Biz Women Rock

Alyson Porter has been a member of the Biz Women Rock community for a long time! But there was a season where I never heard a peep out of her...she was quiet. And then, one day, she messaged me saying she was back in action and that she had spent the year completely re-tooling her business (or, launching a brand new business, to be more appropriate) and that she was finally coming up for air.

As I sit and write this, it’s 1:00 pm on Sunday. I’m sitting at my friend’s mother’s house in Apopka, Florida...two hours east of my home in Tampa. According to the news reports today, Hurricane Irma is going to hit my home of Tampa pretty hard.

When I first found out that Alissa Daire Nelson was a coach who leveraged the Strengths Finder assessment to help her entrepreneur clients, I did a quiet little eye roll. I had done that “personality test” before and even though it was interesting, I didn’t really get a lot out of it. But after being a guest on her podcast - which forced me to take the test again - I was overwhelmed by how practical her analysis was and how easily it seemed to make things fit right into place.

Hannah Smolinski is a newbie entrepreneur. She started Brighten Up Financial, a company that provides financial consulting services to intermediate businesses who want to increase profits. Hannah began our LIVE COACHING CALL wanting to get clear on how to best present herself to potential clients and figure out who her ideal avatar actually is. Hannah and I get clear on where she actually shines, which leads us to creating the ideal initial package she can offer to her potential clients!

Michelle Mosher is the owner of Southshore Insurance Professionals. Her company offers all types of insurance, including auto, home, flood, business, recreational, etc. But her products are a commodity. There are thousands of others like her who do exactly what she does, offer exactly what she does and who can give you, the person looking for the best price, the exact same quote.

Chris Krimitsos is a community builder, event creator, podcast lover and movie maker (and yes, he’s my husband). And during today’s interview, I’m talking to him about the super high quality documentary he made about the power of podcasting called The Messengers: A Podcast Documentary. The movie is an incredible inside view of what podcast is, why it’s so powerful and why we podcasters do it. I’m obviously biased in saying this, but it’s an INCREDIBLE MOVIE!

For almost a decade, Angie St. Pierre has been helping other people in their businesses.  She’s acted as an Administrative and Personal Assistant and because of this, has mastered efficiencies, processes, systems, marketing, social media and oh so much more.  In December 2016, she made the decision to go out on her own and help build her OWN business.  While she started out being a for-hire assistant for her clients - actually doing the work they needed done, she’s transitioned into consulting and strategizing for them instead, educating them on how they can better run their back offices, sharing tools and resources that can help them run a more efficient business and also strategizing on how they can market their businesses in creative ways.  

 

During this live coaching session, Angie was stuck and her head was clustered with all the things she SHOULD be doing to grow her business (sound familiar?) ;).  So, I started where I usually start with any new client...I asked her what her dream biz looked like in her head.  What is she spending her time doing?  What is she giving?  Who is she helping?  Her answer looked different than the business she now has, so our entire strategy session focuses on how she can intelligently evolve her business from where it is now to where she wants it to be...all the while being incredibly present and grateful for where she is now!  

 

I challenged her on who her avatar really is vs. who she thought it was and we were ultimately able to uncover her TRUE GIFT that she is meant to share.

 

While we didn’t solve the world’s problems, I think we got off to a great start… ;)  

 

Find out more about Angie here → https://www.facebook.com/angstpierre

These LIVE COACHING SESSIONS are here so you can get deep insight into business issues, ideas and challenges that we all face as we create strategies, solutions and action plans that you can benefit from!  It's also a great way to see just how transformative it can be to allow another qualified person into your business so you can save time, money and energy that you would normally take figuring it out on your own!  We're in this together!

 

If you are interested a strategy session for YOU and YOUR business, check out the different options you have HERE or simply email me at [email protected] to let me know how I can best serve you!

At the moment I’m writing this, we’re deep into July.  And it’s about this time of year that I start hearing rumblings from clients, Elite members and members of the general Biz Women Rock community on how they can ensure they crush the goals they created at the beginning of the year.  Or, more appropriately, this is the time of year where most of us do a “check in” on where we are.

 

And, most often, when we pick our heads up above the daily weeds of our business, we’re struck by either how far away we are from our goals or how much our business has evolved since the beginning of the year and we feel a bit lost as we look upon the next few months ahead of us.

 

So I created this simple Mid-Year Reset process so you can have a simple way to get back into focus in your business in a way that will breathe new life into your activities over the next few months!

 

I’ve even created a FREE MID-YEAR RESET GUIDE for you!  It’s a fillable guide with prompts to all the steps so you can easily walk yourself through this process and get moving full steam ahead for the latter half of the year!

 

Download your FREE Mid-Year Reset Guide HERE! → http://bizwomenrock.com/myrguide

 

HERE ARE THE STEPS:

 

(LISTEN TO THE PODCAST EPISODE WHICH GOES INTO EACH OF THESE IN DETAIL HERE → http://bizwomenrock.com/309-2)

 

1. Highlight your wins
2. Take an assessment of where you are now
3. Honor your growth!
4. Reassess your 2017 goals
5. Create your ONE GOAL for the end of 2017!
6. Get intimate with this goal
7. Create milestones
8. Create a scoreboard
9. Identify the HABITS that you need to make it happen
10. Identify the SUPPORT you need to make it happen
11. COMMIT to support for the next 90 days
12. Take action!

 

BONUS: Focus on the next 2-3 steps...that’s it!

Get a deeper description of each of these steps on the MID-YEAR RESET GUIDE!  Download it for FREE here →  http://bizwomenrock.com/myrguide

Once you go through this process and identify the support you need and realize Biz Women Rock can provide that support for you, contact me ([email protected]) to let me know how I can help!  Together, we can ROCK the world!

Today's show is sponsored by...

 

THE BIZ WOMEN ROCK ELITE!

 

The Biz Women Rock ELITE is now open and ready for you!

The Elite Membership is perfect for you if…

• You are obsessed with growing your business!
• You see your business as a vehicle for doing good in this world and living out a purpose!
• You love learning from others!
• You want to incubate yourself with other action-taking business women who believe anything is possible!
• You are tired of having others around you tell you “you can’t do that!”
• You want access to your own personal “safe space” of positive women who can give you advice, feedback and pats on the back when you need them!
• You want regular peeks inside strategies that are working for your fellow Elite members so you can learn from them and apply it to your business!

 

If you nodded your head to any or all of the above, CLICK BELOW to learn more and become a member today!

 

Membership is just $37/mo!

BECOME AN ELITE MEMBER TODAY!

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I’ve had the pleasure of watching the incredible growth of my friend Lauren Davenport for years now.  Her company Symphony Agency is in my backyard (Tampa/St. Petersburg) and I’ve seen her go from a solo service provider to running a multi 7 figure business with 20+ employees.  Symphony Agency (http://symponyagency.com) is a full service marketing company that provides innovative strategies and implementation for their clients, both digitally and traditionally.  

 

But it didn’t start that way.   

 

During this incredible interview with Lauren, we get deep into her journey as an entrepreneur.  How she started in 2010 as a social media strategist and manager (that’s what we would call it now...back then it didn’t have quite that sophisticated of a title) and why she uprooted her entire business and moved to a city where she knew NO ONE (there was a very strategic business reason behind this!).  She shares about what she did to establish herself and her brand in a new market and how she eventually learned how to successfully delegate so she could build her team and grow her business!

 

We ultimately talk about her current challenges of managing her team and talk openly about that common thing we ALL face as entrepreneurs - the dissonance between being super confident in your ability to provide a solid service and knowing we’re human and messing up and always growing behind the scenes!  

 

Lauren is incredible and I know you’ll get so much out of our interview!

RESOURCES MENTIONED:

 

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan & Al Switzler

 

Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations and Bad Behavior by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan & Al Switzler

 

Listen to these books on Audible for Free!  When you sign up with Audible, your first book is totally free! → http://www.audibletrial.com/BusinessWomenRock *

 

*This is an affiliate link and I will be compensated at no charge to you should you choose to purchase.

Find out more about Lauren here → http://symponyagency.com

Today's show is sponsored by...

 

THE BIZ WOMEN ROCK ELITE!

 

The Biz Women Rock ELITE is now open and ready for you!

The Elite Membership is perfect for you if…

• You are obsessed with growing your business!
• You see your business as a vehicle for doing good in this world and living out a purpose!
• You love learning from others!
• You want to incubate yourself with other action-taking business women who believe anything is possible!
• You are tired of having others around you tell you “you can’t do that!”
• You want access to your own personal “safe space” of positive women who can give you advice, feedback and pats on the back when you need them!
• You want regular peeks inside strategies that are working for your fellow Elite members so you can learn from them and apply it to your business!

 

If you nodded your head to any or all of the above, CLICK BELOW to learn more and become a member today!

 

Membership is just $37/mo!

BECOME AN ELITE MEMBER TODAY!

http://bizwomenrock.com/elitemembership

Lifesquire is a personal assistant service that began in Oklahoma City and after 7 years of success, they began franchising out their model and Amanda Broadway was one of its first franchisees.  She purchased the franchise in December 2016 and what made them special, according to Amanda, was their culture - how their staff members interacted with each other and their clients and how the company itself interacted with the community.  

 

And now, Amanda find herself in the first year of growing her franchise in a different city and state (in Bradenton, Florida) and she’s figuring out that she needs clarity on WHAT she should do and WHAT actually works to make her new franchise successful in a different market!

 

During this LIVE COACHING CALL, I help Amanda get clear on what her most important priorities are, who her avatar really is and help her back into what actions she can take to acquire the kind of clients she really wants!  We also discuss how she can create the specialness of the team culture that she loves so much about the original company and some practices she can put into place to deliver the high touch, high quality experiences her clients would love!

 

You can find out more about Amanda and Lifesquire here → http://gulfcoast.lifesquire.com/

 

 

These LIVE COACHING SESSIONS are here so you can get deep insight into business issues, ideas and challenges that we all face as we create strategies, solutions and action plans that you can benefit from!  It's also a great way to see just how transformative it can be to allow another qualified person into your business so you can save time, money and energy that you would normally take figuring it out on your own!  We're in this together!

 

If you are interested a strategy session for YOU and YOUR business, check out the different options you have HERE or simply email me at [email protected] to let me know how I can best serve you!