Badass Your Brand by Pia Silva

This post is a collection of podasts with Pia Silva of Worstofall Design. She teaches people how to “badass” their brand—which is also the title of her new book. It is a step-by-step guide to turning your expertise into profit with no startup costs teaches. You may read the first chapter and download the free accompanying workbook and checklist.

Keypoints include: how Pia & Steve went from $40,000 in debt working 100 hours per week, to making $500,000 in the next 12 months just selling their services, and without paying for advertising; how to stand out from the competition and stop being a me-too brand; how to stop chasing business, and instead focus on doing what you do best as a way to attract your ideal, top-tier clients; how to charge more than your competitors and still win the business; and how to price your services to achieve freedom.

Energy Medicine

While most New-Age medicine enjoys a bad reputation as a quasi-science, the energy medicine method by Donna Eden is endorsed by a lot of prominent people. As explained in her book, Energy Medicine (Eden, 2008),  you can use some really simple ways to boost up your mental and physical and improve your daily performance at work. Her methods combines ancient practices like Meridians, Chadkras, and many other “spiritual methods” which are found in other cultures. By the way, she also claimed to be an clairvoyant who can see the energy fields around human bodies which others are unable to see, making her able to diagnose someone’s energy problems in seconds.

The Great Deacon

[The following passage is an excerpt from Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Lefèvre, 1923), a fictionalised biography of the legendary speculator Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877-1940).]

I remember a story I heard about Deacon S. V. White when he was one of the big operators of the Street. He was a very fine old man, clever as they make them, and brave. He did some wonderful things in his day, from all I’ve heard.

A Song of Bulls and Bears

In a land very far away, there is a divided kingdom called the Market. Always ongoing in the country is a civil war between the North and the South. The Northerners are known as the Bears, and the Southerners the Bulls. A horizontal border separates the two sides, and it is known as the Price. Every day, the Bears try to push the Price south, and the Bulls want it to go north. As a result, the Price keeps going up and down every day.