Dixie GillaspieIn today’s episode, Starve the Doubts host Jared Easley, along with co-host Kimanzi Constable from kimanziconstable.com, interviews Dixie Gillaspie, also known as Dixie Dynamite, who is an explosive coach, speaker, firestarter, and author of Just Blow It Up: Firepower for Living an Unlimited Life. Dixie is an editor at The Good Men Project and she is the mastermind behind DixieDynamiteCoaching.com, where she helps entrepreneurs around the world blow up their brickwalls that keep them from growing their businesses.Dixie is presently collaborating with Kimanzi in bringing forth Ripples to Waves, a four-week writing course to help people expand their reach and build presence that will create impact and income.In this episode, you’ll learn about:A Reader’s Digest version of what made Dixie DynamiteCreating her own brandWhat compelled Dixie to reach out to Kimanzi and start Ripples to WavesThe power of contentThe amazing results people have achieved from taking the courseThe greatest barriers in growing a business Building your own brickwall every time you say you can’t Energy and strategy to blow up your brickwallsPresence as the gateway to impact and incomeHow presence saved Dixie’s life literallyHow to deal with doubts and fearsItems mentioned:How Dixie Dynamite got her name:Got her nickname Dynamite back in the second gradeHer name took off on TwitterCreating a brand around Dixie DynamiteA shoutout to Libby Gill for encouraging her to build a brand around her nicknamePartnering with Kimanzi and starting Ripples to WavesSmall business owners feel like they’re not having big enough impact in the worldYou don’t always see the ripples you create and a lot of us want to create waves.Content is one of the best ways to reach people beyond the physical extentWorking with writers and being featured in bigger sitesTeaching people to convert conversations into clientsRipples to WavesA four-week writing course to increase their reach, impact, and bottom linewww.ripplestowaves.com In-depth, intensive, advanced, three-month mastermind to help people hone their content and get it placed where they want placed and develop a strategy around conversionWhat people achieved from taking the course - getting placed on the big sites and going viralDixie’s passion is to see people starting to:Trust their voice.Put their message out there.Make an impact.The barriers in creating and growing a business:Dealing with doubts and fears.Saying you can’t causes you to build that brick wall.Be a thinker.The biggest brick wall: Your own conditioning.Other people’s conditioningGetting past your brickwallsPassion isn’t what make things happen. That takes action.Strategy drives decision and planning leading to actionsEnergy comes before strategyPassion is what produces that energyThe joy in the outcome that drives the passionIt all starts with passion.Presence as your gateway to impact and incomeEverywhere you show up and everything you leave behindThe impact of reading a book that prevented her from committing suicideLaying down a business strategy so people will walk to your door and pay youDealing with doubts and fears:Don’t let your fears define your dreams but let your dreams overcome your fears.There is energy that comes with fear.Converting that energy into positive action.Using a feedback loop to be mindful about your fearsExamining your fearsWriting a chapter on The Thought that Changed My Life ForeverYou Are the Placebo by Dr. Joe DispenzaMad Genius by Randy GageConnect with Dixie on Twitter @DixieDynamite or visit www.dixiedynamitecoaching.com. Check out the course at www.ripplestowaves.com.Dixie’s final thoughts for the listeners:“We grow what we feed. It’s not about illusion and reality… it’s really about where you put your focus. If you’re focused on your fears and all the things you do
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