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103: The Exact Tech Costs to Plan for with Online Business
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Anyone else overwhelmed with how many tech products there are out there to run your business?Today I'm breaking down everything I currently use to run my biz and giving you insight on how it all helps me work! I'll start with the highest priced products down to the free stuff. I've included a few links so feel free to check them out further!Tech Mo…
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102: Skating & Designing in Buenos Aires | EFDOT
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I came across Eric's work while on an Instagram scroll. Oddly enough, I'd just gotten a message from a girl wondering how to get into the surf/skate industry of design (something I'd worked on doing about 10 years back), and on this Instagram post, it was announced that Eric would be giving a graphic design on skateboards class. After sending her t…
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101: Easy Ways to Sell More Art | MARIA BROPHY
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Back in the day, selling your art meant getting into galleries and doing all the same things as everyone else. Luckily today, you can get wayyy more creative - which is good, since that's probably your specialty as an artist! What might not be your specialty? The business part. Totally understandable and I definitely get it! I would much rather be …
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100: How 100 Episodes of Podcasting Changed Me
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In 2013, I had found the podcast, The Lifestyle Entrepreneur by Kris Gilbertson, and became obsessed with listening every chance I had. I was kind of early for podcasting and hearing about lifestyle entrepreneurs and it was basically the only place I could get my fill! (I had to look that up to remember the name!) On my list of 2014 Goals, #8 was s…
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099: Growing a Calligraphy Biz While Traveling the World | BECCA COURTICE
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I met today's guest last year at ConvertKit Conference, which could be the nerdiest beginnings ever - a conference for people that use the same e-mail service HA! Becca is super fun and outgoing so it was cool to hear her talk about how she'd quickly built her, at that time, new calligraphy business.One of the biggest mental hurdles to get over as …
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098: How One Ohio Woman is Creating Change Globally | AMBER RUNYON
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Today's guest is truly incredible. It's one thing to travel, but another to travel and be so touched that you take your whole life in a new direction. Amber did just that after she visited Ethiopia and saw how much change was needed. On this episode, I'm talking with Amber about her company, Eleventh Candle. Eleventh Candle Co. is a social enterpri…
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097: How to Conquer Shiny-Object Syndrome in your Biz!
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My 31st birthday was over the weekend (yippee!) and I thought that called for a solo show of one of the topics I talk about that gets the most response: Shiny Object Syndrome. If you don't know what it is, consider yourself lucky! Or maybe you didn't know it was referred to as this! Well, if you're an entrepreneur and ever find yourself jumping fro…
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096: Keys to Being an Artist in Demand Around the World | GEMMA O’BRIEN
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You all are in for a treat today! I've got Gemma O'Brien on the podcast today, an artist who's wowed me for a while on Instagram and in a fun turn of events, I flew across the country last week to help her paint her latest mural at Google Headquarters in Silicon Valley.It's a funny thing meeting people you've only seen on your Instagram feed - mayb…
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095: How to Price Your Artwork & Strengthen your Money Mindset
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Okay Passion Designers, I see you out there, shrinking back & becoming clammy every time someone asks you what the price of something is. It seems that we all feel like we are each the worst at selling our stuff. Can't we just do it for free and have a magical life where everything works out? Yep, I hear you! Pricing, negotiating, getting rejected,…
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094: What’s Worked & Hasn’t Worked in the Past Year as a Full-Time Artist
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A few people have messaged me lately asking how to get started in the art world and what my trajectory has been like. Although I think it's an ever-evolving world as an entrepreneur, with the world moving SO FAST, on this episode I'm talking about things I've done that have worked and haven't worked. As a spoiler, here are the top 2 things I learne…
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093: My Favorite Method to Finding Your Most Profitable Niche
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I've been thinking a lot about Niche-ing down lately. For the longest time, I worked hard to stay as open as possible so that I could get as many potential clients as possible. The weird thing about my method is that it almost ALWAYS backfires. Logical thinking would say that if you open up a pool to anyone, you will give yourself tons more options…
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092: What To Do When You Feel Like You Aren’t Doing Enough
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Anyone have a case of the "I'm not doing enoughs?" Thought so!Here are 10 things to remember when you find yourself anxious about being behind or that you'll never get to where you want to be. Listen in as I talk in detail about each one and how I'm working on them in my own work and life. You'll never totally "arrive," most likely you'll always wa…
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091: Creating a Fashion Company with a Cause | MOLLY FULLER DESIGN
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I met Molly in Fashion school back at the University of Cincinnati. She was always creating extremely innovative designs, pushing design limits way past simply "next season's style." So I was super amped to see that she is in the midst of creating her own line of clothing for teens with Autism.After working at the Mayo Clinic after getting her Fash…
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090: Why You should plan a Trip out of your Comfort Zone
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On the Passion Design Project website, I not only have the podcast but also keep a Travel Blog on there. I love writing about exploring different places and hope that others can find the blogs handy if they find themselves in the same spots!Pertaining to business, I think there are a lot of different ways to grow, and they don't always have to do w…
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About 5 years back I started a "company," more like a blog called "Thee Bold." Spoiler alert: it stopped almost as quickly as it started, but the funny part about it is that I took forever to launch it. And by launch it, I mean, simply make the website public. It's like I thought the world would come sprinting towards the site once I made it go liv…
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088: Working for Something MORE than just “Work”
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I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Starting and running your own business can and usually is a daunting task. People on Instagram love to show the beautiful, exotic, freeing part of working for yourself, but what's usually lost in that are the grueling hours of nothing happening or the numerous rejections that occur when starting out. It's…
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087: Leaving the Tech Start-up Grind to Lead a Life He Loves | CHRISTIAN PIUMA
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Recently I met Christian at a Silicon Couliour meeting in Jackson Hole. As someone who left a secure (yet intense) life in the tech start-up world in San Francisco, I was anxious to hear how this change to a totally different lifestyle (snowboarding, travel, love, entrepreneurship, coaching) came about!On this Episode, Christian describes in depth …
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086: Having More Success by Adding More Value
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If you're an entrepreneur or have a business or want to have a biz, what do you think about the most? I'm guessing you probably think about money quite a bit and how you're going to make it.I'm real guilty of putting my sole focus on how I can make a buck. I like to shuffle around the online space to see what's making money and then see how I can w…
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085: Getting over the Emotional Side of Rejection
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When was the last time you were rejected? Maybe it was today or yesterday, or maybe a year ago and you're still upset and mad about it. Whenever it was, I surely can relate and am guessing most listeners can. I hate rejection. I really do. It's annoying, hurtful, makes me feel like I wasted time, is depressing, can crush a good day, must I go on...…
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084: How to Create a Podcast from Start to Finish
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Today I go over all of the details on how I started a Podcast. Kara wrote in with the following questions and I answer every single one in great detail. Enjoy and let me know if you start a Podcast!! What equipment did you start with? Where did you buy it? How did you prepare? How did you set up interviews and prepare for those interviews Editing, …
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083: Creating a Product that Sells + Learning as you go | BUBBA ALBRECHT
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On this episode, I'm talking with Bubba from the company Give'r. Starting as just an idea from an adventure back in 2011, this company has grown in recent years and is now regularly featured in some of the outdoor industry's biggest publications!Today, we deep dive into what it takes to start a product company (hint: a lot of patience and enjoyment…
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Do you ever have a book sitting around for a long time but never make the time to get around to reading it?Okay, I have more than a few of these, but The Go-Giver is probably the shortest book that has been. Yesterday, I gave myself a rare off-day and decided to pick up the book. Actually, I won't lie, I threw a delicious smelling bath bomb into my…
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Yooooolo!That's right, I'm bringing back that obnoxious cliche phrase that went viral a year or two ago. But to be honest, I wish it hadn't been simply a fad.If you weren't in the YOLO loop, it stands for You Only Live Once, and people used it mainly to describe silly things like having a huge piece of cake or staying up all night in Vegas. But I w…
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080: Winning by making Others Feel Awesome
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Do any of you have an Alexa Echo? I got one for Christmas and even though I thought I wouldn't use it that much, I'm constantly talking to her. She tells me the weather, gives me morning inspiration, helps me study Arabic, and reads me free Audible books, which brings me to this topic! My current one is How to Win Friends and Influence People.Now, …
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079: How to Thrive with your specific Personality
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Oooooh! This is a fun one! So I recently helped launch a church campus and as part of Fresh Life Church's Crash Course, you go through a series of personality tests, one of which is 16personalities.com. I'm sure most of you have done personality tests sometime in your past. I always found them somewhat hard to understand - they describe you in lett…
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All of last year I was in a rush. A rush to make things happen. A rush to make money. A rush to stand out in the world. A rush to look successful.That rush not only broke me totally down emotionally but didn't leave me conquering much of anything. It was disheartening and annoying. And I was most mad at myself. Mad that I couldn't just make everyth…
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077: Do you Add or Subtract Energy around others?
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Do you ever find yourself in situations where all of the people around you are totally bringing you down? Like, you walked into a place filled with energy but left completely drained...in a bad way?It's a real thing. There are energy-suckers out there. They are alive and well and much to my dismay, I occasionally feel myself being one.Not that I in…
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076: Six Questions to Ask Yourself at the Beginning of a New Year
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I love setting goals for myself when a New Year rolls around. I've been doing them in the same journal for about the past 6 years and it's so fun to look back and see that because even when I don't accomplish the goal in the year I wrote it, I usually do sometime in the next few years. This is great, especially for people like me who never think I'…
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075: 2017 Wrap-Up: What I’ll do More and Less of Next Year
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On Instagram recently I encouraged everyone to take a few minutes to jot down notes about their year. I think it's extremely important to look over your past year in order to recognize everything you accomplished, and what you can do better.Some of my favorite accomplishments were: Finished visiting all 50 states Took 87 flights Put myself through …
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074: The Total Money Makeover that I Avoided
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This is kind of a weird podcast for me because if you've listened to any, you know that I'm all about positive thinking, an optimistic mindset, and just going for things. I can't even tell you how hard it is for me to sit down and look at spreadsheets and budgets, even calendars, because, I just don't operate that way.So there's this guy...maybe yo…
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073: Learning to Walk After 9 years Paralyzed | GREG DURSO
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Greg is back on the podcast again today, to talk about his experiences this year with the Indigo ExoSkeleton, a device that allows him, as a paraplegic, to walk on his own. It's really cool science and I got him on here to explain it to us and talk about his experience with it.In this episode he touches on: What it's like to have something taken aw…
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072: Getting underneath the layers of ourselves
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In Morocco, I found myself wondering what was underneath the headscarves some women wear; who was that person really. In general, I find myself wondering that about people as I watch how they interact and go about their day.Look around you. What layers do you see?For me, I see a painting sitting on my floor. It may just look like a ski painting, bu…
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071: Turn stress around in 4 easy steps
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A few weeks ago I spent a couple weeks in Morocco. One night at the beginning of my trip, I woke up frantic and unsettles, knowing I was jet-lagged but stressed that everything was possibly not going perfectly. I almost walked outside my room at midnight to try and get some wifi and external comfort but knew if I was going to grow and make this a g…
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070: Notes from ConvertKit Conference’s speakers – PT. II
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Over the summer I went to an absolutely incredible conference put on by the email service ConvertKit. It was my first time in Boise, a place I'd wanted to visit and a very convenient spot as it's just the state next door. I wanted to share some notes with you all, to provide a bit of inspiration and motivation in short doses of notes that I took.PA…
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069: Notes from SETH GODIN & more speakers at ConvertKit’s Conference – PT. I
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Over the summer I went to an absolutely incredible conference put on by the email service ConvertKit. It was my first time in Boise, a place I'd wanted to visit and a very convenient spot as it's just the state next door. I wanted to share some notes with you all, to provide a bit of inspiration and motivation in short doses of notes that I took. W…
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068: Bringing EXCELLENCE to work & life
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"Excellence creates comfort. We never, ever compromise on quality. The message deserves nothing less." -Crash Course, Fresh Life ChurchI've been a Christian my entire life. Growing up in a conservative, and slightly boring, Lutheran church, and then branching out to contemporary megachurches once I got in college. From college on, I moved around a …
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067: Answering Tim Ferriss’s Tribe of Mentors Questions
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For this episode, I decided I would go through the questions Tim Ferriss has been asking on his new Podcast. I think questions are an art form and having the right questions can be really exciting for listeners. Since he has developed this skill very well, I'm going to share them.I think sometimes we go through life not even knowing exactly what we…
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If you haven't listened to episode 65 prior to this, that's a good intro, but if you just want to dive right into Wealthy Affirmations, here they are. There are 30 and I will say each one twice, so that you can repeat it with me the 2nd time. Do this every day and watch your mindset around money change right before your eyes! I have a positive mone…
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065: Do you use more POSITIVE or NEGATIVE Affirmations?
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Do you use affirmations?? I've been back and forth about them, but recently have decided to go ALL IN. Because really, what's the point in only going half into things? That's like saying you want a chocolate cookie but are only going to use half the ingredients or half the heat. Probably not going to get your desired outcome, right?If you aren't fa…
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064: My exact method of using EVENTS to attract NEW CUSTOMERS
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A few months back I started really focusing on doing more art. It's always been a side-passion of mine, but as I had more and more people requesting my services, I realized it would be really easy to make money with art. Becoming a full-time artist meant I had to think about creative ways to bring in money, not only for surviving but because I was …
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063: How this couple DROPPED THEIR JOBS and BUILT a Jungly Boutique Resort in Sri Lanka | MEL & SUPAN
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Recently, my boyfriend and I were throwing around beach vacation ideas. We wanted somewhere neither of us had been, and definitely somewhere exotic, preferably in Asia. After Palawan in the Philippines was knocked off our list because of sketchy activity there, we gave Sri Lanka some thought.I didn't know anything about Sri Lanka going into our tri…
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062: My Art Question Answered LIVE | #ASKGARYVEE
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I'm a huge fan of Gary Vee. He was a gamechanger for me after I started listening to his podcast and he talked all about working hard while also being patient.At the time I started listening, I was searching for every way to make it big as fast as a could...and it wasn't really working out! Super discouraged and disappointed in myself that I wasn't…
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061: Standing on Top of MOUNT EVEREST | ELLEN GALLANT
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Ellen Gallant got a chocolate cake for her 51st birthday, which just so happened to be during her 3rd attempt of Mount Everest. After her previous two trips were stricken by tragedy, where instead of reaching the summit she found herself utilizing her medical skills on the injured, she was more determined than ever to stand atop Mount Everest this …
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060: How I Created my First 1K day as an Artist
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I don't talk about my process of becoming an Artist very much or very in depth. I think the process of entrepreneurship is so messy and all over the place, that it's hard to make sense of it in the moment, and doesn't feel very inspiring enough to share.I suppose most things are like that. Learning to ski, or the process of becoming a mom, or learn…
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059: Teaching English Abroad while in College | NIKKI AWAD
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On this day in Marrakech, I stopped by a co-operative and caught up with Nikki, who is a student doing a short stint abroad to teach English in Morocco. Nikki gives some practical advice on how easy it can be to travel the world and make an impact. My favorite quote:"All you gotta do is pursue what you wanna do, it's that simple."Take a listen if y…
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058: How to constantly MOVE FORWARD & keep things EXCITING
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I find that when I come home after a long trip, I have mixed feelings. Coming home almost feels like coming back to a past life..[In short, I find this is because when you allow for new experiences in your life you almost inevitably see the way you live in a new, fresh way.]I've been thinking on this for the last few days as I've returned after bus…
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057: How to have GREAT Stories | 30th Birthday
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I spent my 30th birthday in London. 6 months prior I had decided that I was going to be successful by 30, which at that point only meant that I wanted my bank account overflowing with extra funds by then. Not exactly the best foundation for success, by the way. However, It seemed serendipitous that the graduation of the event was on the turn of dec…
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056: Is the Fastest Way to Success actually PATIENCE?
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Yes, as weird as this title sounds, this is actually something I've been pondering a lot lately.As the internet speeds things up, I've realized that a lot of people feel like their success needs to happen ASAP! Today, or at the very latest, tomorrow.I'll be honest, I was part of this group of people for a long time, and I'm still working on transit…
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055: How a 25 year old made her VISION come to LIFE and built a school in Africa | Kelsey Bradley
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If you have ever had the longing or heart to help out people around the world who could use a hand, this is the episode for you! Earlier this year, Kelsey oversaw her school design being built in Cameroon, Africa.In our conversation, she teaches us how to go ALL-IN after a dream, brings us total grassroots fundraising strategies, and talks how taki…
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054: Having more FUN through less complaints | GREG DURSO
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Today I have Greg Durso with me on the Podcast. I wanted to bring him on to do a short interview about 3 areas I think he is totally better at than me. They are: Positivity Always Eliminating Complaining Being more Open-mindedListen in as Greg talks about how he implements each of these into his everyday life and how you can do a better job of it t…
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