Behind the Spotlight

What if your next podcast guest appearance or speaking engagement could bring you $10K+ in new client work?

🎤 In this episode, Laurie-Ann chats with Beth Nydick, who shares her FAME Formula for turning visibility into profitability. From fearless mindset to expert monetization, Beth reveals how to transform every mic moment into money. You'll learn how to position your expertise, repurpose your visibility, and pitch yourself with confidence. If you're ready to leverage Other People's Audiences and finally get booked, seen, and paid.

Learn more about Beth at BethNydick.com

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Breaking on our show: @vanessacoppes just dropped an exclusive on the September issue of @bellamediaco and let me tell you, it's a statement. Cover line? "AI Can't Do This".

A direct clap back to @voguemagazine 's all AI generated Fashion Spread by @guess . And here's what you won't see in the glossy pages: Vanessa was sick to her stomach making this call. She knew it would ruffle feathers. But guided by prayer and conviction, she chose the harder road the one that protects creativity over convenience. That's what real confidence looks like: doing the hard thing, even when it scares you.

This September, BELLA is planting a flag: fast isn't better, real is. And speaking of real… Vanessa is also launching a beauty line "Hello Gorgeous" with anna.bellehedges finally, a makeup line that's good for our skin, affordable, and easy to use. Because beauty shouldn't be toxic, overpriced, or complicated.

Catch Vanessa's full take (and why this cover is more than just a headline).

She's the queen of copy, the Tough Titties truth-teller, and the reason half the internet finally sounds like real humans instead of ChatGPT. This week, I sat down with Laura Belgray—award-winning copywriter, founder of @talkingshrimpnyc—to talk about how being "lazy" can make you rich, why your quirks are your cash machine, and what even most of us get wrong about being ourselves. We talk about: — The genius behind "strategic slacking" — Ditching robotic, 'professional' copy for the stuff that actually sells — Why your "weird" is the most bankable part of your brand — And what to say if you think you're not interesting If you're ready to write like you actually talk—and get paid for being you!! Hit play, take notes, and then run (don't walk) to get on the "talking shrimp nyc" waitlist. That copy of yours? It's ready for shrimpclub.

She went from four years in bed with chronic illness… to becoming the secret weapon behind some of the world's top experts.⁣ ⁣ Meet Maeve Ferguson — former private equity exec turned diagnostic funnel guru and the creator of the Impact Score Assessment. ⁣ She helps 7- and 8-figure entrepreneurs, bestselling authors, and high-level coaches turn their intellectual property into lead-gen machines that pre-qualify, segment, and sell — before the first sales call even happens.⁣ ⁣ Inside this interview: Maeve did a live breakdown of my framework to show how it could become a powerful diagnostic tool (you'll want to take notes).⁣ ⁣ She also shares: - Her journey from bedridden burnout to business brilliance - Why infrastructure - influence if you want sustainable success - How assessments are reshaping the way experts attract aligned, ready-to-buy leads ⁣ Ready to see your own business through Maeve's lens? Take her free quiz → https://www.impactscoreassessment.com/ ⁣ Listen to the full interview to see the magic in action and find out how to future-proof your lead gen strategy — without adding more to your plate.⁣

Join Ellen and I as we talk about the incredible bonus episode #62 @cubicletoceo where I reveal the exact pitfalls preventing you from turning podcast appearances into profit!

Discover how my "Profitable Podcast Guest System" can transform your next interview into a $10K+ payday. This conversation is packed with actionable strategies you can implement immediately! P.S. You haven't lived until you've heard Mrs. Oregano (aka Ellen) drop her media wisdom too!

Going behind the spotlight to meet Vanessa Bruce, co-founder + CEO of Dough. Vanessa is an award-winning, patent holding, founder, operator, and designer passionate about transparent commerce, driving change with our purchase power, and financial independence. Dough was founded when Vanessa and co-founder Anna caught up over coffee and chatted about the struggles of being a female-founder. The conversation quickly led to late-night texts sharing articles on the capital gap (can you believe women receive only 2.7% of investment dollars?), the pink tax (did you hear women get charged on average 7% more products like razors?), and spending power (wait, we as women control 80% of consumer-driven purchases?). The duo thought, "What if we could direct spending dollars back to women-owned companies to create economic equity?"

Beth and Vanessa discuss:

• How her family inspired her to create her own path
• Conscious consumerism
• Creating Dough
• Transparency and some of Dough's other company values
• How Vanessa balances family and business
• How Dough really embodies collaboration and community over competition
• What's to come for the brand
• And more!

Vanessa's work has been featured in Fortune, Bustle, and the New York Times as well as recognized by the Stevie Awards, Adobe Creative Jams and W3 – just to name a few. She believes in building a more inclusive, compassionate, and equitable community and volunteers as a mentor at Hack.Diversity as well as advises early stage DTC founders. She is a first generation college graduate, an alumni of Simmons University, a women's college in the heart of Boston, where she studied Design and Public Relations.

Connect with Vanessa:

https://www.joindough.com/

https://www.instagram.com/joindough/

Beth is joined by fierce coach, intensely driven entrepreneur and comically authentic speaker and connector, Melanie Curtis. Melanie has jumped out of an airplane over 11,000 times in over 20 years and has circled the globe as a headlining professional skydiver and eventually founded How to Fly, Inc. where she works with Type A high-achievers through fear and the feelings that come with it across widely varied life challenges and business pursuits. She helps her clients get through the super unsexy work of building the internal emotional skills external high-achievers so often lack and only realize when faced with a life challenge they can't seem to figure out how to get through.

Melanie shares on:

• How she got into skydiving (and why she avoided it for many years before facing her fears)
• Some pivotal and transcendental moments in her life
• Holding positive space for clients
• Accountability and communication
• How she operates as a life coach
• Identifying fear, clarifying values and employing courage
• Tapping into ones creative abilities

Melanie leads through her keynote speaking and significant online presence, extracting useful insight and inspiration for others in all the content she contributes to or creates. She has been featured in Fast Company, Elle Magazine, Give Me Sport, Ellevate Podcast, Success IQ and on numerous other podcasts and in other publications over the years.

Connect with Melanie:

http://melaniecurtis.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanie-curtis-she-her-74ab3540/

Join Jacklyn Mellone and I talk all thing digital entrepreneurship. The pitfalls, the tragedy as well as the triumph.

Get your brand in the media in 5 easy steps.

Beth is joined by Founder of Blissful Eats, teacher, community leader and mom, Nicole Culver. Nicole helps influencers transform into successful digital product creators. She's run two businesses for the past 9+ years and has helped hundreds of students step into their money making, freedom finding, inner CEO role. She's spent the past years researching exactly what works to transform herself AND her students with the simplest strategies that work, so they can build a business they LOVE and have time to spend with family.

Beth and Nicole discuss:

• Nicole's path from special education to online business
• Working closely with a spouse
• Evolving together and separately through career and personal growth
• Separating yourself from your business
• Following intuition
• Allowing and accepting our emotions
• Finding your zone of genius and sticking to
• Getting out of your comfort zone

Nicole helps women figure out their goals and make a strategic plan to reach them. She also has a podcast, Blissful Bites: A Food Entrepreneur Podcast, which focuses on sharing the stories of successful women in the food industry. She is a New Yorker through and though since birth as well as a wife and mom of two girls, Olivia and Mila. She loves waking up early, at home fitness, coffee and writing to-do lists. Others obsessions include podcasts, spending time with my family (always my #1 priority!), online shopping, and meal planning and recipe creation.

Connect with Nicole:

https://nicoleculver.co/

https://nicoleculver.co/facebook-map/