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JoAnna Haugen is a seasoned writer, speaker, and founder of Rooted, a solutions-storytelling platform. Her work has been published in more than 60 print and online publications, including Fast Company, Popular Science, Mongabay, BBC, and CNN. Her time as a returned Peace Corps volunteer, commercial travel writer, intrepid world traveler, international election observer, and American expatriate informed the establishment of Rooted, a storytelling platform at the intersection of sustainable travel, environmental conservation, and community-focused advocacy efforts. Rooted’s mission is to responsibly document, support, celebrate, and share sustainable travel initiatives that put communities first and to help others do the same. Learn more about JoAnna’s background here: https://www.joannahaugen.com/about/ Destination on the Left is joined by JoAnna Haugen, the founder of Rooted, a solutions storytelling platform. On our podcast, JoAnna and I have an amazing conversation about using the diverse voices of a local community to help tell that destination’s story. JoAnna talks about how the world is a messy place, and she shares her thoughts around embracing the messiness to develop a greater sense of authenticity. Learn how JoAnna uses authenticity, creativity, and collaboration to navigate the new challenges posed by the global pandemic. What You Will Learn in This Episode: JoAnna’s journey into the travel and tourism industry Why JoAnna was inspired to combat the damage caused by travel writing by creating her own storytelling platform How Rooted is helping destinations thrive Rooted’s three target audiences, and how the platform brings them together as a cohesive force How JoAnna is using her platform to promote responsible travel communication and sustainable travel How JoAnna’s experiences in Kenya shaped her entire perspective of the travel and tourism industry JoAnna’s perspective on what destinations should be doing to stand out from the crowd How destinations can embrace the diverse voices of their communities Different ways destinations are using authenticity, creativity, and collaboration to navigate the new challenges posed by the global pandemic Projects that JoAnna will be introducing in the near future Best practices from JoAnna’s Collaboration in Crisis Guide The Power of Storytelling in Travel and Tourism JoAnna Haugen is the founder of Rooted, a solutions storytelling platform seated at the intersection of sustainable travel, environmental conservation, and community-based advocacy efforts. On our podcast, JoAnna and I have an amazing conversation about using the diverse voices of a local community to help tell that destination’s story. JoAnna talks about how the world is a messy place, and she shares her thoughts around embracing the messiness to develop a greater sense of authenticity. Learn how JoAnna uses authenticity, creativity, and collaboration to navigate the new challenges posed by the global pandemic. Local Solutions with a Global Impact JoAnna says that “local solutions can have a global impact,” and that nugget inspired her to look for ways to combat the damage and destruction that travel writing has on the destinations we travel to and the people we meet while we’re there. It culminated in the creation of her storytelling platform “Rooted,” which aims to responsibly document, support, celebrate, and share sustainable travel initiatives that put communities first and help others do the same. We need to communicate about people, places, and the planet in a way that can activate impactful change. To accomplish this, JoAnna focuses on three specific audiences: travel service providers, representatives for local travel initiatives, and content creators. Responsible, Sustainable Travel and Tourism Many of us travel to certain places because the people there have shaped the destination as we know it. At the end of the day, JoAnna’s goal is to lift up local people, enterprises, and communities to highlight the work they’re doing and create vibrant destinations. That is what drives Rooted’s initiative to amplify everything being done on the local level. And in the midst of this global pandemic, we have an opportunity to tell an even greater story. If we want to maintain a sustainable travel and tourism industry moving forward, we need to do so in a way that lifts destinations up and paints them as something more than a pretty backdrop. Rooted’s bi-weekly newsletter: https://www.joannahaugen.com/rooted/ Website: https://www.joannahaugen.com/rooted/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joannahaugen/ Twitter: @joanna_haugen

Launching a brand new product or service can be scary. How do you price it? How do you package it up and tie it with a pretty marketing bow? Will the market pay as much as you want to charge because you know how valuable it is-- and they may not yet? This and so much more was on the agenda for today’s guest: Joanna Sapir, a business coach, and consultant who helps entrepreneurs create a more profitable and sustainable business through automation and sales processes. On today’s on-air strategy session, I chat with Joanna, a former high school history teacher and teacher educator who got started as an entrepreneur when she decided to open her own gym. After selling her business, she started working as a coach and consultant to help people systemize and streamline their business. We chat about what she is currently struggling with and how to determine where to price your digital products and services. We talk about: How Joanna got started as a business coach Why Joanna decided on Active Campaign for her clients Joanna’s clients and what they need help within their business How she teaches her clients about automation for their business The mindset that clients must have for automated services Importance of a consultation and vetting your clients The ultimate result to aim for in your business Affiliate income and how to integrate that into your client sequence Mallory’s advice to Joanna on pricing strategies for her digital products and services About Joanna: Joanna Sapir is a Business Coach, competitive Olympic-style Weightlifter, and Commander-in-Chief of the Ginger Army. She has been a teacher and mentor her whole life from the classroom to the gym floor and now to businesses across the world - helping consultants, coaches, and changemakers that are skilled at their craft and passionate about what they do build profitable, sustainable and fulfilling businesses. Learn more at joannasapir.com Connect with Joanna:Website | Facebook | LinkedIn Links: ActiveCampaign About Marketing Magic: The Marketing Magic podcast is where women entrepreneurs trying to do all the things come to get inspiration, business strategy, and on-air coaching on how to get their business noticed and growing. If you have a business that people need to know about in order for it to grow, you’re in the right place. This is the place to uncomplicate your marketing. Be sure to listen, subscribe, and leave a review! Join the conversation of other unapologetically successful women in her Facebook community, The #girlboss Club.

From the outside, Joanna Penn is a successful author of both fiction and non-fiction. And she’s an entrepreneur in that she controls her “products” by self-publishing.But as with her last interview on the show, there’s a lot more going on under the hood. Take an inside look with this episode — because there is lots of great information for you to consider for your own business.Joanna and Brian discuss how she has built a successful business that fits her lifestyle, the surprising impact that affiliate marketing has had on her bottom line, and how the rise of audiobooks, podcasting, and voice tech is changing the online landscape for writers.How full of knowledge and insight is this episode? Just know that toward the end of it, Brian is compelled to say the following: “Okay people, if you stopped listening at the halfway point, you screwed up and you don’t even know it.”So make sure you listen all the way through.This week’s rundown:• The rise of audio — both audiobooks and podcasts — and how it is changing the future of both consumption and publishing. (They return to this at the end too.)• How Joanna stays “sanely ambitious” with a successful 6-figure business that remains completely on her terms … and why she is not striving to hit seven figures.• Why it’s important to regularly review your business and double down on what you love.• Why Joanna and Brian struggle with Seth Godin’s definitions of freelancer and entrepreneur.• Joanna goes into detail about her business model and the many ways she makes money.• The specific strategies Joanna has used to leverage affiliate sales into half of her total revenue.• The many different tools and services Joanna uses to manage her independent publishing empire.• Joanna explains a few remarkable examples of what’s next in audio and voice — including A.I. voice synth and licensing a voice brand.• Why even a writer like Joanna is thinking and planning for #voicefirst moving forward.To access the show notes, transcript, and links mentioned in this episode, view the episode page at: http://unemployable.com/podcast/writing-business

Joanna is a single-mother-by-choice who conceived two children, one with her own eggs and the other with a donor’s eggs. As an only child having more than one child was very important to Joanna. She tells me about the process of conceiving her first child, and the painful decision to reduce her pregnancy when genetic issues were discovered with one of her twins. Joanna explains how she chose her sperm donor, whom you used for both pregnancies. Then she shared the much harder process of conceiving her second child with an egg and sperm donor. Although the pregnancy was more difficult, Joanna shares that parenting her second child was somewhat easier. We discuss the differences between children and how the genetic connection plays into it. Joanna explains about what she enjoys about parenthood and what she dislikes, her answers are honest and inspiring to anyone considering an alternative path to motherhood. If you have one child and are contemplating trying for a second, Joanna’s story will encourage you to weigh your options and make the right decisions for you. Some highlights of today’s conversation: Joanna’s early ideas of motherhood. Why she felt the need to have more than one child. The rigorous fertility treatments and the IVF (In vitro fertilization) that worked. How Joanna picked her sperm donor. The devastating news that one of her twins was not likely to survive. The decision to reduce the pregnancy and what followed. The exhausting year that led to Joanna’s second pregnancy. How she chose her egg donor. The bonding experience with Joanna’s children and the surprising results with each child. Why Joanna is a big fan of making the 4th trimester easier. Joanna’s support system and how being an introvert can interfere. Joanna’s opinion on maternity leave and how the return to work differed from child to child. Why nature versus nurture is bogus. Why self-care is so important to your sanity. Resources Sign up to be a podcast guest Motherhood Reimagined Website Motherhood Reimagined Tribe

She was just 19 when she woke up debilitatingly ill at age 19 and it took 17 years to find a proper diagnosis. Now Joanna Charnas says, "My body may be out of control but I am in control of how I take care of it." Learn tips and tools for living well with chronic illness or how to best care for someone who is from a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who truly gets it.  In this podversation: The day Joanna woke up debilitatingly ill at age 19 which became a 17-year struggle to get properly diagnosed Finding relief through meditation and other mindfulness and holistic health and wellness practices The importance of maintaining an existential perspective rooted in gratitude Learning to temper optimism with reality to best support clients and loved ones who are ill Being willing to ask for help when needed Check in on your strong friends Why Joanna likes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy & Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy We're all in the closet about something Why it's hard for people, especially women, to assert themselves and ask for needs to be met Owning your illness and not making others responsible for our needs "My body may be out of control but I am in control of how I take care of it." "Your pain and suffering are real, but with time, effort, and perseverance, you can still have much happiness in your life." "Attitude is the king, queen, and sun god rolled into one. It's the most important thing we bring to the challenges [we face]."   Meet Joanna Charnas: Joanna Charnas has been a clinical social worker for thirty years and holds specialties in group therapy and chronic illness. She blogged on the HuffPost Blog for two and a half years, and had been published on several other international websites, including Popsugar.com before authoring two books herself: Living Well with Chronic Illness, and 100 Tips and Tools for Managing Chronic Illness. Connect with her further at: https://www.joannacharnas.com/

Joanna Bryson (@j2bryson) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computing at the University of Bath. She works on Artificial Intelligence, ethics, and collaborative cognition.In 2010 Bryson published her most controversial work, "Robots Should Be Slaves" and has helped the EPSRC to define the Principles of Robotics in 2010. She has also consulted The Red Cross on autonomous weapons and is a member of an All Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence.Joanna is focused on "Standardizing Ethical Design for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems". In 2017 she won an Outstanding Achievement award from Cognition X. She regularly appears in national media, talking about human-robot relationships and the ethics of AIEPSRC's Laws of Robotics: * Robots should not be designed as weapons, except for national security reasons * Robots should be designed and operated to comply with existing law, including privacy * Robots are products: as with other products, they should be designed to be safe and secure * Robots are manufactured artifacts: the illusion of emotions and intent should not be used to exploit vulnerable users * It should be possible to find out who is responsible for any robotYou can listen right here on iTunesIn our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including: * Why robots and AI should not resemble people * How Joanna helped the British replace Asimov’s laws of robotics * How people confuse consciousness and intelligence and likely problems this creates * Why Joanna is skeptical we'll achieve AI superintelligence * The big problem with conflicting interests creating filter bubbles, disinformation and overly aggressive Facebook * Why robots cannot be liable/punished for their actions * How people should think about ethics of robot design * The ethical dilemmas with AI and robots in society * How psychology, neuroscience, ethics and AI are merging * The problems with control and governing AI usage * How bad incentives create bad artificial intelligences--Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support FringeFMFringeFM is supported by the generosity of its readers and listeners. If you find our work valuable, please consider supporting us on Patreon, via Paypal or with DonorBox powered by Stripe.Donate   

Do you suffer from physical pain relating to your writing life? Are you struggling with back pain, weight gain related to sedentary working, anxiety, depression, sleep problems, neck pain, eye strain, stress, loneliness, digestive issues, or repetitive strain injury? These are the most common issues reported by writers and if you struggle with any of them, you are not alone. Let's face it: writing (and especially typing on a computer) is not a physically healthy activity, but if you want a long-term writing career, then you need to look after your body. Awhile back, I f. Joanna has been through her own pain journey over the last six years. She used to get crippling migraines that sent her to a dark room, and back pain so bad that she couldn't sleep, as well as stress levels so high that she wasn't able to breathe normally. Now, her back pain, migraines and repetitive strain injuries (including elbow pain) have almost gone completely, and she manages her writing life in a far healthier way than ever before. I was planning on having her share her personal journey and insights with you in her new book "" once again on the podcast. However, due to some technical difficulties on her end, she was unable to join the call. However, I was able to talk to her co-author for this book was , who also shares his insights into how you can reduce pain, improve health and build a writing career for the long term. Euan Lawson is a British medical doctor and a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. He's ex-British Army and enjoys fell running. During my , you learned: -How Joanna developed chronic repetitive motion injuries in her wrist, and why ergonomic keyboards and an ergonomic computer mouse weren't working for her... -Why Joanna decided to go way above and beyond simply using a standing workstation or treadmill desk... -How Joanna is simultaneously working on multiple books while also training for an ultramarathon... -Whether you can really, truly be creative while standing or walking, and why it's a myth that you need to sit to write effectively... -The exact tools, microphones and software that Joanna has found to work very well for dictation... -A book that will teach you exactly how to dictate quickly and effectively... -How to  "train" your computer to recognize your voice and accent... -How to enhance productivity with ambient noise and focus apps... -And much more! Resources from the previous episode: - - - - - - - - (an author who dictates while walking 4+ hours per day) - - - - (this is a place where you can also get  or we talk about) - - - - - - During today's discussion, you'll discover: -Why writing is good for your health... 8:00 -The kind of health issues Joanna had to deal with as a writer... 11:30 -Why you need to know about type 1 vs. type 2 RSI... 12:45 -Why screens can cause problems and the "20-20-20" rule... 18:15 -The concept of "active sitting" and whether all these "core chairs" and sitting on giant exercise balls are a gimmick... 23:45 -What it means to be ambi-mouse-trous... 27:30 -What kind of external keyboard Dr. Lawson uses... 29:15 -How to fix ergonomic issues using something called the "Alexander technique"... 35:15 -Why writers experience great relief from gas and bloating by utilizing FODMAP... 40:00 -Why Dr. Lawson and Joanna wrote about psychotropics in the book, and how many writers are using them... 43:30 -How Ben walks over 20,000 steps... 52:00 -The software Dr. Lawson and Joanna use to write... 55:45 -And much more! Resources from this episode: - - - - - - - - Episode Sponsors Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for Joanna, Dr. Lawson or me? Leave your comments at http://bengreenfieldfitness.com/healthywriter and one of us will reply!

What we talked about: -Why Joanna uses the “#StrongerThanMyStruggles” hashtag and how this continues to impact her today -How she persevered through horrific bullying, low self-esteem, and depression -The struggles of dealing with rejection and isolation from others when they don’t understand your purpose -Finding confidence in your opinion (and why it takes time to do so) -The challenges of forgiving yourself for your past mistakes while also using them to inspire you to change the world -What it means to Pursue a #StrongerSelf __ Some amazing quotes that were said: “The hardest steps she ever took was to blindly trust in who she was” “My peers at school would torment me in a daily basis and it instilled in me from a young age the idea that your worth was based on how you look.... this really affected me throughout my whole life... and I really struggled with finding love for myself” “My whole life I struggled with confidence... after all the years of having such a damaged relationship with myself I decided that fitness was what I needed to pursue to help better myself. For myself” “Not everyone’s struggles are the same. But that being said, that doesn’t mean anyone struggles or worse.... we all deal with struggles and we all deal with them differently... and so its important that we try to reach out to as many people as we can to give them that hand to hold and to say that things are going to get better and that you are meant to do something greater than this” “I am changing every single day.... trusting that everything you go through and all the experience that you have in life... that its all a part of one great purpose” “Going into the gym and being able to have that opportunity to work on myself.... it has given me something that nobody can take away from me” “When I first started posting on IG people said that it was self- conceded and didn’t give me the support that I needed... I knew this was something that I wanted to do and I needed this in my life to help me feel like I could do something more” “You are allowed to scream, you are allowed to cry, but don’t give up” “Just remembering in the past how long I allowed other people to influence how I felt about myself and the decisions I made... the fact that I have come so long to who I am today, to have the confidence and mental strength to pursue what I am pursuing... having that reminder of looking who you are now to the [person] you used to be... wishing that I had someone who helped me when I most needed it... this is what inspires me to want to be that person for somebody else” “You aren’t the mistakes you have made. You aren’t your struggles. You are something much greater than what you can imagine” __ You can follow Joanna on IG @ohhhjojo __ Join the Movement. www.thestrongerselfmovement.com And Together We Can Pursue Our #StrongerSelf __ Music by: BVRNOUT & KROMATIKS - Follow Your Heart ft. Cadence Ludden (WiDE AWAKE Remix) and BVRNOUT & KROMATIKS - Follow Your Heart ft. Cadence Ludden

In this episode, I talk to Joanna Maxwell all about career change.  Joanna has worked in a wide variety of jobs throughout her career and she helps a lot of other people change careers as well. She's now taken all that experience and recently gained a position with the Australian Human Rights Commission in the Age Discrimination Team. Joanna is the author of the book Rethink Your Career in your 40s, 50s & 60s.  In this episode we cover: Why Joanna has had a such a varied career How her love of travel impacted career choices and led to her interest in career change The challenges of identity with career change  How men & women deal with their sense of identity How Joanna took her interests and satisfy those through her career choices Planning financially when running your own business Finding strategies to create a working life that is sustainable How the book came about and what's included Joanna's tips to make career choices work Links mentioned in this Episode Joanna Maxwell's Website  Joanna on Linkedin Rethink Your Career in your 40s, 50s & 60s

Have you ever dealt with frustrating wrist pain or carpal tunnel or tennis elbow or golfer's elbow or climber's elbow - pain that is aggravated by typing and computer work? Have you ever wished you could walk one, five or ten miles while still being able to work on a book, a project, or a paper? Have you ever wished you could simply talk your thoughts into existence, and have them appear in your emails, documents, books and more? Then today's podcast episode is for you. -------------------- Before jumping into today's episode, let's take a look at folks who have abandoned traditional methods of simply sitting down to produce, create and be productive. The list of historical figures who have used standing desks is veritable “who’s who”. Here is just a brief snapshot of famous folks, writers, and inventors who leveraged the standing desk’s benefits throughout history. For example, Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa while he stood at his standing desk. Da Vinci also stood at his desk while sketching new inventions, including parachutes, flying machines, and armored vehicles. The standing desk also made its appearance in one of the world’s oldest colleges, the University of Cambridge, founded in 1209. Standing desks were first recorded as being used in the library in 1626, and the idea of writing while standing was placed at the epicenter of intellectual thought. Napoléon Bonaparte also used a standing desk and found it conducive to quick thinking and strategizing for battle. Thomas Jefferson also used the standing desk while composing documents, including the Declaration of Independence (he actually developed a six-legged adjustable standing desk, and was one of the first known people to use an adjustable standing desk). Charles Dickens' workspace where he penned such timeless classics as Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, and A Tale of Two Cities. is described as having “books all round, up to the ceiling and down to the ground; a standing-desk at which he writes; and all manner of comfortable easy chairs.” Winston Churchill was often seen writing at his standing desk. Ernest Hemingway’s fashioned a standing desk out of a bookcase near his bed. Honest Abe Lincoln was never too far from his trusty standing desk. He used it to deliver the Emancipation Proclamation and is famously quoted as saying 'Verily, 'tis my standing desk that gave me the inspiration to end this wicked and iniquitous trade.' In addition to standing while writing, both dictating while writing is also something famous authors have done. For example, in her book , author Cindy Grigg reports: “Leo Tolstoy received one of the earliest dictaphone prototypes. To this he replied that the “Ediphone” was impressive but “too dreadfully exciting” for his methods. Instead, he seemed to favor dictating to his daughter Alexandra or even house guests. Fyodor Dostoyevsky reportedly struck a bargain with his publisher to pay off his and/or his brother’s debts. The deal required that the author submit his manuscript for The Gambler in short order. To do so, he employed stenographer Anna Grigorievna, who gave him collaborative feedback as well. He finished the manuscript in four weeks then married Anna. “Thomas Hardy dictated his wife Florence Hardy’s ‘biography’ about himself to her, seemingly to retain control of the account. Like many authors, Hardy also dictated once he became ill. Stricken with pleurisy, he spoke his last poem to his wife Florence. John Milton was blind when he created Paradise Lost, dictating the epic poetical work to his several daughters. This inspired paintings of him and his daughters by artists George Romney, Delacroix, and others. Alexander Dumas was rumored to never touch up his drafts, having served as a historian, which had given him practice in thinking about what he wanted to say before he dictated it. Michel de Montaigne , an acclaimed 16th-century essayist, dictated his journal and possibly other writings. Henry James referred to his hired transcriptionists as amanuenses, needing to contract such help at least partially due to rheumatism in his wrist. One of them, Theodora Bosanquet, recorded in her diary, “Indeed, at the time when I began to work for him, he had reached a stage at which the click of the Remington machine acted as a positive spur. He found it more difficult to compose to the music of any other make. During a fortnight when the Remington was out of order he dictated to an Oliver typewriter with evident discomfort, and he found it almost disconcerting to speak to something that made no responsive sound at all.” William Wordsworth was a kindred spirit to mobile writers such as myself. He ‘wrote’ Tintern Abbey mentally on a “ramble of four or five days…Not a line of it was altered, and not any part of it written down till I reached Bristol.'' Thanks to transcriptionist Isabella Fenwick, he also dictated The Fenwick Notes commentary about his poetry. Of his long poem The Excursion, Wordsworth mentions, “Something must now be said of this poem, but chiefly, as has been done through the whole of these notes, with reference to my personal friends, and especially to her who has perseveringly taken them down from my dictation.” Charles Dickens was rumored to act his characters out in front of a mirror, giving vocal dramatizations of dialogue and text. In 1882, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an interview with someone who claimed to be Dickens’ amanuensis, describing him this way: “‘Yes, I did shorthand work for Mr. Dickens for eighteen months. I did not take dictation for any of his novels, only his fugitive pieces…Most people seem to think Dickens was a ready writer. This is by no means the case. He used to come into his office in St. Catherine Street about eight o’clock in the morning and begin dictating. He would walk up and down the floor several times after dictating a sentence or a paragraph and ask me to read it. I would do so, and he would, in nine cases out of ten, order me to strike out certain words and insert others. He was generally tired out by eleven o’clock, and went down to his club on the Strand. A singular thing was that he never dictated the closing paragraphs of his story. He always finished it himself. I used to look in the paper for it, and find that he had changed it very greatly from what he had dictated to me. Dickens had a very odd habit of combing his hair. He would comb it a hundred times in a day. He seemed never to tire of it. The first thing he did on coming into the office was to comb his hair. I have seen him dictate a sentence or two, and then begin combing. When he got through he dictated another sentence.” Bram Stoker was himself a secretary and director of London's Lyceum Theatre, as well as a manager for Henry Irving. His own experiences may have influenced how several chapters of Dracula are dedicated to asylum director Dr. Seward recording dictations on a phonograph, to the chagrin of Mina Harker, who typed them up as soon as possible, believing the veracity and emotion of the audio to be too much for other readers to bear. “I have copied the words on my typewriter, and none other need now hear your heart beat, as I did.” Dictation is also mentioned in Stoker’s The Jewel of Seven Stars. Stendhal (the pen name for Marie-Henri Beyle) dictated The Charterhouse of Parma in seven weeks, 52 consecutive days--another kindred spirit to Marcel Proust dictated the Death of Bergotte to Celeste Albaret on his death bed, even though it was already finished, saying it needed to be written a second time. He supposedly explained, “I didn’t yet know what it’s like to die when I wrote it. I know it more now.” James Joyce found inspiration in a random happening while dictating Finnegan's Wake. While recording the story, Joyce was interrupted when someone came to the door and was welcomed with a phrase like, “Come in,” which Joyce thought worked well in the manuscript so he left it in his draft. Thomas Aquinas was apparently so skilled at dictation that he gave observers the impression he could speak on several topics at once to multiple scribes and even to dictate in his sleep.” In today's podcast, we're going to delve into how you too can be more productive, build endurance, maintain muscle, and burn more calories, all while writing from a standing desk and / or while dictating. ----------------------- My guest, is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thrillers on the edge, as well as bestselling non-fiction for authors published under Joanna Penn. Joanna’s site for writers, has been voted one of the Top 10 sites for writers three years running. She is a professional speaker on creative entrepreneurship, digital publishing and internet marketing, and was voted one of The Guardian UK Top 100 creative professionals 2013. During our discussion, you'll discover: -How Joanna developed chronic repetitive motion injuries in her wrist, and why ergonomic keyboards and an ergonomic computer mouse weren't working for her... -Why Joanna decided to go way above and beyond simply using a standing workstation or treadmill desk... -How Joanna is simultaneously working on multiple books while also training for an ultramarathon... -Whether you can really, truly be creative while standing or walking, and why it's a myth that you need to sit to write effectively... -The exact tools, microphones and software that Joanna has found to work very well for dictation... -A book that will teach you exactly how to dictate quickly and effectively... -How to  "train" your computer to recognize your voice and accent... -How to enhance productivity with ambient noise and focus apps... -And much more! Resources from this episode: - - - - - -Dragon Anywhere cloud software - - - (an author who dictates while walking 4+ hours per day) - - - - (this is a place where you can also get  or we talk about) - - - - - - Do you have questions, comments or feedback for Joanna or I? Leave your thoughts at  and one of us will reply!

Learn from Joanna as she shares how and why she's chosen to diverify her publishing to multiple platforms. Also hear how she got started with audiobooks and foreign translation of her books. What's Discussed in Today's Episode: Finding an Editor for Your Book How and Why Joanna decides to try new eBook platforms How Joanna Produces Audiobook versions of her novels How Joanna is able to get her novels translated into other languages Joanna’s interest in 3d Printing Click here to go to today's show notes!