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Author: Jules Schroeder

  • Ep285: Choosing To Be Who You’re Meant To Be with Mindset Coach Miro Heyink

    Ep285: Choosing To Be Who You’re Meant To Be with Mindset Coach Miro Heyink

    When you don’t know where you belong, mindset coach and philanthropist, Miro Heyink, believes that the universe will always find a way to set a path for you.

    Miro Heyink is the Founder of Manifest X, a community for high-performing conscious entrepreneurs to turn their wildest business dreams into reality.

    Although a mentor for impact-driven entrepreneurs, and a proud, loving dad, Miro has overcome many challenges to reach where he is today.

    Born to a fatherless home in Germany, Miro has experienced taking all the wrong roads – selling drugs, joining gangs, even encountering a near-death experience before even reaching the age of 18. It was when he was at the lowest point of his life were his goals became clear as he reached what he calls his “elevator moment”.

    “It was in that moment, with my nose broken and my black eye, that I had my elevator moment where I decided to follow my dream.”

    Moving to America with no citizenship or support, the world seemed to make a way for him despite the odds. Rather than telling himself to find a regular job, Miro decided to pursue his wildest dreams of becoming an entrepreneur in a foreign land and has since built a community that provides the same support he was looking for years ago.

    “If you’re around four donkeys, you’re going to be the fifth…having that community that believes in you and supports you is so important.”

    “The way the universe works,” he says, “is that we can either experience through these harsh, traumatic moments that put us back into our path or through a way more intentional and conscious alignment”

    Now, Miro has devoted his time to helping aspiring entrepreneurs make their wildest business ideas come true. Whether it’s regular people hoping to make it far or NFL superstars who want to take their career to the next level, Miro’s goal is to give them the proper support and mindset to make the most out of the life they have and the path that they’ve taken

    “You are allowed to be all that you are meant to be and truly have it all.”

     

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  • Ep284: Publish Your Passion with Author Entrepreneur Jesse Kreiger

    Ep284: Publish Your Passion with Author Entrepreneur Jesse Kreiger

    Sharing your talent with the world is a great way to put it to good use; whether it’s in music and arts, lifestyle, or finance, there is an audience who would love to hear about it. But if you’re having trouble finding the right words, Business author and Entrepreneur, Jesse Kreiger tells us how he learned how to publish his passion and help others write their own success story.

    Starting a music label was the first step Jesse took into the world of Business. Today, his simple dreams of making music have grown into a mission. Now he helps aspiring entrepreneurs make the most out of their passion by putting it into words.

    “I can connect the dots or I can see how music, entrepreneurship, travel and languages all blend together to create—and allow me to support authors, in a way that many say is very impactful, in some cases [even] profound.”

    He explains that the trick to writing starts with retelling the process of your growth. He says that simplifying it into steps makes it easier to follow through.

    “Think of the mechanism you currently use to get results with your clients, what is your process and chunk that down to a number of steps.”

    He stresses how entrepreneurs and people with business experience should explore the benefits of becoming a published author.

    “This should be helpful for anybody that has business experience that doesn’t consider themselves a writer or an author per se.” He points out, “that it shouldn’t be a limiting factor to becoming a publisher, and having a great book.”

    Jesse also discusses his process for writing by saying “Think of it like when you first onboard a new client,” he says,“what do they need to know to get started? Then how do you help them shift? What’s the benefit of the product or the experience that you provide?”

    He advises business owners to treat writing like another day in the shop, “You are mirroring your own customer journey, and telling them something valuable in the process.”

     

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  • Ep283: Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary with Artist Choreographer Susan Slotnick

    Ep283: Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary with Artist Choreographer Susan Slotnick

    We dream of living in the limelight of life, chasing after complex goals and looking for some semblance of a grand purpose for our existence.  Oftentimes we get lost in the process of doing something amazing that we forget the joy of simplistic pursuits. For the visual artist and renowned dancer and choreographer, Susan Slotnick, finding her purpose started with a humble love for dancing, and a passion for healing and reformation.

    “And I can’t remember a time, even as a child when I didn’t have this strong desire to do something; to heal the world.”

    Whether it be her daily walks or eating the same breakfast for the past 50 years, Susan has found sacredness in the most common activities. She makes it a point to appreciate mundane life as there is an art to be found in simple living.

    “Some of the most extraordinary things about the direction our lives take has to do with inherited proclivities…” Susan gleams. “… Most of life is ordinary, most of the way we spend our time is on ordinary activities. And if we don’t find those activities extraordinary, we’re going to feel that our lives are a little bit dull or a little bit boring.”

    Susan has even managed to transpose her simple love for dance and the freedom it provides into something meaningful.

    “Dance is a birthright,” she emphasizes, “it belongs to the world.”

    Today, even at the tender age of 76, she still conducts dance classes at the Woodbourne Correctional Facility and DFY (Division For Youth prison) every Friday and Sunday to bring the joy of modern dance to incarcerated men and boys under the auspices of RTA Rehabilitation through the Arts.

    Through her passion for the arts and her desire to bring healing to the world, she has helped countless men and women live reformed lives with their newfound freedom through dance.

    She claims it as the apex of her long career. She has volunteered for 15 years in boy’s and men’s prisons as well as with AIDS and cancer survivors, the homeless, and the indigenous poor of the Caribbean, All have been the recipient of her love, talent and attention

    “What I’m the most proud of,” reminiscing, she says, “in terms of taking the road less travelled, is the direction that I put all my talents to.”

    In addition to her work in dance, Slotnick continues her career as a painter. For ten years her painting, Compassionate Baby was on display in the Sloan-Kettering Hospital’s Pediatric Oncology Waiting Room. Currently, Susan Slotnick is a member of Roost Art Gallery where she has exhibited in a one-woman show.

     

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  • Ep282: Putting a Price on Your Passion with Marketing Expert Sarah Dann

    Ep282: Putting a Price on Your Passion with Marketing Expert Sarah Dann

    We dream of a career built on passion and profession – making it big while doing something we love. While it’s much easier said than done, Marketing Expert, Sarah Dann, believes that the payoff is worth the effort.

    Sara Dann is an entrepreneur and business consultant who has built a multi-million dollar business dedicated to helping women monetize their brilliance over the past nine years.

    Through her group programs, digital courses, 1:1 coaching, as well as her podcast, You’re Fucking Welcome she has helped thousands of women learn how to combine strategy with soul to create successful businesses.

    Looking back at what she’s been through, she tells us, “I believe in what I do and I’m not sorry and in fact, you’re lucky to be paying me.”

    Honing her expertise for the past nine years, Sarah dedicates herself to helping women realize their business potential by combining strategy and soul to monetize their brilliance.

    “I started my business to help women make money doing what they love, to live that unconventional life and actually enjoy their careers, enjoy their businesses.”

    Supporting a business’ growth almost came as second nature for Sarah, but starting her career, she had learned that being prim-and-proper wasn’t always the right way to go. And with so many people wanting to get into the coaching scene, she makes it a point that growth should come while staying authentic.

    “I think in life and in business, it’s a situation where the more we experience things, and the older we get, the freer we feel to just simply be ourselves and we’re okay with who likes it and who doesn’t.”

    “Transparency and authenticity and people actually caring about what they do feel like the biggest and most important trend there is.”

    From her humble beginnings, deciding to ask for more money for her expertise was a turning point for Sarah as it assured her that she was on the right path to making a conventional living out of her passion.

    “As I got more confident to say no, as I got more confident to own my worth, and you know to ask for more money, it’s just kind of evolved and grown into what I feel is who I was always supposed to be essential in the first place.”

    Overall, Sarah emphasizes how living life while staying true to yourself—and sticking to your original plans—often brings in the best results.

    “It means not settling for the norm, allowing yourself to really honour what you want and go after it.”

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  • Ep281: Death, Doubt and Dedication with Bestselling Author Jack Raymond

    Ep281: Death, Doubt and Dedication with Bestselling Author Jack Raymond

    It is ever so often that life throws us in the most breaking of experiences, for the sake of our own learning. Writer Jack Raymond knows this all so well. In his lowest point, he found relief in art and made beauty out of his own struggles.

    Before he made his Best Sellers, Jack was living a comfortable life selling corporate insurance. Only after the death of his dad did he consider a career in writing.

    “When my father passed away, and morbidly enough, while in the middle of writing his obituary, it dawned on me that this is what I want to do with my life.”

    “Prior to that I was wearing a suit and tie every day, sitting in traffic, and made a bunch of money off that,” Jack said. “I was on top of the world at 25 years old and he passed and it kind of brought me back down to earth”

    It was a humbling experience for Jack, but it was a dark period of grieving. He turned to alcohol and filling up hundreds of notebooks with his writing that he kept to himself. It was only after the recommendation of a friend did he decide to share his work on Instagram. One post every day, up until today. He found a niche of people by the thousands that could relate to his words.

    “I started to just share my work and it kind of took off from there and within six months a publishing company reached out to me and published my first book”

    But despite his quick start to being a published author he still doubted whether his work was good or not, before coming to the conclusion that one can only move forward. In his own words, “There was no artist that I care to even hang around with, or learn from, or associate with, who thinks their shit doesn’t stink like everyone.”

    “Even if they think it’s good… if they look at it too much, they’ll start to hate it so they have to quickly move on to the next one. That was helpful for me, going through these tragedies.”

    However, Jack recognizes that his first works appealed to people for their heavy and melancholic themes. It was hard writing from a happy place of recovery and acceptance, but he reminds us that “It’s okay to be happy.”

    Though most of his sadness has passed, the virtue of staying true to himself has kept his writing great and ever-improving. “I’ve always pride myself on just being authentic, being genuine, being honest, and after my dad passed away and while writing that obituary, it felt like from that day on, that was all that mattered.”

    Empathizing with other writers who are torn between their market and being authentic, he shares with us this mantra, reminding us why we make art. “It’s my art, not theirs. I write it for me. If you relate to it great, no offence but that’s not even the point.”

     

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