Empowered Publicity

Katie Stoltz is the Founder and CEO of Venues & Vows, an online wedding venue marketplace offering picturesque venues in highly desired areas at attainable prices.  How? They use the sharing economy (think Uber and AirBnB) to identify venues that they pre-screen and validate. They have also partnered with farm and ranch owners [...]

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Today, I’m talking to the inimitable Anita Brey. Anita and I met when she was a beta tester of my first Create Content That Connects course in writing website copy. We worked together closely to write the story of her professional evolution and the evolution of her mindfulness and meditation practice. I am always [...]

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In today’s episode, I’m talking to Priscilla Stephan. Priscilla is an Intuitive Business Strategist, and Dream Life Activator. She helps women build careers and businesses that align with their soul’s purpose and to lead magical, soul-filled lives grounded in spiritual practices and truth. Priscilla is a Certified Akashic Records Reader, an NLP Practitioner and Healthy [...]

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Today, I’m talking to Laura Yamin. Laura is a podcaster and she hosts a daily lifestyle podcast call Say Yes Podcast. In her spare time, you will find Laura trying something new outside of her comfort zone such as speed dating, learning to speak French and how to knit. She’s also a really good [...]

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In this episode, I get on the line with The Stacey Harris to strategize her pitch to the podcast Entrepreneur On Fire.  Learn from this strategy session: Details of a professional journey that are relevant to a pitch — and how personal and unrecognizable they can be! How your audience can clue you into [...]

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  After 10+ years as a pitch writer, I did my share of writing materials and pitching the media. Pitches I wrote got my clients coverage on radio and television in every media market across the country. But I’d never been the talent before! So when I started using podcasts to publicize my [...]

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This question is thought of as a conversation starter, but it also stops a conversation before it starts. We all have an idea of what or who we THINK someone is based on a one-word response. We need to do better. We need more people talking more enthusiastically, more clearly, more compellingly, more interestingly, [...]

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At the end of The Devil Wears Prada, Anne Hathaway goes into a job interview and her prospective boss asks her about her tenure at Runway… His exact words were: My only question is, Runway? You were there for less than a year. What the hell kind of a blip is that? Then Anne [...]

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The companies that truly connect with people and inspire passion and loyalty are those with a compelling story. Not just about their product or concept, but the story about their founding — and their founder. In this podcast, you’ll learn the three pillars of a great brand story, and a compelling narrative arc. [...]

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Something new here today…The Pitch PODCAST! All about the things we do to call up the courage to make the pitch that changes our business and change our lives. This season we’re going to be talking to all types of people about the biggest pitches of their lives, how they did it, what they [...]

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