The Book Desserts Podcast Series

Ep 12 Closing this Chapter - Addressing Your Curiosities and Queries

Welcome to The Book Desserts Podcast series for non-fiction authors looking to elevate their business and craft and lead an impactful group program around their book. In this final episode of The Book Desserts Podcast series (well at least season 1), we’ll explore the questions most asked by and for authors when it comes to having your own author-led group   Questions include: ☀️ What are the benefits of having a group program? ☀️ What’s the biggest challenge you see authors face with their own group? ☀️ What do I do after listening to all the episodes in this series? ☀️ How do you work with authors crafting their own group?   If you have any questions not answered in this episode, please connect with me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerry-dobson/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerry-dobson/]     I mention the episode with Kristi Mitchell, you can find that below Ep 04 Marketing for Your Group Program with Kristi Mitchell https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-04-marketing-for-your-group-program-with-kristi-mitchell/id1725891932?i=1000642961280 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-04-marketing-for-your-group-program-with-kristi-mitchell/id1725891932?i=1000642961280]   Thanks for tuning in to this episode of The Book Desserts Podcast series! If you want to start working on your own group program for your book check out the Design Your Group with EASE guide at www.jjdak.com [http://www.jjdak.com] or book your free Group Clarity Session with your host, Kerry Dobson at https://www.jjdak.com/group-program-clarity-session [https://www.jjdak.com/group-program-clarity-session]   Thank you for listening 🙏🏻

Ep 11 Exploring Groups for From Strength to Strength

Welcome to The Book Desserts Podcast series for non-fiction authors looking to elevate their business and craft and lead an impactful group program around their book. In this episode, using the book From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, And Deep Purpose in The Second Half of Life by Arthur C. Brooks we’ll explore the idea of a longer-term group program (1 year or more). This is important when you book addresses changes and transformations that take a longer period to realize. If you’re looking to grow your business through longer term group programs, you’ll want to listen to this episode   In this episode you’ll hear about: ☀️ The reasons why this book and a book like it are best supported with a longer-term program ☀️ The importance of creating a program promise that gives participants the opportunity to learn the concepts and then also the time to enact the plans around those concepts ☀️ Ideas for incorporating in person retreats and small group partnerships into longer term programs   At the end of this episode, you’ll be invited to consider how your book might be a great one for a longer-term program. Come up with ideas for some activities and experiences that might be beneficial to those in your group program especially over a longer period of time.   Thanks for tuning in to this episode of The Book Desserts Podcast series! If you want to start working on your own group program for your book check out the Design Your Group with EASE guide at www.jjdak.com [http://www.jjdak.com] or book your free Group Clarity Session with your host, Kerry Dobson at https://www.jjdak.com/group-program-clarity-session [https://www.jjdak.com/group-program-clarity-session]   Thank you for listening 🙏🏻

Ep 10 Group Certification and Beyond with Linda Hoopes

Ep 10 Group Certification and Beyond with Linda Hoopes - Podcast Description Welcome to The Book Desserts Podcast series for non-fiction authors looking to elevate their business and craft and lead an impactful group program around their book. In today's episode, we’re talking to Linda Hoopes, the Founder and President of Resilience Alliance and the Author of Prosilience: Building Your Resilience for a Turbulent World and Managing Change with Personal Resilience and recently co-authored Embracing Another Normal: Resilience Stories and Strategies for Raising Children with Disabilities with Kris Burbank. Linda is sharing her experience building Resilience Alliance which offers tools and training for leaders, change agents, and individuals to help them build their resilience.   In this episode you’ll hear about: ☀️ Linda’s journey building Resilience Alliance and the international community of practice ☀️ The importance of having your underlying model or framework to build from ☀️ Linda’s approach to building and maintaining an engaged community of practitioners   Linda shares what influenced her in how she decided to build out her business and why she chose to focus on helping practitioners use the tools and resources for resilience in their own communities. She shares the details of the methodology and program structure for the Personal Resilience Practitioner Certification program. She also talks about how she is now co-authoring books with some of these practitioners that are specific to their communities and how that continues to build out the impact of her underlying model. At the end of this episode, you’ll be invited to identify your own framework or underlying model in which you could build a group program from. If you want to learn more from Linda, check out her website at https://resiliencealliance.com/ [https://resiliencealliance.com/] or find her on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindahoopes/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindahoopes/].   Thanks for tuning in to this episode of The Book Desserts Podcast series! If you want to start working on your own group program for your book check out the Design Your Group with EASE guide at www.jjdak.com [http://www.jjdak.com] or book your free Group Clarity Session with your host, Kerry Dobson at https://www.jjdak.com/group-program-clarity-session [https://www.jjdak.com/group-program-clarity-session]   Thank you for listening 🙏🏻

Ep 09 Exploring Groups for Atomic Habits

Ep 09 Exploring Groups for Atomic Habits Welcome to The Book Desserts Podcast series for non-fiction authors looking to elevate their business and craft and lead an impactful group program around their book. In today's episode, using the book Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way To Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear we’ll explore how a group certification program might be crafted. If your looking to grow your business through certifying others in the tools, resources, and techniques in your book so they can use it in their work, you’ll want to listen to this episode   In this episode you’ll hear about: ☀️ The reasons why this book and a book like it are great for group certification programs ☀️ Seat of Support (SOS) sessions and how they can be incorporating into a group certification program ☀️ Length of time need for a group certification program and the types of experiences to be included   You’ll hear about some of the key experiences you’ll want to include in your own group certification program including sharing tools your participants can use with their clients while being certified. At the end of this episode, you’ll be invited to consider how it might work for a group certification program. Would other people be interested in taking your ideas and strategies into the work they do?   Thanks for tuning in to this episode of The Book Desserts Podcast series! If you want to start working on your own group program for your book check out the Design Your Group with EASE guide at www.jjdak.com [http://www.jjdak.com] or book your free Group Clarity Session with your host, Kerry Dobson at https://www.jjdak.com/group-program-clarity-session [https://www.jjdak.com/group-program-clarity-session]   Thank you for listening 🙏🏻

Ep 08 Design Your Group with EASE

Ep 08 Design Your Group with EASE Welcome to The Book Desserts Podcast series for non-fiction authors looking to elevate their business and craft and lead an impactful group program around their book. In today's episode, we’ll explore the framework I use with authors to help them design their group program.   In this episode you’ll hear about: ☀️ The most frequent mistakes made when it comes to designing your group program ☀️ The Design Your Group with EASE framework ☀️ Ideas for activities and things to consider when designing your group program   Are you designing your group program for you? Or for your participants? This is a common mistake made when designing a group program. The Design with EASE framework showcases the ways in which you can make sure your group program is Engaging, Actionable, Supportive, and Effortless. This episode introduces you to these components and includes a few ideas on how to incorporate each component into your program. At the end of this episode, you’ll be invited to download and use the Design Your Groups with EASE guide from our website. You can use this guide to help design your own group program.   Thanks for tuning in to this episode of The Book Desserts Podcast series! If you want to start working on your own group program for your book check out the Design Your Group with EASE guide at www.jjdak.com [http://www.jjdak.com] or book your free Group Clarity Session with your host, Kerry Dobson at https://www.jjdak.com/group-program-clarity-session [https://www.jjdak.com/group-program-clarity-session]   Thank you for listening 🙏🏻