Behind The Business

.Fashion is self-expression you get to depict on your body. But how much does your sense of style correlate to who you are as a person? Or better yet, as a professional? If you dress with intent, what is the message you want your flair to send?

This week, Wardrobe Stylist, Elisa Ellis, validates that fashion should act as a companion to help you feel confident as you walk into a room with your head held high. Applying purposeful value to your wardrobe choices is more about mindset than one would think. Elisa charmingly reminds you that clearing out the old is how you allow newness into your ever-changing personality- fashion included.

Ellis’s stylish expertise explores the emotional attachment one establishes with clothing, conjuring mementos and personal pinpoints to where you’ve been. But Elisa will prompt you to consider it’s also about where you’re going.  Plus, you will love Elisa and host Tawney Allen’s conversation on how your fashion style reflects your personal brand. Do you think the way you dress reflects your authenticity? Listen in and tell us what you think.

Connect with Elisa on Instagram: instagram.com/stylishcurvygirl

Connect with Tawney on Instagram: @themindsethealer | @tealwingmarketing

What does success through authenticity mean to you? Are you committed to what is true for you and allowing that to lead your professional pursuits? What if someone told you that carrying forth your unique voice is all you need to uncover the abundance that’s waiting for you?

Well, it is enough! Why? Because YOU are enough.

Law Admissions Consultant Dr. Michelle Hubbard is Tawney Allen’s guest this week, and she is overflowing with insight toward all this business. Her willingness to share her experiences as an entrepreneur and as a human will catapult the concepts of following your life’s path with action. Michelle reminds you you are needed in the world and that you have the power to design your dream life without feeling like you’ll fall through the cracks.

Listen in as Tawney Allen leads a conversation centered on ending the fight with yourself so you may accept yourself to be as you are. Michelle reassures us to follow our intuition’s direction without the knowing ahead of time. Through this episode, you’ll explore the importance of sitting with yourself and getting comfortable knowing that you are in a constant state of change that has a great opening to establish who you are so you can step into something greater.

Connect with Michelle: Dr. Michelle Hubbard | Law School Admissions Consultant 

Connect with Tawney on Instagram: @themindsethealer | @tealwingmarketing

Why does it seem that there’s still such stigma around pursuing a creative lifestyle as a career? Is it we’re afraid our talent won’t pan out? Or is it we worry there’s no place for us?

If you’re seeking creative validation, this week’s episode of Behind the Business Podcast is for you. Shannon Celia is in the business of Fine Arts, making her living as an artist. Shannon’s personality is magnetic, and we believe that’s because of the innate passion attached to the art she pursues. Host Tawney Allen asks incredibly expansive questions about the Arts's challenges and achievements as a career path. Shannon’s light enthusiasm ensures us that giving our creative ideas a chance is worth the exploration.

Shannon reassures us we live in a world full of abundance with plenty of pie for everyone to get a piece. The focus should be to create what feels good instead of making what may feel suitable for others. Our creative expansion is essential to the world, and Shannon’s eagerness to understand people and their connections to nature through her art encourages this notion.

Listen in as the two promote creative conversation about finding gratitude in continually learning and evolving your craft and what it means to discover new pieces of yourself along the way.

We’re back for another week of Behind the Business Podcast, and we’re talking all things health and passion! Listen in as Tawney Allen interviews Nutrition and Fitness Coach Kate O’Conner, as they lunge into what it means to be an entrepreneur in the realm of the health and fitness world.

Do you have a hobby that you wish would grow into a professional pursuit?  In this episode, Kate expresses to us how turning her passion into a business was the most gracious thing she’s ever done for herself. She acclaims her success as an entrepreneur to the notion that creating sustainable health is not about sacrificing the things you love but establishing a viable, encouraging commitment to your mind and body.

Through Tawney’s engaging questions towards the emotional side to health and fitness, Kate provides us with a sense of relief in knowing that our stress, trauma, and personal experiences play a significant role in our journey to sustainable health. Find out more of their thoughts, and Kate’s expertise, as they discuss making modern connections, seeking guidance through mentorship, and of course- memories over calories!

When it comes to our health, what does it take to make the changes we desire? Whether it’s a personal or professional journey, remaining consistently aligned to our body and its workings is crucial to the process of success and longevity. We all have fears about moving through new phases of our lives, especially as it applies to a healthy lifestyle, but maybe it’s just about moving forward despite the fear.

Esta McIntyre, owner of My Health Studio, and host Tawney Allen talk deeply about how much our health starts- and ends- with us. And this doesn’t just apply to fitness. Though Esta works to help her clients achieve fitness in their lives, listen as she talks about her views on the perspective that taking control of our health is not just about our physical bodies but also about how strong our minds are.

Esta and Tawney encourage the notion that it’s okay to be a work in progress but remember that what you want for your health is here now. We don’t focus on “someday” futures in this episode, as they discuss the importance of not waiting for “tomorrow” to get started. But powerfully, this week is all about opening our hearts to things beyond our senses that drive hope and faith to us. Just because it’s non-tangible doesn’t mean it’s non-existent.

Connect with Esta: instagram.com/myhealthstudio 

Connect with Tawney on Instagram: @themindsethealer & @tealwingmarketing

There are always going to be circumstances we could allow to work against us while reaching our goals. Things like age, mental illness, family life, and the vast stigmas placed on our passions could stop us from pursuing the business ventures we desire. But will we allow them to stop us? Does it all boil down to the powers of our mindset?

Well, Tawney Allen’s next guest, Nina Sloan Rubin, is an entrepreneur who could have had all of the above against her. Still, through her expanded openness to grow her personal development, she has proved that the life we create is based on the life we work to design for ourselves.

After 45 years as a stay-at-home mother and wife, Nina leaped into owning her own business with a multi-level marketing company called Modere in her late 60s. Despite her journey with Bipolar disorder, she believes her devotion to evolving her alignment to self and understanding her mind and body have been pivotal to the success she has attained. When Tawney candidly asks Nina’s views on the branding often pinned onto MLM businesses, she boldly speaks her mind in a way that positively shifts the perspective for what it means to own a business in this industry.

Listen along as Tawney and Nina talk business, beauty, and being authentic on your business path to bring about your true purpose.

Connect with Nina on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nina.rubin1

Connect with Tawney on Instagram: @tealwingmarketing | @themindsethealer

It all starts with a simple idea. While growing as professionals, we learn more about our strengths and how we can apply them to our passions. Our job experiences allow us to discover what works- and what doesn’t- so we can expand our skills’ reach. But once we feel we’ve done that, what’s next?

For Randy Chapman of CCE Designs, the desire to start a business was innate despite its challenges. Listen as Tawney Allen asks the right questions to earn insight from Randy about using the tools that are available to you to pursue your passions confidently. He brings comfort to all of us who feel that our visions for business pursuit are not unique enough for success. Randy says it’s not about the whether your ideas have been done before, but about building the right teams and establishing the right intent to set yourself apart.

Perspective is key this week, and Tawney and Randy remind us that burning out doesn’t equate to failure; it just means it’s time to shift the view. But more importantly, it’s about understanding that our fears of not doing well in our ventures never go away; business owners and corporate workers alike. However, there’s comfort in knowledge, as Randy says. Tune in as we discuss how possible it is for us to give up the ghost on all the things we’re scared to pursue and recognize that you have the freedom to do as you please.

Connect with Randy: IG @ cce_design_associates | ccedesignassociates.com

Connect with Tawney: IG @themindsethealer | @tealwingmarketing

When stepping out into a business venture with boundless determination, we forget the most important thing; we’re only human. And as humans, we need boundaries. But how do we distinguish what it means to remain steadfast on our journey to professional success and what it means to surrender to understanding that not everything is within the confines of our control?

Join host Tawney Allen as she opens a conversation with Shenee Randolph, owner of Ms_NaeStyles and creator of Ms. Naestyle’s Growth and Beard Oils. They dive deep into the importance of balancing the grit and grind of being a business owner with the grounding and gratitude essential to making it work. Though our roads are paved with good intent, circumstances beyond our power will always appear on our route.

But if our thoughts become our reality, how can we continue to embody our purpose despite the hurdles that may deter us? Listen as these two fruitfully honest entrepreneurs share the truth in accepting that though chaos may ensue, its mess does not define us. It’s an essential part of the process to grow.

Connect with Shenee: instagram.com/ms_naestyles

Connect with Tawney: instagram.com/themindsethealer

As business owners, we want to be taken seriously. But what does ‘being taken seriously’ mean for a successful entrepreneurial mindset? What are we trying to prove? When passion and resilience align to our purpose, have we already achieved success? For women in these leadership roles, it’s hard not to question if unwavering faith in their intent is enough.

This week, host Tawney Allen creates a safe space for an in-depth discussion with 20+ year business leader Julie Kraschinsky about the hurdles we climb to create financial abundance while staying rooted in the integrity of who we are. Julie's firm ambition breaks generational barriers for women in her industry, and she leaves no holds barred as she shares the roller coaster of experiences that led her to the fulfilling road she’s cruising on now.

Get inspired as you hear Julie and Tawney challenge our perspectives as we ask ourselves if staying complacent in fear is the bigger risk than taking actionable steps to impact our potential success. We’re not looking at our lives through the rear-view mirror in this episode; we’re showing just how important it is to grip that steering wheel and continue to drive that Pink Cadillac to the sky with trust that the path ahead will not seize to open for us.

Connect with Julie on Instagram: @juliemkraschinsky

Connect with Tawney on Instagram: @tealwingmarketing @themindsethealer