When our society often expects perfection, it may be surprising to get advice to just take imperfect action. But at Success with Soul, that is often what we advise our clients when they are letting fear and perfectionism keep them from taking any action at all. Today’s guest, Incubator client Ximena Borges, has adopted that advice as her new mantra in life and business. Co-founder of Juliet and the Elf (a resource for parents to learn how to use music during different brain development stages of...
Apr 13, 2023•36 min•Season 3Ep. 122
Today’s podcast guest is a leading expert in SEO – he actually created a popular SEO keyword search tool, Ubersuggest. Neil Patel joins us to talk about all things SEO, 2023 trends, and artificial intelligence in this episode. Anyone who follows my work will know that I am a bit of an SEO fan – I ditched social media for it and have had amazing success driving organic traffic to my site and building a business with SEO. Top experts talk about the vital role that SEO plays in building an online p...
Apr 06, 2023•34 min•Season 3Ep. 121
This week we are going behind the scenes on another Incubator coaching call where Kate and clients talk about how to narrow your offer and business focus and the power of sharing your story to connect with potential clients! Talking about yourself – especially with your business – can be scary. Is there actually anything that powerful about sharing it, anyways? The simple answer to that is YES. Statistics show that stories are more memorable to the human brain and that customers and clients want...
Mar 30, 2023•14 min•Season 3Ep. 120
This week we continue giving you an exclusive listen inside the Incubator mastermind in another live Q&A session between Kate and clients. In Part 3, we are talking about where our work and businesses fall in our list of life priorities, and how easily we can let that list get jumbled up. When we actually think about what matters to us, most often work is not first on the list, yet can so easily consume most of our time and attention. As we take an intentional look at that list, we also dive...
Mar 23, 2023•36 min•Season 3Ep. 119
Every business owner is going to have periods of real frustration and discouragement. This can be a season where no sales are coming in. It can be a big life transition like moving, or a divorce, or pregnancy, or leaving your stable corporate job, or raising little kids. It can just be a sense of feeling overwhelmed and not knowing what to do next. It can be easy and pretty damn natural to have negative self-talk and all kinds of limiting beliefs pop up in these seasons of uncertainty. So, what ...
Mar 16, 2023•21 min•Season 3Ep. 118
Today we're shaking it up and sharing something very special with you: an exclusive listen inside an Incubator mastermind Q&A session. In Part 1 of this recorded conversation, we're diving into the concept of choosing our feelings (yes, choosing), and how the self-talk we opt for based on those feelings — whether it's positive self-talk or negative self-talk — correlates directly to the actions we take and the outcomes we experience in life and business. We often don’t think of our feelings ...
Mar 09, 2023•18 min•Season 3Ep. 117
It's not uncommon for business owners to seek out networking organizations for the connections. That is, after all, a key way that a business women's network can practically support one another. But Danielle Wiebe wanted something different when she first imagined what would become the Business Babes Collective in 2015. She wanted less corporate and way more fun. She wanted connections that were based on authentic relationships, not just professional opportunism. She wanted women to expand their...
Mar 02, 2023•40 min•Season 3Ep. 116
Our guest today is functional nutritionist, women’s health expert, and extraordinary Incubator client Sarah Jane Sandy! Sarah had a somewhat unusual experience as a new business owner back in the early 2000s: it was actually pretty easy for her from the start. She grew up in a family that understood her business niche and had built successful businesses themselves in the holistic wellness space. She started out as a fertility expert inside a holistic business collective, which made marketing and...
Feb 23, 2023•41 min•Season 3Ep. 115
Many people carry a ton of preconceptions and judgments about tarot card reading. They write it off as silly or associate it with tented rooms, crystal balls, and prediction. We can all probably conjure scenes from movies or TV shows where someone walks in and gets a mysterious message from the Great Beyond about when they're going to die, or get married — some very particular thing about their future. But Desi Domo has a totally different perspective about tarot and its purpose. She sees it as ...
Feb 16, 2023•37 min•Season 3Ep. 114
Lacey Sites is a disruptor and a change maker in the coaching industry. She’s got the education, experience, and business intuition to figure out what’s going to work for her, and she’s not afraid to take risks and do things no one else is doing. One of the most exciting ways she’s disrupting the coaching industry is with her revenue sharing model. Simply put, Lacey’s business earns money through sharing revenue with her clients. So rather than a package rate, or hourly rate, or any other tradit...
Feb 09, 2023•49 min•Season 3Ep. 113
There's no doubt that if you're going to own your own business, there are going to be seasons where you've got to work hard. Whether it's developing a new offering, getting your website up and ready, or launching your program — sometimes you've got to go the extra mile to make things happen. But what happens when hustle becomes a lifestyle ? Many of the women who come to us at the Incubator have been experiencing the long term effects of stress on the body: sleeplessness, panic attacks, inflamma...
Feb 02, 2023•38 min•Season 3Ep. 112
We’ve probably all felt it at one time or another: that gentle but persistent tugging at your soul towards something different. Some part of you can’t stop wondering if there is something bigger, better, more soul-fulfilling out there for you. In today’s episode, Dr. Tracey McGrath shares with us how she followed that pull and made the brave leap from Pharmacist to Mindful Art Teacher — with the help of meditation and mindful art, of course. This is a wonderful example of how the Universe works ...
Jan 26, 2023•25 min•Season 3Ep. 111
I am a big planner and organizer. It's totally my jam. And there are healthy and beautiful aspects to this passion, for sure. But here's something I notice in the entrepreneurial world, where a lot of us are driven, high-achieving planners: we get paralyzed sometimes by our intense need to be super-duper prepared for everything. If you've been sitting on a great business idea for a while, and you can't get going because you’re worried you don’t have exactly what you need to start your business —...
Jan 19, 2023•30 min•Season 3Ep. 110
In entrepreneurial circles these days, you're likely to hear plenty of talk about creating a positive mindset. Change your mindset, change your life ... right? But when it comes time to change the behavior, it's not uncommon to discover just how stubborn and sticky our patterns (and the thoughts that underlie them) can be. So, if your thoughts become your reality ... and you're having trouble shifting your reality ... then you can be fairly certain that it isn't the behavior that needs your init...
Jan 12, 2023•40 min•Season 3Ep. 109
At Team KK, we're big believers in the idea that words matter, and that being thoughtful about our desires can have a significant impact on the quality of our experiences. Today, we're bringing you behind the scenes to our annual planning meeting as we wrap up Season 2 of the podcast and look ahead to our hopes for the company and ourselves in the coming year! Part of what we like to do at the close of each year is to just take some time to take stock, to look back, and to name our desires for t...
Dec 15, 2022•22 min•Ep. 108
In November 2021, I sent an email to my list with a big, scary announcement. I was letting them know that I was retiring my 21 Days to Impact program and my 6-Figure Blog Academy program and integrating them into a single, all-encompassing, deep-dive program that's now the Success With Soul Incubator , which I had launched in March 2021. Here's the thing: these were my most successful programs. They had allowed me to consistently bring in $50K months on autopilot. The Incubator was in its baby p...
Dec 08, 2022•33 min•Ep. 107
In her 22 years in corporate life, Melissa Therrien has heard a similar story from so many women in business: they're successful, but they rarely feel alive. They're often moms and caregivers, and their jobs likely involve serving others, as well. Often their work requires a lot of analytical and strategic thinking. So in these roles of relentlessly serving other people, over time, they tend to give so much of themselves away to other people that they begin to lose pieces of themselves. They're ...
Dec 01, 2022•30 min•Ep. 106
We often hear about the entrepreneur who has a crystal-clear vision from day 1 about exactly what she wants her online business to look like. She knows what she wants to offer. She knows her target audience. She understands her niche. That's one way that an entrepreneur can feel the pull to start a business. And it's a wonderful way! But there's another way that we maybe don't talk about quite as much — and that's the entrepreneur who's clear that she wants to build a business ... but the detail...
Nov 24, 2022•28 min•Ep. 105
Bront'e Singleton is no stranger to trying — and struggling — to learn a new language. She downloaded all of the apps. Bookmarked all of the blogs and Youtube channels. Bought into a lot of resources, programs, and classes. But still she struggled. It definitely wasn't a lack of interest or ability. She loves languages and loves reading and has a natural gift for learning languages. It had way more to do with process than with passion . She needed more than just tips to learn a new language. She...
Nov 17, 2022•27 min•Ep. 104
Sometimes it's easy for women business owners to get caught up in this idea that in order to be successful, they have to "win" at playing the game that male entrepreneurs have been playing for so long. So they work harder. They put in gruesomely long hours. They try to contort themselves into the mold of the Marketing Bro who's making it all happen all the time, at the exact same intensity levels, even though our bodies (and everything else in the natural world) operates on cycles. We know what ...
Nov 10, 2022•21 min•Ep. 103
You don't have to look too far to see how often entrepreneurs who are practitioners of one kind or another transition to creating a mentoring business to help other practitioners in their field. I've done it (and love it!), and our guest today is another example of someone who has made the move from practitioner to mentor — and who has learned how to create a whole other thriving branch of her business. Sabrina Gebhardt started out as a lifestyle photographer, and she has built a very successful...
Nov 03, 2022•27 min•Ep. 102
There is no getting around it: building and leading a team is hard, hard work. Even if you're a charismatic people-person. Even if you've managed people inside a corporate environment before. Even if you understand in concept what makes a team great. There's just so much energy and emotion that goes into creating this group of people who are helping you carry out the vision of your business, and whose livelihood and wellbeing also become part of your care and awareness. It's vulnerable, humbling...
Oct 27, 2022•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 101
One of the unofficial mantras of Team KK and the work we do with women entrepreneurs is, We're not meant to do this alone. We need each other, and we need a solid team we can depend on. And perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than what goes into finding and hiring a Chief Operations Officer (COO). Your COO is really your right-hand woman — the person who keeps things running, who makes hiring decisions, who handles all things team-related, who ensures that we are putting all the systems in pla...
Oct 20, 2022•25 min•Ep. 100
Team values are easy to think of and post on your website or in job descriptions. But they can be tough to actually live out and embody — especially if your team is spread out across multiple continents. In today’s episode, you’ll meet Olivia Blase, our Operations Assistant who joins us every day from Madrid, Spain. Olivia and Indira dive into what it takes to build a healthy remote team culture, including taking on the challenge of embodying our stated values like “We make mistakes.” (Yes, that...
Oct 13, 2022•30 min•Ep. 99
There tends to be a kind of wonderful synchronicity to finding the right people for your team. And often, I don't even find them. They find me — which feels like even more of a gift. That's how it worked with Rachel Silves, who is currently our Program and Marketing Coordinator at Team KK. Rachel brought more than a decade of entrepreneurship with her when she decided to make the transition to being an intrapreneur with Team KK. And she brings her varied and interesting experience with her insid...
Oct 06, 2022•26 min•Ep. 98
As y'all know, vulnerability and transparency are some of my top core values. And I have not been shy about my struggles with learning how to be a leader. I have had to learn how to hire and onboard and train and retain good people. Building a team culture and making sure we have all of our systems in place — SOPs, project management, communication tools, how to delegate properly, how to make sure that everybody is aligned with our core values, and even figuring out what our core values are — it...
Sep 29, 2022•25 min•Ep. 97
Welcome to the Success With Soul podcast! Today we're talking about a topic we've never talked about before: how to sell an online service business. So if you've got a service-based business that you're thinking of selling, or you just want to know more about how to build a sellable asset — today's conversation is for you! I've talked about the emotional journey of feeling "done" with my first blog, Root + Revel, navigating that new territory, and trying to decide what to do. What I didn’t know ...
Sep 22, 2022•39 min
Today, we're republishing one of my most-listened-to episodes about course creation. So if you're wondering what it's REALLY like to create and launch an online course, this one is for you. I have tried, failed, and succeeded — and today I'm re-sharing what I learned. And hopefully these insights can help you when it's YOUR turn to launch an online course! PLUS — this is it: the cart is closing on Amy Porterfield's Digital Course Academy — so register while you still can. One thing about me: whe...
Sep 15, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Welcome to the Success With Soul podcast! In honor of Digital Course Academy opening up, we’ve been doing an amazing series all about online courses for the last few weeks. Today we’re featuring a brand new conversation with Amy Porterfield. And this time, we’re diving into the mental game of creating and selling courses: letting go of perfectionism, getting out of your own way, and giving yourself permission to evolve. It’s easy to think that someone like Amy Porterfield — the Queen of Online C...
Sep 08, 2022•43 min•Ep. 99
Welcome to the Success With Soul podcast! Today I'm re-sharing an episode from last year all about how to create passive income using online courses, an evergreen sales model, and finding the right tools to help you reliably put elements of your biz on autopilot. I had always heard about the magical allure of the evergreen model. The possibility of not having to live launch sounded amazing . An evergreen funnel is an automated funnel that, when done well, creates ease and sustainability in your ...
Sep 01, 2022•44 min
