Technology may make you smile or cringe, but either way, in today’s business world, you have to deal with it more and more. In today’s episode, Lee Bezotte joins us with a whole bag full of tech tools that will make life easier for both our clients and ourselves.

Listen in as Lee and our hosts explore:

• Tips for managing your email
• Pros and cons of some of the more popular newsletter services
• Surprising results of an informal survey about online calendaring systems
• Easy ways to create stunning graphics
• Options for project management
• Taming the paper monster

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About Lee Bezotte

Lee Bezotte is a pastor, author, digital marketer, and life coach. In addition to all of that, he is raising three sons alongside his wife of 27 years. He’s passionate about finding online tools that make being an entrepreneur easier and has even created one of his own. You can find out more at www.mycoachportal.net

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Living the coaching lifestyle affords you the freedom, flexibility, and ability to live the life you want to live. Today, we’ve got 4 seasoned professionals who are eager to share the ins and outs of living out your dream while you build a portable business and serve others through coaching. 

Together, we’ll: 

• Unpack how you can work from anywhere in the world, at any time of the day, so you can spend more time with those you love most
• Discover how to earn a living from your home so you’re not just making a living financially but making a living relationally and experientially as well
• Why coaching doesn’t have to fit into your lifestyle because you can fit your lifestyle into coaching and engage in your personal, practical everyday life, more often!

Check out The Entrepreneurial Family Man podcast here: https://efmlife.com/.

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Did you know that 2/3 of the messages people receive about your coaching business usually occur before you ever reach out to them yourself? It’s true, and it’s only one of the golden nuggets we’re highlighting for you, freshly minted from the latest Social Media Marketing World Conference, held annually in San Diego, CA. In this episode, you’ll receive the latest and greatest actionable information you need to maximize your marketing efforts.

Learn:

• The 5 primary insights that will benefit you as a Christian Coach

• How to crack the code on various social media platforms, so you can build better relationships

• What to do about the third marketing rebellion—the end of control—so you can understand how to honor the people you serve and serve them radically

• Why high-touch, high-quality service, with a large dose of humanity, is imperative

• The single-most valuable marketing tool that will catapult your influence on social media!

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Establishing trust and intimacy with your clients doesn’t happen without effort: It’s an intentional process that’s integral to maintaining co-created relationships that contribute to the overall effectiveness of partnerships in coaching. Join us in raising the standard on professional-grade, Christian coaching as we unpack ICF Competency #3.

You will discover how to:

• Employ the 6 aspects of establishing trust and intimacy so you can ensure a valuable partnership
• 3 ways to provide a safe, supportive environment so you can maximize an ongoing, mutual relationship of respect and trust
• Create a fertile coaching environment for personal change and thriving transformation so your clients can receive what they need
• Demonstrate respect for clients by acknowledging their values, beliefs, and progress so they can fully express themselves

About Anne Denmark, M. Ed., PCC

Anne Denmark is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF). Anne is a seasoned coach with over 14 years as President and Founder of Life Discovery Coaching and serves on the faculty for the Professional Christian Coaching Institute (PCCI).

Anne’s life experiences include; managing small businesses and working in church staff positions which gives her a special passion for work with ministry leaders.

Through her own tragic loss, physical limitations, burnout, and many relocations, she knows life is fragile and chooses to see every day as a gift of discovery from God.

She has been a break out presenter and trainer at the Speak Up Conference for over 30 years. She frequently coaches speakers in both their preparation and presentation skills.

Anne is the developer of Roots & Dreams™ Your life Story Timeline– a creative, coaching experience to give you a bird’s-eye view of your life.

Anne has a heart for harmony in relationships and together with her husband, Dr. Don Denmark M. D. has led/taught many groups and seminars to strengthen marriages. They celebrate 45 years of marriage.

Anne is rooted in a Canadian farm heritage and maple syrup still runs in her veins. Splitting their time between Sacramento, CA and Franklin, TN, enables them to be actively, supportive parents in the lives of their three adult children and 6 ‘grands’.

You can learn more about Anne’s Life Coaching and Mentor Coaching at www.lifediscoverycoaching.com.

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Have you ever heard of Christian Mindfulness? Whether you have or haven’t, today’s podcast is packed with insights that will impact your personal life, how you lead, and your coaching practice. The cutting-edge field of brain science, applied to life & leadership coaching, will boost your effectiveness in all areas of your life!

Tune in to grasp a greater understanding of how neuroscience can help you and your clients:

• Exercise greater control over your emotions so you can navigate life and work with a greater sense of calm
• Increase personal productivity so distractions and multi-tasking don’t rob you of your ability to coach and listen well
• Build higher-performing teams to impact ROI, retention, and advancement
• More effectively manage change by keeping your brain healthy
• Understand the importance of tending to spiritual disciplines and being in the Word on a daily basis so Scripture can guide all your interactions within your circle of influence

About Charles Stone

Charles has served 36 years in ministry, 24 of those as a senior pastor. Over half of those years, he served in churches with over 1,000 attendees. He currently pastors West Park Church in London, Ontario, Canada. He founded StoneWell Ministries to serve pastors and churches at large through coaching and consulting.

He has spoken to over 1,200 ministry leaders nationally and globally at pastors’ conferences.

Charles and his wife Sherryl have been married for 36 years and have three children: Heather (34), Joshua (32) and Tiffany (29).

Charles’ education includes the following:

• Bachelor of Industrial Engineering and a Certificate in Business and Technical Writing from Georgia Institute of Technology (high honors).
• Master of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth, Texas.
• Doctor of Ministry from Trinity Evangelical Divinity Seminary in Deerfield, Illinois.
• Executive Masters in the neuroscience of leadership from the Neuroleadership Institute.

Previous Writing

Over 30 of his articles and book reviews have been printed including several in leading church and ministry magazines such as Leadership Journal, Called Magazine (for women in ministry), YouthWorker Journal, REV, OnMission, New Man, Seek, The War Cry, Living with Teenagers, and In Touch (Charles Stanley’s magazine).

His blogs have regularly appeared on these sites: Pastors.com, SermonCentral.com, ChurchCentral.com, and Churchleaders.com. Ed Stetzer, Ron Edmondson, and other leadership bloggers have also featured Charles’s writing. He contributed one chapter to the book Encounters with God (Family Christian Stores, 2004) and The Spirit of Christmas (St. Martin’s Press, 2011) compiled by Cecil Murphy.

He has written 4 books:

• Co-authored with his daughter Heather, Daughters Gone Wild-Dads Gone Crazy (2005, ‘W’ Publishing/Thomas Nelson)
• 5 Ministry Killers and How to Defeat Them (Bethany House 2010)
• People-Pleasing Pastors: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Approval-Motivated Leadership Published in January 2014 by InterVarsity Press.  Outreach, Inc. named it a 12th Annual Outreach Resource of the Year Recommendation in the leadership category
• Brain-Savvy Leaders: The Science of Significant Ministry recently released in May 2015 by Abingdon Press

Charles blogs twice each week on leadership and his blog garnered approximately 60,000 unique visitors and over 210,000 page views during the last 12 months. His Twitter followers exceed 18,000 and his blog email list + RSS feed includes over 2,500 subscribers. He also has over 4,400 Facebook followers and over 1,000 LinkedIn followers.

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