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Shane Sams
Hi, we're Shane & Jocelyn Sams. Are you looking for something different? You've found it! Welcome to The Flipped Lifestyle Podcast! We are a real family who makes our entire living online, and we help other people do the same! Flip Your Life with online business! We built a million dollar online business selling digital products and starting membership sites over the internet (people pay us to email them stuff...seriously). Our Internet business changed our family's future, and it could change your family's too! Imagine making hundreds of extra dollars each month. Would that change your life? Could you use that extra money to pay your mortgage, get out of debt, give your kids a better Christmas, or even take that vacation you've been putting off? You can, and it’s probably easier than you think. We are a real family from Kentucky that makes a living entirely through internet marketing. This podcast is about how we make money online through Internet business, and how it lets us live a lifestyle other people can hardly imagine. Our goal is to help other families create, market, and sell digital products on the internet. Selling digital products helped us earn more money, have breathing room in our budget, and eventually quit our regular jobs. We've seen the power of online business first hand, now we want to help you see it too! If you would like to learn more about selling stuff online, check us out online at FlippedLifestyle.com or learn how you can do what we do at FlippedLifestyle.com/FlipYourLife
How To Plan Your Day (+ Week) For Online Business Success!
Today’s guest is Allen Paul! Allen just launched his membership on New Year’s Day and got his first 5 members! Allen has been doing so many things for free for so long. He is running free Facebook groups, free communities, a free podcast, he is volunteering in his church - he is doing all these things and it is stacking up on him. This overwhelm caused Allen to be confused about where to spend his time so that he can grow and build momentum to make this into a really successful online business. Today we are going to: Go deep into Allen’s story and teach him how to say no to a few things. Teach Allen some techniques we use to prioritize what’s really important to his online business. Plan Allen’s day and week based on how Shane spends his time.
01:08:5220/04/2021
Best Of: Our Story - Prologue
Hey y’all! Welcome to a Best Of Edition of the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. These Best Of Editions of the show feature amazing guests and episodes of the podcast you may have missed when they first aired. If you are new to the show, these are those can’t miss moments that we really want you to listen to. Or maybe you’re a long-time listener. We want to bring these episodes around for you to hear them again. Our goal is to bring our best content every week so you have everything that you need to build a better future for your family. So wherever you are listening today, enjoy this week’s episode of the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast.
40:0817/04/2021
How To Market To Different Audiences!
Today’s guest is Adam Sears! Adam has an amazing membership product called Silver Spaces. His goal? To help moms, dads, and grandparents stay in their home and age in place a few years longer! Adam does this through an amazing tool he created to help people make modifications to their home and this has a LOT of potential, guys! This is a great conversation about: What’s possible in online business. The tools you can create in your membership. Marketing to different segments or audiences. Adam’s membership has a ton of potential in the consumer space and business-to-business where he can get professionals to join his membership, and even a business-in-a-box element!
56:2713/04/2021
Why You Shouldn’t Look At The Big Picture (LIVE Q+A with Shane)!
On this Saturday episode of the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast Shane is answering a question about email marketing form the Flipped Lifestyle Community Forums!
14:0610/04/2021
How To Launch A Membership With ZERO Content (w/ Odell McCants)!
Today’s guest is Odell McCants! Odell has a great back story - he is a former NBA Agent! Over the years and throughout his career he has built some amazing relationships with coaches. This helped him realize there was a need for professional development in the coaching community. Now, on his podcast (and soon in his membership), he helps coaches get the professional development and leadership skills they need to go to the next level in their career! One thing holding Odell back is his fear of not having enough content to launch! On today’s show we help Odell launch a membership with NO CONTENT!
47:0006/04/2021
How To Be Prolific In Your Email Marketing (LIVE Q+A with Shane)!
On this Saturday episode of the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast Shane is answering a question about email marketing form the Flipped Lifestyle Community Forums!
11:1503/04/2021
Overcoming Suicidal Thoughts and Finding Hope Again (w/ Anthony Woolever)
Long-time listeners of the podcast, you know we are all about some online business here on the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. We are all about helping real members of the Flipped Lifestyle Community and we let you listen in so you can change your family’s future as well. We cover a lot of topics here: we talk about online business, parenting, marriage, all the above! Today’s show is a very special addition to everything we normally talk about. About a year ago I got a message from a friend on Facebook that said, “hey Shane, you’ve got to talk to this guy Anthony Woolever. Anthony is a Flipped Lifestyle fan but he has a really special story and I want him to be able to tell it.” I thought this was going to be another success story but what came next impacted us in a big, big way! We started messaging on Facebook. Anthony began telling us how he had gotten into a dark place in his life and had decided he was going to commit suicide. As he was preparing his house for his loved ones so they would not have to deal with the after math. As he was doing so, he decided to listen to podcasts. Anthony found Pat Flynn’s Smart Passive Income Podcast and it just so happened that he heard our story (along with several others) and he was filled with hope. In this interview you will find out that we were just the period at the end of the sentence. There were a lot of God-ordained moments and now Anthony is living an amazing, productive life and making an impact in a big way out in the world!
01:04:0230/03/2021
How To Decide Whether To Do 1-on-1 Coaching or a Membership (LIVE Q+A with Shane)!
On this Saturday episode of the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast Shane is answering a question about email marketing form the Flipped Lifestyle Community Forums!
06:4327/03/2021
John Lee Dumas Shows Us The Path To Uncommon Success!
Shane Sams is excited to welcome back our first repeat guest on the Membership Masters Podcast: John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneurs On Fire! Now, John has written an amazing book called The Common Path To Uncommon Success. And Shane was lucky enough to get an advanced copy before it was released and was so pumped up about it we had to have him on the podcast today! In today’s podcast Shane and John talk about: What Uncommon Success looks like for you. How you can achieve the exact dream you want to go after. How you can find amazing mentors to shorten that runway to success and avoid pitfalls along the way. The importance of masterminds and how you can find the people for your mastermind group. The content strategy John Lee Dumas used to create his multi-million dollar empire.
44:0623/03/2021
How To Deal With Doubters, Haters, and Critics!
Today we talking about people. All the people that hold you back form building your online business. It’s the human element that gets most of us derailed the fastest. You know what I’m talking about - the trolls out there that are lurking outside of every single post you make, the doubters, the haters, and the critics. We have to deal with these people and thoughts and that’s what we’re doing today on this training!
20:2720/03/2021
How To Lean Into Your Unfair Advantages!
Todays guest is Julie Patterson - Julie has put some serious school time in y’all! (she was on the 12-year path)! Julie has found her dream job but after working remote during the COVID-19 pandemic, she has realized the importance of time freedom! She wants to stay in her position but have the option to do both. On today’s show you will learn how to lean into your unfair advantages, God-given talents and experiences to grow the audience you want!
50:5116/03/2021
The 7 Biggest Membership Myths!
Today’s topic is one of my favorite things to tackle - the biggest myths about memberships that hold people back from starting and growing their online businesses! We are going to knock down the 7 biggest myths about membership sites and replace them with 7 membership truths!
27:3815/03/2021
How To Get + Keep 100 Members (Almost Overnight)!
Our quest today is Lizzie Shearing! Lizzie has been listening to the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast for years but she was scared to take the leap. She finally got inspired to just launch her membership site - she launched on a pre-sale page. She posted it on Facebook and boosted it with some ads! She got almost 100 members overnight in her membership for special education teachers! Today we’re going to talk about how Lizzie built those first 100 members, how she is serving those members, and how she is going to grow to 1,000 members!
01:01:0509/03/2021
How To Get Your Spouse On-Board With Your Online Business Dream!
One of the hardest things you can do when you first become an entrepreneur is to get other people to see what you’re trying to do! 9/10 who is the hardest person to convince? Your spouse, partner, significant other, or somebody that you live with! Today I am going to give you some tips on how to get your spouse on board with your online business dream (I’ve been there, I’ve done it. No I’m going to help you do it)!
26:5706/03/2021
3 Steps To Stop Procrastinating!
We are talking about one of the biggest things that holds people back starting and growing their online businesses - procrastination! Putting things off over and over again keeps you from achieving the goals you want. In this training I’m going to give you 3 simple steps to get your to stop procrastinating!
13:2206/03/2021
How Jennifer Added 806 NEW Members With A Single Email Campaign…
You guys know I’m very enthusiastic but we have a story for the ages with Jennifer Bradly from the Flipped Lifestyle Community! Jennifer has been on the podcast a few times now because she is just crushing it in the membership game! In that interview where we had Jennifer on the Membership Masters Podcast we came up with a crazy, “what if this works” strategy to offer her membership for FREE! When she did sent out the offer to her list, she got 806 members off that single offer! Today we are going to break down how Jennifer had this life-changing moment, what happens next, and how you can have a wildly successful offer too!
46:2002/03/2021
5 Unbelievable Membership Ideas!
One thing I love about the Flipped Lifestyle Community is we are not your normal online business coaching community! We have some of the craziest, most far-out ideas that people succeed with in online business! Today I am talking about 5 of my favorite most unbelievable memberships we have in the Flipped Lifestyle Community!
18:5727/02/2021
How To Stop Giving Away Too Much In Your Membership!
This week’s guest is Dr. Joe Martin! He has an awesome podcast called the Real Men Connect Podcast where Christian men heal wounds from their past, become better fathers, get control of their finances, have better marriages, and be the lead that their family needs. He used to be a speaker but now he has a membership with over 100 members! The COVID-19 pandemic dried up his income but his membership kept him afloat! Today we’re going to talk about: How to switch up your pricing! How to change your offers! How entrepreneurship is an ever-evolving hot mess for us all! How to overcome some mindset issues and fears many entrepreneurs face!
01:00:3623/02/2021
How To Turn Your Subscribers Into Members!
This week’s guest is Flipped Lifestyle Community Member Justin Geis! He has been grinding and working hard for a while now - he is pretty successful in online course sales! He has already gotten 40 members after launching a few months ago. He has a great audience - but he is having trouble growing!
51:0016/02/2021
How To Create A Simple Sales Funnel That Converts!
I’ve seen a lot of great ideas and products come through the Flipped Lifestyle Community - I’ve also seen a lot of those great ideas fall to the wayside and fail because the people with those ideas didn’t know how to sell things online! The biggest thing? Learning how to create a simple sales funnel that converts! Today I am talking you through the basics of a simple sales funnel that will get installed fast and is almost guaranteed to get people into your membership site!
16:4213/02/2021
How Introverts Can Succeed In Online Business!
Today’s guest is David Braun! Dave is an awesome member of the Flipped Lifestyle Community and is taking massive steps towards his online business goals! Not only that - he is hanging out in the forums, in the Facebook Group, hanging out on Q+As, and helping other people move their online business dreams forward. In the episode we are talking about: How introverts can succeed online. Setting priorities on your calendar to take action. How to set a price-point for your membership.
57:5409/02/2021
How To Believe In Your Online Business!
One of the things that I always hear is, “it would be great to become and stay self-employed - I just don’t believe it!” It is totally possible to make your entire living online from home! Today I am going to give you 7 real-world people from completely different niches and backgrounds - that are examples of you can truly change your family’s life and future through online business!
26:4606/02/2021
How To Scale Your Membership Community!
Today’s guest is one of my absolute favorite people on the planet - Tawnya Kordenbrock! I met Tawnya in the Flipped Lifestyle Community, she has been doing amazing things through her mission and her membership! Today we talked about how to scale Tawnya’s community so she can serve more people!
54:0802/02/2021
How To Push Through The Fear Of Tech!
Today we are overcoming tech issues that hold you back from chasing your online dream! There is no getting around it guys - we are in the future! Technology is involved in everything we do online and offline so I am busting down the fear of technology with you today so you can build your online business!
12:5030/01/2021
How To Build An Online Business As A Couple!
Today we are talking to Kurt + Sirena Wuerfele - they have an incredibly inspiring story abut how they are pursuing time freedom so they can build an online membership to impact lives all over the world! You will hear Sirena’s amazing and inspiring story about how she overcame an accident that left her in a wheelchair and a breast cancer diagnosis to build a better life for her and her family! Kurt and Sirena talk about how they are building an online business together! We are helping them structure their membership so they can be successful when they launch later this year!
57:1326/01/2021
How To Realize You're "Expert Enough!"
We are overcoming mindset issues and obstacles. One of the biggest? Being “expert enough,” or what we like to call imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is that feeling of, “who would ever listen to me - lead alone pay me enough money?” This is something we had to overcome a lot when we were starting our online business. We learned how and now we’re going to help you do the same!
14:5123/01/2021
How To Simplify Your Membership (So You Can Work Less + Make More)!
Today we are helping Rabbi Ariel Sholklapper and his wife Sarah onto the show today - they have created a membership all about Jewish mindfulness! Ariel has been crushing it in the Flipped Lifestyle Community for a while! He has launched, he has some members, but today we are helping him move the things out of his way that are holding him back!
55:4919/01/2021
How To Find The Money For Your Online Business!
Today we are helping you overcome a major obstacle that keeps people from starting + growing their online business: MONEY! I’m here today to tell you how we found the money for our online business, even as broke school teachers. I want to teach you how you can do the same!
15:4716/01/2021
How To Do Keyword Research For SEO!
Today’s guests are David and Jill Chase! They are an awesome couple who have been in the Flipped Lifestyle Community now for several months and they are crushing their online business goals! On today’s show we are helping David and Jill do keyword for SEO so they can get in front of the right people and pan for gold. That way they can find the perfect members for their membership site! Today you’ll learn: How to use tools to do YouTube keyword research How to use the Google Keyword Planner tool to find out what your perfect customer is looking for!
51:0012/01/2021
How To Find Time For Your Online Business!
We have a special training for you today - we’re going to teach you how to find the time to start, build, and grow your own online business. Or, how to take your online business to the next level. You see, time is the thing that holds us back and we are going to beat that today!
12:2809/01/2021
How One Promotion Can Make $33K In A Single Week!
Today’s guest is Bill Giovanetti - who I just met a few months ago as he started in the Flipped Lifestyle Blueprint! He was completely lost. He had all the pieces of the puzzle scattered around the table but he had lost the box top. He didn’t know how to put all the pieces together to start, build, and grow a successful membership site. Bill jumped into a Flipped Lifestyle Community workshop and we taught him how to set up a sales funnel, how to re-work what he was doing in there. Then, he took major action on the Membership Masters Monthly Newsletter! Bill did exactly what the November edition said and he had a promotion that generated over $33K in a single week!!!
56:5405/01/2021
How To Expand Your Brick + Mortar Business (Online)!
Today we are helping Flipped Lifestyle Community Member Reena Philpot take her business to the next level! Thanks to Jocelyn - Reena has officially launched her membership! Reena has a beta group going right now so we are helping her grow her membership site where she helps women in sales learn how to be better salespeople!
34:1629/12/2020
How To Choose A Winning Idea For Your Online Business!
In this special training today we’re going to help you choose a winning idea for your online business! You have to get your idea to market if you’re going to make any money off of it - that’s what we’re going to talk about today.
15:4726/12/2020
(Best-Of) We Celebrate Karim’s $17K Month In Her Spanish Education Membership Site!
Hey y'all! On today's podcast we celebrate an AMAZING Flip Your Life Community Success story! In this week's interview, Shane welcome's back long time member Karim Morato to the show! Karim has been fighting for her dreams for years. First for her American dream as an immigrant from Guatemala. Karim came to the United States with nothing but a Suitcase years ago. She actually learned how to speak english Stocking shelves at K-Mart! Now, she's using her her God-given experiences to TEACH American homeschool children Spanish in her only business... Karim almost gave up a few years ago... Shane talked her out of it, and convinced her to keep chasing her ONLY dream. The result? Last month Karim made $17,000 online! This is one of the most amazing stories of perseverance you will ever hear on any podcast. We know Karim's story is going to inspire YOU to take action and keep going in your online journey as well!
40:2422/12/2020
How To Get and Keep More Members!
Maybe you’re a course person and you’re trying to launch a membership site or you have an existing membership site already but one thing is missing - you simply need more traffic so you can get and keep more members! Today we are talking about how to get and grow the audience you need to make this a reality for your online business - by using 3 marketing strategy fundamentals!
38:4319/12/2020
How To Overcome The Fear Of Leading A Large Community!
On this week’s episode of the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast we are super excited to have Jane Anderson on the show! We are talking about some big topics today: Overcoming the fear of leading a large community. How to have tiers in your membership to create pools in your membership Growing and scaling a successful online membership!
56:3015/12/2020
3 Secrets To Selling 1,000 Memberships!
On today’s episode of the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast we are helping you get to 1,000 members! Jocelyn and I have sold thousands of memberships. We have sold over 5,000 memberships over the course of our online business journey. Now, we want to help you hit that 1,000+ member mark too!
31:1312/12/2020
How To Overcome Feelings of Inadequacy In Your Online Business!
Today we are helping Flipped Lifestyle Community Member Luke Miller - who has an awesome website at tilemoney.com! What does Luke focus on? He talks all about tile!! In this episode: We are attacking a lot of things that entrepreneurs deal with the biggest being imposter syndrome! How to turn your podcast audience into paying members! Why writing a 3-year vivid vision is important to your success as a business owner!
01:07:3308/12/2020
How To Price Your Memberships and Subscriptions!
In today’s episode of the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast we are talking about pricing your memberships and subscriptions! There is a huge difference between pricing memberships and subscriptions - compared to digital courses, coaching, and any other digital products or services. People are paying this every single month! You have to get your value proposition down-pat and say, “this is why this is it your payment each and every month!”
48:1505/12/2020
How To Be A Prolific Promoter (Online + Offline)!
My guest today is Flipped Lifestyle Community Member Andrew Biernat, from New York! Andrew and his brother run a fitness membership - when COVID-19 hit, it really shut them down because they couldn’t open their doors. That’s of course when they turned to online membership! Today, we’re helping Andrew overcome fears that are stopping him from becoming a prolific promoter of his business! We are talking about Andrew’s unique business model that includes a charity component. Lastly, we’re talking about how to schedule prolific promotions so you can get new members every single day!
38:3701/12/2020
How To Turn Your Ideas Into Digital Products!
On today’s episode we are talking about turning your business ideas into products! If you have great idea now you need to turn it into a product. The only difference in the people that make money online and the people that say they want to make money online - is they go create a product! We want to give you 3 tips to get you onto the market faster, get those ideas out of your head, and create a digital product!
36:1328/11/2020
We Help Anna Overcome Imposter Syndrome Choose A Niche For Her Online Business!
Hey y’all! On today’s podcast Shane helps community member Anna overcome Imposter Syndrome + commit to a niche for her online business. Our guest today is Anna Harris. Anna is having a hard time commiting to her niche and going all in on her online business idea. She’s wrestling with some common fears + doubts. Listen in as Shane helps Anna in a live keyword research to help her build out a content strategy for her new online business!
53:0424/11/2020
Email Marketing For Beginners!
On today’s Saturday edition of the Flipped Lifestyle podcast we are taking all about email marketing for beginners! And, how we built our entire business just with email marketing (we still get about 90% of our income from email marketing)! When we first started our business 8 years ago, email marketing was the foundation for everything we did and still is to this day! We want to tell you how we grow our business using email marketing and give you 3 strategies that you need to focus on if you are trying to grow your email list!
37:0421/11/2020
We Help Jon Build His Faith-Based Membership Site!
On today's podcast we help Jon Fugler launch his mission based membership to spread the Gospel around the world! Jon has spent his entire career as a Christian Radio Broadcaster. He wants to take those skills and start a membership that helps people all over the world grow closer to Jesus through daily group devotions! In today's podcast, you will learn: how to FINALLY get your content done fast, so you can launch your membership, the exact order you need to work to get a minimum viable product out into the world, and how to capitalize on your unfair advantages, to give you a unique advantage in your niche!
01:00:0917/11/2020
Find Your Online Business Idea (LIVE Workshop)!
We are excited to help you guys find and vet your online business idea! Everybody has an idea in their back pocket - but we’re going to help you vet that idea and make it better in our live workshop! All of your talents come from your life experiences. We want to help you take those, put them online, and make monthly recurring revenue!
44:4114/11/2020
We Help A Busy Mom Find Time For Her Online Business!
Hey Y'all! In today's podcast we welcome back Brooke Butcher! Last time Brooke was on the show, she was just starting out and growing her online nursing community. On this episode we get to celebrate Brooke's growing membership, and her incredible milestone: Brooke just quit her job and went FULL TIME online! In today's podcast, Shane is helping Brooke get used to her new self employed, location independent lifestyle, as well as growing her nursing membership! You'll learn how to balance your time between business and life while working at home, promotions to help you grow your membership site, and how to know when it's time to go full time online!
01:01:3210/11/2020
3 Secrets to Prolific Marketing Success!
On today's episode we are talking about something I am extremely passionate about - prolific marketing success! I am going to give you 3 of my best strategies to improve your marketing. After all, marketing is EVERYTHING in the online business space!
34:2207/11/2020
We Help Rebecca Launch Her Subscription Newsletter!
On today's podcast, we help Rebecca launch her membership site! Rebecca is a speech language pathologist who helps parents teach language skills to their toddlers! Rebecca has already written a book she sells on kindle, and is selling one off calendars and resources to parents on 3rd party sites. In today's podcast, Shane will help Rebecca repurpose her existing content into a newsletter subscription! You will learn how to: Use print subscriptions as the core content of a membership community! The logistics necessary to turn your old content into a subscription product! And how to get excited about your online business again!
39:2803/11/2020
Opportunity, Grace, and Redemption (Time + Relationship Management for Entrepreneurs)
Have you ever had someone cancel on you? What about twice?! Well, I have! Time management and relationships are vital in the online business space! If you are a: Blogger Podcaster YouTube creator.. You are inevitably going to be doing interviews. Scheduling conflicts and life happens to all of us, that’s why I wanted to talk about it and how to overcome it in today’s weekend edition of the show!
20:4031/10/2020
Computer Hacker Turns Superpowers Into A Legit (And Legal) Membership Site!
On today's podcast we help a convicted Hacker use his hacking Superpowers for good in a legit (and legal) hacking membership site! Our guest today is Terry Dunlap. Terry realized from a very young age that he had a skill for hacking! In fact, he was actually arrested for hacking credit card numbers back in the 80s before there was even an internet! Seriously! Later, he discovered that the government and fortune 500 companies would actually pay people to hack their systems in order to improve security. Terry went all in and built an amazing business around high ticket coaching programs! Now he wants to take his hacking classes worldwide with a hackers membership site! This is a fascinating episode of the flipped lifestyle podcast you do not want to miss! Don't forget to give it a share on social media, and follow or subscribe on your favorite podcast app!
01:00:1527/10/2020