Win The Hour, Win The Day

Someone posted last week that she felt silly announcing her own birthday. I commented, "I think it's more of a problem if you announce your own death."   She thought it was funny enough to DM me about, and now she remembers me. No AI tool was going to write that line, because it hadn't read her post the way I had.   Organic social media specialist Dorien Morin-van Dam came back on Win Th...

Two years ago he couldn't take 14 hours off. In two weeks he's going off grid for 14 days. The only thing he's packing is his phone. Dan Bennett is back on the podcast this week, and I want to be clear about something. When we started working together, Dan was not a mess. He was one of the most systems-minded people I've ever worked with. He was still riding what he calls the pendulum. Land some s...

For years, the back half of every sales call was a performance. They'd talk for thirty minutes. I'd listen, take notes, feel quietly proud of myself for not jumping in to fix the thing at minute four.  Then some invisible buzzer would go off, it was my turn, and I'd build the pitch on the fly, in front of them, with the clock running. I called that listening. It was closer to waiting. Wesleyn...

I used to think my best stories were too small to post. Then I read someone say she'd sooner jump out a second-story window than sit in a Zoom breakout room. I laughed out loud, because I've felt that way about every "get to know your group" warm-up I ever sat through. I'd kept that to myself for years. Storytelling coach Toby Myles came back on Win The Hour, Win The Day and cleared this up for me...

I'm at my best in a private conversation. One-on-one, in the comments, on a call, I'm all in. Then it's time to be visible in public, and I shrink. For years I told myself the fix was to pitch harder. Get on a bigger show. Wait for someone with a larger audience to notice me and pull me up. Then Jamie Maglietta got on the podcast. She produced Vice President Kamala Harris at BET and spent 20 years...

You're not tired. You're everybody's answer. And nobody has ever named that out loud, so you keep treating it like a discipline problem. Friends, family, clients, the team. Something breaks and the phone rings and it's you, because it is genuinely faster to handle it than to explain it. You have been that person since you were the kid taking somebody else's crisis at eleven at night, and twenty ye...

This week’s episode of Win The Hour, Win The Day Podcast interviews, Kristi Mitchell. Your email list might be too big. Not too small. Too big. I always assumed the people who never open my emails were harmless. They sit there, the number stays respectable, and maybe one day one of them wakes up and buys something. Email Strategist Karen Grill set me straight on this week's episode. Since the 2024...

This week’s episode of Win The Hour, Win The Day Podcast interviews, Kristi Mitchell.   Your AI content is well written. That is the problem. You typed in the topic. You read it back. It sounded good, professional even, so you posted it. Then nothing happened. Here is what nobody tells you. Well written was never the goal. Sounding like you was the goal, and those two things are not the same....

This week’s episode of Win The Hour, Win The Day Podcast interviews, Michelle B. Griffin. People started booking calls with her and telling her an AI sent them. That's Michelle B. Griffin, and she's back on the show because she went and found out why it was happening. She asks every person who books how they found her. It's a question on her scheduler and she actually reads the answers. Then the a...

This week’s episode of Win The Hour, Win The Day Podcast interviews, Criz Tumapon. She got thirty minutes notice. Thirty minutes before a Zoom room with about thirty people in it, I asked her to host a session she had never run in her life. Our Marketing Manager, Maura, had to go. Her sister went in for a basic surgery, there was an infection and a complication, and inside a couple of days it was...

This week’s episode of Win The Hour, Win The Day Podcast interviews, Aleasha Bahr. A personality test told him he could never be in sales. He's been in sales his entire career and he's very good at it. That's Aleasha Bahr's husband, and she brought the story onto the show this week because it says everything about how backwards we've got this. He's an engineer. He sells to engineers. They like the...

This week’s episode of Win The Hour, Win The Day Podcast interviews, Toby Myles. For years I blamed the assistant. Never to her face. I'm too nice for that (which, honestly, was half the problem). But in my head I'd decided she just didn't get it. The work came back not-quite-right and I'd think, well, I told her how I wanted this. Did I though? Here's what I actually said one time: "I wouldn't do...

This week’s episode of Win The Hour, Win The Day Podcast interviews, Jamie Maglietta. I'm at my best in a private conversation. One-on-one, in the comments, on a call, I'm all in. Then it's time to be visible in public, and I shrink. For years I told myself the fix was to pitch harder. Get on a bigger show. Wait for someone with a larger audience to notice me and pull me up. Then Jamie Maglietta g...

This week’s episode of Win The Hour, Win The Day Podcast    I once paid for months of coaching on software I never learned. This was back in what I call the dark years of my business. Some project management platform was going to change everything. Once I finally mastered it, the work would take care of itself. I gave it three months and a pile of money. I never even learned the thing. What I reme...

This week’s episode of Win The Hour, Win The Day Podcast interviews, Karen Yankovich. I couldn't leave the store empty-handed. I was in Greece this spring... and wandered into this tiny shop. The woman running it was so warm... so genuinely lovely... that I found myself walking the aisles going,  "I have got to find something I want in here.  I am not leaving with nothing.  We'll make something up...

This week’s episode of Win The Hour, Win The Day Podcast interviews, Dorien Morin-van Dam.   Is your team using AI without any rules to keep you safe? Join us as Dorien Morin-van Dam shows you why every business needs an AI plan and simple guardrails. In this helpful talk, you'll learn: Why your team is already using AI, even if you don't know it. The six easy parts that make up a good AI policy....

This week’s episode of Win The Hour, Win The Day Podcast interviews, Nikki Clements.   Are you tired of overthinking your brand and still feeling like nothing looks or feels right? Join us as Nikki Clements breaks down branding in a way that finally makes sense.   In this simple and eye-opening talk, you’ll learn: -Why trying to look “professional” can actually hurt your brand more than help it. -...

This week’s episode of Win The Hour, Win The Day Podcast interviews, Charlie Hills.   Do you wish you could use AI to grow online but still sound like the real you? Join us as Charlie Hills shows you the smart way to build a strong personal brand with AI. In this helpful talk, you'll learn: Why most AI posts sound fake, and how to fix that fast. A simple 4-step plan, called CHEF, to make great pos...

This week’s episode of Win The Hour, Win The Day Podcast interviews, Janene Liston.   Do you ever feel scared to set your price or ask for more money? Join us as Janene Liston, The Pricing Lady, shows you the smart way to pick a price you can feel good about.   In this helpful talk, you'll learn: -Why copying what other people charge is a shaky plan. -Why giving away a free first session can hurt...

This week’s episode of Win The Hour, Win The Day Podcast interviews, Leo Crocker.   Are you trying to get clients on LinkedIn but nothing is turning into real conversations or sales? Join Kris Ward and Leo Crocker as they break down how to use LinkedIn in a simple way that builds real relationships and brings in business without cold pitching.   In this practical talk, you’ll learn: -Why face-to-f...

This week’s episode of Win The Hour, Win The Day Podcast interviews, Stacy Eleczko.   Are you tired of saying the right things but still not getting results? Join Kris Ward and Stacy Eleczko as they break down why your message isn’t landing and how to fix it by actually listening to what people are already telling you.   In this practical talk, you’ll learn: -Why guessing your messaging keeps you...

This week’s episode of Win The Hour, Win The Day Podcast interviews, Brooke Sellas.   Are you tired of posting on social media and getting nothing back? Join Kris Ward and Brooke Sellas as they break down why content alone is not enough anymore and what actually drives real growth online.   In this clear and practical talk, you’ll learn: -Why posting more content is no longer the thing that grows...

This week’s episode of Win The Hour, Win The Day Podcast interviews, Jeffrey To.   Are you trying too hard to sound perfect when you speak or share your ideas? Join Kris Ward and Jeffrey To as they break down how simple storytelling can make your message clear and powerful.   In this easy and practical talk, you’ll learn: -What storytelling really means and how it turns ideas into real understandi...

Are you tired of guessing what to say to get more customers? Join us as Tash Jefferies breaks down how to stop guessing and start getting real results in your business.   In this simple and powerful talk, you’ll learn: -Why most business owners attract the wrong people and how to fix it fast. -How to find the real questions your buyers are already asking. -Why your message might be confusing peopl...

This week’s episode of Win The Hour, Win The Day Podcast interviews, Matt Diamante.   Struggling to get found online even when you work so hard? This episode shows a simple way to show up on Google using clear answers and smart use of AI.   In this simple and practical talk, you’ll learn: -How Matt Diamante explains SEO in a way that finally makes sense. -Why you don’t need hours a day to get resu...