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Michael DeLon serves business experts and thought leaders to create a book without writing a word. As a #1 Amazon Best-Selling Author and America’s Foremost Authority on Credibility Marketing, he teaches how to establish and market your credibility to gain more clients. Business owners seek out Michael to clarify their message, make them a bestselling author, and set up their profitable podcast. They use his Credibility Marketing strategies to gain clients, get referrals, and grow their revenue. Since 2013, he has worked with business owners across the United States and internationally to establish and market their credibility. Michael is the husband of one and father of four. He’s a committed follower of Jesus Christ who is deeply involved in his church. You can normally find Michael investing time with his family, reading a great book, or facilitating growth in the lives of those around him. Our Guest Micheal DeLon Website: PaperbackExpert.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PaperbackExpert

Today I get to speak with Keith Pelzer He is identified on Social media by name or by thekonvos everything productive centers around a conversation. Keith is a Grammy award-winning producer with years of creative experience in sound and music. Also a pastor, husband, father of two, and an avid cyclist. Let's listen and get fascinated by his story! Our Guest Keith Pelzer Website: https://www.thekonvos.live Hacks to Take Away Look at all your old gear before you throw it out and figure out how you can repurpose it before you sell. And now with reels. You bring entertainment that people love. So it's really an extension of who I already am. If you choose to use Hue lights, you have to change your cameras. If you're going to go to cheaper get the Hue lights, you have to change your cameras. Let’s get started with your Home Studio! Be ready for live streaming, zoom calls, and creating content. Let me help you build a space that enables you to gain confidence in front of the lens. Book a call h

Today I get to speak with my good friend Heather Parady. Heather used to be a therapist and then decided to take the leap into the online space to see what kinda damage she could do there. She started as a photographer and freelancer, ended up podcasting (over 1000 episodes total), and then started helping therapists, and coaches build online programs. This is gonna be a fun and exciting conversation with one and only Heather Parady! Our Guest Heather Parady Website: www.heatherparady.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/heatherparady Twitter: www.twitter.com/heatherparady.com Hacks to Take Away It's a little bit different when your office is at home. When you tie that back into the family, the number of hours that are put into free content takes away from family time and takes away from all this other stuff. It's insanity. Podcasts enable you to socialize network and build your network and your mind. For better conversations, and better relationships over time. The only way to clone y

Today I get to speak with Dan Shinder. Dan has built a global presence with over 1 million active followers reaching millions more people a week, and growing by 4,500 a week from over 130 countries, reaching millions more people a month using content marketing on social media and brand-building strategies he developed on social media while growing the Drum Talk TV brand. The brand reached 120+ Million people in all of 2021. All of this was done 100% organically, with no boosting posts, and no paid ads. The high-level engagement yield’s an average of 5 Million in reach, 2 Million post engagements, and 4 million video views, all in every 7-day period and a 100Million+ per year since 2013. Dan has never paid for advertising or boosting posts of the brand’s content. With Dan Shinder’s Social Media On Steroids courses and consulting, Dan shares exactly how he turned Drum Talk TV from an idea into a profitable business, and how you can utilize these strategies to grow your business too, no matter what stage you

Today, I get to speak with one and only Alvin Narsey. Alvin has had an exciting journey buying and selling multiple Pharmacy Businesses in Australia over the past 16 years. He is known for his ability to simplify the fundamentals of growing retail businesses. Alvin has a framework that boils down to implementing the basics, focusing on CASHFLOW and PROFIT, and from day one setting everything up so your retail business runs without YOU Trained as a Pharmacist in Melbourne, Australia, he bought his first business as a partnership a few years after he graduated from University. As a Pharmacist, you are trained as a clinician, not how to run a business. With the help of Coaches and Mentors and a feverish appetite for FREEDOM & ADVENTURE, Alvin quickly learned how to utilize systems and leverage to ensure these businesses were fulfilling his lifestyle goals. Now that Alvin has sold all his businesses, he is now embarking on his next adventure of traveling the world and helping other Retail Business Owners cr

Today we get to speak with Alex Moses. Alex is a serial entrepreneur and one of the most esteemed and sought-after human behaviorists in the world. At age 29 Alx sold his first business for 9 figures. Since then, he has helped launch numerous start-ups as well as consulted for many of the world’s most successful millionaires and billionaires. Including Steve Jobs. He has 34 years of experience scaling multiple companies to 8 figures and beyond. Today Alex focuses on revolutionizing postgraduate education. Alex lives in Arizona with his wife Roxie and his two Basset Hounds Melvin and Winthrop. (By the way, they have their own Instagram page with over 59,000 followers!) In his free time, he indulges himself with his favorite TV show “Lie To Me” and “Perception” This is gonna be an awesome conversation! Our Guest Alex Moses LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alex-moses- Website: alexmoses.aweb.page/p/ee13aa4f-31f0-464c-a120-974d05419042 (Portfolio) Twitter: thealexmoses Hacks to Take Away You just

Today we get to speak with Adrian Moreno. He began his career in the health & fitness space while also gaining unparalleled experience with hypnosis & NLP, establishing himself as a respected transformation specialist. As Co-creator of the Neuro-Remapping™ method, he specializes in rapid behavior change. If he isn’t busy setting a new standard for how quick transformation can happen, you can find him spending time with his reading, writing, or watching The Office. Let's listen to his story and learn more about Adrian Moreno! Our Guest Adrian Moreno Website: http://www.rewiremythoughts.com/apply Website: http://www.adrianspeaks.live Instagram: Adrianmoreno111 Hacks to Take Away If you want to change your behavior, and change your results, you got to change the beliefs that are creating them. At this point, if you paid attention to your psyche, you will become extremely aware that what you're seeing is only feedback, it's only an after-effect of your internal ideas. Become aware of un

Today, we get to speak with Sarah Kaplan. She is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER(TM) and Forbes-listed Top Advisor. She has spent 20 years advising individuals, families, and companies on the best strategies for how to retire successfully, and now, with her new podcast "How To Retire" she is bringing her simplified strategies to you. Let's dig into this episode and feel free to take life hacks that can surely change your perception! Our Guest Sarah Kaplan Website: www.kaplanfinancialgroup.com, IG : @how_to_retire on Instagram Hacks to Take Away The most important thing you can do is keep track of what you earn and what you spend, and keep track of what you own and what you owe. Keeping track of your income and expenses, and keeping an eye on your net worth are two things that you should be doing regularly. Setting up a system that you can maintain. It's important to make sure that you've got your time horizon in mind, you have an asset allocation that you can stick with. Let’s get star

Today, I get to speak with Vernon. He is one of the top Happiness Coaches in America, who focuses on exploring the endless possibilities as to why Entrepreneurs and Executives feel stuck and unhappy. The key is many still live in the past; Vernon unlocks their destiny. Known onstage as the Energizer Connection Speaker, Vernon uses his intuitive gift of empathy, charismatic personality, and knowledge from his studies in Psychology to set past emotions aside and leave audience members at the edge of their seats as they wait to implement his life-changing lessons. Our Guest Vernon Brown Website: https://www.whatsyourhappi.com/ Website: https://www.happimealdiet.com/learn-about-happi IG: https://www.instagram.com/whats_your_happi/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatsyourhappi LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/whatsyourhappi/ Hacks to Take Away When you're working on being successful, you can't expect everyone to love you, or everyone to appreciate you. And that's a hard pill to

Today, I get to speak with Noah Healy. He is a market designer and game theorist working on better economic systems. After training in nuclear engineering he worked for tech startups at the peak of the dot com boom. Becoming fascinated by the mathematics of information and computation led to patent work on a better commodity market design. Our Guest Noah Healy LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-healy/ Website: http://coordisc.com/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8aOEcDV7MA Hacks to Take Away Get curious about your routine. Step outside your comfort zone. Find something to read about something that you're passionate about. Be curious and find the thread in your day-to-day thing because you might find something where you can find a solution and make maybe even make it more efficient. Build a community to have those connections around what they love and what they do. Let’s get started with your Home Studio! Be ready for live streaming, zoom calls, and creating con

Today we get to speak with Michelle Nedelec, she has over 20 years of experience in Executive Coaching, working with clients ranging from 8 figures to solopreneurs. Michelle runs the creative side of her Infusionsoft Done-For-You Marketing Tech services company helping entrepreneurs set up and maintain their Infusionsoft (Keap Max Classic) through her company, Awareness Strategies at AwarenessStrategies.com Let's listen to this episode as we discover how Michelle went from her executive coaching to providing service in a niche market. Our Guest Michelle Nedelec Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michelle.nedelec1 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellenedelec/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/michellenedelec Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michellenedelec Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MichelleNedelec Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/michellenedelec/ Hacks to Take Away Save money by creating repeatable tasks Look for people that can pull things off your plate,

Today we get to speak with Phillip Mountrose. He is a pioneer and innovator in the realms of spiritual growth and healing, where he's been coaching holistic life coaching for over 25 years. In this exclusive episode, very different from others is that I go through one of Phillip's exercises as I was feeling a bit exhausted after the birth of my 4th child just a week before. Phillip Mountrose along with his wife Jane Mountrose are holistic coaches, energy healers, energy-healing pioneers, and authors of numerous books including their new book: The Loving Power of Your Soul: A Guidebook for Realizing Your True Potential. The mission of Awakenings Institute, their non-profit organization, is to facilitate “the unique gifts that each individual brings receive, honor, and respect, where all are nurtured in allowing their gifts to blossom.” Their extensive website is gettingthru.org Our Guest Phillip Mountrose Website: https://gettingthru.org/holistic/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/phillipmountrose/

Today we get to speak with the founders of KadilakHomes Susan and Paul. They run a design-build firm in the Greater Boston area. Together they have made it their mission to help their clients turn an ordinary house into a haven that they love coming home to! The Kadilaks have grown by connecting directly with their audience through their social media channels and are excited to announce that they just launched a brand-new app, “Renovation Rekindle”, featuring their new show with 10 half-hour episodes. In each episode, you can follow along with the Kadilaks and their clients on a complete home renovation journey from beginning to end. But before you watch those amazing episodes on their app, let's see how they got started and discover their origin story in this exclusive episode. Our Guest Susan and Paul Kadilak Website - https://kadilakhomes.com/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/KadilakHomes/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/KadilakHomes/ Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/kadilakhom

Today we get to speak with Jonathan Harris. He has experimented with and developed a method for creating marketable talent in each of his children. One of the keys for a teenage son or daughter was to develop something interesting that starts bringing value to the world. And by leveraging the family's identity so they can exercise their own skills and gifts. Jonathan goes into detail about how his household became a hothouse for growing unique talents in his children. The benefits are thus twofold as both the family and the child gain from the child's uniqueness. He explains further how that works in a method that he dubbs "Parent-Their-Passion". Let's learn more as we discover the stories Jonathan shares in this episode. Our Guest Jonathan Harris Website: https://parenttheirpassion.com/ Instagram: @parenttheirpassion Hacks to Take Away One thing you can do is get your kids to dedicate a blog, or even a video log or an Instagram account dedicated to one particular subject that your child is in

Today we get to speak with Dave Chesson. He is the creator of Kindlepreneur.com, a website devoted to teaching advanced book Marketing which even Amazon KDP acknowledges as one of the best by telling users to “Gain insight from Kindlepreneur on how you can optimize marketing for your books.” Having worked with such authors as Orson Scott Card, Ted Dekker, and more, his tactics help both Fiction and Nonfiction authors of all levels get their books discovered by the right readers. Our Guest Dave Chessen Website: www.kindlepreneur.com Hacks to Take Away Be incredibly intentional with your time. And I wasn't doing it in patches, it was almost a habit. And I think that that was one of the biggest reasons why I was able to succeed was because I did it that way. So be very intentional, schedule it in there, don't break the schedule, and create that habit. It takes some people longer to get lucky. But the people who stay with it. They're the ones that will succeed. It just might take longer. Don

Today I get to speak with Christine McAlister. She is passionate about helping impact-driven entrepreneurs attract their next clients by being value-driven podcast guests. She's generated well over 6-figures as a podcast guest and has been recognized as the best in the world at podcast guesting by 7-figure founders like John Lee Dumas, Dana Wilde, and Andrew Kroeze [CREW-ze]. Christine has been a media expert for 2 decades, she's helped broadcast the Olympic Games, produced an award-winning documentary for PBS, and has been featured in Inc., Business Insider, Bustle, The Huffington Post, and on over 100 podcasts, in addition to hosting her top-rated show No One’s Ever Asked Me That. So without further ado, let us listen to this conversation. Our Guest Christine McAlister Website : http://lifewithpassion.com/ Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/christine.a.mcalister/ IG : https://www.instagram.com/lifewpassion LI : https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-mcalister Podcast :https://www.listennote

Today we get to speak with Sean Malone. He is a serial entrepreneur and has owned five different businesses. His biggest business success was taking his electronics company from $250,000 to just over $8,000,000 in revenue. Since then he has helped guide 4 additional organizations into the 8-figures. All the battle-field tested methods that he uses are part of the core of FlowChat & the Sell By Chat™️ system. With his unique ‘get-it-done’ mentality and a massively supportive team, he stays relentlessly focused on solving the revenue problem for business owners so they can experience the growth and success they deserve. Always Revenue. Always Relevant. Our Guest Sean Malone Website: https://flowchat.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/FlowChat LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/company/flow-chat/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvILv5OAjHZN9ncUAZMHXjw Hacks to Take Away Sean shared about building the tool from a sales brain perspective, not a marketing brain perspective.

Today we get to speak with Andrea Pass, she creates and implements PR campaigns in a wide range of categories, you can check the list in the show notes. Andrea has expertise in national, regional, and local media relations. Her strength in relationships coupled with her knowledge of the ever-growing media base results in securing top-tier, targeted media placements to increase brand awareness and I cannot wait to learn more. She also serves on the board of directors of several organizations found in the show notes. Something that really separates her from the rest is when she created her webinar series "Resonate to Revenue. Let's jump into the episode and discover the origin and ongoing journey of Andrea Pass Our Guest Andrea Pass Website: www.AndreaPassPR.com Facebook: www.Facebook.com/AndreaPassPublicRelations LinkedIn : www.LinkedIn.com/in/Andrea-Pass/ Twitter : www.Twitter.com/NJ_Andrea IG: www.Instagram.com/andrea_pass_pr Hacks to Take Away Get your messaging down. Practice three key

Today we get to speak with DJ Strick. With over 20 years of experience in media production and community-based leadership, Stephen Strickland, also known as “Strick,” is a fresh voice in the streaming world. For 13 years he was the host of the widely popular 95.7 Gospel Jamz FM, a weekly program that aired on radio in Birmingham, Alabama. While there, he established a following that he now reaches virtually. Currently, he is the Assistant Pastor and Media Director for New Rising Star Church. He is also the host of Strick City LIVE, a one-hour weekly lifestyle show on Thursday nights. In addition, he is the producer of the syndicated jazz radio program, “Block Party Radio”, which airs in over 20 markets.  Let's jump into this conversation as we learn the origins of DJ Strick Our Guest  DJ Strick  Facebook: @THESTREAMSHOWLIVE  IG: @STREAMSHOWLIVE  Twitter: @STREAMSHOWLIVE  Website: https://thestreamshow.live/  Hacks to Take Away: You got to figure out how to gain an audience.  Having a purpose in w

Today we get to speak with Deb Rosman, she's a former Senior Trade Finance Officer with an international energy trading company with over 20 years’ experience She is now a #1 Best selling international author of It is Done! and The Grieving Heart, a collection of poetry and prose about loss, hope and living. Deb left the corporate space in exchange for writing and public speaking about the importance of embracing the grieving process in order to heal. Deb has been featured in FOX, NBC, CBS, and hundreds of other media including the Spotlight Female Entrepreneurs Magazine. Let's listen in to Deb's story and why she left her job to focus on her passions. Our Guest Deb Rosman Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deb.rosman.144 LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/deb-rosman-88538783 IG: www.instagram.com/debrosmanauthor Twitter : twitter.com/debrarosman Website: https://debrosman.com Hacks to Take Away Embrace physics, ergo, expressly that concept, that energy cannot be created or destroyed,