Explore Your Enthusiasm

Are you unsure of your next step, because you’re afraid of the reaction you’re going to get? Are you avoiding rejection, because you want to have the approval and acceptance of your customers and audience?
Yeah, me too.

• Episode 171: How to get more rejection & grow your biz

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On this episode of Explore Your Enthusiasm, I answer listener questions!

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Your business relies on sales. That means YOU need to get good at sales. Yes, you need to be a salesperson. But did hearing that sentence just totally freak you out or turn you off?

We have some gross connotations with that word.... and it may be impacting the sales you make and the health of your business.

• http://bit.ly/Grow_With_Podcasting

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In April of 2014, I completely changed my business, because I made one small, spur-of the moment decision to follow my enthusiasm. It took me less than a week to kick-off what would become my best-ever tool for reaching new right people, building trust and loyalty, and increasing my sales at least 50% every year since. I started this podcast. And I've seen podcasts do the same thing in makers’ and artists’ businesses.

• My upcoming CreativeLive class on Podcasting for Crafters and Makers
• My second upcoming CreativeLive class on Growing Your Business with YouTube
• The first episode of Explore Your Enthusiasm
• How to Launch a Podcast in One Week

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In April of 2017, after 8 years of self-employment, shifting my business focus a few times and having my best year ever in 2016, I started an entirely new business...while keeping my current business almost exactly the same. I record a weekly video and audio podcast, hold live weekly chats, teach classes around the country and started a whole second business, based in collaboration. How the heck did I find the time for it?

• How (and why) my business has changed over the years: an inside look
• My How To Get More Done CreativeLIVE class

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In today's episode I talked with Kara Gott-Warner of The Power Purls Podcast, we talked about mindfullness, and some of our favorite mindfullness tools including apps and of course essential oils.

Kara is a knitter, podcaster, business coach, and also a certified nutritional consultant. She focuses on working with individuals who wish to create a holistically - balanced life and business that converges creativity with mindful living, - "knitting together" creativity, body, mind and spirit.

Be sure to visit The Power Purls Podcast for more about Kara's favorite mindfullness tools!

• Essential Enthusiasm
• Headspace app
• Insight Timer app

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If you read any business book, it all comes down to the same things: your business is built from your beliefs, which affect your actions, and the most important of those actions need to become habits. Habits are what you consistently do day after day, and, as we talked about in last week’s episode, those habits build up to create success (or failure).

• The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson
• Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
• Episode 137: The one resolution you should make (and how to do it)
• Episode 141: The key to consistency + success = Grit
• Episode 113: The Real Challenge: Consistency

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I'm not the kind of person who....
makes a lot of money
has a super successful business
would ever be good at sales
could ever be self-promotional

How many times have you caught yourself saying a version of this: "I'm not the kind of person who...." I know I do it all the time, and my recent experience is the inspiration behind this episode. We'll talk about why it's true that you really aren't that kind of person and how to become the kind of person who reaches your goals and lives your dream. It all comes down to the habits you have now and the habits you can create.

• How Emotions are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett
• My biggest lesson from 2013 (four years ago!)

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To be a success, which is just another way of saying, to reach your goals and dreams, there isn't a secret sauce. There isn't something special that successful people know that you don't. It's super simple: You do the same habits, the same things you know to do, day after day. Over time, they build upon each other into a successful business, succesful relationships, and a successful life. That's the premise of the Slight Edge by Jeff Olson and in today's episode, I share how to apply it to your life and creative business.
I highly recommend this book!

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After my episode about healing MY relationship with money, I got so many replies saying, I REALLY NEED TO DO THIS: HOW?! Today, we’ll dive into the how of healing your own relationship with money.

• How I changed my relationship with money.
• Lost and Found by Geneen Roth
• YouNeedaBudget
• Pay Yourself
• How Joeli uses Affirmations
• Brad Yates’s YouTube channel

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