Climbing With Scars

In today’s episode on Climbing With Scars I’m joined by Maria De Conno, the founder of Fig Tree Digital, a creative digital marketing agency. Maria shares her journey of when she started out uncertain where her career was going and how motherhood opened her eyes to seeing the Figtree moment that gave her the spark to enter into the world of digital marketing. Come get inspired and hear how this entrepreneur continues to build her thriving business with a twist of uniqueness.   

We’ve heard about real growth happening when we take ourselves out of our comfort zone, but where is the limit of that zone? This week I share what I learned from working inside my boundary compared to when I started taking it to the edge, as this is the zone every entrepreneur needs to go to, whether a start up or experienced business owner. I dive deep into my experiences in business and what being taken to the edge has taught me and continues to teach me on every entrepreneurial pursuit I take.      

Wisdom is shared and never taught, a fact we often downplay and a skill for entrepreneurs of all ages to utilise. It is foolish to believe wisdom is something only offered from the elderly, and this week I go deep into where wisdom develops and how it can propel leaders and entrepreneurs of all ages if they listen to where it stems from. Join me on this week’s podcast where I share my learnings on the value of wisdom and the true worth of passing it on.

We live in a world where the emphases on getting a university degree is heavy and made out to be a crucial and necessary step to becoming successful in business. This is a topic that I have been passionate about for a while now and after a recent workshop I was involved in with 50+ other entrepreneurs from around the world, I learnt something that I’m sharing in today’s podcast… and that is the power of focusing on what is “caught” rather than what can be “taught”. Join me on this one and get ready to be caught. 

Business owners often forget that the most important relationship they have is with their people, essentially entrepreneurs are only as good as the team they have, a lesson I’ve learned over my time in business. Knowing how to communicate and understand your people is a key lever to scale your business forward and a soft skill for any modern day leader. On this episode on Climbing With Scars I reveal the power of empathy and how it has opened up the opportunities for my business with my people. Join in and take this step over to the other side with me.

Entrepreneurship has become the glamorous career in the eyes of many where it’s believed to be the path to easy money. Well nothing could be further from the truth and I speak firsthand how in my younger years I once believed business and entrepreneurship was all about making money. In this episode of Climbing With Scars I dive into how a mindset focused on only the $$ will lead you down the road of attracting everything you don’t want and I share my lessons of what the best entrepreneurs place their attention towards in the real world of entrepreneurship.

Now we’ve entered a new decade it’s time to get into the mode of full steam ahead, using last year’s audit as fuel to propel ourselves into a space we’ve never been before. On this episode of Climbing With Scars I share the importance of utilising this time to line up your business in the direction it needs to go, with no time wasted staring in the rear-view mirror. I go into detail on some of the lessons I have learnt through my entrepreneurship journey in 2019, focusing on how they can help get where you need to go… So join me on this one as we propel together on the way to our desired destination. 

Happy New Year everyone! On today’s podcast I brief you on what to focus on at this time of year and what I believe all entrepreneurs should be concentrating on during the beginning of a new year. While many people will start their resolutions today, it is important to remember these rarely last beyond the first few days of January. I love the relation of numbers and we’re into a special year 2020, so it’s your time to make it a year with clear vision, creating the year ahead to be one that will map out the future you want to create. In today’s episode I share a few gems to give clear sight ahead and make 2020 the start of a decade to be remembered. 

Now that many entrepreneurs have entered into the end of year break, have you been able to get clarity of what worked well for you in 2019 and where the improvements lie? Too many business owners get back from the end of year break and just return to reading emails, and doing all the “stuff” that doesn’t move their business forward instead of being aware of what they need to keep doing and what they need to avoid doing. On this episode I share the value of taking an audit on the year that was, reflecting on the positive outcomes, no matter how big or small, and auditing your entrepreneurial pursuits with a close connection to your personal one. While you have some quiet time now away from work, join me to audit and round out the year to see our way into the future.

This week’s podcast I captured some thoughts directly after a meeting I had that reminded me of how you need to treat a “NO” from a customer. We’re always learning and this experience wasn’t just a reminder but another learning opportunity on how to be better and share with my team about how handling rejection is the key to selling and business in general. In this episode I share how mindset to being given a NO is really going to be the piece that moves you forward and turns the situation into a positive, rather than a negative. Take a ride with me on this episode for one of the rare moments I give my thoughts immediately after a meeting.