Happy Productive: Business Success Through Soul Alignment

Today’s episode takes a closer look at a very specific aspect of running an online business; Search Engine Optimization (SEO). What exactly is it? It’s the process of improving your website to increase its visibility for searches. In other words, it’s how easily people who are looking for you on Google can find you. Just think of how often you turn to Google to find an answer or a service provider. Those search results on that first page, those sites have good SEO. 

In this episode, we deep dive into all aspects of SEO, what it is, how to optimize it, how to get results, what to avoid, and everything in between. My guest, SEO-expert John Vuong, shares valuable insight that he’s gathered from running his SEO agency, Local SEO Search, for eight years plus the decade he spent in advertising. Through his years in the industry, he has served over 5,000 local businesses and has built his agency from 3 people to now a group of 40 in-house experts covering all aspects of SEO. 

In this episode, we discuss how vital it is for small business owners to cultivate a good SEO strategy, so they don’t miss out on the opportunity to serve potential customers who are willing to pay them. Ultimately, SEO allows you to connect with those who are looking for you. But how do you do that in an online space with endless competitors, with endless metrics to track, with endless things to know, with endless information and misinformation about SEO? Listen and find out!

We hope you’ve found today’s episode of the Happy Productive Podcast inspiring. Every successful business is formed by a set of small, consistent, and attainable steps.

Visit Jennifer at jenniferdawncoaching.com to take your next step and learn how to meet your business goals.

Thank you for listening and stay tuned for Jennifer’s next episode.

Today I am joined by Heather Dawn (and no, we are not related), a Certified Clinical Nutritionist and the founder of Conscious Nutrition. Her mission is to help provide a solid foundation to teach others how to nourish themselves with their food. Heather is a recovering Type-A nutritionist seeking perfection, only to realize the body is brilliant, and we just have to learn how to listen. 

Our relationship with food can be quite complicated. Like any relationship, it can contain limiting beliefs, judgments, and habits that can hold us back from being the healthiest version of ourselves. Many of us have an emotional attachment to food, making it so difficult to restrict ourselves or follow deprivation diets. Taking a deeper look at our food habits can serve as a gateway into looking deeper within ourselves. Are we using food to numb out? Are we using food to fill a void? Are we using food because we have a scarcity mindset? Are we using food to avoid unresolved emotions? 

In order to use food to feel good about ourselves, we need to take a closer look at our eating habits, not just what we are putting in our bodies but also why. Heather and I shared a great conversation on food, nutrition, habits, tips, mindset, strategies, and so much more to help you redefine your relationship with food and inspire a healthier and happier you. 

This one is jam-packed with value, I promise!

We hope you’ve found today’s episode of the Happy Productive Podcast inspiring. Every successful business is formed by a set of small, consistent, and attainable steps.

Visit Jennifer at jenniferdawncoaching.com to take your next step and learn how to meet your business goals.

Thank you for listening and stay tuned for Jennifer’s next episode.

When John Davis was 22 years old, he was told by doctors they were not sure if he’d ever walk again. John had picked up a heavy box of clay and broke his spine in two. He collapsed and was paralyzed. He was told for a fact he’d never have a physical career. However, John did not let that day take his dreams away. In fact, he went on to live the life of an action hero. He’s been a professional fight director and a stunt man for stage and screen. He’s an artistic director of three regional theme parks, a sword-fighting comedian, a motivational speaker, an author, and a coach. He’s also taken his inspirational message to 16 countries around the world, including the frontlines of Iraq and Afghanistan, on 6 USO tours.

How was John able to overcome his diagnosis and not let his circumstance define him? His mindset. John decided that day that he was in charge of his own experience, that despite what happened to him, he decided what was possible for him, not what others told him. Despite all the fears thrown his way, he rooted himself in the fact that we only live one present moment, and that is where all our power lies. 

In this super powerful episode, we deep dive into the importance of having the right mindset, regardless of what you want to accomplish or what you are going through. We also talk about how to dissipate fear, what you need to understand about how the subconscious mind works, and how to maximize the present moment to achieve anything in your life. 

I could have talked to John all day. This one is good, I promise! For a special free gift John is giving our audience, his 5F Workbook, click on this link and check him out at www.corporateactionhero.com.

We hope you’ve found today’s episode of the Happy Productive Podcast inspiring. Every successful business is formed by a set of small, consistent, and attainable steps.

Visit Jennifer at jenniferdawncoaching.com to take your next step and learn how to meet your business goals.

Thank you for listening and stay tuned for Jennifer’s next episode.

Today I am joined by Bobbi Kahler, who was given a 2% chance of living when she got sick and collapsed 17 years ago. Cut to today where she is a speaker and trainer with over 20 years of experience. She’s built a coaching career where she has worked with over 3,000 people and has become an entrepreneur, author, podcast host, workshop leader, avid athlete and resilient survivor.

Through her own personal transformation journey she has learned that no matter what we are facing, thriving is absolutely possible. We are the authors of our stories and it is our choices, day in and day out, that dictate what kind of life we are able to live. Bobbi is no stranger to adversity having faced childhood abuse, and needing to work multiple jobs at 23 just to say afloat. But through her perseverance, resilience and life lessons she’s learned, she rewrote her own narrative. 

In this episode Bobbi and I share an insightful conversation on how important our choices are, how much power we actually have over our lives, and how you can change your life starting today.

We hope you’ve found today’s episode of the Happy Productive Podcast inspiring. Every successful business is formed by a set of small, consistent, and attainable steps.

Visit Jennifer at jenniferdawncoaching.com to take your next step and learn how to meet your business goals.

Thank you for listening and stay tuned for Jennifer’s next episode.

Today I am joined by a special guest, Michaela Donato, a designer and decorator who is passionate about helping people take the overwhelm and decision making out of their dream home. She is committed to making your dream space serve you, your lifestyle so that everything becomes easier and more beautiful.

In this conversation, Michael walks us over the process of working with a designer and she shares her best tips on how to make this a smooth and ultimately rewarding experience. But beyond design, we also discuss the importance of having the right space around you. In order to attain a happy and productive state, we need to be in spaces that support us and allow us to evoke the emotions that make us feel good. 

Join us on this episode as we go over the importance of having trust in your designer, how to gain self awareness to find what works for you, why it’s worth investing in your space, and so much more.

We hope you’ve found today’s episode of the Happy Productive Podcast inspiring. Every successful business is formed by a set of small, consistent, and attainable steps.

Visit Jennifer at jenniferdawncoaching.com to take your next step and learn how to meet your business goals.

Thank you for listening and stay tuned for Jennifer’s next episode.

I am back with a solo episode (it has been a while), but it feels so good to have an intimate chat with you all. In this episode I share a couple of anecdotes that taught me great lessons about pace. What I learned was that when I overexert myself, and push too hard, that can rob my joy. And when joy is missing in something that I do, I know that is when I need to pay attention and re-calibrate. In this go go go world we live in, we can move at such a fast pace that it comes at the expense of our own happiness. That is simply no way to live.

In times when you feel like your pace is too fast, you are overexerting yourself, I invite you to take an honest look at the pace you are going and whether it is serving you at the highest level. Do you need to slow down just a little bit, just to that point where your joy comes back? On the flip side, if you are not making any progress on your goals, do you need to bump up the pace and start taking daily intentional action? 

In this episode I share my experiences that taught me great lessons on pace, and how to recalibrate yourself to find your ideal pace to push forward in the direction of joy.

We hope you’ve found today’s episode of the Happy Productive Podcast inspiring. Every successful business is formed by a set of small, consistent, and attainable steps.

Visit Jennifer at jenniferdawncoaching.com to take your next step and learn how to meet your business goals.

Thank you for listening and stay tuned for Jennifer’s next episode.

Today I am joined by a media personality and award-winning CNBC syndicated talk show host and producer, number-one best-selling author, inspirational speaker, organizational psychologist, filmmaker, broadcast journalist, life balance coach, a retired professor, and lounge lizard, Dr. Marissa. The list of accomplishments goes on and on and this episode truly shows why.

As Dr. Marissa strongly believes, we were born to be happy. Happiness is a birthright that we have forgotten. Most of us go from being a worry-free kid who can truly enjoy life to being an adult who is constantly bombarded by trauma, pain, shame, and judgement. In fact, 7 out of 10 people have gone through some sort of past trauma that still haunts them in the present day. All of this gets in the way of our ability to truly be happy. 

So what can we do about this? We chose differently. We see what is causing us unhappiness and dis-ease, and we chose a new path, a new reality for ourselves. It all lies in the power of choice. A choice you make every single day to take the responsibility for your own happiness and reclaim your birthright.

This one is jam-packed with value. I promise you that. You will not want to miss this episode.

We hope you’ve found today’s episode of the Happy Productive Podcast inspiring. Every successful business is formed by a set of small, consistent, and attainable steps.

Visit Jennifer at jenniferdawncoaching.com to take your next step and learn how to meet your business goals.

Thank you for listening and stay tuned for Jennifer’s next episode.

In this super exciting episode, we are talking about our upcoming 4-day Retreat happening in Montana in May. This will be our Unbreakable retreat for business owners to get clarity, build confidence and push their limits. But this is more than just a business retreat, no no, it is so unique because we are combining business and life coaching with a Spartan race to top it all off!

If you’ve never heard of a Spartan race, it’s an obstacle course that’s become a huge part of my life. My sister Alesha got me into them, and from the moment I did one (and did not die), I was hooked. Last year I completed 12 Spartan Races, with the last 3 being a beast which are half marathons. Spartans have completely transformed my life, especially my mental toughness. And the amazing thing is that the tougher I’ve become physically, the more my business has grown. That is where the idea of the Unbreakable Retreat came from. 

I am joined by three special guests this episode, Adrienne Garland, founder of She Leads Media and marketing strategist, Julie Moses, our vision, goal and accountability coach, and Alesha Burkeen, our health and fitness coach and marketing manager (and my sister!). All of these ladies will join me at the Unbreakable Retreat in May – how exciting!

So join us in this episode where we will talk about our journeys that got us to where we are today (and the lessons we’ve learned), how pushing yourself physically spills over into other areas in your life in the best way possible, what you can expect with our upcoming Unbreakable Retreat and so much more. This one is jam packed – I promise!

We hope you’ve found today’s episode of the Happy Productive Podcast inspiring. Every successful business is formed by a set of small, consistent, and attainable steps.

Visit Jennifer at jenniferdawncoaching.com to take your next step and learn how to meet your business goals.

Thank you for listening and stay tuned for Jennifer’s next episode.

I am so super excited our podcast today, we are welcoming our guests, Sherria Reid. Our podcast is called, Unbreakable, and we are sharing stories. Women’s stories of things that they have gone through that have really, and truly helped them to become unbreakable. Today we get to share the experience with Sherria as she talks her a particular story where she faced a challenge that once she faced it, overcame it, and it helped her to become unbreakable. 

Sherria is a mom, a mom of a nine-year-old and a wife of 13 years. She has been in corporate America for several decades managing technical partnerships with a formal background, computer scientists and public health analyst. In 2017 she launched Butler Owens and Reid, a financial capital company. 

Sherria grew up in very humble beginnings. I was poor. I was raised by my grandmother and my mom and dad were both on drugs. I went to school, got my education, but somewhere along the path I recognized was that a lot of the trauma from my childhood was holding me down.

Listen in to find out how Sherria became unbreakable through a series of life events. . .

• by seeking help
• finding happiness in success
• life – work balance
• finding self-worth 

Sherria found herself breaking through the negative whirlwind to come out UNBREAKABLE! Her amazing story will inspire everyone second guessing decisions and living with past trauma. 

I find that sometimes the people with the biggest smiles on their face have had the most traumatic stories and had to have had to overcome the most. They choose to have a smile on their face. They have known that other side. 

We hope you’ve found today’s episode of the Happy Productive Podcast inspiring. Every successful business is formed by a set of small, consistent, and attainable steps.

Visit Jennifer at jenniferdawncoaching.com to take your next step and learn how to meet your business goals.

Thank you for listening and stay tuned for Jennifer’s next episode.

Farzad Rashidi, co-founder and lead innovator of Respona – a PR software that combines personalization with productivity – explains what he sees as the “correct” strategies to build quality SEO, or search engine optimization.

Getting yourself or your business to the top of Google search is not easy, and it takes a significant investment of time as well as novel strategies. Most importantly: spamming people should not be one of them. Farzad and Jennifer cut through the noise of misinformation and malpractice, delivering step-by-step guidance on how to build a foundation and then construct a tower of SEO success. The conversion spans on-page and off-page stages of SEO, SEO tools, keywords, a formula for prioritizing, understanding user intent to create content, and building connections with relevant subjects.

From speaking about the most common mistakes in his field to the importance of backlink building vs. content creation, Farzad shares gems for listeners, on their journey to becoming #1 on search engines. (Including the importance of being a podcast guest!)

SHOW NOTES:
🧠 Lead innovator of link-building outreach software. 01:02

 👉 Sales process depends on the product you have: which are the best channels for you? 02:15

 🤷‍♀️ Is SEO the right channel for you?  05:48

 🦗 When you hear only crickets instead of organic traffic: how to be #1 on Google. 08:59

 🤯 Huge organic traffic without spending a penny on paid ads. 10:05

 🕵️‍♀️ Two sides of SEO: keyword research and why a vote of popularity on Google is the most important metric. 13:46

⚗️️ The right formula: 20% of content creation and 80% promotional link building. 17:27

🔗 Outreach strategies on how to get backlinks to your site: competition in content creation is huge  20:39

🎙️️ One strategy explained: the importance of being a podcast guest.  22:49

💸 How Google prioritizes backlinks: purchasing backlinks is not working but some other strategies and tools are. 29:44

⚠️️ Hiring help with SEO: good content and backlinks are the magic combo, but timing matters, so watch out for the overly spread malpractice out there. 35:21

🤓 Farzad’s two-minute summary of SEO strategies. 40:80

🎯 Educate yourself, do things manually, and when you get a proof of concept, hire help. 44:12

 👉 Connect with Farzad: www.respona.com

 🆓 Find free resources: www.visme.co/best-graphic-design-books

 🌟 Connect with Jennifer: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com

We hope you’ve found today’s episode of the Happy Productive Podcast inspiring. Every successful business is formed by a set of small, consistent, and attainable steps.

Visit Jennifer at jenniferdawncoaching.com to take your next step and learn how to meet your business goals.

Thank you for listening and stay tuned for Jennifer’s next episode.
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