Succeed Through Speaking

Tom Bailey, Founder of Succeed Through Speaking, Interviews Terri Levine

Terri Levine is the founder of Heart-repreneur® and is a business marketing consultant who assists businesses worldwide with business growth, sales, and marketing. She has more than 40 years of business experience, encompassing work with more than 6,000 business owners and entrepreneurs in a variety of industries. She is also a bestselling author of dozens of books, has her own radio and TV show, and is also a keynote speaker. Terri has a passion for helping businesses to grow with her own personal experience gained while building multiple successful businesses from the ground up. Terri has created the Heart-repreneur® cause teaching business owners to do business heart-to-heart. Terri conducts training seminars, programs, helping entrepreneurs become more profitable and increase their bottom line. She is passionate about speaking to business owners about what tactics they can do to skyrocket their business.

Why you've got to check out Terri's episode:

- Discover the biggest challenge of not having enough qualified prospects in your pipeline as a business owner.

- Understand the importance of both qualification and disqualification of your prospects.

- Uncover the huge detrimental impacts of not getting this right including wasting money and time on ads, content and networking

- Learn the three S's of Sort, Sift and Separate when it comes to qualifying your prospects for your business and marketing pipelines.

- Understand why you need to get out from behind your laptop and speak to your real consumers and potential prospects

Resources / Links

https://go.heartrepreneur.com/training-conveyorbelt

Tom Bailey, Founder of Succeed Through Speaking, Interviews Kimberly Crowe

As a joint venture super-connector, Kimberly Crowe gets entrepreneurs the stages and connections they need to stop being overlooked, and explosively grow their revenue and reach. Kimberly is an award-winning international public speaker, best-selling author, audiobook producer, six-time entrepreneur. Kimberly is the creator of Entrepreneurs Rocket Fuel, an active community of Entrepreneurs, looking to contribute, connect, and grow with other entrepreneurs.

Why you've got to check out Kimberly's episode:

- Learn the four types of virtual stages and why you need to be leveraging all of them right now to raise your profile and grow your business.

- Discover how Kimberly helps speakers and entrepreneurs who want to speak get there message out there about what they do, who for and whatever they are passionate about.

- Understand why public speaking is so intimidating and a fear worse than the fear of death and why this means you are the worlds best kept secret.

- Learn why Ads and Referrals alone will not be enough to get your message out there into the world, raise your profile and grow your business.

- Hear why it is critical today to speak on stage and share your message and how you can consider who will not benefit when you are avoiding speaking.

- Discover how you can turn your fear and nervousness into excitement :)

Resources / Links

https://entrepreneursrocketfuel.com/speaking-opportunities/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/entrepreneursrocketfuel

Tom Bailey, Founder of Succeed Through Speaking, Interviews Michael Roderick

Michael Roderick is the CEO of Small Pond Enterprises which helps thoughtful givers become thought leaders by making their brands referable, their messaging memorable, and their ideas unforgettable. He is also the host of the podcast Access to Anyone which shows how you can get to know anyone you want in business and in life using time-tested relationship-building principles. Michael's unique methodology comes from his own experience of going from being a Highschool English teacher to a Broadway Producer in under two years.

Why you've got to check out Michael's episode:

- Find out how Michael works with coaches who struggle to communicate the value of what they offer to people.

- Discover the importance of a short snappy elevator pitch or value statement to ensure that your network is able to promote you or your business by being able to clearly articulate what you do.

- Learn the power of referrals and how you can be more referable.

- Hear what Michael's best piece of advice is for his clients to help them discover what value they actually add to people they work with by reaching out to them and asking them.

- Understand the importance of balancing your giving with your asking when it comes to referrals and being referable.

- Craft your 'IF' which is your Innovative Framework and how you can share your unique way of doing what you do for your clients.

Resources / Links

http://myreferabilityrater.com/

http://www.smallpondenterprises.com/

Tom Bailey, Founder of Succeed Through Speaking, Interviews David Shriner-Cahn

After 28 years as a highly skilled employee, David was told that his job was over. In spite of the immediate trauma and fear, he knew that as his next step, he’d rather work for himself and have more control over his destiny. That was in 2006. Today, David is a thriving entrepreneur, podcaster and speaker. He is guiding high achieving professionals, who yearn to impact the world with their knowledge and creativity, by becoming successful consultants or coaches, following long careers as employees.

Why you've got to check out David's episode:

- Learn how David helps high achieving individuals who are building a coaching or consulting business following a long career as an employed professional.

- Discover how many people go through trauma after losing or leaving their job and what impact this can have on your sense of identity, your relationships and your support circle.

- Understand the emotional components of fear and loneliness which inevitably come from leaving a secure job and starting up a new business.

- Learn how to bounce back and leverage your network for social support and mentorship and discover the most important thing to do if this happens to you, which is taking the time to reflect and recharge using a sabbatical period.

- Get access to hundreds of coaches, consultants and a peer community through following smashing the plateau.

Resources / Links

https://smashingtheplateau.com

Tom Bailey, Founder of Succeed Through Speaking, Interviews Lacy Boggs

Lacy Boggs is a content strategist and director of The Content Direction Agency. She helps business owners create content in their own voice that supports their business goals.

Why you've got to check out Lacy's episode: 

- Discover how Lacy helps visionaries, authors, coaches and people with a big personality brands, influence the conversation in their industry.

- Understand the challenge these businesses face with the lack of time as their business grows and how this limitation prevents them from creating the content they could be creating.

- Learn why it's unhelpful to post generic social media content i.e. quotes and short overused hints and tips and how this means you just become part of the noise that's already on social media. And why producing content now could help you six months down the line.

- Why CEO's and business owners need to create time in their day or week and the power of accountability and surrounding yourself with other business owners facing similar challenges.

- How to get access to Lacy's Thought Leader Lab and how you can book a free call with Lacy to discuss what it takes to become a Thought Leader and what this might look like for you and your business.

Resources / Link

https://lacyboggs.com/book-a-call

https://lacyboggs.com/blog

Tom Bailey, Founder of Succeed Through Speaking, Interviews David Parrish

David Parrish works worldwide as a business coach, keynote speaker, trainer and author. He specialises in helping creative entrepreneurs to achieve even greater success, in harmony with their values and objectives.

Why you've got to check out David's episode:

- Find out how David helps businesses in the creative industries i.e. designers, architects, people in music and publishing. And how he helps them grow and achieve success

- Discover how to become successful in the right way. This means not just financially successful but how you can get the right kind of success for your passions and your lifestyle.

- Learn what David means by the 'wrong kind of success' and what to do if you become an accidental CEO of your business, feel trapped and unable to do what you love while growing your business.

- Understand how to re-design your creative business and how to set yourself on the right track for success.

- Finally, gain access to a free copy of David's guidebook called T-shirts and Suits

Resources / Links

https://www.davidparrish.com/products

Tom Bailey, Founder of Succeed Through Speaking, Interviews Maribeth Kuzmeski

Dr. Maribeth Kuzmeski and her firm Red Zone Marketing consult on business growth strategies. She’s written 7 books, teaches at Oklahoma State University, and is a regular media contributor.

Why you've got to check out Maribeth's episode:

- Learn how Maribeth helps businesses in the financial industry and entrepreneurial minded companies that are looking for fast growth

- Discover how these businesses typically focus on looking for magical marketing strategies, but should instead focus on referral based marketing

- Why businesses struggle to find the right marketing strategy and who they should ship their focus from trying to find new strategies to instead focusing on what they are great at which is serving their clients

- Learn the importance of creating an experience for your clients when you are in a service based business so that you can make the intangible, more tangible.

- Discover how to get free access to a guide which will show you how to power up your unsolicited referrals.

Resources / Links

https://www.redzonemarketing.com/blog/

Tom Bailey, Founder of Succeed Through Speaking, Interviews Ruth Kudzi

Ruth Kudzi runs Kudzi Coach Academy training new coaches and existing coaches to develop their skills alongside working with experienced coaches to help them up-level in their businesses and lives.

Why you've got to check out Ruth's episode:

- This is for professionals who have been in their jobs for a while and want to do something different and re-train. And for existing business owners who want to level-up and scale their coaching businesses

- Understand how to level-up your skills and the importance of building your marketing capability as a business owner

- Discover the importance of mindset when it comes to stepping up to being a CEO and why you need to be ok with being in discomfort

- Learn why 95% of new business owners don't break through their own self-imposed glass ceiling when it comes to revenue generation

- Understand where to go for support and how critical having the right mentor and coach is in achieving your results

Resources / Links

Download the Free Coaching Toolkit here - https://ruthkudzi.com/

Tom Bailey, Founder of Succeed Through Speaking, Interviews Kate Bagoy

Kate Bagoy is a Forbes Council’s business coach and the founder of SixFigureFreelancers.com, where she helps freedom-focused tech & corporate creatives escape the 9-to-5. A self-professed nerd with an MBA and a UX design strategist, she's worked with more than 50 startups and has coached 1000’s of consultants through starting online businesses. An adventurer at heart, Kate travels as a digital nomad and has been running her business entirely online - from 25 countries so far - since 2017.

Why you've got to check out Kate's episode:

- Discover if you fall into the category of a 'creative corporate burnout' whereby you are in a mid-level career, dying to get out of the 9-5 and fed up of the corporate B.S.

- Understand the biggest challenge that people in this situation might have including fear, mindset and overcoming some critical limiting beliefs.

- Find out what you need to do to break free from constantly 'going through the motions' and how to stop overthinking and start doing.

- Learn the one valuable piece of advice from Kate which is all about keeping it simple and going all in on one core strategy.

- Get FREE access to Kate's portal so that you can access her free resources and training materials.

Resources / Links

https://go.katebagoy.com/ebook

https://www.sixfigurefreelancers.com/

Tom Bailey, Founder of Succeed Through Speaking, Interviews Laura Posey

Laura Posey is an internationally-recognised speaker, author and consultant. She is known as The Simple Planning Specialist for her unique ability to simply and easily laser focus her clients to get dramatic results.

Her Simple Strategic Plan is used by over 2500 companies from start-up’s to Fortune 100 companies. She is the author of "How to Plan Your Entire Year On One Sheet Of Paper", and co-author with Jack Canfield of "Mastering The Art Of Success"

Why you've got to check out Laura's episode:

- Learn how Coaches, Consultants and Business Owners can finally earn what they are worth by increasing the amount of people they can help

- Discover what Laura means by the open loop trap and how entrepreneurs can avoid jumping from technique to tactic while looking for a silver bullet which never comes

- See why you need to avoid analysis paralysis and the detail death cycle to help you get better at making decisions in your business

- Get FREE access to Laura's daily success checklist so that you can start planning your day and ensuring you are making significant progress each and every day.

- Learn how to avoid creating a job in your business instead of having a business that suits your lifestyle.

Resources / Links

https://simplesuccessplans.com/checklist (https://simplesuccessplans.com/checklist)