Brave Yes CEO

Welcome to The Brave YES Business Show!

In today's first Brave YES Short -- a 10 minute episode -- I am talking about the following ...

--- The rebranded NAME for this podcast

-- The WHY and, most importantly, the HOW behind the change

-- Why Body Wisdom is essential in business

-- What it means to step into your power

-- What the name change means for YOU

Interested in working with me as a coach? https://shawnfink.com/business-brave

Today's episode is dedicated to the entrepreneur who is trapped in the Bootstrapping Fallout -- the one who is trying desperately to save money but coming up against so many obstacles to grow your business.

My hope with this episode is that you will start to take yourself and your work more seriously by starting to see how vital it is to know where to put your time, money and energy.

If you are truly ready to start taking yourself and your business more seriously, you’re going to have to change your bootstrapping mindset.

Apply for a FREE coaching exploratory session with me here: https://shawnfink.com/business-brave/

Listen to the episode on Scarcity Mindset here: https://shawnfink.com/scarcity-mindset/

Download the FREE weekly financial wellbeing check-in resource here: https://shawnfink.com/financial-checkin/

Are You All In On Your Business? by Shawn Fink

Do you feel as if you are traveling through the dark valley of irrelevance some days as you try to build an audience for your work?

Several years ago, I quickly grew a Facebook page to 35K followers.

Those days of growing fast and reaching thousands of new fans in a single day are no longer a given.

If you want to stand out and make a bigger impact with your brand, you must do things differently.

Listen now to my 5 tips for you to start putting yourself out there and being known for your brilliance:

Apply for a Free Coaching Exploratory call with me here: https://forms.gle/P1Sd564rK5sY7AJeA

Today I'm sharing my own stories of risk-taking in my decade of entrepreneurship.

Each risk, some big and some small, was worth it -- and each one had their own level of scary attached to them. 

Not only do I share what each of these 10 brave business moves were, but I also tell the story behind each one. Some of the stories are hilarious. Some are not so funny at all. 

Either way, I hope by modeling my own #BusinessBrave moves you get inspired to start taking your own risks in business. 

Here we go!

Get your FREE Weekly Financial Wellbeing Check-In Ritual download here: https://shawnfink.com/financial-checkin/

Joy is important and necessary for PEOPLE LIKE US.

People like us who are meaning makers, conscious, feminist, justice-oriented know that we don’t want a capitalist business model. We don’t want to run our business as usual.

We want more YESES.

Because fuck it.

Like is short.

In my last episode, I talked about things you can do to add joy into your business day.

But, the joy stuff doesn’t have to stop there.

Doing business as usual where boring reigns.

My people — and if you are listening I assume you are my people — my people don’t want to do biz as usual.

Why?

Because life is short and we went into business not just for flexibility and independence but for creative freedom. To do business our way. To make our own rules. And I’m all about helping my clients make their own rules.

The shoulds will zap your joy.

So the goals much change to the point where joy is operationalized. Joy is built in. Joy is a standard operating procedure in practice not just in mind or on paper.

GET THE FREE FINANCIAL WELLBEING CHECK-IN RITUAL HERE: https://shawnfink.com/financial-checkin/

Your self-worth isn’t found in your bank account.

Or anywhere else for that matter.

It’s time to unlearn some of the ways you feel enough as an entrepreneur.

Have you have ever felt like you’re not good enough because you’re not making enough money or because your business is not where you want it to be?

Perhaps, you often feel low because your bank account has been dwindling, or you want to make more but you keep plateauing. Or you just aren’t getting the sales you want.

Or, maybe you just are barely making enough to get by?

If you feel low while thinking about your money or sales it’s possible your self worth is tangled up in your bank account.

Or, it is tied up in the tactics you use to earn money.

That's what this episode is ALL about ... please leave a review if this speaks to you.

One of the key elements of being a stress proof entrepreneur is being resilient.

And to be resilient you have to take extremely good care of yourself in mind, body and spirit ...

but here’s the thing.

If your bank account is in a scary place, you’re not going to feel good no matter how much self-care you do.

Your wellbeing requires a healthy bank account.

Get my FREE Weekly Financial Wellbeing Check-In Ritual download here: https://shawnfink.com/financial-checkin/

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My passion and purpose is working with entrepreneurs who believe greatly in making the world a better place, helping people thrive, helping the land thrive, helping systems thrive, whatever it is, but my people really want to see change and progress.

So let's do that. Let's focus on how we can make money, find meaning in our work and also do our small part to help the world in one tiny way.

And so when I say let’s get business brave, what I’m really saying is, let’s really build businesses that are wholehearted, that are human centered.

And, by human, I also very much mean you the founder, the leader of the business and those you serve, and those who are impacted by the work that you’re doing.

So money, meaning and the greater good ... let's dig into this this week.

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