On Purpose With Alex Beadon

This week I interview Jeremy Cowart, an award-winning photographer, artist, and entrepreneur whose goal in life is to inspire and help others. Cowart talks about his multifaceted and ever-changing career and he gives advice to potential humanitarians and artists. We speak about his latest endeavor The Purpose Hotel, a planned global for-profit hotel chain designed to fuel the work of not-for-profit organizations as well as his new book "I'm Possible" which is coming out soon.

After eleven days of travel, I'm finally back home and reflecting on how I want to bring more grounded energy into my life. I love new months, and this month of April perfectly coincided with this strong desire I had to set my intentions for the month.

In this episode I share it all when it comes to both personal *and* business goals - and it's a good one to listen to if you're ready to start your month feeling inspired & ready to claim your intentions and focus!

Today we welcome Adrienne Dorison, an operational efficiency expert, business owner, and author. She is the CEO + Co-Founder of Run Like Clockwork™ alongside of best-selling author, Mike Michalowicz, where she equips CEO's to design a business + team that can run itself, like clockwork. Adrienne has helped hundreds of business leaders + teams — from Fortune 500 corporations to fast-growth startups — to improve their profit margins, reduce waste and take an unplugged vacation.

In this episode, she shares how she was able to leave her corporate job, pay off her $50,000 of student debt in six months, activate enough discipline to go after her dream of operating her own business, get emotional stability, and she also speaks to us about some efficiency mistakes that may be holding businesses back.

This week I'm talking all about how I lost 300 followers, and what my biggest takeaways and lessons were from the experience. Having shared this earlier intimately with my VIP List I realized what a hot topic it was and decided to record a whole episode on it. Take a listen & I'd love to know your thoughts below!

In this episode, Alex interviews Ash Ambirge, an expert in copywriting, marketing, and sales, writer, and online course enthusiast. Thanks to some combination of defiance, bullheadedness, and some truly weird circumstances, she set out to become a writer, and quickly went from a small town girl who was the queen of late cell phone bills and existential crisis, to being her own boss and running a seven-figure empire, with a book coming out soon with Penguin Random House!

Show Notes:

• How Ash "did everything right" and then ended up in a bad situation
• How the name of her business causes her some problems
• How developing business owners and writers can find their voice
• How to sell using sales calls
• How Ash manages time and spends three hours writing her book every morning
• Two mindset shifts that made a difference as an entrepreneur

3 Key Points:

1. Trust yourself and don't be afraid to disobey the common rules.
2. Put your opinion out there, but make sure that it's thoughtful and truthful.
3. Let pleasure be your guide when writing or starting your business.

In the midst of the chaos of Carnival, it felt so good to sit down and record this episode. In this episode I share what happened behind-the-scenes of the TSOKI launch including how much money we made, exactly what our expenses were, and I share the biggest lessons I learned that I'll be carrying with me moving forward.

If you want to learn more about the "do's" and "don'ts" of launching your own online course, this is a fantastic episode for you!

THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:

• the gross profit of this TSOKI launch
• how much money we spent on Facebook Ads
• what I learned about warm audiences vs. cold audiences
• the importance of including good Payment Plan options

It is easy to let papers pile up on your desk, and it is even easier to justify why cleaning them up is a task for tomorrow. If you could elevate your mood by moving the papers, would you? Desha Peacock, coach, award-winning host and TV producer, and two-time author, shares tips and tricks on how to upgrade our workspaces.

Glen Henry is a YouTube sensation with over 150K subscribers. His vision was to share the realities of parenthood and his authentic approach to sharing his story has created a family outside of his own among his subscribers. In today's episode I speak to him about fatherhood, transparency, and how he launched his Youtube channel.

If you're an entrepreneur who wants to step into your voice and brand online, if you want to take your YouTube channel to the next level, or if you want to build a legacy with your work, this is the episode for you.

This week's episode is one of those sweet solo episodes where I speak from the heart, totally unfiltered, and just share what's on my mind.

This week, I share what it's been like to come off the tail end of an intense launch of The School of Killer Impressions AND I share how I've been finding inspiration from Olympic Athletes.

What could we do if we could redirect all the energy we invest in managing our insecurities out into the world? Susan Hyatt, veteran life coach and author of Bare, joins us to describe her entry into life coaching and the tools she uses in her work. We talk about how to show up conviction even when you're surrounded by naysayers, how to reach clients when it seems like nothing is working, and how to be yourself online in a full throttle way.

Show Notes:

• How owning one's own business allows greater self-care
• Martha Beck's 'Finding Your Own North Star' helped Susan and induced a career change
• Susan made a transition plan and moved into her new career very quickly
• How life coaching's reputation has changed over the last 12 years
• Overcoming impostor syndrome in the early stages of an entrepreneurship
• Conviction in a vision of a future self
• How to get out of the stage of being stuck feeling like nothing is working, and not getting clients
• How social media allowed Susan to diversify her image from that of the typical life coach
• The inevitability of haters
• How Susan embraced the idea of openness about the life of the life coach
• Different approaches to social media
• How Susan approaches the idea of body positivity
• How Bare is about embracing the skin that your in and shedding emotional weight, as well as potentially physical weight
• The power of refocusing energy and effort
• Certain cheaper purchases that can make a person feel rich
• The importance of sustainable consistent business hours
• Challenge: Go make an offer in business

3 Key Points:

1. Self-care and entrepreneurship can be intimately linked.
2. Developing a vision of a future self can be key to the confidence of a new entrepreneur.
3. Body positivity can redirect a lot of negatively focused energy surrounding self-image outwards towards productive projects.