Digital Queens

In today’s episode, Sarah chats with Sinead about what it’s like to work with an OBM (Online Business Manager), the difference between an OBM and a VA (Virtual Assistant) and knowing when it’s time to engage an OBMs services. Sharing a bit about her business journey so far, and her motivation to starting her own business.

Sinead’s not only specialised in sales and assisting small businesses and entrepreneurs to scale up sales strategies but can also enhance your CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and system usage. They chat about some of the systems out there but more importantly about it being the right system for you, being able to utilise it to its full advantage, giving you exactly what you need. Having used many systems that are on the market, Sinead is best placed to recommend the best ones based on your needs.

You know you’re ready to hire an OBM when you wish you could clone yourself. You’re doing all the things but know there’s a better way, your head is full and you’re tired of all the decision making.  You’re looking for someone with the skills to come in and make recommendations, as well as take it off your hands to create workflows, automations, setting up systems to make your life easier. Not only that, imagine having the confidence to take a break knowing someone was taking care of your business while you’re away. 

If your brain is exhausted and you could do with another you, an OBM could very well be what you’re looking for. Below are Sinead’s details if you’d like to chat more about implementing systems into your business so you can focus on the things you’d rather be doing.

https://www.facebook.com/CCreativeVA

https://www.instagram.com/corkscrewcreative/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/corkscrew-creative/

When I started my business over a decade ago, it was my intention to grow it slowly. I wanted to work part time so I could be present for my young boys - things look very different these days.  

Today I share with you all about my team, who they are, how I chose them, and why. As well as why each of them performs the tasks they do. This is the part you find out what I love to do and the things I’m really bad at – I definitely play to my team’s strengths. This is going to help you when you’re considering hiring a team member, perhaps you’re ready right now. Remember you don’t have to do everything yourself.

As you grow your business, you will always need people to help you. You can definitely run a business by yourself but only up to a certain point. I work inside my business between 30 - 50hrs per week nowadays, varying wildly depending on what I have going on. Of course, I work more when I’m having a launch – like last month when I launched Blooming Biz Academy. 

My team consists of four fabulous members – my tech savvy husband, Grant. My Online Business Manager (OBM) Marianne, my Perth Virtual Assistant (VA) Clare, and my overseas VA.  

Between the five of us, we’re a well-oiled machine. Grant takes care of my website as well as managing our home. I refer to Clare as like having a boss - she keeps me on track and focused. Marianne turns my words into eye-catching automated emails and brings an extra brain to the business. And my overseas VA looks after some of my social media, and community engagement.  This is just a snippet of what my team do, I share almost everything they do with you in this episode. Tune in as there may be some tasks on the list of jobs you don’t like to do that you had never even thought of outsourcing.  

Tune in to hear how together we make it happen!

I’ve popped the links below if you’d like to find out more about any of my team members.

My VA, Clare aka Pen and Paper Girl Pen and Paper Girl - Business Administration Service

My OBM, Marianne - Home - Thrive Admin Services (simplero.com)

My overseas VA - Virtual Elves Home new - Virtual Elves

This episode is for you if you wish you had more hours in a day, you long for a home that is less cluttered, you’re so busy you can’t find time to do anything for yourself, and you’re so overwhelmed you wouldn’t even know what to do if you had time.

In today’s episode, I chat with Bridget Johns, Organisation Expert - Declutter Coaching & Life Organisation at Be Simply Free. Be Simply Free exists to teach women to reduce their mental load by decluttering their homes, phones, calendars and minds so they can find more space in their homes and time in their calendars to collect moments, not things!

We chat about the amount of physical stuff we surround ourselves with, and the effect it has on our mental load. How not to feel overwhelmed when we think about decluttering our space or our mind. What micro changes we can make in our day to get us to where we want to be.

Why it’s important to have a nice clear area to work from, the luxury of having a home office space with a door, and things we can do if we don’t have a dedicated workspace. Bridget also mentions a couple of apps we can use to help with decluttering, or to help create a new habit.

She shares more about her philosophy “Stop, Focus and Notice”. You can read more about this on her website.

“Clear Clutter Find Time” is Bridget’s online course which begins on the 10th of February 2023. It’s all good having someone come into your home and do the physical decluttering for you but it’s about building new habits that keep you decluttered for longer. If a course isn’t for you, she also offers 1:1 guidance and support. Find out more about this on her website, I’ve popped the link below.

There are so many juicy tips in this episode which are sure to get you motivated to see you on your way to a less cluttered 2023.

Connect with Bridget here:

www.instagram.com/be.simplyfree

www.facebook.com/besimplyfree

www.besimplyfree.com.au

If you’re looking for motivation, guidance, techniques, and a list of questions to ask yourself to help you set goals for the coming year then this episode is for you.

Your answers to the many questions in this episode will help you create the goals that will help you grow the business of your dreams.

I think you’ll agree, sometimes we do things in business we don’t particularly like because they’re profitable and generate income, and sometimes we do things that don’t generate income, but we do them because we love them. But how often do we stop and ask ourselves what these are?

Tuning in to last week’s episode first will give you an insight into how I was able to review the year that was, so I was clear on what I wanted more of this year.

Did you have big plans for 2022 you didn’t get around to achieving? Have you stopped to write down what they were? Ask yourself why they didn’t happen. When was the last time you asked yourself why you started your business? What gets you out of bed in the morning? What lights you up? Hear my answers right here, as well as one of the goals I finally got round to launching at the end of last year.  

Promise me you will sit down and write down the answers to the questions in this episode. Remember a goal without an action plan won’t get you very far, be realistic with the time it’s going to take to reach it, block time in your calendar once a week to work on your business where you can work through your action plan.

I’d love to hear the goals you are working towards, drop me a DM on Instagram and let me know.

2022… What a year! Tune in to hear my biggest lesson and the reasons I will continue to grow my business in ways that light me up, creating beautiful courses and things for you within Online Social Butterfly that make me excited. I share with you some of the opportunities that came my way throughout the year that I declined, and the reasons why.

I also share with you the multiple changes I made within my team, and how I felt about it all, including what it’s like working with my husband.

The new Mastermind I joined, after searching for quite some time before finding the one I knew was for me. The financial commitment and the reason I chose the one I did.

I also let you in on my goals for 2023, and what I’d like some of my launches to look like. Also, what it is that makes me feel energetically like I’m in my zone of genius.

At the start of last year I put some boundaries in place around the days I worked, I let these slip a little towards the middle of the year and found myself burning out. One of my goals is to work less, yet I find this a bit of a struggle given I have severe workaholic tendencies. Hear the boundaries I’m holding firm this year.

One of my biggest achievements was launching this podcast. I didn’t miss a single week of an episode until I took a break at Christmas. My goal for this remains the same - providing guidance, support and advice that’s going to be helpful for you and your business. If you’d like to be a guest on my podcast, you’re a female entrepreneur and you think my audience (female entrepreneurs) would benefit from your message, then feel free to reach out to me at [email protected] I’d love to connect with you.

If you could take one thing away from today’s episode, I’d like you to reflect on 2022, write down what you achieved, what you did or didn’t do, and take a moment to celebrate. It’s important we stop and recognise how far we’ve come.

I have some big goals for this year, and some enormous ones for 2024.

Thank you for listening to my podcast. I’m really looking forward to hanging out with you again this year.

In today’s episode, I chat with Julie Anglesey from Renovating Made Easy. Julie was on site in her car when we recorded this episode. She teaches frustrated property investors to become fearlessly profitable renovators.

Splitting from her husband after renovating their second house together, did not stop Julie from following her passion of renovating houses. Hear how she went from being a housewife, working a full-time job to suddenly giving up her job, having no borrowing capacity, and a mortgage on the house she was living in, to flipping houses for profit.

Julie shares her story of taking lifelong experiences and turning them into a business at the age of 53, believing it’s never too early or too late to create your dream life, no matter your age or financial circumstances. While wondering how she was going to cope financially Julie was invited to a property investors meeting to do a presentation about the flips her and her husband had done. You will not believe what happened the very next day.

Looking back over the years Julie shares some of the lessons she’s learnt along the way, the things she wished she’d done sooner, and some of the frustrations she’s encountered in business.

Get ready to be inspired, ladies!

Julie is now ready to release her How to Renovate for Profit online course, so

renovators from all over Australia can access her simple system and become clear, focused, and confident house flippers.

https://www.facebook.com/renovatingmadeeasy

https://www.facebook.com/groups/578649682651126

https://www.facebook.com/groups/470258611334768

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEuNnYdfsZ9bvdUk22_JoFA

https://www.pinterest.com.mx/julieanglesey50/

https://www.instagram.com/renovatingmadeeasy/

In today’s episode, I chat to Véronique - Founder and Director of Unique Tenants Consult. Hear what inspired her to start a business over 50, the legacy she wants to leave, and what guides her every day to enrich the lives of tenants.

With a bachelor’s degree, and an advocate for lifelong learning, Véronique knew she had to educate herself if she was going to educate others, hear how she went about that.  Sharing what she has found most daunting, and how she found social media such a huge learning curve.

Having been a tenant who experienced rental issues herself, as well as being unemployed for five years, and experiencing ageism when trying to find employment, she felt depleted on all levels. Driven by her passion to help others, and make a difference, she’s out to educate and inform tenants of their rental rights and responsibilities and make suggestions to help them negotiate a mutual satisfactory outcome as they have sometimes been misled.

We chat about the experience age brings, and the skills we have now compared to when we were younger. Self-doubt! Imposter syndrome! Questioning why am I doing this? We must believe in ourselves and keep our eyes focused on the goal.

Véronique always thinks “How can I use what I’ve learnt today and how can I share that with my tenants and my community to enrich the lives of other people”

Here’s where you can connect with Véronique:

www.tenantsconsult.com.au

Facebook.com/TenantsConsult

In today’s episode, Sarah chats with quirky Kerry Ridley, owner of My Little Bookshop. Recalling travelling with her family to be one of the best experiences of her life.

Tune in to hear Kerry’s journey to how My Little Bookshop began, to what it looks like today only 3 years after she started her own business in her 50’s. Sarah and Kerry laugh about the things people say that we put up with when we’re younger compared to what we put up with as we grow older, and wiser.  

Kerry shares her advice to anyone looking to start their own business later in life - she’s sure glad she did. There are so many women out there over 50 doing their own thing and kicking goals - don’t regret not giving it a go. There’s also talk of confidence, feeling less inclined to explain yourself, and not having to deal with the self-doubt her younger self would if she had taken this path sooner.

Hear how she sold her first book, and all the fun things that take place inside her beautiful indi bookshop located on Rockingham Foreshore here in Western Australia. A place for community, empowering women, and inclusivity.

Such an inspirational podcast for women listeners of any age.

Jump over to Kerry’s website and check out the calendar of events in the ‘What’s coming up’ section, or connect via socials:

https://www.mylittlebookshop.com.au/

https://www.facebook.com/Mylittlebookshop19/

https://www.instagram.com/mylittlebookshop_/?hl=en

This year I’ve been upskilling in terms of how to do a great launch. I wanted to share with you some of the things I’ve tried, what worked and didn’t work and how I keep moving forward to add success.

Creating an online course is like creating another business, it’s exhausting. It’s not only important to have a plan, but also just as important to make sure you have some support before and during your launch as it really can take over your life, taking you away from other activities.

I share my recommendations for all things to consider from building momentum, making the time to respond to your audience, social media, bonuses, discounts, bumps, upsells and down sells. There’s more involved than you may think. From cart open countdowns, different time zones, email marketing, the list goes on.

I also share where I’d like to be when I launch next year and 2024.  

Showing-up before and during your launch is imperative, people need to hear what you’ve got to offer and how it’s going to help them. Try out different types of content and see what lands with your audience.

Remember, every time we launch, we learn and grow. I’d love to hear how you get on if you’ve had a launch and your key takeaways and learnings for next time.  

Don’t forget to leave a review and subscribe so you don’t miss an episode. Happy listening!

Starting as a teen mom with limited financial resources, Stephanie put herself through college, started two successful businesses and quickly rose to leadership positions in multiple corporate roles. These days she’s travelling the world alongside running her business, promoting the opportunity for her clients to live their best life of freedom and abundance in whatever way is meaningful to them.

One of her favourite sayings is “The money is in the mindset”. Adding “I could easily give you the strategy to become a successful business owner, but if you don’t believe it, you won’t implement it in a way and show up in a way that will actually attract money into your business.”

Tune in to hear what inspired Stephanie to make plans and become a location independent entrepreneur, as she shares her story so far.

Hear how she makes it work for her and her clients, creating a schedule that works for her life, and clients around the world in different time zones. One being intentional with days you work like a regular job, not forgetting to factor in time off to enjoy the culture of wherever you are in the world. Oh imagine!

An extrovert by nature, Stephanie finds it easy to strike up a conversation. By doing this she’s met some incredible people along the way. She also tells us what she does to stay connected with friends and family while she’s on her travels, and what she does to make sure she’s not lonely.

Don’t miss this episode if you’re dreaming of becoming a digital nomad, incorporating work and travel. Stephanie shares many tips and stories of her journey so far, it’s fascinating.

Can you guess where abouts in the world Stephanie recorded this episode from?

If you’d like to connect with Stephanie, here is where you’ll find her:

Clubhouse: www.clubhouse.com/@stephanieritz

Instagram: www.instagram.com/stephanieritz.co

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-ritz