The Firebelly Chronicles | What's Burning in You? | Weekly Podcast | Interviews to Inspire, Motivate, and Empower You

This week's Firebelly guest—Money expert and Attorney, Emily Chase Smith—knows a lot about money and the loss of money in business. As Emily points out, for individuals who wish to be creative in their business (which includes anyone who is starting a business, but especially individuals wanting to make a living being creative—writers, filmmakers, cooks, etc.) figuring out and organizing the money piece in your business is very important, if not key.

Today's Firebelly guest, author, Laura Vanderkam and her book, What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast is a tremendous resource for those of us with a full life, eager to find the time to do those things that we know make us who we are and who we want to become. Laura has studied the productivity of thousands of individuals, and breaks down those key items successful people focus on (or don’t focus on) throughout their day. Most importantly, she brings to light the early morning hours before most of the world rises. These early morning hours — this is where you can find the most successful people — this is how they thrive.

In this week’s Firebelly interview, Filmmaker Gina Leibrecht talks about being broke, cold calling, and working for free, all in pursuit of her dream of becoming a filmmaker. Gina knew she couldn’t work the typical 9-5 job, it just wasn’t who she was. A true inspiration, Gina is someone who felt that fire in her belly and went for it, no matter what. She’s a documentary filmmaker — a producer, a director, an editor and a grant-writer (and she does everything else in between when it comes to filmmaking).

Bunmi Laditan says the key to doing what you love is to just start where you are. Bunmi created the Twitter feed, The Honest Toddler back in April 2012 and 4 short months later an agent called and offered her a book deal. Today The Honest Toddler Twitter feed has over 280,000 followers. Her Facebook page >> 198,000 followers.

Now, she's currently working with television producers to transform The Honest Toddler into a TV series. Darren Starr, the creator of the famed Sex and City series has even approached her about the possibility.

The Honest Toddler is based on Bunmi’s now four year old daughter, which is only appropriate as to why you’ll hear her sweet daughter in the background of our interview.

What's burning in you?

Owner Daniel Keeton of Bend, Oregon had an idea. He wanted to create a healthy beer-like beverage for dogs.While working at Boneyard Brewery, one of the local breweries in his town, Daniel created Dawg Grog - a nutritional liquid treat for your best friend. It's made from Boneyard Brewery's malted barley water, liquid glucosamine, and organic vegetable broth.In only a matter of months, Dawg Grog has already gone international, even making into one of Conan O'Brien's nightly monologues.Daniel created Dawg Grog and manages Dawg Grog while at the same time, continuing to work his full-time job.How did he do it, and how does he do it?Learn all about the Dawg Grog story in our interview here.And after watching the interview, let me know if you too are working a full-time time while creating your project. How are you balancing it and what advice can you offer to the Firebelly Chronicles' community? Share your advice and thoughts in the comments below the video and audio after viewing at www.thefirebellychronicles.com.