Ishita has got a sweet soul,
Her virtues too great to extol.
Her schtick is that she
Can help you to be
Confident and in control.

Ishita Gupta is a confidence coach. She’ll share her own journey toward self-confidence and what she’s learned along the way.

Highlights:

• Ishita’s story of how she lost and regained her self-confidence
• Seth Godin’s non-MBA program
• “Seth’s belief in me amplified my own belief in myself.”
• being surrounded by people who don’t believe in you
• addiction to underconfidence
• “what you do can make it true” (an alternative to “fake it ’till you make it”)
• impostor syndrome
• How to tell the difference between underconfidence and actually being underqualified?
• For someone who’s feeling unconfident or not good enough, what’s the first step?

You can find Ishita at IshitaGupta.com. Her Confidence Course opens in July!

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There once was a hippie named Tad.
His sliminess made him feel sad.
So he put that behind
And then he designed
A marketing plan that feels rad.

Highlights:

• Tad’s journey from slime to rad
• Why does slimy marketing exist?
• Where do you draw the line between what feels good and what feels slimy? (with examples)
• The 4 steps Tad helps hippies with:
  1. Marketing feels gross. Antidote: It’s not about selling. It’s about finding the truth of “is this a fit?”
  2. Where do I fit in the marketplace?
  3. What do I want to be known for?
  4. Making it easier to get clients/customers (going from cold to warm to hot marketing)
• Changing the world. “What if everyone used this marketing tactic?”
• Tad closes with some sleight of hand and a Gaelic blessing

Links:

• The Seven Graces of Marketing by Lynn Serafinn

You can find Tad Hargrave at MarketingForHippies.com.

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She sketches with ink and pastel,
And each has a story to tell.
Of trust and of tending,
Of blessings unending.
I’m speaking of Kristin Noelle.

Highlights:

• Santa Pause
• changing your business to focus more on your art
• trust vs. fear
• vitamins and pies
• when fear happens, heal it or avoid it?
• seeing with the eyes of the heart
• our greatest place of learning is our greatest place of teaching

Links:

• Kingman Ink

You can find Kristin at KristinNoelle.com, and you can check out her latest offer, Healing Waves, which starts on Monday!

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Tara Swiger gives us her perspective on being a Christian who doesn’t fit the stereotypes of Christians, and how her beliefs affect her business without being overt or preachy.

Tara Swiger began spinning twine*
And now she helps you redefine
Your biz as exploring.
And if that’s too boring,
She also adores Deep Space Nine.

Highlights:

• When people think “Christian” they think of Ned Flanders from The Simpsons
• “For me, it’s about love.” -Tara Swiger
• Being a spiritual entrepreneur doesn’t necessarily mean bringing your spirituality into your business in an obvious way.
• authenticity does not mean turning on the identity firehose
• Are we innately deserving of love or do we need to be forgiven?
• Fire and brimstone in religion and in business
• features vs. benefits
• marketing with confidence
• what Christmas means to Tara and how she brings it into her business

Links:

• Tara has also been on our other podcast, Wild Crazy Meaningful Life, talking about coming out as yourself. Here’s the link!

*actually yarn. I plead poetic license.

You can find Tara at TaraSwiger.com.

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We talk about the Divine Feminine as illustrated by women’s stories from the Bible.

She’s studied the Catholic Madonna
As well as the Buddhist nirvana.
She now inventories
Divine women’s stories.
Please welcome my special guest Ronna.

Highlights:

• ancient wisdom vs. patriarchal values – don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater
• the patrisharky
• the story of Eve from two different perspectives
• “My desire is the aspect of myself that is closest to God.” -Ronna Detrick
• “If we could understand God, that would not be much of a God.” -Ronna Detrick
• Ronna speaks on God’s behalf

You can find Ronna at RonnaDetrick.com. Check out her site, especially her class Soulstice which starts in January!

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Danielle LaPorte’s confident smile
Will help you embrace your own style.
She’ll set you on fire
And map your desire.
It’s all about feeling worthwhile.

Danielle talks about her new book/audiobook/multimedia offering, The Desire Map. Instead of figuring out what you want to do, first figure out how you want to feel.

Danielle’s Core Desired Feelings:

• In communion
• Divine Feminine
• Creation
• Joy
• Abundance

Pace’s Core Desired Feelings:

• Wholehearted
• Radiant
• On my path
• Delight
• Love

Highlights:

• “Let it be easy.” -Danielle LaPorte
• Core Desired Feelings
• Enneagram
• “I want to rock the stage. And I want to do it in great heels. And I want to commune.” -Danielle LaPorte
• Declaring your core desired feelings is like a prayer.
• The 99 Divine Qualities
• Entrepreneurship

Links:

• SARK

You can find Danielle LaPorte, and all things Desire Map, at DanielleLaPorte.com. You can also get the Desire Map book at your local bookseller on January 1st.

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“The cards tell a story, but you still write the ending.” -Theresa Reed

Theresa Reed helps people grow.
She dishes tough love like a pro.
Her major vocation
Is deep divination.
Specifically, reading Tarot.

Highlights:

• charging money for something you’re not really doing
• “You’re paying for my time. The lessons are always free.” -Theresa Reed’s son’s drum teacher
• I Ching
• how to be a good Tarot client
• “I don’t need to do magic anymore; I am magic.” -Theresa Reed
• “I don’t see anything egotistical about being in control of your life.” -Theresa Reed

Links:

• Tarot by Arwen

You can find Theresa Reed at thetarotlady.com.

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Johnny B. Truant shares his story of how he now makes a full-time living writing and self-publishing fiction.

The story of Johnny B. Truant:
Of authorship he’s been pursuant.
From bagel to Beam,
He worked toward his dream,
And now at long last he is fluent.

Quotes:

• “They had the belief that I wanted to borrow.” -Johnny B. Truant
• “Sean and I wrote 1.5 million words this year.” -Johnny B. Truant

Links:

• The Universe Doesn’t Give a Flying Fuck About You
• Sean Platt
• The Self-Publishing Podcast
• Write. Publish. Repeat.

You can find Johnny at RealmAndSands.com, and you can check out his new book on self-publishing, Write Publish Repeat, here. It’s on sale for 50% off on December 5th and 6th!

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Dr. Rachna Jain of Profitable Popularity covers a heart-centered overview of getting more traffic – and what to do with that traffic.

Traffic comes to your domain.
That much is simple and plain.
But here’s what’s so funny:
That traffic’s not money.
That’s why you need Rachna Jain.

Highlights:

• translating mechanistic old-school marketing terms:
  • funnel → transformation pathway
  • traffic → potentially interested clients
  • conversion → showing up to the party and taking an action
• “You can’t accidentally do something black hat.”
• combining logic and spirit
• Jain’s Hierarchy of Business Needs (see graphic below)
• 1,000 true fans
• Living a montage from the inside

Links:

• Internet Marketing for the Rest of Us, Rachna’s book

You can find Rachna Jain at ProfitablePopularity.com. She’s got an email newsletter and she’d love to hear from you!

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You don’t have to choose between slimy effectiveness and meek integrity. You can choose to discover and use your superpower.

In his red shoes, he will take you
Where sonic amazement will wake you.
A shaman and geek,
Of whom do I speak?
The awesomesauce that is Fabeku.

Highlights:

• concussion grenade marketing
• Busting the myth that you have to choose between slimy effectiveness and meek integrity
• “Field of Dreams” marketing doesn’t work
• superpowers!
• What is a “rev”, and why is it so awesome?
• What makes change stick?
• You’re bigger than you think you are.
• “I felt like a broken person, and I was dragging that into my business. I was scared to death of being rejected.”
• Fabeku’s shamanic path
• What does Batman have to do with all this?

You can find Fabeku at fabeku.com.

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