Love Your 9 to 5

Shaina’s own professional journey inspired her desire to help others struggling to find their own career path. After graduating with a degree in education and working a few good jobs in her field, she realized that she needed to find something better suited for her. After years of research and training with a mentor, Shaina discovered career coaching. She found that it was not only a good fit for her skills and interests but also for her lifestyle. Having children to care for made  working from home was a necessity. Shaina stresses that when deciding on a career it is just as important to consider life and external obligations as it is to think about skills, interests, and personality. Deciding on a career is a difficult task made more so by the fact that the skills and life of an eighteen-year-old will be wildly different from those of a thirty-year-old. Shaina believes that people should receive career-focused guidance and assistance at multiple  points in their careers rather than only viewing it as a one-time requirement. Take Shaina’s free personality-focused career quiz is featured on her website (link below) and start determining the perfect career for you. LEARN MORE ABOUT SHAINA!LinkedInShainaKeren.comFree Career Test  RELATED EPISODESEp. 50 - Find Your Professional Path with Michael Alan TateEp. 46 - Find a Career that 'Works' for YouEp. 37 - Define Your Unique Ability with Mike ZagareEp. 26 - Learn to Find Work You Really Enjoy with Dan MillerEp. 21 - Find Your Transferable Skills with Career Coach Scott Anthony BarlowEp. 20 - Working to Discover the Work That Fits with Mac PrichardEp. 3 - Discover Your Superpower with Earl Bell

Michael was trained by, best-selling author of What Color is Your Parachute, Richard Nelson Bolles.Here are some points to consider when experiencing a career change:How do you know this is the final stop for you or if you're on the road to somewhere else?What would you do even for free?Find the right fit inside of organizations or leave on good terms.Take the time to introspect and look back at your career legacy, there's a list of what your family has done for you.Research what makes you feel alive and what drains your energy?There is no real job system that's filled by resumes, most jobs are filled by word of mouth and referrals.Don't go it alone! Two is better that one.Follow your ears not your heart. What language to you like to be around, what do you like to hear?Reach out to Mike!https://michaelalantate.com/Michael is currently transitioning to podcasting and books. Small Time Leaders podcast, small things that make a huge difference in their lives, and what resulted from that. Check it out here!Mike's latest book is The White Shirt; Find Your Peaceful & Life-giving Career at Any Stage of Life. Check it out here!  

In this episode, we meet Tuli Kraus of Fresh Scents, a company that believes scent changed the way we experience life.This innovative product has been introduced into nursing homes. Unique smells are introduced to recreate environments where staff and residents feel safe and comfortable.Reach out to Tuli on LinkedIn here and check out Fresh Scents Inc here.

Let’s start with the ugly.When was the moment when you realized that you were in a job that was poor fit for you?Frank started as a tax consultant, was getting paid well but was frustrated by the fact that it was boring and unfulfilling.Naturally, all the recruiters were calling for a variety of tax roles.Frank went into private practice and but was struggling to obtain clients.He was advised that you need to get into a leads organization.*Why are so many attorneys unhappy? *Law school takes very intelligent people and pigeonholes them into something very specific. This is not rewarding and is very frustrating.Follow FrankFrankagin.comLinkedin 

Tom Schwab is a veteran in a nuclear power plant and an inbound engineer. In this episode, he shares his unique approach to social media platforms and how to use today’s technology with marketable value to his passion and work. “He focuses on time-proven strategy, and supercharges it with today’s technology.” Tom helps advising, teaching and leading people using target podcasts. 02:42 Work is what you do and not necessarily where you go. Tom shares how his life and work starting in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Growing up in the Midwest a proud alumni of Dayville Academy, he ran a nuclear power plant where he learned discipline and where everything can be taught and systematized. He taught himself and moved from sales to marketing to finally running his own distributorship. He started a company that supplies direct to patient durable medical equipment. When he started his company in the middle of the great recession, making it difficult to establish a real salesforce, he then hired MIT graduates that created Hubspot in Boston that helped him create an inbound marketing strategy. They have used content to lure customers to their business, and in 2014, started podcast interviews as additional means for their marketing. 03:34 Inbound marketing, how you used content to attract, engage, and delight customers. Now, he has his team in the United States, serving about 90 clients, helping them promote their businesses through podcasts to tell their stories and help them reach their potential customers. With selling DME’s to direct set of clients using inbound marketing, his business was voted 2nd unsexiest products sold with inbound marketing in one conference. As their initial target market are people in crutches, or will be on crutches, and fresh from surgery or from any traumatic experiences, they have gone to analyze who their target audiences must or would be and that set the tone of their marketing. They started to think of ways to gain their potential customers trust and respect in order to be known for the field of product that they are selling. 06:08 Nobody goes online and says, hmm, what am I going to be sold on today? Everybody goes online with a problem, and to look for answers to their problems. 06:48 The best way to sell something today is not to sell anything, but earn the respect, awareness and trust of those who might buy. Tom shares with Shmuel the payment methods of the products that they are selling. Ultimately, it all depends whether they are covered by insurance, and when they have to be shouldered privately by the patients of by a healthcare professional, nursing homes, etcs… Stories are also shared to understand how podcast contents are planned. The best way to attract the focused audience for the specific health care topics, and from there, the talks will make its way into looking for tangible products to use when coping up with certain traumas or accidents. Tom’s company’s goal is to eventually have the patients or customers look for their business understands they potential limitations, knowing the product that they are selling is a means to help people recover from accidents. 10:37 Shmuel to Tom: You’re targeting people with the problems, not people who are looking for the solution. And that makes sense. One client actually commended Tom and his team, telling them they are “Preparation H”, because they are doctor-recommended, focuses on the problem, get rid of the pain. “Nobody cares about your product or your service. All they care about is their pain and their rear end.” And because the team is focused on helping the client on that, they so much better that the other suppliers. 13:03 If one person is asking the question, chances are other people are asking it too. Another good point discussed in this episode is time-frame of the consumer, from not-knowing to purchasing, as per Tom’s experience, and even though it differs on the needs of each individual, another factor that weighs in on the time scale is the binding cycle of the product. How much does it cost for this number of days or months? 15:37 Biggest problem is obscurity. There are thousands of people we could help if they only knew we existed. Shmuel interestingly discusses the businesses’ concerns as well, and their needs to tweak their products in order to cater to the needs of their industry, but ends up compromising the integrity of their products. 17:12 Scarcity mentality. I don’t see people asking for me so it must be that I’m not in demand, so let me try to adjust my product to address the needs of the people in front of me. He pointed out the importance of sticking to the business product, assuming that the product is genuinely good, and avoid obnoxiously focusing away on the unique gift and talent of the product, and that will eventually make its way to the right customers/people. 19:04 Assuming that you have a real product that solves a real problem, then all you need to do is find the people that feels that pain. Tom continues to suggest ways to maximize marketing by creating meaningful content that offers solutions to the focused customer’s problems. It also creates harmonious deals with clients being specific with the services that they offer and that if they came across someone who doesn’t appreciate their business, they can proudly let go of the sales, making them accept the ideal clients that they need for their businesses. Podcasts, for Tom, have become a serious game in the technology industry right now. As it was discussed in Harvard, and group of companies making purchases on podcasts, people seem to appreciate and realize the legit business into it. 23:10 You ask a business owner to write a blog, that’s a homework assignment. You ask them to be interviewed in a podcast, they can talk about their company and their passion all day long. So now, as podcasts becomes appreciated as a more natural approach to introduce companies and ideas, it has also become a better and more effective approach for marketing businesses. Inbound marketing, according to Tom, should be focused on understanding the business and strategize it using the current tools. For him, it isn’t solely being dependent on certain tools like podcasts, but using technology and platform and answering the why’s in using it. Tom and Shmuel also gets into discussing transactions versus relationship and which platforms are better for which purpose, blogs or podcasts. Tom enumerates the factors of this technology and the percentage possibility on which will be more successful in engaging with the audiences/customers. As the episode ends, Shmuel also questions SEO technology, asking why if someone typed in “Can I build my business through podcast marketing?” and the podcast is not the first one on the list. Tom explains Google’s new technology in planning to transcribe audios moving forward. He also understood that more than the transcription, the suggested links were also about the people wants, plusmore other factors in the search engine, meaning that the suggestions aren’t just based on the titles but also the referencing and mentions in between the sites and podcasts. Resources Follow Tom Here! http://interviewvalet.com/9to5 Book Reference They Ask; You Answer

Tracy was the typical, quintessential, high-achieving quality performing kid, from her high school to college life. She graduated with a Psychology degree, but by some work of luck (or maybe not?) and swine flu, she got a cubicle on Wall Street, which eventually made her life miserable. With the tremendous courage, she told us the story of how she decided to quit her 9 to 5 job, while still maintaining a working relationship with her team, giving her a smooth exit from Wall Street. Unfortunately, things after that didn’t come easy.* * “When I finally woke up and pull my head out of this thing and decided ‘ I have to get out of here’, I had no idea where I have to go.” Tracy’s career background was mostly decided out of fear, being afraid to graduate without a job, or to be the unsuccessful one from her batch. I have heard my fair share of these kind of stories, of people getting a diploma and making a career out of what their parents or social circle expected them to do. Having the passion to hear people’s stories, and wanting to create better strategies for those who have been on the same road as her, Tracy had taught the following steps: **First step is: Figure out your core values. ** Truly get clear on what you love. What are your CORE values? Freedom, stability, integrity, flexibility? Get very clear to what are the values that are important to one’s being, and committing to those values. **Steps 2 and 3 are Nature and Nurture. ** It is overlapping what comes naturally to one’s self, and what has been learnt over time. Whatever is in between, it is the niche, the sandbox, the genius zone. It should be something that you are good at and something that you can work with. Finally, the question on how to focus on finding the core values arises with the worry of having a stable income to sustain a family, which is summed up to still knowing the core values, the thing that can give value to other people. Having the money and the luxury as the motivator for finding one’s self is never a guarantee for success, and most often than not, is a sure fail for the career, and even destroys life. **Final Thoughts ** The biggest regret of the dying is not living true to themselves. You will never regret trying something new, and you will regret not trying. Book a call with Tracy today!** ** TracyTimm.com/9to5

Scott Reib is known as America’s Legal Coach. He’s the official Zig Ziglar Small Business Lawyer, a Ziglar Legacy Certified Trainer, and he has over 20 years of experience as an attorney. For the last two decades, Scott has been helping business owners, entrepreneurs, coaches, and service providers to “shatterproof” their businesses and succeed in the professional world. Scott is a firm believer that seeking legal advice doesn’t have to be intimidating or expensive if we treat lawyers like primary care doctors instead of ER doctors. Through his subscription-based Access Plan legal service, Scott is making great strides in shifting that perspective. In the past, clients were scared to call Scott or any attorney because they were nervous about the cost of the conversation. This led them to let things go on fire before they called out for help. With the Access Plan, clients pay a flat rate per month. This ensures that they are both on the same team, and they can call him as necessary before things become serious issues. Book Your Free 15 Consultation with Scott Today! Reach out to Scott ScottReib.com ReibLaw.com scottr@reiblaw.com Linkedin Twitter Phone - 940-691-7009

You may think that you understand how other people think and feel. But should you make a career out of it? Do you have what it takes to work with people one on one as a mental health professional? Is there another way you can serve this same population in another environment?  In this episode, I interview, Dr. Weinschneider where we go deep into these questions and broaden the conversation a bit. We also discuss the business end of this. How do you attract new clients and retain them?  Enjoy!

If you are thinking about becoming a mental health professional and are wondering what it's really like, then this is the episode for you.  In this episode, I asked Dr. Rosmarin the questions that should help anyone entertaining a career in this field. Here are some of the questions that we covered in this interview. Is it really easy money? How do you fall asleep at night? Can you actually enjoy listening to other people's issues all day? Is that what you actually do all day? 

The struggle is real. We all have our areas in life where we feel we are simply not making enough progress because we are not good enough.    Deberah shares how she has personally worked wonders helping people understand themselves on a deep level. She uses the principles of Quantum Physics to bring out the best in people.    Richard Branson, President Reagan, Tony Robbins are just a small sampling of the clients she has worked with to achieve massive success.    Enjoy!

How do you identify a potential rockstar sales professional to hire and add to your team? Once you determine that someone is a great fit for your team, what other traits or nuances should you be looking for in this candidate?  How do I ensure my sales team are performing at their highest level without micromanaging them?   How can a sales manager motivate his team when times are tough? In this episode, master sales trainer Adam Lieberman shares his 30 years of experience dealing with these very issues. 

In this episode, Robert Mcguiness shares with us his personal story of stepping into his area of bigness and shares how he is expressing his unique gift to the world.  With over 50k followers on Instagram, he is apparently striking a chord with a very specific audience. Robert shares that most of his business leads come directly from Instagram! Listen to the end of this episode to learn how you can apply this technique and start living your every waking moment expressing your unique greatness. 

Meet Brian Burke, Owner and CEO of SellYourMac.com. Brian majored in finance and chose a career in eBay selling instead. Learn how he discovered his path to professional success. He listened to what people were asking him to do and made a business out of it.

Nadia is unique. Although she is an adult, when people call her home they ask to speak with her mother. You see, she sounds like a little child because her voice never fully matured.  Leave an awesome review here.  Listen as Nadia shares how she turned her weakness into her biggest strength. She now helps other entrepreneurs harness their challenges into their biggest successes.  The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.   

In this episode, Mike shares with us his personal journey from a physical therapist to master Amazon seller to PPC Entourage. Mike has focused on growing himself and then expanding from there to grow his business. After spending over 70k on personal development, the payoff came. Mike's company PPC Entourage now assists Amazon sellers to automate some of their bidding strategies. Really fascinating and worth the listen. Enjoy :)

If you are like me, you may find yourself constantly worrying about the next step in your life or of the day. While planning is a great habit to get used to, constantly focusing on the next steps can have a crippling effect on yourself and your ability to stay productive and healthy.  In this episode, Ari Margolis, explains to us how we can use the concept of mindfulness to focus on more productive thoughts. This would eliminate the negative and anxiety producing thoughts that would otherwise fill our minds the rest of the day. 

Does it seem that everyone and their brother-in-law is becoming a career coach or business consultant? They seem to simply put up a website, create a sales funnel, hang up their shingle and start making money. And oh yeah, they are also providing value to other too.  Although there are certainly some people out there taking advantage of the ease of marketing through the internet, many are really great at what they do. And you may be excellent at this too if you'd only embrace who you truly are AND JUST START!  

Have you been hesitant to dive into Instagram and Snapchat because you don't have the headspace to learn yet another platform?  You are not alone.  In this episode, stories and marketing expert, Brock Johnson helps us understand how these platforms work, why they are unique and how we could see real business results from them.  Enjoy!

It was so exciting to have Isaac on the show with me. I was expecting to hear all about AdWords and digital advertising (which he delivered).    However, we got much more than that from Isaac. He shared with us great general business practices that can be applied across industries as well.    You're gonna love this episode!   Enjoy :)

In this episode, Matt gets really vulnerable with us as he shares his earlier challenges and failures and the lesson that brought him the success he enjoys today.  We will learn the lessons with him and understand what we are currently doing in our personal or professional lives that are hindering our success.  From fitness to family and mental well-being, we can have it all, if we only prepare and schedule it properly. Enjoy!

In this episode, we meet Dan Moyle, former TV news reporter, turned digital marketer for a large financial company.  Dan shares with us the tips and trips of today's new world of digital communication. This was such a fun episode and we really both got fired up in this conversation.  The new world of digital marketing is just that exciting!

What I love most about this episode is how Nancy's career evolved and took a really unique pattern of twists and turns. We are so accustomed to putting people into boxes or categories that it's so refreshing to see someone really trailblaze their own path in life.  Many of us mistakenly assume that our passion and optimal work setting is just that, set. There's one place somewhere that waiting for us to find it and when we get there all the doors of opportunity will open to us.  In this episode, Nancy demonstrates how incorrect this is, and our place of passionate productive work changes and evolves as we grow and as our life circumstances change.  Enjoy the listen and her wonderful NY accent!!

In this episode, Dan shares with us his humble beginnings, how his parents divorced, his dad went bankrupt and they had very little to live on.  Dan went on to found several successful companies and has become an online business and consultant guru.  This is where Dan explains the ideas that he learned along the way and how we can achieve similar success in our own lives by implementing these principles. 

Who Is Neil Patel? Neil Patel is a New York Times bestselling author. The Wall Street Journal calls him a top influencer on the web, Forbes says he is one of the top 10 marketers, and Entrepreneur Magazine says he created one of the 100 most brilliant companies. He was recognized as a top 100 entrepreneur under the age of 30 by President Obama and a top 100 entrepreneur under the age of 35 by the United Nations.     The Dream Neil started trying to find a  six-figure job online. Seeing that they were hard to come by, he notices that Monster.com was a publicly traded company that was doing millions in revenue. So he decided to replicate a similar job board himself called AdviceMonekey.com  and waited for the money to start flowing in.   You Need To Attract Traffic To Your Site That's when Neil realized that the best site still needs really strong marketing behind it, to drive traffic to the site. After hiring and being ripped off by several expensive marketing firms, Neil decided that it was time to learn this stuff himself. Once he realized that he was really good at marketing and was doing well himself, Neil started doing this full time for others too.   Did you benefit from your College education? College didn't really help me at all, it slowed me down. I'm learning more now by jumping right into entrepreneurship. 73% of all college graduates are not working in an area related to their degree within 10 years of graduating. That means that your degree will probably not be the way you earn your livelihood for most of your life! The notion that baby boomers have been pushing on their children that a great education and lots of hard work will guarantee your success in the business world is no longer relevant or true. Today's market is constantly changing with each new technological advance and yesterday's knowledge is no longer relevant. Employers care more about employees soft skills than their formal education. They want to be able to train new team members quickly to work their way and fit into the company culture.   Marketing Today Marketing now is a multi-channel approach. Whereas in the past your goal was basically to rank well on search engines, nowadays, you will need to do well in lots of other areas too to ensure success. Because the markets are so much more competitive and saturated, you need to focus on multiple levels and do them or well in order to be successful. These channels include: Organic search Paid search Social media Podcasting Respond and genuinely care about your customers (you can't fake authenticity) Videos Create a brand and connection with your audience Using all of these channels successfully will make you successful. Easier said than done though.   Online Marketing School Marketing School brings you 10 minutes of actionable marketing advice every single day. Get the right tips to take your business to the next level and get to work right away. The Online Marketing School is co-hosted with Eric Siu where they share really practical tactics that can be immediately implemented into your online marketing plan. Keeping it under 10 minutes means you will get to the beef quickly and get back to your day.   "Google and YouTube Are My Mentors". Neil explains that he doesn't have one particular person that serves as his mentor. Instead, the world is full of his mentors. Namely, Google, YouTube and anyone else who shares valuable information online. You can learn from the greatest business minds in the world like Elon Musk online. Best of all, it's free and they are happy and excited to share it with you. No mentor - learn through experience and learning online/ youtube etc. You don't necessarily need a mentor, Google and YouTube are great mentors. You can learn from Elon Musk online too and it's free and you don't even need to know him!     5 Practical Tips To Promote Your Online Content Use BuzzSumo to find keywords and influencers in your industry. View shares numbers for each piece of content. Manually ask them to share your content. This is tedious but it works. You will need to send out hundreds of emails to make this work and you will see people will start sharing your content. less than 30% will share your content. Hunter.io - Great tool to discover email addresses   If you want a quick fix, this is not for you. What's separates the top tier marketers from the second tier of online marketers? Creativity - There's is so much competition out there, so you need to think outside of the box. Only those with the best content will ultimately win. Execution - if you have creativity and execution then you're golden. There's no point in all the complex online tools (many of which are free!) if you don't take action. Give away a free tool and collect leads - as opposed to paid ads. This is the way to have an edge up on the competition without having such a strong budget. You need to go out there and execute. There's nothing you can read to help you out. You need to get out there and experience in order to get you there.   Follow Neil! Neilpatel.com Neil on Twitter Hustle: The Power to Charge Your Life with Money, Meaning, and Momentum 

In this episode, we welcome back the LinkedIn Expert Viveka Von Rosen. Click here to listen to our first conversation back in Episode 19.   Lesser Known LinkedIn Tips And Tricks   1)   LinkedIn Jobs This is a great tool to get a real feel for the industry that you are researching. You may not really be applying for the job per se, however, you can reach out and offer your service or product to help them out and support them. You will also be able to see the companies that are hiring. Once you find the company that you are interested in, you can find a contact that can serve as the gateway person with just a few clicks. They may be able to set up a meeting or phone call with you and the real decision maker. 2)   LinkedIn Salary This is a great tool to learn your true worth in the industry and what people are willing to pay for your skills. You will be able to price yourself based on the industry standards and will not over or undercharge for your skills and services. You will also learn the industry-specific terms and lingo that you can use to modify your own profile. This will help you be 'found ' in LinkedIn search results for the terms or keywords that you are looking for.   Should I Apply Directly On LinkedIn? Surprisingly, LinkedIn may not be the best place to actually apply for the job. Many companies post their jobs on their company's because they must. The decision may already have been made even before the job is posted. Jobs posted on LinkedIn are still helpful in knowing that the company is hiring and you can take the next steps in bypassing the traditional HR interview process. This can be connecting with a person that you already know within the organization. Additionally, you can see what the company posts on their page as well as the decision maker's page. If you see they engaged with a post about a particular topic, you can come prepared to pepper that topic in the conversation. Important Note: Be sure to be genuine when doing this. There is no bigger turn off than someone who is fake and is trying to find favor in the interviewer's eyes. If you are not genuinely interested in the topic, don't bring it up. Jobs on LinkedIn is a great resource to learn the current needs of employers in any particular industry. You may even be able to create a new position for yourself by better understanding the problems that employers are really aiming to resolve. A listener is interested in learning how to apply their skills in another industry as a consultant. How can LinkedIn help with this? You can do a PEOPLE search and add our title (or any title that you could 'wear'), or any other term that can match your areas of expertise. Once the results populate, you can sort by industry to better see how your skills can be applied in other industries.   Here's How To Really Take This To The Next Level: Find a particular person who has the keywords you are searching for in their profile. Identify one of your 1st connections on LinkedIn who's also connected to this person. Reach out directly to your 1st connection and write something like this: Hey , I see that you are connected with . I'm exploring the possibility of applying my skills in another industry and I see that is doing just that. Would you be able to request for for an information interview with them? It will be no more than 20 minutes. You can assure them that I'm not looking for a job offer.  This can be mutually beneficial as we both share similar skills sets. Don't Ask To Pick Their Brain! Because: If you picture actually picking someone's brain... It's gross. It sounds very self-serving. I'm going to pick through your brain and take what appears useful and helpful to me. Then I"ll try to sew back up nicely and cause you only minimal damage. This also indicates that you are asking to take the hard-earned lessons, experience, and knowledge of your interviewee and call it your own. Some of these took months or years to acquire and you are simply asking for a handout. This doesn't mean that people won't share. Generally, people are excited to share all of this with you. Especially if they are really about the topic or field you are discussing. It's just a matter of presenting it to them in the right light.   Can I Have 15 Minutes Of Your Time? NO!!! That is also focused on what I can get from you. If the person is really so important to you and you really want the opportunity to speak with him/her, then you need to invest 15 minutes of your own time to explain what they will gain from the conversation. At the very least, you need to explain the purpose of the conversation.   There Is A Better Way Give some background information about yourself and explain what you intend to get out of the conversation. If it can be mutually beneficial, then explain how and why. If it won't be, then don't lie and say it will be. That is wrong. It also is a terrible way to start a relationship.    Can You Make Real Friends On LinkedIn? If you can make friends at work, then you can make friends on LinkedIn too. People forget that connections on LinkedIn are REAL PEOPLE. They forget to treat them that way. Therefore, to the extent that you treat your connections as genuine people, will you created and develop deep, meaningful and lasting relationships. Viveka shares how she found her current business associates at The Vengresso Group through LinkedIn. This can really work if we understand that we are connecting with real people that we may want to work in the future.   The Formation of Vengresso Viveka shares how she constantly found herself competing with the same people for the same speaking and consulting gigs. So instead of underbidding each other and all losing money, they teamed up and formed Vengresso. In the newly formed entity, they were each assigned a position in the company that best matched their previous skills, experience, and passion. Thus a group of competing and highly competitive professionals converged into a dynamic company reflecting all of their strengths.   (LinkedIn) Video; Embrace It We all know that the printed resume is dead. Yep, I said it. It's dead. You may still be expected to bring it with you to an interview and email it to a prospective boss, however, it's dead. A paper resume simply doesn't accurately convey who you really are and what you can potentially bring to an organization. It's static and can be easily manipulated to reflect whatever impression you intend to create. Video is real. Sure you can edit a video and make it look really nice. But that's like makeup, it can enhance the way you look, however, you still are you on camera and your facial and body language tell a complete story than a printed resume would.   4 Practical Ways To Use Video LinkedIn Video - Be yourself and share your professional knowledge with your connections. Let them know who you really are. Let them understand what makes you tick and share your professional passions with them. Most of all, provide value through your content. YouTube Resume - Create a short video that can be done with your cell phone. Your goal of this video is to simply share how you are unique and what you offer professionally. OneMob - video email. A very affordable tool that is used to create short email videos to share with prospects and clients Zoom - This tool really helps us connect face to face with people without the hurdle of all the tech. It just works. You may have been frustrated with challenges of Skype or the expense of some of the other platforms. Zoom just gets it done and packages start for FREE!!   Why Are We Terrified Of Video? Have you ever walked around randomly recording friends or family with your new phone? 'I'm just seeing how it works'. This usually does not go over very well. Why does this really annoy people? What's the big deal if someone is holding a camera and recording what we are doing? I think this just shows how powerful the video really is. Seeing is believing. That's why when we see something in video, we know that it's real and we know that we are getting to know the real person and the real concept. This is why we love live video too. Then we know that there are no tweaks happening and we are getting the real scoop. We feel like we are there. Use this tool and accept that you will not be perfect the first few times you try this out. You may not even be good at all. But practice makes perfect. All you need to do is forget that it's being recorded. There are no skills that you need to learn. You already live your life every day naturally. You just need to learn to do the same thing even in front of the camera. You can do this!   Know Your Elevator Speech You will inevitably be in situations where you will be asked, 'so what do you do?'. BE PREPARED TO ANSWER THIS PROPERLY. This is your chance to shine. Someone is actually asking you what you do and trying to understand how you fit into their picture of the world. Use this opportunity to the max.   Vengresso Elevator Speech Vengresso helps B2B companies reach the 90% of buyers that cannot be reached through the traditional outreach. We provide digital sales strategies and tools including personal branding, social selling and content for sale. Now that's an elevator speech. Clear and full. It will take some time and several iterations before you speech may look that way. And that's ok. The main thing is that you don't stumble and say something stupid like I'm in healthcare or in technology. That is not helpful to you or the person that is really trying to understand who you really are.   Resources, Links, and Books Recommendations Episode 008  With Bob Burg Social Media Marketing World  Vengresso on YouTube Follow Viveka Online! Viveka on LinkedIn Vengresso   Download This Episode Right-click here to download this episode directly to your computer or device OR IF YOU PREFER... CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A PDF OF THIS EPISODE :) Help us grow and give us an honest review and subscribe on iTunes   Follow the show! 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In this episode, Dan shares with us his personal journey to work that is really appealing to him and he helps others to do the same.  You will learn:  to define your signature strengths and passions how to create a sustainable business model around that passions that actually pays the bills.  that there is more than just one application of your passion in the business world.  Enjoy :)

In this episode, career coach, Alison Cardy shares with us her unique approach that lessens the overwhelming feeling in a successful career pivot.  Alison explains how it doesn't need to months to accomplish and is so worth the effort. Once in the right setting, the sky is the limit to your success.    Enjoy :)

Who is Nachum? Nachum is originally from Passaic New Jersey and is not living with his family in Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel. After dropping out of high school and enrolling himself in Bergen Community College and eventually found his way to Israel. Upon returning to the states, Nachum started a promotional products company. After Nachum's first high tech company failed, and they witnessed the tragedy of 9/11/01, Nachum moved his family to Israel where he ran several businesses that eventually led him into the world of podcasting, writing and business consulting.   Business Opportunity Identified :) As the podcast and book started gaining popularity, the requests on Nachum's time started increasing as well. It became tacky when friends would ask for his time (for free of course) and he'd have to explain that he now charged $200/hr for his time (still a great deal). This became even more frustrating with all the emails back and forth trying to nail down a time that worked for both Nachum and the paying client. There had to be a better way to do this. When Nachum received another request complaint from a massage therapist experiencing similar challenges, he new there was a real need for a solution. She complained that she was looking for a really simple site. She only wanted to list her basic packages, their prices and simple way to reserve a slot and pay.   The Solution Hence, BookLikeABoss was born. Nachum found a friend who was a programmer Dovid Yudkowitz and was later joined by the 3rd partner Lloyd Schroeder. To date, the company has over 9,000 users in over 50 countries and continues to grow.  

Jacob describes some of his earlier challenges and how he overcame them. He then started working with young adults helping them connect to their heritage. At a point, Jacob needed to create a bigger business for himself and was able to find ways to transfer some of those skills into the consultant and coaching career.  Listen to hear Jacob's unique perspective on career development and how you cannot sell yourself short. You need to be your biggest advocate. 

We are accustomed to thinking that non-profits operate in a less than professional way.Yitzchok Kornblau shows us how that is definitely not the case with either organization.  Yitchok Kornblau addresses some of the challenges and advantages that face those who are entering the workforce after spending several years of in-depth Talmud study. At that point, many of these students already have the crushing financial burden of supporting their growing families, forcing them to start their careers requiring very significant compensations. 

Scott shares how his initial job was a terrible fit that ended abruptly and he was left to find himself a job within 10 weeks before his savings ran out. Despite the financial challenge, Scott was not willing to compromise and work at a job that was not a good fit ever again. Next Scott got a great job in HR  for an established company without much of a background in HR but was able to find his transferable skills for that position. Ultimately Scott was promoted in that role several times until it reached a point where it was no longer a good fit for him. Action Item: Find your transferable skills to broaden your job search and unlock new possibilities.  Scott explains that he really didn't know that HR would be the right fit for him, it was just one of the 3 options on the table at that time.

Career searching is a skill and needs to be learned and mastered. Most jobs are not posted in the traditional way. Once you are clear about your goals, aspirations, values and skills, what is the next step to attain your next position? Being clear on these items is a great first step. Don't say, I'm open to all opportunities. That signals that you don't know what you are really good at. Learn to say out loud what your strengths are in a short and clear sentence.

In this episode, we learn some of the real 'how-to's' as Viveka goes deeper with us into the world of LinkedIn and she teaches us how to maximize this tool. Whether you are looking for a new job, starting a new business or you are just looking to what's 'out there', you can find it all on LinkedIn.  Listen as Viveka shares with us her insiders view of this platform.

Michael Levin was not comfortable in his law profession. His values were not in sync with his profession causing him to start a new career pursuing his passion of the written word.  Listen as we hear Michael describe the journey and how we can implement these lessons in our professional careers as well.  Enjoy!

In this episode, we meet Travis Chappell who turned from a successful sales position that was making great money and did not enjoy it, into a successful podcast. We learn the tips of digging deeper inside of us and learning what we have that is really unique to and can bring the maximum value to others (and some nice profits to us too).

In this episode we meet Pat Flynn, blogger, podcaster and entrepreneur at the Smart Passive Income.com world and he shares with us how all the magic got started for him in the online world. You may be suprised to hear that it was not all fun and roses from the get go.   Enjoy :)

  In this experimental episode, I am joined by Jason Herzberger, host of the Small Moves Podcast. We had a great job discussing the corporate world in comparison to the small business life. The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss came up a few times which is a must read for finding the work that suits you.        • It is ridiculous to wait to enjoy life until we are retiring after 65 or later for many reasons. • Many people are not able to enjoy the finer things in life once they reach that health due to health reasons. • That is way too long to wait to begin enjoying life. I want to enjoy the journey until we get here. Life is now. • We discuss the challenge of the corporate micromanaged environment vs. a standalone company without all the extra business/red tape to take up lots of time. • For high level managers: When you are presented with an urgent decision which should be made by someone else (and probably is not as urgent as it was presented to you) , purposely ignore it for 24 hours. Usually they will figure it out without you and the urgency is over. –Tim Ferriss in The Four Hour Workweek • Don’t offer yourself up as the sacrificial lamb and the problems will work themselves out. – Tim Ferriss • For managers: Allow your team to do what they were hired to do and don’t do it for them. • In some corporate cultures as long as you keep your head down and out of the way, your are ok. However, once you stick out, problems can occur. As opposed to a startup where your mistake can affect the end users directly and you are really involved in the process of solving the problem the company was created to solve. • The regular corporate jobs are great for many many people even if they can grow to higher level on their own. This is the category where most employees will fall. They’d prefer to know that their check comes every 2 weeks and their insurance and health benefits will be there regardless of how the company is doing. Additionally, they want to be able to leave the office at 5 and not have to think about it until they come back. ◦ There is no right and wrong here, it’s a matter of preference and where you are in life and what you want out of it. So go and think about what it is that you really want out of your life and see what’s best for you. Jason Asks • Jason asks: What is a recent purchase that you made under $100 that made a significant impact on my life? • My answer: Kevin Kruse’s book 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management. This really helped get back my job at one point and has really changed the way I deal with time. Action Item • Journaling – If it’s a life worth living, then it’s a life worth recording. Write 3 pages every morning in your journal just do a brain dump and you will surprised how this helps organize your thoughts. • Keep a notebook with you at all times. Book Recommendation/Resources • The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich By; Timothy Ferriss • Episode 014 with Kevin Kruse • Will It Fly? How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don’t Waste Your Time and Money by: Pat Flynn – Thinking of starting your own business and wondering if it will be successful? • The Artist’s Way Morning Pages Journal: A Companion Volume to the Artist’s Way – A unique approach to journaling • Is the pen mightier than the keyboard? Here’s how to contact Jason: • Small Moves Podcast • Jason on Facebook • Jason on Twitter Help Us Grow! If you have benefitted from this show, please go to iTunes, subscribe to our show so you don’t miss any future episodes and leave us a 5 star review

Marcia Amarsingh came to my nursing home to offer her services and train our staff on facing the new challenge of substance abuse in the seniors. I was so blown away by her sheer determination to get her message out and help in a way that is real and meaningful. 

In this episode, Kevin shares a great personal failure story and the lessons we can all learn from it without going through his pains. We also learn methods or expressing are talents in the workplace without jeopardizing our jobs. Enjoy :)

Dr. Jenkins helps us appreciate our current challenges and helps us put them into perspective, clearing our minds to come up with our own creative solutions.

In this episode, Christina shares her amazing professional journey with us, starting from the early days at the FBI to her days of professional coaching super achievers. Enjoy! As always, let me know what you think about this episode and the show in general, by shooting me a quick email at shmuel@shmuelseptimus.com . I respond to every email.   

In this Episode Robyn shares with us her passion for the third chapter, which is the point in our professional careers where we work to realign out unique skills with our professional setting. Enjoy :)

In this episode, Davis takes us on his professional journey from a successful career in finance to real estate investing and eventually podcasting and coaching. Davis shares with us the challenges he faces along the way, the lesson learned and how we can apply these today to our in our own professional environment.

In this episode we get to spend a few minutes with sales and personal development expert, Bob Burg. Bob discussed the 5 laws described in The Go-Giver and explains how they'd apply to someone looking to find their own unique strengths and talents. Shoot me an email at shmuel@shmuelseptimus.com and let me know what you thought of this episode.    I look forward to hearing from you.  Shmuel 

Adam is so real, down to earth and practical. It is so refreshing to hear his take on self-identification and finding your own unique strengths while learning the best ways to apply them professionally. You probably don't need to change careers even if you find your skills and strengths to be out of sync with your current position. 

In this episode, we meet brand and communications executive, keynote speaker and business coach Lucas Mack. You will see how real Lucas is and how you can implement his down to earth exercises to get a better understanding of your unique skills and talents. I'm sure you will enjoy this episode :)

In this episode, we meet David where he shares with us his journey from manager of a struggling retail store manager to a leadership and business coach. David shares with us how becoming accustomed to accepting and implementing feedback is the key to making real change. Enjoy and thanks for listening :)

The Side Hustle Nation is the very first podcast I listened to and it really opened up my eyes to the real business opportunities available to anyone interested in applying themselves. I am confident that you will really enjoy this fantastic episode. Enjoy :)

In this episode we hear from success coach Earl Bell of Seattle Washington as he shares with us his professional journey and explains how we can apply his lessons to our professional lives as well. We hear about the importance of listening to feedback from our personal and professional network whether they are positive or otherwise. 

Listen as Coach Jim Johnson tells the story of J-mac, the autistic boy who scored 20 points in under 4 minutes, how this changed his life and how this can change yours too.

This show will explore ways to truly understand your unique character traits that make you unique and learn how to apply them to the workplace in the most fulfilling and profitable way. We will bring former over-hustlers, new business owners, happy 925ers, proffesional career coaches, and other industry leaders to bring the most up-to-date and valuable information to you.