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GSD Diaries with Angela Proffitt

Transforming Life & Business with Purpose, Passion, and Perspective Welcome to GSD Diaries (formerly Business Unveiled), where we share stories of transformation, resilience, and the pursuit of purpose. Join us as we travel the world, sharing insights from other cultures, highlighting wellness, and what it means to navigate the ups and downs in life and business. We'll uncover the truths behind living a fulfilling and impactful life. In this podcast, we highlight impactful leaders who have navigated change, wellness resorts and companies that prioritize health, sharing real stories of resilience and motivating you to create a balanced, fulfilling life. I'll sit down with industry leaders who have overcome incredible challenges, sharing their secrets to success and survival. Together, we'll explore how to shift perspectives, embrace healthy habits, and find true happiness in our work and lives. Hi, I'm Angela Proffitt, an entrepreneur disrupting the hospitality industry by shaking things up. As the GSD Girl who loves to Get Shit Done, let's dance around the world together, uncovering the 'first times' and the powerful stories behind them. Often, it's a near-death experience that wakes you up and pushes you to make a change. I've learned the hard way—if you don't take care of yourself, you can't take care of others in hospitality. In this wellness series, I'll chat with some of my closest friends and fellow movers and shakers in the entrepreneurial community. Together, we'll explore meaningful ways to become more human and empathetic, and shift our perspectives for a better life and business. This is GSD Diaries—transforming the hospitality industry, one step at a time.
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Now displaying: March, 2022
Mar 31, 2022
Entrepreneurship is all about taking risks, and building a successful business requires making tough choices. One of the most important decisions you'll make as an entrepreneur is who to trust with your valuable information, and forming a circle of trust will help you make the best decisions for your business. Here are four tips for building your circle of trust. 

I’m so excited to share today’s guest Megan Gillikin, Owner of The Planner’s Vault. She will be sharing why it is essential to have an advisory board as a small business owner and why you need more than one person’s insight to help you see your business from multiple angles as it grows.

Mar 23, 2022
Before the digital age, music was a lot different. If you wanted to listen to music, you had to buy CDs or vinyl records, and if you wanted to hear a specific song, you had to sit through an entire album just to get to it. 

Nowadays, of course, we have iTunes and Spotify and other digital music platforms that let us listen to whatever we want, whenever we want. It's hard to imagine going back to the old way of doing things! But what if there were a way for musicians and music industry professionals to share craft, digitally?

I’m so excited to share today’s guest, Owen Grover, CEO of TrueFire Studios, who will be sharing with us all about the digitalisation of learning within the music industry and its benefits compared to traditional methods.

Main Topics:

- The digitalisation of learning within the music industry and its benefits compared to traditional methods.
- The intersection of music and tech, and its evolution during the pandemic.
- What Owen has learned about e-learning after serving over 3M customers. 

Key Takeaways:

- Help artists make money
- Create instructional content
- The intersection of music and tech

More About Our Guest:

Owen Grover is the CEO of TrueFire Studios, one of the biggest music education brands out there, with 4 main brands:

  • Artistworks.com: an online music platform focused on making learning affordable and easy. The platform has over 50k lessons, 35+ teachers, and has taught tens of thousands of students in 80+ countries.
  • TrueFire: a digital guitar lessons platform that has collaborated with 300+ top artists and educators, and has over 40k video lessons available.
  • FaderPro: an online music education platform focused on electronic dance music that has teamed up with big names like Nicky Romero.
  • JamPlay: a leading resource for learning to play the guitar and bass online that has over 500k customers and 300k followers across social media.

Owen also helped produce the concert for Sandy Relief at Madison Square Garden, which raised over $55 million for victims of Hurricane Sandy. Owen is also known for building Pocket Casts, an Australian-born podcasting app.

Owen has been actively involved in the media and entertainment industry for nearly 20 years. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Dr. Erin Gilbert and their son Devon. A passionate music fan, his favorite band is The Clash.

Mar 17, 2022
Navigating through 2022, most entrepreneurs have a goal of increasing their income, but the truth is if we’re holding onto limiting beliefs and old stories, the financial results we want to see will be near impossible to acheive.

I’m so excited to share today’s guest, Emily King, Founder of The Rich Woman Inc. who is going to share how to overcome the five most unhelpful money stories that many female business owners tend to have running in their subconscious and how to overcome them.

Main Topics:

- What are money stories and why they are important
- The 5 money stories you need to overcome to help you grow
- How to know what your money stories is

Key Takeaways:

 

- The 5 money stories

- How to overcome money stories 

- How to overcome limiting beliefs

More About Our Guest:

Emily King is a Money Mindset and Business Mentor who’s been helping women entrepreneurs since 2015 create financial freedom and normalize being extraordinary.

With an MBA, NLP coaching certification, and a hint of “woo”, Emily has coached numerous clients from the proverbial basement to multi-millions—earning her the nickname “The Money Godmother.”

When she’s not online coaching her incredible clients, Emily’s magnetic energy is lighting up stages like TEDx where she shares her wisdom on creating financial freedom and living a “rich woman” life. 

Mar 10, 2022
There's no question that being an entrepreneur takes a lot of hard work, dedication and perseverance. But what a lot of people don't realize is that it also takes a very specific mindset. If you want to be successful as an entrepreneur, you have to be able to train your mind to think like one.

You know how when you’re in the corn maze and you’re not sure if you should go left or right? But, when you step on a ladder suddenly the maze is no longer a mystery?

That’s what today’s guest Jarrod Haning does for business owners. By teaching them how to think at a higher level, they are able to see the whole picture and suddenly the obstacles that were blocking their growth no longer exist.

Mar 3, 2022
There's no shortage of advice out there for entrepreneurs. But one piece of wisdom that's often overlooked is how to define your business mission. Many entrepreneurs start their businesses without giving much thought to this critical step, and they struggle as a result. If you want to create a successful business, it's important to take the time to define your business mission and make sure it aligns with your goals and values.  I’m so excited for my guest today, Jeremy Slate, who will be sharing how to define what you stand for and how to scale impact once you have defined yourself.

Main Topics:
- How do you define what you stand for?
- How can you fast track getting the right positioning?
- How do you scale impact once you’ve defined yourself? 

Key Takeaways:
- How brands can utilize the 1 Billion Dollar podcast market
- PR vs. Marketing: The Right Combination
- How to Position yourself as the go-to in Your Space

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