The Path of Resistance: Recent Episodes
Karley Welty
The Path of Resistance Podcast is THE podcast for people wanting to learn how living life with intentionality can lead to us living our best lives. In today's world the norm is to follow the path of least resistance which leads to mediocrity at best. Instead, you should strive to take the path of resistance, knowing that what’s to come is sweeter than what you ever could have imagined. Join me as I interview guests who have taken the path of resistance in all areas of life and are here to share the beauty it has brought them. On this journey you can expect to hear stories about anything from finances, faith, business, relationships, mindset, and anything in between.
In this episode I interview Nikkee with No Anxiety Prep. She has been a fixture on the college admissions scene for over 15 years, assisting students both domestically and internationally with the entire college application process. As you can tell, she’s someone you can go to if you need help with making a college decision or have questions about the process along the way.
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Nikkee was full of knowledge in the college realm and beyond. I hope you grabbed some valuable takeaways. Here are mine.
- Prove them wrong. This is great advice for people who have been challenged. I think this can fuel a fire just like Nikkee’s to be able to do the hard work that is required to prove not only to the person doubting you, but more importantly to yourself that you are capable of achieving whatever you put your mind to.
- Preparation can curb anxiety. I know that’s probably too broad of a statement and I’m not in the mental health space so I can’t fully define or give an answer to anxiety, but at least for myself I know this rings to be true. If you are struggling with anxiety in work, in school, in anything, try that thing that brings those feelings up for you with different levels of preparation and see how it affects you.
- Nikkee lists out many ways of finding scholarships before you begin college and while you are currently attending. Even if your parents or yourself have the funds to pay tuition, scholarships are worth the effort put in to pay for your education. Don’t ignore this tactic, go back to around the 20 minute mark to listen to all the ways Nikkee suggests finding scholarships
- Find your style of learning that best suits you. And I think to add to this, find the tricks and methods that help you stay disciplined to study. Whether that is keeping the best study snacks on hand or using the Pomodoro method, find what works for you.
Thank you so much for listening in to this episode, I hope you were encouraged to take the path of resistance, whatever that looks like for you. Even though it might be scary, it is worth it in the end to know you lived a life of intentionally and reaped beautiful rewards. Make sure to subscribe to the podcast so you don’t miss the next one!
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Today I have Kelly on the podcast. At the time of recording this episode, she was a boy mom of 2 with a 3rd on the way. Some time has passed since we recorded and she has since had her 3rd baby. Congrats Kelly, I hope you and baby are doing amazing! She is a former teacher turned business owner of Kelly Ryann Co, a boutique brand and website design agency. She specialized in creating perfect brands and breathtaking websites pairing that all with game changing SEO strategies.
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Kelly was a blast having a conversation with. She’s one of those people I could be besties with in real life. She was so genuine and funny. Hope you enjoyed the conversation as much as I did. Here are the takeaways.
- Even though there were self-doubts and website design was so different than teaching, with no prior experience Kelly decided to start small and gain skills and confidence in something completely new. That is such an encouragement that if you feel like if your life isn’t where you want it to be you can always pivot and long as you have the grit and determination to figure it out along the way.
- SEO is an important part of a website and a business’ online marketing, but having clarity before the SEO is even more important
- Time tracking can be a great way to keep track of your day and where your time was spent. Even if it’s not all on work, its good to regularly evaluate where your time is going. Its also great to see where your time has previously been spent so you can be more accurate in your planning which leads me to takeaway 4.
- Kelly mentions how she has been more intentional in setting aside time for planning. I can attest from personal experience how this has really helped me in my business. I try to set aside at least 5 minutes at the beginning and end of each day to plan for the day and see what is coming in the next few days. Above that, Kelly mentions financial planning which is more long term. Basically, the takeaway here is that if you are an entrepreneur and own your own business, it is super helpful to intentionally set aside time for short term and long term planning.
Thank you so much for listening in to this episode, I hope you were encouraged to take the path of resistance, whatever that looks like for you. Even though it might be scary, it is worth it in the end to know you lived a life of intentionally and reaped beautiful rewards. If you liked this episode, please share it on Instagram and tag me at kwaccountingservices. See ya next time.
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This is The Path of Resistance Podcast’s first solo episode with me, your host, Karley Welty. Today I am going to be giving a book review on Profit First by Mike Michalowicz. As most of you know, I own a bookkeeping company so of course, I’m a numbers nerd. This episode will be more for business owners or anyone interest in the book Profit First. I think every business owner should read this because it helps people understand how to guarantee profit, pay yourself and set aside money for taxes.
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Today, I am talking to Tamera. We were introduced by a mutual friend and I am so thankful for that connection. Tamera owns a company that provides neighborhood publications to two neighborhoods in our community. We talk about some of the things she has learned in the last 5 years of being a business owner like how she ditched the 10 hour work day and is more efficient than ever, trust you don’t want to miss this one.
Today’s takeaways:
- Working non stop is not sustainable. Work harder not smarter by blocking off time in your schedule to work and be consistent about your work time boundaries.
- When you are trying so hard to make things perfect, sometimes you lose sight of what is truly important. Examine your processes and become aware of the times you are leaning towards perfectionism. Realize that beautiful things can happen when you can learn to go with the flow in stead of striving for perfectionism.
- Give yourself time to reflect, especially as we are approaching the new year. Give yourself time to sit and ask yourself questions. Why did you implement a specific process? Did it work for you in the time period you implemented? Should you continue to try it or move on to something else? Ask yourself these questions and reflect.
- Set goals that have rewards attached to them. Make sure to celebrate when you accomplish goals.
- Get yourself an accountability partner. This will help you reflect on your goals and keep you on track. In addition, it reminds you that you aren’t in this alone.
- I think one of my biggest takeaways from this episode is that it’s okay to not be available. Tamera talks about not being available for a spontaneous lunch with a friend when it is time to work, but the same can also be true in your personal hours. If you work in an industry where client calls are not an emergency, you can set boundaries to not be available for work during personal hours. I think it is so important to have balance and discipline on both sides, business and work.
Those were my takeaways, if you had any other takeaways message me on Instagram and tell me what you got from today’s episode, I would love to hear from you.
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Email: tamera.ahner@n2pub.com
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Today I’d like to introduce you to Sarah Thomas with Burn Fat and Feast. She is a personal trainer, fitness instructor, nutrition coach, business mentor and mom of three. she empowers women both in her community and all over the country to live their healthiest life possible. her focus is first on embracing her client and opening their minds to the beauty within. We start out talking about how she opens her clients mind to the beauty within and then move into things that will help you find success including affirmations and finding your why.
The biggest takeaways:
- Finding the beauty within takes awareness of self-talk. If you say something enough, it becomes your reality, your truth. Sarah emphasizes how important positive self-talk it. She makes a great analogy which I love, saying that working on your mindset, having positive self-talk is like pulling weeds in a garden. You don’t pull them once and then walk away, it is a continual work in progress.
- Write down affirmations and read them daily.
- You can do anything but you can not do everything. Sarah just briefly mentions this but I thought it would be a great reminder for those of us that have shiny object syndrome. Pick a couple of things to focus on and keep your focus on them.
- 20% of your efforts relate to 80% of your accomplishments. Choose your one domino to focus on and that will allow other things to fall into place.
- Community is so valuable, surround yourself with community who will help you reach your long-term goals, whether it be diet, exercise, business, or anything for that matter.
- Know your why. Sarah talks about knowing the why behind the how. She is referring to educating yourself as to why something will produce a specific result or as she calls it the why behind the how. She also talks about knowing your why for your motivation to reach a certain goal. The way to really find your way is to ask why 5 times to get to the deepest part of your why which is the most impactful.
- Reflect daily on your way and your journey. Reflect on gratitude, acknowledge a job well done that day, reflect on your why, and plan your next day.
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Hey guys, so I am doing something a bit different today with the podcast. Instead of a longer interview, I am putting out an Instagram live that I did with my friend Sierra. She’s super sweet, a soon to be mama of two, which is funny because that last two guests have been soon to be mamas of two, anyways, she’s also a wife, and a life and productivity mentor. I hope you enjoy this episode; Sierra gives the listeners great things to implement in your life to be more productive and organized which I think everyone can learn from.
Here’s the takeaways:
- Use the time you have to make the most impact. Sierra talks about how this is possible and I totally agree. With this comes discipline as it takes being intentional with the time you do have.
- It’s important to enjoy what you are doing as a business owner. Going through prompts can be helpful to get clear on this vision.
- The three tactical ways to get more organized and be more productive: First, have a system in place to organize your thoughts. Second, set specific goals. Third, get someone in your corner as an accountability partner.
- Goals should be as specific as possible and it is important to reflect on your goals in order to create or update new goals.
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Get ready to learn a ton about mental health. While recording this episode I learned so many new things! Today I am talking to Lindsey, a friend I met at the EmpowerHer Live conference. She’s a wife, soon to be mama of two, a social worker, and author of the book I Got 99 Coping Skills and Being a Bitch Ain't One. Don’t you love that title? I mean no one likes being a b word so if you want to deal with your anxiety, depression, and stress in a more positive way, definitely grab a copy of Lindsey’s book.
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I always say this at the end of episodes, but I truly mean it. If you had a different takeaway please email me (karley@karleywelty.com) or DM me on Instagram and let me know what that takeaway was. I would love to hear from you!
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Today I am talking to Katie Ferro, my bookkeeping business coach. This episode gets a little long, but you should listen all the way to the end because it gets goooood. At the end Katie wraps it up with a nice little bow talking about how we are so much bigger, and have so much more potential than we think possible.
But anyways, to further introduce Katie, she created her own bookkeeping company and alongside running that business, she also helps other people start a bookkeeping business of their own. Que, her and I working together at the beginning of this year! If any listeners are aspiring to become bookkeepers, I highly recommend going through one or both of Katie’s courses. Her first course is called Become a Bookkeeper aka Babs and teaches you all the skills it takes to hence the name, become a bookkeeper. The course that I took from her is called Life by the Books or aka Libby and teaches you how to build a bookkeeping business if you already have the bookkeeping skills.
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Takeaways:
- Sometimes taking the path of resistance means listening to the signs around you and taking the leap of faith. Katie didn’t intentionally walk into this dream of having her own bookkeeping business, but she rode the wave of fortunate circumstances, and now she screams from the rooftops what is possible for other women.
- Katie talks about coaching people who’s circumstances are very different from hers, which makes sense because her story is so unique with being pregrant, getting in the car accident and then being paid to quit her job, but she guides people through their unique journey by knowing hers unfolded for her in her way, and it will unfold in just the right way for each person in their unique set of circumstances.
- At one point Katie is talking about low numbers related to your audience and how sometimes that isn’t necessarily bad if people are engaged. She also mentions how she asked her audience what they wanted her to do and then did what they wanted. I want to pause here and say that again, she asked her audience what they wanted and then did what they wanted. It can be as simple as that when marketing for a brand.
- I feel like Katie’s story at first glance doesn’t align with “the path of resistance” it seems like she was handed lucky options and chose the obvious route, first when quitting her corporate job, and then second when she started coaching bookkeepers. When you look at Katie’s story, I don’t want you to think man she got lucky! You should be inspired by her because that can be you too! “The Path of Resistance” doesn’t always have to be hard necessarily. In Katie’s case it was listening to the signs around her and “the path of resistance” comes in when she actually had to put the work in. The path of resistance is simply put being intentional in the actions you take and Katie is a very intentional person. You see this when later she talks about setting boundaries in place for her programs to make sure people are the right fit and if they aren’t politely telling them no. You guys, I am talking just as much to myself when I say this, but putting boundaries in place and saying no is life changing. It is part of the path of resistance lifestyle that you want to live.
- Act in optimism plan in pessimism. Katie has a whole podcast episode expanding upon this idea. Check out her podcast Profits and Prosecco if you want to learn more about this concept, it’s a good one!
- Listen to your thoughts! There are at least two choices in everything you do. Ask yourself what will happen if I do this and what will happen if I don’t. When you listen to your thoughts, ask yourself who’s thought it that?
- We are so much bigger, we are so much more, we have so much more capabilities than we think we are.
- Do all things in integrity. Doing thing in integrity doesn’t have to keep you small. Be different as long as you’re in integrity.
I always say this at the end of episodes, but I truly mean it. If you had a different takeaway please email me (karley@karleywelty.com) or DM me on Instagram and let me know what that takeaway was. I would love to hear from you!
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Today, I have Jeana Oldham as a guest. She is such a great inspiration in the fitness world, as a mom, as a business, owner, and a podcaster.
Along with everything else she has going on Jeana is also hosting an event in Chattanooga Tennessee on November 5th called the Abundance Formula Event. If you’ve been itching to go to a live event and feel like you need to get in the room with the right people who can help you impact the world at a higher level, check out her event. The Abundance Formula Event
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Mark and I talk about such a wide variety of things In this episode. Mark is the pastor at the church my husband and I attend so of course we started out talking about faith. Then we go into talking about business as Mark and his wife are getting ready to open a franchise location with a company called HTeaO. We finally wrap up talking about relationships. If any of those things relate to you I know you'll enjoy this episode.
If you had a different life nugget that you learned today that you really want to hold on to, do me a favor and email me. My email is karley@karleywelty.com I would love to hear what your biggest takeaway is because I guarantee you everyone will get something different from this episode today.
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If you don't know how Madison inspired me to start this podcast, go back and listen to the Trailer. Not only is she the sweetest soul you will ever meet, she is also inspirational in many ways. From taking the Path of Resistance to go to a community college instead of a university, to buying her first rental property, you will learn a lot from this episode.
If you want to connect with Madison, her Instagram is https://www.instagram.com/madisonlhopkins/
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Welcome to The Path of Resistance Podcast! This short trailer tells the why behind starting the podcast. Hope you enjoy!
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