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Jane: Hello everyone and welcome to this weeks episode of Rising Star Radio. I’m your host Jane Hinchey and you can find me at www.janehinchey.com. Today I’m delighted to be speaking with Vanessa Jeny. Welcome Vanessa.

Vanessa:  Hi Jane, thanks for inviting me on the show.

Jane:  Thanks for joining us.  Now to get us started, why don’t you share with us who it is you serve and how you serve them?

Vanessa:  Ok, just to give you a little bit of a background story. I’m an Australian who lives on the island of Menorca which is one of the Spanish Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean. I left my career in concert touring in London and moved to Menorca six years ago and my current business project is in the niche of destination marketing for the island’s tourism. I’m the founder of ‘MenorcaBlue.com – Peak Inside Paradise and Live the Local Lifestyle’ which is an online guide on how to enjoy the best of Menorca by discovering the quality of life that the island has to offer.  I am working on helping connect the top tourist services on the island with discerning travelers looking for authentic local experiences on holiday.  My idea for this came because a lot of us, when we go on holiday, we particularly like to go somewhere where we know somebody who actually lives there; who can show us around and the idea with my website  is that it developed from the perspective of somebody who has came to know and love the islands as an outsider but lives the life of a local and knows all of the secret spots to go.

My vision for the website is to present the island authentically, support local businesses and persuade visitors to try the local products and services during their stay.

If anybody would like to find out more, they can visit www.menorcablue.com  or stop by my Facebook page which is also called Menorcablue.

Jane:  Very good.  Did you have a background in tourism before this Vanessa?

Vanessa:  No, when I moved to Menorca, I had to leave my career behind.  I was working in special event management and concert touring but most of the island’s job opportunities revolve around providing goods and services for residents or for tourists.  I like the idea of working for myself; from home and via the internet, and also contributing to the local community if I could because it’s a lovely place.

Jane:  It is, it’s gorgeous.  Now of course, you are a member of the Wonderful Web Women Community, can you tell us what program or product that you have purchased, that you have taken action on?

Vanessa:  Yes, sure.  My journey into the internet business; I’ve been here six years but I started looking into it to starting my own business about just over two years ago and Janet was one of the first people I found online.  I was actually on her list for a couple of years before I became a Gold Member.  I received all her marketing and I attended the free seminars that she releases because they were always excellent content, so she was always on my radar, and then I joined as a Gold Member for about six months which means that I was receiving a monthly module targeting specific areas of internet business and marketing.  When the Shine Online program launched at the end of last year, I jumped at the chance to work with Janet more closely as I really like her style of teaching. I think she is very intuitive and she breaks down different sections of internet business and marketing into very manageable steps for people so they can understand and implement it, and I think she is also really committed to helping you find the right path to success for your business, so depending on what your business is, I think she is really great at putting herself in your shoes and helping you fulfill that vision.

Jane:  Absolutely.  I’ve been with Janet for a while as well and totally agree.  Now what did you learn from Shine Online or just being part of the Gold Membership that led you to taking action and what was that action that you took?

Vanessa:  Ok, personally, starting with the Gold Membership because that was my first experience as a customer with Janet and Wonderful Web Women, with the Gold membership first of al,l I really like the idea of addressing just one aspect of business or marketing per month.  Because I think, especially when you are starting out, but I’m sure, as an established business owner as well, there is just so much that you need to do.  You’ve got so many paths that you need to get through and I really like the idea of having ‘right, this month we’re going to address this topic and then show how to implement this strategy, or better, or make your business more effective’.  So with a Gold Membership it’s manageable and can be consumed and applied to your business very quickly and effectively and you can work it in with all the other tasks that you have to do. I like the format of the Gold Membership because they are short coffee break learning videos as Janet calls them and you can fit the learning in between other things if you just want to take a break from what you are doing; but also with the modules from the Gold Membership, she provides longer audios and I’m a big fan of that as well because I can listen to all the audios as well while I’m driving to work or walking the dog or doing other things.  I like short videos and long audios, that works really well for me and then to tie it all together, she provides a written step by step action plan; so once you’ve listened to it, you’ve absorbed it, you know exactly where to start implementing it into your business, so for me and I’m sure for many other people, these delivery methods are perfect for busy people and also the price of the Gold Membership is really great, that’s just really affordable.

With the Shine Online program, the difference is the modules are sequential, so you can work through from module one at your own pace and just go at your own speed and fit that in again, around your other paths.  I have learned quite a bit in my two years about internet business and all the different pieces of the puzzle.  So my knowledge was quite good but it wasn’t complete, so I skipped over some foundation steps at the beginning and then Shine Online; Janet starts at the very beginning with what your strengths are, your interests, your goals and your big motivation – what’s your Why? as to why you want to do this business and from those foundation steps, she moves you through each step in building the business online, so you don’t miss anything out, I really like that.  It makes for a really strong foundation, it’s also excellent value and it ensures that you also have all the pieces in place for a long term profitable business which is most important.

Jane:   Yes, absolutely, it’s really important and, as you said, we can tend to skip over the foundation stuff, because you think you have it in place but it’s not quite right, and you need that solid foundation to build on.

Vanessa:  Yeah, I think it’s just really good. I think sometimes we get so carried away with our ideas, especially if you’ve got the natural entrepreneur drive, you can always see the big picture, you can always see the end step, I’m great at running before I can walk and sometimes you just need to slow down, go back to the start and actually have that strong foundation in place.  Using the house analogy, if you don’t have the strong foundation in place, then your house will fall down at some stage, so really important to start from scratch.  I think you’re motivation is really important, you’ve got your big reason why you want to do it for yourself, why you want to do it for your family, why you want to do it for your community. I think if you’ve got that there all the time then it makes it really easy to perhaps tackle parts of building the business that don’t come easily to you; because that passion is always there and your purpose is always there

Jane:  Well said. So what changed for you as a result of you taking action through the Shine Online program?

Vanessa:  OK, well I have to be honest and say the biggest change for me, because the beauty of doing an internet business is that you can do it from anywhere in the world.  I think what has been the biggest change for me and the most surprising factor for me has been the support network I now have.  So, most people are familiar with the fact that when we start out, we all start out as one person with a big mission and we’re all trying to learn and do everything ourselves until you kind of feel that you have a good understanding and you’ve got a little bit more cash to be able to bring other people into your team.  So everyone starts from the same place and I had purchased other online business development products but the difference is that there was no-one to ask questions, there was no-one to give feedback or the response time was terrible.  Also you don’t really know if anyone is having the same experience as you, so you’re studying on your own, learning on your own from your own place but you have no interaction with anybody.  So what’s great with the Wonderful Web Women group; there is a Shine Online group which is especially for Shine Online participants and then there is the Wonderful Web group which is also everybody who is one of Janet’s clients and everybody has the same mentality; they are very helpful and  supportive, especially with promoting what you are doing and sharing resources as well, everybody has got the same mentality of asking questions, sharing  answers, giving feedback and tips.  What’s also important is that Janet and her team always respond within 24hours, so you’ve got a really quick answer to any of your questions or if you need help with anything.  So even though you’re working through the program at your own pace you’re definitely not alone and once I decided, personally, that I said ‘right I’ve got this opportunity; I’m going to be active in this group, everybody has responded with such generosity’ and for me it’s also been a joy to support others, see what everybody is doing, celebrate their successes, just really inspiring.  I think the important thing is to choose to be active and then watch how people reciprocate that with support and generosity.

Jane:  Absolutely and I have to agree with you there that Janet’s Facebook groups there are just so supportive and there’s no such thing as a silly question and if you don’t understand something, there’s lots of people there to help and guide you along the way.  It’s a wonderful community.

Vanessa:  Yes, I’ve just been really surprised. There has been days when I haven’t  even been active myself but if I see there is a new message has come up or people are leaving messages, I’ll always just jump on for a couple of minutes just to read the latest messages.  I remember there was one day I found out about two websites that I had no idea what they were and I was able to find answers to the sections that I had questions over, not that I’d asked the questions but they were areas of business that I hadn’t explored yet, and I’d found websites that could provide me with the answers straight away, just by checking in and seeing what other people were talking about so that was great.

Jane:  Yeah, absolutely.  Now are there any tips that you can share with our listeners today that they can take action on themselves?

Vanessa:  Yes, I think the most important thing is don’t waste time struggling along on you own, I did that and so many people do.

You’re not sure where to start, you have so much information coming at you and everything sounds really good and you think you need all of it, but my suggestion would be don’t struggle along on your own but do take the time to select a mentor and a program that fits your preferred style of learning and your budget.

So my tips would be to make sure that the program does have an active community where you can meet others virtually who are going through the same experience, that’s really important and you can pool knowledge and resources as well.  These other people who you will be interacting with also might have some connections that you can speed up your progress or introduce you to somebody that could have a huge affect on your business so the community is really important.

Since I joined the Wonderful Web Group community my networking connections and supporters has grown exponentially and I’m over here in Spain on my little island and I’ve met people all over the world who are helping me promote my message which is really great and I’m able to reciprocate and do the same and you just get this really incredible momentum behind it.  It’s just been wonderful to make new friends and business contacts as well.

The other thing I just wanted to mention is that, through the Wonderful Web Women group, I was able to join a Mastermind Group.  Now Mastermind Groups I heard a lot about and they sounded all very fabulous but it was also a bit mysterious as well and I thought ‘how on Earth am I going to join a Mastermind Group if I’m on this island in Spain so far away from everybody else’ and another one of the ladies just put a call out in the Wonderful Web room and said ‘I’d like to join a Mastermind Group’ and I think in the end she got over thirty responses from different people saying they’d like to help her form the group or find people for her or be a part of it and the whole thing came together in a couple of weeks, and now I’m in this wonderful Mastermind Group and we meet once every two weeks via Skype.  Everybody is involved in different businesses but going through the same journey and we are able to support each other and share resources, share our successes.  You’ve got an ear, a group of people who can listen to you when you need to chat through something.  I thought it was amazing, I thought that was going to be so hard but it all just came together so quickly it was lovely.

Jane:  That’s really great to hear Vanessa.  Now you’ve given us some inspiring information here today.  Is there anything else that you’d like to add?

Vanessa:  Yes, I think that the main thing I want to say to anyone who’s listening, if I am in a small island, a gorgeous island, but small and very disconnected in the  middle of the Mediterranean, and if I can make such rapid progress in four months after trying to put together the pieces of the internet business puzzle on my own for two years, then anybody can make that sort of difference in their own business project just by joining the right group, joining the right program and choosing to be active. Don’t choose to be an observer, because I think when you work at home on the internet you can get into the trap of you just looking at the screen all the time.  Make use of the opportunity to meet people even if you can’t physically meet people.  Get out there, make friendships; it is so easy now, it makes it so easy for us to be able to do that with the technology. Don’t wait for circumstances to change or for you to be ready, start now.  Just make the time to dedicate to your business a priority and get the help you need to support you.  Small daily steps is all you need and I think it is always going to be the same unless you choose to change something.  Six months from now you’re going to wish you started today anyway, so speed up your progress and get the help you need.

Jane:  Outstanding advice. So thank you so much Vanessa for your time today and for sharing your experiences with us.  It’s been an honour and a pleasure speaking with you.

Vanessa: Thanks Jane, thanks for giving me the opportunity to share.

Jane:  Not a problem.  So this has been Jane Hinchey. Thank you for listening and don’t forget to tune in next week for another Rising Star Radio interview.

You can find out more about Keran by going to:  http://womenlearntorun.com or www.HowToKeepMemoriesForever.com

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Jane: Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s episode of Rising Star Radio. I’m your host Jane Hinchey, and you can find me at www.janehinchey.com. Today in the hot seat we have with us Keran Barret. Hi Keran, how are you?

Keran:  Fine, very well thankyou Jane, how are you?

Jane:  I am well.  To get us started, why don’t you share with us who you serve and how you serve them?

Keran:  Ok, its women; women who are forty and over. My intention was to write originally a book on gardening, but I ended up by actually writing a book about learning to run at the age of forty and over for women.  So I’m hoping that this will help others to learn that you are never too old to take up challenges, but my main aim is actually to complete a membership site so that long term I can help women record their stories of their lives through photographs; and that’s what I’m really passionate about doing.

Jane:  That sounds incredible; I love the sound of that. So, do you have a website or somewhere people can find and connect with you at the moment?

Keran:  Yes I do,  www.womenlearntorun.com and also www.HowToKeepMemoriesForever.com

Jane:  Fantastic. Thank you for that.  Now of course 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?

Keran:  Definitely the list building toolkit as well as all the fabulous free information that Janet very readily shares with all of us through her video blogs.

Jane:  I love Janet’s TV show it’s awesome, especially all that behind the scenes stuff.  It’s great isn’t it?

Keran:  Absolutely wonderful.  It’s helped me enormously.

Jane:   So you got the list building course, what did you learn from that that led you to taking action?

Keran:  I’ve learnt to be organised and to batch tasks so that I’m more efficient, I can do some forward planning and it just helps with my mindset, so I found that with a different blog to what I’ve talked about already, aside from my main interest, I’ve been using a blog to actually practice and create better habits, so I’d say that batching was a really really useful tool I learnt and I also learnt to set my intentions for the day and that mindset I find is really useful to help me stay focused on what it is that I want to achieve on that particular day, and that can change from day to day and probably to focus on one task at a time and to master it.  So with list building, there are just so many different avenues and not all of them I think suit everyone at the same time.  So to take one task, focus on it and master it and then each step will build on the last one.

Jane:  Fantastic, they are really good points that you’ve made there.  So what’s changed as a result of you taking that action?

Keran:  Oh, heaps of things.  I knew the information intellectually but I was really anxious about actually doing it in case I failed, but then I found once I took action I felt very empowered by what I’d learnt.  I created my e-book on ‘women learn to run’ by writing it myself but I outsourced one chapter and that was a really great experience and the end result was better than I could have achieved on my own, and again creating bonus products I felt like that was another world, but once I actually started learning how to do it and actually did it, I realised it was something not just for other people but something I can do as well. And in all of this, I think there are technical aspects that we just need to learn how to do.  It can be frustrating but it’s also enormous fun and it also has meant that I am less reliant on other people if I do it myself or I can outsource it because I understand it better.  I happen to really love the “techy stuff” and it’s given me some new skills as well.

Jane:  Fantastic and I think it is very awe inspiring that you’ve written your very first e-book.  That is a magnificent achievement, so well done.

Keran:  Thank you.

Jane:  What tips can you share with our listeners today that they can take action on themselves?

Keran:  I would say take just one thing that you don’t know enough about.  There’s often lots of things that we think ‘where do you start?’ and you can feel a bit overwhelmed, but just by taking one thing and focusing on that topic and then implementing it, I’ve found that that’s been my best – I suppose, mantra to try and live by.  If you put it in your diary, think about it the day before you do it, visualise yourself mastering it and then actually doing it – and there are many lessons from that one step that have a spill over effect into other areas of your life.  I suddenly realised that I am capable and knowledgeable and it has taken the edge off the fear of the unknown and just put it now within my grasp and within my sphere of ability.

Jane:  Absolutely, I agree.  That’s great.  Now you’ve given us some inspiring information here today.  Is there anything else that you’d like to add?

Keran:  Probably just to say that nothing will change if you don’t and also I’m a bit of a perfectionist and one thing I’ve learnt is that there are some things that you must get right and there are other things that you can refine later.   So working out what are the basics that I need to make this work and then move on and don’t get caught up in too much detail that you don’t need to at that point.

Jane:  That is so true.  So thank you so much Keran for your time today and for sharing your experiences with us.

Keran:  You are very welcome Jane.

Jane:  So this has been Jane Hinchey. Thank you for listening and don’t forget to tune in next week for another Rising Star Radio interview.

You can find out more about Julie by going to http://julielewin.com/

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Jane: Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s episode of Rising Star Radio. I’m your host Jane Hinchey, and you can find me at www.janehinchey.com. Today I am delighted to be speaking with Julie Lewan. Welcome Julie.

 Julie:  Thanks Jane, it’s great to be here.

Jane:  Thank you so much for taking the time out to join us today and to get us started Julie, why don’t you tell us who you serve and how you serve them.

Julie:  Sure, I work as a medical Intuitive and my purpose is to help people locate the root cause of their discomfort and then work with them to dissolve it and how I do that is I scan their body and I see, feel and hear what is happening in their energy body and then I work with people by taking them inside their body and working at a cellular level to dissolve pain; work with illness.  There’s a whole tool box of how I do this but I do have a loose structure that I follow and once we’ve done that we get to the root cause of what’s going on and that is emotion.  So when you can work at that really deep level, extraordinary things will fall away and rise up, as in positive things happening.

I’ve been doing that for twenty seven years now and every year I enhance and develop the way that I work with people as I grow personally.  I get greater self understanding and then I can work with other people in opening them up to greater self understanding.  So, that’s basically how I work.

Jane:  That’s fantastic, sounds really really interesting.  Do you have an online presence Julie? Do you have a website where people can find you?

Julie:  Yes I do, I have a number of websites but probably the best one would be http://julielewin.com/ and if you  Google Julie Lewin, I’m all over the first five to ten pages of Google, so you’ll see my different websites pop up. But Julie Lewan is probably the best place to start.

Jane:  I love that if I Google your name you are going to be all over it. Now of course, you are a member of the Wonderful Web Women Community, can you tell us what program or product you have purchased that you have taken action on?

Julie:  Yes I started off with the Wonderful Web Women program, the mentoring program and I was so delighted with it and when Janet released the Shine Online program, I didn’t hesitate; I think I joined up immediately and I have to say that taking the Quadrant Quiz and finding out that I was a superstar in the Quadrant Quiz was really exciting for me and I didn’t hesitate to be mentored by Janet at a deeper level – I’ve found everything that I’ve looked at within that program to be exceptional and probably one of the key things that I hadn’t been doing over the time that I’ve been building my business is to celebrate my achievements.

What I would do is think about all the things that I haven’t done on my journey to create the business that I wanted and one of the things that Janet introduced us to was the Celebration Box.  Well, I have to say that I immediately I created my Celebration Box and I celebrate every single thing that I do.  If I do something for the first time, wherever I am, I buy a coffee cup and it is a representation of that wonderful moment.  Last year I was invited to speak at a closed workshop with some health practitioners in Byron Bay and it was my very first one and I had a fifty percent conversion and so we went straight down to one of the coffee shops and bought some handmade coffee mugs that everytime I drink out of it I think of that moment and so my coffee cup cupboard is growing but with really personal, special reminders of things that I’ve achieved; so I love that.

I’ve got some pretty cool things on there, like being told to go and buy a new outfit and going for a little weekend away.  So, there is a variety of non-monetary value but great value for me all the way through to a trip to Melbourne, so I’m flying somewhere.  I regularly dip into there and it’s very exciting and very rewarding and acknowledging.

What else – I love the Shine Online program.  There’s a closed Facebook Group which I love to participate in and support other women and share what I’m learning because that inspires others to feel that they can achieve something as well so I’m really big on giving back to the communities that I’m involved in.

The thing that I’ve found I suppose is, over twenty seven years of developing my unique program, I know so much that it was so daunting to unpack that to create my signature system and the way that Janet has created that signature system model has been of enormous benefit and over the last four months, I have unpacked a lot of my knowledge and I’m following Janet’s model of presenting that information to my clients and it has been really well received; so that has been a fantastic benefit and bonus that I wasn’t expecting from that program.  It has helped me invaluably prepare a ninety minute presentation about intuition.

I knew that I was intuitive and I worked with someone else to help me a little but what Janet has done as well is really the icing on the top of the cake; to pull all my knowledge into something that is structured and I can deliver that information in a way that people can get it rather than it being a nebulas or abstract concept and the other thing that I have been really work hard on over the last six months, was my Celestial Conscious Retreat and I have to honestly say, that without being part of Janet’s program I would not have been able to pull that together and have it be an exceptional success.  I think that one of the key points from that is Janet has a module in there called how to identify your avatar and I did that. It was one of the first modules that I did back in December and knowing who my avatar was I was able to attract my perfect clients, so I had five perfect clients on my retreat.  Because I work metaphysically, the metaphysical impact of knowing who my avatar was, was that that vibration went out into the world and it attracted those people in amazing ways to respond at a heart level, so they vibrated at my heart space which is what is what is in my avatar description, so I’m still working through the Shine Online program so I’m sure I’ve still got lots to learn, but so far it’s been exceptional.

Jane:  So you’ve touched on all the changes that have resulted through you taking some action, is there anything else you want to add around that?  What has changed as a result of you taking the action from doing the Shine Online and the certain modules.  You’ve already touched on the avatar and how it helped you talk to your target market and really refine it.

 Julie: What it’s done for me is it has got me to taken action full stop.  My business exploded from 4th January this year and Janet sent out an email, on New Year’s Eve and she got us to do a celebration chart with coloured pencils or pens and to just reflect on the last twelve months of what were the highlights for me, what had I achieved and it wasn’t until that moment that I did that, and I did it on a big sheet of cardboard, that I realised how much I had achieved in the last twelve months and that actually impacted me emotionally as well and I was incredibly delighted to get an email the next day, on New Year’s Day, which was the beginning of the New Year, to create an intention chart and I did that 100% fully and what I wrote on my intention chart. I just reviewed that before Easter; I achieved over fifty percent on what I wrote on my intention chart for 2012.

Jane:  That’s fantastic

Julie:  I focused in on my intention. The other thing I’ve done is, I have a monitor, I have my computer and then another monitor so I’m looking straight ahead and not with my neck bent and I’ve stuck my intention chart right next to my monitor and so everytime I look at my monitor I actually subliminally have my intentions right in my face.  I covered all aspects of my life, my personal life, my business, my spiritual, my development and I wrote three or four things on each element of my life and they are right there all in my face.  Until I did that exercise, I didn’t realise the power of subliminal or unconscious patterning and how that can affect you.  That’s probably been one of the highlights for me was doing that intention chart.  It was a business breaker for me and I’m not uncomfortable in sharing with you, in three days – I think we had New Year’s Day, a public holiday and I think we went back to work on the Tuesday – I had booked $15,000 worth of work.

Jane:  Awesome

Julie:  In three or four days and I believe that that was from – because I got really focused on my business and I was really clear about how I was going to achieve that business and do you know, everyday was a celebration day it has been such an exciting ride this year, and for a little while there I took my attention of my business and fell out of the flow and my business almost ground to a halt and I didn’t get upset about it because I understood that all I needed to do was put my energy back into it and once I got that I then, not the same volume amount, but similarly my business has exploded again. So that would be one of my key tips I’d say to anyone listening to this call, is that you need to have your heart in your business.

Jane:  Yep.  Do you have any other tips you want to share with us today and that we could take action on?

Julie:  Absolutely.  Do something on your business everyday. In the past what I was doing was doing big chunks of time irregularly and then there’d be a gap of two or three weeks and then I’d do another big chunk, and what I’m talking about is working on my business not in my business and through working with Janet, I had the realisation that if I do something every single day on my business, then I can build it daily so that the energy is staying in my business and I can quickly make changes if what I’m doing isn’t exactly where I want my business to be going.

Sometimes it’s a bit of trial and error and by doing something incrementally everyday I found that it has had a profound impact on the quality of my business and my response to my business.  I’m just filled with joy and awe and wonder about what my business is doing now, whereas before when I was coming in and out I’d get excited and then I was more riding the pendulum of life rather than feeling more stable and that equanimity that you’re in the flow so that would probably be a really hot tip for you, is that if you can do a little bit everyday on your business you will stay in the flow and when you’re in the flow synchronicity and serendipity happens and so you’re action for experiencing that is to do something everyday, even if it’s ten minutes, twenty minutes or an hour, It’s that’s consistency that makes a difference and what it will also do for you is it will give that feeling of persistence and it’s persistence and consistency that will grow your business without a shadow of a doubt.

The other thing that I really love about Janet’s community is that you are with like minded people, so being part of a like minded community has been a tremendous support to me.  If you can find yourself in a community where you are supported by other people taking a journey, not that they’re doing your business, but they’re working on their business and passionate about what they’re doing and are willing to share, if you are willing to share what your learnings are then they don’t need to make the mistakes that you make.

Speaking about mistakes, there are no mistakes.  Mistakes and perceived failures are part of being successful and it gives you that contrast that what is you want to do and what you it is you are not willing to accept in your business.

I used to be really discouraged and upset about what I perceived to be my failures and now I just look on them as “oh, that’s something I won’t do” or gee whiz I’m glad I made that mistake now because, if I’d made it in six months time it would have had a way more devastating effect on my business than by doing it right now.

I’ve got one last tip for you; up until April last year I was getting enquiries from my websites, and that presence I have on the internet is really good for my business and I was emailing responding to their enquiry and saying this is how much I charge and this is what I do, but it’s very two dimensional, they can’t get a feel for who you are, just through an email, and I was converting my enquiries at about ten percent, literally from the day  I changed my strategy, I re-wrote my website and changed my strategy from telling them how much I charge over the internet, to ringing them, describing to them how I work with them, how I provide my whole package and answering any questions that they have, and I can do that in ten to twenty minutes.

I’m consistently converting at 90% across the board and I’ve just put my prices up in the last few days and I’ve done four enquiries and have converted at 100%, just because I ring them; they can feel who I am through my voice, through the way I communicate and I take the time to answer their questions.

Any of you who that are doing a service based business and you have a high priced item, it’s invaluable, it’s given me the lifestyle I like to live and I know that I’m working with people who really value what I have to offer them.  That’s my best advice to you, to talk to prospective clients in a genuine authentic way.

Jane:  Fantastic, that’s really great responses and some information and tips you’ve given us here today, Julie.

Julie:  I actually have one more and I forgot to mention it.

Jane:  Ok, hit me with it.

Julie:  You must have a mentor.  I’ve got several mentors – invaluable.  I wouldn’t have got to where I am today without mentors and be willing to pay for those mentors. They’ve done the hard yards and they’ve got incredible advice and experience and it would take you years to do by trial and error.  Be willing to pay for that experience.

Jane:  Yeah.  Ok, thanks so much Julie for your time today and for sharing your experiences with us.

Julie:  My pleasure.

Jane:  So this has been Jane Hinchey.  Thank you for listening and don’t forget to tune in next week for another Rising Star Radio interview.

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 well and that is totally okay because she turns, what she calls ‘lemons into margaritas’ and she knows that it’s just for this moment and not to worry about it but to move on anyhow so, for me it’s confidence, it’s saying, “I gave it a go, it didn’t quite work out, it’s probably okay, what can I do to change it to make it better next time?”.

Jane: That’s exactly right and I guess it’s not looking at it as a mistake as such but more as a learning experience.

Marney: Definitely, it’s part of your growth in your business. I entered small business as a 46 year old, middle aged lady on a new journey of life and was totally technophobic. My children used to say to me, “Don’t say yes to anything mum, if they ask you a question, don’t answer it”. So I’ve gone from that to actually engaging in social media and doing my own surveys and actually putting my hand up to be a guest speaker on a radio show; the Angel Heart Radio Show, once a month to spread the word about kinesiology and the benefits that it gives people. Four years ago, I wouldn’t have been game to do it.

Jane: That’s awesome. That’s all stemmed from you getting the confidence as you work through being part of Janet’s community and the Wonderful Web Women community has taken you to those places.

Marney: Definitely, because I wouldn’t have had a go otherwise, I wouldn’t have seen that you could do it. I was new to the internet, I knew I wanted to grow my business on the internet and I didn’t have a clue how to do it. Janet was just one of those people that was attracted; it was easier and you could ask questions. She didn’t really think that your questions were stupid, so I felt it a very comforting and very warm environment to learn how to grow an online presence.

Jane: Fantastic. Now, are there any tips you can share with our listeners today that they can take action on themselves?

Marney: Yes, I think the first tip is if you want to have a go people, be game to have a go because really what big deal is it if it doesn’t work? It doesn’t matter; it’s all a step in your next journey. Part of my business is called My Heart Speak, and My Heart Speak is where if you can imagine it being the A symbol; you’ve got your life experiences or your life journeys and your knowledge come together and then form that line in the middle and that becomes your heart speak which is wisdom of your heart and other matters and if you’re learning, it’s how you move to the next step. And it’s from that section of your life that you can face challenges that you meet down the track. It’s in every way of thinking of it.

Jane: Fantastic. That sounds great. You’ve given some great responses here today Marney, is there anything else you would like to add?

Marney: One of the other main things that Janet has encouraged people or has encouraged me – I feel like she talks to me personally when she puts her things out onto the internet and to have a go even with regards to writing, so I’ve been a member of the Gold Membership Book that Janet does every year. Last year it was a hardcover one and I was so excited, I was even game to put a YouTube video about the book arriving in the house and everything and a double benefit for me was that my brother was the designer of the book cover which was like another family connection. Well, I’m now writing a book and I’ve done 32,000 words on stress and stress management. I wouldn’t have tried that years ago.

Jane: And you think it was through being involved in Janet’s book that prompted you to have a go yourself?

Marney: Well, I put on all my business cards when I was first starting off – I put the words like Author, Workshop Facilitator but I wasn’t one, but now I’m an author; well, I’ve been an author in Janet’s membership books, I’ve been an author in Janet’s hardcover book and now I’m an author in a book of my own right. So to me it was like the baby steps; so step one is this, step two is this, step three culminates in something that you can do yourself. My next thing is to have a membership site equal to Janet’s.

Jane: Fantastic. It sounds like you’ve got some big things coming your way Marney, well done.

Marney: Thank you.

Jane: Thank you so much Marney for your time today and for sharing with us all of your experiences.

Marney: Thank you for the opportunity and I love to help people and to me, this was a huge help for me and I would like to play it forward and be a huge help for other people as well.

Jane: That’s a beautiful sentiment, thank you. This has been Jane Hinchey. Thank you for listening and don’t forget to tune in next week for another Rising Star Radio interview.

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 make sure they’ve got enough people in their businesses for them to actually be a profitable  business.

Bettina: That’s right, yes. That’s what I found too. I spent a good old 20 long years in operating business but I’ve also had a real passion for yoga and I’ve been a yoga practitioner for 10 years and a teacher for 7. A lot of my friends are in the wellness sector and I can see they’re tremendously passionate about helping other people and tremendously passionate about health and wellbeing and they started to operate their businesses without any business skills. Every business needs some standard things that they need to put in place and marketing being a very important one and some consistency and sometimes some processes and a bit of a map on how to get to where they want to go so they’re not just dithering about and so that’s what I really wanted to do. I wanted to use my skills that I’ve accumulated over all these years being in the corporate sector to show passionate wellness practitioners/specialists how to build their businesses.

I really believe in natural therapies and I really believe that this industry needs to be sustained and it needs to be sustained through proven systems; so the good business practices. So that’s what I help people to do and I do that through workshops and my information on my website and I’ve got this really neat program to help people to really understand where they want their businesses to be and how they might get themselves there and that’s really fun and quite creative and really enjoyable.

Janet: That’s great. Now, you have a podcast that you’ve been running for a while and that’s actually how you came to my attention when I was looking for people who I thought would be great joint venture partners to be working with Rising Stars Radio. Can you tell people a little bit about your experience with podcasting?

Bettina: Well, I got inspired about podcasting through you.

Janet: Oh did you?

Bettina: Yeah, absolutely. I’ve been a fan and kind of..stalking’s not a very pleasant kind of word but..[laughs]..I’ve been looking at your material and what you’ve been saying for a really long time and that’s where I got a lot of my inspiration from. I wanted to tell the stories of the teachers here in Australia and New Zealand so we could map out the history. I was really intrigued about how they sustained their businesses and their careers in yoga so I thought I’m going to do what Janet Beckers does. I’m going to interview all these people and find out how they’ve done it and who their teachers were and I just had this idea and got it started and all of a sudden I got really worried and thought what if these people don’t want to talk to me? [laughs] and that’s not really the problem because people don’t necessarily, particularly in the yoga space, have very many vehicles to get their voice out there. And it’s a really interesting space because there are different managers and different styles of yoga, but across the board there are real similarities, particularly in running their businesses. I love it…it’s heaps of fun.

Janet: Yeah. It is isn’t it? And you know, the nice part is, if you’re doing it for your business, even if people aren’t paying to listen to that podcast, if it then attracts them into your business and they become a customer, in reality, what’s happening is people end up paying you in order to eavesdrop in you having a great conversation with somebody.

Bettina: Yeah. I’m such a fan of podcasts. Creating them is really exciting and I feel really privileged to be able to do that, so I’m really looking forward to working on Rising Stars, that’s for sure but I love listening to them to. I’m subscribed to a lot of podcasts. It’s a great way to fill in time walking or time even in the shower.

Janet: Oh impressive! [laughs] How do you do that?

Bettina: I’m all about distance learning. I subscribe through iTunes and I download it to my iPhone and we’ve got a podcast holder in our bathroom and I plonk it in there and I turn it up and I can listen while I’m showering.

Janet: Oh well, there you go. I just had to ask you about that. I was trying to work out how you were doing that without everything going..

Bettina: Thanks Janet, for that mental picture. [laughs] Think of me more walking along with the dog, listening to my podcast… that’s a better mental picture… [laughs]

Janet: There you go folks. That’s given you great inspiration of where you can be listening to the Rising Stars Radio! I was going to ask you this question at the end but, because we’re talking about podcasting, I guess it would be nice just to share what you’re hoping to get out of actually being a host of Rising Stars Radio?

Bettina: Well, I think one of the most intriguing things about being part of the Shine Online program has been connecting with people that I might not have been able to connect with before. So I’m loving doing my yoga teacher podcasts and learning from the yoga teachers but there’s all these other incredible women building their businesses online in so many ways and I really just want to see more people, more women in particular, expanding more in their businesses and I’m sure it would just be great to help them to promote themselves and get their message out there to help other people. It’s that connectivity aspect of it that I think in getting that voice out and committing and contributing to that other platform to get the message out. I think I’m going to meet some new friends on there somehow!

Janet: Yeah, I think you will because the nice part about this is everybody who is actually a guest on this program has invested in their business through any of our programs or products or even our books so they’re showing that they’re actually committed to growing their business, but more importantly, they’ve taken some action. No matter how small; it might only be what they consider to be small, but it’s moved them forward and other people take massive action. So I think they’re really fascinating to be the interviewer on these sorts of programs because you’re actually always interviewing people who’ve got that great attitude. Some of them will have got great results already, some of them are just starting out but they’ve got the success attitude and so that’s what makes a really interesting interview I think.

Bettina: Absolutely. There’s some fascinating people out there.

Janet: So, while we talk about action takers and success attitudes, you’re doing the Shine Online Coaching Program – so what action have you taken? What things have you learned that you’ve been able to implement into your business?

Bettina: Well it’s a nicely structured program so it enabled me to go step-by-step. While I’ve been working in business and operating businesses, I thought I knew a lot about how to identify what my market is and put my programs together but this has really helped to guide me and what I’ve learned from that is that it’s a different way of looking at the market. You’ve taught me how to talk to my market in a way that they will identify the connect because of the way you’ve taught us how to speak to them and write the words down that will resonate with them more clearly and talking to them from their perspective rather than my perspective. So that’s been really great and I’ve gone back to a lot of my materials and re-written things to really engage their minds.

Also the signature system was something very new to me on how do I build an information product and a series of programs. I didn’t know how to do any of that so without that program, I would have really struggled. I was really struggling; that’s why I invested back in myself because I thought I’ve really got to invest in myself to really follow these systems so that I can come out the other end being able to have a business and not just walk around in circles going ‘I’m confused, I don’t know what to do’. So yes, I learned a lot from identifying my avatar and I’ve learned a lot about developing my signature system and packaging it up and pricing it up; just taking that step-by-step approach.

But you know one of the real things that I got from the program is the mindset and the mastermind group. That’s been just absolutely gold. Just having the materials on how to set up a mastermind was really good but actually putting it into place and to action and just getting the girls together, it’s just fantastic. They’re so helpful, they’re so motivating. They teach you so much stuff; things that you can blunder along with forever trying to work it out for yourself and you can just post up a question to the Facebook group or the mastermind group and just get your answer so quickly. Definitely all of those things are fantastic.

Janet: Oh that’s wonderful. It’s great to hear that feedback and I think two things to really acknowledge there is, because you already have a good background in how to identify the vision in your business and all of that methodical system that you already have in a business, it can be very easy to close your eyes to a new way of looking at it and that can be a big problem when people are coming into be learning a new way of something that they are already applying some of it already in their business so I think that that’s a really important thing for people to take away from this that, simply by having a different way of looking at something that you’ve already been doing and think that you’ve done it completely, can totally change the way around.

So having that really, really open mind and also just that other thing about community; it’s one thing that you can say to people that you’ll be joining a community of people that support you but until you actually experience it, and how supportive and how far that moves you forward, it’s just something that I consider to be one of the most important things in building your business and it’s just wonderful to watch you and the group that you’ve brought together with the mastermind and you’re actually doing it. And it’s going to be people coming out of your group that are going to be getting the results.

Bettina: And it’s a really different way of connecting I think. There’s no sort of competition of sharing ideas. Very quickly we got to be really supportive of one another and so much kindness is coming through and I don’t think I’ve ever experienced anything like that in a work environment before. Quite often, like you were saying, you are invited to join a community but you don’t know how powerful that’s going to be until you jump in and get involved in it. It really is vital.

Janet: Every community has a different culture and we seem to have a community that’s formed that has that kindness and collaboration; real supportive. It is a culture within a community, we’re very fortunate. Now we’re just getting to the end of our time..a couple of things that I wanted to pick up from what you’ve experienced and what you’ve been saying and been doing.. for people who are listening, any tips that you can give them that you consider to be the really good take homes that they should be thinking about and implementing in their business?

Bettina: Stepping away from it a bit, you taught me about certain different methodologies and how to plan so get up from your computer sometimes and go for a walk or get out some paper and plan. Plan, plan, plan – it’s really important. Get some thoughts and ideas out there and then work out on how you are going to get to realising what you’ve put in your plan. Taking action is so important. If you write things down and you don’t do anything about them, then nothing will ever happen and that just feeds self destruction I think.

Janet: Yeah.

Bettina: You have to take action. You’ve got to revise. Join a community that will cheer you on and give you some thoughts and ideas because the reality is that sometimes you get into these communities and they’re thriving but there’s also down days that they will share with you that will make you realise that it’s not always easy but there’s always someone out there that’s going to give you a pat on the back or a kick up the butt or something to keep going so just take action, revise, plan and don’t do it on your own; collaborate – it’s really important I think.

Janet: Yeah, that’s a really nice thing to end on. Is there anything else that you’d like to say before we go? I think that’s a nice collaboration point you’ve made there too.

Bettina: I think investing in yourself is really important.

Janet: That’s actually a great point. By investing in yourself, you are showing ‘I am confident that I’m going to succeed’. Therefore, it’s an investment, not an expense to actually time or the cost, whatever it is that you are actually investing whether it’s time or money. That’s a lovely way to finish. Well, thank you so much Bettina. I am really, really looking forward to hearing all the wonderful interviews that you are going to be doing and just really shining the light on so many wonderful people that are in our Wonderful Web Community.

If you’re listening to this and you’re thinking ‘you know, I could do that’, Bettina will be really kind and guide you through the interviews. We do them all pre-recorded so you get a chance to run through beforehand the questions and what you are going to say and this could be a wonderful opportunity for you to go on and inspire other people too by the actions that you are taking so please contact us and we’ll book you in so that you can be the other person who’s getting interviewed by Bettina. So bye everybody and thank you so much for your time Bettina.

Bettina: Thanks Janet. Thanks very much for all your guidance.

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 think about it but I loved creating those videos and so I got started in the whole video stuff and I am a bit of a tech head and I am a bit of a nerd and I love all that techie stuff and I also found with my video clients that I was getting so many requests for help with their websites and their Social Media and that’s when I decided to rebrand as my own name because I used to be known as Ace Video Marketing, so rebranded as my own name just to incorporate more into that because it’s hard to encompass all the things that I do into the one name that would cover everything so thought ‘I’m going to brand myself, as myself’.

Janet: I know, that’s a tough decision isn’t it? It’s one that a lot of us toss up between so that’s great. I’ve been watching all of your reincarnations over the last couple of years and really finding your place. Because you’ve been a member of our Community for a while now, what programs have you done through the Wonderful Web Community and through Niche Partners?

Jane: Sure, I actually purchased, and I can’t remember when it was; it was quite a while ago now, but I bought the Passion To Profits Course through your Wonderful Web Seminars range and I also had some individual coaching that I did with yourself, Janet.

Janet: Yeah, I remember that, it was fun. Especially through the Passion To Profits, because the whole focus of that is all about how to interview experts and how to grow your business and position it through interviewing – so what action did you take through doing that course; especially things that you can share with other people that they could be actioning too?

Jane: When I first did that course, my business that I had in mind then was all around the pet care industry because I was a Pet Sitter and so I developed a website and I was interviewing guest experts on all sorts of pet health issues. Then that led into a membership site that I’ve just developed know around interviewing people around business strategies and things like that as well, so the action that I took there was, and the reason I bought that course, was to teach me about Joint Ventures for one and how to do these expert interviews.

Janet: And it’s interesting that you started doing it originally in the area that you were doing Pet Sitting and I can remember us talking about World domination in the Pet Sitting industry [laughs] but the interesting thing is that, since you’ve being doing that, you’ve started developing passions for other things outside of what you were directly doing and you followed it, which has been fantastic.

Jane: That’s right because I think sometimes we start off with an idea and it morphs into something else and it’s about knowing what to let go of and what to follow and I thought the Pet Industry was where I wanted to be because I’m such an avid animal lover and I do still love animals and pets but it wasn’t the actual business for me and it was learning to recognise that and just to follow where this was all taking me but that was a great starting point and I learned so much from it that it was invaluable to me.

Janet: That’s a really good point that a lot of times we will keep on holding on won’t we to some things? Because you’ve put so much time and effort into it and I think it takes an amazing amount of wisdom to really be able to say ‘well, you know I’ve learned a helluva lot through that and I’m going to apply it now to where my passions have changed to’.

Jane: That’s right.

Janet: So that’s kind of leading now to what we are going to be doing together. It’s interesting that you were drawn to do that course because it was around Joint Venture interviews and I noticed your ability and your passion and also professionalism, I really noticed that. You can really notice that in people. When you are mentoring people, you can really recognise the way that people approach the way that they’re learning and really shows the different levels of professionalism – that’s one thing I’ve noticed with you as well. So now, it is going to be, with a Joint Venture, is going to be a host here on Rising Stars Radio.

Jane: I know! Isn’t that awesome? It’s fantastic what it’s led to. I’m so excited.

Janet: Yeah, so am I.

Jane: Before I did your course and, as I said this was a couple of years ago now, there would have been no way in the world that I would have been brave enough to actually interview anyone. I’m quite a shy person and one of the things that I realised after I taking your course, was that I was hiding behind my business and what I needed to be was in front of the business and letting people get to know me and a great way of doing that is through interviews and, listening back to my early day interviews, I cringe a little bit but I’ve learned so much. That it’s come to this now, a couple of years later; that this opportunity’s just opened up and it all just comes together nicely. It was meant to be.

Janet: Absolutely, and isn’t that interesting that you’ve identified yourself as quite a shy person? I’ve actually found that some of the best interviewers are people who would identify themselves as being shy or introverted because, as an extrovert, which is what I am, I have to constantly remind myself to shut up [laughs] because you get involved in the conversation and you want to talk, talk, talk, talk, talk and so it takes a lot of restraint as an extrovert to be a good interviewer whereas, for an introvert or somebody who’s a bit shyer; they can be fantastic interviewers and I love how you’ve gone from saying you were behind the scenes and you realised you had to move forward and be the face and so much so that now your business is branded Jane Hinchey.

Jane: And if you had said that to me a couple of years ago I would have gone ‘oh, you’re pulling my leg, I don’t believe a word your saying’ and now I look at how far I’ve come and it’s amazing.

Janet: And it’s because you’ve taken action as well and that’s a big part about what Rising Stars Interviews is all about; is it’s action takers. No matter how small people might feel that the action that they’ve taken, if they’ve been taking action on what they’ve done, that is a huge inspiration for other people around them as well.

Jane: It is, and all of that is, is I did one course and I just implemented what I learned like you say, just take action and do it. There’s no point in taking a course or learning something and then not doing anything with it.

Janet: Absolutely, and that’s what so many people do. So, for you, now you’re going to be the host of Rising Stars Radio, what is it that you’re really hoping yourself to be able to get from actually being a host of a radio show?

Jane: Well, part of my passion around my business itself is to help others so, if I can actually help my interviewees in the Wonderful Web Radio share their expertise with others and give useful tips and then help other people take action because maybe you’re stuck on something or you just don’t know where to go, listening to our interviews can just give you that impetus you need to say ‘hey, if they can do it, I can do it’ because we’re not anything overly special; it’s just that we’re just taking action on something that we’ve learned or heard or seen.

Janet: Oh that’s brilliant. Well, I’m really looking forward to listening to all the fantastic interviews that you are going to be doing through Rising Stars Radio and for people who are listening to this, if you’ve been in any of our programs, even if it’s one of the books that you’ve purchased from us, or if you’ve been in one of our higher end coaching programs or anything in between and you’ve taken action on anything and sometimes that action could just be that.

I remember for one woman that I interviewed ages ago, the big thing for her was actually putting her photograph on the front page of her website and, as soon as she did that, all of a sudden she started attracting new customers and simple, little things like that, that may seem as though they are small can be really, really impactful for a lot of people right through to the other people who have taken massive action like Jane has.

So we are really looking forward to being able to hear your stories as well and you just have to go to http://WonderfulWebWomen.com and if you have a look up there underneath where it says ‘Community Hub’, when you hover over there, there will be an area that drops down that tells you about how you can be a guest on Rising Stars Radio and we would love you to be able to join us and be lucky enough to have Jane who is going to be interviewing you so thank you so much Jane. Is there anything else that you would like to say before we go?

Jane: Just, thank you Janet for the opportunity. I’m so excited to be on board and part of the team and just to let the listeners know that I love my new life as an entrepreneur and that sometimes things haven’t always gone right or the way I’ve hoped or expected and you’ll know from my story there that the rebranding I’ve gone through and moving on from being a Pet Sitter through to this technical side of things that I’m doing now, don’t be afraid of change and, if things aren’t working, don’t stick with it. The quicker you change it, the quicker it will start to work for you so that was just one of my tips I wanted to share with everyone today while I had this opportunity. So thank you again Janet.

Janet: That’s great advice. Brilliant advice and thank you so much for your time Jane, bye.

Jane: Thank you, bye.

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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 how to do it.  She really is an amazing, amazing woman.

Dana: Oh fantastic Pam thank you for sharing.  Now is there, you mentioned that you learnt quite a bit from her.  Was there anything that just really stand out that if you had one take away what would it be with Ali Brown?

Pam: With Ali Brown it would have to be the power branding, I mean I watched her do her rebrand, I think it was about a year and half ago and I watched her very carefully from her going from the Ezine Queen to the Ali Brown her own brand and the difference that it made to her professionalism, the whole rebranding of her logo and her site and how it took her business right to the next level.  So I followed in her footsteps and been taking some of her strategies and implementing it into socialmediawomen.com and it has had a huge impact on the growth of my business.  So I believe that branding and branding is not only about the look so much, its all about how you want people to feel when they hear your name.  You know, it’s like building a rapport when I hear Ali Brown or when I hear the name Pam Brossman it’s about she’s someone trying to make a difference in the lives of women and help them market themselves and get their message and voice out there.  So it’s about what people feel when they hear your name, and I learnt that a lot from her.

Dana: Oh Pam that is fantastic, that is just awesome.   So how have you been able to apply that especially if that was your take away with branding, how have you been able to apply that to your life and business?

Pam: Well, what I did I started out probably small like she did and I started out as the motivating market queen while I was finding my footing and finding my niche.  And then when I found out that I actually wanted to be focusing on video marketing then I created PamBrossman.com and then I saw a hole in the market where there was so much, so many people sharing really great social media marketing information, but it was all over the place and it was really hard to find.  So I saw how she sort of captured all her information in the Ali Brown brand, and I thought Social Media Woman.  There’s so many women out there really sharing like Carrie Wilkinson and Mari Smith and Ali Brown all using the power of social media and I wanted a place to share it.  So I structured the way she set up her website and her magazine and I incorporated some of those strategies with the Carrie Wilkinson video marketing strategies and I started building my own brand.  So I really watched how she started working and doing webinars and teleseminars with people and I thought, you know that’s a great way to reach it.  So I have been taking lots of little pieces of everything that she does and implementing and testing each one into socialmediawoman.com brand.

Dana: Oh Pam, that is really, really encouraging and inspiring for those I know listening here on the call today and I can tell just hearing it in your voice it has been quite a journey for you so far.

Pam: Oh the journey you know what it’s not always easy and I’m not sugar coat everything I take a lot of things personally and I always strive for the best so that I can be.  I’m just about to be a part of a book that’s coming out called Mentor Millionaire and I’m really excited about it, because I feel there’s a lot of women out there who have that millionaire attitude and my article in that book is about having that millionaire attitude.  If you obviously believe you can get there, you can get there and sure there’s a couple of hiccups along the way but when you’ve got that millionaire attitude you just pick yourself up and you learn from your mistake and keep going.  Now I found a lot of people on Janet’s call have that millionaire attitude, Ali’s got it, Carrie’s got it, you know, Janet herself who’s got it.  You know, we all heard what happened to her at Christmas time when she lost her whole website, but you know what she had that millionaire attitude and she just brushed herself off, she figured out how she was going to get out of it and now she’s bigger than ever.  So I just really think that women out there all have that millionaire attitude they just have to believe that they can do it and then I like to show them how to go step by step to get themselves out there and get heard and it’s really, really easy to do.

Dana: Well, we all know what Janet says when life gives you lemons you don’t stop at making lemonade, you go to making margaritas.

Pam: And we love those margaritas, don’t we Dana?

Dana: Oh, we sure do, we love the margarita, yep we sure do. Well I know that there’s probably a couple of other tips that maybe you could share with us the listeners here that has really been a direct result of being a member of Wonderful Web Women, would you mind sharing just a couple of tips?

Pam: Well, one of the key tips that I find that Janet uses a lot is interviewing.  She’s grown her business immensely by sharing the expertise of amazing woman around the world with other women.  So that they can learn and take the tips of information that’s relevant for there business and help them grow.  So I find that interviewing is a very, very strong tip that I would recommend people to do within their business, I deliver a lot with video marketing I actually do video interviews with people and it has helped me to introduce my brand to the interviewers list and my list to their brand as well.  So it’s a win: win opportunity.  So I believe whether it be a teleseminars, whether it be a webinars with another person or whether, you know, it’s a video interview.  Interviewing is a very strong thing that I highly recommend.  And the other thing I would think of recommending you have to start using video in your business.  Since I started using video and I know a few people are scared of being in front of the camera, but there’s so many other ways, you can use video, whether it’s PowerPoint, whether its campaign tutorials, you don’t always have to be in front of the camera.  But the power that video has given to marketing our business in such a short period of time is huge.  It is getting bigger and bigger everyday.  So if I can give a recommendation, I would say, start learning how to use video in your business to market yourself, get your message out there to your marketplace, and getting people to know, like and trust you.  It would probably be one of the key and most cost effective marketing tools that you could use in your business.  And that would be the 2 major tips I would pass on today.

Dana: Fantastic Pam and I can just really hear the passion in your voice, this is obviously that is so true to what you’re doing and message you’re bringing across and I know personally and professionally that you bring such light and inspiration and encouragement and you really help empower woman to kind of step out of there comfort zone and do things they never done before.  So if anyone listening here is interested in signing up more about you and your business, where would they go?

Pam: Well, the best place to find me is socialmediawoman.com we have our weekly newsletter it’s a video newsletter which shows you the different ways that you can start introducing video marketing into your business, it’s free and we have lots of great tips and tools.  So I highly recommend you sign up to that or sign up for the bi-monthly social media women magazine, because there’s lots of great content from really amazing men and woman using social media in their business social media is a fabulous way to grow your business and network and even create a global brand.  It’s amazing how do we meet Dana, we met on social media.  So I think if they want to sign up to social media woman magazine, they will learn a lot about how they can introduce video marketing and social media and grow their business very quickly.

Dana: Absolutely and I as well would like to tell everybody that you definitely want to get that magazine, the first issue jam packed full of incredible information and gifts to we all love gifts.

Pam: Ah, there’s lots of gifts in there and lots of treats there and also when you sign up to the video and news weekly I have a resource sheet with the latest tools that I’m using in my video marketing that would help the readers and listeners as well.

Dana: Oh Pam, I know you’re such a very busy woman and I just want to say thank you so much for joining us today and sharing some incredible insights and your experiences with Janet and being part of Wonderful Web Woman.

Pam: I really want to thank you, Dana, I want to thank you and most of all I want to thank Janet she is an amazing lady, she has such a big heart, she’s a beautiful person and she is really making an impact on so many women’s lives around the world and I know that she has an impact on yours and she has had an impact on mine.  And I find it a great honour to be part of this show.

Dana: Well, she is, I would say if anything on this Rising Stars this is really such a wonderful tribute to Janet and all that she delivers to all of us trying to build up our businesses and really pursue the life and lifestyle our of dreams.  

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.

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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 4^th 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.  He just seemed to pick the right music or song for every particular occasion.  Lenore Miller was there, I’m sure you know Lenore, she is a good friend and a colleague of Janet and she was there because she was the MC, and there was Janet.  There were a couple of really great men there, too.  It wasn’t just women, there were fantastic men there too.  Jenna’s husband Doug, Chris, the music guy.  There was a lovely guy doing the video and I’m sorry to say, I’ve forgotten his name, but he was amazing and he did some amazing stuff over the weekend.  And yeah, there were a couple of men actually participating, who I had the pleasure of meeting during the weekend.  But yeah, it was really amazing.  It really was the most amazing three days and opened my eyes to a whole lot of opportunities, why they’re doing things and ways of thinking about running a business that I hadn’t even considered.  So it was an amazing, amazing event.  And a great investment, not what I thought of it as an investment financially, but it was a great investment in my business and in me.

Dana: Oh, that’s awesome, thank you for sharing that.  So what would you say, I know it was a three-day event and there was probably so much content and information, but what would you say if you have to pick one thing.  What was your biggest take away from those three days?

Sarah: Yeah and that’s really a good question and you know, I did start thinking of that a few minutes ago because I know you’re going to ask me for just one thing.  But there were many, many things, but I to me the biggest thing was previous to attending Janet’s 4^th Dimension Mastery, I had been, I guess I had had my head in the sand a bit about social media and networking and all things sort of social media online.  I was a big sort of naïve about what it could with for my business and was a bit reluctant to go down that path.  Well but at the end of day two, I had actually signed up and made a Facebook account.  By the end of day three, I had engaged my web design and to actually make some changes to my website.  And I got a Twitter accounts, a Facebook, and all on my webpage.  I started an online newsletter and I’m probably about to do a video.  And I can’t  tell you how important those three days were for my business and for my view on how to run a business more successfully.

Dana: Well and I would say, you immediately went and took action because as we’re actually doing this radio show interview, this is now in mid-September and that was only a month ago.

Sarah: Yeah, I know.  Actually, because I had made a commitment to go and to be really open to what Janet had to say.  When things resonate with me, as many, many things did over those three days, I just thought, why am I waiting?  There’s nothing to wait you, you just go after this and get organized.  So I went in to a level of action and activity that I haven’t done in some time.  As a result, I was exhausted, but very excited.

Dana: Yeah, it’s exhausting when we learned that the brain gets a little tired.  So, now the next question I would probably ask you…

Sarah: Yeah, it does.

Dana: Thank you, the next question that I would probably ask you Sarah, is that you’ve obviously already implemented and applied a lot of things that you took away from those three days, but moving forward now into your business, how to you feel that you’re going to be moving forward with all this great information that Janet shared with you?

Sarah: Yeah, I think for me is about being able to connect with a wider range of people who, through normal means, I guess I mean traditional and old-fashioned, and not social media.  It’s about, I guess be able to reach more people in the work that I do, but it’s also to me about being able to define to people that I want to work with and Janet have a great technique for that.  So basically, as you look at the parts of clientele or customers that you want to work with and in a way, she get to the go and exercise where you can actually thought of the picture of, a representative of each of those groups.  And so for me, that’s actually a really important exercise that’s the next one that I have started to think about in my head that I started my business and very much created a portfolio of offerings.  I think it’s really for me now to be able to look and refine some of those and be a lot crisper about what it is that I’m offering and to whom.  And so then I can tailor various aspects of my communication in my marketing and even my work to make sure that its hitting the mark for a number of different segments rather just having a very blended and possibly bland at times, you know, sort of message to people.  So that was probably the longer term plan coming out of the weekend was to look at sort of the representation of clients that I want to work with and how I can tap in to them in a more effective way.

Dana: What a powerful exercise that was.

Sarah: Yeah, it was amazing.  It really, really was amazing.  Everything that we do was amazing really, but there are a couple of relocating for me that I know will really help me get some rungs on the board with my business.

Dana: Well, you owe a lot of that friend of yours that told you this is an event; you just had to go do.  What an amazing shift you’d already had in your business.  I’m just so excited for you.

Sarah: Thank you Dana and probably, yeah, I have mentioned the site so many times, how grateful I am that she made me go.  It really has been a great experience and not only that, did I say that I met some fantastic people, some amazingly lovely people who had become like an online network for me.  And I was saying to a friend the other day who commented on my Facebook, he said, I can’t believe you’re on Facebook.  You never wanted to do it and I said no, you rock.  You know, one of the best thing, to use about Facebook other than reaching old friends that I have not seen all for years, the next best thing is that when you’re having problem in your business or you’re struggling with something, you can just e-mail something out there to all of your Facebook friends.  And what I found is most of the people who went to Wonderful Web Women or LinkedIn, you got a really kind, generous responses and offer you help.  Just because you’ve met those people on a three day weekend, it gives you a real sense of community which I know Janet would be delighted to hear, because I know that’s one of her key values and that it is something that she is really passionate about developing but that’s what is found.   My personal experience is being I become part of this community that it just really that helped me and succeed and likewise, I’m there to help other people succeed in their businesses.

Dana: Yeah.

Sarah: That was one of the best things is all about it.

Dana: It was an absolutely incredible support system.  It absolutely is.  So is there any other, is there any other tips for our listeners that maybe had haven’t have a chance to get to know Janet or the Wonderful Web Community yet, what other tips would you have to share with our listeners today?

Sarah: So my tips would be, if you get the opportunity to meet Janet, hear Janet, see Janet, learn from some of her amazing work, then grab with both hands and run with it.  Because I don’t think there are many people on the planet who have a heart the size that she does and want to share what she knows and she genuinely wants to help other people succeed.  So if you get a opportunity to meet, work with, learn, listen to Janet, grab it and enjoy it because it will make a huge difference in your life and your work.

Dana: Oh, thank you so much for that Sarah.  That was very beautifully put.  So, I just want to give all of our listeners a chance to get to know you, you are obviously someone who’s just so full of passion and energy yourself and I’m sure several of us want to be able to take a look at what you were doing, so where would our listeners go to find out more about your business and more about you?

Sarah: Oh, thank you Dana, that’s lovely!  Well, my website would probably be their first port of call and my website is www.sarahrodgers.com.au and @sarahrodgers and there’s a fair bit of stuff on there about me and my business and what I do for my clients and of course, the other way to get in contact me is either email me or to call me.  I am always happy to hear from people and hear their stories and see if there’s any synergy in us working together.  But yeah, like Janet, I am just passionate about helping people live happier and more fulfilled lives and it is my privilege to be able to work with people in that way.  So yeah, that’s how you find a bit more about me.

Dana: And as we also heard, we could also found Sarah Rodgers on Facebook.

Sarah: Of course you can, yes.  [laughing]  You can find me on Facebook and you can find me in LinkedIn and you can even find me on Twitter so I am on all of these places.  And if you type in Coach Sydney in Twitter, that would be me.  And I’m not a coach.  I’m not a boss.  It’s funny, when you type “coach” in Sydney into Google, you get a lot of references to boss companies.  Yeah I know, it kind of makes me laugh — I’m a coach but I’m not a boss.

Dana: Oh, well you go girl!  You had so much and so much in a month.  I’m just simply amazed ad inspired by you just by spending those time, just very short period of time on a call with you.  Thank you Sarah for taking your time to join us today.

Sarah: Oh, Dana thank you!  And thank you, can I please extend my thanks to both yourself and Janet for offering me the invitation to come and be on Wonderful Web radio.  It’s just a real thrill and I’m really privileged and humbled.  So I just look forward to meeting loads and loads of Wonderful Web Women and Men and I’m grateful.  So thank you so much for the opportunity to chat with today Dana.

Dana: Well, we are all very proud of you because you’re absolutely a Wonderful Web Rising Star.  We’re very, very proud of you, so keep doing what you’re doing.

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, why they do what they do, less than what they do and I had to look at her stuff and I thought she is wonderful so I signed up just to see her emails and listen to some of her stuff and I really enjoyed it.  I was very pleased with what I’ve learned to Janet.

Dana: Now, have you participate in any of her programs recently?

Karen: Well, I went to the 4^th Dimension Mastery Program in, I think it was August of this year which was outstanding.  I absolutely, I can’t speak hardly enough of that program, the three days were just marvellous, apart from the fact they are just wonderful people and we also had great fun,  but I’ve also learned a great deal.

In particular, I understood the link between social media and a powerful business model.  I haven’t understood that correctly before.  I didn’t realize the power of social media or I didn’t understand it as I do now.  It is far more like a living entity.  It’s like a real connection or real human connection which is exciting.  It’s a move out stagnant, stereo marketing and advertising and promotional stuff.  It’s the moving to real connection and real people and that is exciting.

Dana: Oh well, about that.  That would had been my next question for you, is what did you learn, boy, that was quite a bit.  You had a great take away from those three days.

Karen: I had a great take away and I like I said, not the least of that, as I mention, really friends, they are marvelous people and they have very good vision about what they’re doing and why they’re doing it in articular and to what Janet and her gorgeous husband together was, such a pleasure.  Absolutely.

Dana: They are, they are the perfect couple, I tell you.  So, now where do you think moving forward with the information and the skill set and everything that you really took away from the 4^th Dimension Mastery Program and social media?  How do you think you are going to be able to apply this moving forward in your business?

Karen: Oh, look.  I am applying it.  My business is still technically in its infancy.  It’s exciting and just emerging also, six years of self-imposed parenthood which I have loved but that time taken away from me is to see where you can go from that, basically a stationary point to being out in the marketplace to being visible, interactive and creating a really viable business.  That’s very, very exciting.  It’s actually a very easy process although it does require lot of information.  Now, that was probably the best take away from Janet, that there is someone you can get this information and yet more or less, everything you need to know to advance.

Dana: Right.

Karen: You can absolutely get the pointers as to what you need to build your business and to create an affective and useful powerful business through her program.  That’s wonderful.

Dana: Yeah, Janet’s Wonderful Women Web community, it really starts you from even before the foundation of building the business, it goes even before that to really help you build a solid foundation to grow your business and then of course, give you all the tools and resources that you need once you do begin to develop you business so that is wonderful.  Well, let me ask you Karen, are there any another tips that you wild like to share with our listeners as a result of being past of Janet’s program, anything in addition to that that you’ve already shared with us.

Karen: Absolutely yes, well.  Number one tip would get social media savvy because it the way.  It’s the future.  Now, it’s what happening now, so if you’re not social savvy, you’re missing out a lot of really, really good people.  Believe in yourself because when you just start, it could be a bit daunting.  And believing in yourself on what you’re doing and why you’re doing it is essential, that’s will carry through.  There is a process, time and effort is evolved.  Lots of learning, but follow your dream.  Take action, keep moving.  It’s worth it.  There are so many people out there willing to help which is, it’s so joyful when you get to an environment where people actually came to help you.  Listen to what you say, look at what you do and want to part of it.  That’s a very, very nice thing.  You don’t normally get that when you setup a business.  You don’t normally get such a rush of support.  You don’t really know what its look like because it a new world and invest money in yourself.  Invest in yourself, ask for help, and trust the process.

Dana: Oh, my gosh.  Yeah.

Karen: A lot of the tips I thought of are to read “The Laws of Attraction” and read Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich.”  Those two books really have a lot of mindset assistance.  They will really help you keep on track.

Dana: Yeah.  They do need to be a part of your success library.  It’s what I call it, my success library has those very books.  And it’s the power of thought, it’s the power of who you are, what you want to become and like you’re getting really to this event, “Who’s The Boss Of You?”  It’s really embracing who you are and you do hold a lot of power within you.

Karen: Yes, yes.  Take the lead, be brave, trust yourself, jump — there are so many words I could put around it, but ultimately Who’s The Boss Of You?  Who’s in control?  It’s not your mom, it’s not your dad, it’s not your partner, it’s not your workplace boss, it’s not the government, it’s not the system that you’re involved in.  The boss of you is you.

Dana: Beautifully said Karen.  Well, I know that we had just a short time together today and for those listeners, I know that you are hanging on the edge of your sit because you want to learn more about Karen and I can tell you that she is very committed to working with her clients to really help growth and help you with your positive change, so for those who want to know more about you Karen, where would you go send them?

Karen: The best way to go would be to my blog which is www.powerfulpositivepeople.com that would where they would get the most information.  They can also find me on Facebook on the Karen clock and my Fan Pages in People Success.

Dana: Okay, so again, the website name is www.powerfulpositivepeople.com and I know when they actually go to our blog Karen, you have a special gift for them, don’t you?

Karen: Yes, I do, I have the “Law of Attraction In Action” as a special free download, an amalgamation of several successful women who had written about their stories.  It’s a wonderful book.

Dana: Oh, thank you.  Karen, thank you so much for taking your time to join us today.  It’s really been a pleasure.

Karen: Oh, absolutely.  It’s been my pleasure to talk.  It’s lovely to take an opportunity to share and I was so excited that I can speak about what I do and the people that I love in life and the people that changed things for me and help me along the way, so I am always pleased to talk.

Dana: Well, your passion and your commitment to what you’re doing is really transparent and as you had been talking about it, I can just hear the excitement in your voice which is really where our passion lies.  So thank you so much for taking your time today.

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.

Transcript of the Interview

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, it’s very foundational to the future of our success.

Louise: Absolutely, absolutely.

Dana: That’s so wonderful.

Louise: We found the financial foundations to be an important part; you know we can do whatever we want from there, but we’ve got to get those foundations in because that’s what we base all of our financial decisions on and indeed our life decisions as well.

Dana: That is so interesting. Now, you have been a member of Wonderful Web Women for quite some time now, haven’t you?

Louise: Yes we have. We were so lucky to find Janet, I have to say. We discovered Janet about two years ago and just, the wonderful thing that she has is that there’s different levels of interaction or connection for want of a better word. She has a freebie or a dollar  month offer. So we did that just to get to feel what she was doing and how she was doing it, I think more than anything. I think it’s really important to get matches, you know a match with the people, all the people that you’re working with. So that’s how we found out about her two years ago.

Dana: Oh my goodness. Was there, now Janet, you mentioned really the frequency.  That you can start out too as a free member and then she goes up to her gold members. She has coaching. She has all kinds of different facets of the Wonderful Web community. Was there, and I’m sure you’ve probably been, if you’ve been around for two years or that timeframe, you have probably been on just a ton of phone calls that she’s conducted and a lot of interviews. Was there one in particular that really is a standout for you that you can remember?

Louise: Oh, most definitely. They’re all fabulous and the other great thing about it is that you can re-visit them, as a gold member you can re-visit those, any of those interviews at any time, which is a fabulous resource. But there’s one for me that stands out, Dana, and that was with Nancy Marmolejo . . .

Dana: Yes?

Louise: She’s the social networking queen.

Dana: She is.

Louise: She was marvelous. She took my interest and really helped me understand how it works first of all, and also how powerful it and also gave some parameters because I didn’t really understand how it worked and what was appropriate and you know, how much you pushed your business or you didn’t and just how it worked, and the flow of it. And Nancy’s an absolute master at that. So I got a lot from that. It was very, very empowering and gave me a great sense of relief, I suppose really. Because then I had some boundaries and a process to understand, to use.

Dana: And that’s actually, we had a little break in the audio in the beginning, Louise. You’re really speaking in terms of the social media aspect and how to really engage and communicate with really the community there without feeling you’re pushing too much of the business on them.

Louise: That’s right Dana, exactly. The thing that Nancy has done for me is to give me some parameters and some boundaries and understanding around how social media works and how to build on that. And then of course Janet’s done, has given me more information about that. But Nancy’s really been fantastic about that. And she’s a wonderful model, Nancy’s a wonderful model.

Dana: She is.

Louise: I’ve signed up with her as well and I get constant reminders and guidance around the social media and interaction with that. It’s great. It’s really great.

Dana: I would have to say as well that really between the two women, between Janet and Nancy, the one thing I think when we first come online and we start engaging in social media, the one thing we don’t realize is there really is an etiquette.  And we just don’t know until we start getting in there, and both of those women are just wonderful to get you to understand it’s really all about building relationships.

Louise: Exactly. Exactly. And not only do they talk about it Dana, but they model it. They actually live it. They walk the talk and that was the thing that attracted me for both of them.

Dana: Yes. I definitely agree. Now was there something in particular in the social media aspect, since you mentioned Nancy’s call, is there anything in particular that you learned about one medium over another? Do you tend to fancy Twitter over Facebook, or do you have a favorite?

Louise: I have to say Facebook is my favorite. I really enjoy that. I’m just getting into the blogging now so I can’t really comment about the blogging as such. But I’m really enjoying Facebook, I must say. It’s just been good. It’s just wonderful. I think for me, what I realized again through Nancy and through Janet is that to start with you can just share things that you found really interesting or helpful or useful and then sort of, then create some personal contact along the line from that. So that was a great place for me to start. Just finding different resources or different articles and then sharing those on my Facebook page. And I think then if people found that useful or not useful, and so that helped me too, to then decide whether that was going to be good for clients or not as well. So it was almost like a little mini-market research thing as well.

Dana: Absolutely.

Louise: It was great.

Dana: And we always love to be able to share those great resources with others because it’s all about providing the value and that’s definitely what we do.

Louise: Absolutely.

Dana: Fantastic. Well, are there any other tips that you would like to share as a result of being a member of Wonderful Web Women?

Louise: Look, I think really for me and for John Paul, for both of us, we found that while we we can go so far with internet side and the marketing and those sorts of things, but what we found was most important is to have somebody coaching us. I mean we know how important it is for our clients, our financial clients, financial coaching clients, how important it is for them to just have somebody to be there, to have a chat with, to run something past, to ask questions of and to actually be held accountable as well. So, we’ve found that that’s been really, really useful and Janet offers that.

Dana: Absolutely.

Louise: She’s a fantastic coach, she’s so positive and she’s really enthusiastic and she’s creative. She can see the big picture. She’s got wonderful vision. So for us we found that really, really, really useful. We also felt that we’re good at what we do, with all due—you know we don’t try to blow the trumpet, but you know, we are, that’s our specialty, that’s our expertise. Our expertise is not in creating websites. So, it’s wonderful to have a team there that we know and so they[inaudible 00:11:08] and so they can do the nitty-gritty, the nuts and bolts of putting the site together, getting it up and running. We provide the content but it’s so great to have that team there that we know is looking after the backend of the business, of the online business. So, for us then we can focus on our business and on our clients. Not having to worry about the website all the time.

Dana: Very good.

Louise: That’s priceless as far as we’re concerned.

Dana: That is absolutely wonderful. So that would lead me to, so you’re not only just utilizing Janet’s program in particular with her training and coaching and her interviewing, but are you also using the, her Wonderful Web Solutions? Are you having them build your website?

Louise: Yes, that’s right, Dana. That’s right.

Dana: Oh, that’s wonderful.

Louise: In fact we’re just about to go online.

Dana: She has Wonderful Web everything.

Louise: We do. We’re Wonderful Web converts, I can assure you.

Dana: Well it sounds like it. And you know what’s really interesting and you made a really good point Louise and I really need to kind of drive this home, is you kind of took Janet for a test drive in the beginning, which is what she encourages people to do. Because you do need to have that right fit, and you do need to really complement each other and it’s very evident to me that Janet has really complemented you and John Paul in your business. Because not only has she been able to provide the coaching and inspiration and empowerment but also a platform to help you continue to build your business so you can keep enjoying the creative side in helping others.

Louise: That’s exactly it Dana. And what we know is that their team, the Wonderful Web team because they love the internet and they love the techie side of things, is that they’re constantly checking out new information and new widgets and new all of the techie side, and so we know that we’re going to get cutting-edge, right up to the minute technology as well.

Dana: Yeah, you are definitely in good hands; that’s for sure. But you have clearly showed all of us and all of the listeners that are here with us right now have really been able to really glean from this conversation that Janet and the Wonderful Web community has really been an inspiration and light for you in your business. Now I also in turn, because you and John Paul really do give such value to, I know people that really have to have that firm foundation on the money issues and how to handle things especially while they’re building a new business, or an existing business, is they really need to get clear and have clarity on the money issues. So I want to give you an opportunity, if you could, I know there’s people on this call that would like to learn a little bit more about you and your business, get some of that money foundation going, where could they go find you?

Louise: Thanks Dana. Yes, we’ve got two websites. The education one is yourlifeyourmoney.com.au and that’s where all our educational resources are. And our coaching side is allmoneymatters.com.au.

Dana: Wonderful, so two different places they can find you.

Louise: Yep, that’s right.

Dana: So again, that first one, Louise, was yourlifeyourmoney.com.au, okay and then the second one was allmoneymatters.com.au.

Louise: That’s right Dana, yep.

Dana: Fantastic. Well, thank you very much. We really appreciate you taking time to be with us today.

Louise: Thank you Dana. It was an absolute pleasure.

Dana: And I look forward to getting to know you more, because I need to get some of my money matters in line. This is great for me, too.

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.

Transcript of the Interview

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, definitely.

Dana: Oh Kirsty, what a great, what a great business you have.

Kirsty: I love it.

Dana: Oh, I bet you do, it’s very rewarding. You have been, I’m assuming you’ve been a member of Wonderful Web Women for quite some time now. How long have you been a member?

Kirsty: I’ve been a member for about a year now. I joined up as a free member about 12 months ago. And I became a gold member in early January, around early January because I wanted to become, I wanted to be a contributing author in the law of attraction book.

Dana: Oh fantastic! Congratulations.

Kirsty: Thanks. It was my first venture into becoming an author.

Dana: Well I know Janet really gives a great opportunity for authors to her gold members and it’s really, that’s another great way, because it’s an international best-selling book.

Kirsty: Yes, yeah- great opportunity to get out there and just get known, so it was a great opportunity that Janet offers.

Dana: Well, and then I would also assume Kirsty that you probably have been able to, especially because of your contributing section there in the book, you’ve probably really connected with some of the other gold members that Janet has in the community.

Kirsty: Yeah, and especially Janet just had a workshop in Sydney, which was fantastic and I connected with quite a few of the other gold members there.

Dana: Oh, that is so exciting. Because then you can actually put the face to the name and the voice and it’s really neat because you all have this common denominator and that’s just the desire to be who you are, to come into your own and really make a difference in the lives of other people. So what a great room! I can’t imagine the energy that was in that room.

Kirsty: Oh, it was a fantastic place.

Dana: I heard it was and I would have jumped on a plane and been over there in a heartbeat if I could have. Well good for you. Now, so let’s go back to the membership. Now we obviously know that you’re a gold member, but you obviously started as a free member first. So I’m assuming over the past year you’ve probably been exposed to several of Janet’s training calls. Was there one in particular that really kind of helped you move towards your current business or was there any kind of breakthrough moments that you had on a call?

Kirsty: Yeah, well there are so many great calls that Janet has, and so much useful information comes from those. Bu the one that really stuck with me, Dana, was I listened to Janet’s call earlier this year with Debbie Latrousa and I hadn’t listened to heaps of calls but I really had a strong urge to listen to that one because I’d read the blurb about what they were talking about and I really felt that I wanted to listen to that one and I wanted to listen all the way through. And it was funny because a few days earlier I’d been struggling with where to next in my business and Debbie’s message just really resonated  with me because over the last couple of years I’d tried to model the way others did business but I just hadn’t made any traction. So, I loved Debbie’s message because she was all about becoming you in your business and bringing that passion of yourself into your business. So her message just really resonated with me.

Dana: And isn’t that so important because so many times when we see things that are being broadcast or you’re listening to another call and you almost want to kind of fill into someone else’s model and the reason you don’t see that success is because you’re not coming into your own and who you are.

Kirsty: Yeah, that’s right, because I learned just from listening to that call that those other models that I tried to work with actually didn’t fit me because they’re all based on someone else’s ideas and so there wasn’t any passion there from me and I just realized when I wasn’t passionate about what I’m doing that I’m working so much harder and doing that trying to be everything to everybody, because it isn’t coming naturally. And so that’s why I was feeling frustrated and tired and like I didn’t know where to go next.

Dana: Well and that would obviously lead me to the next question, really was what did you learn? So obviously kind of summarizing that, just by coming into your own you’ve started to really, I’m assuming, really start to build that traction for your life and your business now, is that correct?

Kirsty: Yeah, definitely. Just injecting myself into my business and knowing that it’s okay and yes, I know there’s other women, other people out there that do the same thing, do similar things to what I do, but they’re not the same as me, so they don’t bring me into their business. And you know that’s really empowering.

Dana: It’s extremely empowering. And you start feeling like you can do what you have been put on this earth to do and that is extremely empowering.

Kirsty: Yeah.

Dana: Well good for you. Well, you know, we are very proud of you here at Wonderful Web Radio and because you’re one of our rising stars we really want to give you an opportunity to really let the listeners know a little bit more about you and your business and I know I’m just intrigued with it because I know you’re going to bring so much value and just contribute just so much to these women’s lives. But before we do that, I just want to ask you, because you’re a rising star we’d love to recognize you, are there any other tips that you would personally like to share as a result of being a member of Wonderful Web Women?

Kirsty: There’s just one real tip Dana, and that’s if it feels right, do it. I believe that that gut instinct is so powerful but so often we just ignore it out of fear and also because we do suppress our emotions. So we’ve got the fear of failure, fear of success, fear of all those things and you know you’re following your heart and your passion and you don’t think about it too much but you just jump right in and give it a go and so if I could share any tip, it’s just give it a go, if it feels right, just do it.

Dana: Absolutely. Well that’s a very, very good point and thank you so much for sharing that. So now, as I said, I know that there are so many of our listeners here on our call that would like to know more about you and your business, so where would they go find you?

Kirsty: If they want to find out more they can go to www.createpurposeandpassion.com.

Dana: Okay.

Kirsty: And they can also just check out, if they want to just find out a bit more information about me they can go to kirstygreenshields.com.

Dana: Okay, so kirstygreenshields.com and then what was the other one?

Kirsty: createpurposeandpassion.com.

Dana: createpurposeandpassion.com. So for everybody you want to make sure you go there and find out more about Kirsty Greenshields and all the wonderful things that she’s doing and hope it gets you in alignment and gets you back in balance. Well Kirsty thank you again for taking your time to join us today. It’s really been a pleasure to be here with you.

Kirsty: Thanks Dana. It’s been my pleasure, too.

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.

Transcript of the Interview

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 met Sue, actually at a website-building course. Now was that your first introduction, did that have something to do with Janet Beckers and the Wonderful Web community or was that outside of Janet’s program?

Toni-Louise: That was actually outside of Janet’s program. But I’ve watched and admired Janet for a couple of years now and I’ve seen her incredible growth of her business. And what I find is Janet is a wonderful mentor not only to us, but to so many other women—and men—let’s not forget the men; because she not only talks the talk, but she also walks the walk. And what really drew Sue and I to Janet and to her program is she’s so passionate about bringing the most successful women on the internet and sharing their stories with us and she’s just so generous and giving with her knowledge. She’s very authentic and so genuine in her desire to inspire women and cares in helping you achieve your dreams and goals through taking inspired action.

Dana: Absolutely and it is all about the action. Now was there a particular call or an event that you attended that really made the shift for you and Sue to really take this new business venture on?

Toni-Louise: I’ve listened to so many of Janet’s calls and like I said, I’ve followed her the last couple of years. I would have to say recently, one that really stood out for me because it really touched my heart for her, was a call called the Phoenix Rises from the Ashes, where Janet talked about the re-launch of Wonderful Web Women and I think what that really gave me was just a real admiration for Janet that such a terrible travesty, something I would see as a huge drama at the time, became an opportunity to pull herself together and re-launch Wonderful Web Women with such a passion. And that just stood out in her passion to really help people. And it showed me that if you really have that passion and love for what you’re doing then you can go on to shine and create more of that brilliance and really give back to the community. And Janet does that constantly by way of the content that she offers. So I would say that was one of the calls that really touched me. I mean, at that point, she could have seen that as such a heavy load and gone, oh I just can’t bother doing this anymore, but her love and her passion for what she brings to us, her listeners and her community is something that I just admire so much.

Dana: Oh, absolutely. And for our listeners that may not know exactly what Toni-Louise is speaking of, Janet actually woke up one day to not just one online business, but her main online stream of income as well as a few other companies they launched, basically disappeared overnight. Their web host just disappeared. And it was absolutely crushing and devastating and I think for a couple of days she really struggled and spiraled but then she realized that you know what? I love what I do and my community is counting on me and I am going to make something, you know, instead of making—what does she say? She took lemons and didn’t just stop at making lemonade. That girl went out and started making margaritas.

Toni-Louise: Margaritas, yeah!

Dana: Absolutely! And we’re just so proud of really her stick-to-itiveness and her dedication to her community. It just, it really just spoke volumes about who she is.

Toni-Louise: Absolutely.

Dana: That was a great takeaway. So over the period of time that you’ve been dealing with the Wonderful Web community and now this new online business that you and Sue have created; what would you say that, how have you really applied what you’ve learned from the Wonderful Web community into this new business?

Toni-Louise: Look, Dana, I would say there are the very obvious things, I guess, like we’ve learned how to become the expert in your niche by interviewing the experts. We’ve really learned the importance of having a mentor and having that person to look up to and someone who’s done it before you. You know, got that blueprint for success and Janet’s done that and that’s something we’ve really learned is the importance of having a mentor.

We’ve also learned how valuable a mastermind group is and having that community or tribe of women to share ideas with and to talk about what you’re up to with your business and have the opportunity to learn from those other women where they’re up to and what they can . . . you know it’s just, mastermind is a brilliant way of helping each other and guiding each other. And we’ve also learned the power of joint venture networking and that’s enabled us to grow our business to where it is today.

Dana: Fantastic. Now, are there any other tips, before we let you go and before we let you go I also, all you listeners out there, those women that want to know more about Toni-Louise and Sue’s business, Working Women Online, hang tight just for a minute because I want you to really get some information from Toni-Louise before we let her go. So, are there any other tips that you would like to share with our listeners about maybe, whether they’re building a business from the start or if they’re maybe struggling in their business. What would you like to share with them?

Toni-Louise: Oh sure, look, I would say definitely find as I just said, definitely find a mentor whose values you admire and respect because it’s much easier to feel well-aligned and on purpose in your business if you respect what that mentor has already done before you. I would say be a part of a mastermind group, as I said before, other women that you can share your story and ideas with, other people who can help keep you accountable and it’s also just a fun thing to be able to relate to a group of women on a similar journey.

And don’t give up. Even when you feel like you’re in a state of overwhelm and you’re up till 2:00 in the morning, sometimes new things you’re trying to learn along the way can seem really difficult at the time and really mind-boggling, but I think the old saying goes: just when you think you’re about to have a breakdown it’s a sign to just push through and it’s normally a breakthrough. And you can have some incredible achievement at that particular time.

And I would just say to Janet’s experience of losing her websites earlier this year and rising from the ashes, her sheer love for her business, her passion, her will and her tenacity, it all really helped me learn that having that real passion for what you’re doing, really loving what you’re doing is the reason that you don’t give up. And they are just a few of the tips that I’d like to say.

Dana: Well those are very, very powerful tips. Thank you so much for sharing that because I heard your passion through that message as well. So I hope all of you took those notes and took that to heart. So before we let anybody go, Toni-Louise, would you please share with our listeners how they can find out more about your and this incredible business now that you’ve built.

Toni-Louise: Sure Dana thanks. They can find us at Working Women Online, which is www.workingwomenonline.com and they can sign up for our free newsletter there and they can also sign up for our current webinar series that we’re running, which our current series is called Internet Success Strategies. So, yeah, that’s where they can find us online.

Dana: Oh fantastic. Well thank you so much for taking time out of your day to join us and share your story with all of our listeners. We really appreciate you taking the time.

Toni-Louise: Thank you so much Dana.

Danielle’s website is full of great resources and information for those wishing to run their own pet-sitting service and it can be found at workingwithpets.com. Danielle also gives coaching and advice to any kind of small business entrepreneur through her site.

Transcript of the Interview

Dana: In this segment we’re going to be speaking with one of our very own rising stars. So today it’s my personal pleasure to introduce you all to Danielle Chonody; Danielle, welcome.

Danielle: Hello, it’s great to be here.

Dana: Well, hopefully I said your last name correctly.

Danielle: You were pretty close. It’s Chonody.

Dana: Chonody! Okay, well we’ve got that now; so Danielle Chonody. Well Danielle, for the listeners who don’t yet know anything about you if you could just share with us a little bit about you and what you do, a little bit about your business.

Danielle: Well, I started my business in 2003 and initially I started off just as a home based pet-sitting business, doing in-home pet sitting. We basically care for people’s pets when they travel on vacation or if they have a long workday, sometimes we’ll do midday visits. Since 2003 it’s really grown and it’s kind of launched a couple of other businesses for me. Also blogging and sharing what I’ve learned with other pet sitters and that’s kind of led into me starting an association this past April with another pet sitter, called The Association of Pet Sitting Excellence.

Dana: Oh, how exciting. You know I’m finding, do you see, especially since you’ve been in the business since 2003, do you see this big influx of more and more pet sitting businesses and more involved owners of pets who want to make sure that their pets are looked after during the daytimes or walked, the park or things like that?

Danielle: Yeah, I really think the overall awareness of pet sitting has grown since I first started and there’s definitely a lot of new pet sitters entering the market because the demand is growing as the awareness is growing.  It’s an alternative to boarding pets where they’re in a very noisy and perhaps stressful environment. So there are a lot of pets out there that just are not really suited to that and they’re a lot more comfortable in their home. So I think yeah, the awareness is growing and with that there are a lot more brand new pet sitting businesses out there.

Dana: Well, and like you said, you really said it beautifully as far as the awareness, because I think more pet owners are being very concerned about taking their pets to a place maybe they’re not familiar or comfortable with, especially if their owners have to be away for a period of time. Because I’ve got two, one is very friendly, she loves everybody and I’ve got one who is scared to death of everybody. So the anxiety level . . .

Danielle: Oh, we have the same! We have the same, but we have cats.  So I know you have dogs.

Dana: Yeah, so it’s the anxiety level and you know when you love your pets as much as I know we do, to just reassure them and let someone that they start to feel comfortable with come to the home. What a great service that you have. I love it; I love what you’re doing. Now tell me a little bit more and share with everybody how you were first introduced to Janet Beckers and the Wonderful Web community.

Danielle: Well it’s been several years and I think I was probably one of the early members of Wonderful Web Women. I’m currently a lifetime gold member. And I think I was introduced to Wonderful Web Women through Alli Brown. I’d kind of been a follower of Alli’s for about five years and I know she was one of Janet’s early interviews.

Dana: Well how exciting, and I know, because we spoke a little bit earlier, not only have you been with Janet for probably, she’s been doing this now for well over two years, and so you’ve also had the pleasure to meet with her in person, too, at Alli Brown’s Shine event last year.

Danielle: Yes, that was really great. And as we were talking before the call, Janet also set me up with a roommate for that Shine event and we really hit it off and we’re still really good friends.

Dana:  Isn’t that something? It’s very, it seems like there’s this common thread that Janet seems to attract some just fantastic like-minded women who we just all get along. We all have this common ground of excellence. How awesome. And Janet is probably like I know, just as true-blue over the phone as she is in person.

Danielle: Yes she was, very down to earth.

Dana: Oh, wonderful. Now, tell me, because you’ve been involved for so long and I know you’re a lifetime gold member, which means you’ve been part of Janet’s community now for over two years, was there, you’ve listened to a lot of phone calls and interviews that Janet has done; was there any one particular call over that period of time, you know back then or even recently, that really has made an impact on you and your business?

Danielle: I think it was probably one of the very early calls. Unfortunately in recent times I’ve been really busy and I haven’t been able to catch as many of her calls as I used to when I first got started. But Janet did a very early call about how she actually got started with Wonderful Web Women. And that probably made the biggest impact on me because it kind of drove home the point that I didn’t need to be an expert in every part of the pet-sitting business to help other pet sitters. And so I kind of came to realize that I could be the connector between business experts and pet sitters to try and share some of that knowledge.

Dana: Oh good, good point. So, it’s probably a really good sign Danielle that you’ve been so busy that you can’t listen to as many of the calls. But isn’t that the beauty of being a gold member of Janet’s is that you have access to those calls and the resources and the cheat sheets and everything that you need, and the transcripts, just literally by going to the website. So you have access to them when you want to go through them.

Danielle: Yes, and I also love her newsletter. I think I did get connected up with Pam Brosnan . . .

Dana: Oh yeah.

Danielle: Who does a lot of videos and I kind of caught on, she’s doing a virtual magazine and we may actually incorporate that into what we provide our members in the association.

Dana: Yeah, Pam is just a wonderful, wonderful person that’s come from Janet and I know I was actually featured in her last magazine. So she’s great to stay connected with and again, she’s another one that really attracts the same like-minded people. So definitely get into that magazine. So now tell me, moving forward, now that we’re going ahead now two years, how have you really been able to take what you learned and really apply it into your business?

Danielle: Well, probably about a year and a half ago, fairly, again, fairly early on in the Wonderful Web Women history, I basically took the model that Janet was using for Wonderful Web Women and started my own little coaching club for pet sitters, where I would each month interview a business expert and share that with the group. And then we also did a little bit of masterminding very similar to what Janet’s also done with Wonderful Web Women. So that was quite successful and that idea kind of grew and was the springboard for the launch of the association that we’ve started for pet sitters.

Dana: Fantastic! Well, my gosh; how much you’ve grown; and the ideas that you’ve come up with just in the last two years.

Danielle: Yeah, it has. It’s kind of amazed me because I have been working a full time job. I actually walked away from that on Wednesday, so this is my second day as a full time business owner.

Dana: Oh my gosh! Yeah, we’re recording this call on a Friday, so you were actually able to walk away from your full time job just two days ago?

Danielle: Yes, Wednesday was my last day. So I’m still kind of acclimating to the news.

Dana: Oh, congratulations! Oh my gosh, I just feel so privileged that we got you when we did. That is awesome to be able to share with everybody that you know, you just have that passion and that dream and if you continue to work it you can replace your full time income. Well congratulations! I’m so excited for you.

Danielle: Well, thank you.

Dana: Well now moving forward, because obviously you are one of our rising stars and I know that you have a lot to share and I want to give everybody the opportunity to find out more about you, but before I do that, is there any other tips that you personally would like to share with our listeners about building an online business or really pursuing your dreams and what it’s meant to you to be a part of Janet’s community?

Danielle: Yeah, one of the things I learned from Janet is to not be afraid to dream big. I guess if you’d asked me a couple of years ago if I’d start a new association I would have probably laughed at you that that was just crazy. But yeah, it just kind of came together and happened. I met another pet sitter who also had some big dreams and we put it together and took action, little small steps at a time and you can do big things with small steps.

Dana: You definitely can. Well, how exciting! Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to join us and sharing not only your success story, but gosh, the fact that you were able to leave your full time job. I just, I think there are so many people that are out there aspiring to do that and I’m just thrilled that we were able to catch you so new into it. So congratulations.

Danielle: Yeah, it was good timing.

Dana: Oh awesome. Well, thanks again Danielle for taking time; we do appreciate it. And I want to thank everybody for joining us but before we say our good byes, I know that there’s listeners here that are inspired by what they’ve heard from you today and want to know more about you, not just even for the pet sitting, but maybe even, you could give some tips on following their passion. Where would they go to find out more about you?

Danielle: Probably the best place and kind of the hub of, brings everything together, the pet sitting, the coaching, the association, is my blog, which is workingwithpets.com. On Working with Pets, I give a lot of advice. It’s probably aimed at the pet sitting industry, but it’s very applicable to any other type of business. And I have just started doing a little, some coaching as well, for small business owners, which they can also find out about through the coaching link at Working with Pets.

Dana: Perfect. Okay, great; so, workingwithpets.com. So all of you listeners who want to go and find out more about Danielle and what she does and also the coaching practice that she has, and you know she’s followed her dreams and she’s absolutely one of our rising stars and we’re very excited to be able to bring her for you here today. So again, everybody it’s just been my pleasure to be with all of you here today. This is Dana Dunn, on behalf of Janet Beckers and the Wonderful Web Radio team, we hope you’ve enjoyed today’s radio show and we look forward to welcome you again next week to another great show. Bye for now. Bye Danielle.

Danielle: Bye. Thank you.

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..

Transcript of the Interview

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, and this love of knowing what she wanted and she went after it.   So, this is why we really want to feature her today and have all of you blessed to hear what she has to say.   So, Joanna if you could, share with our listeners how you were first introduced to Janet Beckers and the Wonderful Web Community?

Joanna: You know I looking at the kind of questions you sent through — I was trying to remember where I met Janet.   And it’s quite ironic actually, because I was introduced to Janet through mutual friends of ours, Andrew and Daryl Grant.   They are both faculty members of a community called Our Internet Secrets.  And the reason it’s ironic is that, I’m sitting out at Andrew and Daryl’s apartment doing this interview and thinking, “You got me, you got me here,” it was a roundabout.

Dana: Oh, my goodness.

Joanna: So I was introduced through a mutual friend and I did an interview with Janet on Wonderful Web Women and we just hit it off.  We just really got on like a house on fire.  And then I helped her with one of her presentations she had coming up, she was travelling to the States for a presentation, so I assisted her with that.

And then she started helping me out with my business, talking about you know, how she got her stuff online.  And it’s just kind of you know a two way street helping each other out wherever we can.   She’s an incredible woman and so generous.   I’m just blessed to know her.

Dana: Well, it obviously goes both ways because she has just been singing your praises as well and thinks you were just absolutely wonderful and you’re very passionate and your energy.  Those of you that, that don’t know who Joanna Martin is yet, once you get to know her, go to her website-  we’ll give you the link at the end.  You’ll see, she just lights up the page, I mean you’re it’s just you exude even through her website.   So, that’s why we are so excited, you can tell my energy and excitement as well.  So, I can see that not only are you a speakers’ coach and you help people really bring their voice to stage and earn an, really an incredible amount of income from speaking from stage.  But you’re also very passionate about helping people design their life and their business.   So, with that business model in mind, gosh, can you tell us a little bit more about the importance of designing our life and our business?

Joanna: Yeah, absolutely.   I think — I guess it’s kind out of my experience.  I mean, I was very good at what I did, with  speaking.  I mean, when people used to ask me what I did, I would tell them I’m a speaker, that’s what I do.  And I was very, very good at it and I’ve travelled all around the world.  l was in the States, I would be in Australia or the U.K.   I spent probably around five thousand hours on stage in, in a very short period of time.  And while I loved it and I loved the difference that I was making, there was a moment where I woke up, I remember it was my thirtieth birthday and I thought to myself, “I’m on the other side of the world, my family are back in Australia, I’m Skype calling on my thirtieth birthday.”  Which for all women who ever turned thirty, you remember it, it was quite traumatic.   [laughs]

Dana: Yeah. [laughs]

Joanna: And I was really thinking and I hadn’t seen my partner Greg for like, four months at the time, I think, three or four months.  And so I thought, “This wasn’t in the plan.”   I’m doing what I love.  I’m following my heart.  I’m turning my passion into profit as Janet would say.   However, I’ve locked myself in it.  And it was at that time that I realized that I need to start over.  And I needed to start over designing my life first, and then designing my business to fit in to the lifestyle that I wanted.  Because many people, many people, have what Michael Gerber refers to as “the entrepreneurial seizure.”  They’ll start a business in something, because either they’re passionate about or they think they can do a better job at it than their boss does, only to wind up busier than when they were an employee.

And so, what I’m really, really passionate about doing is helping people to create lifestyle first.  So we take, this is what Greg and I did, I finished up the business that I was working with at that time.  And I moved back to Melburne with Greg.  We did, he, he forbade me for making a decision for four months.  God blessed me to be in the financial position to be able to do that.  But it allowed me to space to just get clear on what would we’ve wanted for our life.  And we sat down and to do a goal setting session, but it actually didn’t turn in to goals.  We actually sat and created what we now refer to as our lifestyle criteria.  And without that lifestyle criteria we would never created the business that we have.

We’ve, we’ve got a brilliant business now which allows us to be totally, totally geographically free.  That means we can run it from anywhere in the world.   I mean, just in the last twelve months we’ve traveled to the U.K., to the South of France, to Turkey, to Thailand, to all around Australia, to Switzerland, and the States, I think, that’s probably a smattering of where we’ve been in the last 12 months.   Because we love, we love the gypsy lifestyle.  We love traveling.  And that’s all been set up to be on purpose.  We also are totally free, from a time perspective.  We can work when we choose to work, rather than when others want us to work.  We had very few one on one client in fact none really.   Occasionally, I’ll do a little bit of one on one work, but rarely because we really want everything that we do to be leveraged and fit in our lifestyle.   And shift speaker training with our first kind of template business model and we created something during that called, as we built that business up called, what we now refer to as the Elegant Business Model.   And it’s that elegant business model based very firmly in my lifestyle criteria, which need to be articulated from a place of serenity and a place of calm.  So, you know that, that’s what the Shift Lifestyle and the lifestyle design process that I take people through is all about.

We really helped the people to find that place of serenity, calm, and connection to their source, whatever they referred to as source.   And from that place craft earth and lifestyle criteria, then select what business vehicle is going to fit inside of that and then help them to create an elegant business model from that and to build the team around them to facilitate it.   And it’s one of the most rewarding journey that I’ve ever taken.   People taking own this lifestyle shift journey.   When we did that to the first time that twelve months ago with that first group of peoples, the feedback we got was just incredible because for the first time people were really stepping into the driver state.   Sometimes I think you know, just because you’re passionate about something means that we really got to go out and make it happen.   But we don’t give thought to the end game and how we really want it to look and for anything like me that means you’d burn out before you realize that, if you love what you do you put everything into it.   So, we really need to be clear about; where is this going and how do I actually want all aspects of my life to look, not just my business.

Dana: Joanna I  love that, it makes sense that even the name of your business now and the shift lifestyle and it really is about taking those shifts and having,  I don’t know that any of us really have true balance in our life.   But creating the lifestyle and the business and the model around what you’re passionate about is just so powerful.   But like you said if it’s not done in the correct way.  You know our passion kind of takes over sometimes and we all will suffer burnout very, very quickly.

Joanna: Yeah.  Especially us ladies you know, if we find something we care about we will put it before all of our needs and in doing that you know we, we lose ourselves.  We’re really good at losing ourselves in our causes, in our families, in our partners, and in our relationships because we’re passionate.  You know, when we’re passionate our boundaries just start to dissolve.   So, we really want to make sure you know that when we start out on the journey of career, especially because it’s quite a masculine paradigm but we women need to, we really need to be very clear about the purpose and not just the purpose of it from a self-expression of business perspective which is important don’t get me wrong, you got to have passion and it’s got to be about self expression.   But equally we need to give consideration to how does this feed quite literally, how did this feed me and how does it feed my soul, how does it feed my family, and how does it feed my relationship, how does it feed the lifestyle that I wanna have in the world?

Dana: And that really that’s a perfect segway into really what my next question was gonna be for you, because women you know, we are so emotional.   And like you said, I know I do and I know most of my female friends.   We always do put others above ourselves and we don’t take care of our health and you know the exercise and the diet and all those things ‘cause we’re so busy you know doing for others.   So, that would bring me to my next question is: what do you feel is the biggest barrier or struggle that women entrepreneurs face when we start a new business or even continue developing a business that we have?

Joanna: Yeah, I can only speak for my own personal experiences and anecdotal experience I’ve had working with women entrepreneurs over the years and I do tend to attract a few very passionate women to the course of business that we run.   For myself, the biggest obstacle for me was thinking that being in business meant having to being a man.   I really, I think that business, in and of itself, is a masculine paradigm.   It’s all about results.  It’s all about focussed creation of result and men brains are perfectly designed to do that.   I mean we all have experiences like, I think of Greg; if he’s busy or busy on something,  he’s totally single focused on getting a result with that thing and he doesn’t like being interrupted.   Women, for women, that’s not where our brain goes naturally.  We’re naturally our brain and hormones are built for us to have total diffuse awareness to you know if you think back to cave, cave man, cave woman you know we needed to have one hand tending the fire and make sure it didn’t go out cooking a meal, looking after the children, looking after you know, keeping an eye out for the elders making sure that you know that there’s no lions coming while the men are out you know slaying the woolly mammoth.   We gotta be aware of everything all the same time.   While that can be an asset in business it can also have us take on too much because we can, because it’s possible for us.

So the thing is, in order to operate in a way for us to get results in business we tend naturally to rely on hormone of testosterone and we have nowhere near as much testosterone as men do.  As soon as we run out of our testosterone, we rely on adrenaline to get the same kind of results.   And many women suffer from adrenal kind of burnout or it’s not burnout yet, certainly adrenal exhaustion insufficiency because trying to get a result, we run out of a testosterone which is the result getting hormone, we take on the adrenaline and we use adrenaline.  And then we run that out and we’re exhausted.   So, I think probably the biggest challenge we have is we unconsciously become very masculine in a way that we create our results in business.   So, one of the things that I’m really very passionate about is helping women to remain feminine and to use our feminine powers.   And we have so many, that we don’t use, but we use feminine sources of power inside of business to create a vision rather than an outcome.

Dana: Wow. You just described me to a tee.  [laughs]  I’m just exhausted thinking about it.  It’s so true.   Well our Rising Stars segment is just for a short period of time and I, you have such a tremendous wealth of information.   I know you’re just dying to share with everybody.   For all you listeners I want to give you all the opportunity to really find out more about Joanna and her programs, because you’ve just heard a little portion of her energy and her excitement and her passion to help you grow your business.  And really to get thatShift Lifestyle going.   So, I want to be able to give everyone a chance to find out more about you and how to join you in your programs, Joanna.   Where can we send them to sign up to maybe your website or a list that maybe you have?

Joanna: Yeah, absolutely.  If you’re interested in finding out a little more about the Lifestyle Design Process and how it can support you in terms of not just surviving business but really drive in creating the way you that you want it.  And the best thing that you can do is you can go to my website which is www.shiftlifestyle.com.   And on shiftlifestyle.com you’ll find that you can register there for a video  mini course which I call The Seven Fundamental Laws of Lifestyle Design.  It takes you through the founding principles of the work that you do.  It gives you, and so many people, I’ve actually had so much feedback from that’s just done that free little course and had significant shift inside of their life, they feel like they know themselves for the first time ever.  So, go along to shiftlifestyle.com and The Seven Fundamental Laws of Lifestyle Design is right there to get you started on the journey.   Also from that site you can find out about any life courses that we have coming up and also our programs are all there.   So, you can go and check it out.   It would be a pleasure to have you as a member of our community.

Dana: Fabulous. Thank you so much, Joanna.   That was, you know this is has been phenomenal Rising Star interview and this is why we wanted to feature you because you can all now see why we see Joanna as a Super Star.   So, Joanna, thank you so much. I know you’re such a busy lady, we just really appreciate you taking time out to join us today.

Joanna: It’s been an absolute pleasure Dana and I wish everybody well.

Wonderful Web Women’s ‘Passion To Profit’ Challenge was the impetus to encourage Shelley to create her first product in the form of an interview. The problem with living in a bus though is telephone connection..find out how that didn’t stop Shelley!!

Transcript of the Interview

DANA: Today it’s my pleasure to introduce you to someone very special to us and that is Shelley Weitenberg. Welcome to the call.

SHELLEY: Hi Dana, thanks for having me, my pleasure to be here!

DANA: It is absolutely our pleasure. Hopefully I pronounced your last name correctly.

SHELLEY: Yeah, look everyone does it differently and I’m not fussy so Weitenberg is how I say it, but that’s fine!

DANA: Weitenberg. Perfect! Okay, we’ll thank you. Okay, so if you don’t mind just for some of our listeners out there that may not be familiar with you and your business, could you just take a minute or two and share with our listeners a little bit more about you and your business?

SHELLEY: Yes, sure. Well I guess on a personal level, so that people know where I am at, I am a mum of 3, married to a wonderful husband; we’ve been married 10 years this year and our children are 1, 3 and 5 so we have very young ones and I guess what’s most unique about our personal situation is that at the moment we are travelling Australia in a bus so we don’t have a house as such that we live in but we are mobile and on the road and that creates some challenges of its own and it’s also very exciting as far as day to day life goes so a few little differences there. As far as business life; my husband and I worked together in a conventional business for the last nine years and we found that we really struggled with that work/life balance which I know that a lot of people do and in that, what we decided to do is actually leave the business and walk away to do the trip so that was quite a tipping point for us in deciding what was most important to us and that also freed me up to do what I like most which is working one-on-one with people in a coach style business so totally enjoying that and that’s where we’re at right now.

DANA: Oh my goodness, how wonderful and so three young ones underfoot too so you’re travelling around Australia and you’ve got these three little ones plus really a full time business right?

SHELLEY: Yeah, absolutely, well full-time in that yes that’s my bulk source income but it’s certainly not full time in the conventional business sense so it’s not a 40 hour week job, certainly I have a lot more time to myself and for my family.

DANA: Fantastic and it’s so nice because I know you can work the hours that you want to work.

SHELLEY: Yes, absolutely.

DANA: That makes a difference, especially when you have those little ones. You can kind of work around their schedule, their family schedule.

SHELLEY: Yes

DANA: So now you’ve been a member of Wonderful Web Women for quite some time now haven’t you?

SHELLEY: I’ve actually known of Janet for a lot, lot of years but I’ve only been a member for it will be just over a year now or around the year mark so yeah, and it’s been fabulous, the relationship that I’ve been able to build up with Janet in that time. She’s just the most supportive woman as far as online education goes and education second to none.

DANA: And the community of women I know as a whole. It’s funny, she tends to, in all of the interviews that I have been conducting, she attracts the same type of person. So you are just as wonderful and inspirational I know to others as Janet is so it’s always such a pleasure to get to interview all of you because I can really see the true person that Janet attracts and it’s always a pleasure. So because you’ve been a member now for about a year, with the Wonderful Web calls that you’ve been able to listen to and maybe in the training that you have been able to take part in, was there a particular call or anything that you listened to of Janet’s that really made a big difference in your life and in your business?

SHELLEY: Yeah definitely. A big tipping point for me is a call that Janet did late last year. She put a challenge out there and I think she called it the Passion To Profit Challenge and she did the one hour call on how to get on the phone and conduct an interview style audio and be able to record that and create a product out of it. Well I’ve never been able to create a product on my own and I didn’t even know what that looks like and the instructions that she gave on the call sounded really simple and I thought ‘well, I could do that!’ so I called a friend of mine who lives in the next suburb, not the next suburb, the next state and asked her if she would interview me and she said ‘oh well okay’ and she had never done anything like that either so I said ‘look, I’ll just email you a couple of questions to ask me and we’ll set up a time so we did that that same afternoon when I heard Janet’s call in the morning so being in a bus and being mobile, I didn’t even have a landline but I thought ‘there’s got to be a way I can do this’. Janet said Skype wasn’t so great for the recording so I got myself down to the local phone box which is just outside the caravan park that we were staying at and created my very first information product on that, in that public phone box, a little bit Superman style and yes, that was my first audio product so that was the real tipping point for me because Janet just made it seem so simple when she explained it but I thought ‘yep that’s something that I could do’ and I was able to actually go out and do it that same day in creating an audio information product of my own.

DANA: And you probably, and I did the same thing with Janet about a year ago as well and it’s just so empowering to take something that for… one, I don’t know why it was but I kind of put it off for a while; but she makes it seem so simple that once I did it, I walked through the process and it was like ‘why did I wait so long?’ It’s so absolutely amazing.

SHELLEY: Yes, she makes it seem simple but that’s because it is and that is totally one of the biggest things I’ve learned from Janet; is listening to her explain things, you think, ‘well that sounds easy’ but still sometimes we have those programs within us that says ‘well, it can’t really be that simple, surely it’s not that easy’ but if we could just get over that and just give it a go and take action on the thing then, you actually find out it really is that simple.

DANA: It is simple and yet it’s so empowering when you feel that you’ve kind of stepped outside your comfort zone to do something you’ve never done before.

SHELLEY: Oh, absolutely.

DANA: So that really leads me to I would have asked you; ‘what did you learn?’ so it obviously was able to take you to be able to create a product. Was there anything else that you learned during that process?

SHELLEY: Yeah, as you asked the question, I have to laugh because the little things that I learned like when you go to a public phone box, make sure you take a pocketful of change so that you’re not caught mid call! But definitely, one of my biggest lessons would have been that if you just take action on the things that you’re hearing, choose one thing to act on, don’t get overwhelmed by a whole range of things, just choose one and take action on that because if it turns out to be the wrong thing, it’s very easy to turn around and try something else. Because if you get overwhelmed and you have too many things to focus on at once and you actually don’t do anything and you’re not able to move in any direction so it’s not helpful at all. So just take one thing, take action on it and get some momentum in your business.

DANA: Absolutely. It’s like almost like when you get into that state of overwhelm, you just almost paralyse yourself and your business.

SHELLEY: Yeah, absolutely.

DANA: Now how have you been able to apply what you’ve learned with that particular instance to your life and in your business?

SHELLEY: Well, what I found was when I was working one-on-one with my coaching clients, I was finding the same issues come up time and time again and interestingly enough it was the same things in working one-on-one with people was, the time as I was coaching people, they were coming across the same issues that I was struggling with in my own business when I was working with my husband so a lot of women in particular were saying ‘my relationship was being swallowed by business’ or ‘the business just feels like it’s taking over and we don’t know how to nurture our relationship within the business’ so these guys were working together but really, really challenged by that juggle so what I did with the information that I learned from Janet was go round and interview really successful couples that have been able to not only build profitable businesses together,  but also nurture a fantastic strong relationship together as well. So Janet and Doug were one of the couples that I interviewed and I interviewed nine other and then I was able to produce a series out of that and create a fantastic product that was able to support couples. So that’s how I applied that specific strategy to really create something worthwhile rather than just one little, you know it was a great case to do the one little interview in the phone box but that was really just the beginning of something that has now become a really great support system.

DANA: My goodness! That really launched a whole big wide open world for you didn’t it?

SHELLEY: It sure did!

DANA: Wow that is wonderful. Now are there any other tips that you would like to share with the rest of us and our listeners as a result of being a member of Wonderful Web Women?

SHELLEY: I’d say definitely the way Janet approaches things so she’s, and it sounds cliché to say she’s ‘just herself’, she doesn’t try to be anyone else and even as it comes out of my mouth I think it’s such a cliché thing to say but it’s just the warmth that comes through in her personality when she’s doing business. You know, she attacks this in a professional way but she’s also the warm caring person that she is in a natural sense and she’s able to transfer that through all the interviews that she does, through all her client relationships. Every piece of material that comes from Janet when you read it; just in the text of every email, you can feel Janet in that text. Do you know what I mean?

DANA: Yes, absolutely. She’s transparent in her personal life as well as her business as well. She’s just the same, she doesn’t change.

SHELLEY: Absolutely. I couldn’t have said it better myself.

DANA: Yeah, well she is. I know being a Wonderful Web member myself, that’s just, that is what she brings to every one of us. You just feel like you really know her on a very personal level. So now, I know based on just the conversation that we’ve had and what you told us of the top of our Rising Star interview, you have been just a tremendous light and inspiration to so many couples and that’s so important as we have discussed even before we started the interview is that handling business in general can be difficult anyway but especially combining that as a couple and especially when you have a family, it’s the foundation of really building your family is the relationship that a husband and wife have so I know that there is a lot of our listeners that are hanging on the edge of their seat right now that would love to learn more about you and what it is that you can help them maybe achieve in their life and their business. To find out more about you and your business, where could they go?

SHELLEY: Sure, well I’ve got two websites actually. My first website is called, and it’s still active, it’s called www.empoweryourlifeclub.com and at Empower Your Life Club, there’s a whole range of resources that are around personal development. There’s also information in there about property investing and internet marketing and share trading stuff. There’s a whole range of free information that’s all available for download and you can go there any day of the week and grab as much or as little as you like but you are able to search through exactly what it is that you’re looking for. So Empower Your Life Club is my coaching website then I also have what I was talking about before, as far as couples in business and how to support the relationship through working together, that website’s called www.lovesexandbusiness.com.

DANA: Ooh, we love that!

SHELLEY: I knew you’d get a giggle from that.

DANA: Well, you know it’s a feel good kind of business name. We love that and the first one was www.empoweryourlifeclub.com correct?

SHELLEY: That’s correct yes.

DANA: Okay wonderful. Well thank you for sharing those and again, I would encourage any of our listeners on the call today. I know Shelley is just such a tremendous woman and she’s so excited about reaching out and helping others so make sure that you go to the sites and sign up for her information, you’ll be glad that you did. I just can’t thank you enough Shelley for taking your time with your business and your family and those three little ones underfoot to spend this time with us, I really appreciate it.

SHELLEY: You’re more than welcome Dana, thanks for having me.

We are very proud to feature our Wonderful Web Radio Rising Star interview.  In this segment, we speak with Barb Dull who talks to us about how one of Janet Beckers challenges led her to take action and complete her first mentoring video for moms!

As a single parent, Barb knows exactly how difficult it can be for career moms to balance their working life with their family life so she uses her experience and talents to help mentor women to synchronise their lives which leads to happier families and a fruitful working life. To find out more about Barb’s work and how she can help you in yours, visit www.incrediblemoms.net.

Transcript of the Interview

DANA: Today I’d like to introduce you to Barb Dull. Thank you so much for joining us today Barb and welcome to the call.

BARB: Hi Dana, thanks for having me, I appreciate it.

DANA: It is absolutely our pleasure and we’re so excited because you are a very special Rising Star, I know, of Janet’s and also an acquaintance and friend of mine so it’s a pleasure to get to speak with you today. If you don’t mind, please share with our listeners that may not be familiar with you yet, a little bit more about you and your business.

BARB: Well hi everybody. As Dana mentioned, my name’s Barb Dull and I have what I call my passionate business. The name of the business is Incredible Moms and I work with career minded moms who want to have a passionate career and fit it in with their family lifestyle. It’s something that I have developed over time and something that I am extremely, extremely excited about. As a single mom, I realised the value of having time to myself to spend with my daughter and so therefore I want to help other women do the same. I work with women whether they’re in a corporate environment, a small business environment or if they own their own business. I help them to reach that, what I call synchronisation, in their life between their family and their personal life. Between their family personal life and their business life. So, I’m here as a what I call a ‘Mom Mentor’ for women.

DANA: A Mom Mentor, I love that and you know I know personally from really building a business around working with women, there’s something very, very special about that bond that we share and especially being moms.

BARB: Yep, exactly. Moms have a unique way of looking at things from a business perspective as well as they have some, what I feel to have some extra talent in being able to organise and coordinate things in their lives; whether it be the soccer schedule or their children’s dentist appointment or trying to run a meeting with some board members in their organisation. You know there are so many different skills that moms have to offer and sometimes they get a little bit overwhelmed so I’m here to help them try to coordinate things and synchronize their lives.

DANA: I think we have that inborn ability to be the multi-tasker without even thinking about it.

BARB: Exactly! As a matter of fact, I’m multi-tasking now! No, I’m not, I’m focussing on the call!

DANA: Oh, but I know you are! Now, you have been a member of Wonderful Web Women for quite some time now haven’t you?

BARB: Yes I have and it’s been a great, great, great opportunity as a matter of fact I think I probably started around the same time you did in being a member and it’s definitely been something that I have found to be of extreme value; the different calls that Janet has conducted, the different guests that she’s had on, some of the challenges that she has presented. I think it’s just fabulous. It’s really made a difference from my perspective, in my business it’s helped in how I look my business and I look at other people’s businesses too.

DANA: Well I know just from both of our personal experiences; it’s part of being in that special community that Janet has. Everyone that I have met and everyone that I have interviewed for these Rising Star segments has been just so inspiring and we all have that commonality of wanting to make a difference and it all comes from the mother of the business here. The Wonderful Web Women is Janet Beckers and, you know, we’re just so thankful for her so being a member has I know been a wonderful contribution to myself, my business and those that I serve and I know that that’s done exactly the same for you.

Now, was there a particular call that you listened to of Janet’s and one of her guest speakers that made a big difference in your life and business? Any particular one you could single out?

BARB: Well, actually there’s two that are combined so I would like to talk about both of those.

DANA: Great!

BARB: Last year before Janet did her first Passion To Profits program, she did some preview calls and with those preview calls and I’m hoping I’m recollecting this correctly, she gave us an opportunity to participate in some challenges and one of the challenges had to do with putting together a video. Now I had never ….I do like to get in front of people and do things, but I was always a little bit shy as far as videos were concerned and so this is pretty much of a funny story I think; she had a challenge for us to do a video and I wanted to do it but I was going to visit my sister in St Louis and I thought ‘man when am I going to fit this in and when am I going to get up the courage up to do it?’ so while I was away, the rest of the family was downstairs, I was upstairs in my huge room and I pulled out my camera and started the video and then I started to get addicted to it! Ooh, I didn’t know if I liked it that well so I had to go to the store while I was in St Louis and I left everybody else behind and I ran to the store and I did a video in the car and then I was like ‘I don’t know if I like it that well’ so then my eight year old niece was in the car with me and I said ‘take this video for me’ and so she did the video for me! I started to get addicted to it and I honestly haven’t done as many videos as I would like but I love the concept of doing videos and that leads me into the second call that I found to be extremely helpful and that’s the one that she had not done that long ago with Pam Brossman and Pam discussed the value of video social marketing and based on the call with Pam and I’ve talked to Pam before and you and I are, you know, very well acquainted with Pam. A lot of the information that Pam had to provide really helped to reinforce the fact of how valuable video marketing is and in particular what I loved about what Pam had to suggest was doing video newsletters and so I started doing video newsletter for Incredible Moms and my Incredible Moms newsletter that I send out so I would say that those were the two calls and hopefully that wasn’t a little long winded but those were the two calls…

DANA: That was fantastic and I love you give the two because video and video marketing and getting into the social arena is becoming such a huge thing right now and it makes such an incredible impact on your business and I know from participating in Janet’s calls so often that there is always, always so much content delivered and I was on that same call you were referring to of Pam’s and there’s always a great takeaway, there is just always something that helps me grow my business and so the fact that you gave two examples was wonderful and the next thing I would have asked you was what did you learn but you really kind of, you did cover that. Now how would you say that you have been able to apply what you have learned by being a member of Wonderful Web Women to your life and your business?

BARB: Well, I would say I love Janet’s authenticity. I’ve never met Janet face-to-face but I’ve talked to her on the phone one-on-one, I have looked at her audios, her videos, I’ve listened into her calls and she’s the same person. No matter how you interact with her, she’s the same person, she’s authentic; she’s real. I just love how natural she is and that comes across like I said when you’re interacting with her in a teleseminar or one-on-one and it also comes very much across in how she presents her business to the world. She’s a true person and I’d say that the one thing that I have fully taken away is that I’ve always known that you have to be authentic but Janet really, I think, exemplifies the realness that you have to present in order to keep your customers and to bring on new customers. I just think she’s just a fabulous individual and I think not only with herself but she seems to always bring on guest speakers who are also extremely authentic and that’s what we need I believe in the business world is to be true to ourselves and to our businesses and to our customers.

DANA: Oh definitely and I would say the law of attraction really rings true for her because she has been really able to attract the same type of women and men; there’s been some great men that she’s had as guest speakers as well and they really exemplify that you have to give before you receive and Janet gives and gives and gives; she over delivers I think in everything that she does and there’s just so many great takeaways to the people she brings forward to all of us. So is there any other tips that you would like to share as a result of being a member of Wonderful Web Women?

BARB: Well, I would say one thing that really kicked me into gear as far as my business was concerned, and it was the result of Janet’s teachings and interacting with her via the teleseminars and one-on-one, I would say that taking action is probably what I’ve taken away from all of the calls and just being a member. Janet takes action and she promotes taking action and I’m all about taking action more so now than I’ve ever been. I have to admit there have been times when I have gone a little bit under the radar but it’s not because for lack of taking action, it’s basically because I’m taking action in the background, not necessarily in front of my clients or customers but she always talks about, you know, doing things and she’s always seems to be on top of her business and really focusing on her customers and getting her customers and clients and her followers to take action so I would say, yeah, taking action and just doing it. You know she’s presented so many different types of challenges where people she’s encouraged those participating in the teleseminars to take action and I think that’s what makes a really big difference is that you can listen to things but if you don’t take action, it’s not going to get you any further than what you were before you listened in on the teleseminar or even by just listening in is not going to get you any further unless you actually do something and she really promotes that, promotes that you take action.

DANA: She does and really that’s the only way we were able to move forward in our lives and businesses; really by taking action and taking what you learned and putting it into action, you know that’s how we move forward. I always say ‘ you can’t win the game when you’re sitting on the bench’ so and she definitely puts you in the game. The game and to win.

BARB: Absolutely.

DANA: Now, I know you were such a light and inspiration to so many especially, I mean to women but especially to moms and that’s near and dear to your heart and I know there are probably several of our radio show listeners that would love to get a little more information about you. So where would we send them? Where would they go to find you?

BARB: Ok, I do have a website, it is obviously www.incrediblemoms.net and if you go to the website and you sign up for my newsletter, you will receive a newsletter probably about once a month and coming September there’s some exciting new things that I will be doing so I strongly suggest you get on the website now and sign up. I obviously, being a follower of Janet’s and so many others in the world of online marketing, I have some freebies to give away when you sign up for the newsletter and yeah, some good tips, but like I said come September there’s some really exciting things that I am not going to give out right now.

DANA: You’re not going to reveal them! You’re going to leave us hanging and we’ll wait!

BARB: Yeah. There’s some fun things, some things that will help women who are building their business or who are in a corporate world and they need tips on how to do certain things in the corporate world – I’m not going to tell you what those are but I have some great things that I’m putting together; some great programs and some neat things for moms too just some things that moms can do to make their life a little bit easier for them. So a couple of great new programs coming up in September.

DANA: Great Barb. Thank you so very much for joining us today and sharing your insights and really the value of being of member of Wonderful Web Women. I know it’s been really life changing for you hasn’t it?

BARB: It sure has and I have to say as a result of being a member of Wonderful Web Women, I’ve become a great friend with Dana so thank you Janet for everything that you’ve provided in the workshops and the teleseminars but also for giving me an opportunity to connect with Dana.

DANA: She will thank you for that and yes, she brings together some just wonderful, wonderful women so to speak. Well it’s been an honour to not only be with you here Barb today but to be here with all of you listeners of Wonderful Web Radio. This is Dana Dunn on behalf of Janet Beckers and the Wonderful Web Radio team, we hope you’ve enjoyed today’s radio show and look forward to welcoming you to again, another a great show next week, so bye for now. Bye Barb!

BARB: Bye!

Margit helps people use their spiritual intuitiveness to increase their personal development and finds that this drives their motivation and passion to succeed; something else that she strongly feels she receives from Janet Beckers’ and the Wonderful Web Women Community.  You can check out Margit’s website at: www.margit.com.au

Transcript of the Interview

Dana: In today’s segment, we’re going to be speaking with one of our very own rising stars. So today I would like to introduce you to Margit Robson. Thank you so much for joining us today.

Margit: Oh, you’re welcome Dana. It’s an absolute delight to speak with you today.

Dana: Well thank you for taking time out of your busy day. I know you’ve got a family and a business and we’re just thrilled to have you. So, if you don’t mind, please share with our listeners a little bit more about you and your business.

Margit: Yes, certainly I’d love to. A little bit about me is I’m a mum, I have teenage children, I have a busy life, I work from home, I have a home based business so I’m also that home-based entrepreneur. My husband actually has a job and I’m the one that actually is the creative one, the visionary. My business is in the personal development niche and the micro-niche is actually a little bit with regards to how to follow your intuition, how to use your spiritual intuitiveness, to put that into your business, to help you grow your business and so one of my main slogans is “When the student is ready, the teacher appears” so I just help women and entrepreneurs and home-based mums to keep having their passion and finding their passion which is their drive and their motivation to succeed.

Dana: Oh fantastic, what an incredible business. And wonderful. What an opportunity that you share with others. Now you’ve been a member of Wonderful Web Women for some time now haven’t you?

Margit: Yes I have, I actually have been member since end of 2008 and I think I’m actually now a lifetime member however that went I think with the inaugural process that we went through. And being that Gold member or lifetime member of Wonderful Web Women has just been a brilliant opportunity to connect with other like-minded women.

Dana: Now that is fantastic. So, obviously since you’ve been a part of the community for such a long period of time, you’ve obviously had a chance to really listen in and participate in some of the calls. Was there a particular call in particular that really kind of stands out to you; one of Janet’s that made a big difference in your life and in your business.

Margit: Well yes there was and it was right back towards the end of 2008, probably around about the November/December mark I think from memory and Janet gave a call to the Gold members and it was a bit like a question and answer call where she was sharing her passion and her reasons. She had a project that was called the ’52 virtues’ she was also sharing questions and answers with other women. So how she was putting her team together, how she was putting some of her business principles together. How she kept motivated and that particular call, she was very relatable to everybody that was listening in so no one could actually ever think that Janet was up on her pedestal too great to actually reach or listen to. She was very relatable and very real and very genuine and I just remember coming off that call and going to that place where it was ‘Yeah, this is what this is all about, is just keep following your passion, keep following your passion because it does unfold and it does actually happen’. So, it was a fantastic call.

Dana: That is wonderful, so that actually would have led me into my next question was well, what did you learn? So you kind of summarised that right there, anything else you’d like to add to that?

Margit: I just also learned something for the first time. Janet has a passion of being able to say to everybody that if she learns something, or if she learns or knows something or she discovers something, she’s so really transparent in sharing that with everybody that her excitement comes through. And sometimes in those early calls her excitement would come through and she was babbling along and speaking and you couldn’t just help that whatever it was that she’d discovered that she just knew was going to help everybody’s business it was coming through her voice so that was one of the things that I also learned and I started to apply it myself because I’ve had my business for 17 years and it suddenly dawned on me that everybody likes to feel that real transparency that this is, you know, what you see is what you get, what you’re listening to is what you get. There’s no mystery involved, there’s no secrecy. Janet just lays everything out the table and what you see is what you get. And it’s just, it was refreshing.

Dana: Absolutely. Yes, she is very, very transparent and everything she does, she does from her heart and it just shows.

Margit: Absolutely.

Dana: Fantastic. Now, is there any other tips that you’d like to share as a result of being a member of Wonderful Web Women?

Margit: Well, I think the number one tip that I got was from the very first start I was asked if I wanted to join a mastermind group, one of Janet’s Wonderful Web Women mastermind groups and I joined mastermind group number one.  So I was involved with the very first mastermind group and there were six of us from all over that used to dial in every fortnight and speak and we did that for close on, I think maybe be 12, 12 or 18 months, I can’t remember. 12 months or so, longer. We formed such a bond, the six of us that were in that mentoring or mastermind group, and Janet in the early days would also pop in and join us maybe once every couple of months, she’d just come in and have a listen and answer any questions, but she left it up to us and we could actually share whatever we wanted to share and I want to recommend to everybody, regardless of what type of mastermind group, the networking that you make through Wonderful Web Women is priceless. Those ladies and I still talk today, it can go months can go past but we would still Skype, we still call each other for help. It’s almost like a sisterhood was formed and that sisterhood, I know will last for a lifetime. That type of thing is priceless so I recommend that to everybody.

Dana: Oh absolutely, it’s all about surrounding yourself with success and motivated entrepreneurs as well.

Margit: Absolutely, because what you do is, as you are supporting each other, you’re listening, you’re sharing your learning things. You’re able to feel a lot more confident and in that confidence it gives you the strength to keep going in your business and take it to where you want to take it to.

Dana: Oh that is absolutely wonderful. Now, I know you’ve been a light and an inspiration to others not only through your personal life but definitely your professional life. If there are those listeners that are here with us right now listening that are interested in finding out more about you and your business would will they go.

Margit: Yes, certainly. Well the first place that they can go is in the Wonderful Web Women website, I actually co-authored the first book that Janet produced which was ‘The Law of Attraction in Action’ and it was actually the part, I’m not sure, I think it might have been part 2. I’ve actually got a chapter in there that’s got a whole heap of details. I have a website and the website is www.margit.com.au and my email address which is enquiry@margit.com.au anyone can email me directly and I’ll answer their email personally.

Dana: Oh wonderful. Well Margit thank you so very much for taking your time to join us today and sharing your insights and really some heartfelt kind of you know revelations that you’ve had of being a part of Wonderful Web Women and I know being part of  mastermind is a very, very important thing for your life and your business so I find I was very thankful that you shared that with all of us today.

Dawn runs her very own successful business called Fabulously Successful whereby she help to empower and inspire women the world over. After listening to the recording, head over to www.fabulouslysuccessful.com and enjoy a free gift that Dawn has put together for her visitors.

Transcript of the Interview

Dana: It’s my pleasure to introduce you today to Dawn Bournand. Dawn, welcome to the call.

Dawn: Hi Dana, thank you so much.

Dana: Oh, we are thrilled to have you. If you don’t mind, please share with our listeners a little about you and your business.

Dawn: I would love to thank you. Well, Dana I’m actually owner and director of a company called Fabulously Successful and I created this company because I wanted to empower and inspire women the world over. I really think it is important that women live their lives on purpose and that they discover and create their own version of fabulous success and that’s really important when I say their own version because, so often we get caught up in the ideas that other people have of what success means and so through my company I really hope to convey to women that success is their own definition and they need to follow that light inside of themselves and I think one of the very best ways to accomplish that actually is by having your own business so we do focus quite a bit at Fabulously Successful on creating your own business whether it be, you know, a full time thing or if you do it on the side but just something to sort of develop yourself.

Dana: I love that and I love that you really focus on the fact that, you know, being fabulously successful it is, you know, in my opinion it sounds like it’s just as unique as having your own individual fingerprint.

Dawn: Yeah, absolutely. I love that. That’s great Dana.

Dana: Oh, that is wonderful. Oh well I love that because we are individuals and we all have our own definition of success. It means different things to different people so what a fabulous business you have. Now I know you’ve been a member of Wonderful Web Women for quite some time now haven’t you. How long has it been?

Dawn: Oh, my gosh, you know I think that I might have been one of the first members. I’m not sure, we would have to check those dates with Janet but I found Janet very serendipitously and I honestly can’t tell you exactly, you know, how that path happened but I joined her, as I said, right at the beginning of Wonderful Web Women. I know that she was very new to the scene and I was so impressed with all that she gave. She’s just one of the most giving wonderful people but a true pro. She knows what she’s talking about and she never hesitates to share that with you and so I had the good fortune to have Janet as one of my very first guest speakers. I held a teleseminar series called ‘The Marvellous March Mentors’ and she was one of the speakers and people just really connected to her. I had so much great feedback from Janet so I’ve been a loyal member for all along, simply because I think she’s fantastic.

Dana: And she is, and she does make such a difference in all of our lives, all of us doing business out there. Now, was there a particular call that you listened to of Janet’s that really is a standout for you? It really made a big difference in your life and in your business.

Dawn: You know, I would be glad to be able to pinpoint it to just one but I can’t!

Dana: There’s just been so many things!

Dawn: Exactly, all of them have been wonderful. Janet has a great way of speaking with people that you feel like she’s their friend, she’s your friend and it’s just very relaxed and very open and so I can’t pick just one but I have to tell you, I’ve been very privileged to actually coach personally with Janet. I’ve been one of her personal clients and that is really where I’ve learned so much. If any of the listeners ever get a chance to do that with Janet, I would highly encourage them to do that.

Dana: Oh that’s wonderful. Thank you so much for sharing. I feel the same way every time I hear Janet speak. I just get so much value for me to just pick one is very, very difficult. I don’t think I can.

Dawn: Exactly!

Dana: You know, probably the very first time I heard her, you know, because that was the first introduction would be the one that stands out for me. So was there anything that’s just is a stand out for you that you’ve learned, especially that you’ve been coached by Janet? Is there anything that she’s just kind of taught you along the path that you say is just ‘wow’ it’s really been life changing for you?

Dawn: Many, many things! Yeah!

Dana: I know!

Dawn: I think there’s probably, probably three things that really stand out for me. The first one, and I sort of touched on this already is the idea of being generous. Almost overly giving because I think that, it’s what keeps so many people loyal to Janet but also, you know, they feel intrigued that if you’re giving so much and they feel that if you’re giving so much, you know, what you pay for must be even better and it is, but she gives so much so freely. So that’s the first thing; to be generous and almost overly giving and the second thing is to be real. Again something that I already touched on it’s very important, I think a lot of people that you see out there in the business world, you get the feeling that they’re doing whatever they’re doing to make more money or to further themselves along and you never feel that way with Janet. She’s so real; she talks to you, again, as if she’s your friend and so I admire that so much from her and it’s something that I really strive to do myself in business. And I guess the third thing would be then, and this is a lesson, if anyone has followed Janet over this last year especially in January, she teaches you that when life gives you lemons, you don’t just make lemonade, you make a margarita, so when you have a problem, you deal with it. You find the good in that problem and you make it something better and I’m so inspired by that because she encountered a huge problem with her server in her business and it nearly destroyed her business just because she was losing so much of the information in the database and she turned around, shared exactly what she was going through with her readers and I’m sure that she’s probably doubled, tripled, quadrupled her list because of that because people just so related to her going through that and how she kept such a positive attitude and just inspired people the whole way through something that could have been a disaster for her.

Dana: Well, and you know she set such a great example of that because I know there’s a lot of people out there that would have been so embarrassed and frustrated and almost humiliated by what happened. They would have been so fearful to share that and Janet has never ceased to share her inner heart and exactly what’s going on with her because she knows that we’re all going to benefit and learn from what she’s goes through and that’s why she’s a wonderful mentor.

Dawn: Exactly, exactly. She is a fabulous mentor, yes.

Dana: Wow, fantastic, well thank you for sharing that because that is such a very important thing and I know all of us really watched and really learned as she went through that and the big take away for me was ‘What a lady of grace’. It really, really was.

Dawn: Yes, exactly.

Dana: And so, I would assume, based on Fabulously Successful is you’ve applied what you’ve learned to your life and business. It sounds like that is exactly how you’ve really applied your business based on what you’ve kind of learned. You’ve just grown so much by the value that Janet’s given you.

Dawn: Absolutely. Yeah, I would say that, again, I do try to apply these three major things. There are so many things I’ve learned from Janet and, you know, I’m sure that if I really stepped back and thought about it, I could list you a full page of things that I’ve learned from her. But truly, it’s taking that idea of giving high value to people and really sharing with them so I try to apply that as much as I can within my own business and to be real. Just to make sure that people feel comfortable with you because we’re in business and we know that people buy from people that they know, like and trust and that is something that Janet is an expert at doing and I really try to follow her footsteps in that as well. And you know, I think that she’s is just so open and friendly so again, it’s just something that I really strive to do and then last, but not least, any women that has tried to set up her own business can tell you, there are many hurdles that you have to overcome and it’s that idea of taking the lemons and making a margarita that has really helped me because I encounter problems all the time and I think every female entrepreneur out there does and it’s so great to have a mentor like Janet to show you that don’t let it get you down – make it something special.

Dana: Absolutely. So, really my final question for you today was going to be are there any other tips you would like to share as a result of being a member of Wonderful Web Women? Anything in addition to what you’ve already shared? You’ve shared so much already.

Dawn: Well, you know I think that Janet is truly an expert in creating online success and she never makes you feel though that she’s far from you which is really amazing because Janet’s running a million dollar business, you know. She’s very, very successful and yet, you feel like you can completely relate to her. Even if you’re starting out at point zero, you feel that you can follow what she’s doing and you can do it too. So that’s really important and so I would encourage everyone, if you’re new to hearing about Janet or Wonderful Web Women, follow along what she’s doing because I think you’re going to be impressed but you’re also going to learn a lot.

Dana: Oh, fantastic. Great words of wisdom. Now, on that note, I know that you’ve been a light and inspiration to others and many women are just so interested to hear more about you so I want to give you the opportunity. If anyone is interested in finding out more about you and your business, where would they go?

Dawn: Well, I would love them to stop by my website!

Dana: Great.

Dawn: It’s very easy, it’s a simple address, they just go to www.fabulouslysuccessful.com and you can go there to get a free gift and if you would like to sign up for our newsletter, we would love that. But you can also reach me personally, if you have any questions about what I’ve talked about with my company or if you have questions about the mentoring that I received from Janet and want to know more about that, I would be very happy to share with you and you can reach me directly at dawn@fabulouslysuccessful.com.

Dana: Oh wonderful. Dawn, thank you so very much for your time. All that information you gave us was extremely insightful and you really shared some very heart centred things I know that you’ve learned from Janet as I have. So, it’s been an honour to be here with you today.

Alisse is a Prosperity Coach and Feng Shui expert, mother of 4 and has so far written a series of 3 Feng Shui Secrets books that are now published and available online – all this while still being able to find the time to also help her husband out in his business!

You can discover Alisse’s website to find out more at fengshui-thesecrets.com

Click below to listen to this short and powerful rising star interview

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Dana: In this segment, we will be speaking to our very own rising star, and today, I would like to introduce you to Alisse Bradley.  Alisse, welcome to our call.

Alisse: Thanks Dana, thanks so much for having me.

Dana: Oh we are thrilled and very excited to know a little bit more about you and what you do for business.  So, if you could let’s just take a couple of minutes and share with our listeners more about you and what you do?

Alisse: Okay Dana, I am a speaker.  I have spoken internationally.  I am, this year, the author of the Feng Shui series.  So, this year, I actually wrote 3 books.  So, it’s really been a wonderful journey and an interesting year for me, and I am a prosperity coach.  And what is unique about my coaching, is it’s a combined coaching, where I have taken my background, which is Feng Shui, astrology and mental mastery and study in neurolinguistic programming, and I have combined it with a real practical business coaching model.  So that’s what I spend my time doing – also I am the mother of four children, so I have other things to do in my spare time, and I am a partner of my husband in his business as well, so balance is definitely a big part of my life.  But what I am most excited about is this year –  this sort of came from writing the Feng Shui Secrets series – was the decision to get online and I have just put together my new website, which is fengshui-thesecrets.com.

Dana: How nice.  Now I have to say, you are one incredible woman.  You just did 3 books within a course of a year?

Alisse: Yes.

Dana: Three….and you have four children.  Well, my children are already grown and I am still trying to complete my first book.  So, wow, you have been completely a successful woman, that’s for sure.

Alisse: Yes Dana, it has been an incredible year because the interesting part about my children is this year, they are actually at 4 different schools.  Two of them are finishing, and two of them are starting in school.  So they are in 4 schools, so this has been one heck of a year.

Dana: Wow!  Now you just earned. You already had my respect but, you got it now.  That’s amazing!  What I get is that you are so talented and you really offer so much to those who follow you.  So, I am curious about how you were first introduced to Janet Beckers and our wonderful web community.

Alisse: Janet and I were both speakers at the Accelerating Business function which was down in Sydney.  So that’s when I first met Janet and I was very fortunate;  I was able to spend some time with her in the back room, between speaking.  I was very interested in Janet’s model.  And for me, the online thing was a little bit out of my understanding, but I really did want to go there. With seeing the potential, with me being so busy and having so many things to do with my life, online was just such a great way to be able to be, do more of what I do.   And be able to share it with more people.  So Janet’s model was extremely interesting.

Dana: Well, I know, and because of the relationship you have had with Janet and your interest, you also became a member of Wonderful Web Women didn’t you?

Alisse: Absolutely I did.  I did become a member.

Dana: So you have access to all the training calls and the information and you know, as one of our interviewers said the other day, it’s so funny because she said it’s like her own encyclopedia.  She can go to the resource center of  Wonderful Web Women and really get anything she needs to grow her online business.

Alisse: Absolutely, absolutely.  What I love the most about what Janet offers, especially for me, because I would call myself extremely technologically challenged.  I’m very badly technologically challenged but I love that Janet makes it very simple and I find it really easy.  You know to me it’s an A-Z process and I can follow what she is teaching me and I can break it down and I can do it.

Dana: Yeah, that’s so true for me too, because technology isn’t always my friend that’s for sure.  So over the period of time that you have been a member, involved in so many calls and trainings, you have obviously attended the live event with Janet.  Is there anything in particular that really stands out in your mind that has really made a difference, in your life, in your business moving forward?

Alisse: Yeah.  Absolutely.  One of the biggest things, initially, that came through for me from working with Janet, is she had an interview with a lady named Baeth Davis, and Baeth reads palms; she is a hand analyst.  For me it was a real reinforcement, because what I do is quite left field, I suppose.  I understand that it’s becoming more and more something that people are aware of, but it’s a little bit of a different way to look at things.  And when I realized that someone like Baeth Davis could do such a wonderful job and make such an incredible impact, doing something which is in line my sort of modality, a hand analyst.  It really gave me the confidence to move forward.  And to make this, like really get serious with this, and see my potential, that I could make it something that could be of huge benefit to people who are serious about business, not just people who have just a little hobby on the side.  That was a very, very significant call, interview that I have listened to and since then I have done more work with Baeth.  And the second very significant couple that I have learned a lot from is Andrew and Daryl Grant.  They were probably a fairly early call.

Dana: Yes

Alisse: I have my program initially Janet sent through with the iRiver to listen to, and I do my walking and I listen to another interview.  And yeah, Andrew and Daryl Grant, with their selling their E-Books online.  Because I have written an E-Book.  Again, it gave me the step by step and it gave me the faith to okay lets get these E-Books up online, and they have been incredibly helpful to me as well.

Dana: Well thank you for that Alisse.  I think sometimes, we don’t give enough credit to, you know, you say you listen to that while you are walking.  It’s just that we know all about the neuropathways and how  it really starts seeding in our brain and pushing us towards higher levels of achievement, we probably never thought we could achieve before.  And how impactful that the call with Baeth was, and then of course, Daryl Grant.  It’s just, it’s amazing.  It’s really exciting that Janet’s community is really having a very big impact in other women’s lives, and men for that matter.

Alisse: Yeah, absolutely, and what I love the most is, with Janet, it is so diverse, there is so many different, amazing people that she is bringing together, and you know, like I just love  that’s my daily routine is to jump up and go for that walk, listen, and I get so much from each different person that Janet interviews. It really helps me during my day.  When I get in and start working, I’ve got fresh ideas and I have always got a fresh idea.

Dana: Oh that’s wonderful.  If you’re probably not too careful, you’ll probably end up walking 10 miles.  ‘Cause you’ll be so be encouraged.

Alisse: Absolutely, absolutely.

Dana: Now are there any other tips that you would like to share to our listeners.  Really, that you have been able to achieve or take part in as a result of being a Wonderful Web Women member?

Alisse: Yeah. Like I said earlier, the thing that appeals to me most is how simple it is to follow.  Initially looking at going online, I could always see the potential.  The potential to make income, for me one of the things that is so wonderful is not having to repeat yourself.  As a coach, you know, you are tending to repeat yourself and repeat yourself and its’ so wonderful to get to learn to make products where you are not repeating yourself.  Where you can actually get that product, get it done once and then get it out to as many people as possible.  So you can actually share that message.  That’s such a great idea.  And it’s a great way to create income.  It is easier income for yourself that doesn’t demand your time.  And for my life, the honest truth is, time is the most valuable commodity that I have.  So it is so important to me to be able to still do what I love, still share my message, still create income, but still be able to have my time and my balance.  So, this online model is wonderful.  But for someone who doesn’t have that experience, and I’m not sure that my mind quite works in that real technological way, sometimes, it needs to be simple and with Janet it’s clear, it’s simple.  She breaks it down so nicely.  She’s a list girl, which I just love the list.  And I just think the most important thing is do not get overwhelmed by everything and to just take it one piece at a time.  And I definitely have to do that.  I have set tasks per week to get done and that’s all I set myself to do, I don’t overwhelm  myself, and each day I just set 3 tasks to do, so that I don’t get overwhelmed.  And I really resonate with  Wonderful Web Women and what that program offers me.

Dana: Oh.  Those are absolutely wonderful tips to share and really I know for most of us, it’s taking it easy.  You don’t have to learn everything all at one time and just by a simple example you have just given everyone it’s just, get that little list.  Check off the things every day that you’ve accomplished and then you can move on to the next.  So, that was wonderful, thank you so much.  And Alisse, I know we have had just a little bit of time to share your message and your inspiration with all of our listeners here.  And I am sure that there is many on the call with us right now that would love to learn more about and your Feng Shui books you have got going.  So where can they go find about more about you and your business?

Alisse: My new site.  It isn’t officially launched, however it’s up and running.  The site is actually www.fengshui-thesecrets.com.

Dana: Great.

Alisse: You can go to that site.  And the purpose and passion behind that site is to create a place, it’s an educational site, to create a place where people can go to gain any tools that are necessary.  Just to be a portal where they can go so they can find the tools they need to take the next step to basically be able to manifest more clients, more money and greater recognition of their business, using the energy-based modalities and the universal principles.  So using that little bit of magic.

Dana: Well, we know, if this wonderful woman we have on the phone, thus can do this with 4 children, attending 4 different schools and can write books.  You definitely can do this, so definitely go take a look at those resources.  And if you missed the website, it’s fengshui-thesecrets.com, and there will be a link, directly below this episode page, click on that link and that will take you directly to Alisse’s website.  And Alisse, thank you again so much for taking the time to join us today.  You just really have been such a light and inspiration to us.

Alisse: Thank you, thank you Dana.  Thank you so much for having me.  It has been a beautiful morning, it’s a beautiful day, and what a great way to start it.

Dana: Fantastic!  Well again, thanks for your time, we really do appreciate it.

Margaret is passionate about how we parent our toddlers and children and how we as parents can shape the future of our children today.

Margaret’s website can be found at  www.childrenareeverything.com.au where you can receive a  FREE Parenting Tool Box which includes tips and tools, information and secrets for parenting your babies, toddlers, children and teens.

As a long term member of Wonderful Web Women, Margaret now assists in mentoring current members in how to set up and run successful businesses and has used the skills she learned to create her own Radio Show despite starting out absolutely terrified of public speaking!

Click below to listen to this short and powerful rising star interview

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Dana: Margaret welcome to the call.

Margaret: Dana, thank you so much for having me on the call today.

Dana: Well, it’s absolutely our pleasure. If you don’t mind, please share with our listeners a little about you and your business.

Margaret: Well Dana, I’m a parenting expert here in Australia, Down Under. I was a later in life mum. I had my daughters when I was 39 and 41 and they’re now teenagers and my whole business is focussed around parenting and how to help mums and children. And so, just to tell you a little bit more about my business, Dana I love what I do, my business – I specialise at the moment in bedtime and toilet training solutions. So Dana, remember when your kids were babies and toddlers and you wished you had someone who could help you to get them to sleep easily and quickly and stay asleep all night?

Dana: Oh definitely.

Margaret: And then when they were potty training. Didn’t you wish you had someone who could have taught you a one day toilet training method? Well, that’s what I do. I teach mums around the world how to quickly and easily get their babies and toddlers to fall asleep in a really warm and loving way and how to toilet train them in just one day. And then, I add a really unique flavour to all this. I teach and show mums energy tools that will help them to harmonise themselves and their families so that they are mums who have really calm centred amazing energy that then flows onto their children and families so that their kids become calmer and happier unique children that they are meant to be. I’m so lucky to do what I do.

Dana: Oh my goodness Margaret. I tell you, just even hearing your voice. You’ve calmed me down from quite a busy day. What an incredible business and service that you provide to families. I think it’s just wonderful. Now you’ve been a Gold Member, I know personally, to Wonderful Web Women for quite some time now haven’t you?

Margaret: Yes I’ve been a member ever since Wonderful Web Women started and now I’m what they call a ‘mentor member’.

Dana: A mentor member. So what is it that you do as a mentor member?

Margaret: A mentor member is a person who’s been a Gold Member over a number of years, I think it’s over 2 years and then we are called upon to mentor any newbies.

Dana: Oh wonderful. What a great place to be. I know with two years under your belt with Janet, you’ve probably got a lot of great information and a wealth of information to share with these other women.  Now, was there a particular call that you listened to of Janet’s that you can just, really stands out, that made a big difference in your life and in your business?

Margaret: Dana, yes, yes and yes because obviously over all these years, I’ve learnt a real lot from Janet because she is just one of the most generous internet marketers on the planet but there was one call that really has made this really big difference to me and it’s the call where she taught us how to make an audio, and she gave us a 5.4 map and then she had a competition to encourage us to make the audio within one week.

Dana: Ah interesting. And in that call, in particular, what did you learn?

Margaret: Well the biggest thing I learnt, was overcoming a hurdle because I had had a huge phobia of public speaking. Not that making an audio is a public speaking but for me that was close enough. I had had an experience at school where we had to give an impromptu talk and I was only probably 7 or 10 years old and we don’t do this public speaking as much in Australia in our schools as you do in America so it was a really huge thing. And I fluffed it. I had to give a talk on ‘Is the moon made of cheese?’ and I said “If the moon was made of cheese, it would be full of holes” which was a great way to start but then I froze and I stood there for the rest of the 2 minutes in utter silence and everybody else was silent as well and then I had to just sit down and bury my head in the desk. But that taught me a lot as well as just holding my space and being uncomfortable in front of a group of people so Janet had made making an audio extraordinarily easy and she was so inspiring that within an hour I’d made and recorded a 10 minute talk on how to get your child to happily go to bed and fall asleep fast. Well, the audio I did in one take using her 5 step process and it was so good it’s now on one of my websites and I give it as a gift in my parenting toolbox.

Dana: Wow! So just one take you just heard her instructions and you just took her lead and went and recorded your first audio product and there you go and you still use it today.

Margaret: Exactly.

Dana: Oh, that is absolutely fantastic. Now, how would you say, I know it’s obviously done some amazing things for you; you’re still using it. But, how would you say, overall you applied this to your life and business?

Margaret: Well, this made a big difference to my life and business because one, it gave huge confidence just doing. That was a huge confidence boost, but that was really the start because what this did Dana was it inspired me to start my own fortnightly blog talk radio show. ‘Marg’s Radio Show – Children Are Everything’ I call it and it’s been running for nine months now.

Dana: Oh my gosh, Margaret. What a success story. Somebody who came from having such a big fear of public speaking; in less than a year you’ve got your own blog talk radio show.

Margaret: Exactly and the radio show is live so now I can do it as if I’m just having a cup of tea and chatting to somebody over the phone but it was very nerve-wracking but was definitely worth it.

Dana: Oh that is absolutely fantastic and congratulations to you on that success. Now are there any other tips you’d like to share as a result of being a member of Wonderful Web Women.

Margaret: I think the biggest tip would be that, if you’ve got a bright idea to start a new project that may seem daunting at first like doing a radio show for me was. Just do one step at a time for instance; when I started the blog talk radio show, my first step was something like check out the blog talk radio show website. My second step would have been to sign up to the website. My third step maybe to navigate around the website to find out what was required and probably the fourth step was to register my show on the website so I had to come up with a name and that was really committing myself. But what I did was I only did one of these steps a day so each step was achievable rather than thinking ‘Oh my God, I’ve got this bright idea to do a radio show and there’s just so much involved and oh, it’s all too much’. Chunking it down to one little achievable step a day really, really made the difference so it made it all manageable and so now it’s a very easy thing for me to do and I often use that process whenever I’m starting a new project. Just one little step. One little step a day.

Dana: That is absolutely fantastic. That is very empowering isn’t it?

Margaret: It is. And then also to let someone like Janet inspire you to do the things you wouldn’t normally do.

Dana: Oh, absolutely. Sometimes it just takes that one person to just give you that little loving nudge and off and running you go.

Margaret: Exactly.

Dana: Now, I know personally that you have been, and you’ve obviously shared that, just in this little time that we’ve had together, you have been a light, an inspiration to so many other families, I know, especially in what it is that you do. Now if anyone is interested in finding out more about you, where would they go?

Margaret: So Dana, for the listeners to find out more about me or contact me with any questions or queries or just to find about all the things that I do do around the parenting and the bedtime and the toilet training and the energy work. Just go to www.childrenareeverything.com.au and I have a fabulous gift there for all listeners of the show. Just by going to that website, you can sign up and receive a free parenting toolbox that includes all my parenting tips and energy tips and tools. So, I’ll just repeat that again in case you need a few extra minutes to write that down. The free parenting toolbox gift is available from www.childrenareeverything.com.au.

Dana: Oh, thank you so much Margaret and thank you so much for taking your time to join us as a special rising star segment of Wonderful Web Radio.

I’m Samantha Leith and throughout my life I have been both a perfect example of someone who can focus and a complete wandering disaster. I’ve had a varied working life, probably because I get bored easily and am currently working on 4 major projects, with 4 focus points. Getting to a healthy body weight (to save my life) , working full time as the Financial Controller of a publishing company (to pay the mortgage and for living in Sydney), running an online shop (to pay my daughters private school fees and for holidays) and starting my baby www.MyGoalFriend.com (to change mine and other peoples lives). You see, I believe that everybody can achieve anything they put their mind to, if it is realistic and true to their soul. I would like to help people to do this by creating a safe online and offline environment for them to share their dreams, learn from others and get encouragement to Go For Goald. I would eventually like to take this on the road, fulfilling 2 of my passions – speaking from the stage and helping others.

Transcript of the Interview

Dana: Today it’s my personal pleasure to welcome all of you to Samantha Leith; Samantha, welcome.

Samantha: Welcome, thank you.  Thank you for having me.

Dana: Well, we are so excited to have you and hear so much about your growth and your business and as you know we are featuring you as our Rising Star.  So if you don’t mind let’s take just a few moments and please share with our listeners a little bit more about you and your business.

Samantha: Hey well I am a 36 year old single mom in Sydney struggling to do everything so I decided online ventures were the way to go and I currently have two online businesses, one is a retail site that sells beautiful Australian made bath, body and home fragrance and products, and that’s called Some Kind of Bliss; and the other one is my absolute passion which is mygoalfriend.com.  So, it’s a little bit like your girlfriend but it is your goal-friend, and the idea behind that it is a safe online community where people can voice their goals, they can be inspired to go for their goals; they can learn how to achieve their goals, all through listening to experts in certain areas. And they can get a clap on the back or they can get a bit of a shoulder to cry on if it doesn’t go right and that’s where I’m really at, at the moment because I believe everybody can achieve their goals if they’re the right goal.

Dana: Fantastic! Well my goodness; so a single mom and not only an entrepreneur but an entrepreneur that has two businesses (laughs).  You’re a busy lady.

Samantha: I am a very busy lady.

Dana: Oh my goodness.  So now of course because you have Some Kind of Bliss I have to say, as a woman, that is a passion of mine.  Because we love all that fluffy, lovely kind of stuff that makes us feel good and the fact that you are kind of incorporating this other business into that to help entrepreneurs pursue their goals and really the mindset you must have.  You must have had some clear direction and that would take me to, of course, our next question is so you have been a member of Wonderful Web Woman for quite sometime, I know because we spoke a little about that; how long have you been a member and what other programs have you participated in?

Samantha: I think it’s around about the three to four year mark. I came on board after being invited through somebody else’s newsletter to an interview that they were doing with Janet and loved what I heard so whenever I have had the opportunity I have listened into calls.  I had been at various member levels.  I actually, the turning point was when I actually heard Janet speak live and she was talking about her program with Wonderful Web Seminars and a program she did called Passion to Profits, which was about teaching people how to do what she’s done with Wonderful Web Woman by interviewing experts. And that was then when the penny clicked for me because I am perfectionist that’s not perfect and I really wanted to do my goalfriend and have wanted to do it for years but thought I couldn’t do it until I was my dream size, had paid off my mortgage, found a partner and only worked five minutes a day.  So hearing Janet speak,  I thought, my gosh, I can actually do this by interviewing the people that are experts at goal setting and achieving goals in all the different areas in life without me having to be the perfect one.  So it was fabulous. Great program; highly recommend it.

Dana: Very good, well and I will say too, I took Janet’s  Passion to Profits program a couple of years ago now and I am proud to say you know, still two years and an entrepreneur working online, working from home kind of a PJ queen we like to be able to work form home in our pajamas if we can…

Samantha: If we can…Yeah.

Dana: Absolutely! Well, and I love to be out in the market place and actually working out with people too.  It is nice to be home but it is always nice to interact and engage with others.  Now would you say that there was— you mentioned that there was that call that kind of sparked you up a little bit, was there anything else about participating in Janet’s other programs that has really made a difference not only in your business but in your personal life?

Samantha: I think the biggest difference for me was that the combination of all the calls I listened to and the reading her blog post and the newsletters and all the different things was that it was one of the few places I found online that was incredibly real. And then I got the opportunity to meet people through Wonderful Web Women that were again real and made you feel that, I could do it, having not being a tick expert and not having all these a lot of other skills.  So it was a really comforting thought that these people were doing it and you could do exactly the same thing; so I don’t think there was a really defining moment, it was just all of that put together.

Dana: So moving forward because you have obviously have taken, just leaps. Like I said, you’re not just focused on one business now; you’ve got two very successful businesses going.  And I love mygoalfriend. That is a really—I know we’ve been to the site and it is such a cool site so all of are going to have to—at the end we’ll give you the link to go ahead and find out more about that, but it’s just fantastic. And so moving forward based on what you’ve learned and the skills that you are learning through Janet’s programs, how do you feel you are going to be able to apply this to your business now moving forward?

Samantha: Moving forward, I think my business is going to evolve much like Janet’s has; embracing technology and the changing things of what people want. So mygoalfriend, the basis of it is what I have learned through Janet’s program and then the little extra bits that you  get on top that will allow me to spread my wings and hopefully take mygoalfriend actually offline and have you know, weekly meetings with people in different areas and starting in Sydney. Where we can give each other that support to go for goals because a lot of us don’t have that in our family or friends structure and I really, really want people to be able to have that in life.

Dana: Yeah that’s so important and what I love about your vision is you started out—so some entrepreneurs I know that may be listening to this call are people that are hoping to start an online business.  I think sometimes we get so overwhelmed and consumed with the technology and there are so much to know and I love that you started with a basic business even though it is a big undertaking and yet it’s growing.

Samantha: Absolutely.

Dana: Yeah you’ve got big dreams for this business and a lot of ideas.

Samantha: I’ve got really big dreams for it and I have to say one of the hardest things, and if I can advise anybody, is I tried to do so much of it myself and you just can’t and it stops you doing it, so I work with a team of a couple of people in the UK that help me do a lot of my technical stuff. And whatever you need to do to find the money to be able to do that, so you can actually get into the nuts and bolds of what you want your business to be whether it is you know, doing a blog post about a candle I want everybody to buy that month, or talking about someone’s goals, that’s what you need to be doing; not working at how to change your WordPress.

Dana: That’s right because that is not our area of expertise, right?   There is a bigger part of our business that we actually want to have our hands in, and let the experts do what they are meant to do and that’s help you move your business forward. It takes a team.

Samantha: Absolutely! But, chances are if you’re an entrepreneur you want to be able to do it all yourself, and it’s just, you can’t.

Dana: I know.  I think we both discovered that. it can be—you know, it just takes up way too much time and it can become, can put into that state of overwhelm, which we know what happens. It basically paralyzes you and stops you from being able to move forward.

Samantha: Absolutely.

Dana: Now are there any tips, since we’ve got this time with you today, are there any tips that you’d like to share that you really learned as a result of being of member of Wonderful Web Women or any other inspiring tips that you have for your listeners?

Samantha: Ah! I would have a couple, one of them would be: get help.  Two of them would be, the second one rather would be to just open your eyes and take advantage of the information that is out there, whether it is free or paid. We all have a case a lot of the time of going, oh I know how to do that. And we don’t, and the more we listen, the more we can learn.  Nine times out of ten if I find an inspiring speaker from one of Janet’s interviews, I’ll go to their site; I’ll join their newsletter, I’ll subscribe to their pod cast, so I can get more information and get more inspiration.  The more inspired we are the more we can actually do and the more inspired you are the less likely you are to get frozen by the perfectionist bug and actually just get out there and do it.

Dana: Absolutely I think that’s part of, you know, getting ourselves immersed with like-minded people and like you said the inspiration sometimes can just take you from that point of frustration and, oh poor me; it’s not working out for me to all of a sudden having that light and that fire lit underneath you to help push you forward again.

Samantha: Absolutely and they don’t all have to be inspiring rags to riches stories.  It can be one little thing that someone says that just makes the light bulb go off and makes you go home after doing a day a job you don’t particularly like to spend that extra ten minutes and get something done on what you really want to do.

Dana: Now that is absolutely correct.  It is like that passion that fuels us to move forward.  Well you have been just such a wonderful pleasure to have on our radio show and I just want to give you an opportunity and all of our listeners to connect together; so where would be the perfect place for us to send our listeners to find out more about you and either Some Kind of Bliss or mygoalfriend?

Samantha: Well, if they go to www.mygoalfriend.com they can actually subscribe and they can get my 52 tips for going for gold and then that is one little page that is delivered to you with  just 52 short tips and then over the course of 52 weeks you will get one of those tips in greater detail. So they may not be in order of how to create the perfect goal but they will really, really help and that site will also lead you to my other sites and buying beautiful candles which we have to burn all year round to make ourselves feel better.

Dana: We love that.  Well and for all of you listening just in case you missed it, it’s mygoalfriend.com and there is a link right below this audio so that you’ll be able to connect with her directly and I would encourage you to do so.  I know she is doing amazing things and we are just so honored to have her on this call and this interview today.  So, thank you Samantha so much for taking time out of your day to join us.  I know I’m here in the US and you’re over there in Australia. Beautiful,  are you having a great day there?

Samantha: It is a beautiful day I have been out for breakfast already with my mom and my daughter, lovely day.

Dana: That’s right because it is your weekend.  Oh! Wonderful.

Samantha: It is…yay!

Dana: Well, and thank you for taking time away from the family to join us; we really do appreciate it.

Samantha: Thank you for having me. It’s very exciting.

Dana: Well, and it really has been our pleasure and I’m anxious to see where mygoalfriend takes you and takes the rest of us. And as always I just want to thank each and every one of you for taking time out of your day to join us.

After graduating with a BSc in Computer Science and System Analysis, I started my working career in Argentina as a System Analyst.  At that time, I was an extremely shy person, and the last thing my family and friends expected of me was that I would leave my familiar surroundings to move to another country. I was twenty-six years old and I felt the urge to prove myself.  Knowing nothing about the country, except that I’d like to go there, I moved to South Africa.

I worked in the IT Industry in South Africa, UK and USA for fifteen years, and in my spare time, I studied psychology and continued my own spiritual journey through meditation, and reading. But all along I was searching for something that would make me happier, my life purpose.  I had always loved self development and read my first books when I was a teenager. I read the first Anthony Robbins books when many people did not even know about him. All along I dreamed of becoming a motivational speaker or writer. But my own limitations did not allow for that.  The more I searched for my inner happiness, the more I was told I had a problem accepting happiness, and my frustration was diagnosed as depression.

With the birth of my first child at the age of 40, a late mother, I decided I needed a career change. I tried different things, from translation, to being a virtual assistant. But it was only when I was pregnant with my daughter three years later, that I was finally ready for life coaching. I had heard of it before this time, but my personal beliefs had stopped me from exploring it further.

I certified as a New Insights life coach at the end of 2008, and this allowed me to find the courage to give up my IT career of 23 years to follow my passion.  This would not have been possible without the support of my personal coach, and the personal changes I’ve made.  It was a life-changing leap of confidence that allowed me to discover yet another passion, Internet Marketing.

At the same time, my itchy feet led me again to another country and I am now living in Australia. My goal is to work and commute between Argentina, South Africa and Australia, which nowadays is very possible to do. I have recently launched, inspired by many people like Janet Beckers,  another site where I am helping people to find the inner happiness we all deserve as human beings. http://www.ahappierself.com

Transcription of the Audio

Dana: Today, I’d like to introduce all of you to Ankya Klav.  Ankya welcome to the call.

Ankya: Thank you, Dana. I’m so happy to with you today and with your listeners.

Dana: We are thrilled to have you and definitely to highlight you as one of the Wonderful Web Radio’s Rising Stars.  So we could just start out a little bit.  We’ve got a little of time to together today, but I would love it if you share with everyone a little bit more about you and what you do for your business.

Ankya: Sure, I’m a photographer currently, but my journey has been to various different disciplines and as we all know, life is a journey and that everything we do along the way connects together and creates who we are.  So I’ve been an artist, and a mom, and a natural therapist.  I have drawn on all these resources in what I’m doing now which is doing transformational photography, supporting women to embrace and embody who they are.  I’ve also travelled around the world, born in Europe and travelled in Asia and Africa a lot and that opened my mind to different cultures and to what really connects us all together, and what’s the heart beat, what connects us, what’s the same in all of us and that’s what I bring to my work here.  Yeah.

Dana: Oh, fantastic.  What an interesting life you have, so far.

Ankya: Yeah.  A lot more to come.

Dana: All the travels and I love the fact that, you know, it’s true when you do travel, your mind is opened to whole new world and that some of us get so –we feel like we’re so confined in the areas that we’re in, we can’t see past our own backyard.

Ankya: That’s right and to do that, it actually connects to other things and to other opportunities that we wouldn’t normally see, yeah.

Dana: Beautiful.  Now, I know from us talking previously, you have been, not just a member of Wonderful Web Womens for quite some time, you’ve actually been a Gold Member for about two years, haven’t you?

Ankya: That’s right Dana, yes.  And I m proud to be a part of this community.

Dana: Oh, well and that’s what it is.  That’s what Janet and the rest on this great community, we bring that sense of community and I know we’re all banded with another and just finding out more about what each other does and what we bring and what are purpose is.  And so since you’d been a member, there’s probably been a lot of phone calls and interviews that you’ve been able to participate in and take part in.  Was there a particular call or anything in general that you’ve been able to kind of take away as being a member of Wonderful Web Women?

Ankya: You know, I listened to many, many of the calls and it’s been like highlight every week.  You know working on your own can be sometimes, as you know, isolating and so that weekly call to interrupt what you’re doing and just to listen in with other women has been incredibly supportive over the last couple of years.  In all the technical information, mindset change and generally in this heart based marketing that Janet is presenting to us, but I thought about this and I think, the call about the Gold Book, you know that Janet has the Gold Book that she puts out every year?

Dana: Yeah.

Ankya: And have her members participate in that and I think that it was the call that she really stretched me out of my comfort zone because as an artist.  I’m a visual person, but I’m not into writing.  And that really encouraged me to get myself out there and I felt supported all along the way, both technically and with all the information we received.  And interestingly out of that process about me getting myself out there in the Gold Book that brought clients to me who actually changed my life.  So, like really never underestimate what can happen if you put yourself out there and what will come back from that.

Dana: Absolutely and I know being a contributing author, does that open a lot of doors.  Because that, she’s now authored, or co-authored for the rest of you, three books now, and a lot of attraction and action and as a Gold Member, you were able to participate in that and that’s such a huge opportunity.

Ankya: It is and I say it’s this way, it’s like a win-win for us all.  Because whatever service you have or I have, there’ll be someone who needs that, that they have a service for you and it’s kind of this wonderful web that completing us all, and that’s the way it seems to work and I think it’s really beautiful.

Dana: Yeah, it’s a community that we all complement one another.  We might not be doing all the same thing, which makes us keep moving.  I do something that benefits someone else, who benefits some else and so on.  It’s a constant chain of action.  Well, beautiful.  So let me ask you then.  As far as being a Gold Member for the last couple of years, you’ve obviously been able to take away so much and so much value, and not only just the precious relationships that you’ve been to form and develop over the last two years, what would you say as far was moving forward in your life and in your business.  How you’d been able to apply what you learned so far, moving forward?

Ankya: I think that I’ve learned from Janet is her incredible gung-ho, just do it.  I think in the past, I was a bit of a perfectionist, I wouldn’t move until I felt it was absolutely right.  And what I learned from Janet is just do it, and she has this wonderful skill of both coming from her heart and having all the practical skills and that’s what she conveys.  So I think that connecting thing.  Being part of the group is incredibly empowering because you see yourself supported and belonging to something.  And for women who may have been isolated in what they’re doing, it really makes you feel that you’re connected and part of something and that someone is been there and done it so that you’ve got guidance.  You don’t have to invent the wheel again and that you can just draw on the resources that are there.

Another thing that I love is when I’m on the calls and Janet has the Tweet chat room going on Twitter, and that’s such fun because you got to meet a lot of other women that normally you wouldn’t have met.

Dana: That’s right.

Ankya: And then other opportunities come from that.  So yeah, it’s a Wonderful Web.

Dana: Absolutely.  Even of itself that’s such a great message to everybody because it’s such a wonderful web community overall.

Ankya: Yeah.

Dana: So, now what are the other tips, okay, you obviously has been well-travelled and you’re a very successful entrepreneur — what other tips would you like to share with our listeners that you’ve been able to develop own as a result of being a Wonderful Web Women, what could you contribute?

Ankya: What did I contribute?

Dana: What would you like to contribute to our listeners, what are your tips would you like to share with everyone?

Ankya: I think the main thing is that you don’t have to do it alone.  And that sisterhood of women, it’s just opens your heart.  It’s just wonderful to know there are always other wonderful women around the world and what I love about the web is you never know who you are going to meet and it’s almost like, it’s all just happening effortlessly.  And to trust that person so I would say, participate as much as you can, even if you don’t know, even if it may seem like a way of thing to do.  If you get that message to participate in something, just go for it because you never know what’s going to come out of it.  So you’re contributing who you are and you never know who needs that contribution, that unique thing from you that only you have so really trust that.  Really trust that, that someone needs what you’ve got to offer.  And the next thing I would say is to be patient, because it does take time and Janet is such a wonderful model there because it takes patience, it takes work but it’s also a lot of fun and it will happen for you and the other thing is for you to use resource and because Janet has to many resources online and you can keep coming back to them when you get to that stage in your business or your life and she’s done it, so it’s there for you.

Dana: And it’s duplicable which is what’s I love.  It’s not anything that’s too techy for somebody for somebody who feels that they never have had any online experience before, it’s real, real time, real application, duplicable system that just put in place for you to use, so it’s a great resource center.

Ankya: Absolutely, it’s fantastic.

Dana: Yeah, I know and we had just little bit of time together and I have no doubt there are so many listeners that have shared this time to us with us today that would like to know about you and your business.  So in order to kind of connect with you, where could we go send them?

Ankya: My site is yourtransformationalphotography.com so that’s yourtransformationalphotography.com and that will give you all the information about my transformational photography sessions.

Dana: Fantastic.

Ankya: And you can find my design work at kathypress.com/Ankya, that’s where my designs for symbolic images for the Divine Femine can be found, and prints and cards.  And I’d love to hear from you and wanted to offer a 10% discount to anyone who comes though the Wonderful Web Women Community who would love to have a session with me.  It is much about the experience as it did about the photos.  The photos are transformative, but it’s the experience of being seen and taking that time for yourself.  There are many women that say, I‘ve never taken that time to really be with myself and had someone witness myself living and it really has made a difference in my life and in my business because I now appreciate myself in a new way.

Dana: Oh thank you.  So remember all of you, make sure that you go sign up because that’s a 10% discount.  And I love what you said because we do as women, we get very busy in our life and we forget who we are sometimes and what a great way to connect with who you are and capture the moments in your life, and with your photography, that’s such a perfect place to do that.

Ankya: Yeah and all of us who are now on the web needs photos, you know, for some many things, for our Facebook profile, for a website, business cards and everything.  So it’s great to have a variety of different kinds of images that really express who you are and what you’re doing in the world.

Dana: That’s right, perfect.  Well, Ankya thank you so much for taking time to join us today and share your insights and your story with us.  We really appreciate it.

Ankya: It’s a pleasure Dana.  Hope to hear with you again.

Dana: Well definitely, we will definitely touch base and connect.  I love your story, I love to know more about what you’re doing and I, just again want to take time to thank each and every one of you for joint us on the radio show today.  It’s always an honor to spend this time with you.  This is again Dana Dunn, on behalf of Janet Beckers and the Wonderful Web radio team.  We hope you enjoyed today’s radio show and we look forward to welcome you again next week to another great show. Bye for now.

Zoe Routh is a Magnetic Leadership coach and expert with over 20 years experience in leadership and personal development, maximising the potential of youth and adults through outdoor adventure. She has worked with thousands of individuals and groups and counts amongst her previous leadership roles Staff and Training Director of Outward Bound Australia, President of the Chamber of Women in Business, and Chair of the Outdoor Council of Australia. Zoe also develops and delivers leadership programs for the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation.

Her programs “The Magnetic Leader” and “Magnetic Teams” harness the power of deliberate creation for a more engaged and dynamic workplace: clients achieve goals faster and easier, having a lot more fun. In her various adventures Zoe has paddled 30 weeks by canoe in northwest Ontario, run 6 marathons, hiked hundreds of kilometers in Australia’s outback, bellydanced at various festivals, lived through cancer, married a fair dinkum Aussie bloke, and wrestled a 6 meter crocodile. It’s all true, except for the crocodile part.

To receive a complimentary weekly practical Leadership and Success Strategies from Zoë, subscribe at www.innercompass.com.au

Transcript of the Interview

Dana: Today, it’s my personal pleasure to introduce our youth to Zoe Routh. Zoe, welcome.

Zoe: Thank you and I love being called a Rising Star. That’s fantastic.

Dana: Well, in some regards, I think you’ve already risen. But we’re very proud to feature you.

Zoe: Thank you. I love being here.

Dana: Well, let’s get into this a little bit. And if you don’t mind, let’s just share a little bit more about you, and what you do for business, with the rest of our listeners.

Zoe: Sure, be delighted to. I’m a Law of Attraction Leadership coach. And I’ve been running my own business since 2002. I started off by doing one-to-one coaching.  And then I’ve extended my business offerings to include an online membership program, a suite of online self-development programs. And I also run workshops and retreats.

Dana: Oh, fantastic.  Now, how were you first introduced to Janet Beckers and the Wonderful Web Community?

Zoe: You know what, I was just remembering when I did first meet her.   It was at an event in Sydney and Ali Brown was one of the speakers in it.  She was a member in Ali Brown’s community as well, a silver member, I think.

And I gave a testimony about Ali’s program.  And then all these other people who were in Ali’s program put up their hand and we sort of clustered together at the back of the room because we’re all, we’re heading over to an event later on that year.  So, there was about four or five of us on this.  I’m a Canadian instill so I don’t sound totally Aussie but I’m adopted here in to this beautiful country.

And we kind of gathered at the back of the room and made connections.  So that when I first met Janet and she was just first, actually just started her business.  Hadn’t been going for very long.  And I got her card and we agreed that we would meet up in the Los Angeles at this conference.

And we did.  And we had such a good time.  There was about, there ended up being five or six of us from Australia.  And we hung out together and discuss how we would apply what we learned about running online businesses in Australia, in Australian context.

And then we formed a Master Mind together.  So, I was lucky enough to be in an intimate Master Mind with Janet herself for the last eighteen months.  And we’re taking a little bit of a break in the format of how we run our Master Mind.  But that is how we were first introduced.

Dana: Awesome. Isn’t that great how great minds work together and then you end up forming this Master Minds.  Wow!  What a great group of people, I’m sure, you all have together.

Zoe: Yes. We quite like ourselves, we call ourselves, Sage.  Our group is called Sage, and it’s stands for Stellar Australian Goddess Entrepreneurs.

Dana: Oh, I love it!  And was it kind of a combination of effort that came up with the name?

Zoe: Yes.  I think it was over a glass of Red, I think that’s how it came out.

Dana: Oh, that’s good.  That works, doesn’t it?

Zoe: Yes, it does.

Dana: So, I know you’re a gold member of Janet’s now at the Wonderful Web community.  You have probably participated on calls that she’s had or interviews with guest speakers.  Has there been any part of it, now especially since you’ve been part of a Master Mind group.  Janet, I know, she just oozes all this great enthusiasm and excitement and passion for business. Was there anything in particular for you that kind of resonated with you that you’ve now been able to apply in your business?

Zoe: Yes.  You know what I really liked? There was an event maybe it was a year ago, that she hosted which was, I can’t remember the exact title of it.  But I remember that the triple yes, yes, yes, that the concept being there is a benefit for you, benefit for your client and a benefit for the community or your higher purpose.

And it was just a fantastic little event.  And what I love about it is that she, how could I like an online contest that you have to participate in.  So you signed up, you listen to the call, and her challenge was right, don’t just listen to the call.  Let’s take action.  This is what you need to do.  You need to go out, record a thirty minute thing.  Turn it into a product and sell it.

And what I loved about that is that it was really interactive.  It was really engaging.  It got people to take action then and there on their projects.  It was fun.  She demystified the whole process of making an online product and actually got people unstuck and moving as oppose to when people think about starting online businesses, they think it’s just this huge massive undertaking and there is a lot to do when you are first starting on a project like that.  And she just really got people moving on it.

So, I really, really loved that project.  And I love how she modeled that enthusiasm and encouragement.  So, that was really impactful for me.  And I actually modeled a little bit of her strategy there with my own groups.

It’s not just giving information but getting a community of people engaged in what they’re doing. And that sort of what underpins my latest project which is called the “Co-Creators of Awesomeness” which is a community where we have monthly calls.

And the idea then is to then get people to take action, rapport on it and to develop momentum in applying what they know.  I think that was the key.  That’s the key principle I’ve taken from Janet.  It’s not enough to know this stuff.  You actually have to take action.  And she models that really, really well.

So that was probably the key highlight for me, that one that sticks out.  And then there’s been a lot of little things that Janet does which are I think are masterful even though they’re so simple.

For example that is a simple one.  She just posted a video that came through on one of her newsletters about how do you use lists in Facebook into leverage, your connections better. And it was like a three or four minute video.  And it was just practical and it made so much sense, and just again demystified the tools of running an online business. A little technique like that can make a big difference in terms of leveraging what you’re actually doing.

So, she is very good at breaking down how to eat that giant elephant into really bite size morsels. So those were the two things that stick out for me in terms of engaging with Janet and her work.

Oh, okay.  And here’s the last one.  Since being in a Master Mind with her, the thing that really inspires me about Janet is being able to interact with her on a personal level.  She is so real. She’s so authentic and genuine and passionate. Everybody that meets her can say the same, I’m sure.  And the thing that I love about her, is her ability to reinvent herself.

She had a totally unrelated career to online businesses before she started Wonderful Web Women.  She was a nurse and in the medical profession and then transforms herself into this Online Goddess.  So, I think that is really inspiring and motivating as well.  So, those are the three things that I really reflect on what I’ve gotten from Janet and her work.

Dana: Oh, that’s, that’s awesome. And thank you Zoe for sharing that. You know the one common denominator that I find time and time again with not only just Wonderful Web Women that we’re involved with but also the enlightenment that she has and the community as well, is that she is just such a glowing person inside and out.

And like you said, when you know her in person, she’s just the same through and through. But the one thing that always resonates with everyone is she’s just a woman of action. And she inspires you inspite of your fears and your concerns, to just take action and move forward in your business.

And you obviously have, you know, really made such a wonderful example of that in your own business now.

Zoe: Well, thank you. And I think that’s the key point, it is taking actions. People don’t know where to start and the word that she offers just says, “What, this is a very simple action.” Three minute thing, for example the Facebook tip. And you can go in and do this. And you can just leverage your activity so much more.

And with that contest that she offer as well. She said this is only take half an hour. You don’t have to spend weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks polishing this thing. Just do it. Yes and I think that’s actually a really salient point.

If you just keep taking action. Even if it’s the wrong action or a false flight, it doesn’t matter.  You’ve taken some action and you’ve got some momentum moving in the direction of whatever it is that you want to create for the world.

So, I think you’re right. That is an absolutely key point about her. She is action gal, for sure.

Dana: And you know, like I always say you know I fail forward. So, not everything I do works out perfectly. You know, you hate to admit it but it’s just real life. And it’s trial and error in building your business.

And really, like you said, Janet just demystifies and simplifies everything so much that we tend to complicate. And like you said, two or three minute video, and you’re off and running and you’ve got some very practical advice and tips to move your business forward.

So, thank you very much Zoe for sharing that.  So now, you’ve given a lot but in this very short time we’ve had together, are there any other last minute tips that you’d like to share with our listeners?  That you’ve develop as a result of being a member of Wonderful Web Women.

Zoe: I think that, yes.  There’s one story that comes to light, is when Janet’s website crashed, which is when you have an online business that’s your biggest nightmare.  She lost everything and it was enough to turn anybody’s hair white overnight or have it all fall out. She recreated that and she really did transform that into an opportunity.  And she did a lot of post about lemons into margaritas and yes, sure she was handling having a bunch of gin and tonics dealing with that crisis.

But she really modeled extremely well how a massive catastrophe that can affect your business, whether it’s a global financial crisis or your website data being completely lost, or your database being corrupted, how you can re-emerge from that, as long as you stay focus on what your vision is.

And I think that’s fantastic. And I had to reinvent myself a number of times in my business when I had cancer in 2005. I had to shut my business down for six months. And it took a long time to get back on track and to reformulate what I wanted to do with my life and my work.

And seeing Janet do that as well in her crisis situation really inspired me to keep doing that. And I think what we really need to do as an entrepreneur is that your business will evolve as you evolve. And sometimes you do fail forward and you do it in big splat. And that’s okay because that is just a platform or springboard for you to keep growing and develop into trying new things that are probably even better than what went before.

So, she is a shining example of how to respond in a crisis and not let those things crush you but let them inspire you to re-emerge even stronger and greater than before. So, I really value that in her example as well.

Dana: And really her sharing such a sensitive and emotional upheaval in her life with the rest of us. I know those were very, very tough times and you know, but she just kept on going and she was dedicated and committed to her community. And you know, the new community she’s built online, in a website, a new tools and resource center. It’s like you said, is even better than the other one.

Zoe: Absolutely. It really was an opportunity.

Dana: That’s right. So she grew during the tough times and we all grew with her. And I think a lot of us even cried with her. Because we knew what a tough time she was going through.

So, now, this is just been a short period of time and I know there’s so many listeners that want to find out more about you and your business, so where could we go send them?

Zoe: Oh yes. You can pop on over to innercompass.com.au. And that’s got a ton of articles and resources and little bit about my new community Co-Creators of Awesomeness which is a fun way to apply law of attraction in a leadership capacity. So, that’s the place to go and check me out.

Dana: Fantastic. Now, for all of you that are listening, I just want to again, give you that website to go to so you can connect with Zoe. It’s innercompas.com.au. And I checked out her site earlier before we got on live. And she’s got a beautiful site. As you can tell, just real warm beautiful woman and I know she love to connect with the rest of you. So make sure you head on over to her site.

And Zoe, thank you for sharing your story and you insights and some wonderful, wonderful tips for the rest of us today.

Zoe: Oh, you’re very welcome. My pleasure.

Linda Philip is a counselor and psychotherapist . For the past 10years she has been seeking and studying powerful, cutting edge, personal change tools to facilitate change in peoples lives. Her website Your Healing Hub is a healing community full of resourceful information and powerful tools for healing and change. Interviews with teachers from all over the world contribute to this site. www.yourhealinghub.com

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DANA: Today I’d like to introduce all of you to Linda Philip. Linda, welcome to our call.

LINDA: Thankyou Dana. It’s a pleasure to be talking with you this morning.

DANA: Well we are thrilled that you’ve taken time to join us today as we are thrilled to even be featuring you as a Wonderful Web Radio’s Rising Star. So as we get started, if you could just take a moment and share with our listeners a little bit more about you and your business.

LINDA: My mission has been over the last few years to bring together the worlds’ most powerful healing and transformation tools and create a little healing community where people can check in or call in and get weekly healings from me and to get a whole lot of resources from some of the most powerful modalities around the world and people who have created those modalities. So, it will be a site for healing and transformation tools and I’m really excited about it; it’s my life work.

DANA: It sounds like it’s not only something that’s going to deliver value to people but it’s transformational.

LINDA: Yeah. Absolutely and I feel because that’s been what I have done for the last almost 10 years. I am a psychotherapist and we were searching for the most effective tools around so that I can be the most effective in my work; in helping people to facilitate change and healing so it’s really been about taking that to the world and really getting more people to share the knowledge that I have, that I’ve gained over these years and to bring the healing community together and to really create a powerful site.

DANA: Beautiful. Well now share with us if you don’t mind, how you first came to know Janet Beckers and the Wonderful Web Community?

LINDA: I went to a seminar a couple of years ago and I was a member of that community which was Successful Business Leaders Conference and from there, the fellow who was running that, John Anderson, he sent out a link about Janet’s website and I went there and I was so excited because I thought ‘This is exactly what I need’ and it’s Australian! [laughs] So I felt very at home and when I rang Janet and spoke to her, she just made me feel so good, so connected, like I was really going to have a supportive network to help me to achieve my goals and then it wasn’t until… because I had a different thought until then; I thought that I would write a self-development course and put it on the net and that the Wonderful Web Women would help me to market my self-development course and then over the months I came across the teleseminar series and model and I thought ‘what a great idea’, because I had always had this idea that maybe one day I would like to make a film and interview people who are my teachers, who have been my inspiration over the last few years and so it was kind of bringing all of that together in the seminar series and I rang Janet and I said “I’m interested in doing this. I’ve seen this teleseminar series where they interview people” and she said “Oh, that’s how I launched Wonderful Web Women” and I said “Oh, really” and she said “I can teach you how to do that” and so that’s how it all came about.

I have purchased the seminar series and I’m learning a lot and I feel really supported in the community of women. I’m in the Mastermind Group and Janet is great. If I need to ask her anything, she’ll arrange a call with me and she’s right there so I feel very supported.

DANA: And that’s what her whole community has been built on. She wants to provide the services and the connections that help everyone no matter what business models they have.

LINDA: Yeah

DANA: What a great experience. So was there a certain call that you’ve been on that has really taken you from where you were in your business to the direction you are going in now or was there an event you attended that really was kind of life-changing?

LINDA: I would have to say it was a call that I had with Janet a few weeks ago and I felt really stuck; I had done a lot of the training tools, I’d listened to the CDs. At the seminar series CDs and I’d listened to the pre-recorded calls and I felt like I was just a bit stuck. I knew what I had to do but I didn’t really know how to go forward but it was just a fifteen minute call that we had together and she said “This is what you need to do. You need to do this and this.” Which was really just get my list, get at least 7 people from that list, get my hit-list and just go for it and all the tools are there on the website that I could use; all the letters, all the information that I needed and so she really guided me in that way and I’ve really been able to go forward with that. Doing my own personal development work along the way I guess to help me as well but I think she just really cut through a lot of the content for me and was able to clearly provide me with focus. So that probably would have to be a defining moment for me for sure.

DANA: Well that’s pretty defining right there. My next question would have been ‘What did you learn?’ but really in a nutshell, you’ve kind of really told us what you’ve been able to do and know the direction now that your life and your business is going as a result of being part of that community and the Mastermind. So are there any tips that you would like to share with our listeners as a result of being a Wonderful Web Women Member shall we say?

LINDA: Well just that if you are wanting to create a successful business online, you really need to get connected with other people I think because there are things along the way or even emotional things that might come up; fears and blocks maybe limiting beliefs or whatever that you need to just work through and it really gives you a sense of being supported and having that wisdom behind you so that if you do come across anything like that you can just call in or talk it over with someone from the group and it really helps you to resource yourself with all that you need to become successful online and it’s been my saving Grace. I don’t know what I would have done if it wasn’t there for me and Janet and The Team, they’re just so open and friendly and lovely and supportive.

DANA: She’s definitely your support system.

LINDA: Yeah.

DANA: And kind of your catch-all when you feel like you’re kind of falling, she’s there to catch you and just put you back in the right direction.

LINDA: Yeah and I was going it alone as well and even if you go to seminars and things like that, it still feels like you’re there listening to someone who’s already done it and you might come away with some tips and some ideas but I just feel that it’s that little on-going community that really offers you that real support. I can’t think of another word apart from support that describes it as best as support.

DANA: Well you know, supportive – that’s a really powerful word because to me that says a lot; it speaks volumes for what that’s done for you and your business so that is fantastic. What a wonderful success story that you’ve had and no wonder Janet wanted to absolutely feature you as one of our Wonderful Web Rising Stars because you’ve been able to apply and take action from what she’s been able to teach and show you and that support system that she’s created for you, you have taken action so congratulations to you, you’re obviously well on your way.

Now I know that there are so many people that are on this call with us right now and our Rising Star interviews are only for a little short period of time. I know they’re going to be anxious to find out more about you and the business model that you’ve now been able to create. To tell everyone, we are right in the middle of getting ready to launch your website and so, we’re not going to give anyone the link but for all of you listening, on the episode page, there will be a direct link on how you can find Linda Philip and her fantastic business so that will be provided there for you and Linda, I just want to thank you personally for taking time out of your day to join us and share your very inspirational story with the rest of us.

LINDA: It was an absolute pleasure and I’m very honoured to be part of this Wonderful Web Radio series. I feel very blessed so thank you very much for my opportunity to talk.

DANA: And thank you for sharing your story with us because for so many people that are on the line with us right now, they have been touched and inspired by your story and so I just want to thank you again for your time.

Fran is a passionate property investor committed to excelling in property development ventures to increase profits for her investment partners and herself. Fran has been involved in property investing for over 25 years and has completed renovation’s, owner built her own home, built project homes, small subdivisions and unit sites before realising that she had been undertaking property development. After completing over two years of ongoing formal training, Fran is now sharing her expertise and passion for property development with likeminded investors who want to be pro active with their property investing and would like some support to get started. www.nakedtruthrealestate.com

Transcript of the Interview

Dana: Today it is my personal pleasure to introduce all of you to Fran Blake.  Fran, welcome to the call.

Fran: Hi Dana, thanks for having me here today.

Dana: We are thrilled to have you.  If you don’t mind, if we could take a couple of minutes and share with our listeners a little bit more about you and your business.

Fran: Sure. Basically, my passion is property and property investment.  And along with that, I specifically work in property development for myself, but I’ve done quite a lot with property and property investment and creative ways around doing that.  So, I have an E-Book on my website there that sort of goes through a number of ways people all over the world can invest in property, and come up with creative ideas that perhaps they aren’t used to, and particularly if they look into building a property investment portfolio or if they have too much money in their pocket to put into that would really like to leverage themselves into property.  So, predominantly that’s what I do.  I also do mentorship   program with people and take them through various scenarios for themselves.  And I just really enjoy helping people get on the road to property investment.

Dana: Well, and people would think in this economic climate that it would be tough.  But actually, I see a lot of success with gaining more portfolios and gaining more properties as far as investment portfolio.  Actually what you’re doing is giving people a lot of opportunity to build up portfolio.  Now, there’s never been a better time.

Fran: There’s definitely has not been a better time, particularly with the global financial crisis and that sort of thing.  It just means everybody’s more open to looking at ways to solve their problems.  Not whether they’re selling their property or looking to buy a property.  It’s definitely a great time.  And I think the saying in real estate is that there’s two great times to invest in real estate, one was yesterday and one is today.  So, we have today?

Dana: That’s right, we always have today.  So, we have the present.  Great, thank you so much for taking the time to share to listeners about you, what you do.  And now we’re curious to find out how you were first introduced to Janet Beckers and the Wonderful Web Community.

Fran: Well, actually I had an internet business many, many years ago, back in 1995, I saw the benefit of website and where internet was heading even back then, and I had small children at that time.  That was quite successful, but it wasn’t really what I was passionate about.  And so, in my journey I sort of just realized that I was doing a lot with property but I wanted  to be able to share that and I thought of internet  as a really good way to get started.  And I wanted to get some help with that so I started doing my own online Google searches  and came across Wonderful Web Women relatively quickly, which is really very handy for me.  The information there was fantastic and I was able to put it into really good interviews with specific topics that I needed to learn.  And along with that, Janet was looking into mentoring, doing some one-on-one mentoring, and I definitely put up my hand with that.  I filled up the application form, a quite intensive application form but what I found out from that, that it was really cathartic for me.  It helped me clarify what it was that I was looking to a change  and with my fingers crossed, I was very, very happy that I got into that course.  But I had already come up with a plan B, as I call it that I could put together simply from the information that I received through Janet’s website.

Dana: Great!  Well, for many of the interviews that I’ve done so far with our the rising stars, we talked about certain calls that they were involved in, or listened to, or had the opportunity to participate in and you have a little bit more of a kind of a one-on-one having Janet’s mentoring.  And so how would you say, how would you describe that has really taken you from where you were to a kind of where you are today.  How has that changed your life and your business?

Fran: It’s probably propelled at least ten times, maybe even more.  To me, there’s absolutely no substitute to have somebody to talk to you about your business, to be able to make you accountable.  Also, as part of that, we were joined in with a mastermind group and it just makes all the difference, because I guess particularly with internet business and even with me doing property, sometimes, it’s very lonely and you need people to talk to, to talk thru you know other problems, even if you’re just not feeling that confident about your own abilities, it makes all the difference to have somebody there encouraging you, supporting you, giving you ideas, and feedback, and it probably set the rule for me for my life because I’ve been with a mentor around property development and that made a huge difference in that area as well.

Dana: You know, I think one thing that some people don’t realize the true power that lies in having a mentor is that they’ve gone through everything so instead of taking a learning curve and taking you two, three or four times in taking all the information and try to apply it in your business, you can take a mentor who’s gone through it and really can shorten your learning curve and put you out there towards success a lot faster.

Fran: Yeah, absolutely.

Dana: and keeping your focus.

Fran: Yes, and it also helps you savor clearly your strength and your weaknesses. And if you know your weaknesses, you can work on that or build a really good team so that somebody is there to work on your behalf around that weakness.  But with your strength it’s also, sometimes it’s not worth you think your strength is.  So just having somebody look at it from an outside perspective both for yourself firstly and also for your business.  It just makes a massive difference.  Sometimes, it’s a little bit like, we’re, can’t see the forest for the trees, because we’re right in it all the time.  It’s looking on  your business, rather than at your business.

Dana: And how exciting that you were able to take Janet’s mentoring program and then actually have another mentor right at your own business, too?  So you have obviously seen there is a tremendous value in having that program really in your back pocket.  You’ve got the pros right behind you.  Fantastic!  OK now, you’ve already shared so much in this very short period of time but I would love it if you could share any other  tips that you could share with our listeners.  Maybe some are listening here that doesn’t have a relationship with Janet yet or the Wonderful Web Community.  So what are the tips that you could share that you have really been able to put forth as a result of being a member of the Wonderful Web Women.

Fran: I think one of the big tips is that Janet is incredibly generous and she will give us herself.  But she will also, she’s very good at being able to connect you with people who can assist you.  And her mentorship is basically having another set of eyes, but building a mastermind group, building a team around you is that you can talk to about your business, they may not actually be involved in your business or they may be in your business.  I guess there’s two roles there.  There’s a role where, there’s somebody working with you and looking at your business, but then there’s also your team that you may need to use because nobody does anything on their own.  Even if you decided to do a solo swim across the English Channel, there are people that have to be involved for you to even do that.  So, it’s really important to find a really good team to support you, who are like-minded, who will encourage you to keep on going when it gets tough and it will get tough.  So, that’s my other tip, it will get tough, you will need a “rah, rah” support in that instance.  I guess the other tip, too, is not to be too hard on yourself.  It’s great to set goals because you’ll get very clear once you know exactly what you want to do and when you want to achieve it.  But I think it’s Tony Robins who said, “we often overestimate what we can achieve  in one year and underestimate what we can achieve in ten.”  I keep that as my mantra if I feel that I’m getting bogged down and not getting where I want to go. That let me look at the big picture, have a look at myself forward in my business.  And be kind to yourself, that’s a really big tip.

Dana: And you gotta have fun.  You gotta learn to laugh at yourself sometimes.  Being an entrepreneur as you said is tough, you will have your tough days, you will have good days, but if you can kind of look at yourself and just really laugh when things get tough, because the way I view things, Fran, and maybe you can agree, it’s like when things get tougher, for me that is my growth period.  That means, for me to able to achieve the goals and get to the other side but I have to work a little bit harder, but the reward is so much sweeter.

Fran: Absolutely.

Dana: You gotta break through to be able to move forward.  And not just in your personal life, but as well as in business, especially in business.  And now Fran, there are people I know that want to know what you do especially when it comes to the real estate market and your investment portfolio and I would love it if you could share with the rest of us where to go to find out more about you and your business.

Fran: Great!  They can go to www.nakedtruthrealestate.com.  Just sign in there for the free e-book which will give them loads of tips on investing n real estate with little or no money and I get a lot of really great feedbacks for the e-book so I think it’s pretty valuable for people but then I post articles there  so there’s plenty to read and they can also contact me and I’m more than happy to answer any questions if people have questions on where they are and where they want to go.  There are several different programs there as well, if they are  just interested in mindset as the number one thing, to anything that we want to do, it doesn’t matter what business we’re in, it doesn’t matter, your mindset needs to be.  You always need to work on your mindset, that’s at least 70% of the business.  And also the practical side of real estate investing, there’s a program there for people as well, www.nakedtruthrealestate.com.

Dana: Fantastic!  And we’ll have a Fran’s link right on the women’s radio page so make sure that if you miss this, or you misunderstood it, go ahead and click on the link and it will go to the direct link to her site.  And the e-book that she’s talking about is 7 Strategies to Create Massive Wealth to Real Estate and those of you who think that now is not the good time or maybe this isn’t for me, you know what you won’t know if you don’t try so I would encourage you to go over to Fran’s site www.nakedtruthrealestate.com, go ahead and put your name and email in there and connect with Fran, she’s got a lot more information on the inside of your site.  Well, Fran thank you so much for taking time to join us today, we really appreciate that you’re sharing your story with us.

Fran: Thank you Dana, I had a ball, it was really great.

Dana: It was absolutely our pleasure.

Krishna Everson is known as the ‘marketing magician’. She is the creator of The Healthy Marketing Blueprint, the founder of The Healthy Marketing Guide, and an inspiration to those who find themselves stuck in marketing overwhelm, by showing them exactly how to escape it for good! Krishna is a mum, a mentor, a speaker and a coach, and lives in paradise on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia. www.healthymarketing.com.au and www.healthymarketingguide.com.

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Dana: Today, it’s my personal pleasure to introduce all of you to Krishna Everson.  Krishna, welcome to the call.

Krishna: Hello Dana, how are you?  Lovely to be here.

Dana: Oh, we are thrilled to have you.  I am doing well over here in sunny California, of course you are across the world there in Australia.  So how is the weather there?

Krishna: Very rainy!

Dana: Oh!

Krishna: I live on the sunshine coast, but it’s not sunny today.  But it’s glorious, I have a lovely view.  I am enjoying the rain.

Dana: Well that makes up for it, a little bit, doesn’t it?

Krishna: Yes.

Dana: So, if you don’t mind, just for a couple minutes, if you could share a little bit more about yourself and your business to our listeners, that way they can get a feel, a little bit about who you are and what you do.

Krishna: Ok, well my business focuses around helping marketing.  I’m the founder of Healthymarketingguide.com.  And what that is that about, it’s to help practitioners and coachers who generally love what they do, but hate marketing or, you know, get very uncomfortable around marketing and promoting themselves and their business.  So what I’ve done with Healthy Marketing, it’s all about having a healthy approach to your marketing by tapping into what you’re passionate about.  So that it doesn’t feel like you’re selling, it feels just like you are sharing what you love.  So what Healthy Marketing Guide is about is, it is about taking stuff, but it is about the mindset and helping people to feel more confident and more passionate about marketing.  So, what I am trying to do is really transform the way health practitioners and actual therapists and coaches feel about marketing.  I am married to a massage therapist, who is actually pretty pro-active, I would have to say.  He’s very single minded, so he’ll just keep going.  He doesn’t let obstacles get in his way.  But a lot of our friends and associates have given up what they love because they weren’t able to make ends meet.  And a lot of that was really about, you know, just putting up the open for business sign and hoping it was going to happen.  And when it didn’t, they gave up.  So that whole thing really saddens me to see.  Fantastic therapists stop what they’re doing, go back to jobs that they hate, so that sense of feeling kind of passionate about what they do, really feeling it’s a calling, and thinking this is what they want to do, and then these obstacles come in front of them and they go, I can’t do my passion.  No one likes to feel that way, no one likes to feel that inner feeling that they are called to do something and they are not able to do it.  So that’s the way I’ve created the whole Healthy Marketing concept, which is really a holistic approach to how you market your business.  So I am really, really passionate about it.

Dana: Oh Krishna!  I loved that!  And, as I was thinking as you were talking about that – is there, I know in the medical profession, there used to be, I don’t know if it’s common today, but it used to be that they would frown on marketing when they would go to school?  Do you think that’s the same with health practitioners in general?

Krishna: That whole thing with some professions does still exist, especially with psychologists and people like that.  So there still are some limitations to what’s acceptable, especially if you start making claims or positioning yourself than being better than someone else.  So there are some limitations with some professions about what they are registration bodies will allow.  So you do need to work within them.  But genuinely, with natural therapists, and more alternative and complementary health practitioners, that doesn’t apply.  So where does this concept and the resistance come from is more to do with, it can be a bit better around personality types.  They can be a bit introverted at times, but not always.

Dana: Right.

Krishna:                There can be some discomfort around blowing your own trumpet, saying that you’re good at something.  So there are all the things that we worked through.  What I’ve actually created, a Healthy Marketing blueprint.  We touch on all of those bases.  So anything that might stand in the way, we actually deal with.  And the way we do is by actually interviewing people who have been through some of these transformations from struggling with it before.  You know, for example, a life coach.  What’s a life coach?  It doesn’t really mean anything, but when you start to niche it into a specific area based on what your strengths are, it can become very powerful and your message becomes powerful.  So these are some of the things we work through.  And we look at case studies, real life examples, and also, of course, invite fantastic experts to actually share how to, how to do some of those things.  The real, how-to, hands on stuff.  So you need a combination things.

Dana: Oh I just love that!  I really love the fact that you are really reaching out and helping them.  Especially for a massage therapist or any other health practitioner for that matter, why not market yourself?  You have a wonderful service that you can provide that really changes lives?  I’ve never heard of this type of offering that you’ve got.  So I think this is fantastic, Krishna.  Good on you.

Krishna: Thank you.

Dana: Let me ask you, moving forward here, how were you first introduced to Janet Beckers and the Wonderful Web Community?

Krishna: Well, interestingly, intended to have a web business as such, although we did have a web business attached to my husband’s business.  I was more wanting to do workshops and things like that when I started.  But it kept coming up and Janet’s name kept coming up, just in conversation, when I was out talking with people.  “Oh, do you Janet Beckers?  Have you heard of Wonderful Web Women?”  So it was just through word of mouth, at networks and things, that I initially heard of her.  And it was people who had started to do things with the web or to learn about having a business online, so that’s where I first heard about Janet.  And then I went to Wonderful Web Women’s site and I started to listen to her weekly seminars and I was hooked. [laughing]

Dana: [laughing]  It doesn’t take long, does it?

Krishna: It doesn’t take long, no!  So I was tuning in every Tuesday to see what Janet had to share and who she was interviewing, and all those great resources that she was offering and this whole new world was opening up as to how I could use stuff online to what I wanted to do.  And really my initial focus was on creating products, it wasn’t on having an online business, it was product creation.  So that was what first got me excited.

Dana: And I know just from our previous conversation, there were actually peers.  Both of us have taken part in Janet’s wonderful Passion to Profits Program, which I know literally revolutionized my life and my business.  Tell me a little bit about your experience with Janet and the Passion to Profits Program?

Krishna: Well, that’d been fantastic.  What I set out to do, I am doing.  And I’ve completely stolen Janet’s model and am completely doing what Janet is doing.  When I started the Passion to Profits program, I knew that what I wanted to do was create products.  I knew that that is what I needed to do to make my business profitable.  Because I was having opportunities to speak to groups of therapists, you know, groups of like 200 massage therapists, but I didn’t have any products, so I was wasting an opportunity.  So, my initial focus was to create product.  And I had actually purchased one of Janet’s CDs about how to create 17 products out of one hour’s work.  And that gave me the first taste of that.  And then when the Passions to Profits came up, I thought “ah! I am going to do this!”  I was struggling getting it done on my own, because it’s a learning curve, like everything in your life that comes up.  I knew that if I committed to Janet’s program, with the 12 months, that it would enable me to do it.  And I figured, if I didn’t do it then, I wasn’t going to do it.  So, it was like I was really making that commitment.  I knew it’s what I wanted, but I needed to make that commitment to follow through and get it done.  And I needed help, so that’s why I became part of Janet’s program.  And I finished my first tele-summit yesterday.

Dana: Yay!

Krishna: So that was a series of, yay!  I did 10 interviews, with two a week, so I now have 10 fantastic audios ready to turn into products, which will actually become part of my Healthy Marketing Blueprint Program, which I am just starting next week.  Nothing is stopping me now!

Dana: Oh my goodness!

Krishna: I am just going to keep going and set up the tools.

Dana: That’s right!  Congratulations!  That’s so exciting.

Krishna: It’s very exciting!

Dana: And what an accomplishment, too!  ‘Cause I know holding any tele-summit takes a lot of work and dedication.

Krishna: Yeah, it was fantastic.  What I loved what was that it was such a system.  So even though there was effort involved, it was really just do this at this time of day, do this at this time of the week, it had such a great system that it wasn’t confusing.  The biggest thing was just starting, making the decision, getting the start-up happening, and just starting.  And everything else just falls into place once you start.  Then you realize how easy it is.  It’s when you’re hanging back that  — you think that it’s going to be busy.  All this expecting to be up at 2 AM in the morning, trying to get people to interview.  None of that.  I just invited people, they said, “yeah, I’ll come.”  It wasn’t that.

Dana: Fantastic!  Well, so, now, is first, your business evolving and you feel, like everyone else, that we’ve had these wonderful web Rising Star interviews, we all feel this major sense of community with Janet and the Wonderful Web Community.  How do you feel moving forward now that you’ve completed your first tele-summit and you’re now creating products.  How do you feel this is going to benefit you now moving forward in your business?

Krishna: Well the great thing is there are all those other Rising Stars around me, so we are the next generation coming through.  We are one-another’s peer group.  We are our support network.  Through Passion to Profits I’m part of a fantastic Mastermind Group that Janet’s assistant Laura organized.  And they are still my Mastermind Group, so even though some of them haven’t done their yet, they will.  We’re all encouraging each other, and we’re all learning different stuff of one-another.

You know, Sam, who’s in the Mastermind Group, hasn’t done hers yet?  But she interviewed me yesterday so that I could be interviewed at my tele-summit.  So we are all supporting one another.  So, the community, you know, ‘cause I guess when you start, you look at people who are already doing it like Janet and other people who are in that realm.  And we think, oh, it would be so nice to be like that and there are those other people at that level.  Well we are those Rising Stars and we’ve got a whole bunch of people set up at that level.

So we’re coming through.  We’re here to mentor others and encourage others as well.  It’s an amazing community, because, I think, with Janet’s program especially, we are all doing this stuff really from the heart so it’s not about having a “profitable line business,” we’re doing it because it’s a calling to do it, rather than just, let’s try to make a great business.  Yes?

Dana: And what a difference it makes in your own life!  Because you feel a sense of fulfillment that you are doing something that you feel you were put here to do.

Krishna: Yeah, it’s not a job.  No way.

Dana: Oh, my goodness, no!  I love to get up every day and do what I do.  It makes such a difference.  So any other tips that you would like to share with our listens as a result of being a member of Wonderful Web Women?

Krishna: It is definitely to start, because the fear of the resistance that you are feeling is so temporary.  As soon as you begin to take even one step, the possibilities just open up.  Like, it’s like a mist, if you think that you’re walking along a path through a mist.  The further you walk along the path, the mist keeps moving.  You know what I mean?  It keeps shifting.  You can still see 4 meters in front of you, and that’s all you really have to worry about, especially if you’ve got a system to follow.  And even if some of the steps in the system feel confusing at times, because you’re not really sure what is happening.  You’ve got support and just keep taking the next step and you will absolutely get there.  It’s a proven method.  For me, it’s just take action.  If you know it’s what you want, take the steps one step at a time, but keep moving forward and don’t put it off.

Well, you know, I wanted to do it for a couple of years before I actually did it.  So I had been sitting there, incredibly frustrating, really feeling, “why am I waiting?  This is annoying!”  So you just get frustrated with yourself, that’s not a great place to be.  So just do it and you’ll stop feeling all of that.

Dana: That is so common, too.  Because I think for so many of us getting started in anything new is daunting.  You feel, even though you want to be in business for yourself.  The community Janet has established and built, and those that she attracts around her business, we’re all just like-minded people and we all want to make a difference.  I know for me personally it’s been a major shift.  And I know for you and everyone else I’ve connected with.  So absolutely, take action.  Don’t be afraid.  I, like you, I put it off for a long time.  And I thought, “what?”  Looking back, I wish I hadn’t waited.  So that was a perfect comment.

So you have been such a light and inspiration to others, and for, just the short period of time we’ve been on the call together, I know there are so many of our listeners who want to know more about you and your new business.  So where can they go to find out more about you and your new program?

Krishna: They can go to HealthyMarketingGuide.com.  And on there it has a blog function.  So there is stack of articles and resources that are readily there.  They can join up as a “frame member,” which means that they will have access to all the weekly tele-seminars and tele-classes, and be on the mailing list to be updated for all the topics that are coming up.  Just to give you an idea, next week we’re doing one focusing on nicheing.  Of course, this will go way after that, but every week there will be something wonderful that can help you feel comfortable around marketing your business.  So, especially if you are a health practitioner, natural therapist, or coach, Healthy Marketing Guide is where they go. Dot com.

Dana: Wonderful, absolutely.  Again, everyone that’s healthymarketingguide.com.  And again, this was Krishna Everson on this Rising Star interview series with us for today.  And I just want to say, Krishna, thank you so much for taking time to join us and share your awesome, inspiring story with the rest of us.

Krishna: Absolute pleasure , Dana!  Thank you for inviting me.

Dana: Well it’s been our pleasure.

Lisa Robbins, BScHN, RHN, CTT, studied Natural Nutrition at the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition and holds an honours Bachelor of Science degree in Holistic Nutrition. Her passion lies in empowering you to heal yourself by infusing you with knowledge and truth.

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Transcript of the Interview

Dana: Today it is my personal pleasure to introduce you all to Lisa Robbins; Lisa welcome.

Lisa: Hi Dana, thank you very much for having me today.

Dana: Well we are thrilled. We are so excited to be featuring you today. So, if you don’t mind, just share with our listeners a little bit more about you and your business.

Lisa: I am a holistic nutritionist and I have been studying holistic nutrition and health for about 10 years and a few years ago, my career path kind of changed because my mum got sick. My dad had already passed away and I was interested in herbs and stuff like that so I started educating myself. I was really scared about cancer because both of my parents had it and I wanted to protect my family so I started to educate myself and I learned all about it. I got a Bachelor of Science in Holistic Nutrition, I became a nutritionist and I started to develop my own anti-cancer medicine. I experimented with herbs and practiced on my friends and so I have written a book about all that and created a website that supports the book and the website is TheGoodWitch.ca.

Dana: Oh wonderful. My goodness, you took that cancer scare and everything and you just ripped full throttle didn’t you.

Lisa: Well it consumed a large part of my life when I was growing up.

Dana: I can imagine.

Lisa: My dad had it for a long time and then when my mum got sick I thought ‘ok, that’s enough’. I didn’t want to face that fear myself and I wanted to find a solution for myself and for my family.

Dana: Do you have children?

Lisa: Yep, I have three children and they are healthy teenagers.

Dana: I bet they are. They’re on all the holistic health stuff and you know that’s one of the things I think too as entrepreneurs that are women, when you go through something as traumatic as what you’ve gone through and you’ve kinda come through it and now you’re creating an incredible business around the healing aspect, we just really want to put our protective gear on and protect our children and those we care about and I know of your website because I’ve been there and you’re just doing some amazing things. So this is one reason for all you listeners out there why we really wanted to feature Lisa today because she’s got great stuff to share with you.

So before we go into that a little bit more, let me ask you. You’ve been a member of Wonderful Web Women for quite some time now haven’t you?

Lisa: Yes, I’ve been a member of both the Passion to Profits program and I’m now a gold member with Janet and I’ve been a gold member for about a year now.

Dana: Great, and for those of you listening that aren’t familiar yet; the gold members have access to resources upon resources upon resources. It’s a whole bank of information and really hand holding that Janet has for all of us. Fantastic, well the Passion to Profits program I know I am a member of as well and we were peers I believe at the same time. By participating in that program, how do you feel that’s changed your business moving forward?

Lisa: Well, it really gave me a lot of confidence knowing that I could actually do this all by myself. Before I was really scared and it seemed very overwhelming but the resources that I had available to me in that program and as a gold member have been amazing because I like to just work at my own pace and when I get to a problem, I will try and find the information to solve my problem and Janet’s there if you have any question or any problem to do with internet marketing, that’s the very first place I go; it’s my encyclopaedia. Normally I find an answer or something that directs me in the right direction.

Dana: I like to look at it as my own personal resource centre but I know that’s not just for me.

Lisa: Exactly.

Dana: The encyclopaedia, I love that. Now looking back, because you have been a member for a while and you’ve participated in her programs, was there anything in particular that really made a difference in your life and your business? Was it the Passion to Profits program you were a part of or do you feel it’s been part of the mentoring through the calls?

Lisa: Well it’s been all of that but the thing that made the biggest difference for me was when I was struggling with my website because I’m technically inclined so I wanted to build it myself. I was struggling and struggling with that and then I built it with three or four different programs but I didn’t really know what I was doing and then I hired a web designer and I gave him a whole whack of money and he was stalling and he did a little bit of work but I couldn’t get him on the phone when I needed him and when I asked him about putting ads on my website, he thought that would be better for the next phase of my website and as soon as he said that, I was frantically looking for a different solution and then just that same week, Janet sent me an email saying that she was having a call about your website and gaining control of your website and it was just exactly what I needed at the right time and listened to that call and I swear to God that within 24 hours I had fired the web designer and now it took four and a half months to build my site myself but it was the best thing that I could have done. I’m in complete control and that was pivotal for me for giving me the confidence to do that.

Dana: And that’s a big undertaking because I know I’ve used a web developer myself and a year or so before I even met Janet, I did not even touch WordPress, I couldn’t do anything and you feel you are paralysed in moving forward in your business because you feel like you’re giving control to someone else.

Lisa: That’s what I did; WordPress because I need control and I need to be able to put an ad down the left column or be able to choose this colour. I just needed that control and WordPress was amazing. I just love it and my next site IncredibleHealingJournals which I hope to serve the same purpose as Janet’s website serves for me and when people need information about any kind of illness or disease or any problem they’re having, you know if they are diabetic or if they have acne or if they’ve been stung by a bee, I hope that that’s the first place that they go to to find information because that will be stories of how everyone else has healed themselves of all those things.

Dana: Well, it sounds like you’ve got it all put together and I know you’re really close to having that release so at a time when everybody is listening here, hopefully you’ll have everything all set up and I know that having a resource centre is just so valuable especially because with what you’re doing, I know that there is so many friends and family members of mine including myself that are switching more towards whole foods and just going back to how we lived hundreds of years ago; staying away from some of the junk and stuff that’s out there so we all need a good resource centre to be able to go to. It sounds amazing, you’ll have to let me know when it’s all done.

Lisa: Yeah, I’ll be excited.

Dana: So how do you feel really as there are listeners listening to this call that aren’t members or haven’t had the opportunity to really get to know Janet, if you have maybe any tips or inspiration to share with people about building their business or connecting with a member, what would you say?

Lisa: I’d have to say that hooking up with Janet as even a free member in the beginning, was the best thing I could have done because it accelerated my learning so much faster. I had access to information and I didn’t have to search everywhere all over the web to get it and just being able to have one central place – and Janet, she encouraged me so much, she was the first person I ever interviewed because on my website TheGoodWitch.ca, I have interviews of people who have healed themselves of cancer but Janet got me to interview her right at the beginning, so I would say finding someone like Janet, for me, internet marketing, her website is just an excellent resource, I love it. So, finding someone who can accelerate your learning so you don’t have to spend hours and weeks and months and years searching for things that are right there. It’s just really helped me to get to where I want to be that much faster.

Dana: Fantastic and the nice thing about Janet’s resource too is that she tells you that’s how it is, but she also makes it seem so simplified. I mean I’ve tried to complicate things for years and when I listened to her, I learned from her and I think ‘oh my gosh, that is so simple, I just need to do it’.

Lisa: Yeah, it is great. I remember being on a call and she’ll look over your website and she’ll say, ‘do this, do that’ and it was simple. She looked over the front pages and she said ‘oh, take your picture and turn it around so that your face is pointing to your optin form’ and I said ‘oh, of course it should be like that’. Just simple little tips and things that she encourages you to with and yeah, it’s been a great experience for sure.

Dana: Oh fantastic. Well Lisa we really appreciate you taking time to join us today and sharing your moments of inspiration and encouragement through Janet’s programs and we’re real thrilled to have you and feature you. So for those of you listening, hopefully you took down that website address but Lisa you’re such a light and inspiration for people and encourager I know and I know that you have a passion to help others so where again can everybody go to find out more about you and the great things you’re doing?

Lisa: Thanks Dana: Okay, my website is TheGoodWitch.ca and shortly my book will be out, probably  by the time this program is out and you’ll find it at TheGoodWitch.ca or at TheCancerJournal.ca and the IncredibleHealingJournals.com – they’ll be there as well hopefully by the time this program is aired but anyone can email me through TheGoodWitch.ca through the contact section or if you have a nutrition question or a health question, you can ask through the ‘Ask’ section where I will answer that question and make an article and post it online to see how many answers there are to your question.

Dana: And for those of you, it’s such a tremendous resource already. I mean the website has information on cleansing your body and it has an anti-oxidant factors and raw foods and no matter what walk of life you are in, I would strongly encourage you to go over there, sign in there and connect with Lisa there. So Lisa, thanks again for taking time to join us today.

Lisa: Thank you Dana.

Dana: We’ll definitely be in touch, I can’t wait for the next phases opening in your business.

Fay McLean is a  marketing coach and mentor for solopreneurs and service professionals in creating success – in both their businesses and their lives. Known as “The Business Designer,” Fay McLean uses a results-focused, “how to” approach in implementing simple and customized strategies so clients realize their professional and personal dreams. She works with clients across the globe to help them attract more clients, develop multiple streams of income, discover untapped profit centers, and create profitable businesses in which they enjoy the lifestyles they choose.

By teaching specific “how to” steps that implement a successful strategy, Says Fay, “If you don’t plan your business with as much precision as you would if you were building your dream home, then you can easily end up with something that is non-functional and doesn’t suit your needs and desires. “ It would be my pleasure to help you use simple marketing strategies to bring that vision to life.”

www.TheAussieBusinessCoach.com

Transcript of the Interview

Dana: Today I’d like to introduce all of you to Fay McLean.  Welcome Fay.

Fay: Hi Dana, it’s great to be with you today.  How are you?

Dana: I am absolutely fantastic, thank you so much since we’re calling in from opposite sides of the world.  How are things in your neck of the woods?

Fay: Well, it’s an absolutely awesome here today.  Fantastic.  I’m looking out at the ocean which has a couple of whales bobbing around it, so really things couldn’t be better.

Dana: Now that is a view.  Well good for you, I wish I was there looking out that window with you.

Fay: It is fantastic.

Dana: Now if you don’t mind, let’s just take a couple of moments before, we really want to focus on you and share with our listeners why we look at you as a Rising Star but if you would take a couple of minutes and share with our listeners a little bit more about you and what you do for business.

Fay: Sure, I’d love to.  And Dana thank you so much, it’s a real privilege to be able to share this conversation with you today and also with all the wonderful women who are listening to this segment.  So absolutely, to tell you a little bit more about myself.  Well I guess most recently I’ve actually been tagged with the title of being a business designer.  What that means is I actually work with ambitious self-employed professionals.  And sometimes very small businesses, who really struggle to market their business affectively and find that they need to attract a lot of new clients consistently, but without pushing as hard.  Cause so often marketing is a real struggle.

And what I find that separates my business from other business coaches is that I only work with self-employed businesses and I specialize in designing their business plan and their client building program and nothing else.  And because of this, my clients receive proven, undiluted, extremely specific, step by step information on exactly what they need to do to get clients and design every component of their business, so it fits around their lifestyle, and not the other way.

And as a result of that, those who work with me, get more clients quickly, consistently, make more money then what they would do on their own.  To me designing a business that suits your lifestyle is really where my passion lies and as we said, for me to be able to sit here and look at this beautiful view and know that I can run my business as well, you know, I want every person listening to know that they can design their business in such a way that it meets whatever their lifestyle needs are, together with their income goals.

And of course that all starts with being able to effectively attract clients into their business.

Dana: Beautiful.  Say that is absolutely wonderful.  You know that reminds me a lot of, you know, taking time to design our life.  It’s just as important to be able to design a business as well that fits your lifestyle, as you said instead of the other way around where your business kind of dictates your life.

Fay: Absolutely.  I mean we do it with clothes stainer (03:50) as women.  You know we sort of go in and check out what fits, what’s good.  You know we want what looks the best.  We do it if we’re designing a house, you know, we want every room to be perfect.  We want it to be able to do you know the functionalities that we want within our homes to be able to entertain or have room for the children or whatever it might be and then people turn around and have a business, and they don’t consider how to design it in such a way that it meets those needs as well.

And it’s so sad when I see people that end up you know, in a business that I call a monster, often for one of two reasons, either they’re working their butt off and they don’t have enough clients and they’re struggling, and life is so hard, or the flip side to that, where you know maybe business is going well for them, and they’re really fortunate, they’ve got things going, but they are so burnt out.  They are exhausted, they don’t know how to leverage their time, and get back to being able to enjoy the things that they do.  So designing your business in such a way that it alleviates either of those monsters if you’d like is something that I love to do with people.

Dana: Gosh, now I know why we just selected you and love to highlight you as one of our Web Radio Rising Stars.  You sound like you’ve arrived.  It really sounds like you have taken this really strong passion of yours and you’ve developed an incredible business for yourself.  So congratulations.  I know that you’ve become extremely successful.  Now let’s talk about, for a moment, I know you’ve been a member, a Gold Member of Wonderful Women for quite some time now haven’t you?

Fay: Yeah I have.  I’ve been part of the Wonderful Women Membership for around 12 months or a year now.  And certainly spent time in the Gold Membership part of the program, and it’s just been fantastic, Dana, absolutely great.  You know, being able to know other fantastic women like yourself.  So many people that are there wanting to share their journey, to take their passion and turn that into a prosperous and profitable business.  So the environment has been really, really wonderful.  And I have been very happy to be part of that for the last 12 months or so.

Dana: Well it obviously has helped you grow your business and it actually can contribute to your mindset, cause I can tell you have this very strong mindset about your business.  So and I also know, cause we spoke a little bit before the call today, you also participated in Janet’s 4^th Dimension Mastery Program didn’t you?

Fay: I did.  I recently took a trip, which is about a 5-hour flight for me to attend the workshop.  Took a trip over and you know, I felt that I had a fairly good understanding of the concepts that were being taught at the workshop.  I believe you always, you know, come out  learning more than what you went in with, but being surrounded by the other attendees at the workshop, and to make the connections with them, the personal connections, has really been influential in my business growing.

It’s been really, really fantastic, and certainly attending that event really consolidated a lot of the relationships that, up until then have only been on a virtual basis, which of course is fantastic, and certainly makes connecting with different people like yourself on the other side of the world possible, but there still is nothing like you know, being there in the room amongst those people.  But really was fantastic to consolidate this and to hear all the content which was delivered so well and particularly to help with mindset issues and things like that.  And to come away with some really, really strong foundational business relationships that in fact next week I’ll be doing another segment as guest speaker for someone who you know, had a program lined up that I met at the workshop.  So it certainly resulted in increased business opportunities for me, and I know that’s what Janet wanted to get out of that event.

Dana: Fantastic, yeah, there’s something just almost magnetic about the group of women and men that are drawn to Janet’s programs and there’s always a great take-away whether it’s relationships or JV partnerships, you know these like-minded people that come together, and the energy that’s created in those rooms I know is just absolutely amazing.

Fay: It is, it’s never a let down.

Dana: I know.

Fay: It’s definitely worth the time and effort, and I think, you know I really believe that there are probably a lot of people that do need to except that investing in their own education is an important part of their business and personal growth.  I know we can listen to calls, I mean I’ve listened to thousands of calls and tele-seminars, but there is nothing like, you know, being part of a live in person workshop or group environment, for really moving you forward.  And I think anyone who does attend any event and puts into action something that they take away, really does notice an increase in their business or an improvement in their progress within a very short period of time.

Dana: Well now and you just perfectly segued into my next question.  That was perfect, and you didn’t even know that.  So that would be my next questions for you, is I know you’ve been a Gold Member now for the last 12 months, and you’ve been on a lot of Janet’s calls and you took that initiative to go to that live event.  What would you say between the last 12 months, your relationship with Janet and the wonderful web community, whether it be the phone interviews, or whether it be the live event, what do you feel is your biggest take-away as a result of being a member of Wonderful Web Women that you now are able to move forward and apply to your business?

Fay: Wow, you’re asking for only one?

Dana: I know, I know, it’s so hard, I know.  But what comes to mind?  What would be the most recent?

Fay: Something that was a real mover for me, and really did have a big impact was around a year ago when Janet offered her membership base the opportunity to be part of the co-authoring of her third volume of Law of Attraction in Action.

Dana: Yes.

Fay: And that was a real breaker for me.  It was fantastic to be given the opportunity to participate as a co-author in that book.  It really was a great thing for, you know, I think there are over 50 or 55 professional women that all come together as a collaborative group – of entrepreneurial women to share our expertise for everybody to read in that book.  And that really was a great turning point for me.  It allowed me to consolidate the credibility that I had already created.  It certainly allowed me opportunities to be able to give away the book as either a list builder or a give-a-way at an event or as part of a different program that I may have been offering throughout the 12 months.  And you know to be able to add to your bio that you are now a co-author really does help to make you stand out and be unique from other people in the crowd and in the marketplace.

So for me that’s the big take-away is being able to participate as a co-author in that book.

Dana: And that was a great opportunity, I know Fay, cause all three of those volumes that she has authored and co-authored with you wonderful women, it is, really it has been a best-seller.  It’s a great read, it really is.  What a fantastic opportunity for you.  So let me ask then, as far as providing any of our listeners, cause I know they’re hanging on the edge of their seat, especially feeling like gosh, we’ve got a business designer on the line with us on this episode.  Are there any other tips that you would like to share with our listeners, as a result of being a part of Wonderful Web Women?

Fay: Well, I think the main tip, Dana is the fact that people can use the internet for business.  And they need to have a business structure behind that.  And I think that’s something that a lot of people, perhaps are a little bit misled by with what’s available to them.  So you know, being part of the Wonderful Web Women does certainly consolidate and concern my belief in this area that you really need to have a business structure, and then to go ahead and use the internet as a medium to market that along with other avenues.

You know it’s a crowded marketplace out there and folks really do need to establish themselves as being different from everyone else.  I think it’s really important for people to be able to find their own voice, to find their own uniqueness that they bring to the market and to use that to position themselves and to create a really compelling marketing niche, cause once you have those things in place, after that, everything flows really easily.  You know clients will come, the money will come, the lifestyle that people want will come.  So I really believe that there needs to be that strong business foundation to whatever business idea or inspiring idea people have for their passion and to then put that in such a way that you can easily then utilize the internet as a marketing medium.

Dana: Very, very well said Fay, thank you very much.  And I want to just take a moment, cause I know you’re right in the middle of a couple programs and getting ready to launch a tele-seminar series.  And I just want to thank you for taking time to join us today.  It really means a lot to all of us to hear your story.

Fay: You’re welcome.  It’s been an absolute delight.  Absolutely delight.  So thank you so much, Dana for the opportunity and for Janet for the opportunity to be part of Wonderful Web Women, it’s a wonderful journey to be on.

Dana: Well, and we’re just so proud of you, and that’s why we wanted to highlight you today as our Rising Star.  You’ve obviously proven that you’re passionate and you’re absolutely going places, and I know there are listeners on the call with us right now that want to know more about you and your business and how they can possibly work with you, so where would you go send them?

Fay: Look, Dana, they can head on over to my main page on my business site and would you like met o give you the URL for that?

Dana: Oh please do.

Fay: Sure, so it’s www.TheAussieBusinessCoach.com.  And if they head on over there they’ll be able to get a free audio titled The Seven Steps to More Clients, More Money, Quickly and Consistently.  And that’s a great place for folks to get started and they can certainly get in touch with me through that if they would like to.

Dana: Wonderful, well thank you so much and I would encourage all of you to go over there.  I know Fay not only from being inside this community, but outside of this community and she’s definitely someone that you want to draw close to if you’re looking to build your business online, so she’s there to help support you in your endeavors.  So again, thank you very much, Fay for taking the time to join me today, I really appreciate it.

Fay: You’re welcome, it’s an absolutely pleasure, and I hope everyone has a wonderful day.

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Transcript of the Interview

Dana: Kim, welcome to the call.

Kim: Thanks, Dana.

Dana: Well, thanks for joining us and taking time out of your day.  So, if you don’t mind, please share with our listeners a little bit more about you and your business.

Kim: Sure, I am Kim Morris as you’ve already said and I am from beautiful Brisbane in Queensland, Australia and for the past 10 years I’ve worked throughout Australia in a lot of different corporate roles.  From lots of different roles through some universities to power generation plants to power electricity distributors, just to give you a little bit of an idea.  Some of the really cool expertise that I have developed during this time is in the areas of business analysis, project improvement, project management and human resource management.

And having grown up in quite a business environment, watching my parents really struggle both financially and emotionally to create a really good and sustainable business, I’ve always had a passion to work with small businesses, to help them create the business that they’ve always wanted.  And I know that with the skills and expertise that I’ve developed, both in the corporate world and also from my own previous business activities as a fitness business owner, so I can translate these into valuable learning and knowledge that will help other small-business owners to get the business that they’ve always wanted.

And so now I have a business that is called Entrepreneur Systems that’s all about working with small service type businesses, where the owner is sick and tired of micro-managing employees and is feeling really burnt out from wearing the different hats in their business and is really pretty much losing the battle of focusing on what’s important because they’re just firefighting in their business all the time.  So, essentially what Entrepreneur Systems is about, is helping business owners to create a lifestyle business and to become what I call practically irrelevant to their business knowing that it will keep making money and that their business will still keep going to achieve its overall objective.

Dana: Fantastic!  Well, I love…I love the name, too.  Entrepreneur Systems, as sometimes as entrepreneurs we don’t, you know, really get the fact that we need to have some systems in place to keep a really well-oiled business going.

Kim: Absolutely. Key systems are definitely the foundation of really creating that sustainable business: that set you up for the long term, not just a business that is here one minute and gone the next.  I’m absolutely just so passionate about systems and they are the backbone of every business situation.

Dana: Oh, they absolutely are and I also picked up on your—the term “lifestyle” business, which, as we sometimes forget, that this is something we’re creating as entrepreneurs is a lifestyle.

Kim: Absolutely and you know most of us go into business to get more life not to get less life and quite often really are in business, particularly in those early years, what we end up with is less life.  So, you know, by being smart and actually creating systems in your business, it really will help you to get more life and more of what you’ve really been wanting.

Dana: Fantastic and that’s what we’re all doing this for, isn’t it?

Kim: Oh, totally, for sure…

Dana: Now I know you have been a member, actually a gold member and you have some special…you know, you’re kind of high up there in Janet’s community, so we’re thrilled to be able to feature you as one of her rising stars today. But you’ve been a member, a gold member, especially, of Wonderful Web Woman for quite some time now, haven’t you?

Kim: I have, yes and I first discovered  Wonderful Web Woman about 18 months ago and I have to say I immediately resonated with Janet because she just really had such a down-to-earth and authentic approach and coupled with that, I soon realized after listening to her speak, just a few times, that she had this really incredible business-savviness. And I knew that that business-savviness and that really structured system way of running her business that she was the ideal person kind of person that I really wanted to learn from.

Dana: Fantastic.  Well I know I’ve learned so much from her over the period of a couple of years, now, myself  and you have actually had the pleasure of being with her, in-person at some of her events.  In fact, just as recent as just a few weeks ago, right?

Kim: I was. I was at her “4^th Dimension Mastery” workshop that was held in Sydney and it was a totally mind-blowing experience.  Just the content and the other people that were there just, it was just so inspiring to hear what people are doing and to network with like-minded people, to really understand some of the challenges and frustrations that they’re having.  And it’s amazing, when you start talking to other people about their businesses, how you automatically have already brought life up in your own mind about how you can actually make your own business better and things you can be doing in your own business to move…move it along and keep that momentum going… that was an absolute great experience.

Dana: Yeah, there’s nothing like that synergy that’s built where you’re…when you’re in a room of like-minded entrepreneurs who are just as “success-driven” as you are.

Kim: Oh, it was just mind-blowing and the great thing about it is that there were people who were there that were way ahead of where I was and also, people who were about at the same stage as where I was…so, it was great to get those different perspectives as well, to have people kind of throw in new ideas like, “Hey , have you thought of this?” or “Why are you really doing that?” And they… they, you know,  come to things to come up in your mind and that had I not gone to that workshop probably I would  still be mulling over those same things and wondering what I was doing, quite honestly.

Dana: Right, it’s giving you some systems. But you can go create those systems, isn’t it?

Kim: It is essentially and it’s really also…that workshop really helped me to define who my target market was because being in a room full of business people is probably not something you do on a daily basis.  You know most people you hang around with are friends and family who don’t tend to be overly on the same page as you. So, being in that room with 60 other business minds who were quite helpful , in terms of what you need to be doing and where you need to be focusing your energies.  It’s really just a little bit of a…a kick in the right direction and a real kind of energy boost to realign your focus, I think.

Dana: I absolutely agree.  So, now, because you’ve been a member of Wonderful Web Women for quite a period of time, you’ve listened to a lot of the…the great guest interviews that Janet has conducted and you’ve obviously now have been just so blessed to be able to go to some live events with her. Was there anything…was there one particular call or was it the live event that really helped you make that business shift?

Kim: There absolutely was and it was a call just not too long ago and it was about creating a business avatar which I now realize is actually something that I had been missing the point on.  And then it’s her way of explaining why you need to clarify and define the business avatar was absolutely invaluable.  It was just such a powerful call and I know that the lights actually went on for a lot of people after listening to that call.

Dana: Yeah I got on that, too and it’s something you have one of those…aha…moments, when you realize that…if all you have to do is really take time to really determine what your business avatar is…what your, who your target market is. Who are you speaking to.

Kim: Yes, definitely and I think that the key is actually taking the time to do it and not rushing through it and thinking that you have it, but actually taking the process slowly and actually digging deep and researching the market and finding out who sees your ideal customer because that can save you a lot of heartache later on, knowing that information up front.

Dana: Well, and it’s taking the time initially, up front, even though it’s going to take a little bit of time, but it’s the long term gain that’s going to really result because you really want to be speaking to the right people.

Kim: Absolutely.  And I know from some of my own experience because that’s not an exercise that I did right at the very beginning that I did actually invest time and energy into creating things that were really not suited to my ideal customer.  So, as a result of that, I have quite a number of things that are sitting on the shelf in my office here which I may not ever even use because they’re really not …they’re not really relevant to where my business is going right now.  And knowing that business avatar will really allow me to create products and services that fit my ideal customer right from the very, very beginning.

Dana: Wow, yeah that definitely, that’s definitely a stand out.  That’ll definitely help you push forward.  So,  then that would have been my next question for you is, so how have  you been able to apply that to your life and businesses? Sounds like that is kind of a work in progress right now.

Kim: It is and part of the way I’ve been able to apply understanding what my avatar is and really getting clarity around my avatar has really been in creating my signature system and that’s something I’ve been working on the past couple of months.  And because I am really clear now on who my avatar is the process of creating my signature system is so much more simpler because as I’m creating my system I can just ask my avatar, how would this benefit you by including this piece of information in my signature system? And, if I had created that profile already of my avatar or my ideal customer… if by asking them that question I get the response of, no, that doesn’t benefit me and it wouldn’t benefit me in any way, shape or form, then, I’ll disregard that piece of information.  But, if I can look at my avatar and ask that question and get a positive response and say yes would benefit me in this way, then I’ll seriously consider including that piece of information in my signature system.  So, I think it has been a really powerful combination of learning for me, in that sense.

Dana: Oh, I think so.  It sounds like you’ve really embraced it because I think it’s really going to be able to propel you forward and what a great way…what a great thing to share with everybody.  So those of you that are listening to this, if you haven’t had a chance to learn more about that, you definitely want to go over to Wonderful Web Women.  Well now Kim I wanted to be able to ask you, is there any other tips for our listeners that you would like to share as a result of being a member of Wonderful Web Women? Any last minute thoughts?

Kim: Absolutely and this has been a really, really big one for me because when I started on the journey of wanting to have my own business, I knew right from the beginning that I did not want to do it on my own. I always knew that I would need help and based on that I always knew I wanted to take the path of least resistance. So, I really wanted to find someone who’d been there, done that and achieved the kind of success that I wanted.  So, my advice is to do exactly that.  Find someone that has already achieved the type of success that you want and follow them, learn from them, study what they do and understand why they do it.  And I believe that this is ultimately one of the things that will make a really, really big difference as to whether or not your idea never gets lift-off or whether you can push the idea forward to have it blossom into the beautiful and profitable flower that you know that it could always be.  The clue is to really have just at least one mentor who can help guide you along the way to creating that business that you’ve always wanted.

Dana: Fantastic.  Well thank you  so much for sharing that and I know that we’ve just had a little bit of time together on this call and I’m sure there are several of our listeners, right now listening tour radio show that are very excited to learn more about you and your business.  So, where would they go find you?  I know you said it’s Entrepreneur Systems. Is it Entrepreneur Systems.com?

Kim: it is Entrepreneur Systems.com and there are lots of free resources over there at that web site and also, I would like to also just let people know to keep an eye out for my free report that will be coming out soon on my new 5-step Business Brief Drive System that will help  you separate the owner in you from the employee in you and to really help you to bridge the gap from your current business to your ideal business.

Dana: Oh wow…so everybody go over there and sign up so that you’ll be one of the first ones to get that report.  That will be an awesome, awesome resource that you’ll want to have.  Well gosh Kim, thank you so much for taking time out of your day to join us.  This has been really exciting.

Kim: It’s been an absolute pleasure and I’ve loved being able to share some of the things that I’ve learned being a member and just knowing Janet and who she is and what she stands for.  I think she’s doing some wonderful things with her community and I’ve just learned so much.  I really don’t think I’d be where I was without having been part of her community.  It’s been a wonderful experience.

Dana: Well you are just a perfect example of one of our rising stars and we are so very proud of what you’re doing.  So again, everybody you do want to go ahead and go over to Entrepreneur Systems.com and go ahead and sign up and get with Kim because she has a lot of great resources to share with all of you.