The Self-Employed Life
Jeffrey Shaw
The Self-Employed Life Podcast (formerly Creative Warriors) provides business and personal development strategies for self-employed business owners that create sustainable success.
A community of self-employed and small business owners, entrepreneurs, innovators and ambitious individuals that need creative solutions in business. Being self-employed and a business Warrior is a mindset, a spirit and a challenge. We need a different way of doing business. This is business with a soul.
We discuss marketing, branding, productivity, mindset, building meaningful relationships with customers and living a fulfilling life. In the self-employed life, it's all personal.
Small business consultant, business coach for entrepreneurs, keynote speaker, TEDx speaker, and author of The Self-Employed Life and LINGO, host Jeffrey Shaw, interviews bestselling authors and experts who will change your way of thinking and provide practical ideas that you can apply directly in your life and business. Two episodes each week- one content-rich interview with an expert and Coaching Break offers a 15-minute break to receive coaching from your host.
A community of self-employed and small business owners, entrepreneurs, innovators and ambitious individuals that need creative solutions in business. Being self-employed and a business Warrior is a mindset, a spirit and a challenge. We need a different way of doing business. This is business with a soul.
We discuss marketing, branding, productivity, mindset, building meaningful relationships with customers and living a fulfilling life. In the self-employed life, it's all personal.
Small business consultant, business coach for entrepreneurs, keynote speaker, TEDx speaker, and author of The Self-Employed Life and LINGO, host Jeffrey Shaw, interviews bestselling authors and experts who will change your way of thinking and provide practical ideas that you can apply directly in your life and business. Two episodes each week- one content-rich interview with an expert and Coaching Break offers a 15-minute break to receive coaching from your host.
Episodes
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Oct 17, 2015 • 41min
92: Tara Gentile - Quiet Power Strategy
We all know, it's a noisy world. There is a constant flow of content being created and consumed. You can stand out from the noise, by tapping into what makes you effective and compelling. You can use your quiet power to separate yourself from the noise! Tara Gentile is a business strategist and the author of Quiet Power Strategy. She works with entrepreneurs and idea people to help them leverage their Quiet Power and build businesses that generate wealth, peace, and ease. Tara’s work has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Design*Sponge, and in the New York Times bestselling book The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau. She’s a regular instructor on CreativeLive and speaks on entrepreneurship, money, and the New Economy all over the world.
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Oct 14, 2015 • 40min
91: Tony Crabbe - Thrive in a World of Too Much
Are you living a life of constant busyness? Feeling like you rarely get to shut completely down? Take some time to find out why this is happening and more importantly get some solutions on how to change it up! Tony Crabbe is the author of the book Busy: How To Thrive In A World of Too Much. At heart, Tony is a translator, taking quality research and brilliant thinking from psychology and other fields and applying them meaningfully to everyday career and business challenges. Tony is a Business Psychologist, who splits his time between writing and consulting with companies including Microsoft, Disney, News Corporation and HSBC. As a psychologist he focuses on how people think, feel and behave in business.
Oct 10, 2015 • 40min
90: Tiffany Han - Raise Your Hand and Say Yes!
Building a business based on bold, inspired action is not something that just happens. It's a process that takes support, acceptance of rejection and a willingness to embrace your inner resilience. It's not about being 100% ready; it's about stepping out on the limb and trusting yourself. Tiffany Han is a business and branding coach who helps highly-creative people raise their hands and say yes to those businesses they’ve always wanted to have and to those ideas that feel a bit crazy. She helps creative entrepreneurs build businesses through the magic of saying no to find their big yes! Tiffany is the founder of 100 Rejection Letters program and a regular contributor to Paper & Stitch and Design for Mankind. She speaks and teaches about the power of branding and also hosts a weekly podcast called Raise Your Hand Say Yes about the creative adventures of extraordinary people.
Oct 7, 2015 • 49min
89: JV Crum III - Conscious Business
Many entrepreneurs, particularly creative warriors, seem to somehow “find” themselves in business one day. As if it wasn’t planned as much as it was a transition that just happened. Whether you’ve been in business a long time, brand new or not in business yet, being in business consciously and with a clear intent is critical to your long-term success. J V Crum III helps entrepreneurs grow six and seven figure conscious businesses that combine making high profits with making a positive impact. He is a speaker, coach, Huffington Post Columnist, and best-selling author of “Conscious Millionaire: Grow Your Business by Making a Difference.” JV hosts the top-ranking Conscious Millionaire Podcast and is the founder of ConsciousMillionaire.com, a global coaching and wealth product business.
Oct 3, 2015 • 51min
88: Beth Buelow - Expand Your Capacity Zone
Have you ever felt like the only way your can change things is by being outside your comfort zone? That, unless you are in a constant state of being on the edge, life will simply stay exactly the same way? This is not true for everyone, especially for the introverts among us. Beth Buelow, ACC, serves as a guide to introvert entrepreneurs who want to amplify their strengths and build sustainable, energetically aligned businesses. She is a professional coach, author, speaker, and podcast host. She’s contributed articles to The Wall Street Journal, Success Magazine, Inc, Entrepreneur, and Psychology Today. Beth is the author of “Insight: Reflections on the Gifts of Being an Introvert” and the upcoming “The Introvert Entrepreneur: Amplify Your Strengths and Create Success on Your Own Terms,” to be released in November 2015.
Sep 30, 2015 • 41min
87: Marc Guberti - Teenage Entrepreneur Crushing it!
It's a frequent occurrence to seek out seasoned mature people for advice, training and inspiration. It's pretty rare to find a 17-year-old who since 11 has created online resources to help elevate people's lives. Proving that anything is possible if you apply the knowledge you acquire. Marc Guberti is a teenager entrepreneur, digital marketer, and author of 13 books(and counting). He is the co-founder of Teenager Entrepreneur, a movement that educates and empowers teens(and adults) worldwide with the knowledge they need in digital marketing to successfully grow their businesses. Marc currently has over 270,000 followers across his social media platforms. With a goal to surpass 1 million social media followers before receiving his high school diploma. He is an intriguing, insightful and certainly, a curious young man!
Sep 26, 2015 • 34min
86: Greg McKeown - "The Benefits of Pursuing Less"
It's fairly safe to say that most if not all of us are aware of the benefits of having more. That more is better and less is bad. Well, that's not necessarily true. Essentialism is the pursuit of less, but better. In essence it’s about Living life by design instead of default. Greg McKeown is the author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. Essentialism challenges core assumptions about achievement to get to the essence of what really drives success. His writing has appeared in Fast Company, Fortune, HuffPost, Politico, and Inc. Magazine. He is among the most popular bloggers for the Harvard Business Review and LinkedIn’s Influencers group: averaging a million views a month. Greg is the CEO of THIS Inc, a company assisting people and businesses to spend 80 percent of their time on the vital few rather than the trivial many. His clients include Adobe, Apple, Google, Facebook, Pixar, Salesforce, Symantec, Twitter, VMware and Yahoo!
Sep 23, 2015 • 40min
85: Geeta Nadkarni - Not So Quiet PR
There comes a point in every entrepreneur's life when you realize that your message can not be delivered one person at a time if you want to have an impact. And before you know it you're Googling your fingers off trying to figure out how to increase your exposure, write a press release or just navigate the complex world of PR. Media maven and passionate entrepreneurship advocate Geeta Nadkarni has 20+ years of experience producing print, TV, radio and new media for outlets including the CBC, CNN, Global TV and Reader’s Digest. She is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and Entrepreneur magazine and was voted “Best TV Personality” by the readers of the Montreal Mirror. Geeta is a master of communicating from the inside out. Her online program, Baby Got Booked is helping students get the exposure needed to bring their message to the world.
Sep 19, 2015 • 44min
84: Mark Barden - A Beautiful Constraint
At one point or another, everyone has felt that some limitation has kept them from meeting their ambition. It is human nature to see the problem and the limitation first. And it's not always easy to find a solution that will make a real difference. If you've been looking for the upside in the downside, buckle up. We are exploring how to turn limitations into advantages. Mark Barden is a partner in the highly-regarded consulting firm eatbigfish, who coined the term Challenger Brand in their influential book Eating The Big Fish. He is co-author of the book, A Beautiful Constraint: How to Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It’s Everyone’s Business. In his colorful career, Mark has sold Guinness door-to-door, run with Nike, and started his advertising agency no clients, landing Yahoo as a client a few days later! He’s won a Platinum Award for direct response marketing, taken a dot.com public, and once warmed up a crowd for Ellen De Generes. Mark is insightful, engaging and real crowd pleaser.
Sep 16, 2015 • 36min
83: Emilie Wapnick - Being a Multipotentialite
We have all felt societal pressure, to pick a "niche" and focus on the one thing we should do. Many of us have fought hard to live up to that expectation, at times feeling downright bad that we would fail if we did not conform. Well, that is simply not true. You can have a diversified business that supports all of your interests and keeps you excited. Emilie Wapnick was unable to settle on one path herself, she studied music, art, film production and law, graduating from the Law Faculty at McGill University. She looked at her varied interests and realized that they were, in fact, her greatest strengths. Kicking any guilt to the curb, Emilie Founded Puttylike, where she is the Creative Director helping multipotentialites integrate ALL of their interests into a life they most want. Her TEDx talk immediately resonated with us so much here at Creative Warriors that we immediately invited her to be a guest.
