Amanda Holmes is CEO of Chet Holmes International, a company which has assisted over 200,000 businesses over the last 25 years. She inherited the business after her father unexpectedly passed away. With her only background as a singer, she stepped into CEO at 26 yrs old and has since doubled CHI’s clients the last 2 years in a row.

Subscribe to EOFire

Apple | Spotify | iHeart

Resources Mentioned:

• Your Big Idea: Successful Entrepreneurs have One Big Idea. Follow JLD’s FREE training & you’ll discover Your Big Idea in less than an hour!
• Audible – Get a FREE Audiobook & 30 day trial if you’re not currently a member!
• Leadpages and PowToon – Amanda’s small business resources
• The Ultimate Sales Machine – Amanda’s top business book
• Chet Holmes International – Amanda’s website
• The Freedom Journal: Set & Accomplish your #1 goal in 100 days!
• Skills on Fire – Get quick and powerful tutorials on Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook Live!

3 Key Points:

1. People do content marketing today without knowing why they have to do it.
2. Don’t talk about you and your products. Talk about your audience.
3. Shift your focus to people who really matter.

Sponsors

• DesignCrowd: Post your design project on DesignCrowd today and get a special $100 VIP offer! Visit DesignCrowd.com/fire and enter the discount code FIRE when posting your project!

Time Stamped Show Notes

(click the time stamp to jump directly to that point in the episode.)

• [01:24] – Amanda started as a singer-song writer
• [01:37] – She came home and inherited something she didn’t want
• [01:58] – Amanda has now fallen in love with entrepreneurs
• [03:19] – Amanda used to believe that her father worked his way to the grave
• [03:35] – Realizing she has an opportunity to show the world they could work smarter
  • [04:28] – “I could be that difference”
• [05:28] – Join the buyer’s pyramid exercise!
  • [05:40] – What would be the title of your talk
  • [06:07] – The difference between you and 90% of business owners
  • [06:43] – Get a pen & paper and join!
• [08:12] – Value Bomb Drop: Have a stadium pitch
• [10:11] – What is something you’ve changed your mind about in the last 6 months? Knowing that I don’t have to do everything and shifting to how I can empower and inspire my team to the next level
• [11:53] – The Three Strategies to Build Business Year After Year
• [12:19] – Worst Entrepreneurial Moment: The day I stepped in as CEO and blindly trusted people incapable of doing what needed to be done
  • [13:57] – “I would have to take responsibility and I would have to ultimately trust myself”
• [15:27] – Entrepreneurial AH-HA Moment: I realized all I was doing was coming from a place of lack, so I shifted my focus
• [18:16] – What is the one thing you are most FIRED up about today? Divine Bliss International
• [19:53] – Please go to Hello Soul
• [21:00] – The Lightning Round
  • What was holding you back from becoming an entrepreneur? – I felt I was too young
  • What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received? – When you live in honesty and truth there’s nothing to fear
  • What’s the personal habit that contributes to your success? – Oneness with myself
  • Share an internet resource, like Evernote, with Fire Nation – Leadpages and PowToon
  • If you could recommend one book to our listeners, what would it be and why? – The Ultimate Sales Machine
  • Imagine you woke up tomorrow morning in a brand new world, identical to Earth, but you knew no one. You still have all the experiences and knowledge you currently have – your food and shelter is taken cared of – but all you have is a laptop and $500. What would you do in the next 7 days? – I will build out a funnel for my non-profit…
• [24:35] – Go to Amanda’s website to get a free resource that assists you in making 9x more impact on every move you make!
• [25:38] – Be yourself

Killer Resources!

1) The Common Path to Uncommon Success: JLD’s 1st traditionally published book! Over 3000 interviews with the world’s most successful Entrepreneurs compiled into a 17-step roadmap to financial freedom and fulfillment!

2) Free Podcast Course: Learn from JLD how to create and launch your podcast!

3) Podcasters’ Paradise: The #1 podcasting community in the world!

Subscribe to EOFire!