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Being 100% Honest with Yourself Featuring Co-Host Dave Conrey (Selling Series)

April 30, 2014 By Berni

The second episode in the new format I bring back my buddy Dave Conrey from The Freshrag Show. We had Dave on The Shut Up Show a few months back when he talked about the no-BS approach to building community and creatively publishing your stuff online. In that episode, we asked him what he was afraid of…and in today’s episode he reveals that his worst fears DID in fact happen.

Check out today’s episode to find out what Dave learned from that defining shut up moment…how it reinvigorated him to be completely honest with himself and ultimately landed him a huge opportunity to be spotlighted by Marie Forleo.

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SHARE SOME SHUT UP LOVE:

We can’t chase what other people are doing because it works for them. I’ve got to do what works for me. – @Freshrag #shutupshow (click to tweet)

DAVE CONREY ON BEING 100% HONEST WITH YOURSELF:

Create products you firmly believe in.
Create products that support your core business.
Create value for the community you want to serve.

DAVE’S ONE TAKEAWAY FOR SELLING ONLINE:

Convey your product to people in a way it emotionally touches them to want to buy it. Create stuff you absolutely believe in 100%. Something you feel 100% confident to sell.

CONNECT WITH DAVE:

Twitter: @Freshrag

Facebook: Freshrag Page

Blog: Freshrag.com

Podcast: The Freshrag Show

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Killing It Online with Former Broadway Musician Marc Ensign – Episode 85

January 22, 2014 By Berni

Thanks to Dave Conrey of Freshrag.com, I got introduced to this really cool guy and just had to have him on The SHUT UP Show to share his story with you. In this episode, Marc Ensign let’s Phil and me “RENT” his brain for 30 minutes to take us through the early part of his career when he did whatever it took to get on Broadway and how those lessons have helped propel him to do the amazing work today helping companies be more human online. It’s a deeply inspiring story and yet such a simple message for all types of marketers who want to kill it online and offline.

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Share Some Shut Up Love –> I didn’t get what I wanted until I let go of what I wanted in order to give somebody what they wanted. – @MarcEnsign #shutupshow (click to tweet)

Fun Facts:

Marc Ensign has 15 years of experience as a digital marketer and 41 years as a human being.
He is a speaker, author, writer, marketer, consultant and all-around creative guy “doing it” by helping companies succeed online being human.
His stage experience started 20 years ago as a very successful professional musician performing on Broadway with the show RENT.
Marc has been featured in The Huffington Post, Forbes, Jezebel, PR Daily, The New York Post, MSN, ProBlogger and other online and offline publications.
In the past 13 years since Marc founded re:think, he has worked with amazing clients from local mom and pop businesses to Fortune 500 companies like Nike and American Express.
In August 2013, re:think was honored by Inc. Magazine for reaching number 370 on the Inc. 500 list of America’s Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies–an award that stems from “doing it.”

Defining Shut Up Moment:

ON DOING WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET WHAT YOU WANT: I always had this dream of working on Broadway. I was too young, too inexperienced. I wasn’t good enough. I didn’t know enough people. I needed experience, but I couldn’t get experience without experience. This is when everything changed for me. Here I am begging people to give me something but I’m giving no value. So I reached out to each bass player on Broadway and said “Hey I’m writing an article for Bass Player Magazine about what it’s like to be on Broadway, would you like to be in the article?” Every one of them said yes. But the problem, I didn’t write for Bass Player Magazine. So I contacted the magazine and I wrote this article. Over the course of a month or two, I highlighted all these bass players. Shockingly nothing really happened.

ON AMPLIFYING SOMEONE’S STORY BECAUSE IT’S THE RIGHT THING TO DO: When I was completely unattached to the outcome, this guy’s dad deserved to have this article written and when it was just about that–oh my God–everything came together. When I got the gig on Broadway, I never worked so hard in my life for one 2.5 hour show. I worked for a month and a half, 6 hours a day in preparation for it. And, because of that, I killed it. It wasn’t because I was more talented than anyone else, I was just more prepared. When I apply those lessons to something I want, you can’t stop it. I’m getting it. I know what the outcome is already. The ball is in the cup already. Now, it’s just technically how am I going to get it.

Shut Up Tips:

It’s all about the human voice. If you end up talking to everybody, you end up talking to nobody. – Phil

If it’s not real life if you don’t have people disagreeing with you. – Marc

The way I found my voice is I got rid of the filters. I allowed myself to be extremely vulnerable. – Marc

I was a very successful musician for a while and then I started this business to fill the gaps. – Marc

When I get negative comments, I always respond with a nice warm hug. I don’t respond from a defensive place of pushing back because I believe if there’s no defense, there can’t be any offense. How can you take it any further than that? You can’t. – Marc

I see online is just an extension of who you are as humans. So if you treat someone that way where they show up on your site and they like the proverbial bag of dog poop on your front lawn and run, what is chasing them down and beating them up gonna do? Nothing. – Marc

There’s absolutely nothing you can’t accomplish if you do whatever it takes. – Marc

I didn’t get what I wanted until I let go of what I wanted in order to give somebody what they wanted. – Marc

When I apply those lessons to something I want, you can’t stop it. I’m getting it. I know what the outcome is already. The ball is in the cup already. Now, it’s just technically how am I going to get it. – Marc

Have a blog because you have something to say. My biggest fear is not being heard. Whenever I publish a blog post, I only do it because I have a pain in my chest and I know it’s right. – Marc

Marc Recommends:

Marc’s BEST OF archived blog posts

Find Marc:

MarcEnsign.com

Dave Conrey’s No BS Approach to Building Community and Getting Creatively Published – Episode 68

December 11, 2013 By Berni

Today’s guest is fresh in the entrepreneurial scene having just lost his job 7 months ago. However, he is not new to the world of content creation. In just seven months, Dave Conrey has launched the Creative Business Podcast, evolved his blog into an online business offering programs and digital products to help creative entrepreneurs, self-published two digital books, and recently launched a FREE 3-part video series to help you self-publish your book. We love his no BS, straight-talk approach to doing genuine and good work and we know you will too.

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Share Some Shut Up Love –> I can’t build a legacy, my son can be proud of, by not being 100% me. @Freshrag on @_TheShutUpShow #shutupshow (click to tweet)

Fun Facts:

Dave is an artist and art director with many years experience working in print media.
Dave is a business and marketing coach and strategist.
Dave is the founder and chief writer at Freshrag.com.
Dave is the founder and host of Creative Business Podcast, the audio addition to Freshrag.com.
Dave is married to a smart and beautiful wife and adorable son in Long Beach, California.

Defining Shut Up Moment:

In May 2013, I got a pink slip. But I look back on that now and I think to myself, that was quite possibly the second most important day of my entire life—the first one being birth of my son. It really gave me this kick in the pants to say, “You’ve been asking for this for so long and now here’s your ticket.” I always say that you put it out there into the world and the universe will answer you in spades. Here you go, you got your ticket to ride, go ride it. It’s been a roller coaster since May, building my business, starting the podcast, building courses and helping creative individuals like me build businesses. Now I’m able to do it full-time.

Shut Up Tips:

Everybody said stop worrying about the details or getting it just right—because you’re making excuses—just put it out there. If you’re getting it wrong, then you get it wrong. Nobody really cares that much, you just move on. – Dave

The funny thing about stepping outside your comfort circle and stepping past fear is that the scariest time is the first time. And the next time you do, it’s a little less scary. – Dave

Each time you fight fear, it becomes easier every time you get out there. – Dave

The more I do things for people out of genuine kindness, it just comes back. Being a leader [for my community] is by being as authentic and genuine as much as I possibly can. – Dave

People don’t inherently get that giving is a gift. There’s no metric to doing good. – Phil

I think that’s a huge fear we all have as content creators, “What if I’m not relevant anymore?” – Berni

Just keep plugging away and doing it with my flavor, that’s really what it comes down to. – Dave

If the only “why” I have right now is building a legacy my son can be proud of, I can’t build that legacy by not being 100% me. That’s what I’m striving for. – Dave

Dave Recommends:

Everything you need to publish your first book (with your OWN voice and flare)! Get instant access to the video series for FREE here –> CreativelyPublished.com

Find Dave:

Dave is all over the interwebs as “Freshrag”

Check out Dave’s podcast and web site at Freshrag.com