The School of Self-Mastery: Business, Money, Life

Today's guest is Kira Hug. As the copywriter + strategist behind Kira Hug Inc. — and your fellow Pirate — Kira is your rebellious curator, your storyteller, your art director, and your challenger. And sometimes, she’s even your therapist.

Under Kira’s care + wordsmithin’ wizardry, your story will be translated into copy that highlights the shiniest parts of your personality to the umpteenth degree AND sells, sells, SELLS.

Kira’s eclectic background in marketing and visual communication led her to work for startups like ActionableBooks.com, luxury brands like Estée Lauder, and a handful of global nonprofits.

Kira lives outside of New York City on a mountain, surrounded by bears, with her partner, toddler, and baby boy.

Today Kira and I are talking about why pitching podcasts can help you boost confidence, land clients, and grow into the 2.0 version of yourself, and why multiple personalities + costumes is a MUST in your online business. Seriously, it's time to dress up and play.

You can find Kira here: kirahug.com

Keystone habits lead to the development of multiple good habits this is why I'm calling them the gateway drug for life-changing habits. They start a chain effect in your life that produces a number of positive outcomes.

For example, say that your keystone habit is to sleep 8 hours every night.

Your initial goal is to get more sleep. But this habit can also lead to positive, unintended outcomes like:

•Become more productive

•Eat more healthy

•Having more time to exercise

At first you wanted more sleep, but this keystone habit generated a number of additional habits.

The development of keystone habits can become a critical part of your self-mastery journey.

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg

In this book, Duhigg talks about forming keystone habits to get what you want out of life. You don’t have to change dozens of habits to get to your goals. You only have to change a few keystone habits that will have a ripple effect on your outcomes.

4 Keystone Habits that can be your gateway drug to a better life:

#1 - Active Goal Setting

#2 - 30 Minutes of Exercise

#3 - Daily Gratitude

#4 - Saving Money

Today's guest is Jo Gifford. Jo Gifford mentors solopreneurs to work in smarter, more creative ways and to get their message out to the world. Her Brilliance Ignition Process encourages solopreneur to incorporate creative thinking and content creation into their business DNA, and her easy to follow style and message has grown a loyal tribe of clients and followers. Jo is mum to twin girls Eva and Mia, and lives near Cambridge with her partner, Miles.

Today, Jo and I are talking:

• Content creation & re-purposing content
• Working smarter as a solopreneur Mum
• Working with chronic illnesses
• Using tech to build a business with a chronic illness and family
• How to set up smart working to make more of your time

You can find Jo here:

dexterousdiva.co.uk

facebook.com/dexdiva

It's not just who you know, it's not just what you know, it's not just how you deliver it...it's all three in combination.

WHO you know is important, and networking just isn't the same as it was 10 years ago. On today's episode I'm talking about non-networking, how to do it right and my top 5 tips for you to take action on it today.

1. Who cares - why you

Today's guest is Paula Pant from affordanything.com. Paula Pant quit her day job in 2008 and never looked back. She's traveled to 33 countries and counting, runs an online business from her laptop, and owns 7 investment property units that provide enough passive income to fuel her lifestyle.

On her popular website, Afford Anything, she writes about achieving financial independence through hustling and investing, as well as general money-savvy tips for anyone trying to build wealth. She's been featured in more than four dozen publications, including Forbes, US News, DailyFinance, Marketplace Money, Redbook, Kiplinger, Lifehacker and more.

We're talking about passive income, world travel, how to keep routines while on the road, and her anti-budgeting technique.

Where to find Paula:

affordanything.com

facebook.com/affordanything

Today's guest is Shari D Teigman is a soul explorer, transformational coach and podcast host on The Creative Soul Lab.

Shari help the Joes and Janes who are done being average ditch their Groundhog Day living and find their unique path and voice to a sparked up soul and lit up life.

She believes every person has the ability to find their creativity, passion and drive within and light up their lives, relationships, careers and most importantly, their connection to themselves.

On that creative crusade, she also works with entrepreneurs and everyday rock stars to verbalize their soul and vision through copy and creative packaging and igniting their businesses to grow and flourish as their calling, not just a J.O.B. they go to everyday.

When you connect to your community through the right words and emotion, you create lifelong fans – and who doesn’t want that?!

Her podcast, The Creative Soul Lab, is a variety show of Shari musings and interviews with entrepreneurs, thought leaders and everyday success rock stars pulling the curtain back on how their creative spark, passion and individuality fuels success and fulfillment in life and business.

Today's episode is all about putting creativity back into your life and business.

Resources mentioned:

Podcast Success Labs

6 Months to 6 Figures - Peter Voogd

Magic Lessons - Elizabeth Gilbert

Sacred Success - Barbara Stanny

How many projects are you working on right now? Be honest, too many right?

On today's episode we're covering Warren Buffet's system for prioritizing all the things you've got going on.

We need a system that puts our focus only on the most important. That’s how results happen.

Enter Warren…

Warren Buffett’s 5-Step Process for Prioritizing True Success

1. Know what you want – List your top 25.
2. Pick your top 5.
3. Make a plan for your top 5.
4. Marry your priorities.
5. Know your ‘Avoid at all Cost List‘ and stick to it.

You cannot achieve success if you focus on everything.

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That banana peel you slipped on to land here came from Rajiv Nathan. That's because he fancies himself a human Curious George, and the yellow hat he chases is life's realness. As Idea Lemon cofounder, he shows people how to develop a more fulfilling lifestyle and put their careers into beastmode like Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. He's also a rapper by the name Fenetik, making music that moves people.

Helping you up after you slip on that banana peel is Martin McGovern. A Real Life Inspector Gadget, Martin explores life's many mysteries and finds their truths using every tool available. He's the cofounder of Idea Lemon, as well as a designer, typographer, and the guy who sets it off at dance parties.

On this episode, Rajiv & Martin share:

• how to get started on an idea
• how to really detach from ideas & understand the why
• the truth about having honest conversations with yourself and with others
• using music & comedy as a creative outlet, to influence people and grow as a person
• how they created un-networking events in their local area
• the value of their cross country road-trip
• why Martin shared his morning bathroom routine with his audience via illustrations
• and they even reveal each other's bad habits

You can find Rajiv & Martin at IdeaLemon.com and on the Discover Your Inner Awesome podcast.

Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. If you’re into productivity, you’ll know this proverb as Parkinson’s Law. This interesting statement was made by Cyril Northcote Parkinson, the famous British historian and author, in 1955.

Parkinson’s Law – work expands to fill the time available for its completion – means that if you give yourself a week to complete a two hour task, then (psychologically speaking) the task will increase in complexity and become more daunting so as to fill that week.

It may not even fill the extra time with more work, but just stress and tension about having to get it done. By assigning the right amount of time to a task, we gain back more time and the task will reduce in complexity to its natural state.

Parkinson’s Law is an observation, not some voodoo magic. It works because people give tasks longer than they really need.

Here are some tips to help you use Parkinson's Law to your advantage since we know how it works now:

• Work without your computer charger.
• Use the Pomodoro technique.
• Restrict your time artificially by moving your location throughout the day. Create a task list to get done at each spot.
• Make a rule to do XYZ before 9am. Get it done early and then let yourself have some freedom.
• Get an accountability partner who will force you to pay up, literally, if you work past a certain time or take too long to do something - create a financial consequence.
• Set a hard deadline.
• Cut your deadlines in half.
• Limit tasks like responding to email to thirty minutes a day - set a timer.

Peter Voogd started his first business when he was 15, and found himself broke, stressed and discouraged by the age of 22. By 23, he made his first 6 figure income, and 3 1/2 years later his earnings were over 1 million. He then took the same formula and applied it in another industry. Despite the challenge of lacking training or experience, he became the fastest manager to reach $1 million in annual sales in his company's 60 + year history, but left his 6 figure income because he felt his magnitude of mission growing.

He’s been labeled the worlds leading authority for millennials and entrepreneurs by entrepreneur.com, and many of international publications, stars in his own tv show called “The Entrepreneur Grind” on the Whatever it takes network, founder of The Game Changers Academy, which is the premier networking community for young entrepreneurs, Author of the 27-time international best selling author of the book “6 Months to 6 Figures,” and Creator of The Young Entrepreneur Lifestyle podcast which is one of iTunes top podcasts. Peter's strategies have been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, Huffington Post, Business Insider, time.com, Yahoo Small Business, Yahoo Finance, MSN, and many other international publications. He strongly believes the more people you help to succeed, the more successful you become.

Resources:

GameChangers Academy: www.GameChangersMovement.com

Free Productivity Blueprint: www.TheEntrepreneurBreakthrough.com

6 Months to 6 Figures: www.6FiguresBook.com