Hi, I’m Kylee and I’m a business coach for women! I specialize in helping women make money while still balancing their families. Learn more about my courses and coaching options at kyleeanncoaching.com

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Amanda is owner of a product-based AND service-based business! She owns Amanda Clark Photography in Southern Utah and Cold Strike, an brand new outdoor apparel business. We've always been friends but in January she became one of my coaching girls!

I LOVE coaching because it is more like guiding — not directing. When we first started coaching sessions, she was burnt out and even felt like it was time to quit photography. I was able to watch Amanda dive into what was causing her burn-out and help her completely pivot her business.

Amanda discovered that she didn’t love photography as much as she loves the people. So now that we know what she is passionate about, we can shift her business to be more about the people.

At the beginning of coaching, Amanda had a six-year old photography business. Now she has a six-year old photography business, a podcast, an associate photographer, a virtual assistant, an outdoor apparel business and three more instagrams. She has completely stepped into that CEO role (flawlessly, might I add) and does what she really loves every day, the managing and the executing and the negotiating. The people-side of things.

Amanda wouldn’t have gotten to the bottom of her burn-out and found what she really loves to do without pushing past her limiting beliefs. She HAD to let go of these big fears. That’s why I love coaching. We were able to discover and work through limiting beliefs that she didn’t even know were there!

Get all the juicy details in today's episode - going from burn out to CEO!

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You all know I am an enneagram one. If you’ve stuck around here long enough, you know my weird enneagram quirks. I am a chronic picker-upper and tireless cleaner. I might just be one of the very few people out there who puts the window cleaners, the carpet guys, the car washes and the professional deep cleaners on their stories.

Having a clean house is very very important to me but I don’t do it because it's what other people expect when they come to my home. It's 100% for me. I care about me coming home at the end of a shoot or at the end of running errands and seeing a mess in the living room.

But I am a busy busy person. I don’t have time to stay home all day to clean my house. You don’t have time to stay home all day to clean your house. We wear all these different hats and juggle all these different responsibilities, we just don’t have all the time to spend organizing and decluttering. We have to learn how to optimize so we can stay sane.

So I’m sharing what I do to optimize my cleaning routines so you can feel like you’re on top of home-life even when life is busy!

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A lot of people think they’ll get all their business just from Instagram and that’s how they’ll grow. That more followers and saved posts will make them successful. We get stuck in Instagram, just wanting to get to 10k and wanting to go “viral.". Yeah, you may get followers on the platform, but are any of them paying clients?

Guys. You can't just rely on social media to grow. You have to remember that Instagram isn’t the only playing field out there. After six months of putting in my time with SEO, my business exploded. I was filling up my calendar with "stranger" clients who would find me on Google and I stopped relying on friends and family to get clients.

I started from nothing and putting in my time with SEO really helped me grow, not Instagram or Facebook.

I know SEO can seem overwhelming and confusing, but it is a POWERFUL tool to have your marketing arsenal. So, I thought it would be a good idea to bring Sadie Banks on to the podcast this week to help make SEO seem less scary.

Sadie works for Manta, an online marketing company that helps businesses with their directories and SEO. She is an SEO and marketing guru, so there is no one better to help us break this down!

Sadie gave us so many SIMPLE and EASY tips that you can do to build trust with Google, help you be successful in SEO and grow online. You never know which tip will transform your business.

FIND SADIE HERE to ask her your SEO questions:

instagram.com/sadiebanks.co

Hi, I’m Kylee and I’m a business coach for women! I specialize in helping women make money while still balancing their families. Learn more about my courses and coaching options at kyleeanncoaching.com

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A lot of people in our lives, especially those closest to us, want things for free or at a discounted price. They just don’t value us like those stranger clients we usually book. We must figure out how to set boundaries so we don’t get walked over by the people closest in our life.

I realized a while ago that I don’t have to people-please to be successful. I don’t have to serve everyone - from the last minute sessions-ers to the free shoot-ers - just to have clients, and from there I learned how to set boundaries with these people.

I know we hate confrontation, I know we like to make everybody happy but at some point we have to draw that line and start caring about ourselves, our families and businesses and stop letting people take our time from clients that will actually value us and pay us what we’re worth.

HOW TO SET BOUNDARIES

1. Start being up-front with others.

2. Stick to the rules and limits you set.

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I met Mckenna when I was speaking in Utah County. We just instantly clicked. Her passion for her business and her desire to build up other women by being open about her own struggles just draws me to her.

Mckenna has been taking my coaching course and it has been so exciting to watch her grow and exceed her goals. Two years ago she started My Wonder Woman Journal to help women recognize and celebrate their successes, their own Wonder Woman moments. She has been on an INCREDIBLE journey that has led her to where she is in her business today and I couldn’t keep her to myself any longer!

She just has a magic way of making the things we feel shame for, like depression, anxiety, mom guilt, feel absolutely normal. She genuinely cares about women and you can feel that with her every time. Mckenna is so relatable and I know that something she shares today will resonate with you.

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instagram.com/mywonderwomanjournal

mywonderwomanjournal.com

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I never set out to build an associate team when I first started Kylee Ann Studios. I didn’t even know what an associate team was when I hired my first help.

It was 2015, I had been in my business for a few years and I was overbooked with work. I just had my third baby and there were so many tasks I was doing on my own. Between weddings and family shoots, I just could not keep up. Then came Rachel! For those of you who know Rachel, you know she is the founding member of the Kylee Ann Team, she took over as the lead wedding photographer so I can be in all the places I needed to be. And I've been growing my team ever since.

Today I'm talking all about starting your own associate team. All about my hiring process, all about my team and the different players we have from photographers to marketing assistants, and the one million benefits of having a team.

A lot of people think that a bigger team means more money but you can’t look at it that way. Having a team is the fun side of being an entrepreneur, this is stuff you just don’t get to do as an entrepreneur by yourself!

Hi, I’m Kylee and I’m a business coach for women! I specialize in helping women make money while still balancing their families. Learn more about my courses and coaching options at kyleeanncoaching.com

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I’m learning that a lot of people struggle with how to be themselves on Instagram. How to be their authentic-selves and how to attract clients.

You right now may be feeling like you’re not interesting enough, not bubbly enough or that your page isn’t funny enough. Because so and so’s page is so interesting and attracting tons of new followers but you’re just “boring.” When you compare yourself to others, that pressures you into acting like someone that is just not you. And that strategy won’t ever attract the people you truly want to attract.

We want to be who our target audience wants us to be, but at the same time being 100% authentically yourself is the best marketing strategy. Clients will fall in love with you for YOU, not a fake or made up personality. The clients you truly want will love you for you and will love the things you love.

It doesn’t matter who you are or what you do, whoever you are will attract people. And not just any kind of people, but the people you want surrounding you. You will attract people who love your personality or whatever you offer. You don’t have to make up a separate or fake personality just to get new clients!

HOW TO BE YOURSELF ON INSTAGRAM:

1. Just be you

2. Practice until you're comfortable

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To that one person who asked me what my go-to apps are for my business, I’m sorry. Because you probably didn’t realize what a loaded question that was! I love love love being efficient and anything that allows me to streamline my workflow! So I may be a little too excited about today’s episode, but I sat down and identified 14 apps and programs that I just can’t live without.

You’ll probably notice a common theme through all of them, that they all allow me to automate my workflow and allow me to be efficient with my time. I am all about working smarter, not harder, and all my programs allow me to be in all the places I need to be without spending 15 minutes on emails or 30 minutes on Instagram captions.

It is important to me to show up daily, and I can still do that without working all the time. Everything is on autopilot and I can let my business run on its own with all these scheduling apps. I will leave links below for all the complex ones.

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You are a business owner first. Unfortunately, you will have to deal with problem clients or unhappy customers at some point in your business. Sometimes the problem is their insecurities. Sometimes the problem is miscommunication. Sometimes the problem is just a freak accident.

Regardless, there are simple ways to handle problem clients without letting it escalate further.

How to deal with hard clients:

1. KEEP YOUR COOL

2. BE KIND

3. KNOW THAT ITS OKAY TO BE SAD

4. ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR PROBLEM

5. QUICKLY RESOLVE THEIR PROBLEM

6. REALIZE THAT SOME PEOPLE WILL NEVER BE HAPPY

7. LEARN HOW TO AVOID PROBLEMS

Hi, I’m Kylee and I’m a business coach for women! I specialize in helping women make money while still balancing their families. Learn more about my courses and coaching options at kyleeanncoaching.com

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We are back after a crazy week! My sister had her baby, I hired two new members for the team - a nanny and a photographer - I was training, babysitting and updating websites and it was all crazy. We are a little late this week, but better late than never. Especially for what we have planned today.

I feel like we’ve talked about the many struggles of the mom life/work life balance - like the mom guilt, self care, being okay with hiring extra help and getting on top of our busy schedules. But there is one, super important, part of this mom life/work life balance that I haven’t even mentioned, and that’s getting on the same page as your spouse.

Luke and I are going on 10 years of marriage and I haven’t been crazy busy with my business our whole marriage. But in the last few years, we have both taken on busy schedules as our jobs have expanded and as our kids have grown up.

Luke will now be in Orem twice a week for his work and when we go back to pre-COVID times he will be traveling 40% of the month. Then I have this great business, running our Kylee Ann Team, the podcast, speaking, photographing brands and between the two of us, someone is always working.

Luke and I really want to dive into this and how we’re navigating this in our lives - he is not here today and he will join us in future episodes, but we are at least scratching the surface because this is a pretty important topic, and I know it's something many of you are struggling with right now.

Today we're talking about what Luke and I are using every single day, to balance life and marriage.