Creative Warriors

We often make our lives harder than it needs to be. Either we try so hard to be one-of-a-kind or we throw ourselves into a really big bucket, making it nearly impossible to get noticed. So here's a way to get noticed that I think you'll find much easier and your audience will get far more value from.   Contact Jeffrey – Website Books Watch my TEDx LincolnSquare video and please share!   Valuable resources to help you-   The Self-Employed Business Institute- You know you're really good at what you do. You're talented, you have a skill set. The problem is you're probably in a field where there is no business education. This is common amongst self-employed people! And, there's no business education out there for us! You also know that being self-employed is unique and you need better strategies, coaching, support, and accountability. The Self-Employed Business Institute, a five-month online education is exactly what you need. Check it out!   Take The Self-Employed Assessment! Ever fe

Giving someone a sincere compliment is a way to connect, praise, and build a relationship with that person. I don’t mean in a phony kissing-up kind of way. I mean noticing and appreciating the exemplary work or behavior that this person has exhibited. If compliments are a form of praise and appreciation for our actions, why are we consistently bad at receiving compliments? The answer to that is somewhat complicated, but according to Christopher Littlefield, it has to do with four things. Compliments can take us by surprise, which causes us to freeze momentarily, find an explanation for what’s happening, shift our perspective, and share our experiences.  According to Christopher, compliments are more about the giver than the receiver. This episode dives into how to give and receive compliments and why they are so crucial to creating connections and building relationships. Christopher Littlefield specializes in employee appreciation, recognition, and workplace culture. He is the founder of Beyond Thank You, an

Self-employed people and entrepreneurs wear so many hats that most of us have a broad skill set. We are creative and notice changes. We have empathy and understand the importance of making connections and building relationships. Some of us could even be highly sensitive people. 1 in 5 people are highly sensitive people or HSPs. Highly sensitive people are very good at noticing little things that others might miss. They are also empathetic and are great at building rapport and developing strong connections quickly.  HSPs are fast with their emotional perceptions and have a wider depth of processing. They crave alignment and are troubled when things are out of alignment. These traits go hand-in-hand with creativity and having your own business. I’m happy to share my conversation with Clare Kumar. Clare is a speaker, consultant, and coach who helps highly sensitive professionals optimize their performance. She is also a highly sensitive person who understands the challenges and superpowers that HSPs have.  Clare

Often urgency is associated with stress. But there's a way of working, having a sense of healthy urgency, that offers several benefits. Think of it as holding space between knowing you have many years ahead of you while at the same time feeling like you don't want to take forever to get to where you want to go. A healthy urgency.   Contact Jeffrey – Website Books Watch my TEDx LincolnSquare video and please share!   Valuable complimentary resources to help you-   The Self-Employed Business Institute- You know you're really good at what you do. You're talented, you have a skill set. The problem is you're probably in a field where there is no business education. This is common amongst self-employed people! And, there's no business education out there for us! You also know that being self-employed is unique and you need better strategies, coaching, support, and accountability. The Self-Employed Business Institute, a five-month online education is exactly what you need. Check it out!  

Natasha Miller is an Inc. 5000 Entrepreneur, a business growth evangelist, speaker, and author. She is the Founder and Chief Experience Officer of Entire Productions, an event planning, and entertainment management company. She also has an incredible story that she wrote about in her poignant memoir Relentless: Homeless Teen to Achieving the Entrepreneur Dream. Without giving away too much, she went from a life of horrible abuse to becoming a significant success.  Natasha grew up in middle America in the 70s and 80s. Her mom was very abusive from the moment she was born. To escape, Natasha threw herself into music. She was awarded college scholarships but started her business, Entire Productions, which is now a profitable multimillion-dollar company. She has spent the last 20 years working on this great business, and now her next chapter is this book.  We learn some interesting things about her journey, including how writing the book had on her. Natasha started writing her memoir project in 2018. Her original

Being self-employed can often feel like everything rests on your shoulders. Nobody wants to feel like a hamster running on a wheel. Once overwhelm and stress sets in, it destroys the freedom, creativity, and fun of being your own boss and running the show. That's why Reese Spykerman is here today to talk about having a saner schedule and optimizing how you are in your business.  Reese Spykerman is a website and email marketing expert and the Creative Director of Design by Reese, where she helps e-commerce founders scale their businesses and optimize their conversion and marketing rates. She is also an expert at optimizing your schedule and planning so that your business works for you and not the other way around. She gives us permission to design our weeks and days to meet our needs and respect our emotional patterns.  We dive into the task list and how to create tasks to increase productivity, efficiency, and energy while moving you forward towards your goals. Once this is done, you will feel calmer about yo

We all get knocked down from time to time. The difference between using that as an opportunity and staying down comes down to how resilient we are. Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafo has a unique perspective on resilience, and I’m excited to have her share it today. Robyne’s writing and speaking focus on resiliency and wellness and how these topics intersect with stress, self-identity, and how we navigate our world. She is a psychology and education instructor, a keynote speaker, and the author of Calm Within the Storm: A Pathway to Everyday Resiliency.   She shares some of the critical concepts of her book, starting with the unique view that resiliency that tough exterior or keep fighting mentality. According to Robyne, learning happens when we can trust and feel safe. Fear and shame are barriers to authentic growth and change. She shares her kinder, gentler approach to taking on challenges and developing authentic alignment in our lives. Robyne shares how she defines resiliency and how it’s about understanding pressure

Jenny Blake, the author of Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business, is here to talk about her new book and how busy entrepreneurs can free up time to focus on creativity and deep work. Lack of time and stress over not getting enough done or not getting the right things done is a massive problem for many entrepreneurs, so this episode is the perfect motivation to continue getting this year right and make the most of valuable time.    Jenny has been running her own business for a decade. Before that, she worked at a Silicon Valley startup and then spent five years at Google. She’s a keynote speaker and licenses her Pivot Programs to clients like Google and CHANEL. She is the host of the Free Time podcast and the Pivot with Jenny Blake podcast. She is also the author of Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One. She is passionate about career development and helping entrepreneurs and business owners move from friction to flow through more intelligent systems.   We learn a little bit about her b

Sales is one of those necessary things that so many dread, especially those of us who want to be authentic and ethical. This episode is good news for entrepreneurs who feel this way because Jason Marc Campbell talks about selling with love. It’s time to stop looking at sales in a negative light. Avoiding sales doesn’t serve the world and prevents you from putting yourself out there. Jason wants to teach ethical businesses who genuinely want to make a difference in sharing their product with love.  Jason is on a mission to inspire small business owners with reluctance to succeed at sales while doing it with joy and integrity. He is the host of the Selling With Love podcast and the author of his brand new book Selling with Love: Earn with Integrity and Expand Your Impact. This book is designed to shift our thinking about sales to positively impact and make us great at sales and marketing.  We talk about so many valuable topics today, starting with why it was so important to have love in the title of Jason’s boo

We're all pitching something. Whether you want to get an idea across, to get chosen to be a guest on a podcast, marketing your business, or getting kids to eat vegetables. In this episode, you'll learn a simple, proven format to compel people and get the results you want. Applicable for written descriptions as well as in conversations.   Contact Jeffrey – Website Coaching support My book, LINGO: Discover Your Ideal Customer’s Secret Language and Make Your Business Irresistible is now available! Watch my TEDx LincolnSquare video and please share!   Valuable complimentary resources to help you-   The Self-Employed Business Institute- You know you're really good at what you do. You're talented, you have a skill set. The problem is you're probably in a field where there is no business education. This is common amongst self-employed people! And, there's no business education out there for us! You also know that being self-employed is unique and you need better strategies, coaching, support

Overwhelm can paralyze and keep us from getting even the most simple projects completed. As busy entrepreneurs, we need to have a few tips and tricks up our sleeves to ensure we stay on track and don’t let overwhelm stop our progress. Mridu Parikh is known as the stress stopper. She is the founder and owner of Life is Organized. She is a productivity speaker and coach obsessed with focusing on what matters most and keeping stress and overwhelm at bay.  Mridu is the author of Accomplish It: 7 Simple Actions To Get the Right Things Done and Achieve Your Goals, a book about uncomplicating life by taking control of our time. It consists of seven simple actions that can help us stop overwhelm, stay motivated, and feel accomplished. She is also the host of the Productivity On Purpose Podcast. We have a conversation about some of the pitfalls of overwhelm and how simple proven strategies can help us in all areas of our lives. We talk about clearing your desk, turning off notifications, calendar blocking, and the Pom

How do you feel about change? Change is something that happens to us every day. Historically, humans haven’t adapted to change that well and didn’t have to that much. Now, things have sped up drastically. The rate of change we are currently experiencing can be exhausting if we aren’t wired to accept and deal with change. Change in technology, business, and consumer preferences continues to evolve at an unprecedented rate. Erika Andersen is here to talk about making our team change capable and rewiring for change. Erika is the author of Change from the Inside Out: Making You, Your Team, and Your Organization Change-Capable, a practical guide for us and our teams to thrive in an era of continual change. Erika is the founder of Proteus, a training and consulting firm that focuses on leader readiness. She is also a consultant and advisor to CEOs and top executives of several major corporations. She also speaks about leadership and business. She has authored several books about leadership and business strategies. 

Having a couple hundred self-employed business owners gather for the Self-Employed Summit was like a built in focus group. I paid close attention during the Summit and have read through two days of chats transcripts to understand the biggest insights, challenges, and concerns of self-employed business owners. These are my insights!   Contact Jeffrey – Website Coaching support My book, LINGO: Discover Your Ideal Customer’s Secret Language and Make Your Business Irresistible is now available! Watch my TEDx LincolnSquare video and please share!   Valuable complimentary resources to help you-   The Self-Employed Business Institute- You know you're really good at what you do. You're talented, you have a skill set. The problem is you're probably in a field where there is no business education. This is common amongst self-employed people! And, there's no business education out there for us! You also know that being self-employed is unique and you need better strategies, coaching, support, an

William Branum is a former US Navy SEAL with 26 years of service. He is also an entrepreneur and the founder of Naked Warrior Recovery, a business focusing on premium products to support physical and mental recovery through CBD. The company focuses on the recovery of veterans, first responders, and athletes. He also is the author of 5 Seal Secrets, a short PDF focusing on success through thinking like a Navy SEAL.   We get to learn a lot about William in this conversation. He is excited about having great coaches to achieve excellence, and he knows the importance of working out and sound sleep. He shares his story of how he became a SEAL. It all started with being in the Boy Scouts, a love of elite military team movies, and a comment from a fellow Eagle Scout. He also shares how even though his goal was being a SEAL, it took a chance meeting while in the Navy to get into SEAL training.    He shares the challenges and struggles that most career military people face when transitioning from the disciplined teamw

If you’ve heard that you need to tell a story to engage your audience and potential clients, you’re not alone. Brand storytelling seems to be very top of mind these days. That’s why I’m excited to have Celinne Da Costa on the show today. Celinne is a storytelling and personal branding expert. She helps high-profile entrepreneurs become better leaders through irresistible stories and creating influential brands. She was born in Rome, lived in suburban America, and earned a communication degree from the University of Pennsylvania, before working in New York.   She now travels the world making human connections, sharing her stories, and helping others with branding and finding and telling their stories. We dive into how storytelling is different for a personal brand. Celinne talks about why it’s important to understand the why of your business story. Why is it essential to your business? What can it do for your business? We also talk about how storytelling is in our DNA as one of our most ancient forms of commun