners to learn about their businesses and find out what challenges they face in developing and growing their sales together with online marketing.
In today’s interview, I talk to Aggie, who owns CFO For Growth, a provider of consulting services aimed at helping businesses create the right financial strategies for the sound growth of their business.
From bookkeeper to FD: CFO for Growth will become your FD and accounting team and take care of your financial requirements, from bookkeeping, accounting, and management reporting to cash flow and business planning.
All this so that you can put more money in your bank account, increase your profitability and grow your business with much less stress.
I can whole heartedly recommend Aggie’s services and if you want to get in touch, I’ve provided her contact details here for you:
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What exactly is Mindset? The word has been used so much lately that is has started to lose its meaning. Paul covers mindset and how you can develop a strong and dependable mindset, so you can detach yourself from life's inevitable shortcomings, and power through them!
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In this episode, we cover the top skills you need to become a digital marketer in 2022. As the internet grows and evolves every single day, the skills you need in 2022 might not be the skills that were needed 10 years ago. We cover what you need RIGHT NOW, and how you can learn these skills.
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Have you ever wondered why some brands are so good at creating ads and content that reaches and really impacts their target audience? We have the secret: they use Customer Avatars (also known as Buyer Personas). This podcast covers how you can create these customer avatars, and how they can inform and change your content to better suit your target audience(s)!
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