049 Coach Radio: Your Story – Joel Boggess

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049 Coach Radio – Your Story: Joel Boggess

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Joel Boggess joins me from Dallas, TX and is one of the nation’s premier career coaches. Dan Miller, author of 48 Days to the Work You Love, often refers people to work with Joel. We’ve been friends since the Free Agent Academy (I’m not a paid leader there) kicked off in 2006 and we started as members together.

An underlying theme in Joel’s life has always been helping people in one way or another.

Joel’s new book is One Woman’s Journey to the Work She Loves. It’s a story about one of Joel’s clients who overcame fears and challenges to find the work she loves.

Joel advises to start locally to establish credibility and find clients. He’s now the go-to guy for career info in his area and is quickly expanding beyond his city.

Listen as Joel shares a heart felt story on why he does what he does.

“My niche found me.” Joel found this after being in business for four years. He says get started and take the first step, even if you don’t know your niche in business.

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Posted on July 12, 2010

http://www.thirty60ninety.com Kevin Williams

interview with Joel probably one of the best and most helpful I have heard so far….thank you
http://coachradio.tv/ Justin Lukasavige

I'm so excited to hear that Kevin, thank you!
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Ivan Bickett

I’m going to send this one out to folks later. Lots of great take aways:

Start local
-Reach out to local leaders and influencers
-Join local clubs and organizations (mentioned Lions club)
-Reach out to church groups – talk to your pastors and elders

Great quote from Joel. “Let’s take those valuable lessons you’ve learned from your personal and professional life and then use them to build upon the going forward piece.” That is EXACTLY how I’m building abetterwayofbusiness.wordpress.com. I’m looking at all the places I’ve seen in my numerous jobs from the past where I said, “There’s got to be a better way!” and I’m writing about those.

Another great point by Joel.Get started and take the first step. You do not have to have everything figured out prior to starting. You only have to figure out the first step. The pray for the next step and keep moving.

What a great thought. I STILL keep thinking I’ve got to figure out EVERYTHING. Fortunately my desire for action is winning out right now, but my natural tendency is to figure everything out before doing anything. This just keeps you from doing ANYTHING, b/c you’ll never figure it all out.

Also, this is a HUGE recurring theme. GET OUT THERE AND DO SOMETHING! Even if it’s not perfect. DO SOMETHING!

I think you said Archie from the audience gave this last great line. “You don’t have to be great to start. But you do have to start to be great!”

That says it all.
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