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Have you ever been in a really bad situation yet somehow switched it around to become one of the most sought-after people in your industry?

She is phenomenal - like a force of nature. TeeJ Mercer is her name and she's one of Hollywood's most sought-after TV editors. She's worked with ABC, NBC, MTV, OWN, WeTV, Style Network - all of the alphabet soup. She's got it going on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, she's worked with Tiffany Haddish and Kevin Hart, Samuel. L Jackson, Jesse T. Usher, the Shaft movie. She's got bestsellers as well!

Listen to TeeJ's story of courage and success!

• [03:12] TeeJ says she's the "world's best hugger". How did the whole COVID situation affect this?
• [06:15] We walk through TeeJ's story that caused her to leap from a life of sheer torture to success.
• [09:55] What does the C.R.A.Z.Y. acronym mean and how can it help people look for signs to indicate that somebody is experiencing domestic violence?
• [14:31] How did TeeJ success-defied her way into denial as a battered wife?
• [18:56] When did she reach her breaking point and what made her decide to move forward from her situation?
• [20:16] How did she manage to eventually up and leave?
• [22:28] Why is it important to operate with more compassion for people who are going through a similar debacle?
• [24:18] When does an abuser's real personality come out?
• [25:43] How did TeeJ's career help her after she left the relationship permanently?
• [29:06] How does TeeJ work with people, uplift them, and transform their lives?

RESOURCES

1. Kayla O'Brien Media - get a foolproof game plan for your video content and get the highest production value for it!
2. Support the show, buy Robert a coffee!
3. Storytellers Growth Lab - get guidance about how you can CONFIDENTLY CONNECT, PRESENT POWERFULLY & ENGAGE EFFECTIVELY!
4. Media Maverick's Masters - use the code: rkennedy to get $2000 off the program!
5. I Am A Noisemaker - let TeeJ share her secret on how you can make your brand a success overnight
6. Thankful I Left - FREE 12-day devotional for people who are suffering through domestic abuse

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“Nothing will ruin your best employees faster than watching you tolerate a bad one.”

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How does a Disney dancer go from dancing to becoming a dental specialist and relationship coach?

Dino Watt teaches private practice owners, how they can create cultures, brands, and raving fans by focusing first on the relationship with themselves. Second, designing a magnetic culture and providing a unique customer experience. They provide relationship-based strategies, and training for business management that creates peace for the owner, more productivity for the team, and more profit in the business.

Find out how to do that and more in today's episode.

• [04:28] What is Dino's "why" and his strategy in his Instagram dance posts?
• [05:42] How did Dino get started as a Disney dancer?
• [07:10] What was Dino's career aspiration growing up?
• [08:45] What the pivot which caused his dream to shift from being a dancer to another career?
• [13:41] How did Dino's wife take his shift from being a performer on the acting stage vs. speaker stage?
• [15:09] Dino shares how he found his niche as a speaker in the healthcare space helping build/repair relationships.
• [17:53] What was the biggest obstacle that Dino experienced in growing his business?
• [18:30] Dino shares with us his books that can help organizations improve how they work as well as their working relationships.
• [19:55] Why is it important for a business owner to have strategies/concepts of firing people?
• [22:01] What is the biggest reason that people fear the firing process?
• [23:46] Dino shares his advice with people who have a dream yet are being detoured from achieving it.

RESOURCES

1. Kayla O'Brien Media - get a foolproof game plan for your video content and get the highest production value for it!
2. Support the show, buy Robert a coffee!
3. Storytellers Growth Lab - get guidance about how you can CONFIDENTLY CONNECT, PRESENT POWERFULLY & ENGAGE EFFECTIVELY!
4. Dino Watt's website
5. The Practice Rx: The Cure To Inner-Office Drama, Politics, Low Morale, and the Overworked, Burnt Out, Under-Appreciated Owner & Other Office Ailments by Dino Watt
6. Hire & Fire Like a Boss: Stop the "staff" infection and attract the perfect team by Dino Watt

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Imagine being invited to a party and then being kicked out of the party by the very person who invited you. How would that feel?

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Our guest today was cut from his basketball team and it served as the fuel to his success. No, this isn't the Michael Jordan story but it's something similar.

Coach George E. Rice, III is the voice of reason. A charismatic disruption that challenges each individual and team to objectively measure their performance, master their process, and manifest their plan.

He is the author of "Rebound 4 Success: 5 Ways To Turn Adversity Into Your Accomplice". And his mission is to turn learners into leaders and leaders into champions. Let's all be inspired by Coach George Rice III's story today.

• [04:11] Who is Coach George Rice, III? How does he serve the world?
• [07:17] A basketball coach who was cut out from a basketball team? Coach Rice talks us through this experience.
• [15:08] What enabled Coach Rice to move forward from the adversity he experienced? How did his experience fuel him?
• [21:12] What is one way that someone can practically turn their adversity in their accomplice?

RESOURCES

1. Kayla O'Brien Media - get a foolproof game plan for your video content and get the highest production value for it!
2. Support the show, buy Robert a coffee!
3. Storytellers Growth Lab - get guidance about how you can CONFIDENTLY CONNECT, PRESENT POWERFULLY & ENGAGE EFFECTIVELY!
4. Rebound 4 Success: 5 Ways To Turn Adversity Into Your Accomplice by Coach George Rice, III
5. Coach George E. Rice, III's website

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Have you ever had a really good job? And it was going along just great. But you knew that there was something else; you knew that there was something more that really captured your attention, captured your passion, and drove you to that next phase of life. Where you can help others more, where you can transform the lives more. Have you ever felt that feeling?

What's In Store For You

Adrian Salisbury had a job - a great photography job. But something amazing happened to him, something shifted in his mind and he decided to go into the world of entrepreneurship and never ever look back.

How did he make that shift and turned all the challenges into success?

• [03:29] Who is Adrian Salisbury and how does it feel when people recognize him?
• [05:14] Where did Adrian start before being considered as the "face of eCamm"?
• [06:28] How does one find their "groove"?
• [09:17] Adrian has a job and he's enjoying it but he wanted something more; what were the struggles that he faced as he attempted to shift?
• [13:38] How did Adrian navigate the uncertainty of financial stability in entrepreneurship and manage to provide for his family's needs?
• [18:59] Aside from hard work and perseverance, Adrian has experienced several positive coincidences that helped his business to boost. How will he advise budding entrepreneurs on what step to take when things are unclear?
• [22:19] How do you show up and present yourself if things are unclear?
• [24:30] Does how you present your course online matter more than the content?
• [26:52] How does a content creator decide when they need to spend on better yet more expensive equipment?

RESOURCES

1. Rescue Event Planning - If you have an event and you don't want to worry about a thing, let Melissa Jakes and her team handle everything.
2. Support the show, buy Robert a coffee!
3. eCamm Live Academy coming this July
4. YouTube Academy
5. Find Adrian Salisbury online!

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Dream the impossible dream. Dream big dreams! But what if your dream hits a hurdle - quite literally? What do you do then? How do you respond? How do you pick yourself up and make it to the Finish Line?

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Our guest today is a four-time All-American graduate of the University of Arkansas, a two-time Paralympian, as well as a Paralympic Games silver medalist. He is also a Persian Gulf War veteran, TEDx motivational speaker. He just recently launched a book called "10 Power Stories to Impact Any Leader: Journal Your Way to Leadership Success".

After a hurdling accident cut short his Olympic gold dreams, he still found success and made his story happen in a different way. Let's listen to John Register and how he went through his journey turning a major tragedy into success.

• [05:18] What was John Register's dream when he was young? Was being in the Olympics part of it?
• [07:06] How is art and music a big part of John's life?
• [10:04] Why did John join the military which brought him to the Gulf War?
• [12:51] How does the military support Olympic aspirees?
• [15:28] John takes us through the moments leading up to the biggest challenge he faced on May 17th, 1994
• [20:25] John walks us through the aftermath of the accident.
• [23:10] What helped John make the decision to have his leg amputated?
• [25:10] What was John's long, arduous journey through recovery and his Olympic dreams?
• [28:28] With John's accident and his Olympic dreams gone (for now), how did John support his family financially?
• [31:20] How did John's "new normal" transition from 27 years ago helped him go through the COVID pandemic?

RESOURCES

1. Kayla O'Brien Media - get a foolproof game plan for your video content and get the highest production value for it!
2. Support the show, buy Robert a coffee!
3. 10 Power Stories to Impact Any Leader: Journal Your Way to Leadership Success by John Register
4. John Register's website
5. Amputate Fear FB group

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"Significance don't always take off from the starting line but significance is concerned about the finishing line."

How does someone go from a bad, troublemaker, preacher's kid to a Grammy award winning, multi-platinum selling songwriter and producer who's worked with some of the industry's biggest names? Jill Scott, Will Smith, Musiq Soulchild, Darius Rucker from Hootie & the Blowfish...those names ring any bells?

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Keith Pelzer is a Grammy-winning producer who has worked with the likes of Will Smith, Dave Hollister, Earth, Wind and Fire, and the list goes on and on. He's a pastor himself right now and he loves to ride.

He has some amazing conversations that he wants you to hear and he will take us through his story, the ups and downs of being a PK and as well as his life in the music industry.

• [04:50] What was it like for Keith Pelzer as he was growing up as a pastor's child?
• [06:22] Did being a "troublesome" Pastor's Kid (PK) helped him become the success that he is now?
• [09:04] We learn how Keith's music production aspirations started.
• [12:34] Significance or Success - which motivates Keith Pelzer more?
• [16:26] Keith has worked with the big names in the music industry; how did those connections begin?
• [19:13] Most people only see someone's successes. What were the difficulties that Keith had to go through before making it in the music industry?
• [22:17] With everything he's been through, what makes Keith stay in the game?
• [26:56] Keith's motivating words to people who are struggling to get a lift off with their craft.

RESOURCES

1. Rescue Event Planning - If you have an event and you don't want to worry about a thing, let Melissa Jakes and her team handle everything!
2. Konvos Live - get inspired with Keith Pelzer and have a Konversation!
3. What's My Story live video

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How do you change the world? What's your plan? Why do you want to make a change in this big old world and are you good enough to execute that change?

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Paul Carrick Brunson is a serial entrepreneur, television host, columnist whose specialty lies in teaching others professional and social skills internationally.

He is a recognized expert in interpersonal, relationships, personal development and entrepreneurship. He serves as a featured business columnist for USA Today. Co-host of the United Kingdom's Celebs Go Dating television show and the host of Better with Paul Podcast and event series.

Let's listen to Paul's story on how he dreamed big and made success happen through a growth mindset.

• [03:44] Is the Paul Carrick Brunson persona similar online and in person?
• [04:59] Oprah told him, "Paul is much more than a matchmaker." What exactly is being a matchmaker?
• [06:18] What is it that gave Paul a hint that he would be good at being a "matchmaker"?
• [08:36] What were the precipitating circumstances that built up his success as a matchmaker?
• [10:41] What are some of the major stumbling blocks that Paul had to overcome?
• [15:13] How did Paul develop a "lesson vs. challenge" mindset?
• [17:12] What were some "mindset" shifts that contributed to Paul's success?
• [19:04] Paul undertakes a significant amount of big projects, how is he able to handle all of these?
• [21:42] How would someone recognize an opportunity for them if they are unclear as to when that moment presents itself??

RESOURCES

1. Kayla O'Brien Media - get a foolproof game plan for your video content and get the highest production value for it!
2. Paul C. Brunson's website.
3. Paul C. Brunson's upcoming projects including a conference in Jamaica this November and another one in Ghana in early 2022.

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What if you suddenly received a diagnosis that your child has dyslexia? And the you find out that your husband has been living with dyslexia for quite some time? To top it off, you get diagnosed with ADD/ADHD?

With all of these different challenges happening in your world, how do you deal with all of that?

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Our guest today is Winifred Winston and she is a best-selling author, advocate, speaker. She has worked in education, providing career management services. She is the founder of Dyslexia Advocation Inc. and she has made it her personal passion to provide resources and support so other parents need not go through what she experienced.

Let's learn more about how Winifred managed to still cultivate success even with all the trials she faced!

• [03:36] We hear more about Dyslexia Advocation, Incorporated and what Winifred is up to these days.
• [05:16] Before she got her diagnosis of ADD/ADHD, did Winifred ever feel different in any way?
• [07:37] What was her journey to realizing she needed help and finding out she has ADHD?
• [11:03] What were some of the things that Winifred now recognizes that she did differently because of her condition?
• [17:08] When Winifred got the dyslexia diagnosis for her daughter, how did she feel, what did she do, and what's happening in her brain at that point?
• [22:23] What did she go through after she found out about her husband's condition?
• [25:15] How did she handle all of these issues from a work perspective?
• [28:07] What kept Winifred going and becoming a success despite all of these challenges?
• [31:25] What is the number one thing that we need to do to begin advocating for ourselves and our family regarding dyslexia?

RESOURCES

1. Rescue Event Planning - If you have an event and you don't want to worry about a thing, let Melissa Jakes and her team handle everything!
2. Dyslexia Advocation, Inc.

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Life is going swimmingly for you; an okay job, a growing family, and stable income. Then suddenly, the rug is pulled out from under you when you lose your job while you have another child on the way.

If you were in our guest's shoes, what will you do about it?

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Our guest today is not just a handsome face who was once voted as one of "America's Most Eligible Bachelors" - he also performs stand-up comedy and has a heart for non-profits, raising millions of dollars annually for these organizations. 

He was the third African American to earn the Benefit Auctioneer Specialist (BAS) designation from the National Auctioneers Association. He is an amazing speaker who is a member of the National Speakers Association, a husband, a father, and my friend, Frank Kitchen.

Let's learn more about Frank and how we turned one of the biggest challenges of his life into success!

• [04:16] Frank shares about his nomination as America's Most Eligible Bachelor.
• [06:29] We travel back in time and recount the days leading up to the Frank's pivotal moment.
• [09:45] What unexpected yet pivotal moment happened to Frank on June 17, 2015?
• [12:28] What was Frank's plan after going through this challenging event in his life?
• [16:33] How instrumental was Frank's father in law in his role as a future fulltime speaker?
• [18:12] We realize the significance of an amazing support system in Frank's life when he finally takes a leap of faith and takes a chance on his story.
• [20:57] Frank looks back and realizes how there was significant power in his vulnerability.
• [22:19] We hear a few of the challenges that Frank faced as budding speaker and entrepreneur and what he learned from those.
• [25:47] Frank shares more about his community for speakers and how we can "Live FRESH".

RESOURCES

1. Press N' Sow - they will help take your idea from concept to creation. They will help you create a message, mission, and a brand that stands out above the rest.
2. Frank Kitchen's website;
3. Fresh From The Kitchen by Frank Kitchen;
4. Coaching Program by Frank Kitchen.

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"We're all born and blessed with natural skills, talents, and abilities."

Sometimes you want to leap into your dreams. Sometimes you want to do something different because you know you were made for something greater. But everybody, maybe even including people in your family, are telling you that you shouldn't do that.

What did our guest do to rise up and be someone better than what other people thought she could be?

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Alicia Butler Pierre is the founder of Equilibria, Inc., an operations management firm specializing in increasing the bandwidth for fast-growing small businesses.

Aside from being a businesswoman, she's a podcast host, a two-time bestselling author, and has generated over a million views with online content.

Listen to Alicia and learn how to do a business based on your passion despite the challenges she went through.

• [05:16] Before we go through Alicia's journey, what is keeping her busy these days?
• [06:18] How did Alicia know that her passion is growing businesses and developing their infrastructure?
• [08:36] Alicia takes us back to the pivotal moment in her career and what made her shift gears towards her passion.
• [12:18] What were the moments when Alicia felt she might have made the wrong decision with her pivot shift?
• [13:55] What are some of the challenges that Alicia faced as she was starting up her business?
• [16:53] They say, "charge your worth". How can someone get out of the money mindset and do a value for value barter instead?
• [20:14] How did Alicia's business start picking up the pace and then growing?
• [24:35] Changing her messaging from "professional organizing" to "business infrastructure" made Alicia's business boom. How critical is the right messaging or branding to a business?
• [27:26] Starting up a business is a lot of work and most of the activities do not bring a person joy; what mindset did Alicia have to pull through?
• [31:07] What are the things that Alicia did to get the attention and business of larger companies?
• [33:15] Alicia shares more about Behind The Façade, her book the discusses the framework she created about developing businesses 
• [38:04] One last golden nugget: learn the 3Rs of development as per Alicia Butler Pierre.

RESOURCES

1. Confident On Camera Challenge begins on May 2nd, 6PM EDT. Join us!
2. Kayla O'Brien Media - get a foolproof game plan for your video content and get the highest production value for it!
3. Equilibria, Inc.'s website;
4. Behind the Facade: How to Structure Company Operations for Sustainable Success by Alicia Butler Pierre;
5. Free 30 Minute Discover Call with Alicia Butler Pierre

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