good ideas

A special guest on the show today! Multi-bestselling author Darynda Jones and I discuss ideas, how to know which ones are good and have staying power, and how to continue to grow as writers. 

You can find Darynda here https://darynda.com/ The photo (not discussed during the podcast) is Darynda's extensive wardrobe of jackets. Notice a theme?

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How you know when your creativity is flowing, which story ideas have enough juice to sustain a novel or series, and how to handle those New Shiny ideas when you have other works in progress to focus on.

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THE LONG NIGHT OF THE RADIANT STAR, a midwinter holiday fantasy romance in the Heirs of Magic series, now available!! https://jeffekennedy.com/the-long-night-of-the-radiant-star

SHADOW WIZARD, Book One in Renegades of Magic, continuing the epic tale begun in DARK WIZARD. https://jeffekennedy.com/shadow-wizard is out now! Including in audiobook!

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Looking at some of my metrics for the year and the implications. Also a discussion of ideas for writing, how it's different for newbie writers, how you know if an idea is good, and how to keep track of ideas.

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THE LONG NIGHT OF THE RADIANT STAR, a midwinter holiday fantasy romance in the Heirs of Magic series, now available!! https://jeffekennedy.com/the-long-night-of-the-radiant-star

SHADOW WIZARD, Book One in Renegades of Magic, continuing the epic tale begun in DARK WIZARD. https://jeffekennedy.com/shadow-wizard is out now! Including in audiobook!

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When Kelley Higney moved to Florida, she knew she’d face some challenges: She was a young mother in a new state. She was in a new house in a new town. But there was one problem she didn’t expect: her daughter’s severe reactions to mosquito bites. Higney would watch helplessly as her six-month-old daughter’s limbs would swell just minutes after being bitten. After trying everything she could – every ointment, every gimmick – Higney knew she was going to have to find an answer on her own. She did some research, and found an answer in a strange little tube: a suction tool that could pull the venom and saliva out of the bite, stopping the allergic reaction before it even had the chance to start. 

“I started testing with just this one little sample I had purchased on friends and family,” Higney said. “Everybody was getting similar reactions and that's when I'm like, okay, maybe I'm onto something. So I was able to get in touch with the factory. I pitched them my idea. I told them that every mom and everybody that was suffering here needed to know about this product because it's, it was life-changing for me and my family.”

So how did Kelley take a quest to help her daughter and turn it into a powerhouse company with products in 25,000 retailers and 25 different countries? Find out on this week’s episode of The Journey.

Main Takeaways:

• Don’t Be Afraid to Start Small: Good ideas rarely explode overnight, and good entrepreneurs know the value of a slower start. Most businesses need to grow and evolve slowly, and it’s an entrepreneur's job to find customers whoever and wherever possible, even if it means pitching and selling at a local market or your child’s school functions.
• Surround Yourself with People Who Can Help You Grow: Regardless of when or if your business takes off, you need to have a network of people to lean on and learn from. Find people you admire — even within your own family — and tap into them for advice, feedback, or support to take your business to the next level.
• Protect Your Product: Good ideas and successful products will always be met with copycats. To ensure that those imitators don’t steal your market share, do your homework and take the steps necessary to protect yourself.

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This season of the Journey is produced by Mission.org and brought to you by UPS. To learn how UPS can help your small business, go to UPS.com/pivot.

On protecting early drafts and new story ideas from the wrong critics - and why I compare it to shaken baby syndrome - evaluating and remembering ideas, and why the proliferation of plot bunnies can be a good sign.

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Optimism!!!! LOVE??? SUNDAY VIBES!

Chris Trapper has been writing songs since he was a kid. Now he is getting somewhere. The optimism and determination you hear in his songs is real, and it's taking him places. He and I talk about songwriting, optimism, and love. He thinks all are these are good ideas- and we almost agree on everything.

Includes the songs Don't Let your Sunday (Own your Monday), Look What the Wind Blew In, and a couple of other great songs.

Episode 162: Building a Measuring Stick

On this episode, we are joined by Chris Cooper to talk about building a measuring stick for ideas! All of us are surrounded by a million great ideas. The challenge we have on a daily basis is dealing with sorting through all these ideas and choosing the right tasks to focus on. The biggest job we have as mentors is to help you filter these ideas, take action on them and execute them until they are done. Today we talk about the process to do this and how we recommend you do it at Two Brain!

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Links:

https://www.amazon.com/Anything-You-Want-Lessons-Entrepreneur/dp/1511366079

Timeline:

2:34 – Introduction to Building a Measuring Stick

3:48 – How does Two Brain grow from user input?

5:35 – You can do anything but you can’t do everything

7:53 – The importance of the roles and tasks exercise

12:02 – The best way to approach new ideas in your business

15:55 – Overloading your business with too much software

18:00 – The hierarchy of questions to ask yourself when choosing between ideas

23:06 – Testing your idea for an appropriate amount of time

29:30 – Some examples of important metrics within your affiliate

What do you give a man who has it all? Trick question! You don't give him anything. You take it away and make him start over, rebuilt in the #SNOTBOYZ image. Look out Elon, we're going to turn you from Bruce Wayne billionaire playboy into George Clooney wearing a rubber nipple suit Batman!

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A special thanks this week to the Oracle of Omaha for being a loving husband to two wives.

This episode we tackle John Kramer, AKA the Jigsaw killer. Star of Saw, Saw 2, Saw 3, Saw 4, Saw 5, Saw 6, and the titular character in Jigsaw. Here are some choice excerpts from his wikipedia entry:

"By Saw III, John is on his death bed and extremely concerned over whether or not Amanda has what it takes to continue his legacy, as the traps she designs are inescapable."

"After explaining that this is Jeff's final test of forgiveness, Jeff slices John's throat with a power saw."

"Saw IV opens with John's autopsy, during which a wax-coated tape is found in his stomach."

"More flashbacks set prior to the events of the first film reveal that John targeted health insurance executive William Easton for one of his games, because he had denied two-thirds of all applicants health coverage, due to a flawed policy, including John himself."

Cool right?

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A special thanks this week to all of our accomplices.

Grab yourself some hot chocolate and join us by the fire at the base of K2 for a "typical campfire scenario." The scariest part of this episode is the way James uses a sleeping bag.

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A special thanks this week to all the teenagers who have died to maintain suspense.

"Down vith children! Do them in!
Boil their bones and fry their skin!
Bish them, sqvish them, bash them, mash them!
Brrreak them, shake them, slash them, smash them!"
-Roald Dahl

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A special thanks this week to all the children dressing up as witches for Halloween, please don't turn us into trolls.

Hello boils and ghouls, and welcome to another episode of Bats Not Howl I’d Boo It, the podcast where we find the spookiest problems in the world today, argue over what went wrong, and make them even scarier!

Today, we take tour of a haunted house and see if we can afford the MORGUE-age. If not we may need to look in a more affordable SLAY-borhood! Hee hee hee hee hee!!!

This week we'd like to apologize to Sam's brother-in-law, Greg.

The Snot Boyz are back (alright!), and also want you back, as long as you don't go breaking our snotty little hearts by saying bye bye bye. This week we look into what a boy band marketed to 30-somethings would be like. Spoiler: amazing.

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A special thanks this week to original boy band, those boys with the lovable mop-tops: The Beatles.

Today we celebrate Labor Day by waking up late, dropping our kids off to school, and burning down the Walton family yacht. Happy Labor Day!

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A special thanks this week to all you cute little laborers. Now quit dillydallying and get back to work!

Dear Sir or Madam,

Apologies for the delay in getting this podcast to you. For the past month, we've been stuck in a "quick morning meeting." Please see attached for the bullet points.

Sincerely,

THE SNOTBOYZ

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A special thanks this week to the mail room, for handling James's package(s).

Welcome to a very sensual and erotic episode of the podcast. The one that puts the "Do It" in "That's Not How I'd Do It." And by "do it" we mean sex. This one really gets the juices flowing guys. Go ahead and draw a bath, light a candle, put your earbuds in, and prepare to listen to the Snotboyz and their guest Leslie Jones talk about the sex lives of seahorses. Boi-oi-oi-oi-ing! Ooh Papi!

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A special thanks this week to clams.

Never know how much I love you /
Never know how much I care /
When you put your net around me /
I get a world cup fever that's so hard to bear /

You give me fever /
When you kick me /
Fever when you dribble me tight /
Fever /
In the scoring, a fever all through the IT'S WORLD CUP TIME AND I'VE GOT THE FEVER SWEATS!

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A special thanks this week to our favorite face biter out there: Luis Suarez. Buena suerte.

Happy Father's Day!

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A special thanks this week to our wonderful dads. We promise to take out the trash right after this episode.

We miss you, Mike.

Sometimes we talk about things that aren't funny.

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A special thanks this week to the gun control activists who are actually fighting for some real change in the world.