Life on Fire TV (Video) – Online Business Coaching With Nick Unsworth

155: Why Purpose Matters

154: How to Be More Productive From Home and Crush It

Hey hey! Welcome to episode 154 of Life on Fire. Our most valuable and precious commodity is time, it’s something we can never buy back or replace. So how can we make leverage our time to crush it in our businesses - and enjoy our lives in the process? That’s what we’ll be talking about on today’s show. Specifically we’ll cover my top productivity tips that will help you no matter what industry you’re in or where you’re at with your business. And you’ll also hear a live hot seat session with two of my elite Firestarter clients. Productivity is an area we can all improve in. As I’ve grown Life on Fire I’ve learned a lot of helpful tips and suggestions to make the most of the time I invest in my business. I’ve got 12 tips for you - directly from my own experience! In this episode you’ll hear: • What part of the day is most critical to success? (8:20) • Are you creating profits or just busy work? How to know the difference. (16:20) • The importance of deadlines. (19:30) • Why what you eat plays a role in your success. (31:20) • How to handle the challenges of being an entrepreneur. (39:30) • And so much more! 1.) My first tip for more productivity is to create a morning routine. How you start your day is up to you, you CAN choose to be a morning person! The key is to make it fun and you’ll want to get up and get going. Make some time for exercise, listening to inspirational material and eating a lean, clean breakfast. Do it for 30 days and see how you feel. 2. Focus on profit-producing activities. An easy way to do this is to journal your days. Put everything you do in your journal and you’ll see where you are spending your time. Then you can tell if you’re doing income-producing activities or just busy work. 3. Calendar everything. This goes hand in hand with #2. Whatever it is you’re going to do for that day put it in your calendar and stick to it. Give yourself a start time and an end time for each day. 4. Create time blocks. When you’re creating that calendar use time blocks and batch your time according to the activity you’re doing. Set aside a specific day and time for making sales calls, for doing coaching calls, etc. It’s important to do right-brained activities on specific days and left-brained activities on other days, otherwise you’re going to tire yourself out and you won’t be at your best. Also give yourself time to work ON your business from a high level standpoint, and not just in it. 5. Give yourself a break. You need time throughout your day to eat, drink plenty of water and get in short bursts of exercise. Doing those three things will keep your energy up and keep you from feeling fatigued (also telling yourself you’re going to have energy all day will help!). So schedule breaks regularly and in short intervals. 6. Binaural beats. There’s an app called Relax that I use. It is a binaural beats app that tunes your brainwaves to help you focus better on the task at hand. I pop in my ear buds, listen to it while I’m focused and I get more done in less time! 7. The fuel you feed your body. What you feed your body plays a pivotal role in how much energy you have, and the more energy you have the more you can accomplish in less time! For 30 days try not eating carbs, and drinking more water during your workdays. Add in some greens - I like Amazing Greens - for extra energy between meals. You’ll feel the difference when you do. 8. Get a standing desk. You don’t have spend a few thousand dollars to do this, try something like Varidesk that goes on top of your existing desk. I do this, and it definitely has boosted my productivity! 9. Be aware of your emotions.

154: How to Be More Productive From Home and Crush It

153: 8 Steps to a Successful Mastermind

Hey hey! Welcome to episode 153 of Life on Fire. Today I’m giving you one of the keys that took me from being $50,000 in debt to selling my business within 2 years of implementing it. What is it exactly? It’s a mastermind. On this episode I’ll be walking you through each of the 8 steps to creating your very own successful mastermind. We’ll cover the two reasons to start a mastermind of your own, how to choose the purpose of your gathering, and where to host it. My first experience with a mastermind came at a point in my career when I was failing at everything I touched. One business idea after another fell flat, and no matter what I did I couldn’t make anything work. It wasn’t until I went to a mastermind event put on by Eben Pagan that things started to come together for me. In this episode you’ll hear: • Two reasons to start your own mastermind. (1:45) • How I’ve implemented masterminds in my Life On Fire business. (3:05) • Why the purpose of your mastermind is key to success. (3:45) • How to be sure you have the right people in the room. (5:00) • What’s the best venue for hosting your mastermind? (6:45) • And so much more! From attending Eben’s event I learned and implemented these 8 steps to a successful mastermind. After running many of my own I can tell you firsthand these types of events can absolutely change the course of your business. So let’s take a look at each of the 8 steps. 1. Identify your purpose with the mastermind. What is your primary reason for wanting to have a mastermind? Is it to help your attendees have “ah ha” moments and on-the-spot transformations? Or are you more interested in the networking angle? Or do you want a hybrid of the two? Whatever you want it to be choose your purpose before going on to step two. 2. Make sure you have the right people in the room. Once you know why you’re gathering people you can choose who you are gathering. For instance if you’re wanting to help fellow entrepreneurs create more income you’ll want to gather entrepreneurs; it wouldn’t make any sense to have people with jobs be a part of your mastermind. 3. Set the date. This is of course a critical piece of your mastermind event: choosing a date. Ideally you want to pick a date that is 120 days out, 90 days is okay too but 120 is the sweet spot. 4. Get the venue. The number of people you’re going to have and the purpose of your mastermind will help you determine where to host your event. If you’re having a smaller number of people - like 20 or less - you could have it in your home or in the back of a quiet restaurant. But for larger groups you’ll want to choose a hotel. And when you’re working with a hotel make sure you thoroughly review your contract and all the details so you’re getting the best deal possible. 5. You’re ready to go! Get everything ready so your start to the event goes smoothly: have registration ready with name tags and paperwork for everyone and get people into the room by 9am. An early start is good! Also have an ice breaker you can do with your group, something that will set the tone for the event and also connect the people in the room. You want people to bond and begin to form relationships with each other. 6. Choose the format of the mastermind. Do you want to do hot seats for everyone there? If so everyone gets a certain amount of time and they answer specific questions about what they do while on the hot seat. This way everyone in the group knows what they do and can give solid referrals that can lead to business. A wonderful way to facilitate this is to provide referral slips for everyone. This is a great way to prove the value for your attendees - have them actually have generated...

Hey hey! Welcome to episode 152 of Life on Fire TV. Today we’re talking with none other than Katherine (Kat) Humphus of Savory Made Simple and Kat’s Kitchen Collective. Kat has an interesting and inspirational story to share. She is a classically-trained and award-winning chef who has worked in the finest restaurants under some of the most prestigious chefs in the world. But she left the restaurant world to teach the world about food, and healthy eating. On the 152nd episode of Life on Fire TV Kat shares how she went from Kat’s Kitchen Collective being a blog to a first-rate meal delivery service, in under 30 days! Kat doesn’t have a typical chef story. She didn’t know she wanted to be in the world of food professionally until she was 19. In an effort to hide from customers at her hostess job she asked the chef for a job in the kitchen. Almost instantly she fell in love and knew she had to work with food, it was her passion. To bolster her career and her talents she applied at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, France. If you’re not into food it’s the school where Julia Child learned to cook, and has since become THE school for professionals chefs to be trained. In this episode you’ll hear: • How naivety worked in her favor. (8:20) • How she fed an extra 800 people in August (17:00) • Why to lead with profit-producing activities and build as you go. (20:40) • What's been her biggest challenge? (29:30) • How to embrace the suck. (36:50) • And so much more! After her time in Paris, she applied to work for some of the best restaurants in the world. Today she chalks it up to naiveté - she didn’t doubt herself or her experience level, she just went for it. And she worked with some of the greats including Thomas Kelleher at one of the top restaurants in the world, The French Laundry in Napa. She came home to San Diego after after working with these incredible chefs and opened multiple restaurants, earning the title Best Chef in 2014 and Top Female Chef among other noteworthy acknowledgements. But with those titles and honors came grueling long hours, and something inside of Kat knew she could apply her some work ethic, knowledge and skills to create her own successful business. So she left the restaurant scene, not knowing exactly what was next but wanting to share her passions on her blog Kat’s Kitchen Collective. She was smart and from the beginning grew her mailing list. And when she came to an Ignite event with other Life on Fire attendees she was inspired! She signed up for a VIP Day and together we uncovered her movement and her promise around food. From our time together Kat came up with the idea for Savory Made Simple, a meal kit delivery plan for people who wanted simple, savory and easy-to-make meals at home. Within the next 30 days Kat had 50 customers and had gone to earning five figures a month with her idea! And she also fed 800 people who would’ve gone without; she donates a portion of every sale to the San Diego chapter of Feeding America. Today she has every intention of expanding the operation to go well beyond San Diego into the rest of California and then eventually the entire United States. On this show we dive into what she’s learned along the way, what her biggest challenges have been and why it’s important to take action even when you don’t know how everything is going to work out! It’s all here on this episode of Life on Fire TV. EPISODE RESOURCES • Savory Made Simple web site http://www.savorymadesimple.com/ • Want one of Kat’s meal kits? https://eat.savorymadesimple.com/launch-promo • Life on Fire website http://www.lifeonfire.wpengine.com • Subscribe to Life on Fire TV Podcast http://www.lifeonfire.wpengine.

152: Savory Made Simple with Katherine Humphus

152: Savory Made Simple with Katherine Humphus

Hey hey! Welcome to episode 151 of Life on Fire TV. Today Dr. Matt Hubbard, my personal friend and fellow entrepreneur is here to recap and share our experience at Wizard Academy. No we didn’t run off to a Harry Potter camp for a week! Don’t let the name fool you, Wizard Academy is a space for innovation, creation and growth. It’s a place where some of the top entrepreneurs in the world come together to learn, grow and expand every aspect of their lives. On the 151th episode of Life on Fire TV Dr. Matt and I share what we learned from our time there, and how those lessons are helping us and can help you too.

151: The Wizard Academy with Dr. Matt Hubbard

Hey hey! Welcome to episode 150 of Life on Fire TV. Today you’re going to see and hear why it’s important to make time for family and friends. As entrepreneurs we work so hard to create the business of our dreams, the cash flow we’ve always desired and a legacy we can leave behind. But none of that matters if we don’t have family and friends to share the journey and the fruits of our labor with. So on this episode you’re going to see me do just that: enjoy with friends and family. I’ll take you along with me as I travel from San Diego to Detroit to Connecticut where I drop in unexpectedly on my brother and our friends, and my fiancee’s bridal party! In this episode you’ll also discover: • The importance of making time for friends and family. (:40) • My secret love of gaming. (1:40) • What is Clash of the Clans and why does it matter? (2:00) • Why I dressed up as the Barbarian King! (3:20) • And so much more! This show is a double surprise and I wanted you to see how much fun it is to play hard too! At Life on Fire we spend a lot of time talking about how to create the business you want, with the clients you want and to generate the income you want; so I thought it was equally important we spend time talking about the importance of quality time with friends and family. It’s far too easy to get caught up in the everyday demands of our work and our careers so we have to make our personal lives a priority as well. And I took time out of my busy schedule to fly home and surprise my brother & our friends at a party they were having, and then I made it a double surprise by dropping in on Megan Ann at her bridal shower! Only a few friends knew I was coming so you get to see the true joy and laughter on everyone’s faces when I pop in! This is a special episode about living life on your own terms, showing the people who matter to you just how much you value them - and having fun in the process! It’s all important to living a life on fire so sit back and enjoy this week’s episode of Live on Fire TV. EPISODE RESOURCES • Life on Fire website http://www.lifeonfire.wpengine.com • Subscribe to Life on Fire TV Podcast http://www.lifeonfire.wpengine.com/itunes • Write a Review on iTunes http://www.lifeonfire.wpengine.com/itunes

150: The Double Surprise

Hey hey! Welcome to episode 149 of Life on Fire TV. Today we’re diving deep into the world of Facebook advertising. Although it’s a topic we’ve touched on before it’s up for discussion again. Why? Because it’s the #1 issue I see most entrepreneurs have: how to generate quality leads. And effective Facebook advertising is the answer. On this episode we will go over the key elements of a successful ad campaign and a marketing funnel, explain how Facebook ads can grow your email list and help you build a celebrity-like presence for your brand. And our special guest Valerie Shoopman, Facebook marketing ninja, brings it home with a live demo of how to create the ideal Facebook ad. It’s all here on episode 148 of Life on Fire TV!

149: Facebook Ads A to Z Webinar