The Author Your Brand Show

The Go-Giver Marriage with John David Mann and Anna Gabriel Mann

The finest couple of the year, John David Mann and Ana Gabriel Mann share their precious time with Doug to talk about their newest book, The Go-Giver Marriage: A Little Story About the Five Secrets to Lasting Love. This long-awaited sequel shows readers how to unlock a deeply satisfying, abundant relationship based on simple, everyday acts of generosity. 

In this episode, John and Ana share the five secrets to lasting love and explain how each of these is rooted in our needs as a child and still need now. These five secrets are easy to understand and implement and work no matter what phase of the marriage you are in. 

 

Key Takeaways:

1. People want to think a marriage can be 5050. But a 5050 marriage is really a recipe for failure. There's just so much research and evidence that says that people who are giving and constantly giving live longer. Their heart is healthier, they sleep better, they have generally better health. So why wouldn't you want to give to the very person that you're marrying? (4:23)
2. You don't have to do the work as a couple. One wants to work actively to improve the marriage to change lives, and the other one is not so sure. With our work with the five secrets, one person can start putting these secrets in your practice. And it can shift the dynamic in such a way that the whole family comes along. (9:35)
3. My favorite secret is the very first secret. And it's a secret that's really easy to put into place, it's the secret to appreciate. And when we talk about appreciate, it isn't a passing compliment. A moment of appreciation is taking the time to stop them in their tracks and actually speak authentically to what it is that you love about them. (10:48)

 

John David Mann is co-author of more than thirty books, including four New York Times bestsellers and five national bestsellers; his classic 2008 parable The Go-Giver (coauthored with Bob Burg) earned the 2017 Living Now Book Award's "Evergreen Medal" given for its "contribution to positive global change."

Ana Gabriel Mann, MA, earned her degree in clinical psychology before going on to serve as a celebrated educator, therapist, corporate trainer, speaker, and coach. She currently coaches Go-Giver Marriage clients and leads the Go-Giver Marriage Coaches Training Program, training coaches from around the globe.

 

For more information visit https://gogivermarriage.com. 

Gorillas Can Dance with Dr. Shameen Prashantham

In today's episode our guest, Dr. Shameen Prashantham, will talk about large corporates and startups, their differences, and also what makes it difficult for them to work together. We will also talk about the history lessons learned through Microsoft's BizSpark.

Dr. Prashantham is a Professor of International Business & Strategy, and Associate Dean (MBA), at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai, China. In his new business book, Gorillas Can Dance explains one very successful strategy that has worked for leading corporations such as Microsoft and Unilever: partnering with start-ups. His book addresses the key issues facing corporations wishing to develop this initiative based on years of research and interviews with leading practitioners in this field. 

Key Takeaways:

1. There will be still big companies that are very defensive and very difficult to penetrate. But in my research, I found a number of companies that have over time, developed more humility than they had in the past. And I think these are the ones to perhaps be talking to first. There's a potential Win-win in the sense that they have the scale and the startups have the agility. (8:25)
2. I think the reason why big companies have been talking to startups is the recognition that they need to up their game in terms of digitalization. The startups have something to offer going forward. And another driver I'm seeing now is sustainability. (20:25)
3. It is conceivable that a startup that's worked with a partner program could get on the radar of the big company and be a candidate for investment. (25:03)

To grab a copy of his book visit: https://www.amazon.com/Gorillas-Can-Dance-Corporations-Partnering/dp/1119823587

The Present Dad with George Jones

Our guest today, George Jones, is on a mission to help young men become better fathers. Based on his belief that The best present you give your children is to be present, George has created a full curriculum of digital and experiential courses to make a dent in the Universe. He is also writing a book on fatherhood titled, "The Present Dad". 

George Jones is a retired NFL Player and Devoted Husband and Father. Jones had a stellar college career at San Diego State, where he broke many of Marshall Faulk's rushing records. George made his NFL debut during the 1997 season with the Pittsburgh Steelers, serving as a halfback for most of the season. The following season, he was released by the Steelers and moved on to the Jacksonville Jaguars before finishing his career with the expansion Cleveland Browns in 1999. 

Key takeaways:

1. GJ was born on January 23, 2007. I can remember him grabbing my finger and I whispered in his ear, "I will always be here for you, GJ. No matter what it takes, through good and bad, I will always be here for you." That day, when my oldest son who bears my name was born, that's the day I became a man. (13:12)
2. Scoring a touchdown in the NFL, rushing 400 yards, and being drafted, knowing a bunch of famous people, that's cool. That is all fine and good. But the greatest gift that the good Lord has ever given me is to be a father. The talent to play football is secondary to this. So for me, I love football, and I enjoyed it, but it can never match being a father. (16:15)
3. I can remember it like it was yesterday. The two nurses were whispering under their breath about Max. So I asked the nurse, and they said, "We don't want to alarm you but we think your son has Down syndrome". So I googled Down Syndrome and I almost passed out. I knew right then and there, my life as a father has changed forever. (19:07)
4. The first three years of Max's life, I probably cried 10 times a day. I had to pick myself up and say, "You know what, George, you got to stop feeling bad for yourself. You are his father, you got to do right by him". From that point on, I had to do right by him, and I had to fight for him. Now, 13 years later, I couldn't imagine life without Max, because Max has given me something that I don't think I would have had he not been born, which is empathy. They always say the good Lord doesn't give you anything you can't handle. So me being a former professional football player, I wasn't going to quit. I was going to stand up and fight and do right by Max. (21:48)

 

For more on George's insight on being a present dad visit his website: https://thepresentdad.com/

How To Get Book Deals with Randy Peyser

Randy Peyser edits and ghostwrites books and gets authors' book deals with New York literary agents and publishers. Her clients have been featured on Hallmark TV and Daily Mail TV, in Oprah Magazine and Time Magazine, on the Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller Lists, in airport bookstores and FedEx/Office and Office Max stores, and more. She is the author of Crappy to Happy as featured in the movie, "Eat Pray Love"; The Power of Miracle Thinking; and The Write-a-Book Program. 

 

Key takeaways:

1. There are two parts to getting a book deal. One part is about your content, your differentiation, the writing itself - what are you bringing, that's new to the conversation. The other part has to do with your numbers. And this is the business side of publishing. (2:03)
2. Publishers are looking for outcome-driven titles and outcome-driven content. Books that'll take the reader from point A to point B, with all the steps in between. So by the time the reader finishes reading the book, they can actually apply something to do something differently. (14:28)
3. Publishers do not care about an author's brand at all, it does not matter to them. We love our brands, we're attached to our identity and our brands, publishers don't care about that. The only thing they care about is selling books. (17:28) 

To get help in getting book deals with top literary agents and publishers visit https://www.authoronestop.com.

How to Createyourself with Dr Gordon Jones II

Dr Gordon Jones, Co-founder and CEO of Validide and Author of International Best Seller "How to Createyourself" graces our show again today to talk about his book and what inspired him to write it. 

Dr. Jones is a man of many hats. He is a healthcare executive, business developer, investor, mentor, author, coach, curator, educator, son, hugger, father, brother, athlete, coach - he's done everything very much like Michelangelo. A graduate of the Citadel, he did two tours with the second airborne. He's got his master's and doctorate to health administration from the Medical University of South Carolina and has spent 30 years in digital health, innovation, entrepreneurship, business development. 

 

Key Takeaways: 

 

1. If we don't know why we're here, then we can't create a purpose, we can't define what our purpose is. And then we can't define our journey to create yourself because we don't know where it is we want to go. (6: 23)
2. So one of the big things that we do as we're developing ourselves, is, we don't know what it is we're doing, but we verbalize that with our friends. Or we might do an activity and we're subconsciously looking at how our friends respond to that. And all of this starts to help develop who we are and what our identity is. So if we take that just whole idea of how we learn and develop our identity as a kid, and adulthood, we understand the mental behaviors that we regenerate off of different cues that we get from our environment. One of the things that we have to do is make sure that we have an environment that has been conducive to pursuing that of which we want to create. (8:20)
3. So I've let my mind generate the idea of a goal. And when you're doing that, you just have to make sure you do it well enough that it makes you proud. And that becomes a part of your creative self journey. (10:00)

For your own copy of Gordon's book head to https://www.amazon.com/How-Createyourself-Dr-Gordon-Jones/dp/B09M7T3TR8/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

PUBLISH, POSITION, and PROFIT MASTERPLAN with Ben Gioia

Ben Gioia ("joya") is a three-time, best-selling author and creator of PUBLISH, POSITION, and PROFIT MASTERPLAN. He makes it easy for coaches, consultants, speakers, and solopreneurs — to write a world-class book in 5 weeks and get clients BEFORE they’re published. This means that they can create the life they want, the business they love AND make a bigger impact right away! 

Ben helped a Fortune 100 company shift culture by creating an empathy video game (in collaboration with MIT). He's trained leaders at Stanford and created the first mindfulness program for The ALS Association (Lou Gehrig’s disease). With 35 years of writing and publishing adventures, Ben has produced more than 352 million magazines! Ben believes that people thrive when they relax, smile, and ‘Quit Suffering Now’.

 

Key takeaways: 

 

1. Do not wait till your book is published to bring their message to the world, that's the most important conceptual bit and inspirational bit. (2:00)
2. Start calling yourself the forthcoming author of such and such a book, even if you don't have the title yet. Leverage that right out of the gate to get your conversations, to get you speaking gigs, and all of that kind of stuff. (19:00)
3. Think of the kind of message that you potentially want to get there, the kind of collaboration that you want to create with people, and the kind of impact you want to make. (19:28)
4. Make sure to have conversations with great past clients, great current clients, and great potential new clients or partners about your book. (22:46)

Visit https://influencewithaheart.com to learn how to write a book and get more clients before it is published!

Client Attraction Queen with Lorrel Elian

Lorrel Elian has been an entrepreneur for over 30 years has been a mentor since 2015. She is a master teacher of body language communication and incorporates this approach in helping women who struggle with confidence and feeling authentic in their business. 

 

Her first career in the beauty industry trained her in the science of sales. She believes Relationship Building in business is an art form. She created MIND YOUR BUSINESS and became the "Queen of Client Attraction" and developed methods to serve leaders and entrepreneurs. Her mission is to help people obtain awareness by "getting into their bodies" and achieving the BODY mind connection.

 

Elian lives in the heart of Canada with her husband of 25 years and her furbabies. Her other passions are teaching Hatha yoga, Yamuna Body Rolling, and paddleboarding. Along with her husband Larry, they are organic landowners and a growing lot of their own food. 

 

Key takeaways:

 

1. Often people put more into the cars, they drive them into understanding this vehicle that carries us through life. So to really become more healthy, and that it's an inside job, what's going on in here, is reflected out there. (5:24)
2. So client attraction to me is about all about being healthy body-mind, then business, and be feeling whole and complete in your inner world and then go out and serve. (6:20)
3. so increase your hydration, half your body weight in water starting first thing in the morning upon rising, it'll stimulate your internal furnace. And it'll give you really great skin, it will improve your memory (28: 14)

For more of Lorrel Elian visit her website https://www.lorrelelian.com

How to Createyourself with Dr. Gordon Jones

Gordon is the Co-founder and CEO of Validide, a company intent on advancing the worldwide trend for Self-Sovereign Identity, known as SSI, decentralizing the control of personal identity information for all. Validide enables anyone to gain dominion over their identity by leveraging today's advanced digital technologies both safely and securely. 

Gordon recently published his book, How To Createyourself, which became an Amazon international bestseller on its launch week. In his latest book, Dr. Gordon Jones brings together his own personal and professional life experiences with those learned over his decades of research and application to take readers on a journey of discovering their own personal path to Createyourself. Through understanding the lessons of others and building their own character, readers will begin to craft a strategic roadmap to fulfill not just one, but all of their wishes. 

Key Takeaways:

 

1. We're giving away more information than we need to, to interact in the world. And that's both physical and digital online. 
2. We don't realize how much information we're giving when we were when we go online and interact with the Googles and the Facebook's and the Twitter's of the world, or even just your regular website, we're going to buy something, it's crazy.
3. How do we really protect ourselves from all of that and we're developing a way to do that through creating what we call an independent decentral Lies digital wallet system that leverages blockchain to enable people to protect their identities and their data privacy.

 

To learn more, visit https://www.thrivacy.io/. 

It‘s Not Business It‘s Personal: Strategic Conversations for the Next Gen Leader with Rico Peña

Rico has over 25 years of experience working with individuals, businesses, and Fortune 500 companies around the world. An award-winning master bilingual trainer and facilitator, he works with executives to define, hire, train and develop high-performing teams and high net worth business models. 

A former Marine, Rico is the author of the two bestselling books, "The Client Nation Their Perception Their Profits", and the recently released "It's Not Business It's Personal: Strategic Conversations for the Next Gen Leader". 

He currently heads Peña Global that develops and trains high-performing teams that generate higher profits for their companies. He has been training and facilitating on six continents to over 100,000 people in the last 15 years. 

 

Key Takeaways: 

1. Communication isn't just about speaking, or telling, or getting a great story. Communication is about connecting. (4:04)
2. As a good leader, you observe someone that person is off, you have a conversation to see why they're off. (5:42)
3. Good leadership is not about the business or the numbers or the quota. It's about that one on one relationship you have with each individual on your team and that team as a collective. And that's why we came up with that title. This is not about business, if you want to be a great leader, it's about the personal relationships you have. (17:09)

 

Those looking to grow their team or for new managers wanting to improve their game visit https://www.penaglobal.net/contact-us to talk to Rico and learn how. 

Outgrowing CAPITALISM with Marco Dondi

Since his humble beginnings on the outskirts of Milan, Marco Dondi has established his career and expertise as a strategy consultant with over a decade of experience in advising CEOs and government officials on economics, economic development, banking, education, adult training, and people development.

In his book, Outgrowing Capitalism, Marco Dondi sheds light on the fact that most people do not have the economic security to focus on purpose and life fulfillment. Instead of generating value and increasing well-being in society, free-market money creation through private banks has led to the inflation of house prices, financial crises, increasing inequality, and mountains of private debt.

Dondi believes that the assumptions and circumstances that made capitalism a success are no longer true today. In Outgrowing Capitalism, he provides a pragmatic roadmap to institutionalize monetarism and solve societal issues that only seem as permanent as time.

 

Key takeaways:

1. I think capitalism was born in a place where it was an agrarian society where every bit of capital increased productivity and gave the ability to not be subjected to the rains and the gods sending the rains, but to the ability to reliably get food. I think today, we are way, way beyond that point. And so that's the point of our growing right, I think we have outgrown the world in which we lived when capitalism was the best alternative and the best option. (2:43)
2. So I will say that's the starting point for me is like, you create an infrastructure where every citizen has a bank account at the Central Bank, just for emergency. (12:30)
3. Whatever the price, look, it's basic, I need to get it like it's so I think you need to add a bit more thinking and structuring and setting the guardrails. Otherwise, the markets and the private sector will just take advantage. (28:34)

Marco holds an MBA (INSEAD, 2012) and a Master's in management, economics, and industrial engineering (Politecnico di Milano, 2009). His book, Outgrowing Capitalism, is available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Marco-Dondi/e/B09GL23M21