36: From Losing It All to Finding Favor with God: Jim Palmer’s Story of Coming Back from Crisis
Jim Palmer is a marketing and business building expert and in-demand coach. He is the founder of the Dream Business Academy and Dream Business Coaching and Mastermind Program. Jim is the host of Dream Business Coach TV, the hit weekly Web TV show watched by thousands of entrepreneurs and small business owners and he is also the host Stick Like Glue Radio, a weekly podcast based on Jim’s unique brand of Smart Marketing and Business Building Strategies. Jim is best known internationally as ‘The Dream Business Coach’ and creator of No Hassle Newsletters, the ultimate ‘done-for-you’ newsletter marketing program used by hundreds of clients in nine countries.
What you’ll hear in this episode:
- Jim’s life at age 40: VP of Marketing and “in control of my career”
- How God got Jim’s attention with the loss of his job, massive debt, and a cancer diagnosis
- Worn down and rebuilt—“God, what do you want me to do?”
- What God said in Jim’s lightbulb moment
- Jim’s prayer for three signs and how they came to pass
- Business startup offering newsletters to companies
- No Hassle Newsletters, No Hassle Social Media, books, and Dream Business Coaching
- Finding favor and blessing from God
- Serve First: how it came to be and how the message got out
- Navigating between sharing Jesus authentically and being too pushy
- Jim’s strength? Marketing, branding and helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses
- Jim’s weakness? Being impatient
- What is God stirring in Jim right now? “He is telling me not to slow down in growing my business, not to go into coasting mode.”
- A personal daily habit? “Before getting out of bed, thanking God for the gift and blessing of a new day. I pray and thank God for the little things throughout each day.”
- How gratitude attracts more good things
- Why people live with “top of the stairs” thinking
- How to change your thinking and keep a positive mindset
- A favorite resource? Serve First and Decide: The Ultimate Success Trigger
- Jim’s advice: “You will earn significantly more revenue from WHO you are instead of WHAT you do.”
Resources:
www.decideforsuccessbook.com (Get Jim’s book for free! Just pay $6.95 shipping!)
Decide: The Ultimate Success Trigger by Jim Palmer
www.getjimpalmer.com (Get Jim’s book for FREE!)
