In Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits book, one of his first lessons is the Golden Goose.
It is an illustration of two concepts — production and production capacity.
Covey uses the Golden Goose analogy to illustrate the balance that we need to strike between our ability to produce and the production itself.
In short, don’t kill yourself. Don’t injure your ability to produce by burning yourself out.
At the start of the year, I knew I had to make several changes to my non-work life, and this podcast tells you:
What I tried
How it is working for me in the first 4 months of the year.
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After a very difficult period in her life, Laura Diehl woke in the middle of the night, her head filled with the title for a book and pages upon pages of notes.
Only a short time later this late-night epiphany has grown to several published books, a series of conferences, and her first-ever virtual summit.
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Hope and Healing Virtual Summit for Grieving Parents (You should click through to see how many people Laura recruited for this event. The number really is impressive!
Laura saw an increase of about 200 subscribers from running her virtual summit
Solidifying Your Expertise
Become even more of an expert in the eyes of other experts in your field, b) your prospects.
Other experts in your field
Your prospects
What Is Working Right Now
I noticed that the blog posts in Laura’s blog often have what I’m calling a “Double Call-to-Action” where she has an after-post opt-in form above a second call to action for her speaking skills.
Laura says, “That [after-post opt-in form] has been our most consistent way of adding to our email list…”
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Welcome to my brand new podcast specifically devoted to helping authors and public speakers harness the power of content marketing.
I have packed this inaugural episode full of content that you can use to build your business right away.
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Show Notes
In this inaugural episode you will hear:
What you can expect from this podcast as a listener.
A case study on list building using SMS/Text which is working right now.
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If you have had a life experience that you think people could benefit from hearing, then this episode is for you. Today I am joined by Cortney Donelson, author of Clay Jar Cracked.
In the midst of a life experience, Cortney realized that she had a message to share.
She has built her experience into the perfect trifecta which includes:
A Book which currently has over 20 5-Star reviews on Amazon
Speaking Engagements
Retreats and Workshops
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Introducing Cortney Donelson
Cortney believes the content for her writing only came to fruition after experiencing one of the greatest tragedy-turned-love-stories ever told.
Her first book, which will be released by Morgan James publishing on March 7, 2017 called Clay Jar, Cracked, and her devotional blog, “As a Clay Jar,” are the products of her passions, faith, heart to encourage others, and God’s provision.
Cortney lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with her courageous husband and her two extraordinary children. She works for International Mission Foundation.
Show Notes
3:49 – Interview with Cortney Donelson
27:53 – Post Game Analysis
31:00 – Overview of Cortney’s Product Offering
33:35 – Three Steps You Can Take to Get Traction with Your Message
35:29 – Four Part Framework for How to Grow Your Bravery
[shareable]Your Bravery is like a muscle. It grows the more you use it.[/shareable]
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Will selling your products and services at a deep discount work for you?
In today’s podcast episode I tell you all the numbers behind my most recent flash sale where I sold done-for-you email marketing services for an insanely low price.
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Show Notes
In this episode you will hear:
How many people purchased my services through my flash sale.
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I had the pleasure of interviewing Sebastien Richard for the launch of his new book, Lead Like a Superhero. It is rare to have such a candid conversation with someone who is growing a platform.
What I liked most about our talk is that we reached beyond the usual surface conversation and tilled deep into what it is really like to transition from J-O-B to being a thoughtleader.
Interview Flow
2:00 Interview Starts
14:18 Lead Like a Superhero Sebastien’s New Book
28:00 Wrap Up Comments with Sebastien
32:17 Post-Interview Highlights and Takeaways
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What is Working?
Booking Public Speaking Gigs – Attending the local chamber of commerce, Rotary meetings, Lions club. Grow connections from there. Often people come up afterwords and ask to continue the relationship.
Facebook Live – “I love to teach and get connected to people there,” says Sebastien. People DO reach out via FB Messenger. Prefers to keep messages around 5 minutes, but finds that the messages tend to be 10-15 minutes. He runs these sessions twice a week.
Email Marketing – building through having a sign up form on webite, book site, and FB page.
There is no short path. It takes work. There is no magic FB ad campaign that is going to catapult your business to a million dollars per year.
Branding is an iterative process. Finding your voice takes time, and your brand will change as you find an audience that resonates with your message.
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After a skiing accident took Karen’s hearing at age 19, she left the sport and thought her skiing days were behind her.
What Karen didn’t expect was to have those skiing passions reawakened more than 20 years later. The process of transformation (I won’t steal the story, so you’ll have to download her free book to get the inside scoop) took Karen to levels of personal performance that she had never known.
Today, Karen shares these discoveries and more as a Passion Mentor, and she has built a very successful public speaking practice around her message.
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[shareable cite=”Karen Putz”]No just means Not now. [/shareable]
What Is Working Right Now
Giving away a free download of her book. She’s given away thousands of copies of her book over the years. Karen is a BIG believer in providing value first as this leads to additional work like coaching sessions and speaking engagements.
Network. Start where you are. Speak anywhere you can get the chance. It often leads to more work.
Find a successful speaker and take that person to lunch.
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Cynthia Mazzaferro is a Motivational Speaker, #1 Amazon Best-Selling Author, Energy and Intuitive Healer, Reiki Master, and Powerful Beyond Measure Life Coach.
She is a retired Physical Therapist of over 30 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.
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Show Notes
1:22 – Interview with Cynthia
25:54 – Cindy’s Offer to Listeners
28:13 – Post Game Analysis
[shareable]You are Powerful Beyond Measure[/shareable]
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Almost every person I know needed to pick himself or herself up by the bootstraps at one point. Stuff happens — it is a fact of life.
Sean Douglas, a certified Master Resilience Trainer with the US Air Force, is creating a business from teaching others how to “withstand, recover, and grow through the face of adversity”.
On today’s show, Sean is kind enough to impart some of his wisdom AND gives us a few business-building tips along the way.
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[shareable cite=”Sean Douglas”]Everything that we are going through right now is preparing us for where we are going to go.[/shareable]
Show Notes
2:40 – What is Resilience?
5:00 – How did you become a resilience trainer?
7:52 – An 11-point Framework for Resilience
13:46 – Overview of Sean’s Consulting Practice
19:55 – How Do You find Clients for Your Consulting Practice?
24:50 – Intro of Sean’s Book
29:43 – How Sean finds and books Public Speaking Engagements
[shareable cite=”Sean Douglas”]If you want to do something — anything — just ask people who are already doing it.[/shareable]
We have a great episode today with the talented and amazing Isabel Hundt.
Isabel Hundt is the author of The Power of Faith-Driven Success and a certified Vision & Transformation Coach, international speaker, World-Visionary, Empath-Warrior™ and ambassador of Global Presence Leadership.
Over the past several years Isabel has developed a successful business by traveling all over to share her enlightening message of tuning in to our true selves.
Her passion is to help young adults create, live and transform their lives by understanding the scientific and spiritual connections between their heart and brain, and by discovering their unique and magical gifts hidden within.
She also teaches how to use our emotions and intuition as a powerful guide in business and life. Isabel has especially a heart for the Empaths in the world of entrepreneurs.
We begin the episode with a short discussion of the array of products that Isabel has grown to capitalize on her unique gift.
We talk about how Isabel got started, how she found traction, and how she found her audience.
She explains how one “ah-ha” moment came when talking with one of her friends.
Isabel then shares her deepest insights on knowing and trusting what our internal voice is telling us to create.
[shareable]It is really important to trust yourself so you can create your business in the service of the greater good. @IsabelKHundt[/shareable]
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