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Publisher |: Thom Hart

Media Type |: audio

Podknife tags |: Advice,; Business,; Entrepreneurship,; Interview

Categories Via RSS |: Business,; Education,; Entrepreneurship,; Film Interviews,; How To,; TV & Film

How to turn your creative passions into a digital business. Listen for tools and advice on how to start, scale, and generate income at every level of your journey. Become financially independent by doing what you love. Learn more at www.tgitools.com.

People |: Thom Hart (@thethomhart)
Country Of Origin |: USA
Produced In |: Austin, TX
Premiere Date |: 2019-08-02
Related Hashtags |: #growth,; #PodernFamily,; #traction
Frequency |: Biweekly
Explicit |: No

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50 Available Episodes (50 Total) / Average duration: 00:57:30

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50 Available Episodes (50 Total)Average duration: 00:57:30

Jun 18, 2020

00:44:18

Today we’re joined by Dr. Wiechowski, the founder of “Think Natalia”, the company that represents her dream life that allows her to be many things, including just to name a few, an author, branding expert, and coachsultant, which she personally defines as a position that helps people leave their corporate jobs to find their own passions, where she helps to support them in building an international, sustainable, and purposeful thought leadership personal brand on Linkedin. Her personal goal is to bring together a tribe of 1 million out of the box thinkers who “want to be the change they wish to see in the world”, a quote from Mahatma Gandi. She actively consults and speaks globally and lives in Dubai. She’s spoken at events like Women in Leadership Economic Forum, Masters of LinkedIn Summit, and Classroom without Walls. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Hanover and has earned countless distinctions, including “LinkedIn Marketing Unicorn” from Inc Magazine, Forbes Coaches Council Member, and Top 100 Leader in Education. Dr. Wiechowski is incredibly accomplished and adept at helping others accomplish their personal goals by building the brand that supports that vision. Dr. Wiechowski just released her latest book, “Personal Branding with Linkedin: The Think Natalia Method”, which was just released to the public on May 30th. Since its release, it has already hit the Amazon best sellers list.

How to Connect with Natalia:

Instagram

Facebook

Website

How to Support Natalia:

Check out her new book “Personal Branding with LinkedIn: The Think Natalia Method”

Learn More:

If you would like to help raise money for causes, or yourself, check out Stagepass at https://yourstagepass.com. If you would like to create experiences, let me know and I’ll get in touch!

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May 28, 2020

00:57:35

Today we’re joined by Ian Roth, founder of the Talking Llama Media company and podcast. He’s also an active duty Army Captain and currently acting as a company commander. This episode is a little different from normal — Ian is an avid listener of our podcast here and recently started his new venture. We thought this would be an excellent opportunity to sit down and talk through the challenges of staring a new venture and what he’s doing and focusing at the moment, we also take some time to think about what he could do differently or not to help have him reach his goals.

How to Connect with Ian:

Twitter

Website

How to Support Ian:

Check out the Talking Llama Media company and the podcast!

Tools mentioned:

Soolve– See what questions people are asking on search engines.

Calendly– Automate your scheduling.

Zapier– Automate just about anything.

Learn More:

If you would like to help raise money for causes, or yourself, check out Stagepass at https://yourstagepass.com. If you would like to create experiences, let me know and I’ll get in touch!

If you would like weekly summaries with TGI hacks from each episode, sign up here.

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May 21, 2020

01:05:59

Today we are so incredibly lucky to be joined by Tom Schwab, who is currently the founder and CEO at Interview Valet, where he offers world class podcast interview marketing to leverage top podcasts to drive awareness. He’s built many successful businesses and loves helping others succeed. He’s also the author of Podcast Guest Profits: Grow Your Business with a Targeted Interview Strategy. Tom is also a Navy veteran and former surface warfare officer on the USS Abraham Lincoln and a graduate of the United States Naval Academy.

How to Connect with Tom:

Twitter

Website

How to Support Tom:

Give Interview Valet a visit and see if it’s right for you.

Notes from Tom:

Visit our very own TGI link on Interview Valet at https://interviewvalet.com/tgi/

Learn More:

If you would like to help raise money for causes, or yourself, check out Stagepass at https://yourstagepass.com. If you would like to create experiences, let me know and I’ll get in touch!

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May 14, 2020

01:17:01

Today we’re joined by Casey Botticello, an internet entrepreneur and digital marketing consultant with over a decade of experience creating and improving internet-based businesses. He is an avid writer on Medium, and is the editor of Blogging Guide, an award-winning newsletter which helps writers navigate the digital publishing landscape and shows them how to monetize their content. Casey has thousands of followers on Medium and nearly 30k LinkedIn followers. He's partner at Black Edge Consulting and been in marketing and writing for over a decade now.

How to Connect with Casey:

How to Support Casey:

Check out Casey’s Blogging Guide newsletter on Substack

Notes from Casey:

How to Form a Super PAC, by Casey Botticello

Create Passive Income Through Stock Photography Using Your Phone, by Casey Botticello

Passive Income Ideas for 2020 - Escaping the 9 to 5, by Casey Botticello

Substack vs Medium, by Casey Botticello

Learn More:

If you would like to help raise money for causes, or yourself, check out Stagepass at https://yourstagepass.com. If you would like to create experiences, let me know and I’ll get in touch!

If you would like weekly summaries with TGI hacks from each episode, sign up here.

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Apr 16, 2020

00:11:02

This week we're talking about how you can use this historic time to focus on your creative passions and get your ideal business started. Learn More: If you would like to help raise money for causes, or yourself, check out Stagepass at https://yourstagepass.com (https://yourstagepass.com/). If you would like to create experiences, let me know and I’ll get in touch! If you would like weekly summaries with TGI hacks from each episode, sign up here (http://tgitools.com/newsletter). Connect with TGI: Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/tgitools/) Twitter (https://twitter.com/tgitools?lang=en) Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/traction-growth-income/id1475289526) Google Podcasts (https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ibHVicnJ5LmNvbS9mZWVkcy90Z2kueG1s&hl=en) Stitcher (https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/thom-hart/traction-growth-income) Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/4IgNoW0VUmTc7OLZep73Mz) We’re also available anywhere podcasts are!

Apr 02, 2020

00:22:13

Today we’re talking about our top 5 books for starting your own business in pursuit of living your creative passions. Here are the top 5:

1. The 4 Hour Work Week, by Tim Ferriss

2. Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius

3. The Startup Owner’s Manual, by Steve Blank

4. The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries

5. The E-Myth Revisited, by Michael Gerber

Learn More:

If you would like to help raise money for causes, or yourself, check out Stagepass at https://yourstagepass.com. If you would like to create experiences, let me know and I’ll get in touch!

If you would like weekly summaries with TGI hacks from each episode, sign up here.

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Mar 26, 2020

00:31:04

This week we're talking about precautions to take to avoid getting COVID-19 and how to focus on your creative passions while everyone is preoccupied with worrying about the virus. Learn More: If you would like to help raise money for causes, or yourself, check out Stagepass at https://yourstagepass.com (https://yourstagepass.com/). If you would like to create experiences, let me know and I’ll get in touch! If you would like weekly summaries with TGI hacks from each episode, sign up here (http://tgitools.com/newsletter). Connect with TGI: Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/tgitools/) Twitter (https://twitter.com/tgitools?lang=en) Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/traction-growth-income/id1475289526) Google Podcasts (https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ibHVicnJ5LmNvbS9mZWVkcy90Z2kueG1s&hl=en) Stitcher (https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/thom-hart/traction-growth-income) Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/4IgNoW0VUmTc7OLZep73Mz) We’re also available anywhere podcasts are!

Mar 19, 2020

00:41:31

We’re joined by myself, Thom Hart, in an interview by Joe Crane on the Veteran On The Move Podcast, where I talk about my entrepreneurial journey and why I believe that it’s so important to have a day job while pursuing your creative passions and building a business that can support you if you desire, as long as the timing is right and it is your personal preference.

Veteran On The Move Podcast

Learn More:

If you would like to help raise money for causes, or yourself, check out Stagepass at https://yourstagepass.com. If you would like to create experiences, let me know and I’ll get in touch!

If you would like weekly summaries with TGI hacks from each episode, sign up here.

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Mar 12, 2020

00:12:11

Who: JV Crum III is the author and host of the Conscious Millionaire. His mission in life is to help people make their first million. He has an incredibly diverse background, has earned a JD, MBA, MS in Psychology, and has sold multiple businesses in excess of eight figures. He achieved his dreams at the age of 25 and has since revectored his life so that he could live a more fulfilling one. He specializes in coaching, specifically through Neuro-Linguistic Programming, otherwise known as N.L.P.

Traction: JV considers traction to be the level of progress that you make towards doing the thing that fulfills you most – your conscious niche. He spent years making money by building and selling businesses, but ultimately realized that it wasn’t what brought him happiness. He spends his time these days coaching entrepreneurs to help them make their first million, but has three recommendations on how to achieve traction towards becoming a conscious millionaire:

1. Intrinsic motivation: the path that you set out on must be something that motivates you internally. What you set out to build must be something that you would be happy doing up to three years later, without changing a thing. The easiest way to know if the task that you’re thinking of is something that motivates you intrinsically is testing whether that activity puts you into the state of flow, where you lose sense of time, it changes your state where you feel and act differently, and it’s something that you would do for free. The state of flow is a state of being where you lose all sense of time, where action and thought merge, and where you can accomplish anything. This was first identified by the researcher mihail chicksentmihail

2. Core purpose: What’s the difference you want to make? Who benefits? Why does that matter to you? If you could only do one thing for the rest of your life, what would you do? Those things are going to be the business that will lead to success in traction.

3. Action: have a solution for the thing that you’re most passionate about.

Growth: The difference between seven and eight figure companies, according to JV, is that one offers a variety of services while the other offers one core product to a specific set of customers. Which describes the eight figure companies? The ones that provide a niche solution to a very particular set of customers. In order grow and become a market leader, niche focus is absolutely essential. How can you reverse engineer this to grow within your niche category, while also aligning with your traction steps? If you know that your solution works and is profitable, ask yourself of the audience that you serve, who would you most like to work with. If you’re serving business people, farmers, and college students, which group within that audience would you feel most fulfilled by working with? You can further scope down the niche of your offering and become hyper specialized to scale up your operations for that demographic.

Income: JV has a fascinating take on income. It’s a simple one but makes incredible sense. Let’s start with an example first. What’s the last car you bought? When you were researching cars and settled on that one car, as you were searching for the car you ended up buying, did that car start to appear nearly every place that you looked? The cars were most certainly there before you noticed them, but now you see them all the time. That’s because you had never set a filter for that car in the past. Now let’s take that example and transfer it to JVs recommendation of how to make your first million. Like the example with the car, JV recommends that you only filter for opportunities to make your target income. What does that mean? Instead of jumping at the first chance to land a new client, take the time to think about the conditions that must be met in order for you to hit your target income. Those conditions then become the minimum standards that you set for yourself in business. If you only look for those opportunities, that will be all you see, which in turn becomes your income.

Traction action step: Ask yourself what you would do for free because you’re so passionate about it and ask 3 people if they would pay you for it.

Learn More:

If you would like to help raise money for causes, or yourself, check out Stagepass at https://yourstagepass.com. If you would like to create experiences, let me know and I’ll get in touch!

If you would like weekly summaries with TGI hacks from each episode, sign up here.

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Mar 05, 2020

01:03:18

Today we’re joined by Jay Acunzo, he is a globally touring keynote speaker, author of the book Break the Wheel, and a sought after podcast and docuseries host/producer. I’m so excited for this episode because Jay contributed significantly to me starting this podcast. I first ran into his work while he was host of the Traction podcast, which is phenomenal. It was after that show ended that I wanted more of that content, when I thought that I could do my own podcast about Traction, and then expand it to include growth and income. Here we are 40 episodes later and it’s been a blast. Back to Jay - - When he’s not traveling the world speaking or telling business innovation stories on a show, he’s running Marketing Showrunners, a media company for people who want to find their voice, make a difference, and change the culture of their industries for the better. Subscribers hail from organizations like Red Bull, Amazon Prime, the BBC, the New York Times, Mailchimp, Salesforce, and thousands of small businesses.

Jay began as a sports journalist before moving into tech, holding media and marketing roles at Google and HubSpot, and an executive role at the venture capital firm NextView.

His thinking has been cited in courses at Harvard Business School and by writers at the New York Times, the Washington Post, FastCompany, Fortune, Entrepreneur, and more.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to mitigate risk when starting a new creative venture, how to think when developing your own systems, and what to look for when trying to find the perfect creative match for you.

How to Connect with Jay:

Twitter

Website

Medium

How to Support Jay:

Check out Jay’s new podcast, 3 Clips.

Recommendations from Jay:

Out on the Wire – How the greatest podcasts get made.

My book Recommendation:

Break the Wheel, by Jay Acunzo

Learn More:

If you would like to help raise money for causes, or yourself, check out Stagepass at https://yourstagepass.com. If you would like to create experiences, let me know and I’ll get in touch!

If you would like weekly summaries with TGI hacks from each episode, sign up here.

Connect with TGI:

We’re also available anywhere podcasts are!

Jun 18 | 00:44:18

TGI 49: How to Align Passions with Your Brand with Dr. Natalia Wiechowski, Founder, Speaker, and Author

May 28 | 00:57:35

TGI 48: How to Manage Time on New Ventures with Ian Roth

May 21 | 01:05:59

TGI 47: How Dialogue Can Transform Passions into a Business with Tom Schwab, CEO of Interview Valet

May 14 | 01:17:01

TGI 46: How to Earn Writing on Substack with Casey Botticello

Apr 16 | 00:11:02

TGI 45: How to Take Advantage of This Historic Time

Apr 02 | 00:22:13

TGI 44: Top 5 Books for Starting a Business Around Your Creative Passions

Mar 26 | 00:31:04

TGI 43: How to Focus on Creative Passions During COVID-19

Mar 19 | 00:41:31

TGI 42: How to Pursue Creative Passions with a Day Job with Thom Hart

Mar 12 | 00:12:11

TGI 41: TGI Hacks from JV Crum III

Mar 05 | 01:03:18

TGI 40: How to Find Creative Clarity and Mitigate Risk with Jay Acunzo, Founder of Marketing Showrunners

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