Feisworld Podcast

Allison Martin (LinkedIn) was born and raised in South Africa. She’s the founder of UDoTest, the first company of its kind to help significantly reduce the unnecessary cervical cancer deaths in Africa.

Following a mobile and tech career, she noticed a significant lack of accessibility to medical services and care across Africa. After the first few experiences of getting her Pap smear, she figured that there must be a better and easier way for women to receive these tests - possibly in the comfort of their own homes.

UDoTest was the start of something digitally different in South Africa and sub-saharan Africa with the intention of merging tech, healthcare and a much greater purpose all into one. The goal was to educate, increase awareness and disease prevention using simple and accurate methods.

Hey guys, this episode is quite different - it's raw and uncut. 

My dad passed away on Dec 6, 2009. As I'm releasing this episode, I've lived my life without him for exactly 10 years. 

I thought I should let go of the structure, the format of an intro, outro and just record it straight into the mic. 

It's close to midnight for me after a long day of travel and interviews. You'll hear words I no longer knew how to say correctly and had to repeat myself. This just shows how imperfect a draft version of a recording actually is. 

Much love, look forward to your feedback. 

Fei

Hani Mourra is the Dad and Founder of Repurpose.io - Create Once. Publish Everywhere.

Hey guys, sharing some reflecting on how Feisworld documentary series and the marketing effort thus far. It's only been a day! 

Watch Feisworld on Amazon Prime and Vimeo On Demand. All the details: https://www.feisworld.com/documentary

Much love,

Fei 

Show notes, tools and resources: www.feisworld.com/blog/tom-schwab

Today’s creative entrepreneur on Feisworld is Tom Schwab. Tom is the Cheif Evangelist Officer at Interview Valet, a company he founded since 2014. Interview Valet is the leader in Podcast Interview Marketing (PIM), using targeted podcast interviews to talk directly to your ideal customers.

They are a full-service concierge-level service who takes care of everything but the speaking. Podcast guest appearances are a cost-effective, fast and scalable way to reach your ideal prospects. in just 30 minutes, listeners get to know, like and trust you.

Traffic from podcast interviews converts 25x better than blogs.

In this episode, I invite Tom to open up about his origin stories, where the idea of Interview Vallet came about. His early days of running this company and today, operating from home in Michigan and a sizable team from the rest of the world.

Tom has been exposed to more podcasts and podcast content than I have, even though Feisworld also started around the same time as when Interview Vallet was founded. Tom has been interview on more than 100 podcasts himself, and his guests have been interviewed on thousands of shows. I was curious to learn the things he has witnessed that work well for podcast hosts as well as for guests.

Over the course of landing our How to Freelance mini-series, I received a number of questions and decided to compile my answers into a single episode.

For more show notes, tools and resources, please visit https://www.feisworld.com/freelance

Show notes, tools and more resources: https://www.feisworld.com/blog/anna-laman

About Our Guest

Anna is a freelancer who works as a messaging coach for other freelancers, consultants, and other solo entrepreneurs.

What you will learn:

Anna came to this interview well prepared to talk about Positioning & Messaging to help you become better at telling your own stories and services. In her experience, freelancers tend to try to be everything to everyone, which ends up backfiring or burning them out. She thinks at the beginning of your freelance career it's important to try different kinds of clients and work, but that after a while it's essential to start narrowing down the types of work and clients you like best and positioning yourself as an expert in your niche. That results in being able to increase your rates and actually doing work you enjoy, which is, after all, the whole point of freelancing!

New freelance mini is here! 

Show notes and transcript: www.feisworld.com/freelance/how-to-price-yourself-as-a-freelancer

Darius Foroux (https://dariusforoux.com/) is a writer and creative entrepreneur. He is also the #1 most-read author on Medium, and one of my favorite blogs for the past few years.

Darius lives in Holland, where he was raised. His parents are immigrants from Iran. Dutch is his first language but you’ll never know through his writing. I quickly learned during our conversation that English has been an official language taught in schools and universities in Holland.

Darius is the author of 6 books, including Think Straight and What It Takes To Be Free. There’s one question at the core of his work: How can we live a useful life that matters?

In short, his work focuses on four main topics:

1. Productivity: How can we achieve more without sacrificing our well-being?

2. Habits: What habits will make our lives better, and how can we form them?

3. Decision Making: What ways of thinking lead to better decisions?

4. Personal Finance: How do we build wealth without sacrificing our integrity?

Show notes, tools and resources: https://www.feisworld.com/blog/darius-foroux

For more show notes, tools and resources, please visit: https://www.feisworld.com/blog/joanna-penn 

Joanna Penn (https://www.thecreativepenn.com/) helps authors make a living writing through her bestselling books, courses and podcast. She's an award-winning entrepreneur, international professional speaker and also writes bestselling thrillers and dark fantasy novels.

Trivia

• Joanna Penn’s main website - thecreativepenn.com has over 800,000 unique visitors each month
  
• She is from the UK and she currently lives in London
  
• She posted her first blog post on TheCreativePenn.com on December 3rd, 2018
  
• She runs a 6-figure business today. (She hit 6-figure for the first time in 2015 and her husband joined the business shortly after)
  
• Joanna has been podcasting for over 10 years before it was called podcasting (but downloadable audios)
  
• She has two podcasts - The Creative Penn Podcast and her new podcast called Books and Travel
  
• She’s on Patreon and has nearly 700 patrons (as of October 2019)
  

Cheat Sheet

In this episode, we talk about:

• How Joanna got started
  
• How you can begin doing your creative work (writing, podcasting, filmmaking, whatever it may be)
  
• Why it’s important to start a business you're passionate about and you can be consistent
  
• The truth about finding your niche
  
• The trends of podcasting over the past 10 years (and why you should consider getting transcripts for your podcast - Joanna uses Trint.com)
  
• Why your listeners want to learn more about you
  
• What to avoid as a creator (hint: create a big bucket for your brand so you can change over time)
  
• How Joanna created “scalable income” and what these income streams are (her incomes is currently 95% scalable)
  

Favorite Quotes

Find role models who are making a living in the way that you want to. And that's not just about like the products they have. It's about the lifestyle they live.

Find someone who's making money and has a life that you would like to live and then see how they did it.

The idea of scalable, the fact that it's not about your time. These are sort of principles that can free you from the day job mentality.

People Mentioned

• Tony Robbins
  
• Yaro Starak
  
• Robert Kiyosaki