Dec32021

Same Product, New Frame How One Marketer/Mom Found Her Purpose

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Lucy Colangelo is a longtime marketing communications professional who had created a tried and true process to help business owners find their purpose and authentic voice online. Then a friend asked if this process would work to help her teenaged child, who was in crisis, find focus. It worked. That moment inspired Lucy to shift her focus and create the ShineOn™ Method. Two years in and she’s working to scale this into a full-on ShineOn™ Experience, building it into a digital and personal platform that empowers teens and helps their parents get into a new and powerful conversations with them.

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Nov262021

Why Doesn’t that Exist? How a Panic Attack Drove a High-Tech Invention

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As a senior in college, rootd.io app creator Ania Wysocka found herself alone, far from family, and having a panic attack. “It’s not right that I can’t find help right when I need it,” she thought. One million downloads of her panic attack & anxiety relief app later, it turns out she wasn’t alone. Between that anxious wake-up moment and her current high-tech success, lies a story of an entrepreneur who was rebuffed for age and gender. And who, nevertheless, persisted.

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How Do You Learn New Things, Every Day?

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Do you know what freaks me out about being able to know anything there is to know in the world just by asking? It’s that I get stumped sometimes on what to ask. I’ve got a free minute and magnificent power in my hand with that little device…and I revert to checking email and social…

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Nov122021

Did You Hear the One about the Hijacked Journalists? with Nick Leighton

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Imagine running a tourism “fam” trip with 20+ journalists. What’s the worst that could happen? How about being highjacked at gunpoint. Now that’s a story! Nick Leighton is the author of “Exactly Where YOU Want to Be: A Business Owner’s Guide to Passion, Profit and Happiness. Listen to his highjacking story and more, plus we hope some secrets to storytelling success.

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When Feeling Stuck is Physiological

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If I had my druthers when I sat down to write each week I would start with an important event happening in the world. I’d say something extremely insightful about it that no other reporters had even thought of. Then I would tie it back to a lesson in interpersonal communications and being an entrepreneur…

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Nov52021

How to Stay Relevant by Staying Current

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For Laurence “Larry” Minsky, he learns by writing. When he gets curious about what’s coming down the pike he does research that may lead to a blog post that may grow into an article that ends up as a published book. Or, 8 books plus one on the way to be more specific. With technology changing every day, Larry shares his tricks to staying relevant and even recognizing trends before they happen.

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If All the World’s a Stage, Own Your Show

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What does it mean to make your own show?   Derek Lumpkins talked about the long history of African Americans in Boston—a deeply rooted, fascinating and parallel alternative to the mainstream “Paul Revere” narrative we usually hear, when he was on my show, Intercultural Spark, last Thanksgiving. A week later he was on Chris Brogan’s…

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Trouble Focusing? Start with Service

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I don’t know about you, but the Facebook/Instagram/What’s App outage on Monday was a little bit of a relief. For six-plus hours there were no distractions (except for a quick foray over to Twitter to see what was up with Facebook). It conjured images of a modern-day interpretation of that Twilight Zone episode of the…

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