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Purée Fantastico! is an award-winning design science and strategy company. Jenny's clients include Old Navy, Charles Schwabb, Walgreens, and more!

• What is brand architecture?
• Using anthropology and graphic design to help create a culture of people who believe in their dreams
• How to use social media to express yourself through your brand.

Taking Fortune 500 businesses from 5M to 500M in annual revenue, boosting a top tier art college’s attendance from 33% to 77%, increasing small businesses’ inquiries anywhere from 5-15x — we’re crafting solutions with enthusiastic success.

Purée Fantastico is the business venture of Jenny Ambrose, an award-winning artist, designer, and polymath dedicated to being solution-oriented, relentlessly joyful, curious, and enthusiastic about leaving things better than she found them.

With a background in anthropology as well as graphic design, Jenny founded Purée Fantastico in 2008 with the vision that design can not only be beautiful- it can be useful.

She understands design as an empathetic practice and utilizes it as a language, establishing her clients as the authorities they are. This connects them deeply with their audiences, clients, customers, and students, yielding the highest results for whatever they’re working to achieve. 

Coupled with emotional intelligence and critical thinking, design and visual messaging makes a huge difference in how we experience, express, and ultimately understand the world we live in.

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SongShop is a website built to help independent songwriters advertise their song catalog and pitch to artists from all over the world. We're talking to the founder, Steve Gerein! It's also a place where independent artists & bands can go to find original songs to record as their own. SongShop gives artists an entire library of songs to search through and record because SongShop says that finding the time and having the proper network connections to get these songs pitched can be an uphill battle.

Today's episode covers:

SONGWRITERS:

• How SongShop advertises your songs to artists who might be interested in recording them
• How to pitch songs directly to artists via the Pitch Platform
• Earning revenue by instantly getting a cut of the license fee (determined by your membership tier), plus any royalties outlined in the license agreement

ARTISTS & BANDS:

• How to Purchase your desired license (Standard or Exclusive)
• Building a relationship with the Songwriter (because when does that happen!?)

LICENSING & MUSIC BUSINESS:

• What does a license look like?
• What's the difference between a Standard and an Exclusive songwriting License?
• What you need to know about mechanical royalties, streaming, and performing cover songs
• Best practices when it comes to writer's share and BMI.

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Where you see chaos in your business, Yvi sees systems and processes. We're talking about game-changing tools that will automate and bulletproof your business.

• Learn more about Ask Yvi
• Why you need a task management system
• The difference between a task management system & a CRM 
• How to use Clickup and Dubsado together
• How to repurpose one video into 25 pieces of content
• Tools covered include Clickup, Dubsado, Repurpose.io, Airtable, and more!

Yvi is a business efficiency coach helping digital entrepreneurs automate their business so that they can dominate their industry. She has over 10 years of experience organizing and streamlining businesses into profitability and success. Since moving to the U S in 2007, Yvi has been helping empower entrepreneurs to successfully run sustainable businesses while enjoying life.

Yvi has been featured in publications like Forbes, Huffington Post, Thrive Global, Buzzfeed, and a contributor for social media examiner. She helps to accomplish a balance between business and personal life and help you streamline your business, build residual income and find a passive income strategy that fits you, and make your business work for you so you can enjoy all the good things in life

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Alan Berg is the leading international expert on the business of weddings and events. Whether you're a seasoned veteran or brand new to the industry, you're going to learn actionable content that you as a wedding pro need to utilize NOW!

• Are you the "making it happen" or "the center of attention"?
• How to sell results before selling the service
• Why are you getting ghosted?
• How to never get ghosted again
• When is a ghost not really a ghost?

Alan is fluent in the language of business. He's been in marketing sales and sales management for over 20 years, working with businesses like yours and like mine within the wedding and events industry. Before striking out on a zone as the business consultant, author, and professional speaker, he served as the Vice President of Sales and The Knot Market Intelligence, at The Knot worldwide.

And addition to his speaking and consulting services, he serves as an educator for WeddingWire, which is the leading wedding technology company, doing webinars, live presentations, and writing articles. Alan is the wedding at events industries only certified speaking professional, the highest earned designation for a professional member of the national speakers association.

One of only 36 global speaking fellows in the world, he's able to help new businesses and solopreneurs, as well as the established players and corporations, understand and achieve their goals. Alan understands business as he's own several of his own, including publishing to wedding magazines. He's spoken and consulted domestically and internationally in 14 countries, and 5 continents and counting.

We're chatting about his latest book, Wit, Wisdom and the Business of Weddings: A Compendium of Ideas, Insight and Inspiration from an Industry Leader. Part "How-to-do" and part "How-to-think", Wit, Wisdom and the Business of Weddings is your companion on a journey to a more successful wedding business.

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Alan Berg is the leading international expert on the business of weddings and events. Whether you're a seasoned veteran or brand new to the industry, you're going to learn actionable content that you as a wedding pro need to utilize NOW!

• The dichotomy of feeding your ego vs being the most profitable
• How to give a range of pricing that creates framing
• How Alan's love for music, speaking, writing, and consulting made him the leading international expert.

Alan is fluent in the language of business. He's been in marketing sales and sales management for over 20 years, working with businesses like yours and like mine within the wedding and events industry. Before striking out on a zone as the business consultant, author, and professional speaker, he served as the Vice President of Sales and The Knot Market Intelligence, at The Knot worldwide.

And addition to his speaking and consulting services, he serves as an educator for WeddingWire, which is the leading wedding technology company, doing webinars, live presentations, and writing articles. Alan is the wedding at events industries only certified speaking professional, the highest earned designation for a professional member of the national speakers association.

One of only 36 global speaking fellows in the world, he's able to help new businesses and solopreneurs, as well as the established players and corporations, understand and achieve their goals. Alan understands business as he's own several of his own, including publishing to wedding magazines. He's spoken and consulted domestically and internationally in 14 countries, and 5 continents and counting.

We're chatting about his latest book, Wit, Wisdom and the Business of Weddings: A Compendium of Ideas, Insight and Inspiration from an Industry Leader. Part "How-to-do" and part "How-to-think", Wit, Wisdom and the Business of Weddings is your companion on a journey to a more successful wedding business.

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With a booking agent and a wedding band leader for parents, this is Meghan’s journey from a Music Business major to the director of content & B2b education at The Knot Worldwide. We talk about what it means to be the face of a brand and planning out content, to marketing strategies you can utilize right now to make the most of 2021.

Originally a Jazz major at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Meghan is a lifelong musician who made it her business to help other wedding pros reach success. You may have seen Meghan hosting webinars on Weddingpro, or chatting with different guests on Weddingpro's Instagram. Music, in general, stems from collaboration, and in turn how musicians can have an advantage in business because we are naturally so collaborative.

Meghan is a proven example that resilience and hard work will get you as far as you can dream of. From being an assistant for an events team to an interior designer to an economics research firm, she learned to be the face of the brand of Two Bright Lights, which is a photo submission and publication platform. All of these different roles took thick skin, resilience, and dedication. All of which shape the mold of today’s Meghan Brown; a wedding educator, speaker, and content marketing extraordinaire.

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Today we're chatting with the CEO of SpotMyPhotos by CloudSpotter, Ryan Jacobs, which allows photographers to privately and automatically send attendees custom-branded versions of their photos either in real-time or at a scheduled future point in time. Ryan is also a founding member of the 10,000 Headshots Initiative, operating under the name The Headshot Booker. They provided professional headshots and confidence to 10,000 job seekers displaced by the COVID19 crisis, partnering with Brookfield Properties and over 200 photographers nationwide.

CEO Ryan Jacobs is going to give entrepreneurs valuable advice when building a business plan, the challenges small startups face, and how to wake up every day and do what you love.

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Today we're talking to the founder of The Female CEO, Tricia Scott. Tricia is a certified coach, visual content designer, and serial entrepreneur. Tricia is the founder and editor of Create, Evolve,  Overcome magazine, a digital support and education platform of entrepreneurs and small business owners coming together in support and empowerment worldwide.

What originally started as a blog for Female CEO's quickly turned into Create, Evolve, Overcome, a digital magazine and a handbook for modern living and working. With over 25 issues released, the global platform has 13 editors across six countries with a reach of 60,000 entrepreneurs that read and come together. Tricia is helping you change your self-talk, put yourself first, ask yourself powerful questions that invite introspection and insight. Liberate yourself and your business through spiritual and personal development, break out of your box, and stop hiding in your brilliance. 

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Are you fueled by money, or by purpose and personal growth? Today we're talking to the CEO & Founder of Free Lunch Coffee, Vin Singh. Growing up in India, he accomplished all of the goals and dreams instilled by his parents. A six-figure income, Vin had all of the luxuries he dreamed of growing up in India, but he still felt unfulfilled. Vin quit his job, sold everything he owned, and traveled the world to set out to find his true gift.  This is an inspiring interview about a man who had it all and gave it all away to help others.

If you'd like to make a difference and end child hunger with your morning coffee, it's now possible.

We're going to learn about Vin's new company, Free Lunch Coffee. They are on a mission to end hunger from the lives of underprivileged children.  When you buy one bag of Free Lunch Coffee, you are also providing 10 meals to children in need. AND, Free Lunch Coffee gives away 50% of the money they make to end hunger in the lives of young children. 

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In today's episode, Jeff discusses how became spiritually imbued and alert to the mindfulness in life. Coming out of the Dark Night of the Soul with gratitude, joy, and happiness. How Jeff’s ego affected his playing and why this is the first time in over 60 years where jeff says he feels happy and wakes up every day in a great mood. How can coming out of a traumatic experience make you the best player that you’ve ever been? Enjoy this genuine, open, and real conversation with world-renowned bass player, Jeff Berlin.

This is Jeff Berlin Part 2: The Dichotomy of the Self Taught vs Academic musician.  In Part 1, we talked about learning skills to play better that are not necessarily transferable over to the gig, but improves your mind and music, makes you more creative, liberates you. Why people see music as a language, but they don’t want to learn it as one. Are we as musicians sometimes paying teachers to be taught styles, and how is it different from learning musical content from a set curriculum like every other creative art form? Trust me, both parts are worth a listen.

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