April Garcia's PivotMe

On PivotMe today, we have Yuri Elkaim, A New York Times bestselling author who turned his own health challenge (losing all of his hair at the age of 17) into a business that helped more than 500,000 people to better health and now the CEO of Healthpreneur®, a training and consulting company that helps health professionals and coaches build thriving virtual practices.

Yuri talked about how when we are comfortable, we don't tend to make big sweeping improvements.

He encouraged us to get curious with how we feel, with our energy. Even as simple as rating your energy every day on a scale from 1 to 10, and then get curious about your actions leading up to that.

In this episode, we discuss prioritizing health, fitness, and a good morning routine. But also talked a lot about what makes people successful, and what challenges are. This is how we optimize the machine. Us. Run our body, treat our health like a critical component, to be optimized.

Pivotal Questions Asked:

• [8:51] What was the biggest change noticed, was it energy, or something else that stood out?
• [32:38] What else can we do to maintain a high energy level throughout the day?
• [34:12] Can you speak about the movement The Body Positivity between loving your body or accepting your body?
• [39:50] What is the through line of the people that has been successful making these changes in their life?

In This Episode You Will Learn:

• [10:44] What matters the most when making a decision between eating a healthy meal vs going to do a workout.
• [18:36] How to be mindful on the decisions or choices we make throughout the day
• [29:28] Changing how we fundamentally present ourselves out to the world, what matters the most?
• [34:20] Importance of identifying yourself on how you're feeling and assessing yourself on a daily basis?

Quotes:

"How you heal anything is how you heal everything". - Yuri [9:54]

"Treat your body and your health as if you were running a business, measuring the most important metrics] - Yuri [33:05]

"Love yourself to make positive choices" - Yuri [36:25]

Connect with Yuri here:

• https://yurielkaim.com/
• https://healthpreneurgroup.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/yurielkaim1
• https://www.youtube.com/user/yelkaim1

What can you do today? To Be Productive. Effective. Perform at your best. Even now.

Are you struggling to stay focused? If you have the right framework, it takes the guesswork out of Productivity.

Get our FREE mini-series 4 Steps: Doing More in Less Time. Visit pivot-me.com/4Steps to get it TODAY!

What's the jackhammer in your life right now? What's holding you back that you're afraid to go after your dream? You are the only one who can decide what you can achieve without conforming to the set limiting beliefs.

In this episode of PivotMe, April shares the story of Sara and the jackhammer and how it relates to the perceived limitations we hold in our lives. Listen in to learn how to uncover your jackhammer, do what it takes to destroy it, and achieve your dreams.

In This Episode You Will Learn:

• [2:10] How Sara garnered the courage to run the jackhammer after observing April do it.
• [13:08] How humanitarian work impacts lives and restores their faith in humanity.
• [13:55] How humanitarian work can help highlight people's capabilities.
• [14:51] How perceived limitations that were given to us prevent us from experiencing our dreams.
• [16:45] How to uncover your jackhammer and find the thing you want to do and do it.

Quotes:

• "One of the biggest gifts in humanitarian work is when you have the opportunity to highlight the strengths in others."- April [11:57]

• "The only person who gets to decide what is available to you is you."- April [18:13]

What can you do today? To Be Productive. Effective. Perform at your best. Even now.

Are you struggling to stay focused? If you have the right framework, it takes the guesswork out of Productivity.

Get our FREE mini-series 4 Steps: Doing More in Less Time. Visit pivot-me.com/4Steps to get it TODAY!

On PivotMe today, we have Matt LeBris, an award-winning entrepreneur, nationally coveted speaker, and top-ranked podcast host. He's a beacon of light through his work, which has positively impacted many lives throughout the globe as he is in pursuit of his North Star goal of impacting 1 billion lives.

Matt shares the story of failing out of college, the last-minute conversation he had with Damon John of Shark Tank, and how he ended up working with him before building his 1B Branding, an NYC-based branding agency. He also explains how his past lavish lifestyle and self-sabotaging ways got him into trouble.

In this episode, we discuss the importance of healing the inner child to become mindful in your business endeavors. Listen in to learn how to deal with self-sabotage by focusing on self-healing and progress rather than perfection.

Pivotal Questions Asked:

• [7:16] Was it hard to focus in college when you had a side gig that most people want for salary?
• [13:36] The way you ran your business before versus how you run the business now, how are they different?
• [16:36] How much do you see the unfolding of your childhood showing up in your business?
• [19:10] When you look at other business owners whether they're your clients or ones you've interacted with, how are they self-sabotaging, and is it because they haven't done the process of healing?
• [34:50] If you could tell the world one thing, what would it be?

In This Episode You Will Learn:

• [3:22] How and why he started his podcast and the interesting story of how he ended up working for Damon John of Shark Tank.
• [8:59] Matt on his drive and experience working for Damon John.
• [10:36] How he matured in his healing journey and stopped his ego from driving his life.
• [13:41] How pivoting allowed Matt to become mindful in the way he operates his business.
• [15:06] Learn to be gentle with yourself and trust the process as a high performer.
• [19:28] How we often self-sabotage as entrepreneurs by chasing perfection and not progress.
• [34:43] Events + perspective equals the outcome – learn to see the best out of every situation.

Connect with Matt:

• https://mattlebris.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlebrisnyc/
• https://www.instagram.com/matt_lebris/
• https://www.facebook.com/TheMattLeBris/
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd2hmzAHxclueNMFVz6he8w

Quotes:

• "Before healing, I would continuously self-sabotage when things went so good that I couldn't believe that I deserved to be rewarded by my hard work in such a way."- Matt [19:28]

• "All that matters is that when you do self-sabotage, you get back on as quick as you can."- April [22:38]

What can you do today? To Be Productive. Effective. Perform at your best. Even now.

Are you struggling to stay focused? If you have the right framework, it takes the guesswork out of Productivity.

Get our FREE mini-series 4 Steps: Doing More in Less Time. Visit pivot-me.com/4Steps to get it TODAY!

We are really excited to share with you an amazing podcast April was on, the tables were turned! She was on the 365 Driven podcast hosted by Tony Whatley.

So you want to level up in your life and business? Are you intentionally seeking out a peer group that will support you in your leveling up journey? Are you effectively managing your time to do more in less time?

Tony asks April about being a rebellious teen, they discussed how you can't believe everything you think- particularly about yourself, and discussed the Designed vs. Default Peer Group.

Here, we are going to drop into the conversation, but this is just the highlights.

What you will learn in this episode: • Who is April Garcia? • How did she became from been voted least likely to succeed to make a pivot in your life? • How to design your peer group.

Check out the full interview at 365 Driven podcast.

What can you do today? To Be Productive. Effective. Perform at your best. Even now.

Are you struggling to stay focused? If you have the right framework, it takes the guesswork out of Productivity.

Get our FREE mini-series 4 Steps: Doing More in Less Time. Visit pivot-me.com/4Steps to get it TODAY!

👉👉 Connect with me here: • Website: https://www.pivot-me.com • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AprilGarciaPivotMe • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theAprilGarcia/ • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theaprilgarcia

Do you often feel like you're not doing enough even though you're always chasing goals? Did you know that there's a way to still have that relentless fire and find fulfillment? To find fulfillment, you have to shift your mind to start acknowledging the small daily wins that you make. In this episode, April explains how to reevaluate your time and start tracking your daily wins in whatever way that shows up for you. Listen in to learn how starting your team's meetings with wins rather than complaints will completely shift the experience and the culture.

In This Episode You Will Learn:

• [2:04] The problem with always chasing goals and forever having unfinished business.
• [4:30] How to achieve your goals with a relentless fire and still feel fulfilled.
• [5:22] Start training your brain to track 3 wins every day the moment they happen.
• [10:09] Learn to start your meetings with wins to shift your culture and the experience.
• [12:31] Understand and acknowledge that your wins don't have to look like other people's wins.
• [15:10] Avoid creating unnecessary pain in your life by not allowing anyone or yourself to blow the whistle on your wins.

Quotes:

• "What a waste to have a miserable high performer doing so much yet not enough."- April [4:40]

• "Your wins don't need to look like anyone else's wins, you'll find they represent the season you're in your life."- April [14:47]

What can you do today? To Be Productive. Effective. Perform at your best. Even now.

Are you struggling to stay focused? If you have the right framework, it takes the guesswork out of Productivity.

Get our FREE mini-series 4 Steps: Doing More in Less Time. Visit pivot-me.com/4Steps to get it TODAY!

👉👉 Connect with me here:

• Website: https://www.pivot-me.com
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AprilGarciaPivotMe
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theAprilGarcia/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theaprilgarcia

Why don't you enjoy the feeling of success even when others see you as successful? High performers often live in the gap by failing to appreciate what they've already achieved and keep chasing that perfect ideal that doesn't exist.

In this episode, April explains the importance of living in the gain instead of suffering in the gap. Listen in to learn how to enhance productivity and time management by focusing on your daily achievements when planning your next day.

In This Episode You Will Learn:

• [3:13] How most high performers don't feel success even when they're seen as successful.
• [7:02] Why the constant pursuit of what you don't have means not appreciating what you've achieved.
• [8:33] Review your wins – check how far you've come and stop chasing the perfection ideal.
• [10:25] Stop suffering in the process while living in the gap and instead cheer through it in the gain.
• [12:45] Enhance productivity and time management – focus on what did get done instead of what didn't get done for the day.
• [15:34] Live in the gain and be happy by focusing on your accomplishments.
• [17:20] Start identifying where you've been living in the gap and get yourself into the gain.

Quotes:

• "When we're in constant pursuit of the next goal, we aren't appreciating what we've already achieved."- April [8:09]

• "The simple act of looking at what you did get done instead of what you didn't get done, makes all the difference."- April [15:14]

• "Start listing your wins appreciating; what's in your rearview mirror is on someone else's bucket list."- April [18:14]

What can you do today? To Be Productive. Effective. Perform at your best. Even now.

Are you struggling to stay focused? If you have the right framework, it takes the guesswork out of Productivity.

Get our FREE mini-series 4 Steps: Doing More in Less Time. Visit https://www.pivot-me.com/4Steps to get it TODAY!

👉👉 Connect with me here:

• Website: https://www.pivot-me.com
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AprilGarciaPivotMe
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theAprilGarcia/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theaprilgarcia

On PivotMe today, we have Tia Graham, the Founder of Arrive at Happy and has worked with dozens of global companies to elevate engagement and drive bottom-line results. She has several certifications in neuroscience, positive psychology, leadership, and knows both how to be happy and make the people in your company happy. We are catching her on the heels of her new book BE A HAPPY LEADER: STOP THE OVERWHELM, THRIVE PERSONALLY, AND ACHIEVE KILLER BUSINESS RESULTS

Tia explains the importance of having connected relationships, caring for your physical and mental wellbeing, and increasing the amount of purposeful meaningful activities in your life to tap into happiness.

In this episode, Tia explains how to be intentional about how you show up as a happy leader to make the workplace a happier place for everyone. Listen in to learn the difference between pleasure and happiness and how you impact others with your emotions, especially as a leader.

Pivotal Questions Asked:

[12:20] If someone is a leader of an organization or is a community leader, what do they need to know about happiness? [15:40] What is the difference between pleasure and happiness? [20:24] Does money bring us happiness? [23:03] What can pivoters do right now to increase their level of happiness and those around them?

In This Episode You Will Learn:

[5:29] Why you need to make effort and be intentional to make a difference in your happiness. [7:05] The top 3 tips on how to tap into happiness in your life. [9:51] How to make time as a high achiever to connect to those that matter. [12:31] How to lead with more positivity than negativity as an organization or community leader. [17:14] How to focus and consistently make an effort at being happy. [20:26] Why time wealthy people are happier plus how to be time affluent. [23:10] Steps on how to take control of the happiness in your life in 2022.

Quotes:

"The number one predictor of happiness is human connection, spending time with people that you care about and who care about you."- Tia [7:15] "Giving and generosity are directly connected to happiness."- Tia [21:10] "When you're learning something that you're passionate about, you're going to be happier."- Tia [23:51]

Connect with Tia: https://www.arriveathappy.com/

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What can you do today? To Be Productive. Effective. Perform at your best. Even now.

Are you struggling to stay focused? If you have the right framework, it takes the guesswork out of Productivity.

Get our FREE mini-series 4 Steps: Doing More in Less Time. Visit pivot-me.com/4Steps to get it TODAY!

👉👉 Connect with me here:

Website: https://www.pivot-me.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AprilGarciaPivotMe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theAprilGarcia/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theaprilgarcia

On PivotMe today, we have Eric Rebelo, the founder of a digital business development firm that builds sales & marketing growth systems for service-based businesses. He does this by using online advertising, SEO, conversion websites, and media.

Eric explains the power of having a compelling offer to attract customers and minimizing the message on your website to stimulate people's interest. He also explains the importance of being intense with your Facebook ads to stand out and eventually increase your conversion rates.

In this episode, we discuss the importance of placing your main focus on your clients and tailoring your message to what they need today. Listen in to learn how to apply the 80/20 rule in your marketing campaign by doing small things that will get you a lot of impact.

Pivotal Questions Asked:

• [2:57] Talk to us about what you do today and what your clients typically look like.
• [21:57] Who is this strategy right for, and who isn't it right for?
• [40:50] What do you love about this topic, and how did you end up here?
• [53:45] If you could tell the world one thing, what would it be?

In This Episode You Will Learn:

• [3:15] How Eric helps service-based businesses with higher profit margins do advertising by increasing their online traffic.
• [5:23] Why you should have a compelling offer to attract people to what you're selling.
• [13:57] How to use human psychology when creating Facebook ads to increase your conversion rates.
• [20:05] Learn to be uncomfortable so you can be the best in your industry when it comes to scaling your business.
• [27:31] The small things to improve your Google ranking and increase your scaling results.
• [32:16] Marketing inflation – learn to keep up with the market, or your business is going to fail.
• [47:24] The importance of having a peer group to help you in your journey to growing a business.
• [53:50] He explains the importance of getting clear and consistent with your goals to achieve them.

Quotes:

• "You have to have some type of offer that when you put it out there it's understanding the customer's problem and they actually desire it."- Eric [5:40]

• "You want to be best possible business and be better than your competitors in every single way you can because mediocrity isn't acceptable anymore when it comes to really scaling your business."- Eric [21:38]

• "Don't just spend all this time getting better on your craft, you've got to let the marketplace know who you are."- April [31:56]

• "The tough part about growing a business is that no one really believes in you at the beginning until you actually do anything."- Eric [47:24]

Connect with Eric: https://www.ericrebelo.com/

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What can you do today? To Be Productive. Effective. Perform at your best. Even now.

Are you struggling to stay focused? If you have the right framework, it takes the guesswork out of Productivity.

Get our FREE mini-series 4 Steps: Doing More in Less Time. Visit pivot-me.com/4Steps to get it TODAY!

👉👉 Connect with me here:

• Website: https://www.pivot-me.com
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AprilGarciaPivotMe
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theAprilGarcia/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theaprilgarcia

Are the negative thoughts you're having serving you? Most of the automatic negative thoughts you often have rarely protect you from getting hurt, they only cost you opportunities. In this episode of PivotMe, April explains the automatic negative thoughts and the 7 steps to identify and destroy them. Listen in to learn how you can start paying attention to the negative thoughts you're having, evaluate if they're true, and then rewire your brain to positive thinking. In This Episode You Will Learn:

• [2:05] PivotMe's branding journey to YouTube – the resistance and finally taking the action.
• [4:36] ANTs (Automatic Negative Thoughts) – what they are and how to kill them or replace them with badass thoughts.
• [9:38] How to shift your thinking from the negative you believe others think of you to the positive.
• [10:20] Eliminate negative labels on yourself or others.
• [13:00] The 7-step formula to recognize your thoughts, change them, and rewire your brain.
• [20:12] The process of rewiring your brain to positivity so it can start serving you.

Quotes:

• "Stop for a moment, evaluate the opportunities that lie in front of you, and then make a decision instead of simply dismissing the opportunity."- April [3:31]

• "Negative thoughts keep us small; they keep us frustrated, they keep us angry, they sour our relationships with others and with ourselves, and they rob us of the joy of the moment."- April [4:16]

• "A lot of times those negative narratives that we build are really around something that we're insecure about, not necessarily something that the other person is thinking."- April [10:07]

• "Our brain is there to protect us not always to empower us; it doesn't usually make us the best version of ourselves, it makes us the most cautious version of ourselves."- April [18:57]

What can you do today? To Be Productive. Effective. Perform at your best. Even now.

Are you struggling to stay focused? If you have the right framework, it takes the guesswork out of Productivity.

Get our FREE mini-series 4 Steps: Doing More in Less Time. Visit pivot-me.com/4Steps to get it TODAY!

👉👉 Connect with me here:

• Website: https://www.pivot-me.com
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AprilGarciaPivotMe
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theAprilGarcia/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theaprilgarcia

On PivotMe today, we have Rich Schefren. He is widely recognized as the internet marketing pioneer and one of the world's top experts on online business strategy. He has coached the world's top online business gurus including Russell Brunson of Click Funnels, and has authored the first viral business report and - get this- invented the first automated webinar back in 2009. Today Rich runs Strategic Profits, which is a company on a mission to turn struggling opportunity seekers into profitable entrepreneurs.

Rich explains how being passionate and not productive in whatever you do can drive you to success and happiness in life. He also explains the Steal Our Winners strategy, which revolves around creating a want and convincing people that they needed it.

Listen in to learn about the importance of adopting a better and different system in your business to stand out and add value. You will also learn how to appreciate your journey by understanding that having and achieving goals won't make you happy or fulfilled because fulfillment is only found in the progress.

Pivotal Questions Asked:

• [7:46] How do you navigate those pivots without your ego getting attached to who you used to be?
• [25:50] Explain what Steal Our Winners is and who it's for?
• [50:26] If you could tell the world one thing, what would it be?

In This Episode You Will Learn:

• [12:59] How to tap into who you really are to find your purpose in life and business.
• [16:14] He explains some of the powerful exercises he's done for him and his clients to transform life and business.
• [25:57] Steal Our Winners – Rich explains how he creates new and winning tactics and strategies before the rest of the world finds out about them.
• [46:53] The importance of going through the hardship of growth to get to the other side of success.
• [50:36] Why it's always selfish to ask someone to sacrifice their happiness for you and never selfish to be unwilling to sacrifice your happiness for someone else.

Quotes:

• "It's not about where you end up as much as it is about the experiences that you have."- Rich [8:26]

• "The single biggest productivity secret in the world for people who are not naturally productive is to be very passionate about what it is that you're doing."- Rich [10:00]

• "The principles of marketing never change; the tactics of marketing constantly change and oftentimes something new and different when it comes to marketing generally tends to work better."- Rich [25:57]

• "It's always selfish to ask someone to sacrifice their happiness for you and never selfish to be unwilling to sacrifice your happiness for someone else."- Rich [50:40]

• "Fulfillment is found in the progress, not in the acquisition."- April [53:04]

Connect with Rich: www.strategicprofits.com

_____________________________________________________________________What can you do today? To Be Productive. Effective. Perform at your best. Even now.

Are you struggling to stay focused? If you have the right framework, it takes the guesswork out of Productivity.

Get our FREE mini-series 4 Steps: Doing More in Less Time. Visit pivot-me.com/4Steps to get it TODAY!

👉👉 Connect with me here:

• Website: https://www.pivot-me.com
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AprilGarciaPivotMe
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theAprilGarcia/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theaprilgarcia