When someone asks you how you’re doing, is your automatic response “I’m so busy”? Have you bought into the trending belief that hustle is worthy of a badge of honor while self-care is only permissible for people who don’t want to accomplish as much? Do you ignore your own warning signs that you’re running out of steam just so you can tick another five items from your to-do list? Is being busy all the time really bringing about the quality of life you most desire? Joseph Bennett would like to challenge these ideas and habits.

Joseph is the author of the forthcoming, Rest, The Art of Doing Less, a self-healing book that looks at our addiction to busyness. He lives in San Miguel de Allende, México with his husband and some-time business partner Eli Hans and their 3 nearly perfect rescue dogs. Joseph can most often be found in his studio making art with other people's trash, sitting by the backyard pond writing poetry, or on the hunt for a great cup of strong decaf at local cafes. He also co-hosts the inspired and inspiring podcast Are You Waiting for Permission? with the delightful and amazing Meridith Grundei.

For more information about Joseph, his art, books, coaching, retreats, and more, find him in any or all of these online places:

http://josephbennett.org

http://artbybennett.com

https://www.instagram.com/assemblageartbybennett/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bennettjoseph/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-3JM2aTETHzaYI0nLnCz4Q

Joseph's new book, twenty years later: assemblage art by joseph bennett, released November 26, 2021, is available here (affiliate link): https://amzn.to/2ZSalHo

To schedule your retreat with Joseph and Eli in beautiful San Miguel de Allende in Central Mexico, please visit:

http://sanmiguelretreats.com

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Is it challenging to stay focused, on task, and productive? From your desk chair do you sometimes wish you had someone to bounce an idea off of, or someone to review something you’ve just created and give you feedback? Or maybe it would be nice just to have another human to check in with throughout the day.

In recognizing her own desire for these kinds of connections, Heather Chavin made her first leap into entrepreneurship and created GoGoDone, a virtual connecting and co-working space for a growing variety of remote workers, creatives, and even some who work for corporations and organizations. Since 2019, GoGoDone has grown into a worldwide community who offer each other support, accountability, ideas, feedback, and connection around the clock.

In this episode, we’ll hear about how different kinds of people seek connection, how each of us has our own set of needs and preferences when it comes to balancing solitude and connection, and the important differences between solitude and isolation. Heather will introduce you to the ways GoGoDone fills in the gaps for people who are looking for more connection as they work and how her business fills those gaps.

For more information, visit https://gogodone.com

And for more insight and inspiration from Heather, follow her posts on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heatherchavin/

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Since 2008, Adil Amarsi has helped clients generate over $821 Million in sales directly from his copywriting. Add to that the amount his consulting clients, copywriting mentees, and students have generated and the total is $1.2 Billion. He’s written advertising copy for top marketing agencies in the UK and US, high-performing ads for Tony Robbins, and campaigns that have added millions to his clients’ bottom lines.

He has also developed a copywriting structure called the StorySelling Matrix that incorporates strong brand identity with a message balanced between emotion and logic, finishing with a Call-To-Action that builds anticipation. To learn more about the StorySelling Matrix, access your download here: https://greatestcopywriteralive.com

Now as a mentor to other copywriters and business owners, Adil teamed up with Shiv Shetti to form the CMMP: The Copywriting Mastery Mentoring Program. Their purpose with this program is to help mentees generate the largest possible ROI from their advertising.

Where to find Adil online:

https://greatestcopywriteralive.com

https://instagram.com/greatestcopywriteralive

https://instagram.com/adilamarsi

https://adilamarsi.com

https://www.youtube.com/greatestcopywriteralive

Since 2008, Adil Amarsi has helped clients generate over $821 Million in sales directly from his copywriting. Add to that the amount his consulting clients, copywriting mentees, and students have generated and the total is $1.2 Billion. He’s written advertising copy for top marketing agencies in the UK and US, high-performing ads for Tony Robbins, and campaigns that have added millions to his clients’ bottom lines.

He has also developed a copywriting structure called the StorySelling Matrix that incorporates strong brand identity with a message balanced between emotion and logic, finishing with a Call-To-Action that builds anticipation. To learn more about the StorySelling Matrix, access your download here: https://greatestcopywriteralive.com

Now as a mentor to other copywriters and business owners, Adil teamed up with Shiv Shetti to form the CMMP: The Copywriting Mastery Mentoring Program. Their purpose with this program is to help mentees generate the largest possible ROI from their advertising.

Where to find Adil online:

https://greatestcopywriteralive.com

https://instagram.com/greatestcopywriteralive

https://instagram.com/adilamarsi

https://adilamarsi.com

https://www.youtube.com/greatestcopywriteralive

Your Own Best Company is produced and hosted by Franklin Taggart. He provides uncommon coaching for uncommon people who are ready for new directions in their careers and businesses, one Best Next Step at a time. Visit https://franklintaggart.com when you’re ready for your free Best Next Step call.

Perfectionism is a part of the human experience that has many definitions and is perceived by some to be a positive character trait while others view it as an obstacle to success. It’s a common factor that isn’t related to one personality type over others, isn’t limited to high achievers or low, and can affect people at every level of self-image. If you’ve ever believed that you had to show up a certain way to be accepted or had to have all your circumstances exactly in order before you could start working on something or have hidden something you’ve done after comparing it to the work of others, you’ve experienced perfectionism.

Audrey Holst is a coach who guides perfectionists and stressed-out high achievers and performers that are ready to start enjoying and living the life they've worked so hard for. She teaches her clients simple and practical tools of self-discovery to move through old patterns of perfectionism into greater freedom and open-hearted living. In this episode of Your Own Best Company, she tells us how to work with the different types of perfectionism – and introduces a body awareness practice that she teaches her clients.

Audrey offers a free guide on the 5 Perfectionist Archetypes if you're interested in her approach and the way she works. It helps people identify their primary archetype and what step in the Fortitude & Flow® process to start with to create immediate change. You can grab that guide by heading to https://fortitudeandflow.com/perfectionist.

https://fortitudeandflow.com/

https://www.instagram.com/fortitudeandflow/,

https://www.linkedin.com/in/audrey-holst/

If you’re using LinkedIn for developing new business connections, you’ll want to meet Tracey Burnett. She helps, coaches, consultants, and other professionals identify their best-suited clients, create compelling messages, optimize their profiles, find their core audience, and develop strategies to build relationships in creative, authentic ways through consistent content creation and interaction. The results her clients experience due to her guidance in their LinkedIn activities keep them coming back.  

30 years ago, Tracey Burnett found herself without a job, a home, or a relationship, and decided to go in a direction with her life that she’d never intended to go – entrepreneurship. She saw an opportunity in helping designers find corporate opportunities and dove into the world of coaching, consulting, and self-employment. Over the next two years, she generated $470,000 in revenue and her journey had only started.  

For the past few years, Tracey has seen the growing trend of entrepreneurs using LinkedIn to build customer relationships and she recognized a new opportunity where her decades of business and marketing experience could make a huge difference for business owners who want to get the most out of their social media time. Shunning the popular trends of bots, automation, and cold pitching, Tracey’s approach is highly personal, service-oriented, and very effective.  

TIME-SENSITIVE!! Tracey will be offering a FREE LinkedIn Masterclass on Monday, October 25th, 2021. You won’t want to miss this! Information and registration are at this link: https://lu.ma/free-linkedin-masterclass.  

If you’re finding this after October 25th, Tracey invites you to connect with her on LinkedIn to request access to the replay - https://www.linkedin.com/in/traceyburnett/  

Download Tracey’s FREE eBook, Win at LinkedIn - 3 Steps to Success https://traceyburnett.com/win-at-linkedin  

If you’d like to schedule a free consultation with Tracey, visit https://traceyburnett.com/book  

Thanks for watching or listening to Your Own Best Company, the podcast for people who love to work alone. This podcast and community are hosted by Franklin Taggart. Please visit https://franklintaggart.com for more information. Subscribing, reviewing, and sharing are much appreciated!

Writing for advertising and marketing looks like it should be simple - use words that can be understood by a 10-year-old, keep your sentences short, and lots of exclamation points – what could be so hard about that? But the truth is that even accomplished writers struggle to find the right words, flow,  and structure to promote their books, their products, and their businesses effectively. It turns out that copywriting is a field with many specialties and specific disciplines that you didn’t learn in high school English class.  

In this episode, marketing consultant and copywriter Breanna Gunn helps us to understand more about copywriting, some of the specialties within the field, and why we will want to enlist the help of a professional when it’s time to promote what we offer. We’ll hear about the differences between copywriting and other forms of communication. We’ll learn where to find the right copywriters we need. And we’ll explore the communications that business owners still need to do for themselves.  

Breanna Gunn has been a copywriter and marketing consultant for 11 years. She serves entrepreneurs in a variety of business areas, helping them find the most effective and attractive ways to represent their businesses and themselves. She offers a free one-hour marketing assessment that you can schedule at https://briannagunn.com/book. Be sure to check out her courses and other offerings while you’re there.  

Your Own Best Company is a podcast and community created by Franklin Taggart to support and encourage people who prefer and enjoy working alone. To find out more, please visit https://franklintaggart.com.

In addition to being a home health care occupational therapist and mother of three, Regan Espinosa has written and self-published seven books ranging from a Walking Dead-themed devotional book and books for children who stutter. After her father died last year, she added inventor to her list of accomplishments.

An experience of having mementos left at his gravesite being blown by the wind into the cornfields next to the cemetery germinated into the idea for a container that can be placed at the gravesite within which small tributes, cards, letters, and pictures can be stored over time without being exposed to the elements or disturbed by cemetery maintenance. In this episode, Regan tells the story of The Visit Box from conception to having a prototype to attending a trade show to taking her first round of orders – all in less than a year.

Google is the first place most people look when they need to find something they’re looking for. Is your business showing up in the searches they are doing for your products, services, or events? In this episode, One Thing Marketing Director, Brittany Murphy shares her top five tips for increasing your visibility on Google. She tells us what kind of content to have on our website, how to make sure it includes keywords and phrases people are searching for, how to format content on your site, how to integrate Google My Business, and much more.

Over the last 7 years, Brittany has created over 300 digital marketing strategies for clients locally and nationally. As the Marketing Director, Brittany focuses on helping business owners get their phones to ring with new clients through optimizing their website and online presence. Through her strategies and team at One Thing Marketing, they have helped local businesses increase their revenue by an average of 30% every year.

Born and raised in Louisville, Brittany majored in Merchandising, Apparel, and Textiles at the University of Kentucky and studied Business as her minor. After a few years working in retail merchandising and corporate marketing, she’s been the Marketing Director at One Thing Marketing for seven years.

Brittany is offering to Your Own Best Company listeners a free 30-minute strategy session. Sign up for it here: https://www.onethingmarketing.net/strategy-session

Includes a complimentary website and SEO audit and strategy.

The online education industry has been in an explosive growth cycle for the past two decades and it doesn’t appear to be slowing. Online courses offer small business owners a way to scale and grow their revenue without having to add more time-based services or personnel.

Today’s guest, Jason Van Orden helps authors, academics, and speakers turn their expertise into new streams of scalable income such as online courses. He draws from more than seventeen years of experience, including creating multiple successful brands, launching over 60 online courses, teaching more than 10,000 entrepreneurs, earning seven figures in online course sales, and generating 8 million downloads of his podcasts. His mission is to help visionaries with impactful ideas to connect with the people they serve best and the problems they can most uniquely solve.

Since 2005, Jason has helped thought leaders to reach a larger audience with their ideas, create new income streams from their expertise, and build business models that align with their values and goals. As a consultant, trainer, and strategist, he draws from more than fifteen years of researching top Internet influencers and experimenting with his own personal experience. His experience includes creating multiple successful brands, launching over 60 online courses, teaching more than 10,000 entrepreneurs, generating seven figures in online course sales, and 8 million downloads of his podcast. His mission is to help visionaries with impactful ideas to connect with the people they serve best and the problems they can most uniquely solve.

His students have built multi-million-dollar businesses and have become top authors, bloggers, podcasters, and speakers in their field.

Jason has spoken around the world at some of the biggest conferences (such as CES, National Association of Broadcasters, New Media Expo, and many others) teaching how to use Internet media to launch and grow influential personal brands. In 2006, he wrote the bestselling book, Promoting Your Podcast, in which he was the first to “crack the code” for optimizing podcasts to get maximum exposure on iTunes. His work has been used to teach marketing at the university level and has been referenced on sites such as Forbes.com and Entrepreneur.com. He also practices what he preaches, having created world-class, influential brands of his own.

Download The Online Course Canvas and Messaging Framework

The Online Course Canvas gives you the four vital steps for designing a course that generates more income and impact and frees you from selling dollars-for-hours services.

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