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In today's episode, we're going to show you how to work from home as a virtual travel agent. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey y'all on today's podcast we're going to show you how to work from home as a virtual travel agent. Shane Sams: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast where life always comes before work. We're your hosts Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. Now we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? All right. Let's get started. Shane Sams: What's going on everybody welcome back to The Flipped Lifestyle Podcast it is great to be with you again today. Super excited for today's show. This is a continuation of our work from home job series. We're branching out a little bit and showing you, the listener other ways you can make a living besides starting a website or selling virtual courses or anything like that. There's so many ways to live that flipped lifestyle in today's economy. The internet makes so many jobs possible to work from home and do things at home that you can really make a living doing almost anything you want. Anything that you can dream of. We have a an amazing example of a work from home job today. Jocelyn Sams: I'm really, really excited about today's episode because this person came into my world randomly I guess you would say. A couple of years ago Shane and I were thinking about going to an all inclusive resort, I really didn't know much about it. I had heard about using travel agents before but we've never really used one. Well I'll take that back, we used one for Disney but I really wanted someone who was an expert on all inclusives and knew all about what we wanted to find in our all inclusive resort. Jocelyn Sams: I did as some people may do actually probably just nerdy people like me. I got on Facebook and I used the search feature and I typed in all inclusive travel expert. I got a lot of different people and I started looking at their pages but one stood out to me in particular. What I do is, I go on and I message people and if they get back to me in a timely manner then there's a possibility that I will work with them and there's a pretty good possibility. Well Marci got back to me right away. We have been working together ever since. This has been a couple of years ago. Shane Sams: Today's guest is a literal work from home travel agent and is actually our personal travel agent, Marci Jennings. Marci welcome to The Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. Marci Jennings: Thank you so much for having me. Jocelyn Sams: We are very excited to talk to you today for a lot of different reasons. I think that our listeners are going to be really intrigued by what you do and just the types of experiences that you get to have as a part of your job. Which are really, really cool. We'll get into that just a little bit but before we do tell us a little bit about you and your background and how you got started doing this. Marci Jennings: Awesome, yes I have a bit of an interesting story I guess but I think that's, this is how most business owners are often. First of all I'm a mom. I have two kiddos, they are 13 and nine so I love having great vacation experiences, and that has evolved over the course of time. But I actually started my career in physical therapy. I came from the medical field and loved what I did but didn't love all the paper work and all of the bureaucracy that's involved in healthcare today. Over the course of time I realized that maybe I, was maybe looking for something more flexible and just something a little bit different. Jocelyn Sams: I want to know a little bit about this transition because I know that you're from a little bit larger area than we are. You're from the Kansas city area, right? Marci Jennings: Yes. Jocelyn Sams: Yeah, in our area we were teachers before we left our jobs to do this. I know that a lot of people looked at us like we were crazy. How was it when you told people like, oh yeah, I'm a physical therapist but yeah I'm gonna stop that and be a virtual travel agent. How did that conversation go? Shane Sams: Or did you, did you quit before you found this or did you just start looking? Marci Jennings: That's great questions so yes absolutely people thought I was crazy for a while. Probably some people still think I'm crazy now but yes. I did work it alongside of it when I got started. How this happened was I loved to travel. I didn't grow up traveling very much. My, I grew up in the middle of Kansas on a farm. Our typical vacation was to go to Kansas city each year. We weren't big vacationers growing up but I discovered more about traveling and became obsessed with beach vacations in my adult life so each year I would travel to a different island for a week. Marci Jennings: I just loved the process of researching different destinations, finding the best deals and finding the cool things to do on these different islands. That was my goal each year was to travel somewher

In today's episode, we're going to show you how to work from home teaching English online. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn: Hey, y'all. On today's show, we're going to show you how to work from home teaching English online. Shane: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online, and now we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? All right. Let's get started. Shane: What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to The Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. It is great to be back with you again today. Super excited for this episode, because we are kicking off a new series here on The Flipped Lifestyle Podcast, all about different ways to work from home and make money online. You know, Jocelyn and I and the community ... We have a lot of trainings about a lot of different things you can do online. You can offer goods, you can offer services, you can offer digital products, you can offer physical products, you can do coaching, but most of our focus is on membership-based websites. Now, I- Jocelyn: And essentially becoming a business owner. Shane: Yeah. And when you become a business owner, that can mean a lot of different things you have to learn and a lot of different responsibilities. You got to build a website, you got to manage your brand, you got to manage your social media presence, you got to create courses and content, and that can be very overwhelming for people. And a lot of people have asked us, "What are some other ways to work from home? What are some other ways to make money online? What are some other ways to live the flipped lifestyle, to get to control my schedule, to get to work when I want to and be more available for my family and for my kids?" So that's where this series came from. We are going to be bringing on a number of guests who make money online and work from home in different ways such as creating and selling courses or even owning and operating a membership. And our first guest in this series is Jocelyn's friend Gina. Gina, welcome to The Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. Gina: Thank you. Jocelyn: Yes, we are excited to talk to you today. And Gina's actually someone who I know in real life. We used to work together a few years ago. And of course, we were Facebook friends, and I see she is always posting cool stuff about her job. And I sent her a message not too long ago, and I said, "Would you be willing to come onto our podcast and talk about what it is that you're doing?" So let's get into that just a little bit. Tell us a little bit about you and your family and what it is that you are doing online. Gina: Okay. I have a large family. I have eight kids at home, and I teach ... Well, English as a second language to Chinese children at home. So I have been doing that a little over a year now, and it is the best job I have ever had. Shane: I bet. Gina: It is. Shane: It's probably the best break you've ever had, as well. Gina: It is, actually, and most people would think you want to be with kids more, but yes. And I actually get up at three, four in the morning to do that. It's just an awesome job. Shane: So what is your background? Okay, we're going to get into teaching English as a second language online. So you actually do this live, right? This actually happens online? Gina: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Shane: Okay. So what is- Gina: Yes. Shane: What is your background? What were you doing before the eight children arrived or you did this online? Gina: In the midst of it. I was ... Actually, I worked at the school, and my degree is in psychology, so I had started working on my Masters a little bit, but it wasn't in teaching. And you do not have to have a teaching degree to do this, but you do need to have a degree. But I did work at the school for about six ... A little over six years, and it just ... It wasn't a lot of money. The flexibility wasn't as great. Although I was off during the summer. But I decided to stay home when my youngest one was born, and I wasn't sure what I was going to do when she got school-aged, but I knew I wanted to go back to work but wasn't sure about finding a job that was flexible enough for me to take off if I needed to ... if my kids were sick or if there was doctor's appointments or that would also compensate me for my degree. So I kind of looked into stay-at-home jobs. A lot of them were data entry. A lot of them were this and that, and I stumbled upon this, and it was just like, "Wow." I mean, it was a life-changing decision for me. Jocelyn: Yeah, that's awesome. And what Gina didn't mention is that ... Of course, we live in a super small area, so even though you've gone to college, even though you have a degree, it's not always easy to find good jobs, and particularly ones that are flexible. And that's why a lot of people work at the school system, and I suspect that's why you worked for the school system as well

In today's episode, we help Brad overcome fears and obstacles while scaling his business. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn: Hey y'all. On today's podcast we help Brad overcome fears and obstacles while scaling his business. Shane: Welcome to The Flipped Lifestyle Podcast where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living on life. Now we help other families do the same. Are you ready to Flip Your Life? All right, let's get started. Shane: What's going on everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. It is great to be back with you again today. Super excited to talk to another member of the Flip Your Life community and help them take their business and their life to the next level. We've got an awesome guest today, Flip Your Life community member, Brad Grey, and I didn't even try to rhyme that it just happened, but Brad, welcome to the show. Brad Grey: Hey guys, how are you doing? Jocelyn: Hey Brad, we are excited to talk to you today. You have some really interesting things going on in your business, and I think that our listeners are going to love it. So let's dive right in. Tell us a little bit about you, your background, and what you're doing online. Brad Grey: All right. To start, I'm a husband and a father of three. Actually, I have three kids, two daughters, basically. Age seven and a four month old now, I guess. Yeah- Shane: That's a busy house right there. Brad Grey: Yeah. You're not kidding, and also a two year old son who is ... They have those terrible twos, so you've got all that going on and a dog running around. It's definitely busy. It's definitely a challenge to find that time, but I was able to kind of figure out ways to build that time with the help of you all, segmenting out the schedules and what not. I'm still a practicing biology/science teacher pretty much whatever they ask me to teach. I've been pursuing online business since about 2012 when I made a product, and I put it on Teachers Pay Teachers, and I started to blog a little bit. Just anything I could do really to make some extra money when we had my first child and every once in a while I'd get this little thing, a sale and it was like this bug just telling me, "Hey you need to be doing something else with this." Shane: It's like a virus. Brad Grey: It went on for years, and I just kept ignoring it like, it's only a couple of bucks here, a couple of bucks there but ... Then I came across your article in Forbes right about the same time I was finishing up my master's degree in curriculum and instruction and it was like a perfect storm. I was finishing up and I knew I didn't want to be the administrator, I wanted to just dive in and write curriculum. Jocelyn: I have to stop you here because in your form that you filled out it says "I knew what I needed to do, and I consumed what I suspect was at least 150 podcasts and even listened to some several times." Shane: That's amazing. You got the full Netflix binge listen of the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. Brad Grey: Absolutely I used to love going to mow the lawn just so I could get a couple of episodes in. Jocelyn: That is awesome. I love that. Shane: We need to put that in all our sales copy. We even make mowing the yard fun. Brad Grey: Yeah, tough to make that fun, but it was my only opportunity to really get out there and listen to you guys. I listen to several, some of them several times just, to help provide that motivation every once in a while you just need that kick in the butt. Listening to certain episodes helps with that for sure. It helps keep me going, and I'd listen to No Sugar Shane, telling us what's up. It helps keep us going. Jocelyn: Absolutely. So you were listening to the podcast and you decided that you needed to get this thing onto your own website and then you decided to invest in yourself and become a member of our community. Tell us a little bit about that journey. Brad Grey: Yeah, so ... Well, I had it like a wordpress.org site, or a wordpress.com site. I rolled that over and then built it up from there. I did have a couple of blog followers, 75, to be exact and that I converted over to an email list, but really what the challenge was is just finding time, finding the motivation. I took your advice, early in your community you have a breakdown of how to manage your time. Basically I just charted out exactly what I needed to do and basically looked at the end goal and mapped out what I needed to do to accomplish each day in order to meet that end goal of being able to launch a full curriculum and whatever. It was like six or nine months out. So just sitting down and mapping that all out was extremely helpful and having a goal each and every single day to accomplish to make it all happen. Shane: What's amazing is, we actually talked about when we were structuring the Flip Your Life blueprint, what's the order you need to do things in, because everybody out there is li

In today's episode, we'll tell you how Matt makes over $4,000 a month selling his books on Amazon. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey y'all. On today's podcast we'll tell you how Matt makes over $4,000 a month selling his books on Amazon. Shane Sams: Welcome to The Flipped Lifestyle Podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. Now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? All right, let's get started. Shane Sams: What's going on everybody? Welcome back to The Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. It is great to be back with you again today. Super excited, I am so excited about today's guest, because it is just gonna bring back so much nostalgia and my childhood and teenage years and college years back into my brain when we talk about this subject today. Our guest today is Flip Your Life community member Matt Davids. Matt, welcome to the show, brother. Matt Davids: Yeah, no problem. Thank you for having me. Jocelyn Sams: Matt, when I saw you in the community, I knew that you had to come onto our show. Because Matt works in the RPG game industry, which is ... Okay, I guess it's just RPG, role playing games. Shane Sams: Dungeons & Dragons, all these cool things. We're gonna get into this, and I'm gonna be really pumped up about it. It's awesome. Jocelyn Sams: Yeah, so before I met Shane I had no idea what a role playing game was. After I met him, I still don't really know what it is, but he is really, really excited about them and has been playing them for a very, very long time. Longer than some of our listeners have probably been alive. Shane Sams: I think the first time I ever played a role playing game, I played Dungeons & Dragons when I was like ... Gosh, like 12 or 13 years old. I've always been into creative stuff and reading, you know, like science fiction, fantasy novels, Game of Thrones kind of stuff. The game is all pencil and paper and dice, right? Matt Davids: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Shane Sams: I remember the first time I ever played we didn't have any dice because we couldn't afford to go buy the dice. We're just a bunch of kids. Matt Davids: Yeah, I've been there. Shane Sams: So we took hats and we like ... There was a 20 sided dice, so we wrote the numbers 1-20 on paper and we threw them in a hat. Then we had a six sided hat and a 10 sided hat, and that's how I cut my teeth on role playing games. Matt Davids: Yeah, absolutely. I mean it sounds very similar to me, too. I was nine when I first played Dungeons and Dragons, and yeah. I came home from that and I had to make dice, so I just wrote them on a piece of paper and threw them in a hat. Shane Sams: Oh, love it. I love it. See, I knew there was gonna be some kind of connection in this episode. I just knew it was gonna happen. Jocelyn Sams: Well, and I saw Matt in our community and I saw what he was doing, and I thought, "You know what? This is a really cool business first of all, and I know Shane's gonna be really excited about talking to him." So I knew that we had to have you on the show, so thank you so much for being here today. Matt Davids: No problem. Shane Sams: Also, too, we always say that our community is extremely unique, because a lot of other communities it's like sales and life go just until the end of the Earth, right? We have so many different people doing so many different niches and so many different business ideas that it's really cool to see like, "Man. You can actually make money doing this." And Matt is actually making four to five thousand dollars a month off of his RPG business. So without going any farther, without spoiling anything else, tell everybody a little bit about you, about your background, and about what you're doing online right now. Matt Davids: Yeah. Well, I went to college in Kentucky. I went to Asbury, which is in the little town of Wilmore. Shane Sams: When he says little, he ain't jokin. Wilmore is a little bitty place. Matt Davids: Yeah. When the college, and there's a seminary there, when they're in session, the town like ... I think it increases, like triples or something the population of the town I think. So I went there. I kind of had my hopes set on becoming a screenwriter, and I did the starving artist thing for awhile. That really didn't work out too well, so I ... At another point in my life I became a missionary and I went to Haiti. I came back from there and then I've been working in search engine optimization ever since. Shane Sams: Wow. That's amazing. That's another part that's very fascinating about your story, and I feel like the world is changing around all sorts of things, like how we used to view things. You know, like back in the '80s, I'm gonna date myself here a little bit, so anybody that wasn't born in the '80s that's listening, I'm sorry. Jocelyn Sams: Turn this off. Shane Sams: Yeah, turn this off. Jocelyn Sams: I'm just kidding. Shane Sams: Ba

In today's episode, we help Kevin develop a sales pitch for his online membership. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey, y'all. On today's podcast, we help Kevin develop a sales pitch for his online membership. Shane Sams: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast, where life always come before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online, and now we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? All right, let's get started. Shane Sams: What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. It is a beautiful sunny day here in Kentucky, and we are super excited to welcome back a former guest on the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast, a long time member, one of our moderators, and last year's Flip Your Life Member of the Year, Kevin DePew. Welcome back to the show, man. Kevin DePew: Hey, thank you. Very excited to be here. Jocelyn Sams: Member of the Year. Shane Sams: The Member of the Year. We're gonna talk about that. We're gonna talk about that in a minute, though. Kevin DePew: I'm surprised by that, yes. Jocelyn Sams: Yeah, it was really exciting. We presented Kevin with a special award at last year's live event, and we got to meet him in person for the first time. And it was just a really, really great time. We're gonna get into that just a little bit more in a few minutes, but before we talk about all that, let's get into a little bit about you, for people who maybe have not listened to your other podcast or don't know you. Tell us a little bit about you, your background, and what you do online. Kevin DePew: Yeah. My name is Kevin. I am been doing this online business thing for a little while, I'd say a little over two years we've been doing relaxandlearnguitar.com, we being my wife Vicky, who helps me a lot with this now. We are empty nesters, have had many, many years in corporate America, working with various jobs, mostly with families and children. Vicky worked with seniors for awhile. And I about three years ago just heard you guys on, I think, Pat Flynn is how I found you guys, and the tractor story, and I just kind of from there went, "This is amazing. I think this is something I need to look into." Started listening to your podcast, joined your membership, and it's been fantastic. It's been life changing, honestly. It's been really good. Shane Sams: That's awesome, man. I love to hear that. I love people who like, I literally know every minute of their story online, because I feel like I know everything you've ever done. Jocelyn Sams: And it's kind of hard not to just jump right in, because we already know all these things about you, but I just want to make sure that the listeners know how cool of a person you are. Shane Sams: When you joined the community, remember you had some crazy other idea? Kevin DePew: Yeah, the guitar thing is probably idea number four or five. Shane Sams: What was the thing you were doing when you first came in, though? Kevin DePew: Oh, gosh, it was either a combination of time management or creativity or ... Jocelyn Sams: Yes. Shane Sams: Yeah, it was something about the creativity thing, and I remember you posted in the forum one day, and you were like, "What do you guys think?" Jocelyn Sams: We're like, "No." Shane Sams: I'm like, "Kevin, man, I don't usually say this, but this is awful. This is terrible. You don't even seem like you like this. What are you doing, man?" Then I remember specifically asking you in the forums, though, "Dude, what do you want to do? What do you want to do?" And you literally were like, "Man, I just want to relax, play guitar." Kevin DePew: And now here we are. Shane Sams: And now you have a website called Relax and Learn Guitar. It's funny how that works out. Going back just a little bit, how did it help you to pick something that you wanted to do, not that you thought might work? How did that help? Because you've stuck with this now for a while. We're gonna talk a little bit about your membership growth and the future of your business, but how did that help when you made that transition? Kevin DePew: Oh yeah, absolutely. I mean, first starting out, it was just in my head a lot, exactly what should I do that people are gonna look for? It was very new to the whole online business thing. It was a good part to kind of learn how to build a website and how to have a lead magnet, so I learned a lot of good stuff there, but when it wasn't taking off or getting any traction, I think what helped the most switching to the guitar stuff is just, I don't have to pretend to be passionate about it. I am, and I want to share that with other people. And when I saw that others were listening and interested and then started getting on board, it just makes it keep rolling. So choosing something that you're passionate about, but I don't think I'll ever get tired of doing. I might get tired of editing videos, but I will never get tired of playing and teachi

In today's episode, we help Mike move from a client-based business to an online membership. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey y'all. On today's podcast, we help Mike move from a client-based business to an online membership. Shane Sams: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. Now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? All right. Let's get started. Shane Sams: What's going on everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. It is great to be back with you again today. Super excited to talk to another member of the Flip Your Life community, and we are pumped up about today's guest because we have been trying to get him on the show for a while now. Not only is this one of our amazing international members of the Flip Your Life community, but it's also someone that actually we have met in person, believe it or not, even though they had to fly all the way across the world to do it. We want to welcome to the show all the way from Melbourne, Australia, today Mike Giuliano. Mike, what's up, brother? Mike Giuliano: Hey. Hey, guys. Thanks very much for having me. I am also super excited and pumped. And, yes, we've tried to get this going and I'm glad we're ready to go. Shane Sams: Apparently, it's hard to coordinate when you're 15 time zones apart. I don't know. It's like, what is it 7:30 AM there right now, and it's like 4:30 PM, or something like that. Mike Giuliano: It's, yeah, that's right. Shane Sams: So thank you for being the one that had to get up early. I really appreciate that, man. Shane Sams: But listen, we had a great time with Mike last year at Flip Your Life LIVE, him and his wife Pat made the long trip all the way. And we kind of followed along with their journey, because they were posting in the Flip Your Life LIVE Facebook group. Jocelyn Sams: Because they had to leave like days early, of course. Shane Sams: Right, before everybody else, where did you land? You landed in, like, Memphis, and rented a car, like drove over to Nashville, or something like that? Mike Giuliano: Yeah, that's right. So we landed in L.A. and then caught a flight over, and then got to hire a Mustang, so the convertible, that was pretty cool. And got to enjoy the south a little bit. So, yeah. It took us a while to get there, but we were revved when we got there. Shane Sams: So what did you think about the ... what's it- Jocelyn Sams: Had you ever been to the south before? Shane Sams: Had you ever been there, yeah. And then what'd you think about it? Mike Giuliano: Okay, so I've been to U.S. between 12 and 15 times. Never been to the south. First time. I've got plenty of friends in the south. And we loved it. We loved the people, we loved everything about the south. So we have dear friends in Minnesota, and they were shocked when I said, "You know what, I wanna move to the south." Shane Sams: So we have got a conversion. We have someone converting to southern life. That is what I'm talking about right now. Jocelyn Sams: Well we have other Australian friends who came over for the event, and they also loved the south. And anyone who has been to the United States from another country, you know that the south is not Los Angeles or New York, or you know ... The places people typically go in the United States. The south is very different. Shane Sams: I'm super excited that you'll be coming back to the south this year for Flip Your Life LIVE in Lexington, Kentucky, correct? Mike Giuliano: Yes sir, yeah, we can't wait. It's only a few months away, so yeah, it'll be cool. Shane Sams: Well we're gonna get more into that later and talk about your journey, what's got you to this point today, where we're at. But tell us a little bit more about your guys' background, tell us about you and your online business, and what you've been doing for a living over the past few years. Mike Giuliano: Yeah, sure. Over the last 20 years, I've been a digital strategist. So basically that's helping companies grow online. Website development, SEO services, social media, commercialization, reputation management. And I've done work for all sorts of companies. Councils, government departments, Australia Spy Agency, large corporations, small business, it runs the gamut. That's what I've been doing the last 20 years. Shane Sams: What was it like? Can you tell us what you were doing for the Australia Spy Agency? Jocelyn Sams: Yeah, that one kinda like, piques interest. Shane Sams: That one stuck out to me. I'm like, "Is this, like, covert stuff? Are you, like, classified and sworn to secrecy?" Mike Giuliano: No, so what we've got, it's called SEO, so with SEO I help them do some online marketing. Shane Sams: Okay, good. Okay. I just wanted to make sure that you weren't really secretly taping me and I was being investigated here, by the Australian secret service. Jocelyn Sa

In today's episode, we tell you how to launch a virtual summit and build your email list. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey, y'all. On today's podcast, we tell you how to launch a virtual summit and build your email list. Shane Sams: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Shane Sams: We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. Now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? All right. Let's get started. Shane Sams: What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. It is great to be back with you again today. Super excited to bring another member of the Flip Your Life community on the show to help them grow their online business. Shane Sams: And I'm really excited about today's show. We got two guests, two great friends of ours who we've met in person and have worked with in our private mastermind, Gena and Jerry Lester. How are you guys doing today? Gena Lester: We're great. Jerry Lester: We're doing good. Gena Lester: Very excited to be here. Jocelyn Sams: Yes. We are very happy to have you. We are happy that we get Jerry to talk. When they first came on, we were just talking, and we asked, "Hey, you know, is Jerry there?" And she's like, "Oh, yeah, he's here." And we're like, "Oh, is he going to talk?" She's like- Shane Sams: Is he going to participate? Jocelyn Sams: I don't know. And I totally feel you, Jerry, I do. Jerry Lester: Hey, I'm the support. Shane Sams: Hey listen, that's how we all do, right? Sometimes you got to have lurkers that make the world go around. You know what I mean? Jocelyn Sams: Okay, guys. Before we dive in and talk about all the good stuff this episode is going to have, I want you to tell everyone a little bit about your background and what you were doing kind of before you discovered online business, this whole world. Gena Lester: Okay. I am an independent educational consultant. And what that means in layman terms is basically that I help families as they walk through the college admissions process. Gena Lester: And so I help them figure out like what the perfect college list is, how they're going to ... is the school a fit, or a great school for them. Can they afford that particular school? Are their children going to be successful? What they're going to major in, how they're going ... what essays they're going to write, and everything that goes in between that. I help them choose like what classes that are the best for them to take. Gena Lester: And I work with students that do everything from going to Ivy league schools, to learning differences, to everything in between, to schools that are just middle of the road, to families that homeschool. All of those things are included in my services. Gena Lester: And so I have been doing this for ... I've been in education for almost 30 years. And I started out running a private school and then people kept asking me to help them with their students as they were going through the college process. And so I transitioned into my own private practice. And so I've been working with kids for probably about six years now in my private practice offline. Gena Lester: And I knew that I wanted to scale my business and I didn't really want to hire ... like have a whole brick and mortar business, because I thought about that. But where I'm at in my life, it was just not the best option for me. So going and doing an online business would allow me to scale without having to bring in the whole, you know, lots of new employees and things to that effect. So that's kind of how I transitioned- Shane Sams: So basically, you were ... what you're saying is you were trying ... you were saying you didn't want to bring in a bunch of other counselors that you trained- Gena Lester: Yes. Shane Sams: ... to do what you do, to you know, say like they work in a ... I mean not a cubicle, but like offices and you're ... you didn't want to- Gena Lester: Yes. Shane Sams: ... this big thing- Gena Lester: Yes. Shane Sams: ... where just all these people showing up for work every day and you had to manage those people. Jocelyn Sams: And I totally feel you on that, Gena. Gena Lester: Yes. Jocelyn Sams: I'm of the opinion more people, more problems. Shane Sams: Yes. Yes. Gena Lester: Yes. Exactly. Shane Sams: We are in- Gena Lester: That's right. Shane Sams: ... support of small and mighty teams. That's our- Gena Lester: Yes. Shane Sams: ... philosophy. Gena Lester: And it really ... Once you have that type of a business, it ties you down to having to be there to unlock the door every day. Shane Sams: Oh yeah. Gena Lester: And I just really like having the freedom of doing it myself. And so that's why online business is perfect. Because I have more control over my time versus having to be there to unlock the door and clean the toilets for everybody. Shane Sams: Do you right now, like, meet with people virtually i

In today's episode, we celebrate Chris and Ivy's 500 member launch. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey, y'all. On today's podcast, we celebrate Chris and Ivy's 500 member launch. Shane Sams: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. Now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? All right, let's get started. Shane Sams: What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. It is great to be back with you again today. Super excited to have another member of the Flip Your Life Community on the show, not just to help them get to the next level, but to celebrate a massive success. Our guest today recently had a launch of their membership and they got over 500 members in the first 48 hours after they launched it. So, we are super ... Jocelyn Sams: Which is awesome. Shane Sams: Go ahead, Jocelyn. Jocelyn Sams: And a husband and wife team, which we love. Shane Sams: We love that too. Our guests today we're super excited to welcome are Chris and Ivy Newport. Chris, Ivy, welcome to the show. Ivy Newport: Thanks so much for having us. We're so excited to be here. Chris Newport: Yeah, we're very excited to be here. So, thanks for having us. Jocelyn Sams: It is great to talk to you guys today. We have been waiting for this show for a long time, because you guys are just doing some really exciting things and we're just really excited to dive in and really talk to you and figure out how in the world you did all this. Chris Newport: We are too. Yeah. Shane Sams: I'm sure a lot of people listening are like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa 500? Like a 500 members? Oh yeah, yeah, I need to listen to this one." Chris Newport: I know. I know we keep saying that to ourselves as well. Shane Sams: We'll talk more about this, but like you guys are in a surreal, surreal territory. It's surreal for things to change like that fast overnight, right? Chris Newport: It is, yeah. Shane Sams: We'll dive more into that. Jocelyn Sams: All right. Well, before we get too far down that road right this second, we want to know a little bit more about you guys. Ivy Newport: I'm a creative artist and I've just always kind of been involved in creativity in one way or another, whether it was interior design or making art. It's just been a passion of mine that has just been a common thread throughout my entire life. Chris and I actually met in art school, so we're both artists, and now we're just loving running this online business where we get to provide creative education and for artists all over the world. Our core goal, I think, is just inspiring and guiding others to lead a more creative life. Shane Sams: So when you say that it's like more creative life, like just in general, is this more like doing art as a passion, doing art as a job? What do you mean? Ivy Newport: Yeah, well, we actually have students that are both. I mean, we have a lot of people that are exploring creativity and art in a new way. They might be in a time in their life where they have a little more time on their hands and they really want to explore creativity, and we have a lot of those students. Ivy Newport: But we also have professional artists that participate in our classes, and they get new inspiration. They learn new techniques, they get to connect with other artists in our community. So, we really kind of serve both kinds of artists in the community. Shane Sams: You guys have a very interesting background. You've kind of lived all over, been all over. Give us a little bit more context, like where you're from. Chris Newport: Yeah, like Ivy said, we met in art school in Florida in Sarasota, and we both had this dream of working for Disney. We wanted to be animators and so we both kind of chose the school because Disney recruited from that school. Shane Sams: Which school was it? Chris Newport: But this thing called the internet was taking off back in the mid to late 90s, and I was really curious about it, and I didn't quite get it, but I knew something was kind of happening in the background as we were going through college. And then lo and behold, Disney came calling, went to work for Disney for a little while, for a year, a little over a year, but still this internet thing was taking. Chris Newport: I just kept looking, I was fascinated by it, and I said, "You know what? I can draw Mickey for the rest of my life, or I can jump on the internet and learn everything I can and saturate myself with it." That's really kind of what took us to these different cities. I built my first website. Ivy Newport: Moved to Austin. Chris Newport: Moved to Austin. I moved to New York and then ultimately ended up ... Ivy Newport: In Portland. Chris Newport: Yeah, long story short, we ended up in Portland and continued doing web design, web development, and that's where Ivy started blogging and exploring

In today's episode, we celebrate Eva's first five-figure month and help her hire a virtual assistant. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey, y'all. On today's show, we celebrate Eva's first five-figure month and help her hire a virtual assistant. Shane Sams: Welcome to The Flipped Lifestyle Podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. Now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? All right, let's get started. Shane Sams: What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to The Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. It's great to be back with you again today. Super excited to bring you another amazing success story from The Flip Your Life Community. We've got a great guest today, Eva Klein. Welcome to The Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. Eva Klein: Thank you so much for having me. Jocelyn Sams: We are very excited to talk to you today. You have been posting success stories for quite a while now, and I can't wait to get into exactly what you've been up to. Shane Sams: This is a good one. This is a big one, y'all. Jocelyn Sams: Yeah, and especially with your life circumstances because you have recently had a new baby, right? Eva Klein: Yes, I had my third son. Well, I have two daughters and now I have a son who was born in September. Shane Sams: Wow. Jocelyn Sams: Hey, that is incredible. We are definitely going to dive a little bit deeper into that. Before we do, tell everybody a little bit about you and your background and what it is you do online. Eva Klein: Sure. I am as I said married with three kids. I live in Toronto and I am the owner and founder of mysleepingbaby.com, which is a pediatric sleep consulting business where I help exhausted parents get the sleep that everybody in their family needs and I specifically work with parents that have little ones in the zero- to five-year range. I'm actually a lawyer by training and I got into this business kind of by accident after my ... When my middle child was born, unlike her older sister who was a really easy-going, happy-go-lucky baby who, of course, was a naturally fantastic sleeper. My middle child, was born two years later, was the complete opposite. She was extremely difficult, cried nonstop, and of course, sleep did not come naturally to her. Eva Klein: I've always really needed my sleep and so as the months went on and the sleep deprivation really kicked in, I was legitimately suffering. I had no choice but to actually open up all these sleep books and figure out what the heck to do so I can get my sanity back. On my own, I managed to not perfect the situation, but I managed to make it more ... I made it more manageable for myself. Eva Klein: I remember she was about four or five months and here in Canada we have 12 months of maternity leave. I was on maternity leave, and I thought to myself, "Gosh, I should launch a side business. I should ... I love what I'm doing. I love sleep. I would love to help other families. I should become a sleep consultant and just have it as a side hustle where really it's just gonna be some fun money where I get a new client and I go buy a pair of shoes. I'm not giving up law or anything like that. I mean, that would just be crazy. That would be insane. Shane Sams: Come on, who does that? Right? Eva Klein: Yeah. No, seriously, why in my wildest dreams would I ever do that? There's an ongoing theme of, "Man plans, God laughs." That was plan number one. Plan number one was I'm gonna launch a side business, keep it is a side business." Thankfully my boss had allowed me to go back to work on a part-time somewhat flexible arrangement. I'm working from home and what not, which was great. That plan quickly changed where ... When I launched my business ... This was 2014, like September of 2014 when baby was one, and someone had posted in this big mommy Facebook group that I'm in that she was looking for a sleep consultant recommendation. Eva Klein: I had just completed my certification myself and I had had a lot of volunteers that came from this group to help me complete the certification. I had messaged all of them on Facebook and I said, "Guys, check out this person's post. Can you recommend me? I helped you. Can you tag me? Can you recommend me?" I had, I don't know, over at least 10 or 15 people recommending me, and then within 24 hours, because of that single Facebook post, I had four people call me and book one-on-one packages with me, which was about $1600 in revenue. From one Facebook post. Shane Sams: Wow. Isn't it- Jocelyn Sams: Then the wheels start turning, right? Eva Klein: Yeah, yeah. That was where I'm going, "That's a lot of shoes." Shane Sams: That's a lot of shoes. That's a closet full of shoes, y'all. Eva Klein: Yeah, or one really, really expensive pair of shoes...I probably don't even need. That was when I immediately took a step back and I said to my husband ... I said, "I can actually ... I

Announcement: Flip Your Life LIVE Price Increase effective March 1st, 2019 FULL TRANSCRIPT Shane: Hey y'all! Shane here. Got a quick reminder for you that payment plan prices for Flip Your Life LIVE go up at midnight tonight. As we get closer to the event, there's less months to be able to divide the payment up in, so we have to raise the price and we don't want you to get hit by that price increase. We want you to get your ticket to Flip Your Life LIVE today before prices go up. This is the best price you're going to get all year for Flip Your Life LIVE 2019. Shane: Remember, Flip Your Life LIVE will be in Lexington, Kentucky from September 19th through the 21st. This is a weekend event. Your ticket's going to include the welcome reception, every content session, every single Q&A, all of the masterminds and our Friday night working session too. When you buy your ticket today, you're going to get added to our exclusive Flip Your Life LIVE alumni Facebook group. That's where we do monthly training sessions live to prepare you for the event. We also do our famous icebreaker sessions where you get to connect with me and Jocelyn one on one and we introduce you to other attendees. Our goal is for you to have a host of friends waiting for you when you arrive at Flip Your Life LIVE!. Shane: This is an open event. Anyone can attend. You don't have to be a member of the Flip Your Life community. If you're a person who is out there hustling and trying to build a business and change their family's future, we want you to be at Flip Your Life LIVE 2019. To get your ticket today, all you have to do is go to flippedlifestyle.com/live, that's F-L-I-P-P-E-D lifestyle.com/live. Go there right now and grab your ticket before midnight tonight, because tomorrow the prices go up. This is the best price, the best payment plan option that you can get this year for Flip Your Life LIVE 2019. Shane: If you want to learn more about the event, we encourage you to go to flippedlifestyle.com/live or check out the podcast that we just dropped on Tuesday. We went over the entire event in detail to tell you everything that you're going to get when you buy your ticket. Again, prices go up tomorrow. This is your last warning. Go to flippedlifestyle.com/live, grab your ticket today. VIP tickets are almost sold out and the prices go up tomorrow. Shane: If you have any questions about the event, we have a contact form right there at flippedlifestyle.com/live. Go and send us a message, ask us any questions you have, but whatever you do, grab your ticket today so that you can save. All right guys, that's all I've got for today's quick announcement podcast. Look forward to seeing your name appear on our attendee sheet for Flip Your Life LIVE 2019, and I can't wait to meet you there. Links and resources mentioned on today's show: Flip Your Life LIVE 2019 Tickets & Registration Information Flip Your Life community Enjoy the podcast; we hope it inspires you to explore what's possible for your family! Join the Flip Your Life Community NOW for as little as $19 per month! – https://flippedlifestyle.com/flipyourlife

In today's episode, we discuss one decision you can make that will help you achieve incredible success in 2019. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey y'all. On today's podcast we'll discuss one decision you can make that will help you achieve incredible success in 2019. Shane Sams: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. And now we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? All right, let's get started. Shane Sams: What's going on everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. It is great to be back with you again today. We've got a special edition for you guys this week. A lot of people ask us, "What's the secret to your success? What's the one big thing you guys did, or have done, or continue to do to move the needle and achieve all of the things you've done online?" Shane Sams: And while there are a lot of things that we could point to, one of the biggest catalysts for us both in the beginning and still to this day for achieving online success for being able to make enough money online to quit our jobs and build this life that we dreamed up a few years ago is attending live events. Jocelyn Sams: Live events have definitely always been a huge catalyst for us just throughout the journey. Even at the beginning when we were really scared to death to go to one because it is a big investment in both time and money. But going to them, putting ourselves out there and deciding to do it has been huge for us many, many times over the years. Shane Sams: In fact, if we had not started going to live events, I'm not even sure one that we would be here right now doing Flipped Lifestyle. But two, that our business even would have made it. You know, after we quit our job back in September 2013, things went pretty good for the first few months. Shane Sams: But then as the spring hit, and our niche kind of dried up a little bit, our revenue dropped dramatically. We had achieved a huge amount of success in the fall of 2013 and we had created kind of an emergency fund in case the business didn't work later. Shane Sams: But after we quit our jobs, we were on our own, no paychecks. And all we had was the money that was coming in each month, and this little kind of nest egg that we had set aside and saved after our big August, this big launch that we had in case something went wrong. Well, things went wrong, dramatically wrong. Shane Sams: Like, we were really were not making enough each month in February of like 2014 to really even pay the bills. And it looked like we were gonna need to dust off our resumes and go look for jobs again in the summer because revenue kept dropping. Shane Sams: We didn't know what was wrong. We didn't know why our marketing wasn't working. We didn't know why our list had suddenly dried up. And we were all alone. It was just me and Jocelyn trying to figure this out. And it was a really, really scary period in our business. Shane Sams: At that point I knew we needed some kind of help. But we didn't know where to reach out to. There was nobody around us that really got what we did. Nobody that we knew was doing anything online. And we were totally unconnected to the industry save for listening to podcasts and hearing about other people who were doing what we were trying to do. Shane Sams: So one night I saw that Pat Flynn was going to have a live event in San Diego, California and it was gonna be in June. And there was only a very limited amount of spots to get into this event. But it was gonna be really, really strategic, really tactical. Shane Sams: It was gonna be other entrepreneurs flying in from all over the country. And there were gonna be experts there with Pat. And they were gonna talk about your business and teach you strategies to kind of take your business to the next level. Shane Sams: And I knew this had to be the next step for us. This had to be what we could do next was to go find someone that knew what in the world to do next, to show us what we were doing wrong so that we could take our business to the next level. Shane Sams: The problem was, we already weren't covering expenses good enough. Our nest egg was kind of dipping down. And this was gonna be a really expensive trip. I mean, we were gonna have to fly across the country. Shane Sams: We were gonna have to get a hotel. We were gonna have to pay for the event itself. And you know, it was gonna take time away. We were gonna have to find someone to watch our kids. But I knew this had to be what we did. Shane Sams: So I took this to Jocelyn. And not for the first time in our relationship she looked at me like I was crazy. Jocelyn Sams: Guys on paper this was not a good idea. So I look at it. I see how expensive it is. You know, we're gonna have to fly. We're going to have to stay in a hotel. We're going to have to eat meals there, and all these types

In today's episode, we talk to a high school senior who launched his own business and made money online. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey, y'all. On today's podcast we talk to a high school senior who launched his own business and made money online. Shane Sams: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. And now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? Alright, let's get started. Shane Sams: What's going on everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. It's great to be back with you again. Today, super excited to have another guest on the Flipped Lifestyle podcast and help them taking their online business to the next level but this is a special episode. Normally we have our Flip Your Life community members on the show. We help them with a consulting call. We answer their questions and we take their business and take their life to the next level. And usually the person that's on the show comes from our success forum. We really single out and focus on our action takers inside of the Flip Your Life community. We see those success stories happening in the community and when they happen, we invite them on the show so we can magnify, multiply everything that they're doing in their online business. Shane Sams: Well this is a special success story because this is my own flesh and blood. Our guests today are actually my nephews Dustyn and Devyn Sams. Dustyn, Devyn, welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. Dustyn Sams: Hey guys. Thanks for having us. Devyn Sams: Hey guys. Shane Sams: Now, I know you think they might be plants, which they kind of are, but they have had some recent success because about a year ago I started badgering these guys to start an online business. Do something online because they're both action takers, they're both entrepreneurial kids, and I just knew that they had talent and they could do something out there and make some money online. But they resisted and they wouldn't do it. Then finally we got them to take action and some amazing things have happened in their online business. Jocelyn Sams: I actually have a fun fact for you guys. The very first time that I ever visited Shane's family here in southeast Kentucky, it was for Dustyn's first birthday. Shane Sams: All right. So wait, Dustyn, how old are you right now? Dustyn Sams: I'm 21. Shane Sams: All right. And what grade are you ... You're in college right? Dustyn Sams: Yeah. I'm a junior in college in right now. Shane Sams: All right. And Devyn- Jocelyn Sams: Was not even alive. Shane Sams: Devyn was not alive when Jocelyn started coming around here y'all. But Devyn, how old are you right now and what grade are you in, in high school? Devyn Sams: Currently I just turned 19 years old and I'm a senior in high school. Shane Sams: All right. So, guys, you know where this is going today. A senior in high school started an online business, got his brother in college to help him and they've made money online. So I'm not sure what you're waiting for. But we're going to talk more about that. Shane Sams: First, tell everybody guys, about your online business itself. What you've actually created online before we talk about sales and stuff like that. Devyn Sams: We created a guitar beginners video course that teaches people who are struggling to learn how to play the guitar or just people in general who want to learn how to play the guitar. It actually teaches them in-depth through a five step process how to play the guitar. Shane Sams: And what's your domain name? Devyn Sams: Our domain name is conqueringguitar.com. Jocelyn Sams: Tell everybody a little bit about why you started this particular business. What does this mean to you? What is your background as far as playing the guitar? Devyn Sams: We just created it because number one you guys challenged us and from the beginning we were really confused about what y'all did. You guys started donning on us and so we were like, "Hey, if they're making money online, why can't we just go ahead and start it?" So, we created the website and here we are. Jocelyn Sams: All right. So the whole guitar thing. This is something that's meaningful to you also. Tell everybody a little bit about that. Devyn Sams: Oh, right. I taught myself how to play the guitar when I was around 13. I actually bought a guitar with my own birthday money and I actually taught myself how to play. It took probably around two to three years to actually teach myself how to play and I was just thinking, "You know, what if I was the next shortcut to help people play the guitar?" So, we created the website and so forth. Jocelyn Sams: Okay, great. Now, I want to ask you this because I know that there are probably a lot of people out there thinking, "Oh, well these guys, they're in high school and college. They have nothing else to do. They're just s

In today's episode, we help Brenda take her art business to the next level. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn: Hey y'all. On today's podcast we help Brenda take her art business to the next level. Greeting: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online, and now we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? All right, let's get started. Shane: What's going on everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. It is great to be back with you again today. We are super excited to have another member of the Flip Your Life Community on so that we can help them take their business to the next level. Now a lot of people ask us, "How do you pick who gets to be on the podcast? Which members come on? Is there an application process, is there something else that you do to let people come on the show?" Well, really, honestly, it's action takers in the community who we bring on to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast, and we look for people who are asking great questions in the forums, and we really look hard at our success story forum. And we had an amazing success story that we wanted to share with you today. Shane: Flip Your Life Community member, Brenda Mullard said, in her subject line, "So much can happen in a short amount of time." I was like, "Oh that's interesting, let's open that up and read it". Brenda said, "Hi everyone, I was reflecting on what has happened with my business since Flip Your Life Live, and I thought I'd share my success and all that has happened. So much can happen in such a short amount of time, just about four months. When I left Flip Your Life Live I had a website and membership that was literally broken. I mean it was open to everyone and anyone, but it wasn't working. I was frustrated, sad, and disheartened after our working dinner at Flip Your Life Live, but I thought I would just hire it out and get it all fixed. The quotes were thousands of dollars. I looked at myself and said, 'Wait, um, what?' I thought to myself there was no way I could afford to do that." Shane: "So with the help of my new crew, that I met at Flip Your Life Live, I changed my website theme to a new theme, I learned the new theme builder, and redesigned almost all of my webpages, over 100 pages of content. I created new opt ins, a sales funnel, and an email sequence to bring people through the process. I've added more regular lesson plans, presentations, posters, and resources to my membership. I've batched blog posts ahead of times and free downloads for the next few months, and I'm ready to go. I ran my first sale, and I raised my prices. I now had eight members in the Visual Art Academy Membership and excited to add more. As much as I feel like things move slowly, looking back, I realized I have really moved the needle. I feel like I have a very solid foundation created now, and the next move is to try to get more eyes on what I have to offer." Shane: "This is what I need to learn more of, and I'm about to throw my ... as I try to throw my fear aside. So even when you don't think you have a whole lot done, then stop and reflect a little bit, and you'll probably surprise yourself." Shane: So we read this amazing success story. Jocelyn: I was so excited. I was like we have to have her on the podcast. Shane: We've got to have Brenda on the podcast. She's taking action, she came to the live event. We got to have her on, so Brenda Mullard, welcome to the show. We have you on the podcast now. Brenda: Well thanks so much for having me, you guys. Shane: That was an inspiring success post, by the way. And I actually noticed something about your account too when we were reading this right before we came on air. I looked at your, your stats are over like under your name, you know like where it has the topics, replies, and coins and things. And what I love about this is you have six times the replies as topics started. And what that really tells us is not only are you taking action, but you're also like talking to other people, answering other questions, and helping other people sort out their problems too, so we're super glad to have you on the show today. Brenda: Well thanks. I know I appreciate it when people answer my questions or just give me a little bit of a boost, and you can do this, and so I really try to do that for everybody else in the community too. I think that's really important. Jocelyn: Absolutely, I love that. This is one of those shows where we have actually met Brenda in real life, which is awesome. She came to our event not too long ago, in last September in Nashville, and has done just some amazing things, and we're just really excited about all of the things that you're working on, and the action that you're taking, and all that kind of stuff. So now it's our turn to kind of give back to you and try to help you take the next steps in your jou

In today's episode, we help Wally grow his life and business strategy podcast. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey y'all. On today's podcast, we help Wally grow his life and business strategy podcast. Shane Sams: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Shane Sams: We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online, and now we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? All right, let's get started. Shane Sams: What's going on everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. It is great to be back with you again. Today, super excited to talk to another member of the Flip Your Life community and help them take their life and business to the next level. I'm really excited about today's guest because I was once featured on his podcast. It is the host of the Men of Abundance Podcast, Wally Carmichael. Wally, what is going on, my friend? Wally C.: Man, just living a beautiful life, living my best life, brother. So excited to be talking with you. Shane Sams: You are the most positive person in my Facebook newsfeed. I just wanted to tell you that. You make me happy, man. You're like a ray of sunshine beaming into my social media account every morning. Wally C.: I greatly appreciate that. That's the intent. Shane Sams: But you do make me jealous, though, because you refuse to live anywhere but a place with a beach, and you're just always showing those beach pictures. So I'm a little jealous sometimes. I'm jealous, but you know, we need a little envy to drive us forward sometimes. Jocelyn Sams: Hey, I'm looking out at a beautiful bluebird right now, so. Shane Sams: What'd you say, Jocelyn? Jocelyn Sams: I'm looking out at a beautiful bluebird right now, so it's not so bad. Shane Sams: Yeah, there's a bluebird flying around in January, so we're doing good up here in Kentucky too. Wally C.: Wonderful. Yeah, you guys got that beautiful lake up there too. That's just cool. Jocelyn Sams: Well, it's great to have you here today. We're really excited to talk with you. Let's give the audience a little bit of background information. Tell us a little bit about you and what you've been doing for, well, your life, and what you're doing online. Wally C.: Yeah, absolutely. So I grew up in a trailer behind another man's house. We didn't even have the money for a trailer park. Pretty rough lifestyle. I won't get into all of that, but that led to me just realizing I can't live like this my entire life. A lot of bad things, drugs, alcohol, fighting, all kind of stuff, and my uncle came home one year from leave. He was in the army, and I dropped out of college because I run out of money for school, for college. He said, "Join the military. You'll get some education along the way and travel the world." Basically, I said a few words. I said, "That's not happening. That's not my dream." Wally C.: I had no desire to do that. Well, after working two full-time jobs and realized it ain't working. It's just time to do, so I walked into the recruiter's office, signed up as a combat medic, and traveled the world. Did 25 years, retired about, goodness, time is passing so fast. About four years ago now, maybe, and retired in Hawaii. We had been there about ten years, and my entire life, even as a young man, I've always been entrepreneurial. I've always wanted, just like everybody else, I've been that man. I say I've been ungratefully chasing a six and seven figure income for the wrong reason. Wally C.: One day, I'm sitting on the gazebo right there from where you and I were texting that one point Shane. It's Saturday morning. My son's playing in the water, and he said, "Dad, dad, come and play." But I'm sitting there listening to another podcast to learn how to make more money and live this best life that I dream of, and when his face changed from excitement to disappointment, it just hit me like a brick. My wife's voice always telling me, "Wally, what the hell are you chasing?" It was just loud and clear like she was standing right there, but she was still back in the house asleep. Wally C.: I took the headphones off, I set them down, and from that point on, I just decided. Here I was, sitting on the beach in Hawaii in front of my house. Had a six figure income, not a huge six figure income, but living pretty darn comfortable, and I'm wanting more. I was just so ungrateful for what I already had, so I started this whole journey of, so much more. I just decided I'm living a life of abundance. I don't know that I said those words specifically, but it just hit me, and as soon as I started being more grateful for what I had and it was a process, so much more started coming into my life. So then I just had an idea to write a book, Living Your Life of Abundance, but I didn't want it to be about my life. I wanted to do other people's lives in there as well. Wally C.: So I started the Men of Abundance podcast, and then I st

In today's episode, we help Melissa take her writing business to the next level. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey y'all. On today's podcast, we help Melissa take her writing business to the next level. Shane Sams: Welcome to The Flipped Lifestyle Podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. Now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? All right, let's get started. Shane Sams: What's going on everybody? Welcome back to The Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. It is great to be back with you again today. Super excited to be helping another one of our amazing Flip Your Life community members take their business and their life to the next level. We are super excited today to welcome Melissa Webb to the show. Melissa, welcome to the podcast. Melissa Webb: Well, thank you so much you guys. I am so excited. This is such a big deal for me, and I can't thank you enough for having me on. Jocelyn Sams: Yeah. I have been, seriously, waiting for this podcast for weeks, because I have an amazing story to tell about Melissa. We actually have not met Melissa in real life just yet, but she did sign up for one of our coaching calls. We do a limited amount of one-on-one coaching, and Melissa had signed up to talk to me. Jocelyn Sams: This is kind of interesting because I do a lot of calls in the evening because my kid is doing gymnastics and it's in another town, and it really isn't a long enough amount of time for me to drive all the way home, so I sit in a parking lot while I wait for her. Shane Sams: Oh my gosh. This story's amazing. I forgot about this. Oh, guys, buckle up. This is the best story ever. Jocelyn Sams: This is actually my first evening call that I had done since we started doing the one-on-one calls. I thought, "Hey, I'm going to have something to do while I'm sitting here waiting. This is not the worst thing, make a little money and hang out and talk to somebody in our community." Like, "Pretty good night." Shane Sams: She does it in a parking lot because in this little, small Southeast Kentucky town, literally, the only place you can get enough Internet to make a call is in the Walmart parking lot, so that's why she's sitting in a parking lot making this call. Jocelyn Sams: This is pretty much as like Podunk, small town as it gets, okay? Shane Sams: I love it! You said, "Podunk." Jocelyn Sams: This is, okay, I just want to like also say that this is not even a Super Walmart, okay? This is like a- Shane Sams: It's an old school Walmart- Jocelyn Sams: Old school. Shane Sams: It's like 1987 Walmart is what we're talking about here. Jocelyn Sams: Yes. Okay, so I'm sitting in the parking lot and I just connected up to Melissa, who's in California, right? Melissa Webb: Yes. Jocelyn Sams: Okay. I just connected up to her in California. I go to the parking lot and I find a place to go, which is underneath a big light pole, so I think, "This is fine." Let me just say also that I have sat in this parking lot, literally, like hundreds of times, completely uneventful. Jocelyn Sams: I go and I connect up on this call to Melissa. I park in the middle of the parking lot under a big light pole. We had, seriously, been on the call maybe about 60 seconds when this, as I call it, van full of rednecks pulls up beside me. When I say beside me, I mean like within probably 50 feet. Not even that. I'd say about 20 feet from me. Jocelyn Sams: Not only was it a van full of rednecks, they have the doors, like the side doors are all open. They are yelling at someone in a pickup truck across the parking lot, and not only are they yelling at them, this crazy woman gets out with a baseball bat, a baseball bat. You cannot make this up, and starts waving it at this man in the parking lot. Shane Sams: A fight breaks out in a Walmart parking lot, led by a crazy woman with a baseball bat and it's a van full of rednecks versus a pickup truck. Jocelyn Sams: I could nearly, I could almost reach out and touch them. I'm on this call, that someone has paid for, Melissa has paid for, and I'm like, "Uh ..." I don't even know what to say. Because I'm just like, when on earth are you in this situation? It's not like anything has prepared you for this situation. Shane Sams: Yeah. Has anyone else ever had to ... You had to move your car. You had to move it. Jocelyn Sams: Yeah, so I'm like, "Uh, okay. I know this sounds really weird, but like there's these people beside me ..." Shane Sams: There's a street fight breaking out next to me, Melissa, and I got to go to the other end of the Walmart parking lot. At this point, Melissa's probably like, "Maybe I signed up for the wrong first step." Jocelyn Sams: No, listen. She was like so nice to me. She's like, "I just want you to be safe." Shane Sams: Melissa, what were you thinking when Jocelyn was like, "Hey, look a street fight just broke out between this woman with a bas

In today's episode, we help Shira grow her membership site for behavior analysis professionals. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey, y'all. On today's podcast, we help Shira grow her membership site for behavior analysis professionals. Shane Sams: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. And now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? All right. Let's get started. What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. It is great to be back with you again today. Super excited to bring on another member of the Flip Your Life community. And we have a huge success story to share with you guys today. We are super excited to welcome Shira Karpel to the show today. How you doing, Shira? Shira Karpel: Hi, guys. I'm good. Thanks for having me. Shane Sams: Shira told me to pronounce her name just like the Masters of the Universe Shira from our childhoods. So I tried to do that as best as I could. Jocelyn Sams: From, as our children say, the 19's. Shane Sams: From the 19's. Back in the 19's. Jocelyn Sams: One time they said to us, you were alive in the 19's? Shane Sams: Isaac asked me the other day, he said something like hey, Dad, how old were you when they invented electronics? Shira Karpel: That's hysterical. Shane Sams: That's hysterical. Jocelyn Sams: Okay. Well, we're happy to have you today. We're really excited about your story. You had written into us not too long ago to let us know that you have been a part of our community for a while, and you've been using our resources to grow a membership site for behavior analysts. Is that correct? And so what I want you to do is tell us a little bit about that. How did you get started in this? What's your background, and what is your business? Shira Karpel: So behavior analysis is the science of behavior, and it's looking at how the impact of the environment affects behavior. There's so many applications to ABA, which applied behavior analysis. The most common application is with kids who have autism, who might be getting 20 to 40 hours a week of ABA therapy, and that's an intensive application of ABA. So I would say that's the most common application of ABA. I got into ABA, I have a masters in education. And then I went on to get a board certification, which is another degree on top of that. So I'm BCBA certified. And I've been training and practicing ABA here where I live. And as a BCBA, that means that we assess children who might need either behavior therapy or ABA therapy. Either that's because they have autism, or they just might need some help managing their behavior, either in a classroom or at home. Shira Karpel: So we do the assessment. We would do supervision, and then we would very often put a team in place who carries out programs that come from us. So we would create the programs that are individualized for the student. And then there would be a therapist who's there daily carrying out the programs. And everything we do is data driven. So she'll be taking data and recording data, and then we'll review the data to make changes and updates to the program. Shira Karpel: So that's what I've been doing as a career. And then we got to the point where unfortunately, there's a huge need for ABA therapists and BCBA's because of the need for children who have autism and other difficulties. But we found that there was only so much time in the day, and even if we would hire more therapists and have more staff, the amount of work that would take of us to scale just wasn't going to be worthwhile. We don't like charging families an extra amount of money so that we get a cut of what the therapists are doing. It just doesn't seem right to want to scale in that direction. And then I kind of came across this concept of online business through another therapist's website that enlightened me into this idea. I never thought that my field could actually do something like that. And started the website maybe about a year and a half ago. Our website is howtoaba.com. And that's where our blog lives. Shira Karpel: And the blog is geared towards training other AB professionals, just giving them good tips. We also share a ton of free resources. So every blog has its own unique opt-in. So there might be, for a blog that's talking about one topic, we create an opt-in for that topic specifically to help them. Shane Sams: Super smart. Shira Karpel: Either a data sheet or a resource or a worksheet or something that's very specific so they opt in to that. So we get a lot of good traffic on our free resources page. So we've been doing that blog. And then we also found that a lot of professionals, because of the way of getting into the field, a lot of it is hands on training. So there are courses that you take, but a lot of it is just exposure in the field, and a lot of people feel untrained

In today's episode, we help Rocio transition her freelance business into an online business. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey, y'all. On today's podcast we help Rocio transition her freelance business into an online business. Shane Sams: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. Now we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? All right, let's get started. Shane Sams: What's going on everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. It is great to be back with you again today. Super excited to have another member of the Flip Your Life Community on today's show, and we love shows like this because it's someone we have actually met in person. We're going to be celebrating a little bit of a success story today too, so let's welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast Rocio Baeza. Rocio, welcome to the show. Rocio Baeza: Hey, guys. Thanks for having me. Shane Sams: We practiced. We've had a lot of hard names lately on the podcast, and we had to practice this one for a little while. Jocelyn Sams: I know, which is actually really cool because that means that our audience is from all different places. Shane Sams: Everywhere. That's right. Jocelyn Sams: They are of all different nationalities, and we love that. We think that is amazing. We had to figure out how to say this name because, poor Shane, I mean he especially butchers this kind of thing. Shane Sams: I'm pretty much going with ... You say it. Say it out loud. Say it yourself. Rocio Baeza: Rocio Baeza. Like you said, Shane, like rodeo but with an S. Shane Sams: Rodeo. Yes, exactly. It's so much more beautiful when you say it. Jocelyn Sams: Yes. There you go. Shane Sams: When I say it, it sounds like some butchered redneck with a bunch of rocks in his mouth. You know what? It is what it is, and that's how we're going to go with it. Jocelyn Sams: Okay. We need to know a little bit about this name and where you come from, so tell us a little bit about you, your background and what you've been doing so far in your day job and online. Rocio Baeza: Sure. A little bit about myself, so I'm based in Chicago, and I am a wife, a mom of two. My professional background is in the cybersecurity space. For the last year I've been doing freelance work, so basically picking a project with tech companies where I help them figure out, all right, what do they have to do around security to protect the information that they have, and also, how do they get started and what are all the steps that they have to do in order to put together a cybersecurity program. Shane Sams: You also do some compliance with the GDPR stuff? Rocio Baeza: Yes. Shane Sams: You do that too? Rocio Baeza: Yes. Shane Sams: What do you do in that, just make sure that they know what they're supposed to be doing with their data to be compliant with the European laws? Rocio Baeza: Yes. A lot of the cybersecurity work, my experience has been that it's usually driven by compliance, so an organization has to comply with a specific law or regulation, think HIPAA, think GDPR. I've focused work around GDPR since it's the acronym that we've all heard since May, and it's something that I realize that organizations are going to need help in the area. Since this is just released, I figured it would be a good way to more or less ride that wave. Shane Sams: Sure. Yeah. It is so new. I was reading an article just the other day actually where all this stuff with Facebook especially where our data has been compromised, and they're just hammering them. I would not doubt that America's about to pass something like GDPR because Facebook has been so hammered. I was watching a tech company CEO the other day. I think it was Salesforce's CEO, and he came out and said, "It's over. We've got to do something like GDPR based on this last thing that happened with Facebook." Shane Sams: This privacy, handling people's data, all that stuff is going to be a really big deal going forward in the future, and you've done the right thing. You've jumped on what's on top of mind, and that's really, really important. Jocelyn Sams: Yeah, I love that. I want to go back just a second to we were talking about before the podcast, you said that your family's originally from Mexico, right? Rocio Baeza: Yep. Jocelyn Sams: Did they move here before you were born? Rocio Baeza: Yes. Jocelyn Sams: Okay. Shane Sams: You moved to California? Is that where you're from originally? Rocio Baeza: Yeah. I was born in California, but I was raised in Chicago. Shane Sams: Got you. Jocelyn Sams: Okay. I love that. I think honestly being bilingual could be an unfair advantage for you as we move forward. Shane Sams: Oh, yeah. Jocelyn Sams: I've talked to people about this in the past, and there are a lot of Spanish-speaking people in the United States. Shane Sams: Spanish business owners who mi

In today's episode, we help Kahkshan choose a direction for her online business. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey y'all, on today's podcast we help Kahkshan choose a direction for her online business. Shane Sams: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. Now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? All right, let's get started. Shane Sams: What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. It is great to be back with you again, today. We are super excited to welcome another member of the Flip Your Life community on to the show, and we're talking to someone literally on the other side of the planet today. So let's welcome Kahkshan Ali from Saudi Arabia. How you doin'? Kahkshan Ali: Fine, thanks. Great to be here. Thanks so much, Shane, Jocelyn. Shane Sams: We worked about 30 minutes on pronouncing your name. Even though, we've talked forever. You're so good to me when we talk on coaching calls, 'cause you just let me butcher your name 'cause I'm from Kentucky and I can't speak. Kahkshan Ali: Yeah, no, it's fine. You guys actually said it very well, so thank you, I appreciate that. Jocelyn Sams: Okay, awesome! We love talking to people in our international community. We have people from all over the world, and we love to travel, we love other cultures. We're fascinated by them, so we just love talking to you every single time, and we can't wait to dive in here with you today. Kahkshan Ali: Great! Me too. Jocelyn Sams: All right, let's jump in and talk a little bit about you. Tell us about you, your background, and what you're doing so far online. Kahkshan Ali: Okay. Well, I'm actually a dentist, and I was really interested in doing something online for a couple of reasons. I know there's a lot of information available on the internet, but I felt that trying to come up with a course for moms and parents with young kids. Having something all in one place with some fun videos and some things that are a little bit more interactive. I wanted to try and do something like that just to be able to educate and help people, because I get questions anytime I go to like a dinner party, "Oh, you're a dentist. Oh, do you mind?" So it's like, "Okay." Kahkshan Ali: So I thought it'd be nice to maybe try and provide some valuable information online. Which, is where everyone is going nowadays. Shane Sams: So this is basically, this is a career offshoot type path that you've started with. So there's multiple paths that people start with online business. Some people, they go really into the passion. Some people, they go really into the hobby. Some people, they go into entertainment, but a lot of people, this is how we started out, we looked at our work. 'Cause it was where we knew the most information about a topic, period, when we started. I was a football coach. Jocelyn was a librarian. It was just a natural way to say, "Hey, I know this. I'm trained in this. I can create content fast, and I can try this out." Shane Sams: Probably in the dentist office, just like it is when we go anywhere in a business setting, when people find out what you do they think that you have all the answers. Then they always ask you the same questions. I would guess you were getting the same questions from every parent and every kid, and you're like, "Man, I could totally make a course about this, and tell everybody what to do with their kids and their dental hygiene", right? Kahkshan Ali: Right, exactly. Yeah, the same thing. I thought to start off it would be easier and, as you said, faster. Just because this is my field of expertise. I've been a dentist for 25 years now. So I thought this would be a good place to start, and then could move on after I did this to see what else I can maybe try. 'Cause I do have other hobbies, and other passions and things. I do love dentistry, but then the future, there's so many other things that there's so many other possibilities when you're doing online digital courses and stuff. Jocelyn Sams: Absolutely. I want to go back just a little bit further, because people who are listening to this might be thinking, "Okay, well, she doesn't sound like she lives in Asia." So you have a very American accent, so tell us a little bit about that. How did you get to where you are now? Where all have you traveled and lived in the world? Shane Sams: How long have you been in Saudi Arabia too? Kahkshan Ali: Well, I've actually been working here for 20 years, but my family, we've been living here for about 43 years. So we've moved here when I was in fourth grade. My dad got a job. He actually had two options. We were in the states, so that's why I have the American accent, 'cause we actually moved from America here.- Shane Sams: Since you were four, right? Kahkshan Ali: So we lived in the Midwest. Shane Sams: You were in fourt

In today's episode, S&J resume their recap of 2018, the good, the bad, and the future. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey y'all, on today's podcast we recap 2018, the good, the bad, and the future. Shane Sams: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family who figured out how to make our entire living online, and now we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life, all right. Let's get started. Shane Sams: What's going on everybody. Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. It is great to be back with you again. Today this is part two of our 2018 year in review. On Tuesday this week we did part one, and we talked all about all the things that we got to do this year that were good. We really focused on the highlights of 2018 for us, and I hope that that inspired you to go back and look at your own year. You know, sometimes we forget how good the year really was, and we forget about things that we might've done like last January of February. I've got a friend of mine, and he always goes back to Facebook, and he looks all the way back into each month, then he writes down all of the great things that he did. So that he can kind of remember like, "Man, this was a great year. Yeah, there was one or two things that kind of stood out that might've not went right, but man look at all these amazing things that we did." Shane Sams: So go back and look at all the good things that happened to you this year. It's really important to kind of reflect back on that. Jocelyn Sams: I saw this thing on Facebook the other day where every week you're supposed to write down the best thing that happened that week, and then you put them all in a jar, and on the very last day of the year you get them all out and you read all the cool things that happened through the year. I thought that was a really good idea, even for us, because we just are typically not very good about just looking back and remembering all the good things. Shane Sams: But we also know that it's not all sunshine and rainbows out here in the adulting world, and there were some things, there are always things that go wrong, or go bad, and it's also important to remember those as well because you can reflect back and look at the mistakes that you made, look at the things that kind of went off the railroad tracks and ask yourself, "Did I have control over this? Are there things that I could do differently, or landmines that I can avoid in the future so that next year can be even better." That's what we're going to focus on for today's podcast is we are going to first look back at some of the bad things that happened. Some of the things that we did wrong, because we make a lot of mistakes, and we want to share those with you guys as a part of our journey and a part of your journey too, and let you know that you're not alone. Shane Sams: You're not the only person messing up this online business stuff. Just today, I was trying to create the sales page for Flip Your Life Live 2019, which is on sale now at flippedlifestyle.com/live, and I had two tabs open and they were both the editor on the sales page. I accidentally saved the one I was not editing in, and I basically erased six hours of work writing copy for this sales page, because I closed all the tabs and everything else and I lost it. And I didn't know how to get it back, so I had to sit down and do the whole thing over. So lest you think Flipped Lifestyle world is a mistake free world, you are wrong. It is not. We've made a lot of mistakes, and we want to talk about some of those today, and we want to also talk about the future. Some goals that we have for this year individually, as a couple, and some goals that we have for you and your future, and the future of your family as well. Jocelyn Sams: Before we jump into this, what we call the bad things, I do want to preface this by saying that a lot of these are what people would consider to be first world problems. So if you're listening to this expecting that we're going to go into something really crazy bad that happened, you know I'm really ... Shane Sams: Some of them are. There are some bad things in there. There are some catastrophes as well. Jocelyn Sams: But I'm really happy to say that most of our problems are the first world kind, but they're still problems nonetheless. I think sometimes people wanted to shove those under the rug. Shane Sams: Or trivialize them or something. Jocelyn Sams: Oh that's not a big deal, but they can be a really big deal, and we'll kind of jump into that a little bit more. It can affect you physically, it can affect you mentally, which affects other areas of your life as well so I just wanted to kind of throw that out there. I don't want to get emails and say, "Well, you think that's bad. Well all this happened to me." We're not trying to say that our life is bad or anything like that. For all intents and purposes,

In today's episode, S&J talk about 2018, the good, the bad, and the future. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey, y'all. On today's podcast, we recap 2018, the good, the bad, and the future. Shane Sams: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. Now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? All right, let's get started. Shane Sams: What's going on everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast and happy new year on this January 1st edition of the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. Jocelyn and Shane here, all by ourselves today. We do not have a guest for this episode of the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. This is just a solo show with me and Jocelyn, and we wanted to recap 2018 and start looking toward 2019. We're going to talk about all the things that happened last year to us, the good, the bad, and then we're going to transition a little bit to talk about the future for the Flipped Lifestyle podcast and the Flip Your Life community. Jocelyn Sams: We don't really have much of a plan for this podcast, to be perfectly honest. We just sort of opened up a Google Drive document and did a brain dump of all of our thoughts, so who knows what this is going to turn out like. It's just something we felt like kind of talking through and just sharing with you guys as we think back on the past 365 days and also to the future. Shane Sams: The reason we're doing this is, one, we really want to stress the importance to everyone who listens to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast of reflection and looking back on what you did right, what you did wrong, and bringing that all together to make good decisions going forward in the future, and also to let you guys know that a lot of things do go good in our business, a lot of things go good for our family, but we've had a lot of bad things happen, too. Sometimes, we don't get the chance to really talk about that a lot on the podcast because it's so focused on helping the Flip Your Life community and all the people in it succeed. We don't get to really show you that part of our journey. If you follow us on social media, you do get to see a little bit of that, but we want to let you know that things are not always perfect for us. Jocelyn and I are just like you. We're normal people, we're married, we have kids, and we have all the stresses that go along with life, just like you do. Shane Sams: We wanted to just share some of that and let you know that you're not alone when you struggle on this journey. Every day we get up, there are things that go good, there are things that go bad, and we have to react to all those things. We wanted to share some of that with you guys in this episode and let you know how that goes. Shane Sams: All right. We decided to start with the good. We looked back and wrote down all of the highlights that happened over the last year, and there were quite a few of them. It's really important to latch onto those. Every Sunday, when Jocelyn and I journal together, we actually ... The first thing we do is write down 10 good things that happened in the week prior because we want to start off anything we're doing, planning with a good frame of mind, and to let ourselves know, "Hey, don't focus on the negative things." There are a lot of great things. There's usually more good things than bad things, so we wanted to start this podcast off that way. Shane Sams: The most recent good thing that happened to us actually happened yesterday. Jocelyn and I were taking Anna Jo to cheerleading practice together. Isaac was staying at his grandparents' house, he was chilling out over there and didn't want to drive and sit in the car with us. We took the time to go grab something to eat, drop her off, do a little cheerleading, and hang out, and we got a message from a Flip Your Life community member. This is the first message of this type that I've actually gotten directly from a member. We kind of know some stories of some other people that have done some great things, but this was the first time a member had ever reached out to us and said, "Hey, guys. I just wanted to let you know that my husband and I have went over the million dollar mark in our online business since we joined the community." Shane Sams: This was the first time a Flip Your Life community member had literally wrote us and said, "Thank you guys. You helped us make a million dollars." It was really overwhelming in the car. We couldn't even comprehend that. It's one thing for you to hear about somebody online making a million dollars, because we all ... If you were working, making $40,000 a year, it would take you dozens of years to actually get to the point where you actually had made a million dollars in your lifetime. Then, when you start an online business and you make a million dollars yourself, it blows your mind because it's just almost

Hey Y'all, welcome to another Flipped Lifestyle Podcast Q&A w/ S&J! In the Flip Your Life Community, we hold a members-only Q&A twice a month where we answer online business questions of our members live on air! This podcast episode features some of the highlights of these recent live member Q&As to give you a glimpse of how we help the members of our community, and help you as well in online business by listening in. Today's Q&A highlights answer the following questions: Question One: "Should I launch my course without finishing up my email sequence? I already have an audience that gave me the course idea and content. I just haven't done the autoresponder side." Question Two: "What if you launch and can't get your next month's content out in time or decide to pivot to something else?" Question Three: "I'm selling my courses a la carte, but I'm wondering if I should quit that and only do the membership?" Question Four: "Can you please give us a quick rundown on how you go about planning your video courses? And how long does it take you to research and prepare your outline per video?" Success stories mentioned on today's podcast: "I just got my first paying member! I got the notice as I was feeding my baby, and I'm so glad I didn't drop him when I read the message!" - Rocio "I have 232 people who have registered for my webinar! I call that a success. As I wondered what topic to pick for awhile, Shane told me to just do it. I think his exact words were something like, "if you can't make a home run just try to get a base hit." So, I picked something I thought my people would like and took action. Take action people, stop analyzing and just do something." - Janet CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW!

In today's episode, we discuss, should entrepreneurs homeschool their kids? FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn: Hey, y'all. On today's podcast we discuss, should entrepreneurs homeschool their kids? Shane: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. Now we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? All right. Let's get started. Shane: What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. It is great to be back with you again today. And we have a very special episode of the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. For those of you who've been listening to our podcast for a long time, you know that normally we do not have expert guests on the show. It's usually a member of the Flip Your Life community who comes on the show, gets a consulting call. We do that on air and we share it with everybody so that you can benefit from the conversation. Actually, the only other guest who's ever been on the Flipped Lifestyle podcast is Pat Flynn, from the Smart Passive Income podcast. Shane: And this one came out of nowhere. Jocelyn sent me a message the other day because we have been discussing whether or not we were going to take our kids out of public school and homeschool them next semester. Jocelyn: We've been discussing it for a year. Shane: Yeah, we've been discussing it off and on forever, and the other day a friend of ours sent us this book. What's it called, Jocelyn? Jocelyn: So it's called The 5-Hour School Week. A friend of mine just kind of randomly sent it to me and said, "Hey, you might be interested in checking this out," because she knew that this is something we've sort of been tossing around for a while. Jocelyn: So, you know, I downloaded it, being a former librarian. I had to jump online and get that thing. Shane: And Jocelyn devoured it and read it in like 30 minutes or something like that because she can read way faster than us. Jocelyn: A little longer than that. Shane: We decided that this was actually a really big issue, not only for us, but for other entrepreneurs out there because as we built the Flipped Lifestyle and we define the Flipped Lifestyle, and we teach other people how to flip their life, a big part of that is freedom, especially time freedom and control of your schedule. That has been a really big problem with us over the last couple of years as entrepreneurs, people who work at home and have total control of our life, it's really been difficult to send our kids to school, where they're in this structured environment and they're sitting in rows and they're on the bell schedule like a factory. Shane: Then also, having to work our schedule around getting up so early to go to school or even if we want to take a trip, wrestling with do we pull our kids out? Do they get behind? Do we have to ask permission to even do that? As we've talked to other entrepreneurs, we realized, especially with people that already work at home or want to work at home, that this is a major problem. Shane: So we reached out to the authors of this book and asked them if they would come on to the show. not only to discuss homeschooling, discuss entrepreneurship and how that all fits together, but also to answer some questions from entrepreneurs in the Flip You Life community and that's what we're going to do on the podcast today, is we're really going to wrestle with this question. Should entrepreneurs homeschool their kid, and if they do, how does that work? What does that look like? That's a really scary proposition. Shane: So without further ado, let's stop talking. Let's invite, let's welcome our guests to the podcast today, and I'm actually just going to say your first names. Jocelyn: We'll let you guys say your last name, okay? Kaleena: Sounds good. Shane: And I am good at butchering names and I want you guys to say this. So we have Aaron and Kaleena. Kaleena: Amuchastegui. Shane: What is it? Say it again? Kaleena: Amuchastegui. Shane: All right. We have Aaron and Kaleena- Kaleena: Amuchastegui. Shane: Amuchastegui. Okay. Welcome to the show, guys. Aaron: Awesome. Thanks so much for inviting us to come on. You know, from you guys getting to talk about what you do and we're really excited to be able to share with you and your community. We're entrepreneurs as well, and we had to do some crazy flips in our life too, so we're super-excited. Kaleena: Yeah, super excited. Shane: I do want to stress that we are not affiliates, we're not getting any benefit for this, you know, financially. Jocelyn: We've met them for the first time, like a few minutes ago. Shane: Yeah, exactly. So we are literally here just to help entrepreneurs in their journey and to help people who are really struggling with this question about homeschooling. So if you could, you mentioned you were entrepreneurs, tell us a little bit about your background as an entrepreneur a

Hey Y'all, welcome to another Flipped Lifestyle Podcast Q&A w/ S&J! In the Flip Your Life Community, we hold a members-only Q&A twice a month where we answer online business questions of our members live on air! This podcast episode features some of the highlights of these recent live member Q&As to give you a glimpse of how we help the members of our community, and help you as well in online business by listening in. Today's Q&A highlights answer the following questions: Question One: "I'm a Certified Infant and Child Sleep Consultant and I have a membership to help parents get their little ones asleep for babies ages 4 months to 5 years. Many parents have asked me to create a program for newborn babies. My main concern with doing a sleep program for newborns is that I can't really talk about *results* in a black and white manner, the way I talk about results for older kids because they're newborns. While there's lots that parents can do to establish healthy sleep habits from day 1, there's still so much in the air when dealing with newborns. So a parent could easily purchase this newborn sleep program, follow everything, and still not see any results. If I were to move forward with this product, how should I take this concern into account?" Question Two: "I'm thinking about downsizing my job to help free up more time to focus on this community and my online business. Thoughts?" Question Three: "Do you have any tips for how to approach people to become a podcast guest?" Success stories mentioned on today's podcast: "First I want to give a huge thank you to Shane and Jocelyn for all of the hard work they put into FYL Live. It was at this event that I was able to finally see the mission and vision for my business clearly. Once I got clarity on these important foundations everything started to click. Before I even left the live event I put together a plan for promoting my online membership community. For 3 days in a row I promoted it and I created more than $800 in new membership sales in just 10 days after the event." - Amanda CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW!

In today's episode, we help Christal take her virtual assistant business to the next level. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey y'all, on today's podcast, we help Christal take her virtual assistant business to the next level. Shane Sams: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Shane Sams: We're a real family who figured out how to make our entire living online. Now we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? All right, let's get started. Shane Sams: What is going on everybody, welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. It is great to be back with you again today. We're super excited to have another member of the Flip Your Life community on the show so that we can help them take their business and their dreams to the next level. Our guest today is Christal Allen Harrahill. Christal, welcome to the show. Christal H.: Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here. Jocelyn Sams: It is great to talk to you, we saw you not too long ago at Flip Your Life live, which was awesome. If you've watched our highlight video, you may even see me chatting with Christal a little bit at the event. So definitely look for that. But yes, it is great to have you, we are really excited to talk to you today. Shane Sams: How awesome was Flip Your Life Live by the way, was that not amazing? Christal H.: It really was, I was so amazed at the organization of it and how much I actually got done while at the event. I've been to a lot of conferences in the past and that was rare. Shane Sams: Yeah, we tried to make it a working event because we looked back at all the live events we had ever been to when we were planning and creating Flip Your Life live. That was what we said to ourselves, we looked at each other and we're like, man if you don't get anything done, what's the point, you're just going to a party, and you can have a party at the house. Jocelyn Sams: Exactly, I mean it's nice to get all the information, but then if you don't do anything with it, what was the point. Christal H.: Exactly. Shane Sams: We were talking before we actually started recording. We just released the highlight reel for Flip Your Life Live, which you might have seen that on social media or somewhere out there in the internet sphere. But we were talking about how we got emotional, 'cause we were like oh, I miss everybody. Like it was so fun, like where is everybody. Shane Sams: So luckily there will be another Flip Your Life Family Reunion next year, we'll be all over that. Christal H.: And the food was amazing by the way, I'm still missing that hot chicken. Shane Sams: Oh man, we're southern people, and when we get that southern food going, we're not holding back. Jocelyn Sams: When you come to a live event in the south, you've gotta have some good southern food. Shane Sams: Yeah, you're not just getting wraps from some takeout joint. We're going southern fried chicken and hot chicken, all that good stuff. Jocelyn Sams: So if you come for nothing else, come for the food okay. Shane Sams: We actually went before we planned the event. We drove down there to taste the food. Jocelyn Sams: Because it was very important to me. When we went down there, I was like there will be no frozen biscuits or nothing from a mix. These things have gotta be homemade. Some of these people have never had biscuits before. Christal H.: That's right. Shane Sams: The chef that ran the hotel, he's like, you want me to do what. I'm like we want grandmamma's southern biscuits, you are not a grandmother, he was a dude. I was like, you're not a grandmother, but I want it to taste like my grandmamma made them biscuits. Jocelyn Sams: And y'all I got a good southern pallet here okay, you better be making those biscuits from scratch, and they had better be appropriately salted and they better be good. Shane Sams: So the dude walks out in the thing and his first try at a grandmamma southern biscuit. He actually made this, looked like a cake, it was like as big as my head. He made this giant biscuit and he was like, I was just trying to mess around and get it right. Then he made like some other biscuits at the thing. Shane Sams: But he had made this huge biscuit, he was like man I never made a biscuit like that before. He got it right though. Jocelyn Sams: We actually went down there, we drove four hours to taste these biscuits. Shane Sams: We drove four hours to taste the biscuits. Jocelyn Sams: To make sure they're all right. Well that's a lot of talk about biscuits. Shane Sams: Let's drag it back around here. You wanna try a Flip Your Life biscuit, you gotta be at Flip Your Life live next year. Jocelyn Sams: We gotta bring it next year, we gotta make sure these are good again. Shane Sams: I know right. Jocelyn Sams: Okay, well I'm sure the listeners would like to hear about something more than southern biscuits. So let's start talking a little bit about you. Let us know who

Hey Y'all, welcome to another Flipped Lifestyle Podcast Q&A w/ S&J! In the Flip Your Life Community, we hold a members-only Q&A twice a month where we answer online business questions of our members live on air! This podcast episode features some of the highlights of these recent live member Q&As to give you a glimpse of how we help the members of our community, and help you as well in online business by listening in. Today's Q&A highlights answer the following questions: Question One: "I'm just starting out, so what should I focus on? I would really like to get a beta launch for my membership up before the Christmas holiday. I'm planning to post on social media everyday. Create a worksheet as a lead magnet for getting people on my email list. Work on getting my website up and running (from scratch). Does this sound like the correct order?" Question Two: "How do you launch a membership site to your email list when you haven't emailed them anything in the past couple months?" Question Three: "I have a question about an introductory offer. I'm confused about whether I should create a product first (I know that you've mentioned "product first" philosophy), but I've also heard you say about having an audience and finding out what THEY want. I've been focusing on building an audience and getting email subscribers so that I can ask them what they want. I do have a product available, which is career coaching calls, but should I create a digital product now (I have an idea of what I'd like to create) or wait until I have feedback from an audience so I create the right product?" Success stories mentioned on today's podcast: "I asked for feedback on my sales pages about 2 months ago and got some great feedback and Jocelyn asked some really powerful questions. I changed one of my sales pages based on Jocelyn's suggestions and CHA-CHING. Four subscribers in three weeks!" - Stephanie CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW!

In today's episode, we catch up with former guest Daniel Hulsman after his membership launch. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey, y'all. On today's podcast, we catch up with former guest Daniel Hulsman after his membership launch. Shane Sams: Welcome to the Flip Lifestyle Podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. Now, we help other families do the same. You ready to flip your life? All right, let's get started. Shane Sams: What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to the Flip Lifestyle Podcast. It is great to be back with you again this week. I am really pumped up today because we are welcoming back a former guest, who was previously on the show. He's now launched his membership, launched his business, actually has customers, and this is even a more special former guest, because he is our favorite former troll. It's our good buddy, Daniel Hulsman. Daniel, welcome back to the show, man. Daniel Hulsman: Hey, Shane and Jocelyn. Thank you for having me. Jocelyn Sams: Yes, absolutely. We are happy to have you. Jocelyn Sams: ... here, again, today. We have some exciting stuff to talk about, some, kinda, hard stuff to talk about. We just got a really good conversation brewing, today. So we're really excited about this. We've been following along with you after your membership launch. You've had a few ups and downs, I would say. Daniel Hulsman: Yeah. Just a few. Shane Sams: Now, let me get everybody caught back up 'cause I think this is airing somewhere around December, January. I'm not exactly sure. So, Daniel was on the show back in July of 2018. It was episode 212. Right, Jocelyn? Jocelyn Sams: Yep, flippedlifestyle.com/podcast212. Shane Sams: So the interesting story behind Daniel even appearing on the show is Daniel didn't come to the Flipped Lifestyle community or podcast in, what I would call, the normal way. Daniel actually sent me some scathing hate mail at one point. Daniel Hulsman: Oh. It wasn't that. Jocelyn Sams: Okay. Shane Sams: It gets worse every time I tell the story, though. You know how it goes. Jocelyn Sams: In his defense, it's not the worse thing we've ever gotten. Shane Sams: It's not the worse thing we've ever gotten. Daniel Hulsman: It was definitely saucy. Shane Sams: It was saucy? It was quite the criticism. Okay? Daniel Hulsman: Yeah. Shane Sams: As I'm known to do, I like to engage with people online whether it's via email or fan mail or not-so-fan mail. Right? I actually got into a great discussion with Daniel and, kind of, challenged him to come in and actually look at our community, check us out, see how everything's going. Anyway, long story short, I've even invited him on the podcast. I said, "I'll tell you what. Come on the podcast. We'll talk about it," and we did. Right? Daniel's been a member, now, for a while, in the Flip Your Life community and just an awesome guy, just a great heart, and I am so glad that we became friends and that we got to be doing this online business stuff together. Shane Sams: So, long story short, we talked to you about your business and all that good stuff. Tell everybody a little bit, real quick, about your business, the nutshell version and, kind of, what's happened since you've joined the Flip Your Life community since that podcast. Tell them just a little bit about your business and where it ended up at, at this point, today. Daniel Hulsman: Sure. Yeah. So, in a nutshell, I run a website called Video Game Music Academy which is a resource for new and aspiring composers looking to break into the video game industry which is something that I wanted to do when I was younger but there was never any resources. So I decided to make one in ... I believe we talked July 1 when we recorded that episode. On that day, I was just starting off with a 21-day challenge then at the end of that, I launched my membership website. Daniel Hulsman: So on July 1, I had no plan to launch a membership website. On July 21, I launched a membership website. Jocelyn Sams: It's, kind of, funny how that works. You know? A lot of people who know us, they're like, "You know what? I didn't really plan to have an online business but, then, I talked to you guys and y'all have one. Shane Sams: It's funny when people talk to use. They'll come to use with a timeline. They sometimes say, "Yeah, I'm thinking about doing this three months from now." Jocelyn Sams: We're like, "Yeah, I know." Shane Sams: We're like, "What about three days?" Daniel Hulsman: Yeah, that kind of insanity was very motivating. I like that aspect of the challenge when it seems a little bit crazy. So, yeah, the kind of insanity of that short timeline was a great motivator. Since then, I'd say that my website has gone from what you really could've called a hobby, 'cause it wasn't really producing in any meaningful way, to a business where I've got an LLC now and I think that launch gave me a little

Hey Y'all, welcome to another Flipped Lifestyle Podcast Q&A w/ S&J! In the Flip Your Life Community, we hold a members-only Q&A twice a month where we answer online business questions of our members live on air! This podcast episode features some of the highlights of these recent live member Q&As to give you a glimpse of how we help the members of our community, and help you as well in online business by listening in. Today's Q&A highlights answer the following questions: Question One: "Per the new autoresponder suggestions - we should now immediately deliver a link to the product on the thank you page and up sell. My question - For the up sell should it be our normal 50% off the first month of online training offer or should it be something exclusive, not to be found or offered anywhere else?" Question Two: "I know we talked about PASPY at Flip your Life LIVE but are there any specific words or phrases that you use when you are selling on video to get people to buy?" Question Three: "Should the main opt-in on my website be broad to cast a wider net (and appeal to more people) or should it be very specific to catch only those who are my super target audience?" Question Four: "My husband and I are adopting a baby, so in about a month I'm going to have a newborn for the first time. What do I need to do for my business now so that it keeps running while I'm focused on the baby? I'm at a stage where I'm trying build an audience and get members." Success stories mentioned on today's podcast: "I decided today was the day that I would be raising my membership price from $29 to $39 a month. I also did away with the $10 trial membership after today. I had 4 people join the membership rate at $39 a month getting in while the getting was good." - Brenda "In the last 4 weeks, I've been booked for three speaking engagements totaling almost $16,000!" - Jen CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW!

In today's episode, we help Jeff find a profitable niche. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey y'all. On today's podcast, we help Jeff find a profitable niche. Shane Sams: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work. We're your hosts Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. And now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? Alright, let's get started. Shane Sams: What is going on everybody. Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. It is great to back with you. Again, today this is our favorite day. It is recording day. It is a day we get to sit down with another member of the Flip Your Life community and help them take their business to the next level. And we're really excited today because this is another member who we have met in real life, Jeff Slaughter. Jeff, welcome to the show. Jeff Slaughter: Thank you. I'm so glad to be here. Shane Sams: Let me tell you something, Jeff makes a mean chocolate bar. I'm telling you. He made some chocolate for our live event. Man, it was good. Jocelyn Sams: Yeah, we were very fortunate that he brought a lot of chocolate along with him. He shared with everybody in attendance, which was awesome. My favorite were the ones with the little, it was the lip print, I think. I think they were some kind of salted chocolate. I don't know, they were really good. Shane Sams: When we met Jeff, he was like, "I'm a chocolatier." I'm like, "Man, that's a fancy way of making chocolate, but I like it." That's good stuff, man. Jeff Slaughter: Yeah. Well, thank you. It was a lot of fun to be able to share that. Jocelyn Sams: Alright, well let's talk a little bit about ... Well, first of all, how did you get into making chocolate? Tell us a little bit about you, your background, your family and what you're doing online. Let's kind of just smash all that in here. Jeff Slaughter: Okay. Well, we moved to Europe in 1998 to serve in missions and landed in France and a couple years later, moved to Belgium. Was doing various mission projects there and wanted to start an online business to kind of help our funding. Jeff Slaughter: So I started one about Brussels and in doing that, I learned a lot about Belgium and Belgian chocolate. And became interested in ... Why is it such a big deal in Belgium? How do you make that? I discovered an online course I could take. Took a three month online course to learn how to do it. Was in Belgium at the time so I could get all my supplies and chocolate and just spend a couple years doing it as a hobby and then when we come back to the U.S., we would do it as a fundraiser. Shane Sams: To support your missions? Like that's what- Jeff Slaughter: Yeah. Exactly. It was a great way to ... Kind of a great conversation starter as you saw it, Flip Your Life Nashville. It's interesting. It's not something a lot of people do and it was related to where we were. So it's been a really fun thing to do. It's definitely a side hustle. It's seasonal. I live in Louisiana, it's very hot and so- Shane Sams: The chocolate melts. Jeff Slaughter: Yeah. Shane Sams: Right. Jeff Slaughter: So you have about five or six months out of the year where you can do it without worrying about it melting in your car. I do continue to go back to Europe. I'm there now about four months a year. Shane Sams: Doing missions still? You still doing missions? Jeff Slaughter: Yeah. Our daughter started having children and my wife felt the call to be a grandmother. So we moved back to the U.S. and based here in Louisiana and I travel back and forth. What I do now is I do worship conferences all over Europe and digital media conferences for churches and ministries. So when I'm there, that's pretty much what I'm doing, going from country to country doing these conferences. Organizing them and making them happen. Shane Sams: Do you have just one child? Jeff Slaughter: We have three. Shane Sams: Okay. Jeff Slaughter: We have a daughter, who has two birth children and a foster daughter. And then two sons. Shane Sams: Well, you are busy. You are jumping back and forth across the pond chasing grandkids. Jeff Slaughter: Yeah. In fact, I just got my ... Jocelyn Sams: Making Belgian chocolate in Louisiana. Shane Sams: Making Belgian chocolate when you can. Jeff Slaughter: Uh-huh. Yeah. Jocelyn Sams: Alright, well you have a very interesting life here Jeff. Shane Sams: I know, right? Let me just give you some context here. Meeting Jeff in person, he's just this sweet, good, kind-hearted, normal guy, right? And then like, "What do you do?" "Well, I fly over to Europe, I make chocolate." It's amazing. Jocelyn Sams: Yeah. I feel like you are short changing yourself, you know? You're just like, "Ah, yeah. I kind of just make some Belgian chocolate on the side." Jeff Slaughter: That's not how- Shane Sams: "I fly to Europe a couple times a year. I live in Louisiana, whatever. That's just what I do." Jeff S

In today's episode, we talk about how we help Jennifer overcome fears and create a plan to quickly grow her membership by the end of the year. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey y'all. On today's show, we help Jennifer take her education business to the next level. Shane Sams: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. And now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? All right. Let's get started. Shane Sams: What's going on everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. It is great to be back with you again this week. We have a beautiful day in Kentucky and we have an amazing guest. Another member of the Flip Your Life community. On the show today, we want to welcome Jennifer Bradley. Jennifer, welcome to the podcast. Jennifer B.: Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to talk to you guys. Jocelyn Sams: It is great to talk to you again. Jennifer is someone we have actually met in real life, which is really exciting. You guys know that I love it when we have people on that we have met in real life. This is a really good show for me. Shane Sams: And I was telling Jennifer off air, we may know Jennifer better than anyone who has ever been on the show because she's also a member of our all-access mastermind. I literally talk to Jennifer every single day on Voxer. Jennifer B.: Yes. Jocelyn Sams: And we chose Jennifer to be a part of the podcast because she is a community member who believes in posting her success. Shane Sams: And taking massive action in her business. Jocelyn Sams: When we look for people to be a guest on the podcast, we look for people who are really taking action, who are letting other people know about the successes that they're having. And that is why she's here today. Jocelyn Sams: Let's jump into a little bit of that. Start out by telling everyone about who you are and a little bit about your background and your business. Jennifer B.: I'm Jennifer Bradley and I'm from Michigan. I have three little kids at home. Ages seven, four and two. And then I'm married to my high school sweetheart. My business is I'm a speech therapist. I started out selling on a third-party platform Teachers Pay Teachers. I'd just sell therapy materials that I have created. I recently, about a year ago, turned it into a membership platform. I have all of my therapy materials in one area for speech therapists to use. Shane Sams: And how has that gone? I know a lot of people that is a scary transition. They'll go to a third-party marketplace, they'll make a little money online, whether it's putting a book on Kindle or selling something on you-to-me or in another place like that. Then it's like, "Oh, man. If I go offline, how am I gonna find customers?" All that thing. How's your membership going? Jennifer B.: It's going great. At first, it was a little scary. A little bit daunting to have my own website and send traffic there. But I'm really seeing the benefits now because I own it and as a third-party website I'm on there and I have no control of changes that are made. Since I'm always selling one-off products, I have to continuously sell and sell because most of my products range from $3 to $10. Where the membership is growing now, I'm having members and I'm in charge of my own destiny. It's been an amazing transition. Shane Sams: How many members do you have now? Jennifer B.: I have 380 members now. Shane Sams: Oh my goodness. That's insane. Jocelyn Sams: Yeah, that's awesome. Shane Sams: Just think about what you said out loud. We don't get too far into numbers for people, but I'm gonna paint the picture here for everybody. What if you had 380 people paying you 25 bucks a month or 50 bucks a month or 100 bucks a month. That's a crazy amount of customers and really all they're doing is logging into a community and getting access to your resources, right? Jennifer B.: Mm-hmm. Yeah. They just log in. They have access to all my therapy materials that were on TpT. Shane Sams: But we sat down at Flip Your Life Live last year and I worked with you at our table for a little while. You were telling me so many amazing things that I hear from so many people, "Oh, my gosh. I was afraid." You had something making money. This third-party marketplace. It was making good money too, right? Jennifer B.: Yes. Shane Sams: And you're like, "Oh my gosh. What if I stop promoting that? Is that gonna die? Am I gonna give up a good thing? A bird in the hand is better ..." All those fears that we have. I remember we were talking about your promotion strategy and you were still really promoting even the third-party marketplace. I looked over and I'm, "But the membership's making as much money as that. Why would you just not promote the thing that's passive and create stable predicable income?" And we were like, "Yeah. That's probably what I shoul

Hey Y'all, welcome to another Flipped Lifestyle Podcast Q&A w/ S&J! In the Flip Your Life Community, we hold a members-only Q&A twice a month where we answer online business questions of our members live on air! This podcast episode features some of the highlights of these recent live member Q&As to give you a glimpse of how we help the members of our community, and help you as well in online business by listening in. Today's Q&A highlights answer the following questions: Question One: "How can we build an email list while we are still finishing course content, website, etc?" Question Two: "I have 5500 members on facebook, what strategy should I use to convert them into email subscribers? I have only asked for subscribers once and we got 100. On a typical post, it shows it was seen by 600-750 people and 1300-2000 on live videos. What is a creative way to keep it front of them to continue to get more email subscribers?" Question Three: "How much content should be in place on the website before launching the membership? Currently there is plenty of content on social media places, but not much on the website. I have focused my efforts to make up a minimal product as a lead magnet. So how can I launch the membership before writing much or blogging?" Question Four: "One of the services you offer FYL members are the member call replays. I really value this and want to offer the same for my community. Will you share exactly how you do it, including the tools you use? Is it just Youtube live and vimeo? How do you get the chat under the live video?" CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW!

In today's episode, we talk about how we helped Blair with a pricing change that resulted in $20,000.00 in recurring revenue. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey y'all. On today's podcast, we talk about how taking one risk made Blair $20,000.00 in recurring revenue. Shane Sams: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family who figured out how to make our entire living online. Now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? All right, let's get started. Shane Sams: What is going on everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. It is great to be back with you again this week. And man, we have got an amazing success story for you guys. It is going to inspire you to take massive actions. Maybe to go in and take some of those risks that you've been avoiding, and just show you what is truly possible when you're all in, online. Shane Sams: I wanna welcome to the show today, Flip Your Life community member ... Oh wait, hold on. Pause. Blair, how do you pronounce your last name? Blair T.: Thielemier. The H is silent. Shane Sams: Okay. Thielemier. Blair T.: Yes. Jocelyn Sams: Yes. Jocelyn Sams: Tea, like I drink every morning. Tea. Shane Sams: Because I was about to say Thielemier. Blair T.: No. Jocelyn Sams: I can only imagine what you get called. Shane Sams: Wanna welcome to the show today, Flip Your Life member, Blair Thielemier. Blair, welcome. Blair T.: Thank you for having me. Jocelyn Sams: It's so exciting to have you on today. This is my favorite kinda show, as you know, if you listen to our show very often. I love it when we have people on that we have met in real life. And I have actually spent time with Blair a couple of different times. So, it's really cool to have you on today. Blair T.: Yeah, yeah, so I got to meet you last year in Southern California, at a Women's Leadership Conference. And then, again at Flipped Life Live. So that, was really exciting for me, too. Shane Sams: Yeah, Flip Your Life Live was incredible, because it was just this overwhelming emotional experience, meeting people who ... that weird feeling. It was like the Facebook affect, almost. You feel like you know each other in real life already, and then you're actually in the same place. And our brains have not evolved properly, to handle all these social media connections that we have, or these community connections that we have online, so then it's just a surreal experience, isn't it? To get in the same room with people you feel like you already know personally? Blair T.: And I really loved what you guys did with the Facebook group. Most conferences that you go to, once you buy your ticket, it's like, you don't get to meet anyone til you get there. But with Flipped Life Live, we had the Facebook group, and that, for me, 'cause I didn't know anyone, was really helpful to get to put names with faces, and not feel like I was going in, not knowing anyone. Shane Sams: Now, I really do feel like, that we knew you quite personally before the event, because we had worked together, and we had done some coaching calls. We had talked to you in the forums about some different things that you were doing online. And we kinda made some radical changes in your business. And we say radical changes, but it really was just changing one thing, right? We just kind of switched the way you were presenting an offer. And it led to this massive amount of success that we're gonna talk about in a few minutes. Shane Sams: But tell everybody a little bit more about you, your background, and your online business, leading up to that point where we had that coaching call. Blair T.: Okay, so by training, I am a Pharmacist. It was 2014, and I was pregnant with my daughter. And I got the news that the small hospital that I was working for was facing some budget cuts. And I essentially lost all my benefits and full-time status. So that, led me to scrambling, trying to pick up some different work at local community pharmacies. And through that, and because of my clinical background, they had asked me to do some clinical services for them in the pharmacies. Blair T.: So I did that for about a year. And then, in fall of 2015, I started working with a business coach to build my online business. I had people reaching out to me, asking for help, so that they could create these clinical services in their pharmacies. But I didn't know how to create a program around that. So we started with three one-on-one coaching clients, and then from there, I started building an email list, and building the website that was ... I was blogging about what I was working on, and so that was how people were finding out about MTM Consulting, which is what I'm known for. Shane Sams: And basically, this is just ... it's a way that Pharmacists can add more services to increase revenue. That's really what it is, right? Is that what it is? Blair T.: Right. So, pharmacy'

Hey Y'all, welcome to another Flipped Lifestyle Podcast Q&A w/ S&J! In the Flip Your Life Community, we hold a members-only Q&A twice a month where we answer online business questions of our members live on air! This podcast episode features some of the highlights of these recent live member Q&As to give you a glimpse of how we help the members of our community, and help you as well in online business by listening in. Today's Q&A highlights answer the following questions: Question One: "If someone loves people empowerment, what are the possibilities online? Can you be a life and/or business coach without certification? If yes, how is the best way to do this building an online business from scratch?" Question Two: "First, what is the best month to run a membership drive to teachers now that school has started? Second, my new membership area launched a few months ago. I have one customer that is downloading everything possible. I sent her an email thanking her for joining and asked if we could talk to get feedback on how we could better serve her. She agreed. Is there anything particular I should ask to keep her instead of having a monthly subscriber quit after she gets it all?" Question Three: "I'm having trouble defining my avatars' "problem". Their "pain" is really more of an aspiration. My business, Undersea Naturalist, is focused on helping my avatars' learn about and appreciate marine life. They would have been folks who were fans of Jacques Cousteau's TV shows." Question Four: "We are planning on launching our membership. Right now we are adding content month by month, would it be strange to have a yearly purchase option or should we stick to a monthly purchase option?" CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW!

In today's episode, we help Janet overcome obstacles and set goals to focus on increasing membership revenue. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey, y'all on today's show, we help Janet take her Spanish education business to the next level. Shane Sams: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast where life always comes before work. We're your hosts Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. Now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to Flip Your Life? All right, let's get started. Shane Sams: What is going on everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. It is great to be back with you again this week. Super excited to have another real member of the Flip Your Life Community, a real person out there starting, building and growing their own online business so they can change their family's future. We're here to help them take their business to the next level and let you guys listen in so that you can take your online business to the next level as well. We are really, really excited today because we have Janet Jimenez on the podcast. Janet, how are you doing? Janet Jimenez: Good. Thanks for having me. Shane Sams: Did I say that right? Jimenez or Jimenez? How do you say it? Janet Jimenez: You're pretty close to it, it's Jimenez. Shane Sams: Okay. Janet Jimenez. How do you spell that for me? Spell that out for us. Janet Jimenez: Okay. It's got a J, J-i-m-e-n-e-z. Shane Sams: So before I got on air, I just went straight Kentucky, uneducated redneck on Janet. I said, hey Janet, I'm going to introduce you as Janet Geminiz, and she was like, no, that is not. Jocelyn Sams: except you're not, 'cause that's not my name. Shane Sams: Except you're not because that's not how we pronounce that at all. Janet Jimenez: Well, I thought for a big sports fan. You would know how to pronounce the last name there. Jocelyn Sams: No, actually. I probably would have because I like to talk about how I did take four years of Spanish in high school. Unfortunately that was 20 years ago and I remember very little of it, which is sad, but I do remember that. Shane Sams: Jocelyn is amazing because she can read it and understand it, but not always speak it in like, so we'll go places where there's like Spanish speaking and she'll kind of know what's going on. But she doesn't ever use it so I can't even imagine how good she would be at it if we just dropped her into a Spanish speaking country for a year. She could probably be fluent. Janet Jimenez: Oh yeah. To just be immersed and then you'll pick it up. Jocelyn Sams: yeah exactly. I love going places though and just trying to see if I can read things. A lot of times I can still read. It's just the Kentucky Spanish that I learned, I don't think the speaking was always very accurate. Shane Sams: That's where we know the Geminiz not Jimenez, you know what I'm saying? Jocelyn Sams: Well my teacher her parents were from Puerto Rico, so I mean hers was really good but just trying to learn it was kind of hard. All right, well let's jump in. I love these kind of podcasts because we've actually met you in real life, which is super cool. Shane Sams: Janet is also a member of our all access mastermind. So we get to talk to her quite a bit over the phone. Jocelyn Sams: And I love talking to people that we have met in real life because you just already have a rapport with them, which is really cool. So let's jump into a little bit about you, your background, and what you are doing online. Janet Jimenez: Sure. So I am a mom of six. I have five children plus a stepson. My husband is from the Dominican Republic, so an island in the Caribbean and a Spanish speaker and I am a teacher. I have worked as a teacher for 13 years in Spanish immersion school, so that's basically elementary school in Spanish. And I have a business that sells educational resources to busy bilingual and Spanish teachers. Shane Sams: And what is your domain name? Janet Jimenez: Oh, it's spanishprofe.com. Shane Sams: And that's p-r-o-f-e? Is that right? Janet Jimenez: Correct. Shane Sams: What does that mean? Janet Jimenez: It's just like professor but I guess it'd be- Jocelyn Sams: In Espanol? Shane Sams: in Espanol. Janet Jimenez: Yeah in Espanol exactly. Shane Sams: I want to go back here real quick because I always do. You have six children, right? You have five and one and you're still building an online business and working full time, correct? Janet Jimenez: Yes. It is chaotic, but it's getting done. Shane Sams: And your online business actually does make money, correct? Janet Jimenez: Yes. More than my day job. Shane Sams: That is amazing and I always point that out because the biggest thing that we hear from people is well, you don't understand how busy I am and I know that worked for you guys, but it doesn't work for me because of X, Y, Z excuse. And most of the time the excuse is family stuff, work stuff. I just don't have time to do this. But we've got so

Hey Y'all, welcome to another Flipped Lifestyle Podcast Q&A w/ S&J! In the Flip Your Life Community, we hold a members-only Q&A twice a month where we answer online business questions of our members live on air! This podcast episode features some of the highlights of these recent live member Q&As to give you a glimpse of how we help the members of our community, and help you as well in online business by listening in. Today's Q&A highlights answer the following questions: Question One: "I formed my beta group with 4 members, yay!! We kick off this week, with weekly live lessons and live office hours, running for 10 weeks. What should be my #1 focus here? My head wants to spyder out to do ALL the things, but I want to make the most out of this opportunity to retain these members and grow that. I think my focus should be to be there for my members, teach, answer all their questions, and regularly ask them what they want next. Interestingly, the 4 members are not at all the avatar I had pictured in mind. So I feel like I have to roll with the punches to morph my membership site to what they asking for." Question Two: "I just gave birth to baby #3 6 weeks ago so I temporarily closed registration to my membership to keep my life from getting too crazy. I'm now feeling ready to get back in the game, open up registration and re-launch. I currently have about 50 members and I'm considering creating some kind of affiliate program for a few members who have been in my program for long enough to vouch for it. My question is- how do I figure out a revenue sharing arrangement when people are paying a monthly fee- and some members stick around for a month, while others stay for a year? It's obviously more straightforward when selling a course for a 1-time fee. Also- given that I'm a certified sleep consultant for babies and kids, and given the fact that I now have a 6 week old at home, how can I leverage my current situation to connect with my audience and add value to my membership? In my membership, I've already started giving them regular updates as to his sleep and what I'm doing so that they can follow my journey with him!" Question Three: "My site's mission is helping people learn God's way with money and create financial margin so they can give more generously and start enjoying life again. Product plan is to create courses/lessons on many biblical finance topics from big picture like financial freedom and treasures in heaven to practical topics like tackling debt and biblical investing and generosity. Some will be directly motivational, others may actually be church-style bible teachings. Three brief questions: Do I have to do the get out of debt piece because it's an 'aspirin'? Does the word 'Courses' convert better than 'Lessons?' I'd like to eventually charge $49/mo, is that realistic when members may be in financial hardship? Do I have to focus on debt because it is the really hard hitting pain point?" Question Four: "Are there key things you like to do when you are holding a coaching session? I'm offering these for sale and would love to know what are your top priorities for making sure that you help someone who has paid for your time. My top guess would be; LISTEN, ask them what they are having TROUBLES with, ask do they have a SUGGESTION or plan, give your suggestions, make an ACTION plan." CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW!

In today's episode, we help Dan determine next steps in moving forward and growing his online business that teaches birth professionals about how to effectively operate a successful small business. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey y'all. On today's show we help Dan take his birth consulting business to the next level. Shane Sams: Welcome to The Flip Lifestyle Podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your host, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. Now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? Alright, let's get started. Shane Sams: What's going on, everybody, welcome back to The Flip Lifestyle Podcast. It is great to be back with you again today, we're super excited to welcome another member of our Flip Your Life community onto the show today to help them take their business to the next level and really, really especially excited today because we have a great friend of ours, someone who's been in the community for a long time, hung out with him in person numerous times and can't wait to help them today, Dan Dekker is on the program. Dan, what's up, man? Dan Dekker: Giddy up, giddy up, let's make some money. Woo! Jocelyn Sams: That's probably the most energetic introduction we've ever had. Shane Sams: I always love talking to you 'cause I know it's gonna be entertaining, especially when you do something like this. When I was reading your form that you filled out to be on the podcast, I love how ... Where it said like talking about your family, and you put three offspring. And I'm like, "Only Dan's putting offspring instead of children on the show, man." But Dan's got an awesome story, awesome business and we've had a lot of good times with Dan. So we're gonna ramp up everything that's going on in Dan's life today. So, Dan, tell us a little bit about you and your family and your online business. Dan Dekker: Well, first of all I like to pretend I'm from Kentucky but I wasn't actually born there so unfortunately I don't really have that accent. But yeah, my wife and I, Rebecca, started ... She started an online business 4 or 5 years ago and it really took off. I'm kind of in this weird spot where like, yeah, we flipped our lives, we have an online business that fully supports us and our family now, which is totally awesome. Shane Sams: Amazing. Dan Dekker: And now I'm kind of starting my own thing so it's this weird mix of, I've seen it happen and was sort of along for the ride but for myself I'm kind of starting from scratch and having to do it all myself, which has been definitely a learning experience. But I have my business degree. I always did accounting work for different businesses up until four years ago when I quit to do mainly the accounting and helping with our website full time and to watch the kids full time. So, I did that and now just recently ... Well, I should say our business is a childbirth-related business. My wife started it. It gives education materials to childbirth professionals. So for the last 4 or 5 years we've been dealing with these childbirth professionals on a regular basis. Dan Dekker: And that's where I kind of came up with this idea after meeting with all these doulas and midwives and childbirth educators, and realizing that a lot of them were really good at their jobs, were great at dealing with moms and families that are having babies, but they weren't all that great with the business side. You know, they get lots of training about how to help deliver a baby but no one tells them how to run a business. And so that's where this idea came from and that's what I'm starting as. It's a training class, kind of starting with the very beginning, for birth professionals to train them how to run a small business. Shane Sams: So, Rebecca's business ... She is an expert in the birth and babies field, right? Dan Dekker: Right, yeah. Shane Sams: And her main priority is getting the research and the information to these nurses, doulas, you know, midwives, people who are helping people have a baby, right? Dan Dekker: Correct. Yeah. Shane Sams: And you have been kind of on the backend doing the accounting, taking care of the book work so she can focus on the research and getting this content to her audience. And as you were doing this, you were like, "Wow, that person is the best midwife ever, but, her books are in shambles and she has no idea what to charge or how to collect money or do anything like that so she can't sustain her business which would let her help other people, basically." Dan Dekker: Exactly, yeah. Rebecca kept getting questions from people 'cause they see her running a successful business and she starts answering these business questions for them just 'cause they don't know where else to turn and she was able to help with these questions, so yeah. Shane Sams: And I'm sure it's like many businesses, you know? Every field has its nuances, right? There's like, certain lingo, a

Hey Y'all, welcome to another Flipped Lifestyle Podcast Q&A w/ S&J! In the Flip Your Life Community, we hold a members-only Q&A twice a month where we answer online business questions of our members live on air! This podcast episode features some of the highlights of these recent live member Q&As to give you a glimpse of how we help the members of our community, and help you as well in online business by listening in. Today's Q&A highlights answer the following questions: Question One: "I am getting ready to launch my membership in the next 2 weeks. My list is about 2000 people and my open rate is typically around 20%. I know this must vary based on how niche you are, but how many people typically covert into customers from an email list?" Question Two: "How do you plan for attrition in your membership site when creating your business plan?" Question Three: "Hey y'all :) what's your opinion on giveaways to build an email list? I feel like it could be a good way to build quickly as long as what I'm giving away is true to my niche. Thanks!" Question Four: "I've been doing weekly blog posts plus youtube videos for a month, there's not much change in my website views and no opt-ins. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to be more patient?" SUCCESS STORY: "SUCCESS! I received an email from someone this morning with questions about my class, I answered the email and 30 minutes later she bought the class!" - Dan "SUCCESS! I put on some of my social media platforms that Becca & I are going to be offering some courses for photographers this Fall. I got 25 emails within 24 hours!" - Matt CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW!

In today's episode, we help Treasure create a plan to increase cashflow and grow her online college planning business FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey y'all, on today's podcast we help Treasure take her online college planning business to the next level. Shane Sams: Welcome to The Flipped Lifestyle Podcast where life always comes first. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online, and now we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? All right, let's get started. What's going on everybody? Welcome back to The Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. It's great to be back with you again. This week we are super excited to have another member of the Flip Your Life community on the show so we can work with them one on one and help them take their business to the next level, and this is a special show. This is the first recording that we have done after our massive live event, Flip Your Life, live in Nashville, and we are happy to say we have now met and hugged this person in real life. Our guest today is Treasure Redmond. How you doing, Treasure? Treasure S.-R.: Hey, hey Shane and Jocelyn, how are y'all doing? Jocelyn Sams: We are great. It is so good to have you here today. We knew when we met you that you had to be on our podcast. So thank you so much for being here today. Shane Sams: We were preparing for Flip Your Life Live, Nashville, one of the things that we did that a lot of people don't do for live events is we had ice breaker calls where everyone could come and me and Jocelyn literally went around the room and just talked to every single person on a conference call. I'll never forget Treasure rolling up to the room because she didn't know her mic was off and everybody else was muted, we were talking to somebody, and just like we started this show, she came in, goes, "Hey, hey everybody!" And she starts screaming into the ... It was absolutely amazing and I looked- Jocelyn Sams: We seriously cracked up. Shane Sams: Oh, I laughed so hard. Everybody was just dying laughing, and man, you're just light in your personalty. Just, in person, online, anywhere. I'm just glad that we get to share you with the Flip Your Life audience today. Treasure S.-R.: Well thank you, and light attracts light. So I'm so glad to be here. Jocelyn Sams: All right, well let's dive in a little bit. Tell us a little bit about you and what you're doing online. You can share your website if you would like to. Treasure S.-R.: Sure, my name is Treasure Shields-Redmond and I am known as the debt free degree expert. I help busy parents of college-bound teens secure top-tier education without massive debt, and I do that at gettheacceptanceletter.online. Shane Sams: Tell us a little bit about your background too. How did you get into that? That's such a worthy mission by the way, because debt is crushing college students around the country and all of us who had debt at any given time for our college degree know how much of a weight that can be, but how did you get into that? Treasure S.-R.: You know, I earned my credentials through a 20 year teaching career. So I went to undergraduate and you know, took out too much debt as a lot of us do, went on to teach high school English for about a decade, and then moved over into the university arena and became a college professor and was an assistant professor of English for about a decade, and I was always teaching kids who were headed to college, or who had just entered college and freshman writing classes. I started to see the same patterns that happened with me repeat themselves. You know people with a lot of ... with a wonderful resume, but didn't know how to use it to get scholarships, and who had families who had a vision for their lives but didn't have access to information. So, I started at first helping people privately for free, and it grew into the business. Shane Sams: And this has basically grown into a consulting business that you're trying to move more like mass online so you can reach more people and do things like that, right? Treasure S.-R.: Yes. I mean. I've opened the subscription community. I'm online. Shane Sams: That's awesome. Treasure S.-R.: So I've made the transition, and I follow y'all's blueprint and I have my now 15 members. Shane Sams: All right! Jocelyn Sams: Yeah! Shane Sams: That's amazing. Awesome. Treasure S.-R.: So I'm just looking to serve more college-bound families. Shane Sams: Now I have to back the truck up a little bit here. We need to rewind because I know your story a little bit more and I just want to share this to everybody. You originally were not going into education, you were more in the music; music-type of atmosphere and career, like when you were in your younger days, so like tell us a little bit about when you used to be a rapper back in the '90s, because I think everyone needs to know this. Everyone has to hear this because it's incredible, and somehow you got in

Hey Y'all, welcome to another Flipped Lifestyle Podcast Q&A w/ S&J! In the Flip Your Life Community, we hold a members-only Q&A twice a month where we answer online business questions of our members live on air! This podcast episode features some of the highlights of these recent live member Q&As to give you a glimpse of how we help the members of our community, and help you as well in online business by listening in. Today's Q&A highlights answer the following questions: Question One: "Hi guys I'm really trying to get back onto the online business wagon after falling off for the last month, and posted an Action Plan as such this morning. Beyond the action plan forum, getting a legit accountability partner is something I've mulled around but haven't seriously pursued yet. For someone who struggles with consistency, do you think this (getting an accountability partner) would be worthwhile, and if so, how should I go about finding the right person for that role? Thanks! " Question Two: "You have previously said that you often do a video and then overlay a presentation over it for your trainings. What software do you use to overlay your audio onto your presentation? If it's a mac software, is there' something comparable in a pc?" Question Three: "We have 5000 email subscribers who opted in to receive our free math resource. However, only 8 people bought our one-off product which is a $40 bundle of math resources in our initial autoresponder sequence. What are ways to improve conversion rates on autoresponders? " Question Four: "My husband is starting up a business for basketball out of bounds plays. He's had 30 plays professionally recorded by a videographer of the plays being demonstrated. There will be voice over recording describing the plays and how to best utilize your players in their positions. He has one free play to use as a opt in. Our biggest question moving forward is pricing. He's stuck on how to price the package of 30 plays. Any advice would be awesome. Thanks!" SUCCESS STORY: "SUCCESS! Just got a speaking gig while on this call. Most I've ever been paid so far. I bumped my fees after FYL LIVE just because. I think the higher fees made me more credible." - Jeff CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW!

In today's episode, S&J talk about lessons learned from the biggest risk they ever took. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey, y'all. On today's podcast, we share the lessons we've learned after hosting our first major live event. Shane Sams: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. Now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to Flip Your Life? All right. Let's get started. Shane Sams: What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. It is great to be back with you again this week. We've got a special episode for y'all. We do not have a guest toady. We will not be doing a Q&A. We will be doing a lot of reflecting back on the lessons that we learned from hosting our first major live event. Not long ago, about three weeks ago, from the time that we're recording this actual podcast, Jocelyn and I hosted an event in Nashville, Tennessee, for over 100 members of the Flip Your Life Community. We all came together over a three-day period to build our online businesses, to grow our online businesses, and to take massive action on changing our family's future. Shane Sams: It was an incredible event, and it went off better than we ever could have dreamed. But as with any major undertaking that Jocelyn and I take on, we like to look back and reflect on the things we did right, the things we did wrong, and try to make things better, make things bigger as we go forward in the future. So, that's what we're going to do today. We're going to share all of these lessons and things that happened to us over the last year of planning and executing this event, so that you can take some of those lessons, take some of those strategies, take some of those things that we've learned, and apply them to whatever your next big project is for your online business. Jocelyn Sams: And many of you have probably seen our pictures on our Facebook page, and just some of the things that we've posted about the event. You've seen the glossy exterior, but we're going to dive into some of the not so pretty things that we encountered on the journey to get there. Shane Sams: Let's take you back to where the birthplace of Flip Your Life Live in Nashville came to be. Last December, about a year ago now, Jocelyn, out of nowhere, came to me and said, "We need to host a major live event, like a big one. Like, over 100 people, and we need to do it all by ourselves. We're going to plan it ourselves. We're going to pay for it ourselves. We're going to be on stage the entire time, and we're going to go ahead and do it next fall. It's going to happen." Jocelyn Sams: For those of you all who know me, it wasn't completely out of nowhere. I had been to another event in the fall. I thought it was really cool, and I was like, "Hey, this is a really good sense of community. I really think that we need to bring our people together." And we had sort of been, not really against it for a long time, but just a little bit uncertain about it for a long time. Shane Sams: I'm going to vote that I was scared to death to try. This is a total role reversal in this situation, because usually, I'm the one coming to Jocelyn going, "Okay, here's the airplane. We're going to jump out of it. We'll sew together a parachute on the way down." And this was totally out of nowhere, because Jocelyn came up to me and said, "We're going to do a live event. There's going to be over 100 people there. It's going to be amazing." My first instinct was just to freeze up, and what are we going to do? I can't do this. No way. Jocelyn Sams: We talked about it a little bit, and as we usually do, one of us has some crazy, big idea. The other one's like, I don't know, but okay, I'll go along with it. That's kind of the way that it worked here. Shane Sams: The reason that we really wanted to do this, Jocelyn and I have hosted small live events before, more mastermind intimate settings, where we're us and maybe 15 to 20 people in a room. Those went really, really well, and we saw the people that came to those smaller events achieve massive success, take massive action after they left, and made great things happen in their business and for their family's future. Shane Sams: And we have been to so many live events in our online journey, and every single one of them was a milestone for us that took our business to the next level, that pushed us out of our comfort zone and gave us great results. We wanted to provide that kind of experience and that kind of environment for as many people in the Flip Your Life Community as possible. If we kept having small 12 to 15 person live events for the rest of our career, we wouldn't be able to reach as many people as fast as we wanted to. So, we said, hey, let's jump into the hundreds. Let's see if we can get over 100 people to do this, and then watch what happens to those hundred people

Hey Y'all, welcome to another Flipped Lifestyle Podcast Q&A w/ S&J! In the Flip Your Life Community, we hold a members-only Q&A twice a month where we answer online business questions of our members live on air! This podcast episode features some of the highlights of these recent live member Q&As to give you a glimpse of how we help the members of our community, and help you as well in online business by listening in. Today's Q&A highlights answer the following questions: Question One: "I would love some tips for making sales videos. I like the script, but I look so stiff on video or super hyper with a bouncing head. LOL. Any tips?" Question Two: "if doing a joint webinar, what is the best way to pitch products - repeat the webinar and do a separate pitch each time or just pick smaller products so attendees can just choose what works best for them? we do NOT want to try to bundle and split payment... too complicated" Question Three: "How is the free trial going vs. a $1 trial? I'm concerned people won't take action if they don't have skin in the game." Question Four: "To get the most out of my ad spend, could I run an add to two closely related topics/pain points for my niche... So when they click on the ad, they can opt in to one of two webinars (instead of just opting into one). Is that a thing? Do people do this? Like instead of deciding to register or not, it would be... Which one WILL they register for? Trying to get more out of my ad spend by offering two webinar options from one landing page. " SUCCESS STORY: "SUCCESS! I crossed the 20-member mark (and briefly had 21). I think adding webinars and member calls is next. - Paul"

In today's episode, we help Court plan his organic content strategy for his youth sport coaching website. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn: Hey you all. On today's podcast, we help Court take his youth sport coaching business to the next level. Shane: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online, and now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to Flip Your Life? All right. Let's get started. Shane: What's going on everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. It is great to be back with you again today as we talk to another member of the Flip Your Life community, and I'm really excited about this interview because this is a guy after my own heart. This is a coach. Jocelyn: Is there something I should know? Shane: A sports coach ... No! Stop saying that. No, no. I mean we're just attuned in our souls in the sports coaching world, Jocelyn, because my heart is only for you, baby. All right, in our podcast today, we want to welcome Court. Court, welcome to the show, man. Court: Hey, thanks guys. This is really an honor to be here. I really appreciate it. Jocelyn: We are excited to talk to you today. We know a lot about the coaching world. We have been sports coaches- Shane: Oh, so deep into it. So deep into it. Jocelyn: Sports coaching wives for a long, long time before we started doing online business, so we totally get it. So tell us a little bit about you, your background, and how you got started with your website. Court: Yeah, so real quick, I grew up playing sports. I played everything. If it had a ball. I played basketball, football, baseball, golf, and when I went to college, I went to Kansas State University and had an opportunity to work with the football team there, and I started as an equipment manager, and I worked up to being a student assistant coach. And I really had a passion for that, and I thought that's what I wanted to do after graduating, but I think Shane kinda what maybe you discovered. The pay was not good- Shane: No, it was not. Court: And I knew I was gonna have to move all over the country. Didn't wanna do that, so I decided to, my undergrad degree was in education, so I became a English and Journalism teacher and I coached football and track for about 13 years. And then about five years ago, I went through a divorce and I realized spending time with my kids, I was spending more time coaching. Practice was going until 7:30 every night, and then my kids were already in bed. Or on weekends I was working all weekend and I wasn't able to spend time. So I stepped away from coaching, stepped away from teaching, and took a new job in the business world doing social media. So I really have a background there in marketing and social media. Court: And then when I started coaching my kid's kindergarten soccer team a couple years ago, I said, this will be easy. I've coached high school. I've coached college. This will be no problem at all. And I realized it was a whole different world, and I'm sure you've probably experienced the same thing. So that's what led me to, I said, other moms and dads need support and help to figure out how to coach their kid's teams. So that's what kind of led me to come up with this idea to start youthsportscoaches.com. Shane: Awesome. Yeah, and it's funny, your story is so- Jocelyn: I'm wondering if you guys are the same person. Shane: I know, right? It sounds so familiar, and because I look back at our journey and where we are now compared to where we've been in the last 15 years, right? And there were really two things that happened to us that I think started our Flip Your Lives journey before we even knew it was started. One of them was exactly what you said when we were like chasing the success ladder, and it doesn't matter if you're trying to be a college football coach and climb the ladder, or if you're trying to be in the corporate world and climb the ladder. Even if you're in like a government job and you're trying to move from teacher to principal or whatever, right? Shane: There comes a point when you're chasing success when you look over and say, I haven't seen my wife or kids in a few days, right? And you start questioning, is that worth it? And I can remember me and Jocelyn sitting down and I had a chance, I had a good friend of mine that recommended me for a job, and I literally had a job at Bowling Green University, right? We were in West Virginia at the time, and I had it. No, I was at Eastern Kentucky at the time, and he calls me, and he's like, you don't even have to interview it. I've already told him you're the guy for the job. You just have to show up. Shane: And this was a big job. It was a good job. But me and Jocelyn looked at each other and we said, do we really want to go down this path? Like what about having kids? What about seeing each other? This is committing to, I'm in this n

Hey Y'all, welcome to another Flipped Lifestyle Podcast Q&A w/ S&J! In the Flip Your Life Community, we hold a members-only Q&A twice a month where we answer online business questions of our members live on air! This podcast episode features some of the highlights of these recent live member Q&As to give you a glimpse of how we help the members of our community, and help you as well in online business by listening in. Today's Q&A highlights answer the following questions: Question One: "I am launching registration for my big conference next week. My wait list is going great-- 600+ people say they want to come, there are 150 spots. Any tips for promoting sales? also, I'm going to use a Membership plugin to take registrations (MemberPress) because then I thought attendees could use that to login at the conference and get their handouts, etc. Does that sound okay, or should I use a specific event type registration plugin, or something like Eventbrite?" Question Two: "First of all, FYL Nashville Live was AWESOME!! Thanks S+J and team for making this happen. Now, on to my question: You have been offering a free month to the FYL Community. If you're comfortable sharing, what kind of results are you seeing? My membership site is ready and I'm forming my beta group. I am considering having a "free" membership tier, as a way to get folks in the door and get to my first paying customer. Do you think this is a good approach to get my first paying members? Or would you caution away from that?" Question Three: "My question - i am planning on running an evergreen webinar "in the background" while I continue to blog, provide value, etc. Any tips on how to running an evergreen webinar strategy? I am using an old webinar that I have done live over the summer on classroom management that I feel would be really beneficial to teachers now school is in full swing...I am planning on using FB for ads and letting my email lists know that I have this webinar going on...would love any tips and advice and how to maximize this strategy. Thanks, ya'll...gotta get back to my classroom ;/" Question Four: "If you had a medical condition and limited energy, how would you prioritize your time for building and running your membership?" SUCCESS STORY: "SUCCESS: Since the Nashville, I started a waiting list, and yesterday, launched my new class! I have 12 people signed up already. I'm teaching the first webinar one week from today!" CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW!

In today's episode, we help Jen create a weekly webinar strategy to grow her membership! FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey y'all, on today's podcast we helped Jen take her membership website to the next level. Shane Sams: What's going on everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. It is great to be back with you again today as we have another member of our Flip Your Life community on the show to celebrate success and to help them take their business to the next level. We're really, really excited to have Jen Camel on the show today. Jen, welcome. Jen Camel: Hey, thank you so much for having me. Jocelyn Sams: We are very excited to talk to you today. You have a very interesting business that I can't wait to dive into a little bit. Jocelyn Sams: Before we go there, tell our audience a little bit about you, your family, and what you're doing online. Jen Camel: I live in Southern California with my husband and my two kids. My background was in commercial real estate doing GIS analysis for companies. Then we decided to start a family, and I got pregnant, and I had planned a completely normal delivery. Never even occurred to me that I would have a c-section, but I was one of those 20% of first-time mothers who had a c-section with her first child. Going through that experience made it very clear to me how difficult it is for parents to find good information on VBAC. Jen Camel: As I dive even deeper- Shane Sams: What is- Jen Camel: ... I saw- Shane Sams: What, what does VBAC mean? Jen Camel: Oh, good segue there. VBAC is vaginal birth after cesarean. So I had just collected a bunch of information for myself and after my VBAC realized how many other parents were seeking this same level of information. So VBAC Facts was born. As the website grew and I collected more of an audience I saw how many birth professionals really had a hard time staying on top of the evidence themselves and really wanted a more in depth understanding of what the research actually said so they can effectively guide their clients. Jen Camel: VBAC Facts was really born again when I started my membership site about four months ago. Shane Sams: Let me ask you this ... Okay, this is a big leap here. You went from commercial real estate to vaginal birth education, right? And it was basically because of this personal experience that you had. You had a c-section with your first child, but when you had other children you wanted to have it the natural way, correct- Jen Camel: Exactly. Shane Sams: ... is that what I'm [crosstalk 00:02:40]. Okay. Jen Camel: Exactly, yeah. Jocelyn Sams: You primarily target birth professionals then? Jen Camel: I do. A lot of parents come to the site as well and there's a ton of information online for parents, but I found that birth professionals are really the ones who were interested in diving deeper and were interested in the higher level of analysis that I offer. Shane Sams: Parents are like my wife's had to have a c-section so now you're like looking for information but it's not like you really want to buy something to really dive and get into it. But for the birth professional are we talking midwives, and doulas, and nurses, and people like that? Jen Camel: Exactly. Shane Sams: They want to go farther, right? Jen Camel: Exactly. I do have online classes for parents available for those who do want to dive deeper. But I just found that birth professionals were really the ones who were interested in that level of information. Shane Sams: Jocelyn, when we had our first child, had to have a c-section. It was scheduled. Was it because he was late or because- Jocelyn Sams: No, it was because of his size. I don't know. It's kind of a long story, but my doctor said, "I'm not going to use any instruments because he's just too big." So we just made a decision to do that. My other child, she was breach. Shane Sams: Yeah, so we had to do that. I remember though, you talk about parents like this, I remember I was like, "Oh my gosh, you got to have a c-section. What does that even mean?" I'm a football coach and when a football coach has a game he watches game film to prepare for it. I remember before Isaac was born I was sitting there on YouTube and I was watching c-sections, mildly horrified, but kind of just intrigued by it. I was like, "Jocelyn, come over here and check this out." She was like- Jocelyn Sams: I'm like, "Absolutely not." Shane Sams: She was like absolutely [crosstalk 00:04:26]. It's funny, because you said the birth professionals would be interested in this. I remember after I watched a couple videos it was just kind of like, "I'm over it." That's the surface knowledge that I need to help me go forward. But I could also see it was very scary because you don't know what it is until you have to go through it, right? Jen Camel: Yeah exactly. With parents in particular it's trying to help them eliminate those unknowns so they can go in and they have an understanding of the lay of the land, and what thi

Hey Y'all, welcome to another Flipped Lifestyle Podcast Q&A w/ S&J! In the Flip Your Life Community, we hold a members-only Q&A twice a month where we answer online business questions of our members live on air! This podcast episode features some of the highlights of these recent live member Q&As to give you a glimpse of how we help the members of our community, and help you as well in online business by listening in. Today's Q&A highlights answer the following questions: Question One: "I am looking into buying a new website/business to enhance my current membership. I currently sell a meal plan subscription, this business would do the same, but add more products for me and help me to close the sale to those that may not have bought as the members could pick their own meals and won't have to have them chosen for them. It's a great enhancement to my site, but I don't know if I should spend the money or add the work, when I still have room for growth on my current program. Advice?" Question Two: "My content for my blog also needs to be designed nicely. I do not know how to do design. Write it then outsource?" Question Three: "Talk to me about Evergreen webinars and how I can use them to sell my membership and get more members. How would you suggest I incorporate an evergreen webinar into my current email nurturing sequence for people who have opted into one of my freebies? Or should I have it as a separate freebie, as a separate funnel on my website? Jocelyn, I'd love to hear how you successfully used evergreen webinars for Elementary Librarian " CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW!

In today's episode, we help Luke grow his audience to get more consistent membership sales. FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn: Hey, y'all. On today's podcast, we help Luke take his education business to the next level. Shane: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. Now we help other families do the same. Are you ready to Flip Your Life? All right. Let's get started. Shane: What's going on everybody? And welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. It is great to be back with you again today. We are super excited to have another member of the Flip Your Life community on today's podcast, on today's show. And we're going to celebrate some big wins with them and help them take their business to the next level. Our guest today is Flip Your Life community member Luke Reed. Luke, welcome to the show. Luke: Hey. Thanks for having me. Jocelyn: It is great to have you today, Luke. And we are super excited because just a few minutes ago before the show started, I heard some gentle mooing in the background. And we determined that this is the first ever cow appearance on the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. Shane: Yeah. [inaudible 00:01:08]. As we talk to Luke, and he is standing outside in a cow pasture apparently, right now. You're going to hear some mooing. Our dogs are in the house. They may come in and start barking at the cows mooing through the microphones. Jocelyn: And you know what, it kind of surprised it's taken us over 200 episodes to get cows on the podcast because- Shane: I know. Right? We lived out in the country. Jocelyn: Kentucky. Shane: We have a cow pasture. We should go out, Jocelyn, to the cow pasture next door. And maybe our cows could talk to Luke's cows. That would be amazing. Jocelyn: You can never have too many cows on a podcast. Right? Luke: Why don't we try it, see? Shane: Where are you and why do you have so many cows surrounding you right now? And should we be worried for your safety? Luke: No, I am perfectly safe. But I'm in the middle of a cattle ranch, so there are cows about 200 yards away from me right now. Shane: Nice. Okay. Well, if they charge, you let us know and we'll pause the recording. And we'll edit out any trampling that happens. Okay? Jocelyn: If this whole cow thing doesn't work out for you, we need to know a little bit more about what you're doing online, so tell us a little bit about you, your family, your background, and your online business. Luke: My online business started as many of your members, after listening to Pat Flynn and hearing your story on Pat Flynn's podcast. And I heard your story, and it just sounded so real. It really resonated with what I wanted to do and the freedom that I wanted to try and build for my family. I really took off after listening to that. I'm in the education business, so I was able to model a lot of what I've done after what you started with, with Elementary Librarian and US History Teachers. And it's gone pretty well. In, let's see, it's been just about exactly one year, I found a business partner to do the curriculum side of the business. And we built the website and put together the curriculum. Now we've got our first few sales already, so it's gone pretty quickly. Shane: Tell us a little bit about your family and where you're from. Where are you at? What is your background? Like you said, you're in the education field. Tell us a little bit more about that. Tell us about your wife, kids, stuff like that. Luke: Okay. I'm in Central California. I was born and raised in a little town smack dab in the middle of California. Grew up here and went to school here. Got my degree at the most recent University of California campus, which opened just as I finished my bachelor's, so I went on and got graduate degrees done. My wife is the reason that I'm now renting a house in the middle of a cattle ranch. Her father is a rancher, so she grew up raising cows, working cows. And it turns out that her dad and herself, they have a genetic mutation that causes heart failure, early onset heart failure, so part of my reason for wanting to do the online business is that. I want to be able to have freedom to spend more time as my wife goes through the health problems that she's dealing with. Luke: And we've got two little boys. Our older son is our biological son. And then our younger son is adopted, so we just recently finished that adoption process, so got two boys now. We really like the bigger family. Two kids is just so different than just one. Shane: Oh, yeah. My father-in-law always used to tell me, and I'm sure this is going to offend someone out there who only has one kid. My father-in-law used to tell me when we had our first kid. I was like, "Yeah. I'm a parent now. I'm a real grown up." Right? That's how I felt. He'd just laugh at me. And he would go, "You've got one kid. You're not a real parent until y

Hey Y'all, welcome to another Flipped Lifestyle Podcast Q&A w/ S&J! In the Flip Your Life Community, we hold a members-only Q&A twice a month where we answer online business questions of our members live on air! This podcast episode features some of the highlights of these recent live member Q&As to give you a glimpse of how we help the members of our community, and help you as well in online business by listening in. Today's Q&A highlights answer the following questions: Question One: "Question: What is the best way to do a beta launch for piano lessons? I plan to have around 6-8 lessons finished when I launch. Each lesson has multiple videos and worksheets? I'm thinking $19.99/month for Beta and $29.99/month for regular members. Then having a discounted annual price." Question Two: "I'm worried my niche is too vitamin-y...while sustainability in and around the home is important and something more people should be doing, it's not necessarily a requirement. How do I make a pitch that's more aspirin-y? - try to appeal to any money-saving tips (even if there's only a few of those) in order to draw people into the site/mindset?" Question Three: "I would like to begin adding products inside my membership. What is considered enough at the beginning phase because I do not want to overwhelm my members with too much! Also, I'd like to have beta testers, but I don't know how I should go about asking them to become testers. What are some offers that I could entice my subscribers to become testers? Thank you!" CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW!

This is a very special episode, we celebrate our FIVE YEAR anniversary of quitting our jobs to work on our online business full time. We asked our Flip Your Life Community a question: Imagine, Shane and Jocelyn are travelling back in time and are talking to the Shane and Jocelyn from 2013. (Stay with us...) They're standing in a room together and it's right before they quit their jobs. What would YOU want to ask the five year into the future S&J if you could be in that room? We answer those questions on today's episode. Question One: "How did you ignore the endless amounts of personal/household to do's and actually get work done?" Question Two: "How do you just go for it and know that there's not a steady paycheck coming anymore? It's so much easier in some regards to keep this as a side hustle while getting guaranteed pay from a company...How did you know it was time to QUIT?" Question Three: "With everything being so new to you at the time.... How did you determine what goals to set along the way? Did you find that your goals were too conservative, too crazy, focused on the wrong things?" Question Four: "What would you do different when starting from square one to bring in $$$ quicker?" Question Five: "What mindset did you each need to have to make the transition in the beginning? What mindset did you need right after you quit? What did you do immediately to develop systems, processes, etc to keep money rolling in and increasing over time?" Question Six: "What is the way you WISH or fantasize about REALLY quitting your job? Like do you wish you could have told them how horrible they were for keeping you from your kids and that you are going to do everything in your power to make sure no one is a teacher again and say I quit and throw glitter at them as you walk out." Question Seven: "What has the transition from a Full Time J-O-B cost you, that you never anticipated? Examples: physical, social, emotional, family, relationships, perspective? How did you cope with those consequences, or how are you accepting that?" Question Eight: "You know what I'd love to hear from 2013 S&J? Where they would hope to be in 5 years and how that compares with now. I think as I set goals it's be helpful to hear others' reflections of what they were and weren't able to accomplish and what they couldn't even imagine." Question Nine: "What did you say YES to in the beginning, that you would say NO to now?" Question Ten: "What TECH would you have spent more time adopting in the beginning to grow faster? What TECH would you get rid of now that you shouldn't have used in the first place?" Question Eleven: "What were the unexpected outcomes that 2013 S&J didn't even think would happen? What was the biggest worry/fear in 2013 that had absolutely zero impact on anything?" Question Twelve: "How do you continue to make progress and smash through roadblocks in business? What tips do you have to stay CONSISTENT and keep growing step by step?" Question Thirteen: "Did you worry about paying for insurance vs. your employer paying for it? What about retirement and all the tax stuff your job usually takes care of for you? Is it as scary as it sounds (asking for a friend ;))" Question Fourteen: "How has investing in coaching helped YOU TWO get to where you are? Looking back, do you think it's necessary for success?" Question Fifteen: "What is the biggest challenge you overcame, before making money and gaining traction?" CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW!

Hey Y'all, welcome to another Flipped Lifestyle Podcast Q&A w/ S&J! In the Flip Your Life Community, we hold a members-only Q&A twice a month where we answer online business questions of our members live on air! This podcast episode features some of the highlights of these recent live member Q&As to give you a glimpse of how we help the members of our community, and help you as well in online business by listening in. Today's Q&A highlights answer the following questions: Question One: "Hi guys! My question is whether or not I need to optimize all pages on my website for SEO--for example my landing pages, sales pages etc. I ensure that I optimize all blog posts etc, but Yoast SEO is telling me that my SEO and Readability is bad on these other pages, but I'm not sure if it matters." Question Two: "I had mentioned my use of a TOUR instead of a WEBINAR and it worked, and someone suggested I shared what I did. You agreed. However, I don't know where would be a good place to share because that particular thread was in the Success Stories and I am not sure how useful it would be there. So where would you suggest that i share that for more people to benefit from it?" Question Three: "I am about to take a break from promoting so I can focus on taking care of my students. After 3 months of HARD WORK with webinars, facebook ads, live events I am closing my summer with almost 100 members/students :) SUPER HAPPY!!! Now what? Should I focus on preparing for the next promotion? Focus on creating systems to scale more? Should I focus on webinars? or Free Facebook live? So much to do! Gracias" CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW!

In today's episode, we help Laura get new members and also retain current members in her education business. Jocelyn: Hey, y'all. In today's podcast, we help Laura take her online education business to the next level. Shane: Welcome to the Flip Lifestyle Podcast, where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sam. We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online, and now, we help other families do the same. Are you ready to flip your life? All right, let's get started. Shane: What's going on everybody, welcome back to the Flip Lifestyle Podcast, it is great to be back with you again. Today, super excited to be with another member of the Flip Your Life community. This is a great episode, because this is a success story episode. This is a story with someone who has flipped their life. We're talking to Flip Your Life member Laura Keybart today. Hey, Laura, welcome to the program. Laura: Hey, thanks for having me, today. Jocelyn: Yes, we are so excited to talk to you, especially with this awesome success story. We look for cool success stories to find people to be on the podcast. This one was one we did not want to miss, for sure. So before we jump into all that, we want to know a little bit about you, your family, and what you're doing online. Laura: Okay, sure. So I have a wonderful, supportive husband who has been behind me every step of the way that I've been going through this journey. I'm a step mom, I love dogs, I'm a distance runner, always running marathons, training for something. I've always got something on the calendar. We love traveling, we love planning vacations and different experiences around running events like those. So while I run while he watches football or visits a history museum. Shane: Me and your husband would get along, dude. Like, if he's watching football, I just went to Philadelphia, and I hit like five history museums. He should have went with me, I'm just saying. He should have went with me. Laura: Yeah, yeah. Well, when I ran the Washington DC, the Marine Corp marathon, he was hitting the museums and visiting those places. So yeah, it works out. Jocelyn: Cool, cool. Laura: So I just completed my 18th year in education as a teacher. I taught english/language arts, which is reading and writing for, oh gosh, 15, 16 years, grade 6th through 12. The past couple of years, I was an instructional coach working with teachers at a local school district. Most of that was great, I love teaching and working with kids and teachers. But, it's kind of the same thing that we all experience. We become fed up with terrible bosses, all the crazy workplace drama, mind numbing, ridiculous meetings and committees that go nowhere, and you start just kind of looking around. Laura: What else could I do? I went through that. Is there something remote I could do? Something online I could do? Maybe I could teach myself how to code and build websites? Which, that was a joke, I tried that for a month. That's not me. But what could I do so that I have a purpose, I can serve people, but I can also bring in an income that I can live on? What options are there? So I started listening to podcasts around setting goals, and working remotely, maybe even working for yourself. I would listen to all of these podcasts while I was doing my long training runs. That's about the time I stumbled upon your podcast, it was maybe around episode, I don't know, 40 or 50 or so, starting binge listening. I thought, okay, that makes sense. This whole thing makes sense now. I think maybe I could do that. Maybe one day, I can quit my job. That sounds crazy, but so was running 22.6 miles. That's ridiculous too. (Full transcript at flippedlifestyle.com) Links and resources mentioned on today's show: Laura's website Flip Your Life community 30-day trial Enjoy the podcast; we hope it inspires you to explore what's possible for your family! Get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! – https://flippedlifestyle.com/free You can connect with S&J on social media too!

Hey Y'all, welcome to another Flipped Lifestyle Podcast Q&A w/ S&J! In the Flip Your Life Community, we hold a members-only Q&A twice a month where we answer online business questions of our members live on air! This podcast episode features some of the highlights of these recent live member Q&As to give you a glimpse of how we help the members of our community, and help you as well in online business by listening in. Today's Q&A highlights answer the following questions: Question One: "What do you do if nobody buys during a sale ? I held a 24 hour flash sale last week and nobody bought . My back to school sale starts today and I am freaking out that no one is going to buy . I emailed my list of about 1600 people posted on Facebook page and my Facebook group Fingers crossed I am panicking for no reason" Question Two: "Should I do a google ad to my webinars? I've been doing them to my website." Question Three: "I've been doing Facebook advertising for 2.5 weeks now. After some trial and error I've been generating 40-50 landing page views a day with a 16-18% conversion rate. Today things hit a lull - have spent half my daily budget and only have 8 landing page views but a 40% conversion rate. While that conversion rate is amazing, I'm surprised there have been so few landing page fews. Is Facebook running out of people to show my ad to? FB says my audience is 'fairly broad' but it shows only 13,000 in the audience. I know the training says my audience should be bigger but this is what I've been able to come up with so far with children/youth/worship pastors and a couple of related ministry magazines. Is it possible to exhaust your audience reach?" CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW!