Coaching by Belle

I am so excited to welcome Pam McLean the co-founder of the Hudson Institute of Coaching onto my podcast! Pam shares her journey as a solo entrepreneur and entrepreneur growing an idea into an organization. She talks about the importance of: seeing cycles and trends, getting input from others, researching your industry, having a willingness to take risks, not leading with your ego, experimenting in your business, and building a community through and with your company. As Pam said during our interview “going it alone will never be as good as seeking input”. Tune in to hear more about her experiences, this is a rich episode jam packed with so much valuable information! 

Samin Saadat, the founder of Jalapeno joined me to share her current challenge with just this! She discussed her love for human psychology,as well as her fascination with the relationship between the human brain, behaviour, and environment and how it sparked the idea, development and growth of her business. Her mission is to use technology and psychology through her company to help businesses and individuals maximize their return on investment by identifying the best areas to invest in for sustainable growth.

Erica Rankin joined the podcast to discuss her experience of navigating imposter syndrome and scaling a business. She is the CEO/founder of Bro Dough, an edible protein-infused cookie dough company based out of Canada.

If you’ve gone through a career change and/or an identity shift in your life, listen into the coaching conversation with Valerie Mekki where she shares her experience of getting laid off during the pandemic and reimagining what her identity as a career woman could look like.

Curious to learn more about how to lean into being vulnerable? If you have ever felt lonely and found yourself looking outside of yourself, maybe even noticing a strong ego wanting to seek validation externally, then this episode is a must listen. Listen into this live coaching conversation with Amy Powell from Attainable to learn new ways to look inward and cultivate vulnerability in your life.

I welcomed Danielle (Ella) Ames onto the Coaching by Belle podcast and it was such a deep and raw conversation. Thank you Ella for your vulnerability! In this live coaching conversation we explored doubt, and comparison. As well, we discussed the importance of creating consistency as an entrepreneur to support the journey and to understand the voice that says “what if I succeed”? Danielle Ames is a freelance writer and essayist. She’s currently traveling around Latin America, and writes the newsletter Not Enough Middle Fingers — it’s like if National Geographic had a dating column.

Ruksana Hussain, a Los Angeles based award winning journalist, editor and writer joined as a guest on the Coaching by Belle podcast to share the importance of starting a business from an open and flexible mindset. We also explored the challenge and opportunity as a service based business to build herself out of her business so that she can reduce her hours and still earn the kind of money she needs to make!

I am here today with Emily Jane Lee a custom web designer and content strategist. During our live coaching call, she shares her experience of starting a task when it feels hard or when she feels uninspired. She explores what balance works between structure and flexibility in approaching day-to-day work activities. This episode focuses on how to pull through times when as an entrepreneur you seem to lack the inspiration to create, grow and develop.

This episode features Lexie Smith, the Founder of THEPRBAR inc., an online coaching brand that empowers entrepreneurs to increase their influence, impact, and revenue through relationship-driven marketing and PR. She shares her experience being a woman entrepreneur while juggling her new job of being an upcoming mom. She also shares her experience of learning to slow down and apply less pressure to herself, which she hopes she will be able to pass along to her daughter.

This episode features Taylor de la Fuente, a brave and courageous female entrepreneur sharing her story of starting her copywriting business Lemon Tree Editorial. There is so much wisdom we can all learn from in what she shares: how to say no with grace, remembering to serve your clients rather than sell them, leading by example, how to stay bold, being authentic and more!