melanie colling

In this episode I talk with Melanie Colling. Melanie is a podcaster, a best-selling author, and the business owner of Purpose Driven Projects.  With her business partner Brett Jarman she is also the co-founder of Experts on Air.

She moved to Bali with her family to pursue her love of connecting with people but in her own words “After 7 months, I was voted off the island by my family.”

She is also a Certified Project Management Professional with over 20 years project management experience.

She’s worked on multi million dollar projects throughout her career for companies such as NAB, Telstra, BP Oil, Medibank, SA Health, Origin Energy, BHP and 7-Eleven.

We talk about
•Understanding you profile as the key to knowing why you do what you do
•From “what’s a podcast?” to owning her podcast booking agency
•The Bali experience connecting with people from around the world
•Dealing with sunk costs
•Investing in yourself with leaps of faith
•Finding stories and breaking rules
•“You are a Genius” the book that hit Amazon’s best seller lists
•The power of podcasting
•The 3 personality levels that get you out there

Contact Melanie Colling here: mel@expertsonair.fm

Experts on Air website https://expertsonair.fm/

Wealth Dynamics Profile test http://www.wdprofiletest.com/

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In this episode, Melanie from Experts On Air is here to give us some advice on how we can start our own podcast show and gives some insights on how podcasting can expand our business opportunities.

She also talks about the importance of self-discovery and how knowing ourselves can help us connect with people better.

SHOW NOTES

• [0:01:12.0]  Getting to know Mel
• [0:02:33.2]  Rapid-fire questions: reading list, who inspires you, childhood aspirations, a motto that you live by
• [0:06:54.3]  Getting to know yourself and how important it is to establish connections
• [0:08:47.9]  After some self-discovery tests, how do we go about connecting with other business owners?
• [0:10:52.8]  Should we think of connections from a B2B perspective or from a person-to-person perspective?
• [0:12:08.7]  For introverts: advice for making connections/networking
• [0:14:46.2]  How podcasting can help us connect, two big benefits you get from podcasting
• [0:17:05.7]  Are there benefits to podcasting for local businesses?
• [0:20:10.8]  The easiest way to start a podcast
• [0:21:41.8]  Repurposing content from podcast episodes
• [0:24:02.3]  A word of advice for beginning podcasters
• [0:24:45.4]  Connect with Mel!

QUOTES

“It’s not going to be governments that change the world; it’s going to be entrepreneurs and people getting out there and having a different way of thinking.”

“People used to think you should only have one job forever, but it’s no longer the case nowadays.”

“In corporate, it’s all about competition, but in entrepreneurship, it’s all about collaboration - how can we make things bigger, better, together.”

MENTIONS

• Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo (book)
• Myers-Briggs Personality Test
• Wealth Dynamics Profile Test
• Zoom

CONNECT WITH MEL

• LinkedIn
• Experts On Air

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