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The YES Effect

The YES Effect

Shelli Varela

The YES Effect show features stories and interviews with some of the world’s most successful and inspirational people about how they overcame obstacles, doubts, fears and naysayers to accomplish massive dreams and impact the world. The difference between impossible and possible: saying YES. Host Shelli Varela is a Story Alchemist, speaker, coach and author, and is no stranger to possibility hacking. Her remarkable journey from 108 pound manicurist to a 30 year career as her city’s first female Firefighter & Captain has been featured everywhere from TEDx, to Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine and a NYT Bestseller. Shelli has since become obsessed with the power of the mind and in particular, the transformational power of the word YES. The YES Effect is proof that everything YOU need to succeed and change the world is already inside you.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best The YES Effect episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to The YES Effect for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite The YES Effect episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Today’s guest knows a thing or two about rising from the ashes. She’s learned to turn adversity into an advantage, and by combining her talent for photography and her love of storytelling, she’s learned how to be her own life boss. After taking her own business to 6-figures, she now teaches other photographers to be entrepreneurs and uplevel their game too. Her name is Christine Tremoulet, and this is The YES Effect Show!

Christine Tremoulet is a Story Strategist & Confidence Catalyst. A professional wedding & boudoir photographer, she focuses all of her energy helping other photographers use the power of blogging and social media to be seen & heard online. Her Superpower: helping you grow your confidence & rediscover your beauty. She has blogged for over 17 years, and her geek claim to fame is that she named WordPress. She has taught thousands strategies for blogging for their business through her best-selling book and courses. Living in Houston, Texas with her husband, son, and two cats, she loves taking 10,000 mile road trips across North America. Mini Cooper is her spirit animal. More than anything, she wants you to know that you are enough.

If you’re looking to make more money and build the kind of life that lights you on FIRE, stay tuned until the end of this show for a very special announcement on how we can work together! For full show notes on all of our episodes, visit http://shellivarela.com/the-yes-effect-show/

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The YES Effect - TYE 057: Live Like You Were Dying with Sarah Wilkes
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07/10/17 • 41 min

During a major health catalyst, Sarah Wilkes found her second chance in an MRI tube. This epiphany changed her life and now she teaches other what it means to live like you were dying.

If you’re looking to make more money and build the kind of life that lights you on FIRE, stay tuned until the end of this show for a very special announcement on how we can work together! For full show notes on all of our episodes, visit http://shellivarela.com/the-yes-effect-show/

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The YES Effect - TYE 036: Risking Forward with Victoria Labalme
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01/09/17 • 28 min

Performing Artist and Strategic Performance Coach Victoria Labalme helps you express your most authentic self and transform even the simplest daily communication into a work of art. Her online courses, live workshops and Keynote PerformancesTM have influenced hundreds of thousands of people across the globe to take creative risks and deliver their unique message with the unexpected twist that distinguishes their brand and leaves a lasting impression. A graduate of Stanford University and founder of Risk ForwardTM and Rock The Room®, Victoria has been the private coach to New York Times Best selling authors, leading entrepreneurs, Hall of Fame Speakers, Hollywood directors, coaches, consultants and advisors. She’s also been the private coach to top executives and teams at dozens of the world’s most recognized brands including Starbucks, PayPal, IBM, Oracle and Microsoft.

She hosts elite workshops and a live event: see http://www.RockTheRoomLive.com/ for more info.

Victoria has helped her clients craft landmark keynotes and TEDx talks, rock it on stage for Oprah’s Super Soul Sessions, jump from #100 to #4 on podcast ratings, deliver amazing webinars, crush their live stream conversions, win contracts worth $400 million, and wow audiences ranging from 1 to 17,000.

A member of the Speaker Hall of Fame, Victoria offers unexpected insights developed from two decades of professional show business: her one-woman shows across the United States, appearances on HBO and Caroline’s on Broadway, comedy clubs, scores of television commercials, documentary films with Academy Award winners and upcoming: a documentary she produced with her husband, Frank Oz.

If you’re looking to make more money and build the kind of life that lights you on FIRE, stay tuned until the end of this show for a very special announcement on how we can work together! For full show notes on all of our episodes, visit http://shellivarela.com/the-yes-effect-show/

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Kymberlee Weil has been entrenched in the TED culture for almost a decade and knows what makes a killer talk. We sit down with her as she shares the tips, insights and the secret ingredients that determine whether a TEDx talk has the right stuff to hit a home run.

For full show notes on all of our episodes, visit www.shellivarela.com/the-yes-effect-show!

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When Nancy Levin’s personal and professional life blew up, she learned the importance of boundaries, selfishness, self care and self love. For over a decade, she was a professional standout working for a major book publisher, Hay House Publishing (founded by Louise Hay). But years of people pleasing, selflessness and suppressing fear and unhappiness at home culminated in divorce, discovery of her affair and the end of her dream career.

She is now a Master Coach, host of the podcast “Your Permission Prescription” and bestselling author of several self-worth, personal development and relationship books, including Setting Boundaries Will Set You Free, Permission to Put Yourself First and Jump ... And Your Life Will Appear. She is the Founder of Levin Life Coach Academy, offering in-depth coaching, training and certification programs designed to support students to make themselves a priority by setting boundaries that stick. Nancy Levin is on The YES Effect show to talk about how people can strengthen their relationships and their own self by finally putting themselves first.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • Why so many people think boundaries and selfishness are bad things
  • Why projecting the image of “perfection” is so harmful
  • Why Nancy believes the “rocking of her foundation” was the best thing to have happened to her
  • Why so many people wait until it’s too late to make a life-altering change
  • Why we shouldn’t aim for a relationship that’s in “perfect harmony”
  • Why boundaries are actually much more freeing rather than restrictive
  • The reason people (especially women) say yes to things we should say no to
  • How to avoid immediately saying “yes” in order to people please
  • Why being “selfish” can be good and healthy for you
  • How you can confidently put your needs first using one small step next time someone asks you what to have for dinner
  • How Nancy eventually became comfortable telling her affair story

Quotables:

“We have this idea that the goal of a relationship is harmony at all costs. I’m here to tell you that harmony at all costs comes at a high cost.”

“There’s an epidemic of women and girls saying yes to things they should be saying no to and no to things they should be saying yes to.”

“Most people look at boundaries as being restrictive or depriving. I look at boundaries as the way we are carefully choosing and consciously curating the content of our own lives.”

“Culture has given ‘selfish’ a bad wrap; we pride ourselves on being ‘selfless.’ With selflessness, it’s right there in the word, we disappear.”

“I often look as selfish, self care & self love as being 3 sisters whose job it is to support us in honouring ourselves.”

“My transformation equation: Change = vision + choice + action.”

“On the way to becoming, it’s reintegrating qualities in ourselves that we have disowned and projected onto others, including the light and positive qualities we can step into.”

Links mentioned in this episode:

Nancy Levin’s website, podcast, books and coaching programs: https://nancylevin.com/

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Whether you’re a billionaire entrepreneur or the neighbourhood plumber, Pat Quinn will show you how to use your story to teach, sell and make an impact. He is one of the world's premier presentation coaches who has worked with Olympians, astronauts, New York Times bestselling authors, world-class business leaders like Grant Cardone, Tony Robbins, Shark Tank’s Daymond John, Dean Graziosi, and everyday business owners. His goal is not to get you a standing ovation - it’s to use storytelling to make sales.

He is also the founder of StoryLinq.com - a digital platform for storing, building and categorizing your stories to easily assemble into presentations.

He’s on The YES Effect to talk about how he coaches people to create the perfect presentation to get people’s attention, acquire customers, make sales, grow your revenue and ultimately create impact in the world.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • How Pat transitioned from a career as a magician to coaching world class speakers and presenters
  • Why focusing more on the audience than yourself will make you a better speaker
  • Why Pat believes speaking and presenting is the fastest way to grow a business and make impact
  • Why laughter and applause are not the most important part of a presentation
  • Why you shouldn’t open a presentation with your most extraordinary or emotional story
  • When to tell you most extraordinary and emotional stories in a presentation
  • Which kind of story to begin any presentation with
  • The main goal of public speaking or giving a presentation
  • The two types of audiences and how to convert each into a sale or action
  • How speaking is the only customer acquisition tool that you can get paid for

Quotables:

“You’ll learn more by watching the audience for 5 minutes than you will watching yourself for 45 minutes.”

“Your goal isn’t to be the smartest person in the room. Your goal is to help solve one problem.”

“The one thing standing between you and being an influence, having a voice, getting customers and making impact is having your stories put together in a way that moves other people to take action.”

“Speaking on stage or online is the only customer acquisition model that is not only free, but if you do it well, you get paid for it.”

“When you switch the model from one-to-one to one-to-many, your business just scales differently; your impact grows exponentially and it’s the most cost-effective, risk free way to grow your revenue.”

“The person who gets up on stage instantly gets credibility, has an audience and has a voice.”

“If you don’t have a way to store your stories you’re letting your most valuable assets and treasures blow away in the wind.”

“Everybody who is going to use stories to sell, grow their business and impact the lives of other people should have a way to keep track of their stories.”

“Most of the people I work with are business owners, coaches and entrepreneurs who want to attract new clients, grow their business and have a greater impact on the world. And I believe having a perfect presentation - a talk that introduces yourself to new people - is the fastest way to do that.”

Links mentioned in this episode:

StoryLinq: https://storylinq.com/

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When Netta Gorman stopped eating sugar, it not only changed her life, but also the lives of hundreds of others. She now helps people eliminate sugar through her coaching programs and immensely popular “Life After Sugar” podcast.

But Netta’s journey to the land of no sugar, flour or sweeteners wasn’t easy (as we’ve all tried and mostly failed). But after a lifetime of digestive issues, doctor’s visits and failed efforts, Netta caved to this small but life-changing recommendation of a Nutritional Therapist. Her results were so effective, she’s now dedicated to guiding others past the emotional and societal challenges of a no-sugar diet.

Netta Gorman is on The YES Effect podcast to talk about the challenges and benefits of ditching sugar for good and how she turned her success story into a life of helping others say “yes” to better health and feel free from sugar cravings and mindless snacking.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • Why sugar and flour cause so many digestive issues
  • Netta’s long and difficult journey to finally eliminating sugar, flour and sweeteners
  • The immediate effects of a no-sugar diet
  • How sugar affects weight, energy level and digestion
  • Why social pressure makes it difficult to stop eating sugar
  • Why eliminating sugar cravings starts with removing your emotional attachment to sugary foods
  • How Netta turned her personal success into a business

Quotables:

“I couldn’t imagine not doing what I’d always done.”

“If you want something different, you have to do something different.”

“I got hooked on feeling great and that’s what keeps me motivated.”

“Social pressure to consume sugar is strong. When you don’t consume sugar anymore, the social pressure to consume it again is even stronger.”

Links mentioned in this episode:

After Sugar Club

Life After Sugar podcast

Netta on Instagram | Facebook | YouTube

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We often never know how far an act of kindness can go or how it can change someone’s day, or their entire life. Here’s a quick story of kindness from a recent trip to the grocery store, which started with something rather unkind.

Too often, people are dismissed and not looked at for the wholeness of who they actually are.

Everyone has bad days.

But everyone deserves our kindness.

Please listen, share and let me know what you think - leave a review or DM me on Instagram @shellivarela

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Today’s guest is a business maverick. He’s led teams of over 300 people to achieve an annual sales growth of over $300 million. He studied business, innovation and leadership at MTI and Stanford. Now, he’s bridging the gap between currency and connection. The bottom line? He’s now helping business owners improve their bottom line and create connection with their customers that matter. What he found at the convergence of innovation, education, and business prowess is that if you want to have a super business, you have to learn how to create super fans. His name is Purdeep Sangha, and this is The YES Effect Show!

Purdeep is the leading authority on helping business owners turn customers and clients into raving Super Fans. Prior to helping business owners achieve success, Purdeep was a successful executive of a multi-billion dollar organization ranked as one of the fastest growing companies in the industry and a top employer in the region. Purdeep has a diverse background and has led numerous divisions such as Sales, Marketing, Operations, Administration, Project Management and Customer Experience. Having led a team of 300 individuals across 30 locations with an annual sales growth of over $300 million, Purdeep has the formula to create a high-performance organization. Purdeep is an avid learner and spends much of his time researching what the best businesses around the world do to outperform their competition. He has his EMBA in Innovation leadership, studied Innovation at MIT and Stanford, is a Certified Lean Blackbelt in Operations and has also trained at Disney. He has spent years studying successful organizations to develop his proven formula for creating Super Fans. Purdeep is also an expert in creating an internal culture of raving Super Fans. He shows business owners how creative operational and human resource practices can drastically improve bottom-line performance and dollars.

If you’re looking to make more money and build the kind of life that lights you on FIRE, stay tuned until the end of this show for a very special announcement on how we can work together! For full show notes on all of our episodes, visit http://shellivarela.com/the-yes-effect-show/

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Today’s guest is a YouTube sensation! She’s teaching entrepreneurs how to be their own boss by upleveling their influence and their affluence. She’s an example of how the YouTube platform is not just good for an amazing livelihood, but an incredible legacy. She was responsible for a media campaign that garnered 1 BILLION impressions in just one day. Her name is Sunny Lenarduzzi, and this is The YES Effect Show!

Sunny has almost a decade of experience as an award winning video, social media and online business strategist. From tech start up’s to authors, Sunny has worked with clients across industries – helping Hootsuite develop a YouTube series that increased subscriptions by 75% and Applebee’s hit 1 billion impressions in 1 day. Sunny is also the creator of YouTube for Bosses, a 4-hour crash course that takes you step-by-step to ranking on page #1 of YouTube for more views, subscribers and business. Speaking internationally, from NATO’s Headquarters in Brussels to Creative Live in San Francisco, Sunny is passionate about helping brands and businesses leverage social video for increased leads and awareness. Sunny has been featured on national and international radio, television and online publications like Entrepreneur.com , Forbes, and The Huffington Post. You can also catch her weekly YouTube show talking about social media trends and the latest digital news.

Sunny took home the award for 'Best in Social Media' for Western Canada in 2014, given to her by Notable, an organization that recognizes young professionals across Canada.

If you’re looking to make more money and build the kind of life that lights you on FIRE, stay tuned until the end of this show for a very special announcement on how we can work together! For full show notes on all of our episodes, visit http://shellivarela.com/the-yes-effect-show/

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FAQ

How many episodes does The YES Effect have?

The YES Effect currently has 158 episodes available.

What topics does The YES Effect cover?

The podcast is about Motivation, Entrepreneurship, Impact, Podcasts, Abundance, Inspiration, Self-Improvement, Education and Business.

What is the most popular episode on The YES Effect?

The episode title 'TYE 127: Meet the woman who built the billion-dollar “Chicken Soup for the Soul” brand, Patty Aubery' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on The YES Effect?

The average episode length on The YES Effect is 29 minutes.

How often are episodes of The YES Effect released?

Episodes of The YES Effect are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of The YES Effect?

The first episode of The YES Effect was released on Mar 27, 2016.

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