Denise Griffitts - Your Partner In Success™ Radio!

Your Partner In Success Radio Show It is National "Think Like a Black Belt " week and I am delighted to welcome back to the show author and speaker Jim Bouchard. Jim teaches people how to think with a Black Belt mindset, meaning that you learn excellence, discipline, confidence, focus, courage, perseverance and leadership. His attitude is that today, a culture of excellence, personal responsibility and ethical leadership is not optional. It is an essential part of success. Jim has been a guest on the show before and during this visit we will be discussing his new book "THINK Like a Blackbelt!" which is now available on Amazon. In fact, if you order your copy from Amazon today, you have the opportunity to receive hundreds of dollars in bonus gifts from America’s leading personal development experts.

Your Partner In Success Radio Show This week I welcome to the show Angela O'Mara, author of "Lipstick. Laptops. Life: The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of a Modern Business Woman". Angela is the President of The Professional Image, Inc. a PR agency located in Irvine, CA . We will cover topics ranging the importance of being bold, taking a leap of faith in your business and being realistic with your available resources. We will also chat about her new book. I love that title!

This week I welcome to the show Bob Kelly of WordCrafters, Inc. Bob is a copywriter, ghostwriter, speech writer, book editor, author and speaker. He also owns what is surely one of the rarest and most extensive quotes collections in existence. His library includes more than 400 published volumes containing nearly 1.5 million quotes, plus thousands of other quotes collected from a wide variety of sources. Bob says that if you’ve ever wondered exactly what constitutes a quotation, and who decides what qualifies for that designation, the late scientist and science fiction writer, Isaac Asimov, came about as close to answering those questions as anyone he's found. In his Foreword to Isaac Asimov’s Book of Science and Nature Quotations (co-edited by Jason A. Shulman and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, New York, in 1988), he wrote: “There are five billion people on Earth, and I should guess that at any given moment one or two billion of us are speaking. And I should further guess that virtually nothing anyone says is memorable....There are times, however, when someone turns a phrase that seems so clever or so apt or so enlightening or so true, that the statement flies from person to person and gives pleasure at each passage. The statement becomes a ‘quotation.’ ” We will cover topics ranging from writing, editing and publishing your book to how third-party quotations can be used effectively in your marketing message.

This week our show will take a slightly different direction as I interview Cherry Norris. Cherry Norris, The Hollywood Dating Director, is a renowned relationship coach, seminar leader and popular speaker. She teaches you how to define your role, set the stage and speak your part for the romantic relationship you desire. Cherry is the ultimate expert on dating and relationships. Since she lives in Los Angeles (the entertainment capital of the world), she found that analogies to the movie industry provided the means for her to succeed in her unique role as “The Hollywood Dating Director.” “Like an actor preparing for a role on stage, I direct my clients to choose his or her role, determine the genre of their relationship, and establish their unique character,” says Norris. “Clients set the stage, rehearse dialogue and ‘improv’ difficult situations so when they go on dates, they feel confident, comfortable and sit back to ‘enjoy the show’ – for that’s what dating truly is.” Cherry has over fifteen years of experience. She has produced numerous workshops, seminars, an eight-week home study course, and even a feature length independent motion picture (“Duty Dating”). She’s coached a multitude of celebrities, actors and VIPs. Cherry is a guest speaker for singles organizations and has been featured in the LA Times, Woman’s World Magazine, TV Guide Channel and more.

Heather Gray is a personal coach who loves inspiring you to find your own brand of soul-satisfaction (a combination of finding your truth + growing thru obstacles + creating your freedom and fulfillment plan.) She is also a writer, author, and "laptop lifestyle" enthusiast. Heather Gray has been on the Personal and Spiritual Growth path as a workshop leader, coach, and writer for over 15 years. In her 20’s she co-authored (with her friend Samantha Phillips) the Teen Girl Guide book, Real Girl Real World: A Guide to Finding Your True Self, which has been featured on NPR, in Teen People Magazine and is currently in it’s second edition. She is a Certified Reiki Master, and has studied coaching with Denise Linn (founder of the International Institute of Soul Coaching) and Martha Beck (best selling author of “Finding Your Own North Star”). She recently hosted the well received virtual event, “The Laptop Lifestyle Freedom Summit,” in which she interviewed 12 of her favorite colleagues and creative entrepreneurs from the online world; the theme being how to live from your passion, have breakthrough success and create the ultimate lifestyle of freedom and fulfillment. After living in New York City for nearly 15 years, she uprooted last June and after a summer of cross country travel, her home base in now on the Chesapeake Bay in Southern, Maryland. Her website is http://soulfilledlife.com

Your Partner In Success Radio Show Every business starts with an idea and a dream. But somehow somewhere that dream turns into a “job” we never meant to create. Milana Leshinsky helps entrepreneurs and professionals who are tired of trading time for money create a highly profitable multiple-income-stream business so they can enjoy complete personal freedom they truly desire. In 2000, Milana discovered the world of Internet Marketing. In attempt to become a work-at-home mom, she quit her job and launched an Internet-based business. After writing and successfully selling three digitally published books, she was introduced to coaching. Things moved very quickly…In 2002, she founded the Association of Coaching & Consulting Professionals on the Web (ACCPOW), a place for coaches to learn and acquire the tools for building a global business. She also launched global Coaching Telesummit, which she pioneered in 2005 and transformed into Coaching Super Summit, a live event for coaches and coaching entrepreneurs world wide. Milana has a new book in the works and we will be talking about "Dough for What You Know"

Knowing how to think and act like a CEO, whether you are making five figures or seven, is the key to building your empire. Imagine spending most of your time doing the things you love while achieving more in a week than most people do in a year! As CEO of Success Connections for almost 10 years, Melanie Benson Strick has discovered how to build a successful, thriving company with her secret weapon — LEVERAGE. Having learned first hand the difference between a struggling solo-practice and a thriving six+ figure business, Melanie works exclusively with entrepreneurs who want to skyrocket their profits so they can experience more time off. With over 12 years experience in Corporate project management, advanced results coaching and leadership development, Melanie turns her clients into profitable, high-payoff success stories. Melanie’s clients enjoy an average growth rate of 172% within the first year while creating more time for living their dream lifestyle. Melanie is on faculty at StomperNet, one of the worlds leading authorities on online marketing, hosts a weekly radio show called The Get Real Revolution, and is author of The Power of the Virtual Team, co-author of the Visionary Women Inspiring the World and the upcoming best seller The CEO Factor. Melanie has spoken all over the country and shared the stage with legends such as Chris Howard, John Assaraf, Barbara DeAngelis, Alex Mandossian, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hanson. We will talk about Leadership Mastery: How being CEO of your business is the fastest path to massive growth.

This week I am delighted to welcome to the show Executive Coach, Brand Strategist and Bestselling Author, Libby Gill. Libby Gill headed up public relations and corporate communications at major entertainment studios including Universal Studios, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Turner Broadcasting and was the branding and PR brain behind the launch of the Dr. Phil Show. Libby is now an internationally respected executive coach, brand strategist and bestselling author of bestselling YOU UNSTUCK: MASTERING THE NEW RULES OF RISK- TAKING IN WORK & LIFE and founder of MyAccountabilityClub.com. She’s been featured on the Today Show, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, CNN, Oprah & Friends Radio Network, NPR, the Dr. Phil Show, and in Time magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, O magazine and many more. Our topic will be "Staying Accountable to Success"Accountability is a big theme in Libby's work and in her new book "You Unstuck". We will be chatting a lot about accountability and how Libby defines it.What does accountability have to do with personal success?As a coach for entrepreneurs and executives all over the country, Libby has gotten a lot of people unstuck. Does she ever have trouble holding herself accountable?Why do we get so excited about our goals and plans and then just lose steam over time?Libby references a lot of scientific research in her book. I will ask her what data she found most enlightening.I will be asking Libby to share some specific strategies we can learn to hold ourselves accountable.And much more!

Fabled internet marketer Rosalind Gardner is somebody that I have followed around on the internet for many years. If anybody on the web can teach you how to enjoy financial freedom with an online business (or several!) it is Rosalind. Her story is a fascinating one in that she built her online businesses when there was no text, audio or video or audio-visual tutorials to show new webmasters how to do anything. But… and this is a BIG but — she saw the opportunity to make money online and was absolutely determined to quit her air traffic controller job (because of the lousy shift schedules), so she got to work and learned all she could. Her first month after starting her dating site, Sage-Hearts (now renamed 101.Date.com) she received a check for $10.99 which was all she needed to convince her that affiliate marketing did work and that she could master it. By the end of her first year in business she was clearing $5,000 a month and quit her day job in 2000 by which time she was making over $10,000. By 2003 Rosalind decided to share what she had learned about the potential for building and sustaining an online business and wrote one of the staples of my entrepreneurial library, The Super Affiliate Handbook: How I Made $436,797 in One Year Selling Other People’s Stuff Online. The book, which is constantly updated with current information, has become the industry’s primary training manual for teaching new affiliate marketers how to do business right and is on the desks of most affiliate network managers.

Lisa Manyon is the President of Write On ~ Creative Writing Services, LLC. She is a Professional Copywriter, Marketing Strategist and Published Author specializing in POWERFULLY communicating your marketing message to increase results. She is a master of matching your message to market in your authentic voice. Plus, Lisa has a passion for helping people reach their individual goals. She helps transform dreams into manageable action steps with tangible results. Her passion for authentically sharing newsworthy messages has earned her recognition for press release and publicity results. She continually invests in professional growth to offer the best service possible. She’s completed Ali Brown’s Marketing Mastery 12 month online marketing & mentorship course and the Millionaire Protégé Club Platinum Program (serving as a mastermind leader within the program). Lisa developed a series of marketing trainings for the Idaho Small Business Development Center to help businesses avoid costly start-up mistakes. Lisa is the first professional copywriter in the state of Idaho to achieve Glazer – Kennedy Creating Copy that Sells certification. She has worked as Managing Director of Lorrie Morgan-Ferrero’s National Copywriting Mentorship Program, is the featured press release case study in Lorrie’s She Factor Marketing System and serves as a Copy Coach in the She Factor Copywriting Bootcamp program. Lisa has studied John Carlton’s work and survived his infamous Marketing Rebel Hot Seats. She is the Copywriting Expert for the Association of Web Entrepreneurs, Wendy Y Bailey’s Group Mastery and more. She’s a published author and is a featured in the International Association of Web Entrepreneurs Official Guide to Emerging Trends Every Online Entrepreneur Must Know and has written promotional, advertising and marketing copy for internet marketers and a wide variety of brick and mortar businesses.

Wendy Y. Bailey is the Coach's Coach. Called a "Force of Nature" and trendsetter in coaching by The Coaching Commons - a premier industry think-tank and journal - she developed and leads the certifying process for Certified Group Coaches. Affectionately called “WendyY” by her clients, business associates and coaching colleagues, she is a Master Certified Group Coach, Certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner and Certified Experienced Coach. WendyY leveraged more than 25 years of leadership and management experience and expertise leading hundreds of live workshops and small/large group training sessions to create her signature program, "Group Coaching Mastery - Master Group Coaching with an NLP Twist." She’s created several bestselling group coaching programs, including “33 Minute Mastery: Group Coaching in 33 Minutes,” “Close More Clients and Make More Money” and "Masterful Content: How to Create Compelling and Transformational Content for your Group Coaching Program.” Using influence, persuasive marketing and powerful language strategies, WendyY helps coaches, speakers and other training professionals create, design, market and deliver profitable group coaching programs. WendyY is the author of the book, "Group Coaching Mastery: The Coach's Guide to Group Coaching with NLP" to be published April, 2010.

Kara Oh, "The Heart Whisperer" is a best-selling author of Men Made Easy, and has written several other titles including Affair Repair, From Flirting To Forever, Marriage Makeover Manuel, and How To Win The Woman You Want. She is also a co-author of 101 Great Ways To Improve Your Life with fellow authors, John Gray, Jack Canfield, Richard Carlson, Bob Proctor and Alan Cohan. She's a Dating and Relationship Coach, Seminar Leader, Inspirational Speaker, radio and TV personality, mother of two fantastic grown children, and grandmother of a magical 14 year old grandson. Kara has been interviewed on hundreds of radio and TV shows across the country in cities like New York, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Chicago, and Philadelphia, and given seminars in bookstores in every major (and a few not so major) city. She has been featured in magazines like Cosmopolitan and Women's World. She is an enlightening and entertaining public speaker and has traveled to all the major US cities sharing her insights about what makes men tick and how to create amazing relationships. Kara will share her processes for creating, publishing and selling her books via the internet.

Judy, The Journaling Jenius™ is a Business Skills Trainer, International Speaker and coach. She has a passion for journal writing. Judy says, “Expert journaling tools, when combined with strong business skills, will help you create the business or career you desire. For instance, journaling can be used for creative brainstorming, planning, stress relief, and conflict management.” She is a dynamic and playful presenter. Her workshops, Journals and Journaling Jems™ cards teach tools & techniques that empower you to find your passion, life direction and personal path to success. Today we’re going to talk to Judy about one of her favorite subjects – Branding! What is your Brand? How do you differentiate yourself? Judy professes to taking a different approach when she teaches her Branding “U” workshops. Where do you start? What is a niche? Why have a niche? What having a niche DOESN’T mean? And what are most business owners afraid of. If you’re in network marketing do you still need a brand? A niche? Why do you need to write an infomercial for your business? Please be sure to login to the chat room to ask questions during the interview. And if we can get a brave caller on the line, Judy can do a live coaching demo to help someone define their brand / niche. We look forward to “seeing” you!

Rebecca Quinn is an online business manager, virtual assistant and business advisor who works with small business owners, solo-entrepreneurs, service professionals. We will be speaking about organization, specifically systems and processes. Once you set up systems for everything in your business you free yourself up to be creative and build the part of the business that you are in love with and passionate about. Basic Systems: Why set up systems in your business? Where to start and what systems you really must have in place. Emergency Preparedness: Why is this so important? Most business don’t survive disasters and information losses. Rebecca will give you tips on how to create a quick and easy mini-disaster plan for your business. Systems for Getting Business, Marketing & Social Networking. Everyone needs more business; everyone has unprecedented access to get their information out in the world due to internet and social networks. We will discuss how to use systems to simplify your social networking.

From answering phones to owning and running a $20 million business… Considered one of the most dynamic business and personal acceleration specialists around, Deborah Dubree has earned a reputation for training serious achievers worldwide to stop wasting time, energy and money and reach their goals. Bold, clear and practical in her approach, Deborah delights in inspiring clients to build their mental agility, communicate for results and walk like a winner … as they become #1 in their field of expertise. Tenacious and gutsy, she gained a unique perspective on business during her climb up the ladder of success from answering the phones as an inexperienced receptionist to owning and running a $20 million commercial construction company, all with only a high school diploma. Eventually, Deborah stepped away from her CEO position to create ClearEdge. In this interview we will be discussing Clear Edge - what it is and why it is important. Deborah will show you how to "Get Clear - Get Structure and Get Results".