I dive into the concept of firefighting in your business, get to the bottom of who is at fault for many of the fires taking up your time and energy, and offer solutions so you can stop being a part-time firefighter IN your business and get back to working ON your business. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ The Types Of Fires You’re Often Putting Out In Your Business ✔ Why & How They’re Are Happening ✔ Who Is At Fault For Many Of Them ✔ What You Can Do To Prevent Those Fires ✔ So Much More!...
May 11, 2022•32 min•Ep 240•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with Kinesiologist and Certified Sleep Science Coach, Tanessa Shears, to dive into the concept of biohacking your way to better sleep and less brain fog so you can show up with more energy, focus, and stamina in your business and life. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ What Brain Fog Is & How It Shows Up To Plague Your Business ✔ How To Combat Immense Brain Fog ✔ What BioHacking Is & How To Get Started ✔ What Vision You Need To Be Selling Yourself On ✔ The Magical Result When Yo...
May 02, 2022•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into a simple yet impactful strategy to turn your task list into an action list that is guaranteed to reduce stress, manage your time, and get shit done! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Why Your Task List Is Failing You ✔ What You Can Do About It ✔ The Magic Of Verberizing Your Tasks ✔ My Capitalization Trick ✔ How Verberizing Can Impact Your Business & Life ✔ So Much More! To access resources and links from this episode, click on https://AmberDeLaGarza.com/238 . P.S. Grab your sp...
Apr 25, 2022•19 min•Ep 238•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with Ron Price, a business advisor, executive coach, speaker, and author who specializes in helping leaders enhance individual and organizational effectiveness, profitability, and growth. We dive into strategies for leading your team effectively and explore the concept of thinking deeply to ignite possibilities and get results. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ How To Become A Better Leader ✔ What Thinking Deeply Entails & How It’s Different For Everyone ✔ Why Thinking Deeply Is...
Apr 18, 2022•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast You may be a great visionary full of intelligent ideas but only you can choose to use your gifts to bring a great product or service into the world. Great ideas are worth nothing unless you execute on them. Stop robbing the world of your contributions by failing to execute. Gold stars are not given for intelligence or great ideas alone. In this episode of Productivity Straight Talk , I dive into the concept of executing and focus on the importance of moving your best ideas forward, step by step,...
Apr 11, 2022•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down for an entrepreneurial case study with my client Robyn Howard. We dive into Robyn’s journey as an entrepreneur that led her to want a productivity coach and walk through how her business, team, and personal life transformed since hiring one and choosing to work ON her business instead of IN her business. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ The Challenges Robyn Faced In Marketing & Sales ✔ How She Found Her CEO Voice Through Exploration ✔ The Hang-Ups She Had To Get Over For Her Te...
Apr 04, 2022•45 min•Ep 235•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into the fear of failure and the less common but still damaging fear of success that often plague business owners. I break down what such fears look and feel like in your business and how you can combat them, shift your beliefs, and fuel your actions to better align with your goals. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ How A Fear Of Success And Failure Sabotages Your Business ✔ Why You Might Be Experiencing Such Fears ✔ Strategies To Overcome Those Fears ✔ The Result Of Shifting Your B...
Mar 28, 2022•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with the Founder of The MindFix Group, Erin Pheil, to discuss how many people are living life with one foot on the gas and the other foot on the brake, allowing uninvited head trash to control their actions and sabotage their progress. Erin lays out strategies to get unstuck and live a full, high-achieving life by eliminating such invisible roadblocks standing between you and success. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Why Your Plate Really Feels So Full ✔ How To Keep Your Mental...
Mar 21, 2022•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into strategies to recognize red flags in both potential clients and current clients and lay out what to do about them to make sure you’re not sabotaging your business and personal life. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Potential Client Red Flags To Watch Out For ✔ Current Client Red Flags Not To Ignore ✔ Why You’re Turning A Blind Eye To Red Flags ✔ The Repercussions Of Ignoring Them ✔ Strategies For Saying No To Red Flag Clients ✔ Tips For Firing Red Flag Clients ✔ So Much More! ...
Mar 14, 2022•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with the founder and CEO of Healthpreneur®, Yuri Elkaim, to dive into how he built an amazing team of stars and seeds who support his vision and goals and discuss strategies you can use to do the same. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Why Designing Your Company Culture Is So Important ✔ The Most Impactful Skill Sets To Look For In Potential Hires ✔ How Self-Awareness Shows Up In Your Business ✔ The Hard Lessons Yuri Learned During His Journey ✔ How He Put His High Quickstart En...
Mar 07, 2022•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast I give you a behind-the-scenes tour of my personal, color-coded calendar as I divulge the detailed strategies I use to schedule my time that helps me keep my life in balance and my business running smoothly. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ My Underlying Scheduling Methodology ✔ Why I Schedule In Three-Month Increments ✔ The Crucial Time Block Preventing Me From Being A Bottleneck ✔ The Holding Days & Bonus Days Tricks I Use ✔ Inspiration From My Business Model That Might Work For You ✔ S...
Feb 28, 2022•44 min•Ep 230•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with Coach, Speaker, & Entrepreneur Rob Cressy to discuss how you can show up with the intention to live by design instead of by default and make everything you do a creation-of-you instead of a have-to-do, thus accomplishing self mastery which can only benefit your business and overall life. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ What Self Mastery Is & Why It’s A Huge Component Of Your Success ✔ The Drivers Of All Your Results ✔ What We Have The Power To Create & Cultivate ✔ How Ene...
Feb 21, 2022•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into strategies to fall back in love with your business because let’s be honest… just like a romantic relationship, your love for your business can fizzle out if you don’t put the work in. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Why It’s Important To Love Your Business ✔ How To Create A Business You Want To Be In Every Day ✔ What You Should Be Focusing On Changing Up ✔ The Secret Sauce To Loving Your Business ✔ So Much More! To access resources and links from this episode, click on https:...
Feb 14, 2022•26 min•Ep 228•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with Luxe Your Business Mentor and creator of the LuxeSales System, Shayla Boyd-Gill, to dive into how you can truly sabotage your business if you fail to equip yourself with a CEO mindset and couple it with sound business strategy. We go on to discuss having radical faith in your ability to succeed to open up all sorts of possibilities and desired outcomes for your life and business. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ What A CEO Mindset Is ✔ The Impact Your Mindset Has On Your B...
Feb 07, 2022•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into the topic of habits, how they show up in your life and business, and go on to discuss how to identify whether the habits in your rinse & repeat routines are serving you well or sabotaging your success and what to do about it. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Why It’s Necessary To Get Off Auto-Pilot ✔ The Best Way To Determine If Your Habits Are Serving Or Sabotaging You ✔ How To Easily Set A Better Tone For Your Day ✔ Slip-In Habits To Consider Adding To Your Routines ✔ How To...
Feb 02, 2022•22 min•Ep 226•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into one of the biggest reason business owners are constantly overwhelmed - they’re simply taking on too many projects, meetings, partnerships, team members, and clients that aren’t a ‘hell yes,’ which forces them to spend too much time, energy, and money trying to make them work - and discuss what to do instead. In this episode of Productivity Straight Talk , I dive into the issue of taking on too many projects, meetings, partnerships, team members, and clients that don’t align with your...
Jan 24, 2022•21 min•Ep 225•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with Certified Life Coach Victoria Albina to discuss how to stop codependent, perfectionist, and people-pleasing thought patterns from making you feel anxious and stuck and how to transform such thoughts to improve your relationships and your business. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ What Codependent Thinking & How It Shows Up In Your Business ✔ Ways To Break Free From Codependent, Perfectionist, & People-Pleasing Thoughts To Reclaim Joy ✔ How Expressive Journaling Can Help Yo...
Jan 17, 2022•56 min•Ep 224•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with the Co-Founder of MeasurementMarketing.io, Chris Mercer, to dive into the world of analytics and discuss how you can effectively measure your marketing to tune into exactly what your customers want. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ What Metrics You Should Be Measuring & Why ✔ Strategies For Arming Yourself With Analytics ✔ Why To Use Google Analytics Specifically ✔ The Most Important Step People Skip in Analyzing Data ✔ How To Have The Best Grasp Of Your Marketing Machiner...
Jan 10, 2022•55 min•Ep 223•Transcript available on Metacast I provide strategies for creating, implementing, and abiding by a Word Of The Year so you can consistently take intentional action on your goal throughout the new year and beyond. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔️Why You Need A Word Of The Year ✔️ What To Do Once You’ve Chosen It ✔️ Strategies For Getting The Most Out Of Your Word ✔️ Tips For Staying Laser Focused On It ✔️So Much More! I hope you enjoy my episode on your Word Of The Year and encourage you to strongly consider what word sh...
Jan 03, 2022•23 min•Ep 85•Transcript available on Metacast Planning your year is one of the most important activities you can do as a business owner because it helps you set the overall direction of your business and determine the actions you must take to achieve your goals. It can lso be a very difficult activity if you aren;t sure what you're doing! That's why I created the Business Blueprint Full-Day Workshop in which I help you plan your entire year in a day! In this full-day virtual workshop, I will help you take the guess-work out of what next ste...
Dec 27, 2021•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast I walk you through how I recently used the insights feedback loop to figure out what I don’t want to do in my business in 2022, what I want to double-down on, and what I want to try. The insights feedback loop is a major component in my strategic business planning and I’m confident it could help you get unstuck and execute a solid business plan, too! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ What My Insights Feedback Loop Is ✔ Why It Works To Improve Your Business ✔ Strategies For Using The Insigh...
Dec 20, 2021•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into the reality that you can’t show up as your best and most productive self for your business if you can’t keep your eyes open and discuss what you can be doing instead to gift yourself more energy, less stress, and greater focus throughout the holiday season and the rest of the year! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ How You Sabotage Yourself Throughout Holiday Season ✔ What You Should Be Pausing To Do Several Times A Day ✔ Ways To Gift Yourself Self-Care Throughout The Year ✔ Wh...
Dec 13, 2021•22 min•Ep 221•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into how taking time to gain clarity on what hasn’t been working in your business this year and cleaning the slate of that baggage this month can help you start fresh in 2022. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ An Easy Way To Reclaim A Lot Of Time & Energy ✔ 3 Powerful Questions To Ask To Gain Clarity ✔ What You Need To Leave In 2021 ✔ Ideas For How You Can Start Fresh in 2022 ✔ So Much More! To access resources and links from this episode, click on https://AmberDeLaGarza.com/220 . P...
Dec 06, 2021•22 min•Ep 220•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with wealth and abundance coach for entrepreneurial women, Emily King, to dive into how your money mindset blocks may be holding you back from building an amazing relationship with money, and what you can do about it to make lots of money, not feel guilty about it, and live your best life ever. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Common Mindset Blocks Small Business Owners Experience ✔ The Question That Reveals What Your Money Blocks Are ✔ How The ‘I Can’t Afford This’ Objection A...
Nov 29, 2021•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down for a Zoom chat with my closest business owner friends to record our 2nd annual Friendsgiving episode. Join Amanda Berlin, Carol Cox, Hilary Hendershott, Jamie Lieberman, LuAnn Nigara, Jessica Rodriguez, Vita Vygovska, and me around the virtual Friendsgiving table as we indulge in a friendly conversation about all things business and different perspectives and experiences come into play. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Lessons Learned From Challenges & Triumphs In Our Business...
Nov 22, 2021•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down for an entrepreneurial case study with the owner, president, and Principal Architect for Montebello Architecture & Design, Michael Costantino, to learn about his business, discuss the lessons he’s learned, and dive into the leadership strategies he used to crush all of his 2021 goals by February. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ The Challenges Experienced When He Grew His Team ✔ How He Minimized Hiccups During Tremendous Growth ✔ What He Learned From Auditing His Team Members’ ...
Nov 15, 2021•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into the reasons so many entrepreneurs feel alone in their businesses despite being surrounded by a team and what they can do about it to minimize the overwhelm, reduce the loneliness, and get the support they need to run a thriving business. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ How I Know You’re Not Alone ✔ Ways To Get The Support You Need ✔ The Biggest Change You Need To Make In Your Business ✔ An Introduction To The S.TO.P. Leverage Formula ✔ How Leverage Lab™ Can Be A Gamechanger F...
Nov 08, 2021•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into tips for auditing, purging, and filling gaps in your tech stack so it stops overwhelming you, you stop wasting hard-earned money on apps and programs you don’t need, and you’re able to run your business more efficiently and productively. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ The Benefits Of A Tech Stack Detox ✔ A Simple System That Will Set You Up For Success ✔ How Often You Should Audit Your Tech ✔ The Game-Changing Tech I Use In My Business ✔ So Much More! To access resources and...
Nov 02, 2021•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into the importance of having a vision for your business and a vision for your personal life. I also discuss everything you need to know about creating a vision board to effectively inspire you on your good days and stressed-to-the-max days, and keep you on track toward your goals! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Ways Vision Boards Can Successfully Transform Into Your Reality ✔ How To Design Your Vision Board To Work For You ✔ Where To Put Up Your Vision Board And Why ✔ Exactly Wh...
Oct 27, 2021•20 min•Ep 214•Transcript available on Metacast I walk you through better ways of managing your projects and ideas so you can get unstuck, accomplish everything your business needs from you more efficiently, and achieve greater success. What You Will Discover: ✔ 3 Reasons You’re Taking On Too Many Projects ✔ What Ripples That Causes Throughout Your Business ✔ A Big Lie You Should Stop Telling Yourself ✔ Strategies To Take Your Projects To The Finish Line ✔ So Much More! To access resources and links from this episode, click on https://AmberDe...
Oct 18, 2021•34 min•Ep 213•Transcript available on Metacast 
