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    She Did It Her Way

    Welcome to the She Did It Her Way Podcast where we dive into all of your most important questions about starting a business and when to make the leap of going full-time as an entrepreneur. Every week, host, Amanda Boleyn delivers fresh content on productivity hacks, different business strategies, how to confidently transition out of your 9-5 and become a full-time business owner. Along with sharing her business savvy tips, she interviews women who have also gone out and done it their way (Amy Porterfield, Jenna Kutcher, Julie Solomon, Lori Harder and many more).

    With millions of downloads and growing every day, She Did It Her Way continues to inspire women all across the world to take massive action on their business idea and create freedom in their life. Now it is YOUR turn to start doing it YOUR way!

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    SDH197: The Benefits of Having a Co-Founder with Jenni Brown Oct 05, 2017
    Show notes

    We get to hear all about this with Jenni Brown, who is the co-founder of Prim’d Marketing, along with Sophie Davis. Originally, Jenni did marketing for mid-size businesses in her early 20's, and ended up working for brands such as Samsung, Nabisco, and Pepsi. She was in love with the field of marketing and loved that she got to tap into her creative of side of writing, designing, and working on a team. However, she wasn’t in love with the practice of working so hard to make these huge brands money, and she said her work didn’t feel meaningful. She eventually left her job and decided to get her MFA in writing in order to transfer her creative skills to an artistic forum. She also got a side job handling the marketing sector at a boutique PR firm, which is where she met Sophie, who was in charge of cross promotion and strategy.

    The two found their groove with Jenni’s ability to come up with a brilliant marketing plan, and Sophie’s skill in taking that plan and finding the perfect collaborators, like bloggers and brands, to grow that strategy into a profitable opportunity. Unfortunately, the ladies found themselves without a job just before Christmas in 2013 due to the firm losing some important clients. During the following months, the duo ended up unintentionally freelancing together by recommending each other when hired onto projects. Soon they finally ended up deciding to go into business with each other, and Prim’d Marketing was born.

    They began by offering every service under the sun, with Sophie doing jobs like writing newsletters to managing social media accounts, and Jenni designing logos and making websites. Their first year allowed them to see what they did and didn’t like, and to build a monetary foundation. They soon whittled their services down to a Brand Plan, which was a plan that helped clients figure out what was unique about their brand and services, who their target audience was, and how to appeal to them in an authentic way. Initially the plan was free since their client’s needs tended to change quickly, and to charge for the plan proved to be wasteful for the client and frustrating for Prim’d. Now the Brand Plan has become the keystone to their business and forces clients to think through their ideas thoroughly, stay committed to them, and increase productivity by showing them that their time is valuable.

    As they built their business, they also had trouble with role overlap which led to a lot of frustration, and inefficiency. They had to learn how to distinguish their roles in order to effectively hone in on each other’s purposes and strengths to lead Prim’d in the right direction. Sophie began to take the lead as the business developer and tended to be the one who handled potential clients. Jenni stepped in as the CFO, and handled the systems of the company because she’s more left brained.

    Jenni found that her pitfall was that she threw to much of herself into Prim’d because she was so determined to get Prim’d off the ground. Her mind became so consumed with her business that she would be listening to her partner speak, but thinking about her clients. By the end of 2015, she felt fatigued by constantly having her brain occupied by Prim’d, and she saw how it was negatively affecting her business and relationships. They both had to learn how make time for the things that gave their life and brain rest and enjoyment outside of work, like shutting down for a month and traveling to Mexico and Africa!

    Here more about how Prim’d Marketing came to be in today’s episode!

    In this episode you will…

    Learn how to distinguish your role in your business when you have a co-founder

    Find out how to work with your co-founder by picking up on their habits and behaviors

    Figure out the best way to tweak your services to fit your client’s behavior and needs

    Begin to find the courage to charge for your time and services to show that your effort is valuable

    Start to balance your hustle flow with play time

    Know how to stay organized as a business in order to stay productive

    INSIGHTS

    “We started freelancing…and we found that we kept offering our skillsets together…[Sophie]’s sort of the other half of what I do…we decided to umbrella our skillsets to offer our clients the best of that creative, strategic, whimsical, fun so they could have the whole breadth of what they’re looking for.” –Jenni Brown

    “I think for people that are really just getting out there, there’s nothing wrong with putting as many irons in the fire as you can. And particularly if you’re just trying to get paid, there’s nothing wrong with doing all the things that are within your capacity to do, just to try it on and see what fits and what feels good.” –Jenni Brown

    “If you’re a driven ambitious person, when you have goals that you haven’t met yet it can be hard to say ‘That’s enough.’ Even though I may not be making the amount of money I want to be making…I don’t have the audience I wish that I had…I’m not putting out the offerings I had imagined…being able say that enough and I’m just going to shut it down for today…[for] whatever your alternative life is outside of your business…learn how to figure out balance in your life.” –Jenni Brown

    RESOURCES

    Prim'd Marketing Website

    Prim'd Marketing Facebook

    Prim'd Marketing Instagram

    Prim'd Marketing Twitter

    Jenni Brown LinkedIn

    Basecamp

    Contactually

    Quickbooks

    You Need a Budget

    The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu


    SDH196: How to Shift Your Energy to Change Your Reality with Arielle Loren Oct 02, 2017
    Show notes

    Are you feeling overwhelmed by work or personal life? Do you look at your life and wish that it consisted of more? Do you know where to begin to find out what that could be?

    If so look no further than Arielle Loren, who owns a marketing agency that focuses on advancing female entrepreneurs in their careers and in their life, as well as growing their businesses through online campaigns and product launches. Right out of NYU she began working for marketing agencies and start-ups, but felt really uncomfortable being boxed into a space, and operating by a locked in schedule. She felt like there had to be more to this adult thing, and wanted to find something engaging and meaningful in her personal and work life.

    Upon hearing that her role and duties at her job would change, she decided to cut the ties with her agency, and shake up her life. To her anything would be better than continuing down the path her life was headed and she needed to take a risk. Having always felt a spiritual calling to Brazil, she started prepping her life to actually move there. However, she forgot a few necessities: a plane ticket and the funds. But headstrong in her gut feeling, and armed with her security deposit and final paycheck, she made the move.

    While living in Bahia, located in the central region of Brazil, she was able to separate her energy from the anxiety of time, and learned a lesson in humility due to drastic changes in her lifestyle. She began to reexamine what truly made her happy in life, how she could obtain them, and implement them into her daily functions. One way she did so was by expanding her hobbies into possible careers, and because she moonlighted as an online sex writer, she began an erotic magazine called Corset.

    Running the magazine caused her to feel in tune with her sensuality, and basking in the sunshine of Bahia improved her mental and physical health. More importantly, she had a very high degree of self-awareness and was firmly in control and confident in where she wanted to be in life to thrive.

    By the time she left Brazil and returned to New York City, she had a newfound appreciation and respect for marketing, but wanted to return to the field in her own way. After a brief move to the Dominican Republic a few months, she took her marketing skills to Miami. It was there where she finally found the perfect mix of the hustle and bustle of metropolitan life, and the calm and Zen of beach and sunshine, with a prevalent Latin culture. There her energy was balanced and she was able to live the life that she had been searching for and build her own unique marketing business.

    One thing she said she coaches her clients on is finding what their energy consists of and locating where it is they are the happiest, because the energy they approach their business with is the key to fulfillment in their career. Once her clients are in a career that their energy can flourish in, she gets them to start considering long term businesses goals through her Driven Workshop. The workshop is for female executives and CEOs who are looking to develop business strategies through self-discovery.

    She said that there are three parts to women that need to be examined: ourselves, our sex lives, and our spirit. In order to master ourselves, we have to master our thoughts. This is achieved through observing our thoughts to know if we are positive or negative thinkers, and how they make us feel. By becoming aware of how our thoughts influence our feelings, she said we can then see how they affect our behaviors.

    To tap into their sex lives, she creates a safe space for women to talk about their experiences with pleasure and energies like orgasms. She said she aims to help women discover their sensuality and heighten their senses in general, and their relationships with their bodies. She feels that the strengthening of that relationship is essential in the release and flow of creative energy, and if it that connection isn’t achieved for women through sex, it could be by simply doing and finding more things that bring us pleasure. She then asks when to observe how that practice influences their performance at work. She said when she does small things like taking the time massage lotion on her skin or take baths instead of showers, she arrives to work more alert, intuitive, and with a relaxed energy.

    When it comes to approaching the spirit, she wants her clients to find a connection with something greater than themselves; whether that be people, the universe, or another energy. She used kundalini yoga, which is a positive and spiritual form of yoga, for 90 days and did asana early in the morning. From 4 a.m. to 6:30 a.m., she chants, meditates, and does kriya poses that involves breathing exercises and posture poses. She doesn’t do it every day anymore, but the practice connects her to higher energy, and saw how it changed her life and attitude for the better. She is able to let a lot of negative energy go because of the balance and peace that kundalini helped her obtain, and because of that she has gained clarity, and positivity in her thoughts and perspective, and wants the same for others.

    Come and hear more about the other ways Arielle helps her clients work on their energies in order to better their outlook on their lives!

    In this episode you will…

    Be able to find the perfect place for your energy
    Learn how to reinvent an industry to fit you
    Know how to channel positive energy into your business development
    Begin to observe your thoughts in order to master to yourself
    See how experiencing high amounts of pleasure can improve your performance in business
    Find ways to connect to something greater than themselves

    INSIGHTS

    “My job balances between being this hard core business strategist whose very numbers oriented, and really helps a lot of women entrepreneurs grow financially in their businesses, but at the same time I also become like the therapist because these women, these CEOs, they are also human and so human things come up in the process of business development. And so for me, just the intimate role that I take for my clients, I feel like it is part of my role and part of my calling to really be able to show up for women in an authentic, powerful, and beautiful way.” –Arielle Loren

    “I look at Driven very much so as an experiment, because I never wanted to position myself as this guru or coach that has all these answers. I think for everyone it’s going to look different…what’s it going to look like to observe your thoughts? What happens when you actually make the intention to speak positively or to surround yourself in an environment that feeds that self, so that you feel that a better vibration day to day?” –Arielle Loren

    “There are so many women who are unfortunately walking around with these clogged up portals of energy that are waiting to be released…and sexual energy at its core is creative energy. And so what I like to do is to encourage the women that I’m working with to observe how you function in your business when your experiencing more pleasure, whether that’s through sex…or just see what happens when [you] pay more attention to [your] body, or infuse more pleasurable things into [your] body.” –Arielle Loren

    “I think it’s important to realize that it’s not just you in this business, and this energy of producing things, and creating things to serve the world. There’s definitely something much greater than all of us that influences how all of this plays out…and comes together. And so for me, when I talk about connecting to spirit, I like to give women different tools to be able to do that.” –Arielle Loren

    RESOURCES

    Arielle Loren Website

    Arielle Loren LinkedIn

    Arielle Loren Facebook

    Arielle Loren Instagram

    Arielle Loren Twitter

    Paulo Coelho Books


    SDH 195: 10 Ways To Scale Your Business Faster in the Land Phase Sep 28, 2017
    Show notes

    Hi Friends! This is the last episode in the 6 part series. The 10 things I’m about to share have really helped me in my business from a growth perspective whether it was my mindset, revenue and adding team members.

    1. Track Your Time

    2. Create a Resource Library

    3. State Your Revenue Sources

    4. Ask These 3 Questions in Your Business

    5. Set Goals

    6. Set Up An Ideal Week for Yourself

    7. Protect Your Calendar and Goals

    8. Take Advantage of Free Content

    9. Seek Mentorship

    10. Level Up

    Tune into the podcast to hear exactly how I did each one of these so you can too! :) Happy Thursday!


    SDH194: What to Expect When You Quit Your Job and take The Leap with Amanda Boleyn Sep 25, 2017
    Show notes

    The biggest thing here is to remember that everyone’s journey is different. For some of you when you walk in and take THE leap you could have a sense of calm come over you, excitement and for others it may be something like “Oh my gawd. What did I just do?” and that is okay. Those feels are totally normal.

    One thing I have noticed is that the journey of an entrepreneur the first year in business is different from that of second year, third year and so on.

    If you can get through the first couple of years, have a strategic plan and surround yourself with the right people you can continue growing your business long-term.

    For the sake of this podcast I’m going to walk through some of the first year woes ;)

    Also, stay tuned at the end of the show to hear from Tess Wicks who will be presenting on how to price for profits.


    SDH 193: What to do When You Want to Start a Company But Don’t Know Where or What to Start Sep 21, 2017
    Show notes

    In this podcast episode I’m going to cover what to do when you want to start a company and know exactly what you want to start and what to do when you want to start a company but have no clue or too many ideas that it becomes overwhelming and you shut down.

    Write down the list of ideas you have:

    Keep in mind what you're good at. If you're in a full-time job, what is it that you do well at and what do you enjoy doing
    This is a judgement FREE zone. Let your mind and creative process flow.
    Be patient.
    Ask yourself what are some daily frustrations you have? What are problems that you want solved in your own life?
    Focus:

    Circle the top 5 ideas that you have that you're excited about
    Number them 1-5, 1 being the first thing you're going to explore and 5 being the last thing you're going to explore
    Iterate:

    Remember that iterating is a process. In the beginning you may feel overwhelmed because you're doing so many things, that is okay. That is part of the process. Each time you do whatever it is that you do, you get to iterate it, make it better.
    Be patient. Entrepreneurship and creating a business requires a ton of patience and persistence.

    Once you're in the the thick of it....

    If you're struggling because you can't figure out the name of what you want the business to be, use what I like to call a place holder. Create the content and the meat of your biz and then go back. Don't get hung up on trying to create the best name for your business.

    Chose the correct business entity

    Apply for an EIN in order to obtain a business checking account to help keep personal and business expenses separate
    Create a one-pager business plan. Be sure to include a marketing plan, path to revenue and service/product that you're offering and what need are you solving. Check out this interview for a full rundown of what goes into your one-pager.
    Hope you guys enjoy! And for today's mini episode I'm sitting down with Katie Lord who will be covering all aspects of marketing at the She Did It Her Way Summit.


    SDH192: Putting in the Work to Make Your Dreams a Reality with Megan Minns Sep 18, 2017
    Show notes

    Is your passion in life really what you should be building into a business? How would you go about figuring that out?

    Megan Minns, went all through that painful epiphany, and her business today offers project management services to higher level business owners. However, she spends most of her time helping new business owners develop productive systems to keep them organized and efficient. Her underlying passion and fulfillment in her work comes from helping people make their dreams into reality by encouraging them to see their potential and start building their brighter future. One area she flourishes in, and offers the most guidance in with her services, is the technology realm. As a kid, she was able to master new technology with ease, and with her programs and tutorials she offers simplified methods to navigate scheduling and organizing software and apps; such as Asana.

    Originally, she almost went into the medical field with a concentration in psychiatrics due to outside pressure. While she loved science and the medical field, she found herself spending a lot of her free time sketching because half of her heart belonged to the arts. She eventually gave into practicality and stability, and with her degree in psychology, she got a full time job in human resources and recruiting. In this role she felt that it was a nice blend between the creative and science thought process.

    She also found a way to mix her two loves with a blog she started in college called, Organized Meg. Admitting that her blog wasn’t that good, she said it introduced her to the blogging world, as well as website building and design through blogging platforms like Zanga. She said she also learned that there was a way to build a business without a college degree, and following a structured corporate ladder. About a year later she began to actively seek a creative outlet, and in May of 2013, she officially launched MeganMinns.com in which she offered creative services. Through MeganMinns, she offered branding, web design, and custom handwriting for projects like logos and wedding invitations.

    As her business began to take off, she started to live an unhealthy lifestyle due to balancing a full time job, gaining a masters in organizational and human resource development, and MeganMinns. She started working during the nights and weekends and isolating herself socially, butby January she had relaunched her MeganMinns as an LLC. While she was proud of her of her growth, running her business became a chore and the creative workload was no longer something she loved.

    She said being in the art industry left her in a bad mindset where she was comparing herself to other artists, and felt less than when she didn’t meet their skill. Art and creativity was something she loved expressing for herself, not for other people, and she didn’t like having her creativity up for debate. And so, she took a break in 2014, and began re-evaluating her business direction. With the help of a mentor she curated her strengths and found what passions she could express in a business.

    She asked her what are some things that she was good at, what comes to her with ease, and what projects are people thrilled with of hers in the corporate world. Through those questions, she found that she was good at identifying areas of improvement within companies, creating a plan for improvement, as well as managing and executing that plan. She also remembered her savvy-ness for software and tech, and concentrated that skill into the world of corporate HR.

    From there, she relaunched MeganMinns with virtual assistant services focusing on implementing new tech systems, establishing new work flow and processes, and organizing digital files. In an instant, she was booked out via Facebook groups she had been blogging through. By summer 2015, she successfully launched her first online course, and the positive reaction from clients showed her that she can launch a profitable product, and it validated that she could develop her business so it would provide a steady income. By that November she finally quit her full time job.

    Hear more about what it was like for Megan making that transition, uplifted her clients, grew her passive income with downloadable products, and learned how to be a CEO!

    In this episode you will…

    Learn how to balance and blend your opposing passions
    Figure out if your passion is better expressed for yourself or for clients
    Find what strengths and passions are applicable in a business
    Be able to evolve your business as well as your personal brand
    Learn how to remain the CEO of your business while keeping the personal touch with your clients
    Find a place for yourself within your business once you have a team

    INSIGHTS

    “My deeper purpose in business and in life is kind of helping people realize that they…can accomplish their dreams, and just encouraging them to take the action, make the commitments, and start actually doing the work to make it a reality.” –Megan Minns

    “I can do web design…I can do handwritten logos, but it really boils down to this realization that even though I can do those things, that’s really not what I should be doing. And it was this painful, but really good ‘Aha’ moment…this has all been a path of self-discovery for me, and that was a harder one for me to learn.” –Megan Minns

    “I was amazed at the reaction, and I was amazed at how happy my clients were, and I loved doing the work because it was finally back in my zone of genius, things I felt good about doing, things that felt easy…it was this awesome validation and it totally made the pain of pivoting and the fear totally worth it.” –Megan Minns

    “I’m a huge fan of change and pivoting and evolving, and I think as a business owner you have to evolve, and be open to that, and even though it’s hard and scary you’re supposed to evolve. All businesses are supposed to evolve.” –Megan Minns

    RESOURCES

    Megan Minns Website

    Megan Minns LinkedIn

    Megan Minns Facebook

    Megan Minns Instagram

    Megan Minns Twitter

    Megan Minns YouTube Channel

    Asana

    Brain FM

    Slack

    The Pomodoro Technique

    Productivity Planner

    She Means Business by Carrie Green

    Profit First by Mike Michalowicz

    You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero


    SDH191: How to Create Flow and Focus in Your Business, Solocast with Amanda Boleyn Sep 14, 2017
    Show notes

    Today's solocast is part 3 of a six part series in honor of She did It Her Way Summit and I'm sharing how to create flow and focus in your business.

    What is flow and how do you create focus?

    Finding flow is about managing your time, energy and attention which results in creating focus. If we can understand how to manage our time, energy and attention better we can produce better results in our business.

    1. Identify your big 3 for the day.

    What will move my business forward?
    Will this help me achieve my goals?
    Will I feel good after I accomplish this?
    2. Eat clean.

    Remove as much processed food from your diet
    Limit the amount of sugars as possible, especially added sugar. Sugar causes you to have increased energy but quickly followed by a crash

    1. Manage caffeine intake. Note effects on adrenal glands.

    Adrenal fatigue is when you put your body under emotional, mental and physical stress.
    You could have trouble getting out of bed, tend to be tired or in a state of fog, struggle to think clearly.
    I am not a doctor only someone who has gone through adrenal fatigue
    Find ways to destress (meditate, yoga), eat a clean diet, regular sleeping habits.

    1. Create buffers to avoid stressful situation.

    I wrote about this in last week’s blog post. Create buffers, not the bowling ones but time buffers. If you think it will only take you 10 minutes to travel from one meeting to the next, double it.

    1. Avoid checking email right away when you wake up.

    Create space in your day to get the important things done. Spend time doing those activities that require your full attention and energy.
    Tim Ferris Energy ZAP theory
    Create space to accomplish your big 3.

    1. Attention and focus are muscles. The more you practice using them in the right way the better they will serve you.

    Being able to maintain focus is like exercising a muscle.
    If every 5-10 minutes we’re being distracted by our cell phone we’re actually conditioning our muscle to only hold attention space for that short 5-10 minutes. Similar to practicing meditation. In the beginning we may only start out at 5 minutes but over time we grow to 10 to 15 minutes because we’ve built up that practice.

    1. Limit distractions

    Airplane mode
    Clean desk
    Shutdown email
    Close all tabs

    1. Become aware of time leaks.

    Start to purge the items on your to-do list that don’t produce results
    Start to outsource tasks that don’t need to be done by you
    If you’re having trouble outsourcing, don’t think about “Who am I going to outsource to?” think about the tasks and then record yourself on your computer (screen flow) doing them and start collecting a database of tasks so that when that moment comes you’ve already created a library.

    1. Take advantage of your time gaps.

    These are the 30-45 minute time gaps in between appointments or while we’re waiting somewhere. Take advantage of them, do tasks that don’t require a ton of energy to get done, quick email, make phone calls.

    1. Get outside. Fresh air.

    When working from home it is soooo easy to roll out of bed and go straight for the office or wherever you chose to work and start diving in. First, take a moment and step outside, do a quick 15 minute walk around the block.
    I don’t do this every day but on the days I do do it I feel much better and more awake.

    1. Schedule time with friends who feed your soul.

    2. Give yourself grace.

    No one is perfect
    This has been something that I’ve been working on and I was talking to a close girlfriend of mine. All of us listening to this podcast I bet are go-getters and as go-getters we tend to take a ton of responsibility for our actions and we’re always striving to grow and move everything in life forward. So that when that moment comes and we feel like we’re stuck or we made a mistake we can be hard on ourselves. Which friend, serves no one, not us, not the people we surround ourselves with, not the people we do business with. Because if we can’t give ourselves grace first, we can’t give others grace. Remember that no one is perfect, perfect doesn’t exist. We are all right where we need to be in our journey and living life with grace is way more enjoyable than if we don’t.


    SDH190: 5 Things You Must Do Before You Quit Your Job, Solocast with Amanda Boleyn Sep 11, 2017
    Show notes

    On today's solocast, Part 2 of a 6 part series I am sharing the 5 things you must do before quitting your job. These 5 things I'm sharing is a compilation of my own experience along with many other women whom I've interviewed, coached and worked with.

    1. Do Your Research and Maximize Your Time

    Start attending events that are entrepreneurial focused to start surrounding yourself with like minded people and also to better understand what entrepreneurial life is like. Start asking questions to get you in the mindset of what to expect when you’re fully out on your own.

    For example:

    What’s the biggest challenge you’ve faced as an entrepreneur?
    What is something you’ve experience that could have been avoided?
    What is something you wish you would have done prior to quitting your job that you didn’t do?
    This is a time for you to get really focused and maximize your time. Create an ideal schedule from when you wake up to when you go to bed. When are you scheduling these events, when are you sending emails, when are you meeting people for coffee? What are you saying yes to and what are you saying no to?

    1. Make a List of What Needs to Happen Before You Quit Your Job

    First, the biggest thing to remember is that everyone's risk tolerance is different. This is only for YOU to determine what are YOUR goals and what is on YOUR list. Write out what sort of savings goal you need to hit in order to feel comfortable, how many clients you want to have before taking the leap, write out your fears, what's holding you back, what are you afraid of?

    Use these as talking points during our conversations with other entrepreneurs...chances are they went through the same thing you're going through and can help navigate the waters with you.

    1. Know What You're Good At

    Not everyone who wants to be an entrepreneur knows what they want to do. You might know exactly what you want to do while others have no clue and some of you don’t know which idea to chose to grow. Knowing what you’re good at can help you figure out what you want to do.

    Email 10 people in your network (or call them) and ask them what is it about you that believe you’re really good at

    Take the fascinate me quiz HERE. Use Lewis Howes code "schoolofgreatness"

    Identify the activities that give you energy and makes the time pass quickly

    1. Set Goals

    Now that you've identified and collected information you are now ready to put it all together. Assuming you want to start a business and leave your job, take a look at your calendar and selected the date one year out from when you are reading this post. I recommend at some point getting a paper calendar that you can write on that shows all 12 months. There's something about being able to see the entire year in front of you that makes you thing BIGGER.

    Okay, now break that year into 2 parts - first 6 months and the second 6 months. Let's say that right smack dab in the middle is when you're going to launch your business. That means the first six months are focused on researching, collecting, prepping for your big launch. Then after your big launch your focus is around the new set of mini goals you've established in the second half of the six months.

    For Examples:

    Goal: 1 year I am leaving my full-time job and taking the leap

    First 6 month goal - Prepare for the launch of my business
    Second 6 month goal - Grow my business to replace 75% of my monthly income
    Then, within each of those 6 month buckets break it down into quarters, months, weeks and put goals to each of them. Here are some questions to get you started for the first six months:

    What business do I want to launch?
    What am I good at?
    Who are the people I need to surround myself with?
    How much money do I want saved before taking the leap? How do I get there?
    What does my ideal schedule look like?
    When am I going to make time for my business?
    What entity will I be?
    How will I manage cashflow?
    What does my marketing plan look like?
    5. Take Action

    Planning is always fun but then it is time to take action my friend. Find an accountability partner, someone who is either going through the same thing you are or someone who is one step ahead in the journey. Stay connected to stay inspired.

    Today's mini interview She Did It Her Way Summit series is with Helena Swyter. All about accounting - you know, the fun stuff ;) Be sure to tune in and listen all the way until the end.


    SDH189: The Journey of Quitting Your Job and Landing On Your Own Two Feet Sep 07, 2017
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    Ahhh friends! Today's episode is part ONE of a SIX part series leading up to the She Did It Her Way Summit. Over the six part series I'm going to take you through the following:

    The Journey to Quitting Your Job and Landing on Your Own Two Feet
    How to Create Flow and Focus in Your Business
    5 Things You Must Do Before Quitting Your Job
    10 Ways to Scale Your Business Faster in the Land Phase
    What to Expect When You Quit Your Job and Take the Leap
    What to Do When You Want to Start a Company But Don't Know What or Where to Start
    ALSO, at the end of every solocast there is a mini interview with some of the speakers at the event. I cannot wait for ya'll to tune in and hear from these incredible folks.

    Ekk! So be sure to tune in!


    SDH188: Following Your Fears and Feeling all the Feels with Jen Sincero Sep 04, 2017
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    How many times have you heard us and other entrepreneurs on this podcast rave about Jen Sincero'sbook, You Are a Badass? Isn't it about time you guys heard from her yourselves?

    Well today's the day She Did it Her Way listeners! We've gotten Jen, author of You Are a Badass and You Are a Badass at Making Money, on the podcast today! We are so jazzed, to quote Amanda, to share with you her journey towards becoming a successful author and a life coach!

    Jen's entrepreneurial story started when she was in her 40s, and after living a good life for a while as a writer and a musician, she was still broke and living in a garage. She knew she had ample amount of talent, but could not understand why money just seemed to evade her. She didn't really have a wake-up call or epiphany moment, she just got really tired of living below her potential. She knew that she was capable of more, and couldn't watch herself waste her gifts anymore.

    She decided to swallow her pride and look for some financial guidance. She started reading self-help books, going to coaching seminars, started her online coaching business, and writing books. However, it was a life coach that she met at a coaching seminar that had the greatest impact. With her fee being a quarter of Jen's annual income at the time, she took a huge risk by hiring her. But Jen connected with her story, because she too had lived the life of an experienced broke person, and was now making six figures by just helping people. Terrified, she took out another credit card, despite her debt, and was all in. She did everything she told her to do and soaked up as much guidance as she could as she helped her with coaching business for writers.

    Through the process, she learned to get over the negative stigma involved with focusing on monetary gain. One exercise she repeats in both of her books is writing a letter to money as if it were a person. This helps people get over their fears of being judged for focusing on money, and bring money into a relatable mental space which makes it easier to obtain. For her, the letters revealed that she felt like money wasn't available to her, and was the root of a lifestyle she could never see herself being a part of.

    As she grew her business and projects, she also found that her fears around making money stemmed from losing a source of affection from her father. One way her dad would show his support and love for her was throwing her $20 or $100 dollars every now and then. If she made a lot of money, she felt that they would no longer have that connection, and outshine her father.

    What led her to this notion was when she wanted to work with a life coach she really respected, and that cost $85,000. To even be in the head space to consider spending that much money made her think about her father, who was an Italian immigrant. She pictured him in his yellow vee neck sweater, with his hands in his pockets, staring sadly at his feet because he felt he couldn't take care of her anymore. But she had to move past that thought, allow herself to prosper, and realize that her dad would always see her as his little girl who needs $100 bucks once and a while.

    Through it all, she has learned to disprove her excuses and learn to love the thrill of living outside of her comfort zone. She has also learned to love herself and help others learn to love themselves as well, by reminding readers at the end of every chapter of her book. She knows how easy it is to be hard on yourself and feel as though success is equated to perfection. So she reminds readers, and herself, that there is beauty in our flaws and we have to be okay with things not being perfect; whatever the hell that means, as Jen would say.

    Hear more from Jen in this week's inspiring episode!

    In this episode you will...

    Learn to become savvy about making money and live up to your potential
    Get over negative connotations revolving around money
    Find out where your fear of money lies and stems from
    Remember to love yourself
    Live outside of your comfort zone, and do things that scare you
    Begin to realize your excuses aren't true
    INSIGHTS

    "I just got so freakin' sick of hearing myself talk about being broke...and not just sick of struggling, and scraping by...but more importantly...I knew in my soul that I could do better. And the fact that I wasn't...it just got too excruciating... And that's when I made the decision to get some freakin' help. To do whatever it took to learn about money...and really go for it in a way I had never gone for it before." -Jen Sincero

    "We're all struggling, we're all doing our best, and the most important thing is to just get in the game and go, and not wait until everything's perfect [and] you're 100% ready...just do it who cares." -Jen Sincero

    "Do something that scares the living crap out of you every day, and that moves you in the direction of where you want to be...if you really want to change your life, you had better be scared. If you're not scared you're doing something wrong." -Jen Sincero
    "That commitment to our excuses as opposed to that commitment to miracles...you really gotta be open if you want to grow. You gotta be available to be wrong, which is what we hate...but to be right about our excuses is very important to us. And when we'd rather be happy than right, then we open up a whole new world of possibility." -Jen Sincero

    RESOURCES

    Jen Sincero LinkedIn
    Jen Sincero Website
    Jen Sincero Facebook
    Jen Sincero Instagram
    Jen Sincero Twitter


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