Hollywood, Health & The Hustle with Abby Walla

Hollywood, Health & The Hustle with Abby Walla

by | Jan 28, 2020 | Energy Efficiency, Time Management

Hollywood, Health & The Hustle with Abby Walla

Abby Walla is an award-winning Actor/Writer/Entrepreneur in Hollywood. She has acted in top TV shows & movies on HBO, Netflix, Amazon, ABC and more. She coaches entrepreneurs to become confident & authentic on camera to attract their dream clients and make their competition irrelevant using the "Crushing It On Camera" video techniques. She also built a 6-figure Digital Marketing agency on the side in under a year while traveling the country promoting her film on the film festival circuit. In today’s episode, Abby and Monique are talking about setting strict priorities and how to be okay with the fact that there are days that not everything is going to get done. And that this, besides many surprises, is just part of running a business.

HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE

[02:19] – Monique introduces her guest, Abby Walla.

[03:48] – Let everyone know what are you doing?

      • So I am an actor and a writer living in Los Angeles, California.
      • I am also an entrepreneur.
      • I have a business called Crushing It On Camera where I teach entrepreneurs how to be awesome on camera.

[05:10] – How did you split your time between being an actress, an author, and your business?

      • Even if your career is going really well there’s typically a need to have some other income involved.
      • It gave me an amazing opportunity to start my business, I’m really passionate about it because I’m able to do what I love

[07:21] – How did you work with the things you planned and then suddenly you get a call for a casting and then everything is different?

      • It’s challenging when it comes up because I just have to totally shift gears and then commit to what’s right in front of me.
      • It was important not to actually block out every hour of the day because it would be like, too hard to like move things around.

[10:57] – During our work, what did we figure out about health issues and how were we able to integrate them as well?

      • Health stuff is crazy because sometimes it happens and you can’t see it coming and then sometimes it just like, snap your fingers and it’s there and you were not expecting in.

[15:53] – Monique and Abby talk about hiring and delegating.

 

[23:14] – How do you show up yourself on camera when you actually don’t feel like you’re 100%?

      • The motivation that I need is like focusing on the value that I’m going to give or the impact that I’m going to have like trying to take the focus off of myself and how I’m feeling and on, the purpose of what I’m doing, that helps motivate me more.

[27:48] – Should you actually show up at all if you really don’t feel like it or should you look back on what actually happened and show up afterward?

      • I do think we have to put our self-care first. And sometimes that means we need to have the internet off and our phones away, and we just need time for ourselves to heal.  

[34:36] – So tell me about your program, Crushing It On Camera, what is the essence of entrepreneurs and business owners usually go wrong?

      • People just don’t prepare that they want it to come across like they’re doing it on the fly and it’s natural and conversational, but then they don’t even do any preparation.

[47:28] – What does efficiency mean to you?

      • The smartest way to get to where you need to go

[48:14] – What are your top three things that have gotten you from where you started to where you are now that you wouldn’t want to miss for the ongoing journey?’

      • Believing that it’s possible.
      • Hiring coaches and mentors.
      • Not being afraid to put the work in,
      • Take care of yourself (well, a bonus one)  

 

AWESOME RESOURCES WE TALKED ABOUT

IN THIS EPISODE

 

[04:42] – How Monique helped Abby to finally get everything scheduled & ‘under control’ –
https://www.moniquelindner.com/work-with-me/

[31:08] – Course on Becoming a boundaries badass by Mark Groves –
https://mark-groves.mykajabi.com/boundaries

[50:37] – Abby’s Facebook Group For Entrepreneurs on Camera –
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ConfidenceOnCameraForEntrepreneurs/

IMPACTFUL QUOTES OF THIS EPISODE

Being hard on what the priorities are, and then just being okay with the fact that there are days that not everything is going to get done, and that’s okay. And that’s just part of running a business.

Abby Walla

The pain is what brings you to your power.

Monique Lindner

I do think we have to put our self-care first. And sometimes that means we need to have the internet off and our phones away, and we just need time for ourselves to heal.
Abby Walla

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT

Website: https://www.crushingitoncamera.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/abbywalla

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abbywallawalla/

Funnels, Fire & The Fuel of Life with John Ainsworth

Funnels, Fire & The Fuel of Life with John Ainsworth

by | Dec 25, 2019 | Business, Time Management

Funnels, Fire & The Fuel of Life with John Ainsworth

This is the man who built automated funnels for over 10 years. The man who helped people increase their revenue between 25 - 300%. The genius, John Ainsworth. In today’s episode, John will talk about how people take action when they are in the right emotional and mental state to do so and how people are way more likely to buy from someone if they've bought from them before and got good value.

HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE

[01:14] – Monique introduces her guest, John Ainsworth.

 

[02:16] – Tell me a little bit about where you are right now and what you’re doing basically?

  • What we do is we help people who are selling info products like online courses.
  • We help people to figure out how to set up email marketing, the sales pages, facebook retargeting.

 

[05:03] – How do we get started with an info Product Funnel?

  • Building trust with audiences
  • People will take action when they are in the right emotional and mental state to do it.
  • After that, they’re definitely ready to buy something else from you.

 

[12:20] – For people who haven’t been doing that before, where should they be starting and what shouldn’t they be doing?

  • If you’re already selling something it should be easy
  • You can do it in teachable, WordPress.

 

[14:04] – What do you think is the most important thing was the email marketing?

  • One thing is to send to people who bought the tripwire send them a couple of emails,
    reminding them about the offer of buying the main course from you.

 

[20:28] – How do you work with your team?

  • I’ve got a team of four people.
  • Every week I do a planning session, and I’ll go through and I’ll figure out what needs to get done this week.
  • Figuring out my “why” really trying to narrow down and understand why is it that I’m doing this, what is my purpose? What am I trying to achieve?

 

[26:46] – Monique talks about the seven levels of why.

  • If you don’t cry, it’s not your why.

 

[32:20] – How do you actually define efficiency?

  • Trying to make everything run elegantly as like cutting out all of the bits that don’t need doing. 

 

[47:58] – What are the top three recommendations or advice or things that you would do if you have to start over again to be not working hard, but efficient and still getting to your goals?

  • First – find out what people really want
  • Second – look at the journaling
  • Third – being willing to be emotionally uncomfortable

     

    AWESOME RESOURCES WE TALKED ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE

     

    [13:07] – Teachable – a platform to produce and host your course on:  https://teachable.com/

    [13:10] – Wordpress – A CMS system to build websites and online stores on with the best plugins & templates available on the market:  https://wordpress.com/

    [32:58] – The 80-20 principle – A helpful method to be able to prioritize life & business better  – https://www.investopedia.com/terms/1/80-20-rule.asp 

    IMPACTFUL QUOTES OF THIS EPISODE

    People will take action when they are in the right emotional and mental state to do it

    John Ainsworth

    The biggest foundation for your motivation is your motive

    Monique Lindner

    I think one of the things that have managed to do well, is willing to be wrong
    John Ainsworth

    FIND OUT MORE ABOUT JOHN AINSWORTH

    Website: 
    https://datadrivenmarketing.co/calculator/ 

    Email: 
    john@datadrivenmarketing.co

    Mini Funnel Audit  
    https://pimpyourfunnel.com

    Copy, Coffee & Conversions with Adil Amarsi

    Copy, Coffee & Conversions with Adil Amarsi

    by | Dec 2, 2019 | Business, Time Management

    Copy, Coffee & Conversions with Adil Amarsi

    The Alchemist of Persuasion, the storyseller, the Michelangelo of offer creation, the artist-entrepreneur Adil Amarsi. Adil has been writing copy for 18 years since he was 12 years old. He started to write more stories for his father’s company and he didn't know at that time that his father was actually using them to promote his business. Adil was actually using it as a way to improve the speed of his writing. Be inspired by the genius of copywriting, using his ability to manage not only to live the life he wants but also have been fortunate enough to help people in different industries and more go on to have massive success. Let us hear from Adil Amarsi and your host Monique.

    HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE

    [01:16] – Monique introduces her guest Mr. Adil Amarsi

     

    [02:57] – Tell me why you have all these copywriting names and why you’re such a genius in copywriting.

    • I’ve been doing this 12 years as of today.
    • I’m on track to hit $700 million made from my clients in that 12 year period. So that’s the reason that I have so many different nicknames.

     

    [04:01] – What you were writing as a 12-year-old?

    • I was writing more stories for my dad for his company.
    • I didn’t know at the time that he was actually using them to promote his business, I was actually just using it as a way to improve the speed of my writing.

     

    [04:50] – Let’s talk about getting faster and better at something.

    • I’ve developed systems over the last like 10 years to help me write copy quickly.
    • I have a blueprint in my head.

     

    [08:07] – So how did you get started to look at the way of writing copy?

    • I’d use the John Carlton system.
    • John’s system has three questions.
    1. Who are you?
    2. What are you selling?
    3. And how do I buy it?

     

    [12:45] – You have a table full of work. Now what? creative people usually are not very efficient.

    • I found actually giving myself routine time and breaks when I start and finish.

     

    [17:09] – When was the time that you actually tried to push through things, but you just overwhelmed yourself?

    • So many times. I’ve had that very recently.
    • If you don’t have a system in place for the efficiency as you basically put out, it overwhelms.

     

    [18:50] – What does efficiency mean to you?

    • So efficiency, the way they look at it is it’s the ability to become productive in what you do
    • allows you to get a task done quickly.

     

    [19:52] – And how important is it for your job, or for your work?

    • It’s important for everyone to be this way, just simply because it allows you to:
    1. produce more
    2. feel happier
    3. you get into that habit of completing tasks fairly quickly.

     

    [20:46] – How do you use creativity to actually enhance your efficiency?

    • Try and find ways to stimulate my brain. 
    • the other downside of creativity is you find ways of creatively wasting time.
    • I’m very creative on how to be procrastinating.

     

    [22:01] – Have you ever tried to schedule in and do something that is different from your work?

    • I actually really enjoy drawing.
    • Basically, the whole plan just has as much humanly fun as possible

     

    [26:39] – So if you could choose to only work with a certain kind of client, who would that be?

    • My favorite clients have always been the ones that have a good story.

     

    [29:06] – What helped you the most to pick yourself up and move forward in an efficient way.

    • Having the right people around me that I can go to and ask for their help.
    • Another one that really truly helps is learning from other people’s mistakes.

     

    [32:18] – Where do you think you would like to be more efficient? And where do you not want to be efficient?

    • I don’t want to be efficient in writing as much anymore. 
    • I want to get more efficient in like extremely efficient in is ideation.

     

    [33:09] – If you had to leave three pieces of advice for our users that they can implement straight away, to be more efficient, what would it be?

    • Get a notepad and start reading as many commercially successful fiction books as possible.
    • When it comes down to writing a copy just practice, write one thing every single day.
    • Get a mentor.
    • Pick a day once a week that you will feel fully take off.

     

    AWESOME RESOURCES WE TALKED ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE

     

    [31:03] – All You Can Do is All You Can Do, But All You Can Do is Enough – Arthur L. Williams Jr.

    IMPACTFUL QUOTES OF THIS EPISODE

    Efficiency, the way I look at it is, it’s the ability to become productive in what you do.

    Adil Amarsi

    The other downside of creativity is, you always find ways of creatively wasting time.

    Adil Amarsi

    The other one that really truly helps, besides learning from your mistakes, is learning from other people’s mistakes.
    Adil Amarsi

    FIND MORE ABOUT ADIL AMARSI HERE

     

    Website: https://storysellingblueprint.com/

    Podcast: https://adilamarsi.com/podcast/

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/adiltheawesome 

    Finances, Fun & Freedom with Ben McAdam

    Finances, Fun & Freedom with Ben McAdam

    by | Nov 24, 2019 | Finances, Time Management

    Finances, Fun & Freedom with Ben McAdam

    Finances, Fun & Freedom - how do these fit together you may ask? Monique & Ben will explore how these 3 counterintuitive things can all fit into your life and business when you bring efficiency into the game. Learn the best tips & strategies today from Ben who is a profit coach, virtual CFO & entrepreneur helping business owners earn more profit. Most of his clients went from red to over $100k profit per year, from one phone call with him.

    HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE

     [1:14] – Monique introduces her guest Mr. Ben McAdam from Sydney Australia.

     

     [1:54] – What are you actually doing for entrepreneurs out there?

    ·    I’m a profit Coach, advisor, coaching kind of a role.

    ·    I help business owners who run six or seven-figure businesses and they looking to grow and earn more.

     

    [2:44] – Can you give us a little professional background?

    ·    I studied at the Sydney Conservatory of Music for a year and a half doing a music education degree after I finished high school.

    ·    The book “Rich dad poor dad” actually helped me with my own business.

     

    [9:58] – What does efficiency mean to you?

    ·    Being efficient with the things you put on your to-do list, removing the things that aren’t necessary.

    ·    Only do the things that really need to be done.

     

    [20:24] – What are the steps that take you away from “I don’t want to be out there”?

    ·    I just go chat with people, they noticed how hopeful I am and that’s kind of like my “baby steps”.

    ·    Helping more and more people, and then I’d get referrals, and that requires me to put myself out there.

    ·    I said to myself, all right, Ben, it’s time to stop avoiding marketing.

    ·    It was 10 or 15 times I was putting myself there over a whole year.

     

    [26:02] – Ben talks about being a brave business owner and continue to push himself out of the comfort zone.

    [27:00] – Monique discusses how to raise awareness for yourself and to be in tune with your emotions.

    [29:26] – Ben describes the type of people he talks to.

    [32:44] – Monique and Ben explain what is the Kaizen principle was all about.

    [34:18] – Monique explains how progress works. (sometimes people looking for big wins rather than a slow movement.)

    [39:01] – What are those steps that worked for you and you would repeat over and over again.

    ·    focus on what you’re uncomfortable to do.

    ·    get better at pushing through that uncomfortable feeling because that’s where your success element eliminates things that you don’t actually need to do.

     

    AWESOME RESOURCES WE TALKED ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE

     

    [03:20] – Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

    [10:07] – The 4-hour workweek by Tim Ferris

    IMPACTFUL QUOTES OF THIS EPISODE

    Do the uncomfortable things that need to be done

    Ben McAdam

    Be happy if it takes you a while to get past those things

    Ben McAdam

    Get rid of the stuff You really shouldn’t be doing, it’s a waste of your time. Like get rid of the busyness and focus on being productive
    Ben McAdam

    FIND MORE ABOUT BEN MCADAM HERE

     

    Website: www.profitcollective.com

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profitscollective/

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-mcadam-6290a949/