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Send us a textFollowing her intuition took Laura Michelle Powers from being an unemployed, physically ill divorcee to being a psychic to the Stars. Now, Laura has had amazing experiences overseas, hosts a top-100 podcast in the Apple Store, has published eight books, and is also a psychic, actress, entertainer, world traveler, singer-songwriter, and speaker.In this episode of “Authors Who Lead,” I talk with Laura Michelle Powers about her newest book, Rock Your Podcast: How to Launch, Grow, and Monetize Your Show, and how she landed many incredible opportunities in her business and her life. Also, if you missed our earlier podcast with Laura, you can watch it here: Authors Who Lead Episode 88.Want to become a published author? Visit us at: https://authorswholead.com/

Send us a textAfter Melanie Herschorn graduated from college, she ran away to Los Angeles, found work at a PR firm, and then eventually became a successful entrepreneur. As her own boss, she decided to hire a marketing expert, which she says was a “fatal mistake” but one that would lead her to do what she loves. The experience led her to decide to help people like herself in a positive and supportive manner. She then narrowed her focus and passion to help authors feel empowered and optimistic about their marketing.In this episode of “Authors Who Lead,” I talk with Melanie Herschorn about the difference between publicity and marketing and how authors can make their online presence sparkle.Want to become a published author? Visit us at: https://authorswholead.com/

Send us a textSometimes it's easy to get stuck in your head when it comes to writing a book. One of the biggest challenges I hear from writers is fear: fear that their book will suck, no one will read it, or their peers will think it’s bad. This is a common fear that can keep us from writing our books or finishing because we want to please other people. In reality, whether or not your books are good or bad is not up to you. Readers get to choose what is good or bad. You don't need to be better at writing or have a better idea than anyone else. Your book is meant to come out of you because you are its unique messenger.On this week’s episode of “Authors Who Lead,” I talk about our biggest fears as authors and ways to help silence those fears and get motivated to write our books.Want to become a published author? Visit us at: https://authorswholead.com/

Send us a textFor Kate McDugald’s twenty-fifth birthday, her mom gave her the gift of cutting her off financially. This forced Kate to ask herself, what would she do next to support herself and what does she really love? She decided to diversify her love of theater and started networking to find acting jobs such as voiceovers and narrating audiobooks.  In this episode of “Authors Who Lead,” I talk with Kate McDugald about her acting and voice career, retaining her creativity while working full-time, and her experience narrating her first audiobook, “Earthlight Space Academy: Border School,” by Heather Lee Dyer.Want to become a published author? Visit us at: https://authorswholead.com/

Send us a textWho controls your time? Even if we’re writing or running our own business full-time, we can still find ourselves overworked or chasing the wrong goals. Richie Norton thinks in such a different way that when you read his books it opens your mind to recalibrate what you thought you knew.After several tragedies—such as him losing a son and a brother-in-law, his wife having a stroke, and losing her memory—Richie realized that the normal signs of success such as hard work, productivity, work-life balance, and time management weren’t what actually mattered in his life. He wanted true freedom to prioritize what really mattered in his life such as time with his family.In this episode of “Authors Who Lead,” I talk with Richie about his latest book, “Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping,” why it is timeless, and why asking yourself great questions can lead to success rather than focusing on habits or productivity.Check out the show notes here: https://authorswholead.com/2022/08/04/episode215/Want to become a published author? Visit us at: https://authorswholead.com/

Send us a textJohn Miller began his career selling leadership training to managers, executives, and leaders. He sat in over 10,000 hours of workshops and soon realized that people were asking the wrong questions. This epiphany pushed him to start teaching leadership training, and he later self-published a book around the phrase he coined, “the question behind the question.”In this episode of “Authors Who Lead,” I talk with John about his book, QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability at Work and in Life, how this led to other books, and how he sold so many copies. Check out the show notes: https://authorswholead.com/2022/07/28/episode214/Want to become a published author? Visit us at: https://authorswholead.com/

Send us a textAt age sixteen, Natasha Miller’s father dropped her off at a homeless shelter on Christmas Day night. Now she is an amazing mother, author, musician, and successful CEO of a company that has been in INC’s top 5,000 list for the fastest growing companies in America for three years in a row. In this episode of “Authors Who Lead,” I talk with Natasha about writing her book, Relentless: Homeless Teen to Achieving the Entrepreneur Dream, and how relentless she is in every aspect of her life.Check out the show notes: https://authorswholead.com/2022/07/21/episode213/Want to become a published author? Visit us at: https://authorswholead.com/

Send us a textSo many people think of writing a book as being this big arduous task to just fill pages with words. But books aren’t just words—they’re ideas, messages, or inspirations supported by those words. If books were just words, then you could put any logical words together to make a book, but you wouldn’t necessarily be inspired by the content or remember the book.On this week’s episode of “Authors Who Lead,” I talk about how perfectionism can keep you from pressing publish on your book and how you can get help moving forward with publishing your own book this year.Check out the show notes here: https://authorswholead.com/2022/07/15/episode212/Want to become a published author? Visit us at: https://authorswholead.com/

Send us a textThe concept for a three-book fiction series came about during FaceTime visits with our parents in West Virginia. We always kept in touch this way even as we traveled around the world, but during the COVID-19 pandemic, we talked more frequently. Steve Vannoy, my husband and partner in “Authors Who Lead,” says of those conversations, “It always seemed like my dad would want to tell a story.” We felt like we could honor his stories and his storytelling by writing a series of fiction books memorializing his life and the place he grew up in. If you haven’t already heard Episode 186 and Episode 193 of “Authors Who Lead,” you should go back and listen to the start of our fiction journey. On today’s episode of “Authors Who Lead,” Steve and I talk about how the series is going now that we are starting to write book three and about the new Fiction with Purpose group program we designed to take others through the journey of writing a fiction book.Want to become a published author? Visit us at: https://authorswholead.com/

Send us a textIn this episode of “Authors Who Lead,” I talk with Jill, writing as Margo Reilly, about her book, “When the Apple Falls Far from the Tree: Discovering the Gifts Within the Chaos,” her writing and publishing journey, and the transformation she went through.Want to become a published author? Visit us at: https://authorswholead.com/