Shock Your Potential

The Accidental Entrepreneur - Tyler ”Sully” Sullivan

"Shift your mindset on email marketing from just spraying out messages and hoping for money to having a two-way dialogue with customers." Tyler Sullivan
Having genuine conversations with customers has been proven to be one of the most effective ways to creating positive experiences. As a successful entrepreneur, Tyler Sullivan enjoys customer trust and loyalty built over the long term. Tyler attributes this success to being able to connect with customers and potential buyers on a deeper level by asking the right questions through the right channels and acting on the information provided.
Tyler Sullivan is the founder of BombTech Golf, an eCommerce store with over $20 million sold online since 2012. Tyler also runs EcomGrowers, where he and his team have helped countless Shopify owners add 6-7 figures in additional sales to their eCommerce stores by optimizing email systems and ad campaigns to find hidden revenue streams.
Over the years, Tyler has come to learn the formula for running successful and profitable eCommerce businesses. He believes that even with online companies there is huge value in having real conversations with customers and potential buyers. Tyler is hyper-focused on the customer experience and operating a lean business that doesn't just drive revenue but drives serious profit and cash flow.
In today's episode, Tyler will talk about the importance of having honest conversations with customers in scaling businesses. He will also be elaborating more on the value of email marketing in reaching customers.
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In 2000 I was ten years old and was competing in the Home Run Derby of golf world long drive, and I wasn't that good. When I grew up, I fell in love again with playing golf. [4:14]
They had a local club builder assembling these different drivers for me, and I ended up breaking all of them due to his inability to assemble them correctly. [4:35]
I decided that I would learn how to assemble a golf club, which was not a complicated process; then, I also started making and selling to my friends, which was cool.[4:51]
I was in sales for my whole life and was honestly bored at my day job because I didn't feel fulfilled. [5:15]
I made a website, and it took me six months to get a sale for the driver, and then from there, I started to document my journey on Facebook. [5:30]
Having conversations is a big piece of what I do, and that's sort of how I shock other companies now with my other brand. [6:22]
I worked with the college with four students who are smarter than me, and we designed our product for a whole year. [6:48]
As a result of those conversations I initially had on social media, when I went to launch, we ended up selling $10,000. [7:09]
I was able to scale it up with Facebook ads and having conversations, and now we do over eight figures a year. [7:19]
Interaction with customers is at the core of success for my companies, especially the golf brand, bomb tech. [9:24]
I was having conversations, which allowed me to build an audience that cared because I cared about what they said. [9:42]
So we cherish that relationship, and a big part of our strategy is in email, and it has helped to teach me that it is really about what the customers. [10:27]
If I had started the company with an expectation of a certain income, I don't know if I would have that same lens because it was much harder earlier. [11:58]
I didn't have a goal of starting an agency. It was just the right place, right time, and there was interest. [16:08]
Commercial break. [17:20]
Having that kind of empowerment to do what they feel is right at the moment makes the team enjoy what they do because they don't have to say no. [19:58]
If you go into it to make money and you're not doing it for the right reason, I don't think you ever can cross that bridge. [21:23]
If I started another company, it'd be a ski brand because I love to ski. [22:00]
Whatever your industry, email is your biggest asset; even though some people think email is dead, it is good to try it out. [23:22]
Ask real questions that you want the answer to in a plain way, and you'll be shocked with the replies. It will help you to learn and also get you in the customer's inbox. [23:36]
Shift your mindset on email marketing from just spraying out messages and hoping for money to having a two-way dialogue to then earn the opportunity to sell what customers want. [25:42]
The hardest part once you have some success is getting out of your way by delegating. [29:28]
Have fun and do something you love. Lower your expectations and ask questions. [30:45]
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We Think in Questions - Kyle Gillette

“It is the power of question that makes all the difference in the world.” Kyle Gillette
Most often leaders face challenging situations which make them feel stuck and unable to tap into their strengths to lead effectively. To make that shift into being an effective leader, individuals must allow themselves to go through the process of learning and self-awareness. Our guest today, Kyle Gillette, has been providing coaching to help the leaders overcome these obstacles, and as he says, it all starts with asking the right questions.
Kyle Gillette is an ICF-certified coach, behavioral analyst, author, and creator of the SAGE Mindset Leadership framework. He works with small business owners and leaders. His focus is on helping his clients build powerful self-awareness in their life and business. Create extreme accountability to achieve big goals, dreams, and results. Maintain a mindset of growth. Then focus on fostering a life of empowerment of others so they can have the most influence and impact possible. He is the host of the SAGE Mindset podcast, developer of the Business Accountability Mastermind, and owner of Gillette Solutions - a coaching and consulting organization.
In today’s episode, Kyle will be talking about the genesis of his coaching and mentorship business. He will also highlight what he does with his clients to help them achieve their goals.
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I started my business three years ago, but the roots of it were about 15 years ago when I had the opportunity to work in a men's mentoring program for about 10 years. [2:55]
I lived on a property with these guys that were18 to 25-year-olds that were off track in life and during that time, the gentleman that started the program mentored me for about 10 years. [3:07]
I had an awesome opportunity to be mentored by a business owner and I learned the value of mentorship and of helping and serving other people. [3:17]
Eventually, that turned into a bunch of opportunities to lead a team of 20 people which then led to the nonprofit. [3:47]
Primarily my job with my clients is to provide perspective, through powerful questions that help them shift mindsets, and then ultimately get results that they truly want. [4:04]
What I have discovered in business and previous programs is that you don't have to be on an island. [5:25]
There's plenty of support out there and at least one-to-a-few type of support where data behind it is amazing showing that it makes such a huge difference for goal achievement and moving forward.[5:44]
Some of the things that people tell me are extremely deep and it is the power of question that makes all the difference because that is how we think. [8:35]
What happens is we ask the question and then we answer it for ourselves and then we spat out our statement or opinion. [10:10]
SAGE came out of DiSC, which also came out of my experience with the alpha Academy, which was that men's mentoring program. [11:33]
I did DiSC for a while and got certified. It is a phenomenal tool and I love it but I realized that it's not mine, and I can't do whatever I want with it yet I want to have my framework that I can do something with. [11:41]
I woke up at three in the morning with a word that felt like someone had said it to me and it was SAGE awareness. [12:00]
SAGE is four different things including self-awareness, growth, empowerment and accountability. [12:31]
You have to blow the roof off to build that next level which means that you have to take a lot of risks and that's one of the key pieces of growth. [14:44]
The more space you have in that leadership home, the more people can be impacted by it, and the more you can train and send out. [15:08]
The reason I bring the send out part is that in that program I was a part of, we didn't want them to stay there forever so I don't want to coach the clients that I have forever rather I need them to get sent out and let them make the impact that they need to make on the world. [15:18]
Commercial break. [15:42]
The first step in empowering people and helping the leaders that are working for you and with you to be empowered to do amazing things is delegating responsibility. [18:15]
With that comes the need to give them power and authority and usually power is the harder one to give. Authority is position while power is actual functional leadership. [18:33]
The second one is a little bit more complex and it is tied to accountability and I have done quite a bit of research on the power of accountability. [19:01]
The possibility of attaining your goal can jump to 95% if you do active accountability where you purposefully meet with someone regularly to talk about the specific goal you're trying to achieve. [20:35]
Those are two of the key things that I do to help people achieve what they want to achieve so in other words accountability is enormous. [20:50]
Sometimes, you don't need that intensity of coaching but just need the camaraderie of other entrepreneurs that are that vulnerable to admit their weaknesses. [23:05]
If you don't have that accountability, or you want more, you probably going to be surprised at who you can connect with. You can't get a ‘yes,’ unless you ask. [24:55]
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You Are Becoming An Author - Susan Crossman

"Be very clear on why you want to write a book because that will drive every step of the writing process." Susan Crossman
The writing process is different for every individual, yet the overall goal is to bring out an engaging and worthwhile read for their audiences. Susan Crossman has been helping writers to bring forth their ideas and believes that understanding the writing process and acquiring the suitable skill set is key to becoming a successful writer.
Susan Crossman helps spiritually-focused coaches, leaders, and innovators write and publish books that make a difference in their businesses and in their world through a variety of high-impact one-on-one and group coaching programs that are profound, inspiring, and fun! She takes great joy in fulfilling her mission of supporting more peace on the planet, and she believes that a well-written book can be a powerful force for good in our world.
Susan Crossman is a writer and adventuress who lives to harness the power of a good story well told. In recent years she has gone ziplining in Costa Rica, luging down a mountain in New Zealand, and trekking in the hills north of Khatmandu. She has hiked among the ruins of Macchu Pichu, danced until dawn at a London nightclub and enjoyed a Christmas Day picnic in the south of France. Having written five traditionally-published books herself, Susan works as a book coach and editor to help other forward-thinking entrepreneurs polish their stories to make a difference in the world. She also speaks several languages and she has earned both a Master Practitioner designation in Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) and a Master's degree in English.
She is trained in the Language, and Behavior (LAB) Profile and the Enneagram system of personality profiling, and she is a certified Awakening Coach. Susan also knows the human heart inside out and upside down. She's a writer's writer who teaches and a reader's writer who inspires. More than anything else, she is a storyteller. As a content marketer, Susan heads a team that helps organizations add value to client relationships through outstanding content marketing programs. If you need help telling your business story online, please see the array of content marketing services Crossman Communications makes available through Content with Clarity.
In today's episode, Susan will discuss the writing process and the guiding principles when writing a book.
 
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I've been a writer since I was a little girl, and that's what I've done with my entire career. [4:05]
I recognized along the way that I wanted to write a book, so my first book took me 13 years to write. [4:43]
I recognized that I had this skill set that can be very helpful for other people who want to write books. [4:58]
I've written five books now, and I have a skill set around it and understand the process. [5:03]
Now I help other people write the books that will make a difference in their worlds because sometimes we need a little help. [5:08]
There are so many ways of writing a book, and everybody has a slightly different process for doing it, but we judge ourselves terribly when we're writing books, and yet we don't need to do that. [6:05]
Many people come to me and say they have no idea how to write a book which means that there's a lack of knowledge about the process itself. [7:45]
When I was writing my first book, the writing itself didn't get in my way one little bit; rather, it was everything else around writing a book that I didn't know how to do. [8:00]
You go through certain phases as you're writing a book, and the more you know about that, the more confident you can be in approaching that book. [8:16]
That first book is a book that is not supported by our brain because we haven't developed the neural network that needs to be in place for us to be writing fluidly and comfortable. [8:46]
The other piece that seems to be an issue for many people is lack of focus. [9:26]
It is okay if it's unfamiliar because it's unfamiliar for just about everybody that first time they write a book, just keep at it and don't give up. [11:56]
Many people don't have enough commitment, but you almost have to be obsessed with getting this book done. [12:11]
If you're serious about this, make a commitment and have that same time to write every day or every week. [12:40]
A novel can be a much more challenging project to get leverage on than a nonfiction book because we can justify a nonfiction book as part of our thought leadership. [14:06]
I would invite everyone to entertain the idea that you have a real purpose in writing a book for the world and yourself. [15:15]
Commercial break [16:30]
Currently, about 80% of the North American population has thought about writing a book someday. [18:04]
40% of that 80% get started and do a start-up of some sort, but only 2% of that 40% go ahead and finish their manuscript. [18:25]
It does take a huge amount of commitment to finish a book, and it's important to get some leverage on ourselves to take that project right through to the finish line. [19:34]
The important thing about commitment is to have a time and a place when you consistently work on that book. [19:48]
If it seems inconvenient to you to carve out time, whatever it is, recognize it's not for the rest of your life; rather, it is only for the time it takes to get the book done. [21:37]
I've learned that when I commit to sit down at a specific time, in a specific place consistently for a specific period, the writing Genie finds out how to get hold of me. [22:43]
Many people feel they have to be perfect writers and have reasons why they can't write a book; however, that's not the truth. [23:28]
You can ask for help with your writing, so take advantage of the people who love you and even strangers who love to do this for fun, and send that book out for assistance. [24:25]
Many of my clients are using Otter.ai, which you speak into it, and it generates a transcript of everything you say, sends it to your inbox, and then you edit that. [26:02]
You are becoming an author, and that is worth putting yourself out for because it is a big deal to become an author. [27:24]
Find out from yourself why you want to write a book and be very clear on your way because that will drive every step of the writing process. [29:37]
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Awesome Outsourcing - Michelle Thompson

"Failure is nothing more than feedback, and feedback makes you better and stronger." Michelle Thompson
How can something good come from such great tragedy and misfortune? That is the question that our guest today, Michelle Thompson, grappled with at some point in her life. However, as she and many of us come to learn, bearing these misfortunes with a positive attitude can bring with it good fortunes.
Michelle Thompson went from being an MBA graduate to having a second-grade IQ level overnight after suffering from a life-altering stroke at only 36 years of age. Literally starting her life over again, she's had to learn how to automate and outsource as much as humanly possible. Now she's on a mission to help others find freedom from all the unnecessary tasks they do, using the strategies and systems she's successfully created for herself.
After receiving her bachelor's degree in counseling from Valley Forge University, she went on to earn her MBA in finance and entrepreneurship from Ashford University. After suffering a life-altering stroke, she left her corporate career and built systems to help her navigate day-to-day life and business. Her business, Awesome Outsourcing LLC, was born by combining her strategies with her talents of untangling people's problems to create actionable and easy-to-follow plans for them to hand things off.
Michelle teaches people how to delegate and outsource tasks correctly so they can gain back their time and their lives. Awesome Outsourcing, LLC specializes in organic Facebook and LinkedIn lead generation, creating omnipresent content for entrepreneurs, and virtual administrative services. Her courses include how to delegate tasks to others without a dip in quality or the need to micromanage, helping clients hire, train, and manage a team, and how to hand tasks off to be magically delivered back, completed.
Her podcast Automate to Dominate follows her amazing journey of automating and outsourcing her way to financial freedom, sharing everything she learns along the way about building multiple passive income streams in numerous areas of life. This show is for entrepreneurs and small business owners who want to build passive income streams to create the freedom they have always dreamt about and aren't afraid to work for it.
In today's episode, Michelle will discuss her life journey that led to the birth of her outsourcing business. She will also talk about automation and how to delegate tasks to free yourself and your time to be more productive.
 
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I had a stroke and went into physical and occupational therapy for about three years learning how to walk and talk again. [3:05]
I was stuck in a rut, and one day my physical therapist had enough called me out on my whining and went ahead to show me how to have a pretty normal life where she slowly taught me how to systematize everything in my life. [3:30]
I live in a very controlled environment now where I have Google mini in each room to help me methodically do most things. [4:38]
I decided to implement this automation in business. I had a little side hustle which was just a blog with some affiliate links, but since I couldn't write anymore, I had to teach somebody how to write as I would have written. [5:05]
I slowly taught them keyword research for SEO, finding an affiliate link, and writing the best article on the internet. [5:26]
I could talk in a video and systematize it, then about three or four months later, all these blog posts started showing up, and they were just automatically happening. [5:43]
My colleagues came to me asking how I was able to do it, and I told them that I had outsourced it all, and they asked me to show them how I did it. [5:54]
We did it, and it worked out well, and the company Awesome Outsourcing was born, and we decided that we were going to do it to make a difference and not for money. [6:12]
We took everything that we hated about outsourcing, and we flipped it on its head and made it a positive by systematizing [6:27]
We turned it into this amazing product where we now hire somebody and pay for their training. [7:27
They love working for us because they love our culture and the team, and on the other side, we're creating standard operating procedures and systems for business owners that we're helping. [7:41[
We make it easy to download your brain, turn it into a standard operating procedure, and then it gets created as if you would have done it. [8:58]
Commercial break [9:42]
I did the podcast as a project because people kept asking me how I automated everything, so I decided to educate everybody. [10:37]
We took every piece of software that I love using, and we brought the business owner on, and I explained how I use it in my business to automating, and the business owner explains why that piece of software is so powerful and how it can help and how you can pair it with a virtual assistant so that it becomes effective. [10:51]
For this week, write down everything that you touch, both business and personal which then I will ask you to delete that altogether and see what happens. [12:00]
If it doesn't affect your business, you should strike that off the list and not do it for a month and see if you can get rid of that. [12:12]
The second thing is to take a look at that list and identify what has to be done, but you don't necessarily have to do it and, therefore, can hand it off to a piece of software or to another human to do it. [12:26]
The third thing is to identify what you have to keep doing personally so that you're doing 10 percent and letting your team do the other 90 percent. [12:41]
We can do this with all parts of our lives, not just in business, but also in personal life too. [13:09]
If we ask our brains a question, it will inevitably give us an answer, and we just have to ask the right questions. [14:12];.
Often, we don't think about the brain capacity that we waste on writing because, in the back of your mind, you are worried about tasks you haven't accomplished. [18:34]
When we hand that off and permit somebody else to worry about it, it frees up so much brain capacity that we can have a crystal clear focus on what we're doing. [18:48]
Don't be afraid to hop in; it doesn't have to be perfect. So many times, we put this thing on ourselves that it has to be perfect, but if you'll permit yourself to fail, failure is nothing more than feedback, and feedback makes you better and makes you stronger. [21:26]
If you haven't delegated yet, and you're nervous, start with a tiny task. And if you do one at a time, it will snowball in a positive way, and you'll end up with more time Just take the plunge. [21:40]
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Warriors at Work - Jeanie Coomber

"If you want to ignite a warrior within, most of it comes from your mindset." Jeanie Coomber
Every person is unique and different, embodying their set of values, beliefs, experiences, influences, and cultural backgrounds. Your best self is that which has identified, acknowledged, and appreciated the differences in your abilities and continuously finds ways in which you can put them into full use. Our guest today, Jeanie Coomber, believes that by discovering your best self, you unleash the warrior within, making you more effective in your endeavors.
Jeanie Coomber earned her Warrior stripes through her journey of stirring her intellect and evoking her soul. She is still as relentless today about her personal growth as when she began her entrepreneurial journey. Before becoming a leader in creating thought-provoking media and content in support of working professionals, she spent decades as a world-class executive coach, helping smart, savvy, and sincere leaders ascend to the next level and become warriors themselves.
Whether she is interviewing a CEO or a subject matter expert, speaking at a conference, facilitating panel discussions, or coaching executives, she is known for being contemplative, captivating, and direct. Even more, it's Jeanie's ability to unearth valuable insights from her guests that allows her audiences to connect with unlimited choices, freedom, happiness, and courage in their careers and lives.
Above all, Jeanie's mission is to unleash the greater consciousness and joy that's only possible through the act of stirring and releasing your inner wisdom and become the master of your own life. Jeanie's ultimate vision is to create a band of warriors in the workplace who are ready to go from the predictable to the potent. As part of achieving this vision, Jeanie launched the Warriors at Work podcast and show, and Warrior Conversations, a virtual monthly group discussion and quarterly in-person event focused on a topic of significance to working professionals.
Jeanie has been recognized by NJ Biz as one of the Best 50 Women in Business and holds certifications from Corporate Coach U, The International Coaching Federation, The NeuroLeadership Institute and is a graduate of Columbia University Business School's Personal Leadership program.
With over 25 years of business experience, Jeanie is an expert in executive performance, project management, process improvement, relationship building, and team empowerment and has coached countless individuals across the globe on how to make significant leaps forward in their careers and lives. A sought-after speaker, Jeanie loves sharing the story of her personal Warrior Journey and nothing thrills her more than showing others how to activate their own Warrior Magic.
In today's episode, our guest will talk about shifting the mindset to align it to purpose. She will also give tips and insights on how to be your best self by tapping into the physical.
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I think it's important to start with the word warrior, and as a coach for the last 16 years, I have worked with leaders literally around the world in various industries. [3:34]
I have always done this one-to-one work listening to what's going on within this person that makes them unique and powerful in the world. [3:46]
I gravitated to the word warrior when I was considering expanding my footprint. [3:39]
When a warrior is a brave and experienced soldier, they demonstrate bravery and courage and optimism, and a willingness to step forward into things. [4:09]
This embodied what I would see in the conversations that I was having with leaders around the world. [4:23]
I took a big chance on myself, brought in some great experts, and decided to expand my footprint to provide a platform to get into dialogue with men and women in the workplace and to talk about things beyond professional attributes. [4:51]
What makes us unique and brings us magic when we are at our best are the things outside of our professional attributes, such as our intuition, our soul, and our ability to assess situations and people. [5:20]
I decided to create a platform that provides for us to talk about all things, and that was really the impetus behind expanding what I was doing in the world and providing a platform to do that. [5:34]
I launched my brand last February, thinking I was going to have all the time in the world to make this shift from executive coaching. [6:14]
March hit, and I lost about 40% of my business very quickly because no one was hiring an executive coach, and all my travel got canceled. [6:43]
I felt this calling to get into service to the business community, so I grabbed my phone and started serving up as much as I could through Facebook Live, which was the quickest, most efficient way to get content and conversation out there. [6:51]
What I got in return was tremendous community, and I learned so much about myself because I was going through it like everybody else. [7:12]
Through the conversation, the brand took flight, and I was able to bring forward a lot of the concepts and the things that I had thought to bring forward in a practical and robust way. [7:24]
Now it is more of a sophisticated platform, but the concept in the original intention is the same. [7:48]
It's intended to be in service to the business community. We're talking about things that are more than our professional attributes and not being afraid of all of those things that make you unique and powerful in the world. [7:58]
I still do executive coaching and what I have noticed is that we have expanded our capacity in the world, and we have a lot more to us than we realize. [9:51]
What I think will happen is there's going to be really deliberate conscious shifts in how we show it in our lives. [11:02]
All of the lessons, insights and wisdom that we've gained in the last year and half needs to be a part of the narrative. [14:54]
In my opinion, there is a massive change happening, and organizations are looking at people and talent through a very different lens like never before. [15:41]
I am also really excited about Gen Z coming into the workplace, what they're going to bring and how they will elevate. [16:06]
Commercial Break. [17:08]
The most common theme that I've seen that ignites the worrier within is when I asked the question, "when you are most effective, and you are at your best, what does it look and feel like?" [18:49]
When you think about your most effective version of yourself, that is your steady and anchor. [19:32]
There are a couple of ways that you can get there and some of my favorite techniques are tapping into your physical and not just relying upon your intellectual horsepower. [19:41]
Your power center is right around your diaphragm which is right below your rib cage, and when you breathe, it triggers the parasympathetic system just by physically touching that part of your body. [20:15]
Another one of my favorite things is putting your finger on the forehead right between the eyebrows, bringing your chin to your chest, uncrossing your legs, and making sure those feet are firmly on the ground and you sit and breathe. [21:39]
Your forehead right between your eyebrows is where your prefrontal cortex is and is usually where your best self is. [22:05]
Just by pointing to it also allows you to bring all of your energy back to your executive thinking mind, interrupt all of the noise, and bring forth a great version of yourself. [22:13]
Another way to amplify If ever you get nervous or someone's coming at you, always uncross your feet and get your body in an expansive position. [24:25]
If you want to ignite a warrior within, most of it comes from your mindset. [25:54]
Being afraid, constricting, or having insecurities is all normal and all people go through it, and I learned that naming wherever you are normalizes it. [27:01]
Take that question around your most effective self, put pen to paper when you're most effective, and put language behind it. It will help you to inform what your next move is. [28:46]
If you have something that's always playing in the background, just by putting pen to paper, it will help bring some of that up. That is information that will help you step more and more into the best version of yourself. [29:21]
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Your Personal Mission Statement - Georgia Woodbine

"Your mindset is the biggest barrier between what you want out of life, where you are now and where you're trying to be." Georgia Woodbine
The single most important step you can ever take in your life is cultivating the right mindset. This is because having the right mindset plays a crucial role in determining how you perceive and cope with challenges that life throws your way. Today, our guest, Georgia Woodbine, who lives to empower people to go after their best life, says that it all starts with a shift in the mindset.
Georgia Woodbine is one of the world's top female speakers and expert personal and professional development coach and has helped to motivate and inspire an entire generation. She is widely known as a change agent, author, lifestyle transformation coach, and dynamic and entertaining speaker. Georgia has been featured in media outlets such as; The Daily News, Huffington Post, Rolling Out Magazine, Sirius Radio XM.
Georgia created a curriculum and lectured at The Learning Annex, one of the premier producers of seminars, lectures, classes, and workshops throughout North America. She has also been a guest speaker at Time Warner Cable, Columbia University, Stony Brook University, Rutgers University, Howard University, Medgar Evers College, Monroe College, Georgian Court University, as well as a long list of other network organizations. She has authored several books and has over fifteen years of entrepreneurial business success as well as an extensive marketing background working in the entertainment industry with; Def Jam, PolyGram, WNYU Radio, WQHT-Hot 97, Black Enterprise Magazine, and the Apollo Theatre where she honed her management, promotions, and marketing skills.
Georgia created and developed a curriculum based on her book, "How to Choose Your Career Path: Charting Your Success," and lectured at numerous school districts and colleges to help prepare students with employment tools and life skills. She has been a life coach for over thirteen years and has trained and coached hundreds of people. In love with life, Georgia enjoys being an empowerment advocate for others to find their true purpose. She captures her audiences with her message of hope, inspiration, and the power of intention. Her passion continues to touch countless souls in their pursuit of happiness.
In today's episode, Georgia will talk about her personal journey and the evolution to becoming who she is today. She will also explain why a shift in mindset is the first step to changing all other aspects of your life.
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I am a change agent, a lightworker, teacher, writer, author, speaker, and a lifestyle transformation coach. [3:04]
My mission in life is to empower others to live in their highest potential, share my personal journey, and teach them how to confront the things they want to change. [3:17]
One of the things I always teach as a life coach is that everybody should have a mission statement and when I say that to people, they look at me like I have two heads. [3:41]
A mission statement helps you stay focused, gives you clarity, helps you be in alignment, and allows you to prioritize your time based on what's important to you. [4:01]
Once you understand what that mission statement is, you can tap into your gifts, talents, natural abilities, skill set, and job experience, and you can pull all those things together to create the life you love. [4:18]
My personal journey on transformation began about 16 years ago at a point in my life where I was dealing with major [5:34]
When you are pushed up against a wall, and you see your life unraveling before your eyes, that's when you're forced to look deeper within and are forced to confront yourself and ask the tough questions. [ 5:52]
The most important question that I ever asked myself was, "Why am I here?" and that is tied to your purpose, your passion, and the things that bring you joy and [6:18]
Most people don't even realize that they either have a fixed mindset that comes from the belief that your qualities are carved in stone or a growth mindset that comes from the belief that you can create anything that you want at any given time. [8:00]
When you have a fixed mindset, you prefer to stay with what's familiar and tend not to try new things because you feel it's so hard or challenging. [8:21]
When you have a growth mindset, you believe that your qualities are things that you can cultivate through work and effort and that you can change anything at any given time in your life. [8:36]
You have a growth mindset when you embrace change and new opportunities, and you understand that when you're challenged, there's room for growth for you to evolve. [8:54]
When you have a growth mindset, they inspire you to try when you see someone else succeeding. [9:12]
It is so important for people to laser in and understand what kind of mindset they have to change it. [9:30]
Commercial break. [9:42]
Your mindset is the biggest barrier between what you want out of life, where you are now, and where you're trying to be. [10:57]
Sometimes in life, you have to retrain your mindset, including retraining your thoughts and belief systems. [11:14]
Society puts labels on us all the time, but it's really about finding out who you are, beyond those labels. [11:27]
The hardest thing for people is to understand who is the true self, but when you get to the place of the true self, you understand that you are authentic. [11:44]
I realized that I have come to the realization of my true self and that I have the power to create whatever I desire, which may not happen exactly when I wanted to, but it will happen. [12:14]
When you retrain your mindset, your thoughts cannot be incapable of what you were trying to create. [12:30]
You have to be aligned mentally, emotionally, physically if you're trying to manifest change in your life with what you're trying to create. [12:36]
The magic in my life began when I started to understand how to let go and living in the present moment, not worrying about your past and not fretting about your future. [13:58]
I love the quote by Dr. Dwayne Dwyer, which says, "when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at chang" [14:25]
When you achieve the things you want, you're going to desire more things, so it is important to understand your why and your motive behind why you do what you do. [15:00]
The first step to changing anything in your life is to change your mindset, and it is the first and most important step to achieving anything you want in life. [16:08]
You have to develop a plan of action because nothing happens until something moves. You have to take action steps daily to achieve whatever you want to achieve in life. [16:32]
Make a commitment to yourself and discover your true motivation behind why you want to achieve these goals. [16:44]
Understand that behind every goal lies a deeper meaning that is motivating your desire, and it is important to understand what that is. [16:55]
Take small steps, and don't be afraid to revise your plan and goal. If you take baby steps, you will not be so overwhelmed with trying to make this change happen soon, but you will be taking steps to make it happen. [17:03]
You have to learn how to simplify your life and once you learn to do that, you learn not to let things distract your purpose. [18:40]
When you are connected to that higher part of yourself, you learn to create the life you love by controlling your thoughts, feelings, and emotions. [19:05]
Always focus on your why because when you focus on your why you tend to focus on the things you want and less on the things you don't want. [20:46]
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It's All About Who You Know - Nathan Perez

"The overall point in sharing information is that you're giving people something that they can be able to relate to, and you're doing it in a way that they can understand." Nathan Perez
Regardless of your profession or where you are in your career progression, the importance of networking can not be overlooked. When done right, networking can bring tremendous benefits both professionally and personally. For some people, networking may feel uncomfortable, but our guest today, Nathan Perez, insists that networking is not as complex as it has been portrayed and involves exchanging information.
Besides being a genuine and hardworking introvert, Nathan Perez is also an award-winning author, a national speaker, and an executive and job search career coach at career innovation. He comes from unusually unique and diverse professional backgrounds himself and has a rare viewpoint on networking and how that relates to job search and career development.
Nathan is a formerly trained actor with a bachelor's degree in fine arts and theatre. His 20-year career in the arts was supported by simultaneously developing a business career, which involved an inordinate amount of resumes, networking meetings, and interviews in multiple businesses and industries. Utilizing that background, Nathan ties together his deep live audience experience with almost 15 years in the executive search industry, delivering dozens of webinars, seminars, and guest speaking engagements each year on the topics of networking, job search, and career development.
Before his work as an executive career coach, Nathan held the title of Vice President of Research in the retained search industry, where he was responsible for the first step of the executive recruitment process, devising strategies of "where and how to find" qualified candidates for all national and global search engagements. Consequently, networking was and continues to be a day-to-day function of his job. As a result, and because of his combined professional expertise, Nathan regularly works with professionals from different backgrounds and experience levels. This includes everyone from Hollywood movie stars and producers to sound engineers, fashion designers, new college grads, non-profit and civic leaders, veterans, and senior global executives.
He has been cited by The Huffington Post as one of the most connected people on LinkedIn worldwide. He is a member of the Actors Equity Association union (AEA); a voting union member of The Screen-Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA); the Author's Guild; and served as Vice Chair at The Loft Literary Center, the nation's largest literary and writing organization. He is an Honorary Commander with the 934th Airlift Wing, U.S. Air Force Reserve, home of the Global Vikings.
In today's episode, our guest will talk about why networking is the most important skill you need for career development. He will also provide us with insightful tips on how to get the best out of networking meetings.
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I'm a professional speaker, an executive career coach, and I've been doing that for about eight years. [3:44]
Before that, I was in the executive retained search industry, where I found the executive candidates for the executive recruiters to go and recruit, so networking was a major function of my overall job. [3:49]
Before that, I spent 20 years in the entertainment industry as a professional actor and writer, formally trained in BFA Theatre Arts. [4:22]
In 2012, the last firm that I had joined, I met my co-author for the book, "20 Minute Networking Meeting," which eventually turned into three more editions. [4:41]
A combination of her experience in the retained executive search industry and my experience in the retained executive search industry combined with the entertainment industry, networking was a topic that she had brought up as a bucket list idea for a book, and we jumped all over it. [4:53]
All this has led to all the professional speaking in the workshops I do, where I give around 70 webinars and workshops per year. [5:12]
Most of my speaking is geared around networking, not just job search, but networking for anything, including sales, business development, marketing, whatever it may be. [5:21]
Currently, I work with universities, the military particularly the veterans, senior executives, and corporations, both for the corporations themselves and internally on building relationships. [5:33]
Sometimes we call it networking, but at the heart of networking is relationship building, and I work with them one-on-one and in groups. [5:48]
Networking is essential to just about everything, and I don't think we necessarily think about what we're doing to be [6:37]
The word networking has gained sort of this negative connotation because of the behaviors that have been associated with it over time. [6:48]
Networking is just the obtainment and exchange of information, and so we are doing it every day in every discussion that we ever have. [7:10]
When doing an elevator pitch, you can have something general for someone you don't know anything about. [11:45]
If you're intentional about your networking, you've hopefully researched someone and talk about your background in a way that's relevant to that person you're speaking to. [11:55]
The overall point in sharing information is that you're giving people something that they can relate to, and you're doing it in a way that they can understand. [13:36]
Commercial break. [15:08]
Networking is just about the obtainment of information. [16:47]
When it comes to running a meeting, there are five steps to it based on the 20-minute networking meeting. [17:06]
The first step is just a great first impression of you in the meeting. This could be over the phone or virtual, but basically, it's just a Hello. [17:23]
The next step is a 30-60 second snapshot of your background or your professional experience. [17:45]
Step number three is the great discussion and is the bulk of your meeting. This is about 12 to 15 minutes long, and it's comprised of five key questions. [18:11]
The first three questions are very specifically formulated for your contact from the research that you've done on your contact beforehand. [18:33]
Question number four is about expanding your network where you ask for more names because people want to help and because they said yes to your meeting, more often than not, people will give up those names. [19:24]
Question number five is the kind that takes your contact by surprise but in the best possible way. That question is, "how can I help you?" [20:15]
Step number four is wrapping up the meeting. [21:32]
Step number five is following up afterward, which can be immediate or ongoing follow-up. Ongoing follow-up is about keeping your network alive with time. [21:38]
Every little piece of information that we exchange eventually kind of adds up into a big pile, and that big pile can be reserved for a continued discussion with that person, or that bigger pile could be informing other little piles that inform other discussions with other [24:31]
There is never bad information, just what you do with it. [24:49]
Understand that this networking thing is just the obtainment and exchange of information, and we're doing it all the time. [25:55]
If you can look at it this way, then every discussion you're having is networking, and if you do something with the information, you will carve out a path for you wherever you want to go. [26:10]
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How to Get Unstuck - Debra Levy

“Find the things that work for you because you are not like anybody else.” Debra Levy
Many times we get caught up in the hustle and bustle of life and we struggle to create the space and time for the things that matter most to us. However, in order to access the peace and freedom that comes with productive days, we have to be intentional about what we want our days to look like. Our guest today, Debra Levy, guides people in doing the work to make their days more fulfilling and says that it all begins with self-awareness.
Debra Levy, a Certified Life, Productivity & ADHD Coach, is the owner of A Life That Fits, LLC. She is dedicated to helping her clients make time and space for what matters most in their lives. Debra begins by working with her clients to clarify what is important to them, what will make them feel happy and fulfilled, and determining what guidance and support is required to create the life they want. She focuses on areas that are a struggle for many of her clients (whether ADD/ADHD or neurotypical) including time management, hyper-focusing, distractions, the setting of goals and priorities, and establishing healthy boundaries.
Together, she and her clients work on gaining insight into what is holding them back. She helps them to become more aware of their natural abilities, modalities, and tendencies, make room for their big-picture goals and implement step-by-step solutions to help them get from where they are, to where they want to be. Debra is here to partner with her clients on a thought-provoking and productive journey to envision “A Life That Fits” their values and dreams and provide the motivation and accountability to maximize their potential.
In today’s episode, our guest will talk about what her work is all about. She will also provide some tips and insights on how people can better plan for their time by being more realistic in their estimations.
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I have transitioned from doing hands-on organizing to fully coaching now and I deal a lot with time management and productivity for people who are trying to feel less overwhelmed. [4:48]
One aspect is when people feel like they have no structure in their day or they've just too much gone on and they just don't know how to get it all done and need some help. [4:55]
Another is if they're trying to tackle some type of transition or big projects and need a little clarity and figuring out their next steps. [5:13]
I also do ADHD coaching where I go about executive functioning which is the way our brain regulates our behavior and helps us achieve our goals and manage our day. [5:34]
People are reaching out more now and there is a lot more awareness about adult ADHD. [6:44]
I try to help people to trust themselves again, and to see whatever way their brain is wired, that they have great value, and that they've got a lot of strengths just so that they feel empowered again, and not feel that they're lacking. [7:02]
Awareness is key and is the first step and once there is awareness, then someone can start to think about what they want to do with this awareness. [8:12]
When I am with our clients in a session, we talk about the actions they want to take at the end of the session. [8:25]
For those people who are very good at setting their structure, they are usually fine but the ones that had a lot of trouble were the ones that not only needed a structure in place but did not have any but also that needed that interaction socially, to be able to stay on board. [9:35]
So it is a matter of seeing who you are, and how you fit into the situation that makes a difference and that is what we explore a lot of times. [10:00]
There was a big learning experience for a lot of people going through this whole pandemic and if people were able to see the golden lining of this, it would be ideal. [11:20]
With that awareness, hopefully, people will be able to directly communicate what their needs might be to their employers. [12:25]
A lot of people reach out when trying to figure out how to get unstuck and so by discussing and talking through what their major overarching goals are, we figure out what they want to accomplish by the end of that call. [13:30]
We move them forward by being very action-based as well as figuring out these aha moments during the time. [15:14]
A lot of people do not trust in themselves to be able to make the decisions and they just have not felt the confidence so I help them to feel more empowered about doing that. [14:24]
Commercial break. [14:40]
A lot of my clients are dealing with their time management and so what I would like to talk about today is something that I go through with them when they are trying to figure out how to manage their day. [15:40]
A lot of people feel overwhelmed with managing their time and I find a big chunk of that has to do with estimating time. [15:56]
There is a concept that I learned called ramping up and down where people tend to feel that they have more time to do something than they do. [16:12]
I found that by experimenting with how they track their time, we can see how close they are to reality. [16:34]
A lot of people think that those extra steps you take before are a waste of time but it is part of the ramp and is very specific to what you have to take care of. [18:54]
One thing that I found is a great tool, which I use all the time with my clients is time timer. [22:21]
It is a great tool that helps people to visually see time disappearing and is awesome for those who do not have a great relationship with time. [22:30]
Find the things that work for you because you are not like anybody else. For your life to feel more fulfilled, you need to be able to build that toolbox that means something to you, will be consistent, and something that you enjoy. [24:30]
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The Power of Network Marketing - Brian Dilsheimer

“Take a minute to take stock of where you are, and if you're not where you want to be, then you have to do something to change.” Brian Dilsheimer
A lot of people are programmed to accept and pursue only what they are familiar with which ultimately limits their options and outcomes. However, there are so much more opportunities that people can explore if only they can change their perspectives and be open-minded to different opportunities. This is according to our guest today, Brian Dilsheimer, who believes that change only starts from within.  
Brian Dilsheimer spent years in corporate America as a Sales and Marketing executive, managing billion-dollar brands including Cheerios and Nature Valley Granola Bars. He moved to a successful entrepreneurial career including many years as a real estate developer and homebuilder. For the past decade, he has helped others learn how they can be successful entrepreneurs themselves and establish a residual income stream to help them have the freedom to explore their personal and professional passions.
In today’s episode, our guest will talk about the opportunities in network marketing and how to cultivate the right mindset to succeed in this field.
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When I was first approached with this opportunity, I immediately declined because like a lot of people, I had a negative perception of network marketing or multi-level marketing. [3:24]
Because the person that brought it to me was somebody that I knew pretty well and I trusted, I was at least willing to listen. [3:44]
I heard the model which was all about helping people save money on services that they're using and that's a difference between what we do with ACN and Connect versus what a lot of network marketing companies do. [4:08]
I love the fact that we offer value on services that people in many cases are already using like electricity, natural gas, wireless. [4:30]
One service that we have right now that is, unfortunately, going to be the wave of the future is identity theft protection and we offer a chance for people to protect themselves in that situation and many other services as well. [4:44]
At the end of the day, what we do is we have a more efficient, go-to-market strategy and at the end of the day, I think it's more efficient to use word of mouth advertising as a way to share the virtues of a product or service. [6:01]
I think it is a great go-to-market strategy directly to the consumer, it cuts a lot of costs out and it is why these companies can be profitable and afford to pay some nice commissions at the same time. [6:48]
There are pros and cons like people that use those weight loss products, or, you know, they get passionate about it. And it's great, and you can find other people with the same needs, and you create a lot of passion. [8:04]
Sometimes with services, it's hard to manufacture that quite that same level of excitement about saving somebody a few bucks on their electric bill. [8:18]
I do think what gives it longevity and staying power is these are services that people are going to use forever which creates the opportunity for real residual income. [8:26
I don't mind working hard, but I love to work and then get paid for something over and over again. [8:56]
It is also the opportunity to create leverage with very low overhead and so create that residual income, leverage the efforts of others by having a team environment, but yet not have a lot of the risks associated with traditional businesses. [9:54]
It is pretty simple to sign up for as you have all the infrastructure already built for you. [10:35]
These companies spend a lot of time energy and money, putting together the backbone that's going to assist you and support you so that you have all the tools and the training and support that you need. [10:49]
I think that this is like anything else in the world; you have to work because you get out of it what you put into it. [11:00]
The good news is every kind of person succeeds in this business, and the only thing that they have in common is they believe in the opportunity, and they're willing to consistently talk about it. [11:38]
Commercial break. [12:15]
I have been involved with Connect for a long time and we just recently were acquired by a company called ACN. [13:15]
ACN has been around for a long time, they have a 28-year track record and were built by network marketers, and they offer 14 services in 27 countries. [13:26]
For the first time to get an opportunity to be global, super excited about that and we were excited to help them build that for the next 28 years. [13:38]
What I always like to talk about is the mindset and sometimes we are conditioned in a certain way to go get an education, go get a job work for 40 years, and create that stability, and hopefully, we can retire at some point. [14:08]
It is hard to get past conditioning especially when it's something that may not have the best perception. [14:34]
It is really important to look at everything from a fresh perspective and get all of the information and apply it to what's important to you. [15:02]
We all have stuff that keeps us up at night, and ultimately, you have to make your own decision as to whether something fits for you and whether it makes sense. [15:32]
The other thing that I would try to teach is sometimes you don't have to reinvent the wheel, there are systems in place that work, follow the people that have been before you ask questions, watch, listen, learn, and then apply that information. [16:38]
In network marketing, you are your own boss where you make your own hours and you do have to be consistent to be successful. [17:20]
The key is, one, take a minute to take stock of where you are. And if you're not where you want to be, then you have to do something to change. [20:56]
If you decide that you need some sort of a change, explore your options, look at network marketing, look at other options, but it's never too late. [21:07]
Make goals around what you want to be and make some changes where necessary, I think that you can be in a whole different place 12 months from now than you are today. So don't let that opportunity get by. [21:48]
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Embodiment Coaching - Morgan Doman

"It is really important to make time to get in touch with ourselves." Morgan Dorman
People-pleasing can be manifested in very many different ways.  One common outcome is that it usually leads to bitterness and resentment. Many reasons can lead a person to be a people pleaser, but one key component that can help cure this habit is becoming self-aware. Our guest today, Morgan Doman, uses embodiment coaching to help people overcome the driving factors to people-pleasing and says it all starts with being in tune with your body and desires.
Morgan Doman is a Life and Clarity Coach, and she helps people-pleasers to gain clarity and confidence to grow into inspired leaders and entrepreneurs. She has years of experience in the non-profit sector which has given her a deep-rooted knowledge of how to combine business with values. Morgan is certified by the Human Potential Institute and specializes in embodiment and transformational coaching. She loves to coach and to find clarity and then support her clients in taking action to create their life.
In today's episode, Morgan will talk about her work of coaching people-pleasers and expound more on why self-awareness is key in breaking this habit. She will also give us tips on practicing self-awareness and getting more in touch with our bodies.
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My biggest and most powerful tool is embodiment coaching, and that's how I shock people forward by helping them get in tune with their bodies. [2:15]
People pleasers tend to be incredible at scanning a room and knowing how to please everybody, but they tend to be very out of tune with their bodies and [2:28]
People pleasers can live a whole life doing what everybody else wants, and they have no idea what they want. [2:44]
That's why it is all about clarity and knowing what you want, but sometimes it's also just about the little things, too, like just living the life you want to live. [2:52]
I get people totally burnt out and feeling horrible and sick a lot of the time and just feeling like there's no joy. [4:20]
That was certainly the case for me three years ago, when I started in this area because I think we connect to that feeling of complete burnout. [4:39]
A lot of my work is also with mothers and with moms just helping them start to take care of themselves. [4:49]
People pleasers tend to not do anything for themselves, and if they do, it is often to serve someone else. [4:55]
I had to get sick and burnt out so that I could help myself. And then, of course, it set me on my journey helping other people do this. [5:46]
Human beings need balance, and so it's really important to bring that balance. [6:58]
I have this other part of my business, where I help entrepreneurs create and design their business to work for them and the life they want. [7:24]
Often, when entrepreneurs take time off, it's never actually used to be with [8:55]
It is really important to make time to get in touch with ourselves, and the more we do, we don't tend to burn out because we're resting in our dreams and desires. [9:18]
The really beautiful thing about a coaching space or a therapist space is that we actually can express those emotions without judgment, which in and of itself is kind of hard to find in this society. [10:21]
There is a lot of self-awareness around what happened in childhood because of this need to people please, overwork, and over-control. Our environment is always attributed back to patterns we learned in childhood. [10:35]
Commercial break. [12:10]
The more self-aware we are, the more we can do what's right and move forward on our path. [13:10]
My favorite way of doing this is to close my eyes and put my feet firmly on the ground, take a few deep breaths in so in through the nose and out through my mouth and then tune in to whatever I'm [13:48]
I love to teach people pleasers and recommend tuning into your body and not your head and identifying the feelings around this. [15:10]
The more self-aware we are, the more we can see our patterns and start following our journey through our life. [15:55]
Embodiment work is the key, especially when someone is so disconnected from their body. [18:56]
I always tell people to spend a whole day not caring about other people's feelings and see what happens. [21:13]
Remember that you only have one life, and you deserve to live it at your fullest potential and to be able to create the life of your dreams. [22:22]
That's your birthright and every human comes with onto this planet. So, if you need it, this is your invitation to shock your potential and live your life. [22:39]
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