Podcasts are more than just a friendly chat. Used properly, with the right business goals in mind, they can exponentially grow your company's ROI, attract new clients to your business, and open up collaborations with brands you’ve always wanted to work with. Sound too good to be true? Well, it isn’t, but to get all the benefits mentioned above you need to make sure your podcast is something truly special. Podcast guest Annemarie Cross shares her hacks for making an amazing podcast in this show. She tells you what to avoid if you want to monetize your podcast and how to grow your audience into an engaged, active, and real community. Guest Profile Annemarie Cross is known as the podcasting queen. She hosts the Ambitious Entrepreneur Show and the founder of Podcasting with Purpose, a company built to help business owners find their podcasting niche and grow their brand's revenue with their own show. You can attend one of Annemarie’s free training sessions using the link below. https://podcastingwithpurpose.com/masterclass

Finding the right balance between giving your students content they really want to learn and things they need to know can be tricky. Most students want to rush ahead to the fun stuff, often at the expense of the vital fundamentals. If this sounds like your students you’re not alone. Learning a new instrument, coding language, or art technique is tough and it can be tempting for students to either give up or focus solely on things they can do and that means their progress halts. But our latest podcast guest, David A Jones has found a way to combine the wants and needs of his students seamlessly into a single lesson. This has led to happier students who love what David teaches. He explains his methods and practices in this podcast. In the show we cover: David’s approach to creating online content and what he’s doing differently to 90% of the course creators out there. He shares with us the lessons he decides to commit to video and what he leaves out for in-person learning and why. And David stresses the importance of finding the right audience for your products and why they might not be who you think they are. Access our free training here: https://passion.io/scale ****David A Jones Guest Profile**** David is the co-founder of Presto music School, he has been teaching music for over 20 years and Presto is one of the UK's leading music schools. David never really considered going online until he came across Passion.io. He’s now supplementing his in-person learning with a PassionApp and using the platform to attract new leads to his business.

“The biggest thing I thought I needed to worry about was the weather, pandemic was an alien word to me” 2020 was crazy for everyone, but if you were the owner of a festival you probably saw your doors shut and trade dry up completely. What do you do in that situation? Put your head in your hands, give up, and close down? Or do you think on your feet, adapt, and power on through. That’s what our latest guest, Roger ‘Dodge’ Woodall, did. Roger is the owner of Bournemouth 7’s, the UK’s biggest sport and music festival. When the pandemic hit he pivoted his business and through grit, determination, and entrepreneurial spirit came out the other side of 2020 stronger. We can all learn a lot from Roger's experiences, whether you’re an online coach, personal trainer, or restaurant owner. The hurdles Roger faced in 2020 have been faced across all industries and in businesses of all sizes. If you need advice on overcoming setbacks, staying positive in the face of adversity, and deciding when you need to pivot your offering then this show has your answers. Enjoy. Access our free training here: https://passion.io/scale Roger Woodall Guest Profile Roger has over 20 years of experience in the events sector. He cut his teeth in the industry back in the 90s running student parties across the UK. Roger is now the founder of Bournemouth 7’s known as the sporting Glastonbury. The festival will be celebrating its 14th birthday this year. When Roger isn’t in the field he’s hosting his own podcast The Eventful Entrepreneur and running his own events accelerator course The Events Crowd. Listen to Roger's podcast here: https://eventfulentrepreneur.com/

What can you learn from 3000 interviews with successful entrepreneurs? (Find out now by ordering JLD’s latest book Uncommon Success: https://uncommonsuccessbook.com) Heck, how can you even take all that knowledge and condense it down into some manageable and actionable advice? That’s exactly what our latest podcast guest, John Lee Dumas, has done. John’s book, Uncommon Success boils down 6 years of podcasting and 3000 interviews into 17 killer pieces of advice anyone can use to improve their business. John came on the podcast to share a few tips from his book. Dan and John also covered: The reason John publicly reports his business's income and how that actually helps him make more revenue. The one thing you can do right now to increase your company’s profits by 40%. It’s really simple but you’ve probably overlooked it The worst thing you can do to guarantee your kids have a miserable adulthood (Seriously) Why you need to pull the starting trigger on your personal improvement and how to prepare for the marathon (You guessed it, self-improvement is NOT a sprint) Grab a copy of John’s book here: https://uncommonsuccessbook.com Guest profile John is the host of the wildly successful and influential podcast Entrepreneurs on Fire. John started his show in 2012 and since then has interviewed over 3000 business owners, entrepreneurs, industry leaders including Tony Robbins and Gary Vaynerchuk.

Running a business is all about getting more clients right? More customers mean more money. More money equals more success, right? Not always, it's far better to cherry-pick your clients and only serve customers who fit really well with your brand, program, or ethos. Ill-fitting, nightmare clients will drain your entry, time, and ultimately cost you money. You don't need that headache, it's far better to politely direct them somewhere else. But how can you spot a NO prospect? What do you say to them to let them down gently? Should you ever take on a difficult client against your better judgment? Helping us answer these questions is podcast guest, Kirsten Haglund. Guest Profile Kirsten is a Canada-based fitness professional who has built the PassionApp, Push Fitness. Access our free training here: https://passion.io/scale/