So, here I sit on day one of the new blog challenge asking myself why I am doing this. Why did I take on this challenge again and commit myself to write a post every day when I have too much to do already? I’ll tell you what I told myself,
“You are about to launch your dream program Julia, you need to get the word out, you need to create activity on your site. You need to raise awareness about the program, you need to be in massive action. What better way than the blog challenge!”
Well, the blog challenge is only one way I am using to spread the word. Some of you may not know me, maybe this is your first challenge or you didn’t see my posts the last time around. So please let me tell you a bit about myself and my program.
I am a change agent, a youth empowerment coach whose mission it is to have a significantly positive impact on the global youth unemployment crisis. With the permission of one of my coaches, Rich German of Epic Coach Academy, I adapted his program, Monetize Your Passion to create a youth version, The Monetize Your Passion Blueprint – Empowering Young Entrepreneurs.
The program is designed to help young people develop an entrepreneur mindset and empower them to start a business either on the internet or using internet marketing. It’s a no brainer for our current economic and unemployment situation. I am a life skills professional and this program contains many life skills that can be applied in many areas of a young person’s life. With the proper guidance, they can actually start a business within the time frame of the program.
You can learn more about the program by visiting my home page for now. I am in the process of creating a new page just for The Monetize Your Passion Blueprint – Empowering Young Entrepreneurs. It is for life skills professionals, nonprofits that service teens and young adults, teachers and coaches who have youth clients, coach adults who work with youth, or who want to have a youth-centered business.
Included in the program materials are my two books, 31 Powerful Lessons Empowering Teens and Young Adults to Develop An Entrepreneur Mindet and Pick From the Passion Tree – Empowering Young Entrepreneurs to Start a Business (the printed versions), a client workbook, a trainers guide and several interviews with business folks meant as inspiration and information. Two of the interviews are from people you know – Michele Scism and Michelle Shaeffer, our lovely hosts for this challenge.
I wrote both of those books using the posts from two blog challenges. That’s right, I did. As of the July 2012 challenge I had no desire to write a book, I just wanted to create the program. After fifteen days into the challenge, I realized a book was writing itself and within forty-five days of starting the challenge, the first book, 31 Powerful Lessons was published and being sold on my site and on Kindle. We were a top seller on Kindle for a while with over 400 copies downloaded on the first day of the free download period. I’ve since taken the book off of Kindle because I don’t like their policy that you can’t use the digital book for ninety days.
Aside from the new program, I am wrapping up The Youth Empowerment Telesummit that includes 18 speakers talking about current trends and strategies in parenting and life skills training. The telesummit is available until April 14th and we are offering deeply discounted prices on the pre-sale of the recordings from that event. After April 14, the prices increase by quite a bit. If you are interested in The Youth Empowerment Telesummit, you can learn more by clicking here. If you request a Free Pass to the telesummit, you can download 31 Powerful Lessons (wink, wink) for free by clicking on the gift icon next to my name. By the way, all the speakers are offering a free gift so you can download those as well.
As if all that wasn’t enough, I am co-hosting the August 2013 Global Presence Humanitarian Dinner Event in Los Angeles. This is a global organization founded by Marlaine Cover of Parenting 2.0. I am very proud to be a part of this amazing organization that changing the paradigm for teaching life skills.
So, now you know what I’m up to. Busy, busy, busy. Yet here I am, blogging for the blog challenge, committed to submitting a post a day for the month of April. I may focus this month’s posts on how to have a telesummit. How does 28 Steps to have a successful telesummit sound to you?
What have I done to myself???