This week's episode brings you a conversation with Carlee Myers, founder of the Stress Less Company. 

Are you financially unsatisfied and unfulfilled in your business? Maybe it’s because you’re always stressed and disassociating instead of taking time to fully relax. To become a fulfilled and satisfied business owner, you must manage your energy, think clearly, and make the right decisions for yourself.

In this episode of Building Better Businesses with Catalyst Consulting, we have Carlee Myers, a stress management mentor, trainer, guest expert, and speaker. She helps high-achieving executives, business owners, and managers who feel overworked and exhausted find the peace and freedom they desire. She explains the 5-step stress less method; manage your energy, identify your blocks, create your plan, remove the blocks one by one, and embrace grace.

Listen in to learn the difference between ego mind and intuition and how each is meant to guide and keep you safe. You will also learn the importance of having a coach and the elements to look for or avoid in a coach to find your perfect match.

What You Will Learn:

· [0:41] Intro

· [1:33] Get to know Carlee on both a personal and professional level.

· [4:00] How Carlee’s childhood trauma and struggle with PTSD led her to stress management.

· [9:13] The unfulfilled and financially unsatisfied entrepreneurs that she works with.

· [12:24] The stress less method – removing blocks and the root cause of your issues.

· [19:49] How your intuition is always there for you vs. the ego-mind, which guides you to always be on the move.

· [25:13] The ego-mind is more for the physical realm to keep us safe rather than the abstract things.

· [26:59] Energy management with creative stress reduction to get you into rest and digestion mode.

· [29:47] Learning how to stop disassociating and take a step back to fully relax.

· [41:39] The elements to determine if a coach is right for you or not.

· “We are all on a journey and the journey is a spiral, not a straight line.”- Carlee [56:54]

Carlee Myers is an expert at helping restless leaders who struggle with leaving work at work create true emotional and financial freedom all while working less. As the founder of The Stress Less Company, Carlee has helped hundreds of professionals around the world take action to reduce stress through her educational and mentoring programs. She believes there is no-one-size-fits-all when it comes to stress management. Carlee Myers, a Diplomate of The American Institute of Stress, has had her work most recently featured in media outlets such as Parade, FOX 29, Good Day Philadelphia, The Maui News and Wholly Magazine.

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In this episode of Building Better Businesses with Catalyst Consulting, we have Sara Torpey, business coach for former teachers and service-based business owners who are over struggling to make money. She started as a middle school math teacher for many years before she discovered she was good at shifting people and slowly started a coaching business.

Are you running your business in ways that authentically work for you? To be successful in running your business, you must first determine what works for you and prioritize what matters to your business.

Listen in to learn the importance of having things that matter for your business and learning to mainly focus on them to grow your business. You will also learn how to authentically market and sell in a way that effectively works for you.

Sara Torpey is a business coach with 20 years of experience working with both business owners and educators.

At Torpey Coaching, she works 1:1 with business owners to create thriving, profitable businesses through simplicity, smart systems, and leveraging everything that is already working to create even more growth.

Sara is a multiple business owner, a teacher, a mom, and a wife. She knows what it’s like to wear all the hats AND build an amazing business you LOVE at the same time.

Sara is fueled by learning, sunshine, teaching, frozen desserts, and helping clients to create their DREAMS.

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Does your business website perfectly represent who you are and what you do? Do your target clients feel emotionally connected to the design and content you present to them on your website? For your website to convert, every piece of it must resonate with your target audience, from the design to the copy.

In this episode of Building Better Businesses with Catalyst Consulting, we have Isabel Kateman. She’s the founder of Striped Dog Creative where she does deliberate website design and strategic storytelling for bold entrepreneurs. She works with female service-based entrepreneurs helping them design websites that allow them to connect emotionally with their clients in only 3 weeks.

Listen in to learn the importance of creating copy that quickly and efficiently resonates with your target client to convert them. You will also learn the value of having written copy on your website to compliment your video content.

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Are you using the right marketing strategy to attract the right customers? To effectively communicate to your audience, you have to consider aspects such as emotions and humanity as part of your marketing strategy.

In this episode of Building Better Businesses with Catalyst Consulting, we have Seth Donlin of Awen Coaching. He’s a marketing & communications coach and B2C marketing consultant who helps sport & fit pros attract and build trust with their ideal audiences. He explains why it is important to understand your customers’ real problem, and not just the symptoms of it, to better help them find a solution and add value.

Listen in to learn the importance of marketing yourself and your brand on an emotional level rather than in an intellectual way. You will also learn how to use authentic and emotional storytelling to connect with potential customers during the marketing stage.

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Would you like to shift your role from the burned-out business owner to the free and joyful business owner? To achieve a JoyFull workplace culture, you have to efficiently build a team and shift what needs to be done to avoid burnout.

In this episode of Building Better Businesses with Catalyst Consulting, we have Janifer Wheeler. She’s the founder of The JOYFull BadAss Business Academy™, an award-winning international speaker, and facilitator. She teaches badass female business owners how to use joy as a business strategy so they can eliminate chronic stress that leads to burnout. Janifer explains how she shifted from a school teacher and created an eLearning Academy to help business owners find joy in their work.

Listen in to learn why you shouldn’t try to know everything as a business owner but only know enough, to run your business joyously.

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Is it time for you to get a coach to help your business progress to the next level? For you to progress in many aspects of your business, it is important you hire a coach to support in positioning your brand.

In this episode of Building Better Businesses with Catalyst Consulting, we have Pixie Grace, a personal branding coach. She helps entrepreneurs master their Million Dollar Message and create an irresistible personal brand. She explains how she left the corporate world and got into coaching at only 25 by finding someone who guided her.

Listen in to learn the importance of having a coach to help you progress your business to the next level by providing you with the necessary support. You will also learn the different things you should look for in a coach before hiring one for your business.

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Do you have an effective cash flow management system in your business? It is important to have a cash flow management system that allows you to separate your financial commitments easily so that you’re not overwhelmed as a business owner and your business remains healthy.

In this episode of Building Better Businesses with Catalyst Consulting, we have John Briggs, the tax genius at Incite Tax. They provide tax services with a market focus on small business owners and investors. He explains all things taxes for small businesses, plus how to approach the cash flow management system.

Listen in to learn the importance of paying attention to your business expenses and having cash leftovers to keep your business healthy longer. You will also learn why you should find an accountant that’s saving you more in taxes than it costs to retain them.

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Are you in the process of starting your small business? Or maybe you have already started, but you’re not established yet? What if you found the business support or coach that you need to help you make the process easier? Programs such as Small Business Development Centers (SBDA) and SBA are committed to helping entrepreneurs start and grow small businesses.

In this episode of Building Better Businesses with Catalyst Consulting, we have Sarah Truglio, a certified business advisor at WSBDC. Her role is to provide in-depth business counseling and coaching for new small and existing businesses. She explains how she fell in love with helping small businesses grow and how she gets involved in making the process easier for entrepreneurs.

Listen in to learn the importance of going through the right hiring process to hire the right people for your new small business. You will also learn the importance of maintaining a supportive relationship with your lender and bank as a small business owner.

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What beliefs are you holding onto as an entrepreneur and are stopping you from living abundantly? To have an abundant life and business, you have to change your beliefs about money and the habits you have developed over the years.

In this episode of Building Better Businesses with Catalyst Consulting, we have Teresa Romain. She’s an abundance coach at Access Abundance and has had her business for the last 25 years. She advocates for women in their 40s and above who experience scarcity with money. She explains how entrepreneurs operate on scarcity that stops them from living the life they want and having the business they want.

Listen in to learn how to find your identity without getting attached to whether you become successful in your business or not. You will also learn the importance of having supportive limits when it comes to investing money and time in your business.

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How To Become an Intentional Leader in Your Business – with Shawna Schuh

What type of leader do you show up as in your business? Becoming a successful leader requires being intentional in the risks you take and the environment you create for your team to be the best they can be.

In this episode of Building Better Businesses with Catalyst Consulting, we have Shawna Schuh, a leadership and executive coach. She advocates for her clients and is uncompromising about working towards their betterment. She explains what it takes to be an intentional leader who leads their team to suitable company culture.

Listen in to learn the value of trusting your team to do their job without micromanaging. You will also learn how to be a fair and consistent leader to build an environment where your team is motivated.

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