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July 17, 2019
Making your side job your main job – Tommy Griffith
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
July 14, 2019
The Business of Business and Publishing – Peter Hoppenfeld
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
June 30, 2019
Think Opposite – Alison Donaghey
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
June 8, 2019
Living a Creative Life – Alan Shapiro
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 life is: Happiness.
Contact info: alanshapirophotography.com or alanshapiro@me.com
June 5, 2019
Making Money online – Really
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. He is the founder of the world famous, seriously world, BC Stack. 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 Walgreen’s 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. https://bloggingconcentrated.com/bcst...
May 30, 2019
Cannabis Business
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.
May 14, 2019
Functional Medicine at Home
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
May 11, 2019
How to be rich
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.
May 2, 2019
Finding Joy
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.
April 22, 2019
Keto Green Dr Anna Cabeca
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.
