OM2: Michelle Prince | The Power of "Author"ity

Meet Today’s Guest: Michelle Prince Michelle Prince is a successful business woman, best-selling author, sought-after motivational speaker, publishing expert, leadership coach and CEO/Founder of Performance Publishing Group, a “partner” publishing company dedicated to making a difference… one story at a time. She is known as America’s Productivity Coach, is a certified Human Behavior Consultant and dedicates herself to helping women impact the world, using the strengths and talents already within them, to create an extraordinary life. She’s helped thousands tell their stories and become published authors through her consulting, courses, seminars, and publishing services, and founded the “Book Bound Workshop”. She has also published many successful books, including her best-selling Winning in Life Now and latest, The Power of Authority. She is a Ziglar Legacy Certified speaker/ trainer and named the Ziglar Brand Ambassador - representing the values and legacy of the late Zig Ziglar. She was the co-host of The Ziglar Show podcast, with 40 million downloads and host of her own podcast, The Power of Authority. She has been a featured speaker for many corporations, associations and events to inspire, transform and support leaders. How did you get to be the expert you are right now with leveraging your authority and how you want to be an author to do that, and how we really are leveraging kind of our story in our wisdom to really make a bigger impact in the world. my career started working for Zig Ziglar. And that had a huge impact on me, because, you know, I was just out of college. And I just loved everything that he stood for and values. I knew some way, somehow, I'd be doing more of that as I as I grew into my own, if you will. But I didn't really know how to do it. I always had a goal to write a book, but I didn't dare tell anybody about it. I remember sitting in a conference actually and thinking, well, why not me? Why not? Why don't I just write a book. And so I'm going to write a book. And I'm just going to share it with my kids. And that'll be that. And I did write a book. And it was my first book was called Winning In Life Now. And Zig wrote the foreword, and it was a big deal in my little world. That book really opened up this opportunity to get out there and speak and do things. I'd meet all these incredible people, and they have great stories, but they really didn't know, they didn't have a platform. They didn't know how to leverage it. And so I started just getting really passionate about helping people figure out their story. It just kind of evolved into not just helping people find their story, but to publish them and a publishing company and everything that goes along with that. It's been an incredible journey. Tell us a little bit about what Book Bound is. Book Bound is a conference I've been doing since 2010. Pre COVID we were doing it live, in person a couple times a year, but it's basically three days and it's really designed for new authors who are trying to get clarity. What is my story? What is it? If I did want to really grow my business or leverage what I'm doing, how would I do that? Yes, the publishing part comes into it, but it's really focused on getting clarity on who you are, what do you have to offer. And then how do you go through that process? How do you market a book, all of those things? And so we've been doing that for all those years. It's been great. It's amazing to see how many people have taken that information and just kind of run with it and either created their own book or their own brand. Michelle is going to be sharing some great tips and wisdom today on how to leverage authority. We both share the love of helping people to tell their stories. And there is a place for...