Synopsis
Are you a Work @ Home RockStar or do you want to be one? Host Tim Melanson interviews self-employed Home Business "RockStars" to learn how they have built their businesses from the comfort of their own home.
Episodes
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WHR 3.60 : Kevin Rizer
28/03/2022 Duration: 35minGuest, Kevin Rizer, who is an entrepreneur and the founder of Emmy's best pet products. And what they do is they help solve common problems that panel pet owners have. Episode Website
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WHR 3.59 : Mike Moll
21/03/2022 Duration: 25minGuest, Mike Moll is the founder of Market Me, he helps creative a entrepreneurs charge with their worth. Connect here: Episode Website
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WHR 3.58 : Jim Gale
14/03/2022 Duration: 27minGuest, Jim Gale is the chief storyteller at Food Forest Abundance. And what they're doing is they're working to create freedom and sustainability by helping people grow food in their own backyard. Episode Website
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WHR 3.57 : Don Abad
07/03/2022 Duration: 30minGuest, Don Abad is the founder of sovereign stories and a coach at team sovereign. And what they do is they help to elevate values, focused leaders and creators to embrace their sovereignty and lead a life of significance. Connect here: I love connecting with Work at Home RockStars! Reach out on LinkedIn, Instagram, or via email Website
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WHR 3.56 : Shari Hammond
28/02/2022 Duration: 21minGuest, Shari Hammond, Co-founder and CEO of Inspired Product and Development Group they create functional stylish products that make your live easier. Episode Website
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WHR 3.55 : LUMO
21/02/2022 Duration: 33minGuest, Sarah Olin, CEO of LUMO helping people break up with their BS. Anna Conathan, CCO of LUMO helping people chanel their authentic voice so they know what to say and who to say it for. Episode Website : https://workathomerockstar.com/lumo-sarah-olin-anna-conathan Connect here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lumoleadership/ https://twitter.com/lusciousmother https://www.facebook.com/LusciousMother https://www.instagram.com/lusciousmother/ I love connecting with Work at Home RockStars! Reach out on LinkedIn, Instagram, or via email Website
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WHR 3.54 : Dustin DeVries
14/02/2022 Duration: 36minGuest, Dustin DeVries, cofounder of caffeine interactive technologies, helps people build websites and web and mobile technologies. Episode :
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WHR 3.53 : Craig Cannings
07/02/2022 Duration: 30minCraig Cannings, cofounder of freelance university helping people to start flexible freelance businesses from home. Episode Website
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WHR 3.52 : Scott Hirsch
31/01/2022 Duration: 28minGuest, Scott Hirsh, CTO of talent marketplace who empowers people through the use of technology to do what they love. Episode Website
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WHR 3.51 : Colin Scotland
24/01/2022 Duration: 30minGuest, Colin Scotland, a marketing coach who helps people find their spark and never let it go. Episode Website
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WHR 3.50 : Kevin Palmieri
17/01/2022 Duration: 22minGuest, Kevin Palmieri, Co-Host of the Next Level University Podcast. Kevin helps busy entrepreneurs with their podcast. Connect here: https://www.facebook.com/kevin.palmieri.90/ https://www.instagram.com/neverquitkid/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-palmieri-5b7736160/ I love connecting with Work at Home RockStars! Reach out on LinkedIn, Instagram, or via email Website
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WHR 49 : Tina Collura
10/01/2022 Duration: 26minSHOW NOTES Good Note : First 30 days, 3 paying clients, after 90 days 13 paid clients. Bad Note : Pandemic forced everyone home and it was much harder to build the business with so many distractions. Practice Makes Progress : Build your confidence and also practice your craft by taking on free or discounted clients short term. Gathering Fans : Do daily videos on social media… daily themes can help with content. Instruments of Success : The circle of success. Rate yourself personally and business. THE STORY TINA COLLURA show coaches, consultants, small business owners and entrepreneurs how to get out of their own way and into results in less than 60 days so that they can START seeing the results they know they deserve both personally and professionally with her 7 Step Guided Growth Strategy Process.
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WHR 3.48 : Donna Serdula
03/01/2022 Duration: 33minSHOW NOTES Good Note : After being laid off and deflated, she decided to pursue her idea to build a business… after a lot of hard work, she’s built a great life for herself helping others. Bad Note : It is hard to find people that match your vision. She struggled for a while trying to find the right person. Trust your gut. Gathering Fans : Educate people. Give as much as you can to help people understand why your service is important. Practice Makes Progress : There is no such thing as natural born talent. You get good at anything through talent. Instrument of Choice : Otter.ai is a great tool to transcribe your videos and audio. THE STORY Donna Serdula pioneered the concept of LinkedIn profile optimization, realizing early on that the LinkedIn profile was so much more than just an online resume. A job change in 2006 led her back to LinkedIn as Donna looked for tools to help her build a sales territory. It was during this time she had her LinkedIn epiphany and forged her LinkedIn 4 point methodology.
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WHR 3.46 : Janette Burke
27/12/2021 Duration: 42minSHOW NOTES Good Note : Took a giant risk to break away from her network to build her own brand from scratch. Bad Note : Lack of support from the media accreditation association made it so much harder. Practice Makes Progress : I asked Janette how she handled releasing content from her own makeshift studio when she was used to the quality from a professional studio. Learning from the best : Don't be afraid to spend the money on the specialized coaching that you need. THE STORY Executive Producer, Janette Burke Productions, Host/Creator of the 4-time award-winning online lifestyle show Janette’s TV and Janette’s TV Podcast (in Season 11, with over 500 aired episodes), Media Personality, Mentor & Trainer and Former Publicist, Janette Burke left the studios behind with only 700 Facebook followers to build a world-wide audience of over 5 million. Having interviewed countless A-list celebrities, thought-leaders, game-changers, influencers, and experts in various fields, she knows what it takes to assume t
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WHR 3.46 : Trav Bell
20/12/2021 Duration: 30minSHOW NOTES Good Note : The Pandemic has not hindered his business and he is grateful for that. Bad Note : Heavily weighted as a public speaker, so the lockdowns killed all his gigs. Jam Room : Lots of books! Band : Full time VA in the philipines, coaches. Use technology to stay connected with the team. Learning from the best : Always had coaches, but the real learning came when he started his business. THE STORY Trav Bell is The Bucket List Guy…The Worldʼs #1 Bucket List Expert. As a self-appointed ʻBucket Listologistʼ, Trav helps people live their Bucket List before it’s too late! His unique life-engagement message really wakes you up, stops ground-hog days and helps you to experience more fulfilment. He says, “A Bucket List is a tangible Life Plan…where our Business Plan or Career Plan should fit into our Life Plan & not be the other way around.” No one practices what they preach more than Trav. His ‘crazy’ globetrotting adventures are contagious, hilarious & always fresh. He is the author of
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WHR 3.44 : Dr Nadia Brown
13/12/2021 Duration: 26minSHOW NOTES Good Note : Took a client’s revenue from 100k to half a million in revenue Bad Note : Did not like the sales conversation and avoided learning how to improve. Jam Room : Started off in a spare bedroom but when the business became full time, she bought a home that had a dedicated office. She hired an interior designer to set it up for her. Keeping the Hat Full : Leveraging systems to keep the pipeline full. Learning from the best : Jump on any opportunity to take business related training. Nadia took a sales position to learn sales. THE STORY She is a sales strategist, consultant, trainer, and founder of The Doyenne Agency. A sales agency that works with business owners, companies, and corporations to multiply revenue and awaken the consistent closer within your sales team using the Consistent Sales Method™. Nadia helps women learn to play the career game in business to advance their careers and professions. When it comes to sales, women come to her timid and shaky about going after th
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WHR 3.44 : Joe Dichiara
06/12/2021 Duration: 38minSHOW NOTES Good Note : There is no big success… There are just a lot of little successes along the way. Bad Note : Just like success, there are lots of little failures too. You have to expect them. You are going to fail, but that doens’t mean you are a failure. Learning from the best : The big names in business Gates, Jobs, Buffett, Dell even wake up with headaches from their business. Things happen to everyone and that is inpiring. Keeping the Hat full : Just because you are making sales, doesn’t mean you have cashflow. Look at your transactions every day, or be sure you have someone hired to do it. Instruments of choice : If you can’t find a tool that does everything you need, then create one that does. THE STORY Joe DiChiara is an entrepreneur with a CPA license. He has worked with thousands of business owners over a 35 year career. Eager to help people succeed, it troubled him that most new businesses fail and was determined to find out why. In 2010, after reading “The Science of Getting Ric
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WHR 3.43 : Kirk Cooper
29/11/2021 Duration: 31minSHOW NOTES Good Note : Started a side hustle as an amazon ecommerce seller while working as a teacher. Ended up growing that business to full time. Bad Note : Holding on to the security blanket of a job and ended up not putting in the full effort into his first venture and it never did take off. Assembling the Band : Found a group of Virtual Assistants though LinkedIn. Started by getting on a screenshare and just worked while the team watched. This allowed them to learn what he was doing and also creating content at the same time. Gathering Fans : When starting off, you can have a lower price point to build up a clientele and build testimonials. Keeping the Hat Full : Put time in and do things manually at first rather than spend the money on tools. THE STORY Kirk Cooper is the CEO and founder of Ecom Automation Gurus. Living in Aurora, Colorado, Kirk was a former high school teacher who got tired of the 9-5 life and decided to take a leap of faith and build his own company from the ground up. No
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WHR 3.42 : Lynne Eichenbaum
22/11/2021 Duration: 29minSHOW NOTES Good Note : Working on Network TV at the View. Wasn’t moving up in her career and knew that something was missing. Came up with an idea for an invention, patented it and started going to tradeshows. Grew slowly and steady. Bad Note : Don’t be stubborn. She created an acronym NOMPI (no more poison ivy) and wanted to name her gloves nompi gloves… but the market didn’t know what that meant and eventually knew that she had to change the name. Practice Makes Progress : Practice makes permanent. If you practice enough, you permanently engrain it. Keeping the Hat Full : The most important thing is to not let success get to your head. Don’t turn down smaller local opportunities that might not net you as much as the big ones. Learning From the best : Joined a mastermind of woman business owners. They meet once a week and cover their hits and misses for the week. This has been very big for Lynne. She met key people to help her bring her business to the next level and so much more. THE STORY The
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WHR 3.41 : Naresh Vissa
15/11/2021 Duration: 34minSHOW NOTES Good Note : In business for 8 1/2 years as work from home stay at home dad. Bad Note: Highly recommed that you get a lawyer to look over your contracts. Practice Makes Progress : Subscribe to newsletters, podcasts, youtube. Constantly living a breathing the craft. Getting Fans : Using fear and psychology to sell. Assembling the Band : Subcontract work overseas to contractors. There are plenty of thing like upwork, fiver and others to find contractors. Establish long term connections with the ones that work well. THE STORY Naresh Vissa is the Founder & CEO of Krish Media & Marketing – a full service e-commerce, technology, development, online, and digital media and marketing agency and solutions provider. He has worked with CNN Radio, Clear Channel Communications, J.P. Morgan Chase, EverBank, The Institute for Energy Research, Houston Rockets, Houston Astros, the American Junior Golf Association, Agora Financial, Agora Publishing, Stansberry Research, and TradeStops. He is the #1