April Garcia's PivotMe

We're sure you don't want your work-life integration to become dangerous, right? The thing is, everything about you changes when you switch into work mode and it's best if you don't do that at night because it will possibly keep you up all night and annoy your loved ones.

In this episode, we want to share with you 2 simple tips to help you stop answering emails from home. It is important to understand that you need to be emotionally present with your family not just physically and those few minutes with your phone are not helping.

What you will learn in this episode:

• [5:27] Answer the emails from your car. Do this in the parking lot before you leave and make sure you don't lose your hours to this by setting the timer. Then make sure that the commute time becomes your transitioning time from work to home.
• [7:35] Take email notification off your phone. Remove your email icon on your main screen to make sure you have to go looking for it and hence find it difficult to reach it. Do not allow those email notifications to put a lull in your evening activities.

Join us in this episode to learn how not to answer your emails at home and make your work-life integration safe!

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

Our guest today is the best-selling author of two books on financial literacy; Money Honey and Passive Income Aggressive Retirement, Rachel Richards. She's a former financial advisor and a real estate investor with almost 40 units. She quit her job and retired at the age of 27 and now helps thousands of people work their way out of financial despair.

Rachel is now living off over $15,000 per month in passive income and is on a mission to empower female millennials to take control of their financial future.

In this episode, we discuss how and when Rachel developed her passion for financial independence and garnered the courage to execute her ideas. Rachel shares the major lessons she has learned in her journey from a corporate job to living off passive income.

Some Questions Asked:

• [2:48] Did you purposely seek out real estate for the passive income and what made you think, 'this is what I want to pursue'?
• [10:16] When you wrote your first book, what were the carols for writing that first one?
• [13:07] You pursued it so aggressively and so young, is it that you really just didn't want to have a day job? Is it that you really want to feel secure in your financial future? What gave you the fire in your belly?
• [27:48] Tell us about the book and the impact that it's made in your reader's lives.
• [43:14] When you see people that have so much passive income that they really don't need to work, what are the commonalities that you see?

In This Episode You Will Learn:

• [2:01] How Rachel left her corporate job and is now living 0ff $15k per month from passive income.
• [2:59] Rachel explains how she got into real estate intending to retire in her mid-thirties and ended up doing it even faster.
• [8:13] How she learned to handle rejection and to stay persistent to find those who will say yes.
• [10:21] How offering financial advice to family and friends led her to write her first book and her passion for passive income led her to write the second one.
• [13:21] Rachel's fear of being financially unstable and how it has driven her to achieve what she has now.
• [16:03] Selling knives taught her how to trade her time with better value.
• [19:47] The pivotal moment when Rachel wanted to give up on writing her first book and how she rose back up.
• [23:37] The unique voice in you and how to use it to make a difference.
• [27:52] How Rachel's book teaches people to increase their income and decrease their expenses to increase their expenses.
• [34:07] The small steps that will help get you closer to your goals.
• [36:35] Learning from people that are many steps ahead of you by investing in it.
• [39:36] How to protect your time- why saying no is a much more powerful response than saying yes.
• [43:35] The power of execution in separating your ideas with the rest of the world.
• [49:03] Rachel describes some ways you can make passive income even with a day job.

Connect with Rachel Richards:

Website: https://www.moneyhoneyrachel.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 http://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

In what area of your life do you feel obligated to say yes even when it should be a no simply because it's stacked on top of a pile of no's? We battle with our brains and often lose at the fourth no because we want to reward ourselves after the perceived sacrifice.

In this episode, I share how you can outsmart your brain by being aware of that moment that you're about to say that dreaded yes.

What you will learn in this episode:

• [3:50] How we want to reward ourselves with a YES after saying NO. Your brain tricks you into a reward after a perceived sacrifice even when it hurts you.
• [5:57] How to be intentional about your decision-making to outsmart your brain. Be aware of the NO that your brain has planned will sabotage your goals. Get clear and make decisions that support your goals.

Join me as you learn how to say the fourth NO with the same vigor as you did on the first three to outsmart your brain!

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

My guest on the show today is me as I get interviewed by Ashley Baxter of the Courageous Worth Podcast. I talk about how I help entrepreneurs work towards a greater good even as they reach their goals.

I share my entrepreneurial journey, doing humanitarian work in developing nations, and starting my current business that helps small businesses across the globe. We dive into the topic of intentional living and how most of our decisions are made in isolation.

Listen in to learn how to stay and become successful in your own lane as an entrepreneur without comparison.

Some Questions I was Asked:

• What does a day in the life of April Garcia look like? [1:47]
• Tell us about your business now, what do you do, who do you help and how? [7:22]
• Of all the humanitarian work that you've done, what is one of them that really sticks out to you that's been meaningful? [11:04]
• What is one of your favorite qualities about yourself and how do you live that quality out? [17:14]

In This Episode You Will Learn:

• How my typical day looks like plus my strong and consistent morning routine and how I balance work and family [1:53]
• How I work with SMEs owner's mindsets to get them to the next level by doing what is of the greater good [7:26]
• I narrate one of the most touching experiences of my humanitarian work [11:23]
• Why I became an entrepreneur due to a need to create my own rules [13:16]
• Learning how to stay in your own lane without comparison and doing what is serving you [15:06]
• How I love inspiring others and my passion in lighting a fire for people [17:26]

Connect with Ashley Baxter:

Website: https://www.theashleybaxter.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 http://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

My guest in this episode is a successful entrepreneur and a sought-after keynote speaker who teaches sales and marketing leaders to multiply their customers by creating superfans, Brittany Hodak. She is the co-founder of The Superfan Company, a multimillion-dollar fan-engagement agency that has worked with brands including Disney, Amazon, Walmart, Luke Bryan, Katy Perry, the Boston Red Sox. In 2015, she was on ABC's Shark Tank and was offered deals from four Sharks at a valuation of more than $4 million.

In this episode, we discuss how she never thought of becoming an entrepreneur until she took the risk of starting The Superfan Company at 26 years. Brittany shares about the pivotal moment when she left her multistate agency to become a keynote speaker.

Some Questions I Ask:

• Did you have formal speaking training or are you a naturally gifted speaker? [5:58]
• Did you struggle with identity of switching away from being associated with your company? [13:05]
• You've enjoyed a lot of success in your career already, what do you think has been key components to that? [18:49]
• What do you actually talk about in your keynotes? [22:18]

In This Episode You Will Learn:

• The moment she discovered keynote speaking was better suited for her than running a multistate agency [3:26]
• How she never thought of becoming an entrepreneur and much less a keynote speaker [6:10]
• How to choose what is best for everyone when exiting your business [10:42]
• Brittany's journey to detaching her identity from the success of her business and moving beyond the known into the unknown [13:30]
• Why she doesn't follow any routine or habits but is keen on setting one monthly goal [17:20]
• How to pick one thing and be great at it rather than chasing every shiny object out there [19:02]
• Brittany's keynote message of creating superfans (fans that create more fans) [22:22]
• How to articulate your story to your customers so they can externalize it to other people [27:12]

Connect with Brittany Hodak:

Brittany Hodak Website

Brittany Hodak LinkedIn

Brittany Hodak Facebook

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 http://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

How do you quickly increase your confidence? Because really, more often, confidence is not inherent but rather created. Increasing your confidence will be the beginning of improving many aspects of your life.

In this episode, April shares five things you can do to quickly build your confidence. You'll be surprised by some of these simple and easily overlooked tips that can tremendously improve both your professional and personal life.

What you will learn in this episode:

• [1:49] Tell yourself a better Story. Always keep in mind that it's not the events of your life that matter most but the stories you tell yourself about the events in your lives. You have a choice whether to reach for a positive or negative story. Advice: Stop looking for evidence to support a negative narrative but instead a positive one that makes you feel confident!
• [4:03] Affirmations. These are based on science and teach your brain a new different way to think. Learn to pick empowering affirmations; at least five positive ones that even out that negative one you might have let slide.
• [6:45] Manage your posture/ state. According to a Power Posing study, to manage your body language, you need to stand with your shoulders held back and your head held high. Remember that how you hold your body, does have an impact on how you think and a commanding powerful stance will make you feel powerful.
• [9:31] Review your Atta-Boy folder. What are some of your achievements, accomplishments, wins that make you feel amazing- confident? What have you stored in your Atta-Boy folder that you review to make you feel confident? It is important to have a private treasure chest either on your phone or laptop to pull from when you need a confidence boost.
• [11:47] Review your badass List. The crazy things you have overcome in your life, what are they? Reminding yourself of the badass that you are, will give you the power to press on at any moment's notice.
• [13:42] A quick run-through of the 5 ways to boost your confidence in any situation.

Join me in this episode as we quickly boost your confidence and improve aspects of your life!

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 http://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

You will be celebrated when you become successful.

But not one. Second. Before.

People will not support you when you do something that does not fit into their image of you or the role, they believe you should be playing. You will be criticized, met with concern, and ridiculed.

The people closest to us will be the first ones to say it's impossible. These words stop your progression and are hurting. Remember that no matter how good or noble your idea is, it won't lack ridicule at some level. I did things out of the norm and they were often met with ridicule.

Your goal should be to focus on your purpose and press on without other people's approval. Many successful people I've talked to say they didn't share their ideas because there were chances of being ridiculed.

Your ridicule now will be where you draw strength tomorrow when you face a similar problem. Join me in this episode as we talk about success and ridicule!

Resources Mentioned: Untamed by Glennon Doyle 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 http://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

Matthew Davis is a lawyer who runs a very successful practice in several cities in Oklahoma and Kansas, he graduated from Cornell College with a Summa Cum Laude and with Distinction. He established a law firm where they help business owners protect themselves and their problems and vulnerabilities.

In this episode, Matthew explains how he observed what people hate in the law industry and looked for a way to change that. He also explains the concept of protecting your business and how he's trying to change the law to structurally and systematically help people protect themselves from problems and vulnerabilities causing problems.

Listen in to learn about the nine external and internal vulnerabilities where your threats come from and how to systematically protect your business for effectiveness.

Some Questions I Ask:

• [6:35] Why did he pick the quarter-million to $10 million in revenue range; did it naturally happen?

• [17:02] Is it that a lot of businesses do not identify who are the A players versus the C players or if they do identify, do they just not make the decision to transition that employee?

• [21:58] How did he find himself in this line of work?

• [32:17] Is there a moment as a business owner when he hit the crossroads on which path to choose?

• [37:18] What does owning a business allow him to do?

• [47:35] What would he tell someone who is actively seeking the next level of success?

In This Episode You Will Learn:

• [1:45] Matthew speaks candidly and frankly about the court system

• [3:39] How to prevent the things that you can and prepare for the ones you can't in your business.

• [6:45] How the law is not set up to structurally and systematically help people protect themselves against problems.

• [13:09] Understanding the concept of protecting your business.

• [22:11] Matthew explains how he got into law and fixing what people hate in the industry

• [30:28] The things 'external vulnerabilities' that your lawyer should be understanding

• [32:48] The moment when his firm's mission of taking care and protecting people was heavily reaffirmed

• [37:21] The six essential departments 'allies' to build up underneath management

• [40:29] How Matthew has mastered working on his firm, not in it

• [42:30] Matthew explains his love for art outside of work and the books he'd recommend

• [47:46] How to actively aggressively go after success

• [49:17] He explains his future plans with the law firm, writing, and being an entrepreneur

Books Mentioned:

• The Bottom of the Pool by Andy Andrews

• Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits! 4 Keys to Unlock Your Business Potential by Greg Crabtree

• The Go-Giver by Bob Burg

• Never Lose a Customer Again: Turn Any Sale into Lifelong Loyalty in 100 Days by Joey Coleman

• Great by Choice by James C. Collins

• Profit First Mike Michalowicz

• Youtility by Jay Baer

Contact Matthew:

LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/matthewneilldavis Websites davisbusinesslaw.com (Company Website) matthewneilldavis.com (Personal Website)

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 http://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

"Why am I still retelling this old story of how that person wronged me?"

When we retell an old story, an old pain, we give energy to it and form a stronger connection to it. Retelling that story makes it more important, more significant. Don't let that story or person get Air Time. Like a fire that needs oxygen to burn, stop giving it oxygen. To become the best version of you, you must move past the problems, current or past.

Vow to stop retelling that story over the potato salad at the BBQ. Be in solution mode. 80% of your time goes to the solution (if there is one) and 20% to the problem. Your old business partner that took more than his fair share in that deal? The job you didn't get? Do something about it, or stop thinking about it. Stop telling that damn story at BBQs! Don't let it occupy your valuable mental real estate! Teaching yourself where to put your focus and energy will pay you massive dividends. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀? Where are you retelling an old story that doesn't serve you? Reliving a past hurt and reconnecting to it each time? Who is getting Air Time in our minds, that doesn't deserve it? Here are 3 Steps to tackle it: 1st: Identify it. The person, the story, the situation. You retell it, you get upset, you get angry, if this story—makes you wanna punch someone in the face, then you found it! 2nd: Determine if something needs to be done about it? Have you wronged someone you need to right? Is there a lesson you need to learn? 3rd: Stop retelling the story (at the BBQ or in your mind) and move forward. When facing these situations ask yourself- Can I change it? Can I do something about it? If not—then move forward. Focus on your next steps and the solutions that lay ahead, not behind you.

Connect with me on Facebook.com/theparilgarcia and www.instagram.com/theAprilGarcia

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

Sometimes in life we come to a major crossroads. And sometimes you can blow right through that crossroads and not even know it's there...until it's in your rear view mirror. So today we ask - is right now one of those times for you?

In this episode we talk about inflection points or what we refer to as pivot points—those moments where you have an opportunity to choose differently and alter course. Many times we're forced into this moment through radical change or tragedy... April shares her own story as well as one of her clients, who went through a really dark time but emerged from the fog and was able to start his own business; something he might not have achieved without seeing and seizing that moment. At the end of this podcast, April encourages everyone to reflect on our past inflection points and the decisions we made in those times; how understanding your past decisions will give you power and purpose in the next one.

Connect with me on Facebook.com/theparilgarcia and www.instagram.com/theAprilGarcia

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