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On the Creating Powerful Impact podcast, your host, Shay Wheat, Certified Event Producer™, Founder & CEO of Grace and Ease Productions, Inc. talks with coaches, experts, and thought leaders that are creating a wave of change with the work they do in the world. She believes that everyone has a unique message that can positively impact the world and we deserve to hear their stories. You’ll be hearing real stories from real people when we go behind the curtain to ask the questions that you real ...
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Learn how to build a legitimate, profitable online business from the ground up without the shiny objects, hypey gimmicks, and without the stress and overwhelm. Your hosts, Todd and Leah Rae Getts take you inside the businesses of ordinary people and show you how they started from ground zero with no influence, no email list or audience to sell to, and no business or marketing experience, and go from working 9-5 jobs to building successful 6 and 7 figure online businesses, and all the steps i ...
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Hiring and managing staff in the virtual world is hard. We all need a guide and reassurance because remote workers expect and need a different environment and a different type of leadership. As the CEO you have to adapt and change your method of leading your teams. Together let's explore some of the best practices of leading teams in 2022 and beyond.
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This show is for content creators who want to monetize their passion by embracing their profitable superpowers. Whether you're starting your entrepreneurial journey or want to take things to the next level, this podcast will help you Get Radical with Your Business! Join host Heather Zeitzwolfe, long-time vegan, Gen-Xer, cat mom, drag queen enthusiast, and collector of weird dolls and lunchboxes. Using her professional background in business, marketing, design, and finance, she's here to help ...
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Episode 94: It may seem counter-intuitive at first, but sometimes, the best way to scale an online business is with live, in-person events. Before lockdowns, live in-person events were common and many entrepreneurs would attend at least one event a year. These events are the perfect opportunity to present high-ticket offers to a room full of buyers…
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Episode 98: If you’re struggling to make sales in your online business, when you boil everything down, there are really only 3 fundamental things you need to look at to figure out why nobody is buying. In this episode, we break everything down and explain what these 3 things are, how to identify which issues are affecting your business, and steps y…
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Episode 97: There are a lot of things you can do to promote your online business… networking, collaborations, content creation, paid ads, etc. One of the things that can catapult your business quickly and profitably is forming profitable partnerships with celebrity influencers in your niche. Obviously, developing those relationships and getting tho…
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Welcome back to Creating Powerful Impact! I’m Shay Wheat, Certified Event Producer and CEO of Grace and Ease Productions, and today I’m excited to share with you the key strategies that will transform how you think about events—moving them from one-time happenings to reliable, year-round client acquisition machines. 🚀 If you’ve ever felt overwhelme…
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Episode 96: Sales is a highly psychological process. A good sales script is a good starting point for learning how to close sales, but it’s only a small part of what actually makes the sale at the end of the day. Closing a sale has much less to do with what you say, and much more to do with what you’re actually doing during the discussion. In this …
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Episode 95: Despite what many marketing gurus may say, webinars remain one of the simplest, most effective ways to sell any online course or coaching program. That being said, there are many ways to do webinars and a lot of decisions you need to make as far as how you’re going to set it up, promote it, present your offer within it, etc. In this Epi…
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Episode 93: Facts tell, stories sell… or so the saying goes. The problem is that most online business owners don’t know how to tell a good story. They’re too long, they go into random and irrelevant details, they ramble on, they’re uninteresting, and by the time you’re done telling the story, everyone who was listening has clicked away to watch mor…
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In this solo episode of Creating Powerful Impact, I’m diving deep into what it takes to transform a typical event into a powerful business growth tool—specifically from the perspective of the incredible support teams that make it all happen. If you’re an OBM, EA, or a critical team member responsible for managing the event planning process, this on…
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Episode 92: Imagine being able to go from 3 sales per WEEK, to 4 sales per DAY… or increasing your monthly recurring revenue by over $100k, just by getting rid of your sales page and implementing a “Book a Call” funnel. That’s what today’s guest, Eddy Miranda, was able to do, and this episode, Eddy gives us all the details on how transitioning from…
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How to Convert Your 1:1 Program into a Highly Scalable Group Coaching Model with Marcia Bench
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Episode 91: For a lot of coaches, the number one thing that gets in the way of making more money is simple math. If you’re only taking 1 on 1 clients, at some point, you’re going to run into a time issue. There simply aren’t enough hours in a week to meet with every client, not to mention doing all of your marketing, content creation, lead generati…
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Ready to land high-value corporate clients and scale your business? In the episode of Creating Powerful Impact, host Shay Wheat sits down with Angelique Rewers, CEO of Bold House and widely recognized expert in helping small business owners break into the corporate world. Known as the “undisputed champion at helping small businesses land big client…
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Episode 90: There’s nothing worse than spending months (or years) planning and developing your online course, recording, editing, and producing all of the course videos, putting together all of the downloads and resources, designing and building out the membership site, setting up a payment processor and creating a checkout page… And then you “laun…
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Episode 89: Generating passive, organic traffic can often be more of a hustle than what it’s worth. Spending hours a day pumping out content that ultimately gets just a handful of views is a great way to burn out before you ever make your first sale. The problem is that most people often focus on “shiny object” tricks, hacks, and strategies that on…
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What if you could unlock a roadmap to navigate the overwhelming influences of daily life? My guest, Robert McAfee, creator of the Excellent Decisions, Value-Based Leadership Program, and author of Living a Value-Based Life, reveals how clarifying your personal values can be the key. Robert shares his profound insights on how understanding and artic…
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Episode 88: One of the biggest problems online business owners face is quality of leads. You hustle all day just to connect with a handful of people who seem interested, but in the end, they’ve always got some reason why they can’t buy or join right now… Either they don’t have the money, or the timing isn’t right, or they’re unsure if this is the r…
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Episode 87: When marketing guru’s try to sell you on an “organic” growth strategy, they’re often just trying to sell you a networking and prospecting strategy… In other words, they teach you to friend request a bunch of strangers, and then spend all day trying to slide into their DMs and beg them to get on a sales call with you. Does it work? – In …
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How can laser therapy revolutionize your brain health and productivity? Join me as we uncover groundbreaking insights with Dr. Brandon Crawford, a leading functional neurologist reshaping the landscape of brain optimization and overall well-being. Dr. Crawford has harnessed innovative laser therapy techniques to enhance brain function, reduce infla…
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Episode 86: Building surface-level credibility is easy… just pay $300 for a press release and now you can put the “as featured on” badge on your website along with logos from Fox, NBC, ABC, CBS, and any other media source that published your press release. The problem is that doing this is cheap, easy, and anyone can do it - which means that its va…
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How to do PR for Your Online Business Without Hiring an Expensive Agency with Karen Yankovich
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Episode 85: One of the most important parts in building a profitable online business is getting visibility and exposure. In this episode, Karen Yankovich tells us how to get that exposure through being featured in mainstream news articles, podcasts, and other media outlets that help you build authority and credibility. We discuss how to build relat…
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Join us on this episode of Creating Powerful Impact as we navigate the complexities of menopause with our expert guest, nutritionist, and women's health coach Annie Gaudreault. We start by exploring the profound changes women experience in their 40s and 50s, focusing on the transition through perimenopause and menopause. Annie shares her insights o…
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Episode 84: There are a lot of speaking coaches and agencies that promise big money to get you on stage. And while it is certainly possible to make money speaking from stage, inevitably, in most cases, reality rarely meets expectation. In this episode, industry veteran Bobbie Carlton reveals the hidden truth about getting paid to speak and how to a…
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Episode 83 – It’s often said that the riches are in the niches. When you drill down and get specific about who you’re serving, the problem you solve, and the solution you offer, you don’t need a huge audience to build a profitable online business. You don’t need a huge audience… You don’t need your content to go viral… You don’t need a ton of like,…
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What if the secret to a thriving workplace isn't a fancy strategy but a simple shift in leadership philosophy? Join us on "Creating Powerful Impact" as we sit down with James Lawrence, a seasoned CEO with over 25 years under his belt, who reveals his transformative journey from traditional leadership struggles to embracing a people-first approach. …
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Episode 82: There’s a common misconception in marketing that if you just “provide value” to your audience, they will automatically buy out of gratitude. And while providing value is good and something you should do, there’s a lot more that goes into making a sale than that. In fact, providing too much value can lead to making no sales. Making sales…
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Get 10x – 20x Revenue with Government Contracts for Small Businesses with Karwanna D. Irving
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Episode 81: Imagine getting clients for your online business that pay you 10x – 20x your normal rate with money they HAVE to spend, and you didn’t need funnels, email marketing, webinars, paid ads, social media, or any other fancy marketing to get those clients… That would be pretty cool, right? In this episode, Karwanna Irving gives us the inside …
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Have you ever wondered what it takes to break free from leadership stagnation and truly inspire your team? Join us as we welcome Richard Atherton, partner at First Human, who shares his profound insights into achieving leadership breakthroughs. Richard encourages leaders to step away from their routine and rational mindset to make room for intuitio…
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Episode 80: Most people who create an online course or coaching program focus all of their time creating their program, thinking that once their program is complete, the hard part is done. What everybody quickly finds out is that creating the program is the EASY part. SELLING your online course or coaching program is the HARD part. If you want to l…
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Episode 79: For a lot of solopreneurs, outsourcing and hiring people tends to create more problems than they solve. Rather than taking things off your plate, it ends up being more work for you to manage them than for you to just simply do the work yourself. Whether it’s for small things like social media management and VA work, to more creative tas…
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Imagine a world where only a tiny fraction of venture funding lands in the hands of women, and an even tinier slice is given to moms. Today, on Creating Powerful Impact, we tackle this harsh reality with Erika CEO of HeyMama, a thriving community of over 75,000 working moms. Erika exposes the alarming statistic that less than 2% of venture capital …
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Episode 78: Monthly memberships can be a great way to generate predictable revenue every month in your online business. The downside is that you need a LOT of members in order to build up any kind of significant revenue, and most people simply don’t have a source of traffic that allows them to do that. That’s why most people who try to start a memb…
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Episode 77: Everyone wants the laptop lifestyle… running a profitable online business, working just a few hours a week from your laptop from anywhere in the world with an internet connection. In reality, most online business owners end up working long hours, hustling every day to bring in a very inconsistent trickle of sales, and their online busin…
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Sales are the lifeblood of any business, but what if the thought of being "salesy" makes your skin crawl? Today, I am joined by Aleasha Bahr, the mastermind behind the Black Sheep Sales Method and a sales strategist with over 15 years of experience. Aleasha shares her refreshing take on sales that replaces pushy tactics with genuine conversations. …
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Episode 76: Social media algorithms used to be fairly simple to “hack” and manipulate in order to get more reach for your content. But algorithms and AI are sophisticated enough now that “hacking” the algorithm with keyword stuffing, hashtag stuffing, bots, or fake engagement is incredibly difficult – and that’s a good thing. Because what triggers …
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Episode 75: Instagram can be great for building your business organically… but building organically is still slow, and the results are never guaranteed. Many people have been building organically on Instagram for years with little to show for it. And what a lot of people don’t realize is that Instagram is one of the best ad platforms around. In thi…
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In the middle of a New Year's Eve celebration, Ajit Nawalkha faced a life-changing question, "Who am I?" Join me as we sit down with Ajit Nawalkha, the former CEO of Mindvalley and co-founder of EverCoach, who shares his captivating journey from intern to CEO before his 30s. Ajit opens up about the momentous personal crises that led him to step dow…
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Episode 74: For online coaches, consultants, and course creators, making sales requires a lot of relationship-building. We can automate a lot of that relationship-building process with funnels, automated email follow-ups, and a slew of other marketing tools, but at the end of the day, people will only buy from those that they know, like, and trust.…
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Episode 73: A lot of people start a podcast, but not many people get listeners, sponsors, or land any customers or clients from their podcast. Podcasting is one of the best ways to create content for an online business, and there are a lot of ways to make money from your podcast. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy. In this episode, Amber Romaniuk tell…
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Imagine transforming from an introverted help desk employee to a regional vice president overseeing a massive $40 million book of business. That’s precisely the journey of our guest, Brian Galke, the "People Problem Solver." This episode of Creating Powerful Impact takes you through Brian's unexpected rise in the corporate world, all thanks to mast…
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How to 2x Revenue By Adding a High-Ticket Mastermind to Your Online Business with Liz Scully
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Episode 72: One of the easiest and most profitable ways to scale an online business is by selling more things to your existing customers. The leads are free, they’re warm, and they’ve already trusted you with their credit card at least once before… so selling to your existing customers is WAY easier than trying to sell to a cold audience that doesn…
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Episode 71: There’s nothing worse than starting an online business, investing a ton of time, energy, and money into developing it, spending countless hours and thousands of dollars into learning how to market it, just to find out months (or years) later that nobody is really interested. Your idea needs to stand out, be unique, and offer some kind o…
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Unleashing the Power of Video with Kirsten Graham, Professional Business Coach at Six Figure Business Coaching
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Unlock the secrets to leveraging video marketing for unstoppable lead generation and business expansion! Join me on this electrifying episode of Creating Powerful Impact, where we sit down with Kirsten Graham of Six Figure Business Coaching. Discover how Kirsten transitioned from the mortgage and real estate sectors to become a video marketing mave…
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Episode 70: Everybody wants the “laptop lifestyle”, but most people who start an online business end up working more hours for less pay. Even when your business starts having success and you scale to 6 or 7 figures, you may be making more money, but you’re often still left working more than you worked at your full time job. One of the keys to final…
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How Service Providers Can 2x-3x Their Income by Starting an Online Business with Denielle Rigoglioso
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Episode 69: Therapists, counselors, nutritionists, personal trainers, etc… there are many types of service providers who spend years in college to earn an advanced degree just to go to work for another company, putting in 40-60 hours a week, just to earn what a manager at McDonalds makes. This leads to high stress and burnout in many of these profe…
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Ever wondered how saying "no" can actually catapult your career? Have you struggled with maintaining your focus amidst endless opportunities? Discover how the power of saying "no" can be a game-changer for your productivity and success. In this transformative episode of Creating Powerful Impact, we promise you'll uncover the secrets of how successf…
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Episode 68: One of the keys to scaling a high ticket coaching, consulting, or agency business is raising your prices… but just how “high-ticket” can you go? A lot of that depends on the type of client that you’re going after. In this episode, Barbara Weaver Smith teaches us her “whale hunting” method for landing huge corporate clients that pay up t…
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Episode 67: One of the biggest pain points of selling high ticket offers is having to do sales calls. Not only are you having the same conversation with every single prospect one at a time, but you can only scale sales calls so far before you need to start hiring a sales team. In today’s episode, Justin “J” Boyum teaches us his virtual event strate…
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What if you could authentically align your professional identity with your core values? Join me as I sit down with Rachel Gogos, the visionary founder and CEO brandiD, to uncover the magic behind the Soul ID framework. Rachel takes us through the transformative journey of creating a website that not only stands out aesthetically but also communicat…
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Episode 66: One of the biggest problems online business owners face is that nobody knows that they exist. You might have an amazing product or service that you offer, but if you can’t get exposure and traffic to your offer, then you really don’t have a business. In this episode, Frank King reveals his secrets for getting on one of the biggest stage…
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Episode 65: When it comes to scaling your online business, a lot of the strategies out there are focused on simply bringing in more traffic, or implementing some new marketing gimmick that never really lives up to its promises. The truth about scaling is that it really depends on your specific situation, and focusing on the wrong strategy at the wr…
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You Can't Outsell A Bad Business Model with Andrea Jenson CEO and Founder of The Cash Flow CFO
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What if focusing solely on revenue is holding your business back? Join me and Andrea Jenson, founder and CEO of the Cashflow CFO, who shares her expert strategies for transforming a six-figure business into a seven- or eight-figure powerhouse. Andrea explains the critical shift from prioritizing revenue to focusing on profit and emphasizes the nece…
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