Flipped Lifestyle™ Podcast

In today's episode, we help Carla and Al grow their fitness membership website You Will Learn Why a free consultation may make a bad lead magnet Shane's tips for running facebook ads and why frequency is something people always get wrong! How working together as a couple can be awesome and challenging at the same time FULL TRANSCRIPT Jocelyn Sams: Hey y'all, on today's podcast we help Carla and Al take their fitness 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. What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast, great to be back with you again today. Super excited to welcome another member of theFlipped Your Life community and, in fact, we've got two members on today. We've got a couple with us to take their online business to the next level, it's Carla and Al. Carla, Al, welcome to the show. Carla: [00:00:30] Hey. Alan: Hey. Carla: Thank you for having us. Jocelyn Sams: All right, guys, we are excited to talk to you today. We have actually talked to you before on a workshop that we have done, so that is very exciting. You guys are taking massive action. Shane Sams: Massive action. That's why you're on the show, by the way, that's why you got the invite, because we're like, every day Jocelyn goes, "Have you seen this Carla and Al? They are posting every day. They are success stories all the time, they're killing it. Let's go. Let's talk to them." Jocelyn Sams: [00:01:00] Yeah, and a lot of people, they think that we don't come in the community or whatever, but we do. And we look to see who's taking action and who's posting regularly and those success stories and that's how you guys got here today because I said, "These guys are action takers and we want to talk to them." So, we are glad you're here today. Carla: Awesome. Alan: Awesome. Carla: Well, we wouldn't be having all those success stories if we hadn't of found you all. And we'll get into it a little later, I know, but part of the reason why I've been posting so many of those success stories is just because of you all and just pushing us to do more. Jocelyn Sams: [00:01:30] Love it. Shane Sams: That's our job. Push people off a cliff, baby, and I taught you to shoot down on your way. Right? Jocelyn Sams: You may or may not have a parachute. You know, whatever. Shane Sams: That's right but whatever. It doesn't matter. Jocelyn Sams: All right, well let's jump into a little bit about you guys. Our audience would love to know a little bit more about you, your background, and what you're doing online. Carla: [00:02:00] Well, it's the both of us but it started out just being me at first and I honestly, I had a daycare for 20 years. A very successful, in-home daycare, a waiting list, you know. There was nothing to complain about in that business at all other than the fact that I was home-bound all the time. So, even though I was able to be here with our son when he was younger at home, once he got to school, I couldn't be involved in school and all of those things because I had to take care of everybody else's kids. And then transitioned out of daycare when I was going into ministry, I was actually, my degrees are in Christian ministry and Biblical studies but then I was going on to seminary and that was going to require daytime classes out of the city, so I was going to have to travel to go. So transitioned out of daycare thinking that I was going to be going into full-time ministry in a local church. Carla: And while I was in school, I ended up, I decided, "I need to lose this weight." I had gained a bunch of weight in school with studying and snacking while I was studying and it's lik...

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: "After a bit of a break, I'm getting ready to promote and launch the beta version of my membership at 15/month (my goal is to have it launched by Nashville)! How long of a time or how many members should I have in my first beta group before I move to the next group, or would it no longer be a beta group after the first round of members? Would it make sense for the next group to stay at the next price point, or should I start playing with price with the second group in?" Question Two: "My website has had the white screen of death for two days. I've had people working on it who have discovered I have not been hacked (yaaa!) but the problem is my theme. Until I figure out a solution, it's been switched over to Twenty Twelve. But, ALL of my pages are listed at the top of my home page! Even ones I don't want seen. What should I do to hide them until the theme issue gets resolved?" Question Three: "I have a new site setup on Wordpress and Genesis Framework. Is this all I need? After that is there a basic tools list I'm not finding? I've been aiming at affiliate marketing but am discovering I need thousands of page views each day for that to work." CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! You can connect with S&J on social media too! Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post.

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 Shane and Jocelyn! I have completed: - my first month of lesson plans (in the members forum) - completed building my website - I have a opt-in lead magnet on my homepage with thrive leads - I have created the first few emails for my autoresponders - I have completed the sales page, options page, order page, and thank you page I am now working on the facebook ads in the blueprint. I don't have anyone on my email list and do not have any members. What is the next step to launch? I am ready and want to launch this week!" Question Two: "I have a developer working on my site and he told me it would be done by the end of July. I told my email list the price would be going up when the new site is ready (that was the last week of July). Now my developer needs until the end of August. I already sent out that one price increase email. Now I don't know if I should increase my price before the new site (with new capabilities) is up or wait and resend another price increase email when it's ready. Also, this is my busy Back to school season, so not sure what to do." Question Three: "I feel like I'm riding a yo-yo right now between working in the business and working on the business. I feels like I go one month when we are super productive doing what we need to do to bring members in and then as a result the next month I'm covered with getting those new members off to an excellent start. Any tips on how to figure out how we can be consistent with both all of the time?" CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! You can connect with S&J on social media too! Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post.

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 get demotivated by success. Is that weird? What do I do with that? I feel overwhelmed about what to do next now that I have members in my site other than creating new course modules. The other is that, over the years, I've suffered from a drop-off in motivation when I hit a new peak - almost like I've convinced myself that the challenge is gone because I can see that I'm actually capable of achieving my goal. I know intellectually that that's stupid because I've hit step 1 of like step 10 in my long-term goal, but I have trouble using long-term goals as motivation and experience a motivation dip after I accomplish something good." Question Two: "I feel like I am dealing with an emotional rollercoaster right now. I have an new amazing website, my course creation is moving along nicely and I have my new member site ready to open. I am now ready to launch my membership site and, I realised yesterday that I am fighting a mental block. I am fighting fear that I am going to spend a lot of money on ad's for my webinar and no one will attend. I have a thriving off line business but this is my first time to take it online. Just need help battling the mind." Question Three: "Can you talk a little bit about how you move current monthly members to annual members? I am curious about timing and I'm not sure if I should do this with my technology limits. I believe that with ThriveCart I would need to cancel their current membership and have them re sign up as an annual. Any ideas?" CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! You can connect with S&J on social media too! Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post.

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: "Thinking about doing an evergreen webinar, does it have to be recorded live the first time and then turned into the "evergreen" sequence?" Question Two: "What are the kids up to? Just wondering how life looks when you're working at home with kids?" Question Three: "I'm considering offering a one month free option like you do. I'm thinking, because my topic handles such deep emotional issues (such as how they have learned to cope with past abuse or emotional neglect), it would provide an opportunity for potential members to feel more confident that they can trust me and the group. Does this make sense as a way to go? Are there other things I should consider before throwing this out to my audience?" CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! You can connect with S&J on social media too! Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post.

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: "Shane - I just read your post about the Mastermind group you're part of. Can you talk a bit about how it's structured and functions? How often do you meet up? Do you focus on 1 person each time, etc? How do you hold everyone accountable... Thank you!" Question Two: "Still working on my product, a business class for birth professionals. All about how to setup a small business and how to do basic accounting and bookkeeping. Any good domain name ideas?" Question Three: "How much time should I wait between product launches? I just launched my first product (mommy bounce back program)—it's only sold 4 :( but I have ideas to do a program for seniors and then another product to supplement my brick and mortar business—so just power yoga you can do at home. The question is I don't know if I should even bother getting those videos recorded, or if I should double down on the marketing. (I'm currently spending about $10/day on FB ads targeting my audience of around 4K and a look alike audience around the U.S.)." CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! You can connect with S&J on social media too! Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post.

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: "Here's my questions... I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed at the moment. I have a LOT going on right now with my business. I'm excited, nervous, and stressed all at once. A lot of stuff is about to take off. I'm piloting a new in-person workshop for nurses this weekend (it's sold out!), and I'll be rolling it out to my Instructors next year. My childbirth class has 30 Instructors signed up to train to teach it in November. I need to finish my book before Nashville, too. I just need some words of encouragement." Question Two: "Hi Guys ... I finished my product revision and bonuses and started advertising on Facebook over the weekend. I'm selling a Christmas play script and four bonuses for $97. I'm targeting worship pastors and children's pastors right now - those were the only groups I could find in the FB audience. So far, I've spent $15.00 and have had 31 clicks to my website with three of those people submitting their email address to read the script. So far no sales, but I'm not surprised as it often takes time to make a decision to choose a Christmas play script and it often has to go through committees or pastoral approval. (I am running a drip campaign to follow-up with them.) My question is this: so far, each script download has costs me $5.00. Is that normal? No idea what my actual cost per lead will cost until people start buying. Maybe it's too early to know whether or not the $5.00 per lead is worth it?" Question Three: "I was recently approached by a publisher about writing and publishing a cookbook the traditional route. The publisher is distributed by a large, familiar company, so I'd have the opportunity to be in all of the bookstores, big box stores, etc. On one hand, I like the idea, because it gets me out in front of a different audience and is a way to get my name out there and give me even more authority than I already have. On the other hand, it's a ton of work, for sometimes little pay (depending on the advance that is negotiated and how long it takes you to start earning royalties) and I've heard that in many cases all that you ever end up getting paid, is the advance. Do you have any advice for me?" CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! You can connect with S&J on social media too! Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post.

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 keep hearing people talk about minimum viable product. What does that mean and exactly how minimal are we talking?" Question Two: "I have grown my email group to 3000 and my Facebook group to 12000. You have inspired me to create a membership site, I have one paid course. Do I include it in my membership? And if my lead magnet is a five day email course, how do I send an email nurturing sequence if they're already being hit with 5 days of emails?" Question Three: "I have gone through most of the training videos, and I love them. I am launching my membership site for parents of children with Autism who are looking for daily activities they can do with their children at home and behavioral tips to help manage their children's behavior. I currently have two small products and one course that I sell to my list of about 1500 people regularly. I was thinking of creating one month of lesson plans and selling it as a one-off product, since my list is used to this, and then launching my membership at the same time. I have two questions: Should I launch one month of lesson plans first and then offer the membership OR should I launch it at the same time? Next, how much should I charge? CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! You can connect with S&J on social media too! Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post.

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: "One of the things that has been holding me back is concern about legal issues. So, I have two parts to this question: 1. How do you protect yourself from concerns over copyright issues? If a course offers advice that is similar to other information someone puts out in a book, for instance. Can the person sue you for copyright infringement? I'm obviously not copying anyone else, but there are times where my advice may parallel someone else's advice. So, how similar is too similar? 2. Also, I have trademarked my business name and submitted my ebook for copyright, and I'm wondering what other legal issues I may need to consider." Question Two: "I was wondering if you could delve into the topic of creating urgency with your offer versus always being open? I know you guys advised me last time to become prolific with my webinars and one-dollar-trials, but there's so much emphasis on creating urgency as a means of pushing potential members through the door and converting them to paying customers. It almost sounds like becoming prolific with my webinars and creating urgency are two conflicting strategies and I need to choose one over the other. How does one figure out the right strategy for them and rectify these two seemingly important yet conflicting strategies" Question Three: "The last two months, none of my almost 30 members have attended my monthly Q&A member calls. I'm going to email my members and ask what they want the call to look like or if it's just a scheduling issue. Do you have advice on ways I could structure the call? I did it similar to how you have yours set up, but in Zoom. I wanted to give them some ideas of what it could look like in order to get them thinking about what they want." CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! You can connect with S&J on social media too! Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post.

In today's episode, we help our Flip Your Life member Nicola to refine her message and get more website traffic. You may remember Nicola from Episode 160 of the podcast! Her online business, Forever Young Autobiographies, focuses on helping folks write their life story, get it self-published and preserve their key memories to pass on to the next generation. Having braved Facebook live for the first time Nicola is looking at maximising the impact her content is having. She wants more traffic to her website and to build her email list faster. In this episode Shane and Jocelyn help Nicola strategise ways to refine the message on her website and figure out how she can get more visitors. You Will Learn How we all struggle with technical issues and what we can do to move past it How laying out a blog is just like laying out a newspaper! Tips for what matters the most on your website, especially that one sentence at the top Learn why you aren't getting as much traffic to your website as you would like How to get prolific with your content Don't forget to look out for the "Jocelyn bomb" in this episode! Links and resources mentioned on today's show: Nicola'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! Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post. See y'all next week!

"Here's three lessons I leaned from crashing and wrecking my hundred thousand dollar car." In today's episode, Shane talks about his crazy car wreck story that happened this week. Find out the three lessons that Shane learned from crashing and wrecking a hundred thousand dollar car. Learn why life is not what happens to you, it's how you deal with it. Hear how realising that bad things are going to happen to all of us can help you mitigate the potential for disasters. Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post. CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! You can connect with S&J on social media too!

"If I'm being really honest, the thought of hanging out with over 100 of our members for 3 days makes me extremely excited and...extremely nervous." In today's episode, Jocelyn talks about a mindset issue she is having with the upcoming FYL Live Nashville event. Jocelyn talks about her biggest fears for hosting a live event. Hear what Jocelyn's mindset coach suggested will help her move past those fears. Learn why she may disappear from time to time! Discover why Jocelyn says that "I like to think of Shane as the Salt and I'm more the Pepper!" Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post. CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! 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: "I don't have a lot of spare cash to invest in traffic (like Facebook Ads) for my online business. How can I grow my business without spending lots of money on paid ads?" Question Two: "Should I stop running Facebook "like" ads?" Question Three: "How often should I be emailing my list? I'm a little confused on the best strategy to convert email subscribers into members." CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! You can connect with S&J on social media too! Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post.

In today's episode, we help our Flip Your Life members Sarah and Ryan push past a plateau with their membership. Sarah and Ryan are a couple who've been married for 22 years and have 7 kids (who she home schools)! A few years ago Sarah started a blog to share their experiences, sidetrackedsarah.com and now she and Ryan run a successful membership website. They are currently dealing with hitting a plateau in their membership and aren't sure how to boost their numbers. In this episode Shane and Jocelyn help them strategise ways to take their membership to the next level. You Will Learn How to push past a membership plateau when you feel stuck at a certain number of members How to more effectively communicate your value to your customers to improve membership sales and retention How to tell if you have a marketing problem or a content problem How to manage a price increase and push past the fear of emailing your list too often How to plan out your membership promotions for each month Links and resources mentioned on today's show: Sarah's website Flip Your Life community 30-day trial Success Story of the Week: Today's success story is from Stephanie. Stephanie says, "I'm excited to share I shipped my first subscriptions out today to my first 5 subscribers! I did a Facebook live about it, which was about 20 seconds, and it's getting great traction so WIN-WIN! Getting this business - an online food subscription business - up and running has required a LOT from the perspective of certifications, inspections, insurance, contracts, you name it. Plus the usual marketing and back-end technical stuff. I'm happy with where I'm at and have such a clear picture for what's next. I'm most excited to start get amp-up with creating content and MARKETING more heavily! Thanks to everyone here and S&J for the content. Shane said something in one of the master classes about "do AAA, BBB, CCC; not ABC, ABC, ABC" and that has been what I've aligned to over the last month and it's really paid off. I was spreading myself to thin to really make headway and now I'm in a great position to make this business pay off." Stephanie, we are proud of you! We would love to help YOU write the success story for your online business, learn how https://flippedlifestyle.com/free Can't Miss Moment: Today's Can't Miss Moment is planning our live event in Nashville, Tennessee with our live event co-ordinator. The very first FL live event was planned entirely by Jocelyn! This time we are grateful to have our live event coordinator handle all of the details and make sure the event goes off without a hitch! We have a few tickets remaining if you would like to join us in Nashville. Head to flippedlifestyle.com/nashville for more details. 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! Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post. See y'all next week!

In today's episode, we help our Flip Your Life member Allison Lopez. Allison has a career in education as a teacher, and an instructional tech coach as well. She also has experience working in IT consulting before. She had transitioned from one career into a teaching career because that is where her real passion lies. Having this experience, Allison wants to help other people make a career transition into teaching based on her knowledge and experience of the process. This is why she created her website, seconcareerteachers.com. She is currently dealing with some challenges to move her online business forward like time management, mindset issues, and specifically finding the right audience for her niche. Join us in this episode as we help Allison with strategic ways to find her perfect avatar by putting herself in their shoes to find out what they are looking for and where they hang out. [Tweet "If you've done it, and someone else hasn't done it, you are an expert and you can help them"] [Tweet "If you're finding excuses about something, then it's really not that important to you."] You Will Learn How to effectively find your audience in places where they hang out How to use strategic keyword research to find what your avatar is looking for How to find time to work on your online business How important your "WHY" is to help you focus on moving forward in your online business The importance of dealing with mindset issues first before anything else Links and resources mentioned on today's show: Allison's website Flip Your Life community 30-day trial Success Story of the Week: Today's success story is from Melissa. Melissa says, "I would never talk to someone the way I talk to myself. Over the past two weeks, I've been busy with my family and many fun end of the year activities. Late at night I'd crawl into bed with heavy eyelids and a battered spirit. I tried, but I just couldn't get it all done for my website. There weren't enough hours of the day, and I got really down on myself. I found myself talk being some of the most discouraging conversations I've ever heard, and it was all in my own head. Never, not ever would I speak such defeating statements to a fellow entrepreneur. I recall hearing Shane and Jocelyn speak of this and suddenly I knew, truly knew what they had meant. I can see where a person might want to throw in the towel, but sometimes life is just that busy. Step 1 - sometimes life is just going to get in the way Step 2 - forgive those moments of self sabotage. Instead, i engaged in my family time festivities and thoroughly enjoyed those can't miss moments. Yay for me! Now Step 3 - back to work." Melissa, we are so proud of you! This mindset shift is so important for anyone who is starting a business. You can't let negative talk get in your way, and I'm so proud of you for recognizing it and changing that pattern. We would love to help you write the success story for your online business. At the end of today's show, head over to flippedlifestyle.com/flipyourlife where you can learn more about building and growing a successful online business with the help of our Flip Your Life community. Can't Miss Moment: Today's Can't Miss Moment is a final trip to Toys R Us. Most of you know that Toys R Us is in the process of closing all of their stores. Shane had the opportunity to take the kids to Toys R Us one last time because who wants to miss Toys R Us closing? The kids got to buy one final toy, and that was a good time. 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! Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family!

"How can I be sure my idea is going to work?" In today's episode, Shane talks about finalizing your online business idea -- overcoming any fears, obstacles, or doubts about your idea. Your business cannot go forward until your idea is finalized. You might have an idea figured out, and are looking for your next idea. You might have too many ideas and could not decide which one to commit to. You might have external factors, fears, or obstacles that prevent you from deciding on an idea. Shane talks about the reasons that get you stuck when deciding on an idea, and the steps to take to overcome these obstacles and move forward in your online business. You can also watch this episode on our YouTube channel: FL 222 - How To Finalize your Business Idea Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post. CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! 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: From Eva: "There are some loose screws with my sales funnel and I'm hoping you could pinpoint what might need improving. I'm feeling very stuck with my membership and not sure how to move forward and grow it further. My site has tons of opt-in opportunities offering freebies. I have an active Facebook and Instagram group with lots of followers. I have an email list of over 1,700 subscribers. I have an automated email nurturing sequence for any new subscriber. I've been emailing my list every 2-3 days and often posting the email copy on my social media platforms, each of those emails and posts has a pitch about my membership somewhere. I started doing keyword research to properly name and describe my YouTube videos and blog articles. I do a Facebook Live every Friday, answering one mom's question posted in the FB group- I always promote my membership on the FB live as well. I then upload the video to YouTube, create a blog post out of it with freebie opt-ins and send it to my email list and social media following. I've been doing monthly webinars on Facebook Live, promoting a $1 trial for 5 days of my membership, where I get anywhere from 5-15 people opt-in for the trial, and half of those people usually stick around for at least a month. The vast majority of my members come from the $1 trials. Almost every time I post in my members-only Facebook community, I remind them about the quarterly and annual membership options. So as you can see, I'm really doing a lot here but can't seem to figure out where the funnel is breaking down! Please help. From Janet: "Question about sales pages. How long does it need to be? I've seen many that have tons of copy, testimonials, etc. It a super long sales page more effective than a shorter one?" You can also watch this episode on our YouTube channel: FL 221 - Sales Funnels + Sales Pages + Sales Chain CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! You can connect with S&J on social media too! Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post.

Have you ever thought, "There's gotta be more to life than this." There's gotta be more to life than just working and getting that next paycheck. There's gotta be more to life than just grinding your days away for the benefit of someone else. There's gotta be more to life than just sticking through and doing all of these mundane routines. If you have, then you are correct. There really is more to life than just that. We believe that EVERYONE HAS A CALLING, a purpose, and we want you to believe in your purpose too! YOU can change your fate. YOU decide what to do. Open yourself up to all the amazing possibilities because without knowing and understanding these possibilities, you can't act on them. When you do not act, you stay stuck where you are, always wondering what "more" feels like. Find the courage to put yourself out there, follow that tug towards your life's purpose, towards something amazing -- something only YOU can do BECAUSE you are your own person, and no one else can ever be YOU. Whether it be to create, to fix, to teach, to lead, or to listen… We are ALL here to make a difference in the world, and that won't happen unless you break free from your hesitations, the doubts, and the fears. To help you find the inspiration to take your next step is an amazing woman who has gone through and has overcome so many struggles in order to pursue and act on her possibilities. Joining us today is Flip Your Life community member, Wendy Zanders. [Tweet ""We have got to do something different in order to start living a life of purpose." - Wendy"] Wendy is the wearer of many, many hats. She is a wife, mother, Ex-Unit Supply Specialist and Unit Armorer in the United States Army, Executive Assistant and Project Manager, who was diagnosed with ADD in her mid-thirties after recognizing some of the symptoms from her son's ADHD assessment form. From an outsider's perspective, this highly driven, bubbly and resilient individual, is living what most people would call "a good life". But after an unexpected loss in the family, she fell into a deep depression and all of a sudden everything became a blur. It took a while for her to recognize the symptoms, but she knew something was off. She knew she needed help, so she sought it. The healing process wasn't easy, the battle felt long and hard, but she did it. Nothing is going to hold her down, nothing will dim her light. Wendy wanted to get her life back on track, she made a choice to do everything to make that happen. Things started to fall into place, she learned so many things, and she eventually found her calling as a Professional Home Organizer, and this was how FunctionalOrganizingwithWendy.com was born. Her mission is to share her functional organizing strategies with professional women struggling with ADD, depression, and anxiety so they can enjoy being with their family, love their homes and their careers -- helping them collect memories and not things. Her online business journey has just begun, so we'll be helping her take her online business to the next level by sharing our insight on how to beat imposter syndrome, and how she can confidently embody her brand. We enjoyed recording this interview and we're sure you will too! [Tweet ""Just put yourself out there and stop hesitating." - Jocelyn"] [Tweet ""Don't be afraid to be the leader your people need." - Jocelyn"] You will learn: How to transition your "real world" business online Advertising and marketing concepts How to deal and overcome "Imposter Syndrome" Being and building your brand Plus so much more! [Tweet ""If you're not aware of the possibilities, you can't act on the possibilities." - Shane"] [Tweet ""It's going to take a lot of guts to do what you're going to do next." - Shane"] Links and resources mentioned on today's show: Wendy's website Flip Your Life community 30-day trial

Sometimes people think that they are unmotivated, when in reality they've never really defined a meaningful end goal for what they're doing." Today's episode answers a question from Jonas: How do you motivate yourself to produce content when you are brand new and no money is coming in yet?" In this episode, Jocelyn talks about the secret of motivation, the type of motivation that could get you going, and how to stay motivated so you can Flip You Life. You can also check the video of this episode on YouTube here: FL 219 - How to find motivation Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post. CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! You can connect with S&J on social media too!

Progress is better than perfection... And ANYTHING is better than NOTHING. In today's episode, listen how these words of wisdom was demonstrated and experienced by Shane in a pretty drastic situation (hint: almost getting hit by lightning?) in his quest to improve his stand up paddle boarding. You'll have to hear it for yourself! 2 Facts of Life: The day ain't over It's a new day The second part of today's episode talks about an important mindset to have when things don't necessarily follow your set schedule or plan. Real life things can derail us sometimes, but having the right mindset and optimism can get us back on track. Let today's episode motivate and inspire you, to help you Flip Your Life! You can also watch this episode on our YouTube channel: FL 218 - Progress is better than perfection + The day ain't over Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post. CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! 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: My product is priced way higher than my competitors' ($39/month, $300/year), but as a result I'm not getting sales. I ran a massive discount for this week only to match my competitors' prices ($9/m, $99/y) and am happy I got a bit more sales (7 monthly, 7 yearly sales at it's almost the end of discount week), but going forward plan to continue selling at my high price, but with the $1 dollar trial for 2 weeks. What can I do to convince people that my membership has value compared to my competitors'? It's terrible not getting sales for weeks at a time because of the high price, and significant number of people have dropped out after the 2 week trial because of financial reasons. And because my niche is on a volunteer basis, people do cancel their memberships because of reasons like "lack of time" when they stop serving in church for the season. - Sandra I have a question about retaining my monthly members and upgrading them to a quarterly or annual membership. As of now, I've managed to upsell a handful of my members to an annual membership, but for the most part, most members leave after 1-2 months when their baby or toddler is sleeping beautifully thanks to my program! I've been trying to communicate the message that babies are always going through transitions, milestones and regressions- and therefore, you should upgrade your membership so that you know what to do during every single change and keep your little one's sleep in tact. However, for the most part, the message falls on deaf ears. I really tried to increase the amount of times I repeated this message. It just seems to be a really tough message to get across. One idea I had was to send out a monthly newsletter summarizing what they can expect of their baby at that age in the sleep department, and what potential issues they can potentially expect down the road (hint hint- don't cancel!) Any other concrete advice or ideas? - Eva You can also watch this episode on our YouTube channel: FL 217 - Offer + Pricing + Internal & External Marketing (Q&A w/ S+J) CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! You can connect with S&J on social media too! Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post.

Are you lacking the confidence to make sales because your email list is small? Maybe you're contemplating if people would even pay for your digital product? Put yourself in the shoes of the customer for a second and ask yourself: When you purchase something online, do you know what you're really paying for? "Well, I bought this because I need to do this… or that…" Is that really the ONLY reason behind the purchase? Sometimes people confuse the real selling point of a digital product as just the product itself. Yes, they need your product to do this and that, but your digital product delivers something more than what that product description is saying… A product allows your customer to gain: The time to do the things they want. Convenience or ease of use. Confidence and support. Peace of mind and leadership. Your product or what you're creating / what you're about to create, is a part of a greater purpose, which is why you should step up and share this with others who need it to improve their quality of life. Your email list, no matter how small, have people who believe in you and the results your product will deliver. They look to you for guidance, so be confident with your role as the leader because YOU do have what it takes and YOU can help so many by leading them towards their next step. And this is why you can still make big sales even if you have a small email list! So, join us this week as we help FYL community moderator, Brad May, get his acoustic guitar business to the next level! Flip Your Life. [Tweet "So many times, we get so scared to do something, and when we finally do it we're like, "Oh, well, that wasn't so bad!" - Jocelyn"] [Tweet "You don't sell them what you teach, it's something bigger than that, what you're selling are results! - Shane"] [Tweet "Looking around, trying to do what everyone else is doing can get you in trouble sometimes. - Jocelyn"] You Will Learn: Why your digital product is more than just a product How to find the time to consistently work on your business How to stay on the same page with your spouse The advantages of focusing on one priority at a time Plus so much more! [Tweet "Focus on the 3 places you can make a difference so that you can build your business. - Shane"] [Tweet "You have to decide what's the best approach for YOU. - Jocelyn"] [Tweet "If you don't want to take a big risk, then take a few small ones until they add up to something huge. - Shane"] Links and resources mentioned on today's show: Brad's website UseLoom Bonjoro FYL Community: 30-Day Free Trial Success Story of the Week: Today's Can't Miss Moment is from Brad, and Brad sold his e-book while he was asleep. His message says, "This morning I woke up to a sale. I've been pressed for time lately to work on my online business, but I was inspired by Shane on one of the member calls to email my list more. So I did. I also published a blog post last night. I've been trying to force myself to take action, like putting my first e-book up for sale even though I'm not finished with it yet. Now that I've sold it, that will motivate me, even more, to get it done. Also, I only have 13 people on my list. It feels good to see things progressing. Thanks to the Flip Your Life community and S&J for all you have done to help me make progress." You are so welcome, Brad! We're so happy to have you, and what Brad is talking about is that we have a bi-monthly member call every month, where we get on live and he answer your questions about online business. It's for members only. We do it twice every month and we gave him some advice. He took action on it and he made sales. So what are you waiting for, y'all? Jump in our community! Brad's website: http://acousticworshiper.com/ Note: Yes, this is the same Brad on this week's show! ;-) We would love to help you write the success story for your online...

People don't want you to do something because they're too sacred to do it (themselves) sometimes." In today's episode, Jocelyn talks about how to explain your business success to family and friends without alienating them, and how to deal with the ones that are negative towards your success in what you do. Flip Lifestyle Podcast listener asks: How do you explain your business success to family and friends without alienating them?" You can also check the video of this episode on YouTube here: FL 215 - How to explain your business success to family and friends without alienating them Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post. CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! You can connect with S&J on social media too!

What do you do when you don't get those miracle mornings? Sometimes life gets in the way and derails us from starting our well-planned day perfectly, and there's nothing we can do about it. What should we do when that happens? Tune in on today's episode where Shane talks about a very important skill entrepreneurs (or anyone else) should have to deal with situations like this. You can also watch this episode on our YouTube channel: FL 214 - The most important thing an entrepreneur needs to succeed Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post. CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! 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: I would love your thoughts on the optimal content plan for starting out. - Jennifer Do you have a course or can guide me to learn how to make a cover template/thumbnail for my YouTube videos (like you have)? And if there is something else I should be doing that can be automated each time I upload my daily videos? I have already been using the free version of Tube Buddy. - Cynthia I need to make videos -- both lectures & labs -- where? Thinking about putting up a whiteboard in my very cluttered office and just showing me and the whiteboard. Thoughts? - Monte I am actually encouraging my 13 year old to start a YouTube channel, any tips on how to name a channel and how to title the video? This will help me too. - Maribel I am reactivating a site that has not been updated in a few years, and am ready to get it up and going... I stopped right before really doing any promotion. What would you recommend using to deliver my content (video courses)? I was using Zippy Courses Plugin, but that no longer is being updated, so I need to change those video's over. And I have a free video course for my lead magnet as well... would you do that as an email course? Or use some kind of course platform? - Stephanie My plan is to do 2 month-long series over the summer on 2 things specific to my niche. I'm wondering, how do you feel about series of episodes dedicated to one subject? In this case July will be about "how to handle weeknight chaos with little kids" and August I'm doing a month long Back-to-School Boot Camp. July is typically a pretty slow month in my niche, I thought the weeknight chaos thing would be interesting for them, but I am wondering if 4-5 shows on one subject is too many shows? - Karen You can also watch this episode on our YouTube channel: FL 213 - Content + YouTube + Holidays! (Q&A w/ S+J) CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! You can connect with S&J on social media too! Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post.

Our guest this week is someone who wants to help new and aspiring composers succeed in the video game industry, the man behind Video Game Music Academy, Daniel Hulsman. Daniel is a 33-year-old father of 2, living in Boston with a huge passion for music. He received his Music Education degree from the University of Delaware, but due to the economic crash, (Hint: Most art-focused people's careers suffered) he had to shift careers and find a job that can support his family. He had worked for several corporations that allowed him to learn more about marketing and management, which he has found useful when he started building his own website: VGMacademy.com Daniel currently serves a public charter school as a Music Teacher for the past 4 years, all while managing a choir that records professional video game soundtracks twice a year. (Recording professional video game soundtracks? Oh, you mean, THE COOLEST JOB EVER?!) Ultimately, his goal is to create a stable, recurring stream of income online so that he can focus on his family, especially since his children are both still very young. But here's the thing, his website isn't gaining as much traction, and sales are mostly from selling semi-related products -- y'all know how frustrating that can be, right? So what does he do? Daniel sends us some hater-ade, a long email detailing his doubts, frustrations and surprisingly his hope that maybe - just maybe - we could help him become a successful online entrepreneur too! We can tell a troll from a critic, and this man was no troll, he really wanted something better for his family's future. How would you respond to someone with this sentiment? Well, look no further because this week's episode is all about how YOU can turn a critic into a customer, why you are not for everyone and why that's okay, and how to dispel that voice saying you are not expert enough. This podcast interview is PUMPED y'all! So much action, insight and real-life struggles, it's far too good to miss! ;-) [Tweet ""The next step is always the most frustrating." - Shane"] [Tweet ""You are not for everyone, so find the people who fit your mission." - Jocelyn"] [Tweet ""Capitalize on the things you already know versus starting from scratch." - Shane"] [Tweet ""Your struggles are just as valuable as someone who's got it all figured out." - Shane"] You Will Learn: The difference between a troll and a critic How to turn a critic into a customer Are you expert enough to lead? Understanding your mission online Plus so much more! [Tweet ""Being part of a community bring out your strengths & helps make up for your weaknesses." - Jocelyn"] [Tweet ""Focus on the things you can solve, instead of getting bogged down by the things you can't." - Shane"] [Tweet ""Do not be selfish with your gifts; your gifts are meant to be shared with others." - Jocelyn"] [Tweet ""Giving people the opportunity to change their lives, gives them a chance to succeed." - Shane"] Links and resources mentioned on today's show: Daniel's website FYL community FL 200 - Goodbye Grant Baldwin: The Speaker Lab 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! Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post. See y'all next week! Can't listen to the podcast right now? Check out the transcript below. Jocelyn: Hey, y'all! On today's podcast, we help Daniel decide if he's expert enough to start his online business.

If it is important to you, you'll find a way. If not, you'll find an excuse." In today's episode, Jocelyn talks about what you should do if you're having trouble finding time to work on your online business. Flip Your Life Community member Fatima asks: How do you manage your time with everything else going on?" You can also check the video of this episode on YouTube here: How to start a business when you don't have time CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! You can connect with S&J on social media too!

How much do you charge or ask for the value of what you actually provide? Are you selling yourself short? Your digital products might be undervalued by the price you are charging. YOU might be undervaluing yourself. What are you really worth? A successful life doesn't happen by accident! If you want to make great things happen, you have to do these 3 things. Listen in on today's episode to learn how successful people think, take action and achieve great things! You can also watch this episode on our YouTube channel: FL 210 - What Are You Really Worth? + 3 Tips for a Successful Life Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post. CLICK HERE to get your FREE 30-DAY Membership in the Flip Your Life Community NOW! 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: Should I pre-sell a membership before membership area is ready/setup with "special pricing"? Or just launch and say that things are being added daily? (It is a teacher/education niche) - Janet I've gotten a bit behind in promotion of my Launch - Online Training Workshop - promotion. It's scheduled for 6/24, I was planning on doing the 2weeks of promo email, Facebook ads and Google ads. I'm concerned about delaying the launch versus giving enough time for promotion. What do you think would be best? - Jennifer I've written about 75% of my book. I'm going to self-publish. What would a realistic timeline be to complete a book, tweak it and get it ready, and get it out to the public? Is January 2019 a good deadline to get it on Amazon and being sold? - Rebecca Can you talk about how I should think about YouTube for: YouTube Lives, my Launch Webinar (embedded into a LeadPage), monthly Member Calls. Do I used the same channel profile for all of those? For YouTube Lives, do I use a "reusable stream key" link, so I can use the same one each time? Do you use an encoder? - Jennifer Shane, you mentioned Dan Kennedy's quote that it's easier to find new audience than to write a new speech when it comes to doing weekly webinars. How does it work if we want to do weekly webinars on the same topic on YouTube Live though? Say you guys do "How to start an Internet Business" webinar every week. It'll be the same content every week! I know the value is in the interaction and Q&A, but why would people still bother to sign up for the next run of the same-titled webinar if they could just watch the replay and learn the contents? Wouldn't this be a case where it might be necessary to "write a new speech"? Also, there's 1 thing I don't get. I do YouTube Lives for my webinar. I'll announce when my webinar will be (say, coming Monday 9am) but anyone could watch the webinar without needing to opt in, since it will be available for anyone's viewing (since they could just click that "Live" video from my YouTube page). I know I want the emails, but I don't get why anyone would want to opt in if they could just join us as a general YouTube subscriber? - Sandra I paused all my auto-webinars during my spring membership drive. I need to re-start them, but I'm not happy with my current auto (Recorded) webinar software, EverWebinar. I recently left WebinarJam, and I'd like to leave EverWebinar, too. Any suggestions for which software to switch to? Is anybody else using anything that seems to work smoothly for doing automated, recorded webinars? - Rebecca You can also watch this episode on our YouTube channel: FL 209 - Launching + Ebooks + Webinars (Q&A w S&J) 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! Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post.

Our guest this week is a man with the passion to design landscapes that are beautiful, eco-friendly AND easy, FYL community member, Ben Hale. Ben and his family live in Ohio, where their house sits on a half-acre lot. He has a degree in microbiology and works full-time at his corporate nine-to-five job. It is his goal to make it online to provide for his family and share his passion for eco-friendly and hassle-free landscaping, he created AestheticEcosystems.com but could use some help with his promotion strategy and branding. Join us as we help Ben with his online promotion and marketing strategy while diving deep into how to target the right avatar with promotions and optimized branding principles. If you need insight on how to promote and rebrand your business, then you should not miss this episode! [Tweet "Find a way to do it and take action! - Shane"] [Tweet "If you're putting more time into the work side of your life, then something else has to be smaller. - Jocelyn"] You Will Learn: How to work on your online business without disrupting your priorities at home Social Media Promotion: Debunking a major myth How to target the right avatar Fixing promotion strategies and branding issues How to pivot your online business Plus so much more! [Tweet "Your avatar will either search for what they care to know or what they need, so give them what they want. - Shane"] [Tweet "Change what needs to be changed, as long as it serves your customers better, they're not going to mind. - Jocelyn"] Links and resources mentioned on today's show: Ben's Website FL Time Management Lifehacks Flip Your Life community 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 Success Story of the Week: Today's success story is from Lynda and Kevin and it says, "Finally, our first video." "We've been talking about video for a while now, but we struggle with equipment and other issues like fear of the camera, etc. We finally invested in some better equipment and made a video of one of the recipes in our newest cookbook. After overcoming some tech issues, we dove in and made a great video. I quickly picked up editing skills, and cut it mostly together the same day. We still have a couple of things to add. We're really happy with what we did. The best part though was involving our 16-year-old in the process. I named him assistant director, and really took some time to explain the equipment and our process. I put together a quick shot list, was turned out to be super helpful, and our son was able to help us move from one thing to the next. Overall, it didn't take nearly as long as I thought it would, and we conquered some of our fears in the process. We loved how our son took to it, and feel we gained miles of progress with just this one video. We can now see how this will work in our business and we're supercharged to make 100 more." Lynda & Kevin's Website: http://kevinshealthykitchen.biz/ Great job, Linda and Kevin, we are so proud of you, and we cannot wait to see what you do next! We would love to help you write the success story for your online business. At the end of today's show, head over to flippedlifestyle.com/flipyourlife where you can learn more about building and growing a successful online business with the help of our Flip Your Life community. Can't Miss Moment: Today's Can't Miss Moment is working at our church's Vacation Bible School. So, Shane and I volunteer each year to work at our church's Vacation Bible School and this is something that we've been doing for a really long time, probably almost 10 years. It's really cool because when we worked at school before, even though it was the summertime, we still had a lot of stuff going on and it was just really stressful to think abo...

You're not broken because you're an introvert... ...a lot of successful people are introverts, we're just a little bit quieter about it." In today's episode, Jocelyn talks about some of the challenges of being an introvert and an entrepreneur and how to overcome them. Flip Your Life Community member Trista sent in this question: I'm very interested to hear strategies for overcoming my introversion. I'm a teacher, and that trade has been one of my toughest challenges to overcome. At the end of the day, between interacting with hundreds of teens and standing before an audience, I've always felt so exhausted and stressed. This 10th year I opted to teaching virtually, and now I'm even more out of practice from speaking publicly." Jocelyn provides some great insight on this question, as well as debunking some myths about introversion like: All introverts are shy Introverts don't like people Introverts can't be front and center in an online business Jocelyn also talks about the importance of personality tests, and mentions a free online personality test called Personality Max that she took, where she openly shares her test results that you can check out here: Jocelyn's Personality Max™ Report Join us today to have a better understanding of introversion -- the myths, the truths, the nature of an introvert -- and how introverts can be successful entrepreneurs as well. You can also check the video of this episode on YouTube here: Being an Introvert and an Entrepreneur Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post. 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!

Dealing with haters in your online business? This episode talks about how to overcome the fear of criticism, and ignoring the voices that hold you back (including your own). Listen to a real life example on how one of our members had her first hater in her online business, and experience actually ended up making her money! Learn social media marketing in this social media marketing course and Q&A! We've packed this tutorial with social media marketing tips for small business, and updated everything for 2018! It's time to create your social media marketing plan, watch and ask questions in the comments! This stuff is working NOW! Watch and take your social media marketing to the next level. Get your FREE Social Media Sales Funnel Template you can download NOW to take your social media marketing to the next level. Get it Here: FREE Social Media Sales Funnel Template You can also watch this episode on our YouTube channel: FL 206 - How HATERS Make You Money + Social Media Marketing Course Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post. 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. Grill the hotdogs!" - Shane This is an actual online business advice for one of today's featured questions. Listen in and find out why it's important. Today's Q&A highlights answer the following questions: "I wanted to ask your opinion about my lead magnets. I came up with three lead magnets and plan to choose one from the list below and record the training video or write an ebook. Which one do you like better? I feel option 1 and 2 provide a lot of value even for a paid content.1. Questions to ask during the first three dates to see if you could be a good match to find your dream husband in short time. 2. Ice breakers and questions to ask during the first date to find your dream husband in short time. 3. Tips on clearing your mind and lifting your spirit to find your dream husband in short time. - Svetlana "I have a question about my lead magnet and opt-in sequence. Currently, the lead magnet is a set of 6 short science videos about one topic, which would be equivalent to one lesson plan. I'm wondering if six videos is too much information for them to process in the first email. Should I give them just the first video as the lead magnet, and then divide the rest into two follow-up emails? Also, for the WOW bonus, they're getting 4 sets of video lessons (4 topics; each has 6 short videos). Should I give away this much? Or change it to one set of video lessons about one topic (which would be 6 short videos)?" - Jennifer "Please help me figure out how to start! I really want to teach parents how to use audio books and read alouds to make parenting easier and why how books trump technology. I want to teach them how using the right books can help make parenting easier because of bonding, character building, and getting to tackle important issues with their child through fiction. Is this even a good idea? I am struggling with the pain point and if people are searching for a solution. I am thinking the symptoms are disconnection, feeling too busy, feeling like you are failing as a parent, using screens to keep kids busy, etc. Can you help me get see a direction to go with this?" - Danae "My question today is about free Facebook content and lead magnets. I do understand the aspirin and vitamin analogy but I'm still struggling with what to giveaway in social media, and lead magnets, what to give away in e-mail and what to hold for paying customers only for my particular industry. I get more diet related questions from people than anything, yet the workouts/personal training are what I consider the core of my memberships." - Carla You can also watch this episode on our YouTube channel: FL 205 Lead Magents + Opt ins + Hotdogs? (Q&A w/ S&J) 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! Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post.

Joining us this week is the proprietress of MomKnowsCollege.com, Flip Your Life community member, Lea Saccoman. Lea is very passionate in serving her membership community. She leads and supports moms of high schoolers who need help with the college planning process. This includes a Facebook group where she coaches them directly, answering questions as to what they should know and what they should be doing to get their kid into college. She also has training videos, tools and other resources that are useful for planning and organizing each step in the process. Having done all that, she now wonders what her next focus should be, how to tie it all together and grow her online business. In this episode, we'll help Lea prioritize tasks that are critical to her membership's success and conquer those self-sabotaging mindset hurdles. Tune in to get that push you need to move yourself and your online business forward! [Tweet ""Our goal is to show our kids what's possible, that there's opportunity & freedom for them as well." - Jocelyn"] [Tweet ""Better is better than best." - Shane"] You Will Learn: How to stop self-sabotage Jocelyn's prioritization system Critical tasks that keep your business running The 4 things every entrepreneur should focus on Plus so much more! [Tweet ""Stop thinking about it so much, just go and get it done." - Jocelyn"] [Tweet ""The most important accountability partner you have is your customers." - Shane"] Links and resources mentioned on today's show: Lea's website Flip Your Life community Asana Headspace Bonjoro Sandra Chen's FL podcast episode 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 Success Story of the Week: Today's Success Story is from Carolyn Lincoln. Carolyn writes, "My Beta launch ended at midnight with not one membership as I'd hoped, but seven. As I put in a redirect to send people to a waiting list, another slipped in making it eight members. Yay! So now the work really begins to make and keep them happy. I have a call set up for today at 1:00 and I have more plans to. I hope to do a bigger launch for the membership in the fall after getting it organized and more success stories, too." Carolyn's Website: https://playtobehave.com/ Way to go, Carolyn, we are so super proud of you! Carolyn has been working on her membership site for a little while now, and she has done great work and is bringing people in to figure out what they want, solve problems for them, and make this available to lots more people. We are super proud of you for those eight members and we cannot wait to see what you do moving forward! We would love to help you write the success story for your online business. At the end of today's show, head over to flippedlifestyle.com/flipyourlife where you can learn more about building and growing a successful online business with the help of our Flip Your Life community. Can't Miss Moment: Today's Can't Miss Moment is welcoming our amazing new Flip Your Life moderators! One of the things that we have done recently in our community is we have appointed people to become moderators because Shane and I are having a hard time keeping up with all the post ourselves. We still do comment on a lot of them, but we knew that it was time to start bringing in some help. One of the things that we do is we look for people who are especially active in the community, and also regularly posting success stories, and we appoint them to be moderators of the community. There are many benefits to being a moderator. One benefit is that we have a private Facebook group for moderators only. Another benefit is that we do a quarterly success call or a quarterly Q&A with moderators only,

Outsourcing is the key to taking your life and business to the next level. In today's episode, Jocelyn talks about tips for outsourcing your life to free up time for your business! What is holding you back from outsourcing your home management? Do you find yourself answering with these statements? "My parents didn't do it, so I shouldn't do it." "I'm lazy if I can't manage my home and my business (at the same time)." "Only rich people could afford this." Or thoughts along these lines? The (outsourced) person won't do it my way. I don't wan't anyone to see my mess. I would never let someone else touch my laundry. Well, you are not alone because these are the very reasons Jocelyn struggled with in the beginning. Listen in as Jocelyn debunks these myths and mindset issues, as well as share tips on outsourcing in your home to help you take your online business to the next level. You can also watch this episode on our YouTube channel: Outsourcing Secrets (Start at Home!) Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post. 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!

Your job is NOT safe. Do you ever think "What would I do if I lost my job?" You should. You could lose it at any time. Let me explain why, and show you a better, safer way to earn a living. Most people think that you just need to get a good job, and you can live happily ever after. It is super risky to get employed by just one person and have everything on the palm of their hands, you don't have real control of your life. Work for yourself Give yourself the power to succeed or fail. The only people we could count on are ourselves. True security and safety starts with learning how to do this with the right knowledge, support, and tools. We have a great advantage living in this age because we have the Internet. There will always be people who want to give you money online, out of the 4 billion people with access to the internet. We can help you do that. Have you experienced someone not showing up for a scheduled appointment? As an online entrepreneur, your time might be very limited and valuable, but the reality is things are not always going to work out as you want them to. In this video, Shane shares an important mindset and attitude to have when someone pulls off a NO SHOW on you. SHOW GRACE Have grace and empathy, everybody's time is finite and valuable Sooner or later it could happen to you Don't think that your time is much more valuable than anyone else's time REDEMPTION Always offer people a chance of redemption We all make mistakes You're going to need a second chance too someday "Do unto others what you want them to do to you" MOVE ON QUICKLY Have a "Rain Plan" – always plan what to do in case the person does not show up and your appointment does not push through Don't wait around Do something productive instead Don't let other people disrupt you Don't let circumstances ruin your whole day HAVE PERSPECTIVE Don't be driven by ego Respect other people's situations You can also watch this episode on our YouTube channel: FL 202 - Your Job is Not Safe + Dealing with NO SHOWS Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post. 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. YOU'LL WANT TO HEAR THIS! Shane shares a SUPER hilarious experience to illustrate a point in answering the second question in this episode. It's seriously one of the funniest moments ever recorded in a member call. (HINT: Urinals) Today's Q&A highlights answer the following questions: "I was hoping to get your opinion about membership activities for my business. Besides membership calls what else can be done? I don't want to coach my clients directly as it can become time consuming." -Svetlana "I'm at KETOCON now! Hoping to connect with some Keto Influencers...any tips?" -JJ "I would love some suggestions on what to do with my paying customers to keep happy and engaged through the summer...since they arent using my lesson plans." - Kathy You can also watch this episode on our YouTube channel: FL 201 - Membership Activity & Engagement Strategies + MORE! 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! Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post.

The 200th episode is finally here. Can you believe that it's already been four amazing years since we've started this podcast? Thank you so much for supporting the podcast and listening to us each week! This episode marks a huge change for The Flipped Lifestyle Podcast, our family, and our business. Brace yourselves. We have three huge announcements that you shouldn't miss. They could have a huge impact on you and your family's future! It's GOODBYE to the old and HELLO to the new on today's show! Listen now or read the transcript below. Enjoy the show! - Shane & Jocelyn 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! Transcript: Jocelyn: Hey, y'all! Welcome to the 200th episode of the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. 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 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? Alright. Let's get started. Shane: What's going, everybody? Welcome back to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. It is great as always to be with you again this week, and we are so happy to be celebrating our 200th episode. That's right! This is episode 200 of the Flipped Lifestyle podcast with Shane and Jocelyn, and by far, this is the biggest, most audacious, craziest thing we've ever done on the show. Jocelyn: And that's saying something because we've done some really weird stuff over the past six years. Shane: We've done some weird and crazy things, and we are confident that this is going to be one of the biggest and awesomest things we've ever done. We have three huge announcements that are not only going to change everything that we're doing professionally in our business life, but they are going to change everything for you and your family, too. Jocelyn: Some of you may be wondering why on earth we titled the 200th episode, "Goodbye." Are we stopping the podcast? No, we're not stopping the podcast, but we are saying goodbye to some other things in our life, in our business. Shane: So don't worry, we're sticking around. We're going to keep coming to you every single week and helping you flip your life with online business. And just like we're sticking around, we want you to stick around for this entire episode. You're going to want to listen to every single minute because as we say goodbye to the past, you may be saying hello to your future. So sit back, relax, you may want to take some notes because this is going to be an awesome ride for the 200th episode of the Flipped Lifestyle podcast. Jocelyn: Alright, before we reveal what it is we're saying goodbye to, we're going to talk a little bit about our last 200 episodes. It's been a wild ride! We started out as two people from Kentucky, just behind some microphones, and here we are 200 episodes later, which is pretty cool. Shane: And it's always good, whenever you're making huge changes to your life or to your business, to kind of take a breath and sit back and look back at where you've been because that's always the foundation of where you're going. So for those of you who may be new to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast, or maybe you've been listening for a while, but you weren't with us since the beginning, our story starts back in 2012 when we were school teachers. Jocelyn: We were like many of you. We went to work. We came home. And for all intents and purposes, we were happy enough. Shane: And then one day we found out our son, Isaac, was being mistreated at his daycare center and I asked for the day off to go deal with this situation. My boss was extremely cruel to me, told me that I could handle it after work and basically said,

Have you ever just looked at your to-do list sometimes and say, "Alright, there are so many things to do, but my gut instinct is telling me that these 2 things are really important right now. So..." Has this ever happened to you? Life gets pretty crazy sometimes and you can find yourself juggling too many things, too fast, all at once, next thing you know you're so overwhelmed and stuck right where you are! The good news is you have the option to do something about being stuck, and this is why you'll find great insight and inspiration in today's guest, Oleg Leontovych. Oleg is one of our International Flip Your Life members, and he's here to ask his next level questions to flip his online business to the next level. A quick look into Oleg's online business journey… Oleg is originally from Ukraine, but had moved to Canada and served the I.T. industry for 18 years where he focused on software quality assurance. He has changed employers in several industries, survived 3 layoffs, and eventually gotten so frustrated with the job itself due to the overwhelming fear that they can let him go despite his position. He has been reading into online business, getting himself acquainted with things like passive income and learning how to start his own business since 2013, but lacked the motivation to pursue it any further. This all changed in September 2017, when he decided to go all-in on creating a stable, passive income online after getting laid off. Now, he calls the shots and has made up his mind to finally pursue something he is really passionate in: gardening and teaching others how to enjoy the literal fruits (and vegetables) of their labor! But something is still missing from his equation, and that's where we step in. Join us as we help Oleg refocus and work on his first paid product to give him the momentum he needs to grow his online business! P.S. Stick around and tune in, don't miss out on all the amazing tips we'll share with this week's guest! You Will Learn: Best way to overcome the common fear every entrepreneur has to face How your calendar will help you prioritize and let you take that next step "Comparison" Syndrome and why you should avoid it Language barriers and why your voice is unique The power of creating consistent, quality content Plus so much more! [Tweet ""Sometimes people think they only have one chance, and if they fail and don't get it right the first time then the opportunity is lost -- this is not true." - Jocelyn"] [Tweet ""Everything that you do, even if it's not incredibly successful from a financial standpoint, is successful from a learning standpoint." - Jocelyn"] Links and resources mentioned on today's show: Oleg's website - https://gardenhowto.com/ Flip Your Life Community - http://flippedlifestyle.com/flipyourlife Join us at FYL Live 2018, Nashville, TN! - https://flippedlifestyle.com/nashville [Tweet ""Being self-employed online is so cool because you can change things and pivot so fast. You just gotta decide to do it!" - Shane"] [Tweet ""Consistency in creating content is what builds wealth." - Shane"] Enjoy the podcast; we hope it inspires you to explore what's possible for your family! Click here to leave us an iTunes review and subscribe to the show! We may even read yours on the air! Success Story of the Week: Today's Success Story from our Flip Your Life community is from Cynthia, and Cynthia's post says, "I quit my day job." Now, listen, when we log in, and we see one of these, "Quit my day jobs, I flipped my life, everything has changed, not only in my life but my kids' life, my kids' kids' lives, everything going forward," that's when we take a big deep breath and are like, "Wow, man, that is unbelievable!" So, we logged into the forums today, clicked over to the Success Forums, and I always try to start my day with all these positive posts in the success forum,

Today's guest is Flip Your Life community member, Julie Halitzka. Hailing from Louisville, Kentucky, Julie loves singing and plays a number of musical instruments. She has worked with youth in various roles as a worship leader, play & music teacher, and youth counselor for over 10 years. She decided to take her business online to change and improve their current financial circumstances. Julie created an early childhood music curriculum (for children ages 0-6) called Rockin' Rhythms Music. After starting her website, she had the original intent of marketing this curriculum to teachers. This proved to be a bit of an adjustment from her job as a music teacher, where she is mainly marketing to parents. Not having a well-established email list yet, Julie struggles with the question what a lot of online entrepreneurs have with their digital product -- "Will people buy this?" -- and the fear of not finding the right people to sell to. Join us today as we help Julie reframe her avatar, grow and build her email list. We also help her with improving content strategies for better efficiency, prioritizing and time management when "life gets in the way", as well as accountability. [Tweet "Live video is much better when you've already filtered out your audience."] [Tweet "Create static content based on what people are actually looking for."] [Tweet "Just because people are not on your list does not mean those people don't exist, they're out there somewhere."] You Will Learn: The importance of knowing the potential scope of your digital product to be targeting the right avatar How to create content more efficiently Overcoming the overwhelm of time management when life gets in the way Creating content based on Keyword Research Content strategies to build and grow your email list Plus so much more! [Tweet "Prioritize and make things that are the most important stay on top."] [Tweet "Sometimes it's going to get derailed, but we don't have time to not get this stuff done."] [Tweet "Show them what to do before you sell them your detailed plan on how to do it."] Related Links: Julie's Rockin' Rhythms Music website The Duck Song How busy parents can find the time to start, build, and grow a successful online business The Flip Your Life Community Enjoy the podcast; we hope it inspires you to explore what's possible for your family! Click here to leave us an iTunes review and subscribe to the show! We may even read yours on the air! ? Success Story of the Week: Alright guys, we got a cool success story this week from a Flip Your Life community member named Elle, and Elle posted in our success for them this week and said, "I finished my course." Her actual post title says, "Champagne Moment." Elle says, "It's so great to log in and see so many of you doing well." She's talking about our Success Forum. "Typically when I'm working on a major project, I go into hiding. Well, I'm out of the cave, and I wanted to share my champagne moment with you. For the past six months, I had been planning, creating and building my membership site. Today, I finished the course that is a huge selling point in my membership site. The course consists of five modules with three to five lessons in each module. What a relief and an accomplishment. Along with a major course, I filmed videos for a video library, created and designed worksheets, and I've recruited four influencers to be interviewed as guests on a recorded Q&A for members. My launch date is coming up soon. I have 20 people signed up for Beta memberships at a discounted rate." Elle's website: http://www.thenurseconsultantnetwork.com Man, that is an awesome success story that not only has she pre-sold and got all these members and Beta people signed up, but she's done with her course. That's a huge load off your back when you create something that's evergreen that you can sell for years.

"How do you encourage young children to have the entrepreneurial mindset?" Well… you can get them a cool book about starting a business! Sounds like a good plan, only this genre doesn't really sound very appealing to kids. Oh! How about sending them to one of those fancy, super rare business schools? Yeah, this would work EXCEPT your state probably doesn't have one OR it's too far and too expensive to send your child / children there. So, what's a parent to do to get their children interested in flipping their life in an amazing and non-traditional way?! 2 words... BY EXAMPLE. Think about it! Children, by default, look up to their parents and want to do what they're doing. "But why? Being an adult is boring and monotonous." This is where it gets awesome, y'all! Kids are absolutely fascinated by everything we do. They think we're this super high leveled person who CAN DO ANYTHING -- AND THEY'RE RIGHT. So show the budding entrepreneur in your life that you are a dedicated action taker. Because the fastest and easiest way to encourage your kid-entrepreneur to take that next step toward pursuing their online business dreams (or achieving anything in life for that matter) is for them to see YOU TAKE CONSISTENT ACTION. Put yourself out there. Be passionate and compassionate! Do better than you did the first time, every single time. Have faith and take courage to act on your goals and dreams. When YOU show your kids what TAKING PERSISTENT ACTION does, they'll be less afraid to take action themselves. So, help them find what they're good at, hold their hand and take the journey with them, it will be a good bonding experience for both parent and child (or children). Online business is for everyone. Online business isn't just for adults, kids can be just as successful online too! Which brings us to our guest this week and what she is hoping to build with her triplets. We have strong-willed, widowed single mom of 11-year-old triplet girls, with over 20 years of accounting experience, Regina Drury. Regina has 2 bachelors degrees, one in business management and another in accounting, and also an MBA. Her husband passed away when the girls were just 3 years old, and for most of the girls' younger years, she had to overcome so many struggles personally and financially as a single parent. The triplets are almost teenagers now and Regina is determined to build a sustainable income online so she can be more present in her children's' lives, especially since they are in their formative years. Now, Regina isn't new to the online business scene, she has tried several times to generate income online. First, she had the Biz Geek Podcast that geared towards finding other geeks in the business space and create a place where they could chat about business and their geek passions while being this community. Awesome as it is, it, unfortunately, did not generate her income. Then she briefly did a podcast for parents of multiples and had hopes of starting something with that, but that didn't gain much traction either. Though she does have much experience in accounting, it isn't something she is very passionate about, but was more of a necessity through the years. After one of her girls got diagnosed with thyroid cancer, there's now an even greater urgency to be physically there for her triplets. But don't worry! The apple… err… the apples didn't fall far from the tree! The kids are as passionate and tenacious as their mother, in that they, too, want to start their own online business together. So, join us in this week's episode as we help Regina find her momentum and help her girls start, build and grow their online business as a family. If you have a kid (or kids) that you want to encourage to become an entrepreneur… or if you ARE wanting to be an entrepreneur yourself, then don't miss this great podcast interview!

Do you find yourself holding back from taking the next step because you're terrified it might not work? Maybe you've seen other people do it and you're pretty sure you can do it too, but sometimes there's just this weird nagging feeling that's weighing you down. Well, we've been there before too (most entrepreneurs do)! We struggled with confidence issues, wrestled with mindset hurdles, and we definitely didn't know everything we do now. The thing is, we are where we are because we took action. Because if you want to do something so bad, then you would go out there and do what it takes to go after it, learn it, and make it happen. We have the perfect guest to share their journey to show you what's possible when you put yourself out there! This week's guest is Flip Your Life community member, Marcy Travis. Marcy is a 60 years young, married empty-nester, who lives in very rural town much like ours. Marcy and her super supportive husband have 3 adult children together, and 3 wonderful grandchildren. She had recently retired from her 21 years of service in the employment sector but finds her greatest passion pursuing her coaching career online. As a Certified Career Coach, she helps her clients identify their strengths, reframe their ideas and perspective so they can focus on finding a practical action plan that will allow them to achieve their career goals. Marcy has been steadily growing her content for 4 years and has been working on turning her passion project into a reliable source of income to supplement her retirement and give her the freedom to travel with her family. She has already found some success with a few members, but now it's time to take that next step and grow her community. Join us as we give her insight on how she can grow her email list and how to implement marketing strategies even if she's not what she calls "Sales-y." Time to mine for nuggets of wisdom, so don't miss this episode, y'all! [Tweet "If you put yourself out there to the world, the universe will answer back. - Shane"] [Tweet "The numbers don't lie. - Jocelyn"] [Tweet "Every time you move to the next level, you almost have to relearn how to be a new kind of business owner. - Shane"] You Will Learn: Things you can do to grow your email list Different avenues to get your name in front of your audience Marketing strategies you can implement on your site Plus so much more! [Tweet "If you're scared doing new things, try doing things differently in ways that would work for you. - Jocelyn"] [Tweet "If you're determined and make a commitment to do it, you'll find a way. - Jocelyn"] [Tweet "Be overt, be open, let people know you have something for sale. - Shane"] Links and resources mentioned in today's show: Marcy's Membership Site Flip Your Life community Enjoy the podcast; we hope it inspires you to explore what's possible for your family! Click here to leave us an iTunes review and subscribe to the show! We may even read yours on the air! ? Success Story of the Week: We got an awesome success story this week from one of our Flip Your Life community moderators, Kathy Martin! For those of you who don't know, we have a huge community, we call it the Flip Your Life community and we've got a lot of great leaders in our community that we have promoted to moderators. And they're in there, not only so they can build and grow their online business, but they're really in there on the front lines helping other people too. Kathy's one of our absolute rock star members. She had an awesome success story this week titled, "I got four new members from my five-day challenge." Kathy says, "I'm pretty excited that after my five-day challenge last week, I was able to convert 10% of my participants to my membership, three monthly members and one annual. I learned a lot after these five days, and maybe I'll post about the process if anyone can use that ...

Do you have something that you're passionate about and want to build an online business on, but fear you might not know enough to actually do it? Maybe you feel that you're just not credible enough for people to pay you for what you have to offer online? A lot of online entrepreneurs feel this -- it's called, "Imposter Syndrome." It's exactly what you might be struggling with if you answered "yes" to our questions above. Even after validating your idea and digital product, even after making sales and gaining customers, this is a problem that holds many online entrepreneurs back from growing their online business. We will tackle this mindset issue in this week's episode, as well as share the amazing success our guests have achieved in their online business within a short span of time despite their mindset hurdles. Our guests in this episode are couple-preneur, Amanda and Joe Nibley. Living just outside of Atlanta, they are parents to two young children and are both working in the insurance industry (yes, they have their day jobs, two children, AND an online business!). Amanda has always had a passion for health and fitness, and because of that, they achieved a profound change in their overall health and lifestyle by changing their relationship with food. After helping family and friends get in tune with healthier eating habits, they realized that they've found their calling and their passion to help others grew bigger and bigger. And this is how they're online entrepreneurial journey began. It was this passion that gave birth to their online health and nutrition business! Now, Amanda and Joe had transitioned into a membership site after doing some successful challenges for their niche, and earned over $3,000 on their membership launch! Their membership site helps people cook and prepare healthy meals, learn more about clean eating, and living a healthy lifestyle. They have helped their members tremendously, and Amanda even got a certification in functional nutrition just recently! But even with their recent success, Amanda still talks about her mindset struggle and confidence issues regarding her expertise and passion. Join us as we help Amanda and Joe tackle these mindset hurdles to take their online business to the next level. We also share strategies for consistent content creation, as well as creating strategic result-oriented lead magnets. So don't miss it! [Tweet ""You are going to have haters, but always focus on the successes." - Jocelyn"] [Tweet ""Consistent action is better than perfect action." - Jocelyn"] [Tweet ""Results come from doing something, not doubting it."- Shane"] You Will Learn: How our guests were able to have an online business while both working a day job Dealing with and overcoming "Imposter syndrome" Roles in your business with your spouse (and the importance of having your spouse on board) The importance of consistent content creation Strategically creating results-oriented lead magnets and opt-ins PLUS SO MUCH MORE! [Tweet ""For every 1 hater you get, there will be 90 amazing messages from people you helped." - Jocelyn"] [Tweet ""Tell them why, tell them what, but sell them how." - Shane"] [Tweet ""All you have to do is make more right decisions than wrong ones. If you're 51% right, you win!" - Jocelyn"] [Tweet ""Don't show people what you know, show them results." - Shane"] Links and resources mentioned in today's show: FL 183 – How Sandra made over $700 a month in passive income while raising a newborn and fighting breast cancer The Flip Your Life Community FYL Live in Nashville Amanda and Joe's website Related: FL 192 - How to be Lucky FL 03 – How to Work Together, Without Killin' Each Other FL 06 – 5 Tips for Getting Your Spouse On Board with Your Online Business Enjoy the podcast; we hope it inspires you to explore what's possible for your family!

Isn't it frustrating how we tend to be hypercritical about ourselves to the point that we sometimes end up walking away from those rare, life-changing opportunities? Think about it. WHY are we inclined to be more supportive, if not tolerant, of other's quirks than we are of ourselves? "But it's true, I'm not good enough at…" Pause. Hold it right there, buddy! Just because you're not the best at everything, doesn't mean you're not good at something. The first step to unlocking your potential is to acknowledge that YOU HAVE POTENTIAL! You don't have to stay stuck there, being a peg in the machine, because YOU are more than capable of overcoming ANY obstacle. You just gotta take initiative and put yourself out there because nothing worthwhile comes to us without putting in the necessary time and effort. But don't fret, there's a way to make this journey a whole LOT easier! "What do I need to do?" BE KIND TO YOURSELF. BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. BE YOURSELF! "I'm not exactly sure how I can do that." Okay, how about we try this little exercise? Remember this every time that voice starts bringing you down: "It might take me longer to achieve the results I need, it might not even be as perfect as I've pictured it to be, but I am not alone and there's help where it is needed. As long as I keep putting one foot in front of the other and do what it takes to flip my life, I'll eventually find the road to success." Or do what Jocelyn does! She stuck purple Post-it notes on her computer to remind her that SHE CAN DO IT. If you still don't believe the power of TAKING ACTION and how it leads to success, then you really need to check out this week's guest! We have none other than, Flip Your Life Community Moderator and the man behind RelaxandLearnGuitar.com, Kevin Depew. Kevin has been a long time FYL member, who was promoted to a leadership role in the community forums, but he didn't start his journey knowing everything he needed to take his next steps. In fact, as with any budding online entrepreneur, Kevin had his share of struggles too! From identifying what he was good at, to who the target audience is, to what's he going to sell and how he's going to sell his solution -- he had to keep going, he had to endure the hardships and evolve to find and figure out his true calling online. After months and months of learning, trying and moving forward, he finally tasted some hard-earned success in his "second-halfer," guitarist-based online community -- Kevin now has 29 paying members!!! Now, you know what we say here at Flipped Lifestyle, "If you found one, you'll find a hundred.. (a thousand, even)." So, how will he find the right people to join and grow his membership? Get ready for our action-packed, next level strategies that will help Kevin find more organic traffic and overcome the fear of not finding the right people to join his membership. We're talking about member engagement, live events, tools and goal-focused mindset shifts that are going to get your momentum to full swing. Don't miss it! [Tweet ""The only way to overcome fear is by taking action." - Shane"] [Tweet ""Nobody knows what your "perfect" looks like except you." - Jocelyn"] You Will Learn: Member engagement and why it's the strongest foundation in your community Why live events are beneficial for you and your online business How isolation ends up eating your confidence Overcoming the fear of not finding the right people to join Strategies on how to get more organic traffic and subscribers Plus so much more! [Tweet ""When you hit a plateau that might mean you've hit the peak of what you're doing now and need to do change something." - Shane"] [Tweet ""We can't be the best at everything, so pick the few things that matter the most and concentrate on those." -Jocelyn"] Links and resources mentioned in today's show: Kevin's Website

Getting started with your online business can be overwhelming for a number of reasons. Do you find yourself creating your content, but unable to finish because of endless revising and refining? Do things always get in the way of your time to work on your online business, even if you set a schedule for it? Of course, we want our digital products to be good, or perfect if possible… but how perfect is perfect enough to stop and do the next step? How long will that take? Scheduling time to work on your online business is to be expected, but why doesn't it always work? These are just some of the reasons we feel stuck in our online business, and it can be very frustrating. Well, hold your horses, y'all, because in this week's episode we will help our guest tackle and overcome these issues to help him start and grow his online business. We're sure you'll learn a lot in our brainstorm and it's going to help you take your own online business to the next level too! Our guest today is Dan Franz. Dan is a general practitioner in Psychology and does mental health counseling. His wife is a teacher, and they have two children. Dan did a group practice for 5 to 6 years working with and supervising other therapists, but recently switched back to doing his own one-on-one practice after the technicalities of having a larger practice deemed quite taxing. Since the beginning of his mental health counseling, he started writing-related blogs to give him an online presence with the goal of leading people to his one-on-one practice. This got him to acquire a list of about 800 people from his online writing, how awesome is that?! And now, with his growing desire to help and reach more people, as well as have more time to spend with his family, Dan went on to take his business online (with an advantage of already having an existing following from his online presence). With the majority of his digital product outline already done, he struggles with its completion due to constant revising and refining. His work time for his online business also seems to get interrupted a lot, causing a delay in his progress. But hey! Everyone needs a little help to get back in the right direction and get to that next step... sometimes even counselors need guidance. :) So, join us as we help Dan overcome these setbacks -- dealing with the overwhelm, prioritization, having the right mindset -- as well as discussing strategies and direction on creating and selling his digital product. [Tweet ""When you see some system is failing, you have to change something." - Shane"] [Tweet ""If we all just try a little better, we're going to find the time to make our lives change." - Shane"] You Will Learn Overcoming perfectionism Dealing with overwhelm in your online business Time management -- setting a backup time and buffer time Having the right mindset How to sell your digital product online without overcomplicating things The importance of accountability and community The importance of getting audience feedback [Tweet ""Don't let technical overwhelm become an excuse." - Jocelyn"] [Tweet ""It doesn't matter what others are doing, what matters is what you CAN do." - Shane"] Links and resources mentioned on today's show: Dan's Website Building A Story Brand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen by Donald Miller Flip Your Life Community RELATED: FL 182 – How busy parents can find the time to start, build, and grow a successful online business FL 184 – Our TOP 7 Time management tips that actually work for busy entrepreneurs FL185 – We help Debi understand key strategies to successfully launch her online community Enjoy the podcast; we hope it inspires you to explore what's possible for your family! Click here to leave us an iTunes review and subscribe to the show! We may even read yours on the air! ? Success Story of the Week:

This week, we're going to talk about being LUCKY and our take on the entire concept of LUCK. You probably know this already, but we are not a huge fan of the word, "LUCK." "Oh! Your business took off? You're SOOO LUCKY!!!" "WOW! You must be so lucky to be able to buy a new car on a whim!" (buzzer sound) WRONG. Luck had very little to do with what we've achieved in life. To put it simply, we worked very hard to place ourselves in front of those rare opportunities. But we didn't get to where we are now because our first attempt worked. People think that you need to succeed the first time you try when in reality, it will take you multiple attempts before you get enough experience to get to the next step. It's the same with us, guys! We had to learn the ropes. We had to put in the time and money. We had to stay focused and do whatever it took to make it online, not just for our sake but for our family's future. It's funny how success is often perceived to rely on luck. Luck isn't bad, y'all! But using it as an excuse to justify your inaction is. "Oh, I'm not lucky like they are, how can I possibly succeed?" See what we mean? So, if you're looking around for ways on how to be lucky or how to increase your luck, you're not going to make it far. Think about the "Law of Attraction." The more you focus and take action on the things you want to happen, the more you attract opportunities and situations that will make you reach that goal. Anyone can succeed, it's just not everyone is willing to do what needs to be done in order to succeed. So, tell us, how will you attract success if you're not doing anything? We've said it before and we'll say it again (and again and AGAIN)... ACTION BREEDS SUCCESS. Stop wasting your precious time searching for blog posts on HOW TO BE LUCKY IN LIFE! Don't let the concept of luck hold you back from creating the life that you want your family to have. YOU are responsible for your success. Not luck. Not anyone else. JUST YOU! You might not know it or believe it, but you have as much potential to succeed as everyone else. So, work towards your goal, build and foster relationships, do whatever it takes to change your life. [Tweet "Put yourself in the right place, so when the time comes, you can seize the right opportunity. - Shane"] [Tweet "Success likes those who work hard for it, those who prepared to meet and reach it. - Jocelyn"] [Tweet "You have to go out of your way to connect, build and foster genuine relationships. - Shane"] [Tweet "More luck doesn't mean more success, you need to take action to make that success happen. - Jocelyn"] You Will Learn: Why we dislike being called, "LUCKY" How the concept of luck is holding you back The beauty of connecting, building and nurturing good relationships Plus so much MORE! Enjoy the podcast; we hope it inspires you to explore what's possible for your family! Click here to leave us an iTunes review and subscribe to the show! We may even read yours on the air! ? Success Story of the Week: "I completed my Facebook page!" Nichola says, "I just want to share success news that I now have a Facebook page! Please take a look because I've already put up a few posts up there. I was able to work on this page after I batched 6 months of blog posts. Thanks Shane & Jocelyn for encouraging me to batch process and take action!" Nichola's facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/foreveryoungautobiographies Ain't that an amazing what-happens-when-you-batch story? When you batch content you're free to do all sorts of things! It's wonderful how we celebrate these successes, every step, every milestone in the Flip Your Life community, all these people rallying around you, encouraging you and supporting you so that you can build a better life for your family. We would love to help you write the success story for your...

"I got this idea, but I don't know if it will make me money." Does that sound like a familiar statement? Have you ever come up with an online business idea, but thought "Nobody would ever pay for that!" Well, don't dismiss your idea so quickly because the internet is an amazing thing. The internet changes everything and you could make thousands of dollars on almost anything you could think of selling if you just take action! Yes, you've heard of so many business coaches, life coaches, social media coaches, and similar types making money online… well, today we have something different, and you're in for a treat! In our Flip Your Life community, we have a lot of different people with different niches, but this one is one of our favorites! Today's guest is Teresa Perleberg. Her online business? How about "Shearing sheep and turning their wool into a statue!" Okay, that may be oversimplifying it, but it just gets better! Teresa lives on a North Dakota farm with her husband and 4 kids, 93 sheep, 50 cattle. Her husband had worked multiple jobs to provide for their family, she wanted to help out while still being able to stay homeschooling the kids. It turns out that her discovery of an amazing craft (that utilized her sheep wool) would be the solution to this. She does something really awesome called needle felting. You'll have to listen in to hear Teresa explain what that is in detail, but we absolutely love it! She started selling her needle felted art on Etsy in 2008, then transitioned into making needle felting kits and selling them. And because her audience had shown so much interest in taking their needle felting to the next level by learning more techniques, Teresa had started a membership business on Needle Felting. Her online business has grown to have a stable income which was enough for her husband to quit his night shift job and have more time with the family! Now her husband and the kids all help out on her online business, working together as a family. That's Flippin' your life, y'all! Join us as we help Teresa on her membership retention strategies, audience engagement, overcoming technical problems, and growing her membership. Anytime we can talk about shearing sheep in a podcast is always a good day! [Tweet "First, you make money by what you do, then you make MORE money by what you know."] [Tweet "You can literally make thousands of dollars off of any idea if you just take action.""] [Tweet "When you raise your price, what you're saying to the world is "I am more valuable than this.""] You Will Learn: Strategies for membership retention How to connect more with your audience, get them involved, and get them to know you Overcoming technical problems and not getting caught up by it How to keep your members paying and not have too many customer service problems Live video and audience engagement strategies Plus so much more! [Tweet "Successful people find a way to solve the problem, not just talk about the problem."] [Tweet "People with a wealth mindset don't say "I can't afford that", they say "How can I afford that?""] [Tweet "Whatever is easiest and the lowest energy for you and your members, that's what you should do."] Links and resources mentioned on today's show: Teresa's Needle Felting Website Carolyn Lincoln's Dog Training Website Beth Bohnert's Cashmere Goats Flip Your Life community Enjoy the podcast; we hope it inspires you to explore what's possible for your family! Click here to leave us an iTunes review and subscribe to the show! We may even read yours on the air! ? Success Story of the Week: This week's success story comes from Flip Your Life community member, Carla White! Carla's title for her success story forum post says, "I rebuilt and re-launched my website!" Carla says, "As I sat at my husband's hospital bedside for an outpatient iron transfus...

"What can I even do online? I don't have any special skills, I'm a nobody." Does this sound familiar? If you told us 5 years ago that we'd be making thousands of dollars online, we probably wouldn't have believed you. Because when we started out, we didn't know what we were exceptionally good at either! We didn't know how to sell a product online. We didn't even know if anyone would buy anything from us. We were just normal school teachers from Kentucky! How could we possibly create something no one else had already done? See, that's the thing! Even though there's already a seemingly endless river of content online, we took action and focused on what we can do. Ask yourself, "What can I create right now?" You don't have to be the leading expert in something to start, build and grow your own online business. The way you present things will be slightly different from everyone else's because YOU are unique and whatever you create will be a reflection of how you perceive the world. You don't need to have the perfect idea to change the world because there's nothing perfect online -- everything is open for improvement. You don't have to reinvent the wheel, because it's all about being resourceful! We've noticed that people won't always have the resources to succeed, but whatever they lack in that department, they make up for by being resourceful. Resourcefulness is the ability to find quick and clever ways to overcome difficulties. It opens us to opportunities that wouldn't have been available to us had we relied on just having all the necessary resources. It keeps us on our toes and allows us to think outside the box. As entrepreneurs, you will find this skill to be particularly useful since most complex problems often require such "outside the box" thinking. Speaking of "outside the box," our guest this week is someone who took initiative and was resourceful enough to find success in his auto detailing business. We have Corey Doohan on the show and this is his story… Corey Doohan was born and raised on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. He received a scholarship to go to Oklahoma, where he met his wife and got a degree in business. But y'all know the struggle that comes to every graduate. "What on earth am I going to do next?" Corey didn't know what he was going to do to earn a living post-graduation but soon realized that he might as well start somewhere. "What could he do?" Well, he knew how to detail cars! And that's exactly how he started to work in the auto detailing business. After years of hard work, expanding his expertise and growing his clientele, he was able to open his own auto detailing shop. He goes on to run this business for 5 solid years before selling it in December 2017, when they had to move to Minnesota with their 4-month-old son to be closer to their family. Corey now works as an internet sales manager for Camping World. But this isn't where his story ends. New baby, new State, new house and a new career? This just gets Corey even more fired up to find a better way to provide for his family AND be able to spend time with them. He takes his first steps in his online business journey by starting his website, autodetailcourse.com, and a blog, detaillikeapro.com. Several courses and blog posts later, he realizes that it's not gaining as much traction as he expected and goes on to call the cavalry for help. (Clue: We are the cavalry!) What do you do when you've got content created and no one's paying it any attention? In this episode, we'll dive deep into how you can target your audience using keyword-rich content and why it's important to speak the right language when you're marketing your brand. Tune in and find out how we help Corey take his online business idea to the next level. [Tweet ""A lot of us don't have enough time and money, but if we're resourceful we can make things work.

Everyone has at least one amazing teacher in their life. Right? You know, someone who went above and beyond to help you see your potential. The person who pointed you in the right direction to find the missing piece of the puzzle. This might be your parent, a sibling, a friend, or it might, quite literally, be your school teacher - it could be anyone! But just as someone sparked change in your life, isn't it just absolutely mindblowing how YOU have touched other people's lives too? Think about it. With or without you knowing, you've become a "teacher" and shared your wisdom, experience or maybe expertise to flip another person's life for the better. Now, you probably don't even remember all the people you've helped. Probably because you didn't feel like you've done something big enough to elicit change. This is a problem. Why are we so obsessed with acknowledging only big changes when even a little bit of change goes a long way? We often say, "Celebrate all your successes, yes, even the little ones; because no matter how small you think that is, it will prepare you for even greater opportunities." The same thing applies to change! Don't just brush off the small changes when it has the potential to lead you to your greatest achievements. Which is also why you being "the teacher" is no coincidence. Every life you touch, every problem you help solve, takes the world one step closer to another piece of the puzzle. Embrace your every opportunity of being "the teacher" for the people around you. Great things await those who accept and pursue their passion. Which brings us to this week's guest, we have a professional percussionist who has pursued the education scene in hopes to spark positive change in the way we educate our children. We have Mark Taylor on air, and this is his story… Mark is a husband, and father of 2 teenagers and a pre-teen. He has played drums and percussion for a living, where he has gotten the opportunity to tour the UK, Europe and the United States. He had also found teaching to be his other passion at age 40, thanks to his children. Mark is also part of the National Association for Primary Education in the UK which helped him understand the issues surrounding people involved in education, not just the amount of work and stress closely tied to this profession, but also because of certain limitations in the school system makes it difficult for them to deliver the kind of learning the children deserve. His podcast, Education on Fire, launched in December 2016, where he helps fellow educators discuss ideas and share resources online. But having the freedom to pursue his passion for music and teaching doesn't come without a price. You see, time flexibility can be a double-edged sword. When you agree to one opportunity, you will have to turn down another, simply because you can't be in two places at the same time and exert the same amount of effort to accomplish two different tasks. Being a father, professional musician, primary school teacher AND a podcaster is no easy task. Pursuing his music or teaching career will have its own benefits, but he has found great interest in podcasting and how it can help him have the freedom to spend more time with his family. He has already found a good audience through sharing his insight as a primary school teacher on his podcast, so how can that help him make money online? If you wanna know how we helped Mark, then don't miss this episode, we're going to dive deep into several fantastic points that will help take his online business to the next level and it can help you too! [Tweet ""Teaching a child brings the best out in humanity." - Shane"] [Tweet ""Reaching out is one of the most powerful things you can do." - Jocelyn"] You Will Learn: The concept of opportunity & opportunity costs Why people will listen to you Refining your avatar

Do you believe in your goals and dreams? Are you confident in your capability and capacity to achieve success? Now, the answer to these questions may vary, but one thing is certain: Confidence and action go hand in hand, y'all! "How so?" you might ask. Well, we believe that: Confidence inspires us to take action, and taking purposeful action helps make us even more confident. You move forward and take action because you feel certain you can accomplish the task at hand, having this level of security allows you tune out the doubts and fears that holds you back from actually doing something. Now, as entrepreneurs, we lead our people based on the strengths we possess. "But why are we so compelled to follow someone confident?" The thing is, people are attracted to confident people because confident people are action-takers. You're probably thinking: "Well, that makes sense but it's hard enough trying to be confident without being an online entrepreneur..." We get it, harnessing self-confidence can be a struggle. We understand, we sometimes feel this way too! Jocelyn actually has a sticky-note on her computer that says, "I am a good leader" to remind herself every day. But hey! Just because she doesn't feel like a good leader sometimes, doesn't mean she isn't one. Those who are struggling with self-confidence have as much potential as those who exude self-confidence. "But still, why do self-confident people get more out of life?" Because they just go out and do things. Think about it this way: Confidence is like a door. You open it, you close it -- it's up to you. Each one of us has the ability to control this door. A door to new experiences and opportunities. A door that will help you mindfully say, "Yes" or "No." A door that attracts action, growth, and change. Confidence is the door you have to open so you can meet your amazing potential. WHO WOULDN'T WANT TO OPEN THAT DOOR? So, if you're struggling with self-confidence, we want you to know that you can do something about it. Because we know you can do whatever it takes to flip your life. We know you can deliver results. Now, it's time to become more confident! In this episode, we're sharing the top 5 confidence killers and how to defeat them. Confidence Killer #1: Lack of Knowledge Your Weapon: Get training You have access to a device (or devices) that allows you to consume all sorts of information, in all sorts of ways, you have to take advantage of this. Use it to learn and understand more about your chosen topic/field! Don't just sit around and sulk that you don't know how to do something. Seriously, go find out how it's done and learn how to do it yourself. There is NO EXCUSE. Confidence Killer #2: Competition Your Weapon: Perspective Okay, so there are a lot of other people out there offering the same solution. Why would they choose you? Well, why wouldn't they? There are more or less 4 billion people on the internet, there's bound to be someone who will find YOU and choose YOU over everybody else because they relate to YOU and believe in YOU. Don't fear the competition. Learn from their success, what worked for them and how it worked. Remember: Competition is good! It shows you that someone has already succeeded and that you can too. Confidence Killer #3: Avoiding Change and Seeking Comfort Your Weapon: Surround Yourself with Change-makers Avoiding change and seeking comfort is your brain's way of protecting you from getting hurt. It's going to stop you from jumping off the diving board because you might get hurt. But you know what else it stopped you from experiencing? It stopped you from the thrill of diving in the refreshing water. It stopped you from making new memories with friends. It stopped you from conquering your fear of the unknown. It stopped you from the opportunity of experiencing so...