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59: Josh Elledge – Serving Breeds Success

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Josh Elledge joins us for an Uphill Conversation on the power of serving others and giving of oneself as a means to grow your business and achieve your dreams.

Josh Elledge is the Chief Executive Angel at SavingsAngel.com and helps consumers get discounts and upgrades on everything through his syndicated newspaper column with 1.1 million readers and on TV in 75 cities. He’s been in the media more than 1500 times. Josh now turns digital entrepreneurs into media celebrities at upendPR.com. Full bio here.

Show Notes:

  • How Josh used his journalism background, worked with local media, provided value to their audiences and SERVED
  • Spent less than $500 in advertising – “everything we do is through service and giving and providing value to audiences”
  • Feeling a moral imperative to help other business owners succeed
  • What holds you back: fear of judgment
  • Fear robs us from those things that we feel called to do
  • An early desire to join the US Navy and to be self-reliant translates to his passion to empower others to do the same
  • View money as a by-product, not as sole motivation
  • “Who do I get to serve to today?” versus “Who am I going to sell to today?”
  • Josh’s mission is to change the PR industry
  • Staying balanced/grounded means protecting yourself, saying no sometimes and surrounding yourself with great people.
  • Make investments that put you outside of your comfort zone
  • Best ways to grow your business:
    • 1. Network with influencers
    • 2. Serve large audiences
  • Not JUST serving, but INTENTIONAL serving
  • The importance of scheduling your priorities.

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INTRO AND OUTRO MUSIC (Used by permission):
Dreams Groove (© 2017 Tim Pecoraro)
Straight Drive (© 2017 Tim Pecoraro)
Uphill Conversations is an Uphill Strategies, LLC production
© 2017 Uphill Conversations

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58: Elizabeth Dulberger – Being a Guide: Give + Take

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Elizabeth Dulberger joins us for an Uphill Conversation on her entrepreneurial journey. She shares how, while she is a guide, she also learns from her clients.

An innovative and results-driven Leadership Advisor, Executive Coach, Professional Industry Speaker and Published Author, Elizabeth combines her passion and extensive industry knowledge to educate, train and motivate current and future leaders through her seminars, workshops, and industry events. Her unique, intuitive and no-nonsense approach to business and personal success has captured and inspired audiences clients across North America. Full bio here.

Show Notes:

  • Elizabeth’s road to entrepreneurship as a young woman
  • Entrepreneurial spirit is something Elizabeth believes we’re born with
  • Power in having strong vision of your capacity + where you want to go
  • Self-belief, self-awareness + emotional intelligence
  • Ego as an impediment to awareness: be direct, break, then uplift
  • As a coach, allowing yourself to be coached and learn from your clients
  • Human need to be appreciated, heard and understood
  • Importance of having empathy for others in our relationships
  • Sometimes people just need time + space to think + reflect
  • People must admit weaknesses and want help in order to change
  • Ask yourself, is what you desire hunger or a craving?
  • Having political awareness and savvy as you climb the ladder
  • How Liz invests and reinvests in herself: sponsor relationships
  • Liz’s Uphill climb, her goals, and optimism over the next 12 months

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Resources:

INTRO AND OUTRO MUSIC (Used by permission):
Dreams Groove (© 2017 Tim Pecoraro)
Straight Drive (© 2017 Tim Pecoraro)
Uphill Conversations is an Uphill Strategies, LLC production
© 2017 Uphill Conversations

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57: Camille Preston – Energy + Flow

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Camille Preston, PhD, PCC joins us for a conversation on igniting peak performance. We discuss energy, awareness and our capacity to create more flow.
Camille is a leadership expert. She understands where people are, what is happening to them, and how to be their best selves most quickly. Camille specializes in helping people unlock their capacity for excellence, action, and impact. Her clients learn to lead—and live—better. A psychologist by training, Camille is masterful in recognizing underlying patterns that inhibit performance.  She works with individuals and teams to identify specific actions they can take to amplify impact. In 2008, she identified the negative impact of technology and was on the front edge of the tech mindfulness movement with her book Rewired.  Full bio here.
Show Notes:
  • Igniting peak performance through awareness, perspective + planning
  • There is incredible energy in emotion
  • Presence and harnessing the power of past peak performance
  • Impact of experiencing and discovering your flow
  • Importance of realizing and embracing your own success formulas
  • Develop resources + relationships that boost your energy
  • Disciplines to deal with depletion, capacity, margin + proximity
  • Our tendency to be reactive instead of creative
  • Controlling access and ability to tap into energy sources
  • Benefits of proactively feeding into your soul and well-being
  • Allowing for space/margin to think deeply and deal with unexpected
  • Camille’s definition of bandwidth in an overwired world
  • Flow enhances creativity and drastically improves productivity
  • Thoughtful preparation is necessary to achieve desired outcomes: be clear on the outcome, but flexible on the approach
  • Maintaining impact through collaboration + empowerment
  • How Camille “dreams into people” and continues on her journey uphill
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Resources:

INTRO AND OUTRO MUSIC (Used by permission):
Dreams Groove (© 2017 Tim Pecoraro)
Straight Drive (© 2017 Tim Pecoraro)
Uphill Conversations is an Uphill Strategies, LLC production
© 2017 Uphill Conversations

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9: YP Perspective – Know Yourself, Be Open + Discover Your Dreams

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An entrepreneur, marketer, coach, and brewery co-founder Nicole Cendrowski joins us for a fabulous conversation on dreams and taking advantage of opportunities.

Show Notes:

  • Nicole’s journey from college to brewing beer
  • The beer brewing landscape in the Southeast
  • Being open to what life brings your way
  • Remember that what’s right for you may not be right for someone else
  • Being okay with going against the advice of others
  • Don’t let your age or gender affect decisions to pursue something new
  • Facing your fears head on and being brave
  • Develop yourself through education to build wisdom
  • Fewer barriers to entry with rise of technology and access
  • Importance of not only envisioning you dream, but also taking the next steps and moving ideas into action – you’ve got to work for it
  • Create habits that you don’t want to break
  • Don’t lose the joy in your journey
  • Fun contest / giveaway with Fireforge once they are open!
  • Nicole’s advice to the next generation, to someone starting out: “Be very careful who you share your dream … stay positive and just go for it. If you’re waiting for an endorsement or stamp of approval, you’re not going to get it.”

Guest Bio – By day, Nicole helps industry leaders formulate impactful marketing, sales, and client care strategies through one-on-one coaching, training and consulting. 
She’s also the director of engagement for A-LINE Interactive, a work-hard, play-hard web development and digital marketing firm that works with fun companies and non-profit organizations across the Carolinas. By night, Nicole is the co-founder of Fireforge Crafted Beer, a brewery-in-planning in Greenville, SC. Fireforge exists to give people a place that ignites their spirit of adventure and exploration.

Connect with Nicole:

Resources / References:

INTRO AND OUTRO MUSIC (Used by permission):
© 2017 UCYP Theme written and arranged by Luke Pecoraro all rights reserved.
© 2017 UCYP (Uphill Conversations Young Professionals) (UCYP is an Uphill Strategies, LLC production)

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55: Damion Lupo – Reinvention + Finding the Edge

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Self-described rule breaker and system disrupter Damion Lupo joins us for a conversation on reinvention, relationship, impact, and finding the edge.

A financial transformation thought leader, Damion is a born entrepreneur with his first business at age 11, he’s started and sold dozens since, ranging from insurance to real estate and personal development.  Founder of his own martial art, Yokido ™, and holder of 3 other black belts.  Damion paid for his first rental house with a VISA, bought 150 houses in 7 states over next 5 years and then went through a $20,000,000 meltdown in 2008.  Today he runs a FinTech dedicated to Disrupting the Wall Street Monopoly by getting people off the Wall Street Roller Coaster and in control of their financial future using alternative assets. Damion is the author of 5 books and has two more being released in 2017.

Show Notes:

  • Being an “Edge-case,” rule breaker, and system-disrupter
  • We must experience pain to push us to and through change
  • Seeing gifts as not just opportunities, but as responsibilities
  • Danger of outsourcing your thinking
  • Tendency to change external without addressing the underlying internal issues
  • Honoring the truth and stepping into it
  • Damion’s 6 Words
  • Be intentional in who you surround yourself with: relationship is everything
  • First, second and third order consequences
  • Improving awareness by asking yourself tough questions and acknowledging actual results
  • People will fight to be right, even when they are wrong, to avoid acknowledging their own weaknesses
  • Presence and earning your passion
  • Disrupting Wallstreet by empowering Main Street – “Stop smoking ‘hopium’.”
  • How Damion invests in himself and his recent Uphill Challenge
  • Each of us is the CEO of our own life
  • The ability to hold space

Connect with Damion:

References: 

INTRO AND OUTRO MUSIC (Used by permission):
Dreams Groove (© 2017 Tim Pecoraro)
Straight Drive (© 2017 Tim Pecoraro)

Uphill Conversations is an Uphill Strategies, LLC production
© 2017 Uphill Conversations

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