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  • Ep 252: What Kind of World Changer Are You? Follow your Aliveness with Makena Sage

    Ep 252: What Kind of World Changer Are You? Follow your Aliveness with Makena Sage

    Makena Sage is the co-founder & CEO of Follow Your Aliveness® – a global training & coaching organization dedicated to inspiring and empowering 10 million World Changers to elevate the consciousness of the planet. (P.S. Everyone is a World Changer.)

    “I understand that most people don’t have that believer in their family, they don’t have that believer in their life, and I love being that person for people.”

    Her co-founder and business partner Gigi Sage (who also happens to be her mom!) has been coaching and training since 1986. Though she was born into personal development and started participating in Gigi’s seminars at the age of seven, Makena took a very different path in young adulthood. She studied International Business, then spent six years running her own 6-figure online marketing company, before she “woke up” to the face that she was financially successful but miserable.

    That’s when Gigi stepped in and empowered Makena to get the clarity, courage and support she needed to leap into the work she was born to do.

    Returning to her roots and The Aliveness Method™ changed everything. She went from having near-daily panic attacks, mysterious health issues, and burnout to feel lit up, healthy & energized in a matter of months. And she never looked back.

    Practices for a Breakthrough

    • Take the World Changer Quiz. This test will show you your top talent and success motivator, which are potent distinctions.
    • Chart Your Aliveness. Keep a paper with you and note down the activities in your day that lights you or drain you up. Start to put one or two things that make you feel alive and put it in your life on a more frequent basis.

     

    Myth Busting

    There’s a commonality of theme Makena noticed amongst the people she has worked with, and that is believing that you can figure it out on your own. She strongly believes in utilizing all the resources available around you, such as great books, processes that can help you with clarity and support from coaches. And the only question left is how willing you are going to go for it which is so pivotal.

     

    What is Aliveness Coaching

    Aliveness Coaching is where you will find the support and tools to empower you to create a life or career that truly makes you alive. This avenue welcomes entrepreneurs, leaders, coaches or parents all around the globe who wish to create impact, may it be in the family, business, community or in the lives of other people.

    Today, Gigi & Makena run The School for Mastery and the Aliveness Mastery™ program. A certification for coaches, leaders and world-changers-in-the-making who want to master the art of coaching, create lives & businesses that genuinely bring them ALIVE, and help others do the same.

     

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  • Ep251: How Transforming Women Into Beautiful Vintage Pinups Paved The Way For Cherokee “Cherry Dollface” Jackson

    Ep251: How Transforming Women Into Beautiful Vintage Pinups Paved The Way For Cherokee “Cherry Dollface” Jackson

    Cherokee Jackson, also known as Cherry Dollface, has spent a decade travelling the world, transforming women into beautiful vintage pinups. She is now a licensed esthetician and owns her skincare studio in Glendale, CA.

    She considers herself a delightful weirdo who’s open and friendly and welcomes anyone who identifies themselves with her. And that same authenticity paved the way for her strong and large following on social media. She does things that she finds fun and engaging that often turns into a success. One thing is for sure; she is excellent at bridging business and creativity together.

    “I want to be just that place in whatever I do, where everybody that might have a slight bit of interest feels welcome.”

     

    Topics Discussed in this Episode:

    • Owning your uniqueness and quirkiness and turning it into a lifestyle
    • The secret sauce in building a strong online community
    • How vintage pinups built her a large following
    • Her view on social media
    • How she cultivates her mindset and mental frame

     

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  • Ep 248: The Mind Behind the Voice Assistant That Helps eSport Gamers To Be Victorious with Alisa Chumachenko

    Ep 248: The Mind Behind the Voice Assistant That Helps eSport Gamers To Be Victorious with Alisa Chumachenko

    Alisa Chumachenko is the leading female expert in online and social gaming. In 2010, she founded and was the CEO of “Game Insight”, a company that creates free-to-play games for Android, iOS, Facebook, and the web, until she stepped down in 2015. And in 2017, she founded GOSU.ai Data Lab, a company using machine learning to provide data to gamers and game companies. By 2018, GOSU Data Lab had raised $2.3 million.

    The mother of two is unstoppable, and she’s even named as Forbes Top 50 Women in Technology.

    But before all that, she first had a career in Circus which she shared in this episode. 

    Who would have thought that a choreographer and art director household would raise a successful serial gaming entrepreneur? “You will never have a second chance to make a first impression. And going first time to raise money speaking with the VCs, with angel investors, with private investors, it’s not about raising money. It’s about making connections and making networks that you’re gonna use for the rest of your life. And the first impression that you make, at this moment, when you meet people first, for the first time is super important.”

     

    Topics Discussed in this Episode:

    • How her passion for online gaming ignited
    • Her life before social gaming
    • How GOSU.ai started
    • Navigating fundraising
    • Importance of allowing space to transition

     

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  • Ep 246: Scaling Your Life’s Work By Launching Your Dream Online Program with the Business Boss Destinee Berman

    Ep 246: Scaling Your Life’s Work By Launching Your Dream Online Program with the Business Boss Destinee Berman

    Destinee Berman is a modern marketer and a seven-figure launch strategist for experts and educators. With 15 years of marketing experience in Silicon Valley with clients like Twitter, HP, and Microsoft, Destinee left all that behind to step into her calling more profoundly. She has since helped entrepreneurs multiply their income through online courses, and launched dozens of digital schools, generating 15M+ in revenue for the last five years.

    Apart from that, she’s also an expert in leveraging love for their personal and career successes. She and her husband learned to integrate personal and spiritual growth into their day to day life. Being in a tech digital marketing scene long enough definitely helped them navigate balancing business and personal life masterfully.

    Destinee isn’t just running a million-dollar business; she also possesses a million-dollar mindset. “Regardless of what circumstances you come from, I do believe that you still get to articulate, and you still get to define what is it you want for you.”

     

    Topics Mentioned in this Episode:

    • How she’s able to make 75 launches that generated 16.5 million in just a  span of 5 years.
    • Strategies when creating online courses
    • Common mistakes business owners make
    • Why 90 days is a good time frame when launching your business
    • Paid traffic or Organic traffic?
    • Paid traffic strategies
    • Her advice to aspiring entrepreneurs
    • How she leads a life with intention and healthy boundaries
    • Turning points that shaped her mindset and perspective to the woman she is now

     

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  • Ep 238: What It Takes To Win Fast in the Face of Adversity with Siimon Reynolds

    Ep 238: What It Takes To Win Fast in the Face of Adversity with Siimon Reynolds

    A father, a husband, son, an incredible business coach, and a business leader who started his first company at just 23 years old — what hasn’t Siimon Reynolds done? He built the 15th biggest marketing services group globally, consisting of over 54 companies in 14 different countries of over 6000 staff, and a recipient of many various awards.

    “If I just focus on my excellence, then that’s something you can win every single day, and that’s completely transformed the effectiveness of my life.”

    After years of extraordinary business success, he is devoting his life to helping entrepreneurs, CEOs, high-level thought leaders, celebrities, billionaires, and people who achieve high-level success through mentoring and coaching.

    “If you just do what everybody else thinks takes to be successful, your chances of being successful are really low.” How does he Win Fast in business and life? “I was driven by a fear of failure.”

    Siimon strongly believes that to achieve the external goals, one must first work on his personal development. For him, business is just an instrument that tests your personal development. So even if you hit rock bottom, your go-to place will always be your personal development. It has to be the center of every business people and entrepreneur.

    “So, I say 80% Good, then move on.” One strategy that works well for him is what he calls the “80% Good Principle”. It’s about getting all things done at an 80% perfection rate than do a thing or two perfectly and leave the other things undone.

    “Look for new things to do, rather than just following the same road.” “70% of the bad things that have happened to me have been a result of not being organized.” He got transparent and shared that his lack of organization skills often caused his failures. That’s the beginning of his multi-decade study about productivity, which led him to his newly released book called “Win Fast.”

    “It’s in times of stress that a lot of people in business succeed.” Shifting your focus to things you can control can transform your effectiveness profoundly. It would help if you had a proactive attack on life. A point made that is timely as the world goes through uncertainties brought by COVID, where adversity tested our resiliency. He leaves you with this question — What can you do to make you say, “I did COVID brilliantly.”?

     

    Train. Your. Core. Skills.

    1. Have a toolbox of mental and productivity tools.
    2. Have a checklist, and make sure to use it each day.

    “The more you look at happiness equals progress, the more you see that most of the time, it’s true.”

     

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