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| 878: Mastering Relationship Dynamics with (Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus) John Gray: Communication, Attraction, and Balance | 12 Jun 2024 | 01:14:41 | |
In this episode of The Solopreneur Hour, we chat with Dr. John Gray, renowned author of 'Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus,' to explore the intricacies of relationship dynamics. We discuss how communication between men and women has evolved over time, particularly with the advent of social media. Dr. Gray explains the biological and hormonal aspects of stress management and its influence on relationships. He provides practical advice for achieving work-life balance, emphasizing the 'cave time' for men and unique strategies for women. The episode delves into maintaining passion and connection through verbal affirmations, non-sexual physical touch, and mutual happiness. It also touches on the role of polarity and hormones in sustaining emotional and sexual intimacy. Additionally, listeners are invited to Dr. Gray's upcoming live event, Mars Venus Relationship Weekend, designed to help individuals and couples build stronger, more fulfilling relationships.
00:00 Welcome and Introduction of Dr. John Gray
01:16 Dr. John Gray's Favorite Cuisine
02:39 The Evolution of Communication Between Men and Women
03:28 Biological Differences in Stress Responses
05:56 Work-Life Balance and Stress Management
07:31 The Role of Estrogen and Testosterone in Relationships
10:18 Effective Communication and Relationship Dynamics
15:52 Activities to Boost Estrogen and Reduce Stress
25:49 The Impact of Social Bonding on Hormones
27:17 Cultural and Biological Influences on Gender Roles
38:32 The Role of Relaxation in Women's Well-being
39:29 Romantic Biohacks for Couples
40:24 Effective Communication Strategies
41:29 Understanding Male and Female Dynamics
44:23 The Importance of Space in Relationships
45:32 Managing Anger and Frustration
56:27 Balancing Work and Personal Life
58:44 Upcoming Relationship Weekend Event
01:09:06 Final Thoughts and Farewell
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| 877: From The NFL to Entrepreneur - Cassius Marsh Shares His Unique Journey | 05 Jun 2024 | 01:07:33 | |
In this episode of the Solopreneur Hour, host Michael O'Neal interviews former NFL defensive end and Magic: The Gathering enthusiast, (and business owner) Cassius Marsh. Marsh talks about his NFL career, the physical toll it took, and the transition to his post-football life. He discusses his passion for Magic: The Gathering, his trading card business, Cash Cards Unlimited, and his investment in the celebrity video app, Cameo. The episode delves into the parallels between professional sports and entrepreneurship, the importance of coachability, and Marsh's experiences with top NFL coaches and players. Marsh also shares insights into his new business ventures and the personal fulfillment he finds in fostering a community around trading cards.
00:00 Welcome to the Solopreneur Hour
00:21 Introducing Cassius Marsh
01:30 Life After the NFL
04:24 The Politics of the NFL
08:41 Breaking Down NFL Strategies
14:48 Facing Legendary Quarterbacks
18:48 The Financial Reality of NFL Players
24:02 Transitioning to Entrepreneurship
32:20 The Importance of Being Coachable
35:15 Starstruck Moments and Tom Brady
41:27 Transitioning from NFL to Civilian Life
46:14 Passion for Magic: The Gathering
50:47 The Birth and Success of Cash Cards Unlimited
56:34 Investing in Cameo
01:01:48 Conclusion and Future Plans
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| 867: From Engineer to Real Estate Investor, Patrick Grimes Wants Everyone To Invest On Main Street And Not Wall Street | 30 Jan 2023 | 01:06:01 | |
Do you want to invest in real estate but don’t want to go through the entire process? Patrick Grimes is your guy. He’s the head of Invest on Main Street.
https://investonmainstreet.com/
Get Patrick’s book for FREE!
investonmainstreet.com/book
About Patrick: A native Californian, Patrick is an avid traveler, mountaineer, kite surfer, and adventure sports enthusiast. He currently lives with his wife in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Patrick Grimes is a design engineer and CEO and Founder of Invest on Main Street, LLC. His real estate holdings include general partner ownership of a multifamily and single-family real estate portfolio valued over $146M, including 1,950+ units across the southeastern United States and Texas.
He has been active in real estate investment since 2007, including purchasing land and distressed assets, renovating them, and stabilizing them for long-term cash flow. To scale his real estate portfolio, Patrick moved from single-family to multifamily investing and founded Invest on Main Street, a private equity firm specializing in multifamily value-add projects in emerging markets.
Through Patrick’s company, Protomation Systems, LLC, he contracts with machine design firms to conceptualize, design and build one-of-a-kind manufacturing automation and robotic systems primarily for the medical device, EV and aerospace industries.
He co-authored an Amazon #1 best-selling book, Persistence, Pivots and Game Changers, Turning Challenges Into Opportunities. His co-authors included the lead guitarist of Def Leppard, host of The Real Estate Guys Radio Show, NBA/NFL championship coaches/players, and other entrepreneurs and actors.
Patrick holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from University of the Pacific and an MBA and a Master of Science in Engineering from San Jose State University.
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| 704: FREE COACHING FRIDAY! Solopreneur Q&A | 25 May 2018 | 00:44:51 | |
Free Coaching Friday from The Solopreneur Hour!
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If you want to be part of the fun for next week’s Q&A show join us in the Facebook group here or grab my free course called CONFERENCETOPIA. Look for my post on Thursdays, write your question in the comments or respond to my weekly email, then listen in to the show on Friday!
Thanks to every one of you for tuning in on a regular basis
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| 703: How To Make A Living AND Have FUN At The Same Time, with Joel Comm | 23 May 2018 | 01:17:54 | |
Joel Comm stops by the show to talk about his new book: The Fun Formula – How Curiousity, Risk-Taking, and Serendipity Can Revolutionize How You Work., in stores June 5.
Pre-order Joel’s Book Here
On this episode we chat about Joel’s career, and how “fun” is the connective tissue between all of his projects, between the Bad Crypto Podcast, or the world famous iFart App in App Store.
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| 701: The Solopreneur Gig You Can Start TODAY, with Abbey Ashley | 14 May 2018 | 01:04:29 | |
Abbey Ashley has created an amazing Virtual Assistant business. Can you write? Can you talk on the phone? Can you send an email? Then you can become a virtual assistant too!
Get her Virtual Assistant Launch Checklist and Starter Kit – This checklist contains the exact method that she took to go from $0 to 5k-10k months in her virtual assistant business in just FOUR months! https://www.thevirtualsavvy.com/checklist
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| 700: How To Spend $1000, Staying Motivated, and Your Questions | 11 May 2018 | 00:44:58 | |
Welcome to an epic Free Coaching Friday episode 700 from The Solopreneur Hour!
If you’re new and don’t know how this works here goes: once a week I ask you to send me your questions and I answer them on Friday.
If you want to be part of the fun for next week’s Q&A show join us in the Facebook group here or grab my free course called CONFERENCETOPIA. Look for my post on Thursdays, write your question in the comments or respond to my weekly email, then listen in to the show on Friday!
Thanks to every one of you for tuning in on a regular basis.
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| 698: Surrounding Yourself with Success and Becoming an Agent of Change with Rich Brooks | 07 May 2018 | 01:06:55 | |
Rich Brooks is the founder of the premier digital marketing conference on the east coast, which will be celebrating it’s 7th annual https://www.theagentsofchange.com/ in Portland Maine Sept. 20-21. On today’s show we talk about becoming an “agent of change”, and what that actually means. He also gives insights as to what makes a great conference.
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| 696: Stephen Warley On How To Begin Your Solopreneur Journey | 30 Apr 2018 | 01:08:30 | |
Stephen Warley is the former co-founder of Unstuckable. His new business is https://lifeskillsthatmatter.com/ where he’s helping 9-5’ers become Solopreneurs. On this chat, we talk about the pivot from Unstuckable, and how he had to come to grips with his true calling, which is teaching people how they can pivot from their 9-5, start working from home, and start building their new life.
One of my favorite takeaways were these questions he asks himself daily:
* What did I learn about myself today?
* What do I need to improve?
* Did I meet someone new today?
* Did I create something today?
If you are wondering what it takes to become a solopreneur, this is the episode for you!
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| 695: The Best Solopreneur Business, and More Q&A | 28 Apr 2018 | 00:28:37 | |
Free Coaching Friday from The Solopreneur Hour!
If you’re new and don’t know how this works here goes: once a week I ask you to send me your questions and I answer them on Friday.
If you want to be part of the fun for next week’s Q&A show join us in the Facebook group here or grab my free course called CONFERENCETOPIA. Look for my post on Thursdays, write your question in the comments or respond to my weekly email, then listen in to the show on Friday!
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| 694: How to Massively Uplevel Your Coaching Business, with Ajit Nawalkha | 25 Apr 2018 | 01:11:17 | |
Ajit Nawalkha is the Co-Founder of Mindvalley.com and the Host of Evercoach. His life was transformed by smart, gifted coaches and mentors, and this motivated him to become a coach himself. His mission is to empower dedicated educators, coaches and teachers to facilitate positive change in the world.
On today’s episode we talk all about the pitfalls of coaching, how to get better results for your clients, how to raise your prices (and when) and tons more!
Check out his great book:
The Book of Coaching
Follow Him:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ajitnawalkha/
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| 693: The ART of Scaling Yourself with Sean Dietrich | 23 Apr 2018 | 01:04:01 | |
You’re a Solopreneur. Talented, creative, inspired. You work your butt off, and work well one-on-one. But how do you scale that into a larger business? How do you remove yourself from the equation? It’s especially hard if you’re in a creative field, like being an artist, musician, or performer. On today’s show, artist Sean Dietrich shares how he’s gone from paint on canvas to rock concert artist to entrepreneur.
Follow sean on IG and see his art at https://instagram.com/seandietrich
The Website: https://seandietrichart.com
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| 692: A Special New Program, and Your Questions Answered! | 20 Apr 2018 | 00:33:07 | |
On today’s show we bang out your free coaching Friday questions, and I announce a new Pilot program: A group podcast launch.
8 weeks until your first world class episode. To become one of the limited (and discounted first time members, click here!)
Program starts May 3.
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| 866: Dan Martell Wants You To Buy Back Your Time. Right Now. | 16 Jan 2023 | 01:30:35 | |
Dan Martell is a national treasure. His new book “Buy Back Your Time” is available Jan 17. Order now at http://buybackyourtime.com.
FREE Resources from the book:
www.buybackyourtime.com/resources
Find Dan on the Socials: Instagram / Youtube @DanMartell Tiktok @DanVMartell
The Buyback Principle: Don’t hire to grow your business. Hire to buy back your time
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| 691: Affiliate Marketing MasterClass with Matt McWilliams | 16 Apr 2018 | 01:04:29 | |
Affiliate Marketing. What is it? Should you do it? How do you make any money? Do you need to have money to make money in affiliate marketing? How long does it take? How large should my list be? We answer all these questions and more on today’s episode of the Solopreneur Hour!
Find Matt McWilliams at https://mattmcwilliams.com
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| 683: Locating & Connecting with Your IDEAL Customer with Jeffrey Shaw | 21 Mar 2018 | 01:06:56 | |
Jeffrey Shaw, author of Lingo, stopped by the show today. A photographer by trade, Jeffrey is great at identifying and speaking to an audience in the most optimal way. His new book Lingo, breaks down exactly how to do that.
Find Jeffrey
https://jeffreyshaw.com
https://creativewarriorsunite.com/
Twitter @jeffreyshaw1
Creative Warriors Podcast, Monday and Wednesday on itunes
The book:
LINGO: Discover Your Ideal Customer’s Secret Language and Make Your Business Irresistible
(Click here to get the book.) [affiliate link]
The fastest, easiest, and most profitable way to have a successful business is to work with your ideal customers. They value your offering and pay you what it’s worth and they are a joy to serve. But how can you rise above the noise in a crowded marketplace to attract these customers?
You learn to speak their secret language.
In LINGO, serial entrepreneur, business coach, and host of Creative Warriors podcast, Jeffrey Shaw reveals how to make your business irresistible to your ideal customers by showing them that you get them.
In this book you’ll learn:
* The 5-Step Secret Language Strategy he used to go from being overlooked to being overbooked in less than one year
* How LINGO as a marketing strategy makes competition almost irrelevant
* How pricing can attract, not deter, your ideal customer
* How to develop a brand image that magnetizes your ideal customer and filters out the rest
With game-changing insights, practical action steps, and relatable examples, Jeffrey Shaw opens a groundbreaking conversation to make business easier, more profitable, and more positively impactful for any entrepreneur.
Free giveaway for Solohour listeners: https://jeffreyshaw.com/solohour
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| 682: 10 Awesome Books, 10 Awesome Lessons, with AJ Roberts | 19 Mar 2018 | 01:13:23 | |
AJ Roberts reads a book every 2 or 3 days. He was asked about his top 10 books on his Facebook page, and had this answer:
Top 10 Books Of The Year
Got the following message in my inbox
“AJ, what are the Top 10 books you’d recommend?”
Sounds like a simple question right…
…but considering I go through a book every other day I find this to be extremely difficult.
After all, it really depends on what you are looking for – genre, theme, category, topic, etc.
So to keep things simple I figured I’d share my Top 10 of the year so far…
1. The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King by Rich Cohen
2. Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen
3. Recovery Freedom From Our Addictions by Russell Brand
4. Finding My Virginity by Richard Branson
5. So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport
6. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Prof. Lisa Feldman Barrett
7. The Abundance of Less: Lessons in Simple Living from Rural Japan by Andy Couturier
8. The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh
9. Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help by Edgar Schein
10. The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment By Adyashanti
I’ve listed these because unlike so many books that either bore you to sleep or simply rehash the same old information each one gave me a BIG AHA and I believe you may find value in them too.
And don’t worry if you’re not much of a reader as I’m pretty sure all but one of these is available on Audible.
It’s actually become my preferred way to go through a book as I can zoom through on 2x-3x speed and then slow down on the good bits.
I also really enjoy Whispersync so I can go back and forth between reading and listening.
Anyways if you’ve read a particularly good book this year feel free to post it below so I can check it out.
AJ
What a fun, deep dive show. Find AJ Roberts on Instagram or Facebook.
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| 681: Teaching Luddites to Instagram, Launching a Podcast, and more… | Solopreneur Q&A | 18 Mar 2018 | 00:30:16 | |
Your questions for Free coaching (Sunday!)
Welcome to our weekly Q&A edition of The Solopreneur Hour. If you haven’t been here before on Fridays we publish an episode devoted to answering YOUR questions dear listeners! To submit a question join the mailing list, contact me via the Contact page on the site or join our Proudly Unemployable Facebook group.
You can ask your own question by popping on the mailing list or grabbing my free Conferencetopia course.
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| 680: Gary Leland on Starting Multiple Solopreneur Businesses | Just DO it! | 14 Mar 2018 | 01:07:29 | |
Today’s show is with podcast legend Gary Leland. Not only is he in the podcasting hall of fame, but he has started multiple businesses in just about every industry you can imagine. If there’s one thing about this episode, it should help you get over the fear of starting, and get out of your own way. JUST DO IT.
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| 678: Podcast planning, Instagram tips, Live Events, and More… | Solopreneur Coaching | 10 Mar 2018 | 00:32:11 | |
Today’s FCF is brought to you by…me!
After 15 years making a living as a designer and branding guy, I started a social media consulting agency in 2009, and a podcast consulting agency in 2012. It dawned on me the other day that many of you don’t know what I actually do for a living. In addition to being a paid speaker, emcee, and doing live workshops, I do a lot of coaching with solopreneurs, network marketers, and podcasters. That coaching can either be in my mastermind group, Sololab, private monthly coaching, or, if you want to launch a really successful podcast, as I’ve done now more than half a dozen times, to the tune of over 15 million downloads, and millions of dollars, my hi-end podcast launch packages. You can even buy a 40 minute one-on-one session if you just need an answer to a specific problem. Ultimately, I view being a solopreneur as a holistic approach of brand, messaging, platform, and execution. So, if you feel like you need some help in any of those areas, then CLICK RIGHT HERE.
All kinds of cool questions this week, from how I plan podcasts, what kind of live workshops might happen this year, how to validate podcast advertising, fitness tips, portable recording, and more!
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| 677: Dana Malstaff Live From Social Media Marketing World 2018 | 03 Mar 2018 | 00:40:43 | |
Every time I sit with Dana Malstaff I learn something…and so will you. Dana Malstaff is the CEO and Founder of Boss Mom. She is a mother, author, speaker, business strategist, podcaster, blind spot reducer, and movement maker. She launched the Boss Mom brand with her first book Boss Mom: The Ultimate Guide to Raising a Business & Nurturing Your Family Like a Pro and quickly grew to a six-figure business within a year.
Now she has over 10,000 students in various courses helps women all over the world raise their businesses and babies at the same time. She believes that pursuing our passions and building our dreams while including our children in the process, is the best way to build thriving businesses and families, and ultimately we need to show our children that doing what we love can be financially viable.
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| 675: How To Launch Your Own Event, and Sales Won’t Save Your Business, with Joe Pardo | 26 Feb 2018 | 01:07:27 | |
My buddy Joe Pardo, creator of MAPCON, (Mid atlantic podcast conference) stopped by to chat about his new book, Sales Won’t Save Your Business (available on Amazon for pre-order NOW). We dug into what it’s like to create a conference from scratch, what kind of problems you can expect, and how much it costs.
In Sales Won’tSave Your Business, Super Joe Pardo shares the secrets to his TOP formula.He used this formula to catapult his family’s $100 million business to the nextlevel and then launch his own successful consulting career.
SalesWon’t Save Your Business is a GPS for your organization,taking you from where you are to where you want to be. Rather than chapters,Joe uses “pins”–points along the journey where you need to stop and learnsomething.
In these pages, you will discover how to:
·Empower yourself to do what is necessary
·Implement change without ruffling feathers
·Create strong relationships with customersand team members
·Integrate technology into your business
·Grow your profit through training
·Control your customers’ perception foryour benefit
·Create predictable and profitable processes
Whether you’re a business owner, manager, salesperson,or aspiring leader, this hard-hitting, empowering book will inspire you toapply the TOP formula to your business, thereby increasing your confidence,your team’s effectiveness, your customers’ experience, and ultimately, your profit.
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| 673: Do Things That Don’t Scale, and A Million Other Business Tips, with John Lee Dumas | 20 Feb 2018 | 01:17:52 | |
JLD is in the house for a fun episode, that, is completely value-packed. Enjoy.
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| 671: Connection, Relationships, & Stories – Why we become Podcast Junkies, with Harry Duran | 12 Feb 2018 | 01:11:15 | |
I sat down in Orlando with Harry Duran, the host of Podcast Junkies, (every Wednesday on iTunes) and had a great chat about what makes podcasting great, what his journey to the microphone was, and all kinds of other juicy business tidbits.
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| 865: Hyper Discipline Results in Huge Productivity with Dre Baldwin | 09 Jan 2023 | 01:05:22 | |
Today’s guest has Given 4 Ted Talks, written 33 books, and is an absolute machine. (Like…may actually be a machine. Lol) He is the
Founder of Work on Your Game, Dre Baldwin. You won’t believe the amount of productivity he achieves with his strict, disciplined approach. This is what you get when you wake up at 3:30 AM to begin your day!
Check out Work on Your Game Live in Miami, Feb. 3-4.
Workonyourgame.live
Dre Baldwin is owner of Work On Your Game Inc. A 9-year professional basketball player, Dre teaches productivity through Mental Toughness, Confidence and Discipline to athletes, entrepreneurs and business professionals. Dre’s past clients include Nike, TLC, the NBA, Finish Line, Wendy’s, Gatorade, Buick, Wilson Sports, and STASH Investments. Dre has been blogging since 2005 and started publishing to YouTube in 2006. He has over 7,000 videos published, with daily content going out to his 131,000+ subscribers and being viewed over 42 million times. Dre speaks, coaches and consults business professionals on mental toughness, confidence and discipline. He has given 4 TED Talks and written 14 books. Dre’s Work On Your Game Podcast is ranked in iTunes Top 200 Education broadcasts. A Philadelphia native and Penn State alum, Dre lives in Miami.
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| 670: Venturing on your own, Network Marketing, and More of Your Questions | 12 Feb 2018 | 00:39:11 | |
Free Coaching Friday from The Solopreneur Hour!
If you’re new and don’t know how this works here goes: once a week I ask you to send me your questions and I answer them on Friday.
If you want to be part of the fun for next week’s Q&A show join us in the Facebook group here or grab my free course called CONFERENCETOPIA. Look for my post on Thursdays, write your question in the comments or respond to my weekly email, then listen in to the show on Friday!
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| 667: Repurposing Content, Saying “Yes”, How To Outsource, Working with Your Significant Other, and more… | 05 Feb 2018 | 00:34:40 | |
Free Coaching Friday from The Solopreneur Hour!
If you’re new and don’t know how this works here goes: once a week I ask you to send me your questions and I answer them on Friday.
If you want to be part of the fun for next week’s Q&A show join us in the Facebook group here or grab my free course called CONFERENCETOPIA. Look for my post on Thursdays, write your question in the comments or respond to my weekly email, then listen in to the show on Friday!
Thanks to every one of you for tuning in on a regular basis.
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Are you a busy parent worried about how you will pay for your child’s college? At Get The Acceptance Letter Academy, powered by the #DebtFreeDegree System, Professor Treasure Shields Redmond helps busy parents of elite students secure top tier education without massive debt! With her six week #DebtFreeDegree program designed to create a clear step by step plan to apply to schools that fit your child perfectly, all while identifying funding sources designed to eliminate most (if not all) of the cost, you will walk away secure in the knowledge that your child has been matched with a school that will honor their gifts and realize their potential with little to no debt. By the time you finish the #DebtFreeDegree System you will have confidently put college admissions in your rearview mirror. Contact Professor Redmond at www.GetTheAcceptanceLetter.online today!
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| 666: Pink Floyd? (Not The Devil.) My Favorite Episode From 2017 with Legendary Sax Player Scott Page | 28 Jan 2018 | 01:28:29 | |
Well, this is a treat. We get to hear from a rock legend on today’s show. In this one-on-one conversation with sax player Scott Page (Pink Floyd, Supertramp, Toto) who has not only played music for millions…but is arguably more successful as a solopreneur after his main music career.
This was so much fun to record. I could have gone another couple hours just talking music. I couldn’t wait to put it out to the world, and into your earballs. Please enjoy one of my favorite episodes of all time.
In the meantime, here’s Scott’s Wikipedia.
You can reach him on the Twitter at https://twitter.com/iamscottpage
Scott Page is an American musician, technologist, and entrepreneur. He currently serves as CEO of Ignited Network, “a start up music accelerator based in Los Angeles.”[1][2]
As a performer he is widely recognized as the saxophonist and rhythm guitarist for Pink Floyd, Supertramp, and Toto.[3]
As an entrepreneur, Page formed Walt Tucker Productions, an audio video post production company (1987) that produced projects for The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, Janet Jackson, Garth Brooks, Scorpions and others.[4][5][6] He also co-founded 7th Level, Inc., an award-winning[specify] CD-ROM game and educational software company.[7][8] At 7th Level he co-produced Tuneland, the world’s first interactive musical cartoon starring Howie Mandel, the globally lauded Monty Python interactive series, and was part of the development of QD7, an interactive multimedia joint venture with Quincy Jones and David Salzman (1992) that resulted from Jones’ partnering with 7th Level.[9][10] Page co-founded New Media Broadcasting Company, a social media and collaborative communications enterprise (2001) whose clients i...
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| 664: Should You Charge For Your Time? | Solopreneur Coaching | 20 Jan 2018 | 00:33:00 | |
Welcome to our weekly Q&A edition of The Solopreneur Hour. If you haven’t been here before on Fridays we publish an episode devoted to answering YOUR questions dear listeners! To submit a question join the mailing list, contact me via the Contact page on the site or join our Proudly Unemployable Facebook group.
You can ask your own question by popping on the mailing list or grabbing my free Conferencetopia course.
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| 663: Find Your Swing (Solopreneur Coaching) with Matthew Kimberley (Best Of) | 17 Jan 2018 | 01:36:20 | |
Solopreneurs! Thanks for joining us on another installment of Find Your Swing (Solopreneur Coaching). It’s been a minute! I’ve missed doing these with you all so I’m extra excited to bring these type of shows back.
Today’s episode brings us an extra special co-host, Matthew Kimberley from episode 274. I say extra special because it’s his first (and hopefully first in a long line of many) FYS co-hosting spots, and it was also his birthday on the day we recorded this show.
Plus he’s got the best podcasting voice of any non-podcaster out there so tune in to hear him and our solopreneur coaching! Episode 286 is all about helping you find your swing on The Solopreneur Hour.
More About How To Find Your Swing (Solopreneur Coaching)
For those of you who have been with us for awhile you know how these Find Your Swing (Solopreneur Coaching) episodes go: you send in your skill set, your background and your passions and we give you our thoughts on how you could create a viable solopreneurial business based on the info you provide.
We also provide solopreneur coaching if you’re stuck in your business and not sure how to get over a particular obstacle, or how to best grow your business from where you are.
In short, we hear from you about where you are on your timeline, what’s holding you back and we give you advice to move forward. Your mileage may vary but we do our best to give you our soundest suggestions and encouragement to get things rocking or keep things rolling.
In This Episode, You’ll Also Hear:
* What’s the law of reciprocity?
* The simple way to get everything you want.
* What is jorkyball?
* Are you meant to serve everyone?
* Is it ever a good idea to marry two different business ideas?
* And so much more!
On today’s show Matthew and I help one listener turn his love of the outdoors and natural living into a wilderness camp for kids and/or a camp on how to be a man. Our listener has always dreamt of having his own out-in-the-wild type camp, especially for kids. And Matthew breaks down how he can do this, WITHOUT relying heavily on the Internet.
We hear from another follower who has a background in insurance, and in sales. Matthew and I offer suggestions on how to bridge the gap between where’s he at now (being an employee) to the land of solopreneurship. Sometimes it’s simply about taking what you know and creating a business of service with it.
There are a few others we hear from on this episode but the final two we’ll touch on here are employees in the medical arena.
The first is someone who works in sports medicine offices helping people rehab injuries and using yoga therapy techniques to do so. She also loves to write and edit, and is considering how to make a career combing these passions. We recommend she create her own methodology, trademark it and train other practitioners how to use her methodology. A great strategy is to follow what Bikram Choudhury did to create the Bikram Yoga system and culture.
And finally is our CT specialist (that is short for CAT scan) who has started his solopreneur journey much like Matt began his. Our recommendation for him is to STOP building what he’s been building. Then ask and answer the following questions: who do you want to serve, what do you want to do for them and how are you going to serve them? Once he’s done that he can start building again.
Those are just a few of the people we hear from on today’s Find Your Swing! Tune in to get all the goodies on this edition of The Solopreneur Hour.
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| 662: How To Tell When Your Business Has Momentum | 15 Jan 2018 | 00:48:42 | |
I’m just back from CES Las Vegas after a busy conference week. Some remarkable things happened regarding my Beginner Audiophile (https://beginneraudiophile.com) brand, and I’d like to share them with you. In this episode, we talk about how to recognize when your business has momentum, and what to do about it.
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| 658: John Dennis is The Guy Behind The Scenes of Your Favorite Conferences | 21 Dec 2017 | 01:11:39 | |
My good buddy John Dennis stopped by episode 658 of the Solopreneur Hour. John is the guy behind the scenes at the Thrive (one of my favorite) conference, and is a co-owner of Podfest Multimedia Expo.
Today we talk about the conferences, how to get into Facebook ads (and why they matter), and a bunch of other cool things. 🙂
Connect with John:
John Dennis – Facebook.com/thejohndennis
Podfest Multimedia Expo: PodfestExpo.com
John on IG: Instagram.com/thejohndennis
@John_Dennis
Rad Book to Check Out:
Ray Dalio – Principles
Facebook Ads Resources:
https://www.facebook.com/blueprint
digitalmarketer.com
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| 656: How to Systematize Your Solopreneur Business with Dana Malstaff | The Solopreneur Hour Podcast | 13 Dec 2017 | 01:12:35 | |
Today our good friend Dana Malstaff (https://boss-mom.com) stops by to talk about the basics of systematizing your solopreneur biz. She runs a veritable empire over there at Boss Mom, and had to get started somewhere.
A few things we covered:
* a GREAT tip about setting up your schedule
* How and when to create content
* What three things Dana focuses on the night before so she can be productive
* What she does every week to refine her systems
* How she hired her first employee
* Starbitrage and Barbitrage, and how they can help your biz.
* Lots more
As usual, this is an action-packed episode full of juicy ideas.
Questions, comments, suggestions? Tweet me or email me. @solohour on the twitter.
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| 655: How YOU Can Build A Business From Your Existing Skillset (Find Your Swing™ Episode 1) Best Of | The Solopreneur Hour Podcast | 11 Dec 2017 | 01:05:31 | |
In this replay of this inaugural episode of “FIND YOUR SWING™”, Dawnmarrs.com and I review 6 listener submissions, and try to help them figure out how they can build a business, scale themselves, or break out of the 9-5. In this show, we touch on the arts and crafts world, the music industry, the programming/computer industry, and a couple more unique businesses. There are tons of really practical nuggets in this show, including applying membership sites, “scaling yourself”, email/funnel creation, and much more!
Just a couple links in this one:
https://leadpages.net
https://solopreneurhour.com/ninja
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| 654: Travel Adventures in Australia, and YOUR Questions! | The Solopreneur Hour Podcast | 09 Dec 2017 | 00:34:54 | |
Free Coaching Friday from The Solopreneur Hour!
If you’re new and don’t know how this works here goes: once a week I ask you to send me your questions and I answer them on Friday.
If you want to be part of the fun for next week’s Q&A show join us in the Facebook group here or grab my free course called CONFERENCETOPIA. Look for my post on Thursdays, write your question in the comments or respond to my weekly email, then listen in to the show on Friday!
Thanks to every one of you for tuning in on a regular basis.
Episode Resources
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Social Media Ninja Tactics
The Solopreneur Hour on Facebook
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| 864: 3 Steps to a GREAT Online Business w/ Chris Farrell (best of) | 21 Dec 2022 | 01:13:15 | |
As a solopreneur we all start somewhere. Sometimes we start with a topic we know a lot about, sometimes we see an opening and we go for it, learning along the way. Our guest for today saw an opening to serve his audience in a simpler, more effective way than email: a membership site.
Chris Farrell of Help My Business joins us for episode 383 of The Solopreneur Hour, live from Traffic and Conversion in San Diego.
On this show we chat about why he chose to build a membership site, how he got into online marketing in the first place and whether or not he’s always been unemployable.
More About Chris Farrell
As you’ll hear on this episode Chris is a Londoner. He was born and raised in East London – hence the cockney accent! Until his early 30s he worked in radio and wasn’t the least bit entrepreneurial. He had always had a good job and was working for “the man”. By 32 he was the mid-morning DJ on the #1 radio station in London.
But there was always something he couldn’t wrap his mind around: how did people make money online, travel the world and run successful businesses? Was it actually legitimate or was it smoke and mirrors?
So in 2008 he got started in the online marketing world to see for himself. He knew nothing about that world, and knew no one! So initially he tried to do it all himself, and learned everything he could.
You’ll Also Hear:
* Was Chris always unemployable?
* Why it’s important to say yes.
* The power of gratitude in shifting your mindset.
* How do you know if you truly understand something?
* What is his take on the level of professionalism in podcasting today?
* And so much more!
Since then of course he’s realized people can and do make good money online through legitimate businesses, his being one of them. Even though it is fairly simple to do so, it isn’t easy. His advice to get started making money online boils down to three simple steps:
1. Find a profitable niche.
Figure out where people are already spending money and then choose one area to focus on.
2. Build a list of people interested in that area.
Simple: find people who are interested in what you are selling, and get them on your email list.
3. Market to them with products related to their interests.
Contact them with offers and opportunities about products they are interested in, or related to their interests.
Those are the steps Chris took to get started. He created his own products because he couldn’t find many products he was passionate about. While doing so he built his list, and then marketed to them with offers on those products.
But he also realized it would be more valuable to people if he built a membership site where he could continue to create products and add content, rather than emailing them constantly. So that’s what he did. He built a membership site all about internet marketing. He shared with his members what he was learning firsthand, what he loved and what he was passionate about. His success has continued to grow from there.
On today’s episode we cover many other topics from men’s fashion to music to podcasting. In particular Chris shares his view on the state of professionalism in podcasting today. He explains more on the show, including why just having the equipment doesn’t make you a professional podcaster any more than having a bicycle makes you an Olympic cyclist.
He is a definitive source on what it takes to succeed behind the mic and in the online world. Listen in to hear his wit and wisdom on the 383rd edition of The Solopreneur Hour!
QUESTION OF THE DAY: What could you build a membership site about? Let us know in the comments below!
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| 652: How To Turn Your Million Dollar Idea Into…A Million Dollars | 27 Nov 2017 | 01:12:36 | |
Do you think inventors are born or can any solopreneur come up with a new idea? Our guest on today’s show says anyone can do it. And he would know, his name is Stephen Key and he’s been the force behind such smash hits as Teddy Ruxpin and Laser-tag, among many other inventions and creations you probably use every day.
Stephen is also a best-selling author and a regular columnist with Inc. Magazine and Entrepreneur. Today we talk about his background, how to patent your idea and whether or not companies really will steal your concept. All of that and much more on episode 652 of The Solopreneur Hour.
More About This Show
Stephen Key first got into his line of work when he left college early. He believed he wasn’t hirable and no company would want him so he started making things and selling them on street corners and fairs. It took a little while before he had any success at it, but that didn’t matter nearly as much to him as the fun he had in the process.
He pursued that path until the age of 27. At that time he was living out of his car, until he met a woman who took him in in exchange for childcare for her daughter. She saw Stephen’s talent for making things and asked him to make her daughter a teddy bear. With some cajoling, he did. She was so impressed by his creation she encouraged him to go to San Francisco and work with a company called Dakin Toys.
He found them, discovered their stuffed animal maker had left so he asked to take her spot. They gave him material and said come back with a golden retriever stuffed animal prototype. Two weeks later he did and they paid him for it, then said they wanted 25 more. Stephen countered, agreeing to take on the project but only at double their original agreement. They agreed and he was in business!
More About This Show:
How many Teddy Ruxpins were sold?
Did he lie to get his first job?
What is the Mix and Match game, and how does it apply to your business?
What is a PPA and why should you care?
His most profitable idea wasn’t even his idea: true or false?
And SO much more!
Not long after he saw a prototype for Teddy Ruxpin in the newspaper and saw what a disaster it was. He found the company, and told them they needed to hire him to fix it. They agreed and offered him a full-time job. Though he debated about working for someone else on a full-time basis, he eventually agreed and became a part of Worlds of Wonder. He went on to be a part of the team that brought the world Teddy Ruxpin and Laser-tag.
He also met his wife while working there. Eventually they left the company and moved to a small town in California. She took a job as the Vice-President of Marketing for Gallo Wines, and he wasn’t working. She encouraged him to start his company. Soon one of his ideas was a hit, and he was off to the races!
Today Stephen holds over 30 patents and has learned a tremendous amount in his time both working with Worlds of Wonder and on his own. With Worlds of Wonder he discovered you don’t have to play by anyone’s rules, you can make your own as long as you want something bad enough.
And he has certainly wanted many things badly enough along the way. For all of those patents and successes he’s had, he’s also had ample rejections. He says he can wallpaper his home office with rejection letters!
But that doesn’t deter him. In fact, it spurs him on. He admits to taking them all personally, but each rejection drives him to find out why his idea wasn’t accepted, and to start again. He knows he’s only as good as the products he’s got out there and he wants to continue to prove himself.
All of those are valuable lessons for us as solopreneurs: make your own rules,
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| 648: Upping Your Audio Game with Anna Vocino (Best of) | 17 Nov 2017 | 01:36:31 | |
Ever wonder how those people speaking on movie trailers, audio books and commercials get their work? Here to tell us the secrets of the voiceover world is the lovely and talented, Anna Vocino.
Anna’s making her second appearance on the show, you can listen to her maiden voyage here. In episode 121, our chit-chat covers how to’s on everything from the best recording equipment to setting up an at-home studio. If you’re a podcaster, an interviewee or have an interest in the finer points of audio creation, this is YOUR show!
More About This Show
Anna has a long history in the performance world and today is a highly sought after voiceover artist who also co-hosts The Angriest Trainer podcast with Vinnie Tortorich. And if all that wasn’t enough to keep her super busy, she’s also writing a book about a nutritional lifestyle with no sugars and no grains.
Whether she has her voiceover or podcast cap on, Anna is the queen of audio. She knows the ins and outs of podcasting and voiceovers on everything from proper set up and gear to creating the ideal recording booth at home.
You’ll also discover things like:
* What are the four sections of my Life After Eight Weeks (Now the Art of The Interview) podcasting/livestreaming course?
* Her tips on how to get into professional voiceovers.
* To co-host or not to co-host? How to choose for yourself and your podcast.
* When and how to get an agent?
* How to double or triple your reading speed.
Whether working for the United States Postal Service or The Young & The Restless, Anna has learned valuable lessons along the way. She has found how to recognize your best supporters and your strongest advocates and how to work with people who get you & what you’re out to accomplish, no matter what business you are in. These are all lessons you can benefit from, whatever your field.
Because we’re both in the podcasting world and have such a strong commitment to the technical side of good audio, we go into great detail on the best audio equipment to use and how to use it so you sound as professional in your home studio as any other professional broadcaster out there today.
Anna was generous enough to share her wisdom in this show; I hope you walk away knowing the nitty-gritty on the voiceover world and the finer points of audio equipment.
After you listen, thank Anna for being on the show! Share in the comments below and send a shout out on Twitter.
Episode Resources
Anna’s personal site
Anna’s voiceover site
Solopreneur Hour Complete Podcast package
Solopreneur Hour Deluxe Podcast package
Vocal Booth To Go
The Cerrone Show
In A World
Spritz Inc
SoloLab: A Unique Mastermind
Darren Roebuck
Voicebank
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| 647: Productivity and Life Hacks with Hugh Culver (Best Of) | 13 Nov 2017 | 01:16:16 | |
Ever notice how the most successful people also DO the most with their days? Hugh Culver is no exception.
(2017 Note: Be sure to check out Hugh’s new brand which is “Business of Speaking” on https://hughculver.com)
He spent 18 years growing a successful coaching, speaking and consulting business, Hugh is also a seminar leader and author. While he was racking up those achievements, he has also competed in 4 Ironmans, 10 marathons and won the world’s longest river race. Clearly he has a competitor’s blood in his veins.
Now he has created yet another successful endeavor out of helping people become successful coaches, speakers, consultants, leaders and authors – only he helps them do it better and faster than he did.
As one of nine children, Hugh became an entrepreneur from the age of 15. He has made millions and has made every mistake anyone could make along the way.
In episode 647 he shares golden nuggets from his journey:
* Micro-outsourcing: what is it, how do you do it and how will it help you be more successful?
* His lessons from Ironman competitions
* The trick to relaxing your busy solopreneur mind
* The one question to ask yourself every day as a solopreneur that will move you forward.
* Hugh offers his thoughts on how to make the best decisions with your money.
* The key to starting a viable business, whatever your skill set and whatever your industry.
There were so many great nuggets of gold on being productive, creative and how to get the most out of each day as a solopreneur. When you listen to this show, it’s easy to hear how and why Hugh has achieved so much in his lifetime.
Listen in to hear his passion, conviction and lifelong wisdom. There’s plenty of great takeaways in the Evernote Moment and throughout the show, so enjoy!
And after you’ve listened and loved what you heard, let Hugh know on Twitter and Facebook!
Twitter – Click to Tweet Hugh!
Facebook
Evernote moment:
Hugh’s suggestions for the top 4 ways to really getting things done:
* Take advantage of the mornings.
* Time boundaries. Make yourself strategically unavailable for a portion of your day.
* Blocking. Block off sections of your day for various tasks and use multiple Google calendars to do so.
* Friday 15: Take 15 minutes on Friday and look at your list of what you’re doing and check your progress. Find out what worked, what didn’t work and what is holding you back. Look for opportunities to micro-outsource and then do it. Finally, review and revise for next week.
Resources from this episode:
Experts Enterprise
Eric Fisher from Beyond the To Do List
Bufferapp.com
Buffer blog
focusatwill.com
asana.com
teespring.com/solohourshirt
SoloLab: A Unique Kind of Mastermind
Advanced Speaker Academy
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| 646: Free Coaching Friday! Answering Your Questions | The Solopreneur Hour | 11 Nov 2017 | 00:23:27 | |
Free Coaching (Saturday, kinda) from The Solopreneur Hour!
If you’re new and don’t know how this works here goes: once a week I ask you to send me your questions and I answer them on Friday.
If you want to be part of the fun for next week’s Q&A show join us in the Facebook group here or grab my free course called CONFERENCETOPIA. Look for my post on Thursdays, write your question in the comments or respond to my weekly email, then listen in to the show on Friday!
Thanks to every one of you for tuning in on a regular basis.
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I Want SoloLab!
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| 644: Nathan Chan from Foundr on Listening to Your Customers, “Value”, and What’s Working on Instagram in 2017. | 06 Nov 2017 | 01:04:30 | |
Sitting on a rooftop deck in Brisbane Australia, Foundr Founder (I couldn’t resist) Nathan Chan and I sit down for a chat about listening to your customers, providing “value”, transitioning Foundr from digital to hard copy, and of course, what’s working RIGHT NOW to grow your Instagram account. (btw…he has over a million followers on IG)
https://foundr.com/freemagazine
Foundr on Instagram
Hostgator.com “solo50” at checkout.
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| 643: Ready for a Quickie? Free Coaching Friday in 15 minutes. | 04 Nov 2017 | 00:16:38 | |
Free Coaching Friday from The Solopreneur Hour!
If you’re new and don’t know how this works here goes: once a week I ask you to send me your questions and I answer them on Friday.
If you want to be part of the fun for next week’s Q&A show join us in the Facebook group here or grab my free course called CONFERENCETOPIA. Look for my post on Thursdays, write your question in the comments or respond to my weekly email, then listen in to the show on Friday!
Thanks to every one of you for tuning in on a regular basis.
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Episode Resources
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I Want SoloLab!
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| 641: James Schramko Will Help Your Business Grow…Super Fast | 30 Oct 2017 | 01:25:25 | |
I met James Schramko when we both spoke at Tropical Think Tank (Chris Ducker’s Event) in May of 2015. James is a quiet dude, but has an almost childlike optimism about him. He loves to surf, he loves his family, and he loves his time freedom. Today we get to explore not only his journey to superfastbusiness.com, but we really lay down some groundwork for all of us to follow in his footsteps.
Mike and James Discuss:
* 10:05 Making time
* 15:34 Patience and discipline
* 25:05 Removing the jokers
* 32:20 Post-it note system – Task transfer
* 40:59 The Lunatic Millionaire
* 47:50 My contrarian friend
* 55:06 Full Tonk – Tulip Mania
* 59:35 Speaking and Binary decision-making
“Doing the right things is more important than doing things right” – Peter Drucker
James Schramko is the founder of the SuperFastBusiness.com a community for online business owners that offer support from other experienced business owners that have been through the same struggles as you.
James discovered a lot of business strategies from his twenty-year career mastering small, medium and large ‘real’ business working for companies including Mercedes-Benz, Vodafone, and General Motors.
Also in debt collection, Managing the sales, handling customer service. He got involved with different things where he realized that all of these have one thing in common. That is, building repeat referral customers are easier than looking for new clients.
During the recession in the early 90’s, James landed a job in debt collection. Debt collection involves talking to people over the phone and requesting them to settle their bills. Compared to reverse sales, where they already have the products and services, and now, they are obliged to pay. That said, it’s harder to get the money because of this, and he has to work double time and discover ways on how to deal with these people even under pressure. This gave him the idea that he should be trying to help these people as well.
In this kind of job, James learned that he has to partner with these people and make preparations in a way where he’d build trust to avoid the issue from getting worse, because if they fail to make payments, bad things will happen. So, it’s critical to ensure that you’re on the identical side with your customers and work with each other to be able to fix the problem. You would be a problem-solving machine in this industry.
Eventually, James realized that there’re some issues with having that kind of job, especially for those who has to support a family; just like him. He didn’t like the idea of earning from one person, the idea of selling only a single product. He was running out of enthusiasm, and his earnings felt capped because, despite the fact that he was proficient at this and the largest paid person in his team.
Benchmarking became one of his favorite techniques, and this inspired him to step out of his comfort zone.
He started trying a little business before he moved to SFB. He tried everything from trading vanity license plates and marketing. When he started with his online gig, he was also the general manager of Mercedes-Benz during the day and an online marketer by night. His work involves commanding a large team of employees and it was a little difficult for him to focus on his “Internet” job. So, he had to spend several hours doing research and compiling every information that could help him. After discovering what worked, he began to succeed rapidly.
At the start of his online career, he was making around $300,000 annually in his day job, and with his online business, he noticed that his income kept on adding within a couple of years. It went up to $400,000 and $450,000. After fully quitting his day job, he generated more than $100,
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| 640: Solopreneur Coaching – Researching a Podcast Niche, Looking Stylish, and Staying Focused | 27 Oct 2017 | 00:32:46 | |
Free Coaching Friday from The Solopreneur Hour!
If you’re new and don’t know how this works here goes: once a week I ask you to send me your questions and I answer them on Friday.
If you want to be part of the fun for next week’s Q&A show join us in the Facebook group here or grab my free course called CONFERENCETOPIA. Look for my post on Thursdays, write your question in the comments or respond to my weekly email, then listen in to the show on Friday!
Thanks to every one of you for tuning in on a regular basis.
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Episode Resources
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Social Media Ninja Tactics
The Solopreneur Hour on Facebook
Want coaching with me?
I Want SoloLab!
The Solopreneur Hour on Twitter
Proudly Unemployable, the Facebook group
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| 639: Do What You’re GREAT at, with BMX Legend Eddie Fiola | 25 Oct 2017 | 01:25:02 | |
Today I had a chance to sit down in Temecula CA with “The King of The Skateparks” himself, Eddie Fiola. BMX champion turned Hollywood Stuntman, Eddie took his talent for riding (and falling) to the big screen on such movies as The Hangover, Independence Day, The Italian Job, Indiana Jones, and more.
In this episode, not only does Eddie talk about the beginning days of BMX, but what his transition was like to Hollywood, the origin of the EF Proformer Project (and maybe a special announcement….) and one of my favorite points: Working on new tricks, or doing tricks you can do 100% of the time.
I speak to that point at the beginning of the episode.
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| 638: How To Badass Your Brand with Pia Silva | 23 Oct 2017 | 01:02:11 | |
Brooklyn native Pia Silva (https://worstofalldesign.com/) stops by the show today to talk about your brand…and how she loves it. Her new book, Badass Your Brand: The Impatient Entrepreneur’s Guide to Turning Expertise into Profit helps us create a unique brand out of your unique skillsets (kinda like we do around these parts).
We dig into all kinds of cool stuff on this show, including a recurring theme you’ve heard many times before.
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| 862: The Best Small Business / Entrepreneurial Podcast You’ll Listen to This Month: The 9 Triangles of Business Success with Dennis Yu | 14 Dec 2022 | 01:11:33 | |
This is one of my favorite episodes of all time. You’ll learn more in this one episode from multiple courses and months of training. If not, I’ll refund your money. 🙂
Today we have Blitz Metrics (https://blitzmetrics.com) founder and CEO, Dennis Yu on the show. We were also joined by Jordan Paris, who wrote Growth Mindset University, and hosts the Growth Mindset University Podcast. Dennis shared with us something he’s never shared on a show before, which is his “9 triangles” concept. (I added “of destiny”…because it’s awesome) I have to say, in 783 episodes, I’ve never heard business success summarized this well. This is an episode that will instantly go in the “best of” category. Below are the nine triangles. Tune into the show for descriptions on each.
The 9 Triangles
Learn Do Teach
Do Delegate Delete
Content Checklist Software
Communicate Iterate Delegate
Marketing Operation Finance
Goals Content Targeting
Awareness Consideration Conversion
Metrics Analysis Action
Specialist Business Partner
Relevant Links:
https://teamblitznation.com
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| 637: Meetups for Profit, How to Finish Courses & Books, Automation, and More… | 20 Oct 2017 | 00:42:05 | |
Free Coaching Friday from The Solopreneur Hour!
If you’re new and don’t know how this works here goes: once a week I ask you to send me your questions and I answer them on Friday.
If you want to be part of the fun for next week’s Q&A show join us in the Facebook group here or grab my free course called CONFERENCETOPIA. Look for my post on Thursdays, write your question in the comments or respond to my weekly email, then listen in to the show on Friday!
Thanks to every one of you for tuning in on a regular basis.
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| 635: Josh Trent on The SINGLE Most Important Thing You Can Do For Your Health, PLUS Quantum Physics, Multiple Lives, and More | 16 Oct 2017 | 01:07:48 | |
Josh Trent of Wellness Force Radio (https://wellnessforce.com) stops by Studio 86 for an existential chat about quantum physics, multiple lives, the most important piece of your health, and a bunch more. When I started The Solopreneur Hour, I sort of thought of it as the “Joe Rogan” show for entrepreneurs. This show lives up to that original premise I think.
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| 634: Free Coaching…Sunday! | 16 Oct 2017 | 00:29:27 | |
Free Coaching Friday from The Solopreneur Hour! Or at least…that’s what it was supposed to be. Due to a little snafu, I posted it on Sunday. It’s ok…now you can binge!
If you’re new and don’t know how this works here goes: once a week I ask you to send me your questions and I answer them on Friday.
If you want to be part of the fun for next week’s Q&A show join us in the Facebook group here or grab my free course called CONFERENCETOPIA. Look for my post on Thursdays, write your question in the comments or respond to my weekly email, then listen in to the show on Friday!
Thanks to every one of you for tuning in on a regular basis.
Episode Resources
The Art of The Interview Course
Social Media Ninja Tactics
The Solopreneur Hour on Facebook
Want coaching with me?
I Want SoloLab!
The Solopreneur Hour on Twitter
Proudly Unemployable, the Facebook group
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