Scale Your Small Business

79 - Understanding the Story w/ Alec Watson

Welcome back to the Scale Your Small Business Podcast with your host, Jillian Flodstrom. Today’s guest is Alec Watson, best known for his advertising work, Alec Watson is a multi-disciplinary digital media artist. As a photographer, his work has graced magazine covers, movies posters, album covers, and a multitude of advertising from Britney Spears, to Coca-Cola and Starbucks. Alec is no stranger to working with big companies. His key to success isn’t what you may think. Being interesting and en...

78 - Closing the Gaps

Welcome back to the Scale Your Small Business Podcast with your host, Jillian Flodstrom. This week, we’re diving back into the Scale Your Small Business Process with another pillar of success. Today, we’re taking a look at how we can close the gaps that are preventing us from reaching that next level. What does that look like? Once you’ve developed a list of systems that you’re using in your process, it’s time to identify where the gaps are. This pillar is all about finding the weaknesses in you...

77 - From Fear to Gratitude w/ David Neagle

Welcome back to the Scale Your Small Business Podcast with your host, Jillian Flodstrom. Today, we’re chatting with David Neagle, best-selling author of The Millions Within and known as one of the architects of the coaching and personal growth industry itself, having worked alongside other well-known mentors like Bob Proctor, Marianne Morrisey, Tony Robbins, and the like for decades. David’s journey to success started with a near-death experience he had in his early 20’s. Working as a forklift d...

76 - Keeping Track of Systems

Welcome back to the Scale Your Small Business Podcast with your host, Jillian Flodstrom. Last week, we dove into assessing all the systems you may have in place. This week, we're going to talk about the feedback that we received from the community. Many folks were wondering where to get started. It’s important to have a baseline so you can work in a system to your business, assess how it’s going, and pivot if you need to. Otherwise, it’s hard to tell where the holes are. To demonstrate a place t...

75 - Branding and Staying Relevant w/ Megan MacNeill

Welcome back to the Scale Your Small Business Podcast with your host, Jillian Flodstrom. Today’s guest is from across the globe in Australia--Megan MacNeill is the founder of Relevant, where she’s helping ambitious industry leaders get noticed, get relevant and stay remembered by creating strategies that increase their impact and influence where it matters to them. Megan’s take on why branding matters boils down to understanding that people are going to brand you if you don’t get ahead of them a...

74 - Evaluation and Assessment

Welcome back to the Scale Your Small Business Podcast with your host, Jillian Flodstrom. Today, we’re diving back into the Scale Your Small Business process. In this episode, we’re taking on the second pillar within the nine fundamental steps to scale your business: evaluation and assessment. Often times business owners overlook the not-so-pretty stuff. You may be go-go-go and not take the time to pause, catalog, and inventory what’s going down with your business. The phrase “you have to slow do...

73 - Adaptability as a Superpower w/ Dr. Yishai Barkhordari

Thanks for joining us on the Scale Your Small Business Podcast with your host, Jillian Flodstrom. Today’s guest is Dr. Yishai Barkhordari, a Psychologist, Executive Coach, and Consultant who helps entrepreneurs and business leaders learn to make adaptability their superpower to transform challenges and exhaustion into energy, excitement, and excellence for themselves and their business. As a Doctor of Psychology, Dr. Yishai was passionate in his ability to help individuals navigate conflict, oft...

72 - Scale Your Small Business Q&A with Jillian

Welcome back to the Scale Your Small Business Podcast with your host, Jillian Flodstrom. This week, we’re tackling some questions that came in from our last topic--the Scale Your Small Business Process. We’ll dive into everything on your mind and dig deeper into last week’s work. A major question that arose from our last topic was how does an individual get unstuck--either through bad luck or other circumstances. First things first: we’ve all been there. What you can do is allow yourself 24 hour...

71 - Expectation of Excellence w/ Stephen Scoggins

Welcome back to the Scale Your Small Business Podcast with your host, Jillian Flodstrom. This week, we’re sitting down with Stephen Scoggins. He’s helped Fortune 500 leaders, professional athletes, entertainers, hardworking individuals, and everyone in between exceed their wildest expectations in their life, business, and career. He spent three decades of setbacks, failures, breakdowns, losses, successes, and comebacks. Uses that knowledge to guide others toward lasting breakthroughs in any area...

70 - Getting Your Mindset In Gear

Thanks for tuning into the Scale Your Small Business Podcast with your host, Jillian Flodstrom. Join Jillian as she breaks down her Scale Your Small Business process, a 17-week program through eight fundamental steps that will truly scale your small business. Today’s topic is the first and incredibly important step: getting your mindset in gear. On September 26th, 2016, Jillian was in what seemed like a trivial fender-bender accident. What she didn’t know was that little bump in the road changed...

69 - Growing with Intention w/ Joe Sanok

Welcome back to the Scale Your Small Business Podcast with your host, Jillian Flodstrom. Today's guest is Joe Sanok, a keynote TEDx speaker, business consultant, and podcaster. He has the number one podcast for counselors, The Practice of the Practice Podcast, and has interviewed people like Pat Flynn, John Lee Dumas, and Lewis Howes. He's also written five books and is a writer for Psych Central, has been featured on the Huffington Post, Forbes, Good Magazine, Reader's Digest, Entrepreneur on F...

68 - Breaking Down Insurance Policies

Welcome back to the Scale Your Small Business Podcast with your host, Jillian Flodstrom. Today, we’re talking about insurance policies. These crucial aspects of your business can make or break you in moments when you need it most. Let’s look at the tools you can use to make sure you’re ready when the time comes. The first tip may seem obvious: make sure you’re working with an insurance agent. 800 numbers are great, but having an individual you know you can count on for answers, help, feedback, a...

67 - Trusting the Leap w/ Dr. Kim Foster

Welcome back to the Scale Your Small Business Podcast with your host, Jillian Flodstrom. Today’s guest took the leap from 20 years in a traditional career as a successful medical doctor to a non-traditional career as a successful coach and business mentor for wellness entrepreneurs. Dr. Kim Foster is here to chat with us about her mentality as she made the transition to coaching. Making this change took a long time, Dr. Foster admits. It was like jumping out of a perfectly functional airplane wi...

66 - Moving Offices

Thanks for tuning into the Scale Your Small Business Podcast with your host, Jillian Flodstrom. Today, we’re talking about moving offices. This transition can be overwhelming, and it always seems like an endless task that somehow gets crammed into a short period of time. This week we’re breaking down some tips that can help you calm the chaos. First, before you even begin your move, collect your favorite things. These are your everyday use items–your notebooks, planners, pens–anything essential ...

65 - Busting Burnout w/ Wade Stewart

We’re back with the Scale Your Small Business Podcast with your host, Jillian Flodstrom. This week’s guest is Wade Stewart. He’s a small business owner in Tacoma, WA. After enjoying several years of success in his business, the long hours had taken their toll and he was unhappy. Once he went on his own Personal Retreat, he found a renewed sense of purpose. This Retreat was so successful he has written this book to help others who might find themselves in a similar place. When Wade started his bu...

64 - The Best Apps to Help Run Your Business

This week on the Scale Your Small Business Podcast, we’re talking about everyone’s favorite: iPhone Apps. We’re diving into some of the most useful, efficient, and effective apps available that you can start using today (and keep using from now on) to run your business. The first app on the list is Calendly. Calendly allows you to create completely customizable appointments based on timeframe, topic, or any other category you can think of. You can decide what is public or private--whatever you n...

63 - More Than A Pretty Picture w/ Marlana Semenza

Today’s guest helps small business owners create a new level of influence to help land their dream opportunities. This week, we’re chatting with Marlana Semenza, international photographer and visual strategist. She’s worked with athletes, celebrities, WWE Superstars, and public figures including Miss North Carolina. She’s going to break down just how we can teach people how to view us. It’s important to realize when you’re creating a brand and producing images, it isn’t just a pretty picture--i...

62 - The Weekly Review List

This week on the Scale Your Small Business, we’re breaking down the weekly review. This crucial time of reflection can have a massive impact on your development, growth, and success. The best part? You only need five minutes. Before we dive in, remember that this can happen any time of the week. Whenever works best for you--whenever you’re getting ready for your day. Five minutes all you have to spare? First thing’s first--clean up your area. This doesn’t mean deep-clean every inch of your space...

61 - Maximizing Your Unique Energy

Today on the Scale Your Small Business Podcast, your host Jillian Flodstrom is sitting down with Jill Sussman, owner of Sky Realty, where she helps people build wealth and legacy through real estate. Jill found her passion for reality as a 13-year-old child while going around looking for houses as her parents went through a divorce. She found joy in imagining her life in these places but at the same time, her parents taught her the in’s and out’s of finances and things that may be off-limits to ...

60 - Working From Home vs Working From the Office

Today on the Scale Your Small Business Podcast with Jillian Flodstrom, we’re breaking down the pros and cons of working from home versus working from an office. There are benefits and challenges with both, and especially as we handle the pandemic, this question is more relevant than ever. One of the first things you can consider when comparing working from home and from an office is commuting. If you’re spending all your time running around, driving from location to location, you’re losing valua...

59 - Building Mental Fortitude w/ Dr. Alan Chong

Thanks for joining us on the Scale Your Small Business Podcast with Jillian Flodstrom! This week, we’re joined by Dr. Alan Chong. He’s been a doctor of chiropractic for over 27 years and has built two thriving clinics. Now, he shares his knowledge by mentoring and coaching other healthcare professionals and offers guidance on his podcast, Practice Mastery. Dr. Chong’s favorite part of building, growing, and running his spine clinic is working hands-on with patients. Beyond that, now with two cli...

58 - The Importance of Contracts

Welcome back to the Scale Your Small Business Podcast with your host, Jillian Flodstrom. Today, Jillian is diving into an incredibly important subject for a business owner of any size, but especially one that’s looking to grow, scale, and thrive. We’re talking about contracts--why they’re important, how to make sure you’re going through the process properly, and what to look out for. On a personal side, Jill has had a first-hand experience with the importance of contracts. She was in business wi...

57 - Doing Business from the Heart w/ Darla Delayne

Thanks for tuning into the Scale Your Small Business Podcast with your host, Jillian Flodstrom. This week’s guest is Darla Delayne, a 35-year business veteran, an inspirational powerhouse coach, speaker for women who lead their business empires. She helps women entrepreneurs fine-tune their greatness and light up the world with the fire within them. There are often barriers women run into when starting to grow their businesses. For Darla, she believes women need the permission to know that succe...

56 - The Importance of an Organization Chart

Thanks for tuning into the Scale Your Small Business Podcast with your host, Jillian Flodstrom. On this week's episode, we're discussing organization charts. Jillian is here to share some tips on why organization charts are important for your business, even if it's just you by yourself or if you have a small team. Every business requires a clear structure for their company, and an organization chart can really help with that. An organization chart can make your team understand the hierarchy of y...

55 - Shifting the Perspective w/ Nicole Cramer

Welcome back to the Scale Your Small Business Podcast with your host, Jillian Flodstrom. This week, we’re welcoming number one award-winning account executive and a super successful sales coach, Nicole Cramer. Nicole is here to share with us her unique perspective on shifting our mindsets to a place of service and how we can avoid being ‘salesy.’ Nicole believes sales can be fun. It doesn’t have to be a big, scary thing. The key is shifting your perspective. Serving is selling, and selling shoul...

54 - Tracking Your Meetings

53 - Finding The Hero Within w/ James Gardiner

Thanks for tuning into the Scale Your Small Business Podcast with your host, Jillian Flodstrom! Today’s an exciting day, as we’re welcoming our first guest to the show. Joining us this week is James Gardiner, he’s a high-performance athlete who helps entrepreneurs face their challenges, uncover their secret sauce, and help their lives and businesses thrive. This week, he’s breaking down his success and how he uses Conscious Leadership to help people find theirs. James first found his interest in...

52 - Our One Year Anniversary: What’s Next

We’ve officially made it to “halftime” here on the Scale Your Small Business Podcast. That’s right, this is episode 52 and we’re celebrating the one-year anniversary of the show. It’s been an incredible journey and we can’t wait to share with you what’s coming next -- we'll be talking with our upcoming podcast guests about topics you care about most. Stay tuned to hear from some of the brightest minds in business. Jill is excited to share with you a mix of systems and processes that she uses dai...

51 - Planning Your Content

Thanks for tuning into the Scale Your Small Business Podcast with your host, Jillian Flodstrom. This week, we’re going to talk about why it’s important to plan, layout, and execute your content in an intentional way. We’ll break down strategies that can help you get ahead in case of unexpected challenges, build an audience, and calm the chaos. So, why is it crucial that you plan your content ahead of time? It’s simple. The more content you have ready to go, the more flexibility, the more control...

50 - Tracking Your Time

Thanks for tuning into the Scale Your Small Business Podcast with your host, Jillian Flodstrom. As any entrepreneur knows, time is an incredibly valuable resource. In fact, it might be the most important facet of running your business. But there will always be areas where we’re losing time, and if it can be prevented, why not save your time and money? This week, we’re talking about time management. Lauren Vanderkam’s book I Know How She Does It breaks down, in depth, how many hours we're actuall...