Imagine having a secret weapon to speed up learning and integrating new information – you’d be a high productivity entrepreneur.

Jonathon Levi spent the first part of his life struggling with learning challenges and feeling so different than everyone else. He set his sights on finding a way to transform his learning challenges so he could “keep up.”

Now Jonathon runs a multi-million dollar company teaching others his superhuman techniques to accelerate learning, read faster and improve decision making – and he reveals them all in episode 146 of Amplify Your Success Podcast.

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Key Takeaways

• Why learning is “the only skill that matters” - and how it transformed Jonathan’s life.
• The strategies to learning anything faster, including Speed Reading, Memory Improvement, Pre-Reading, and preparation that anyone can use to dramatically improve their lives.
• How everyday people can do superhuman memory tasks
• Personal productivity strategies for getting more done in less time
• How Jonathan used accelerated learning to build an information products empire with 250,000 customers

If one of your goals is to have a best-selling book on the shelves of Barnes & Noble and Amazon, then you’ll need a book proposal.

But not just ANY book proposal, you want to write one that gets the attention of big-name agents and publishers, that positions you for a 5 – 6 figure book deal!

Writing a book proposal is VERY different than writing you book, and there is a secret to writing it so that it doesn’t end up in the round file (aka the trash.) I’ve asked the award winning Lisa Tener to share her strategy to writing an excellent book proposal  on episode 145 of Amplify Your Success Podcast.

Be sure to join the conversation in the Amplify Your Success Community and share your input there too.

Key Takeaways

• Why you must write a knock-out book proposal if you want to get a top agent or book publisher.
• The tip 3 mistakes authors make in writing a book proposal that will literally get your proposal buried at the bottom.
• How to get a head-start on wowing your potential publisher by building up an engaged social media platform
• The most important book proposal sections to write to land a 5 – 6 figure book deal
• Lisa’s best way to get into an inspired state to write.
• The answer to the most asked book proposal question – should I write the book or the proposal first (and you’ll love the answer.)

About The Guest

An authority on book writing and publishing, and winner of the Silver Stevie Award for Coach/Mentor of the Year, Lisa Tener guides experts, entrepreneurs and visionaries to joyfully write and publish their books. Lisa has been quoted in The New York Times, featured on ABC News and more. She blogs for The Business Journals and Thrive Global, serves on the faculty of Harvard Medical School’s publishing course, and teaches Award Winning Book Writing Courses.

Lisa Tener's clients have received 5- and 6-figure book deals from a variety of publishers (from Random House, Harper Collins and Hachette, to niche and university publishers). Her clients' books have been featured by Oprah, NPR, Today, Good Morning America and all over national media, including the New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Women's Health, Forbes and much more.

Do you ever wish you could be more creative? Or solve problems outside of your normal “box”?

There are some productivity secrets we can learn from highly creative people – they actually see things very differently than people who lead with logic or focus on results.

My friend Samantha Bennett is highly creative – she’ll be working on writing a book and bang out a play script faster than I can write a blog post (well, almost.)

So I asked this two-time best selling author to share how to use some of the creative tips that come so naturally to highly creative people on this on episode 144 of Amplify Your Success Podcast.

Be sure to join the conversation in the Amplify Your Success Community and share your input there too.

Key Takeaways

• What unique traits and behaviors makes a person "highly creative."
• How logic-driven and results-oriented people can boost their creative process.
• The simple approach used by creatives to solve big problems and get unstuck.
• How to recognize and avoid the major pitfalls of being highly creative.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• The Procrastination Domination Starter Kit: https://therealsambennett.com/amplify
• Hidden Profit Drains Quiz

About The Guest

Originally from Chicago, Samantha Bennett is a writer, speaker, actor, teacher and creativity/productivity specialist and the author of the bestselling, "Get It Done: From Procrastination to Creative Genius in 15 Minutes a Day" (New World Library) which Seth Godin called, “An instant classic, essential reading for anyone who wants to make a ruckus.” Her latest bestseller is, "Start Right Where You Are: How Little Changes Can Make a Big Difference for Overwhelmed Procrastinators, Frustrated Overachievers and Recovering Perfectionists" (New World Library).

She is the creator of The Organized Artist Company, dedicated to helping creative people get unstuck, helping them to focus and move forward on their goals.

Sam has also written the script for the hit musical, “In a Booth at Chasen’s: The Real Life Hollywood Love Story of Ron and Nancy Reagan” and is working on her latest book, “Secrets of Highly Creative People.”

She is an award-winning marketing expert, having spent 15 years as a Personal Branding Specialist for Sam Christensen Studios and been honored as an Ultimate Marketer Finalist at Infusioncon. She is also an Infusionsoft Certified Consultant and Reseller.

She now lives in a tiny beach town outside of Los Angeles.

You may have heard of the Law of Attraction from the movie, The Secret. But have you figured out how to tap into the expansive Universe of opportunity yet? Or maybe, like millions of people, you meditate, visualize and take action only to still feel a massive gap between you and your goals.

Christy Whitman is one of those massively successful entrepreneurs who has figured out how to make prosperous energy work in her favor. Having created a multiple seven figure business and becoming a leader in the coach training industry with her book, The Art of Having It All, Christy is finally revealing how to tap into the principles of Quantum Success for your business.  And she joins me on episode 143 of Amplify Your Success to explain how it works.

Be sure to join the conversation in the Amplify Your Success Community and share your input there too.

Key Takeaways

• How Quantum Success is different from the Law of Attraction you learned about in The Secret.
• How the process of attraction REALLY works with money, opportunity and building a successful business.
• What the “inside out” approach is to creating a 7-figure business
• How to use the upward spiral of success by tapping into universal forces of alignment and momentum.
• Why you MUST KNOW the distinction between motivated action and inspired action.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Get the book: Quantum Success: 7 Essential Laws for a Thriving, Joyful and Prosperous Relationship with Work and Money
• Hidden Profit Drains Quiz

About The Guest

Christy Whitman is a transformational leader, celebrity coach and the New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Having It All: A Woman’s Guide to Unlimited Abundance. Her new book, being released by Enliven, a division of Simon & Schuster, is called Quantum Success: 7 Essential Laws for a Thriving, Joyful & Prosperous Relationship With Work and Money.

If you want to speak on stages to grow your business, or simply want to get paid to share your message, wouldn’t it be nice to know how to get yourself booked on the best stages?

Sometimes it can be a bit confusing…

Do you need to build relationships with all of the people who run events?

Or, is it just a numbers game and you’ve got to work the “pitch-follow-up” system?

Kerry Heaps is a pro at this – with a background in Pageants and Pageant Judging, Kerry knows her way around paid speaking engagements. And she joins me on episode 142 of Amplify Your Success to take the mystery out of getting paid speaking opportunities!

Be sure to join the conversation in the Amplify Your Success Community and share your input there too.

Key Takeaways

• How to conquer the “work the numbers” game of booking paid speaking gigs.
• What you’ll want to do once you’ve pitched yourself as a speaker so that you stand out from the crowd
• How to create a compelling topic that acts like a magnet for those coveted paid speaking engagements.
• The five things you must have in place prior to seeking speaking engagements (or else you’ll come across unorganized!)
• What’s happening overall in the speaking industry right now – and how it could be affecting you, your business and your bookings.
  
• How to find more paid engagements at no cost (hint: Kerry’s got a resource for you!)

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Join in the Amplify Your Success Community to get first notice of the Fall Own Your Bold Influence Challenge!
• Get a free consult from Kerry’s team com/Submissions
• Kerry’s article on Find Paid Speaking Gigs for Free  https://sheownsit.com/top-5-ways-to-find-paid-speaking-gigs-for-free-by-kerryheaps/
• How to Follow Up on Your Speaking Pitch  https://sheownsit.com/ive-applied-now-what-by-kerryheaps/
• Hidden Profit Drains Quiz