Business Alchemy: Recent Episodes
Angella Johnson
In this Business Alchemy podcast, we are talking beyond business and who you are at your core and how that is expressed in all areas of life. Take this journey with us as we explore topics like what it means to be Christian, how the black community is questioning their faith in light of the recent administration in the US, and what it means to be fully expressed in your business.
When three established business owners let go of their main sources of income and form a partnership, one of two things will happen: it will implode or it will be magic.
The founders of Orange, Listen and Dew transparently share what it takes to form a true collaboration and what they had to let go of to create what they've seen missing in the coaching marketplace.
You'll hear what they love about this new way of working together, what they've struggled with, and the tips they have for any kind of collaboration you are considering.
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About Orange, Liston & Dew:
Orange, Liston & Dew is a marketing shop and business incubator co-founded by a copywriter, business intuitive, & integrator-at-large. They serve coaches, healers, consultants, and brick-and-mortar business owners who love their work and are building singular, sustainable, and satisfying businesses.
The trio offers a full range of proposal-based services including strategic vision, writing, planning, and implementation support. As a business incubator, they hold an uncommon and rare place for their clients’ business dreams to be seen, nurtured, and grow in the community – while deeply rooted one’s own values.
They host BeaverCon in person several times a year and Beaver Lodge LIVE online, gathering business owners around the world who know that we can go farther and build faster when we do it together.
In this interview, Syndee Hendricks, talks about true leadership and how to find the right support for you. Is it possible to be over-coached? Syndee talks about the dangers of over-buying and some helpful tips on implementing as well.
What happens when you end your career in marketing and join the Peace Corps for three years? In Jennifer's case, she got a glimpse of what it REALLY means to empower business owners to create a sustainable business.
When you're guided to let go of your business completely and go into the unknown space where your identity is released, your routine is gone, and everything you thought you KNEW has changed, what do you do?
Christel Crawford is an Access Consciousness Certified Facilitator. She's created a multi-figured online coaching & facilitation business that continues to expand, and thrives on the miracle of you, changing, and let's face it, a well-crafted landing page.
Beth Grant is the creator of the Alignment Archetype Grid, which I commonly refer to as Marketing Archetypes and while aligning your marketing is an amazing piece, true alignment goes beyond your marketing. In this episode, we talk about what true alignment really takes and why it's so important for people who want to make an impact.
Beth has identified 22 Principles of Alignment, efficiency is one of them. "Efficiency is the bi-product of alignment," Beth says and goes on to explain that when you are alignment you experience a flow like nothing else.
Being 19-years-old and a transformation of his own health, Kevin started his Fit Cast interviews before podcasts were cool and so common. He remembers what it felt like to walk into that gym for the first time as a 14-year-old overweight teenager and that feeling is what drives the environment that he creates with his clients.
Writing a book is a hot topic, one that Samantha Wallen approaches differently. Writing your memoir is as much as about changing the lives of the reader as much as your own. When you see yourself on the page and access the home and purpose you already inhabit and using that to create the content of your work. At the heart of it is writing to heal, specifically right now, healing the divides between matter and soul, mind and heart, power and humanity that exists within and outside of ourselves.
The moment Amanda realized she needed to face her shame was the moment she knew she had a book to write. Sharing that shame also gave her the courage to write and empowered her clients to write about "the thing" they didn't want to write about, but made the difference in their own healing and writing a book that matters.
You'll also love Amanda's tips on how to gain the support of your community to buy your book authentically.
Lori Tidwell's Multiple Sclerosis diagnoses almost defined her future, until the day that she was about to swallow a handful of sleeping pills. A tiny knock on her bathroom door woke her up to what she was choosing and that is when she chose to change things.
Forbidden Emotions. What comes up when you hear that? Do you want to shy away from it? Is it too intense? We are taught to avoid the negative, shut it down, push it aside and in this dynamic interview with Marti Murphy, you’ll see how those same forbidden emotions are the keys to freedom.
What would you tell someone who was building a business and their spouse just flat-out did not support their endeavors? How do you build a marriage and build a business without either one imploding? How do you honor all of you in your business and in your marriage without losing yourself in the process?
Veronica Strachan is an author, speaker, coach and change expert. She spent three decades in health and human services leadership, IT, Education, Environment and Primary Industries, working across three states and directing national projects in Australia. Then, no longer content running other people’s companies, she started her own business, True Dialogue, so that she could have more conversations with purpose and run things the way she wanted to.
When Shannon‘s big desire was just to be able to take a bathroom break when she needed to and not have her “breakfast” be a fiber bar on a crowded NYC train to get to work every day, she knew that something had to change.
After being a public school teacher for 15 years, she started a business without even knowing what an entrepreneur was. She had followed the rules set forth by her family of getting an education and getting a reliable government job so you could have a good pension.
“You’re just not that committed to your business.” These were the words that Alex heard when he realized that it was far from the truth. What WAS actually true, was there was no s-p-a-c-e for his deeper dream in his business to emerge.
What could happen in your life if you trusted yourself just 5% more?
When Lisa spoke on my IGNITE stage in April 2017 about Unwavering Trust, it was a hot topic and one that continues to come up for attendees because of the powerful impact it had.
Helping business owners, speakers, and fiction authors write compelling books, publish, and expand their platform and message to make their impact. In this episode, Angela and I discuss what makes for a compelling book and what authors need to know about publishing.
In this episode, Louise and I talk about how women can create their meaningful and purposeful life so that they thrive in their element.
On today’s epoisde of Business Alchemy, guest Daundra Becker and I talk about the power of storytelling in your business. What’s the difference between storytelling with the intention of connecting with your audience vs trying to sell them something? Is there a difference? And how much vulnerability do you share wihout over-sharing or being a victim?
What is New Marketing and how can you use it to attract new clients? In this episode, Stella and I talk about marketing and how you can avoid using your ideal client's "pain points" to attract new clients.
I've followed Jill through the years as she drives her vintage RV "Olive" and her Vespa around the US, taking her digital business easily on the road with her.
In this interview, I loved the tips she gave on how to trust the transition when things appear that they are falling apart, but really things are being set up to support you like you never thought possible.
Not only will you gain clarity on what it takes to create a fulfilling business that you can take anywhere in the world with you, but some very practical tips on how to work with a virtual team, which most entrepreneurs in my world have struggled with at some point.
After taking four pages of notes from this interview with Coach Stevo, officially known as Steven Ledbetter, the glaring truth of why people don't do what they say they want to do is not because they didn't follow the formula of "how to change a habit in 21 days."
After a tattoo waiver from the Marines altered his career path to becoming a health coach, to then creating an entire system around what it really takes for people to change, Stevo has identified several key elements to how "coaching" is not about prescribing anything, but it's deep listening and inquiry.
Understanding what it takes to be leading edge and creating space of innovation. In this episode, Nancy and I talk about being unafraid to go where no one has gone before.
Through the darkness, my soul was calling me to freedom. As Carmell talks about the reinvention of letting go of her business to become an international leadership coach, she discovered along the way the four elements of Emotional Blackmail and the need to be right.
What would change our planet? What will heal and unify the divide that the recent US election has shined the light on?
Carmell gives us her tools of conscious leadership and why more than ever, it's critical that women step up and support other women.
Authenticity. It’s an overdone word, yet is the foundation for business so what does this really mean?
In this episode, Adele and I discuss the challenges in the coaching industry, particular large group programs and some things to consider when starting out to ensure you get the support you truly require to build a solid foundation.
Being stuck. Failure. Being "irresponsible" to follow your heart.
In this episode, Kelly Sheets and I talk about the myths of all of these things, which are really just self-imposed traps that are really keeping your brilliance locked away. What is really going on when you feel stuck and how to you move through it to the other side? In this episode, Kelly and I talk about the importance of perspective, curiosity, and asking questions to create true change in life and in the world.
What is really going on when you feel stuck and how to you move through it to the other side? One of my favorite pieces from this episode is when Kelly said, "Being stuck is really just being up against massive potential."
What is Soul Purpose Success? And how do you get there when fear shows up on your path?
One of my favorite takeaways from this show is when Renee described the difference of resistance showing up vs your intuition letting you know that you are on the wrong path. This shows up differently for everyone, but I think you'll resonate with her description of this.
When you are being spirit-led, as Renee describes in her own journey, how do you not become "victim" to the guidance and consciously choose your path?
What does your soul know about the path to impact, abundance and deep fulfillment? Everything.
The challenge in business happens when we stop listening to our soul and start listening to our heads or what the "experts" and society tell us.
In this episode, we'll explore how leading from your soul supports you in making a greater impact and creating a successful business. We'll also talk about the 5 archetypes of soul leadership and how everyone is a leader, whether they claim that title or not.
What's a Soul Brand and how do you build this as a healer who is answering the call of your soul, but may trip over the business side of your calling?
How do you know the difference between the resistance that shows up when you are growing or your soul telling you to go on a different path?
Michelle Barr and I talk about the ups and downs of being a healer and charging for your natural abilities (that you would likely do for free anyway.
Soulful Profits. Yes, you can make money as a soulful entrepreneur who helps a lot of people.
Tami has experienced the burnout from pushing so hard in order to prove that she could create profit and success.
As an intuitive who has the gift of also communicating with angels and your divine team, Tami also brings in decades of corporate experience in marketing.
Where is the balance between these two worlds? Tami will take us on the journey of pushing to true prosperity as we discuss the five elements needed to create and align to the Divine in business.
Courage. A simple word, but so many think it's about confrontation and people avoid that.
Courage is about confrontation - confronting your old points of view, confronting your excuses and what you're tolerating. Courage always leads to freedom.
In this raw interview with power-house Shameca, we talk about overcoming old money stories and what it really takes to choose courage when fear is standing in your way.
Are you ready to ignite passion, purpose, and meaning into your work and life? Shine a light on your gifts and talents and tune into the part of your work you love most!
Kami and I talk about how to bring their fire to your life and help you tune into what your heart wants you to know! Afte leaving a corporate marketing background, Kami took the leap to start her own business and specializes in helping rekindle what really lights them up in their life so they can launch a business that makes their heart sing.
A few years ago, Michele and I had a conversation about “women who create too much.” It was the first time I was introduced to the Scanner energy and wow, could I relate!
It opened up a whole new world for me about how we stifle our creations by trying to focus, because our ability to “focus” somehow translates to how successful we will be.
If you have had a pattern of having your hand in many pots at once, or starting something but not finishing it. Or even not sure which ONE thing you should decide on for your life, then you will want to listen to this podcast.
Can you build a successful business if you don’t know your purpose?
One of my favorite moments in this interview with Carolyn is when she said she was like the little bird running up to everyone she saw “Are you my mommy?” as a way to “find” her purpose.
After Carolyn left the franchise world where she established herself as a top expert in the field, she stepped into a $100,000 coaching package with someone to help her find her purpose and turn it into a 7-figure business. When that didn’t pan out the way she had hoped, she learned some things about what it really takes to create a business model that nurtures your life and creates a consistent profit.
In this first official debut episode of Business Alchemy was on International Women’s Day. Ironic? No. Perfect? Yes.
Are you a feminist? And does that “belong” in business?
My worst fear: Mediocrity.
It's such a evasive term - what it means to one person, doesn't hold true for the next. Thus the complexity of it, but also the freedom.
The current "lesson" that's up for me right now is being overly accommodating - saying yes, when it's really a no. And I'd say that I'm damn good at saying no. But it was that pesky little 20% that kept tripping me up, pissing me off, and overriding my intuition.
It's that 20% that leads to mediocrity.
What do you do when 80% of you says "yes," but 20% of you says "no?"
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Most people say yes to be nice, to be liked, to be flexible, accommodating and responsible. Oh GAWD, the responsible word...
What if you ONLY said yes to the things that really lit you up, like totally were a 100% YES?
Several weeks ago, I was recovering from an intense ear infection. Many lessons evolved from that experience. One of them being the hard-cold truth of everywhere I was saying yes, when it was really a no. It wasn't major stuff, but then again it was major.
That's when a good friend lovingly reminded me of this, "If it's not a hell yes, then it's a no."
My advice to her years back, right back at me - staring me down. What will I choose? Will I choose me? Or the "responsible" thing? Will I choose me, or the need to be perceived as flexible, not "too much," or agreeable?
Sigh.
So I have been doing an inventory and making adjustments. I hired additional support. I turned away some potential clients. I delegated more. I joined a gym that's really fun.
I'm convinced that the 20% that's a no, is the 20% that turns ordinary into spectacular. it's the 20% that feels draining into orgasmic bliss. It's also the 20% that slowly leads to our death of living a life that sucks the life out of us. It leads to death. A slow, ordinary death.
Do you say no, when you mean it? Do you say YES, when you mean it? Are you aligned with what's a yes or no for you? And not just in business, but in life, in your love, in even what you want to eat?
The 20% is so much more than a slight alteration to your truth, it's where you truth resides. It's what fuels the courage to act when you're scared and when you doubt you can make a change. That 20% is the exponential possibility of your greatness. Listen to it. Honor it. Speak it into existence.
And yes, there will be times people won't get it. They'll call you crazy. They'll even misunderstand you and try to make you wrong for your 20%. But that 20% knows your truth.