"Your identity supports the dream of your heart." - Melody Dowlearn

For today's episode, Melody Dowlearn, author & founder of Tridentity Coaching & Consulting and the Identity Academy, shares her journey to building her own Academy. Along the way, she shared her thoughts about connecting our confidence to achieving our dream and how it can change our life.  

She also tackles personal things that can hinder our success. Check out the full episode to be empowered by our fantastic guest, Melody Dowlearn!

In today's episode, the founder of Glimpse Video, Greg Cross, shares his journey in creating a second video marketing agency called Faith Video. He shared how he purposefully niched down to serve churches and other religious institutions. 

He also discusses the importance of networking in business development because it's through people that you can unlock your greatest potential. Check out the full episode and learn more about Greg's journey!

In this episode, Berlin Byers, the owner of Wildcrafted Essentials, shares her experience in building her business. She discusses how overcoming a personal health issue led her to develop personal skincare products. When she was seeing excellent results, she offered them to other women, and soon enough, Berlin had herself an amazing business!

Berlin shares that if love what you do, you will be successful. You don't have to choose between success and happiness-- you can have both! Check out the full episode to be empowered by our fantastic guest!

One key ingredient that is required for all entrepreneurs is faith. How that faith is expressed is different for everyone based on your belief system, but, nonetheless, FAITH is required to help bring things that are currently only ideas in your head into existence. Faith requires a certain amount of courage to believe in the passions for your particular business category.

In this episode, Jon Umsted, owner of Yummylicious Cookies, shares his journey in building his business and building his community. He discusses how his relationship with God influences every decision he makes in his life and how trusting God helps Jon feel a sense of security when exploring the unknown of entrepreneurship.

"Bloom where you're planted" we frequently hear this expression everywhere. But how can we grow if we don't step beyond our comfort zone? Challenges are part of growth so are mistakes, but it is a stepping stone for us to bloom. We can only find where we should stay if we take a step toward finding it.  

 Just like what our guest, Katie Klenk, did in changing careers from being an Olympic horse trainer to becoming a real estate agent. The transition was not easy, but it was definitely worth the risk as she is now one of the top real estate agents in South Central Pennsylvania.  

 In 2022, she was recognized as one of the top six associates at KW Keystone. Homesnap named her among the top fifteen and ranked in the top 15% of sales volume in York and Adams Counties. She has multiple Diamond Circle awards for sales volume exceeding. 

 In this episode, Katie shares how she had outgrown a particular attitude, a particular stance that she observed in the people she worked with in her firm. She was becoming aware of new values rising to the top and establishing themselves as dominant values that needed to inform how they worked. We also talked about how being a real estate agent is also a business owner.   

Timestamp Outline  

00:00 - Introduction
01:41 - Welcoming Katie Klenk
02:34 - What Katie can offer you!
04:23 - Katie Shares Her Background
04:43 - Katie's Interest
10:15 - Katie Discusses Her Childhood
11:04 - Values that Influenced Katie
15:01 - How Katie Became a Realtor
19:17 - The difficulty in transitioning from horse training to real estate.  
21:31 - Similarities that Katie could transfer from Horse Training to Real Estate.
23:41 - Being a real estate agent is the same as owning a business
27:11 - Support that Brokerages Give to Real Estate Agents
31:34 - How Katie Figures Out the Right Path
35:22 - How Katie's Values Aligned With Her Work
40:00 - Don't Make Assumptions in Doing Business
42:37 - Teach People How To Think Rather Than What to Think
45:58 - Other People's Opinions Don't Matter
51:17 - Adjustments that Katie Makes in Doing Her Work
56:55 - Authenticity: A Value That Helps You In Your Business
58:14 - Katie Leaves Her Encouragement Message
1:01:46 - How to Stand Up For Your Values
1:07:47 - Connect With Katie
1:09:14 - Episode Conclusion

Have you ever joined an online group or community? Have you ever thought about building an online community? What would it be like to be able to encourage and learn with a group of like-minded individuals? 

 In this episode of the People You Should Know podcast, we talk with Kyle Van Deusen from the Admin Bar. The Admin Bar was voted as the #1 Wordpress Community and Kyle dishes out how the community was started, his motivations for starting it, and his encouragement to others who are interested in starting an online community.  

 ALSO, for football lovers, Danny and Kyle talk about their love for sports and the CRAZY rivalry between Eagles fan and Cowboys fans.

We all dread the day when we receive bad news. For Jeff Bellomo, he received bad news just days before he was to take his bar exam and finally realize his dream of becoming a lawyer. Jeff found out that his month has an aggressive form of cancer, and he asked a surgeon some questions regarding next steps for caring for his mother, “What should I do?”

The doctor was unable to give Jeff the answers he needed, but through the process of caring for his mother, Jeff was able to find his passion and the people he would fight for when he became a lawyer.

Jeff’s story is a lesson and reminder that you must find your passion first, and that it’s only when you find your passion that you can serve people well. We also talk about how fear stops people from truly pursuing their passion.

Have you ever thought about starting your own podcast?  

In this episode, Danny and Dave take you BEHIND THE SCENES and share what they have experienced in the days leading up to launching the podcast and what they’ve experienced in their first 6 episodes.   

Danny and Dave give candid advice about the Do’s and Dont's of Starting A Podcast in hopes of helping others skip a few of the early painful mistakes that they have made.  Dave shares how he has learned to ask better questions during the podcast episode and how becoming a better listener has allowed him to ask questions that truly provide value to the listener.  

This leads Danny to share that your motivations in starting a podcast must be pure and that you must be generally curious about your niche in order to provide the best value for podcast listeners.   

The duo also provides some warning in regards to things NOT to do. This includes not having too high of expectations, not making things too difficult, and not expecting amazing results right away.  

This episode is full of value for anyone who is thinking about starting a podcast or for somebody who may genuinely feel discouraged about their podcast.