Planners on Purpose Podcast

In this episode, we will discuss how to create a life plan to meet your goals. Because, life plans are important just as much as plans for your events are. So to be purposeful, to be intentional, you will need to create a plan of action for your life. 

Episode Highlights (bullets below)

• Life plans are important for keeping track of where you are, and where you want to go. 
• Securing a tool for you that helps you to create a life plan.
• Make sure you are considering the 8 Pillars of Wellness when drafting your plan. 
• Re-Assess your values by asking yourself key questions on what you should change and why. (more prompts in the episode)
• Make sure that your life plans are tangible and can be completed in a certain timeframe. Make them heartfelt so you are encouraged to complete them.
• Accountability is key. Ask a couple of friends to be your accountability partners, or book a personal coach like me to help. Link below for a free discovery call with yours truly.
• Prepare for setbacks, because there will be some. Always been willing to adjust your plan and make the next best step.
• Your plan should always be in a location that you can see it constantly. This inspires you to move forward every day!
• Check in often to ensure you are on the right track. Always review your big picture plan to make sure you on going in the same direction that you were meant to.
• If you want a community, consider Joining the Planners on Purpose Community on Facebook. Link below! 

Links and Resources 

Full Focus Planner by Michael Hyatt

Planners on Purpose Facebook Community

Book a Discovery Call with Naomi

7 Tools to Create a Life Plan (Blog Post)

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1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.

It's a New Year, and many of us are thinking that resolutions are not exciting given where we've been. However, in this episode, I talk about how focusing on action in the New Year is important to your success.

Episode Highlights

• How reflecting on your past, can help you understand what you don't want to continue, and where you want to go.
• How visualizing your success will help you to determine the steps you will need to complete while moving towards your ideal life. 
• Suggestion of the new 5-day Vision Board Email Challenge can help you with getting into action this New Year.
• Having a planner can help with ensuring that all your steps and checkpoints are written down to refer back to later. 
• A mastermind group or accountability team can help you with holding you accountable.
• Consistency will destroy complacency. Ensuring you stay consistent in moving towards your ideal life is key.
• Celebrate along the way, always. 

Links and Resources 

5-Day Vision Board Email Challenge

Full Focus Planner - Michael Hyatt - Click for $10 off Your Order of the Planner

Planners on Purpose Book Club and Facebook Group

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Want to work together, friend? Well, I'm here to help you start to get clarity, confidence, and zap out the chronic stress you experience in your event planning process. 

1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.

This episode is all about how to be intentional about the New Year. You may despise New Years Resolutions, but you don't want to be caught out there without a plan. Times are tough, and many times we aren't able to get through it without a plan of action on how we will endure. So when you listen this this podcast, you'll be able to walk through these five ways to be intentional about your world.

• Reflect
• Re-Evaluate
• Reset 
• Make a Plan
• Revisit 

I have a wonderful worksheet that walks you through all of these 5 steps. Download FREE worksheet. 

When you follow this plan you'll be able to walk with purpose into 2021. I hope you enjoy this episode, thank you for listening! 

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Overwhelmed and Struggling with how to move forward? Get clarity by downloading my FREE Master Your Burnout Guide.

Want to work together, friend? Well, I'm here to help you start to get clarity, confidence, and zap out the chronic stress you experience in your event planning process. 

1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.

Ada Ketchie and Nathan Getzin are alchemists of the human heart, helping people cultivate greater mindfulness, healing, and self-actualization through the ineffable power of music. As co-founders of Wakes they use their expertise as musicians, storytellers, yoga teachers, healers, and coaches to create experiences that offer radical transformation of mind, body and spirit. Their mission is to help people heal what hurts, grow thriving relationships, and awaken to true and lasting presence, purpose, and resilience. They do this by creating immersive sound healing experiences, meditations, intimate concerts, retreats, individual and group coaching, and providing online resources and support.

Episode Highlights

• Music gives us the opportunity to experience repressed emotions and to heal through those experiences.
• Music helps us to connect to who we are so that we can be more authentic.
• Music has so much power to shift or state and to attune ourselves.
• Music can illuminate so much that is going on inside of us and help us release it.
• If you listen to music, it takes 9 minutes to make us feel happier, and 13 minutes to help us release sadness.
• With intention, we can completely shift our emotional states through music.

Links and Resources

Wakes Website

Wakes Facebook

Wakes Instagram

Wakes YouTube

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Want to work together, friend? Well, I'm here to help you start to get clarity, confidence, and zap out the chronic stress you experience in your event planning process. 

1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.

Katherine Frost is the Founder of ORO, a new all-in-one digital planning solution that is designed to help event planners plan their event effortlessly with less stress and more productivity. In this interview Katherine and I explore how she started her career, the journey of entrepreneurship and get a sneak peak of her new tool ORO. 

Episode Highlights

• Oro was created to help event planners relieve the stress with the communication that goes back and forth between the planner and the client.
• The main highlights of the tool are the program of events, the timeline, and space planning which accommodates for social distancing.
• There is also a concierge service for this product if you need some additional support. 
• If you are an entrepreneur the best advice is to go all in! 
• A team approach for planning encourages the team to dream big, exert their own opinions and thoughts. 

Links and Resources 

Make Your Bed  - Admiral William McRaven 

Oro Planner Website

Planners on Purpose - Book Club

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1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.

This episode features Ashley Jackson Thompson. Ashley is the Owner of Timeless Dreams Events who her mission is to provide terminally ill people and their family members with a timeless dream event on how they celebrate life and love. Her company plans various events at minimal notice due to each unique and sensitive situation. Ashley has been able to turn her own personal pain into purpose, and a blessing to others.

Links Mentioned

Timeless Dream Events Website

Timeless Dream Events Facebook and Instagram

Planners on Purpose Book Club

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Overwhelmed and Struggling with how to move forward? Get clarity by downloading my FREE Master Your Burnout Guide.

Want to work together, friend? Well, I'm here to help you start to get clarity, confidence, and zap out the chronic stress you experience in your event planning process. 

1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.

My guest Tracey Fuller has learned how to thrive as an entrepreneur after starting her first company, Happy Occasions, 32 years ago in response to a personal tragedy.

Nearly three decades later, she leads the team at InnovativEvents, providing event décor, backstage management, and overall coordination and management of all production aspects. She has produced dozens of corporate events – sometimes for an intimate group of corporate board members, other times for crowds as large as 3,000.

Episode Highlights

·  How it is important to make a decision to thrive and not just survive in times of hardship.

·  Find what you love, and work with passion towards it.

·  How Tracy is helping young event professionals by equipping them with turnkey themed events.

·  How a fashion show made of all Bubble Wrap fashions is all the rave.

·  Challenges of keeping her business alive during the pandemic.

·  Tracy encourages planners to rest now so that they have the energy in spring and summer of 2021.

·  Thoughts on trends to come as we start to plan on meeting face-to-face again.

·  Tracy’s food for thought for planners: Wherever you are, stay calm, so that you can solve problems with a clear head.

·  Tracy’s advice for planners: Always bring a second pair of shoes.

·  Tracy’s final words: Take a breath, and live your joy.

Links and Resources

Friend Factor – Alan Loy McGuinnis

InnovativEvents

Event Heroes

The Bubble Ball Affair

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1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.

Sharee Cammon has a story of purpose and perseverance. Sharee's mission is to help the Black community break free from the debilitating chains of economic inequality and oppression. She's the owner of Creative Call Marketing and the creator of the B.A.M. Business Academy. 

This academy is a community based membership platform with a built-in learning and mentorship platform that serves Black entrepreneurs. Sharee manages a few key events each year that helps support black entrepreneurs and proceeds from both events, are donated to help support the creation and expansion of black owned businesses, spurring the growth of Black entrepreneurship.

Episode Highlights

• How important having positive black business role models are
• How having black business highlighted is important to a community that needs to be uplifted
• Learn a bit about Sharee's life and struggle and how many times she's attempted her dream
• Learn about how Sharee came through her worst fear
• How to ensure that whatever event you plan on circumstances you are in, to always look out for those that aren't included

Links and Resources 

Creative Call Marketing 

B.A.M. Business Market

Calendly

Jane Sincero - You are a Badass

Joe Beam - Seeing the Unseen

Planners on Purpose Facebook Group

Planners on Purpose BookClub

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Want to work together, friend? Well, I'm here to help you start to get clarity, confidence, and zap out the chronic stress you experience in your event planning process. 

1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.

In this episode, I'll be giving you some quick tips for planning a stress-free Thanksgiving holiday.  Planning events is one thing, but planning for family is another. Here are some quick tips to ensure that not only you but everyone that attends your gathering has a wonderful time. 

Links of Note

Planners on Purpose Book Club

Zoom Thanksgiving 

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Overwhelmed and Struggling with how to move forward? Get clarity by downloading my FREE Master Your Burnout Guide.

Want to work together, friend? Well, I'm here to help you start to get clarity, confidence, and zap out the chronic stress you experience in your event planning process. 

1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
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In this episode I welcome Tom Pick, a digital marketing consultant who helps B2B clients improve their online visibility, increase brand awareness, and generate leads through SEO, social media, and content marketing. He's the editor of the Webbiquity b2b marketing blog and author of "The Ultimate Guide to Content Marketing Software."

Tom is committed to guiding his customers to have a bigger presence on social media. He loves the variety that comes with the challenges of solving problems for his clients.

Episode Highlights

• Marketing is all about helping people solve a problem that they have.
• If you want to be marketable, ensure that you are educating the market in which you want to serve.
• Make sure that your content that you are putting out is useful and relevant.
• Always have a strategy when it comes to your marketing approach. The first step of any strategy should be the question of "what do you want to accomplish on social media?"
• You should also ask yourself the questions:
• Who do you want to engage with?
• How do you want to go about getting their attention?
• Make sure that you are monitoring and understanding and being aware of talking about topics or your brand.
• Use caution when using automation, and ensure you are aware of what is happening in the world when your social is being released.
• Make sure that you are also monitoring conversations about what your interests are and engage with your audience in a timely manner.
• Some fun facts:
• Tom's Leadership Lesson - Lead your team by encouraging and helping your team come with their own solutions instead of dominating their actions.
• Tom's Key to Balance - His kids, and also going outside, hiking, and listening to podcasts.
• Tom's Advice to Event Planners - It is important to maintain a fresh online presence and social activity even though we are in difficult times.

Links and Resources

Candide - Voltaire 

The Logic of Life - Tim Hartford

Perfection of Marketing - James Connor 

Tom Pick - Linkedin

Tom Pick - Twitter

Tom Pick - Instagram

Website - Webbiquity.com or Tompick.com 

Thank you for listening!

So happy that you stopped by to listen to this episode. Would love to hear your additional questions or thoughts on marketing in the comments below!

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Want to work together, friend? Well, I'm here to help you start to get clarity, confidence, and zap out the chronic stress you experience in your event planning process. 

1. Get Clarity and Confidence in Your Purpose by scheduling a Purpose Call.
2. Advance your Career by Adding Ease To Getting Your CMP.