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Traction Growth & Income
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How to turn your creative passions into a digital business. Listen for tools and advice on how to start, scale, and generate income at every level of your journey. Become financially independent by doing what you love. Learn more at www.tgitools.com.
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Today we’re joined by Dr. Wiechowski, the founder of “Think Natalia”, the company that represents her dream life that allows her to be many things, including just to name a few, an author, branding expert, and coachsultant, which she personally defines as a position that helps people leave their corporate jobs to find their own passions, where she helps to support them in building an international, sustainable, and purposeful thought leadership personal brand on Linkedin. Her personal goal is to bring together a tribe of 1 million out of the box thinkers who “want to be the change they wish to see in the world”, a quote from Mahatma Gandi. She actively consults and speaks globally and lives in Dubai. She’s spoken at events like Women in Leadership Economic Forum, Masters of LinkedIn Summit, and Classroom without Walls. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Hanover and has earned countless distinctions, including “LinkedIn Marketing Unicorn” from Inc Magazine, Forbes Coaches Council Member, and Top 100 Leader in Education. Dr. Wiechowski is incredibly accomplished and adept at helping others accomplish their personal goals by building the brand that supports that vision. Dr. Wiechowski just released her latest book, “Personal Branding with Linkedin: The Think Natalia Method”, which was just released to the public on May 30th. Since its release, it has already hit the Amazon best sellers list.
How to Connect with Natalia:
LinkedIn
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How to Support Natalia:
Check out her new book “Personal Branding with LinkedIn: The Think Natalia Method”
Learn More:
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Today we’re joined by Ian Roth, founder of the Talking Llama Media company and podcast. He’s also an active duty Army Captain and currently acting as a company commander. This episode is a little different from normal — Ian is an avid listener of our podcast here and recently started his new venture. We thought this would be an excellent opportunity to sit down and talk through the challenges of staring a new venture and what he’s doing and focusing at the moment, we also take some time to think about what he could do differently or not to help have him reach his goals.
How to Connect with Ian:
Twitter
Website
LinkedIn
How to Support Ian:
Check out the Talking Llama Media company and the podcast!
Tools mentioned:
Soolve– See what questions people are asking on search engines.
Calendly– Automate your scheduling.
Zapier– Automate just about anything.
Learn More:
If you would like to help raise money for causes, or yourself, check out Stagepass at https://yourstagepass.com. If you would like to create experiences, let me know and I’ll get in touch!
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Today we are so incredibly lucky to be joined by Tom Schwab, who is currently the founder and CEO at Interview Valet, where he offers world class podcast interview marketing to leverage top podcasts to drive awareness. He’s built many successful businesses and loves helping others succeed. He’s also the author of Podcast Guest Profits: Grow Your Business with a Targeted Interview Strategy. Tom is also a Navy veteran and former surface warfare officer on the USS Abraham Lincoln and a graduate of the United States Naval Academy.
How to Connect with Tom:
Twitter
Website
LinkedIn
How to Support Tom:
Give Interview Valet a visit and see if it’s right for you.
Notes from Tom:
Visit our very own TGI link on Interview Valet at https://interviewvalet.com/tgi/
Learn More:
If you would like to help raise money for causes, or yourself, check out Stagepass at https://yourstagepass.com. If you would like to create experiences, let me know and I’ll get in touch!
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Today we’re joined by Casey Botticello, an internet entrepreneur and digital marketing consultant with over a decade of experience creating and improving internet-based businesses. He is an avid writer on Medium, and is the editor of Blogging Guide, an award-winning newsletter which helps writers navigate the digital publishing landscape and shows them how to monetize their content. Casey has thousands of followers on Medium and nearly 30k LinkedIn followers. He's partner at Black Edge Consulting and been in marketing and writing for over a decade now.
How to Connect with Casey:
Twitter
Website
LinkedIn
Medium
Instagram
How to Support Casey:
Check out Casey’s Blogging Guide newsletter on Substack
Notes from Casey:
How to Form a Super PAC, by Casey Botticello
Create Passive Income Through Stock Photography Using Your Phone, by Casey Botticello
Passive Income Ideas for 2020 - Escaping the 9 to 5, by Casey Botticello
Substack vs Medium, by Casey Botticello
Learn More:
If you would like to help raise money for causes, or yourself, check out Stagepass at https://yourstagepass.com. If you would like to create experiences, let me know and I’ll get in touch!
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This week we're talking about how you can use this historic time to focus on your creative passions and get your ideal business started.
Learn More:
If you would like to help raise money for causes, or yourself, check out Stagepass at https://yourstagepass.com. If you would like to create experiences, let me know and I’ll get in touch!
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Today we’re talking about our top 5 books for starting your own business in pursuit of living your creative passions. Here are the top 5:
1. The 4 Hour Work Week, by Tim Ferriss
2. Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
3. The Startup Owner’s Manual, by Steve Blank
4. The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries
5. The E-Myth Revisited, by Michael Gerber
Learn More:
If you would like to help raise money for causes, or yourself, check out Stagepass at https://yourstagepass.com. If you would like to create experiences, let me know and I’ll get in touch!
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This week we're talking about precautions to take to avoid getting COVID-19 and how to focus on your creative passions while everyone is preoccupied with worrying about the virus.
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We’re joined by myself, Thom Hart, in an interview by Joe Crane on the Veteran On The Move Podcast, where I talk about my entrepreneurial journey and why I believe that it’s so important to have a day job while pursuing your creative passions and building a business that can support you if you desire, as long as the timing is right and it is your personal preference.
Veteran On The Move Podcast
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Who: JV Crum III is the author and host of the Conscious Millionaire. His mission in life is to help people make their first million. He has an incredibly diverse background, has earned a JD, MBA, MS in Psychology, and has sold multiple businesses in excess of eight figures. He achieved his dreams at the age of 25 and has since revectored his life so that he could live a more fulfilling one. He specializes in coaching, specifically through Neuro-Linguistic Programming, otherwise known as N.L.P.
Traction: JV considers traction to be the level of progress that you make towards doing the thing that fulfills you most – your conscious niche. He spent years making money by building and selling businesses, but ultimately realized that it wasn’t what brought him happiness. He spends his time these days coaching entrepreneurs to help them make their first million, but has three recommendations on how to achieve traction towards becoming a conscious millionaire:
1. Intrinsic motivation: the path that you set out on must be something that motivates you internally. What you set out to build must be something that you would be happy doing up to three years later, without changing a thing. The easiest way to know if the task that you’re thinking of is something that motivates you intrinsically is testing whether that activity puts you into the state of flow, where you lose sense of time, it changes your state where you feel and act differently, and it’s something that you would do for free. The state of flow is a state of being where you lose all sense of time, where action and thought merge, and where you can accomplish anything. This was first identified by the researcher mihail chicksentmihail
2. Core purpose: What’s the difference you want to make? Who benefits? Why does that matter to you? If you could only do one thing for the rest of your life, what would you do? Those things are going to be the business that will lead to success in traction.
3. Action: have a solution for the thing that you’re most passionate about.
Growth: The difference between seven and eight figure companies, according to JV, is that one offers a variety of services while the other offers one core product to a specific set of customers. Which describes the eight figure companies? The ones that provide a niche solution to a very particular set of customers. In order grow and become a market leader, niche focus is absolutely essential. How can you reverse engineer this to grow within your niche category, while also aligning with your traction steps? If you know that your solution works and is profitable, ask yourself of the audience that you serve, who would you most like to work with. If you’re serving business people, farmers, and college students, which group within that audience would you feel most fulfilled by working with? You can further scope down the niche of your offering and become hyper specialized to scale up your operations for that demographic.
Income: JV has a fascinating take on income. It’s a simple one but makes incredible sense. Let’s start with an example first. What’s the last car you bought? When you were researching cars and settled on that one car, as you were searching for the car you ended up buying, did that car start to appear nearly every place that you looked? The cars were most certainly there before you noticed them, but now you see them all the time. That’s because you had never set a filter for that car in the past. Now let’s take that example and transfer it to JVs recommendation of how to make your first million. Like the example with the car, JV recommends that you only filter for opportunities to make your target income. What does that mean? Instead of jumping at the first chance to land a new client, take the time to think about the conditions that must be met in order for you to hit your target income. Those conditions then become the minimum standards that you set for yourself in business. If you only look for those opportunities, that will be all you see, which in turn becomes your income.
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Traction action step: Ask yourself what you would do for free because you’re so passionate about it and ask 3 people if they would pay you for it.
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Today we’re joined by Jay Acunzo, he is a globally touring keynote speaker, author of the book Break the Wheel, and a sought after podcast and docuseries host/producer. I’m so excited for this episode because Jay contributed significantly to me starting this podcast. I first ran into his work while he was host of the Traction podcast, which is phenomenal. It was after that show ended that I wanted more of that content, when I thought that I could do my own podcast about Traction, and then expand it to include growth and income. Here we are 40 episodes later and it’s been a blast. Back to Jay - - When he’s not traveling the world speaking or telling business innovation stories on a show, he’s running Marketing Showrunners, a media company for people who want to find their voice, make a difference, and change the culture of their industries for the better. Subscribers hail from organizations like Red Bull, Amazon Prime, the BBC, the New York Times, Mailchimp, Salesforce, and thousands of small businesses.
Jay began as a sports journalist before moving into tech, holding media and marketing roles at Google and HubSpot, and an executive role at the venture capital firm NextView.
His thinking has been cited in courses at Harvard Business School and by writers at the New York Times, the Washington Post, FastCompany, Fortune, Entrepreneur, and more.
In this episode, you’ll learn how to mitigate risk when starting a new creative venture, how to think when developing your own systems, and what to look for when trying to find the perfect creative match for you.
How to Connect with Jay:
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Website
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How to Support Jay:
Check out Jay’s new podcast, 3 Clips.
Recommendations from Jay:
Out on the Wire – How the greatest podcasts get made.
My book Recommendation:
Break the Wheel, by Jay Acunzo
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Today we’re joined by Ross Kimbarovsky. Ross founded and is the CEO at crowdspring, where more than 220,000 experienced freelancers help agencies, small businesses, entrepreneurs, and non-profits with high-quality custom logo design, web design, graphic design, product design, and company naming services.
There's a rumor that Ross left his law practice to found crowdspring so that he could wear shorts to work. The rumor is true.
Crowdspring has worked with the world’s best brands, including Amazon, LG, Starbucks, Microsoft, Barilla, Philips (and many more), and also with many of the world’s best agencies – and tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and startups from 100 different countries.
Before founding crowdspring, Ross practiced law for 13 years as a successful trial attorney. He counseled and represented clients (from small internet startups to Fortune 100 companies) in complex disputes involving intellectual property in state and federal courts and before the World Intellectual Property Organization.
Ross has founded numerous other startups, including Startup Foundry, Quickly Legal, and Respect.
How to Connect with Ross:
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How to Support Ross:
Check out crowdspring and see if it’s a good fit for you.
My book Recommendation:
Stand Out, by Ross Kimbarovsky
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Our Top 3 TGI Hacks by Episode:
Traction: TGI 14: How to Leverage Niche Authority To Generate Opportunity with David Nguyen, NUSensei YouTube Producer
Growth: TGI 25: How to Build Communities by Starting Ugly with Chris Krimitsos
Income: TGI 28: How to Nail Your Brand with Michael O’Neal
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Today we’re joined by Kirsten Karchmer, the CEO/Founder of Brazen and an innovator in precision medicine and digital therapeutics. She focuses on the software intersection of personalized nutraceuticals, lifestyle wellness and bio-behavioral interventions for women’s health. She has several patents and speaks internationally on the future of women's health. Kirsten writes for Huff Post, Goop and MindBodyGreen and has been featured in Tech Crunch, Washington Post and New York Magazine. Most recently, she is the author of the new women's health manifesto, Seeing Red.
How to Connect with Kirsten:
Website
Linkedin
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Brazen
How to Support Kirsten:
Check out “Seeing Red: The One Book Every Woman Needs to Read”, by Kirsten Karchmer
My book Recommendation:
Seeing Red, by Kirsten Karchmer
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Today we’re joined by Jeff Evans, host of the Throttle Grotto YouTube channel, an automotive repair channel. Jeff has been a YouTuber for 3 years and has amassed over 121k views and 900+ subscribers. Jeff initially started his YouTube channel with the intention of it eventually becoming an additional revenue stream and side project that he could take up full-time. In this episode, we hear what it’s like to be in the trenches of striving for traction and growth as Throttle Grotto approaches the 1k subscriber mark, and Jeff’s insight on how he got the channel off the ground and what he feels worked best for him thus far.
How to Connect with Jeff:
YouTube
Instagram
Twitter
How to Support Jeff:
Patreon
Teespring
My book Recommendation:
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig
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Today we’re joined by Mike Volkin, a serial entrepreneur and U.S. Army veteran. He’s written 5 books, one of them being a best seller. He has built and sold 4 companies and worked with over 400 companies as a fractional chief marketing officer. He’s currently working on his next company as a lead instructor at freelancermastersclass.com, where he teaches a 9-step online course designed to help freelancers grow their business.
How to Connect with Mike:
Personal Website
FreelancerMasterclass
LinkedIn
How to Support Mike:
Check out FreelancerMasterclass and see Mike’s 9-step course for freelancing.
My book Recommendation:
So Good They Can’t Ignore You, by Cal Newport
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Today we’re joined by Ian Roth, host of the Get Heard with Ian Roth podcast. This episode is a bit different, because we’re supporting a listener of the TGI podcast who is pursuing his creative passions of becoming an expert on leadership through his podcast. In this episode, I am actually the interviewee and Ian is the interviewer. We talk about the importance of public speaking, how it can help break down fears that prevent you from creative freedom, and how to speak more effectively.
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Support Ian:
Listen to his podcast! Check it out at getheardpodcast.com
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Today we’re joined by Zach Spangler, but about 830k people know him as LoverFella, his YouTube handle. He has formal education in environmental engineering and worked in pharmaceuticals before starting his YouTube channel. He started his channel 3 years ago and has since gained over 140M views with many of his videos having more than 1M watches, individually. He has perfected the art of storytelling and has become known for his Minecraft videos that watch very much like an episode of HGTV. Zach has used his celebrity to help with causes that he’s passionate about, helping to raise over $10k for environmental charities. He’s a systems thinker and has some fantastic insight. This episode, you’ll learn about the grit required to get initial traction, what things to pay attention to in order to grow your channel, the importance of reading and continuously learning, how to think about your creative process, and when to think about hiring on team members to let you focus on the important things. If you want to learn more about Zach, check him out on Instagram @loverfella and twitter @loverfellatv.
How to Connect with Zach:
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How to Support Zach:
LoverFella Store
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My book Recommendation:
When, by Daniel Pink– Zach and I talk about this book about how to determine when the best time of your day is to conduct creative work, or when you can function optimally.
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Today we’re joined by JV Crum III, author and host of the Conscious Millionaire. His mission in life is to help people make their first million. He has an incredibly diverse background, has earned a JD, MBA, MS in Psychology, and has sold multiple businesses in excess of eight figures. He achieved his dreams at the age of 25 and has since revectored his life so that he could live a more fulfilling one. He specializes in coaching, specifically through Neuro-Linguistic Programming, otherwise known as N.L.P.
How to Connect with JV:
Conscious Millionaire
Conscious Millionaire Podcast
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How to Support JV:
Connect with JV and listen to the Conscious Millionaire Podcast
My book Recommendation:
Conscious Millionaire, by JV Crum III – Link to the free PDF
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Today we’re joined by James VanProoyen, co-founder of the Military Podcast Network and host of the Veterans in Business podcast. He is a veteran of the Air Force and served for 20 years before retiring. We met originally in 2011 during a training event while both being in the military and reconnected 8 years later. In this episode, you’ll learn about what it’s like to transition from the military into podcasting, how to think about starting a podcast network, and the power of networking for getting your projects off the ground. My book recommendation today is How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie because of how helpful the mentioned techniques can be for networking.
How to Connect with James:
Military Podcast Network
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Veterans in Business Podcast
Military Creator Con
How to James:
Connect with him and listen to the Veterans in Business Podcast.
My book Recommendation:
How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie
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If you’re a creative wanting to make money from your craft, be sure to check out Stagepass today in order to let your audience support you by creating experiences for auction.
Today we’re joined by Dr. Garrick Baskerville is a MD who received his education from Penn State and has been practicing for 12+ years as an urgent care and general physician. He is licensed in Pennsylvania and Texas. He recently launched a new practice called METSI Care, where his objective is to help creative individuals, while at the same time rekindling his passion for creative endeavors.
How to Connect with Dr. Baskerville:
Website: METSI Care
Instagram:@metsicare
Facebook: @metsicare
How to Support Dr. Bakserville:
Check out METSI Care and follow him on Instagram and Facebook
My book Recommendation:
Grain Brain, by David Perlmutter
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