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Magic Maker
by J.Nichole Smith
Magic is what happens when you find balance between method and madness, science and art. Welcome to the Magic Maker podcast, the place where entrepreneurs who want to find magic can access ah-ha moments and simple steps to big dreams. Join your host, magic maker and branding expert J.Nichole Smith on a journey to live the Magic Maker code: Do Good Be Real Find Happy Build Brands That Matter Blending marketing genius with mindset, the Magic Maker podcast is essential listening for any entrepreneur who wants to have it all: Freedom, fulfilment, and a positive impact on the world.
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#49- The Revolution Will Not be Televised
The revolution will not be televised.... it will be on Facebook Live! https://facebook.com/jnicholesmith Every day at Noon {UK} Join Whyfinder and niche brand expert J.Nichole Smith for her pirate broadcast of daily inspiration, Q+A, interviews with some of the most successful, interesting and...
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#48 – How to Stop Hustling for Proof
“Self-esteem is the ability to see yourself as a flawed individual and still hold yourself in high regard.” Esther Perel In today’s episode, Nic reveals how to stop hustling for proof and get out of the perfectionism paradigm. Particularly, you will learn why we all have need to prove ourselves,...
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#47 – 4-Step Process to Get out of Fear and into Chilled-Out Action'
This Monday, Nic shares the 4-Step Process, a very important tool that will help you to stop in the moment when you are feeling swept up, overwhelmed, or upset and make choices about how you want to act and react in a relationship to those emotions. More specifically, you will learn about the 4...
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What is Chill?
In this episode, Nic shares a very important truth and a very important tool that will help you navigate the wild crazy waters of entrepreneurship! Stay tuned as you will learn about Nic’s simple yet powerful fact about emotions, how we can use resilience in practice to better handle stress and...
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#45 – Raw, Imperfect, and Real with Denise Duffield-Thomas
"So, why are we thinking that we have to be perfect before we're allowed to have money?" Denise Duffield-Thomas This Monday, Nichole is rejoined with Denise Duffield-Thomas, a money mindset mentor, a coach, a motivational speaker, and CEO of Lucky Bitch. She also wrote a book Get Rich, Lucky…
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#44 – Decade in Review
"In the next decade, it's not about my accomplishments or how many countries I've been, it's about the depth and the quality of my relationships, both with other people and especially with myself" J. Nichole Smith Magic makers welcome to season 5! In the very first episode of 2020, Nichole is...
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#43 – Do it Anyway: Overcoming Fear to Build Momentum
"All the best stuff is on the other side of fear" J. Nichole Smith In the last episode of season 4, Nichole talks about her journey of overcoming fear, doing it anyway, and why you should do it, too! More specifically, Nic reveals why she and her husband gave their daughter the middle name of...
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Building Momentum by Doing What You Love
"We all have permission to do what we love, we just have to prioritize it." J.Nichole Smith This Monday, Nichole reveals how she used a method that was shared in the previous episode and approached to Ruth Ridgeway over Instagram. Stay tuned and learn why Nic approached her, how Ruth builds...
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How to Jumpstart your Momentum by Building Relationships
"If you want to achieve your big dreams, you've got to put yourself in the way of opportunities. This will require getting out of your PJs and leaving your house once in a while." J. Nichole Smith Today, our host, Nichole explains how to jumpstart your momentum by building relationships! Stay…
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Ego v.s. Profit
“Is the stuff that feels most urgent to you, right now in your business, is going to feed your bank account or your ego?” J. Nichole Smith In today’s episode, our host, Nichole shares how to focus on profit and revenue activities instead of focusing on your ego. Particularly, you will learn about…
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How to Simplify Your Products to Build Momentum
“Overwhelm is one of the #1 reasons why people don’t buy from us” J. Nichole Smith Today, Nic reveals how to simplify your product to become more intelligible to your customers and eventually build momentum! Learn the two main reasons why you should simplify your offerings, what is revenue…
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How to Simplify Your Message to Build Momentum
If someone asks you what do you do for a living and you have a 10 minutes long answer, then you should definitely take a listen to this episode! Today, our host, Nichole shares how to craft your simple message to build a momentum with your prospective clients. More specifically, you will learn...
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The 12-Step Momentum Formula
“Your “Why” doesn’t do you much good to fund the freedom and the fulfilled lifestyle if you don’t already know how to grow a profitable business.” J. Nichole Smith The Magic Maker Live conference is done and Nic is back in the game! In today’s episode, our host guides you through 12-Step Momentum...
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How to use systems to build momentum with Abbey Woodcock
Hey Magic Makers! Welcome back to another awesome episode of the Magic Maker Podcast. Today I am bringing you another interview. This is only the third one we’ve ever had on this podcast and this is a woman you might not know, but you are going to be really thrilled to meet. Today, I am speaking...
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How-To Use Magic to Build Momentum with Denise Duffield-Thomas
Welcome back to Season 4 of the Magic Maker Podcast! I am so thrilled to be coming to you with this season, all about momentum. This first interview I'm so thrilled about because it is with the amazing Denise Duffield-Thomas who is one of our keynote speakers at Magic Maker Live coming up in...
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Brand Cool: Artefacts
One of the most fun things to do as an entrepreneur or a small business owner is to see your brand or your logo or your artwork come to life in a physical, tangible objects, whether it's a mug or a tee shirt, or a big banner, the tanking up over your storefront. Being able to see your business…
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Brand Cool: Experiences
Today I want to take us through this idea of experience and how to purposely actively create experiences for our customers that are going to delight them, which of course has the wonderful impact of delighting us as well. View show notes and grab the free workbook. Hosted on Acast. See...
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Brand Cool: Visuals
When you hear the word brand, what is the first thing that comes to your mind? For most people it has something to do with a logo or packaging or maybe a physical products, maybe a tagline or an idea. But most of what we think of when we think of brands is something visual. We think of something...
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Brand Cool: Words
One of the first elements of brand cool is the words and language that a business uses to convey its messaging to get its ‘why’ across to its customers and fans. We talk and talk and talk and talk. It's much harder to be succinct. And for this language to work in your brand, it's got to be sharp....
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What makes brands cool?
Instinctively, I’m sure you can relate to what I mean when I say ‘brand cool’ because we’ve all had experiences with products from ketchup to shampoo, coffee houses to cars, shoes to electronics… where we just can’t get enough of a particular brand: its cool just sucks us in. You can bet that...
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Building DESIRE!!
One of my favorite lines from my book The Million Dollar Dog Brand is ‘Be The Fox Pee.’ Sounds crazy. Well, what’s really interesting fact is that apparently fox pee is one of the most stimulating smells in the world for dogs. They love it. They go absolutely mental for it. They can't deny it.…
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Brand Statement
We are now at a point where we can evolve a little bit of this brand conversation into something I call a brand statement. Now if you haven't figured out your why and you don't feel like you have this big perfect picture of the ideal brand, that's fine. Remember, what we want to achieve is to…
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Communicating your WHY
One of the things that seems a little bit funny to us when we start to get out there and try and market for the first time as entrepreneurs is just how hard it is to really get people to notice what we're trying to say. There are so many businesses and products in the marketplace and it is so…
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Exploring your WEIRD
What is normal?! If there's one thing that most of us have in common that we are programmed and taught as early as we can remember, it's that we're supposed to be normal. We're supposed to be just like everybody else. We're supposed to fit in because if we stand out, then people make fun of us,...
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What is the Difference Between a Business and a Brand
So one of the things I talk about all the time as a branding expert is having a brand statement. This is sort of like an elevator pitch and you can find lots of resources on jnicholesmith.com to help you craft your very own. That’s for another video. But my brand statement is, well, you’ve…
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Interview with Ash Ambirge
Hey, magic maker. This is a very special episode of the magic maker Podcast for a couple of reasons. The first reason is that this is the first ever interview we've ever had on this podcast. Our interview today is one of my absolute business crushes and absolute idol in my life of someone who I...
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Why Believing in Magic isn’t Naive, it’s GENIUS!
Whether you believe in the universe, wizards, ghosts, tarot, vampires, manifesting, or even God – you have to be a little bit mad to throw your head and heart into unrelenting faith in something you cannot prove. Typically, magic gets pitted against science in the battle for proof. We humans like...
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My Tribe Story
Of all the business models I have ever built and grown - by far the most superior in every way is a membership site. I conceived of my first membership site in 2015 and brought it to life in 2016... it is called 'Working with Dog' and it is now a thriving community for pet entrepreneurs. If, like…
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Why I Build Membership Sites
A couple of years ago when I was setting about to change my whole life because I got myself into a position where I had started the wrong business, I was completely miserable and knew that I was missing out on probably the best part of my career by doing the wrong thing. I was spending my time in...
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How to Replace 1 to 1 to Passive Income
One of the things I remember dreaming about and worrying about from a really early stage in my business is how I was going to get income or revenue in. That wasn't so hard. So if you are a service provider or you make physical products, maybe this is something that you can relate to because...
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#1 Strategy to Launch New Products
Today I want to dive into a strategy to help you get past that perfection monster when you're bringing new products into the world. And more important than that, make sure that the products you are bringing to the market are things people actually want and are willing to pay for. So you don't end...
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Season 4 of Freedom: Fund your Freedom
Today I wanted to talk to you about the fourth stage of finding freedom and fulfillment as an entrepreneur, which is all about funding your freedom. View show notes. If you want more free resources to help you work through this, visit us over at facebook.com/groups/magicmakersHQ. This is a place...
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Season 3 of Freedom: Growing Your Brand
Today I want to take you through stage three of what I call the Seasons of Freedom and Fulfillment, which gets you from just being a newbie, starting out to a business owner who actually does have freedom. View show notes. If you want to talk more about how to grow your brand, make sure you visit...
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Season 2 of Freedom: Crafting Your Brand
I believe that there are four seasons that every entrepreneur goes through from being a Newbie, just starting out to a seasoned business owner who has a freedom and fulfillment, which is sponsored and paid for by their business. A lot of people never get there because the seasons are tricky. Now…
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Season 1 of Freedom: Grow Your Business
Today I wanted to walk you through the very first stage of the process that gets you from wherever you are now to that freedom and fulfilment. I mentioned it’s not going to happen overnight and it does happen in stages and today I want to walk you through the first stage, which is how to grow…
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The 4 Seasons of Freedom: An introduction
Today I wanted to talk to you about the fundamental steps between wherever you are now and actually reaching that freedom and fulfillment. There is a formula, right? So as I mentioned, finding freedom and fulfillment as an entrepreneur sounds a little dicey, right? Most of us spend way too much...
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What Does Your Freedom Look Like?
I love getting to spend this time with you It feels like such an oasis from the busy ness of life and business. TO sit down, and chat about some of the big stuff that’s swirling around us. In my work as a consultant and brand-builder, I have seen a recurring theme with entrepreneurs - and I...
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What Would Be Easy?
So often as business owners we seem to gravitate towards the hard thing. We over complicate, we add layers, we go 10 steps when 4 will do. Many of us are somewhat obsessively driven to bring perfect things into the world, to tell the WHOLE story (heaven forbid we leave out a single detail) and to...
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The 5 Laws of Entrepreneurship
I am so excited to kick this second season of the Magic Maker podcast off with some foundational ideas about what it means to be an entrepreneur. I believe the concepts I am going to introduce to you today are profoundly helpful to achieve one of the most valuable gifts I aim to give the...
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Create Real Business Growth this Year
In this special episode, my friend, digital marketing expert and wellness guru Amanda Cook and I are exploring the themes we taught at the Magic Maker Retreat. These themes include my 5 laws of Entrepreneurship, (especially the first one, mindset) and some ways you can leverage them to create…
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The Single Greatest Challenge You'll Face as An Entrepreneur
I am dedicated to helping entrepreneurs find freedom and fulfilment by building brands instead of just businesses. What I do is a mashup of marketing consulting, brand development, strategy, problem solving and usually a little bit of magic. Visit the show notes. The pursuit of freedom is…
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The Art of the Graceful No
The Art of the Graceful No As entrepreneurs, most of us are pretty damn keen to get more done, in less time. We’re always ready for a productivity hack, a tool, resource or FINALLY the PERFECT planner to help us feel like we’re more efficient. Last week we discussed the importance of rewarding…
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How to Finally Discipline Yourself into Consistent Action
Discipline, by its nature, is force. Punishment. To be disciplined is to be punished. Discipline, Verb To train by instruction and exercise; drill. To bring to a state of order and obedience by training and control. To punish or penalize in order to train and control; correct; chastise. I have...
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The Unlikely (very personal) Secret to Business Success
For some of you, what I’m going to reveal today might freak you out, offend you, or trigger you. You may get offended, write me off as an over-sharer, or you just won’t get it. But I’m willing to take that risk, because for some of you, this may just be the permission slip you’ve been waiting for...
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Finding Your Magic
One of my favorite books (and probably one of yours too if you’ve read it) is Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert. If you haven’t read it - move that to the top of your reading list! Nearly every page of Big Magic is quotable, but one of my favorite bits: “Do whatever brings you to life… Follow your…
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Building a Brand that Matters
One of the most important things to understand about a brand (and I think most difficult when you’re new to the idea) is the magic stuff that makes a brand a brand.I believe that the stuff that makes a brand a brand, starts with you: human + business = brand Visit the show notes. What is a Brand?…
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How to Have it All, Without DOING it All
Earlier this year, one of my business partners, dear friends and wise mentors, Jane Harrell of ‘cause Digital Marketing gave me one of my favorite mantras… She said: Nic, you CAN do ANYTHING, but you can’t do EVERYTHING. Visit the show notes. Oh man, she totally got me. I am one of this hectic,...
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What is a Magic Maker?
The traditional definitions of success don’t lead humans to happiness. Today I want to tell you about where the idea of ‘magic maker’ comes from, and give you a bit more insight into what it means to be or aspire to be a magic maker. Visit the show notes. As I set about to evolve my own brand…
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Welcome to the Magic Maker Podcast
Magic is what happens when you find balance between method and madness, science and art. Welcome to the Magic Maker podcast, the place where entrepreneurs who want to find magic can access ah-ha moments and simple steps to big dreams. Welcome to the Magic Maker Podcast. This space exists to give...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Magic is what happens when you find balance between method and madness, science and art. Welcome to the Magic Maker podcast, the place where entrepreneurs who want to find magic can access ah-ha moments and simple steps to big dreams. Join your host, magic maker and branding expert J.Nichole Smith on a journey to live the Magic Maker code: Do Good Be Real Find Happy Build Brands That Matter
Blending marketing genius with mindset, the Magic Maker podcast is essential listening for any entrepreneur who wants to have it all: Freedom, fulfilment, and a positive impact on the world.
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