Earn Your Happy

In This Episode You Will Learn About: Believing your dream is possible Learning to love the mundane Being patient about seeing results Taking advice from the right sources Asking for help when things get hard Staying focused when everything happens at once Developing discipline  Resources: Listen to Online Marketing Made Easy by Amy Porterfield to turn your business up to the next level! Text “PODCAST” to 310-496-8363 to get your questions answered on our Q&A segment or get coached on the show!  Show Notes:So many of us, as entrepreneurs or ambitious people, think that the challenges we are facing are unique to our situation. From years of running masterminds, I can tell you that the challenges people face – and the reasons they end up throwing in the towel – are largely the same. As much as you plan for your dream and think ahead, you have to make sure that you’re planning for the times when things get hard. Specifically, you need to plan for when you feel like quitting. I’m going to share eight common reasons why people quit early and how to move past them to keep your dream going.

In This Episode You Will Learn About: How to start a personal brand The journey from brand to product How to look legit Sticking to one thing Creating one pillar of content Systematizing your business  Resources: calonimichelle.com calonimichelle.com/blueprint calonimichelle.com/operations Instagram: @calonimichelle Listen to Online Marketing Made Easy by Amy Porterfield to turn your business up to the next level! Upgrade your job post at indeed.com/happy and get a $75 credit Text “PODCAST” to 310-496-8363 to get your questions answered on our Q&A segment or get coached on the show!  Show Notes:If you’re wanting to start or grow a business, working on your personal branding is always a great place to start. Caloni Michelle has an incredible ten-step blueprint to building a personal brand that is totally free! She’s so generous with her time and her knowledge – and that shows during this interview where she shares the three phases of building a personal brand. Question Highlights: How did you start your personal brand? What’s the timeframe from starting a personal brand to being able to put a product out? What can you do to look more like an authority? How can people let go of perfectionism?  Guest Bio:Caloni Michelle is the go-to personal branding expert. She’s the founder of Brandstrom – a personal branding agency – an international speaker, serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, event host, and an internationally recognized authority on personal branding.She has worked extensively with experts from all around the world to build, grow, and scale their personal brands online. Caloni has built noteworthy brands for experts who make less than six figures and those making millions, who have been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc., Entrepreneurs on Fire with JLD, Nasdaq, Dr. Phil, and many other outlets.She’s on a mission to help 1,000,000 people build authority, increase revenue and impact millions by transforming their personal brands.

In This Episode You Will Learn About: The difference between an intention and a wish Setting the right intentions Creating action out of intentions Examining the stories you tell yourself  Resources: Listen to Online Marketing Made Easy by Amy Porterfield to turn your business up to the next level! Text “PODCAST” to 310-496-8363 to get your questions answered on our Q&A segment or get coached on the show!  Show Notes:Intention doesn’t mean anything without a plan to back it up. We can set our intentions all we want but if we don’t take the time to plan and ensure those intentions become reality it’s never going to happen. Look at your life and find out what it is you’re telling yourself that’s holding you back from starting the thing you want – it’s probably not true.

In This Episode You Will Learn About: Creating a magic morning routine Changing your state Choosing different thoughts  Resources: Text “DAILY” to 310-421-0416 to get a free daily money mantra Text “PODCAST” to 310-496-8363 to get your questions answered on our Q&A segment or get coached on the show!  Show Notes:Nothing gets you excited for the day and the future like a fantastic morning routine. We set the intention to come up with new ideas every day and turn our morning runs into a meditation – and it worked like a charm. Starting the day off right raises your energy and leaves you feeling great.This is proof that you can change your state. If you wake up on the wrong side of the bed, things will begin to stack against you, but with just a few simple things, you can change your perspective which will ultimately change your results.Everyone has a different formula for what affects them. Our formula may not work for everyone, but if we move our bodies and choose different thoughts in the morning, it will set us up for the rest of the day.

In This Episode You Will Learn About: Why we operate from a place of “not enough” Leaving your expectations behind Coaching my inner child Bringing out your inner trauma Healing the collective  Resources: kylecease.com Instagram: @evolvingoutloud Join the Absolute Everything Pass Read: The Illusion of Money Visit talkspace.com/happy to get $100 off your first month  Text “PODCAST” to 310-496-8363 to get your questions answered on our Q&A segment or get coached on the show!  Show Notes:Kyle Cease is a truly epic human being. After a successful career in comedy, Kyle became obsessed with personal development, and dedicated his life and business to helping others grow. Now, using a unique mix of comedy and coaching, he models the “evolving out loud” method to the world. In this interview, Kyle gets me to open up and be more vulnerable than I’ve ever been on this podcast before – which is just a testament to his coaching abilities. Question Highlights: What is your Absolutely Everything Pass membership? How do you strip away your expectations? What do you do when you can’t figure out what you’re feeling? What happened to you throughout 2020?  Guest Bio:New York Times bestselling author, Kyle Cease, has a gift for merging comedy with personal transformation. As a comedian, Kyle had two #1 Comedy Central specials and was voted as the #1 ranking on Comedy Central’s Stand-up Showdown.After leaving his job as an award-winning comedian, Kyle dedicated his life to helping others and created Evolving Out Loud, a community which is a growing with over 400,000 members worldwide. Kyle has personally coached over 15,000 people and his YouTube videos have been watched over 60 million times.Kyle has made over 100 TV and movie appearances, including Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Late Late Show, and his speaking events regularly fill large venues across the United States. He has also spoken with renowned teachers like Eckhart Tolle, Jim Carrey, Michael Beckwith, Louis C.K., Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Louie Anderson, DickGregory, and David Wolfe; as well as having been guest speaker at thousands of colleges, summits, and Fortune 500 conferences, including Agape International, GATE, Revelations, The Sun Valley Wellness Festival, Sedona World Wisdom Days, and The Longevity Now Conference.Continuously inspired by his daughter, if Kyle put it simply, he would say he is ever-evolving (out loud) and on a journey to constantly find out the truth of who he is.You can find Kyle, Evolving Out Loud, and the Absolutely Everything Pass community at kylecease.com.

In This Episode You Will Learn About: Being rigid in your routines Breaking out of your old habits Questioning your reality Not waiting for the perfect situation  Resources:Text “PODCAST” to 310-496-8363 to get your questions answered on our Q&A segment or get coached on the show! Show Notes:I love routine. Even when it comes to going on vacation, it can really throw me off my game when I break away from my daily habits. But when you’re setting big goals and constantly striving for more, you can’t let those things hold you back from living your life. It’s time to question your rituals and routines and see if you can figure out how to do that thing you’ve been putting off while still accomplishing what you set out to do.

In This Episode You Will Learn About: Why being nimble is a superpower How being nimble reduces risk Having conversations with your partner  Resources:Text “PODCAST” to 310-496-8363 to get your questions answered on our Q&A segment or get coached on the show! Show Notes:One superpower that has always served us well over our lifetimes is being nimble. It’s led to windfalls, business success, healthy relationships, and more. When you see someone who, from the outside, appears to always be winning, what you’re really seeing is someone who’s not afraid to adapt when their idea is failing.So why is being nimble so hard for people? Because it’s not comfortable. You have to take a lot of risks and make a lot of gambles in order to stay nimble. When you truly embrace being nimble, it actually takes the risk out of those gambles. When your gamble falls through, if you just stay nimble, you’ll move on to the next move quickly.Being nimble allows you to seize opportunities. If you’re stuck on one way of being for too long, who knows what you could be missing out on? You have to be clear on your long-term vision, make sure everyone affected is on the same page as you, and then take aggressive action to secure the future you want. I promise you, this superpower can make amazing things happen.

In This Episode You Will Learn About: Why women aren’t taught to invest The reason women are better at investing How to get started with investing Understanding cryptocurrency  Resources: investdiva.com learn.investdiva.com/yes Text “PODCAST” to 310-496-8363 to get your questions answered on our Q&A segment or get coached on the show!  Show Notes:Investing is one of the most powerful tools for building financial freedom and wealth, but it’s something not enough women are talking about. Kiana Danial is an investing expert. When she learned that she was a small minority being a woman interested in finances and investing, she dedicated her life to spreading education and awareness around the power of investing. This conversation is going to help you feel empowered and understand all of the different ways you can start investing and opening up new opportunities that you never knew existed. Question Highlights: Where did your interest in investing come from? Why do you think there’s such a gender divide in the United States? What do you like to focus on helping people with? Where are some of the places women get stuck? Where should people start learning about investing? Why did you write about cryptocurrency and what should we know about it?  Guest Bio:Kiana Danial, CEO of Invest Diva is an award-winning, internationally recognized, personal investing and wealth management expert. Having been featured in The Wall Street Journal, TIME Magazine, Forbes, TheStreet, Nasdaq, Fox Business, Yahoo! Finance, Cheddar, The Stacking Benjamins Podcast, and The HerMoney Podcast with Jean Chatzky, Kiana is a highly sought-after commentator, professional speaker, and executive coach who delivers inspirational workshops and seminars to corporations, universities, and entrepreneurial groups. Kiana has reported on the financial markets directly from the floor of NYSE and NASDAQ, and was named the Personal Investment Expert of the Year in 2018 and the Investment Coach of the Year in 2019 by the Investment Fund Awards. An accomplished author, Kiana's books include Invest Diva's Guide to Making Money in Forex (published by McGraw-Hill in 2003), Cryptocurrency Investing For Dummies (published by Wiley in 2019), and the co-authored Million Dollar Moms (which achieved #1 status on Amazon in eight different categories in 2020). As the CEO of Invest Diva, Kiana's goal is to empower and educate women to take control of their financial future by investing in stocks and other online assets – even if they're super busy or not a math whiz! Kiana provides her Invest Diva students with daily personal finance and investing material via social media, financial education via her free MasterClass and her award-winning financial and investing PowerCourse, and coaching via her weekly P.I.G. (Personal Investing Group) LIVE classes. Kiana has grown a large social media following thanks to her fun, educational TikTok and YouTube videos on investing and personal finance, as well as her podcast The Invest Diva Movement, where she features timely financial advice and has interviewed financial educators and influencers like self-development coaches, Brian Tracy and Jack Canfield, and investors, Guy Spier, Anthony Scaramucci, Christina Qi, and Nancy Tengler.

In This Episode You Will Learn About: Looking forward to the future Reframe your mindset around what you’re doing to create joy Planning out your joy Spreading your pleasure out  Resources:Text “PODCAST” to 310-496-8363 to get your questions answered on our Q&A segment or get coached on the show! Show Notes:You don’t deserve to deny yourself pleasure and desire in your life. It’s so important to build our lives in a way that constantly gives us joy and pleasure. When you aren’t feeling pleasure in your day to day life, you risk numbing out on short-term dopamine hits that don’t bring us any long-term satisfaction, or you put all of your hopes for pleasure into one thing and just run it into the ground. Spread your pleasure out throughout your life. Stop delaying pleasure for the future and find joy in the moment, whatever you’re doing.

In This Episode You Will Learn About: Getting comfortable asking for help When some asks require following up Developing your asking muscle Getting your elevator pitch down Asking for connections Building a network  Resources: Apply for 1-on-1 coaching at chrisharder.me/coaching. Text “PODCAST” to 310-496-8363 to get your questions answered on our Q&A segment or get coached on the show!  Show Notes:Why is it so hard to ask for help? This is a weakness for many people – and there’s so many reasons why that may be. A major part is the fear of bugging people. There’s a difference between knowing how to ask for help and making it feel burdensome. It requires approaching that ask with a certain energy. We’re going to look at how you can go in for that ask without putting the pressure on.There are two main factors that contribute to getting better at asking: Do you have your asking muscles developed? Do you have people to ask? When you’re going in for an ask, you have to make sure you know what you’re asking. Ask it in a way that doesn’t require follow-up questions. Be clear and concise and don’t waste the person’s time. You only get one shot at this so take your time making sure the question is just right.Whatever you do, don’t be an “askhole.” That’s someone who asks for advice but doesn’t take any action. If you’re going to ask for help, make sure you are actioning it immediately. It doesn’t have to be perfect, but when people see that you’re the kind of person who puts advice into practice, they’ll be happy to give you more of it.The second part of this is who you ask. A lot of people are shooting for the stars and asking the biggest names they can think of without having the ability to offer them anything in return. Instead, start with the people within your own network. If you don’t have a network, it’s your job to seek out people online and find them. People with similar goals, interests, or wants as you.Knowing how to ask and how to build a circle of influence to ask within is going to make your journey as an entrepreneur go so much smoother. Collaboration is the shortcut to success. It is a skill, but it is one worth building.