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Vinnie Fisher

Vinnie Fisher

Bio

Vinnie Fisher is an entrepreneur and a best-selling author who has over 20 years of experience growing a scaling multiple 8-figure companies.

Vinnie Fisher has been married to Debbi for 27 years and has 4 beautiful children. Vinnie has built multiple businesses with the privilege of growing 4 of them to 8-figures.

Today Vinnie is the CEO and founder of Fully Accountable which opened in early 2015. With his team, they built an Outsourced Accounting and fractional CFO company that provides a fully managed back office solution for eCommerce, CPG, tech enabled, SaaS and digital agencies.

They recently made the 2022 INC. 5000 list for the fourth year in a row with 151% growth! As a successful CEO Vinnie has really developed a talent for building and growing world class teams. He has learned that a valuable company must grow beyond the shadow of the owner.

Topics

  • Is your business bigger than you
  • Importance of company culture
  • Growing a business to 7 and 8 figures

Questions

  • What’s the secret to growing your business?
  • Why is company culture so important?
  • Why did you start a finance company?

Interested in this guest? Drop your info below!


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Kim Kristensen

Kim Kristensen

Bio

  • I help people get unstuck.
  • Spent 24 years as a circus performer doing acrobatics, trick riding, training horses and leopards, and as an aerialist with no nets or safety devices.
  • Traveled extensively through 49 states (missed Alaska), most of Canada, Mexico, and Denmark.
  • Did somersaults on the back of a galloping horse almost daily between ages 14 – 18.
  • Spent 4 days alone in the wilderness on a mountain top (Mount Rogers) with no food and minimal shelter.
  • Spent 4 days being initiated and challenged by a group of powerful women at the Noble Man workshop.
  • Sat with shamans in the Upper Amazon in Peru and participated in Ayahuasca healing rituals.
  • Went through a men’s initiation weekend in 2004.
  • Bitten through the right arm by a young leopard, charged by an enraged female elephant, and met Mae West in San Francisco. But not all on the same day.

Topics

  • Conflict: How to WIN Every Time! Tired of losing at conflict? Do you want to walk away with a feeling of victory? Through interactive discussion, movement, conflict “games”, and role play we will explore and experience various Conflict Resolution techniques for a guaranteed WIN!
  • Practical Conflict Resolution: 8 hr. prerequisite for Basic Mediation.
  • Basic Mediation: 16 hr./2-day workshop towards becoming a Virginia Certified Mediator.
  • Assertive Communication Skills – How to Speak your Truth Respectfully & Professionally: How to speak up, ask for what you want, and change your life. Do you let others get their way because you are reluctant to speak up? Do you speak up too quickly and end up being accused of being aggressive? This workshop will help you develop sure-fire techniques to ask for what you want in a respectful and clear manner.
  • Deep Listening Skills – Becoming a Better Listener: Being an effective employee, manager, parent, spouse, friend, or even human requires being able to really hear what the other person is saying. Deep listening skills can help you connect with and influence others in a positive and productive way
  • Your Brain on Conflict – Brain Based Conflict Resolution Techniques: Have you ever been unsuccessful at communicating with or calming an upset person? Have you ever been at loss for words or effective strategies during a conflict? This workshop uses some basic principles of neuropsychology to present a model for understanding the behaviors of people and for calming and connecting with them so communication can be more effective.
  • Managing Conflict, Teams, and Agreements: Find the skill and courage to handle interpersonal conflict in teams through managing agreements. This workshop will explore ways to limit or prevent unintended negative outcomes by handling conflict and agreements in a more productive and courageous way.
  • An Introduction to Conflict Coaching – “Mediation for One”: Through actual coaching and interactive presentation, this training helps prepare participants for coaching conflict situations. Conflict Coaching is a one-on-one, forward-looking, and empowering process intended to help a person be more effective in handling conflict in their lives. The focus is on helping the person make behavioral changes that result in less destructive conflict and more constructive outcomes.
  • Dealing with Difficult People – A Different Approach: How to remain calm, diffuse anger, and deal with strong personalities. This workshop gives you personal insights plus communication and coping skills to deal with those difficult people in your life in a respectful and appropriate manner.
  • Mediating Difficult Conversations: How to communicate with others in difficult and conflict situations. What to say and how to say it, when you don’t want to say it. Participants will leave with a “cheat sheet” of proven techniques to help make those difficult conversations less difficult.
  • Somatic Conflict Resolution – Using the Body’s Wisdom for Personal Breakthroughs: The Body never lies! The participant will experience various evidence-based somatic (body-based) strategies for increasing awareness and connection. These techniques can be used effectively with clients, employees, and even friends and family for better understanding, connection, and cooperation.
  • Basic Conflict Resolution & Mediation: This workshop introduces you to a variety of Conflict Resolution theories and techniques. You gain new tools in Conflict Resolution and Mediation through various activities, exercises, and role plays.
  • Living Within Your Window of Tolerance – Regulating Your Emotions, Calming Your Body, & Reducing Anxiety: You will experience using the “Window of Tolerance” and related techniques to help you not only regulate your own nervous system but also the nervous systems of others.
  • Customer Service – The most important thing you will do all day: We often think of customer service being applied to the retail environment. However, we all have customers and we all are customers to someone. Through interactive presentation and discussion, this training will describe and elicit various ways to offer better internal and external customer service and also be the best customer to others.
  • Yes, There IS an “I” in Team: Failing to recognize the individuality of members in a team can cause conflict. Make those “I’s” become “We’s”. Learn why there’s no such thing as team conflict, how to recognize and build on individual strengths, and how to make your team’s collaborative efforts more successful.
  • Delegating Effectively and with Purpose: Participants will explore why you should delegate, what you should delegate, when you should delegate, when you shouldn’t delegate, and to whom you should (or shouldn’t) delegate.
  • Conflict Resolution Games – How Games & Play can teach us how to get along: You will experience various games & activities that illustrate fundamental conflict resolution principles and techniques.For adults and teens.
  • Stress Can’t Kill You! This interactive presentation will offer several powerful ways to reframe stress and better deal with, maybe even capitalize on, everyday stress. By the end of the presentation, the audience will have new insights plus several powerful tools to help reduce and control the stress in their lives.
  • De-Escalation Techniques: How to use various verbal and somatic (body-oriented) techniques to help de-escalate typical conflict situations.
  • Trauma-Informed Conflict Resolution: Using Trauma-Informed knowledge and processes to help decrease, mediate, and even prevent conflict.

Questions

  • How can you avoid conflicts?
  • How do you de-escalate someone who is upset?
  • How can you win a conflict every time?
  • How do you say “no”?
  • How can you be assertive without becoming an asshole?
  • How can you have that “difficult conversation” with someone?
  • How do you calm yourself, reduce anxiety, and de-stress?
  • Why does your team have disagreements?
  • What is Conflict Coaching?
  • How do you deal with difficult people?

Interested in this guest? Drop your info below!


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Antwan T Lawrence

Antwan T Lawrence

Bio

Serial Entrepreneur with deep knowledge across health, wellness, finance, technology, data, and sports. Follow me on IG @iamantwanlawrence to follow my journey to impact the world one business or individual/family at a time.

Topics

  • Health and Wellness
  • Finance
  • Technology
  • Data
  • Sports
  • Family
  • Kids

Questions

  • Health and Wellness
  • Finance
  • Technology
  • Data
  • Sports
  • Family
  • Kids

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Justin Jacobs

Justin Jacobs

Bio

Justin Jacobs is an Authentic Discovery Coach that engages his clients in a thought-provoking and creative process to discover their natural strengths and talents, and then apply those to achieve their personal and professional goals.

 

He uses his decades of experience as a leader and mentor to help others take control of their lives, become their authentic selves, and be wildly successful once they get there!

Fun Facts:

  • He spent 22 years in the U.S. Coast Guard advising and leading military and industry professionals in multiple marine safety and homeland security missions.
  • He loves travel and has lived, worked, and visited 44 countries.
  • Strengths = Mystique (Curiosity), Trust, Observant, Nuanced, Logical
  • Enneagram = 1 – The Reformer and 5 – The Investigator
  • RBLP-T Authorized Training Partner

Topics

Justin can discuss coaching, mindset and mindfulness, transition, finding joy

in life, leadership development, leading large groups successfully,

working in inter-cultural environments, and discovering natural strengths and talents.

Questions

  • How did you successfully transition in mid-life after a 22-year career in the military?
  • How do you help others find their natural strengths and talents?
  • You say that most people live life on auto-pilot. What do you mean by that?
  • What is so important about self-reflection and/or mindfulness?

Interested in this guest? Drop your info below!


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Just Followed Us on LinkedIn? Welcome!

Just Followed Us on LinkedIn? Welcome!

Hey, this is Fritz. And I wanted to personally thank you for following podcastify.me on LinkedIn.

(and if you haven’t yet and you’re just trying to figure out what the heck this is all about, this will answer that question. And then you should go follow us!)

Briefly: This is a service that’s built around coaches. All kinds of coaches. Anyone who is:

  • Known for expertise in any area…
  • …who makes their money largely by having conversations and building relationships, and…
  • …who wants to impact the lives of people around them…

That’s who we help.

The way we help is by building a carefully crafted podcast around that coach. That podcast actually is a smaller part of a bigger ecosystem, which includes:

  • Finding guests,
  • Screening applicants,
  • Scheduling and communication,
  • Editing the show,
  • Publishing the finished episode,
  • Designing show collateral,
  • Sharing to our clients’ social media channels,
  • Also giving the same collateral to the guest, so they can share on their social media channels,
  • Building a growing group of die-hard fans of the host,
  • Helping convert guests and listeners into leads and clients later,
  • And gathering feedback from the host, the guest, and continually improving the experience for everybody.

The only thing our clients should be focused on is having great conversations with people who vibe at the same wavelength. Those are the kinds of conversations that create great rapport, and lead to business later.

Everything else? It’s systematized, automated and delegated, to get a quick turnaround at a comfortable price point.

The Big Why

podcastify.me is actually a combination of all kinds of things in my career. I’m a software developer, marketer, software tester, salesperson, podcaster, multipreneur, social media manager and automation expert. Combining all of this together just sorta happened organically, and it’s already making a big impact in a few coaches’ businesses.

But my big “why” for this? Personally, I’m tired of seeing solo coaches crash from lack of visibility. There’s nothing worse than having a dream to serve people, but not being able to make enough money to survive on that dream. It’s happened to some really good friends of mine.

But now? I want to do what I can to change that. I want to use every brain cell I have to help coaches like that to succeed, and make more of an impact than they ever imagined possible.

And I got here as fast as I could.

I’ve been podcasting since July 2019, and in that time, I’ve unintentionally made money, friends and partnerships via that medium, without really trying.

The secret is that podcasting immediately taps you into a massive pool of people that you wouldn’t have met the way you’ve been networking before. And even having a podcast creates an environment that attracts all kinds of people.

We take all that process, experience and technology, and focus it into something that will help you grow your coaching business. In a big way.

I’d love to see if we’re a fit for each other.

If you’re curious too: tell us a little bit about your business, starting with clicking the button below.

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Auto-Qualifying and Disqualifying Guests

Auto-Qualifying and Disqualifying Guests

Hey, this is Fritz. One of the things we’re super careful about in the guest procurement process is making sure we find people that are the right fit for the show.

It starts with first designing a show that attracts the right people. From the show graphics to the description, we tune the language to appeal to the correct folks.

Next, we build a custom intake form for the client. With a list of questions designed to learn as much as possible about the guest so that the host is prepared, but also to help filter out who isn’t a good fit.

Because we find guests all over the place on MatchMaker.fm, Reddit, LinkedIn, Facebook and other outlets, we need to be careful about who we let on.

Previously this is how we’d do it:

  • Design the show as above
  • Create an intake form with agreed-upon questions
  • Client gets an email for every applicant that fills out the form
  • Client sends a “YES” or a “NO” to us
  • We send the appropriate email to the applicant (get scheduled or rejection)

Now? We’ve streamlined much of the process:

  • Design the show as above
  • Create an intake form an agreed-upon questions
  • Add logic to automatically reject applicants that meet certain agreed-upon conditions–applicant receives a nicely-worded yet firm rejection that they’re not a fit for the show, but the client doesn’t receive an email at all (keeping their inbox nice and quiet).
  • If they’re not rejected then the client gets an email with all the details.
  • Client can then accept or reject with the press of a button

The important part here is: the client only receives an email if they’re a pretty good fit. And if they’re not? We talk about it and figure out how to automatically filter those people out so there are less of them in the future.

Everything about what we do is literally built to make it as easy as possible for our clients to have a podcast. Really the only thing we can’t do is the one thing they can, which is: interviewing guests and building awesome relationships.

If this makes you think you might want to take a step toward having your own show, with a minimum of fuss, then we are (biased of course lol, but) happy to learn more about your business. And we’ve streamlined a lot of that process too.

Click the button below let’s see if we’re a good fit for each other.

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How podcasts make you money

There are a couple ways a podcast creates revenue. This one’s more unorthodox.

How podcasts make you money

Hey, this is Fritz. In talking with fellow podcast hosts and podcast producers, there seems to be a single way most people think that a podcast can generate revenue: through sponsorships.

It is an effective way to get money via podcasting. However, the biggest challenge with this approach is, you have to steadily build listenership of a certain kind of person, before sponsorship becomes possible.

Continue to get more and more people to listen to the show, so that you can go to sponsors and say,

“Hey, I’ve got this many pairs of ears listening to my show, and a lot of them are in your target demographic. I’m more than happy to talk about your business for 30 seconds for X dollars per month.”

Now it might take months or years to build that listenership. It might take dozens or hundreds of “no”s before you get your first “yes”. And all the while, every hour you spend working to get to where sponsors start saying “yes” more frequently, is an hour that’s not spent building your business.

Here’s a different way: turn your guests into clients.

Part of the podcastify.me service is building a show around you, as a coaching consultant. Whether you’re a business, mindset, fitness, meditation, leadership or any other kind of coach, if you’ve already proven that people are paying you for your advice, then you can make money simply by converting guests into diehard fans of you.

Each and every conversation you have is further cementing in the guest’s mind this phrase: “Wow this person really knows what they’re talking about.” And the questions that podcastify.me will work with you on to flesh out will help guide you toward helping the guest feel safe about opening up about their challenges–challenges that you know how to solve.

Plus, listeners of each episode will also hear your expertise, and may come to the same conclusion as the guest did. It’s a huge step toward taking on more clients.

And while your mileage may vary, technically you can start making money with your very first episode. Just takes bringing on the right guest.

Sponsorship is a way that you can make money with your new podcast. But it’s not the only way. We help bridge that gap so you can bring in fresh revenue doing what you’re already awesome at doing: having conversations.

If you’re ready to take the next step, click the button below and you can choose how you’d like to let us know more about your business and see if we’re a fit for each other.

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Calculating Your Podcast ROI

A podcast should get you a return. Here’s how to go about…

Calculating the ROI for a podcast

Hey, this is Fritz. Personally, I found out by accident that hosting a podcast can lead to business. Either the guest becomes a client later, or people in their network are attracted to my business either by hearing the conversation, or through being referred to me by the guest. I didn’t plan on that. But I’ve figured out how to leverage that power, and then offer that same power as a service to others.

If the service offering looks intriguing, but you’re thinking, “yeah… but what’s the ROI on this?” then this post (and handy Excel spreadsheet) is for you.

There are two ways to get an ROI with a podcast, and it has to do with how it’s used as a SALES tool, and as a MARKETING tool. Sales is the 1-to-1 conversation that you have with a guest, whereas marketing is the 1-to-many outreach that happens later on both your and your guest’s social media channels.

So I’d like to invite you to download the ROI Calculator here and then follow along with me in this video to the right to see how this works.


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Fitting for listenership

Not everybody’s going to love your show. That’s why we focus on…

Fitting for listenership

Hey this is Fritz. While some people may be gearing up to become the next Joe Rogan of the podcasting world, the fact is not everybody’s going to be a fit for your show.

Not everybody’s even a fit for Joe’s show, hard as that is to believe.

There are, however, certain people out there that would love to listen. And with nearly 8 billion people on planet Earth today (as of December 31st 2021 anyway), even a .001% of that is a lot of people.

For your show, of course you’ll want to make sure you’re having the right guests on (which we help with as part of any service package), but you’ll have 10x, 100x or even 1000x listeners to your episodes than you have guests. Maybe more!

The key is figuring out how to structure the show to appeal to your target listeners.

Your best listeners are going to be the ones most likely to make some kind of decision in favor of your business, after hearing some episodes.

You might want them to come to your site and join a mailing list. Or you may want them to use a coupon for a course. Or schedule time to chat with you. Whatever the Call to Action is for your show, the show first has to be built to attract those listeners, get them to tap Play, and start getting familiar with you and your expertise.

That’s why a big part of the questionnaire that we have includes questions about your clients. Who’s been the best client that you wish you could clone fifty times over? Those people indeed exist, and they probably behave pretty similarly to those awesome clients you’ve had before.

And they’re out there waiting to hear your show.

If you’re ready to start thinking about getting your own show up and running, with a minimum of fuss, that questionnaire is below. Simply click that can’t-miss pink button and spend a few minutes letting us know about you. This is the first step in the process, and we do it for FREE for you.

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What “botlets” are

You’ve probably seen this word pop up on this site. Let’s talk about…

What “botlets” are

Hey this is Fritz. If you’ve been reading around in the blog you’ve maybe seen the term “botlets” come up. And if you’ve thought, “what the heck is a botlet?” then this post is for you.

A botlet is a very targeted piece of automation that does one thing really well. Whatever that thing is, that’s its sole purpose for existing.

While a botlet by itself can’t do much, when they work together in groups, amazing things happen.

One botlet is responsible for finding new recordings in the dedicated Dropbox folder that’s provided at every package level.

Another botlet finds the appropriate headshot of the guest.

A third botlet can extract the audio from a video episode.

A fourth and fifth can split the episode audio and fade out the end of the audio, respectively.

And there are dozens more.

When they work together, these botlets work tirelessly to get episodes published and promoted, along with all of the marketing collateral such as 30-second teasers. Sometimes it takes as little as 10 minutes to complete all this work!

Botlets save literally hundreds of hours of editing time, and are the reason a potential client said the price is a “no-brainer”. They’re why we offer this unique service at a price that’s affordable even for solopreneurs who want to get the word out about their business, while building awesome relationships with guests.

Botlets can’t show emotion, but if they could, they’d probably tell you they’d love to work with you to build your show. But the humans at podcastify.me need to know more about you and your business before we can make that happen.

If you’re ready to get the ball rolling, we can start for free. Just need to know a bit about your business and your goals, so that we can come back with some ideas about how to craft your show.

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