A Cuppa with The Con Versationalist

ARE YOU STRUGGLING  TO LOSE WEIGHT AND KEEP IT OFF?

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE GREAT LIES WE ARE SOLD AROUND DIETING AND NUTRITION?

On this episode of 'A Cuppa with The Con Versationalist', Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Fitness and Wellness expert Leslie Urbas shared the truth, lies and other fun facts about nutrition, fitness  and wellness in a world that seems to worship 'bad apples' and fad frenzies in the market place.

Leslie has  been featured in globally recognized brands such as:

• Under Armour
• fitbit
• Authority magazine
• myfitnesspal

In an industry worth over $80 Billion, you can expect there is a fair amount of confusion over what is fact and what is fiction.
Leslie shared:

• What are the 2 biggest lies we are told.
• The myths we have been told to believe around weight loss.
• The secret to real weight loss and diet control.
• Her 5 step program to losing the weight and importantly, keeping it off.
• the REAL fact behind meal replacement and protien shakes.
• Vegan is not always healthy.  What processed products are you actually eating?
• Middle age weight gain.  Fact or myth?
• Does intermittent fasting really work?
• Tips to quick and easy, healthy meal prep.

For more information about Leslie and her work, head to her website at
www.LeslieUrbas.com and follow her on social media.

THE WAY WE FEEL COMES DOWN TO 2 THINGS.

1. The words we say to ourselves 
2. The pictures we make in our head.

After the death of her alcoholic and abusive husband, Diane Konkin went on to establish her business, Advanced Mind Health, a Rapid Transformational Therapy TM,   specializing in intrusive emotions and addictions

On this episode of ‘A Cuppa with The Con Versationalist’,  Diane shared her story of healing and the amazing work she currently does helping people.

2:35        Her alcoholic, abusive husband and her unexpected emotions after his death.

5:39        What is RTT and the research done by Stamford University.

12:52     95% of our actions are driven by the subconscious mind. 

17:30     Diane took us through her process

21:56     Our beliefs our formed in our subconscious up to the age of 7.

27:30     A really great lesson for everyone in the coaching space around client selection.  How                    committed are they?

31:00     Diane cleared up for me how a super successful business person can suffer from low                       self-esteem.

36:00     You can never truly understand unless you have been through it.

38:00     The 3 steps to getting over any addiction.  #1 Rule of the mind is will always do                                     exactly what it thinks you want to do.

Sarah Reimann was a high school dropout at 15, overcame domestic violence, depression, divorce and drug abuse all by the time she was 20. and has gone  on to forge a professional career and is now a sought after business advisor, financial expert and speaker.

On this episode of A Cuppa with The Con Versationalist, Sarah shares her inspiring story.

After 15 years as a qualified tax accountant and business owner, she knows and understands the challenges business owners face with managing staff, juggling all the balls and keeping up a healthy lifestyle.

Now, as a Certified Business Advisor, Financial Expert and Motivational Speaker, Sarah provides consulting and training to business owners and teaches them how to understand the story behind their numbers, so they have the strategies and control they need to reduce stress and make smart business decisions.

3:25   Sarah shared her story domestic violence

7:21   The important life lessons she learnt.  How her experience, whilst not pleasant, gave her resilience and the power of perspective.

11:39  Sarah shared her 'mid life' crisis and what lead her to follow her true passion and calling.

14:05  The regular, common problems she sees and the importance of systematizing.

15:45 Understanding your numbers, particularly cash flow and profit to help business owners with decision making

18:50   The importance of defining your market.

20:00  Strategic planning, goal setting and budgets.  Do your team know and understand your business  mission and vision?  Having your team on board lead to better overall outcomes.  Sarah shared the staggering number of businesses that don't have clearly defined goals!

25:00   The importance of self care and making sure you schedule time away to work on the the  business and recharge your batteries.  The dangers of micro management.

29:00   Is your business saleable?  Are personal brands saleable.  Sarah shared her thoughts.

36:00   Financial literacy in our youth.  The dangers of easy credit, Afterpay, Zip Pay.  Where financial literacy should start.

For more information about Sarah and her work, head to her website at  https://www.sarahreimann.com.au/ .  You can also follow her on her social media channels.

Mike Gregga has been conducting training of all kinds for over 20 years and more than 10 years training Intelligence Analysts for the US Military.   Mike has extensive experience with accredited courses, certifications and formal curriculum models.

With this extensive experience and combined with his 'superpower' of creating completable course and coaching content at the speed of simplicity, Mike is passionate about and is now  helping his clients make course content simple, clear and efficient.

On this episode of 'A Cuppa with The Con Versationalist', Mike shared much of his extensive experience and knowledge around course and content creation.

4:20  How do you 'train' an Intelligence Analyst?  "We are susceptible to believe that which we already have convinced ourselves to be true"  The need for clear simple thinking logic and understanding biases and how they work.

6:40  How he transitioned into his own business and fascinating insights about working for the US Government.

14:10   The skills and lessons he learnt in the US Military which have had the most profound impact on his business.

17:00   How to optimize your online content.

21:30  The biggest roadblocks in creating your online course.  Less is more.  Mike shared a staggering statistic around course completion rates of participants!

27:00  An online course cannot convey mastery.  Understanding the utility of a program and how it should be a lead up to higher ticket programs.

33:00  Understanding  'Certification' and 'Accreditation'  With such a plethora of online courses, these terms have become diluted.

If you are a course / content creator or looking to become one, this episode is a must!  For more details about Mike's programs, visit his website at   greggamedia.com

"CREATE CONTENT YOUR AUDIENCE WILL FIND EASY TO CONSUME ON THEIR WORST DAY"

After turning her 45 minute video and a training manual into 2 books and helping a client turn 3 hours of Zoom calls into 32 videos and 2 years worth of social media assets,  Sally A Curtis saw a opportunity to help other businesses.

Sally helps turn existing content and collateral into new profitable brand assets.  Her mission is to amplify your voice, message and your impact across all the services.   Sally creates leverage by maximising your visibility, saving you time and accelerating your speed to the market.

On this episode of 'A Cuppa with The Con Versationalist', Sally provided an endless stream of golden nuggets including

10:00   Editing tools to help with video editing Perfect Recall and Headliner for podcast audio grabs.  

12:00   The need to think more intuitively and not practically when repurposing content.   Create methodical systems to minimise your time required.

15:00   The image positions the viewer.  The importance of selecting the right image and where to find suitable images.  123rf.com and canva .com

18:35   Becoming a recognizable brand.   Your audience and clients have an expectation of you.

22:00  Sally shared a great scheduling tool and the only one she currently uses.  loomly.com which allows up to 10 platforms.   The importance of reusable brand assets and scheduling 3 months in advance. 

26:00   The importance of frequency and quality of posting.  Consistency is king.  How often does your audience need to consume your content.  Test and measure.  3 keys.  Know your audience.  Provide massive value.  Watch the data.

33:30   Sally shared her insights into Lead magnets and where the trend is.  The market is fatigued and they want bite size actionable content.  "Create content they will find easy to consume on their worst day"

39:00   Understand what your customers preferred method of consumption is.
 Ebook  into bite size tiles into videos into audio

This episode is jam packed with easy, actionable steps to take the stress out of creating an abundance of strategic brand assets.

Odell Bizzell's entrepreneurial career started in 1999 when Odell and his best friend started a small candy company that earned them over $75,000 while earning an academic scholarship to a top university.

Odell is a business coach that teaches entrepreneurs and small business owners how to double their income with public speaking and has been featured in the USA Today, Yahoo Finance, CNBC.com, and 200 media outlets.

 He’s also the author of 10 books and as a motivational speaker he has partnered with over 240 colleges, organizations, and even the military to teach communication skills to emerging professionals in 45 states.

Odell has been featured on some of the same programs championship athletes and celebrities such as Dave Letterman, Oprah Winfrey, & ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith.

On this episode of 'A Cuppa with The Con Versationalist', Odell shared his  experiences and wealth of knowledge.  Highlights include

2:08  Amazing story of the candy enterprise and the most valuable business lesson he learnt.
5:28  How he transitioned  from being a candy entrepreneur to a highly sought after speaker and business coach.
8:10  Being a chapter in front of your audience, not a lifetime.
9:50 Key lessons the candy venture taught him and how it related to growing his business.  He solved the problem, offered variety and people liked him.
14:05 The key component for a successful message and the importance of practice. "professionals practice more than they perform"
21:18  How he dealt with Covid and the value or reconnecting with your customers.
30:50  The importance of teaching speaking and communication skills in schools
42:00  The key element to being a successful speaker and communicator.....Knowing your audience.

This episode is jam packed with valuable content which is applicable irrespective of what your business is.

Learn more about Odell at   www.OdellSpeaks.com
Follow Odell on social media
Facebook   @OdellBizzell
Twitter   @OdellBizzell
Instagram   @OdellBizzell

Sally Carruthers  confessed to being a 'hot mess' in her 20's.  Organisation was not her strong suite and nor was it top of the list of priorities but after more than 5 years in the Royal Australian Airforce which included overseas deployment, all that changed.

Being forced into a strict regime of personal organisation whilst in the military,  Sally saw the benefits and soon was a convert.  Not only was she a convert but she went on to form her business, 'Organised by Sally' where she fulfils her passion by helping busy woman and overwhelmed families declutter and organise their homes so they can focus on enjoying life and what really matters.  

On this episode of 'A Cuppa with The Conversationalist',  Sally shared

• How her experience in the military paved her path
• What she finds to be the main reasons for clutter
• Typically, what main items are the source of clutter
• The emotional toll and stress can cause on both individuals and families

And to finish of, Sally gave her top 5 tips declutter and stay decluttered!

• Find a home for things
• Make it a positive experience
• Start small, grow your declutter muscles!
• Complete the task
• Identify the source  and eliminate or at worse, reduce it.

For more information about how Sally can help you or you family, head to her website at
https://organisedbysally.com.au/

"BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU GET GOOD AT"
Kristen Miller

On this episode of 'A Cuppa with The Conversationalist', I chatted with the delightful and inspirational Kristen Miller.

Kristen is an internationally acclaimed business mentor, strategist and personal power alchemist. She specializes in personal brands and small companies with teams of under 20. She works with her clients to have fun while implementing sustainable growth systems, engaging high performance team dynamics, and creating conscious leaders so that more people can make big money while running small businesses. 

Kristen was vulnerable enough to share her 'rock bottom' 2015. We got serious but we also shared lots of laughs.

The episode is jam packed full of gems including:

👉 Be careful what you get good at - habits are habits whether empowering or disempowering for you
👉 Why most people's million $$$ barriers are rooted in their mindset
👉 How her  8-figure clients also have inner demons to overcome like the rest of us (we're all human and we're all multi-dimensional beings)
👉 Her  x2 daily rituals that personally incorporate into my life experience since then
👉 "Your habits create your harmony (or disharmony), but your rituals create your results
👉 A 3-column Beliefs + Results exercise she does with her MMM clients so that they can identify the belief systems driving the results they're currently getting which they DON'T want... and how to release them to reclaim authority over the mind
👉 Why everyone has an energetic signature even if they're unaware of it, and how we measure it with the map of consciousness as a logarithmic scale
👉 Why she believes in the P2P philosophy - no longer the outdated B2B or B2C marketing mindset

As someone who specializes in personal brands and small companies from solopreneurs to small teams of <20, she works with clients so they can:
👉have fun while implementing sustainable growth systems,
👉engage high performance team coaching dynamics, and
👉create conscious leaders so that more people can make big money while running small businesses

And more!

Sue Giacobbe and Dan Kuss are on a mission to help people and teams flourish at work–with professional development programs that enable them to be more effective and successful. They believe that when you develop your individuals to strengthen your teams, your organisation will flourish along with the individuals. Specifically, administration teams, who sometimes fall between the gaps when it comes to Professional Development. Drawing on their collective experience in the education, healthcare and corporate sectors, they love to help people live an engaged, balanced and motivated life, where they do their best work.  On this episode of 'A Cuppa with The Con Versationalist'  I chatted with this dynamic duo of coaching and personal development.

I asked them:

• How they came together
• Biggest challenges organisations face
• Signs of team dysfunction
• How they deal with gaps between team members specifically skills and values
• Why admin teams within organisations have fallen through the training and upskilling 'gap'

PARENTING IS ONE OF THE TOUGHEST JOBS ON THE PLANET!
and to make it even tougher, no training manual is provided when our little bundles of joy arrive.  You somehow think you have it worked out until the next one arrives and the confronting reality sets in that you don't!
On this episode of A Cuppa with The Con Versationalist' I spoke with Holly Nunan,  mother of 3, an international best-selling children's author, and a highly sought-after motivational speaker and trainer. 

Holly is fast becoming the leading authority globally on conscious parenting, teaching parents, teachers, and caregivers all over the world how to raise children who are self-aware, and full of self-esteem, self-belief, self-love, and self-worth.  

Her ability to teach an audience, and deliver a message that resonates with their soul is unparalleled. Her work doesn’t just “inspire and motivate”, it leaves a lasting impact on the lives of those who are fortunate enough to cross her path.  

Thousands of parents have attended Holly’s workshops, retreats, and online training, and are astounded by the instant improvements in the behavior of their children, just by making simple adjustments in the language they use.  

Holly teaches how to parent from a new perspective, which takes the exhaustion out of parenting, and brings harmony back into the home. Holly's principles breed a deeper sense of connectedness between adults and children, leaving each feeling more empowered and at peace.