Michael Heppell (@MichaelHeppell) is an international best-selling author of 7 books, including ‘How to Be Brilliant’. His books have been translated into 27 languages and include the Sunday Times No.1 Best Seller ‘Flip It’. His latest, ’17 – the little way to get a lot done’ was launched in September 2020. His passion is presenting. He has been described as ‘one of the top 3 professional speakers in the world.’ He works with individuals and organisations who are dissatisfied with being good and have a desire to be brilliant. Through his events and coaching Michael has worked with everyone from Category B prisoners to business leaders; from Premiership footballers to TV personalities. Davina McCall credits Michael as ‘the person who, in one hour, changed my life’. Michael works with his wife and business partner Christine, and in 2001 they set a goal ‘to positively influence 1 million lives’. Through presentations, training, books, audio programmes, and coaching they hit this target several years ago and now have the goal to positively influence everyone they connect with.

This is a fantastic episode! I highly recommend you listen to it. In this conversation, we discuss a wide range of topics including approaching successful people for endorsement, how to build and pre-build an audience for your book, developing and drawing out your core message, how to handle negative reviews, finding and working with the very best coaches and mentors, the impact of limiting beliefs and the good work Michael is doing with his 'Write That Book Challenge' which aims to support 1000 people to write 1000 books in 1000 days.

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