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Life Skills That Matter PodcastGive Your Dream Career A Chance With Kate Beever (393)Music therapist Kate Beever, founder of MaineMusicAndHealth.com wants to inspire you to focus on your dream career path right now as she has done throughout her 20-year career!
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
+ Why she says she started a business out of necessity, not necessarily out of a desire to do so.
+ What Kate believes it takes to be a “good business owner”.
+ Why you can’t fail if you don’t quit.
+ How cultivating curiosity makes you feel more positive.
+ Ho...2021-08-3142 min
Life Skills That Matter PodcastMake An Impact, Not Just Money With Mary Ann Kristiansen (392)Mary Ann Kristiansen, founder of the Hannah Grimes Marketplace and co-founder of the Radically Rural Summit, wants to inspire you to start a business to make an impact, not just money.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
+ Why community is her core source of motivation.
+ Her concept of being “idea friendly”.
+ How she challenged her limiting beliefs about what it means to be a leader.
+ How “idea demons” help her overcome big challenges.
+ Why her business incubator has such a high success rate.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastCreate Lasting Change By Taking Small Steps With Dr. Marcie Beigel (391)Dr. Marcie Beigel, a behavioral specialist for over 20 years, wants to help you create lasting change by taking small steps, so you can stop feeling overwhelmed.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
+ How she tried on different professional identities to discover the one that truly reflects who she is.
+ The power of consistently taking small steps.
+ Importance of tracking your behavior, so you know how to change it.
+ How she learned how to sell as a coach.
+ Why she felt the need to “pause” her business for over a ye...2021-08-1747 min
Life Skills That Matter PodcastHow to Have a Great Conversation With Taylor Buonocore-Guthrie (390)Taylor Buonocore-Guthrie, co-founder of Convers(ate), wants to share how to have a great conversation with no agenda, but only to connect and learn from others.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
+ How Taylor defines what it means to be a “facilitator”.
+ How technology has adversely impacted our conversations.
+ Making conversations less transactional by practicing “beginner’s mind”.
+ Suggestions on how to start a conversation with a stranger.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastHow To Create A Heart-Centered Business With Amber Zaricor (389)Amber Zaricor, founder of Cooperheart Creative, a graphic design agency, wants to inspire you to create a heart-centered business by leading with your heart!
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
+ How Taylor defines what it means to be “heart-centered”.
+ Why knowing yourself is the most important first step toward starting your business.
+ Why the intangible aspects of your brand dictate the visual aspects.
+ How to get better at saying, “No,” so you attract customers who energize you.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastWhy Your Product Won’t Sell Itself With Kyle Ewing (388)Kyle Ewing, founder of TerraSlate Paper, shares why your product won’t sell itself and why you need to embrace sales if you want to work for yourself.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
+ Why selling is the most important activity during the early days of your business.
+ Why he works harder for less money compared to when he worked for someone else.
+ How he felt when he has 100,000 sheets of his paper with no market to sell to.
+ Toughest lesson he learned as a result of starting his business.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastDo Work That Matters To You With Lucy Scott (387)Lucy Scott, a veteran of the broadcast industry, who interviewed Presidents and CEO’s, shares lessons from her 40-year career to inspire you to do work that matters to you.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
+ It’s people that keep you engaged with your career.
+ Why she believes self-awareness is the most important life skill.
+ If it doesn’t fit, don’t force it.
+ Understand the needs of others.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastRethink Your Digital Life With Corbett Barr (386)Corbett Barr, co-founder of Fizzle, wants to inspire you to rethink your digital life. He shares why he broke up with social media in the fall of 2020.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
+ Where he has redirected the time he once spent on social media.
+ The importance of taking sabbaticals.
+ The process he used for breaking up with social media.
+ Why he believes he has become a better communicator by leaving social media.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastHow To Unlock Your Creative Mindset With Monica Kang (385)Monica Kang, founder of the InnovatorsBox, wants to show you how to unlock your creative mindset to make your work more fun and more fulfilling.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
+ When you understand your Why, you attract people who are aligned with you.
+ Why she felt stuck in her dream career.
+ The very first steps she took to get herself unstuck to create work on her terms.
+ Why creativity is all about leaning into your curiosity.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastNever Stop Developing Your Potential With Paul Higgins (384)Paul Higgins, helps consultants build an additional $1 million in annual revenue. He wants to inspire you to never stop developing your potential! Check out his podcast Bold. Live. Give.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
+ Being a consultant versus running a consulting business.
+ The process Paul used to find a business idea that worked for him.
+ The importance of creating space to make a big change in your life.
+ How a health crisis triggered him to work for himself.
+ The importance of h...2021-06-2951 min
Life Skills That Matter PodcastTell Your Story With Confidence with Marion Abrams (383)Marion Abrams, a podcast and storytelling coach, wants to inspire you to tell your story with confidence, so you can discover the people who will most likely benefit from your gifts. Learn more about her work at MadMotion.com.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
+ How we convey so much more information with body language beyond our words.
+ Build trust by getting vulnerable.
+ Get better at your story by telling it over and over again.
+ Plans prepare you for the unexpected.
+ How...2021-06-2252 min
Life Skills That Matter PodcastEmbrace The Entrepreneur Mindset With Justin Lafazan and Dylan Gambardella (382)Justin Lafazan and Dylan Gambardella, co-founders of NextGenHQ.com and hosts of the Momentum Audio podcast, want to inspire you to embrace the entrepreneur mindset even if you have no intention of starting a business, so you can get want you want out of life.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
+ Redefining what it means to be an entrepreneur.
+ Fighting the pull of the status quo and how they did it.
+ Why naps are OK.
+ How they’ve grown by evolving.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastGet Clear On Your Priorities With Sarah Mikutel (381)Sarah Mikutel, a performance and clarity coach, wants to inspire you to live without borders, geographic or mental ones! Check out her Living Without Borders podcast on your favorite podcast app!
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
+ How she found a way to live long-term in Europe by becoming an Italian citizen.
+ How she landed a gig working for Apple through her LinkedIn profile.
+ Unable to find work living in the UK, forced her to create her own work.
+ How she discovered clarity for h...2021-06-0849 min
Life Skills That Matter PodcastOvercome Social Anxiety With Mark Metry (380)Mark Metry, author of “Screw Being Shy” believes more people suffer from social anxiety than they realize. He wants to inspire you to have the confidence to just be yourself.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
+ Why you may not actually be an introvert, but might be suffering from social anxiety instead.
+ How he believes his social anxiety developed and the years of work it took to recover from it.
+ Why he now refers to himself as a “spiritual warrior”.
+ The false mask of social confidence.
+ How social anxiety holds back t...2021-06-0149 min
Life Skills That Matter PodcastBoldly Live Life On Your Terms With Annie Sisson (379)Annie Sisson, founder of IntoTheBold.com is a coach, multipotentialite and avid traveler, who wants to inspire you to live boldly by focusing on what matters to you most in your life!
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
+ What makes her uncomfortable by the question, “What do you do?”
+ How she discovered how she genuinely like to work.
+ Understanding the difference between what you love and what you are good at.
+ What it feels like to feel your inner voice.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastFinancial Independence For Students With Rob Phelan (378)Our guest today, Rob Phelan, the founder of TheSimpleStartup.com, wants you to know, financial independence is not as far out of your reach as you might think!
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
+ How to tell your story effectively.
+ How he automated aspects of his classroom to give him more time to start side businesses.
+ How he learned to earn income without trading his minutes for dollars.
+ The simple formula for achieving your financial independence.
+ Battling perfectionism.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastMake More Money To Help More People With Rachel Rodgers (377)Rachel Rodgers, author of “We Should All Be Millionaires,” wants to empower you to make more money to increase your economic power, so you can make your voice heard.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
+ How she found and built her voice.
+ Her secret to maintaining consistent habits: SQUAD.
+ How she is economically empowering marginalized communities.
+ Million-dollar decisions you can make on day one of your business.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastFlirting With Self-Employment With Diania Merriam (376)Our guest today is Diania Merriam, EconoMeConference.com, who’s back on our show to share another chapter in her solopreneur journey. This time she recently parted ways with her job and now finds herself questioning the role of work in her life in a way she hasn’t before.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
+ How she built trust in herself to finally go out on her own.
+ How she uses her depression as a teacher.
+ Why affirmations have transformed her mindset.
+ The deeply intentional process she wen...2021-05-0448 min
Life Skills That Matter PodcastOwn Your Digital Life With Angela Crocker (375)Angela Crocker, author of several digital living books, including “Digital Life Skills for Youth.” wants to inspire you to own your digital life, so you can make it work for you.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
+ Her passion for connecting people with each other is the thread of her career.
+ How to be less intimate by tech as you start your business.
+ Her decision-making framework Time + Talent + Treasure.
+ How to use social media without getting overwhelmed by it.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastFrom Burned Out To Thriving With Laura Foster (374)Laura Foster, a professional leadership coach and former fashion designer, wants to share why it’s possible to go from burned out to thriving more quickly than you realize.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
+ Why your creative energy isn’t infinite.
+ The myth of the “hard worker”.
+ How her breast cancer diagnosis started to shift her thinking.
+ The changes she’s noticed in her clients as a result of the pandemic.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastLearn From Your Struggles With Karl Staib (373)Karl Staib, coach and founder of DigtoFly.com, shares how to learn from your struggles, so you can become a better version of yourself.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
+ The process he used to reframe his negative mindset.
+ Why he pivoted a couple of times to arrive at his current business.
+ The Dig To Fly Method to learn from your struggles.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastSpeak Your Truth With Tarzan Kay (372)Email marketing guru Tarzan Kay wants to inspire you to speak your truth to build your community.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
+ Listen before you write.
+ How she taught herself copywriting.
+ How she niched down to end up focusing on email marketing.
+ Why it’s so important to make financial investments in yourself in the early days of your business.
+ Key lessons for writing engaging emails.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastPower Of Community Will Accelerate Your Growth With Jill Salzman (371)Jill Salzman, founder of The Founding Moms, wants to share how the power of community will accelerate your growth faster than going it alone.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
* Why you need to ask for help sooner in your business than you think..
* Get advice from like-minded people to motivate you.
* Biggest obstacles Jill faced building her business and how she overcame them.
* How becoming a mother motivated her to let go of her first business to start a new one.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastRethinking Company Culture In A Digital Workplace With Neil Miller (370)Neil Miller, host of The Digital Workplace Podcast, shares his insights for rethinking company culture in a digital workplace.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
* How he ended up working for himself while living in India.
* The difference between building culture in-person versus online.
* How he’s building his business by organizing conversations.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastHow To Make A Good First Impression Online With Michelle McCormack (369)Michelle McCormack, founder of Casting Coin, an online talent marketplace for brands and producers wants to share several lessons on how to make a good first impression online.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
* How the pandemic changed the photography business.
* Key lessons for writing effective emails and how to avoid email or text wars.
* The guiding principles she used to build an online community of influencers in Boston.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastHow To Ask Great Questions with Billy Samoa Saleebey (368)Billy Samoa Saleebey, host of the For the Love of Podcast and the founder and CEO of Podify, wants to share how to ask great questions, so you can build great relationships with your clients.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
How to disarm your potential clients to gain their trust.
Why being a good listener makes you a better storyteller.
Why self-awareness is the most important skill in sales.
Why he chose podcasting as his medium of choice.
The number action to take for building your following on LinkedIn.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastTake a Step Back to Move Forward With Chris Martin (367)Chris Martin, filmmaker, curiosity builder and host of the Getting Work to Work Podcast, wants to inspire you to take a step back to move forward on the work you really want to do.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
* The various on and off ramps he has taken over the past 15 years along his solopreneur journey.
* How validation holds us back.
* How he used his own podcast as a case study to launch his new venture helping others start their own podcasts.
* How to find clients by being more hum...2021-03-0239 min
Life Skills That Matter PodcastHow To Do Your Best Work With Amber De La Garza (366)Amber De La Garza, founder of TheProductivitySpecialist.com and host of the Productivity Straight Talk podcast, wants to inspire to discover how to be your best self to do your best work.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
* How she pivoted her career in real estate sales into business coaching.
* Why the birth of her son gave her the courage to go out on her own.
* How she’s been apprenticing her son in her business.
* Amber’s version of productivity as an employee versus working for herself.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastReframe Your Mindset To Make a Big Change With Rachel Freiman (365)Rachel Freiman, fitness trainer and author of “Becoming Mindstrong” wants to teach you how to reframe your mindset to make any big change you want to make in your life.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
* Why she calls herself an educator and not a fitness trainer.
* How teachers are uniquely suited to transition into entrepreneurship.
* Why learning how to deal with failure is more important than making money.
* How to approach your social media presence from a place of empathy.
* Why she quit her 6-figure job to go all-in on her bu...2021-02-1633 min
Life Skills That Matter PodcastGet Paid To Play With Jeff Harry (364)Jeff Harry, founder of RediscoverYourPlay.com, wants to inspire you to get paid to play for a living regardless of the type of work you want to do!
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
* How Jeff turned play into a career path.
* Why working at toy companies was not fun for Jeff.
* Why so-called “experts” don’t always practice what they preach.
* How COVID turned his side business into his full-time gig.
* Why mourning is such an important part of the process of losing your job.
* Don’t tie your ident...2021-02-0945 min
Life Skills That Matter PodcastTurn Setbacks Into Opportunities With Roobens Fils (363)Roobens Fils, travel blogger and author of “Traveling While Black” wants to inspire you to turn setbacks into opportunities and he’s had his fair share of them!
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
* How the pandemic forced him to finally get his book out into the world.
* If you get laid off, Roobens shares what you need to do to be prepared.
* Landing clients as he traveled the world.
* How to balance work with sightseeing.
* How long it took Roobens to earn the same amount of money as his last job.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastMake Six Figures Landing Government Contracts With Karwanna Dyson (362)Karwanna D, CEO of She’s Got Goals.com, wants to teach you how to make six figures landing government contracts, helping you become profitable faster than you might have imagined!
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
* How to seek government contracts if you sell professional services.
* Why she tried several different types of business before she found one that made her millions.
* How to find government contracts earmarked specifically for women and minority-owned businesses.
* What she learned from her own experience about how to accelerate the growth of a new busine...2021-01-2645 min
Life Skills That Matter PodcastHow To Become A Virtual Assistant With Sandra Booker (361)Sandra Booker, owner of AnyOldTask.ca, a virtual assistant agency, wants to teach you how to become to a virtual assistant (VA) to gain your work freedom right now!
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
* How she turned her administrative skill set into a business.
* Find business ideas by focusing on skills you’re really good and most other people don’t enjoy doing.
* The first couple of steps Sandra took to become a VA.
* If you decided to become a VA, don’t undervalue your skills.
* How she gets more client...2021-01-1929 min
Life Skills That Matter PodcastCreate Time Freedom With Laura Roeder (360)Laura Roeder, founder of MeetEdgar and Paerbell, wants to inspire you to create time freedom by designing your work around your ideal lifestyle.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
How such discovered her desire to do work that gave her time freedom.
Why she prefers lots of clients who pay her small amounts of money.
How she turned her social media spreadsheets into the software that became MeetEdgar.
Overcoming her self-imposed limitations.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastBanker Turned Financial Literacy Advocate With Jatali Bellanton (359)Jatali Bellanton, founder of BrilliantMindsUnite.com is a financial literacy advocate that wants to inspire you to teach yourself and your kids how to achieve financial freedom.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
How she started making money from home once she left her job.
Why it’s so important to talk to your spouse about your entrepreneurial desires.
How she secured her financial independence through real estate.
Why you need to prove yourself all over again when you start working for yourself.
Core financial lessons she believes kids need t...2021-01-0542 min
Life Skills That Matter PodcastHow To Embrace Change With Evan La Ruffa (358)Evan La Ruffa, creative entrepreneur and founder of IPaintMyMind.org, shares how to embrace change in times of great chaos like we are living through.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
How the pandemic created new opportunities for his nonprofit.
Be willing to test anything you are unsure about.
Why he doesn’t want to commit to just one service.
Why gets his team to think of projects like campaigns instead.
How he prioritizes his limited resources.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastRepackage Your Skills To Do Work That Matters With Khalilah Elliott (357)Khalilah Elliott, founder and chief disruptor at Gafford Communications, a multicultural strategic communications firm, wants to inspire you to repackage your skills to do work that matters.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
If you’ve been recently laid off, Khalilah has some advice for you.
Why freelancing was her entry point into entrepreneurship.
The process she went through to recover emotionally from the loss of her job.
Why her story is a warning for all of our careers.
Within two years, she is making more money than her pre...2020-12-2253 min
Life Skills That Matter PodcastDeclutter To Live Your Desired Life With Jessica Malone (356)Jessica Malone, a decluttering coach and founder of NachoAverageFro.com wants to inspire you to declutter to live your desired life.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
Why decluttering was the one method that finally got her unstuck.
Why she tackled her closest first to start decluttering.
Anxiety about her job drove her to make a change in her life.
Why convenience is preventing you from living your desired life
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastHow Work Changed In 2020 (355)In this special panel discussion episode, work futurists Karen Eber, Charles Araujo and George Muir discuss how work changed in 2020 as we’ve known it and how to adapt to that change going forward.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
Why George believes we should no longer be discussing how to approach the future of work, but the future of life itself.
Karen believes companies need to be thinking about who to create engaged cultures no matter where their employees are located.
Charles says if you want to work on your terms...2020-12-0856 min
Life Skills That Matter PodcastNiching Down Your Business With Jeremy Enns (354)Jeremy Enns, CEO of Counter Weight Creative, shares the process he went through to niche down his business to its current focus today.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
Why you need to shun the nonbelievers from your business life. How he fell into his current niche of health and wellness.
What the Niche Tribe Model is all about.
How niching down increases your referrals.
How you can focus on niche mindsets and not just industries.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastTeaching Disadvantaged Girls Entrepreneurship Skills With Isha Uppalapati (353)Isha Uppalapati, founder of AGirlsFrontier.com, started a nonprofit 2 years as a sophomore in high school to teach disadvantaged girls entrepreneurship skills.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
Sharing the resource you have with others who have less access.
The process she went through to start her nonprofit.
How she got her very first donation.
What she’s learned about managing her time from remote learning.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastMake Your Website A Sales Lead Machine With Aaron James (352)Aaron James, CEO of Webonli, shares how to make your website a sales lead machine.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
Why your website is your #1 employee.
How to build your business without having to chase after sales.
How engage potential customers using social media without spending all your time on social media.
The basics of building a digital sales funnel for your business.
How to get paid to learn.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastGet Paid To Be You With Natalie Sisson (351)Entrepreneur and digital nomad, Natalie Sisson shares our mission to inspire you to get paid to be you and how you can do it.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
Practice telling your story.
Getting paid to be yourself takes effort.
Why she’s not an advocate of having a backup plan.
Identify your unfair advantage as the starting point for creating your business.
How traveling the world helped her build her business.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastYour Motivation Code With Todd Henry (350)Todd Henry, author of The Motivation Code, wants to help you to understand your motivation, so you can unlock your hidden potential.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
Why you may not understand your motivation as clearly as you might believe.
What Todd learned about his own motivations.
How he motivates himself to write, yet doesn’t enjoy the process of writing.
Sustain your motivation by learning how to activate your core motivations throughout the day.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastBlack Women Transforming Work (349)Black women are transforming work for themselves by starting businesses at a faster rate than any other demographic because the conventional work system never worked for them.
In this special episode, I’m joined by a guest co-host Jillian Hubbard, a diversity, equity and inclusion consultant, who I previously interviewed in episode 247 to guide a round table discussion about black women solopreneurs and how to support their growth.
Our guests are Ericka Young, a personal finance coach and founder of Tailor-Made Budgets.com and Naika Gabriel, a researcher at Johns Hopkins and a holistic doula, wh...2020-10-271h 15
Life Skills That Matter PodcastGrow Your Business By Collaborating With Jinny Oh (348)Jinny Oh, a UX designer and founder of WANDR, provides loads of lessons about how to grow your business faster by collaborating with your team and even your clients.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
Never assume you understand the behaviors of your customers.
The design for anything begins by first observing.
Why she hired designers better than herself as she built her team.
How to grow by letting go, but how it almost sent her business into bankruptcy.
The pros and cons of never having been conventionally employed.
Ready to work for yourse...2020-10-2038 min
Life Skills That Matter PodcastHow to Start a Freelance Copywriter Business With Nicki Krawczyk (347)Nicki Krawczyk, a copywriting freelance coach and founder of filthyrichwriter.com, shares how to start a freelance copywriter business using her own story as inspiration.
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
Debunking the myth that you can’t earn a living as a writer.
Why you might want to improve your writing skills to better communicate your story, even if you will never consider yourself a writer.
How she found her first clients from her existing connections.
Why you need a system to find and land clients.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastHow to Become A Freelance Web Developer With Ryan Clover (346)Ryan Clover, a web developer and founder of Maple Creative, shares how to become a freelancer developer. His story provides an actionable template for building any type of freelance business. Show notes https://lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show346
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
How he taught himself web development and how his activism work inspired him to expand his web skills to build community.
How designing your website forces you to get super clear on your story.
Why he wanted to work location independent.
Why starting a business requires a lot of personal growth.
How he star...2020-10-0644 min
Life Skills That Matter PodcastHow To Start A Mastermind With Iggy Perillo (345)Iggy Perillo, a leadership coach and the founder of worksportlife.com, shares how to start a mastermind, so get support from your peers as you build your business. Show notes at https://lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show345
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
The importance of telling the story of your work over and over.
What it means to be a leadership consultant.
How she is creating work that works for her.
The basics of how to start a mastermind group.
The process she used to price her initial service.
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Life Skills That Matter PodcastDemystify Accounting for Solopreneur Startups With Luke Frye (344)Luke Frye, CPA and Co-founder of Timber Tax, shares how to demystify accounting for solopreneur startups. Show notes at https://lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show344
Lot of great lessons in our conversations including:
How he started his own CPA practice.
What he learned from being an intrapreneur as part of the startup at the bookkeeping software bench.co.
Why he turned down clients even as he was looking for clients to start his current business.
The basics of setting up your accounting system to demystify accounting as you get started.
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