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Bestselling Author Podcast

Bestselling Author Podcast

Written by: Pat Mesiti
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We interview the most successful, best-selling mindset, life coach, and business authors to get their best secrets about being healthy, wealthy, and wise. They are co-authors with Pat Mesiti and David Cavanagh.Mesiti Pty Ltd Christianity Economics Leadership Management & Leadership Ministry & Evangelism Self-Help Spirituality Success
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  • How to Start Again, Dream Big, and Embrace Longevity with Wellness Entrepreneur Hang Hough

    How to Start Again, Dream Big, and Embrace Longevity with Wellness Entrepreneur Hang Hough
    Oct 9 2026
    Hang Hough is a beauty and wellness entrepreneur whose work brings together personal transformation, confidence, and longevity. With more than a decade in the health and wellness business, she has expanded from clinic-based services into broader beauty and lifestyle ventures. Her definition of success has grown beyond financial achievement to include health, freedom, balance, and meaningful relationships. Hough’s perspective is shaped by a journey from humble beginnings in Vietnam, where her father died when she was eleven and her mother raised five children. She credits education with helping her imagine a different future and says that, while people cannot always control what happens to them, they can choose what to do next. Her message is to keep learning, take one step at a time, and have the courage to change direction when a better path emerges. Hang Hough founded Transform Elite to address a gap in traditional beauty services: clients may receive a treatment and leave without ongoing support for their skin health and wellbeing. The brand connects clinic treatments with at-home skincare, nutritional products, lifestyle guidance, and support for inner wellbeing. Hough describes its name through the ideas of energy, longevity, image transformation, and elevation. Based in Horsham, West Sussex, Transform Elite also offers distance consultations, with digital and membership options in development to reach clients beyond the local area. Its upcoming Elite Within supplement is intended for daily use and is designed to support skin health, brain health, and muscle vitality. Hang Hough’s approach to longevity is about adding quality to life, and at 50 she continues to build, learn, and encourage others to keep dreaming and taking action. Hang Hough is a beauty and wellness entrepreneur helping people connect daily choices with confidence and vitality. With over a decade in health and wellness, she founded Transform Elite to address a gap: clinic treatments are often occasional, with little ongoing support for skin health and wellbeing. Her approach links beauty services, at-home skincare, nutritional products, lifestyle support, and remote consultations. For Hough, longevity means not just living longer, but adding quality to the years we have. Her journey from adversity to entrepreneurship reflects her belief that people can adapt, keep learning, and choose a new direction at any age. Resources: Explore Hang Hough Official Website Transform Your Mindset. Elevate Your Life: Discover The Transform Elite Connect with Hang Hough on LinkedIn and Get Inspired to Grow Your Self-Discovery and Change for Success Toward a Life of Prosperity: Get your Copy of Course Correct Today Talking Points: [0:00] Meet Hang Hough: From Humble Beginnings to Beauty Entrepreneur [1:55] One Decision at a Time: How Small Steps Build Success [3:30] Building a Beauty and Wellness Brand and What Came Next [4:48] How Hang Hough’s Definition of Success Changed [6:39] From Loss to New Possibilities: Hang’s Early Journey [8:36] Beauty, Health, and Longevity: Adding Quality to Life [10:53] The Mentors and Lessons That Shaped Hang’s Success [13:03] How to Find the Courage to Begin a New Chapter [14:24] Transform Elite: Connecting Beauty Treatments With Daily Wellness [17:09] Personal Consultations in Horsham and Support From Afar [18:32] Elite Within: A Daily Supplement for Skin, Brain, and Body [19:50] Why Hang Hough Is Still Dreaming Bigger at 50 [22:10] “Course Correct”: Take Action, Be Proactive, and Dream Big Source
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  • Business Growth: The PAVE Framework for Small Businesses with Business Mentor Jason Gavranic

    Business Growth: The PAVE Framework for Small Businesses with Business Mentor Jason Gavranic
    Oct 8 2026
    Jason Gavranic, a construction professional, investor, and business mentor, helps tradespeople and small-business owners move from business chaos toward greater control, profitability, and freedom. With 30 years of experience and more than $2 billion in infrastructure projects behind him, he draws on lessons from both large corporations and the small businesses that work alongside them. After leaving corporate construction in 2015, Jason Gavranic set out to support subcontractors who were being underpaid or struggling, and discovered how often capable tradespeople lacked the business skills and support needed to protect their companies. He shares how business ownership can mean taking on everything from finances, tenders, taxes, and compliance to team responsibilities, and why expecting immediate freedom can lead to burnout. He also warns against mistaking an established business owner’s success for an overnight achievement, when it may have taken years of hard work, reinvestment, and learning from mistakes. For entrepreneurs seeking sustainable business growth, his advice is to ask for guidance, build resilience, and take on the uncomfortable work rather than assume success will come automatically. Jason Gavranic PAVE framework Purpose, Accountability, Visibility, and Efficiency, offers a practical structure for diagnosing business problems and building toward scalable growth. Purpose means having a strong reason for starting and continuing, especially when business gets difficult. Accountability involves meeting legal, regulatory, employee, and financial responsibilities instead of putting them off. Visibility means understanding the numbers and attracting the right clients and employees, while efficiency is about structuring operations so the owner can gradually step out of day-to-day work. Through a 40-question PAVE scorecard at PrizstineConsulting.com, owners can assess where they are from the “chaos” stage toward greater control and freedom, and explore support ranging from an eight-week course to one-on-one mentoring. His message is to pursue uncommon results by doing the hard, unfamiliar work, and to remember that “imperfect action will always trump perfect inaction.” Jason Gavranic is a construction professional, investor, and business mentor who helps tradespeople and small-business owners turn chaos into control and build the freedom they expected from ownership. With 30 years in construction, including work on more than $2 billion in infrastructure projects, he understands both corporate systems and the pressures of running a small business without a large team. His PAVE framework: Purpose, Accountability, Visibility, and Efficiency helps owners identify weaknesses, strengthen foundations, and pursue sustainable growth. Jason has also helped grow an electrical contracting business from startup to eight figures in five years. He helps owners avoid costly mistakes. Resources: Take the PAVE Business Scorecard and Start your Journey from Chaos to Control Turn Failure into your Advantage: Get your Copy of Course Correct Today Connect with Jason Gavranic on LinkedIn for Practical Business Growth Insights Talking Points: [0:00] Jason Gavranic on Building a Business Without Losing Your Freedom [1:27] From $2 Billion in Projects to Helping Small-Business Owners [3:50] Why Small Businesses Struggle: One Person in Every Box [8:42] The Freedom Myth: What New Business Owners Often Miss [10:00] Why “Overnight Success” Can Take 10 or 15 Years [14:33] The PAVE Framework: Purpose, Accountability, Visibility, Efficiency [16:00] The 40-Question Scorecard: Find Your Business’s Biggest Weakness [18:15] From Chaos to Control: Choose the Pillar to Fix First [20:14] Want Uncommon Results? Do the Uncommon Work [21:30] Growing an Electrical Business From Zero to Eight Figures [24:36] How to Start: Take the PAVE Scorecard and Get Guidance [28:32] “Imperfect Action Will Always Trump Perfect Inaction” Source
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  • Money Mindset Shifts to Finally Get Out of Debt with Financial Educator Elizabeth Lampasona

    Money Mindset Shifts to Finally Get Out of Debt with Financial Educator Elizabeth Lampasona
    Sep 9 2026
    Finance expert Elizabeth Lampasona shares how a devastating series of events wiped out the property portfolio she and her husband had built as their retirement plan, and how she rebuilt both her finances and her identity from the ground up. Drawing on three decades in banking, lending, and finance broking, she explains why debt is not a moral failure, but often the result of life circumstances colliding with unseen risk. Elizabeth Lampasona breaks down the emotional realities of money: shame, guilt, and the crushing feeling of having “let the family down,” and shows why acknowledging you’re in trouble is the non‑negotiable first step to recovery. She walks through practical strategies for escaping the “debt spiral” using small, achievable wins, selling underperforming assets, restructuring loans, and separating long-term fixes from quick wins. Along the way, she reveals how she guided all three of her sons into owning their homes outright in their 30s, not through family wealth, but through disciplined saving, smart investing, and clear financial goals. In this conversation, Elizabeth Lampasona also explores the mindset side of money: how childhood beliefs and “we’ll never get ahead” stories quietly cap your financial potential. Mentored by Pat Mesiti, she learned to identify and replace limiting beliefs, surround herself with ambitious, growth‑minded people, and use setbacks as fuel for a stronger comeback. She outlines five big lessons from her journey: debt without shame, managing risk, evolving financial plans, building resilience in dark seasons, and understanding that your comeback can be greater than your setback. Elizabeth Lampasona also discusses returning to the finance industry in her 50s, adapting to massive shifts in legislation, compliance, and technology and why brokers who ignore AI and new tools will be left behind. For anyone feeling behind, trapped in debt, or defeated by past mistakes, her core message is clear: your starting point does not define your destination, financial freedom is built on decisions, discipline, and direction that anyone can learn. Elizabeth Lampasona is a finance broker and money mentor who specializes in helping people break free from the debt spiral and rebuild their financial lives with confidence. After losing the property portfolio that was meant to fund her retirement, Elizabeth Lampasona used her three decades in banking, lending, and broking to engineer her own comeback then turned that hard-won experience into a roadmap for others. She uniquely blends technical finance expertise with deep emotional insight into shame, guilt, and fear around money. Elizabeth Lampasona doesn’t just restructure loans; she rewires mindsets, proving that with the right strategy, discipline, and guidance, financial freedom is possible at any age. Resources: Visit Asona Finance and Schedule a Consultation with Elizabeth Lampasona Today The Freedom Blueprint on Amazon Talking Points: [0:00] Meet Finance Broker & Debt-Recovery Mentor Elizabeth Lampasona [0:02] What a Finance Broker Really Does (And Why Banks Don’t Tell You) [0:03] The Debt Spiral: How Small Missteps Turn Into Crushing Financial Pressure [0:04] “I Felt Like a Failure”: The Hidden Shame and Guilt Behind Money Problems [0:05] Step One Out of Debt: Admitting You’re in Trouble and Owning Your Choices [0:07] Why You Can’t Fix Your Whole Financial Mess at Once (And What to Do Instead) [0:08] When Investment Properties Crash: Negative Equity, Floods, and Forced Sales [0:11] Losing Your Retirement in Your 50s: Rebuilding When the Plan Implodes [0:13] How Elizabeth Helped Three Sons Become Mortgage-Free Homeowners in Their 30s [0:14] The Mindset Trap: “People Like Us Will Never Be Financially Free” [0:16] Mentored by Pat Mesiti: Breaking Limiting Beliefs About Wealth and Success [0:19] “No One Is Coming to Save You”: Why You Must Create Your Own Financial Breakthrough [0:20] Returning to Finance in Her 50s: New Laws, New Tech, and Refusing to Be Left Behind [0:21] Why Brokers MUST Embrace AI and New Tools to Survive [0:22] Five Big Lessons From Losing It All: Debt, Risk, Flexibility, Resilience, Comebacks [0:26] Your Past Doesn’t Disqualify You: Discipline, Drive, and Direction Toward Freedom Source
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