She Did It Her Way

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SDH 318: How One Woman Created a Thriving Business by Solving Her Own Problem with Poorvi Patodia Feb 04, 2019

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Our guest today had turned her childhood snack into her own business, providing healthy alternatives to eating snacks!

Poorvi Patodia, CEO & Founder of Biena Snacks, launched Biena Snacks in 2012. Inspired by a favorite childhood snack, she started experimenting with roasted chickpeas in her own kitchen and ultimately came up with a unique roasting process that resulted in a light and crispy texture, that maintained the protein, fiber, and nutrients of a whole chickpea.

Today, Biena Snacks has reached national distribution with availability in over 15,000 retail locations, secured dozens of "best snack" awards and recently introduced a first-of-its-kind line of chocolate-covered roasted chickpeas, which includes a Girl Scout Cookie™-Inspired Thin Mints™ flavor that launched in June 2018. Biena Snacks has been named to Inc. 5000's Fastest Growing Companies for two consecutive years, and as the fifth fastest growing company in Boston..

In this episode, you will...

Hear about Poorvi's background

Poorvi's "aha" moment

The inspiration behind creating her business

How she took the leaped from corporate to pursuing her own business

How her first year was after taking the leap

Discover her mindset from starting out

The challenges she encountered and how she faced them

Find out when she started hiring her employees

How she grew her business to what it is today

and more!

Insights:

"Be so good they can't ignore you."

"When partnering with a manufacturer or vendor you need someone at your pace."

Resources:

Biena Snacks

@poorvi211

SDH 317: 4 Strategies on How to Price Your Services and Offers for Profit Jan 28, 2019

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A few weeks ago I shared three ways to replace your income and leave your 9 to 5. If you haven't already tuned into that episode be sure to do so either before or after listening to this one.

In today's episode, I want to cover the four strategies on how to price your services and offers for profit. I'll be sharing some of the basic principles to consider when starting out depending upon whether you're selling a product or a service, may determine how you price your offer. For today's podcast, I'm going to dive deeper into the service-based businesses such as a VA or a contractor, but still sharing some things to consider.

In this episode, you will...

How to price yourself if you're a service-based business owner

Learn about the four ways to price your service

Discover the owner's pay

Get tips and strategies that you can use with your own business

Insights:

"Be conscious of overpromising and under delivering."

Resources:

Profit First by Mike Michalowicz

Her Way Community

@shediditherway

SDH 316: How this Company is Helping Women to Create Flexible Income and Become Their Own Boss with Blythe Harris Jan 21, 2019

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Today's guest is the creative force behind Stella & Dot. Recipient of FGI’s Rising Star Award for Accessories, the ACE (Accessories Council) Award for Retail Innovation, and the Drapers Accessories Designer of the Year Award in the UK. , Blythe Harris has built a world-class team of designers and merchants in both New York and Sausalito based design studios!

Originally inspired by her grandmother Dot’s vintage jewelry box, Blythe’s creative vision mixes the beauty of vintage design and craftsmanship with the modern aesthetic and versatility of today’s stylish woman. Blythe’s leadership has helped grow Stella & Dot into a global brand.

In this episode, you will...

Hear about Blythes background

Discover the inspiration behind her company

Find out about her first business

Hear about her experience overseas working with a non-profit

Learn about working with a business partner

Find out how they named their brand

Get to know her mindset and process when she was starting out

and more!

Insights:

"Our mission is to create as many independent business owners and entrepreneurs as possible."

"The key to creativity is putting unexpected things in front of your eyes because of that's when you make those interesting connections."

Resources:

Stella & Dot

Keep Collective

Ever Skin Care

SDH 315: 3 Ways to Replace Your Income and Leave Your 9-5 in 2019 Jan 14, 2019

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Hello friends and welcome back to another episode of the podcast!

A lot of questions and feedback that I get from the listeners is the question around creating sustainable income within their business or side hustle when they're starting their business in the beginning. This is a common question that often times triggers fear and concern for most when they want to launch a business and leave their 9 to 5.

So in today's solocast, I want to offer up three different ways that you can replace your income in 2019!

In this episode, you will...

Learn more about the goal of Her Way Society

The importance of savings and product validation

Discover what you need to have before making the leap

Importance of eliminating the non-essentials in your schedule

Be more disciplined with your time

Find out the three ways you can replace your income

and more!

Insights:

"Determine the number that you're after, you know what the goal is, you will make other decisions based off of that number."

"The most common ways I've seen women replace their income and start their business is, they become a VA, they start an online business, they leverage themselves to become a contractor."

"Start today, start now!"

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SDH 259: Learn How to Quit Your Job and Double Your Corporate Income in 30 Days with Abbey Ashley

SDH 268: Corporate America to Six-Figure Entrepreneur in Less than 4 Months with Julie Ciardi

SDH 301: From Freelancing to Owning a Multi-Million Business with Linda Solley Hurd

SDH 314: How to Use Pinterest to Grow Your Business with Kate Ahl Jan 07, 2019

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Our guest today works from home at her garden shed office which she calls "She-Shed" while managing her company, Simple Pin Media!

Kate Ahl is the founder of Simple Pin Media. A company that helps clients and businesses grow their online presence using Pinterest. She teaches Pinterest marketing, for it to be actionable, simple steps that will help business owners move forward successfully instead of feeling overwhelmed.

In this episode, you will...

How Kate started her company and the idea behind it

Learn how her first year was when starting her business

Find out about her mindset-switch

Discover how hiring a business coach is important to a business

Realize the best mindset especially when starting your own business

Hear about tips and insights from Kate when managing your own business

Why the testing phase is necessary

The benefit of streamlining

Why you should start an email list from the start

Tips on how to use Pinterest

and so much more!

Insights:

"Success is a mountain of failure."

"Fail forward into success."

Resources:

Simple Pin Media

@simplepinmedia

SDH 313: 2018 A Year in Review: 5 Lessons + 5 Things I'm Afraid to Tell You Dec 31, 2018

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Woah!

I can’t believe this is the last and final episode of 2018. What an amazing year it has been. Today’s on the podcast I’m peeling back the curtain and diving into what this past year has looked like, what’ve I’ve learned and some things I’m afraid to tell you.

But before diving into the role that 2018 played in my life and She Did It Her Way, I’m backing up to the years leading up to 2018. Sharing how I was absolutely lost in my career, second guessed my every move, didn’t set goals because I was too afraid of setting the wrong one.

Grab a notebook, your beverage of choice and press play!

Some key points in today’s episode:

Your business will only grow as much as you grow as a person.

The sooner you put yourself in the mindset as a business owner and own the fact that your business is your business, you’ll become that person.

Explore your money mindset blocks and any other blocks that may be limiting you from moving to that next step in your business and in life.

Don’t be afraid to be messy and make mistakes. Practice being messy and practice mistakes.

Running a business is like being in a committed relationship. Your business isn’t there to make you whole, only you, yourself can make you whole, and sometimes it disappoints you, frustrates you and makes you cry but other times, it makes you feel like you are flying and are on top of the world. Your business is a reflection of you. You’re strengths, weakness, limitations and expansions. Most importantly is that regardless of what happens you still stay committed to your business.

Quotes:

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. - Einstein

SDH 312: From World Class Wine-Making to Producing Quality Skin Care with April Gargiulo Dec 24, 2018

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Today's guest is the Founder and CEO of Vintner’s Daughter, April Gargiulo, a luxury skincare company committed to performance-driven quality-focused, non-toxic skincare.

She launched her first product, Active Botanical Serum in 2012 bucking industry standards by using whole organic plants and methodical formulation methods versus low-quality fillers and formulation shortcuts. Vintner’s Daughter quickly became a benchmark for quality and performance in the beauty world and is coveted by top beauty connoisseurs and industry professionals around the world. Through Vintner’s Daughter April commits 2% of every bottle sold to charities benefiting women and children worldwide.

In this episode you will...

Hear about April's background in fine winemaking

Discover how she went from winery to skin care

Learn about her passion for creating quality skin care

Hear about her launch-story

Get insights on the process of creating her skin care product

Hear about what it takes to create, produce and grow an amazing product or service

Insights:

"You never take shortcuts, you never cut corners."

"Our entire world, to be honest, is driven by what's new."

Resources:

Vintner’s Daughter

SDH 311: 4 Mindsets to Cultivate in the New Year to Help you Ditch Your 9-5 Dec 17, 2018

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Today we're diving into the 4 mindsets to cultivate in the new year to help you ditch your 9-5. At first when you begin to think about launching a business and leaving your job, it can be extremely noisy and overwhelming. some of you may have external pressure to keep a certain lifestyle or job based on how you grew up, some of you may live in a town where it takes a little more work to surround yourself with entrepreneurs, you may have a spouse that doesn’t support your journey, you may be the breadwinner in your household. If you’ve been a long-time listener you know what of my favorite quotes is by Wayne Dyer and that is, “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

The 4 mindsets to cultivate are:

The Model (Brook Castillo)
Resilience
Abundance
Commitment

Be sure to tune in to learn more about each mindset and the exact steps you can take to help you cultivate them.

SDH 310: How to Easily Hire a Virtual Assistant to Help Scale Your Business (and Life!) with Bonnie Fahy Dec 10, 2018

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Ever wonder how other businesses are able to be an expert at almost anything? How they manage to produce results even not possessing all of the skills? These business people just know how to use available resources.

Our guest, Bonnie Fahy, started as a balloon artist. Today she shares her journey on how she inflates her business (no pun intended), transitioned to entrepreneurship and now helping other business owners scale their business through coaching and online course.

In this episode, you will...

Hear about Bonnie's humble beginnings

How she got into online marketing

Find out when was her "aha moment"

Discover how hiring her first VA helped her with her business

Learn about the benefits of outsourcing

Get to know the idea behind creating her first online course

Learn about the Growth Mindset

Insights:

"Anything is possible if you start with the idea that you are always growing, you are always building and you are always getting better."

"As my action change, my story changes."

"If you want to have the things you never had before, you have to do the things you have never done before."

Resources:

Bonnie Fahy

1-Hour Master Class

SDH 309: How to Pursue Less and Be Essential When You're Overwhelmed with Amanda Boleyn Dec 03, 2018

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Welcome to another episode! It's the final month of 2018 and I am so excited to revisit the goals we had accomplished for this year and to set new goals for 2019!

In today's episode, we'll talk about Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown. If you haven't already read this book, I highly recommend doing so!

In this episode, you will...

Learn about what it means to be an essentialist

The mindset of being an essentialist

Dive into how can we get there (essentialism)

The importance of being an essentialist

The difference between essentialist and non-essentialist

Discover tips on how to become an essentialist

Insights:

“Remember that if you don’t prioritize your life someone else will.”

"If it's not a clear yes, it's a clear no."

"What will I say no to? This is the question that will uncover your true priorities."

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