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Episode 069 How To Monetize Your Passion - Generating cash from your activities can be like getting blood from a stone. Monetization is the last step in the creation cycle. All the hard work must be done upfront. If you enjoy what you are doing and not just doing it for the money, you will go that extra mile, make one more call, put in more hours and influence one more person. Monetization is the final phase. It may take years so let’s get started: 1. Be clear on your passion 2. Align your passion with what you are good at 3. Find a need and fill it 4. Tailor what you are offering to the avatar of your consumer and 5. Work a marketing plan. Growing your business is a fluid process where you are continually learning, advancing and evolving. A process where you take what you love to do, the essence of who you are, and change the world in your own little way. This, my friends, is where the magic happens and then the money will follow.

Episode 068 Courage - What’s In Your Wallet? You can harness the inner strength you already have to grow a successful business. From public speaking to skydiving, there are countless things in life that take courage. Starting a new business is on the top of this list, but there are ways to face these challenges without fear: 1. Rely on trusted experts 2. Challenge yourself 3. Focus on your mission 4. Join a networking group and 5. Protect your investment. Courage comes with time and experience and you can gradually build your own confidence by pushing yourself to take on challenges.

Episode 067 Ty Gerot - Entrepreneur, Leader & Loyal Friend. Will you be able to take the lead and fight the good fight when life punches you in the face or when the grim reaper comes knocking? When you get that call at 2 am, will you spring into action the way Ty did this morning. Ty got that call and rushed to a friend’s home who had just passed away. Ty took control making the appropriate notifications while providing solace and strength to those present. Will you be able to step up and lead at times like this? Ty Gerot you are a loyal friend and a true leader. Keep fighting the good fight my friend.

Episode 066 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr - Time Magazine’s Man of the Year In 1963; Nobel Peace Prize Winner In 1964. Entrepreneur Magazine honors this great visionary leader for providing three leadership lessons that have become the backbone of Entrepreneurship today. 1. Total commitment to your cause 2. Disrupting the Status Quo is essential for change and 3. Have a Dream, communicate it and execute it. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr had a dream..... Do you?

Episode 065 How To Gain Respect And Become An Influential Leader Part Three - Leadership is Influence. In order to influence others, you need their respect. Here’s how: 12. Ask before telling 13. Anticipate and optimize 14. Take risks and 15. Expect Greatness. Before you Do, you have to Be and the better you become through growth, the more respect you will get and then the more powerful your influence will be.

Episode 064 How To Gain Respect And Become An Influential Leader Part Two - Leadership is influence. In order to influence others, you need their respect. Here’s how: 7. Understand people personally 8. Position your people properly 9. Praise liberally 10. Mentor, Coach and Advocate and 11. Create partnerships with your people.

Episode 063 How To Gain Respect And Become An Influential Leader - Leadership is influence, plain and simple. But in order to influence others, you need their respect. So how do you gain respect as a leader? 1. Find your style and inspire 2. Demonstrate Integrity 3. Do your homework 4. Invest in yourself 5. Manage your brand and 6. Concentrate on the future.

Episode 062 Lessons Most Leaders Learn Too Late In Life - Listen to Richard Branson’s three Leadership Mantras that Today’s Leaders must master before it is too late: 1. Communicate with your ears 2. Accept that failure is the foundation for success and 3. Put your employees first, even ahead of your customers.

Episode 059 Choosing the Right Friends - The people you associate with have a major impact and influence on your personal success. For your long term success, you must choose the right friends. Here’s how: 1. Associate higher 2. Choose friends with similar values 3. Choose friends with common goals 4. Choose friends who bring balance and 5. Choose friends who stretch, motivate and encourage you.

Episode 058 Instilling Leadership In Our Children Part 3 - Today’s Children Are Tomorrow’s Leaders. What can we do? 11. Use vision boards and flip charts to teach goal setting 12. Avoid jumping in as the savior and allow your child to work through the project 13. Find your child a Mentor 14. Encourage fun reading to promote greater intellectual progress and 15. Teach the value of money through money management to help them live within their means. We, as leaders, can prepare our children today to be the leaders that this great country needs tomorrow.