In this episode we have Brian Smith, founder of the UGG Australia brand. Graduating in 1978 as a chartered accountant in Australia, Brian came to America looking for the next big opportunity to bring back to Australia. While studying at the UCLA Graduate School of Management he noticed there was no sheep skin footwear in the U.S. With only $500 in capital he imported boot samples and over the next 17 years built the UGG Australia brand into a multi-million dollar international enterprise. He sold it in 1995 and the brand has continued to grow to exceed a billion dollars in annual sales for the past three years.
Advice
Contacting Brian
Website: www.briansmithspeaker.com
Email: brian@briansmithspeaker
Brian does a small amount of coaching. He won’t coach someone unless he is sure he can help. You can buy the book on the website or on Amazon.
“When you leave corporate you have to be careful that you don’t bring the lifestyle you used to lead into the lifestyle you are about to lead. There is hustle, grit and reinvestment. If you keep spending money like you did before you will run out of it.”
When people start a business the first thing they think about is making money. They don’t think about protecting that money and that’s where the legal comes in. The legal is there to protect your business and your brand, your income and your assets both personally and professionally. Gena tries to make law less scary, more approachable and easier for people to understand.
Three website documents it’s important to have at any stage of business.
How to contact Gena
Gena and her wife have a Facebook group for women entrepreneurs called Gena and Jordanna Your Magical Business.
Gena has a lot of freebies on her website www.genashingle.com/sign-up. Her website also lists all the things she does.
Today we are talking about planning for 2017. We want to share with you five key steps that will really help you plan 2017. These are things we collectively do ourselves that have worked for us.
We’re both coaches, strategists and business people in our own right. A lot of what we do is help people just like you build and grow your brands and scale them, make them profitable and really get you clear on what your goals should be for next year and how to get there. So if you’re looking for additional support check us out. Our websites are www.seemaalexander.com and www.kellylynnadams.com. We also both include a 30 minute free consultation. Whatever you want we are there for you and that’s the whole intention of this. We want you to have an incredible 2017.
Jenny Power’s background is in special events, marketing and PR. She used to work in the non-profit sector raising millions of dollars for worthy causes but working mostly by herself. She didn’t have anyone to bounce ideas off of so she started going to networking events. That’s when she noticed two types of people at these events, neither of which she was looking for. It was either the old boys club, guys drinking beer and hanging out, or it was a sorority mentality where you walk in and feel awkward and look for someone to talk to. She thought there had to be a better way. That is how she came up with the idea for Running with Heels, one of the top exclusive women’s networking organizations in the city.
Networking tips
Jenny wrote an article “The Secret Networking Tip” for Motto by Time, Inc. She was tired of seeing articles telling people to “fake it till you make it” and “just act like the best version of yourself”.
Advice
Hire a virtual assistant. You might not want to have a salaries person or someone in your house when you are just starting out.
Immerse yourself in a community of entrepreneurs.
Contacting Jenny
Website: www.running-with-heels.com
Facebook: Running with Heels LLC
Twitter @heelsandspiles
Podcast: Broadcast Broads Building Businesses
Jenny Power’s background is in special events, marketing and PR. She used to work in the non-profit sector raising millions of dollars for worthy causes but working mostly by herself. She didn’t have anyone to bounce ideas off of so she started going to networking events. That’s when she noticed two types of people at these events, neither of which she was looking for. It was either the old boys club, guys drinking beer and hanging out, or it was a sorority mentality where you walk in and feel awkward and look for someone to talk to. She thought there had to be a better way. That is how she came up with the idea for Running with Heels, one of the top exclusive women’s networking organizations in the city.
Networking tips
Jenny wrote an article “The Secret Networking Tip” for Motto by Time, Inc. She was tired of seeing articles telling people to “fake it till you make it” and “just act like the best version of yourself”.
Advice
Hire a virtual assistant. You might not want to have a salaries person or someone in your house when you are just starting out.
Immerse yourself in a community of entrepreneurs.
Contacting Jenny
Website: www.running-with-heels.com
Facebook: Running with Heels LLC
Twitter @heelsandspiles
Podcast: Broadcast Broads Building Businesses
On this episode we are so excited to welcome Mona Patel, a dynamic and engaging entrepreneur with 17 years experience convincing leaders of some of the world’s biggest brands to understand value and optimize their customer’s experiences.
Entrepreneurs, sit down with your team. If you don’t have a team it can be friends and family. Ask them to write down as many what if questions as they can in a three minute period that answers a problem statement that you propose to them. The first set is not always the best answer so I’m going to ask you to do it three times. Nine minutes total and share in between. The result will be:
If you think about it the number of what if questions you ask are often negative. What if I fail? What if I can’t? What if I lose? What if people make fun of me? What if I have to go back to a job? That’s what holds you back. Use that opening what if for positive.
Shift from what if I can’t to what if I don’t? Working with a coach is really important. But it’s also important to list what you want to get done in your life.
Write down your life goals. You aren’t going to get there if you don’t know
If a Ted Talk is one of your goals, when are you going to start? It’s not going to be easier by avoiding it. You can commit to watch one every week and get the rhythm of how it works. You can also get yourself on stages and get a public speaking coach so you’re refining yourself. Maybe it’s journaling everyday so you start to identify your story.
Three things to invest in when starting a new business
You can find Mona Patel at:
Website: www.motivatedesign.com
Email: mona@motivatedesign.com
In this episode we are talking to a talk show host, wellness and beauty expert and one of my good dear friends Nitikia Chopra.
Nitika Chopra is a certified life coach, wellness entrepreneur, go to resource for young women around the world and motivational lifestyle guru. Nitika’s on a mission to inspire radical self-love.
We all want to get to the place of ease where you are going on vacations or having more time with your kids at night. It’s easy to look at people around you and think “I’m so far from that. What am I doing wrong that I’m not there yet?” But a lot of times people don’t really get honest about what’s happening before they get to those points in their life where there is ease.
Advice for growing in relationships and connections:
Contacting Nikita
Website: nitikachopra.com
Instagram: @nitikachopra
Snapchat: @nitikac
In this episode we have Sybil Amuti. Sybil is an executive brand strategist, podcast producer and cohost,
philanthropist, coach, wife, and mother.
Sybil is also a cohost of the Great Girlfriends show, a podcast conversation series created to connect
women with daily tips and solutions for living a passionate every-day life and building thriving business.
In this podcast, you will hear Sybil discuss:
How her parents impacted her chartered course from kid-preneurship to corporate
career stability.
The way she graduated with a master’s degree and moved from New York to New
Orleans only to move back to New York again a year later.
The impact of taking a break to pursue fashion had on her idea of who she was.
How she was consistently able to find fantastic positions that paid exceptionally well,
yet always seemed to have something else going on the side.
The way she built a partnership with her husband and other friends from the ground up.
How she began to feel that she was being dishonest with herself and others about who
she was, and how that turned her direction toward building up her own legacy.
What she believes about establishing a clear perception around the mission you seek to
accomplish and how you see yourself doing that in order to focus your brand.
How she always has a destination in mind, so everything she does has a map that routes
back to the starting point.
How she used her mission to start her focus on making her services available on the
branding side.
How she helped to influence small businesses, especially women entrepreneurs who
have passion but really need help with strategy.
How she used workshops to reach more people at one time.
The way she made the inspirational connection to women without spending a ton of her
own money while also being able to give it away for free.
Adding the most value possible from her specific perspective.
How her friend journeyed with her through her transition into co-creating the Great
Girlfriends podcast.
The way her powerful friendships with other women has impacted the way she works.
How she leveraged honesty and vulnerability into creating a community.
What she has learned about compartmentalizing her hours and keeping strict cut-offs
for work and family in order to optimize her time with clients and make sure everyone is
getting what they need.
The fact that there is no safety net when working outside of corporate and how that
means it’s time to don your cape and be your own superhero.
What it means to be where you are now and not discount the present while looking
forward to the future.
How you deserve the fulfillment that comes with the honesty of being who you are.
The best tips on partnering with others to grow your business, including deciding that
you are being someone that is worth partnering with.
How important it is to have a quality character and to choose partners with quality
characters.
The importance of having partnership agreements drawn up legally to keep each other
in check and to have something to fall back on in times of difficulty.
How she overcame complete fear to help Tony Robbins re-build his brand and how that
translates to everyone she helps.
What she has to say to all of us that find ourselves second-guessing and questioning our
competence and abilities.
If you are interested in connecting with Sybil or if you have any questions for her, you can find her in the
following places:
Website: www.legacyrow.co
Website: www.thegreatgirlfriends.com
Twitter: @sybil_amuti
Instagram: sybil_amuti
Email: sybil@legacyrow.com
To niche or not to niche is a major question. People think they have to niche and niche and get sales in the door but it’s a process. Entrepreneurship is a journey and we learn as we go.
When you start a business and you may know exactly what you want to do you still need to validate your business idea and you still need to talk to your ideal client avatar. When you go broad it’s good in a way because it allows you the space to test and validate what’s going to work and what’s not going to work. You change as a person along the way so your business might eventually change or get tweaked. It’s good to be okay with where you are at right now wherever you are at because it’s going to evolve and change.
Five steps to understanding how to get your ideal client
When you are thinking of your product or service make sure it’s not a niche to have, but a need to have.
Lead with the most relevant service your client needs right now, then as you become more successful you can open it up to the other multi faceted opportunities you are thinking about in your head right now.
Our guest today is Betsy Helmuth, owner and operator of Affordable Interior Design. She has designed over 1500 spaces including apartments in Argentina, a McDonalds in Brooklyn, and a mansion in India.
If you’re going to do something, if you are going to maintain that consistency, then you have to get really passionate about it.
Nurture your tribe. Put a lot of information out there but when you nurture your prospects and the people they become your tribe.
When you hire someone they are living your brand and you have such a specific trade, how did you manage the process?
I evaluated the way I work. I have a very specific method for how I work. It’s the same for every client that I have ever seen. I do and say the same thing to each client. So, I teach that to my designers. Even though all my interior designers have all been to interior design school, unlike me. Even though they have all worked as paid designers in the field, unlike me. I also make them train for a month in my method. So when you get an Affordable Interior Design designer, they are going to do all the steps that I do so that I know that every client is getting the exact same experience. So, I had to distill this unpredictable design method into a very formulaic. Which is how I like to work. Freedom with in a form. So I have a formula that I do every time and it works every time.
You can find Betsy Helmuth at:
Website: www.affordableinteriordesign.com
Podcast: www.bigdesignsmallbudget.com
Facebook: Affordable Interior Design.
Today we’re talking to Susan Vernicek, founder and CEO of Identity Magazine. She’s an entrepreneur, motivational expert, speaker, and the author of the bestseller Get All A’s in the Game of Life. Her missions is to provide women with opportunities to discover self-acceptance, appreciation, and achievement.
Identity Magazine is for women who want to read authentic stories. It’s for women who feel that they want to go somewhere in life without feeling they have to change in any way. It’s for women who want read about everyday women sharing the good, the bad, the ugly, sharing their personal stories, sharing their successes. It’s for the woman who doesn’t want to read about diet fads and celebrity gossip. It’s a place for women to feel supported and validated and that they are not alone.
In this episode Susan talks about:
If you would like to connect with Susan, the best way to find her is at her magazine website: www.identitymagazine.net.
If you have a story of your own to tell, you are encouraged to submit it to the magazine.
We’re so excited to have Jenn Scalia today with us as our guest, to share with us her entrepreneurship journey and the valuable skills in creating a 7-figure business. She is a visibility strategist for entrepreneurs who want to make an impact. Known for her tough love, no BS style, she helps entrepreneurs to overhaul their biggest fears and empower them to share their message with the world.
Jenn is the coach that has been through what you have been through, but she has successfully snapped out of it and went from rock-bottom to creating a 7-figure business within 3 years. And now she’s here to help others to achieve the same.
Today's episode with Jenn is filled with golden nuggets! We have touched on so many areas relating to business, entrepreneurship and coaching, including:
Her back story and what triggered her to make the move.
The key to her success in creating a 7-figure business within just 3 years.
The doubts and resistances that she faced throughout her entrepreneurship journey, especially during the initial stages of her business.
How hiring a coach completely changed the way she deal with her business.
The 3 main things that she believed sky-rocketed her business.
What she thinks is the best coaching business model for people to start off with.
What are her thoughts and suggestions on generating Passive Income, or she prefers calling it Leveraged Income.
When exactly is the right time for one to create a membership site.
Useful tips on how to build and eventually grow a list of followers with high engagement rate.
Her opinions on outsourcing during the initial stages of a business.
The importance of creating massive values for your clients or potential clients.
How having the correct mindset and alignment can have huge impact on your business. She also shares what inspires her and keeps her mindset on track.
Her advise to those who plan to or have just made the leap into the world of entrepreneurship.
The common misconceptions among new coaches.
Her recommendations on the issue of pricing and her take on certifications for coaches.
The top tools and resources for business owners.
If you are interested in finding out more about Jenn and her coaching services, please visit her website at www.jennscalia.com.
Plus, good news for our listeners! Jenn is kind enough to give our listeners a special gift - "Six Figure Success Mindset Mini Course”, where she shares the mindset hacks that she used to achieve her success and the mindset shifts that can unlock one’s unlimited earning potential. Find out more about it at www.jennscalia.com/makingmoves!
Today we are so excited to speak with Samantha Ettus. Samantha is work-life expert whose goal is to find the spark within each one of us and turn it into a fire. In this episode Samantha talks about:
Three tips on how to better manage our life versus work-life balance for more success.
Tips on how to become more productive:
If you have kids, it’s essential you have boundaries in terms of the time you’re with them and the time you’re focused on work. A lot of entrepreneurs who are working from home struggle with this. It’s hard when you have kids at home to close the door and focus on your work. It’s pivotal you have some kind of childcare or it’s almost impossible to get a business off the ground.
At home with your loved ones turn off your technology for a couple hours a day. You can give your office or colleague your home phone and say use it in an emergency.
Contacting Samantha
Website: www.samanthaettus.com. You can sign up for her free weekly newsletter where she shares work-life balance tips and her favorite articles and videos about career and lifestyle.
Today we’re going to answer a question we get all the time. Where do I even start?
Opportunity ideas you can step into:
There are so many options and that sometimes scares people. Do you want to open a brick and mortar establishment like a restaurant or do you want to start small and start to build from where you are at today?
Our biggest piece of advice is to make sure whatever idea you have that you incubate it while you’re still working. There is a lot of research and learning that you’re going to need. Don’t take a leap too early. If you have a lot of ideas you can start on one and if it doesn’t work you still have the security of a paycheck coming in.
Purpose before Profit
If you’re going out there to create a business just to make money it’s not going to always work out for the long run. Think about purpose first, then profit. We all want to make money but there has to be a bigger why.
Who do you want to serve?
Who is your ideal client? Who lights you up that you want to serve? Be patient with yourself because if you don’t know who that is just keep working and following your passion and it will unfold as time goes on.
Selling and Marketing
When you have your ideal client in mind it’s the way you sell and market to that person that’s going to make the big difference. If you’re selling features they might not buy from you or you might have a lower conversion. Start to talk about what you’re solving for their pain point.
Zone of Genius
The zone of genius concept is what you are very good at doing skill set wise that just comes naturally to you. If you don’t know what that is send an email to 15-20 friends, family and peers and ask them two questions:
Creating a Physical Product
When you have a physical product how do you validate that? There is a process involved when you’re working on a physical product:
Network Marketing
If you’re doing network marketing don’t get into it just for the money. A lot of people get into network marketing because they want to make extra money but you have to either love the product or the company.
Steps to Focus on Right Now
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Our guest today is the author of Girl Code and founder of The Champagne Diet Cara Alwill Leyba. In this episode she shares advice about writing your first book and growing your audience.
Cara believes every woman has a story to tell. If you are an entrepreneur, you have what it takes to self-publish a book. You’re not just writing and publishing a book, you are selling it, marketing it and doing PR for it. As a business woman it’s a smart move but there are some things to be aware of.
Steps to get moving in the right direction:
How long did it take you to write your first book?
It took me a couple months to write the first book and a lot of that time was spent on research. From the time I first began writing it to the point I published it was probably 6-7 months. Give yourself anywhere from 6-8 months to get that book done.
How much should people invest in an editor?
In terms of finding an editor it’s hard to say but the editing process for each of my books was under $1,000.
Growing an audience
In the beginning when you’re first starting out it’s important to pay attention to quality over quantity. Don’t worry about numbers so much. People get caught up in how many followers they have and how many likes they get. Just nurture the people that are coming to your space. There is so much noise and so much going on out there so if you have ten people who love what you’re doing over serve those people and treat them like they are 100,000 people. Don’t get worried about what you’re missing, focus on what you have.
Contacting Cara:
Website: www.thechampagnediet.com. You will find her blog and books and a place for women to come.
Our guest today, Tiffany “The Budgetnista” Aliche, is quickly becoming America’s favorite personal financial educator. She is also a best-selling author and founder of the Live Richer Challenge.
During the height of the recession in 2009 Tiffany lost her job when the school where she had worked as a preschool teacher for ten years was cut from the budget. For the next two years she stayed with relatives and collected unemployment while trying to figure out what to do next.
She loved educating, and she loved personal finance. She eventually started matching those two passions together and doing it on a volunteer basis at first.
In this episode Tiffany talks to us about:
To build a strong following on social media you have to be a giver. Everyone is always saying buy my book, eat my food, or whatever. Nobody cares, everyone cares about themselves. If you’re talking about you no one cares but you (and maybe your mom). Instead it is your job to give. Tiffany just, for the first time in six years, asked her audience to pay for something.
Tiffany said if there is anything she would go back and invest in it would be online training, like a blogging course. She also wishes she had invested in an assistant since she literally did everything herself.
You’re going to mess up but you want to fail fast, succeed faster.
You can reach Tiffany at:
What does living a life with purpose means to you? Are you aware of the thoughts and actions that define who you are and who you will be? Many of us are not realizing our full potential in life. Some are trying their best to achieve their goals, some are struggling with it, and some have simply lost their directions in life.
Today’s guest is someone who is capable of bringing out the best of us. His name is Jairek Robbins, performance coach, motivational speaker and the author of “Live It”. We are so excited to have him with us today.
Jairek has achieved so much at such a young age. At only 23 years old, he was awarded Congressional Award (Gold Medal) from the United States Congress and has conducted training for many organizations, including the U.S. Marines and Air Force, the U.S. Olympics Team and many others.
In this exciting episode, Jairek talks about his interesting life journey and how he came about becoming a successful performance coach he is today. From the interview, you’ll learn about:
If you find the interview thought-provoking, or if you are interested in finding more about Jairek or his coaching services, connect with him on Facebook and join him on his daily 30-minutes live free training. You can also head over to his websites to learn more about his performance coaching. Details are as below:
Facebook - Jairek Robbins www.facebook.com/JairekRobbinsCompanies
Websites - www.jairekrobbins.com
- www.performancecoachuniversity.com
Hope you enjoy today's episode!
This podcast is for you if you are a transitioner. This is the tell-all, TMZ version of the good, bad, and amazing. From following the rules to creating your own.
Transitioners are either:
We’re not only going to be talking about how somebody got to success, we’re going to be talking about the journey in-between. There are a lot of us in our 30’s, 40’s, or 50’s having what I call a mid-life awakening. You can stay your path and that’s okay but some of us have this itch to really get out and focus on your own goals and our own purpose. For those of you who are in this next season of your life this podcast is 100% for you.
Co-host Kelly Lynn Adams is a motivational speaker from New Jersey and the founder of the After Five Club. She has risen to the top of the corporate ladder in strategy, finance, and human resources. She currently works full-time with some of the largest retail and fashion industries in the world and has a side business in the coaching, speaking, and writing industry.
Kelly’s passion is to motivate the person, especially women, who wants to work full time, build a business on the side, make it profitable, and know it is possible to succeed. She knows what it takes to manage money and time. She knows the struggles and the success, but most importantly, she knows building a business can be done.
Co-host Seema Ponda Alexander worked her way up the corporate ladder quickly, diligently working to become the Chief Marketing Officer for a Fortune 500 company. About seven years into corporate America, through the contacts she made at her company developing business strategies and opportunities, she began coaching many of the financial finders and agents helping them build their own business strategy. Through working with people on the side, she discovered a lost passion for small business.
Seema is the founder of the Transition Lab, a business that helps women move from corporate America to having a business of their own. She has a passion for exposing women to the possibilities life has to offer, showing them that where there is clarity there is progress and helping them understand that consistency is what it takes to succeed.
This podcast is for all verticals. We’re not just going to interview a million coaches. Some of the things you can expect from this podcast are:
Make sure you subscribe to our podcast and leave a review. Please don’t forget to tell a fellow transitioner who is also in that mid-life awakening time frame. You will be their hero!