Authoring Life

How can you use your anxiety to get things done? Alicia Dunams sits with a longtime friend, Dr. Chloe Carmichael , the author of Nervous Energy: Harness the Power of Your Anxiety . Self-criticism or analysis paralysis often gets in the way of feeling efficient. To work around this, Dr. Chloe came up with the “To-Do List with Emotions” technique. When you look at your tasks and think of the emotion...

One issue many entrepreneurs don’t realize they have is they get swept away into thinking big before they’re ready. But thinking big alone does not adequately prepare you for the bigger game. In his book, Deep Thought Strategy , Steve Lowell explains how you need to change the way you think about your market. Steve is an award-winning global speaker and #1 international bestselling author. For sal...

Content Warning: Contains mentions of child and sexual abuse. Discretion is advised.   Abuse is a serious charge that is often levelled against cults. These often leave their victims scarred for life. Faith Jones  is a survivor of a sex cult who has created a better life for herself. Join Alicia Dunams and Faith as they take a look back at her experiences within a religious cult. With ca...

Everyone needs to start a brand. It’s just a matter of achieving personal awareness so you can find your purpose because that purpose is the foundation of your brand.   Joining Alicia Dunams   on Authoring Life to expound this is top-ranked real estate entrepreneur   Ivan Estrada . Ivan is a successful business leader who has been named in the “Top 30 Under 30′′ in real estate by Ne...

Are you clear on what your brand story is? Listen to this episode as   Kelly Keenan  shares how you could change your business perspective and scale your business up. Kelly is a leading brand strategist, agency owner, highly sought-after speaker, and leadership consultant. He is the founder and President of Brand Story Experts  and, for over the past two decades, has helped hundreds...

To bring light and peace to other people’s lives and transform them could be one of the greatest gifts one could give. Join your host Alicia Dunams as she talks with Kristoffer Carter  about a spiritual guide to an epic leadership. Kristoffer is a spiritual teacher at the intersection of consciousness and business. He is the founder of This Epic Life , a website and podcast devoted to conscio...

Do you need a complete guide to creating a strong personal brand? Alicia Dunams presents Ramon Ray , the Editor and founder of Smart Hustle Media , and the author of Celebrity CEO . Ramon shares two vital principles to create a strong personal brand: ask for a smile and build a community. Before you ask for a sale, ask for a smile by being nice, having clean teeth, and saying hello. And if you can...

Mindful leadership is not only an effective way of managing others, but also in managing one’s own needs. In this episode, Alicia Dunams welcomes Dr. Keren Tsuk, the founder & CEO of Wisdom to Lead. Dr. Keren talks with Alicia about how we could do everything together when we are present with our humanity. Be there for your employees, listen to them, and feel their feelings. You’ll be surprise...

Have you lost money following advice from so-called experts? Well, Robert Moriarty  is here to tell you that investing is not complicated and you can earn money every time by following his method. Learn the basics of investing with Robert as he joins Alicia Dunams in this episode. Over 50,000 readers a day trust Robert to show them which tactics work… and which ones don’t. His book, Nobody Kn...

You can't control the external as much as you can control the internals. That's Robin Vandekleut's  main gist for her new book called Unfinished Business . Robin tells Alicia Dunams how change is all about working with people. Nobody likes change being done to them, but they'll feel part of the solution if you can make them part of the process. Join in the conversation to discover how to insp...

When faced with adversity, one of our knee-jerk reactions is to ask the question, “ Why ?” “Why is this happening to me?” “Why am I not going anywhere?” Alicia Dunams’ guest in this episode shifts our thinking and leads us from asking bad questions to the good ones so that when finding ourselves in difficult situations, we can come out of it better rather than get stuck. She sits down with Robb Hi...

Working out is not just about our physical health. We also need to work out in order to strengthen our spiritual core and create a fun and fulfilling life. In this episode, Kate Eckman  joins Alicia Dunams to share with us her book, The Full Spirit Workout: A Ten-Step System to Shed Your Self-Doubt, Strengthen Your Spiritual Core, and Create a Fun and Fulfilling Lif e . Kate discusses how we...

You don’t need to have a passion to make big rich money. All you need are the right tools to make the right decisions, and you can be set for financial success. In this episode, Katja Presnal  and Candice Kilpatrick Brathwaite  give you the tools to take that first step. They share tidbits of financial advice from their book,   Big Rich Money . They aim to help women entrepreneurs s...

 The only one stopping you from living your fullest life is you. Give yourself permission to enter and live in Queendom with today’s guest,  Gina DeVee . Gina is the owner of  Divine Living , where she helps empower women entrepreneurs to make an impact and live their fullest life. She is a business coach, a multimillionaire entrepreneur, a speaker, and now a published author. Her bo...

Entrepreneurs establish their start-up businesses to succeed, thrive, and live amazing lives. For a business to prosper, its people should be determined, productive, and always contribute value and build the organization. However, successful hiring is not an easy task. In this Alicia Dunams’ interview with  Rick Girard , you’ll find out that although there are challenges you will encounter, h...

We are different people with different emotions and approaches, which makes life much more interesting. Alicia Dunams and Darcy Luoma , the author of Thoughtfully Fit , explore the framework that Darcy created so we can train our minds to be thoughtfully fit. They delve into setting boundaries and putting needs and desires first without being selfish. They talk about life lessons and coaching phil...

Leaders need to be many things, and one of the most important traits a leader needs is humility. An effective leader needs to display humility and respect for self-worth. Alicia Dunams engages author, CEO, and academic  Marilyn Gist  in a conversation on leadership styles. Through her book, The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility , she shows how humility is a must not just for busines...

When inspiration strikes, don’t give in to fear. Trust your cape. This is the lesson Rebecca Powers shares with Alicia Dunams as they sit down and talk about her life journey. They talk about the writing process, finishing your work and putting your ego aside. Rebecca also talks about what she learned from running and eventually letting go of Impact Austin , a women’s collective giving organizatio...

Emerging as a college student struggling to make it on her own in New York City, Destiny Maria’s world was turned upside down when she learned that her partner withheld his STD status from her until she tested positive herself. Her book, It Started with a Green Dress , shares her experience of being diagnosed with the disease, her quest for justice to find a silver lining with her diagnosis, and d...

Everybody's got a book inside of them waiting to come out. After meeting Alicia Dunams at a women's circle and joining the  Bestseller in a Weekend  course, Crystal Dawn Church finally decided to write down her own story of childhood abuse and addiction and how she moved from where she was to where she is now. The process was the next step to her catharsis, helping her in her healing and...

We make about 35,000 decisions every day, and most of those are mundane and don’t even matter, such as what color of shirt to put on or which shoes to wear. Only about 1% to 2% of those decisions are life-changing and life-altering, and most of them are split-second decisions. Dr. Geoffrey Mount Varner says if you learn to improve your split-second decisions, you improve your decision-making IQ ov...

A lot of people don't know how to discover their courage but it doesn’t mean it’s not there. Alicia Dunams' guest today is Kai Hayes , the author of Lion at Heart: Discovering Courage and Greatness Within . Lion at Heart helps you find the strength to discover you are a warrior in life. In this episode, Kai shares her story of being an impoverished child in the Philippines. Eventually, she had to...

We all have an innate miracle mentality within us. It's only when the people around us become the opposition to our mission by making us doubt ourselves and telling us to "get real'' that we lose it. Alicia Dunams' guest is Tim Storey , the acclaimed author of The Miracle Mentality . In this episode, you'll get a sneak peek from the author himself on Chapter 3 of the book entitled "Activating the...

Leadership has to be about you. If you want to be a better leader, you need to know who you truly are. If you don't, you will end up adopting a masquerade that prevents you from establishing authentic connections with your followers. Today's guest is Minter Dial , an international professional speaker, author, and consultant in the worlds of leadership branding and digital strategy. Minter discuss...

People who have no access learn to navigate in the dark. Instead of letting yourself become a victim to your circumstances, you can actually see it as your edge that you can leverage to pave your own path to success. This message speaks to anyone who is deprived of access in any manner because of their gender, skin color, or immigrant status. But it speaks in a much louder volume to those who can...