Michelle McCormack, founder of Casting Coin, an online talent marketplace for brands and producers wants to share several lessons on how to make a good first impression online. Show notes at lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show369 Lot of great lessons in our conversations including: +How the pandemic changed the photography business. +Key lessons for writing effective emails and how to avoid email or text wars. +The guiding principles she used to build an online community of influencers in...

Billy Samoa Saleebey, host of the For the Love of Podcast and the founder and CEO of Podify, wants to share how to ask great questions, so you can build great relationships with your clients. Show notes at lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show368 Lot of great lessons in our conversations including: +How to disarm your potential clients to gain their trust. +Why being a good listener makes you a better storyteller. +Why self-awareness is the most important skill in sales. +Why he chose...

Chris Martin, filmmaker, curiosity builder and host of the Getting Work to Work Podcast, wants to inspire you to take a step back to move forward on the work you really want to do. Show notes at lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show367 Lot of great lessons in our conversations including: + The various on and off ramps he has taken over the past 15 years along his solopreneur journey. + How validation holds us back. + How he used his own podcast as a case study to launch his new venture helping...

Amber De La Garza, founder of TheProductivitySpecialist.com and host of the Productivity Straight Talk podcast, wants to inspire to discover how to be your best self to do your best work. Show notes at lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show366 Lot of great lessons in our conversations including: + How she pivoted her career in real estate sales into business coaching. + Why the birth of her son gave her the courage to go out on her own. + How she s been apprenticing her son in her business. +...

Rachel Freiman, fitness trainer and author of Becoming Mindstrong wants to teach you how to reframe your mindset to make any big change you want to make in your life. Show notes at lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show365 Lot of great lessons in our conversations including: +Why she calls herself an educator and not a fitness trainer. +How teachers are uniquely suited to transition into entrepreneurship. +Why learning how to deal with failure is more important than making money. +How to...

Jeff Harry, founder of RediscoverYourPlay.com, wants to inspire you to get paid to play for a living regardless of the type of work you want to do! Show notes at lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show364 Lot of great lessons in our conversations including: +How Jeff turned play into a career path. +Why working at toy companies was not fun for Jeff. +Why so-called experts don t always practice what they preach. +How COVID turned his side business into his full-time gig. +Why mourning is such...

Roobens Fils, travel blogger and author of Traveling While Black wants to inspire you to turn setbacks into opportunities and he s had his fair share of them! Show notes at lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show363 Lot of great lessons in our conversations including: How the pandemic forced him to finally get his book out into the world. If you get laid off, Roobens shares what you need to do to be prepared. Landing clients as he traveled the world. How to balance work with sightseeing. How...

Karwanna Dyson, CEO of She's Got Goals, wants to teach you how to make six figures landing government contracts, helping you become profitable faster! Show notes at lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show362 Lot of great lessons in our conversations including: How to seek government contracts if you sell professional services. Why she tried several different types of business before she found one that made her millions. How to find government contracts earmarked specifically for women and...

Sandra Booker, owner of AnyOldTask.ca, a virtual assistant agency, wants to teach you how to become to a virtual assistant (VA) to gain your work freedom right now! Show notes at lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show361 Lot of great lessons in our conversations including: How she turned her administrative skill set into a business. Find business ideas by focusing on skills you re really good and most other people don t enjoy doing. The first couple of steps Sandra took to become a VA. If you...

Laura Roeder, founder of MeetEdgar and Paerbell, wants to inspire you to create time freedom by designing your work around your ideal lifestyle. Show notes at lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show360 Lot of great lessons in our conversations including: How such discovered her desire to do work that gave her time freedom. Why she prefers lots of clients who pay her small amounts of money. How she turned her social media spreadsheets into the software that became MeetEdgar. Overcoming her...

Jatali Bellanton, founder of BrilliantMindsUnite.com is a financial literacy advocate that wants to inspire you to teach yourself and your kids how to achieve financial freedom. Show notes at lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show359 Lot of great lessons in our conversations including: How she started making money from home once she left her job. Why it s so important to talk to your spouse about your entrepreneurial desires. How she secured her financial independence through real estate. Why you...

Evan La Ruffa, creative entrepreneur and founder of IPaintMyMind.org, shares how to embrace change in times of great chaos like we are living through. Show notes at lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show358 Lot of great lessons in our conversations including: How the pandemic created new opportunities for his nonprofit. Be willing to test anything you are unsure about. Why he doesn t want to commit to just one service. Why gets his team to think of projects like campaigns instead. How he...

Khalilah Elliott, founder and chief disruptor at Gafford Communications, a multicultural strategic communications firm, wants to inspire you to repackage your skills to do work that matters. Show notes at lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show357 Lot of great lessons in our conversations including: If you ve been recently laid off, Khalilah has some advice for you. Why freelancing was her entry point into entrepreneurship. The process she went through to recover emotionally from the loss of her...

Jessica Malone, a decluttering coach and founder of NachoAverageFro.com wants to inspire you to declutter to live your desired life. Show notes at lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show356 Lot of great lessons in our conversations including: Why decluttering was the one method that finally got her unstuck. Why she tackled her closest first to start decluttering. Anxiety about her job drove her to make a change in her life. Why convenience is preventing you from living your desired life Ready to...

In this special panel discussion episode, work futurists Karen Eber, Charles Araujo and George Muir discuss how work changed in 2020 as we ve known it and how to adapt to that change going forward. Show notes at lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show355 Lot of great lessons in our conversations including: Why George believes we should no longer be discussing how to approach the future of work, but the future of life itself. Karen believes companies need to be thinking about how to create engaged...

Jeremy Enns, CEO of Counter Weight Creative, shares the process he went through to niche down his business to its current focus today. Show notes at lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show354 Lot of great lessons in our conversations including: Why you need to shun the nonbelievers from your business life. How he fell into his current niche of health and wellness. What the Niche Tribe Model is all about. How niching down increases your referrals. How you can focus on niche mindsets and not...

Isha Uppalapati, founder of AGirlsFrontier.com, started a nonprofit 2 years ago as a sophomore in high school to teach disadvantaged girls entrepreneurship skills. Show notes at lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show353 Lot of great lessons in our conversations including: Sharing the resource you have with others who have less access. The process she went through to start her nonprofit. How she got her very first donation. What she s learned about managing her time from remote learning. Ready...

Aaron James, CEO of Webonli, shares how to make your website a sales lead machine. Show notes at lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show352 Lot of great lessons in our conversations including: Why your website is your #1 employee. How to build your business without having to chase after sales. How to engage potential customers using social media without spending all your time on social media. The basics of building a digital sales funnel for your business. How to get paid to learn. Ready to...

Entrepreneur and digital nomad, Natalie Sisson shares our mission to inspire you to get paid to be you and how you can do it. Show notes at lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show351 Lot of great lessons in our conversations including: Practice telling your story. Getting paid to be yourself takes effort. Why she s not an advocate of having a backup plan. Identify your unfair advantage as the starting point for creating your business. How traveling the world helped her build her business. Why...

Todd Henry, author of The Motivation Code, wants to help you to understand your motivation, so you can unlock your hidden potential. Show notes at lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show350 Lot of great lessons in our conversations including: Why you may not understand your motivation as clearly as you might believe. What Todd learned about his own motivations. How he motivates himself to write, yet doesn t enjoy the process of writing. Sustain your motivation by learning how to activate your...

Black women are transforming work for themselves by starting businesses at a faster rate than any other demographic because the conventional work system never worked for them. Show notes at lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show349 In this special episode, I m joined by a guest co-host Jillian Hubbard, a diversity, equity and inclusion consultant, who I previously interviewed in episode 247 to guide a round table discussion about black women solopreneurs and how to support their growth. Our guests...

Jinny Oh, a UX designer and founder of WANDR, provides loads of lessons about how to grow your business faster by collaborating with your team and even your clients. Show notes at lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show348 Lot of great lessons in our conversations including: Never assume you understand the behaviors of your customers. The design for anything begins by first observing. Why she hired designers better than herself as she built her team. How to grow by letting go, but how it almost...

Nicki Krawczyk, a copywriting freelance coach and founder of filthyrichwriter.com, shares how to start a freelance copywriter business using her own story as inspiration. Show notes at lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show347

Ryan Clover, a freelance web developer and founder of Maple Creative, shares how to become a freelancer developer. His story provides an actionable template for building any type of freelance business. Show notes at lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show346

Iggy Perillo, a leadership coach and the founder of worksportlife.com, shares how to start a mastermind, so get support from your peers as you build your business. Show notes at lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show345