It's All About The Questions

What is it about the stars and planets that draws us in? Why is it that Mercury going retrograde plays such havoc on communications, technology and more? Why should we care where Mercury is in our astrology chart? For that matter why should we care about astrology? I believe in astrology. I have always believed in it, all while believing in God. To me, the two are not mutually exclusive. I am sure I opened up a can of worms with that statement! But how do we interpret the movement of the stars and the planets as an owner's manual for our lives?  My guest is a renowned astrologer in addition to being a children's book author with over 2,000,000 copies of her books in print and an in-demand corporate trainer on creativity. A recent TEDx talk on creativity brought the house down with a standing ovation. We discuss what astrology is and isn't, explain why knowing about Mercury can improve your life and your relationships and how to weather the changes your astrological chart might have in store for you. LESLIE MC

Are you resilient? Do you know the difference between courage and resiliency? Are you going through what seems like one hit after another with no end in sight? The last several years I have felt like that and it often seems as if I keep getting closer and closer to some edge that there is no coming back from. Yet, I never seem to reach that edge. How can you reset the edge for yourself? Is it even possible? My guest today has been through unimaginable stress for the last 13 years and shares with us the 52 strategies she has discovered as her survival guide and how you can incorporate them into your life.  These are simple and strategies you can immediately begin implementing in your life today. I have had her book by my bed the last few months and it is the real deal. Take a listen and share your strategies for resiliency and courage with me via Twitter, Facebook or email! Anne Grady is the President of Anne Grady Group and the author of “52 Strategies for Life, Love & Work: Transforming your life one wee

Every business or non-profit can use a little more money. At least every one that I know! What if you could get that money without having to physically pay it back? I mean someone gives you money, not for you providing a product or service but to help you fund an event, initiative, or even upgrade your equipment. Would you want in? My guest today is the master of creating relationships that get you sponsorship money year-after-year all while helping you build a stronger business. Roberto shares the common mistakes people make when going after sponsorship dollars, who you really need to reach out to in an organization and even how to get dollars when you are just starting out. Plus he shares how you can get a free 5 part video on getting started. Roberto C. Candelaria is an uncle, dreamer, and Disney kid at heart! He is also founder of Sponsorship Boot Camp and author of the International Bestselling book,Relationships Raise Money: A Guide to Corporate Sponsorship. An in-demand Mentor, Strategist, and Consulta

I am a paid speaker in addition to a few other hats I wear. I would love to do more of it and I have many friends who cannot seem to crack into their first paid gig. How do you get that first gig? Where do you get the next? What makes one speaker more desirable over another? How do you crack into media appearances? What are the key items every speaker must have ready to go for event and media bookers? Do you know your unique selling proposition? What sets you apart from the pack? These and many other questions are answered by my guest who started her career as one of the first female sportswriters and leveraged that into an in-demand PR agency that launched the Golf Channel and more. Her client lists include Don Miguel Ruiz, Dr. Joe Vitale, James Twyman, Denise Linn, Arielle Ford, Hay House and more. Now my guest runs an agency focused on Conscious Companies, leaders, speakers and more connect to their next followers around the world. If you want to be a speaker or increase your speaking business this is a sh

I love watching Bar Rescue, House Flippers and pretty much any show where someone comes in and turns around a business and/or home. Why do I love it? Because I get great ideas for my clients and myself. What if you could flip a business? I mean buy it, reap income, sell it for a profit and on to the next? Well you can and my guest has been doing it for over sixteen years. At the age of 19 Ace Chapman bought his first business. From there he went on to sell and buy and buy and sell businesses of all kinds. He currently owns 35 internet-based businesses and is looking to grow that number to 100. Why does he do it? How can you do it? Why should you even be thinking about starting your career as an entrepreneur with someone else's company? Ace shares his secrets for buying AND selling businesses and shares with us the questions you need to be asking. He also shares how he bounces back from failure. Ace Chapman bought his first business when he was nineteen. It was an online stock market simulator called CoolWallS

The cloud. Not the clouds in the sky but the cloud of the Internet where more and more software applications live and where more and more of our business and personal data resides. How do you protect yourself? What lessons can be learned about failure, running a startup and being a serial entrepreneur in one of the toughest, most demanding industries for anyone. Woman or man? My guest today is the Founder and CEO of SaaSMAX and a top tech executive not to mention brilliant when it comes to idea creation and implementation! She shares with us how to rebound from failures, why being a woman in tech does not factor into her everyday thinking and what you can do today to start protecting your data and move to the cloud! Dina Moskowitz is a serial entrepreneur, New Yorker-turned-San Diegan,who is most recently the Founder and CEO of SaaSMAX,Corp.  She has been leading and/or consulting to cloud-based, SaaS and other technology companies throughout her career. SaaSMAX was recently described by TheVARguy.com as "the

Public speaking is most often listed as a greater fear than dying. Yet, every day we engage in conversations that require us to speak. Are daily conversations really any different than public speaking? How can you get past your fear? How can you make an impact with your speaking? What if you are a heart-centered entrepreneur and are looking to make an impact and make an income? My guest today is known as the Speaking Goddess and she has worked with entrepreneuers and companies around the world to help them make an impact and earn income with their speaking.  On the show AmondaRose shares tips on creating your "elevator speech", designing your signature talk, discovering your business super power how to move through your fear of public speaking. AmondaRose Igoe, The Speaking Goddess, specializes in Heart Centered Speaking for Impact and Income. As an Award-Winning Speaking Expert and Best-Selling Author, she has taught thousands of Entrepreneurs, Coaches, Authors and Business Professionals step-by-step speakin

Could your lack of financial success be a result of money blocks? Can you actually forgive money? My guest is a self-made millionaire and has been through hell and back to put it mildly. She also had some stops in Hawaii and Arizona and stepped away from her highly profitable career to found the Wealth Clinic. There she helps clients identify their patterns around money, create new ones and live lives filled with abundance. But how do you forgive money? What does it even mean to forgive money? Well Leisa Peterson asked me some tough questions on this episode that made me realize I have some forgiving to do! I so love guests with life-changing questions! Take a listen and decide for yourself. Leisa Peterson helps successful but overworked entrepreneurs slow down and enjoy life WAY more so they can create even more profitable businesses that fulfills their wildest dreams.  She’s an intuitive business coach and money and mindfulness expert and bestselling author on Amazon.   Leisa’s known for her ability to qui

Leading through strengths is not about leading with an iron fist. It is about leading and living your life using your strongest talents and understanding which talents are not in your sweet spot. Those lesser talents are by no means weaknesses. They are just talents that you have that are not your strongest ones. Subtle difference in language. Massive difference in internal perception. So instead of focusing on weaknesses and trying to grow them stronger, you recognize you have lesser talents and say to yourself, that's ok, There are others I can bring to the table that have those and their top talents! That is just a piece of the conversation between Lisa Cummings and myself. Have you discovered your strengths yet? Lisa shares how you can find them out and use them. Lisa Cummings has delivered events to over 9,000 participants in 14 countries. You can see her featured in places like Harvard Business Publishing, Training Magazine, and Forbes. She’s the CEO of a company called Lead Through Strengths. When she’

If you could make $50/hour doing something you love, what would you be doing? Dog walking? Art? Singing? Accounting? What? My guest today unlocks the secret sauce for making the Law of Attraction work for you. From a career as an RN to a successful and fulfilling career as a life success coach, Linda Ryan has been there and done that and is living her dreams on the beach at the Jersey Shore. How can you live your dreams too? Listen in and take action on what you hear and get going on attracting what you want into your life! Linda Ryan is an RN turned life coach when 10 years ago she saw how profoundly her sucky life began to improve when she hired a great coach (Bob Proctor) and did what he told her to do regarding her thinking. Find out more at www.coachlindaryan.com 

My guest today went from being abused before the age of 5 to an abusive marriage and then stood up for herself and joined the U.S. Army in her 30s. What does it take to change your thinking about how you deserve to be treated and who you are as a person? Denver shares with us the event that triggered her epiphany and what she does everyday to stay a decisive woman and how we too can embrace decisiveness as an everyday part of who we are and how we live. Denver Beaulieu-Hains (Bow-Yeh- Hains) is a writer, speaker and public relations professional with more than 20 years of experience working as a spokesperson, media consultant and planner for the Department of Defense and the federal government. In Decisive Women: Designing Decisions in 5 Minutes or Less, she shares her process for moving beyond domestic violence into a life full of promise and opportunity. Despite professional success as a published author, Beaulieu-Hains has rarely published articles from a personal or private perspective.  She is a survivor

You've probably heard the story that music can calm the beast but can it really? How does it work? Does it have other healing abilities? Music Therapy is not new. Studies first surfaced during World War II about treating war veterans with PTSD with music. Not just any music but specific music that would calm their minds. My guest on this show is a music therapist with the VNA (Visiting Nurse Association) of the Treasure Coast. She works with Hospice patients, Alzheimer and Dementia patients and those with Parkinson's to help them get walking and moving. How can you help those you love with music therapy? Listen in as Moreen shows us how you can make a difference with music. Yes she brought her guitar and yes she moved me to tears! Moreen Burkart is a board certified music therapist. Moreen received a Bachelor of Arts in Music Technology with minors in Psychology and Business as well as her Bachelor of Science in Music Therapy. As a music therapist, Moreen has worked with persons of all ages in a variety of se

What does being decisive mean? Is it about making quick or snap decisions? Is it about weighing all the options, polling people for their input, analyzing all the new options that present themselves after the poll or is it something else? Dr. Nancy Fox gathered 30 women in her latest book, Decisive Women, Designing Decisions in 5 Minutes or Less to share exactly how they made and make decisions of all kinds no matter what the focus. It was an honor to be asked to be part of this book and to have my name on the cover. My interview with Dr. Nancy Fox unlocked some secrets she learned about putting together an anthology, how to focus on outcomes when you are pulled in many directions and how important it is to allow yourself time to heal. Author, Speaker and Life Strategist, Dr. Nancy Fox, also known as a Decisive Woman, works with businesses, organizations and individuals that want to empower their people/selves to face challenges as opportunities and provide extraordinary service to others. www.drnancyfox.com

Anytime I get to spend an hour with Bob Burg I walk away with new perspectives and a whole slew of new questions I ask myself and others around me. Today we talked about character, selling, leadership and, in the words of Col. Chris Hadfield, astronaut, how we can all becomes +1s versus -1 when we interact with others. We also talk about holding your vision when things go sideways, how to turn the ship around and even have a discussion about ego all while bringing you wisdom from Bob's latest book with John David Mann, The Go-Giver Leader A Little Story About What Matters Most in Business Lot's of tweeting happened during the live radio show so tweet out your favorite quotes to @thelaurasteward Is there a difference between taking leadership and giving leadership? And, if so, does it really make that big a difference in your ability to lead? Our guest says “yes” to both! Bob Burg is a sought-after speaker at company leadership and sales conferences sharing the platform with everyone from today’s business lead

Can you have emotional mastery without turning into a Vulcan like Mr. Spock from Star Trek? What is emotional mastery? Is it turning off emotions? Not at all. My expert guest, Dr. Joan Rosenberg shares how you can manage your emotions and control your responses so you are responding and no longer reacting to what is happening in your life. Whether your trigger is grief, anxiety, fear, or some other unpleasant emotion it comes down to controlling what you are thinking, gaining awareness of your response patterns and managing what happens next.  Rhett Palmer shared this perfect phrase when I was telling him about my guest just before the show, "emotions are like children. we shouldn't let them drive the car but we also shouldn't stuff them in the trunk." Listen and find out how you can stop stuffing your emotions in the trunk or let out the ones that are in there safely. Joan I. Rosenberg, Ph.D., is an acclaimed global speaker, trainer, consultant and master clinician. A cutting-edge psychologist who is known a

Hello Gorgeous! No we are not channeling Barbra Streisand here. What we are channeling is how my guest is turning how cancer looks on its head and changing lives one makeover at a time. Kim Becker closed her successful salon and founded a national non-profit to make it safe for cancer patients to get salon services and pamper them at the same time. What started as a fully-loaded salon-on-wheels developed into a national certification program that trains salons to take care of cancer patients and provides them with all they need to pamper one nominated cancer patient a month for a surprise Queen-for-a-Day makeover experience. How does she do it? How can you get get your hair done, get a facial and a mani-pedi if there is no Hello Gorgeous! certified salon near you? Kim shares what you need to ask your salon to be safe and how her life has been transformed once cancer patient at a time. Kim Becker is a dynamic speaker, an award-winning author and the Founder of Hello Gorgeous! of HOPE, Inc.,  a non-profit organ

Why does stress seem to affect us all differently? Is there stress that is good or does it all end up being bad? Is it possible to defeat the catch-22 of stress that keeps us going in an endless cycle of stress as we stress over how to stop being so stressed?  Can we eliminate stress and be STRESS FREE? My guests on this episode are stress experts and they share with me immediate actions you can take to reduce stress in the moment and what it takes to maintain it. Caution part way in. Dr. Bob leads, for the first-time on radio and podcast, an exercise he created to reduce stress and shift the body's response to stress so DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST REPLAY WHEN DRIVING OR OPERATING EQUIPMENT OR DOING ANYTHING THAT COULD CAUSE YOU HARM IF YOU BECOME RELAXED WHILE LISTENING! Stress burnout is a real thing. I have it and it is not fun. Listen and learn some techniques to heal and prevent stress from taking over your life and your physical health.  Dr. Bob Wright, The Stress Relief Doctor and Success Coach Chris

Keeping a business going for 32 years is no easy feat no matter what the business but to keep a business going that relies on tech and the ever changing methods of product delivery is rare. My guest today shares his secrets to success for his company, his life and his clients and how he has seen profits rise each year while focusing on the kind of clients he prefers to do business with, heart-centered entrepreneurs and organizations! On this episode Joe Foley shares his daily practice, or as he calls it, his morning ritual, how he knows what is the next big thing to focus his company towards and how he gets all of those word-of-mouth referrals from his clients. Joe Foley is the CEO (Client Experience Officer) at Corporate Disk Company, a 32 year old business specializing in media, print, and packaging fulfillment.  The Information Marketing Industry considers his team to be the trusted authority in the niche.  They are known to most people as Disk.com their URL acquired in 1995. Joe’s abundant future mindset

My guest today wanted to find out what kind of woman would make the best U.S. President after he voted for President Obama and realized he was not who he thought he was. What Stanford Erickson discovered was the traits associated with being a Mama's boy or girl or Daddy's boy or girl made a difference in how you approached things. So he went and looked at 8 female world stage leaders including Hillary Rodham Clinton, Angela Merkel, Carly Fiorina, Elizabeth Warren, Eleanor Roosevelt, Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher and Edith Bolling Galt Wilson.  When you look at these powerful woman and use the filter of mama's girl or daddy's girl, not from a negative perspective but from a leadership trait, it is interesting to see why they have been successful or not as successful as they could be. Stanford's current book, The Kind of Women who Can Be President of the United States is more a book about leadership and leadership styles than a book about why women are not be elected to the highest office in this country versus

It is easy to get published these days. All you need is the internet, a "book" you've written and some basic knowledge to upload it to Amazon. But is that really all you need? Is a book a book? What does it take to be a success as an author?  My guest on this episode is a longtime literary agent, resource for publishers and authors alike and has even started her own publishing house. For over 30 years she has guided authors to success and been a major success herself. Listen as she shares, the biggest mistake authors make, what 3 questions writers need to ask themselves what help and support for author's is out there. She even shares the theory of 1000 fans and why what you are being told about having a huge following is not really true. After years as a business owner engaged in sales and marketing, Cricket Freeman redirected her creativity toward the writing business, freelancing for magazines (more adventure than money) and business clients (more money than adventure). For too long a time she slaved as the