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I bet 99% of you didn't know that I have been plagued by fear for most of my teenage and adult life. I've been in therapy on and off throughout my life, and even had to have a de-sensitivation series of sessions with my counselor earlier this year. I had a continual physical reaction to something that was actually non-threatening, but that made me so afraid that I would get sick to my stomach.

For me, it was a carry over to my teen years when something happened to make me afraid of certain situations. It wasn't until I was 43 that I realized I was associating something in my present life with something that had occurred to me as a teenager. Still, I didn't know how to disassociate the 2 things. I needed help, and I sought it through a professional counselor. I needed outside help to fix the fear that had a strangle-hold on me.

Now, you all know I don't send out emails about other people's products or services very often, so if I do, it's because the person is very good at what they do, and I personally have experienced their services or products. This is the case with Lorraine Cohen and her Transform Your Fear into Power audio and workbook.

If you have any issues with fear, whether of failure or success, or irrational fears, and they are keeping you from moving forward in any area of your life, this set will really make a difference in your life. She points out things that you just can't see about yourself and your thoughts, because you are too close to the problem. She is practical, insightful, and I can guarantee you that what she provides will be life-changing.

You can listen to an audio sample of her style and her content above. If you like what you hear, I encourage you to treat yourself to your own healing. Sometimes we put ourselves on the back burner (I'm very bad about that), but this audio and workbook package is a way to do something special and healthy for your emotional, mental and physical well-being (fear can make you sick as a dog - I know!).

If you are interested in finding out more, or ordering the set, click here. It's only $49, and it will do tremendous things for those of you who, like me, have ever dealt with fear. If you know of someone else who is plagued with fear, please share this with them as well.

I know Lorraine personally, and she is genuinely concerned for people who deal with fear, and truly inspired in what she shares. I hope that those of you who can really utilize her services will take advantage of them, and you can be free as I now am.

Penny Haynes, 1st Podcast Publishing & Online Community Magazines

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In today's Brain Storm! Business Podcast, we are going to discuss Co-Promotion as a way to self-promote.

There are many ways to promote yourself, but you wouldn't automatically think that promoting something or someone else could bring attention to you. However, that is a valid way to market yourself. It has been done with Diet Coke, Mentos, Firefox and the iPhone, to name a few.

When you promote another "hot" item, you can draw traffic from people searching for that item.

If you are talking about or promoting (in audio, video or text format) something that is popular in culture, when people are Googling those terms, your promotion could come up. This is the trick with keywords in general - find out what people are searching for and then talk about it.

If you take the time to praise someone's service or product, they may put you on their website and show you off.

That can't hurt your traffic either, especially if you talk about how you use that product to help your own clients (and what your service does for people). A good testimonial can't hurt the company, and they don't even have to pay for it. It's good for both businesses.

Use someone's product in a video and it is called product placement, and can get you 15 minutes of fame as well.

The Diet Coke and Mentos episode which we discuss in the podcast is on example. You'll have to listen to find out what else we discuss, and the things you can do to do some co-promotion for self-promotion.

Another reminder about the upcoming April 18-19, 2008 Online International Podcasting Expo.

Attendance is free and online, so there's no excuse not to be able to attend for most of you. We will be talking about why Physicians should podcast, how to get advertisers that don't "get" podcasting, and discuss whether or not the Podcasting arena is becoming segmented, instead of being all-inclusive as it was originally intended to be. Of course, there will be more...

So, until next week, put some of your ideas into ACTION, and tell me if you know of anyone who successfully used co-promotion for self-promotion.

Penny Haynes, 1st Podcast Publishing & Online Community Magazines

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Back in October of 2004, Encouraging Audiobooks sponsored the Clean Comedy Show in NYC during their week of comedy. We recorded the evening, and edited it down to the very best for a great family friendly comedy audio recording you will love.

Listen to an excerpt by Johnny Watson in today's Comedy Clip of the Week.

Penny Haynes, 1st Podcast Publishing & Online Community Magazines