As moms, business owners and human beings in general, our lives are messy. We have scars because of what we’ve been through, and sometimes it feels like those experiences make it harder to be successful in our businesses.

The truth is, everything we’ve been through (good or bad) influences the fullness of who we are today, and there’s so much beauty in that.

In this episode, I share the power of being thankful for the things that have gotten us here, even the hard ones.

We have this immense power within us to take everything that’s ever happened to us and move ourselves into what we want to be. -Dana Malstaff 

3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode

• What I’ve learned from what I’ve been through
  It’s not easy to be thankful for our painful experiences, but is there a way to come to terms with them?
  
  
• How our stories influence the impact we make
  How do we use the things we couldn’t control that molded us into who we are to choose what we want for the future?
  
  
• The power of community
  Accepting the messiness of life is easier when you have support. How can we build and find a community of people who understand and root for us?

As Boss Moms, we tend to bite off more than we can chew, and say yes to whatever comes our way even if it doesn’t align with where we want to be. Toxic hustle culture holds us to an unhealthy standard, leaving us with less time for the things that truly energize us.

It takes work to build a business and raise a family, so how can we track our time so that it’s spent doing the things that matter to us? Can we break away from hustle culture and reclaim our energy so that we are more energized to work on our passions?

In this episode, best-selling author and TEDx speaker Jadah Sellner returns to discuss some important aspects of her book She Builds: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life which shares a new entrepreneurial model for women, one that focuses on reclaiming your time and energy and doing business on your own terms. We also chat about toxic hustle culture and how to break away from it.

For decades we’ve been reading business books that don’t reflect our truth. -Jadah Sellner

3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode

• How to embrace working at your own pace
  How do we work in a way that doesn’t deplete us and build and grow the way we want?
• Detoxing from hustle culture
  We tend to hold ourselves to a metric of success that hustle culture pushes. Why should we not compare ourselves to the standards set by hustle culture?
  
  
• How to start reclaiming your time
  How can we track how we spend our time so that we can prioritize the things that energize us?

Guest Bio

Jadah Sellner is a bestselling author, business coach, international keynote speaker, TEDx presenter, poet, and host of the Lead with Love® podcast. She's the author of SHE BUILDS: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life. She’s also the co-author of the best-selling book Simple Green Smoothies where over one million people have embraced this simple and healthy habit.

As the founder of Jadah Sellner Media, Inc. and She Builds Collective, Jadah helps women build their businesses and their lives in a way that works for them—–with love. She has been featured in Forbes, O, The Oprah Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. Learn more at jadahsellner.com or follow her on social media at @jadahsellner

When Jadah's not speaking on stage, you can catch her dancing to Beyoncé in her living room or sipping on a Chai tea latte by a cozy fireplace. She lives in the San Francisco bay area with her husband, daughter, and dog Beesly.

Visit https://shebuilds.com/ 

Find Jadah’s book on Amazon She Builds: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life

Sales gives some people energy and they thrive on it, but for others, it can be taxing. A lot of people don’t want to sell because the idea of asking for things feels wrong.

If we nurture our audience in the correct way, we don’t actually have to sell at all! Connecting with our audience can help us make more without having to sell so much.

In this episode, I talk about the importance of nurturing your audience, ways to make sales easier to execute, and how to make selling not feel like selling.

If you nurture people in the right way then you don’t have to sell. -Dana Malstaff

3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode

• The power of nurturing our audience
  Our audience plays a huge role in our businesses. How do we nurture our audience so that selling becomes easier?
  
  
• How to connect with people so they want to buy from us
  How can we build trust and connect with our audience?
  
  
• How to get your audience excited for your business
  When people are excited about our businesses, selling becomes easy. How do we ignite the excitement in our audience?

Boss Moms do a lot, but so many of us still feel inadequate when it comes to our careers, kids and relationships. These feelings are totally normal, and the more we talk about these struggles with each other, the less judged and alone we feel in them.

How does being vulnerable help us connect with other people? How can sharing stories help us work through difficulties?

In this episode, I am joined by the CEO and Founder of the Free Mama movement, Lauren Golden, who discusses the impact of sharing stories, what it takes to make courageous moves and making an impact on other women. 

Women have such a road ahead of them when it comes to shifting who they are, what they’re about, what they care about and re-finding themselves. -Dana Malstaff

3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode

• Why communication is so powerful
  Sharing stories is one of the oldest forms of communication, but people are still afraid to speak about what they are going through. How does sharing stories help us with what we are facing?
  
  
• How to move toward our goals
  How do we make courageous steps towards living the life we want to live?
  
  
• The importance of the people who surround us
  Why is it important to have a community that keeps us in momentum? 

Guest Bio

Lauren Golden loves helping mamas free themselves from the 9-5 grind. She launched The Free Mama Movement to show working moms that they don’t have to choose between family and financial stability. She is also a Speaker, Author and YouTuber. She has published two books, The Free Mama: How to Work from Home, Control Your Schedule, and Make More Money and The Free Mama, the Daily Five: Productivity Planner, Get More Done in Less Time.

Find Lauren on Instagram @laurengoldenfreemama

Visit  https://thefreemamamovement.com/social