Earn Your Happy

In This Episode You Will Learn About:

• Finding belief in dark times
• Where to begin your journey
• The reward on the other side of making tough choices
• The beliefs that allow you to move to the next level
• Saying “yes” and figuring it out
• Closing the gap to the next level
• Being intentional about what you want
• Asking for help

Resources:

• drsonja.com
• Have a conversation: drsonja.com/apply

Show Notes:

After Dr. Sonja Stribling’s divorce left her bankrupt, both financially and emotionally, she decided to leverage her personal journey in order to help others. We have a great conversation about her past and how she used everything she’s experienced, good and bad, to create her business, and how you can use your personal story to propel you forward.

Question Highlights:

• Could you tell us more about your journey?
• How do you know where to start?
• Why do people need to be having hard conversations?
• What are some beliefs in business that you can apply to anything?
• What does it look like saying “yes” before you’re ready?
• What do you tell yourself when you can’t seem to close the gap to the next level?
• What’s a better question that people need to ask themselves?

Guest Bio:

Dr. Sonja is a Transformation Specialist, Influence Expert known as the General to Giants. This retired Army Major, recipient of Barack Obama Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award, National Speaker for the Think & Grow Rich The Legacy World Tour, and former TV Host on Bravo Network, now uses this training and experience to lead thousands of to their victory in dominating in their space and use their inner POWER to ascend to their Next Level in life and business.

Having overcome a series of life-changing experiences at a young age, a 21-year military career, a highly decorated combat veteran with a harrowing divorce that left her financially and emotionally bankrupt, Dr. Sonja has drawn upon her past pain to connect her closer to her purpose. Her mission is to use her leadership skills and her own journey as a means to help others ignite their inner strength and realize their true potential as human beings, business owners, and world-changers.

As the Chairwoman of the Born to Be Powerful Academy®, home of Kitchen Table CEOTM her firm’s courses, events, and results-based coaching & consulting programs equips emerging and established women, thought leaders, influencers, entrepreneurs, and game-changers to use find their POWER to have a fulfilled life, booming business and live life on their own terms.

From her one-on-one coaching, group training events to online seminars, thousands shift their life, career, and business from her teachings.

Her core belief is “don’t wait for others to invite you to the table, create your own table!”

In This Episode You Will Learn About:

• Sharing the lessons along the way
• Finding your vision
• Taking action on your goals

Resources:

• instagram.com/drinklitepink
• Listen: ‎Transformation Church: Mark My Words // Do You Need Vision? // Michael Todd

Show Notes:

Get ready, because I’m about to preach. I have chosen to see that I am supposed to take every problem I encounter, every obstacle, everything that gets thrown in my way as a lesson to share with others. And that lesson today is all about having a vision and following through with it in order to live your purpose.

In This Episode You Will Learn About:

• Having a vision for your life
• Taking action
• Feeling accomplished
• The difference between compassion and compulsion

Resources:

• instagram.com/drinklitepink

Show Notes:

Welcome back to Questionably Awesome! Today, Evans and I are going to be answering your questions about overwhelm and compassion.

@tracy_swselfcare asks: I get so overwhelmed about starting.  How do I start taking action?

@officialnattig asks: Difference between compassion and feeling like you need to help?

In This Episode You Will Learn About:

• The traits that apply to both business and relationships
• Having unwavering standards about who you spend your time with
• Why you have to always be growing
• Having a target to strive for

Resources:

• Visit fortheloveofmoney.com/mastermind or text ELITE to 310-421-0416 to join Chris’ elite mastermind group
• Get 20% off Grammarly Premium at grammarly.com/happy

Show Notes:

There are a handful of things that have just as much to do with running a successful business as they do having successful relationships. You obviously want your relationship to thrive just as much as your business, so start focusing on these three things and make strides in both.

In This Episode You Will Learn About:

• Being the big fish in the pond
• Finding contentment in your everyday life
• Having faith in your ability to execute your ideas
• Knowing when to go all-in
• Recognizing whether you’re an entrepreneur or an employee
• Staying humble and keeping perspective
• Universal truths about building a business

Resources:

• ashlandhardseltzer.com
• Instagram: @ashlandhardseltzer

Show Notes:

I love hearing about the raw, real journey it takes to build a company from the ground up. Bringing your passion to life despite all of the walls you hit along the way is a story I will never get tired of hearing. And the story of Josh Landan is just that. He’s the founder of Saint Archer Brewing Co., which he just sold to Coors for $100 million, and then he sold Ashland Hard Seltzer to Anheuser-Busch after only eleven months of building the brand. It’s truly inspiring and you’re going to take so much away from this conversation.

Question Highlights:

• How do you deal with the pressure of entrepreneurship?
• What happened in Philadelphia?
• What gives you such confidence in your ideas?
• How do you create authentic connections with your investors?
• How do you stay so self-aware?
• What are you working through in your life right now?
• How do we keep our massive drive but also make it feel like no big deal?
• What are three universal truths about building a business?
• What is the payoff from being an entrepreneur?
• What do you want to leave people with?

Guest Bio:

Josh started his career telling stories from behind the lens – filming, directing, writing, and producing films and documentaries featuring some of the world's top surfers, snowboards, and skateboards. The passion for bringing his athlete friends’ stories to life led him to create Saint Archer Brewing Co. and later Harland Brewing Co.

Recognizing all of his friends were quickly developing a taste for hard seltzer, Josh saw an opportunity to create something different and tell a new story with friends from all walks of life. Ashland Hard Seltzer was brewed to bring together people from all walks of life, to share moments, and create stories as one. Moments are fleeting. Stories live forever. Cheers!

In This Episode You Will Learn About:

• Dealing with an expectation hangover
• Stepping back when things aren’t going your way
• Reaching out for help

Resources:

• instagram.com/drinklitepink

Show Notes:

I hope your new year is going awesome, but if it’s off to a bad start—like mine is—here’s your chance to reframe. I’m having a massive expectation hangover for how I wanted to start the new year, but all of the greatest lessons in life come from reframing things that didn’t go your way.

In This Episode You Will Learn About:

Resources:

Show Notes:

Welcome back to Questionably Awesome! Today, Evans and I are going to be answering your questions about business.

@ilonavaro asks: Do you have any go-to templates for business strategy planning for the year ahead?

@kelsey.eyers asks: How do I connect with my affiliates in a time when everyone is so distracted?

@larissabayet asks: Does imposter syndrome ever seem to go away? Or do you just learn to deal with it? How can you overcome it?

In This Episode You Will Learn About:

• Everything is figureoutable
• Making the best of every situation
• Taking your feelings out of the equation when solving a problem
• Loving the challenge

Resources:

• Text ELITE to 310-421-0416 or visit fortheloveofmoney.com/mastermind to join my elite mastermind group
• Get a $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/happy

Show Notes:

We didn't start the new year off quite how we intended. Our usual rituals and business plans went out the window when we both caught COVID. But in the midst of that, and feeling helpless, there were a lot of lessons learned that we can carry forward… some that we are actually grateful to have experienced.

In This Episode You Will Learn About:

• Meeting the right people
• Having a partner who lifts you up
• Knowing when to give feedback
• Parents relying on their children for happiness
• Having relationships with your kids

Resources:

• heatherdubrow.com
• Listen: Heather Dubrow's World

Show Notes:

You’ve probably heard of Heather Dubrow from her time on “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” but she’s truly done it all. From acting to hosting, design to entrepreneurship, Heather is a powerhouse. Her podcast, “Heather Dubrow’s World,” has over 100 million downloads, and her YouTube channel, “Heather’s Closet,” had millions of views. We talk about how she developed such a diverse portfolio, what’s going on in her personal life, and what’s in store for the future.

Question Highlights:

• How did you decide what your type of people are?
• How did you end up doing so many different things with your life?
• How did you cope growing up in your family where you didn’t talk about thing to?
• How did your husband help you see your blind spots?
• What are some generational patterns you want to break?
• What’s lighting you up right now?

Guest Bio:

Heather Dubrow (née Heather Paige Kent) is an Actress, Author, Singer, Entrepreneur, Mom, and Wife.  Heather is a veteran of scripted television and you may also recognize her from her 5 seasons as the Champs drinking brunette in a sea of blondes on the Real Housewives of Orange County.   

She is also an accomplished host with credits ranging from newsrooms to talk shows. Heather’s top-rated podcast “Heather Dubrow’s World” has amassed a huge following with over 100.5 MILLION downloads! 

Heather is also well known internationally for her sense of design and fashion as evidenced by her YouTube channel, HEATHER’S CLOSET, which has millions of downloads.

Heather is married to the world-renowned plastic surgeon, Dr. Terry Dubrow, star of E!'s hit TV series Botched.

Together, the Dubrow’s have authored three books together including “Dr. and Mrs. Guinea Pig present The only guide you'll ever need to the best anti-aging treatments",  “The Dubrow Diet” and their latest book, “THE DUBROW KETO FUSION DIET” (Harper Collins, 2020). Terry and Heather have a top-selling skincare and supplement line called CONSULT BEAUTE AND CONSULT HEALTH.

They have four children together and live in Newport Beach, California.

In This Episode You Will Learn About:

• The post-book hangover
• The 10 core skill sets
• Focusing on your great instead of your good
• Where to get started in your job search
• Testing out different careers
• Bringing your skill set into your current career
• Finding your core nature

Resources:

• ashleystahl.com
• Read: "You Turn"

Show Notes:

Ashley Stahl is equal parts brilliant and hilarious. She’s helping people discover their confidence, finding a career path that they love, and landing more job offers. If you are unsure of the career that you’re in, if you’re not sure what’s next, or if you’re looking to expand what you’re already doing by thinking bigger, this is the podcast for you!

Question Highlights:

• Can you give us an overview of what you put into your book?
• Can you go through the 10 core skill sets?
• What’s a sign that you’re good at something but it’s not necessarily what you should be doing?
• How do you figure out where you should start?
• What was the most interesting finding about these 10 skills?
• What do you do to get into your zone of genius?

Guest Bio:

Ashley Stahl is a counterterrorism professional turned career coach, speaker, and author on a mission to help you step into a career or business you’re excited about and aligned with. Her book, now available on Amazon for pre-order, You Turn: Get Unstuck, Discover Your Direction, Design Your Dream Career, takes readers on her career journey into counterterrorism, offering an 11 step formula to discover their best career fit.  Through her two viral TEDx speeches, her email list of 500,000 and her show, You Turn Podcast, she's been able to support clients in 31 countries in discovering their best career path, upgrading their confidence and landing more job offers. 

She maintains a monthly career column in Forbes, and her work has been also featured in outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, CBS, SELF, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and more. Ashley earned a Master’s in international relations from King’s College London, and another Master’s in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica. She holds a Bachelor’s from University of Redlands in government, history and French.