It's All About the Questions: Recent Episodes
Laura Steward
My guests are leaders from varied businesses and perspectives from around the world. They generously share their business, health and life expertise and stories to help my listeners grow their business, improve their health, and shift their perspectives. Did you get that means free coaching just by listening?
Yes, this is a business podcast, but listeners say it is more like sitting in my living room listening to a chat with friends. Incredibly accomplished friends but friends! The show is not about perfection but rather how you can embrace all of you to have the business and life you want
If you've written a book, have a business, are a speaker, or just have something helpful to share on a larger scale than your friends and neighbors, then getting on TV, radio, podcasts and more can be your path to getting your message out on a larger scale.
But how do you do that effectively? If you are uncomfortable speaking in public, as many are, how do you craft and deliver your message so that you are ready when you get the email or phone call?
Enter Rachel Hanfling. Former Emmy nominated producer for Oprah and Anderson Cooper, to name drop a few. She is also my go to when I have questions or need some coaching around media and speaking to groups overall.
On this episode Rachel shares how you can craft your signature talk and pare it down to its essence for different types of media. She also answers my questions on three things to focus on when you are preparing your talk or pitch.
We talk about even more, but you'll have to listen or read the transcript to find out all the questions and answers from this episode! Rachel even has a freebie to help you in just 5 short minutes.
Emmy-nominated Rachel Hanfling is your guide to clear, confident, charismatic speech. A former producer for Oprah and Anderson Cooper, she’s coached clients to become go-to experts, land deals on Shark Tank, sell out on QVC, dominate worldwide speeches, generate explosive sales, nail workplace politics and more. She’s taught at Harvard, internationally, and across the U.S. Rachel is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is mom to twin boys and a dog in New York City. To learn more about Rachel, visit rachelhanfling.com/5Minutes .
Ever thought your company needed a board to advise and help you grow but had no clue what was involved? Annette Taber is the Founder of BoardSwap and she answers questions about how anyone can have an advisory board for short or long term and how to manage one. Plus we discuss her advice to anyone starting their own business.
Annette Taber brings over 30 years of experience in the Technology Industry. As Founder and CEO of BoardSWAP, she realized an important need in the Technology Industry to formalize Advisory Boards as a Service, and therefore became a Certified ChairTM through the Advisory Board Centre. BoardSWAP provides fully outsourced Advisory Board development, facilitation, governance, and executive consulting. Additionally, the BoardSWAP Advisors Concierge service helps clients identify the right advisors and subject matter experts to fulfill their needs. Helping to educate the industry on the many benefits of formalized Advisory Boards is a key passion of hers. www.BoardSwap.com
What happens when you get a master strategist, legal expert and advisor to some of the biggest names in the thought leader/entrepreneur world to come on your show again?
Well you get this episode where Peter Hoppenfeld answers my questions ranging from starting a business to growing a business to what word never to use in business to one of the best summaries on Intellectual property I have ever heard.
Don't believe me on all we covered? I was getting texts and people were chatting during the livestream with questions and comments. I had many more questions but we ran out of time.
Peter Hoppenfeld is widely recognized as the “go to” attorney and advisor in the representation of direct marketers, speakers, authors, information marketers, “thought leaders,” entrepreneurs and domestic and international training companies and their founders in all aspects of their legal and business affairs. Peter is a seasoned transactional, commercial attorney with direct marketing, internet marketing, distribution, licensing, marketing, branding and operational expertise. On a daily basis, Peter helps authors, speakers, entrepreneurs, business owners and thought leaders create effective marketing, merchandising and expansion strategies. His mission is to rapidly, smartly and strategically grow people’s businesses, reach and revenues. Peter’s been described as “a lawyer who understands marketing and a marketer who happens to be a lawyer”. www.peterhoppenfeld.com
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Entrepreneurial journeys rarely go in a straight line. They have detours, divergences and often life outside the work journey impacts thinking, action and final goals. When one journey ends, another might start along the same path or go in a completely different direction.
My guest on this episode is Vered Neta. A multi-hyphenate entrepreneur who has done several successful exits from companies she has created, Vered is now on a new journey that she chose because she wanted a new challenge. When that new path threw up a lot of road blocks, she pivoted and created another successful divergence.
Take a listen as Vered and I discuss her journey, her favorite questions to ask when she gets stuck and how she hopes to help others who caregive for loved ones with Alzheimers with her latest book, Things We Do for Love, available wherever books are sold.
Vered Neta has lived in three different countries for the last six decades, so tracing her origins is a thrilling quest. Nowadays, she lives in Tenerife on an off-the-grid finca, creating a self-sustained life for her and her partner while writing her novels and scripts.
Her stories are character-driven dramas, giving voice to the untold stories of women and their triumphs in today's society. Her mission? To illuminate the world with kindness and positivity, one story at a time.
Vered's words have touched countless lives through her multiple books on motivation and relationships. Her book "Financial Independence for Women" sold over 50,000 copies.
In 2010, Vered was awarded the TIAW World of Difference Award, an award given to women whose efforts have advanced women's economic empowerment locally, regionally or worldwide.
I've followed Dan Rockwell for ages. His Blog, Leadership Freak, combines wisdom and insights with lightness, deep thinking and insidious questions that worm their way into your brain and body until you have a breakthrough of thought and action. Now he and his co-author John David Mann have released a parable novel called, The Vagrant. Expect that book to worm its way inside you too and create breakthroughs of thought and self-reflection.
On today's episode Dan and I sit down and discuss his thoughts on leadership, the birth of his book, self-reflection and how doing that alone can lead to some not great outcomes. We also discuss many other topics over the course of the interview. It was hard to stop.
Let me know what actions you are taking after you listen and don't forget to take advantage of the opportunity to win a free copy of The Vagrant!
DAN ROCKWELL (leadershipfreak.blog) gave his first presentation at the age of sixteen and has been delivering presentations and workshops ever since. Dan’s fascination with leadership led him to launch his Leadership Freak blog in January 2010. Today Leadership Freak is read in virtually every country on the globe, with nearly 500,000 subscribers to its various social media channels. Dan has been named among the “Top Fifty Leadership and Management Experts” and “Top 100 Great Leadership Speakers” by Inc magazine and “Top 30 Leader in Business of 2014” by the American Management Association. His blog has been hailed as “most socially shared leadership blog on the Internet” by Center for Management and Organization Effectiveness.
A bit of an different episode for the show. Just me talking about how a recent photo shoot for a new headshot had me spiraling and the questions I started asking myself.
Research shows that people are searching for happiness. They want to find ways to be happier, live life more fully and be present to their lives and figure out what makes them happy.
My guest, Marian Edvardsen, has been on that search herself and has written a book, or perhaps it can be considered a primer and reference guide, to helping you find and live your own happiness. Step In To Happy: Simple Steps from A to Z for Loving Your Life opened my eyes up to a few areas that can help me find more happiness in my life and let go some thoughts that aren’t helping that search.
On this episode of It’s All About the Questions, Marian’s shares some questions she has asked herself and how the new questions put her on a path to help others through EFT and more. Based on a question from a Listener on LinkedIn Live, I got Marian to lead my listeners through a tapping session on releasing doubt.
Take a listen and share your happiness journey and let me know if you share any of the four steps I struggle with that I shared on the episode.
#ItsAllAboutTheQuestions #Happiness #StepInToHappy
Marian Edvardsen is an Empowerment and Mindset Coach, a Leader and Wellness Advocate with dōTERRA International, a Certified Passion Test Facilitator for Adults, Kids & Teens and EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) Practitioner.
She specializes in helping people who are committed to living happy, healthy and fulfilled, but sometimes struggle with overwhelm, stress or limiting beliefs that keep them stuck and hold them back from living the passionate, fulfilling lives they want and desire.
Her work with dōTERRA essential oils and EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) since 2012 have been two of the most effective and simple tools in helping people find natural solutions to feel better fast on a physical, emotional and spiritual level.
She is the author of the Amazon bestselling book, Step In To Happy: Simple Steps from A to Z for Loving Your Life find out more at StepInToHappy.com
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What can one say about John David Mann? He has mastered, well he wouldn't say that, but I would, writing non-fiction, parable and fiction writing. He has also shown us how a marriage can be lived fully and be written about, how to start your own school, and how to run a business with over 100,000 people. And those are just a few of his achievements to date.
My favorite is that he has launched almost every book he has written or co-authored on my show since 2015. Yup, that one is special to me because his words lift my spirits, awaken my brain and bring me joy. Well not just to me but to over 3 million people in 38 languages.
Blind Fear is John's latest novel with Brandon Webb and it does not disappoint. Today we talked about what his latest novel means, how he manages to take a more 'Hitchcockian" approach to writing than many others (my choice of words as you will hear), and how crime writing taught him to fall in love with the world.
These aren't the usual questions John gets asked, and his answers may surprise you.
Take a listen as we dive deep with John David Mann on life, fiction, writing mastery mentoring and a few other things.
John David Mann has been creating careers since he was a teenager.
Before turning to business and journalism, he forged a successful career as a concert cellist and prize-winning composer. At fifteen he won the prestigious BMI Awards to Student Composers and received the award at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, where he met such twentieth-century-music luminaries as William Schumann and Leopold Stokowski. He apprenticed as a choral conductor under his father, Dr. Alfred Mann, which gave him the chance to meet more legendary figures of classical music, including Randall Thompson, Leonard Bernstein, Boris Goldovsky, Robert Shaw, and George Crumb. His musical compositions were performed throughout the U.S. and his musical score for Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound (written at age thirteen) was performed as part of a theatrical production of the play at the stone amphitheater in Epidaurus, Greece—the very one, in fact, where the play was originally premiered a few thousand years earlier.
At age seventeen, he and a few friends started their own high school in New Jersey (called Changes, Inc.). “Alternative” though they were, his school successfully placed its students in such universities as Harvard and Yale. After graduating, he joined the school’s faculty. In the years since he has taught children in affluent Boston suburbs, Indiana farms, and the poorest neighborhoods on the outskirts of Philadelphia.
John never planned to go into business; it just seemed to keep working out that way. He has founded one school, one food distribution business, one graphic design business, and two publishing companies.
John’s diverse career has made him a thought leader in several different industries. In 1986 he founded and wrote for Solstice, a journal on health, nutrition, and environmental issues. His series on the climate crisis, “Whither the Trees?” (yes, he was writing about this back in the eighties), was selected for national reprint in 1989 in Utne Reader for a readership of over one hundred thousand. In 1992 John helped write and produce the underground bestseller The Greatest Networker in the World, by John Milton Fogg, which became the defining book in its industry. During the 1990s, John built a multimillion-dollar sales/distribution organization of over a hundred thousand people. He was cofounder and senior editor of the legendary Upline journal and editor in chief of Networking Times.
As a public speaker he has addressed audiences of thousands.
John is an award-winning author whose writings have earned the Axiom Business Book Award (Gold Medal, for The Go-Giver), the Nautilus Award (for A Deadly Misunderstanding), and Taiwan’s Golden Book Award for Innovation (for You Call the Shots). The Go-Giver was also honored with the Living Now Book Awards “Evergreen Medal” in 2017 for its “contributions to positive global change,” and cited on Inc.’s “Most Motivational Books Ever Written” and HubSpot’s “20 Most Highly Rated Sales Books of All Time”; The Go-Giver Leader was listed on Entrepreneur magazine’s “10 Books Every Leader Should Read” and Forbes magazine’s “8 Books Every Young Leaders Should Read.” His 2012 Take the Lead (with Betsy Myers) was named Best Leadership Book of 2011 by Tom Peters and the Washington Post. His first novel, Steel Fear (2021, with former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb), was hailed by Lee Child as “an instant classic, maybe an instant legend” and nominated for a Barry Award. Jeffery Deaver called the sequel, Cold Fear (2022), “one of the best crime novels of the year.” You can read his thoughts on entering the world of crime fiction at JohnDavidMann.com
His books are published in 38 languages and have sold more than 3 million copies. John coauthored the international bestselling classic The Go-Giver (with Bob Burg), the New York Times bestsellers The Latte Factor (with David Bach), The Red Circle (with Brandon Webb), and Flash Foresight (with Daniel Burrus), and The Answer (ghost-written for John Assaraf and Murray Smith) and the national bestsellers The Slight Edge (with Jeff Olson), Among Heroes (with Brandon Webb), Out of the Maze (with Spencer Johnson) and Real Leadership (with John Addison). He has written for American Executive, CNBC, CrimeReads, Financial Times, Forbes.com, Huffington Post, Ivey Business Journal, Leader to Leader, Leadership Excellence, Master Salesmanship, Strategy & Leadership, and Wired. You can find his writings on Huffington Post here.
He is married to Ana Gabriel Mann (check out their wedding photos and vows), his coauthor on The Go-Giver Marriage, and considers himself the luckiest mann in the world.
What does it take to write multiple books with the same characters? Is it different than writing just one?
Take a listen as I interview Edgar Award nominated author, former journalist and all-around good human Thomas Kies about his latest Geneva Chase novel. He will share what his agent, publisher and editor each said when he was thinking about starting a different series and his own thoughts on it. Then we talk about life as a writer while still working full-time, branching out into other forms of writing like becoming a playwright and so much more.
In January of 2022, Thomas Kies, author of the critically acclaimed Geneva Chase Mystery Series, was Edgar nominated by the Mystery Writers of America for the Sue Grafton Memorial Award. He has a long history of working for newspapers and magazines, primarily in New England and New York and currently lives and writes on a barrier island on the coast of North Carolina. His newest novel, WHISPER ROOM is being released on Tuesday, August 2nd. Motherly.com named WHISPER ROOM one of the Buzziest Books of 2022 and Library Journal said, “Kies’s sequel to the Sue Grafton Award nominee Shadow Hill is a compelling story for readers who want to follow investigative reporters into the crime scenes.”
He's baaack! John David Mann, one of my all-time favorite guests, is back to talk about how he gets inspiration, the differences between writing non-fiction and fiction, what he credits for his ability to write what I call "books that suck you in and make you forget to go to the bathroom" and so much more.
If you've never listened to John talk about writing, life, passion and having a writing partner then dive in on this episode. And forgive me for fan-geeking a bit. I love his writing and get joy out of even holding one of his books in my hand. Why you ask? Becuase once you start reading them they do not dissapoint.
John David Mann is coauthor of more than thirty books, including four New York Times bestsellers and five national bestsellers; his classic 2008 parable The Go-Giver (coauthored with Bob Burg) earned the 2017 Living Now Book Award’s “Evergreen Medal” given for its “contribution to positive global change.”
Marlene Chism is recognized as one of the top experts on reducing or eliminating workplace drama and helping leaders become better leaders. She has been on the show before discussing her previous books and on this episode, we discussed her latest book, From Conflict to Courage: How to Stop Avoiding and Start Leading.
Conflict, and avoiding conflict, happen everyday either at work, at home or somewhere on the way to one of those. I’ve observed conflicts on roads, in restaurants, at concerts, on lines and personally have avoided a few at work or at home until it felt like I was going to explode.
On this episode, Marlene discusses how avoiding conflict can make you angry with yourself, how your goal when dealing with conflict is not about winning but breaking through to a solution and she also shares the words you can use to defuse a conflict and get to the other side.
Be prepared to take notes as this episode is filled with tips, strategies and tactics to help you stop avoiding conflict and move into leadership.
Marlene Chism works with top leaders to build drama-free cultures that drive growth and reduce costly mistakes. Her expertise includes leadership development, conflict management, and strategic communication.
Marlene is a recognized expert on the LinkedIn global learning platform, producing educational videos on Anger Management, Working with High Conflict People as a Manager, and Having Difficult Conversations.
Her soon to be published book is From Conflict to Courage: How to Stop Avoiding and Start Leading.
To learn more about Marlene and download a discussion guide for From Conflict to Courage, visit www.marlenechism.com
Return guest Alan Shaprio continues our discussion on creativity, getting rid of numbness, finding and expressing your story and how routine helps him unleash his creative spark. In Alan’s own words:
Passionate, award-winning photographer. Advertising Chief Creative Officer, too
I grew up on the creative side of the advertising world, working with clients around the world; telling their unique stories in very unique ways.
Along the way, I've had the pleasure of working with many, many talented photographers, directors and content creators. I became envious of their art and craft. At first, I saw it as a means of reducing my stress-filled life. As a Chief Creative Officer at the world's largest Advertising Agency Network, I needed a distraction. A friend gave me a camera. Then I bought another. And then another. My new hobby and daily "creative exercise regimen" quickly turned into a joy-filled and all consuming passion. Then my first photo client called. Then another. And then, many more. Lockheed Martin, GM, Cadillac, Apple, Ritz Carlton, Bose, Scholastic,...
I love talking to all sorts of people and seem to have a knack for getting them to open up and share themselves despite the intrusion and intimidation that a serious-looking camera often represents.
I like finding and sharing things I find.
Beautiful things. Powerful things. Poignant things.
I also enjoy taking something ordinary and making it something well beyond that.
Illustration and painting are other passions and I love creating unique "painted" photographs and photocompositions inspired by the Renaissance Masters.
My work hangs in corporate and private collections. It graces retail environments, editorial spreads, TV show sets and has been featured on products from housewares to clothing to puzzles.
Happiness. https://www.alanshapirophotography.com/
Going to the doctor nowadays doesn't always mean leaving there with a good diagnosis or a feeling of being heard. Many doctors are overworked and have become highly specialized preventing them from looking at their patient as a whole rather than a particular set of symptoms. Insurance reimbursement can also impact the doctor/patient relationship.
What can you do to change that and feel well again?
Enter Dr. Dan Witkowski. Board certified OB/GYN and Lifestyle medicine as well as being a certified nutritionist. Dr. Dan recently changed his practice to one where he takes fewer patients while giving them more time and a full patient level of care. I am not talking about overpriced concierge models but something different.
Take a listen as Dr. Dan and I talk about what he has learned from his patients, what steps and tactics can start you on a road to feeling better and why your lifestyle should matter to your doctor. It might not be what you think. And no, this is not a conversation about just going plant-based for your eating either. I don't know about you but that is not a one size fits all model either.
Dr. Dan Witkowski’s father was on 17 medications when he died. He’d already had a quintuple heart bypass and a below the knee leg amputation due to diabetic complications. Dr Witkowski realized that none of his Dad’s doctors had asked about his lifestyle, what he was eating, or how he spent his time. Dr Witkowski’s patients were being put on similar lists of medications for high cholesterol, high blood pressure, high blood sugars, and he decided he needed to do what he’d originally gone to medical school for. Help people. This formed the basis of the holistic and
comprehensive care he offers his patients today.
Dr. Dan is:
● Board Certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology
● Board Certified in Lifestyle Medicine
● Certified in Plant-Based Nutrition
He brings his unique combination of skills together at Direct Women’s Health in Wakefield, MA where he sees patients through the Direct Primary Care model. Many of Dr. Dan’s patients have reversed their chronic health conditions and come off their medication under his care. Dr. Dan has been delivering babies, specializing in Women's Health, and changing lives since 1993.
Together with his wife, Pam, they run the free Plant Based Lifestyle Ambassadors community on Facebook, inspiring people to live tastier, healthier, more fulfilled lives.
Clinton Gatewood is my guest on this epsiode and it is an overdue interview. Clint has lived his life helping others grow their businesses as well as having founded and sold his own company. He has dedicated his life to serving others and helping them see how they can achieve their business goals.
I know Clint from my tech days onward and every role he has ever held in any company he has worked for, or with, has seen the benefit of having him around.
On this epsiode Clint shares what he learned growing a business from the ground up for himself and others, how he learned to "own the part of the business you are in as if it is your own" and what can happen if you question yourself too much.
Clint shares a lot more from his many decades working for someone, working for himself and helping clients grow. Take a listen and then share on your social tagging #ItsAllAboutTheQuestions or @TheLauraSteward what your takeaway is.
Clinton Gatewood started his channel career with Zenith Infotech building a team which successfully grew the Zenith partner base from zero to over 12,000 MSPs in six years. He co-founded a channel focused backup and disaster recovery software company which was purchased in 2014. Clinton is now helping other channel professionals apply data driven solutions to optimize the time from partner discovery t0 first sale to predictable/sustainable channel revenue stream.
Clinton is a veteran having served as an Army Ranger and with the 82 Airborne. He has been married for 35 years with 2 children and is very happy they look like their mother.
John David Mann and Ana Gabriel Mann joined me to discuss their seminal work, The Go-Giver Marriage A Little Story About The 5 Secrets to Lasting Love. This is not your average book about relationships and marriage. Nor is this interview.
Take a listen as I ask John and Ana about the foundation for the book, how their lives intertwined to create the book and how each of us can begin to improve relationships that matter to us.
JOHN DAVID MANN is coauthor of more than thirty books, including four New York Times bestsellers and five national bestsellers, including The Go-Giver (coauthored with Bob Burg), which has sold over 1 million copies and won the 2017 Living Now Book Awards Evergreen Medal for its “contributions to positive global change.” He is married to Ana Gabriel Mann and considers himself the luckiest mann in the world.
ANA GABRIEL MANN, M.A., holds a Master’s degree in clinical psychology and dance-movement therapy from Antioch New England, where she specialized in working with adults and family therapy. In addition to her work in family therapy and 5 Secrets marriage coaching, she has served as clinical director for a support program for families caring for loved ones with Alzheimer’s disease, co-founded New England’s first college of Chinese medicine, and worked as a corporate consultant, speaker, trainer, and business coach. She is the creator and lead facilitator of the Go-Giver Marriage Coaches training program.
John and Ana have been dreaming about cowriting The Go-Giver Marriage and bringing its message to the world ever since the first draft of John and Bob’s original book came sliding out of his desktop printer in early 2005.
How does a woman nowhere close to retirement age create a company that is all about helping people ready to retire? Well Hannah Thomson will tell you all you have to do is know her granny. Inspiration is all around us. How we act on that separates the successful from the less successful. Hannah Thomson has learned to act on what she learns from the world around her and founded the highly successful retirement-focused company The Joy Club.
Not your usual kind of startup, this one focuses on virtual AND live events to inspire retirees, or those who want a bit more fun in their lives, to grab life with two hands and try something new. With over 5000 members in the UK alone, Hannah is on a mission to empower grandparents, and parents, to live the lives they perhaps put aside as they raised their families or grew their careers.
Take a listen as Hannah shares how her grandmother influenced the creation of The Joy club, what it took, and takes, to make it flourish and her vision for the future.
Hannah Thomson founded The Joy Club in 2019, inspired by her granny’s experience of ageing to focus on inspiring a joyful retirement for all. She previously held key roles in several award-winning startups, including femtech company Elvie where she was Head of Health and Strategic Partnerships.
Hannah has degrees in human rights and business practices in life sciences – and is a graduate of the Oxford University Fintech Programme. Her multidisciplinary background reflects her curiosity about the world and her passion to use technology to change it for the better.
When she’s not building The Joy Club, you’ll find Hannah trail running, sailing the high seas or training her Labrador puppy to be the perfect adventure buddy! www.thejoyclub.com
Do you know if you are focused on your brand essence or your brand ego? Do you know the difference between the two? How about story? Do you know how to use it for the right part of your brand?
Tucker Stine and I pick up our conversation in part 2 of our discussion about your bsuiness and personal brands and how they best interact and how they should not.
Tucker is a results-driven connector, personal and organizational brand architect, leadership coach and public speaker with over 25 years of success in building personal and professional brands, developing experiential marketing strategies, constructing strategic communications programs, advising emerging nonprofits and coaching keynote speakers, conscious-driven businesses and thought leaders through impactful storytelling.
Tucker has worked with Fortune 100 companies, tech giants and global changemakers such as Microsoft, F5, Accenture, Azure, AWS and more, helping them reinvent leadership opportunities and strategic marketing initiatives to revolutionize their industry. With one simple goal, to bring humanity back into the technology world.
He thrives as a valuable core team leader, industry mentor and catalyst for generational movements that ignite societal change through the power of voice. He has helped 250+ speakers and thought leaders take the stage, launch their businesses and share their global ideas for change, including the highly sought-after TED platform. His clients have been featured on TED, Goalcast, Upworthy, The Today Show, the Sundance Film Festival and hundreds of podcasts, resulting in over 100 million views combined. With one goal in mind… to share a courageous, vulnerable voice and a powerful seat at the global table of conversation, every opportunity they can.
Tucker believes in the power of human connection, radical authenticity, and social impact through speaking, storytelling and thought leadership initiatives. He inspires his clients to follow that same path through their own words. One story at a time.
One of my most requested guests has come back on the show to talk how we can keep hope, have healing and know we have strength when it seems like none of that is possible. Dr. Laurie Nadel talks about terminal lethargy, what tasks we need to schedule and if the body and mind really learn to accept a new normal.
Dr. Laurie Nadel is a psychologist who helps people recover from disasters, including the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. She continues to work with first responders who remain deeply affected by the event some 20 years later; she also directed a program for teenagers whose fathers were killed that day.
A former journalist, she spent 20 years in TV newsrooms in London and New York with an assignment for Newsweek in Chile during a state of siege. This led to her founding the Committee to Protect Journalists, a human rights organization. Since launching her psychology practice 30 years ago, Dr. Laurie has helped individuals and organizations heal from trauma, including the Parkland school shooting teachers and survivors of Hurricane Sandy where she lost her own home.
She currently leads free online support groups for firefighters and for individuals who are longhaul COVID survivors. She is the author of "The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes."
Do you check in with your customer? Ever? Too often what happens is focus shifts to getting new customers at the expense of the old. Think how annoyed we all get when Cable and Cellular companies offer bonuses or special pricing to new customers and existing just keep paying higher and higher prices. In a services industry you are probably missing out on increased revenue with increased customer satisfaction by doing regular business reviews with your clients. What do you do during those review and how often should you do them are just a few of the questions my guest Kris Blackmon, Chief Channel officer of JS Group and I discuss on this epsiode.
Kris Blackmon is the chief channel officer of industry consultancy JS Group. A veteran of the indirect sales channel, Kris has extensive experience in event programming, editorial and content creation, research and analysis, and community building. At JS Group, she consults on go-to-market strategies for organizations in the indirect channel and leads the content strategy team. Kris is a member of CompTIA’s Channel Development Advisory Council, producing thought leadership for vendors and partners. She sits on the board of Xposure Inclusion and Diversity Council and is a fervent advocate of DEI and allyship in the channel.
Listeners wanted her back for more of her wisdom and I agreed. On this part 2 of a conversation with Amy Biddle she shares three strategies she has used to create advances in her business and life year after year. We also talk about her upcoming book, Acquire, Convert, Repeat.
And during this epsiode Amy shares how her goal and purpose changed and how that changed everything for her.
Amy Biddle has been obsessed with digital and traditional marketing since 1999. "I was an English major," she confessed. "But when I discovered marketing, I finally had a reason to pay attention to numbers, too. Now I'm really a geek. I do words fused with data that strategically advance the bottom line."
Having started her journey in content marketing and search engine optimization (SEO), Amy has been consultant to over 10,000 business owners, advising small business owners how to create content that is both human friendly and search engine friendly.
She designed and led an ecommerce business program that facilitated over $20 million in revenue with participants.
She's managed paid marketing with budgets of $50 per day to $20,000 per day, managing ad strategy for companies selling everything from cat toys to SaaS.
Amy publishes a monthly newsletter for ecommerce business owners with customer lists of over 5000 names. Learn more at https://amybiddle.me/ .
The biggest downfall to any brand is not what you think. It's not a failure in service or product delivery. It's not even a scandal.
Tucker Stine has been helping brands of all sizes avoid and recover from what is the biggest downfall for many years and he shares the answer on this epsiode.
We also talk about branding to different gernations, brand accelerators and how to use them and how changing the face of a brand, think Alex Trebek, doesn't have to signify the downfall of the company. There is a lot to unpack in this epsiode so have a notepad handy and share your take away.
Tucker is a results-driven connector, personal and organizational brand architect, leadership coach and public speaker with over 25 years of success in building personal and professional brands, developing experiential marketing strategies, constructing strategic communications programs, advising emerging nonprofits and coaching keynote speakers, conscious-driven businesses and thought leaders through impactful storytelling.
Tucker has worked with Fortune 100 companies, tech giants and global changemakers such as Microsoft, F5, Accenture, Azure, AWS and more, helping them reinvent leadership opportunities and strategic marketing initiatives to revolutionize their industry. With one simple goal, to bring humanity back into the technology world.
He thrives as a valuable core team leader, industry mentor and catalyst for generational movements that ignite societal change through the power of voice. He has helped 250+ speakers and thought leaders take the stage, launch their businesses and share their global ideas for change, including the highly sought-after TED platform. His clients have been featured on TED, Goalcast, Upworthy, The Today Show, the Sundance Film Festival and hundreds of podcasts, resulting in over 100 million views combined. With one goal in mind… to share a courageous, vulnerable voice and a powerful seat at the global table of conversation, every opportunity they can.
Tucker believes in the power of human connection, radical authenticity, and social impact through speaking, storytelling and thought leadership initiatives. He inspires his clients to follow that same path through their own words. One story at a time.
As if the title wasn't enough to suck you in there is more from this much requested repeat guest. Her latest book's title is You Don't Suck - Your Copy Does - 60 Kick-Butt Lessons on Copywriting, Business and Life and it definitely delivers.
Be preprared for a high-energy listen as Carline talks about what makes an A-List copywriter, how to appreciate who you are and what you have, how to deal with bad things happening and not let them derail you and even a little bit about bras and the wisdom of finding the perfect one only to have it discontinued!
CARLINE ANGLADE-COLE still wakes up every morning shocked – and happy – she’s found a job that pays her so well for doing something she loves!
After 12 years in the direct mail industry working at Phillips Publishing Inc. (now Healthy Directions), Carline ventured out on her own and launched Cole Marketing Solutions, Inc.
When she began her copywriting freelance career in 1999 – her goal was simple: Make a decent income and have the flexibility and time to raise her 4 kids with her firefighter husband, Mickey.
Along the way, she managed to create multi-year controls for leading clients in the health industry including: Health Resources … True Health … Healthy Directions … Boardroom … Biscayne Labs … Schweiz Health … Vitamin Research Group … and NeoGenis – just to name a few …
… consulted and helped international clients break into the American health market …
… oh – and got a shot at launching Oprah’s “O Magazine” in the direct mail arena!
Not too shabby for a mom – and now grandmother of 3 boys – who works in her basement wearing a t-shirt, shorts and bedroom slippers!
Recently, instead of throwing a traditional 30th anniversary party with her husband – Carline decided they should celebrate – not the day – but the entire year!
That year of travel included spending weeks in Japan, Guatemala, New Zealand, South Africa, Haiti and Jamaica – along with some fun times in New Orleans!
Thanks to the amazing writer’s life – during that year of travel – Carline still managed to write copy for clients and have one of her most successful fiscal years ever!
Carline specializes in creating home-run copy to launch new products, revive struggling product lines, and help clients to maximize their revenues.
Having sold a business I can tell you that it is not just all about business issues like M&A, finances, contracts, staff, clients, branding and a few other things. What many never talk about is the emotional impact leading up to a sale, during negotiations and after the sale that can derail a deal before it gets to close.
My guest is a serial entreprenuer who has written and spoken about the emotional side of selling a business and it is spot-on from my experience. The book also includes case studies of other sale experinces.
Take a listen as we discuss the emotional impact on staff and owners, perils and pitfulls to consider when making a sale and questions to ask yourself before you start your company and after you think the thought you are ready to exit.
Jamison West has been a serial entrepreneur for 25 years. He built Arterian (formerly JWCS), an MSP that he grew from a one-man shop to forty staff through both organic growth and the acquisition of 4 other IT Services companies.
He went on to Co-Found 3 SaaS companies including Teamatics, SmileBack, and TimeZest and currently serves as a fractional CEO for SmileBack and Chairman of TimeZest. He enjoys his role as a Strategic Coach and Consultant for several clients in the US.
His background includes:
- Founding and operating companies in the SaaS and IT Services space;
- Participating in and moderating professional peer groups;
- Coaching and Consulting for organizations in the SaaS and IT Services verticals
- Speaking on a range of topics from Cloud to M&A to People.
Jamison currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada and travels constantly.
Everyone talks about goals when they are starting out but do all goals matter equally? Are some dreams versus goals? Do all goals need to be done right now or do some need to wait because you need to look at them some more?
My guest, Michael Nelson, is a serial entreprenuer who knows a few things about success, failure and goals that matter and don't.
Take a listen as we talk about the book he finally wrote after clients and friends urged him to, why willpower is not the answer to achiveing goals, how to figure out what goals need an asterisk next to them and how to determine what matters for you.
Michael Nelson is the author of Goals That Matter – The Deceptively Simple System to Achieve Every Dream. Michael is an entrepreneur and a real estate investor. Having created a system to achieve his goals, Michael started sharing it with clients and friends who found a great deal of success with their goals. Having led hundreds of people through his goal setting system, he decided to write a book to share it even further. Michael’s book is a must-read for every person who desires to take their life to the next level.
At 29, Michael started his first company. The dotcom bubble set him back, but he learned from the experience and started another. TLC Tech (a technical support company) providing Managed IT Services, is thriving for one reason. He developed his goals.
But writing them down was not enough. It was when he realized how to use them to really matter and move the needle, that things began to change. Now, having built TLC Tech into a 7-figure success, he wanted to continue to grow. The key to it all sounded a bit cliche, but once he truly mastered both professional and personal goals, is when he found happiness and balance. It was a turning for Michael and his company.
His book, Goals that Matter, added another element to his life. It was his passion project. Helping others through coaching and public speaking has allowed him to pass along the tools he used. Seeing success in others has been extraordinary.
With 27 years’ experience and a positive outlook, he is a role model for every driven individual looking to take the next step in their life. And achieving every dream.
What if you could turn upside down how you think about adding new partners and clients? What if you decided to create a business to help others do that? And what if that wasn't how you originally thought of your company?
Take a listen as I interview Dina Moskowitz, Founder and CEO of SaaSMAX ParterOptimizer as she shares her entrepreneurial journey and the pivots she learned to make along the way to success.
Dina Moskowitz is recognized as one of the IT Channel’s top influencers and innovators. She is Founder and CEO of PartnerOptimizer by SaaSMAX, an AI-powered partner marketing platform that analyzes millions of historical data points to help you create your ideal profile. Dina and was recently ranked #20 out of more than 2800 Channel Executives and in 2017 awarded the Cloud Girls Rising Trailblazer Award. She has been featured in the VAR Guy’s Top 50 Channel Influencers and recognized by CRN as a Women of the Channel Power 50 Solution Provider, by UBM Tech Channel CRN as one of the Top Women in the Channel (2016, 2015, 2014). Dina served on the CompTIA Vendor Advisory Council and now serves on their Business Applications Council.
Dina has led or provided consultation to cloud-based, SaaS and other technology companies throughout her career. Prior to PartnerOptimizer by SaaSMAX, she was CEO and founder of Critical Digital Data Solutions Inc., which developed cloud-based data storage solutions. Dina regular presents at Channel conferences. She is a member of Cloud Girls, Board Member of the Cloud Software Association, Judge and mentor for San Diego Women’s Hackathon and other San Diego start-up organizations, and a strong advocate of women in SaaS
and IT.
Worry, anxiety, fear, frustration, lethargy, exhaustion and stress. I could check off the boxes on one or more of these almost every day. How about you?
My guest is Dr. Katie Nall. She has a Ph.D in Mathematics Educations, is a multiple TEDx speaker and a Top level EFT practitioner. She didn't get her Ph.D until later in life but got it because she saw how stressed students were around math and matt classes. She made it her mission to help them and a new career was born.
Dr. Nall has actually had several careers and her latest started after she retired from her full-time position.
On this episode Dr. Nall shares, and makes me a willing guinea pig, how to reduce the WAFFLES in your life and most of all their impact on your mind, body and soul. She also shares her philosophy on life, business and why she just keeps getting better every year.
Not only does our next guest have her Ph.D. in Mathematics Education, she also is a TEDx speaker, a professional member of National Speakers Association, and an Accredited Master Trainer and Certified Practitioner in Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) with additional training in trauma and quantum EFT. Whether in person or online, Dr. Nall shows others how to dissolve their WAFFLES – worry, anxiety, fear, frustration, lethargy, exhaustion, and stress. A careless housekeeper and worse cook with no desire for rehabilitation she somehow is still married to the same person for over 48 years. https://linktr.ee/KatieNallPhD Website: NallEdgeCo.com
Joe Serio doesn't look like he was deeply involved with organized crime yet he was. But from the good end of it. The side of protecting against and understanding the deep tentacles between the Russian government and their mafia and how that relationship impacts everything about the Russian culture mindset and outreach into the rest of the world.
On this episode Joe discusses his latest book, Vodka, Hookers and the Russian Mafia: My Life in Moscow with raw honesty and a dizzying perspective shifting hour that left me rethinking everything I thought I knew about Russia and parts of my own country I now see with a different set of eyes.
This is not a political discussion, although it could be, this episode is about the questions we don't ask, the questions we should ask and how one man went on a journey of discovery he never planned to take when he entered college back in the 1980s.
Joe Serio, Ph.D., was the only American to work in the Organized Crime Control Department of the Soviet national police. Later, he was director of the Moscow office of the world’s leading corporate investigation and business intelligence firm. He is currently a leadership and wellness trainer for 9-1-1 dispatchers, law enforcement, fire departments, and other public safety agencies. www.gltraining.com; www.360dispatcher.com
Autographed, personalized copies of Vodka, Hookers, and the Russian Mafia: My Life in Moscow can be purchased at www.vodkahookers.com. Just in time for the holidays!
Do you find yourself getting angry more frequently? Crying more or sometimes feel like you have a rogue persona inside of you that takes control and sends you into worry tail spins or eating binges?
My guest on this episode is Rene Brent, RN and Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist/Instructor. Today Rene shares a quick, and I mean quick, exercise you can do to calm your mind and your nervous system plus she shares her favorite phrase for shifting that rogue persona from control to the backseat.
Rene and I discuss how to give yourself permission to change your behavior that no longer serves you and a few questions you can ask yourself to gain awareness of patterns that build worry and increase your use of the but.
Rene Brent has been a RN for 30 years and has worked in ICU, Trauma/ER and the Recovery Room. In her experience, she was inspired by the powerful mind/body connection and how self-awareness and reframing negative thoughts helps us heal emotionally and physically.
It was a natural transition for Rene Brent to go from being a healer of the body to a healer of the mind. She is passionate about helping her clients use the power of the mind and move forward in their lives and reach personal and professional goals.
Rene attended The Institute of Interpersonal Hypnotherapy (IIH in Tampa, Fl.) IIH is the only state licensed school of Hypnotherapy in Florida. Rene has trained over 1000 hours.
Rene Brent’s solo practice is located in Maitland, Florida. She is certified as a Clinical and Transpersonal Hypnotherapist. She is highly trained and uses a variety of modalities including Hypnotherapy, NLP, EMT and EFT. She finds these protocols help her clients change negative habits and behaviors. When her clients release false beliefs and let go of past hurts and events, then true healing can occur.
Rene Brent is an International speaker and a #1International Best Selling Author of “How Big Is Your BUT?”. On March 16th, 2021 Rene released her latest book “Breaking the Worry Agreement” and has already reached International Best Seller status on Amazon.
Rene Brent is a registered member of The American Council of Hypnotherapist (ACHE) and the International Association of Interpersonal Hypnotherapist (IAIH)
How do you build and maintain, "recency, frequency and money" while building raving fans? Having a steady repeat stream of customers makes the difference between a profitable bottom line and one laden in red.
Amy Biddle is one of the top e-commerce digital strategists and on this episode she talks about and shares tips on the the different kinds of Facebook ads, the difference in marketing on social platforms, what a funnel means in the real world and one the trap of targeting to everyone is targeting to no one.
Amy Biddle has been obsessed with digital and traditional marketing since 1999.
"I was an English major," she confessed. "But when I discovered marketing I finally had a reason to pay attention to numbers, too. Now I'm really a geek. I do words fused with data that strategically advance the bottom line."
Having started her journey in content marketing and search engine optimization (SEO), Amy has been consultant to over 10,000 business owners, advising small business owners how to create content that is both human friendly and search engine friendly.
She designed and led an ecommerce business program that facilitated over $20 million in revenue with participants.
She's managed paid marketing with budgets of $50 per day to $20,000 per day, managing ad strategy for companies selling everything from cat toys to SaaS.
Amy publishes a monthly newsletter for ecommerce business owners with customer lists of over 5000 names. Learn more at https://amybiddle.me/ .
Founder of the Mentoress Collective and world renowned Copy Chief Marcella Allison has the data and experiential proof to show that women who are a part of women only mentoring and peer groups reach higher levels in business and in life.
Join us as we discuss, and Marcella shares specifics on how women can close the success gap and raise each other up. Guys you can listen in as well :--).
Marcella Allison is the CEO of Copy Harvest LLC and the founder of the Mentoress Collective (formerly Titanides Mentoring Collective), an organization dedicated to promoting female freelancers, entrepreneurs, and copywriters. Learn more at sexistsecret.com.
As a copywriter, she works with some of the top direct-response companies in the industry. She has written for The Motley Fool, BottomLine, Inc., Advanced Bionutritionals, Money Map Press, Metabolic Living, The Bo Eason Group, and more. Her copy has generated over $100 million in sales for financial trading services, alternative health supplements, and information products.
As a mentor and copy chief, she designed and led Money Map Press’s proprietary training program for in-house and freelance copywriters. Today she mentors over 1,200 women in the Mentoress Collective.
In 2018, Marcella was awarded Copywriter of the Year by American Writers and Artists Inc. for her outstanding performance record and impact on the copywriting industry. She’s a featured speaker at industry events including AWAI’s Copywriting Success Bootcamp, Copy Chief LIVE, and The Copywriter Club In Real Life.
Marcella is the co-author of, Why Didn’t Anybody Tell Me This Sht Before?* a collection of wit and wisdom from women in business. As the founder of the Mentoress Collective she is dedicated to helping women go as fierce and far in business and life as they desire.
I had to have Jay McBain back on the show to continue our conversation from July, 2020 about customer obsession, journey mapping and the future of week. A year has gone by since then and I wanted to look at what he was seeing transformed, stagnant and a no go.
With that in mind we ventured into conversation about opportunity costs and how at some point it becomes numeric and definable. But should you quantify it or leap and take the risk on the opportunity?
We also talked about making decisions, not making decisions and staying static are actually all forms of making a decision. And because he is top futurist Jay McBain, we talked about the future of work, why it is important to map your customers journey with you if you want a successful business and customer experience beyond the first sale.
Jay leads Forrester's research and advisory for global channels, alliances, and partnerships. He focuses on B2B marketing in the age of the customer; understanding and navigating the complexity of multiple routes to market; ensuring contextual and relevant content to accelerate the indirect sales process; and describing the technology infrastructure to build and support channel relationships.
His background is in channel leadership, sales, marketing, and operations, with a specific emphasis on indirect sales strategy/execution, covering multiple industries, segments, and underlying technologies. Jay is renowned for his industry thought leadership and expertise in partner recruitment, development, and acceleration through effective partner coverage, enablement, communication, and incentives. He is an expert in building and leveraging channel communities and one of the global leaders in social media, partner marketing automation, and other indirect growth strategies.
Jay provides research, advisory, and consulting to companies ranging from Fortune 100 vendors to startups on the entire scope of their channel and alliance strategies. He is a contributing author and has been cited in numerous channel media publications, including Channel Reseller News (CRN), ChannelPro, ChannelE2E, The VAR Guy, MSPMentor, Channelnomics, Computer Dealer News (CDN), Australia Reseller News (ARN), eChannelNews, Business Solutions Magazine, ChannelLine, ChannelInsider, SearchITChannel, Redmond Channel Magazine, Vertical Systems Reseller, Channel Buzz, and SMB Nation. He also maintains a popular blog on channel trends.
Jay is based in Florida but advises vendors, distributors, and partners around the world.
Forget finding your unique value proposition. Focus on making yourself chooseable. That's what my guest Belinda Weaver believes is more important to focus on instead of trying to figure out what makes you, your company or your products different than your competitors.
She believes that "we don't need to be 100% unique in business...we have to become chooseable.
What does that mean though and how do you position yourself to become chooseable? Belinda and I discuss three areas you can shine a spotlight on to make yourself chooseable and have your business land more clients.
Belinda Weaver helps people write copy that makes them money. Whether it's teaching copywriters how to run successful businesses or business owners how to write more effective copy Belinda has courses, coaching and mentoring that builds skills and confidence. But she wasn't always a copywriter. Belinda worked as a computer programmer, then in marketing before discovering copywriting was her jam. Since then, her business - Copywrite Matters - has not only survived but grown while she's moved between Australia, England and the USA, and had two kids.
She cohosts the popular copywriting podcast, Hot Copy with Kate Toon and is regularly featured in the media such as Copyblogger, Business Insider, Amy Porterfield's pod and The Copywriter Club.
An Aussie living in California with her pug, two daughters and husband (listed in order of neediness)... Belinda is obsessed with Doctor Who, English murder mysteries and making the perfect lemon curd.
I never turn down a chance to have John David Mann on the show. I crave reading any book, article, blog or social media post or even just an email he sends.
Each word is crafted. Not just typed onto a page but crafted to create maximum lift to the entire manuscript, post or other type of written composition. No wonder he is a multiple New York Times bestselling author and that The Go-Giver, cowritten with the amazing Bob Burg, is a must read around the world.
On this episode we discuss John David Mann's latest project with Brandon Webb, Steel Fear. Their first fiction novel which has been optioned to TV as has a second book in the series was just released and it required a different way of writing and thinking as John explains on the show.
We also talk about his other passion project that was an unplanned one, Write Good, (Or At Least Gooder!) If you've read Stephen King's famous book, On Writing, you will want to sign up on John's email list to get a copy of this fan only book.
Share your thoughts about this episode and one takeaway on social media and tag me on all platforms @TheLauraSteward
Becoming a Navy SEAL is hard enough but then becoming a SEAL Sniper and then SEAL Sniper instructor and then being asked to revamp SEAL Sniper training is not something many have on their resumes. Add NY Times Bestselling author, entrepreneur, military advisor, father, pilot, philanthropist and several other things to the list and you have an exciting repeat guest to my show.
Brandon Webb recently took a detour from his prolific non-fiction writing and wrote his first fiction novel, Steel Fear. Picture this, serial killer, aircraft carrier at sea... I devoured it in one sitting.
We talked about writing differences between non-fiction and fiction, where the premise for the book came from, his travels during COVID with his son and why his son is going to college in Europe versus the USA.
And, because I rarely get to speak to someone of Brandon's level when it comes to world events, we also talk about Afghanistan from the perspective of someone who has served there and still is informed.
Covid has put health at the top of many minds this past year plus and my guests are no exception. Tracey Welson-Rossman and Dr. Marta Becker were watching what was happening with patients being diagnosed with long-haul covid and decided to do something to help patients and their doctors track symptoms and come up with a common language to work towards healing. The result is an app, Journal My Health, that is being used to track not only long Covid symptoms but also those with other chronic illnesses.
How they developed the app, what it can mean for patient-doctor interactions and why we should all be journaling our health are just some of the questions asked on this episode.
Tracey Welson-Rossman Founder, CEO Journal My Health
Tracey Welson-Rossman brings her years of experience in the technology and entrepreneurial space, along with her own healthcare journey, to create this app for patients.
Marta T. Becker, MD Chief Medical Officer Marta T. Becker, MD is a board-certified otolaryngologist-Head and Neck surgeon in private practice in the Philadelphia. She graduated from Harvard University and the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST) division of Harvard Medical School and was residency-trained at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
She is a partner at the single-specialty practice Berger Henry ENT Specialty Group. She is passionate about using digital tools and the internet to help improve patients healthcare experience and outcome.
Thomas Kies, or as I know him, Tom, just released his fourth novel in the Geneva Chase Mystery series. Books that you will want to devour from the first page until the last. I know from experience.
Writing novels is a passion for this former journalist and life experiences have given him lots of stories to tell and complex characters to create. But that is not all he does. His day job is running a Chamber of Commerce in North Carolina and serving on numerous boards about the environment.
Listen as Tom shares how he juggles writing, advocating for small business owners and keeping the barrier island relevant and environmentally sound as it grows.
Author of the Geneva Chase Mystery Series, Thomas Kies lives and writes on a barrier island on the coast of North Carolina with his wife, Cindy.
He has a long career working for newspapers and magazines, primarily in New England and New York, and is currently working on his next novel.
When he’s not writing mysteries, Thomas Kies is the President of the Carteret County Chamber of Commerce. Contact Tom
Illness prevented an earlier post of this episode recorded on June 29, 2021 yet the content is perfectly relevant today and always. giving ourselves permission to "kickass" as Angie Colee puts it is not something easy to do for most people. Many look for outside permission to excel and live full out for their dreams.
Take a listen as guest Angie Colee shares how she learned to give herself permission to live a life she defines including leaving safety behind for a covid duration nomad tour of living her dreams all across America, quitting a dream copywriting job for a major Internet marketer and stepping into being single and loving it. She also shares how you can too.
Angie Colee is a confidence coach and business strategist who works with creative entrepreneurs to help them conquer fears, break through anxiety blocks, and start or grow a business with rockstar confidence. So many would-be freelancers and entrepreneurs let fear stop them before they get started, and Angie's made it her mission to help more people learn how to deal with those fears and confidently step into the spotlight.
Angie knows what it's like to have ideas and a powerful desire to show people what you can do. She's had to sneak smart, proven marketing strategies by clueless corporate know-it-alls... and been yelled at (by those same know-it-alls) when those strategies went on to make the company millions of dollars. She realized how often ego gets in the way at big companies, and that you can't tap into your full potential when you're giving your all to a corporation that won't give its all to you.
If you're tired of being told what to do by clueless assholes and know you were meant for more, Angie's your girl. She's been coaching and running creative teams for companies like Lowes, Product Launch Formula, Copy Chief, and Orzy Media for years. In that time has helped hundreds of creative freelancers start their own successful businesses. She’s written and strategized dozens of multimillion dollar campaigns (including two during a pandemic) and her work is responsible for more than $50 million in direct to consumer sales.
Angie holds a Master of Entertainment Industry Management from Carnegie Mellon University, which means she understands the unique challenges faced by creatives in business. Her degree blends more traditional MBA expertise with the art of valuing and monetizing creative work. She was in the third graduating class of this creative business hybrid program.
What do you call someone who is a Hip Hop artist, Yoga instructor, helps companies and individual create their brands and tell their stories? I call him Rajiv Nathan.
Known as the Startup Hypeman in the world of startup pitching for funding, Rajiv Nathan AKA RajNation, spends his time helping companies of all sizes tell their stories. Not just for venture capital funding but also to their future customers and existing staff.
On this episode Rajiv shares how he uses all of his own story as a rapper, yoga teacher, MMA emcee and entrepreneur to help others excel in all they do. He exemplifies his belief that you can turn everything you enjoy into a career, without burnout! One key? Understanding and communicating your POV.
Known as the Heavyweight Champion of Story, Rajiv 'RajNATION' Nathan is Founder of Startup Hypeman, helping growing companies not suck at telling their story so they stand out to their audience, stand apart from competitors, and break through in their category. He was named an "Agent of Change" by Huffington Post, has given a TED Talk, and been featured in Inc, Forbes, and more. He's also a hip hop artist, yoga instructor, and host of the popular show Startup Hypeman: The Podcast.
Talk to him about Hamilton, WWE, or Seinfeld and you'll have a friend for life. www.startuphypeman.com
Working with staff is not easy. Add into that the long time relationship of a closely knit family who knows how to push each other's buttons and it could end up being a disaster. Or not.
Can a father and daughter work together and perform as a team without drama? When the team is Neal and Tara Johnson the answer is yes.
During this episode Neal and Tara share honest and thoughtful answers on why they started working together, how they handle conflict, how Neal has learned how to push Tara out of her comfort zone and why Tara embraces it now.
We also discuss how they handle being in the mortgage business during an unprecedented market and how they both balance work and play.
Neal Johnson has over 40 years of Financial Services Experience and 20 years specializing in Mortgage Lending. He has the expertise to work with clients to find the right mortgage to fit their individual needs.
Neal has lived in his community for over 50 years. During his professional career, he has served in many Leadership roles including the Economic Development Commission, Melbourne Regional Chamber of Commerce, and AMIKids Space Coast. He is also a member of the Civilian Military Community Relations Council and was the 2018 Member of the Year. Neal spends his free time with his wife Terri, and their standard poodle Cody, taking their RV on trips all over Florida.
Tara Johnson was born and raised in Melbourne Florida and has been in retail banking for 10 years, and Mortgage banking for 4 years. During her professional career, she has honed in her leadership skills, following after her Father’s footsteps in the community. She is the Past Chair for the Melbourne Regional Chamber ENGAGE Young Professionals, and current Chair for the Chamber Ambassadors, as well as on the Board of Directors for the Melbourne Regional Chamber, and LovingNeighbor, a local non-profit. She was recognized as the ENGAGE Young Professional of the year for 2019, Women of Excellence nominee for 2020, as well as 2019 SpaceCoast Business Under 40 winner in the Finance category. When she isn’t spending time at the Disney Parks, she spends her time going on adventures with her close friends, family and boyfriend. Her pride and joy is her Husky Pit mix, Cesar.
When it's your birthday you get to talk about whatever lights you up and gets you excited and for me that is talking all things Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel, DC and Harry Potter with a few friends.
Take a listen as we debate characters, shows, directors and the shifting timelines of our favorite shows and movies. I am joined by Brits James Adam and Mark Asquith and fellow U.S. woman in tech Janet Schijns as we share what got us into being a Sci-Fi, fantasy, superhero fan, our favorite characters and what we really think about those alternative time lines!
Jennifer Pestikas has lived her life choosing courage and overcoming self doubt to build an amazing career leading others/ Along the way she realized that becoming friends with yourself is one of the best things you can do.
On this episode we talk about self-compassion, how Jennifer is making new boxes to reframe her life and how you can too. She also shares several powerful questions you can ask to thrive no matter your situation.
Jen Pestikas has always been a type-A super achiever. She was the one who got straight A’s in school and was devastated when she got a B. Jen was the one who held herself to such high standards and needed to check all of the boxes in life. After she grew up, that super achieving nature followed her to her career in the corporate world.
After 20 years in corporate, climbing the ladder in financial services from a bank teller to a Senior Vice President and doing “all the right things”, Jen’s health took a turn for the worse in 2019 and she ended in total burnout. After years of striving, she felt like an empty shell – without passion and direction in her career and life.
While the time of healing that followed was so hard, it was also a gift. It made Jen look at herself and realize she didn’t need to be perfect. She could let herself off the hook from checking all those boxes and not try to be a super woman. Jen finally understood what she wanted for the first time in her life. And what she wanted was to give back to women so they could avoid the same traps of striving, perfectionism and not speaking their truth.
Jen currently runs the Brave Women at Work podcast and maintains the bravewomenatwork.com
Kim Meninger is on a mission. A mission to stop imposter syndrome from stopping women from achieving their dreams. Having lived it herself she knows the constant battle of your own mind to tell you you can't possibly be good enough to do something. Her mission is so important to her she even created a podcast called, The Imposter Syndrome Files, and has a free 7 day challenge to greater confidence.
On this episode Kim shares how she learned to not let a fear response be her lead into, or not into, an opportunity, how re-defining your value can help release imposter syndrome and a few more questions she asks herself to keep her mind free of imposter syndrome.
As a women’s leadership coach, Kim Meninger is passionate about empowering women to become more confident, visible and influential leaders. Having spent over 10 years in the high-tech industry, she experienced first-hand the unique challenges and opportunities facing women in traditionally male-dominated environments. She strives to be the resource to women that she did not have during her own corporate career.
Kim has a BA in psychology and an MBA from Boston College. She is an ICF Associate Certified Coach and CCE Board Certified Coach with certifications in career, executive and leadership development coaching. The Impostor Syndrome Files Podcast: https://impostorsyndrome.buzzsprout.com/ Free Impostor Syndrome Challenge – 7 Days to Greater Confidence: https://yourcareersuccess.com/impostor-syndrome-challenge/
When all your competitors are merging or being bought outright, what do you do? Do you stay independent or do you look to do the same as them? When they all lock into one business focus, do you do the same or do you carve your own path?
Jason Bystrak and Peter DiMarco, Vice Presidents at D&H Distributing (104 year old family owned company), join me on this episode to talk about how to know what you should do for your business. They know firsthand the questions you need to ask yourself and whether you should care what your competitors are doing.
The conversation also goes into how a $5 billion company operates with 36% employee ownership versus a $50 billion company. I especially loved the conversation about egos, complicating things and the bottoms-up versus top-down method of deciding your businesses next steps.
If you have employees, or are thinking about adding staff for the first time, Peter's insights into hiring practices will open your eyes.
Jason Bystrak is the vice president of the cloud and services business unit for D&H Distributing, and leads a team of cross-functional experts responsible for the strategy and execution of the company’s XaaS ("Everything as a Service") business, helping channel partners deliver total solutions in a subscription model. He oversees technology practice areas including cloud, professional services, security and unified communications.
He is the chair of the Channel Development Advisory Council for CompTIA, previously served as chair for CompTIA’s cloud community, and has been named to ChannelPro-SMB’s list of 20/20 Visionaries, as well as CRN’s 100 People You Don’t Know But Should. He frequently offers insight into the opportunity and future of cloud at strategic industry events, including CompTIA’s ChannelCon, Channel Partners and IT Nation.
Peter DiMarco joined D&H in 2015 as vice president of VAR sales, Computer Products Division (CPD). He oversees sales teams working with all value-added resellers that sell through the CPD division, including commercial, government and education solution providers as well as managed service providers. Peter manages the inside and outside sales teams, solutions and Cloud support teams focused on new market growth strategies, aimed at helping its SMB solution providers evolve towards larger mid-market sales opportunities and solutions. He is focused on driving VAR engagement efforts including the VAR Track events at D&H's trade shows, and a new K-12 Advisory Board focusing on this vertical market, in addition to driving new programs and support services.
Peter previously served as an IT channel development leader at EarthLink, and has coordinated sales initiatives with partners such as Microsoft, Cisco, Dell, Lenovo, VMware, Apple, Juniper, Citrix and HP. His IT distribution experience includes a vice president of VAR sales position at Ingram Micro.
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My mom always told me don't borrow worry from tomorrow. I've not been really great about letting go worry. Do I obsessively worry? No. But many do. Any many others get into worry cycles.
Rene Brent has written a powerful Book, Breaking Your Worry Agreement. On this episode Rene shares strategies and tactics she has developed over the course of her career to help her clients break their personal worry agreements and live a life filled with increased joy and connection to those around you.
We also answer questions around, Is worry ever helpful? Can you worry too little? and what happens in your body when you worry about worrying.
Rene has been a RN for 30 years and has worked in ICU, Trauma/ER and the Recovery Room. In her experience, she was inspired by the powerful mind/body connection and how self-awareness and reframing negative thoughts helps us heal emotionally and physically.
It was a natural transition for Rene Brent to go from being a healer of the body to a healer of the mind. She is passionate about helping her clients use the power of the mind and move forward in their lives and reach personal and professional goals.
Rene Brent’s solo practice is located in Maitland, Florida. She is certified as a Clinical and Transpersonal Hypnotherapist.
Rene Brent is an International speaker and a #1 International Best Selling Author of “How Big Is Your BUT?”. On March 16th, 2021 Rene released her latest book “Breaking the Worry Agreement” and has already reached International Best Seller status on Amazon.
Rene Brent is a registered member of The American Council of Hypnotherapist (ACHE) and the International Association of Interpersonal Hypnotherapist (IAIH)
How dealing with world leaders caused Denise Thomas to develop BEE Mindfulness methods to change lives and reduce stress.
If you thinking putting deals together for just your business can be stressful imagine traveling all over the world to put together trade agreements with world and religious leaders, politicians at all levels and more. And then picture doing all that while living in your home with several generations of family.
Take a listen as Denise shares the questions she asks herself, how she strives to live her life in its natural rhythm and silence is a gift we give ourselves.
For more than two decades Denise Thomas has proven a dynamic auditor and extraordinarily compassionate leader. She lives and works from heart center that allows her to maneuver with easy through global diplomatic waters. She has engaged ambassadors, heads of state, top religious leaders, senators, business executives and other key leaders both globally and domestically to achieve strategic objectives, guide community leaders, and build successful enterprises including advising on strategic growth, foreign business development and planning, cultural fluency, inclusion, belonging, training facilitation and content creation.
Denise currently services as Trade Director of Africa, Middle East, and Europe Trade for World Trade Center Arkansas, she has successfully navigated challenges, and created new pathways for growth and success with global partners to benefit from trade mutually. A self-proclaimed Impact Strategist, she sees opportunities when others see adversity. Denise’s superpower is building relationships to establish a more creative solution to problems, create more effective communications, and moving people to live a more productive lives for the great good.
Want to create a new product? Wonder if you need to know the rules first? Do you need to or can you just carve your own path and create your own market?
Dan Keldsen is the Co-Founder of PlexiCam, a new way to use your webcam and Co-Founder of Veventaas.com, a virtual events as a service company. On this epsiode we talk about his thoughts on creating a product without knowing all the rules, why customer service is the key to expanding your reach and what he thinks about rules.
Dan Keldsen is currently Co-founder of two startups, PlexiCam.com, the 21st Century Tripod and Teleprompter alternative and Veventaas.com, the virtual-events-as-a-service company.
If your organization wants the high-touch, high customer-experience that you would normally get from an upscale, hotel-based day or more event, and are tired of the endless parade of walls of bored participants from webinars and traditional virtual event solutions, Veventaas lets you focus on YOUR business, and takes away the pain of the details behind-the-scenes and in front of the curtain to make your brand promise shine rather than suffer through a virtual event. It's a high gloss, high touch experience, without the cost of a traditional Hollywood-style production team.
Dan is also the Co-Author of the 2014 Best-Seller, The Gen Z Effect, which focuses on what we can learn from each other, regardless of age, and why the far healthier approach to life is to see what we ALL bring to any situation, whether it's business, education, politics, you name it.
Marketing does not have to be complicated or complex. It does need to stir the emotions and open the wallets of your prospective clients though. It also doesn't have to be all things to everyone.
Picking your ideal client and platform are just two aspects of a marketing strategy. James Adam of Thirty-Three Percent wants business owners to find their voice, and have a bit of fun, while growing their business with marketing. He also wants us all to make sure we understand our Why. He recently realized his had changed and pivoted his business.
We also talk about Superman, Zach Snyder, Legos and how all of that can help you figure out your why and your strategy.
Since getting his start in retail over 20 years ago, James has been helping businesses of all shapes and sizes with their marketing campaigns, including brands like The North Face, Hasbro and JCB. In 2009 James started Cunning Plan, a full-service marketing agency with a focus on destinations, hospitality, leisure and retail.
In 2020, James took the decision to scale back his agency to get back to the work he loves, founding Thirty Three Percent, a business focused on working closely with smaller businesses and helping them take control of their marketing. James believes that marketing can be simple and incredibly effective when not overcomplicated with jargon and buzzwords and helps clients achieve this with his Ruthlessly Efficient Marketing Method.
Stroke. The word evokes fear to mostly everyone who hears the word. For those who have lived it themselves, or have taken care of those who have had a stroke it means a change to potentially everything you knew as normal.
My guest is Marcia Moran, a stroke survivor who has made it her mission to advocate for those who have had a stroke and help those who care for them.
On this episode we discuss her journey from stroke patient to advocate. She shares her story of how her life changed in an instant and the critical things you need to know in case it happens to you or a loved one.
Marcia Moran has written over fifty business plans, and helped entrepreneurs strategize over how to differentiate their companies in changing environments. Her experience led her to found her own firm, Performance Architect in 2012. She also co-founded Positive Business DC, an organization designed to increase well-being in the workforce in 2012.
After suffering a major stroke in 2014, Marcia applied her skills in planning and strategy as she strived to become whole. She never gave up. Over time she learned to walk again, but Marcia struggled with aphasia, a language disorder.
Marcia lives with her husband Jim, two very loud cats, and two birds near Washington, DC. On weekends, Marcia, Jim, and the cats go to Deep Creek, Maryland where Marcia paints watercolors. In the evening Marcia and Jim sit out on the deck and watch fireflies flit by.
Marcia holds a B.S. in Political Science with a magna cum laude from the University of North Dakota and a Master’s in Business Administration, from Chapman University in California. She attended Skirinssal Folkehoyskole in Sandefjord, Norway and studied art. She also earned a certificate in Well-being Foundations of Personal Transformation from the Personal Transformation and Courage Institute in Virginia. She volunteers at Brain Injury Services, supporting their Speakers Bureau program. www.strokeforward.com
Is there always an emotional component to pain and physical injury? Is it possible to heal and strengthen your body by adding an extra layer to your physical conditioning?
My guest is Tammy Wise. A Broadway dancer turned TAO minister and the creator of the time tested BodyLogos system of alignment and strength training that has made a difference for many who thought they would never be able to get strong and healthy again.
During this episode Tammy shares her own journey to health and healing and even shared a quick exercise you can do everyday to begin improving your posture. I've done it a few times now and it works quickly! All with 3 breaths.
We also talk about how emotional trauma can get trapped in the body and prevent full healing, how just a few minutes a day can correct posture from being at a computer and her own journey from abuse to strength helped her develop BodyLogos.
Tammy Wise is a widely respected mind-body fitness expert, owner of BodyLogos, Inc., author of The Art of Strength: Sculpt the Body ~ Train the Mind, and creator of the BodyLogos App. A former Broadway dancer turned Tao minister, Tammy was voted the Best of Fitness by Time Out New York (twice!) and has appeared in Martha Stewart’s Whole Living magazine, New York Magazine, Natural Health, Shape, Thrive Global and more. She’s a Transformational Authors Contest Winner and regular contributor to Medium. Visit her at bodylogos.com.
Digital wellbeing has taken on an all new meaning in the past year. With covid shifting business, school and social gatherings to virtual settings more time has been spent in front of a screen than ever before. Streaming platforms saw unprecedented increases in subscriptions and depression and dissatisfaction rose astronomically.
My guest, Heidi Forbes Oste has been talking about digital wellbeing and how to excel while being a human on this planet and global nomad for a long time. As a behavioral scientist, geek, global traveler and parent, she has lived what we discuss on this episode and guided numerous corporations and individuals to finding the balance between the digital world and the real one.
Technology has become a lifeline for many and a curse for others as technology use takes a toll on their emotional and physical beings. Join us as we discuss all that and more.
Dr. Heidi Forbes Öste is a behavioral scientist, best-selling author of Digital Self Mastery series and executive producer of the Evolving Digital Self and Global Nomad Hacks podcasts. She combines 25 yrs experience in social strategy consulting with her scholarly research in the human relationship with technology and her personal passion for wellbeing and global citizenship. She holds several advisory roles as an expert on strategic integration of Digital Wellbeing and Ethics to support the transition into the digital era without losing humanity in the process. Through her leadership as Managing Partner at 2BalanceU and board roles she has been recognized for her global outreach mentoring and professional development for women entrepreneurs and start-ups.
Her mantra: "Knowledge is Power, Sharing is Powerful™ She is a Global Nomad at heart and mind. American by birth, Swedish by marriage, mum to two kids in launching phase, "based" in Jackson Hole (Wyoming), Gosnold (Cape Cod), Malmö (Sweden) and outside Bezier (Southern France). @forbesoste
When you get to ask one of the people on the forefront of podcasting, someone who lives on the edge of defining how we interact with each other via media, a few questions it is best to make sure you record the conversation. Why? Because perspective shifting answers and questions abound.
Take a listen as I interview Mark Asquith, aka The British Podcast Guy, as we discuss his journey to define his role in the world, his thoughts on the future of podcasting and why he really does not care about missing out. His answer made me rethink several different areas of my life.
And it wouldn't be a conversation with Mark unless some superhero conversation surfaced. I mean the man calls his company Rebel Base Media! I may just have to have him back on the show to just discuss Star Wars, the DC universe and Star Trek. I can easily get lost in that conversation.
After quitting his job at age 23 so that he didn't have to work for people with whom he didn't want to share a water cooler any longer, Mark Asquith decided to try his hand at digital product development and began working with some of the UK's biggest organisations, including the NHS, JCB and the Ministry of Defence.
But that wasn't enough, he struggled with the idea of having a "boss" and the stifling feeling that brought with it. Mark decided after a few years as a freelance digital consultant that the only way to actually control his own lifestyle was to work truly for himself, on things that he loves.
So, in 2008 he set up his first "real" business. Obviously, in 2008 that was a web design business.
Since then, Mark has gone on to create a globally successful design agency, work on two tech startups with some serious stories to tell and create a personal brand that has resulted in an audience of worldwide fans who appreciate his "no BS" attitude and straight-talking demeanour.
A regular speaker across the world at tech, business and podcast events, particularly in the United States. A straight-talking, no BS millennial speaker, Mark talks on productivity, startups, work/life balance, personal branding, digital product development, user experience and all aspects of modern marketing.
Right now, Mark is CEO and co-founder of Rebel Base Media, one of the UK's leading podcast companies and was the vision behind the suite of products from Rebel Base Media including a podcast hosting, analytics & distribution platform (Captivate.fm), the world's #1 managed WordPress platform for podcaster (Podcast Websites), Podcast Success Academy & podcast interaction tech, Poductivity along with the Rebel Base Media podcast production studio in Sheffield.
National Voiceover Artist, Acclaimed Podcast Host and all around funny guy, Rob Actis, talks action, motivation, and finding success his way.
Interviewing Rob is like sitting down with a perpetual motion machine. Rob is always on the move yet he always maintains focus on his goals. After nearly losing his life he realized he had been living life without being aware of all of his life.
Try to keep up with his energy on the show as we talk about his book, The Law of Action, how he manages to keep his head up and focused and why Clubhouse is his new favorite place to be.
Rob “Mr. Action” Actis is the best selling author of The Law of Action and the creator of the Law of Action Formula. He helps his successful entrepreneur clients get unstuck, break through their fears, and live a life of massive inspired action. He is a serial Entrepreneur and loves all things marketing and business and runs a small boutique creative agency creating high-end graphics for his clients. One of his many talents is that of a voice actor for many national TV commercials. Rob is also an accomplished audiobook narrator, including The Miracle Morning book and series by Hal Elrod. Other best selling authors include Honoree Corder, Ed Rush, Kevin Kruse, Matthew A. Overlund, and Ben Hale.
You can find Rob as a featured guest on many podcasts, sharing his passion for following the Law of Action principles and taking a stand for others to live every day like they WANT to be alive.
Rob loves podcasts. Rob is the creator and host of The Living the Law of Action show, co-creator, and co-host of the comedy podcast Failed Dinner Conversations with Sean Douglas and is the host of the soon to be released Hot 50 countdown presented by Podcast Magazine.
Rob is known for taking massive immediate action. He loves making a difference in people’s lives and supporting others in their success. If you meet him or you hear him on a podcast. You will know instantly why they call him “Mr. Action.”
Pat Alva-Kraker has dedicated her life to helping other's learn the power of intention to transform their lives. She has written a beautiful book, Katherine's Quest: One Woman's Journey to Elation, to show how intention, in all we do, can make the journey through life one of, well elation.
Take a listen as Pat shares her journey and how you can begin adding intention into all aspects of your life. I had several big ahas when Pat shared a few questions she suggests we all ask ourselves and those we care about. The powerful one for me? Well, you'll just have to take a listen and let me know which you think it is and what your answer is to the question.
Pat Alva-Kraker was known as an international IT project manager, and a community leader. A successful Latina woman working in two male‐dominated industries, IT and engineering. In order to be accepted, each morning Pat put on her two‐piece skirt suit with pumps; making decisions from her analytical side and
forfeiting her strong sense of intuition.
After a 35‐year career, Pat “woke up”, began her own journey of elation and donated 100% of her corporate “uniforms” to The Ladder Alliance and now chooses to live an empowered life.
Driven by the belief that personal elation, living according to your blueprint and connecting to your wiser self is a choice we make each day, she founded Majestic Coaching Group, LLC. Pat Alva‐Kraker has always had a passion for self‐mastery and assisting women become their best self.
Her company coaches and mentors women transitioning from IT, Real Estate and Project Management careers. Majestic Coaching Group LLC creates a safe and encouraging space where women can tap into and honor their intuitive self; expand their capacity to become stronger leaders; make a greater impact with their business; and collaborate with other like‐minded business leaders. www.majesticcoachinggroup.com
To some, selling your business is a sellout and that you should build a business for legacy and pass it on to your family. To others, before you even open the doors of your business you should have a plan for how you're going to sell the business and every day in business be growing it to sell it.
I don't think it matters what other people think you should do with your business. I think what matters is what you want to do with your business. And that may change overtime as well. Whether you plan on selling your business or not, understanding the principles of what somebody is looking for if they want to buy it can help your business achieve greater success. Even if you never sell.
My guest today is John Warrillow, founder of Built to Sell and The Value Builder System, a successful entrepreneur himself and the author of numerous podcasts and books on building and selling businesses. John and I talk about his latest book The Art of Selling Your Business: Winning Strategies and Secret Hacks for Exiting on Top.
He shares what is really involved with selling and growing a business and the questions you need to ask before, during and up to the moment of sale. If you've ever thought it would be great to sell your company you'll want to listen to this episode . If you're thinking about starting a business, you'll want to listen to this episode. If you have a business and think you want to pass it on to your family , you definitely want to listen to the end of this episode for John's view on passing your business to your family.
John Warrillow is the founder of The Value Builder System™, a simple software for building the value of a company used by thousands of businesses worldwide. Offered by a global network of independent advisors known as Certified Value Builders, The Value Builder System™ incorporates several diagnostic tools, including the Value Builder Score. Those businesses that achieve a Value Builder Score of 90 or greater are worth double the average-performing business.
John is the author of the bestselling book, Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You, which was recognized by both Fortune and Inc magazines as one of the best business books of 2011. Built to Sell has been translated into 12 languages. John’s next book, The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry, was released by Random House in February 2015 and has since been translated into eight languages. In 2021, John released The Art of Selling Your Business: Winning Strategies & Secret Hacks for Exiting on Top. This completes the trilogy of books which teach business owners how to build, accelerate, and harvest the value of their company.
As the host of Built to Sell Radio, John has interviewed hundreds of founders about their exit. Forbes ranked John’s podcast as one of the ten best podcasts for business owners.
Before founding The Value Builder System™, John started and exited four companies.
Does the definition of success change based on the industry you're in or your gender?
There are stories that go around that say that women don't support women yet from all the interviews I've done, and my experiences in the tech and business worlds, I've found that that is not the truth. I found that more women support women then we are led to believe. My guest today lives and breathes her philosophy that success is not about external trappings and that if we learn to get clear to determine what it is we truly want and align our internal and external lives with that, then happiness and success can be achieved.
Nicole Scheffler is a woman in tech, although like many of us women in tech, she just prefers to say she's in tech and forget adding the woman part. Nicole has spent much of her career helping others succeed as she succeeded.
On today's episode Nicole and I talk about success, lifting other people up, and the questions she asks herself to align herself with her own definition of success.
Nicole Scheffler is a Tech Diva dedicated to sparking success for women in technology careers – women who are working to own their career success and realize impact in a male-dominated field. Nicole empowers women with proven success principles to help them define their aspirations, goals, and boost their daily contributions in the digital world. Applying more than 16 years’ experience in a fast-paced technology career, the wisdom featured in her best-selling “Pillars of Success” book with Jack Canfield, and hundreds of hours interviewing women in tech on her podcasts, Nicole provides a clear success framework for women in all stages of their tech careers. Her courses, content, and speaking, help tech divas fires burn brighter. www.TechDivaSuccess.com
What does it take to be an entrepreneur? Do you need an MBA? Or rather do you need the expertise that somebody who has not only gotten an MBA but has also run multiple successful businesses and helped other entrepreneurs launch grow and sell their businesses can share? Wouldn't it be great to have in one place, the foundational pieces to every successful business?
This episode features Harry Brelsford who not only has an MBA and a few other degrees but has done all of the above. On this episode Harry and I talk about what makes a successful entrepreneur, the perils pitfalls and excitement and what he is learned from guiding himself and others in nearly three decades plus of his own entrepreneurial journey and what guided him to write his latest book, Pocket MBA Instant Entrepreneur.
Harry Brelsford is the founder of SMB Nation (www.smbnation.com) from Bainbridge Island, Wash. He is a long-time SMB channel partner who has served customers and mentored other partners (SMB Nation has over 45,000 members who are Managed Services Providers (MSPs) and SMB technology consultants). He oversees the popular SMB Nation workflow including marketing analytics, content and events (webinars, workshops and multi-day conferences).
He holds an MBA in Project Management from the University of Denver (and numerous certifications such as MCSE, MCT, CNE, et al) and is the author of 23 books on technology and business topics. His 20 years of SMB technology experience were supplemented by teaching 12+ years at night as an adjunct professor at Seattle Pacific University and other higher-learning institutions. He served as the Dean in the Graduate School of Technology at Aspen University (where he was awarded a PhD in Letters).
Harry is an in-demand speaker at industry events. Harry's recent books include the “How to Be an MSP” and “The Pocket MBA – Instant Entrepreneur” and he has published over 400-articles in business magazines (Washington CEO, Colorado Business, Alaska Business Monthly) and technology magazines (ChannelPro, Microsoft Certified Professional magazine, etc.). An active entrepreneur, Harry is the force behind the Pocket MBA, Telephonation, Cloud Nation and XPmigrations.com. His latest startup is 420MSP.
Widow. The word conjures up so much loss and sadness. You are given that title when you lose someone you loved very much and planned a life with forever. A life you certainly never expected to change dramatically when your husband gets diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and dies eight months later.
How do you recover from that with any sort of grace when you have two kids to take care of and a life to rebuild that looks different than you expected it to?
Jenny Lisk created the Widowed Parent Podcast and wrote the book, Future Widow: Losing My Husband, Saving My Family and Finding My Voice because she saw a need to help others through what she went through. She wants to educate people BEFORE they have to go through losing a loved one while providing a resource for those who are in it now.
Take a listen as we discuss the questions Jenny didn't even know to ask, the answers she found during and after her husband passed and how being vulnerable helped her heal and help others.
Jenny Lisk is an author, speaker, and host of the Widowed Parent Podcast, which has been featured in The Washington Post and ParentMap. On her Hundred Dreams list is riding a camel. And milking a cow. And raising $44,000 for brain cancer research, in honor of her husband’s 44 years. The author of the memoir Future Widow: Losing My Husband, Saving My Family, and Finding My Voice, Jenny lives in Redmond, Washington, with her two teenagers. She is passionate about helping widowed parents increase their family’s well-being. You can download her free guides What I've Learned About Widowed Parenting and How to be Helpful: Tips for Allies of Widowed Families. Follow her on social media @liskjenny.
Anne Bruce joins me today to talk about how anyone can discover their own personal True North to help you have your best life possible. She shares how it is never to late to live your calling, how courage is more than you think it is and you have more of it then you think, and how competencies don't always lead to your vocational calling. She shares her 1 question she asks herself to keep her eye on her true north.
The conversation on this episode is a great way to lead into your new year, or anytime actually. If you are thinking to yourself, "I need to figure out what I want for me", or "I wish I knew what I am meant to be doing", then take a listen as Anne shares that and more.
Anne Bruce is an popular speaker and author coach. She's also a talent manager who works with celebrities, politicians, TV and sports stars. She's spoken for the White House and the Pentagon, Coca Cola, Sprint, and Fortune 100 companies worldwide. Anne's written 25 books translated into 36 languages for the largest publishers in the world. She's also the co-author of Speak for a Living, 2nd edition with Sardek Love. Based on her bestseller, Discover True North.
Anne's work is all about ways to Discover True North and transform your life and career. Her clients learn how to use their internal guidance system to create stronger, healthier, and happier relationships. Her next book to be released at Valentine's Day 2021 is Discover True North Relationships.
My Christmas week show is, at the end of the day, about love. I was honored to have Bonnie Violet and Tina Frank say yes when I asked them to be on my show. Their story is a powerful one about how love is more powerful than any barrier if you choose to allow it into your heart first.
Take a listen as Bonnie Violet and her aunt share how they came back together after almost 30 years apart because of labels and how they had defined each other based on outside factors. This is a heartfelt and, for me, eye opening conversation about labels, faith, love. perception and perspectives.
Tina Frank, a conservative Christian woman and Bonnie Violet, a transgender queer drag queen have an anti-cancel culture conversation on their podcast, Splintered Grace. While many family members are choosing to no longer speak after a revelation like Bonnie Violet shared, they have chosen to sit at the table and engage in difficult conversation to find peace and restoration.
Joel Friedman left Madison Avenue in NYC to go from Ad man to Executive Producer and writer in Hollywood. Along the way he learned that being authentic matters, being found while being not being authentic will always bite you back (he is authentic but not so some who have auditioned for him), and why he wants to produce something with "legs."
On this episode Joel shares with me how he has embraced the changing world and face of TV, what drives him, and how to get your message out there while staying true to yourself. Hint, it really isn't that hard as it is made out to be. Joel also talks about finding the story in all he does.
Joel Friedman is an Executive Producer who has show run, developed written scripted and unscripted series. He has partnered with and developed series for companies such as Mark Burnett, Bunim Murray, Fremantle, Next, Spike, NBC, Bravo, Broadway Video and Kenan Thompson of SNL as well as for other networks and production companies
I love Anne Grady. Talking to her is like getting a PhD is how to build and recognize resiliency. Her life experiences give her massive credentials to speak to her topic of Resiliency no matter how bad life hits you.
On this episode Anne Grady shares answers to my questions about resiliency and productivity. That one hit home for me which is why I asked the question and you might be surprised by the answer she shared.
We also discuss the benefit of a worry window, why it is important to know your cognitive shortcuts and a key question to ask yourself on a regular basis to improve resiliency. Hint, it has something to do with my favorite idea of perspectives.
Anne Grady began studying the brain and neurodevelopment to find answers while searching for treatment options for her son, Evan, after he was diagnosed with severe mental illness and Autism. Then, after being diagnosed with an avocado-sized tumor in her salivary gland in 2014, she had to lean on the tools she learned with her son to help her through this difficult time.
Now, she wants to help others cultivate the habits and skills to build strength through struggle with the science behind resilience.
With a master’s degree in organizational communication, Anne shows people how to harness the power of resilience to break out of reactivity so they can communicate, lead, and live on purpose. Not only is Anne recognized as a leading expert in the fields of leadership, communication, and resilience by Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur, Inc., Fast Company, FOX Business, CNN, and more, she is also a living testimonial.
She is the author of 52 Strategies for Life, Love & Work: Transforming Your Life One Week at a Time and its best-selling follow-up book, Strong Enough. In her newest book, Mind Over Moment: Harness the Power of Resilience and the companion journal, Anne delivers a collection of actionable, practical, and timely takeaways for the challenging world we find ourselves in today.
Anne is a passionate mental health advocate and a portion of all her book proceeds go to the National Alliance on Mental Illness Central Texas (NAMI).
Monkey, iron, rope, house, paper, shoe, worm, envelope, pencil, river, rock, tree, cheese, dollar
A list that makes no sense but a list I still remember that Chester Santos, the International Man of Memory, challenged me with to show how anyone, instantly, can learn to remember things and keep remembering them. I did this show live on November 24 and still remember them, because of the tips he taught me on the show, on December 4th.
How does one become a world famous memory master and coach? And how can you improve your memory?
Take a listen and try the techniques he shares on the show. If you want more, he makes an incredible offer at the end of the show.
Chester Santos – “The International Man of Memory” has left an impression on all corners of the earth. With his unique ability to not only demonstrate extraordinary feats of the mind, but also educate others to do the same, this U.S. Memory Champion is widely regarded to be the world’s leading memory skills expert. Through his entertaining & educational television and movie appearances, professional seminars, and best-selling books, Chester has helped millions of people around the world to realize the benefits of an improved memory and sharper mind.
His keynote speaking credits include TEDx with some of the nation’s most highly regarded professors and scientists, the prestigious Talks at Google program featuring “the world’s most influential thinkers, creators, makers and doers”, and the International Festival of Brilliant Minds in Puebla that had him speaking to an audience of 5000 people along with Nobel Prize winners, Pulitzer Prize winners, and other luminaries.
Chester Santos is also the personal memory and mind coach to some notable celebrities, politicians, professional athletes, and high-powered executives.
Frustrated because you want to build your success your way versus the traditional way of thinking? Wondering if it is possible to lead your business from idea to success with heart and soul and some sound business strategy foundations?
The answer to those questions lies with my guest, Christine Kane, author of The Soul Sourced Entrepreneur and Founder and CEO of Uplevel You.
As a successful songwriter and musician she learned that it is possible to have your career, your way, and to have massive success. She founded her in-demand consulting/coaching firm because everyone wanted to know how she did it.
Take a listen as we discuss, how intention is different from the Law of Attraction, how you can let your soul fly but don't forget the business strategy and tactics too. Christine lays out how you can get started today and how her journey prepared her for this next step in her career.
Before Christine Kane founded what became a multi-million dollar coaching company, she spent fifteen years in the music industry, producing seven CD's and a DVD on her own label, while touring the globe over 200 days a year. She shared the stage with luminaries like John Mayer, The Beach Boys, Los Lobos, Nanci Griffith, and Shawn Colvin.
Her success as a singer-songwriter had fans asking how she did it while staying true to her art and her soul. Those backstage questions turned into weekend retreats. Those retreats turned into coaching requests - and set her on a new path.
In 2010, Kane opened Uplevel You, a company that serves the ever-growing class of sensitive, idea-driven, aggression-averse entrepreneurs (a class she counts herself a member of). Her work has attracted more than 125,000 loyal email subscribers and has coached thousands of clients into the six and seven figures in their businesses. She has spoken at events from the Martha Beck annual conference to the iconic Emerging Women event.
Today, Christine leads a small yet mighty team at Uplevel World Headquarters in Asheville, North Carolina.
Wouldn't it be great if you never had to "turn your business around" because your business was failing? What if you knew what the warning signs were, or better yet, never had to worry about them because you designed your business to to weather any changes and you knew what to look for as early warning signs?
No one can design a business to weather any changes without impact but what you can do is learn how to monitor your business and minimize the ups and downs. You can even learn to be comfortable looking at your business finances without freaking out. I see a lot of this with my clients as does my guest, Steven Kaufman of Red Fender.
Steven Kaufman is the author of The Garbageman's Guide to Life and a sought-after business strategist and turnaround expert.
On this episode Steven shares the lessons he has learned helping others turn their business from the red to the black (if you don't know what that means you need this episode).
I don't know about you, but knowing what to look for, and the practices and tools you can use on a daily basis to keep your business thriving, is worth the time to listen to this episode and pick one new practice to start today.
There is much more in this episode. Let me know what stands out to you the most and, if you need help, reach out and let me or Steven help you.
Known among friends as a brainiac with a love of learning, Steven Kaufman graduated with honors from Stanford University. He spent the first twenty years of his career in the U.S., Europe and Asia, specializing in operations, logistics management and marketing, then founded a technology company for the waste industry that sold in 2018. He became CEO of a medical billing firm and now consults for companies on operations, product and marketing projects. He is the author of one non-fiction book and has written three novels (with a fourth on the way). Steven’s journey, both personally and professionally, led to an insatiable curiosity about the mind and how it works, giving him a unique brand of clarity, energy and optimism. www.redfender.com
Learning how to tell the story of your brand is often the key to success yet it often feels like the hardest thing to do for many entrepreneurs. Perhaps it is the vulnerability that may come from sharing your creation story? Or perhaps the lack of clarity of what your brand stands for or who you created your brand to serve? Or maybe, it is as simple as you do not know how to put into words what you do?
Ira Gostin has been helping companies tell their brand stories for decades. First as a photojournalist and reporter and then as one of the top brand strategists. Along the way he has learned that sharing your story is a critical key to success and on this episode he shares key steps and questions you can ask yourself and staff to create your story and make a difference for your clients, your staff and your business.
Ira Gostin is a storyteller and has been since the age of seven. From his first foray into writing for his grade school, mimeographed newspaper to his critically acclaimed pizza review column in the Daily Forty-Niner newspaper in college, through his career with the Associated Press. Now, he helps companies tell their stories to their constituents.
He began his professional career as a photojournalist at the Associated Press with newspaper stops in Los Angeles and New Jersey. Following his journalism career, he continued marketing and communications work with companies in the industrial, medical and hospitality fields. Ira also works with up and coming business leaders, entrepreneurs and students through mentoring and teaching.
Ira’s home base is Reno, Nevada, with his wife Erin, adult children and two dogs (Buster and Yogi). He is a coffee aficionado, baseball, and Formula 1 racing fan and he and his wife travel the West with dogs and kayaks enjoying the outdoors.
Forget everything you thought you knew about being an entrepreneur. What if you could have the life and business you want? It really is possible says Terry Brock and he lives and breathes what he preaches.
With the launch of his new "agoropreneurs" movement Terry took the time to share with me, and you my listeners, why the idea of an entrepreneur is ripe for change. He shares how and why the time is now to let go old thinking and embrace being "uncommon" while taking responsibility for your actions.
This episode is filled with perspective shifting ideas, laughter and a plan to help you turn your life and business into your dream.
Terry Brock brings a passion for technology, a sense of history, and real-world business strategies to every conversation. He is more than a technology trends expert. He’s a Hall of Fame and Cavett Award winning speaker, virtual presenter, interviewer, published author, and coach who packs everything he touches with solid business strategies meant to build relationships and improve the bottom line. Reach out to Terry at terrybrock.com
Marketing is not a dirty word. Done well, marketing aligns your business goals with your client goals and greats a stream of satisfaction across all business departments and end user resources. So why do many think that marketing is a dirty word?
Heather K. Margolis is a serial entrepreneur who lives and breathes marketing and believes that when marketing is done well it lifts a product and company up. If you have a product or service and no one knows its value to them then is it really a product or service? Think the old story, if a tree falls in a forest and no one hears, does it make a sound?
Effective marketing makes a noise. A good noise. It tells a story about the product, the value it provides and it also tells something about you and your brand. Ineffective marketing IS overhead. Why? Because it doesn't do those things and it doesn't make people want to buy or tell others.
During this episode Heather shares her journey creating two top marketing agencies in the tech world, creating stories that changed a business culture from the top to the bottom and tips you can use to shift your marketing from ineffective to effective.
Heather K. Margolis is founder and CEO of Spark Your Channel, a through-channel marketing automation platform, and Founder and Chairperson of Channel Maven Consulting, a strategic channel marketing agency.
Heather is a recognized channel marketing expert and a sought-after keynote speaker to a variety of audiences about entrepreneurship, building a service-based business and B2B strategy, B2B marketing and channel marketing.
After a decade spent growing Channel Maven’s team, client base and reputation, Heather turned her attention to solving one of the vexing problems of channel marketing: ineffective through-channel demand generation. Simply put, she found that vendors are spending a lot of money on marketing content and tools for their partners that either don’t work or go unused.
That experience inspired her to launch Spark Your Channel in 2019 to create a through-channel marketing automation platform that partners would actually use and get results. The platform spent a year in development and testing and launched in February 2020.
Heather has a master’s degree in business administration from Babson College in Wellesley, Mass. She grew up in Massachusetts and now lives in Boulder, Colo., with her husband and fellow entrepreneur Simeon, their two daughters and dog Zoe.
Mike Faith, CEO of headsets.com shares how he built a business that has become renowned for its fanatical attention to customer service and how he pivoted it to become poised to take over the world of headset design and sales.
Headsets.com started out as a discounter of other companies office headsets and now 40% of their business is selling headsets they design and manufacture. They are known for their raving fans and their word of mouth advertising and also for their boxes having tootsie rolls tucked inside.
How did a small discounter become a $30+million dollar company? How did a culture of enhancing the customer experience become a model others try to emulate? How does the CEO live the model and support his employees in having exceptional lives beyond the workplace?
Take a listen as Mike Faith share answers to all those questions and more on this episode.
Mike Faith, CEO and Founder of headsets.com left school at 15, and after a number of varying jobs with varying success, he decided that his own business gave him the freedom, control, and self-direction he needed, and pursued entrepreneurial ventures. Headsets.com was his third venture, started in 1997. After 23 years, he claims he’s about half way through his mission of dominating the half a billion a year US headset market. He’s as passionate about the headset business today as he was when he started. When Mike isn’t figuring out the headset world, he spends a little bit of time cooking, improving his chess game and reading.
Writing copy to sell things is a science. Writing that same copy in a voice that does not even match your age, race, nationality and more is an art. Making that same copy wildly successful is similar to the difference between me trying to play the piano and Mozart.
Carline Anglade-Cole is a copywriting Mozart. She is able to switch faces and voices with apparent ease while writing copy that converts to sales for her clients. Her copy doesn't just convert once though. It keeps converting over and over and over again.
On this episode Carline discusses her new book, My Life as a 50+ Year Old White Male: How a Mixed-Race Woman Stumbled into Direct-Response Copywriting and Succeeded!
Carline answers questions on how she deals with a blank page, putting herself into the voice of the target client and how she deals with time interruptions and sets boundaries with her family to keep sacred her "money time."
Carline Anglade-Cole is kick-butt international direct-response copywriter who specializes in the alternative health field. With over 30 years in the direct-response industry, she has launched products in the U.S., Germany and New Zealand. And she’s written boatloads of winning sales copy for numerous clients including Oprah, Peak Pure & Natural, Healthy Directions, Health Resources, True Health, AWAI, Sun Chlorella USA, Biocentric Health, Weiss Research, Frank Cawood & Associates, Soundview Publications, Nature City, Dr. Hittich and many more.
Carline is the author of the Amazon #1 Bestseller, “My Life as a 50+ Year-Old White Male: How a Mixed-Race Woman Stumbled Into Direct-Response Copywriting and Succeeded! She is also the recipient of the prestigious American Writers Artists Inc (AWAI) Copywriter of the Year award.
I recently had a client say he wasn't sure what happiness is for him and that it was something that could never be achieved. That it was a moving target.
That got me thinking since I've felt happy most of my life with bouts of sadness woven in when loved ones passed or something else happened. But even then, I had a core of happiness. So what is happiness and does it matter where it comes from?
Patricia Noll wrote a powerful book, Good With Me, A Simple Approach to Real Happiness from the Inside Out and I asked her back on the show to answer my clients question about whether happiness is real or an abstract concept that cannot be lastingly achieved.
During this episode you will learn about "other-dependent self esteem", the "Feel-Good-Now Syndrome" and how you can begin to spark happiness from the inside out and develop and create your own "self-dependent" self esteem.
Patricia Noll is the Founder and Executive Director of Focus One, Inc., an Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment Program, which has been licensed by the State of Florida since September, 1989. For over 25 years as a lecturer and group facilitator, Patricia has conducted over 5000 group lectures on how to feel good and overcome addictive behaviors.
She has a Master of Arts in Mental Health Counseling and a degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Along with the Good With Me Book and related community, she is the author of the Focus One Treatment Manual and Workbook which has been endorsed by internationally renowned authors and lecturers Deepak Chopra, Larry Dossey, Jack Kornfield, and Jacquelyn Small among others.
Here’s what Deepak Chopra has to say about Patricia’s program: “Focus One offers practical and sensibleguidelines for those who seek freedom from all types of addictions.”
As a televised industry self-esteem expert, Patricia Noll specializes in empowering people to experience long-lasting real happiness from the inside out by teaching them how to feel good about themselves just because and to stop defining their value by what they have done or not done and what they have or don’t have. Her mission and passion is to make a contribution to society by making a difference in the way people see themselves; especially those who have given up on life.
There is a lot of stress in the world today. Some we interpret as good stress and others bad stress. Either way it is stress and it impacts the body and our relationships.
What if you could learn how to change your response to stress? Learn how to have stress not sideline you or your family and business?
Colonel Deb Lewis, (Ret.) has lived a life filled with stressful choices that she chose. Think 1st female graduating class at West Point, commanded in Iraq and responsible for a $2 billion project while there, in the Pentagon on 9/11 working on anti-terrorism projects, taking care of aging parents and many more. Throughout it all she has managed to find her center. A way of "armoring up" herself with different practices that enable her to coast through challenges that bring many to their knees.
Take a listen as Deb shares five things you can do today to shift your response to stress and clarify your priorities. She also has a free offer for two classes she offers, no strings attached. 100% free.
What if you could use stress to your advantage? Colonel Deb’s unique approach guides you to handle even bigger challenges, while building stronger relationships and teams.
Deb Lewis is a West Point graduate from its first class with women. A retired Army Colonel and Harvard MBA, Deb commanded three US Army Corps of Engineer Districts, including a $2.1B reconstruction program in combat. She survived the attack on the Pentagon on 9/11, while serving on the Joint Staff anti-terrorism team. Colonel Deb led while under fire, and her experiences help others become better leaders. Her proven strategies, insights, and tools will arm you with exactly what you need in good times and times of crisis.
After a 34-year military career, Colonel Deb and husband Doug Adams embarked on the Duty, Honor, America Tour in 2010. She drove their RV 26K miles as Doug bicycled 18,067 miles through all 50 states in one year in support of our military, veterans, and families. Today, they work with many non-profits, businesses, and leaders to lift up communities.
Deb's goal in her own words: "I've led thousands in the military to perform at their best under considerable stress and hardship. I want to empower 1 million women and their families to do the same."
www.mentallytoughwomen.com
On the launch day for his new book, Interference, Brad Parks shares his love of physics and writing and how he weaves facts so his fiction reads more like reality. We had a laugh filled conversation filled with non-spoiler moments if you have not read his book yet.
I don't often interview fiction writers but I always say yes when Brad is launching a new book. This one is especially intriguing to me as a science geek. Brad's multi-layered plot lines, and characters that have depth to them, always keeps me rooted in place until I finish the book.
On this interview Brad and I talk about how his life and neighbors inspire his plots, what it takes to keep his characters true to themselves and why you will never see a curse word in any of his novels. I especially enjoyed the conversation about one curse word he cannot find a replacement for in writing but still does not use.
His words at the end of the interview on his purpose in life are words I think I shall always carry with me.
International bestselling author Brad Parks is the only writer to have won the Shamus, Nero, and Lefty Awards, three of American crime fiction’s most prestigious prizes. His novels have been translated into 15 languages and have won critical acclaim across the globe, including stars from every major pre-publication review outlet.
A graduate of Dartmouth College, Parks is a former journalist with The Washington Post and The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger. He is now a full-time novelist living in Virginia with his wife and two school-aged children.
Karen Stultz believes in having an awesome life and is helping others find theirs. After having to make a serious of decisions that left her letting go of work, her home as she knew it, her husband in a way and even who her parents were to her, Karen faced a choice. Could she still have an awesome life even when it seemed as if that would never be possible again?
Take a listen as Karen shares the questions she asked that helped her make the choices she made, how she stays "semi-sane" and loving life all while helping others discover their AWESOME life.
I think one of my favorite parts in the interview was when she began to discuss music notes and how one note does not a song make. Tell us what stood out for you and how you are leading an awesome life!
Karen Stultz is a 6 figure money mindset mentor, online business strategist for solo heart centered entrepreneurs who want to transition from a J.O.B. to having a lifestyle business that allows them to have more energy, joy, prosperity and freedom to enjoy what they do.
She has been in the coaching and healing industry for over 20 years, and supports clients around the world to live fully, without regret or fear...and never spend more money than necessary to be successful, always living her mantra of "FUN is # 1"
Pattie Grimm shares how knowing your personal vision increases your resiliency when things go sideways. With all going on in this world many are wondering why their usual resiliency and ability to pivot isn't what it used to be. I wanted to understand why so I invited Pattie onto the show to share how you can strengthen your ability to handle when things go sideways.
I wasn't expected her to say that understanding and then living your personal vision is the key.
Take a listen as Pattie provides the questions to ask to find your personal vision and how you can put that vision into action. Pattie shares how quiet women never change history and how her journey as a women in tech and business around the world came as a direct result of her personal vision to make a difference.
With over 25 years of experience, Pattie Grimm is an empowerment expert for organizations, leaders, and women. Her presentations/interviews are empowering, educational, and engaging.
Pattie was a senior leader for several Global Fortune 100 companies. She owns a company focused on empowering women to be the best they can be. She is an author/speaker/ podcast guest/trainer/coach/ women’s advocate.
Pattie was recognized by Executive Women’s Association, Who’s Who in Women’s Leadership. Women of Influence and the State of California. She is the author of Quiet Women Never Changed History – Be Strong, Stand Up and Stand Out – “Let’s Go Kick Some Glass.”
Living the Savvy Life is being willing to ask the hard questions and stick to, well really define, your priorities for your life. It doesn't mean lack or deprivation. It does mean understanding what you want from life and creating and following a plan to get there.
Melissa Tosetti, founder of The Savvy Life, helps her clients live the life of their dreams. She does that by helping them figure out what matters to them rather than continuing to let their current lifestyles control how their future will unfold.
On this episode, Melissa shares questions and insights she teaches her clients to help them grow and we also discuss how their other business, a family-owned martial arts studio has pivoted and thrived during the pandemic and how yours can to if you are willing to look deeply at your business. We also discuss how to determine what the key financial questions are you need to ask for your business, your life and your future.
I have never laughed as much on an interview and certainly not during such a fear based topic for many- money. That was a lesson I also learned while talking to Melissa: money conversations DO NOT have to be tense.
Melissa Tosetti, a Spending Plan Expert, is the founder of The Savvy Life and author of the international bestseller Living The Savvy Life.
She helps clients define the life they want to live and create a plan to fund it. It’s all about purposeful spending. She’s worked with over 650 clients to create spending plans and then teaches those clients how to put their plans into play.
Melissa has traveled across the U.S. giving over 200 presentations on topics related to cash flow planning and purposeful spending and has given over 275 webinars on the same topics.
According to Marlene Chism, we "need to check our hero-victim mentality and course correct so that we create deeper connection. In all drama there is always a relationship component and everything we think , say and do ultimately affects our relationships."
What if your business could function smoother? What if productivity increased because communication flowed seamlessly at all levels of your business? What if instead of trying to be perfect you learned to be real and honest and admitted when you needed help or didn't know something?
On this episode Marlene Chism shares new questions for you to ask to reduce or eliminate drama from your business and personal relationships. She also shares how you can improve performance, reduce anger and grow your business as a result.
Marlene Chism is the leading authority on stopping workplace drama. She works with C-Suite leaders to build drama-free cultures that drive growth and reduce costly mistakes. Marlene is known for helping managers address “the elephant in the room” and initiate conversations that gets results. Her expertise includes leadership development, conflict management, strategic communication
Marlene is a recognized expert on the Linked In / Lynda global learning platform, producing educational videos on Anger Management, and Having Difficult Conversations.
She is the author of three commercially published books: Stop Workplace Drama (Wiley 2011), No-Drama Leadership (Bibliomotion 2015), and Stop Drama in Your Healthcare Practice (Greenbranch 2018).
As a seasoned professional speaker, Marlene’s transformational message of personal responsibility, and alignment is making its way around the globe at leadership academy’s corporate retreats, association conferences, and customized webinars.
Marlene has a degree in communications from Drury University, and a master’s degree in HR Development at Webster University. She is an advanced practitioner in Narrative coaching.
To learn more about Marlene, visit www.marlenechism.com
Current work from home is different than what working from home or remote working meant before Covid, yet few seem to be thinking about what that means or planning for the marathon that we are in.
No longer a sprint that we can just do a patch fix for, the new normal everyone has been talking is now the normal. Whether we get a vaccine or not, whether Covid disappears as some say, don't expect work to go back to exactly as it used to be. Those that are taking a breath and planning, observing and shifting what it means to work are the ones that will be here next year.
Scott Carbonara is known as The Leadership Therapist for a reason. With a background in crisis management and running large corporations to reduce employee attrition, he knows what happens to an organization in flux. And he knows how to help them thrive.
On this episode we talk about what leaders need to watch for in themselves and their employees to help them excel, grow and stay connected when their work family has changed. We also talk about what staff and solopreneurs need to watch for to prevent or minimize the metal creep of working from home. It is easy to work 24/7/365 when fear creeps in or you ask yourself, "what does my boss think of me? They are tracking my activity time so shouldn't I respond to everything?
With no water cooler or corridor interactions subtle signs of overwhelm can take longer to spot from both sides of the desk.
What can you do? Take a listen as Scott shares resiliency and leadership tips to help us humans be more us while at work.
Scott Carbonara is a keynote speaker, author, and consultant who is passionate about engaging a company’s greatest asset: its people. Known as “The Leadership Therapist” for his diverse background–from serving as an award-winning crisis counselor, to executive chief-of-staff of a multi-billion-dollar company.
Scott has spoken for such esteemed groups as AT&T Global, Wal-Mart, multiple healthcare systems, and the federal government. He is the author of several leadership books including A Manager’s Guide to Employee Engagement (McGraw Hill). Scott breathes life into topics including employee engagement, culture, change management, communication, and customer service. www.LeadtoEngage.com.
Whether you want to write a book or just want to learn how to tell your story of your business or your life, this episode offers insights from a top editor and brand specialist. Telling your story, or think of it as getting to the heart of your message, is a critical component to create a thriving business.
Jocelyn Carbonara shares how anyone can write a book or tell a story but those who do a few specific things see more action taken from what they wrote or share.
We discuss brands, books, life and some powerful questions she asks prospective clients before she takes on a new project. One of my favorites? "How do you not want to sound?" Not a question I would have ever thought to ask myself before I started writing.
Jocelyn Carbonara started Spiritus Communications in 1998 to help leaders and entrepreneurs tell their stories. She thrives on finding the perfect words to reflect a client’s vision and helping them communicate their messages that matter.
Over the past 20 years, her clientele has included speakers, authors, and companies like AT&T Global, Wal-Mart, and the federal government. She has served as culture consultant and executive coach; editor-in-chief, interviewing celebrities such as Dr. Maya Angelou and Coach Tony Dungy; book agent to publishers including McGraw Hill and Jon Wiley & Sons; editor of award-winning books; and publicist. Jocelyn has ghostwritten books, including for a TV star and an NFL player. She’s managed start-ups and served as CEO for a successful training company. She has written marketing copy for nearly every communications channel in existence—including websites, video, print, and more. Jocelyn has helped clients get featured in media including Newsweek, NPR, and The New York Times. Her writing and leadership principles have been written into books with major publishers—and international magazines like Real Leaders. She is a Prosci-certified change management professional, helping clients communicate through change and crisis. See www.LeadtoEngage.com
Jay McBain is considered one of the top analysts and futurists. His work predicating trends and needs has been considered critical to many in the tech world. Even he is seeing accelerated change in the world of business from the predictions he made several years ago. The pandemic accelerated the way we transact business from both sides of the table.
On this episode Jay and I talk about the keys to a a business that can grow, think customer obsessive. We also discuss how the shift from indirect buying, think cars at dealerships, to direct buying, think Netflix and Casper mattresses, is fueling the current and future economies.
Jay also shares how your business can start looking into your future right now using a process called journey mapping.
Jay leads Forrester's research and advisory for global channels, alliances, and partnerships. He focuses on B2B marketing in the age of the customer; understanding and navigating the complexity of multiple routes to market; ensuring contextual and relevant content to accelerate the indirect sales process; and describing the technology infrastructure to build and support channel relationships.
His background is in channel leadership, sales, marketing, and operations, with a specific emphasis on indirect sales strategy/execution, covering multiple industries, segments, and underlying technologies. Jay is renowned for his industry thought leadership and expertise in partner recruitment, development, and acceleration through effective partner coverage, enablement, communication, and incentives. He is an expert in building and leveraging channel communities and one of the global leaders in social media, partner marketing automation, and other indirect growth strategies.
Jay provides research, advisory, and consulting to companies ranging from Fortune 100 vendors to startups on the entire scope of their channel and alliance strategies. He is a contributing author and has been cited in numerous channel media publications, including Channel Reseller News (CRN), ChannelPro, ChannelE2E, The VAR Guy, MSPMentor, Channelnomics, Computer Dealer News (CDN), Australia Reseller News (ARN), eChannelNews, Business Solutions Magazine, ChannelLine, ChannelInsider, SearchITChannel, Redmond Channel Magazine, Vertical Systems Reseller, Channel Buzz, and SMB Nation. He also maintains a popular blog on channel trends.
Jay is based in Florida but advises vendors, distributors, and partners around the world.
Today we are talking about money. You, your relationship to money and your beliefs about money.
Leisa Peterson has been talking about wealth creation for close to three decades. What she has learned could fill a book and it has. She is releasing her ground breaking book called The Mindful Millionaire and it is like nothing you have read before.
Leisa Peterson shares how working on your beliefs around money and clearing your body and mind can finally allow the wealth you always wanted to come into fruition. She answers questions like: What is it about money that brings up unpleasant feelings for many people? Why do people feel that money, or the quest for money, controls their lives versus the other way around?
This interview is filled with tips on how you can begin clearing your relationship with money so you can have all you ever dreamed was possible.
Leisa Peterson, CFP® is on a mission to help 1,000,000 people elevate their financial consciousness by realizing their true value and creating financial security for themselves.
As a coach and mindset teacher, Leisa host’s the Mindful Millionaire podcast as well as virtual workshops and life-transforming retreats. Her masterful blend of sound financial strategy and mindfulness training helps people break free of patterns of lack, scarcity and money fears, allowing them to finally lead the rewarding, fulfilling, and abundant lives they most desire.
Leisa has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, FastCompany, Forbes, The Week, Huffington Post and has been featured on many podcasts and radio shows. Prior to starting WealthClinic®, LLC, Leisa worked with some of the largest financial and business services companies in the world including Wells Fargo, State Farm Insurance, UNUM Life Insurance, New York Life, Federal Express, Pitney Bowes, Ford Motor Company, and General Motors.
Different than mental resiliency, mental endurance can make success happen or not. Olympic athletes win sometimes by 1/100 of a second. They rebound from what could be catastrophic and career ending injuries to come back and win Gold. Top athletes seem to be able to tune out mind chatter and keep their focus on the end game. So how can the average person do that too?
By increasing your mental endurance.
Dr. Jay Galea works with major sports teams, Olympic, collegiate and high school athletes and sports executives who are recovering from injuries or just want to take their physical and mental game to the next level. When I asked him how is the mental endurance that top athletes have to maintain different than the average person's his answer may surprise you.
Don't miss his answer or his tips on how you can increase your mental endurance.
This was one of the most eye-opening, perception shifting interviews I have done in a long time. I felt like my mind was blown each time Jay Galea spoke. I've already shifted a few mental things and have felt mentally stronger since I recorded the interview.
Jason Galea Ph.D is HeadSET Sports Head of Operations and Product Development and works to elite athletes and sports executives through sports psychology services. He is a consultant for NCAA Division-I athletic programs, US Olympic coaches, and various professional teams. He also is the Performance Consultant Director – Team Jelly Belly Racing, the San Diego Saints Hockey Director & USA Hockey C.E.P. Instructor, the Former Director of Sport Performance at Saint Katherine College and a former University athlete.
A slain FBI agent is a tragedy all by itself. But what if that agent is the only one who was Black?
The erupting racial tensions of today mirror the volatile civil rights era in the 1960s. Edwin R. Woodriffe walked a fine line between the honor, respect, and sacrifice of his own people and the job that he loved... And both worlds came at a life-changing cost to him and to his family.
Author Lee Woodriffe was five years old when her father became the only African American FBI Special Agent to be killed in the line of duty. On January 8, 1969, an escaped fugitive robbed a Maryland bank and within just one hour, two FBI agents were dead. The event, at that time, would inspire the most massive manhunt in the history of the nation's capital.
Lee Woodriffe shares how she was able to finally write this book, how it took a village to gather the details how the times then and now have many parallels and what it took to have her dad remembered.
Lee Woodriffe doesn’t fit into any one kind of box. To some, the road taken to become an author makes no sense, yet makes perfect sense. Maybe that’s the classic Libra in her; always dueling sides for the most harmonious outcome. One thing is true, every road prepared her to become a novelist.
Finding her love of writing as a journalism major at Point Park University, spending hours developing her broadcasting voice at WAMO, SBN, WEEP and WDSY radio stations in Pittsburgh. Or possibly the on-air television experience she gained as a travel analyst in Washington, DC, or the decades spent honing her craft as a stage, film, and television actress. It may have been through the hard knocks experience of running a business and the discipline needed to see it grow for over 10 years. It might be all, or it may be a simpler truth: She just wanted to tell her father’s story.
Lee Woodriffe is a risk taker. She thrives on exploration and succeeding in tasks that others say are impossible. After all, what gives Lee the chops to write a book?
Maybe the same courage that has led her to sky dive, scuba dive, white water raft, jump Herkies on the skywalk at the Grand Canyon, sand dune in open buggies in the middle east or ride on an elephant’s neck in the jungles of Thailand. She does that which she thinks she can’t and makes it reality.
It all makes for a good story, and that’s how Lee wants it. She just wants to tell a story. And when it’s time to cuddle, her Chihuahua/Rat Terrier mix, Chili, is always close by.
The world of business has changed and many are out of work or wondering if they need to figure out a different way to work.
Tom Antion has been making money on the Internet for over two decades creating products and websites from his hobbies and interests and other people's interests. As he says, the money keeps rolling in even while he is sleeping. He has helped many achieve the same thing for themselves and their families.
I've known Tom Antion for close to a decade and referred many to him who are using his techniques to make money and make a difference with their message. He is the real deal and one of the most authenticate people I know.
On this episode Tom shares how to make your hobbies and family interests tax deductible, how to hire young savvy people to help you and the exact methods you can use to make money with knowledge you have or can readily get.
Tom Antion has never had a job. He's an Internet Multimillionaire "guy next door" and and has been a professional speaker and entertainer since 1988 He says he's taught more professional speakers than anyone living and he's the founder of the only licensed, dedicated Internet marketing school in the country along with the only facility of its kind in the world, "The Great Internet Marketing Retreat Center" where people come in from all over the world to study Internet marketing in the lap of luxury.
Tom's podcast "Screw the Commute" teaches people how they could pretty much live two lives for the price of one if they weren't sitting in the car on the way to work making other people rich. He's the subject of a Hollywood Documentary "The American Entrepreneur" premiering later this year.
It feels like the world has gone a bit crazy. Chaos and change are rampant and leadership is missing in many levels of business. Well at least heartfelt leadership is missing.
My guest today, Deb Boelkes, is a leading authority on teaching leaders how to be, or expand, as Heartfelt Leaders. You might be surprised at the definition of a heartfelt leader and you might be even more surprised as to why being one is critical to the leaders success as well as the success of the business.
Anyone can become a heartfelt leader and Deb Boelkes shares how and why you should care.
Deb Boelkes is an author, keynote speaker, symposium producer, and founder of Business World Rising. She developed her unique sense of leadership style rising through the ranks of a male-dominated business world starting at age twelve. During her 30-year career leading sales, global business operations and professional services organizations within Fortune 500 technology companies, including AT&T, IBM, and Arrow Electronics, Deb gained an undisputed reputation as a passionate, people-oriented leader who, together with her teams, could always be trusted to deliver WOW results.
Deb launched Business World Rising in 2009, a leadership development firm dedicated to the advancement of high-potential and high-achieving business women to senior leadership roles. The mission to help organizations everywhere create best places to work, where heartfelt leaders at every level inspire their teams to be the best they can be.
Deb highlights what she considers to be the most important leadership lessons she has learned in the two books she authored in collaboration with Mark Goulston, M.D., The WOW Factor Workplace: How to Create a “Best Place to Work” Culture, and Heartfelt Leadership: How to Capture the Top Spot and Keep on Soaring.
Deb earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and her MBA in Management Information Systems from the University of Rhode Island. She lives in Florida with her husband, Chris. They have three grown sons and three grand-daughters.
Wayne Pernell has coached some of the top leaders in the business world today and one thing he has learned during his over three decade career is that change happens in life and in business. Those who succeed are the ones who have learned how to go deep inside and evaluate and re-evaluate what drives them.
During this episode Wayne shares the questions to ask yourself to help you deal with change, chaos, uncertainty amidst a world that seems to have lost an even keel.
Have a notepad handy as you won't want to miss a minute of this episode as Wayne Pernell and I discuss Comparisonitis, what we all need to give ourselves and some questions that are sure to get you figuring out your next steps.
Known as the Powerful Presence™ mentor and “Outfluencer,” Dr. Wayne Pernell is a highly sought speaker, Amazon #1 International Best-Selling Author, blogger, podcaster, and High-Performance Breakthrough Coach for leaders at all levels.
“Dr P,” as his clients call him, is known for being insightful and engaging. Immediately after earning his doctorate in clinical psychology, he began working in the realm of leadership development, having held executive-level positions himself. And he now brings more than thirty-five years of experience in lifting leaders to set new strategic targets and attain exceptional success.
Dr Pernell is the president of DynamicLeader®, Inc., has founded the #StartsWithOne™ movement, is a member of the Forbes Business Council and has regularly been on Fox, NBC, ABC, and CBS television, various radio programs, and podcasts around the country, also having contributed to Fast Company, Entrepreneur, and the NY Times, among others. His unique perspective and genuine approach when speaking, training, consulting, or coaching creates lasting positive change for his clients.
I could start another show just on writing and marketing books. It is one of the most asked questions I get from listeners. There is no one way to do either but my guest today, Honoree Corder, is one of the most successful at helping her clients write and monetize their books.
On this episode Honoree shares how to stick to a schedule and her daily habits that have enabled her to publish over 50 of her own books and monetize them all. She also shares what your biggest asset is and how to prepare it, how to get the message out about your book even before it is done and how to develop streams of income from your book and message.
Listen to the episode and Honoree shares how you can get a free copy of her book, You Must Write a Book.
Honoree Corder helps business professionals boost their brands, get more business, and become the go-to expert with their own book. She coaches them through the process of crafting, writing, publishing, launching, and marketing their books to bestseller (and best earner) status, creating a platform, and developing multiple streams of income.
Honoree Corder is the author of You MUST Write a Book and the I Must Write MY Book Workbook, and creator of the You MUST Write a Book LIVE Coaching Course, as well as the author of dozens of books, including Tall Order!, Vision to Reality, Business Dating, Stop Trying So Fcking Hard, The Prosperous Writer's book series, The Successful Single Mom book series, If Divorce is a Game, These are the Rules, and The Divorced Phoenix. She is Hal Elrod’s business partner and co-creator of The Miracle Morning* book series. Get a free copy of her book here.
Find out more at HonoreeCorder.com.
Local business has taken a hit and many are out of work. How do you "think outside the box' in regards to offering your services online? Everyone has a skill that can benefit another yet how do you unlock your thinking to see that skill and then monetize it while still staying in service to those in need?
The world has changed dramatically in the last few months. TikTok has taken the world by storm and the way we do business has had to change in order to survive for many traditional businesses. Cheryl T. Campbell has been helping local business shift their business online for decades now and has heard every reason why they couldn't.
Cheryl shares how you can unlock your hidden skills and products, let go what is holding you back and help others in the process.
Cheryl T Campbell is a solopreneur whose career has been a diverse journey taking her from the hazardous waste field to SCUBA diving Instructor and ultimately to small business owner.
While developing a successful Interior Decorating and Custom Upholstery Shop she became fascinated with internet marketing and has never looked back.
She is the author of Relationship Marketing and the New Entrepreneur; co-author of The New Masters of Online Marketing, and past publisher of Tribal Woman Magazine and The Internet Marketing Unlocked Magazine. Her company, 4 Winds of Change LLC is parent to a diverse group of online properties that encompass video marketing, lead gen, CPA marketing and ecommerce.
Cheryl is passionate about sharing her knowledge of internet marketing and how you can apply it to create and grow leadership based businesses.
She also feels strongly about giving back to community and runs a non-profit charitable organization in her hometown of Madison, CT. https://www.cheryltcampbell.com/unlock-laura for some free resources.
Noah St. John has been helping people achieve success for decades. Success in spite of world events and in some cases because of world events. His goal in life is to help you to succeed in spite of the self talk and he does that by getting your inner thoughts and your outer actions to align so you can successfully take action.
During this episode Noah shares three questions to ask yourself right now that will set you on the path to overcome "success anorexia" and get rid of your head trash.
Noah St. John is recognized as one of the most requested, in-demand business and motivational keynote speakers and executive coaches in the world.
He is the only author in history to have works published by Hay House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Mindvalley, Nightingale-Conant and the Chicken Soup for the Soul publisher.
Noah has also delivered over 1,000+ presentations for corporations, associations, business groups, colleges, universities and youth organizations worldwide.
Noah St. John speaks for groups ranging from 25-25,000+ and is available for interview for TV, radio, podcasts, print and online media.
New book launching but book tour cancelled? New program launching but event appearances canceled?
Live events have been cancelled indefinitely and if you made your living by getting clients who heard you speak at events then how do you recover? How do you pivot?
Jackie Lapin has been on the front lines of helping people get booked on stages and radio tours for decades. Now she has added in podcast and virtual summit tours.
I asked Jackie to be on the show so she could share what you can do right now to pivot your PR and speaking and never leave the comfort of your home or home office. She shares the questions you need to ask to create an effective pitch for shows you want to be on. How to position yourself to be found by events that need a speaker and even where to get resources to find shows and events that need your message and products.
If you are a speaker, author, in personal development or want more clients, you will want to listen to this episode.
Jackie Lapin is a leader in helping leaders, entrepreneurs, authors, practitioners, speakers and messengers connect with their next followers around the globe. For the past 10 years, her internationally acclaimed Conscious Companies have been providing radio/podcast media tours and speaking engagements to support the growth and revenue of change-makers. Her clients have included Don Miguel Ruiz, Dr. Joe Vitale, James Twyman, Arielle Ford, Maureen St. Germaine, Chris and Janet Attwood, Hay House and more.
Her Conscious Media Relations Radio/Podcast Tours have helped nearly 200 luminaries, leaders, filmmakers and authors grow their businesses, sell more books, create viewership and change more lives by introducing them to up to 9000 radio shows and podcasts. (www.consciousmediarelations.com)
To also help leaders get booked easily and quickly, Jackie has most recently launched SpeakerTunity Cities™, which provides direct contacts for thousands of speaking opportunities instantly at one’s fingertips in their market of choice. (www.SpeakertunityCities.com)
Most everyone I speak to is trying to find a new way to increase their productivity and performance. With work at home the new norm these days finding solutions to be productive is even more top of mind.
August Bradley has one of the top Technology podcasts, Mind & Machine and a top YouTube Channel on productivity. He believes that the tech is rapidly being developed that allows an individual to customize solutions for the way their brain works. No more having to force your brain to work with existing performance and productivity apps.
Take a listen as August shares his thoughts and tips and favorite solutions for getting the most out of your brain and tell me your favorite hack.
August Bradley is the host of MIND & MACHINE, a popular Podcast and YouTube show exploring the science and technologies enabling us to live and work at higher performance levels. (www.mindandmachine.io). August also produces a YouTube show on productivity systems (www.NotionProductivity.com), and coaches individual and business clients on leveraging technology to enhance productivity and performance (www.MoreTimePerDay.com).
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/augustbradley
Crisis times often mean we don't eat or take care of ourselves. Sadly those are the times we need to take care of ourselves with even more care. So why do we go to unhealthy comfort foods, sleepless nights and lack of exercise as a default during those times?
Dr. Anna Cabeca has experience dealing with personal crisis and the ill health that can come as a result of the stress and bad habits. So I asked her on the show to talk about simple steps we can take to switch our brains to healthier choices. She also shares tips you can use right now to eat and shop better that won't consume all your time and energy.
Dr. Anna Cabeca, an Emory University trained gynecologist and women’s health expert was diagnosed with early menopause at age 38. Devastated she went around the world looking for answers and healing and found it. She is now a triple board-certified, menopause and hormone expert. She is internationally acclaimed for her work in gynecology and obstetrics, integrative medicine, and anti-aging and regenerative medicine.
Known around the world as The Girlfriend Doctor, Dr. Cabeca has changed the lives of thousands of women across the globe, connecting to others through humor, honesty and passion. Her book “The Hormone Fix” and other empowering transformation programs have helped women of all ages become their best selves again. Her successful line of all-natural products features the alkaline superfoods drink Mighty Maca® PLUS and the rejuvenating vulvar cream Julva®.
Recently, Dr. Cabeca was named “2018 Innovator of the Year” by Mindshare Collaborative, the premier community for health and wellness influencers and entrepreneurs. In 2017, the Age Management Medicine Group presented her the prestigious Alan P. Mintz Award for Clinical Excellence.
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If you don't know Mike Michalowicz then you are in for a treat. I've known of Mike forever and we were trying to figure out if we crossed paths when we both had tech companies. His work helping entrepreneurs stems from his own business ups and downs. He has an ability to cut through the fog with simple, yet, powerful processes to help you figure out your best next steps and on this episode he shares some of his best work yet.
To say these times are different than what we have gotten used to is an understatement. What you have been doing might not work any more. Heck, you might not even have work anymore.
So what do you do? How do you separate crisis mode reactions to vital needs responses?
Take a listen to this episode as Mike steps me through the process he outlines in his latest book, Fix This Next.
By his 35th birthday Mike Michalowicz had founded and sold two multi-million dollar companies. Confident that he had the formula to success, he became a small business angel investor and proceeded to lose his entire fortune. Then he started all over again, driven to find better ways to grow healthy, strong companies. Mike has devoted his life to the research and delivery of innovative, impactful entrepreneurial strategies to you.
Mike is the creator of Profit First, which is used by hundreds of thousands of companies across the globe to drive profit. He is the creator of Clockwork, a powerful method to make any business run on automatic. And his latest, arguably most impactful discovery, is Fix This Next. In Fix This Next, Mike details the strategy businesses can use to determine what to do, in what order, to ensure healthy, fast, permanent growth (and avoid debilitating distractions).
Today, Mike leads two new multi-million-dollar ventures, as he tests his latest business research for his books. He is a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal and business makeover specialist on MSNBC. Mike is a popular main stage keynote speaker on innovative entrepreneurial topics; and is the author of Fix This Next, Clockwork, Profit First, Surge, The Pumpkin Plan and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur.
I was always taught that the most effective marketing happens when the buyer and the seller win. What that means in the real world is that the seller writes copy to provide an undeniable value in their product or service to their prospective buyer. Then the buyer wants to pay the price to acquire the product or service.
But what happens when the world, or your business, turns upside down and everything you are doing is no longer working? Or maybe you never needed to market before and now you do? Or maybe there is a crisis outside your control and you need to pivot because your old way is no longer working?
The world is seeing a massive shift in how consumers perceive marketing these days. Think beer company ads with massive crowds in bars or travel companies promoting trips to Italy, China or Spain or, well, anywhere right now?
Marcella Allison has been writing copy for decades and helps businesses craft copy when times are stable and when they are not so stable. She also mentors other women to help them hone their craft.
I sit down with Marcella in this interview to discuss the art of copywriting. Marcella also shares three questions you can ask yourself to craft your message and a framework for all your marketing copy that helps you define your customer, their needs and your needs.
We also have a discussion about why it is important for women to join a group to lift their careers (Yup, she even shares the data to prove this.)
By the end of this episode I dare you to say I can't write copy. If you do, reach out to Marcella or myself and let us help you.
Marcella Allison, is the CEO of Copy Harvest LLC and the founder of Titanides LLC, an organization dedicated to promoting female entrepreneurs, marketers, and copywriters.
As a copywriter, she currently works with some of the top direct-response companies in the industry. Her clients include The Motley Fool, BottomLine, Inc., Advanced Bionutritionals, Money Map Press, Metabolic Living and more. Her copy has generated over $100 million in sales for financial trading services, alternative health supplements, and information products.
As a mentor and copy chief, she leads Money Map Press’s proprietary training program for in-house and freelance copywriters. She also mentors over 600 women in the Titanides.
In 2018, Marcella was awarded Copywriter of the Year by American Writers and Artists Inc. for her outstanding performance record and impact on the copywriting industry. She’s a featured speaker at industry events including AWAI’s Copywriting Success Bootcamp, Copy Chief LIVE, and The Copywriter Club In Real Life.
Marcella is the co-author of, Why Didn’t Anyone Tell Me This Sht Before?* a collection of wit and wisdom from women in business. As the founder of the Titanides she is dedicated to building a new arena, where dynamic, creative women co-mentor, elevate, and support each other on the journey to success.
She also has a brand new course that is launching that helps women to build their authentic authority with a leading high-level executive coach and therapist, Dr. Cristy Lopez.
Jan Deardorff is an inspiration to many. She started her Mary Kay business while a teacher and in five months made more than she did teaching. Many want that dream to come true when they start home-based businesses yet many never come close to her success.
How has she accomplished so much in her 29 years with Mary Kay? How has she managed to weather many storms of uncertainty for her family and still come up on the positive side of situations?
With the world turned upside down right now and business as usual not possible, Jan shares her secrets of resilience and growth and how she and her husband plan for the down even when things are on the up.
Listen to the end and you will hear her tips on how she helps her team, or down-line as it is known in the world of Mary Kay and other business models like Mary Kay, plan from the start for success.
Jan Deardorff is the Future Ex. Sr. Sales Director Mary Kay, Inc. and believes that if you, “Help enough people get what they want and you will live the life of your dreams!!”
She has been married to her High School sweetheart Rick for 45 years this June. They have 2 grown children, Jeff, a cross checker for the New York Yankees who is married to Caitlyn and their daughter Jeni, who is a business owner herself and is married to Justin. They are blessed to have 5 amazing grandchildren!
After getting married Rick and Jan put themselves through college at Purdue University where they both earned their Bachelor of Science Degrees in Education. Rick went on to become a professional Airline pilot with United Airlines. He just retired in April of 2017 and they are excited to start the next nonstop over the top chapter of their lives! Jan taught 5th grade for 8 years before starting her Mary Kay Business in 1991. She became a sales mentor and coach, and earned her first car within 18 months of starting her business, and has driven free over the last 28 years earning the use of 14 free cars, 5 being Pink Cadillacs. Jan has built her unit to produce $300,000 to a Half Million in retail sales since 2000 with the goal this year of $650,000.
Jan has been a star 100 quarters, earned 2 court of sales diamond rings, and 7 court of sharing diamond bumblebees, and a 4 ½ carat Half Million diamond ring. Her highest income for one month is over $15,000. Her most cherished honor was being a Company monthly go-give winner twice… in Feb 2002 and Feb 2013. Her focus is being the woman God would have her to be. She thrives on dreaming big, enriching women’s lives by helping them become all that God wants them to be, and being the most amazing wife, mother, grandmother, friend and mentor she can be!! It is not always easy, but she enjoys life to the fullest, after all, it is just a matter of want to!
Lisbeth Tanz has been editing and ghostwriting for a long time now and gets asked many questions about the process. Here are a few of the questions she is often asked. Is a ghostwritten book equal to a self-written book, do we need to listen to everything an editor tells us? How do I pick an editor? What is a ghostwriter anyway? And so many more.
If you have ever thought about writing a book but realize you might not have the best skills, this is the episode for you. Take a listen as Lisbeth shares the ins and outs of hiring a ghostwriter or editor and what it takes to write a book.
Lisbeth Tanz, a nonfiction book ghostwriter, editor, author coach, and book-writing educator, works with female coaches, speakers, and entrepreneurs who have a transformational message. Lis’ passion is helping her clients see themselves through her eyes and encouraging them to reveal those authentic truths and compelling stories that will move, inspire, and enlighten their audiences. She guides authors striving to make a positive difference in the world by taking them from idea to finished manuscript using her proven book-planning and writing framework. Many of her clients have reached #1 Best Selling on Amazon in their category as well as received prestigious book awards.
Lisbeth began her entrepreneurial career in 2005 when she launched The Hired Pen, a company focused on copywriting, article ghostwriting, social media, and blogging. In 2007, she completed her first book edit (1,000 pages of copy!) and loved the entire experience. As her business grew, Lis elected to shed other writing niches to focus only on books. She rebranded to Fuzzy Dog, LLC in 2017 to complete her book-only transition and to honor the memory of her dog, Katie, who’d seen her through the best and worst of times.
When she's not working, Lis hangs out in her vegetable and flower gardens, walks with her fiancé around their neighborhood, and plays with her orange cats, Tucker and Fitz.
Data, data, data. Now considered a more valuable resource in some circles than gold or diamonds. But what does all that data mean and how do you access and use it?
Rick Francart loves all things data and helps his clients harness their data for more than just sales and marketing. Data is a living, breathing thing and the way you use it can make your business thrive or fail.
So how can you use your data? Access your data? Make your data living thing for your business?
Take a listen to this March 10, 2020 episode as Rick Francart discusses data and your business.
Rick Francart is the Founder & CEO of Five Opportunities, a next generation business partner that recognizes no two businesses are alike, and the way we conducted business in the past is not going to work in the future. For decades, Rick has been assisting commercial and government organizations of all sizes navigate their digital transformation journey.
Rick is an expert at connecting Business, Technology, and People, while maintaining the fragile bond between them. Rick’s knowledge spans infrastructure through applications, and the newest of technology, data.
As an entrepreneur your worst fear is often what happens to your business if you get sick. You might ask yourself, "How do I continue until I am better? What will happen to my staff? What happens if my illness lingers a long time? What if I am not the issue but a key team member is ill?"
Joe Petroski asked himself those questions, and many more, when he was hospitalized and wasn't sure he was going to make it. Now these questions are being asked even more in the world right now with the world crisis. (This episode was done on March 3 and I am just posting it as I had some tech issues. No laughing. Geeks have tech issues too!) The episode is even more relevant today than it was on March 3rd.
Take a listen as Joe shares how he had to accept he could not heal himself, how he learned to ask and most of all, how he is setting his business and life up for success if it ever happens again.
Joe Petroski is CEO and Founder Profound Power Inc. A certified master healer in Chinese Energetics, Spiritual Teacher and professional speaker. Joe’s path is his personal victory over a very long illness and certain death, to become an extraordinary healing facilitator and teacher. He is passionate about empowering his clients and audiences with Profound Healing and proven energy techniques that heal, increase personal power, focus and clarity. Contact Joe at: ProfoundPowerJoe@gmail.com
Ted Pankiewicz created For the Love of Paws in 2014 after a devastating loss. Their mission is to help seniors who can no longer take care of their beloved pets. They provide food, to seniors and their pets, care, foster placement and more. That more is where it gets even more interesting. What started as a singular vision has grown as they realized the needs of their clients has expanded.
There are 1.5 million non-profits in the U.S. According to Forbes 50% will fail or stall within the first few years due to lack of leadership, vision and even funding. So how does Ted Pankiewicz and his family manage to provide over 10,000 pounds of pet food every month. provide supplemental food for home-bound seniors and foster and place pets who have lost their owners?
Take a listen as Ted shares how he created and grows his non-profit, takes care of his beloved community and listen as he shares how you can grow a successful non-profit too.
Ted Pankiewicz was born in New Jersey and served in the military and on police force K9 units. He has had a varied career ever since but is proudest of the creation of For the Love of Paws. For The Love Of Paws was established in June 2014 and received its 501c3 status in February 2015.
Currently providing for 20 Food Pantries including 2 Meals On Wheels routes which was the start of Paws Meals On Wheels Program when it was discovered that many seniors of limited income were feeding their pets before feeding themselves.
Questions: I get most often. How do I manage to obtain 10,000 pounds of pet food monthly to give away.
For The Love Of Paws Senior Pet Sanctuary Inc www.facebook.com/fortheloveofpawsseniorpetsanctuary
Ashlyn Szilva says that demographics are no more when it comes to selling and marketing to your clients. If you are not thinking about culturegraphics then you are missing out on clients.
If you want to do business in the world today you have to be able to move fast and respond to, and capitalize on, trends on a daily basis. Convenience is key to marketing to more and more people. They want to do business with companies that don't define them by their traditional demographics of gender, race, income group. They buy based on their likes and current beliefs. Culture, like gender is becoming more fluid.
Watch Twitter and observe the hashtags that are trending and who is using them and you will see that the old ways of doing business just will not survive much longer. A great example is the Oscar win of Parasite over other films thought to be shoe-ins.
Listen to this episode and get a crash course in culturegraphics from Ashlyn Szilva on how and why we should be using culturegraphics versus demographics in more than just our marketing.
Ashlyn Szilva was born and raised in Central New Jersey. There she started her educational career in history while working part time managing social selling campaigns for technology clients. After undergraduate adventures at the University of Maine and Centenary College, Ashlyn accomplished her MA at Drew University in 2015 followed by her Doctorate in 2020. Her specialization was holocaust and genocide studies, photo history, and research methods.
She was a community college professor for two years before formally joining the tech industry as JS Group Director of Research and Digital to apply her unique experience in research methods, analytics and photography to social media and marketing innovation. She manages the social media influence and social selling strategy for over a dozen technology firms big and small and is well known for her ability to create influencers in a digital normal.
Ashlyn often states, “if it isn’t shareable it isn’t real in the digital age”. She resides in Northern New Jersey with her co-worker and partner Vladimir Krause and their loving dog Wrangler and two cats Drogon and Koshka. She loves Game of Thrones, Star Wars, video games, and social media.
Lisa Cummings has been a road warrior her whole career as the leading consulting firm for helping businesses Lead With Strength using the Strength Finder model. Most of her year was spent travelling to and from clients to run live workshops. One day she asked herself, "Can I do what I do without all the travel?"
Two years after she asked herself that question her business went from 80 percent travel to 20 percent travel with no loss of revenue.
How did she do that? Can you do that too?
Take a listen as Lisa Cummings share how she transformed her business without changing the impact her work has on her clients.
We also take about how you can find and use your strengths to create and transform your business too.
Lisa Cummings has delivered events to over 11,500 people in 14 countries. In her signature program, Notice What Works, she helps leaders improve performance on their teams by tapping into each person’s strengths. You can see her featured in places like Harvard Business Publishing, Training Magazine, and Forbes.
She’s currently the CEO of a company called Lead Through Strengths. If you’ve been trying to turn your Shaquille O’Neal players into horse racing jockeys, it’s time to use their natural talents instead. Although that example sounds obvious, this misfit dynamic exists on most corporate teams today.
With 20 years of experience and an MBA, the most persistent trend she sees is a lopsided focus on hard skills in the workplace. She'll help you invest in natural talents so that how your team gets things done boosts performance as much as what gets done
www.leadthroughstrengths.com
On this episode Maura Nevel Thomas explains why attention management is more powerful than time management. Time management is over and done with. Forget it. Throw those thoughts away and focus on where you put your attention.
According to Maura, if you spend your time focusing on where you pay attention, then you can maximize your time and minimize your time to achieve your goals. By breaking free of the idea that you can manage time, you become available to focus on what is important. Maura shares questions to ask for figuring out what to pay attention to and what not to pay attention to and much more.
We also discuss how to "manage where your head is", how to stay on task by not staying on task and Maura also shares the 4 Quadrants of Attention Management from her book, Attention Management: How to Create Success and Gain Productivity Every Day.
Maura Nevel Thomas is an award-winning international speaker and trainer on individual and corporate productivity and work-life balance, and the most widely-cited authority on attention management. Her proprietary Empowered Productivity (TM) System has been embraced by the likes of the U.S. Army, L’Oreal, and Dell. She is a TEDx Speaker, founder of Regain Your Time, author of three books, and was named a Top Leadership Speaker for 2018 in Inc. Magazine.
Maura is frequently cited as an expert in major business outlets including Forbes, Fast Company, and Huffington Post, and she’s also a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, with articles there viewed over a million times. Follow her on Twitter @mnthomas.
Did you know that you should never charge your phone at a communal charging station? Did you know you should be careful where that charging cable for your phone or other smart device came from or how you can protect yourself while using public WiFi?
These and other questions are answered by my guest, Alexis Perdereaux-Weekes. He is a cybersecurity professional with over 20 years of extensive experience mitigating risks for his clients when it comes to cyber threats.
If you think you do not need to worry about cybersecurity, this episode will open your eyes to how everything from your health records to your mobile phone are increasingly under threat. And, we talk about how you can easily begin protecting yourself with a few simple steps and a few important questions you need to ask.
Alexis Perdereaux-Weekes is a senior Business Leader with over 20 years of Information Technology and Assurance experience, with extensive experience working on a broad range of corporate IT initiatives where he helps businesses identify, and mitigate risk to their core business assets, while enabling them to address regulatory and Compliance requirements. Planning, and Implementation of Information security and data protection solutions in direct support of business objectives within Healthcare, Finance, Banking, and local and Federal Government sectors.
He is credentialed as a CISM - Certificated Information Security Manager, CISA - Certified Information Systems Auditor, CRISC - Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control from ISACA International.
Alexis holds an Master of Science degree in Information Security from Nova Southeastern University and is currently a doctoral candidate in Information Security at St. Thomas University in Miami, with a focus on Data Privacy.
A Data Privacy advocate, Alexis is past president of the ISACA South Florida chapter, where he worked with the executive team to grow the chapter membership to one of the largest in North America, expanding Scholarship and mentoring opportunities to peers and others entering the IT Security profession. In addition to ISACA, Alexis is also a member of NAHSE - National Association of Health Services Executives, South Florida Chapter, where he is a member of the Technology and Innovation Steering Committee.
Be kind. Remember the Golden Rule. Treat others as you want to be treated. Every heard those phrases? Growing up my parents and grandparents always said to me, "be kind, you never know what someone is going through."
Nathan Caldwell has been studying kindness for a long time now and all his research shows that building a business where kindness is the foundation stone of everything you do wins every time. But how do you hire for kindness? How do you fire with kindness? Can you empower kindness and still make money?
In a world where everyone has a camera and everyone can post a comment on social media, kindness is not always the lead. Yet, the most viral videos tend to be the ones showing one person's kindness towards a person or an animal. Why is kindness good for your business? Can you build kindness into your staff?
Take a listen as Nathan Caldwell shares how living a life of kindness not only makes you happier but can increase your bottom line if you are authentic in how you live it.
Nathan Caldwell has spent years helping others share messages and stories they are passionate about.
As a keynote director for executives, video marketer, evangelist, and a background as an educator directing theater, Nathan truly believes in the power of sharing your passion, finding your audience and inspiring them to do great things.
Nathan grew up in Canada and now resides in the Tampa Bay area. He is blessed with a wonderful wife and three weirdo kids. He loves theme parks, the Smoky Mountains, Christmas, comic books, and combining as many of those elements as often as possible.
Terry Whalin has been in publishing for over three decades on both sides of the aisle. He has seen the industry change and has also seen authors change. Over the course of his career what has not changed are the myths around publishing, being an author and money.
Enter his latest book, 10 Publishing Myths - Insights Every Author Needs to Succeed.
How does one succeed as an author? By understanding publishing and what you, as an author, need to do to push your success forward.
During this episode Terry Whalin shares several of the myths and the actions you can take today to begin selling more books, get published, make money as a writer and understand the business of being an author. Because face it, the days of, "if you write it they will come," are gone. You need to market yourself and your book even before the first word has been written.
Terry Whalin has loved books since his mother read And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (the first Dr. Seuss book). He has worked both sides of the editorial desk—as an editor and a writer. He worked as a magazine editor and his magazine work has appeared in more than 50 publications. A former literary agent, Terry is an Acquisitions Editor at Morgan James Publishing .
He has written more than 60 books through traditional publishers in a wide range of topics from children’s books to biographies to co-authored books. Several of Terry’s books have sold over 100,000 copies. Terry’s book, Jumpstart Your Publishing Dreams, Insider Secrets to Skyrocket Your Success (Morgan James Publishing) is packed with insight. His most recent book is Billy Graham, A Biography of America’s Greatest Evangelist (Morgan James Publishing). Also Terry has an innovative online training course to help authors effectively connect with literary agents and editors called Write A Book Proposal . Terry is a popular speaker and teacher at numerous writers’ conferences and an active member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors . He lives near Denver, Colorado and has an active following on twitter (@terrywhalin).
What is the point of writing a book if you cannot get it in the hands of the people who can benefit from your message and wisdom you have learned? All too often writers write a book and, if they manage to publish it, have boxes sitting in their garage or basement with less than 100 books sold.
How do you sell books to more than your family and make a business out of writing?
Michael Ebeling has been a literary agent for over two decades and has been helping authors get published and get sold even years after their books have been out in the marketplace. In a world with over a million books on Amazon alone, that says a lot to me about his skills and he is my agent!
On this episode Michael shares how you can create a real funnel that sells your books and builds your business at the same time. If you are an author, or want to be an author, take a listen to this episode.
Michael Ebeling brings over 20 years of publishing, consulting, book promotion and author business management experience to Ebeling & Associates. Michael’s experience with leading authors and publishing companies and talent for creating innovative opportunities enables him to advise and support clients in realizing their goals.
Most recently, Michael has a NY Times and USA Bestseller with John Wiley & Sons, The Wallet Allocation Rule. In addition, his sale of the revised The Complete Book of Juicing to Clarkson Potter that has sold over 500,000 in total.
Michael just signed a deal with Benbella for Jene Luciani, author of The Bra Book and Jacqueline Laurita, from The Real Housewives of New Jersey.
He is currently consulting George Mateljan on the second edition of The World’s Healthiest Foods. The first edition of The World’s Healthiest Foods was self-published. George hired Ebeling & Associates for all aspects of the book launch, including printing, distribution, platform and business development, as well as book marketing and promotion. The first edition of The World’s Healthiest Foods has achieved the highest sales for a one-book publisher in the history of MidPoint Distribution Company, in excess of $1 million in sales, and over 100,000 books sold.
Michael is responsible for getting his authors on national shows such as Dr Oz, NBC’s TODAY Show, ABC News, The Wendy Williams Show, CNN, Fox News Channel, E! News, The Style Network and Good Day NY and in print, Yoga Journal, Better Nutrition, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Women’s World, First for Women, Spirituality & Health, The NY Post and the NY Times.
Michael enjoys working in promoting authors’ messages and seeing years of hard work pay off in national prominence for his clients. With a unique talent for merging the worlds of business, health and spirituality, Michael enjoys developing long-term client relationships based on a deep sense of caring and integrity. Michael’s brightest talents and greatest pleasures is working “hands-on” with authors – helping them to distill their message, create opportunities, open new markets, identify the steps they need to take to increase their platform and get published, as well as help them develop and execute a comprehensive strategy for achieving their goals.
Holidays are not just joy and light for those who are dealing with loss of any kind. It can be a nightmare to navigate all the happy, happy, joy, joy that is dished out if you have lost someone you love. Even friends and family don't really know how to include those who are grieving.
So how do you navigate your grief or the grief of others during the holiday season?
My guest, for the 3rd time this year, is Dr. Joan Rosenberg. On this episode we talk about how to honor your grief while everyone else is having a party, how you can support someone who is grieving today and other days and how you can begin building new traditions by sharing the old ones you had with missing loved ones with those around you.
During the show I share how grieving hit me like a 100 foot wave while baking my grandma's Christmas butter cookies. Dr Joan and I talk honestly about moving through it to the other side.
If you are grieving, or know someone who is, take a listen and share this post please. Know you are not alone.
Best-selling author, consultant, master clinician and media host, Dr. Joan Rosenberg is a cutting-edge psychologist who is known as an innovative thinker, acclaimed speaker and trainer. As a two-time TEDx speaker and member of the Association of Transformational Leaders, she has been recognized for her thought leadership and influence in personal development.
Dr. Rosenberg has been featured in the documentaries “I Am”, “The Miracle Mindset”, “Pursuing Happiness” and “The Hidden Epidemic”. She’s been seen on CNN’s American Morning, the OWN network, and PBS, as well as appearances and radio interviews in all of the major metropolitan markets.
A California-licensed psychologist, Dr. Rosenberg speaks on how to build confidence, emotional strength, resilience; achieving emotional, conversational and relationship mastery; integrating neuroscience and psychotherapy and suicide prevention. An Air Force veteran, she is a professor of graduate psychology at Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, CA.
Her latest book, 90 Seconds to a Life you Love: How to Master Your Difficult Feelings to Cultivate Lasting Confidence, Resilience and Authenticity, comes out February 12th! DrJoanRosenberg.com
Brian Kurtz has been in direct response marketing for close to four decades. He's learned from the best and is the best when it comes to understanding, and implementing, marketing that gets your prospect to buy, subscribe, share and use the products and services you are are selling.
Direct marketing is not a dirty word and Brian says we all need to embrace our products and services and share them with the right people. We must "Overdeliver" if we want to make a difference for our clients and our prospective clients.
On this episode Brian shares why a list isn't just a list and how you can turn a compiled list into a response list. He also shares why the long game is more important than the short game and what the Lifetime Value of a client means to your bottom line. Listen to the end and find out how you can win a copy of his latest book, Overdeliver.
Brian Kurtz has been a serial direct marketer for almost 40 years and never met a medium he didn't like...and while he's had much success, he also must admit that trying to sell subscriptions and books on the back of ATM receipts and under yogurt lids was only "a good idea at the time..."
Brian left his beloved Boardroom in January of 2015. Over 34 years he was responsible for the mailing of close to 2 billion pieces of direct mail in his career (and he did NOT lick every stamp!); and he was also responsible for the distribution of millions of other impressions and promotions in a wide variety of alternate media, both offline and online, using the most innovative direct marketing techniques while working with the most legendary copywriters and consultants who have ever lived.
Under Brian's marketing leadership and during his tenure, Boardroom’s revenues went from approximately $5 million (in 1981) to a high of over $150 million (in 2006).
Brian was instrumental in building Boardroom’s print and electronic newsletters, including Bottom Line/Personal, Bottom Line/Health, Bottom Line Secrets and Daily Health News.
And he was also responsible for selling tens of millions of books, mostly in the categories of health and finance, for consumers.
His mission for the next 40 years (as the Founder of “Titans Marketing”), is to be the bridge between the eternal truths of direct response marketing and all that is considered state-of-the-art direct response marketing today. And to make sure everyone he works with understands the complexities and the need to be multi-channel.
Brian writes and speaks regularly; recent content can be found at www.briankurtz.me and www.briankurtz.me/blog. His first book, The Advertising Solution, was released in October of 2017. His second book, Overdeliver: Build a Business for a Lifetime Playing the Long Game in Direct Response Marketing will be released in April of 2019.
But truth be told, Brian is really just a Little League Baseball Umpire and does this direct marketing stuff on the side. His ultimate goal is to umpire in the Little League World Series in Williamsport, PA while he is still upright...and he hopes it happens soon.
www.OverdeliverBook.com
Is that the best you can do? A common question if you've even negotiated a purchase of a new car but have you ever thought of asking that question of yourself in all aspects of your life and business?
Kevin Hunter has applied that question to every action he takes and it has transformed his life and the lives of his clients. He wrote the book on that topic and it is life changing.
During this interview Kevin Hunter shares how to get out of your rut, stopped being trapped by your own mind and the how OAR and BED are the best ways to know if you are doing the best you can do and find the thirsty horses that want to purchase your services and drink your products and services over and over and over again.
Kevin Hunter grew up in a very entrepreneurial family, and spent a majority of his professional life being self-employed. He got into media in 1999 broadcasting business talk radio. Moved into the online video broadcasting business in 2009, and by 2012 knew there was a serious future in publishing educational and informational video stories and consumer help videos.
Believe entirely in the fact that each of us has the power to choose either a VICTOR or VICTIM mindset, and depending on which one we chose, ultimately determines much of what we do with our lives. Kevin has also given a lot of attention to maintaining a flexible "comfort zone," and have been asked to speak on this specific subject by many different organizations around the country.
Kevin has been an MC or Guest Speaker at a variety of functions and events in my state, and surrounding states on a variety of subjects. He likes to challenge people with developing better questions, deeper questions that go beyond the surface observations of any given issue, and allowing the information to lead them to conclusions (as opposed to assumptions).
In 2015, wrote "Is that the best you can do?" a book drawn from personal life experience, and interviews with guests from various walks of life.
Launched NOW Events in 2019 with a group of other concerned citizens in the state of Washington. The primary focus of hosted events are to bring engaging speakers from around the country to give people unfiltered access to some of the brightest minds in America today. Keeping it real and bypassing the Mainstream Media filter for what's really happening in our country.
Kevin gives much time and attention to creating valuable stories for my online followers. I'm easy to find on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/kevinhunter Much of this content is significantly disliked by car dealers around the US, but he received more than 12,000 messages, comments, and emails from car buyers every year who are very appreciative of the help. Have saved Car Buyers as much as $14 Billion Dollars on car purchases in the US.
Enjoy using spare time for the pursuit of applying and analyzing statistics, and love how much information can be gleaned from studying the data. There is much peace of mind that comes from understanding a histogram (bell curve), trends and how to use them to predict outcomes, seasonal cycles of data across many different business types. With highly polarizing subjects, it can be hard to understand what data tells us. There's too much smoke screen. However, when you remove that data and apply it to other things that have less emotional attachment or preconceived notions, it's easier to understand what it tells us. I find it easy to establish common ground when a neutral subject is chosen, and then bring new understanding to a topic we may have already thought we knew the answer for.
Lori Ruff, the original LinkedIn Diva herself, and Joe Frankie III discuss how to succeed with LinkedIn in 5 minutes/day. They call it a 5 minute drill. I call it simple to do every day.
What is LinkedIn and why should you care? If you are in business today LinkedIn can help your find clients, source vendors, find employees, get that new career you've always dreamed about, connect to like-minded people, get booked on podcasts and media and so much more. They key though is using it effectively to meet your goals.
During this episode Lori Ruff and Joe Frankie III share the key steps to take each day to make your profile be one people are looking at, how using their "Sword, Sabre and Scalpel" approach to using LinkedIn can rapidly focus your efforts and how, in just 5 minutes a day, you can use LinkedIn to achieve your goals.
Lori Ruff believes the magic of genuine human connection occurs when people behave authentically.
As a notable "professional brand" thought leader, Lori has written multiple books, spoken at numerous conferences with 12 to over 5,000 attendees, and have produced and hosted a fun and successful radio show spanning four years. She has been recognized on over 5,000 lists related to Social Media Marketing, e-commerce, Authors, and Leadership as well as being named by Forbes as a Top 50 Social Media Power Influencer.
Known as “The LinkedIn Diva” due to her focus on delivering world-class expertise at a time when today’s top performers are trying to make their mark in a bigger and ever more challenging world. She open doors to help leaders become thought leaders, shortening the path to success through key introductions, and provide provocative advice that makes an immediate impact.
Lori Ruff has held many titles in her career including Social Entrepreneur, Speaker, Mentor, Celebrity Spokesperson, Chief Executive Officer, and most recently Chief Branding Officer of ALPFA, where she strengthened our brand promise to empower and develop Latino men and women as leaders of character for the nation.
Over the past two decades, Lori has helped more than 450,000 people learn how to get a better job, how to be more successful in their profession, and how to leverage their strengths to exceed their company’s goals.
Joe Frankie III is a West Point graduate, combat veteran, award-winning author and knows the power of a team. As CEO at JFIII Associates, he helps companies build better teams. Joe brings 40 years of leading and untangling multiple business projects up to $8 billion worldwide and as many as 53,000 associates where he has a track record of building teams, deploying technology and mitigating risk. These include technology integrations, software, start-ups and heavy logistics moves in the private and public sectors—Asia, China, South Korea, Mideast, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq.
Successes include: Forged investment banking relationships internationally for $3 Billion, five-year program for project water/wastewater infrastructure in China as part of cooperative joint effort. Chief of Staff and Director for the Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES), the “Wal-Mart” of the U.S. Military—the 12th largest retailer in the U.S., $7.5 Billion in revenue. Joint Program Manager to test combining an $8 Billion Army/Navy system. Award-Winning Co-Author of "LinkedIn: The 5-Minute Drill for Executive Networking Success"
Conflict resolution seems to be especially difficult around the holidays, well really all the time for most folks. I mean just think what is happening today around business, politics, religion. sexual definition and more. Most parents told us if you want to have an enjoyable meal with someone don't discuss politics or religion at the dinner table. With social media and a 24/7/365 news cycle the world is always on the brink of something or other and tensions run high.
My guest, Mari Frank, has spent decades as a lawyer and family law mediator handling some of the toughest conflicts most people will ever encounter.
How does she stay cool under rapidly escalating conflict? how does she diffuse the seemingly unresolvable so that everyone walks away from the table with more ease than when they sat down?
Take a listen as Mari shares how H.A.R.D. L.O.V.E. can convert conflict into collaboration and how it only takes one person to stop a conflict. She also shares how asking yourself, "What do I need to do to be OK letting this go?," can shift a conflict in an instant.
Mari Frank is an attorney, mediator, author (5 books), professional speaker, professor, and radio host of two shows (since 2005) airing on KUCI 88.9 FM in Irvine CA. For 3 decades, she’s expertly been using her unique “solutioneering” tools to resolve conflicts and transform adversity into opportunity for her clients, and audiences. Unlike a shark, her dolphin approach, gentle yet powerful, transforms disputes between people so they may collaborate and create dynamic relationships. She’s mediated and resolved all types of fights including business lawsuits and divorce.
A healer of conflict, Mari empowers audiences with strategies so they may communicate without turning disagreements into hostility. She’s been a guest on over 300 radio shows, appeared on dozens of television shows and hosted her own PBS TV Special.
As a professional speaker, she’s motivated such companies as American Express. General Electric, Experian, Edward’s Life Sciences, etc. With humorous stories, Mari articulates how to turn adversity into opportunity to create positive relationships. She’ll inspire your audience with the 6 A’s to keep a romantic relationship, and the 5 steps to gain power in any negotiation
When I look back at the songs that influenced my life, that inspired me when I was down and that are always there when I need to express an emotion, I realized that Thomas Bahler invariably had a hand in the creation or production of the song. We met at a conference years ago and he helped me pick a song to bring me on stage for my keynote. he just seemed to know who I am via song.
On this episode, Thomas Bahler, who wrote or produced for Michael Jackson, Cher, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Quincy Jones, The Partridge Family, Bobby Sherman, Steve Spielberg and many more, talks about what inspired him, how he learned to ask questions, how his many decades long career took him in directions he never imagined but was open to and what inspires him to continue creating soundtracks for our lives.
Thomas Bähler has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in the entertainment industry. He composed music for Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson, Cher, directors Steven Spielberg and Barry Levinson, magicians Siegfried and Roy, Superbowl Halftime Shows and a number of other high profile stage productions.
As a songwriter he’s written many hits including “She’s Out of My Life” “Living In A House Divided” (Cher) and “Julie Do You Love Me.” (Bobby Sherman) Thomas created vocal arrangements for the landmark charity event “We Are the World,” as well as for Barbara Streisand, Billy Joel, and the motion picture version of “The Wiz.”
He served as Music Director for a number of events sponsored by the White House, including “America’s Millennium”, “Points of Light” and President Clinton’s Inaugural Concert. Mr. Bähler has also served as Music Director and arranger for “The Kennedy Center Honors.”
Thomas is the author of two bestselling books, Anything is Possible: A Tale of Æsop and What You Want Wants You (1st ed.)
Pat Grillo shares how a vendor decision cost his 35 year company over 10 million dollars in sales and how it changed his business and life for the better.
Did that get your attention? It can happen to any entrepreneur. You choose a vendor partner that has products that your clients can use and you enter into a relationship with them that allows you to provide better pricing to your clients and higher margins to you. Over the years you build trust together and you have an increasing amount of your business that is built off that stream of revenue.
But what happens when that vendor you trusted for years cuts you out of the picture and starts selling directly to the client at a lower price and then cancels your relationship with you so you can no longer sell their product?
Think this is a rare occurrence in the world of business? It is not.
Take a listen and learn what Pat Grillo and his team learned and did and what they had in place before the floor fell out that has enabled them to grow their business to a different level.
Pat Grillo is the founder and CEO of Atrion Communication Resources, Inc (Atrion). Atrion was incorporated in June 1985 as a reseller and integrator of state-of-the-art data communications equipment and services.
Pat is a pioneer in the computer networking, cyber security and advanced technology industries. He was particularly instrumental in the creation of the value-added reseller (VAR) channel model that now forms the backbone of high-tech industry sales and service worldwide. Under Pat’s leadership over the past 35 years, Atrion has evolved into an information technology industry leader.
Prior to founding Atrion, Pat gained more than 10 years of experience in sales and management for several high-tech companies, leveraging that experience and knowledge to further Atrion’s success every year since its founding.
Pat’s experience and deep commitment to total customer satisfaction allows Atrion to specialize in working with Fortune 1000 companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Air Products, Armstrong World Industries, Dun & Bradstreet and Merck Pharmaceuticals. He also established vendor-partnering agreements with a number of the leading pharmaceutical and financial companies in the New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania region.
Additional career highlights include the co-founding of Atrion Networking Corp in 1988 and 1NService Corporation in 1997. He served for two years as 1NService Board Chairman. Pat is currently a member of numerous manufacturer executive advisory councils, member of CMP’s BoB Conference Advisory Board, Secure World Expo Advisory Board, Ingram Micro Security Advisory Board and ICS Board of Directors.
Pat served four years in the United States Marines Corps and is a Vietnam Veteran. Pat is committed to supporting Veteran and First Responder causes and has raised more than $50,000 for charities like Folds of Honor, NY Run for The Fallen, Wounded Warrior Foundation, NPower, Operation Shoe Box and several police & fire organizations. . In September 2019, Pat started the Atrion Charitable Foundation. The foundation will allow Pat to grow the company’s and Pat’s philanthropic endeavors.
Negotiations happen every day and not just in business. We negotiate with our families, at work, with vendors and more. Negotiation is not about win-win or win-lose. Rather according to Mari Frank it is about finding the sweet spot where each party knows their needs and can express them so results happen without anyone feeling like a loser.
Mari Frank reveals how she uses negotiation as a legal mediator and attorney and shares her 5 key tips to walking into and away from your negotiations with strength.
There was so much she had to share around negotiation that she is coming back on the show.
Mari Frank is an attorney, mediator, author (5 books), professional speaker, professor, and radio host of two shows (since 2005) airing on KUCI 88.9 FM in Irvine CA. For 3 decades, she’s expertly been using her unique “solutioneering” tools to resolve conflicts and transform adversity into opportunity for her clients, and audiences. Unlike a shark, her dolphin approach, gentle yet powerful, transforms disputes between people so they may collaborate and create dynamic relationships. She’s mediated and resolved all types of fights including business lawsuits and divorce.
A healer of conflict, Mari empowers audiences with strategies so they may communicate without turning disagreements into hostility. She’s been a guest on over 300 radio shows, appeared on dozens of television shows and hosted her own PBS TV Special.
As a professional speaker, she’s motivated such companies as American Express. General Electric, Experian, Edward’s Life Sciences, etc. With humorous stories, Mari articulates how to turn adversity into opportunity to create positive relationships. She’ll inspire your audience with the 6 A’s to keep a romantic relationship, and the 5 steps to gain power in any negotiation! www.marifrank.com
Dr. Anita Jackson has 5 advanced degrees including ones in organizational psychology and Marriage and Family therapy and through it all she realized she never felt she was enough so she kept getting more letters after her name. Then one day, at the very bottom, after having lost, her house, her car, er health and more she realized, I am enough.
Cut to today where she is the Founder and CEO of The Unlimited Woman Alliance, has her own production company and is a multiple times bestselling author who coaches women to achieve their highest potential and you will quickly realize she really is enough.
Take a listen to this episode as Dr Anita M. Jackson shares the questions to ask to shift from I am not enough to I am enough; how to skip analysis paralysis and make strong decisions and how she weaves her faith and her experience into all she does and what you absolutely must do after you ask the right questions.
Dr. Anita M. Jackson is fast becoming a sought after feminine transformational mentor, speaker, leader, and success coach within the feminine empowerment movement. She has an unquenchable passion to lead a movement of women to a higher level of being and doing that literally creates a tipping point of healing for others worldwide. At the core, Dr. Anita mentors women entrepreneurs in knowing, "I Am Enough" while helping them lead, live, and leverage their unlimited potential, power, and purpose in life, business, wealth, and so much more.
She is the founder and CEO of The Unlimited Woman Alliance, Her Global Voice, and AMJ Productions and Publications. She is also the former Sr. Executive Producer of Outrageous Success Women's Network Channel (powered by VoiceAmerica Network), producing and broadcasting online TV shows promoting the empowerment and success of women worldwide. She was the host of Outrageous Success Women’s TV and The Unlimited Woman Show.
Through AMJ Productions and Publications, she was the publisher of I Am Enough Magazine, an international recognized online magazine, and is the current publisher of the Unlimited Woman Magazine which is a lifestyle, luxury magazine mentoring spiritual, heart-centered women in making a conscious decision to be unapologetic in creating, living and having an outrageously successful life and business. She is a #1 Best-Selling author of four books and co-author in seven other books
For the past 25 years, Dr. Anita has worked with human and spiritual development and transformation as a Marriage and Family Therapist and Organizational Psychologist. She also has a rich background in Christian higher education, personal and professional coaching, and organizational consultation and leadership. She has participated as an advisory member for one of the largest Christian movements, Daughters of The King (the women’s division of Promise Keepers) launched at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA in 1997 with over 32,00 women.
Dr. Anita believes that despite the amazing contributions women have already made to society, there is so much more for women to contribute and to offer — and she is dedicated to helping women realize their unlimited potential NOW!
Marilyn Horowitz teaches screenwriting at NYU and is herself a screenwriter and producer and author. Screenwriting is in her blood and she has even been called in to be a script doctor when scripts need some fixing.
What is it about movies, TV Shows and plays that makes mostly every author want their book to come alive on the big or small screen?
I've always wondered why some books succeed on the screen and some books don't. I've also wondered why some screen adaptations are even better than the books but I never understood what it really takes to do the writing. It just seemed like a foreign language to me.
Marilyn shares tips from her trademarked Horowitz System of writing including content from her NYU textbook, The 4 Magic Questions of Screenwriting on this episode. She explains how you can eliminate writers block and also clears up how you can use each side of your brain to write quickly and easily.
Marilyn Horowitz is an award-winning New York University professor, TV show creator, producer, and Manhattan-based writing coach, who works with successful novelists, produced screenwriters, and award-winning filmmakers. She has a passion for helping novices get started. Since 1998 she has taught thousands of aspiring screenwriters to complete a feature length screenplay using her method. She completed her tenure as a judge for the Fulbright Scholarship Program for film and media students in 2013 and as a judge for the New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT) Ravenal Foundation Grant. In 2004 she received the coveted New York University Award for Teaching Excellence.
Professor Horowitz has a created a revolutionary system that yields a new, more effective way of writing. She is the author of six books that help the writer learn her trademarked system, including editions for college, high school, and middle school. The college version is a required text at New York University and the University of California, Long Beach. Two of her books have been used in the Lights, Camera, Literacy! program taught to over 1,000 children in Maryland’s Montgomery County Public School System (a recent recipient of the “Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award” for outstanding scholastic performance).
Professor Horowitz writes articles for Script magazine, and she pens a monthly column for MovieOutline.com, an online magazine with 30,000 subscribers. She is featured in Now Write! Screenwriting anthology published by Tarcher/Penguin edited by Sherry Ellis and the 2014 edition of The Expert Success Solution. Marilyn’s latest novel, The Book of Zev, reached Amazon Best Seller status when it was released in December 2014.
Professor Horowitz has taught more than 100 classes, seminars, and workshops across the country for groups including the Writers Guild of America East, NYWIFT, Philadelphia Writer’s Conference, Script DC, Screenwriters World East, and the Great American PitchFest. In addition, she also hosts periodic writers retreats in Tuscany, Italy.
Professor Horowitz has written several feature-length screenplays. Her production credits include the feature films And Then Came Love (2007), starring Vanessa Williams and distributed by Warner Bros.; Caleb’s Door (2009), distributed by Around the Scenes; Found in Time (2011); Nocturnal Agony (2011); and The One(2011).
Have you ever taken one of those personality or strength tests like Meyers-Briggs, Strength Finders or another in an attempt to understand what drives you and how you think? Kathy Tagenel says learning what makes you tick can make your business and life choices have a greater chance of success without all the drama.
What seems to be missing from several of the assessments is your action model. How you will make decisions and then take action. I don't know about you but knowing that information would seem like it would have saved me a lot of pain in my career in corporate and as an entrepreneur.
My guest today is Kathy Tagenel and she is better known as Agent 99 to Bob Burg's Maxwell Smart but anyone who knows her knows she is a force to be reckoned with in her own right. Kathy shares with us what conative strengths are, the power behind performance, and uses me as a guinea pig to explain my Modus Operandi (MO). Hint, she is eerily accurate!
Kathy Tagenel is an entrepreneur and business developer. She is the Chief Marketing Officer of Burg Communications, Inc. and president of Zoom Strategies, Inc., the marketing firm she started in 2004. Since 2008 Kathy has been working with Bob Burg to help build The Go-Giver Movement. Kathy’s background is in marketing, information technology, and management; her passion is working with entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs to help them develop and grow their businesses.
She received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University and her MBA from the University of Chicago. She started her own consulting business in 1999 and previously had worked for large corporations such as IBM, Ameritech and Verio. Kathy is an adventurer who loves to travel and boldly go where she’s never gone before! She looks forward to meeting all the amazing ambassadors of the Go-Giver movement.
Sarah Santacroce says its time to stop the, "But wait, there's more" way of marketing. The deluge of ads and emails that hit your inbox and TV and news feed saying buy now or miss out, only 5 left, or signup now and start making money today are overwhelming. They are enough to make you say, STOP THE MADNESS! But they work for a specific segment of the population so businesses continue to use that method of marketing
Yet what about those who just mass delete those emails, change the channel or skip over the ad in their feed? How do you market to them? Is it worth marketing to the other kind of client? YES.
There is no one size fits all to marketing from the consumer side or the business side. Take a listen as Sarah shares how you can land clients and not just leads.
Sarah Santacroce is an internationally recognized LinkedIn Specialist & Online Presence Mentor who has personally coached, mentored and guided over 1,900 entrepreneurs. She helps them position themselves as experts on LinkedIn, shows them how to find & express their unique voice & stand out as thought leaders. As a result they find their tribe, get the recognition they deserve & a steady flow of clients – with ease & not sleaze.
In addition to her LinkedIn expertise, Sarah is known for helping fellow entrepreneurs market their business authentically & anxiety-free, sell their services & make a difference. She’s also the host of the ‘Gentle Business Revolution’ podcast where she has conversations that aim to disrupt the current marketing paradigm and bring more empathy and kindness to the business world.
Sarah’s upbringing and life’s experiences inspired a yearning to create a global movement that encourages people to bring more empathy and kindness to the business world, live a more meaningful life and take care of our mother earth and each other. Her Gentle Marketing Revolution Program is an integral part of the The Gentle Business Revolution movement.
When she’s not working she loves adventure & traveling (ask her about her alter ego in Sicily), yoga & nature walks or hanging out with her family. www.sarahsantacroce.com
There is a new article everyday about disconnecting from tech, not working 24/7/365 and increasing your productivity in fewer hours. Yet most of us cannot seem to stick to the ideas of those articles. We cannot seem to find a way to make time for life beyond work to the levels we say we want.
Karl W. Palachuk has been living a life that grows his business while growing his life outside of work. He writes a book a year, publishes multiple newsletters, consults, hosts multiple podcasts, speaks at events, runs workshops, manages his business and personal social media, meditates every day and lives a life filled with laughter and friends and family.
How does he do it without being filled with stress and exhaustion?
Take a listen as Karl shares how he manages his day, plans his life and most of all, finds joy and laughter in just about everything.
Karl W. Palachuk is the author of twenty books and the creator of dozens of information products and downloads. He is a business owner, entrepreneur, author, father, speaker, publisher, blogger, podcaster, and a community builder.
Karl’s Relax Focus Succeed philosophy topics include work-life balance, team building, goal-setting, and personal development. He built a successful technology consulting company and then used it to expand into book writing and business consulting.
He travels extensively, adding personal days to almost every trip. As a result, Karl visits 25-30 cities every year, often across three or four countries, and manages to take about fifty vacation days each year. Talk about Relax Focus Succeed!
He is the founder of the Small Biz Thoughts Community and maintains four blogs, including Small Biz Thoughts and Relax Focus Succeed.
Karl has owned several small businesses, including two very successful Managed Service companies in Sacramento, CA. He received his first Microsoft certification in 1995 and his first MCSE in 1999. He was an active, hands-on Systems Engineer until January of 2017.
He now provides coaching and consulting services to IT professionals of all sizes. www.karlpalachuk.com, www.smallbizthoughts.com
Everyone has a story. Some are able to tell their stories in a way that transforms the listener. Others, have a story that can change people but cannot seem to share it due to fear or some level of fear that minimizes the sharing.
Ethan Freckleton had been so filled with fear that he was unable to lift himself up at one point and then something changed. He recognized that fear was the only thing between himself and his dreams.
On this episode, Ethan, known as the Ambassador of Fearless Storytelling, shares how he went from feeling trapped to live his life out loud and helping others do the same. Ethan shares several powerful questions you can ask yourself to shift you from feeding fear to nurturing hope and more.
If you are, or have ever been stopped by fear, this episode is for you.
Bellingham, WA based Ethan Freckleton continues the tradition of honest storytelling, whether that’s in the form of Americana - melding a heavy influence of blues and country music with the louder and heavier guitar sounds of the grunge era that he grew up with - or as an author of speculative fiction.
As an author, Ethan Freckleton has helped hundreds of people start living their best lives with ‘The Change Habit,’ and entertained thousands more with his fiction. His debut novel, PROPHET OF VIRTUE (March ‘18), was a humorous exploration of the oft-dysfunctional Seattle software culture. Recent releases include OF DONKEYS, GODS, AND SPACE PIRATES (May ‘19).
As a songwriter, devoted to writing great songs, he has continually refined his approach while studying the craft of songwriting with hit writers - among them: Jeffrey Steele, Tom Hambridge, Hugh Prestwood, Angela Kaset and Don Henry. Their teachings left their mark, as Ethan emerged with his own brand of sincere, soul-infused rock n' roll.
Notable releases include FINALLY (March ‘16), EMPTY PALACE (May '14) and UNLIMITED LOVE (May '13) recorded in Hawaii, THE CRAZY THINGS WE SAY(Feb '12) recorded with his band and produced by Johnny Sangster(Mudhoney, Maggie Bjorkland), as well as ALL SHE NEEDS (June '12) recorded in Nashville and produced by Jim Reilley (New Dylans).
He has been carried in rotation on independent and commercial radio stations around the globe, from the UK's HOT RADIO 102.8 to Southern FM 88.3 in Melbourne, Australia; as well as in the USA on such stations as Los Angeles' KPFK 90.7 FM and Hawaii's KTUH 90.3 and KKCR 90.9.
Ethan is currently the host of THE FEARLESS STORYTELLER podcast, and busy penning the third and final book in a humorous science fiction trilogy. As a musician, he’s an alumni of Seattle, WA area bands The Troublefakers, Alectrophobia, The Disappointments and Lust for Kicks. As a teenager, he shared the stage with blues greats RL Burnside, Lonnie Pitchford, Dave Conant. https://www.ethanfreckleton.com/
From a bookstore in a hair salon in 1927 to a world dominating force in 2019 in getting books into the hands of readers while supporting the authors, Porchlight Books, formerly 800CEOReads, takes a chance on a name change.
Sally Haldorson has worked at 800CEOReads for over 21 years and for the last four years she has been at the helm. How do you navigate and thrive in a world where, as Sally puts it, "Amazon Happened"?
I love when I get to interview people in the trenches. The ones doing the work everyday. The ones who are not just though leaders but leaders in every sense of the word. In the world of publishing many companies come and go and few thrive AND are considered leaders in making a difference for their employees and their clients. Porchlight Book Company and Sally Haldorson are the real deal in the world of publishing. They make things happen for authors and their clients. They also have their own Business Book Awards and a highly sought after bestseller ranking list.
So why change your name and risk losing the momentum you have build to decades?
Take a listen as Sally shares with us the why and the how behind the change. She also shares why she feels books are like concerts and how selling books should be like selling tickets to a concert. You get more than just the music at a concert and readers need to get more than just the book to build raving fans.
Sally Haldorson is a 25-year veteran of bookselling and a live-long lover of books. Her first job post-college (English degree, of course) was working for the now-defunct B.Dalton and then supervising at their short-lived children’s store P.B.Pages. After attending graduate school in Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, it was her husband’s turn to return to school, so she once again turned to bookselling, taking a job in 1997 at Schwartz Business Books, one of 9 stores owned by Milwaukee’s independent bookstore chain, the Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops. The Schwartz family legacy had begun in 1927 as a publisher in the back of a hair salon and in 1984, in addition to many brick-and-mortar stores run by Harry’s son, David, had added business books as a concentration, lead by Jack Covert.
Through the 21 years she has worked for the family as Schwartz Business Books later became 800-CEO-READ (to emphasize its business concentration) and has now rebranded as Porchlight Book Company to represent its ability and desire to help sell and promote all types of books with large audiences, Sally has worked her way through all aspects of the company— customer service, operations, accounting, marketing, and now management—, and helped guide the company through external industry disruptions such as Amazon, the roller-coaster economy, and the emergence of technology in publishing, as well as internal change as the family was forced to close the bookstore chain itself in the late 00s and retirements have instigated changes in leadership in the most recent decade.
Working for a small, family company has also allowed Sally the opportunity and flexibility to give attention to her own family. When her son was born on 2005, and began to show signs of ill-health and disability, the company adapted to the demands of being a mother to a special needs child and offered her work she could do from home—during those years, she helped Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten (then 800ceoread’s General Manager) write and publish the book The 100 Best Business Books of All Time with Portfolio now in its 3rd edition and having sold over 30,000 copies. She became General Manager of 800-CEO-READ in 2015, the same year Sally’s husband was diagnosed with leukemia at age 47. With the company's support Sally was able to manage both her family’s needs as well as the company’s growth as 800-CEO-READ moved into a new building with the space to expand its logistics capabilities and staff.
2019 has brought about even more change as Sally and new CEO Rebecca Schwartz have led a re-brand with new technological infrastructure to enable the company to contribute even more to the authors and publishes who bring great work into the marketplace of ideas. In her “spare time” Sally has drafted a memoir titled Brave as Stars, and you can find her work at sallyehaldorson.com.
Just because you publish your book doesn't mean you will sell any copies. My guest today has been helping get books sold for authors for many years. Jane Ubell-Meyer has worked in TV and movies and publishing for many years and is considered by those in the know to be the one to turn to help launch and relaunch books to get sales happening.
The founder of bedsidereading.com shares tips, strategies and invaluable resources you can use to get your books found by your target reader. Jane also shares why the book cover matters and the three things you need to do to make your book a success out of the gate.
Jane Ubell-Meyer has been a successful television and film producer and entrepreneur. She comes from three generations of entrepreneurs. She learned how to build a business by following her father at a very young age to tradeshows, working side by side in his office and augmented her work ethic from her years at Good Morning America, Entertainment Tonight, Wall St Journal Television, Hearst Magazines and as a film producer in Hollywood.
Jane created Bedside Reading® and innovative program placing books by the bedsides in luxury hotels and in the Media. The goal being to help expand an author’s fanbase and promote an author’s book in the Media. Her hotel clients include Waldorf Astoria, Mandarin Oriental, Fairmont among others. Her Bedside Reading portfolio includes 24 hotels. Her publishing clients include Penguin Random House, Simon and Schuster, Harper Collins, Hachette, Macmillan, Kensington as well as countless small publishers and indie-authors.
Her experiences as a journalist, television & film producer and entrepreneur led her to realize that anyone who is an entrepreneur can always use a roadmap, guidance and help as they journey through the world of being an entrepreneur.
Jane is a painter (JaneUbellPaintings.com) and lives in Connecticut with her husband. She is also a contributor to Afar Magazine, Hollywood Weekly, and East Hampton press, Southampton Press, etc.
It seems like every other person I talk to wants to write and publish a book. But what does it really take to get a book to market and, even more important, have it get into the hands of the right readers?
David Hancock founded Morgan James Publishing to help entrepreneurs get their messages out through books. He felt there had to be a better way for thought leaders to keep their copyrights and sell books. Publisher's Weekly consistently ranks his publishing house as one of the top houses. Their authors top the charts of the NY Times, Wall Street Journal and other bestseller lists as well. Yet, many authors seem to struggle with the process from start to finish.
On this episode David shares his best tips on getting accepted by a publisher, writing your book and marketing and selling your book. We also talk about the state of the industry and what is next in digital book sales and block chain.
David L. Hancock founded Morgan James Publishing in 2003.
David has revolutionized book publishing from the author’s standpoint. As Founder of Morgan James, he was personally selected for Fast Company Magazine’s Fast 50 for his leadership, creative thinking, significant accomplishments, and his significant impact on the industry over the next ten years. David was cited by NASDAQ as one of the world’s most prestigious business leaders, and named a Finalist in the Best Chairman category in The American Business Awards, hailed as “the business world’s own Oscars” by the New York Post.
David serves as President of the Executive Board for Habitat for Humanity Peninsula and Greater Williamsburg, and as Chairman of the Board of The National Center for the Prevention of Community Violence.
David and his wife Susan live in Hampton Roads, Virginia with their two children, Morgan Renee and Ethan James.
Thomas Kies was a journalist for many years and now he is a successful thriller writer. The twist? His main character is a woman!
Three books into the series the books just keep getting better and the Publisher wants a fourth. Yet the journey was not an easy one. Many books were trashed and many books not accepted by agents. Until, one day, a yes.
So what did Thomas have inside that allowed him to persevere all while keeping a day job that often went into the night?
This episode is for everyone who wonders when their day will come or better yet, when the no will turn to yes. It doesn't matter if it is a book you want to write, a business you want to start or something on more of a personal level. We all have a dream whether they are small or large doesn't matter. What matters is how you move through the journey.
Take a listen as Tom shares the question his editor asked that put him on the track to success.
Author of the Geneva Chase Mystery Series, Thomas Kies lives and writes on a barrier island on the coast of North Carolina with his wife, Cindy, and Lilly, their Shih-Tzu.
He has a long career working for newspapers and magazines, primarily in New England and New York, and is currently working on his next novel, Graveyard Bay.
Michael Levitt, The Founder of Breakfast Leadership and the namesake podcast knows a think or two about how burnout can destroy your life, business and health. After a devastating loss he learned to set boundaries in all aspects of his business and his life and know advises others on how to see the warning signs of burnout, how to turn it around and most of all how to grow your business and enjoy your life at the same time.
The World Health Organization recognizes burnout as a legitimate syndrome and defines it as "feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion; increased mental distance from one's job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one's job; and reduced professional efficacy." We also know it happens to mom's who work outside the home and inside the home and to caregivers.
The term burnout used to be used to describe hippies and druggies in the 70's yet now it is a part of our daily language and is becoming an epidemic with potentially catastrophic results. Can you recognize when you or someone around you has it? How do you help yourself or others to heal from it? What do you do if you have it and need that job? Can you recover or is your only option to leave or suffer?
My guest on this episode has dedicated his life and his business to helping not just leaders recognize burnout and recover from it but also help everyone avoid ever suffering from it.
Take a listen as Michael shares when you should take a step back, who may get burnout and the questions you need to ask before, during and after burnout to have your best life.
Michael Levitt brings people back to life. Focused on helping individuals and leaders within corporations (Re)Learn BOUNDARIES in their work and personal lives – So that they can accomplish more, by doing less, which will save their careers and possibly their lives.
Michael lost his health, his job, his car, and his home all in 369 days. Michael teaches people on how that happened to him, so that they can make the crucial changes in their lives to prevent those losses from happening to them.
Michael is a Thought Leader, and Author of 369 Days: How To Survive A Year of Worst-Case Scenarios. With over 30 years’ experience during a career in leadership, healthcare, finance and information technology. He has led community engagement, fund raising, and government engagement, which led to thousands of patients getting access to primary healthcare, reducing emergency room visits.
Contact Michael at www.BreakfastLeadership.com and catch his podcast of the same name.
We've all had those curve balls thrown at us in our lives and our businesses. You know, the ones that seem to come out of left field that disrupt our plans for our lives and the course of our business. Why do some people seem to be able to get right back on track and others seem to never recover?
My guest today has had several major life disruptions and for awhile there they came one right after another. She lost her husband and co-founder of their business who was her best friend, confidant and father to her son. Two months before he passed away a fire destroyed a critical part of their business that cost $250,000 to replace and there is more to tell.
During this interview, Kim M. Becker shares how we each need to find our own safe person to share the real gritty stuff with, and we are not talking social media here. She also shares real word advice for how she has kept the faith, created new rituals and traditions while honoring the old, let her son see her cry and let her staff and clients know that even though Michael is now watching from Heaven that the work they are doing with Hello Gorgeous will carry on.
Kim Becker is a motivational and inspirational speaker and an award-winning author of two books about beauty, cancer and the amazing scope of the human spirit. Kim is a dynamic communicator with an incredible story of faith, hope and service to others, and the founder of Hello Gorgeous! of HOPE, Inc., a non-profit organization that provides Red-Carpet Experiences for women battling all cancers across the United States,
Kim has been a business owner and national educator for more than 30 years. Through her many experiences in the for-profit and non-profit business worlds, Kim has become a business woman, fundraiser, event planner, educator, public speaker, author, podcast host and the face of Hello Gorgeous! Kim received the Mom`s Choice Award for her first book, “Hello Gorgeous!: A Journey of Faith, Love and Hope”. Kim received the 2011 Spirit of Women award, an American Cancer Society 2014 Coaches Verses Cancer Inspirational Award, she received the prestigious George H. W. Bush, Points of Light award in 2015 and in 2019 Kim received the Shero Award from Zeta Phi Beta Society. Contact Kim at Hello Gorgeous!
Stuart Crawford has built an international business helping other businesses grow and serve their customers. He also does it with a complete money back guarantee unheard of in this day and age.
He ran a successful technology services company, known as an MSP, for many years until one day he realized it was time to sell and also time to move from his home base of Canada to Florida.
Stuart shares with me how it knew it was time to sell, time to pack up and relocate and how he has learned to change the way he does business after a heart attack. He also shares tips for building your business online and offline because without the two, sales really do not keep building for a service based business.
When he was 18, Stuart Crawford had dreams of being a career soldier, so he joined the Canadian military. Over a nine-year period, he put his boyhood love of electronics and communication to good use first as a radio operator with the Canadian Artillery in Shilo, Manitoba; then as a strategic communications specialist in Penhold, Alberta; and finally, as brigade network administrator with 1 Brigade in Calgary, Alberta. Always civic minded, Stuart served as part of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus in 1992.
In 2001, Stuart founded IT Matters, a Microsoft award-winning computer and technology partner, and served as the Vice President of Business Development for eight years. In 2009, he played a vital role in the merger of Bulletproof InfoTech and CompuConsult.com and helped the resulting new startup IT firm gain a competitive edge in the Alberta small-business community.
Today, Stuart serves as Creative Director and CEO with Sebring, FL and Fort Erie, ON-based Ulistic, a specialty firm focused on information technology marketing and business development. He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience pertaining to how technology business owners and IT firms can use marketing as a vehicle to obtain success.
Although his passion still revolves around using technology and electronics, this global IT community leader has shifted his focus serving the IT business community, entrepreneurs, small-business owners and marketing executives. He teaches them how to maximize their online marketing, social media, search engine optimization, how to communicate their expertise to the marketplace and serve their clients more efficiently. His unique ability to see past the Internet enables Ulistic’s clients to balance the online and offline worlds. Contact Stuart at www.Ulistic.com
Life as an entrepreneur needs help and my guest today shares what he has learned building and selling his own successful business and helping others do the same. Based out of the UK, Richard Tubb has built an international business helping MSP's and other companies build their dream business while having a life.
It's not easy being an entrepreneur yet everyone seems to want to be one. On this episode Richard Tubb talks productivity, procrastination (yup he admits he is a procrastinator who happens to be highly productive), the secret sauce to grow your busy and what the heck is a cheeky nandos. I really wanted the answer to that last one!
We also touch on some difference between being in business in the UK versus the US and how he learned to take his weakest link and turn it into a secret weapon.
Richard Tubb is one of the best-known experts within the global IT Managed Service Provider (MSP) community. He launched and sold his own MSP business before creating a leading MSP media and consultancy practice. Richard helps IT business owner’s take back control by freeing up their time and building a business that can run without them. He’s the author of the book “The IT Business Owner’s Survival Guide” and writer of the award-winning blog www.tubblog.co.uk
- Podcast: http://tubb.co/TubbTalk
- Twitter: @tubblog
Seems like everyone wants to be an entrepreneur these days. Being an entrepreneur is widely considered the dream to achieve. But what if you cannot afford to just quite your day job and start your own business? Is it possible to build one while still working your other job and paying the bills?
My guest on this episode is Tommy Griffith. He used to head up SEO at PayPal and Airbnb and he even taught SEO. One day he realized he wanted to do more than just work. He wanted to play. So he started a side gig called clickminded.com and he built courses teaching people how to do SEO themselves and more. His journey took many years to see that initial side gig become a full-time career that paid his bills, covered his lifestyle and generated revenue even when he wasn't working 80 hours/week.
Tommy Griffith shares the 1000 day rule, how to know if you have entrepreneurial ADD, the key questions you need to ask yourself to start a side gig that can become a success and even gives us a little bit of an SEO lesson.
Tommy Griffith has been doing search engine optimization for more than 10 years. He was previously managed SEO at PayPal and Airbnb, and now runs ClickMinded, a digital marketing training platform for marketers and entrepreneurs.
Tommy started ClickMinded as a side project while working full-time at Airbnb. He grew it until it started generating more revenue than his annual salary. Two years ago, he quit Airbnb to go full-time on it and ran into a number of problems in trying to grow the business from there. www.clickminded.com
Anyone can start a business. Not everyone can run a successful one though. There is more to running a business than picking out a name and opening the doors. And there is much more to getting a book published than getting a contract with a big name publisher or even self-publishing.
My guest on this episode is Peter Hoppenfeld. His client list is a Who's Who of global leadership, health and wellness and digital marketing. His clients have longevity because they listen, learn, grow and protect their businesses along the way.
Take a listen as my guest, and my personal legal adviser and literary attorney, shares what he tells his successful clients, how he has learned to take the fork in the road when it comes and how you can too.
Peter also shares questions you need to be asking when you start your business and when you are growing your business. We also discuss the changing face of publishing and how to protect your intellectual property when thinking about a book contract.
Peter Hoppenfeld has been described as a "lawyer who really understands marketing" and "a marketer who happens to be a lawyer." His approach to representing clients is a holistic approach that aims to bring peace of mind and direction to the business/legal issues that successful, dynamic entrepreneurs face on a daily basis.
As a lawyer, advisor, counselor, friend and devil’s advocate, he aims to integrate himself into his clients’ inner circles and provide caring yet dynamic contributions to their lives and businesses. www.peterhoppenfeld.com
Have you considered the outcome before you take the leap? Truly thought about the cause and effect of your actions not just one step ahead but many? How your part in an action impacts you and others around you? How your experiences determine the paths you take?
My guest today has learned the hard way how cause and effect can change the course of a life. She also learned how to no longer make her life hard so she can move forward. On the show Alison shares how you can understand what is #MyPart and what your personal echo chamber has to do with your life.
Alison Donaghey is a Radio Host of The Alison Donaghey Show, Author of an international best-selling book Think Opposite: Using the Domino Effect to Change Your Business, Change the World, Speaker, and a Cause and Effect Strategist and will expand your mind in ways you didn’t think possible.
Her latest project is #mypart. Accepting our part in every single situation we find ourselves in which brings us to a place of true empowerment with the goal to see ourselves as part of humanity as a whole rather than dividing it into victims and victimizers, oppressed and oppressor thus moving towards understanding the inherent value of everyone.
Free copy of her audio book - Think Opposite https://www.dominothinking.com/gift
Alan Shapiro is a true creative person. From his day job as a Creative Director for the top Advertising Network to his other day job as a world renowned and sought after photographer, he has helped create some of the world's top brands and given those who know his photography some of the most beautiful and creative moments recorded with a camera.
How does one live a life, and make money, as an artist and a brand creator without burning out?
You might be surprised with what Alan shares on this episode. He shares how stress and a gift of a camera actually led him to his passion and how teamwork drives his creative life. That was a nugget I was not expecting he would talk about!
We dive into how to celebrate life in every moment, how to build a brand and what questions he asks himself to live his best life.
Many of our parents told us that art is not a career to be considered because you cannot live on that dream. Alan is proof that is not true but you have to be smart about it and he shares how he developed his creative side.
There are a few surprises on this episode as well as Alan and I grew up together and reminisce a bit to celebrate my birthday!
Alan Shapiro is a passionate, award-winning photographer. Advertising Chief Creative Officer, too
He grew up on the creative side of the advertising world, working with clients of every size and in every category around the world; telling their unique stories in very unique ways.
Along the way, he has had the pleasure of working with many, many talented photographers, directors and content creators. I became envious of their art and craft. At first, he saw it as a means of reducing his stress-filled life. As a Chief Creative Officer at the world's largest Advertising Agency Network, Alan needed a distraction. A friend gave him a camera. Then he bought another. And then another. Alan's new hobby and daily "creative exercise regimen" quickly turned into a joy-filled and all consuming passion. Then a client. And another. And then many more. Lockheed Martin, GM, Cadillac, Apple, Bose, Scholastic…
Alan loves talking to all sorts of people and seems to have a knack for getting them to open up and share themselves despite the intrusion and intimidation that a serious-looking camera often represents.
He likes finding and sharing things I find. Beautiful things. Powerful things. Poignant things. He doesn't like rules very much. He is incredibly patient and am often rewarded with moments of magic.
Alan enjoys taking something ordinary and making it something well beyond that. Illustration and painting are other passions as is creating unique "painted" photographs and photo compositions.
One thing led to another and now his work is published, hanging in corporate and private collections and shown in galleries.
With two careers he loves. His word to describe is: Happiness.
Contact info: alanshapirophotography.com or alanshapiro@me.com
Dan R Morris is a fiend at making money from blogging and online offers. He and Rachel Morris regularly get 1 million reach, without advertising, on Facebook and other online platforms. And better yet, those reaches translate into dollars and clients. Can you say that about your online presence? I know I cannot.
Dan R. Morris is the founder of blogging concentrated and the BC Stack. During this episode he opens up his bag of knowledge and shares how you can begin converting your prospects and followers from Likes to business even if you have a small following.
Dan R Morris says his company exists because we need it to, you and I. We need learning entertainment that motivates, excites, encourages . . . but also has a return on investment. Solid ideas you can implement in your life to make it better.
With our limited time we need to be surrounded by people who can move us forward in a way that makes tomorrow easier. And we wanted to create events that produce a return for the audience, not just good memories.
We spend everyday working talking with business owners about improving their income and business models. Each and every one of those experiences gives us new insight into best practices.
For the shows, I also tap into my experience building Walgreens pharmacies, developing TV and radio infomercials and even working for Warren Buffet.
I love, love, love using practical examples to help make things concrete. My goal is to help motivated people and business owners perfect the little things that make a big difference.
Harry Brelsford says cannabis is no longer a dirty word and is an industry desperate for your business to help them run their business. It is the Wild Wild West all over again and they need help with all aspects of their business yet so many do not want to help them.
So how can you safely and successfully do business with those who are licensed to sell medical cannabis all while getting a piece of the multi-billion dollar new industry?
Enter Harry Brelsford. His latest book is designed to help those in the tech industry, mostly Managed Service Providers (MSP), learn the ins and outs and governmental challenges of this unique and growing business sector but it also can help any business learn what to do to enter as a service provider.
Take a listen as Harry shares insights from two plus years of research and doing business with the legal cannabis industry. Why start from scratch when someone has laid out the foundation for you?!
Two years of specific vertical research has resulted in this, Harry Brelsford’s 21st book, plus numerous YouTube presentations and blogs/articles. An investor/entrepreneur in the Seattle Miracle era in tech, Brelsford shares his knowledge by sending the elevator back down in a “go giver” mentality that is part of his living theology.
Best known as the CEO and founder of SMB Nation, Brelsford taught 12+ years at Seattle Pacific University and Central Washington University. Much of his business and technology acumen derives from global outreach to 45-countries including EMEA, APAC, LATAM, NORAM and India.
In addition to six major certifications (MCT, MCSE, et. al.), Brelsford holds the following degrees: BSBA, MBA, PhD-Letters and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. Learn more about Brelsford’s qualifications, experience and published works via his LinkedIn profile HERE.
Dr Lee Funk completed medical school, chiropractic school, acupuncture school and is also a doctor of oriental medicine. He also has a few other modalities and licenses under his belt. Why has he chosen to move from a a more traditional approach to medicine from the western viewpoint to a more whole body holistic and functional/integrative approach? His patients and his own health.
Over the course of his career, and his life, he has learned that just one way of looking at things doesn't always get the job done. He has learned to ask better questions of himself and his patients so he can best help them heal and get out of pain.
Take a listen as he shares his medical journey, some thoughts on how you can improve your health and what the kind of relationship you need to be having with your doctor and yourself to improve your health.
Dr. Lee Funk is a Board-Certified Diplomate in Acupuncture licensed in the State of Florida as a Doctor of Acupuncture since 2005. He graduated from the University of Science, Arts and Technology Medical School, served as a paramedic for 10 years and was a licensed Chiropractor for 28 years. It has always been the purpose of his life to bring pain relief to suffering people and believes that God has called me to be a Healer to the Hurting. www.drleefunk.com
What does it really take to have financial freedom. To be financially free to have what you need and what you want without fear that you will be broke?
There are many books out there touting the latest gimmick to have the monetary life you want but many are just that, gimmicks. My guest today is the co-author of The Latte Factor with David Bach and I recommend this book become required reading.
If you are not so much into reading, then take a listen to this interview as John David Mann lays out the decade long quest to get this book written, how any one can achieve their financial dreams and yes, how a latte really can lead to financial freedom without giving up the latte.
JOHN DAVID MANN has been creating careers since he was a teenager. At age 17, he and a few friends started their own high school in Orange, New Jersey, called Changes, Inc. where he went on to teach. Before turning to business and journalism, he forged a career as a concert cellist and prize-winning composer. At 15 he was recipient of the BMI Awards to Student Composers (at the time, their youngest award recipient ever). His musical compositions
were performed throughout the U.S. and his musical score for the play Prometheus Bound (written at age 13) was performed at the amphitheater in northern Greece where the play was originally premiered over 2,000 years ago.
John’s diverse career has made him a thought leader in several different industries. In 1986 he founded and wrote for Solstice, a journal on health, nutrition and environmental issues. His
series on the climate crisis (yes, he was writing about this back in the eighties) was selected for national reprint in the Utne Reader. In 1992 John produced the underground bestseller The Greatest Networker in the World, by John Milton Fogg, which became the defining book in its industry and sold over 1 million copies in eight languages. During the 1990s, John built a multimillion-dollar sales organization of over 100,000 people, and cofounded and served as
editor in chief of three business journals.
John is an award-winning author whose writings have earned the Nautilus Book Award, the Axiom Business Book Award Gold Medal, Taiwan’s Golden Book Award for Innovation, and the 2017 Living Now Book Awards “Evergreen Medal,” awarded to his beloved parable The Go-Giver for its “contributions to positive global change.” John’s books are published in three dozen languages and have sold more than 3 million copies. In addition to coauthoring The Go-Giver with Bob Burg, he is also coauthor of three New York Times bestsellers and five national bestsellers, including The Red Circle and Mastering Fear with former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb,
The Slight Edge with entrepreneur Jeff Olson, Real Leadership with financial CEO John Addison, and I Should Be Dead with political commentator Bob Beckel. His Take the Lead, with former White House adviser Betsy Myers, was named Best Leadership Book of 2011 by Tom Peters and the Washington Post.
John is married to Ana Gabriel Mann and considers himself the luckiest mann in the world.
Rachel Marie Martin went from poverty to being named to the Inc Magazine's Top 40 Entrepreneurs and on the Today show. All while raising seven kids on her own and creating a blog, Finding Joy, that reaches over a million each month. Her International bestselling book, The Brave Art of Motherhood is really a treatise on what it takes to succeed in any world, not just motherhood.
We talk about how to fill the bottom of the rut you are in to enable movement out of the rut, how to choose which plates to pick up, if any, when all those plates you are juggling fall to the ground, how to fuel your heart and what songs she listens to to keep her mind from going back into the ruts she filled in.
Take a listen as Rachel Martin shares tips on how you can achieve your wildest goals, have a life, and make a difference.
Rachel Marie Martin believes in the power of the human spirit to overcome, to thrive and to find deep joy and because of that she pours out her heart via these platforms: she is the writer behind the site FindingJoy.net and author of The Brave Art of Motherhood. Her articles have been translated into over 25 languages, her site reaches millions of visitors per month and she has a robust, engaged Facebook community.
Her content has been featured in The Huffington Post, iVillage, The Today Show, Star Tribune, iVillage, Stuff New Zealand, PopSugar, Motherly, Parents, What to Expect, NBC Parents, IJR, Dr. Greene, and many more. She speaks worldwide encouraging moms and entrepreneurs to live each day with purpose and drive. Beyond that, she’s a single mom to seven, and calls Nashville, Tennessee, her home.
Dr Anna Cabeca was tired of being depressed and in early menopause. And she was tired of having her clients have the same problems. After travelling the world this triple-board certified doctor took solving the hormone problem into her own hands and developed the Keto-Green Way to burn fat naturally, boost energy, sleep better and stop hot flashes.
Keto is hot right now but it doesn't work for everyone and Dr Anna Cabeca knows why. On this episode she shares how you can make Keto work for you and YOUR hormones by add Green to Keto with her proven Keto-Green Way.
Dr. Anna Cabeca, an Emory University trained gynecologist and women's health expert was diagnosed with early menopause at age 38 y.o. Devastated she went around the world looking for answers and healing and found it. She is now a triple board-certified, menopause and hormone expert. She is internationally acclaimed for her work in gynecology and obstetrics, integrative medicine, and anti-aging and regenerative medicine.
Dr. Cabeca has changed the lives of thousands of women across the globe, connecting to others through humor, honesty and passion. Her book “The Hormone Fix” and other empowering transformation programs have helped women of all ages become their best selves again. Her successful line of all-natural products features the alkaline superfoods drink Mighty Maca® PLUS and the rejuvenating vulvar cream Julva®.
Recently, Dr. Cabeca was named “2018 Innovator of the Year” by Mindshare Collaborative, the premier community for health and wellness influencers and entrepreneurs. In 2017, the Age Management Medicine Group presented her the prestigious Alan P. Mintz Award for Clinical Excellence.
Geoff Nicholson went from wanting to kill himself after a multi-year debilitating illness to helping others change their mindset so they can have the success they have always dreamed of. He says that mental reconditioning creates physical reconditioning and that we all can have the life of our dreams.
We all have those moments when it seems life gives us a choice as to a road we can take. Why do some people seem to always take the correct fork and others seem to keep hitting wall after wall and have a mindset of woe is me? Geoff Nicholson believes it is all due to the self talk we tell ourselves and that we can change that self talk.
During this episode Geoff Nicholson shares the exact steps you can begin taking to change your mindset, think up and change how you, and others, perceive yourself so you can achieve the success of your dreams.
Geoff is the founder of GN Coaching and the creator of Success IQ,an evolutionary system that combines stress management with success and life coaching strategies. His approach assists you in achieving your goals and creating a better integration with your work and lifestyle.
Geoff Nicholson is passionate about supporting people in overcoming stress and increasing their performance, confidence and supporting them in achieving their biggest goals. In 2007 only a year after his darkest moments, he founded GN Coaching, having been trained by some of the best in personal development, including Jack Canfield America’s number one success coach.
“I am very fortunate to have found my purpose and passion in life. My role is to assist people like you to challenge and support you in creating a vision of what you want to achieve. To set the goals needed to achieve those targets and to support you in creating and living the life you truly desire.” – Geoff
Geoff’s values are simple but core to his work: Authentic, Honest, and Passionate. Oh and, of course, work has to be fun because the more we enjoy what we do the more you increase your chances of success.
- Website - geoffnicholson.uk or www.successiq.co.uk
- Email: geoff@geoffnicholson.co.uk
Michael Einbinder-Schatz has grown a successful technology services business (MSP) for many years now. He has seen the industry change and he helped change it. What does it mean though to be an entrepreneur and what are the characteristics of a successful one? Everyone seems to want to be an entrepreneur but it is a lot of hard work for the entrepreneur and their families.
What does it take to keep your business growing through ups and downs and even a few sideways? yup, stole that line form the title of Michael Sanborn's powerful book.
In this episode, Michael Einbinder-Schatz shares how he figured out the role he should be playing in his business and the one he shouldn't; how he keeps his staff engaged and loyal in an industry that has more turnover than Microsoft has updates, and the lesson he learned that keeps him going in a highly competitive industry.
Michael Einbinder-Schatz brings over 30 years of IT experience, a passion for people and his love of storytelling together in leading his team at Jobecca Technology Group toward the goals of continually improving the client experience (can you say “WOW”?), and providing targeted consultative guidance that produces tangible long-term benefits for Jobecca’s clients.
Burnout. Allan Ting shares how to prevent and overcome burnout in business and in life with his A.I.R. method. Burnout is different from stress and needs to be treated differently. It hits virtually every business owner at some point in their journey.
During this show, we discuss the difference between stress and burnout and how you can reduce both in 3 simple steps.
From his TedX talks to his keynotes and workshops, Allan Ting counsels entrepreneurs and corporate executives on simple yet powerful techniques to overcome burnout, reduce stress, improve quality of life and even improve their health and energy.
Allan Ting is a TEDx Speaker, #1 Bestselling Author, and a Mindfulness Leadership Advisor. He has spoken at Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, Cisco, HP and many others corporations on the topic of mindfulness leadership and high performance.
Allan has shared his inspirational messages on ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox and CW news across America. His bestselling book, The Instant Energy Method, teaches corporate executives and busy professionals how to have more focus, productivity and influence at work.
He delivers keynote speeches and leads seminars and retreats in the US and International Countries. Allan is a certified High Performance Coach and a Tony Robbin's Senior Leader.
Part 1 of my interview with Dr. Joan Rosenberg was on February 12th of this year and I ran out of time to ask her all the questions I had on how you can build confidence, resiliency and authenticity into your life in just 90 seconds. Having experienced her work personally I wanted to deep dive into her latest work powerfully encapsulated in her new book, 90 Seconds to a Life You Love: How to Master Your Difficult Feelings for Lasting Confidence, Resilience, and Authenticity.
On part two we go deeper into building confidence and resilience and I let Joan use my life as a jumping off point for how the work helps.
Joan Rosenberg guides individuals to achieve their highest potential by helping them create, master and sustain desired changes. She is a featured expert in the critically acclaimed documentary films ‘I Am’ and ‘The Hidden Epidemic’ (along with Dr. Daniel Amen) and she has been seen on CNN’s American Morning show, OWN, and PBS stations nationally, along with other appearances across TV, radio and print media. She is founder and creator of Emotional Mastery™ and Emotional Mastery Training, the only systemized emotional training and conditioning approach that teaches lay persons and mental health clinicians alike how to foster unwavering emotional strength, self confidence and self-esteem.
She serves on John Assaraf’s Scientific Advisory Board, has one patent in performance skill development, and is a published author of 90 Seconds to a Life You Love: How to Master Your Difficult Feelings to Cultivate Lasting Confidence, Resilience, and Authenticity, Ease Your Anxiety and Mean Girls, Meaner Women and is published in professional books and psychology journals.
When you get a chance to interview a woman who has reached the top levels of the C-Suite in the tech world you grab it. I know I wasn't going to finally pass up the opportunity to interview someone who set a goal and achieved it 1000-fold and then went back to heading up the consulting firm she founded with her husband. Mush wisdom to be learned.
Janet Schijns and I discuss the myth of the Glass Ceiling, how you can achieve the highest levels of success in any field, what stops people from getting where they want to go and how she has created high-performing teams from non-performing ones.
Want to know what Janet does each year to build her success network and how you can too? How about how she deals with people asking her questions that are only asked of women?
This is a not to be missed episode and Janet shares what she is doing with her latest venture to help women reach the top of the C-suite.
Janet Schijns is the CEO of JS Group and a former C-Suite Fortune 500 executive with experience ranging from Verizon to Motorola to Office Depot. She most recently was CMSO of Office Depot where she cracked the glass ceiling as the EVP of Merchandising and Services. She is a visionary leader who through innovation and transformational plans gets real results.
Growth is her middle name – her clients regularly increase their revenues by more than 40% and achieve the highest levels of growth in market share in their categories. Janet has spent decades in the high-tech industry and has numerous industry channel awards to her name.
She has proven time and again that she knows how to achieve results in the channel and in the industry. Known for her expertise in routes to market, branding, sales, channel programs and solution development she has worked with vendors, distributors and partners alike in a wide range of technology areas including Mobility, Services, Communications, Data, Cloud and advanced solutions. She resides in Florida with her husband Roy and has two children Sean (a real estate investor and entrepreneur) and Ashlyn (a college professor).
Digital Marketing Trends in 2019. Marketing can make or break any business. If you don't get the word out then customers can't find you to do business with you and money does not come in to fill your bank account. But how do you effectively market your business without breaking the bank? Has marketing changed in 2019 versus previous years? Or has it stayed the same? Ken Herron has the questions and the answers.
My guest on the 2-26-19 show is the 4th most followed CMO on Twitter worldwide. Not an easy feat.
In this episode Ken Herron shares how to market your business for digital and traditional platforms. Ken starts out sharing the six marketing questions to ask in market in 2019 and then Ken shares how to determine where you need to market your message and product so you can reap the rewards and your clients can find your products and services they need to help them succeed.
A top-ranked IoT expert and the fourth most-followed CMO on Twitter worldwide, Ken Herron is the Chief Marketing Officer of Singapore Artificial Intelligence company UIB. He is based in Orlando, Florida.
Prior to joining UIB, Ken co-founded software company SocialGrow. Prior to SocialGrow, he was CMO for Online Buddies and before that, Vice President of Interactive Strategies at Realogy. Ken spent 17 years with AT&T/Lucent Technologies/Avaya, most recently as a Director and Technical Manager in Avaya Labs where he managed a 200+ person global team. He serves as a member of the advisory board of digital health company TraveDoc. Ken earned his Executive M.M.P. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a Masters of International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, and a Bachelor of Arts in International Economics and German from Drew University’s College of Liberal Arts.
Ken hosted the award-winning Social Solutions podcast for seven years and is a popular author and frequent speaker on digital transformation and leveraging new technologies to emotionally connect companies to their customers. Follow Ken on Twitter: @KenHerron
I've never had to think about hiding who I am as a woman. Whether it was wearing a short skirt, wearing nail polish, exposing my hair or going where ever I wanted to whenever I wanted. I've learned though that is not the case for every woman in the world.
My guest on the 2/19/19 episode was born and raised in Iran. A country where being a woman is nothing like being a woman in America or many other places around the world. Expressing yourself as a woman can lead to your arrest, leaving your home without a man's permission can also lead to arrest as can many other infractions that are too numerous to mention here.
Escaping from that life through marriage, and moving to a small town in America, seemed like an amazing improvement. Yet suppression comes in many forms and an abusive marriage can exist in all countries and in all cultures.
So what happens when enough is enough and you stand on your own two feet as a woman for the first time in your life?
Listen as my guest shares her journey and how she learned to fully express herself as a woman and now teaches other woman how to unlock their feminine warrior and love themselves.
Sahar irwin was born and raised in Iran. A country where there was a lot of oppression on girls and younger women. She was not allowed back then to wear nail polish or make up in public without risking her life or being arrested and potentially being sent to jail...This was an issue for Sahar since she loves to wear nail polish and make up to feel beautiful, Feminine and free. She however got creative and found a way to fight the system...
Fast forward 14 years ago when Sahar moved to the U.S to experience freedom only to find herself in an abusive relationship and spending a few nights in the women's shelter with her 2 year old son at the time. From there she had to build her life back up. Sahar ended up becoming a Tony Robbins Coach and eventually 9 years ago started her own coaching and speaking business...
Dr Joan Rosenberg says in 90 Seconds you can have more confidence. Everyone seems to want confidence or want more of it. Where does confidence come from? Are you born with it? Can you get more of it?
My guest, Dr Joan Rosenberg, on this episode has been helping her clients connect to and grow their confidence for over 30 years. More than that though she has helped her clients, and many more through her speaking, TED talks and books, to master their emotions so they can have amazing lives.
Dr, Joan Rosenberg shares the eight feelings that we most need to master and how we can begin to lessen their grip on our futures.
Best-selling author, consultant, master clinician and media host, Dr. Joan Rosenberg is a cutting-edge psychologist who is known as an innovative thinker, acclaimed speaker and trainer. As a two-time TEDx speaker and member of the Association of Transformational Leaders, she has been recognized for her thought leadership and influence in personal development.
Dr. Rosenberg has been featured in the documentaries “I Am”, “The Miracle Mindset”, “Pursuing Happiness” and “The Hidden Epidemic”. She’s been seen on CNN’s American Morning, the OWN network, and PBS, as well as appearances and radio interviews in all of the major metropolitan markets.
A California-licensed psychologist, Dr. Rosenberg speaks on how to build confidence, emotional strength, resilience; achieving emotional, conversational and relationship mastery; integrating neuroscience and psychotherapy and suicide prevention. An Air Force veteran, she is a professor of graduate psychology at Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, CA.
Her latest book, 90 Seconds to a Life you Love: How to Master Your Difficult Feelings to Cultivate Lasting Confidence, Resilience and Authenticity, comes out February 12th! DrJoanRosenberg.com
What's in a name? According to my guest today, every thing. The name you were given at birth, a nickname you were given or took on, and even a new last name at marriage, is the key to your future.
Sharon Lynn Wyeth has spent most of her life studying people. First as a teacher and then as the Founder of Neimology. The science of interpreting names is an old one. Going back to ancient times,first names have been bestowed on children with the weight of what their parents hope the child's future will look like. Or in some cases no major thought whatsoever to what their name means.
But what if there was more to your name than its definition? What if you could figure out who to hire, who to take on as a client, who to marry or at least what name you should take on after you marry? What if by understanding your own name, you had the kesys to unlock the best of you in the world?
Take a listen as Sharón Lynn Wyeth unlocks the secret behind Neimology and how you can learn how to decipher your name, and others, by yourself.
International name expert Sharón Lynn Wyeth is the Founder and Creator of Neimology® Science, the study of the placement of the letters in a name, after 15 years of research followed by 3 years of testing in over 70 countries. She has evaluated thousands of names since 1995. Her bestselling book, Know the Name; Know the Person is the first in the sequence, followed by Know the Name; Know the Spirit and Know the Name; Know How to Connect.
You may have seen her on Good Day LA, New York City’s Fox News, Good Morning Arizona, and in various other cities on NBC, CBS, & ABC or have heard her interviewed on any one of hundreds of radio shows.
Today she is hired by Human Resource Departments in choosing appropriate candidates to interview, lawyers in how to present cases to judges, and individuals who wish to know themselves better and maximize their ability to connect with others. She also assists nationally and internationally in naming new businesses, new products, and when people wish to change
their names.
The movie Top Gun has fascinated millions of people around the world so much so that a sequel is finally being planned. Movies about U.S. Navy Fighter Pilots regularly hit top box office numbers. What is it about Navy fighter pilots that piques our interest? What is it that has us wondering how they do what they do and how we can get some of their confidence for ourselves?
I've seen the Blue Angels perform multiple times and each time is like the first. My heart starts racing and I am in awe of the focus and dedication the pilots have. Yet, when asked where they would rather be, each pilot will always say they look forward to going back to their ship and protecting our country.
My guest today retired as a Captain in the U.S. Navy after 1000 FA-18 Hornet day and night takeoffs and landing on aircraft carriers. There are very few people in this world that have achieved that milestone. After 24 years in the military Kevin Miller still is involved as a defense consultant and corporate trainer on continuous improvement.
On my January 29th episode I got to ask him questions I never get to ask someone about what it is really like to be a fighter pilot, how one transitions from a life of high adrenaline and constant alertness to a civilian life, how it was different working as a legislative liaison versus active duty as a fighter pilot and our current geopolitical environment. We also talk about the continuous improvement process used in the military and how you can apply it to your business and your life.
Retired Navy Captain Kevin Miller graduated from the University of Mississippi and was designated a Naval Aviator in August 1983. He flew the A-7E Corsair II and FA-18C Hornet throughout the 1980’s and 90’s and commanded a strike-fighter squadron in combat. He finished his career in the Pentagon serving on the staff of the Secretary of the Navy, retiring in 2005 after 24 years. During his military career he accumulated over 3,600 flight hours and 1,000 carrier landings from the decks of 11 aircraft carriers. His personal decorations include the Bronze Star, the Air Medal (with combat “V”), and two strike-flight Air Medals.
After leaving the service Kevin was employed as an associate at two Washington DC defense consulting firms, and today is the Owner/Principal of MPK Defense Consulting. He is also the Amazon Best-Selling author of the military action-adventure novels Raven One, Declared Hostile, and his latest, Fight Fight.
Kevin earned a Master of Science in Business Management from Florida State University and a Master of National Security Policy and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College. In 2010 he joined the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and was instrumental in the launch of the National Flight Academy.
Kevin is active in St. Paul Catholic Church, is on the board of the Pensacola Chapter of the Navy League, serves as an Executive Mentor at the University of West Florida, and serves as Vice President of Legislative Affairs for the Tailhook Association. He is working on his next novel.
I like to think I am good at self care but I have realized I am not. I too often in my life have waited until I was in bad shape before I reached out for help. Inconsistency in self care over the years and the amount of stress have played havoc on my body and my mind. Which is why doing this episode was so important to me.
My guest, Cheri Abrams has been taking care of others and helping them get free of, or gain control over, pain for over 24 years. She taught me that sometimes self care means allowing others to help you versus feeling we have to take care of ourselves by ourselves.
Why is taking care of ourselves something that we often put to the side when we know it is important to put our oxygen mask on first before helping another in jeopardy otherwise we might not be able to help them?
Take a listen as Cheri shares how she built a business after being "called" to help others and how it helps her more than anything she has every done for a career. Cheri also shares things you can do in just moments a day to help yourself and reduce pain and inflammation. She also shares the best way to find a top massage person in your own area.
Cheri is my go to person for massage and other modalities to help calm my shattered nervous system. Take a listen as she shares some of her wisdom.
Cheri Abrams is a Therapist and Educator for over 24 years. She is a Certified Cupping Therapist, Advanced Practitioner in Therapeutic Massage, Reiki and Shiatsu, flautist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and Martial Artist. Becoming deeply committed into the world of martial arts brought about her interest in the alternative healing methods of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shiatsu, and Massage Therapy. For fifteen years she devoted her life to training in Ninjutsu and Kung Fu, for which she achieved a black belt level in both arts. To become a black belt level in Kung Fu, she had to learn basic TCM, (Traditional Chinese Medicine) and Shiatsu, which led Cheri to become a Massage Therapist, and a teacher for Space Coast Health Institute in Melbourne, Florida.
Throughout all the years of her healing practice, listening to just about every New Age, flute, world, classical, and easy listening cd on the market, it only seemed natural for Cheri to step into the genre. Her first contribution was recording flute for a meditation CD, Connecting with All Life, for friend and client, Kumari Mullin. Their collaborations continue to this day, and keep checking this site for announcements of new music. www.cheriabrams.com
This is an interesting episode in that we had some issues getting James on the line so I started out talking about how we learn to be flexible and roll with things. Then James Rollins is able to call in and I get to ask him lots of questions about his latest book, his creative process and we get into a deep discussion about how AI, Artificial Intelligence is not just a character in his latest book.
I am fascinated by authors who started with one career and had an even more successful career as an author. I especially am obsessed with how they weave reality and fiction into their books in such a way that we, as readers, have trouble deciding which is fact and which is fiction.
James Rollins is a NY Times bestselling author whose latest book, Crucible, is listed as a thriller yet it weaves, tech, history, religion, military, world events and science into a novel that is sure to give him another #1 NY Times bestselling book. During our conversation we talk about how he knew when he could set aside his practice as a veterinarian, his advice to others on that process, how he does his research and we have a very deep discussion on AI and our thoughts on where it stands in the world today.
Plus, he gives us a little peak inside his latest, sure to be #1, book, Crucible.
James Rollins is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of international thrillers, translated into more than forty languages, with more than 20 million copies sold. The New York Times says, “Rollins is what you might wind up with if you tossed Michael Crichton and Dan Brown into a particle accelerator together,” and NPR calls his work “Adventurous and enormously engrossing.” Rollins unveils unseen worlds, scientific breakthroughs, and historical secrets--and does it all at breakneck speed and with stunning suspense. A practicing veterinarian, Rollins has pursued scuba, spelunking, and other adventures around the world, and currently lives and writes in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.
As a boy immersed in the scientific adventures of Doc Savage, the wonders of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, and pulps such as The Shadow, The Spider, and The Avenger, James Rollins decided he wanted to be a writer. He honed his storytelling skills early, spinning elaborate tales that were often at the heart of pranks played on his brothers and sisters.
Before he would set heroes and villains on harrowing adventures, Rollins embarked on a career in veterinary medicine, graduating from the University of Missouri and establishing a successful veterinary practice. He continues to volunteer his time and veterinary skills in support of the local SPCA. His hands-on knowledge of medicine and science helps shape the research and scientific speculation that set James Rollins books apart.
What does it take to write a NY Times bestselling book year after year and still love what you writing? How do you keep your readers wanting more and stay up late unable to put your latest book down?
How do you weave current events into the books way before they seem to be current events? What about fact versus fiction? National security details that you know but cannot expose?
What kind of mind makes up the stuff that keeps us on the edge of our seats novel after novel?
Well these are just a few of the questions I ask of returning guest Brad Taylor as he launches his latest Pike Logan thriller, Daughter of War. And wait until you hear how the book title came about. The character it is named for was even going to be a main character. I love to explore the creative process with my guests who are prolific writers and with Brad Taylor I also get to ask him a number of current event related questions that normally I would not get a straight answer on about the world today.
Brad Taylor was born on Okinawa, Japan, but grew up on 40-acres in rural Texas. Graduating from the University of Texas, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Infantry. Brad served for more than 21 years, retiring as a Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel. During that time he held numerous Infantry and Special Forces positions, including eight years in 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment – Delta where he commanded multiple troops and a squadron. He has conducted operations in support of US national interests in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other classified locations.
His final assignment was as the Assistant Professor of Military Science at The Citadel in Charleston, SC. He holds a Master’s of Science in Defense Analysis from the Naval Postgraduate School, with a concentration in Irregular Warfare. In 2011, Brad published his debut novel, One Rough Man, which was an immediate success and launched the Pike Logan series. Now with more than 12 installments and more than 2 million copies sold, the series has consistently hit the New York Times bestseller list. When not writing, he serves as a security consultant on asymmetric threats for various agencies. He lives in Charleston, SC with his wife and two daughters. www.bradtaylorbooks.com
If you are not scared every time you go online to do anything then you are not living in the real world. Every transaction you make in the world today is tracked online even if you do not think it is. As a result, all your personal data is available to malicious individuals to use in ways that may cause you financial or other harm.
So how do you protect yourself? Can you protect yourself?
There is no one answer to this problem since hackers think up new ways to get around measures that are put in place to stop them faster than I can type this post but you have to start now. Software is getting better at stopping them but the best way to stop them is to not let your real data get out there when it does not have to.
My guest today is one of the top cybersecurity professionals in the country and he shares with you, my listeners, some simple things you can do right now to protect yourself and your data. Especially if you just received one of those smart devices for the holidays like an Amazon Echo, Google Home or any other IoT device.
Yuri Diogenes, Holds aMaster of Science in Cybersecurity Intelligence & Forensics Investigation (UTICA College), MBA, ISSA Forth Senior Member. Yuri is a Professor for the Master of Science in Cybersecurity Program from EC-Council University. Yuri is also a co-author of twenty books published by Microsoft Press, Syngress, and Novaterra (in Brazil). Currently Yuri holds the following industry certifications: CISSP, CyberSec First Responder, CompTIA CSA+, E|CEH, E|CSA, E|CHFI, E|CND, CyberSec First Responder, CompTIA, Security+, CompTIA Cloud Essentials Certified, CompTIA Network+, CompTIA Mobility+, CASP, CSA+, MCSE and MCTS. You can follow Yuri on Twitter @yuridiogenes
No this episode is not about keynote speaking or how to be a better stage speaker.
What it is about is smart speaker devices that seem to be everywhere now that answer your every question or whim. I am talking about the Amazon Echo (Alexa), Google Home, Facebook Portal and other devices that are springing up faster than you can say "Alexa, what time is it?".
What I never realized is how you can use it to grow your business and your brand and reach your clients in one to two minute Flash Briefings.
LIGHTBULB moment when Lindsey called me to tell me about it. Of course I had to have her back on the show to share.
If you feel like you missed out on all the other new ways of reaching your audience and are lost in the crowd, take a listen and get in on the new wild west of content platforms.
Lindsey Anderson, AKA One-Click Lindsey, is a web strategy expert working with small business owners to help them utilize the web to produce more website traffic and leads. Lindsey is the founder and CEO of TrafficAndLeads.com that specializes in driving traffic, getting leads and the art of nurturing leads to become lifelong clients. One-Click Lindsey is an expert in landing pages, email sequences, search engine ranking, newsletters, analytics, social media, pay-per-click ads, websites, blogging … the list goes on. She knows how to utilize the myriad of online marketing options to generate more traffic and leads which produces more paying clients.
The last couple of years I have definitely not felt like I was thriving. It was a life filled with one hit after the other. At least that is what it has felt like to me. Thriving was a distant thought. Surviving the latest health or emotional hit was the job of the day.
I started thinking, what makes some people thrive in spite of everything that is going on in their lives and what is going on all around them?
I have had a lot of people on the show talking about resiliency, PTSD and more and I will have more on even after this show but I love how my guest, Candice Czalplak frames the conversation and how she has started a community to help everyone Thrive.
We start out with a beautiful definition of what it means to Thrive and go on from there. If you feel battered from surviving or, if you just want to have a life that is even more full of success, you will not want to miss this episode.
Candice Czaplak is a seasoned Success Catalyst on a mission to fundamentally transform the way we think about and the way we “do” life, work and leadership. Her motto is #DoYOU! Success is not a one size fits all proposition and she is convicted that it is time for us to be more Success-Full and more Fully Thrive!
Candice has “been there and done that” with undergrad (Dual BA’ in Psychology & Human Services, Magna Cum Laude with highest distinction), graduate school (Counseling and Business 4.0), way too many jobs to mention (steady since 15 yrs old), owned four successful businesses, and way too many licensures and certifications to list like NLP Master Practitioner, Coach Teacher and Speaker with the John Maxwell Team and graduate of Seth Godin’s altMBA program just to name a few.
Candice has distilled her more than 3 decades of knowledge and experience down to 4 key factors of success which she calls the Thrive Formula which serves as the core philosophy of her company Thriverz.com. Candice is tenacious, influencing, innovative (pretty bright) really curious, focused on possibilities and definitely not afraid to buck the status quo.
With Thriverz.com, she is in her zone of Personal Genius and driven, gifted and equipped to help people like you leverage the power of the Thrive Formula and the power of their Personal Genius to more fully Thrive in their life and their work. Let’s Thrive together!
Living an authentic life is not always easy. People conspire to keep those who have light down. To keep them in a box that conforms to how others look, dress, act and achieve. So how do you live your authentic life with grace, love, kindness and achievement when there is pressure to stay small and conform?
Enter my guest and friend Michelle McBain. I asked her to be the guest on my Christmas show because she has one of the most beautiful spirits I know and a powerful story to share on how she balances life, love, career, health and an active social media life.
Listen as Michelle shares with me what balance looks like to her, how she dealt with a boss who wrote on her review that she was bubbly,(which made her question who she was being at work), and how a recent serious health scare just gave her even more reason to be authentically her.
Michelle Ragusa-McBain is Senior Director of Technology & Business Sales and Services. She is responsible for leading the team who will grow company service revenue through the successful creation of a SMB partner program services through Office Depot as a key partner through CompuCom GTM strategy, focus on Tech and Business Services, Software as a Service (Saas), Managed Services Provider (MSP), Devices as a Service (DaaS), and other subscription services experiences, aligned closely with Tech Services.
A 13 year Cisco Veteran and proud recipient of the “Cisco World Wide Innovation and Growth Award”. She was recently recognized by SMB Magazine as one of the 150 most influential people in the global IT Business Community, and named in Entrepreneurs Magazine as one of the top 4 people to inspire women to pursue a career in Tech .
Michelle sits on the Board of CRN Women in the Channel and serves as Chair of the Executive Council of Advancing Women in Technology for CompTIA. She is also a long standing member of the National Women in Technology Group, where she has given speeches for young women in technology - most recently at NC State & Hofstra University.
As a social media maven, Michelle is a highly visible member of the Global IT community and acts as a connector. She is an avid blogger and has taken her passion for women in technology, world travel, health & wellness to create awareness and inspire others.
She graduated cum laude from Manhattan College where she was awarded the Presidential Scholarship Majoring in Global Business and Marketing, and a minor in Peace Studies. Passionate world traveler visiting 83 countries, & 6 continents.
How do you get access to the expert advice you need when you need it at a price that you can afford? What if you do not even know what kind of advice you need you just know you need help of some sort for you business or life questions?
Enter wiseher.com and Founder Kathryn Rose. A resilient entrepreneur who has had multiple high profile and successful careers and now has figured to a way to give everyday women access to some of the best business and high performance brains around 24/7/365.
From her own childhood to how she is raising her children, Kathryn shares how she can shift her choices quicker than most, acknowledge what is working and what is not and how she deals with what she terms "cognitive load".
Kathryn Rose is the founding CEO of wiseHer, a revolutionary platform offering on-demand expert advice for women in business, career and life. Prior to devoting her focus to wiseHer, Kathryn was an executive marketing consultant for large global and local clients developing targeted online campaigns resulting in millions of engaged fans, followers and connections.
Kathryn's experience has taken her from startup to multi-million dollar companies. She is an award-winning Wall Street sales leader driving $100 million+ in annual sales and in channel marketing with global B2B clients. Kathryn is on the faculty for the IT leading association COMPTIA and a member of the Executive Council of Advancing Women in Technology and a sales coach for MBA candidates at Harvard Business School.
She is the author of 9 books including two best-sellers: Solving the Social Media Puzzle and Return on Relationship. She has been has been featured in Working Woman Magazine, Guideposts Magazine, Network CEO, Fox News, CBS Marketwatch and Channel 12 News.
The man that bought my tech services company several years ago, and several others over the years speaks openly and completely about the perils and pitfalls, the highs and the lows of growing your company through mergers and acquisitions.
He talks about:
- The most important things to look out for when buying another company.
- What to know and understand before selling your company.
- Why you might want to merge versus acquire.
- How to think ahead of where the pack is going.
and so much more...
A no holds barred discussion you do not want to miss no matter where you are on your entrepreneurial journey.
We laugh, a lot. We run out of time. And, Rory Sanchez shares what matters most to him when he grows his business.
Rory Sanchez is CEO of True Digital Security. Rory is the visionary responsible for the company's strategic direction and high-level architecture of its award-winning management platform, GN Secure (formerly Guaranteed Networks®), a comprehensive offering which has positioned TRUE as a recognized leader in IT, Security and Cloud management.
Rory is deeply involved in both the local business community and the IT industry overall. He frequently speaks, presents best practices, and participates in panel discussions at industry events. Rory was a founding member of the ConnectWise Partner Advisory Board. He is an active member of TechData's TechSelect Community, is a Past President of the TechSelect Advisory Council, and is regularly featured in MSP Mentor's Top Managed Services Executives.
All in. What does that really mean? Can you be all in one aspect of your life or business or does it only apply if you are all in with all aspects of your being?
At various times in my life I have felt all in with everything. When I am all in, magic seems to flow out of my every being and positivity is the outcome. The last ten years or so not so much. I have had moments of all in but to be honest, I do not really think it was really "All In" since it latest just a moment.
So how do you know if you are All In, Part way in or not even close?
My guest today has not only written the Wall Street Journal bestselling book on how to be All In, Shift the Work: The Revolutionary Science of Moving From Apathetic to All in Using Your Head, Heart and Gut, he lives and breathes it. His life's work is to help businesses, people and communities become all in in all aspects of who they are and what they do.
In a no holds barred interview Joe shares how he believes the world can change via one All In at a time to move life and business for everyone from apathy to positive shift.
It was a joy to reconnect with Joe after many years. Take a listen and see if you can hear the moment I realized somewhere along the way I lost my own personal all in to me and how he helped me begin to bring it back.
Joe Mechlinski is a New York Times best-selling author, speaker, entrepreneur, community activist, husband, and father to two. Despite attending a high school with the worst graduation rates in the state of Maryland, Joe went on to graduate from Johns Hopkins University.
Joe has a deep rooted passion for helping build mission-based, high-performing cultures and challenging business leaders to think differently and strategically about how they attract, hire, and develop the best talent to grow regardless of their size, their industry, and the economy.
Since 2001, his company, SHIFT (formally eQ), has focused on just that. SHIFT's mission is to drive growth with entrepreneurs, executives, and organizations.
SHIFT’s top 100 clients have grown by more than 174%, including more than 30 companies that have been nationally recognized as Best Places to Work, Inc. 500/5000 companies, and Forbes Most Trustworthy… just to name a few.
Joe and SHIFT have been featured on FoxNews.com Live and Bloomberg Radio, as well as in the Baltimore Sun, Forbes, Entrepreneur, and The BBJ – which named eQ a “Best Places to Work” five consecutive years starting in 2011, and recognized Joe as a 2013 “40 Under 40,” and The Daily Record – where, in 2010, Joe made their “Successful by 40” list, and in 2012 and 2015 was honored as one of Maryland’s Most Admired CEOs.
In 2016, Joe was a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in Maryland.
Joe has served on various boards including: Betamore, Conscious Venture Labs, Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Chesapeake, and the Community-University Collaborating Committee (CUCC). He also co-founded the b4students Foundation, which linked corporate mentors with at-risk Baltimore students for their entire high school careers.
Gone are the days when one bad review only went as far as the person next door. Now one bad review can go viral and destroy your company's reputation in an instant without the reviewer even leaving their home.
What can you do to change a bad review to a good one on the Internet? Nothing. Once a review is posted on the web it is rare you can ever get it removed. So what do you do?
Enter Ron Howard Founder of SoTellUs and his sons.
When was the last time you Googled yourself or your company? if you said more than a day, stop reading and go Google them both. What did you find? Nothing is as bad as bad reviews.
You do not have to live with a bad online reputation created by one bad review that will not go away. Learn how to get your clients to be raving fans with video, audio and written reviews and get them to share it with their social media friends.
Ron also shares how he and his family keep it all together in not one, but two family businesses.
Ron Howard is a master of sales, marketing and networking. Ron is also an author, trainer and speaker. He covers subjects including sales strategies, motivation, sales team training and online marketing. Ron’s passion, desire and willingness to teach has helped thousands of businesses around the world achieve record profits.
Ron started his sales career over 40 years ago in door-to- door sales with World Book Encyclopedias and quickly rose to Regional Manager. Always a visionary, he saw the end of encyclopedias and moved on to be a trainer, manager and top salesman in the yellow page industry. In the mid 90’s, having an insight into the future of business marketing, Ron left the yellow page industry and became the Vice President of Sales at YP.net, one of the largest online directories.
Since 1999, Ron has started several successful marketing companies including EZSiteMaster, WebForce Pro and onTop local which have helped thousands of small business owners around the world dominate their competition online and drive record growth in their businesses by disrupting the idea of traditional search engine optimization. Ron and his team have made this possible through training, motivation and proprietary marketing technologies developed in-house to give their customers the competitive edge online.
Ron’s current project and passion will be another industry disruptor in online reviews. He recently launched SoTellUs, the world’s only review platform that let’s businesses instantly collect video, audio and written reviews from their customers using an app on a smartphone or tablet. Every review is phone verified in seconds by SoTellUs and if it is a valid review it is automatically marketed online for the businesses’ through their website and social media sites. This combination of video reviews, 100% phone verification and automated review marketing will change the review industry as we know it.
I quote Think and Grow Rich in my book, What Would a Wise Woman Do? and its ideas still hold true yet the world has changed significantly since Napoleon Hill researched and wrote his groundbreaking book. how does one improve upon perfection? They research 400 successful and not so successful people from all walks of life and write a new book that shows you how you can increase your personal mastery.
I love reading books because I want to shift my perspectives and perceptions of what I think I know to what I need to know. Personal Power Mastery by Douglas Vermeeren is such a book.
Douglas Vermeeren has been on the personal improvement scene forever it seems and his work doesn't grow stale because he is willing to ask and answer the tough questions. In his latest book and workshops he helps readers and attendees release that which no longer serves and embrace a new and empowered thinking.
During this episode he explains why positive thinking is actually negative thinking and how neutral thinking will sink you to the bottom quickly.
We have a conversation about Choice and how you always have choices even when you think you don't.
Douglas Vermeeren’s search for success strategies took him into the offices of the founders and CEOS of such companies as Nike, Reebok, Fruit of the Loom, FedEx, American Airlines, UGG boots, Uber, KFC, McDonalds, Disney, United Airlines and Microsoft. As a result, ABC Television and FOX Business are referring to him as the modern-day Napoleon Hill.
He is also the producer and director of three out of the top ten personal development movies ever filmed, the author of three books in the Guerrilla Marketing series and a regular featured expert on FOX, CNN, ABC, NBC, CTV and CBC and others.
Currently, his program Personal Power Mastery is rated as number three in the world for the most powerful personal development seminars. And now his new book Personal Power Mastery will take its place on the list if international bestsellers.
Website DouglasVermeeren.com
What would you do if you were told you should be dead already because of the rare heart condition you never knew you had that reared its head and went undiagnosed for over eleven months?
Well my guest chose to create a business raising awareness through handbags, of the #1 killer of women in the world, heart disease. Did you know 1 in 3 women die from heart disease that is 80% preventable versus 1 in 30? Do you know the signs can be different for women than in men? Do you know the signs?
Would you be able to start a business and an international movement and foundation to help women get medication and treatment after being told you might not live very long?
Elizabeth Scovil (www.Elizabethscovil.com) is my guest on this episode. Listen as she shares a story of persistence, love, entrepreneurship, philanthropy, passion and purpose.
If you are a woman, or have some women in your life you love, this is a must listen to episode.
Did you know that if each woman in America spent $20/month at a woman owned business that would put $37.7 billion into the hands of women-owned business? That amount is more than all the venture capital given to women-owned businesses in 2017. Crazy isn't it?!
My guest is making it easier for you to spend that $20/month. She has created MAIA.community. A directory website with profiles of currently over 700,000 women owned businesses.
Rather than just give lip service to supporting women Kateri Ruiz has devoted her business to growing women owned businesses.
Take a listen as we talk about how she decided to create her business after declaring she sold her soul in corporate life.
At MAIA, our mission is to change the status quo on gender equality at the highest levels of leadership. We are women-conscious consumers and we're creating the first free access searchable platform of woman-owned businesses in the United States, 13 million and counting. As the CEO of your life, does your purchasing power align with your values?
My personal challenge is 83% - 5 out of 6 people in my household are female. 83% of our household spending will go to women-owned companies, and women-created ventures. When women are involved equally at the highest levels of leadership, where we ideate, create and make decisions, we have the potential for our products, our services, and solutions to truly represent all of us.
If each female in the U.S. spent $20 a month at a woman-owned business for 1 year, they would drive $37.7 billion more to women-owned companies than all Venture Capital funding did in 2017. Your money matters, use it to make a difference!
I also sold my soul for corporate America for 17 years. I had full P&L responsibility of $42M. website: maia.community
Live in the now. Be present. Don't borrow worry from tomorrow. Don't dwell in the past. We've heard those phrases over and over for most of our lives. Easy to say . Not so easy to always do.
Our reactions to the way ideas are presented can vary by who we hear them from and even when we hear them. When Kevin Murphy was introduced to me and I read his book I knew I had to have him on the show. He presents a unique way to look at something we have all heard before that I hope can help.
During the show Kevin shares how you can observe your thoughts, the three rooms, what questions to ask to know what room you are in, is it ever ok to visit the past or future how stress is based on the room you are in and more.
If you want to stay in the present more, take a listen.
Kevin Murphy is a former Wall Street managing director for Citigroup, high school and collegiate wrestling champion, community activist, speaker, coach, and author of the book The Three Rooms.
These experiences have given Kevin a unique and eclectic mix of understanding human nature. He noticed that our happiness and unhappiness in life is always the result of our thoughts – whether observations of the present, memories from the past, or projected fears about the future. Combining this theory with the deep personal insights he attained along his own 20+ year spiritual journey, Kevin stepped away from the corporate world to write the book The Three Rooms, in which he explains how observing which room your thoughts are in, can change your experience of life.
The Three Rooms invites you to start the process of better monitoring your thoughts—while providing you the keys to transform your life by doing so. As Kevin notes, those thoughts merely affect our health, our wealth and our relationships.
Website thethreerooms.com
10-2-18 episode
Most of us want to have a legacy and be known for something that lasts beyond physical lives. Yet in this day and age of social media, viral videos, short attention spans and continual distractions, how do we insure that we are living our something consistently? How do we define and track what we are known for and course correct if our perception and reality are different about ourselves?
Enter my guest Mark MacDonald. He not only is known for something but he helps others connect with their communities and revitalize their reputation.
I loved when he said this on the show. "Your brand is your emotional after taste." Do you know what your brand tastes like?
Who do you want to influence? Are you the best kept secret? Do you want to be found? Do you know how threads control your brand conversation? Do you even know what you are promising to your tribe of followers and clients?
Take a listen as one of the top brand consultants in the country share show you can Be Known For Something and have it be what you truly want to be known for.
Mark MacDonald is a speaker, best-selling author of Be Known For Something, and communication strategist for BeKnownForSomething.com and the 3000+ churches of the Florida Baptist Convention. He empowers people, organizations and churches to become known for something relevant (a communication thread) throughout their content, websites, and social media. His book is available at BeKnownBook.com and amazon.com.
9/25/18 show - Books have been a part of my life from way before I could read. I love reading so much I even walked out of school in first grade because I thought they weren't going to teach me how to read. You'll have to read my book for the details though. Today I want to focus on my guest and how she is helping increase literacy around the world.
Without literacy you would not be reading this episode summary nor would I be able to do my show each week. Smartphones would not exist nor would most of the resources we take for granted today. Yet a large portion of the world cannot read at even a basic grade level and in some countries women are still not allowed to go to school.
Enter Kathryn Starke, Global Literacy advocate. Her goal is to help schools achieve literacy success while making it fun for their students of all ages.
Take a listen as we discuss how you can be a literacy advocate, how Kathryn has built a global business around literacy and how anyone can "Tackle Reading" in their community or around the world.
Kathryn Starke is an urban literacy specialist, reading consultant, author, and the founder of Creative Minds Publications, LLC, a global literacy based educational company. She has been featured on multiple media platforms including Fox Small Business News, Inspire Me Today, Virginia This Morning, and Conversations Live.
She currently serves on the board of Reach Out and Read Virginia. She previously served on the Chris Baker 92 Foundation, and is the children’s author and literacy advocate for the Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation reading program. She served as a panelist on educational forums for University of Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth University and was the keynote speaker for the PBS Kids Writing Contest Awards Ceremony.
A native of Richmond Virginia, Kathryn graduated from Longwood University with a BS degree in elementary education and a Master's degree in Literacy and Culture. She has taught first, second, and third grade and served as a literacy specialist for over a decade in inner city/Title I schools in Richmond Public Schools and Chesterfield County Public Schools in Richmond, Virginia. She is the author of Amy’s Travels, a multicultural children’s book used in schools on over twenty countries on six continents. The book was recently turned into a musical by the Latin Ballet of Virginia.
Kathryn was named one of the 50 Great Writers You Should be Reading by The Author’s Show. She has provided in depth literacy consulting in over 80 schools, has presented at both state and national reading conferences, and has served as a consultant in some of the top 100 largest school districts in the country, working primarily in 5 states (Virginia, California, New York, Massachusetts, and South Carolina).
SOB. If you heard it in reference to a person what is the first thing that comes to mind? Yup! And that is not Dr. Gayle Carson. She is known as the Spunky Old Broad. At 80 years of age she is going stronger then ever. Mentally and physically. And she even has her own radio station and helps women over 50 become SOBs as well.
I don't have even half the energy Dr. Gayle has and I am 25 years younger than she is. So how does she do it and what does she want to inspire us all to do?
Take a listen as she shares her secret sauce and how you can achieve your dreams.
Gayle Carson graduated from Emerson College with a degree in Broadcasting, Theatre, and Speech. During college she hosted two radio shows and began her training in live TV
After college she moved to Miami and got her first job in two weeks. One year later she bought the business and proceeded to diversify its sales base from one to seven divisions and it eventually became the largest independent organization in the industry. As CEO, Gayle managed a diverse staff of over 350 people, graduated more than a million students from her training programs and personally managed the company’s complex payroll. While serving as CEO of her business, she received her Doctorate from Nova Southeastern University.
During this time, she also served as a TV spokesperson for Clairol visiting major markets doing before and after makeovers.
As President of the Carson Research Center, she served as a consultant to 50 industries on six continents, advising them on current business trends and cutting edge opportunities to stay ahead of their competition. The author of five books, she hit the Amazon’s best sellers list, was a winner of the Best Seller Quill Award and was inducted into the National Academy of Best Selling Authors.
Selected as a “2007 Legend of the Speaking Profession” she hosted Entrepreneur’s “Women in Business” radio show, wrote for them and had articles in More Magazine. Currently, she hosts over a dozen radio shows per month and is the founder of the sobradionetwork.com She is also the only woman in the world who has a Doctorate, a CSP (Certified Speaking Professional), CMC (Certified Management Consultant) and an FIMC (Fellow to the Institute of Management Consultants).
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What if in dying we could help someone else live? My guest today helps people every day do just that. He has spent his nursing career in the field of Organ and Tissue Donation as a coordinator and more.
What does that mean? It means he is the guy who approaches the family members when someone is declared brain dead and can possibly be an organ donor. At the worst moment in someone's life he is there to help life happen for others.
During this interview, live on 9/11/18, he shares how he can hold it together when approaching the families. Why the field of organ donation is his passion and calling and why he wrote his beautiful first novel about it.
Organ donation is not a comfortable topic to discuss for most people yet for some reason Robert made it easy and even shared how you can easily become an organ donor to make it easier for your family to know your wishes.
Robert Horsey is a critical care registered nurse who has dedicated most of his nineteen-year career to the field of Organ Donation and Transplantation. He has held the positions of Interventional Organ Procurement Coordinator with Mid-America Transplant Services, located in St. Louis, Missouri; Clinical Transplant Coordinator with St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital’s Heart Transplant Program and Clinical Transplant Coordinator with Indiana University Health - University Hospital’s Liver Transplant Program, both located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Currently, Robert is on staff at the Indiana Donor Network as an Organ Recovery Coordinator.
Robert has held national certification as a Certified Procurement Transplant Coordinator (CPTC) and a Certified Clinical Transplant Coordinator (CCTC), as awarded by The American Board for Transplant Certification. Robert received his Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree (cum laude honors) from the University of Missouri – St. Louis, Barnes Hospital College of Nursing.
Robert grew up in St. Louis, Missouri and is the last (along with his twin brother, Charlie) in the lineup of nine children.
He currently resides in Carmel, Indiana with his wife, Courtney and her two boys, Michael and Ozzy. And, yes, he and most of his siblings are die-hard and loyal St. Louis Cardinal Baseball Fans!!
PR, or public relations, is something so many people want for their businesses but most have no clue how to get. The old adage of any press is good press doesn't really fly in this day and age. Just look at all the social media postings when airlines do something bad. That is NOT a good thing for their brand.
So how does the average person get PR that moves the needle forward on the dial of their business success?
My guest built her brand into a powerhouse and wrote a book about how you can do it too. She also coaches others and has some done for you products. But what she really does is show you how all it really takes to get positive, needle moving PR is just a few simple and consistent steps.
Christina Daves shares a three part formula and has a free 10 day challenge you can take that will get you started right away on getting PR for your business.
Christina Daves is a serial entrepreneur who has founded and run five successful companies over the past 20 years.
With no resources remaining when she launched her latest venture, CastMedic Designs, Christina taught herself everything she could about generating her own publicity, which basically provided her free advertising for her business.
Since launching in 2012, she has appeared in close to 1000 media outlets including national and local television and publications. As a result of this success, she launched PR for Anyone® to help other small business owners have similar success.
Together with her clients, Christina has generated over 8 figures in sales from free publicity.
Christina is also the author of the bestselling book, PR for Anyone™ - 100+ Affordable Ways to Easily Create Buzz for Your Business.
Growing a business takes more than setting a plan and following it. Plans need to be monitored and analyzed to slow or eliminate becoming stagnate. You need to be ahead of where your business and clients are going to anticipate the next phase of growth.
You don't want to be behind the curve and have to react to a downturn or slowdown. It is much harder to recover when you are reacting to something that has already happened. Wouldn't it be better if you could see the writing on the wall and possibly avoid it all together? Or better yet, create new markets or plumb the depths of your existing client base to exponentially grow your current market?
My guest today has been helping businesses anticipate trends, grow their client base and understand their business through metrics every business owner or executive MUST to survive in these turbulent times for over twenty years. And now she has finally written a book to share the wisdom she has gained from helping others.
On this episode Tiffani Bova shares the ten paths to growth and how you can combine and sequence them to keep your business moving forward and up.
TIFFANI BOVA is the author of GROWTH IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business and Global Customer Growth and Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce. Previously she was VP, Distinguished Analyst and Research Fellow, with Gartner. She has interviewed guests ranging from Dan Pink to Arianna Huffington on her “What’s Next!” podcast and her insights have helped companies—Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, Oracle, SAP, Dell, and Amazon-AWS among them—expand their market share and grow their revenues.
Tiffani is also a top Twitter influencer in customer experience, sales, AI, the future of work, cloud, and marketing with more than one million Twitter impressions per month, as well as over 150,000 LinkedIn views per month. She studied at The Wharton School and lives near Los Angeles.
I found Alex Dykes, aka Alex on Autos while narrowing down choices for a new car. He has incredible video reviews of virtually every car real people would consider buying and explains the car in context of how we normal people actually use a car.
I just had to have him on the show and he said yes.
During this episode Alex talks about how he got started in the business of video car review for real people, what you should do before you buy a car, why tires really matter to noise and so much more.
Alex even shares what kind of person most cars are designed for and how you can adapt your favorite car to fit you if you are shorter like I am.
Alex L. Dykes hails from the left coast where he and his husband combine a love of Silicon Valley technology with a passion for cars on a 9-acre organic farm. In 2011 Alex started Alex On Autos as a way to provide useful information to new car shoppers. At the time most YouTube channels were focused on entertainment and antics but Alex decided it was time for someone to talk about child seats, third row headroom and guide shoppers to find the right vehicle for them.
Alex On Autos is part of a larger corporation that Alex and his husband own that provides materials engineering and failure analysis services to Silicon Valley industries with offices in San Jose, CA.
Mastering Fear . I never thought of fear as something to be mastered. I always felt you needed to just push past fear. Sort of pretend it doesn't exist. I have a new appreciation for fear now and how we can truly change how we think about fear and how it can paralyze us.
Last episode I interviewed Brandon Webb. John David Mann is his co-author for their latest collaboration, and I think one of their most powerful for the greater world.But I have a tendency to say that about all their books because each one visibly shifts my life and invisibly shifts my thinking.
Take a listen as John shares with me his favorites concepts in the book and how they affected his life. His conversation around comfort zones and the Echo chamber are different then you have probably heard before.
He and Brandon Webb are a writing team for the ages. Dare I compare them to the team of Bob Burg and John David Mann? I've recommended this book to random strangers and friends and each person reaches out and comments on different parts of the book and how it has impacted them.
Take a listen and speak your fear so you can learn to master it.
John David Mann is coauthor of the bestselling classic The Go-Giver, which has sold more than half a million copies in more than two dozen languages. Winner of the Axiom Business Book Award’s Gold Medal in 2008, The Go-Giver has been hailed as “the most important parable about business—and life—of our time” by bestselling author and Wharton professor Adam Grant; “a small book that packs a huge idea” by bestselling author Daniel Pink; “a good description of many of the most amazing people I’ve encountered” by Arianna Huffington; and “a must-read by anyone who wants to change the world” by talk show host Glenn Beck. Inc. magazine named it one of the 18 Most Motivational Books of All Time.
His other titles include the New York Times bestsellers Flash Foresight (with Daniel Burrus) and The Red Circle (with Brandon Webb), and the national bestsellers Among Heroes (with Brandon Webb), The Slight Edge (with Jeff Olson), and Real Leadership (with John Addison). His 2011 Take the Lead (with Betsy Myers) was named by Tom Peters and the Washington Post as Best Leadership Book of 2011 and his latest book, Mastering Fear: A Navy Seal's Guide.
Fear paralyzes. Mastering your fear can transform your life. But how do you even recognize your fear so that you can begin to master it? What if the fear shows up in a critical moment when you did not even know it was a situation you feared?
My guest today, Brandon Webb, has written a powerful new book with his co-author, John David Mann, on how to master any fear. A former Navy Seal Sniper and CEO of a $100 million company, Brandon lays out a Five Step process to help us all Master our fears and go beyond them so we can live our best lives.
Listen as Brandon Webb shares how we can win the battle in our minds and get to everything we want that really is just on the other side of fear. Brandon shares his daily mantra that keeps him focused on what really matters so he can move through fear quicker than ever before and lays out how you can to.
Brandon Webb is a former US Navy SEAL sniper, New York Times bestselling author, Experimental aircraft pilot, and entrepreneur. His proudest accomplishment in the military was working as the SEAL sniper course manager, a schoolhouse that has produced some of the deadliest snipers in US military history.
He’s the founder of the Hurricane Group, a U.S. based digital entertainment, news and ecommerce company. Brandon is a member of the New York YPO (Young Presidents Organization) chapter, and serves as a board member on the veteran’s advisory committee to the U.S. Small Business Administration. His latest book is Mastering Fear: A Navy Seal’s Guide with John David Mann.
Brandon is regularly featured in the media as a military and business subject matter expert. He has contributed to ABC’s Good Morning America, NBC’s Today Show, FOX news, CNN, the BBC, SIRIUS XM, MSNBC, and The New York Times.
He enjoys spending time with his tight circle of amazing family & friends, being outdoors, and flying his experimental aircraft upside-down. He splits his time between his residence in San Juan, PR and Manhattan, NY.
Ever feel like you keep going in circles or keep hitting brick walls? Feel like you are your own worst enemy? I know I have felt that way at times. My guest today has been there, done that and not going back as the saying goes.
Kumari Mullin shares key questions you can ask yourself to know if you are blocking yourself, to discover ways to unblock yourself and to know how to leap past those blocks and begin creating a bigger future.
Stay tuned until the end as she has some great freebies for my listeners to help you along your way.
Kumari Mullin, internationally acclaimed intuitive coach, Reiki Master, best-selling author, spiritual evolutionary and animal mystic, Kumari's deepest joy is empowering YOU to unwrap your innate intuitive, manifesting and healing gifts.
Kumari hosted “Co-Creation Activations” on World Puja Network, a leader in empowerment radio and "How to Heal Anything LIVE” an internet TV program. Her transformational work includes critically acclaimed courses on energy healing, animal communication and manifesting, through her groundbreaking “Quantum Creating” and “Divine Human” courses.
Kumari transmits a powerful loving energetic presence where healing shifts occur spontaneously and the Light and wisdom of the Soul is unveiled. She teaches with a practicality and playfulness that is disarmingly potent, fully anchored in the knowing that everyone can awaken to their divine nature and spiritual and intuitive healing gifts.
Visit www.KumariHealing.com
Holocaust deniers are out there but the facts remain, it did happen. 13 million people were killed and tortured by the Nazis because of their faith or background. 6 million of them were Jewish.
My guest today escaped with his parents and siblings but 200 of the rest of his family perished in the extermination camps. He escaped at 11 and at 17 enlisted and served in the U.S. Navy in Okinawa in the WWII Pacific Theater.
He has spent his adult life writing and speaking about the Holocaust in addition to his daytime job. He has written numerous books about the Holocaust and helped found the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
This is not my normal interview but it is one of the most important ones. It is important to never forgot so we can prevent those events from happening again.
Kurt Wallach is the Founder, Owner, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Kurtell Growth Industries. He escaped Germany at the age of 11 and he served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
He has written two books on the Holocaust and regularly speaks about his experience escaping from Nazi Germany and the horrors of the Holocaust.
He is married to Marilyn (nee Oakes) and resides in Vero Beach with his son Mark. He has two daughters by a previous marriage. Mr. Wallach is a major contributor to the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. and is determined to make sure the world does not forget.
Most businesses fail within five years. My guest today has had her own business for over twenty-five and has no plans to end it anytime soon. She has weathered recessions and booms, detours and distractions and has come out even stronger than when she started her business. How does she do it? Believe it or not, with a lot of questions and her CALM method for building your business.
I met Cheryl Leitschuh via a friend and previous guest on the show Ursula Mentjes. We talked and immediately connected. Her wisdom learned from working with clients who are striving to build their own successful business is priceless and she has even compiled it into her recent book, Straight Talk for Smart Business Women: Critical Tools to Build and Grow Your Business lays outmany of the lessons she has learned and taught to her clients.
The book, and this interview also reveals her CALM Method for business growth that will help you gain clarity, focus and leverage your "ONE thing" and measure your success or failure. If you want to know what the "One thing" is you will need to listen in!
If you are in business, starting a business, thinking of starting a business or working in corporate (which is not the dirty word so many people say it is), you'll want to listen to this interview with pen and paper, or keyboard, so you can take notes.
Who is Cheryl Leitschuh? Mentor, guide and influencer. Many of Cheryl’s clients describe her as the “yoda” for woman owned small businesses and solopreneurs.Cheryl has had the pleasure of owning a successful, sustainable small business for over twenty five years. She has stumbled, regrouped, learned, succeeded and failed BUT remained committed to being an entrepreneur.
Cheryl has also coached other women owned small businesses to enjoy the opportunities of being an entrepreneur. Her mission is to help woman owned small business to start, build and grow their own successful enterprise.
How does a woman from the BBQ loving state of Texas make the move to not only becoming a vegan and avid juicer but also to switch careers and follow her calling to show others how they can improve their health one mouthful of nutritious foods at a time and convert her husband and son?
That is definitely a story I wanted to hear, so I asked Stephanie Leach to be on my show. I know from personal experience that trying to become healthy is not as easy as we might think. So many distractions along the way of embracing a new way of thinking, eating, living, healing. One of the hardest to move past, beyond the one in our own minds, is that of influences from the outside.
Stephanie shares how she was able to hold strong and achieve her health goals even with her family not being on-board at first. She also shares tips you can begin doing right now to add more plant based foods into your diet. One meal or one snack at a time.
As a Certified Health Coach and Certified Juice Therapist, Stephanie Leach helps busy people transform their health and reclaim their energy with the power of juicing and a whole food, plant-based lifestyle.
Website: https://stephanieleach.com
What happens when a calling leads you down paths you never expected including writing a book with Wayne Dyer, after he has died, and a multitude of other greater minds and beings from above? Well one thing that happens is a great episode of a radio show and a really profound book.
I was introduced to Karen Noe by a former guest and dear friend Jackie Lapin. I was intrigued to interview an medium. I have felt my mom multiple times she she passed and have beliefs as to what happens to someone when they leave their earthly bodies but to speak to someone who has, time-after-time, been proven to have access to those who have passed beyond was an opportunity I could not pass up.
On this episode we discuss how Karen realized she was a medium, her battle with Imposter Syndrome that almost could have derailed her path in the world and what WE Consciousness brings the world to help us achieve inner and outer peace. Karen also shares some techniques you can begin using right away to connect to your own inner and outer peace.
Karen Noé is a renowned New Jersey psychic medium with a two-year waiting list.
She is the Hay House author of We Consciousness: 33 Profound Truths for Inner and Outer Peace, Your Life After Their Death: A Medium’s Guide to Healing After a Loss and Through the Eyes of Another: A Medium’s Guide to Creating Heaven on Earth by Encountering your Life Review Now.
Website:
- karennoe.com
Don't just survive, thrive. Disasters happen and happen and happen lately. Some major to large portions of the world, like all the shootings and natural disasters and some major just to you, like a death of a loved one, health or monetary crisis. Or some that may seem minor on the surface but your entire being reacts in a major way.
How do you handle them and how do you bounceback from them?
I had so much to ask Dr. Laurie Nadel I asked her back after my first interview with her. On this episode, done live on June 26, 2018, we discuss her book, The Five Gifts and her emotional first aid toolkit she discovered while working with survivors of some of the largest scale disasters of our modern day.
Her book changed the way I think about life and stress and has given me tools to help myself walk a bit easier through my day.
Take a listen.
Dr. Laurie Nadel, PhD., is a specialist in acute stress, trauma, and anxiety issues. She has been interviewed in The New York Times, National Public Radio, Reuters, and CNN.com. During her 20-year carder in journalism, she recognized a need to help people whose lives were shattered by violence.
After earning two doctorates through independent study and completing training in mind-body medicine. she pioneered emotional first aid tools to help lower acute stress after catastrophic events. Dr. Laurie is a member of a critical incident stress management team working with first responders and staff who were working at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the February 14th shooting which killed 17 teachers and students while wounding another 17.
After losing her home to Hurricane Sandy, Dr. Laurie ran long-term support groups for survivors. From 2003 to 2005, she directed a program for teenagers whose fathers were killed in the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks and wrote the script for After the Fall: The Rise of a 9/11 Community Center, narrated by Dan Rather. Her four-time bestseller, Sixth Sense: Unlocking Your Ultimate Mind Power, was featured twice on Oprah.
A journalist for twenty years, Laurie Nadel reported for Newsweek and United Press International in South America, wrote TV news for CBS, ABC News and Reuters Television, and was a religion columnist for The New York Times' Long Island section.
She also helped created the Committee to Protect Journalists, an organization since 1981 that has fought for the rights of journalists around the world. THE FIVE GIFTS: Discovering Healing, Hope and Strength When Disaster Strikes is her seventh book. For more information, please visit www.laurienadel.com.
I've written articles about doing a digital detox and even done some short ones but they were all planned. My recent trip to North Carolina though was a digital detox of a completely different sort and completely unplanned.
So what happens when a certified geek and smartphone junkie gets into the mountains of North Carolina and discovers that her phone seems to be on permanent No Service status?
Take a listen to me, your radio show host turning the mic on myself and share with me on Facebook or Twitter what comes up for you at the thought of a digital detox.
Laura Steward is a sought after business strategist, keynote speaker, radio host and author. After building and selling her highly successful multi-state technology services company she started Wisdom Learned, LLC, a company dedicated to educating leaders based on experience and wisdom learned in the trenches.
Ms. Steward is the author of the Nautilus award-winning, International bestselling book “What Would a Wise Woman Do? Questions to Ask Along the Way”. Through her weekly broadcast Radio Show, It’s All About the Questions, keynote speeches, books, seminars, training and one-one sessions, Laura’s mission is clear – help people get off autopilot and create amazing, successful lives.
Miracles happen every day but you have to willing to see them. My guest on this June 12, 2018 episode experiences them every day including the day she decided to leave corporate America and become a dog trainer. Then she "happens" upon the perfect home and property in a more remote area than she had thought about in Michigan and THEN, she realizes senior dogs are being discarded and she has an empty building on the property.
Miracles all around for her and the amazing senior pets she fosters, places and, in some cases, helps cross the rainbow bridge when it is their time. Wait until you here the segment where she shares how they help the loved dogs pass on. I was crying and so was she.
I am a huge dog lover. Well I love animals of all kinds except snakes and spiders so when I heard about the Silver Muzzle Cottage Rescue and Hospice through a friend's Facebook page, Kindness Matters, I knew I had to interview the founder, Kim Skarritt. What I did not expect was how many reach outs happened from the live show.
Try to listen to this show without wanting to run out and rescue a senior pet or, as one person wanted to know, "how do I start one where I am?"
We have talked a lot about callings this year, starting with my two part series with Father Michael Boccaccio. He shared how callings come in all kinds, not just as a religious one and we learned how to begin recognizing your own calling.
This episode shows you how Kim's calling has begun to transform the way we think about senior pets and what we can do to make a difference no matter where we are. She thought her path was very different then what it turned out to be yet all her experiences have helped her thrive on this one.
If you have a senior dog or pet, post some pictures with this post on FB, Twitter or instagram and tag me!
The Silver Muzzle Cottage Rescue & Hospice is a 501c3 organization that works with shelters and pet owners throughout the state of Michigan. Kim Skarritt created an all-volunteer-based organization that relies solely on public donations and grant funding. Their organization is proud to be a certified rescue through the Michigan Pet Fund Alliance organization and a Transfer Partner with the Michigan Humane Society. Kim’s internationally-recognized program strives to educate others about the problem of homelessness amongst the senior dog population. Through positive promotion, we hope to shed light on the value, beauty and grace of these dogs and the many ways they can enrich the lives of those who choose to foster or adopt them.
Our volunteers are the heart and soul of our rescue. Cottage Friends volunteers enrich the lives of our rescues by taking them for walks, hikes in the woods, strolls on the beach and the occasional swim. For Cottage residents who are too limited to enjoy a more active lifestyle, quiet days on comfy dog beds and the companionship of our volunteers is all that is needed.
Through our Seniors For Seniors program, SMC volunteers take our Cottage residents to visit area nursing care facilities. This meaningful activity brings joy not only to the facility residents but to the dogs who participate. Many canines late in their years are often found in area shelters and are quickly euthanized because their age and disabilities make them less likely to be adopted. We recognize that these dogs once gave their lives to someone, or to a family, and for a variety of reasons and factors, now find themselves in a strange, scary shelter environment or set “free” and eventually picked up as a stray.
Our team knows these dogs deserve more, that they shouldn’t die alone and afraid in a cage. Senior dogs deserve love and dignity in their final days, months and years. SMC is dedicated to the rescue, adoption and lifelong care of these senior dogs. Contact us to learn more about how you can get involved and help.
"A pattern gets triggered that shifts you into autopilot. Those buttons are an unconscious block."
Those words, from my guest Clardy Malugen, former CEO of a multimillion dollar company, define why she has switched paths from working with companies like Walt Disney Imagineering and NBC Television and now focuses on helping others heal their lives and bodies.
I had the pleasure of being introduced to Clardy by my friend and previous guest on the show, Jackie Lapin. We met over dinner and her insights into some ongoing health issues were nothing sort of miraculous and some issues I had prior to a healing session with her are just gone.
During this episode that was done live on the show on June 5, 2018, sorry for the posting delay, Clardy shares tips on how you can begin to release blocks that are preventing you from healing and how you can stay in the light even when everything around you seems to be in the negative.
Scientists have been studying Clardy's work and have tracked DNA changes in her clients after healing sessions. She shares several stories of healings that have occurred and how she realized that healing work was really her calling.
Stay listening to the end as Clardy is giving all my listeners some free resources to get you to the point where you can finally answer this question, "What would your life look like if you were not holding yourself back?"
Formerly a successful entrepreneur and business owner, Clardy Malugen served as President and key developer of a multimillion dollar, bi-coastal entertainment corporation and has provided consulting services to many Fortune 500 companies including Walt Disney Imagineering, Guthy-Renker, Inc., NBC Television, Disney Cruise Line, and General Electric, among others.
Clardy earned a prestigious Writer of the Year award from the Jordan Whitney Report, and garnered a nomination from The American Film Institute for her TV/video project entitled Save the Earth: A How-To Video. Clardy's work has been featured in many publications such as The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Whole Life Times, and on Entertainment Tonight and MTV.
Clardy holds an MFA from Florida State University--Asolo Conservatory, an MA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City--Missouri Repertory Theatre, and a BA cum laude from Beloit College. She studied in Europe at the Université de Haute Bretagne in Rennes, France, and at the Transpersonal Hypnotherapy Institute in Santa Monica, California. Clardy is also a graduate of the Hoffmann Quadrinity Process, and has studied with many notable human potential leaders, such as Deepak Chopra and Carolyn Myss.
Throughout the years, Clardy has quietly explored her natural gifts as a medical intuitive and energy healer. She recently made a commitment to share these remarkable gifts with clients in both her private practice and workshops. Utilizing what she calls a "transdimensional energy connection to The Field", she has facilitated hundreds of instantaneous healings of both emotional and physical limitations that have been described as "miraculous". Although often called a "master healer", Clardy believes that her work with energy simply helps to release negative energy fields that are blocking the body's natural ability to heal itself.
A former resident of Los Angeles and New York, Clardy currently resides with her two sons in Orlando, Florida.
This is not the usual guest I have on the show. I don't do celebrity interviews but when this guest's agent reached out to me I knew I had to interview him. Why? Because I had such a huge crush on him when I was a much younger girl!
My guest is Michael Cole from the TV series The Mod Squad. As his book title says, "I Played The White Guy". ANd what a book it is. WHen I read the book to prepare for the interview I was surprised how candid and introspective the book was. As I read it I had so many questions I wanted to ask as what excited to get to interview him.
Sometimes the crush isn't worthy of the crush when you get to "meet" them in person. That was not the case when I started speaking with Michael. The interview was everything I could have hoped for and so much more.
No topic was off limits and Michael shared his journey to 23 years sober, finding redemption and how learning to make loneliness his friend created an opening for internal peace and joy and getting sober.
It was great to "meet" my crush AND discover he is a wonderful man who wants his story to help others. One of my favorite quotes from his book and the interview is this one, "Make loneliness your friend. It will always be there."
Michael Cole was born on the cusp of the Depression and the Second World War, on July 3, 1940, on the blue-collar side of Madison, Wisconsin. He never met his biological father, who abandoned his mother, brother Ted, and him when he was born. With no home of their own, they lived with his grandmother, in a house with no running hot water and a single commode in the basement. His “Ma,” Kathleen Hyland, whom he deeply loved, was forced to work several jobs to keep food on the table.
As a kid, Michael often ran the streets, wild and rebellious, pretty much on his own. He quit school in the ninth grade, and was married at seventeen, a teenage father of a beautiful baby girl. The young marriage couldn’t survive the pressures, and ended after four years. Michael, an alcoholic by age thirteen, was alone and lost. He set out at the age of twenty, making his way to the streets of San Francisco, tended bar in Las Vegas, and then in 1963 moved to Los Angeles, where he joined the acting workshop of renowned coach Estelle Harmon.
Casting agents began to hear about his talent and he started to get work. In 1968, after guest shots in Gunsmoke and Run for Your Life, he landed the role of Pete Cochran in Aaron Spelling’s The Mod Squad*. The show dealt with contemporary and controversial subjects—issues very close to Michael’s heart—racism, child abuse, Viet Nam veterans, and drugs. It became a smash hit, resonating with the counterculture of the times, and it made Michael an international celebrity. He was the recipient of four Logie Awards, Australia’s version of the Emmy Awards.*
At the height of his success, Michael married Paula Kelly Jr., whose parents formed the famous musical group “The Modernaires." They had a daughter, but again, alcohol and Michael’s rise to stardom destined the marriage to failure.
In 1989, after years of isolation, despair, and the bottle, Michael met the woman who would change his life forever. With Shelley’s love and encouragement, Michael got sober. He completed the program at Betty Ford Center in 1994, and began to work again with guest starring roles on ER, Diagnosis Murder, Mystery Woman, and in Kevin Costner’s feature film Mr. Brooks. That said, Michael considers his greatest accomplishments his twenty-one-year marriage and his twenty-one years of sobriety.
Creating a company that can be successfully taken global while simultaneously creating a community of raving fans and clients and anticipating where the market needs will be is not an every day occurrence. Yet my guest on this episode has done this all while staying connected to his roots.
We did not have a chance to talk about he time he swam the English Channel but we did talk about how he first got the idea for the business, how he and his brother made their mom's home address seem more like a business to the outside world rather than a bedroom on the second floor and how he has successfully merged numerous companies.
A previous guest on the show, Daniel Burrus, told us about how we can become "Anticipatory Organizations." Arnie Bellini and ConnectWise could be the poster child for the model. Arnie shares how he got the ideas to merge with different businesses versus create the products they had created on his own. He also shares the one thing ConnectWise was not created to be about and the one thing it strives to do above all.
Arnie Bellini is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tampa-based ConnectWise, Inc., a B2B technology company that creates and supports business software solutions. In 2017, the company earned $200 million in revenue and has a valuation of $1.2 billion. Arnie serves as the chief visionary behind the company's long-standing success in the information technology industry.
Over 35 years ago, Arnie astutely recognized the impact that microcomputers would have and created a managed services provider company. In 1998, Arnie took the company's best practices and transformed them into an integrated, workflow-driven business management solution to help technology services companies run more efficiently. The result was the creation of ConnectWise Manage™, the ConnectWise business operating system.
Arnie's passion to continually drive operational efficiencies and deliver excellent customer service makes ConnectWise one of the most admired companies in the technology services market. ConnectWise solutions automate the full lifecycle of IT services delivery, from sales and service to project tracking and back-office functions. These solutions are used by more than 21,000 technology services companies across the globe.
Arnie is a Certified Public Accountant and earned a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Florida and an MBA from the University of South Florida. In 2014, Arnie won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year™ award for Florida in the Technology category. He was honored for growing ConnectWise into a highly innovative, best-in-class software company, and recognized for inspiring the growth of the Tampa Bay technology sector.
I have been fortunate in my life to have had many mentors. They seem to come into my life at just the right time but that doesn't always seem to happen for everyone I meet. Which is actually the reason why I started my radio show. I like to think of this show as a mentor to all my listeners. Everyone needs to have access to someone with different perspectives who can mentor them on a journey of discovery and growth.
My guest today is someone I met and first heard about through a frequent guest on this show and one of my mentors, Bob Burg. You may have heard him mention a few of his favorite "Dondiisms".
Well on this episode my guest is the Dondi of Dondiisms and she shares some directly with us. We talk about mentors, value, opportunity, finding the right mentor, what the relationship will look like and what it will not. Dondi is an international thought leader on creating global mentoring relationships and she shares how you can get started as a mentor or a mentee.
As always, grab a notebook and pen and settle in because my guest shared so much wisdom I had trouble keeping up!
Dondi Scumaci is an international speaker, known for high-energy presentations that produce dramatic results. Scumaci’s keynotes and workshops are designed to deliver solid, actionable disciplines for employees, executives and entrepreneurs.
Scumaci is a sought-after consultant for strategic design sessions, management retreats, professional conferences, and keynote presentations.
Her dynamic presentations have made a proven, lasting impact on corporations across the United States, Canada, Europe, the United
Kingdom, Australia, South Africa and Kenya.
What are the keys to staying balanced under pressure? I don't just mean during. I am asking what are they even after, waaay after, when everyone else seems to be moving past a trauma and the focus is off?
I never used to think that stress was a thing. It was all just good stress. Then my body and brain started to take a little longer to come to center and then, one day, it seemed I was living a new normal where I could never seem to shake flashbacks to unsettling events and moments. I searched for answers. Well really for the questions that would allow the right answers to come to me to help.
My guest has lived through personal traumas on large scale and on personal small scales in war zones and even in her own home during Hurricane Sandy on Long Island in New York. After Hurricane Sandy, while dealing with her own trauma and helping others get through their own, she discovered that there are 5 gifts that can help us discover hope, healing and strength, before, during and after.
Join me as I interview Dr. Laurie Nadel in Part One of our two part interview on working through and moving through and most of all healing through trauma of all kinds.
Laurie Nadel, PhD., is a specialist in acute stress, trauma, and anxiety issues. She has been interviewed in The New York Times, National Public Radio, Reuters, and CNN.com. During her 20-year carder in journalism, she recognized a need to help people whose lives were shattered by violence.
After earning two doctorates through independent study and completing training in mind-body medicine. she pioneered emotional first aid tools to help lower acute stress after catastrophic events. Dr. Laurie is a member of a critical incident stress management team working with first responders and staff who were working at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the February 14th shooting which killed 17 teachers and students while wounding another 17.
After losing her home to Hurricane Sandy, Dr. Laurie ran long-term support groups for survivors. From 2003 to 2005, she directed a program for teenagers whose fathers were killed in the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks and wrote the script for After the Fall: The Rise of a 9/11 Community Center, narrated by Dan Rather. Her four-time bestseller, Sixth Sense: Unlocking Your Ultimate Mind Power, was featured twice on Oprah.
A journalist for twenty years, Laurie Nadel reported for Newsweek and United Press International in South America, wrote TV news for CBS, ABC News and Reuters Television, and was a religion columnist for The New York Times' Long Island section.
She also helped created the Committee to Protect Journalists, an organization since 1981 that has fought for the rights of journalists around the world. THE FIVE GIFTS: Discovering Healing, Hope and Strength When Disaster Strikes is her seventh book. For more information, please visit www.laurienadel.com.
What does privacy mean in 2018 as it relates to Facebook and other social networks? What about Amazon Echo and Google Home devices or for that matter SIRI? Don't forget all those other connected home devices and chatbots you use every day as well?
My guest is considered one of the top experts, globally, around IoT, the Internet of Things, AI, Artificial Intelligence and all things Social Media.
If you have ever asked Alexa a question, posted on social media or connected an appliance in your home to the internet to control it you will not want to miss this episode.
Ken Herron shares a website you can go to and discover what those Terms and Conditions agreements you have clicked right past (yup, I do it too,) really mean and how you can protect yourself on the wild, wild west aka world wide web plus so much more.
Ken Herron is the Chief Marketing Officer for Singapore-based Unified AI company Unified Inbox Pte. Ltd. (“UIB”).
He was recently named one of 2018's "30 Most Creative Corporate Leaders To Watch" by Insights Success Magazine;
Ken is a top-ranked global IoT and AI leader by Postscapes, Global Data, Digital Scouting, and Onalytica; and he is currently the #2 CMO globally on Twitter (follow him on @KenHerron).
I recently went to Omaha, NE to spend two days with my guest to create my Life Plan. Her dad, and my dear friend, Arlin Sorensen felt I had lost my purpose after my mom passed away. He was right in that I lost my ability to see it, having pushed me aside to be with my mom for the last six years.
Those two days have transformed me on the inside. I feel lit up again with possibility. Including the possibility that taking care of me is a part of my plan.
So what is a life plan and how does several years in China as a missionary set one up to help others connect to and define their life's purpose?
Laurie Sorensen shares the 5 domains critical to a Life Plan, what happens when one or more is out of alignment and she even shares a few exercises you can do on your own to begin creating your own life plan.
If you cannot verbalize your purpose in this world, or if you want to get clear how what you need to do next, you will want to listen to this interview.
Laurie Sorensen serves as a Learning Architect with HTG Peer Groups where she is energized by thinking, planning, speaking and writing on topics to help leaders grow. Laurie is the author of the Planning for Success workbook which guides people through Business, Leadership, Life, and Legacy planning the HTG Way.
She blends her intuitive ability to connect with people and her passion for learning as she designs experiences that help people to grow personally and go home equipped to make a difference for others. Laurie’s favorite part of her job is walking with leaders as a facilitator of the LifePlan process, a 2-day guided journey.
Outside of work hours you can find Laurie spending time with international students or volunteering with Safe Families, a ministry that helps to stabilize families in need.
My two guests on my April 17th episode have stayed positive through some extremely trying circumstances. Colonel Deb Lewis, Retired Army was in the first female graduating class at West Point, served in the Army for 34 years in command positions and her husband, Colonel Doug Adams, also retired from the Army, has had his share of command positions that would lead to either or both of them not being the positive people they are today.
So how does one stay positive in the real world? We are not talking paste a smile on your face and recite platitudes of positivity. We are talking staying positive on the inside and the outside. Letting positivity be who you are on a daily basis and shining that light on the world even when you are challenged by negativity all around in the news, on the streets and perhaps even in your home.
Deb and Doug share insights on specific strategies you can begin using immediately to shift your perspective on events and people all around you, and even yourself, so that you can begin living positive in the real world!
Deb is a daughter, sister, wife, mother, pioneer, retired Colonel, Combat Veteran, Infinite-Win Engineer, Harvard MBA, RV Driver, Author, Speaker, Leader, Veterans Day Parade Chair, Adventure Guide and so much more...
Doug is a son, brother, husband, father, grandfather, retired Lieutenant Colonel, cyclist, Lawyer, Author, Speaker, Leader, Community Non-profit Leader, Adventure Guide and so much more...
Deb & Doug grew up wanting to make a difference. They both graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (est. 1802) in the first class with women, married others, have kids (all adults now), divorced, and generally followed life’s typical script. Instead of settling for less, life had something else in mind.
Once they finally met each other and and moved past their old mindsets, they fell in love over 18 years ago and began to reimagine their life. After Deb retired from the military, they went on a one-year, fifty-state 18k mile bicycling tour to raise awareness of veteran and military issues. Following that, they imagined where they wanted to live—some place warm with a view of the ocean and mountains.
From their dream home in Hilo, Hawaii, now they imagine helping others build stronger relationships, magically achieve more, and love their lives, as they fulfill their dreams.
How do you define influence? For many it is being able to convince people to do things even if it is not in their best interest. But what if influence is less about compromise or getting people to do what you want, and more about creating a space where everyone "wins"?
My guest on this episode is John David Mann. My regular listeners will recognize his name as I have had him on the show multiple times. He is one of my favorite guests and a dear friend whose words always seem to arrive just when I need them most.
In his latest book with Bob Burg, The Go-Giver Influencer: A Little Story About a Most Persuasive Idea, Bob and John have written another book for the ages.
In this interview we talk about several of the five secrets to ultimate influence revealed in the book. We also talk about one of my favorite characters in the book, Solomon, and the power of Woof!
John David Mann is coauthor of the bestselling classic The Go-Giver, which has sold more than half a million copies in more than two dozen languages. Winner of the Axiom Business Book Award’s Gold Medal in 2008, The Go-Giver has been hailed as “the most important parable about business—and life—of our time” by bestselling author and Wharton professor Adam Grant; “a small book that packs a huge idea” by bestselling author Daniel Pink; “a good description of many of the most amazing people I’ve encountered” by Arianna Huffington; and “a must-read by anyone who wants to change the world” by talk show host Glenn Beck. Inc. magazine named it one of the 18 Most Motivational Books of All Time. His other titles include the New York Times bestsellers Flash Foresight (with Daniel Burrus) and The Red Circle (with Brandon Webb), and the national bestsellers Among Heroes (with Brandon Webb), The Slight Edge (with Jeff Olson), and Real Leadership (with John Addison). His 2011 Take the Lead (with Betsy Myers) was named by Tom Peters and the Washington Post as Best Leadership Book of 2011.
"There Is a Major Problem in The World Today: It’s Not People Disagreeing with One Another… It’s That They Cannot Disagree Agreeably, Civilly, And, Most Importantly, Persuasively!" And according to Bob Burg, that simply need not be the case.
Bob says, “You can get the results you want while making the other person feel genuinely good: about themselves, about the situation, and about you!”
My guest on this episode, Bob Burg, is one of the most influential people I know. He is also wise and kind and a true Go-Giver. He lives what he teaches. Well really what he teaches is who he really is in the world.
The Go-Giver Influencer is the latest release in The Go-Giver series of books with over 700,000 copies in print around the world. The series, in my opinion, should be required reading if you live on this planet.
Listen to this episode and learn the 5 secrets of ultimate influence and how to implement them, including, Master Your Emotions, Let Go of Having to Be Right and three more.
In their bestselling business parable, The Go-Giver and then their follow-up, The Go-Giver Leader, Bob Burg and John David Mann challenged the conventional wisdom about success. Now they’re back with a new and equally compelling story about the power of genuine influence, in business and beyond.
THE GO-GIVER INFLUENCER: A Little Story about a Most Persuasive Idea tackles the paradox of achieving what you want by focusing on the other person’s interests. No, not in a way that is self-sacrificial but rather in such a way that all parties benefit greatly. This results in both immediate and long-term success.
Bob Burg speaks all over the world on topics related to The Go-Giver, as well aswhat he calls, Ultimate Influence™. While his total book sales number well over a million copies, his and Mann’s original book has itself sold over 700,000 copies and has spurred an international movement.
Their new book, however, The Go-Giver Influencer, might just be their most important book of all.
Legal help can be expensive yet it can be critical to your business and life success. We all are familiar with attorneys yet few are aware of another level of legal expertise known as a paralegal.
In business you need contracts, NDAs, policy and procedure documents, Terms of Use and Privacy Policies, leases and more. You can try to do them on your own but what will you miss? And how much will it cost you down the road if you forgot to dot an i or cross a t?
What about in your personal life? Divorces, wills, trusts, buying or selling a home, loans, mortgages and more. We all want to trust that things will be handled amicably but how often do they?
Spending some money upfront can often save you bundles of money, time and grief on the other end.
How do you know if you need an attorney or a paralegal? Do you even know the difference?
Enter my guest. She has had her own paralegal company for over eight years after closing her mortgage brokerage company. Cricket shares the three things you can do to avoid/minimize probate and a few other things as well.
Attorneys are important but sometimes a good paralegal can provide the services you need at a fraction of the price.
Cricket McMillin is the Founder of Paralegal Temps and the author of the book Paralegal Services: Your first line of defense and affordability is to contact a Paralegal available on Amazon or free if you email her and mention this show.
Too often the elderly are shifted off to be someone else's responsibility when they can no longer live on their own. Nursing homes, assisted living and memory care are popping up all over and frequent the news for abuses and lack of care. Not all are bad yet how do you decide the best course of action when a loved one can no longer be on their own?
My guest on this episode designs multigenerational spaces for families that choose to take care of three or more generations at home. She also designs spaces for facilities that care for the elderly, restaurants, sports teams and more. My favorite part-- her four generation family is her test bed.
If you want to learn how to make multi-generational living work for your own loved ones, you will not want to miss this episode. Lisa shares successes, perils, pitfalls and a few things anyone can do to begin making a house work when you have older members in your home.
Lisa M. Cini is the Founder, President and CEO of Mosaic Design Studio. A global commercial design, project management and procurement company, Mosaic’s mission is to "Improve Quality of Life By Design."
Lisa has the ability to take the complex and make it simple, as well as repeatable. By harnessing this ability, the award winning company has expanded 149% over the past three years.
Under Lisa’s leadership, Mosaic has dedicated itself to meeting clients’ needs, while upholding their mission, vision and values. She has helped a diverse clientele has meet with success on far-reaching projects, and among them are: The top global senior living operators, The United States Air Force, The United States Navy, the National Hockey League, Coopers Hawk Winery and The OhioHealth Hospital System.
Combining her business savvy with her wide-ranging creativity has brought Lisa into the publishing world. Her newest book, Hive: The Simple Guide to Multigenerational Living How Our Family Makes it Work is Lisa’s personal account of how her family has designed a home in which 4-Generations live together and lead productive, happy and healthy lives, even as the eldest member of the family struggles with Alzheimer’s/Dementia. She just launched www.BestLivingTech.com in which she curates the best products to Embrace Living as we age. Think Sharper Image meets AARP!
Lisa is also the author of 2016’s THE FUTURE IS HERE…Senior Living Reimagined, as well as many articles. She has received numerous awards, which span multiple industries. A sought-after speaker, Lisa has been featured on radio and TV; recently, she appeared on Today in America with Terry Bradshaw. (Scroll down for a comprehensive list of Awards and Achievements)
This spring Lisa will release her 3rd book BOOM The Baby Boomers Guide to Leveraging Technology, so that You Can Preserve Your Independent Lifestyle & Thrive pre-release has already made #1 on Amazon Kindle in 4 countries!
Lisa is regarded as the leading Alzheimer's and long-term care design expert in the nation, and has been recognized for her contributions in the field. Though appreciative of the recognition for her work, Lisa is most gratified by helping people who are struggling with Alzheimer’s, find ways to cope as individuals, as families, and as communities.
Lisa Cini has an enduring passion to learn from the best and create change where she sees the need, and when she’s applied this passion to the field of interior design, she has helped redefine it.
A resident of Columbus, Ohio, Lisa supports her community through her dedication to volunteer work. She believes that we are all here to add value to this world using our God-given talents and treasures.
Do you know there are not just one or two types of success plans but four? Do you know that each one is integral to each other? Have you ever thought that you really could have it all in your business and your personal life?
There is much talk about balance between our business and personal lives but how many people do you know that really are able to achieve it? I know I struggle with it. My guest has successfully built and sold two business and is still running a few others while maintaining a life outside work and inside work that he is proud to talk about to others. In the process, he discovered the four key success plans everyone should complete.
On this episode Arlin shares how he created his strategy towards growth, what the four success plans are and how you can create your plans and what he feels is the most important think you can do to achieve your dreams.
Arlin Sorensen serves as the CEO and Founder of the Heartland Companies which includes HTG Peer Groups. When he is not traveling to speak and consult, Arlin is home on his farm in Iowa with his wife Nancy. He is a proud “Pop” to four precocious grandchildren who serve as daily reminders of why he is intentionally living to leave a strong legacy of faith and integrity. He loves making a difference in the lives and companies of small to mid-market business owners.
They say you should write what you know. Sometimes that creates a boring book but in the hands of a master like Brad Parks it creates a book that you want to devour in one sitting. Or in my case one flight to Omaha with a layover in Atlanta.
In his latest book Brad departs from his male protagonists and writes from the perspective of a woman protagonist. I loved what he had to say about how he put himself into that mindset and what the women in his life had to say about it too
Listen as Brad and I talk about where he gets his ideas, how he keeps himself whole while he writes about the topics he writes about and what he keeps in mind when he writes every book he writes.
We also get into a conversation about how the organization at the center of his Closer Than You Know can be fixed. I did not get him to break into song so I will have to have him back on the show!
Brad Parks is the only author to have won the Shamus, Nero and Lefty Awards, three of crime fiction's most prestigious prizes. His first standalone thriller, Say Nothing, released March 2017 from Dutton Books in the U.S., along with thirteen other publishers worldwide.
Parks's six previous novels chart the adventures of sometimes-dashing investigative newspaper reporter Carter Ross, and have collectively won stars from every major pre-publication review outlet. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Parks is a former journalist with The Washington Post and The(Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger. He is now a full-time novelist living in Virginia with his wife and two school-aged children.
The response to Father Mike's first appearance on my show last week was so huge, with so many questions people wanted to ask him, that when a guest had to reschedule I invited him back on.
On Part 2, we delve further into the types of callings, whether a calling is for life and what he meant by his pet peeve of people saying, "I am spiritual, not religious."
I loved his question he posed, "How will I function as a person?" He also posed, "Are you avoiding who you are? He also shared some other questions to help us connect to our calling and to connect with our spiritual and religious sides.
Our discussion on renewing callings was a huge perspective shift for me. I had always thought callings were for life and did not require recommitment. In hindsight, well, just listen to the interview!
Callings are not just to the religious life. Callings are something we all have. They call us to be something bigger than ourselves, to make a difference in the world through gifts we each uniquely have.
In the case of my guest on this episode, his calling was to be a Roman Catholic priest. The route he took to get there could have ended with him living a secular life and still being of service yet his calling to the priesthood was too strong to resist for long. His journey to accepting his calling is one for the ages and one we discuss today.
Father Michael Boccaccio shares how to discover your calling, why we each have a calling and how it manifests itself even when we do not see it for ourselves until much later than others see it in us.
We discuss faith, religion, spirituality, how to be filled up even while giving all of yourself and how callings live on even when you think they might be coming to a close.
The Rev.Michael Boccaccio has been a Catholic Priest since 1971 when he could no longer ignore his calling to be a part of the Roman Catholic Church.
In a recent interview in The Hour Newspapers in Norwalk, CT, Father Michael says he does not believe in reincarnation. He is Catholic after all. But if, by some chance, he does come back in another life, he wants to be a seagull.
“I love flying, I love the sea, and I’d love to leave my signature on a few heads,”
This sentiment is, of course, a Boccaccio signature in itself. You will get a small slice of that irrepressible humor and "subtleness" on this interview with a man who has shaped my life for many years.
Now that he is almost retired, Rev. Boccaccio is traveling around the world bringing people closer to their faith through speaking at church missions and making people smile just by being himself.
I want to start off by thanking John David Mann for introducing me to Daniel Burrus. His latest book, The Anticipatory Organization has the potential to change the entire trajectory of your life and business, if you are willing to be open to what is laid out in its pages.
What if you could see the future? Well you can. You actually see it each day yet we don't take action on what we "know" can be the next big or small thing that can shift the status quo.
During this interview, Daniel and I discuss just a few of his proven strategies to accelerate innovation and transform results. He explains how to turn disruption and change into opportunity and advantage.
I have not stopped talking about this book, or this interview, since I read it and held the interview. Learn about hard trends and soft trends and how to tell the difference.
Learn how to be the disruptor versus being disrupted. Learn how to anticipate change and disruption in a way that puts you in charge. Expand your definition and your thinking. Forget post mortems and do pre-mortems.
Pay close attention because Daniel reveals several opportunities ripe for developing and he offers a free hardcopy of his book to my listeners.
Daniel Burrus is considered one of the world’s leading technology forecasters and innovation experts. He is the CEO of Burrus Research, a research and consulting firm that monitors global advances in technology driven trends to help clients profit from technological, social and business forces that are converging to create enormous, untapped opportunities.
He is a strategic advisor to executives helping them, to develop game-changing strategies based on his proven
methodologies for capitalizing on technology innovations. He is the author of seven books, including The New York Times bestseller Flash Foresight, and his latest book The Anticipatory Organization.
Ignoring threats does not make them go away. Enter the Duchess of Cybersecurity. (R)
Being on the frontlines of the Cyber wars is not for the faint of heart nor for the faint of knowledge. It is no longer possible to just be reactive to threats after they rarely occur. We must be more preventive as the only reason you have not been hacked is because you haven't notice that you already have.
How do you protect yourself from hackers? How do you know if you have been hacked?
How do you prepare for a career in the high-pressure field of cybersecurity?
Take a listen and see if you look at computers and the Internet the same way again.
Dr. Chanel Suggs (Duchess of Cybersecurity ®) is the Founder and CEO of Wyvern Security. She is a subject matter expert in Cyber Security, Forensics, Network Security, Cryptography, Information Assurance, and IT strategy. Dr. Suggs is a proven thought leader, and influencer whom advises clients regarding their security posture and works with clients to uncover and identify new and emerging threats.
Dr. Suggs is a distinguished professor and speaker on cybersecurity, forensics, hacking and cryptography. She has an extensive background in managing, designing, implementing, and assessing cyber security risks, threats, and vulnerabilities. She was awarded 6 certifications through the National Security Agency (NSA) and Committee on National Security Systems (CNSSI). She has worked with many government agencies as well as private sectors to help secure their organizations for over 15 years.
Dr. Suggs holds a Doctor of Science Cybersecurity, Masters Project Management, Master of Science Information Assurance, Masters of Networking and Communications, MBA and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. Dr. Suggs is certified CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP), Certified Chief Information Security Officer (C| CISO), Certified Ethical Hacker (C| EH), Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI), Certified EC- Council Instructor, EC- Council Security Analysis (ECSA), Certified Network Defense Architect (CNDA), CompTIA Security +, Access Data Mobile Phone Examiner (MPE), Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITILv3) and Access Data Certified Examiner (ACE). Dr. Suggs provides solution to the most complex issues within the public and private sectors to ensure a better security posture and best practices.
Strap on a pair. No. Get your mind out of the gutter. This is a story about strapping on a pair of high heels and how doing so ended in a multi-million dollar empire that empowers women by making it more comfortable to wear the heels they love.
You either love high heels or you hate them. There seems to be no middle ground here. Women's shoes are a multi-billion dollar industry with cult followings around brands. Many women will buy and wear shoes even though the pain is so great after just moments that they can barely stand. In earlier times men even wore them.
What is it about high heels that makes women, and some men, feel stronger, more confidant and powerful? Is it just a height thing? That is a conversation for another episode! Today I talk with Abby Walker. Founder of Vivian Lou Insolia insoles and the author of Strap On a Pair.
She shares how she founded a multi-million dollar company with a blog, high heels and a determination to succeed that lead her to HSN, Oprah, The View and so much more. Abby shares questions she asked, questions you can ask yourself and discovers what her theme song is. Yup, this is a full service radio show!
Her honesty and candor is not to be missed. Neither is her infectious joy over what she does and who she does it for. She knows her why in her business and she shares it with us and how you can find yours as well.
Oh, and if her theme songs gets stuck in your head, feel free to blame me and tweet me about it!
Abby Lou Walker is the CEO of Vivian Lou Inc., a single-product company with multi-million dollar annual sales dedicated to helping women look and feel better in high heels. She started her company as a “hobby” business (while being a full-time working mom) after picking up the phone and asking one simple question.
This “hobby” made her feel alive again. She had finally found something that quieted her burning desire for something more; and a short two years later, she strapped on a pair of her favorite high heels and walked away from Corporate America.
Her mission as the CEO of Vivian Lou is to empower women to wear heels 4x longer without pain so they can focus more on their dreams and less on their feet.
She’s written Strap On a Pair to inspire fellow middle-aged, middle-management, middle-class moms to take the first step—or the next step—toward finding their something more.
Prior to starting her own company, Abby served as Chief Marketing Officer for a natural supplements company; Vice President of Account Management and Communications for a financial services company; and Senior Director, Internal Communications at a large financial planning company. She received her Master’s degree in Business Communication from DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, and her Bachelor’s degree in English-Journalism from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
Abby currently resides in Denver, Colorado, with her amazing husband, and is Mom to two incredible elementary-school aged kiddos, a couple of cats and a lovable old dog.
I was talking to a friend who served in the Army for 34 years and retired as a Colonel. I asked her if she knew my guest on this episode as they served in the same areas at times. When I asked what unit he was in and told her Delta Force, her words blew me away. She said, "I would not know him. They are invisible."
What blew me away was that someone who put his life on the line for us everyday, and was required to be "invisible" so they could be safe and get the job done, would then chose a career that was a very visible one. How do you reconcile that? What do you ask yourself to shift from the one perspective of invisible to highly visible?
Brad Taylor is the author of the Pike Logan Thrillers that grab your attention from moment one and keep you guessing all the way to the end of the books. His research is legendary and his latest book is no exception. Listen as he shares a story that made it into the book that was real and had him being interrogated for six hours in a foreign country. And that happened after the Army while he was researching his latest thriller, Operator Down!
He goes all in when he writes, when he lives and when he allows himself to be interviewed. One of my new favorite guests!
Take a listen and learn how he bridges his worlds, writes his books and lives his life.
Brad Taylor is the author of the New York Times bestselling Pike Logan series. He served for more than twenty years in the U.S. Army, including eight years in 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment–Delta, commonly known as Delta Force. He retired as a Special Forces lieutenant colonel and now lives in Charleston, South Carolina.
Often when we think of setting goals or moving forward we think about what we need to add. Whether it is behaviors, people, products, mindset or even money we believe that we must add something into order to achieve our dreams.
Sometimes to allow something into our lives and/or businesses we first have to let something go.
My guest today, Michelle Manning-Kogler, is an expert on helping people let go. For over 30 years she has helped her clients achieve their goals and in this past year she has shed 85 pounds of weight herself using the same process she teaches her clients.
On this episode we talk about the questions you can ask yourself to let go the past, move into 2018 and determine if your goals are outside yourself or within.
Michelle also has graciously given all my listeners some free items to help you let go, let in and move forward.
Michelle Manning-Kogler is the author of “Quantum Soul Clearing – Healing the Scars Life Leaves on the Soul” and a contributing author to “Pearls of Wisdom: 30 Inspirational Ideas to Live Your Best Life Now,” with Jack Canfield, Robert Evans and 27 other top-thought leaders for personal change. She is the founder and trainer for “The Quantum Soul Clearing Process.” She has been in the alternative health and wellness field for over 25 years. She is an internationally renowned Life Coach, Distance Energy Healer, Medical Intuitive, Bio-Energetic Practitioner and Motivational Speaker.
The power of being in the now is real but goals require future thinking too. How do you bridge the two? How do you plan and be in the moment? How do you set a big goal and then step back AND keep the big picture in mind?
My guests today are two of my most popular guests so I brought them back on the show, together for the first time, to discuss focus, being present, setting goals and preparing for the new year.
Swami Durga Das and Swami Anjani ask us to ask ourselves one really big question as we end the year and begin the new one. If you want to know what that question is that will change the way you think of, well, everything, you will have to listen in. It is an age old question that I am still working through. I think I know the answer yet I am uncertain. It has taken on new meaning since my mom passed away.
When you find the answer to the question for yourself, let me know so I can hold that space for you!
Swami Durga Das Hutner is the CEO of Kashi Ashram, an interfaith intentional community founded in 1976, more than 40 years ago.
Durga Das had begun studying Martial Arts in1980; after many years of practice, he earned a 5th Dan Master’s degree in Tae Kwon Do and trained for the 1988 Olympic Games. He was the Florida State Champion in fighting from 1986 through 1988.
Throughout this time Durga Das continued to be an integral part of the Kashi community. In 1996, he was ordained by Ma Jaya as a Swami (selfless servant to humanity). In that capacity, he began formally teaching and mentoring younger generations about mindful meditation and service to others. He later was bestowed the title Acharya, which means one who shares spiritual teachings.
From 1998 through 2010 he helped to develop Kashi’s real estate in a healthy eco-friendly method. He continues to work to foster healthy, sustainable living. He currently serves as the CEO of Kashi Foundation and works locally with agencies to serve those in need. He is also a member of the steering committee of Indian River County Needs Assessment in conjunction with the Senior Resource Association.
Swami Durga Das believes in nurturing a healthy mind and body, and as a trained Kali Natha Yogi, he continues to do yoga regularly. As a holdover from his youthful days in Philadelphia, Durga Das is a devoted Flyers fan and is himself an avid ice hockey player. He and his wife, Saraswati Rose, are raising their daughters, Mira Jaya and Kali Devi, on the sacred grounds of Kashi.
Swami Anjani graduated from Brockport State University (New York) in 1967 with a degree in Secondary English Education. She joined the Peace Corps and served in the Philippines until 1969, training teachers and directing a program for kids suffering from leprosy.
Swami Anjani met Ma Jaya in New York in 1975; she moved to Kashi in 1979, serving as the River School’s Principal for 24 years. Swami attended the Harvard Graduate School’s Principal’s Center in 1995. She helped organize the Treasure Coast Teen Institute, a youth leadership camp. In ’02, the Congressional Youth Leadership Council in Washington recognized her for her contributions as an advisor.
She currently serves as Kashi’s Director of Community Relations and is Kashi’s representative to the United Religions Initiative. From 2003 - 2012, Swami Anjani served on the Board of Directors of the Economic Opportunities Council and as a member of the Sebastian Advisory Council of the Boys & Girls Club. She has served as the President of the Sebastian Clambake Foundation since 2006, was elected Sebastian’s Woman of the Year in 2009, and was chosen by the Lion’s Club as the Grand Marshal of the 2014 July 4th Parade.
Since 2010 she has spoken several times at Unity/Ft. Lauderdale during their September Interfaith Month services. In October, 2015, she represented Kashi at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Salt Lake City. Swami Anjani has spoken at Interfaith services in Vero and Sebastian, and she serves as a volunteer Interfaith Chaplain at Indian River Medical Center.
Love having Bobby Kipper back on my show. His book, Performance Driven Thinking with David Hancock, should be on everyone's must read list. It is a guidebook for how to shift your thinking and keep yourself moving forward.
I asked Bobby back on the show because you, my listeners, told me how much you got out of his previous visit to the show and because I needed a boost from Bobby to help me shift forward after my mom's passing. His advice to me on the show, "give the ocean waves my problems and grief and let them take the pain in the moment away", has helped me tremendously since the show aired on December 19th.
2018 is a new year and a new opportunity to start each day with passion and purpose and an embrace of all of who we are. Take a listen as Bobby shares some strategies you can use right now and every day to help you focus, gain awareness of thoughts that are holding you back and how you can make change happen.
Bobby Kipper is a best-selling author, speaker, and coach and the co-founder of Performance Driven Thinking™. He has spent over thirty years providing leadership development, training, and coaching to both the government and private sectors.
Bobby believes that we were “born to perform” and his motivational style of speaking and coaching has taken thousands to their best performance to date.
In addition, Bobby is the Director of the National Center for the Prevention of Community Violence and is passionate about the quality of life and human rights issues for all Americans. His programs to prevent and reduce violence have been featured by the White House, Congress, and thirty-five states across America.
Do you know what affects the air you breath in your business? Do you even understand the question? I have to admit I was uncertain when my guest on the show posed that very question but then I mulled it over and wow, shifts began to happen. I just LOVE perception shifting questions!
Amy Kardel is a geek, brilliant business woman, entrepreneur, Chairwoman of the Board of one of the top technology Associations in the world and, in her spare time, just became a lawyer.
How does she do it all seemingly with ease? How does she balance running a business with her spouse all while raising a family?
What question(s) does she asked herself to keep herself grounded, moving towards her goals and help her see the future before everyone else does?
Listen in as we speak, macro trends, privacy, security, air, your why? and much more.
Amy Kardel is an experienced small business technology advocate with an international perspective. Amy currently serves as Chairwoman of the board for CompTIA, the trade association for the global IT industry, where she works on workforce, cybersecurity and advocates for federal policies to address small business technology needs. As a co-founder of San Luis Obispo, California based Clever Ducks, an IT consulting firm, her team designs and manages computer networks. She is an active Rotarian, sailor, mother of four and just passed the California bar exam.
I apologize for the late posting of this episode. It went "live" on December 5, 2017 and is just getting posted today. I rarely pre-record shows for "live" posting later but I had to do that with this episode as I was out of town burying my parents. Thank you for all your prayers and good thoughts.
The key to long-term and even short term business success is revenue. Revenue that exceeds expenses and recurring and predictable revenue is even better. Many businesses struggle to achieve success when the business begins to grow and the Founder of the company can no longer be the only sales person.
The reason for the failure is often due to the inability of the entrepreneur to transfer their knowledge and passion for the products or services and the sales process on to a sales person.
One would think it is an easy feat. All you have to do is explain the product or service, how much it is to be sold for and send them off to close some new business. Not true. If it was, anyone could do sales successfully and any entrepreneur could readily grow their business.
So how can you and your business become a success story? How can you grow and train an exceptional sales staff?
Kendra Lee is the Founder of KLA Group, whose company mission is to consult, train, guide and "do it for you" so you too can beat the odds in revenue generation.
In this episode Kendra shares questions every business owner needs to ask to create a sales process and successfully train and hire a sales team.
Kendra Lee has built a successful career as a top seller by consistently exceeding sales goals. She is a prospect attraction authority, sales expert, speaker, author and a business owner who knows how to shorten time to revenue in innovative ways.
After starting her sales career in accounting with IBM, Kendra founded KLA Group on the philosophy that sales is not an art; it can be learned.
Her company mission? To consult, train, guide and “do it for you” so you too can beat the odds in revenue generation.
Kendra's passion is new business revenue generation: in gaining new clients through sales prospecting and lead generation, in growing existing client accounts, market expansion, competitive differentiation, and value creation. She is a frequent speaker at conferences, national sales meetings, association and industry events.
Kendra and her husband Bill have three sons and they make their home in Colorado. It’s the perfect place for her because Kendra is an avid skier and loves every year when the snow finally comes to the mountains!
What do you think is the biggest obstacle to cybersecurity success? Convenience. We love our convenience. The ability to do what we went, when we want, whatever way we want. Hackers love our love of convenience.
Convenience breeds laziness. Cached passwords, the same password everywhere, simple passwords, lack of software and firmware updates are just a few examples of ways hackers can infiltrate your computer and online accounts. So what can you do right now?
Listen to this episode.
Dr. Stephanie Carter is a cybersecurity expert. She has more certifications thank I can write here and has made it her mission to transform the way we think about cybersecurity.
Dr. Stephanie Carter started her cyber career in the US Army in 1994. During her military career she has been relocated to several states and countries around the world. She has served in many capacities all captured under the umbrella of cybersecurity disciplines such as network engineering, network administration, security analyst, information management officer.
She has partnered on behalf of DoD with other agencies such as DISA, NSA, FBI, and FEMA leading large scale IT projects and serving as lead security specialist in disaster recovery and incident response efforts. After 20 years of service she retired and entered into the civilian cyber workforce. In her civilian career, she has worked for and with agencies such as Department of Homeland Defense (DHS), Defense Health Agency (DHA), USCERT Team, and Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) all in senior cybersecurity/subject matter expert roles.
Dr. Carter currently works as a contractor for the Department of Justice (DOJ) managing a team of Information System Security Officers (ISSOs). Outside of serving as the lead of this team, she is also the SME for all cloud implementations, NIST Risk Management Framework, the FedRAMP framework, ISO 17020, and NIST 800-171. She takes great pride in the mentorship and development of future cybersecurity professionals in her role as a professor with the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) teaching courses in the Cybersecurity Graduate School programs as well as teaching classes for local chapters in the fields which she is certified.
She is certified CISM, CISSP, and CISA. She is pursuing her PMI-RMP and CRISC later this year. In addition to her military awards, she has won ICMCP Minority Teacher of the Year 2017, Humanitarian Award 2017, and has been recognized by ASIS, UMUC, IOBSE and many local cybersecurity chapters for speaking engagements. With the unmeasurable desire she has for cybersecurity, she even continues to mentor cybersecurity professionals one on one, outside of the busy schedule detailed above all with the goal of furthering the diversity and DNA of the field of cybersecurity.
Ever feel like your life is filled with clutter? Real physical clutter and other kinds? Even for just a moment? I know I have. When I first started my first business I was feeling overwhelmed by everything that needed to get done and it just seemed like there had to be a better way other than working 100 hours a week and not sleeping.
Enter Anita Taylor. She shadowed me for part of the day and came up with several solutions for me that radically changed the way I worked. And then she followed up a few weeks later to tweak things.
I still use some of those techniques today and I can hear her voice in my head when the physical clutter piles up. So, I decided to bring her wisdom to you on the show.
Anita shares how in just 15 minutes you can begin and make a dent in the overwhelm, how to follow the money in your office and she shares some questions you can ask to clear emotional and physical clutter.
Since 1992, Anita Taylor has been guiding busy individuals from their cluttered and disheveled worlds to organizational solutions that instill stability and simplicity into their lives and businesses.
Anita is an accomplished speaker, trainer and the organizing consultant to trust. As a former Assistant Director of BNI in Connecticut, Anita utilized her more than two decades of training and organizing experience to increase BNI's presence in Fairfield County. www.anitaylor.com
Is the only path to a successful business startup via venture capital? Is there another way? How do you know what "rules" to follow and what rules to modify or not follow?
Does the playbook you are using really work for your company? How do you know? What questions do you need to be asking to determine the answer?
How do you know if you are on the right track or the wrong track? What questions do you need to be asking?
Will Reynolds, CEO of SecureDocs, shares his experience running a Tech startup, without VC money, and how they built a team of sales people, tech people and most of all committed people for the success of the company and the team.
If you want to learn some killer questions to ask for any level of your business, you will want to listen to this episode and have pen, or keyboard in hand, to give thought to the questions posed.
Will Reynolds led the initiative to spin SecureDocs out as a new and separate business from AppFolio Inc. at the end of 2013.
He oversees all aspects of the company’s strategy and development as well as building on the already exceptional team that’s come together at SecureDocs Inc.
Will has ten years of experience managing sales teams in the Software as a Service space. As an early employee at AppFolio, he played a key role in building a customer base and sales team for their Property Manager solution and latterly for SecureDocs prior to spin off. Previously, he managed teams at Citrix Online, selling products such as GoToMeeting and GoToMyPC. Will moved to California from London in 2005 and only occasionally misses the rain. He holds a BA from Southampton University in the UK.
How does someone move from a high-powered life on Wall Street to a life in the suburbs focused on helping others find their passion?
During this episode we talk about the questions she asked to shift her life from the world of finance to becoming the mother of twin boys and balancing a new life as a healer, strategist and joy bringer.
My guest also shares tips on how you can reduce stress, step through grief, use essential oils to get through the holiday season or just everyday stressors and how she navigates life.
Marian Edvardsen is passionate about inspiring and empowering you to live your best life, shine your unique greatness, and live the life you desire and deserve. Her philosophy is to always be passionate about what you do and always reach for your highest sterling quality of life with gratitude, fun and happiness to personal success.
As a Certified Passion Test® Facilitator for Adults, Kids and Teens and Life Coach, Marian helps you "get to the heart of your matter" about what is important in your life, help you get more clarity, and set a path to achieving your goals so you can live the life
you’ve always dreamed of. She teaches self-care tools, including EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique, or Tapping) and essential oils to help you break through any struggles or obstacles that are getting in your way to living a fulfilling and joy-filled life.
Marian loves speaking, leading mastermind groups and workshops as well as one-on-one coaching. (By the way, The Passion Test has become the #1 process being used all over the world to help people discover and live their passions!)
Productivity apps abound. Planners, podcasts, webinars, workshops are a dime a dozen. Well they are actually a bit more than a dime! Why so many? Because we are ever searching for the ONE solution that will help us achieve our goals, faster and easier.
Enter Allen Brouwer Founder of www.bestself.co While on a mission to improve his own goal achievement he created the Self Journal and community.
We talk about success, failure, why paper is better than electronic and the 4 things you can do every day that will help you achieve your goals WHILE being your BEST Self.
If you are looking for a system that can help you in just 13 weeks, and oh yeah, you can download the PDF version of the planner free, then take a listen to this episode and answer the questions Allen poses on the show to get your clear on the first steps to achieving your best life.
Allen Brouwer is the Co-Founder of BestSelf Co. a company that helps people achieve their goals and become the best version of themselves through productivity, performance, and positivity.
A serial entrepreneur who's passion is to help others achieve their entrepreneurial visions. He love the outdoors, psychology, and marketing
Where are you looking? Do you taste everything? How long do you persist before you give up?
Last episode I spoke with John David Mann, the other half of the writing team that created, The Recipe A Story of Loss, Love and The Ingredients of Greatness. Today I spoke with Chef Charles Carroll.
Still grieving my mom's passing on October 1st, I was looking forward to this interview because I found this book so healing both before and after her passing. I knew my mom loved food and cooking and a good book so I was glad this interview was booked many months ago.
Chef did not disappoint. It was great to share with him how reading the book while mom was still alive allowed me to be more present with her while preparing food and how we both "tasted" food more because of the book and how the words, and recipes used throughout the book, gave me peace today.
The book, a culinary parable, and this interview, will take you on a journey that I hope will open your eyes and your mind to how just re-learning how to "taste life" can change your perspectives on everything you thought you knew.
Award winning author, Inspirational Speaker, Producer, and Culinary Olympic Gold Medalist, Chef Charles Carroll is currently the Executive Chef of River Oaks Country Club, in Houston Texas.
Chef Carroll takes pride in mentoring students due to which he has written the award winning “Leadership Lessons from a Chef: Finding Time to be Great”, “Tasting Success: Your Guide to Becoming a Professional Chef”, and most recently published, “The Recipe”, on shelves October 17th, 2017.
He has spent the past three years traveling around the United States and the world to include Ireland, Norway, Germany, Switzerland, Iceland, Portugal, Turkey, Chile, Korea, Paris, South Africa, Afghanistan, Greece, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Macao, and Canada mentoring, sharing and presenting his messages to culinary students, chefs, industry professionals and executives as well as the United States military personnel. His influence and inspiration has helped thousands of individuals reach their full potential and strive to be the best they can be.
This episode was the first show I did after my mom passed away on October 1, 2017. Their are few guests I could imagine being able to function around besides John David Mann after my loss. I debated doing the show because my grief was so strong. I prayed on it and heard my mom's voice telling me go, I'll be there.
She loved hearing me on the radio. Most weeks she would be sitting in the conference room at the radio station listening to me interview my guests while crocheting her latest blanket. She was and is part of the radio experience for me.
Loss is a part of life. I get that. Yet it is overwhelming while going through it for me. Mom was an everyday part of my life. We lived together for almost 6 years. Not every child is lucky and has a mom like my mom or even a dad like mine was. I could imagine no other choice than to live with mom and take care of her. Well, we really took care of each other.
So how do I grieve her loss from my physical life? How does anyone move forward after such loss? The ache is physical and emotional and spiritual.
JOhn's latest book with Chef Charles Carroll is called The Recipe, a Story of Loss, Love and the Ingredients of Greatness. When I read an early draft of the book I knew it was destined for greatness. I could relate to the young boy in the story as he grieved the loss of his dad. The anger, the betrayal feelings, the emptiness. And that was before mom had passed.
When I read the book again, in a more final form, it began to heal some old hurts from other losses, my brother, my dad and even my dog. Then I read it again and I saw the possibilities layered in my journey and thinking of the book now, it is a guidebook for moving, step-by-step, through grief into joy again. I am not there yet but the book provides hope.
During this interview John and I discuss the book, how it came to be, my mom and John shares his always brilliant wisdom about life, love, loss and most of all the Ingredients of Greatness inside all of us.
Hug someone you love today and grab your own copy of this book.
Hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did.
John David Mann is coauthor of the bestselling classic The Go-Giver, which has sold more than half a million copies in more than two dozen languages. Winner of the Axiom Business Book Award’s Gold Medal in 2008, The Go-Giver has been hailed as “the most important parable about business—and life—of our time” by bestselling author and Wharton professor Adam Grant; “a small book that packs a huge idea” by bestselling author Daniel Pink; “a good description of many of the most amazing people I’ve encountered” by Arianna Huffington; and “a must-read by anyone who wants to change the world” by talk show host Glenn Beck. Inc. magazine named it one of the 18 Most Motivational Books of All Time. His other titles include the New York Times bestsellers Flash Foresight (with Daniel Burrus) and The Red Circle (with Brandon Webb), and the national bestsellers Among Heroes (with Brandon Webb), The Slight Edge (with Jeff Olson), and Real Leadership (with John Addison). His 2011 Take the Lead (with Betsy Myers) was named by Tom Peters and the Washington Post as Best Leadership Book of 2011.
I was talking with some friends the other day and they were commenting on how the face of customer service has changed from when we were growing up. It used to be that exceptional customer service was the norm versus the rarity. It is hard to find a day that goes by that some customer service fail is not front and center on social media or traditional media.
Why the change? Is it possible to reverse the trend of poor customer service? Do we even know what great customer services is anymore?
My guest has been a friend for years. We have spoken together about customer service and technology back when I had my tech company and he just released his new book, The Extra Scoop - Rediscover the Art of Great Customer Service. For my regular listeners you know that I only talk about books that have an impact on my thinking and shift my perceptions in some way about the topic. This is one of those books.
John reveals how, with just a few changes, you can shift your company from one of questionable or low customer service to one with great customer service. And, for companies with great customer services how you can kick it up a notch to exceptional.
Take a listen and share your customer services stories on www.extrascoops.com
Oh, and let me know how I can serve you even better.
John Mamon is currently the President and CEO of mPowered IT, a leading Managed and Cloud Services Provider in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Mamon has over 20 years of experience in all areas of Information Technology leadership including engineering and sales. Roles in previous organizations have included Vice President, C.O.O. and C.I.O. He has been a part of several start-ups, including his previous organization of which he was an owner; that company was successfully incubated and sold in Atlanta, GA. His specialties include service design, team creation and oversight, increasing operational effectiveness, harnessing cloud and data center services, network security, and providing objective guidance and consulting to small business owners.
Mr. Mamon currently chairs the Tech400 committee for the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce and has recently authored a book titled “The Extra Scoop: Rediscover the Art of Great Customer Service”. He resides in Woodstock, GA with his two daughters and wife of over 20 years.
Beliefs come in many forms. They are not just spiritual or religious in nature. What you believe about yourself and others becomes your truth and forms the foundation of who you are as a person. Those beliefs come from your personal experiences and the experiences of those around you that you respect and listen to.
Like the foods you eat, or don't eat, you may take them for granted. Say, "that is just what I have always done". What happens when your belief gets challenged? Do you entrench into it deeper? Or do you shift out of it and begin to form a new belief based on new information?
How do you determine if a belief you have is one you should keep or one that no longer serves you?
My guest on this episode has written a wonderful book called, The Belief Zone, that can help you answer that question and many more.
On this episode, we talk about how you can enter the Belief Zone and better yet, how you can shift out of it to a new belief zone that is based on you, now versus you in the past.
Two-time Bestselling Author, Award winning Entrepreneur and Sales Expert-- Ursula Mentjes--will transform the way you think about selling so you can reach your goals with less anxiety and less effort! The Founder of Sales Coach Now as well as an inspirational speaker, author of The Belief Zone, Selling with Intention, Selling with Synchronicity and One Great Goal– Ursula specializes in Neuro-Linguistic Programming to help clients double and triple their sales FAST.
Honing her skills at an international technical training company, where she began her career in 1996, Ursula increased sales by 90% in just one year! In 2001, when the company’s annual run was in the tens of millions, Ursula advanced to the position of President at just 27 years old. Sales guru Brian Tracy endorsed Selling with Intention saying, “This powerful, practical book shows you how to connect with customers by fully understanding the sales process from the inside out. It really works!” Selling with Synchronicity and One Great Goal were also the 2013 winners of the Beverly Hills Book Awards in the categories of sales and business motivation—and Selling with Intention was a finalist. Selling with Intention also received the International Book Award sponsored by USA Book News and Selling with Synchronicity was a finalist. Her Podcast, Double Your Sales NOW, has received all 5 star reviews, is being downloaded in 10 countries and is experiencing double-digit growth!
Ursula also serves as Past Statewide Chairperson of the NAWBO-CA Education Fund and Past President of NAWBO-CA. Ursula is the recipient of the SBA’s 2014 Women in Business Champion and is a recipient of the 2013 Willow Tree Extraordinary Example and Extraordinary Entrepreneur Awards, the NAWBO-IE ANITA Award, chosen as PDP’s Extraordinary Speaker of 2015, PDP’s Business Woman of the Year 2016, Spirit of the Entrepreneur Awards Finalist and recipient of 2 Lifetime Achievement Awards and is nominated for a 3rd - from Presidents of the United States, with both political parties bestowing this honor for her work helping her community and helping build a stronger nation.
She has shared the stage with bestselling author Loral Langemeier, Les Brown, Tom Antion, Lisa Nichols, Giuliana Rancic and many others! Her clients include Aflac, Ebenezer and Fairview Hospitals, New York Life, Paychex and more! She holds a B.A. in Psychology and Communication from St. Olaf College and a M.S. in Counseling Psychology from California Baptist University.
Are you asking questions that challenge your assumptions to evolve? When a question opens a path, are you willing to explore where it leads? How do you know your assumptions are true, or false, if you don't know they are assumptions?
Our brains are wired for quick decisions but where does the brain kick in versus the mind? My guest says that "when the function of the brain and the function of the soul overlap" that is the mind. Want to understand why and how that concept plays into your life and your business?
Then listen to this episode with the completely original firestarter that is Dixie Gillaspie. From the first moment I met her I knew that life when Dixie is part of it would not be dull and that assumptions and perceptions would be challenged. Whether you get to know her personally or via this episode and her books, keynotes, courses and social media, I promise you will be asking better questions. If you are willing to challenge your own assumptions!
Dixie Gillaspie is a coach, consultant, firestarter, and coffee fanatic. She serves as an advisor and guide for business owners and leaders who are ready to step into the full power of their gifts to get what they want in life and business.
After working as a business analyst and consultant for a nationwide consulting firm, Dixie founded her own business in 1998 and has been helping people achieve their “impossibles” ever since. In coaching founders and leaders of multi-million dollar corporations, as well as small business owners and solopreneurs, she has proven that people who tap into the core of their personal power — that unique combination of innate gifts, learned skills, and divine purpose — can overcome any adversity and create what others believed could never exist .
Dixie is the author of Just Blow it Up - Firepower for Living an Unlimited Life and Doses of Dynamite - Firepower for Capturing the Inspiration in Everyday Things. She is a member of the Forbes Coaches Council and has served as an Executive Editor for The Good Men Project as well as writing for Entrepreneur.com, Business Woman Media, and HuffPost. This year she was honored as a “Woman of the Decade in Enterprise and Innovation” by the Women Economic Forum and currently serves on the WEF Board of Advisors for 2018 events.
Dixie loves talking with individuals and groups about how to transform lives, brands, and businesses. If you or your organization needs to have that conversation you can learn more at dixiegillaspie.com.
As an author I have been following my guest since before my book was published. Here is what I have learned. There are a lot of people telling you how to market your book but there are few who really know their stuff and can help you increase sales and get your book into the hands of those who need to read it.
John Kremer is one of those select few.
John shares some simple strategies and tactics you can immediately implement to market your book anywhere and virtually everywhere. We talk book covers, titles, t-shirts, yup t-shirts, interviews in supermarkets AND how your friends can really help you sell your book.
He shares how to create your word-of-mouth army and tells how you can get free resources to help you put it all together
John also shares a couple of questions you need to be asking before your book comes out to get the most valuable information for your launch. Hint, don't ask, "do you like this cover?"
We did not get a chance to talk about his upcoming book marketing event, Billion Book Initiative in Santa Fe. We ran out of time. I guess I will just have to do another show, or bonus webinar with him!
Book marketing expert John Kremer is the author of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books, mentor to authors who have sold over a billion books, and founder of the Billion Book Initiative to help the next generation of book authors sell another billion books.
Over the past 30 years, he has helped thousands of authors, both major celebrities and those just starting out, to sell more books! Lots more books!
Can you have it all? Can you have the money you need and want and not work 80+ hours/week? Is it OK to want money? Which comes first: the life you want to live or the business?
My guest started out helping severely disabled children at a rehab hospital, taught physical education at an inner city school and created one of the first fitness membership sites. He then went on to have a supplement company with a big office, lots of staff a 7+ figure income an health crisis and almost a divorce.
Now he has a beautiful home, great marriage, four kids and a business that gives him family time and a multi-million dollar income. His goal is to be done working by 3pm so the rest of the day is with his family.
What is amazing about Ryan Lee is he is continually morphing how he does business. He is clear about his clients and clear about himself. Known as a master of continuity revenue and membership sites, he recently turned his Freedym University into an all-continuity all-the time membership site. Think Netflix meets business education!
Ryan shares on this episode why it is important NOT to get emotionally attached to your business or idea, the one question that started his quest to change his life and business and how what he does every day to make sure he is still aligned with his goals.
Ryan Lee loves talking about himself in 3rd person.
He created his first web site back in 1999 to promote his part-time personal training business (he still had a full-time job at a Children’s Rehab hospital). But things really took off when he turned that simple site into a paid membership program.
Since then, he’s created over FIFTY different recurring revenue programs in multiple markets. Everything from membership sites and paid newsletters to subscription boxes, software and consumables.
You might have seen him featured on the front page of The Wall Street Journal or as a contributor to Entrepreneur. Or, perhaps, you read one of his books.
But what Ryan is most proud of is his ability to build businesses around his “lifestyle”. He is always done by 3pm so he can spend unlimited time with his wife and four children.
Now, Ryan has taken all his resources. Tapped into his deep network. And created the most complete training resource for anyone looking to turn their ideas into “continuity” income.
What happens when a cellist and a sniper get together to write a few books? Magic. Perception shifting magic. At least that is what happens for me everyone time I read one of the books they have collaborated on based on Brandon Webb's experiences as a Navy Seal Sniper, Sniper Training School re-creator and CEO of a media company valued at $100mm.
How does someone write a book with another, especially when they come from such diverse backgrounds and perspectives? It may surprise you to learn that they are actually closer in perspective than the title of this episode may lead you to believe.
As a trained cellist and composer, from a family of renowned conductors and musicians, John shares how he connects with the authors he writes with, how his latest effort with Brand Webb, Total Focus: How to Make Better Decisions Under Pressure, is a culmination of years of working together and what drives him to work with others to spread their messages to the world.
For John, "writing is music". For me, reading his words are like listening to the most beautiful piece of music ever played. Words have the power to shift thinking, to transform the reader forever.
With their latest collaboration, my thinking is now transformed.
John and I speak about Total Focus, working with others, and his and my favorite words. After you listen to this episode, tweet out your favorite word to @thelaurasteward and @johndavidmann.
John David Mann is an award-winning author whose writings have earned the Nautilus Award, the Axiom Business Book Award (Gold Medal), and Taiwan’s Golden Book Award for Innovation. He is coauthor of the New York Times bestsellers The Red Circle (with Brandon Webb) and Flash Foresight (with Dan Burrus) and the Wall Street Journal bestsellers Real Leadership (with John Addison) and The Slight Edge (with Jeff Olson). He coauthored the international bestseller The Go-Giver, hailed by Adam Grant as “the most important parable about business—and life—of our time.” His books are available in two dozen languages and have sold more than two million copies. His 2011 Take the Lead (with Betsy Myers) was named by Tom Peters and the Washington Post as “best leadership book of 2011.” www.johndavidmann.com
Well there are a few more steps in-between the title of this episode. I had to bring back my guest Brandon Webb because his latest book, two in just a few months, is to important to not be talked about. Reading my advance copy of Total Focus: How to Make Better Decisions Under Pressure shifted me out of lethargy faster than anything I have read in a long time. Maybe it was timing. This show, and my guests are the best kind of therapy. Each week my perspective gets shifted, last week's show with Wayne Pernell prepared me for the impact of this one. Hopefully you have had a chance to listen to it and many of the others. They build, they shift and most of all, according to you, my listeners make thinking happen.
Seven principles laid out, each more powerful than the last. Why powerful? Their simplicity. Not that they are always simple to implement but simplicity in the Why? And you know I love the Why? question!
Integrity, authenticity and most of all a driving need to share his experience to help others learn and grow is why Brandon is back on the show with an open invite anytime. So lets go into some things we cover on this show:
- Why front sight focus with total situational awareness is the key to success in anything you do.
- How you can Embrace the Suck and come out the other side.
- Why you need to create a yearly vision theme and how it can change everything.
At the end of the day, it is the choices we make that define who we become. Let me know what choices you are making after you listen to this episode. Find me on Twitter @thelaurasteward
After leaving home at age sixteen Brandon finished high school, and joined the US Navy to become a Navy SEAL. His first permanent assignment was as a helicopter Aircrew Search & Rescue (SAR) swimmer and Aviation Warfare Systems Operator with HS-6. In 1997 his Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) package was approved. He would class up with over 200 students in BUD/S class 215, and go on to complete the training as 1 of 23 originals.
As a SEAL he served with SEAL Team 3, Naval Special Warfare Group One (NSWG-1) Training Detachment sniper cell, and completed his last tour at the Naval Special Warfare Center (NSWC) sniper course where he served as the Naval Special Warfare west coast sniper course manager. Throughout his career he completed four deployments to the Middle East, one to Afghanistan and would later go back to Iraq in 2006-7 as a paramilitary contractor. His proudest accomplishment in the military was working as the SEAL sniper course manager, a schoolhouse that has produced some of the deadliest snipers in US military history.
An accomplished and proven leader, Brandon was meritoriously promoted to E-6 while serving as an advanced sniper instructor at NSWG-1, and was recommended and promoted to the rank of Chief Petty Officer (E-7) his first time eligible while at the sniper course. He has received numerous distinguished service awards including the Presidential Unit Citation (personally awarded to him by President George W. Bush), and the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation medal with “V” device for valor in combat. Webb ended his Navy career early after over a decade of service in order to spend more time with his children and focus on entrepreneurship (both his parents were small business owners).
Today Brandon is focused on building his media and ecommerce business. He is the founder and CEO of the Hurricane Group, a U.S. & European based media and ecommerce company focusing on military entertainment, news, and monthly clubs.
Brandon is regularly featured in the media as a military and business subject matter expert. He has contributed to ABC’s Good Morning America, NBC’s Today Show, FOX news, CNN, the BBC, SIRIUS XM, MSNBC, and The New York Times.
Webb is a New York Times bestselling author. His books include, The Red Circle (St. Martin’s Press) Among Heroes (Penguin-Random House), Benghazi, The Definitive Report (Harper Collins), The ISIS Solution (SOFREP books), and The Power of Thought (self-published). He has two books scheduled to publish in 2017. The Killing School: Inside the World’s deadliest sniper program, is set to publish with St. Martin’s Press May, 2017. Total Focus: How to Make Better Decisions Under Pressure, publishes with Penguin Random House in the August, 2017.
In 2012, after losing his best friend, Navy SEAL & CIA contractor Glen Doherty, in Benghazi, Libya, he founded The Red Circle Foundation (RCF), a non-profit with a 100% pass through model; every dollar donated goes to the mission and business partner donors pick up the Foundation’s overhead. RCF is focused on supporting families of the Special Operations community through emergency memorial, medical, and child enrichment programs (camps & scholarships).
Brandon is an active member of the Entrepreneurs Organization New York (EONY), and enjoys spending time with his tight circle of amazing family & friends, being outdoors, and flying his experimental aircraft upside-down. He splits his time between his residence in San Juan, PR and Manhattan, NY.
"Your best self is not static. You are in a relationship with yourself and you change." Wise words from my guest Dr. Wayne Pernell. His first book, Choosing Your Power, my copy is quite dog-eared, sets the tone for his latest book, The Significance Factor.
What am I here for? Why did I wake up today?How do I define success? How do significance and failure relate? These are only a few questions Wayne poses on the show. Yes we answer how you can find your own personal answers to those questions. Beyond those questions though we talk about how to discover your own true values, why they are important to write down and how to then live them, authentically in all aspects of your life.
One of my favorite parts of this interview was the Threshold Trigger exercise Wayne walks us through on the show. It is a brilliant piece of work that can immediately snap you out of whatever role, limiting belief or mood you are in.
Wayne shares how being Dr. Pernell was not allowing him to be who he really is. We look at how he shifted in and why his wife played such a key role in that change.
So much more, we could have talked for hours. He will be back!
Insightful, witty, and playful, Dr. Wayne Pernell brings close to forty years of experience helping leaders at all levels to attain new levels of break-through success. Dr. Pernell knows the power of clarity and focus as foundational elements in relationships and leadership and in service of his clients, he developed his DynamicLeader® programs.
As an internationally acclaimed and #1 best-selling Author, Speaker, Certified High Performance Coach, and morning television guest, Dr. Wayne Pernell’s work has positively impacted thousands of people around the globe.
After earning his doctorate in clinical psychology, Dr. Pernell engaged in the business world and began working with mid-to-senior leaders across a broad array of organizations and now invites participation in the DynamicLeader® programs where clients achieve greater productivity, a renewed sense of focus and purpose, and even greater levels of influence.
As a fourth-degree black belt, coach, and author, his inspiration spread to the community. As Sensei Wayne, his students learned to continually assess available options in an effort to best minimize or eliminate conflict. Drawing on concepts from Bushido (the “Way of the Warrior”), Sensei Wayne teaches those he serves to get through tough spots, reducing conflict in their lives, emphasizing the power of choice even during extremely high-pressure situations.
Also affectionately known by friends and family as “Dr. P,” this man of many talents is no stranger to the stage and is likely to show you his personal brand of magic in everything he does. While no longer performing, Dr. Pernell is an accomplished magician. These days he’s likely to pull out a “M.A.G.I.C.” formula in the service of helping his clients. (Ask about this one!)
In addition to his DynamicLeader® programs, since 2005 Dr Pernell has been with the Pride Institute, the country’s foremost dental practice management consulting group. And now, as the Director of Organization Development and one of the Senior Consultants, Dr P continues to focus on leadership development, helping his new and seasoned clients across the country to break through to new levels of success.
And he’s not done yet! With new books and online courses under development, you’re sure to find something that will challenge and propel you forward. Please be sure to find him online at:
Web: www.DynamicLeader.com
Facebook: www.Facebook.com/WaynePernell
Twitter: @WaynePernell
What does HIPAA mean? Why does it seem to be implemented differently at each medical office you go to? Can they refuse to give you your medical information in a timely manner? What MUST they give you and when? Can you be charged to get it? What can a medical provider never do with your medical information?
I caregive for my mom and am in doctor's offices and hospitals frequently. I am appalled by the documents I am required to sign and how they vary from one office to another. It is also a problem of staff training.
I recently was asked to sign a form that would give permission for the office to give out my contact info and other information to essentially anyone they wanted (3rd party affiliates, doctors, billing companies and others was the phrasing). They grouped the doctor under there and said if we do not sign the doctor cannot call me even about results and the staff cannot call me about appointments.
Is that allowed?
My guest helped draft the law that became HIPAA here in the United States and is the leading expert on its implementation for both medical practitioners and those Business Associates that do business with them.
If you have medical data then you will want to listen to this episode and understand your rights and what you need to do to make sure you can access your data when and where you need it.
Roger Wernow is the President of RMW Associates, a technology-oriented management consulting company specializing in health care practice management since 1985. The company focuses on assisting healthcare providers to modernize operations, select and implement EHR and practice management systems while complying with Medicare and HIPAA regulations.
Mr. Wernow was a founding board member and co-chair of the Sharp Work Group (a 2000 partnership of private industry and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid services charged with development and implementation of the HIPAA regulations).
He is a frequent speaker to Medical Societies and industry groups on EHR selection and implementation issues, HIPAA privacy and security, the HITECH act and most recently MACRA/MIPS effects on healthcare entities. Prior to RMW, he served as a Manager of International Systems Consulting for PepsiCo International and as a Financial Analyst for CIT Financial.
Hera is the Queen of the Greek Gods and is oft-portrayed as a vengeful woman when thwarted. On the other hand, she is the Goddess of Women and stands equal to all the male Gods around her. So what does she have to do with reinventing co-working space and helping women launch their businesses?
Everything.
Felena Hanson launched Hera Hub and has licensed locations around the world to help women and a select few men, get the support they need to launch their businesses and brands into the world. All in a unique spa-like environment designed to elevate creativity and built camaraderie. Two other parts of her company help incubate and finance women-created businesses.
How did she do it? Why does her latest book, The Flight Club Rebel, Reinvent, and Thrive: How to Launch Your Dream Business, hit my radar as a book to return to for fledgling entrepreneurs?
Listen in and learn how to transition from an employee to an entreprenurial mindset and why you might need a co-working space in your neighborhood.
P.S. Her book has some kick-a.. free resources online that every entrepreneur will want.
Felena Hanson is a long-time entrepreneur and marketing maven. Her latest venture, Hera Hub, is a spa-inspired shared workspace and business accelerator for female entrepreneurs. This as-needed, flexible work and meeting space provides a productive environment for growing businesses. Hera Hub members have access to a professional space to meet with clients and to connect and collaborate with like-minded business owners, thus giving them the support they need to be prosperous.
She has three company owned locations in San Diego and licensed locations in Phoenix, DC, and Sweden, with more cities launching soon. She’s on a mission to support over 20,000 women in the launch and growth of their business by 2020.
Felena and Hera Hub have been featured in Inc Magazine, the BBC News, Forbes, and the New York Times. She is a published author and international speaker. Her book, “Flight Club – Rebel, Reinvent, and Thrive: How to Launch Your Dream Business” is available on Amazon.
Be a goal digger. Not a gold digger. That was the thought that came to mind while I was prepping for this interview. Most business people want to create that viral thing that creates interest, gets your name out, in a good way, and hopefully increases revenue. But how do you do it? What are they key things to look out for? How do you do it with Ethical Influence? How do you achieve your goals and earn income?
Ethical influence is something we all need to be thinking about. Every time you post something or say something you are influencing events. That influence can be a positive one or not so positive. When you are building a brand you have choices to make as to what your brand is all about, what changes your brand will drive and how you and your company will be remembered. Every action you and your employees take and make affects your influence.
Impact and influence are two sides of a coin that are tightly woven together and can create or destroy your business and brand. So how do you Focus on Impact AND influence ethically in this age of instant feedback?
How do you Shatter Your Own Speed Limits to have the business and life you have dreamed of?
Take a listen to this show and then let me know how you are creating ethical viral influence and let me help it go viral by retweeting, reposting and more from my seat. P.S. There is a free offer for all of you listening at the end from Wendy!
WENDY LIPTON-DIBNER is the world's leading authority on business acceleration through impact strategy and ethical influence.
As President of Professional Impact, Inc., Wendy has built 10 successful businesses of her own, published 5 bestselling books, and served as a trusted advisor to doctors, executives, entrepreneurs, and top influencers worldwide.
Wendy is the founder of the Move People To Action™ System for Ethical Influence, and creator of the Focus On Impact® Strategic Map – the system Forbes calls, “The secret to success in business!” and INC. named, “Your path to profitable success.”
Wendy is here today to talk about how we can ethically get our impact into the world with Viral Influence. www.viralinfluenceforimpact.com
I have not taken a vacation since 2010. That is not something I am proud of. It is just how things have gone. I have been on business trips to speaking gigs and conferences but no vacation time where you unplug and recharge. Am I feeling that lack of recharge, away from my routine? Yes. Do I want to go away? Yes. Do I see how I can do that easily while caring for my mom? No.
Vacations have been proven to increase productivity, lower stress and improve health yet so many of us don't take trips and when we do they just don't live up to our expectations or the hype we have heard about that particular trip.
My guest today is a long-time friend who I met when I started my first company and he still is one of my mentors in life. He left the geek world and now helps people take vacations.
What I love is he asks lots of questions of his clients BEFORE he ever books them on a trip. Why? So he can make sure that he can provide them the best vacation they can possibly have. You see, vacations are not so simple for most people and the wrong booking can waste money, energy and time.
So how do you avoid the cruise from hell and have the cruise of a lifetime? Listen as Gary shares insider tips and tricks to book the right cruise by asking the right questions!
Thirty years ago, as a mere young whelp of lad, computer weenie Gary Govanus was dragged kicking and screaming on his first cruise. Convinced he would hate it, especially seeing the tiny cabin and the twin beds bolted to the floor, he set off with his ever-patient wife on his first cruising adventure. He desperately wanted to go back to his happy place where he could write his geek books, teach his other computer weenie friends and live happily ever after installing computer networks.
Thirty some cruises later, it is obvious his first impression was wrong, but he was enough of a man to admit it. He likes it so much that he decided to spread the gospel of cruising. He abandoned the fun filled, exciting world of computer networking and became a travel agent. Now, his goal is get to everyone to go on vacation. A lofty dream, but he is making daily strides. Find him on Facebook @govanus
Picture the audience naked.
Wondering what I am talking about? Next to death it is rated as the top fear for people. Still not certain? Public Speaking is what I am talking about and picturing the audience naked is a strategy often suggested to minimize the fear reaction. Does it work though? Is there a better way?
How do you put together a speech, presentation or workshop that captivates the audience and most of all moves them to take action of some sort? Is there a better way to setup a room?
What is a Speaking Sandwich and can you get it in a NYC deli?
One of the things I do that makes me money is deliver keynote speeches, workshops and webinar-style keynotes. People say I make it look easy. It is not. Yes, I speak from the heart yet my perfectly scripted plans are rarely delivered as planned but there is a lot of prep that enables me to do that. My mom says I was born with a mic in my hand. For the average person, that is not their truth.
My guest has written a compendium, I do love that word, for speaking. She shares how you can deliver that perfect scripted yet off-the-cuff speech, how you can push past your fear and engage the audience from moment one and she does it with some levity and a few perfect examples of how not being perfect is the best way to deliver a knockout presentation.
Diane DiResta, CSP, is Founder and CEO of DiResta Communications, Inc., a New York City consultancy serving business leaders who deliver high stakes presentations— whether one-to-one, in front of a crowd or from an electronic platform. DiResta is the author of Knockout Presentations: How to Deliver Your Message with Power, Punch, and Pizzazz, an Amazon.com category best-seller and widely-used text in college business communication courses. www.diresta.com. She has unique ability to get to the core of the message and translate complexity into simplicity.
Diane has media trained sports and entertainment celebrities, including the NBA, WNBA and USGA.
Diane is Past President of the NYC chapter of National Speakers Association and former media trainer for the NBA and WNBA. Diane is a Certified Speaking Professional, a designation held by less than 12% of speakers nationwide. And her blog, Knockout Presentations, made the Top 50 Pubic Speaking blogs.
Your past does not have to control your future. We have heard that yet it is not always so easy to implement. How can you make sure your emotional reaction to a current situation is the appropriate response level for the situation?
What is the Strategic Happiness Intervention Tactic and why is it important to shift you quickly?
If you want to let go the past or at least have your current reactions be about what is happening now, then listen to this episode and learn some quick and easy methods to claim your happiness.
Cynthia Mazzaferro is a Motivational Speaker, international award winner and Amazon #1 Best-Selling Author, Energy and Intuitive healer, Reiki Master, and Powerful Beyond Measure Life Coach. She is a retired Physical therapist of over 30 plus years and previous owner of an Ergonomic company where she performed work site analysis and spent thousands of hours training and teaching individuals on injury and stress reduction. Cindy's passion is to assist people in their personal growth, health, and purpose.
Cindy’s new transformational, self-help book, Powerful Beyond Measure Explores your Past, Empowers your Present, and Envisions your future filled with purpose, passion, and miracles. You can purchase her book, Powerful Beyond Measure on Amazon, Barnes Noble, Indie, all on-line sites and at your favorite bookstores. You can reach Cindy through her website www.CynthiaMazzaferro.com or by email at info@Cynthia Mazzaferro.com. FB page https://www.facebook.com/ThePowerWithinCynthiaMazzaferro/.
Failure is not the end. You have probably heard that before and on some level you believe it. On another, you are embarrassed, ashamed or maybe even feel a bit humiliated by a recent failure or a string of failures that played out on a public or semi-public stage. I know I have bounced back from some failures quickly and been paralyzed by some of them for a long time.
What enables some people to bounce right back from a failure? Why does failure not seem to get them down at all? Or at least on the surface not get them down? Is it resiliency? Is it determination? Is it genetic?
After my divorce a few years ago I lost my nerve to be in public and speak and write new books. I was ashamed. Rather than be spurred forward to seek others I went inward. And not in a good way. So how could I have realized what was happening sooner and broken free and out and up?
My guest today has written and complied stories on failure and how it launched the writers to whole other levels of success. On this episode she shares what she has learned and how you can reinvent failure into a launching pad for your next success faster and with more grace.
Just a few years ago…with only a computer and a plan, Bobbi Govanus launched her own small business and soon realized that she had discovered a true niche within the computer training industry.
Bobbi quickly grew that business from the basement of her Minnesota home by listening closely to her customers and providing customized computer training and solutions. The company eventually brokered over 1000 high-caliber computer trainers across the United States and Canada and even served clients as far away as England, Japan, Germany and India. She grew the company to sales of over 20 million.
In celebration of these and other accomplishments, Entrepreneur Magazine recognized Bobbi Govanus as their "Home-based" Business Owner of the year and Minnesota honored her as their Women in Business Advocate.
Bobbi is the VP of Marketing for Retriever Payment Systems providing solutions for businesses to take credit cards safely and grow their client base using Reward and Gift Card Programs. For 2015 Bobbi has created the Reinvention Retreat bringing 20 speakers together to coach and assist those who want to make the rest of their life, the best of their life. Bobbi published her first book in 2014, How to Pilot When We Were Raised to BE Stewardesses, Reinventing your Life with Passion and Purpose. She currently lives in Haines City, FL with her husband Gary. She can be reached at Bobbi @ MrktgMaven.com www.ReinventAtSea.com
Bet you did not realize Harry Potter is a sniper? If you read my guest's latest book with John David Mann, The Killing School: Inside The World's Deadliest Sniper Program, you will understand why Harry Potter and James Bond are really snipers.
Hint, listen to this episode of my show and I answer the question for you. You still should read the book though!
How does a Navy Seal Sniper do what they do? What kind of training has to happen so that in one moment they can have total focus yet have total situational awareness?
Brandon Webb is a former Navy Seal Sniper from Seal Team 3. He also was tasked with revamping the Sniper School training program for the Navy Seals. His shift in perspective as to how and what needed to be taught changed the program so completely it is considered one of the best in the world. Glad they are on our side.
Part of that revamp was figuring out how to train observation and Total Focus into the training. You think it is hard to focus when you are at your desk. Picture doing it while bullets are flying all around, people are dying or you are hundreds of yards from a suspected terrorist trying not to be found as you gather intelligence to prevent a terrorist attack.
Now he runs a company he founded that has been valued at $100,000,000.
Listen as he shares some "Sniper Zen", how he bounced back from failure and why one small shift in thinking changed sniper training forever.
Brandon Webb is a former US Navy SEAL sniper, New York Times bestselling author, Experimental aircraft pilot, and entrepreneur. He’s the founder of the Hurricane Group, a U.S. based media and e-commerce company focusing on outdoor, military entertainment, news, and clubs.
Human Resources, commonly known as HR gets frequently ridiculed on TV shows . Think Big Bang Theory when Sheldon and the gang get called on the carpet for their behavior. Yet, HR is critical to your business' success. Why? Because it sets the policies for what is allowed and what is not allowed at your business. Properly executed HR takes the "grey" out of your policies and provides clarity to employees.
Vacations, medical leave, dress codes, technology policies even how to answer the telephone and interactions with clients can be misinterpreted by employees. For years Disney had a policy of no facial hair for men. There were several others as well. This was clearly explained BEFORE someone was hired and they signed and attested they knew it on hiring. This PREVENTED issues from occurring.
But how do you know what is required by law, not allowed by law and how to handle employee issues when you don't have the funds for a full-time HR department?
Enter Carmen Torres, founder of My HR Specialist. Carmen shares what you need in every employee handbook, what should be in the employee file and the BIG question on every entrepreneurs mind: when does a contractor become an employee?
Carmen Torres brings over twenty years of experience creating equitable, safe, and collaborative workplace environments for both, employers and employees. As a trusted adviser to many organizations, she has successfully helped countless small to mid-size businesses and non-profit organizations establish reliable, stable human resources departments. Her approach includes a 360° analysis of the human resources function that results in building job descriptions, policy and procedures manuals, conflict resolution, employee retention and terminations structures, compliance/audits standards, and employee communications.
Ms. Torres brings a deep understanding of the complexities of managing human beings and meeting regulatory requirements while maintaining the organizational mission, achieving business goals and meeting quality standards – a perspective that converts her into an invaluable resource.
Ms. Torres speaks, has been interviewed, and can present on the following topics: Essentials of HR for Employers, Prevention of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, Employee vs. Contractor, The Benefit of an Employee Handbook, Interns: To Pay or Not to Pay?.
Carmen Torres is a member of PIHRA (Professionals in Human Resources Association), Vice President of NLBWA-LA (National Latina Business Women Association, Los Angeles), and in 2003 she received her Human Resources Management Certification through the extension program at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. www.MYHRSpecialist.com
What is the first step in creating compelling content? How do you write that hook that gets your client or prospect to open your email and buy, register, click or forward your email? How do you get them to READ and take action?
Content marketing has become very big very fast yet most of us don't have a clue how to leverage it properly to be effective. I knwo myself I have sent many emails and gotten no response. Yet I have also sent emails that convert.
My guest today is an expert at writing content that converts. How do I know? Because people keep hiring him tow write their content over and over and over again. They would not do that if they did not see a return on their investment hiring him.
Howard M. Cohen will share how you can begin to write copy that converts using three simple tips. My favorite is the one about writing with your ear. Intrigued? Take a listen and share your new copy with us!
Senior Resultant Howard M. Cohen is a 30+ year executive veteran of the Information Technology industry who continues his commitment to the channel as writer, presenter, and advisor to many channel partners, ISVs, MSPs, CSPs, manufacturers, distributors and more. He is also featured regularly on such IT industry publications as The Dell/Microsoft Migration Expert Zone, Channel Insider, Insight ON Service Providers, Redmond Channel Partner Channel Partner magazine, and MSPMentor.
Howard’s commitment to the IT industry community includes service on many vendor advisory panels including the Apple, Compaq, HP, IBM, and NEC Service Advisory Councils, the Ingram Micro Service Network board and as a U.S. Board member of the International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners.
Howard is a frequent speaker at IT industry events that include Microsoft’s WorldWide Partner Conference, Citrix Synergy/Summit, ConnectWise IT Nation, ChannelPro Forums, Cloud Partners Summit, MicroCorp One-On-One, and CompTIA ChannelCon. He also hosts and presents webinars and eSeminars for QuinStreet, UBM and others.
He refers to himself as a “Senior Resultant” because he has always understood that we are all measured only by our results. Connect with Howard at hmc@hmcwritenow.com and review his portfolio at www.hmcwritenow.com.
What happens when you suddenly have no guest for your live broadcast radio show? You let the show unfold in real-time and let your thoughts flow where your gut tells you to go.
The result, a fun show and a no-holds barred conversation, with myself about the questions I receive from listeners. friends and social media friends about perfection, getting stuck in the past, where those microphones are hidden at Riverside Theater in Vero Beach and my favorite question to ask yourself!
Laura Steward is a sought after business strategist, keynote speaker, radio host and author. After building and selling her highly successful multi-state technology services company she started Wisdom Learned, LLC, a company dedicated to educating leaders based on experience and wisdom learned in the trenches.
Ms. Steward is the author of the Nautilus award-winning, #1 international bestselling book “What Would a Wise Woman Do? Questions to Ask Along the Way” which was on the Amazon Woman In Business bestseller list for over 90 straight weeks and continues to hit bestseller lists around the world.
Through her weekly broadcast Radio Show, It’s All About the Questions, keynote speeches, books, seminars, training and one-one sessions, Laura’s mission is clear – help people get off autopilot and create amazing, successful lives.
Do you have a big idea? Would you know a big idea if it fell in your lap? Do you watch TV and see amazing new products out there that you say, I could have done that?
Well if you have ever wanted to launch your creative spark and find your OWN big idea my guest today makes it easy. Well not quite easy but definitely easier! For most of us the hardest part of an idea is getting started. Especially when you are alone. How do you know if your idea even makes sense?
According to Bryan Mattimore, the crazier and more insane the idea the better. The worst ideas often create the biggest new idea. Think pet rock, the character of the Soup Nazi on Seinfeld, smart water (truly one of my favorites and one I drink regularly). Knowing how to turn that worst idea into something great just takes some creative thinking.
With the launch of his latest book, 21 Days to a Big Idea, Bryan guides you through how you can develop 21 big ideas in 21 days. Each exercise in the book has been carefully crafted and tested to help you trigger your creative juices and think outside your own perceptions.
On this episode Bryan shares how the idea can to be, of course it started with a question, and his own journey to create the workshop that created this book. Listen as we share some of our own Big Ideas!
Bryan W. Mattimore is cofounder and “Chief Idea Guy” of the Growth Engine Company, www.growth-engine.com, a sixteen-year old innovation agency based in Norwalk, Connecticut.
In his innovation consulting career, Bryan has facilitated over a thousand brainstorming sessions, moderated over five hundred creative focus groups, and managed over two hundred innovation projects, leading to over $3 billion in new sales for a wide variety of Fortune 500 clients, including Kraft, Unilever, Ford, AT&T, BNY Mellon, LVMH, Merck, and Pepsi.
A cum laude graduate of Dartmouth, his first book on business creativity, 99% Inspiration, was selected as the American Management Association’s membership offering/book of the year. His second book on ideation and innovation process Idea Stormers, How to Lead and Inspire Creative Breakthroughs was published in 2012 by Wiley Jossey-Bass. His new book is 21 Days to a Big Idea, published by Diversion Books.
He is also the inventor of the creativity training game, Bright Ideas. Contact info: bmattimore@growth-engine.com, (203) 857-4494
How many times have you filled out a survey? How many times have you deleted them from your inbox without opening them? What makes a survey appealing to you? How can you be certain that the data you get is useful? Do you even know what to ask and who to ask it of?
Surveys are just one aspect of this episode. We also talk using forms versus webpages, how you can used LinkedIn for "look-a-like or next door neighbor prospecting and how to ask questions to get anayltics that actually help you grow your business.
Today's guest is Harry Brelsford, founder and CEO of SMBNation, geek and analytics junkie. He shares answers to the above questions and tells us how he pivots and how you can too.
Harry Brelsford is a well-known channel partner executive in the SMB channel. He recently exited a Big Data predictive analytics startup that is the basis for this presentation. He is best known as the founder and CEO of SMB Nation, a community if MSPs, IT Pros, consultants and resellers. He has written 20-books, several hundred magazine articles and holds an MBA in project management from the University of Denver. Harry can be reached at harryb@smbnation.com.
Did I shock you with the title of this episode? I meant to. Most of us have been so focused on getting our SEO to rank us at the top of the search engines. But why? Is it really what drives the RIGHT traffic to our products? Is there a better way? Are Google and Facebook the only games in town when it comes to advertising?
My guest, Tom Antion, is a master at paid traffic. He has used himself and his businesses as guinea pigs to find the right way to succeed with paid traffic. Learn tools, tips and techniques that work and what doesn't work and why.
Listen carefully as Tom explains how spending more with Google and Facebook while starting out will work against you.
Tom Antion is an Internet MultiMillionaire. He's been selling on the commercial Internet since the commercial Internet started around 1994. Tom is the founder of the only, licensed, dedicated Internet marketing school in the country and the Great Internet Marketing Retreat Center where people come in from all over the world to study with Tom in the lap of luxury.
Lolly Daskal is one of the most sought-after executive leadership coaches in the world. Her extensive cross-cultural expertise spans 14 countries, six languages and hundreds of companies.
As Founder and CEO of Lead From Within, her proprietary leadership program is engineered to be a catalyst for leaders who want to enhance performance and make a meaningful difference in their companies, their lives, and the world. Based on a mix of modern philosophy, science, and nearly thirty years coaching top executives, Lolly’s perspective on leadership continues to break new ground and produce exceptional results.
Of her many awards and accolades, Lolly was designated a Top-50 Leadership and Management Expert by Inc. magazine.
Her writing has appeared in HBR, Inc.com, Fast Company (Ask The Expert), Huffington Post,and Psychology Today, and others.
Lolly’s proprietary insights are the subject of her new book, The Leadership Gap:
What Gets Between You and Your Greatness, and is available for pre- order
www.theleadershipgapbook.com
Fake News. We have heard of it. But is it real? How do you know what is real and unbiased reporting? How do you know if you are getting the whole story or a part of it?
My guest was an innovative newspaper editor and a demanding professor of journalism at the college famous for its political polls, Quinnipiac University. He has been on the front lines of many world moments and he shares some of them on the air with me.
What is important though, beyond the stories he wrote is how he learned to ask questions to get to truth and how he listened to enable truth to be told. On this episode Paul Janensch shares tips and secrets you can use to ask better questions and listen for the real answers. Learn how to determine if the info you are getting is skewed by someone else's perspective.
You will even learn how you can walk right up to virtually anyone and get them to answer your questions!
Listen in and tell me what new questions you are going to ask!
Paul Janensch, (JAN-ensh) now retired, was an innovative newspaper editor and a demanding professor of communications.
He was top editor of The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, the Rockland Journal-News in Rockland County, New York, and the Telegram & Gazette in Worcester, Massachusetts. He taught journalism at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. His students liked being treated like real-life journalists but complained that he “makes his write so much.” He continues to turn out guest columns for newspapers and commentaries for radio. “Can’t stop writing,” he says.
As a reporter for The Courier-Journal, he covered the Selma March, walking alongside Dr. Martin Luther King. When he was the editor in Louisville, two members of his staff won a Pulitzer Prize. As a newspaper consultant in Russia, he met with the deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, named Vladimir Putin.
He was the first newspaper editor to correct errors quickly and publish the corrections in the same place. He insisted that staff-written stories name anyone quoted. No unnamed “reliable sources.”
He also wrote a dramatic presentation about Ireland’s Great Hunger and co-wrote a play based on World War II letters.
He earned a BA in philosophy at Georgetown University and an MS in journalism at Columbia University.
He and his wife Gail, a former journalist, divide their year between Vero Beach, Florida, and Bridgeport, Connecticut. They have three adult children, two grandchildren and one dog.
For more details, see Wikipedia. His email address is paul.janensch@ quinnipiac.edu.
Elanor Roosevelt said, "Quiet Women Never Change History" at least I think she said that. But how do you turn a moment into momentum to make a difference in your life, business or the lives of others?
How do you not only Lean IN but BE IN? How do you Thrive?
If you want to change your status quo and shake things up, or maybe just make a few minor shakes, this is the episode for you. My guest today has taught and spoken around the world on Leadership, growth, sales and excellence. While researching her latest book, Quiet Women Never Changed History - Be Strong Stand Up and Stand Out, Let's Go Kick Some Glass, she discovered how anyone can change their situation and gives us some exercises you can do at home to get your new path started.
Pattie Grimm has over 25 years of experience in change leadership, sales, leadership, and team development. She started her career in financial services with two large banks. In 1998, Pattie joined Microsoft to lead their transformation to a customer-centric and sales excellence company. Pattie spent three years in the Asia Pacific Region, where she led the region’s customer and partner excellence team.
Pattie returned to the world of change leadership and management consulting in 2013 after leaving Microsoft. Her company helps companies “transform their business from the inside out.” Pattie is recognized as one of the top Women Leaders by the Executive International Women’s Association and Who’s Who in Women’s Leadership.
Pattie’s book, Quiet Women Never Changed History – Be Strong, Stand Up and Stand Out with the subtitle – “Let’s Go Kick Some Glass” is on Amazon. Pattie is a frequent speaker on women in leadership, leadership, teams, and change management as well how to build a customer centric organization. She also hosts the weekly radio show Women Kicking Glass on OC Talk Radio at 10:00 AM PDT pattiegrimm@ live.com (b) 949.304.0800
Breathing seems like it should be a natural and automatic thing yet so many of us shallow breath, hold our breath without realizing it or just in general don't do a full breath.
There are over 200 different kinds of breathing that can transform your health, your focus, your life. Many of us are familiar with the panting breathing that pregnant women are taught to help them through childbirth. We may have heard of fire breath. If you saw the movie The Hulk, with Edward Norton, you saw that breath in action while he is training to control the triggers that turn him into the Hulk.
Do we really need to learn how to breath?
My guest on this episode is Swami Anjani. She shares with us some of the 42 types of breathing detailed in First Breath, Last Breath by Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavait, founder of Kashi and Kali Natha Yoga.
We do an actual breathing exercise on the radio, and I have a major reaction to it! So settle in for this episode in a comfortable place and remember, In, Out. In Out. Breathe in. Breath out. Oh yeah, there is more in between the in and out!
Swami Anjani graduated from Brockport State University (New York) in 1967 with a degree in Secondary English Education. She joined the Peace Corps and served in the Philippines until 1969, training teachers and directing a program for kids suffering from leprosy.
Swami Anjani met Ma Jaya in New York in 1975; she moved to Kashi in 1979, serving as the River School’s Principal for 24 years. Swami attended the Harvard Graduate School’s Principal’s Center in 1995. She helped organize the Treasure Coast Teen Institute, a youth leadership camp. In ’02, the Congressional Youth Leadership Council in Washington recognized her for her contributions as an advisor.
She currently serves as Kashi’s Director of Community Relations and is Kashi’s representative to the United Religions Initiative. From 2003 - 2012, Swami Anjani served on the Board of Directors of the Economic Opportunities Council and as a member of the Sebastian Advisory Council of the Boys & Girls Club. She has served as the President of the Sebastian Clambake Foundation since 2006, was elected Sebastian’s Woman of the Year in 2009, and was chosen by the Lion’s Club as the Grand Marshal of the 2014 July 4th Parade.
Since 2010 she has spoken several times at Unity/Ft. Lauderdale during their September Interfaith Month services. In October, 2015, she represented Kashi at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Salt Lake City. Swami Anjani has spoken at Interfaith services in Vero and Sebastian, and she serves as a volunteer Interfaith Chaplain at Indian River Medical Center.
Decide. A short word that has the power to immobilize you to great heights or immobilize you to no action. I call that last version analysis paralysis!
My guess calls the place where you decide not to decide Squishyville. It is there that businesses, and even people, can get derailed in achieving their goals. Not making a decision does not remove the need to make one. What it does do is prevent forward motion.
When you are creating your dream business lots of questions come up that require decisions to be made over and over again. How do you know which decisions are critical? When should you be perfect? (this is a trick question!)? How does imposter syndrome affect decision making? Is there ever a time not to make a decision?
My guest today is living his dream business and even has his daughter as a paying client. If you want to create your own dream business don't miss this episode!
Jim Palmer is a marketing and business building expert and in demand coach. He is the founder of the Dream Business Academy and Dream Business Coaching and Mastermind Program. Jim is the host of Dream Business Coach TV, the hit weekly Web TV show watched by thousands of entrepreneurs and small business owners and he is also the host Stick Like Glue Radio, a weekly podcast based on Jim's unique brand of Smart Marketing and Business Building Strategies. Jim is best known internationally as 'The Dream Business Coach' and creator of No Hassle Newsletters, the ultimate 'done-for-you' newsletter marketing program used by hundreds of clients in nine countries.
Face it. Every business can use funding of some kind. Some businesses are built to be sold and others are build to be a legacy for a family. If you are building a business to sell it investors are often brought it to help scale at a more rapid pace. Investors typically expect a 3-5 return on their investment in 3-5 years.
So how do you craft that perfect pitch that gets the investors to say yes? If you watch Shark Tank you have seen what can go right and what can go wrong during a pitch. What you don't hear about is which entrepreneurs that get on the show have hired someone to help them craft their pitch and tell their story.
My guest today is known as the Pitch Whisperer and on this episode he shares how you can go from being invisible to being investable. We go over how to prepare for the objections, share your plans in a story, answer the questions, "Why You? Why Now?" and how to prepare for the Yes and the No.
If you have an idea and want to get funded to get there. Don't miss this episode!
As a funding strategist, John Livesay helps CEOs craft a compelling pitch that engages investors in a way that inspires them to join a startup’s team. He is partners with Judy Robinett in Crack the Funding Code which gets founders funded fast. He hosts “The Successful Pitch” podcast with investors from around the world and is the author of “The Successful Pitch : Conversations on Going From Invisible To Investable”
John had an award winning twenty year career in media sales with Conde Nast where he worked across all twenty-two brands in their corporate division.
John has appeared in Forbes, INC. as well on CBS FOX and ABC as an expert on how to be more confident and the media has called him “The Pitch Whisperer.”
Direct marketing changed the world decades ago and my guest was mentored by some of the world's greatest. Now we tend to think, "internet marketing" but what is marketing anyway? No matter how you define it unless you get that 1-1 conversation or sale as a result can it really be called effective?
My guest today started out as an engineering student in college and then took a class on marketing which changed the trajectory of his life. Now the Founder and CEO of Compliancy Group he shares many of the lessons he learned at the knee of some of the greatest direct marketing minds on today's show.
What is a value proposition? How do you decide who you are targeting? Have you defined who you are NOT targeting? Is there fate in business? What are the questions you need to be asking to get that 1-1 meeting with a client to close them?
Using his company, Compliancy Group, Marc peels back the curtain and shares how they figured out their target market, value proposition and how you can get that potential client to respond.
Marc Haskelson is the President and CEO of Compliancy Group. He has over 25 years of sales, marketing, and operational leadership experience, and has held executive positions at Hearst Publications, Experian, and AT&T. He is an innovator who develops new products and solutions to address the challenges of the small and midsize market. Marc sits on the CompTIA Business Applications Advisory Council and is a Visionary Level Contributor to the American Optometric Association Political Action Committee.
Marc focuses his knowledge of compliance, technology, security, customer care, and payment processing on improving market inefficiencies. He co-founded Compliancy Group in 2005 with HIPAA subject matter expert, Bob Grant, and top software developer, Roland Cozzolino. Together, they use their expertise in direct marketing, compliance, and technology to bring Compliance-as-a-Service to the health care IT industry.
I have been working with my guests since June, 2016 to figure out some health issues. They are one of the first to ever see me and not my weight. They didn't just assume that I was heavy because I ate junk all day. After having me log everything I ate for two weeks they informed me I was not eating ENOUGH! It has taken close to 7 months but I am now up to about 1100-1200 calories/day and I have dropped about 20 pounds. It is a struggle each day to remember to eat the right things in the right proportions but it gets a little easier because I have their support and guidance. The right COACHES Matter!
Talk about having to ask the right questions and being willing to let go my own perceptions about eating, food and my beliefs about weight.
On this episode we talk about structured eating, mindset vs willpower, how tracking what you eat puts you on the path to change and how to get some free advice on the next steps you need to take.
Trevor Kashey has a Ph.D. in biochemistry with emphasis on cellular energy transduction (which he completed at the age of 23). He began his formal scientific career as a high school student, doing non-small cell lung cancer research at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix, AZ. He has consistently been doing research since then, both in academic laboratories and as a consultant for select research firms, and governments, foreign and abroad.
Trevor regularly contributes critical analysis of technical research for public and private institutions. Trevor dedicates his life to education and outreach in the realm of nutrition, dietary supplements, and quality of life. This passion manifests itself in multiple venues, as he regularly lectures at colleges and conventions. Trevor writes and edits for various media outlets, and will meet with anyone who is willing to listen! On the athletic side of things, he is a national-level record-holding strongman and recreational athlete in multiple sports.
Trevor utilizes body composition as a fulcrum for longstanding health benefits, with increases in fitness and performance as a side effect. He has consulted Physicians, their patients, World’s Strongest Man competitors, foreign Olympic teams, 150-mile ultra marathon runners, Geriatric populations, and everything in between.
Trevor seeks to blend anecdotal, academic, clinical data, and to harmonize it into practical information. Not only is it important to be stronger and faster; it is paramount to be healthier to succeed, and be happy, in the long term.
Flashbacks. Panic Attacks. Constant pain. These are just a few of the symptoms those with PTSD deal with everyday. Sometimes many times a day. Even if you don't suffer from PTSD you may all of a sudden have a fear of elevators. Be afraid to fly or be unable to eat ice cream. The triggers may come out of the blue or build over time. No matter what the symptom is you are dealing with it can be debilitating.
What if you could remove the root cause of your symptoms and move past them into a better future filled with possibility versus trauma? Filled with belief that you matter vs you don't?
My guest on this episode is a psychologist who works with patients to help them heal from past traumas using EMDR. If you have never heard of it before I encourage you to listen closely and then find a practitioner in your area. It has been around for decades and is being used around the world to cure PTSD and more.
EMDR is simple and effective and permanent. Listen as Dr. Andrew Dobo shares how EMDR works and the six stages of healing.
Dr. Andrew Dobo was first trained in the use of EMDR more than fourteen years ago. He has treated hundreds of patients and participated in literally thousands of EMDR sessions in his very busy and successful private psychology practice. He is a licensed psychologist in Florida.
Dr. Dobo is highly credentialed in the use of EMDR. He has a lifelong interest in
psychology and religion. He thought he had nothing new to add to the conversation until EMDR, which is the missing piece that can ignite powerful changes in his clients in an accelerated manner. Much to his surprise, he found this transformational process has six distinct stages.
Dr. Dobo has been in private practice for almost fifteen years; before that he was a staff psychologist at the Indian River Medical Center’s Behavioral Center. He is a member of the American Psychological Association and The International Association of EMDR (EMDRIA). He frequently speaks about the material covered in his book. He is often invited back to Florida Tech, his alma mater, to present on the use of EMDR.
An innocently sent email to a client with wire transfer numbers from your business email account. Not a yahoo.com account. Think you are safe? No. In this episode you will hear a story of how someone found out there email account was part of the yahoo account and almost lost a significant sum of money. If it was not for the client asking why he gave them a routing number for a bank in Spain the business owner could have lost even more.
I am a geek. Love being a geek. What I don't love is how much time has to be spent protecting ourselves and clients from those with malicious intent. It is an uphill battle but using some common sense rules can make you much safer.
Larry Baum, Founder of The Computing Center 38 years ago, and I talk cybersecurity, email, the future of online safety and what you can do right now to protect yourself and your business. Oh and he flew in just to be in the studio with me!
Larry Baum founded the original organization that became The Computing Center in 1978. Today, with Mary Stazi now in charge of day-to-day company operation, Larry spends much of his time looking at the overall strategic directions of the company. These days, he is very interested in how technology can be better integrated and leveraged into companies and organizations to make them more efficient and ultimately better managed.
Larry grew up in Ithaca. He is married to Trudy and has two sons, Brian and Ari. Larry has served on numerous boards of local organizations including:
- Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce (Board Chairman 2002)
- Legacy Foundation (Board Chairman 2002-04)
- Tompkins County Air Services Board
- Tompkins County Industrial Development Agency
- Tompkins-Cortland Community College (TC3) Foundation Board (Chair 2010-11)
- Legacy Foundation Board Member (Chair 2002-2005
- Cayuga Medical Center Foundation Board Member (current Chair)
Most everyone has a website these days and most of them get less traffic than a town with one stop sign. How do you get potential clients to find you on the web, give you their email address or more and get them to buy what you are selling?
SEO, email marketing, targeted ads, auto-responders, keywords, blogs, analytics are just a few tactics tat can be used but do they consistently work if you don't have a strategy?
My guest shares how you can get more traffic in just 14 days and how to convert them to clients. She shares what one-thing most sites are missing and simplifies how to quickly make a difference with your web marketing.
Lindsey Anderson, AKA One-Click Lindsey is a web strategy expert working with small business owners to help them utilize the web to produce more website traffic and leads. Lindsey is the founder and CEO TrafficAndLeads.com that specializes in driving traffic, getting leads and the art of nurturing leads to become lifelong clients.
One-Click Lindsey is an expert in landing pages, email sequences, search engine ranking, newsletters, analytics, social media, pay-per-click ads, websites, blogging … the list goes on. She knows how to utilize the myriad of online marketing options to generate more traffic and leads which produces more paying clients.
How does someone get started as a freelance writer? Is it possible to make a good living as a freelancer? What steps do you need to take to connect with an editor and get a paid assignment? How do you develop ideas for your articles?
My guest on this episode has made a good living as a freelance writer for over 18 years in addition to his other writing career as an award winning author of historical fiction. He answers those questions and many more on this insightful episode on getting in the front door of your target magazines and newspapers.
Alan M. Petrillo lives in Tucson, Arizona where he writes full-time for national, regional and local magazines and newspapers, as well as writing mystery and thriller fiction.
He's the author of five works on historical military firearms, a non-fiction book on Ice Hockey in the Desert, and three historical thriller/mysteries, A Case of Dom Perignon, Asylum Lane, and Full Moon. He also has contributed work to two mystery anthologies, Medley of Murder, and Map of Murder.
His short story, Burn Unit, won the Best Short Story of the Year Award from Writer's Post Journal, and his article on Women's Love/Hate Relationship With High Heels was given an Addie Award.
A native of Amsterdam, New York, Petrillo holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Siena College in Loudonville, New York.
He has served as a reporter and editor for various daily news organizations, including the Schenectady Union-Star, the Amsterdam Recorder, and United Press International.
Petrillo has been editor of a number of specialized trade publications, and also has held communication and public relations positions for the General Electric Company, the New York State Bar Association, Professional Insurance Agents Association, and the New York State Nurses Association Pension Plan and Benefits Fund.
A long-time resident of Latham, New York, Petrillo served for 22 years as a firefighter with the Verdoy Fire Department in the Town of Colonie, rising to the positions of chief and fire commissioner.
Contact Alan at:
www.victoriancarriageseries.com
Are you a writer? Want to be one? Have a basement full of books you printed but have not sold? Started writing a book and just not finished it? Had an idea but thought, "who am I to write this book?"
If you answered yes to any of the above questions this is the episode for you. My guest is a best selling author who beyond the best seller ranking has actually sold a lot of books. The average book sells less than 500 copies in its lifetime. You will not get rich, or noticed with sales like that.
What is it that separates successful writers from unsuccessful ones? What makes one book sell more than another? How does a first time writer become the next J.K. Rowling or Gretchen Rubin?
Mindset. Willpower. Mind Hacks. Those are what my guest has determined creates lasting success and she shares how mindset, willpower and mind hacks all come together as one.
Karen Dimmick is the author of the bestselling book 47 Mind Hacks for Writers, host of The Book Marketing Summit and co-founder of Bookthority.com, the "author tech & reader engagement" specialists.
She has been helping authors since 2009. She helps them design their brand & reader experience, so the two tie seamlessly together.
Her mission is to break down what works for authors and put it into practical steps to help them build a profitable, engaging business they and their fans love.
Find more from Karen Dimmick at:
Book Marketing Summit
Karen Dimmick Facebook
Karen Dimmick Twitter
Karen Dimmick Website
Two things in life are guaranteed: death and taxes. At least that is how the saying goes. But what if the taxes part did not have to be as big a number as you think it has to be? What if you could use the system to lower your taxes? Would you?
My guest today is one of 400 certified tax coaches in the United States and is all about tax strategy. You know that strategy is my favorite word so I had to have her on my show. I have been blessed with wonderful tax planners and accountants during my life but not everyone has access to one or even understands the difference in the type of tax professionals.
Tax strategy is all about meeting with your tax professional more than once-a-year when you drop the box of receipts on their desk and say what do I owe. It involves them getting to know you, your business and your goals. What it is not is just preparing the tax return.
My guest shares some simple and often overlooked key strategies you can use in your business to immediately begin reducing your taxes. We also discuss what can be deducted as a business expense when dining and vacationing and what cannot.
This is a not to be missed episode, well I think they all are! Sto paying more in tax then you have too!
Diane Gardner: “Your Tax Coach”
Diane Gardner is a Certified Tax Coach and best-selling author whose proactive planning approach helps clients dodge the tax bullet. Her tax coaching sessions have resulted in a combined savings of over $890,000 to-date — hard-earned profits small business owners would have given to the government by overpaying taxes.
Diane is the co-author of the best-selling books, Stand Apart and Why Didn’t My CPA Tell Me That? She has also authored six other books including her newest, Stop Overpaying Your Taxes! 11 Ways Entrepreneurs Overpay and How to Stop it Now!
How to reach Diane:
Website
The start of a new year brings resolutions, regrets and for many another year of trying to figure out how to make this year's resolutions actually bear fruit. I personally don't make New Year's resolutions. I used to but now I just focus on setting goals throughout the year and and create strategies to help them bear wonderful fruit. Doesn't always happen but I have less stress when I do it this way.
My guest today is the founder of The Business Rescue Roadmap, recently rebranded to She's Building Her Empire. Her empire started with a dance school in her parent's backyard that quickly grew to a 7 figure business.
How does dance create a rock solid foundation for business? How does she define balance? Success? You might be surprised. I was and it had to be one of the best definitions I have ever heard. Best because you can her the authenticity in her voice when she shares it with me.
Learn how Stacy trains people to work with her productive time and how you can too.
Stacy Tuschl started her now 7 figure business (a performing arts center) at the age of 18 in her mom's backyard. 11 years later, Stacy has over 40 employees and is able to spend only an hour a week on that business, allowing her to dedicate her time now to helping other women and mothers take their businesses to the next level. Her book and podcast are both called, She's Building Her Empire and can be found at www.stacytuschl.com
You are not alone. Your angels are all around you and they want to talk to you, support you, guide you and most of all love you. It does not matter your religious background or where you stand around spirituality and faith. Well, I guess you can choose not to believe and then this episode is not for you.
I can tell you several stories of how my life has been changed because of the intervention of angels. Once they even saved my life.
But how do you talk to them? How can you be sure that you are actually talking to your angels and not just imagining things? Is there a magic trick or secret handshake?
Trudy Griswold has been teaching people around the world how to communicate with their angels for over 25 years and she shares the Four Fundamentals for Communicating with your angels. Trudy also gives us examples of how to ask the RIGHT questions of your angels.
Stay tuned and listen carefully. There is a surprise message at the end of the show.
Trudy Griswold is a nationally known author, teacher and spiritual life coach. Her popular Angelspeake™ workshop was featured on Good Morning America (ABC-TV), Good Day New York (FOX-TV) and on numerous national and local radio and TV talk shows throughout the US, Canada and the UK. PBS stations around the US have been showing “Speaking With Your Angels”, a PBS-produced video of an actual Angelspeake workshop. Trudy and her late sister Barbara Mark are co-founders of Angelspeake and co-authors of the Angelspeake trilogy, Angelspeake: How To Talk With Your Angels, (in its 24th printing with sales of one million copies) The Angelspeake Book of Prayer and Healing, and The Angelspeake Storybook.
Trudy has been presenting Angelspeake workshops for over twenty-five years and has taught tens of thousands people around the world how to receive written guidance from their spiritual teams. She works with people in small and large groups, teaches classes on angel communication, and trains people of all ages and from all walks of life in personal empowerment skills. She is a gifted clairvoyant, intuitive, spiritual life coach, teacher and author. Trudy works with people one-on-one in readings, through spiritual life coaching and in intensive three day or weekend long workshops. Trudy maintains her private practice in Tarpon Springs, FL where she lives with her husband of 40 years and close to two of her grandchildren. www.angelspeake.com
How do you go from over 300 pounds to champion bodybuilder in one year? You plan. You focus. You find the most powerful motivating belief inside of you and then you live it.
My guests on this episode did not start out as bodybuilders. They were normal people with regular jobs. Yuri Diogenes worked for Microsoft and was a university professor as well when he realized he needed to make some serious lifestyle changes if he wanted to be around for his family. One year and 100 pounds lighter he was winning bodybuilding competitions.
Jodi Miller was a teacher when she decided to invest in fitness for herself. At a time when women bodybuilders were rare and looked at like they came from Mars, she excelled and now teaches others how to achieve whatever goals they want for their lives.
Whether you have a fitness goal, a weight goal or are at that point in your life where you are realizing something needs to change in your life and your business, this episode is for you.
Yuri Diogenes, M.S, MBA, technical speaker, University Professor and author of more than 15 technical books about technology and information security published in United States and Brazil. After his journey to lose one hundred pounds, Yuri became a NPC (National Physique Committee) US bodybuilder competitor and co-wrote his first non technical book called Ready, Set, Achieve, which was also translated to Portuguese an released in Brazil in 2015.
Jodi Leigh Miller is a graduate from The University of Texas at Austin with a BA in English and a lifetime teaching certification in the State of Texas for grades 6 through 12 in Secondary English. Jodi taught ninth-grade English for six years at the high school she graduated from and later became an instructional leader for an alternative teaching certification program for The New Teacher Project, which is a national, non-profit, education reform organization. While in that position, Jodi trained and managed new and veteran teachers in the art of teaching in high needs schools. Jodi now runs her own business—Phlare Physiques—and works with clients out of Extreme Iron Pro Gym in Dallas, Texas.
The most outstanding moments of her competitive career include her becoming an IFBB Professional competitor in 2015 at the NPC Team Universe and going on to earn second place at the 2016 Arctic Pro and third place at the 2016 San Jose Pro, bringing her just one point away from qualifying for the prestigious IFBB Olympia.
Find them at www.readysetachieve.com
Bullying takes all forms and can happen to children and adults. It happens in schools, neighborhoods, families, the workplace and on the web. We hear on the news how bullying caused someone to commit suicide or change schools or act out in a horrible way against others in retaliation. We may have experienced bullying ourselves or even been the bully.
Is bullying on the rise? How do we stop it? If you are being bullied is it possible to move past it? How do you gain awareness that you are being bullied or that you are a bully?
My guest is a survivor of youth bullying and has learned the key to moving into his best life post-bullying. His path was not an easy one and now he helps others not only survive bullying but thrive.
Alan Eisenberg is the Founder of Bullying Recovery and an author, speaker, certified life, solutions-focused, and health & wellness coach, eLearning, and communications expert. He has been producing video, print, social media, and educational material for over 25 years as both an Instructional Designer and Developer. He is also a survivor of youth bullying and has turned that experience into being an anti-bullying activist and blogger. In 2007, Alan started his blog site about the long-term effects of bullying at http://bullyingrecovery.org.
Since its inception, the site has had well over 1.2 million visitors and is used in many schools for bullying teaching. More recently, Alan has written a biography of his experience dealing with the C-PTSD, anxiety, and depression that developed due to the years of bullying he experienced as a youth called “A Ladder In The Dark“.
Alan’s latest book, “Crossing The Line” will look at the extreme issues that bullying teens deal with. Alan is the founder and managing director of Bullying Recovery, LLC, whose mission it is to help those who suffer from the long-term effects of bullying (Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or C-PTSD) to find the help they so desperately need by providing media, materials,and support through links to seek and receive the help needed to recover. He also offers live presentations on the issues of bullying and the effects it has to schools, corporations, and organizations.
Alan’s continued focus is on the effects of youth abuse and youth bullying on individuals and developing further programs and solutions to help individuals at an earlier point. Alan continues to communicate daily and weekly through social media outlets and his regular podcast called “Healthy University“. Alan and Bullying Recovery, LLC are also members of the International Bullying Prevention Association. Alan holds a degree in Communication Studies and Sociology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech).
Chronic pain. It has become a way of life for many, including myself. The search for cures can take over your life. Medications, lab tests, doctor visits, natural therapies vs. pharmaceuticals or even surgery are just a few of the methods many have explored to try and get out of pain. I know. I have tried them all.
Enter The MELT Method. Sue Hitzmann created The MELT Method to give her clients a way to help themselves so they would not need her. Her NY Times bestselling book, The MELT Method, has helped hundreds of thousands get out of pain and stay out of pain. So why is it not prescribed by your local doctor yet?
On today's episode Sue shares the 4 common imbalances in the body and why the pain you feel is probably not where the problem is. She also shares the 4 R's of MELT and what you can do right now to connect with what your body is trying to tell you so you can begin to reduce or eliminate your pain. We also discuss how a balanced nervous system and healthy connective tissue are the keys to health.
With appearances on Dr. OZ, Good Morning America and more, Sue Hitzmann is on a mission to get us all to do more self-care and get rid of our pain!
Sue Hitzmann, MS, CST, NMT, is the creator of the MELT Method, a revolutionary yet simple self-treatment technique that helps people get out and stay out of chronic pain. A nationally recognized educator, manual therapist, exercise physiologist, and founding member of the Fascial Research Society, Sue is the author of the New York Times bestselling book The MELT Method; A Breakthrough Self-Treatment System to Eliminate Chronic Pain, Erase the Signs of Aging, and Feel Fantastic in Just 10 Minutes a Day!, which has helped over 200,000 people lead a healthy, pain-free life.
Sue has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, Nightline, Good Morning America, The Rachael Ray Show, and Live! with Regis and Kelly, and the MELT Method has been featured in magazines such as SELF, More, and Prevention. To date The MELT Method has been translated into eight languages. Sue Hitzmann lives in New York City. www.themeltmethod.com
Hold onto to your perceptions about data and digital marketing or better yet, let them all go and allow yourself to transcend to another level of knowledge. My guest is a master at unlocking data to take your business to the next level.
Discover the Ask List, how fear has been holding me back and how to share your secret sauce and still increase your revenue.
Stephen Woessner and his Onward Nation podcast can help you transform your revenues in under 12 months. My favorite part of the interview? Getting to ask a master lots of questions!
Stephen Woessner is CEO of Predictive ROI and the host of Onward Nation -- a top-ranked daily podcast for business owners with listeners in 104 countries around the world. Stephen has interviewed nearly 350 of today’s most influential business owners like Gary Vaynerchuk, Darren Hardy, Don Yaeger, Jay Baer, and Verne Harnish. Stephen is also the author of two bestselling books and his digital marketing insights have been featured in SUCCESS, Forbes, Entrepreneur, The Washington Post, Inc. Magazine, and more
Live radio is always fun and can be filled with surprises. I was surprised this week when my original guest was given the wrong date, by me and he thought he was on on Nov. 5 instead of Nov.1! While I was waiting to discover this and because I was live on the radio I had to go with it and do a show.
What happened over the next hour of the show was pretty amazing to me. I got to have a candid talk with my show producer who, in his other life, is a touring musician, entrepreneur, radio personality and in his former life worked at Disney and had over 117 employees who reported to him.
Lots of great questions on this show to shake things up and a frank discussion of letting employees go, what it means to create a product completely Made In America and how integrity and character factor into business.
It is always fun when I get to turn the mic on someone who has a highly successful radio show and business. Especially when they have interviewed me in the past.
John Warrillow has a top-rated radio show called, Built To Sell Radio where he interviews people who have sold their companies and they share their lessons learned. He writes for Forbes and has his own highly successful company advising entrepreneurs how to build value into their companies to increase their resale value.
With two #1 bestsellers on the market, Built to Sell and The Automatic Customer, John shares with me how to convert customers to a subscription model, what makes a company more valuable to buyers and how any company can create their own subscription business.
Whether you are a solopreneur looking to create membership sites, a brick and mortar company wondering how you can lock customers into a monthly plan of products or a service business wondering how to bundle services for a monthly fee, this is a don't miss episode.
John Warrillow is the founder of The Value Builder System™ and the author of the bestselling book Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You, which was recognized by both Fortune and Inc. magazines as one of the best business books of 2011. Built to Sell has been translated into four languages.
John’s new book, The Automatic Customer: Creating A Subscription Business In Any Industry was released by Random House in February 2015.
Prior to starting The Value Builder System™, John started and exited four companies, including a quantitative market research business that was acquired by The Corporate Executive Board (NYSE: CEB) in 2008. John has been recognized by B2B Marketing as one of the top 10 business-to-business
marketers in the United States.
Admit it, you love watch all those TV shows about house flipping, income properties and taking a wreck of a house and turning it into a recurring revenue source. Especially if you can do it with minimal cost or time on your own part. Well even if you will not admit it or just don't watch, I do so I found a guest who can tell us the real deal on investing in real estate and the pitfalls to watch out for.
As my guest shares, understanding the market is only one piece, you need to understand the math and surround yourself with the right advisers to have a greater chance of success. Hmm, sounds like the perfect show for It's All About the Questions!
With a passion for researching and sharing the most important facts on real estate and economics, Kathy is a frequent guest expert on such media as CNN, CNBC, Fox News, NPR, CBS MarketWatch and the Wall Street Journal. She is the author of the #1 best seller, Retire Rich with Rentals, and is host of The Real Wealth Show – which is a featured podcast on iTunes with listeners in 27 different countries.
Kathy received her BA in Broadcast Communications from San Francisco State University and worked in the newsrooms of CNN, FOX, CTV and ABC-7. She’s past-president of American Women in Radio & Television.
Kathy became a certified personal coach through the Coaches Training Institute in San Rafael, California. In 2001, she took the coaching process to television and produced a cable show called “DREAM” which followed the process of 6 people going after their dreams over 90 days. Kathy noticed a theme on her Dream coaching show: most people didn’t have time for their dreams when they are spending all their time at work to make money to pay the bills.
Her show sponsor was a real estate expert and the segments they produced changed her life. After interviewing dozens of real estate millionaires, Kathy discovered their best strategies for creating passive income streams. She and her husband bought numerous investment properties and since then learned the highs and lows of investing that can only come from hands-on experience.
She is passionate about learning more and sharing that information with the members of Real Wealth Network and the listeners of The Real Wealth Show. Kathy loves the freedom that real estate investing can bring. She is an avid traveler and enjoys hiking, rock climbing, skiing, figure skating and surfing. She lives in Malibu, California with her husband, Rich, and their two daughters.
Jason Webb was such a big hit on his first visit to the show I had him back and you determined the content by sending in questions you wanted answered. Take a listen and learn, when to trademark, how to legally do a cover song, when it is ok to use a quote or a photo and when it is not and more.
Plus Jason makes an offer to all my listeners that is priceless! and an added bonus you get to hear me make a mistake on air that had me so embarressed!
If you are a creative, run a business, are thinking of starting a business or are active on social media you will want to listen to this episode with one of the top intellectual property attorneys in the U.S.
Jason Webb is an intellectual property attorney and the founder of JP Webb. He has a Bachelors of Science degree in Applied Physics and Computational Modeling from Brigham Young University where he assisted in experimental laser physics and cancer research.
Mr. Webb has deep experience in patent, trademark, and copyright law. He has successfully negotiated licensing agreements and settlement agreements for his clients with Fortune 500 companies. www.jpwebb.us
To podcast or not to podcast? To be a guest on a show or host your own show? How do you know what is the right way to go?
If you are a guest, how do you pick a show to be on? Does size matter? What content do you share with the host and their listeners? Is your appearance a sales pitch or something else? Is it better to have someone book you onto shows or do it yourself?
If you have your own podcast, how do you get guests? How do you get good guests? What does it cost to start a podcast and what makes a podcast so good that people want to listen?
These questions and a few more are asked and answered by my guest, Jessica Rhodes, Founder of Interviewconnections.com and host of three in-demand podcasts.
Jessica Rhodes is the founder and CEO of InterviewConnections.com, the premier Guest Booking agency for podcasters and guest experts, and she is the acclaimed author of #RockThePodcast From Both Sides of the Mic!
Jessica is the host of Interview Connections TV, where each week she helps her viewers rock the podcast from both sides of the mic. She hosts/co-hosts three podcasts: Rhodes to Success, The Podcast Producers and The Parenting Rhodes. The Podcast Producers was selected by Apple as a “How to Podcast” show in iTunes and has also been included in the syllabus for a course about podcasting and audio journalism at Western University in Ontario, Canada.
Jessica is has been a speaker at Podcast Movement, Podfest.us and Dream Business Academy. She lives in Rhode Island with her husband and two kids. www.JessicaRhodes.biz
What is it about the stars and planets that draws us in? Why is it that Mercury going retrograde plays such havoc on communications, technology and more? Why should we care where Mercury is in our astrology chart? For that matter why should we care about astrology?
I believe in astrology. I have always believed in it, all while believing in God. To me, the two are not mutually exclusive. I am sure I opened up a can of worms with that statement! But how do we interpret the movement of the stars and the planets as an owner's manual for our lives?
My guest is a renowned astrologer in addition to being a children's book author with over 2,000,000 copies of her books in print and an in-demand corporate trainer on creativity. A recent TEDx talk on creativity brought the house down with a standing ovation.
We discuss what astrology is and isn't, explain why knowing about Mercury can improve your life and your relationships and how to weather the changes your astrological chart might have in store for you.
LESLIE MCGUIRK is a professional astrologer with over 30 years of experience. Leslie has taught at The Golden Door Spa (CA), Rancho La Puerta Spa (Mexico), Red Mountain Spa (Utah) and The Ritz Carlton Resort (FL). Her children’s books have sold over 2,000,000 copies worldwide. She lives in Vero Beach, Florida. www.LeslieMcGuirk.com
Are you resilient? Do you know the difference between courage and resiliency? Are you going through what seems like one hit after another with no end in sight?
The last several years I have felt like that and it often seems as if I keep getting closer and closer to some edge that there is no coming back from. Yet, I never seem to reach that edge. How can you reset the edge for yourself? Is it even possible?
My guest today has been through unimaginable stress for the last 13 years and shares with us the 52 strategies she has discovered as her survival guide and how you can incorporate them into your life.
These are simple and strategies you can immediately begin implementing in your life today. I have had her book by my bed the last few months and it is the real deal.
Take a listen and share your strategies for resiliency and courage with me via Twitter, Facebook or email!
Anne Grady is the President of Anne Grady Group and the author of “52 Strategies for Life, Love & Work: Transforming your life one week at a time.” Anne captivates audiences with her unique blend of humor, refreshing honesty, down to earth style, and her ability to help individuals and organizations get results. For over fifteen years Anne has helped lead organizations leverage the strengths of individuals and teams. Anne holds a masters degree in Organizational Communication. www.annegradygroup.com
Every business or non-profit can use a little more money. At least every one that I know! What if you could get that money without having to physically pay it back? I mean someone gives you money, not for you providing a product or service but to help you fund an event, initiative, or even upgrade your equipment. Would you want in?
My guest today is the master of creating relationships that get you sponsorship money year-after-year all while helping you build a stronger business.
Roberto shares the common mistakes people make when going after sponsorship dollars, who you really need to reach out to in an organization and even how to get dollars when you are just starting out. Plus he shares how you can get a free 5 part video on getting started.
Roberto C. Candelaria is an uncle, dreamer, and Disney kid at heart! He is also founder of Sponsorship Boot Camp and author of the International Bestselling book,Relationships Raise Money: A Guide to Corporate Sponsorship.
An in-demand Mentor, Strategist, and Consultant Roberto has worked with companies such as American Airlines, BMW, DELL, Disney, Enterprise Car Rentals, Hilton Hotels, Southwest Airlines, State Farm Insurance, Wells Fargo, and Zappos – to name a few. A recognized industry leader, Roberto’s products and presentations have made him renowned, innovative expert. As one client recently said, “If you follow his plan, success is inevitable.” www.sponsor101.com
I am a paid speaker in addition to a few other hats I wear. I would love to do more of it and I have many friends who cannot seem to crack into their first paid gig. How do you get that first gig? Where do you get the next? What makes one speaker more desirable over another? How do you crack into media appearances? What are the key items every speaker must have ready to go for event and media bookers? Do you know your unique selling proposition? What sets you apart from the pack?
These and many other questions are answered by my guest who started her career as one of the first female sportswriters and leveraged that into an in-demand PR agency that launched the Golf Channel and more. Her client lists include Don Miguel Ruiz, Dr. Joe Vitale, James Twyman, Denise Linn, Arielle Ford, Hay House and more.
Now my guest runs an agency focused on Conscious Companies, leaders, speakers and more connect to their next followers around the world. If you want to be a speaker or increase your speaking business this is a show not to be missed.
Jackie Lapin is a leader in helping transformational leaders, authors, practitioners, speakers and messengers connect with their next followers around the globe. For the past 10 years, her internationally acclaimed Conscious Companies have been providing PR campaigns, radio media tours and speaking engagements to support the growth and revenue of change-makers.
Among the Conscious Companies is Conscious Media Relations, a media relations agency specializing in all matters relating to mind/body/spirit and conscious living--with its signature radio media tours introducing authors to more than 3,000 radio hosts who are seeking interviews in personal development, spirituality, wellness and inspired living.
Jackie serves her clients by providing comprehensive or à la carte publicity services, but she also creates special resources for those who wish to do their own publicity. Her website www.ConsciousMediaRelations.com offers unique Tools for Authors, do-it-yourself webinars and more. Her latest offering is SpeakerTunity, twice monthly transformational speaker leads tip sheet, providing speakers with the direct contacts to book themselves on stages across North America! (www.Speakertunity.com)
I love watching Bar Rescue, House Flippers and pretty much any show where someone comes in and turns around a business and/or home. Why do I love it? Because I get great ideas for my clients and myself.
What if you could flip a business? I mean buy it, reap income, sell it for a profit and on to the next? Well you can and my guest has been doing it for over sixteen years.
At the age of 19 Ace Chapman bought his first business. From there he went on to sell and buy and buy and sell businesses of all kinds. He currently owns 35 internet-based businesses and is looking to grow that number to 100. Why does he do it? How can you do it? Why should you even be thinking about starting your career as an entrepreneur with someone else's company?
Ace shares his secrets for buying AND selling businesses and shares with us the questions you need to be asking. He also shares how he bounces back from failure.
Ace Chapman bought his first business when he was nineteen. It was an online stock market simulator called CoolWallStreet. After selling it and seeing the benefits in buying a business over starting one, he caught the business buying bug. Since then he has bought and sold over forty businesses and has helped his clients all over the world buy over one hundred businesses. www.acechapman.com
The cloud. Not the clouds in the sky but the cloud of the Internet where more and more software applications live and where more and more of our business and personal data resides. How do you protect yourself? What lessons can be learned about failure, running a startup and being a serial entrepreneur in one of the toughest, most demanding industries for anyone. Woman or man?
My guest today is the Founder and CEO of SaaSMAX and a top tech executive not to mention brilliant when it comes to idea creation and implementation! She shares with us how to rebound from failures, why being a woman in tech does not factor into her everyday thinking and what you can do today to start protecting your data and move to the cloud!
Dina Moskowitz is a serial entrepreneur, New Yorker-turned-San Diegan,who is most recently the Founder and CEO of SaaSMAX,Corp. She has been leading and/or consulting to cloud-based, SaaS and other technology companies throughout her career. SaaSMAX was recently described by TheVARguy.com as "the Match.com for the business cloud software sector". It's mission is to make selling, finding and buying
the best business cloud software applications easy. Dina is recognized by UBM Tech Channel CRN as one of the Top Women in the Channel (2016,2015,2014); as one of the 2015 VAR Guy’s Top 50 Channel Influencers; and by CRN as a Women of the Channel Power 50 Solution Provider. Dina serves on the prestigious CompTIA Vendor Advisory Council and is a member of the Board of The Small Business Web, the trade association for SaaS companies. Prior to SaaSMAX, Moskowitz was CEO and founder of Critical Digital Data Solutions Inc., which developed cloud-based data storage solutions. She is a member of CloudGirls, CompTIA's Advancing Women in IT, a judge for the San Diego Women’s Hackathon and a big advocate of women in SaaS and IT. www.SaaSMAX.com
Public speaking is most often listed as a greater fear than dying. Yet, every day we engage in conversations that require us to speak. Are daily conversations really any different than public speaking? How can you get past your fear? How can you make an impact with your speaking? What if you are a heart-centered entrepreneur and are looking to make an impact and make an income?
My guest today is known as the Speaking Goddess and she has worked with entrepreneuers and companies around the world to help them make an impact and earn income with their speaking.
On the show AmondaRose shares tips on creating your "elevator speech", designing your signature talk, discovering your business super power how to move through your fear of public speaking.
AmondaRose Igoe, The Speaking Goddess, specializes in Heart Centered Speaking
for Impact and Income. As an Award-Winning Speaking Expert and Best-Selling Author, she has taught thousands of Entrepreneurs, Coaches, Authors and Business Professionals step-by-step speaking systems so they can effectively share their message and enjoy massive results.
The power of what AmondaRose teaches has helped her clients from around the world,including Germany, Beijing, Switzerland, England and Australia. AmondaRose is the author of “Pain-Free Public Speaking” and “Share Your Story” and is a contributing author in the number #1 Best Selling book series “Chicken Soup for the Soul.” Discover your next speaking steps at www.AmondaRose.com.
Could your lack of financial success be a result of money blocks? Can you actually forgive money?
My guest is a self-made millionaire and has been through hell and back to put it mildly. She also had some stops in Hawaii and Arizona and stepped away from her highly profitable career to found the Wealth Clinic. There she helps clients identify their patterns around money, create new ones and live lives filled with abundance.
But how do you forgive money? What does it even mean to forgive money? Well Leisa Peterson asked me some tough questions on this episode that made me realize I have some forgiving to do!
I so love guests with life-changing questions!
Take a listen and decide for yourself.
Leisa Peterson helps successful but overworked entrepreneurs slow down and enjoy life WAY more so they can create even more profitable businesses that fulfills their wildest dreams. She’s an intuitive business coach and money and mindfulness expert and bestselling author on Amazon.
Leisa’s known for her ability to quickly identify the exact issues that are holding someone back from achieving the goals they desire. Once discovered Leisa draws upon various modalities including shadow work, Emotional Freedom Technique, Allowing ™, mindfulness practices and breath work to assist her clients in clearing out these emotional and mental obstacles. Once cleared Leisa gives customized instructions for how to apply the breakthrough experiences to enhance every aspect of their lives: financial, business and personal.
As a result of her teachings, Leisa is helping thousands of people develop practical skills for attracting greater wealth, freedom and peace of mind into their lives. She’s also the founder of wealthclinic.com where she hosts a podcast and blogs about what it means to manage money mindfully. Leisa is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER ™ and has an MBA in finance. She worked in personal finance for over 20 years and has been an entrepreneur since she started selling gardening seeds door-to-door at age 8.
When she’s not inspiring entrepreneurs to take back control of their relationship with money Leisa spends time hiking and camping around Sedona, AZ where she lives with her husband and 2 children. Find out more at www.wealthclinic.com
Leading through strengths is not about leading with an iron fist. It is about leading and living your life using your strongest talents and understanding which talents are not in your sweet spot. Those lesser talents are by no means weaknesses. They are just talents that you have that are not your strongest ones. Subtle difference in language. Massive difference in internal perception. So instead of focusing on weaknesses and trying to grow them stronger, you recognize you have lesser talents and say to yourself, that's ok, There are others I can bring to the table that have those and their top talents!
That is just a piece of the conversation between Lisa Cummings and myself. Have you discovered your strengths yet? Lisa shares how you can find them out and use them.
Lisa Cummings has delivered events to over 9,000 participants in 14 countries. You can see her featured in places like Harvard Business Publishing, Training Magazine, and Forbes. She’s the CEO of a company called Lead Through Strengths. When she’s not out spotting strengths in people, you find her playing drums, rescuing dogs, or making artsy things with a welder.
I want to apologize for the audio. The radio station had an issue with saving the live broadcast to recording but thanks to my guests, Lisa Cummings who happened to record it from her end, we have one! My voice is lower than usual but Lisa's comes through loud and clear!
If you could make $50/hour doing something you love, what would you be doing? Dog walking? Art? Singing? Accounting? What?
My guest today unlocks the secret sauce for making the Law of Attraction work for you. From a career as an RN to a successful and fulfilling career as a life success coach, Linda Ryan has been there and done that and is living her dreams on the beach at the Jersey Shore.
How can you live your dreams too?
Listen in and take action on what you hear and get going on attracting what you want into your life!
Linda Ryan is an RN turned life coach when 10 years ago she saw how profoundly her sucky life began to improve when she hired a great coach (Bob Proctor) and did what he told her to do regarding her thinking. Find out more at www.coachlindaryan.com
My guest today went from being abused before the age of 5 to an abusive marriage and then stood up for herself and joined the U.S. Army in her 30s. What does it take to change your thinking about how you deserve to be treated and who you are as a person?
Denver shares with us the event that triggered her epiphany and what she does everyday to stay a decisive woman and how we too can embrace decisiveness as an everyday part of who we are and how we live.
Denver Beaulieu-Hains (Bow-Yeh- Hains) is a writer, speaker and public relations professional with more than 20 years of experience working as a spokesperson, media consultant and planner for the Department of Defense and the federal government. In Decisive Women: Designing Decisions in 5 Minutes or Less, she shares her process for moving beyond domestic violence into a life full of promise and opportunity.
Despite professional success as a published author, Beaulieu-Hains has rarely published articles from a personal or private perspective. She is a survivor of both sexual abuse and domestic violence. She manages to weave media-savvy and expertly written narratives into stirring, enlightening and transformational real-world stories and presentations. As a writer, she is thoughtful, honest and direct. At times the raw emotion of her experience leaps off the page. As a speaker, she is grounded, thought-provoking and inspiring. Beaulieu-Hains uncovers practical solutions for common challenges associated with career, communication, wellness, and finances for all ages. She offers fearless, realistic and easy-to-apply strategies to break through any barrier.
Denver has a Master of Science in Administration with an emphasis on organizational development and leadership, and a Bachelor of Arts in Speech Communications and Journalism. She is a native of the Washington D.C. metropolitan area and has three adult children.
You've probably heard the story that music can calm the beast but can it really? How does it work? Does it have other healing abilities? Music Therapy is not new. Studies first surfaced during World War II about treating war veterans with PTSD with music. Not just any music but specific music that would calm their minds.
My guest on this show is a music therapist with the VNA (Visiting Nurse Association) of the Treasure Coast. She works with Hospice patients, Alzheimer and Dementia patients and those with Parkinson's to help them get walking and moving.
How can you help those you love with music therapy? Listen in as Moreen shows us how you can make a difference with music. Yes she brought her guitar and yes she moved me to tears!
Moreen Burkart is a board certified music therapist. Moreen received a Bachelor of Arts in Music Technology with minors in Psychology and Business as well as her Bachelor of Science in Music Therapy.
As a music therapist, Moreen has worked with persons of all ages in a variety of settings including: day-cares, rehabilitation facilities, nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living, memory care communities, 1:1 in-home, as well as hospice. Moreen created the music therapy position at Treasure Coast Hospice for their pediatric program and when the opportunity arose, Moreen was given the opportunity to create and implement the music therapy program at the VNA of the Treasure Coast.
Made possible by the funding of Impact 100, Moreen now provides music therapy services for the VNA’s hospice patients and families as well as community music therapy groups and in-services.
This past year she completed the Neurologic Music Therapy Institute, receiving the title Neurologic Music Therapist as well as attended the National American Music Therapy Conference, qualifying her to become a music therapy internship supervisor.
What does being decisive mean? Is it about making quick or snap decisions? Is it about weighing all the options, polling people for their input, analyzing all the new options that present themselves after the poll or is it something else? Dr. Nancy Fox gathered 30 women in her latest book, Decisive Women, Designing Decisions in 5 Minutes or Less to share exactly how they made and make decisions of all kinds no matter what the focus.
It was an honor to be asked to be part of this book and to have my name on the cover. My interview with Dr. Nancy Fox unlocked some secrets she learned about putting together an anthology, how to focus on outcomes when you are pulled in many directions and how important it is to allow yourself time to heal.
Author, Speaker and Life Strategist, Dr. Nancy Fox, also known as a Decisive Woman, works with businesses, organizations and individuals that want to empower their people/selves to face challenges as opportunities and provide extraordinary service to others. www.drnancyfox.com
Anytime I get to spend an hour with Bob Burg I walk away with new perspectives and a whole slew of new questions I ask myself and others around me. Today we talked about character, selling, leadership and, in the words of Col. Chris Hadfield, astronaut, how we can all becomes +1s versus -1 when we interact with others.
We also talk about holding your vision when things go sideways, how to turn the ship around and even have a discussion about ego all while bringing you wisdom from Bob's latest book with John David Mann, The Go-Giver Leader A Little Story About What Matters Most in Business
Lot's of tweeting happened during the live radio show so tweet out your favorite quotes to @thelaurasteward
Is there a difference between taking leadership and giving leadership? And, if so, does it really make that big a difference in your ability to lead?
Our guest says “yes” to both!
Bob Burg is a sought-after speaker at company leadership and sales conferences sharing the platform with everyone from today’s business leaders and broadcast personalities to even a former U.S. President.
Bob is the author of a number of books on sales, marketing and influence, with total book sales of well over a million copies. He was named by the American Management Association as one of the Top 30 Most Influential Thought Leaders in Business for 2014.
Bob is an advocate, supporter and defender of the Free Enterprise system, believing that the amount of money one makes is directly proportional to how many people they serve. He is also an unapologetic animal fanatic, and serves on the Board of Trustees of Furry Friends Adoption & Clinic in his town of Jupiter, Florida.
Can you have emotional mastery without turning into a Vulcan like Mr. Spock from Star Trek?
What is emotional mastery? Is it turning off emotions? Not at all. My expert guest, Dr. Joan Rosenberg shares how you can manage your emotions and control your responses so you are responding and no longer reacting to what is happening in your life.
Whether your trigger is grief, anxiety, fear, or some other unpleasant emotion it comes down to controlling what you are thinking, gaining awareness of your response patterns and managing what happens next.
Rhett Palmer shared this perfect phrase when I was telling him about my guest just before the show, "emotions are like children. we shouldn't let them drive the car but we also shouldn't stuff them in the trunk."
Listen and find out how you can stop stuffing your emotions in the trunk or let out the ones that are in there safely.
Joan I. Rosenberg, Ph.D., is an acclaimed global speaker, trainer, consultant and master clinician. A cutting-edge psychologist who is known as an innovative thinker, trainer and speaker she has been recognized for her influence and is a member of the Association of Transformational Leaders. A California-licensed psychologist, Dr. Rosenberg speaks on how to build confidence, high self-esteem, core emotional strength and resilience; emotional, conversational and relational mastery; neuroscience and psychotherapy; clinical supervision; and suicide prevention.
Dr. Rosenberg has been featured in the critically acclaimed documentaries “I Am”, “Pursuing Happiness” and “The Hidden Epidemic” with Dr. Daniel Amen. She’s been seen on CNN’s American Morning, the OWN network and PBS, as well as appearances and radio interviews in all of the major metropolitan media markets.
She hosts The MindStream Podcast, an influential and thought-provoking iTunes podcast. She is the author of the #1 Amazon bestseller: Ease Your Anxiety: How to Gain Confidence, Emotional Strength and Inner Peace, and of the forthcoming book: 90 Seconds to a Life You Love. She has penned several articles for professional and trade journals as well as being a popular blogger and the co-author of Mean Girls, Meaner Women.
To learn more about Joan please visit drjoanrosenberg.com.
Hello Gorgeous! No we are not channeling Barbra Streisand here. What we are channeling is how my guest is turning how cancer looks on its head and changing lives one makeover at a time.
Kim Becker closed her successful salon and founded a national non-profit to make it safe for cancer patients to get salon services and pamper them at the same time. What started as a fully-loaded salon-on-wheels developed into a national certification program that trains salons to take care of cancer patients and provides them with all they need to pamper one nominated cancer patient a month for a surprise Queen-for-a-Day makeover experience.
How does she do it? How can you get get your hair done, get a facial and a mani-pedi if there is no Hello Gorgeous! certified salon near you? Kim shares what you need to ask your salon to be safe and how her life has been transformed once cancer patient at a time.
Kim Becker is a dynamic speaker, an award-winning author and the Founder of Hello Gorgeous! of HOPE, Inc., a non-profit organization that restores the beauty in women that cancer steals.
Kim has been in the beauty industry as a salon owner and national educator for more than 25 years. She has been an entrepreneur in both the for-profit and non-profit worlds, where Kim has become a business woman, fundraiser, educator, public speaker, author, consultant and the face of Hello Gorgeous! She has received several awards, including the Spirit of Women Award in 2011, an American Cancer Society Coaches Verses Cancer Inspirational Award and was recently honored to be named a 2015 Daily Points of Light winner from President George H.W. Bush’s nonprofit.
Her first book, Hello Gorgeous!: A Journey of Faith, Love and Hope a is a Mom’s Choice award winner and her newest book, I Promise to Put My Lipstick on When I Get There, is an indispensable how-to beauty book for women battling all cancers.
Kim and her husband Mike have been married for over 20 years and thrive in Indiana with their son, Seth and a pug named Sam. www.hellogorgeous.org
Why does stress seem to affect us all differently? Is there stress that is good or does it all end up being bad? Is it possible to defeat the catch-22 of stress that keeps us going in an endless cycle of stress as we stress over how to stop being so stressed?
Can we eliminate stress and be STRESS FREE?
My guests on this episode are stress experts and they share with me immediate actions you can take to reduce stress in the moment and what it takes to maintain it. Caution part way in. Dr. Bob leads, for the first-time on radio and podcast, an exercise he created to reduce stress and shift the body's response to stress so DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST REPLAY WHEN DRIVING OR OPERATING EQUIPMENT OR DOING ANYTHING THAT COULD CAUSE YOU HARM IF YOU BECOME RELAXED WHILE LISTENING!
Stress burnout is a real thing. I have it and it is not fun. Listen and learn some techniques to heal and prevent stress from taking over your life and your physical health.
Dr. Bob Wright, The Stress Relief Doctor and Success Coach Christine Wright, M. A., CSL coach stressed out individuals who want to avoid stress burnout while simultaneously improving their performance and healthy well-being. They are co-hosts of the popular StressFreeNow podcast series. Through their informational website, www.StressFreeNow.info, Christine Wright and her husband, Dr. Robert Wright, Jr., offer innovative strategies, products, services, and solutions which helps you dissolve your chronic pain, heal your grief, reduce your anxiety, and relieve your stress.
Keeping a business going for 32 years is no easy feat no matter what the business but to keep a business going that relies on tech and the ever changing methods of product delivery is rare. My guest today shares his secrets to success for his company, his life and his clients and how he has seen profits rise each year while focusing on the kind of clients he prefers to do business with, heart-centered entrepreneurs and organizations!
On this episode Joe Foley shares his daily practice, or as he calls it, his morning ritual, how he knows what is the next big thing to focus his company towards and how he gets all of those word-of-mouth referrals from his clients.
Joe Foley is the CEO (Client Experience Officer) at Corporate Disk Company, a 32 year old business specializing in media, print, and packaging fulfillment. The Information Marketing Industry considers his team to be the trusted authority in the niche. They are known to most people as Disk.com their URL acquired in 1995.
Joe’s abundant future mindset target is establishing Disk.com as the preeminent global provider of crowdfunding reward fulfillment. The FUTURE focus at Disk.com will be a single focus on helping heart centered entrepreneurs and organizations whose purpose is to make a positive impact in the world. Joe enjoys being an inspirational leader but insists on personally providing service to some of his VIP clients on a daily basis.
His number 1 role in life is to be a great father to his daughters and smiles at everyone while thinking about how grateful he is each and every day. Contact: joe@disk.com
My guest today wanted to find out what kind of woman would make the best U.S. President after he voted for President Obama and realized he was not who he thought he was. What Stanford Erickson discovered was the traits associated with being a Mama's boy or girl or Daddy's boy or girl made a difference in how you approached things. So he went and looked at 8 female world stage leaders including Hillary Rodham Clinton, Angela Merkel, Carly Fiorina, Elizabeth Warren, Eleanor Roosevelt, Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher and Edith Bolling Galt Wilson.
When you look at these powerful woman and use the filter of mama's girl or daddy's girl, not from a negative perspective but from a leadership trait, it is interesting to see why they have been successful or not as successful as they could be.
Stanford's current book, The Kind of Women who Can Be President of the United States is more a book about leadership and leadership styles than a book about why women are not be elected to the highest office in this country versus others. My eyes opened when I read his book, a follow up to Mama's Boy Presidents Why Do We Keep Electing Them?They didn't open because of the title. They opened because of the content.
Having spent 30 plus years as a journalist covering the political beat as a bureau chief and more and having interviewed three President's including Nixon and Reagan, Stanford is uniquely qualified to write this book. I love perspective shifting reading that give me new questions to ask.
I looked back at myself while reading the book and while interviewing Stanford on the show and I learned a few things about myself. Tweet and let me know what you learn about yourself and those around you.
Stanford Erickson is a thirty-five year member of the National Press Club in Washington, DC, and a former member of the Overseas Press Club in New York City. For more than twenty-five years, as a Bureau Chief in Washington, DC, and a reporter and editor in New York City, he covered Presidents, Congress, Administrative and Regulatory Departments and Agencies. He interviewed Presidents and other world leaders and many significant business leaders in the country.
As a journalist, he worked for Hearst, McGraw-Hill, Knight-Ridder and The Economist Group. As a journalist he worked in San Francisco, Korea, Chicago, New York, Washington, DC and Philadelphia. He was a speechwriter in Washington, DC, and then headed up public relations worldwide for the largest U. S. ship company, traveling through North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He then returned to his first love journalism, working for Knight-Ridder and The Economist Group and then, with investors, he bought and turned around Farm Journal, the largest media company serving farmers in the United States. At one point in his career, he was generally considered one of the most knowledgeable journalists in the United States reporting on world trade and international economics.
In 2012, he published a non-fiction book, How To Be Wiser Than Solomon, and later in October 2012 published another non-fiction book, Mama’s Boy Presidents: Why Do We Keep Electing Them? In 2016, Erickson published the non-fiction book The Kind of Women Who Can Be President of the United States. Both books about the U. S. presidency involve biographies of past presidents and explains what it takes to be a successful president in the 21st century.
www.stanforderickson.com
It is easy to get published these days. All you need is the internet, a "book" you've written and some basic knowledge to upload it to Amazon. But is that really all you need? Is a book a book? What does it take to be a success as an author?
My guest on this episode is a longtime literary agent, resource for publishers and authors alike and has even started her own publishing house. For over 30 years she has guided authors to success and been a major success herself.
Listen as she shares, the biggest mistake authors make, what 3 questions writers need to ask themselves what help and support for author's is out there. She even shares the theory of 1000 fans and why what you are being told about having a huge following is not really true.
After years as a business owner engaged in sales and marketing, Cricket Freeman redirected her creativity toward the writing business, freelancing for magazines (more adventure than money) and business clients (more money than adventure).
For too long a time she slaved as the editor-in-chief of a national, full-color, glossy trade magazine, overseeing design, ad sales, editorial, and staff - and still writing 1100 damn-fine words a day, day after day for print. As a result, she tends to measure her writing credits by the pound.
Along the way Cricket intertwined her business experience, art and humanities education, and writing skills to establish Possibilities Press to support small book publishers with writing, editing, design, and production services. Ever the entrepreneur, a decade later she shifted her focus exclusively to literary representation and in 2001 founded The Christina Pechstein Agency, later changing the name to The August Agency LLC. In 2014 she founded augustwords.org, an innovative network of writers' resources supporting literary and literacy charities. Then just a few months later she established August Words Publishing, specializing in unique books by exceptional authors for select readers.
Cricket is a popular speaker and instructor at writers conferences and workshops because of her straightforward style. Writers appreciate that she's been closely involved in every phase of a book's life in the past three decades: from its conception as a tug in the back of a writer's brain; through the explosive creative writing of it; to the painful editing, exacting design, and printing; then down to the distribution and marketing. With more than twenty years as a writing instructor, from conference talks to community education workshops and community college classes, she makes sure everyone enjoys a unique learning experience and leaves with their questions answered. www.augustwords.org
I am a space geek and have read just about every book written about the subject and have had the honor of meeting and talking with the head of NASA, before I had my radio show, and an Apollo astronaut. No book has ever been written about the Space race in America by a woman nor by a contractor. Up until recently Kennedy Space Center did not even acknowledge at the Cape the 400,000 contractors that were instrumental to the success of the moon landings and for that matter the entire U.S. space effort. That is until now.
My guest shares what it was like to be a woman working at Kennedy Space Center when all of America was joined together to support one common goal; to land a man on the moon and return him safely. And you won't want to miss what happened when she was declared a "safety hazard"!
Martha Lemasters is a Floridian, born and raised in Ft. Lauderdale. After escaping from an unhappy marriage, Martha pursued a career in writing and she knew exactly what she wanted to write about, the Apollo program.
First, she found a job as a typist, was promoted to secretary and eventually landed her dream job as a writer for IBM at the Kennedy Space Center during the Apollo program.
During this time the Kennedy Space Center was a man’s world, made up of engineers, scientists, analysts, programmers and technicians with men outnumbering women 200 to 1.
As a marketing communications writer, Lemasters wrote about the people who made up one of the greatest technical teams ever assembled in American history. Included in those stories are the heartaches, failures, losses, and challenges endured by the individuals who made up the Apollo launch support team at the Cape.
Following the end of the Apollo program, she continued into the Skylab and Soyuz programs. After these programs ended she joined Harris Corporation in Melbourne, also as a writer.
After retiring Martha devoted herself to her volunteer work but her passion for writing never waned. She knew she had a story that had to be told. Three years ago Martha gave up her busy volunteer schedule and devoted herself fully to writing her personal memoir, The Step: One Woman’s Journey to Finding her Own Happiness and Success During the Apollo Space
Program.
The book offers an insider’s look at the Apollo program and the many important, and mostly unrecognized people who made it happen. Bold and complex, women’s issues and equality are underlying themes of this richly woven tale. Science, history, humor and romance all intermingle in this stunningly fresh and inspiring account of one woman’s journey as she overcomes every obstacle on her path to finding happiness and success. www.marthalemasters.com
It doesn't matter what others think of you what matters is what you think about yourself. True or False? Patricia Noll, author of Good With Mesays it is true and she has been helping people for over 30 years stop their Comparanoia and achieve real happiness.
We discuss the two types of esteem, and I am not referring to low and high esteem here, and how how they manifest in business and what you can do to thrive. Patricia reveals the surprising source of impostor syndrome and how you can reduce or remove it from your thinking.
One of my favorites is our conversation about why it is important to take care of yourself first and how it makes the team stronger. Something I struggle with every day caring for my mom while building a business.
Patricia Noll specializes in teaching people to experience long-lasting real happiness from the inside out by teaching them how to feel good about themselves for real just because… and to define their value by who they are instead of what they have done or not done and what they have or don’t have.
Here’s what Deepak Chopra has to say about Patricia’s substance abuse treatment program: “Focus One offers practical and sensible guidelines for those who seek freedom from all types of addictions.”
Celebrate Good With Me Day on May 13th. www.GoodWithMe.com
Going on walk has new meaning for David Ralph these days as he can do it anytime of the day or week he likes ever since he left corporate life to take on the world as one if its top podcasters. How did he go from having a show with just a few listeners to one of the top podcasters in the world with over 4 million downloads and counting in under two years? What lessons did he learn, what questions did he ask himself and how can you learn to setup your day for success?
Listen in as I ask David questions, laugh a bit and learn a lot about his show, Join Up Dots and how he is taking on the world, and succeeding, all while doing it his way.
David Ralph is the host of the phenomenally successful online chat show "Join Up Dots" almost 4 million downloads and counting!
In the true spirit of the Apple founder's famous speech, David interviews inspiring individuals and encourages them to 'join the dots' backwards to make sense of the journey that has taken them to fulfillment and success. He releases a new show four times per week, delivering an avalanche of inspiration and motivation to his audience.
David's mission is quite simply..... To inspire people to live the life they deserve. www.joinpdots.com
The keys of Leadership are not what you think. With the Go-Giver, Bob Burg and John David Mann created a conversation and turned all that we thought we new about business out the window. The Go-Giver Leader creates a new manifesto that every business owner needs to be reading and living.
In this episode John David Mann shares with us the 5 keys of legendary leadership, how to work in collaboration, his advice for leaders and what he stands for.
John David Mann has been writing about business, leadership, and the laws of success for more than thirty years. As a high school student, he led a group of friends in creating their own successful high school. After establishing himself as a concert cellist and prizewinning composer, he built a multimillion-dollar sales organization of more than a hundred thousand people before turning to writing and publishing.
In addition to coauthoring the Go-Giver books with Bob Burg, John is also coauthor of the New York Timesbestsellers Flash Foresight (with Daniel Burrus) and the Navy SEAL memoir The Red Circle (with Brandon Webb), as well as the national bestseller Among Heroes (also with Brandon Webb). His Take the Lead (with former White House insider Betsy Myers) was named by Tom Peters and the Washington Post as Best Leadership Book of 2011.
I connect people and I see connections when I meet people and walk into businesses. I get all these ideas on how they can partner with other people, groups and businesses to increase their exposure and businesses. I never thought of it as a business for myself until I was introduced to Sohail Khan by Steve Olsher (I interviewed him as well on a previous episode of It's All About the Questions).
Sohail lets you see behind curtain to the wizard behind and teaches us how we can make money connecting people and businesses together and what the 3 steps are to put together a successful Joint venture or strategic partnership.
Sohail Khan is founder of The Joint Venture Group. Prior to starting The Joint Venture Group, Sohail has had over 15 years of sales, joint venture marketing and business experience.
Having previously built a multi-million dollar internet training business which he started with just $1,000 in 2000, he then sold a majority stake to a $150M IT company in 2006.
In 2008 the IT company went bust and Sohail lost everything but retained the knowledge and expertise of building a business with over $10 Million in sales using just joint ventures.
In 2009 Sohail set himself a challenge to make $1 Million within 12 months using nothing but just his joint venture marketing expertise and managed to close a $1.5 Million joint venture in just 30 days!
Without a product, business or capital Sohail closed his ‘biggest’ joint venture to date and went from Zero To 4 million customers in just 30 days now called his ‘Joint Venture Blueprint!’
In 2011 Sohail launched www.BrokeringBootcamp.com to train individuals worldwide to operate their own 6 and 7 Figure Joint Venture Brokerage also giving business owners access to a specialist professional support network to help them create ‘high-level and low-cost’ joint ventures to double or even triple their sales and profits!
In 2014 Sohail published his first #1 International Bestselling book with the late Jay Conrad Levinson titled ‘Guerrilla Marketing and Joint Ventures’ completed a few weeks before Jay’s death.
Now speaking Internationally Sohail cover’s:
- Why Joint Ventures Are The World's Most Powerful Marketing Strategy
- How To Super Network with Millionaires and Billionaires
- How You Can Easily Leverage Other Businesses Assets To Make MILLIONS
- How Anyone Can Create Money WITHOUT Even Having a Product, List or Traffic
- How He Closed A Million Pound Joint Venture Deal and Acquired 4 Million Customers In JUST 30 days spending just $500!
- How You Can Close Your First BIG Joint Venture Deal In Just 60 Days
- Why Brokering Joint Ventures Is The BEST Business In The World!
My guest today had her life changed in an instant and could no longer work or pretty much even take care of herself. Six months into a new marriage she had to stop working and try to get her health back after a diagnosis of M.E. and Fibromyalgia left her virtually bedridden. Fast forward several years. Healing unfolds with a move from the U.K. to Turkey and all that an ancient way of living in a land filled with mystery and simplicity can only do.
The lessons learned include: setting boundaries, embracing quiet, eating for healing, writing life and letting go. Join me as I interview Miriam McGuirk about her journey, how we can all have our own healing and her wonderful book, Shattered Dreams & Scorpions at Midnight.
Miriam McGuirk's career in the restaurant, hospitality, and health and fitness service industry ended abruptly with the diagnosis of M.E eighteen years ago. Miriam took the chance to build a new life spending up to 5 months of the year in the South West mountains of Turkey. In this healing, peaceful environment, she found her niche – becoming an author. She is living her dream of writing with a lot of heart and passion now in partnership and with great support by mPowr Publishing, Miriam is looking forward to embracing the journey that lies ahead with two more books to follow in this series. www.talesfromturkey.com
Intellectual property is valuable but how do you protect yours? How do you know if you should protect it or skip it? Can you do it yourself? What is the difference between a trademark, a patent and a copyright? Does your copyright cover you all over the world? Is a copyright implied when you post on social media? What happens if someone violates your IP? How do you license your IP? Do you register your patent, trademark or copyright in your name or your business name?
Know the answers to those questions? If you don't, or even if you think you do, listen in as IP attorney Jason Webb answers those questions and more.
Jason Webb is an intellectual property attorney and the founder of JP Webb. He has a Bachelors of Science degree in Applied Physics and Computational Modeling from Brigham Young University where he assisted in experimental laser physics and cancer research.
Mr. Webb has deep experience in patent, trademark, and copyright law. He has successfully negotiated licensing agreements and settlement agreements for his clients with Fortune 500 companies. www.jpwebb.us for free sample agreements.
I fist met Patricia (Pat) Draper at the cardiac catheterization lab at Indian River Medical Center. She was the ARNP in charge and my mom, and later my husband at the time, had to undergo a few heart procedures. Little did I know that we would become fast friends and would help save my mom's life years later.
I wanted to have her on the show because Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is a frightening diagnosis and places fear and confusion in the hearts and minds of patients and caregivers alike. Yet it does not have to. With a few simple strategies in place, CHF patients can live a long and good life and so can their caregivers.
Along the way I learned that Pat began running triathlons at 53 and was winning her age group, or coming close, pretty soon after she started training.
How does she balance a high-pressure career running the CHF clinic at the hospital and working at the cardiac cath lab? What has she learned from accepting the fears participating in triathlons and ironman competitions? What can you learn from listening? I know I learn a lot every time we get together. Not just about healthcare but also about letting go perfection and striving for "best"
Take a listen and share what stands out for you on Twitter @TheLauraSteward
Patricia ‘Pat” Draper was born in Seattle,Wash and lived in southern California until age 5 when the family moved western NY state . At the age of 16 she spent a year living in Chile as a foreign exchange student where she developed her love for nursing. She received a BSN from University of Mississippi School of Nursing with honors, and lived in Boston one year before moving to Florida o be near family.
Pat has worked at Indian River Medical Center (IRMC) since 1978, leaving briefly in 1996 to work as a Nurse Practitioner at the Doctors’ Clinic after receiving her ARNP in 1992. She returned to IRMC in 2004 with the advent of the open heart program.
Pat is a voracious reader, likes to write poetry, cook and is a competitive triathlete after having begun competing at the age of 53. You can often find her training in and around Vero Beach, Florida.
If you are an author, musician, blogger or other creative the last thing you probably want to do with your day is marketing. You want to write books, create and record songs or more. You don't want to be in front of a computer figuring out which social media platform to use, wonder when you should post and what you should post. So how can you use social media to create revenue without coming off salesy? How do you figure out which platform is for you? How do you make the biggest impact with your social media activities?
Enter Ken Herron. Social Media Guru or as I prefer to call him, my personal social media Yoda! Ken answers 9 question and actually a few more to help you make the most of social media WITHOUT becoming overwhelmed by it.
Popular author, speaker, and radio show host Ken Herron’s “day job” as Unified Inbox's Chief Marketing Officer is helping authors and other people around the world to use new technologies to develop stronger emotional connections online between their brands and their target audiences.
He has held executive-level marketing and sales leadership positions for multiple web and mobile tech companies, including Tourico Holidays, Purple Communications, SocialGrow, and Online Buddies; and has held product leadership roles with Avaya, Lucent Technologies, and AT&T. A graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business' Marketing Management Program, Ken earned his Master's degree in International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and his Bachelor's degree in International Economics and German from Drew University.
Ken is ranked the #2 CMO on Twitter worldwide by "Social Media Marketing Magazine.” Ken uses the Outbox Pro publishing tool to make it faster and easier to create, review, edit, schedule, and publish great content on all of your different social networks and messaging/chat apps. Want to learn more, or ask Ken how he can help you to market your book or brand? Connect with Ken on Twitter at @KenHerron and on LinkedIn at in/kenherron.
Are you connected with what is happening in your internal vs external world? Want to learn how to heal your life? Wonder how come you cannot seem to get well or the same patterns keep repeating themselves. Tried it all?
My guest today has traveled the world and has lived a life filled with curiosity. She quickly realized how each step on her journey added a new tool in her toolbox that enables her to help those in need of healing. From a career as an RN to a 30 year career as a complementary and alternative healer, my guest believes being aware of the inner you allows transformation to happen and healing to begin. Learn how curiosity led my guest to an amazing life that I believe saved mine a few times over when I was unable to find out what was wrong and I was told, "you are sick because you are depressed because you are not with a man."
Sue is a Holistic Nurse Clinician with more than 30 years experience in the study and use of complementary therapies. Prior to her work in the alternative fields, she taught nursing at several colleges. She has done clinical research, worked in several hospital settings, lectured and trained Doctors, globally, in the use of complementary therapies.
She is a certified Trainer and Practitioner of Meridian Stress Assessment and uses the technology in her practice. This specialized protocol involves a non-invasive computerized system taking impedance measurements on acupuncture points. These tests determine where the body may be out-of-balance, or indicate food or environmental sensitivities. She then uses homeopathics, nutritional supplements, herbs and lifestyle modification, to restore balance and achieve optimal health.
She started her life-long passion for other cultures and their healing modalities when she was sent around the world by a local youth organization at the age of 19. Sent to share American ideas, she found herself learning more than she had anticipated. She visited leprosy clinics in India, crossed Check-Point Charlie in Berlin and met monks at temples in Japan. On this trip, she saw alternative therapies in action for the first time, which sparked her desire to build a career in Western and Alternative Medicine. In 1999, Sue was asked to present a case study to The White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Therapies.
She is a founding member of the Trauma Imaging Foundation, a non-profit multi-specialty Physician group dedicated to the accurate diagnosis and treatment of brain and spinal trauma. She is active in their current research of Advanced Trauma Diagnostics, utilizing novel upright MRI protocols. In addition, she has been a Representative for a UN Non-Governmental Org where she has participated and worked on projects around the world.
Sue has a practice in Fairfield, Connecticut and sees patients by private appointment in her office or via remote consult. https://www.facebook.com/suegravesandco/ 203-254-2184
What if literally you held the future in the palm of your hands. According to my guest you do and it is a science to understand what your hands were made to tell you.This is not palmistry. This is like having a Meyers Briggs personality profile but you cannot scam it.
Forty years of research led to the development of Scientific Hand Analysis and my guest is an expert in unlocking the secrets you were born with right in the palm of your hand and your fingers!
Listen as Jayne Sanders shares some insights on what those lines on your palm are telling you. Make sure you are not driving because you will want to look at your hands as she is talking!
About Jayne Sanders: After an MBA and over 25 years in the corporate world, Jayne Sanders began a search for more meaningful, joyful work by helping people in deeper ways. She found Scientific Hand Analysis, and her life hasn't been the same since!
It went from great to fabulous, and she now wakes up every day inspired about her life and work. Jayne's passion is to help others feel the same way!
Successful, progressive-thinking business owners and leaders who feel stuck, unfulfilled, or like something is missing, hire Jayne to guide them into the inspired purpose, passion, and deep fulfillment they crave in life and work.
How powerful is Scientific Hand Analysis? FORBES wrote an article about Jayne and her work, it is so accurate, profound, and life-changing. www.precisionwisdom.com
How do you turn your vision of entrepreneurial success into reality while making sure your family life doesn't fall apart? Is it even possible? You can have it all. At least that is what we keep being told but is that really possible? According to my guest, Daniel T. Ruke, more commonly known as Ruke, it is but it requires planning, communication and clarity on what you want to achieve, what it will take to achieve it and agreement on specifics that may have to be alternated by everyone directly or indirectly involved.
Taking lessons he learned building multiple successful brands of his own and helping other corporations like Disney, Marvel and Chico's make their brands even more effective, Ruke has developed an online program that includes an Entrepreneurial Commitment Contract. He is graciously giving it free to all of you, my listeners!
On this episode of It's All About the Questions, Ruke shares four questions you can ask yourself and one you can ask others to help you unlock and design your destiny so that you and your brand is not only seen but felt.
In 1993, RUKE opened RUKE Illustrations (www.RUKE.com). He focused on themed and branded spaces. When most artists didn’t want to touch a computer, RUKE embraced it. Not only was he able to do hand painted murals, but the use of technology enabled him to contribute to the overall design and theme of entertainment venues and destinations.
Understanding that “Brands are felt, not read”, RUKE expanded his illustration company in 1998 into blink, a non-traditional creative agency (www.blinkStyle.com). The atmosphere offers employees the artistic freedom to create revolutionary work while making clients successful.
RUKE has always looked for the client’s uniqueness in branding, product image and sales cycles, all of which separate the client from their competition. This was a major shift in his career. He was now able to represent projects and companies from an advertising and marketing capacity, as well as contribute to the creative and the development of their products and services. His drive and passion keep blink on the forefront of art and communication.
In 2010, RUKE combined all of his experience and talents to create Game Nation, the world’s first Experiential Video Game Theme Park and Resort (www.GameNationParks.com). With total immersion and complete interactivity, Game Nation merges video game mechanics with physical themed attractions, creating some of the most unreal experiences gamers have ever had.
RUKE prides himself in creating cultural brands. Being a keen observer of not only audience demographics, but more importantly, their psychographics and socialgraphics, he connects brands to their customers’ world. He’s had the honor of contributing to the success of hundreds of Brands, Products and Companies. www.blinklessons.com
I had always heard names had power and there are a lot of experts out there who use numerology, astrology and many other "ologies" to tell us who we are. I have explored many to understand who I am and why I am here on this planet. When I got divorced I wondered, "is Laura Steward the same person as Laura Atchison?" I wondered, what will happen when I go back to my maiden name? Will anyone even notice?
Have you ever noticed how sometimes you get introduced to someone and you say to yourself, "that name fits them, or it doesn't fit them?" Or met someone and felt you must get away or you don't trust them and have no idea why?
My guest today is the Founder of Neimology ® Science and she is going to share with us how your name tells the world all about you and how you can use that to have an incredible life. And she also shares with us certain letter patterns in people's names that can indicate we are not safe around them.
Sharón Lynn Wyeth is recognized internationally as a name expert as she can determine one's strengths, challenges and the purpose of one's life by deciphering a person's name. Sharón created Neimology® Science, the study of the placement of the letters in a name, after 15 years of research followed by 3 years of testing her theories in over 70 countries. She wanted to see if her methodology held true in different languages, and indeed it does. The greatest gift that came from developing Neimology® Science was being able to see all people as One, as our basic desires remain the same regardless of where we live or what culture we are experiencing. Today she assists the HR departments of different businesses in narrowing down the candidates to be interviewed, assists lawyers in how to present cases to judges, and couples and families on how to better communicate with each other. She also creates names for new business and new products. Sharón is a frequent guest on both radio and television
How does one go from not being able to walk well to a pro-wrestler to Pastor? To decide to go in a ring against a man significantly taller and stronger, The Undertaker, and then write a book about a vigilante/wrestler/pastor? Well if you are my guest today you just ask yourself a few questions and take the next steps on faith!
Chris Whaley performed as The Saint on the pro wrestling stage while going to seminary to become a Baptist minister. He learned many lessons along the way including that" as long as you fall forward you are closer to your goals." LOVE that!
His current book, The Masked Saint, is based on his own story and is a major motion picture.
Chris has been married to his high school sweetheart for 40 years. He has two daughters: Alyson and Kacie. Both girls were high school valedictorians. Alyson has four children and Kacie has one.
He graduated from Auburndale High School; Palm Beach Atlantic University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
He wrestled professionally from 1978-1988.
He pastored three churches: Westside Baptist in Lake Wales, Florida; First Baptist Church of Beverly Hills in Beverly Hills, Florida; and First Baptist Church of Longwood in Longwood, Florida.
He currently serves on staff at First Baptist Church of Orlando.
WWW. Three letters that signify the one thing that has transformed the way we do business and find resources to change our lives more than anything else in the last few decades. In just one decade we have gone from paying $25,000 or more to design websites to DIY with WordPress and WIX and a web guy on every other corner of the world offering to design your website and get your business found on the web.
Just because you can do it yourself, should you? If you do hire someone, how do you know if they know what they are doing? What questions should you ask, before, during and after to make sure your site is effective?
We look for the FAQ(Frequently Asked Questions) section of a website to get answers others are asking yet my guest and I recommend you look for an SAQ (Should Ask Questions) page. And to get you started on knowing what you SHOULD be asking take a listen to today's show.
Tweet your questions to @TheLauraSteward and @VegasGreg if you think of a new one or just need an answer to your web question after you listen!
Greg Schueler is the Founder of Say So Marketing and has been involved in internet marketing for over 15 years. Greg built his first website in 1998 and started his first Google Adwords PPC campaign in 2002.
Since then he has built, managed and/or repaired over 1,000 websites and counting. He has primarily specialized in WordPress development and has often times been referred to as the Mad Scientist of WordPress.
Plus go to www.saysomarketing.com/Laura for a special gift from Greg.
I first met my guest when we were picking each others brains about some mutual business opportunities. What I quickly realized are the valuable lessons he learned growing his business, taking it global and thinking about others at the same time. I knew he had to be on the show to share with you those lessons and tell us about some really brilliant products he developed as a result of being aware of opportunities right in front of him.
Sean Patrick is the President and Founder of kikstick over 13 years of marketing, management and business start up experience and his strengths lie in developing a strong profit increase through offline marketing, website promotion, search engine optimization, social media marketing and sales. Getting his start in 2002 it is his belief that the key to building long term business relationships is in providing result oriented services that bring a positive ROI for clients while providing and increase in their health and safety. His website is www.health-safety-canada.ca
It is the new year and most of the world will be setting resolutions to get rid of their physical behind. Most of those resolutions will end as quickly as they began with little to no change having happened. Why? According to my guest it is because of your BUT. Those three little letters that when combined can stop any resolution from starting and even can stop it, once set, from finishing.
How do you stop your BUT from stopping you? Take a listen and pen paper and pen or keyboard handy as we take you through an exercise to gain awareness of your BUT and stop it in its tracks.
Rene Brent is a State-Licensed Certified Clinical and Transpersonal Hypnotherapist. She is a Director and Certified Instructor for the Florida Institute of Hypnotherapy’s Externship Program in Orlando Florida.
Rene Brent Hypnosis is located in Maitland, Florida. She uses a variety of modalities to give her clients the opportunity to gain self-confidence and strength to release blocks and move forward in their lives.
As an RN for over 25 yrs in ICU, Trauma/ER and Recovery, Rene was inspired by the powerful mind/body connection and how self-awareness and reframing negative thoughts helps all of us heal emotionally and physically.
She is passionate about helping people gain confidence, peace of mind, self-awareness and Creating a Life they Love to Live. www.renebrent.com
If you're looking for tips on how to be frugal, this isn't the show for you. If you're looking for tips for how to build your financial foundation WHILE enjoying the journey then tune in! Getting control of your finances doesn't have to be an over the top challenge. My guest on this show is a lifestyle financial specialist. She teaches you how to achieve your financial dreams while living the life you want and dream of.
Some of the questions we ask in this show are: Are you being purposeful about your time and your finances? How can you get out of debt and still have a life you love? When you buy something, is it the item you love or the buying of the item? We also ask, What's for dinner? You will understand when you listen to the show on that last one!
Tweet your questions to @thelaurasteward and to Melissa @thesavvylife and let's get you living the financial life you dream of.
Melissa is a nationally recognized author, speaker and teacher on the topic of personal finance from a lifestyle perspective. She is the author of the international best seller Living The Savvy Life and was the spokesperson for Quicken 2013 . She teaches courses on Savvy Living and is regularly quoted in the national media.
What does a Hula Hoop have to do with the inner you? More than you can imagine. Picture this: You are a child playing with a hula hoop. Learning to spin it around and around without it dropping. As you are learning, it falls to the ground. You learn that you must be fully present in the motion of the hoop around your body in order to keep it spinning so it does not fall to the ground. While it is spinning your mind quiets, your joy expands and time passes quicker than you ever thought possible.
Now imagine all your responsibilities. Got them? Put them inside your hula hoop. Can you keep it spinning easily? No? Now bring some support to the hula hoop as it starts to fall from the weight. Better?
My guest today talks to us about how you can create your own personal hula hoop support system to find balance, create momentum and create a relationship with your faith.
Mary Riesberg is a communication skills expert, professional speaker, author, John Maxwell Certified Leadership Trainer, and Human Behaviors Specialist. She works with individuals to empower them to connect, develop, and grow into the unique individual God has created them to be. She has over 26 years of experience transforming beginners/professional speakers, radio and news personalities, government officials and singers to become a Total Impact Speaker. A few of Mary associations include Chick-fil-A, American Society of Training and Development, and American Women’s Association. She is a Certified Christian Life Coach.
Resumes are all about selling you and most people get them wrong. Did you know you need more than one resume? Did you know how resumes have changed and what you are probably doing wrong on yours that may be blocking you from getting that dream job? What about that interview? Want to know how to nail it?
I haven't written a resume in over 15 years. Owning my own business all I need is a bio nowadays and even that I learned, after talking to my guest, can use an update. But how do you choose what goes in?
How do you unlock the words to the skills you truly have versus those you think you have? How do you make a gap in work or several jobs with short term employment not become a red flag to a potential employer?
Listen as I question Lhea Scotto-Laub who has written over 14,000 resumes, cover letters, bios and personal statements. My eyes were opened!
Lhea Scotto-Laub is the president and owner of Quantum Business Group, Inc. in Massapequa, New York, a recruitment firm, professional résumé writing service and interview coaching firm. Lhea has composed more than fourteen-thousand résumés, bios, cover letters and personal statements. Additionally, she has placed over one- thousand candidates in her career.
In the volunteer arena, Lhea is the Past President of the Long Island Center for Business & Professional Women, a thirty year premier women’s networking organization. She has chaired several committees and co-established the Speed Networking event. Additionally, Lhea served as a board member of the Long Island Women’s Business Council for several years and was a former board member of the US Women’s Chamber of Commerce, where she contributed to the launch of the first Diversity Awards on Long Island in 2004.
Lhea has co-chaired and sat on the Women of Distinction committee for the March of Dimes, for over seven years, helping to improve the mortality rate of babies and expectant mothers. From 2004-2006 Lhea wrote a monthly a column for liwomen.com, spotlighting a Long Island businesswoman who makes a difference. In 2010, Lhea was honored with the President’s Award and Achievers Award by the Long Island Center for Business and Professional Women. She received citations from Governor Andrew Cuomo and Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby for humanitarian efforts and volunteerism. From 2009 to the 14 Lhea was an active member of Rotary, an international organization that served humanity locally, as well as internationally. She was secretary of the West Hempstead Rotary Club and remain involved in RYLA, a youth leadership arm of Rotary on Long Island.
Last but not least, Lhea was a single-parent for more than twenty years, and the proud mother of three sons… and grandmother to seven grandchildren. Additionally, she remarried and has two grown step-children. Being a single parent since her sons were one, three and five, she was determined to raise educated, kind young men who possess a strong work ethic, integrity, and a humanitarian heart. She considers them her biggest success! www.success-resumes.com or www.822jobs.com
What if what you have come to accept as normal levels of health are not normal and definitely not optimal? What if the level of pain, swelling, physical and mental fitness that snuck up on you as you got older didn't need to stay? How would your life be different? Be better?
I have been dealing with health issues for a number of years now and been asking question after question. Once I was told I was sick because I was depressed because I wasn't with a man. As a woman, our symptoms are often discounted. It is up to all of us, women or men, to be our own best health advocate and to challenge the in-range blood work when we know there is something wrong.
My guest today challenges us to ask those questions and also gives us answers. It IS all about the questions you ask and on this show we learn some questions to ask yourself and your doctor and a few tests that everyone should have run the next time they go to the doctor's for a physical.
Dr. Anna Cabeca is a board certified Gynecologist and Obstetrician, as well as board certified in Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine, an expert in Functional Medicine, and an expert in women’s health. She specializes in bio-identical hormone replacement therapy and natural alternatives, successful menopause and age management medicine.
Dr. Cabeca earned her medical degree from Nova-Southeastern University of the Health Sciences in Florida. Since completing her residency at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, she has maintained a private practice in Southeast Georgia.
Dr. Cabeca frequently lectures nationally and internationally regarding restorative health and women’s health issues. She is a consultant and trainer for other physicians in Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy and Functional Medicine Principles.
A mother of five, Dr. Cabeca is a native English speaker who is conversant in four languages. Growing up in a multi-lingual and cultural household nurtured her love for international medicine and travel, which she pursues to this day. She has traveled around the world learning healing modalities from leading physicians, scientists, and other practitioners across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and South America.
Her belief is that the advantages of creating health and hormone balance are that we not only improve our own health, but also improve the health of our generations to follow.
She is the co-creator of the Sexy Younger You telesummit and the creator of the highly acclaimed virtual transformational programs: WomensRestorativeHealth.com and SexualCPR.com.
Get a free gift as a listener of It’s All About the Questions and a serious discount off one of her programs. Just click this link, http://cabecahealth.com/gifts/ to get 5 special gifts to help women reclaim their energy, sensuality and zeal for living! or this link for the discounted program on optimal health: http://womensrestorativehealth.com/
How to Control and release overwhelm in 5 minutes or less. Sound too good to be true? From personal experience and according to my producer who had never heard of EFT or Tapping, it is.
Emotional Freedom Technique, AKA EFT or tapping has been around for a long time yet it amazes me that more people don't know about it and use it on an everyday basis. I know about it and yet I keep forgetting to use it. Then I use it and POW. Unstuck, pain reduced or gone and overwhelm banished.
Today's show is all about how you can release overwhelm and how emotions get trapped int eh body and can cause pain. During the show my guest guides us through a short session to release overwhelm and then my producer tells what happened for him while he followed along.
You won't want to miss this one especially as we head full steam into the holiday season!
Faye Nulman-The Soul Pro EFT-ADV, CYT, CMT
Faye is an Intuitive Transformational Empowerment Specialist; a human GPS for emotional, personal and life guidance. She is an International speaker and educator who utilizes her years of training and personal one on one work incorporating modalities such as: EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), Strategic Intervention Coaching, Access Bars, Reiki, Massage Therapy, Raw Foods, Yoga, Sound Healing, & Relaxation Meditative modalities to ingrain a sense of positive energy flow within each client or group.
Faye's ability to aid in releasing the blocks to regain a natural flow of self care, self respect, self acceptance and self appreciation has helped many find peace of mind, strength and courage to overcome addictions, abuse and self sabotage. Her guidance opens the gates of creativity, confidence, and a sense of direction for those feeling "less than" what their true potential is.
As a guide, Faye has the ability to provide a blueprint for those open and ready for change in their personal, family and business related lives. You will learn to confidently "BE" who you know you can be without the need for acceptance of others. You will open the flow of positive attraction for all you dream of and truly desire. If you are ready to transform to a new and/or improved self, you are willing to do the work, and you are seeking the right guide to make this transformation.
40 years of books being an everyday part of life. Growing up in a bookstore with access to any book you could possibly want to read. I can only imagine what that would be like! My guest today runs the family bookstore that is an integral part of the local community and that regularly gets some of the top authors in the world today to come and speak and sign books and interact with their fans.
What makes them so successful when so many bookstores are closing? What have they learned about what makes a book successful? How do they work with new and emerging authors who don't have major publishing deals yet have something to say in their books? How do you, as a potential author make sure you are doing the best things to get your books into a bookstore? What are they doing to celebrate 40 years of success?
And we answer the question everyone wants to know the answer to: Can you judge a book by its cover?
In this episode I ask questions of Chad Leonard, second generation bookstore owner of the Vero Beach Book Center and Cynthia Callander, Director of Publicity and Marketing. www.verobeachbookcenter.com Twitter @verobooks
When I first met Sally Armstrong I knew instantly that my life would never be the same. When she spoke, my perspectives were challenged and my worldview shifted. What I thought I knew about women, men, culture and world religion went out the window and I realized how the power of a voice can change the world.
My producer was almost in tears when the show was over because he had never heard about some of the things we talked about and others he thought were no longer in practice. Sally challenges us to walk in the world with our eyes, minds and hearts open. I challenge you to look at your life, after you listen to the show and tell me, and the world where you have been silent in your life and how you are now going to use your voice. I am on twitter @TheLauraSteward and Sally is @SallyArmstrong9
Human rights activist, journalist and award-winning author Sally Armstrong has covered stories about women and girls in zones of conflict all over the world. From Bosnia and Somalia to the Middle East, Rwanda, Congo and Afghanistan, her eye witness reports have earned her awards including the Gold Award from the National Magazine Awards Foundation and the Author's Award from the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters. She received the Amnesty International Media Award in 2000, 2002 and again in 2011.
She was a member of the International Women’s Commission a UN body that consists of 20 Palestinian women, 20 Israeli women and 12 internationals whose mandate is assisting with the path to peace in the Middle East.
In 1996, Sally was honoured by the YWCA of Toronto with the prestigious Women
of Distinction Award in Communications. In 1997 she received the Achievement
Award for Human Rights for Women from Jewish Women International; in 1998 Media Watch's Dodi Robb Award and in 2003, the Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement from the National Magazine Awards Foundation. In 2005, she received the Athena International Award (Chicago), the World of Difference Award from the International Alliance for Women (Florida) and the Red Cross Humanitarian Award - New Brunswick Region. In 2008 she received the Clarkson Laureate for public service at Massey College, University of Toronto. And in May 2008, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Journalism Foundation. In March 2010, she became the fourth recipient of The Calgary Peace Prize.
She is the recipient of eight honorary doctorate degrees and is a Member of the Order of Canada.
Her book Veiled Threat: The Hidden Power of the Women of Afghanistan was published by Penguin Books in 2002. The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor was published by Random House in 2007. Bitter Roots, Tender Shoots: the Uncertain Fate of Afghanistan’s Women was published by Penguin in 2008. Her new book Ascent of Women: Our turn, our way – a remarkable story of world-wide change was published by Random House in March 2013. A revised version called Uprising: A new age is dawning for every mother’s daughter was published in March 2014 by St. Martins Press in New York. www.sallyarmstrong.org
From Goldman Sachs to Philanthropist and Chief Engagement Officer of Women Moving Millions to producing movies about rape on campus and making the Top 50 Global Diversity List by The Economist of individuals who have used their position in public life to make an impact in diversity my guest today reveals the questions that drove her and still drive her to make an impact each day.
Jacki Zehner dedicates her time and resources towards the advancement of women and girls. As the President of The Jacquelyn and Gregory Zehner Foundation, a role she has held for the past 15 years, Jacki funds a variety of projects and organizations, with a particular focus on women's rights, women's foundations, movement building, and media.
In 2012, Jacki became the Chief Engagement Officer and President of Women Moving Millions (WMM), a non-profit organization based in New York City dedicated to mobilizing unprecedented resources for the advancement of women and girls. With more than 240 members, each contributing a million dollars or more to organizations of their choice, WMM has successfully brought the needs of women and girls to the forefront of philanthropic giving.
Prior to her philanthropic focus, Jacki was a Partner and Managing Director at Goldman Sachs in New York City, where she was the youngest woman and first female trader to make partner. Jacki serves on a number of boards and advisory committees, and is an active writer, speaker, consultant and featured expert on topics relating to women and wealth, philanthropy, and leadership. She currently lives in Park City, Utah with her husband Greg and two teenage children.
PR does not have to overwhelm your budget. Actually it does not have to cost anything other than a little sweat equity and if you do it in air conditioning you won't even have to sweat. With just a few simple PR Tips and PR Hacks you can book your own media tour, get your products featured in top magazines, have reporters calling you as their expert and have celebrities endorsing you and your products.
How? My guest today shares some simple and easy strategies and tips to figure out where you should be interacting to get PR, where your client hangs out and how to get reporters coming to you from local and national media outlets. Plus you get a free tips sheet on how to get noticed on HARO.
Christina Daves is a serial entrepreneur who has founded and run five successful companies over the past 20 years.
With no resources remaining when she launched her latest venture, CastMedic Designs, Christina taught herself everything she could about generating her own publicity, which basically provided her free advertising for her business.
Since launching in 2012, she has appeared in over 250 media outlets including national and local television and publications. As a result of this success, she launched PR for Anyone® to help other small business owners have similar success.
Together with her clients, Christina has generated over 7 figures in sales relating to free publicity.
Christina is also the author of the bestselling book, PR for Anyone™ - 100+ Affordable Ways to Easily Create Buzz for Your Business.
Reinventions come in all shapes and sizes but the key to a successful one is in the quiet time you give yourself. With today's increasingly connected world it can be difficulty to get some uninterrupted quiet, reflective time to unlock the you that is wanting to burst out from inside yourself.
Today, reinventions are not just business ones. They can be physical reinventions, I need one of those, spiritual, financial, relationship and yes, business and career reinventions. But how do you create a successful one? How do you start figuring what the reinvention means and how to make take root?
Enter my two guests. Experts at reinvention in their own lives and in helping others figure out their own. What I love is they thought outside the box and created an environment to help you dive deep into your own reinvention. Take a listen and let me know what your reinvention looks like! @TheLauraSteward or Laura@LauraSteward.com
After a thirty year career in retail selling everything from socks to stocks, with only a computer and a plan, Bobbi Govanus launched her own small business and soon realized that she had discovered a true niche within the computer training industry.
Bobbi quickly grew that business from the basement of her Minnesota home by listening closely to her customers and providing customized computer training and solutions. The company eventually brokered over one thousand high-caliber computer trainers across the United States and Canada and even served clients as far away as England, Japan, Germany and India. She grew the company to sales of over twenty million dollars.
In celebration of these and other accomplishments, Entrepreneur Magazine recognized Bobbi Govanus as their "Home-based" Business Owner of the year and Minnesota honored her as their Women in Business Advocate.
In 2013 Bobbi created the Reinvention Retreat at Sea bringing speakers, coaches and authors together to coach and assist attendees who want to make the rest of their life, the best of their life. Bobbi published her first anthology book in 2014, How to Pilot When We Were Raised to BE Stewardesses, Reinventing your Life with Passion and Purpose. This book explores the importance of choosing your own destiny no matter what obstacles you must overcome to do so.
Bobbi currently lives near Orlando, FL with her husband Gary. She can be reached at Bobbi@MrktgMaven.com
Kathleen McCarthy Peters is the owner of KMP Travel, a Cruise Planners/American Express travel agency. Kathleen’s passion is travel and the performing arts. She loves helping speakers plan transformational retreats and workshops in awesome destinations!
Kathleen was bitten by the travel bug early! But growing up on military bases was just the start. She went on to work onboard cruise ships as both Cruise Staff & entertainer. Kathleen has also lived and worked abroad in Europe, Mexico and Australia and has over 20 years experience working in the Hospitality and Tourism industries.
Kathleen has successfully transitioned from Ballerina to MBA and from stay-at-home mom to advertising executive. Her latest chapter is as entrepreneur and business owner where she can combine her love of travel and the arts to plan life-enriching journeys for her clients. Kathleen also believes in giving back by volunteering countless hours to encourage and mentor women making big career changes. Kathleen believes that if you Love your life now and stay true to your core passion, gifts and talents…you will be led into amazing new opportunities where nothing from your past is wasted.
Are you focusing on impact? If you do, money will follow. The old ways of doing business aren't working as effectively as they used. "If you build it they will come" is no longer true. What is true is that if you make an impact on and in people's lives with your business they will buy and they will continue to buy and they will tell their friends who will tell their friends. As long as you focus on the impact you and your business will have for them, their business and their lives. But how do you do that?
My guest today is Wendy Lipton Dibner. One of my personal mentors and friends and someone I have great respect for because of the impact she has made in my life and the lives of others I know.
Forbes is following her current book tour as she makes an impact in each city she visits. One of the lessons she teaches is "don't try to fit yourself into a model that is not you." And then she shows you how to create your model of business.
Her current book is titled Focus on Impact, The 10-Step Map to Reach Millions, Make Millions and Love Your Life Along the Way
A little about Wendy:
Wendy Lipton-Dibner is the world’s leading authority on business development through impact strategy. President of Professional Impact, Inc. and founder of Move People to Action™ Wendy is internationally recognized for her unparalleled ability to help clients maximize and capitalize on the unique impact they bring to people’s lives through one-of-a-kind marketing, products and services. A multiple-time bestselling author and highly sought-after keynote speaker, Wendy serves as a trusted advisor to doctors, executives, start-up entrepreneurs and top influencers around the globe. She is the author of the new business acceleration book, Focus On Impact® - The 10-Step Map to Reach Millions, Make Millions and Love Your Life Along the Way.
How do you move when moving hurts? The one thing that calms my body and my mind and doesn't make me feel like I got hit by a truck the next day is Pilates. Since I have a radio show I thought, why not bring my personal Pilates trainer, mentor and friend to the show so you could get to know her, ask her your questions and learn a few things you can do at home to get your body and mind back into alignment. Especially your body.
The first time I went to Pilates I had been in pain for a long time after some injuries to the discs in my lower back after a VERY bad round of golf. After 15 minutes, the pain was gone and my body and mind felt calmer. I got hooked and each time I go, I not only learn more about my body but more about the mind body connection and how they play tricks on each other. If you aren't sure what I mean just tell yourself to stand up straight with your chin back to align the head and then look in a mirror. It surprises me every time.
If you are a breast cancer survivor, Gini Murphy also shares tip on reconditioning after surgery and will tell you about a free class she offers every month in Vero Beach, FL to help you.
Gini Murphy, Founder of S.T.A.R. Pilates has been a passionate teacher of movement for over 20 years. Her initial training in traditional Pilates, then certifying in contemporary Pilates, coupled with her years of teaching dance has enabled her to empower each individual client with the knowledge and tools to care for their body by teaching them that how you move is of utmost importance.
Gini trains people of all ages and fitness levels whether novice or experienced. Her specialty is instructing those with injuries and chronic conditions due to her extensive Pilates teaching in physical therapy clinics where she was engaged in sports rehabilitation, post-operative rehabilitation and aging populations.
Her objective is to is to have her clients gain strength, flexibility, knowledge of proper biomechanics so that it can be applied to everyday life and the understanding needed to manage, maintain and improve the health of their body.
She holds the following certifications: Instructor Trainer and Certified Instructor for Pilates Academy International, Certified STOTT PILATES® Post- Rehabilitation Conditioning Specialist, Certified CARDIOLATES® Instructor, Certified Post-Rehabilitative Breast Cancer Exercise Specialist , Bachelor of Fine Arts, Dance
Which comes first? Your purpose or your objective? Do you know the difference? Does your plan further them? Do you know how the language you use matters at all levels of your life and business?
We often hear that we must know our purpose and that if we are not living our purpose that is why we are left unfulfilled at the end of the day. I have struggled with this concept for many years and felt like I was failing because I couldn't articulate my purpose as it seemed it is supposed to be articulated.
Then I met my guest, Barry Laub and he presented the concepts in a different way that challenged me to look at the words I was using and the words being used by others. Pieces started to fall into place that had not seemed even remotely relevant to success and purpose.
Listen with an open mind as we discuss how objective is the thing we want to be looking at and defining and once you have that, the rest begins to fall into place.
Tweet to me @TheLauraSteward and to Barry at @BarryLaub to share your insights and ask us questions!
Barry Laub is a #1 Best Selling author, as well as an international bestselling author, President of Infinite Resources, Inc. a consulting, training and coaching company. He is known for transforming businesses, careers and lives. Barry is a highly sought after and engaging speaker.
A recent client testimonial described Barry as “having a real gift for helping his clients work on the key intangibles that benefit them professionally and personally. Through our work together in these recent months, he has provided me with the tools and foundational work to "re-engineer" my mindset, resulting in vastly more self-confidence, assurance, and savviness to deal with important business discussions and everyday situations. I can think of no book, lecture, or other teaching venue that could have been more effective.”
Barry possesses a master’s degree in guidance and counseling and special education. He had a distinguished career as a program director, guidance counselor and teacher trainer for the New York City Board of Education. After leaving the field of education, Barry received recognition as a top producing financial planner, especially in helping families that have members with Special Needs.
After his successful career in education, he created a national employee benefits company where he was CEO with over 40 employees.
Utilizing these experiences Barry maintains a private coaching and speaking practice. He conducts mastermind groups and teleseminars. He is a radio personality and has been interviewed on many television shows. His target market is primarily business owners, sales professionals and business executives. Barry is a very results oriented individual with the ability to put his clients at ease, while maintaining accountability.
Barry is an active Rotarian. He is a faculty member of the Rotary Leadership Institute and active with Rotary Youth Leadership. Barry is the proud and joyous grandfather of eight grandchildren.
Barry’s passion is using his experience to create environments which support other’s to live a gratifying and satisfying life. Make an impact on the lives of others is his purpose.
The business of being an author matters almost even more than the books do. Once you have a book or an idea for a book, what do you need to do to get it published? I was fortunate and made connections to to the right people to get my book, What Would a Wise Woman Do? Questions to Ask Along the Way published. I learned from some of the best on how to keep my book selling and ranking and winning awards. But what if you don't know those people?
Well now you do. My guest. mentor, publisher and friend is the Publisher of Morgan James Publishing and THE top PR guy for the industry for over 38 years. An 18 time bestselling author himself, we talk about the different types of publishing, what you need to do before, during and after publishing happens for you and share how you can get a free ticket to the top author event in the U.S.
Rick Frishman is Publisher at Morgan James Publishing in New York and founder of Planned Television Arts (now called Media Connect), has been one of the leading book publicists in America for over 38 years.
Rick works with many of the top book editors, literary agents, and publishers in America, including Simon and Schuster, Harper Collins and Random House.
He has worked with bestselling authors such as Mitch Albom, Bill Moyers, Stephen King, Caroline Kennedy, Howard Stern, President Jimmy Carter, Sophia Loren, Smokey Robinson, Nelson DeMille, Barbara Bush, Salmon Rushdie, John Grisham, Yogi Berra, Henry Kissinger, Jack Canfield, Alan Dershowitz, Arnold Palmer, Jackie Collins, Whoopi Goldberg, Gov. Mario Cuomo, and Senator John Glenn.
Morgan James Publishing publishes fiction and nonfiction books and by authors with a platform who believe in giving back. Morgan James gives a portion of every book sold to Habitat for Humanity.
Rick has also appeared on hundreds of radio shows and more than a dozen TV shows nationwide, including Oprah, Fox News and Bloomberg TV. He has also been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Selling Power Magazine, New York Post, and scores of other publications.
He has appeared on stage with notables such as Sir Richard Branson, The Dalai Lama, T. Harv Eker, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Tony Hsieh, David Bach, Brian Tracy, Zig Ziglar and Brendon Burchard.
Rick is the co-author of eighteen books, including national bestsellers “Guerrilla Publicity”, “Where’s Your Wow”, “Guerrilla Marketing for Writers”, “The Expert Success Solution”, “250 Rules of Business, “Networking Magic-Second Edition”.and Author 101- The Insiders Guide to Publishing. Rick’s 18th book “Mistakes Authors Make: Essential Steps for Achieving Success as an Author” (with Bret Ridgeway and Bryan Hane) will be published in May 2015.
Rick has a BFA in acting and directing and a BS in communications from Ithaca College. He is a sought-after lecturer on publishing and public relations and a member of PRSA and the National Speakers Association.
Rick and his wife Robbi live in Long Island, New York with their two Havanese puppies, Cody and Cooper. They have three children: Adam, Rachel, and Stephanie.
My favorite question that helps me get through so many challenges in my life and in my business is, "why?" Not just, "what is my why?" but, "why this goal?", "Why did we end up where we are right now?" "Why did my brother die so young?". Get the idea?
I never forgot the other questions like, Who?, What?, When?, Where? and How? but they were not the questions that seemed to unlock the door to my inner knowing like why? did. I would use all the other questions to dig deeper into the why yet there seemed to be a piece I was missing somewhere. I understood my why but I needed to also know an essential piece of me, my what.
The what is essentially the core essence of who you are and what you were born to do. I would get glimpses but then it would slip. It would manifest in many different ways yet I could not verbalize it other than to describe myself by what I did for a living.
As I was preparing for this show, I was watching Wayne Dyer's movie, The Shift and thinking, how do you unlock what is already inside of you to have the greatest impact on those you encounter along the way.
My guest today wrote a NY Times bestselling book called, What is Your What? Discover the One Amazing Thing You Were Born to Do and in it he lays out a plan to help you unlock the What you were born with and then how you can bring that into your life in every way. If I have to look at more than Why?, which we all must, then this interview will give you some steps you can take right now to begin unlocking your what and get a free copy of Steve Olsher's book so you can continue your journey after you listen to this show.
Steve Olsher is known as the world’s foremost reinvention expert. Famous for helping individuals and corporations become exceptionally clear on their WHAT – that is, the ONE thing they were created to do – his practical, no-holds-barred approach to life and business propels his clients towards achieving massive profitability while also cultivating a life of purpose, conviction, and contribution.
A 25+ year entrepreneur, Steve is the Chairman & Co-Founder of Liquor.com, an online pioneer who launched on CompuServe’s Electronic Mall in 1993, New York Times bestselling author of What Is Your WHAT? Discover The ONE Amazing Thing You Were Born To Do, author of the Business Technology Book of the Year, Internet Prophets: The World’s Leading Experts Reveal How to Profit Online, creator/host of Internet Prophets LIVE!, international keynote speaker, and in-demand media guest who has appeared on CNN, Fox Business and other national outlets.
What happens when you get Terry Brock in the studio and record the first video of the radio show? No, this is not the song video killed the radio star! Yet it did create some interesting conversations and interactions and raised a few questions in my mind about video and its place in making an impact.
My guest on this episode is the incomparable and totally fun Terry Brock. We challenged each other to figure out how to add video to the live radio show when the studio does not have any cameras and has no capability of accepting newfangled methods of communicating like internet calling. How were we going to do it and still provide a good show, which you are all used to by now!, for the live listening audience that has a radio in their car, home or was listening on iHeart radio? If the show was just a recorded podcast we could always redo it but we were live on terrestrial radio!
Feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the planning and inability to test in the studio until we went live, I decided to ask my guest how he deals with overwhelm. He does have a popular Tedx talk on Overcoming Overwhelm!
From there we talked about video and its use in providing value related to your brand, the questions you need to ask while figuring it all out and learned a number of great resources when you are looking to add video and ramp up your marketing.
One of my favorite shows from the shear fun of the conversation and figuring out all the tech to make it work! Tweet to @TheLauraSteward and tell me what you think!
About my guest: Terry Brock brings a passion for technology, a sense of history, and real-world business strategies for success to your event.
What can the Pony Express teach us about changing technology? What can the movie “The Matrix” teach us about adapting to change?
Terry Brock is more than just a social media marketing speaker, or a technology trends expert. He packs his presentations with “Gee Wiz!” joy for gadgets, solid business strategies to build relationships, and inspiration to try new things to improve the bottom line.
He is a syndicated columnist with Business Journals. This 43-paper network stretches across the US and reaches decision makers, business owners and people serious about doing business. With over 40 million pageviews each month, these publications tap into Terry’s expertise and funny style to bring value to readers.
Terry earned an MBA in marketing and is focused on real-world business applications. He leverages his background in journalism and education in live presentations all over the world. He is a virtual presentation expert, allowing him to break the bonds of distance and time to serve clients according to their needs.
Terry wrote the book on Klout, and works with organizations to design social media relationship marketing strategies that are measurable and implementable. He is a syndicated columnist with Business Journals around the US where he writes his weekly column, “Succeeding Today.”
A master at his craft, Terry earned the Certified Speaking Professional designation from the National Speakers Association and was inducted into the Speaker Hall of Fame (a designation awarded to less than 1% of speakers in the world).
When Skype needed someone who could work with them in social media, video interviews, PR work and more, they brought Terry on as Chief Enterprise Blogger. He coordinated a host of functions helping this international company to focus on business applications for what was known largely as a consumer-only product.
AT&T came to Terry when they needed help with their largest blog, Networking Exchange Blog. He became the Editor-in-Chief for that distinguished publication coordinating a staff of over 100 geniuses in areas of social media, Cloud Computing, Mobility and Security. He was able to handle both technical and soft skill issues to help AT&T begin the process that resulted in over $2 billion in sales.
From social media to mobile office applications, Terry brings a wealth of knowledge and a sense of history to empower even the most timid user to explore new possibilities. www.terrybrock.com
Time Engagement? Self-Management? Time Management is a spiritual pursuit? What I do know is the time we have on this planet is finite. Once a day is over, it is over. We cannot get that time back and our future time is unknown. We may have days, weeks, months, years or just seconds left on this planet. How we spend our time is a choice.
But how do you decide where to spend your time? I teach goal setting and time management and I am the first person to tell you that some days I have no idea where the day went and I certainly don't always see forward momentum towards a goal. Some days I think time managment is more perseverance than perfection.
My guest just released the latest book in his Get the Nerve to Succeed Series; Time Management - 50 Lessons on Finding Time for What's Really Important. If you are looking to become more productive on what really matters, you won't want to miss this show.
I myself had a few ahas as I was thinking over the show on my way home from the radio station. Share with me on twitter what made you stop and think. Tweet to me @TheLauraSteward!
Dr. Joe Serio has cracked the code for improving personal leadership, decreasing stress, and increasing productivity. But before he did that, he had to deal with the fear that was holding him back.
His quest to live his best life has taken Dr. Serio to some unlikely places.
He was the only American to work in the Organized Crime Control Department of the Soviet National Police prior to the collapse of the USSR. He later served as director of the Moscow office of a global corporate investigation and business intelligence firm. Dr. Serio is the author, co-author, or translator of nine books, including the critically-acclaimed book, Investigating the Russian Mafia.
He is also author of the Get the Nerve™ series of books, which includes Overcoming Fear: 50 Lessons on Being Bold and Living the Dream, Public Speaking: 50 Lessons on Presenting Without Losing Your Cool, and Time Management: 50 Lessons on Finding Time for What’s Important.
He has studied Russian, Chinese, and Spanish, including translating books from Russian and Spanish into English; learned to play the harmonica and guitar, and has recorded on CDs and played on stages in several countries; served as Editor-in-Chief of an international magazine; and taught at the university level, among other things.
Dr. Serio was a founding instructor of an institute for ethical leadership development for a county government agency and is a regular instructor on overcoming fear, emotional intelligence, time management, positive interaction with difficult people, leadership, customer service, public speaking, and managing personal finances at county government agencies, associations, and corporations.
He has made three documentary movies for A&E’s program, Investigative Reports, and has appeared in media around the world, including CNN, BBC, New York Times, Washington Post, Legal Realm (China), Sekai Nippo (Japan), Sol de Mexico, and others. Find out more at www.joeserio.com
How do you stay focused on a goal or dream during the hard times? For that matter how do you stay focused in the good times? According to my guest, Kris Mathis, "life is going to test you and ask you how bad do you want this?" Sometimes you have to find a way out of no way.
Are you living in fear of excelling? Have you learned how to win? Want to turn a struggle into a victory? Lot's of questions during this show with even more answers to help you find the right questions and answers to move you forward or perhaps just start you on your path from success to significance. And yes, we define what both of those mean in this context.
After you listen to the show tweet what success and significance mean to you to me at @TheLauraSteward
Kris Mathis is a Grand Rapids, Michigan native who has went on to have a successful career and reach international prominence as a world-class motivational speaker and author of the best-selling book, “From Success to Significance: The 8 Keys to Achieving any Goal or Dream” written by Kris Mathis with Shannon L. Harris. Kris has shared his life changing message with over 50,000 people all over the world through the power of his book, videos and live appearances.
Kris has been featured on dozens of television and radio shows across the country. His client list includes companies like United Way, Goodwill Industries, Amway World Head Quarters, and dozens more of high schools, colleges, non-profits, and corporate companies.
Kris is also a weekly columnist for the Grand Rapids Times Newspaper in Grand Rapids, MI. and he serves on the Board of Directors for an organization called Arbor Circle, a mental health agency for youth and families.
As one of the most in-demand speakers today, Kris is most notably known for his ability to take his personal experiences and make them heartfelt and engaging in a way that very few speakers rarely can. Kris uses profound truths coupled with anecdotal principles to motivate, inspire, and educate audiences on how to create a larger vision for their lives; overcome the obstacles in their path; and then go on to achieving their goals and dreams. Kris’ story of growing up in one of the most poverty stricken neighborhoods in Grand Rapids, MI., being homeless, and suffering from a rare facial paralysis has become one that is changing the lives of people all over the world! Website: www.krismathis.com
What happens when a Rabbi, a Reverend and a Swami walk into a radio station? That was a question I wanted answered so I invited them to my show for a conversation about faith, the journey they each took to reach their faith landing place and the questions they asked along the way and still ask.
I have explored many religions and spiritual paths since my brother died when I was 10 and I got so mad at God I couldn't go to church or even pray anymore. Along the way I realized that all of the religions and spiritual practices I explored had the same goal of connection to a being or idea bigger than humanity.
All the houses of worship I entered welcomed me with open arms even if sometimes it was with a bit of suspicion at first. What I learned for me is that God is bigger than any religion but that all religions had something to offer to help guide the path to a higher level of being.
On this episode I speak with Rabbi Michael Birnholz of Temple Beth Shalom of Vero Beach, Florida, Reverend Casey Baggot of Community Church of Vero Beach, Florida and Swami Durga Das of Kashi in Sebastian, Florida.
Tweet to us @theLauraSteward with your thoughts, comments and quotable moments and share with your friends and family to get a conversation going about your faith.
Rabbi Michael Birnholz arrived at Temple Beth Shalom in Vero Beach in 2002 following his ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. From the biblical garden to tot shabbat, from men's club bowling night to adult learning while making challah, Rabbi Birnholz is proud to be part of vibrant and meaningful life of his congregation. His hope is to build Temple Beth Shalom into a House of wholeness, completeness and peace and see these efforts spread caring, compassion and harmony to the whole Treasure Coast. www.tbsvero.org
Rev. Dr. Casey Baggott joined the staff of the Community Church of Vero Beach in 2004 and serves as Executive Minister. Before coming to Vero Beach, Casey worked in the areas of behavioral research, as a chaplain, as a consultant in bioethics and spiritual ministries for a national health care organization, as a contributing author to The Clergy Journal and The Library of Distinctive sermons, as well as serving as a parish pastor in the Minneapolis area. Casey’s academic degrees include a B.A. in Psychology, and a Doctorate in Divinity. She has also completed additional training in clinical pastoral education, bioethics, and spiritual guidance and has served in denominational leadership roles. http://www.ccovb.org/
Swami Durga Das moved to Florida, to be part of Kashi which is an interfaith community founded in 1976. He went on to graduate from Florida Tech with a degree in Business and Accounting.
Durga Das began studying Martial Arts in1980; after many years of practice, he earned a 5th Dan Master’s degree in Tae Kwon Do and trained for the 1988 Olympic Games. He was the Florida State Champion in fighting from1986 through 1988.
In 1996 Durga Das was ordained by Ma Jaya as a Swami (selfless servant to Humanity). In that capacity, he began teaching and mentoring younger generations about mindful meditation and service to others.
From 1998 through 2010 he helped to develop Kashi’s real estate and overall Master Plan in a healthy green fashion and continues to work to foster healthy, sustainable living. He currently serves as CEO of Kashi Foundation and works locally with agencies to serve those in need. He and his family live at Kashi. http://www.kashi.org/
Are you ready to be energized no matter what time zone you travel to or from? Are you tired of feeling like you need a vacation from your vacation and not in the good way?
What if you could travel with health and vitality and return home to the same?
My guest on today's show is the author of the bestselling book, The Healthy Conscious Traveler: 8 Pathways to Smart and Effortless Travel, the founder of the Self Care Revolution and a 23 year veteran doctor treating over 80,000 patients.
We discuss, how self care is not an event but a way of life and the one thing you can do starting today to begin the path to optimal health. Dr. Benson all shares the 6 items in your traveler's first aid kit to always carry when you travel.
Dr. Robyn Benson is a pioneer of the Self-Care Revolution, which aims to transform lives and healthcare, one person at a time. This mission has been fueled by lessons she's learned and the wisdom and insights she has GAINED on her transformational journey as a doctor of Oriental Medicine which includes traveling to more than 70 countries to learn from indigenous people.
For the past 23 years, she's applied her considerable knowledge of acupuncture, herbs, IV therapies and cutting-edge energy medicine to help patients achieve optimal, radiant and sustainable health.
In 2005, Dr. Robyn founded Santa Fe Soul, an innivative healthcare center which now has a satff of 25 practioners. A mother, adventure enthusiast, world traveler, author and speaker, Dr. Robyn brings a decidely holistic approach to 21st-century medicine.
Do the words social media make you cringe? Or are you a regular user who wants to expand their reach more effectively? Whatever your level of experience or inexperience with social media you can begin making an impact by following a few key strategies to help you select your platform, target your audience and determine your impact.
Whether using Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Snapchat, Periscope or one of the many other social media platforms what matters is why you are using it and is it where your audience is hanging out.
My guest on this episode is my personal social media Yoda. I don't always take his advice right away but I am learning to as just implementing one or two small changes regularly makes a significant impact on my results on social media.
Cool Hunter Ken Herron increases emerging brands’ revenue and market share by using technology to develop stronger emotional connections between companies and their customers.
Ken is an advisor for multiple global mobile and web startups, including TraveDoc, CharityCheckin, DIALaBRAIN, and Worldbop; and is the Head of Marketing for Singapore-based unified communications (UCaaS) startup Unified Inbox. He has held executive-level leadership positions at tech companies Tourico Holidays, Purple Communications, SocialGrow (acquired by Unified Inbox in 2014), and Online Buddies; and leadership roles at Avaya, Lucent Technologies, and AT&T.
A graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business’ Marketing Management Program, Ken earned his Master’s degree in International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and his Bachelor’s degree in International Economics and German from Drew University.
Ranked the #2 CMO on Twitter worldwide by Social Media Marketing Magazine, Ken is a frequent author – including contributing to the 2014 book Apponomics and the 2013 book The Everything Guide to Mobile Apps – and popular speaker on leveraging technology for marketing.
You can hear him share the latest social business news, trends, and best practices on the All Business Radio Network in the U.S. and Channel Radio in the U.K. Connect with Ken on Twitter at @KenHerron.
It has been said that people remember you most when you touch their emotions. How do you touch people appropriately though while meeting your business and personal goals? What is inappropriate? What is appropriate?
What are the three things you must do in order to be authentic in your touch?
My guest today is an expert on touching people in appropriate ways and he will share what he has learned with us and pose some new questions for you to ask to have a stronger connection with clients and others you meet.
For over 28 years, Peter Verlezza has been the architect of technology solutions that make sense for medical practices, businesses and non-profits. His unique way of approaching challenges comes from a belief that it all starts with people.
In the early years, Peter worked at his family’s deli and catering businesses where the foundation of exemplary customer service was instilled by his family. The value of serving has extended to his professional relationships with clients as well. Peter internally asks the question, “Is this in the best interest of the client?” while remembering the old saying, “You can’t change what you have been handed only how you deal with it.” He approaches both of these with a sense of humor, charisma and genuine care for others – it’s become a way of life.
He is the author of 3 books, "Hassle Free IT MD," and the 2 Amazon best selling books, "The Tech Multiplier," and "The Business Owners Essential Guide To IT and All Things Digital." Peter recently completed an audio series titled “Touching People In Appropriate Ways” a series that speaks to the importance of connecting with an audience.
What are the four words you should never say to a man? What is the number one communication disaster between men and women that we continually do to ourselves? What assumptions do men make about women and vice versa? Is there such a thing as gender intelligence?
My guest today is considered a top expert on all of the above and we don’t agree on some things, as you will hear during the interview but she does make me think. Will she make you think too? Tweet me @TheLauraSteward and let me know after you listen.
As an Author, Speaker and Coach, Fiona Fine is growing a movement for women and men to live and love on their terms. Her relationship book isBabe In Total Control of Herself (affectionately known as B.I.T.C.H).
Fiona turned her mess into a message: after 30 years in a man’s world of engineering/IT, career coaching and recruiting (where she completely lost her femininity, her health and even her sense of humor to fit in and make the big bucks), she finally reclaimed her sassy, vibrant self and went from surviving to thriving! She then set out to help women (and the men who want to love them) to create their best lives so that they can have the money, the job, the health, and yes, even the love of their dreams!
Fiona is a Relationship and Communications expert in her mid 50’s. She’s had a consulting & coaching practice for 20+ years and coaches and speaks on communications as well gender issues and how to create your best life of love, work, health and vitality, prosperity, and… fun!www.FionaFine.com @Fiona_Fine
Do you treat everyone the same? Have you ever said, I’m the boss? I know personally that I have not always been a good leader or even a good manager and I embarked on a journey many, many, many years ago to understand what makes a good leader and what makes a bad leader and how one can become an effective or more effective leader.
Along the path of my journey I have met some amazing people who have unique ideas about leadership. Some good. Some not so good. From each, I have learned. I consider myself very privileged to be able to share some of the really good ones with you on this show, It’s All About the Questions.
My guest on this episode is going to answer some questions around, Why is leadership critical? What are the three warning signs you are not a good leader? How does poor leadership play out in a workplace? And many more. She is also going to pose a few questions you need to be thinking about to become deliberate in your journey to becoming a more effective leader.
Cheryl Bonini Ellis is the author of Becoming Deliberate: Changing the Game of Leadership from the Inside Out. A former business executive-turned-entrepreneur, she helps business leaders achieve more and perform at higher levels so that they can get bigger and better results. She is a trusted advisor to business executives, entrepreneurs and professionals.
Passionate about personal development, Cheryl works directly with global thought leaders in business growth, leadership excellence, high performance and personal transformation. Her teachers and mentors include Jack Canfield, Brendon Burchard and John Maxwell.
Cheryl founded Ellis Business Enterprises LLC to help business owners and business executives get better bottom-line results by developing leadership ability at all levels in their companies. She created Leading with Impact and Intention, a leadership retreat for women, to encourage and enable women to embrace their personal power, and Essential Leadership Thinking, an audio training series for improving leadership impact and results.
She is an active volunteer member of the Morris County Chamber, having recently served as Chair of the prominent Women In Business Program, and currently as a Chamber Ambassador and on the Members’ Council.
For more information about other services and programs, visit her website www.ellisbusinessenterprises.com
Are you planning for your physical future? Are you even thinking about your physical present? Do you consider exercise a giving back to your body or like me think of it as something that must be done or should be done and you don’t get what everyone says about exercise and endorphins?
My guest today realized her physical present was not going to work for her future so she began looking at how she could not only plan her fiscal future but her physical future so she could enjoy retirement. Those questions she began asking herself developed into Fitness After Forty Five™ and the Bod Spir program.
Learn what she was asking and what you need to be thinking about.
If you want to enjoy the fruits of all you are building today and not be a burden on your family, friends or retirement fund, you will want to listen to this episode of It’s All About the Questions.
If you want to be notified of new episodes, please subscribe and go to www.itsallaboutthequestions.com for free resources on asking better questions.
Elizabeth Phinney is a Certified Personal Trainer with the American Council on Exercise. She is an affiliate of The American College of Sports Medicine and has been named Top Female Executive with Worldwide Who’s Who and VIP of the year in Health and Fitness for 2013 and 2014. In 2013 she co-authored The Expert Success Solution, an Amazon #1 International Best Seller.
Elizabeth’s passion is Fitness After Forty Five™ and her mission is to inspire people to plan their Physical Retirement as they plan their Fiscal Retirement. Her caring and compassionate fitness advice is individually customized through workshops, consulting and speaking and her positive instructive manner motivates all to succeed in controlling their own aging.
Since 2000, she has helped hundreds of people get stronger, more flexible, and healthier; and, she has helped many slow down, stop and, reverse aging issues that they had been plagued with for years.
Her flagship product is BodSpir®, a meditative strength training technique she created and has taught thousands of times in her classes and one-on-one private training. Other programs include the F.I.T. Workshop™ (Fitness Inspiration Transformation) and Your Personal BodSpir Program™ (Consultation, Assessment, Evaluation and Recommendation.)
There are 24 hours in a day and the average woman manages to fill them to the brim with activities. Sometimes that even includes sleep. The question is often posed, "how do you have it all?" when really the question needs to be, "Who am I and what is my legacy I want to leave?" By answering those questions you may not need or want it all. That makes it more about navigating life and finding the balance that fits for you and not what others say you should want and need and have.
My guest in this episode, from my live radio show every Tuesday on WAXE 107.9/iHeart radio, seems to have it all: a strong international business reputation, a loving family, an international bestselling book and a close generational family unit. How does she do it? How does she manage being a 24 hour woman with wisdom, happiness and joy?
Join us as we explore how high-achieving, stressed women manage it all and find happiness
Cheryl Liew-Chng is an in-demand international speaker, trainer, coach, international bestselling author, and founder of LifeWorkz-an Asian-based firm whose mission is to guide organizations in creating more contemporary and inclusive workplaces and individuals in more effectively creating, redesigning, and transitioning to "lives most excellent." Having served in leadership positions and navigated several career transitions in many industries-while also attending graduate school and raising three boys-Cheryl experienced challenges and eventually uncovered the secrets to a life of abundance and vibrancy.
One of her key passions is in inspiring and empowering women to thrive in their work/business and live a vibrant life. Today, as a global thought leader and entrepreneur, Cheryl guides high-level women executives, entrepreneurs, professionals, and stay-at-home moms in activating their potential-inspiring them to greater personal and professional fulfillment. Learn more about Cheryl's programs, or join her online community at www.The24HourWoman.com
Garbage in. Garbage Out. This phrase takes on new meaning thanks to my guests today. Using experience in the trash industry these two men show you how you can clean your outside garbage and most of all your inside garbage.
What's the antidote to a comfort zone? What are the eight steps to clear your mind and Jumpstart your life? I love their book, The Garbageman's Guide to Life so much I endorsed it.
Meet the Disposal Dream Team.
Norm LeMay is an entrepreneur, educator, and philosopher. Thanks to his unique approach to management, he spent thirty years of his storied career helping to convert his family’s business--a waste management company that his father picked up in a swap for an old truck--into an asset worth more than $300 million. Through hard work and foresight, LeMay became a pioneer in recycling, transforming the State of Washington into one of the most efficient recycling areas in the United States.
Steven Kaufman, known among friends as a brainiac with an incessant curiosity, graduated with honors from Stanford University. He spent the first twenty years of his varied career with companies like Wang and Intel, tackling assignments in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. In 2000, he shifted lanes and became an entrepreneur and a consultant, helping to launch a high-tech company that developed an automated route tracking system for the waste industry.
This is my birthday show and a very special one for me becuase of my guest. I like to reflect on all the blessings I have and one of them is the many freedoms I have been privileged to enjoy. Those privileges did not and do not come without a price. One of those prices is met every day by those who serve in our military. Putting their lives in harm's way to protect our freedoms.
My dad served in the Army during the Korean War. Right up until the day he died his time of service to our country was the proudest moment of his life.The lessons he learned about leadership, success, communication and moving forward to achieve goals served him well in his post-Army career.
My guest today was in the first graduating class of women at West Point. She not only survived the hazing and outright hostility from the male cadets and staff that felt a woman should not be there she thrived and went on to get graduate degrees from Harvard University and a Bronze Star before retiring after 34 years in the Army as a Colonel.
On this week's show we talk about how you can bring out your best when stressed, how to grab your own bull by the tail to break the cycle and the personal lessons that led her to the success she has today and even what her definition of success is. You might be surprised.
Deb Lewis brings numerous unique and varied experiences from her trail-blazing 34 year military career to Sunrise Aloha, the personal development adventure LLC she shares with her husband Doug Adams. They offer rich stories, tools, and helpful insights so many more can thrive in the midst of ongoing challenges, instead of becoming derailed in their personal and professional lives.
During her remarkable military career, Deb led three Brigade/Battalion-level commands, including a $3 billion reconstruction program in Baghdad and Al Anbar Provinces during combat in Iraq; the Seattle District, where she oversaw 850 employees responsible for constructing, operating, and regulating military and civil works projects; and the Philadelphia District where she led 500 employees responsible for the construction, operation and regulation of military and civil works projects.
Col. Deb also held numerous other key command and staff positions including the Inspector General for Washington State, as the confidential advisor to The Adjutant General, Washington National Guard; Senior Engineer Requirements Officer, Joint Staff, Antiterrorism/Force Protection (J-34), supporting the Joint Chief of Staff Chairman's responsibilities before and after 9/11; co-chair of 220+ member worldwide team that produced Department of Defense facility protection standards; Company Commander, Fort Bragg during Grenada; Engineer Battalion Operations Officer and Executive Officer; Chief, Military Engineering Division, US Army Pacific Command (USARPAC) - responsible for treaty nations and US territories throughout the Asia-Pacific region; and Staff Officer, Congressional Activities Division for the Chief of Staff of the Army.
Today, Deb knows how to bring out the best in everyone, and is unafraid to challenge long-held assumptions to uncover the real truth about interpersonal relationships, leadership, organizational behavior, communication and project management. Related hot topics include: Live the life you're meant to and love the way you want to; What high cost are you paying each time someone at work fails to honor you?; 4 simple keys to insanely better writing at work; Greatly reduce your risk from harm by learning these 7 Antiterrorism/force protection (AT/FP) considerations; Key ways new policies can help instead of hurt; How to make adversity work for you; The ‘ALOHA Way' approach to life and love - make it easier to thrive in rapidly changing and uncertain times; Inspirational stories of military women; An insider's perspective on women leading in combat; Pay attention to what REALLY helps; and Relook your team's diversity to unleash far greater potential.
Drama Queen. Hmm, wonder why we don't have a phrase, Drama King? We've all heard the term. What everyone doesn't want to talk about is how that person of drama impacts the workplace and the homeplace. Maybe that person is you or someone you know. Either way, recognizing how to defuse the drama can make a difference for everyone.
My guest today is a successful entrepreneur who, having moved up from factory worker to in-demand management consultant and speaker around the world has unique insights on stopping drama in its tracks. Her award winning book, Stop Workplace Drama is one of my favorites. So much so I quote her in my own book, What Would a Wise Woman Do?
Her latest book, No Drama Leadership is a must read for anyone serious about leadership. Marlene shared tips everyone can use to stop drama in your business and your life and how becoming a No Drama Leader is the highest aspiration a leader can bring to the table.
Marlene Chism is a consultant, international speaker and author of Stop Workplace Drama (Wiley 2011), and No-Drama Leadership (Bibliomotion 2015). Marlene’s passion is developing wise leaders and helping people to discover, develop and deliver their gifts to the world. From her unique experience of reinvention to her experience working with all levels within an organization Marlene has learned to speak three languages: The language of the owner, the language of the manager, and the language of the employee. Marlene takes the position that communication is not a “soft skill” but is instead a critical skill necessary for No-Drama Leadership. Marlene has a Communications degree from Drury University, and a master’s degree in Human Resources Development from Webster University.
What if you ask what you think are the right questions and nothing changes? What if you have facial surgery before you have to speak in front of a large room? How do you turn a perceived negative into a positive?
This episode is a conversation about how to be authenticate in the face of adversity and walk about feeling like you made a difference to yourself and others, how to understand when you are asking the right questions of the wrong people and how to find the right people to ask.
Laura Steward is the host of It's All About the Questions and the founder of Wisdom Learned, LLC a consulting company focused on helping business and indviduals grow and prosper using wisdom learned in the trenches to get off autopilot, take control of their business and life and navigate to their defintion of success.
Ms. Steward founded and eventually sold a multi-state technology services company that she started when women were not running tech companies. She considers herself a geek and is also the author of the Nautilus award winning and international bestselling book, What Would a Wise Woman Do? Questions to Ask Along the Way.
When not on the air or helping clients, Laura is a full-time caregiver to her awesome mom and can often be found driving her convertible or hanging on the beach. Reach out to her at Laura@LauraSteward.com
Are you a caregiver? Feeling burned out? Feeling guilty that you feel burned out? Want to do the best by the person you are caring for but don't know where to get the support you need or even know the questions to ask or who to ask?
In this episode I talk with Karen Deigl about how to shift your thinking, reduce your stress and find the support your need for yourself and the ones you love and care for.
Karen Rose Deigl is the President and CEO of the Senior Resource Association. A non-profit organization providing activities, education and services benefiting seniors in Indian River County. Ms. Deigl holds a B.S. in Health Administration from FAU and an M.S. in Health Administration from the University of Florida. In 2014 Karen received the Civic Professional Woman of the Year award from the Junior League of Indian River County.
Karen is devoted to enhancing the quality of life and well-being of community residents through her work with SRA and her volunteer contributions with muliple organizations both at state and local levels.
Laura Steward interviews Bob Burg discussing the questions he asks and all about applying the international bestselling sensation The Go-Giver to your life and business.
There are people you meet in your life, books you read and words you hear that permanently affect how you look at the world, the course of your life and your work. Such a person for me is Bob Burg. When I first read The Go-Giver, jointly written with the other amazing man, John David Mann, I had one of the biggest "ahas" of my life as I realized I was not alone in the world with how I viewed the world and it was OK to be fully me. Then I met Bob and we became friends and I learned that he walks the talk and is one of the finest people I have ever met.
What I've learned from Bob are these things, be true to yourself, when you live your passion the money will come and most of all that you can systematically get the results you want from others while making them feel genuinely good about themselves, about the process and about you. And oh yeah, not everyone will like you and that's okay too.
Bob Burg is a sought-after speaker at corporate conferences and for entrepreneurial events. He regularly addresses audiences ranging in size from 50 to 16,000 - sharing the platform with notables including today's top thought leaders, broadcast personalities, Olympic athletes and political leaders including a former United States President.
Although for years he was best known for his book Endless Referrals, over the past few years it's his business parable, The Go-Giver (coauthored with John David Mann) that has captured the heart and imagination of his readers.
It shot to #6 on The Wall Street Journal's Business Bestsellers list just three weeks after its release and reached #9 on BusinessWeek's. It's been translated into 21 languages, and it's his fourth book to sell over 250,000 copies.
He believes his new book, Adversaries into Allies: Win People Over Without Manipulation or Coercion is by far his most important work yet.
Bob is an advocate, supporter and defender of the Free Enterprise system, believing that the amount of money one makes is directly proportional to how many people they serve. He is also an unapologetic animal fanatic and serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Furry Friends Adoption and Clinic in Jupiter, Florida.
Want to write a book? Written one but no one is buying? My guest is an expert on all facets of publishing and is sharing how you can get published, sell books and monetize your words. No matter where you are at in the authoring process, listen to this show and learn from an experienced veteran of hte publishing industry.
Linda Stirling has worked with hundreds of writers, helping many achieve their dreams. Using strategies she's refined, she help author Lorena Angell take her series from 6 sales per day to 60 and establish sales in 40 countries. Linda also got Lorena’s book optioned for film and television. She’s taken many other authors to bestsellerdom within weeks, even days of publishing.
She has taught creative writing since 1988 and has been a writer and editor for forty years. She knows writing and publishing inside out, as she co-owned a publishing company and was Executive Editor for another publishing house. Recently, she began accepting work for her new publishing house, Circle of Light Books, which she says “embraces a new paradigm in publishing." Because she accepts very few works, she teaches writers how they can either find a traditional publisher or self-publish. It's a great joy for her to teach others all about getting published, how to self-publish, and how to make money as a writer. Her latest program, Evergreen Book Machine, is open to all writers and contains the information Linda uses to get her authors to rank on the charts. You can find Evergreen Book Machine at www.ThePublishingAuthority.com.
She often tells her students, "It doesn't matter how well you write if no one can find your books." Much of what she teaches writers includes marketing and publicity tactics that all writers need to have in their toolbox.
From the darkest place of her life, where everything looked great on the outside yet she wanted to commit and had actually planned her suicide, Dina Proctor transformed her life into one of peace and abundance.
How did she do it and most of all HOW CAN YOU transform your own life? No you don’t have to be ready to commit suicide but you do have to be willing to shift your perceptions of what you can and cannot do.
The thoughts and beliefs we hold create the physical world around us, not the other way around. Learn the method she used to heal her life and get access to some free resources she has for you as we explore 3x3 meditations and how you can stop Madly Chasing Peace and find your own.
Dina Proctor is a life and business coach, inspirational speaker, and best-selling author of Madly Chasing Peace: How I Went From Hell to Happy in Nine Minutes a Day. After hitting emotional rock-bottom, she -quite unintentionally!- created a process called 3x3 Meditation (3 minutes, 3 times a day) that enabled her to transform every aspect of her life. From weight loss and banishing addictive cravings to reconstructing relationships, this simple and yet incredibly effective method has gained the support of Jack Canfield and Dr. Bruce Lipton, and is now helping thousands of others around the world improve their lives.
Do you have a dream to write a book? Written one and have a basement full of books? Hit #1 yet making no money? Today's guest has literally written the book on publishing success, and a few more, and has advised and launched numerous successful authors.
He will share the catch-22 of publishing, how to improve your craft as a writer and how to actually make money as an author! Plus we talk about faith and his latest book about Billy Graham.
W. Terry Whalin understands both sides of the editorial desk--as an editor and a writer. He worked as a magazine editor and his magazine work has appeared in more than 50 publications. A former book acquisitions editor for several publishers and a former literary agent, Terry is an acquisitions editor at Morgan James Publishing.
He has written more than 60 books through traditional publishers in a wide range of topics from children's books to biographies to co-authored books. Over 15 years ago, in eleven days, Terry wrote a diet book called First Place by Carole Lewis which has sold over 100,000 copies.
Terry is known as a book proposal expert and has written a bestselling book, BOOK PROPOSALS THAT SELL 21 SECRETS TO SPEED YOUR SUCCESS which has over 125 Five Star Amazon reviews. Now he has updated his teaching to include fiction and nonfiction plus created a step-by-step online membership course called Write A Book Proposal.
His latest book is JUMPSTART YOUR PUBLISHING DREAMS, INSIDER SECRETS TO SKYROCKET YOUR SUCCESS. He is a popular speaker and teacher at numerous writers' conferences and an active member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Terry and his wife, Christine, live near Denver,Colorado.
What is self-esteem? How important is it and where does it come from? Can you get it if you don't have it? Can you bounce back or better yet not be impacted when failures happen or others put you down? Does self-esteem really determine your happiness level?
I've pondered these questions off and on for years yet it wasn't until I met Patricia Noll that I learned of a different kind of self-esteem that drives more people than the traditional form of self-esteem. This other form of self-esteem can be more destructive than any other and more difficult to recognize.
On this episode of It's All About the Questions, I am asking questions of Patricia Noll, author of the bestselling book, Good With Me, A Simple Approach to Real Happiness from the Inside Out.
Patricia will share insights on real long-lasting happiness and five tips tips to building and keeping your esteem.
Patricia specializes in empowering people to experience long-lasting real happiness from the inside out by teaching them how to feel good about themselves just because and to stop defining their value by what they have done or not done and what they have or don’t have.
Patricia Noll is the Founder and Executive Director of Focus One, Inc., an Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment Program, which has been licensed by the State of Florida since September, 1989. For over 25 years as a lecturer and group facilitator, Patricia has conducted over 5000 group lectures on how to feel good and overcome addictive behaviors.
She has a Master of Arts in Mental Health Counseling and a degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Along with the Good With Me Book and related community, she is the author of the Focus One Treatment Manual and Workbook which has been endorsed by internationally renowned authors and lecturers Deepak Chopra, Larry Dossey, Jack Kornfield, and Jacquelyn Small among others.
Here's what Deepak Chopra has to say about Patricia's program: "Focus One offers practical and sensible guidelines for those who seek freedom from all types of addictions."
As a televised industry self-esteem expert, Patricia Noll specializes in empowering people to experience long-lasting real happiness from the inside out by teaching them how to feel good about themselves just because and to stop defining their value by what they have done or not done and what they have or don't have. Her mission and passion is to make a contribution to society by making a difference in the way people see themselves; especially those who have given up on life.
High performance seems to me to be the buzz phrase of the day yet when you ask someone to define it they can't really put the finger on what makes one person a high-performer over another. My guest today has identified the traits and skills that are needed to become -performance driven thinkers which leads to becoming high-performers in all aspects of your life. Knowing Bobby Kipper personally, I can honestly say he demonstrates all of the traits he speaks about in his daily personal and business life. If you want to learn how to become a Performance driven thinker or strengthen the traits you already have, listen to this show.
Bobby Kipper
Bobby Kipper is a best-selling author, speaker, and coach and the co-founder of Performance Driven Thinking™. He has spent over thirty years providing leadership development, training, and coaching to both the government and private sectors. Bobby believes that we were “born to perform” and his motivational style of speaking and coaching has taken thousands to their best performance to date. In addition, Bobby is the Director of the National Center for the Prevention of Community Violence and is passionate about the quality of life and human rights issues for all Americans. His programs to prevent and reduce violence have been featured by the White House, Congress, and thirty-five states across America.
The inaugural episode of the broadcast radio show, It's All About the Questions. Live every Tuesday on WAXE 107.9 and iHeart Radio and replay available on iTunes every week.
Learn how the right questions can change your life and the questions you can always ask to get you on the right track.
Answers don't matter if you are asking the wrong questions. Sometimes you are asking the right questions but to the wrong people. Each week this show will introduce you to leaders in their fields who will share new questions you can ask yourself and others to get you off autopilot, out of your rut and onto a path that will take you where you want to go. You just have to be willing to ask the right questions. With guests like, Bob Burg, Patricia Noll, Marlene Chism, Debra Lewis, Bobby Kipper, Dina Proctor, Karen Deigle, Terry Whalin, Cheryl Liew Chng and many more keep your notebook handy!
Laura Steward is an award winning and international bestselling author of What Would a Wise Woman Do? which was on Amazon's bestseller list for 90 weeks. She is an international speaker, business strategist, full-time caregiver and owned and sold a multi-state technology services company. She considers herself a geek and loves nothing better than showing people how the right questions can change their lives and if she can do it from a beach setting, even better!