In this episode Voice Actor, Melanie Scroggins talks about how she's rapidly grown her business after experiencing several coaching breakthroughs back in March.
We often describe clarity and confidence as something that happens to us. We feel or experience it as a result of something external. But I think that POV is pretty useless. It keeps us from being in charge of our own results (being clear on a strategy or your offering is the result here). So let’s think about clarity and as a deliberate practice. Something you have control over and create for yourself.
What if, instead of planning what we want 5 or 10 years down the line, we focus on what we want one year from now? This is the question that entrepreneur, Hailey Thomas, has built her system of career coaching around. In this episode, Hailey is joined by Emmaline Chappell, a personal stylist who specializes in helping entrepreneurial women with individualizing their wardrobe and look. In this episode, Hailey and Emmaline discuss the coaching sessions that they’ve gone through together and how th...
Hailey is joined by Essence Turner, a radical forgiveness and self-love coach, for a special extended conversation about emotions and feelings. In this episode, Essence gives Hailey and her listeners a valuable lesson about where our feelings come from, why they matter, and how we can all strive to feel our feelings productively. This episode discusses topics like: Understanding how feelings fit into our lives Throughout Essence’s life, she has struggled with the trauma she experienced at a youn...
SHOW NOTES What We're Talking About: Wanting vs Having The belief that we can't actually have what we want. Our beliefs can make or break all of our efforts. When we want out of lack . Feelings we avoid and how they hold us back. Challenging our brains to work differently. Building up the capacity to "have" so our brains have evidence of results. What To Do Next: Schedule a clarity call with me !...
SHOW NOTES What We're Talking About: It's ok to mourn change and transition in business (hello, global pandemic!) Deciding to move on and commit to a new vision Using "planning" mode as a form of procrastination to not do the things Utilizing a digital platform for a service that is usually an in-person offering Fear of change and potential success Phoning a friend when the mind drama is overwhelming The beauty of working with a team that understands you Questions for Shannon Siriano Greenwood: ...
SHOW NOTES What We're Talking About: The possibilities scaling a business can bring. Spending time understanding the market and who can be served. The importance and beauty of community. Allowing flexibility to pivot to a new product or service. Embracing iterations instead of moving on to a completely new product or service. Links: Momtography Teentography Momtography on Insta Momtography on Facebook Click Up What To Do Next: Schedule a clarity call with me !...
This week on the podcast, I'm speaking with Susan Boles, the owner and CEO of Scale Spark. Susan Boles is also the host of the podcast Break the Ceiling that digs into unconventional strategies to help people break through growth ceilings. We're talking to Susan about optimizing time for what really matters, treating your work schedule as one big experiment, and the ebb and flow of identities and relationships in life and business. --- Links: Scale Spark Break the Ceiling Podcast Susan on Twitte...
Today on the podcast we're speaking with Prerna Malik. Prerna is a copywriter and runs her business, Content Bistro, with her husband. In this episode, we discuss decision making from your CEO brain vs your individual brain, sticking to a plan and being open to its evolution, and learning to be unapologetic about the non-negotiables you set in place both personally and professionally. --- Links: Content Bistro Content Bistro Instagram Content Bistro Facebook What To Do Next: Schedule a clarity c...
What do you want your online business to look like one year from now? Host, Hailey Thomas, gets the answer and more from a variety of online entrepreneurs - the exciting, the scary and everything in between. Be a fly on the wall for candid conversations + mini-lessons from those in the trenches. We’re on a mission to normalize (and laugh about) the behind-the-scenes truth that comes with acting towards a new vision for your life and business. Welcome to The One Year From Now Podcast. --- What To...
This week, I wanted to share some of my thoughts on things I've seen with my clients when it comes to finding and setting up accountability. Most people need outer accountability and guess what - it’s okay! This episode I share insight and observation about the role accountability plays in goal execution as a small business owner. Most people are what Gretchen Rubin would call “Obligers". They respond well to external accountability (client deadlines, team needs, etc.) but struggle with internal...
Today, Mel and I are taking over the podcast and talking to you about worktreats! What is a worktreat? Why would someone need one? We're going to cover all of the basic questions and more today on the show. A worktreat, or working retreat : time for CEOs to reflect, plan, and execute on high level priorities. When we talk about CEOs, we're talking about people that own service-based or product-based businesses that may work by themselves or with a small team. Someone who has moved out of "I'm th...
This week, we're talking to cartoonist and creative mentor, Jessica Abel - founder of the Creative Focus Workshop. She works with ambitious mid-career creative pros and businesses to escape the hamster wheel of busyness and carve out the deep focus needed to finish—and launch—the game-changing work they want to be known for. Jessica is the author of Growing Gills: How to Find Creative Focus When You're Drowning in Your Daily Life, the graphic novel La Perdida, and two textbooks about making comi...
In this episode, I have a conversation with Natasha Vorompiova over at Systems Rock, about doing less for bigger wins in business. Now before you go rolling your eyes and move on to another episode, we get it . Do less. Delegate. give it away. It's all overused and simplified business advice that gurus just love to give. Mainly because it's easy to say and there is some grain of truth to it. Doing less allows you to focus your efforts and go further in a single direction. But what's not normally...
Today's guest has spent the last three years purposefully experimenting with risk and reward in her business. Stephanie Stiavetti is an online cooking teacher on a mission to change the relationship that her students have with cooking. She helps them to go from hopeless and fearful to confident kitchen ninjas. As you'll hear in our conversation, there are so many lessons and learning to be a competent cook that directly apply to running a business. In this episode, Stephanie and I talked about r...
This week we're chatting with business coach, Luisa Zhou. Luisa has an incredible coaching business built on the idea of helping everyone become a little bit more entrepreneurial. Whether it be by transitioning out of your corporate job and starting your own business, or staying in your 9-5 and creating a course to help you share your expertise, she has got you covered. Luisa is internet famous in the online business world for her multi six-figure launches and building a seven-figure business, b...
This week, we're chatting with financial strategist Iyanna Vaughn of Lovely Financials Group. Iyanna helps six and seven figure business owners understand their finances and then use that data to make strategic business decisions. We all know we're supposed to be looking at our numbers and tracking things like revenue, profit, and costs of service, but most of us have at least some, if not a whole lot of holes, in tracking these and other important data points. Even though we know it helps us ma...
Today, we're talking to THE Val Geisler of Fix Your Churn about the many iterations her business has undergone over the years from being a general virtual assistant to one of the top authorities on customer retention for subscription based businesses. I love Val's story because it's a case study on a variety of the transitions that a business can undergo in a short amount of time, but also about the real implications of iterating in your business for you as a human for that context of you and yo...
Today, we're having an open and down to earth conversation about a pretty serious topic. We're talking about trauma and how it affects your relationship with your business. My guest, Nicole Lewis-Keeber, is a licensed therapist and social worker turned business coach. She focuses on the way Small T trauma (we'll talk about Small T and Big T trauma) can deeply affect the businesses we choose to build and how we show up to them. This is a sensitive topic and can be a scary topic, but I think so fe...
Today, I'm chatting with Luz Donahue. Luz is an accomplished abstract painter and a really accomplished Facebook ads consultant. Two topics, which, on the face of things, seem to be at odds with each other. Today, Luz shares her story of becoming an entrepreneur and how she goes about nourishing both sides of her business: one that requires great analysis and one that requires great levels of creativity. Don't forget to grab your free Deep Work tips here ....
How to know when you've overcommitted: 1. You have more projects, tasks, and other things you've raised your hand to than you have hours in a day. 2. Having so much "stuff" on your brain it's hard to do anything else. It's a significant barrier to work-life balance and productivity. So, what can you do about it? We are going on a break for the rest of July! But don't worry, we'll be back in August. If you still want us around even while we're on break, there are a few things you can do: * Join m...
Today, I'm chatting with Dr. Alane Presswood. Lanie is a professor, and the Director of Oral Communication, at Hollins University. Additionally, she's also a public speaking consultant to entrepreneurs and online business owners. I worked with Lanie earlier this year on my TedX talk, and I was so wonderfully pleased to have found someone who understands where online business, entrepreneurship, and speaking fit together. She was able to help me develop a killer presentation that increased my auth...
We're changing things up this week! Today's episode is a very special one. Instead of the guest interviews, I'm sharing a TedX talk I gave earlier this year on defeating burnout. The theme for my talk is near and dear to my heart - it's all about. BURNOUT. What causes it? How can we defeat it? Today I'll share my three-step plan. In true Hailey fashion, there are several corny superhero jokes. I hope you find points that are applicable to your situation. * If burnout is something you are current...
Today, I'm chatting with the always hilarious, and very talented, conversion copywriter Lianna Patch. Lianna runs Punchline Copy where she helps her clients sell more stuff by infusing humor into their website copy, sales copy, and emails. She'll share how she came to develop such a strong brand and the business as it stands today. We also discuss how she managed six weeks of travel and speaking while keeping up with client work. Lianna gives us the truth about how it went, what she learned, and...
Today, I'm chatting with Janelle Allen, the instructional design guru and founder of Zen Courses. Janelle is a learning designer at heart so she knows that the most important part of the online course creation process is the students' transformation. We talk about Janelle's career transformation including how she grew an agency, had employees, had to let them go, and then rebuilt her business into what it is today. Working for yourself is a learning experience in and of itself and it's not alway...
Today, I'm chatting with minimalist marketing and business coach, Kyla Roma. Kyla specializes in helping creative business owners create marketing plans that don't make them want to poke their eyes out. We're talking about marketing that is simple, that you actually like, honoring the rhythms for your current season of life, and how all of this helps you with finding your true north in business. Don't forget to grab your free Deep Work tips here ....
Today, I'm chatting with Emma Siemasko, the main writer and founder of Stories by Emma - a content marketing consultancy. Emma and I talk about interviewing, her number one skill. She uses it to get primo information out of her subjects for her writing. It's a skill that's useful to many, so listen to her top tips for getting just the information you need. We also talk about the evolution of business, how to create offerings that let you do more of what you enjoy, and the best advice for learnin...
Today, I'm chatting with Heather Hawkins of Elevation Strategy, a PR agency that focuses on solopreneurs and personal brands. I'll admit, I was totally not up to speed with how much momentum and reach is available to us solopreneurs through PR and traditional media outlets. In the world of social and building your own platforms, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that there is still a lot of power in utilizing those existing outlets and networks to grow your business in the way you want to. Dur...
Today, we're chatting with Blake Thomas, Director of Engineering at No Red Ink. Blake has had a long career in technology, and the reason I want to share Blake with this community is that he is really practiced at making calculated career decisions. What does this mean for people who work for themselves? Well, it's easy to be business-centric and forget about the career we want and are crafting for ourselves through our business. We don't always have answers to the questions of what do I want to...
Today, we're chatting with Sherhara Downing. Sherhara is a communications trainer and she shares a little about how she built her role for herself, some really good points about how to get collaboration right, focusing on grace over grind in business, and then we take some time to nerd out about Marvel movies.
