We are all constantly faced with challenges in our lives, both big and small. We constantly talk about how to move past challenges, but rarely talk about how to build up the skills that allow us to be resilient in the first place. Why is resilience necessary, and how do we build it up? How can you bounce back from challenges? On this episode, speaker, author and resilience mentor, Sandra Younger joins us to talk about surviving a traumatic fire, how that built up her resilience, and how we can build ours up too.
“We can--on our own, by our own choice-- build our resilience.” -Sandra Younger
3 Things We Learned From This Episode
Be proud of committing time to your kids 07:22 - 07:56
A lot of women who decide to stay at home and raise their children feel like they won’t be able to make up the time that could have been spent focusing on a career. You’re not going to get those years back in your career, but you’re not going to get them back with your kids either.
Resilience practice starts with gratitude 13:37 - 14:45
When you want to practice resilience, the very first step is to have gratitude. It is the antidote to all of our negative emotions, and it’s a big part of the healing process. It also keeps us from being stuck in resentment and a general life of misery.
The ComeBACK Formula 17:13 - 20:41
Be patient with the process and the pain, and believe that you can come back from it.
Accept help-- don’t think it’s weak to do so. Ask when you need it.
Choose your story. We don’t always get to choose what happens to us, but we can choose our response.
Keep moving, forgive, and lose attachment to how things need to be.
Life is not easy, and we have to overcome a lot of difficult things. Resilience is something we were born with, and it gives us the ability to overcome challenges. We can open ourselves up to possibilities and opportunities on the other side of adversity or disaster, but there are steps we have to take. Practice gratitude, be patient, ask for help, choose the story you attach to an occurrence, and then keep moving forward by forgiving. We can practice all of this and build it like a muscle.
Many entrepreneurs spend a lot of time building up content, but they miss out on building programs people can pay for. Why is it so mission critical to have these programs? How can you go about actually creating them? On this episode, I talk about the importance of turning what you offer into something that can help you make money.
As you get better at what you do, what you know is going to be worth more. -Dana Malstaff
3 Things We Learned From This Episode
A lot of entrepreneurs think they can only start launching paid programs once they’re much bigger, but you can start now. We make money by selling things, and the things we sell must have structure. The nuances with which we deliver our programs are just as important as the kind of effort we put into marketing, words and sales pages. Whether you offer one-on-one coaching, set up a live event, or create paid content, setting up this kind of program will boost your business in a major way.
Our culture struggles to allow women to be simultaneously motherly and sensual. What do we get so wrong about our understanding of sexuality? What happens when your vibration rises? Why should we be willing to face pain? On this episode, I have a powerful conversation with coach Allana Pratt who shares the journey she’s taken to an open heart.
The internal always creates the external. The masks don’t work, and our strength is in our vulnerability. -Allana Pratt
3 Things We Learned From This Episode
Sexuality isn’t just sex (07:36 - 09:00)
Our culture doesn’t know how to deal with the fact that women can be mothers and still be sexy. We have forgotten that sexuality is literally sacred life force energy. It is sexual, creative, life force energy, and we have wrongly compartmentalized it into genital copulation.
Connect with little you (11:16 - 12:39)
So many people seek approval through touch, sex, and relationships. What makes them feel good is from the outside-in, but it should be from the inside-out. You have to mentally go inside to “little you”: the child who is alone, and scared. Learning to soothe that person is a powerful step to inner peace.
When you get to know yourself, expect a lot of changes (14:44 - 14:59)
Be warned: if you’re going to really dive in and get to know yourself, be prepared to not like every thing you have put in your life. Be ready to be strong enough to change those things.
There are consequences to finding and reclaiming yourself. As you rise in your vibration, whatever is of the old vibration won’t fit anymore and will fall away. It takes great bravery and great courage to make the changes that come with a change in your vibration. That’s why it’s so important to have a solid relationship with yourself. Remember: we have to experience both joy and pain for us to truly be who we are. There’s so much power in having communion with yourself, your truth, your body, and your heart.
Guest Bio
Allana is an intimacy expert who inspires open hearted living, with delicious sass. Featured on CBS, TLC & FOX, this cum laude graduate of Columbia University is the Author of 3 books. She’s a coach to celebrities is and the Host of the sexy empowering show “Intimate Conversations LIVE”. Go to http://allanapratt.com/ for more information.
On your website, a “thank you page” should be the first thing a person sees after they’ve said “Yes!” to you about something. If we fail to provide more ways to interact or connect with us, we’re missing out on huge opportunity. We want to guide people to the next step while they’re open, energetic, and excited about us.
In this episode, I’ll explain how powerful your thank you page can be, how it can help you create die-hard fans, and share some tips on exactly how to build it!
“It’s not ‘salesy’ to offer them an additional step to get closer to what they want” - Dana Malstaff
3 Things We Learned From This Episode
Start the message of your page by thanking them for specifically what they did (or the form in which they said “yes” to you). Speak to their frustration, and propose an alternative. Let them know they’re in the right place, and provide the source of a solution. Setting this up in a way that resonates with your target audience is a powerful way help them find you, connect with you, and share you!
Trauma can be defined as something that has severe emotional consequences. Why is it sometimes so hard to identify the source of your trauma? How do techniques like EFT, NLP and hypnotherapy help people change limiting beliefs? What is the first step you can take towards mental freedom? On this episode Mindset Mentor, Jacqui Letran shares the answers to these questions and more.
If there’s a desire that you have to change your belief system, you can make that change incredibly fast with the right tools. -Jacqui Letran
3 Things We Learned From This Episode
90% of people are wrong about the traumas that hold them back. If you’ve experienced a trauma like rape, a car accident or witnessing a death, we can clearly recognize where things changed. The difficult part is identifying when a trauma affected you when you don’t think the event was actually traumatic.
It’s impossible to change a person’s limiting beliefs unless they really want to. If you’re equipped with the right tools and really want something different, it will happen for you.
The premise of EFT (emotional freedom technique) is that we are all made of energy, and when we have emotional trauma, it stays with us for the rest of our lives. Your mind processes information and delivers to you things that match your belief system. To break free from this, you can use methods like EFT to reset the beliefs you have stored within.
A lot of us give up our power and control so easily when we let past events, people and things dictate how we feel and react. You can change this by being 100% responsible for all your happiness and not giving other people permission to ruin your day or change how you feel about yourself. Breaking from negative limiting beliefs is all about changing the tapes that are playing automatically in your mind. Remember, the stories you’re replaying aren’t what’s happening right now. Your belief system can be wrong, and should be challenged. Accepting this brings you one step closer to happiness.
Guest Bio
Jacqui is a Mindset Mentor specializing in helping teens and young adults take control of their lives by taking control of their minds. Go to jacquiletran.com for more information or email author@jacquiletran.com.
Sales funnels are a hot topic right now, and for good reason. They are a great way to generate awareness and excitement around what you have to offer, ultimately leading people from your free content to your paid service.
In this episode, I’m going to explain the crucial (but simple!) pieces of an effective sales funnel that you can feel good about, and will ultimately bring your audience to an easy “yes”.
3 Things We Learned From This Episode
A sales funnel is a streamlined way to attract the people who are right for you, while filtering out those who aren’t. A resonant “Aha!” moment combined with an easy opt-in can make the jump from “cool” to “commit” a natural progression. If you have an offering that can make a person’s life easier, getting that easy “Yes!” can be as simple as showing them the way.
Breaking through to new levels in your live and business require 3 elements: Discipline, Consistency and Persistency.
Misfit Entrepreneur Dave Lukas joins us to share how to take control of your life, build daily routines that work for us, and why we should all stop trying to be a jack of all trades.
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In this episode I'm sharing 6 ways you can grow your business by growing your team - the right way.
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Something I often get questions about is how to grow your team the right way at the right time in order to grow and scale your business.
After the last Boss Mom Retreat I received a message from my good friend and author Maria Dismondy who shared that following the retreat, she hired several new team members that she’d met while attending, and was already experiencing growth as a result.
So, to explore this idea of refining and growing your business by building your team I invited Maria on today’s episode to share her insights and experience, which I think you’ll find massively helpful.
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Do you often find yourself frustrated when things in your business aren't working or selling, but you have no idea why?
In this episode I'm going to walk you through a process of determining where there are gaps in your sales journey and how to fix them so you can be connecting with (and converting!) the right kinds of customers.
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As we continue the conversation about tweaking and refining to grow our businesses, we wanted to dive into an exploration of how to assess and improve the way we are engaging with our communities.
In this episode NJ and I are sharing some of the journey and process behind how we’ve grown the Boss Moms Facebook community, as well as some tips and strategies that you can take to tweak how you’re building and engaging with your own community.
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Everything we do in our businesses should be with the intention of improving the journey we take our customers on and the experience we provide for them.
In this episode I'm sharing 5 great strategies that will help you identify the gaps that exist in your current customer experience and how to refine and improve it moving forward.
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As we continue to discuss tweaking and refining to grow our businesses, part of that process is learning to be okay with reviewing our failures so we can make them better...but it's not always easy!
In this episode I'm joined by my personal life coach, Valerie Friedlander, to explore how we can assess our failures in a way that frees us to move forward and create the kind of change and growth we want to see.
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As business owners there are a million and one different things we can spend our time doing in an effort to grow and scale our businesses.
The problem is, when we're doing a million and one different things to grow, the opposite usually ends up happening.
In this episode I'm sharing the #1 thing you can do to experience the kind of growth you want in your business this year (hint: it involves doing less, not more!)
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To kick off the new year and a brand new 6-week series all about growing your business through tweaking and refining, I am talking with Kelsey Van Kirk from Simply, Life on Purpose all about how to clarify the "why" behind your business so you can move forward with focus in 2018.
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As you prepare to ring in a brand new year, take a few minutes to tune and consider these 5 things you can do to really finish strong before moving forward in your business. Let's not let things fizzle out....keep rolling, and make it happen!
Lisa Woodruff is a home organization expert, productivity specialist and author of The Mindset of Organization: Take Back Your House One Phase at a Time, and How ADHD Affects Home Organization.
She believes organization is not a skill you are born with, but rather a skill that is developed over time and changes with each season of life.
In this episode we are exploring the mindset behind organization, as well as how we become who we are, why we do the things we do, and how the way we organize our things affects our lives and businesses.
I think you'll walk away feeling motivated and inspired to dig in an get organized going into 2018. Enjoy!
What do you think your life and business would look like if you began focusing on managing your energy instead of just managing your time?
In this Nurture Your Business segment I am exploring how learning to understand, honor, and manage your energy well is the true key to effective time management, and ultimately, a more fulfilling and productive life.
We are all parents just trying to do our best to raise great kids, right? Well what if I told you that you could do just that by being a little more intentional about the books you are choosing to read with your kids?
In this episode I'm joined by my amazing friend Samantha Munoz, who is a mother, wife, engineer, bibliophile, avid coffee drinker, and also the expert kid’s lit curator at Addison Reads, author of The Intentional Bookshelf and founder of The Intentional Book Club.
Sam's mission is to help parents as they search for the perfect books for their little ones and to help moms and dads build a library with purpose as they endeavor to parent with purpose.
As entrepreneurs we daily battle shiny object syndrome and the barrage of ideas that are constantly popping up in our creative little minds.
This presents a problem when we have limited time and resources! How do we know what to focus on and how to actually get the important stuff done?
In today's episode I'm joined by the lovely Ashley Gartland, a wife, mom of two spirited little girls, and life and business coach who works with entrepreneurs and creatives to help them simplify their business so they can experience more growth and fulfillment in their work and find more freedom in their life.
Ashley is passionate about helping women drop the cookie cutter approaches and instead grow their business their way through the lens of simplicity, and she is about to drop some serious golden nuggets so - let's jump in!
Networking is something we hear about often as business owners, but many of us are scared by.
The thought of asking to be friends with someone or asking for help from someone can be totally intimidating.
But, networking can lead to some of the best kind of growth for your business and is one fear that I highly encourage you work toward overcoming.
In this episode we are exploring what it means to network strategically, and some practical tips for making it happen as you go into a new year ready to do new things in your business.