IIP030: With Hope and Fire – Amy Clover’s Journey From Rock Bottom to Empowering Thousands

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How to empower thousands after hitting rock bottom?

What does creating a fitness bootcamp had to do with it?

For someone who’s been battling against clinical depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder for most of her life, Amy Clover rose above all of that and had become a truly inspiring individual – all in today’s exceptionally, lesson-filled interview.

With a mission to empower and help other people overcome the challenges of facing depression, which is keeping them from living a better and prolific life, Amy started the successful and prolific blog – Strong Inside Out – where she chronicles her experiences and advice with her own, unique voice.

Amy Clover of Strong Inside Out
Amy Clover of Strong Inside Out

In this interview, Amy shares her compelling story that propelled her to become an advocate for fighting against psychological ailments and eventually becoming a fitness trainer, which gave way to conceptualizing the 30×30 Project that is happening in 30 cities across Canada and the US, and was funded by the online community itself. Becoming a trainer also became Amy’s source of income – and inspiration.

The 30×30 Project supports TWLOHA (To Write Love On Her Arms) – a non-profit, charitable institution that assists those who are struggling with depression, self-injury, suicide and substance abuse – something Amy wished she had before.

A firm advocate of health and fitness, learn how Amy used workouts with the right reasons, to cope with stress and help others do the same.  Find out what and who inspires her, her top tips for creating a blog that changes lives, and more – only in the 30th episode of Inspiring Innovation Podcast episode — your weekly backstage pass to success!

Episode Highlights:

  • How Amy Clover went from absolute rock bottom (mental ward after suicide attempt) – to becoming a source of hope and inspiration to thousands.
  • How focusing on the benefits you give to others helps overcoming the hardships along your way.
  • The real benefits of working out.
  • How Amy raised $18,000 (!) on IndieGoGo for her 30×30 campaign – and what it was all about?
  • Amy’s tips for starting a blog that changes lives.
  • How nutrition affects your mood and productivity.
  • Why you should attend events like NMX or WDS

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IIP029: Getting Unstuck, Doing The Impossible, And Cold Showers – With Joel Runyon

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Inspiring Innovation Podcast episode 29  Get it on iTunes

Are you fed up with living a normal life, but the life of your dreams is beyond reach and seems impossible to have?

What if you could do the impossible?

Today we are joined by the man behind ‘The Blog of Impossible Things’, Joel Runyon. A few years ago, out of work (again), he started a list of things that were impossible to do and achieve – and did them anyway.

This exclusive and truly inspiring interview takes us through the different reasons why people see uncomfortable situations as obstacles rather than opportunities and creating a mindset shift that will push you to do something you want to do and just do it.

Take away life lessons, mental conditioning, cold shower therapy (see below!) and different ways to do the impossible. Get valuable insights and tips on how to push through the barriers that stop us from living a great life.

Joel Runyon
Joel Runyon

Step away from having an average life. Join us in today’s episode and learn how to do the impossible – only here at Inspiring Innovation Podcast, your weekly backstage pass to success. There’s also an awesome giveaway!

Episode Highlights:

  • From UPS driver assistant getting chased by dogs to doing the impossible and living on your own terms.
  • How to control your story, and use failures to your own benefit
  • Why you shouldn’t do anything where success is guaranteed
  • Cold shower therapy – what is it? Why should you care? Has Joel lost his mind?
  • How to expand your comfort zone and why it’s crucial
  • Our impossible giveaway
  • Joel’s challenge to me – to take 30 freezing cold showers. See video below to find out if I accepted the madness (and why?)

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IIP028: From No-One to Market-Leading Expert With No Formal Education

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Inspiring Innovation Podcast episode 28  Get it on iTunes

What does it take to go from No-One to Market-Leading Expert without any formal education?

In episode 28 of the Inspiring Innovation Podcast, we are joined by market-leading expert Mark Anthony Bates, a much-respected individual in the world of public speaking and marketing, who had built a roster of clients from Fortune 100 companies with achievements that did not come from inside a classroom, but through curiosity and the desire to help others.

Often referred to as “the coach’s coach” and as a leading public speaking coach,  Mark shares in this exclusive interview (that took almost 12 months to set up!) how he achieved his success and how he has established his name – without all the pomp and circumstance of the limelight.

He dishes out golden advice on how to make a difference in the world even if it is on a small-scale, how to get started, and how to not get overwhelmed and freeze. You’ll hear his own fears, struggles and hardships along the way.

Mark also offers some great advice for those that are struggling with A.D.D. and their career.

Mark Anthony Bates
Mark Anthony Bates

Being a public speaking coach, I wouldn’t let him of the hook without giving away some great resources on how can we start improving our crowd and public speaking skills.

This is a very exclusive interview. Mark hardly gives interviews (hell, he doesn’t even have a website!), so you can literally get him only here – at the Inspiring Innovation Podcast – your weekly backstage pass to success.

Episode Highlights:

  • Starting a business venture while holding a full-time job – how Mark did it while focusing on the why, not on the how?
  • How to avoid the “freeze”, overwhelm, effect of entrepreneurship.
  • Mark’s key ingredient to his success.
  • Standing out by helping others shine.
  • Becoming a market leading expert without any formal education (without finishing high-school, for that matter!)
  • Improving your public speaking skills.
  • Why it should never be about you when you deliver a message.
  • Doing good things to other people without getting caught.
  • How to become a hugely successful entrepreneur and not let A.D.D. get in the way?

Items mentioned in this episode include:

Don’t Make Me Think_A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability 2nd Edition by Steve Krug

Delivered from Distraction_Getting the Most Out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder by Dr. Edward M. Hallowell

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IIP027: The 5 Laws of Success with Bob Burg, Coauthor of The Go-Giver

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Change The Way You Do Business

With us being programmed as go-getters from an early age, what would it take to be a go-giver instead? Does being one really negate the other?

In episode 27 of the Inspiring Innovation Podcast, we are joined by bestselling author Bob Burg, coauthor of the phenomenally successful (and one of my favorite books) “The Go-Giver.”

In this insightful, exclusive one-on-one interview, Bob will show us how nice guys can  finish fist – when they follow his 5 laws of stratospheric success.

Bob Burg author of The Go-Giver
Bob Burg

5 Laws of Stratospheric Success

Bob teaches us through these ancient five laws of success how go-giving will make us valuable and influential, and how these two are the core of creating a healthy income while keeping our customers incredibly happy. We discuss the power of being authentic (and why is it crucial in this day and age), and how does all this come together and work in harmony with the golden rule of business?

Finally, we discuss why you NEED to be a go-giver AND a go-getter, and why these two are not opposing each other, but actually when combined together create the ultimate environment for success.

Discover, learn and be inspired only here at the Inspiring Innovation Podcast – your weekly backstage pass to success.

Episode Highlights:

  • The golden rule of business
  • Why many nice guys finish last, and how to be a nice guy that finishes first
  • The 5 Laws of Stratospheric Success
  • What’s a Go-Giver? How does it compare to Go-Getter, and how to be both!
  • How your income is controlled by the value you give and the money you take
  • How to make yourself and your product more valuable in a crowded market

Items mentioned in this episode include:

The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea

TheGo-Giver by Bob Burg

Go-Givers Sell More

Go-Givers Sell More by Bob Burg

Endless Referrals

Endless Referrals Third Edition by Bob Burg

The Art of Persuasion: Winning Without Intimidation

The Art of Persuasion Winning Without Intimidation by Bob Burg

It’s Not About You: A Little Story About What Matters Most In Business

It’s Not About You: A Little Story About What Matters Most In Business by Bob Byrg

The Last Prospecting Guide You’ll Ever Need

The Last Prospecting Guide You’ll Ever Need by Bob Burg

The Memory System

The Memory System by Bob Burg

How To Win Friends and Influence Others by Dale Carnegie

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IIP026: How To Achieve Anything – With Benny Lewis The Irish Polyglot

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What does language learning have to do with entrepreneurship and success?

EVERYTHING!

Episode 26 of the Inspiring Innovation Podcast is an exclusive interview with the Irish Polyglot (speaker of multiple languages) – Benny Lewis.

In this truly unique and inspiring interview, Benny talks about how he became a polyglot, what it takes to learn a language in 3 months and from that we conclude how to set yourself to achieve anything in life – whether it’s learning a foreign language or being successful in business.

With over eleven years of travelling all over the world and learning languages along the way, Benny talks about the unconventional techniques he learned from his experiences. We discuss his product that allows him to make a living from what he loves, and his goals with blogging. You’ll find out why Benny think it’s wrong to try to become a guru prodigy that has all the answers, as he offers a much easier and more satisfying path.

Benny shares some great tips and solutions to roadblocks that other people come up with when trying to learn a language – or achieve any type of goal in life. It turns out that it’s always the same roadblocks, no matter what challenge one faces.

Benny Lewis The Irish Polyglot
Benny Lewis The Irish Polyglot

What’s the secret behind Benny’s success ? How does he maintain his mindset and what keeps him inspired after 11 years into this? Listen to the interview to find out! 🙂

Discover all these and more only here, at the Inspiring Innovation Podcast – your weekly backstage pass to success.

Episode Highlights:

  • What are the main struggles in learning foreign languages, and what does it have to do with entrepreneurship?
  • How to focus on the WHY and not waste time on the HOW in order to achieve your goals .
  • How to make time to become an entrepreneur.
  • What should be the WHY behind language learning, according to Benny, and as a result – what is the real WHY behind why you should become an entrepreneur
  • How Benny is making a living from traveling the world and learning languages
  • How to start talking a language from day 1, even if you don’t know a single word (and again – how to do the same with any goal you have in life)
  • Why being a guru that is never wrong is the WRONG thing to pursue.

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