Impact: How to Grow Your Thought Leadership Brand and Business

In this episode, I interview the business coach and CEO of Uplevel You, Christine Kane. Christine has created a process for growing your business with a balance of strategy and soul (or intuition).

I was excited to record this interview with Christine given that, like me, she was a musician turned entrepreneur. She was a songwriter and performer for 15 years before starting her coaching business. As a musician, she sold over 100,000 copies of her seven CDs and shared the stage with luminaries such as John Mayer, Nanci Griffith, and Shawn Colvin.

Her coaching business, Uplevel You, emerged organically when people started asking how she’d built her successful music career.

She is the author of The Complete Guide to Vision Boards and her most recent book, The Soul-Sourced Entrepreneur: An Unconventional Success Plan for the Highly Creative, Secretly Sensitive, and Wildly Ambitious.

To use her words, The Soul-Sourced Entrepreneur shows you how to have success when your strength is more about sensitivity than swagger and you’re more moved by meaning than manipulation.

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I’m sure you’ve participated in a hot seat before. You might have even facilitated hot seats. But I’m willing to bet you haven’t thought of some of the ways Hillary Weiss uses them in her business to attract clients and generate content.

After Hillary shared her approach with me, I put it into action right away. The results? Two new retainer clients signed up to work with me.

I used to think of hot seats as just a tool that you use in group coaching and mastermind settings. Now I look at them as a key part of my business development process.

In this episode, Hillary and I talk about how you can use hot seats to expand your network, land new clients, launch a new stream of income, and more.

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You know those times when you read a book and it feels like every word was written for you? That’s the feeling I got reading Trust Yourself by Melody Wilding.

Melody’s book is a guide for those of us who are highly ambitious but who sometimes struggle with things like perfectionism, impostor syndrome, emotional triggers, and feeling not good enough. There are many things I love about Melody’s book, but at the top is the fact that it is packed with practical skills based on psychology and neuroscience.

The book is written for the Sensitive Striver (about 20% of the population) but is invaluable for anyone who sometimes gets hampered down by overthinking, emotions, and feeling like they are not enough. She lays out numerous frameworks and skills to help you break free from these things and instead tap into the many strengths that Sensitive Strivers have available to them.

This is one of the most impactful books I have read in the past year. I’m thrilled to have Melody on the show to talk about these groundbreaking ideas.

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How can you tell which things you should focus your limited time, money, and energy on to get the best results in your business?

With so many things pulling at your attention, it can be challenging as a business owner to know what should get your attention now and what can wait.

It’s easy to end up operating in a reactionary mode that stretches you thin. The fog of working in your business day to day clouds the path ahead.

So, how do you clear the fog and gain clarity about the best roadmap for your business?

That is the topic of this new series of episodes about strategic planning. My goal with this series is to help you make sound, effective, and fruitful decisions about your business.

In this first episode of the series, we talk about five business blindspots that we must overcome in order to think strategically about our business and make sound business decisions.

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Sustainable business success results from understanding and knowing how to operate within three critical ecosystems: business strategies, personal development, and daily habit/mindset. My guest, Jeffrey Shaw, writes about these ecosystems in his latest book, The Self-Employed Life.

Many times over burgers and fries, Jeff has told me stories about how he studied luxury brands and analyzed buyer psychology to crack the code for selling to NYC’s affluent and becoming their go-to photographer year after year. He has also become a top business coach, speaker, and podcaster, a further testament to the hard-earned experience he shares in his book and our interview.

I love how Jeff’s mind thinks about creating experiences that turn clients and customers into loyal advocates and long-time partners. Be prepared to take notes. I’m thrilled to share our conversation with you in this episode of Impact.

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When monetizing your expertise and email list, there are three easily-overlooked mistakes that will secretly siphon away your profit potential. These three monetization mistakes are part of a phenomenon I refer to as Monetization Shyness.

I’m often asked to look over a client’s monetization strategies to find the gaps. Monetization Shyness is the first gap I look for because it’s so prevalent and so frequently goes unnoticed. Many business owners fail to see Monetization Shyness because its causes are counter-intuitive and rooted in your mindset.

As you know, your mindset is vital to your success and growth. Your mindset can either be an elevator to new heights or a ceiling that keeps you from moving upward. Monetization Shyness strikes both beginner and veteran business owners alike.

In this episode, I deconstruct three types of Monetization Shyness. Then I offer six specific ways you can root it out of your mindset and business to unlock new profit potential.

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How can you know what to focus on in your business to produce the most significant new growth?

With so many options available to you, it can be hard to decide where to invest your limited time, money, and other resources to get the greatest return on your efforts.

We can quickly end up overwhelmed, spread too thin, or focused on the wrong areas.

The best way to make your growth strategy clearer, more focused, and more effective is first to realize that there are only three ways to grow your income and impact.

Yes, you can adopt many tactics and strategies, but all of them fall into one of three categories.

When planning your business growth strategy, it’s essential to zoom out and look at each of these three areas to see which one will provide you the best chance for growth before choosing specific strategies to implement.

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This is not your average interview with John Lee Dumas. I’ve known John since 2012, before his popular podcast, Entrepreneur on Fire, launched. We met in a pizzeria near Times Square while in NYC for the New Media Expo. Little did I know the level of impact and income John would go on to generate.

Since then, I’ve watched John’s meteoric success. Though we’ve chatted on many occasions, there are a handful of things I’ve never taken the opportunity to ask him related to the growth of his brand and business zoom. In this episode, we dig into these questions and extract powerful principles that you can apply to your business to succeed like JLD.  

We also talk about how he is marketing his upcoming book, The Common Path to Uncommon Success, in which he shares a seventeen-part path to incredible success informed by his own journey and the entrepreneurs he’s interviewed on his popular podcast, Entrepreneur On Fire.

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How can you ensure to create products and services that your market will scramble to buy?

To design products and services that are sure to sell, you must first focus on the offer’s value proposition. The value proposition answers the customer’s premier question. 

What’s in it for me?

The customer wants to know the outcomes they will achieve and the pains they will relieve if they invest time, money, and energy into your offer.

Hence, to design compelling offers, you must gain a deep understanding of your intended customer’s pains and gains. You must put empathy at the center of your product design process. 

When you do this the right way, your products sell with ease. Your messaging feels authentic, confident, and resonant. 

In this episode, I share my Value Proposition Design framework. You can use this framework to identify what your market values most. Then, you will be able to design a compelling value proposition that will have your intended customers scrambling to do business with you.

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As a business owner and thought leader, there will inevitably be times when you procrastinate a task or project despite its significance to your goals.

There are many reasons why we procrastinate, but two of the most common are perfectionism and overwhelm. I certainly have plenty of experience in this respect.

Procrastination can be especially frustrating when the task you are avoiding is essential to an important goal. You want the benefits of the outcome but find it difficult even to get started.

Perhaps you want to write a book but find it challenging to sit down and write.

Perhaps you want more clients, but you struggle to get started doing consistent outreach.

Perhaps you want to meditate so that you can enjoy increased mental clarity and awareness, but you find it difficult even to do a ten-minute meditation.

In this episode, I’ll share with you a set of questions you can ask to eliminate the overwhelm and perfectionism that leads to procrastination.

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