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.

What you'll learn in this podcast:

• 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

Key resources:

• 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. 

What you'll learn in this podcast:

• 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

�Some people are born writers.

They write stories as soon as they learn how to put pencil to paper and they daydream in fantasy and complex story plots.

Angela Ford started writing at the age of 12 and between then and age 18, she wrote 5-6 novels over 70,000 words each.

She's recently undertaken a huge project that will have her publishing one book per year for the next 10 years.

But, what about the rest of us?

What about the people who know that there is a book inside of them but don't know where to start?

Angela may have been born to write but when it comes to the rest of the book publishing process, she had to use good old fashioned hustle!

Angela knows that when it comes to publishing a book, writing is just one piece.

You have to write, assemble it, and get it in front of people, and when you're starting out with no audience or a very small list, that can be even more daunting.

In this podcast, Angela shares everything from killer writing and mindset tips to her top strategies for making sure your next book sells.

What you'll learn in this podcast:

• How to make your writing consistent by breaking it down into bite-size pieces
• What to do when you have a small audience to market to
• When and what to outsource for your book
• What realistic timelines you can expect from idea to published book
• How to set smart goals for your book development and launch
• How to make your book available for a pre-launch through Amazon
• How to keep your launch simple and strategic
• How to use ThunderClap to promote your book, for free��

In life you have two options:

1. To take what's been handed to you, or
2. To create a lifestyle where anything is possible

While the second option sounds amazing, the journey to get there can be rocky.

Enter today's guest - Steve Olsher.

Steve was in search of finding his purpose over and over through his journey and in his 25 years of experience in creating businesses - including owning Liquor.com.

He went on to discover a process anyone can follow to find their calling in life and actually pursue it.

He's the host of the popular podcast Reinvented Radio and the author of the New York Times Best Selling book "What Is Your What" which helps you discover the one thing you were born to do.

What you'll learn in this podcast:

• The downside of mainstream personality tests that leave you asking more questions than you initially had
• Why understanding the "tripod" can help you realize what you were meant to do
• The problem with following everything you know, and how to get beyond those limitations when it comes to pursuing your dreams
• What to do if you're unsure of what direction to go in your life
• Why some people seem "magical" to the masses (and the process they use that you can follow to appear the same)
• What to do if you feel you can't change your circumstances into something you truly desire

Finding freedom in business and adventure life isn't just a tagline.

It's not fancy marketing.

It's the filter that I use to run all my ideas and potential projects through. If something doesn't create more freedom or adventure in my life or help you to achieve more freedom and adventure in yours then it's a non-starter.

Last week I asked you some big questions: What does financial freedom mean to you? What does it really look like? And how will your business look in five years with that in mind?

This week (in the last Fresh in Fifteen episode before I take a break for the summer!), I look at an important part of financial freedom - how to fire yourself as CEO from your own business.

You've heard the names:

Tesla, Uber, Amazon, Netflix - the list goes on.

They are companies that are impacting the world and changing the way we do ordinary things with extraordinary solutions.

While building a business has never been easier, creating a successful business may never be tougher.

It takes a sharp mind, acting fast, and finding a balance with confidence and skepticism in everything you do.

That's what today's guest is here to share with you.

Rod Drury is the founder of one of the most successful cloud-computing account software solutions available, known as XERO.

He's here to share his journey of learning and triumph so you can apply his findings to your business and life.

Quotes

You'll always overestimate what you can do in 2 years but underestimate what you can do in 10. - Bill Gates

If you're wrong you've learned something. - Rod Drury

Never overestimate the threat of competition. - Rod Drury

Entrepreneurship is disrupting everything. - Rod Drury

What you'll learn in this podcast:

• Rod's method for growing businesses and teams fast so that he's able to get a unique advantage in his industry
• An important way of looking at your business that's setting apart the most successful companies from the others
• The importance of becoming an expert in your domain (and Rod's easy method for doing this daily)
• Why you might want to start small in your business (and how this may actually allow for you to grow faster)
• How to look at competition so that you aren't paralyzed by it

Key resources:

• Check out XERO: XERO Cloud Accounting Software
• Follow: Rod on Twitter
• Rod's Recommendation For Following Your Industry: Feedly

One thing that I love so, so much about running my own business is the endless potential, possibility, and opportunity that comes my way.

On any given day, in amongst my well planned out objectives, there are fortuitous moments for me to embrace and run with.

Of course, the downside to that is that once in awhile you end up in a situation where you've embraced a bunch of amazing opportunities and they're starting to pile up.

And maybe, if you're in my situation, some of the systems that your business life depends on start to act up at the same time.

Yikes.

So, as I've been going through this over the past few weeks, I had to check in with myself and consciously switch my perspective.

I had to get remind myself of my bigger vision in life, why I do the work I do and for who, and to remember to be grateful no matter what.

It would be really easy to fall down the rabbit hole of negativity but I made a choice - I chose to stop negativity in its tracks.

In today's Fresh in Fifteen episode, encouraged by an article I read by Matt Mayberry, I look at that exact process and give you my take on his three suggestions to create a winning and healthy mindset as well as a handful of other tips and tricks to help you overcome or avoid your next mindset pitfall.

Listen in to this episode to learn about:

• How to flip your perspective when the going gets tough
• How mastering your mindset is the key to happiness in life AND business
• Why keeping your vision in the forefront keeps everything else in check
• How to not sweat the small stuff

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Key Resources I mention or add value to this podcast:

• Visualise Your Business Future With the Power of a Painted Picture
• Creating Freedom in Your Daily Routine with John Lee Dumas
• How to Upgrade Your Thinking and Master Your Mindset
• Four Secrets to Manifesting the Money and Life Your Desire with Catherine Newton

Support our Freedom Sponsor!

As you may know, I recently launched a campaign to preorder my new book The Freedom Plan. So many people generously pledged and we hit 228% funding in 30 days.

One of these people was Gareth Foster, a New Zealand founder of Private Box who shares my same values and desires for freedom. He pledged the 'sponsor a podcast episode'.

So today we get to brag about his cool service that allows you to access your paper mail online, from anywhere!!

Private Box is a mail forwarding company that lets you live where and how you like. They offer street and PO Box addresses in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch (New Zealand).

They can send your mail anywhere, scan your mail to email and can even answer your phone calls for you!

You can get a 30 day trial at www.privatebox.co.nz/freedom

A little background on Gareth - he built his first computer when he was 12. Started his IT degree at 19, got bored, travelled for 2 years (to the UK). Finished his IT degree and a friend came to him with the idea about Private Box. So Gareth built it, then went off traveling again (to Ireland) and 4.5 years later he bought Private Box 4.5. He's also a fellow freedom fighter!

You wake up in a rush, late for your first appointment, and feel like you can’t get enough done each day.

For most entrepreneurs and Freedom Fighters, this can be the case.

It’s unfortunate, but there are a few key things you can do in order to get our life and business back under control.

No one knows this better than today’s guest.

He’s been killing it with his daily podcast since September 2012, is crushing it these days on Snapchat, and most recently created his first physical product to help you gain control of your life and accomplish big goals – called the Freedom Journal.

None other than Entrepreneur On Fire’s John Lee Dumas is here to share with you his process for tackling your day and even your biggest goals.

Podcast: Subscribe in iTunes | Play in Browser | Download

What you’ll learn in this podcast:

• What the “curse of knowledge” is and how this can hurt your business
• Who you should compare yourself to (at the end of the day) so that you win in business and in life
• How to know if you are moving in the right direction with your goals
• The daily routine that JLD does that helps him stay focused, on track, and out of reaction mode
• An interesting tool John uses to help him meditate daily and clear his thoughts
• Why most people struggle to feel in control of their day

 

Key resources:

• John's Podcast: Entrepreneur On Fire
• Get John's Book: The Freedom Journal
• John On Snapchat: Follow Him Here
• John's Mediation Tool: Choose Muse

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We are what we believe, think, and choose.

Crazy, right?

It's both scary and powerful because, on one hand, we're in complete control and have the power to create whatever we want. On the other hand, if we let our thoughts run wild and don't check in to make sure we agree with them, we could be inadvertently creating the exact life we don't want.

When we were younger, we didn't really get to choose what we were exposed to. But, as we get older we do get to choose. We get to stop our thoughts and beliefs in their tracks and question them, challenge them, and change them to align with what really works for us.

In today’s Fresh in Fifteen episode, I look at Cynthia Howard's 4 Steps to Master Your Mindset and chat about how to apply these principles to life and business.

Listen in to this episode to learn about:

• Why mastering your mindset is the key to personal and business success
• How to shift your thoughts to support your goals
• How to overcome limiting beliefs to change your life

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Key Resources I mention or add value to this podcast:

• Interview with Kim Ades on overcoming limiting beliefs
• Rising Strong by Brene Brown
• Interview with Natalie MacNeil on goal setting

This month is all about THE most critical component to anyentrepreneur's success - mindset mastery.

If you want to run a business and get the results that youdesire, mindset is something that you must master.

Your mindset is the driving force that gives you the energy tokeep going after the things you desire. It is so important to keepit positive and moving towards a place of abundance.

That's why I brought in my dear friend and manifestation expert,Catherine Newton to show us how.

We talk about how a shift in mindset can help you attract thethings you desire in life. Catherine shares the process that shefollows to manifest money for her business and life.

Even better, she shares the importance of allocating your moneyinto multiple accounts.

If you've ever wondered why successful people seem to haveeverything they desired, we have unlocked that secret code for youin this episode.

Prepare yourself with an open mind, and listen up!

Quotes: Shift that mindset and get in that place offlow. - Catherine

Podcast: Subscribein iTunesPlay inBrowser

What you'll learn in this podcast:

• Asimple series of steps you can follow to manifest the things youdesire
• Catherine's first experience ofmanifesting
• Whatto do in order to shift your mindset so that you attract anythingyou desire
• Isthere really a process to grow your money? And is it as easy asfollowing a simple process?
• Mistakes that new entrepreneurs make when itcomes to building wealth and achieving success in theirbusinesses
• Howthe words that you use can affect your financialoutcome
• The 5money accounts you must use to manage your cash flow

 Key resources:

• Facebook: Catherine's Facebook Page
• Instagram: Gofollow Catherine
• Catherine's Website: catherinenewton.com

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