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Show Topics:

• Living life on your terms instead of other’s
• Working vacations
• Traveling with kids
• Living on $2,000 per month

Josh Gordon joins me from polar bear country in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. They live close to Toronto, Canada but are on a working vacation right now. Piper is two and Vienna is five months old and they’re living life on their own terms.

The Gordon’s decided they wanted to raise their kids near family and they gave up a $60,000 salary in the process. Josh and his wife Sarah became physically sick with where they were in life. Had they made the right decision to move back?

Josh and Sarah are experiencing great things on only $2,092 per month. Think they’re crazy? They don’t care.

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Show Topics:

• How to keep going when life gets you down
• Overcoming the resistance

Jason had a bad week last week (trust me, it was a bad week for him) and asked how to keep going when life gets you down; when you fail. How do you overcome the resistance?

We talked about Stephen Pressfield’s latest book, Do the Work.

Andy Traub is my expert on this and he joins me on this show. He says the answer to resistance is assistance.

You have to get beyond the idea stage and take action.

I asked Andy, “If a person isn’t going to do the work, should they even waste their time listening to Coach Radio?”

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Show Topics:

• Getting products into local and regional stores
• Launching new products
• How to grow a blog

Walter Harrill and his wife, Wendy, were lab techs before farming caught their eye. I asked Walter if he felt scared in making a transition into a business where farmers seem to be losing their farms left and right. He told me he was terrified!

The Harrill’s are  running a farm which their great grandparents started in the late 1700s. It used to be a subsistence farm where the family grew their own food; that’s just the way things worked back then.

It took them four to five years to transition from lab techs in hospitals to become full time farmers. Wendy quickly figured out hospital work wasn’t the best fit for them and made sure to inform Walter.

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Show Topics:

• Update on my three day workweek
• Giving away a video camera
• When starting a business, are products or services better?
• How to keep track of people I’m interviewing
• How I start my day

I’m experimenting with a three day workweek this summer and I share thoughts and updates. Could it work for you?

Also, I’m giving away a video camera. Will you help me vote for a winner?

Listeners called and wrote in with these questions:

Michael Good: Which is better, a product based business or a service based business? For example: My wife has a passion for horses. She could have a product based business and sell horse tack online or develop an equine hair conditioner and sell that either wholesale or retail. She could also have a service based business where she would braid manes and tails for riders getting ready for a show or perhaps become an equine massage therapist. Would one have more overhead or be slower to get off the ground than the other? It seems like a lot of people on Free Agent Academy and 48days.net have service based businesses and I’m wondering why that is. Perhaps that’s not the case.

Thanks for your thoughts,
Michael

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Show Topics:

• A therapist with 8,000 online subscribers
• Multiple streams of income
• How to grow a blog

Corey Allan is a marriage and family therapist who is building his business in a non-traditional way. He joins me from Dallas, Texas and you’ll love his story.

Corey started writing articles for a newspaper and also started posting his articles online. He found it much more fun to interact with people in near real-time and he hasn’t looked back.

Corey’s business model:

• Traditional counseling
• Marital classes
• Ebooks

Corey wanted to grow a following online in order to get a book deal but then changed his mind. I don’t think having more than 8,000 subscribers has hurt him.

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Show Topics:

• Be a better writer to get published
• Don’t use weak verbs
• You need to write a lot before getting published
• Handling rejection
• Can you become a full time writer?

It’s not often I have guests on Coach Radio during regular shows, but Mary DeMuth captured my attention quickly with her new book, The 11 Secrets of Getting Published.

Mary graciously agreed to be a guest on the show again and talk about The 11 Secrets. I think you’ll be as captivated as I was. As it turns out, you actually need to be a good writer to get published and Mary spends a good portion of the first half explaining how to improve your skills; from grammar and sentence structure to putting the time in, nothing is left behind when it comes to tips.

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Show Topics:

• Turning barefoot running into a business
• Competing with large companies from a garage
• Manufacturing in the U.S.

Ted McDonald turned a passion for running barefoot into a business. Crazy, right? This interview will reaffirm that, if you’re passionate and fired up enough, you can turn any idea into income.

Ted explains how normal running shoes cause injury to many parts of the body, including feet, knees, back and neck. Striking heels first is not how we were designed to run.

So Ted took off his shoes and forever became known as Barefoot Ted.

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Show Topics:

• Which podcasts and blogs to follow if you have limited time
• PayPal and accepting payment
• Becoming a Financial Coach with CPA training

Starting next week, Coach Radio moves to a new time slot on Tuesday afternoon. Check the live show schedule and pop into the chat when you can.

Eric: “Since I’m sure you consider your time precious, which podcasts and blogs do you find worth your time and benefit – and therefore recommend to your audience?  Your answer also may be impacted by also considering the flood of information we receive in light of the comments that Jason Jaggard made about implementing what you learn before moving on to learn more.”

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