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Episode 36: Living a Digital Nomad Lifestyle with Pro-Blogger and Entrepreneur Yaro Starak

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Yaro Starak is the author of the Blog Profits Blueprint and founder of the Entrepreneurs-Journey.com blog. He began blogging over ten years ago initially as a hobby, however as his income from blogging surpassed $10,000 a month, he decided his future lay in this new publishing medium. Since then Yaro has used his blog as a platform to sell over $2 million dollars in ebooks, online courses and membership sites.

Today Yaro is a mentor to thousands of experts, authors, coaches, consultants, speakers and trainers, teaching how to turn knowledge into a profitable online business. Yaro helps people set up their own “Blog Sales Funnel”, a system that combines blogging with email marketing to build a platform to sell digital training products on autopilot.

Yaro has a proven track record of results, with his “graduate bloggers” going on to make thousands of dollars – some even millions – in such diverse niches as book design, ADHD counseling, acne treatment, BMX bikes, skiing, cars, sports news, speed reading, real estate, television production and fat loss.

In this episode, you will learn  – how to view failures as experiments, the importance of knowing the why behind starting a business, the pros and cons of living a digital nomad lifestyle, how easy it is to travel and work at the same time, and how to say no to opportunities that don’t serve your long term goals.


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  • Don’t think of them as failures, think of them as experiments.
  • It’s hard to grow an audience when you don’t already have an audience.
  • Fall in love with the process of building and creating – it’s easier to take action on your goals if you’re hooked on creating.
  • It’s important to prove to yourself that you can be financially independent from your own business.
  • Turn down opportunities that you think you “should” take to make space for better ones that align with your long term goals.
  • Two simple life giving questions: What do you want to do and why do you want to do it?
  • You choose the path of your business. You solely choose the direction it heads in.
  • If you do good work helping people, it can become the platform for a business.
  • There are two sides to every lifestyle. Before you pursue something, explore the good and bad behind that lifestyle.
  • Build a business around the kind of life you want to live.
  • When your business is sustaining itself, you don’t feel the need to say yes to every opportunities.
  • What do you do? Why do you do it? Who do you do it for? Do the answers to these questions align with who you want to be long term?
  • No one is an island, you need people to grow.

Blog Profits Blueprint – How to earn a living from your blog or online business

 

W: Entrepreneurs-journey.com

IG: @YaroStarak

 

Episode 35: Owning Your Zone of Genius with Business Strategist Shannan Scott

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Who is Shannan Scott?

Shannan Scott is a Canadian girl living life out loud in California who recently broke all the rules of average by quitting her 5+ year corporate career and diving head first into being her own boss — all in the name of living a more intentional & inspired life.

She’s a small business strategist, podcast host, and the founder of the Made For More Collective™ who helps visionary entrepreneurs turn their potential into performance, implement forward motion & bring their big ideas to life — ideas that not only exist in the world, but make it better. Shannan combines her background in event management with her creative spirit & strategic brain to paint the big picture and sail through the small details of purposeful plans & projects in business. Whether that’s campaign or brand specific, she loves nothing more than partnering with her clients to map it out & make it happen.

In this episode, you will learn the importance of identifying your strengths to tap into your zone of genius, how to break through the corporate mindset as a creative entrepreneur, discovering a life of intention and how to live one, and how to take your ideas from concept to completion.

“You were made for more. Refuse to settle for average, if you choose to push on, you will find a life that lights you up.” – @ShannanScott

 


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  • Don’t focus on teaching everyone, just teach the people who are a few steps behind you.
  • It’s so easy to imitate the success of other’s instead of owning your own Zone of Genius.
  • Own your experience in all aspects of life and find a way to integrate that into what you’re creating now. Your past is key to your future.
  • Finding your zone of genius takes digging into your past to find a common thread of interests coupled with identifying your key strengths.
  • Knowing your strengths and weaknesses is vital for you to grow into the person you were born to be.
  • Your story, skills set, strengths, and experience all play into finding your zone of genius.
  • You were made for more. Refuse to settle for average, if you choose to push on, you will find a life that lights you up.
  • It’s not about doing all the things, it’s about identifying and doing the things that matter most.
  • You are in control of everything you choose to feel, do, and act upon.
  • Half finished projects that have full fledged potential but you’re trying to do them all at once will never work.
  • Do your ideas aligns with your goals?
  • There are so many different paths that end up at the same destination. There isn’t always just one way to get to where you want to go.

Do you have a lot of half executed ideas that have full fledged potential? Download Shannan’s Make It Happen Roadmap to take those ideas from 0 to 100! 

W: shannanscott.com

IG: @shannanscott

Episode 34: Building a Legacy Through a Strong Community with Youtube Boss Sunny Lenarduzzi

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Who is Sunny Lenarduzzi?

Sunny Lenarduzzi has almost a decade of experience as an award winning video, social media and online business strategist. From tech start up’s to authors, Sunny has worked with clients across industries – helping Hootsuite develop a YouTube series that increased subscriptions by 75% and Applebee’s hit 1 billion impressions in 1 day.

Sunny is also the creator of Boss Video Branding, a digital course on how to leverage social video from Snapchat to YouTube, for your brand or business. In the past two year, she had grown her Youtube subscribers to over 100,000 and now she helps people learn to do the same.

Speaking internationally, from NATO’s Headquarters in Brussels to Creative Live in San Francisco, Sunny is passionate about helping brands and businesses leverage social video for increased leads and awareness. Sunny has been featured on national and international radio, television and online publications like Entrepreneur.com , Forbes, and  The Huffington Post. You can also catch her weekly YouTube show talking about social media trends and the latest digital news.

In this episode you will learn how to combat ego as an entrepreneur, the importance of intention, why we should be adding more humanity back into the online world of numbers and metrics, the raw necessity of building a community online and in person, and how to take care of yourself in those early stages of hustle.

“Community is everything. Your tribe is your trust fund.” – @sunnylenarduzzi



 

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  • What legacy do you want to leave?
  • Sometimes the best opportunities come from spontaneous problem solving
  • The moment you can take your ego out of the equation is the moment you hit that magic grove and focus on the value you can give people. They won’t be able to get enough of your content because it feels authentic.
  • Ego gets the best of everyone. Intention can help combat selfish thoughts.
  • No matter how big you get, there’s still more work to do and more people to reach.
  • When it comes to building a community, whether it’s 1 or 100,000, they are real people, so respect them and give them value.
  • Community is everything. Your tribe is your trust fund.
  • Your mental health is just as important as your physical health.
  • People’s energy does rub off on you. Be careful who you surround yourself with.
  • If I don’t take care of myself, I can’t take care of business.
  • Your faith in yourself has to be bigger than your fear. That’s what will keep you going through the valleys of life and business.
  • Don’t do it for money. If you do if for money, you’ll quit before you really get started. You have to do for a purpose bigger than yourself.
  • Youtube is a search engine and it’s the final frontier of completely free advertising that can build your business while you’re sleeping.
  • There a different ways to hack every system.

Want to step up your Youtube game?

Download Sunny’s Youtube Channel Checklist here.

W: sunnylenarduzzi.com IG: @sunnylenarduzzi

YT: youtube.com/sunnylenarduzzi

Episode 33: Pursuing Faith and Authenticity in a Filtered World, with Lifestyle Blogger, Lauren Kay Sims

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Who is Lauren Kay Sims?

Lauren Kay Sims is a lifestyle blogger incorporating  all things travel, fitness, fashion and faith. Her blogging journey began in 2014 after she left the corporate world as a buyer for Neiman Marcus and started writing and running LOLOMag.com alongside Lauren Scruggs Kennedy. In the fall of 2015, Lauren Kay Sims took a leap of faith and started her own blog and brand. In just a short year and a half, she has grown her blog following to over 175k on social media and is making a full time income from her blog.

She has collaborated with brands like Nike, ASOS, Lululemon, Four Seasons, Nordstrom, Kendra Scott, and more. Connecting with women online and cultivating conversations about confidence, faith, and finding beauty in everyday life is at the core of why Lauren started her blog.

In this episode, you will hear about Lauren’s career leaps from corporate life to the unconventional world of blogging, how to take risks and own your work, the importance of setting boundaries as an entrepreneur, the behind the scenes of what goes into a single blog post, how to be unfiltered in a filtered world, and learning to hold everything with an open palm.

“People want to see the real life stuff, because that’s what connects them to you and creates a sense of trust and loyalty.” – @LaurenKaySims

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  • “I never want to feel like a slave to my desk and suffocated by the work I do.”
  • When it’s time to make a change, you’ll know. As soon as you feel that urge, take action.
  • There’s nothing like owning the work you create. Cultivating a sense of ownership is key to creating your best work.
  • There is no 8-5 life for an entrepreneur.
  • The difficult thing about entrepreneurship is the more you work the more you make, and the more you make the more you want to work. But where’s the balance? How do you avoid burnout?
  • As a blogger, part of the job is to make it all look effortless – but it’s not. There’s a reality to every filtered image.
  • People want to see the real life stuff, because that’s what connects them to you and creates a sense of trust and loyalty.
  • “Sharing my faith online was never a decision. My faith and relationship with The Lord is my life. So sharing that part of my life is natural and a core part of who I am.”
  • Hold every opportunity with an open palm. 

W: laurenkaysims.com IG: @laurenkaysims

FB: Lauren Kay Sims Blog

Episode 32: Mastering Unconventional Thinking with Marisa Sergi of RedHead Wine

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Marisa Sergi is the CEO of RedHead Wine. Her love affair with wine started in the basement of her parents’ home with a sippy cup at age 5. In fifth grade, she went public with her dream of being a winemaker.  A third-generation winemaker, she came by her career choice naturally, having grown up in the family winery business, and in 2015, she graduated from Cornell with a degree in Enology and Viticulture.  She also interned for and worked at E&J Gallo Winery in California.

Her senior year capstone project at Cornell led to the launch of RedHead Wine – a unique blend of California Zinfandel and Chilean Carménère. Although Marisa’s only been working full-time on RedHead since last August, it’s already available at nearly 200 stores in Ohio.  And she has been hard at work on a Provence-style rosé, with a profile that is fruit forward but clean, crisp and refreshing.

Her longer-term goal is to create an iconic RedHead Brand, with a broad product line, aimed at millennials and females.  Marisa’s wine is her own unique concept, and now a growing business, if you will pardon the pun.

In this episode, you will learn the importance of asking for help and feedback on your work, the value of in-person connections to grow your online business, what it means to be a woman in business, and how to master the power of unconventional thinking.

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  • When something you’re working on transforms from just a project and turns into an addition, you know you’re onto something.
  • Entrepreneurship isn’t always about the “business”. It can also be about pursuing work that you truly enjoy and less about money.
  • When the minutes and hours melt away and time seems to slip by, you know you’re doing something you were born to do.
  • Entrepreneurship is not a one man band.
  • The answer is always no if you don’t ask. Take down the fear of rejection and just do it.
  • If you’re not trying or going in for “the ask” you’re already rejecting yourself from the “yes” opportunities.
  • Never be selfish in entrepreneurship
  • What makes you different is what can make you successful.
  • If you don’t believe in your product, how can you expect anyone else to?

W: redheadwine.us IG: @redheadwine

FB: RedHead Wine

Episode 31: Thinking Outside of the Box with Kelly Mindell, Founder of Studio DIY

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Who is Kelly Mindell?

Kelly Mindell is the colorful powerhouse behind the DIY lifestyle blog Studio DIY where she shares bold projects, yummy recipes and fresh ideas for making life one big party. Kelly is passionate about celebrating not just the holidays, but the every day and her smile-inducing projects have been featured in Martha Stewart Living and Parenting Magazine, and on Buzzfeed, The Today Show, Miley Cyrus, NPR and more. Kelly lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Jeff, and son, Arlo.

In this episode, you will learn how to create a loyal community online, how to address negative comments online with kindness, the importance of honoring your intuition in life and business, and why you need to take control of your own future to create the life you want.

“One of the biggest issues people have is they see life in boxes. You have to get outside of those preplanned, perfect boxes and chase what you want.”


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  • Why not ask, the worst someone can say is no.
  • One of the biggest issues people have is they see life in boxes. You have to get outside of those preplanned, perfect boxes and chase what you want.
  • Just because something is laid out for you, doesn’t mean you can’t challenge the plan.
  • Don’t confine yourself to just one career, one job, one industry. You can do more if you want to. Much more.
  • You are what makes your blog and business unique. Put more of you into your blog and your audience will be able to tell.
  • Start with baby steps on the journey to being transparent online. Start with sharing small
  • “I don’t see a consequence to sharing my life online. The internet gives me the opportunity to connect with other people in the world.”
  • Working behind a laptop can be very isolating. When you open up online, you realize you’re not alone.
  • Everyone’s biggest struggle is learning to listen to your gut from the start. Listen to your intuition.
  • Curiosity is the key to creativity. Always have your eyes open and be receptive to inspiration from every moment of life.
  • “The Laptop Lifestyle gives me the opportunity to connect with people all over the world and to learn and grow from each interaction.”

W: studiodiy.com IG: @studiodiy

FB: Studio DIY