Spinoff Success

Spinoff Success

A weekly podcast hosted by Beth Phillips featuring people who leverage their expertise in a tool, piece of software, platform, system or skill in surprising ways to create a new income stream. These stories will help you look at your environment and your own not-so-obvious talents in a new way!

Episodes

September 21, 2024 70 mins

Rick Wolter spent the majority of his adult life in prison. When he read about a program at San Quentin that was helping inmates prepare for life on the outside by teaching them how to code, he went about teaching himself through any means necessary.

Now that he's employed as a programmer, he's helping other formerly incarcerated and underprivileged individuals gain traction in the industry by building a communit...

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Lisa Simmons is the single mom of six adult children who range in age from 29-19. This enterprising, multi-potentialite found herself at rock bottom after her narcissistic husband left her and their children with nothing.
One eye-catching quote at her lowest point reminded her of the power of her mind which sparked a steady climb out of the hole she was in.
Today Lisa's living her dream life on a ranch she recently pur...

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Deborah Hayward is a mother and grandmother from Kitamaat Village, B.C. who is sharing her story of surviving residential school as a teenager one clip at a time on TikTok. 

As her life memories surface, Debra shares them during daily posts to her 20+ thousand followers on the wildly popular social media platform. My goal was to give Debra a platform to tell her story in a longer form.

We talk about the day she left, how the separati...

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Joshua Lisec is a ghost writer with a unique talent stack. He helps his clients author award-winning and best-selling books and close contracts for their premium services and products.

One of the keys to Joshua's success is his understanding and mastery of persuasion in every form of writing. He launched a new business teaching others how to persuasionize their own writing through his courses, "The Best Way to S...

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Stephanie Penich was going about her life, enjoying her various jobs and practicing reiki, when she started to receive messages out of the blue for friends, family and clients from their loved ones who had passed.

Steph recorded her experiences in a little black journal and turned those notes into a fascinating podcast called "Medium in the Middle". 

While her mediumship journey unfolds, Stephanie is building an audience, a...

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Alex Fasulo joined Fiverr.com in 2015 hoping to earn an extra $50 a month. She listed a single gig offering to write press releases for just $5 with a goal to rack up 5 star ratings and an excellent reputation on the site. When she quit a PR job that was toxic after just a month, she turned to her Fiverr dashboard, offered a few more services and woke up to a new business and freedom. 

Fast forward 6 years and Alex has earned over a...

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Brin Norman started an Etsy shop in 2015 to earn some extra income as a stay-at-home mom. When she acquired her first Silhouette machine, she pivoted her product line to scale her business.

Her shop has continued to evolve from physical inventory to digital downloads and Brin has learned solid strategies for success on Etsy along the way.

As a top seller, Brin shares lots of free hard-earned wisdom through her website, Instagram and ...

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Like many Americans, Elizabeth Miller found herself struggling to balance a full time career, parenting active teenagers and helping her ailing and aging parents. 
As the demands piled on, she realized her health and well-being were suffering and was inspired to make small and simple healthy choices for 100 days in a row.
That self-challenge turned into Happy Healthy Caregiver, a multi-media lifestyle site that focuses on c...

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Ian Westermann turned a tennis oriented podcast and blog into the premier instructional site on the web.

Essential Tennis boasts an extensive catalogue of free informational and instructional content including hundreds of videos on Youtube, two podcasts, "Essential Tennis" and "Shankcast" and blog articles. For the tennis enthusiast who wants more, they offer stand alone courses, a thriving membership c...

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Cathy Sikorski is an Elder Law attorney who has been a caregiver for multiple family members and friends in need.

She's also the author of two books, including the Amazon Bestseller, "Who Moved My Teeth?", a practical and humorous guide to the basic legal and financial instruments that every adult should have in place.

Cathy has shifted her traditional legal practice to build a new business. She is...

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Stephen Warley describes himself as "happily unemployable" after nearly 20 years of working for himself when the dotcom bubble and the 2008 recession disrupted his career and the broadcast industry forever. 

Stephen has recognized and distilled a discreet set of unchangeable human characteristics that are rarely emphasized in traditional settings.  Stephen helps clients build new businesses and prepare for the future of wo...

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Hannah Sutor and her husband had everything except time with each other and memorable experiences with their new daughter outside of their demanding jobs. They traded in 90% of their possessions and their suburban lifestyle for an RV adventure on the road. Learn how the Sutors leveraged technology, Youtube and other platforms to learn how to make an unconventional idea possible and what Hannah learned about herself, work-life balan...

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Anna Harrison has a unique background that dovetailed perfectly into her business as a travel consultant who provides custom itineraries for experienced and novice travelers alike.

In this episode, we discuss Anna's fascinating childhood and post-graduate experience, the business model which allows her to personalize her business at no extra cost to her clients, how she uses modern tools to streamline her service and ...

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Ed Latimore is multi-dimensional. What's more interesting is that his dimensions are not your typical past-times.
In this bonus episode, you'll hear the parts of our conversation that weren't related to his explosive Twitter presence including life after graduating with a degree in Physics, how he prepares for a professional boxing match, other projects, speaking opportunities and how Ed can take advantage of hav...

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In part two, Matt McWilliams dives deep into affiliate and marketing strategies. He discusses how to sell your audience what it wants, launch vs membership models and how never to run out of content.
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Matt McWilliams is a marketing and affiliate genius. From doubling his family golf school to managing multi-million dollar affiliate programs, Matt has leveraged his expertise to help clients launch successful products and services and created a thriving business teaching others how to master affiliate programs.
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I share a story about how producing this show helped me realize that I took my skills in the legal practice completely for granted 20 years ago. I think the story will help you recognize skills that you use daily that you're probably taking for granted.
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Kelly Garrett has been curious and eager to try new technologies since the earliest days of desktop publishing and dot matrix printers. She combined her IT and graduate degree in marketing to start her own freelance business designing websites and other projects for clients after graduate school. Fast forward 12 years and Kelly is the founder and Master of Marketing of Ekcetera.com, a design and marketing business, where she helps ...

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Carrie Olsen is one of the original inspirations for this podcast and the idea of using a skillset to pursue a career and lifestyle that most people only dream of. Not only did Carrie leverage her corporate skills to pursue the craft of voiceover acting as a business from the beginning but she used the same skills to create courses and a model to teach others how to navigate the industry and pursue their own dreams. We pack a lot ...
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Todd Brison is a writer who adopted the publishing platform, Medium.com, early to develop a consistent writing habit and find his audience. He employed a few specific strategies to grow his followers to 56K that are still effective today, even if you're a brand new writer.
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