Welcome to the Process Hacker News, your weekly roundup of useful news and updates from Process Hackers who have been guests on Hack the Process with M. David Green. This week we've got slow goals, video storytelling, knowing emptiness, and more, plus a few exclusive updates for the Process Hackers on our mailing list.

Also, don't forget to check out our latest full episode, an interview with Stephanie Scapa, CEO and co-founder of digital media startup WEYV!

Enjoy!

Events

At Transform ‘19 in San Diego from May 8 to 9, digital marketers will learn how to grow their brands by understanding online reputation, event management, and customer experience strategies. Tiffani Bova will be featured as the keynote speaker.

LinkedIn Toronto is gathering a panel of video storytellers and marketers, including Tara Hunt, at Storytelling: Presenting Live and Online on May 14 to discuss how they use stories and videos to build communities and online influence.

Laugh the night away with Sarah Cooper and other female authors at Women Authors of Comedy Night, a fundraiser by Women’s Media Group on May 15 in New York. Dorie Clark, an author and marketing consultant Nicole Holland and Ron Carucci mentioned in their interviews, will also be at the event.

Media

WEYV is a relatively new service that allows you to listen to music and podcasts and read magazines and ebooks while supporting the creators. WEYV’s CEO and our latest guest on Hack the Process, Stephanie Scapa, guests on the How I Built It Podcast to discuss the effective business model they used, their pricing plan, and more.

Mailing List Exclusive: If you’re in search of ways to grow your podcast, check out the latest episode of Jay Wong’s The Inner Changemaker Podcast, in which Jay reveals his content promotion strategy.

To get the life you want, you have to be ready for a long-term commitment. In the newest episode of Personal Development Without the Fluff Podcast, Guy and Ilan Ferdman encourage you to enjoy the long, slow process of reaching your goals instead of taking shortcuts.

Join Byron Morrison in his free five-day planning, productivity, and focus challenge. Just register, join the Facebook group, and learn how to structure your day for success!

Writing

As parents, yelling at our kids can be unhealthy. But we can avoid it by understanding three reasons that lead to yelling, shared by Heather Chauvin.

Find out how to set up a mastermind group by reading this recent blog post from Ryan Waggoner.

Improve your chances of success in building a full-stack startup by considering these seven factors proposed by Ricky Yean.

Did you miss out on Omar Zenhom’s talk at Microconf? If so, here’s a recap of what he discussed about bootstrapping a Saas product.

Mailing List Exclusive: Divorce can be an ugly, devastating process for couples, but it doesn’t have to be, as revealed by author and attorney Gabrielle Hartley in her conversation with Lisa Dale Miller on the Groundless Ground Podcast.

Recommended Resources

Mailing List Exclusive: If you’re going to be in London this June, you might want to attend the World Business Forum London from June 5 to 6 to meet and learn from international business leaders a variety industries, including organizational performance authority Simon Sinek, who was mentioned by Alex Hillman.

Enjoy five nights of immersion in mysticism and peace at Living Compassion’s Blessed is the Knowledge of Emptiness from May 27 to June 1. Living Compassion was founded by Cheri Huber, a prominent figure in meditation and Buddhism who was mentioned on Mike Massy and Kate Swoboda’s episodes of Hack the Process.

You can make a living from podcasting. To learn more about the role podcasting can play in content marketing, listen to this chat between Colin Gray of The Podcast Host and Paul Boag on The Boagworld Show. Curtis McHale recommended Paul Boag’s podcast.