Podcasts about Virtual community

In this episode, Danielle and Adam discuss new ventures on which they've both recently embarked. Adam opening a new store, and the first that's just his, and Danielle launching her new Virtual Community. The two discuss taking risks and delving into unknown territory in their late 40s: their excitement, concerns, and how it's impacted their relationship. Some things they discuss:What made Adam finally take the leap and do something so major, and why now?What's it like starting a new small business right now? Tariffs, economic uncertainty, etc.How Danielle has realized that everyone has a "superpower," and how she's trying to use hers to meet this moment.How have they been impacted by weight of the world, on top of dealing with work, family stuff, etc.Will Danielle be involved in Adam's new business? If so, in what ways?Curious about being a part of Danielle's new community, The 3AM Uprising? Check it out!Sponsor: Me! Visit https://partyfair.shop/ use code: MNM20 for 20% Off your first order!Our famous Mother's Day Digital downloads are now available! Perfect for brunch, dinner, or just your next "mom's night out!" Use code "MNM15" for 15% off! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Schaefer is a digital marketing consultant, a globally recognized keynote speaker, a futurist, a university educator, a renowned expert in marketing and personal branding, and the bestselling author of many books, including "Belonging to the Brand," "Marketing Rebellion," "Known," and "Audacious: How Humans Win in an AI Marketing World". His blog, {grow} is hailed as one of the top marketing blogs in the world and he is also the host of The Marketing Companion, one of the top 10 marketing podcasts on iTunes. He has also appeared on many national television shows and periodicals including the Wall Street Journal, Wired, The New York Times, CNN, National Public Radio (NPR), CNBC, the BBC, and CBS News, and he is a regular contributing columnist to The Harvard Business Review. Connect with Mark Schaeffer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markwschaefer/ Buy the book, “Belonging to the Brand”: https://www.amazon.com/Belonging-Brand-Community-Marketing-Strategy-ebook/dp/B0BQCRN6JQ Blog: https://businessesgrow.com/ Podcast: The Marketing Companion Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-IKcl_my7vQ What if you could build a community around your brand or business? What if I told you that you can cultivate an engaged, supportive community of fans around your business where people clamor to buy anything you offer and never leave because your community is such an important part of their lives and identities? My guest, Mark Schaefer is the author of Belonging to the Brand, Why Community is the Last Great Marketing Strategy.  In an age of AI and automation where even many global brands are losing market share and relevance, Mark believes that community is the last refuge for preserving our humanity and ensuring brands, businesses, and non-profits stand out. As Mark explains in his book, and as we discussed in this episode, building a community goes way beyond simply amassing a following. Social media followers and casual readers or viewers are a weak relational link. According to Mark Schaefer, the real magic happens when you're able to bring people together so they connect to one another and find a sense of belonging within your brand community. Once you create a community, your organization becomes a home for your audience – a place where they find meaning. And, a sense of meaning is often what is missing from many people's lives today. For all of our technological advancements and social progress, many people feel lonely or socially isolated. As Mark says in his book, we humans are “wired for community,” which can be hard to find in a world that is so virtual and where remote work is common. The demand for community has, perhaps, never been greater than at any time in human history. If you can help fulfill your audience's need for belonging and community, then you will acquire a tribe of loyal supporters and repeat customers. According to Mark's thesis, which I believe is correct, building a community is how organizations can make the greatest impact and drive the biggest outcomes if they're willing to put in the time and work into making their community grow. Creating a community requires long-term thinking and an investment of time and energy, but it will pay off for those who commit to it, as Mark explains on the podcast and in his book.  In this conversation, Mark and I spoke about the importance of community from both a marketing and a sociological perspective. He also shared interesting case studies of people who found success by building communities around their brands. From a business and marketing standpoint, having your own community on an owned channel also strengthens your brand long-term, dramatically increases customer loyalty and retention, and lessens your reliance on the whims of social media algorithms and changing markets.  In this episode, we discussed his “Belonging to the Brand,” published in 2022, but you should also check out his new book that just came out, "Audacious: How Humans Win in an AI Marketing World." Connect with Mark Schaefer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markwschaefer/ Buy the book, Belonging to the Brand: https://www.amazon.com/Belonging-Brand-Community-Marketing-Strategy-ebook/dp/B0BQCRN6JQ  Learn more: https://businessesgrow.com/ Buy his new book, Audacious: How Humans Win in an AI Marketing World: https://www.amazon.com/Audacious-How-Humans-Marketing-World/dp/B0DSHRN3PC#:~:text=Mark%20Schaefer's%20%22Audacious%22%20is%20a,AI%20by%20a%20million%20watts.  Mark Schaefer is a globally recognized keynote speaker, educator, business consultant, and author. His blog {grow} is hailed as one of the top marketing blogs in the world. Mark has worked in global sales, PR, and marketing positions for more than 30 years and provides consulting services as Executive Director of Schaefer Marketing Solutions. Mark has advanced degrees in marketing and organizational development, holds seven patents, and is a faculty member of the graduate studies program at Rutgers University. For three years, Mark studied under the late Peter Drucker (a world-renowned consultant and author known as the founder of modern management). He is one of the world's most popular business-related keynote speakers, taking the stage at some of the largest industry and corporate conferences including SXSW, Dell World, the American Bar Association Annual Conference, and many others. He has spoken in 35 different countries. Mark is also well-known for developing corporate marketing strategies and marketing workshops. His clients range from successful start-ups to global brands such as Adidas, Johnson & Johnson, GE Life Sciences, Pfizer, The U.S. Air Force, and the UK Government. Mark is the bestselling author of ten other books: Belonging to the Brand: Why Community is the Last Great Marketing Strategy: This book was number one in both marketing and advertising categories and provides a spellbinding view of the future of marketing. Cumulative Advantage: How to Build Momentum for your Ideas, Business, and Life Against All Odds — This book explores the art and science of momentum Marketing Rebellion: The Most Human Company Wins — Some reviewers note this might be the most influential marketing book of the decade. KNOWN: How to Build and Unleash Your Personal Brand in the Digital Age — World's number one book on personal branding. The Content Code — Named one of the top five marketing books of the year by INC Magazine. Social Media Explained — Essential primer on social media marketing. Return on Influence — First book ever written on influencer marketing. Named to the elite list of top academic titles of the year by the American Library Association, which declared it an “essential” and “pathfinding” book. Born to Blog — All-time bestselling book on blogging! LESSONS — Collection of essential essays on embracing chaos. The Tao of Twitter – Best-selling book on Twitter in the world. Mark's books have been used as textbooks at more than 70 universities, have been translated into 15 languages, and can be found in more than 750 libraries worldwide. He is the founder and co-host of The Marketing Companion, one of the top 10 marketing podcasts on iTunes. The show has been downloaded more than 1.5 million times. Mark is also a popular and entertaining commentator and has appeared on many national television shows and periodicals including the Wall Street Journal, Wired, The New York Times, CNN, National Public Radio, CNBC, the BBC, and CBS News. He is a regular contributing columnist to The Harvard Business Review. Learn more: https://businessesgrow.com/  

The 'Wake Up' Call: Paul Ferrini "We don't come to peace by trying to change others. We come to peace by being peaceful in our own hearts and minds. The goal of peace and the process of peace are one and the same." - Paul Ferrini New Book on Relationship: Order Here Love Without Conditions Book: Order Here  Paul Ferrini is the author of some 50 books on love, healing and forgiveness. His unique blend of spirituality and psychology goes beyond self-help and recovery into the heart of healing. His conferences, retreats, Affinity Group Process, and Virtual Community have helped thousands of people deepen their practice of forgiveness and open their hearts to the divine presence in themselves and others. www.lightforthesoul.com Newsletter Sign Up Here - Stay Connected / SIMRAN's Community  11:11 Talk Radio... Conversations of energy, growth, truth, and wisdom that expand personal growth, empower conscious living, and raise self-awareness.  Learn more about Simran here: www.iamsimran.com www.1111mag.com/

Welcome to another episode of "Father and Joe" with Joe Rockey and Father Boniface Hicks. In this thought-provoking discussion, we tackle a pressing question: "Is social media net more evil than beneficial?" Join us as we explore the complexities of social media and its impact on society, relationships, and personal well-being.Key Quotes from the Episode:"Social media is net more evil than it is beneficial. I get the benefits of it, but on the net, I believe that it's much more negative because of its incentivation package." - Joe Rockey"The call to hospitality, humility, kindness is all out the window. All of these platforms essentially reward extremism." - Joe Rockey"What does good and bad mean? How do you measure that? Maybe we should measure these things around the development of virtue and holiness." - Father Boniface Hicks"The medium is inherently problematic unless there are legal or social pressures to change the algorithms to protect the innocent." - Father Boniface HicksIn this episode, Joe Rockey shares his candid thoughts on social media platforms like Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok. He questions whether these platforms, designed to connect people, actually promote meaningful relationships or if they foster an environment of extremism and superficial interactions.Father Boniface Hicks adds depth to the conversation by examining the metrics we use to judge the value of social media. Should we measure it by societal outcomes, profitability, focus, or the development of virtues and holiness? He challenges us to consider whether the potential benefits, such as the inspirational content of figures like Jordan Peterson and Matt Fradd, outweigh the negative impacts.Topics Discussed:The incentive structures of social media and their impact on behavior.The difference between public interaction on social media and more intimate forms of communication.The potential for social media to detract from real-life, meaningful relationships.Examples of positive social media influence versus negative societal trends.The role of virtue and holiness in evaluating social media's impact.Join us for this engaging discussion that encourages deep contemplation about the role of social media in our lives. Are the connections we make online a poor substitute for real relationships, or do they offer unique benefits that we should embrace? How do we navigate the complex landscape of social media while maintaining our values and fostering genuine human connection?Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more insightful discussions. Share your thoughts on the impact of social media in the comments below!#SocialMediaImpact #JoeRockey #FatherBonifaceHicks #DigitalAgeFaith #SocialMediaAndReligion #HumanConnection #VirtualRelationships #FaithInModernWorld #OnlineEngagementsocial media impact, social media benefits, social media negatives, Joe Rockey, Father Boniface Hicks, online relationships, virtual community, social media algorithms, social media addiction, faith and social media, online engagement, social media influence, social media society, internet relationships, digital interaction, social media and religion, faith in modern world, social media pros and cons, human connection, online presence, virtual relationships, social media vs real life, internet impact on society, social cohesion, online communities, Christian perspective, digital age faith, social media discussions, moral implications of social media, internet ethics, technology and faith

In this week's episode, Geoff chats with Rachael Cook – Winner of the 2023 Queensland Community Achievement Awards - Awards Australia Charitable Foundation Mental Health and Wellbeing Award. Inclusee is a not-for-profit charity dedicated to alleviating isolation and loneliness among older Australians by fostering meaningful connections and empowering them to engage with a virtual community centre. Through its Digital Programs and Virtual Community, trained volunteers provide companionship, support, and learning experiences that promote social engagement and personal growth for participants. Inclusee believes that everyone should be able to build lasting connections and enjoy a rich social life, regardless of their location or circumstances. The dynamic virtual community of Inclusee serves as a lifeline, significantly reducing social isolation and positively impacting the physical and mental health of older Australians.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's time for another coaching podcast!This time I'm bringing on Shannon Converse for a deep dive into the world of decision-making and finding balance as a digital nomad parent. Shannon is a member of the Move Abroad Crash Course, and after seeing her latest question in the Crash Course Facebook Group, I knew I needed to bring her in.Shannon's at a crossroads, pondering whether to plant roots in one place overseas or take her family on a whirlwind adventure as digital nomads. With three kids in tow, she's seeking that delicate balance between consistent community and the freedom to travel anywhere anytime.In this conversation, not only did we dive into which option is best for Shannon and her family, but we also got deep about prioritizing our own happiness and fulfillment as parents so we can better show up for our kids.From fears over picking the "right" country, to travel FOMO, and anxiety over whether this lifestyle is good for kids, we cover a lot in this episode!So grab a seat and tune in as we unravel the complexities of balancing family life, wanderlust, and the pursuit of happiness.PS - Don't forget to hit that share button and spread the love to all your fellow nomadic souls out there! (Especially moms with kids who want to embark on the move)Resources Mentioned:→ Contact us for Coaching Options→ Move Abroad Coach Crash Course→ Converse Coaching Collective Love this Episode? What to Listen to Next:Episode 21: The Ultimate Leap: Relocating to Mexico with School-Aged Kids Ft. Michelle Episode 48: Ask a Move Abroad Coach: Finding Confidence to Leave Your Job, Start a Business, AND Move AbroadEpisode 29: Let's Make Sure You Love It: How to Plan an International Scouting TripEpisode 39: How to Travel the World For Free as a Pet Sitter 

In today's episode, I am joined by my friend Amelia Hruby. Amelia is a feminist author, educator, podcaster and founder of Softer Sounds podcast studio (who used to edit this podcast too!). I brought her onto the podcast today specifically because of her amazing podcast ‘Off the Grid', which is a podcast for small business owners who want to leave social media without losing their clients.Even if you don't identify as a small business owner - there's something about what Amelia shares about leaving social media in this episode that transcends it all and will leave you feeling inspired to explore your virtual presence.Amelia opens up about the impact that leaving social media has had on her life and makes the beautiful connection between her patterns of anxious attachment and how that showed up in her virtual presence too.Tune in to hear more from us on:The loneliness that can arrive when leaving social mediaThe struggle of finding community outside of the virtual landscape and finding a sense of belonging without itThe need of being seen in this day and ageHow personal and emotional well-being can be so attached and influenced by our online presenceHow our seasonal and hormonal cycles can impact our relationship with social mediaHow the platforms are designed to lead us down a path of misinformation, toxic algorithms and capitalismResources + LinksAmelia Hruby's podcast ‘Off the Grid', her website AmeliaHruby.com and her podcasting studio Softer SoundsAmelia's membership ‘The Interweb', dedicated to support small business owners move their business off of social mediaThe Off the Grid episode with Nicole Antoinette: ‘How much is Enough: Money & Social Media' membership ‘interweb'My book, Root and Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the SelfConnect with me on Instagram @beccapiastrelliTimestamps[0:00] Introduction [11:01] The Decision to Leave Social Media [13:16] Anxious Attachment to the Online Sphere [16:37] Life after Leaving Social Media [19:56] Creativity in Business w/o Social Media [20:56] Loneliness and Virtual Community [24:34] Running a Business outside of Social Media [27:27] Finding Community outside of Social Media [29:00] The Need to Feel Seen [36:44] Curation Online [40:40] Aggravation of Wounds of Belonging by Social Media [48:36] The Harmful Ways the Algorithm Preys Upon Vulnerabilities [52:46] The Impact of Culture and the Joy of the Internet [53:41] Bringing Intention, Awareness and Agency to the Virtual Landscape [54:16] Choosing a Different Path and Finding Liberation [54:55] Main Takeaways [56:36] Amelia's Work and Offerings

As director of community relations and strategy at the AAMC, Penny Schnarrs does more than just support the AAMC Virtual Community. She is leading the charge to create positive and impactful change for AAMC constituents by providing a space for collaboration and community building. Tune in to this episode of “Ask an Expert” to learn more from Schnarrs about her work and why the AAMC Virtual Community is the place for people who want to collaborate across medical education.

Step into the virtual sanctuary with Stuart McPherson, a ministry pioneer from Lakeland Church.    Join us for an intriguing discussion on the emergence of Virtual Reality Church as Stuart provides a firsthand experience of Lakeland Church's journey into the realm of VR in exploring the fusion of ministry and technology.    Whether you're a tech enthusiast or a church leader curious about the evolving landscape of bridging faith and tech, this conversation with Stuart McPherson provides a captivating glimpse into the transformative opportunity of Virtual Reality and discipleship.   Show Notes:   Connect with Stuart McPherson and Lakeland Church  Stuart McPherson LinkedIn  Stuart McPherson Facebook Stuart McPherson Instagram Stuart McPherson Twitter Stuart McPherson Website   Lakeland Church Facebook Lakeland Church Instagram Lakeland Church TikTok Lakeland Church YouTube Lakeland Church Website   Connect with Nils Smith Nils Smith WebsiteNils Smith Facebook Nils Smith Twitter Nils Smith Instagram Nils Smith LinkedIn Social Media Church Discord This episode is brought to you by Amplify Social Media, your trusted partner in navigating the ever-evolving landscape of social media management for your church

Guest: Devorah Heitner, AuthorOn Twitter | https://twitter.com/DevorahHeitnerWebsite | https://devorahheitner.com/On TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@devorahheitner1On Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/devorahheitnerphd/____________________________Host: Marco Ciappelli, Co-Founder at ITSPmagazine [@ITSPmagazine] and Host of Redefining Society PodcastOn ITSPmagazine | https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/marco-ciappelli_____________________________This Episode's SponsorsBlackCloak

On this episode of Campfire, Jackson is joined by Casper ter Kuile: CEO and Co-Founder of The Nearness. The Nearness is a company that allows people to explore life's big questions in a community.Topics Covered:Introduction to Casper— (2:00)Spirituality Versus Religion— (5:15)The Role of Spirituality in Communities— (7:20)Advice for Those Seeking Spirituality—  (10:50)The Nearness and Nearness Journeys— (13:29)Community Covenant— (16:20)Cult Versus Community— (17:51)Becoming a Spiritual Leader— (24:15)Jackson's Family Story— (27:30)Communities Forming Rituals— (28:40)Rituals for Digital Communities— (33:25)Tech and Spirituality Through History— (35:36)Campfire is brought to you by Cabin - a network of coliving neighborhoods for nature-loving creators and remote workers. You can learn more at the following links:Website (cabin.city)TwitterDiscordRead more urbanist content at The Future of Living Newsletter Episode Links: The Nearness' WebsiteThe Nearness on Twitter Episode Credit:Hosted by @JacksonStegerGuest was @caspertkSound Engineering by @ProdcolinProduced + Distributed by @PhilippeIze

“How can we prepare ourselves for a future that looks so uncertain?” This question was asked during a recent satsang we had with Ananda's online Virtual Community, and it seemed an important one to discuss.

Most people create offers without doing this ONE super important step, and then are surprised when it doesn't sell. Whether you're creating a group program, a 1:1 program, or healing service, the first step when it comes to creating and marketing it is – your Client Journey. Grab your paper and pen, and tune in to learn how to map out your client journey so that you can create an offer your audience actually WANTS to pay for, and you LOVE promoting! This training is worth $$$ so really take your time with this, and implement!   Listen in as I talk about:   Why knowing your client journey is KEY to a successful program launch Top mistakes people do when creating their offer The power of SIMPLIFICATION How to map out your client journey The power of sensory and granular visioning How to promote using Possibility vs Manipulation Work with me: The Alchemy Room - LIFETIME-Access Holistic Business Coaching Program and Virtual Community for Healers, Leaders, and Trailblazers who want to launch and grow a business built on truth, healing, and community: https://soulflow.co/the-alchemy-room Re-Wilding: The Mastermind is now open for enrollment! A 6-month immersive mastermind experience for healers, leaders, and trailblazers who are ready for the next level of business EXPANSION! This is the premier space where Wild Feminine Liberation meets Thought Leadership to birth Money, Miracles, and Magic!https://soulflow.co/rewilding-mastermind Masterclasses and Workshops: Activate: The Masterclass ($111) - catch the replay of my popular masterclass where you learn how to write copy that lets you go from “You're so inspirational!” to “Girl, take my money!”. https://wonderful-block-241.myflodesk.com Sold Out Soulpreneur ($777) - learn how to create, launch, and sell out your very own group program, and leverage it to create sustainable recurring revenue! https://soulflow.co/sold-out-soulpreneur Connect with me Instagram @soulflowco What's your unique business brilliance aka Soul Biz Magic? Take my quiz and find out!: https://soulflow.co/magic-quiz2 Visit my website: https://soulflow.co     

Spring is here, and it's time to spring clean your business!  This episode teaches you how to clean out different areas of your business so you can clear out old energy and make space for all the new fruits coming this season. Listen in as I talk about: Why it's important to energetically clear your business The one question to ask yourself when clearing things out The 5 different areas of business to clean out  Why it's important to untangle energetic kinks and plug energetics leaks Work with me: The Alchemy Room - LIFETIME-Access Holistic Business Coaching Program and Virtual Community for Healers, Leaders, and Trailblazers who want to launch and grow a business built on truth, healing, and community: https://soulflow.co/the-alchemy-room Re-Wilding: The Mastermind is now open for enrollment! A 6-month immersive mastermind experience for healers, leaders, and trailblazers who are ready for the next level of business EXPANSION! This is the premier space where Wild Feminine Liberation meets Thought Leadership to birth Money, Miracles, and Magic!https://soulflow.co/rewilding-mastermind Masterclasses and Workshops: Activate: The Masterclass ($111) - catch the replay of my popular masterclass where you learn how to write copy that lets you go from “You're so inspirational!” to “Girl, take my money!”. https://wonderful-block-241.myflodesk.com Sold Out Soulpreneur ($777) - learn how to create, launch, and sell out your very own group program, and leverage it to create sustainable recurring revenue! https://soulflow.co/sold-out-soulpreneur   Connect with me Instagram @soulflowco What's your unique business brilliance aka Soul Biz Magic? Take my quiz and find out!: https://soulflow.co/magic-quiz2 Visit my website: https://soulflow.co   

The business structure modeled to us sucks. The therapy model of $75 per session just isn't scaleable, and I'm so tired of hearing healers and coaches burn out because of it. In this episode, I talk about the 3 main business paradigms commonly used, and a fourth paradigm I'm introducing, called the Expansion Suite. Find out how to structure to business for scale so that you can bring in more revenue, serve more clients, while cutting your time in half! Listen in as I talk about: Why the traditional 1-to-1 therapy business model isn't scaleable 3 most common business paradigms A 4th business paradigm that allows you to create sustainable recurring revenue How to learn how to launch your own group program Work with me: The Alchemy Room - LIFETIME-Access Holistic Business Coaching Program and Virtual Community for Healers, Leaders, and Trailblazers who want to start and grow a business built on truth, healing, and community: https://soulflow.co/the-alchemy-room Re-Wilding: The Mastermind is now open for enrollment! A 6-month immersive mastermind experience for healers, leaders, and trailblazers who are ready for the next level of business EXPANSION! This is the premier space where Wild Feminine Liberation meets Thought Leadership to birth Money, Miracles, and Magic!https://soulflow.co/rewilding-mastermind Masterclasses and Workshops: Activate: The Masterclass ($111) - catch the replay of my popular masterclass where you learn how to write copy that lets you go from “You're so inspirational!” to “Girl, take my money!”. https://wonderful-block-241.myflodesk.com Sold Out Soulpreneur ($777) - learn how to create, launch, and sell out your very own group program, and leverage it to create sustainable recurring revenue! https://soulflow.co/sold-out-soulpreneur   Connect with me Instagram @soulflowco What's your unique business brilliance aka Soul Biz Magic? Take my quiz and find out!: https://soulflow.co/magic-quiz2 Visit my website: https://soulflow.co       

My bold claim: as a coach or healer, I want you to make as much money as doctors. This isn't a comparison of whose work is more valuable, rather a call to action as a collective to shift the way we view overall health and well-being beyond just medicine and the physical body.   In this episode, I go DEEP in what I see as the new paradigm of whole-person health that involves all realms – physical, spiritual, emotional, mental, financial, and ancestral.   Listen in as I talk about: How a medium brought deep healing to a room full of inmates How the pandemic catalyzed a craving for ancient and alternative healing modalities   My personal story that brought me to this bold claim Why being resourced goes hand in hand with being noble How to stop being overworked, undervalued, and underpaid How world suffering ends when you make more money Why my vehicle called “business coaching” is actually a radical act of paying it back and forward Work with me: The Alchemy Room - LIFETIME-Access Holistic Business Coaching Program and Virtual Community for Healers, Leaders, and Trailblazers who want to start and grow a business built on truth, healing, and community: https://soulflow.co/the-alchemy-room Re-Wilding: The Mastermind is now open for enrollment! A 6-month immersive mastermind experience for healers, leaders, and trailblazers who are ready for the next level of business EXPANSION! This is the premier space where Wild Feminine Liberation meets Thought Leadership to birth Money, Miracles, and Magic!https://soulflow.co/rewilding-mastermind Masterclasses and Workshops: Activate: The Masterclass ($111) - catch the replay of my popular masterclass where you learn how to write copy that lets you go from “You're so inspirational!” to “Girl, take my money!”. https://wonderful-block-241.myflodesk.com Sold Out Soulpreneur ($777) - learn how to create, launch, and sell out your very own group program, and leverage it to create sustainable recurring revenue! https://soulflow.co/sold-out-soulpreneur   Connect with me Instagram @soulflowco What's your unique business brilliance aka Soul Biz Magic? Take my quiz and find out!: https://soulflow.co/magic-quiz2 Visit my website: https://soulflow.co     

As a coach or healer, having ways to create sustainable, recurring revenue is key if you want to grow and evolve your business. It means setting yourself up for impacting more humans and making more income while not burning out.  In this episode, I give you the 3 things to master in order to help you create that sustainable recurring revenue. Listen in as I talk about: What it means to have good copy, and how it helps bring in the most soul-aligned clients The one important thing all my coaches and mentors have in common that helped them grow 7 figure businesses  How to create a sustainable business model that helps you increase your impact and income Exciting new offers to help you anchor into these 3 things!   NEW Offers: Activate: The Masterclass ($111) - learn how to write copy that lets you go from “You're so inspirational!” to “Girl, take my money!”. Happening on Feb 22 https://wonderful-block-241.myflodesk.com Behind the Brand ($333) - A 4-week EXCLUSIVE pass to behind-the-scenes of Soul Flow Co. to help you EMBODY the scaled up Soul CEO you want to be! Starts ASAP https://super-breeze-564.myflodesk.com Sold Out Soulpreneur ($777) - learn how to create, launch, and sell out your very own group program! Starts on March 15th https://soulflow.co/sold-out-soulpreneur Because February is my birthday month, you can bundle 2 or ALL 3 together for a special discounted price! Get all the bundle pricing and info here: https://soulflow.co/letsmakemagic/ Other ways to work with me: The Alchemy Room - LIFETIME-Access Holistic Business Coaching Program and Virtual Community for Healers, Leaders, and Trailblazers who want to start and grow a business built on truth, healing, and community: https://soulflow.co/the-alchemy-room Re-Wilding: The Mastermind is now open for enrollment! A 6-month immersive mastermind experience for healers, leaders, and trailblazers who are ready for the next level of business EXPANSION! This is the premier space where Wild Feminine Liberation meets Thought Leadership to birth Money, Miracles, and Magic!https://soulflow.co/rewilding-mastermind Connect with me Instagram @soulflowco What's your Soul Biz Magic? Take my quiz and find out!: https://soulflow.co/magic-quiz2 Visit my website: https://soulflow.co       

What does it look like to live a life of alignment in your inner and outer worlds?  How do you choose a career based on your truth? I'm so excited to be joined by my amazing client Arianna De La Rosa of @empowerfirst who is a Career and Empowerment coach who leads her clients from the lens of community, social justice, and advocacy! Arianna is part of The Alchemy Room, and has seen some beautiful expansion in her biz like: doubling her revenue from the past year  working with more soul-aligned clients being invited to speaking events and collaborations  and of course being a BOOKED OUT and SOUGHT AFTER coach! (She has a waitlist thru April 2023!)   She's modeling a new way of serving her community, making money, and breaking boxes to show us truly what's possible. Listen in as we talk about: Why inner work is so important when it comes to careers and job search What it means to be a career coach for BIPOC folks in a predominantly white industry Finding stability vs alignment in a career What is ‘Alchemical Resilience' How being in The Alchemy Room contributed to Arianna's both inner and outer results What it feels to be a sought after and booked out coach with a 3 month waitlist   Work with me: THE ALCHEMY ROOM - LIFETIME-Access Holistic Business Coaching Program and Virtual Community for soulful and spiritual entrepreneurs. Master the foundations of business – Marketing, Sales, Branding, Offer Creation, Pricing, Launching, Mindset, and Energetics to start and grow your business: https://soulflow.co/the-alchemy-room ACTIVATE - Captivating Copywriting for Conscious Entrepreneurs. Learn how to go from ‘You're so inspiring…' to ‘Girl, take my money!': https://wonderful-block-241.myflodesk.com SOLD OUT SOULPRENEUR - increase your impact and income with a sold out group program: https://soulflow.co/sold-out-soulpreneur   Connect with me Instagram @soulflowco What's your Soul Biz Magic? Take my quiz and find out!: https://soulflow.co/magic-quiz2 Visit my website: https://soulflow.co    Connect with Arianna  https://linktr.ee/ariannalailacoaching Instagram: @empowerfirst  

As a coach or healer, having ways to create sustainable, recurring revenue is key if you want to grow and evolve your business. It means setting yourself up for impacting more humans and making more income while not burning out.    In this episode, I give you the 3 things to master in order to help you create that sustainable recurring revenue.   Listen in as I talk about:   What it means to have good copy, and how it helps bring in the most soul-aligned clients The one important thing all my coaches and mentors have in common that helped them grow 7 figure businesses  How to create a sustainable business model that helps you increase your impact and income Exciting new offers to help you anchor into these 3 things!   NEW Offers: Activate: The Masterclass ($111) - learn how to write copy that lets you go from “You're so inspirational!” to “Girl, take my money!”. Happening on Feb 22 https://wonderful-block-241.myflodesk.com Behind the Brand ($333) - A 4-week EXCLUSIVE pass to behind-the-scenes of Soul Flow Co. to help you EMBODY the scaled up Soul CEO you want to be! Starts ASAP https://super-breeze-564.myflodesk.com Sold Out Soulpreneur ($777) - learn how to create, launch, and sell out your very own group program! Starts on March 15th https://soulflow.co/sold-out-soulpreneur Because February is my birthday month, you can bundle 2 or ALL 3 together for a special discounted price! Get all the bundle pricing and info here: https://soulflow.co/letsmakemagic/ Other ways to work with me: The Alchemy Room - LIFETIME-Access Holistic Business Coaching Program and Virtual Community for Healers, Leaders, and Trailblazers who want to start and grow a business built on truth, healing, and community: https://soulflow.co/the-alchemy-room Re-Wilding: The Mastermind is now open for enrollment! A 6-month immersive mastermind experience for healers, leaders, and trailblazers who are ready for the next level of business EXPANSION! This is the premier space where Wild Feminine Liberation meets Thought Leadership to birth Money, Miracles, and Magic!https://soulflow.co/rewilding-mastermind   Connect with me Instagram @soulflowco What's your Soul Biz Magic? Take my quiz and find out!: https://soulflow.co/magic-quiz2 Visit my website: https://soulflow.co   

As of January 19th, Soul Flow Co. brought in $30k in sales! This is a beautiful business milestone, but what I'm most proud of is the energetic shift that helped me reach it. So in this episode, I'm giving you the one BIG shift I did that absolutely changed how I show up in my life and business.   Listen in as I talk about:   Why it's imperative to celebrate wins The powerful decision I made that shifted everything Symptoms you're running your business with Maiden energy What it means to run your business with Wild Queen energy Re-Wilding: The Mastermind is the reclamation journey back to your wild   Work with me: The Alchemy Room - LIFETIME-Access Holistic Business Coaching Program and Virtual Community for Healers, Leaders, and Trailblazers who want to start and grow a business built on truth, healing, and community: https://soulflow.co/the-alchemy-room Re-Wilding: The Mastermind is now open for enrollment! A 6-month immersive mastermind experience for healers, leaders, and trailblazers who are ready for the next level of business EXPANSION! This is the premier space where Wild Feminine Liberation meets Thought Leadership to birth Money, Miracles, and Magic!https://soulflow.co/rewilding-mastermind   Connect with me Instagram @soulflowco What's your Soul Biz Magic? Take my quiz and find out!: https://soulflow.co/magic-quiz2 Visit my website: https://soulflow.co 

When's the last time you celebrated yourself? And no, not for the mainstream milestones like marriage and motherhood. But when you quit your job, left a toxic relationship, got into grad school, or started a business!    In this episode, I'm joined by my amazing client, Meleca Consultado, Founder and Chief Celebration Officer of Empowered Showers, with a powerful mission to redefine the culture around who and how we celebrate one another with a vision of celebrating women, empowering women, one celebration at a time.   This is such a powerful, activating conversation on breaking cultural norms, communal leadership, diversity/equity/inclusion in business, leading new paradigms, healing from oppressive systems, and facilitating economic justice.   Meleca is a leader and trailblazer, and this is a conversation you do not want to miss!   Listen in as we talk about:   Why your lived experience is your most potent business idea Leaving her Director role in academia to pursue entrepreneurship Why celebration is an act of resistance How we met through divine synchronicity Financial risk-taking as an immigrant, and how she secured her first $10k seed money How she took first place in a pitch competition to secure investors Why Safety > Strategy Why The Alchemy Room feels like a “war room”, and how we're being called to arms Business as economic justice Your financial history is not your business' financial trajectory What it means to be a communal leader   Work with me: The Alchemy Room - LIFETIME-Access Holistic Business Coaching Program and Virtual Community for soulful and spiritual entrepreneurs who want to start and grow a business built on truth, healing, and community: https://soulflow.co/the-alchemy-room Re-Wilding: The Mastermind is now open for enrollment! A 6-month immersive mastermind experience for healers, leaders, and trailblazers who are ready for the next level of business EXPANSION! This is the premier space where Wild Feminine Liberation meets Thought Leadership to birth Money, Miracles, and Magic!https://soulflow.co/rewilding-mastermind   Connect with me Instagram @soulflowco What's your Soul Biz Magic? Take my quiz and find out!: https://soulflow.co/magic-quiz2 Visit my website: https://soulflow.co    Connect with Meleca and Empower Showers   www.empowershowers.com Instagram: @empowershowers    

Business as we know it is shifting. The level of discernment is rising, and people want to know WHY you? The truth is, pretty pictures and email lists won't cut it anymore. Growing a business means stepping into a bigger role -- Leader.   In this episode, you'll learn what I mean by thought leadership, and how to cultivate yours to amplify your brand, and grow your business in 2023.   Listen in as I talk about:   3 foundations of consistently getting paid clients How to help your audience establish trust with you How to use the energy of authority without manipulation How to cultivate your thought leadership The 44 Billion dollar valuation of the holistic healing and wellness industry The simple marketing plan that you can do right now My new coaching program on how to elevate your brand to be wildly iconic, and get paid to be the premier thought leader of your industry   Work with me: The Alchemy Room - LIFETIME-Access Holistic Business Coaching Program and Virtual Community for Healers, Leaders, and Trailblazers who want to start and grow a business built on truth, healing, and community: https://soulflow.co/the-alchemy-room Re-Wilding: The Mastermind is now open for enrollment! A 6-month immersive mastermind experience for healers, leaders, and trailblazers who are ready for the next level of business EXPANSION! This is the premier space where Wild Feminine Liberation meets Thought Leadership to birth Money, Miracles, and Magic!https://soulflow.co/rewilding-mastermind   Connect with me Instagram @soulflowco What's your Soul Biz Magic? Take my quiz and find out!: https://soulflow.co/magic-quiz2 Visit my website: https://soulflow.co 

I get it, astrology and human design are revolutionary. They help you embrace your unique gifts, you feel a sense of validation, and you live in greater alignment. They're powerful medicine. And also, we can overdose on that medicine.   In this episode, I go on a little rant on why we have to stop using spiritual tools to stifle our growth, plus some other boxes we need to break away from.   This episode is a treat because I'm giving you a literal behind the scenes of a coaching call with me!  WARNING: this particular flavor of coaching I invoked was very activating ‘tough love', which means there's a lot of explicit language. Please listen mindfully.   Listen in as I talk about:   Stop using astrology and human design as weapons against yourself What to consult with instead to determine your truth  Why you shouldn't be afraid of failure The kind of rebelliousness that changes the world Stop using the past as a reference point   Work with me: The Alchemy Room - LIFETIME-Access Holistic Business Coaching Program and Virtual Community for Healers, Leaders, and Trailblazers who want to start and grow a business built on truth, healing, and community: https://soulflow.co/the-alchemy-room Re-Wilding: The Mastermind is now open for enrollment! A 6-month immersive mastermind experience for healers, leaders, and trailblazers who are ready for the next level of business EXPANSION! This is the premier space where Wild Feminine Liberation meets Thought Leadership to birth Money, Miracles, and Magic!https://soulflow.co/rewilding-mastermind   Connect with me Instagram @soulflowco What's your Soul Biz Magic? Take my quiz and find out!: https://soulflow.co/magic-quiz2 Visit my website: https://soulflow.co 

2022 felt like 5 years rolled into 1! Soul Flow Co. hit some major milestones, including launching an Oracle Card Deck, this podcast, a new group program The Alchemy Room, a new mastermind The Re-Wilding, featured in 3 media publications, more clients served worldwide, and officially crossing $200k in the business!  While these milestones sound amazing, it's actually the behind the scenes learnings and healing that were the most expansive for me.  Listen on to find out what slow, unglamorous moments bolstered me deeper into alignment, and how you can leverage these learnings for your own expansion in 2023.   Work with me: The Alchemy Room - LIFETIME-Access Holistic Business Coaching Program and Virtual Community for Healers, Leaders, and Trailblazers who want to start and grow a business built on truth, healing, and community: https://soulflow.co/the-alchemy-room Re-Wilding: The Mastermind is now open for enrollment! A 6-month immersive mastermind experience for healers, leaders, and trailblazers who are ready for the next level of business EXPANSION! This is the premier space where Wild Feminine Liberation meets Thought Leadership to birth Money, Miracles, and Magic!https://soulflow.co/rewilding-mastermind   Connect with me Instagram @soulflowco What's your Soul Biz Magic? Take my quiz and find out!: https://soulflow.co/magic-quiz2 Visit my website: https://soulflow.co

From super successful Finance Manager to jumping into the unknowns of spirituality, being a yoga teacher, and quantum healer, Gina of Quantum Wellness Co. shares her story of how she's called in all the quantum leaps! We talk through the work we've done together to help her get into deep energetic alignment, which has allowed her to serve from a self-validated authentic place, get clients reach out to her even before launching her offers, and making the equivalent of her old salary in the business! This is such a powerful conversation on evolution, embodied courage and growing a business using pleasure over pressure! Listen in as we talk about:   What it means to be in the “soupy cocoon”  How to find safety in the unknowns of entrepreneurship Untying revenue to worthiness Why having self-validation is so magnetic The deep magic of the ‘Pleasure Over Pressure' practice  How she's becoming a magnet for soul clients reaching out to her even before launching her offer Shifting paradigms from working hard to energetic alignment Difference between running an ‘Easy' business vs an ‘Easeful' business Coming out of the witchy box and healing ancestral chains of religious trauma Discernment as THE spiritual practice   Work with me: The Alchemy Room - LIFETIME-Access Holistic Business Coaching Program and Virtual Community for Healers, Leaders, and Trailblazers who want to start and grow a business built on truth, healing, and community: https://soulflow.co/the-alchemy-room Re-Wilding: The Mastermind is now open for enrollment! A 6-month immersive mastermind experience for healers, leaders, and trailblazers who are ready for the next level of business EXPANSION! This is the premier space where Wild Feminine Liberation meets Thought Leadership to birth Money, Miracles, and Magic!https://soulflow.co/rewilding-mastermind   Connect with me Instagram @soulflowco What's your Soul Biz Magic? Take my quiz and find out!: https://soulflow.co/magic-quiz2 Visit my website: https://soulflow.co    Connect with Gina Instagram @quantumwellnessco Website: https://www.quantumwellnessco.com

Ready to raise your prices but feeling nervous about it? In this episode, I talk about how raising your prices is a form of art, and what all pieces go into it. From signs that your prices need to be raised to nervous system expansion, this episode covers it all!    Listen in as I talk about:   Not everyone is a match for your pricing Why raising your prices is not dangerous What we can learn from Picasso and his $100,000 napkin Signs you're ready to raise your prices Why million dollar lottery winners go broke The most important money mindset shift to help you earn and hold more without shame How to not sound pushy or convincing A simple mantra to help you feel confident about your prices   Work with me: The Alchemy Room - LIFETIME-Access Holistic Business Coaching Program and Virtual Community for Healers, Leaders, and Trailblazers who want to start and grow a business built on truth, healing, and community: https://soulflow.co/the-alchemy-room Re-Wilding: The Mastermind is now open for enrollment! A 6-month immersive mastermind experience for healers, leaders, and trailblazers who are ready for the next level of business EXPANSION! This is the premier space where Wild Feminine Liberation meets Thought Leadership to birth Money, Miracles, and Magic!https://soulflow.co/rewilding-mastermind   Connect with me Instagram @soulflowco What's your Soul Biz Magic? Take my quiz and find out!: https://soulflow.co/magic-quiz2 Visit my website: https://soulflow.co 

Infidelity creates turmoil both personally and financially. Not only must you make decisions about yourself and your marriage, but you also must face some very real financial realities. As overwhelming as it may seem, you can learn to make, manage, and grow your money regardless of your marital or motherhood status. Top take-a-ways: Three simple steps to becoming financially literate. The connection between money and power, and why doing the internal work of knowing who you are and what you want is the key to happiness and success. Achieving sacred success and the difference between survival, stability, and affluence. Consciously creating your financial legacy. You can find out more about Barbara, her work, coaching, and books at https://www.barbara-huson.com/ Consider joining Barbara's Wealth Connection, a Virtual Community of Women Supporting Women! Because Wealth Building isn't just about the money. It's about becoming the powerful woman you were meant to be. The #1 reason women don't invest is lack of confidence. The Wealth Connection is not like any other program out there. It offers coaching, group support, expert advice, and financial education. If you're ready to become a Financially Savvy Wealth Builder this community is for you. Only $47 a month! Learn more at: https://www.barbara-huson.com/the-wealth-connection/   Helpful Resources: HerMoney Newsletter: https://hermoney.com/ ElleVest Newsletter: https://www.ellevest.com/newsletter   About Barbara: Barbara Huson, formerly known as Barbara Stanny, is a wealth coach who wants to teach you the secret wisdom of creating wealth and asserting power, as a woman… wisdom that took her over 40 years to figure out. She grew up relying on her father (the “R” of H&R Block), then her husband, to manage her inheritance. But early in her marriage, she found out her husband was a compulsive gambler. And here's the insane part — she continued to let him handle all their finances because that's how scared and intimidated she was by money. That didn't change until a devastating financial crisis became a personal wake-up call. She got tax bills for over $1m for illegal deals her ex got them into. He'd left the country. She didn't have anywhere close to $1m. And her father wouldn't lend her the money. She had three daughters — one just a baby, and she was not going to raise them on the street. That's when she knew she had to get smart. And she did. Join me and Barbara as she shares her journey to financial independence in hopes of inspiring, and even better, motivating YOU to become smart (or smarter) with money… to earn more than you're making now, and to create the legacy that you desire! It's much simpler and more in your control than you may realize. She is the author of Prince Charming Isn't Coming: How Women Get Smart About Money (Penguin) Secrets of Six Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to Up Your Earnings and Change Your Life (HarperCollins) Overcoming Underearning® A Five Step Plan to a Richer Life, and Sacred Success — pursuing your soul's purpose, for your own bliss and the benefit of others, while being richly rewarded. Download Rewire for Wealth: Three Steps Any Woman to Program Her Brain For Financial Success, for free on her website@ https://www.barbara-huson.com/   Lora Cheadle is an infidelity survivor who uses the concepts in burlesque to help women reclaim their identity and self-worth after betrayal so they can move forward with confidence, embrace their sexy, and create a life they love!   Download your Sparkle After Betrayal Recovery Guide at www.BetrayalRecoveryGuide.com and start reclaiming yourself and your life today!

Understanding Money-Your Post-Infidelity Plan with Barbara Huson, formerly Barbara Stanny Infidelity creates turmoil both personally and financially. Not only must you make decisions about yourself and your marriage, but you also must face some very real financial realities. As overwhelming as it may seem, you can learn to make, manage, and grow your money regardless of your marital or motherhood status. Top take-a-ways: Three simple steps to becoming financially literate. The connection between money and power, and why doing the internal work of knowing who you are and what you want is the key to happiness and success. Achieving sacred success and the difference between survival, stability, and affluence. Consciously creating your financial legacy. You can find out more about Barbara, her work, coaching, and books at https://www.barbara-huson.com/ Consider joining Barbara's Wealth Connection, a Virtual Community of Women Supporting Women! Because Wealth Building isn't just about the money. It's about becoming the powerful woman you were meant to be. The #1 reason women don't invest is lack of confidence. The Wealth Connection is not like any other program out there. It offers coaching, group support, expert advice, and financial education. If you're ready to become a Financially Savvy Wealth Builder this community is for you. Only $47 a month! Learn ore at: https://www.barbara-huson.com/the-wealth-connection/ Helpful Resources: HerMoney Newsletter: https://hermoney.com/ ElleVest Newsletter: https://www.ellevest.com/newsletter About Barbara: Barbara Huson, formerly known as Barbara Stanny, is a wealth coach who wants to teach you the secret wisdom of creating wealth and asserting power, as a woman… wisdom that took her over 40 years to figure out. She grew up relying on her father (the “R” of H&R Block), then her husband, to manage her inheritance. But early in her marriage, she found out her husband was a compulsive gambler. And here's the insane part — she continued to let him handle all their finances because that's how scared and intimidated she was by money. That didn't change until a devastating financial crisis became a personal wake-up call. She got tax bills for over $1m for illegal deals her ex got them into. He'd left the country. She didn't have anywhere close to $1m. And her father wouldn't lend her the money. She had three daughters — one just a baby, and she was not going to raise them on the street. That's when she knew she had to get smart. And she did. Join me and Barbara as she shares her journey to financial independence in hopes of inspiring, and even better, motivating YOU to become smart (or smarter) with money… to earn more than you're making now, and to create the legacy that you desire! It's much simpler and more in your control than you may realize. She is the author of Prince Charming Isn't Coming: How Women Get Smart About Money (Penguin) Secrets of Six Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to Up Your Earnings and Change Your Life (HarperCollins) Overcoming Underearning® A Five Step Plan to a Richer Life, and Sacred Success — pursuing your soul's purpose, for your own bliss and the benefit of others, while being richly rewarded. Download Rewire for Wealth: Three Steps Any Woman to Program Her Brain For Financial Success, for free on her website@ https://www.barbara-huson.com/ BONUS! Grab a copy of your Betrayal Recovery Tool Kit, with a chapter of Lora's book, FLAUNT! Drop Your Cover and Reveal Your Smart, Sexy, and Spiritual Self on re-writing the screenplay of your life, a beautiful, downloadable journal, and a guided meditation. All for $19.99. Snap it up here! https://loracheadle.com/product/infidelity/ Lora Cheadle is an infidelity survivor who uses the concepts in burlesque to help women reclaim their identity and self-worth after betrayal so they can move forward with confidence, embrace their sexy, and create a life they love! Download your Sparkle After Betrayal Recovery Guide at www.BetrayalRecoveryGuide.com and start reclaiming yourself and your life today! Learn more at www.loracheadle.com and follow me across all social!  Thank you to BetterHelp for sponsoring this podcast! Take charge of your mental health and get 10% off your first month of therapy at https://BetterHelp.com/FLAUNT FLAUNT! is brought to you by Revel the new kind of social platform built exclusively for women over 40. Members make connections at virtual and in-real-life events, start conversations from super serious to silly, and learn from experts on topics from financial wellness for women, managing menopause, and dozens more. Explore our community of like minded, smart, fabulous, and fun women at hellorevel.com/flaunt.

Get the inside scoop and behind the scenes of how I manifested my dream home! From a botched contract to divine intervention to tough love on what it actually means to manifest, I dish it all in this episode!     Listen in as I talk about:   Why this home is a manifestation that's been years in the making The blessing of the botched contract Divine intervention that led to finding this home How to manifest without bypassing    Work with me: The Alchemy Room - LIFETIME-Access Holistic Business Coaching Program and Virtual Community for Healers, Leaders, and Trailblazers who want to start and grow a business built on truth, healing, and community: https://soulflow.co/the-alchemy-room Re-Wilding: The Mastermind is now open for enrollment! A 6-month immersive mastermind experience for healers, leaders, and trailblazers who are ready for the next level of business EXPANSION! This is the premier space where Wild Feminine Liberation meets Thought Leadership to birth Money, Miracles, and Magic!https://soulflow.co/rewilding-mastermind   Connect with me Instagram @soulflowco What's your Soul Biz Magic? Take my quiz and find out!: https://soulflow.co/magic-quiz2 Visit my website: https://soulflow.co

What does business look like in 2023? How is the healing and coaching industry shifting with heightened consciousness and discernment? It's not 2017 anymore where aesthetics and graphics are Queen.    How will you stand out in your space and cut through all the noise? The answer is thought leadership.   So in this episode, I talk about what this new paradigm looks like, and how you can leverage your thought leadership to expand your brand and grow your business.     Listen in as I talk about:   Why filters, presets, and cohesion is no longer the key to online business What is thought leadership The importance of reclaiming your native wisdom How to discover your thought leadership     Work with me: The Alchemy Room - LIFETIME-Access Holistic Business Coaching Program and Virtual Community for Healers, Leaders, and Trailblazers who want to start and grow a business built on truth, healing, and community: https://soulflow.co/the-alchemy-room Re-Wilding: The Mastermind where Wild Feminine Liberation meets Thought Leadership - coming soon! For details, email me at hello@soulflow.co Connect with me Instagram @soulflowco What's your Soul Biz Magic? Take my quiz and find out!: https://soulflow.co/magic-quiz2 Visit my website: https://soulflow.co

Warning: This episode is HIGHLY activating (also, NSFW)! I get real and give you the behind the scenes of me quitting my job, manifesting $75k, making almost $20k in a month in my business, having the best s$x of my life, and doing it all with so much fun and flow.    This is an ACTIVATION for anyone who is ready to let go of the old paradigm of success that revolves around the grind, and wants to explore what it feels to BE in the frequency of abundance. This is a manifestation story on steroids, so let's dig in!     Listen in as I talk about:   My first manifestation awakening in 2020 The magic formula of magnetism How I quit my job How I manifested $75k of magic money! Receiving $18.5k in one month How having the best s$x of my life turned into making more money The role of pleasure and desire in manifestation     Work with me: The Alchemy Room - LIFETIME-Access Holistic Business Coaching Program and Virtual Community for Healers, Leaders, and Trailblazers who want to start and grow a business built on truth, healing, and community: https://soulflow.co/the-alchemy-room Re-Wilding: The Mastermind - coming soon! For details, email me at hello@soulflow.co Connect with me Instagram @soulflowco What's your Soul Biz Magic? Take my quiz and find out!: https://soulflow.co/magic-quiz2 Visit my website: https://soulflow.co 

Tired of re-writing your Instagram bio every other day? Confused about what to have in your highlights vs your content? Not sure if you should post a pic of you or your logo?   With over a billion active users, Instagram can be an effective marketing platform that will get you free reach to potential clients all around the world.    In this episode, I give you all the tips in order to zhuzh up your Instagram page, and get you calling in your next set of paying clients.   Grab a paper and pen. You're gonna wanna take some notes for this episode!     Listen in as I talk about:   Instagram is your canvas – be the artist! How to think of your IG page How to choose a handle Three fun and effective ways to write your IG bio What to include in your highlights Tips on content that gets you paid     Work with me: The Alchemy Room - LIFETIME-Access Holistic Business Coaching Program and Virtual Community for Healers, Leaders, and Trailblazers who want to start and grow a business built on truth, healing, and community: https://soulflow.co/the-alchemy-room Connect with me Instagram @soulflowco What's your Soul Biz Magic? Take my quiz and find out!: https://soulflow.co/magic-quiz2 Visit my website: https://soulflow.co 

Moral perfectionism. The notion that there's a clean binary between good vs bad, antagonist vs protagonist, virtuous vs immoral. But is that really true?  We live in a world with strong binaries and that comes with tremendous amount of pressure to have to pick a side. Where does that leave us? How do we charge money while honoring accessibility? How do we grow a profitable business without playing into systems of oppression? How do we honor our desires without causing harm? How do we learn (and unlearn) without outsourcing our native truth?   In this episode, I share my thoughts on what it means to unsubscribe to moral perfectionism and what it means to enter Villain Era.   *As you listen to this episode, don't just listen for share-able sound bites. I invite you to be discernful with this information, and to of course consult with your own native wisdom.*     Listen in as I talk about:   What is moral perfectionism The Big 3 Evils: Patriarchy, Colonialism, and Capitalism My honest thoughts on capitalism Looking into the future with Conscious and Humane Capitalism  The book that made me snap into Villain Era What we can learn about being villains and how to embody your own Miranda Priestly What it actually means to be shameless Blurring binaries is true sovereignty How villain era can help with your marketing and business     Work with me: The Alchemy Room - LIFETIME-Access Holistic Business Coaching Program and Virtual Community for Healers, Leaders, and Trailblazers who want to start and grow a business built on truth, healing, and community: https://soulflow.co/the-alchemy-room Connect with me Instagram @soulflowco What's your Soul Biz Magic? Take my quiz and find out!: https://soulflow.co/magic-quiz2 Visit my website: https://soulflow.co 

Did you know that your conscious mind has access to only 7% of all your memories??  And that you have the ability to travel through not just your past but to your future?? And that you have the ability to re-program your money consciousness, just like upgrading the operating system on your laptop?? Tune into this powerful and enlightening conversation with my personal quantum healer, Erin.   We talk all about the powers of the subconscious, quantum healing, and what to expect at our upcoming workshop, Not Yo' Mama's Money Mindset Workshop!   We're doing something revolutionary — we're healing money wounds and re-coding our minds thru the trifecta of:  SUBCONSCIOUS SOMATICS STEWARDSHIP   It's not just about affirmations and journal prompts. We're going DEEP.  Listen in as I talk about: What is Quantum Healing The power of your subconscious mind Using the subconscious to heal and re-program your wealth consciousnness   Resources mentioned in this episode: The Alchemy Room - LIFETIME-Access Holistic Business Coaching Program and Virtual Community for Healers, Leaders, and Trailblazers who want to start and grow a business built on truth, healing, and community: https://soulflow.co/the-alchemy-room Connect with me Instagram @soulflowco What's your Soul Biz Magic? Take my quiz and find out!: https://soulflow.co/magic-quiz2 Visit my website: https://soulflow.co  Connect with Erin http://www.healingjourneys333.com  

Is quitting your day job really the gold standard for proving your success as a business owner? I'm gonna go against the grain and talk about reasons why you SHOULD quit your 9-5 versus reasons why you should NOT quit your day job. This is a topic that we really need to be more transparent about because having a 9-5 or a supporting job, a part-time job, or another income stream outside of your business is NOT a bad thing, and it doesn't make you less of a business owner. It most certainly doesn't make you less successful as an entrepreneur.  Putting all the pressure on yourself to quit can sometimes cause more harm for your mental health and for your business than it is causing you to move forward.  So if you are in a position where you are thinking about leaving your job, or if you are thinking about taking on another job to support you while you grow your business, then you are gonna wanna listen to this episode! Listen in as I talk about: [6:06]: Reasons NOT to quit your day job [11:36]: How you know it's time to quit your day job [16:07]: My personal story of quitting my day job   Resources mentioned in this episode: The Alchemy Room - LIFETIME-Access Holistic Business Coaching Program and Virtual Community for Healers, Leaders, and Trailblazers who want to start and grow a business built on truth, healing, and community: https://soulflow.co/the-alchemy-room Connect with me Instagram @soulflowco What's your Soul Biz Magic? Take my quiz and find out!: https://soulflow.co/magic-quiz2 Visit my website: https://soulflow.co 

Do we ever wish you could make quick money, but you just feel so overwhelmed whenever you think about launching an offer? Like thinking about putting together the marketing plan and then the logistics of the offer, creating worksheets for it, Canva slides, a sales page, a checkout page. It's a lot.    So what if I told you that there is a way to make fast money and have so much fun with it that you don't even have time to feel overwhelmed? I know, right?    So listen on, because I am spilling all the tea on how you canmake fun and fast money with a pop up event.   Listen in as I talk about:   [1:39]: The super successful pop-up Gala that inspired this episode [5:01]: Why do a pop-up event? Who is this for? [12:54]: Examples of your next pop-up event [16:09]: Parameters of a pop-up event [25:50]: Outcomes and business results    Resources mentioned in this episode: The Alchemy Room - LIFETIME-Access Holistic Business Coaching Program and Virtual Community for Healers, Coaches, Spiritual Visionaries, and SOULpreneurs who want to start and grow a business built on truth, healing, and community: https://soulflow.co/the-alchemy-room Connect with me Instagram @soulflowco What's your Soul Biz Magic? Take my quiz and find out!: https://soulflow.co/magic-quiz2 Visit my website: https://soulflow.co

One of the biggest block entrepreneurs inevitably run into is the feeling of discomfort whenever they attempt something new or take on a role they've never done before. In other words, we resist EXPANSION because our brains are so good at keeping us safe.   What if I told you that EXPANSION is your natural state? That as a human and business owner, life gets to get BETTER and BETTER?   Listen in as I talk about:   [3:44]: Why Expansion isn't always sexy [5:29]: How to handle the spiral of panic during an active expansion moment [8:53]: The one simple question to shift your mindset from fear to possibility [10:51]: The danger of mainstream spirituality and the constant “high vibe” [14:22]: There's no way you can f*ck it up! [18:12]: The Universe is your contractor [22:46]: Why EXPANSION is your natural essence Resources mentioned in this episode: The Alchemy Room - LIFETIME-Access Holistic Business Coaching Program and Virtual Community for Healers, Coaches, Spiritual Visionaries, and SOULpreneurs who want to start and grow a business built on truth, healing, and community: https://soulflow.co/the-alchemy-room Connect with me Instagram @soulflowco What's your Soul Biz Magic? Take my quiz and find out!: https://soulflow.co/magic-quiz2 Visit my website: https://soulflow.co

In this week's episode the Naked Pastor talks to us about all things social media, comment sections, and building sustainable virtual community. Check it out and I hope you find some takeaways to apply to your own social media platforms! SHOW NOTES: MY BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/Re-Thinking-Everything-Spiritual-Journey/dp/B09QNV8QX7/ref=sr_1_1?crid=V52CPQJD7N53&keywords=glenn+siepert+book&qid=1643323104&sprefix=glenn+siepert+book%2Caps%2C71&sr=8-1  PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/whatifproject  BUY ME A COFFEE: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/whatifproject  HERETIC SHOP: https://www.bonfire.com/store/the-heretic-shop/  NAKED PASTOR: https://nakedpastor.com  FLIP IT LIKE THIS: https://www.amazon.com/Flip-Like-This-David-Hayward/dp/1506484727/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=15ZDI703QUX3L&keywords=flip+it+like+this&qid=1662085495&sprefix=flip+it+like+thi%2Caps%2C114&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUE3TTVPV0Q0VThWNkcmZW5jcnlwdGVkSWQ9QTA5NzIwMjgzUTJBS09KTzVQQlFGJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTAzNTM5NjlXRlNPTFRFVkRBNlEmd2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGYmYWN0aW9uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVl  (SPECIAL MUSIC) YUNG CITIZEN: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/yung-citizen/945553400 

Howard Rheingold is author of Tools For Thought, The Virtual Community, and Smart Mobs, Net Smart; editor of Whole Earth Review, and Millennium Whole Earth Catalog; Lecturer, Social Media Literacies, Stanford. You can find Howard on Twitter @hrheingold and Patreon @howardrheingold.   For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/howard-rheingold-author-of-tools-for-thought/   If you're enjoying the Cool Tools podcast, check out our paperback book Four Favorite Tools: Fantastic tools by 150 notable creators, available in both Color or B&W on Amazon: https://geni.us/fourfavoritetools

What does it really take to scale your business to six figures? Is it really what it's chalked up to be?  This episode is not your typical “Here's how I did it, so go do the same thing I did” episode. I'm giving you the real and raw behind the scenes LESSONS of how I was able to grow Soul Flow Co. to a six-figure business.  HINT: none of these lessons are about strategy. They are all about energetics, embodiment, and spiritual practices that enabled me to expand my capacity to love & serve, and therefore receive. If growing your soul business to six-figures in integrity and honoring your humanity is part of your vision, then you need to listen to this episode! Listen in as I talk about: [3:37]: BIG FAT DISCLAIMER about a “six-figure business” [5:42]: Why revenue goals shouldn't be your first order of business [10:28]: Lesson 1 [12:13]: The surprising truth no one ever tells you about growing your business [14:06] Why surrender is such an important practice as an entrerpreneur [17:36] Lesson 2 [19:34] Why people saying ‘No' was critical to my growth [26:10] Lesson 3 [28:54] The mindset shift that has made me the most money [32:38] Lesson 4 [34:42] The energetic shift that has been key to my growth and success [39:27] Bonus Lesson 5 [42:01] Why I'm so proud of this milestone Resources mentioned in this episode: The Alchemy Room - LIFETIME-Access Holistic Business Coaching Program and Virtual Community for Healers, Coaches, Spiritual Visionaries, and SOULpreneurs who want to start and grow a business built on truth, healing, and community: https://soulflow.co/the-alchemy-room Connect with me Instagram @soulflowco What's your Soul Biz Magic? Take my quiz and find out!: https://soulflow.co/magic-quiz2 Visit my website: https://soulflow.co 

Steve Gottlieb is founder and CEO of Shindig, a platform for online video chat events. Prior to Shindig, Gottlieb founded the independent record label TVT Records and its publishing arm TVT Music.

Steve Gottlieb is founder and CEO of Shindig, a platform for online video chat events. Prior to Shindig, Gottlieb founded the independent record label TVT Records and its publishing arm TVT Music.

A virtual community is about how we stay connected as people, despite the fact that we're not physically working with each other. What's important is how to master your work communications in a way that builds a strong collective culture in your law firm, even when it's virtual or a hybrid of brick and mortar and virtual. In this episode we discuss: How to master your work communications in a way that builds a strong collective culture. 3 Key Strategies to create your Virtual Community at work. Encouraging people to engage in light chatter through an app, helping you to start the day in a positive way. Helping your employees be successful at home, encouraging them to have their own workspace in a specific location. The importance of regular check-in meetings with someone in the management of the business. Sustaining a quality business while working virtually. How important is it to create engagement with and between your team. Encouraging your employees to take time off will reduce stress and make them happier. Contacts – Social Media Facebook, Linkden, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube Snip-Its 00:09:22 (38 Seconds) Remember, we learned about llamas through talking to this employee, right? So like, there's little things that you don't really think matter. And they might seem kind of like, why does that why, why take additional time for that? But it really does create cohesion between people. They feel closer to each other, actually, when they are intentional about communicating with each other, and communicating about something positive sets the tone so that over the course of time, everyone's message has gotten increasingly more positive and everyone has gotten more excited about the things that we are learning about each other and sharing with each other through that channel. Allison Bio: Allison C. Williams, Esq., is the Founder and Owner of the Williams Law Group, LLC, with offices in Short Hills and Freehold, New Jersey. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, is Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Matrimonial Law Attorney, and is the first attorney in New Jersey to become Board-Certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy in the field of Family Law. Ms. Williams is an accomplished businesswoman. In 2017, the Williams Law Group won the LawFirm500 award, ranking 14th of the fastest-growing law firms in the nation, as Ms. Williams grew the firm by 581% in three years. Ms. Williams won the Silver Stevie Award for Female Entrepreneur of the Year in 2017. In 2018, Ms. Williams was voted as NJBIZ's Top 50 Women in Business and was designated one of the Top 25 Leading Women Entrepreneurs and Business Owners. In 2019, Ms. Williams won the Seminole 100 Award for founding one of the fastest-growing companies among graduates of Florida State University. In 2018, Ms. Williams created Law Firm Mentor, a business coaching service for lawyers. She helps solo and small law firm attorneys grow their business revenues, crush chaos in business and make more money. Through multi-day intensive business retreats, group and one-to-one coaching, and strategic planning sessions, Ms. Williams advises lawyers on all aspects of creating, sustaining, and scaling a law firm business – and specifically, she teaches them the core foundational principles of marketing, sales, personnel management, communications, and money management in law firms.

By Walt HickeyWelcome to the Numlock Sunday edition.This week I spoke to Kaitlyn Tiffany, the author of the new book Everything I Need I Get From You, out this week. The book is a deep dive into the nature of fandom, and how fangirls have been instrumental in the design, growth and evolution of the internet and social media. It's a great look that combines digital culture and pop culture. The book can be found wherever books are sold, and Tiffany can be found at The Atlantic and on Twitter. This interview has been condensed and edited. You are the author of the brand new book Everything I Need I Get From You. It is all about the intersection of fandom and internet culture, and how they each feed one another. What got you interested in this topic?I was part of fandom myself, which is very obvious in the book and not a secret. I spent a lot of time on Tumblr when I was 19 and 20 and 21. Then I moved to New York to start working in journalism, and I started working at a tech website that was getting into internet culture coverage. It was sort of the only thing I felt I could contribute; I didn't know anything about tech, and as soon as they were talking about expanding their cultural coverage, I was like, "well, I can do Tumblr, that's tech, right?" That was how I started reporting on fandom professionally.Later on, I knew that I wanted to do a book about fandom because there was a lot of academic work about fandom already, but there hadn't really been, I felt, a satisfying, non-academic popular press explanation of how fandom and internet culture were intertwined. It just made sense to do it through the lens of One Direction, because that was where my personal experience was, and it's really hard to parachute into a fandom that you aren't a part of at the length and level of detail that I wanted to do.I love that you took it from the point of One Direction because I feel like boy bands have this habit of really dominating an entire conversation on fandom for a while. You can almost follow different eras with them, and the era where One Direction was phenomenally popular was a super transformational one for the internet as a whole. Do you want to kind of talk about One Direction, their run, and their role in the internet's fandom history?One of the academics I talked to for the book, Allison McCracken, I actually asked her, "When did fandom start on Tumblr? How did Tumblr become the fandom platform?" And she said it's three things that happened all the same time: Harry Potter, Glee and One Direction. Those three fandoms were huge in the early days of Tumblr, and I think really Glee and One Direction in particular, really solidified the visual culture of fandom, the tradition of making really elaborate gif sets and also of shipping. Shipping was huge. Anybody who doesn't know what that is, it's fan fiction, imaginative relationship pairings between characters. I want to get into that a little bit later, too, cause that's a huge part of this, but yeah, go on.Totally. That was huge with Glee fandom and it was also big with One Direction fandom. Numerous famous pairings in One Direction fandom. Then with Twitter, I think One Direction just kind of coincidentally came along at the same moment when teenagers and younger than teenagers were joining Twitter. Those were really the first big years of Twitter having a youth culture. I think it was the combination of those two things, and then also sort of an underlooked part of the One Direction history, I think, is how much the YouTube algorithm was driving people to One Direction. I heard that from so many people that I interviewed who started out as just watching whatever pop music videos, and getting recommended the One Direction videos. Then, crucially with One Direction, there was just so much content that it was really easy to fall down a rabbit hole, if you will. Once you got done watching all their music videos, with another pop star, you'd be like, "Oh, well that was fun, but there's nothing else to look at right now. I guess I'll have to wait." But One Direction was constantly putting out behind-the-scenes stuff on YouTube in a way that was on a much quicker pace, I think, than other pop stars were up to that point. Part of their allure was that they were just really rambunctious and irreverent to the idea of marketing, and it felt really immediate and genuine and authentic, which was something people really craved, the ability to connect directly or feel like they were connecting directly with celebrities at that time.The book is just so phenomenal. I thought it was really interesting because one of the bigger ideas now is parasocial relationships where fans feel that they have a specific relationship to an artist of various different degrees of fame. It felt like they were just some of the first folks to really monetize that and capitalize on that and really engage with their fans to almost encourage that at times, at least at the pop star level.I think it's hard to know, too, how much of that was actually deliberate and how much of that was just the fact that they were also teenagers and also just kind of wanted to be on Twitter and on social media. I think it was genuinely fun for them — maybe not for their whole career, I think there's definitely a point where it became less fun for them — but at the beginning I think they were just so shocked to be famous that they were like, yeah, let's record to front-facing camera video diaries all the time. Why not? And respond to people's tweets. And tweet about what kind of cereal we're eating for breakfast and whatever. Why wouldn't we? Everyone loves it.I loved how you really tie the development and the creation of internet culture to dominant musical acts at the time. I love the part that you wrote about the Grateful Dead and the early, early internet. Do you want to talk a little bit about the old days so to speak and what role music played in forming how internet subcultures form?Obviously that part of the book was not from firsthand experience, it was from historical research because that was before I was allowed to use the internet or even knew what the internet was. I actually have the book right behind me, The Virtual Community, which is the history of the WELL, which is really fascinating and talks a lot about Grateful Dead fans in the early forums, the kind where you had to pay to use them because they had to pay for server space. The most enthusiastic participants in these early forums in California were Grateful Dead fans. One of the early operators of the WELL even said, "I think that they were kind of single-handedly keeping us afloat, keeping us in the black."I thought that was really interesting. Grateful Dead fans were huge in early online bulletin board culture and when I was doing the research for the book, it was really remarkable to see just how every step of the way, each time some new platform or some new use of the internet was created, the first people to really eagerly use it would be fans and often music fans in particular. I don't know exactly why that is, but it was pretty consistent. There was Nancy Baym, who is a researcher, an academic, and has a really great book called Playing To The Crowd that has a lot of that history in it, and I cite quite a bit in the book.I just like how the very structure of the internet at times is like you just mentioned, informed directly by the music nerds and obsessed fans that immediately rush to it and really bear out its potential.And platforms will create or kind of take shape around fandom and ultimately end up creating features or having to respond to fandom like Twitter. It's funny to go back and kind of read the news coverage of how Twitter was dealing with fans in its early years in 2009, 2010, because they were completely baffled by its energy. There's an odd tension there, because these are extremely enthusiastic and frequent users of their product. But they're also people who tend to be kind of breaking the rules or breaking the features. They're trying to game the trending topics. They're circulating content to which they do not own copyright. They are sometimes harassing people. I feel like Twitter was caught on its heels and had to really figure out how do we keep fans on the platform, but also make sure that it doesn't become completely unusable for anybody who doesn't want to participate in fandom.It definitely gets things very real for platforms very quickly. You can tell even with BTS and Army, and there was an early story with Twitter that Justin Bieber, an apocryphal story I should say, was responsible for 3 percent of their traffic for a good while there. It's just so interesting that fandom is so intense that even servers have trouble with it sometimes.Yeah, totally. I think the Justin Bieber story was funny to me because journalists who were writing about it kept saying there are specific servers in Twitter headquarters for Justin Bieber tweets. And I was like, how would that work? There's just one server that's got the song “Baby” on it. It's in charge of playing that for anybody who listens.Yeah, yeah, exactly.I do want to talk a little bit about how you mentioned that they played trending topics, they played the algorithm. You had some amazing stuff in there about how One Direction fans attempted to play the Billboard charts and attempted to do whatever was necessary to do that. Obviously Numlock is a newsletter that loves data and the stories that inform it. I love that part where it was all about the lengths that a fandom will go to to specifically exploit algorithms designed to rank what music is popular at the time. Can you talk about that?That was based on reporting that I did when I was at The Verge and I was just scrolling through my Tumblr feed being like, I've got to find something to write about. I came across fans who were posting about gifting iTunes singles, which was something that was really interesting to me. The purposes of it were several, but it was whenever there's a new One Direction song coming out — or at the time I think it was Harry Styles' first solo single — in order to boost the sales in hopes of getting him better chart performance, and also in order to engage in a spirit of community, people would sign up to gift the iTunes single to someone else because you can only buy it once yourself, but you can gift it and that also counts as a sale. But you can only gift to people who live in your country. So they made this elaborate system for pairing people up in a spreadsheet. Oh we got 30 people willing to give away iTunes singles in Brazil, do we have 30 people who will accept the gift? All of that stuff. That was very elaborate. I was really intrigued by that. Then once I was asking people about that, they started to tell me about the other things they were doing to boost the single, which I just thought were so interesting. There are the kind of obvious ones of getting everybody in the fandom to just blast radio requests on Twitter and whatever, or Shazam the song over and over so that's recommended in Shazam.Then the really interesting one was that in order to boost the song's positioning on American Billboard charts, people who did not live in the US would download VPNs and basically fake their Spotify streams so they would appear to be American Spotify streams. I think a couple of other reporters asked Spotify and Apple Music and other streaming platforms about their awareness of that kind of behavior. They definitely did not give straight answers on whether that would work. The Billboard charts similarly were kind of vague about how they determine inauthentic activity. I thought that was a fun story. I mean, obviously the number of fans who were participating was not high enough to really make a difference.Also just the basic math of how many times a person would even be able to stream the song in a day, it just didn't add up to the point where you were going to really make a dent, but it was really just funny and fun to see people trying. I thought it was really interesting that that became kind of a ritual of waiting for a single to come out, preparing to put this giant machine in action. In the final edits of the book when it was read by a lawyer at FSG, she asked me to rephrase that section a little bit, because it read too much like an instruction manual on how to do those things. And I was like, "I don't know if these things are illegal, but okay."For those who are interested, the book is called The Anarchist Cookbook For Fans. How to Blow Up A Spotify Code.Again, it's a really incredible book, folks should check it out. I would like to read my favorite two sentences from it. One Direction fans' relationship with the entertainment industry is adversarial, but mostly because they think they could run it better. Literally. In 2015, there were two separate fan efforts to buy One Direction out of their record label contract.What on earth is happening there?Yeah, I can't say that I was personally involved in that effort, but I think that's part of the fun thing about fandom, that there are things that people walk around their daily lives accepting as impossible and unrealistic. And then fans are so on the very edge between reality and fantasy that it would occur to them, well, there are millions of us, logically, and if each of us gave a few dollars, we would have many, many millions of dollars, and we could just intercede in One Direction's career. I mean, I don't have any understanding of how their contract works and I'm sure that these fans didn't either, but you can see how they got there.That's incredible. I love how you talk about some of the mechanics of fandom. You talk about how they grow fandom and how some of the platforms can encourage fandom. I also just really like how you really dive into some of the nature of obsession. We talk about conspiracy theories in fandom a lot, but in this specific case, there were a ton circling around this. It's not the first time. We're all familiar with Paul is Dead of the Beatles and whatnot, but why do you think fandom lends itself so inextricably to conspiracy theories and things like that?I think part of it is that if you are paying such close attention to something over such an extended period of time, you're going to start to notice things that seem to be important or seem to be overlooked, and pull them out. Especially in internet fandom, and especially on Tumblr, there is sort of an incentive to be the one to notice something that other fans didn't notice yet. You saw that a lot in the conspiracy theories around One Direction, which just to clarify, started with this theory that Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson, two members of the band, were secretly gay and secretly in love and secretly being forcibly closeted by their management. When it started out, a lot of people were really into it and it was fun and totally harmless.Then later it took a little bit of a darker turn, just because of the extent that people went to defend it, which involved a lot of misogynistic vitriol around the women that either one of them were dating at the time. Most darkly when Louis Tomlinson became a father, a lot of fans became convinced at first that the baby was a doll, and then later that it was either a hired actor or the child of the stepfather of the woman who Tomlinson had been dating and who was his co-parent. That obviously was over a line for some people. It didn't feel over a line for others. Once you cross that line, you can go down some interesting routes. But to return to the question of why fandom lends itself to that, I think fandom is also in opposition to mainstream media a lot of the time. The Larry Stylinson community was very defensive about any kind of media attention and with internet fandom in particular and with One Direction even more so. There is just so much to look at and to wade through and so much evidence and proof that you can find. This is something people bring up when they talk about all kinds of internet conspiracy theorizing, including QAnon or whatever else. Not that I think that there are really a lot of powerful similarities between Larry Stylinson and QAnon, but part of why people get involved in that is because it feels like anybody can participate. Anybody can find something. Anybody could be the one to have an important discovery and kind of get clout within the community. I think that's part of it, and, yeah, I mean maybe fandom also does tend to attract people who are missing some other forms of affirmation or stimulation in their life and they can dedicate a lot of time to thinking about that stuff.Even the title of the book, Everything I Need I Get From You, is a fairly direct articulation. I also want to talk a little bit about getting to the more innocuous side of some of that. The fan fiction component just really can't be ignored. Fan fiction obviously has a fairly long history, particularly obviously about fictional characters. It seems unique that particularly with One Direction, this was a situation where people and fans were writing fan fiction about actual human beings, to an extent that also now exists in other fandoms, but this felt like a kind of significant change in what fan fiction had been. Can you expand a little bit on that?Yeah. Real person fan fiction, or RPF, has always been a part of fandom, but it was a much more secretive part of fandom for a long time. There was a pretty powerful taboo against it, I would say, because a lot of fans were sort of rightfully concerned that outside eyes looking in on fandom are going to judge whatever they're doing as unhealthy and pathological. That writing about real people would attract a lot of negative attention. There was real person fan fiction, notably in the Beatles fandom, but a lot of that was disseminated only via letters. Later, real person fan fiction would've been disseminated mostly in private email list servs. It was pretty uncommon for it to just be published for broad consumption, especially in the early aughts, because platforms like fanfiction.net and then later LiveJournal put a lot of content moderation guidelines and limitations on that kind of writing and prohibited some of it.Part of the reason that One Direction was a turning point for real person fic was just that Tumblr was a turning point for real person fic. That was where a lot of fans went when they left other fan fiction writing platforms because of the limitations. They all arrived on Tumblr, and that's another reason why it became the fandom platform. I think that's another reason why the Larry Stylinson story is kind of sad, because people who were writing about Larry Stylinson in their fiction, I think a lot of them kind of felt you guys have ruined this by turning it into a conspiracy theory that embarrasses the whole fandom and makes it look like what we're doing is the same thing as what you're doing.It has also gone somewhat mainstream, in as much as fan fiction can be mainstream. Dream SMP, that's fairly large and it's about real people. If you looked at the AO3 top fan works from last year, you do see BTS show up on that, and those are real actual human beings. I don't know, it just seemed like it's gone rather mainstream, even if it was fairly taboo at one point.Yeah, totally. I, for a while, was following a lot of shipping blogs for women from the US Women's National Team soccer players. And that was really interesting to see. I didn't realize that people did RPF slash fic about sports stars.Just kind of backing out a little bit, what's something that you really learned about fandom that you didn't know going into reporting out the book?It was just really fun and interesting to talk to fans about what they got out of fandom. I found it really striking just how interesting and different they all were. Not that that was surprising in itself, but it was surprising how easy it was to get there. Part of what I talk about in the beginning of the book is this trope or this image that people have of a screaming fangirl, and that image is obviously based in reality. People do go to the concerts and scream.But it was really interesting to me and exciting that you can approach someone who ostensibly is that and ask them one question and they will tell you so many interesting things about like, what fandom means to them, their positive and negative experiences, how their relationship to fandom has changed as they've gotten older. And all that was super interesting. That part was really fun to hear about girls who, like me, cared about this thing a lot eight, nine years ago, but still are thinking through their relationship to it now as adults.What would you say your relationship is to it now?I mean, it's definitely different than it was when I was on Tumblr all the time. One Direction doesn't exist anymore, so it's different for that reason, too. But I still get really excited about whatever Harry Styles is doing, whatever Niall Horan is doing. He's actually my favorite member of One Direction. That's a way of kind of breaking up monotony of being an adult, or I guess, just a way of thinking about how my own identity has changed. I mean, I was working on the book during the pandemic, so I did a lot of just sitting in my apartment, kind of reliving being 19 and being on the internet all the time, looking at One Direction. That definitely got a little weird at times, but it was also really fun.That's amazing. The book is really fun. I enjoyed every word of it. It's called Everything I Need I Get From You. Kaitlyn, where can folks find you and where can folks find the book?I'm on Twitter @kait_tiffany. I'm also on The Atlantic under my author page, and the book you can find pretty much anywhere I think. I mean, I usually share the bookshop.org link because I think they're cool. And I have not used Amazon in five years. So don't use Amazon. Don't tell Amazon I said that.Or if you want maybe access it through a VPN and then just stream it constantly to get it up the charts.Yeah, exactly. That'd be great.If you have anything you'd like to see in this Sunday special, shoot me an email. Comment below! Thanks for reading, and thanks so much for supporting Numlock.Thank you so much for becoming a paid subscriber! Send links to me on Twitter at @WaltHickey or email me with numbers, tips, or feedback at walt@numlock.news. Get full access to Numlock News at www.numlock.com/subscribe

In this episode, you'll meet DN Instructor, Michelle Young. Michelle will share the story of her horsemanship transformation and will talk about common student challenges (and her solutions). About the Guest: Michelle Young is a trainer and instructor who helps create connection and understanding between horses and humans. She specializes in dressage, healthy biomechanics, foundational training, and young horse development. Michelle's mission is to help horses and the people who love them find more relaxation and connection. To create confident horses and empowered students. To educate both horse and rider to find healthy movement and mental peace. To inspire students to better themselves and help horses live happier healthier lives. She does this through in-person coaching, clinics, and virtual classes and community. Michelle was personally invited by Karen Rohlf to become a Licensed Dressage Naturally Instructor. She lives in Vancouver, Canada. You can learn more about Michelle at https://michelleyounghorsemanship.com (https://michelleyounghorsemanship.com ) and can follow her on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/michelleyounghorsemanship (https://www.facebook.com/michelleyounghorsemanship ) and Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/michelle.horsemanship/ (https://www.instagram.com/michelle.horsemanship/ ) About the Host: Karen Rohlf, author and creator of Dressage Naturally, is an internationally recognized clinician who is changing the equestrian educational paradigm. She teaches students of all disciplines and levels from around the world in her clinics and the Dressage Naturally virtual programs. Karen is well known for training horses with a priority on partnership, a student-empowering approach to teaching, and a positive and balanced point of view. She believes in getting to the heart of our mental, emotional, and physical partnership with our horses by bringing together the best of the worlds of dressage and partnership-based training. Karen's passion for teaching extends beyond horse training. Her For The Love Of The Horse: Transform Your Business Seminar and Mastermind/Mentorship programs are a result of her commitment to helping heart-centered equine professionals thrive so that horses may have a happier life in this industry. Resource Links: ▪ More about Michelle Young: · Website: https://michelleyounghorsemanship.com (https://michelleyounghorsemanship.com) · Virtual Community: https://connectedhorsemanshipcommunity.com/details (https://connectedhorsemanshipcommunity.com/details) · Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michelleyounghorsemanship (https://www.facebook.com/michelleyounghorsemanship) · Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michelle.horsemanship/ (https://www.instagram.com/michelle.horsemanship/) · Email: info@michelleyounghorsemanship.com ▪ The Dressage Naturally Video Classroom: https://dnc.dressagenaturally.net/ (https://dnc.dressagenaturally.net/) ▪ Get 3 free training videos: https://dressagenaturally.net/free-dressage-training-videos/ (https://dressagenaturally.net/free-dressage-training-videos/) ▪ Take the Happy Athlete Quiz: https://inbound.dressagenaturally.net/happy-athlete-quiz-start (https://inbound.dressagenaturally.net/happy-athlete-quiz-start) ▪ Finding The Sweet Spot Of Healthy Biomechanics Course: https://inbound.dressagenaturally.net/sweet-spot (https://inbound.dressagenaturally.net/sweet-spot) ▪ The Dressage Naturally Book: https://shop.dressagenaturally.net/collections/home-page-featured/products/book-dvd (https://shop.dressagenaturally.net/collections/home-page-featured/products/book-dvd) ▪ Course: Habits For Excellent Horsemanship: https://inbound.dressagenaturally.net/heh (https://inbound.dressagenaturally.net/heh) ▪ Join the conversation in our Dressage Naturally Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DressageNaturallyLand (https://www.facebook.com/groups/DressageNaturallyLand) ▪ See all of Karen Rohlf's Online

2020 changed everything we thought we knew about business events. Suddenly, name tags and conference halls were swapped for meeting links and living rooms. Now that the pandemic is hopefully easing up, how will people choose to connect? Will Curran, the Founder of Endless Events – a comprehensive event management company – talks about how people's behaviors concerning event attendance have changed and must be kept in mind. He also shares how lessons learned from our recent event experiences might be applied moving forward to build inclusive and, perhaps, long-lasting communities.Tune in to learn:This most important tip for creating good hybrid events (12:00)How to measure the success of events (16:30)Getting to the heart of event retention and making your events must-attend experiences (18:30)How will virtual reality, meta, AR/VR play a role in the event world? (29:30)Marketing Trends is brought to you by Salesforce Marketing Cloud. For more great marketing insights, sign up for The Marketing Moments newsletter. You'll get ideas to help you build better customer relationships, invites to upcoming events, and access to the latest industry research. Subscribe at https://sforce.co/MarketingMoments

In this episode, I'm sharing the #1 desire of my heart, the revelation that'll change YOUR LIFE the most (if it hasn't already!) and the ONE THING that produces the REAL life transformation & living ON FIRE for God! Again, I pray for God's help before I go live but I also let it flow very freely when I speak so take everything I share back to the WORD and test it for yourself :)⁣ .⁣ Are you hungry for God?! On Fire now?! Have you recently experienced a new revelation of Jesus or desire that?! -- Let's connect on a deeper level! DM me on Instagram @sarapetrucci_xo or email me: sarapetruccixo@gmail.com⁣ .⁣ Looking to dive into the Bible with a group of women who are seeking after God and encountering fresh revelation of Him in His word via VIRTUAL Community?! -- Join us for our new study on God's character inside Encompass here: https://encompasswomen.com/⁣ ⁣ Remember...Jesus is WILD about you!!! You're made in HIS Image. He died to tear the veil between you. He died to give you ETERNAL LIFE (which starts NOW!!). His Spirit lives IN YOU!! And His #1 desire is to live closer with you!! To live in UNION with you!! Seek Him and you will find Him and when you do, you're whole world will be transformed in the most amazing ways and experience LOVE like you never have before (if you know, you know what I mean)!!! ⁣ ⁣ xo Sara Petrucci

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Today, we're joined by Maxwell Lyons, a Community Manager at Course Hero. Maxwell shares how they drive engagement in their community, and how through a combination of feedback and data, they know what kind of programming their community wants. He also explains how going virtual has had a positive impact on the community. Course Hero is an online learning platform with over sixty million course-specific study resources for students to access worldwide. These resources consist of practice problems, study guides, test prep materials, etc. As a Community Manager, Maxwell manages thirty of their on-campus representatives with the Student Community team. The members of the community get various benefits. The community offers support to each other as they seek ways to grow student engagement and offer support to other students at schools around the world while on their learning journey. To drive engagement in the community, the team uses slack workspaces and advice channels, incentives, bonuses, specific events, and more. Though the community programs change, it's important to get feedback from on-campus reps, listen to their thoughts, be open to further changes, and adapt. Also, get the most out of the virtual experience by engaging with your community.