Carolyn Kiel is a learning design manager at a Fortune 500 company. Prior to working in learning & development, she held roles in change management, risk management, and data governance in the financial services industry. 

We discuss:

• How to prepare yourself for career pivots [01:58]
• How to overcome the tendency to be too comfortable on the status quo [03:30]
• Company culture as an obstacle or an opportunity for career development [07:44]
• Beyond those first 6 seconds impressions [11:39]
• The many faces of creating an impact on society [14:34]
• The surprising number of people having a side hustle next to a corporate job [18:07]
• The unspoken expectation about employees’ focus at work [21:21]
• Every interview is a new opportunity [22:28]

Carolyn also hosts the Beyond 6 Seconds podcast, where she has interviewed more than 120 entrepreneurs, CEOs and media personalities about how they’ve overcome obstacles to build their careers and achieve their goals. Carolyn has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Vassar College and a master’s degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Learn more about Carolyn at www.beyond6seconds.net, LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter. 

Mark is the author of The Career Toolkit, Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You. Educated at MIT, Mark has spent his career launching and fixing new ventures at startups, Fortune 500s, and academia. 

We discuss:

• The feeling of being stuck without knowing how to get to the next level [01:58]
• Building lots of relationships instead of collecting lots of business cards [03:46]
• The necessary frequency of going out there [05:22]
• Why you can’t give away too much [07:16]
• The range of methods to create content and attract a larger audience [09:32]
• How to frame your solution to fit into how your clients model the problem [11:21]
• Whenever there is a large type of change – massive opportunity [12:57]
• How to set yourself up as a known expert during a pandemic [14:09]
• The challenge is to change the mindset not the skillset [15:54]

Mark has developed new software languages, online marketplaces, new authentication systems, and tracked criminals and terrorists on the dark web. Mark helped create the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program, MIT’s “Career Success Accelerator”, where he’s taught for twenty years. Mark also serves on the boards of non-profits Techie Youth and Plant a Million Corals.

Learn more about Mark at https://www.thecareertoolkitbook.com.

Emily Simas helps her clients strengthen the core of their organizations by focusing on people and process. An expert in program management and a facilitator by nature, Emily knows how to organize and mobile teams to get exceptional products and services to market. 

We discuss:

• The moment when your client gives a title to what you do [02:40]
• The benefits of doing program management as a consultant versus as an employee [05:22]
• Creative solutions to building efficiency, accountability and inspiration within organizations [07:22]
• Common language as a way to break through barriers [10:47]
• Your ideal client is always evolving [14:38]

Emily draws 25 years of experience leading large-scale initiatives for technology companies and non-profits to support a wide range of clients including Adobe, DocuSign, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and SF CASA.

Learn more about Emily at https://www.emilysimas.com/. 

Sam Gupta has been an ERP thought leader in the digital transformation space for nearly two decades, with the primary focus on financial systems and ERP. 

We discuss:

• The pros and cons of getting your first job before the age of five [02:05]
• An exploration of new shiny things away from the family business [04:30]
• How to extrapolate the knowledge you get from different industries [07:03]
• Figuring out a core business idea after ten years as an entrepreneur [08:57]
• The secret sauce to running a successful venture [10:55]
• One of the most important skills that we can all have [15:07]
• How to measure the value in an initial conversation [18:00]

Sam has been part of large transformation initiatives for fortune-500 corporations but now spends his time consulting with SMEs as a Principal Consultant/CEO at ElevatIQ. Sam regularly speaks at industry conferences and contributes his experiences through many popular blogs and publications. He also hosts a podcast called WBSRocks focused on business growth through digital transformation and ERP where he interviews top influencers and executives from ERP, Supply Chain, Digital Transformation, Supply Chain, and Accounting.

Learn more about Sam at www.elevatiq.com, LinkedIn, Twitter and WBSRocks.

Michele Molitor is the CEO of Nectar Consulting Inc., a certified Rapid Transformational Therapist (RTT), Executive Coach (CPCC) and co-author of the best-selling book “Breakthrough Healing.” 

We discuss:

• A combination that creates a truly rapid transformation [01:49]
• The feeling of [not] being enough [04:38]
• Situations when coaches and consultants may be held back [07:05]
• Why successful employees may develop imposter syndrome when becoming entrepreneurs [09:57]
• Another fun fact they don’t tell you when you’re getting trained as a consultant [11:21]
• Your greatest source of pain is your greatest source of power [12:30]
• How to dissolve fear into nothingness [15:43]
• An external sounding board to sort out the internal dialogue [16:50]
• A pattern interrupt to start you moving towards the goal [18:48]

Working with executives and entrepreneurs, Michele is an expert at helping you remove the blocks created by imposter syndrome so you can achieve greater success, well-being, and career satisfaction.

Michele’s unique Rapid Rewiring™ approach is a culmination of years of study to help you catalyze shifts in your thinking and eliminate mental/emotional blocks to rapidly rewire your brain for greater confidence and peace of mind.

Learn more about Michele at www.MicheleMolitor.com.

Brief Description of Gift

Masterclass – Keys to Cultivating Your Confidence or a free e-book: Tapping Into Your Power & Presence

URL for Free Gift

www.MicheleMolitor.com

Raj, from Series A Photography, is a personal branding photographer in NYC, helping entrepreneurs tell their beautiful, multifaceted stories on camera. 

We discuss:

• A journey from a data scientist employee to a photography entrepreneur [02:12]
• The different types of identity reinvention [08:53]
• What worked for them might not work out for you [13:46]
• The difference between general business coaches and niche-oriented coaches [16:53]
• The “surprising” effect of a mindset shift [18:43]
• Why there is no prescribed path for first-time entrepreneurs [20:04]
• Why Raj is changing the way personal branding looks [21:43]

Raj is originally an immigrant from India, a former data scientist who worked in tech startups for over a decade, a trained sex/relationship coach, and a straight guy married to a queer transgender man. He brings all of this life experience to create a space for his clients to fully express themselves, resulting in authentic, vulnerable, powerful images that resonate deeply with their audience.

Learn more about Raj at https://seriesaphotography.com.

Brief Description of Gift

A self-guided exercise to create your own Mood Board and unearth insights about your personal brand

URL for Free Gift

https://seriesaphotography.com/find-your-brand

Jeremy Pollack is a leader in the field of workplace conflict resolution and peacebuilding. He is the Founder of Pollack Peacebuilding Systems, an international conflict resolution consulting firm.

We discuss:

• The solution for coaches and consultants who don’t like marketing [02:17]
• The one thing that stays consistent among the many types of marketing [03:18]
• Why content is so important for consultants and coaches [05:07]
• The importance of SEO as part of the content marketing strategy [05:58]
• How to do SEO without even thinking about it [07:15]
• A way to find peace with yourself and each other [08:40]
• The inner warrior approach to finding your niche [11:46]
• What young coaches can do to become trustworthy professionals [15:11]
• From thirty years of employment to becoming a self-employed consultant or coach [17:39]
• The philosophy behind framing everything through value [22:00]

Jeremy is a master coach, master trainer, mediator, and author. He coaches and trains executives and employees at a variety of levels and industries, from Fortune 500 companies to major non-profits. Jeremy is a regular contributor on the topics of leadership and organizational conflict management to publications such as Forbes, Fast Company, and many more. He is also the author of the recently released book The Conflict Resolution Playbook.

Learn more about Jeremy at https://pollackpeacebuilding.com/ and https://coachjeremypollack.com/. 

Andrea is the founder of CTP Solutions, LLC where she helps companies put their ideas into action by creating solutions to their process and training gaps. 

We discuss:

• Not a matter of “if” but a matter of “when” [02:01]
• The moment when you’re going to sink or swim [04:13]
• The things you can do as a consultant that you can’t do as an employee [05:15]
• Sometimes the problem is not really the problem [08:00]
• The hardest part about going into a business for yourself [10:10]
• The first thing to do when you’re going out on your own [13:12]
• The people to surround yourself with so you don’t feel like you’re on an island [14:39]
• Becoming a consultant mid to late in your career [15:40]
• Building a product first versus trying to sell it first [16:36]
• Building a team: start with the things that are the hardest [18:02]
• How people you don’t know yet could be referrals for you later [19:02]

Andrea has over 20 years’ experience in coaching, training, facilitation, process development, strategic direction, and project management. She believes that how people communicate, how they interact as a team, how they address and solve problems together are all critical to achieving their desired outcomes. Andrea facilitates this understanding by guiding the organization in enhancing communication, establishing processes and protocols, and providing the strategies often needed to effectively operationalize those processes and assure their long-term success.

Learn more about Andrea at www.ctpsolutionsllc.com. 

Bobby Klinck is a Harvard Law Grad turned online entrepreneur but he’s NOT your typical lawyer. 

We discuss:

• Being here on behalf of the United States of America [02:06]
• Not sad, not depressed, but not happy as well [04:19]
• How giving changes you as a person [08:18]
• The difference between tactical giving and a giver [12:10]
• People don’t buy information but transformation [15:26]
• How coaches can stay ahead of the curve [18:32]
• A weekly walkthrough of Bobby’s wacky life [20:32]

Bobby has built a thriving online business by doing things a bit differently than other people, making the legal and business stuff simple, with a focus on building real connections with real people, instead of thinking of people as potential transactions.

After trying what the “expert” online entrepreneurs were telling him to do, Bobby threw out the “online marketing” rulebook and started marketing his way… by giving, connecting with his audience, and building his brand.

Learn more about Bobby at www.bobbyklinck.com, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Brief Description of Gift

BADA$$ Online Marketing University

URL for Free Gift

www.bobbyklinck.com/bomu

Jamy Bechler is the host of the “Success is a Choice” podcast and author of three books, including “The Bus Trip”. He spent 20 years as a college basketball coach and high school AD. Jamy now works with high-level corporations and sports teams helping them maximize their potential in the area of leadership, culture, and teamwork.

We discuss:

• Self-employed or unemployed depending on the day [01:32]
• How having a platform to host a podcast could change the dynamics of your business [03:38]
• Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal [05:53]
• The entrepreneur’s internal battles with discipline [07:11]
• How to avoid having the business running you instead of you running it [09:15]
• Why having a rainy day fund is not enough to go from a paycheck to self-employment [12:45]
• Don’t lose relationships over sale [14:54]
• Coaching coaches and leading leaders [17:39]
• Seek first to understand, then to be understood [20:09]
• Great teams have great teammates [21:19]

Learn more about Jamy at https://coachbechler.com/ and Twitter.

David is a former consulting actuary to Fortune 100 companies. He built the world’s largest coaching business, becoming #1 on Google for life coaching and coaching thousands of hours in 12 countries around the globe.

We discuss:

• Why working with entrepreneurs is fun [02:26]
• The best clients don’t need help [04:41]
• How to overcome the shiny object syndrome [07:51]
• How important it is to agree what not to care about [10:00]
• Why people gravitate towards overwhelm [13:21]
• How to sort out and implement an outside input [16:46]
• Monkey say, monkey do [19:20]
• How to find the best fit possible in a time when there are more coaches than ever [22:38]

As well as helping others, David is no stranger to overcoming challenges himself, having survived a full collapse of his paraglider and a fractured spine, witnessing the death of his sister at age seven, anxiety and depression, and a national Gong Show! 

He coaches high performing business owners to double revenue, and their time off by focusing on less and being 30% more courageous in their business or career.

Learn more about David at http://focus.ceo/, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.

Brief Description of Gift

A preview of David’s training for self-assessment and a cheat sheet on how to double your revenue 

URL for Free Gift

http://www.myfocusgift.com/

As a speaker and small business consultant, Jeffrey Shaw helps self-employed and small business owners gain control of their business in what seems like otherwise uncontrollable circumstances. 

We discuss:

• The courage to leave a steady paycheck for fulfillment [03:26]
• Why companies don’t hire coaches to bring the best out of their employees [06:22]
• One of the most underrated things we can achieve in the world [10:25]
• Life can turn on a dime [13:40]
• Terry has a way of cutting to the chase [15:26]
• The profile of the self-employed versus that of a freelancer and an entrepreneur [18:32]
• The business model of multiples [21:13]

Drawing on his experience as a renowned portrait photographer, Jeffrey shows business owners how to see business through a different lens and strategies to compose the often-chaotic pieces of life and business into sustainable success.

Jeffrey’s TEDxLincolnSquare talk is featured on TED.com and he’s the host of the top-rated podcast, The Self-Employed Life, author of The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success and LINGO: Discover Your Ideal Customer’s Secret Language and Make Your Business Irresistible.

Learn more about Jeffrey at  https://jeffreyshaw.com and theselfemployedlife.me.

Tony Martignetti is a leadership development expert, entrepreneur, idea generator, and people connector. He brings together practical experience, formal training, and extreme curiosity, to elevate leaders and equip them with the tools to navigate through change and unlock their true potential.

We discuss:

• Leave the room to change the room [02:04]
• The magic world of art, business and science brought together [05:02]
• All about managing the way people see themselves from the core [08:00]
• If you’re willing to feel everything, you can have anything [11:32]
• You have to prepare for a longer hike [12:54]
• That someone who can help you get on the other side [15:27]
• The difference between what employees need versus what entrepreneurs need [16:18]
• It’s not about changing who you are but amplifying who you are [17:50]
• How to create a real focused audience of people who you want to work with [19:07]
• The things that wait to be unleashed [21:14]

Before becoming a coach, Tony was a finance and strategy professional with experience working with some of the world’s leading life sciences companies. Along his journey, he also managed small businesses and ran a financial consulting company.

Tony is the host of The Virtual Campfire podcast and is currently writing his first book, “Climbing the Right Mountain.”

Learn more about Tony at  https://www.inspiredpurposecoach.com/ and LinkedIn.

Stephanie is the founder of The Verse Media. She was formerly a General Partner of growth equity firm, ABS Capital Partners, and is the wife of former Secretary of Defense, Ash Carter. 

We discuss:

• The icing on the cake [02:20]
• A job that really comes along once in a lifetime [04:17]
• What never gets talked about when one is striving for excellence [05:33]
• A waste of wisdom and experience [08:04]
• A playbook for your second half [10:03]
• A humbling necessity to rewire the way you work [12:54]
• Why businesses undervalue giving the time to think [14:57]
• By grownups for grownups [16:55]
• Strategies to regain your agency when it gets hard [21:00]
• The people you would have paid $100 for an hour spent on the phone with you [25:54]

At ABS, Stephanie was responsible for raising $1.6B for the firm’s funds, creating its Investor Relations function and leading all marketing, event and investment research activities. In support of the Department of Defense, she advocated for military families and veterans. She was awarded the “Distinguished Public Service Award” by the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff in 2017.

Learn more about Stephanie at www.theversemedia.com.

Mickie Kennedy is an expert at helping small businesses, authors, and startups increase their visibility and credibility.

We discuss:

• What you do when you don’t like being told what to do [01:45]
• A hypothesis about changes in technologies [04:53]
• How a newswire works [6:15]
• Why your press release could use some strategies [08:20]
• Small companies with a great number of releases and milestones [09:36]
• It really comes down to relevant stories [10:39]
• Consultants and coaches that gained traction through the press [12:35]
• The challenges to getting noticed for business authors [14:14]
• What non-fiction authors may not know about gaining a following through media [16:14]
• Sometimes the right person to manage the business is not the right person to manage the people [17:17]
• Commitment will make you successful as quickly as possible [18:47]

Mickie founded eReleases twenty-two years ago, after realizing that small businesses desperately need a press release service they can actually afford, giving them access to the media and to a national newswire – all with a personal touch.

Learn more about Mickie at  https://www.ereleases.com.

Brief Description of Gift

A free video training on press release strategies

URL for Free Gift

https://www.ereleases.com/plan

Mike Smith founded Huddle Advisory, a human capital consulting firm, after 25 years as a sports and entertainment executive at the NFL, NBC, and Deloitte. 

We discuss:

• The value of a great boss at the early stage of one’s career [02:22]
• All the little things that people do in order to create big success at scale [03:34]
• Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable [08:06]
• The muscles that atrophy after spending 25 years in corporate [10:27]
• Why it’s essential to recognize the value of realistic optimism in the face of expected obstacles [12:57]
• The unsurprising amount of creativity that comes in the middle of a workout [17:06]
• How to deal with the constant drive to be productive [19:44]
• The umbrella of always learning [22:04]

Mike’s background centers around leading organizational service functions: Human Resources, Finance, Technology, and Administration. After multiple Finance leadership roles, he made a mid-career transition to Human Capital because of his passion for engaging people to drive business performance. Having served as both a CHRO and a CFO, he has a unique lens to view business and talent strategy alignment.

Learn more about Mike at https://huddleadvisory.com/ and LinkedIn.

Todd Cherches is the CEO and cofounder of BigBlueGumball, a NYC-based consulting firm specializing in leadership development, public speaking, and executive coaching, as well as a Founding Partner of the Global Institute for Thought Leadership. 

We discuss:

• How to get people to see what we’re saying [01:47]
• The “I can’t draw” syndrome [02:26]
• What if Superman and Batman are already taken [04:39]
• Twin bookworms separated at birth [06:18]
• The three B’s kind of guy [08:05]
• Standing on the shoulders of giants [10:04]
• How to accept defeat with grace [12:39]
• How we are all managers and leaders [15:45]
• It’s not a path, it’s a rollercoaster [17:15]
• The many ways in which one could use their literature background [19:32]
• You can’t coach people against their will [20:50]
• The combined wisdom of a millennial and a baby boomer [22:12]

Todd is also a three-time award-winning Adjunct Professor of leadership at NYU, and a Lecturer on leadership at Columbia University. Todd is also a TEDx speaker, and the author of “VisuaLeadership: Leveraging the Power of Visual Thinking in Leadership and in Life” (Post Hill Press/Simon & Schuster, 2020).

Learn more about Todd at www.toddcherches.com.

Brief Description of Gifts

Free PDF download of Todd’s book recommends list, “Todd’s Top 52 Books to Help You Become a More Visual Leader.”

Free PDF download of a chapter from Todd’s book, the “Passion/Skill Matrix.”

URL for Free Gift

Book list link: www.toddcherches/subscribe

Passion/Skill Matrix chapter: www.toddcherches.com/passion

Scott Mason is professional speaker and Principal of Scott Mason, LLC, which provides small business consulting services.  

We discuss:

• An ongoing search to find the circle outside the box [01:38]
• The [martial] arts of a side hustle [05:10]
• What made Scott leave traditional employment twice [06:20]
• A gigantic river taking you beyond who and what you might be [07:25]
• The evolution of what your why could be [09:00]
• The beauty of entrepreneurism that’s connected to why you believe you exist in this world [11:44]
• How social expectations can affect one’s journey to becoming an entrepreneur [14:13] 
• Why identities need to be shiftable [19:23]

In 2017, Scott became an entrepreneur for the first time as co-owner of The Brooklyn Press, a silkscreen printing company in New York City and Newburgh, NY. Previously, Scott was the General Counsel and VP of Operations for Urban Resource Institute, the USA’s largest provider of domestic violence shelters and an operator of homeless shelters. He also spent nearly 20 years in executive and in-house counsel positions with various City of New York agencies. 

Learn more about Scott at https://www.scottmasonllc.com/.

Chris Dorris is in the business of Success Coaching. He helps people close the gap between how their lives are and how they want them to be.

We discuss:

• Do what you love, the money will follow [01:19]
• How to overcome the fear of charging more [03:43]
• The correlation between the level of your fee and the ability to get clients [05:09]
• The cheese factor in LinkedIn approaching [07:54]
• The design to maximize the probability of success [09:17]
• How linear the progression from social worker to coach is [10:27]
• The shortcut to stop slowing yourself down [14:55]
• The key to reinforce knowledge in junior golfers [16:39]
• It always goes back to someone’s first decisions [17:58]

Chris started his career as a social worker working on the streets of Atlantic City, helping the mentally ill, drug addicted and homeless populations upgrade their lives. Over the course of those several years, he observed that some of those folks – as a consequence of their belief and their persistence – were able to overcome some pretty serious challenges. That experience, in retrospect, was the perfect foundation for what would become his vocation.

He then decided to marry his passion for the power of the human spirit with his passion for sports. So he moved to Arizona to attend graduate school at Arizona State University. He created an internship with the Men’s Golf Team which evolved into a paid position as the formal Mental Toughness Coach. Over the course of those ten years he really learned a ton about the mechanics of training the mind. His new mission was to coach professional and amateur golfers. And he did that.

Since then, he discovered that the Mental Toughness tools that he was using with many of the world’s greatest athletes were perfectly applicable to many other disciplines beyond sport. Since then, he has trained the minds of world famous actors, NFL and NHL Coaches, business executives, Superbowl Champions and billionaires. 

Learn more about Chris at https://christopherdorris.com/, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

Brief Description of Gift

The Daily Dose: Mental Toughness Tips in 30 Seconds or Less 

URL for Free Gift

https://christopherdorris.com/

Brenda Meller is a self-proclaimed “ambassador” of LinkedIn, national speaker, and the Chief Engagement Officer at Meller Marketing (www.mellermarketing.com), which provides marketing and social media support for individuals and businesses, specializing in LinkedIn. She has been leveraging social media to propel her personal and professional efforts for over ten years, and now blends this experience with her marketing expertise to help clients achieve their goals.

We discuss:

• What it’s like to be enthusiastically unemployable [01:58]
• When the universe nudges you forward [04:32]
• No more numb Mondays but standing on your own [08:27]
• You’re going to meet the head tilters [10:57]
• Profit first: it’s only limited by your belief and your potential [14:30]
• Why employees are not using LinkedIn [18:51]
• One thing company leaders could do differently using LinkedIn [20:45]

Learn more about Brenda at  https://www.mellermarketing.com/.

Brief Description of Gift

A 30-minute free webinar on a variety of different topics related to LinkedIn, business development, etc.

URL for free gift

https://www.mellermarketing.com/.

Ahmad Munawar is the founder of the 90 Day Pipeline. He helps consultants win 5 & 6 figure deals (no begging for referrals, no networking).

We discuss:

• Necessity is the mother of invention [01:36]
• The times when consultants lose the respect of the client [04:02]
• How desperation makes the business unsustainable [05:50]
• Saying “no” as the hardest but most important skill for entrepreneurs [07:49]
• Why entrepreneurs should think like an investor even though they are not [09:01]
• The biggest mistake consultants make in pricing [11:30]
• Why smaller firms have an agility advantage that the larger firms don’t have [13:44]
• How to sell what you’ve got on the truck [15:20]
• Find the fastest path to cash [17:21]
• Who you want to be when you grow up [19:35]

Learn more about Ahmad at https://boutiquegrowth.com/, http://90daypipeline.com/ and Facebook.

Robert Grabel is the President of Nonprofit Now! Consulting and Coaching which supports nonprofits and their leaders in maximizing their impact. 

We discuss:

• Being an entrepreneur doesn’t mean you have to be on your own [01:36]
• The moment to start consulting [04:18]
• The two opposites on the spectrum: consulting vs. coaching [05:18]
• Why people get stuck in the “how” [07:10]
• The Wizard of Oz syndrome [08:14]
• What you have and what you don’t need [11:16]
• The true way to create a prosperous coaching business [13:32]
• What makes a good client for a consultant or coach [18:28]

With two decades in the nonprofit arena, Robert has done everything from launching his own charity to serving in senior leadership roles. He is a passionate advocate for nonprofits and writes and speaks on industry topics. Robert lives in Florida with his wife and dog. He loves visiting his daughter and family in Philadelphia, playing music, running and cycling.

Learn more about Robert at www.yournonprofitnow.com.

Brief Description of Gift

A free copy of Robert’s first book “Just Do the Work: The Portable Nonprofit Coach” to the first 5 people who contact him for a 30-minute free consultation

URL for free gift

www.yournonprofitnow.com

Neil Schambra Stevens is a Business Coach and Strategist, focusing on well-being and productivity in the workplace, especially for the next generation of leadership. 

We discuss:

• People as a key motivator for changing career paths [02:25]
• Why things should fall apart [03:56]
• Four principles for dealing with the four major stress triggers in life [06:10]
• The distinction between pivoting away from and pivoting towards something [10:35]
• Why a period of reflection would advance you further in the long term [14:54]
• The emerging generation of leadership [17:39]
• Refreshing ways to overcome the current economic pressures [20:04]
• Creating a ripple of kindness and gratitude [22:50]

Neil draws on over 20 years’ experience as a CMO/VP with Fortune 500 brands and corporations, including Converse, Vans, Levi’s and Polaroid. This experience has highlighted the importance of putting ‘People First’ and encouraging them to be their best selves, both individually and collectively as a team, with particular attention to leading remotely. Originally from the UK, his career path has enabled him to collect life and work experiences along the way across Europe, Asia and US.

Neil believes in simplicity and encourages the principle of “Working from Anywhere’, and currently lives and runs Mercury Jam from a houseboat in Amsterdam.

Learn more about Neil at https://www.mercuryjam.com/, LinkedIn and Instagram.

Brief Description of Gift

10% discount for the first 5 people who sign up for 1:1 Business Coaching in February, starting with initial free Discovery Session

URL for Free Gift

https://www.mercuryjam.com/

Theresa Campbell is the founder and CEO of Her Life, Her Legacy, a leadership development organization dedicated to the power of deep listening. As a leadership coach, author, and life-long learner, she helps you find and listen to what matters, most.

We discuss:

• The only way to figure it out is to try it [01:39]
• An old millennial sitting at the best coaches’ feet [03:55]
• A square peg in a blue oval [06:45]
• Bringing your whole self to work: for employees and business owners [10:51]
• Why works sucks and how to fix it [13:20]
• The fears of high-achieving life-long learners [15:45]
• The byproduct of building internally [18:38]
• You can’t skip your own evolution [19:57]
• A responsibility for your listening [21:08]

Learn more about Theresa at www.herlifeherlegacy.com

Caroline Ceniza-Levine is the founder of the Dream Career Club and a career coach, writer, and media personality on job market issues. 

We discuss:

• A classical pianist figuring out a career change [02:05]
• The trigger that enables you to leave W-2 income and start business income [04:39]
• How to use publicity to foster your growth [08:12]
• Dedicating time to do something versus doing x, y, z [09:44]
• PR tools to help you structure and gain publicity [11:08]
• If you were advising yourself earlier in your business career [12:41]
• Why we should all have buffer in our schedule [13:55]
• How a publicity plan is different from a marketing plan [14:59]
• The best kind of publicity for consultants and coaches [15:49]
• Mistakes you can make early on in understanding where your audience consumes information [17:11]
• The times when your niche can change [19:00]

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