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Winnie Anderson
Positioning Strategist Winnie Anderson interviews entrepreneurs who share how they gained the courage to stand out when they hate standing out and sell their services without being salesy. Winnie also interviews experts who share tips and strategies to leverage technology to help you stand out, demonstrate your expertise, and attract clients and opportunities.
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information to help you move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity so you – the introverted, mission-driven entrepreneur -- consistently reach your biggest goals.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others.
Be sure to visit winnie Anderson.com/nicole to get the show notes for this episode
As an Introvert it’s easy to feel as though you don’t quite fit in.
The world seems full of extroverts who love to tell us what’s wrong with us.
I once had a client who had paid about 10,000$ to spend the day with a guru.
Rather than understand what she was struggling with that was contributing to her lack of progress and creating a game plan that would work for her, he told her she didn’t have a big enough why and that’s the reason she hadn’t achieved her goals.
What we can find hard to deal with is accepting ourselves as we are, and creating a plan that works with and supports our core personality.
With me on this episode is Nicole Isler. Nicole is Chief Empowerment Officer and the founder of Guts, Grit, & Fire Community for sensitive visionaries. She’s a spiritual teacher, coach, light leader, and big-time dreamer.
She helps other dreamers in various industry segments bring their dreams into the world.
Her clients are struggling to deal with things like corporate responsibilities, toxic relationships, messy energy and messy emotions. She helps them close the gap from where they are to living their freedom and feeling fulfilled.
Remember my guests and I aren’t giving you specific advice. The information we’re sharing is for educational and entertainment purposes only. If you need help be sure to seek out a trained professional whether you need help in the financial, tax, business building, or physical or mental healthcare provider. If you feel triggered by anything in this episode please get help right away.
Listen in as Nicole and I discuss:
The difference between being sensitive and being easily offended And the difference between being emotional and being dramatic
Why embracing and owning your feelings is important to take back your power
Where beliefs come from and how to manage them
How to deal with negative experiences from the past that may have a hold over you
Our mission as spiritual beings
Why it’s not rejection when someone says no to working with you
Repurposing your life events
And The role of ego in listening to our intuition
As always, listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information
Nicole's website
Nicole on social sites
On Facebook
On YouTube
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information to help you move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity so you consistently reach your biggest goals.
Links below may include affiliate links, meaning I may receive compensation if you click through and make a purchase. This doesn't impact the price you pay and is part of how I support production costs of the show.
Show Notes
One of the downsides to being self-employed is there are no sick days. Our health is incredibly important to us. As more than one health expert has said “Your health is your wealth.”
But we can get so caught up in work that our health can definitely suffer.
It’s why I think it’s important to address this topic as it relates to our physical, mental, and emotional health.
And just as we used to say back in the early days of computers – garbage in, garbage out.
We’re learning more and more about the impact of what we eat on gut health and the impact of gut health on our overall wellness.
In this episode, the Ingredient Guru, Mira Deesy, helps us get educated about the complex subject that is the food we eat.
Mira is a nutrition professional, author, and a popular public speaker. She knows it’s not just what you eat but what’s IN what you eat that’s important.
She’s author of The Pantry Principle: How to read the label and understand what’s really in your food.
Mira is a board certified holistic health practitioner whose mission is to educate and empower consumers. She curates the premier organic Lean and Green Subscription box. The monthly box is full of earth-friendly, healthy, sustainable products that are good for you, the planet, and your home.
Mira is a member of the National Association of Nutrition Professionals, the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior, and the American Association of Drugless Practitioners. She is a founding member of the Holistic Business and Wellness Alliance.
Remember my guests and I aren’t giving you specific business advice. The information we’re sharing is for educational and entertainment purposes only. If you need help be sure to seek out a trained professional whether it’s a financial advisor, tax professional, business building expert, or mental or physical healthcare provider.
Listen in as Mira shares:
- Her success journey
- How to take control of your health through the food you eat
- Tips to get started or fine tune your healthy eating program
- Decision and behavior drivers that influence our food choices and eating habits
- The improvement people feel when they make changes to their eating
- How the food industry tries to trick us into eating food that’s not as healthy for us as we’d like to think
- The importance of eating mindfully
And we both share some tips to make healthy choices easy when we’re working from home.
As always, listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information
Mira's website
Social media
Book: Get Mira's book, The Pantry Principle
Free offers
Mira generously offered a couple of free gifts.
Get an article about food journaling and a link to download a free food journal
We discussed "mindful" eating. Get free access to Mira's mindful eating program.
Bonus Content
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We mentioned Brodie Welch in the interview. Here are two episodes I did with her:
The Courage of Self-Care
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Mira talked about hydration and later, sent me the following extra information for you:
We talked about the hydration factor. Here's how to figure out how much hydration you need.
First, write down your body weight.
Divide that in half for the number of ounces needed to be properly hydrated.
Divide that number by 8 to get the number of cups of fluid.
Take that number, divide it by four and then set a “hydration alarm” approximately every two hours.
When the alarm goes off set your liquid in front of you with the goal to drink it before the alarm goes off again.
Remember that this does not mean plain water. Too much water is not healthy either.
Soups, herbal teas, food with lots of liquid (like watermelon), plus water all count towards a daily hydration goal.
Also consider coconut water which is a perfectly balanced electrolyte beverage. Look for a brand with no additives.
You can learn more about hydrating foods on the blog.
Join the Courageous Success Community
Are you an introverted, mission-driven coach, consultant, or other service professional with a big message and big mission to change the world? Are you ready to stand out and step up as a thought leader in your industry segment and to your target audience?
If you want support to help you stay focused on your core goals along with information, tips, resources, and training to help you be seen as the go-to expert you are, then join my Facebook group, The Courageous Success Community.
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information to help you move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity so you – the introverted, mission-driven entrepreneur -- consistently reach your biggest goals.
SHOW NOTES
As a mission driven solo professional or micro-firm owner I’m sure you’re always looking for ways to get your message out easier, faster, and to an audience of people you know are interested in and even passionate about the same things you are. And it’s likely you’ve heard and maybe even already experienced the power of social networking groups to build community and to grow a business.
In this episode leading expert Geriann Wiesbrook is going to talk about Facebook groups and share tips for growing and strengthening one.
Lots of people call themselves experts on the subject of using Facebook and building a group on Facebook but very very few are actually recognized as a community leader by Facebook itself.
Geriann is a Fellow in the Facebook Community Leadership program. This means she’s one of the top 115 group leaders on Facebook and she was selected from a pool of over 6000.
She’s been repeatedly recognized by Facebook since 2017 when she was invited to the first Facebook Communities Summit and became a member of the leadership team for a Facebook run, invitation-only leadership group. She is featured in training videos Facebook created and she participated in a round table on group and small business tools for growth with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandburg. Geri is also a frequent speaker at Facebook Leadership Circles in Chicago.
Geriann is the founder of Military Mama Network which started as a group on Facebook and is now a 501c organization. The group started in 2013 after Geriann recognized the needs of her Army recruit son and other US military members. MMN has grown to provide support to US troops and their families and maintains the Military Mama Network Facebook community.
MMN has a presence in all 50 states and chapters in several states. Their goal is to have chapters in all 50 states, enabling them to continue to serve our troops and veterans in a swift but personal manner
Remember my guests and I aren’t giving you specific business advice. The information we’re sharing is for educational and entertainment purposes only. If you need help be sure to seek out a trained professional whether it’s a financial advisor, tax professional, business building expert, or healthcare provider.
Listen in as Geriann:
- Dispels some common myths about members of the military and explains the needs they often have that go unmet
- Talks about the evolution of the group and how the work has grown to support the military member through basic training through deployment and release as well as how they support families.
- Discusses the challenges women face to own their expertise, recognize themselves as leaders, and step into their power
- Shares why she feels a group may not be right for every business
- Explains why a group’s culture is important and how you can focus on consciously creating the kind of group you want
You’ll want to listen to this with a notepad handy because Geriann tosses out super tips throughout our conversation.
As always, listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information:
Geriann's consulting page
Book a clarity call with Geriann
Military Mama Network's website
Military Mama Network's main Facebook group
Geriann on social media (other than Facebook)
YouTube
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information to help you move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity so you, the introverted, mission-driven entrepreneur, consistently reach your biggest goals.
As a solo professional or microfirm owner I’m sure you’re always looking for ways to get your message out easier, faster, and to a bigger audience. Of course that means we’re turning to social networking and social media.
In this episode of the courageous entrepreneur show Ellen McDowell, the social butterfly, dispels some myths, simplifies things, and helps you get your head around what you should post and where to post.
Ellen is teacher, trainer, and lover of tech and wine. She specializes in teaching small business owners how to get their message out using social networking and social media tools.
Ellen is an honors graduate from the University of Georgia where she received her masters degree in historic preservation. She also holds several certifications including Constant Contact solution provider, and SCORE mentor.
She lives in the Baton Rouge Louisiana region and is an LSU superfan.
Remember my guests and I aren’t giving you specific business advice. The information we’re sharing is for educational and entertainment purposes only. If you need help be sure to seek out a trained professional whether it’s a financial advisor, tax professional, business building expert, or healthcare provider.
Listen in as Ellen shares:
- How her work found her rather than the other way around
- The difference between social media and social networking
- The one thing you need to do on every social site
- The kind of posts you should share
- How to figure out which platforms to focus on
- Why sharing personal information is actually important and how to decide what to share
- How to decide when you need help with your social presence and social content
- And What to consider when hiring someone for that role
As always, listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
GUEST CONTACT INFORMATION
Ellen's website
YouTube channel
Elen's LinkedIn Profile
Ellen's FB page
Ellen on Twitter
Ellen on Insta
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Join the Courageous Success Community
Are you an introverted, mission-driven coach, consultant, or other service professional with a big message and big mission to change the world? Are you ready to stand out and step up as a thought leader in your industry segment and to your target audience?
If you want support to help you stay focused on your core goals along with information, tips, resources, and training to help you be seen as the go-to expert you are, then join my Facebook group, The Courageous Success Community.
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information to help you move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity so you consistently reach your biggest goals.
Some of the links below may be affiliate links. That means if you click through and make a purchase I may make a small commission as a thank you. It doesn't impact the price you pay. It's my way of generating gas money for my long trips back home to South Jersey.
Show Notes
If you’re an entrepreneur, freelancer, solo professional who is also a former employee, the chances are very good that you’ve experienced some form of trauma at your past job.
Whether you’ve worked for abusive bosses or you’ve worked with difficult or even bullying peers, the chances are very good that you’ve experienced some type of emotional trauma at work and there’s also a good chance that trauma scarred you in some way.
In this episode,Tracey Maxfield recounts her experience with severe workplace bullying and how she’s using her experience to help children around the world.
Tracey is a nurse with over 37 years’ experience. She is certified in gerontology and dementia care and is a regular guest on well-known author and radio host Peter Rosenberger’s show Hope For the Caregiver on WLAC and iHeart Radio in Nashville, Tennessee.
Tracey experienced her first episode of clinical depression in her twenties and lived with chronic depression ever since. However, nothing prepared her for the acute depressive episode she experienced in 2015.
After enduring years of intense work place stress, harassment and bullying, she plummeted into an abyss of darkness, hopelessness and despair the likes of which she had never experienced before.
Encouraged by a psychologist, Tracey started a blog, Escaping the Rabbit Hole - my life with depression, to better help her friends understand her depression. Over time, she began to heal and found that out of the darkness and despair, there is hope, there is life after depression.
Since the release of the book (affiliate link) that grew out of her blog, Tracey has become a staunch advocate for mental illness and mental health awareness and bullying.
She has met with children, teenagers and young adults to talk about bullying and mental illness and was one of the breakout presenters at the TEACH 2019 Conference in Jacksonville, Florida.
Her website was recently awarded the silver medal for Best Author Website 2019 at the eLit Awards and her book is a top 10 finalist in the Non-Fiction category at the Author Academy Awards. Tracey has appeared in over 60 podcasts in the USA, Canada, New Zealand and UK, live radio shows and on ABC, NBC and FOX News.
Her philosophy is to Engage children and teenagers, to Educate them about mental illness and bullying and to Empower them to develop confidence and skills to continue to move ahead in their own life journey.
Born in Wales, U.K. Tracey moved to Canada in 1987. Escaping the Rabbit Hole my journey through depression is her first book and has received international rave reviews.
Remember, my guests and I aren’t giving you specific business, health, or life advice. The information we’re sharing is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
If you need help, be sure to seek out a trained professional whether it’s a financial advisor, tax professional, business building support, or a physical or mental healthcare provider.
If you feel triggered by anything in this episode please get help right away. And if you’re concerned you may harm yourself call 911 or the emergency number in the country where you live.
Listen in as Tracey shares:
- What the rabbit hole is and how she got there
- The reaction of her friends, family, and healthcare providers as she struggled to recover
- What finally helped her to begin to climb out of the hole
- And how she’s making her mess her mission and how she’s focusing on helping teens and children.
As always, listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information
Tracey's website
Tracey's Author Central page on Amazon
Tracey on social media
YouTube
Resources Mentioned
Tracey's book on Amazon
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Join the Courageous Success Community
The Courageous Success Community is for introverted, mission-driven coach, consultant, or other service professionals with a big message and big mission to change the world. If you're ready to stand out and step up as a thought leader in your industry segment and to your target audience, but know you need and want help to stay focused on your core goals, then click to ask to join the group.
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
Remember my guests and I aren’t giving you specific business advice. The information we’re sharing is for educational and entertainment purposes only. If you need help be sure to find and hire a trained professional who can advise you directly about your specific situation.
Show Notes
We start a business for lots of reasons including the opportunity to make a big impact and the opportunity to earn an unlimited income.
But having to price our offerings and services can fill us with anxiety and raise self-worth issues we didn’t even realize we had.
In fact, we come face to face with our own emotional crap.
And it doesn’t matter where you are in the business life cycle.
Each new level of business success brings up the issue of “am I good enough” and “do I really deserve to make this kind of money”.
In this episode Tai Goodwin talks about the struggle we have with pricing and how we’ve got to get past it to build momentum and truly build the sustainable, profitable business we dream of and deserve.
Tai is the CEO of Profit Momentum and founder of Profit Academy. A firm believer that wealth and spirituality are not mutually exclusive, Tai teaches women how to make bank so they can fund the lifestyle they desire, bring their purpose-based projects to life, and invest in the people and communities that matter to them.
A tech-savvy, woo woo, coach and teacher who prefers books over shoes, Tai's super power is helping clients monetize their expertise by creating, marketing, and selling high-ticket signature programs.
The author of Girlfriend, It's Your Time and co-author of The Profitable Woman’s Playbook, her articles have been featured on The Huffington Post, Forbes.com, Careerealism.com, and CAREER Magazine.
Tai has also been highlighted by Money Magazine, Black Enterprise, and The BOSS Network. You can find her online at www.proifitmomentum.com.
Listen in as Tai shares tips and strategies to help you:
- RAMP up your profits
- Deal with worthiness issues
- Recognize the value of your corporate experience and skills
- How to deal with profit potholes and recognize profit roadblocks
- The importance of being around others who want the same things you do
- The importance of social capital
- And how to know it’s time to raise your prices
As always, listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Resources and Related Episodes
Pricing for Profit : Justin Krane challenges our thoughts on pricing
Mind Over Money - an interview with money and success coach Robyn Crane
Get the worksheet with the Reflection Exercise and Action Step along with access to The Vault -- all the back episodes and bonus material.
Guest Contact Information:
Tai's website
Social Networks
YouTube - Tai's Profit Momentum channel
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information to help you move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity so you the introverted, mission-driven entrepreneur to consistently reach your biggest goals.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with your connections.
Be sure to visit WinnieAnderson.com/dominothinking to get the show notes and work sheet for this episode.
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Show Notes
One of the many reasons we start our businesses is to get the freedom we want to build a life and a lifestyle that brings us joy. Yet, building that foundation can be a challenge and we often come face to face with our own emotional crap.
In this episode, Alison Donaghey talks about her journey and the type of thinking that can hold female entrepreneurs back.
A single mom at 20, Alison eventually went from collecting welfare to running a thriving house painting business.
It took the 2008 recession for Alison to recognize that she had some holes to fill in her business and business-building knowledge.
The recession led her to recognize how critical thinking is key to every situation and she realized she had something other than painting to offer people and business owners.
She recognized her ability to look at a situation differently and anticipate potential outcomes was the seed that became Domino Thinking.
Allison is the author of the international best-selling book, Think opposite – using the domino effect to change your business and change the world”.
Today, Alison speaks to entrepreneurs, small business owners and coaches about the power of critical thinking.
She’s also the host of Domino Thinking. The show is designed to get listeners to think about a different perspective, to suspend their beliefs, and consider the opposite view point.
Remember my guests and I aren’t giving you specific business advice. The information we’re sharing is for educational and entertainment purposes only. If you need help be sure to seek out a trained professional whether it’s a financial advisor, tax professional, business building support, or healthcare provider.
Listen in as Alison shares:
- The path she took from welfare to successful entrepreneur
- What the crash of 2008 taught her
- What she feels is her responsibility to do and the steps she’s taken to do it
- The problem with comparing ourselves to others
- What she believes is the foundation of every success
- What’s the domino effect and why it’s powerful personally and professionally for entrepreneurs
As always, listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information
Alison's Website
Her #MyPart course
Alison's Podcast
Alison on Social Media
YouTube
Introverted Entrepreneurs Unite!
Are you an introverted, mission-driven coach, consultant, or other service professional with a big message and big mission to change the world? Are you ready to stand out and step up as a thought leader in your industry segment and to your target audience?
If you want support to help you stay focused on your core goals along with information, tips, resources, and training to help you be seen as the go-to expert you are, then join my Facebook group, The Courageous Success Community.
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information to help you move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity so you – the introverted, mission-driven entrepreneur -- consistently reach your biggest goals.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others.
You can access episodes from every season of the show along with bonus material by becoming a fan of the show at CouragePodcastFan.com and signing up to access "The Vault".
SHOW NOTES
If you feel as though you’ve worked hard to get your coaching, consulting, training, or healing business off the ground but have found yourself nowhere near the success level you dreamed of or if you’re starting to feel the entrepreneurial itch and you dream of going out on your own and making a big impact and big income but you’re wondering if you’ve got what it takes to create the success you dream of and deserve, then you’ll be glad you tuned into this episode.
Deb Boulanger is a success mentor for women leaders who want the courage and confidence to make bold moves in their life and career.
She is also founder of the Launch Lab for Women Entrepreneurs - a 12 week virtual accelerator for women making the leap from corporate leader to successful entrepreneur.
Deb spent the majority of her corporate career with Gartner, Inc. where she was responsible for developing the concepts for several of the company's key products.
In her last position she launched and grew a new service offering to $32M in just over 2 years.
She's passionate about translating the exact principles that work in the corporate world to entrepreneurs who are launching their businesses.
Deb is based in Sag Harbor, NY where she shares her love of the ocean with her life partner and her son who is a junior at the University of Michigan - "Go Blue!"
Remember my guests and I aren’t giving you specific business advice. The information we’re sharing is for educational and entertainment purposes only. If you need help be sure to seek out a trained professional whether it’s a financial advisor, business advisor, tax professional, or healthcare provider.
Listen in as Deb and I discuss:
- What drives us to start our businesses and how we end up with the opposite of what we want
- The amount of money she thinks you should reasonably expect to invest in launching and growing your business
- The common mistakes corporate escapees make with the money they invest in their startups and where they should invest instead
- Why your reputation isn’t enough to launch your business and the two things you need to focus on
- The two biggest mistakes she sees people make – I’ll bet you’ve made or are making at least one of them.
- What you need to stop hiding behind and stop spending money on
- The 10K investment she made in her own training as an entrepreneur that’s still paying dividends
- Why you often need a coach and a community to make the advances you dream of.
As always, listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information:
Take Deb's free quiz to find out if you're entrepreneur material
Checkout Deb's Launch Lab Accelerator
Connect with Deb on Social Media:
Resources:
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If you’ve worked hard to achieve a goal and then discovered you didn’t really want what you had gotten you’ll find a lot to relate to in this episode. Especially if you built a business around a model that made you miserable or just didn’t work for you.
ReeJade Richmond is an an acclaimed business and legal strategist who empowers women to embrace their true power bossness and turn their business into an empire. From rock-solid business structures to impenetrable contracts, she shows them how to get legal, legit, and profitable.
A first-generation college graduate, ReeJade finished law school determined to live the fairytale that every up and coming attorney dreams of. Seven figure salary. Partnership. Prestige.
ReeJade landed a position with one of the top intellectual property firms in the Detroit Metro area and quickly earned her superstar spot, working on the continued preservation of Malcom X’s and Alex Haley’s heirs legacy.
A complicated labor left her 1.3lb baby in the NICU and Reejade with complex health problems. She ended up bankrupt but risked it all to have it all. She’s committed to helping women build something big and understand all the words above the dotted line and the value of the assets that could make or break their bottom line.
Listen in as ReeJade shares:
- The quarter life crisis she had at 25 and what she realized
- What she finally did to get the clarity she needed
- How she broke free from the typical attorney model to provide better service and create a more joyful life for herself
- She shares how she built a six figure business and her thoughts on the strategic priorities we manage as entrepreneurs
As always, listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information to help you move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity so you – the introverted, mission-driven entrepreneur -- consistently reach your biggest goals.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others.
Be sure to visit WinnieAnderson.com/legit to get the show notes and access to the work sheet for this episode.
SHOW NOTES
If you’re a solo professional, freelancer, author, expert or even someone who runs a small firm, today’s topic may not be the most sexy thing to hear but it’s certainly among the most important topics you’ll hear.
You may have heard me talk about a friend of mine who ran a small firm that used contractors to do the work. There were periods of time in a year and during planning times when it was just her and her partner. When things went sour in their relationship he somehow got her connected to a lawsuit.
Just defending herself and getting herself removed from the situation cleaned out her savings account. Then terror attacks of September 11th happened and business took a nose dive. Then the crash of 2008 happened.
She was devastated.
I tell you that story because bad things happen to good people and as business professionals it’s important we take the steps to protect ourselves. And that’s what today’s episode is all about.
My guest today is ReeJade Richmond. She’s an acclaimed business and legal strategist who empowers women to embrace their true power bossness and turn their business into an empire.
From rock-solid business structures to impenetrable contracts, she shows them how to get legal, legit, and profitable.
A first-generation college graduate, ReeJade finished law school determined to live the fairytale that every up and coming attorney dreams of. Seven figure salary. Partnership. Presitge.
ReeJade landed a position with one of the top intellectual property firms in the Detroit Metro area and quickly earned her superstar spot, working on the continued preservation of Malcom X’s and Alex Haley’s heirs legacy.
A complicated labor left her 1.3lb baby in the NICU and Reejade with complex health problems. She ended up bankrupt but risked it all to have it all. She’s committed to helping women build something big and understand all the words above the dotted line and the value of the assets that could make or break their bottom line.
Remember, my guests and I aren’t giving you professional advice.
The information we’re sharing is for educational and entertainment purposes only. If you need help be sure to seek out a trained professional whether it’s a financial advisor, tax professional, legal expert, or healthcare provider.
That being said, listen in as ReeJade and I discuss:
- How you may actually be running a fraudulent business and how to make it legit
- Why you need to pay Uncle Sam first and not you
- The legal concept of liability and how to protect yourself and your assets
- The importance of having an attorney review anything you sign before you sign it
- How business relationships are like a marriage
- How to hire an attorney for your business.
- The basics of intellectual property and what should be protected
- And why it’s not always worth it to use images from a stock image site whether you pay for them or not
As always, listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
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If you’ve ever felt like you were odd or if you have some passion you’d love to build a career or business around and you wondered if you could really pursue your passion and make it pay, then you’re really going to enjoy this episode.
Rose Andreesen is a professional tour guide in New Orleans, specializing in ghost, vampire, and mystery-themed walking tours of the historic French Quarter through HauntedHistoryTours.com.
A lifelong storyteller, her passion for the strange and macabre began at a young age and she’s been reading about vampires, ghosts, and other creatures of the night for more than 30 years.
Rose has an academic background in Anthropology and Theater Arts and finds her work as both a tour guide and podcaster the perfect marriage of her specializations. This gives a unique, immersive perspective to the tales she weaves for spellbound tourists from around the world.
It’s easy to imagine she’s been telling these stories for centuries.
Rose moved to New Orleans one year after Hurricane Katrina hit the area and only plans to leave “when her bloated corpse floats out.”
She lives in a haunted house with her husband, a pair of black and orange Halloween cats, and a decidedly non-goth corgi mix.
Listen in as Rose shares:
- How her passion showed itself at an early age and why she was drawn to New Orleans
- How seeming disparate work experiences fit together to give her the key skills to become a top tour guide and story teller
- The stage secret that she believes is important for anyone who wants to gain and hold the attention of an audience
- The only time you should apologize to an audience
- When she knew she was “ready” to be a tour guide and how she was able to decide to transition from part time side gig to full time professional
- The hardest part of being a tour guide which is also one of the hardest things about being an entrepreneur
- What you must ask yourself and know about yourself before you dive in to trying to make a passion a financially successful endeavor
And as always, listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
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Impact and Influence with Valerie Sokolosky
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This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information to help you move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity so you,the introverted, mission-driven entrepreneur, consistently reach your biggest goals.
Be sure to visit winnie Anderson.com/braintraining to get the show notes which include links to resources as well as the work sheet for this episode.
SHOW NOTES
You’ve probably tried affirmations, positive thinking, and other typically recommended strategies to release limiting beliefs and you’ve tried hard to change your patterns but gotten frustrated and even depressed when your results are changing then you’re going to really enjoy this episode.
Remember, my guests and I aren’t giving you financial or health advice. The information we’re sharing is for educational and entertainment purposes only. If you need help be sure to seek out a trained professional whether it’s a financial advisor, tax professional, or mental or physical healthcare provider.
That being said, Holly Stokes, The Brain Trainer, is a 3 time author and has more than 20 years experience in the field of applied psychology with NLP & Hypnosis. She has worked with thousands of clients in ‘rewiring’ the brain out of stress, cravings, sabotage and the habits that keep us stuck. She has been quoted by Shape Magazine, Active Times and Chicago Tribune and appears on radio shows and local TV. She says, “For everything you want to create in your in life and health, career, it all starts with your brain.”
Listen in as Holly explains:
- What hypnosis really is and how it’s used as a healing modality
- How hypnosis used for healing is different from the hypnosis used in entertainment
- How we actually go through a type of hypnosis in our every day lives
- How to recognize you may need a hypnotherapist
- How to find the hypnotherapist that’s right for you
- The definition of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and how it helps change behavior
- Examples of the power of language in our lives The one thing the mind can’t argue with
As always, listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
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Related Episodes
Break Free from Money Issues with Abby Rohrer
From Survivor Strategies to Thriver Strategies with Suzie Gruber
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show.
This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information to help you move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity so you – the introverted, mission-driven entrepreneur -- consistently reach your biggest goals.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others.
Be sure to visit winnieanderson.com/karma to get the show notes and work sheet for this episode.
SHOW NOTES
If you’ve worked hard to release your money story and you’ve continued to struggle, this episode will give you some interesting insight into what the problem may be.
Remember, my guests and I aren’t giving you professional financial advice. The information we’re sharing is for educational and entertainment purposes only. If you need help be sure to seek out a trained professional whether it’s a financial advisor, tax professional, or healthcare provider.
That being said, like many of us in the helping professions, Abby Rohrer started out trying to heal her own issues.
And as she did that she discovered her calling and the things that helped her break free from a compulsive behavior pattern also helped her clients deal with what she calls money karma.
Abby is a Master Healer, Karma and Anxiety Expert with her own healing technology. She’s also a certified Big Money Business Coach. She works with business owners and entrepreneurs to free them from money, sales, and success karma, as well as blocks and fears. She teaches people worldwide how to self heal their karma and anxiety to they can achieve their dreams and thrive in business and in life.
Listen in as Abby explains:
- What money karma is and where it comes from
- What she did to turn her relationship to sales around and how that changed her business for the better
- Where up to 80% of our blocks are located
- And the different ways we can frustrate ourselves in the sales process
As always, listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
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Resources
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Related Episodes
Mind Over Money: An interview with money and success coach Robyn Crane
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If you’ve ever wondered if it’s possible to create success in a way that’s in alignment with who you are you definitely want to hear this week’s episode.
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you stand out when you hate standing out, sell your services even though you hate selling, and create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information to help you move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio formats and on a variety of platforms.
You can get the show notes, resources and worksheets on my website. You can find this particular episode at WinnieAnderson.com /embraceyou.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll decide to become a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans. When you do, you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you – the introverted, mission-driven entrepreneur -- consistently move forward to reach your biggest goals.
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Whether you’re a long time listener to the show or you’ve just discovered it, I’m sure you’re driven to serve and to bring about an important change in the world.
You recognize that there’s something different about you, about how you approach the world, and that you have a experiences and a message that can powerfully impact others.
But how do you do harness that and direct your energy to build a thriving business?
In this episode, best selling author, speaker, and medical intuitive Dave Markowitz shares his journey of discovering and embracing his empath abilities, recognized his need to chart his own path as an entrepreneur, and how he built his successful practice.
Listen in as Dave shares his journey from retail worker to self-employed intuitive and reveals:
- What it means to be an empath or a highly sensitive person
- How to blend those elements of your personality and still grow a business
- How to balance serving at a high level with self-care
- His thoughts on handling the 8 strategic priorities we deal with as entrepreneurs and shares some of his best practices along the way.
As always, listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
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YouTube
Amazon Central Profile and books
Related Episodes
Jenn Savage - The Success Journey of a Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur
Scott Chesney -- Success No Matter What
Peggy O'Neill -- Your Challenge is Really a Gift
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Are you an introverted, mission-driven coach, consultant, or other service professional with a big message and big mission to change the world? Are you ready to stand out and step up as a thought leader in your industry segment and to your target audience? If you want support to help you stay focused on your core goals along with information, tips, resources, and training to help you be seen as the go-to expert you are, then join my Facebook group of like-minded and like-personality'd professionals who are taking steps to create Courageous Success.
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you stand out when you hate standing out, sell your services even though you hate selling, and create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information to help you move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll decide to become a fan of the show on my site at WinnieAnderson.com/fans. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help the introverted, mission-driven entrepreneur consistently move forward to reach your biggest goals.
SHOW NOTES
If you’re someone who doesn’t just feel compassion for others but who can truly feel what that other person is feeling or if you keep hearing your too sensitive you may be either an empath or a highly sensitive person or HSP.
I finally came to the realization that I have some empath tendencies and I have friends and family members who are highly sensitive people.
This realization got me to thinking about other HSPs and empaths out there who are trying to build businesses and I thought we could use a little insight into this from someone who’s done it.
That’s why I wanted to have today’s guest on the show.
Jenn Savage helps professionals create spiritual connection, tap deeply into the essence of who they are and find their space where confidence moves you to speak your truth and do the inner work of the journey you’re on. She also has the skills of marketing and strategy and understands how to make them work for healers.
So listen in as Jenn explains:
- What it means to be an empath or a highly sensitive person
- How to blend those elements of your personality and still grow a business
- How and why money can be an issue for empaths and HSPs
- The things we think are wrong with us and how in fact they could very well be what’s right with us
- Her thoughts on handling the 8 strategic priorities we deal with as entrepreneurs and some of her best practices
As always, listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information:
Jenn's website
Jenn on Facebook
on Twitter
on YouTube
on Instagram
RESOURCES
Are you an Empath?
What's the Difference Between an Empath and a Highly Sensitive Person (hsp)?
Looking for Support as You Come Out of Hiding and Get Your Message Out in a Bigger Way?
Are you an introverted, mission-driven coach, consultant, or other service professional with a big message and big mission to change the world? Are you ready to stand out and step up as a thought leader in your industry segment and to your target audience?
If you want support to help you stay focused on your core goals along with information, tips, resources, and training to help you be seen as the go-to expert you are, then join my Facebook group of like-minded and like-personality'd professionals who are taking steps to create Courageous Success.
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you stand out when you hate standing out, sell your services even though you hate selling, and create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information to help you move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including Apple Podcasts, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on You Tube and on my website.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll decide to become a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you – the introverted, mission-driven entrepreneur -- consistently move forward to reach your biggest goals.
SHOW NOTES
As Introverts one of the things we have to check in with ourselves about is whether the issue we’re wrestling with or that seems to be keeping us from taking action is truly part of being an introvert or is it connected to a deeper issue we wrestle with.
And often, if you find yourself resisting something, avoiding taking action, there’s probably a fear that’s holding you back.
I can tell you from experience that until you fully face that fear it’s unlikely you’ll be able to fully move forward with the courage, confidence, and clarity you need.
That’s the conclusion I came to and I thought you probably needed to as well.
That’s why I wanted to have today’s guest on the show.
To say Suzie Gruber is a personal development coach is a simplification of her skills I think but that’s technically her title. She uses her skills and training to help professionals uncover any survival strategies that we carry from childhood that we may still be unknowingly using today. She’ll support you in developing the ability to detach from the emotions connected to an issue, and support you to examine it as you develop new strategies to deal with it.
Her clients go on to be more productive, achieve their business and professional goals, and do it all with a greater sense of aliveness and ease so their work and their life is more satisfying.
Keep in mind that we’re not giving you medical advice. Suzie is not a licensed therapist or a doctor of any sort and neither am I. This episode like all of the episodes of The Courageous Entrepreneur Show is designed to inform, educate, and entertain you. If this brings up any issues or feelings for you please consider reaching out to a professional for diagnosis, care, and treatment. Listening to this show is not a replacement for the care of a trained and licensed professional.
That said, listen in as Suzie explains:
- What survival strategies are and how they stay with us through adulthood
- What it takes to heal from a traumatic past
- What our Inner Critic is and what happens to us when we hear it in our heads
- How we can become our own abuser
And how we can navigate the 8 strategic priorities we need to manage as entrepreneurs.
As always, listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information
Suzie's website
Get social with Suzie:
Resources Mentioned
From Survivor to Thriver Manual
Related Episodes
From Abused to Abundant with Mark Baker
Come Out of the Long Shadow of Abuse with Becky Norwood
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Remember, if you’re an introverted solo professional or someone with introverted leanings, ready to get support to reach your business goals as part of a community of like-minded and like personalityed professionals then head over to winnieandersonc.com/jointhegroup and join my facebook group for Introverted mission-driven entrepreneurs. I share tips and strategies to help you choose faith over fear and take consistent action to achieve your goals.
Thanks for listening and remember you deserve all the success you dream of.
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you stand out when you hate standing out, sell your services even though you hate selling, and create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
I’m your host Winnie Anderson.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information to help you move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including Apple Podcasts, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on You Tube and on my website at Winnie Anderson dot com.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll decide to become a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you – the introverted, mission-driven entrepreneur -- consistently move forward to reach your biggest goals.
SHOW NOTES
As I was editing this episode, a saying popped into my head – “all who wander aren’t lost.”
That’s because today's guest, RL Chance has been on quite a journey. His story is a great inspiration and he shares some excellent tips and strategies to help you recognize that while you might wander at times you’re not really lost either.
Randerick Chance – who goes by Chance – is a US citizen by way of _____ He’s a Navy veteran who won many awards during his tenure. After a spiritual awakening he left the Navy and transitioned to the nonprofit sector and a career in humanitarian relief. A career that took him to more than 26 countries and 6 continents.
Chance divides his time among his duties as pastor to two churches and his work as an implementation strategist with entrepreneurs. He works with entrepreneurs to monetize their skills including helping them publish their platform building books.
Listen in as Chance shares:
- Why he says success is predictable and how to make it happen
- Why failure is also predictable and how that’s likely to occur so you can avoid it
- The #1 thing that he says will completely sabotage your success
And he gives his insight on the 8 strategic actions all entrepreneurs need to take
As always, listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information
Chance's website
Chance on Facebook
Chance's Amazon author page
Resources
This week's worksheet -- opt-in required
Chance's Strategic Secrets book
Related Episodes
The Courage to Lead with Nukhet Hendricks
Building Your Brand as a Thought Leader with Samantha Riley
Developing a Success Mindset with Emma Churchman
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you stand out when you hate standing out, sell your services even though you hate selling, and create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information to help you move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including Apple Podcasts, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on YouTube and on my website at Winnie Anderson.com
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll decide to become a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you – the introverted, mission-driven entrepreneur -- consistently move forward to reach your biggest goals.
SHOW NOTES
If you’re on your second or third career act and are growing your own business, one of the big things you may be wrestling with is fearlessly communicating your Point of View and trusting that by doing so you’ll attract the right clients, the right opportunities, and the right referral partners.
We’ve spent decades of our lives trying to fit in – in classrooms as children and young people; in offices, companies, and organizations where we worked and where our economic lives were technically in the hands of our employers; and in our family of origin and social circles.
Then here we are out on our own and what’s needed is often the opposite – we need to stand out as unique.
While in corporate life we may have lead departments, divisions, and whole businesses, we took action with a certain amount of comfort in knowing that we could successfully address whatever came up and we understood the parameters within which we could lead.
Even if others inside the organization considered us fearless for those times when we stood up for a conviction. It’s not quite the same as standing up for what we believe, putting our point of view out there and putting ourselves on the line the way that’s necessary when you’re self-employed and you’re the face of your brand.
This issue of leading, being seen as a leader, and standing out can be downright scary for some of us.
It’s a very big part of why I named this show The Courageous Entrepreneur. I wanted to recognize the challenges, be inspired by and celebrate those who are courageous, and learn from experts who can help us do that.
And that sums up why I wanted today’s guest on the show.
Nukhet Hendricks is a Women’s Leadership Coach and Consultant as well as the executive director of a nonprofit headquartered in North Dakota.
She grew the nonprofit animal shelter from a low 6-figure to a solid 7-figure budget.
Nukhet continues to grow the organization while mentoring the emerging women leaders whom she has the privilege to guide.
She holds a Master of Science degree in Public and Human Service Administration and has been a nonprofit executive for over 28 years in various leadership roles.
Nukhet is originally from Turkey and has called the USA home since 1987 when she became a naturalized citizen.
A fiercely independent spiritual rebel and ocean lover with an unquenchable gypsy soul, Nukhet is always moving towards new frontiers!
A word of caution about this episode if you’re listening to it on speakers where others can here.
There are a couple of instances of profanity in this episode.
Particularly around our fears of being called the word that’s another name for a female dog.
So be sure to either where a headset when you listen or keep the volume low so you don’t expose other ears to language you might not want them to hear or they may not want to hear.
It doesn’t come up a lot but definitely at least once early in the conversation.
Listen in as Nukhet and I discuss:
- Her definition of leadership and why it’s important for women to answer the call to lead
- The important role of resilience in emotional health and how we can develop that
- How to develop and maintain strong boundaries
- Her explanation of authenticity and how to handle the challenges of being authentic
- The fears associated with being a female leader and conditioning we experienced in organizational life
Nukhet also shares her thoughts on the 8 strategic actions entrepreneurs regularly have to take to grow a business and create the life they dream of.
As always, listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
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Guest Contact Information
Nukhet's website
Nukhet's social sites
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Facebook -- Nukhet's business page
YouTube
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Build Your Brand as a Thought Leader with Samantha Riley
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you stand out when you hate standing out, sell your services even though you hate selling, and create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information to help you move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on YouTube and on my website.
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Those of us in service professions like coaching, consulting, healing, or other professional problem solvers start our businesses because we:
- Have been given talents that we love to use and want to use all the time
- Feel called to do the work we do
- Are on a mission to bring about some change in the world
- Have likely figured out a solution to a problem and we want to share that solution with the world
But then we realize we have to figure out how to get clients so we can do that thing we love and do so well.
And it’s in that moment that we often come face to face with emotional baggage we never knew we had or baggage we thought we had tucked away in that closet in our mind.
But until we deal with this issue and recognize selling is just helping people make a choice that’s best for them, we’re left to struggle.
Struggling to make sales means we aren’t generating the income we want and need to survive or thrive.
We’re not helping ourselves, our families, or the causes we care about.
We’re stressed. We’re fearful. We can get depressed.
You get the picture.
So we’ve got to not just figure out the whole sales process. We’ve got to get comfortable with it and actually embrace it as part of serving others.
That’s right. It’s part of serving others.
And that’s what we’re going to focus on in today’s episode and why I wanted today’s guest on the show.
Darlene Karpaski, is a National Board Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, a High Performance & Sales Coach seen on ABC, FOX, CBS & NBC News. She helps purpose-driven entrepreneurs Create optimal brain chemistry so they can rapidly grow their sales & income.
She has helped nearly 7,000 individuals, entrepreneurs and organizations achieve rapid transformation. Through intuitive communication skills training she empowers professionals to give their prospective clients permission to choose a better life & see how the services offered by the professional are the
answers to the prospective client’s prayers.
Listen in as Darlene and I discuss:
- Why solo professionals hate selling
- How selling is actually serving
- Why sales scripts often don’t work
- How to show up powerfully in a sales conversation and not come across as a jerk
- Balancing the selling the relationship of working with you with the fear of rejection you may have
- What may be happening when you don’t hear from a prospect after submitting a proposal and what should happen before it gets submitted
- What’s a flexible offer and why that may infect be a good approach for you and your clients
- The biggest mistake made in the sales conversation Her best tip for scaling a practice
- And her best practice to make sure she’s building a life and not just a business
As always, listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information
Darlene's website
Darlene's business page on Facebook
Darlene's profile on LinkedIn
Darlene on YouTube
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The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
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Show Notes
Building a financially abundant coaching, consulting, or other practice centered around our core expertise is a dream for all of us. But how do you do that?
How do you make a big impact and a big income where you’re paid top dollar, working with fantastic clients who are committed to doing the work and playing full out?
That’s a pretty big topic with lots of layers to it. And it’s why I’m always fascinated to talk about it with women who have done it and who continue to push themselves to maximize their revenue and the joy in their lives.
Today’s episode is with top executive coach Charmaine McLarie.
Charmaine has been running a thriving practice for decades and built it strictly through word of mouth.
She makes no secret of the fact that some people will think she’s expensive but like the commercial says Charmaine has no problem saying “I’m worth it”.
In addition to being an executive coach, Charmaine is a keynote speaker and leadership expert. She works with clients to have their best year ever and 98% of her clients get promoted within 18 months.
She serves on the faculty at the University of Missouri Kansas City Block School of Management’s EMBA program and is a visiting lecturer at Smith College’s Executive Education program. Her company has been featured in Financial Times, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, the NY Times, and People magazine.
Listen in as Charmaine and I discuss:
- Recognizing, owning, and charging your value
- Why women in particular often undercharge
- The question she asks people that completely stumps them
- The one piece of advice she got when she started that helped her price her services from a place of value and communicate that
- How she became a great speaker
- Her Executive Success Principles and the value of having branded content
- Her tips on marketing, selling, and managing growth
- And making a big impact while having a life you love
As always, listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information
Charmaine's website
Charmaine on social media:
YouTube
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From Side Hustle to Six Figures with Ed Gandia
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you stand out when you hate standing out, sell your services without being salesy, and consistently take action with courage confidence and clarity.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you build a foundation for sustainable success or make the next big leap to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including Apple Podcasts / iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on You Tube and on my website at Winnie Anderson.com.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll decide to join my community of passionate, mission-driven introverts who are out to change the world.
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SHOW NOTES
Experts tell us the key to success is to find a problem and solve it.
Many of the most successful entrepreneurs had a problem themselves, recognized there was nothing out there to solve it and like that little red hen from the children’s story decided to do it themselves.
Today’s episode is a great example of that.
It’s also an example of how the best solutions are often the simplest.
In this episode, criminal defense attorney Judith Samson shares how she created a product that solves a problem she had herself and ended up building a successful side business.
Listen in as Judith explains:
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How she came up with the idea for the bra bridge
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The process of getting a sample product made
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Why she had to get the product made in China
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Things to watch out for to protect your ideas and intellectual property
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And some hidden benefits of raising boys while building a business focused on women’s breasts
As always, listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode
Resources
Guest Contact Information
Get your Bra Brdges direct at Judith's Bra Bridge website
Judith and Bra Bridge on social media
Facebook
YouTube
Twitter
Instagram
Related Episodes
Bernadette Giorgi -- Getting a Product on QVC
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Show Notes
Retirement has been completely re-invented and reconsidered as people at 40+ pivot and shift from one career to another. People continue working for a combination of reasons including they love the work they do or they have different interests at different points in their lives and want to continue to contribute to the world.
Some of course work because they have to and would like to open themselves up to new opportunities to learn and contribute whether that’s in a job with another company or as an independent professional or business owner.
From professionals starting a side hustle for extra money or with the intention to transition to self-employment, starting a business has always been seen as an insurance policy of sorts. An opportunity to control our own destiny.
And while that’s true, it’s certainly not as easy as the mainstream media likes to make it out to be.
In this episode of the show, JT Ippolito, author of Encore Entrepreneurs, talks about the need for reinvention and flexibility in your career. He also shares tips to help you overcome your fear of sales.
JT spent decades with IBM rising through the ranks to become an executive. He’s owned several companies and is the CEO of Sync Media Network and Media Marketing Management. His finger is on the pulse of the latest in media marketing and technology needed to reach your audience and build your expert brand.
Listen in as JT explains:
- What your business pedigree is
- What’s meant by career reinvention and why it’s a particularly important concept for Baby Boomers
- How to know if starting a business is for you or not
- His key strategies for reinvention
- the best strategies to establish yourself as an expert
- tips to build your expert brand
- how to overcome fears around sales and selling.
JT also shares his thoughts on the 8 strategic actions needed to run and grow a profitable business.
As always, listen all the way to the end where I'll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information:
Sync Media Network
Media Marketing Management
JT on Facebook
Sync Media on YouTube
JT on LinkedIn
Get JT's book, Encore Entrepreneurs
Related Episodes:
Career Reinvention: An evolution from scientist to book publishing consultant featuring Susan Ordona
A Successful Second Act: An interview with Sue Ferreira
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What It Takes to Build a Successful Business in Your Second or Third Act
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
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We all talk about wanting to get new clients and wanting to get more clients. But what if we didn’t have to?
What if you actually had clients who stayed with you longer, felt so cherished by you, that they were more likely to recommend you to others?
SHOW NOTES
There’s a study that says a 5% increase in client retention can lead to an increase in profits of between 25 and 95%.
Wow.
Of course you’ve got to deliver a great service. You’ve got to produce a transformation that gets clients excited.
But it also speaks to the relationship you have with clients and how you can help them see and feel how much you genuinely care for them.
That’s what this episode is all about.
Deb Brown is a speaker, author, and consultant who specializes in working with entrepreneurs to develop relationships with their clients and create lifelong profitable relationships with them.
Listen in as Deb explains:
- The profit in retaining more clients and serving them for a longer time period.
- How building relationships helps you stand out
- Her simple 3-part framework that helps you create a custom loyalty strategy that pays off
- An old-school strategy that still works and probably always will
- How to leverage your time and create a strategy that works for you
- Simple, practical and proven strategies that have a great payoff
- How to repurpose items and add value to your relationship with clients
As always listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your action step and cocktail exercise for this episode.
Resources
Guest Contact Information
Deb Brown's website -- get her free report with key strategies including:
- The three touchpoints in every business relationship
- The 4 Types of people you must WOW
- Why should not just deliver results but also WOW
Deb's book, Lifelong Loyal Clients: How smart professionals turn relationships into revenues
Deb on YouTube
Deb Brown's author page on Amazon
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including Apple Podcasts / iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on You Tube and on my website at Winnie Anderson.com.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll decide to join my Courageous community.
You can do that by becoming a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you consistently move forward to reach your biggest goals. You’ll discover how to position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, develop your brand as a go-to expert and thought leader and ultimately to profit from your expertise while you build a business in alignment with your faith, beliefs, and values.
SHOW NOTES
If you’re listening or watching this show then it’s likely you’ve either started and are growing a business or are dreaming of starting a business based on your skills and expertise.
Often we’ll just hang up our shingle as an expert in what we were doing for our previous employer without spending enough time thinking about our offerings, packaging and pricing offers, or how we’ll even get clients.
In this episode, accountant Maddie brown explains her stops and starts at starting her firm and how she ultimately chose to buy an existing firm rather than start from scratch.
Even if you’re already in business Maddie shares some thoughts that will likely have you nodding your head and show how much she understands what we all go through.
So listen in as Maddie shares:
- Why she chose to buy a practice rather than start her own
- The key advisors and resources that helped her make a good decision when purchasing the existing firm
- How she and her firm’s former owner laid the foundation for a successful transition when she took over
- Her best marketing strategy for getting new clients
- Her great advice for letting go of feeling salesy in discussions with potential clients
- The mistake she feels business owners make as they grow
- And her tip for creating a great life while you build a great business
As always listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
RESOURCES
Guest Contact Information
Main website
YouTube
RELATED EPISODES
How others reinvented themselves and / or started a business
Ed Gandia talks about how he turned his side hustle into a full time business in just under two years.
Sue Ferreira talks about retiring from medicine and launching a business after retirement
Susan Ordona talks about going from a career as a laboratory scientist to continuously reinventing herself to create an income and impact
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including Apple Podcasts / iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on You Tube and here on my website.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll decide to join my Courageous community.
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You’ll discover how to position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, and ultimately to profit from your expertise while you build a business in alignment with your faith, beliefs, and values.
SHOW NOTES
I’m sure you believe you’re optimistic and have an abundance-focused mindset.
You may say affirmations, think positive thoughts, and take responsibility for your thoughts, beliefs, and outcomes.
The standard formula for abundance is Ask, Believe, Receive.
You may "Ask", and you certainly say you Believe. So why aren’t you receiving?
Have you ever deflected a compliment? You know someone says "that shirt looks nice on you" and you say “oh this old thing?”
Have you ever gotten a compliment about your work and said “Oh it was nothing. Anyone could have done it.”
Then you want to listen closely and maybe even take some notes because you may very well be putting up blocks to receiving what you want.
You may be what Nat Couropmitree calls a Conditional Receiver.
I know I’m one.
Nat guides visionary leaders to live their lives in a match with the energetic frequency of their truest selves. Tapping into this powerful source of love, respect, and value frees them from the exhausting cycle of working harder to gain something that can never be achieved through more effort, more work, more sacrifice, and instead creates space for them to experience the ease, joy, and adventure in the present moment.
Nat is also the host of the Bold Magnificence podcast where his guests share stories about having the courage to live in alignment with what lights them up.
And what lights Nat up is experimenting with exotic cuisine, finding adventure in far-flung places, and dancing the Argentine tango with his beloved wife Olga.
Listen in as Nat explains:
- How we cut off the abundance we dream of and deserve
- The different types of conditional receivers so you can recognize which one you are
- Strategies to begin to break free from the conditioning you’ve experienced in your life without blaming or shaming yourself or others
- The ultimate need and goal we all share as humans
- The one thing we’re all told to do as service-providers that actually sets us up for struggle and even resentment
- How conditional receiving impacts the strategic actions we must take in growing our businesses
- And the single practice where everything begins
As always listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your action step and cocktail exercise for this episode.
EPISODE RESOURCES
Guest Contact Information
Nat's website -- be sure to get his resources around Conditional Receiving
Nat on social media
YouTube
Resources mentioned
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including Apple Podcasts / iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on You Tube and on my website.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll decide to join my Courageous community.
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SHOW NOTES
One of the things we know to be true is that we all want to work with experts. When we’ve got a problem no one sits around wondering who is an average solution provider I can get to solve my problem on the cheap.
Our first thought is I have a problem and need an expert to solve it. We’ll figure out how to pay for it later.
Our own target audience feels the same way.
And in today’s crowded online market place and even in the noisy offline world consumers – whether in the business to business segment or in the direct to consumer or B2C space people are looking for the right expert.
As much as it may be difficult to put ourselves out there, to take a clear stand, to communicate our point of view. But we MUST do it.
Your audience is best served by YOU. Not someone else.
Building your brand as a thought leader is an important part of that process.
To discuss this idea, I’ve invited Samantha Riley on the show.
She’s a speaker, international business growth coach, best-selling author, host of the ‘Thought Leaders Business Lab’ podcast, co-founder of the Global Thought Leaders Network and has 25 years personal experience in building and growing businesses.
Today, she helps thought leaders and experts to scale their business so they have more income, more freedom, and more impact.
Listen in as she shares:
- What a thought leader is and is not
- 3 must haves to help you step into greatness
- The challenges faced by those of us who leave corporate life
- The problem of comparisonitis and how to deal with and overcome it
- A fun idea for making sure your statement of what you do is clear and simple
- 3 keys to being seen as a thought leader
- How thought leadership helps you get clients
And Samantha’s best tips for managing the 8 strategic actions we need to take to grow our expertise based business.
As always listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your action step and cocktail exercise for this episode.
Guest Contact Information
Samantha's website
Samantha on Facebook
Sam on Instagram
Sam on Twitter
Related Episodes
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How to Attract Clients with LinkedIn's Publishing Platform
Building an Expert Brand
Get Known Faster
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The Leadership Challenge by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner
Tribes by Seth Godin
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on YouTube and on my website at WinnieAnderson.com.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll decide to join my Courageous community.
You can do that by becoming a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you consistently move forward to reach your biggest goals. You’ll discover how to position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, and ultimately to profit from your expertise while you build a business in alignment with your faith, beliefs, and values.
SHOW NOTES
I started feeling the pull to go out on my own when I started to become unhappy with the types of sacrifices I was making for my employer – working 7 days a week; what I believed was too much travel, and way too much stress.
But I ended up leaving way before I was ready. I had no idea what I was going to do or how to get clients let alone how much to charge.
I ended up getting frustrated and having to get a job within a few months.
The second time I went out on my own I was forced out by injuries I sustained in a car accident. And I struggled for years trying to manage my recovery and get my business established.
I wish I had gotten the kind of information and had the sort of insight that today’s guest had and has.
Ed Gandia worked in corporate sales for more than 8 years when he didn’t like the direction his career was going either. He was facing the same thing I was – a lot of travel – and he knew that if he kept going all in on his career he would be living out of a suitcase.
So he created a plan to escape by building a business on the side.
Ed went from replacing his six figure corporate job to being a well-paid freelance copywriter. He now coaches and mentors other writers to launch, build, and grow their businesses.
No matter where you are on your entrepreneurial journey, Ed has some great tips and strategies that can help you get more clients and realize you’re capable of more than you think you are.
Listen in as he shares:
- The plan he laid out and what he called triggers that he needed to hit before he would feel confident enough to quit
- How long it actually took him to leave compared to the plan he made – I think it will surprise you
- The 4 things that helped him get his business off the ground
- When he came clean to his boss about his moonlighting
- How he managed his time to fit his full time job, growing family, and side business into his schedule
- His secret to manage looking for new clients with getting his existing client work done and keeping his day job
- How he decided what to charge when he started out
And what he knows now that he wished he knew when he started.
As always listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your action step and cocktail exercise for this episode.
Guest Contact Information:
Ed's website Get Ed's free resources and information to help you launch and grow your freelance copywriting business
Ed on social media -
YouTube
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Resources
This free worksheet gives you the highlights from the show notes, includes the cocktail exercise (aka "reflection exercise") and action step and also includes a very basic strategy map to help you manage your priorities and business building time more effectively.
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on You Tube and on my website.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll decide to join my Courageous community.
You can do that by becoming a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you consistently move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity. You’ll discover how to position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, and ultimately to profit from your expertise while you build a business in alignment with your faith, beliefs, and values.
Show Notes
As we grow, form our self-identity, and dream of a future full of work we love that uses our great gifts and strengths most of us come face to face with ways that society – including peers, institutions, and groups, including our family of origin – tell us we can’t or we shouldn’t or aren’t able to have those dreams because of who or what we are.
That’s especially true for girls and young women.
Changes are being made of course, but restrictions still exist. And sometimes our own thoughts and beliefs feed into those restrictions.
Often we spend the first portion of our lives living up to others expectations and then something happens that helps us to break free and decide to create a life that’s consistent with our own beliefs and expectations.
Today’s guest is a great example of all of that.
Jodi Harrison Lee is a Martial Arts Master, co-owner of the martial arts studio, The Martial Way in LA county California. She’s also a best selling author, speaker and trainer whose core mission is helping girls and women to find an embrace their strength, exude the confidence they have deep inside, and be able to defend themselves in any situation they’re in.
So Listen in as Jodi and I discuss:
- How young girls lose their confidence and how they can regain it
- How we often allow the opinions of others and beliefs of society to pigeon hole us and keep us trapped in a place we weren’t meant to be
- The how sports and athletics lead to increased confidence and courage for children and adults.
- How easy it is to allow societal structures to keep us playing small
- Tips for finding and embracing your own inner strength
As always listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contract Information
Jodi's website
Jodi's book, Find Your Strength
Connect with Jodi on Facebook
Jodi on YouTube
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information to help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on YouTube and on my website.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show you’re your connections and I hope you’ll decide to join my Courageous community.
You can do that by becoming a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you take consistent action to position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, and ultimately to profit from your expertise all while you build a business in alignment with your faith, beliefs, and values.
Show Notes
As of recent data from Hubspot 81% of businesses use video as a marketing tool – up from 63% in 2017.
65% of people who don’t use video say they plan to start using it in 2018.
We also watch a lot of video with the majority of people consuming about 90 minutes of video during a typical work day but the extreme is there are people who watch as much as 3 hours of video in a typical day.
Marketers report to Hubspot that video drives key metrics like increasing sales, increased site traffic, and increased the time spent on a site.
And of course as the consumer, you probably love video when it’s done right and giving you the information you need and want.
But as the marketer…especially if you’re an introvert or you’re self-conscious or have some sort of self-doubt or limiting beliefs I know the thought of doing video can practically give you hives.
I want to help you start using video or if you’re already using it I want to help you expand your use and feel confident doing it.
That’s what today’s episode is all about.
Michele Moreno has experience on stage as well as TV, as an actress and singer.
She shares her insider information to help women and cool men build on-camera confidence so they can be the best version of themselves and turn viewers into clients.
So listen in as she explains:
- Why video is so important to potential clients as well as to you the entrepreneur
- The key things to share that will help your audience to love you even if your videos aren’t perfect or close to it
- Why you have to get comfortable with repelling people
- A simple trick you can use to get your inner critic to shut up
- The most important elements of your video
- How to look and sound your best even if you think you have a face made for radio (and how to get over that thinking)
- Simple tips and tricks to help you know what to say when you’re thinking you don’t know what to say
As always listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information
Michele's website -- get Michele's free bonus just for show listeners: a template for one of the most needed types of videos so you can plan out your script!
Michele on Facebook
Michele on Twitter
Michele on YouTube
Other Episodes Related to This One That You Might Like
Impact and Influence: Tips to embrace and communicate your brand
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
I’m your host Winnie Anderson.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on YouTube and on my website.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll decide to join my community. You can become a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you consistently move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
My objective is to help you position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, and ultimately to profit from your expertise so you build a business in alignment with your faith, beliefs, and values.
Show Notes
Today you’re physically active. In all likelihood you takeg for granted the miracle of movement. While you may have the occasional ache or pain, the world is an accessible place for you.
But imagine waking up one day to a physical sensation that starts as a minor annoyance….your big toe feels numb.
Did you pinch a nerve? Sleep on it wrong?
No matter. It will work itself out, right?
What if it doesn’t?
Imagine the next day your leg is numb and soon you’re not able to move it.
Within about 48 hours of that toe going numb you’re paralyzed from the waist down.
Now imagine that happens to you at 15.
That’s what happened to today’s guest, speaker and coach Scott Chesney.
Scott is a dynamic speaker, coach, and for two decades has been a navigator of life with paralysis.
He is CEO of the Raise Hope Foundation. A nonprofit that trains, mentors, and places people with disabilities in careers in the financial services industry. Scott is also a an ambassador for the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. He’s married and is the father of two children.
Listen in as Scott shares:
- How he went from 3 sport athlete to paralyzed from the waist down in about 48 hours.
- His emotional road to independence and how he had the break through that led to his life and work today
- His journey from diff-abled employee to successful entrepreneur and coach
- How he built his speaking business
- Tips for recognizing the gift inside of trauma
- What keeps him going and how you can use the same thing to inspire your own breakthrough
As always listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information
Scott's website
Scott's foundation - Raise Hope
Scott on social media:
YouTube
The Raise Hope Foundation on Facebook
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on You Tube and on my website.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll decide to join my Courageous community.
You can do that by becoming a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you consistently move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity. You’ll discover how to position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, and ultimately to profit from your expertise while you build a business in alignment with your faith, beliefs, and values.
Show Notes
From the moment we’re born we start learning.
We discover that crying brings relief of our suffering and gets our needs met.
We absorb the sights, sounds, and lessons all around us.
As we grow, form our self-identity, and begin to dream of a future full of work we love that uses our great gifts and strengths we continue to absorb messages that others communicate to us intentionally and unintentionally.
When we join the working world we become part of organizations that have varying degrees of emotional health and it’s not always good.
While we develop the foundation of our professional future and hone our skills and craft we get exposed to the beliefs, values, and behavior patterns of others…what in HR terms is referred to as the organization’s culture.
Without realizing it, our beliefs and behaviors are influenced by our organizational life and while the patterns we developed contributed to our success inside the organizations we worked for, out on our own, those patterns – of thinking and acting – can become disempowering…holding us back from achieving the very success we dream of and deserve.
That’s what today’s episode is all about.
This is an unusual episode for me and for the show. This is an interview-based program as I said in the introduction.
But the past several weeks have been tough for me and for my guests.
I’ve had a rash of guests who needed to reschedule for health and personal reasons.
This has been a tough flu season and I had a terrible injury to my leg that made it nearly impossible for me to sit up for extended periods of time.
So I found myself without a completed show for this week but I hated the thought of not making good on my commitment of delivering useful information and I know the importance of consistency so I decided to come out of my comfort zone a bit and do a solo episode for you.
The information I’m going to share hit me like a ton of bricks a few years ago when I had what I can only classify as a nervous breakdown.
I was still in active recovery from my brain injury. TBI’s have a long recovery period and had reached a point of tremendous frustration as I was trying to build my solo consulting practice.
I realized that the strategies that had helped me survive an abusive childhood were in fact now actively holding me back. Things like perfectionism, conflict avoidance, and others.
The more I thought about those patterns the more I realized that they were the same patterns that contributed to my success as a corporate professional.
I’ve been fascinated by behavior and personality my whole life and have studied it in school, at work, and in life.
I have almost as many degrees as a thermometer – an associates in personnel administration, a bachelor’s degree in education with a teaching credential in general business…a master’s degree in Human Resources and 15 years as a certified senior professional in HR. I’ve also done post graduate level course work in counseling and psychology and have a bunch of additional certificates.
And I’ve got a PhD from the school of hard knocks with a major in self-sabotage.
One other element that makes me a bit quirkily unique is that brain injury.
In addition to having to relearn how to learn (even to the point of having to relearn how to tie my shows) I experienced a big personality shift.
Prior to the accident I had been what I would consider a solid ambivert who leaned towards extroversion.
But after the accident I became a true introvert.
I had to rediscover who I was and had to develop new ways of dealing with the world so I could be true to this new version of myself, continue to use my biggest gifts, and build the independent business I dreamed of.
So listen in as I share:
- 3 ways organizational life conditions us for struggle
- Why smart corporate escapees struggle to recreate the success they enjoyed as employees
- The reasons we move toward changes we want but can back slide or even give up
- And the elements I call the 6 pillars of courageous success
As always listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Related Episodes
Mark Baker
Jodi Harrison Lee
Sylvia LaFair
Books / Resources Mentioned or That Relate to This Episode
Sylvia LaFair's book, Don't Bring It to Work -- This book discusses the behaviors we develop as we grow in our family of origin and how we can bring those behavior patterns to the workplace with each person playing a specific role in our office "family" and how unhealthy that can be for the organization and for us.
Badass Your Brand -- This book talks about positioning, packaging, and pricing your offerings as high-end. It supports what I was talking about with reference to productizing without commoditizing your offerings.
The No A**hole Rule -- This is a great book that discusses the impact of negative people (to put it a little gently) in the workplace.
What really helps achieve your goals
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on YouTube and on my website.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll decide to join my community. You can become a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you consistently move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity. I want to help you position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, and ultimately to profit from your expertise as you build a business in alignment with your faith, beliefs, and values.
As an introverted professional I’m sure you dream of having people just magically hear about you and your offerings.
One way to help get the word out is by appearing in the media.
How do you do that though?
How do you get featured in media and is this a strategy that’s right for you?
If that thought scares you then you definitely want to check out today’s episode to learn more about being featured on a program.
Dr. Letitia Wright has been producing her own TV show since 2000.
Her show is available on Dish network and on Direct TV. She’s a sought after speaker and trainer who President Obama invited to his Global Entrepreneur Summit in the summer of 2017. She’s interviewed hundreds of people and coaches professionals to appear as experts in the media.
Listen in as Dr. Wright explains
Some of the jargon associated with appearing in the media
- Why all experts should work to get featured in the media and how to do it
- Paid versus earned media
- Mistakes people make when trying to pitch themselves and mistakes made when they’re being interviewed on the show
- The benefits of working with a media coach and how to choose one
As always, be sure to listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Resources
Guest Contact Information
Dr. Letitia Wright's website
Dr. Wright on social media
Her Facebook group
YouTube
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information to help you fulfill your big mission.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on YouTube and on my website.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll become a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, and ultimately to profit from your expertise while you build a business in alignment with your faith, beliefs, and values.
SHOW NOTES
If you’ve ever had an idea for something and didn’t pursue it you’re definitely going to want to listen to this episode multiple times.
And if you’ve ever worried about how you’d handle a growing business you’re going to want to listen to this and take notes. Which you can do by getting the worksheet for this week’s episode at WinnieAnderson.com/bomb
I get suggestions about people to interview on a fairly regular basis and I often find that the person just isn’t a fit.
So when a PR rep reached out to me and suggested today’s guests for the show I was skeptical. But I'm so glad I met these young ladies.
Isabelle and Caroline Bercaw are the sisterpreneurs behind DaBomb bath fizzers.
The two young inventors got their start in 2012 when they were 10 and 11 respectively.
They liked using bath bombs but weren’t crazy about how the bombs sometimes left their skin or the tub feel so they created their own.
They started giving them as gifts and discovered the bombs were so popular they started selling them. The rest as they say is history.
Today they’re the faces of a multi-million dollar family business that employs their parents and about 150 people in their community.
The girls are actively involved in marketing and running the company and in this interview we discuss the challenges of running a growing company while you’re not old enough to sign a contract.
Trust me, these girls have big lessons for all of us and the episode is full of insightful nuggets these teens share.
So listen in as we discuss:
- How they grew their business from idea to initial investment to million dollars in revenue
- Their approach to differentiating their product – this surprised me and it might surprise you
- The challenges of running a family business and how they manage to get some down time
- The power of and importance of branding especially in a crowded market
- And what surprised them about running a business that might seem like a negative but they ended up seeing as a positive.
As always listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information
DaBombFizzers.com
YouTube
Resources
Guest Special Offer
Free shipping off of orders of $30 or more. Use code CEspring2018
Isabelle and Caroline Bercaw's book -- Fizz, Boom, Bath
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Then consider joining the Courageous Entrepreneur Club.
The Club is made of small groups of no more than 10 people each who are solo professionals and entrepreneurs who receive coaching, accountability and support from me and from each other as they move forward to come out of hiding, achieve the goals that they otherwise would lose focus on, and generally take their business to the next level of success.
Group enrollment happens at specific times during the month. If you want to learn more go to winnieanderson.com/jointheclub.
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you fulfill your big mission.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on YouTube and on my website.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll become a fan of the show on my site. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, and ultimately to profit from your expertise while you build a business in alignment with your faith, beliefs, and values.
Show Notes
I have a confession to make.
I hate traditional networking.
You know, those rubber chicken luncheons and dinners where everyone you talk to seems to expect you to buy from them before dessert’s served?
I’m much more comfortable doing my networking online. But even then I’ve had people tell me they wanted to have a get-to-know you chat only to find out they wanted to pitch me their service.
But let’s face it, we know that theoretically networking is the way to get work whether that’s a paying job, a consulting contract, or other work.
And for an introvert, the idea of doing something that allows us to cultivate relationships that lead to business is just what we want.
But it doesn’t seem to work that way does it?
I was thinking about this very topic one day when I was on LinkedIn and an article about the problems with networking caught my eye.
I read the thread of comments and one in particular stood out. It was an honest assessment of the problems with effective networking. The commenter mentioned her book in her response and that led me to reach out and ask her if she’d come on the show to discuss her insights with us.
I was thrilled when she said yes because this information is so important.
Patti DeNucci is a conference and corporate speaker and workshop facilitator as well as the author of the award-winning book The Intentional Networker: Attracting Powerful Relationships, Referrals, and Results in Business.
She grew up in an entrepreneurial family in northern Minnesota and upon moving to Texas, enjoyed a career in marketing communications before launching her own consulting practice in 1989.
Patti has served in leadership positions and earned numerous awards in both the Association of Women in Communications and the National Speakers Association. She founded what is known as Freelance Austin, a networking and professional development group devoted to helping solopreneurs thrive.
Something fun about Patti - she enjoys making jewelry.
“Live, work, and connect at a higher level” is her mantra and it’s what she strives to inspire others to do.
So listen in as Patti shares:
- What’s wrong and right about traditional networking
- Why it’s critical to make the right choice of networking groups and her own rating system for evaluating their effectiveness
- The power and importance of intentions as they relate to networking
- Some tips for becoming a little more comfortable at an event where you don’t know anyone
- What to consider when deciding to turn down a meeting request from a contact
- The simple thing 98% of networkers don’t do and how it can instantly differentiate you
- And the single most important thing to learn before you start networking. This answer might surprise you.
As always listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information
Patti's website
YouTube
Resources Mentioned
Patti's book, The Intentional Networker
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- a mission-driven, introverted coach or consultant
- ready to break free from underachieving, under-earning and playing small
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Then consider joining the Courageous Entrepreneur Club.
The Club is made of small groups of no more than 10 people each who are solo professionals and entrepreneurs who receive coaching, accountability and support from me and from each other as they move forward to come out of hiding, achieve the goals that they otherwise would lose focus on, and generally take their business to the next level of success.
Group enrollment happens at specific times during the month. If you want to learn more go to winnieanderson.com/jointheclub.
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information to help you fulfill your big mission.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on You Tube and on my website.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll become a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, and ultimately to profit from your expertise while you build a business in alignment with your faith, beliefs, and values.
It’s no secret that social media has taken the world by storm and changed the way we communicate and the way we market our services.
But lots of solo professionals I talk to haven’t seen the sort of return on investment they dreamed of when they first embraced using social media and participating in social networking sites. Others have had decent results but are ready for more.
And to be honest, it’s taken me a long time to begin to reap the benefits.
So I knew the time was right to have a conversation about this with an expert.
We’re going to focus on some big picture concepts and at the end I’ll share some application ideas with you.
My guest today is Leslie Horn Trosset. Since approximately 2000, Leslie has worked to master the art of cutting through the noise and marketing hype to help make millions of dollars for her clients. She takes clients through her powerful and emotional process of discovering where they are now, where they want to be, and uncovering what’s getting in the way of realizing their dreams. The result is a customized marketing strategy that combines content marketing, SEO, and social media strategy that you can implement quickly and begin making more money.
So listen in as Leslie explains:
- The jargon of social media and social networking
- How to show up as yourself in social media and what exactly that means
- Finding a balance in what you share versus over-sharing
- What to do when you’ve been using a platform for personal stuff and you want to start using it for business
- How to choose the right platforms to be on
- Common mistakes she sees people making
- Why you want to share your opinions and perspective in what you post
- And what she knows now that she wished she new when first starting her business.
As always listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information:
Leslie's website
Get complimentary discovery call to talk about working with Leslie
Leslie on Social Media:
Related Episodes
How to Attract clients and Opportunities with LinkedIn's Publishing Platform
Resources
Free worksheet with questions to help you spot the gaps in your social media / social networking strategy
Ready to Become a Courageous Entrepreneur?
If you’re a mission-driven, introverted coach or consultant who is ready to:
- break free from underachieving, under-earning and playing small
- break through to the next level of success
- get the support, accountability, and guidance you need in a community of like-minded professionals
- Then consider joining the Courageous Entrepreneur Club.
The Club is made of small groups of no more than 10 people each who are solo professionals and entrepreneurs who receive coaching, accountability and support from me and from each other as they move forward to come out of hiding, achieve the goals that they otherwise would lose focus on, and generally take their business to the next level of success.
Group enrollment happens at specific times during the month. If you want to learn more go to winnieanderson.com/jointheclub.
Thanks for joining me for this episode of the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. Remember, you deserve all the success you dream of.
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on YouTube and on my website.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll decide to become a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, and ultimately to profit from your expertise while you build a business in alignment with your faith, beliefs, and values.
Show Notes
This episode falls in the category I consider an entrepreneur’s journey.
I think there’s a lot to learn from the path that others have traveled, mistakes they’ve made, and what they’d do differently now that they’ve achieved success.
I particularly love to interview people who were experts in their profession for their employer who had to figure out how to position themselves as an expert and then not just build but run a thriving successful business.
Today’s guest fits that description perfectly.
Andy Falco Jimenez was forced to retire from the Anaheim Police Department after 21 years with many of those years spent as the top K9 officer with the force.
Andy was a recognized leader, sought out by other community police departments to do K9 training and was a nationally recognized speaker on topics related to training and building a K9 unit.
But a pair of car accidents while he was on duty led to some scary symptoms for him and showed him how little he actually meant to the organization.
Forced to retire, he had to find himself and build a business to fully support his growing family.
He candidly shares how he did that. You’ll hear the mistakes and most of all what he did to persevere and become someone who now helps others become the recognized expert in their field too.
So listen in as Andy shares:
- What was so hard about leaving the police force
- The hardest part about building a business based on your skill and expertise
- The mistakes he made with his pricing and how he fixed them
- The reason he nearly lost his house in spite of having a business that made good money
- The important 3-part lesson he learned that changed his life and business
- Why and how narrowing his focus led to more clients
- How he built his authority status and you can too
As always listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information
Andy's bio website
Falco K9 Academy
The Masters - Mastermind retreats, community, and training
Related Episodes
Mike Michalowicz: Multi NYTimes bestselling author shares his tips and strategies to grow an expertise-centric business.
Andy's books
Andy on Social Media
Falco K9 Academy on You Tube
Andy's personal Facebook page
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Then consider joining the Courageous Entrepreneur Club.
The Club is made of small groups of no more than 10 people each who are solo professionals and entrepreneurs who receive coaching, accountability and support from me and from each other as they move forward to come out of hiding, achieve the goals that they otherwise would lose focus on, and generally take their business to the next level of success.
Group enrollment happens at specific times during the month. If you want to learn more go to winnieanderson.com/jointheclub.
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on YouTube and on my website.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll decide to join my Courageous community.
You can do that by becoming a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you consistently move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity. You’ll discover how to position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, and ultimately to profit from your expertise while you build a business in alignment with your faith, beliefs, and values.
Show Notes
Whether you’re an introvert or not I’m sure you’re always looking for strategies to make your online presence more powerful and to make your social platforms pay off.
I’m on all the big platforms but would love it if I saw more of a payoff of the investment of time and energy I make in social networking.
So when my colleague Tracy Enos published her book that promised tips and strategies for using LinkedIn’s publishing platform I grabbed it on pre-sale and read it as soon as it got released.
You can find my 5-star review for it on Amazon.
I genuinely loved it because it was so practical and I wanted to make sure I had her on to share some insight with you.
I first met Tracy in about 2014 or 15 when I sat next to her at a big training event and we’ve stayed connected.
She’s a marketing consultant who specializes in Linkedin and particularly in how to leverage your profile and the publishing platform to position yourself as an expert, attract and engage with potential clients and referral partners, and generally build your brand.
She speaks on the subject at events, seminars, tradeshows; works with sales and marketing teams to help them gain visibility and attract clients and works with independent professionals to attract more leads and clients with LI coaching and Done-for-you services.
Tracy lives in the Kansas City MO area.
So listen in as Tracy shares:
- Who she thinks LinkedIn is for and why she thinks you need to be on it.
- What LinkedIn is and how it’s different from other platforms.
- What the Publishing platform is and how long form posting differs from short form posting on LinkedIn
- Why your Linkedin profile is so important and how to leverage that
- Some mistakes she thinks people make with their profile
- How to create long form posts for mobile users that also benefit users of other devices
- Some tips to help you get engagement and entice people to join you off of Linkedin
As always listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information
Connect with Tracy on LinkedIn -- Send her a connection request and mention you heard her on the show and she'll send you some bonus material.
Tracy on Facebook
Tracy on Twitter
Get Tracy's book
Ready to Become a Courageous Entrepreneur?
Tired of feeling confused, frustrated, and overwhelmed as you try to break through to the next level of success? Want help on your journey of becoming or being a courageous entrepreneur?
If you’d like help to stay focused on completing your big projects, to come out of hiding, and take your business and you to the next level of success, consider joining the Courageous Entrepreneur Club.
The Club is made of small groups of no more than 10 people who are solo professionals and entrepreneurs who receive coaching, accountability and support from me and from each other as they move forward to achieve the goals that they otherwise would lose focus on.
Group enrollment happens at specific times during the month. If you want to learn more go to winnieanderson.com/jointheclub.
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on You Tube and on my website.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll decide to join my Courageous community.
You can do that by becoming a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you consistently move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity. You’ll discover how to position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, and ultimately to profit from your expertise while you build a business in alignment with your faith, beliefs, and values.
Show Notes
My husband, Lou and I love watching Shark Tank.
That’s the show where entrepreneurs come in and pitch their business and their idea to a panel of mega successful entrepreneurs in the hopes of landing an investment deal with them.
When Lori Greiner – one of the female sharks – looks at investing in a product on the show she often talks about it in terms of whether or not she sees it working on QVC which is one of the home shopping channels.
Well today’s guest got her product on QVC with no help from one of the sharks. She did it herself and she’s here to share how she did it.
Bernadette Giorgi is a leader in fitness and has been a trusted voice in women’s health, beauty, and wellness for more than 25 years.
She’s on a mission to redefine what it means to be fit, healthy, and beautiful.
In addition to holding several advanced pilates and fitness certifications Bernadette has been featured nationally in Pilates Style Magazine, Pilates Digest, and on About.com.
She’s made regular appearances on affiliates of ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, and Fox news. She’s been a featured expert on Be Well Philly as well as the national lifestyle shows The List and Better TV.
Bernadette owns Just B Moved a fitness studio in south jersey. She is the inventor of the B-Bounder, a unique fitness product that sold out in her appearances on QVC.
So listen in as Bernadette shares:
- How she got the idea for the B-bounder
- The steps she had to take to test it and get it built
- Actions she took to protect her product
- Exactly what it took to get the product on QVC
- Tips for you if you have a product idea
- And some things she’d do differently now
If you’re a shark tank fan this episode will give you a real understanding for why the sharks make some of their recommendations.
As always listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information:
Bernadette's website
Bernadette on social media:
YouTube
Buy the B-Bounder on Amazon
Get Bernadette's special offer -- Email your receipt to Bernadette when you buy your B-Bounder and receive a free video. Send it to bg at bernadettegiorgi dot com (type that as you would a normal email address in your email system)
Ready to Become a Courageous Entrepreneur?
Tired of feeling confused, frustrated, and overwhelmed as you try to break through to the next level of success? Want help on your journey of becoming or being a courageous entrepreneur?
If you’d like help to stay focused on completing your big projects, to come out of hiding, and take your business and you to the next level of success, consider joining the Courageous Entrepreneur Club.
The Club is made of small groups of no more than 10 people who are solo professionals and entrepreneurs who receive coaching, accountability and support from me and from each other as they move forward to achieve the goals that they otherwise would lose focus on.
Group enrollment happens at specific times during the month. If you want to learn more go to winnieanderson.com/jointheclub.
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information to help you fulfill your big mission.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on YouTube and on my website.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll become a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, and ultimately to profit from your expertise while you build a business in alignment with your faith, beliefs, and values.
SHOW NOTES
We solo professionals and micro firm owners where a zillion hats. We're trying to juggle multiple important responsibilities including marketing, enrolling clients, servicing clients, product creation, and of course we'd like to have a life in addition to having a business. That's what we went into business FOR wasn't it?
One of the issues we all wrestle with is maximizing the value of every minute and maximizing our earning power of every minute of the day and every ounce of work we do.
There are only a few ways to make more money:
- Charge more
- Serve more
- Lower expenses
- Change your billing model
- Create leverage
For me, creating leverage means to build a business that's not just scalable but that also uses products as a way to attract potential clients – which means you're not using up more time in the day to attract that audience -- and use products to sell so you're driving additional revenue from work you've already done.
I'm a big fan of the work once, earn revenue multiple ways model.
But how do you do that without making yourself more overwhelmed and exhausted?
That's what we're going to talk about with today's guest.
Paulette Ensign was looking for a new strategy to expand her reach, attract more and better clients, and position herself as an expert.
She had no idea that the simple 16-page booklet full of how-to tips called 110 ideas for organizing your business life would sell over a million copies or that it would be reprinted in multiple languages and formats all without spending a penny in advertising.
The success she had with the booklet led others to want to know her secrets to convert THEIR knowledge into how-to, tips-based information products.
Paulette's business grew as she developed products and services around the seemingly endless possibilities for using content as marketing tools, revenue streams, or both.
She's a former elementary school instrumental music teacher, a past president of the National Association of Professional Organizers, and a fellow Jersey Girl although she lives in sunny San Diego. But her online home is at Tips Products.com.
So listen in as Paulette shares:
- What exactly is a tip and how it can be of more value to you and your audience than a traditional book can
- Ways you can leverage your existing content into tips that generate new clients
- How you can profit from selling tips you used to give away for free
- How a tips book or product can differentiate you as a professional
- Where to find content you can use for your tips products – trust me you won't have to work hard to find it
- And what she knows now that she wished she new when first starting her business.
As always listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information
Paulette's website
Paulette on social media
YouTube
Ready to Become a Courageous Entrepreneur?
If you’re a mission-driven, introverted coach or consultant who is ready to break free from underachieving, under-earning and playing small
And you’re ready to break through to the next level of success. You’re ready to get the support, accountability, and guidance you need in a community of like-minded professionals
Then consider joining the Courageous Entrepreneur Club.
The Club is made of small groups of no more than 10 people each who are solo professionals and entrepreneurs who receive coaching, accountability and support from me and from each other as they move forward to come out of hiding, achieve the goals that they otherwise would lose focus on, and generally take their business to the next level of success.
Group enrollment happens at specific times during the month. If you want to learn more go to winnieanderson.com/jointheclub.
Thanks for joining me for this episode of the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. Remember, you deserve all the success you dream of.
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information to help you fulfill your big mission.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on You Tube and on my website.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll become a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, and ultimately to profit from your expertise while you build a business in alignment with your faith, beliefs, and values.
SHOW NOTES
It’s likely that when you first went out on your own that you looked for some roadmap to figure out the whole how to be a solo professional thing.
Maybe you quickly recognized you weren’t having an easy time getting clients.
You may have decided to follow the big gurus and started opting in for free webinars, ebooks, and guides all the while getting more and more confused.
And you may have started paying attention to people who just flat out told you that what you were doing and what you wanted to build were wrong.
If you’re a corporate escapee like me you may have suddenly found yourself struggling to stand out, discounting your corporate successes, and feeling very confused and inadequate.
Me too.
And ditto for today’s guest.
Emma Churchman spent the first 17 years of self-employment making no more than 500$ a month.
She tried everything to turn her business around but it wasn’t until she faced some hard truths about herself that she was able to quickly turn things around and go from earning an amount that put her below the poverty level to earning multiple six figures in just about a year.
Emma believes the more spiritually conscious you are the more successful you’ll be.
She is a business coach for conscious entrepreneurs who are ready to get help managing their mindset, money, and emotions. She believes that success in business is 10% execution and logistics and 90% managing ourselves – our thoughts, beliefs, emotions, choices, and ability or inability to take action. She teaches mindset success and how to take aligned action as part of her coaching practice.
So listen in as we discuss:
- What exactly does it mean to be conscious
- The problem with following someone else’s formula for business
- What it means to be authentic and why it’s so important in the process of creating abundance
- The 3 things that keep you from making sales
- Why you have to face past trauma in order to run a successful business
As always listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information
Emma's website
Emma on social media:
YouTube
Resources
Emma's special free offer - 21 Money Mindset Strategies - 90 minute webinar with worksheets plus a 20 minute private conversation
Worksheet for this episode
Related Episodes
Mark Baker - From Abused to Abundant
Grace Bell - Challenge Your Thoughts, Change your Life
Ready to Become a Courageous Entrepreneur?
Are you a mission-driven, introverted coach or consultant who is ready to break free from underachieving, under-earning and playing small?
Are you ready to break through to the next level of success?
If you’re ready to get the support, accountability, and guidance you need in a community of like-minded professionals
Then consider joining the Courageous Entrepreneur Club.
The Club is made of small groups of no more than 10 people each who are solo professionals and entrepreneurs who receive coaching, accountability and support from me and from each other as they move forward to come out of hiding, achieve the goals that they otherwise would lose focus on, and generally take their business to the next level of success.
Group enrollment happens at specific times during the month. If you want to learn more go to winnieanderson.com/jointheclub.
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
I’m your host Winnie Anderson.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information to help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on You Tube and on my website.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show you’re your connections and I hope you’ll decide to join my Courageous community.
You can do that by becoming a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you take consistent action to position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, and ultimately to profit from your expertise all while you build a business in alignment with your faith, beliefs, and values.
Show Notes
As we go through our lives we come face to face with loss and disappointments – friends come and go; loved ones move to the next plane of existence; we have our heart broken; we don’t get the job, promotion, or achieve the other milestones we believe we should have, and other emotional wounds.
These emotional hits are the traumas of daily life and they leave their marks on us.
We try to move forward and deal with them in the way we’ve been taught and enculturated to believe is the right way to deal with them.
Many of us have been taught that we must be tough and deal with these issues and the grief they bring on our own.
We may even have been led to believe that grieving is somehow wrong.
But grief is part of the normal processing of emotions.
And it’s human to need help to navigate the accumulated emotional traumas and process the grief we feel to move through the process effectively.
As we build our independent business as a coach, consultant, freelancer, or microfirm owner unresolved grief can lead to difficulties in moving forward.
That’s what today’s episode is all about.
My guest, Martina Meyer, is a life and relationship coach who considers herself as a personal trainer for your mind, heart, and soul. She helps others live a wholehearted, wholesome life full of joy and passion by navigating life transitions and healing unresolved grief.
Whether you’re mourning the loss of a relationship, a job, or some other life change, Martina helps you move through the incredibly human experience of grieving.
So listen in as she demystifies grief and grieving by revealing:
- The myths associated with grieving
- How following what we’ve been taught as children and through our conditioning keeps us from effectively grieving
- The real secret to being strong
- The connection between job loss and grief
- How isolation only makes grief worse
- The difference between guilt and shame
- And How guilt and shame are involved in the grieving process
As always listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information
Martina's website - visit to learn more about her and to receive a complimentary conversation about your situation.
Martina on Facebook
Resources Mentioned
Grief Recovery Resources
Related Episodes
Dealing with the Death of Your Business Partner
Change Your Thoughts and Change Your Life
Ready to Get the Clarity, Courage, and Confidence to Move Forward?
And if you want help on your journey of becoming or being a courageous entrepreneur, you’d like help to stay focused on completing your big projects, to come out of hiding, and take your business and you to the next level of success, consider joining the Courageous Entrepreneur Club.
The Club is made of small groups of no more than 10 people who are solo professionals and entrepreneurs who receive coaching, accountability and support from me and from each other as they move forward to achieve the goals that they otherwise would lose focus on.
Group enrollment happens at specific times during the month. If you want to learn more go to winnieanderson.com/jointheclub
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
I’m your host Winnie Anderson.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information to help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on You Tube and on my website.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll decide to join my community. You can become a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are so you profit from your expertise and build a business in alignment with your faith, beliefs, and values.
Show Notes
Growing a business can be scary.
We know we need to put ourselves out there…we need to market ourselves in such a way that we get attention, inspire people to want to learn more, and ultimately to say yes to working with us.
For those of us who are corporate escapees, we grew up as professionals in an environment that was a constant struggle between standing out and not really wanting to stand out.
There was the good part of standing out: being recognized as a leader, getting a promotion, getting an increase.
But there’s also a lot of negatives connected with standing out in corporate life: being ridiculed, being punished.
And heaven help you if you made a mistake at work.
I’m sure you know people who took a risk and who made a mistake, who were disciplined, or even fired.
It’s bad enough to take a risk, make a mistake, even fail at something and have your coworkers and peers know it.
It could destroy your reputation and your career.
Is it any wonder we become fearful of taking chances when we’re out on our own?
Well imagine if you took a big risk - something you were excited about trying - and you failed.
And what if people laughed at you?
Horrible, right?
Now imagine it was shown on national TV.
And ended up on the Internet.
How humiliating.
What would you do? Would you crawl under your bed and pray the Internet would go down? Maybe someone would take pity on you and pull the recording offline?
Well that’s what happened to today’s guest.
William Hung went from being an unknown civil engineering student at the University of California at Berkley to becoming an overnight sensation because of his failed audition on American Idol.
He’s now a funny, inspirational speaker who shares his message of taking risks and embracing failure with students, association members, and entrepreneurs. And he coaches entrepreneurs who want to leverage speaking to embrace their mistakes, speak from the heart, and make the impact – and achieve the success – they were born to have.
Listen in as William shares:
- How he ended up auditioning for American Idol
- How what looks like your biggest failure at the time could actually be your path to success
- His key point of view that helped him survive the pain of rejection and embrace the opportunities it brought
- Where he believes optimism comes from
- And the big secret he revealed on Jimmy Kimmel
As always listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information
William's website
Connect with William on Facebook
Follow him on Twitter
Bonus Resources
Is there something you're resisting taking action on? Would you like some help to confront what you're resisting to move forward?
Add your best email address here and receive my Courage Breakthrough Worksheet
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information to help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on You Tube and on my website.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll decide to join my community. You can become a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you consistently move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity. I want to help you position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, and ultimately to profit from your expertise and build a business in alignment with your faith, beliefs, and values.
Show Notes
As we build our businesses, we quickly come to the realization that we just can’t do everything ourselves if we truly want to build a business and not just a glorified job.
I know well how scary it is to make a hiring decision. I spent the first third of my career in human resources specializing in recruitment and staff development. There’s no more important decision you’ll make than who to bring on board and that’s especially true when you’re an entrepreneur.
But how do you do it? How do you find, choose, and work with someone effectively?
To answer that I thought I’d go to the horse’s mouth so to speak and talk directly to a virtual assistant.
Beatrice Ten Thye (pronounced "TenTie") is a virtual assistant who I originally connected with in a Facebook group.
She recently wrote a post on Facebook that I’d describe as a rant. It talked about the big mistake entrepreneurs make by not using a VA.
Beatrice has an extensive background in corporate and organizational life where she built her skills in administration, organization, project management, and problem solving.
Listen in as Beatrice and I discuss:
- Why entrepreneurs find it so difficult and actually fear working with a VA
- Why she doesn’t recommend that you just dive into asking questions when interviewing a VA
- When you should start thinking about getting a VA – it’s likely to surprise you
- Mistakes made when hiring and managing a VA
- What to consider when you know you need help but can’t seem to find the right person
As always listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information:
Beatrice's website
Beatrice on social media:
YouTube
Bonus Content:
Get bonus content for this episode including an interview with Craig Cannings, Founder of VAClassroom.com. Just share your email address and you'll get the bonus resources as soon as they're ready (I'm dealing with a back injury and it makes it impossible to work for long periods of time, sorry.)
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
I’m your host Winnie Anderson.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on You Tube and on my website.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll decide to join my community. You can become a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you consistently move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity. I want to help you position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, and ultimately to profit from your expertise as you build a business in alignment with your faith, beliefs, and values.
Show Notes:
When you become self-employed you embark on the most intense – and expensive – personal development program ever.
Often we discover issues we never realized we had or issues we thought we dealt with come roaring back to life.
That can especially be true about money.
And it’s especially true for women.
I’ve wrestled with my own issues around money including pricing my services appropriately, making good money decisions as a business owner, and understanding the financial elements of running and growing a business.
I had a past guest on to discuss this. Justin Krane talked about pricing your services and we talked a bit about mindset but I wanted to take the topic deeper since I know how important it is.
That’s where the idea came from to have today’s guest on the show.
Robyn Crane is a money and business growth expert on a mission to empower committed and passionate women business owners to make more money and help more people, so they can have a bigger impact on the world. Through her seminars, and FEMM Mentorship program, Robyn helps them attract qualified leads, close high paying clients, and optimize their time, so they can create their ideal business and life.
Listen in as Robyn talks about:
- Mindset and the role it plays in profitability
- The role confidence plays in achieving results
- The challenge of changing your old limiting beliefs
- How to borrow the beliefs of others to strengthen your own
- The money patterns we develop through our lives and how they can limit us and help us break through
- Understanding your money mask
Robyn also shares her own story of how she became a money coach and built a thriving, multi-six figure business after being more than 40 thousand dollars in debt
As always, be sure to listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information
Robyn's website
Robyn on Social Media
Facebook
Twitter
YouTube
Robyn's books:
Robyn's Author Central page on Amazon has all her books listed
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The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who've overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio format on a variety of platforms including iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on You Tube and on my website.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll decide to join my community. You can become a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you consistently move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity so you position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, and ultimately to profit from your expertise and build a business in alignment with your faith, beliefs, and values.
Show Notes
This is one of those episodes where the subject matter is divided between my guest's journey to launch and build a successful business with something powerful they achieved at the same time.
In this case, it's landing a TEDx Talk.
If you’re an entrepreneur you want to maximize every minute of every day and that means multi-tasking when we can. Including our meal times.
I read morning prayer as I eat breakfast and I watch videos while I eat lunch.
They range from faith-centered messages by Melvin Pillay, success-centered messages from Jack Canfield, how-to messages from Pam Hendrickson, MOZ, and others to the many fascinating messages from TED talks.
Maybe somewhere in the back of your mind you’ve thought you’d love to deliver one. You have a big message that the world needs to hear.
And you love the idea of having your message go viral like Brene Brown’s or Mel Robbins or any of the other top TED presenters.
But how do you do that?
Well one way is to start with a TEDx talk.
TED talks of course are those powerful presentations that are 18 minutes or less that educate, inform, and inspire.
TEDx talks are local conferences that are formatted similarly to the big TED conference.
So how do you get to present at one?
Well that’s part of what today’s guest is going to share with us.
Robert James Collier is the founder of Entrepreneur’s Dinner. These are exclusive networking experiences built around the idea that breaking bread with someone is a powerful relationship building experience like few other things.
Rob has built his business entirely by word of mouth often spread by social media.
He’s going to talk a little about his business and how he developed the idea but he’s also going to talk about his experience applying for, being selected to deliver, and then presenting a TED talk at TEDx Buffalo.
Listen in as Robert explains:
- The common need we’ve experienced that inspired him to host his first dinner and what led him to believe this could become a business.
- What makes your average networking dinner so bad and the key element that can elevate it to something powerful
- The concept of Psychological Intimacy and how it helps us build strong teams, strong networks, and can lead to strong client relationships as well.
- How he landed his TEDx Talk.
As always be sure to listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Links and Resources
TED and TEDx talks
Psychological Intimacy -- Building Trust Through Skillful Self-Disclosure from HBR
Psychological Safety
Guest Links
Connect with Robert
On Facebook
On Instagram
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The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on You Tube and on my website.
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One of the issues we solo professionals can wrestle with is embracing and leveraging who we really are in order to move forward and achieve our goals. Maybe we get easily distracted from a project or goal because we have so many ideas swimming in our heads or we may lack confidence in our work, in our plans, or even in ourselves. We may be naturally gifted in one area while we feel lacking in another and so spend all our time doing the thing we love and are good at. But the thing we’re lacking in and avoiding may be the very thing that can move our business forward.
This can be especially true for those of us who fall somewhere on the spectrum of being a creative entrepreneur.
Which is why I wanted today’s guest to be on the show.
Lisa Robbin Young is THE coach for creative entrepreneurs who are ready for help growing their business while getting their message out in the world. She blends a unique combination of business smarts with understanding the creative mind and personality because she’s a creative herself. Lisa is an international best selling author, a singer with multiple albums, and a video blogger.
Listen in as Lisa explains:
- the differences between a creative entrepreneur and a plain old run of the mill entrepreneur?
- How to identify where you fall on the creative spectrum and how understanding that can help you achieve your goals
- Why she thinks DUMB goals are actually a good idea
- 3 types of growth plans and how someone can know which one is right for them and their business
- The 5 million dollar growth plan she found in a box
- the secret to staying on course with a growth plan and how to keep life from derailing us
As always listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Resources Mentioned in This Episode:
Creative Freedom Quiz
Lisa's first book, The Secret Watch
Lisa's soon-to-be-released book
Guest Links
Lisa's website
Lisa on social media:
Facebook
Twitter
You Tube
Other Episodes Related to This One
Jeff Rock
Grace Bell
Additional Research To Explore
Sally Hogshead, Fascination Advantage
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The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
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One of the toughest parts of being self employed is actually getting clients, right? Whether we go to mixers, conferences, lunches, dinners, or use video to market ourselves and our services, we’re putting ourselves out there and can feel really exposed when we’re doing all that. And of course that’s because are to a large degree. That’s how humans operate.. we look, listen, and react.
This fact can make us so nervous it can actively hold us back. Or we can embrace it. Develop our voice and point of view, leverage that, and attract the clients that resonate with our message so we’re attracting people who will get the most out of working with us and who we would most enjoy working with.
That’s all easier said than done sometimes.
That’s why I wanted to have Valerie Sokolosky on the show.
Valerie is a former broadcaster, voice over artist, and professional speaker who moved into a career in corporate training and executive coaching. She’s been running her successful Dallas, TX based firm Valerie and Company for more than 30 years.
Valerie is the author of 8 leadership books and was featured in The Wall Street Journal for having one of the nation’s first executive coaching practices.
As an ICF accredited coach she inspires leaders to develop a strong personal brand that differentiates them in the marketplace and creates greater success for themselves and their organizations.
When the field of executive presence was forming, Valerie was there helping forge the industry. Then when personal branding emerged she was there to merge the two specialities.
Today’s Valerie’s focus is well defined. Guiding leaders and developing high performing teams; increasing business development and creating a culture of superior employee engagement.
So listen in as Valerie shares her journey as well as she explains:
- What a personal brand is and why it’s as important as ever to uncover, embrace, and communicate yours
- Why we need outside help in recognizing our greatest gifts as well as seeing our blindspots
- What’s meant by the concept of executive presence and why it really is important to us in our careers as solo professionals
- We’ll also share some suggestions for success at mixers and events. These are going to be especially good ideas for my fellow introverts.
- We’ll also share some suggestions on what not to do and behaviors to avoid. You don’t want to become what Valerie calls a WAM-er.
As always listen all the way to the end where I’ll share you cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Terms That Might Be New to You
Point of View - According to Dictionary.com, it's "a specified or stated manner of consideration or appraisal; standpoint"; "an opinion, attitude, or judgement"
Past Episodes That Relate to This One
Jeff Rock, The Power of Your Story
Guest Resources
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Valerie's author profile page on Amazon where all her books are listed
Connect with Valerie
At her website
On LinkedIn
On Twitter
On YouTube
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Every one of us has experienced some sort of challenge in our lives. For some it was a momentary mistake or action we took that we regret but have learned to live with. For others it may have been a loss or a rejection.
In today’s episode you’ll hear from professional speaker Peggy O’Neill who is 3 and a half feet tall.
Peggy is an award-winning keynote speaker and author. For over thirteen years, she has inspired powerful positive change in corporate and women’s groups across the US with her unforgettable, dynamic, and humorous keynote speeches and trainngs.
Coming from the field of psychotherapy, and drawing from her extra-ordinary experiences triumphing over the many trials- being a little person living in a big world- Peggy lends her expertise in the areas of personal empowerment, celebrating diversity and enhancing professional performance.
Peggy has presented to over 100,000 people in organizations such as FEMA, Chase Bank, Diversity Works, Texaco, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lucent Technologies, Ball Aerospace, Lockhead Martin and many others.
She has authored two books: Walking Tall: Overcoming Inner Smallness, No Matter What Size You Are;and Little Squarehead, an illustrated children's book.
Featured on the cover of Speaker Magazine , Peggy is also a contributing teacher in the films The Opus, and Tapping the Source Additionally, Peggy serves young students, offering anti-bullying and self-esteem programs.
Happily, Peggy brings real solutions to audience members and their hosting organizations. She lives in Ojai, CA, a small town near Santa Barbara.
Listen in as Peggy shares:
- the path she took to becoming a professional speaker
- her perspective on taking your greatest challenge and making it your biggest gift
- the single biggest and best question you can ask yourself
- 3 simple steps you can take to deal with your inner critic
- How you can grow your inner bigness
She also shares a great, brief, guided meditation you can use any time to reconnect to your inner magnificence.
As always listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest contact information
Peggy's website
Videos, audios, books, etc
Peggy's online classes. Check out what's coming up soon.
Book Peggy to speak
Follow Peggy on Social Media
Facebook
You Tube
Related Episodes
Sometimes in an interview, I'll mention past episodes and / or guests. Here are the links that are mentioned in this episode or whose topics relate to this one.
Mark Baker - From Abused to Abundant
Grace Bell - Challenge Your Thoughts, Change Your Life
Jessica Yarbrough - From Foodstamps to Six-Figure Coach
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I’ve talked before about how we corporate escapees start our service-based businesses as consultants, coaches, or healers because we:
- Have skills and talents we love to use that we want to share with the world
- Figured out the solution to a problem and want to share that solution with others who need it
- Feel called to a mission and want to dedicate our lives to making a difference
So we’re out on our own and we suddenly come face to face with our own crap.
We discover we hate selling and aren’t too crazy about marketing either.
We struggle to talk about ourselves and the value we bring to others.
And we can really struggle with money issues.
We undercharge.
We don’t stay focused on the numbers and key performance indicators for running a profitable business.
I say “we” because this has certainly been true for me.
But it doesn’t have to be this way.
It’s time to embrace our power…and that starts with understanding everything involved with pricing for profitability.
My guest today is Justin Krane. He’s a certified financial planner and money strategist for entrepreneurs.
Justin is known for his savvy, holistic approach to financial planning and he advises his clients on how to unite their money with their lives and businesses. And he does it using a unique system developed from his studies of financial psychology.
He educates and supports his clients in a non-judgemental way while helping them understand the financial side of running their businesses and making a profit.
Listen in as Justin explains:
- Why it’s critical to price for value and to create a premium pricing strategy
- The impact that self-confidence and self-worth have on our pricing strategy
- Why we’ve got to get to 6-figures as fast as possible
- Common mistakes made with pricing our offerings that limit our profitability and can create stress
- And ROL versus ROI
As always listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Terms That Might Be New to You:
Key Performance Indicators (KPI) - A set of data points that are measured and used to make decisions and judge how well the business is doing.
Return on Investment (ROI) -- A performance measurement that compares the cost and the revenue generated as a result of that cost.
Guest Contact Information
Website
Free gift
Justin on social media:
YouTube
Justin's book - Money: You Got This
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from selfdoubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on You Tube and on my website.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll decide to join my community. You can become a fan of the show on my site. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you consistently move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity to position and presell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, so you profit from your expertise.
Show Notes
Solo professionals often start a business because we’ve had some life changing experience, we’ve had a revelation, or we’ve overcome a challenge and we want to or feel called to help others who are where we used to be.
But how do you do that?
We often just dive in and are forced to figure it out as we go.
I’m hoping to shorten the learning curve for you and all of us who dream of helping others.
So this episode is one in what I think of as an informal series where I may talk to an entrepreneur about their particular specialty but also about how they built their business.
You’re going to meet Ellie Savoy who is a bestselling author and health coach. She is going to share her thoughts on the importance of maintaining good health for us entrepreneurs but we’re also going to talk a little about how she got started and things she did that gave her business a boost.
At the end of this episode I’m going to share some additional thoughts about how you can make your mess your message.
So listen in as Ellie shares:
- The health problem that caused her to face the need to make changes around her own health
- The importance of good health for every entrepreneur
- Things Ellie did to get her business to be successful and what she’d do differently today
- Things to be cautious about as you work to build a business a service focused business
And as always, listen all the way to the end where I’ll share some of my own insight, tips, and things I know now that I wish I’d known then.
Guest Contact Information
Ellie's website
Ellie's 5 step virtual program to help you stop dieting and start living
YouTube
Google+
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on You Tube and on Winnie Anderson.com.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll decide to join my community. You can become a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you consistently move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity to position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, so you profit from your expertise.
Show Notes
One of the things many solo professionals deal with is low self worth and self-esteem and often we suffer without fully realizing it.
We’re pretty confident and we may have even been courageous at times in our former corporate or organizational lives.
But out on our own where we can feel exposed and we may struggle with issues like imposter syndrome and what my friend Sandi Massori calls “who-am-I-itis” this can prove debilitating, disempowering, and ultimately can keep us from the success we dream of and deserve.
I’ve had clients who were held back by this, as well as colleagues, and friends. I knew this was going to be an ongoing issue for me to address on the show because I think dealing with this takes courage and once you HAVE dealt with it you’ll find yourself bravely taking the steps you need to take to position and presell yourself so you can profit from your expertise.
And that’s why I’m excited to bring you today’s guest.
Nat Couropmitree (pronounced ca ROPE my THREE) is a coach who helps entrepreneurs, artists, consultants, and coaches to stand up for their uniqueness, align their soul and work to bring them freedom, joy, and fulfillment.
Nat calls that living magnificently and he helps clients to embrace and bring out their bold magnificence which is also the name of his podcast and website.
Listen in as Nat explains:
- What exactly is bold magnificence and why it’s the essence of who we are
- How to overcome feelings of self-loathing and unworthiness
- How to embrace our magnificence without going over to the dark side and becoming a jerk
- Dealing with the inner critic who seems determined to keep you feeling and playing small
- What it means to live a vision of magnificence
As always listen all the way end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information
Nat's website
the Bold Magnificence podcast
Nat on Social Media
Facebook
You Tube
Twitter
Past Episodes Related to This One
Jeff Rock - The Power of Story Over Your Life
Grace Bell - Challenge Your Thoughts, Change Your Life
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio format on a variety of platforms including iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on You Tube and on my website.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll decide to join my community. You can become a fan of the show on my site. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you consistently position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, and ultimately to profit from your expertise. I focus on helping you build a business in alignment with your faith, beliefs, and values.
SHOW NOTES
While you may not be thinking about starting a nonprofit, there are many lessons to be learned by hearing about the ups and downs of launching one since as my guest says, it’s really just another form of a business.
This episode has a little longer set of application exercises which I’ll explain at the end of the interview.
In this episode you’ll meet Dr. Monique Y. Wells who is the founder of The Wells International Foundation. Monique is a native of Houston TX and a resident of Paris. She is a veterinary pathologist and toxicologist, world-traveler, serial entrepreneur, and arts enthusiast. Her dedication to empowering minorities, women, and young people led her to launch her foundation in 2015 and is the driving force behind its mission.
Listen in as Monique and I discuss:
- Why she decided to reorganize her entrepreneurial activities under the business model of a nonprofit
- How she got the foundation off the ground and the hardest part of doing that
- The difference between a nonprofit and a not for profit
- Things that surprised her about starting and running a foundation
- What we both wish others knew about foundations and nonprofits
- The single things she’s most proud of since starting the foundation
- And the similarities between profit making and non profit organizations
As always, listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your reflection exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information
The Wells International Foundation Website
WIF on YouTube
Monique on Social Media
YouTube
Additional Research, Resources and Information
Business Models for Dummies
Nonprofit Kit for Dummies
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio format on a variety of platforms including iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on You Tube and on my website.
If you like what you hear, I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll decide to join my community.
You can become a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you consistently move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity so you position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, and ultimately to profit from your expertise while building a business in alignment with your faith, beliefs, and values.
This week’s guest has an amazing story that goes from rags to riches to rags and back to riches.
Trevor Crane is a speaker, advisor, and a 10-time #1 best selling author. He’s also the founder of Epic Author Publishing. His special passion is helping service-based businesses including consultants, coaches, authors, and speakers take their businesses to the next level no matter how successful you already are.
Trevor grew up poor, the son of a horseshoer in Phoenix Arizona.
He went on to live his dream of entrepreneurial success building a multi-million dollar business with a partner and 12 employees.
And in 2009 lost it all.
He’s since re-built his life, is back earning millions, and today lives a life without limits with his fabulous wife Robin and their daughter.
Listen in as Trevor shares:
- The thinking patterns that led to his downfall
- The simple changes that helped him start to climb back
- Adjustments he continued to make that helped him grow personally and professionally and eventually 10X’d his income
- How he got off of what he calls the emotional rollercoaster of sales
- The missing ingredient that’s missed in positive thinking
- The mindshift that helps develop the patience and clarity to spot the prize buried inside a pile of crap
- The big questions to ask yourself
- How to identify fears and move past them
- And some tips to avoid giving too much information to prospective clients so it’s easier for them to say yes to working with you
As always, listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your reflection exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information
Trevor's website
His free book offer
Trevor's podcast
Trevor on social media:
YouTube
Past Episodes That Relate to This One
Dr. Nadia Brown, Selling when you hate selling
Resources Mentioned in This Episode
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
I’m your host Winnie Anderson.
I interview entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on You Tube and on my website Winnie Anderson dot com.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll decide to join my community. You can become a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you consistently move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity to position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, so you profit from your expertise.
SHOW NOTES
Like you, I’m sure, my life is crazy busy. I try to fit in time for self care and I’m always on the look out for simple ways to help me manage myself better so I can continue to excel in work and life.
And it seems that when you start thinking about something you suddenly notice it more and more. Like when you decide to buy a new car and suddenly you see that car you want everywhere.
The brain has a specific thing to focus on and it starts focusing.
That’s what’s been happening with me and the topic of meditation.
I first started investigating meditation when I was in a particularly stressful point in my life. My husband and I lived 500 miles apart. I was in full blown recovery dealing with issues as an adult survivor of abuse. And we had family drama going on at the same time.
I had heard that meditation could do great things and that people in all professions used it and believed it made a huge difference for them.
So I tried it.
I got nothing from it.
But like I said as I started to think about it and read more about it I thought maybe it’s time to investigate this again and I thought I’d go to an expert.
And I figured you might be interested in it too so I invited back Brodie Welch for another interview and I was thrilled when she said yes.
Brodie is a licensed acupuncturist, board-certified herbalist, Chinese Medicine expert and self-care strategist. She’s the founder of Life in Balance Acupuncture in Corvallis, Oregon where she has been treating patients since 2003.
In addition to her clinical practice, Brodie shares her expertise to help caring, conscious women take care of themselves through innovative learn-from-anywhere courses and coaching programs on stress management, digestive health, the body-mind connection, moving meditation, and Chinese medicine. She’s the creator and host of the podcast, A Healthy Curiosity. The show explores what it takes to be well in a busy world.
Listen in as Brodie explains:
- What mediation is
- Different styles of meditation
- The benefits of mediation
- Tips for getting started
As always listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your reflection exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information:
Brodie's website -- get her free resources
Brodie on Facebook
Additional Resources:
Meditation Your Way, article on Success magazine's website
Jack Canfield video mentioned in the episode
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. The show shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who share their stories of overcoming amazing challenges to achieve success on their terms and experts who share practical information to help you move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
Those of us who fall into one of the demographic cohorts referred to as Baby Boomer, Generation Jones, or Generation X were raised to believe that the path to security, financial stability, and success was to go the traditional route of college, major in a degree that was useful, and then get a job, put your nose to the grind stone and maybe grab a corner office some day or at least a nice middle management role.
But that path ISN’T the sure route to stability and security that it once was and degree areas that were believed to be recession proof have proven themselves not to be so.
Jason Alba is the founder of JibberJobber.com. He designed this freemium tool as a result of his 2006 job search as a tool to help job seekers manage the search for employment; but it’s also a great tool for solo professionals to use to manage their contacts and connnections.
Jason is the best selling author of I’m on Linkedin Now What which is in its 4th edition and I consider it a classic. He’s also the author of 51 Alternatives to a Real Job. His undergrad degree is in Computer Information Systems and he has an MBA in IT.
Listen in as Jason and I discuss:
- How he went from applicant to entrepreneur and what his business has in common with many you’ll see on the hit show Shark Tank
- The mental health challenge job applicants can all too easily share with entrepreneurs
- The challenges Jason had in coming up with a price for Jibber Jobber and the key thing to remember about pricing and business in general
- Why pricing your service is the hardest thing for independent professionals to do and why undercharging is so prevalent and why it has to stop
- What your offering should have in common with toothpaste and toilet paper
- And what he’d do differently if he was starting all over
As always watch all the way to the end and I’ll share your reflection exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information and Resources
Jason on Facebook
JibberJobber.com
Jason's books on Amazon:
I'm on LinkedIn, Now What?
51 Alternatives to a Real Job
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio format on a variety of platforms including iTunes, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, on You Tube and on my website.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others and I hope you’ll decide to join my community. You can become a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans. When you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox along with information, tips, and resources to help you consistently move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity so you position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, and ultimately to profit from your expertise.
Show Notes
If you ever get caught up in the “I can’t” syndrome or “I don’t know how” or “I don’t know enough” or “I’m not good enough” mantras that can run through our heads then you want to make sure you listen to today’s episode because today’s guest shows the only thing stopping us from creating a wildly profitable life-style based business is that lump of grey matter inside our heads.
Jessica Yarbrough is a business coach for high – achieving women who want to break out of corporate life and quickly build a six-figure business. She’s a former corporate executive who followed her heart and ended up having to move back in with her parents as she rebuilt her life and career.
- Listen in as Jessica shares:
How she went from a passion-centered profession to unemployed, living with her parents and collecting food stamps to feed her baby daughter. And how she began to rise up to create the thriving coaching practice she has today and do it in just 18 months. - How she dealt with the voice insider her that told her to go get a job as well as the voice of her parents telling her to get one.
- The biggest blocks and mistakes that women have and make that hold us back from achieving what we really want.
- And some great tips to begin to move forward to create the life and business of your dreams.
Be sure to listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your reflection exercise and action step for this episode.
Related Episodes
Mark Baker
Grace Bell
Guest Contact Information
Jessica's webste
Jessica's business page on Facebook
Jessica's group on Facebook
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
I interview entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio format on a variety of platforms including Apple Podcasts – formerly iTunes – on You Tube, I Heart Radio, in the Google Play store, and on my website Winnie Anderson.com.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others in your networks and I hope you’ll decide to join my community. You can become a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans when you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox. You’ll also receive information, tips, and resources to help you come out of hiding, position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, and profit from your expertise.
When I was in junior high and high school I dreamed of moving to Colorado. I was a huge John Denver fan and listening to that music and learning about him I was drawn to Colorado for its beauty. I also loved the idea of escaping from my mother who abused me emotionally and psychologically.
I use to imagine how fabulous it would be to start over in a place where – to play on that line from the TV show Cheers’ theme song --- nobody knows your name.
So when I met today’s guest who didn’t just escape the way I dreamed of but she went to another country, I knew I had to learn more about her and have her on the show.
Dorit Sasson is an award-winning author, book coach, and motivational speaker whose mission is to inspire and guide entrepreneurs, speakers, leaders, and aspiring authors who have a message and a purpose to share, to find their courage, tell their brand story in writing, and make a positive impact on the world. She is currently working on her second memoir, Sand and Steel: the Spiritual Journey Home.
Listen in as Dorit shares:
- What led her to leave the United States
- What drove her to join the military force of another country
- The biggest test of her courage while she was in the service
- The reverse culture shock she experienced when she returned to the United States
- The similarities between being a resident in a foreign country trying to fit in and being a creative entrepreneur
- How she learned to handle rejection as a writer
- Tips for deciding if writing a memoir is right for you and some ideas on how to get started with elements of your story
Listen all the way to the end when I’ll share your reflection exercise and action step for this episode
Resources Mentioned in This Episode
Dorit's book, Accidental Soldier: A Memoir of Service and Sacrifice in the Israel Defense Forces
Dorit's upcoming book, Sand and Steel: The spiritual journey home
Guest Contact Information
Website
Facebook
Dorit's podcast on Blog Talk Radio
Dorit on Twitter
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio format on a variety of platforms including Apple Podcasts – formerly iTunes – on You Tube, iHeartRadio, in the Google Play store, and on my website. You can find this episode on my website.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others in your networks and I hope you’ll decide to join my community. You can become a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans when you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox. You’ll also receive information, tips, and resources to help you come out of hiding, position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, and profit from your expertise.
What did you dream of doing as a teenager or child?
You might have had one idea or maybe lots of ideas.
When I was in third grade I wanted to be 3 different things that looking back now actually have some similarities.
I wanted to be an archeologist. Then I discovered Nancy Drew and wanted to write – I know you thought I’d say that I wanted to be a teenage detective.
It was actually a TV show my parents watched called The FBI that made me want to be a detective with the FBI.
Are you doing the work you’ve dreamed of doing?
Or is there some part of your heart that still wishes you had pursued your dream of being a graphic artist or becoming a doctor?
Well what if you decided to go for it?
Today’s guest is a rising star in the greater Philadelphia PA entertainment media scene and in this interview she talks about her path from mortgage banker and part time jewelry designer to becoming the face of entertainment in Atlantic City.
Whitney Ullman is an on-air personality and freelance entertainment reporter whose interviews and video footage have been featured on all major social media channels, as well as on local and national TV, radio, and web platforms. She’s a featured contributor to Fox 29’s Good Day Philadelphia. She is president and founder of WIN Promotions and Consulting. The services they provide include video production, talent staffing including promotional models, and public relations.
Listen in as Whitney shares:
- How she got started in entertainment Why she decided acting wasn’t for her
- Why she gave up on pursuing her dream full time
- How she leveraged a few opportunities into getting her foot in the door in entertainment
- How she managed to keep moving forward when things weren’t going her way
- The money scam she discovered and how she helped break it up
- Her tips for making things happen in your business or career
- As always listen in all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Related Past Episodes
Grace Bell - Challenge Your Thoughts, Change Your Life
Jeff Rock - The Power of Story Over Your Life
Resources Mentioned in This Episode
Mileage App - MileIQ: in the Google Play store
Guest Contact Information
Whitney's main website GoToWhitney.com
WIN Promotions
Whitney on Facebook
Whitney on Twitter
Whitney on Instagram
Whitney on LinkedIn
Whitney on YouTube
Additional Resources or Information on This Topic
Breaking Into Television
A page of results in Amazon all related to breaking into different areas in the entertainment industry
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio format on a variety of platforms including Apple Podcasts – formerly iTunes – on iHeartRadio, in the Google Play store, and on my website at Winnie Anderson.com/selflove
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others in your networks and I hope you’ll decide to join my community. You can become a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans when you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox. You’ll also receive information, tips, and resources to help you come out of hiding, position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, and profit from your expertise.
Because I’ve dealt with and continue to deal with body issues, self-esteem issues, and I know how a poor self-image can hold us back in marketing ourselves and our work, I knew when I met today’s guest that I had to have her on the show to talk about this.
She’s also a great example of something that many of my guests exemplify and that’s using their wound as a driving motivator to help others.
As a body image expert, coach, public speaker and acclaimed author, Laura Fenamore is on a mission to help women around the world finally end the constant battle with their bodies and start adoring who they see in the mirror. Her approach walks students and readers through the heartfelt journey to self-love at any size or age, unlocking the secrets of the path to lasting physical, emotional, and spiritual health.
After overcoming a lifelong struggle with addiction, obesity, and eating disorders, Laura released 100 pounds – and has kept it off for more than 29 years. She chronicles this journey to self-love and health in her widely acclaimed book, Skinny, Fat, Perfect: Love Who You See in the Mirror.
For the past 12 years, Laura has worked alongside hundreds of women through her Body Image Mastery programs and public speaking engagements. She has inspired thousands more to release excess pounds, reclaim their self-esteem, and live bold, beautiful lives through her global online community at SkinnyFatPerfect.com. She also conducts classes and consultations from her office in Marin County, CA.
Laura is a frequent contributor to print and digital media nationwide, including "First for Women", "Ladies’ Home Journal", and "Better Homes and Gardens", as well as an active member of the online community Positively Positive,. She also serves on the board for Impact a Village, a nonprofit dedicated to improving education and healthcare in developing nations.
Listen in as Laura shares:
• Her own journey from self-loathing to self-love
• How a nightmare of a childhood led to emotional eating and put her in an obesity clinic when she was in 4th grade
• How she bounced from an eating disorder to other forms of self-medicating including drugs and even thought of suicide
• The impact of society on men and women developing an unhealthy body image and even self-hatred
• The greatest protector we have and use
• How we inadvertently use food treats to reward and celebrate which can develop into an unhealthy relationship with food
As always watch all the way to the end where I’ll share your reflection exercise and action step for this episode.
Past Episodes That Relate to This One
Brodie Welch - The Courage of Self Care
Grace Bell - Challenge Your Thoughts, Change Your Life
Guest Contact Information
Laura's website
Laura on Facebook
Laura's private Facebook community
on Twitter
on LinkedIn
on Pinterest
on Instagram
on Google Plus
Resources Mentioned in This Episode
Laura's book: Skinny, Fat, Perfect
Additional Information on This Topic
Emotional Eating? 5 Reasons you Can't Stop - From Psychology Today
Weight loss: Gain Control of Emotional Eating - From the Mayo Clinic
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from selfdoubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
I interview entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio format on a variety of platforms including formerly iTunes, on You Tube, and on my website.
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others in your networks and I hope you’ll decide to join my community. You can become a fan of the show on my site and get episodes delivered right to your inbox. You’ll also receive information, tips, and resources to help you come out of hiding, position and presell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, and profit from your expertise.
If you’re like me, and like most professional solution providers, coaches, consultants, healers and others who want to use their skills and talents to serve others I’ll bet when you started your business you agonized over what you would call your business, what your logo should be and what your website should look like.
But what I’m willing to bet that you didn’t spend much time thinking about was your marketing and sales models. I know I didn't.
So then we realize our existing reputation in our industry or in our city is just not enough to have the best qualified potential clients contact us and say I’ve got a problem I know you fix and I’ve got a boatload of money so let’s get started.
But that’s what we want, right?
You secretly wish that people would just shoot you an email and ask for your paypal or stripe link so they can send you money.
We’ve got to work to attract the right clients for us.
We’ve got to have a process that helps them say yes to working with us.
I once gave a presentation where I shared information about why we struggle with sales and the truth is we only discover we hate it when we put ourselves in the situation of selling our services.
A woman came up to me after one of these presentations. She shook my hand and after she thanked me for the information and insight and said I realize now that I’ve become the one thing I ate most in the world.
She was talking about selling. She didn’t want to be believe she was a salesperson.
But you have a passion for what you do and you’re driven to help others dealing with the same problem. Plus, we all need money to live. To take care of ourselves, to care for our families, and we need money to run our businesses.
So we’ve got to get clients and we can’t rely on other people recommending us. Nor can we rely on them discovering us and clicking the order button on our websites.
How do you sell when you hate selling?
That’s what this episode of The Courageous Entrepreneur is all about.
You’re about to listen to my interview with leadership and sales expert, Dr. Nadia Brown. She shows women how to own their power, profitability, and purpose to lead. Nadia through her firm Doyenne Leadership teaches and coaches female entrepreneurs to greatness including exponential profitability.
Listen in as Nadia shares:
- How to minimize the ick factor when selling your services
- How to change the mindset of sales and the giant aha she had about sales that led to her own breakthrough
- Why it’s important to have intensive or comprehensive packages
- Why sales is like a one-pitch softball game The dirty little secret of business and marketing
- Why it’s important to tell your own hero’s journey
As always, listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Past Episodes Mentioned or Related to This One
Jeff Rock, The Power of Story Over Your Life
Grace Bell, Challenge Your Thoughts, Change Your Life
Mark Baker, From Abused to Abundant
Guest Contact Information
Nadia's website
Nadia's Courage Diary free gift: get your complimentary copy of the Courage Diary so you can build your courage and your bank account
Nadia on social media
Twitter
Linkedin
Facebook
You Tube
Nadia's book, Leading Like a Lady: How to shatter your inner glass ceiling
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
I interview entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio format on a variety of platforms including Apple Podcasts – formerly iTunes – on You Tube, and on my website WinnieAnderson.com
If you like what you hear I hope you’ll share the show with others in your networks and I hope you’ll decide to join my community. You can become a fan of the show on my site at Winnie Anderson.com/fans when you do you’ll get episodes delivered right to your inbox. You’ll also receive information, tips, and resources to help you come out of hiding, position and pre-sell yourself as the unique solution provider you are, and profit from your expertise.
Show Notes
Corporate or organizational life is a bit crazy to say the least isn’t it?
Even though companies spend millions on health benefits they often can become toxic environments where stress runs high and people are often rewarded for bad behavior like being obnoxious, and even abusive.
If their numbers are good, they get promoted and rewarded with bonuses and nice offices.
I’ve always told people who lose their jobs or who voluntarily leave a position that they need to go through a detox period. They laugh and ignore me. And as much as I know that to be true I ignored myself.
Think about the places you worked for a minute. Was working impossibly long hours a badge of honor?
I worked for a company that wanted me to take a new job and travel 100% of the time. They were shocked that I turned the job down.
But the life of an entrepreneur is incredibly stressful too, isn’t it?
So much to learn, so much to do, and then there’s getting clients, getting paid on time, and managing your money.
We started our businesses because we wanted freedom, balance, and of course the chance to earn an unlimited income.
That’s the dream we bought. But most of us would have to confess we have a very hard job with the most demanding boss in the world.
We work crazy long hours and neglect our physical and even our emotional and mental health.
That my friends is a recipe for disaster.
We tell ourselves those are the sacrifices we make. We work harder than others do so we can live like others don’t.
The impact of stress has been well documented. It leads to a host of health problems that can negatively impact our quality of life and can even lead to an early death.
Combine stress with sacrifices we make – skipping meals, too little sleep, eating poor quality food, not exercising.
I don’t know about you but I neglect myself a lot and I know there’s a level of stress that’s exciting but there’s that level of stress that’s unhealthy and even toxic.
Then there’s this issue of faking it til you make it, right? We feel as though we need to pretend that everything is fine because we believe in the power of our minds and thoughts. But the brain is smart enough to figure out you’re saying one thing and doing another.
So when I met today’s guest, I knew I had to have her on the show to talk about the issue of entrepreneurial self-care.
Brodie Welch is a licensed acupuncturist, board-certified herbalist, Chinese Medicine expert and self-care strategist. She’s the founder of Life in Balance Acupuncture in Corvallis, Oregon where she has been treating patients since 2003.
In addition to her clinical practice, Brodie shares her expertise to help caring, conscious women take care of themselves through innovative learn-from-anywhere courses and coaching programs on stress management, digestive health, the body-mind connection, moving meditation, and Chinese medicine. She’s the creator and host of the podcast, A Healthy Curiosity. The show explores what it takes to be well in a busy world.
Listen in as Brodie explains:
- Why self-care is a courageous act for every entrepreneur
- What she calls the empty calories or snacks of self-care that really aren’t fulfilling us nor are they nurturing us
- What exactly are yin and yang and how both concepts are critical especially in self-care
- How our ego trips us up and actually prevents us from practicing good self care
- How your good self-care actually benefits others
As always listen in all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information
• Get Brodie's Free 5-minute breathing meditation
• Brodie’s website
• Brodie's Podcast, A Healthy Curiosity, on her website
• Connect with Brodie on Facebook
• Subscribe to Brodie's podcast in iTunes
• A Healthy Curiosity Podcast on Facebook
Research You Might Be Interested In
The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial Stress is Real and Should Not Be Ignored
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
I interview entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio format on a variety of platforms including Apple Podcasts – formerly iTunes – on You Tube, and on my website Winnie Anderson dot com.
When I was a kid, my dad would talk about going on vacation to Homestead park. Which meant we were staying home.
Every summer we would take one day trip to the South Jersey shore and spend the day at our cousin’s house in Ocean City. That was about 3 hours round trip in the car.
We’d also take one day trip to another Shore spot – closer to the mouth of the Delaware Bay and we’d spend the day with my dad’s side of the family at our Aunt And Uncle’s house. Probably another 3 hour round trip.
So it’s a massive understatement to say it was hard to imagine spending months in an RV with one of my parents.
And when I think of the hours I spent in tears over a summer vacation trying to memorize the multiplication tables the thoughts of being home schooled give me nightmares.
But Gretchen Breuner did just that.
She took her kids out of school, packed them into a used RV, and set out to give them an adventure they’d never forget and help them make the connection that learning was fun.
Even more surprising than the fact that she did it by herself and returned to tell the tale is that she discovered a whole new career and business. Her journey didn’t end when she and the kids pulled into the driveway. In many ways it was just beginning.
So listen in as Gretchen shares:
- How she went from stay-at-home mom to advernturess instructor of her 3 kids
- How listening to the voice inside her led her to build a thriving business after the trip
- How continuing to tune into the voice and follow its guidance led to a new path for her and new direction for her skills
- Tips to take your own adventure and turn it into a book or speaking opportunities
- Lots of insight into how navigate your own personal and business growth journey
As always, listen all the way to the end and I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.
Terms That Might Be New to You
Talent -- The term Gretchen uses to refer to any expert who speaks
Team -- The term Gretchen uses to describe the admin help a speaker / expert may have or they may need but don't have
People and Resources Mentioned in the Episode:
Mike Keonigs
Wayne Dyer
Jack Canfield
Guest Contact Information
Gretchen's Website -- be sure to get her free list of 52 tips for speakers
Gretchen's Book - The Road Scholarz: Lessons From the Scenic Route
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
I interview entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio format on a variety of platforms including Apple Podcasts – formerly iTunes – on You Tube, and on my website
In 1984 or 1985 I finally admitted to myself that what I experienced growing up was abuse.
I thought that naming it was enough. That I was mature and smart and that I hadn’t let the abuse hurt me as an adult.
Boy was I wrong.
I had just stuffed it into a closet and thought if I didn’t dwell on it but just kept moving forward I’d be fine.
But it wasn’t until about 2010 when I realized that the strategies I had developed to deal with the abuse had become habits and personality traits that while they contributed to my success as a corporate professional were now actively holding me back. I was struggling to create the independent success I dreamed of and the wounds left by the abuse were incredibly deep.
Once I faced that I was apparently still struggling to overcome the emotional trauma I suffered as a child but that also continued through adulthood, I knew it was time to face it, heal from it, and move forward to create the new life I wanted.
As I started my healing journey, I threw myself into studying abuse and its impact on adults. I learned there are more of us out there then I thought.
And the impact of abuse is far reaching including physical, mental, and emotional health issues.
The effects can be deep and can last a lifetime.
Part of the struggle to heal can be attributed to the feelings of shame we victims experience and the dismissive admonishment to just get over it.
In this episode, I talk with my friend and colleague Becky Norwood, who decided to courageously tell her story and in doing so has freed others to tell theirs too. She also discovered a business hidden in the process.
First a disclaimer. None of the information shared in this or any other episode of the Courageous Entrepreneur is meant to take the place of help from a skilled professional. If you’re an adult survivor of child abuse, first of all don’t let anyone minimize what you went through or tell you that it wasn’t so bad and you should be over it.
I encourage you to get help in facing and fully recovering from your abuse by contacting a trained professional therapist or counselor. The resources shared in the show notes are not to be taken as specific endorsements. Some are recourses I used and that helped me. Your situation is your situation and they may not be helpful to you.
I do want you to know that help is out there and it is possible to come out from the long shadow cast by your abuse experience and into the warm and bright light of joyful living.
So in this episode you’ll hear Becky share:
- Why she decided to tell her story
- How she handled the family reaction to publishing her book and what she did to protect the identity of those still alive
- The benefits she’s experienced since coming clean with her story
- How she’s using her suffering to empower others and turned her “mess” into a mission
As always, listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your reflection exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information:
Becky's author page on Amazon listing all her books
Becky's website
Becky's Group on Facebook
Past Episodes That Relate to or are Mentioned in This One:
Mark Baker, From Abused to Abundant
Resources:
RAINN - The Rape and Incest National Network
The Morris Center - Adult Survivors of Child Abuse: Site includes a variety of resources and a workbook
TED talk on the health impact of childhood trauma (not just abuse)
Article about the neurological impact of child abuse
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show featrures interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio format on a variety of platforms including iTunes. You Tube, in the Google Play store, and on my website Winnie Anderson.com. You'll find this specific episode at Winnie Anderson.com/wisdom.
You may have long since given up on the thought that you can afford a comfortable retirement. Most organizations no longer provide pensions as they were known in our parents’ day.
If you live in the United States the chances are good that you haven’t saved enough or you may not have recovered from the investment losses you experienced as a result of the financial crash of 2008 or the housing market collapse.
Or maybe you enjoy working and have no real incentive or desire to stop but you would like to create additional revenue for yourself.
But how do you do that?
Is it possible to build something on your own? Isn’t that a young person’s game?
Today’s guest is someone who illustrates that you can reinvent yourself at any age, take the skills you have, and repurpose them to create a thriving independent business for yourself at any age.
A quick disclaimer here -we’re not making any promises and I strongly recommend that if you’re considering starting a consulting, coaching, or other type of business that you work with a coach who can help you get clear on what you want to do and how to build a business so you can set yourself up for success.
Today's guest, Sue Ferreira is a fantastic example of reinvention and a “success at any age” mindset.
After 40+ years as an anesthesiologist, Sue retired with the intention of inspiring and helping others in the demographic cohort known as Baby Boomers to live their retirement dream as well.
But the stock market crash in 2008 and the housing market collapse showed Sue that too many people wouldn’t be able to live the dream so like the problem solver she is she decided to change her business focus to do something to help.
She knows that true independence comes from controlling your destiny and that includes financial independence.
She’s a best selling author, a coach certified in programs that help her clients package their wisdom to create books and courses to position themselves as experts and generate revenue from their knowledge, and she’s become an expert on leveraging video to build a brand, get your message out, and grow a business.
She’s smart and vibrant, and a joy to talk with.
- So listen in as Sue shares…
Her story of embracing entrepreneurism herself and why she believes self-employment is critical for the Baby Boomer generation - Why she believes that entrepreneurs who don’t embrace video are missing out
- Why focusing on a narrow market is important
- How she took a risk by reaching out to one of the biggest gurus in social media today and how she’s leveraging the outcome
- Her tips for moving forward and embracing change
- How to stop worrying about your age and get started using video
Links and Resources Mentioned in This Episode
Gary Vaynerchuk AKA Gary V.
Gary's book - Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook
Gary's video for Boomers and Generation Xers
Sue and Gary's mashup
Sue's Video Marketing 101 course
Guest Contact Information
Sue's website - Wisdom to Wealth Mastery - get her free gifts
Have a conversation with Sue to discuss your situation and how she can help.
Sue's programs
Sue on Facebook
Sue on You Tube
Sue on Google+
Sue on Pinterest
Sue on Instagram
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Ready to join a community of like-minded entrepreneurs who will support you as you take positive steps to achieve your goals while lovingly challenging you to go farther and and step into your greatness? Do you know you need more support to stay focused, resist bright, shiny objects, and step into your greatness? Then head over to learn more about the Entrepreneur Achievers Club where we do exactly that.
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
I interview entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio formats on a variety of platforms including iTunes, the Google Play store, on You Tube, and on my website.
If you find this episode useful please leave it a positive review on the platform where you find it, share it with those of your contacts who you feel would benefit from it. And be sure to subscribe at WinnieAnderson.com so you get new episodes sent to you when they’re released. You’ll also receive practical information, useful resources, and updates about events designed to move past your obstacles and achieve your goals.
As we move through our lives we develop an ongoing monologue - a story that we tell ourselves as we move through our day and through our lives.
This story is built on beliefs we’ve picked up from others in our lives and that we’ve created as we try to make sense of what we go through.
As you’ll discover in this episode, what we tell ourselves - our story - either sets us up for achievement or for struggle.
It’s up to us to recognize the story for what it is – a story – and choose what we’ll focus on and what we’ll let go of.
My great friend and colleague, the brilliant Jeff Rock of Swift River Coaching dot com helps us make sense of all this and begin the process of letting go what no longer serves us and amplify what does.
He’s a career coach, brand story teller, and certified personal branding strategist. Jeff’s work helps professionals uncover, embrace, and make sense of their past to leverage it so it supports their career growth, transition to a new career, or to new business success.
He’s worked with survivors of toxic workplace environments as well as entrepreneurs forging new paths. His 25+ years of corporate experience combined with his unique ability to see your potential, mine your past skills and accomplishments, and break free from the negative aspects of your story enable him to coach and support you as you transition to create life and work that brings you joy and is true to your essence. I can tell you that working with Jeff gave me permission to follow my calling and to be who I truly am. I love Jeff and his work.
So listen in as jeff shares:
- What exactly story is and how it impacts goal achievement and success
- Where our story comes from
- What influences the story we tell ourselves as we age and navigate through the world
- Tips to help us begin to recognize the story we have and that it needs to change
- How to decide what stories to share, who to share them with, and what to just let go of
As always, listen all the way through and I’ll share your reflection exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information
Jeff's website where you can get free information, tips, and resources along with an explanation of his services. Jeff offers a free consultation. Be sure to let him know you heard him on The Courageous Entrepreneur Show.
Jeff on Facebook
Jeff on Twitter
Resources and Links Mentioned in This Episode
Interview with Grace Bell, - Challenge Your Thoughts, Change Your Life
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone
The power of stories
Superbowl and Tom Brady leading the Patriots' comeback
Apollo 13
Hidden Brain podcast
Extra Resources on the Topic
Our Stories, Ourselves
Life Stories: How you arrange the plot points of your life into a narrative can shape who you are and is a fundamental part of being human
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, fear, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio format on a variety of platforms including iTunes on You Tube, and on my website Winnie Anderson dot com.
There’s a saying that self-employment is the most powerful and most expensive self-improvement program you’ll ever go through. The reason is you come face to face with your own crap.
Suddenly problems and issues you never knew you had bubble to the surface and actively work to hold you back.
People who were former executives making multi-six figures with more degrees and certifications than a thermometer and with accomplishments that make others go WOW suddenly believe their stupid and not good enough.
I once talked to an eye doctor who told me she was stupid – because she didn’t know what to say on her website.
How could she know? It’s not like she’s a marketing expert.
I’ll bet you tell yourself stories similar to that.
Maybe it’s "I can’t charge that amount" or "no one will work with me" or "I’m just not good enough".
We’ve all got things we say to ourselves that we truly believe and that end up keeping us trapped right where we are.
I’ve got lots of stories I tell myself too.
Well what if you could suddenly become the courageous action-taker you dream of? What if the past hurts and indignities you’ve experienced no longer had a hold over you?
Today’s episode is going to challenge you to really listen to and confront your thoughts.
Grace Bell of Work With Grace spent decades believing there was something wrong with her, that there was something missing that she needed to find and get.
And while eventually she became a trained mental health counselor with a husband and two small children, an unexpected divorce left her with the realization she suddenly needed a full time income to keep her house and care for her kids.
You’ll hear her story and how she managed to build a profitable, thriving practice and now helps others move past their fears, doubts, and disempowering beliefs using something called The Work.
This episode will:
- challenge you to confront your own beliefs and how those beliefs may be holding you back
- reveal the 4 questions to ask to confront those beliefs
- and demonstrate a mini session of The Work
Hopefully you’ll be inspired to let go of the disempowering thoughts that can control you and leave you trapped in emotions that don’t serve you and help you break free to create the abundant life you want and deserve.
As always stay with us til the end and I’ll share your reflection exercise and action step for this episode.
If you’re interested in learning about the Entrepreneur Achievers Club and how you can become part of a like-minded community of solopreneurs looking to grow their businesses and achieve their goals, visit http://winnieanderson.com/achievers to learn more.
Links and Resources Referred to In This Episode
Byron Katie, founder of The Work
Katie's website
Byron Katie's Author Page on Amazon with all her books
Katie on You Tube -- Watch The Work in action
Background on The Work and resource materials to do it
EST
Guest Contact Information and Resources
Grace Bell's website -- sign up for Grace Notes
Grace on Facebook
Additional Research
This is How Your Thoughts Become Your Reality
10 Unhelpful Thinking Styles Sabotaging Your Success
There are a million things that need to be done as you grow and run a business. And since we entrepreneurs tend to share certain characteristics like a love of learning, a tendency to be early adopters of technology, and creative idea machines it can be easy to have a million projects in various stages of launching that never get anywhere.
And as the stress and frustration mount it can be easy to frantically try new things, throw new ideas and projects at the wall to make something stick when the answer might in fact be the opposite.
As a productivity coach and host of Crusher™TV, Alan Brown teaches productivity “brain hacks” to crazy-busy professionals and entrepreneurs.
Alan is the #1 Best-Selling author of “Zen and the Art of Productivity: 27 Easy Ways to Have More Time, Earn More Money and Live Happier.”
A featured speaker in the U.S. and Europe, including a TEDx Talk, he uses his weekly online TV show, at CrusherTV.com, to help people live to their potential by “unleashing the power of their brains.”
Listen in and hear Alan reveal:
- The percentage of the population believed to be undiagnosed with ADHD
- Why ADHD-ers engage in risky behaviors
- Things we commonly tell ourselves when we struggle with ADHD
- Things to reflect on if you're wondering if you may have ADHD
DISCLAIMER: Neither Alan nor I are doctors and we are not giving you medical advice or any specific advice for you or your situation. Consult a professional for a true diagnosis of ADHD / ADD. This episode is meant for general education.
Resources
ADHD Self Test for Women
ADHD Self Test, General for Adults
ADD.org - ADHD Support
Guest Links
Alan's website
Alan's TEDx talk
Additional research
Adult ADHD Overview (Mayo Clinic)
8 Ways ADD is a Gift
ADHD Linked to Dopamine Levels
ADHD Statistics
Adult ADHD Support Groups
Welcome to The Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that helps you break through to create the abundant business and joyful life you want and deserve. My guests and I share insight and information to help you break away from the fears, doubts, and beliefs that have caused you to underachieve, under-earn, and limited your impact.
Each of us goes through a variety of challenges as we move through our lives from childhood through adulthood. Those challenges leave us with emotional and psychological wounds that can vary from superficial scratches to deep cuts.
How we respond to those situations is unique to each of us and what one person may feel is not a big deal another person may be profoundly wounded by.
And over time, an accumulation of small wounds that are unaddressed could result in a deep emotional injury. Often without our even realizing it.
And the strategies we adopt to deal with the slings and arrows of life as well as with circumstances that are profoundly hurtful – losing a job, getting divorced, being a victim of crime, chronic bullying and more – can eventually become ineffective and actively hold us back out on our own as independent professionals.
In this episode you’ll meet my friend and colleague Nancy Philpott.
Nancy is a registered nurse, a hypnotherapist, as well as an emotional health strategist and coach. She’s the Chief Transformation Officer for HeartSync Wellness Center and Founder of the Emotional Resilience Challenge and Acadmy.
Nancy’s specialty is helping nurses, health professionals, military service members, caregivers, and their family members recognize, prevent, and recover from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Compassion Fatigue, and Burnout.
Listen in as Nancy and I discuss:
- What Trauma is and why it’s different for each person
- How the brain processes trauma
- How trauma can impact our ability to interact with the world
- How being a witness to trauma can impact you
- Symptoms that could indicate you’ve got unresolved trauma issues that are interfering with your goal achievement
- Suggestions to get started on breaking free and breaking through
Keep in mind that we’re going to be speaking in big terms here. We’re not doctors and we’re not giving medical advice. This episode is designed to educate and inform. So if you think you’ve got an issue and need help contact a local healthcare professional and if you feel you’re at the end of your rope dial 911.
It’s courageous and brave to reach out for help.
Be sure to stick around to the end of the interview where I’ll share your reflection exercise and action step for this episode.
Links and Resources
Anxiety and Drepression Associaiton of America
For veterans
Terns Used in This Episode
PTSD
Compassion Fatigue
Anxiety
Guest Contact Information
Nancy's website for HeartSyncWellness.com
Nancy on Facebook
Nancy on LinkedIn
Nancy's profile on Psychology Today
Welcome to The Courageous Entrepreneur Show where we share information and inspiration to help you overcome the obstacles that can get in your way as you build the successful business and life you want and deserve.
When we were in corporate life we could consider ourselves lucky if we had one good work friend who we shared a work space with or worked on projects with.
Whether you’re a corporate escapee or an accidental entrepreneur one of the dreams you may have had when you started your coaching, consulting, or other expertise-based business was that you could work with people you genuinely like, even love.
So just imagine the fun, the excitement of building a business with your best friend.
Even in the struggles, you’ve got someone to share the ups and downs, to lighten the load, and to help maximize revenue.
But what happens when it suddenly ends and it ends because of a tragedy?
In today’s episode you’ll meet Everett O’Keefe the owner of a business called The Solution Machine.
- Listen in and you’ll hear him share…
The fun and excitement of working with his best friend and how they got their struggling business on a solid financial footing and began to grow when suddenly his partner, John passed away. - Everett explains how he dealt with the loss from a business standpoint and shares tips for how you can begin planning now for the worst.
- The tactics he shares will also help you look at your business a little differently and spot vulnerable areas where you may be relying too heavily on one person or source of help.
Stay with us til the end and I’ll share your reflection exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information
Everett's website
The mastermind retreats and mastermind group Everet runs
Everett's Tip Sheet on how to find the best mastermind for you
Resources Mentioned
Legal Zoom
Additional Resources
What if your business partner died tonight?
Surviving the loss of a business partner
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available on iTunes at TheCouragePodcast.com, in the Google Play Store, and on my website Winnie Anderson dot com slash paralyzed.
What you’re going to hear is the audio recording of a video interview.
When I started the show it was a live interview show on the Facebook Live platform. It didn’t take me long to decide to start doing recorded interviews. One reason I made that decision is because the technology is unreliable unless you’ve got top of the line broadband and hardware. So is you’re going to hear some points where it sounds like the word or words dropped, you’ll hear some delays and talking over each other at points and that’s because of the delay on the livestream platform I used. I hope you’ll excuse that because there’s great information in this episode.
If you’ve ever felt that you just couldn’t go on and questioned if it would really be possible for you to grow a business using your gifts then I think you’ll find the episode inspiring and informative.
It’s so easy to look at someone’s success and think that it came easily to them or that they have some secret solution that you don’t.
But we each face our own challenges to reach our goal and often those challenges can be a combination of physical and emotional or mindset. Sometimes it’s our mindset that leads us to physically be unable to move forward and sometimes it’s both.
Listen in as my guest Maryam Webster shares…
- How she went from a busy job as a sociologist with a growing therapy practice to paralyzed car accident victim and back to thriving business coach.
- Her response to the doctors who told her she’d never walk again
- The one person who provided the emotional support she needed
- What her friends, family, and even her husband told her about her focus on recovery and walking again.
- How she built her coaching practice while she was still extremely limited in her mobility
- And the lessons she learned as a result of going through what she went through.
Listen in all the way to the end where I’ll share you reflection exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest contact information:
Maryam's website - EveryWomanChanges.com
Maryam's free annual mastermind on Facebook
Maryam's free offer - Get a free business reading from Maryam by clicking this link and let her know you heard her interview on The Courageous Entrepreneur Show.
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews wotj entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information that when you take action on it can help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio format on a variety of platforms including Apple Podcasts – formerly iTunes – on You Tube, and on my website Winnie Anderson dot com.
I often think of the famous quote by Mother Teresa…”I know God wouldn’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.”
In today’s episode you’ll hear from speaker and coach Mark Baker who shares his experiences of surviving an abusive childhood and winding up homeless to creating the financially and emotionally abundant life he now enjoys.
Listen in as Mark shares:
- Tips to get past limiting beliefs and the one fact about those beliefs that I don’t think you’ll hear anyone else share.
- The key technique that he used that is the same one top athletes and performers share with politicians and business leaders to produce the outcome they want.
- What’s missing from most positive thinking.
- And lots more great tips and insight.
DISCLAIMER: Mark talks about his own bout with cancer and I want to make clear we’re not doctors we’re not giving medical advice so if you suspect you’re not well get professional help.
With that said, stick around all the way to the end where I’ll share your reflection exercise and action step.
Guest Contact Information
Mark's Website
Mark on social media -
You Tube
Mark's Special Offer:
Listeners who contact Mark and let them know they heard his episode on The Courageous Entrepreneur show will receive a year-long coaching package with Mark for just $1250. This includes one session a month with him plus email in between sessions
Get a free session with Mark by emailing him at mark baker speaks (type as all one word) at gmail dot com (type as a normal email address)
Additional Resources You May Find Helpful
Survivor to Thriver: Manual and workbook for adult survivors of child abuse who want to move on with life (this is what I used to work through my abuse)
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information to help you get past your blocks and move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio format on a variety of platforms including iTunes, You Tube, and on my website.
This episode along with the links and resources we mention can be found at Winnie Anderson dot com slash depression
You know, we have no problem talking about physical health issues. Someone asks how you’re doing and you say OK except my back is hurting today or I’m getting my knee replaced next week.
But when we have an emotional or mental health issue it’s difficult to admit and that can make it difficult to get help for.
Especially when you’re an entrepreneur.
It’s no secret that depression can be a problem for entrepreneurs and publications including the Guardian, Forbes, Inc, entrepreneur, fortune, and business insider have written about it. I’ll include links in the show notes to some of those articles.
So when I saw my friend and colleague Shanna Landoldt come clean about dealing with depression on FB I was floored.
I was impressed by her courage but also blown away because I never suspected she wrestled with the same issue I’ve wrestled with my entire life.
Shanna is a top recruiter and highly sought after media authority as a Career and LinkedIn Expert. She has been featured all across North America on NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, CityTV & CTV.
She has authored 6 books and is a 4x #1 International Best Selling Author. She works with authors to launch their books as #1 Best Sellers on Amazon.
Entrepreneurs, Organizations and People interested in Career Advancement hire Shanna to create compelling LinkedIn Profiles that get them found for their expertise.
Organizations hire Shanna as a Keynote Speaker at Industry Events to share how to create a personal brand in your business using Social Media & LinkedIn.
Listen in as Shanna shares:
- What led her to share her challenges with depression and the reaction it had
The scary thoughts and feelings that motivated her to get help - The strategies she uses to manage her business and her family when she has a depression flareup
- Insight into how you can help someone with depression and how you can ask for and receive help yourself
- And some business building tips that can help you grow your business in spite of mental or physical health issues you might have.
As always listen in all the way to the end where I’ll share your reflection exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information:
Shanna's website
Email: shanna at shannalandolt dot com (type that like a regular email address)
Shanna on social media:
YouTube
Shanna's Books:
LinkedIn Secrets From a Top Executive Recruiter
Secrets From a Headhunter- LinkedIn Secrets for Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Professionals
Special Offer From Shanna:
When you connect with her tell her you heard her interview with me on The Courageous Entrepreneur Show and get $100 off of a package including re-writing your LinkedIn profile to get you found by the clients and opportunity partners you wish would find you.
Related Resources:
Mike Michalowicz - Business Growth Tips for Solo Professionals and Micro Firm Owners
The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship
Depression Among Entrepreneurs is an Epidemic Nobody is Talking About
Slowly But Surely, More Entrepreneurs are Coming Out About Depression, Seeking Support Online
Aligning faith and work isn't easy.
When business coach Ed Rush invited me to a workshop he was putting on in San Diego that he called Ultimate Breakthrough and that promised to specifically discuss how to merge faith with growing a business, I knew I had to attend.
It was a great event for many reasons but it really threw me for a loop.
While at that event I realized that there was a calling I was resisting. That event -- and specifically Melvin's message -- helped me give-in to that call and start this show.
I made sure to connect with Melvin on Facebook and I make sure to watch his daily videos for my burst of faith inspiration.
If you've ever felt trapped in a pit of unworthiness, knowing you were called for more but afraid to take action, then I hope this episode speaks to you.
My guest grew up in apartheid South Africa as one of six children in a Hindu family. They were incredibly poor living in a tin shack with no running water. But he was greatly influenced by his mother and her belief in Jesus.
She used to tell him that if he ever wanted anything he was to pray to Jesus.
Melvin went from spending $2 to rent an audio tape of the legendary speaker Zig Ziglar to becoming a vice president in the Ziglar organization. Today, he's a an advisor to CEOs, political leaders, and entrepreneurs looking to take themselves, their countries, and their businesses to new heights of success in a way that's consistent with their faith.
In this episode of The Courageous Entrepreneur show Melvin reveals...
The role faith plays in helping us break free from the chains of trauma How to deal with feelings of unworthiness and embrace the fact that Jesus is our brother How shame can block faith How an abundance mindset fits with being faithful and so much more.
Learn More About Today's Guest
Reach Melvin:
at his website and learn of his upcoming events
on You Tube where you can watch his videos
on Facebook where you can communicate with him and get Melvin's inspiring messages on a daily basis
Go Deeper with Additional Research
Outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill - This little known book by Napoleon Hill shares his thoughts on faith and entrepreneurship. His wife wouldn't allow it to be published because she thought the message was too strong. I love this. It's one of my favorite books.
Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and with experts who share insight and practical information that can help you move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.
The show is available in both video and audio format on a variety of platforms including iTunes, You Tube, and on my website Winnie Anderson.com.
There are a lot of “shoulds” and “must do’s” according to gurus and they all have their take on the answer to your problems. Few are genuinely able to help you leverage what works and build a thriving business around that in the way that today's expert can.
In today’s episode you’ll hear from former Wall Street Journal columnist and multi-best selling author Mike Michalowicz.
Mike came across his knowledge the hard way – by 35 he had started and sold two multi-million dollar companies. Confident he had the formula for success he became an angel investor and proceeded to lose his entire fortune.
He regularly talks about how although he ran an outwardly successful company he actually lived check to check until he realized how to manage his business revenue and put profit first.
His mission now is to eradicate entrepreneurial poverty.
He’s the four time best selling author of Surge, Profit First, the Pumpkin Plan, and the book that Business Week deemed “the entrepreneur’s cult classic,” The Toiletpaper Entrepreneur.
This isn’t as much of an interview as it is a workshop as Mike shares incredible insight into growing a profitable business built on your strengths.
You’re going to hear…
• The single biggest thing an entrepreneur needs to do to lay a foundation for real profitability.
• How our behavior patterns of the past can keep us trapped where we are or worse set us back to where we don’t want to be
• The big mistake we make when trying to course correct that actually makes things worse, not better
• Two ways to scale your business and tips for choosing which is right for you
• Why building on your strengths and hiring to manage your weaknesses is a key to success
• The simple 3 part rule that helps you put a problem in perspective so you can decide on the best course of action
• Why a “rally cry” is critical for your business and how it can work to attract the right clients and partners and how to create yours
• The benefits of being a true recognized expert in your field.
Listen in all the way to the end and I’ll share your reflection exercise and action step for this episode.
Guest Contact Information
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Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you break free from self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and disempowering patterns and break through to create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.
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I had reached a horrible point in my business life where I couldn’t talk about my services. I was practically afraid to leave the house.
One night while alone in my office staring at my whiteboard where I had written down what I wanted and what I couldn’t do when suddenly I realized I was trapped in a pattern of acting and reacting…using strategies that had helped me survive a toxic environment while growing up and helped me be a successful corporate employee but now those strategies were actively holding me back.
Two days later I went to an event and when I was checking in I discovered the speaker that night had a book that says we can all get stuck in patterns we developed in childhood as a survival strategy in our original organizations – our families.
You don’t have to have grown up in an abusive environment like I did to develop patterns that don’t work for you as an adult.
So when I was planning out this show I knew I wanted to address this issue and I hoped this author would be a guest on the show.
In today’s episode you’re going to meet Dr. Sylvia LaFair. Inc magazine rated her as one of the top 30 leadership experts in the world. Her Total Leaderhips Connections program is one of the top ten best in the country as rated by HR dot com. She’s a columnist for Inc dot com and The National Business Journals. She’s CEO of Creative Energy Options and the world’s leading authority in pattern aware leadership development.
You’re going to hear Sylvia explain:
- What patterns are and what being pattern aware means
- How ingrained patterns we developed in our family of origin get anchored into us and get repeated in our work organizations. These can lead to disempowering actions and self-sabotage.
- The role stress plays in developing patterns
- How to begin to change your ineffective patterns to stronger, empowering ones that will help you create the success you dream of and deserve.
Stick around all the way to the end when I’ll share your reflection exercise and action step for this episode.
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Guest Contact Links:
Sylvia's website - CEOptions.com
Email Sylvia at Sylvia (at sign) ceoptions (dot sign) com (type that out as you would a normal email address)
Phone number: 1-570-636-3858
Sylvia's articles on Inc.com
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