What is important when starting a business? Where should you put your focus?

Some say you have to be consistent and build your audience until you figure it out and others (like me) will tell you it's all about your systems and marketing.

This week Sheliea Collins stepped into The Garden to talk about her current journey into entrepreneurship. She is brand new to owning a business and has not even launched yet. 

On social media, it LOOKS like people start a business and they are automatically successful... That is a setup for disappointment. This week we are giving you a looking into the excitement, fear, and confusion of starting a business. Sheliea shares what has helped her with clarity on this journey and the mistakes that she has already made.   She explains how her past 9-5 and volunteer work now makes an impact on the business she is building now. Join us for the first episode of this 3 part series as I will be checking in with her 1 more time before her launch and then again after her March 2023 launch.

Sheliea Collins is a  wife, mother, developmental consultant,  and entrepreneur. Her recent work includes increasing enrollment by eighty percent at a thriving Vocational School in Woodland Hills, California. Not only did she assist the school in gaining new students but, also helped those students gain employment, going above and beyond to keep the schools placement rate at one hundred percent. 

Wrapped In Silk is in the planning process and will be launched in March 2023.

I have watched this amazing woman evolve on social media. We both grew on South Carolina and we went to high school together. I was a football trainer and her boyfriend who’s her husband now was on the football team too.

Nia Wiley is a married mom of 3, with an agenda to empower both women and families to live a life they’re proud of. In November 2021, she and her family essentially sold most of their possessions and purchased a fifth wheel with plans to see the 50 states. She traded in a full-time nurse practitioner career for the unknown. And while unconventional and definitely different, she doesn’t regret a thing. You can find her growing, promoting healing, and loving herself on IG at @iamniawiley or find her homeschooling, sharing family living, and traveling everywhere @wileykoyotes (with a k).

Our chat today let us know what it feels like to be trading a 9-5 to live her dream as well as maintaining herself as a mother and a wife. Continuing to keep balancing herself during the pandemic.


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I have had many ups and downs in my business today we have with us our very own Portia Michele this person fixed me many times and reminded me who I am. She make sure that business owners are not working for there business but their business is actually working for them.

Portia Michele is a podcast host, a speaker, energetic practitioner and a performance coach who empowers impact driven leaders to unlock there nature. She supports and help them to reach there full potential in their career.

It is often said that leadership style, career path, and overall well-being can be speeded up through constant constructive feedback and that’s where a good coach like Portia kicks in.

With her vast experience, she can provide impact driven leaders with psychological tactics that enable them to overcome negative emotions.

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Everyone wants to talk about anti aging.... what if we learn to embrace our aging bodies and learn how to FEEL like we're never aging at all?

This week Liat Nadler stepped into The Garden to have a conversation about what happens to our bodies as women after 35 and how we can lessen the symptoms of perimenopause.  If you find yourself wondering why your current nutrition and exercise plan just isn't working the same then this is the episode for you! Liat explains why it's more about increasing the quality of life and ditching the band-aid solutions everyone on the internet and social media are advocating for.  Not everything that works for others will work the same way for you.

Liat Nadler, Nutritionist and dietician, health and food relationship expert, influencer, and coach. She is the founder of Fabulous Healing Nutrition & Wellness, a retired engineer, a wife, and a mother. Liat founded Fabulous Healing to help result-driven females get their glow, increase their confidence & energy, and step into their unstoppable sexy badass selves!  She uses evidence-based personalized nutrition to help her clients reduce inflammation, heal their chronic skin conditions, and improve their digestive systems so they can live their best lives yet.

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Girl, get your passport! This week in the garden Eve and author Sharee Mclean discuss their expat experiences and why (black) women should consider being an expat.

Sharee Mclean is an author, blogger, contractor, wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend. She was born in Sumter, SC, forged in Houston, and refined while traveling the world.  She is a lover of books, music, deep conversations, documentaries, anime, and travel. Her favorite memories are often created on my couch with her guys (husband and 2 boys). Through her books, she strives to connect with the reader's emotions and show them that every obstacle we face is meant to help us grow.

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Entrepreneurship can get pretty messy! Entrepreneurship on social media looks pretty simple but IRL (in real life) it can feel like one mess after another.  This week's special guest, Lisa Boutilier and I are discussing the messy middle and how to come out of it clean.  We don’t talk enough about the messy middle of being an entrepreneur and not everyone is going to earn 6 figures.

Despite the false belief that is instilled into most of us, success isn’t always measured in dollars. Your mindset and mental health, and wellness truly all go hand in hand. You have to create a cycle of self-care and overall well-being to achieve success.

Lisa is a mom of two whose battle with postpartum depression and anxiety unintentionally led her down the path of being a health and wellness entrepreneur. She is determined to make an impact and to show moms that they can build a business that creates a lasting change for themselves and their families. Lisa has created a thriving community and continues to move her business forward despite ups and down, proving that you can make a lasting impact if you don’t give up.

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In this short but sweet walk through The Garden, Eve discusses quitting entrepreneurship. So often we equate quitting with failing and in this episode we learn how quitting can lead to joy and real success.

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Multilevel Marketing. It’s a somewhat controversial topic. Some embrace the idea of the system, and some believe that MLMs act as predatory groups that target women (specifically moms). 

Whatever your opinion is… join Eve this week as she completely breaks down all things MLM. Learn the pros and cons. 

She also mentions some helpful solutions to streamline your business, including tips your upline may be hiding from you...

Did you fail because it didn’t work out or because you never tried?

We say we love ourselves more that anything but still allow the opinions of others to affect us.

More often than not failure comes because we didn’t try at all. 

In this episode, Eve talks about how the opinions of others can cripple you not failure and gives some tools ans advice to stop the noise.

What happens when you have been misdiagnosed and treated with the wrong medications for years?

You begin to the journey to get to know yourself... or at least that is what I have been doing for the past 1.5  years.   I have also been on that journey alone and that is now changing. 

My whole life  I have always been told that I am "too much" or that what I wanted to talk about wasn't "appropriate".  My entire adult life I was treated for biolar disorder and PTSD and at 36 I am finding out that most things I thought true in my life are not.  "Biting the apple" is having the freedom to be unapologetically me while navigating health, business, and relationships.

Over the past year I have learned, that as much as I thought that writing was "my thing", I need to verbalize what I am feeling on this journey to learning more about my new diagnosis.   This podcast gives me (and my guests) a safe place to talk about anything and everything in "the garden" of thoughts that are in my head.


Tune in as I tell you the story of misdiagnosis and overmedication that led to the creation of the Bite The Apple Podcast.




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