When it comes to smart geeks and bloggers, Chris Garrett is at the top of many people’s lists. A former advertising executive turned full-time blogger and Internet marketing strategist, Chris Garrett travels around the world presenting training programs and speaking at conferences on social media, marketing, and blogging. He is also the author of the best selling book, ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income, co-authored with Darren Rowse of Problogger fame. He’s also just released a new free ebook, Killer Flagship Content.
Garrett specializes in non-profits, small business, and major corporations, helping them understand the intricate workings of the Internet.
In his latest ebook, he covers the importance of blog content and messaging as part of your branding and customer reach, part of an upcoming workshop he and Darren Rowse are producing on creating successful blog content.
In 2010, he and his family returned to his birthplace of Canada, finding his new country full of business opportunities and connections. He believes in what he calls “happy accidents” but lives for the risk, which is what motivated him to move from the United Kingdom to a new country. Hear the rest of the story…
What does a business coach do when he needs a life? He goes out and gets one.
For over 20 years, Greg Dickson has coached and trained more than 11,000 entrepreneurs in the United States, Canada, UK, and South Africa to manage their businesses.
A long-time professional business consultant, Dickson has worked with startups and mature companies to help them restructure their finances and strategic investments, turning them into successful and profitable businesses. Long hours working, traveling and speaking many months out of every year, writing and publishing books, it takes a toll on anyone. And sometimes even business coaches need coaching.
In this frank interview with Stories of Our Journeys host Kym Huynh, Greg Dickson opens up about the moment when he realized he’d reached his limit. Tired, worn out, recently divorced, he realized that when you don’t love yourself, you can’t love others. You can’t, because you would be giving from a deficit. Nothing left. He knew he had to find that healthy place in his spirit and reconnect with the passion he knew was there inside himself. Hear the rest of the story…
At 21, Keith Kurson uses many titles to describe himself: developer, CEO, professional procrastinator. He spends most of his time working at Agoge Incorporated, a company which created the social networking game and community, Subeta, or hanging out with the WIFI at Starbucks drinking Ice Chai Lattes (three pumps of vanilla and non-fat milk, please!).
He’s spent six long years building Subeta, an online community where members adopt virtual pets then fight to the death with them against other players, or just dress their avatar up in pretty outfits and socialize that way. There are auctions, trades, shops, cults, and even journals the members can access to enhance their online experience, building a world around them and their virtual pets. With over 100,000 members, and growing, adding approximately 150 new members daily, it’s entertaining, fun, and an incredibly social atmosphere for people of all ages, but especially for the younger female crowd.
It takes a creative spirit and free thinker to create such social groups on the web, helping young people build communities and interact with each other through inanimate and virtual pets that many become very passionate about. The community sites break down barriers, helping members develop self esteem and confidence through competitive interaction. Hear the rest of the story…
Listed in Wikipedia, a rags to riches real life story, living the high life as one of the few bloggers to rake in the money, traveling around the world as the CEO of a major blogging network and publishing company, Jeremy Wright has come a long way since he first started playing with websites with Microsoft and IBM in 1993.
Like many in the evolving web industry, Jeremy Wright has had his fair share of wiggles along the path of his story.
According to Jeremy Wright in our interview:
People see the stuff like b5. Hey, I use to be a professional drummer. I pumped gas for a living. I was in the army. I was homeless. I was a youth pastor. I always kinda believed in not just following your heart but taking advantage of opportunities. Not being afraid of taking the next step even if it isn’t conventional.
Five years. 762 episodes. A show a day, seven days a week. People watching from over 70 countries. Consistently in the top 10 of all popular podcast channels and show lists. She’s a pretty lady walking her dog on a beach. What could possibly be so fascinating?
While Beach Walks with Rox is really just Roxanne Darling walking her dog, Lexi, along the beach near her home in Hawaii, this popular, short, low-tech video podcast has captured the attention of the world by being innovative, accessible, fun, funny, educational, enlightening, inspiring, thoughtful, and thought provoking.
Roxanne Darling is considered one of the world’s experts in video podcasting, social networking, live streaming media, event production, and web development. Her company, Bare Feet Studios, works with travel agencies, local government agencies, public relations firms, and regular companies on web development and social media projects and consulting in Hawaii, the United States and internationally. She is the founder of Social Media Club, the Social Media Club Hawaii Chapter, Association for Downloadable Media, and a member of many other blogging, social media, and featured in several books on social media and web publishing. She travels the world presenting workshops and keynotes on accessible audio and video podcasting for the web and mobile platforms.
She’s beautiful, talented, and knows her code. Her life is perfect.
In 2010, Karla Fisher (46), Defensive Back for the Portland Fighting Fillies, stood on the field at the finals of the full-contact professional football for women, a dream come true for the mother of two, computer programmer and developer, and former Marine.
Growing up in a small mining town in Pennsylvania in 1960s in a conservative working class family, Karla Fisher saw little escape from the way things always have been. Women were told they could only be one of three things when they grew up: wife, teacher, or nurse.
Described as a weird-loner-child by her mother, she saw things differently. She knew there was something more to the world than these culturally imposed limits. She questioned everything and loved sports – not just watching but playing. Hear the rest of the story…
Continuing part two of two conversations with Maureen Seiger and her daughter, Michaelina Argy, Maureen shares more of the story of her journey with the deep pain of guilt around her daughter’s thalidomide birth defects and deformities, her husband kidnapping her children, surviving the mental breakdown and hospital to eventually reconnect with her three children years later. Mikey Argy shares her experience sitting in Parliament to hear the announcement and apology from the British Government recognizing thalidomide survivors, finally getting the recognition she and others deserved. Hear the rest of the story…
Born with deformed arms as a result of her mother using thalidomide, taken on prescription to aid sleep, Michaelina “Mikey” Argy survived her mother’s attempts to get an abortion, her deformities and disabilities, to marry and raise children of her own, take on the German and British governments and Grünenthal, an international pharmaceutical company, testify before parliament to win financial support for thalidomide survivors, and win the Outsider’s Erotic Award for her strong voice and courage to defend the rights of thalidomide survivors.Her struggle and recognition for her achievements isn’t over. As chair member of the National Advisory Council for The Thalidomide Trust, Argy recently won a battle on behalf of thalidomide survivors in England in 2009, receiving a long awaited apology to thalidomide survivors and settlement from the British Government: Hear the rest of the story…
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