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Sign up to listen to the private podcast series here: https://laptoplifestyleco.com/business-remodel-blueprint   There's no new episode of Made for More this week, but instead I'm releasing a 3-part secret podcast series, Business Remodel Blueprint, that will help you reimagine your vision, refocus your efforts, & remodel your business to be aligned, profitable and sustainable.   If you've got your sights set on scaling or remodeling your business in 2024, join The Gameplan, my signature scaling program, which opens for enrollment on November 14!   Links & Resources Mentioned in this Episode Laptop Lifestyle Co Links: Website Instagram Tik Tok YouTube Channel

In these "Mini Moments" we pull some of my favorite and most impactful mini lessons from past episodes of the Made for More Podcast to give you a quick digestible lesson in under 10 minutes.   If you liked this mini moment, check out the rest of this full episode here - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/made-for-more-with-amanda-kolbye/id1529443551?i=1000617507559   Summary When it comes to scaling it's important to understand how your business works to make the best decisions your your unique goals. In this mini moment, I'm breaking down the distinction between growing versus scaling in your business, and why understanding what you actually want matters. We're also looking at your business as a machine, and getting into how each piece of your business is interconnected. You'll also learn why small decisions become more and more impactful as your business expands.   Our Favorite Quotes "I want you to start to think about and focus on building a business machine, and understanding how the parts of your business area all connected and understanding how to course correct to set you up for anything."   Thanks for listening, and if you like what you've heard, I would greatly appreciate you shaing this episode with your friends or on your Instagram stories (and tag @laptop.lifestyle.co)! There are so many amazing women who need to hear this message and who are working to build their dream lifestyle, and I'd love you to help me spread the word.    Resources and links mentioned in this episode: Laptop Lifestyle Co Links: Website Instagram Tik Tok YouTube Channel   Other Links Mentioned: Instagram Post The Gameplan

Feeling like what you're currently doing is no longer working for you and desiring something completely different? I have good news for you - you don't have to burn it all to the ground to achieve the kind of change you want in your business. In this episode, we are talking about how the same framework that can help you scale your business can also serve as a point of reflection to completely shake things up and transform your business into something that is aligned, profitable, and sustainable.   In this episode, we cover…

• Why methods of scaling your business can also help you change things up
• The difference between wanting "more" and wanting "different"
• Determining if your business is aligned, profitable, and sustainable
• The 3 steps to assessing your business
• The importance of asking yourself "why?"
• Examples of how you can get creative in how you run your business

  Quotes "Most people don't just want more. They want different. So don't conflate more with different."   "I find a lot of people don't actually know what they want, and that's why you're so lost. That's why things aren't working. Because you are unwilling to slow down for a hot second and are stuck in this desperation loop of more money, more money, more money."   Links & Resources Mentioned in this Episode Laptop Lifestyle Co Links: Website Instagram Tik Tok YouTube Channel   Other Links Mentioned: The Gameplan Business Remodel Blueprint private podcast

In these "Mini Moments" we pull some of my favorite and most impactful mini lessons from past episodes of the Made for More Podcast to give you a quick digestible lesson in under 10 minutes.   If you liked this mini moment, check out the rest of this full episode here - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/made-for-more-with-amanda-kolbye/id1529443551?i=1000565336007   Summary Find yourself feeling stuck more than you'd like to? If so, there are quite a few reasons this might be happening. In this mini moment, I'm explaining why so many entrepreneurs end up feeling stuck. From your desires being bigger than you can handle to being disconnected from yourself, understanding why you are feeling stuck can help you evaluate what to do next to get things moving the way you want!   Our Favorite Quotes "Your business grows to the level of the problems you can handle. You're feeling stuck because you want all these things to grow and to happen. But either you or your business are not set up or prepared for that growth."   Thanks for listening, and if you like what you've heard, I would greatly appreciate you shaing this episode with your friends or on your Instagram stories (and tag @laptop.lifestyle.co)! There are so many amazing women who need to hear this message and who are working to build their dream lifestyle, and I'd love you to help me spread the word.    Resources and links mentioned in this episode: Laptop Lifestyle Co Links: Website Instagram Tik Tok YouTube Channel

We talk a lot about scaling your business, and today you're getting a behind-the-scenes look at how The Gameplan alum Anita Dykstra has scaled her business as a lifestyle-focused lead gen expert. While some business owners may see successful scaling as leading a huge team with a bunch of offers, Anita's scaling journey show us that in many cases, simplicity is actually better. Anita is leading a team of two, has streamlined her offer suite, and was able to take a whole month off earlier this year while her business kept running without her!      Anita is a world-renowned travel blogger who has written and been featured in publications such as Lonely Planet, The Huffington Post, Skyscanner and more! She's used her blog content to work with some of the biggest brands and tourism boards around the world. Now she's using those same evergreen content strategies to bring automated traffic, leads and sales into her own coaching business. Since 2019 Anita's been helping coaches, course creators and service providers skyrocket their reach and visibility, drive thousands of new eyeballs to their websites, automate lead generation and bring passive sales by creating optimized evergreen content.     In this episode, we cover…

• Why Anita decided to create a course-based business to support her lifestyle
• How she tests different strategies and offers
• The difference that tracking and analyzing data has made in Anita's business
• How The Gameplan helped Anita overcome a plateau
• Hiring a team ideal for your specific business goals
• Why Anita lives by the motto "Done over perfect," and how this mindset has contributed to her success

  Quotes "So the project management system was huge. I built out our entire workflows, how everything, goes together - a really good plan around that... that really allowed me to reach that next level, and have everything organized in one way and helped me actually know, all right, what are the actual things that I need to do in order to accomplish this or to hit this goal."   "Done over perfect - that's my motto. That is something that I feel like I have really leaned into when it comes to my business, not just like, you know, creating an Instagram caption done over perfect, but actually like my entire business, like when I'm starting things, when I'm creating things, just getting done, not overthinking things like, 'Oh, is this, is this right? Is this going to work?' ...I just get it done, get it out there. Didn't work? Cool. Let's try the next thing."   Links & Resources Mentioned in this Episode Laptop Lifestyle Co Links: Website Instagram Tik Tok YouTube Channel   Other Links Mentioned: Anita's Website Anita's Instagram The Gameplan

In these "Mini Moments" we pull some of my favorite and most impactful mini lessons from past episodes of the Made for More Podcast to give you a quick digestible lesson in under 10 minutes.   If you liked this mini moment, check out the rest of this full episode here - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/made-for-more-with-amanda-kolbye/id1529443551?i=1000606023064   Summary When it comes to scaling your business, you there are two possible areas you need to focus on changing: strategy or structure. In this mini moment, learn how to diagnose what you need for your specific business to scale. I'm sharing the questions to ask yourself to determine whether you have a strategy or structure problem, and how internal issues tend to point to structural problems while external issues expose a problem with your strategy.   Our Favorite Quotes "Your structure determines the max of how far you can go, and then your strategy determines if and how far you'll actually go between where you are now and whatever that max is that your structure will allow you to go."   Thanks for listening, and if you like what you've heard, I would greatly appreciate you shaing this episode with your friends or on your Instagram stories (and tag @laptop.lifestyle.co)! There are so many amazing women who need to hear this message and who are working to build their dream lifestyle, and I'd love you to help me spread the word.    Resources and links mentioned in this episode: Laptop Lifestyle Co Links: Website Instagram Tik Tok YouTube Channel

In these "Mini Moments" we pull some of my favorite and most impactful mini lessons from past episodes of the Made for More Podcast to give you a quick digestible lesson in under 10 minutes.   If you liked this mini moment, check out the rest of this full episode here - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/made-for-more-with-amanda-kolbye/id1529443551?i=1000542687567   Summary What does it mean to be a leader? In this mini moment, leadership expert Tomasha Suber shares her take on her definition of being a leader. Leadership isn't all about execution - in fact Tomasha sees a leader more as someone who is able to make effective decisions. That means not just "going with the flow," but instead being intentional and moving forward with a decision that is the best for you and your business.   Our Favorite Quotes "You can lead when no one even knows you exist. Leadership is about the actions that you take regardless of sight."   "If you'r constantly just 'I'm just going with the flow of what's around' - I don't know about that. Is the flow that's around good for you? Is the flow that's around the best thing for your business?"   Thanks for listening, and if you like what you've heard, I would greatly appreciate you sharing this episode with your friends or on your Instagram stories (and tag @laptop.lifestyle.co)! There are so many amazing women who need to hear this message and who are working to build their dream lifestyle, and I'd love you to help me spread the word.    Resources and links mentioned in this episode: Laptop Lifestyle Co Links: Website Instagram Tik Tok YouTube Channel

Life and business do not exist separate from one another - and as a result, our relationships are commonly impacted by our businesses as well. This week, I am joined by my friend and mentor Megan Yelaney, and her husband Mike Bayen, for a conversation on navigating challenges in partnership throughout the journey of entrepreneurship. This episodes provides a fully transparent look at their struggles and separation, and how they worked through their relationship with finances, work, and control to come together stronger than ever.   Megan Yelaney is a business mentor, podcaster, and speaker whose passion truly lies in helping online coaches build, brand, and market their online business by unearthing and monetizing what makes them most memorable, buyable, and obsessable. She has built three businesses in the last 11 years, the latest to over $3Million in revenue. Meg is also a wife, soon to be twin boy mom, fur mom to her mini goldendoodle Luna and romantic fantasy book addict. She truly hopes to help as many women as possible build wealth for themselves & their families in a way that lights them up every single day. Meg and her husband Mike recently started the Meg and Mike Do Marriage Podcast sharing their relationship experiences as entrepreneurs.     In this episode, we cover…

• Meg & Mike's full story - what led to their separation, and how they made changes to come back together
• Navigating finances in a marriage when business is involved
• The importance of work-life boundaries
• How marriage meetings can support effective communication
• What 50/50 can actually look like in a relationship
• The danger of getting all your satisfaction and fulfillment from you business

  Quotes "My business - and how I operated it - really affected our marriage."   "My biggest satisfaction isn't from my business anymore. Which is so huge - that is a huge difference. Like, yes, it gives me so much joy and I feel so much fulfillment from it, but I just wanna be lazy with Mike and Luna and hang out and do nothing more than I wanna do any work."   Links & Resources Mentioned in this Episode Laptop Lifestyle Co Links: Website Instagram Tik Tok YouTube Channel   Other Links Mentioned: Meg's Instagam Meg's Website Meg & Mike's TikTok Meg's Podcast Meg & Mike's Podcast

In these "Mini Moments" we pull some of my favorite and most impactful mini lessons from past episodes of the Made for More Podcast to give you a quick digestible lesson in under 10 minutes.   If you liked this mini moment, check out the rest of this full episode here - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/made-for-more-with-amanda-kolbye/id1529443551?i=1000505060082   Summary One of the biggest things I see that holds back entrepreneurs - especially those early in their business journey - is overthinking that leads to inaction. This typically occurs because they want complete clarity and certainty before making a decision - but the problem is that clarity can only come from taking action. While yes, researching, consulting, and thinking can provide guidance to an extent, often when we seek out more information it is for validation & confidence, not actual clarity. In this mini moment, I'm explaining the threshold of when thinking is helpful, and more often, when it holds you back from your dreams.   Our Favorite Quotes "When we don't take action, we cannot change our reality. We cannot build our business. We cannot buy the dream house. We cannot quit the 9-5. We cannot scale to 7 figures. You cannot achieve your dreams if you do not take action. And overthinking is the opposite of action."   Thanks for listening, and if you like what you've heard, I would greatly appreciate you sharing this episode with your friends or on your Instagram stories (and tag @laptop.lifestyle.co)! There are so many amazing women who need to hear this message and who are working to build their dream lifestyle, and I'd love you to help me spread the word.    Resources and links mentioned in this episode: Laptop Lifestyle Co Links: Website Instagram Tik Tok YouTube Channel

There are 3 distinct types of businesses - passion businesses, lifestyle businesses, and achievement businesses - each with a unique internal driving motivator behind the priorities and decisions. And after working with hundreds of entrepreneurs and seeing the way a lack of clarity in what type of business I myself had created impacted my own level of satisfaction, I've recently come to the realization that understanding your business type is crucial to you being content with your business goals and lifestyle. So in this episode, I'm uncovering the 3 business types for you and explaining the goals and conflicts surrounding each type so that you too can clarity in what kind of business you actually want to be running right now.     In this episode, we cover…

• The 3 different types of businesses: passion, lifestyle, and achievement
• The underlying goal and driving force of each business type
• The conflicts and frictions that often occur for each
• Why it's important to get clear on what you actually want right now
• How not realizing what kind of business I created and wanted impacted my own level of satisfaction

  Quotes "You cannot have it all at once. I've never seen anyone be able to have it all at once because the goals and the ways of operating these businesses, like the driving forces, they are literally in direct conflict with each other."   "You're unhappy because you have conflicting desires, not because you're doing something wrong or because you haven't made X amount of money. You're not happy because you might be trying to build an empire and yet you don't actually want all the BS that comes with running a seven figure empire, right? You're not happy because you wanted a lifestyle and you got caught up in the achievement. You're not happy because you let others tell you life was about making money and that just because you can, you should, and that you feeling fulfilled doing your passion every day isn't enough, right?"   Links & Resources Mentioned in this Episode Laptop Lifestyle Co Links: Website Instagram Tik Tok YouTube Channel   Other Links Mentioned: 3 Business Types Instagram Post Laptop Lifestyle Bootcamp Intentional Mastermind