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Time to speak pretty openly about why building a brand and not only a business is the best strategy to ensure longevity! Yes, it will take more energy and time upfront but it is well worth it! 

1. Reduce your customer acquisition cost - building a brand will help to increase customer loyalty and will result in referring others customers. This will reduce acquisition costs plus expand your customer base! 
2. Due to the increased brand loyalty, you will have a greater return customer rate further increasing the lifetime value of your customer and profits for your company.  
3. Connecting the brand’s story to emotion will further help with brand loyalty further propelling sales and profits without increasing marketing spending.  Sell more products with less hesitation.
4. Building your brand will help you pivot to other items in the market if your main product goes “out of trend”.

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Remember you got this! 

Xo,

Sophia

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Sophia is making a comeback to the podcast world, and she can't wait to share all the crazy thoughts and lessons she learnt while she took her hiatus from recording! 

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Why hire a virtual assistant (VA)? This is a great question and it’s more than just taking items off your to-do list! Let me break it down so you can start considering the option of hiring a VA as you start and scale your business! 

1. Learning the art of delegation! - Delegation is a key skill you will need to master! You not only will learn how to delegate but also more about yourself, your leadership style, and communication effectiveness 
2. Work smarter by removing repetitive tasks from your to-do list! This will allow you more white space in your calendar to create in your business and lead the business to the next goal! 
3. Having a VA will keep your momentum going! You are accountable to your VA and as a result, you are more likely to stick to the tasks that are designed to be yours. For example, I have the required task of recording this show each week and our amazing editing team will take care of the rest! I may not have continued with podcast/YouTube recording and filming if it were not for me being accountable to my team to produce the creatives! This has helped me keep up with the momentum! 
4. Bonus tip on how I work with my VA team- Watch/listen until the end to find out!! This bonus tip has saved me loads of time and helped with communication, so it’s a must! 

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You Got This! 

Sophia 

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Sophia is making a comeback to the podcast world, and she can't wait to share all the crazy thoughts and lessons she learnt while she took her hiatus from recording! 

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Time to start talking about your mental health, specifically anxiety and how it shows up in your business!

I want to provide you 4 tips on how to understand your anxiety and how it might be showing up in your business and how you then need to manage it! 

Tip 1: Acknowledge the anxiety. Ensure you understand that experiencing anxiety is completely normal and it is required for survival. Where it is not normal is when your anxiety is preventing you from experiences that you enjoy. The goal is to take your functional anxiety and channel it into your next project!

Tip 2: Use your anxiety as your internal compass. Is your anxiety telling you to slow down, or speed up? For example, is your anxiety is high because you are fearful to take that next step in your career or business? Why is that? Do you need to understand more about the next steps, or prepare more before moving forward? What is the anxiety trying to tell you?

Tip 3: Use your anxiety to drive you into momentum. If you’re having a moment of high anxiety and you’re unable to focus, then complete an activity you enjoy to release that high energy, such as going for a walk, listening to music, or working out. Once your energy or anxiety has stabilized, then use that energy to focus on that goal or task. 

Tip 4: Is your anxiety hindering your quality of life? Be honest with yourself and ask if your anxiety is preventing you from continuing with regular daily activities you enjoy? Do you feel that your anxiety could be coming from past experiences? If so, it is completely acceptable to have a mental health therapist who can professionally provide you with support! 

Remember, anxiety is a “normal” part of life and you may be facing an increased level of anxiety if you’re jumping into a new experience such as starting a business! 

And remember, you got this! 

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XO,

Sophia Noreen

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Sophia is making a comeback to the podcast world, and she can't wait to share all the crazy thoughts and lessons she learnt while she took her hiatus from recording! 

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Staring your entrepreneurial journey and maintaining momentum is difficult and today I want to share with you 4 foundations that helped me. We have taken the best clips and tips from past episodes and placed them here as a great way to not only remind yourself of these foundations but also head back to these episodes and relisten, as we all need a refresher on how to reframe our psychology to ensure we’re empowering ourselves and not sabotaging our efforts. 

Here is a breakdown of the 4 foundations we discuss and a link to take you back to the episode so you can relisten. 

1. You will proceed through 3 stages of your business and you need to understand your current state and respect the process. Catch more on this topic at www.bossitclub.com/59 
2. Patience in business is required but we did use a hack for our product-based business and we want to share this with you too. Catch more regarding patience in business and what you can do to help with business growth at www.bossitclub.com/67
3. What is psychological ownership? This is a great foundational tip about managing your resources and looking to what you have rather than wishing for more… more time… more money… etc. Catch more on this very important topic at www.bossitclub.com/56
4. Accountability is a core foundation for any business and business owner. Catch more on this very important topic at www.bossitclub.com/73

Starting your own business is an amazing journey and you got this! 

XO,

Sophia 

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Sophia is making a comeback to the podcast world, and she can't wait to share all the crazy thoughts and lessons she learnt while she took her hiatus from recording! 

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How to start again in business? 

It can be so difficult if things don’t work out the first time in business, or if you need to take a pause in business and you now need to “start again”.

I want to share with you 3 tips on how to start over again in business so it’s easier to hit “restart” or “unpause”.

1. Change your perspective of your business and look at it as an experiment. You will have a hypothesis, or educated guess, or what will work and then you will take action and test your educated guess. You will measure the results in your business, such as volume of sales, or conversion rate on your website and see what will work. Even if your experiment does not work, you have still gained valuable knowledge regarding what will work and what will not in the future. You can use the knowledge and experience from any past business or experiment and apply it to your future business strategies!

2. What transferable skills can you take from your past experience in business or in other areas of your life, which you can apply to your present-day situation. A common skill that many of us may not notice is the ability to delegate tactfully to our family members and then use the same skill to delegate to team members. Look at different domains in your life and see what skills you can borrow and apply to your business.

3. Take a business break-in place from the start. Do not get all consumed by your business and place boundaries between your business and life’s other domains. Be mindful of your time, energy and space and ensure you have boundaries for each domain. For example, ensure you have a space in your house that will be free from the “business” and work on your business when your energy is at it’s best. 

Remember, it is completely reasonable to take a “pause” in your business or if required press “restart”. If you can reframe your perspective using these tips, you will feel more energised and ready to jump back into action!

You got this!

XO,

Sophia

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Sophia is making a comeback to the podcast world, and she can't wait to share all the crazy thoughts and lessons she learnt while she took her hiatus from recording! 

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Time to talk about a nasty habit that many of us have scummed to… Doomscrolling… a common habit of scrolling on social media, which could contribute to unintentionally looking for negativity.

In this episode, we speak about how to avoid this nasty phenomenon and ways to use social media constructively for our businesses! 

1. Contribute by posting on social media before you scroll and consume. It is easy enough to jump on social media and start consuming but as a business, you need to show up and contribute at a regular cadence. Your cadence could be once a week, once a day, or 2 times a day. Regardless of the cadence, you need to keep up with it, to ensure your audience and the algorithms know that you’re still around as a participant. Attempt to create a habit where you only consume when you post. Engage with the content you are seeing, so you are consuming the content with intention. Your attention is the most valuable resource and when you engage with the content, you not only make a real connection with another person, but you’re also telling the algorithm that you like that type of content and the algorithm will then present similar content and perhaps more opportunity to make real connections.

2. Schedule the time you will engage with social media and using the tips above, ensure you are actively engaging when you do jump on social media. If you can create a schedule to post, then create “social media engagement time” before and after the created content has been posted. This will help keep your account active around posting time.

3. Remove the social media apps from your phone's Home Screen. If clicking on the social media app has become a compulsion, then you should consider removing the apps from your home screen or deleting them from your phone and only using the desktop version.

4. Find an app that will put a time control on your usage. I know it can become difficult to stop the compulsion of scrolling and if you find yourself going over the time allotted to social media engagement, then a time-limiting app for social media might be your answer.

5.  Replace your scrolling habit with another activity that will give you the same level of “downtime” or “transition time”. Consider journaling or reading as a replacement for social media scrolling. The activity you select should be something that will uplift you and provide you with positive energy!

Take one or two or all of these tips and apply them to your own situation to ensure you’re not succumbing to Doomscrolling!

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Enjoy!

XO, 

Sophia

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Sophia is making a comeback to the podcast world, and she can't wait to share all the crazy thoughts and lessons she learnt while she took her hiatus from recording! 

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Let’s talk all about transitions and how to manage transitions like a boss! 

In this episode, I give you a little update on my current career transition as I move into an executive director role. To help me manage this transition, I am using specific strategies and I want to share these with you! 

I also want to give you the “real- lay of the land”, as you transition from a full-time career to potentially a full-time business owner. The road is not always in a straight path and there may be points where you need to supplement your income to help keep your business and lifestyle afloat and this is perfectly fine!  

Ok here are the tips to help you transition during times of change in your business, career, or lifestyle. 

1. Prepare yourself - Can you reframe your mindset? You will need to prepare your mindset by allowing yourself the grace to be kind to you, understanding it might take a little more energy and time to get acquainted with all the “new” and also letting others know as well, that you won’t have all the answers at the beginning. 
2. Preparing your family and supports - have an open dialogue with your family and friends including setting expectations. You need to be able to ask all for help and delegate out tasks.  When you delegate tasks, you need to be specific and do not assume that family and friends can “read your mind”. If you need help, then let them know by asking with words rather than telepathically. Also if you can set the expectation with family and friends that you need a task to be completed or “owned” by them moving forward, you do not need to ask every day for a task completion, which could still add to your mental load. 
3. Preparing your Team - As with your family and supports, you will want to set expectations as you transition with your team.  You will need to delegate new tasks or modify existing delegated tasks.  The goal is to remove demands off your responsibility list, so you are not becoming overwhelmed as your transition. If you are working for yourself and you do not have a team, you can start dividing out your tasks so when you are ready to hire your first virtual assistant, you know exactly what set of tasks to provide them! Also start setting boundaries with your time and space so your new transition roles do not take over your personal life and prevent you to rest and recoup daily. 

If you find these tips helpful, start putting them into action and share this episode with a friend! 

Head to bossitclub.com/podcast to listen to more great episodes.

XO,

Sophia

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Sophia is making a comeback to the podcast world, and she can't wait to share all the crazy thoughts and lessons she learnt while she took her hiatus from recording! 

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Oh, you will love this episode. Deborah aka Deb offers us a wealth of knowledge and perspective during this episode. She also spills the beans on how she took years of experience and created a 6 figure/year knowledge business!

During our candid chat, we speak about how working for yourself can actually be easier than working a traditional “job” even a respectable career as a teacher. Deb listened to her family and took the traditional path into teaching; and although she was glad she did as it offered stability, she still had a driving passion towards theatre and now has taken her years of experience to create a passive income generating over 6 figures a year by selling her educational material!

You guys are going to love this episode and hopefully you will feel as motivated as I did after the interview to get-up and get-going!

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Enjoy!

XO,

Sophia

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Sophia is making a comeback to the podcast world, and she can't wait to share all the crazy thoughts and lessons she learnt while she took her hiatus from recording! 

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Time to share a few tips on how we manage self-care every day so we can continue to work and serve in our business and enjoy your time with family and friends. 

Stand up more throughout your day! Look for a standing desk or ensure you are taking a standing break!

Stay hydrated! I know many people are constantly dehydrated! Try different tricks to ensure you are drinking enough water each day. I drink warm water now to trick me into drinking more water each day. 

Try a “walking meeting” to ensure you are walking enough steps each day. 

Remember you need to take care of yourself consistently, so you can take care of others and propel your business forward! 

Remember you got this! 

XO,

Sophia

A Team Dklutr Production

Sophia is making a comeback to the podcast world, and she can't wait to share all the crazy thoughts and lessons she learnt while she took her hiatus from recording! 

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During this episode, we speak with Samia from Taqdeer Life about her experience with Influencer Marketing and how she has used this strategy to sell more in her business of faith-based journals.

After enrolling in our program Influencer Marketing Made Easy (IMME), Samia walked away feeling more confident and empowered to approach influencers and content creators to be a part of her marketing campaign. She also enjoyed the group coaching sessions each week.

A key takeaway from our talk with Samia is that influencer marketing is a key strategy that business owners should adopt for their brand and IMME was definitely the course that provided the best strategy and transformation if you put in the work! 

If you want to join IMME, then head to https://www.bossitclub.com/IMME

XO,

Sophia

A Team Dklutr Production

Sophia is making a comeback to the podcast world, and she can't wait to share all the crazy thoughts and lessons she learnt while she took her hiatus from recording! 

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