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What Does “Success” Mean?

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Scott Smith – Earth 2 Earth Compost Pail

So what does success mean?

Hi I’m Brian Pombo welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live coming to you live from Las Vegas of all places and today we’re going to be talking a little bit about the meaning of the word success.

First, I would just like to implore you, if you are a business owner or an executive that’s in the self reliance field, meaning you have products and services that help people to become more self-reliant. You’re someone I’d like to talk to. Go to DreamBizChat.com link is in the description, but you can type it in yourself. DreamBizChat.com there’s an eight and a half minute video on that site. It’s all free. You go watch it. I’m not even going to put a cookie on your page so that you just keep seeing ads for me or anything like that. There no ads currently on that page, but go and check it out.

If you’re interested in what I’m talking about on that page, it’s a chance to be able to talk to me directly about you and your business.

Where are you?

Where do you see yourself going?

So go to DreamBizChat.com and check it out. Let me know what you think.

Success. You could go and look up the definition. I don’t have it right here in front of me. Go look up the definition and Google of what success means, but it’s a pretty relative definition. It really is. I think a lot of us especially if you, if you’re in America, you may have a very standard view of success. It may revolve around money, it may revolve around prosperity, but really success is completely relative term. If you really think about it so much so that it really doesn’t have a good definition.

There’s a preacher that I know of that I heard talk about this before and he said that success doesn’t exist. And when you have something that’s so loosely defined as success, then it’s kind of true. It doesn’t really exist. It isn’t a specific thing. But you can always define it. You can always call it whatever you want and do you, and it can be whatever you want it to be. In the end.

Success is where you view yourself going in life and what would be a positive outcome?

Are you already successful?

What would make you more successful?

Is Success a destination?

These are all questions you have to ask yourself and I know I’m kind of bouncing all over the place, but it’s because I had an interview with like a fellow who’s relatively new to the business world, relatively new to owning a business.

His name is Scott Smith. He owns Earth2Earth, compost pails. This is an invention that he came up with himself. He based it off of things that people had already done for themselves, but he is one that created something that he took out, had it patented and is trying to sell as many of these little compost buckets as much as possible.

It’s very, very interesting and it’s a great conversation because there’s a guy that comes from construction. He has a very plain spoken way of speaking, very direct and to the point, but at the same time he’s a little bit of a philosopher and he’s realized that success isn’t necessarily about how much money you make, it’s about the lifestyle you make.

It’s about having something to build off of, having a direction that you’re taking life in. And he’s definitely doing that. It’s a great talk. Go and listen to it. The link is in. The description is named Scott Smith. This is the Off The Grid Biz Podcast is where I interviewed him.

So go and check it out.

Tomorrow we’re going to be talking about another podcast, another interview that I put out, and I’m going to be talking about kind of the, the ideas behind it. If you found any of this interesting, go to DreamBizChat.com.

Otherwise we’re gonna see you tomorrow and I’ll still probably be here in Nevada even though I’ll be flying around. So maybe I’ll be in a different state. Who knows?

We’ll catch you tomorrow, have a good night and get out there and let the magic happen.

Destroying the Comfort Zone

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Hey everybody told you I’d make it here and I’m here. This is all about destroying your comfort zone.

Let’s get started. My name is Brian Pombo with BrianJPombo.com I am here at the Lynn County fairgrounds and I have just experienced the Mother Earth News Fair of Albany, Oregon 2019 behind me, the Fairgrounds, this is where it was added is kind of the central location in the center. There’s a couple stages, a couple of booths over here, and then this large building over here is where a large amount more happens.

Also more stages beyond that, I believe they have 10 stages all together, 10 or 11 stages. With these running all day long, you can’t see everything. You just can’t see it all. There’s more than you could imagine. There’s more vendors than you could imagine. I haven’t got to speak with hardly any of them yet cause I was busy watching all the shows today.

Haven’t got the talk with all of the people that I did interviews with earlier. Haven’t got to interview all the people that I said I was going to interview. We got the interview, Jereme Zimmerman.

That one’s coming up, a famous writer of, uh……..I’m gonna go to brutalize one of his book titles. I’m not gonna do that. I’m gonna tell you about more about Jereme later.

We got a good interview, so that’s gonna make a great podcast. So what’s the comfort zone and have to do with this? This is outside my comfort zone. Just getting out there and meeting new people and trying new things. I mean, I like it after I’ve done it, but I’d much in most cases, I’d much rather just stay behind a computer, I mean honestly, until bed, until I get out here.

And then I said, wow, this is, you know, there’s this whole world that you miss if you don’t get outside your comfort zones. Put a little money down, take a weekend to put aside. And I had to leave my family behind and stuff like that this time around. And that stinks.

But you know, sometimes you gotta, you gotta do what you’ve gotta do and they’re all happy they were playing at the lake today. Get out of your comfort zone, destroy it, fine. You don’t have to do it all at once.

Just do it a little bit at a time. I’m going to hopefully get to show you some more of the inside tomorrow. The signal’s not great out here, so I was kind of hesitant all day about about actually going live, but everything’s done now. Six o’clock. They shut down pretty early. They got shut down at five tomorrow.

I’m going to try and get you to, I’m going to walk around with you a little bit tomorrow and talk about some of this stuff a little more. But in the meantime, get out, get out of your comfort zone. Go out there. It’s not as bad as you think. All the fears and stuff.

Most of them will drop away. You just got to get out there and try it out. I’m here with our podcast producer Sean E Douglas, and we’re going to go, I think grab something to eat or something to drink and just to chill out a little bit for the rest of the night. We’ll catch you all later.

In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.

How To Get Found & Remembered

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What’s in the bag, what’s in the bag? For those of you if you can’t see this, if you’re listening to our podcast, I’m holding a paper bag right now.

We’re going to see in the moment what’s in the bag and it has to do with today’s topic and that is how to be found and remembered.

I’ll tell you why because I’m going to talk about two people that found me and got me to remember them and I think I will for quite awhile. I’m Brian Pombo. Welcome back to the Orange Office and I’m with BrianJPombo.com and today we’re going to be talking about how to be found and remembered, and this all ties back into my other podcasts.

So this is one podcast, whether you’re viewing it or listening to it. This is Brian J Pombo Live. I also have another podcast called Off The Grid Biz Podcast and you can find at offthegridbiz.com we’ve got some new episodes coming out all week, every day.

We’re pounding out two episodes, going to have two episodes going out tonight. Really great episodes tonight. We’ve got Andrew Perkins and Deborah Niemann.

You’re gonna want to listen to those, both of those episodes that are really hot.

I’ll be talking about those later, but you’re also going to want to realize how you can use podcasts. Even if you don’t have a podcast, I recommend you find podcasts that your customers are listening to.

Find ones that your customer base or your potential customer base is already listening to and find a way to get on there. All you gotta do is offer it, offer it, get ahold of the person that puts on the podcast, get ahold of the host, get ahold of the producers and just offer your services to be on their podcast.

Most of the time they’re looking for people to be on their podcasts.

They’re looking for conversations to have. I would love to have more conversations. I’ve got to have a conversation with somebody this morning and she’s one of the people I’m going to be talking about. I got to talk, I believe it was last week with another gentleman. He’s someone I’m going to be talking about because not only should you be getting onto podcasts, that’s how to be found.

Get yourself out there and take advantage of free media that’s already available to you. Okay, just get out there and do it. You don’t have to be fancy. Everyone’s got a way of doing it.

Some people have a really fancy email that they send out or a Linkedin message or a Facebook message. Find a way to get ahold of these people. I don’t care if you call them, find a way. You don’t have to be fancy about it.

Just be direct and say, Hey, I’m so and so, I’ve got this book, I’ve got this business, I’ve got this product. Love to be able to talk about it. I think that your audience would find it interesting. That’s all you gotta do.

Just give them a reason why and give them a way to get back in touch with you. It doesn’t hurt to try. Get out there and get seen. Get heard on podcasts. It’d be helpful.

Now I’m going to give you an extra ninja tip and this is only for people that are really paying attention, people that really are thinking about this beyond the next step because I’ve got guests on my show all the time, Off The Grid Biz is a podcast that is mostly interviews at this time, we don’t have a single episode that isn’t an interview, isn’t some form of conversation.

So it just goes without saying that most of the people that are on there, we have an interview, we have a great time and that’s it.

We go back our separate ways and continue on with our lives. I’ve had two people the entire time do something a little bit extra and this isn’t to put down anybody else. That’s definitely not something I’m asking for extra from, but I’ll tell you what, I pay attention to people who do something a little bit extra because it tells me that they do it with other people and that’s going to get them a little extra attention whether they want to or not.

First person I’m going to talk about, it’s a gentleman named Frank Hyman.

I’ve got his name down in the description. Go and check that out. You can also check out his website Hentopiacoops.com he came out with a book called Hentopia and wouldn’t you know it, I wanted to talk about it here tonight. I wanted to show you my copy. He had his publisher send me a copy of his book and it’s not a small book, it’s a big book. It’s a big fancy book and I’m going to show it to you in another time because I don’t have it with me.

The name of that publisher is Story Publishing. They’ve got some amazing, they also sent me a catalog. They’ve got some amazing books out there, so go and check out Storey Publishing. You can find them online at storey.com.

And that Storey Publishing, they’ve got some great stuff out there. A lot of good people publish books with them. Frank is one of them. Frank came out with this book called Hentopia, like a chicken hen, Hentopia.

It’s all about how to build houses from scratch for your hands. Okay. How to build coops, how to build any form of habitat for your chickens and all, everything that goes along with it. So how to feed them, how to water them and how to make these things last so that you’re not completely a slave to your chickens if you’re interested in getting chickens or what have you. Go and check this out. It’s a great book.

Frank sent me a copy of it. They sent me a catalog along with it, like I mentioned. That’s cool. That really blew me away because I hadn’t had copy of a book sent to me.

I mean I’ve only been doing this podcast since April. Okay. We haven’t had a huge amount of authors on to begin with, but he was the first author that actually sent me a forward and copy of his book for this Dinky Little podcast offthegridbiz.com.

So here’s the second one today I met Janice Cox. You could find her at janicecox.com. We’ve got her website is in the description too. And she came to meet me.

We actually met in my office here in the Orange Office, one of the few people that have come to the Orange Office.

And she brought me this giant bag. Says you’re beautiful. It says natural beauty from the Garden, janicecox.com.

Janice brought all this stuff. The one thing that isn’t in here is, was a little bag of cookies that she had made lavender cookies. Those got taken home and nearly fully consumed by my family already.

They were really good. She brought me a whole bunch of stuff because we’re going to The Mother Earth News Fair. Like I talked about before. We’re going this coming up weekend.

So by this time next week we’re going to be there. I’ll be broadcasting from there. I’ll get to show you some of that stuff. It’s got some Epson salt here. She’s into real natural beauty and skincare and how to do things for yourself. Real simple things. And she’s got these great little recipe cards. There’s a loofah soap bar with a little recipe on one end.

Here’s one summer roll-on perfume, Rosemary Mint hairspray. Like I said, you can find out more about Janice at her website, janicecox.com. There’s a lavender time foot soak, the little recipe on there.

And she went and printed out the program for the Mother Earth News Fair because she knows that this is my first time going.

So she’s printed out the entire program so that I can plan my trip before I get there. And then on top of everything else. So they got those cookies, right. And then here’s her business card, which is really fancy, nice little business card there. And she gave me two of her books. Look at the size of these things.

These are two books. They’re both published by Ogden Publications. Who are the same folks that publish the Mother Earth News. Who are the ones that are putting on the Mother Earth News Fair and these are great books because they’ve got….let’s see if you could see it here.

They’ve got basically all her little recipes they’re like cookbooks and they’re not just stuff that you eat. It’s cookbooks for everything you could possibly think of. This is a natural beauty for all seasons.

This is brand new. This is a second edition. This is coming out. I’m not sure if this is out yet, but this is coming out real soon. She says 250 simple recipes and gift giving ideas for year round beauty. Really fancy book.

I love the drawings in here. The illustrator is a, let me see what’s her name is…….Dorothy Rinehart is the illustrator I’m going to attract down Dorothy.

She just has these awesome little drawings in here. I’d like her to do a project for me. And also this one natural beauty from the garden. This is a more than 200 do it yourself and beauty recipes and garden ideas from a Janice Cox. Very similar layout in this one. Great books.

Can’t wait to dig into those. That’s how you make an impact. You don’t need to have a book.

You don’t need to have anything special. Just have, if you’ve got products, give a sample if you can. If you have a business card, if you have any type of business materials, send it to the person that’s doing the podcast if you can, if you can afford it.

If you can work that into your budget, it’s worth it because it lets you stand out a little bit further. You’re already taken advantage of this great free media and podcasting and the ability for it to spread out far and wide. This is the new television. This is the new radio.

This is how people are communicating now. Take advantage of it while it’s all still relatively inexpensive, add a little bit extra.

You’re not only going to be found, you’re going to be remembered. Don’t forget speaking of remembering, I gotta remember my sponsor for these, his DreamBizChat.com if you’re a business owner or an executive at a company that helps people to become more self-reliant like Janice, like Frank Hyman, then you’re the type of person I like to find out more about.

I’d like to have a little talk with you over a DreamBizChat.com what are we going to talk about? Talk about taking your business from where it’s at to being the absolute dream business.

What are the things that would make it absolutely perfect. Go to DreamBizChat.com watch that video.

In the meantime, when we get back tomorrow, we’re going to talk more about podcasting in general, but specifically we’re going to be talking about media diversity. How diverse is your current media?

How many places are you meeting up with people, with your customer base, with your potential customer base, with your current customer base, and with your past customer base?

How many places are you touching them, both the free media, through through your paid advertising? How many different places are you reaching them? I’m going to give you an example of someone that’s doing an amazing job and being able to survive in what many would call a dying industry.

We’re going to talk about that tomorrow. You have a great night.