Episode 133: Serving 132,000 students worldwide from a spare bedroom in remote Australia with Sarah Cordiner
Anytime you have to “go live” - whether that’s presenting a webinar, or a face-to-face workshop, you’re essentially exchanging your time for money.
Today’s guest, Sarah Cordiner has helped over 132,000 students from all over the world. You don’t do that by running workshops, you do it by scaling what you offer through digital programs and courses.
Where do you start if you want to scale? That’s the conversation I have with Sarah today.
Sarah Cordiner is a Qualified Course Creation Specialist, trusted by over 20,000 Course Creators & Educators in 146 countries. She helps you turn your expertise into profitable digital products and programs.
In this episode, you’ll learn how to start, how to build an audience and how one idea from a video, can be used to market in so many different ways.
More than that, it’s an inspiring episode looking at failure and how all that matters with failure, is deciding what to do next. Reflecting on this episode, I was reminded of this Winston Churchill quote: “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
If you’ve ever held yourself back, or have reasons to not do things, I think you’ll also be inspired by what Sarah shares in this conversation.
About today’s guest: Sarah Cordiner
Sarah Cordiner is a postgraduate qualified education and training professional with over 13 years of experience as a leader and business owner in the education and training sector.
She’s the youngest university Executive Director in Australia's history,
She was listed by the Huffington Post as "The Top 50 Must-Follow Female Entrepreneur 2017", has had her course creation work cited in Forbes, she is a 12 x published author (and 5 times international number 1 best-seller), host of the Course Creators Podcast and holds the record for being the youngest University Head & Director in Australian history - a university that was ranked number 1 in Australia at the time of her leadership.
She's also a mum to 2 young children and runs her 7-figure education company from the spare room in her outback Australian home.
Using Sarah's tried and tested step-by-step system, even the newest entrepreneurs, traditional businesses and even complete non-techies can quickly and easily create a profitable online course that can impact millions and create a life and business that they love.
Here are some of the questions Leanne asked Sarah during the interview:
What do you do now and how do you discover the world of online courses and online training?
What is the first course you ever produced and how did it go?
How did it take for you to build your audience from all around the world?
How are you doing all of the things you do?
Resources:
Visit Sarah Cordiner’s website
Sign up for Sarah Cordiner’s Online Course for FREE
Connect with Sarah on Linkedin
Watch the video! Leanne Hughes and Sarah Cordiner chat about online course creation
Quotes:
“When you go out with a ‘I can get through this’ attitude, you no way you’re going to fail.”
“Education comes in many forms. And I realized the reward of gifting somebody new knowledge.”
“I am so amazed by how somebody’s life can be changed by simply allowing them to understand themselves. Showing people the skills that they didn’t know were there.”
About your host: Leanne Hughes
Leanne Hughes is an international facilitator, speaker and coach who loves creating unpredictable workshop experiences, that predictably work.
She combines her experience in Marketing, with her education in Human Resources and Psychology, to help leaders create engaging everyday experiences - that are so contagious they scale across teams, functions and regions.
Leanne has facilitated leadership, onboarding and team-development workshops across Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, Singapore and believes in a strengths-centred approach to learning and development. She has over 13 years’ of experience across a range of industries including mining, government and tourism sectors.
She’s the host of the First Time Facilitator podcast and was a finalist in the 2018 Australian Learning Impact awards for Learning Professional of the Year.
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