Excel with Ease with Gemma Montgomery: Recent Episodes
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Excel with ease is a podcast aimed at Business owners in the Aesthetic, medical, health, beauty and wellness industry.
We discuss weekly topics and themes relating to mindset and strategy that help uncover your inner blocks and self sabotages, that prevent you from achieving the success you desire in both business and life.
After suffering multiple burnouts and anxiety whilst juggling the ups and downs of family life and business, Gemma's personal journey over this past decade led her to find a better way. A way which impacted all areas of her life and business to excel with ease.
After witnessing so many business owners excel in business, to the detriment of their health or personal relationships. Gemma is on a mission to help others create a profitable business with ease, that supports a life they love.
On this week's episode I talk about a recent experience of giving away my power and the detrimental effects it can have.
I discuss where giving away your power may be showing up in your life and business, how to reconnect with yourself to find out what you need and how you can begin to overcome being a people pleaser.
Are you guilty of procrastination?
Procrastination can be a sneaky form of self sabotage and a destructive habit that can hold us back from reaching our full potential in business and life.
This week Gemma discusses two reasons for procrastination and how we can begin to tackle them, so we can take the action steps that will move us closer to where we desire.
Every day I take a social media break for 40 days for lent.
slightly risky some may say, with two businesses in tow.
But as a curious person, who loves to learn more about myself, I relish the challenge.
This week I discuss my 5 big takeaways and what I intend to implement going forward.
Do you know deep inside you're far capable of more? Do you feel like you're shrinking down and hiding parts of yourself? This week I discuss 5 common signs that fear may be holding you back from your greatness and full potential. Note some of them aren't that obvious.
The upper limit problem is a form of self sabotage.
First brought to light by the author and success coach Gay Hendricks in his book The Big Leap.
Upper limiting can be sneaky, what's more It can show up to steal our happiness in unexpected ways.
Once you become aware of it and how it can show up and play out in your personal and business life, you can begin to save yourself a whole host of time and extra hassle and business and life can begin to run a lot more smoother, plus you get to feel good way more of the time! it's a win win!
Are you operating your business from a scarcity mindset?
Scarcity mindset depletes your profit, joy, health and overall success.
Learn the 8 common signs that indicate you're in scarcity and how to overcome them, so you can begin to excel your business with ease!
Do you set goals for your business?
Do you struggle to achieve those goals, or are you even fearful of setting them?
This week I explore the shadow side of goal setting and why unlocking these shadows and fears from our subconscious mind and letting them go, is key to moving ahead more fearlessly with your desires and dreams.
Disloyalty and setbacks! It's something we all struggle with as small business owners.
Do you feel crushed and crippled with self doubt, if a client goes elsewhere?
Do you want to quit your business, self blame and begin to wonder if it's all worth it, when a client complains or has a complication.
Learn why these perceived problems are milestones to be celebrated and how they can help you adopt the mindset of success not failure.
Are you constantly on social media, trying to get more followers and likes on your business page?
Are you becoming frustrated playing the numbers game and seeing more followers not equating to profit?
Learn why the amount of social media followers and likes, doesn't always equal sales and profit within your business.
Learn where you need to put your focus to increase client engagement and sales, so you can make more profit with ease. Learn how to implement this within your social media accounts.
Habits! We're not often aware of them, especially the compulsive ones.
Learn how to uncover areas of your life that have become compulsive in nature and how they are holding you back from success in your business and life and how to break the cycle.
I also talk around reactivity and how your inner world is your responsibility, not somebody else's. Once you begin to become conscious about how you react to situations, life begins to magically change.
In this week's podcast episode I discuss why creating boundaries in your business is so important.
This is a topic I am SUPER PASSIONATE about!
Why?
I have seen so many friends and colleagues succumb to poor boundaries and wind up with serious physical health problems, mental health imbalances and breakdowns in their marriages or partnerships and general home life.
I believe we go into business from a place of service and wanting to help others and all too often along the way, we forget that we too have needs that become neglected.
I discuss 6 simple signs that signal you may have boundary problems in your business and look at solutions and strategies around how you can begin to tackle it, so you can regain your health, space and sense of joy and love again for yourself and your business.
Training / coaching www.timelesstraining.co.uk
Clinic www.gemma-montgomery.com
In this week's episode I discuss the destructive habit of comparison and why it destroys both you and your business.
I examine the common signs that signal you have fallen into the comparison trap and discuss simple strategies to help you overcome this.
So you can reconnect with who you truly are, recognise your own unique gifts and begin to integrate them into your business.
The path of least resistance opens up and you can excel with ease not struggle.
Training site www.timelesstraining.co.uk
Clinic Site www.gemma-montgomery.com
Do you feel nervous or shaky when performing treatments on clients? Are you tired of feeling this way? Is this fear holding you back from performing specific treatments or growing your clients base? I promise, It's really more common than you think. If you struggle with this issue, then this episode is for you. I discuss some simple mindset strategies and practical tools you can adopt, to help you going forward.
In this week's episode I discuss why setting your prices can seem like such an emotionally charged and challenging topic.
I uncover how our money mindset and our relationship with money is linked to the beliefs and stories we've encountered from our childhood and adult life up to this point.
I also discuss how if we don't identify our limiting beliefs, blocks and sabotages around money, it can impact our business in a detrimental way, leading to burnout and an inability to sustain ourselves.
I talk you through a simple exercise you can undertake to start to see where your beliefs around money may have come from and may be holding you back and how you can begin to release these stories, to make way for new ones, that will serve you better.
This week I discuss why success in business and life is so much more that setting goals and intentions for the new year.
Hear why it's ok if you're feeling unmotivated and why it's important to honour how you feel.
I talk about very simple steps I adopted 6 years ago and how it transformed my business and life more than any business strategy.
My wish is that it can help you too.
Do you still play?
Is play something you give importance to?
In today's episode I discuss why play is vital to the growth of you and your business and why without it, we can hinder our growth, happiness and success.
This is something I had to learn the hard way through breakdown and burnout and don't want you to make the same mistakes I did.
Tune in to find out more.
How do you define success?
Do you subscribe to what society and the media tell you success is, or do you have your own unique definition?
I believe we each should go within to define our own definition of success. How do you begin to get clear?
Find out more on this week's episode.
Do you have a clear vision for your life and business? Or do you feel like you're like a ship on stormy seas, being tossed around at will, constantly in reactive mode, not knowing where you're heading? Learn why intentional design and clarity is so important for your business and life and how without it, you will feel unfocused, dissatisfied and burnt out. We finish with a small exercise to help you get back on track.
How to spot red flag clients follows on from last week's episode on stopping draining clients. Believe it or not problematic clients share very similar tendencies and behavioural traits and being able to spot them can save you a whole host of anxiety inducing sleepless nights, headaches and profit loss. If this is something you've experienced or are currently struggling with, then be sure to tune in to this week's episode www.timelesstraining.co.uk www.gemma-montgomery.com
Are you constantly feeling anxious, tired and drained with high maintenance, demanding clients?
Does your stomach churn when the phone rings, or you open your emails?
Are you choking your business and hindering its growth, by saying no to new clients, through fear of more of the same?
Do you feel rung out like a dishcloth at the end of your working day with nothing left to give?
Does the reward feel too little in exchange for how you feel and you're considering giving it up? If so then this episode is for you.