Chantelle Adams is a Professional Speaker, Speech Stylist and Courage Igniter. She has delivered over 800 speeches in the last 5 years and created a 6-figure business in just 9 months, recently having a 100K launch. But the financial success is not her WHY, she has put her success to good use and helped build schools in Kenya, Nicaragua and Haiti and she is on a mission to help entrepreneurs find their voice, own their story and have the courage to share it so they can turn their message into a movement.
She knows what it takes to get booked and shine on stage and has been called a storytelling ninja and hears that her support is better than Spanx. She believes that together we can change the world with our voices.
In this episode, Chantelle shares with us:
Join Chantelle in her Online Celebrity Bootcamp here!
Naming your "thing" is a bigger deal than you might think. A good program/business/offer name can be everything.
Well sort of. It’s an important piece of the puzzle that helps people understand what you do and how you can help them.
Let’s face it though, naming your program (or product) is hard. Communicating the essence of your program or business in just a few words is part science, part art.
Your name needs to evoke emotion and make a promise about their results.
For example, Corporate to Called {purpose + profits group coaching program} was the name of one of my courses. One that I sold 15 spots @ a $997 price point, when I had a list of less than 200 people.
Now, I’m definitely not saying this was the best name ever, I know you can do better than me {I didn’t understand the importance at the time and have named things poorly since}!
But, people knew exactly who it was for and what results they were going to get {corporate peeps looking to go out on their own and make money via their purpose}.
Here’s a few things to get you started:
Your name needs umph.
Brainstorm at least 10 power words and their synonyms {use google} that are relevant to your offer -- https://blog.bufferapp.com/words-and-phrases-that-convert-ultimate-list
Next, continue brainstorming emotional and results/outcome oriented words.
So, what are the results that your course/program provides?
List at least 10 words that describe the emotions & results/outcome of your program. {consider using verbs as well {use google to help}.
Put this baby together now.
What combinations from these can you create?
Mix & match the different options and cross out the ones that are not exciting and keep working with the ones that have potential!
Sit on them for a few days and say it out loud, really FEEL what it’s like to have a program with that name. Think about how you’d introduce it to strangers and if they’d understand what the heck that means.
You can also use: http://www.leandomainsearch.com/ to get some additional ideas and even make sure you’re domain is available.
You can keep this list for future naming as well.
Make sure to download the cheatsheet here to get all 10 tips to sell out your program, even with a small list!
Alex Epstein is the author of the New York Times best-selling book The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels and an expert on energy and industrial policy. Called “most original thinker of the year” by political commentator John McLaughlin, he champions the use of fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas and has changed the way thousands of people think about energy. He has risen to prominence as the nation’s leading free-market energy debater, promoting a philosophy that is “anti-pollution but pro-development.” He challenges many popularly held ideas about energy, industry, and the environment, including the big picture benefits (and costs) of fossil fuels and nuclear power. He draws on cutting-edge research and original insights to offer an alternate perspective on the energy debate and shares eye-opening thoughts into how fossil fuels and technology will improve the lives of people – safely, cleanly, and effectively – for years to come.
Today we focus on his journey as an entrepreneur, how he made his work stand out & captured attention, and how he has become one of the most productive people on the planet.
Resources:
Alex's Productivity Secrets & Resolution Revolution
Interviewing is a learned skill and art form. There are some insanely powerful and insightful interviewers out there, and then there are those who fall flat and maybe need a little more practice.
I think we're all refining our skills along the way, but here are some tips to help you become a better interviewer in any capacity - whether it's formally with a podcast or interview show, with mentors to get the best information and guidance, or even with clients/customers. Interviewing is not a skill that is specific to traditional reporters.
Here's 6 tips to get you started:
1. Let the person you are interviewing do most of the talking
2. Be genuinely interested in the human you are interviewing
3. Learn how to deal with different personality types
4. Become your audience
5. Focus on actionable takeaways whenever possible
6. Watch the time
Practice makes perfect and the more comfortable you are, the better you will become at the art of interviewing!
You can get access to my full interview tips for FREE in the episode 127 download.
Resources:
6 tips to fast track your success in 2016 - take these serious and the results will follow.
1. Let your vision, commitment, & drive guide you NOT your current circumstances or limitations or excuses.
2. To get energy you must do the work, and follow through on your word. When you hustle and get things done you create energy within to take even more action.
3. ALWAYS celebrate weekly progress over perfection. Being a perfectionist will cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars. Remember you want experiments, not perfection.
4. Make sure you are ONLY associating with those who hold you accountable, raise your standards, and challenge you to think bigger...NOT those people who let you off the hook.
5. Get rid of ALL negativity in your life. Toxic people love company and they have a problem for every solution. You must purposely surround yourself w/ top-notchthinkers.
6. Start your days feeling resourceful, accomplished and confident - Define your highest value activity (MIM - most important mission) and spend the first 90 minutes doing that and NOTHING else. - use your success sheet every morning & evening.
Habits will always trump inspiration. Inspiration is needed to create consistent action, but your habits are ultimately going to define your success or failure.
Which one of these will make the BIGGEST impact on your success and results this week and this year if you really focused on it?
Resources:
Kat Loterzo is a successful author, speaker and mentor to revolutionary leaders who want it all, on their terms, now if not sooner.
Kat lives location free with her husband and 2 children, is obsessed with great coffee, great wifi, great wine and great training of the mind and body, as well as creating as much content as humanly possible on the topic of alignment and taking MASSIVE action.
Read more from Kat and get her free Daily Asskickery at www.katloterzo.com, or visit www.booksforkickasswomen.com to read Kat's books.
Resources:
FREE book for any Multi-Passionate, Driven Woman Who Wants to Have it All!
Society of Self-Mastery - Free FB Community
Simplified Success Society - $1.00 trial
More businesses fail than succeed...so what sets those that succeed apart from those that don't?
In this episode I'm breaking down the two root causes of business failure and sharing a free workbook for you apply to your own business and make sure your foundations are nice and strong.
It's time to get clear, so you can get clients. Because the only way to stay in business is to get deeply intimate and honest with these two root causes of failure. {hint: they have nothing to do with advanced strategies.
Resources:
Get Clear, Get Clients Workbook
Guy Spier is a Zurich-based investor and author of a book on investing entitled The Education of a Value Investor. He is well known for bidding US $650,100 with Mohnish Pabrai for a charity lunch with Warren Buffett in June 2007. In 2009, he was featured in "the Checklist Manifesto", by Atul Gawande regarding his use of checklists as part of his investment process.
Spier manages the Aquamarine Fund, an investment partnership inspired by, and styled after Warren Buffett's 1950s investment partnerships. He is also an occasional financial commentator in the media.
What happens when a young Wall Street investment banker spends a small fortune to have lunch with Warren Buffett? He becomes a real value investor. In this fascinating inside story, Guy Spier details his career from Harvard MBA to hedge fund manager. But the path was not so straightforward. Spier reveals his transformation from a Gordon Gekko wannabe, driven by greed, to a sophisticated investor who enjoys success without selling his soul to the highest bidder.
Spier's journey is similar to the thousands that flock to Wall Street every year with their shiny new diplomas, aiming to be King of Wall Street. Yet what Guy realized just in the nick of time was that the King really lived 1,500 miles away in Omaha, Nebraska. Spier determinedly set out to create a new career in his own way.
Along the way he learned some powerful lessons which include: why the right mentors and partners are critical to long term success on Wall Street; why a topnotch education can sometimes get in the way of your success; that real learning doesn't begin until you are on your own; and how the best lessons from Warren Buffett have less to do with investing and more to do with being true to yourself.
Guy Spier shares the two ways the warren buffett made profound impacts on his life and in today's download you can get access to the exact questions you need to be asking yourself if you're looking for a top-notch mentor, plus example email messages of how to get connected to them.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Guy Spier's Nine Rules to Successful Investing
How To Identify & Connect with Top-Notch Mentors
I've been reflecting a lot over the past couple weeks as I close the books down for 2015, I've had a great year, and am ready to welcome in another one. Many thanks to all of you for listening, subscribing and sharing this podcast!
biggest 2015 mistakes
I’m sharing some free exercises to help you understand some of your biggest lessons {failures} - this is the reflection guide I use to create more success in my life. Go to adriennedorison.com/bigmistakes to download this free reflection guide.
Welcoming in 2016 success!
Resources
How To Turn Your Failures Into Wins: a reflection guide to create more success
Hal Elrod is today's guest and one of my personal heroes. He’s the #1 best-selling author of what is now being widely regarded as “one of the most life-changing books ever written” titled, The Miracle Morning: The Not So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed To Transform Your Life… Before 8AM.
It is also one of the highest rated books on Amazon with over 700 five-star reviews!
What’s even more incredible is that Hal actually died at age 20. He was hit head on by a drunk driver at 70 mph, broke 11 bones, died for 6 minutes, and spent 6 days in a coma only to wake up to face the news that he may never walk again… Well, not only did he walk, Hal went on to run a 52-mile ultra marathon, become a hall of fame business achiever, an international keynote speaker, one of the world’s top success coaches, he’s a hip-hop recording artist, has been featured in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, writes for Entrepreneur.com, has appeared on radio and TV shows across the country, and the list just goes on and on. He’s also the host of one of the top personal development podcasts on iTunes, called “Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod.”
As the bestselling author of The Miracle Morning, I brought him on today to talk about how you can change any—or literally EVERY area of your life, by simply changing the way you wake up in the morning—even if you’ve never been a morning person.
You can find Hal Elrod @ www.halelrod.com
Hal’s Entrepreneur magazine article about affirmations here: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/246869
You can purchase The Miracle Morning here – http://bit.ly/SSMmiracle
Andrea Owen is an author, mentor, and certified life coach who helps women get what they want by letting go of perfectionism, control, and isolation and choosing to practice courage instead. She has helped thousands of women manage their inner-critic to create loving connections and live their most kick-ass life.
She is the proud author of 52 Ways to Live a Kick-Ass Life: BS Free Wisdom to Ignite Your Inner Badass and Live the Life You Deserve, (Adams Media).
When she’s not juggling her full coaching practice and writing her second book, Andrea is busy competing in triathlons, chasing her 7 year-old son and 5 year-old daughter or making out with her husband, Jason. She is also a retired roller derby player having skated under the name “Veronica Vain”.
RESOURCES:
Natalie Berthold & family constellations: http://www.natalieberthold.com
Get Andrea’s free 21 Tips & Tools here – http://yourkickasslife.com/free
Learn more about Andrea at http://yourkickasslife.com and join the fun and wisdom at http://facebook.com/yourkickasslife
Laura Roeder is the founder of Edgar, a new social media automation tool designed to prevent updates from going to waste. Since 2009, she’s been teaching entrepreneurs how to harness the power of social media marketing and create their own fame at LKR Social Media.
On this episode Laura shares:
You can connect with Laura here: http://lkrsocialmedia.com and you can meet Edgar here.
Joe Saul-Sehy is the co-host of the popular Stacking Benjamins podcast. After 16 years in the financial planning trenches working with families to pay down debt, retire young, put kids through college or start a business, he sold his business at age 40 to climb other mountains. Stacking Benjamins won the Plutus Award this year for Best Personal Finance Podcast.
Joe and I dig into some real money talk today, as a former financial planner I need to hear his viewpoints on financial management as well as why what the financial gurus say isn’t always what we should do. We also talk details about renting vs. owning, credit vs. cash and the best ways to invest.
You can find Joe at www.stackingbenjamins.com and my interview on Stacking Benjamins here.
Josh and Jill Stanton are the co-founders of ScrewTheNineToFive.com – their little slice of the internet where they teach unsatisfied 9-to-5’ers how to create online businesses that light them up! They have a serious case of itchy feet, have been known to drop an F-Bomb or two and aren’t afraid of a big glass of red wine.
We jammed on all things community, membership sites, continuity and the power of recurring revenue vs one-off digital products….as well as the entrepreneurial journey and all the crazy ups and downs that come with it in this episode of The School of Self-Mastery podcast.
Resources:
Get Big Series: www.adriennedorison.com/getbig
Barbara Stanny is the leading authority on women and wealth. Her mission – to revolutionize women’s relationship with money. As a best-selling author, sought after speaker, workshop facilitator and money/wealth coach, Barbara has helped millions take charge of their finances and their lives.
Barbara’s background in business, her years as a journalist, her Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology, her extensive research and her own dramatic experience with money gives her a unique and powerful perspective on women’s financial issues. She has been featured on Good Morning America, The View, Extra, The O’Reilly Report and many times on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox News, PBS and NPR, as well as the New York Times, and USA Today. She has written the following books:
• Prince Charming Isn’t Coming: How Women Get Smart About Money
• Secrets of Six-Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to up Your Earnings and Change Your Life
• Overcoming Underearning: A Five-Step Plan to a Richer Life
• Finding a Financial Advisor You Can Trust: A Guide for Investors and Those Who Want To Be
• Breaking Through: Getting Past the Stuck Points in Your Life
• Sacred Success: A Course in Financial Miracles
For more information on Barbara Stanny and her work please visit: www.BarbaraStanny.com
Peter Voogd started his first business when he was 15, and found himself broke, stressed and discouraged by the age of 22. By 23, he made his first 6 figure income, and 3 1/2 years later his earnings were over 1 million. He then took the same formula and applied it in another industry. Despite the challenge of lacking training or experience, he became the fastest manager to reach $1 million in annual sales in his company’s 60 + year history, but left his 6 figure income because he felt his magnitude of mission growing.
He’s been labeled the worlds leading authority for millennials and entrepreneurs by entrepreneur.com, and many of international publications, stars in his own tv show called “The Entrepreneur Grind” on the Whatever it takes network, founder of The Game Changers Academy, which is the premier networking community for young entrepreneurs, Author of the 27-time international best selling author of the book “6 Months to 6 Figures,” and Creator of The Young Entrepreneur Lifestyle podcast which is one of iTunes top podcasts. Peter’s strategies have been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, Huffington Post, Business Insider, time.com, Yahoo Small Business, Yahoo Finance, MSN, and many other international publications. He strongly believes the more people you help to succeed, the more successful you become.
Resources:
GameChangers Academy: www.GameChangersMovement.com
Free Productivity Blueprint: www.TheEntrepreneurBreakthrough.com
6 Months to 6 Figures: www.6FiguresBook.com
Today I’m talking with entreprenuer superstar, Kimra Luna about how she went from food stamps to “almost” millionaire in just one year of growing her online business, how she’s always been full of ideas, how the banks won’t leave her alone, what keeps her buzzing everyday and why Kimra’s story is evidence that you truly can do anything if you’re ready and willing!
With her signature blue hair and punk rock style, marketing expert Kimra Luna is a self-taught, self-made “almost millionaire.” Born and raised on government assistance, Kimra went from $0 to $900,000 in the very first year of her online training business.
Since May 2014, Kimra has offered cutting-edge courses on social media, technology, and branding to her email list and community of now 30,000 people. Over delivering to clients and customers, she says, is the key to growing a community of raving fans and avid buyers.
Kimra is a happy wife and has 3 boys, under age 5. She lives in Riverside, California. Kimra loves traveling, Doctor Who and vegan food.
You can find Kimra daily in her facebook community Freedom Hackers – www.kimraluna.com/freedomhackers and get on the waiting list for her signature course Be True, Brand You to get first access and discounts when it opens up again in February – www.betruebrandyou.com
Kendrick Shope was recently named one of the nation’s top sales experts, creator of Authentic Selling™ and sales consultant for the next generation of business owners.
In 2011, Kendrick left a top performing fortune 500 sales career, and created Authentic Selling™, a fresh approach to stuffy, pushy sales techniques and has helped businesses make over a million dollars in revenue.
She has been a guest expert on NBC, named one of the top experts to follow on Twitter, and has been featured in numerous online and print publications. Kendrick says her approach to clients is a combo of Rocky Balboa’s drive to win and Olivia Pope’s dedication to her people!
To learn more about Kendrick’s Authentic Selling™ process, you can sign up at KendrickShope.com for weekly sales tips to make your business money.
Want real results in your business? Join my Make More Sales Masterclass - www.adriennedorison.com/makemoresales
Farnoosh Torabi is an award winning personal finance expert, bestselling author, TV personality, and sought-after speaker. The New York Times calls her advice, “perfectly practical.” Her mission is to help people take control of their finances so they can live their richest, happiest lives.
Farnoosh has worked with a wide range of audiences, from college students, to couples, to executives at Fortune 100 firms. She hosts the daily podcast, So Money, voted the #1 financial podcast of 2015 and recently selected as a “Top Podcast to Grow Your Business” by Inc Magazine.
She is a former contributing editor at Money Magazine and contributes often for DailyWorth, Yahoo! and The Today Show. Her latest book is an Amazon #1 Best Seller, entitled When She Makes More: 10 Rules for Breadwinning Women.
Her other books include Psych Yourself Rich: Get the Mindset & Discipline You Need to Build Your Financial Life, and You’re So Money – Live Rich Even When You’re Not.
Farnoosh and I dig into her journey to becoming an entrepreneur, which isn’t exactly how she planned it to be, her financial philosophy, what she’s learned from interviewing people like Tony Robbins and Seth Godin on her daily podcast, how her podcast is changing direction, and what it’s like to be a woman making more than her husband!
John Schnettgecke is the author of Pura Vida, A Thinker's Guide to Living—a best-selling personal development book for lost, stuck, or mixed-up Millennials. At age 25, John fell headfirst into an EPIC quarter-life crisis. He abruptly quit his job, fled the country, then fell off a motorcycle somewhere near the equator. Unsure what to do next, he started writing. He's now on a mission to encourage other young people to write their way to the life they want.
He's the poster child for all Millennials who have ever felt lost, stuck, or confused. John is the guy who read all the personal development books and listened to way too many podcasts, the guy who wanted to do everything, but managed to do nothing in the process. He spun his wheels and went nowhere.
That is, until he began asking himself some really tough questions and answering them honestly. He believes that all young people have the power to unlock their true potential and purpose with nothing more than pen, paper, and 10 minutes of writing each day.
Resources in this episode:
Pura Vida, A Thinker's Guide to Living
Selling isn't a dirty word, and there's a few things you need to flip around in your mindset for you to believe me on that statement.
In this episode we're talking about the 4 things you need to BELIEVE in to feel really confident and 'of-service' when you sell.
1. what you do
2. who you serve
3. why they need it
4. yourself
If you're stuck and not sure about any of these, we need to do some work! Once you BELIEVE in these 4 things, there is no longer anything "gross" or "salesy" about selling.
Scott Beebe's big, audacious goal is to help small business owners and organizational leaders uncover the things they cannot see, and to build actionable strategies that allow themselves and their team to live out their narrow brilliance, and ultimately their business with purpose.
Scott walked on to a division-1 SEC football team with only one year of High School football experience and earned a full scholarship during his final two years. Moving to Texas after college with his new bride Ashley, Scott attended and graduated Theology school, then worked as a legal drug-salesmen for Pfizer selling Lipitor, Viagra, and other well-known products. Scott and Ashley planted two Churches, pastored one of them, and have been working in rural Nigeria since 2005 building a platform for sustainable partnership with Nigerians through a variety of sectors including business, finance, and agriculture.
Scott, Ashley, and their three children live in Bluffton, SC (outside of Hilton Head) where Scott founded and leads The On Purpose Group LLC doing business under the tradename Business On Purpose: a business coaching, training, and strategy group that works to help small business owners and organizational leaders to uncover what they cannot see.
Resources in this episode:
Two weeks we talked about the parts of a sales funnel and a bit about how they work -- you can find that episode here.
And in my Make More Sales - Sales Funnel Masterclass we're going to go even deeper on the HOW, but I need to press rewind and share with you the WHY behind setting up sales funnels in your business.
Today I’m going to tell you 3 reasons WHY you need a funnel strategy in your business. Neither Sales NOR Funnel is a dirty word - but more on that on episode 109.
Here are 3 reasons why you need a sales funnel strategy for your business:
1. Your “people” need you to lead them
Regardless of if someone is just joining your list or someone has been around for a little while, people want you to lead them through a process that makes sense. And you BOTH want a process that gets them the best results - that's what a sales funnel does versus sending them random weekly emails that they have little interest in. A sales funnel allows you to get super specific with your topic and value you provide to that customer.
2. There's only so much time in a day.
24 hours to be exact, and I'd rather you not work for all 24 of them - but with an automated sales funnel in place, you CAN work nights and weekends without actually working in your business. The funnel will run on autopilot for you and continue to provide value to your audience! WIN-WIN in my opinion!
3. People don't until they know, like and trust you.
Sales funnels give you opportunity to connect with them more times in a shorter period of time than if you were just sending weekly emails. So, the experts say it takes between 5-7 interactions before someone will consider purchasing from you. With a sales funnel you can shorten your timeline and get them faster results by following up via email every 2-3 days after your freebie is delivered versus once a week.
Plus they're going to get better results since the information you're sending is super logical and targeted to the topic they were originally interested in!
There are a ton more reasons why you should have a sales funnel strategy, but your time is valuable, and that should be enough to entice you to get started. I can help you get started with a step-by-step how-to on this Sales Funnel Masterclass.
Rebecca Jarvis is a financial journalist and was a finalist on Season 4 of The Apprentice. A high-achiever with a generous heart from the very beginning, she was honored for raising over $750,000 for her own non-profit children's charity - a project that also involved Al Gore and Colin Powell, which she set up at age 15.
Jarvis was a short-term interest rate trader on Citigroup's foreign exchange desk in London. She later worked at Banc of America Securities in Chicago as an investment banking analyst, before she waited in a long line to win a spot on Donald Trump's, The Apprentice.
Jarvis has worked in both investment banking and foreign currency trading, but left financial services to pursue a career in journalism.
Jarvis has worked at CNBC, CBS News, as a financial reporter, and later became the co-anchor of CBS This Morning Saturday, as well as Business and Economics Correspondent for CBS News, and now works as as the ABC News Chief Business & Economics Correspondent. She’s also the Creator & Anchor of a youtube show called - Real Biz with Rebecca Jarvis: http://youtube.com/realbiz.
Resources in this episode:
Snapchat @RebeccaJarvis