Me Interviewing awesome people

I’m blessed to be coaching people like Yazan

I’m blessed to be coaching people like Yazan.

He launched his online business a few months ago and he just got his first big client. A dream client!

It took him 4 months to build a relationship with his client and get their trust.

We worked on building a serving mindset, on giving unconditional value, on forgetting ourselves and our wants while being professional.

Our work was a meditation into the world of Yazan’s client. This is what it was.

We came up with outside the box ideas! We turned every stone upside down to find solutions and we did!

Yazan forgot that he needed to get clients ASAP. We only focused on solving the riddle for his potential client.

Building a business becomes easy when you forget yourself and focus only on your client’s problem.

I remember Yazan coming back worried one day… “I don’t know what’s going on. She is not responsive any more.”

“Keep providing value”, I said. “She’s just busy with the wrong things. Bring her attention to what matters, to what she really needs to do for her business. You’re here to show her the way, to lead her.”

And this is what Yazan did. He took action. He owned the game.

And one day the dream client called Yazan and asked him: “When are we going to start then?”🎉🎉🎉

Success.

Exciting times. I’m just so proud of my people. So passionate about my people.

These are my lovely, brilliant and powerful people.

What is your role then, Angelos?

I’m there for them to remind them how brilliant they are.

I’m there for them to kill any self-limiting thoughts that may interrupt their creative work.

I’m just there for them.

And they can feel I’m there for them.

And they keep going.

And they get what they deserve.

To all the people who let me be there for them while they’re climbing their mountains,

Angelos ❤️

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Steffan Surdek – Leadership Coach and Forbes Contributor

Steffan Surdek

Steffan Surdek is a professional speaker, author and coach. His passion is collaborative leadership. He works in organisations and helps them to improve communication, unleash leaders, and define that element of success which is a shared vision. He regularly writes for Forbes. You can find Steffan here.

This is the long Skype session we did together a few months ago. Enjoy!

Highlights

Steffan insists on learning by doing. Don’t focus on success or failure but take action, experiment and aim to learn something out of the experiment.

17:35 I don’t charge consulting commissions when I refer people to a job. It’s business. If they I helped them, they are more likely to help me when I am in need. You have to give to get.

30:40 Bring the people to the feeling space. How does the progress feel?

32:15 Awesome Stuff Here: On marketing yourself and how to get noticed: Deliver value first and the money will come later. First, get to know your customers to see what you can offer to them. If you want to sell them something, you have to meet their needs. To see what their needs are, you have to get to know them. Maybe a free workshop at the beginning? Give them the opportunity to introduce themselves and their needs to you first!

36:59 Question: Is it OK to give stuff for free? People don’t value free stuff. Steffan says giving away stuff always creates business. When you give away stuff though, you have to be prepared that you may not be given anything back. Do something because it’s part of you.

43:00 Create content that’s reusable. Create content that you can chop up and use it in a different form or source. Do you have a long talk on YouTube? Take that long video and create a new one with the highlights.

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Interview with Kit Carstairs – Publishing, Book Editing, Writing Inspiration

Kit Carstairs

A few months ago I had a very interesting chat with Kit Carstairs, the founder of the Manuscript Appraisal Agency.

Kit shared with me a lot of tips for those who want to write a book and get published. Here we discuss Traditional VS Self-Publishing, book editing, writing inspiration, entrepreneurship, work-life balance, and more.

I enjoyed this talk so much! Kit is not only a publishing guru but more importantly a sweet, lovely person! Enjoy!

05:57 – Why go with a traditional publisher?
09:35 – Self-Publishing
11:00 – Appraisal Fees
16:00 – What can an editor do and cannot?
17:46 – How to edit your book – common mistakes
21:44 – Wanna write a good book? Experience Life!
25:25 – Freelancing, growing organically, work-life balance

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