Unleash Your Leadership Through Connections and Positioning w/ Lisa Marie Platske

Lisa Marie Platske is the CEO and founder of Upside Thinking, Inc. She creates high-performing leaders, coaches people from around the world, and has her focus on generating connections, leadership and powerful positioning for her clients. Today we will be talking about ALL THE THINGS related to becoming a powerful leader and using connections and positioning to increase leadership.

Give yourself permission to be the rusty cat. Yes, it’s the internet so we have to have cats!

Listen in to the story of my stray cat and how he taught me a powerful leadership lesson about connections and positioning.

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• We discuss why “Connection is the new currency”
• How connections opens doors of opportunity and influence
• Common mistakes you’re most likely to make that hurt your connections
• What journalists can teach us about making powerful connections
• Powerful leaders do this all the time, but “average Joes” don’t
• How to showcase your expertise through asking questions, rather than ‘telling’
• What is the convincing game?
• The great questions Lisa asks when first making a connection
• Lisa’s definition of “positioning” and what you need to be doing
• How effective positioning really works to showcase your expertise
• What words will make you fell into connection traps you don’t see
• All about power verbs!
• How to craft your positioning statement
• What positioning and storytelling have in common
• Making sure your positioning is authentic to who you are
• Allowing yourself to practice (even experts practice!)
• Lisa Marie’s action steps to help you StartSomething this week
• Simple exercises to implement that strengthen your connections and positioning
• Lisa Marie’s legacy for the world.

Featured on the Show:

• Lisa Marie Platske | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | LinkedIn Company Page | Google+ | YouTube
• Lisa Marie Platske’s books: “The Connection The New Currency How Everyday Women Collaborate to Build Wealth, Community, and Prosperity” | “7 Keys to Mastering Connection: The Success Guide to Opportunities, Income, and Influence” | “Turn Possibilities into Realities: How to Bridge the Gap from a What If… Into a What Is” | “Designing Your Destiny – Achieving Personal and Professional Success Through Upside Thinking”

3 keys to Creative Living w/ Pamela Thompson

We brought back Pamela Thompson, international consultant, business coach, and the author of the No. 1 best-seller, “Learning To Dance With Life: A Guide for High Achieving Women.”

Pamela is a true wealth of knowledge and today she will talk about her 3 keys to Creative Living, and how you can consciously cultivate improved health, happiness, fulfillment and inner peace in your life.

Learn all the work Pamela did with the World Health Organization, and all the amazing places she has been with her management consulting business – from Nigeria to Afghanistan – plus her experience living in Colombia during the 1980’s at the height of the cocaine trade.

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• How you can develop the 7 keys to Creative Living
• The importance of listening and trusting to your body’s wisdom
• How to start listening and trusting your wisdom
• Tapping into and expressing your creative side
• Why you should reconnect to an artistic or creative pursuit that you did as a child
• Tapping into and expressing your creative side as a priority in your life
• Consciously create right and left brain balance
• A simple grounding exercise
• Dealing with being “double brained” and what the right/left sides of the brain tell us
• How Pamela would StartSomething today knowing all she does now
• Pamela’s legacy for the world

Featured on the Show:

• Pamela Thompson | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn
• “Learning To Dance With Life: A Guide for High Achieving Women” by Pamela Thompson
• Free Audio Books
• Get 3 Free chapters of Pamela's latest book, “Learning To Dance With Life: A Guide for High Achieving Women”
• “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future” by Daniel Pink

Use The Power Of Sound to Reduce Stress w/ Sharon Carne

Sharon Carne is the owner and founder of Sound Wellness, a brilliant organization at the forefront of education of how sound and music can be applied to your everyday life, making it better.

Sharon is a professional musician, professor, recording artist, and most interestingly a Sound Healer – she uses sound to aid healing by reducing stress and removing emotional blocks, and her company teaches sound healing techniques to practitioners internationally.

Today, Sharon is here to teach how you can use the power of sound to reduce stress. You are going to love this – my mind is still swirling from excitement!

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• How Sharon developed her business, Sound Wellness
• What steps you can take to get started in taking your expertise into the world
• What Sharon would do differently if starting today
• The power of networking
• Why networking made all the difference to Sound Wellness
• How sound relates to stress
• The problems stress creates in your body and life
• How sound can be used to help you reduce stress
• How our natural sounds stimulate your brain and decrease pain
• The best sounds to use for healing, managing pain and reducing stress
• How a “sigh” can be your best weapon against stress
• The importance of finding the core of an emotional energy
• An incredible story about using the emotional energy of sound
• Why stress seems so easy to ignore (until it’s too late)
• The importance of noticing the smaller symptoms of stress
• Simple sound exercises you can try this week and see the difference in your wellbeing
• Sharon’s legacy for the world.

Featured on the Show:

• Sharon Carne | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | Google+
• Stress Test | Free 60-minute track of healing sounds | Sound Wellness Products
• Sound Wellness Fundamentals Program | Sound Wellness Programs

How To Get Better Organized w/ Sharon McRill

Sharon McRill, owner and president of The Betty Brigade, is one of the most organized and straightforward human beings I've ever met, and an incredible wealth of knowledge and experience. The Betty Brigade is a full-service relocation and organization company based in Ann Arbor, Michigan and serving clients nationwide.

Today, Sharon shares with us her thoughts on expanding a business, as well as some of her expert tips in moving and downsizing.

Sharon is fantastic at organizing your life, but she is also super transparent about her own business growth and the lessons she’s learned along the way. Ever considered franchising your business? Sharon has first-hand experience pursuing this path and some fascinating insight about the process-proving once again that often it’s smarter to get creative rather than do what’s expected.

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What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• Best ways to expand your business
• Should you franchise?
• What barriers you can expect to find when looking to franchise
• Why The Betty Brigade decide to expand in a more creative way
• The importance of planning the future of your business now*
• Why planning for long-term changes impacts your actions today
• Bringing more humanity into your business relationships and how that serves everyone
• How to decide what to keep and what to let go when moving or downsizing
• What happens to your “stuff” when you decide to let it go?
• The food chain of STUFF
• Sharon’s action steps to help you StartSomething this week
• How to prioritize your time
• Sharon’s legacy for the world.

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• The Betty Brigade | Facebo​​ok | Twitter | LinkedIn | LinkedIn Company | YouTube | Google+ | Pinterest | Instagram

How To Embrace Your Sensitivity and Become a Better Leader w/ Maria Pascucci

Author and transformational speaker Maria Pascucci works with high achieving and highly sensitive people to embrace your sensitivity as one of your greatest assets. In this episode, Maria hands out tools and tips on how to embrace your sensitivity and become a better leader and more successful person as a result.

A recovering perfectionist and formerly highly sensitive stressaholic, Maria is a certified professional life coach, transformational nutrition educator, award-winning author and national women’s leadership speaker.

Maria empowers women to let go of the pressure to be perfect and transform their sensitivity into an asset. So if you have ever been accused of being overly-sensitive, too passionate or too intense, take Maria’s quick quiz and listen in.

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What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• What is a highly sensitive person
• Find out if you would be considered ‘highly sensitive’
• How being sensitive enhances what you’re out doing in the world
• The seven levels of energy or consciousness
• Catabolic Vs. anabolic energy
• What unfolds when you learn how to tap into your higher levels of energy
• Dealing effectively with overwhelm
• Maria’s favorite ways to cope with overwhelm or negative self-talk
• The importance of reframing your thoughts for breaking the cycle of perfectionism
• How Maria developed her TEDx Talk proposal and her experience of being on the TEDx stage
• The challenges and transformative experience of creating her TEDx talk
• Maria’s action steps to help you StartSomething this week
• The importance of asking good questions to get to the heart of why you want to StartSomething
• Maria’s legacy for the world.

Featured on the Show:

• Maria Pascucci | Campus Calm | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn
• Maria’s “Am I Highly Sensitive” Quiz
• Maria’s TEDx Talk | “The Power of Vulnerability” Brené Brown’s TED Talk
• “The Highly Sensitive Person” by Elaine Aron
• “Self-Care for the Self-Aware: A Guide for Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, Intuitives, and Healers” by Dave Markowitz

Understanding Neurological Hardwiring w/ Lisa Mininni

Have you ever stopped to think about the importance and the role that our neurological hardwiring plays in your business? Today, we are diving into this fascinating topic with hardwiring and systems expert, Lisa Mininni.

Founder of Excellerate Associates and the Excellerate Success Institute for Entrepreneurial and Leadership Development, Lisa is also the author of the best-selling “Me, Myself and Why: The Secrets to Navigating Change.” Lisa is on a mission to change how we think about growing small businesses by helping small business owners create sustainable businesses and systems aligned with their skills.

​Lisa is a sought-after expert, known in more than 11 countries for her work as a hardwiring and business systems expert.

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What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• Internal Thinkers vs. External Thinkers – which are you?
• Daily examples of our communication drivers in action
• How can teams shift from distrust to trust
• What is Agenda Managing?
• How to make the most of the internal and external thinkers’ inputs in your team
• The importance of knowing who your audience is
• Pulling clients in vs. Pushing hard to get clients
• How a small business owner brings in more business by pulling their ideal clients in
• Lisa’s simple process to grow your network
• How can you continue a sales conversation without being salesy
• What a Leads Generation system is and what can it do for your business
• How you can directly speak to your audience’s problems and frustration
• Lisa’s recommendation to simplify how you manage your contacts and networking
• What books have made a difference for Lisa
• Lisa’s action steps to help you StartSomething this week
• Lisa’s legacy for the world.

Featured on the Show:

• Lisa Mininni | Excellerate Success Institute for Entrepreneurial and Leadership Development | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | Google+
• “Me, Myself, and Why? The Secrets to Navigating Change” by Lisa Mininni | “Me, Myself, and Why? The Secrets to Navigating Change” signed copy by Lisa Mininni | Lisa’s “Wired to Win! Your Path to Passion, Purpose and Profit!” course
• “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles” by Steven Pressfield
• Contactually | Infusionsoft | 1ShoppingCart | Salesforce
• “The Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity: A Simple Guide to Unlimited Abundance” by Edwene Gaines

Unleash Your Creativity and Decision Making w/ Carolyn Ellis

Founder of BrillianceMastery.com and visual facilitator doodling goddess extraordinaire, Carolyn Ellis, is going to show you how to unleash your doodling powers to feed your creativity and decision making. We are going to get our goo on. Yes, I said goo.

Carolyn started out on Wall Street as a senior government policy advisor and Director of Fundraising before completely changing her life and starting something new. She combines her Harvard training and her advising and business background, with her deep intuitive abilities and life-long love affair with colorful markers and sticky notes to help her clients visualize their message. Today, Carolyn helps decision makers and leaders stand out with unique and powerful experiences for their clients and teams. She uses captivating infographics, doodles, and full-size visual murals to help them take notes, make hard decisions, and bring creativity into the forefront of their businesses.

​And if you haven’t yet, download the 3 Ways Doodling Attracts More Clients and Clarity, a doodled download to get your own doodle on!

Get ready to break-out your markers and go into your goo stage.Trust me, you’ll like it.

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What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• Is there a good time to reinvent yourself and your business?
• The importance of paying attention and listening to your inner-voice
• How you can start using doodling as a tool to help your decision making process
• If you need to know how to draw to doodle
• How your daily notes can unleash your creativity and improve your memory
• How colors, outlines and colorful sticky notes get your juices flowing
• The “Throwing It Up On The Wall” process
• Doodling’s practical applications for your business
• Carolyn’s action steps to help you StartSomething this week
• The importance of having personal brainstorm time
• How meaningful conversations with others can help your new business
• How daily baby-steps unleash your creativity and brilliance
• Carolyn’s legacy for the world.

Featured on the Show:

• Brilliance Mastery | Thrive After Divorce | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | YouTube | Google+
• “3 Ways Doodling Attracts More Clients and Clarity” by Carolyn Ellis

Remove Any Block in Your Path and Have a Truly Mindful Life w/ Tamara Green

We all deal with relationships on a daily basis – with ourselves, to our clients, our families, communities. It’s a central part of our lives, and yet this area doesn’t get the focus it deserves. Today we are taking a deep dive into the world of relationships with Tamara Green, a phenomenal Loving Relationship Expert, as well as psychotherapist and a mediation facilitator.

Leave fear behind you and move forward into love and joy. Tamara Green helps singles to find their soul mates and couples to heal their relationships while authentically falling in love with themselves in the process. Elle Magazine has called her the “soul-centered love expert.”

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What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• Why we have to keep re-learning how to deal with our relationships
• The importance of removing blocks and clearing your path to a mindful and joyful life
• The importance of being aware of where you “operate” from on a daily basis
• Tamara’s powerful exercise to be mindful of your thoughts, actions and behaviors
• The importance of what you focus on and what that creates
• Why complaining is in us and what to do about it
• How to release what is stuck in your life and no longer resonates with you
• What practices and tools Tamara recommends to ease your path if you are in a life transition
• How being willing to question can help you overcome blocks in your path
• How meditation ties into relationships
• Tamara’s action steps to help you StartSomething this week
• The importance of gratitude
• Tamara’s legacy for the world

Featured on the Show:

• Tamara Green | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | Google+ | YouTube
• Tamara’s Meditations

Make the Necessary Mind Shifts to Start Your Successful Business with Hypnotherapy and NLP Therapy w/ Jill Fischer

Hypnotherapy creates a necessary opening in your brain to create changes in your behavior that you want, while Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) creates faster integration. Sound like crazy woowoo stuff? Not if you’re a brain science geek like me and my guest today – Jill Fischer! You might be surprised to learn how commonly these techniques are used by high performers, including entrepreneurs, professional athletes, and musicians.

Jill Fischer is an advanced hypnotherapist, the owner of MindReset Solutions, an international speaker, teacher, coach and TV talk show host with over 25 years of experience. She has shared the stage with some of the greats, such as the author of “The Four Agreements” Don Miguel Ruiz, and “Conversations with God” author Neal Donald Walsh.

Learn about these fascinating modalities, how they work, and how they can help fast -track your success by helping you reach your goals faster, reduce your anxiety, and assist you in building better habits.

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What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• What is MindReset Technology
• What Hypnotherapy and NLP Therapy really are
• The similarities between Hypnotherapy and Meditation
• What is part of NLP
• What happens when these set of tool are combined for therapeutical purposes
• Can MindReset Technology help when you are in the midst of life transitions?
• How Hypnotherapy and NLP Therapy can help you make the necessary mind shifts to start your successful business
• Quick technique you can easily do to lower your anxiety
• The biggest blocks that need clearing to be a successful entrepreneur
• What confidence is often connected to
• Simple things you can do to improve your confidence
• What book and resources Jill recommends if you want to learn more about Hypnotherapy and NLP Therapy
• Jill’s action steps to help you StartSomething this week
• The power “I am” statements have for you and your kids
• Jill’s legacy for the world.

Featured on the Show:

• Jill Fischer | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | The Village Clinic
• Introduction Leaders Program
• “The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz | “Conversations with God” by Neale Donald Walsch | “Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being” by Rudolph E. Tanzi Ph.D., Deepak Chopra

Write Brilliant Marketing Copy w/ Lisa Manyon

I am not a fan of the blank page. Yikes! Nor does the traditional copywriting and marketing model of ‘pressing people’s pain points’ resonate. No thank you. Lisa Manyon’s work helped me break through my own writing blocks and create a new paradigm of writing marketing copy that is authentic, honest, and REAL. I’m so glad to share her work with you. In this episode we cover how to easily write brilliant copy and we’ll show you how you can leverage your content into fresh copy and free your time and energy.

Lisa is the Business Marketing Architect and the creator of the new marketing and copywriting model for success: A simple 3-step “Challenge. Solution. Invitation.” formula for creating marketing messages with integrity.

Lisa has the distinction of becoming the first certified Creating Copy that Sells Copywriter in the state of Idaho. She was the recipient of the People’s Choice Award at the 29th Annual California Women’s Conference. Lisa’s work has been featured in INC magazine and the #1 best-selling books, “Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection” and “Engage!: The Complete Guide for Brands and Businesses to Build, Cultivate, and Measure Success in the New Web”.

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What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• How to overcome your fear of writing
• Why you need to understand that in the end it’s not about you
• How to make your client feel as if you’re talking directly to them
• Lisa’s personal and business systems
• Why journaling can help you anchor-in your ideas
• Lisa’s simple 3-step “Challenge. Solution. Invitation.” formula
• The story behind Lisa’s copywriting formula
• How Lisa’s marketing and copywriting formula works
• Where should you start when you’re building a website
• What is the key step people miss when building a website
• The importance of having a strategy and keeping it present at all times
• Why you can’t make a difference if everything you do is on auto-pilot
• How to leverage your existing content and free your time
• Lisa’s action steps to help you StartSomething this week
• Lisa’s legacy for the world.

Featured on the Show:

• Lisa Manyon | The “Challenge. Solution. Invitation.” Formula | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | Google+