Do you ever think about the power of the words we use? Using the proper language when speaking to our kids and helping them cast a vision for their future can be so instrumental as to whether they feel like they have to do something or they're inspired to do something; whether something is an obligation or it’s something they're being called to . In today’s episode, we're talking about one simple word change you can make as you're continuing to inspire that entrepreneurial spirit in your kids an...
Mar 24, 2022•10 min•Season 3Ep. 75
Have you been wondering where your inspiration went? Most of us get a start in our businesses feeling so inspired by the possibilities ahead of us. That's why we start in the first place. But we come up on these seasons throughout the years where we wonder where that spirit of possibility went. Are we just spread too thin and we can't feel it? Was that season when we were inspired before we had the demands of also raising a family? Are we too in the weeds of being in our business that we can’t e...
Mar 21, 2022•26 min•Season 3Ep. 74
Today's episode is a story about how I cried my eyes out at my kids swim lesson and why it actually applies to you. I don't know if this happens to you, but God has a tendency to swoop in and humble me, when I need it the most. He reminds me what matters and gives me that gift of perspective. And the thing is, the gift of perspective can be pretty short lived if you don't fully embrace it, but when you do embrace it, when you take it in and weave it into everything you do and the way you see the...
Mar 17, 2022•17 min•Season 3Ep. 73
This is the one. This is the episode you need. Trust me. I've had a few interviews that keep competing for my all time favorite and there's no doubt that this one is one of them. There's a reason why Patrice Washington was named one of the most inspiring voices in personal development (two times!) by Success Magazine, and there is a reason that in her years as America's Money Maven, Patrice became known across many circles as the go-to resource for financial possibility. In this interview, you g...
Mar 14, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 72
Are entrepreneurs born or made? Do you ever wonder if some people are just designed with entrepreneurship in their DNA? It seems like they’re just made for it and they would never quit, because it's just a piece of who they are. Or do you question if nurture plays the greatest role in developing the entrepreneurial spirit? So, let's have a little debate today and leave you with some practical tips to bring into your home to support your entrepreneurial Luminaries and feel confident that you're g...
Mar 10, 2022•17 min•Season 3Ep. 71
Join me in one of the most impactful podcast episodes you’ll ever hear! Don't tell my mother, but she's currently in competition for my favorite interview of all time. My mom took the cake with her episode…that is until I had Scott Mann on the show. 18 years as a Green Beret, 23 years in the United States Army, a father, a husband, and someone who has fine tuned his leadership skills and is making an impact around the world beyond anything I've ever seen. Today’s conversation with Scott blew me ...
Mar 07, 2022•51 min•Season 3Ep. 70
As entrepreneurs, we like to study the habits of really successful business owners in order to replicate a process or a system that's worked for someone doing something similar to what we're aspiring to do. Today, I want to talk about combining the habits of our two most important callings in life - our business and our family. We're shifting out of having to juggle these two worlds and we're stepping into and transforming into what I call a founder family. You're not just an entrepreneur who ca...
Mar 03, 2022•16 min•Season 3Ep. 69
I'm gonna give you a little hint - it is actually not about creating more hours in the day. I know you feel spread thin, I know you feel hurried, but the way out of it is not working more and it's not getting more things checked off your to-do list. That habit is only going to break you. It's gonna burn you out and it's going to keep you from stepping into the life you want and operating at optimal levels with peace, fulfillment and prosperity. Today, we're talking about a process that is going ...
Feb 28, 2022•36 min•Season 3Ep. 68
This is our most asked for topic yet! As entrepreneurs, we can be well-meaning in our guidance and our little shoves when we see potential in our kids, but we can ultimately do more harm than good in their first experience in the entrepreneurial world, if we're not intentional and understanding of the ways to do it, and the things to avoid. So, your kid wants to start a business? Let’s talk about how you can help them. There's just something about that young entrepreneur that's so refreshing and...
Feb 24, 2022•18 min•Season 3Ep. 67
Do you know what the most common thing I hear my listeners and members of my programs say, as already successful entrepreneurs? I feel split in two. Being ambitious and excited to pursue your dreams in business, but also feeling this pull to your family is such a tough feeling to navigate and definitely one I can resonate with. How can you ever be enough to lead in two separate worlds? You can’t. Does that mean that you can't be an incredibly successful entrepreneur in the same season that you a...
Feb 21, 2022•27 min•Season 3Ep. 66
It's such a dreamy idea to check out of work to show up for your family and have these clean lines between the two. Except that's almost never how it works. You might be advanced enough to do what the gurus teach about having boundaries and blocking time off to be with your family and away from your work, but does your brain always get that memo or is it being pulled in so many different directions putting out a million little fires in the business? I get it, because I've lived it. But the most ...
Feb 17, 2022•16 min•Season 3Ep. 65
As entrepreneurs, we have the very best of intentions to figure out how to do it all. From content creation, meeting with the team, checking the tasks off of the to-do list to learning how to use all the new systems and supporting the clients. This doesn’t even take into account the fact that we have a spouse or kids, a home, dinner to cook or laundry to fold, a baseball game to drive to or a parent that might need us. The list never ends. And as a result, the only option seems to be - hurry, ru...
Feb 14, 2022•33 min•Season 3Ep. 64
It’s finally here! The long-awaited episode in which we give you the big reveal! After countless conversations with many of you, learning so much from our clients and our peers, and really just experiencing life ourselves, as entrepreneurial parents who are called to those two vocations and missions of truly crushing it in business, while at the same time raising a happy, successful family, we are now officially opening the doors to an event that is quite literally the first of its kind (and we'...
Feb 10, 2022•20 min•Season 3Ep. 63
What would it feel like to find harmony between your ever demanding work life as you seek to take your business to the next level, and your even more demanding home life as you're looking to raise leaders? A lot of entrepreneurs, who also have strong roots in their family, are expending so much energy trying to bridge that gap between these two separate worlds - business and family, when maybe that's not the right way to go about it. You're not a leader in two totally different arenas. By choosi...
Feb 07, 2022•27 min•Season 3Ep. 62
Lately, we've been talking a lot about finding your child's passion and spark to pursue a life of purpose and significance, and it has really been resonating with you guys. You've been asking for more and we want to bring you more. We want to continue this conversation because it's so important. So, today’s conversation is all around the idea of helping our kids pursue their passion versus assigning vocation to our kids. It's very on par with what we talked about, and it's building on the conver...
Feb 03, 2022•9 min•Season 3Ep. 61
How many times have you found success and growth in your business at the expense of your sanity, your family or your joy in the process? It doesn't have to be that way. Today's episode will actually give you tangible and tactical ways that you can develop and go from a stressed out entrepreneur into a healthy CEO, building this empire of a business without the burnout. Leave the burnout behind, don't wear it as a badge of honor. You don't need it anymore! There's a better way and it involves bot...
Jan 31, 2022•45 min•Season 3Ep. 60
Today's episode might be a kick in the gut and it might ruffle some feathers, but I come in peace. Today we're talking about how we can really build and cultivate that connection with our kids. It's something that, if I had to guess, is one of the biggest desires on your heart because it is one of the biggest desires on mine too. We start our business with them in mind even if they are not in existence yet, with this vision of having the freedom to be a present parent. So, let's get down to the ...
Jan 27, 2022•17 min•Season 3Ep. 59
Take a look behind the scenes of Luminary Leadership! Today I bring you our creative director - Caitlyn Jeffery and the story behind what brought us together. This episode has been a long time coming and it captures the mission of where we're going both as a company and as a team and is geared towards our entrepreneurial leaders and families. SHOW NOTES: https://luminaryleadershipco.com/episode58 RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: Download Raising Luminaries Spark: https://luminaryleadershipco.com/spa...
Jan 24, 2022•43 min•Season 3Ep. 58
How often do we, as adults, lose our passion or lose sight of the things that we were once passionate about? How can you preserve that passion in your children? One of our key jobs as parents is to preserve that passion and not let the world take it. Today, I'm gonna tell you a story that highlights this about one of my team members and one of her kids and, hopefully you take this and do it with your own children. Let's raise them up right! SHOW NOTES: https://luminaryleadershipco.com/episode57 ...
Jan 20, 2022•11 min•Season 3Ep. 57
I've been so eager for this episode to drop because I know that this conversation with Mike Zeller is going to be one that stays with you for a lifetime! Gearing up for this particular conversation, God just kept dropping in my lap these hints that you, my wonderful listeners of the Luminary Leadership Podcast, needed to have these conversations around the idea of shifting away from just pursuing what is easy, comfortable and what feels like it will bring success and tapping into who you're call...
Jan 17, 2022•31 min•Season 3Ep. 56
At Luminary Leadership, our focus is very heavy on helping you raise leaders as you build your empire and giving you the tools and the resources to do it. The other day, while I was having a meeting with my creative director Caitlyn, we both had a very stark realization that the school system and society are not helping any of us do that. It's not helping us raise leaders. It's not helping us build confidence in our kids. Caitlyn showed me a picture of her daughter's progress report from grade s...
Jan 13, 2022•15 min•Season 3Ep. 55
It is time for a yearly review. To me, New Year’s resolutions set an unrealistic expectation that things will be different just because the clock struck midnight, without acknowledging how to make them different. In a way, it's similar to the definition of insanity where we step into a new year with a new resolution, but we didn't change anything about ourselves. So, today's episode is one that's going to help you shift life on its axis, in the direction you actually feel called to go. You'll be...
Jan 10, 2022•28 min•Season 3Ep. 54
We set our vision and goals for this year as adults, as entrepreneurs. But what about our kids? To close out last year we did an episode around this idea of helping our kids to set goals of their own. But, today we want to give those goals meaning and breathe life into a vision that will really speak to our children. Goals are just the stepping stones to something greater. They're not the end-all be-all. So, let's talk through how to help our kids rise above a New Year's resolution and step into...
Jan 06, 2022•16 min•Season 3Ep. 53
Are you “running” your business; are you “running” your family? Well no more, because it's time to lead. This is your year to lead, so no more operating day-to-day or even quarter-to-quarter, no more spinning your wheels or constantly feeling behind, wondering what you need to do to move the dial. I'm not really into the whole New Year, New You thing because it doesn't really account for all the work that's required to become an elevated version of yourself. But I am behind making a shift from s...
Jan 03, 2022•40 min•Season 3Ep. 52
‘Tis the season… for goal setting. This is something that our children can and should be doing at all ages. Goals help us align our actions with our values and bring what's most important to us to life. Don’t get me wrong, I don't think goals are end-all be-all, but they are the stepping stones in pursuit of the vision of possibility of what's next for us. There's this staggering statistic out there that over 90% of people never actually accomplish the goals they set for themselves. That's uplif...
Dec 30, 2021•18 min•Season 2Ep. 51
Where do I go from here? Entrepreneurship is an evolution, because you are a perpetual evolution and your business should continue to grow and change with you. Many entrepreneurs, at some point in their business, get a desire to pivot or to make some kind of transition because they are being led into something else. This is totally normal, but it can be challenging. So how do you do it? In today's episode, we are breaking down the “how to” behind pivoting your business. SHOW NOTES: https://lumin...
Dec 27, 2021•30 min•Season 2Ep. 50
Teaching our kids to get back up! This is one of the most important pieces to the Raising Luminaries puzzle. Teaching our kids to keep getting back up, to develop a level of toughness that allows them to forge ahead despite everything life is bound to throw at them, will automatically set them apart from their peers. Because today’s culture does not teach this; toughness is not currently a virtue, resilience is not valued. In today’s episode of Raising Luminaries, we go over what this looks like...
Dec 23, 2021•15 min•Season 2Ep. 49
Do you ever feel like it's Groundhog Day? One of the most common themes among you, my listeners, is that you feel like you're so in the weeds of today, that it's hard to see how the vision is actually gonna play out. You have vision, but you can't see how those dots connect. The common thread among entrepreneurs who feel the glory of that wholesome success in both their life's work and in their homes with the people they love, is that they are present in today without feeling stuck in the weeds ...
Dec 20, 2021•29 min•Season 2Ep. 48
Confidence is a critical component of developing in leadership, both for us and for our kids. As business owners, no matter what level we’re at, we often struggle with imposter syndrome, desperation for worth, security, approval and validation. I think the answer to all those things ultimately boils down to having true confidence that's innate. So (per usual) my mind goes straight to: how can we set our kids up to struggle less with this concept, because I believe that raising confident children...
Dec 16, 2021•17 min•Season 2Ep. 47
Are you toying around with the idea of hosting an event? Then this episode is for you! Coming off the heels of two back-to-back events, one for our Maverick Mastermind and the other for our Luminary Leadership Incubator, today I'm sharing with you what we did to prep, how to have an inspiring event for your guests that actually makes epic change within your business, what to avoid, and how to leverage it for continued growth within your brand. Listen in to see how an in person event can really l...
Dec 13, 2021•34 min•Season 2Ep. 46
