The Work from Home Podcast

Molly discussed with us on this episode, how entrepreneurs can improve their productivity by delegating tasks to professional VAs who will not only make their lives easier but make it possible for the entrepreneur to improve their business by spending more time on tasks and duties that will directly impact business growth and not the routine tasks that usually takes most of their time.

About Molly

Molly's expertise is in online business, systems and outsourcing. She is the founder of The Virtual Assistant Academy, a certification for the best Virtual Support Staff in U.S.A. and the owner of Virtual Assistant Management, a placement agency for entrepreneurs in need of top virtual assistant talent for the organizations.

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Jason shares his experience from going to military as well as transiting to the Banking sector before going to become the Entrepreneur Evangelist. He also explained how he was able to use his military training to drive success in the Banking sector and how all those experiences shaped him into building a system that allowed him to help other people block off limiting beliefs that doesn't allow them achieve success.

About Jason

Jason Skeesick is a US Army veteran, coach, and an entrepreneurial evangelist. 

He is a father, husband, fighter, and carrier of heavy things. 

His company Spear and Clover helps businesses with passionate leaders, talented teams, and strong playbooks go from contenders to championship Dynasty Organizations.

You can find Jason hosting the weekly Spear and Clover Podcast available on Youtube and across all audio platforms.

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Michael took time to let us know about online meetings starting with what people fear the most regarding online meetings and how to manage online meetings, especially when you can't read the audience.

A good way to get our online meetings, according to Michael, is to ensure transparency and put systems in place to work things out in case things go wrong.

About Michael

Michael Fraidenburg is a seasoned natural resource manager who worked for 30 years with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife as a scientific expert, agency executive, and the Executive for the Fish and Wildlife Commission.

Fraidenburg is widely experienced in conflict resolution, facilitation, agency governance, teaching, policy-making, international negotiations, planning, research, and program administration. He has a successful track record in controversial, international and interstate work environments and has received state and national recognition for his work in international disputes over salmon.

He has extensive experience facilitating science-intensive disagreements and, as a certified mediator, using interest-based bargaining techniques to resolve disputes over natural resources. Mike is a Certified Fisheries Professional (American Fisheries Society) and a Certified Mediator (Washington Mediation Association).

He is able to motivate and work effectively with people in supervisory, team, and peer relationships and is expert at helping organizations and stakeholders work together. Michael helps groups get past disagreement and impasse and, in so doing, helps organizations save time, save money, and improve their reputations. 

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Dustin talks about how he uses Partnership marketing to improve business. It's simply getting yourself in front of new customers by collaborating with other people and/brands with an overlapping audience and presents everyone involved with a win-win-win scenario. 

About Dustin

Dustin serves mission-driven entrepreneurs as a strategic marketing coach. His passion is helping coaches, consultants and agency owners rapidly increase profits and massively grow their network using a Partnership Marketing System.

Unlike many coaches, everything I teach is based on real-world experience growing three successful online businesses. I'm best known for my Partnership Marketing System, which I've used to grow FireCreek Snacks into a 7-figure business without paid ads.

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Steve shared with us his experience on how the global pandemic recalibrated his business. He speaks about how shifting mindsets and making real changes helped to positively impact his business.

He also talked about how important it is to dress the part while working from home.

About Steve

Steve has always been a fan of the stage. His first time in front of an audience was at six years old, a skinny little kid with big thick glasses playing the guitar his parents had given him for Christmas. What a rush!

Over the years, he looked for every opportunity to get in front of people and play and tell stories. In his teens and early twenties, he was a professional musician, touring with his band across the country and playing in bars. He always adored being in front of an audience, and as the frontman, Steve did all the talking. Of course.

One day Steve came across a video of Zig Ziglar, the legendary sales expert and motivational speaker. He was on stage, just him, no guitars, no equipment, no bandmates, and Steve remembers thinking to myself – what a great job that is! Steve became fascinated with the whole world of getting up on stage and just saying things.

Over the years, Steve has grown his speaker training business. He has researched almost every speaking technique there is and even added neuroscience to his methods to validate his principles with actual science. He has had the opportunity to teach professional speakers all over the world, including elite professional speakers and global changemakers.

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Limor is a woman that has gone  to great heights in the male dominated tech industry. She has since been working to help women in tech figure out their goals, figure out the barriers and chart a direction that will give them the recognition that they deserve.

She also gave us insights into the things needed to do when choosing a remote talent that would make the work easier.

About Limor

Hi, my name is Limor. I have been a mentor for women in tech for over five years and a former director of engineering. For over 20 years, I worked in tech as an engineer, manager, and director of engineering.

I was always passionate about supporting women in tech. I know firsthand how it is like being a woman in a male-dominant field and all the challenges women face in the tech industry.

Two years ago, upon my return to Israel after nine years in the US, I decided to follow my calling and support women's career growth. Women I work with tell me that working with me enabled them to continuously tear down "ceilings" by challenging them to think bigger.

They also say that I opened their eyes to an entirely new way of contributing to their careers. Women I work with can achieve the goals and more in 1/3 of the time they thought it would take them.

Do you want to break your glass ceiling? Work with me! I am now working with individuals and organizations that support women's career growth in the tech industry.

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Clint and I talked about his story of Taxi driving to the road of becoming and award winning and celebrity Entrepreneur. He discussed some of the top lessons from his book "Wisdom of the Men", a really great book that would add immense value to any true Entrepreneur who is ready to take charge of destiny and take the bulls by the horn.

We discussed how he has been teaching people how to grow their portfolio and closing TV interviews to build their profile of becoming celebrity Entreprenuers. 

About Clint

Clint Arthur has shared the stage with Martha Stewart, Dr Oz, Suzanne Somers, Caitlyn Jenner, IceT, and five presidents of the United States at Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford, London Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, Mercedes, Porsche, Coca Cola, Microsoft, AT&T and the Royal Society of Medicine. His 21st bestselling book, “Wisdom Of The Men,”  is nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Clint splits his time between homes in New York City, Los Angeles, and Acapulco, Mexico where he lives with his wife of 20 years, Ali, and Nova, their Billion Peso Puppy

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Alex joins us today to talk about how businesses can be sustainble and stand the test of time. He gave us actionable insights about how businesses can achieve their short, medium and long term growth by creating strategies that will stand the test of time.

About Alex

Alex is an entrepreneur, author, executive coach, and board advisor. He built companies in Europe and Canada, and led client projects across the world.  
His areas of expertise are strategy development, leadership development, and entrepreneurship. His passion lies in helping clients built profitable businesses rooted in purpose.

In his upcoming book he presents a new framework called "The Nine Elements of Organizational Identity", which helps people build better businesses.

Alex is a storyteller with an academic background is in General Management, with degrees from EBS University (Germany) and Universidad ORT (Uruguay), as well as certificates from INSEAD (France) and Harvard Business School (USA).

He lives in Vancouver, Canada.

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Dave Combs, an established composer and music entrepreneur who has built a successful business with virtually no advertising and creating a worldwide following generating over 50,000 personal notes and letters of support for my music. 

He shared with us his journey working in the corporate world and how that journey took him from information technology to music. His journey with music started while he was still working in corporate, which he later titled Rachel's song, which has gotten him letters from around the world.

About Dave Combs

Dave Combs is a songwriter, photographer, entrepreneur and author with four decades of experience writing over 120 songs and creating fourteen albums of soothing, relaxing instrumental piano music. His songwriting began with the now popular standard, Rachel’s Song. His soothing, relaxing music has been played millions of times worldwide on radio, satellite, and all internet streaming media, and it continues to touch the lives of millions of people all over the world. He is also the author of the bestselling new book, Touched By The Music: How the Story and Music of Rachel’s Song Can Change. Your Life.

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Ever heard of the term “Encore entrepreneur?”

Livestream coach and consultant Shelley Carney introduces them as people, usually middle-aged, who have worked under other employers for long periods and are now ready to start their businesses. Shelley trains Encore Entrepreneurs to master the relevant technology to get themselves on Livestream to connect with an audience.

Shelley shares the importance of showing your face online as an Encore entrepreneur. She also encourages everyone to stop overthinking their appearance and focus on the messages they’re delivering. 

She discusses what one needs to start live streaming: high-speed internet and a good quality computer or phone. She mentions the popular live stream platforms among Encore Entrepreneurs and the multi-streaming platform that she uses to stream content on YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter simultaneously.

She explains how she translates live stream video content to audio and distributes the information through Spotify, Amazon, Apple, and Google, or transcribes it to texts so they can be used as blog posts.

About Shelley Carney

As a livestreaming YouTuber, podcast host and blogger, she shares her Content Consistency Framework with her audience so they can leverage their time, talent and content to expand their brand's reach around the world. 

She has been livestreaming presentations and interviews for the past 7 years and she finds great joy in sharing her methods with others. Shelley would love the opportunity to participate in friendly conversations that enlightens and uplifts everyone.

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Our guest today is Brian Winch, the owner and founder of CleanLots. CleanLots was a side hustle he started 41 years ago. He has built it into a full-time business that he continues to operate today. He joins us on this episode to discuss how to grow and market your business without breaking the bank.

For Brian, the first step to building a sustainable business is to like what you’re doing. He shares how this helped him continue CleanLots even when he had questions about his future. He also shares what he did to grow his business and discusses resources that helped him do this - from libraries to the internet.

He talks about the free marketing techniques he used to gain clients and earn a six-figure annual income and ways small businesses can take advantage of these techniques today. He also gives tips on balancing side hustles with your primary source of income and how to transition fully to your side hustle. In his book CleanLots Operations Manual, he shares his business secrets. Brian promises free business support to those who purchase it.

About Brian

Brian grew a simple side hustle that he started in 1981 into a profitable business that he still operates today. He had little money, education and skills but plenty of passion, patience and persistence. Brian shares his tips and experience on how to start a side hustle and grow it on a shoe-string budget.

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Our guest today, Rael Bricker, talks about becoming the best version of ourselves, even in business. He speaks professionally onstage about business and owns a thriving venture capital and financial services business in Australia.

You also don’t want to miss the free pdf version of his book at the end of this episode titled “Dive in, Lessons Learnt Since Business School.”

Rael explains the importance of being open to mentors before Tolu and Rael tackle the question: “are entrepreneurs born or made?”

Rael also shares tips entrepreneurs need to do to reach business excellence: Drawing a moral line with every business you do, getting rid of customers who don’t make you happy but waste your time, and never asking your staff to do something you wouldn’t do. Lastly, he explains the importance of simplifying processes to strengthen your business. “Business is not complicated. It is simple, but we have to dive in and adjust our course as we move along,” Rael remarks.  

About Rael

After 30+ years as a serial entrepreneur, dabbling in everything from education to finance to fitness, I’ve now made it my mission to share my knowledge and expertise with others. Seeing that light come on, and connections being made in people’s heads as to how they can weave my experiences and advice into their businesses reinforces that this is where I need to be.

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Why do you think presents are wrapped with bows and packaged with cards? It’s all for the experience of the products. 

Over 5 million businesses were launched in America last year, yet, research has shown that 86% of businesses will fail after 5 years. Aside from the demand for products, a significant reason for that is poor customer experience.

Alex explains how we need to come to terms with algorithms of the digital age: visibility and customer referrals through great customer experiences. He advises business owners to think through their past customer experiences and analyze how it was packaged to make us feel happy to pay for the service. He mentions how slowing down with creation or delivery allows us to give the best results. 

Finally, he emphasizes how the cost of acquiring new customers is way higher than keeping them.

About Alex

As a transformative leader of multiple successful companies, Brazilian-born Alex Oliveira has helped companies advance their brands by executing interactive marketing campaigns for over 12 years. From SMB's to Fortune 500 brands like Ford & Allstate, Alex enjoys a diverse portfolio of clients.

Alex’s major passions include adventuring with his wife and 4 kids, investing in startups, and giving back to the community.

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Jake took the time to educate us on the importance that podcasting brings to the table for businesses and how exactly they can use it to gain access to the decision makers in their industry and bring more business flowing through their doors.

Jake has been able to help various businesses, such as Meta and Alibaba, grow their revenue through podcasting and is ready to do the same for other businesses.

About Jake

Jake Jorgovan is a Serial Entrepreneur, Podcast Producer and Business Advisor. 

He is the Founder of Content Allies and Lead Cookie. Through these companies he has generated $40M+ in sales for his clients. Jake is the host of the Working Without Pants Podcast, and Leaders of B2B Podcast. He also shares the raw lessons of his entrepreneurial journey at Jake-Jorgovan.com. 

Jake is the producer behind podcasts for  brands such as Facebook, Siemens Energy, Stampli, and more. 

Jake’s professional focus is to build companies that enable freedom of time and financial profitability. He does that by being an active entrepreneur in the trenches and through training others on entrepreneurship, leadership, sales & marketing. 

Jake has degree in entrepreneurship from Belmont University and has been awarded Nashville’s Youth Entrepreneur of the Year. He has spoken at conferences such as SXSW and has been featured in publications such as Inc & Forbes.

Jake lives a nomadic life and has traveled the world while running multiple companies.

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Jhana, an operations coach and consultant who helps digital businesses and entrepreneurs build scalable businesses and teams to help their businesses thrive, joins us on the show today.

She discusses how she started working remotely and what to do to be less afraid of working remotely. She also speaks on how the standard work models have changed and why working remotely should be something to embrace instead of avoiding.

We also discuss the many benefits of remote work from the perspectives of freelancers, entrepreneurs, and employers; for a remote business, there is less room to leave things to chance when it comes to scalability. She discusses the strategies leaders can use to make a remote business scalable. These strategies include pro tips such as ways to set up Slack channels to foster team building and methods she has adopted to use our common virtual tools such as Zoom and Slack more effectively.

She also gives professional insight into the recruitment process for a remote business. Finally, she discusses what remote teams should stop doing so that they do not sabotage their growth and what to do instead.

About Jhana Li

Jhana Li has over 4 years experience as a COO and Operations Consultant for digital entrepreneurs. She specializes in executing scalable team & systems infrastructure, and harnessing the true power of Operations as a lever for compound growth. Her passion lies in scaling purpose-based businesses, and partnering with the founding entrepreneurs to unlock their highest potential & impact.

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Jenny Toh is a lawyer as well as a certified and trained life coach who trains introverts to be more visible in the workspace while still remaining authentic. She discusses how to leverage your introversion in the workspace.

Jenny explains the difference between introverts and extroverts as team members and leaders in the workplace and the importance of an introvert in contributing to the team.

She shares how she uses her ability as an introvert in her coaching career to understand her clients’ problems beyond the words used.

She also explains how overthinking can prevent introverts from taking action, and she discusses specific actions that introverts can take to perform better at work.

About Jenny

Jenny is an ICF ACC coach who is the director of River Life Coaching Pte. Ltd., her life coaching practice where she coaches individuals to define success on their own terms personally and professionally. Jenny is passionate about empowering introverted women to remain authentic. She is also a lawyer and a mother of three living in Singapore.

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Do you know that 97% of adults in the U.S currently own a cell phone, and 87% of them own smartphones? What better way to market than through SMS? 

Tolu discusses creating an SMS list after getting clients’ consent and shares the importance of business lists and planning your business offers so that they synchronize with the frequency of your messages. He shares the statistics comparing email marketing to SMS marketing; people open their SMS messages more, so SMS marketing has more open rates of about 97% to 98. Also, clicking rates are as high as 20% compared to 0.5- 3% in email marketing. It also fits into our fast-paced world because it goes straight to the point. 

Lastly, he discusses how to utilize business lists in SMS marketing to remind people about their appointments and transactions and then use the opportunity to market without infringing on clients’ privacy.

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Don Abad joins us in another anecdotal, insightful episode. He shares views concerning his choices in homeschooling his kids while working from home.

He also shares methods he and his wife use to homeschool their kids that would help them learn out-of-the-box thinking, among other skills that would help them thrive as adults but are not found in traditional schooling.

Don explains Homeschooling concepts and methods. He also discusses the trivium concept for homeschooling he intends to adopt, which teaches kids how to organize, articulate, and communicate a thought.

He shares some insight on the Montessori method he and his wife have decided to adopt. He explains the 5 goals of Montessori education: to address a child’s absorbent mind in the 1st six years of life, to focus on different dimensions of the child, to allow freedom of choice and movement by not confining them to a classroom, to let the child decide what they want to learn, and encourage the child’s natural curiosity. He adds that the various approaches or methods can be combined like he is doing. Still, it is crucial to do our due diligence concerning these approaches.

About Don

Don Abad is a creative consultant, speaker, and the founder of Sovereign Stories, which offers post-production solutions for value-focused filmmakers and content creators.

Don is the host of two podcasts. His flagship show, Sovereign, is dedicated to discussing FAITH, FAMILY, and FREEDOM and why we need more storytellers to promote these three pillars of a person’s life.

He and his wife Kimmi also host Your Sovereign Downline, a podcast where they share lessons learned after over a decade in the network marketing industry and their best tips and strategies for building a home-based business in the 2020s.

Aside from working on his businesses and the occasional movie or TV project, Don spends most of his time traveling the world with Kimmi and their bouncy baby boy.

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Maggie, an outstanding business and leadership coach who helps entrepreneurs grow their businesses in the simplest way possible, is our guest today.

She breaks down her key processes for business growth in three steps – vision; understanding your customer and how you help them solve their problem and go out there to meet them; create a simple plan to do consistently.

To her, positioning yourself as an authentic leader and doing things you enjoy is a powerful combination for purposeful and healthy business growth. She shares steps on how to achieve this powerful combination to help entrepreneurs make themselves stand out in ever-growing competitive markets.

She also discusses how entrepreneurs and leaders can align their mindset and skills with implementing systems that will make them confident and transform their businesses.

About Maggie

Maggie Perotin lives in Canada, Toronto area, with her blended family of 4 kids. She is a self-development geek, loves nature, traveling, and good food. She holds an executive MBA from Jack Welch Management Institute and has over 14 years of experience in various corporate leadership positions.

As an international business and leadership coach, Maggie helps service-based entrepreneurs make the income they want in their business and become outstanding leaders in the process.

Through her DREAM-PLAN-DO coaching model, she supports her clients in becoming confident CEO’s by aligning their mindset, business skills, and high-performance habits. This allows them to transform their businesses from an unreliable source of income to a client attracting diamond.

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I had an easy flowing chat with Kristen Diaz on the topic of Human Design. She explained it in an easy to understand way and you can be sure that she is very knowledgeable and can tell her level of expertise on the topic.

About Kristen

Kristen helps guide high-level ladies in aligning their work and lifestyles to create space and ease through human design.  
Her passion is to help transform lives away from the overwhelm, away from the burnout, away from the half-glass full thoughts towards a lifestyle filled with space to make choices with ease, embody your purpose, and how to create alignment through your day to day routines at work and at home.

While she's helping these high-level women through readings, coaching, and workshops, you can find her traveling and working remote, reading a book or resting, which is KEY for a reflector like herself.

Work-life balance seems to be something that eludes those of us who work from home, taking a toll on our health and life generally. How do we find a balance while still providing excellent service to our clients? Today, Susanne Grant, an award-winning work-life balance expert, and two-times best-selling author, joins us on the show to guide us on how to do just that.

She shares excellent strategies for managing clients’ expectations and communicating with them so business owners can have a more centered way of living. She also discusses how entrepreneurs can maintain optimum health and her process of figuring this out with her clients on a client-by-client basis.

She walks us through the most fundamental problems that make people get stuck in unhealthy patterns and shares how people can stay at their best, remain intentional, and prioritize feeling great to thrive in the chaos of daily life. To her, rest is a productive activity; the sooner we all become comfortable with that idea, the better.

About Susanne

Susanne Grant is a multi Award-winning Keynote Speaker, Work-Life Balance Integration Expert, and International Bestselling Author of the book “Drop The MF Struggle” and "Leaders: Women Who Change The World Through Their Business".  
She supports senior managers and is on a mission to turn the tide on millennials leaving their firms and create workplaces that nurture top - female - talent by redefining success through award-winning coaching & customised in-house training.

After the birth of her child in 2015, she realised the collective lie "hard work equals success" wasn't working for her and she did not want the next generation to grow up and think this was "normal".


So she made a powerful decision and she gave herself permission to break free of the old way of doing business and created a new business model - where holistic health and wealth are an integral part of the business and its success.

Today, she runs an award-winning coaching company and hosts sold-out workshops and events. Her work has been featured in Thrive Global, Authority Magazine, Global Millionaire Magazine, Billion Success and many more.


In fact, thousands of people have benefited from her work and are now living life on their terms as they implement Susanne’s motto: “Work Smarter, Not Harder”.

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Would you employ a teenager in your workplace or someone your grandfather’s age if you had the chance? Lindsey Pollak brings an exciting fresh take on generational diversity in the work environment and helps us understand how we can get value from these age differences.

Linda explains the different generations in various workforces around the world, from “Baby boomers” to “millennials” to “Generation-Z.” She talks about younger people taking leadership roles in North America because of their tech skills but shares interesting anecdotes about people in older generations still offering value in terms of history and solutions during the sometimes unpredictable periods of technology. Linda helps us understand how this diversity fuels creativity and innovation in the work environment.

Linda also details ways to learn relations with diverse age groups, from our family structures to making efforts to relate with different age groups at gatherings, and finally, discarding stereotypical assumptions about specific age groups in the work environment. She finally explains how successful multigenerational organizations are those where everyone is passionate about “the big picture” and not hung up on generational differences.

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Lindsey Pollak is a New York Times bestselling author and one of the world’s leading career and workplace

experts. She was named to the 2020 Thinkers50 Radar List, which honors the top global management thinkers whose work is shaping the future of how organizations are managed and led. Lindsey’s latest book is a response to the Covid crisis: Recalculating: Navigate Your Career Through the Changing World of Work and was published by HarperCollins in March 2021. Her other books include The Remix: How to Lead and Succeed in the Multigenerational Workplace, Becoming the Boss: New Rules for the Next Generation of Leaders and Getting from College to Career: Your Essential Guide to Succeeding in the Real World. Lindsey’s speaking audiences and consulting clients have included more than 250 corporations, law firms, conferences and universities. Her advice and opinions have appeared in such media outlets as The TODAY Show, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN and NPR.

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"Stories sell, facts tell." Don Abad is not only a content creator and network marketer but also a storyteller with a background in film-making. He shares how storytelling helps relate to the customers' humanity and provides us with insightful content creation tips that he has garnered concerning capturing your audience as a marketer.

Don shares how the stories behind the beginnings of a company, its founders, and employees help convey the humanity behind a brand. He also explains the importance of distinguishing between content creation as a marketer versus as a content creator. He shares the two metrics content creators with a marketing mindset should look out for: leads and sales.

He explains various network marketing strategies: building an email list through a call to action rather than asking people to comment randomly, which does not necessarily create leads for content. He also discusses how to pitch strategically to provide value for your audience and stimulate their curiosity enough for a call to action. Finally, he mentions a great way to leave out our digital footprints as content creators.

About Me

Don Abad is a creative consultant, speaker, and the founder of Sovereign Stories, which offers post-production solutions for value-focused filmmakers and content creators.

Don is the host of two podcasts. His flagship show, Sovereign, is dedicated to discussing FAITH, FAMILY, and FREEDOM and why we need more storytellers to promote these three pillars of a person’s life.

He and his wife Kimmi also host Your Sovereign Downline, a podcast where they share lessons learned after over a decade in the network marketing industry and their best tips and strategies for building a home-based business in the 2020s.

Aside from working on his businesses and the occasional movie or TV project, Don spends most of his time traveling the world with Kimmi and their bouncy baby boy.

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Gael Wood is a successful entrepreneur with a business that helps people optimize their schedules by using success strategies, especially those involving habits. She has also written 15 books and e-books. But things weren’t always that way with Gael; she was usually out of work for half of the year and once had to take a job that made her so miserable that she kept getting sick from throat infections!

She shares with us how that experience drove her to pull out her entrepreneur abilities, get her creative juices flowing to start new businesses and write her first books. She also explains how this helped her analyze her productivity in terms of time spent on her daily activities. She shares how she decluttered her schedule and optimized her time as a mum by changing the little things: asking her spouse for help in caring for their son, getting external help with other domestic activities, and other specific strategies that freed up a lot of space for her as a mum and wife. Gael also shares how to do a digital declutter. It’s no wonder five ladies in Gael’s coaching group have each finished writing books of their own.

Gael's Bio

In 2013 I started a journey to makeover my life! I was burned out, in debt, unwell, and I needed to find another way before I ended up sicker or divorced…. Today, I live in my dream house, have location and time freedom, do work I love and feel amazing. That is what I want for you too.

On my path I have gone from an overworked massage therapist to finding success online with writing, teaching, and coaching I have learned and used mindset and journaling strategies, marketing, and business skills, and Feng Shui together to create my dream life!  

I have been on the cover of a magazine, inducted into the World Massage Hall of Fame, and worked with entrepreneurs from all over the world. In 2019 I finished my certification as a Feng Shui consultant.

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Do you want to stand out in business? Look for that particular value you offer that no one else does. Psychotherapists trainer and high-level coach trainer, Lira Kay, shares classified information concerning attracting the right type of clients who would pay for the value you offer.

Lira Kay advises us to cut out the superficial advice that every coach gives and explains how top clientele looks out for depth, substance, and insight. She also explains the importance of unifying our professional and personal brands. Let’s not forget owning our expertise and taking responsibility. Lira breaks it down: taking more responsibility equals more value and pay.

Finally, Lira recommends that experienced service providers start their own training programs and certifications after understanding the effectiveness of their methods.

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What do you do when life smacks you with stress, anxiety, and a flooded apartment against the backdrop of a viral pandemic?

Jocelyn is forced to reassess her life’s purpose and health after losing her job and apartment during the uncertain period of the COVID-19 pandemic. She noticed its effect on her mind and body, including her posture! She takes us on an inspirational journey about emotional intelligence and stress and their effects on our social situations from the lessons learned. How do we switch our mindsets through self-love and acknowledgment of our situations to drive better and healthier actions?

About Jocelyn

Jocelyn is a certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach based in Charlotte, NC but her wellness journey began years before she got her certification.

Growing up in Latin America, she was raised with a definition of wellness where regular outdoor activity and balanced eating are the cornerstones of good health.

That was her view of wellness until she reached a point in her life where she was struggling to stay motivated and confident about her future even though she was doing “all the right things.”

It was the day she decided to leave a toxic relationship that she realized that there are influences in her life beyond daily health habits that were impacting her happiness and wellbeing.

After overcoming the emotional burnout and fatigue, she felt an unwavering calling to help others redefine wellness to live their most brave, optimistic, self-aware, and self-confident life (B.O.S.S. life).

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Building an online course can be such an arduous task. It takes a while to get it right, and it helps to have an experienced instructor guide you through the process.

The online course guru with over 700 hours of one-on-one course coaching experience and counting, Georges Wansek, is on the show today. He discusses how to launch an online course easily, the importance of creating a waitlist before promoting your content, and his course platform, which provides a community of growing course creators and teaches course creators how to host their independent courses without the downsides of tech constraints, exorbitant commitment fees, and dependent hosting that accompany third-party course platforms.

About Georges

Georges is a respected Franco-American web designer known for his ability to make the most difficult concepts easy to understand and use. He has had the pleasure to work with and teach others to build their own websites, courses, and membership platforms. His students rave about the benefits of his easy-to-follow methods and training style.

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Simone Giangiordano has battled with health challenges all her life and has still remained at the top of her game in her different ventures. After two decades, she quit her corporate job because of the negative effect on her health and decided to begin her entrepreneurship journey and work from home. But she realized that the poor habits she had while working in her corporate job continued to impede the growth of her personal businesses.

Simone is our guest on today’s show and discusses the importance of taking care of the three core areas of our lives: mind, body, and spirit, and how the alignment of these areas can affect our businesses.  She shares tips on achieving alignment in the three areas, identifying and understanding your peculiar challenges, and practical strategies for dealing with them.

She also shares personal business tips on enhancing overall wellness, such as how to build your business around your challenges, client management, necessary boundaries for your business, and other tips for building businesses with a solid structure that aligns with who you are, your needs, and the lifestyle you desire.

About Simone

Simone Giangiordano, better known as Simone G, is a lifestyle and business coach. An encourager. A lover of the ocean. She believes the courage to say “I CAN’T” will set you free.  

Simone brings hope to those with invisible health challenges impacting the quality of their life and their business success. She gives voice to the idea that societal and cultural norms are far more limiting that any limitation we have, and that by sharing compassion, we can overcome many of the misconceptions and much of the stigma around chronic health challenges.

Simone’s transition from her corporate career of nearly two decades to entrepreneurship was the direct result of her health challenges. As she figured out how to manage a business alongside several illnesses and injuries, she shut down her first business three times in the first five years of her entrepreneurial career. It was during these years that saying “I CAN” nearly broke her. Thankfully, the last shutdown was back in 2012!

In caregiving for her father, she learned what matters most is the impact we have and the love we share. That experience gave her the courage to be silent no more and to author the Building Balance to Empower programs, which were created to guide others struggling with compromised health in building a business and creating a lifestyle that supports their work and well-being. Today, she uses her Signature Program The Power of I Can’t® alongside her business coaching to help her clients transform their lives, their businesses, and their well-being.

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In this episode, SJ talks with us about her proven recipe to help anyone land their dream job within 12 weeks. She discusses tools for getting your job search strategy right and how she has been able to help 90 to 95% of her client secure remote jobs. She also shares tips on how and why you should create a comfortable atmosphere during the interview that fosters engaging conversations that help the interviewer fall in love with you.

She also shares a few personal strategies to easily navigate job offers, salary expectations in an interview, and eventually negotiate for better pay. She walks us through how to lead interviewers to the conclusions you desire and leave room for and navigate multiple job offers simultaneously. Sometimes, despite our best efforts, we end up not getting the job. SJ discusses why this happens and how to bounce back from such rejection.

About SJ

At the age of 16, I tested for a learning disability, and lo and behold; I had a fabulous combo platter of auditory processing disorder and dyslexia. I had spent the previous ten years learning how to verbally communicate and solve problems while delegating my most challenging tasks. I did all of this unknowingly and was getting schooled on how to be a leader.

As a young adult, I quickly rose in corporate jobs leading creative teams for Victoria’s Secret, MTV, Nike, Estee Lauder, and Carter's Childrenswear. I never felt like I fit in; I was ashamed of my learning disability; it was a secret that I wouldn’t share with others. I knew how to get a high-level position without having a Master’s degree, how to charm my way by developing relationships, negotiating the offer, and, regardless of my hurdles, lead with confidence. I created the recipe for getting the salary that I deserved.

Today, I’m an entrepreneur, and our company helps people get the career and salary they deserve regardless of their challenges. We work with Veterans, stay-at-home parents, immigrants, folks from the LGBTQIA community, and folks with addictions or alcoholism. We have helped formerly incarcerated individuals, people who have lost their passion for what they do, people with disabilities - learning, physical or psychiatric; we are the people who help take fear and formality out of the career. We’ve helped over 16,000 people get the job they deserve.

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Imagine applying for 1293 jobs and getting only 4 callbacks? Not only is it disappointing, but it would be challenging to keep up with the descriptions of every single one of those applications. Tech Career Strategist, Raj Subrameyer, shares his personal experiences with job applications strategies and branding.

Raj talks about steps for strategizing for job applications within a timeframe; effective ways of keeping tabs on jobs you’ve applied for within a stipulated time frame. He also focuses on tips for branding through keywords and taglines, making offline connections through physical events, and finding and growing your online community.

About Raj

Raj Subrameyer is a tech career strategist focusing on helping people to land their dream job and become successful leaders.

He is passionate about guiding professionals to maximize their opportunities and discover their zone of genius. He has given multiple TEDx talks and is a sought-after speaker at various conferences and has been featured in numerous TV news segments, podcasts, and publications, including CBS, FOX, NPR, NBC, Entrepreneur, CEOWorld Magazine, Authority Magazine, Career Addict, Thrive Global, Addicted2Success and The Good Men Project.

Finding a way to hack his mind helped Joey Drolshagen navigate unfavorable thought patterns and live the life of his dreams outside the rat race.

Joey joins us on the show today and shares how we can tweak our minds to smash our goals efficiently. Many of us are conditioned to believe that following specific blueprints will lead us to the answers and success we desire. However, in this episode, Joey shares how creating personal dynamic visions for personal experiences and goals are more impactful than following generic blueprints for industries or other people’s lives.

He also shares how we can ditch the myth of having long to-do lists and burdensome goals as recipes for internal success. He talks about how we are better off making a permanent change to our subconscious to fuel inspired actions that help us use minimal efforts for maximum effect.

He also walks us through the steps of his renowned Subconscious Mind Training method for positively changing the subconscious and actionable tips for how we make our thoughts work in our favor.

About Joey

Named one of the top Coaches in America for two consecutive years, in The NYC Journal and Disruptors Magazine, Joey is known for helping countless individuals to transform their lives through retraining their subconscious conditioning!

Aside from a very successful 28-year career, up to VP of Sales, Joey has spent over 3 decades studying, implementing, and developing what’s become known as the SMT™ Method, which has repeatedly helped hundreds of people to transform their reality through retraining the subconscious mind…

To become UNSTOPPABLE.

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Working from home comes with its fair share of workaholic entrepreneurial culture, especially as we try to do all and be all. How do we find the balance between constant productivity and freedom while still getting our money’s worth?

Lira Kay, School of Inspired Life founder and founder of the 111 Healers Project, both run from home, is on the show today. Lira shares the lessons from her 33 years as an entrepreneur, artist, and coach. She also shares how listeners can ditch the draining lifestyle of the hustle culture and experience freedom while doing what they love and earning high profits from it!

As a former self-described struggling artist who started her career at 17, Lira understands what it is like to yearn for the zen lifestyle while being stuck in low-paying hustle culture. Although she was making a remarkable impact worldwide, she was only getting by financially until a decisive session with another transformation coach helped her realize that she could charge a higher value for her high-impact work while maintaining her sanity.

Now, she is on a mission to teach and mentor other coaches, therapists, and transformational leaders how to take their programs to the highest levels and charge 6 figure sums for them while positioning themselves above the competition, hustling less, and embracing a lifestyle that enables healing and productivity.

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How do you face your fears and accelerate your career? Raj, a tech career strategist who has been in the tech space for over 16 years, joins us today with loaded and practical answers.

Raj knows what it’s like to thrash your fears and live the life of your dreams. He grew up extremely shy and felt there was nothing special about him until a trigger event made him flip life as he knew it. Since then, he has written a book that placed 5th thrice on Amazon, spoken in over 100 conferences, and had 2 TEDx talks and over 10 keynotes.

In today’s episode, he discusses how he was able to build a six-figure business and how to create strategies to defeat your fears and advance your life.

He also discusses his no-fluff book, which consists of effective strategies for identifying ideal career options, LinkedIn optimization, resumes, interviews, salary negotiations, success in your career, and setting yourself apart from the competition.

With a desire for success comes a high likelihood of getting burned out. Raj shares personal tips for preventing burnout and the strategies that helped him bring the book to life amid numerous unfavorable circumstances.

About Raj

Raj Subrameyer is a tech career strategist focusing on helping people to land their dream job and become successful leaders. He is passionate about guiding professionals to maximize their opportunities and discover their zone of genius.

He has given multiple TEDx talks and is a sought-after speaker at various conferences and has been featured in numerous TV news segments, podcasts and publications, including CBS, FOX, NPR, NBC, Entrepreneur, CEOWorld Magazine, Authority Magazine, Career Addict, Thrive Global, Addicted2Success and The Good Men Project. 

Today, Matthew Turner joins us for an in-depth discussion on professional writing and his journey towards becoming an author and writer for mega clients.

He talks about what it means to niche down as a writer, why it helps, and how to make it work for you. He also discusses the role of adaptability, your voice, and your personality in being a successful writer and gravitating towards the right clients for you.

He also shares how he turned his passion into a successful full-time business and lets us in on how he balances being a father with his work for clients and still publishes his own books - a balance owed to what he calls being anti-hustle.

Being successful means being able to say no when necessary and more often. "It's difficult to say no unless you know what [a great] yes looks like," Matthew says. He shares how this takes time, learning curves, and discovering yourself but will eventually lead to knowing the right clients for you so that you don't end up overwhelmed.

Finally, he gives us exclusive details on the books to expect from him in the future and how nature influences his writing and style.

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For entrepreneurs, failure is inevitable, no matter how little. Many have given up after encountering one or more setbacks. But what if there’s more to failure than the usual feelings of guilt, shame, and dread that we’ve ascribed to them? To Tolu, failure isn’t a bad thing, it’s a great thing, and today, he shares ways to help you look at failure differently and embrace it.

In today’s episode, he talks about how failure serves as indicators or tools for you to know whether and how to review your processes to achieve the aims you’ve set out to achieve, and re-strategize as necessary, among others. He also shares his trusted methods for optimizing failure to succeed in your business. These methods include acknowledging them as a tool and nothing more, failing forward, and using and connecting with other people’s experiences to propel yourself into the vision you have for yourself.

Alise Saunders, the owner of the travel blog Tales from an Untamed Soul, joins us today. She shares her journey from corporate life to entrepreneurship and key lessons she has learned along the way.

She speaks about the reality of working in the corporate world, which did not meet the glamorous expectations she had from watching her favorite tv shows. Although she worked her way up and started making a 6 figure salary, she soon realized that getting to the top still left her feeling as miserable as ever. Her dissatisfaction led her to quit her job and embrace an entrepreneurial lifestyle working from the road.

In today’s episode, she discusses the culture and trauma that gives rise to the typical manic corporate world lifestyle. She also delves into her liberating journey into entrepreneurship. She talks about the work and healing she had to put in to create a thriving business that suited her lifestyle. Today, she is living in the fantasies of her childhood. In this enlightening episode, she shares three particularly key lessons she wished she had known earlier that would have made her childhood dreams come true quicker.

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Perhaps, what we need is a machine to increase time? Between work, responsibilities, and other surprises that life throws at us, many of us barely manage to keep our heads above the sea of nonstop deadlines. The art of balancing competing deadlines and meeting them is a skill that is crucial to the success of a work-from-home professional. By meeting deadlines, we get satisfaction, fulfillment, and more referrals.

We most likely know this, but the question is, how do we do it? Today, Tolu discusses effective deadline management and how we can shrink 12 hours of work into 6 hours if need be. He discusses the components needed to ensure that deadlines are always met. He also generously provides case studies as he walks us through what an effective system should look like. Additionally, he shares the tactics he uses to deliver services on time and the tricks he has mastered to expand time’s capacity if we can say so.

Most offices offer little privacy. And working from home doesn’t usually offer the Camaraderie environment that office spaces do to mitigate loneliness. Mo Hamzian acquaints us with the ability of coffee shops to provide these benefits.

He shares ideas for adjustments that we can make in our spaces to make us more productive: planning, based on the nature of the work that we’re doing; picture an environment that fosters creativity for deep thinking creatives. He talks about loneliness associated with working from home, which is not the case in coffee shops.

Mo also discusses how some workspaces have begun to create more conducive environments with better temperature, lighting, fresh air, privacy, and other parameters to boost productivity. Inspired by the coffee shop idea, Mo talks about his start-up company that is currently building coffee work cafes in various cities in the USA but is open to expanding to the rest of the world.

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Increasing your productivity is one of the factors that can help you get the most out of your work-from-home experience. While there are many productivity tools out there, Trello ranks at the very top and has been embraced by many entrepreneurs and employers. Today, Tolu shares how Trello, one of his favorite project management apps, can help you increase your productivity.  

He discusses the pros of Trello, one of the perks being that since it is a cloud app, your data is always ready and available on the different devices and platforms you use. He shares the two things he loves most about Trello – power-ups and automation – and how to set these up for efficient workflow.

He also uses his professional workflow to break down how each feature works down to the basics. Additionally, he discusses the pricing structure, the plans that would be most suitable to your needs, the benefits of Trello to your team, and how easy it is for team members to get the hang of it.

Marketing can be difficult for a work-from-home professional. Lead magnets are one of the ways work-from-home professionals can effectively market their products, and the appropriate lead magnet can help you skip some steps in marketing.

In today’s episode, Tolu explains what lead magnets are and how you can tailor them to the goals you want to achieve. Although many people shy away from billing for their lead magnets, Tolu shares tips on when you should bill. He mentions a threshold price he advises people to stick to.

He also discusses numerous types of lead magnets, such as e-books, checklists, and courses, to name a few. He talks about his preferences, the pros of each lead magnet, and how to use them to prequalify your leads.

For work-from-home professionals, burnout sometimes seems just a second away because the line between work and home realities is blurred. Even with the schedules and strategies to prevent stress and working overtime, life happens, and sometimes we become overstretched. How do we manage work-from-home burnout?

In this episode, Tolu shares his tried tips for successfully managing burnout. He emphasizes the need to aim for quality over quantity, even when it comes to sleep, the need for adequate rest, and visiting the outside world, among others.

“We need to understand that while we take care of things, we need to take care of ourselves - you are your greatest asset,” he says.

As work-from-home professionals, the skillsets needed for us to have successful businesses vary slightly from those required of the average worker in the traditional workplace. However, the funny thing is that these skills will set you apart if you eventually need to return to the traditional 9 to 5, as they will equip you to become a great leader.

In this episode, Tolu discusses 7 essential remote skills needed to succeed, such as cross-cultural literacy and time management. He also talks about the reliable tools that work-from-home professionals should have and makes recommendations for them. Similarly, he shares tips on blogs and pages that greatly help work-from-home business owners.

Here are some of the skills needed to be able to work from home successfully.

If you’re considering switching your business from an office space to working from home, this is the episode for you.

Tolu explains the advantages of working from home; costs are saved because you don’t have to pay double the utilities you would if you had an office space. Time is also saved as you don’t have to transport yourself, increasing productivity.

He shares things to consider when choosing your Workspace at home. He explains that it is better to choose a dedicated Workspace to discourage laziness and encourage increased productivity.

He also shares various great tips for transitioning into a remote Workspace: from equipping staff with management and communication tools to the reliability of your delivery services.

To move part or all of your brick-and-mortar services online, here are some of the things you need to do:

Some of the advantages of moving part or all your business to remote include the following:

LinkedIn is the leading professional social media network that helps you take your profession to the next level. However, not many people leverage it as a powerful tool to get the jobs they want.

Today, Tolu shares ways to use LinkedIn as a tool to get the job you desire. He discusses strategies you can adopt to build a network with the right people and how to remain relevant to recruitment teams even when they are not actively hiring. He also discusses the importance of recommendations and how to use them. To Tolu, to get your dream job, you need to put yourself out there and in the proper light, and in this episode, he goes into detail to discuss tips on how to do this and much more.

Although Instagram is essentially a photo and video sharing app, it remains a valuable tool for helping entrepreneurs find jobs. In this episode, our host, Tolu, shares how you can turn your Instagram account into your portfolio and use it to find jobs. He breaks down this process into steps, using practical examples, and gives vital tips for each step, such as how to craft your bio, master highlights, and what and how to post.

In today’s episode, our host, Tolu, shares tips and tricks on finding jobs using Twitter. He discusses how to draw a line between your personal and business brands and how this is important when getting jobs on Twitter. He also shares tips on making your bio, name, and photos more effective. He also explains additional strategies such as following the relevant accounts, using the advanced search option to plan your job/career moves and making meaningful contributions that will help you get noticed. Lastly, he shares one of his tips on how you can know that your actions are productive and are taking you in the right direction.

Are you searching for a job? Facebook is the number 1 social media platform and might just be what you need. To get the most out of what Facebook offers in this regard, you want to ensure your page is primed and ready for a job recruiter to hire you.

Today, Tolu shares tips to get your Facebook page ready: make sure your profile picture is attractive and you look like someone people would want to work with. He explains what your “About” section should include: appropriate work experience, volunteer experience, skills, and education history. He mentions how your cover photo can complement your “About” section. Tolu also shares a strategy to make any job gap unnoticeable. 

Lastly, he talks about following the Facebook page of the company you’re applying to and doing your research.

In this episode, I discussed with Cheryl Meyer, award-winning author, and podcaster about her work from the home journey as well as her journey to recovery from a really bad condition that the Doctors couldn't place their hands on. She shares her wealth of knowledge and I can't overemphasize how important I believe it is to add her podcast to your weekly playlist and start making the changes that your body will always thank you for down the line.

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In the eight episode of The Work From Home Podcast, I explained all the important things that need to be put in place when setting up an home office. I explained from the perspective of a Nigerian where power supply is not regular nor, internet speed and connectivity guaranteed. Good thing is, if you applied this anywhere else in the world, you would be setting up a top class home office .

I came at this using personal experience that I have gathered for over three years service clients all around the world from home and burrowed experience that I saw from my mentor who has been working from home for over 15 years.

This is one of those episodes that will help anyone tremendously.

In episode 7, I chat with Roman whos is a Russian living in Canada and a relationship coach who has come from the point where he has had a lot of sweet and bitter experience in relationships.

He decided to become a relationship coach after deciding that he wouldn't like to see others go through the especially avoidable mistakes that can destroy relationships.

Roman Mironov shared his experience with starting off his work from home business and how he's able to choose his marketing strategy. He also gives free advice and a very limited offer for those who would love to have him be their relationship coach.

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In this episode, I talk about the reasons why I consider Upwork to be the best freelancing platform.

I cover things that freelancers and clients need to do to look there best on the platform while offering advice that relate to authenticity as well as being simplistic so that people can easily understand you.