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

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• 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.

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

Eliminate Stress And Anxiety w/ GuruNanda

Stress and anxiety are nearly ever-present spectres for most entrepreneurs, since we tend to be “Type A” personalities. VERY successful entrepreneur-turned-yogi, GuruNanda, joins us in this Backstage Pass to show us you how to go from distress to de-stress with super simple techniques and break through the #1 money issue that holds service and heart-centered entrepreneurs back from the success they desire. This is an episode you can really relax into!

GuruNanda is the author of GuruNanda’s “Happy Breath Yoga: Wall Street Yoga.” His business accomplishments include the successful oral care brand, Dr. Fresh, which earned him the 2011’s Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and an active position with the Young Presidents Organization.

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What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• What skills and/or principles GuruNanda found helpful to create a successful brand
• How to leverage your skills into your brand, scale your business and serve people
• The importance of going to ‘source’
• Techniques to go from stressed to clarity and relaxation right now
• How to overcome your concern about accepting money when you’re serving others
• What kind of impact the practice of Yoga had on GuruNanda’s business practices
• How meditation helps the thought process
• GuruNanda’s action steps to help you StartSomething this week
• The importance of finding a need that is unmet for success in business
• GuruNanda’s legacy for the world.

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• GuruNanda | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | Instagram | YouTube
• Coconut Oil | Ghee | All GuruNanda’s Products | GuruNanda – Teaching Laughter Yoga | “Happy Breath Yoga: Wall Street Yoga” by GuruNanda

Stop Overthinking Social Media w/ Elaine Lindsay

Social media is crucial nowadays, but i know many of us struggle with it. Elaine Lindsay, founder of TROOL Social Media, social media consultant, Google+ Evangelist and speaker, shares with us her immense expertise on the subject and makes it easier for you to successfully tackle your social media. Remember, consistency is the keyword in Social Media.

Elaine is an early adopter of new technologies and has been a featured authority in two #1 best sellers, “Social Media Myths BUSTED” and “Solving the Social Media Puzzle.” Elaine is also the host of Business Banter Plus TV and regularly appears as guest expert on a number of media outlets, such as CTV Ottawa and The Learning Curve Podcast, in Dubai.

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What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• How small business owners and entrepreneurs are screwing up their social media and where we need to check ourselves
• The importance of consistency throughout all social media platforms
• Social media and time management
• Why you should have an editorial calendar
• How to build relationships on social media
• More social, less media
• The importance of engaging on social media
• Why Social Media is more about networking and relationship building
• How to make the most of Google Hangouts even on its worst days
• Google+ uses
• The great connection between Google+ and YouTube
• How to start on Social Media if you’re facing a technology gap
• Apps you can use on Google+
• How by being fun you can get your prospects and clients to drop their guard
• How to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to social media
• Why you should have Google alerts to let you know when someone you follow is posting
• How hashtags build a following
• Elaine’s action steps to help you StartSomething this week
• Elaine’s legacy for the world.

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• Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | Company LinkedIn Page | YouTube

• TROOL Social Media | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | Google+ | YouTube | Pinterest | Instagram | Tumbrl

The One Thing You Were Born to Do w/ Steve Olsher

Steve Olsher has been an internet entrepreneur since the days of dial-up, having founded multiple businesses including the infamous Liquor.com. He is the NY Times Bestselling author of “What is Your What: Discover the One Amazing Thing You Were Born To Do.” His book “Internet Prophets: The World’s Leading Experts Reveal How To Profit Online” was named the business technology book of the year. He has appeared on CNN, Fox Business and other national outlets.

Steve is known worldwide for helping individuals and corporations become exceptionally clear on their “What.” His practical no-holds-barred approach to life and business propels his clients towards achieving massive profitability while also cultivating a life of purpose, conviction, and contribution.

In September of 2017, Steve is hosting the first ever New Media Summit in San Diego for leaders, entrepreneurs, and authors who want to master ‘new media’ and fill their media calendars for an entire year at the same time. I’m happy to say that I’ll be speaking at this event as well as and booking guests for my shows. Attendance is application only – join us!

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What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• Is college the worst investment you can make?
• How college created a social experiment
• Steve’s methodology to figure out your “What”
• Steve’s talks 25 years of internet marketing and internet sales
•  The importance of staying on top of trends
• Groups that specialize in ‘future casting’
• How as a small business owner you can stay on trend and promote your business
• How to find your best business opportunities
• Resources that will keep you on trend
• Upcoming Internet trends – Steve’s predictions
• What’s the “Do It For Me” revolution
• Steve’s action steps to help you StartSomething this week
• Steve’s legacy for the world

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• Steve Olsher | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | YouTube | Google+
• “What Is Your What?”, by Steve Olsher [Free Download] | New Media Summit

Become Highly Influential w/ Teresa de Grosbois

Teresa de Grosbois is all about teaching you how to become more influential, so that you can have a bigger impact with your message. Being an influencer means building relationships, lifting up others and creating cycles of reciprocity, rather than scorekeeping, boasting, or making others look small so you can be feel more important.

Teresa is an international speaker and multi-bestselling author sought by entrepreneurs and large corporations as an expert in the topics of influence and success. Teresa has a proven track record in understanding word-of-mouth epidemic: not only has she taken four books to best-seller status, but the first 3 bestsellers she created in just 8 months.

Besides her work as a speaker, author, and trainer, Teresa is also the chair of the Evolutionary Business Council, where she leads an international, invitation-only, council of speakers and influencers dedicated to teaching the principles of success.

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What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• How to become more influential
• How to avoid the mistakes often made while you’re on this path
• The importance of influence
• How influence translates to all kinds of abundance for your business
• The one thing those who achieve great influencer success know that others don’t
• Why building relationships isn’t instant
• What are cycles of reciprocity
• Which habits you cultivate should to become more influential
• What’s Teresa’s definition of being truly authentic
• The importance of having a matching inside and outside voice
• How to find, define and focus on that great thing that is of value to others
• Why the biggest challenges you’ve overcome over time matter to be a highly influencer
• Why your vision may be too small
• The biggest mistakes people make when trying to become influencer
• About Teresa’s latest book, “Mass Influence: The Habits of the Highly Influential”
• Teresa’s advice to help you StartSomething this week
• The 30 Day Influence Challenge
• Practical ways you can start using today to start sharing influence
• Teresa’s legacy

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• WildFire Workshops | Teresa de Grosbois | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | YouTube | Google+
• “Mass Influence: The Habits of the Highly Influential,” by Teresa de Grosbois
• 30 Day Influence Challenge
• Evolutionary Business Council
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