I slide into the holiday spirit and unwrap many of the delightful and unexpected gifts of 2020, from trimming your financial fat to reuniting with the great outdoors. Sure, 2020 has been a shit show and I’m not trying to make light of the struggles and pain you’ve faced, but with the right mindset and attitude of gratitude, you can soar into 2021 using the gifts of 2020 as assets for you and your business. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Why 2020 Wasn’t All Bad For Small Business Owners ...
Dec 21, 2020•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast I share some specific stories of when I felt my time was disrespected and the actions I took to ensure my time was not disrespected by those same people again. These sorts of experiences likely ring true for you also, so I hope my remedies will help you become a better steward of your own time by empowering you to clearly communicate your boundaries surrounding your most precious resource. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ How I Reclaimed 2+ Hours With A Two-Sentence Email ✔ Why I Sometime...
Dec 14, 2020•18 min•Ep 181•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with the co-owner of Window Works and host of A Well-Designed Business podcast, LuAnn Nigara, for an entrepreneurial case study. We take a deep dive into how she serves people by successfully connecting them with the people they truly need and drums up sales for her own business in the process. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ How LuAnn Created A Business She Could Step Away From ✔ How Her Background In Sports Taught Her To Be A Leader ✔ What Should Be At The Heart Of Every Sal...
Dec 07, 2020•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with leadership and hiring consultant, Eileen Hahn, to discuss her multifaceted selection process for hiring which she uses to help companies find and retain exceptional people with the right skillsets to fill the gaps in their businesses. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Eileen’s Multifaceted Selection Process For Hiring Exceptional People ✔ Best And Worst Practices For Hiring ✔ The Real Reasons Behind High Turnover ✔ The Golden Questions You Should Ask In Every Interview ✔ Wh...
Nov 30, 2020•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down around the virtual Thanksgiving table with some of my closest small business owner friends - Amanda Berlin, Carol Cox, Hilary Hendershot, Jamie Lieberman, Jaclyn Mellone, and Jessica Rodriguez, to talk all things business. This Friendsgiving special is jam-packed with hilarious anecdotes, shared lessons, valuable business advice, and a whole lot of love. I have so much gratitude for these relationships and the impact they’ve had on my business! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ ...
Nov 23, 2020•1 hr 27 min•Transcript available on Metacast I walk you through making your business boundaries successful by clearly identifying them, lovingly and clearly communicating them, and holding them so you can achieve your goals quicker while preserving your sanity. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ The Numerous Benefits Of Establishing Boundaries ✔ My 3-Step Framework To Making Business Boundaries Successful ✔ The Missteps Small Business Owners Make With Boundaries ✔ How To Know What You Need To Show Up Your Best ✔ Why Others Are Confuse...
Nov 16, 2020•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with the co-owner of Kickstart Accounting, Inc, Danielle Hayden, to discuss how your business finances are telling an important story and you need to be paying attention so you can stay organized, make smart decisions, and maximize profits. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ What A P&L Is And Why You Should Befriend It ✔ The Repercussions Of Not Knowing Your Numbers ✔ The Importance Of Separating Your Business & Personal Accounts ✔ Where To Get Started Fixing Your Financial Mess ...
Nov 02, 2020•54 min•Ep 176•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with the owners of Tree Amigos Growers, organic farmers Jason Long and Santiago Arroyo, to get an inside look at how they are embracing adaptability and overcoming obstacles such as a love of chaos, conflicting projects, and a global pandemic to operate a thriving working organic farm. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Their Journey From Roommates To Successful Business Partners ✔ How They Learned To Prioritize Their Big Projects & Dreams ✔ Ways They Changed Their Onboarding Pro...
Oct 26, 2020•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with two members of my curated Trusted Advisory Council, Amanda Berlin and Jamie Lieberman, to discuss the importance of collaborations, alliances, and sisterhood, and the power they can bring when you choose to do life and business with the right people. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Why I Choose To Do Life And Business With These Women ✔ How We Designed Our Mastermind To Greatly Benefit From It ✔ Why It’s Important To Develop Bonds That Are Both Personal And Professional ✔...
Oct 19, 2020•37 min•Ep 174•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into the topic of embracing empowering leadership methods so you can learn how to reclaim time and mental bandwidth by effectively delegating tasks, activities, and projects, knowing they’ll be executed successfully by others. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ The First Thing You Need To Do After Making A New Hire ✔ My 5-Step Process Of Training, Coaching, And Onboarding ✔ Strategies For Empowering Your Employees To Deliver Results ✔ Who Should Teach Each New Process (It May Not Be ...
Oct 12, 2020•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast All work and no play makes for a low-energy, boring workday. I sit down with international play speaker, Jeff Harry, to discuss how infusing play into your workday can revitalize your spirit and add joy to running your business while also positively impacting your productivity. Win-win! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ How Play Can Boost Your Energy And Get You Into Your Flow ✔ Tips For Adding More Play Into Your Day Without Tossing Away Your Goals ✔ How You Can Increase Your Productivity...
Oct 05, 2020•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast I dive in and review the popular app ClickUp - which I personally use to run my business - so you can get a grasp on its awesome features and determine if it’s an app you want to invest in to streamline your project and task management. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Why I Jumped Ship From Outlook And Trello ✔ The Magic Of Views, Boards, And Features ✔ What Kind Of Businesses ClickUp Is Great For ✔ The Reasons ClickUp May Not Be For You ✔ Tips For Onboarding Any New Program Or App ✔ So ...
Sep 29, 2020•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with my dear friend and the Founder of Hendershott Wealth Management, Hilary Hendershott, to discuss how important it is to be paying yourself for all the hard work you do, not just reinvesting your profits back into your business. Otherwise, your sabotaging your personal net worth, your sanity, and the future of your business because guess what? If you’re not bringing home the bacon, you’re not going to want to keep feeding the pig! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ How To Know...
Sep 21, 2020•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into the topic of which character traits you look for when bringing someone new onto your team – character traits like dependable, drama-free, accountable, and self-disciplined. Then I offer up a big dose of tough love, asking you to examine if you consistently show up with those traits for your business or if you deserve to be fired instead. This episode could be a bit of a punch to your ego but it could also provide the diagnosis you need to start showing up the way your business and te...
Sep 14, 2020•21 min•Ep 169•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with certified nutrition coach and host of the Grace & Grit podcast, Courtney Townley. We discuss how your productivity improves when you take time to honor your body, mind, and soul (not just your business!), how a healthy business requires healthy leadership, and the fact that health is a PRACTICE of self-leadership. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ The Mind-Body-Soul-Business Connection ✔ Ways To Honor Your Mental And Physical Health ✔ The Benefits Of Chemical Balancing ✔ Wh...
Sep 08, 2020•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast In addition to walking you through my 5 Daily Planning Pavers that will help you pave your way to a successful day every day, I discuss why your well-intentioned plans are not coming to fruition, what happens when you let your feelings dictate your day, and how I utilize mind sweeping and triggers to aid in my daily review. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Why Planning Your Day Is Essential To Maximize Your Productivity ✔ Tips To Lay The Groundwork For A Productive Day ✔ An Effective Stra...
Aug 31, 2020•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with the Co-Owner of Window Works, LuAnn Nigara, for a very special episode in which I am the one being interviewed. We discuss what it is really like to be coached on productivity but not in the way you might think… We don’t talk about the features of coaching but instead, the raw process of confronting different challenges, navigating the breaking of long-held, self-limiting beliefs, and taking strategic action. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ The Self-Limiting Belief That W...
Aug 24, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into the topic of time management and talk about how far too often, business owners aim to be productive all day even though that line of thinking is actually counterproductive to being productive. I go on to discuss what you should aim to do instead to maximize your days and streamline achieving your business goals. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Why Aiming To Be Productive All Day Is Foolish ✔ Where You Should Be Spending Your Time In Your Business ✔ How To Make “I’m A Work In ...
Aug 17, 2020•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into ten ways you might be letting time leak out of your days and therefore money leak out of your pockets. These may seem like simple things but they add up to big time wasters that dramatically affect your productivity. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ What Time Leaks Could Be Sabotaging Your Productivity ✔ Strategies To Best Plug Those Holes ✔ How Doing So Will Give You More Time In Your Business & Life ✔ Quick Tips To Keep Your Productivity On Point ✔ So Much More! To access re...
Aug 11, 2020•26 min•Ep 164•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with the founder and CEO of The Heartful Parent, Christy Keating, for a one-on-one strategy session in which we take a look behind the scenes at her business. We work through Christy’s challenges with planning her weeks that mainly exist because her business demands that her schedule from week to week will never be the same. We focus on several areas for improvement to walk Christy toward a solution, including finding time for high-value activities, batching, avoiding self-created fir...
Aug 03, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with Vita Vygovska, the owner of window treatment company Vitalia, Inc. We take an in-depth look at how she went from being a corporate dropout to a successful small business owner on track to make $1 million in revenue. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ The Non-Negotiables For Business Owners ✔The Challenges Vita Faced Building Her Team ✔ How Business Owners Should Emulate Athletes ✔ The Mantra That Keeps Vita Learning And Productive ✔ Why She Embraces 50/50 Coaching Partnershi...
Jul 24, 2020•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast In part two of my two-part series on goal achievement, I dive into how you can utilize good, better, and best goals to surpass what you thought was possible with achieving your goals. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ The Benefits Of Setting Good, Better, And Best Goals ✔ Tips For Staying On Track To Those Goals ✔ Why Specificity Matters So Much ✔ How This Strategy Has Impacted The Results Of My Goal Setting ✔ So Much More! And now, let’s get to the straight talk! Important Resources & Lin...
Jul 13, 2020•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast In part one of my two-part series on goal achievement, I dive into the topic of breaking your big goals down into smaller, attainable milestones that you can actually wrap your mind around. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ How To Make Big Goals Less Intimidating ✔ A Simple Way To Increase The Odds Of Attaining Your Goals ✔ The #1 Goal That Should Trumps All Others ✔ Why Using Tracking Metrics Is Necessary To Achieve Your Goals ✔ So Much More! And now, let’s get to the straight talk! Impor...
Jul 06, 2020•20 min•Ep 159•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with the Founder and CEO of the VA agency, The Launch Guild, Tasha Booth. We discuss strategies for getting on the same page and communicating effectively with your VAs so they can best support you and your business! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ How A VA Can Support You And Your Business ✔ Best Practices For Communicating With Your VA ✔ How You Being A Visionary Could Sabotage Your VA’s Work ✔ Why An Onboarding Packet Is Necessary To Set Your VA Up For Success ✔ So Much Mor...
Jun 29, 2020•34 min•Ep 158•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into the topic of getting your mindset on board with continuing to look for your next hire even when it’s freakin’ hard so you can find your talented diamond in the rough who’s going to fill that empty role in a way that best supports you and your business. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Recent Hiring Trends My Clients Are Dealing With ✔ Some Behind The Scenes Of My Hiring Difficulties And Wins ✔ Why You Should Be Slower To Hire And Quicker To Let Go ✔ What You Can Learn From Eac...
Jun 22, 2020•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast I walk you through my emotional journey over the past few weeks that has stretched me as a leader and a human being and made me have hope that we can all come out of this season stronger and kinder to one another. It’s not a typical episode but it’s an episode my heart insisted I record. I hope you find some value in it. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ My Gut Reaction When The Intense Conversation Surrounding George Floyd’s Death Began ✔ Why Absolute Silence Wasn’t The Answer ✔ How I’m C...
Jun 15, 2020•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into how challenging it can be to jump back on the saddle after a fall but also why you should. I discuss how you can effectively use your past failures as a foundation for monumental growth when you choose to retackle those obstacles better equipped for success. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ How To Not Let Your Failures Get The Best Of You ✔ 4 Steps To Take Before Retackling Challenges you Stumbled Over ✔ Techniques To Switch From A Victim To A Victor Mindset ✔ Who You Should L...
May 25, 2020•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into the topic of wrapping up conversations and meetings and discuss how if not done respectfully, wrapping up can seem abrupt or awkward. I go on to provide my favorite tips for wrapping up conversations effectively so both parties’ voices can be heard and time respected. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ My Go-To Solutions For Wrapping Up Conversations ✔ What Wrapping Up On Time Says About You ✔ Effective Uses Of “Can I Circle Back With You?” ✔ How To Set Boundaries In Group Chats...
May 18, 2020•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into the topic of creating accountability to discuss how having others hold you accountable will never work unless you are already practicing self-accountability. That’s because accountability starts and ends with you. Your spouse, coaches, friends, and kids are not babysitters. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ The Kind Of Accountability You Need ✔ How You’re Crossing The Line With Your Support ✔ What Accountability Should Start And End With ✔ Why You Should Care ✔ So Much More! To...
May 11, 2020•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into how optimism is typically a positive trait but if you fail to reel it in when it comes to your business, being optimistic can outright sabotage your success. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ 4 Ways Business Owners Are Too Optimistic ✔ The Importance Of Being Realistic With What You Can Take On ✔ How To Stop Feeling Defeated At The End Of Each Day ✔ The Best Way To Budget Your Time ✔ So Much More! To access resources and links from this episode, click on Show Notes . Oh and whe...
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