The Ripple Effect Podcast with Steve Harper

Danielle Prahl is a Digital Marketing Expert, Educator, Author, and Podcast Host. She loves helping entrepreneurs create the lives and businesses of their dreams on their own terms. Specializing in automation, scaling, and the latest industry techniques combined with psychology and strategy - Danielle has helped scale dozens of entrepreneurs into 6 and multi 7 figure business owners in her 10+ years in business. Boring Bragging Stats they Tell you to Care about: Danielle has run hundreds of launches for clients in her 10 + years in business and helped build and grow over a dozen entrepreneurs' businesses in her 1:1 work, helping them just grow traction into multi-million dollar businesses. She has personally led over 4000 students through her own courses and trainings. Danielle is the best-selling author of the book "Divorce, Drinking & Dating" about her early entrepreneurial journey and host of Rule Breaker, Dream Maker Podcast where she interviews those who have found success, no matter their situation. Danielle loves putting out fun and informative content each week, serving her clients and not taking life too seriously (only business lol). None of us get out alive anyway, so if it's not a hell yes? It should be a no.

Today's podcast episode is a little shorter, but still important nonetheless. Creative connecting is a skill everyone should master and in this short episode, I explain some ways I have gotten better at it, and possibly how you can too!

SPECIAL NOTE: Check out the 4-Days of Wild Writing with Laurie Wagner event starting July 12th! Here's the link: https://27powers.org/free-wild-4-day-invite-2022/ Laurie Wagner is a writing teacher + coach, author of 7 books, mixed-media artist, fervent collage-maker, mother of two, and one-time amateur racquetball champion. She's the author of Living Happily Ever After: Couples Talk about Long Term Love and Expectations: Women Talk about Becoming a Mother, as well as Holding the Dream – The Art of Marlene Louchheim. Learn more about Laurie and her great work - 27powers.org

I was so honored to interview my friend and fellow blogger and true Rippler, Melissa Lombard. Melissa is one of those people that the world needs more of. Her enthusiasm, her smile, and her gentle kindness just make everyone who knows her better spinning in her orbit. Check out melissalombard.com and check out all the amazing people she interviewed with her Coffee with Stranger series. Here is Melissa's BIO in her own words! Melissa Lombard Every week, for almost three years, I enjoyed a conversation and a cup of coffee with a stranger and wrote about it here. The project, called Coffee With A Stranger, was absolutely the most incredible thing I’d ever done! The project was on hold for six months as my husband and I enjoyed a foreign adventure running a bed and breakfast in rural Costa Rica. I blogged about that, if you’re interested. If I had to sum up the experience, I’d say it was sort of like Pioneer Woman meets Survivor. If you want to get the back story, check out this post. If you have questions, you might find the answer here. During the Coffee With A Stranger project, we lived in Austin, TX and my husband and I ran a real estate company called Lombard Home Team – which was a Keller Williams affiliate. We were blessed with an abundance of great clients who turned into great friends. Today, you will find us about 1500 miles north of Austin, in the beautiful city of Minneapolis. I was born here in MN and after 14 years away, it was time to be closer to home and family. My Texan husband Dave has adjusted nicely to the MN winters and though he hasn’t traded “y’all” for “you guys”, I’m pretty sure I overheard him say “heck yeah” the other day. And not mockingly either. Never big on doing the same thing twice, I traded in my residential real estate blazer (OK, they don’t really give you a blazer, but they totally should) became a Commercial Broker Associate with a commercial real estate company and then landed my dream job, running a Keller Williams real estate firm. I spent my days asking lots of questions, teaching and coaching the very best real estate agents imaginable. There probably isn’t a job better suited for me. And yet, coming late summer 2022, there will be an new adventure! So stay tuned for that developing story!

Trying something a little bit different. I put out a video on my Youtube channel and decided that the message was just too important to not share with my loyal podcast listeners. I could have just left it alone but that would be a lazy approach, wouldn't it? Some pun intended.  Anyway, this is a short episode and if you like these micro-takes as bite-sized episodes please let me know!

Julie Sands is one of those people who just simply lights up a room. Her inquisitive mind and the commitment she has to always be learning something new are truly inspiring. She is one of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet and we were so thrilled to have her on the show. Julie will be launching her own podcast very soon called "Underestimated" where she hopes to inspire men and women to understand how gender stereotypes and bias sabotage individual and business success. She was born to do this and we have no doubt she's going to be super successful with her show. To learn more about Julie and her work, check out her LinkedIn and give her a follow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-sands-aia-mba-leed-ap-pmp-46a71510/ or simply emaill her at underestimatedpodcasting@gmail.com  

Deborah Alma is a UK poet, editor and teacher. She has worked using poetry with people with dementia, in hospice care, with vulnerable women’s groups and with children in schools. From 2012 she was the Emergency Poet offering poetry on prescription from her vintage ambulance. She co-founded the world’s first walk-in Poetry Pharmacy in Shropshire with her partner the poet James Sheard in 2019. A mix of the therapeutic and the theatrical, Deborah offers consultations inside the Poetry Pharmacy and prescribes poems as cures as well as dispensing poemcetamols and other poetic pills and treatments. She is editor of Emergency Poet-an anti-stress poetry anthology, #Me Too – rallying against sexual harassment- a women’s poetry anthology ,Ten Poems of Happiness and co-edited with Dr Katie Amiel These Are the Hands-Poems from the Heart of the NHS. Her first full collection Dirty Laundry is published by Nine Arches Press.

What happens when you lose your mojo and how to get it back. Steve shares some of his own personal tips that have helped him.  What tips do you have to get yourself back on track when you feel unmotivated, a bit deflated, or defeated? 

Krisstina Wise is a real estate mogul, Millionaire Coach, and creator of several multi-million dollar businesses including Goodlife Luxury, The Paperless Agent and most recently, WealthyWellthy. She is also an international speaker and the award-winning author of the Amazon Best-Seller Falling for Money, a romance novel for your bank account. Named one of the 100 Most Influential Real Estate Leaders in the country, she has been featured in USA TODAY, as well as by Apple, Contactually and Evernote for her creative leadership with emerging technologies. Check out wisemoneymethod.com and Krisstina's main site - wealthywellthy.life

Candice is one of those people you meet in life that you just know is gonna become your friend. If her infectious personality doesn't hook you, her smile and big heart will. This amazing conversation so gives credence to the power of Rippling and I was so honored to have Candice join me for an amazing chat about caregiving, friendship, and finding how to Ripple in life.