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Aileen is the author of the Alpha Girl series where she ended up selling 300,000 copies and landing on the bestselling list of USA Today. In this episode, she talks about why you should treat publishing your book like a business, things you can do to overcome writer’s block, and some helpful strategies when you’re looking to writing a series.

What We Discuss with Aileen Erin:

• How her experience growing up influences her writing 
• Writing her first book and attending grad school
• Why you need to treat publishing as a business
• Writing a series vs writing a single book
• How to overcome writer's block and tips in creating your series bible
• Finding the balance between writing and business
• Aileen’s book writing process and her advice to aspiring writers
• Why pursuing distributorship is essential
• The best time for marketing your book in the series
• Marketing your book and the importance of finding your own community

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Marlon Walters, Ph.D. is an executive, speaker, educator, consultant, and author. Today, he talks about his book, The Invisible Executive: Crushed by Career, Forgotten by Family, Restored by Faith. From an innocent book writing journey, Marlon shares how this became a transformative experience for him. He seeks to inspire people through the idea of being visible and showing your swag.

What We Discuss with Marlon Walters:

• How his book came about and the story behind its title
• The impact of racism and bias in corporate America
• His challenges while writing his book
• How the worst day of his life turned out to be an opportunity for him to be visible
• Sticking to your genuine self
• Practicing swag in different areas of your life
• Marlon's book writing process and getting things organized
• What keeps people from publishing their book
• Talent retention and creating a culture in your organization

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Kristina Mand-Lakhiani is a serial entrepreneur, international speaker, artist, mom of two and much more. Along with husband, Vishen, they founded Mindvalley, a small meditation business that quickly grew into a global educational organization offering top training for peak human performance to hundreds of thousands of students all around the world.

What We Discuss with Kristina Mand:

• Kristina talks about her personal journey of self-acceptance
• Dealing with the pressure of perfectionism and getting out of that box
• How to figure out what message to convey to your audience
• Kristina's thoughts on parenting and dealing with your emotions
• How to move forward with your self-consciousness
• Anchoring your awareness on even the small things
• The power of curiousness and truly seeing yourself
• Some powerful insights into self-acceptance and self-love
• How to keep going with your business by going back to your why
• How the world is mirroring who you are

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Cory Calvin shares all about his journey as an author, a blogger, and a traveler. He also talks about his book I Almost Became Me: A Memoir. Cory's mission is to inspire one million people by the time he reaches the age of 50 (he turned 40 in 2019).

What We Discuss with Cory Calvin:

• When he conceived the idea of writing a book
• Figuring out which stories to tell in the book
• Finding himself stuck in the career system
• The burning desire to travel around the world
• Going through the process of finding his voice and the journey of finding himself
• The biggest challenges and fears Cory had including putting LGBT on the book
• Cory’s aha! moments and discovering who he really is
• How he finished his book while going through a very challenging phase of his life
• Cory wrote a blog about his journey with his mom and finally found his voice
• What Cory’s next book is about
• Different strategies in putting his book out there

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Ryan Levesque is the Inc. 500 CEO of The ASK Method ® Company, and the #1 national best-selling author of Ask, which was named by Inc. as the #1 Marketing Book of the Year. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, and Entrepreneur and over 250,000 entrepreneurs subscribe to his email newsletter offering business advice. He is also a co-founder and investor in bucket.io®, a leading marketing funnel software for entrepreneurs.

His latest book Choose, helps readers avoid making the single biggest mistake when starting a business and guides people through answering the all important question: What type of business should you start?

What We Discuss with Ryan Levesque:

• How Choose came about
• The 4 types of people who start their own business and some examples
• See which of those types you identify with and some things to watch out for.
• How do you know if your market is the right size
• Understanding competition before starting your own business
• How to find the "green light" market
• Setting realistic goals for yourself
• Learning from his mistakes and choosing an evergreen and metronome market
• Giving up good to go after GREAT
• Ryan’s book writing process

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