Business Addicts - The Podcast for people who are addicted to business

In this episode Brooke McAlery from Slow Your Home talks about Slow Living, sharing insights into how you can slow down your life in this crazy busy world of ours and the benefits slow living can have on all aspects of your life and business.

Brooke McAlery

Brooke McAlary is the founder of independent podcast network, Jackrabbit.FM, and host of the iTunes #1 Health show, The Slow Home Podcast. She has been connecting with people online since 2011 when she launched her blog, Slow Your Home. Since then she has written an Amazon best-selling ebook, connected with more than 2 million people on her website, and had The Slow Home Podcast named by iTunes as one of the top shows of 2015.

As an advocate for slow living, Brooke is also a fan of the best things in life – naps, travel, a good book and a great shiraz. She lives with her family in the Blue Mountains, just outside Sydney, loves snowboarding, and suffers from a severe case of wanderlust.

You can follow Brook McAlery on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.

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Slow Living

In this episode we explore

* What advocates of the slow living movement do that is different from those people living crazy busy lives.

* Some of the simple changes you can make to your life so that you can start living a slower and more fulfilled life.

* How slow living can have a positive impact on your business.

* How slow living can bring more joy to your life.

* How slow living can give you more clarity in life.

* How slow living can help you live a more clutter-free life.

* How slow living can help make you more grateful for what you have in life.

* How slow living can help improve your health and wellbeing.

* How slow living can help your be more present in life.

* How slow living can help enhance relationships.

* How slow living can help increase your generosity.

* How slow living can bring more joy to your life.

* What to do if you once you have adopted a slow living approach to life and you start to relapse to your old ways.

Resources discussed in the show

* Leo Babauta – Zen Habbits

* Living A Calendar Base Life – Phyllis Khare

* The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing – Marie Kondo

* Destination: Simple – Rituals and Rhythms to Simplify Your Daily Life

* Let It Be Podcast

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In this episode Catriona Pollard outlines her five-step process that you can use to go from unknown to the recognised leading expert in your field.

Catriona Pollard

Catriona Pollard is the author of From Unknown To Expert, a step by step framework designed to help entrepreneurs develop effective PR and social media strategies to become recognised as influencers in their field.

Catriona is also the director of CP Communications, which merges traditional PR tactics with cutting-edge social media strategies that engage consumers as well as business.

You can follow Catriona Pollard on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram or YouTube.

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From Unknown To Expert

In this episode we explore

* Why its no longer good enough to be good at what you do; you also have to be good at telling people what you do.

* Catriona’s five-step system that will help you go from unknown to the recognised leading expert in your field regardless of the type of business you are in.

* Why figuring out your why is so important.

* What you need to do to set the stage to be seen as an expert.

* Why developing your personal brand is so important as part of setting your stage.

* The importance of developing a personal brand.

* The importance of networking in building your brand.

* Tips for anyone who gets freaked out by the concept of networking.

* The kinds of things you need to do to turn the spotlight on you and your business.

* How you can use the media to help shine the light on you and tips for attracting the attention of the media.

* The opportunities that are available for you today to own the light and shine the spotlight on yourself.

* How important do you find networking in building your brand and turning the spotlight on yourself?

* Being open to “yes” and how that has helped Catriona in moving from unknown to expert.

* Why you shouldn’t compare yourself to other people.

* The importance of being true to yourself and speaking your truth.

* How facing your fears will enable you to be able to experience growth.

Resources discussed in the show

* Influencer Marketing – Laney Galligan

* Grandslam Gal – Periscope

* Gaining Publicity – Bec Derrington

* Meet Edgar

* Catriona Pollard’s Publicity Acceleration Pack with extra bonus information for those serious about branding and promotion

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In this episode Ronsley Vaz talks about podcasting, sharing insights into the benefits of podcasting for businesses, as well as tips for either creating a podcast or being a guest on other people’s podcasts.

Ronsley Vaz

Ronsley is an entrepreneur specialising in creating businesses that connect people and ideas in new and innovative ways. He is the host of Australia’s #1 Food & Entrepreneurship podcast – Bond Appetit, that focuses on uniting entrepreneurs through food. Bond Appetit has been listened and downloaded over 1.8 million times.

Ronsley has a Masters’ degree in Software Engineering and an MBA in psychology and leadership. He is a software technical expert, a personal chef, and a serial idea creator.

Most recently, one of his ideas was to create We Are Podcast, the first ever podcasting conference in the southern hemisphere, which he brought to fruition back in October 2015 and in the process of doing this, Ronsley has really positioned himself as a leading expert in the podcasting space in Australia and has since created another podcast called “Should I Start A Podcast”.

You can follow Ronsley Vaz on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.

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Should I Start A Podcast?

In this episode we explore

* What makes the podcasting medium so powerful.

* The future of podcasting.

* Advice for someone looking to start a podcast.

* The secret sauce is for creating a great podcast.

* Tips for getting big names on your show as guests.

* The different styles of podcasts you may wish to consider for your podcast.

* How listening to other podcasts can assist you in shaping your own podcast.

* The lifecycle and lifespan of a podcast.

* Tips for attracting new listeners and subscribers to your podcast.

* Advice for becoming a guest on a podcast.

Resources discussed in the show

* We Are Podcast – The first podcasting conference in Australia

* Freakonomics Podcast

* Entrepreneur on Fire Podcast

* GE Podcast Theatre – The Message

* Rapid Business Growth: Nathan Chan

* The Startup

* Ask Patt Flynn

* Ask Gary Vee

* Ask Jack D

* Online Marketing Made Easy – Amy Porterfield

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In this episode Loren and Fiona celebrate 52 weeks of regularly and consistently bringing you #BusinessAddicts The Podcast. The celebrations include reflecting on how the podcast has changed the lives of not only the co-hosts, but also some of the #BusinessAddicts listeners.

There are also two major announcements in regards to the #BusinessAddicts plans for the future.

Loren Bartley & Fiona Redding

You can follow Loren Bartley on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Google+, Youtube and Pinterest.

You can follow Fiona Redding on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Google+, Youtube and Pinterest.

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#BusinessAddicts First Birthday Celebration

We are super excited to be reaching this major milestone. 52 weeks of regularly and consistently bringing you interviews and the vey best insights to help both feed and manage your business addiction, via #BusinessAddicts The Podcast.

This week we have two massive announcements to share with you as we start taking #BusinessAddicts to the next level.

In addition to these announcements, we hear stories from some of the most passionate members of the #BusinessAddicts community.

It has been an honour to have your attention for the past 52 episodes and we look forward to continuing on this journey together.

Resources discussed in the show

* #BusinessAddicts The Boardroom

* #BusinessAddicts The Community

* Influencer Marketing: Laney Galligan

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In this episode Laney Galligan talks about Influencer Marketing, explaining how you can use influencer marketing in your business. We explore the win/win/win relationships that can occur when businesses partner with influencers for marketing purposes. We look at this from the perspectives of the influencer, the business and the audience.

Laney Galligan

Laney Galligan is an experienced sales and marketing professional, an ex-‘mummy blogger’, General Manager of ProBlogger and Director of bespoke influencer services agency Agents of Influence.

In a few short years she has contracted close to a million dollars in sponsorships for a small and select group of clients, simply by leveraging their influence.

Her next adventure is turning her knowledge and experience into resources for others so they too can understand, build and leverage their influence to create a living on their own terms.

You can follow Laney Galligan on LinkedIn, Twitter or Instagram.

“You’re not an influence until you can prove it”. Find out how to do that with @laneygalliganClick To Tweet

Influencer Marketing

In this episode we explore

* What influence is.

* The 6 principles of influence.

* What you need to do if you want to position yourself as an Influencer in your niche

* Why influence isn’t a numbers game and how to measure your real level of influence so that you can articulate it to potential partners.

* The importance of developing your own “Influencer Files”.

* Why influencers are more valuable than the impressions and eyeballs that you can purchase through Google Adwords or a highly targeted Facebook Advertising campaign.

* Examples of some of the meaningful and sustainable ways that bloggers, podcasters and other online entrepreneurial creatives can use their influence to benefit their business.

* Advice for influencers who would like to approach a major brand for some sort of partnership.

* Tips for making sure that you pitch your partnership arrangement at the right level, whether you be pitching as the influencer or the business.

* How to identify who the appropriate influencers would be to partner with for your business.

* Tips for making contact with an influencer so that not only does your pitch stand out amongst other approaches, but so that you are more likely to develop a successful relationship with the influencer.

* How to develop true win/win/win partnerships in your influencer marketing strategy.

Resources discussed in the show

* Why Influencers Shouldn’t Send Media Kits

* The Weight of Influence

* Influence – Robert Cialdini

* 31 Days to Build a Better Blog – Darren Rowse

* Fox in Flats – Style Dares

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In this episode Dr Linda Wilson talks about how you can take control of the level of stress you experience on a daily basis, sharing insights into how you can use the latest neurological research, tools and techniques to create sustainable stress management for yourself.

Dr Linda Wilson

Dr Linda Wilson is the Author of Stress Made Easy – Peeling Women Off The Ceiling.

Based in Melbourne, Australia, Linda is a corporate wellness consultant and owns a multi-modality wellness practice. When not working with clients Linda has a weekly radio show focusing on stress management, health and wellbeing.

Linda incorporates the latest neurological research, tools and techniques to create sustainable stress management plans for her clients.

Informed by the philosophy of a degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine, a Graduate Diploma in Education (Health) and 17 years clinical experience as a stress management specialist, Linda understands that the capacity to change your mind changes your world. Linda has helped hundreds of clients better identify, understand and manage their stress.

You can follow Dr Linda Wilson on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter.

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Stress Made Easy

In this episode we explore

* What stress is and what it is that can make us feel stressed.

* Some of the common ways that you may physically process stress.

* How to identify your red flag warning signals that will tell you that you are experiencing stress.

* How the game of life is set up with inherited rules and how these inherited rules can impact your stress levels.

* How you can go about rewriting your rule book, if you are operating from a set of rules that no longer serve you, and start developing a new belief system around all aspects of your life.

* How your stress response is triggered by the meaning you give to an event, rather than an event itself, and how you can use this knowledge to more proactively manage your stress levels.

* Why it is that you continue to repeat negative stress behaviours when you want to change them and what you need to do to bring about the desired change.

* How much the degree to which you are connected with (or perhaps not connected with) your body influence your ability to recognise and interpret the presence of stress in our body.

* Some of the potential issues that can occur if your stress levels are consistently high to the point that you are living in a state of chronic stress.

* Advice for those people who are currently feeling completely overwhelmed with stress and what they should do to peel themselves down off the ceiling.

* The kinds of questions you need to be asking yourself so that you can change, grow and move beyond a state of constant stress.

* Assuming we reduce the level of stress that we are experiencing on a daily basis to a new, much lower normal,

* Tips (for when you have managed to reduce your stress levels) to make sure that you don’t slip back into your old bad habits over time and end up stressed again.

In this episode one of the world’s most successful memory athletes, Tansel Ali, talks about improving your memory, sharing some of the simple techniques you can use on a daily basis that will help you remember things better.

Tansel Ali

Tansel Ali is one of the world’s most successful memory athletes. Having won four Australian Memory Championship titles, he holds many national memory records, which include remembering the most names and faces in five minutes. As a world leading memory expert, Tansel is an in-demand speaker on the topics of self-development, memory, and learning. He is a consultant and coach to organizations, executives, entrepreneurs, and celebrities helping them work smarter, reduce stress, and achieve results fast. He is the author of the best-selling book on memory techniques, “The Yellow Elephant”.

Tansel is also a celebrity ambassador for Crohn’s and Colitis Australia helping others to live a better lifestyle. He is also an award-winning multicultural ambassador for the Australian Football League (AFL) promoting cultural diversity within the community.

You can follow Ansel Ali on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or Instagram.

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Improving Your Memory

In this episode we explore

* Whether developing a powerful memory is a gift or a learnt trait.

* Some of the main techniques you can use to remember things and which techniques are best for different situations.

* How Tansel Ali memorised two phone books, including over 2,300 business names and more than 20,000 digits of phone numbers in only 24 days.

* The techniques Tansel Ali used to train Todd Sampson to compete in the World Memory Championships in London and memorize an entire shuffled deck of cards with only a few weeks of training as part of the award-winning TV documentary, ‘Redesign My Brain’.

* Tips for remembering people’s names.

* Why the real champion is the one who learns how to learn.

* What you need to be doing in order to learn fast.

* The basic concept of speed reading and some of the techniques you need to employ to get you started in reading faster.

* Tips for improving your memory that you can practice on a daily basis.

Resources discussed in the show

* Today Tonight – Memory Boost

* How Tansel Ali memorised 2 phone books in 24hrs

* Tansel Ali on Redesign My Brain

* How to remember names

* How to remember names – Tansel Ali and Todd Sampson

* 7 Steps to Learn Anything in 24hrs

In this episode Angela Raspass talks about Your Next Chapter Business, sharing insights into what it is that shapes the extent you flourish and expand in business.

Angela Raspass

Angela Raspass is a “Your Next Chapter Business Mentor”. She supports women in their 40’s and beyond as they let go of self-doubt and create personally and financially fulfilling businesses that leverage their experience and expertise.

After a corporate marketing and sales career, Angela launched her own marketing consultancy at her dining room table in 2003 with two small children underfoot. Ideas Into Action expanded into a Sydney office with a team of full time staff and clients in three states.

In 2012, tired of pure strategic b2b marketing, Angela began to explore what her Next Chapter might entail. A period of exploration, education and personal development followed before she pivoted—now specialising in helping women create their own Next Chapter Businesses, building confidence, clarity and wholehearted marketing and sales skills so they too can do the work in the world that brings them fulfilment and abundance.

You can follow Angela on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or Instagram.

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Your Next Chapter Business

In this episode we explore

* What a “Your Next Chapter Business Mentor” is.

* Common reasons why people feel the need to embark on a new chapter in business.

* The biggest thing that holds people back from making the decision to start afresh in business, particularly later in life.

* Why the journey into Your Next Chapter Business has Trust at its core.

* “Just in time” learning versus “just in case” learning.

* Advice for when your inner critic goes into overdrive and starts hijacking your thoughts and playing with your emotions.

* Advice for changing core beliefs that have developed as a result of you listening to your inner critic for years.

* How EFT can assist you in business.

* How to break the negative spiral of emotions and behaviours and replace them with more positive ones.

* The importance of self-awareness.

* How to avoid procrastination and taking the escape hatch by making a conscious switch to skylight thinking.

* Building a support network and the types of people you need (and don’t need) in your life.

* The importance of ROE “Return On Energy”.

* Why everyone needs a “Fabulous File”and what it should contain.

* The importance of being in touch with what your core values are and making sure that your core values are in action in your business.

Resources discussed in the show

* The Shift

* Simone Novello – Partner Up

* FB Business Success NOW!

* Inner Critic Quiz

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In this episode Phyllis Khare talks about living a calendar based life, sharing advice on how you can use simple free tools like Google Calendars to better manage your life.

Phyllis Khare

Phyllis Khare is the author of two books on social media marketing: Social Media Marketing eLearning Kit for Dummies and co-author of Facebook Marketing All-In-One for Dummies, 1st and 2nd Editions.

Phyllis has contributed has written for Social Media Examiner, Marketing Profs, several social media marketing magazines. She also regularly presents for Social Media Examiner as part of their online training events.

Phyllis is the co-founder of Social Media Manager School – with Andrea Vahl. They currently have over 1000 students in their membership school from all over the world.

Phyllis is also the Founder of TimeBliss.ME — time management for busy entrepreneurs. And amongst many other amazing achievements, Phyllis was also Loren’s roomie at Social Media Marketing World 2015.

You can follow Phyllis on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and YouTube.

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Living a Calendar Based Life

In this episode we explore

* What goal-gating is and how this strategy can ensure that you stay on task in achieving your goals throughout the year and prevent you from feeling overwhelmed?

* The mindset blocks that people have for living a calendar based life.

* The best tools for managing your time.

* The benefits of living a calendar-based life.

* The importance of listening to your calendar and how living a calendar based life can assist you in gaining a realistic view of what you are actually capable of doing.

* Where do you should start when it comes to planning for the year.

* The process for mapping out what you actually need to do throughout the year in order to achieve your goals.

* How to go from broad stroke dates in your calendar for all the things you plan to do, to more specific details of what’s actually involved and how long it is likely to take for you to do it.

* How specific you need to get in terms of planning the time of the day you should be completing each task.

* Tips for accurately determining how long things are going to take, particularly when you are blocking time well in advance when the details of exactly what is involved could be unknown.

* The importance of scheduling time for the unscheduled and leaving space in your calendar for over run so you can move things around if need be.

* Tips for being able to flag those periods that are going to be particularly hectic so you can make adjustments in advance if possible.

* Why you should be doing a weekly review of your calendar prior to the start of each week.

In this episode Fiona Redding talks about the importance of taking responsibility, explaining why you need to show up and take 100% responsibility for all aspects of your life and be accountable for who you are and where you are in your life. 

Fiona Redding

As founder and Chief Happiness Hunter, Fiona has built a network and community that is focused on reciprocity, connection and well-being.

The Happiness Hunter is a mastermind on legs – with daily walks throughout Melbourne (they are free!), a Leadership Program, an on-line community, You Can Change Your Life Bootcamp, retreats, workshops and mind-set mentoring. Fiona is also a speaker, business strategist and consultant, as well as being the co-host of #BusinessAddicts the podcast (one of the best gigs EVER!).

You can follow Fiona on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Google+, Youtube and Pinterest.

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Taking Responsibility

In this episode we explore

* How we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that we are human beings.

* The importance of taking 100% responsibility for all aspects of your life and be accountable for who you are in your life.

* Why you need to set drivers, values and a vision for your life and be clear on your non-negotiable decision making framework.

* The importance of planning, goal setting and setting priorities within those goals.

* Asking yourself the hard questions and becoming more aware of where you are in relation to your goals and what the gaps are that are preventing you from achieving them.

* The importance of mindset.

* The role of meditation in and routine plays in assisting you to achieve your goals.

* Why taking time to reflect can help you with your goal setting.

* An overview of Loren and Fiona’s achievements in 2015.

* An sneak peak into Loren and Fiona’s goals and priorities for 2016.

* Advice for people who set goals but then rarely achieve them.

Resources discussed in the show

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Fiona Redding – HR Disrupt MelbourneA few weeks ago I spoke at Disrupt HR Melbourne.How are you showing up in your life today?http://www.thehappinesshunter.comFiona Redding

Posted by The Happiness Hunter on Thursday, December 3, 2015

 

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