LifePilot: Be the CEO of your life with Natalie Sisson

I've been talking a lot lately about YOUR Freedom Plan and what it means to create a life and business that aligns with what YOU really want.

What makes life so amazing is our ability to orchestrate things exactly as we like them.

There is no blueprint.

There is no cookie-cutter roadmap.

In fact, I'm over people touting the roadmap you can 'steal' to get their results.

Your Freedom Plan is going to look entirely different to mine or the next persons and that's the whole damn point.

On today's podcast, another Freedom Plan graduate Seth Kaplowitz, shares his journey through the program and how things have shifted for him to create the life he wants. Seth originally came to my community with an interest in travel but learned over time exactly how he wanted to integrate travel into his life.

Listen in to learn how Seth has created his very own Freedom Plan.

Listen in to this episode to learn about:

• How to create a Freedom Plan just for you
• How to pay attention to your intuition to shift and pivot in your business
• Why it's important to embrace today
• What an unconventional path to Freedom might look like

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It's so easy to run ourselves into the ground as busy, passionate entrepreneurs by working too hard and not looking after our health.

But, that really doesn't make sense, if you think about it, because if we're not taking care of ourselves, we can't do our best work.

We have less focus, less energy, poorer sleep and more stress when we don't prioritize our health.

That's why I brought in Karen Wojciechowski to tell us how to turn our lives around.

Karen is an integrated health coach that took my Freedom Plan in 2014 and has since put her freedom business in place. She travels the world while helping people be as healthy and energetic as they can be.

In today's podcast, Karen and I chat about her journey of putting her Freedom Plan in place, some of the stumbling blocks she's overcome, and how traveling and working with her husband has evolved over the past two years.

Listen in to this episode to learn about:

• How to have health AND travel AND your own business
• Why prioritizing health is crucial for your business
• How goals shift as you build your location independent business
• Why gratitude is imperative to all Freedomists

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Key Resources I mention or add value to this podcast:

• Connect with Karen
• The Freedom Plan
• YogaGlo
• 12 Minute Athlete
• 7 Minute Workout

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After spending years watching entrepreneur after entrepreneur get stuck, stumble, and fail - I knew I had to create something to help people get past those common stumbling blocks when getting an online business off the ground.

In 2014, I launched my baby - The Freedom Plan - and over the past two years I've watched so many amazing members of my community launch and grow successful freedom-based businesses.

I thought it was about time to share some of their incredible stories of how they created their own Freedom Plan.

So, over the next month, I'll be sharing stories from members of my community that have taken The Freedom Plan and are crushing their freedom lifestyle.

In today's podcast, I speak with Jo Bendle (Productivity Coach) about how she got her business off the ground, the challenges she's faced, and how she uses productivity to make the most of every single day.

Listen in to this episode to learn about:

• How shifts in habits can make space for more things you love
• Why you don't have to make big huge leaps every day
• How discipline creates freedom in business and life
• Why it's important to be flexible with your goals without losing sight of your vision
• How location-independence can actually be cheaper than being at home
• What life after The Freedom Plan really looks like

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• Jo Bendle
• Jo's Free Productivity Facebook Group
• The Freedom Plan

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Imagine waking up tomorrow with no monetary constraints, no limitations at all, and the freedom to choose your perfect day.

What would you do? What would it look like, exactly?

It's harder than it seems, isn't it?

Most people I speak with can't describe in detail how they would spend their time if it was really up to them. A lot of people are letting life happen to them instead of thoughtfully creating the life they really want.

Somewhere along the way, we stopped chasing our dreams, we stopped imagining what our perfect day looks like and we started handing over control to others who told us what to do and how to live.

In today's podcast, I talk about just that and share the TEDx talk that I did in June this year at Royal Tunbridge Wells. I share my story on how I created a life of true freedom by building a business around my life - not the other way around.

Listen in to this episode to learn about:

• The surprising truth about freedom
• How to break through limiting thoughts
• What it means to thoughtfully create your perfect day
• How to challenge the status quo and dream big
• What having true freedom means

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• The Surprising Truth About Freedom TEDx Talk
• Visualize Your Business Future With The Power of a Painted Picture
• Perfect Day Exercise

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There will always be things that we need to do. There will always be errands to run, meetings to attend, and personal care to check off.

But, how we tackle our to-do list every day can make a HUGE difference in how we feel at the end of the day.

Are you in control of how your day goes or do you feel like you get swept away by the busy experience of life?

Do you feel stressed and exhausted or accomplished and relaxed?

Are you moving your goals forward or just spinning your wheels?

In today's podcast, Erin Wells and I talk about how to move from being busy to being effective. She shares the SWABS method for organization, how to find clarity by decluttering, and how getting organized can increase productivity and effectiveness in your business.

Listen in to this episode to learn about:

• How to transform busy-ness into effectiveness
• The first step to decluttering for clarity
• How to avoid getting swept away by life
• Why creating your vision is key to productivity and organization
• How getting organized can make you less busy and more productive
• How to make peace with your to-do list

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Key Resources I mention or add value to this podcast:

• The Excellence Assessment
• The Energy Project
• Definitive List of Tools To Run Your Business From Anywhere
• How To Take Control Of Your Time
• Productivityist
• Asana

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Do you find that no matter how much time you have, it's nearly impossible to get everything done in a day? Or maybe you get a lot done but you spend the day stressed out and running around?

The way we manage our time can make or break not only how successful we are but how much we enjoy our day-to-day life, which is why I place so much importance on getting super clear about what your perfect day looks like.

Craig Ballantyne is a productivity and success transformation guru that's written a book all about The Perfect Day Formula. So, of course, I had to speak with him.

In this podcast episode, Craig shares how to get more done, make more money, be more successful and still get home in time for dinner. From workouts to sleep habits, we chat about how to identify opportunities and obstacles to create your perfect day.

Listen in to this episode to learn about:

• How you can improve your life using your Perfect Day Formula
• How you can create rules for your life
• The 5 pillars of personal transformation
• The #1 action step you can take today to take control of your time
• How to identify opportunities and obstacles to own your day

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Key Resources I mention or add value to this podcast:

• Early to Rise
• Perfect Day Formula
• How to Increase Productivity in Your Business From Anywhere
• 24 Ways To Be Uncommonly Productive Today

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Absolutely anything and everything we could ever want to know is at our fingertips. As online business owners, we read, listen, watch and learn from others.

This is incredibly powerful but the tricky part is making sure that we're building our business on our own terms and creating freedom in our businesses and lives that works for each of us.

We don't want to get trapped into somebody else's blueprint.

Creating freedom in your business is up to you and that can, will and should look entirely different than what anyone else is doing.

Maybe it means taking a digital detox once a year.

Maybe it means always taking weekends off.

Maybe it means working from your laptop in Spain or getting to be there to pick your kids up from school every single day.

Whatever it is, it's yours.

In today’s podcast episode, I talk about how my freedom plan has been evolving in my business and how to make sure that you're keeping your own freedom plan clearly in sight while you work towards your business and life goals.

Listen in to this episode to learn about:

• Why keeping your vision in the forefront keeps everything else in check
• How reclaiming your time is the first step in creating freedom
• Why having a freedom plan is so important
• Why it's so important to build your business around your life, not the other way around

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Key Resources I mention or add value to this podcast:

• How To Fire Yourself as CEO From Your Own Business
• Visualise Your Business Future With the Power of a Painted Picture
• Creating Freedom in Your Daily Routine with John Lee Dumas
• The Importance of Finding Your What with Steve Olsher

Having your blog found by a big publishing company and being offered a book deal is a bit like being discovered by a fancy Hollywood producer to be the next big movie star.

It doesn't happen very often.

It did, however, happen to today's podcast guest, Srini Rao.

Srini didn't consider himself a good writer but by developing a daily writing practice and committing to it over time, his writing started to measure up to his quality of thinking, and that got him noticed by Penguin Portfolio.

He now has a two-book contract and some awesome tips to share about working with publishers and how to stand out in a noisy, noisy world.

Listen in to learn about Srini's story and about how to create and leverage your book and how being unmistakable is your biggest strength.

• How Srini Rao turned his blog into a two-part book deal
• Why you don't have to be a good writer, at first
• The difference between self-publishing and working with a big publishing house
• How to use your book to leverage a path to speaking engagements
• What the timeline of a traditional book contract looks like
• Ways to promote your book as you write it

• Unmistakable Creative
• How to Reclaim Your Happiness with Raj Raghunathan
• How to Write, Publish and Sell Your Fiction Book From Scratch

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You know you want to write a book but it always seems to get pushed to the end of your very long to-do list.

Maybe sometimes you think you'll set weekends aside to get it going or dedicate evenings to sit down to write.

But, it just doesn't seem to happen. The days roll by and you're no closer to publishing your book than you were six months ago.

Trust me, you are not alone.

So many people I speak with struggle with making it happen and that's one of the reasons that I decided to dedicate all of June's podcast episodes to helping you write, publish and sell your next book.

Today's podcast guest, Jesse Krieger, created a publishing company he wished he had when he wrote his first book and has a ton of resources to help you do the same.

He shares some awesome tips on how to actually get pen to paper, how to break down the content into manageable pieces, and how to show up daily to do the work.

• Whether self-publishing is the right route for you
• How to get a book written without the blinking cursor curse
• The art to warming up your subconscious to improve your writing momentum
• How to leverage a book to build your business and brand
• An alternate approach to book writing that requires very little actual writing

• Check out Jesse's site for more awesome resources
• Book, Business, and Brand Building Summit
• Evernote for capturing and organizing notes
• Scrivener - an author's best friend
• 750 words to work on your daily writing habit
• My cool online community, The Freedom Collective (sign up for two weeks for free and get access to my expert training, Beyond the Book: How to get your book published, build a platform and turn it into Multiple Revenue Streams)

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You may have noticed that freedom is my thing.

I work hard to have freedom in my life, I create things for you to help you find freedom, and I want as many people as possible on the planet to know what true freedom feels like. (So much so that I've started the Right2Freedom, a global study on freedom)!

But, why?

Well, simply put: happiness.

We all want to be happy and, to me, freedom plays a huge role in how happy I am in my life and I know I'm not alone.

You can imagine how excited I was to come across Raj Raghunathan's work on happiness.

His whole thing is to study and teach happiness and fulfillment in an academic but light-hearted way. He teaches it, he writes about it, and he makes it fun! He's managed to take an academic approach to a universally relevant topic and make it accessible to everyone in his new book, If You Are So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy?

In today's podcast, Raj and I jam on happiness, freedom, abundance and why some of life’s worst events are the best things that can happen to us. 

• How we often sacrifice happiness in day-to-day life
• Why defining happiness for yourself is so important
• Why we're hard-wired to focus on the negative and what you can do about it.
• Why the top 1% of most successful people may not be the top 1% of the happiest people
• Why the worst things are often the best things
• How you may be getting in the way of your own happiness
• How to avoid a scarcity mindset