Digital Course Creator Podcast

We dive into the foundational elements that can make or break your course creation journey: vision and values. Drawing on 15+ years of experience as a college psychology professor and course creator consultant, I’ll guide you through the essential steps to identify and align your personal and business values. This episode is a must-listen for both budding and seasoned entrepreneurs who want to establish a clear vision and value-driven roadmap for their courses or coaching business.

Show Resources:

• Online Values Card Sort
• Printable Values Card Sort

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Please Note: Dr. Moira was a Certified StoryBrand Guide from May 15, 2022 until July 15, 2024. Any episodes mentioning StoryBrand were recorded during a time when she was certified as a Guide. If you would like to be connected with an active StoryBrand Guide, feel free to reach out as she still maintains contacts within the Guide community.

Course creation is about more than marketing, titles, tech, and bullet points. Listen in today as I share 5 key components to the design of your course content that can mean the difference between flop and profit. After all, the goal is for your students to be successful and experience wins. When you do this, they become your lifelong fans and your best referral partners.  

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Please Note: Dr. Moira was a Certified StoryBrand Guide from May 15, 2022 until July 15, 2024. Any episodes mentioning StoryBrand were recorded during a time when she was certified as a Guide. If you would like to be connected with an active StoryBrand Guide, feel free to reach out as she still maintains contacts within the Guide community.

Shannon Boyer is an expert instructional design coach with the gift for looking at any course and identifying clear, actionable steps to elevate the course and improve student engagement. With this superpower, she is able to help course creators create stellar content that improves student completion rates, inspires raving referrals, and increases sales. Today, Shannon will be sharing 3 tips for increasing student engagement in your course.

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Connect with Shannon Boyer:

• Website
• 7 Things Your Online Course Must Include
• Instagram

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Please Note: Dr. Moira was a Certified StoryBrand Guide from May 15, 2022 until July 15, 2024. Any episodes mentioning StoryBrand were recorded during a time when she was certified as a Guide. If you would like to be connected with an active StoryBrand Guide, feel free to reach out as she still maintains contacts within the Guide community.

Explore 5 Tips for Creating an Accessible Business and Course

As you create your business and course as an entrepreneur, you want to make sure that it is accessible. With approximately 27% of USA Adults living with a disability, we want to make sure that our business is a safe haven. That our content is accessible to each human.

In this episode, I'll share 5 key things to keep in mind as you create your content, courses, website, and business collateral. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but it will get you started.

Show Resources:

• Disability Statistics 
• Color Contrast 
• Wired Article about Screen-Reader Experience 
• Color Contrast App 
• Adding Captions: Kapwing or Descript 

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• Schedule a Strategy Call
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Please Note: Dr. Moira was a Certified StoryBrand Guide from May 15, 2022 until July 15, 2024. Any episodes mentioning StoryBrand were recorded during a time when she was certified as a Guide. If you would like to be connected with an active StoryBrand Guide, feel free to reach out as she still maintains contacts within the Guide community.

Tracy Beavers teaches entrepreneurs how to gain visibility, grow their email lists and attract consistent new clients without paid ads. I don’t know about you, but that is music to my ears. She is also a recent recipient of the Vanity Fair Lingerie Support Award.

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Connect with Tracy Beavers:

• Sign up for the Masterclass
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Website

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• Follow me on Facebook and Instagram for daily tips and ideas

Please Note: Dr. Moira was a Certified StoryBrand Guide from May 15, 2022 until July 15, 2024. Any episodes mentioning StoryBrand were recorded during a time when she was certified as a Guide. If you would like to be connected with an active StoryBrand Guide, feel free to reach out as she still maintains contacts within the Guide community.

In Ep 154: Unlock Your Course Creation Success with These 10 Mindset Mantras, we dive deeper into the art of course creation, a topic I've passionately focused on for over 15 years. After discussing course topic reflections last week, we're now setting our sights on the vital role of mindset in course creation.

Are you overwhelmed by lead magnets, curriculum design, or deciding on the best instructional methods? Are you an aspiring course creator or a seasoned veteran taking the Digital Course Academy course with Amy Porterfield? Then this episode is tailor-made for you.

Mindset is the cornerstone of successful course creation, and in today's episode, we unpack 10 essential mindset mantras to propel you from feeling stuck to becoming a master in your course business. These mantras range from understanding the iterative nature of course creation to prioritizing student goals and needs.

📌 Action Item: Pick a mantra or multiple to focus on this week. Whether you're jotting it down on a sticky note or setting it as your phone background, these mantras will act as your beacon in your course creation journey.

Which mantra will you start with?

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Please Note: Dr. Moira was a Certified StoryBrand Guide from May 15, 2022 until July 15, 2024. Any episodes mentioning StoryBrand were recorded during a time when she was certified as a Guide. If you would like to be connected with an active StoryBrand Guide, feel free to reach out as she still maintains contacts within the Guide community.

Choosing a course idea can feel overwhelming and can even be a stopping point for some entrepreneurs. There are so many options, everyone has an opinion, and there doesn’t seem to be one right answer. Learn 5 reflection questions you can ask yourself to simplify choosing a course idea.

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Vision-related Episodes

• Ep 14
• Ep 45
• Ep 46
• Ep 47
• Ep 48
• Ep 66
• Ep 122

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Please Note: Dr. Moira was a Certified StoryBrand Guide from May 15, 2022 until July 15, 2024. Any episodes mentioning StoryBrand were recorded during a time when she was certified as a Guide. If you would like to be connected with an active StoryBrand Guide, feel free to reach out as she still maintains contacts within the Guide community.

Building a business is hard enough without the mindset factor. It can get in the way. It can stop us in our tracks and completely derail our plans. But it doesn’t have to. You can learn to reframe how you talk to yourself. The words you use are powerful and in this episode I’ll give you some ideas for what to say and three questions to filter your words through.

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Please Note: Dr. Moira was a Certified StoryBrand Guide from May 15, 2022 until July 15, 2024. Any episodes mentioning StoryBrand were recorded during a time when she was certified as a Guide. If you would like to be connected with an active StoryBrand Guide, feel free to reach out as she still maintains contacts within the Guide community.

Olivia Parkes, an entrepreneur & Fractional COO for dozens of online businesses ranging from $500k-10M/year in revenue, has create her own operations consultancy where she works with entrepreneurs to help them implement systems, build a team that takes the CEO out of the day to day & create a truly scalable business. In this episode she shares her tips and tricks to make business growth easier.

Connect with Olivia Parkes:

• Create Your Upwork Profile
• From Chaotic to Profit Generator
• Connect on Instagram
• Connect on Facebook

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• Book a Call
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Please Note: Dr. Moira was a Certified StoryBrand Guide from May 15, 2022 until July 15, 2024. Any episodes mentioning StoryBrand were recorded during a time when she was certified as a Guide. If you would like to be connected with an active StoryBrand Guide, feel free to reach out as she still maintains contacts within the Guide community.

What if you were to treat your business decisions like experiments? Would it be easier to commit to a decision? To try out a new technique or tool? What about a new offer? Experimenting will help you gain traction in your business because you are going to stay stuck in something that isn’t working. Let’s dig into the experimentation of business.

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Please Note: Dr. Moira was a Certified StoryBrand Guide from May 15, 2022 until July 15, 2024. Any episodes mentioning StoryBrand were recorded during a time when she was certified as a Guide. If you would like to be connected with an active StoryBrand Guide, feel free to reach out as she still maintains contacts within the Guide community.