Episode 28: Bobbi Govanus and Kathleen Peters - How to have a Reinvention Retreat
Release Date: 10/21/2015
Doctors, Healing and Focus on the Patient - Dr. Dan Witkowski
It's All About the Questions
Going to the doctor nowadays doesn't always mean leaving there with a good diagnosis or a feeling of being heard. Many doctors are overworked and have become highly specialized preventing them from looking at their patient as a whole rather than a particular set of symptoms. Insurance reimbursement can also impact the doctor/patient relationship. What can you do to change that and feel well again? Enter Dr. Dan Witkowski. Board certified OB/GYN and Lifestyle medicine as well as being a certified nutritionist. Dr. Dan recently changed his practice to one where he takes fewer patients while...
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Lessons Learned From A Life Spent Helping Others Grow Their Businesses - Clinton Gatewood
It's All About the Questions
Clinton Gatewood is my guest on this epsiode and it is an overdue interview. Clint has lived his life helping others grow their businesses as well as having founded and sold his own company. He has dedicated his life to serving others and helping them see how they can achieve their business goals. I know Clint from my tech days onward and every role he has ever held in any company he has worked for, or with, has seen the benefit of having him around. On this epsiode Clint shares what he learned growing a business from the ground up for himself and others, how he learned to "own the...
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5 Secrets to Lasting Love - John and Ana Mann
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John David Mann and Ana Gabriel Mann joined me to discuss their seminal work, The Go-Giver Marriage A Little Story About The 5 Secrets to Lasting Love. This is not your average book about relationships and marriage. Nor is this interview. Take a listen as I ask John and Ana about the foundation for the book, how their lives intertwined to create the book and how each of us can begin to improve relationships that matter to us. JOHN DAVID MANN is coauthor of more than thirty books, including four New York Times bestsellers and five national bestsellers, including The...
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Creating Joy as a Startup Founder - Hannah Thomson
It's All About the Questions
How does a woman nowhere close to retirement age create a company that is all about helping people ready to retire? Well Hannah Thomson will tell you all you have to do is know her granny. Inspiration is all around us. How we act on that separates the successful from the less successful. Hannah Thomson has learned to act on what she learns from the world around her and founded the highly successful retirement-focused company The Joy Club. Not your usual kind of startup, this one focuses on virtual AND live events to inspire retirees, or those who want a bit more fun in their lives, to grab...
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Brand Essence vs Brand Ego - Tucker Stine Part 2
It's All About the Questions
Do you know if you are focused on your brand essence or your brand ego? Do you know the difference between the two? How about story? Do you know how to use it for the right part of your brand? Tucker Stine and I pick up our conversation in part 2 of our discussion about your bsuiness and personal brands and how they best interact and how they should not. Tucker is a results-driven connector, personal and organizational brand architect, leadership coach and public speaker with over 25 years of success in building personal and professional brands, developing experiential marketing strategies,...
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How to Keep Hope, Healing and Strength with Dr. Laurie Nadel
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One of my most requested guests has come back on the show to talk how we can keep hope, have healing and know we have strength when it seems like none of that is possible. Dr. Laurie Nadel talks about terminal lethargy, what tasks we need to schedule and if the body and mind really learn to accept a new normal. Dr. Laurie Nadel is a psychologist who helps people recover from disasters, including the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. She continues to work with first responders who remain deeply affected by the event some 20 years later; she also directed a program...
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Business Reviews, Competing on Value and More - Kris Blackmon
It's All About the Questions
Do you check in with your customer? Ever? Too often what happens is focus shifts to getting new customers at the expense of the old. Think how annoyed we all get when Cable and Cellular companies offer bonuses or special pricing to new customers and existing just keep paying higher and higher prices. In a services industry you are probably missing out on increased revenue with increased customer satisfaction by doing regular business reviews with your clients. What do you do during those review and how often should you do them are just a few of the questions my guest Kris Blackmon, Chief...
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Amy Biddle Returns - Moving Your Life and Business Forward and a Bit of Marketing
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Listeners wanted her back for more of her wisdom and I agreed. On this part 2 of a conversation with Amy Biddle she shares three strategies she has used to create advances in her business and life year after year. We also talk about her upcoming book, Acquire, Convert, Repeat. And during this epsiode Amy shares how her goal and purpose changed and how that changed everything for her. Amy Biddle has been obsessed with digital and traditional marketing since 1999. "I was an English major," she confessed. "But when I discovered marketing, I finally had a reason to pay attention to numbers,...
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Biggest Downfall to Any Brand - Tucker Stine
It's All About the Questions
The biggest downfall to any brand is not what you think. It's not a failure in service or product delivery. It's not even a scandal. Tucker Stine has been helping brands of all sizes avoid and recover from what is the biggest downfall for many years and he shares the answer on this epsiode. We also talk about branding to different gernations, brand accelerators and how to use them and how changing the face of a brand, think Alex Trebek, doesn't have to signify the downfall of the company. There is a lot to unpack in this epsiode so have a notepad handy and share your take away. Tucker is a...
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You Don't Suck - Your Copy Does - Carline Anglade-Cole
It's All About the Questions
As if the title wasn't enough to suck you in there is more from this much requested repeat guest. Her latest book's title is You Don't Suck - Your Copy Does - 60 Kick-Butt Lessons on Copywriting, Business and Life and it definitely delivers. Be preprared for a high-energy listen as Carline talks about what makes an A-List copywriter, how to appreciate who you are and what you have, how to deal with bad things happening and not let them derail you and even a little bit about bras and the wisdom of finding the perfect one only to have it discontinued! CARLINE ANGLADE-COLE still wakes up...
info_outlineReinventions come in all shapes and sizes but the key to a successful one is in the quiet time you give yourself. With today's increasingly connected world it can be difficulty to get some uninterrupted quiet, reflective time to unlock the you that is wanting to burst out from inside yourself.
Today, reinventions are not just business ones. They can be physical reinventions, I need one of those, spiritual, financial, relationship and yes, business and career reinventions. But how do you create a successful one? How do you start figuring what the reinvention means and how to make take root?
Enter my two guests. Experts at reinvention in their own lives and in helping others figure out their own. What I love is they thought outside the box and created an environment to help you dive deep into your own reinvention. Take a listen and let me know what your reinvention looks like! @TheLauraSteward or [email protected]
After a thirty year career in retail selling everything from socks to stocks, with only a computer and a plan, Bobbi Govanus launched her own small business and soon realized that she had discovered a true niche within the computer training industry.
Bobbi quickly grew that business from the basement of her Minnesota home by listening closely to her customers and providing customized computer training and solutions. The company eventually brokered over one thousand high-caliber computer trainers across the United States and Canada and even served clients as far away as England, Japan, Germany and India. She grew the company to sales of over twenty million dollars.
In celebration of these and other accomplishments, Entrepreneur Magazine recognized Bobbi Govanus as their "Home-based" Business Owner of the year and Minnesota honored her as their Women in Business Advocate.
In 2013 Bobbi created the Reinvention Retreat at Sea bringing speakers, coaches and authors together to coach and assist attendees who want to make the rest of their life, the best of their life. Bobbi published her first anthology book in 2014, How to Pilot When We Were Raised to BE Stewardesses, Reinventing your Life with Passion and Purpose. This book explores the importance of choosing your own destiny no matter what obstacles you must overcome to do so.
Bobbi currently lives near Orlando, FL with her husband Gary. She can be reached at [email protected]
Kathleen McCarthy Peters is the owner of KMP Travel, a Cruise Planners/American Express travel agency. Kathleen’s passion is travel and the performing arts. She loves helping speakers plan transformational retreats and workshops in awesome destinations!
Kathleen was bitten by the travel bug early! But growing up on military bases was just the start. She went on to work onboard cruise ships as both Cruise Staff & entertainer. Kathleen has also lived and worked abroad in Europe, Mexico and Australia and has over 20 years experience working in the Hospitality and Tourism industries.
Kathleen has successfully transitioned from Ballerina to MBA and from stay-at-home mom to advertising executive. Her latest chapter is as entrepreneur and business owner where she can combine her love of travel and the arts to plan life-enriching journeys for her clients. Kathleen also believes in giving back by volunteering countless hours to encourage and mentor women making big career changes. Kathleen believes that if you Love your life now and stay true to your core passion, gifts and talents…you will be led into amazing new opportunities where nothing from your past is wasted.