Bizwiz Podcast

Persuading Your Way to More Money   Bushra Azhar believes that human beings are irrational, and trying to persuade someone through a rational argument is like trying to stop a five-year-old from OD'ing on M&M's by recounting the evils of high fructose corn syrup. She is a Persuasion Strategist and Founder of The Persuasion Revolution, where tiny businesses make big bucks, using Psychology of Persuasion.     Questions You'll Hear Today:    How do you build a list of buyers? How do you get your first sale? How do you launch your first product? Where do you find your people? How do you make your first $10K? How do you launch with no list?     Connect with Bushra Azhar:   Twitter:  @bushraazhar Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/persuasionrevolution/ Website:  https://www.thepersuasionrevolution.com Book: Mass Persuasion Method YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/bushraazhar1 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bushra-azhar-1562a511/       BizWiz Links   TurnkeyPodcast.com - You're the expert. Your po

Systematizing Your Business   Kenny Chapman is an entrepreneur who was named one of "America's Premier Experts" in 2011 and awarded The Tom McCart Consultant of the Year Award in 2014 for excellence in the HVAC industry. He is the author of two books, "The Six Dimensions of C.H.A.N.G.E." and "In Home Sales Acceleration," an international best-seller in four business categories.       Questions You'll Hear Today:    1) How do you design your business to serve your life? 2) What are some pointers for effectively systematizing your business? 3) What is the key to employee retention? 4) Why has recruiting superstar employees become so difficult, and what can we do about it? 5) What advice would you give fellow entrepreneurs who are having a hard time because they are too busy working in their businesses to work on their businesses? 6) Being an entrepreneur can be lonely. Where do you suggest our listeners look for resources and support?     Connect with Kenny Chapman:   Twitter:  @kenny_chapman Facebook:https:

How to Pick Your Financial Advisor   Richard Brooks has worked in the financial services industry where he was the lead manager of $325 million in assets. He is the founder of RNB WEALTH MANAGEMENT GROUP, an independent investment advisory firm. Brooks is also the best-selling author of "Counter Investing A Winning Approach to Life and Finance," an inspiring book that reveals Brooks numerous catastrophic life-threatening injuries and yet was able to take the life lessons learned to become one of the nation's leading investors.     Brooks' tenacity to push forward and never give up mirror his work ethic to never give up and provide the best service for his clients. His investing success and survival against most odds interweave to reveal an inspiring new path to becoming the investor you ought to be. Welcome Richard to the BizWiz Podcast      Questions You'll Hear Today:     1) How do financial advisors make money? 2) Is it better to invest your money in stocks or in an annuity?  3) Should you put

Business Consulting    David Duryee is the Managing Director of Horizon Management Services LLC. He has done business consulting and financial training for over 35 years. He's a nationally-known lecturer who speaks to business owners, bankers and professionals, and sits on the board of several corporations.     David Duryee is also the author/co-author of five finance books including his latest best-seller "60 Minute CFO: Bridging the Gap Between Owner, Banker and CPA." This is the only business book that teaches business owners how to communicate and ask the right questions when dealing with bankers, bookkeepers and CPA's in clear and easy to understand terminology. The book also comes with free downloadable software that helps business owners analyze and forecast financial statements and cash flow.      Questions You'll Hear Today:     1. Why it’s important to prepare an annual business plan?  2. What is cash flow?  3. When is high growth in revenue and profit bad? 4. What are the six rules whe

Reach Us Here: Doug- @DJDoug Strickland- @NiceGuyonBiz We can build our innate resilience like a muscle   International speaker and resilience mentor Sandra Younger lost her home and nearly her life in California’s biggest wildfire. She has best-selling book about the disaster called “The Fire Outside My Window,” Sandra teaches a five-step resilience-building system she developed that empowers others to transform crisis into possibility and even loss into legacy. Speaker, author, trainer, survivor.    After rebuilding my home and my life in the wake of the 2003 Cedar Fire, I noticed that while most people affected by the fire considered themselves "survivors" on their way to overcoming a devastating setback, some seemed to embrace the "victim" label that the media and so many others attached to us. Even more fascinating, it didn't seem to matter how much or how little they'd lost in the fire. In fact, some of those who'd lost the least seemed the most bitter, while those who'd lost loved ones seemed determine

Reach Us Here: Doug- @DJDoug Strickland- @NiceGuyonBiz JJ Flizanes - @jjflizanes   Show Notes by Show Producer: Anna Nygren     Diving Deeper Into the Entrepreneur's Mind/Body Relationship   In this episode, Doug and JJ discuss: JJ's story The methodology The food conversation What burnout is     Key Takeaways: There's a lot of food that lead you to believe that you're an emotional eater Even at the emotional and spiritual, science is involved You have to clean your body for 2-4 weeks of food to see what really affects you Adrenal fatigue (i.e. burnout) can be avoided through the basics - SLEEP, water etc.       "Trainers need to understand physics!!!" - JJ Flizanes   Connect with JJ Flizanes:   Twitter: @jjflizanes Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jflizanes/ Website: http://fit2love.tv/   Nice Guys Sponsor: Interview Valet is the  best podcast booking service. They are the leader in Podcast Interview Marketing to help you easily turn listeners into leads.   Nice Guys Links Support the podcast at www.Pa

Creating Leverage for Success   Virginia Muzquiz is the Referral Diva! Well-known for her passion for connecting the people she meets to the people they need to know, six-figure solopreneurs hire Virginia to help them develop marketing plans that, when implemented, create a proactive, on-demand referral stream. Ultimately, Virginia's clients build businesses that fuel their passions, fund their dreams and have MASSIVE IMPACT on the communities where they live and serve.   Virginia was raised by an entrepreneur, so that spirit is in her blood. The single most powerful success she’s had was building a No Child Left Behind division of a St. Louis area tutoring company from $0 in revenue in 2005 to $2.5MM just six years later... without a marketing budget! What Virginia learned through that experience, and what she shares with entrepreneurs, is how to leverage other people's influence to make miracles happen. Virginia left that company in 2011 to start her own coaching company and began teaching business owners t

How Working Through Pain Can Lead to Success   Todd Nelson is a Naturopathic Doctor in practice for the past 35 years. He is the co-author of three books: Asthma Survival, Headache Survival, and Arthritis Survival. Todd is an expert in guiding people to overcome pain and fatigue , reclaim their power, and get back to high performance.   Todd suffered from migraine headaches since he was a teen as well as general aches and pains stemming from a rare genetic disorder called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Like his patients and clients, Todd hated being in pain, so this put him on a path to discover safe, natural treatments to reduce the occurrence of his pain symptoms. This has allowed him to function at high level in his work and his mission, leading Todd to develop programs that have helped many business owners to reduce pain and gain back their power and performance. Questions you'll hear on the podcast today Have you, or colleagues you've known, been derailed from launching or scaling your business because of so

Sculpting Transformation One Leader at a Time   Susan Blais is a leadership coach, on a mission to transform the world of work one leader at a time. She made the long climb from receptionist to CEO of a billion-dollar division of a Fortune 100 company, so she knows what she's talking about. She helps leaders understand and implement the critical balance between relationships and results, so they can unleash their people's talents to achieve bottom-line success.   Susan became an expert at leading teams through radical change, by going through eight mergers and acquisitions in the corporate world of health insurance. The first couple were learning experiences, and the third opened her eyes to the desperate need people have for certainty, especially in times of chaos and confusion. Susan understood at that point that it was up to her to provide a framework and a place of trust for her people, so they could survive and thrive despite their world being turned upside down. Susan found this brought out the best in

Tapping Into Your Unique Creative Genius   Sophia Wise One was a child mystic & has been practicing bodywork for 20 years. She has also been an entrepreneur and workshop facilitator since she was 17 and turned her emotional intelligence and embodiment expertise into the “I LOVE MY LIFE: Card Game and Oracle Deck” to share the skills you need to make for a better life. At 17 Sophia Wise One lost her mind and dropped out of college. It took 7 years to piece back her life, soul, and body back together, and now she offers everything she learned in that time and since then to help other people turn the poison and trauma of their life into medicine for themselves and others.   Questions you'll hear on the podcast today What can I do about burnout? How can I stop the negative self-talk that tries to take me out? I got into this work because I want to help people, but now I am just overwhelmed with ideas and different leads? I am a creative genius and I hate having to pick one thing, it kills my creativity, but

Creating Boundaries for a Better Life   After a 25 year marriage, Rosie Aiello, engineered an international escape to save her daughter and herself from domestic abuse. Nearly mentally destroyed, she reinvented herself since arriving back in the United States, started her own business, and became a speaker, best-selling author and an international awarding-winning entrepreneur. Rosie and her daughter are now sharing their powerful story of escape, healing and freedom in their upcoming memoir called 11 Hours to Freedom. When Rosie started to write her memoir (along with her daughter) in January of this year, the wheels started to turn. One afternoon in the spring Rosie  got "an ass-kicking" from God who told her to help women and lead the fight against domestic abuse. Having said that, this work is equally important for men to hear--we especially need good men like the nice guys to stand up for women or anyone who is being mistreated. Topics of expertise include: Honoring yourself and others; asking with confi

Knowing How to Handle with Difficult People 911’s   Dr. Rhoberta Shaler is The Relationship Help Doctor. She provides urgent and ongoing care for their partners, exes, adult children and co-workers of crazy-making, relentlessly difficult people she calls “Hijackals™.” She helps them save their sanity and stop the crazy-making. Even the United States Marines have called on her for help! That’s a big deal. A relationship expert, mediator, speaker & author of sixteen books, Dr. Shaler consults with clients worldwide through the magic of the internet. Everyone knows an infuriating, frustrating, difficult, and disturbing person. Dr. Rhoberta Shaler was born into a family of them. Early on, She learned how to navigate through the moment-to-moment conflict of everyday life, sometimes even successfully! Dr. Shaler’s  interest in effective communication and conflict management grew from the crazy-making environment she survived, and the many she saw later in life, both in homes and businesses. Dr. Shaler shifted f

Entrepreneur in the digital marketing space   Peter Reitano is a marketer, entrepreneur, and investor. Over the last decade he's worked directly with some of the world's largest blue-chip / Fortune 500 brands and award winning agencies in Europe, Australia, Canada and the US. He's now Co-Founder and CEO at Abacus; a VC-backed specialized Facebook advertising agency. Abacus helps brands grow and acquire customers with advanced data-driven performance marketing. Peter is also an instructor at Bitmaker, where he teaches digital marketing, and co-founder of Bellwether, a not-for-profit which brings together entrepreneurs and leaders in Toronto's startup, tech, media, and advertising space for collaboration and innovation. Questions you'll hear on the podcast today How to get the best out of Facebook What budget do you need to spend on Facebook What creative works best on Facebook   Doug- @DJDoug Check out more episodes at www.bizwizpodcast.com Produced by www.TurnKeyPodcast.com You're the expert, let us help

Designing Your Life Around Purpose   Paula Brown of Chi-Lightful is a Heartist; graphic facilitator and purpose coach who draws out literally and figuratively the “WHAT” heart story for authentic leaders, empowering them to put the heartbeat back into their lives and business. With her sketch questing, she helps leaders dive into finding, communicating, and prospering from their core purpose value. Using both intuition and strategic process, Paula’s Sketch Questing and purpose coaching gets her clients into clarity. Paula’s death experience really was the birth of her quest for not only her own purpose but for how she’s now helping others reveal and live from their heart center, their WHAT. Paula was “sent back” to “find purpose”…as to why she was on this earth. With a foundation of being a brand Creative Director for large Ad Agencies, Paula is and has always been one who finds the core, the energetic, material, and emotional essence or the heart of things…then translating this into the “real” for life and b

Bringing a Youthful Twist to Business Entertainment   Paul Dixon worked 16 years for Target Stores in Merchandising, including 8 years as a Toy Buyer. He also worked as a Disney until 2016. In 2004, Paul began a publishing business venture, publishing children’s book with author Lehman Riley. They have published seven historical fiction books featuring Paul’s grandpa Papa Lemon. Paul has worked in the Toy or Children's Book business since 1994. That undoubtedly makes Paul an expert in the children's entertainment business! Paul’s Target Toy Buying & Disney Toy salesperson jobs or starting a children's book business were never specific goals of his. They all just happened, as if this was part of his "destiny" in life.   Questions you'll hear on the podcast today What has the Toy business taught you? How was the transition from the corporate world to being an entrepreneur? What is difficult about being an entrepreneur? What is the greatest business risk you have ever taken? What keeps you motivated to focu

Strengthening Relationships Through Thick and Thin   Authors Sam and Patrick have been married for over twenty years and they would tell you they are one of the happiest couples they know. But they weren’t always this happy. In fact, after ten years of marriage, they were ready to sign the divorce papers and be done for good.   Sam and Patrick are experts at maintaining healthy, strong, loving long-term relationships which continues to develop the longer they’re married. Sam and Patrick are also experts in chasing balance in their lives between their business and personal lives. Sam and Patrick have also started, grown, and sold multiple businesses in their careers.   Questions you'll hear on the podcast today How do romantic relationships with or between entrepreneurs differ from other romantic relationships? Do romantic relationships have any impact on your business life, and if so, how? What are each of your greatest business success and what did you learn from it? What about failures? How did these succe

How a Slow and Steady Investment Really Does Win the Race   Moneeka Sawyer is the creator of the Blissful Real Estate Investor Formula. She authored an international best seller, Choose Bliss: The Power and Practice of Joy and Contentment. The book details the proven strategies she shares as an executive coach for more than 10 years. Moneeka believes that we can and should choose bliss in all areas of our lives, from relationships to business to investing. Her expertise has been featured on ABC, NBC, and Fox.   One evening when Moneeka was 22, her Dad sat her across the table and said to her "Moneeka, everyone has money issues. Do you want poor people money issues, or rich people money issues?" That night changed her life. Moneeka’s parents came to this country with only $200 in their pockets and a dream to create a better life for their family. Dad had heard that the golden ticket to wealth in the United States was to invest in real estate, so as soon as he could he bought a home. Then Mom and Dad saved thei

How To Build Success on Love   Michele PW is the best-selling author of the "Love-Based Business" series of books that share how to sell more with love and build a solid, profitable business on a foundation of love. In addition, she owns a copywriting and marketing company along with writing and publishing fiction. If the words “I want to start a business I love and that loves me back,” you are in the right place.   Michele taught herself to read when she was 3 years old. As you can imagine, writing was a driving force throughout her life. When Michele was in college, she discovered the wacky world of direct response copywriting, which eventually led to her to discover the love-based copy and marketing philosophy. Michele has written and published many books in the Love-Based Business series.   Questions you'll hear on the podcast today What led to you discovering the love-based copy philosophy? What exactly is love-based copy and marketing and how is it different from traditional copy and marketing? How can

Revisiting Square One with a Purpose   Michael Levitt brings people back to life. Focused on helping individuals and leaders within corporations (Re)Learn BOUNDARIES in their work and personal lives – So that they can accomplish more, by doing less, which will save their careers and possibly their lives. Michael is an expert in Boundaries. He lost his health, his job, his car, and his home all in 369 days. After suffering a year of significant losses, he rebounded and reinvented himself, and his approach to life. Michael teaches people on how that happened to him, so that they can make the crucial changes in their lives to prevent those losses from happening to them. Questions you'll hear on the podcast today How do I get done what I need to get done, without burning myself out? How do I pick from all the items on my to-do list? There are so many options and tools to become more efficient, which ones should I use? How should I approach my boss, if I feel that I'm overwhelmed in my job? What's the one piece

Exploring Personal Development, Zenfully   Mariko Hirakawa is an internationally known Yoga expert and founder of Visionary Yoga, a personal development company dedicated to accelerating the growth of motivated individuals and companies through the wisdom of Yoga. She’s a teacher of teachers, presenting at Yoga Festivals and conferences around the world.   Mariko has had two defining moments. One was when she was a professional ballet dancer at age 19 in NYC, going through a "purpose-crisis". The moment Mariko started to question what the purpose of her spending 8-10 hours in a dance studio was, why she danced, everything started to fall apart. Mariko then realized dance, the one thing she had dedicated herself to, was not her real purpose.   From that moment Mariko has been seeking to first realize and live into that dimension for herself on a more constant basis, and second, to spread the message and the EXPERIENCE of the depth dimension of Yoga - the message of Yoga as the doorway to your most expanded, mo