Kimanzi Constable has an amazing story to share with the audience. He is a writer for The Huffington Post, Entrepreneur Magazine, and much more. He is also the author of two books, Are you Living or Existing? And Tales of the Everyday Working Man and Woman. On the show, he shares his story with Jason on how he switched from being a bread delivery truck driver to an author, speaker, and consultant.  He shares key tips on how to increase your following and live the life you've always wanted.
Key Takeaways:
[1:55] Kimanzi shares his story and background.
[5:25] In Kimanzi's book, he shares stories of the everyday working man and woman.
[6:58] Kimanzi read Amanda Hocking's success story in a USA Today magazine and was instantly inspired to become an author himself.
[11:40] Kimanzi found great success in guest blogging and appearing in podcast interviews to expand his audience.
[14:10] How did Kimanzi get all these guest post/podcast interview opportunities?
[17:05] Don't get discouraged. Kimanzi was able to push through hardship because he had goals.
[19:40] It's possible to live your dream.
[21:05] Final business tips? Try to target larger websites to guest post on.
[24:45] Kimanzi now consults companies how to improve their online presence.
Mentioned In This Episode:
http://www.48days.net/ (http://www.48days.net/)
http://kimanziconstable.com/ (http://kimanziconstable.com/)
http://lanyrd.com/ (http://lanyrd.com/)
Tweetables:
“Start figuring out what you want to do in life. Don't feel stuck, we have many options. (http://ctt.ec/UfCYP)”
“There's definitely things that are a lot more attainable now that weren't attainable back then. (http://ctt.ec/c9R9F)”
“No one ever gets a big huge break necessarily, you get little small breaks. (http://ctt.ec/wV9gl)”
Transcript
Jason Hartman:
Hey, it's my pleasure to welcome Kimanzi Constable to the show. He is a former bread delivery guy who self-published two books, sold over 82,000 copies. He's a published author, international speaker, he's a life and business coach and you can find him writing at his home his beautiful Maui, Hawaii and in the last year, he lost a 170 pounds. This guy is amazing in every way. He's also a contributing writing for Huffington Post, Entrepreneur Magazine, and Mind, Body, Green. He's a weekly columnist and editor at the Good Men Project and his mission is to help men and women create true freedom in life. I'm looking forward to having him on the show. Kimanzi, welcome, how are you?
Kimanzi Constable:
I'm good, Jason. Thanks so much for having me.
Jason:
Yeah, it's good to have you. Are you just looking out at the crashing waves in Maui?
Kimanzi:
I'm about less than a mile from the ocean, so yeah, I can definitely see them.
Jason:
Yeah, good stuff. It's a beautiful place. I've been there several times. So, your story is amazing. When did this all start? How long ago were you delivering bread and then it was the book, right? That was the first big move for you?
Kimanzi:
Yeah, I was delivering bread, started when I was 18 years old and did it all the way to 2011, mid 2011 everything just kind of fell apart. I had completely mismanaged the bread business and at that point I was $180,000 in debt to the IRS. My wife and I were separated because we had all the money problems and I was dealing with some major weight issues, because when you're out there delivering bread at midnight, you pick up bad habits like you're always eating fast food and drinking soda and all those bad habits, because your clock is just kind of thrown out of whack. Midnight seems like morning time and you're just all off.
So, in 2011, it all came crashing down on my head and I wanted to vent and to talk about what was going on. Just kind of get all the crazy thoughts out of my head and so I started keeping a little journal and that journal over a period of time just waiting it developed a lot of material and that's what ended up becoming my first book,