This week on Pimp Your Brilliance, I’m chatting with visual coach and influencer XayLi Barclay. If you aren’t familiar with XayLi, she teaches aspiring Infopreneurs and Influencers how to use visual content more effectively to be more visible, valuable and to elevate their online presence. She also loves creating videos.

In this episode, we discussed common mistakes people make with their visuals, tips for getting comfortable in front of the camera, basic equipment you need to shoot video and leveraging Instagram to grow your brand.

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I wanted to title this episode 'How to silence the chorus of fear once and for all' but the truth is you are always going to have fear pop up when you're chasing your goals. It's apart of the process.

Fear is natural. Your mind is a brilliant piece of machinery and wants to protect itself at all costs. Fear by design is a defense mechanisms. It's supposed to protect you. Yet more often than not fear holds us back. It destroys dreams. It kills productivity and sucks the fun out of life.

In this episode I’m giving you 3 strategies to silence  our frenemies the Chorus of Fear.

I'm adding a bi-monthly book club to the podcast. This month we'll be reading You Are A Badass At Making Money by Jen Sincero. Make sure you read it and join my Facebook group before before August 30th. You can get all of the book club details by visiting keepchasingthestars.com/bookclub

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On this week’s episode, I’m chatting with Casey Sibley of Casey D. Sibley Art + Design. If you aren’t familiar with Casey’s work, she designs textiles for home goods and accessories. She has built an online retail and wholesale business from scratch, and has sold her products in over 50 stores across the U.S. and Canada. Casey designs well-made, socially and environmentally conscious goods that are meant to be used daily and inspire a happy life.

If you're looking for an honest chat about what it takes to transition out of your safe career to pursue a creative one or the realities of running a product based business this episode is for you.

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One issue that comes up quite often when I’m talking to other creatives is creating and maintaining a routine. Everyone recognizes the value of having a routine but they’re unsure how to create one that works for their lifestyle and sticks.

Over the past six months I’ve worked hard to follow a routine that helped me go from being a complete couch potato to working out several days a week. It has completely changed my life. In this minisode, I’m sharing the 7 steps you need to work through in order to create a routine that works for you.

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On this week’s episode, I’m chatting with Alisha Robertson of TheAlishaNicole.com. What started out as a conversation about becoming an author through self-publishing shifted into a thoughtful chat about fear and what’s really holding people back. It was so good. Lots of really useful insight was shared.

If you aren’t familiar with Alisha, she is a clarity coach dedicated to helping creative women create their life & business on purpose. She’s the self-published author behind The Blogpreneur which is a step-by-step guide to showing bloggers how to turn their online space into a profitable business.

In this episode we discuss why Alisha took the leap into starting a creative business, how she produces so much high value content and why fear is the only thing truly holding you back from creating your dream business.

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Alisha can be found on social @TheAlishaNicole and www.thealishanicole.com

Chances are if you aren't making progress towards your goals or you're feeling discouraged after working hard towards them it's time to re-evaluate. There's a lot of experimentation in the goal setting process when you're trying to find a strategy that works. So it's ok to refine and change.

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This week’s podcast guest is a personal friend and fellow UCF alumni (#GoKnights). We met years ago through my now defunct clothing line, Antisparkle Apparel. Anthony "Biggie" Bencomo is a sandwich connoisseur who turned his passion into a sandwich inspired clothing brand called Deli Fresh Threads. Such a cool idea, right?

Deli Fresh Threads has been serving up the #kingofmeals (sandwiches) for over 4 years now. Anthony knows a thing or two about being in a small niche. One of my favorite things about Deli Fresh Threads is how well branded everything is from his custom site, order packaging and his monthly sandwich eat-ups that help him rock his customer experience.  

In this episode, we discuss how Anthony came up with the idea to start a sandwich-themed clothing line, why he runs his brand solely as a side hustle, tips for working with graphic designers and how he makes this niche brand work.

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There comes a time in every creative's life where she starts thinking about attending a conference. Meeting sponsors and other brilliant creatives face to face is an important step towards growing our businesses or landing our dream gigs. But let's be real some of us are naturals at networking while the rest of us break out in a cold sweat just reading about it. No worries though. I’m sharing 9 super simple and easy tips for rocking it at your next conference.

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This week we're talking about self-care and subscription boxes. Those two things don't necessarily sound like they go together but Tara Jefferson has merged them into a thriving community of women on fire self-care. 

Tara is a writer, speaker, and self-care coach who specializes in helping women cut through the clutter of their lives and plant themselves back at the center. As the founder of the Bloom Beautifully Box, a subscription box that delivers self-care to your door, she is determined to start a movement that cancels chaos and creates a peace for women everywhere.

In this episode, we discuss Tara's self-care journey, why women struggle with it and how she's using a subscription box as an entry point into a broader discussion about self-care.

You can get access to the show notes for this episode by visiting https://www.keepchasingthestars.com/4.

In today's not so minisode, I share what I've learned so far about podcasting. Launching and running a stand out podcast show takes a lot of work. I don't want you to feel overwhelmed so I'm offering a behind the scenes look at the equipment, software, and resources that I have used to get this show launched. I also discuss my podcast workflow and how I manage it all. If you've ever wanted to know how much it costs to run a podcast and if it's worth it, this is the episode for you.

Show notes can be found at https://www.keepchasingthestars.com/m3