Creativity Boost

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Creativity Boost is the podcast for ambitious creatives who know they’re sitting on something powerful — a song, a book, an app, a brand, a business, a movement — but feel stuck on how to bring it to life. If you’ve got an idea, talent, or skill and don't want to take it to your grave untapped, this show is your weekly charge of inspiration, strategy, and fearless motivation. 🎧 Each episode is a creativity masterclass — packed with actionable insights, thought-provoking discussions, affirmations, creative exercises, and expert interviews. You’ll learn how to think differently, create fearlessly, and master the art, science, and business of your creativity. Whether you're launching your first project or scaling your creative empire, we’re here to help you go from idea to income and from concept to cashflow . Subscribe now and join the fearless creatives rising to dominate their marketplace. Let’s boost your creativity and turn your brainchild into breakthrough today! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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July 14, 202632 min

The 4 Profit Machines Hidden Inside Your Book

4 Profit Machines to Turn a $0 KDP Book Into a Six-Figure Author Business I explain how authors can extract “four profit machines” from a book—whether it’s already published but not selling on KDP or still upcoming—to turn $0/month results into consistent high income. I define a “machine” as something that makes work easier, increases output, and speeds results, and I introduce the Buyer Generation Profit Machine based on “biomagnetism,” focusing on attracting buyers with a valuable offer priced about $27–$500 rather than relying on free lead magnets that often attract “freemium” audiences. I break down market segments (freemium, cheapmium, feemium, premium) and emphasize solving a problem people already know they have so strangers will pay. I then outline Buyer Conversion ($500–$5,000), Buyer Ascension ($5,000–$1M), and a retention/subscription system, illustrating a sample funnel math scenario and inviting viewers to the five-day Publishing Profits Challenge. 00:00 Six Figure Book Vision 00:39 Four Profit Machines Explained 02:45 Why Everything Comes In Fours 04:57 Buyer Generation Magnet 07:05 Filter Freebie Seekers 11:20 Package A Buyer Magnet 13:33 Buyer Conversion Pipeline 16:30 Buyer Ascension Ladder 23:24 Revenue Math Breakdown 27:32 Retention Subscription Engine 31:28 Publishing Profits Challenge 31:54 Final Wrap Up 🎙️ Thanks for listening Each episode on Creativity Boost is a masterclass to help you become the best version of yourself. 🔗 Subscribe now and never miss an episode that could change your life, career and business altogether. Get Million Dollar Creativity here: https://milliondollarcreativitybook.com/ 📩 Download free audio book (Ignite your Creativity) : https://creativity.iredafeowolabi.net/get-audio-342 📲 Connect with us on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@Creativityboostpodcast Written a book or want to write a book? publishingprofitschallenge.com 💼 Invite me? https://iredafeowolabi.net/invite-me/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

July 7, 202640 min

The 4-Part Blueprint for a Profitable Author Business

The 4-Part Blueprint for a Profitable Author Business I share a “simple” blueprint for building a profitable author business based on Proverbs 24:3–5: through wisdom a house is built, by understanding it is established, and by knowledge its chambers are filled with precious and pleasant riches. I explain that building a business is like building a house—you must dig deep to lay a foundation before you can build upward—and I compare writing a book to building intellectual property. I define knowledge, understanding, and wisdom as the accumulation, assimilation, and application of truth (from my co-author Myron Golden), then unpack truth through the Hebrew “emet” (alef-mem-tav), the idea that removing God leaves “met” (death), and numeric patterns that connect truth to the number nine. I define wisdom via Greek “sophia” and “phronesis,” understanding as “sunesis,” and outline four knowledge levels (gnosis, ginosko, ido, epignosis), stressing experiential epignosis. 00:00 Profitable Author Empire 01:04 Proverbs Blueprint 04:24 Business Like A House 08:24 Books As Property 10:20 Knowledge Understanding Wisdom 12:40 Truth Emet Explained 16:28 Nine And Truth 25:13 Wisdom And Understanding 27:34 Four Levels Of Knowledge 34:45 Epignosis And Transformation 40:08 Wrap Up And Invitation 🎙️ Thanks for listening Each episode on Creativity Boost is a masterclass to help you become the best version of yourself. 🔗 Subscribe now and never miss an episode that could change your life, career and business altogether. Get Million Dollar Creativity here: https://milliondollarcreativitybook.com/ 📩 Download free audio book (Ignite your Creativity) : https://creativity.iredafeowolabi.net/get-audio-342 📲 Connect with us on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@Creativityboostpodcast Written a book or want to write a book? publishingprofitschallenge.com 💼 Invite me? https://iredafeowolabi.net/invite-me/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

June 10, 202651 min

How to Turn Your Knowledge to Cash

How I Turn Knowledge into Massive Cash Flow: The 4 Levels of Knowledge I explain that many people spend tens or hundreds of thousands on education and graduate with certificates and debt but no idea how to turn their knowledge into real cash flow, which I call one of the biggest scams of modern history. I teach that knowledge is currency and outline four Greek/Biblical levels of knowledge: gnosis (science knowledge from observation, investigation, calculation), ginosko (revelation knowledge), eido (awareness/perception), and epignosis (full recognition through participation and experience), citing scriptures including Colossians 2:3, John 8:32, 2 Corinthians 2:14, and 2 Peter 1:3. Using a hotel example, I show how you move from research to revelation to awareness to lived experience, and why people stay stuck when they operate at only one level. I then describe what to monetize: ideas/solutions, market needs, new opportunities, and trade secrets, illustrated with Elias Howe’s sewing needle dream, KFC’s 11 recipes, George Washington Carver’s peanut inventions, Steve Jobs, NVIDIA, and BlackBerry. 00:00 Turn Knowledge Into Cash 00:58 The Education Scam 02:30 Massive Cash Flow Mindset 03:30 Knowledge Is Currency 04:31 Gnosis Science Knowledge 06:21 Faith And Science 09:12 Why Degrees Stay Broke 12:17 Ginosko Revelation Knowledge 16:01 Eido Awareness Level 16:47 Epignosis Experiential Mastery 20:33 Four Levels Explained 21:22 Hotel Example Gnosis 24:06 Hotel Example Revelation 26:59 Eido Awareness Explained 29:24 Epignosis Full Experience 32:02 Why People Stay Stuck 33:10 Ideas and Solutions Knowledge 34:53 Revelation Story Elias Howe 38:44 Revelation Examples KFC Carver 41:59 Market Needs That Pay 43:52 Steve Jobs Sees Demand 46:25 New Opportunities Reinvention 47:19 NVIDIA AI Opportunity 49:00 Trade Secrets and Patterns 51:01 Knowledge Is Currency Closing 🎙️ Thanks for listening Each episode on Creativity Boost is a masterclass to help you become the best version of yourself. 🔗 Subscribe now and never miss an episode that could change your life, career and business altogether. Get Million Dollar Creativity here: https://milliondollarcreativitybook.com/ 📩 Download free audio book (Ignite your Creativity) : https://creativity.iredafeowolabi.net/get-audio-342 📲 Connect with us on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@Creativityboostpodcast Written a book or want to write a book? publishingprofitschallenge.com 💼 Invite me? https://iredafeowolabi.net/invite-me/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

June 2, 202634 min

The Million Dollar Publishing Equation

The Million-Dollar Publishing Equation: Turn Your Ideas into Assets, Offers, and Systems I’m sharing why it’s never been easier to create wealth and how you can break out of poverty using what I call the million-dollar publishing equation. Publishing isn’t just writing books—it’s taking the thoughts in your head and making them public through posts, podcasts, apps, courses, and more. I explain how I started in 2016 with simple 500-word Facebook posts that eventually led people (and a professor) to ask for a book, launching my publishing journey and leading to 18 books, including “Million Dollar Creativity” with Myron Golden. I show you angles that make ideas interesting (contrast, controversy, contrarian, complementary) and a revenue ladder from $5 ebooks up to $500,000 packages. 👉 **Join the Publishing Profits Challenge Here:** publishingprofitschallenge.com 📚 **Buy the "Million-Dollar Creativity" Book Here:** milliondollarcreativitybook.com 00:00 Wealth Is Easier Now 01:17 Publishing Beyond Books 04:36 Your First Post Counts 10:29 Make Ideas Marketable 13:01 Million Dollar Offer Ladder 19:08 Publishing Empires Mindset 22:02 Five Principles Profitably 28:48 The Million Dollar Equation 32:49 Next Steps And Invitation 🎙️ Thanks for listening Each episode on Creativity Boost is a masterclass to help you become the best version of yourself. 🔗 Subscribe now and never miss an episode that could change your life, career and business altogether. Get Million Dollar Creativity here: https://milliondollarcreativitybook.com/ 📩 Download free audio book (Ignite your Creativity) : https://creativity.iredafeowolabi.net/get-audio-342 📲 Connect with us on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@Creativityboostpodcast Written a book or want to write a book? publishingprofitschallenge.com 💼 Invite me? https://iredafeowolabi.net/invite-me/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

April 28, 202639 min

The Million Dollar Author Formula

The Million Dollar Author Formula: 7 Beliefs to Turn a $0/Month Book Into a Business Iredafe presents a “Million Dollar Author Formula” built on seven beliefs to help authors take a book earning $0 per month to a million-dollar author business, emphasizing that a formula only works when applied. Drawing from his 2018 book How to Make Millions as an Entrepreneur and frustration with “gurus,” he explains that success starts with becoming the kind of person who can do the work (being, feeling, thinking, doing, having). Key beliefs include believing in God, yourself, your content and promise, the process (including investing in yourself and learning seedtime/harvest), and systems (automation, delegation, promotion, AI). He outlines monetization math: $20 book x 50,000, or repackaging into $200 audio (5,000), $2,000 video (500), or $20,000 coaching (50). He ends by inviting viewers to a 5-day Publishing Profits Challenge to fix sales, marketing, messaging, methods, monetization, and momentum. 00:00 Million Dollar Author Intro 00:48 Why I Wrote The Book 04:28 Doing Versus Being 07:35 Belief One God 11:31 Belief Two Yourself 15:29 Million Dollar Formula Math 19:57 Value Ladder Offers 21:44 Belief Four Process 28:39 Pricing Promise Not Price 33:03 Believe Your Promise 36:56 Belief Seven Systems 38:10 Challenge Invite Outro 🎙️ Thanks for listening Each episode on Creativity Boost is a masterclass to help you become the best version of yourself. 🔗 Subscribe now and never miss an episode that could change your life, career and business altogether. Get Million Dollar Creativity here: https://milliondollarcreativitybook.com/ 📩 Download free audio book (Ignite your Creativity) : https://creativity.iredafeowolabi.net/get-audio-342 📲 Connect with us on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@Creativityboostpodcast Written a book or want to write a book? publishingprofitschallenge.com 💼 Invite me? https://iredafeowolabi.net/invite-me/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

April 21, 202623 min

Keys to Escaping the $0 Month KDP Trap

This episode describes the “$0 month KDP trap,” where authors see little or no income across platforms like Amazon KDP, Draft2Digital, Lulu, BookBaby, and IngramSpark despite writing good books. The speaker argues authors have been misled into believing publishing, posting on many platforms, or writing more books automatically creates income, noting retailers like Amazon are not partners and control pricing, ranking, and visibility while rewarding volume over value. He outlines levels from “writer-entrepreneur” and “kindlepreneur” to “bookpreneur,” urging authors to think like owners and turn a book into a business by monetizing the problem it solves, moving from royalties to relationships via email lists and communities, and creating one clear offer where the book is a trust-building entry point. He promotes a five-day Publishing Profit Challenge covering marketing, messaging, methods, monetization, and momentum. 00:00 The Zero Dollar Trap 02:13 The Big Publishing Lie 04:43 Author Levels Explained 07:49 Publishing Is Not Income 10:43 Why Authors Stay Stuck 13:28 Competing on the Wrong Game 15:05 Escape Plan Overview 15:12 Monetize the Transformation 19:35 Royalties to Relationships 20:36 One Offer Strategy 21:39 Turn Your Book Into Asset 22:24 Challenge Invitation Wrap Up 🎙️ Thanks for listening Each episode on Creativity Boost is a masterclass to help you become the best version of yourself. 🔗 Subscribe now and never miss an episode that could change your life, career and business altogether. Get Million Dollar Creativity here: https://milliondollarcreativitybook.com/ 📩 Download free audio book (Ignite your Creativity) : https://creativity.iredafeowolabi.net/get-audio-342 📲 Connect with us on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@Creativityboostpodcast Written a book or want to write a book? publishingprofitschallenge.com 💼 Invite me? https://iredafeowolabi.net/invite-me/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

April 14, 202630 min

Five Mindsets That Keep Authors Broke—and How Wealthy Authors Think Differently

The speaker, an 18-book author, explains why some authors stay broke while others earn hundreds of thousands or millions, outlining five mindset differences and how to turn a book into a cashflow machine. First, many authors believe “time is money,” spend years writing, then wait 60–90 days for small royalties, ignoring the time value of money and failing to question the system; wealthy authors seek faster payment and buy back time. Second, authors assume more books equals more money, but one good book with a good system can be highly profitable. Third, authors think books sell themselves by listing on platforms, but platforms aren’t a sales team. Fourth, they equate more traffic (e.g., Amazon as a “highway”) with sales; wealthy authors drive traffic to their own sales pages. Fifth, they confuse posting/promotion with marketing, which is creating desire based on what the market wants. The episode ends with an invitation to a five-day Publishing Profits Challenge covering marketing, messaging, methods, monetization, and momentum. 00:00 Broke vs Wealthy Authors 01:54 Mindset One Time Value 06:23 Kingship Thinking Shift 13:30 Mindset Two More Books 16:43 Leverage Through Delegation 19:24 Mindset Three Platforms Sell 20:43 Mindset Four Traffic Myth 26:19 Wealthy Author Ownership 27:42 Mindset Five Real Marketing 29:15 Wrap Up And Challenge 🎙️ Thanks for listening Each episode on Creativity Boost is a masterclass to help you become the best version of yourself. 🔗 Subscribe now and never miss an episode that could change your life, career and business altogether. Get Million Dollar Creativity here: https://milliondollarcreativitybook.com/ 📩 Download free audio book (Ignite your Creativity) : https://creativity.iredafeowolabi.net/get-audio-342 📲 Connect with us on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@Creativityboostpodcast Written a book or want to write a book? publishingprofitschallenge.com 💼 Invite me? https://iredafeowolabi.net/invite-me/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

April 7, 202623 min

How Authors Can Sell Books Without Begging or Yelling

In this episode, the host argues that authors struggle to sell because they beg or push links instead of learning sales and offering value. The speaker, an author of 17 books with an 18th forthcoming, explains that people don’t hate buying books but hate pressure, and that effective selling focuses on the outcome, promise, and transformation rather than the book’s pages or the author’s dream. Begging language such as “please support me,” “help me reach my goal,” and “it’ll mean so much to me” is flagged as ineffective because sympathy doesn’t drive purchases; self-interest does. The core shifts presented are to sell the problem and desired result, teach publicly while selling persuasively by sharing real insights and frameworks, and position the book as a bridge from a reader’s current state to a desired transformation, making the book an entry point that builds credibility and trust. 00:00 Stop Begging to Sell 02:01 Why Authors Struggle 04:52 Sell Outcomes Not Books 06:48 Book as Proof 11:36 Begging Red Flags 13:35 Identity Shift for Authors 15:05 Three Selling Shifts 16:37 Teach Publicly Sell 19:49 Make Your Book Bridge 20:58 Persuasive Messaging 21:49 Closing Recap 🎙️ Thanks for listening Each episode on Creativity Boost is a masterclass to help you become the best version of yourself. 🔗 Subscribe now and never miss an episode that could change your life, career and business altogether. Get Million Dollar Creativity here: https://milliondollarcreativitybook.com/ 📩 Download free audio book (Ignite your Creativity) : https://creativity.iredafeowolabi.net/get-audio-342 📲 Connect with us on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@Creativityboostpodcast Written a book or want to write a book? publishingprofitschallenge.com 💼 Invite me? https://iredafeowolabi.net/invite-me/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

February 3, 202627 min

Why Most Authors Fail Even Before They Start (2 Quick Fixes)

Why 90% of Authors Struggle Financially: Common Mistakes and Solutions The presenter explores why the majority of authors struggle financially, despite their creativity and hard work. Drawing from personal experience as an author of 17 books, the speaker highlights two fundamental mistakes that contribute to authors' lack of success: poor book titles and subtitles. Emphasizing the importance of clear and engaging titles, the speaker criticizes the use of overly complex or technical language, and encourages authors to create titles that resonate with their audience. The session aims to guide authors towards financial abundance by avoiding these common pitfalls. 00:00 Introduction: The Struggles of Authors 01:32 Why Authors Fail: Two Fundamental Mistakes 03:36 Mistake 1: Bad Book Titles 11:25 Mistake 2: Technical Jargon and Poor Subtitles 26:57 Conclusion: Transforming Your Book into a Business 🎙️ Thanks for listening Each episode on Creativity Boost is a masterclass to help you become the best version of yourself. 🔗 Subscribe now and never miss an episode that could change your life, career and business altogether. Get Million Dollar Creativity here: https://milliondollarcreativitybook.com/ 📩 Download free audio book (Ignite your Creativity) : https://creativity.iredafeowolabi.net/get-audio-342 📲 Connect with us on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@Creativityboostpodcast Written a book or want to write a book? publishingprofitschallenge.com 💼 Invite me? https://iredafeowolabi.net/invite-me/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

January 27, 202623 min

Keys to Selling Your Books without Yelling or Begging

Selling Your Book Without Begging or Yelling: Mastering Effective Sales Techniques In this episode, we delve into the secrets of selling books without the need to beg, yell, or feel sleazy. With experience from authoring 17 books and preparing to launch his 18th, the speaker shares valuable insights on how to transition from merely promoting products to offering outcomes that potential readers care about. Learn why it's essential to focus on the value and transformation your book provides, rather than the pages and pieces it contains, and discover the identity shift authors must make to sell effectively. The episode covers key sales strategies, including understanding your audience's needs, teaching publicly, and presenting your book as a bridge to desired outcomes, thus transforming the entire sales experience. 00:00 Introduction: The Struggle of Selling Books 00:29 The Secret Sauce to Selling Books 02:01 Common Mistakes Authors Make 03:09 The Importance of Selling Skills 04:20 Shifting Your Mindset 06:05 Creating a Desire to Buy 13:35 The Identity Shift for Authors 15:09 Effective Selling Strategies 21:30 Conclusion: Transform Your Book Sales 🎙️ Thanks for listening Each episode on Creativity Boost is a masterclass to help you become the best version of yourself. 🔗 Subscribe now and never miss an episode that could change your life, career and business altogether. Get Million Dollar Creativity here: https://milliondollarcreativitybook.com/ 📩 Download free audio book (Ignite your Creativity) : https://creativity.iredafeowolabi.net/get-audio-342 📲 Connect with us on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@Creativityboostpodcast Written a book or want to write a book? publishingprofitschallenge.com 💼 Invite me? https://iredafeowolabi.net/invite-me/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.