We are very proud to feature our Wonderful Web Radio Rising Star interview. In this segment, we speak with Marney Perna who is the owner and founder of Kinique Natural therapies a boutique kiniesology clinic based in lovely Mango Hill just north of Brisbane. You can check out her website at http://www.kinique.com.

Marney is a heart centred and intuitive practitioner and healer and loves to make you feel and function at your highest level. A people person Marney loves the interaction with others and is extremely passionate about her family and many pets. She lives on acreage with her husband of over 31 years and their three young adult children (on and off), her elderly parents and two dogs a kitten, a parrot and many wild native animals and bird life. Marney is shortly to publish her own book based on the stress management tools and techniques she teaches both her clients and funshop attendees.

Transcript of the Interview

Jane: Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s episode of Rising Stars Radio. I’m your host, Jane Hinchey and you can find me at JaneHinchey.com. Today I’m delighted to be speaking with Marney Perna. Welcome Marney.

Marney: Hi Jane, how are you?

Jane: I am very well, thank you. Thanks for joining us today. Now to get us started Marney, why don’t you share with us who you serve and how you serve them.

Marney: Okay, Jane. My business is a natural therapy clinic where I specialise is kiniesology and I assist mainly women but some men, but women predominately to change their lives in regards to their mindset, or their stress bucket or just they’re feeling stuck so they need to know how to move forward.

Jane: Cool and do you have an online presence, Marney? Do you have a website at all?

Marney: I do Jane, people can find me at www.kinique.com and I also have a facebook presence, you can find me at Kinique Kinesiology.  My business name Kinique came from’ kinesiology  uniquely for you’ so I put the two words together and formed Kinique.

Jane: Very clever. I like it! Now you’re a member of the Wonderful Web Women community, can you tell us what program or product that you’ve purchased that you’ve taken action on?

Marney: Okay, well I’m delighted to be part to be part of Janet’s community. I bought a Gold Membership through her where I’m a monthly membership owner and Janet helps me to be accountable; she issues challenges and you either say ‘yes’ or you say ‘no’, but if you say ‘yes’, she keeps you to it. So it helps me to take action. It’s very good.

Jane: And so what sort of action have you taken as a result of being a part of Janet’s community?

Marney: The very first thing it inspired me to do was actually do a similar thing to what we are doing today; it was my first foray into having an interview on the phone and Janet encouraged you to ring this number in America, one of the conference call numbers and record an article or program and it just gave me something to start to get my confidence up, so that was the first thing I ever did with Janet plus today I answered the call to put your hand up to be one of the Rising Stars Radio people, again you have to decide if you are going to say yes or no and when you say yes, she helps you along the way to achieve the best you can.

Jane: And so, what’s changed as a result of you having the confidence to put your hand up to record these calls and be involved and be interviewed?

Marney: The biggest change for me is confidence. I would never have thought to put my hand up to be on radio or to do a conference style call but I use Janet as one of my mentors because I watch her do her stuff, I see her weekly TV shows she does and everything and I know that sometimes it doesn’t work w...

We are very proud to feature our Wonderful Web Radio Rising Star interview. In this segment, Janet speaks to Bettina Mitchell. Bettina is one of two new hosts on the Rising Stars Radio Team so Janet took the opportunity to introduce the Wonderful Web Community to her. After 20 years in the corporate sector as a senior manager of projects and operations, Bettina needed a change.

She has coupled her two career passions, business and yoga, to develop Yoga Teacher Podcasts, an online radio show reaching out to Yoga teachers and studio owners to help them grow sustainable businesses, with proven techniques and practices. Bettina has three segments of audio interviews “Their Stories”, “Mentor Moments” and “What’s Hot”. Their Stories are interviews with Australia’s and New Zealands revered yoga teachers, to discover our yoga history through these stories, to find out who their teachers have been, what keeps their passion alight and how have they sustained their career in the yoga industry. In Mentor Moments, Bettina chats to professionals who help business operators in aspects of running successful businesses. So far she has covered marketing, branding and Facebook with many more to come. What’s Hot covers Yoga Products and Yoga events. You can find out more about Bettina and her wonderful work at http://www.yogateacherpodcasts.com.

Transcript Of The Interview

Janet: Hello and welcome. This is Janet Beckers here from Wonderful Web Women and welcome to this week’s Rising Star Radio podcast and I’m really excited today because I get to introduce you to another one of our wonderful new hosts of Wonderful Web Radio. So this is a person who is actually going to be interviewing you if you are a person in our Community who has taken action and started to get some results. So I’d love to introduce you here to Bettina Mitchell who has been part of our Community for a while now and I was just so excited to invite her to be one of our hosts because she’s just got a real passion for what she does. She’s a real implementer; she just stays focussed and makes sure that she takes action on what she’s doing and also has an incredible experience with interviewing and podcasting as well. So we’re really fortunate to have Bettina with us. Welcome Bettina it’s great to have you here.

Bettina: Well thanks Janet; it’s great to be part of this – really excited.

Janet: It is exciting isn’t it? Before we start talking about what you are going to be doing as part of the Rising Stars Radio, would you mind just introducing yourself to people? What do you do and who is it that you serve?

Bettina: I want to link back before to what you said about being an implementer and taking action; my husband calls me “B Girl, Action Girl”…

Janet: Oh does he? [laughs] I love it!

Bettina: I always like to link back to that, particularly when I think I’m running fast and not getting anywhere in a hurry but I do like to take action and what I do is I help people, particularly yoga teachers, yoga studio owners and anyone else from the wellness sector to implement processes and proven systems to help them build their yoga or their business so that they can increase their client base and just keep those clients there and staying healthy and well.

Janet: Fantastic…and I love that particular niche that you’re in because I know a lot of people who are in industries like yoga, have started that business because they are really, really passionate about health and about wellbeing and about really helping the people who they are teaching yoga or whatever it is that they’re doing that’s closely related to that, but very often they don’t necessarily go in there thinking that they are actually building a business and it can be really hard work for them to actually mak...

We are very proud to feature our Wonderful Web Radio Rising Star interview. In this segment, Janet speaks to Jane Hinchey. Jane is one of two new hosts on the Rising Stars Radio Team so Janet took the opportunity to introduce the Wonderful Web Community to her. Jane is a small business specialist who loves to help others get found online through their websites, social media, eNewsletters and video marketing. She has worked with many local businesses to create and launch their websites and integrate online marketing strategies to have them generating business online quickly and easily. Jane is based in Adelaide, South Australia and describes herself as “a bit of a tech head”. She is an avid animal lover and currently has an orange tabby cat called Maxx who has appointed himself as her apprentice wondercat! You can find out more about Jane at www.JaneHinchey.com

Transcript Of The Interview

Janet: Hello everybody and welcome, it’s Janet Beckers here with Rising Stars Radio and I’m doing an unusual episode here at Rising Stars Radio because I’m going to be introducing you to one of our new hosts of the program, Jane Hinchey, and so I’m very excited to be introducing her to you because it’s going to be Jane and our other host that you’re going to be hearing from every week through our interviews, so let me introduce you to Jane. Hi.

Jane: Hi, thanks for having me Janet.

Janet: It’s very exciting. This is a great opportunity for us to really be able to introduce you to people in our Community so they’ll really get to know the person behind the voice they’re going to be hearing every week so I’m really looking forward to getting to really share what you do in your business and also you’re such a fantastic action taker so I know you’ve got some great inspiration and tips to share with everybody.

Jane: Thankyou

Janet: So Jane, would you mind just sharing with our listeners a little bit about yourself like who do you serve? What’s your business and who do you serve through your business?

Jane: Okay, well as you know, my name is Jane Hinchey and I’ve branded my business as myself, so you can find me at http://janehinchey.com but I help other small business owners, so small entrepreneurs and solopreneurs get found online and build their online presence. So what I mean by that is developing their websites; and I use WordPress, helping them with their Social Media; so things like FaceBook, Twitter and LinkedIn because a lot of people really struggle with the Social Media side of things and I also assist getting them set up with their newsletters and video marketing and that type of stuff. And what I like to do is I can work with my clients one-on-one; like coaching or, if you are the do it yourself type, I have a range of online video tutorials that you can just buy yourself and go through it step-by-step and teach yourself how to do all of these things like: build your own website using WordPress and get started creating your own marketing videos; a lot like you do Janet in your WebTV. So, that’s basically what I do in a nutshell and who I serve.

Janet: That’s fantastic. So is that your background? Is your background really to do with websites and technology and stuff like that?

Jane: My background is a lot of project and administration type work and I got involved in creating video through a business I used to have which was a Pet Sitter and I found that creating videos of my clients’ pets while they were away and just popping them on YouTube so the clients could check in while they were on holidays; make sure their dog or cat was doing okay, turned out that that was a really good marketing strategy that I just stumbled across; I didn’t really ...

We are very proud to feature our Wonderful Web Radio Rising Star interview. In this segment, we speak with Pam Brossman who shares with Wonderful Web Women how one interview in particular with Ali Brown showed her the power of branding by creating an Ezine. Pam took that information to transform her own business and now publishes her own successful online magazine at SocialMediaWoman.com.

 

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Dana: Today I like to introduce you to Pam Brossman. Pam, thank you so much for joining us today.

Pam: Wow, Dana you’re more than welcome I’m very excited to be a part of this radio show that Janet is doing, it’s a fabulous idea, thank you for inviting me on the call.

Dana: Well it’s absolutely our pleasure.  So if you don’t mind for those who may not be familiar of you as yet, please share with our listeners a little about you and your business.

Pam: Ok, well I specialise in Video Marketing and social media marketing and I have two businesses I have socialmediawoman.com which helps women to market themselves effectively using the power of video marketing and social media.  And I also have another business that I run together with my Marketing husband Steve Brossman and that’s a video marketing campus and that teaches small businesses the same sort of thing but we do offline training seminars and we’re just about to launch a new online training seminar.  So it’s all really about showing people the power of video in marketing and building your brand and your business globally and that’s basically what we are focusing on in our business.

Dana: Fantastic, sounds like you got a very full plate, you’re very busy.

Pam: A very busy full plate Dana but I love it.

Dana: Well that’s the whole thing we’re following our passion and love that we are doing it, sounds like that’s what you do.

Now you have been a member of Wonderful Web Women for quite some time now, haven’t you?

Pam: Yes I have, I absolutely love Janet she’s a fellow Australian and she provides some amazing content and material and speakers from all around the world and I really love what she’s doing.

Dana: And since you’ve been a member for quite some time now, and you have had a chance to listen in on some other interviews. Was there a particular call that you listen to of Janet’s that made a big difference in your life and in your business?

Pam: To be fair Dana, I have to say there was many of the speakers over the last couple of years that have impacted me personally and the growth of my business, one of the main ones would have to be Ali Brown – I have been following her for a while and she’s an inspiration to women.  She showed me about the power of branding, she showed me the power of using Ezine that’s a list builder and I really recently loved her Ali Brown magazine and it gave me the inspiration to create my own social media women magazine – a virtual magazine so that I could reach everybody around the world and share what social media information I could from different men and women and I included that in my magazine.  So, Ali Brown had a huge impact and also Janet herself had a huge impact on the others and to many of Janet’s calls and in her own right, she’s teaching women really fantastic strategies and I always listen to what she’s doing and try to implement some of her strategies into my business.

Dana: Oh that is fantastic Pam, because it just so happens that this weeks segment was featured with Ali Brown, so that works out just perfectly.

Pam: Oh, well that’s fantastic, I highly recommend if you really want to learn from someone who’s gone from having nothing at all to building a multi million-dollar company.  She is someone to watch and she teaches you step by step ...

We are very proud to feature our Wonderful Web Radio Rising Star interview. In this segment, we speak with Sarah Rodgers who runs a self-development, counseling and leadership development business that you can discover at http://sarahrodgers.com.au.

Sarah used the learnings from Wonderful Web Women’s 4th Dimension Mastery Program to put together in just 3 short days, a social media strategy to get a head start in her business success.

Transcript of the Interview

Dana: Today it’s my personal pleasure to introduce all of our listeners to Sarah Rodgers.  Sarah welcome to our call.

Sarah: Dana, thank you so much.  It’s a real pleasure to be here.  So I’m looking forward to what we’re going to talk about and meeting some Wonderful Web Women as we go.

Dana: Absolutely.  Well, we’re just thrilled that you took time to join us today and we’re very, very excited to feature you as one of Rising Stars so if you would just take a couple minutes and share with our listeners a little bit more about you and your business.

Sarah: Sure.  Okay.  So, as Dana said, my name is Sarah.  I run my own coaching, counseling and leadership development business.  And I started that about year and a half ago after many years in corporate loss, and an increasing disillusionment in corporate loss and all if had to offer.  So I went and got myself retrained and I am now working with people on a on daily basis, helping them found out what makes them tick, helping them work-out what they want to do, and them helping get there.  So it’s really cool.  And also, every day, I’m happy doing what I love to work.  And to work with people in a personal way to help make their lives better, it’s a privilege I couldn’t even imagine.  So that’s kind of me and my business.

Dana: There’s nothing like giving out every day and feeling such passion and fulfillment about what it is that you’re doing.  So I know just how rewarding that is.

Sarah: Yeah, it is.  Nobody can tell you just how good it’s going to be when you actually do it, but you do it and you sort of living your dream, that’s exactly how I feel my life is.  It’s an amazing feeling and no amount of money from big corporates could possibly, possibly come close to the sort of fulfillment and reward you get from working with people.  When the people send their testimonial, or send an e-mail saying thank you so much, you helped me in this way or in this way.  It’s just the best reward you can really get.  So I’m just glad I worked it out before I was 80, right.

Dana: And congratulation on your success.  That’s very exciting.  Now, share with us a little bit about you first introduced to Janet Beckers in the Wonderful Web Community?

Sarah: Yeah.  That was really an interesting story.  So, a good friend of mine was going overseas for a month and she said to me, I got this amazing, amazing conference that I think we should go to, but I’m not going to be with you so you have to go own your own.  And I sort of looked at it and I thought, oh, should I go, should I go?  And I kept reading and I kept going back to the page, and basically the course was Janet’s 4th Dimension Mastery, which was held in Sydney in very early weekend August this year.  And so my first introduction to Janet, was at this three-day course that she ran.  And it was, without a doubt, one of the most amazing, eye-opening experiences I’ve ever had the pleasure to be a part of.  And yeah, I met Janet face-to-face in front of a crowd of probably 80 people, of which I was one.  And it was just an amazing three-day journey.  And so that’s how I met Janet.

Dana: Well and that was probably a room filled with a lot of energetic men and women, I’m assuming.

Sarah: Oh, it was.  It was great.  They had a guy called Chris doing the music and he was amazing.

We are very proud to feature our Wonderful Web Radio Rising Star interview.  In this segment, we speak with Karen Clarke. Karen talks to Wonderful Web Women about after attending Janet Beckers’ 4th Dimension Mastery Program she was able to use social media create a powerful business model.

Karen is a qualified Trainer of  NLP and Master NLP Coach , a Master of Hypnosis and Master of  Time Line Therapy® certified by the ABNLP and TLTA. She has been running a successful private practice from home and is fully committed to assisting her clients to experience dynamic and sustainable positive change. You can find her website at http://www.powerfulpositivepeople.com

Update: March 2012. Please note Karen’s new business name is Powerful Positive People and her web address is www.powerfulpositivepeople.com.

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Dana: Today, I’d like to introduce you to Karen Clarke.  Karen, welcome to the call.

Karen: Thank you, thanks for having me.

Dana: It is our pleasure.  We’re really excited to talk to you today and to really focus on you as one of our very own Rising Star.  So for those familiar yet with you and your business, would mind just taking a couple of minutes and sharing a little bit more about what it is you do?

Karen: Yes, I’d love to.  I supposed, technically, I’m a success coach, but that is such an enormously broad scope as a title.  I have a coaching business that I run at the moment and I’m setting up workshops in, basically self-esteem and getting people to move out of their stuck state or their feeling of limitation.  On new workshop that we’ll be doing that I’m in the creative process right now is, “Who’s The Boss Of You?” which is all about stepping into your own power and I’m very excited about that.

I grew up in the UK.  I lived in Africa for eight years.  I spent some time in France, where I met my beautiful husband.  Traveled around New Zealand, ended up in Australia and worked for Qantas for 10 years.  So, that’s my background and stopped flying in order to have children, which was very, very nice.  I’m very happy about my beautiful kids.  And yes, I am running a successful practice right now.

Dana: Oh, fantastic and congratulations for you and your business.  And I love that program that sounds like you’re going to be doing is, Who’s The Boss Of You.  What a perfect title!

Karen: Yes, it is.  I am really interested in people recognizing their own power, really.  It really became apparent to me through my coaching that more or less every single issue that arises comes back to a lack of self-confidence or lack of belief.  And I focus, in my blogs, I focused on bullying in particular that, that is very, very much a symptom of not believing in yourself.  You live to live, can’t be bullied unless you buy into the system at some level.  So I’m very excited about understanding this and moving people to the place where they really feel their own power and they really feel their own joy and feel their own excitements about life.  And yes, the purpose of the workshop is to energize those aspects of people that are just lying dormant and remind people who they really are so they can go and play.

Dana: Oh, and that’s what life is all about, isn’t it?

Karen: Isn’t it just?  Yes.

Dana: It is.  Yeah.  How were you first introduced to Janet Beckers in the Wonderful Web Community?

Karen: Okay, a very good friend of mine was doing the Passion to Profit Program and she spoke of Janet.  She so highly of her integrity and of her business ethic and that was interesting to me.  I’m very interested in people and what drive people,

We are very proud to feature our Wonderful Web Radio Rising Star interview.  In this segment, we speak with Louise Brogan who discusses our financial education and how our personalities affect how we deal with our money no matter how much we have; our attitudes and beliefs account for everything.

Louise has really found that learning social media etiquette from the Wonderful Web Women Community has been a big boon in growing her online presence. You can check out Louise and John Paul’s websites at  yourlifeyourmoney.com.au for educational resources and coaching at allmoneymatters.com.au.

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Dana: Louise, welcome to the call.

Louise: Thank you so much Dana, it’s wonderful to be here and to join you.

Dana: So if you don’t mind, please share with our listeners a little bit more about you and your business.

Louise: Thanks very much Dana. Yes, we do financial coaching and financial education. My background is actually in accounting and stock broking. And I was involved in those in the financial services industry for over 30 years. But I just didn’t get a buzz from just doing that, so about in 1994 I started up a business, a financial coaching business and what we do is we work with people in an integrated way, Dana. What we don’t know is that people need to understand their financial history, so we work one on one with people and we also have workshops and e-courses and those sorts of things as well for people who can work on their own and enjoy doing some research and just their own personal contemplation as well. And then we’re always here to support them and to help them.

So the business has been going now for about 15, 16 years and John Paul is very involved in looking at and developing our personal profiling tool, which is Your Money Personality. So that helps people get in touch with how money works in their lives and they’re relationship with money. Very, very important, that part of it. In fact, we find Dana, that most people, 85% of their issues around money are around their attitudes and beliefs. And we work mostly with that and we find that once that’s clear and resolved then actually doing the numbers is just really easy for them. So, anyway that’s where we’re at with all of those, with our work. We really enjoy it. We love it; it’s our passion and we’re just constantly finding out new things and bringing new things into the business and really enjoying that and developing it.

Dana: Oh, that is absolutely exciting and really fascinating. Because you mentioned something there that is, it’s not necessarily the personality, but it’s kind of, isn’t it like a mindset or something to that effect. It doesn’t really matter how much money you have but if you really don’t know how to manage it, and it kind of goes with—did you mention personality?

Louise: Yes, well we call it Your Money Personality profiling. But it’s certainly around, that part of it, Dana, is actually based on the Myers-Briggs personality type or the type indicator; a tool that’s used. And what we’ve done is we’ve woven that into a money context, a finance context. Because what we’ve found is that money, people can be a little bit different around their type. Some of your listeners may well be very familiar with the Myers-Briggs which is fantastic. It’s a wonderful tool. Sometimes we’ve found that people operate a little bit differently where money is concerned, so that’s why we know that a person’s financial history is also really, really important as well.

Dana: And it’s extremely, I know personally,

We are very proud to feature our Wonderful Web Radio Rising Star interview.  In this segment, we speak with Kirsty Greenshields. Kirsty’s life used to be a never ending story of trying to please everyone, trying to make them think she was superwoman when, in reality, she was just existing.

After being in the army for nine years, she ended up with a diagnosis of depression, which forced her to re-evaluate what she was doing with her life and, as a result she left the military to study natural health and nutrition.

Over the last nine years, she has  been on a path to discover the secrets to health and well being and believes that for us, as women, it all starts with learning how to ‘be’ rather than ‘do’. It is about balancing your own personal ‘yin and yang‘ – the male and female parts that exist together, and make up your individual human being.

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Dana: Kirsty welcome to the call.

Kirsty: Thanks for having me Dana. I’m excited to be here.

Dana: Well, it is our pleasure, thank you for taking time to join us today. If you don’t mind, please share with our listeners a little bit more about you and your business.

Kirsty: Yeah, okay. I work with professional women, both business owners and women in a corporate environment and I work to help them overcome their self-imposed barriers to success. So what I do with them is I help them to balance the personal and professional aspects of their lives, so they can rid their body of stress and anxiety and as a result they feel younger, healthier and more energized. And the work that we do together allows them to get the flow back into their professional life which eases the pressure in their personal life, as we all know.

But a bit about me, was I was an army officer for nine years, so I was working in a very male-dominated environment and in 2002 I was diagnosed with depression. I took that as an opportunity to re-evaluate where I was in my life and I didn’t like it, frankly, so I left the military. And I decided to study naturopathy. So I realized a little while ago that the women I was attracting as clients were those who enjoyed what their careers means to them, particularly financial security and independence, but they found themselves at a point where they were starting to ask, what about me? So the work that we do together is aimed at balancing the ying and yang in our own bodies so the male and female aspects of our own bodies. It’s fun and it allows them to really get back their flow.

Dana: Wow. You have left me with the wow! That is an exciting, exciting business and I will tell you personally, when you are trying to develop a business, whether it be online or offline businesses, it’s, I think hard for women, you know, we’re emotional creatures anyway, but we suppress  a lot. Men kind of go off and do their thing, but we tend to kind of hold everything on our shoulders and try to do it all and so many women fall into the same pattern that I just heard from you. And just the fact that you are now reaching out and addressing this and helping so many other women and men, I think that’s absolutely fantastic.

Kirsty: Yeah, because we get to the point where we realize that we’re just doing everything for everybody and we become so exhausted because we’re not giving anything back to ourselves, which actually doesn’t allow us to receive all the other great stuff that could come to us. So the work that we do allows women to get back in touch with that female aspect of their body and do more being, rather than doing.

Dana: That is so awesome. And I think we need to do that for ourselves, it’s so important because we won’t be able to enjoy all that we worked so hard for if we are out of balance.

Kirsty: Yeah,

We are very proud to feature our Wonderful Web Radio Rising Star interview.  In this segment, we speak with Toni-Louise Forsythe. Toni-Louise and her business partner Sue Murphy run a fantastic website called www.workingwomenonline.com (also known as Red Hot Events & Seminars). This is a fantastic resourceful website if you are looking for somewhere else to connect, encourage, empower and find knowledge for women on the internet who are looking to either work from home online or looking to change their job outside of the home.

Toni-Louise shares how she was inspired when Janet Beckers woke one morning to find that her ‘online’ business had disappeared overnight, yet found the courage to get up, start again and make something better from the ashes and foundations left behind. She has also learned the power behind mentoring programs and joint venture opportunities since becoming a member of Wonderful Web Women.

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Dana: Today it’s my pleasure to introduce all of you to Toni-Louise Forsythe. Toni-Louise, welcome to the call.

Toni-Louise: Hi Dana, thank you.

Dana: Well we are thrilled, thrilled, thrilled, thrilled to have you because I know personally what you and your partner, we’ve already been speaking to Sue Murphy a few episodes ago, so we know that you’ve got that wonderful partnership, but I would love it if you’d spend just a minute or two and tell our listeners a little bit more about you and your community of Working Women Online.

Toni-Louise: Excellent. I would love to. Well, I’m a single mom, actually, of three children and I’ve been in the personal development industry, working in that industry for about four to five years now. And in February this year I attended a website-building course and happened to meet my now business partner, Sue Murphy, who you’ve had on your call. And we formed our business, Working Women Online in April this year.

At the time we met we discovered that we both worked in the personal development industry and we both shared a common goal and a passion and a vision to not only have an online business of our own, but a real passion to connect, encourage, empower and provide knowledge for women on the internet who are looking to either work from home online or looking to change their job outside of the home.

And we also were very mindful of in our own lives, of having that work-life balance and we wanted to let women know they could have that, to empower them to know it’s possible to have all that and have it all successfully on all levels in your life. So, our business is really about interviewing the experts who help the listeners create a life of balance and leverage their time to help them launch their own online business or turn a career or hobby into a purposeful, passion-filled income stream for them and their family.

Dana: And what a difference that makes in our lives, doesn’t it?

Toni-Louise: Oh doesn’t it? So much. When you can really have that balance happening it’s just, you feel like you’re in so much more alignment.

Dana: Oh absolutely. And I love the fact that you mention work-life balance; and I’m thinking it’s hard. We juggle life and family and business and you know, our own personal time, because we’ve got to be able to give back to ourselves, and it’s hard to keep that balance.

Toni-Louise: Yeah, it really can be. And somewhere in there, if you’re not careful of keeping that balance, you tend to lose yourself a little bit along the way.

Dana: Yeah, and that’s the goal. We don’t want to get lost.

Toni-Louise:       No.

Dana: So now, Toni-Louise, I know that you said—now I think you said you m...

(http://wonderfulwebwomen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Joanna-Martin.png)We are very proud to feature our Wonderful Web Radio Rising Star interview.  In this segment, we speak with Joanna Martin who along with her husband Greg, runs www.shiftlifestyle.com (http://www.shiftlifestyle.com/), whereby they help small business owners create their own Elegant Lifestyle Model to help create balance in their lives and prevent burnout.

Joanna talks to Dana about when she first met Janet Beckers and became introduced to the Wonderful Web Community - and how Joanna and Janet mutually share their knowledge and resources to help each other out in business. Joanna is truly a shooting star and this is a wonderful enlightening interview not to be missed..

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Dana: Today it’s my pleasure to introduce all of you to Joanna Martin!  Joanna, welcome to the call.

Joanna: Thank you very much, Dana.  It’s a pleasure to be with you.

Dana: Well, we are really excited.  And for those of you listening, I want to share with you just, just a little bit, I want to let Joanna tell you about her in a minute.  But normally, in this segment we feature a Rising Star.  But Joanna is, I tell you, she’s not just a Rising Star, she’s a shooting star.  She has already risen and I know that she’s extremely passionate about helping others do the same.  So, you’re in for a treat.   So, Joanna for just a couple of moments, if you could just share with our listeners a little bit more about you and your business.

Joanna: Sure.  Absolutely!  What myself and my partner Greg do now, is we run got a business called Shift Lifestyle.  And I guess the mission of Shift Lifestyle is really to work with business owners to help them to create a life, not just a living.  Many of us start our businesses with high hopes and big dreams.  And our passion for what we do can burn us out very quickly, if we’re not keeping an eye on, on what we want from a lifestyle perspective.  And that’s something that came out I guess, of my background.   I started my working life as a medical doctor, way back when -- it wasn’t that long ago, I guess.  [chuckles] I was pretty good at it but I didn’t love it.  And when one of my patients whom I was very close to passed away, I realized, you know, we've only got one chance at this life, we've only got one opportunity there to make our stand, to make a difference.

So, it was that time that I decided to follow my heart and I followed it all the way to drama school, which is my other great passion in life.   And I loved that, but it was while at drama school that I went to my very first seminar.  I suppose it was a personal development seminar.   While I was sitting there in that room looking up at the fellow on stage, I thought to myself, “that, that’s what I want to do.”  It’s a perfect mix of really making a difference and helping people and also the performative aspect.

I then became a speaker.  In my first twelve months as professional speaker I might have made 1.25 million dollars in sales.  So pretty much nailed the model.   And for the last three years we’ve been running shift speaker training, which is helping speakers to make money, not just make a difference.  And we’ve recently launched Shift Lifestyle, which is to assist all small businesses owners in getting their life looking  just how they want it.  Because Greg and I really quite blessed to have a fabulous lifestyle to what we do.   But it was one that was very consciously designed; none of it happened just by accident.   So, you know we kind of created a process as we went through and that’s the process that I now share with people.

Dana: Oh my gosh.   So, all of you listening just remember what she just said here.   She made over 1.25 million sales in her first twelve months of public speaking.   This is why we really love to refer to her as that shooting star because, you know, she took this idea, and this passion,