Joyful Business Podcast #25: Finding your Joy in Business

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Here is the latest episode of the Joyful Business Podcast featuring interviews with some of the most talented and joyful entrepreneurs on the Internet. Each interview is full of nuggets of wisdom about how being joyful and mindful in your business brings you the success you deserve. You'll find tips, stories, and real life ideas for keeping the joy, passion and creativity alive.

Join us every two weeks in Cafe Entrepreneur for a new interview.

In episode #25, Suzanne Falter-Barns gives us great clarity on the connection with joy in business.  As a teacher to coaches, authors, speakers and infopreneurs she gives the ins and outs of how to build platform and attract major media and publishers.

After working with Suzanne, her clients have been called cold by CNN, Time, Sixty Minutes, PBS, Self, People and many other major media outlets. They’ve also been offered major publishing deals, and created successful six figure businesses. Suzanne has published two best selling self help books with the world’s biggest publisher, and has, herself, been featured in many major publications and in more than 100 radio and TV programs. She also has a 20-year history in marketing, promotion and journalism in New York City, including work with The New York Times Company, Hearst, and Conde Nast. She knows how major media and publishers think, and how to package your gifts most effectively to attract the biggest audience...Listen in to learn more!

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If you enjoy this Joyful Business Podcast then you'll love our bi-weekly newsletter, Creating Your Joyful Business, filled with resources and how-to's for creating a financially successful business while honoring your lifestyle, your relationships and your creative expression!  Subscribe at: www.JoyfulBusiness.com  and receive your Free Business Attraction Success Kit!

En-JOY!

Laura

Kathleen Ann of Australia interviews Laura West - Business Attraction in Action

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Kathleen Ann of Power Up Your Marketing, and from Sydney, Australia.  Kathleen is a real attraction marketing fan and a generous spirit!

Here is a copy of our interview for your listening pleasure.  The topic - one of my favorites - Business Attraction in Action!

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You can also checkout Kathleen Ann and her resources at her website for Power Up Your Marketing!

En-JOY!

Laura

Embrace Your Authentic Marketing Style to Double Your Income & Impact!

Specially Designed For Heart-Centered Entrepreneurs:
Coaches, Consultants, Authors, Speakers and Healers

For the first time – these two attraction mavens , Stacey Mayo, Center for Balanced Living, and Laura West, Center for Joyful Business, collaborate to bring you a special Free Teleclass!

March 18, 1 pm Eastern

Embrace Your Authentic Marketing Style
And Double Your Income & Impact!

 

• Does your soul cringe when you think about marketing the way some of the well-known experts do?
• Perhaps you are working hard on your marketing, doing what others seem to be doing, but not seeing the results that you think you should?
• Maybe you are hiding out, reluctant to let people see your real passion?
• Or you have ideas about what to do but feel stuck and you can’t explain why?

Watch your business soar to new levels of success when you learn to embrace your Authentic Marketing Style. Having the courage to show up with authenticity and daring to be remarkable will allow you to get the results you deserve while making a bigger impact in the world.

Wednesday, March 18
1:00 pm est

Join us for this free teleclass!

Register Here!

Yes, we'll record it and you'll want to know we are giving away bonus' for being on the live call!  I hope you can join us!

En-JOY! 
Laura

What's YOUR secret to creating your own economy?

Are you looking for more income streams? Do you want to start a business but are afraid this isn't the right time?

For myself, I'm always interested in looking for more ways to take charge of my OWN life and my OWN business. That's why I was intrigued by Ali Brown's new free teleclass TODAY, Thursday, March 5, called "How to Create Your OWN Strong Economy This Year... With Online Information Marketing." It's tonight at 8pm eastern.

Here's the link to sign up:

Ali's Free Teleclass - Register Now  

I love Ali's philosophy and practical business advice.  I'll be on the call tonight - and if you own your own business and want to hear more about new ways of doing business - you should join us! 

I was at Ali's very first Online Success Blueprint workshop when there was only 30 people!  I was at Ali's Online Success Blueprint workshop last November with my husband and there were nearly 500!

You can catch me in her video on Facebook and hear my testimonial about following Ali's strategies has made a huge difference in my business.  (and if you've been a Joyful Business follower then you've seen the difference)

Link to Video

I hope you'll join us on the call tonight!

 

Ali's Free Teleclass - Regiser Now

En-JOY!

Laura

Join Me in Boston Next Week!

Join me at a Live Event in Boston!

If you are a coach or are interested in Coaching, please join us!

I'm speaking at the International Coach Federation - New England Chapter - live and in person!

Monday, January 12.

I'll be presenting a workshop "5 Powerful Attraction Marketing Strategies" and an evening presentation "Leverage Your Marketing Message for More Visibility, Credibility and Clients!"

Then, Monday, January 26 we'll have a special teleclass: "Want to Make More Money with Greater Freedom and Flexibility? Learn How To Package Your Passion"!

Register here for these events -- I'd love to meet you in person!

Let's set the intention that the weather is beau-ti-ful!

En-JOY!

Laura

Create YOUR Vision in 2009 With Ladies Who Launch and The Center for Joyful Business

Join me tomorrow at Ladies Who Launch in Atlanta!

Traci Long who is very involved with the growth of Ladies Who Launch, and one of my Platinum Clients, has invited me to speak to her special group of creative entrepreneurs!

DATE: Wednesday, January 7th 2009                                                
TIME: 5:30-8:00pm
WHERE: Smyrna Community Center
Room #1 200 Village Green Cir SE
200 Village Green Cir SE
Smyrna, GA 30080
Please RSVP  www.ladieswholaunch.eventbrite.com

I'll be presenting a special workshop to help you create your Vision Story for your business.  It's very powerful and transformative.  You will start putting your dreams into action that night!

• Especially as women – we talk and share in stories. We connect to each other with our dreams, our wisdom, and our ideas in stories. We share our love, our messages and our connection in them.
• Imagine you have the magic wand….you are looking back over your year and you have created it exactly as you would like it. No rules, barriers or obstacles.
• It’s easier to imagine the success and then look back at it instead of trying to create the steps from where you are.
• Your mind doesn’t really know the difference between reality and imagination – your body will react the same.
• Law of Attraction is always working – like Law of Gravity. We attract what we put our attention on. Creating a story gets our whole self involved and engaged. It’s very powerful.
• No matter where you are in your story – it’s perfect. Lots of details, very little details – we are all at different stages. Bullet points or sentences; pen or pencil…don’t worry about getting it perfect. Let go of should around your business.
• BIG – looks different for each of us.

Join us and Create what BIG looks like for you in 2009!!!!

See you tomorrow!

Shoutout: Coaching Heart Talk blog

Thanks to Marcia Dorfman for a shout out on her blog: Coaching Heart Talk

Marcia is a friend and colleague and great coach!  And a Joyful Business Guide owner!

She was on a teleclass this week where I was the guest speaker for The Coaches Training Institute niche community for Women as Leaders.  It was a great teleclass about Creative Tools for 2009! I loved speaking to the coaches from CTI -my alma mater training school!

Thanks Marcia!

Joyful Business Podcast Episode #18: Successful Creativity Takes Time

Don't miss another episode - subscribe today and be the first to know when a new podcast comes out  - Join our "Creating Your Joyful Business" newsletter - http://www.joyfulbusiness.com/subscribe.html

Here is the latest episode of the Joyful Business Podcast featuring interviews with some of the most talented and joyful entrepreneurs on the Internet. Each interview is full of nuggets of wisdom about how being joyful and mindful in your business brings you the success you deserve. You'll find tips, stories, and real life ideas for keeping the joy, passion and creativity alive.

Join us every two weeks in Cafe Entrepreneur for a new interview.

In Episode #18, Jill Badonsky, M.Ed. joins us to share some of her amazing ideas to help keep creativity alive in your work.  Jill is a nationally recognized workshop leader, artist, performer, humorist, and author of the book, "The Nine Modern Day Muses (and a Bodyguard): 10 Guides to Creative Inspiration for Artists, Poets, Lovers and Other Mortals Wanting to Live a Dazzling Existence". Jill is also founder and director of Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching - a ground-breaking model for coaching resistant and sensitive creative people or anyone wanting to create a positive change in their lives. And for those looking for a boost in the body image department, check out her great site:  www.2bodyblissmas.com.

Jill gives us some useful nuggets of creative wisdom, including the importance of taking breaks as a spring-board for new ideas, and how to ask for money for your services, in a professional and confident way.  You can sense her passion for looking at life through a creative lens to see all the possibilities out there - don't miss out on this great inspiration, and a chance to find out if you are in need of a little creative refueling! 

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If you enjoy this Joyful Business Podcast then you'll love our bi-weekly newsletter, Creating Your Joyful Business, filled with resources and how-to's for creating a financially successful business while honoring your lifestyle, your relationships and your creative expression!  Subscribe at: www.JoyfulBusiness.com  and receive your Free Business Attraction Success Kit!

Enjoy!

  Laura

Are You On My Sticky Note?

In my home office, affectionately known as the Joyful Empire Creative 
Studio, I set up a special inspiring area in the studio.  It's in the
corner of my office/studio, which in the Feng Shui world, is known as
my Wealth & Prosperity corner. My Friend, Evana Maggiore
came to visit a month ago and pointed out
that my Wealth and Prosperity corner was empty.

Well, I don't know much about the bagua map but I do know
about my energy and I knew that I couldn't have the Wealth &
Prosperity area of my office empty!  I shared this philosophy with my
husband, Marc, and he was on board - we needed to create an inspiring
corner for even more prosperity, abundance and wealth to flow!

He found this cute little chest which he knew I'd love the flow of the
rounded front. For my birthday, my sons gave me a beautiful water
feature so now I have "flow" in the wealth & prosperity area - love
the feeling of that!

I added a special gorgeous topaz crystal, a crystal red heart, and an Ogg
light (which I bought from Cheryl Richardson's site) (friend and client,
Chris Baeza shared that shining a light on an area helps you to bring your
awareness to it..thank you).  My Ogg light changes colors in a gentle
pattern (more visual flow) and then I added a birthday gift from my
client, Laurie Mandato, from Imagining Joy.  She sent me a
gorgeous silver "Circle of Friends" candle holder.  It reminds me of my
abundance of loving family and friends.

I make it a ritual to visit my beautiful corner each morning and turn
on the water and the lights.  It fills me with a sense of peace,
purpose, beauty and reminds me that it's wonderful to be focused on
wealthy & prosperity helping my amazing clients attract more wealth &
prosperity into their business.

This week I added a new feature to my inspiring space.  On the wall I
placed a large piece of paper for my new Attraction Marketing and
Money Mindset Program (AMMMP).  The is a year long program for 24
amazing creative women entrepreneurs.  I put up 24 tulip shaped sticky
notes as a "spaceholder" for each of the incredible women who are
coming into this program.

Every morning I connect with the 24 women who are coming and feel
excited and inspired about what is possible for them in the coming
year.  I even started writing names on the tulips claiming individual
people I know who would flourish in this program.  I imagine what it
will be like for them. How excited they are in their business and what
possibilities await them.

This process helps involve my whole self in my big intention for this
program.  It's a very visually sensory experience and helps me to
connect with my purpose each morning. Plus, it  really  gets my energy
going for letting people know about the program!  (that's how we do
marketing here at the Center for Joyful Business!)

So, is your name on one of my sticky notes? :)

Make sure you are registered for next week's teleseminar and you'll
find out more about the program because that's when I'm going to open
the doors for registration.

Next week's TeleSeminar:

Attraction in Action:  My 5 Most Powerful Attraction Marketing Secrets
So You Can Create Your Dream of a Six Figure Business Quickly and
Easily!

Thursday, October 30, 12:00 noon eastern time

Register here:  www.joyfulbusiness.com/attractionsecrets

Go ahead and register even if you can't make the time as we will
record it.  You'll want to listen as soon as you can though because
when I launch the new Attraction Marketing and Money Mindset Program
on the call - I'll be offering special incentives, bonuses and a way
for you to save!!

Can you tell I'm excited!  Channeling my energy each morning, keeping
my focus and taking action to share it with my community is powerful!
(and I'm told very inspiring and engaging!)

More to come…

En-JOY!

Laura

Guest Appearance: Organizing Playground Radio Show

I had fun on the radio show "The Organizing Playground".  Alison Carter and I talked about how business owners can use sys tems to maximize your marketing and the law of attraction!  It was fun and informative!  Listen in to the archives and you can hear the show for yourself!

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