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Franklin Taggart's Virtual Coffee Break
by Franklin Taggart
This podcast appears to become less focused as time goes by. It started as an experiment to post an episode a day for a year. Now, it seems to be an episode a year. Franklin, at various times, has been a musician, recording engineer and producer, a business owner, a personal coach, a marketing agent, a salesperson, a dad, a content creator, a honey bunny, a son, a brother, and a multitude of other descriptors, none of which seem to stick. Two things remain: Franklin has a microphone and a pot-a-day coffee habit.Also here: Episodes from Your Own Best Company and The Reset podcasts.
Episodes
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Freelance After 50 Summit with Craig Cannings - FreelanceU
If you’re looking for more information and enrollment details for the Freelance After 50 Summit, please visit the Summit page here(affiliate link): https://aff.freelanceu.com/54280/162512 Welcome to this insightful conversation with Franklin Taggart and Craig Cannings, the founder of Freelance...
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Leaving the Meta/X-Verse
In today’s coffee break -- pulling the plug on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp, and Twitter/X My enjoyment of social media has just gone through the floor for the last few years, and it's gotten worse. I don't feel like I'm serving myself by staying in that environment. I joined Facebook…
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The Impact of AI on Media and the Creative Sector - A Conversation With Pete Pachal
In this Virtual Coffee Break, Franklin Taggart welcomes media industry veteran Pete Pachal for an insightful conversation on the impact of AI on the media industry and creative sector. Pete, a seasoned editor and writer, shares his expertise and discusses his latest venture: The Media Copilot...
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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, and Connection
Since the public launch of ChatGPT 3 in late 2022, the rapid introduction of artificial intelligence into the mainstream of every aspect of human living has been a central topic of conversation and concern. AI tools have spread across the creative industries like wildfire and have been inserted...
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3 Things to do When Business Slows Down
Have you noticed a slowdown in your business in the last year? You're not alone. A client I was talking with yesterday asked an increasingly common question, "Is it always this hard to find new business?" She opened her consulting business early in 2023 after being laid off from her job in the...
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I Suck at Relationships, Why Should Business Be Any Different?
Relationships are hard. One of my supervisors used to say that when I did crisis intervention work. I believe it. The same theme has frequently emerged in recent conversations with friends and clients. We've noticed similarities as the relationship patterns from personal and family life play out…
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The False Promise of a Better Me
I've been a #selfhelp #selfimprovement #selfdevelopment junkie for decades. I've spent tens of thousands of dollars on books, programs, curricula, behavior modification, weight loss, smoking cessation, discipleship training, and seeking my vision in the wilderness. If I had invested that money in...
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Coming Back After a Hiatus
I've had more than a few people contact me for coaching as they navigate new twists and turns in their career and business paths. Most recently, three find themselves having a Rip Van Winkle moment - waking up from a long nap to find that everything is different for them than before. One has been...
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How to Find and Listen to Podcasts
If you've been interested in listening to podcasts but have found the medium and apps to be difficult and confusing, this episode is for you. The good news is that you probably already use an app where you can find and enjoy podcasts, and it's most likely the same app you're using to watch or...
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From Podcast Movement 2023
When Podcast Movement announced that their annual conference was going to be held in Denver this year, I got excited. I've wanted to attend this conference ever since it started, but the timing and finances never seemed to line up. This year, thanks to the generosity of Buzzsprout and the close...
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Changing Directions - Franklin Taggart
This is the 100th and final episode of Your Own Best Company with Franklin Taggart. I started the podcast in May of 2021 during the height of the quarantine. Many people were faced with working alone for the first time, while others like me relished it. I wanted to encourage and celebrate working...
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Working With the Rhythm of Life - Laura Livingston
Is your tank empty? Do you need some time for solitude, recharge, and to reconsider how you've been living, loving, and working? Is willpower not enough to do everything that you've committed to doing? That's the jumping-off point for this visit with coach Laura Livingston on the Your Own Best...
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The Deliberate Creator - Camille Miller
If the job you love were to suddenly end, would you rather try to find another similar job, or would you try to build a business that brought together your best gifts with people you care about serving? Camille Miller was faced with this kind of decision, and she opted for the latter. Not knowing...
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Escaping the "Fine" Trap - Lauren Lefkowitz
As an executive, is it often easiest just to take on more responsibility and then work the extra hours that others don't see just to get things done? And is "fine" your stock answer when people ask you how you're doing? Lauren Lefkowitz knows the feeling, and she is here to offer another set of...
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More Creative Marketing - Monique Eckes
If you need some creative inspiration for how to reach your customers with valuable and memorable marketing tools, Monique Eckes is back on the Your Own Best Company podcast with some of her latest and greatest ideas. She's also bringing an update on some of the past year's successes and lessons....
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From Conservation to Copy Conversations - Sheena McInnes
A Frequently Asked Question for 2023 from people I talk to is - Is it too late to start a creative freelance career? With all the talk about AI, ChatGPT, Midjourney, and whatever the AI flavor of the day is, these friends are rightfully wondering if they've waited too long to get into the game. I...
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Improve Creative Focus - Jessica Abel
▼▼▼▼▼ Time-sensitive announcement: Jessica Abel will be offering the Prioritize Like a Pro workshop live online at 1 pm on June 13. Registration information is here: https://jessicaabel.com/prioritize-like-a-pro/ Great, free opportunity to learn about the Weighted Decision Matrix we talked about…
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Sharing Your Gift Through Stories - Lori Robertson
Humans are wired to connect through telling stories. It's been our primary way of communing with each other for thousands of years. Storytelling is so built into the design that we often don't recognize when it's happening or when we're doing it. Lori Robertson, the SpeakHer Coach, joins Your Own...
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Mental Health Connections - Kim Pratt
Depression, anxiety, and other mental health concerns are common experiences for many solopreneurs, freelancers, and self-employed. Kim Pratt from the Alliance for Suicide Prevention of Larimer County is the guest on this episode of Your Own Best Company. Kim shares early warning signs, symptoms,...
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The Entrepreneurial Rebel - Michelle Nedelec
Being her own boss seemed like the best option after being fired from a job working for someone else - her sister. 28 career pivots later, Michelle Nedelec has gathered a toolbelt full of business experiences that she draws from as she helps other business owners and executives navigate their...
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Light Up Your Messaging - Billy Broas
Persuasive communication is a cornerstone skill for every business owner, and many have never learned effective ways to consistently present influential messages. They may have a compelling offer but haven't established a strong enough connection to support it. Or the reader may be skeptical of...
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The Godfather of Online Marketing Video - Lou Bortone
If you want to increase online visibility for your business, the universal advice is that you need to post videos. Everywhere, all the time, videos. Algorithms love videos, Kids love videos. Grandmas love videos. Videos, videos, videos! I was a slow starter when it came to posting videos for my...
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Putting Small Towns on the Map - Heidi Kerr-Schlaefer
Freelance writer Heidi Kerr-Schlaefer started her Heiditown blog over 15 years ago to share her experiences, interests, and point of view. It grew from a personal blog into a valued resource for tourists in Colorado looking for a more personal experience than all those on the beaten path. Heidi...
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Becoming a Game Changer - Brooke Monaghan
I love what Brooke Monaghan has to say about entrepreneurship: "...this is what I always have to break down for people. Listen to anyone who has anything to say about entrepreneurship, and what they're going to tell you is, if you can figure out a way that people in your community are not being...
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What Are We Really Working For? - Audrey Holst and Erica Holthausen
As 2023 started, I invited Audrey Holst of Fortitude and Flow and Erica Holthausen from Catchline Communications to come back for a conversation on the topic of why we do the work we do and all the smaller questions attached to that. The chats we three enjoy are some of my favorites, and this one...
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If You Host Zoom Meetings, You Need This Book!
The first online networking mixer I ever attended in 2021 had over 100 attendees. The hosts had to pay for the extra space and had inadvertently disabled the breakout room assignments when they did. As the event ground to a halt, the host apologized and then asked, "Is Robbie Samuels here?" From...
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ChatGPT Plus KDP Equals Self Published Book in Six Days
I've wanted to write and publish a book since I was a kid. I'm old now, so that's a long time to have a dream. I've started books many times in my life, but the determination and persistence to finish them have eluded me. I've had a lot of questions and concerns about AI. I know - I'm not alone....
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My Body Had Other Plans - Laura Livingston
#Solopreneurs and #freelancers business success depend on their staying healthy. And we don't tend to plan for undesirable circumstances. We almost always plan according to ideal situations. And then the #calamities of life arrive. Then what? Laura Livingston is back to talk about her experience…
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Relearning How to Want
If you've been taking care of others for a long time, it may take a while to reawaken and recognize your own desires. Pay attention to your body. Give yourself time to relearn how to use your want muscles. They haven't had a workout in a while. My friend was taking care of other people from the...
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Bringing Local Businesses Together - Nick Armstrong
Founded in FoCo is a three-day event for businesses of all sizes, from solopreneurs to large companies to non-profit organizations. It's a collaborative community effort that offers peer-to-peer education, inspiring speakers, networking, and more. This year's event is coming up at the Front Range...
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The Career Toolkit - Mark Herschberg
When did you learn important career-building skills like networking, finding mentors, interviewing, and finding great work opportunities? Most people didn't learn these skills in college or high school. We learned them when we had to - when we were searching for our first jobs or starting our…
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Getting Time Back From The Family
For many people ages 50 and up, we're adapting to a part of our life in which our normal roles are going through significant changes. Some of us are shifting into caretaking for aging parents while shifting away from the caretaking role we've had with our kids. The norms we've been used to,...
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What Are You Being Paid For?
In this video about pricing your freelance services, I challenge some of the things people think they're paying for. When it's all said and done, you're not being paid for your time, talent, knowledge, expertise, or qualifications. In truth, you're not being paid for your product or service.…
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Imagination and Emotion
Thanks for the supportive notes and calls after my video the other day talking about seasonal depression. I was telling a friend that one of the things that is hard when I'm feeling that way is that other people see it as a problem to solve or something broken to fix. That usually just makes it...
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Seasonal Depression and Me
2022 ended for me with a round of depression. This isn't a new thing and is likely seasonal, but it is still depression, and it's not exactly comfortable. After finishing the year and achieving what I'd set out for, I was at a loss for what I wanted to do next. When desires seemed out of reach, I...
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Building a Creative Movement - Perry Knoppert
When his research led to finding a link between multi-passionate people and neurodiversity, Perry Knoppert ultimately created a movement. The Octopus Movement is, in Perry's words, a gathering of curious misfits. Now numbering over 2500 members from 60 countries, The Octopus Movement is a...
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2022 Recap
2022 has been a good year for me. My commitments were kept and my goals exceeded. I'm changing things a little in 2023. See the recap report here: https://www.franklintaggart.com/2022/12/2022-recap.html See my 2022 Reading List here: https://www.franklintaggart.com/2022/12/2022-book-list.html And...
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Guided By Intuition - Fran Gallaher
Jody has risen to the highest levels of her company ladder, but she's frustrated that she's been getting passed over for promotion to the C-Suite. She's done the work, brought innovative ideas to the table, and has seniority over all but the CEO and COO of the company. It doesn't make sense that...
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Maybe Less Pressure Will Help?
I made a video the other day asking the question, "What if you can't find your why?" I've had some strong reactions to that idea. There were a couple of people who treated it as a condition on par with a disease, quickly prescribing things to do to solve the problem. Why are we so adamant that…
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What if TikTok and Twitter Go Away?
The town where I spent many growing up years had a thriving local mom-and-pop-based business economy when I was young. The big stores back then had outlets in our town, but most of the commerce that happened, took place between people who lived there and whose families owned the businesses. My…
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Where Did My Courses Go?
This year I released a handful of new courses and have had over 300 people join my Teachable school. After some recent pricing and service changes announced by Teachable, I've made the difficult decision to leave their service and host my courses on another platform. I'm working on the…
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Solopreneurship and the Spiritual Path
Continuing the theme of spirituality and faith. - I want to reiterate the proposition that entrepreneurship is as viable a path for spiritual development as meditation, yoga, and religion. I think we compartmentalize life more than we need to, and we ascribe sacredness to certain activities and...
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Let Love Be Born Tonight
On this Christmas day, 2022, I remember a holiday season from many years ago when my faith had started to self-destruct. All the things I had believed in were called to question, and I was left without anything to stand on. At the time, there was a huge uproar in the community where I lived about...
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The Night Before Christmas
Sharing a handful of childhood Christmas Eve memories, and featuring one of them in greater detail. If you've never watched Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas, my sisters and I are looking at you wondering how that could have happened. Go watch it and always remember that if you meet somebody who...
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Finding Fulfillment Through Work You Love - Laura Livingston
A few years before her 18-year corporate HR career ended, Laura Livingston started allowing herself extended time off to travel. As her travels unfolded, she became aware of a growing need and vision for her life to undergo a radical change, but she wasn't exactly sure what that change needed to...
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When You Can't Find Your "Why"
I've had a few conversations recently centered on the difficulty of identifying one's purpose. And I'm reaching a point in my work where the next expression of my purpose isn't clear. I've had some well-meaning friends suggest the book Start With Why, by Simon Sinek. I've read this book a couple…
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The Problem With Books About Creativity
I'm reading two books on the topic of creativity, Creative Quest, by Questlove, and The Rise of the Creative Class, by Richard Florida. Creative Quest is a fairly recent release and it's a personal exploration of his creative process as a musician, a creator, a DJ, and other roles the Roots…
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Does Paying Your Dues Ever Pay Off?
We have a strange set of cultural norms around how creative people are supposed to become successful. The common tropes of the starving artist, suffering for your art, and paying your dues need to be made a thing of the past IMHO. In the folk music world that I've been a part of, I've seen people...
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When Core Values Aren't Clear
I was talking with a client yesterday about her feeling about not knowing what is next for her and her art business. She's had a few very successful years but has started to experience a slowing down and a level of dissatisfaction with the work she's doing now that suggests she's ready for a new...
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Holiday Thoughts
I made a TikTok video a while back about this, but I thought I'd add to it here. I had a client recently ask me what I believe as far as spirituality and religion are concerned. The best I can say is I really don't know. In my life, I've been a Mormon, Christian, skeptic, seeker, dabbler, and...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This podcast appears to become less focused as time goes by. It started as an experiment to post an episode a day for a year. Now, it seems to be an episode a year. Franklin, at various times, has been a musician, recording engineer and producer, a business owner, a personal coach, a marketing agent, a salesperson, a dad, a content creator, a honey bunny, a son, a brother, and a multitude of other descriptors, none of which seem to stick. Two things remain: Franklin has a microphone and a pot-a-day coffee habit.Also here: Episodes from Your Own Best Company and The Reset podcasts.
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This podcast appears to become less focused as time goes by. It started as an experiment to post an episode a day for a year. Now, it seems to be an episode a year. Franklin, at various times, has been a musician, recording engineer and producer, a business owner, a personal coach, a marketing...
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