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56: 7 Areas of Life Successful Entrepreneurs Can't Ignore
In this episode, we sit with a transformational coach and author, Oxana Lovich. Oxana shares her incredible journey from a challenging childhood to becoming a successful entrepreneur and author of AbunDance: A Fulfilled Path to Success. She reveals how balancing the seven areas of life can lead to both professional and personal fulfillment. Tune in to discover actionable tips for overcoming limiting beliefs, achieving inner peace, and unlocking your true potential.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
Why failure can be a stepping stone to success.
The importance of balancing spirituality and ambition for long-term growth.
How to heal limiting beliefs and cultivate self-discipline.
Why relationships are the greatest school of life and how to evaluate them.
The power of intuition and self-trust in achieving your goals.
55: How we can Succeed in Business and at Home: Work-Life Balance as Entrepreneurs
In this episode, we talk with Jim Sheils, a real estate expert and co-owner of 18 Summers. We explore the challenges entrepreneurs face in maintaining work-life balance and avoiding burnout. Jim provides honest advice on how entrepreneurs can nurture family relationships while thriving in their businesses.
In this episode, we cover:
Entrepreneurial Burnout: Why focusing solely on business can harm personal relationships and lead to long-term dissatisfaction.
Work-Life Balance Tips: Jim’s principles for ensuring family time remains a priority, including his concept of "18 Summers."
Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make: The dangers of being a "deal junkie" and spreading yourself too thin.
The Power of Focus: How clarity and specialization in business can lead to success and less stress.
Delegation for Growth: Why understanding your strengths and delegating the rest is critical for scaling a business.
54: What this Marketing Expert has to say about your Business Messaging
Today we have on Scott Zetlan from Visiopt who grew his first online health business into a seven-figure brand within a year. Now Visiopt enables companies to test the equivalent of thousands of split tests and a single test without requiring a drop in traffic. Scott is on today to talk about how your messaging could be the main thing holding your business back from succeeding simply or growing. We talk about how most entrepreneurs skip the basics and wonder why they aren't growing when basics such as marketing and messaging could be the things that propel you. In this episode, we emphasize the importance of focus, continuous improvement, and the value of qualitative data in optimizing conversions. He also shares his experiences, both successes and mistakes, in business development and provides advice for aspiring entrepreneurs.
In this episode, we cover:
Why you need to get good at the basics and the secret in business is that there is no secret
When to focus on your business and when is it time to make an exit plan
How Scott grew a 7 figure business
53: How to Differentiate Your Business from the Crowd: Having that X Factor
Today we have Kristen and Kurt Luidhardt of Liberty Spenders on why you SHOULD talk about your political, religious, and personal values in your business to attract loyal customers. This advice goes against what we normally think with marketing but Kristen and Kurt have proved that marketing with conviction and your values not only works but sets you apart.
In this episode, we cover:
How to have an abundance mindset over scarcity in your business
How companies like Patagonia and Chick-fil-A are great examples of companies that are forward with their values and attract loyal customers
How as entrepreneurs we sometimes tie our self-worth to our business and forget our real worth
How to find that X factor in your business to stand apart from the rest
52: When is it Time to Pivot in your Business?
In today’s episode, we have on Joe Rando from Lifestarr to talk about the missing pieces he saw in soloprenuer needs. We cover the common challenges of lead generation, sales, and managing a business for a better work-life balance. We talk about how to not trade your corporate job just to build a business prison and to building a business that fits your life. We end talking about when is it time to transition in your business and the most important question, should you?
51: Handling Shiny Object Syndrome as Entrepreneurs: "What's Next?"
Today we have on Brian Alexander who has his own coaching and business consultant company called Ready Aim Climb. In that, Brian uses different personality tests to help businesses consult around who they bring in and how they do their whole HR functions. In today's episode we cover culture index vs. predictive index personality tests, taking accountability for ourselves in our businesses and how to master "one thing" before we jump to the next in our entrepreneurial journey.
50: "I Changed my Marketing and made 8 Million in a Year": Marketing to x5 your Business
Happy 50th episode! Today we have on James Brown from the Business Accelerator Institute and author of the bestselling book Shift Happens, who took his law firm business from failing to 8 million in revenue in a short time frame and now coaches professionals on how they can too. We are digging into the essentials of marketing for entrepreneurs and business owners and understanding the human buying process and what our customers actually want. We also dive into not basing business decisions off your emotions, the doctrine of sacrifice, financial management and how to optimize your business to the fullest.
49: Leadership: Loneliness, Hiring Coaches, Building the Right Team as an Entrepreneur
Today we have on CPA and leadership and scaling coach Courtney De Ronde who has had her trials and tribulations as a leader. We discuss in this episode the loneliness that comes with leadership in entreprenuership and why it's so crucial to hire a coach or join a mastermind to truly scale and stick to your business. We also cover why to never quit when things get and how to always strive for improvement even when things are already good. This episode is for anyone out there feeling alone as leader, trying to scale exponentially and hire the best and right teams. Let's dive in.
48: Compounding Your Small Wins for Exponential Success with Bryan Clayton
Bryan took his small lawn mowing business in high school and grew into GreenPal a large company home to 150 employees, 200,000 active users with a 10 million annual revenue in sales. Bryan and GreenPal has now been featured in Forbes, Wall Street Journal and CNBC.
In today’s episode, we are talking about taking in the small successes and compounding our small wins to create exponential business moves and wins. We also talk about how it is not taught in school how to be a good leader, when you should outsource and delegate and the power of knowledge in entreprenuership.
47: Three Principles for Long-Lasting Business Relationships
Business networking doesn't always mean conferences, in fact our guest today encourages otherwise. Today we have on Brad Englert from Brad Englert Advisory and author of Spheres of Influence to talk about business relationship building and what is NOT taught in business school. We cover the three critical principles for any sustainable business relationship and how to even avoid untrustworthy business relationships.
46: Starting a New Business: Accepting the Failures, Pivoting, and First Steps
Amanda started her coworking business in the worst of timing, right when COVID hit on top of realizing the business was not sustainable. She had to accept the fate of the business, close down, and pivot quickly. In this episode, we have on Amanda Lee Quick to talk about how she never gave up as an entrepreneur and pivoted as a business coach and found success. We are diving into how do you take those first steps as a new business as gaining new customer when no one knows you? We cover why having community support is essential as an entrepreneur and what defines success of your business?
45: How to Create a Killer Press Release for Your Business
A big misconception in business is that press releases don't work or bring a return, but most small businesses don't know how to write one that does. In today's episode we have on Mickie Kennedy is the founder and president of E Releases. The small business leader for press release distribution is now celebrating 26 years in business. He's an expert at helping small businesses increase their visibility and credibility.
We cover in this episode:
Why it's crucial to know your story as a business owner and how it's social proof for your business
Being able to pivot in changes in the marketplace
Letting your brand tell your story
How you can’t ‘gut feeling” your way to millions of dollars you have to set metrics in your business
What you're getting wrong about press releases in your business
44: Start Saying YES to Life, Opportunities and Your Business
You never know which "yes" will change your life forever. Today, we have on Mortgage Loan Officer of Central Bank and "20 under 40", Justina Dial. Justine always said yes to any request and opportunity, and she now finds herself in rooms with people she would have never dreamt of and living the life she imagined. In this episode, we talk about how adaptable and capable we are as human beings and we need the courage to allow ourselves to take risks, allow change, and say YES.
43: Marriage and Entrepreneurship: How to Build a Thriving Work-Life Balance
In your early days of entrepreneurship you have no money and only time and then as your business grows if you aren’t careful you will have money, but no time. In today's episode, we have Robert and Kay Lee Fukui, an entrepreneur couple who assist other married business owners create greater work-life balance and help them win in marriage and business without sacrificing one for the other.
In this episode, we cover:
Why you can’t charge low prices and expect a thriving healthy business
Why WHO we do business with matters as their energy can give us joy or suck our time
How to grow and scale your business for greater freedom
Why discipline and systems lead to more freedom
42: Why Being a "Jack of All Trades" WORKS for Entrepreneurs
In this episode we are going to dive into:
Why being a "Jack of All Trades" is actually a good thing for entrepreneurs
Why you should always trust your gut feeling as an entrepreneur
How Ryan saw a problem in the medical system and created a business to disrupt and help those in need.
41: Why Storytelling May Be the Missing Piece in Your Business
Today, we have on Blair Bryant Nichols, he is the owner of BBN Creative Management for diverse and mission driven talent and he's an expert in strategic speaking platforms. Blair guides speakers and business leaders through the nuances of public and corporate speaking to grow their business and help in their personal development.
In today's episode, we will cover why it is crucial to voice your story and connect with your customers in order to grow a fulfilling and successful business. We also talk about how to create more joy than anxiety in our businesses and to start facing our fears and weaknesses to grow stronger.
40: Are You Proactive or Reactive in Your Business and Life?
Today we have on Admira Advice CFO and Business Strategist of Kare CFO to talk about how we can get more proactive in our business than reactive. Admira is an award-winning CFO and business advisor, she's worked with global institutions, strategically advised, multimillion-dollar CEOs, and directed deals always with a view to healthy profits and growth. Today we are going to dive into how to become more proactive with your finances, tax strategy, health, and life so you can get ahead.
39: How to Balance Life, Family, and Your Business
Today we have on our social media strategist and manager, Teah Hopper to talk about balancing life, family, freedom and your business. We dive into why we should’ve hired earlier to scale and how each new chapter in our business is another challenge with life, freedom, and balance. We also discuss the crucial game changing book that changed both of our businesses forever.
38: How to Build Systems to Scale to a Million Dollar Business
Today, we have Dominic Rubino to talk about moving past stagnation in your business and creating systems with ease to scale and grow your business. Dominic is a seasoned entrepreneur and business coach who has scaled multiple businesses including a company reaching $120 million in sales. Today, we cover strategic planning, the benefits of reoccurring revenue models, and the significance of investing in coaches and communities.
37: “I sent the wrong email and it changed my life”: Nata’s Story
Nata Salvatori sent the wrong email one day and it forever changed her life, and today I want to dive into the idea of resilience and opportunities.
Nata left Brazil for the USA with only $30 to her name, was accepted into college with a volleyball scholarship without ever trying out, and now is a serial 6 figure entrepreneur with Accidental CEO.
In this episode, we discuss how we must plant seeds in our lives and take opportunities when they are presented in life, and how sometimes our mistakes can be our biggest blessings.