Boost Your Business w/ Greg Peters

When you think about networking you feel a bit “reluctant?” Greg Peters totally understands.

Greg, the reluctant Networker, is back on The StartSomething Show to talk with us more about how you can boost your business by networking, referral building, and how you can start doing effective follow-through.

Before transforming himself into a networking professional, Greg was a computer programmer, and he’s a classic introvert. Through study, practice, and lots of trial and error, he has been able to transform himself into a true networking professional. Catch Greg’s first episode here on The StartSomething Show where you can learn how to build successful businesses in different fields and how he teaches so many people the value of developing powerful personal connections.

After this, you will stop being “reluctant” about networking and, just like Greg, become a pro at it.

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• Basic networking mistakes people make
• Systems you can build to follow-through and deepen relationships
• Challenges people face after a networking event
• What can you do to reduce the number of business cards you get at a networking event
• Key Business Tip: “Immediate Follow-Up”
• The differences between a phone/Skype conversation and meeting in person
• How to choose who to network with
• Not sure if you should connect with someone or not? Here’s how to handle it
• The simple question to get around hardcore salespeople
• How different networking groups differ
• How a good referral relationship should work
• Preparing to have referral partners effectively
• What questions to ask yourself when looking for good referral partners
• How simple gestures of appreciation can make a difference to your clients and referral partners
• Greg’s action steps to help you explore your own story and make use of it
• Greg’s legacy for the world.

Featured on the Show:

• Greg Peters | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | Google+ | YouTube | 52 FREE Connections Tips

How to Successfully Achieve Your Goals w/ Pete Winiarski

How many times have you find yourself lost in the woods on your way to your goal? Successfully achieve your goals without getting lost and have some fun with the process.

Pete Winiarski is founder and CEO of Win Enterprises, LLC, a Management Consulting and Results Coaching Firm as well as co-founder of the Business Consultant Institute, and has been guest expert on all major television outlets in the US. Pete is also the bestselling author of “Act Now! A Daily Action Log for Achieving Your Goals in 90 Days,” which helps both businesses and individuals to be action-oriented and achieve their goals.

Makes sense to have Pete back on the show again to talk about goal achievement, doesn’t it? 

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• The 5-C’s of Goal Achievement
• Why these 5-C’s are fundamental to achieving your goals
• 1st C: “Cascade”
• Why you should ultimately think about your goals into 90-day periods of time
• 2nd C: “Create”
• What does “creation” mean when setting your goals
• It’s okay to go back and adjust your goals
• 3rd C: “Commit”
• What are you “committing” to when setting your goals
• The three types of action
• The role daily affirmations play for goal achievement
• How goal-achieving-moments of inspiration will start happening for you
• What overwhelm stops you from achieving
• 4th C: “Confirm”
• Staying on track with your goals
• 5th C: “Celebrate”
• The importance of “celebrating” along the way to goal achievement
• How to grab hold of what you already deserve
• Some favorite ways to celebrate achieving your goals
• How goal achievement can be a teachable moment for your kids
• Pete’s legacy for the world.

Featured on the Show:

• Win Enterprises, LLC | Facebook | Facebook Business Page | Twitter | LinkedIn | LinkedIn Company Page | Google+ | YouTube
• Business Consultant Institute Facebook Page | Business Consultant Institute LinkedIn Company Page
• “Act Now! A Daily Action Log for Achieving Your Goals in 90 Days” by Pete Winiarski
• Get Started: DailyActionLog.com

How To Unleash The Message You Really Want w/ Sharon Sayler

Our communications and body language expert, Sharon Sayler, joins us to talk about nonverbal communication and how you can unleash the message you really want others to hear and follow, as opposed to the message that people are actually receiving from you. It will blow your mind what a simple shift in hand gestures can do to your message!

Sharon is an international communications trainer, trainer, speaker, CEO of the Strategic Communications Firm – Competitive Edge Communications, and the best-selling author of seven books.

Sharon works with a wide range of clientele — executives, entrepreneurs, universities, corporations and organizations such as Delta Airlines, Yale’s Graduate School of Management, and the Women’s Executive Leadership Council.

Through Competitive Edge Communications, Sharon reaches professionals around the world how to be courageous leaders using critical communication skills.

Don’t miss Sharon’s episode and check out the free bonus Sharon has for all of you: The 5 Little-Known Things That Affect How Others See You…

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• The uncommon and super-powerful place Sharon begins when teaching non-verbal communication
• The first place in your body language that you need to be as authentic and transparent as you can
• The 360-Breathing technique
• The impact to your body language when you’re breathing wrong
• What you can do to shift negative impacts in you and others
• Leadership Skill: How to calm an angry or agitated person
• Leadership Skill: How to best deliver bad or volatile news
• Gestures in your body language that you need to pay attention to
• “Jargon” gestures, and why you need to be careful about using them
• The three cross-cultural hand-gestures that you can use universally
• What women leaders can do nonverbally to send a firmer, stronger message
• Language softeners and why you need to drop them
• How to properly deliver your idea without eagerness or missing the ideal timing for it
• “Hero Language” vs. “Team Member Language”
• What is being “Artfully Vague?”
• Sharon’s action steps to help you explore your own story and make use of it
• Sharon’s legacy for the world.

Featured on the Show:

• Sharon Sayler | Facebook Profile | Facebook Page | Twitter | LinkedIn | LinkedIn Company Page | Google+
• FREE Gift “The 5 Little-Known Things That Affect How Others See You…”
• “2-Fer Special ! What Your Body Says AND Life’s Short. Live Passionately Book Special” by Sharon Sayler
• Life Interrupted Radio
• “What Your Body Says (And How to Master the Message): Inspire, Influence, Build Trust, and Create Lasting Business Relationships” by Sharon Sayler | “Mindfulness in Action: A Hands-On Guide to Creating Peace Amidst the Chaos” by Sharon Sayler | “Pinky Chenille and the Rainbow Hunters: A Whimsical Rhyming Picture Book for Kids Age 3-5 (Pinky Chenille Series 1)” by Sharon Sayler

How to Unleash Your Leadership with Storytelling w/ Michel Neray

Michel Neray is without a doubt one of my favorite people on this planet! Michel is not only a colleague and a brilliant speaking, marketing, and storytelling expert, but a good friend and mentor.

On his first visit to The StartSomething Show, Michel talked with us about the importance of storytelling, how you can start sharing your story to engage your audience. Today, Michel is back to talk with us about how purposeful storytelling unleashes the voice of your leadership. 

Everything Michel shares about storytelling in this episode can, and should, be applied to your business.

Known as the Master Of The Essential Message for companies around the world, Michel has spoken on a ton of stages, and is a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. He is also the founder of Momondays, a monthly speaking event that has grown from a single location on the second floor of a tearoom in Toronto to nightclubs from coast to coast in Canada and the U.S.

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• Why is storytelling so important
• The difference between simple storytelling and purposeful storytelling
• The power of storytelling to create change
• Why are stories everywhere
• How storytelling applies to all areas of your business
• The only storytelling structure that really exists – and why it works!
• What is a “storytelling trigger” and why it’s so important
• How to adapt this storytelling structure to your business situation
• Discover your storytelling key resource
• The Storytelling structure that appeals and speaks to your prospects
• The Universal storytelling challenge we all identify with
• And now, the part of your story everyone will want to know!
• Michel’s action steps to help you explore your own story and make use of it
• Michel’s legacy for the world.

Featured on the Show:

• Michel Neray | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | YouTube
• Momondays | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn Group | Google+ | YouTube | Pinterest
• “Purposeful Storytelling Workshop: Story Development” | Purposeful Storytelling Workshops & Masterclass

The 3 Pillars You Need To Build Your Business w/ Camille Leon

Founder of the Holistic Chamber of Commerce came, Camille Leon, joins us today to give you tips about what it takes to create a business association with multiple chapters and facets, and the three essential main “pillars” you need to build your business successfully-holistic or otherwise!

The Holistic Chamber of Commerce has chapters all over the U.S. and Canada, and Camille chronicled her journey of creating this innovative organization in her book “False Starts: The Misadventures of Transformation.” 

The Holistic Chamber of Commerce represents holistic business professionals and practitioners in growing their businesses, clientele, and sustainable practices. They also are an advocate from the holistic community to the public, assisting in educating people on what holistic health is and dispelling myths and misinformation.

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• The absolutely essential advice that entrepreneurs and business owners need to hear regularly
• What are the three main pillars of building your business successfully
• Challenges around creating these pillars
• Two responses that help you manage your time-energy-money resources
• Where Camille finds an extra hour in her day (you don’t want to miss the answer!)
• The impact that self doubt has on your time management
• What you can learn from business models other than your own
• “Traditional” vs. “Non-Traditional” networking events
• Finding your business specialty
• The role of delegating and why you should delegate
• How to manage and deal with your money
• What to charge and how to value your work
• The value a business coach brings when determining pricing
• How to showcase and upsell your products and services
• Camille’s action steps to help you StartSomething this week
• Camille’s legacy for the world.

Featured on the Show:

• Holistic Chamber of Commerce | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | LinkedIn Company Page
• “False Starts: The Misadventures of Transformation” by Camille Leon
• Free Audio Books

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.

Listen to full Episode

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.

Featured on the Show:

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