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Show Topics:

• Chris Guillebeau’s story of challenging authority and traveling the world
• Chris’s goal is to visit all 192 countries by the time he’s 35
• High school dropout but then received a Masters in International Studies
• Creating info products and membership websites

Chris Guillebeau’s mission at the The Art of Non-Conformity is to help people live unconventional lives, make their own choices, and change the world.

He set a goal to visit all 192 countries by the time he’s 35 and he’s nearly complete.

Chris dropped out of high school (said it wasn’t working for him) but then went to community college. He finished most of it before they found out he never graduated from high school. He earned his college degree at 19 years old and ultimately a Masters degree in International Studies.
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Show Topics:

• Brett McKay has attracted 83,000+ subscribers to his site
• How he’s grown to over 2,000,000 monthly impressions
• Wrote a book and working on completing his second book deal
• He quit his job just this week to focus full time on his website

Brett McKay launched Art of Manliness in January, 2008. One day he found himself in a magazine aisle and realized none of the men’s magazines were geared towards him, so he had an idea to start a men’s magazine that he wanted to read.

Brett and his wife, Kate, are both from Oklahoma. They didn’t stray far from home in school and both ended up pursuing higher degrees. Brett initially launched a blog for law school students before his current success. He used his initial pursuits to launch into his new publishing idea.

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Show Topics:

• Why Matt Garland has the audacious goal of chronicling 10,000 acts of greatness
• Why he’s not planning to monetize the site and how he is making money
• How Matt is using his weird college studies to change the world

Matt Gartland calls himself an anti-hero. He’s on a personal crusade to chronicle 10,000 random acts of greatness. Matt has no plans to monetize the site. The important thing is that he’s doing big things and monetizing in other ways.

I did the math during the show and if there is only one blog posted each day, it will take over 27 years to chronicle 10,000 random acts of greatness.

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Show Topics:

• Karol Gajda is ridiculously extraordinary
• He lives full time from his blog
• Traveling the world comes second nature to him
• Find out where he’ll be in the next few months
• How an eBook sale made $185,755 in 72 hours

The ultimate goal with RidiculouslyExtraordinary.com and Karol’s life is to help 100 people achieve Ridiculously Extraordinary Freedom.

I asked Karol what this Ridiculousy Extraordinary Freedom is.  He says it’s different for everyone and he can’t define. Some people want to travel. Others want a high income. Some define it by experiences.

Karol is 29 and has been self-employed since he was 19 years old. His first business was designing websites, then transitioned to selling on eBay, selling info-products, pay-per-click, and SEO. Karol is now a full time blogger, fully living from his website.

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A few weeks ago I interviewed Dave Munson, owner of Saddleback Leather.  I had him share his story and we got to talking about how very few people have stories of their own.   So, we came up with a quick plan to create some stories and change the world.  Remember, creating stories isn’t all about you; when you inspire other people to live better stories, you get to change yours too.

Dave and I decided to give away a $100 iPad case.  There was a catch (as there always tends to be here), and it was a fun one.  To enter, you had to donate some livestock to a family in Asia and comment that you did so.  The choices included camels, cows, and water buffalos, and more.

We exchanged a few emails about how much fun it was to read those comments.  It appears more families lives were changed than just those in Asia.

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Covered in today’s show:

• A look back on 99 episodes
• How I got into online radio and what it’s done for my business
• An update on my goals: how I finished 2010

I’m celebrating 100 episodes on today’s show.  I started Coach Radio as a way to inspire people to start businesses that change the world.  I share how I got started, first in traditional radio, then building out a studio in my office to reach more people.  That’s where I’m coming from in this show.

My downloads for the past year:

• December, 2009 downloads = 945
• December, 2010 download = 7,714

I’m launching a new website for Coach Radio.  Rob is my design guy and I share why I’m not doing it on my own.

Saddleback iPad case give-a-way: Michael in Atlanta (@moebes).

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Show Topics:

• Chad Jeffers – making it as a rock star
• Touring with Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood, and Kenny Loggins
• Writing a book and teaching others about the music business

Chad Jeffers is a guitarist for Carrie Underwood.  In 2010 he played 108 shows and now has most of 2011 off to work on some of his own projects.  He released a book last year called 25 Notes as a behind-the-scenes on the music business.

Chad was in a band for the first time with his family when he was 8 years old.  His first show was in front of 1,500 girls and they chased him and his brother into their dressing room after the show.  He was hooked.

“If you want to do music for a living, don’t ever work a job with benefits.” – Chad’s dad (Doc Jeffers)

Chad moved to Nashville (from Kingsport, TN) to attend college and to be near music.  He attended Bellmont university with a degree in music business and marketing.

Through college and after he was working with Reba McEntire.  Through networking he landed some jobs as opening acts for the likes of Alan Jackson.

“It’s all about networking.” – Chad Jeffers

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Show Topics:

• Dustin Riechmann’s story – creating engaged, fit marriages
• Creating an ebook with over 60,000 downloads
• Partnering with people who live across country

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Dustin Riechmann is a manager at a transportation engineering company.  His first foray online was engagedmarriage.com.  He had never heard of a blog before he got started, but he got started nonetheless.

He and his wife were young (he’s 31 now) and plugged in at their church in marriage ministries.  A turning point for him was reading No More Mondays (affiliate) while on vacation.  It clicked with him that he needed to do something online to help people, build a ministry, and be creative.

He launched the Engaged Marriage website in September, 2009.  Dustin wanted to make money from it, but it was always secondary to the other reasons for starting it.  For the first few months of his website, he had a free theme and did everything himself.

Dustin’s advice to getting started online.  “Define your niche when you get started.  It will guide everything you do from picking a domain name and knowing who you’re talking to and how to talk to them.”

Dustin is very engaged in social media.  He had no clue how to use twitter (@engagedmarriage) when he visited for the first time.  He says it took him about six months from signing up to become an active user.

Dustin had a part in creating a free eBook called “Love Everyday – Thoughts on Loving Amidst the Chaos of Life.“

Tony DiLorenzo got together with Dustin and realized they both cared about marriage and being fit.  They decided to create a site together called fitmarriage.com.

They’re monetizing by creating a fitness summit.  The first fitness summit will be released in January for free with the premium version available to purchase afterwards.

Together, Dustin and Tony have now created a workout program.  They got together in St. Louis to create the program, which was the first time they met in person.

Dustin’s secret to success, “be accessible, get plugged in online, encourage people to comment and then follow up with them, build a community around a website, and reach out to others.”

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