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I am so excited and honored today to have the amazing Stephanie Nissen on today’s episode. She is a Social Media Strategist and Manager for Small Businesses and the CEO of Nissen Media, LLC. Here are some highlights from our conversation today:   -        Stephanie loves seeing “lightbulb moments” when working with people and she loves educating people on how they can maximize social media for their businesses – connect people with great tools, help them create great content and really get the conversation going in social media. She got started as an intern who was given control over the social media accounts of the company.   -        She has always loved social media. She was very involved with social media even during the early days of MySpace. When she got handed it as a business, she took the approach that she has always used in the past: people want to connect with people. Along the way, she introduced herself to materials and training that would further equip her for social media work.   -        Stephanie’s inspiration is her dad. Her dad is her biggest supporter, as he has always been supporting his family even as a young person. In the social media universe, she also f

Today’s show is the incredible Dr. Vibe. He is the host and producer of his own podcast The Dr. Vibe Show for the last decade and he has done over 1000 interviews with people from all over the world, making him Canada’s Prince of Podcast. Here are some highlights from our conversation today:   -        He usually doesn’t call his shows as interviews. Dr. Vibe would always like to refer to them as conversations. He always strives to tell the story of each of his guest, making it a meaningful experience for both him and the audience.   -        Dr. Vibe started in the business of podcasting back in college and back then, he noticed that he wasn’t happy about how black men were portrayed in North America in general. This is what made him decide that someday he wanted to make a difference to that portrayal of black men and it grown from there.   -        There are three quotes that Dr. Vibe subscribes to; one is from Mark Cuban that says: “Perfection is the enemy of profitability. “ Another one is from Damon John and it goes: “You make it, you master it, then you matter“. He also has his own mantra: “Give yourself the permission to be the redeemed version of yourself“.

Show Notes - Karlyn Percil – Empowering Women through Conversations Today’s guest is Karlyn Percil and she is the president of Sistertalk Group which is a women's leadership network as seen on Oprah's Lifeclass. She is a Leadership Coach who empowers women to break their personal glass ceiling & realize their full potential. Here are some highlights from our episode today:   -        She got to where she was in her life right now as she had also been in the place of struggle herself. She believes every woman has her own “Elephant Story”. An Elephant Story is a shame/guilt/fear based event/experience that has happened to you over the course of your life.   The shame/guilt/fear slowly seep into our beings influencing our goals, our dreams as well as the kind of decisions we make in life and love.    -        She was at that stage in her life where she wanted more but she knew that something was holding her back – back to mediocrity and averageness and that was holding her from her greatness. Karlyn realized that you will never be able to rewrite that chapter of why you are not happy until you take ownership of your story.   -

Today’s guest is the awesome Dominique Reese. She is the owner of Reese Financial Services and creator of Master My Money personal financial coaching programs and Master My Money University. At Reese Financial Services, she is the Chief Financial Coach and Strategist, where she helps her clients create foundations of wealth through money mastery. Here are some highlights from our conversation today:   -        Master my Money personal financial coaching program is her brainchild and it teaches techniques and strategies that will allow people to get intimate with their numbers the way that they become masters. This way, they are taking on skills so they can take over their financial life. Finances is a journey according to Dr. Reese. You can have your financial house in order but not always make the best decisions. Ultimately, even if you haven’t been making the best decisions, you now have the skills and techniques to get you out of that situation because of the Master My Money program.   She is currently working with women who are in transition. Dr. Rees defines them as women who have a 9-5 job who are making money but has no idea where it’s going. They have the skills and talent but they don’t have the know-how to keep their finances in order. She also serves women who just started a family who want to keep their financial house in order, and also women who have been laid-off that would like to make sure that they are making the best financial decisions knowing that their income is going away. She also works with women who are ready to make the change – women who are tired of living by the paycheck and would like to take over their finances. Over the years, her clientele has come to include men.  

Today we have the wonderful Jennifer Barley. She is the founder of Kickstart Coaching and she is a Certified Professional Life Coach, Public Speaker, Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) Instructor, Author and former award winning Weight Loss Leader. She started in 2007 and she admits that she went through a long journey in her coaching career. She absolutely loves everything about it. Here are highlights on our conversation:   -        She was actually a high-technology marketing and communications dropout. She never felt the fulfillment that she was looking for in a career. She felt that a lot was missing in her life and she went on a long journey to figure out what was missing so she could pursue her passion. What she found was that she has a natural at being able to work with people and identify their goals, what’s stopping them, and what they want more out of their life. She was drawn to coaching through the path of being a weigh watcher – motivating and inspiring people to lose weight.   -        Her niche is helping coaches bring their coaching to the next level. She loves to work with coaches so that they can be better coaches. Jennifer wants to bring coaching into people’s businesses so that they will be able to connect better with their clients and be able to have a more holistic approach to their business.  

Trina Ramsey is the owner and CEO of Perspective Plus Coaching which started in 2009 and she specializes in personal transformation and career transition. With 20 years of experience in business and management, Trina's is a "people person" and a change agent. Trina was trained by iPEC Coaching, where she learned the entire spectrum of coaching including careers, personal goal setting, relationships, spiritual, health and finances. Here are some highlights from today’s show:   -        She works with women who are in their mid-40s and mid-60s and have been stuck in a career that is no longer fulfilling their passion. She helps them into transitioning for them to get more joy into their life. She believes that many of us goes through life on autopilot that even if we are unhappy, stuck or dissatisfied we don’t slow down to give ourselves a mission.   -        Being transparent about our business allows other coaches reduce the learning curve. So much can happen while you are building business and being transparent in your business gives the opportunity for other coaches and businesses to grow and learn from the experience of other coaches in the field.   -        Investing in your education, especially if you are a coach, is on

Today I am with the CEO of Get Over Yourself Career and LifeCoaching, Inc., the beautiful Tajuana Ross. Her business started about a year ago and she came up with the name as it was one of the phrases that she uses often and she believes that coaching provides a way for clients to move forward. As a Certified Professional Life Coach, she now gets to spend her time helping to reverse the course for clients on that path. Here are some highlights from our conversation:   -        She says she was “forced” to learn LinkedIn initially because there came a time on her career when she wasn’t landing any jobs and she got an advice that she needed to be on LinkedIn. She wasn’t very proficient at first, but because of her persistence in wanting to learn about how LinkedIn works, she was able to master on how to use it for her business.   -        She left corporate America in 2014 and she started her coaching business thereafter. At that time, she thought that she needed to have a full-time job to keep her business afloat. She then realized that it wasn’t feasible for her to have a full-time job and have a business at the same time. This is where she transitioned to becoming a full-time entrepreneur.   -       

On today’s show is Saba Tekle. She is a publisher, Best Selling Author of the book “20 Beautiful Women“, Inspirational Speaker and Mentor.  She was featured in Matt Morris’s, “The Art and Science of Success” Volume 4 & 7, and has an eBook “Are You Lost?” available on Kindle. Today Saba talks to us about her coaching journey and what drew here to publishing. Here are highlights from our conversation: ·       She didn’t really intend to be a book publisher on the onset; for her, writing and publishing has become a way for her to give back. She naturally became passionate about it because of the pains she had been through. Most of her life growing up didn’t have much direction not because she was lost but because the path she had been in was not the purpose she was intended to serve.   ·       Her cultural background did play a role in the transitions she went through in life. In the beginning, culture played an important role for her because it made her hard to fit in. She felt that she didn’t connect spiritually and that made her feel isolated – something that she understood very much later on in her journey.   ·       The tragedies of her life has brought her to where she is right now. She was able to use the experiences she’s had has inspired her to push forward to becoming a publ

Joining me today is the amazing and absolutely powerful when it comes to media, specifically for Radio, Kathy Boone. She is the president and CEO of Source Radio Network, and she is determined to change the face of Internet Radio with traditional media concepts. They are giving people the opportunity to have a voice, translate words that haven’t been heard and painting a picture that no one has seen. Here are some highlights from our episode today:   ·       Source Radio Network is an online radio show with a dynamic host and they showcase Real life events, on Real talk radio, with Real people and guest. The thing about media is you want to connect with people – give them the entire picture. Give people what they like to see, hear and know. She envisions for her radio station to be for the people, by the people. If you can develop a program that meets the needs of your audience, then you are on your way to success.   ·       Guests to Kathy’s radio show talk about               Relationships, Politics, Sports and Religious views. Three things usually catches Kathy’s attention when looking for guests: pure passion for what they do, comes across as very genuine, and speaks to the need.   ·       In media, the tone of your voice and the pace of your voice can give away if you are being genuine or bein

  Our guest today is a master certified coach and one of America’s leading relationship experts. He is Dr. D. Ivan Young, Professional Motivational Speaker and Master Certified Relationship Coach. With more than a decade of experience, and hundreds of clients, Dr. D Ivan Young not only teaches, he empowers us to better understand and grasp how others perceive and think about us.  Here are some highlights from our conversation:   ·       Make sure that you understand where you want to be. Dr. Young stresses that coaching is a relationship more than it is an event and that relationship begins with self – how are you connected with that niche you found in coaching and why is it special to you and what drew you in. When you look at what you are doing, where are these hidden spots can you find things that you can bring to life in such a way that no one else can do. That is where you can fortify your niche and do what you want to do.   ·       Dr. Ivan started out in his coaching journey as a pre-med student at the University of Houston. His focus was to be in cardiovascular surgery or neurosurgery. With this, he points out that where you start out doesn’t exactly translate to where you end up in. Dr. Young advices to be permeable and pliable to what the universe or what God or what spirit is guiding you toward. For him, he took his love for medicine and physiological psychology and built upon it. He built a connection with how the human mind works and how it connects to relationship coaching. Make parallels of what you love with your coaching practice.

On with us today happens to be one of the best when it comes to Vision Boards and envisioning where you want to go and how you can manifest that level of success based on visioning. Barbara Pellegrino is the CEO of Creative Living Seminars, a top life and business coach. She is also the co-author of my book, Purposeful Action: Seven Steps to Fulfillment. Today, Barbara talks about her coaching journey and how visualizing your dreams can make a difference for your career, business and life in general. Here are highlights from our conversation:   ·       Barbara has extensive experience with NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming) and one of the techniques she often employs is the use of colors. According to her, words activate the left-brain and colors activate the right brain. The goal is to help people to hear and learn on the subconscious level so that people actually get the teaching, and not just on an intellectual level. She offers all these and more under her 30-day Acceleration Program.   ·       Building education is important in coaching – whether you are a life coach or a business coach. As coaches, we are taught to ask questions – to be curious. What Barbara advises for coaches is to continue their learning process and growth so that it would help them ask the best questions so they can be able to transform lives and make a difference with their clients. Allow ideas to come naturally instead of trying hard to figure it out.