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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 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

Let me know what you’d like to hear more about on the show

Support the show

I’m Carol Clegg, a life coach offering gentle accountability coaching and I am a curious conversationalist.

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 60-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

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Let me know what you’d like to hear more about on the show

Support the show

I’m Carol Clegg, a life coach offering gentle accountability coaching and I am a curious conversationalist.

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 60-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

Ellen Gallegos is the  Owner & Creative Director of Sparrow Creative Studio, where she provides “strategic and creative custom brand solutions.”

Over a decade ago Ellen Gallegos stepped away from a successful career in corporate marketing to start Sparrow Creative Studio, a design agency specializing in startup and non-profit branding and events. Over the past 10+ years, this multi-passionate entrepreneur has designed a life that she loves. An entrepreneurial evangelist, she wants to introduce others to the freedom, flexibility, and autonomy that business ownership offers.

Are you on the edge of stepping into entrepreneurship? Listen to Ellen's passionate advice on how to consider moving forward into designing a life that love.

Where to find Ellen 

Website: https://sparrowcreativestudio.com/

or connect with Ellen on social
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sparrowcreativestudio/

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

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

Your hosts:
I’m Carol, your accountability coach helping global midlife women entrepreneurs who are starting a business & feeling overwhelmed find simple systems for marketing and time management ⏰ https://linktr.ee/carolclegg

✅ DM me for your free 30 minute discovery call and productivity checklist 

I am Trish and I'm a certified professional coach with an emphasis on accountability sessions and life transitions, with effective practices that will keep you moving toward your next big plan! You can request a free intro session and find out more at my website healthylifemindset.com

Connect with Carol on social

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Let me know what you’d like to hear more about on the show

Support the show

I’m Carol Clegg, a life coach offering gentle accountability coaching and I am a curious conversationalist.

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 60-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 I am chatting with Midori Verity - CEO of Fuel to Fire,  an accountability group for driven women focused on big goals.

Midori is a serial entrepreneur with three decades of vetted experience, she knows what it takes to start, grow, and rapidly scale a business with ease.

Whether she’s consulting with startups to Fortune 500 Silicon Valley giants, Midori’s unique approach unlocks the potential in every entrepreneur she coaches.

In this episode Midori shares more about  her Entrepreneur Success Triangle to success:

• accountability
• a proven goal-setting system
• coaching.

Connect with Midori here
and say hello on social
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Youtube

Your host today :
I’m Carol  I’m your Accountability Coach helping women starting a business & feeling overwhelmed find simple systems for marketing and time management ⏰

✅ DM me for your free 30 minute discovery call and productivity checklist 

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

Connect with Carol on social

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Clubhouse

Let me know what you’d like to hear more about on the show

Support the show

I’m Carol Clegg, a life coach offering gentle accountability coaching and I am a curious conversationalist.

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 60-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

The idea that every choice we make in our lives, big and small, leads to the next outcome, the next experience that becomes the story of our life! As well as how each of our choices affects everyone around us, and vice versa. An ongoing ripple effect is created literally worldwide - through the simplest and most mundane of choices we are making every day.

Ask yourself these questions:

• Thinking back over a few of your life choices - what would be different had you chosen a different path
• With hindsight might you have made a different decision?
• What brave risks did you take, and can you remember what made you do it, did it work out OK?

We cover mind mapping in this episode.

It was developed as an effective method for generating ideas by association. To create a mind map, you take a nice big blank white sheet of paper - an open canvas! - and in the middle you start with a central theme or a main idea - you write this down in bold ink. From there you work your way outward in all directions like a beautiful spider’s web and you begin to create a growing diagram or MAP of all the keywords, phrases, concepts, facts and figures spinning out from that key central theme. It’s very free-form thinking; a very visual form of brainstorming but with greater structure and visually connecting the dots. You are walking out a plan for that central theme. The possible steps to accomplish it. That’s a mind map in most general terms. Career, personal life path, breaking through a life challenge or setback, new life transitions, breakthrough to greater general wellness, both physical and emotional.

Remember friendships and business connections require input, effort and active steps to keep these relationships thriving and growing.

Current offers from your hosts:

Trish's invitation -  you can visit my website at healthylifemindset.com to learn more about my Growth Mindset model for career and breakthrough coaching. Book a call

Schedule your complimentary 30-minute session today! I encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity to see if coaching might be right for you. Remember, coaching is an investment in your most precious resource, YOU.

Carol's offer  - Grab your copy of 7 WAYS TO STAY PRODUCTIVE while traveling at

https://linktr.ee/carolclegg

Trish Kinney is a professional life coach at healthylifemindset.com. Her focus is career and accountability coaching, and sharing some key breakthrough habits to get your daily activities more closely aligned with your core life values and plans. She leads accountability sessions with startup business upways.co where she keep clients on task with the goals they want to achieve. 

Carol Clegg is your "Accountability Coach" helping women starting a business & feeling overwhelmed find simple systems for marketing and time management ⏰

✅ Book your free 30 minute discovery call and productivity checklist with Carol in the link below.

Visit carolclegg.com or book your call right here 

https://bit.ly/discoverycallwithcarol

Let me know what you’d like to hear more about on the show

Support the show

I’m Carol Clegg, a life coach offering gentle accountability coaching and I am a curious conversationalist.

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 60-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

Do you communicate your needs? Firmly and clearly? Do you anticipate the needs of your colleagues and inner circle - and set your boundaries accordingly? Most of us do not, or at least we forget! This Bits & Bites shares a few quick habits to get you back in control of your schedule, and protecting your personal wellness!

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

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Three little words that many of us strive for in our personal and professional lives.
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Thanks for listening if you have loved what you have listened to today we would love you to share it with your friends, leave us a review and explore what connecting, inspiring or creating means for you this week!

Let me know what you’d like to hear more about on the show

Support the show

I’m Carol Clegg, a life coach offering gentle accountability coaching and I am a curious conversationalist.

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 60-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

How to be patient in a world of instant gratification. Here are some tips we shared.

• Watching the urges and allowing a pause/delay - put some space in between.
• Each decision is best made consciously, instead of just trying to gratify our desires.
• Learn over time. There will be many times when you give in to your urges — that’s OK. We all do it. There’s nothing wrong with giving in sometimes, but the key is to see how that makes you feel afterward, and learn whether the decision was a good one or not.
• Acknowledging the time actually needed to reach certain goals can be helpful when you’re feeling discouraged. 

There are several strategies you can work on that will help you increase your ability to wait for delayed gratification. Start small. Delay gratification for only a short amount of time, then increase the time incrementally. You can also make rules regarding purchases, such as giving yourself a “waiting period” between when you see something you like and when you buy it. Finally, don’t forget to practice gratitude and remind yourself of your goals – there’s a reason you want delayed gratification.

 If we don’t stick with something through the impatience and the anxiety and the self-doubt and the self-sabotage, we’ll miss the gift of the process! We’ll miss the actual gift of the OUTCOME! Our dream as it were… Also that knowing when it’s time to just stop and set our pride aside… THIS is a courageous decision itself. To know we’re not progressing and to stop not necessarily knowing what our next dream or plan is.

When you’re feeling especially anxious or impatient - whether it’s not meeting a weight loss goal as quickly as you’d like, being passed up for a promotion or - as in my own case, hitting the one year mark on my home-building project - I love to ask the question: “What is true?” The idea is to look for the gifts in the process itself. In spite of feeling impatient, what gifts has the journey or process revealed? In what ways have you grown, and what have you learned in the process?

Resources:  Meet Tiago Forte and the concept of the 2nd brain here

Connect with Carol on social

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Meet your hosts:

I’m Carol Clegg, an accountability coach helping women entrepreneurs around the globe reach the goals they desire in their business.  I offer consulting packages tailored to find your way through the overwhelm. Visit carolclegg.com

My upcoming  4 Day Rejuvenate, Wellness & Biz Mastermind Retreat in Portugal takes place 22nd to 25th September

And my co-host Trish Kinney, a professional life coach with a focus on strategies to better manage those 168 hours in our week, including time-blocking tips to get your daily schedule aligned with your greater life values. And I’m also a success partner with upways.co, where I lead 15 minute micro-sessions to hold clients accountable to their weekly goals - and keep them moving ahead!  My growth coaching website is healthylifemindset.com. I just opened up weekends for coaching. It’s a good time to consider.

Let me know what you’d like to hear more about on the show

Support the show

I’m Carol Clegg, a life coach offering gentle accountability coaching and I am a curious conversationalist.

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 60-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

It might seem paradoxical, but we ourselves can also be a reason for being stuck. Being aware of different aspects of yourself is part of your self-awareness, an ongoing journey.

Healthy habits can also help you to feel more energetic, motivated, inspired, organized and more self-dependent. These positive changes can give you a strong push to get unstuck and move forward with your life.

So here are some ideas I’d like to share

Get Unstuck by 

• finding a new thing to learn
• choosing gratitude
• by decluttering your digital space
• by making planned time for your business
• by taking one step to keep moving forward

I’m Carol, an accountability coach helping women entrepreneurs around the globe reach the goals they desire in their business.  I offer consulting packages tailored to find your way through the overwhelm. Visit carolclegg.com

Connect with Carol on social

LinkedIn

Instagram

Clubhouse

Let me know what you’d like to hear more about on the show

Support the show

I’m Carol Clegg, a life coach offering gentle accountability coaching and I am a curious conversationalist.

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 60-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

In this episode we are going to take you behind the scenes of both of our coaching businesses.

Trish and Carol both offer accountability coaching.  Benefits range from focusing on current goals, making progress with intentions and starting fresh habits to move forward and get "unstuck".

Favourite coaching tools include Google docs, Trello for project management, Paperbell for coaching and client management and time blocking on your calendar.

Gretchen Rubin has a framework called Four Tendencies which are:

• Upholders meet both inner and outer expectations.
• Questioners question both inner and outer expectations.
• Obligers resist inner but meet outer expectations.
• Rebels resist both inner and outer expectations.

They usually say a lot about how clients will respond to accountability coaching.

• Obligers generally to get the most out of accountability coaching, as they thrive on outer expectations exclusively.
• Upholders often take on too much, and they often find that an accountability coach can help them prioritize.
• Questioners can get a lot out of accountability coaching, but only if the coach’s approach makes sense to them.
• Rebels don’t care about any kind of accountability, so they generally respond best to “sounding board” type coaching.

Curious? You can  take and interpret the Four Tendencies Quiz

Meet your hosts:
I’m Carol, an accountability coach helping women entrepreneurs around the globe reach goals in their business.  I offer consulting packages tailored to find your way through the overwhelm. Visit carolclegg.com

I am Trish….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 Carol on social

LinkedIn

Instagram

Clubhouse

Connect with Trish on social

LinkedIn

Instagram

Facebook

Let me know what you’d like to hear more about on the show

Support the show

I’m Carol Clegg, a life coach offering gentle accountability coaching and I am a curious conversationalist.

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 60-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 revisiting a popular episode from 2021 on concepts to choose to react or respond.

Consider the following :
A reaction is about the moment whereas a response is about the outcome. 

Understanding how my emotions drive my decisions will improve relationships,  productivity, and possibilities. 

Tips from Trish
Mirroring:

• Starts with listening CAREFULLY to the other person.
• Or if you’re the first to speak, as a “learning” question to warm them up.
• “It’s obvious you’re upset. Can you tell me what’s wrong?”
• If they become angry or hostile, we can schedule a later time to talk.
• If they offer a calm response, we can take a slow deep breath and say,
• “Let me see if I’ve got that… you are angry because…” and then we ask     “is there more?”    They may have more, may not. We summarize and ask “have I got that right?” 

BETTER LISTENING is really at the core with this example of reacting and responding in a way that can more successfully manage or control our emotions in the moment.      

Meet your hosts of Connect Inspire Create

I am Carol, your goal accountability coach and the founder of Lisbon Retreats, offering creative business masterminds in Portugal and 1:1 strategy coaching packages for women entrepreneurs.

If you are dreaming of travelling to Portugal to focus on yourself and creativity for your business visit Lisbon Retreats for my upcoming retreat in September 2022.

Trish is a professional certified life coach who helps successful, determined people encountering an unexpected life struggle, to navigate their challenges, regain their resilience, and come out better on the other side than they were when they started. Both individual and group coaching programs. www.healthylifemindset.com 

If you have a story to share with our audience contact us on our podcast site  Connect Inspire Create

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Let me know what you’d like to hear more about on the show

Support the show

I’m Carol Clegg, a life coach offering gentle accountability coaching and I am a curious conversationalist.

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 60-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