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0 FF157: Bookkeeping Doesn’t Have To Be Scary with Beth Blaney

Beth Blaney from BBA Bookkeeping joins us to share her years of experience in bookkeeping and building a team around you that you can trust. Beth also talks about the importance of knowing your numbers and building systems that support your business.

Highlights From This Episode:

• Have some sort of accounting system to record your income and your expenses
• Hiring help usually starts with outsourcing
• Find somebody that you mesh with and trust to partner with you and your business
• Build a system together that works for both of you
• Start to think about stepping out of your business and letting it run on its own.

Links & Resources From This Episode:

Entrepreneur Toolbox  Special access to reports, books and resources provided to you as gifts from our podcast expert guests. This valuable information covers various business and life topics.

Learn more:     BBA Bookkeeping

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0 FF156: From Stage Fright To Stage Might With Diann Alexander

Diann Alexander, Voice & Performance Coach, joins us to share how she empowers speakers and coaches to communicate their heartfelt message with confidence and how we can let others feel heard. She also shares some creative ways stay calm and in the flow when the fight or flight response kicks into emergency mode.

Highlights From This Episode:

• Letting others feel heard is a true gift to the person on the other side
• The strength of communication is powerful
• The trap door in our brain that goes from creative and intelligent to emergency mode
• Bobble your neck to calm yourself and open the trap door again
• We can forget we have our own special sauce and that people come to us because of the magic that we bring

Links & Resources From This Episode:

Entrepreneur Toolbox  Special access to reports, books and resources provided to you as gifts from our podcast expert guests. This valuable information covers various business and life topics.

Read more:     ‘Leverage Your Expertise’  by Diann Alexander

Learn more: DiannAlexander.com

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0 FF155: Find Your Voice with Vicki Noethling

In this episode, Vicki Noethling joins us to chat about her expertise in helping people find their confidence as a leader and speaker. She also shares how she is impacting high schoolers to find their voice and building skills that will help them through life.

Highlights From This Episode:

• Being shut down from speaking their voice that imprinted that fear of being able to express themselves
• When you get passionate about something that’s when you can really shine and be proud of what you’ve done
• Until we come to the realization that we can’t get where we want to go, because we don’t have a voice and the confidence
• Working with kids in high school to find their voice
• It takes constant action and commitment that you believe in yourself to do what you need to do and if you fail you just get up and try again

Links & Resources From This Episode:

Entrepreneur Toolbox  Special access to reports, books and resources provided to you as gifts from our podcast expert guests. This valuable information covers various business and life topics.

Learn more:    Findyourleadershipconfidence.com

Find Your Leadership Confidence Podcast

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0 FF154: Quizzes That Draw Attention Of Your Target Audience with Catharine O’Leary

Catharine O’Leary, The Quiz Queen, takes us on a journey about quizzes and posing the question that is only good for your target audience, a question they are struggling with and providing the answers that are all around your offer.

Highlights From This Episode:

• Quizzes are a lot more about self discovery, a little bit of a treasure hunt
• The quiz hook is really around the question that your target audience is struggling with and your answers are all around your offer
• They get a little bit of an insight into what they could do to solve their problem and it’s a nice warm handshake to your webinar or to your masterclass or to your one on one call
• Creating that targeted quiz hook that’s able to draw the attention of your target audience
• You’ve got 60 seconds of a lead generation quiz to ask what you need and not ask everything

Links & Resources From This Episode:

Entrepreneur Toolbox  Special access to reports, books and resources provided to you as gifts from our podcast expert guests. This valuable information covers various business and life topics.

Learn more:    Quiz Queen and The Best Quiz for Your Biz

Resources:    trend hunter.com

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0 FF153: Sustainability and Business with Stephanie Moram

In this episode, Stephanie Moram, Girl Gone Green, shares all about sustainability for individuals and business as well. Sustainability doesn’t have to be hard, it’s about living more simply, to waste less and have more and save money at the same time.

Highlights From This Episode:

• The easiest way to jump into sustainability
• Adding sustainability practices into your business
• Using Facebook Marketplace or Thrift Stores to find used office items
• Getting people to think outside the box and how they can be more sustainable
• It’s not that hard to be sustainable. It’s about wanting to do it and make it a priority

Links & Resources From This Episode:

Entrepreneur Toolbox  Special access to reports, books and resources provided to you as gifts from our podcast expert guests. This valuable information covers various business and life topics.

Learn more:   You can follow Stephanie on Instagram @thisisstephaniemoram

Resources:  https://www.goodgirlgonegreen.com/

Stephanie’s Podcast ‘Green Junkie’ on Apple Podcasts

Documentary ‘Who Killed The Electric Car’

Live A Little More Green audio series

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0 FF152: Mastering The Sales Conversation With Jane Garee

In this episode, Jane Garee, “The Sales Strategist for the Non Sales Person,” reminds us that sales is a Noble Profession and that you want to get really good at explaining this is the transformation that will happen for you, these are the results that you’re going to get and this is how your life is going to be better.

Highlights From This Episode:

• Be in alignment with your core values and know it’s going to help the people you’re serving or selling to
• Selling is a noble profession and has the ability to positively impact someone else’s life
• Don’t get better at closing. Get better at opening.
• The 3 myths of selling
• Get really good at explaining this is the transformation that will happen for you, these are the results that you’re going to get and this is how your life is going to be better

Links & Resources From This Episode:

Entrepreneur Toolbox  Special access to reports, books and resources provided to you as gifts from our podcast expert guests. This valuable information covers various business and life topics.

Learn more:    http://www.showstoppingsales.com

Resources:   The Selling Success Party Pack

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0 FF151: Uplifting People To Be Seen, Known, Heard And Valued With Devora Fish

In this episode, Devora Fish, from Up In The Chair, shares about intentionally and authentically welcoming communities so that each person gets to be fully celebrated for their unique contribution to humanity. We chat about mission driven entrepreneurs mentoring young people who want to uplift them in their business and Uplifter Clubs in schools, colleges and corporations.

Highlights From This Episode:

• Uplifting somebody in a chair and celebrating the possibility of that person
• Shifting the paradigm of what it looks like to be in a workspace with many people, creating a welcoming and inclusive environment
• A mentoring program that takes interns knowledge and implement it for a purpose greater than themselves that produces unbelievable results
• Understanding the value of inclusion that takes action and create a world, especially of young people, who aspire to be an uplifter
• If you are a business owner or entrepreneur who is mission driven and you’ve got a big promise that teams of young people want to uplift what you have to offer to the world

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Learn more:    Up In The Chair

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0 FF150: 150 Episodes Podcast Review with Michelle Abraham

In this episode, Michelle Abraham, from Amplifyou, joins me to celebrate my 150^th podcast as well as Michelle’s 150^th podcast. Michelle interviews me and the surprising moments along the way and then I interview her. Come join in on our fun conversation about the podcasting journey.

Highlights From This Episode:

Here are some of the questions Michelle asked Val:

• What has been the most surprising thing that’s come out of podcasting?
• What keeps you going? What keeps you consistent?
• What do you see fast forward? What’s coming down the pipeline?
• How have you found your voice? Has your voice grown or changed?

Here’s some of the questions Val asked Michelle:

• How many podcasts have you launched to date?
• What’s been a highlight along this podcasting journey?
• What’s in store for the journey ahead with Amplifyou?

Links & Resources From This Episode:

Entrepreneur Toolbox  Where you’ll find all our podcast guest gifts

Learn more:  

Amplifyou Podcast on iTunes

Behind the Mic. Ask the Experts.

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0 FF149: PR And The Benefits of Engaging Content with Mark Bradshaw

In this episode, Mark Bradshaw from Pronounce Media, joins us to share his wealth of knowledge regarding effective content writing and distribution to both the mainstream media and also social media. You can get people to engage in your company or your service and take it further far better from valuable content, than from an advert.

Highlights From This Episode:

• Bring in a story and wrap it around the message of your product
• Don’t be afraid to bring in a little humor as it doesn’t all have to be straight facts
• Find the right title that engages people and gets their interest
• Never put a press release out without an image
• You can get far more benefits from engaging content

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Learn more:   Pronounce Media

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0 FF148: Think Without The Box And Let Your Heart Lead with Doc V, Dr. Virginia LeBlanc

Dr. Virginia LeBlanc joins us to share about thinking without a box to be your own boss in mind‐body‐soul and business. DocV is “THE Pivot Maestro” and works with leaders to master the art of pivot, transformation and purposed entrepreneurship.

Highlights From This Episode:

• Shifting paradigms on its head. What is that mindset that’s keeping you from getting to that perspective or what has caused those limiting beliefs in your life.
• Exercise and Flex that muscle to know how to pivot and how to connect the dots
• Hold space for those that we’re serving and be able to give them our very best.
• A stand up business in 90 days
• People haven’t started to put that together just yet that community is huge and important and is going to be the new wave of the future.
• We’re dealing with the whole person. Mind Body Soul and Business.

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Read more:   ‘Love the Skin YOU’RE In: How to Conquer Life Through Divergent Thinking’ by DocV. Dr Virginia LeBlanc

Learn more:    DocV

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