The Author Your Brand Show

Steel Fear with John David Mann

In this episode John David Mann talks about his beginnings as a writer, his challenges and what he did to get to where he is today. 

 

His first novel, STEEL FEAR, coauthored with former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb, was released this July and was recently named by Publishers Weekly as one of “Best Books of 2021”. Author Lee Child of “Jack Reacher” fame called it “an instant classic, maybe an instant legend.”

 

To date, Mann has coauthored 30 books, including 4 New York Times bestsellers and 5 national bestsellers, and won numerous awards. His bestselling classic THE GO-GIVER (with Bob Burg) has sold over 1 million copies and won the Living Now Book Award’s Evergreen Medal for its “contribution to positive global change.”

Key Takeaways:

1. The challenge to writers is what I'm saying is, are the same challenges that you face if you're starting a business, if you're starting anything. (2:49)

 

2. For over a decade, I was sort of professionally an editor of other people's stuff, which by the way, I think it was an excellent way to get training as a writer editing other people's stuff, because you're not attached to it emotionally. (4:50)

 

3. if you want to write, you got to read and read appreciatively. It's like eating a meal appreciatively. Don't just eat to fit stuff your face and move on to the next thing, taste what you're eating (7:07)

 

For more information on his books visit https://johndavidmann.com

The Road from Money: A Journey to Find Why? with Sylvester Boyd Jr

Sylvester Boyd Jr. is a native of Chicago, Illinois. He received an Associate in Arts Degree/Kennedy King College, and A Bachelor of Arts degree from Chicago State University in geography, with a minor in history. 

In 2014, he published his first novel, The Road from Money -- 1925 to 1937, based on true stories told to him by family members raised in Money, Mississippi. He has woven both fact and fiction into a dynamic portrayal of historical events of the era; including music, inventions and the journey of a young Negro girl and her family living under the trying times of Jim Crow in the South. This first book in the series received a 5-star Award from Reader’s Favorite. 

In addition, Sylvester is also a world traveler and motivational speaker. His expertise in business, education, motivational speaking, the entertainment industry and world travel brings a unique perspective and insight into the current world-wide racial and poverty driven tensions. 

 

Key Takeaways/Main Points:  

In this episode we discussed…

 

1. “Many wars have been started over disrespect.” (11:38)

2. “Don’t do something to me you wouldn’t want done to you.” (15:29)

3. “We can start today to write true history.” (17:50)

4. “That’s something we can today. Get the people to write books and write the truth.” (20:33)

5. “Racism is like a disease. It’s like a tumor that metastasizes as time goes.” (22:47)

 

You can grab a copy of his book at www.boydbooks.net

Money Ripples : Financial Freedom vs Financial Independence with Chris Miles

Chris Miles, the "Cash Flow Expert, and Anti-Financial Advisor," talks about how to quickly create sustainable cash flow that would help small business owners achieve financial prosperity now and in the future. He decided against putting money on the stock market alone and went with the saying "go for a place to have real assets" and bought real estate properties. 

 

 

Key Takeaways/Main Points:  

 

In this episode we discussed….

 

1. “Instead of focusing on just trying to accumulate and then live on less than the interest, which is what the stock market answer is, what if we can actually generate streams of income coming in that pay way more.”

 

2. “My 32,000 is already made another 90,000 on top of the 32,000 I put on down on that property.”

 

3. “There are all kinds of ways to make money that's outside the stock market, but we're always led to believe that it is the only way.”

 

4. “The thing is that most of the stock market dips that have happened didn’t coincide with the recession.”

 

To learn how to integrate self-love and care into your business while creating growth and profitability visitwww.wiseprofits.net.

National Domestic Violence Awareness Month with Katie Ray-Jones

When it comes to domestic violence, Katie Ray-Jones knows what she's doing. 

As the CEO of the National Domestic Violence Hotline, Katie Ray-Jones provides strategic vision and leadership to the only hotline in the nation that links victims and survivors to more than 4,500 shelters and domestic violence programs across the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. 

For more than a decade, Katie has established herself as an advocate for the victims and survivors of domestic violence.

Key Takeaways:

1. Domestic violence is such as silent epidemic. Research that has been done, um, indicates that one in four women, one in seven men will experience severe physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime. (4:28)
2. What we know about how abusive partners show up, this is not someone who's going to show up angry at work. They're going to appear incredibly charismatic. Like I know them so well, they couldn't possibly do it. (6:43)
3. The first thing someone can always do is visit our website, the hotline.org has lots of tips for family, friends. (10:18)

 

If you are experiencing domestic violence or you know someone who does please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1.800.799.SAFE or visit their website https://www.thehotline.org/ for more information. 

How To Make Your Book Easier To Read… and Attract More Readers with Dave Chesson

Dave Chesson is the guy behind Kindlepreneur.com, a website that teaches authors about book marketing and how to optimize their content for maximum success on Amazon's KDP platform. His website is recommended by Amazon as one of its top resources. 

With an extensive list of successful clients and contributors, including New York Times bestselling authors such as Ted Dekker, Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. Anderson, Chesson and his team help both fiction and nonfiction authors at all levels from beginner up to professional writer/publisher status. He has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, ALLi, Huffington Post, and even Market Watch. 

 

Key Takeaways/Main Points:  

 

In this episode we discussed….

 

1. “The biggest thing about Kindlepreneur was, is that I wanted to create a place where when you read one article, you're not only able to get the information you need, but you can turn around and take action.” (2:53)

 

2. "People can use it in different ways. You can even use it to help you to figure out how many books that day you would need to sell to be the new number one bestseller for a particular category. That's the Kindle calculator." (4:51)

 

3. “We as authors, sometimes one thing you could really do is look at the tertiary effects beyond just the sales of the book and how that may affect you.” (20:19)

 

4. “They have a lot of works that have never seen the light of the day only because they've always been a part of the gatekeepers of the publishing companies and whether or not the company wanted to pay for that.” (21:37)

 

5. “I see this huge shift across the board from published authors and publishing companies realizing the importance of self-publishing and where it's a great area to start looking for talent or opportunity.” (23:23)

 

If you are eager to start your writing journey head to https://kindlepreneur.com/best-book-writing-software/ for more information. 

Autobiography of an Immigrant Part 3: Finding Success with Mohan Ananda

Dr. Mohan Ananda founded Stamps.com, a NASDAQ registered company providing Internet-based mailing and shipping solutions using technology he developed. A successful venture capitalist, he has raised over $450 Million in public and private offerings for Stamps, Envestnets, and JAB Holdings

His book, Autobiography of an Immigrant, is a memoir about a man who left the comforts of a modern home in a faraway India and did what he had to do to make a living and succeed in a new land.

Summary:

1. You need to have sufficient capital, eventually, the revenue should be more than all these expenses, then you are in in a good shape. (7:58)
2. One thing I which I still regret, we started growing quite rapidly. We had close to 800 employees. I think that's a mistake because you should grow in conjunction with the revenue growth. You need to have a minimum number of employees for sure. But any kind of growth has to be in proportion to the growth in business activities.(13:30)
3. We should learn to have people who are experts, part of your team that you have to bring. Like technology, legal, and marketing you need to hire experts. (21:35)

His book can be purchased on Amazon https://amzn.to/3vl3Acl

Autobiography of an Immigrant Part 2: Overcoming Challenges with Mohan Ananda

Dr. Mohan Ananda founded Stamps.com, a NASDAQ registered company providing Internet-based mailing and shipping solutions using technology he developed. A successful venture capitalist, he has raised over $450 Million in public and private offerings for Stamps, Envestnets, and JAB Holdings

His book, Autobiography of an Immigrant, is a memoir about a man who left the comforts of a modern home in a faraway India and did what he had to do to make a living and succeed in a new land.

Summary:

1. When we went to USPS there were five of us. I told my team to me do all the talking. But if I need some help, bring it because I didn't want confusion. I want to make sure this is done very professionally and very methodically. Communication is very important because they have to know what you're doing, what you can contribute how this can work out. (8:18)

2. We need to break this down for people watching this because it didn't happen in a day it happened over years of relationship building, right? always important. (27:57)

3. Anytime you get an opportunity and you feel like it is the right person, you should go and get the person on your side. And because of that our management team has been extremely stable. I mean, people left because they want to retire, not because they went work for somebody else. (37:42)

His book can be purchased on Amazon https://amzn.to/3vl3Acl

Autobiography of an Immigrant with Mohan Ananda Episode 1:How Stamps.com Started

Dr. Mohan Ananda founded Stamps.com, a NASDAQ registered company providing Internet-based mailing and shipping solutions using technology he developed. A successful venture capitalist, he has raised over $450 Million in public and private offerings for Stamps, Envestnets, and JAB Holdings

His book, Autobiography of an Immigrant, is a memoir about a man who left the comforts of a modern home in a faraway India and did what he had to do to make a living and succeed in a new land.

Summary:

1. sustainability is really important to make money.(21:13)
2. First of all you have to develop a deck, a pitch deck presentation and in the pitch deck you have to give all the technology. What do you do. What the potential customers are what the possibility of penetrating and how do you get of those things. … In addition you have to do a financial forecast….in the forecast there are two elements. What are their revenue stream. How can you bring revenue and …you also have to have the expenses. (28:38)
3. Most entrepreneurs, with a vision focus on their vision. They focus on what they can do. And they're ignored because they don't have the connections and network the people in place that you've established over the years… You better find someone who has because otherwise you might not get a meeting. And if you do you might be discarded or ignored or rebuffed rather quickly. (33:54)

His book can be purchased on Amazon https://amzn.to/3vl3Acl

From Startup to Sustainable with Jeff Standridge and Jeff Amerine

 

Summary:

 

Jeff Standridge and Jeff Amerine, authors of Creating Startup Junkies, talks about the unique proposition of building sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems in unexpected places. Arkansas, nicknamed the Natural State, a landlocked state in the South Central region of the US, and many other states, are well-positioned to inspire and empower not only entrepreneurs but also innovators through the intentional cultivation of talent, local engagements, and capitalization. 

 

 

Key Takeaways/Main Points:  

 

In this episode we discussed….

 

1. "It's possible to build incredible new companies, not in the places that we all associate with the startup scene." (6:03)

 

2. “If you can build something locally, rather than recruit something in, it's going to stick and there's going to be economic vitality that will follow.” (6:44)

 

3. "There are measurable outputs and outcomes that show economic vitality in terms of new ventures, jobs created, patents created all the kind of stuff you would typically measure, can happen if you use this kind of model." (16:02)

 

4. “Start where you are, get a group of committed change agents together, gain consensus, and then build a plan to start working from there.” (20:49)

 

5. “You have to have somebody that is going to be a key champion or leader to fund your organization.” (20:30)

 

6. “They need to make sure that the company they're going to start has a product or a service that fits the market, that there's a market need. And people are willing to pay for the problem that they're trying to solve.” (22:31)

 

7. "So a good bit of advice we give is always to build a business like you might sell it someday, which means you've got to have good documentation and good process, and you've got a good succession plan." (23:54)

 

8. “Solo entrepreneurs don't create a business; they create a job for themselves” (24:12)

For a copy of their visit Amazon Creating Startup Junkies: Building Sustainable Venture Ecosystems in Unexpected Places

 

Behind the Power with Allyson Roberts

Allyson Roberts is a cognitive-behavioral expert who combines science and spirituality to help people authentically change their minds so that their goals can finally be achieved. She is the author of several books with her latest just released. It’s called Behind the Power and is co-authored with thirteen of her clients who used Allyson’s methods to conquer their greatest challenges.

Allyson Roberts knows what it takes to make it in this world. As a young woman who found herself homeless, pregnant, and living in her car she turned to the writing of Napoleon Hill for comfort and guidance. Little did she know then what a huge impact his philosophies would make on her life.

Keywords: 

1. We are either the slave to our brain or the boss of our brain. There's really no in-between. (1:51) 
2. We have these automatic things that we do in life, where we're not present and our reptilian brain that's done the same thing over and over and over again, takes over and it happens with anxiety. It happens in all kinds of situations in life. (2:25)
3. The thoughts that you think are just sentences until you attach the emotion to them. And so all those anxiety-ridden thoughts that you're too old, you're too fat. It's too late. You're too stupid……those are just sentences. And they don't mean anything until we believe them. (2:49)

Her book is available via Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09FJ34N9C/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0