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For many of us, our hair is an integral part of our identity. Imagine a drummer who was a member of hair bands in his youth facing rapid hair loss in his early 50's. That was Solopreneur Hour Host's Michael O'Neals' story before he flew all the way to Turkey to have a hair transplant.   While pharmaceutical solutions for hair loss do exist, they can have debilitating side effects such as erectile dysfunction, decreased libido, swelling in face, arms, hands, legs, or feet, dizziness,headaches, skin rashes, hives, and even male breast cancer   Hair transplantation on the other hand uses your own hair follicles to regrow hair on your scalp in combination with techniques like PRP (platelet-rich plasma) which uses your bodys' own own healing system to repair itself.   In today's episode of Food heald we will hear the riveting story of Michael's trip to Istanbul and a natural way to regrow hair using your own hair follicles - without drugs without harsh side effects and how you can go from balding to a beautiful head of new hair too!   Dr. Emrah Cinik: EmrahCinik.com Watch the Youtube video of Michael's experience. Check out The Solopreneur Hour Podcast at SolopreneurHour.com Check out Michael's  course, The Art of the Interview at  www.ArtofTheInterview.co. Follow Michael On Instagram at @SoloHour   Thank You to Our Sponsors!   Thrive Causemetics Thrive Causemetics was born out of a friendship. Makeup artist and product developer, Karissa Bodnar, lost her dear friend Kristy to cancer at just 24 years old. Kristy's compassionate and vivacious spirit inspired Karissa to establish Thrive Causemetics, a beauty brand and philosophy that goes beyond skin deep by empowering women. No parabens, sulfates, or phthalates. Certified 100% vegan and cruelty-free. Right now, you can get 15% off your first order when you visit ThriveCausemetics.com/FOODHEALS   Organifi Organifi, is a line of organic superfood blends that offers plant based nutrition made with high quality ingredients. Organifi takes pride in offering the best tasting superfood products on the market at a price that works out to less than $3 a day. You can experience Organifi's high quality superfoods without breaking the bank. Go to www.organifi.com/foodheals and use code foodheals for 20% off your order.   True Leaf Market Since 1974 True Leaf Market has been the choice of over a million growers for Heirloom and Organic garden seeds. True Leaf Market offers a great selection of cover crop seeds, including their all purpose garden cover crop mix: their most popular cover crop seeds for home gardeners. Order Online at TrueLeafMarket.com, use promo code FH15 to save 15% on cover crop seeds.   Sambucol Sambucol is made from premium European black elderberries which are natural sources of powerful antioxidants and key vitamins like A, C, and E. They really are Nature's superberries and help support a healthy immune system! They have syrups, gummies, chewable tablets, drink powders, capsules, and more. All of their products are vegan - except their throat lozenges which contain honey – they are all gluten free, dairy free, nut and soy free, with no artificial colors or flavors. Use my code FOODHEALS15 at SambucolUSA.com to get 15% off your order of $9.99 or more.    

Justin Croxton of Propellant Media (http://propellant.media) comes by to talk about geofencing.  When you learn the true power of geofencing, you'll wonder how you've lived without it for so long! It's a must have for brick and mortar businesses. About Justin: As Managing Partner/CEO of Propellant Media (www.propellant.media), Justin oversees and partners with the team […]

Continuing on our theme of hormone health this month, Alli's got Solopreneur Hour Host Michael O'Neal in the Nashville studio to talk about men's health and why - it might be time to get your testosterone checked!   Testosterone is pivotal for multiple functions in the body like building stronger bones, creating muscle and increasing strength, facial and body hair. Testosterone increases sex drive, promotes fat burning, is required for memory and heart health, and is involved in producing red blood cells and sperm. In other words, it's absolutely crucial for feeling our best. In today's episode Michael shares how getting his hormones balanced completely changed his life, increased his libido, and gave him the energy he needed to thrive.   Stay tuned for Part 2 with Michael, where we'll be discussing a natural way to grow back hair - drug free. PLUS - exactly how he went from balding to a beautiful head of hair. (And how you can too!)   Check out The Solopreneur Hour Podcast at SolopreneurHour.com Check out Michael's  course, The Art of the Interview at  www.ArtofTheInterview.co. Follow Michael On Instagram at @SoloHour   Thank You to Our Sponsors!   True Leaf Market Since 1974 True Leaf Market has been the choice of over a million growers for Heirloom and Organic garden seeds. True Leaf Market offers a great selection of cover crop seeds, including their all purpose garden cover crop mix: their most popular cover crop seeds for home gardeners. Order Online at TrueLeafMarket.com, use promo code FH15 to save 15% on cover crop seeds.   Sambucol Sambucol is made from premium European black elderberries which are natural sources of powerful antioxidants and key vitamins like A, C, and E. They really are Nature's superberries and help support a healthy immune system! They have syrups, gummies, chewable tablets, drink powders, capsules, and more. All of their products are vegan - except their throat lozenges which contain honey – they are all gluten free, dairy free, nut and soy free, with no artificial colors or flavors. Use my code FOODHEALS15 at SambucolUSA.com to get 15% off your order of $9.99 or more.   Just Thrive Health Probiotics  A Proven, Potent and Effective Spore Probiotic to Help You Be Your Healthier You. Guarantees survivability through the stomach & upper digestive system. Just Thrive's breakthrough, award-winning probiotic contains the proprietary strain, Bacillus Indicus HU36®, which produces antioxidants directly in the digestive system where they can be best absorbed by your body. Go to www.justhrivehealth.com, use the coupon codefoodheals15, get 15% off your first order, and add a spore-based probiotic to your healing and detox routine today. Organifi Organifi, is a line of organic superfood blends that offers plant based nutrition made with high quality ingredients. Organifi takes pride in offering the best tasting superfood products on the market at a price that works out to less than $3 a day. You can experience Organifi's high quality superfoods without breaking the bank. Go to www.organifi.com/foodheals and use code foodheals for 20% off your order.    

My pal Kenyon Salo (http://kenyonsalo.com) drops by for a chat about what it's like to skydive into the Denver Broncos stadium, how he amassed almost a million TikTok followers (@kenyonsalo) and how he has honed the craft of inspirational public speaking as “The James Bond of Personal Development”.

Our old buddy Omar Zenhome from the (Top 200 in the universe) $100 MBA Podcast is on the show.  After catching up from a 5 year absence, we are all over the place with golden business gems!  This is a true “Solopreneur Hour” show with a great conversation and great life and biz advice all […]

Carla White is software pioneer, podcast host and coach helping entrepreneurs make $100K+ using audio. She is first woman to ever launch an iPhone app and has been featured on Oprah, NBC, NYTimes and countless other publications. After getting an MBA, working at the Pentagon and learning how to speak multiple languages, Carla found herself living […]

Today we had Richard Mugica from 1CallClosers.com on the show. The sales process is integrated into everything we do as solopreneurs. If you've ever had to “sell” what's for dinner with the kids, then you know what we are talking about.  Unfortunatey, we don't all possess the skillsets to close our high ticket items…that's where […]

This is part 1 of a 3 part series about how to hire independent contractors to help you grow your business. In this episode of The Solopreneur Hustle Podcast, Nia Lewis shares how to create systems and develop realistic expectations to support independent contractors you hire to build your team. > STAY CONNECTED   Website | http://www.thesolopreneurhustle.comInstagram | @SoloprenuerHustle  Email | hello@thesolopreneurhustle.com > EMAIL NEWSLETTERDownload this free marketing ebook: https://mailchi.mp/3e2ad2830476/marketingebook> Subscribe to Nia on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzlCl9xBXGlyoATwat6Ebpg?view_as=subscribergood podcasts for entrepreneurs, female founder podcasts, top podcasts for female entrepreneurs, top podcasts entrepreneurs, solopreneur hour, best entrepreneur podcasts, solopreneur hour podcast, solopreneur podcast, best female business podcasts, entrepreneurs on fire business podcast, top startup podcasts, the solopreneur hustle, solopreneur hustle, women empowerment, women empowerment podcast, best podcasts for female entrepreneurs, the serial entrepreneur, podcast female entrepreneurs, good entrepreneur podcasts, the solopreneur hour, entrepreneurs on fire business podcast, empowering women entrepreneurs, empowering solopreneurs 

This week, our solopreneur guest is Diane Randall. Diane is a whole living consultant, meaning she helps boss women like us live healthy lives from the inside out. Diane is passionate about leading wellness conversations around life balance, mental wellness, self-care, self-realization, plant-based nutrition, and whole life wellness. In this episode, Diane will share health and wellness tips we can use to reduce stress and bring harmonious balance to our lives. > STAY CONNECTED   Website | http://www.thesolopreneurhustle.comInstagram | @SoloprenuerHustle  Email | hello@thesolopreneurhustle.com > EMAIL NEWSLETTERDownload this free marketing ebook: https://mailchi.mp/3e2ad2830476/marketingebook> Subscribe to Nia on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzlCl9xBXGlyoATwat6Ebpg?view_as=subscribergood podcasts for entrepreneurs, female founder podcasts, top podcasts for female entrepreneurs, top podcasts entrepreneurs, solopreneur hour, best entrepreneur podcasts, solopreneur hour podcast, solopreneur podcast, best female business podcasts, entrepreneurs on fire business podcast, top startup podcasts, the solopreneur hustle, solopreneur hustle, women empowerment, women empowerment podcast, best podcasts for female entrepreneurs, the serial entrepreneur, podcast female entrepreneurs, good entrepreneur podcasts, the solopreneur hour, entrepreneurs on fire business podcast

A conversation with serial entrepreneur and podcast extraordinaire, Michael O'Neal. TEXT ''PROFIT'' to 833-257-0694 to book your free podcasting consultation! Referenced in Today's Episode: http://www.artoftheinterview.co/courses/aoi (Art of the Interview Course) https://solopreneurhour.com/ (The Solopreneur Hour Podcast) https://apple.co/3jk0wJx (Beginner Audiophile Podcast) https://rennch.com/ (Rennch) https://youtu.be/FU1-nZmYkDo (10 PROFITABLE Small Business Ideas for Beginners! | How to MAKE MONEY Online) Connect with Noah at: https://profitwithpodcasting.com/ (The Website) Email If you enjoy the podcast, please leave a positive rating and review!

Today we've got the Founder of Launch Lab and Growth Lab. The host of the Solopreneur Hour Podcast that has over 10M downloads, Michael O'Neal. Originally from Ohio, he was a designer, creative director, and branding expert for over 15 years before he began podcasting. In this episode, we get into why you should embrace the SUCK. Michael explains why podcasters and those putting out content have a real responsibility to anybody that's listening and talking in their content. Michael also leaves us with two helpful tips and one of them will only take you 15 minutes a day to make real change. Check it out! [00:01 – 02:58] Opening Segment I introduce our guest, Michael O'Neal I briefly talk about the great values that await you in this episode Connect with our guest. See links below. [02:59 – 12:48] Michael's learning journey and Embracing the Suck Michael talks about how his learning changed from his early years vs today Embracing the Suck Michael talks about his mentors and the masterminds he's been in How masterminds helped Michael in resetting and getting himself unstuck Finding a coach that you relate to in the way you like to learn [12:49 – 28:37] Self-Education, The Solopreneur hour, The Responsibilities of Podcasters Michael shares his thoughts about Self-education and Traditional Education There's so much more opportunity to learn remotely What people can expect when they enter Michael's reality I will help you identify your essence and put you on the map to the right people  The responsibilities of podcasters/Content Creators/Masterminds Success stories from people who joined his mastermind/group/event [28:38 – 47:50] Creating Success and Tips to Take to Make Real Change A key ingredient/attribute to being successful Patience Exciting things in store for the next 12 months Using a series shortcut to connect different apps on your iPhone Tips/Tactics Actionable Items Figure out the music or whatever you need to focus Devote 15 minutes a day to whatever you want to accomplish Final Thoughts Tweetable Quotes: “Don't prioritize your schedule, schedule your priorities.” - Michael O'Neal “Over anything else in the world, consistency is the most important thing.” - Michael O'Neal “To embrace the suck of the moment, and just understand that, “I'm not gonna be very good at this from the beginning, It's going to take me a while”, is the most important lesson to learn as a burgeoning entrepreneur.” - Michael O'Neal “When you're putting content out to the world. However you're doing it, there's a responsibility that goes along with it.” - Michael O'Neal Resources Mentioned: https://solopreneurhour.com/ (The Solopreneur Hour Podcast) https://www.amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-Landmark-Bestseller/dp/1585424331 (Think and Grow Rich) - Napoleon Hill Connect with Michael, visit https://solopreneurhour.com/ (https://solopreneurhour.com/). Follow him and The Solopreneur Hour on http://facebook.com/groups/solohour (Instagram), https://twitter.com/solohour (Twitter), and http://facebook.com/groups/solohour (Facebook). Check out Michael's courses: http://www.artoftheinterview.co/courses/aoi (The Art of The Interview) http://conferencetopia.com/ (Conferencetopia) Be one of the first adopters of The Success Finder when it releases! Email me at brandon@thesuccessfinder.com You can connect with me, Brandon Straza, onhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonstraza/ ( LinkedIn),https://www.instagram.com/brandonstraza/ ( Instagram), or send me an email athttps://my.captivate.fm/brandon@thesuccessfinder.com ( brandon@thesuccessfinder.com). I'd love to get in touch and talk more about personal development and how you can live past beyond your limits.

Host of the Solopreneur Hour Podcast & Porsche Restoration YouTube Channel, Michael O'Neal kicks off the Faith + Biz Podcast with a BANG!  He talks about how you can focus in on a niche and even create a business out of a hobby.  He also turned the tables on me, but you will have to Listen in to find out more.Links + Resources From This Episode:Connect with Michael O'Neal on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter Join one of Michael's Podcast Launch Groups by contacting him at michael@solopreneurhour.com Check Out The Solopreneur Hour PodcastFind me on InstagramGet Our FREE Training On How To Find Profitable Amazon FBA ProductsQuestions, Feedback & Hello's: Email Me at Justin@FaithPlusBiz.com

Michael O'Neal is the host of the Solopreneur Hour Podcast, and Thom Singer calls him the "Godfather" of his "Cool Things Entrepreneurs Do" podcast.  Thom was a big fan of Michael's show long before he ever thought of starting his own podcast, and turned to Michael for a lot of tips, tricks, and guidance in 2014 when he was launching this program.   Episode 527 is Micheal O'Neal's third time as a guest on CTED.  In this episode they talk about how Michael is learning about YouTube and the things he is doing with his YouTube Channel. If you want to grow your exposure on YouTube, listen to this episode... but follow up by doing some more research on Michael O'Neal - as he has several ideas he has shared on his podcast, YouTube, and other places on ways you can get more views, etc....   About Michael O'Neal's Solopreneur Hour     The Solopreneur Hour is an audio podcast hosted by Michael O’Neal that co-hosts with the best and brightest solopreneurs from all walks of life, including network marketing, internet marketing, music, fitness, actors, comedians, and more.  These people are not only standouts in their industries, but they’ve put an entrepreneurial spin and “zagged” while everyone else zigged.  Our mission is to take you through their journey, give you actionable steps and actions to help you with your ventures, and inspire you to take massive action.   Hopefully we’ll have a few laughs along the way.   We share practical steps and tools, including books, smartphone apps, websites, training courses, strategies and stories that will support you every step of the way.   Instead of giving the same interview you’ve heard 100 times, we invite our guests to be co-hosts, and have a casual but insightful conversation about success, just like you would at a restaurant or a bar.  It’s that down-to-earth, practical conversation that lets our listeners know that we are all the same…just at different places on the timeline.   https://thomsinger.com/michael-ONeal-3  

#391: Michael O'Neal, host of the Solopreneur Hour Podcast, turns the tables and interviews me about FlynnCon1 and what's on deck for FlynnCon2. We talk about why FlynnCon is family-oriented and how the SmartBar allowed us to serve our attendees in a unique way.

Michael O'Neal has spent a decade perfecting his entrepreneurial craft, and he has been doing it all alone! Does this mean nobody assisted, or inspired him... no! It means he has created the his entrepreneurial world solo! Not as in Han Solo, but as a solopreneur that has been able to create his businesses without the need of massive scaling, without the need of brick and mortar facilities, without the need of multi tiered staffing. He has been able to take all of the modern conveniences and utilize them to their full extent. By doing such he has kept overhead way down and been able to secure his own job security by being unemployable! As Michael would say "profitably unemployable!"Tune in to find the different areas Michael focussed on to create his 10million+ downloads on his Solopreneur Hour Podcast and dive over to his instagram to check his amazing Porche builds!www.instagram.com/solohourwww.solopreneurhour.comCheck Jase on his socials as wellInstagram @Jasebennett

In this episode, Miro talks with Michael O'Neal, Host of " The Solopreneur Hour Podcast" http://solohour.com. With over 9 Million downloads Michael has had many high profile guests on his show, including Charles Barkley, Adam Carolla, James Altucher, Guy Fieri, Bret Michaels, Hines Ward, Jack Canfield, and many others. Before podcasting, he was a designer, creative director, and branding expert for over 15 years. He coaches dozens of people in his coaching group called Sololabâ„¢ (http://iwantsololab.com)

Bucket List Life, Skydiving, Public Speaking, Rappelling Super Heroes, and more!Bucket List FUEL is powerful, especially from Kenyon Salo. This is a special 200th Podcast episode with one of my inspiration influencers who helped me create and build LIVETHEFUEL! Kenyon has dedicated himself to living life to the fullest and helping others do the same. Through his passions for adventure, storytelling, and connecting with people, he found a simple process that he shares with people on stage. He guides us on a path to what most of us crave – living a more fulfilled life. Kenyon Salo is one of the top trainers, facilitators and keynote speakers in the fields of adventure, leadership, team building, sales, customer service and inspiration/motivation. One of only five members on the Denver Broncos Thunderstorm Skydive Team, he is seen each week during game season flying into the Denver Broncos Stadium at 60+mph, ending with a soft tip-toe landing on the ten-yard line. He brings to the stage over 20+ years of successful audience engagement through humor, awe-inspiring moments, prolific storytelling, and ‘edge-of-the seat’ content. With over 6000 skydives under his belt and travels that have taken him all around the world, he’s determined to live life to the fullest and help others do the same. Through his passions for adventure, storytelling, and connecting with people, he found a simple process to guide others on a path to what most of us crave – living a more fulfilled life. His goal through his engagements is to deliver a powerful and heart-touching message on the possibility of how amazing life can be through providing actionable steps that will help any audience, both personally and professionally, embark on a path to achieve anything they desire. A Taste of Kenyon Salo:[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVFXlJmbnt4] Superheroes Rappel Off Children's Hospital Colorado:[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoqGGtWmCb0]   On This Episode You Will Hear:[spp-timestamp time="00:30"] Introduction [spp-timestamp time="05:30"] Kenyon shares the story from the ashes of him creating The Bucket List Life and the brand of Kenyon Salo. [spp-timestamp time="08:40"] Reconnecting about Michael O'Neal of the Solopreneur Hour Podcast and his coaching to follow Kenyon Salo and The Bucket List Life facebook feed for guidance and inspiration. [spp-timestamp time="12:30"] Growing his adventure brand. Realizing that when he spoke about his concepts, they were better received. The Bucket List Life Keynote was born. [spp-timestamp time="19:30"] A decade as a pro snowboarder. New Hampshire was WICKED GOOD! [spp-timestamp time="23:00"] Kenyon stands on a ladder. [spp-timestamp time="29:00"] Rappelling Super Heroes for the Children's Hospital of Colorado. When you give to others first, everything will come back ten-fold. [spp-timestamp time="33:40"] Kenyon shares the energy and the exhaustion involved with public speaking. [spp-timestamp time="44:50"] Geeking out about Star Wars and the Empire Strikes Back. [spp-timestamp time="55:40"] It IS all about the reps. Discussing lessons learned from Scott's first triathlon that he wasn't able to complete the swim portion. [spp-timestamp time="01:02:00"] Plenty of shoutouts tonight on this podcast for Michael O'Neal. [spp-timestamp time="01:02:25"] Final Words   Life's like a movie, write your own ending. - Kenyon Sallo [spp-tweet tweet="None of us know if we have a tomorrow! @KenyonSalo "] Watch On YouTube:[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62MX_wMPMiA] Links and Resources: KenyonSalo.com (http://kenyonsalo.com) Kenyon on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenyonsalo/) Kenyon Salo on Twitter (https://twitter.com/kenyonsalo/) Kenyon Salo on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/kenyonmarksalo) Kenyon Salo on YouTube...

Michael O'Neai is the host of the Solopreneur Hour Podcast, and the host of the YT channel, RENNCH, where he repairs, modifies, and drives his air-cooled 911.  This show is also available as a video, full of pictures, videos, and other assets pertaining to the conversation: https://youtu.be/l5-LE4F0yighttps://solopreneurhour.com/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ0JSLjr9zoeT4RWMsIRUxA Follow us!T: @thesmokingtire @zackklapman @solohourIG: @thesmokingtire @fakezackklapman @_rennch_Check out our merch!https://teespring.com/stores/thesmokingtire?page=1 Like cars in your ears? Check out our podcast!http://shoutengine.com/TheSmokingTire/

Michael O’Neal is the host of the Solopreneur Hour Podcast which takes us on deep dive interviews of some of your favorite entrepreneurs and influencers three times a week. The mission behind Michael’s podcast is to provide you with actionable steps and actions to help you with your venturing and inspire listeners to take massive action.   Quotes To Remember: “When we understand the choices that successful people make, we understand the game.” “Entertainment is always number one in front of value or data.” “If my audience are entertained, they will be paying attention.” “Try to get to a conference about that industry at least once every 3 months.” “They say it takes 5 connecting points to establish rapport with anybody.” “I don't compromise my lifestyle because of working too much.” “If it’s on my schedule, then it is real. If it’s real, then it can get done.” “The most successful people in the world say ‘yes’ first and then figure out how to make the details work after that.” “Be resourceful as you possibly can.”   What You’ll Learn: How to avoid feeling alone throughout the solopreneurship journey Best conferences to go to How to speak up and ignite conversations How to take actions to your goals How to balance work and life Insights about Solopreneurship   Key Links From The Show: Michael’s Site Conferencetopia The Kickass Life Podcast with David Wood Thrive: Make Money Matter Social Media Marketing World Traffic & Conversion CES Amplify Live Podfest Multimedia Expo Social Media Day San Diego   Recommended Books: The ONE Thing by Gary W. Keller

Today our good friend Dana Malstaff (https://boss-mom.com) stops by to talk about the basics of systematizing your solopreneur biz.  She runs a veritable empire over there at Boss Mom, and had to get started somewhere. A few things we covered: a GREAT tip about setting up your schedule How and when to create content What […]

In this replay of this inaugural episode of “FIND YOUR SWING™”, Dawnmarrs.com and I review 6 listener submissions, and try to help them figure out how they can build a business, scale themselves, or break out of the 9-5.  In this show, we touch on the arts and crafts world, the music industry, the programming/computer industry, […]

Free Coaching Friday from The Solopreneur Hour! If you're new and don't know how this works here goes: once a week I ask you to send me your questions and I answer them on Friday. If you want to be part of the fun for next week's Q&A show join us in the Facebook group here or […]

The concept of The Solopreneur Hour has always been to feature people that have made a business out of their hobbies and their skill sets. There's no more evident example of that then today's guest, Sujain Krishnan. Just a few short years ago, he went down the rabbit hole of collecting affordable automatic watches. Watch […]

One of the biggest challenges of doing online business, or running a podcast or youtube channel, is “finding your voice”.  Sitting on a bench with Jordan Harbinger from Art of Charm, it was clearly evident that he was confident in his personality and his voice.  I suppose that's what you get when you do something […]

Are you interviewing people as part of your content marketing strategy? When was the last time you worked at enhancing your craft? Your interviewing skills will be reinvented after listening to this live, in-studio interview, where we dive deep with Michael O’Neal of the Solopreneur Hour Podcast. Get his best tips and tactics at turning interviews into engaging conversations. He shares how to draw out your subject, get them comfortable, direct the interview and how to become better at asking questions. Learn what to do the day before the interview, 5 minutes before the interview, how to introduce your guest and what to do in the first few minutes of the interview. He’s teaching how to make deeper connections with your guests and get better at the craft of interviewing.

We all know how important it is for young people to develop high quality communication skills and receive up-to-date careers advice in order to succeed in the modern jobs market.  If you don't get that guidance in school, you have to get it elsewhere. That's where this episode of The Unstoppable Teen Podcast comes in… You're about to listen in to a conversation between Kevin Mincher and Michael O'Neal.  Michael is the inspirational host of the Solopreneur Hour Podcast.  He's an expert in communication, social media, and how to start your own successful business. Michael is the first to admit he was a bit of a bad lad in high school, but he discovered his passions and ended up creating a great life for himself.  He understands what it's like to be a struggling teen, and he gives some brilliant insights on how to discover the right career for you. In fact, this entire episode is packed with fantastic wisdom and advice for teenagers, parents and educators about what it takes to have a fantastic life. “Building relationships, more than anything in the world, will help your business life, it will help your love life, it will help your recreational life, it will help all of it.” Michael O'Neal – Host of The Solopreneur Hour Podcast You will learn: Even though you might speak the same language as someone else, your accent and range of vocabulary can get in the way of good communication. (2:40) Not everyone has to become an entrepreneur.  You can do well and build a fab career life for yourself by specialising in a trade. (5:01) Why it's important to gain lots of work experience. (6:24) What Michael was like when he was a teenager… It wasn't all good! (9:06) How Michael got his life on track and became successful today. (15:22) Tips on how to break the ice when meeting new people. (17:39) What the FORM Method is, and how you can use it to have a good conversation with anyone. (20:56) Why you should attend conferences and meet new people. (25:16) Why it's important to, “Get your face out of your phone.” (26:50) Some tips for successful building your social media following. (30:17) The difference between an entrepreneur and a solopreneur. (32:50) Advice for people who might want to become a solopreneur. (35:38) How to recognise when you've found the right thing to do with your life. (41:22) What Michael believes it takes to be unstoppable. (43:49) Click here to view this content on the Unstoppable Teen website >> “People like people that are like themselves, and they work with people they like.” Michael O'Neal – Host of The Solopreneur Hour Podcast Learn more from Michael O'Neal You can keep up with Michael O'Neal via his social media channels. He's on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram as @solohour. Michael has a free online course called Conferencetopia, you can use to improve your communication and networking skills.  Check I out here >> Michael also has a new coaching program called The Art of the Interview, that students and teachers could use to create an inspirational podcast for your school.  Find out more via this link. You may also like these episodes: #38: STEM, learning languages and innovating (Interview with MIT director Dr Luis Perez-Breva #34: Teenage pregnancy, body confidence and career success (Interview with fashion blogger Natascha Cox) #30: Secrets of teen success (Interview with best-selling author and Business Speaker of the Year Richard Gerver) Please help us help more teenagers Students, parents, and teachers can benefit from the fantastic communication skills and careers advice in this episode. So if you know someone who struggles when connecting with others (especially in a work environment), or who's unsure of what to do for a career, pass this episode on to them! What did you like about this episode?  Please share your communication and careers advice in the comments section below.   Let us know what topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes.  We're here to help you, so contact us anytime via our social media channels or email podcast@unstoppableen.com.   Thanks for listening!

Welcome to Episode One of Fun. The guest for this episode is Michael O'Neal of The Solopreneur Hour Podcast. We could not think of anyone better for the opening episode, as he optimizes the premise of the show. Michael builds his business around his hobbies and interests. "Don't prioritize your schedule, schedule your priorities" - Stephen Covey   Guest Links Solopreneurhour.com twitter.com/solohour facebook.com/solohour instagram.com/solohour

Spreaker Live Show #82 for Sept 21st, 2016Our Topics This Week: - How Finding Podcasting Listening and Creation Simplicity- Pump Up the Volume Levels- International Podcast Day is Coming Sept 30th- Gail Nobles Storytelling Podcast- Rob's Interview on Michael O’Neal’s Solopreneur Hour showShow Duration: 40 minutesHost: Rob Greenlee, Head of Content, Spreaker @robgreenlee - rob(at)spreaker(dotcom)Co-Host: Alex Exum, Spreaker Host of "The Exum Experience" and the "Spreaker Studio Review" shows at @AlexExumWe had some feedback:From Gail Nobles: Hi Rob! I just wanted to let you know that some of my friends have heard my podcast on Facebook. They have told me face to face that they loved my stories and think that I should keep doing them. The word is starting to spread around a little about my podcasts. Sharing with people you know at work or places you go helps a lot too. I've been experimenting with sounds and changing the pitch of my voice to add my own characters. Sometimes it's good to have someone other than yourself in your podcast. Different sounds really help a lot and gets the audience attention. I just wanted to let you know my experience. Here are the stories my friends have been listening to. Here is a clip from Gail’s showActors, Stories, & Film (Lounge Show) https://www.spreaker.com/show/actors-and-film-lounge-showI am still uncertain about what else to do. I thought about sharing them with iTunes but I don't know whether or not people there would be interested in listening or not. As bad as Google Plus is, there are people there that listen and love music. I thought about giving Google Play a try. I thought about the affiliate programs, and ads but those things never seem to work for me. There are so many people on the internet, and I can't believe how pitiful the views can be sometimes on content. So I'm still thinking what I should do. Thank you for listening.Spreaker Blog at http://Blog.Spreaker.com – Articles and Spreaker NewsSpreaker News:- International Podcast Day is Coming Sept 30th at http://InternationalPodcastDay.com- Spreaker is a Gold sponsor of the event again this year- Rob Greenlee will be hosting an hour of the LIVE 24 hour celebratory video stream on FireTalk.com at Noon PST- Booked guest so far are Rob Cesternino, Host of “Rob Has A Podcast”, Ken Rutkowski, very early pioneer in online audio shows/podcasting - KenRadio, CNET Radio, Now Host “Business Rockstars Radio Show” and other podcasting celebritiesRob was also guest on the Michael O’Neal’s Solopreneur Hour Podcast this week: https://solopreneurhour.com/podcast/474-rob-greenlee-of-spreaker-podcasting-before-podcasting-was-a-thing/He got me talking about things I don’t normally talking about online: marketing, my far past history, podcasting precursors or platforms that were doing closed podcasting.Our Tip of the Week: “Pump Up the Volume Levels”- Do Your volume levels really matters to your listener as they listen on noisy trains, cars, airplanes- Make sure your mic input levels are tested with headphones, before recording.- Skype guest levels can be very different from host levels- I recommend a Free tool called “Levelator” and was designed to level and give a volume boost to entire .wav file recording - Free Download: http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelatorLet’s Dive into our main topic this week “Finding Podcasting Listening and Creation Simplicity”- Based on article up live on the Spreaker Blog - http://blog.spreaker.com/2016/09/19/finding-podcastings-listening-simplicity/- We have discussed some of this on a past episode, but wanted to expand on it- Radio was built on Simplicity and having its listener captured in the car with nothing else to do, but listen to the radio- On-Demand and in control digital media like podcasting has given you the listener the keys to control your audio experience in the car and other places ie. smartphonesWith control comes time commitment and a responsibility to make content decisions that radio was doing for you.- The “Simplicity” question, what can be simplified with podcast listening today and what does that mean in a full control type of platform?- Think a move to more human compatible natural interfaces to digital media is the future - voice, vision and thought control. - We have touch control, but that takes physical action and effort. That is the stage we are in now. Computers have been just smart enough and complex enough to often times be more difficult.- Think Siri, Alexa/Echo, Cortana and Android’s voice control platform “Google Now”. This is the future of podcast usage, management. - Did not say in the article, that apps and web or a combo of those will be important as well for discovery and management. I believe apps and web will merge into one experience in the next 3-5 years.Spreaker Links:http://Adore.fmhttp://blog.spreaker.comhttp://SpreakerLiveShow.comhttps://Spreaker.comSend Questions and Comments to:Twitter: http://twitter.com/spreaker using #SpreakerLiveTwitter: http://twitter.com/robgreenleeTwitter: http://twitter.com/alexeum Tech Support: support at spreaker.com

Spreaker Live Show #82 for Sept 21st, 2016Our Topics This Week: - How Finding Podcasting Listening and Creation Simplicity- Pump Up the Volume Levels- International Podcast Day is Coming Sept 30th- Gail Nobles Storytelling Podcast- Rob's Interview on Michael O’Neal’s Solopreneur Hour showShow Duration: 40 minutesHost: Rob Greenlee, Head of Content, Spreaker @robgreenlee - rob(at)spreaker(dotcom)Co-Host: Alex Exum, Spreaker Host of "The Exum Experience" and the "Spreaker Studio Review" shows at @AlexExumWe had some feedback:From Gail Nobles: Hi Rob! I just wanted to let you know that some of my friends have heard my podcast on Facebook. They have told me face to face that they loved my stories and think that I should keep doing them. The word is starting to spread around a little about my podcasts. Sharing with people you know at work or places you go helps a lot too. I've been experimenting with sounds and changing the pitch of my voice to add my own characters. Sometimes it's good to have someone other than yourself in your podcast. Different sounds really help a lot and gets the audience attention. I just wanted to let you know my experience. Here are the stories my friends have been listening to. Here is a clip from Gail’s showActors, Stories, & Film (Lounge Show) https://www.spreaker.com/show/actors-and-film-lounge-showI am still uncertain about what else to do. I thought about sharing them with iTunes but I don't know whether or not people there would be interested in listening or not. As bad as Google Plus is, there are people there that listen and love music. I thought about giving Google Play a try. I thought about the affiliate programs, and ads but those things never seem to work for me. There are so many people on the internet, and I can't believe how pitiful the views can be sometimes on content. So I'm still thinking what I should do. Thank you for listening.Spreaker Blog at http://Blog.Spreaker.com – Articles and Spreaker NewsSpreaker News:- International Podcast Day is Coming Sept 30th at http://InternationalPodcastDay.com- Spreaker is a Gold sponsor of the event again this year- Rob Greenlee will be hosting an hour of the LIVE 24 hour celebratory video stream on FireTalk.com at Noon PST- Booked guest so far are Rob Cesternino, Host of “Rob Has A Podcast”, Ken Rutkowski, very early pioneer in online audio shows/podcasting - KenRadio, CNET Radio, Now Host “Business Rockstars Radio Show” and other podcasting celebritiesRob was also guest on the Michael O’Neal’s Solopreneur Hour Podcast this week: https://solopreneurhour.com/podcast/474-rob-greenlee-of-spreaker-podcasting-before-podcasting-was-a-thing/He got me talking about things I don’t normally talking about online: marketing, my far past history, podcasting precursors or platforms that were doing closed podcasting.Our Tip of the Week: “Pump Up the Volume Levels”- Do Your volume levels really matters to your listener as they listen on noisy trains, cars, airplanes- Make sure your mic input levels are tested with headphones, before recording.- Skype guest levels can be very different from host levels- I recommend a Free tool called “Levelator” and was designed to level and give a volume boost to entire .wav file recording - Free Download: http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelatorLet’s Dive into our main topic this week “Finding Podcasting Listening and Creation Simplicity”- Based on article up live on the Spreaker Blog - http://blog.spreaker.com/2016/09/19/finding-podcastings-listening-simplicity/- We have discussed some of this on a past episode, but wanted to expand on it- Radio was built on Simplicity and having its listener captured in the car with nothing else to do, but listen to the radio- On-Demand and in control digital media like podcasting has given you the listener the keys to control your audio experience in the car and other places ie. smartphonesWith control comes time commitment and a responsibility to make content decisions that radio was doing for you.- The “Simplicity” question, what can be simplified with podcast listening today and what does that mean in a full control type of platform?- Think a move to more human compatible natural interfaces to digital media is the future - voice, vision and thought control. - We have touch control, but that takes physical action and effort. That is the stage we are in now. Computers have been just smart enough and complex enough to often times be more difficult.- Think Siri, Alexa/Echo, Cortana and Android’s voice control platform “Google Now”. This is the future of podcast usage, management. - Did not say in the article, that apps and web or a combo of those will be important as well for discovery and management. I believe apps and web will merge into one experience in the next 3-5 years.Spreaker Links:http://Adore.fmhttp://blog.spreaker.comhttp://SpreakerLiveShow.comhttps://Spreaker.comSend Questions and Comments to:Twitter: http://twitter.com/spreaker using #SpreakerLiveTwitter: http://twitter.com/robgreenleeTwitter: http://twitter.com/alexeum Tech Support: support at spreaker.com

In episode 027 of The Razor Sharp Show, Matt Romania interviews Host of The Solopreneur Hour Podcast, Mr. Michael O'Neal, about the art of the interview - crafting memorable introductions, building rapport, the technique for a good conversation, audio gear, and segues! The Soloprenuer Hour Podcast: www.solohour.comArt of the Interview course: www.solohour.com/aoiSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This Episode’s Focus on Strengths This episode will energize and encourage you to take a big leap toward living the life you truly want to live. Lisa speaks with David Ralph, a man who ditched the corporate life, took that leap, and is now living a life that he loves (and it meant he went from working a mandatory 8 hours every day to working for a few hours at tasks he loves). And, he tells us about how he used his strengths to make it all happen. This is a great episode, especially for those of you who have always been searching for that elusive Passion Pot of Gold. David points out that it’s not something that’s just going to appear; you need to go out there and do something to reach the life you want. David keeps in mind his Top 5 Talent Themes from the Clifton StrengthsFinder: Futuristic, Maximizer, Belief, Positivity, and Activator. You’ll hear how his Maximizer talent has impacted his life, and how he’s learned to use his Activator talent to get stuff done.   What You’ll Learn David tells us his story, and how he got to where he is today. Along the way, he gives these sage pieces of advice: Be where people give you kudos for the good things you do. When he was in the corporate world, David realized that no one told him when he did the good things, they only commented on the tasks that needed improvement, which most likely led to discouragement, and a negative view of his job. When he went out on his own, those same people started telling him how good he was at certain things. That’s empowering! When David was in the corporate world, his Maximizer talent told him that nothing was every good enough – he spent hours perfecting the little details that didn’t truly matter. Now, he believes that he can do a great job, and that the little details don’t matter to others, so he saves a lot of time by not sweating the small things. Prioritize! You don’t have to work hard every day to succeed and be happy. Somewhere along the way, it’s become the norm that in order to succeed, we have to put in a hard day’s work and that life isn’t easy. That is NOT true! As David moved up the corporate ladder and become more successful and earned more money, he realized he was less and less happier. Working “hard” was not a pleasure. Look around at what other people are doing. Watch to see what others around you are doing, especially those who’ve found a way to do what they truly love. It will give you ideas for other ways to earn a living, while at the same time enjoying your life. In David’s case, there was another podcaster who he heard, and thought it was something he would love to do. Have your own goals. If you are working every day in the corporate world, you are fulfilling the goals, and earning money of someone else. David encourages you to have your own goals, using the example of the band Duran Duran. You’ve got to hear their story and how they achieved their own goals, as David tells it. The status quo doesn’t have to be. Just because people expect you to go to work every day, dressed a certain way, being a high achiever, it doesn’t mean that you are required to be part of the status quo. Once David has this AH HA moment, he was ready to take that LEAP, and go for it. As he says, he “Broke Free”. Connect the dots. Go back in time, and look at yourself before life got serious (around ages 5-9). What things did you want to do? What did you truly enjoy doing every day? Then, go through your attic and look for things from that time period. In David’s case, he found cassette tapes that included interviews he had done with people around town when he was 9. He had completely forgotten about that. Next, look at the paths of your career. In his case, he had a training background, and then moved into doing presentations. All these dots connected him to what he is doing now – interviewing people and presenting topics to the world. What are your dots? Find a mentor (or at least a person who will encourage you). Having someone to encourage you to take a leap, can make all the difference. It feels great to know others believe you have what it takes to meet your own goals. Use your strengths to help you make the leap. For example, David has an Activator talent, which enables him to start projects. He uses this to go out each day, doing what he loves, and actually “living” his life. Can you believe he sometimes goes a whole week without checking his email? That’s because he can. Wait for the SUPER YESES. Once you are out on your own, if people approach you with deals that would bring in money, but not meet your own criteria for the new business you’ve started, then say no. David found that all the little no’s make room for the SUPER YESES, which are the ones that will really move you on. Live the 20/80 Rule. Knowing that 20% of the things you do bring 80% of the reward, PRIORITIZE your tasks to focus on the 20%, and limit the amount of time you spend on the other 80% (they can be time suckers). Remember, knowing your Strengths and understanding them can have a huge impact on your personal and professional lives. So go claim your talents and share them with the world.   Resources of the Episode To “get more David in your life” check out these links: http://www.joinupdots.com and http://www.podcastersmastery.com. You can also connect with David on Twitter. During the podcast, David mentions Michael O'Neal, who hosts the Solopreneur Hour Podcast. If you are interested, here's the link: https://solopreneurhour.com/podcasts     Subscribe To subscribe and review, here are your links for listening in iTunes and Stitcher Radio. You can also stream any episode right from the website. Subscribing is a great way to never miss an episode. Let the app notify you each week when the latest episode gets published.   StrengthsFinder Mini-Course For Managers If you’re a people-manager and you want to sharpen your strengths based support, come join our monthly mini-course. We don’t charge for this because we want to help you keep the StrengthsFinder momentum going. Teams who receive strengths feedback have 8.9% greater profitability. Yowza! Sounds like a great reason to join. Source:  Asplund, J., & Blacksmith, N. “Strengthening Your Company’s Performance.” Gallup Business Journal.   Go Live Your Talents Remember, using your strengths every day at work makes you a stronger performer. Go claim your talents and share them with the world!  

Todays guests is Mr Michael O'Neal, the podcasting master behind the hit Itunes show "The Solopreneur Hour Podcast". The top ranked business show, or The Solohour as it is known to its friends, teaching online marketing and entrepreneurship skills.  Michael is a man who quite simply without him, then I wouldn't be on the mic today. So you know where to send all your complaints too. He is a born entrepreneur with a fascinating story, of successes, setbacks, leaps of faith, and finding his unique path with the guidance of John Lee Dumas and Pat Flynn. Growing up in Philadelphia, the thought of being the host of his own podcast show was the last thing on his mind. He was a normal type of kid, obsessed with sport, finding trouble at school, and generally being a kid. But unfortunately that freedom of thought and energy changed when he was moved from his beloved Philly, and taken down to Florida, and it seems to me this was the start of him looking for his path in life. He didn't fit in down in the Sunshine State, so as soon as he could, he got himself back up North, and discovered one of the first dots in his life that links him to where he is today…the internet. He was fascinated by the worldwide web, so developed skills to be a web designer. And that was his life for fifteen years, until unfortunately his parents both passed away in a very short time, and he found himself sitting with just $14 dollars in his pocket. He was over 30, with a decision forced upon him. Would he accept the punches that life had dealt him, or would he start fighting back? And that descision was made and he took the steps that made him “Know too much” and not want to work for anyone else again? He was going to become a solopreneur and own his own future. But how did he know he had the skills to be a success in the online arena? How did he know where his true passions lie? And does he regret inspiring guys like me to jump into the pool too? Well lets find out as we bring onto the 100th show to start joining up dots, the man on the mike, the host of the “Solopreneur Hour podcast”, the one and only Mr Michael O'Neal!   For more on the Solohour Podcast go to: The Solopreneur Hour Podcast with Michael O'Neal - Job Security...for the Unemployable By Michael O'Neal Chats with Proudly Unemployable Solopreneurs Like Himself Description They say successful people put their pants on the same way we all do. This show is about watching them put their pants on. Nominated As "Best New Show of 2013" by Stitcher Radio, Our range of guests takes us from comedy, to acting, to the NFL, to UFC and MMA, to Top Music Stars, to Millionaires, to Business Experts, to Real Estate moguls, and everything in between. Guests like Nicole Arbour, Adam Carolla, Hines Ward, Sam Jones, Tucker Max, Jonathan Fields, Derek Halpern, Pat Flynn, Amy Porterfield, John Lee Dumas, Chris Ducker, Chris Brogan, Guy Kawasaki, Mike Johnston, Rich Franklin, and many more, these casual conversations contain tons of action-inducing content wrapped up in an entertaining candy shell. Transcript Yes hello. How are we all? Can you believe it. Episode 100. We have been building up to this for well, it seems like a hundred episodes and we are finally here. We have got a man who who quite simply rose to the top and was going to be the only person who would fit the mantle of being my 100th guest. And I've had people banging down the doors. I had Paul McCartney phone up the other day and say I want to be on the show, I've heard it's a big thing and I said to him, “Paul, unless you can get the other four Beatles to join you, it's not going to happen” We've had  David Bowie crying. It's been pathetic really. So today's man has been nailed on to do this today, and I'm absolutely delighted that he's on the show because quite simply without him I wouldn't be on the microphone. So you know where to send all your complaints to! He's a man with a fascinating story of successes, setbacks leaps and finding his unique voice. Growing up in Philadelphia he was a normal type of kid obsessed with football at school, and generally being a kid. But unfortunately that freedom of thought and energy changed when he was moved from his beloved Philly and taken down to Florida and it seemed to me this to stop him looking for his path in life. He didn't fit in down in the sunshine state so soon as he could he got himself back up north and discovered one of the first dots in his life that links him to where he is today the Internet. He was fascinated by a World Wide Web so develop skills to be a web designer and as he's known for 15 years until unfortunately his parents both passed away in a very short time and he found himself sitting with just fourteen dollars in his pocket. It was over thirty with a decision forced upon him. Would you accept the punches that life had dealt him or would he stop fighting back and that decision was made and he took steps that made him know too much and not want to work for anyone else again. He was going to become a solopreneur and own his own future. But how did he know he had the skills to be a success in the online arena and how did he know where his true passions lie? And does he regret inspiring guys want me to jump into the pool too. Well let's find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up thoughts the man on the microphone. The host of the Solohour podcast, the only Mr. Michael O'Neal. Well how are you Michael?   Michael O'Neal Oh here is what I can't even what is happening. I am so flabbergasted by that intro. OK. Two things. Number one that was the best intro I've ever had. And formerly Chris Cerrone had that that title of the best in show to a show I've ever had. But it was one of the best I've ever heard for anybody which is why you are so the right person for this job. Well we're all thankful you have a microphone in front of you David. Trust me on that. Second thing is I would pay to hear Zombie John Lennon if you could figure out a way to get all four Beatles on the show. That would be cool. David Ralph Well I can do Steve Jobs every day. So I might be able to do them as well. Michael O'Neal Ah so dude that was incredible. I am . I am flummoxed. David Ralph I'm so excited to be on David Ralph's show. David Ralph – Yeah. Go go and do that because I know you have been doing an action of me on a few shows and we'll show you a few times night. Yeah you got a little bumper for me on my show. I have these little things that when people ask you me I have a guest on the show that I have them do a little like Hi this is David Ralph and then I get interested in this opener with Mike O'Neill and your voice is so. What's the first thing I ever said to you. I said you have the ultimate voice for radio. Didn't I say that you did. Absolutely. David Ralph I haven't got the face for television but I've got a voice for Radio Michael O'Neal Well as long as you've got the radio part worked out and you have taken this thing and you've run with it my friend. So I'm honored. I'm honored to be at the 100 episode Mark. Thank you. Thank you. David Ralph Absolutely. It is an honor to have you here because it is amazing when you start this thing,because you started your show what was it August 2013. Michael O'Neal Eleven month ago. David Ralph Yeah,11 months ago and now you are rocking and rolling with the best of them you surround yourself with, with the Internet movers and shakers the ziggers and zagers and you know you're going to be humbled by this. So maybe you won't. You are an online celebrity of note. When I was saying to people is my show a lot of people sort of touch on the shows of said to me I know who you're going to have. And I said no you don't. And I go Yes I know who you're going to have and ego going and going to no one. And I when Martin O'Neill and I went oh term term how did I know. Really I know. Yes yeah I did it because I had pain you know I don't want to suck up to you Michael but the early days I didn't know what the hell I was doing. So I just kept on saying your name over and over again or some kind of benchmark of what I was trying to achieve because you like that you'd come out the gates really and say look like a rocket ship. It's unbelievable. But you've only been around so long because it seems like you've been here ever in a day. Does it seems like that to you? Michael O'Neal It is weird. It does feel like it was yesterday that I launched the show. It feels really really recent to me that it happened. So but then at the same time I look at the memories that I've had over the last 11 months and all the cool benchmarks and you know different things that have happened and, but it's packed full of stuff right. So I think if there's any celebrity it's sort of a z list celebrity and only at certain conferences. But yeah it's been it's been an incredible journey. I couldn't be happier with how it's gone. And I can't wait to see what happens in the next 365. You know I'm really excited about that. David Ralph Is there a plan to the next 365 because you seem to me somebody who is very much stimulated by the now and then. Are you somebody who knows what you're aiming to achieve? Michael O'Neal No I'm a notorious non planner. Much to the chagrin of my girlfriend who is a total planner and if I didn't have the you know a calendar app on my phone I would be I would be completely floating out there now because I I wake up and I look at I go OK what do I have to do today. And then I see what's going on for the day. And sometimes that doesn't work out for me like in a social situation because people actually make plans to go out and do things. But and I'm not one of them. And all of a sudden it's Friday I'm like I probably should have planned to do something. Yes I watch movies tonight. But yeah I I'm in an interesting spot right now because I have had this kind of five year run of as you mentioned in the intro bringing myself in this very circuitous path from $14 and not having a clear direction to now. When someone says What do you do. I say I'm a podcast host. And that's a thing like I. That's what I do. So I sort of a couple of weeks ago had an occasion to kind of put the cap on that five year journey and now I'm going to be looking ahead but I haven't quite formulated what that ahead looks like yet. David Ralph And how did you do that? How did you put a cap on that. How did you say that is five years, finished boxed up? Michael O'Neal Well it was as i say I'm I'm a notorious non-celibrator. I'm a guy that usually gets to an achievement and then continues to go without acknowledging it. And I have what is probably a weird story that you're asking for but hey here comes. So I've been a Porsche fan for my whole life. And you may already know where you're heading with this but I was a Porsche fan my whole life and I don't know why particularly. I was I had a Volkswagen in high school and I think that maybe planted to see a little bit and I was a car guy and so you know those Porsche ads from the 80s with like the big fender flares and the big wing. I think I was attracted to that and I eventually in 2003 I bought my first vintage Porsche so I bought a 1972 11 and it was a piece of crap. I bought it in New York. I didn't know better. I drove across country midway across the USA and midway across the country the engine blew up. So that's how badly. Where were you when this happened. I was in the dead heart middle of Nebraska when it happened in Nebraska I suppose. You it's nothing. It is hundreds and millions of acres of wide open like cornfields and nothing else. I mean we are I was I have a picture of my car sitting looking like it's a panther wading in the grass. Waiting to you know to prowl and it's just sitting there with with like a hundred miles in each direction of grass. There was no middle of nowhere when it happened and I ended up finding a Volkswagen place 60 miles away that towed me in. And the guy dropped the oil pan in the car and just giant chunks of metal came out and I'm like I'm pretty sure that's not how it's supposed to be. So I ended up getting a tow truck driving it from Denver where I was living at the time and picking it up. Neither here nor there. So I eventually traded that piece of crap on and got a nicer one. Not when I bought it but in 2005 and I restored this car it took me four years and 2000 hours to restore this car back to better than factory condition when I still have it now. And as part of the dynamic this one in 1969 9/11 and the 69 through 73 nine elevens are very very sought after. They are the iconic 9/11. So when you would see Steve McQueen and a picture of him in the 60s you know you know in LA MA or something driving a 9/11 he was driving one of these sort of 69 to 73 virgins. And one of the sponsors of Porsche in the 60s was a company called Hoyer which was tag Hoyer before Tagg was involved in the mid-80s. So just Hoyer and it's a guy named Jack Hoyer and he made these beautiful tiny pieces chronographs based on race timers. So you'd have a co-driver with you as a race car and there was a race in Mexico called the career of PanAmericana and the first Porsche Carrera was named after this particular race. So Hoyer as a sponsor of Porsche created a watch based on the chronographs that they used for the race cars and they called it the Hoyer Kura. So this was a very utilitarian type watch you could use it as a race time or you could just click one of the buttons and it had this chronograph on it. It was beautiful automatic beautiful timepiece. And as I've been going through this journey for five years this has been on my vision board because these are about three grand and above to get one of these watches. But that was so superfluous for me because I had no i like zero money. And for me to spend three grand on something as excessive as a watch wasn't even on my radar. So about a month and a half ago now I was in this position where I was like this could be the time. And I scoured the world. I ended up buying a 1972 Hoyer Carrera from a guy in France and it came to my house and it was more beautiful in person than I. I'd never seen one in person is more beautiful than I even thought it could be. And I remember at the mid midday I'd gone to this little swimming pool by my house I belong to this little pool club which is where I work out and I was swimming in the middle of the day two o'clock in the afternoon like Tony Soprano in the middle of a work day and thinking I just did this like this just happened. This 5 year journey comes stops right now like this is where my new journey begins. I've gone through this trial by fire. I've come out hopefully like a phoenix. I'm in a position where I can buy this watch now which is insane to think about and I'm peaceful and grateful for the life that I've built. And so that for me was the cap of a five year struggle. I mean a real struggle to get to where I am today. David Ralph Mr. O'Neill is a perfect story. It started and it made me think if I'm ever in a pub quiz and a question about Portia comes up you're my man that does it to Luli you are obsessed by that and you. The amount that you were quoting then. Michael O'Neal Ah. I mean I think. I think it's kind of a lifetime obsession for people that become afflicted by it. In fact there's a great ad I will send it to you on YouTube and there's an ad for the new Porsche about the time the new Porsche Carrera ad and it was there it's a little boy. And he's a little kid in his classroom and he's daydreaming and on 9/11 drives by him and you just see him like looking out the window and his pencil drops and you know then he he gets in trouble. And then he runs to the you know was on his BMX bike to the Porsche dealer after school and and he you know he ends up sitting in this car and the steering wheel is bigger than he is and you see Mike raised his head he's 12 or something and that he goes to the dealer or the guy goes you have a card and the guy goes yeah here you go and he goes I'll see in 20 years. And then there's this great voice over that says something like there's a there's a there's a particular moment that happens with you know a Porsche fan. There's that time you want one. Then there's the time you get one and for the truly affected afflicted there's the 20 years in between. And it just like it gives you the chills and my buddies sent it. I sense my body goes man. Pass the Kleenex. So I guess there is a real passion there for this. It's a very visceral feeling that is so different because of the way they build their cars and because the engines in the rear and it's a totally different experience than you have with with any other vehicle that yeah there becomes a real passion a real obsession with him. Did you read that because this shows about joining up dots, but do you remember as a young kid having the same kind of obsessive compulsive in both words and things when when you was a little kid running around the streets of Philly pretending you Rocky did most will keep you alive without paying him for the Michael O'Neal No no no. I was a BMX kid. Now I was I was in a suburb. I was the only gentile I was in a super Jewish town north of Philadelphia. And I was a BMX or I rode my BMX bike. I mean I was from 1984 until I mean I was racing bikes from 84 until 2000. David Ralph So Rocky wasn't on your radar at all? Michael O'Neal No not at all. Tony Hawk and Dave you know Dave Voelker and Matt Hoffman and you know BMX guys Bob horo. They were all on my radar. I'll tell you here's here's a little here's a join up dot that is current. I rode an entire daywith real wow I just blanked on his name. That's embarrassing really. I'm killing myself right now this is bad radio. David Ralph What  does he look like? Michael O'Neal He's a big famous director now and he will watch films John Malkovich. Being John Malkovich won a friggin Oscar. We're ready. Come on. With it and it might seem seamless Spike Jones for crying out loud. David Ralph Spike Jones Michael O'Neal Yeah Spike Jones the director was a dude I rode with at a place called Rockville BMX and we were just BMX or dudes riding around. And then he he became a photographer for one of the BMX magazines and then started doing filming because he did Beastie Boys first video I forget which one and then started doing independent films then did Being John Malkovich and now he is like an international you know massive director like one of the best most well-reputed directors in the world. And it was kind of cool. I mean so he did adaptation he did Being John Malkovich Where the Wild Things Are You know just just done amazing stuff. So the Academy Awards. And so a pretty pretty bad ass. He did her you know the movie Her most recent Yeah that's Spike Jones. David Ralph So is there any similarity between the young kid in Philly and now, because from what I see across the pond and I listen into the conversations that you have with your internet guys and it does seem from this side of the pond that you've got a gang of friends and followers and whatever that basically control the Internet. I had Rick Mulready on the show. And I said “Do you ever feel like slipping something into Pat Flynns drink, so that the next morning you turn on your screen and see if there's a black hole on the Internet because he's not functioning at this time because it kind of seems not” But he wouldn't be pushed in to slipping a Mickey into his drink in any shape or form. But you seem a little bit edgy to most of them. Michael O'Neal Yeah. David Ralph Is that because you're from Philly. Is it because he's a very sort of industrial Con. Its a real city you know. Its like a working class city when you're there. Michael O'Neal Yeah I think the the edginess is something that I'm kind of a known for. I don't know if you curse on your show but I'm kind of a no B.S. kind of guy and I've never been one to straddle the fence very very much. And I think what happened with Irwin what happens with a lot of these sort of Internet type celebrities is that they're so concerned about getting the broadest audience that they sometimes come off as being a little bit milktoast or a little bit vanilla. And I come from a totally different perspective where when you think about media you think about New York Philadelphia Boston. These are like the media centers of the world. It's where you know you go to Boston College that's one of the broadcasting school that's where Howard Stern went. That's where many very famous broadcasters come from those places I went to Temple University which has an incredible media department. And when you look at the people that are iconic in history they're not people that are vanilla. There are people that have strong opinions one way or the other and people either love them or they hate them but they're definitely them. So they definitely have a presence. They definitely have a voice that's unique to them. And I think I always think it took me a little while to settle into that on my show but it is ultimately as you as I developed the show and I developed my own voice I realized hey I'm not in the interest of pleasing everybody. Like that's not my job. My job is to talk from my perspective on certain issues and try to extract really good business advice from people without them or my audience really seeing what I'm doing. And one of my favorite quotes to that is and you probably heard me say before but which just never let him see your work. You know that's from Bill Cosby also from my alma mater Temple University in Philly and that basically means that go through your process ask your questions you know have questions written down but you don't have to be so blatant about it. You can you can ease through you know great standup comedians do this like Louis C.K. talks you know he'll be sputtering and angry and going through all this process on stage and you think that that's just how he is. You laugh at his angry energy but he knows all the beats within that he knows exactly what he's doing within that realm and that is that is him not letting you see him work on him. David Ralph When your on the mike then how much is you now being absolutely authentic and how much is it creating a mood creating an atmosphere on the show. Michael O'Neal Well it can't. Can't you have both? David Ralph Oh I don't know CAN you? Michael O'Neal What are you asking? Are you asking how much is sort of pre-written and how much is off the cuff? David Ralph Well on this show for example some of the things I say I only say to get a reaction from the guest. You know do I really mean it kind of. Do I think that they will go against it. Yes. So I will say it. How much do you actually say that you believe 100 percent. Michael O'Neal Well first of all you do that because you understand this and you're a pro. I mean this is a very natural place for you to end up. So I think that that I do very similar things to you, as you do just because yeah sometimes you want to extract some stuff from a guest that is being difficult. But yeah I mean I'm pretty authentic dude. I there's not a lot there's people that have met me in real life and go Oh you're exactly like you are on the show. Yeah Im exactly like I'm in the show. I turn it on and I talk so I don't have this, I'm not affected in any way. I just go. David Ralph So you're not like you haven't got a human graphic equalizer when you press record you just kind of increase certain parts of your personality. Michael O'Neal Not really. No. This is pretty much how I am. Yeah I'll speak like I speak. I'm probably slightly dirtier in real life. David Ralph Well you don't know where the words will land do you! Michael O'Neal I probably curse a little more which is fine. I've done a few podcasts now where I was allowed to do that and it did make it really nice. David Ralph Are you in the same situation as me because I used to listen to your show all the time and it was a staple diet during my transition at that time and now I'm doing this. One of the failures of me is that I don't get time to listen to other people's shows. I listen to your one  the other day because I just suddenly realized I had a gap but you almost become an island of your own success where before I used to listen to shows and I used to think oh I'll take a bit of it and I'll take a bit of it and become like a magpie. And now I don't know what vibe is out there and I don't know whether I'm being edgy or whatever. It just seems to be you. Speaking to the mic and I throw it out to the world and hopefully it goes well. It seems to be a fault of mine, and so do you have the same thing? Michael O'Neal No I'm exactly the same way. I'd say partially by choice and partially by by time. So when I when I do have time to consume podcasts I don't tend to go business. I tend to go comedy. And lately I tend to go NFL football. I listen to podcasts related to that because I want to be able to clock out a little bit when I do want real inspiration. I've been listening to here's the thing with Alec Baldwin it's WNYC. I've not heard a better intro or production or interview style than that show. It's his in his intros are nothing short of brilliant. I mean they're amazing how he brings a guest on an and then how he interviews and his questions are very in-depth and he's such a pro that it makes it really easy for me to like look at that bar and go OK that's where the soul open for hours going. That's what I do. I actually honestly David I find now the more that I get into this show the more I almost can't stand other people's shows like there so few that can capture my attention and that I feel like are being done well even with really good friends of mine that do shows I just go and that is almost unlistenable. You know it's so. So I just don't I definitely look far above the kind of Internet Marketing slash business world for inspiration on how I want to run mine. David Ralph because the only two that I listen to now is yours. And I went on started. I wanted to listen to every single one. And but the nerdiest and there the only two reasons. Yeah great and Nerdist is good for a number of reasons. David Ralph Yeah I just like the way it kind of flows and you don't even know it started and it just kind of teases right. Michael O'Neal That's right. Yeah they just start it. We kind of did that today didn't we. David Ralph Yeah absolutely and that was the good stuff. Michael O'Neal And we talked for a while before we started recording. You know me I mean it just felt like yeah hit it. Go for it. We'll start like Nerdist. But yeah no I think that there's a sense there's such a glutton of new shows out there and I don't. but if I'm being opinionated I don't. There's a lot of places where people are learning quote on quote how to podcast. And I think they're feeding them crap information.So often a big problem. David Ralph And I know he's a mate of yours and I wish him all the success in the world, but the problem is so many people are trying to duplicate John Lee Dumas and that's not right. He came first and he created the structure of his show, and whether you like that format or whatever that is he's and he's made in his own by being him. And I hear these shows and after about three minutes I think oh my god it's the same thing again. Now I will listen to your shows and I will go all the way through. But people miss a trick don't lay up coming back to my all the time is finding your authentic self playing to your streams. And and if you do that you create a bigger loyalty. You know if you are totally yourself people either hate you or like you but the ones that like you will love you. And that's where these people are missing out because they're not even being authentic to themselves they're just kind of a middle ground. Michael O'Neal Yeah. And John would tell you and I've said this a million times in front of him and said do you the success of your show or his show has nothing to do with his format. And it has nothing do with him as a podcast for that all. It has everything to do with the fact that he has a financial background writes great marketing copy and has a schedule and a rigidity too. He has a military rigidity because he was in the military to his to his business. And unless you come with that exact kind of background you will not have success in that way. People think that because of the way he does his show because it's structured and because he has these set questions and does it seven days a week that that's why he's successful and is completely irrelevant to that. So the problem is is like you said so many people listen to that or they go to podcasters paradise and they learn a certain way to do things. And I'm almost diametrically opposed to every single thing that they're learning. So it's like it's like man I it's it's frustrating for me in that way. And I shouldn't say that like I want to rephrase that I'm not time actually oppose everything they're learning what I'm what I'm worried about is that the things that I think make podcasting successful aren't emphasized in a lot of training courses. And like you just said finding your own voice is a number one you have to be successful. You have to find your own voice and you have to have a great brand and it's not something that people speak about a lot. Like I took a lot of cliff Ravenscroft stuff. I've taken all the stuff. I've seen a number of course is out there a lot of them don't pay a lot of attention to that piece and I worry that with this next phase of podcasting and what's you know since everyone's starting a show they're going to find it a lot harder to sustain it unless they've found their own voice on their voice. And and it's within this brand that they've really created. So we'll see. But that's the jury's out on that. David Ralph Did you really have to love doing this because I'm going to play a speech in my Jim Carrey and I'm actually I'm going to play now and we're going to talk afterwards. This is Jim Carrey. Jim Carrey Sound Clip My father could have been a great comedian but he didn't believe that that was possible for him. And so he made a conservative choice. Instead he got a safe job as an accountant. And when I was 12 years old. He was let go from that safe job. And our family had to do whatever we could to survive. I learned many great lessons from my father. Not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don't want. So you might as well take a chance on doing what you love. David Ralph Is that the true message that we should be getting across? Michael O'Neal Yes it is unfortunately the connecting of the dots joining of those two dots which is I found this thing that I love and now I have to figure out how to get paid for it is difficult. That's a difficult journey. And that's my that was my five year journey. Right. First not even knowing what it was that I loved. I had no idea I was going to podcast five years ago but I had an initial foray into public speaking. I started teaching social media on stage and I ended up traveling and going to 17 cities teaching people how to use social media to grow their business and I found it very like oh this is something I could be good at. And then that morphed into doing back end production on a podcast for a year and a half and just starting to understand the podcasting industry that finally morphed into me starting my own show and here we are. But it was a five year journey to find that you know like I had indicators of it and if someone in 2009 it said hey do you want to get. You want to make six figures and be a public speaker. I be like totally that be great. But at the time I had nothing to speak about. And now I do. So it's kind of a I I do feel like you have to find something that will and you've probably seen this in your life with your show something that will make you walk into that studio and record an episode even if you're exhausted or not in the mood or whatever because you truly love it and you're excited about it. Oh yesterday. That's how I am. Yeah I've had times when I've recorded 12 shows back to back and now I've. Why just because I knew I was going to do it seven days a week show and that was the hardest time I had. I had no internet for two weeks he just crashed on me and I suddenly panic but I didn't have enough to cover. And I was going away as well. So yes seven days a week he goes out and I needed the boke. And so I did it and I started off at six o'clock in the morning and I just went through through move through and I edited and I did everything in the gap between when I recorded the next one and he just went seamlessly. And when I pressed record yes I was on I was on. Once I was off it was just like I was you know on drugs or something I was just slump too much. But it wasn't until the very last ones that I realized actually about that passion that you're talking about the ability to actually do it when you're tired. I've gone past by and I was actually feeling ill. And I remember doing this show and the sweat was pouring off me and I listened back to and it doesn't sound like it but I realized brain actually no you've got to look up to yourself as much as you do actually doing something. Yeah I'm very committed to that. DAVID It's I have I have three sort of pillars if you will that I do I think make a good soul a partner or a successful soul a partner. And there's there's time freedom there's financial freedom and there's location freedom. And so the first one is really easy time freedom simple you walk into your boss's office tell him to go screw himself and then you have time freedom. There you go. Location freedom. You can pretty much just get in a car and go somewhere that we have that kind of freedom in the U.K. and in the United States. Yeah there's some complications in between. But technically you can just go do that. It's the financial freedom part. That's the tricky part of the three. That is a little harder. But I find that I'm so unwilling to compromise my time freedom. I've turned down so many more so much more money because it would compromise my time freedom like I could have a lot more coaching clients and a lot more people in my my group coaching. It's called Solo lab. But with that I would have to commit another couple of days to taking care of them and I'd I'm willing to do that at all. Like i will i love my life the way it is right now and I can be comfortable financially I can go do fun things. And I don't have to compromise that. And you know hopefully I can continue to grow and continue to you know make more money maybe have more speaking gigs things like that but I don't intend on working any harder. I just want to you know work smarter maybe try to over deliver a little more to my audience and that's what I'm looking for. Well was sensible and that's exactly what I want to do as well because I hate these people and it's almost like a badge of honor. But I've quit in nine to five job. And then you go yes I'm an online marketing do I do this I'm a diva and I cook my time and I'm doing 80 hours a week and I think right. Right. What the hell do you do that. Why don't you just do two days hard work and have the rest of the time of it. It seems stupid that I say that. That's right. And it's. It does. It is counter intuitive. The thing is when my parents passed away you mentioned this in the intro when they did that. My perspective on time completely shifted and I just I. Life's too short. So I am very much a person that says both. When someone says would you like this or this. I say both. When I get an opportunity to do something I say yes. Win you know and I just do it like it's a thing that I have committed to and not mentally like I don't just go yeah this is what I'm going to do from now on. I just do it now I just say yeah let's do that. That sounds fun. Let's just go for that. I'm going to go on a hike. Yeah. Great book a ticket. You know and we just do it. And I found that that has served me really well because when I do that and I put that as a priority in my life then the the stuff that I'm not so thrilled about I still end up having to do it. It still fills in the blanks but my priority is to really extract the most that I can out of my life and I'll tell you not a person that does that well I think as John John Lee Dumas he works probably a little more like the person you were just mentioning. He works a lot but he's also great at saying yes when when something comes across his desk he goes yeah lets do that. And it's like on the schedule. And I think that's that's part of I think what that's part of success. To me that's part of what success feels like is being able to do that. I remember hearing an interview with Billy Joel and the interviewer said to him Billy you've sold X squillion albums and singles and you've done these tours and you play Madison Square Garden five straight nights. What has success given you. And he just said time and that was it. He can wake up each morning and if he doesn't want to do something he doesn't. And that single word resonated with me hugely especially when I was in my 9 to 5 job and I realized then that things were not right. And why should I be doing a nine to five job when there are options I suppose. I began to know too much. And then once you know too much brain you realize you can't ever go back. Michael O'Neal Yeah. It's really really is a one way street. It also but that carries over as well into my personal life as well. And I think when the there's ever such a different confidence now just in my life in general and I think Billy Joel would sort sort of anybody that reached a level of success has this this this underlying confidence about them that is very attractive not only to you know the opposite sex but it's what attracts other successful people to you. There's just there's a subtlety in actions and just how really how you go through life when you're confident that is very attractive to you know both both people both sexes and that is something that people pick up on pretty easily. You become a success back humor don't you. You know the old Jim rhône thing about you know the average of you know five people to surrender a lot of people I talked to. Yeah. I mean a crappy job and all these miserable people all the time. How can I surround myself. And one of the things I say to them is you know focus on success because the more success you get and the more competence as you say they end up a successful people get sucked into your world and suddenly you created what he was saying. It's not easy to do. But it certainly is a mindset that starts moving in that direction. That's right. And you it's funny you just asked that question of me is how do you now you're on it you're on an island so you're you're in the UK you're not. I'm in San Diego so I get to have a bunch of people around me at all times. I will say though we don't get together. I mean you know we get together as friends but I'm not in a mastermind with any of these people around me. We don't sit there and me out. So you know to answer your question I'm mean answer answered on my show tomorrow. But you've got to join a group you've got to join a group mastermind of some sort. And there's really no other way. If you if you're not surrounded by those five people that that you feel are motivating you in a way that that is bettering your life and hopefully their lives. You've got to separate from those people and find the people that are doing that and pretty much everyone I know that's in this you know business Internet Marketing podcasting world has some sort of coaching program. And my best advice is to get people that you really enjoy like how they speak and like how they deliver and join their group and that's it. And you know once you're a part of that community you'll be a lot more apt to be motivated you know learn the things you want to learn. It's part of the reason why I don't need to listen to podcasts anymore because I have so many people in my group that are doing cool things. I get to learn about all the cool new stuff without having to go listen. They sort of comes to me. So so do you now feel that you're ahead of the curve. Because when when you started the show I remember you saying it's the Wild West and now it seems like every man Dogan whatever has made me a podcast. So do you think now about you it's not the Wild West but you actually ahead of the curve. It's good. Get a question. Yes and no I think it's still the wild west. I think that people in this environment aren't necessarily looking in the right direction to advance their business where they should be. Let me clarify that. I think inspiration for how someone's podcast get better gets better doesn't happen within the new podcasting community. It happens with old media. Then you go look at how you all learn how to interview you go study Howard Stern if you want to learn how to produce an an excellent show. You go you know you look at and some an NPR show or something like that like a where a BBC show something that you know pay close attention to how people are introducing guests and what they're how they do their ads and how they integrate you know clips from this person's body of work into their intro or into the show itself. So I think there is really a professional side to this that will ultimately come out. For me personally what I've realized over the last couple of months and this is something that I think you can you can sort of strap on as a badge of honor as well is that I'm a better interviewer than most. Just in general I'm more intuitive and I have more range of knowledge so I can connect those dots. You know I can join those dots. And that's what makes for a compelling and entertaining interview no matter who you are it's the people that have the pre-scripted questions that I think are really going to struggle because that's that's very exhausting to an audience. So on one side I think I'm still really ahead of the curve in that. I come from this and as do you come from this background this history of paying attention to interviewers and then sort of bringing this natural ability to the microphone that 99 percent of people don't have. And that's the building not only to interview someone in a business sense and extract what they do for a living but actually make an entertaining hour of programming for someone. And in my opinion they can get the business data from 80000 podcasts that are on iTunes but it's really hard to get entertainment out of it. And that's what I'm trying to bring to the table and I think that's what you do a really great job bringing to the table as well because because what I've realized you know was a complete nobody is basically the very first interview I did was no you weren't Yes. Stop it. Tom Mocha's was episode your line on the line. Me right now David. And he was a huge inspiration to me so I wanted him as guest number one. And he was talking to a gentleman called John Lee Dumas and so awful who's is CHEP never heard of him. And I went over to his show and the very first show I listened to was episode 3 2 2 which was yourself and kidding. That was I didn't know that. Yeah that was the very first episode. And the fascinating thing about it was which got me on the show and this is my sort of join up thought was the fact that everything you see in life is normally about benchmarking against success. You see people already Veja and you go I'd like to do that but it worked for him he's had this skill he's got that you know he's a natural that's for sure. On that show on 0 5 3 2 2 you hadn't even lunged and he was saying to you you know when are you going to go and you and I'm going to go on Wednesday or whatever it was. And I tuned in and I listened or whatever you do you click on it you don't tune into you. But I heard you speak for the very first time and I found it fascinating because I was seeing but not some bouts of somebody finding their way. And you was saying Yeah and I had 17 downloads and it wasn't that you were looking at success you were looking at somebody finding their flow finding them. Moving on. And that's right. But that's what really flavored my show was the fact that you were doing something that seemed natural and you were holding your hands up and you going really. I don't know if this is going to work but hey if it doesn't change we'll move on later on. And remember you did this show and it was it was some chap I don't remember who was with them on the on the beach somewhere and calls were whizzing past and your battery ran out half way through. Yes and yes you still put out and I thought that's interesting because what he's saying back is not that this show has got to be polished and perfect what he's saying is is a journey and I'm going to improve from that and that be the last time that my battery runs out halfway through. That's right and it was definitely the last time that happened. Yeah. Yeah it's a good way to good insight. I see. If I were doing it again yeah I would probably do the same thing again. I was I've been always sort of a fan of the let's just put it out at that at that time. I was leaning more on my hopeful interview skills than I was like ultimate show quality and since I'd already put out a couple of episodes it wasn't that bad but I really loved the guys story. So I was like yeah there was Harry. Harry Smith was the guy's name and. And. And I thought yeah let me let me throw that on. And why not. What happened. You know and somewhere. This is what's so cool about this right. You heard one single episode I did from Johnny Dumas which was like a random occurrence. And look how much it's affected both of us. Yeah. Just that one thing. So if one little episode you put out catches the right person it can literally be life changing. I will say something. I want your listeners to go to solo our solo our dotcom and I want you to go back to like three. I don't know let's say pre 70s so anything from episode like I don't know one until episode 70 and I want you to click on those posts and read how great David's comments are for the episodes. They are so insightful and brilliant. And you do such a great job summarizing. I think I even wrote you once and said Do you want to write my show summaries. Remember that you did and it was just that the crux of me doing this and I knew I was just going to stall so cool. So I am and you still you just did it the other day when you were that episode you listened to. You do such a great job summarizing. You're going to be such a smash successful podcast. David Yeah I have no doubt whatsoever you are going to I hope you will let us be on your show someday when you do these live broadcasts in front of you know a hundred thousand people at the Wembley Stadium. Did you know when you start this and I'm really going to open up here so I don't really have a Chevez. But when you start based you want it to be so good and you want it to be brought in and you kind of. There were job. You look back on them and you go OK yeah that wasn't quite where I wanted to be but it was all right. And then you hit sort milestones and you listened back to some of these shows I don't know if you listen to yours and I thought oh that was a bit closer to what I had in my head my original vision. And I got to show it E.T. and that's when I suddenly realize Michael that was the host of a show and it was my responsibility to be the host to even I think he was too grateful for people giving up their time to be on my show. I it was a complete mind set. Now I want this to be the biggest show out there. I absolutely do. And it's all I can focus in on and it's in many ways it's killing me or my life is totally out of whack. But all I want is about is the number one thing upset that on any show because it sounds a bit arrogant really I'm upset. Once we've stopped recording them when somebody asked me about it that is where I want to be and I want to be join up not as a brand. Exactly as you say. Right. Because it's one of those things that you kind of go join up towards. What does it mean. And I'm very aware of if you provide quality and content as quality brand in many ways take care of itself. It's like we always talk in the early episode the name that was always mentioned was Pat Flynn. And you know he's got that classic smart passive income and you forget that's a premium brand but actually he's only three words put together and he's because he's provided that great content and quality and value. But it becomes the kind of the trust word where what he's trying to achieve. That's right in he that he can live that now. But I actually want I want to focus on something you said just before that you will be bigger than him and so will I. And I know I don't mean that like he doesn't have the same aspirations as you do. Right. And I'm saying in terms of podcasts in terms of like Pat wants to speak I'm not speaking for him here but just knowing what I know about him. He he is sort of the crash test dummy of internet marketers. So he does all these really cool things on the web. I want my show to become about like I want to. I want to be interviewing complete legitimate A-listers you know and finding out about their kind of business and so normal journey. That's where I will see the show going. And because of that if when and if I get to that point. The show the podcast itself will be bigger than all of the internet marketing type podcasts. Does that make sense. Yeah it'll be way bigger than that. It'll be more like Nerdist. You know Chris Hardwick gets killer guests on his show and that's why his podcast is you know number one number two number three on iTunes overall. And so it's it's one of those things that that I it's what I aspire to do as well is to get working within this world like real A-list category of people because I think that they'll appreciate talking about their journey. And so that's where I want to head with that. Also I was very strategic and I changed direction. I realized that when I started I was just throwing out the net to anyone and anyone would jump on the show. I would have them round about sort of thing once again I thought to myself no I can't do this because when I was looking at other people's shows I was thinking Oh I've been on my show I've been on my show and it was just the sort of hybrid of people doing the rounds. So I went off in a different direction. So if you listen to episode 88 I had Cathy O'Dowd who was the first woman to hit the summit of Everest from both sides. I've got the first civilian astronaut coming on the show. I've got a chap over a few years ago was worldwide news because he sold his life on e-bay and he's just sold his life to Disney and all that kind of stuff. So I realized I had to change direction to become more unique to be more interested by the stories more. Yes. Extract out of them what I wanted to show to the world and that was my original vision but I couldn't say Eva until later on in the journey. Yeah and that's really what you've done. That's the whole point. That's why you will be successful because you've you've done this in a sort of a different way in your life when you look back to sort of the Philadelphia kid and you riding around on your BMX and all that kind of stuff. Well you just sort of wanting to be the classic sports kid was. If you look back and now we all going to send you back in time soon on the Sermon on the mike. No I was a show off though. I think I think I was you know a performer of some sort and the PA is I keep is that makes my colonial who he is to play better racquetball with an audience. Yes. Every single time. Yeah I think so. I think there's that's there that's in there. It's in the DNA for sure. I don't use that a lot but it's in the DNA. I work better in a performance environment which is presumably why I kind of screw myself on the show intentionally. I don't I I prepare in a way where I I've researched my guest as you have. You know you know and you certainly listen to the show but at times you know a little bit about me and you're able to then naturally structure questions that that dovetail into my history and that's what a good interviewer does. I don't write a lot of questions out sometimes intentionally and that's because I there's something about the performance side. I realize now that I'm I'm doing this the shows this this month I've got over 300000 downloads for the first time and this is a and I realize so there's people listening and I have to perform. You know what I like it. It makes me it UPS my game. I'm live on the show. And I think I do that to myself on purpose because because I work better in that environment a lot maybe underpressure a little. Well we're very similar. It's fascinating. I feel like I'm finding out the real Marcantonio here. Where is the person behind the that the presenter. Because I am somebody who has spent my life doing training courses and presentations and that's my job. I've never done this kind of thing. It was totally BA and I'm somebody very much likes to be on their own likes no one near them. And then when I suddenly go ping. That's it. It's performance time. And I don't know if it's showing off or trying to create a different persona for myself because that's kind of not naturally me. But I do have the ability to raise my game and present a different side to myself if you know me deep down you would say to me different people that the people who know me from seeing where I allow them to see me they would say yeah you it's like I'm on the mike as you are when you normally doing those things because I'm letting them see what they want to see. Yeah. Yeah I mean I think there's there's an element of that and again I want people to understand this is why we and we talked earlier about sort of what John brought to the table. And I'm you know people look at my show and say it's it's been it's it's been pretty successful in the first 11 months just overall debt is not that's not a fluke because I didn't just start in August of 2013 with kind of media. You know I've been a professional drummer my whole life. I've performed I've been on I've been a racer I've been you know a competitive racquetball player for for many many tournaments for many many years now and before that it was tennis. So I've always been performing in some way or the other. I I coached for five years on teaching people social media in front of huge audiences. I've played Red Rocks in front of 10000 people like me being on a microphone and being natural at it is not something that happened overnight. It's a it's this is something that you walked in with. You've been training for years before you turned a mike on yourself. So it's kind of like Yeah right yeah. You were new to podcasting but not nuda trying to translate a concept from one person to an audience like that's something you've been doing for a long time. So so that's I think that it's a bit of a misnomer within our industry that yeah anybody can you know podcast or anybody can start blah blah blah. That's kind of cool I get it. Yes technically you can turn on an app you can go to boss jock on your iPhone and upload it to clips and you've got a podcast but can you do it. Well can you do it so that when someone switches from morning radio or Howard Stern or the BBC to your podcast that they don't notice a huge drop off in quality or you know sound quality interview quality production quality that's that's what I try to bring the table and I think you do the same thing. So is that what you're saying really and I'm going to play the words of Steve Jobs because he says it very well as well but no experience is wasted. It doesn't matter what you've done in your life you will pull elements and you extract what you need to create your new path. Out 100 percent. Absolutely yes. Everything you've done up until this point is does training for you for this next phase. When I have people on their show and we have these episodes called Find your swing I want to find out everything that person has done because it find your swing is like well what do I do. Like what am I naturally gifted at how can I make money off of something that I really enjoy that I'm passionate about that's what finding your swing is. And it's I want to find out like what you did when you were a kid. Were you an athlete did you or you or you a professional knitter you like to knit hats. You know like what is it what do you do. And when people can start accessing those things that they've done their whole lives they're really gifted and I like to find ways that we can use those talents in whatever their next business endeavor is. We call about connecting our past to build our future and here. And one of the names as come out is if you really want to know your passion really want to know what you're naturally good at. Don't think about what you were doing in adult life because very much you would have been taking a responsibility for a wage or whatever. Look at what you was doing as a kid when you weren't being paid for it. And if you was a drama when you was a kid and you loved doing it then try and look at something that would do that. And he says that exactly the same way as you do it and you'll find your swing episodes. That's right. And I and I love those. Again that's another instance where we totally put ourselves on the spot. I have a co-host. Her name is Dawn Mars. For those episodes and we never read the questions first. Like I only you know sometimes I glance at them to see just a copy and paste them into my Evernote when we're doing the show. But we were reading them and answering them live and which again has another element of pressure that we've got to come up with an answer and these people are literally like I've had people that have taken what we've said on the show. They've made a business from it like the next day they've gone and done it. So it's it can be a little daunting. And I was going to ask you earlier you know your show's growing now and this this will be big your show will have a huge audience at some point and I've asked this with other people that are in the space. Have you yet felt this sense of responsibility that comes with that the fact that you're speaking into a microphone and someone's actually listening to what you're saying. Yeah. With power comes great responsibility. And it's funny the very first show I released I got two e-mails and they were from people I'd never met and they were saying thank you so much for putting the show out there and I thought oh my God. And from that moment of being very aware of what I'm saying or being very aware of I don't know where my words are landing. And of also having a conversation with my wife this afternoon saying if this really takes on. Just as I want it to really take on I'm a little bit scared but I haven't got the value to provide the audience but I won't and I don't know why that is because you know success is everything you want. But I suddenly felt a pressure because I can see the downloads increasing increasing increasing. I can see the work coming towards me and I'm doing this seven days old on my own. There's not one person that helps me and I'm also balancing other responsibilities as well. So this isn't my only so restrained I suddenly freaked this afternoon for the exact reason that you said oh my god this is power this is responsibility. I've got to be careful with it. Yeah. Have you also found it. I agree. I felt that in some I haven't had yet. Hey buddy come back to me I'm like you ruin my life but I'll show it. That's going to have to happen right. Someone will listen to something you've said or I've said and they're going to do it and it's not going to work for them and we won't have the details but they're going to say I listened to you when you were in my life. That's going to happen. There's no way it that doesn't happen. When you're when you grow this thing to where it can go there's no way that doesn't happen. Well think shows a slightly different note because you teach nuts and bolts. I think with my show I talk about hope and I told you why leap of both. Yeah I really think I teach nuts and bolts because that's that's I feel like there's a lot of shows that do that specifically. And I I feel like I teach more of the journey and then the nuts and bolts sort of fall from there. Well I think that's the same thing. I think what you do you you talk about the journey you get the cogs working in your own brain and brain when you throw out the nuts and bolts which you probably don't think have got value as such. You're already using those cokes and you're thinking yeah I can use that yeah I can tell you that that's exactly what happened with me. You know I couldn't see how to do this because I've never done this. But just by you having conversations with people you take the element and you take the element and you take that element and what do you do. He's been up to you as an individual to put it together. Yeah I actually find myself pretty. I can be very socially awkward at the beginning and I sometimes I've actually accessed my I've switched into interview mode when I'm meeting someone in real life. I just watch on Mike I like my mentally switch on a podcast microphone in front of me and I found it so much easier to have conversations with people that way. So that's kind of interesting to me is bizarre. I'm getting ready to play Steve Jobs now because I'm fascinated to see your spin on this. And this is the fulcrum of the whole show so this is a job. Don't be free to do that of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward. When I was in college but it was very very clear looking backwards. Ten years later again you can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something your gut destiny life karma whatever because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path. And that will make all the difference. When I'm going to ask a different question because I think you've answered it already but you will say yes you believe in it. But why do you think so many people don't believe in that. I think that's a lot. Most people get hung up on the how of something for example I think that we we pick a point be right we pick a point B that's there's the dot so I've got this I want to I want to do I want to have this show. And to get this show together I need this this this this this this this and we get stuck in the details of the this this this this this instead of. All right I'm going to sort of flow through this. All I want to do is get to that thing. I'm not sure how I'm going to get there yet but I'm going to I don't really know. And by the time you get there and you look back and go wow that is not the path that all that I was going to take. My favorite metaphor. Or maybe it's an analogy I forget but for this is if you and I were sitting at a cafe and I there was you know a three story building across the street and I said David there's a hundred thousand pounds sitting in a bag on the roof of that building across the street. You have 15 minutes to get it. How fast would you be out the door to go get that money. I'd be on the right run the window right but you wouldn't know how you were going to get it. You had no idea how to get to the roof of that building. You just knew you were getting to the roof. You don't know if you're going to you know helicopter down you know if you're going to call the fire department to take you up there or you know scale like Spiderman but you're getting to the roof of that building somehow. And I think what successful entrepreneurs do is they just keep their eye on that that you know that bag the bag that's on the roof. They're not quite as concerned about the how part. And we very much get concerned about the how part. And the second piece of that is when someone gives you an opportunity I just said this a little earlier when someone gives you an opportunity. Our instinctive reaction is to say no because of this this and this versus just instinctive to say yes and I'm going to figure out how to work out this this and this and that is a huge mental shift even though it's very subtle. It's just yes and no. But if you'll find that people in your world that are really successful or really look like they're just having a great time. They're the ones that say yes first and then figure out how it's going to work after and most of the people that are stuck and they don't get from that one dot to the next dot. Those are the ones that say no because you know I I can't live in San Diego because I have kids in school or because I can't afford the move or because whatever we can come up with 15 different ways. But in reality all that stuff can be worked out. So I think that's how I would respond to that and I hope that helps someone. So what scares you this is probably my final question before I send you on th

Michael O'Neal is an influential podcaster, with the popular Solopreneur Hour Podcast ("Job Security for the Unemployable") and the new Hines Ward Show. He shares two animal rescue stories about his dogs, Jake and Dexter. Michael's show, The Solopreneur Hour Podcast, already has over eight million listens! Michael co-hosts The Hines Ward Show, with Hines Ward, football great with the Pittsburgh Steelers. As a wide receiver, Hines helped lead the Steelers to two Super Bowls and was named the Super Bowl MVP in 2006. He won the television competition Dancing with the Stars in 2011, and has an inspiring personal story. https://solopreneurhour.com/ https://www.facebook.com/solohour   http://hineswardshow.com/ https://www.facebook.com/officialhinesward/?fref=ts   Video of Dexter http://youtu.be/H5V28yKCnF4   I think Michael meant to say, "palpate the lymph nodes," instead of palpitate, when speaking of Dexter.   Special Gifts Dedicated to Dexter!! If you want to see photos of Kirsten's, Todd's, Kelly's, and Danielle's special gifts to Michael O'Neal in memory of Dexter, we shared the original links to Pawprint's Facebook page. https://facebook.com/thisispawprint   Danielle K Lambert (the stuffed dog) http://www.snoutschool.com/welcome-gate https://www.facebook.com/snoutschool Danielle created the adorable Dexter stuffed animal at http://ShelterPups.com   Kirsten Waldschmidt (the folded book) https://www.etsy.com/shop/warmheARTedbooks?ref=l2-shop-info-name   Todd Walton (the drawing) http://Toddwaltonartist.com https://m.facebook.com/ToddWaltonArtist/?__mref=message   Kelly Whelan (the t-shirt) https://www.facebook.com/phodogruffy/ Kelly designed the t-shirt at BIG FROG of San Diego North.   Other resources Petfinder is a popular search tool for finding rescue animals https://www.petfinder.com/   John Lee Dumas is a popular podcaster with his show Entrepreneur on Fire http://www.eofire.com/   Cliff Ravenscraft, also known as The Podcast Answer Man, is a well-known podcaster and teaches a course called Podcasting A to Z. http://podcastanswerman.com/   Michael Stelzner is founder of Social Media Examiner http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/   All of Pawprint's music is composed by Luke Gartner-Brereton. Luke is a musician based in Australia, and he composes a wide variety of songs and musical loops http://vanillagroovestudios.com http://soundcloud.com/luke-gartnerbrereton If you want to learn more about Nancy and Harold, go to our About Us page at thisispawprint.com/about or listen to our introductory podcast episode, "Fifty Puppies and a Podcast." http://thisispawprint.com/000 Pawprint (or Paw Print) is a weekly podcast dedicated to animal rescue, adoption, and the heroes who make it happen. Volunteer, walk, adopt, or foster a dog, cat, rabbit, or other wonderful pet through your local shelter, humane society, SPCA, pound, and animal control. Help increase animal protection, welfare, and rights. http://thisispawprint.com http://animalrescuepodcast.com

Michael O’Neal, host of the The Solopreneur Hour Podcast, shares the different sources and outlets he used to generate money for his show. Michael dives into his implementation of Profit First in his business – and how he’s experienced an immediate, new realization about his profitability. He also asks some great questions on how to take his profitability to the next level. Welcome to Episode 83 of the Profit First Podcast!

Michael O'Neal was guest number seven on the "Cool Things Entrepreneurs Do" Podcast. He is continuing to do great things as a leader in the world of podcasting, and his show is has continued to be a top ranked business podcast. In this episode Michael shares his thoughts on being a solopreneur, and tells more of his own journey to success. He founded his podcast as a way to reach people and talk with people in a variety of industries. His show has not only become a core part of his business, but it has opened up countless doors and allowed him to build his network and brand. It is rarely easy to be a solopreneur. There are many upsides, but there is many tough parts as well. His efforts to reach success has taken a long time. You cannot just create courses to get rich on a new platform without having experience. Too many people jump on the band wagon of Periscope (or other new tools) and try to sell classes on how to get rich, without having ever gotten rich using that tool. Michael would not want to be launching a podcast in today's environment. It is so competitive, and it is hard to convert people to listen in a world with so many people hosting shows. It is very noisy out there. His show is about to hit the three year mark, and the Solopreneur Hour now has nearly 3 million download (and is growing). He wants people to know it is slow growth if you want to reach success, and you need to honor what has come before (for podcasts, it is old media: TV, radio, film, etc...). As the skill sets of podcasters gets better, the more people will listen to podcasts. This is a great conversation that will inspire you to embrace your own journey as an entrepreneur, solopreneur, or anyone with the entrepreneurial spirit.

Born in Toledo Ohio and a current resident of San Diego (via Philly, Boulder, Denver, and Brussels), Michael Oneal's grammar school report cards always read: "Doesn't live up to his potential" and "Talks too much." One of those pieces of feedback would come in handy, as he is now the founder and host of the award-winning and much acclaimed business and entertainment podcast, "The Solopreneur Hour with Michael O'Neal." The show, in 2 years, has already garnered more than 6 million downloads and monetized to over 500k, features lively and highly engaging conversations between Michael and his various (and often much sought-after) guests, who share remarkable stories, advice and practical tips for an audience that badges itself as "proudly unemployable" and highly motivated to finally take charge of their own lucrative business pursuits. Mission:  Michael O'Neal worked behind the scenes of a high-profile podcast focused on personal transformation called "The KickAss Life." After several years, it was a lunch with Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income which sparked the inspiration to step forward as the face of his own brand as he interviews entrepreneurs to talk about all of the non-business aspects of their life. Mindset: Two words... SAY YES. Michael shares his recent trip to the Super Bowl as a guest of former Super Bowl MVP, Hines Ward. This opportunity came last minute and required Michael to shift things around on his calendar, but he said yes and enjoyed a once in a lifetime experience. Marketing: When it comes to launching a successful podcast, Michael compares it to producing a TV pilot.  You have to test, produce, and entertain. If you're podcast is educational, remember someone of your favorite teachers and how they made learning fun. Momentum: The average podcast episode gets 160 listens in the first 6 weeks. Michael O'Neal knew he was on to something when he saw his downloads grow far above to upwards of 20,000 downloads per day. Even more, he knew that the Solopreneur Hour Podcast hit a unique cord because new lookalike podcasts were nowhere to be found. Masterminds: Michael runs a group coaching mastermind called the SoloLab. Listen as he shares how this idea found him when he wasn't even on his radar. Mastermind Challenge: I love how Michael joked about creating a podcast around the conversations you have after a couple of shots of tequila. Today, take a few minutes (with or without the booze) and think about how you can bring more of your PERSONALITY into your business and content.  Better to be yourself... everyone else is already taken :)  Learn more at MastermindYourLaunch.com

Todays guests is Mr Michael ONeal, the podcasting master behind the hit iTunes show "The Solopreneur Podcast". The top ranked business show, or The Solohour as it is known to its friends, teaching online marketing and entrepreneurship skills. Michael is a man who quite simply without him, then I wouldn't be on the mic today.So you know where to send all your complaints too.He is a born entrepreneur with a fascinating story, of successes, setbacks, leaps of faith, and finding his unique path with the guidance of John Lee Dumas and Pat Flynn.Growing up in Philadelphia, the thought of being the host of his own podcast show was the last thing on his mind. He was a normal type of kid, obsessed with sport, finding trouble at school, and generally being a kid.But unfortunately that freedom of thought and energy changed when he was moved from his beloved Philly, and taken down to Florida, and it seems to me this was the start of him looking for his path in life.He didn’t fit in down in the Sunshine State, so as soon as he could, he got himself back up North, and discovered one of the first dots in his life that links him to where he is today…the internet.He was fascinated by the worldwide web, so developed skills to be a web designer.And that was his life for fifteen years, until unfortunately his parents both passed away in a very short time, and he found himself sitting with just $14 dollars in his pocket.He was over 30, with a decision forced upon him. Would he accept the punches that life had dealt him, or would he start fighting back?And that descision was made and he took the steps that made him “Know too much” and not want to work for anyone else again?He was going to become a solopreneur and own his own future.But how did he know he had the skills to be a success in the online arena?How did he know where his true passions lie?And does he regret inspiring guys like me to jump into the pool too?Well lets find out as we bring onto the 100th show to start joining up dots, the man on the mike, the host of the “Solopreneur Hour podcast”, the one and only Mr Michael O’Neal! For more on the Solohour Podcast go to:The Solopreneur Hour Podcast with Michael O'Neal - Job Security...for the Unemployable By Michael O'Neal Chats with Proudly Unemployable Solopreneurs Like HimselfDescriptionThey say successful people put their pants on the same way we all do. This show is about watching them put their pants on. Nominated As "Best New Show of 2013" by Stitcher Radio, Our range of guests takes us from comedy, to acting, to the NFL, to UFC and MMA, to Top Music Stars, to Millionaires, to Business Experts, to Real Estate moguls, and everything in between. Guests like Nicole Arbour, Adam Carolla, Hines Ward, Sam Jones, Tucker Max, Jonathan Fields, Derek Halpern, Pat Flynn, Amy Porterfield, John Lee Dumas, Chris Ducker, Chris Brogan, Guy Kawasaki, Mike Johnston, Rich Franklin, and many more, these casual conversations contain tons of action-inducing content wrapped up in an entertaining candy shell.Click to view: show page on Awesound

Michael O'Neal is the founder and host of the award-winning and much acclaimed business and entertainment podcast, "The Solopreneur Hour with Michael O'Neal." The show, which in a scant 13 months, has already garnered more than 2 million downloads and monetized to over 200k, features lively and highly engaging conversations between Michael and his various (and often much sought-after) guests, who share remarkable stories, advice and practical tips for an audience that badges itself as "proudly unemployable" and highly motivated to finally take charge of their own lucrative business pursuits. With an extensive professional background and formal education in social media, branding, web and print design, network marketing, and internet marketing, Michael's own personal journey that led to the launch of this particular podcast started with the untimely and back-to-back loss of his parents, a transformational trip throughout Europe as part of his grieving process, and the creation and production of another high-profile podcast focused on personal transformation called "The KickAss Life." Professional drummer, car racer, competitive racquetball player, and former expert mountain bike racer with a penchant for stand up comedy, Michael likes to get out with his dog Dexter and live the life of time freedom, location freedom, and financial freedom. Michael O'Neal Vroom Veer Stories Michael tells the story about how he got his 1969 Porsche 911 and why he was driving it in Mexico with Police escorts. Jeff's mid-life non crisis including quitting his six-figure job and going to school full time for three years and trying (failing) to make an online business Story aboutMichael's first web client and how they had a hard time finding a good domain name in 1994(!) Few people want to live outside their comfort zone Jeff talks about Pam Slim's new book "Body of Work" and how not everyone will make it as an entrepreneur Michael agreed that most people are not cool with living outside their comfort zone as much as being an entrepreneur requires. Michael points out that many people could start a side-business and earn a couple extra thousand dollars per month without TOO MUCH effort...if done right. Making a few extra bucks on your own terms is completely doable...don't think you have to reach for 6 figures in three months We talk about how podcasts need to be entertaining first and foremost And they also need to deliver that on the promise that they are making to their specific audience Michael told a story about a break up with a girl...and being really bummed.  Good news, the new girlfriend was better Michael O'Neal Interview Links Solopreneur Hour Podcast  

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Mary Rogers and her guest Michael O'Neal, the Solopreneur Hour Podcast and Sololab, share how the 50+ crowd can cash in on the enviable wisdom and knowledge acquired over their careers and convert it into an online business, saying "goodbye" to the paycheck, "hello" to financial control, time freedom and fun.  Vist the website for the resources mentioned in this episode. This episode supported by lynda.com  New Skills. Improved skills. Now.  

Lost your keys again? Screaming at nice people? Is it menopause? Maybe. Mary Rogers talks with midlife expert Diann Wingert, LCSW about how menopause may be the culprit behind rage, tears, confusion and yes, lost keys. Thanks to Michael O'Neal of the Solopreneur Hour Podcast for introducing this episode of The Experience 50 Podcast. This episode of The Experience 50 Podcast is brought to you by Audible.com

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In today's Q&A, we are helping Tanya decide if she should use personalization in her email autoresponder or if it just feels fake. Special guest Michael O'Neal of solopreneurhour.com brings his perspective into the conversation and offers some great advice about how to write better emails for your audience. Do you have a question you want answered on our podcast? We would love to help you! Click here to ask your question! [Tweet "Write directly to your audience vs the generic route @solohour"] Resources Mentioned in this Episode Today's expert is Michael O'Neal from solopreneurhour.com Today's question is from Tanya Grant at craftymummy.com Aweber - Email Marketing Software Check out Michael on twitter @solohour Let's dive into this week's question! JOCELYN: Hey y'all! You're listening to an expert Q and A with S and J. Today's expert is Michael O'Neal of the Solopreneur Hour Podcast in solopreneurhour.com SHANE: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Join us each week as we teach you how to flip your lifestyle upside-down by selling stuff online. Are you ready for something different? All right, let's get started. SHANE: What's going on guys? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. This is another Q and A with S and J. We got a special one for you today. We have another expert Q and A. super excited to invite this guy on for the first time to our expert Q and A podcast. Today we have Michael O'Neal from the Solo Hour and Solopreneur podcast at solohour.com. Michael welcome to the show man, MICHAEL: What's up you guys? Good morning for me and afternoon for you. JOCELYN: Absolutely. SHANE: That's right. We got lunch cooking you got some breakfast cooking I think. MICHAEL: I smell it. I just had a protein shake so that counted as breakfast. SHANE: That's right. That's all you need brother. That's all you need. MICHAEL: That's right. JOCELYN: Alright. Well we have a great question for you today. This is from Tanya Grant of the craftymummy.com. I assume she is in the UK somewhere. Nope, just kidding, it's Australia. It says, “I am in sunny Queensland Australia and you guys keep me company when I am cooking dinner. That's when I listen to your podcast of course I am curious whether you use personalization in your emails and how important you think this is. I often see emails which inserts the reader's first name in the greeting and the subject and I have tried this in my own email newsletter but I am not sure how effective it is. It seems fake, doesn't everyone already know that is a form letter? What do you think?” SHANE: This is a good question. We have experimented a lot with this and I know you do a lot of marketing yourself so I am very interested on what you think about this Michael. Do you think it's good to add personalization? Or do you think that I something that most people kind of see through or does it even matter? MICHAEL: I think that it's funny. I don't know that everybody sees through it. When I do an email to my list and I say hey I'd love to hear—guest suggestions for instance. People are writing me back. Oh man thanks for writing me. SHANE: Right we get those too. MICHAEL: So you don't realize that it is sort of response from an auto responder if it will. Also I don't know if everybody feels like it is not personalized even though all the current modern software allows you to basically when you compose the email—this is just for your listeners—you can compose the email and there is just a little chunk of code that you can put in that will say, “Hey [blank]” and then that blank is first name. Depending on what you captured form them originally, typically it's name and email now but sometimes you can get more than that, first name, last name, you can get hey what's your dog's name and customize your email to that.

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Todays guests is Mr Michael ONeal, the podcasting master behind the hit Itunes show "The Solopreneur Podcast". The top ranked business show, or The Solohour as it is known to its friends, teaching online marketing and entrepreneurship skills.  Michael is a man who quite simply without him, then I wouldn't be on the mic today. So you know where to send all your complaints too. He is a born entrepreneur with a fascinating story, of successes, setbacks, leaps of faith, and finding his unique path with the guidance of John Lee Dumas and Pat Flynn. Growing up in Philadelphia, the thought of being the host of his own podcast show was the last thing on his mind. He was a normal type of kid, obsessed with sport, finding trouble at school, and generally being a kid. But unfortunately that freedom of thought and energy changed when he was moved from his beloved Philly, and taken down to Florida, and it seems to me this was the start of him looking for his path in life. He didn't fit in down in the Sunshine State, so as soon as he could, he got himself back up North, and discovered one of the first dots in his life that links him to where he is today…the internet. He was fascinated by the worldwide web, so developed skills to be a web designer. And that was his life for fifteen years, until unfortunately his parents both passed away in a very short time, and he found himself sitting with just $14 dollars in his pocket. He was over 30, with a decision forced upon him. Would he accept the punches that life had dealt him, or would he start fighting back? And that descision was made and he took the steps that made him “Know too much” and not want to work for anyone else again? He was going to become a solopreneur and own his own future. But how did he know he had the skills to be a success in the online arena? How did he know where his true passions lie? And does he regret inspiring guys like me to jump into the pool too? Well lets find out as we bring onto the 100th show to start joining up dots, the man on the mike, the host of the “Solopreneur Hour podcast”, the one and only Mr Michael O'Neal!   For more on the Solohour Podcast go to: The Solopreneur Hour Podcast with Michael O'Neal - Job Security...for the Unemployable By Michael O'Neal Chats with Proudly Unemployable Solopreneurs Like Himself Description They say successful people put their pants on the same way we all do. This show is about watching them put their pants on. Nominated As "Best New Show of 2013" by Stitcher Radio, Our range of guests takes us from comedy, to acting, to the NFL, to UFC and MMA, to Top Music Stars, to Millionaires, to Business Experts, to Real Estate moguls, and everything in between. Guests like Nicole Arbour, Adam Carolla, Hines Ward, Sam Jones, Tucker Max, Jonathan Fields, Derek Halpern, Pat Flynn, Amy Porterfield, John Lee Dumas, Chris Ducker, Chris Brogan, Guy Kawasaki, Mike Johnston, Rich Franklin, and many more, these casual conversations contain tons of action-inducing content wrapped up in an entertaining candy shell.   Yes hello. How are we all? Can you believe it. Episode 100. We have been building up to this for well, it seems like a hundred episodes and we are finally here. We have got a man who who quite simply rose to the top and was going to be the only person who would fit the mantle of being my 100th guest. And I've had people banging down the doors. I had Paul McCartney phone up the other day and say I want to be on the show, I've heard it's a big thing and I said to him, “Paul, unless you can get the other four Beatles to join you, it's not going to happen” We've had  David Bowie crying. It's been pathetic really. So today's man has been nailed on to do this today, and I'm absolutely delighted that he's on the show because quite simply without him I wouldn't be on the microphone. So you know where to send all your complaints to! He's a man with a fascinating story of successes, setbacks leaps and finding his unique voice. Growing up in Philadelphia he was a normal type of kid obsessed with football at school, and generally being a kid. But unfortunately that freedom of thought and energy changed when he was moved from his beloved Philly and taken down to Florida and it seemed to me this to stop him looking for his path in life. He didn't fit in down in the sunshine state so soon as he could he got himself back up north and discovered one of the first dots in his life that links him to where he is today the Internet. He was fascinated by a World Wide Web so develop skills to be a web designer and as he's known for 15 years until unfortunately his parents both passed away in a very short time and he found himself sitting with just fourteen dollars in his pocket. It was over thirty with a decision forced upon him. Would you accept the punches that life had dealt him or would he stop fighting back and that decision was made and he took steps that made him know too much and not want to work for anyone else again. He was going to become a solopreneur and own his own future. But how did he know he had the skills to be a success in the online arena and how did he know where his true passions lie? And does he regret inspiring guys want me to jump into the pool too. Well let's find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up thoughts the man on the microphone. The host of the Solohour podcast, the only Mr. Michael O'Neal. Well how are you Michael?   Michael O'Neal Oh here is what I can't even what is happening. I am so flabbergasted by that intro. OK. Two things. Number one that was the best intro I've ever had. And formerly Chris Cerrone had that that title of the best in show to a show I've ever had. But it was one of the best I've ever heard for anybody which is why you are so the right person for this job. Well we're all thankful you have a microphone in front of you David. Trust me on that. Second thing is I would pay to hear Zombie John Lennon if you could figure out a way to get all four Beatles on the show. That would be cool. David Ralph Well I can do Steve Jobs every day. So I might be able to do them as well. Michael O'Neal Ah so dude that was incredible. I am . I am flummoxed. David Ralph I'm so excited to be on David Ralph's show. David Ralph – Yeah. Go go and do that because I know you have been doing an action of me on a few shows and we'll show you a few times night. Yeah you got a little bumper for me on my show. I have these little things that when people ask you me I have a guest on the show that I have them do a little like Hi this is David Ralph and then I get interested in this opener with Mike O'Neill and your voice is so. What's the first thing I ever said to you. I said you have the ultimate voice for radio. Didn't I say that you did. Absolutely. David Ralph I haven't got the face for television but I've got a voice for Radio Michael O'Neal Well as long as you've got the radio part worked out and you have taken this thing and you've run with it my friend. So I'm honored. I'm honored to be at the 100 episode Mark. Thank you. Thank you. David Ralph Absolutely. It is an honor to have you here because it is amazing when you start this thing,because you started your show what was it August 2013. Michael O'Neal Eleven month ago. David Ralph Yeah,11 months ago and now you are rocking and rolling with the best of them you surround yourself with, with the Internet movers and shakers the ziggers and zagers and you know you're going to be humbled by this. So maybe you won't. You are an online celebrity of note. When I was saying to people is my show a lot of people sort of touch on the shows of said to me I know who you're going to have. And I said no you don't. And I go Yes I know who you're going to have and ego going and going to no one. And I when Martin O'Neill and I went oh term term how did I know. Really I know. Yes yeah I did it because I had pain you know I don't want to suck up to you Michael but the early days I didn't know what the hell I was doing. So I just kept on saying your name over and over again or some kind of benchmark of what I was trying to achieve because you like that you'd come out the gates really and say look like a rocket ship. It's unbelievable. But you've only been around so long because it seems like you've been here ever in a day. Does it seems like that to you? Michael O'Neal It is weird. It does feel like it was yesterday that I launched the show. It feels really really recent to me that it happened. So but then at the same time I look at the memories that I've had over the last 11 months and all the cool benchmarks and you know different things that have happened and, but it's packed full of stuff right. So I think if there's any celebrity it's sort of a z list celebrity and only at certain conferences. But yeah it's been it's been an incredible journey. I couldn't be happier with how it's gone. And I can't wait to see what happens in the next 365. You know I'm really excited about that. David Ralph Is there a plan to the next 365 because you seem to me somebody who is very much stimulated by the now and then. Are you somebody who knows what you're aiming to achieve? Michael O'Neal No I'm a notorious non planner. Much to the chagrin of my girlfriend who is a total planner and if I didn't have the you know a calendar app on my phone I would be I would be completely floating out there now because I I wake up and I look at I go OK what do I have to do today. And then I see what's going on for the day. And sometimes that doesn't work out for me like in a social situation because people actually make plans to go out and do things. But and I'm not one of them. And all of a sudden it's Friday I'm like I probably should have planned to do something. Yes I watch movies tonight. But yeah I I'm in an interesting spot right now because I have had this kind of five year run of as you mentioned in the intro bringing myself in this very circuitous path from $14 and not having a clear direction to now. When someone says What do you do. I say I'm a podcast host. And that's a thing like I. That's what I do. So I sort of a couple of weeks ago had an occasion to kind of put the cap on that five year journey and now I'm going to be looking ahead but I haven't quite formulated what that ahead looks like yet. David Ralph And how did you do that? How did you put a cap on that. How did you say that is five years, finished boxed up? Michael O'Neal Well it was as i say I'm I'm a notorious non-celibrator. I'm a guy that usually gets to an achievement and then continues to go without acknowledging it. And I have what is probably a weird story that you're asking for but hey here comes. So I've been a Porsche fan for my whole life. And you may already know where you're heading with this but I was a Porsche fan my whole life and I don't know why particularly. I was I had a Volkswagen in high school and I think that maybe planted to see a little bit and I was a car guy and so you know those Porsche ads from the 80s with like the big fender flares and the big wing. I think I was attracted to that and I eventually in 2003 I bought my first vintage Porsche so I bought a 1972 11 and it was a piece of crap. I bought it in New York. I didn't know better. I drove across country midway across the USA and midway across the country the engine blew up. So that's how badly. Where were you when this happened. I was in the dead heart middle of Nebraska when it happened in Nebraska I suppose. You it's nothing. It is hundreds and millions of acres of wide open like cornfields and nothing else. I mean we are I was I have a picture of my car sitting looking like it's a panther wading in the grass. Waiting to you know to prowl and it's just sitting there with with like a hundred miles in each direction of grass. There was no middle of nowhere when it happened and I ended up finding a Volkswagen place 60 miles away that towed me in. And the guy dropped the oil pan in the car and just giant chunks of metal came out and I'm like I'm pretty sure that's not how it's supposed to be. So I ended up getting a tow truck driving it from Denver where I was living at the time and picking it up. Neither here nor there. So I eventually traded that piece of crap on and got a nicer one. Not when I bought it but in 2005 and I restored this car it took me four years and 2000 hours to restore this car back to better than factory condition when I still have it now. And as part of the dynamic this one in 1969 9/11 and the 69 through 73 nine elevens are very very sought after. They are the iconic 9/11. So when you would see Steve McQueen and a picture of him in the 60s you know you know in LA MA or something driving a 9/11 he was driving one of these sort of 69 to 73 virgins. And one of the sponsors of Porsche in the 60s was a company called Hoyer which was tag Hoyer before Tagg was involved in the mid-80s. So just Hoyer and it's a guy named Jack Hoyer and he made these beautiful tiny pieces chronographs based on race timers. So you'd have a co-driver with you as a race car and there was a race in Mexico called the career of PanAmericana and the first Porsche Carrera was named after this particular race. So Hoyer as a sponsor of Porsche created a watch based on the chronographs that they used for the race cars and they called it the Hoyer Kura. So this was a very utilitarian type watch you could use it as a race time or you could just click one of the buttons and it had this chronograph on it. It was beautiful automatic beautiful timepiece. And as I've been going through this journey for five years this has been on my vision board because these are about three grand and above to get one of these watches. But that was so superfluous for me because I had no i like zero money. And for me to spend three grand on something as excessive as a watch wasn't even on my radar. So about a month and a half ago now I was in this position where I was like this could be the time. And I scoured the world. I ended up buying a 1972 Hoyer Carrera from a guy in France and it came to my house and it was more beautiful in person than I. I'd never seen one in person is more beautiful than I even thought it could be. And I remember at the mid midday I'd gone to this little swimming pool by my house I belong to this little pool club which is where I work out and I was swimming in the middle of the day two o'clock in the afternoon like Tony Soprano in the middle of a work day and thinking I just did this like this just happened. This 5 year journey comes stops right now like this is where my new journey begins. I've gone through this trial by fire. I've come out hopefully like a phoenix. I'm in a position where I can buy this watch now which is insane to think about and I'm peaceful and grateful for the life that I've built. And so that for me was the cap of a five year struggle. I mean a real struggle to get to where I am today. David Ralph Mr. O'Neill is a perfect story. It started and it made me think if I'm ever in a pub quiz and a question about Portia comes up you're my man that does it to Luli you are obsessed by that and you. The amount that you were quoting then. Michael O'Neal Ah. I mean I think. I think it's kind of a lifetime obsession for people that become afflicted by it. In fact there's a great ad I will send it to you on YouTube and there's an ad for the new Porsche about the time the new Porsche Carrera ad and it was there it's a little boy. And he's a little kid in his classroom and he's daydreaming and on 9/11 drives by him and you just see him like looking out the window and his pencil drops and you know then he he gets in trouble. And then he runs to the you know was on his BMX bike to the Porsche dealer after school and and he you know he ends up sitting in this car and the steering wheel is bigger than he is and you see Mike raised his head he's 12 or something and that he goes to the dealer or the guy goes you have a card and the guy goes yeah here you go and he goes I'll see in 20 years. And then there's this great voice over that says something like there's a there's a there's a particular moment that happens with you know a Porsche fan. There's that time you want one. Then there's the time you get one and for the truly affected afflicted there's the 20 years in between. And it just like it gives you the chills and my buddies sent it. I sense my body goes man. Pass the Kleenex. So I guess there is a real passion there for this. It's a very visceral feeling that is so different because of the way they build their cars and because the engines in the rear and it's a totally different experience than you have with with any other vehicle that yeah there becomes a real passion a real obsession with him. Did you read that because this shows about joining up dots, but do you remember as a young kid having the same kind of obsessive compulsive in both words and things when when you was a little kid running around the streets of Philly pretending you Rocky did most will keep you alive without paying him for the Michael O'Neal No no no. I was a BMX kid. Now I was I was in a suburb. I was the only gentile I was in a super Jewish town north of Philadelphia. And I was a BMX or I rode my BMX bike. I mean I was from 1984 until I mean I was racing bikes from 84 until 2000. David Ralph So Rocky wasn't on your radar at all? Michael O'Neal No not at all. Tony Hawk and Dave you know Dave Voelker and Matt Hoffman and you know BMX guys Bob horo. They were all on my radar. I'll tell you here's here's a little here's a join up dot that is current. I rode an entire daywith real wow I just blanked on his name. That's embarrassing really. I'm killing myself right now this is bad radio. David Ralph What  does he look like? Michael O'Neal He's a big famous director now and he will watch films John Malkovich. Being John Malkovich won a friggin Oscar. We're ready. Come on. With it and it might seem seamless Spike Jones for crying out loud. David Ralph Spike Jones Michael O'Neal Yeah Spike Jones the director was a dude I rode with at a place called Rockville BMX and we were just BMX or dudes riding around. And then he he became a photographer for one of the BMX magazines and then started doing filming because he did Beastie Boys first video I forget which one and then started doing independent films then did Being John Malkovich and now he is like an international you know massive director like one of the best most well-reputed directors in the world. And it was kind of cool. I mean so he did adaptation he did Being John Malkovich Where the Wild Things Are You know just just done amazing stuff. So the Academy Awards. And so a pretty pretty bad ass. He did her you know the movie Her most recent Yeah that's Spike Jones. David Ralph So is there any similarity between the young kid in Philly and now, because from what I see across the pond and I listen into the conversations that you have with your internet guys and it does seem from this side of the pond that you've got a gang of friends and followers and whatever that basically control the Internet. I had Rick Mulready on the show. And I said “Do you ever feel like slipping something into Pat Flynns drink, so that the next morning you turn on your screen and see if there's a black hole on the Internet because he's not functioning at this time because it kind of seems not” But he wouldn't be pushed in to slipping a Mickey into his drink in any shape or form. But you seem a little bit edgy to most of them. Michael O'Neal Yeah. David Ralph Is that because you're from Philly. Is it because he's a very sort of industrial Con. Its a real city you know. Its like a working class city when you're there. Michael O'Neal Yeah I think the the edginess is something that I'm kind of a known for. I don't know if you curse on your show but I'm kind of a no B.S. kind of guy and I've never been one to straddle the fence very very much. And I think what happened with Irwin what happens with a lot of these sort of Internet type celebrities is that they're so concerned about getting the broadest audience that they sometimes come off as being a little bit milktoast or a little bit vanilla. And I come from a totally different perspective where when you think about media you think about New York Philadelphia Boston. These are like the media centers of the world. It's where you know you go to Boston College that's one of the broadcasting school that's where Howard Stern went. That's where many very famous broadcasters come from those places I went to Temple University which has an incredible media department. And when you look at the people that are iconic in history they're not people that are vanilla. There are people that have strong opinions one way or the other and people either love them or they hate them but they're definitely them. So they definitely have a presence. They definitely have a voice that's unique to them. And I think I always think it took me a little while to settle into that on my show but it is ultimately as you as I developed the show and I developed my own voice I realized hey I'm not in the interest of pleasing everybody. Like that's not my job. My job is to talk from my perspective on certain issues and try to extract really good business advice from people without them or my audience really seeing what I'm doing. And one of my favorite quotes to that is and you probably heard me say before but which just never let him see your work. You know that's from Bill Cosby also from my alma mater Temple University in Philly and that basically means that go through your process ask your questions you know have questions written down but you don't have to be so blatant about it. You can you can ease through you know great standup comedians do this like Louis C.K. talks you know he'll be sputtering and angry and going through all this process on stage and you think that that's just how he is. You laugh at his angry energy but he knows all the beats within that he knows exactly what he's doing within that realm and that is that is him not letting you see him work on him. David Ralph When your on the mike then how much is you now being absolutely authentic and how much is it creating a mood creating an atmosphere on the show. Michael O'Neal Well it can't. Can't you have both? David Ralph Oh I don't know CAN you? Michael O'Neal What are you asking? Are you asking how much is sort of pre-written and how much is off the cuff? David Ralph Well on this show for example some of the things I say I only say to get a reaction from the guest. You know do I really mean it kind of. Do I think that they will go against it. Yes. So I will say it. How much do you actually say that you believe 100 percent. Michael O'Neal Well first of all you do that because you understand this and you're a pro. I mean this is a very natural place for you to end up. So I think that that I do very similar things to you, as you do just because yeah sometimes you want to extract some stuff from a guest that is being difficult. But yeah I mean I'm pretty authentic dude. I there's not a lot there's people that have met me in real life and go Oh you're exactly like you are on the show. Yeah Im exactly like I'm in the show. I turn it on and I talk so I don't have this, I'm not affected in any way. I just go. David Ralph So you're not like you haven't got a human graphic equalizer when you press record you just kind of increase certain parts of your personality. Michael O'Neal Not really. No. This is pretty much how I am. Yeah I'll speak like I speak. I'm probably slightly dirtier in real life. David Ralph Well you don't know where the words will land do you! Michael O'Neal I probably curse a little more which is fine. I've done a few podcasts now where I was allowed to do that and it did make it really nice. David Ralph Are you in the same situation as me because I used to listen to your show all the time and it was a staple diet during my transition at that time and now I'm doing this. One of the failures of me is that I don't get time to listen to other people's shows. I listen to your one  the other day because I just suddenly realized I had a gap but you almost become an island of your own success where before I used to listen to shows and I used to think oh I'll take a bit of it and I'll take a bit of it and become like a magpie. And now I don't know what vibe is out there and I don't know whether I'm being edgy or whatever. It just seems to be you. Speaking to the mic and I throw it out to the world and hopefully it goes well. It seems to be a fault of mine, and so do you have the same thing? Michael O'Neal No I'm exactly the same way. I'd say partially by choice and partially by by time. So when I when I do have time to consume podcasts I don't tend to go business. I tend to go comedy. And lately I tend to go NFL football. I listen to podcasts related to that because I want to be able to clock out a little bit when I do want real inspiration. I've been listening to here's the thing with Alec Baldwin it's WNYC. I've not heard a better intro or production or interview style than that show. It's his in his intros are nothing short of brilliant. I mean they're amazing how he brings a guest on an and then how he interviews and his questions are very in-depth and he's such a pro that it makes it really easy for me to like look at that bar and go OK that's where the soul open for hours going. That's what I do. I actually honestly David I find now the more that I get into this show the more I almost can't stand other people's shows like there so few that can capture my attention and that I feel like are being done well even with really good friends of mine that do shows I just go and that is almost unlistenable. You know it's so. So I just don't I definitely look far above the kind of Internet Marketing slash business world for inspiration on how I want to run mine. David Ralph because the only two that I listen to now is yours. And I went on started. I wanted to listen to every single one. And but the nerdiest and there the only two reasons. Yeah great and Nerdist is good for a number of reasons. David Ralph Yeah I just like the way it kind of flows and you don't even know it started and it just kind of teases right. Michael O'Neal That's right. Yeah they just start it. We kind of did that today didn't we. David Ralph Yeah absolutely and that was the good stuff. Michael O'Neal And we talked for a while before we started recording. You know me I mean it just felt like yeah hit it. Go for it. We'll start like Nerdist. But yeah no I think that there's a sense there's such a glutton of new shows out there and I don't. but if I'm being opinionated I don't. There's a lot of places where people are learning quote on quote how to podcast. And I think they're feeding them crap information.So often a big problem. David Ralph And I know he's a mate of yours and I wish him all the success in the world, but the problem is so many people are trying to duplicate John Lee Dumas and that's not right. He came first and he created the structure of his show, and whether you like that format or whatever that is he's and he's made in his own by being him. And I hear these shows and after about three minutes I think oh my god it's the same thing again. Now I will listen to your shows and I will go all the way through. But people miss a trick don't lay up coming back to my all the time is finding your authentic self playing to your streams. And and if you do that you create a bigger loyalty. You know if you are totally yourself people either hate you or like you but the ones that like you will love you. And that's where these people are missing out because they're not even being authentic to themselves they're just kind of a middle ground. Michael O'Neal Yeah. And John would tell you and I've said this a million times in front of him and said do you the success of your show or his show has nothing to do with his format. And it has nothing do with him as a podcast for that all. It has everything to do with the fact that he has a financial background writes great marketing copy and has a schedule and a rigidity too. He has a military rigidity because he was in the military to his to his business. And unless you come with that exact kind of background you will not have success in that way. People think that because of the way he does his show because it's structured and because he has these set questions and does it seven days a week that that's why he's successful and is completely irrelevant to that. So the problem is is like you said so many people listen to that or they go to podcasters paradise and they learn a certain way to do things. And I'm almost diametrically opposed to every single thing that they're learning. So it's like it's like man I it's it's frustrating for me in that way. And I shouldn't say that like I want to rephrase that I'm not time actually oppose everything they're learning what I'm what I'm worried about is that the things that I think make podcasting successful aren't emphasized in a lot of training courses. And like you just said finding your own voice is a number one you have to be successful. You have to find your own voice and you have to have a great brand and it's not something that people speak about a lot. Like I took a lot of cliff Ravenscroft stuff. I've taken all the stuff. I've seen a number of course is out there a lot of them don't pay a lot of attention to that piece and I worry that with this next phase of podcasting and what's you know since everyone's starting a show they're going to find it a lot harder to sustain it unless they've found their own voice on their voice. And and it's within this brand that they've really created. So we'll see. But that's the jury's out on that. David Ralph Did you really have to love doing this because I'm going to play a speech in my Jim Carrey and I'm actually I'm going to play now and we're going to talk afterwards. This is Jim Carrey. Jim Carrey Sound Clip My father could have been a great comedian but he didn't believe that that was possible for him. And so he made a conservative choice. Instead he got a safe job as an accountant. And when I was 12 years old. He was let go from that safe job. And our family had to do whatever we could to survive. I learned many great lessons from my father. Not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don't want. So you might as well take a chance on doing what you love. David Ralph Is that the true message that we should be getting across? Michael O'Neal Yes it is unfortunately the connecting of the dots joining of those two dots which is I found this thing that I love and now I have to figure out how to get paid for it is difficult. That's a difficult journey. And that's my that was my five year journey. Right. First not even knowing what it was that I loved. I had no idea I was going to podcast five years ago but I had an initial foray into public speaking. I started teaching social media on stage and I ended up traveling and going to 17 cities teaching people how to use social media to grow their business and I found it very like oh this is something I could be good at. And then that morphed into doing back end production on a podcast for a year and a half and just starting to understand the podcasting industry that finally morphed into me starting my own show and here we are. But it was a five year journey to find that you know like I had indicators of it and if someone in 2009 it said hey do you want to get. You want to make six figures and be a public speaker. I be like totally that be great. But at the time I had nothing to speak about. And now I do. So it's kind of a I I do feel like you have to find something that will and you've probably seen this in your life with your show something that will make you walk into that studio and record an episode even if you're exhausted or not in the mood or whatever because you truly love it and you're excited about it. Oh yesterday. That's how I am. Yeah I've had times when I've recorded 12 shows back to back and now I've. Why just because I knew I was going to do it seven days a week show and that was the hardest time I had. I had no internet for two weeks he just crashed on me and I suddenly panic but I didn't have enough to cover. And I was going away as well. So yes seven days a week he goes out and I needed the boke. And so I did it and I started off at six o'clock in the morning and I just went through through move through and I edited and I did everything in the gap between when I recorded the next one and he just went seamlessly. And when I pressed record yes I was on I was on. Once I was off it was just like I was you know on drugs or something I was just slump too much. But it wasn't until the very last ones that I realized actually about that passion that you're talking about the ability to actually do it when you're tired. I've gone past by and I was actually feeling ill. And I remember doing this show and the sweat was pouring off me and I listened back to and it doesn't sound like it but I realized brain actually no you've got to look up to yourself as much as you do actually doing something. Yeah I'm very committed to that. DAVID It's I have I have three sort of pillars if you will that I do I think make a good soul a partner or a successful soul a partner. And there's there's time freedom there's financial freedom and there's location freedom. And so the first one is really easy time freedom simple you walk into your boss's office tell him to go screw himself and then you have time freedom. There you go. Location freedom. You can pretty much just get in a car and go somewhere that we have that kind of freedom in the U.K. and in the United States. Yeah there's some complications in between. But technically you can just go do that. It's the financial freedom part. That's the tricky part of the three. That is a little harder. But I find that I'm so unwilling to compromise my time freedom. I've turned down so many more so much more money because it would compromise my time freedom like I could have a lot more coaching clients and a lot more people in my my group coaching. It's called Solo lab. But with that I would have to commit another couple of days to taking care of them and I'd I'm willing to do that at all. Like i will i love my life the way it is right now and I can be comfortable financially I can go do fun things. And I don't have to compromise that. And you know hopefully I can continue to grow and continue to you know make more money maybe have more speaking gigs things like that but I don't intend on working any harder. I just want to you know work smarter maybe try to over deliver a little more to my audience and that's what I'm looking for. Well was sensible and that's exactly what I want to do as well because I hate these people and it's almost like a badge of honor. But I've quit in nine to five job. And then you go yes I'm an online marketing do I do this I'm a diva and I cook my time and I'm doing 80 hours a week and I think right. Right. What the hell do you do that. Why don't you just do two days hard work and have the rest of the time of it. It seems stupid that I say that. That's right. And it's. It does. It is counter intuitive. The thing is when my parents passed away you mentioned this in the intro when they did that. My perspective on time completely shifted and I just I. Life's too short. So I am very much a person that says both. When someone says would you like this or this. I say both. When I get an opportunity to do something I say yes. Win you know and I just do it like it's a thing that I have committed to and not mentally like I don't just go yeah this is what I'm going to do from now on. I just do it now I just say yeah let's do that. That sounds fun. Let's just go for that. I'm going to go on a hike. Yeah. Great book a ticket. You know and we just do it. And I found that that has served me really well because when I do that and I put that as a priority in my life then the the stuff that I'm not so thrilled about I still end up having to do it. It still fills in the blanks but my priority is to really extract the most that I can out of my life and I'll tell you not a person that does that well I think as John John Lee Dumas he works probably a little more like the person you were just mentioning. He works a lot but he's also great at saying yes when when something comes across his desk he goes yeah lets do that. And it's like on the schedule. And I think that's that's part of I think what that's part of success. To me that's part of what success feels like is being able to do that. I remember hearing an interview with Billy Joel and the interviewer said to him Billy you've sold X squillion albums and singles and you've done these tours and you play Madison Square Garden five straight nights. What has success given you. And he just said time and that was it. He can wake up each morning and if he doesn't want to do something he doesn't. And that single word resonated with me hugely especially when I was in my 9 to 5 job and I realized then that things were not right. And why should I be doing a nine to five job when there are options I suppose. I began to know too much. And then once you know too much brain you realize you can't ever go back. Michael O'Neal Yeah. It's really really is a one way street. It also but that carries over as well into my personal life as well. And I think when the there's ever such a different confidence now just in my life in general and I think Billy Joel would sort sort of anybody that reached a level of success has this this this underlying confidence about them that is very attractive not only to you know the opposite sex but it's what attracts other successful people to you. There's just there's a subtlety in actions and just how really how you go through life when you're confident that is very attractive to you know both both people both sexes and that is something that people pick up on pretty easily. You become a success back humor don't you. You know the old Jim rhône thing about you know the average of you know five people to surrender a lot of people I talked to. Yeah. I mean a crappy job and all these miserable people all the time. How can I surround myself. And one of the things I say to them is you know focus on success because the more success you get and the more competence as you say they end up a successful people get sucked into your world and suddenly you created what he was saying. It's not easy to do. But it certainly is a mindset that starts moving in that direction. That's right. And you it's funny you just asked that question of me is how do you now you're on it you're on an island so you're you're in the UK you're not. I'm in San Diego so I get to have a bunch of people around me at all times. I will say though we don't get together. I mean you know we get together as friends but I'm not in a mastermind with any of these people around me. We don't sit there and me out. So you know to answer your question I'm mean answer answered on my show tomorrow. But you've got to join a group you've got to join a group mastermind of some sort. And there's really no other way. If you if you're not surrounded by those five people that that you feel are motivating you in a way that that is bettering your life and hopefully their lives. You've got to separate from those people and find the people that are doing that and pretty much everyone I know that's in this you know business Internet Marketing podcasting world has some sort of coaching program. And my best advice is to get people that you really enjoy like how they speak and like how they deliver and join their group and that's it. And you know once you're a part of that community you'll be a lot more apt to be motivated you know learn the things you want to learn. It's part of the reason why I don't need to listen to podcasts anymore because I have so many people in my group that are doing cool things. I get to learn about all the cool new stuff without having to go listen. They sort of comes to me. So so do you now feel that you're ahead of the curve. Because when when you started the show I remember you saying it's the Wild West and now it seems like every man Dogan whatever has made me a podcast. So do you think now about you it's not the Wild West but you actually ahead of the curve. It's good. Get a question. Yes and no I think it's still the wild west. I think that people in this environment aren't necessarily looking in the right direction to advance their business where they should be. Let me clarify that. I think inspiration for how someone's podcast get better gets better doesn't happen within the new podcasting community. It happens with old media. Then you go look at how you all learn how to interview you go study Howard Stern if you want to learn how to produce an an excellent show. You go you know you look at and some an NPR show or something like that like a where a BBC show something that you know pay close attention to how people are introducing guests and what they're how they do their ads and how they integrate you know clips from this person's body of work into their intro or into the show itself. So I think there is really a professional side to this that will ultimately come out. For me personally what I've realized over the last couple of months and this is something that I think you can you can sort of strap on as a badge of honor as well is that I'm a better interviewer than most. Just in general I'm more intuitive and I have more range of knowledge so I can connect those dots. You know I can join those dots. And that's what makes for a compelling and entertaining interview no matter who you are it's the people that have the pre-scripted questions that I think are really going to struggle because that's that's very exhausting to an audience. So on one side I think I'm still really ahead of the curve in that. I come from this and as do you come from this background this history of paying attention to interviewers and then sort of bringing this natural ability to the microphone that 99 percent of people don't have. And that's the building not only to interview someone in a business sense and extract what they do for a living but actually make an entertaining hour of programming for someone. And in my opinion they can get the business data from 80000 podcasts that are on iTunes but it's really hard to get entertainment out of it. And that's what I'm trying to bring to the table and I think that's what you do a really great job bringing to the table as well because because what I've realized you know was a complete nobody is basically the very first interview I did was no you weren't Yes. Stop it. Tom Mocha's was episode your line on the line. Me right now David. And he was a huge inspiration to me so I wanted him as guest number one. And he was talking to a gentleman called John Lee Dumas and so awful who's is CHEP never heard of him. And I went over to his show and the very first show I listened to was episode 3 2 2 which was yourself and kidding. That was I didn't know that. Yeah that was the very first episode. And the fascinating thing about it was which got me on the show and this is my sort of join up thought was the fact that everything you see in life is normally about benchmarking against success. You see people already Veja and you go I'd like to do that but it worked for him he's had this skill he's got that you know he's a natural that's for sure. On that show on 0 5 3 2 2 you hadn't even lunged and he was saying to you you know when are you going to go and you and I'm going to go on Wednesday or whatever it was. And I tuned in and I listened or whatever you do you click on it you don't tune into you. But I heard you speak for the very first time and I found it fascinating because I was seeing but not some bouts of somebody finding their way. And you was saying Yeah and I had 17 downloads and it wasn't that you were looking at success you were looking at somebody finding their flow finding them. Moving on. And that's right. But that's what really flavored my show was the fact that you were doing something that seemed natural and you were holding your hands up and you going really. I don't know if this is going to work but hey if it doesn't change we'll move on later on. And remember you did this show and it was it was some chap I don't remember who was with them on the on the beach somewhere and calls were whizzing past and your battery ran out half way through. Yes and yes you still put out and I thought that's interesting because what he's saying back is not that this show has got to be polished and perfect what he's saying is is a journey and I'm going to improve from that and that be the last time that my battery runs out halfway through. That's right and it was definitely the last time that happened. Yeah. Yeah it's a good way to good insight. I see. If I were doing it again yeah I would probably do the same thing again. I was I've been always sort of a fan of the let's just put it out at that at that time. I was leaning more on my hopeful interview skills than I was like ultimate show quality and since I'd already put out a couple of episodes it wasn't that bad but I really loved the guys story. So I was like yeah there was Harry. Harry Smith was the guy's name and. And. And I thought yeah let me let me throw that on. And why not. What happened. You know and somewhere. This is what's so cool about this right. You heard one single episode I did from Johnny Dumas which was like a random occurrence. And look how much it's affected both of us. Yeah. Just that one thing. So if one little episode you put out catches the right person it can literally be life changing. I will say something. I want your listeners to go to solo our solo our dotcom and I want you to go back to like three. I don't know let's say pre 70s so anything from episode like I don't know one until episode 70 and I want you to click on those posts and read how great David's comments are for the episodes. They are so insightful and brilliant. And you do such a great job summarizing. I think I even wrote you once and said Do you want to write my show summaries. Remember that you did and it was just that the crux of me doing this and I knew I was just going to stall so cool. So I am and you still you just did it the other day when you were that episode you listened to. You do such a great job summarizing. You're going to be such a smash successful podcast. David Yeah I have no doubt whatsoever you are going to I hope you will let us be on your show someday when you do these live broadcasts in front of you know a hundred thousand people at the Wembley Stadium. Did you know when you start this and I'm really going to open up here so I don't really have a Chevez. But when you start based you want it to be so good and you want it to be brought in and you kind of. There were job. You look back on them and you go OK yeah that wasn't quite where I wanted to be but it was all right. And then you hit sort milestones and you listened back to some of these shows I don't know if you listen to yours and I thought oh that was a bit closer to what I had in my head my original vision. And I got to show it E.T. and that's when I suddenly realize Michael that was the host of a show and it was my responsibility to be the host to even I think he was too grateful for people giving up their time to be on my show. I it was a complete mind set. Now I want this to be the biggest show out there. I absolutely do. And it's all I can focus in on and it's in many ways it's killing me or my life is totally out of whack. But all I want is about is the number one thing upset that on any show because it sounds a bit arrogant really I'm upset. Once we've stopped recording them when somebody asked me about it that is where I want to be and I want to be join up not as a brand. Exactly as you say. Right. Because it's one of those things that you kind of go join up towards. What does it mean. And I'm very aware of if you provide quality and content as quality brand in many ways take care of itself. It's like we always talk in the early episode the name that was always mentioned was Pat Flynn. And you know he's got that classic smart passive income and you forget that's a premium brand but actually he's only three words put together and he's because he's provided that great content and quality and value. But it becomes the kind of the trust word where what he's trying to achieve. That's right in he that he can live that now. But I actually want I want to focus on something you said just before that you will be bigger than him and so will I. And I know I don't mean that like he doesn't have the same aspirations as you do. Right. And I'm saying in terms of podcasts in terms of like Pat wants to speak I'm not speaking for him here but just knowing what I know about him. He he is sort of the crash test dummy of internet marketers. So he does all these really cool things on the web. I want my show to become about like I want to. I want to be interviewing complete legitimate A-listers you know and finding out about their kind of business and so normal journey. That's where I will see the show going. And because of that if when and if I get to that point. The show the podcast itself will be bigger than all of the internet marketing type podcasts. Does that make sense. Yeah it'll be way bigger than that. It'll be more like Nerdist. You know Chris Hardwick gets killer guests on his show and that's why his podcast is you know number one number two number three on iTunes overall. And so it's it's one of those things that that I it's what I aspire to do as well is to get working within this world like real A-list category of people because I think that they'll appreciate talking about their journey. And so that's where I want to head with that. Also I was very strategic and I changed direction. I realized that when I started I was just throwing out the net to anyone and anyone would jump on the show. I would have them round about sort of thing once again I thought to myself no I can't do this because when I was looking at other people's shows I was thinking Oh I've been on my show I've been on my show and it was just the sort of hybrid of people doing the rounds. So I went off in a different direction. So if you listen to episode 88 I had Cathy O'Dowd who was the first woman to hit the summit of Everest from both sides. I've got the first civilian astronaut coming on the show. I've got a chap over a few years ago was worldwide news because he sold his life on e-bay and he's just sold his life to Disney and all that kind of stuff. So I realized I had to change direction to become more unique to be more interested by the stories more. Yes. Extract out of them what I wanted to show to the world and that was my original vision but I couldn't say Eva until later on in the journey. Yeah and that's really what you've done. That's the whole point. That's why you will be successful because you've you've done this in a sort of a different way in your life when you look back to sort of the Philadelphia kid and you riding around on your BMX and all that kind of stuff. Well you just sort of wanting to be the classic sports kid was. If you look back and now we all going to send you back in time soon on the Sermon on the mike. No I was a show off though. I think I think I was you know a performer of some sort and the PA is I keep is that makes my colonial who he is to play better racquetball with an audience. Yes. Every single time. Yeah I think so. I think there's that's there that's in there. It's in the DNA for sure. I don't use that a lot but it's in the DNA. I work better in a performance environment which is presumably why I kind of screw myself on the show intentionally. I don't I I prepare in a way where I I've researched my guest as you have. You know you know and you certainly listen to the show but at times you know a little bit about me and you're able to then naturally structure questions that that dovetail into my history and that's what a good interviewer does. I don't write a lot of questions out sometimes intentionally and that's because I there's something about the performance side. I realize now that I'm I'm doing this the shows this this month I've got over 300000 downloads for the first time and this is a and I realize so there's people listening and I have to perform. You know what I like it. It makes me it UPS my game. I'm live on the show. And I think I do that to myself on purpose because because I work better in that environment a lot maybe underpressure a little. Well we're very similar. It's fascinating. I feel like I'm finding out the real Marcantonio here. Where is the person behind the that the presenter. Because I am somebody who has spent my life doing training courses and presentations and that's my job. I've never done this kind of thing. It was totally BA and I'm somebody very much likes to be on their own likes no one near them. And then when I suddenly go ping. That's it. It's performance time. And I don't know if it's showing off or trying to create a different persona for myself because that's kind of not naturally me. But I do have the ability to raise my game and present a different side to myself if you know me deep down you would say to me different people that the people who know me from seeing where I allow them to see me they would say yeah you it's like I'm on the mike as you are when you normally doing those things because I'm letting them see what they want to see. Yeah. Yeah I mean I think there's there's an element of that and again I want people to understand this is why we and we talked earlier about sort of what John brought to the table. And I'm you know people look at my show and say it's it's been it's it's been pretty successful in the first 11 months just overall debt is not that's not a fluke because I didn't just start in August of 2013 with kind of media. You know I've been a professional drummer my whole life. I've performed I've been on I've been a racer I've been you know a competitive racquetball player for for many many tournaments for many many years now and before that it was tennis. So I've always been performing in some way or the other. I I coached for five years on teaching people social media in front of huge audiences. I've played Red Rocks in front of 10000 people like me being on a microphone and being natural at it is not something that happened overnight. It's a it's this is something that you walked in with. You've been training for years before you turned a mike on yourself. So it's kind of like Yeah right yeah. You were new to podcasting but not nuda trying to translate a concept from one person to an audience like that's something you've been doing for a long time. So so that's I think that it's a bit of a misnomer within our industry that yeah anybody can you know podcast or anybody can start blah blah blah. That's kind of cool I get it. Yes technically you can turn on an app you can go to boss jock on your iPhone and upload it to clips and you've got a podcast but can you do it. Well can you do it so that when someone switches from morning radio or Howard Stern or the BBC to your podcast that they don't notice a huge drop off in quality or you know sound quality interview quality production quality that's that's what I try to bring the table and I think you do the same thing. So is that what you're saying really and I'm going to play the words of Steve Jobs because he says it very well as well but no experience is wasted. It doesn't matter what you've done in your life you will pull elements and you extract what you need to create your new path. Out 100 percent. Absolutely yes. Everything you've done up until this point is does training for you for this next phase. When I have people on their show and we have these episodes called Find your swing I want to find out everything that person has done because it find your swing is like well what do I do. Like what am I naturally gifted at how can I make money off of something that I really enjoy that I'm passionate about that's what finding your swing is. And it's I want to find out like what you did when you were a kid. Were you an athlete did you or you or you a professional knitter you like to knit hats. You know like what is it what do you do. And when people can start accessing those things that they've done their whole lives they're really gifted and I like to find ways that we can use those talents in whatever their next business endeavor is. We call about connecting our past to build our future and here. And one of the names as come out is if you really want to know your passion really want to know what you're naturally good at. Don't think about what you were doing in adult life because very much you would have been taking a responsibility for a wage or whatever. Look at what you was doing as a kid when you weren't being paid for it. And if you was a drama when you was a kid and you loved doing it then try and look at something that would do that. And he says that exactly the same way as you do it and you'll find your swing episodes. That's right. And I and I love those. Again that's another instance where we totally put ourselves on the spot. I have a co-host. Her name is Dawn Mars. For those episodes and we never read the questions first. Like I only you know sometimes I glance at them to see just a copy and paste them into my Evernote when we're doing the show. But we were reading them and answering them live and which again has another element of pressure that we've got to come up with an answer and these people are literally like I've had people that have taken what we've said on the show. They've made a business from it like the next day they've gone and done it. So it's it can be a little daunting. And I was going to ask you earlier you know your show's growing now and this this will be big your show will have a huge audience at some point and I've asked this with other people that are in the space. Have you yet felt this sense of responsibility that comes with that the fact that you're speaking into a microphone and someone's actually listening to what you're saying. Yeah. With power comes great responsibility. And it's funny the very first show I released I got two e-mails and they were from people I'd never met and they were saying thank you so much for putting the show out there and I thought oh my God. And from that moment of being very aware of what I'm saying or being very aware of I don't know where my words are landing. And of also having a conversation with my wife this afternoon saying if this really takes on. Just as I want it to really take on I'm a little bit scared but I haven't got the value to provide the audience but I won't and I don't know why that is because you know success is everything you want. But I suddenly felt a pressure because I can see the downloads increasing increasing increasing. I can see the work coming towards me and I'm doing this seven days old on my own. There's not one person that helps me and I'm also balancing other responsibilities as well. So this isn't my only so restrained I suddenly freaked this afternoon for the exact reason that you said oh my god this is power this is responsibility. I've got to be careful with it. Yeah. Have you also found it. I agree. I felt that in some I haven't had yet. Hey buddy come back to me I'm like you ruin my life but I'll show it. That's going to have to happen right. Someone will listen to something you've said or I've said and they're going to do it and it's not going to work for them and we won't have the details but they're going to say I listened to you when you were in my life. That's going to happen. There's no way it that doesn't happen. When you're when you grow this thing to where it can go there's no way that doesn't happen. Well think shows a slightly different note because you teach nuts and bolts. I think with my show I talk about hope and I told you why leap of both. Yeah I really think I teach nuts and bolts because that's that's I feel like there's a lot of shows that do that specifically. And I I feel like I teach more of the journey and then the nuts and bolts sort of fall from there. Well I think that's the same thing. I think what you do you you talk about the journey you get the cogs working in your own brain and brain when you throw out the nuts and bolts which you probably don't think have got value as such. You're already using those cokes and you're thinking yeah I can use that yeah I can tell you that that's exactly what happened with me. You know I couldn't see how to do this because I've never done this. But just by you having conversations with people you take the element and you take the element and you take that element and what do you do. He's been up to you as an individual to put it together. Yeah I actually find myself pretty. I can be very socially awkward at the beginning and I sometimes I've actually accessed my I've switched into interview mode when I'm meeting someone in real life. I just watch on Mike I like my mentally switch on a podcast microphone in front of me and I found it so much easier to have conversations with people that way. So that's kind of interesting to me is bizarre. I'm getting ready to play Steve Jobs now because I'm fascinated to see your spin on this. And this is the fulcrum of the whole show so this is a job. Don't be free to do that of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward. When I was in college but it was very very clear looking backwards. Ten years later again you can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something your gut destiny life karma whatever because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path. And that will make all the difference. When I'm going to ask a different question because I think you've answered it already but you will say yes you believe in it. But why do you think so many people don't believe in that. I think that's a lot. Most people get hung up on the how of something for example I think that we we pick a point be right we pick a point B that's there's the dot so I've got this I want to I want to do I want to have this show. And to get this show together I need this this this this this this this and we get stuck in the details of the this this this this this instead of. All right I'm going to sort of flow through this. All I want to do is get to that thing. I'm not sure how I'm going to get there yet but I'm going to I don't really know. And by the time you get there and you look back and go wow that is not the path that all that I was going to take. My favorite metaphor. Or maybe it's an analogy I forget but for this is if you and I were sitting at a cafe and I there was you know a three story building across the street and I said David there's a hundred thousand pounds sitting in a bag on the roof of that building across the street. You have 15 minutes to get it. How fast would you be out the door to go get that money. I'd be on the right run the window right but you wouldn't know how you were going to get it. You had no idea how to get to the roof of that building. You just knew you were getting to the roof. You don't know if you're going to you know helicopter down you know if you're going to call the fire department to take you up there or you know scale like Spiderman but you're getting to the roof of that building somehow. And I think what successful entrepreneurs do is they just keep their eye on that that you know that bag the bag that's on the roof. They're not quite as concerned about the how part. And we very much get concerned about the how part. And the second piece of that is when someone gives you an opportunity I just said this a little earlier when someone gives you an opportunity. Our instinctive reaction is to say no because of this this and this versus just instinctive to say yes and I'm going to figure out how to work out this this and this and that is a huge mental shift even though it's very subtle. It's just yes and no. But if you'll find that people in your world that are really successful or really look like they're just having a great time. They're the ones that say yes first and then figure out how it's going to work after and most of the people that are stuck and they don't get from that one dot to the next dot. Those are the ones that say no because you know I I can't live in San Diego because I have kids in school or because I can't afford the move or because whatever we can come up with 15 different ways. But in reality all that stuff can be worked out. So I think that's how I would respond to that and I hope that helps someone. So what scares you this is probably my final question before I send you on the mike and you

Michael is the creator of the Solopreneur Hour Podcast and the commander in chief of the mastermind group SoloLab. Firstly, I have to say, if it wasn't for Michael O'Neal, this podcast wouldn't exist and I wouldn't have this podcast. If you like this episode, please share it on Twitter by clicking this link. The Solopreneur hour, just reached its 1 millionth download ... Read More The post 22. Michael O'Neal and his food stories from the ‘proudly unemployable' vault appeared first on Must Amplify.

Michael is the creator of the Solopreneur Hour Podcast and the commander in chief of the mastermind group SoloLab. Firstly, I have to say, if it wasn’t for Michael O’Neal, this podcast wouldn’t exist and I wouldn’t have this podcast. If you like this episode, please share it on Twitter by clicking this link. The Solopreneur hour, just reached its 1 millionth download ... Read More The post 22. Michael O’Neal and his food stories from the ‘proudly unemployable’ vault appeared first on Bond Appetit Personal Chef Services.

Subscribe on iTunes and Stitcher and don't miss an episode ! Michael O'Neal is the host of the Solopreneur Hour Podcast, one of the best and the most popular business podcasts in the land.  He started his podcast in August 2013 and since then has done over 115 episodes, with over 679K downloads and has made over six figures in just 7 months. He  is not only a super successful podcaster he is also a social media ninja, drummer, networking marketing expert, web designer, avid racer , comedy enthusiast, huge Steelers fan and all around great guy. What you'll learn Michael's American dream and how he is living it What is a solopreneur The 5 ways to build an audience for solopreneurs Why only quality podcasts will survive The 8 steps to becoming a successful solopreneur Find someone that is living the life that you want to live Successful people get coaching and go to conventions in every industry Why you need a coach to achieve massive success Resources and Links Solopreneur Hour Podcast @solohour Solopreneurhour on Facebook The sexy 6 books Michael recommends to begin your solopreneur journey: Thank you so much for listening ! If you enjoyed the episode, please consider subscribing in iTunes  and Stitcher and leaving a rating and a review.  This helps us to continue to be featured in the New & Noteworthy rankings so that more Latinos and Latinas can find us. Considering Launching a Podcast? Podcasters Paradise: This is my favorite resource for those of you considering launching your own podcast.  It was created by one of the most successful podcasters today-John Lee Dumas- who’s  Entrepreneur on Fire podcast was voted best in iTunes in 2013.  This is the only resource you will ever need to Create, Grow and Monetize your podcast. Over 900 members are consuming the 120+ video tutorials, engaging with other Podcasters in the private Facebook group, & loving the monthly webinars with todays top Podcasters! Sign up for free LIVE weekly webinars here.

Focus Of Your Podcast – PTC Episode 037 A few notes before the episode this week. I am speaking at the Podcast Movement in Dallas August 16th and 17th, 2014. It is a national podcast conference that has an amazing roster of presenters and speakers. It is less than $135 (including fees) for the standard ticket before June 1, 2014. I would love to have you join me there using my affiliate link. Get your ticket by clicking the logo in the bottom right corner online at PodcastTalentCoach.com. Dave Jackson recently invited me to join him on the Podcast Review Show. You can find the show and listen at PodcastReviewShow.com. Each week we invite a podcaster on the show for a critique of their entire business from content to website to revenue opportunities.   If you would like to be featured on the show, click the “Get Reviewed” link at PodcastReviewShow.com.   I was listening to the Solopreneur Hour Podcast with Michael O'Neal this week. His show is one of my regular, weekly listens. The podcast frequently features an interview with a successful person in business. Michael does a nice job relating his content to my business. Many podcasters get lost in the interview and fail to make the important connection to the listener. When you define the focus of your show, you create a filter for your content. This filter helps determine which content makes the show. It also helps frame your content with respect to your listener. (Get the "Show Focus Worksheet" HERE.) To succeed, you need to set yourself apart from the crowd. You cannot simply be better. You must be amazingly different. Make the connection of your content to the needs of your listeners. Help your audience solve their problems and eliminate their frustrations. Even if you are a seasoned podcaster, it may be time for a tune up. Does your show have a strong focus? Is your content truly helping your listener? Have you defined what is in it for them? Begin with your passions. When you are creating your podcast, find subject matter that stirs a fire inside you. If you can talk about it for hours, you are probably on target. If you can come up with fifty different topics on your area of interest, you could have a winning subject. What topics and subjects typically occupy most of your conversations? This is probably where you will find the focus of your podcast. You will be talking about the same subject matter show after show. You better love it. To be interesting, you first need to be interested. Once you have your topic, define your unique qualities. Remember, you don't simply want to be better. You want to be amazingly different from the others. My show is focused on content. Where most shows about podcasting center on the technical aspect, I use my 25 years of broadcasting experience to create content you cannot find elsewhere. That is my unique position. This is where we narrow your topic. Really focus on the niche. You cannot be everything to everybody. Being broad creates a bland podcast that lacks focus. Be specific. The size of your niche is not nearly as important as the passion of the niche. Help people that are passionate about your topic. This is where you will succeed. Where can you help? Determine what frustrates your listeners. Figure out what your audience needs to do to double their business or happiness or success. Then, help them accomplish those things. Create solutions with your show. Finally, use this filter for all of your content. Define the focus of your show. As you prepare for each episode, run your topics and content through this filter to ensure the focus is on your listener. If you are interviewing people on your show, run it through your filter. What is in it for your listeners? How can they put that information to use? Even if you are a comedy podcast for entertainment only, your listener is still getting a benefit from your show. They are coming to you for companionship. They want to forget about their problems for a bit. Your content filter should ensure you are helping them accomplish that goal.   Here is your “to do” list for this week. Step back for an overview of your show. Define the goal for your podcast. Determine where and how you are helping your listeners. Ensure your niche is focused enough. Put all of your content through your listener filter.     Next week, we will discuss tips for the two-person podcast. We will examine five areas you should define and develop if you have a show with multiple hosts.     I'd love to help you with your podcast. E-mail any questions or comments you might have to Coach@PodcastTalentCoach.com. You can also find tools to help you create great content at www.PodcastTalentCoach.com.   Let's turn your information into engaging entertainment.

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Founder of SmartPassiveIncome.com, Super-dad, and all around good dude Pat Flynn is on Episode 9 of The Solopreneur Hour Podcast. You've heard about Pat on a million other shows, so if you want to learn more about Pat, here's his story: https://www.smartpassiveincome.com/about/.  Instead of covering that same information over, we dug into some different areas, […]

Michael is the Host of The Solopreneur Hour Podcast and the Producer of The Kickass Life podcast with David Wood. He is an in-demand speaker at conferences and organizations nationwide. His current mission is to support and educate Solopreneurs, including those in Internet Marketing, Network Marketing, Real Estate, Athletics and more. As a bonus, he'd like to change the face of the network marketing industry by teaching associates the correct way to build relationships with social media.