Coach Magic

How is all that time on social media affecting your creativity? How do you deal with fear?

These are a few of the questions we’re diving into this brand new episode of Get Gutsy with journalist Naomi Mdudu. Naomi learned a ton on her quest to create her dream job and a place for women with phenomenal careers to talk about they navigate hard times. Wow, oh wow! She brings the gutsy goods during our juicy conversation.

We dive into:

• Mourning your corporate career when you leave
• Losing your corporate identity and navigating creating a new one
• How the Illusion of what you think entrepreneurship will be compares to the reality
• Boundaries and building a life outside your business
• What to focus on to help safeguard your time
• Natural cycles and how they effect-affect you
• How a social media break can boost your creativity
• Email marketing platforms (CRMs) we’ve used
• How top female founders handle self-doubt
• Why you need to head into your fear, not away from it
• Why Naomi loves creating and hosting live events around the world for her tribe

About Our Guest:

Naomi Mdudu is an international speaker, business coach for female entrepreneurs, and the founder and CEO of The Lifestyle Edit. She became the youngest editor at a national newspaper in the UK at the tender age of 22 and spent her corporate career working at some of the leading newspapers in London. The Lifestyle Edit was born to offer a platform that not only celebrates the dynamic female founders and executives that make things happen behind the scenes at the many of the lifestyle businesses we all know and love. But more importantly, to create a space where these women can talk candidly about their journeys and share actionable advice that our community of female creatives can take away and immediately action in their lives.

xoxo

Jenny

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Want to learn the most important (and surprising) area to focus on to grow your business?

I first heard about Christine Hassler and her work when I was in my 20s living in New York City. Her story truly captivated me and I’m so pumped to have her here on the show for you.

Christine drops truth bombs galore on what it really takes to be successful … and happy.

Listen in for pearls of wisdom about:

• How it feels to be a Hollywood “success” and still unhappy
• Realizing she had to stop looking for happiness outside of herself
• Why she works harder on her inner work than on her business
• What you need to let go of to be able to truly trust
• What oversharing on social media is doing to our psyches
• How to talk to your inner critic
• The profound dangers of people pleasing
• Plus, my mantra about receiving and why it matters

About Our Guest:

Christine Hassler is the best-selling author of three books, most recently Expectation Hangover: Free Yourself From Your Past, Change your Present and Get What you Really Want. She left her successful job as a Hollywood agent to pursue a life she could be passionate about. For over a decade, as a keynote speaker, retreat facilitator, spiritual psychologist and life coach, and host of the top-rated podcast “Over it and On With It”, she has been teaching and inspiring people around the world. Christine believes once we get out of our own way, we can show up to make the meaningful impact we are here to make. Visit her online at www.christinehassler.com

xoxo

Jenny

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Ready to rise above the noise on social media? Wondering if you can really share ... that?

Sprinkle the glitter! Two glitter gals - glitter rave dancer (for real!) Jo Gifford and moi - dive into Jo’s wealth of wisdom about succeeding in the wonderful and crazy world of entrepreneurship.

Listen in to learn how:

• To be mindful about your message
• Witnessing Jo’s mom not living up to her fullest potential drives her now
• To use creative thinking to stand out from the crowd
• To amp up your reach by owning the parts of you that make you different
• Jo and I view serving as a role model for our children
• Being transparent and real has served her in business
• People discover her “passive income” products
• Her biggest lesson as entrepreneur serves her so deeply (hint: it’s about investing in yourself)
• To keep your vibration high

About Our Guest:

Jo Gifford is a recovering overwhelmed entrepreneur with an addiction to making things easier. Champion of working smarter and creator of the Brilliance Ignition Process, she has a loyal global audience and a stellar client list of biz owners making big sales and a big difference. A widely read contributor to Huffington Post, Selz, Regus, Prowess, YFS Magazine and many more interwebz rabbit holes, she is a respected UK voice on life as a pocket-sized enterprise owner (main coping strategy= juniper berries. Ok, gin). Jo’s background – a seasoned blogger, copywriter, podcaster and graphic designer with an MA and research interest in creative thinking for small business – makes for an eclectic and colourful killer content approach.

xoxo 

Jenny

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Ya'll!

2018 is well underway. HOW ARE YOU DOING? HOW ARE YOU FEELING?

What I really want to ask you is ... are you FULLY telling the TRUTH?

This question can feel S-C-A-R-Y and a bit triggerish.

Don't be afraid.

To celebrate the FULL BLUE MOON, I share some tips to help you unleash your wise, wildish nature to claim your stories, truth and soul voice (it is THE WAY to get what you want).

I'll also help you prepare to bask in the glow of this magical lunar phase. The FULL MOON IN LEO is all about being SEEN, being VISIBLE + being HEARD.

Ready?

It's time to TUNE IN. RISE UP. DO LESS. MAKE MORE.

Absolute love,

Jenny

Are you stifling pieces of yourself that yearn to come out? Do you have something big that you want to go for this year?

Jamie Jensen is the girl you need to hear from today. I’m so pumped to have her on the show.

A lover of a “blank canvas,” Jamie shares these juicy nuggets:

• How attending the famous “Fame” high school in New York City made her shrink and question her self-worth and innate talents
• How that experience taught her that all parts of you are valuable and need to be expressed (even if “experts” don’t agree)
• How she fell in love with visual storytelling
• Why she decided to close her lucrative copywriting agency and start fresh, even though on paper it’s totally irrational
• The role her intuition plays in making big decisions
• What is required to create “vulnerable storytelling” that captures the attention of your audience
• What is true about leaders

About Our Guest:

Jamie Jensen is the founder and CEO of Your Hot Copy, a digital copywriting agency for entrepreneurs with big hearts and bigger personalities. She’s used the power of the written word to help her clients (and herself) increase their sales by as much as 900%. To date, Your Hot Copy has worked with over 300 amazing clients (and counting). Prior to creating marketable content for the internet, Jamie was creating marketable content for the big screen. Her indie romantic comedy film Hannah Has a Ho-Phase won her the Best Feature Writer award at the La Femme Film Fest in 2013. Jamie holds a Bachelor’s degree in Storytelling from New York University, and a Master’s in Producing from the University of Southern California. You can learn more about how Jamie and Your Hot Copy can help you tell your story in a way that sells at yourhotcopy.com.

xoxo

Jenny

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Do you really need a huge list to launch a product or program?

Are those crazy claims of making millions on the internet overnight true?

Today’s hilarious and super smart guest, Bushra Azhar, wasn’t buying it so put it to the test. And guess what? She did it! Okay, maybe not overnight but she went from zero to $2 million in less than 3 years through the power of persuasion.

A Pakistani army brat now living in Saudi Arabia, Bushra shares how she did it and how you can, too!

Her strategic and very doable tips cover:

• How to create a list of clients hungry to buy your next offer
• How she converts subscribers to buyers with her Launch Stacking strategy
• What’s wrong with the traditional list building model
• Her best tactic to cultivating a list of buyers
• The key to creating freebies that lead to sales
• A twist on how to make money from a webinar
• Why you need a portfolio of offerings and how to build it in 9 months
• Why your first program shouldn’t deliver a complete transformation

About Our Guest:

Bushra Azhar is a Persuasion Strategist and Founder of The Persuasion Revolution, where tiny businesses make big bucks, using the Psychology of Persuasion. She started her business in 2014 and managed to go from an absolute nobody to making almost $2 million in less than 3 years, all through the power of persuasion. Her students have used her persuasion hacks to make millions of dollars while slashing their ad budgets by 80% and from lists of less than a 100 people. Bushra is also an international bestselling author with a #1 Best Seller book on Selling & Consumer Behavior.

xoxo

Jenny

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Ready to befriend your inner mean girl and stop being so freaking hard on yourself?

*Hand raised right here*

From “picked on” middle schooler to inner mean girl reformer, veteran coach Amy Ahlers has seen and experienced a lot on her journey. And she’s here today to spread the truth about how you can be kinder to yourself. This is important work.

Gems include:

• The paradigm shift women are leading right now
• Amy’s journey from aspiring actress to mindset coach
• What it was like to be a new coach when the industry was in its infancy
• How drama character study serves Amy’s work today
• What she had to do to get her first book published
• How Amy structured a long-term business partnership
• How your business goes through years of expansion, years of solidifying, and years of contraction
• Amy’s powerful story about making space for a new baby (what she needed to do to make her dream a reality)

About Our Guest

Amy Ahlers is the bestselling author of “Big Fat Lies Women Tell Themselves” and “Reform Your Inner Mean Girl: 7 Steps to Stop Bullying Yourself & Start Loving Yourself.”

Amy is on a mission to stop women and moms from being so darn hard on themselves. She's been a Certified Life Coach for over 17 years and is the co-creator of transformational programs such as Inner Mean Girl Reform School, Find Your Calling & Visionary Ignition Switch.

Amy's been featured on lots of TV and radio shows and leads virtual and in person retreats for women around the world so they cultivate the courage to follow their Inner Wisdom. Amy is passionate about helping soulful mamas embrace the messiness and magic of motherhood in her truth telling sanctuary and facilitated mom's support group, Mama Truth Circle, and new and notable podcast, Mama Truth Show.

Most mornings you’ll find Amy doing a dance party with her husband and daughters with a pile of dirty dishes in the sink. She resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family and rescue mutt, Batman.

xoxo

Jenny

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Overachiever? People pleaser? Perfectionist?

OMG I get it. Been there, done that. And do I have just the message for you today if you’re ready to break free in the new year.

Andrea Owen, who returns to Get Gutsy for our first episode of 2018, is on a mission to help women stop self-sabotaging and feel proud of who they are.

Andrea has identified an array of habits and behaviors that hold women back. In her new book, How to Stop Feeling Like Shit, Andrea details how to overcome these patterns so you can live a kick-ass life.

We dive into:

• Shame as the driving force behind these habits and behaviors
• How personal values are the anchor helping women use their voice in our current climate
• Why the message “stay strong” can be unhealthy, how to redefine it, and my personal connection to this message
• The benefits of living a sober life (you don’t have to be alcoholic or addict to adopt it)
• And oh, so much more!

I’ve gotten to know Andrea personally over the last several months and I can tell you she is the real deal. Totally committed to her work. Totally ready to help YOU stop feeling like shit.

You game?

Dive in.

About Our Guest

Andrea Owen is an author, mentor, and certified life coach who helps high-achieving women let go of perfectionism, control, and isolation and choosing courage and confidence instead. She has helped thousands of women manage their inner-critic to create loving connections and live their most kick-ass life.

xoxo

Jenny

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Welcome to the end of the year.

I AM READY. How about you?

Before I head out to take a long winter’s nap, I share a provocative question and meditation to help you create a powerful new year.

Thanks for being on this quest with me. It’s been an unforgettable year.

Happy holidays to you + yours. See you in 2018!

xoxo

Jenny

Perfectionism can be deadly for entrepreneurs. So is your fear of fear.

Career coach Lorraine Rise shares how she learned overcome perfectionist syndrome and also explains her take on fear (hint, hint >> it’s your friend!).

Lorraine also reveals how her business is set up, some key tools she uses to run her business, how she connects with clients and spreads her message with LinkedIn.

Gems you’ll love >

• Let life surprise + guide you
• Don’t think you’re ready? You are ready ENOUGH (and that is enough)
• If you’re afraid, your fear is simply telling you have haven’t been there yet
• It’s okay to proceed

About Our Guest

Lorraine has built her career on the practice of coaching others to succeed. Her career began in the health and weight loss industry, coaching hundreds of clients to reach their weight loss goals. As a Director and Regional Trainer for Jenny Craig Inc., she has hired, trained and mentored dozens of employees in the areas of sales, customer service and management. Lorraine has worked with clients in over 20 industries, and many of her clients come from some of the most recognizable firms in the country including Microsoft, Fannie Mae, PNC Bank and more.

xoxo

Jenny

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