Lauryn Williams is one of five athletes to have won a medal in both the Summer and Winter Olympic games, as well as the first American woman with this achievement. Lauryn holds one Gold and Two Silver Medals from the 2004,2012, and 2014 Olympics Games.  One of the reasons I wanted to have Lauryn on the show was to launch into Black History Month with a Millenial who's made a positive impact on African-American culture.

Outside of sports Lauryn has mastered the game of finance by obtaining her CFP.  She now teaches other Millenials and Professional Athletes about personals finance and building wealth for the future. 

Not only are her achievements great in their own right she's in a unique position to have solidified a place in Olympic history for all time.   As a people, we're proud of Lauryn and of course, she's represented our Nation and brought back Gold and Silver.  Share this episode with your daughters and sons so they can see what's possible with hard work and that Black History Month isn't just a once a year tradition that happens in February.   Look to these 2108 Olympic Games and whatever your culture, celebrate the athletes you identify with but then let us all (at least my US friends) celebrate as Americans.

Featured Partnership: Media.net 

As you know I'm always working to bring new sponsors to the show that will provide value and help your business.  That's why in October whilst attending Fincon (Financial Bloggers Conference) I met up with the people from Media.net to talk about how they could help me and my audience.

So here's the great thing about Media.net, the support it truly over the top.  I've dealt with ad networks before that would provide contextual ads or ad blocks that either was very intrusive or took too much work to get the ads to be relevant for my visitors, and not just a cookied ad that followed them around. 

Admittedly I was reluctant to introduce an ad block or any sort of ad to my site until looking at some of the people Media.net was working within the blogging world.  Once I saw blogs and the people I respect were Media.net Ambassadors I was in!

So all I'm asking of you as a visitor to the site and as a listener of the podcast is that you check them out via my link and give a few of the ads a try.  Just click on the link to go to my custom page https://media.net/vernon 

Sponsors: Podbean.com & Book Like a Boss

If you've booked time with me, you know my 10-minute triage calls then you've used my scheduling link.  It's a service that's good and I didn't have any real complaints except it's on the expensive side.  I've used Schedule Once since I started podcasting so I'm pretty vested in it, but it's time to say goodbye. 

It's all Noah Kagen's fault, that's right!  If not for AppSumo I would have never discovered Book Like a Boss.  I picked it up on a Sumo Deal => Check them here, but then did nothing with it for months.  I was just to busy to be bothered at the time, but over the holiday season, one of my goals was to review everything I had purchased from a tools perspective and then either use it in my business or get rid of it.  After spending about 1 hour playing around I had a full booking page linked to my Skype account and ready to roll.  Here's the page: Vernon's Book Like A Boss Page

Great page and I have a special link I can send to my podcast guest to schedule and it all goes on my calendar and it's a one time charge!  Not only is it more affordable I've already had conversations with the CEO and love they are working on innovation with the platform and it's already pretty slick.  You can grab it now on a special Lifetime Deal with this link, Get the Deal I would love to know what you think of the page and if you think it would be useful.  Don't worry if you're not interested in buying it but want to try it out first just click the view all our plans link on the page and sign-up for free.

I work with Podbean to help some of the largest companies in the world.  I'm all in on Podcasting as you know and I recommend that if you don't have a podcast that you consider my recommendation to try out Podbean for 30 days risk-free trial.   Just click the following link to check them out: http://podbean.com/VR 

 If I had this book as a young awkward kid, I wouldn't of felt so alone in the world. - Marketia

As an author, to hear those words about work I've produced and the story I told in Master Your Message was extremely powerful.

In Master Your Message, I  lead you through my journey to find my voice.  The difficulties, challenges, and revelations I had along the way.  I've also included a few very notable mentors that were key in my writing journey, Chris Brogan, Patrice Washington and Matthew Turner.  It would mean the world to me if you would click below to grab your copy of Master Your Message.

If you can't buy a copy all I ask is that you phone your local library and request a copy.  It's available in every library in America.

Music Artist in Episode:  Singleton Singleton was so generous to give me permission to use their music on this podcast so make sure to check them out. Like Singelton on Facebook: Like Singleton on Facebook