Camille Adair has developed a unique approach to coaching and consulting, informed by her experience working with people related to life and death as a hospice nurse, educator and health care leader.  Over the years she has developed a practice that allows her to serve as a guide, facilitator and mentor in accessing one's inner wisdom and healing and in leading groups toward organizational health.  

Certified in emotional intelligence and family constellation work, with formal training in mindfulness practice, Camille has synthesized these modalities into a blended approach providing a resource-rich, individualized framework for her clients. 

The best way to save on healthcare costs is to stay healthy. Since most physical problems are the result of poor lifestyle choices, you have the ability to stave off chronic problems and serious dis-ease by making different choices. In this episode, I discuss some of the alternatives to traditional allopathic medicine.

After working in traditional financial firms since 2007 and then going to work for a NY start-up Sophia Bera decided to quit her job to launch her own firm, Gen Y Planning. Now, she’s location independent and is the top Google search for “Financial Planner for Millennials.”

Sophia’s been quoted in The New York Times, Forbes, Business Insider, AOL, The Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine and more. She was recently named one of “10 Young Advisors to Watch” by Financial Advisor Magazine and one of the “Top 40 Under 40” by InvestmentNews.

In this episode Joan Sotkin talks about the one decision you have to make in order to get unstuck and move forward, to take your business to another level, or to reach a specific goal.

After leaving a full-time job with Apple Retail, Zephan Blaxberg had a series of interesting experiences before he started his podcast, the Year of Purpose, early this year. He interviews entrepreneurs and experts all over the globe who are living a life on their own terms, which is exactly what he’s doing – and I’ll let him fill in the details.

Awfulizing is a term coined by psychologist Albert Ellis. It refers to an irrational and dramatic thought pattern, characterized by the tendency to overestimate the potential seriousness or negative consequences of events, situations, or perceived threats. Joan Sotkin gives tips and suggestion on how to stop Awfulizing. 

Jennifer Lipski is the co-creator of the online community network, MyMetaWorld: Inner Wisdom in Community. She has been working in health and wellness in different capacities. She is a published writer, public speaker, avid home cook and animal advocate with a BS in Technical & Science Communications and is currently completing her MA in Transpersonal Psychology.

Can You Really Easily Make Money Online? I recently received an email with the subject, “Can you create a 50K a month Webinar?” Of course, the copy said you can. This kind of over-the-top claim is rarely true. I’ve been doing tele-classes and webinars for 12 years and have been doing business online for 20, so I think I can give you a realistic overview of the potential for earning money online.

When I first got online 20 years ago, I knew the Internet was the future.

Story Telling and Solo Performance

Tanya Taylor Rubinstein, www.TheSoloPerformanceCoach.com,  is one of the world’s premier Solo Performance Coaches and Directors. Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, she works with actors, writers and other creative people to create outstanding One-Person Shows that are performed at theaters, festivals and conferences world wide. Her work has been featured in O The Oprah Magazine, where it was called “a gift and a necessity,” on NPR, in BackStage and on CBS (The Early Show). She is also the co-editor of the book The Cancer Monologue Project.

I’ve come to believe that the outcomes of our life stories are the result of our habitual thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and behaviors, many of which develop in early childhood.

Your emotions act as a bridge between your internal and external worlds.

My guest today is Jim Bouchard. Through his life in martial arts, Jim transformed himself from dropout, drug abuser and failure to successful entrepreneur and Black Belt.

Now as a business speaker, trainer and author of THINK Like a BLACK BELT and THE SENSEI LEADER, Jim is in demand internationally touring and speaking to corporate and conference audiences. He appears regularly on TV and radio including such programs as BBC Worldview and FOX

How Your Childhood Experience of Touch Influences Your Business and Finances 

In past episodes, I’ve talked about the need for connection and how that need often leads to bad decision making. In this episode, I take the idea a step farther and examine how our need for touch can affect our business and our finances, especially when it comes to under-earning.

Jeffrey Goodman has long history of business successes including life as a fashion/advertising photographer and then developing a very successful private practice in energy medicine which he formed a long waiting list of clients within his first 3 months of starting his business.

Jeffrey was born a visionary with a very rare and unique ability to see the invisible patterns of nature and life. His compassionate guidance has helped thousands of people from all over the world discover their own health and powerful abilities both personally and professionally. He has also been mentoring and advising practitioners on creating business success for over a decade.

Expanding Our World by Tapping into Other Dimensions

Today, I’m sharing a story that will set the foundation for talking about developing your inner resources and getting in touch with who you really are, which is something that really interests me. In the episode I talk about the time, 40 years ago, when I was first contacted by what I thought was a being in another dimension. I’ve since learned that it was another dimension of myself.

When I saw the name of my guest’s book, I knew I wanted to talk to Dawn Fotopolus whose new book is Accounting for the Numberphobic: A survival Guide for Small Business Owners.

Dawn is the associate professor of business at The King’s College and the founder of BestSmallBizHelp.com, an award-winning blog dedicated to helping struggling solopreneurs. As an experienced entrepreneur and small-business turnaround expert she has rescued hundreds of small business from financial disaster. Dawn has led an accomplished 20-year career in business, working as a serial entrepreneur, vice-president at Citigroup and Wall Street trader. Fotopulos is a certified facilitator in the Kauffman FastTrac Program, and is a CEO leader for the Job Creators Network. An expert in her field, she has been featured on MSNBC’s “Your Business,” at the New York Times Small Business Summit and in Forbes.

One of the questions I get most often is, “Why can’t I reach my income potential?” In today’s episode I discuss some of the factors that can lead to what might be considered under earning, with a focus on expectations that develop in early childhood that affect your financial outcomes.

How Simplifying Can Give Your Life Meaning and Purpose.

Joel Zaslofsky is the host of the Smart and Simple Matters Podcast and the curator and simplifier behind Value of Simple and the SimpleREV movement. In March 2012, two years after his personal renaissance shook him awake, he quit his cushy corporate job to help people simplify, organize, and be money wise. When he’s not enjoying nature, making his wife smile, or playing with his two young sons, he’s living intentionally, being Paleo, and Experience Curating.

Finding My Right Professional Description

In this episode, I share the process I’m going through trying to find the right “label” for the work I do. Our culture requires that we call ourselves something, but sometimes, that’s hard to pinpoint in a few words.

I also look at the emotion of sorrow, which is often passed down through generations.

One of the First Prosperity Teachers Is Back!

I was first introduced to Jerry Gillies in the early 1980s when I read his book Money Love, which was one of the first prosperity books. He has now published an updated version, Money Love 3.0.

Along with his thoughts about prosperity, Jerry shares the story of why he had to spend 12 years in prison in order to find what really matters to him.

Quieting the Critical Voice in Your Head

Recently I was listening to someone who is really successful at what he does and was surprised to hear that he still deals with a lot of negative self-talk. So, I thought this is a good time to talk about that critical voice in your head and how to replace it with something more productive.

Doing a better job of Stacking Benjamins Joe Saul-Sehy is the co-host of the award winning magazine-style podcast Stacking Benjamins. Joe and his partner OG cover a wide range of financial topics and talk to interesting guests live from Joe’s parent’s basement.

Before Stacking Benjamins, Joe was a financial advisor for 16 years and spokesperson in the media for Ameriprise Financial. He’s been quoted in publications ranging from the Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, Chicago Sun Times, and magazines like Bride, Best Life and Child. He was the Detroit ABC television affiliate, WXYZ’s Money Man for nine years, appearing twice weekly on the news. While he knows about finance, he’s also always on the lookout for someone to pay his twin’s college tuition bill.

Raising Your Personal Energy

In this episode Joan Sotkins talk about how the energy you generate affects your business and personal outcomes, and I offer suggestions to increasing the positive energy flow through your body-mind. If you want to change what you are drawing into your life, take a look at your thoughts, emotions, food and sleep habits, and your surroundings.

Affluence: Alison Pena was born into a wealthy family, rubbing elbows with millionaires, blind to any other reality. My eyes were opened by a friend who grew up in Harlem. This observation got her wondering… Why does money have so much to do with our view of what’s possible?

Over time, she realized that this view – limitless opportunity, limitless possibility – wasn’t about money. It was about affluence. She now sees existing affluence everywhere, accessible by choice.

Alison’s passion is teaching entrepreneurs to step into the time, money and freedom they desire.

Use Money As a Tool for Personal Growth:

In this episode I talk about how our money beliefs and emotions are mirrors of what we believe and how we feel about ourselves. I also give suggestions that you can use to use money to grow and expand on a personal level.

Annemarie Cross, a Money, Marketing, & Mindset Business Coach and inspiring speaker based in Melbourne, Australia works with clients from across the globe. Her passion is to help women entrepreneurs (especially coaches and consultants) and executives design and launch powerful online and offline marketing strategies so they can finally get noticed, hired and paid what they’re worth.

Annemarie is also the Co-Founder of CoachesConnectionAcademy.com – THE Business Building Community & Membership Program Globally for Coaches to Connect, Learn and Grow.

Her podcast, Ambitious Entrepreneur, was listed in the top 25 Business podcasts for Entrepreneurs by Entrepreneur.com and other podcasts lists.

Effective Connecting for Success in Business
In today’s episode I continue sharing my ideas about the importance of  connection and offer some suggestions for getting out of your own way so you can connect to others and counter feelings of aloneness you may have.

We all need and crave connection and having a good support system and community is essential.

My guest today is Jim Palmer who is a marketing and business-building expert and in-demand coach. He is the founder of the Dream Biz Academy and Dream Business Coaching and Mastermind Program.  Jim is the host of Newsletter Guru TV, the hit weekly web tv show watched by thousands of entrepreneurs and small business owners, and he is also the host of Stick Like Glue Radio, a weekly podcast based on Jim’s unique brand of smart marketing and business building strategies. Jim is best known internationally as the Newsletter Guru and creator of No Hassle Newsletters, the ultimate “done-for-you” newsletter marketing program used by hundreds of clients in nine countries.

Jim’s latest book is called Decide.

In today’s episode Joan Sotkin talks about the human need for connection, how it manifests through behaviors such as compulsive debting, overspending, excessive drinking, gambling, etc. Understanding this need for connection can help you build your business and market your services.

Reprogramming Your Subconscious to Lose Weight, Alter Financial Behaviors and More 

Asher Fox is a pioneer in the integration of several fields of study into a comprehensive therapeutic approach that creates rapid and lasting improvements in the lives of his clients where prior forms of therapy and treatment proved ineffective. His approach simultaneously addresses the subconscious, conscious and environmental levels of human behavior in a way that creates generative change and lasting life-long results.

Although he specializes in working with people with weight-loss issues, we talk about how his techniques can be used for altering unproductive financial behaviors.

Comparing Yourself to Others and Taking Things Personally
In today’s episode, I talk about two things that follow the “Courage to Be You” theme and can keep you stuck where you are. They are comparing yourself to others and taking things personally. Understanding these can help you  improve your self-esteem develop a success identity.

The power of story in Business - Sales and Marketing
Aprille Janes has many years of experience as a business consultant in corporate, but she left the corporate life and now works as a small business coach, speaker, and host of the Bolder Business Podcast. Her favorite focus is helping purpose-driven entrepreneurs leverage the power of story for sales and marketing so they can stand out, become memorable, and close more business.

Finding the courage to tell you who I am Joan Sotkin
Like many of you, I have managed to find a way to seem “normal” in a world where there really is no normal. Now, it’s time for me to modify the proper business woman persona I have developed and let the playful, creative part of me come out. I hope you’ll join me and let your “real” self express itself.

Indigo Ocean Dutton is a prolific entrepreneur, social innovator and author. She is founder of Awaken Business Consulting, Aspiratech, and the Phone Buddies Online Peer Counseling Community. She is also the author of "Being Bliss" and “Micro Habits for Major Happiness.” The Awaken motto is, "Transform your business, transform your life," because Indigo believes that the work we do in the world is an integral part of our path of spiritual awakening.  

Today I talk about a problem faced by many entrepreneurs – income that goes up and down - Income ups and downs. Because entrepreneurs are an optimistic bunch, they often think, during the up times, that there won’t be another down and they don’t plan on the income cycles. 

My guest today is Kathleen Gage, who has been doing business on the internet for many years - an internet marketer. She’s the author of Power Up for Profits: The Smart Woman’s Guide to Online Marketing and her mission is to inspire you to live fully, play full out, generate great revenue, and leave a lasting legacy.

On the day we changed our clocks in the U.S., I gave a talk at a gathering in Santa Fe about how people are often affected by change. My question for the group was, “What have you not done that you wanted to do because you were afraid of the consequences of making a big change?”   

Rev. Karen Russo is Your Spiritual Guide in Wealth.  She’s the award-winning author of The Money Keys: Unlocking Peace, Freedom and Real Financial Power, endorsed by her teachers Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith, Loral Langemeier, T. Harv Eker, and Katherine Woodward Thomas with a forward by Bob Proctor.  Karen contributed a featured chapter to Sharon Lechter’s Think and Grow Rick for Women.

With her unusual blend of experience as an MBA from Columbia University, an accomplished corporate trainer, top selling salesperson, and an ordained interfaith minister, Karen shares insights from over 25 years of spiritual and secular success. 

The Prosperity Show is about building your professional practice from the inside out. Developing your inner awareness and focusing on your own physical and emotional health makes it much easier to express yourself authentically and profitably through your business and professional practice.

Today I take a look at two questions on topics raised by listeners - 1. The time it takes to change your financial identity and 2. Why it is so important to express emotions. Time and emotions.

Jordan E. Goodman is “America’s Money Answers Man” and a nationally-recognized expert on personal finance. He is a regular guest on numerous radio and television call-in shows across the country, answering questions on personal financial topics. He appears frequently on The View, Fox News Network, Fox Business Network, CNN, CNBC and CBS evening news.

For 18 years, Jordan was on the editorial staff of Money magazine, where he served as Wall Street correspondent. While at Money, he reported and wrote on virtually every aspect of personal finance. In addition, he served as weekly financial analyst on NBC News at Sunrise for 9 years and the daily business news commentator on Mutual Broadcasting System’s America in the Morning show for 8 years.

If you suffer from chronic or ongoing debt, you’ll want to listen to this episode.

I was a compulsive debtor and have had a lot of experience dealing with debt. In this episode I talk about how my family background set the stage for my debting, including when my father went bankrupt. I also offer some insight into how you might be using debt to express habitual emotions.

Stacey Couch, CSP, CAC has dedicated her life to nurturing the sacred bond between humans and nature. She works as a publicist and journalist for Mother Nature, empowering people with the ability to form a real connection with their own souls.

In this episode she talks about her experience living alone on an island where she developed a relationship with a family of hawks and other birds. Her book, Gracious Wild, is about this experience.

The Prosperity Show is About building your professional practice from the inside out. Developing your inner awareness and focusing on your own physical and emotional health makes it much easier to express yourself authentically and profitably through your business and professional practice.

This is the second episode of my new series where I am staying true to my theme of the courage to be you.  In these episodes I get a little more personal and share what is going on with me. I invite you to leave your questions, stories and comments.  Being vulnerable - If one other person shares at the level of your feelings we do not feel so alone. 

Today's topic - Financial Transitions.

Psychotherapist and Difficult Conversations Expert Rachel Alexandria teaches corporate climbers and business owners how to get clear of their care-taking and conflict-avoidance and start leading the brilliant lives they are meant to live. Trusted by clients and fans as a therapist who walks her talk, Rachel helps visionaries and peace-seekers find their emotional center in the midst of inner turmoil. Through her proven methods, women learn how to recognize the warning signs of inner panic, create easy-to-remember strategies and declare themselves as powerful collaborators and leaders.

The Prosperity Show examines a holistic approach to building a business or professional practice. In this episode, Joan Sotkin talks about Sustainability in terms of your business and your self. 

Patti Keating is the Founder of The Entrepreneur Unleashed and the host of The Entrepreneur Unleashed Podcast. She’s a Mentor and Strategist for purpose driven entrepreneurs and she has created money, mindset and business breakthroughs for thousands of people, resulting in millions of dollars. 

Dr. Joe Vitale is the author of way too many bestselling  books to mention here. Some of them include The Attractor Factor, Life's Missing Instruction Manual, The Key,

Faith, Attract Money Now and his latest is a sequel to his bestseller, Zero Limits which was officially launched in January 2014, entitled At Zero. Stay tuned for his soon to be released book, The Secret Prayer!

Joe has also been in several movies, including the blockbuster The Secret. He's been on the following TV shows: Larry King Live, Donny Deutsch's “The Big Idea,” CNN, CNBC, CBS, ABC, Fox News: Fox & Friends and Extra TV. He's also been featured in The New York Times and Newsweek.

Michael Angier, is the Chief Inspiration Officer of Successnet.org, which is based in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. He’s also the author of three books, including his most resent, The Achievement Code. He has been featured in many print publications, has appeared many times on radio and television, and he also sits on the Advisory Board for the Business School of Kaiser University.

Robert Riopel today has an inspiring story. Today he travels around the world helping hundreds of thousands of people find their passions  and financial freedom. But not that long ago, he was over $150,000 in debt and then, after one defining moment, turned his life around and was able to retire financially free 9 months later. 

Joan Sotkin talks about your physical and emotional health affect the outcomes of your business. Your business is an extension of you. How much better could your business be doing if you were living a very healthy lifestyle?

What steps are you willing to take in order to build a stronger business? What steps are you willing to take in order to build a stronger you?