BookYourselfSolid Radio is now a Featured Host on BTR!

Just got word that Book Yourself Solid Radio, a three-times-a-week podcast on BlogTalkRadio that I host with Trish Lambert, has been awarded "Featured Host" status!

Apparently the vice-president of BTR contacted Michael Port, author of Book Yourself Solid, with his congrats about the quality of the show.

Come hear us every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 2pm Eastern on http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bookyourselfsolid and hear what the buzz is about!

Birth of a new Radio (and Video) star!

Just completed my first show with the new Book Yourself Solid Radio , interviewing Lou Bortone on how to get started with Web Video. Check it out!

Show site: http://tinyurl.com/6nzse4
Lou Bortone's site: http://www.bigideasguy.com

And my first web video that I shot, produced and uploaded to YouTube (total time: 33 minutes concept to delivery, for a 2 minutes runtime) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBT0aGdzohQ






This was a fun project. I will definitely be doing more!

Heeeere we go! Week 1 of Book Yourself Solid Radio is on the air!

The first week of Book Yourself Solid Radio is off to a great start! We have three interesting sessions for you:

- On Monday October 27, join Coaches Trish Lambert and Patti Waterbury as they describe how to set a Red Velvet Rope policy that will let you do your best work with clients who inspire and energize you!

- Then, on Wednesday October 29, Coach Davender will host the BigIdeasGuy (and fellow Certified Book Yourself Solid Coach) Lou Bortone, sharing pratical tips to get your Speaking and Demonstrating Strategy on the air through Web Video.

- And to close out the week, on Friday October 31, Trish and Davender will host Certified Book Yourself Solid Coaches Megan Mckenzie and Sharon Saylor to explore how a Certified BYS Coach can help you to get Booked Solid!

All the calls start at 2PM Eastern, 1PM Central, noon Mountain and 11AM Pacific, right here on Book Yourself Solid radio. Pass the word!

Please be patient as we get used to the system in this soft launch. I'm confident though that BlogTalkRadio has made the system davender idiot-proof!

Have a great week, and see you on the show!

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bookyourselfsolid

Today is not yesterday nor tomorrow

Does the past really have to dictate the future?

It is human nature to look at yesterday's results to explain today's situation, and to use both to extrapolate tomorrow's possibility. In my opinion, this is the chief failure of economic science. Economics tries to build models to explain the past, then rely on those models to predict the future.

A lot of what is going on right now in the world markets and economies is that the models are broken, therefore people just don't know what to do. Whether these are from academia or Wall Street/Bay Street traders, their theories no longer fit today's reality... The models are broken, and they have been so for a long time.

The economic system we have today is built on the belief that numbers measure the true value of what we are looking at. The role of speculators is to use our darker side of greed, lust and fear to manipulate the numbers and profit from it.

But economic models cannot even begin to quantify crucial variables that really shape what people value: mission, vision, passion, ingenuity, desire, experience...

We are living an important shift as we move from a 20th century economic model of consumption towards a 21st century model of consciousness. In a conscious economy, those who succeed are the value creators, not speculators. Value creators use as tools the elements of Passion and Purpose to lead communities of People towards creating Profit, tangible and intangible, where all benefit in a win-win-win (me-you-us) fashion.

What this "economic crisis" allows us value creators to do is to finally break free of the business-as-speculation model and go back to its true roots, business as a vehicle to create value that moves humanity and the planet forward. Tomorrow belongs to those who dare to use their passion and purpose to create a new reality, one expressing their full potential.

Tomorrow can be very different from today if we choose it to be so. Block out the naysayers. Refuse to play according to the old rules of fear and embrace the new reality of passion-based entrepreneurship.

Here's to you, value creators. Aim for the stars and keep your feet on the ground. Today is not just the result of yesterday, it is the foundation for building the tomorrow that you really want.

Exploring the world of the micro-post

I've been quite active on Twitter lately (at least for my standards)

Twitter is a "micro-blogging" application that accepts entries of up to 140 characters. I've connected my Twitter feed to my Facebook page, my Plaxo profile and my blog (see below to the right).

Some people use Twitter to broadcast where they are or what they're doing. What I prefer using Twitter for is to quickly capture thoughts that might not be ready for a full-on blog post...

Follow my thoughts on Twitter here:
http://twitter.com/coachdavender

"Book Yourself Solid" Radio is coming!

A quick heads-up...

My fellow "Book Yourself Solid" Certified Coach Trish Lambert and myself are preparing to launch "Book Yourself Solid Radio", a thrice-weekly podcast hosted on BlogTalkRadio.

Check our BTR page here:
www.blogtalkradio.com/bookyourselfsolid

Stay tuned for more news about this exciting project!

Success is now the domain of people who lead (Seth Godin)

"Success is now the domain of people who lead. That doesn’t mean they’re in charge, it doesn’t mean they are the CEO, it merely means that for a group, even a small group, they show the way, they spread ideas, they make change. Those people are the only successful people we’ve got."
- Seth Godin

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