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G. Brian Benson is a multiple award-winning self-help author and filmmaker, actor, speaker, consultant, inspirational poet, musician, radio personality, published children’s author, finisher of over 50 triathlons (including 4 Ironman distance races), cross-country bicyclist and someone that believes in YOU! Brian considers himself an everyman and is very good at following his heart and listening to his intuition as it guides him to cultivate and activate his inner greatness (which comes out in many different creative ways). He feels like he was put here to be a living example for others to learn how to listen to their heart and step out of their comfort zones so that they can activate and cultivate their true inner gifts as well. Having authored four books, (Brian’s List!, Finding Your Voice and the eBooks, The Art of Balance and Discover Your True Self), Benson is now completing a fifth self-improvement title, Be Yourself to Free Yourself!  His first book Brian’s List – 26 ½ Easy to Use Ideas on How to Live a Fun, Balanced, Healthy Life! was the winner of a 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Award in the Self-Help Category. It was also an award-winning finalist in the Self-Help Motivational Category of the National Best Books 2009 Awards, sponsored by USA Book News. Brian’s new book Finding Your Voice was an award-winning finalist in both the 2013 Indie Excellence Book Awards and the National Best Books 2013 Awards. 

How to Get Out of Overwhelm Melanie Benson Strick, known as America’s Leading Small Business Optimizer, has a gift for guiding fast-paced, overwhelmed, driven entrepreneurs to thrive in their small business. With over 13 years mentoring thought leaders and big thinking entrepreneurs, Melanie is a liberator – uncovering costly breakdowns and de-railers while re-energizing profits– ultimately freeing the entrepreneur to do more of what they do best. Melanie has been on faculty with StomperNet as their delegation expert, speaks on stages across the globe, is co-author of Entrepreneur.com’s Start Up Guide to Starting an Information Marketing Business and has her success tips featured in magazines such as American Express OPEN Forum, Woman’s Day and the LA Times. Melanie is a proud lifestyle enthusiast and spends her free time in search of the best spas and beaches in the world.

Kristen Eckstein is a highly sought-after publishing authority, two time best-selling author and award winning international speaker who has started over 50 publishing companies and published over 160 books and eBooks. She is founder of the “I am Published!” Ghost Publishing program, the Self-Publish On Demand training program and the “21 Ways” book series. Having started over 50 publishing companies and being a self-proclaimed chocoholic, Kristen is the Ultimate Book Coach. She’s a multi-book best-selling author, award-winning international speaker, regular contributor for leading industry websites like The Future of Ink, founder of the “21 Ways” pocket guidebook series, the Author’s Quick Guide to… series and the exclusive independent publishing program, “I am Published,” which is the best-selling of its kind. She’s worked on books authored by celebrities Guy Kawasaki, Dr. Daisy Sutherland, Carrie Wilkerson, and Paul Evans and shared the stage with experts like Kim Garst, Stephanie Frank, and Bob Burg. Kristen will be sharing information about writing, publishing and marketing books. Be sure to join us in the chat room to ask questions while we are broadcasting live.

Shawn Shewchuk is not just a Coach to the top Entrepreneurs, Executives and High Achievers from around the country, he is also a Results Strategist with a laser focus improving and accelerating the results of the organizations and individuals he partners with. Shawn is a sought after speaker who shares pertinent information with audiences on business acceleration strategies and improvement through methodologies focused around prerequisite component, the Results - Strategic Implementation™ system. Although he is well known as the author of the book, Change Your Mind, Change Your Results - #1 Proven Success Strategies, his focus on going an extra two miles in life and in business has captured the attention of readers, as well as others around the globe. Very simply, Shawn’s primary focus is to positively impact as many individuals and organisations as possible, though his book, methodologies and an appearance in the movie, One Minute Success, released in 2013.

Ken McArthur, best-selling author of “Impact: How to Get Noticed, Motivate Millions and Make a Difference in a Noisy World,” has enabled thousands of people to achieve amazing impact by championing the philosophy that partnerships and collaboration build value for everyone. Selected by Fast Company as one of the 20 Most Influential People Online, Ken’s powerful call to action, “The Impact Manifesto: You Make A Difference Whether You Want To Or Not” was selected for publication by Seth Godin’s brainchild “Change This” which places his manifesto in the company of manifestos written by Seth Godin, Hugh MacLeod, Guy Kawasaki, Chris Anderson, Jay Conrad Levinson, Tom Peters, Malcolm Gladwell and Robert Scoble. Ken challenges us to realize we ALL have an impact – whether we want to or not – on thousands of people who we touch in our day-to-day lives by demonstrating that simple things make a HUGE difference. The popular host of a series of live events that bring together top-level marketers, entrepreneurs, business owners, corporations and non-profit organizations to create multi-million dollar joint venture relationships – he creates incredible, intense impact for product launches and multi-million dollar profits in surprisingly short timeframes. Ken was the official mentor for Sterling Valentine as he took his launch from ZERO to over $100,000 in less than 8 days. Ken and Sterling documented the process as a “proof of concept” for Info Product Blueprint a massive home study course that is the “bible” of info product creation.

I recently interviewed J. Massey who is an Active Real Estate Investorpreneur, Author, Speaker, Community Leader, Devoted Father and Husband. We had so much to talk about that I asked him to return to Your Partner In Success Radio to pick up where we left off. J. Massey's is a true rags to riches story. In just six years he went from the struggle many people experience as he worked hard to provide for his family in southern California to amassing an impressive portfolio that includes over 300 units of residential and commercial properties as well as private notes and mortgages.  Through a series of life-altering events, including the serious illness of his then-pregnant wife, an accident that left J. with a punctured lung that excluded him from being able to work, and even losing and squatting in their foreclosed family home, J. learned quickly that he had to change his mindset if he wanted to survive and thrive. He immediately took action, immersing himself into intensive real estate investor training. He hasn't looked back and has built a booming investing business, using very little of his own cash or credit.  Click here to listen to our previous interview and here is a really nice blog post that J. wrote about that episode.

With over 20 years of  experience  in  business, both in  corporate  America and as an successful  entrepreneur, Gene Hammet  is fiercely committed  to working with high-­achieving leaders  in  small  businesses  who  want  to  lead with confidence and  achieve true financial freedom (in  months, not  years).   On another note, Gene is fiercely committed to working with high-achieving leaders in small businesses who want to lead with confidence and achieve true financial freedom (in months, not years). As the Managing Director of Core Elevation, Inc., Gene helps leaders transform from stagnate, stressed and struggling to thriving, growing, and loving their work Gene is more than just a business coach; he is a business strategist. To create new results, you must find new strategies to take you where you want to go. Gene has the ability to improve your communication skills, increase your influence and build your courage to take the actions necessary to grow your company. Gene has been coaching since 2010, but also spent a decade starting and running multi-million dollar businesses and another decade being a fancy-pants consultant (he is still recovering from those days).  We will be talking about: Leadership for EntrepreneursHow Failure Creates SuccessThe Need to Niche

Dr. Lynn Rankin-Esquer is an award winning researcher, psychologist and author. Her Young Adult book “My Paperback Cape: The Unlikely Odyssey of a Bookworm” was a 2014 Finalist in the San Francisco Writers Conference Contest. In addition to writing fiction, Lynn is the author of numerous academic journal articles and book chapters in the area of intimate relationships. Lynn has degrees from Bucknell University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine and was on the faculty of Pepperdine University for four years. A fascination with why people do what they do, coupled with a lifelong love of reading, led Lynn to her current career as an author.  Her current Young Adult book was written as a sort of support letter to her teenage self and all the other teenage girls who are longing for direction but not getting it from the adults around them.  Her clinical practice focused on working with anxiety disorders, depression, and intimate relationships. Lynn has been a runner (‘slogger’ as she puts it) for over thirty years and attributes her sanity to those miles on the trails.  She loves sports, which comes in handy watching not just her children’s baseball, basketball, football, and soccer games, but also the UC Berkeley baseball team (husband David Esquer is the head coach).

Online entrepreneurs and bloggers are putting up more audio and videos than ever before and Lainie Cotell, the founder of Magiscript joins me today to share why having access to a good transciption service is critical for online business owners and marketers. Lainie works with numerous coaches, trainers, and speakers who want to easily create products from transcripts.  We will be discussing: Using transcripts for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn status updatesThe easiest way to write a book or white paperThe easiest way to create content blogs and newslettersHow transcripts can help your YouTube presencehow to easily create a physical or digital product Please be sure to join us in the chat room to ask questions of us during the live interview. Visit Lainie's website to download her guide "Record & Reuse: 20 Ways to Revitalize Your Business by Reusing Audio" to get started on learning how transcription services make content creation easy!  

A Coach and a Miracle Coach Johnson has developed winning high-school basketball teams for 27 years, taking over three losing varsity programs and turning them into winners in short periods of time. Of his 362 career victories, one in particular will surely never be duplicated. On Feb. 15, 2006, Coach Johnson made the kind hearted gesture on inserting his autistic manager, Jason McElwain, now known to the world as J-Mac into Greece Athena High School’s final home game, which the Trojans won 79-43. J-Mac scored 20 points in just over four minutes, including six three-point baskets, to become an instant national celebrity. Coach Johnson, also, was featured in major news outlets around the country. To make the Hollywood ending complete, Greece Athena captured the first Section V title of Coach Johnson’s career a few weeks later. A second sectional crown followed in 2007, and Coach Johnson then coached the Trojans to their third straight league title in 2008 by posting a perfect 12-0 record in league play, netting Coach of the Year honors. His success continued in 2009 with a league co-championship (34-2 league record over a three-season stretch) and third sectional title in four years, with an overall record of 20-5, his first-ever trip to the state quarterfinals and more Coach of the Year accolades. In the recently concluded 2012-2013 season, his Trojans won the sectional title for the fourth time in eight years. Coach Johnson has made a number of radio and television appearances, including the Oprah Winfrey and Jim Rome shows. The Athena team was also paid a visit at school by NBA legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson. J-Mac’s magic moment won the ESPY for “Best Sports Moment” at the ESPN awards show later that year.

Jimmy Burgess has seen financial abundance and lost it all. He has seen good health and experienced health issues that incapacitated him for months at a time. He has experienced easy and difficult times in relationships. Through every setback, he has bounced back stronger and better than he was before. He found seven easy-to-follow steps that helped him and others throughout history to be able to bounce back from life's setbacks. This led to him authoring the book "What Just Happened? How to Bounce Back in Life So You Can Do More, Have More, and Be More" As Jimmy shared with me during the pre-show interview, he was a millionaire at age 35, lost everything and bounced back from bankruptcy very quickly by starting a new company in an industry that he had no previous experience in. Jimmy says that the biggest benefit of bouncing back from financial ruin was that it wasn't just about the money. It took him losing everything money could buy in order to appreciate and have all the things that money couldn't buy. His is an amazing and inspiring story and I hope you will join us in the chat room during the program. You can find Jimmy Burgess on the web here: Website Facebook YouTube  

Rebekah Carpenter is the President of AV Productions and travels throughout the country as a keynote speaker, leadership development trainer, author and performing artist. For over 20 years, Rebekah has created and facilitated keynote presentations, seminars and workshops for corporate, business, educational, non-profit, religious, spiritual, personal and professional development events and conferences. Regarding her new book "Awakening: 12 Tools to Unlock Ultimate Potential" Rebekah says: "We need to be as awake as possible right now. Now is the time in our history for us to awaken and come together as a community to take back our national and global integrity. Now is the time in our history for us to awaken and step out of our man made dramas that distract us from living in the present, from being able to question and critically think, from owning and stepping into our authentic greatness, and from designing our lives based on who we really are. When we live from an awakened, authentically powerful place, our leadership has less of an ability to sell us something that is not in our best interests. When anyone comes along that is promoting hatred, gossip, oppression or injustice, we speak up for what is right. We negotiate and communicate more peacefully and fairly. We support each others’ greatness. We help each other soar." Please be sure to join us in the chat room if you have questions or observartions. You can also find us in iTunes when the show is done.

Social Marketing Techniques That Work Jason Elkins is the owner and founder of Transparent, a company that helps businesses grow by using social media. Jason has been using social media professionally since 2009. He taught the inaugural 400 level social media marketing class at Belmont in 2011 and 2012 and has conducted multiple clinics around middle Tennessee for businesses, colleges, churches and chambers of commerce. He is currently working with several small businesses and large brands in various marketing leadership capacities. Today Jason is going to share some social marketing techniques that actually work by sharing some of his online/offline strategies to make a big IMPACT. Be sure to join us in the chat room to ask questions or make observations. You can also download this episode and listen to it on your mobile device.   

Turning Adversaries into Allies Can you really, systematically and consistently get the results you want from others while making them feel genuinely good about themselves, about the process, and about you? My guest Bob Burg says, "Absolutely!" Bob Burg is a sought-after speaker at corporate conventions and for entrepreneurial events. He regularly addresses audiences ranging in size from 50 to 16,000 — sharing the platform with notables including today’s top thought leaders, broadcast personalities, Olympic athletes and political leaders including a former United States President. Although for years he was best known for his book Endless Referrals, over the past few years it’s his business parable, The Go-Giver (coauthored with John David Mann) that has captured the heart and imagination of his readers. He believes his new book, Adversaries into Allies: Win People Over Without Manipulation or Coercion is by far his most important work yet. In this interview Bob will share the principles behind his new book and we will be talking a lot about trust.  

J. Massey's is a true rags to riches story. In just six years he went from the struggle many people experience as he worked hard to provide for his family in southern California to amassing an impressive portfolio that includes over 300 units of residential and commercial properties as well as private notes and mortgages.  Through a series of life-altering events, including the serious illness of his then-pregnant wife, an accident that left J. with a punctured lung that excluded him from being able to work, and even losing and squatting in their foreclosed family home, J. learned quickly that he had to change his mindset if he wanted to survive and thrive. He immediately took action, immersing himself into intensive real estate investor training. He hasn't looked back and has built a booming investing business, using very little of his own cash or credit.  As a part of the legacy J. wants to leave his children, he began creating a training series that is now available to others so they can learn to do what he continues to do as an investor. This ultimately lead to a book project, with a release date expected in 2014, and a growing number of educational opportunities for those interested in all areas of real estate investing across age and all other demographics. J. currently functions as a landlord, private lender, real estate investing consultant, investment manager, speaker, author, mentor and community advocate.