Burning Brightly

Sometimes building a business can feel akin to trying to open a lock using the wrong key. Nothing fits, everything's hard and you just feel stuck. The challenge comes from the fact that your business is uniquely yours, and no one has ever built one like you yet!

This episode will walk you through a few signs that will tell you how to know if you're cutting the right business "key" and if not, how to tweak the things that aren't working. I'll also teach you how to know when you DO have the right "key" but you just need to turn up the volume and do more of what's working.

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00:28 Welcome to Burning Brightly

00:52 The Perfect Key Analogy

02:19 Trial and Error in Business

04:22 Identifying a Broken Key

08:57 Signs of a Working Key

09:23 Identifying the Right Audience and Offer

10:10 Crafting Clear and Concise Messaging

10:33 Building a Detailed Coaching Program

11:07 Passion and Free Content

12:03 The Role of a Business Coach

12:32 Scaling Your Business

13:07 Attracting and Nurturing Leads

15:37 Conversion Strategies

16:53 Perfecting Your Business Key

17:47 Final Thoughts and Encouragement

Many Christian women in the entrepreneur space never set out to be a boss or a mogul initially. Most of us just saw a need and wanted to help people. But the quicker we can embrace and step into the energy that comes from being a true boss in our business, the quicker we'll create (and become) something truly amazing.

Being a boss means so much more than just hiring employees - in fact, I suggest everyone step into this boss energy WAY before ever hiring your first team member. It looks like embracing confidence, respecting your own and other people's time, it looks like trusting your intuition and building something with God by your side.

Your audience desperately needs you to take charge and help them to change their lives. And this episode will help you get started!

Mastering Confidence and Balance in Parenting and Business Leadership

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00:16 Motherhood and Intuition: A Personal Journey

01:05 Questioning the Experts: Curating Information

01:59 Parenting: Trusting Your Own Expertise

03:02 You Are the Boss: Embracing Business Leadership

04:17 Knowing Yourself: Leveraging Personal Expertise

07:19 Seeking Help: When to Rely on Experts

10:47 The Power of Being in Charge: Embracing Leadership

13:22 Embodying Boss Traits

13:40 Choosing Confidence

14:46 Practicing Compassion

15:38 Setting Boundaries

16:10 Prioritizing Your Business

17:06 Committing Fully

18:19 Showing Up as a Boss

22:44 Eliminating Insecurity

25:08 Final Thoughts on Being a Boss

If you're a mother, then you know all about the different seasons of life and how each requires different time and energy. There are times of life when we can work full time, times when we are way busier than we'd like to be and seasons when we're barely hanging on.

It can be tempting to try to start or grow a business during a season of life that isn't particularly conducive to extra obligations. Conversely, it can be easy to dismiss a call from God asking us to do something new because we think we're "just too busy".

This episode will help us determine if and when might be the right time to scale a business, start something new or just be patient and "wait upon the Lord".

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00:44 Understanding Times and Seasons

03:21 Classifying Life Phases

04:19 Determining Readiness for Business

05:24 Self-Reflection and God's Guidance

07:20 Practical Questions to Consider

10:07 Balancing Business and Personal Life

14:16 Spiritual Growth Through Business

16:12 Final Thoughts and Encouragement

I've been podcasting for almost 6 years now and it's one of my favorite means of communicating with my audience and disseminating expertise, encouragement and coaching.

If you've been dreaming of a podcast of your own, this episode will give you a high level overview of the steps you'll need to put in place in order to launch a show yourself.

Learn how to find a purpose for your show, create a title (and possibly a tagline), intro, outro and cover art, choose a hosting platform and music, as well as build a launch plan that's doable for you.

Becoming a podcaster is a goal that's a lot closer than you think!

Check out a very robust launch plan here.

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00:22 Introduction to Burning Brightly

00:48 Why Start a Podcast?

01:18 My Podcasting Journey

02:35 Defining Your Podcast's Purpose

05:46 Essential Elements for Launching

07:38 Crafting Your Podcast Title and Tagline

10:14 Creating Your Intro and Outro

12:38 Recording and Editing with Descript

14:37 Designing Your Cover Art

16:09 Planning and Recording Episodes

18:46 Choosing a Hosting Platform

21:31 Creating a Launch Plan

24:40 Final Tips for Podcast Success

Are you a coach or content creator with niche drama?

Let's be honest, you probably have niche drama. We all do at some point! You're definitely not alone but this part of building your business doesn't have to be hard!

When I became a certified life coach, I went all in a niche for several months, and eventually learned through testing (that we talk about in this episode) that it wasn't going to be a good fit for the kind of business I wanted to build. So I pivoted and now make money coaching people with a real problem on a topic I LOVE.

If you're still worried, overthinking or otherwise stressed about your business niche, this episode will calm your mind. There IS a perfect money-making niche for you, one that maximizes your passion, your skill and market demand!

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00:31 Understanding the Importance of a Niche

01:05 Defining Your Niche

02:54 Testing Your Niche

03:45 The Three P's of a Perfect Niche

08:11 Crafting Your Elevator Pitch

12:53 Gauging Reactions and Getting Feedback

21:30 The Importance of a Narrow Niche

24:56 Conclusion and Next Steps

If you have kids at home and are building a business, this episode is for you! It's taken me years and years to develop and implement a work-at-home schedule that works for me and my (very large) family.

In today's episode, I'm sharing my own current schedule, showing you how to decide what's most important in creating your own, and walking you through the process. By the end of this show, you'll know exactly when you want to schedule regular working time on your business and how to make it happen even around family and household obligations.

I'll also share some common places that moms can let go of additional home management duties to free up time and energy.

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01:03 Balancing Business and Family Life

01:49 The Importance of Focus and Boundaries

04:22 Implementing Block Scheduling

05:45 Creating a Flexible Schedule

12:49 Tips for Prioritizing and Delegating Tasks

18:19 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

What do you feel when you hear the word "failure?" Does it make you cringe? Worry? Stress or shiver? Most people have only negative connotations to the word "failure", but when building a small business, we have to get up close and personal to this concept and start to reexamine it.

Instead of seeing our business building adventure as a series of small failures, instead I want us to look at it as a series of experiments. This is how every business is built and getting comfortable with these experiments is critical if you're going to succeed.

But sometimes, it IS time to fail, or in other words, close our doors or do a major business pivot. What will we make THIS mean about us as entrepreneurs? Will we let it affect how we view ourselves? Does the success or failure of our business mean that we ourselves are either successes or failures?

We're going to talk all about this concept today, and teach you how to reframe failure in a way that will serve you in your business and in life, forever.

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00:30 Understanding Failure in Business

02:04 Reframing Failure: Lessons Learned

02:44 Reality vs. Expectations

03:36 Applying Lessons from Failure

05:55 Separating Personal Identity from Business

14:20 Commitment and Timeframe for Business Success

18:40 Evaluating Your Business: What Works and What Doesn't

19:43 Seeking Divine Guidance in Business Decisions

22:16 Making Fearless Choices in Your Business

26:11 Redefining Failure and Success in Entrepreneurship

30:41 Personal Story: The Journey of Novalie

33:42 Embracing Failure and Moving Forward

Today, we're talking about the concept of success and exploring how we can define and recognize our own success in business and life. I'm going to challenge conventional notions of success, and teach you how important it is to set personal goals instead of chasing other people's ideas of success.

We'll start with what success means like for us, discuss how critical it is to manage our own expectations, and teach you the magic of how to start feeling successful NOW without waiting for external validation or financial milestones. We're going to learn how to prioritize what truly matters to you and to find joy and contentment in your current circumstances, even while working towards the business of your dreams.

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00:31 Defining Success: A Personal Journey

01:57 The Dictionary's Take on Success

03:21 Personal Definitions of Success

04:16 The Subjectivity of Success

04:56 Setting Personal Success Goals

11:24 Money and Success: Finding the Balance

15:32 Living Your Success Now

In this episode we're exploring the benefits of networking and how to do it in a way that feels good and genuine as an online business owner. We'll talk about what networking means, and I'm sharing my personal journey and struggles with this skill, especially when it felt salesy and/or disingenuous.

We'll redefine 'networking' to make it a more authentic, service-driven approach and I'll give you three key strategies for successful networking: listen before speaking, build trust through vulnerability, and offer help without expecting anything in return.

Let's look at the importance of genuine connections and how these can be cultivated in both our personal and professional lives, plus I'll give you real tactics for how to network at an event.

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00:30 Personal Struggles with Networking

01:18 The Misconceptions of Networking

04:46 The Right Way to Network

05:34 The Wrong Way to Network

09:03 Building Genuine Relationships

11:30 Three Keys to Successful Networking

16:56 Applying Networking Principles to All Relationships

19:08 Conclusion and Call to Action

In this episode, I'm discussing the significance of honoring the Sabbath and how it has completely revolutionized my business and personal life.

Through biblical references and personal anecdotes, I'm going to show you how dedicating a day to God not only fosters spiritual growth but will also improve productivity and creativity in your business.

I'll give you some suggestions for implementing Sabbath day observance in your own life, and share some of the transformative benefits of keeping this day holy, even while it's not always easy. This episode is for Christian moms who want to build a business in a way that's pleasing to God, by setting boundaries and prioritizing rest and spiritual connection.

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00:00 Introduction to Episode 58

00:34 The Importance of Honoring the Sabbath

00:57 Biblical Foundations of the Sabbath

01:53 Personal Commitment to the Sabbath

04:43 Why Keeping the Sabbath is Hard

08:34 How Honoring the Sabbath is Easy

14:36 Practical Tips for a Holy Sabbath

19:14 Conclusion and Encouragement