Thinking Out Loud

Since my blog is pretty much my journal, I thought I'd paste in some of the kind emails I've received so far since my presentation yesterday. I think I'll go back and read them if I'm ever needing an ego boost. :) Hi Thanks for an amazing presentation.  You are an inspiration. I took so much from your personality. I just was very impressed you have a lucky husband and family.  Looking forward to receiving the YouTube presentation. I can’t wait to get home and start implementing.  Have a safe trip home.  Yasha  Janelle! I just met you on the elevator and feel dumb that we were cut short on talking because my floor came so quick. First, both of the classes you gave were incredible. Really. You gave a TON of actionable, super valuable information, and you were fun to listen to. I feel that your classes were well worth the money and appreciate you sharing so much value. Briefly about myself, and only because you asked me and ...

I'm getting so excited for my upcoming Prosper Show presentation. It's this next week in Las Vegas where I'm scheduled to teach back to back workshops. One is helping retailers create an Amazon Video Strategy and the other one is teaching them how to leverage YouTube to grow their private label brands. So far, I have over 115 people attending the workshops and they are each paying $349 to be there. I am being paid half of the tuition which means I will earn in one day (5.5 hours of teaching) more money than I earned in my entire first year of teaching. Seriously, my contract as a teacher for the 1999 school year at Weber High was for $20,100. I left teaching as a profession after a few years because I didn't want to be financially tight. I wanted to be able to earn more money so I could better provide for my family. Little did I know then that later, teaching and consulting would provide me considerable income. The other day I was hiking a mountain and I had just re...