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August 16, 2016
068: AmondaRose Igoe – Public Speaking Secrets Revealed
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.
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August 15, 2016
067 – Leisa Peterson – Forgiving Money Leads to Wealth
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
August 10, 2016
066 – Lisa Cumming – Lead Through Strengths
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 Lisa 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!
July 28, 2016
065: Linda Ryan – The Law of Attraction Simplified
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
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July 23, 2016
064: Questioning Decisiveness – Denver Beaulieu-Hains
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.
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July 12, 2016
063: Can Music Heal the Mind? – Moreen Burkart
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.
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July 9, 2016
060: Decisive Women – Dr. Nancy Fox
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
July 8, 2016
062: Bob Burg – 5 Keys to Legendary Leadership
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.
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June 29, 2016
061: Emotional Mastery – Dr. Joan Rosenberg
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.
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June 14, 2016
059: Making Cancer Gorgeous – Kim Becker
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 and restoring the beauty in women that cancer steals.
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
