build relationships

Taking the time to help those in need never goes unnoticed. Today we are here with a special guest, Alana Epstein from MVP Pediatric and Urgent Care, whose heart of gold is helping children and their parents through pediatric care and psychotherapy. Alana believes positive mental health is one of the most important aspects a human can possess. She is spreading her word to help with mental illness and pediatric care. She also is no stranger to pulling up her sleeves and figuring out creative ways to build the foundation for her business.  

Highlights

• Running a business is a lot about learning. It’s a journey.
• Starting a business demands a lot of previous data collection.
• Why you shouldn’t focus on how many people are on the same business as you, but instead why should you focus on what you can provide to your clients that is useful, relevant and different. 
• Marketplace is unpredictable, focus on your mission and do the best as you can.
• Embrace the opportunity to build relationships with your clients important and how to make a personal connection with them. 
• Why the stigma of mental health needs to be eradicated from society.

To learn more about Alana: 

Website: https://mvppediatric.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mvppediatricurgentcare/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mvp_pediatric

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mvppediatric/ 

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Active listening is much more than just inserting "yeah" or "okay" at regular intervals in a conversation. Active listening also means listening with respect, with engagement, and listening with your whole body. Thinking before you speak. Creating connections with people and helping to ensure that they don't leave a conversation with you feeling bad about it, or about you. Join me in Season 2 Episode 10 while I talk about active listening, what it is, the attributes of a good listener, and some tiny tactics you can employ to make yourself a better listener. 

Remember that Season 3 starts on February 26. There won't be a podcast on the 19th - try not to miss me too much!  

Referenced in this episode:

• What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter: https://amzn.to/2Nx1Sjt [affiliate link]
• How Women Rise by Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith: https://amzn.to/2NBeYw8 [affiliate link]

Marshall Goldsmith's Tiny Tactics (https://www.marshallgoldsmith.com/articles/the-skill-that-separates/):

• Listen. 
• Don’t interrupt. 
• Don’t finish the other person’s sentences. 
• Don’t say, “I knew that.” 
• Don’t even agree with the other person. If he praises you, just say thank you. 
• Don’t use the words “no,” “but,” and “however.” 
• Don’t let your eyes wander elsewhere while the other person is talking.
• Maintain your end of the dialogue by asking intelligent questions that show you’re paying attention, move the conversation forward, and require the person to talk (while you listen).

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- Enjoy Your Heartbreak (Sting Version) by Martin Hall

Happy 2020! The new year is here and in an effort to stretch ourselves this year, we're looking at what's in our backpacks that we want to unload. From family relationships to failed relationships, there's a lot we have to let go of if we're going to continue to grow. Join us to see if you identify with anything we're talking about! What's in YOUR backpack?

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Episode 70 of the Marketing Lyfe Podcast covers creating conversation, building relationships, and selling them! This is important because creating conversation and building relationships are what help your business. Here are the topics we will cover in this podcast:
 
Create A Conversation
Build Relationships
How Can You Build Relationships In Your Content?

1. Be Authentic In Your Videos
2. Lead Magnets or Free Items
3. Remarketing Ads

Building a Relationship Takes Time
Sell Them
An Analogy to Dating
Conclusion

Relationships - not necessarily the ones you have with your significant other - are hard! They have a huge influence on our success at work and in life. I try to learn everything I can about how to build stronger, more meaningful relationships from everyone I can, and here are five of the best tips I have. Here's to building stronger relationships!

See the blog post at: https://www.coffeegritandinspiration.com/s1-e8-5-tips-for-building-stronger-relationships

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Have a great week!

Joel is the CEO of a start up that uses technology to inspire people to make "giving a habit," but companies need to see how "doing good" and business are intricately intertwined. I help Joel get to a solution by seeing his situation less about conflict and more about connections.

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Imagine with me for a moment...

You are surrounded by complete strangers in a room where everyone seems to know everyone else, chatting merrily and exchanging business cards. You however, are clinging to the bar taking in your surroundings and people watching, studying each of the different cliques starting to form and hedging your bets on where you may best fit in. As time ticks by (and all your networking opportunities) you find yourself hoping that some kind extraverted soul takes pity on you and comes over to chat while simultaneously wishing you were ANYWHERE else but here. You’ve finally worked up the nerve and unclench your hands from the bar as you walk over and attempt to introduce yourself to the group of strangers you’ve been watching for the past 20 minutes. 

As you stand there barely eking out your name, business, and short elevator pitch, you suddenly feel all those sets of eyes staring at you and go red in the face. You fall silent as you begin to worry about your next attempt at the perfect professional, engaging, or witty comment. You listen to the group as they chat with each other for a few minutes and end up silently ghosting the discussion, heading back to the bar for a bit of recovery. The process repeats 3 or 4 more times (on a good day) as networking slowly sucks the life out of you and every single interaction leads zaps energy until you’ve had enough and head home. 

If you are an introvert, you know the unspeakable horror of of networking. What seems like an innocent evening of meeting new people and simple conversation suddenly becomes a painful and torturous ordeal. There’s a different set of rules for introverts if you want to make the most of networking. I’ve gotten much better at playing the game but it’s taken me a long time to learn how to effectively network as an introvert. 

Much of my own networking success was from fantastic advice and tips from my podcast producer Doug Howard. He is a master of networking, genuinely loves people, and is a true extrovert in every sense of the word…but his advice to introverts isn’t what you’d expect. 

Join us as we discuss the differences between networking styles, tips specifically for introverts, and how you can use your strengths to make the most of your networking experiences. So stay tuned for my interview with “introvert whisperer” Doug Howard on this episode - Networking For Introverts: Expert Tips from An Extrovert.