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Can we just be honest about something? Everybody just thinks they're supposed to know how to be a parent, and then they freaking hand you this kid in the hospital, and you go home, and you're like, where's the manual? If you have been struggling with parenting, and you are struggling to run a business it’s not for the faint of heart.
Today's guest, Holly Swenson, is an award-winning and best-selling author of “Stop, Drop, Grow, & Glow”, a revolutionary book on conscious parenting.
She’s also a wellness blogger and perpetual student of life. Formally trained as a registered nurse and mother to four incredible sons, she brings her wisdom and lived experience to the forefront of her writing as a means to help others on their parenting and personal path.
In today’s episode, Holly drops tools, tips and talks about the five rights of parenting, which is a pattern and a method she picked up from being a nurse.
Holly says becoming an author stemmed from having her four children and wanting to create a book that would serve other parents.
“I think parenting is one of the most intense initiations you will ever face in life,” says Holly. “You know, it's awesome, it's beautiful, it's joyful, but it can be messy and trying.”
She says self-awareness is a good first step, as many parents are so busy and don’t necessarily have the time to slow down and pause. When you’re giving and giving for your family, you can forget to check in on how you’re doing as a person.
Holly drew from her background in nursing to develop the 5 rights of parenting – an homage to the 5 rights of medication administrating. This check in asks that you’re doing the right thing and not causing harm (the right medication, the right time, the right dose.)
In the same vein, the 5 rights of parenting is a way to touch base with how you’re presenting as a parent. They work to ensure you're doing the right thing and not causing unnecessary harm to your child or yourself in the process. Here are the 5 rights of parenting:
Right now: This speaks to being in the moment with your child and being present.
Right intent: This is being intentional about the choices you make, the guidelines you set, and how you treat your child. If you don't know why you're doing what you're doing, it might be time to reevaluate your parenting strategy.
Right use of speech: This can be one of the toughest rights to implement. As a parent, your voice is a tool of creation; you have the power to uplift or tear down.
Right use of power: This is something that you want to wield with care. You are the one responsible for setting boundaries, the discipline, and as the parent have the final say in whatever you might arise.
Right use of love: Holly says when you let your child know how much you love them and are there for them, it will help plant their spirit in deep, rich soil as they grow.
“Reflection is really that superpower in personal growth and in parenting,” says Holly. Reflection helps you take more ownership of who you are as an individual. Holly says even when you’re going through a hard time, rather than avoid the moments, try to align yourself and work through it. Try to become braver, stronger, better, kinder.
Connect with Holly Swenson : https://www.liveyourglow.live | On Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/hollyswenson_liveyourglow/Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:
How to Deal With Mom Guilt and Balance
https://sarahwalton.com/albiona/Top Strengths of the Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur
https://sarahwalton.com/highly-sensitive-person/You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton
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Being a CEO is no joke. If you are running a business, you are a CEO. You may not think of yourself that way, but when you're a CEO, you must learn specific skills to make the business grow and remain healthy and strong.
Today’s guest Sena Wheeler has the best story about the one skill she doubled down on to increase her revenue to keep her family's business afloat. And it's something she still uses every single day. Her family's mission is to make sure that we get really healthy, pristine, beautiful food, specifically fish on our plates.
It was on an eight-hour drive to Thanksgiving dinner, where she was talking to her husband and suggested how to market his fishing business, and he reeled her in.
It was a good fit; Sena had studied onboard handling techniques that correlated to flavor and quality attributes. She knew how to market the Copper River salmon he was catching.
“I took [Marie Forleo and Laura Belgray’s] B-School and just set up the business while we had the site going, and we were selling fish by the time he left for Alaska. … So it was actually like a pretty, pretty fast,” says Sena. “And if it hadn't gone fast, I think I probably would have overthought it.”
Sena says that first summer was a lot of trial and error. There were weeks where Sena was tempted to quit, but she says her husband telling her, “You’re the CEO” helped change her mindset. She would ask herself, “what would a CEO do?” when she felt like she wanted to quit.
“It forced me to be like, have we exhausted every avenue? Is there something else to try? Let's try this.”
She started writing emails for her small but growing list every other week.
“I would get like $500 of sales on an email,” says Sena. “Very early on, I could see that that was the needle that's making the business move, you know, when not many other things are.”
She leaned into writing and did The Copy Cure. It took a bit of time. Sena says when you’re writing to a list there are levers, how good the email is and how many people are on the list.
“My best emails, I sit down to write one thing, and I write something else, and something else just comes out and, and it just starts going in a new direction,” says Sena, who finds consistency in imperfection. Getting a first draft done, even a terrible one, is better than not writing at all. Now she’s sending emails every Monday and started a Fish Friday email, which is a recipe and link to the featured fish.
“I'm going to say like 30% of the time, I'm like, ‘oops, well, this is the email that came out. So this is what we're doing.’ ”
Sena says she sets a challenge for herself to see what she can tie back to her business when she writes. Writing helped open the door for people to understand where their food is coming from and that connection provides value.
“When we have kids over, I'm going to feed them fish, right? … I will talk about Rich and how he caught it. And maybe my kid’s right there. They were out on the boat, too,” says Sena. “Just bringing that connection immediately changes how they how they perceive the food.”
Connect with Sena Wheeler and download free cookbook: https://www.senasea.com
The Copy Cure: https://www.marieforleo.com/the-copy-cure
Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:
How to Write Sales Copy That Sells https://sarahwalton.com/how-to-write-sales-copy/
How to Use ChatGPT Without Losing Your Personality https://sarahwalton.com/how-to-use-chat-gpt/
Does Your Story Matter? (More Than You Know) https://sarahwalton.com/your-story-matters/
You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton
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Do you understand your own relationship with fear? Have there been moments in your life where you knew there was something you wanted to do, and you kept not doing it because it just seemed too big?
Today's guest, Candy Motzek, waited 10 years before she decided to pursue her dream of being a coach, and she knew she was going to be a great coach. She calls coaching a calling, but she had to overcome fear and deeply understand her relationship with fear before she could begin this journey.
Candy is an author, podcast host, and business coach for life coaches. She helps her clients get unstuck and feel more confident and clear so they can play bigger, sign clients, and create more meaningful success. She is a "recovering" corporate executive and engineer who combines practical strategy and mindset in her calming, unique approach.
"There's something really magical, for me anyway, in that one-on-one conversation with people, like there is a connection, and I see them … the essence of them and who they really are," says Candy. "And there's something super powerful in that."
For Candy, coaches call their clients out to live that bigger life, which requires them to be courageous and face things they might be scared to do in service of who they are becoming. It's one of the reasons she says it's important for coaches to have a coach.
"You just don't have that perspective on yourself that somebody else can have, and they can see those patterns that you have where you're not living to the thing that you said you wanted to do," says Candy. "You get your results faster when you have somebody that holds you as fully accountable."
It took Candy 10 years to pursue coach training. It was never convenient, and it was expensive. How would she find the time? These were some of the things Candy told herself.
"I had all the great excuses, but really, it was my ego and just my fear saying, "Oh, don't rock the boat. Don't do anything too crazy," says Candy. "There's this tension that happens."
But Candy says it's not an all-or-nothing thing. You can just start.
"We can just take the training, and we can just say, 'You know what, I'm going to have three clients. I can do three clients.' Right?" says Candy. "Or I could use these skills in another way in my life."
Coaching is a skill, so if you're thinking of starting a business, you first want to get a little training. Coach as many people as you can, get that skill, practice that skill, and then you start to feel like a coach.
Candy recommends coaching for her clients who are new to coaching. Do not build the website or start an email list. Create a program and deliver it. You watch people transform, learn from that, and make a little bit of money. So now you're ready for the next step.
Visit Step Into Success for free resources: https://stepintosuccessnow.com/pages/free
Connect with Candy Motzek: https://stepintosuccessnow.com/
Podcast: She Coaches Coaches: https://she-coaches-coaches.captivate.fm/listenOther GoG episodes you might want to check out:
Overcome Fears in Business to Safeguard Your Freedom and Independence
https://sarahwalton.com/fears-in-business/Can Coaches Really Make Money? BTS With MY Coach Kelsey Murphy
https://sarahwalton.com/can-you-make-money-as-life-coach/You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton
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#ScaredToStart #FightThroughFear #BecomeACoach #FirstCoachingProgram #NewtoCoaching #CoachingBusiness #HowToStartACoachingBusiness #AskExpert #WomenInBusiness
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So many things need your attention daily as a business owner. How do you know what you're supposed to be prioritizing? How do you know which tasks are actually going to move the needle?
Amber De La Garza is the Productivity Specialist! With over a decade of experience helping small business owners maximize profits, reduce stress, and make time for what matters most by improving their time management and increasing productivity! Amber is the host of the Small Business Straight Talk Podcast and creator of Leverage Lab®.
While coaching highly successful people, Amber noticed they would come back to sessions without having done the homework or taken action—the running theme was, "I don't have time to work on my business."
"I actually shifted to productivity because I wanted to focus on the actual behavior and the skill set of managing themselves and managing time and managing others."
Amber's definition of productivity is when we're investing our best time into our best activities. This is purposely a framework because my best activities will be different because my goals are different from yours.
The best time is to focus uninterrupted and deep dive into the work.
"I just want to follow that up to say that I also believe we are not meant to be productive all day, every day," says Amber. "If you think you're going to truly be productive all day, every day, then you're diluting your high-value activities."
All tasks and activities are not created equal. Productivity is different from organization or organization.
"Have you ever met somebody that has a color-coded calendar, perfectly clean desk, and not reaching their goals? Yes," says Amber. "And have you met somebody that looks like they're practically buried behind piles of paper, but they can get into some deep work and do amazing things and slay their goals? Yes."
Amber says it's important to honor both sides. She needs a clean desk to focus on, and she generally starts her day by clearing her inbox and checking in with her team and clients before starting that deep work.
When you invest your best time, you show up your best. It's your job to find out what that is and then purposely create that environment, create that time in your schedule to show up at your best, and then focus on those high-value activities.
Amber says there are four buckets on which business owners should regularly focus their time, which will move the needle. She calls them buckets because the idea is to fill the first one and have it cascade and overflow into the next. And you don't own the bucket; if you have a team, they can help fill it as well.
The first is marketing and visibility, how you let the world know what you do. The second is sales. The third is servicing your clients or product development. And then, fourth is leadership.
Listen in for how Amber breaks down that framework and how you can use it in your own business.
Take Your Business to the Next Level Quiz: https://www.Amberdelagarza.com/quiz
Connect with Amber De La Garza: https://www.AmberDeLaGarza.com
Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:
Overwhelmed? Plan Your Week to Reclaim Your Time
https://sarahwalton.com/importance-of-weekly-planning/Take Back Your Time Every Day
https://sarahwalton.com/heather/You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton
Thank you so much for listening. I'm so honored that you're here and would be so grateful if you could leave a quick review on Apple Podcasts by clicking here, scrolling to the bottom, and clicking "Write a review." Then, we'll get to inspire even more people!
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If you've been feeling this pressure as you age to stay the same, if you've been feeling stuck, like "this is it," today's episode will help you start to see beyond what you think is possible in a way that could change how you spend your life on a daily basis.
I know that sounds grandiose. But what if we could take that step by step and actually cause it to happen? Today's guest, Sue Willoughby, does that as she works with Equus Coaching.
She brings horses into the coaching process because horses have a profound ability to help people heal. They do that because they know the truth, they sense it, they feel it, and they know when a human being is not actually saying what's happening on the inside.
Sue Willoughby is the founder of Willoughby Coaching, where women over 40 confront obstacles and change their lives' trajectories through Equus Coaching.
"I've always been in sort of a leadership role and a mentor role," says Sue. "That background combined with the horses just really resonated with me. Horses are so intuitive. They've helped me so much in my life. I want to bring that to other people."
Finding the window or door outside of a person's comfort zone so they can step out of a place of fear—be it fear of success or failure or even just knowing where to begin—can be broken down into small steps.
If you have a dream or desire that feels too big, the usual objections might sound like you can't afford it. I'm too old. No one's going to buy anything from me.
Sue says whether it's a financial situation or maybe leaving a toxic relationship, a lot of coaching involves asking people to question themselves so that they can understand what's really going on behind the story. Where did that story you're telling yourself come from, and is it the truth?
The magic of horses can help people she coaches be more vulnerable. As prey animals, horses are always alert and awake, even when calmly grazing in a field. They have amazing intuition and survival skills.
"So being in their presence really brings people out of their head and back into their bodies," says Sue. "I can see the emotion. Can you sit with that and tell me where it's coming from? Where did it originate? And horses, you know, they feel they're very comforting, and they will mirror what they're getting from you."
Horses respond to the truth within, not the truth coming out of your mouth. Horses can sense when you're not being congruent.
"So it really puts people in a big place of vulnerability to be with a horse," says Sue, who also offers retreats.
Sue believes midlife is one of the best times to make big changes. Whether you've had some longevity in your career or raised a family, it's that natural point in our lives where, after taking care of others for so long, the question becomes, what do you want for the next 10 years of your life?
There are so many resources available now to women. Options and opportunities exist for anyone who might have felt stuck in a situation. In Sue's case, she's able to collaborate and offer retreats with any horse—not just her own. She clarified that no horse is riding while she is coaching, so no experience is necessary.
Mentioned in this episode: The Go-Giver Series: https://amzn.to/4elOx8k
Free 30-day workbook/blueprint on how to embrace discomfort and step out of your comfort zone: https://willoughby-coaching.myflodesk.com/podcastgift
Connect with Sue Willoughby: https://www.willoughbycoaching.com/
Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:
Ready to Reinvent Yourself? https://sarahwalton.com/reinvent-yourself/
The 5 Stages of Healing https://sarahwalton.com/stages-of-healing/
You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton
Thank you so much for listening. I'm so honored that you're here and would be so grateful if you could leave a quick review on Apple Podcasts by clicking here, scrolling to the bottom, and clicking “Write a review.” Then we’ll get to inspire even more people!
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#EquineTherapy #HorseTherapy #EquusCoach #HealingWithHorses #AskExpert #BusinessCoach #IntuitiveCoach #WomenInBusiness
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Have you or someone you loved received a cancer diagnosis? Chances are you just said yes. If you've ever felt talked down to when you are not feeling well or someone says something really unkind, this episode goes deep on how much we need people and how we can tell when we don't need some people in our lives.
Deb Krier is an entrepreneur, cancer advocate, and the visionary behind TryingNotToDie.LIVE. With a background in communications, marketing, and public relations, she's navigated diverse roles, from spearheading communication strategies for large corporations, small companies, and nonprofit organizations to founding her own marketing agency over 20 years ago.
It wasn't the game plan. It wasn't on her vision board. Deb says she was sailing along at her marketing firm when she had a nasty diagnosis pop up. She'd gone in for her annual physical and had a mammogram. The office called her before she'd even got home from the appointment.
"What they discovered was not a lump, not a bump, not anything easy to find. They found microcalcifications," says Deb. "The vast majority of the time, they flit away and never have any problems. ... They start gathering, and when they gather, that's when there is a problem."
Deb was initially diagnosed with zero-stage breast cancer, which is sometimes called pre-cancer. She saw a specialist and did some biopsies that came back negative, but her surgeon suggested checking her lymph nodes to be sure.
Eight of 12 lymph nodes came back as cancerous.
"We decided, you know, let's really kill this and do it really hard. Well, they about killed me. I got a complication," says Deb. "I ended up with septic shock and was this close, as in hours away from dying. My doctors were fighting about it. The one surgeon didn't want to do anything because I wasn't going to make it through the day. And the oncologist said no. And I remember thinking, excuse me, I get a vote."
Deb started working with a business coach, who pointed out to her that she didn't go through everything she went through without using it to help others. This push led to the creation of TryingNotToDie.LIVE.
"The try not to die part comes from the fact that when we have anything that is very serious, or even if it's just how we live life, we are living just to try not to die. And that's what we're focusing on," says Deb. "And the live part is we've got to focus on living our life five hours, five days, 50 years, whatever it is, we absolutely have to live our lives."
The concept is to build a support system for anybody who has cancer. Deb says one of the biggest questions she receives is what to do when someone you love gets diagnosed with cancer. What tends to happen is that people do nothing because they don't know what to do.
Sometimes, the elephant in the room is small, and occasionally, it is giant. But it is there, so don't ignore it.
"When you do go to them, don't just say, tell me if there's anything you need," says Deb. "Our little brains are so full of trying to not die that we can't think about that. So say, 'Can I bring you dinner on Thursday? Can I take your kids to the park?' Give them something specific to say yes or no to."
She also encourages people to feel anger. It's okay to get angry. Deb recommends visiting the Mayo Clinic and the American Cancer Society rather than consulting Dr. Google if you're given a specific diagnosis.
"But remember you are in charge, not your doctor, not your spouse, not whoever you are, the one in charge," says Deb. "So research it and do what YOU want."
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Featuring a cuddly stuffed bear named Warrior, the care package comes with essential items for someone who is bravely fighting. Use code 10SPECIAL for a 10% discount: https://tryingnottodie.live/bear-hug-care-package/
Connect with Deb Krier: https://tryingnottodie.live/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1465660477225232
Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:
Don't Believe the Hype: You're Not Special
https://sarahwalton.com/notspecialvYou can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton
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#CancerDiagnosis #CancerStories #CancerSurvivor #Cancer #Health #WomenInBusiness #IntuitiveBusinessCoach
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Have you noticed people cannot talk to each other? Have you noticed there is a them versus us? Andrea Goulet has studied empathy and she has studied it in a way I don't think I've ever seen before and she’s going to share her framework with us.
Andrea Goulet is on a mission to make empathy a core technical skill in software development. She is a sought-after international keynote speaker, experienced software entrepreneur, and award-winning industry leader. Her expertise centers on using empathy and effective communication to modernize legacy and mission-critical software systems.
She is currently working on her first book, Empathy-Driven Software Development, where she aims to provide detailed mechanisms and system schematics of empathy's inner workings in a way that makes sense to engineers.
Andrea started her career in strategic communications where she had a technical understanding about empathy and organizational psychology. She was approached by a friend to help build a software company and lead it as the CEO.They landed on doing consulting together, and also ended up falling in love with each other. (Hollywood screenwriter, where are you?)
“What we ended up having in building this business was the stereotypical dynamic of the salesperson and the engineer,” says Andrea. “They don't get along professionally. I did not understand how his brain worked. I had never worked in software.”
It was 2009, and they wanted to have a software company where empathy was at the core of the organization. She says they were advised not to do that to avoid being “laughed out of the industry.” Andrea doubled down.
“[Empathy] was the thing that drove business profitability, that drove business efficiency, that contributed to organizational effectiveness,” says Andrea.
And it wasn’t just in working with clients – empathy was needed in her daily operations with her now husband and business partner, Scott. She recalls an incident where she needed to pull Scott into a client meeting, and walked over to his desk. Her ask pulled him out of his work process that led to a visceral reaction.
When they sat down to discuss why he was so upset, he likened it to the movie Inception – saying he was nine levels down, and the action of interrupting him had ripped him from the solution he was on the cusp of solving.
The feeling of being completely ripped out of something Andrea could understand. And together they came up with a way to move forward, which became the subject of Andrea’s keynotes at software development conferences.Over the course of her work, Andrea realized there was no consensus as to what empathy meant. Phrases like walking in someone else’s shoes, treating people how they want to be treated were often heard.
“The reason that we have evolved empathy as a species is so that we work together. And as a species we don't go extinct. So we are a hyper social species,” says Andrea. “Empathy is the mechanism that enables collaboration.”
She defines empathy is a functional system of emotion, cognition, regulation, and motivation that is influenced by external factors such as culture, context, capacity, and skill.
To make empathy more concrete; she uses a model called structured reappraisal. A reappraisal is a psychological term for taking a beat before you act. And the pause can be learned and practiced.
What to do once you pause is where the structure comes in. The three rules are: collect, connect, and communicate. Listen in for ways to practice this framework.
Empathy can help us navigate through all of those different systems and then create something that is more effective through these experiments and through implementing these improvements. But you can't get there unless both people are willing to do it.
Connect with Andrew Goulet : https://andreagoulet.com
Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:
Top Strengths of the Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur: https://sarahwalton.com/highly-sensitive-person/
The Art of Self-Control: https://sarahwalton.com/take-back-self-control/
You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton
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It can be terrifying to reinvent yourself and then need to tell other people -- whether it be your work or your coworkers, your significant other, or your family members -- that you are trying to do something different or you want to go in a different direction.
Those moments are real and they happen to all of us. And today's guest, Anita Rombough, will help you walk through these one by one. As a gentle yet bold change agent, Anita helps fellow big-hearted dreamers discover and align with their soul or “sole” purpose to achieve their version of Soulful Success, the sweet spot where personal fulfillment meets impact and financial prosperity.
If you recognize this ache that so many people are feeling towards wanting more, but not necessarily more stuff, not necessarily more money, but more life, more joy, more connection and more love – this episode is for you.Anita says she’s done a lot of things – her current career is a reinvention. Her love language is soulful success. So many of us have kind of chased that path of “should”, have gone through the motions of what we think the definition of success should look like.
“We're putting all this emphasis on the external part, right, like what we call ourselves at work,” says Anita. “We judge each other based on that, you know, our paychecks, what kind of flashy things we have, all those kinds of labels and accolades. … But I also, more importantly, want to feel fulfilled and impactful.”
Anita says this is what she unlocks for people, but to do that, she needed to go through it herself. She has three psychology degrees, and she was an occupational therapist. But she wanted more. She went back to school and got her MBA then worked in the corporate world for 10 years.
“I couldn't help but think, is this it?” She realized the one piece she hadn’t integrated yet was her spiritual and intuitive background.
“My background is Indian. I come from this rich ancestry of yoga and meditation and, you know, all this, this beautiful goodness that I embodied on a daily basis, but not for the external world to see.”
She says there's also those expectations and pressures from your own heart. Especially as women, we get trained at a very young age not to listen to that soft voice, because it usually tends to make other people uncomfortable.
To take a stand for the softest voice in the room can be really challenging. It's a skill like any other that we have to practice and learn how to lean into.
Entrepreneurship, reinvention, pivoting, whatever life choices you make, if they're different, it's not for the faint of heart. But it is so liberating when you can march to the beat of your own drum and just and find your own path.
Anita says it’s key to listen to your energy, which is like your gas tank. You always want to keep it on high. It's about elevating your vibration, tuning into your emotions, your energy. That is the clue that you're heading in the right direction.
Mentioned in this episode:The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer: https://amzn.to/3UGjQD3
What Happened to You by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce Perry: https://amzn.to/4a7rL0y
Connect with Anita Rombough: https://www.anitarombough.com/Free gift: Quick Dopamine Hits and Spiritual Lifts: https://anitarombough.lpages.co/dopaminehits/
Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:Carve Your Career Path and Make More Money
https://sarahwalton.com/women-career-path/
Overcome Societal Expectations of ‘You’re Not Enough’
https://sarahwalton.com/societal-expectations-for-women/
You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWaltonThank you so much for listening. I’m so honored that you’re here and would be so grateful if you could leave a quick review on Apple Podcasts by clicking here, scrolling to the bottom, and clicking “Write a review.” Then we’ll get to inspire even more people!
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When Adriana found out we were talking about The Abundance Academy and why I created it, she asked to share her experience. I knew she got results, but I was blown away by this conversation.
Adriana Keefe is a human design expert and motivational speaker who guides women in defining and embodying who they really are to bring magic back into their life (and she’s been on the podcast before!)
Adriana graduated from The Abundance Academy in the summer of 2023. She found more confidence through not only the guidance and lessons, but in the reminders that she had a lot of the answers already.
“I walked away with this insane confidence in my ability, not just as a coach, not just as an expert, but in my healing gifts and what I bring to other people in the spaces that I hold. Which, of course, was a game changer for my business because I believed more in what I was selling,” Adriana says.
Since graduating, Adriana says her business has blown up. She’s surpassed her income goal and expects to double her income this year. She’s hired another person.
“Although I don't always know the how of where I'm going, I have this really deep connection to my business that I didn't have before, which makes it easier to just talk to people about it, like on the streets and in the gym,” says Adriana. “So I share more. Obviously, that makes my business more profitable. It makes it grow.”
Adriana believes in divine timing. While working with Sarah at the Abundance Academy, her husband lost his job and was unemployed for nine months. This sent Adriana spiraling financially because her business wasn't yet able to sustain a family of five.
Adriana brought everything going on in her life to the Abundance Academy – from one-on-one calls with Sarah, to using Voxer to send message updates and discussions with the group. And a lot was happening: Their nanny was diagnosed with breast cancer, and Adriana made the decision to share her story of childhood abuse.
“If I didn't have any support, it would have been totally different for me last year.”
Adriana just finished her second round of her program Revive the Sacral. She credits the program and Sarah in helping her to have the confidence she needed to launch it. Her program is very trauma informed and she would ask herself, “Who am I to teach this to these people?”
“And something you said to me, I repeat to people all the time, you said, ‘what you went through and healed through can't be read in a book.’ And that changed everything to me.”
Adriana says she’s always struggled with putting people on a pedestal. She says she had to move through the discomfort to receive the attention of a coach like Sarah.
“I think when we put people on a pedestal, especially coaches and mentors and anyone like that, we lose the opportunity to learn so much more for from them and to actually evolve and transform with them.”
There is no work any person does on this planet lifts them up out of humanity. We all wake up and stub our toes and mess things up and do things wrong, or send an email that wasn't spell checked. And I think that shared humanity is actually what makes the program work so well.
If you're ready to enhance your relationship with money, check out the Abundance Academy: https://sarahwalton.typeform.com/to/X8lEWujM.
You'll hear directly from Sarah personally.
Connect with Adriana Keefe: https://www.AdrianaKeefe.com
Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:Marketing Not Working? Human Design Could Help
https://sarahwalton.com/human-design-adriana/How I Created a $1 Million Business Idea
https://sarahwalton.com/how-to-create-one-million-dollar-business-idea/You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton
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You can look up the steps online to make seven figures in a business. You’ll probably get a good strategy. But that’s only 20% of what will make you successful. The other 80% is where the magic happens.
This is not a gimmick. After being a coach for more than 16 years, there is a common thread among all the extraordinary human beings I’ve had the privilege and honor to work with – and that’s actually believing something is possible.
When we're up against a world where it looks like everybody's trying to sell something, everybody's being a little slimy, we start to question what's actually real, what's actually authentic, and what actually can happen. So I’m going to pull back the curtain on how I came up with my million-dollar idea.
There are several avenues to create a business that can sustain you completely. I’m going to let you inside how I work with my students in the Abundance Academy.
Now, if you’ve never heard of the Abundance Academy, it’s my signature program to answer how I could help more people faster.
If you were asking that question, you might say you would write a book. Or start recording videos. You might create an online course or become a keynote speaker. All of these are valid options for hitting seven figures.
The 20% strategy is necessary for success. But the magic happens when you start breaking down what is holding you back. We all have those niggling doubts. Can I really do it? Is it really for me? Can I really make it happen?
The magic 80% is your mindset. Because as you start to implement the 20% strategy, your mindset, your experiences, your childhood, things that didn’t land how you wanted to will have you quit.
You’ll start to chase the shiny objects. You’ll redo your website, your about page, your services page. Those shiny object activities are happening because you are bumping up against the edges of where you’ve been before and it starts to get uncomfortable.
And we were not meant to go through massive expansion periods in our lives by ourselves.
That is another way that I knew I was onto $1 million idea when we came up with the Abundance Academy. Not only were people getting held back by what they thought was real, they didn't have anywhere to go.
One of the best pieces of advice I've ever heard: when you really want to create something amazing, you want to be in rooms with people who've already accomplished what you want to accomplish, or who are up to accomplishing the same thing.
They didn't have a coach by their side; they were alone trying to figure this out. But there is so much that we can see in others that we cannot see in ourselves.
So when you're looking to create $1 million idea or how to even generate something at that level for you, maybe you need to start by saying, what's a $3,000 idea that I can execute this month? What's a $5,000 idea I can execute this month? From there, I want you to move to $10,000. From there, I want you to move to $50,000 and start expanding on what you think is possible.
If you're ready to enhance your relationship with money, check out the Abundance Academy: https://sarahwalton.typeform.com/to/X8lEWujM.
You'll hear directly from Sarah personally.
Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:
5 Tips to Create an Environment for Abundance
https://sarahwalton.com/abundant-environment/How to Increase Revenue In Your Business, Quickly
https://sarahwalton.com/increase-your-business-revenue/You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton
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Money is a terrible master. It will drive you into the ground if it’s running your life. But it’s also an amazing servant if you tell it where to go and you understand funds.
If you are just dipping your toes into the world of money and you feel intimidated or it feels like it's this hard, weird, complicated thing, I want you to understand first and foremost, that is by design. But honestly, managing your money well isn't really that complicated.
I consider it my job to put more money in the hands of more women, I like to deconstruct the scary and make it super simple.
In today's episode, I want to share with you the top five books I really think can make a massive difference in your financial journey, and also in helping you create a new relationship to money.
Book 1: The Psychology of Money
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel talks about very specific stocks that you can purchase or decide to invest in through Vanguard. (I am not an affiliate of Vanguard, but everybody that works with me knows I am a huge fan and I am actually invested in my own funds inside of Vanguard).
He really breaks down exactly where their money is, how they've decided to divide it up inside of retirement and before they retired. And it's that simple breakdown that makes this book so valuable.
The other thing I think you're really going to love about this book is the first opening chapter. It talks about how nobody on this earth decides one day to wake up and mess themselves up financially.
So if you've been beating yourself up for where you are financially or judging others, think of family members, spouses, your children, anybody and the way that they're using money, it's probably either a fear they haven't dealt with or something they just don't know.
Book 2: Quit Like a Millionaire
There are two authors for Quit Like a Millionaire, and they are actually romantic partners, and it's so great to watch their journey. It's Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung now, their journey together, you guys, they started their investment journey right before one of the biggest stock market crashes we've all ever experienced. And I so appreciate her honesty about this journey.
These two beautiful humans are part of the fire generation. If you don't know what that means, it stands for Financially Independent Retire Early the fire generation. So what they do is they share how they were able to retire well, in their 30s. And this is not like some crazy scheme.
What I appreciate about this book is the practical approach. These are two regular human beings who have figured out exactly how to invest in the market in a healthy, consistent, sustainable way and the sustainable piece, I think, is the most important.
This is one book I recommend you get an actual hard copy of in your world, because she goes into great detail about IRS rules and how you can pull out your money without creating taxable events. All legally.
Listen in for the rest of my money book recommendations. Let’s get to it!
Books Mentioned:
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel Amazon: https://amzn.to/4ecUNi1
Quit Like A Millionaire by Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung Amazon: https://amzn.to/4cNps45
The Soul of Money by Lynne Twist Amazon: https://amzn.to/3TgwDem
Profit First by Mike Michalowicz Amazon: https://amzn.to/3Mw09sJ
Unshakable by Tony Robbins: https://amzn.to/4g9PSjy
The Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing Amazon: https://amzn.to/3X9ilNL
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#MoneyWisdom #FinancialSuccess #MoneyMindsetBooks #WealthBuilding
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I want to address the $3.6 million care gap in the United States. Yeah, you heard that right. The care gap deals with who in the family is providing the most care for other members of the family, community and extended family – and you guessed it, the care gap tends to fall on women.
Obviously, things are changing – and we hope they continue to change. But there is a human in a family who tends to pull back their career and care for other members of the family – this can be aging parents, Aunt Myrtle, children or people in the community. There is a level of care given that causes that human to pull back on their career and making money.
The person who does that in a family, on average, in the United States, is worth $180,000 a year. That’s shopping. That’s food planning and cooking. That’s cleaning. That’s driving.
If there isn't a family member doing it, you're paying someone else. As women, this affects our ability to have more financial power.
I think as we talk about this, one of the things that we can do is ask ourselves why we don't value the care gap work as much as we value revenue generating work? For some reason, we pretend like it doesn't matter as much.
There are varying theories about that, from this is really hard work. I don't want to do it, which means it doesn't matter. The other theory is that it's invisible work.
It's the invisible, unpaid work that makes the world work. It is making lunches. It's making sure programs are met. It's making sure deadlines are met. It's making sure people are a doctor's appointments.
My son went to college this year, and before he left there were a couple weekends where he watched me around the house. I love to clean. I love to patch drywall. I love to take care of my home. It's one of my big passions. And he was watching me do this, and he looked around and he asked, “Wait a minute, how often do you do this?” I said, once every two weeks.
There's a mental load to having life work properly. I asked him, do you know if the dog's been fed? No.
Do you know if the cat's been fed? No.
Are they up on their vaccinations? I don't know.
Do you have a doctor's appointment coming up? I think so.
Do you know when it is? No.I went through all the things. And I didn't do that to scare him. But I want you to recognize if this happens to be you in your home, I want you to recognize the mental load that exists nonstop for you. Just feel that. Because somebody has to do it.
So if you are finding yourself feeling like you're always behind the eight ball, or you're like, what is wrong with me? Why can't I do all the things I know I need to do?
How many things are you actually doing? We don’t talk about or acknowledge that. We minimize it. We don’t pay attention to it and then we assume there’s something wrong with us when we can’t handle all of it.
I want you to keep track of what you're doing. Keep track of the time that it costs you. We have to be honest about the time that it costs us to run our lives, but also how much time there is and the reason we do what we do. Once we start to talk about something, we start to create solutions.
Mentioned in this episode: The Nordic Theory of Everything: https://amzn.to/4e3fiNM
How Much Is a Mother Really Worth? https://www.salary.com/articles/mother-salary/
Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:
Wealth is the Luxury of Choice Not a Number with Kaitlyn Carlson
https://sarahwalton.com/wealth-business/Overcome Societal Expectations of ‘You’re Not Enough’ With Wellness Coach Ali Sempek
https://sarahwalton.com/societal-expectations-for-women/You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton
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If you have been struggling with how to increase revenue, I want to teach you how you can increase revenue in your business without extra hustle or driving yourself crazy.
If you've been in business for a while, most of us coaches will come along and tell you to increase your prices. Sometimes that’s the right answer; sometimes it’s not.
So, let’s talk about what you can actually do to increase revenue without increasing your prices:
Look at your expenses
There is so much money flying out of business accounts and personal accounts. Ask yourself, Where are you spending money on subscriptions, and where are you spending money on software?
You can also look at things you’re spending on that aren’t necessary. Here’s an example: When I had a new client sign up for a new program, we would send huge, expensive packages all the way around the world. We loved them. But it was so much money going out.
Instead, for people who don't live inside the United States, we decided to send them gift cards to their favorite local store so they could pick out things themselves. It ended up really decreasing our expenses, and it actually increased the joy in most of our customers.
Where are your customers and clients failing
Deconstruct where your customers and clients are failing. An example from one of my recent clients was to deal with late cancellations and late shows to her one-on-one sessions. This did two things: One, it did end up increasing her revenue, and two people started showing up on time, which actually benefits everybody.
The other thing is a late cancellation fee. If someone has decided at the last minute not to rehire you for a subscription or to renew their contract with you, but they said they would and changed their mind. Similarly, you can put a fee into your contract. If they're signing the contract for six months and for some reason they choose to leave early, that's fine. But here's a cancellation fee of 50% to 100%. Make sure it is very clear in all of your documentation.
Remember as the business owner, you have the discretion whether or not to charge that fee.
Work you’ve already done.
Most of the time, just talking about what you have for sale will end up increasing sales. It may not increase sales for the one specific thing you were offering, but people remember you, and they may come back and purchase something else.
Has there been a marketing campaign that didn't work as well as you wanted? Go back and tweak it, and try it again. The benefit is that it won’t take you weeks or months to put together.
Also, reach out to past clients. How are they? What's been happening in their business? Ask them for referrals if they're not ready to work with you again right now, or if they're not looking to buy something new from you right this minute. They may know somebody who is.
Listen in for the final tip!
Mentioned in this episode: Save your spot in The Abundance Academy: https://sarahwalton.typeform.com/to/X8lEWujM
What’s Causing the Results You Have Right Now?: https://sarahwalton.com/causing-results/
Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:
Test That Marketing Tactic to Accelerate Your Business: https://sarahwalton.com/test-marketing/
3 Easy Tips for Your Sales Conversations: https://sarahwalton.com/sales-conversations/You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton
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Limiting beliefs are everywhere, and they can sound very subtle. They can sound like, I'm too old to do that. I should have done that by noon, and now it's 2 p.m. I can't make that much money. That’s a big one and today's guest goes deep, as she shares her own personal story about how much money she didn't think she could really make.
Molly Claire is a Master Coach Instructor and founder of Holistic Master Coach Training inside The Masterful Coach Collective.
She helps coaches develop superior coaching skills so they can guarantee results for their clients, while designing a simple, profitable business model.
Molly says she was born with entrepreneur blood. As a kid, if she wanted something, she had to figure out how to earn the money. In adulthood, she was a stay-at-home mom, but was always looking for the thing -- the thing that is going to allow her to use her gifts and help er feel alive and help others, and also have that balance in her life.Molly found coaching at a crisis point in her life. She had three kids, and had just been diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome. She was depressed, her marriage was struggling, and she couldn’t be the person she wanted to be. Molly did a coaching session and it blew her mind.
“I remember thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, this is really something.’ And number one, wow, there's more possibility in my life. And number two, this is something I want to do. I want to help other people have this experience,” says Molly.
Molly says we all have limits because we have perceptions of the world. We have these ways that we see what's possible and what's not. We could all think today about what things you believe that you are limited in, just in small ways. Then ask yourself, is this really true?
One of her own past beliefs centered on money. At the time, she was launching her business and going through a divorce. With three children, she wanted to provide well, but she was terrified of finances.
Her own coach asked her, “well, why don’t you just make as much money as your husband does?”
The question was absurd to Molly. Her answer, a limiting belief, said to her, “well I can’t because I’m a woman.”
“I didn't want to claim it. And yet there it was, clear as day that I had a belief that as a woman, I could not make as much money as a man,” says Molly.
She started collecting evidence that her belief was a lie. She found women who made more money than her husband -- meaning her goal to make $250,000 was possible.
As you’re collecting evidence, it’s important that we pay attention to who we're listening to and what we're giving credence to. The narrative starts to become part of your normalized conversation.
“As women, when we are building a business and we believe that our business and our personal life are in conflict with each other, it lends itself to us always feeling spread thin, overwhelmed, guilty,” says Molly. “I should be here. I should be there. It's not useful. What I believe is that your personal life and your business are two parts of a bigger picture, which is your ultimate way of existing and living in the world.”
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Connect with guest Molly Claire: https://mollyclaire.com/
Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:
How to Let Go of the Bully In Your Brain: [add link]
You Deserve the Money: https://sarahwalton.com/bookkeeping-for-women/
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Are you mean to yourself? It seems like a strange question to ask. I’m so stupid! Ugh, I can’t believe I did that! You know what I’m talking about. Those moments where we attack with negative self-talk.
Today’s guest, Allison Guibault, helps women release self-doubt and deal with what she calls high functioning anxiety. She has made it her job on planet Earth as both a therapist and a coach, to help women let go of doubt, shame and limiting beliefs so they can reconnect to their confidence, reclaim their empowerment and realign with their intuition and highest power.
Allison was stuck in a corporate job that she was successful at but didn’t really like. She was burnt out and exhausted. One day, she snapped and said she rushed to her therapist’s office.“I spent the next few years really trying to rework my entire life, and it was really hard,” says Allison. “There wasn't a lot of messaging out there that I was connecting to about, you know, things you talk about like abundance, mindset, the ability to change your mind.”
But she did it. And she hopes her work coaching helps other women shorten the learning curve in seeing there’s another way to work hard, keep all their core qualities and find fulfilment in life.
The truth is, we’re really impressionable. Allison thinks back to all the messaging we receive as girls, as simple as, “Don’t speak up in class, you’re going to come off as bossy,” which taught us to quiet ourselves. Whereas a boy in class doing the same thing might hear that he’s a leader.
Overtime, we start to collect all of these stories about what life is supposed to look like. Allison says it’s important to ask yourself where this thought came from?
“Shifting our thoughts from something that's really negative to something positive -- and it doesn't even have to be positive,” says Allison. “We can land on neutral. Like I'm just not going to bully myself today.”
It does come down to science. The more you think something, the easier it is to access that thought and the more you start to apply it.
It could be as simple as saying, “I’m allowed to have needs.” This will chemically shift your brain, and you’ll become more likely to believe that.
Allison likes to offer a 30-day challenge. When you’re brushing your teeth, practice saying something – literally anything – that isn’t negative.
“I get a lot of resistance,” says Allison. “Like someone who's not used to saying nice things to themselves. Even neutral things to themselves. They're in that mind chatter that's really negative. This is going to feel weird and uncomfortable.”
Healing is powerful. Personal growth is incredible. Change is transformative. But you can’t get to any of those steps without some discomfort. Some fear. Healing usually means letting things go – whether it’s old patterns or a relationship, which can be really difficult for people.
“To take those steps, we need to resecure our safety. We need to feel supported because we don't usually do that work like blindly and alone.”
Sign up for Allison’s newsletter: https://www.anotefromyourtherapist.com/innercircle
Connect with Allison : https://www.instagram.com/anotefromyourtherapist/Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:
Overcome Societal Expectations of ‘You’re Not Enough’
https://sarahwalton.com/societal-expectations-for-women/What to Do When ‘You Can’t Do Anything Right!’
https://sarahwalton.com/negative-thoughts/You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton
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We are talking all things marketing -- now, if your hair just stood up on end … or you're thinking you already know everything there is about marketing … or you can chat GPT your way through, I want you to hang on to your hats and glasses and listen to today's conversation.
Alicia Branham, the marketing powerhouse with a story beyond business savvy. Her journey reflects adaptability and determination, traits cultivated during her formative years when her parents uprooted her to Uruguay.
Navigating the challenges of a new language and culture, Alicia not only embraced the unfamiliar but thrived in it. This early experience laid the foundation for her ability to connect with diverse audiences and approach marketing from a truly global perspective.And the reason it is so important to invest in marketing, it is SO LOUD now. We must be able to stand out so that the people who are looking for us and need our help are going to be able to find us.
Alicia helps brands crush their visual presence with her background in design and marketing.
When she started, she ran an in-house marketing department for a large valve manufacturer. It was the sort of behind the scenes – or your wall – reason that people have clean water in their faucets and can bathe their babies. She learned what it entails to buy an American-made product and the pressures put on people requesting her services to help them succeed.
She works with a lot of second- and third-generation businesses to freshen up or rebrand their services to help them gain recognition in their industry.
“At some point, you have to care about how you look and represent yourself to the world, even if you are a small business,” says Alicia. “It's no different than walking out of the house and running a brush through your hair and putting on some clean clothes.”
Alicia says the one thing she wished more business owners did is to create a marketing plan for themselves – no matter what product or service they provide. How are you going to attract any new business and grow if you don't invest in your business's marketing plan?
“Wouldn't you want someone that maybe specializes in your industry to bring you some new insights and some new data … and help your business really stand out? A lot of people think that they have to do it alone,” says Alicia. “You don’t.”
She points to using contractors, who can help fill a need. One of the first people Alicia hired was a bookkeeper.
Alicia says a mistake she made in her business was not getting her monthly numbers. Alicia says her life changed when she started looking at her numbers. It also makes you a stronger business owner, even if you're a solopreneur, it gives you all the tools and the information that you need to make educated decisions.
If you’re looking to start investing in marketing, the first step is to really understand your end user, your client or your customer and the spaces they occupy.
“What's your message? What are you trying to get across? Who are you trying to attract? And then start building a conversation around your clients ... providing value in the form of either blog posts or articles,” says Alicia.
“Marketing and just everything in general is just is changed so much, but you shouldn't be afraid of it.”
Connect with Alicia Branham: https://www.aliciabranham.com and https://www.getbran.com
Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:Test That Marketing Tactic to Accelerate Your Business
https://sarahwalton.com/test-marketing/Marketing Not Working? Human Design Could Help
https://sarahwalton.com/human-design-adriana/You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton
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If you really feel in your heart, “I can't wait till my kids grow up,”-- what you mean to say is how, do I solve for the and? How do I solve for joy with my children and the thing that fuels me so that I can be available for the joy with my children moments?
Tiffany Sauder is a wife, mom, entrepreneur, CEO, board member, investor, podcast host and keynote speaker. She founded the marketing agency, Element Three, 18 years ago and ever since she and her husband have been building their companies and their family on the exact same timeline. That means four kids, three businesses and two careers, all building towards one abundant life.
We are going to talk about what happens inside a household when a woman is truly ambitious. Be sure to listen to the full recording to get her tips about implicit expectations vs explicit agreements and how she found herself “marrying” the same man twice!
Tiffany says entrepreneurship is just this massive process of discovering yourself – your real motivations, your real, a real understanding of your talents and gifts. She says she loves the pressure the business environment affords her.
“You talk about putting more money in the hands of women. I feel like my job is to, like, show that you can do this,” says Tiffany. She would often hear an exhausted “I feel so out of balance.”
Tiffany recognized there were seasons in her life where she slept four or five hours a night, but no part of her felt tired. And she started to realize that balance wasn’t connected to time.
Her definition of balance is the intersection of your priorities and your values, and being “out of balance is when we begin to behave in ways that are not aligned with our priorities. For example,
let's say, health is a priority, but you’re having trouble eating foods that are real. You're not making time for movement. You're not making time for personal reflection. You begin to say, “I am so out of balance.”But what if you said to yourself more specifically, “I am not honoring in my choices, my priorities.”
“When I'm just like ‘I'm so out of balance’ that feels like I'm a reactive victim to this concept that other people are sort of putting on me instead of saying if I fell out of balance, it probably means I am violating a priority, or I'm pursuing a priority at the expense of a value,” says Tiffany.
She says it doesn't mean the choice to choose this priority was bad. It means that you’re doing it to a degree that is violating what you really care about. In that sense, balance isn’t about time or having more of it.
“I think what you want is to say, I want to be doing things that are moving towards the things I care about. The adventures I want to have. The stuff I want to create value around,” says Tiffany.
“The causes I want to serve, the people I want to have adventures with, and I want to do those in a way that are aligned with who I am as a human being, which is our values.”
The waitlist is open at the https://LifeOfAndAcademy.com for Tiffany’s four-week course to help two-career families get on top of the life of and, and begin living in a way that feels free and abundant and present.
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Connect with Tiffany Sauder: https://www.tiffanysauder.com
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https://sarahwalton.com/albiona/How do I Find Work-Life Balance?
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Have you ever been stuck in a job you hate? Have you been nervous that there's only one possible path for you to take to use your college degree, and that everything else is off limits? Keep your head down. Put in your dues. Everyone raising their hands? Me too.
Today’s guest, Lata Hamilton, is on a mission to help other millennial women carve their own paths for a change in career, leadership and life, and find the confidence and authenticity to truly earn their worth.
Lata was born in India and lived in an orphanage before her Australian parents adopted her. It was the 80s and the orphanage was filled with girls – girls Lata says weren’t valued.
“I always grew up knowing that I was adopted (…) it's really made me realize just what a big impact that actually was,” says Lata. “It doesn't matter where you start, it's where you're going and the lives that you change along the way that really matters. And so, for me, that's what I'm always looking to do. It's almost like living up to my full potential.”
She watched her father, the breadwinner, work at one company getting promotion after promotion and raise after raise. She says on an unconscious level, she thought that was the path to success.
Lata went to university and pursued a creative industry – media and communications. When she received her salary offer for her first job in advertising, she realized she could have skipped university and stocked supermarket shelves for the same pay.
“I went into the corporate space because at some level I was like, ‘well, corporate is the way that you go in order to get a bigger salary,’ ” says Lata. “But that's not what happened because I'm not my dad. I'm not a 50-year-old white man.”
In the first years of her corporate career Lata says she felt stuck and stifled as she came up against people saying “you’ve got to do your time.” She wasn’t getting promotions. She did graduate training for leadership and was offered an entry-level role. It was frustrating.
She did some coaching and moved to a new company that boosted her pay by $20,000 and it was there that she found change management, which had the variety, flexibility and challenge that she wanted.
“We're not going to work for fun,” says Lata. “Otherwise, it would be a hobby, or it would be volunteering. We actually want to go to be compensated.”
Lata loves to share her salary and salary progressions openly because she wants to inspire people about what’s possible. As women, we often don't want to talk about money. But often, that means we don't understand what is possible out there for us.
For Lata, change management was a career path presented to her only once she was in the corporate world. She says if you’re looking to make a change, have the courage to talk to people around you. She suggests that it doesn’t have to be your leader or manager at work; it can be a neutral third party like a colleague or someone outside the company.
“There are so many ways of doing things, and often we just don't have that information, or we're not aware,” says Lata.
Get Lata's free "Underpaid and Overlooked Coaching Action Guide" with her 5-step formula to change careers with confidence and earn your worth: https://www.latahamilton.com/worthit
Connect with Lata Hamilton : https://www.linkedin.com/in/latahamilton
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Do you know how much money you should be saving from your business? Do you know how to create wealth from your business? These are the tougher questions that can enhance your work especially if you're starting to get a handle on your business numbers.
This episode will have you think about all the different ways you can start building wealth for your business and have your money work harder for you.
Kaitlyn Carlson is the Founder & CEO of Theory Planning Partners, a boutique wealth creation firm for the top female entrepreneurs in the United States.
Kaitlyn saw her uncle lose his restaurant. She saw her grandfather have to sell his home. She saw the financial stress in her family and felt responsible as the oldest child to learn and create a better future. She graduated with a major in psychology and took her first job in asset management.“How do they create wealth?” asked Kaitlyn of her clients. “It became very clear to me that in order to create wealth, you need to know the rules of the game, and you need to know how to play the game.”
When people start their business, Kaitlyn says the one thing she wishes business owners do is calculate their financial freedom number.
“Context leads to intention,” says Kaitlyn. “When I was working with average Americans that were getting ready for retirement, the majority of them were not prepared for retirement, and it was because they didn't have this information earlier in time.”
She says the wealth creation journey is like ascending and descending a mountain. A lot of business owners will put one foot in front of the other without having any idea of where they are.
For emergency funds, Kaitlyn recommends three months’ worth of expenses in cash. Personal emergency funds are similar, anywhere from three to six months of living expenses in a cash reserve.
“Wealth is not a specific number; wealth is the luxury of choice.”
Kaitlyn says it’s ok not to force yourself to love the numbers. If you don’t love doing the bookkeeping, then become successful enough to hire a bookkeeper and delegate.
“Business owners that really start to rise above are the ones that are great delegate and recognize this is always going to be a weakness for me,” says Kaitlyn. “That's where I've really seen the breakaway between, you know, the five figure and then the multi six, seven and eight figure is they're a fantastic delegators.”
To start building wealth, you need to secure the recurring profitability of your business. A mistake entrepreneurs might make is when their business has eclipsed their former salary and can cover their living expenses, they’ll enter a period of lifestyle creep. They’re making more money than they’ve ever made before and they’ll just go out and start spending it – neglecting the financial freedom number that needs to be funded.
“So we really try to catch people when they get to that point of, okay, now my business is doing really well. I'm starting to make more money than it costs to live my lifestyle. This is where I need to stop and assess what my plan is, what my intention is,” says Kaitlyn.
Quit Like A Millionaire: https://amzn.to/490Ny9G
Plan for Profit: https://sarahwalton.com/freedom/Connect with Kaitlyn Carlson : https://theoryplanning.com/
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Photos are the gateways to our stories. They are the gateway to learning more about our ancestors and where we come from – even if you have a broken family or past; photos can help you heal and understand your stories from a different perspective.
Haleh Shoa is the Founder and CEO of Picturli, a photo organization, curation, archiving, and design studio that helps families, individuals, and businesses transform their photo mess into one sortable digital library.
Haleh firmly believes that our family histories and personal memories are some of the most valuable treasures we can have and that preserving and sharing them is essential for future generations.
Today's episode is going to inspire you to listen to the nudges and look at what makes you happy, because you really can start a business based on anything.Haleh was working as the Director of Operations for Jaguar/Land Rover and was flying around the globe. She loved it. But it made her wonder if she could do it for herself. She started working with a life coach, who asked her what she loved doing the most.
They dug deep, and Haleh realized she loved photo books and creating gallery wall art. Haleh started her business in 2016 and was questioning herself – was she doing the right thing?
Her passion for photo organizing stems from her family’s history of being uprooted by the Iranian Revolution in 1979. While they were unable to bring most of their belongings to the U.S., they did manage to bring all of their photo albums and memorabilia.
Now, the only memories that remain from Haleh’s childhood are through her family photos and the stories shared with her through the collection she has preserved.
“I would take my photos into work and start scanning them,” says Haleh. “Because of the revolution, I have family in four continents. … And it really would get my cousins calling going, ‘Where did you get these photos? We've never seen them.’”
Haleh says anytime you start a business, you have to go with the energy of its growth and changes. Haleh’s first client had a house full of 45,000 photos that needed to be organized and archived.
While she knew she wanted to do photobooks, this client needed the organization and archival aspect first. She listened and led with service.
“It's so incredible to learn someone's story and for them to be able to not now have access to it,” says Haleh.The first step is to gather all the items – photos, albums, scrapbooks, films and videos, and then to have a goal. That’s where curation comes in.
“We learn about their family birthdays, passings, weddings. And we do a family chart,” she says. Once everything is organized, her team digitizes, renames, and redates all the files.
Haleh still works on the creative side, designing curated photo books. One of her recent projects involved creating a book that a client used to propose to his girlfriend.
“We're not just the scanning agency. We make sure that we understand your story, and we apply that to your assets.”
To contact Haleh Shoa at Picturli or to download the 7-step guide to archiving and downloading your photos, visit https://www.picturelifecurated.com
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