Stop Overthinking—Start Visioneering Your Course (Barbara Daoust)
- Episode #119
Explore transformational goals and self-discovery to foster business growth with guest Barbara Daoust. Through mindset and visualization techniques, she emphasizes accountability and overcoming limiting beliefs, encouraging bold action, and offering lessons for personal and professional development.
Barbara Daoust, MFA is an author, speaker, success coach, and business growth accelerator.
In this episode, Ari, Abe, and Barbara discuss:
- The importance and structure of quick check-ins and laser coaching sessions
- Barbara’s journey from the entertainment industry to online courses
- The concept of embodying dreams and goals using acting techniques
- Differences between personal development components: purpose, vision, goal setting, and belief busting
- Role of visualization and repetitive subconscious programming in achieving goals
- Combining business principles with personal development and universal laws
- Specific structures in Barbara’s programs and examples of transformation
- Challenges of online course engagement and strategies to maintain accountability
- The role of technology in delivering course content and engaging participants
- Tips for new course creators on setting realistic expectations and transforming learners
“It all starts with finding that big, hairy, audacious goal that’s really scary and exciting at the same time, and leaping into the concept of who that character is, who that person is.”— Barbara Daoust
As a certified “Thinking into Results” consultant with the Proctor/Gallagher Institute, and certified Business Consultant through MindValley, Barbara Daoust shows entrepreneurs who want to take bold action on their dreams how to accelerate their business growth and achieve rapid results. It is her passion to help people break up with procrastination, say goodbye to perfectionism, and stop postponing the life they envision.
Barbara spent most of her career in Theatre Arts, Film, and Television as a director, acting coach, writer, and producer. She now blends her 25 years of acting, directing, and writing experience to inspire people to thrive in life and in business. She is the creator of several programs including “The Code to Success,” “Create Your Future Self Now,” and two based in neuroscience: “Your Genius Code Unlocked” and “Discover Greatness Within.”
Resources or websites mentioned in this episode:
Mirasee
Ruzuku
Barbara’s website: BarbaraDaoust.com
Free download for podcast listeners: Write your Code to Success Script Exercise
Credits:
Hosts: Ari Iny and Abe Crystal
Producer and Editor: Michi Lantz
Executive Producer: Danny Iny
Music Soundscape: Chad Michael Snavely
Making our hosts sound great: Home Brew Audio
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Music credits:
Track Title: Bossa BB
Artist Name: Marie
Writer Name: Chelsea McGough
Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION
Track Title: Coo Coos
Artist Name: Dresden, The Flamingo
Writer Name: Matthew Wigton
Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION
Track Title: Grace
Artist Name: Shimmer
Writer Name: Matthew Wigton
Publisher Name: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONS
Track Title: Carousel Lights
Artist Name: Chelsea McGough
Writer Name: Chelsea McGough
Writer Name: Matthew Wigton
Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION
Publisher Name: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONS
Special effects credits:
24990513_birds-chirping_by_promission used with permission of the author and under license by AudioJungle/Envato Market.
Episode transcript: Stop Overthinking—Start Visioneering Your Course (Barbara Daoust).

Course Lab
Ever wondered how online courses could be even better? What would that next level look like? Those are the questions driving online course experts Ari Iny (Vice President of Growth at Mirasee) and Abe Crystal (co-founder of Ruzuku) in Course Lab. In each episode, they bring on an innovative course creator and deconstruct what makes their course (and course business) work for them and their students.