The Self-Employed Life

Highlights from various past episodes on Creative Warriors including Jay Baer, Jordan Harbinger, Ted Coine, David Mead, Ben Newman, Kevin Swan, Thai Nguyen and Corwin Hiebert

Bob Pranga aka Dr. Christmas dropped in to chat about being a Christmas tree stylist to the stars. Bob has pulled off many holiday miracles for star studded celebrities including Candice Bergen, Mario Lopez, Whoopi Goldberg, Alison Sweeney, Nancy Reagan, Shaquille O’Neal, Leeza Gibbons, Kate Hudson, Heidi Klum, Paris Hilton and Christina Aguilera to mention just a few!

The inner workings of creative minds and some of the challenges we face with clinical psychologist Dr. Matthew Kaplowitz. More importantly we discussed how to manage our Ferrari mind when we have bicycle brakes. How when you feel like you have a deficit it can provide you the extra drive and motivation needed to overcome it. Which can lead to extraordinary results if you leave your ego at the door...

The #1 challenge a creative person faces every day is creating demand for their work. Without demand you simply can not sustain a profitable business using your talent. This is one of the many topics I happily discuss with todays guest Corwin Hiebert. We had a very thought provoking discussion about creative marketing, idea generation, creativity, and collaboration. 

Since 2008, “social media” as we knew it has changed and continues to morph into something much more than a form of entertainment or a way of doing business. It has given all of us the ability to connect on an intimate level that is so revolutionary that it has the ability to shift entire cultures and force individual transparency at a moments notice. Not unlike a village, the internet has the abi...

Gratitude, abundance and grace are always at hand. I am thrilled to offer a cornucopia of insights on this special Thanksgiving Day episode from todays guest, spiritual teacher Selina Maitreya. I had the great pleasure of speaking to Selina, about how to reduce stress during the Holidays, increase gratitude, and why abundance is “elusive” to many yet always attainable. The perfect accompaniment wh...

“YOUR success is not just about changing YOUR habits, it’s about changing the way YOU think.” That quote from best-selling author and international speaker Ben Newman may put you on edge or intrigue you and the reality is it should do both! Either way, hopefully it will motivate you to be at your peak performance and in the game 100%.

David Mead is part of New York Times best-selling author Simon Sinek’s team. You may know Simon from his famed TED Talk, “How Great Leaders Inspire” and for being a passionate thought leader that is internationally recognized and most known for his work “Start With Why.” David and the entire Simon Sinek team turn conventional wisdom inside-out to help people and businesses achieve their best resul...

I sat down with photographer and author David duChemin to discuss his latest book “How To Feed A Starving Artist". We discuss everything from the #1 money issue most creative business owners face to how a semi-debilitating accident changed “everything” in very unexpected ways. David shares why he too, feels this is the best time in history to be a creative business owner and how a diversified busi...

WordPress and marketing expert Greg Taylor shares with us his experience about team building, collaboration with others and problem solving. This interview is full of practical business advice including some awesome WordPress tips. Greg is a knowledgeable guy!

A lively conversation with relationship expert Jordan Harbinger of The Art of Charm about how business is a lot like dating. 

Digital marketing expert and best-selling author Jay Baer says that the difference between helping and selling is just two letters. But those two letters are critically important to the success of your business in the age of information overload. Jay explains how smart marketing is about help not hype. This episode is jam packed with incredible information!

Unassuming lifestyle entrepreneur Kevin Swan joins us today to discuss his latest “project”--packing up his family in an Airstream trailer and traveling across the USA. It's about making decisions and acting on them. It's about kicking fear to the curb and trusting that you can solve any problem that arises. Ultimately it's about courage, trust and willpower. Three qualities each and every Creativ...

Money mind-set expert Dan LeFave and I discuss money and the unspoken conflict that many creative business owners face. It can be a challenge with something as "tangible" as money to believe that it has anything to do with how we think. The truth is, it has everything to do with how we think.

It all start with our beliefs! In this chat with 5 time author Tom Asacker, we’ll look at why we get stuck in our beliefs, how we can change the stories we tell ourselves to change our results, and how BELIEF is the next big thing in business. 

Thai Nguyen is a self proclaimed professional re-inventor. He’s a 5-star chef, an international kick-boxer, a writer, speaker, and mindset-transformation coach. Thai is the true meaning of a Lifestyle Entrepreneur. As Thai says, "making a living, living the dream." Thai's journey is incredible, from being a Vietnam refugee to now living in Peru writing his first book. In this chat with Thai there...

The queen of reinvention, Nancy Michaels has pulled through coma, brain surgery, multiple life threatening complications, rehabilitation, divorce, loss, the challenges that come from being a single parent of three, and is a self sufficient business owner that has completely stepped up to recreate her life. What Nancy has been through is nothing short of astonishing. Today she helps thousands of pe...

Chris Guillebeau, New York Times best selling author, modern-day world traveler, and host of World Domination Summit join us warriors. He shares his thoughts on what a quest is and how having a quest can completely change your life experience. Chris is a thought-provoking and inspirational guy that is optimistically embracing life on his own terms. He is what I would call a boundless force of natu...

Photographer Lori Nordstrom speaks about her business, the charity she started and her overall thoughts on being a successful entrepreneur. It was a lively and transparent conversation that offered some great insights. To know Lori is to love and admire her. I think this interview gives us the most personal look inside to fully understand what makes this successful entrepreneur tick. Lori is truly...

When I first heard about a guy that created an abundant lifestyle as a juggler I was immediately intrigued. As one half of the world famous juggling duo The Raspyni Brothers, Barry Friedman exemplifies the creative warrior spirit. Free to create with passion. Determined to serve with all your might. And to be prosperous. Barry embraces business as an act of creativity with no limits to “focus on o...

Is it possible to change your life by changing your passwords? Yes, you read that right. Your passwords. The ones you use dozens of times a day to access everything. Today's guest, Mauricio Estrella, knows first hand that it certainly is! He has used them to heal from loss, achieve his goals and chart a completely different direction for his life! He wrote an article about this idea and it went vi...

Let’s face it. We all fall emotionally, spiritually or financially at one time or another. When we focus on our landing instead of the fall we get the opportunity to start our journey in a different way. Much of success in business and in life is about resilience and recovery. Focusing more on firmly landing on our feet allows us to constructively move forward and also gain the ability to handle w...

Can a subtle shift in focus really make that big of a difference in your business and income? Author Bob Burg says, “absolutely, yes!" Especially when that shift in focus is from making money as the target to serving others as the target. You will see that the money will follow as a result of hitting the target. This is an amazing opportunity to hear from a business master. Bob's book, "The Go-Giv...

  Sometimes you sit down to have a chat with someone who has done some pretty impressive things, like gaining 90.000 followers on twitter in short order or 4,000 fans on G+ in 5 months and you ask yourself, How? What exactly does someone do to inspire this level of interest? Find out when I chat with social media expert Brett Relander.