Meet my guest today Pam DeArmon.

Pam is a homeschooling mom of two neurodivergent boys, wife of 22 years, and business owner. She does all of this and more while living with multiple chronic pain conditions.

In her business, Pam DeArmon Creative, she helps successful, female coaches strategize and design their digital course products so they can tap into multiple income streams without added overwhelm or exhaustion.

In this episode we chat about:

• Planners have planners - create a specific plan for personal, business and homeschooling
• Color code your plans
• How are you telling your branding story?

Coming soon! A digital product planner to help you move your services to a digital product.

Facebook group: Brand new group for coaches looking to create course, and hosting experts in the group

Pam offers design packages for coaches - fully customized by creating assets for you for all your products.

Where to find Pam

Website

Chat with Pam: 

Social Media Connect

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pam_dearmon_creative/

Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/1180024692559456

I’m Carol Clegg, your host, an accountability coach and curious conversationalist inviting guests from a wide range of backgrounds to share insights on how they live, think, and navigate change.

Here, we explore:

• living with intention and self-trust
 • alternative ways of thinking and being
 • creativity, purpose, and personal growth

If you enjoy reflection, fresh perspectives, and honest dialogue, this space is for you.

If you’d like to experience this work in community, I host a complimentary monthly Accountability Circle  a supportive space to pause, gain clarity, and choose a gentle next step forward. More info at https://carolclegg.com/accountabilitycircle

For those ready for deeper, more consistent support, I also offer a 90-day Accountability Package, designed to help you move from scattered ideas to steady, sustainable momentum.

You can learn more at carolclegg.com

Let’s connect on LinkedIn and Instagram, or join my LinkedIn Group Flourish: A Community for Women Business Owners

My guest this week is Lorraine Ball, founder of Digital Tool Box.

After spending too many years in Corporate America, Lorraine said goodbye to the bureaucracy, glass ceilings and bad coffee and channeled into her passion of helping small business owners succeed.

Today, this entrepreneur, author, professional speaker, and host of a weekly marketing podcast, More than a Few Words, brings creative ideas, practical tips, and decades of real-world experience to every conversation.

As the founder of the Digital Toolbox Club she helps business owners use internet marketing to grow. 

• Pivoting in business from traditional to a digital agency
• Learning new skills
• You don't control the conversation on social media
• Reserve your business name on all social platforms, but pick two or 3 to use.
• Invest your time in learning skills for your business.

Connect with Lorraine on social 

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lorrainefball/

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorraineball/

I’m Carol Clegg, your host, an accountability coach and curious conversationalist inviting guests from a wide range of backgrounds to share insights on how they live, think, and navigate change.

Here, we explore:

• living with intention and self-trust
 • alternative ways of thinking and being
 • creativity, purpose, and personal growth

If you enjoy reflection, fresh perspectives, and honest dialogue, this space is for you.

If you’d like to experience this work in community, I host a complimentary monthly Accountability Circle  a supportive space to pause, gain clarity, and choose a gentle next step forward. More info at https://carolclegg.com/accountabilitycircle

For those ready for deeper, more consistent support, I also offer a 90-day Accountability Package, designed to help you move from scattered ideas to steady, sustainable momentum.

You can learn more at carolclegg.com

Let’s connect on LinkedIn and Instagram, or join my LinkedIn Group Flourish: A Community for Women Business Owners

My guest today is Dana Williams, author, speaker, Gallup Certified Strengths Coach and the Founder of Dana Williams Co.

Dana is a champion of transforming your life  from the inside out through strengths.

She is creator of The Strengths Journal™, a daily planning journal to help leaders live in their strengths and dominate their day.

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1. Know your strengths.
2. Plan your day based on outcomes. Ask what and why and decide on 3 things that WILL happen today. 
3. Look at your strengths and assign one of your talents to the 3 things that you plan on doing today.
4. What is the one thing that you learned today?
5. Take time at the end of the day to reflect.

"Make your gratefulness higher than your expectations" Dana Williams

Where to find Dana Williams

Website: https://www.danawilliamsco.com/

Social Media Connect

https://www.linkedin.com/in/danawilliams2/

https://www.instagram.com/danawilliamsconsulting/

I’m Carol Clegg, your host, an accountability coach and curious conversationalist inviting guests from a wide range of backgrounds to share insights on how they live, think, and navigate change.

Here, we explore:

• living with intention and self-trust
 • alternative ways of thinking and being
 • creativity, purpose, and personal growth

If you enjoy reflection, fresh perspectives, and honest dialogue, this space is for you.

If you’d like to experience this work in community, I host a complimentary monthly Accountability Circle  a supportive space to pause, gain clarity, and choose a gentle next step forward. More info at https://carolclegg.com/accountabilitycircle

For those ready for deeper, more consistent support, I also offer a 90-day Accountability Package, designed to help you move from scattered ideas to steady, sustainable momentum.

You can learn more at carolclegg.com

Let’s connect on LinkedIn and Instagram, or join my LinkedIn Group Flourish: A Community for Women Business Owners

This week we are chatting with Stacey Hall Founder of Success with Stacey Hall.
She is best known for her ground-breaking social media marketing training program, Go for Yes, which has helped thousands of people attract more sales, customer and employee satisfaction, and success.

Her most recent book is called 'Selling From Your Comfort Zone'. 

Many salespeople believe that they must push themselves out of their comfort zones and compromise their values to sell products. But, as Stacey shows, the comfort zone can actually be a power zone that leads to sales, satisfaction, and success. 

Included in our conversation today:

• How one moves into being in alignment with one’s core values. 
• Identifying the circumference of your comfort zone.
• Defining our core values is essential .
• Tips for developing business relationships that align with our values.
• When is it time to let the sale go?
• You talk about 8 steps to closing a sale  - here is the link
• Distraction, squirrel brain - how do you train your brain to stay focused.

Find Stacey's latest book right here

and connect with Stacey on social

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/staceyhall1/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoForYesSuccess

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/successwithstaceyhall/

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/staceyhall1/

I’m Carol Clegg, your host, an accountability coach and curious conversationalist inviting guests from a wide range of backgrounds to share insights on how they live, think, and navigate change.

Here, we explore:

• living with intention and self-trust
 • alternative ways of thinking and being
 • creativity, purpose, and personal growth

If you enjoy reflection, fresh perspectives, and honest dialogue, this space is for you.

If you’d like to experience this work in community, I host a complimentary monthly Accountability Circle  a supportive space to pause, gain clarity, and choose a gentle next step forward. More info at https://carolclegg.com/accountabilitycircle

For those ready for deeper, more consistent support, I also offer a 90-day Accountability Package, designed to help you move from scattered ideas to steady, sustainable momentum.

You can learn more at carolclegg.com

Let’s connect on LinkedIn and Instagram, or join my LinkedIn Group Flourish: A Community for Women Business Owners

I’m your host, Carol Clegg, known as your “Accountability" Biz Coach helping global women in midlife take action on starting their business. I call it creating a lifestyle business - one that is geared towards creating a sustainable and pleasant work/life balance. I’m here to help you find simple systems that work for you  for goal setting, marketing and time management ⏰and I help you track the progress! Not sure where to start?

Book your free 30 minute discovery call and take away your mind map along with a productivity checklist 

Visit carolclegg.com (or book your call right here https://bit.ly/discoverycallwithcarol)

[00:01:19] I think as a small business owner, it's really important to look at what systems. You can put in place to be able to make the experience that your customers have enjoyable and efficient. So being aware, I think is the first place to start of just how important it is to have to give reflection, to think about what is the experience that my clients have when they work with me and something that it's.

[00:02:16] This pleasant experience, having the customer journey be one that they remember is it helps you create or present a strong professional image for your business. And I think that's so important cause it gives people confidence to want to work with you. If they feel. You don't have to have it all. You don't need to know it all, but I think presenting a strong professional image definitely conveys a feeling of confidence.

[00:04:44] With that small business. One of the other things that I like to encourage you to do is to think of the different ways that clients can communicate with you. 

[00:09:06] And still maintain boundaries. So that is still part of the customer service, but you are entitled to maintain your boundaries. So you could set and stick to clear hours of operation that customers can see on your web presence, in your newsletters, on your social media, perhaps when you are not available, you could create an away message for email inquiries that come in after hours.

[00:09:32] So customers. I have something else on my email signature, where I only like to check emails once or twice a day. And if they're urgent, I will give back to them. Otherwise I prefer a window of time to be able to respond so that I'm not permanently distracted by every single email that pops in. You could have a voicemail message that specifies your hours and when you'll be calling.

[00:09:56] But one thin

I’m Carol Clegg, your host, an accountability coach and curious conversationalist inviting guests from a wide range of backgrounds to share insights on how they live, think, and navigate change.

Here, we explore:

• living with intention and self-trust
 • alternative ways of thinking and being
 • creativity, purpose, and personal growth

If you enjoy reflection, fresh perspectives, and honest dialogue, this space is for you.

If you’d like to experience this work in community, I host a complimentary monthly Accountability Circle  a supportive space to pause, gain clarity, and choose a gentle next step forward. More info at https://carolclegg.com/accountabilitycircle

For those ready for deeper, more consistent support, I also offer a 90-day Accountability Package, designed to help you move from scattered ideas to steady, sustainable momentum.

You can learn more at carolclegg.com

Let’s connect on LinkedIn and Instagram, or join my LinkedIn Group Flourish: A Community for Women Business Owners

Inspirational conversations for midlife women business owners. Topics on the show include entrepreneurial journeys others have navigated, talking about mindset, motivation and work life balance, along with marketing advice for your lifestyle business.  

This week I am chatting with Judy Baker who is your Book Marketing Mentor She helps business authors get more bang for their book, turning content to cash, and keeping the book evergreen long after the launch.

After conquering cancer in 2014, she became an author advocate and self-publishing evangelist. She is working on a memoir/guidebook and business book. 

Her workshops and one-to-one mentoring have inspired hundreds of authors to build awareness about themselves, their books, and their businesses. Judy shows how small, strategic action steps develop your audience, get attention, grow connections, and monetize your message without going broke or crazy.

You can connect with Judy here:
Website - bookmarketingmentor.com

Twitter https://twitter.com/bookmentorJudyB

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/brandvines

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/judybaker/

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/bookmarketingmentor0210/

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B08JM6M3PS

I’m your host, Carol Clegg. Known as your “Accountability: Biz Coach helping global women in midlife take action.

I call it creating a lifestyle business - one that is geared towards creating a sustainable and pleasant work/life balance rather than solely focusing on profits and working too many hours.

 I’m here to help you find simple systems that work for you  for goal setting, marketing and time management ⏰and I help you track the progress! Not sure where to start?

Book your free 30 minute discovery call and take away your mind map along with a productivity checklist 

Visit carolclegg.com (or book your call right here https://bit.ly/discoverycallwithcarol

I’m Carol Clegg, your host, an accountability coach and curious conversationalist inviting guests from a wide range of backgrounds to share insights on how they live, think, and navigate change.

Here, we explore:

• living with intention and self-trust
 • alternative ways of thinking and being
 • creativity, purpose, and personal growth

If you enjoy reflection, fresh perspectives, and honest dialogue, this space is for you.

If you’d like to experience this work in community, I host a complimentary monthly Accountability Circle  a supportive space to pause, gain clarity, and choose a gentle next step forward. More info at https://carolclegg.com/accountabilitycircle

For those ready for deeper, more consistent support, I also offer a 90-day Accountability Package, designed to help you move from scattered ideas to steady, sustainable momentum.

You can learn more at carolclegg.com

Let’s connect on LinkedIn and Instagram, or join my LinkedIn Group Flourish: A Community for Women Business Owners

Welcome to the next episode.  Our conversations cover a variety of topics including entrepreneurial journeys, life skills, mindset motivation, and marketing resources. 

And today I am chatting to Heather Fuselier,  a National-Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, also holding credentials as a Certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist, Certified Running Coach, and she is an author, trainer, and employee well-being consultant specializing in helping people live healthy, balanced lives.

• Your vision statement plays a role in goal setting
• Create your goals based on your true values.

Heather's new book, "Happy Healthy You: Breaking the Rules for a Well-Balanced Life," is a 52-week guide to discovering your path on your terms and is available wherever books are sold. Join Heather on her weekly podcast, Heather Solves Everything, for insight on living in balance even while you go after those big life goals. 

http://www.heathersolveseverything.com/

Connect with Heather on social
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/heather_solves_everything/

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/HeatherSolvesEverything

And I am your host, Carol Clegg, your Accountability Biz Coach helping global women in midlife who are starting a lifestyle business. Here to help you find simple systems for goal setting, marketing and time management ⏰and I help you track the progress!

I call it creating a lifestyle business - one that is geared towards creating a sustainable and pleasant work/life balance rather than maximizing revenue, solely focusing on profits and working too many hours.

✅ Book your free 30 minute discovery call and productivity checklist at carolclegg.com

Visit carolclegg.com or book your call right here https://bit.ly/discoverycallwithcarol

I’m Carol Clegg, your host, an accountability coach and curious conversationalist inviting guests from a wide range of backgrounds to share insights on how they live, think, and navigate change.

Here, we explore:

• living with intention and self-trust
 • alternative ways of thinking and being
 • creativity, purpose, and personal growth

If you enjoy reflection, fresh perspectives, and honest dialogue, this space is for you.

If you’d like to experience this work in community, I host a complimentary monthly Accountability Circle  a supportive space to pause, gain clarity, and choose a gentle next step forward. More info at https://carolclegg.com/accountabilitycircle

For those ready for deeper, more consistent support, I also offer a 90-day Accountability Package, designed to help you move from scattered ideas to steady, sustainable momentum.

You can learn more at carolclegg.com

Let’s connect on LinkedIn and Instagram, or join my LinkedIn Group Flourish: A Community for Women Business Owners

My guest today is Mich Bondesio,  a productivity coach, writer, podcaster and consultant. Her work focuses on the interrelationship between creativity, productivity and wellbeing in our digital business world.

Her coaching and training is grounded in the concept of Intentional Productivity.

Her Creating Cadence Podcast explores ways that we can build stronger foundations for life and work in motion, in an increasingly digital world.

Originally from South Africa, Mich is based in the UK and works with clients around the world.

In this episode we chat about:

• Our brains are wired to procrastinate
• Procrastination is our emotional response to stress
• Digital distraction
• Get more intentional by getting curious, acknowledge and question
• Build self awareness around procrastination
• Mindfulness
• Take action by scaling down to top 5 mini tasks to starting the big task
• Time boxing

Sharing Mich's email signature which we discuss in this episode:

My work pattern may differ from yours. As part of my intentional productivity workflow, I only check and respond to emails 1-2 times per day. I don’t expect a reply outside of your normal working hours.

Where to connect with Mich:

Growth Sessions website: https://growthsessions.co/

Creating Cadence Podcast website: https://creatingcadence.co/

I am your host, Carol Clegg, your "Accountability Biz Coach" helping midlife women around the world create a lifestyle business - one that is geared towards creating a sustainable and pleasant work/life balance. The conversations here will inspire you with topics that include a variety of entrepreneurial journeys, life skills, mindset motivation, and marketing resources.

✅ Book your free 30 minute discovery call and productivity checklist at carolclegg.com

Visit carolclegg.com or book your call right here https://bit.ly/discoverycallwithcarol

Connect with Carol on social

LinkedIn

Instagram

Clubhouse

I’m Carol Clegg, your host, an accountability coach and curious conversationalist inviting guests from a wide range of backgrounds to share insights on how they live, think, and navigate change.

Here, we explore:

• living with intention and self-trust
 • alternative ways of thinking and being
 • creativity, purpose, and personal growth

If you enjoy reflection, fresh perspectives, and honest dialogue, this space is for you.

If you’d like to experience this work in community, I host a complimentary monthly Accountability Circle  a supportive space to pause, gain clarity, and choose a gentle next step forward. More info at https://carolclegg.com/accountabilitycircle

For those ready for deeper, more consistent support, I also offer a 90-day Accountability Package, designed to help you move from scattered ideas to steady, sustainable momentum.

You can learn more at carolclegg.com

Let’s connect on LinkedIn and Instagram, or join my LinkedIn Group Flourish: A Community for Women Business Owners

Welcome to the next episode.  Our conversations cover a variety of topics including entrepreneurial journeys, life skills, mindset motivation, and marketing resources. 

And today it is all about writing your book!

Joining me today is Susan Baracco, Ghostwriter, Editor and Book Coach.

To educate and inspire budding authors about the book writing journey, she wrote a guidebook entitled 6 Things No One Tells You About Writing a Book. 

• Plan your book from cover to cover
• Understand the market, competitive titles, and how to differentiate your book
• Decide on the best topic for your story and experience
• Know your audience and make every reader feel like you wrote just to them
• Shift your mindset to get the most of your writing time
• Tips for making time in your busy schedule to write

Susan's tip in this episode is to start with a stack of index cards, and pick at least 3 different colours. She calls it her 3 P's Personal/Professional and Passion

Susan Baracco’s website: https://www.storyarchitectforwomen.com

If you’re struggling with your book or want to explore your book idea, go to her website and sign up: https://www.storyarchitectforwomen.com/freeresources

 Connect on social
 https://www.instagram.com/susanbaracco/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sbaracco

About Susan:
I am a passionate advocate for women and believe that putting your stories into words is a powerful tool for change.

Fifteen years of business coaching, facilitating executive mastermind groups and working side-by-side with women leaders gives me a unique perspective among professionals in the book writing industry. I've worked with hundreds of women leaders, many already successful, some on their way to success and some just getting started.

Since 2011, I've focused my energy on being a resource for women who want to tell their stories and share their wisdom through book writing. My clients include entrepreneurs, business leaders and women with a passion for sharing their stories to help others.

And I am your host, Carol Clegg, your Accountability Biz Coach helping gl

I’m Carol Clegg, your host, an accountability coach and curious conversationalist inviting guests from a wide range of backgrounds to share insights on how they live, think, and navigate change.

Here, we explore:

• living with intention and self-trust
 • alternative ways of thinking and being
 • creativity, purpose, and personal growth

If you enjoy reflection, fresh perspectives, and honest dialogue, this space is for you.

If you’d like to experience this work in community, I host a complimentary monthly Accountability Circle  a supportive space to pause, gain clarity, and choose a gentle next step forward. More info at https://carolclegg.com/accountabilitycircle

For those ready for deeper, more consistent support, I also offer a 90-day Accountability Package, designed to help you move from scattered ideas to steady, sustainable momentum.

You can learn more at carolclegg.com

Let’s connect on LinkedIn and Instagram, or join my LinkedIn Group Flourish: A Community for Women Business Owners

When a tough encounter takes place and strong emotions ensue - whether it’s anger, frustration, sadness or fear, this simple question can lend some much needed perspective that all might be better in the larger scope of things than you are feeling in the moment.

I’m Trish and I'm a professional life coach with a focus on your best life balance: how good habits like time-blocking to your core values, setting firm boundaries, and learning to say NO can free you up and get you moving on to your next big plan! You can find out more at healthylifemindset.com

Connect with Trish on social

LinkedIn

Instagram

Facebook

I’m Carol Clegg, your host, an accountability coach and curious conversationalist inviting guests from a wide range of backgrounds to share insights on how they live, think, and navigate change.

Here, we explore:

• living with intention and self-trust
 • alternative ways of thinking and being
 • creativity, purpose, and personal growth

If you enjoy reflection, fresh perspectives, and honest dialogue, this space is for you.

If you’d like to experience this work in community, I host a complimentary monthly Accountability Circle  a supportive space to pause, gain clarity, and choose a gentle next step forward. More info at https://carolclegg.com/accountabilitycircle

For those ready for deeper, more consistent support, I also offer a 90-day Accountability Package, designed to help you move from scattered ideas to steady, sustainable momentum.

You can learn more at carolclegg.com

Let’s connect on LinkedIn and Instagram, or join my LinkedIn Group Flourish: A Community for Women Business Owners