219 – He’s the magic man: Tom interviews Steve Hart

Steve Hart is a professional magician, a speaker, a life coach. He's a mystic and a wizard of self-discovery. For over 30 years, he has entertained audiences with his magic and speaking programs all across America. And as a self-discovery expert, Steve helps people discover the wealth hidden within themselves. He has been certified as a life coach through the Life Coach Institute. He's a speaker and trainer for corporations, associations, educational institutions and spiritual groups.

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218 – His woodworking is gorgeous AND therapeutic: Tom interviews Kurt Ballash

Kurt Ballash is a U.S. Army veteran and owner of Ballash Woodworks, a custom woodworking shop located in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He has found his next mission through the family trade that allows him to step into helping other transitioning soldiers identify their purpose after service through the artisans outreach program that he created.

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217 – You can’t sell ’em if they don’t show up: Tom talks Getting People to Show Up for Webinars Part 1

Let's talk about how to get more people to show up for your webinars. Even though we are definitely going to set you up to make more money on your webinar as I covered in episode 214 last Monday with replays. The more people that show up for your live webinar, the more money you will make the fastest. These people are the most gung ho. So in this episode 217 and then next episode is 220 next Monday, I'm going to show you a bunch of ways to get as many people as you can to show up for the first webinar.

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216 – She’s a Big Time Actress, Director and Producer: Tom interviews Elena Evangelo

Born and raised in Manhattan, Elena Evangelo is an actress, writer and filmmaker. She's a graduate of Vassar College with a B.A. in English and French. Elena went on to earn her MFA from USC School of Cinematic Arts and she graduated Phi Kappa Phi. She's a recipient of the Jeffrey Jones Screenwriting Scholarship and Ray Stark, Ted Turner MGM Award. She continued her education in Paris studying French theater with NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

Screw The Commute Podcast Show Notes Episode 216

How To Automate Your Business – https://screwthecommute.com/automatefree/

Internet Marketing Training Center – https://imtcva.org/

Higher Education Webinar – https://screwthecommute.com/webinars

[03:30] Tom's introduction to Elena Evangelo

[07:32] What does a Producer do?

[10:34] Always wanted to be an actress

[12:03] The “business end” of Hollywood

[21:11] The work she's most proud of (wink wink)

[24:34] Meeting Patricia Kara (Tom thinks they're sisters!)

[27:39] Independent contractor vs. W-2 as a Director

Entrepreneurial Resources Mentioned in This Podcast

Higher Education Webinar – https://screwthecommute.com/webinars

Screw The Commute – https://screwthecommute.com/

Screw The Commute Podcast App – https://screwthecommute.com/app/

Know a young person for our Youth Episode Series? Send an email to Tom! – orders@antion.com

Have a Roku box? Find Tom's Public Speaking Channel there! – https://channelstore.roku.com/details/267358/the-public-speaking-channel

How To Automate Your Business – https://screwthecommute.com/automatefree/

Internet Marketing Retreat and Joint Venture Program – https://greatinternetmarketingtraining.com/

Elena's website – https://www.elenaevangelo.com/

Show Pig Films – http://www.showpigfilms.com/

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/elena.evangelo

Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/lelenaeva/

Internet Marketing Training Center – https://imtcva.org/

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216 – She’s a Big Time Actress, Director and Producer: Tom interviews Elena Evangelo

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215 – Get in front of millions of Amazon customers for free: Tom talks Sample Flash Briefings

So I thought I'd do a little switcheroo on you because normally I do interviews on Wednesdays. But I've been working on flash briefings this past weekend and I've covered those in episode 202 and I highly suggest you listen to that episode if you didn't or if you did, listen to it again. I want you to get in on this totally free way to get in front of potentially millions of people on Amazon. It's a really good time to do this so that you get in on and get a foothold of subscribers before it gets saturated.

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214 – Webinars are a powerful selling tool: Tom talks Selling on Webinars

Webinars are a powerful way to sell. And I've made a lot of money not only with live webinars, but the most money comes in from webinar replays. We're going to stipulate here that you have a topic that someone wants to hear. And you have something to sell related to that topic. It is possible to sell an unrelated product just from doing a great webinar that proves your expertise. But it's much harder and you probably won't sell as many as you would if the product was related to the webinar.

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213 – Forensics is his game: Tom interviews Ed Primeau

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212 – She gives info from the trenches: Tom interviews Laura Steward

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211 – Here’s how to SHINE on your next podcast: Tom talks How To Be A Great Podcast Guest

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This episode is not about getting on podcasts. This is about how to be great, and I'm saying great, when you get on and afterwards or after the podcast. There are lots of benefits of being a guest on other people's podcast and the biggest one to me is being exposed to other audiences with a warm introduction from the host of the podcast. I've made tons of money from people who never heard of me before by being introduced to them on someone else's podcast.

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210 – She took a long road to becoming a professional photographer: Tom interviews Erika Hatfield

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Erika Hatfield has worked as a professional photographer for over 12 years, after completing her master's degree in education and finding out working in a school was not a good fit for her. She started a second business called Next Level Photo Education. She develops courses for kids and adults, and mentors aspiring professional photographers.

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209 – A homeschooling dad: Tom interviews Lee Mosler

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208 – Use game techniques to increase engagement: Tom talks Gamification

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Gamification. Now it's not always about playing games. It has to do with ways you can get people to engage with your content. Now there's lots of ways to add gamification to your content. But before we get into seven or eight of them, I want to tell you about the psychology of getting people to do things. This is somewhat the basis of gamification and anytime you want to get a certain behavior out of someone else. This is really powerful stuff right here. So really pay attention to this.

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207 – Customer service speaking at its finest: Tom interviews Barbara Khozam

Barbara Khozam is an award winning international motivational speaker and trainer specializing in customer service and the patient experience. In 2019, Barbara was awarded the CSP, certified speaking professional from the prestigious National Speakers Association. Barbara is one of only three women in the entire world to have achieved this designation as well as the Toastmaster accredited speaker designation. Only three people in the world have that.

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206 – You can’t keep a good dog down: Tom interviews Adam Katz

Adam G. Katz is a University of California at Berkeley graduate. He is also a serial entrepreneur who has spent the past 20 years crippled by debilitating chronic migraines. But he didn't let that stop him. He has owned more than ten successful businesses and has self-published over 30 books, including four novels. In this episode you'll learn his strategies for picking the right business model to maximize your time and minimize your headaches.

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205 – A powerful and easy promotional device: Tom talks Ecourses

Ecourse is used for lots of online courses in this episode. I'm talking about the most simple one, which is an e mail e course. Yes, you can link out of your e-mails to audios or videos to jazz it up, but you don't have to to get started. You could literally have your first course done in a couple hours from now.

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204 – He makes jewelry in 2 countries: Tom interviews Greg Boudah

Greg Boudah is here. He says you pronounce it like the monk, is a veteran loving, ginger beard farming, former U.S. Marine gone goldsmith. And he's laser focused on elevating the type of jewelry products the military community are being offered. He owns a jewelry factory in Thailand and operates a design studio here in the United States. He's got a team of 30 highly skilled jewelers and military spouses. And The Jewelry Republic is where veterans buy jewelry.

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203 – She’s a podcast booker and animal rescuer: Tom interviews Margy Feldhuhn

Margy Feldhuhn is a co-owner of Interview Connections. It's the first and leading podcast booking agency. Margy and her business partner, Jessica, lead an in-house staff. She's got 12 employees in their Rhode Island office and have successfully scaled the agency to seven figures. Margy is very active in animal rescue and she was recently recognized for her fundraising efforts with the Humane Heroes Award.

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202 – Get in front of 53 Million people for FREE: Tom talks Flash Briefings

Creating Flash Briefings. Tom is going to lay out the process to get flash briefings up on Amazon's Echo and Dot devices. There's a lot of potential here to reach MILLIONS of people through these in-home devices, so listen up and learn how to take advantage of this emerging technology.

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201 – She’s a Super Serial Entrepreneur: Tom interviews Jen Groover

Jen Groover's name has become synonymous with innovation, entrepreneurship, evolution and human potential. She was recently nominated as a U.N. delegate to the first ever global accelerator for the Global Entrepreneurs Council. And she's also made history, at the New York Stock Exchange, as a member of the first all female group to ring the opening bell. And she's made Forbes list of 50 founders you need to follow on Twitter. And she was nominated TV Personality of the Year in 2013 by Savor the Success.

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200 – Antion Success Method: Tom talks Success Principles

Today's topic is success and leadership principles that you need to be able to tell the boss to take this job and shove it. If you already have your own business, I'll tell you how to take it to a much higher level. Also, these principles will also help you in any aspect of your life, not just business.

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199 – Shoot marketing videos at home: Tom talks In Home Video Studio

In this special episode, Tom gives you lots of tips and tricks to make spectacular videos at home, ranging from the minimalist approach to very elaborate and everything in between. As usual, Tom holds nothing back, so make sure to check the show notes for links and pictures of other peoples' studios.

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198 – He flunked out of high school and college: Tom interviews Rob Garcia

Rob Garcia grew up in a low income household despite failing out of high school and college. And he's got to tell me how he did that, because I thought you had to graduate high school to get to college. So I want to hear about about that. He taught himself how to speed, learn concepts and eventually finished his PhD program. And he founded Shift Magazine. And today, he's a successful business strategist out of San Diego that teaches high visibility and growth techniques.

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197 – He’s da bomb on LinkedIn: Tom interviews Joshua Lee

Joshua B. Lee is an entrepreneur, business owner, author, coach, marketer, husband and father. In 2003, he built his career in online marketing. For those who can even remember this, with clients such as MySpace and Google managing over a hundred million dollars in advertising spend and controlling over thirty five trillion online impressions.

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196 – Learn and earn with online courses: Tom talks Online Courses

Tom goes in-depth in the making of online courses. What to do, what NOT to do and all the things he's learned from being on the commercial Internet for decades.

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195 – He’s the Entrepreneur Evangelist: Tom interviews Noble Gibbens

Noble Gibbens graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and was an infantry officer in the Eighty Second Airborne Division. He's been a part of close to 10 business startups, and he likes to call himself an entrepreneur evangelist. He founded the 360 movement a year and a half ago to add value to hungry leaders and influencers in every area of life.

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194 – The Fastest Navy Guy on the Ground: Tom interviews Jesse Iwuji

In 2015, U.S. Naval Officer Jesse Iwuji began a journey toward professional racing in NASCAR while still actively serving in the U.S. armed forces. He simultaneously started his own business and pursued entrepreneurial ventures. Today, he's risen in the ranks in NASCAR to the national series of NASCAR and has two successful and profitable businesses under his belt. And this is all while serving in the U.S. Navy.

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193 – Up Your Facebook Live Game: Tom talks Facebook Live Tips

Facebook Live Tips. We will break this whole thing down into what to do before you go live. What to do during a live event and what to do after the event to make it a great event and also to make money.

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192 – He overcame the real estate crash: Tom interviews Shane Willis

Shane Willis is an Army veteran and entrepreneur who has had it all, lost at all and had to fight to get it back. And after losing everything with the mortgage crash, Shane had to learn different rules of the financial game. And now he teaches others those rules he wished he would have known then.

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191 – Intimacy expert gets intimate: Tom interviews Allana Pratt

Intimacy expert Allana Pratt is a global media personality. Her vulnerability and courage landed her a featured weekly column on the Good Men project. She was featured as an icon of influence and as the guest expert on Huffington Post, People magazine, Forbes, CBS and Fox and The Jenny McCarthy Show. She's an Ivy League grad and is the author of four books and she hosts the podcast Intimate Conversations, where listeners learn how to find the relationship they deserve.

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190 – Up Your Podcast Game: Tom talks Podcasting Tips

If you're thinking about starting a podcast, just some of the things that you might want to think about as approximately 60 million people listen either every day or several times per week to podcasts. There's 35 million YouTube channels. And remember, the podcast and YouTube channels are spread out over nearly a hundred languages. So I guess this is why the article was titled The Golden Age of Podcasts. I mean, the time is now to jump in and there's still plenty of space in a growing market.

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189 – From Gang Member to top Motivational Speaker: Tom interviews Pegine Echevarria

Pegine is in the motivational speaker Hall of Fame. She was named minority business entrepreneur. Top Business of the Year. And she's been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNN and Univision. She's the founder of the Power Women Global for women and leadership and business with over 5000 members. She's also the founder of Power Women Pro for Women, speakers, experts and authorities that has over 600 global members.

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188 – The King of Sales: Tom interviews Jeffrey Gitomer

Jeffrey Gitomer is the author of 15 bestselling books. He's a creative on the Edge writer speaker whose expertise on sales, customer loyalty and personal development is world renowned. And that's no hyperbole there. He's known for his presentations, seminars and keynote addresses that are funny and insightful.

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187 – Make your videos sizzle: Tom talks Up Your Video Game

I'm going to give you a bunch of ways to jazz up your videos. Now, I'm not suggesting you use all of these ideas in one video. You could use a bunch of them, but you don't want to look stupid by plastering too many techniques that don't make sense. You got to use your common sense here. Now, I'm also gonna give you other tips to help you make decisions when you have to make decisions about like progressive or interlaced videos or what frame rate makes sense for your video and lots more.

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186 – The Mental Side of Business and Life: Tom interviews Daryl Hill

Daryl Hill helps entrepreneurs overcome business PTSD by putting subconscious architecture in their minds so they can get back to enjoying the seven figure lifestyle. He does this through magnetic meditations and a lot of these things are trademarked. He does it through magnetic meditations, online courses and subconscious sessions that are guaranteed to break through any mental blocks to level up your life.

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185 – He’s the king of franchises: Tom interviews Joel Stewart

Joel Stewart is a military veteran, engineer, MBA and certified franchise consultant with the International Franchise Professionals Group and founder of the International Franchise Marketplace. His franchise consulting business is focused on two niches, military veterans and international franchise marketing. And any questions you have about this? He is your guy.

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184 – Gadgets Galore: Tom talks My Favorite Gadgets

I'm just going to go over a bunch of different gadgets, both online and offline, that I use just all over the place. I just brainstormed and sat my chair and thought about all the kinds of things that I use almost on a daily basis just to get through life and business. And I know I didn't get all of them. So if I get enough of them, I'll do a future episode as an update. But let's jump in and get started.

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183 – He’s a Special Forces Green Beret: Tom interviews Lane Belone

Lane Belone is a Special Forces Green Beret veteran turned high performance coach. He uses his leadership experience in high risk environments to develop business executive teams into laser focused and empowered A teams, which was one of my favorite shows back in the day. Lane extracts what is already within using a process called creating space. So all involved step into their greatness.

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182 – He programmed his way to success: Tom interviews Troy Broussard

Troy Broussard is the founder of the leading integrated mobile learning platform called Membrant, as well as several other SaaS, and that stands for software as a service and marketing companies. He is a contrarian and he values freedom over all else. He runs his six companies from his homes in Florida, Oregon, and listen to this, Brazil, as well as from the road traveling in his RV.

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181 – Lakia Robinson runs Tom’s social media: Tom talks How We Handle Social Media

Lakia Robinson is here with me and she's been with me for about five years and takes a massive load off of my back and I still have to participate, too. It's not that I'm totally divorced from everything. Even with her handling this all day and all night. So it's a big production. It's a must have for you now in your business, because guess what? If any clients, the first thing they do is check you out on social media. Anybody ever heard of you? Does anybody care about you?

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180 – The visual entrepreneur: Tom interviews Eric Bakey

Eric Bakey might be the most dangerous man in direct response. He's the chief combat imagineer of his visual strategy firm, combining copywriting and cartooning with lessons learned in the military for more fun on the frontlines of capitalism. If you're sick of marketing that doesn't make sales, he can show you how to blow your client's mind with mental dynamite.

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179 – He’s the H.I.T. man behind 13,500 Vetrepreneurs: Tom interviews Steven Kuhn

Stephen Kuhn is the decorated United States Army combat veteran. He's a speaker. He's an author and consultant who helps individuals dramatically improve their quality of life through the consistent conscious application of honesty, integrity and transparency.

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178 – Low risk and high returns mean you’ll succeed in your business: Tom talks Digital Info Marketing

Why should you do this? Why should you get in the digital information marketing arena? Well, one reason, it's extremely low risk and another reason is its extremely high profit margins. I mean, digital products are 97 percent profit. I mean, if somebody happens to give you a check, it's 100 percent profit. But most of the time you've got a little credit card fees. So that's why we say it's 97 percent profit.

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177 – A Marine Mom who does it all: Tom interviews Richelle Futch

Richelle Futch is a Marine Corps veteran and military spouse. As a mental health counselor, she has over 15 years of clinical experience working with government agencies as well as in private practice. She's the author of the book and workshop Her Ruck Inside the Emotional Backpack of Military Wives, which has provided opportunities to serve military families worldwide. Richelle was recently awarded Armed Forces Insurance Fort Bragg Military Spouse of the Year for 2019.

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176 – Active Shooters Beware: Tom interviews Alain Burrese

Alain Burrese is author of Survive a Shooting and director of Active Defense Training for Reflex Protect. He's the leading authority on active shooter response. His programs teach strategies to survive active threats and how to defend yourself, both empty handed and with Reflex Protect, a revolutionary new non-lethal defensive spray being used in hospitals, schools, churches and businesses across the country.

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175 – Massive Free and Cheap Exposure: Tom talks Best Ad Bargain

I've been saying that YouTube ads are the best bargain when it comes to online ads. Now, why do I say that? Because you can get tons of branding and name recognition totally for free. And when you do get an ad watch, that's usually at a bargain basement price. I mean, sometimes as little as one cent. But, you know, almost always mine have been below 10 cents. And the same keywords would cost me between a dollar twenty and four dollars and ninety two cents if I was putting the ad on Google search.

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174 – 23 years of being funny: Tom interviews Ron Culberson

Ron Culberson ranks in the top 30 of his wife's favorite speakers. He's a funny guy. He's worked as a hospice social worker, a middle manager, and director of quality improvement at Hospice of Northern Virginia. He was also the 2012/2013 President of the National Speakers Association. That's a prestigious organization. And he was recently inducted into that organization's Speaker Hall of Fame, that is the highest award you can get in the professional speaking industry.

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173 – She’s a Knockout: Tom interviews Diane DiResta

Diane DiResta is a certified speaking professional. She is founder of DiResta Communications Inc and author of Knockout Presentations. As a speaking strategist, Diane brings over 20 years as a communications expert and speech pathologist. Her company works with Fortune 500 companies. She media trains, sports and entertainment, celebrities and coaches C level executives how to exude executive presence.

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172 – Theories I live by: Tom talks My Theories

After being in business for many years, I started to notice certain principles that by living by them, they seemed to create more success for me. Then I started telling them to my mentees and they seemed to have more success when they adhered to them. And over time, these principles seem like they were totally solid and worthy of memorializing, which I did by making posters of them and hanging them on the wall of my school. And now in this episode, I guess I'm memorializing them in a little different way.

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171 – He Flunked Retirement: Tom interviews Steve Epner

Steve Epner is a serial entrepreneur. He teaches lean canvas and also corporate entrepreneurship, and ideas at St. Louise University and Washington University. And after selling his company, he flunked out of retirement. I know we usually bring great entrepreneurs, but he flunked retirement. Then he became an entrepreneur in residence at Boeing.

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170 – He drove a school bus at 16 years of age: Tom interviews Ben Brooks

Ben Brooks is an international speaker, management consultant, and he was one of the first African-Americans to enlist in the Pennsylvania State Police rising to the rank of Major. He defies the typical stereotype of the hardened state trooper. He can be very serious when the situation demands it or he can be very warm and caring when it's appropriate. Through personal anecdotes, humor, charm, passion and his highly energized, interactive style, Ben is able to convey the most serious of messages.

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169 – Make Hobbies Tax Deductible: Tom talks Hobbies

This is going to be one of the shortest podcasts I've done, but really, really powerful for people out there that they're in business or thinking about it or they just want to enjoy their life and get tax deductions for it. That's what we're going to talk about.

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168 – He follows the sun: Tom interviews Frank Furness

Frank Furness is a CSP. That's a very high designation in the professional speaking world. And he's a best selling author and international sales and technology speaker. He travels between his homes in London, Spain and Florida, and he's presented in 65 countries. He's the regular speaker at Entrepreneurs University and his clients include the British Olympic Team, Sporting Champions and Sport England.

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167 – Eight year old magician rocks the LA Times: Tom interviews Judy Carter

Judy Carter was interviewed by Oprah Winfrey after writing her first book, Stand Up Comedy, The Book. And Judy went from playing Vegas as a headlining standup comic to becoming an in demand corporate speaker. And she speaks on the power of purpose to overcome stress and navigate change. And she was featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CNN, as well as being a frequent contributor to NPR's All Things Considered.

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166 – Leasing Commercial Space: Tom talks Leasing Space

Now, of course, I think you're thinking that this topic seems like it is totally against my podcast title of “Screw the Commute”. I really want you working out of your home, but there are times when you need commercial space. Hey, I have a school where I leased commercial space, but I hardly ever go there unless we are having an event or an inspection by the State, so I have not violated my vow of always working from my home.

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165 – Your Wingman: Tom interviews Waldo Waldman

Lieutenant Colonel Rob Waldo Waldman. He's a CSP. That's an accolade in the speaking industry. He's a CPAE. That's the highest award anybody can get in the speaking industry and he's an MBA. He's called the wingman. He's a Hall of Fame leadership speaker, executive coach and author of The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Never Fly Solo.

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164 – He lasted 45 minutes at his corporate job: Tom interviews James Feldman

Jim Feldman is a globally recognized transformation growth advisor and business advisor who's guided leading organizations such as Toyota, AT&T, Apple, Hyatt, Walt Disney, Ritz Carlton and Microsoft to ensure that shift happens, which is one of his trademarks. Incentive magazine recognized him as one of the top six innovators in the last century, along with the founders of Google and Dell Computer.

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163 – Lead Generation: Tom talks eBay

I'll be talking about using eBay as a lead generator and cash flow machine.

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162 – Her clients love her: Tom interviews Christine Kloser

Christine Kloser is The Transformational Author, coach, and she's trained more than 70,000 coaches, entrepreneurs, and leaders to write their transformational books through her popular programs. Get your books done with the Transformational Author Experience breakthrough live and the My Time to Write mentorship program.

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161 – Stealth Webinar 2.0: Tom interviews Geoff Ronning

Geoff Ronning is co-founder of StealthSeminar.com and founder of Webinar Prosperity Blueprint. That's webinar training. And I have used his service for five years or more. And it's made me a fortune and continues. There's probably money rolling in right now from automated webinars that are running while I'm talking to Geoff. Now he has the front row seat and an advisory role to webinars that are running around the world.

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160 – The tools I use to run my business: Tom talks My Resources

I’m going to tell you about the myriad of resources, both services and products, I use to run my business. And full transparency here, I may get affiliate commission on some of these things, but you can be darn sure I won’t recommend anything that sucks just to get a commission. I’m not going to ruin my reputation for a few bucks. I’m also going to tell you about a bunch of the free and paid resources that I’ve created.

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159 – From secretary to CEO: Tom interviews Mary Agnes Antonopoulos

Mary Agnes Antonopoulos has a client list that reads like the Who's Who. And she's created successful marketing and copywriting campaigns for clients like Jordan Belfort, the Wolf of Wall Street and JJ Virgin and some of the chicken soup people. And thousands of others. And she teaches what works and how to work it.

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158 – He made Bill Gates look bad: Tom interviews Jack Turk

Jack Turk has decades of experience writing for corporations like Microsoft and Kodak, as well as a number of small businesses, including dentists, attorneys. Hey, even magicians. His copy has generated millions of dollars in sales, and he's now known as the world's fastest copywriter.

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157 – Are meetings worth it?: Tom talks Team Meetings

Today’s topic is the value of team meetings. I really didn’t use them until the last five years or so. As I look back, that was a stupid mistake in my business. Yes, I’ve done very well, but what I finally realized was that everyone that worked for me was working pretty much on their own. There was no real coordination. Now that I know better, that was terribly inefficient and I can’t imagine how much money I’ve blown over the years because of this inefficiency.

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156 – Get Tons of Podcast Interviews: Tom interviews Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann is a niche marketing expert. He founded podcastguests.com. It's a service that connects podcasters with guests for their shows. He's also publisher of Domain Name Wire. It's a trade publication for the domain name business that has been cited in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, NPR, and many more.

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155 – The Queen of Facebook: Tom interviews Mari Smith

Often referred to as the queen of Facebook, Mari Smith is considered one of the world's foremost experts on Facebook marketing and social media. She is a Forbes top social media power influencer. She's the author of The New Relationship Marketing and co-author of Facebook marketing an hour a day. Forbes recently described Mari as the pre-eminent Facebook expert. I mean even Facebook asks her for help.

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154 – Consistency and Reliability mean increased sales: Tom talks More Business Skills That Rock

In this episode, I’m covering even more business skills that rock. And again, don’t poo poo episode 145 and how important the skills are that I covered in that episode. And just a reminder, as I did in episode 145, I’m going to quote from articles and studies as part of this episode.

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153 – Academia meets Entrepreneurship: Tom interviews Cheryl Lentz

Dr. Cheryl Lentz is a multi award winning publisher of the internationally acclaimed series The Refractive Thinker. It's a collaboration of doctoral scholars from around the world and it's earned 20 awards so far. Now Dr. Cheryl is known as the academic entrepreneur. You don't see those two together often. She's known globally for her writings on leadership as well as critical and Refractive thinking as an accomplished University professor speaker and consultant.

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152 – Speakers bureau owner and prolific marketer: Tom interviews Frank Candy

Frank Candy is a popular author, speaker, business culture expert and business consultant. He's worked with Disney and Harley Davidson and Goodyear and probably a lot more than that. Frank is the founder and president of American Speakers Bureau Corporation. They book professional speakers, authors, athletes, hey even astronauts, all over the world for keynote speeches seminars and workshops.

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151 – Set yourself apart from the competition: Tom talks Starting a For Profit School

When I started my school, the Internet Marketing Training Center, I worked on it for about three years part time. Now my intention on this episode is to get you to the point where if you worked on it really hard you could have a school open in about six months to a year, fully certified by the state where you reside.

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150 – The Diabetes Doctor: Tom interviews Dr. Jeff Hockings

Dr. J. Murray Hockings has been an entrepreneur for twenty eight years and he's currently the CEO and founder of Help Your Diabetes, which is a diabetes reversal company with 15 locations throughout the U.S. and plans for 50 by the end of this year. He's given over 275 presentations over the past five years in six countries and he is known as the world's number one diabetes reversal Doctor.

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149 – Mr. America bench presses our show: Tom interviews Tom Terwilliger

Tom Terwilliger is equal parts athlete, entrepreneur, and motivator. And five years after pulling himself from the world of drug and alcohol abusing outlaw bikers, Tom's “never give up” attitude, determination, and willingness to sweat has earned him a national bodybuilding championship. He is and was Mr. America and he had a successful 16 year career as a Fox Sports Net TV show host.

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148 – Breakthrough Growth for your biz: Tom talks Advisory Boards

Advisory boards. Now, the one difference this episode is going to have as opposed to my other Monday training sessions is that normally my training sessions is about something that is either made me or saved me a lot of money over a long period of time. This episode is different in that I'm right in the middle of implementing the idea that you're going to hear today and I haven't made any money on it yet. However I expect to and it's a good solid idea used by many small businesses.

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147 – He makes technology easy: Tom interviews Terry Brock

Are you overwhelmed with the new gadgets and gizmos that hit the market on a regular basis? I know I am. I know my cell phone. I tried to get the kaching sound on it because I'm known as the king of kaching and I figured to take me all day, and if you passed it off to someone like Terry, it's on there in like two seconds. So this is the guy that helps us not go crazy with these all these gadgets and gizmos that come around.

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146 – Everyone wants to steal this lady’s ideas: Tom interviews Jane Ubell

Jane Ubell is an award winning entrepreneur and former TV and film producer. Her credits include Good Morning America, Wall Street Journal TV, E.T. and lots of others. In 2017, Jane founded Bedside Reading, one of the most innovative author marketing programs in the world. Bedside reading places books by the bedsides in luxury hotels and in the media the hotel brands. Waldorf Astoria, Mandarin Oriental, The Fairmont and many others.

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