Writing with Purpose and Making an Impact “If you want to grow community, really when you think about it, you really need only about a hundred people to love you in today’s world to become an influencer.” —Swish Goswami In 2017, I became curious about why Gen Z was choosing entrepreneurship and what their attributes […]
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How to Give More Than You Take “My purpose is ‘How am I making this better in the world for other people?’ I know if I do that, all the things that I want are going to happen.” —Vincent Pugliese When we think about doing something like building a business, creating a course, or launching
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Learn about Presales, Launch, and Post-Launch Tactics “But ultimately you want sales. You want influence. You want authority. And those things come from continually marketing and promoting your book.” —Azul Terronez Many authors treat marketing as a dirty word or see it as a one-time event that is over really quick. I want you to
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Should I Self-Publish or Try Traditional Publishing? “Self-publishing is more than just writing the book or putting it onto a platform.” —Azul Terronez I first got involved in the world of self-publishing around 2008 when the Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) platform launched. KDP made creating digital and print books fairly easy and free to
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How to Overcome Perfectionism in Your Writing “So, don’t have a filter some days. Just write. Don’t really worry about the direction it’s going. Just be curious about what happens. Your goal is to find writing as an intuitive way to express yourself on the page.” —Azul Terronez When I’m thinking about writing anything, I
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How to Know You Are Good Enough to Write a Book “Sometimes showing up to write is more about believing that you’re the right person.” —Azul Terronez In one of our previous episodes with Ann Maynard, Episode 198, she advises authors to be true and honest. This essentially means they need to be vulnerable on
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Not Every Book or Word You Write Is Ready to Share “It took me five years, and it had zero personal stories. It was a book about other people’s teachings. And I threw it away. I invested so much time in that book, and I threw it away because my intuition was telling me this
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Authors Who Lead 200th Episode “Writing is a creative process. And creative processes allow you to actually grow and change if you allow it.” —Jadah Sellner For over four years, I’ve recorded a podcast every single week. I have not missed a single one. Putting out content consistently takes commitment, and I’m proud of that,
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How to Stop Chasing the Spotlight “Our failures, the challenges, the roadblocks that we’re up against can actually be pathways to success.” —Tim Schurrer Tim Schurrer wanted to be the next John Mayer. But he soon realized he wasn’t selling enough records or concert tickets to achieve this goal and became frustrated. He then pivoted
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Understand Your Unique Voice “Honesty is the thing that takes your book from sounding like everything else on the market to sounding like your unique message.” —Ann Maynard Ann Maynard came into editing by selling a very expensive bottle of wine to an author in Austin, Texas. The joke was that she was an English
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