Welcome to a series of interviews I’m calling “The Nitty Gritty Heart.” It has to do with the intersection of heart and spirituality and the world of business.
The inspiration for this series came a few years ago at a lunch I was having with a fairly well-known business teacher. He was known for teaching nuts [...]

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If you’re in the process of creating your marketing message, chances are you’re either avoiding working on it, or you’re caught in the endless cycle of tweaking to get the words exactly right. Painful.
Of course, there is one step beyond this, where you get up the courage to test it out on others. You call [...]

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There’s a long, slow, ranty back-and-forth conversation happening around various blogs, and it has to do with earning a living.
The basic issue is that many people love to write and want to be writers, and so they start a blog. And they also want to make a living at it, basically because it’s easier to [...]

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It happens all the time. Someone says, yes, they want to work with you, and then, somehow, it doesn’t happen. Their payment never arrives, things seem to get strange, or sticky, or complicated. And it just never happens.
Even after you’ve made a great heart connection and there’s been some real trust built, they still ding [...]

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The Sacred Moment Seminar
Learn how to talk to prospective clients with integrity and heart, and still get paid.
Live in Portland, March 25-26, 2010
No Cost Call on March 3
Selling has had a well-deserved bad reputation for a long time
You’ve probably been pressured into spending money you didn’t have. Or maybe someone just flat-out lied to get [...]

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You might know that I have a master mind group, actually called a “Brain Trust” in this instance because it was named before I got there, darn it all. I say that because I want to fully disclose that the two things I’m going to mention now are from two of my Brain Trust buddies.
These [...]

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When someone’s interested in an offer of yours and the two of you end up in a conversation, how do you stay connected to their heart and yours?
I was assisting in a class at the Sufi healing school I attended, watching a pair of students as one practiced connecting to the other in prelude to [...]

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