Being surrounded by people who genuinely care about us is so important for human beings, but sadly, it’s rare. Far too many people walk around feeling unsupported, unseen and broken.
Creating connection and building communities where they feel cared for, rooted for and seen makes such a huge impact on how they show up in the world.
How do we build communities where people feel at home right off the bat? Why do we have to shift from being the teachers to being the facilitators?
In this episode, Certified Life Coach, and the Connections Director at Nurture to Convert®, Nicole Terrell joins me to talk about the importance of community, and how to go about building it.
We are so busy all the time that we also don’t recognize the power of someone just seeing you. -Dana Malstaff
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-An individual isn’t scalable, but a community is
When we step away from being the teacher and the center of our community, how does that multiply our reach?
-Being stuck is a rite of passage
How do we see being stuck as a set up for something awesome, not a setback?
-You get to be the person that heals people
How do we help people feel less judged, broken, unseen and lonely?
Guest Bio
Nicole Terrell is a Certified Life Coach, and the Connections Director at Nurture to Convert®. She helps single women find themselves while they're in between relationships, so they don't lose themselves in their future relationships. For more information, head to https://www.wildlyworthywomen.com/.
A few years ago, the answer to growing a business was adding a bunch of value and doing all the teaching and training yourself. Today, if we want our audience to hang around, fall in love with us, share us, have loyalty and buy from us, we have to build communities.
How do we make people validated, valued and also create connection with shared beliefs and a vision for the future?
In this episode, I talk about the easiest way to grow our businesses and build a loyal audience.
If you want to grow your business nowadays, the name of the game isn’t to create a bunch of value, it’s to facilitate people feeling valued. -Dana Malstaff
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-The power of a shared vision
How do we make people feel good about being a part of what we’re building?
-You can’t have a business without a community
How do we grow without constantly teaching, training and adding value?
-You’re not alone, you’re not crazy
How do we build communities that foster a sense of belonging?
The journey of growing our businesses is anything but a straight line. We evolve, change our minds, and things shift in our worlds. We’ll go through stages of figuring things out, reworking things and pivoting and that’s totally okay! That journey builds up a toolkit that makes our communities stronger.
How do we figure out if we’re in the right niche and talking to the right people? How do we stop feeling bad about pivoting and moving into new ideas?
In this episode, returning guest and founder of Motherhood Simplified, Krista Lockwood returns to give us a peek into her evolution and share why it’s okay for our ideas to change.
A teacher doesn’t share with you as they are learning. The teacher takes the best lessons from everything they’ve learned -Dana Malstaff
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-Creating a results framework
How can we reverse engineer what we’re good at so we can succinctly explain why it works?
-It’s hard to build a community on celebration
Why is it so powerful to create a space where people can share their struggles without judgment?
-Sharing from our wounds vs. our scars
How do we know if it’s too early to start teaching something even if we’re passionate about it?
Guest Bio
Krista Lockwood is the Founder of Motherhood Simplified, where she teaches decluttering for moms who don’t want to be full blown minimalists. In 2013, she and her husband moved from Alaska to Florida with only one suitcase each. While she doesn't believe you need to go that extreme, she has been able to master the balance of having enough, but not too much. Krista strongly believes we all have what it takes to create the lives and homes we want, no matter what that looks like. On top of her courses offered on decluttering, Krista is the host of the Motherhood Simplified Podcast.
Visit http://motherhoodsimplified.com/
Join Krista’s Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/2010014145929427/
Listen to Krista’s podcast http://motherhoodsimplified.com/podcast/
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Listen to Krista’s other Boss Mom episodes:
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As Boss Moms with kids returning to school, getting back into old routines and figuring out new ones, feeling unfocused and stressed out is inevitable.
How do we bring ourselves back to center after feeling out of alignment? Is it normal to feel unfocused? Are we spending our time in the right places?
In this episode, I talk about how to reign our focus back in, and why we should give ourselves grace.
You are not unfocused. This moment is unfocused and if we recognize that, it’s fixable. -Dana Malstaff
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-What we need to focus on
How do we bring ourselves into a space where we feel good about what we’re doing?
-How to recognize when you’re not focused
How do we get to the bottom of why we’re not focused?
-Closing out things one at a time
There is no way we can get everything done at once. How do we close things out and get tasks done one at a time?