Feisworld Podcast

Hey amazing humans, I recorded the episode originally for me to remember this rather incredible and memorable journey from January 2nd to February 6th, 2020, when I became my mom's caretaker. In many ways, it felt like the most difficult time I had to live through in a long time.  I want to dedicate this episode to anyone who's living through medical difficulties, caring for their families and friends, and those who work in the healthcare industries tirelessly to create miracles and care for strangers.  There are many lessons I learned through this experience, and I hope you'll share yours as well.  Love and hugs, Fei --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/feisworld/message

A listener named Jenny Lisk sent us a great question related to our freelance mini-series - "How can I Work as a Freelance Project Manager"?  Freelancing can speak more towards people who can work \ independently. Since project management requires a lot of coordination on site with team members, many people in this career path find it difficult to switch over to freelancing from working full-time.   Since my freelance career started as a freelance project manager, I want to dedicate this episode to those who want to consider the possibility of working as a freelance project manager.  This episode is longer than our traditional mini-episode (10-15 mins) because I want to deep-dive into some of the practical applications and advice related to freelance project management.  Please share your questions and feedback with me via feisworld@gmail.com, or @feisworld everywhere on social media    --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/feisworld/message

Happy Chinese New Year 2020! It hasn't been an easy or quiet January. With my mom's medical conditions and the stomach flu I recovered from right before hitting the record button, life has been turned upside down.  Here's the story of me trying to get on back on my feet.  Hugs and much love, to you, your family and a healthy & happy 2020!  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/feisworld/message

Hey guys, we are on YouTube now creating interviews, vlogs, unboxing content. Please come say hi and subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm85VUgZyONBCie0rZIrguw?view_as=subscriber --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/feisworld/message

We are on YouTube! Please come say hi and subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm85VUgZyONBCie0rZIrguw?view_as=subscriber     --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/feisworld/message

Don't forget to connect with us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm85VUgZyONBCie0rZIrguw?view_as=subscriber Today's episode is all about learnings from the past decade.  What's your story? Share them with everywhere on social @feisworld  Hugs, Fei --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/feisworld/message

Hi guys, in addition to our regular Feisworld Podcast, we are now broadcasting and creating new content on YouTube, come visit us: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm85VUgZyONBCie0rZIrguw?view_as=subscriber We'll be repurposing some part of the YouTube content to release on this podcast starting 2020.  Onward!  Fei --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/feisworld/message

Allison Martin (LinkedIn) was born and raised in South Africa. She’s the founder of UDoTest, the first company of its kind to help significantly reduce the unnecessary cervical cancer deaths in Africa. Following a mobile and tech career, she noticed a significant lack of accessibility to medical services and care across Africa. After the first few experiences of getting her Pap smear, she figured that there must be a better and easier way for women to receive these tests - possibly in the comfort of their own homes. UDoTest was the start of something digitally different in South Africa and sub-saharan Africa with the intention of merging tech, healthcare and a much greater purpose all into one. The goal was to educate, increase awareness and disease prevention using simple and accurate methods. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/feisworld/message

Hey guys, this episode is quite different - it's raw and uncut.  My dad passed away on Dec 6, 2009. As I'm releasing this episode, I've lived my life without him for exactly 10 years.  I thought I should let go of the structure, the format of an intro, outro and just record it straight into the mic.  It's close to midnight for me after a long day of travel and interviews. You'll hear words I no longer knew how to say correctly and had to repeat myself. This just shows how imperfect a draft version of a recording actually is.  Much love, look forward to your feedback.  Fei --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/feisworld/message

Hani Mourra is the Dad and Founder of Repurpose.io - Create Once. Publish Everywhere. Repurpose is an easy-to-use automation platform that helps entrepreneurs, coaches, and content creators maximize their exposure without spending hours publishing to multiple platforms. Whether you Podcast, Livestream, or Create Videos, repurpose.io will be a great addition to your creative journey. In this episode you’ll learn: What repurpose.io does and how it helps creative entrepreneurs How Hani discovered the idea and created an MVP (Minimal Viable Product) for Repurpose.io How Hani marketed his product (hint: email list, pre-sale and all that jazz) Making the product better & growing the team How content marketing and content automation work at a high level, and why it’s important to repurpose content Hani’s origin stories and what brought him to Toronto, Canada What it’s like to a run a tech startup How Hani balances his work and family life (with his wife and two kids) --- Send in a voi

Hey guys, sharing some reflecting on how Feisworld documentary series and the marketing effort thus far. It's only been a day!  Watch Feisworld on Amazon Prime and Vimeo On Demand. All the details: https://www.feisworld.com/documentary Much love, Fei  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/feisworld/message

Over the course of landing our How to Freelance mini-series, I received a number of questions and decided to compile my answers into a single episode. For more show notes, tools and resources, please visit https://www.feisworld.com/freelance --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/feisworld/message

Show notes, tools and resources: www.feisworld.com/blog/tom-schwab Today’s creative entrepreneur on Feisworld is Tom Schwab. Tom is the Cheif Evangelist Officer at Interview Valet, a company he founded since 2014. Interview Valet is the leader in Podcast Interview Marketing (PIM), using targeted podcast interviews to talk directly to your ideal customers. They are a full-service concierge-level service who takes care of everything but the speaking. Podcast guest appearances are a cost-effective, fast and scalable way to reach your ideal prospects. in just 30 minutes, listeners get to know, like and trust you. Traffic from podcast interviews converts 25x better than blogs. In this episode, I invite Tom to open up about his origin stories, where the idea of Interview Vallet came about. His early days of running this company and today, operating from home in Michigan and a sizable team from the rest of the world. Tom has been exposed to more podcasts and podcast content than I have, even though Feisworld also st

Show notes, tools and more resources: https://www.feisworld.com/blog/anna-laman About Our Guest Anna is a freelancer who works as a messaging coach for other freelancers, consultants, and other solo entrepreneurs. What you will learn: Anna came to this interview well prepared to talk about Positioning & Messaging to help you become better at telling your own stories and services. In her experience, freelancers tend to try to be everything to everyone, which ends up backfiring or burning them out. She thinks at the beginning of your freelance career it's important to try different kinds of clients and work, but that after a while it's essential to start narrowing down the types of work and clients you like best and positioning yourself as an expert in your niche. That results in being able to increase your rates and actually doing work you enjoy, which is, after all, the whole point of freelancing! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/feisworld/message

New freelance mini is here!  Show notes and transcript: www.feisworld.com/freelance/how-to-price-yourself-as-a-freelancer --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/feisworld/message

Darius Foroux (https://dariusforoux.com/) is a writer and creative entrepreneur. He is also the #1 most-read author on Medium, and one of my favorite blogs for the past few years. Darius lives in Holland, where he was raised. His parents are immigrants from Iran. Dutch is his first language but you’ll never know through his writing. I quickly learned during our conversation that English has been an official language taught in schools and universities in Holland. Darius is the author of 6 books, including Think Straight and What It Takes To Be Free. There’s one question at the core of his work: How can we live a useful life that matters? In short, his work focuses on four main topics: Productivity: How can we achieve more without sacrificing our well-being? Habits: What habits will make our lives better, and how can we form them? Decision Making: What ways of thinking lead to better decisions? Personal Finance: How do we build wealth without sacrificing our integrity? Show notes, tools and resources:

For more show notes, tools and resources, please visit: https://www.feisworld.com/blog/joanna-penn  Joanna Penn (https://www.thecreativepenn.com/) helps authors make a living writing through her bestselling books, courses and podcast. She's an award-winning entrepreneur, international professional speaker and also writes bestselling thrillers and dark fantasy novels. Trivia Joanna Penn’s main website - thecreativepenn.com has over 800,000 unique visitors each month She is from the UK and she currently lives in London She posted her first blog post on TheCreativePenn.com on December 3rd, 2018 She runs a 6-figure business today. (She hit 6-figure for the first time in 2015 and her husband joined the business shortly after) Joanna has been podcasting for over 10 years before it was called podcasting (but downloadable audios) She has two podcasts - The Creative Penn Podcast and her new podcast called Books and Travel She’s on Patreon and has nearly 700 patrons (as of October 2019)   Cheat Sheet In this episode,

Located at the center of the Cité des arts du cirque, TOHU is a place for dissemination, creation, experimentation and convergence of culture, environment and community involvement. On June 19, 2019, TOHU announced the arrival of Ruth Juliet Wikler for the role of Deputy Director of Programming, Circus Arts. She is the guest on our show today. As the creator of a podcast that has dedicated so many of our episodes to circus performers from around the world, we immediately reached out to Ruth for an in-person interview in Montreal, Quebec during their annual circus festival. The annual festival, “Montreal Completement Cirque” which means “Montreal Completely Circus” is created and hosted by TOHU. My associate producer Adam Leffert and I went to experience the festival firsthand and for the first time in 2019 between July 10 - July 14th. The festival runs for ten days, where different circus companies from the world gather in Montreal to connect with an intimate local audience, and people who travel from afar. T

Show Notes, Tools and Resources: https://www.feisworld.com/blog/joey-korenman Joey Korenman is the CEO & Founder, School of Motion, who wakes up every day “to help thousands of aspiring Motion Designers learn their craft and develop the skills necessary to have a career in this magical field of ours.” Previously Joey was a Creative-Director at the awesome Toil in Boston, MA, he also taught at the Ringling College of Art & Design, when he first packed up his bags and moved his family from Boston to Florida. After spending years running his own ad agency, hours each day on his commute and clients who’d surprise him with new deadlines nights and weekends, he decided to pursue a new way of life and left Boston. As a creative director who was working for top agencies in Boston at the time, things look great on paper. “I was at the top of the mountain, but then I realized I climbed the wrong mountain.” - Joey Korenman Instead of waiting for another 10, 20 years, Joey left everything he’d built, an unthinkab

Sabine van Rensburg (@circusbean) and Brin Schoellkopf (@brin_schoellkopf) are two circus artists currently working in the show Passagers from 7 Fingers. We met these two talented young artists through the artistic director of Passagers from 7 Fingers, Shana Caroll, who appeared in an earlier episode of Feisworld. Passagers (or Passengers in English) is opening in Boston on September 25th, 2019 and leaving the city on October 13th, 2019. Make sure to check out the show with your friends and family! Learn more >> Darren DeLuca, a public relationship consult at Arts Emerson, helped connect us with Sabine and Brin. I interviewed them both inside the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre. Sabine, originally from South Africa, is an aerial silk artist. Her parents founded a circus school where she learned to perform as a circus artist, the rest is history. Sabine embraced the opportunity before enrolling in the Montreal Circus School. Soon after graduation, she found herself busy working for 7 Fingers.  Brin was born a