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Write the Book Inside You

by Caryl Westmore

Do you have a book inside you? This is a podcast about how to write and self-publish your inspirational, life-changing, non-fiction book - especially if you are a Coach, Healer, Hypnotherapist, or expert in EFT Tapping (Emotional Freedom Techniques), Matrix Reimprinting. Or simply a heart-centered Entrepreneur. Your book will help you stand out like a “Sparkling Unicorn in a sea of sameness.” Host Caryl Westmore, the world’s first Emotional Freedom “Tapping Book Coach” is a multi-published self-help author and energy psychology expert of 20 years. She shares book writing, mindset and self-improvement tips, and tools, plus inspiring interviews with people just like you who became authors and enriched their own lives - while boosting their visibility, cash-flow, and clients by helping others. With the explosion of audio and e-books globally, it has never been easier in the history of storytelling to get your expertise out of your head and heart and into a book to reach millions worldwide. Caryl's Write the Book Inside You program and podcast teaches you how. When asked: “So what exactly do you do?" you can respond by handing out a copy of your book with your signature system and client success stories. Watch questioners lean in and say: “Tell me more…” If your heart is calling you to write a book - then this podcast is for you. Isn’t it time to write and publish the book inside YOU?

Episodes

Embracing AI with ChatGPT as a Creative Catalyst for Authors [Excerpt from the book "Bust Writer's Block Forever"]

31m · Published 25 Nov 13:00

Episode Length: [31 mins]

Introduction:
AI, particularly ChatGPT, is revolutionizing the creative landscape, offering support to writers and authors worldwide. It is part of the season of focusing on chapters from the bestselling book by podcast host Caryl Westmore, "Bust Writer's Block Forever."
Today's episode delves into the book's bonus chapter 12 entitled: "ChatGPT: Creative Catalyst, Collaborator."

Key Takeaways:

Explore the capabilities of ChatGPT and its impact on overcoming creative barriers.
Understand the shift in content creation, not fearing but embracing AI
Key Takeaways:
- Discover how ChatGPT, an AI developed by OpenAI, is redefining the approach to overcoming writer’s block and enhancing creative productivity.
- Learn about the positive reception of AI in content creation, with industry experts like Julia McCoy recognizing its potential to revolutionize the field.
Chapter Overview: "Befriending ChatGPT: My Story"
- The host shares an intimate account of her first interaction with ChatGPT and its significant influence on her creative workflow.
- ChatGPT is introduced as a digital companion, offering unconditional support, coaching and instant assistance for various creative needs.
Writing with AI:
- The Start: we present ChatGPT as a digital muse.
- The Middle: How ChatGPT can serve as a research partner and idea generator during the 'messy middle' of a book.
- The End: AI’s role in refining and polishing the final stages of your project.

Practical Demonstration:
A real-world example of using ChatGPT prompts to generate content ideas for a book on the Law of Attraction.

"Prompt Engineering"
- How clear, focused, and relevant prompts can significantly impact the efficiency and effectiveness of ChatGPT's responses.

AI’s Limitations:

Citing the capabilities and boundaries of AI, acknowledging that while ChatGPT is a powerful tool, it cannot fully replicate human emotion and interaction.
The importance of plagiarism checks.

AI as a Creative Partner:.
- The host recounts personal dialogues with ChatGPT that illustrate its user-friendly nature and the joy it brings to the creative process.
Conclusion:
This episode reinforces the idea of AI as a valuable companion in the creative journey to enrich writing experiences and streamline content creation.

Credits:
Brought to you by the book and video training at https://www.bustwritersblock.com. For additional insights and episode transcription please visit https:www.carylwestmore.com/podcast

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https://www.facebook.com/carylwestmoreauthor
https://www.facebook.com/groups/bookinsideyou
https://twitter.com/carylwestmoreuk

Show Sponsors: Books for Writers by Caryl Westmore: Bust Writer's Block Forever www.bustwritersblock.com and The Inner Path of Writing, Make Love not War to the Writer Within . Details here: https://www.ipwbook.com

Flip Your Switch from War to Love and Change Your Life: Dr Teri Baydar

33m · Published 12 Oct 07:00

Dr.Teri Baydar, in her book Flip Your Switch, A User's Guide to a Whole new Mind, explains why becoming a "love conscious human" is the key to changing your mindset for happiness and success in life and business. Switch from warring consciousness to love consciousness, she says, sharing two examples of how her teaching and consulting radically shifted the perspectives (and bottom line) of two business executives.

She also tells us about a harrowing personal experience at a martial arts studio which revealed the nature of warring consciousness as a human desire to capture, contain and control.

Love consciousness is the polar opposite, a state of being where:

You understand that we're all connected
You don't seek to capture, contain, and control.
You want to comprehend people
You want to understand them
You want to understand the greater situation.
You want to find solutions that help people
That help the planet
That help yourself
That are sustaining and healthy and balanced.
You want to have these wonderful interactive relationships.

Having spent many years as a business leadership consultant, Dr Beydar wanted to share what she has discovered into a book for readers who want to elevate their lives to become what she calls "love conscious human."

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Writer's Block: Beliefs and Why they Matter in Your Writing Life.

11m · Published 29 Sep 16:00

The theme of this episode is "Beliefs and why they matter." Especially important when it comes to being a writer or creative and overcoming Writer's Block.

[00:00:00] "Change your beliefs to change your life or risk being held hostage by life wounds and traumas from your past."

That quote by host Caryl Westmore underpins the work that she has done for the past 20 years as an energy psychology therapist and it's what underlies the truth in all the books she's written about how to break free, live the life you love, achieve the goals you want, meet the love of your life, and... be the writer you long to be.

She says:

[00:00:50] Now this is the key to all the books I've written, showing you how to live the life you love attracting the success you love, [00:01:00] or writing the books in a profitable and productive way, the way you dream it. That will happen when you understand what beliefs are either crippling you or enhancing your ability to fulfill your heart's desire to write, to be an author, to be a creative.

[00:01:23] As tiny children, we absorb and internalize what people say to us, what is happening in our outer environment. We take it into our brains and internalize the meaning. And it's not always a positive meaning, but that meaning becomes a belief. The world is dangerous. People laugh when I paint, or people made a fool of me in the class over my essay.

[00:01:54] Many of you know, I've been a break free fast coach, using these principles to help people [00:02:00] break free, to live the life they love, find the love they love, make the money they want. And just today, one of those clients phoned me and said, I'm ready to date at last, thanks to your book, Online Dating Success Secrets for Women 40/50 Plus.

[00:02:15] Well, she didn't say the whole title, but she said, Thanks to your book, I've taken the courage, I've joined a dating site. But something, part of me, is still saying I don't really want a man in my life. And then I knew. I said, you have taken the courage to jump into the waters of dating. It's like a cool, beautiful river and you feel safe in it.

[00:02:38] But you're wondering why the river is not flowing your ideal date, your ideal man, to you. It's because there's an obstruction in the river. And that's exactly what happens with the beliefs that we take on board and obstruct us unconsciously so that when we come to write as adults. Something gets in the way.

[00:02:59] And [00:03:00] it can be anything that we've heard or seen recently that begins the tentacles of writer's block gripping themselves onto us. Well, this chapter will give you some insights into that. And how to break free from those crippling blocks. So in this chapter, I lay the foundations which will explain to you in the rest of the book the tools and techniques that you can use to dissolve that obstruction.

[00:03:28] And bring the flow of creativity and excitement about your writing back

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Is Writer's Block a Myth like Lee Child says? Who am I to disagree?

10m · Published 20 Sep 12:00

Is Writer's Block a Myth like Lee Child (of Jack Reacher fame) and many successful writers claim? I strongly disagree and prove it in my book, Bust Writer's Block Forever.

So who am I to say Writer's Block is not a myth?
Why do I say I can help you break-free from its clutches if you do succumb?

This episode of a podcast season devoted to Writer's Block offers more chapters from the book, Bust Writer's Block Forever by Caryl Westmore , read by AI/Digital narrator Dorothy.

You will hear typical signs of Writer's Block you may have experienced.
The difference between Outer and Inner Success as an author or writer.

Ultimately, I stand by the latest findings in neuroscience and neuropsychology that trauma and beliefs set up in childhood often have lifelong effects on us mentally and physically. And that includes writers and creatives.

I take the stand that

It’s NOT all about mindset
It’s NOT a curse you need to cure with mental willpower
It’s NOT about declaring war and doing battle mentally to crush the resistance that you encounter at the keyboard.

Feeling stuck in the “messy middle” of your book, article, blog post, or script? You are not dealing simply with toughening up your “mindset.” Unfinished manuscripts languishing on a hard drive need not be your fate.

You can get stuff done with projects:

Written, published, and selling worldwide
Translated into languages globally
Recorded as audiobooks
Transformed into courses

As you will hear in the next episode (Chapter 4 of the book) it begins with beliefs.

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What is Writer's Block? Answers from the book "Bust Writer's Block Forever" by Caryl Westmore

9m · Published 13 Sep 09:00

What is Writers's Block? The answers come from the bestselling book Bust Writer's Block Forever, 7 Game-Changing Ways to Kiss Writer's Block Goodbye and Unleash Creative Inspiration.
In the previous episode introducing this Writer's Block series of the podcast, Caryl Westmore gave an overview of the book and encouraged reviewers to give honest reviews.

In today's episode from the Introduction, she introduces her DIGITAL NARRATOR, DOROTHY, to read from Chapter 1 of the book .

Included is the shocking story of the writer who had "writer's block for 30 years."

In the next episode, Caryl shares who she is, why she is ideally qualified on this topic, and why she believes we can "bust writer's block forever."

✅ Recommended - get my FREE CHECKLIST:
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How Authors, Writers, can "Bust Writer's Block Forever" with author Caryl Westmore [#1 Overview]

8m · Published 22 Aug 11:00

SEASON 1 INTRODUCING BUST WRITER'S BLOCK FOREVER [#1 Overview]

Author, Writers! Ever faced a blank page, resistance or felt frozen by self-doubt? Then this book, Bust Writer's Block Forever, reviewed by the author Caryl Westmore, is for YOU.

Her mission is to help you as a writer or author access your creative mojo and make a huge difference to your writing life.

She says: "Every writer knows the struggle. The blank page staring back, the words just out of reach..."

👉 What if the tools in this book led a Hollywood screenwriter to Oscar glory with the movie "Sleepless in Seattle"?

👉 And imagine Elizabeth Gilbert, post 'Eat, Pray, Love', using a technique from these pages to conquer her fears and self-doubt so she could write again?

👉 👉 From novices to bestsellers, every writer can benefit. Every writer has a muse waiting to be rediscovered.

👉 And in the digital age? Meet ChatGPT, your new best friend and writing ally. A guide in the wilderness of words.

"Bust Writer's Block Forever" isn't just a book. It's a revolution. A roadmap to your best writing self.

Join the movement. Rediscover your muse. Write the story inside you!
Buy the book for 99c and leave your REVIEW on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Bust-Writers-Block-Forever-Game-Changing-ebook/dp/B0CG4GH76W
So let's say it's like “EFT Tapping meets ChatGPT Chatting” in a new and exciting way that helps you get to the root cause of the beliefs and what I call goal traumas keeping you stuck.
In this episode, I'll be giving you an overview of the book, followed by a series that dives deeper. For the season of Busting Writer's Block, my mission is to launch this book into the world and to help as many writers as possible to bust through their blocks and unleash their creative genius.

✅ Recommended - get my FREE CHECKLIST:
5 Book Hooks you must have to Captivate non-fiction Readers: Checklist (Free): https://www.writethebookinsideyou.com/freegift

✅ Connect with Caryl Westmore on social media!

https://www.facebook.com/carylwestmoreauthor
https://www.facebook.com/groups/bookinsideyou
https://twitter.com/carylwestmoreuk

Show Sponsor: The Inner Path of Writing, Make Love not War to the Writer Within a bestsellingbook by Caryl Westmore +21 world-famous contributors, Foreword by Dr. Joe Vitale. Details here: https://www.ipwbook.com

Tina Turner's Magic Mantra + Turning Resistance into Opportunity [Caryl Solo]

19m · Published 06 Jun 11:00

Resistance. The word resistance brings fear and trembling into most writers' hearts, mainly thanks to Stephen Pressfield who told us that we have to fight resistance like warriors if we want to stay on track as writers and authors. But my approach, as you know, is different.

In today's episode I'm going to give you three ways, including the magic mantra of Tina Turner, so you can turn resistance into opportunity.

What is resistance?
"Where there is a dream, there is resistance," says Stephen Pressfield.

[00:01:20] Resistance is the act of opposing or judging something. It can manifest as fear, doubt, or discomfort.

[00:01:28] "Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled, but it can be felt. It's a repelling force. Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work." Stephen Pressfield, The War of Art.

Resistance especially seeks out those in the creative realm, entrepreneurs, artists, writers, and anyone on a spiritual journey or a [00:02:00] health path.

So how to break free? There are two ways that I know and will share with you in this episode:

1. Either disaster strikes or

2. You explore "the inner path".

I tell two stories that demonstrate "disaster strikes" as a pathway to opportunity.
Then I offer 3 ways I recommend to break free from Resistance by following the "inner path" instead:

Letting Go with David Hawkins
Tina Turner's Magic Mantra for chanting (that's me chanting it in the background while describing it)
Internal Family Systems (IFS): No Bad Parts because our higher Self will orchestrate our wholeness.

IFS is a featured chapter from my upcoming new book for writers and authors: "Bust Writer's Block Forever, Seven Game-Changing ways for Writers, Authors, to Kiss Writer's Block Good-Bye and Unleash Creative Inspiration." The book also has a bonus chapter on ChatGPT Your Creative Catalyst.

✅ Recommended - get my FREE CHECKLIST:
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Joanna Penn on Writing her Kickstarter Travel Memoir "Pilgrimage, Lessons Learned from Solo Walking Three Ancient Ways."

32m · Published 09 May 04:00

Joanna Penn, aka JF Penn, shares her journey writing Pilgrimage, a Travel Memoir that she launched with a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2023.

You can find the book at https://www.jfpenn.com/pilgrimage -- in ebook, print and audiobook along with a Workbook to help you journal your own questions and answers likely to arise on undertaking a pilgrimage.

Listen also to relevant episodes on her Books and Travel podcast.

Penn shares insights on the challenges and fulfilling moments of walking solo on two ancient pilgrimage ways in England during Covid, followed by finally reaching a lifelong dream to walk the Camino de Santiago.

She offers useful tips for:
a) Undertaking such a journey
b) Integrating the trips into her life
c) Writing a Travel Memoir book called Pilgrimage, Lessons Learned from Solo Walking Three Ancient Ways
d) Launching it on Kickstarter
e) Why authors sometimes need to write a book from the heart, not directly connected to their brand or business.

✅ Recommended - get my FREE CHECKLIST:
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9 Book Launch Tips I learned from Launching "The Inner Path of Writing" to Bestseller on Amazon

17m · Published 20 Apr 11:00

In this podcast, Caryl Westmore shares nine book launch tips she learned from launching "The Inner Path of Writing" to become a bestseller on Amazon.
She opens by reminding you that "Hope is NOT a book marketing strategy," and there is a framework to launching a self-published book to Amazon and reaching "bestseller" status during book launch week.

Tip #1: Don't fly solo. Get a team to help with marketing, proofreading and formatting the book. Caryl hired Books Go Social with Lawrence O'Brien and a virtual assistant to help chop up videos into shorts and reels.

Tip #2: Get a professional book cover design. Caryl used 100 Covers and had a copy of the cover made to keep her motivated during the writing process.

Tip #3: Make sure your title is easy to say and memorable. Caryl used the domain iwbook.com to help promote her book.

Tip #4: Provide juicy bonuses. Caryl provided a book summary in video, an AI-recorded audio version of the book, and six EFT tapping videos to help writers overcome blocks.

Tip #5: Create a launch team (Advanced Reader Team)to help spread the word about your book. Caryl followed the advice of Honoree Corder in You Must Market Your Book and set up a Facebook Group of dedicated Advanced readers. Nurture your Advanced readers with emails and encouraging posts nurtured for at least 14 days leading up to the launch date. Firstly you send them a review copy of the book, asking them them to buy it for 0.99c on Amazon and post their honest review on launch day. She thus achieved her aim of 15 4-5 star reviews for The Inner Path of Writing.

Tip #6: Netgalley was particularly important in garnering good reviews from solid reviewers including

Tip #7: Set up a dedicated launch page to collect email addresses and build buzz before the book's release. Link to Amaon for the launch -- later you can go wide to other outlets.

Tip #8: Stay healthy with a good routine of exercise and eating that fosters focus.

Tip #9: Keep the momentum going after launch by continuing to promote the book and engaging with readers. Also following up with the list provided by Netgalley of reviewers who downloaded the book but have not left a review.

Stay to the end because Caryl also reveals 2 big mistakes she ALMOST made (but thankfully avoided) that would have sunk her.

✅ Recommended - get my FREE CHECKLIST:
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✅ Connect with Caryl Westmore on social media!

https://www.facebook.com/carylwestmoreauthor
https://www.facebook.com/groups/bookinsideyou
https://twitter.com/carylwestmoreuk

Show Sponsor: The Inner Path of Writing, Make Love not War to the Writer Within a bestselling book by Caryl Westmore +21 world-famous contributors, Foreword by Dr. Joe Vitale. Details here: https://www.ipwbook.com

"Unexpected Kindness" by Dr. Joe Vitale [BOOK REVIEW]

3m · Published 29 Mar 08:00

[Book Review] Talk about a page-turner! Unexpected Kindness, Autobiographical Stories of Gratitude, gives a riveting insight into the vulnerability and fears of one of the world's most popular icons of The Law of Attraction, Dr. Joe Vitale.

You'd think he was always so cock-sure of himself? Think again, as you will discover by reading this book.
Read the full review at my blog page: https://carylwestmore.com/unexpected-kindness-vitale/

✅ Recommended - get my FREE CHECKLIST:
5 Book Hooks you must have to Captivate non-fiction Readers: Checklist (Free): https://www.writethebookinsideyou.com/freegift

✅ Connect with Caryl Westmore on social media!

https://www.facebook.com/carylwestmoreauthor
https://www.facebook.com/groups/bookinsideyou
https://twitter.com/carylwestmoreuk

Show Sponsor: The Inner Path of Writing, Make Love not War to the Writer Within a bestselling book by Caryl Westmore +21 world-famous contributors, Foreword by Dr. Joe Vitale. Details here: https://www.ipwbook.com

Write the Book Inside You has 58 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 22:46:07. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 30th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on June 2nd, 2024 01:41.