Ray Edwards Show
Ray Edwards is a sought-after Copywriter, Author, Speaker, and Communications Strategist. His clients include Tony Robbins, Jack Canfield, Jeff Walker, Robert Allen, and more. On this show, Ray helps you start, run, and grow their Internet-based businesses. The show includes interviews with well-known experts like Michael Hyatt, Jeff Goins, Dan Miller, Cliff Ravenscraft, Michael Stelzner, Amy Porterfield, Don Miller, and many others.

Many (if not most) modern Christians have a “pop-up Jesus”… we “pop him up” on Sunday morning, or maybe while we're listening to Christian radio.

But when the chips are down (sickness, relationship trouble, financial problems), we often turn to more “practical” answers, like medical science, Dr. Phil, and good financial books. None of that is bad. But if we put our faith in those things, we're sunk.

We need to pursue, and be preoccupied, with “the One Thing” for all Christians.

If you are a Christian, there is only one thing you need. And we should be obsessed with that One Thing.

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Now it happened as they went that He entered a certain village; and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet and heard His word. But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me.”

And Jesus answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

Luke 10:38-42

Whenever you find yourself worried about “many things”, remember the One Thing that is needful. Jesus.

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You have a great business idea — or so you think. But will it work?

That's the subject of Pat Flynn's new book, Will It Fly?, and in this Deep Dive Conversation, we dig into how Pat validates business ideas. He breaks down the core of what's in his book. And he talks about why he does all that he does…

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Links Mentioned In the Show

Order Pat's book by going to WillItFlyBook.com

Pat's blog and podcast, Smart Passive Income.

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Can you be persuasive without being manipulative? Is there a difference between the two? And should you even care?

In today's episode, we tackle these questions and more.

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Spiritual Foundations

Positioning and Self-Promotion In the Kingdom

“Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips.”
– Proverbs 27:2

3 Revelations That Precede Elevated Positioning

Apart from Him, we can do nothing. ““I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.” John 15:5

No agenda is more important than His will on earth, as it is in Heaven. “Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.” John 17:17-18

Becoming who God sees you as involves a process of being “transformed” by the renewing of your mind. “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” Romans 12:2

Tip of the Week

Social Media Marketing World 2016.

  • 3,000 pros in San Diego
  • Top Pros: Guy Kawasaki, Jay Baer, Mike Stelzner, Amy Porterfield,Pat Flynn, Michael Hyatt, Dan Miller, Michael Port, Cliff Ravenscraft, Chris Brogan… and yours truly.
  • Networking party onboard the USS Midway
  • Lots of learning sessions, including a copywriting for social media workshop!

Feature Segment: The Power of Persuasion Without Manipulation

  • Educate. First you, and then your clients.
  • Think. First for them, then with them.
  • Help. Help them see the problem, and help them see the cost of not solving it.
  • Investigate. With integrity, investigate if and how you can help them.
  • Choice. Honestly present their choices (including “do nothing”.)
  • Seal the deal. Or Send them on their way!

How to Put E.T.H.I.C.S. to Work In Your Selling Process

  1. Keep the framework in front of you.
  2. Write out what parts of your selling processes are not “E.T.H.I.C.S.” driven.
  3. Put yourself in their shoes & change your approach.

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It's another Faith Friday, and today we're tackling the question: as a Christian, is it wrong to promote yourself? If it is, what does that say about marketing and advertising?

These are questions that trouble thoughtful Christians.

I believe that you can get more clarity about the difference between marketing and self-promotion by remembering 5 keys from the life of Joseph.

Click here to download or listen to this episode now.

  1. Just because God reveals your destiny to you doesn't necessarily mean you need to share it with everyone.
  2. Promotion flows through God's Presence.
  3. Sometimes promotion lies on the other side of adversity.
  4. Promotion is always for the purpose of glorifying God.
  5. God will promote you only when it won't destroy you.

Whenever you get confused about the difference between marketing and self-promotion, remember these 5 keys from the life of Joseph.

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Depending on who you ask, it seems over 90% of people think they “have a book inside”. So why is it that less than 2% of people ever manage to get that book outside? Why is it so many never get that book published, let alone become a best-seller?

My deep-dive Conversation this week is with Chandler Bolt, who has cranked out 5 (yes, five) best-selling books. He has a system for reproducing this result. Reliably. Like clockwork. Chandler reveals exactly what he does, and how he does it. You can do it, too!

Click here to download or listen to this episode now.

In This EPIC Conversation with Chandler Bolt…

  • How Chandler went from college dropout to best-selling author in a matter of months.
  • The tragedy that led to triumph.
  • Why there's never been a better time to become an author.
  • The very solid reasons you may want to forget about getting a “traditional” book deal, and self-publish instead.
  • What kinds of books sell the most (it's probably not what you think).
  • Why this method of writing and publishing will work for you even if you hate writing.
  • … and a whole lot more!

How to Get $11,000 Worth of Free Gifts

Chandler's course, Self-Publishing School, opens for registration Friday (January 21, 2016).

This course shows you a proven method for writing your book (even if you don't know what to write about), publishing it, and making it a best seller in 90 days.

Chandler actually guarantees it.

Now, if you sign up for his course, using my link (this link) when the doors open Friday…

 And if you follow the steps…

And when you write your book, and it becomes a bestseller…

I will do the following for you:

  • Give you access to my “Success Optimizer”, a one-year coaching program (Value $1,000)
  • I will write a review of your book and publish it on my blog, which has over 63,000 readers. (Estimated Value $7,500 — if it were possible to buy this, which it's not).
  • I'll even do a personal Book Marketing Consultation Session with you. (Value $2,500)

Just make sure you get credit for purchasing Chandler's course through my link Friday, so you get these $11,000 worth of free bonus gifts from me.

(If you click the link before Friday, just put your email address in the form on this page, and Chandler will send you an email the minute the doors open).

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Ever notice how you’re excited at the beginning of a new thing – like a project, a client, your business, or even your relationships? It’s like you’re on fire, but with time the passion often fades.

How do you resurrect that passion when the fire seems like it’s gone out?

  • The best way we’ve found to share your best photos and be inspired by others.

  • How to become visionary!

  • …and our featured segment… 7 Questions to Resurrect Your Passion…

Click here to download or listen to this episode now.

Spiritual Foundations

You Must Have a Vision Before You Can See It

Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
Proverbs 29:18 KJV

Oswald Sanders' book, Spiritual Leadership:

Those who have most powerfully and permanently influenced their generation have been the “seers” – men who have seen more and farther than others… Vision includes foresight as well as insight.

Eyes that look are common. Eyes that see are rare.”

Vision includes optimism and hope. The pessimist sees a difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees an opportunity in every difficulty.

The man who sees the difficulties, so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities will be unable to impart inspiration to his followers.

Vision imparts venturesomeness, the willingness to take fresh steps of faith when there is a seeming void beneath.

A vision without a task makes a visionary. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a task makes a missionary.

3 Decisions That Release Vision

  • Decide to seek both foresight and insight.
  • Decide to be optimistic and hope-filled; to see an opportunity in every difficulty.
  • Decide now to never have a vision without a task, and to never have a task without a vision.

Tip of the Week

500 Pixels -The Home to Everyone’s Best Photos

Feature Segment: 7 Questions to Resurrect Your Passion

  1. What was it like when it was new to me?

  2. What did I want to know when I knew nothing?

  3. What did I do when I was passionate about this?

  4. How did I think when I was passionate about this?

  5. How did I speak when I was passionate about this?

  6. What did I enjoy the most when I was passionate about this?

  7. What negatives never entered my mind when I was passionate about this?

What to do with these questions:

  1. Journal these questions and their answers.
  2. Be present with the questions and answers.
  3. PRACTICE: Act “as if”

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Last week's Faith Friday episode, What's So Amazing About Grace? sure stirred up some commentary. And some questions. And some outright disagreement.

A few of the questions raised by that episode:

  • Is it true that I, Ray Edwards, do not pray for my sins to be forgiven?
  • Did I really say that nothing Jesus said before His resurrection applies to Christians today?
  • Do I think it's okay for Christians to live a life of sin because they are “under Grace”?

Click here to download or listen to this episode now.

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It's another deep-dive conversation, this week with Joel Comm.

Joel Comm is..

  • The guy still owns one of the first 18,00 websites on the entire internet.
  • The author of the best-selling book on Twitter.
  • The man who built a company and sold it to Yahoo!

Click here to download or listen to this episode now.

In This Conversation with Joel Comm…

  • How Joel started online before there was a world wide web.
  • The inside scoop on making a seven-figure deal with Yahoo.
  • The story of Joel & Eric Holmlund creating the  world's first Internet Reality Show (The Next Internet Millionaire).
  • How to stay on the cutting edge, just ahead of the hot trends… by playing with toys!
  • … and a whole lot more!

Links Mentioned

Joel's Blog

Next Internet Millionaire

The Adsense Code

Twitter Power 

KaChing

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One of the biggest problems in our lives is that little thing called our tongue. The good news is this troublesome little powerhouse can also be one our biggest blessings, when used properly. In this episode…

  • How to have peace in the midst of chaos, trouble, and problems
  • How To Rule Over Your Day
  • …and our featured segment… 7 Sentences To Change Your Life…

Click here to download or listen to this episode now.

Spiritual Foundations

“Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, ‘Peace, be still!’ And the wind ceased and there was a great calm.” (Mark 4:39, NKJV)

 “A storm is coming.”

How do you respond to life's storms?

Jesus was in a boat on open water when a massive storm arose… and then the most remarkable thing happened…

Tip of the Week

What kind of day you have is up to you. A good way to get a grip on this is to Journal.

I use Day One and a template with questions.

You might use the 5 Minute Journal, or John Lee Dumas’s Freedom Journal (highly recommended!)

What to do: Get a journal. Take a look at TheFreedomJournal.com

Feature Segment: 7 Sentences to Change Your Life

You can determine the quality of your days, which do the same for weeks, months, years, decades, destiny by following theses 7 simple directives. You can make your own, but make sure it’s a DIRECTIVE, an action sentence that guides your actions

  1. I will create as much value for as many people as possible.
  2. I will make good decisions faster, and never leave the scene of a decision without taking an action to move the decision forward.
  3. I will own my attitude, actions, and response to circumstances, no matter what they may be.
  4. I will choose joy.
  5. I will serve, praise, honor, and treat gently the people in my life.
  6. I will speak only what I want to see show up in my reality.
  7. I will spend less than I earn, pay myself first, and invest so that money works for me.

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We continue our experiment for the new year – a “Faith Friday” Spiritual Foundations edition of the Ray Edwards Show. Please let me know if you like these and want them to continue. If they are serving you, I'll keep publishing them.

Sometimes I am asked, “Ray, why are you so hung up on a basic teaching like ‘grace'? What's so amazing about Grace? Didn't you go to Sunday School?” In this episode I share:

  • Why a revelation of the True Gospel of Grace is so important to you.
  • The secret to living without fear of death.
  • Why you can be sure the Lord is “with you”, no matter what.
  • How to know you're not “out of fellowship” with God.
  • The reason and nature of “schizophrenic Christianity” – and what we must do about it.
  • The hidden factor that can rob you of your ability to receive God's goodness, blessings and favor in your life.
  • What “your part” is in the relationship with God.

Click here to download or listen to this episode now.

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Another “deep dive” interview! This episode we chat with Chris Ducker the author of Virtual Freedom. How to Work with Virtual Staff to Buy More Time, Become More Productive, and Build Your Dream Business. Chris certainly “walks his talk”. Of his own “virtual freedom”, he says, “I now work an average of 6-hours a day, my workweek no longer includes Friday and I get to spend lots of time with my wife and three awesome children.”

During this wide-ranging interview, you'll discover..

  • Why going with a smaller publishing company might be the best idea for your book. (04:00)
  • How a near-death experience led to Chris's greatest business epiphany. (05:00)
  • How and why Chris started blogging. (06:00)
  • The all-important concept of the “Virtual CEO”, and what it means to you. (06:38)
  • How Chris completely replaced himself so his business could run without him. (07:00)
  • The secret advice Jay Baer gave Chris (that you can use)  that caused Chris's blog numbers to skyrocket. (09:15)
  • Should everyone use Periscope? And what are the secrets of successful “scoping”? (11:00)
  • The truth about “personal brand” vs. “company brand” – which is best?  (14:42)
  • Why you should never worry about other people “stealing your ideas” online. (15:30)
  • Chris and I share our respect for the warrior-philosopher, Bruce Lee. (27:00)
  • The book by Bruce Lee (that's not about kung fu). (28:00)
  • The little-known “origin story” of Youpreneur.com (29:00)
  • How Chris managed to get a great domain name (Youpreneur.com) that was already taken. (33:00)
  • Why Chris's podcast is one of my few essential listens. (37:00).
  • Is it too late to build a “brand you” business? (38:00)
  • The hilarious conversation Chris had with Lewis Howes. (42:00)
  • Books Chris recommends some favorite books (44:00)
  • An awesome moment during which “The Force Awakens” and we share Star Wars stories.  (45:00)
  • Chris reveals the bizarre talent he possesses that you'll be shocked to learn about. (47:00).

Click here to download or listen to this episode now.

Links Mentioned

 

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It's a New Year… and it's time for a New You! In this episode…

  • How to be richly blessed in the New Year.
  • The most elegant “Task Manager” Ray has ever found, and one reason not to use it.
  • … and of course – How to Achieve True Success.

Click here to download or listen to this episode now.

Spiritual Foundations

“Therefore be imitators of God , as well-beloved children . And walk in love…” (Ephesians 5:1–2, AMP)

  • How your DNA affects who you are – and how you can change your DNA.

  • How to experience a more peaceful, less stressful life.

  • And of course, how to be richly blessed in the New Year.

Tip of the Week

I have moved from Omnifocus to Nozbe and now to Todoist. Here’s what I like about Todoist…

  • Todoist is elegant, and you can use it without reading the instructions.
  • It’s everywhere, on all my devices.
  • The price is right.
  • It’s free to try, and the premium version is only $29 per year.
  • You can customize it to your liking.

Try Todoist now at todoist.com

Feature Segment: New Year, New You

This is the time of year when so many of us set goals and make resolutions.

Here’s the problem…

We start out strong, almost invariably fall off the wagon, and then quit. What's the solution?

In this segment, for the first time publicly, I will show you my R7 approach to succeeding in the New Year.

I know you can re-create, re-invent, and restart your life at any time. You can systematically achieve true success by following the R7 Approach.

Listen to the episode to find out how.

Note that this training is one small piece of the Success Optimizer training, which retails for $1,000. The good news is, you can get it free when you buy Michael Hyatt's “5 Days To Your Best Year Ever” course.

To buy Michael's course, click here and register.

Click here for a short video where I describe the $3,375 in free bonuses I will give you when you buy the course through me.

 

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This is a new experiment for the new year – a “Faith Friday” Spiritual Foundations edition of the Ray Edwards Show. In this episode:

  • How your DNA affects who you are – and how you can change your DNA.

  • How to experience a more peaceful, less stressful life.

  • And of course, how to be richly blessed in the New Year.

Click here to download or listen to this episode now.

How To Help

Subscribe to the show in iTunes and give us a rating and review. Make sure you put your real name and website in the text of the review itself. We will definitely mention you on this show.

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