An entrepreneur can learn a lot from people who consistently earn high six and seven figures. From the way they think to the way they make decisions, if a business owner wants to increase their revenues pay attention to the people who do it naturally.
In episode 64 of Amplify Your Success Podcast, I’ll cover the seven most common thought processes that high earners share – and how they are different than people who consistently struggle with money and success.
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It’s tempting to try to get more done by doing too many things at once. Whether you call it multi-tasking, switch tasking or being a superhero high-achieving entrepreneur, there is a downside that can negatively impact your life and your business.
In episode 63 of Amplify Your Success Podcast, I’ll cover five of the most common costs of multi-tasking, as well as three simple ways to level up your productivity game.
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As a creative entrepreneur or new small business owner, there is a lot to learn about trademarking and copyrighting your brand, which makes it easy to skip over! But a business without the proper legal protection leaves itself open to getting their ideas swiped.
There is not a day that goes by I don’t see a Facebook post from a fellow influential business leader who found someone copying their signature program or has stolen their trademark sales copy. A hard-learned lesson for many business owners: just because you created it doesn’t mean it’s protected!
My friend Deborah Sweeney, CEO of MyCorporation.com, one of the top two online legal resources, joins me on episode 62 of Amplify Your Success Podcast to share what every entrepreneur should do now to protect their intellectual property and brand – before it gets costly!
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About The Guest
Deborah Sweeney is the CEO and owner of MyCorporation.com. She acquired the company out of Intuit in 2009 after she ran the division under Intuit. The company continues to thrive and grow. Deborah is a former law firm partner who practiced corporate and intellectual property law after graduating with a JD/MBA from Pepperdine University. She has 2 teen boys and an entrepreneurial husband, all 3 of whom love to play soccer and listen to great podcasts!
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www.mycorporation.com
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When you are ready to grow your business, you’ll want to hire a super star employee or virtual assistant to delegate to. But far too often an entrepreneur skips a good hiring process and ends up disappointed with their team. But if you understand the four primary information processing styles, you’ll have a secret weapon to hiring the right people the first time.
In episode 61 of Amplify Your Success Podcast, I’ll share one of my most valuable business coaching tools that provides instant clarity and a valuable hiring tactic for my clients.
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Whether you are a small business owner or a business leader, influence is important if you want others to follow you. Influence is the art of inspiring others to think or act in a certain way.
As you follow any “guru” or online celebrity on Youtube or Facebook and you’ll recognize a certain charisma and character that attracts people to their work. But influence is way more than character alone – there are certain traits that a business leader needs to cultivate to be more influential. In episode 60 of Amplify Your Success Podcast, I’ll guide you through the 6 most important ways to boost your influence so you stand out in your industry.
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Imagine having Whole Foods or Staples sponsor your next event. Or what if Apple became a sponsor for your podcast?
Collaborative sponsorships are an untapped revenue source for entrepreneurs and my friend Charmaine Hammond of Raise a Dream joins me on episode 59 of Amplify Your Success Podcast to share how you can align with highly visible companies who would like access to your followers and clients.
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About the Guest:
Charmaine Hammond has been in the business of changing lives for more than 25 years. This former Correctional Officer (yup! She worked in jails) and Corporate Dispute Resolution Expert now travels the world teaching the principles of communication, sponsorship, and collaboration.
As a bestselling author (of 5 books & featured in 6 others) and professional speaker she has had tremendous success in finding corporate sponsors to fund her printing, graphic design, venues, travel, media, technology, hotels, even her pet food and dog poop bags! She has developed sponsorship relationships with more than 40 sponsors and 60 business partners.
Her recent speaking and book tour, Million Acts of Kindness, involved a 14,000 KM tour across North America in a 32 foot sponsored motor home, hotels sponsored for the team, and more than 40 businesses and retail chains raising funds in their stores/businesses to support this movement….. A Million Acts of Kindness. Her company is called Raise A Dream.
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A lifestyle business is designed for time freedom. Many entrepreneurs create a time-sucking J.O.B. and never have the space to enjoy the money they work so hard to make. When you design a lifestyle business, you’ll create a cash machine designed to free you up to do what you love most.
Whether you are just getting started or are ready to take time away from your business, you’ll find valuable insights in this episode to gain control of your time again.
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A bold vision for your small business keeps your inspiring high and can be the answer to feeling stuck or losing track of your priorities. But sometimes that vision eludes an entrepreneur and they end up chasing bright shiny objects or getting energetically stuck and lose momentum.
In Amplify Your Success Podcast episode 57, let’s inspire a bold vision that gets you fired up and focused in a way you didn’t know you had in you. Having a bold vision might feel a little scary but it’s like fuel for a business owner’s rocket boosters.
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Getting booked on stages and for radio interviews is a key strategy for anyone who wants to share their message to more people.
Whether you are an entrepreneur or small business owner who wants to increase sales or an author or change-maker who wants to inspire more people through your own story, you’ll want to listen in to my guest Jackie Lapin.
In episode 56 of Amplify Your Success Podcast, Jackie details out for you some important steps to take in order to get more speaking engagements, and how to make yourself more attractive to event producers and radio show hosts.
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About the Guest
Jackie Lapin is a leader in helping transformational leaders, authors, coaches, 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. Her clients have included Don Miguel Ruiz, Dr. Joe Vitale, James Twyman, Denise Linn, Arielle Ford, Hay House and more.
The success of her companies has been built on her detail-oriented, comprehensive proprietary one-of-a-kind data-driven lists—the information from which she is now sharing with the world! Her most recent offering is SpeakerTunity™, the twice monthly transformational speaker leads tip sheet, providing speakers with the direct contacts to book themselves on stages across North America. (www.Speakertunity.com) The newest additions to the SpeakerTunity™ family are SpeakerTunity Radio Insider™, with leads to book transformational radio shows; and SpeakerTunity Summits™, where you can submit yourself to Virtual Summit hosts.
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackielapin
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The year 2017 was definitely a challenging year for so many people I know – me included. In addition to getting re-married, I took on a lot of new projects and started to stretch my wings into the new brand for my business. A lot of 2017 was very frustrating, disappointing and challenging as I navigating a lot of new territory!
In Amplify Your Success Podcast episode 55, I share some of my own journey as a business leader over the last 12 months – some of which brings up regret, shame and feeling quite vulnerable. I thought I’d share it with you in the hope of inspiring your own authentic capturing of the lessons and learnings that can shape your success.
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Just because an entrepreneur is making money in their business doesn’t mean that the business owner has healthy finance habits. I’ve witnessed many seven figure business owners go belly-up almost overnight – just because they didn’t have their finances in order.
In Amplify Your Success Podcast episode 54 I’m covering 4 ways to get your finances in order, no matter how much you are making right now. When you master these 4 financial steps, you’ll be able to create personal wealth and grow your business faster, as well as tackle some of your “make a difference” goals of giving back.
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When you have a shortage of time and energy to get it all done, and traditional time management techniques just aren’t enough, then try one of these sure-fire strategies to get more done faster.
Abraham Lincoln famously said, "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” Inside episode 53 of Amplify Your Success podcast, let’s tackle six ways to sharpen your axe so you can win faster, accomplish more of your big goals and save money and time along the way.
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The fitness industry is well known for using shame to get you in line and buy their products. In episode 52 of Amplify Your Success Podcast, my friend and guest JJ Flizanes shares how she is determined to eliminate body shame as a motivator for increasing your health and achieving your physical goals.
“We are all on a journey,” says JJ and knowing that on anytime we change our outcomes, is key to increasing energy, focus and stamina. I love the conversation we had about aging gracefully as well as how our physical wellbeing affects our confidence.
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About the Guest:
JJ Flizanes is an Empowerment Strategist and the host of several podcast shows including Fit 2 Love and Spirit, Purpose & Energy. She is the Director of Invisible Fitness, an Amazon best-selling author of Fit 2 Love: How to Get Physically, Emotionally, and Spiritually Fit to Attract the Love of Your Life, and author of Knack Absolute Abs: Routines for a Fit and Firm Core.
She was named Best Personal Trainer in Los Angeles for 2007 by Elite Traveler Magazine. JJ has been featured in many national magazines, including Shape, Fitness, Muscle and Fitness HERS, Elegant Bride, and Women’s Health as well as appeared on NBC, CBS, Fox 11 and KTLA. Her newest book, The Invisible Fitness Formula: 5 Secrets to Release Weight and End Body Shame debuted at #2 on the Amazon Best Seller List for Women’s Health and #2 as a Hot New Release on May 18th 2017.
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Everyone’s got one. A story that is. But are you leveraging it to land that coveted media opportunity? Crafting and telling your story is a key strategy to gain media exposure. In episode 51 of Amplify Your Success Podcast, my friend Tanya Targett joins me to talk about the power of a story, not just to potential publicity, but also to positioning yourself as an influencer and authority in your field.
As a former journalist, Tanya’s job depending on her ability to uncover unique stories and now she helps people find the story from their life’s journey that can help them stand out and be seen.
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About the Guest:
Tanya Targett is a journalist, international speaker and creator of the Winning Publicity Formula®.
A multi-published, award-winning daily news journalist and former investigative reporter, Tanya has a proven system that she and her “Media Darling” students have used to secure more than $7.4 million in free publicity over the past two years.
Yes, she’s a media expert and an experienced journalist, but more so Tanya is an entrepreneur who has known adversity, fought it, “lost to it”, and then come back. Swapping the newsroom for retail, Tanya lost her first six-figure business to an inland tsunami which killed 38 people in Queensland, Australia, in 2011.
Having secured national and international media for that business – an online retail store and party plan venture which reached the top 100 of its kind – entrepreneurs were quick to ask Tanya for her secrets, and begged her to teach them how she did it, leading her to build another six-figure business in under 6 months
That training platform – re-branded as the Winning Publicity Formula® – has helped countless business owners become Media Darlings™… monopolising, monetising and leveraging free media and publicity.
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When something in your business doesn’t work the way you had hoped, do you see it as a learning or fall into a spiral of negativity? Learning to fail gracefully can be the key to accelerating success. If you fail faster and give yourself permission to fail, you’ll achieve more of your bold goals.
In episode 50 of Amplify Your Success Podcast, I talk about how adapting a new mindset around failure can be a profit amplifier, helping you make better decisions and keep fear at bay. Plus, I’ve got four pointers on how to get the learnings out of any failed attempt at business growth.
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High-achievers, driven entrepreneurs and thought leaders who are excited to scale their business all struggle with the gap: the space between where you are today and where you want to be. But when you focus on the gap, you can end up feeling frustrated, disappointed and lose your confidence to keep growing your small business. Back in 2010 I learned an important lesson around money, gratitude and the power of my focus. Call it a miracle, I found that by focusing on what is working in my business instead of the challenges and problems helped me activate more joy – and more cash flow.
In episode 49 of Amplify Your Success Podcast, I’ll guide you through a 4 step gratitude practice to help you amplify your financial abundance. By creating a daily ritual of gratitude, you’ll be able to banish the “success is so slow” blues and upgrade your mindset for more prosperity and happiness.
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Entrepreneurs often struggle to create consistent cash flow in their small business. But often it’s not just bringing in more sales that makes the biggest difference, but rather how smart you are with the money you make.
In episode 48 of Amplify Your Success Podcast, my friend Justin Krane, author of Money. You Got This., shares how to move beyond your fears about cash flow, taking big risks and getting smart with your money – so you have more of it.
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About the Guest:
Justin Krane, a frequent guest on MSNBC, is a money strategist for business owners. He helps you understand the money side of your business
Justin isn’t about cutting back and living a frugal life. Justin is all about getting the shoes, doing sushi, and living the best life today – and saving for the future.
Justin is the author of the book: Money. You Got This. He shares his every day crazy funny life stories – and gives you a money lesson.
Justin is also a Certified Financial Planner professional.
He has been featured in CBS, Fox Business News, and MSNBC.
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What’s the most frustrating thing for an entrepreneur? Well, besides a lack of cash flow, it’s running out of time! Time is a small business owner’s greatest commodity and yet it’s often what they have the least amount of. From well-meaning team members who have “just a quick question” to a lack of good time boundaries, it’s easy to end up with a 10 page to-do list at the end of your day.
Time to get control of those time bandits so you can really start moving the needle forward my friend. After listening to episode 47 of Amplify Your Success Podcast you’ll know exactly what’s keeping you from getting more done – and how to use my three favorite time management techniques for massive productivity!
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How many times have you let a lack of funds in your bank account dictate what opportunity you pursue? As entrepreneurs, there will always be opportunities, but we won’t always have the cash flow in hand. Early on in my business I learned how powerful I can be around money – by simply being strategic in how I invest in each opportunity. From hiring the right support team, to investing in my mentors to making big growth leaps in my small business, knowing how to afford what you need is a game-changer.
In episode 46 of Amplify Your Success Podcast I’ll walk you through what I learned so that you too can strategically generate the income you need to afford your business growth.
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If you are host a podcast, Facebook Live or produce regular content for your blog, it can be challenging to get more views. Don’t just “one and done” your stellar marketing pieces! That’s leaving money on the table. Start content spinning so you can create massive buzz around your brand.
In episode 45 of Amplify Your Success Podcast, I’m On Air Coaching my Platinum client, Chrystal Clifton. I take her through my Content Spinning process to show her how to get more exposure through all the social media channels and drive more traffic to her weekly show. Plus, this is the ultimate leverage marketing strategy – you’ll learn how to create content once and distribute relevant content chunks across all your platforms so you don’t have to keep creating original content.
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Your comfort zone is a space of mental security. Think of it like a “default zone” where habits, actions and thinking fit a routine and pattern that minimizes stress and risk. This space keeps you safe, reduces anxiety and keeps your stress low because you aren’t doing anything new or risky. The funny thing about comfort zones though is that space will not deliver new results. So if you want to create a level of success you’ve never experienced before you’ll need to break free of your comfortable patterns and do some “stretchy” things.
Push yourself too far though and you’ll experience so much fear and overwhelm that you’ll slide right back into your comfort zone. So the key is to find what is called, “Optimal Tension.” Creating just enough tension that your old patterns are removed and not too much tension that the fear catapults you back into safety. In episode 44 of Amplify Your Success Podcast discover how to step into that Optimal Tension required to achieve new levels of success.
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In can take thousands of dollars and a lot of years to build up a strong pool of prospects – or an entrepreneur can align with joint venture partners who promote you to their already loyal list of subscribers.
Joint venture marketing is a fast and profitable way to build your own list of subscribers, as well as increase quality leads for your offers quickly. But there’s a trick to developing good affiliate partners and I tackle it in episode 43 of Amplify Your Success Podcast.
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As a business owner, marketing is an important part of your ability to generate leads and gain clients. But not all marketing activity is going to get good results – and often the marketing efforts that got you where you are today are not going be the marketing strategies that generate massive, exponential growth.
In episode 42 of Amplify Your Success Podcast, I’m joined by marketing genius Dan Kuschell who shares his story of overcoming a stressful burnout phase only to come out on the other side with one of the most sought-after marketing successes in the expert industry.
About the Expert:
Dan Kuschell is a husband, dad, serial entrepreneur and angel-investor and helps entrepreneurs have a bigger impact, reach, and contribution.
He has built 11+ companies, since 1992 and after selling 2 of his companies following a health scare, Dan now spends his time working with fun projects -- including helping drive sales and growth as a Strategic Growth Partner with clients like Joe Polish, Genius Network, and more.
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There are five pretty common mistakes that fast-paced entrepreneurs make when they are hiring, training and leading their teams. Each of them alone can results in costly mis-hires and disappointing results when delegating. But if a business leader is making all five, they might give up on the most important growth strategy – building a dream team.
In Episode 41 of Amplify Your Success Podcast I’m covering these widespread mistakes so that you can recognize them – and hopefully avoid making them too.
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Most entrepreneurs seek out a business partnership hoping for the “holy grail” – finding someone who will do the things you don’t like to do without having to pay for a team. Before you say yes to a business partnership, there are some things you need to do in order to have a thriving relationship with your partner.
If you’ve been searching for a business partner, or are considering a joint venture to create a new offering, listen and take good notes to Episode 40 of Amplify Your Success Podcast.
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