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299 - Discovering the "Expert in You" with Ann Carden

Season 3, Ep. 299

Are you an entrepreneur, expert, consultant, or coach trying to grow AND simplify your business? It's possible and today's podcast guest, Ann Carden, shares some of the strategies she uses with clients. During our interview, she was willing to share that her resourcefulness and resilience are some things that contribute to her success.


A little bit about Ann - she is a Strategic Business Growth Expert, Founder of the Expert In You Brand & Programs, 3 x Author and #1 international Bestselling Author, Speaker, and Podcast Host who has over 41 years of experience in business growth, marketing, and sales.


Her experience is well rounded as she worked thirteen years in corporate business management responsible for the success of multi-million dollar departments, and has been an entrepreneur for the past thirty years. She has built six successful businesses from start-up, and has sold her five previous businesses. Ann has been coaching, and consulting others in business for over twelve years, and has helped entrepreneurs and owners in more than fifty different industries.


Ann says, "I want to help people do things in a different way and not go the way that the 'marketers' are trying to move people into. I help put the pieces together and figure out where is your expertise. What is ALL of your expertise and how can we pull that value together? That's where the opportunity is."


Learn more and connect with Ann here:

https://annlcarden.com/

https://www.facebook.com/ann.carden.509

https://www.linkedin.com/in/business-consultant-coach/

https://www.youtube.com/anncarden

OFFER: http://workshop-expertinyou.expert/

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