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In over five years of helping people start and grow a handmade packaged product businesses, I have seen A LOT of money mistakes. I am giving you the roadmap on what to do and what to avoid on today's podcast.

If you want to take your existing business to the next level, Master Your Business will be enrolling soon for May. Get on the waitlist at MasterYourBiz.co. It's time to learn about your money and set your business up to thrive!

👋We're Food Business Success®. We mentor early-stage founders with real coaching, strategy, tools, and systems to help them avoid common pitfalls and build a brand that lasts. We're also home to the Launch & Grow Accelerator.

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When I hired Robin back in August, I knew she would be a future guest on the podcast and here we are! It's not easy or "fun" to look at the real numbers and the choices (or not) I made about my money.  There was A LOT of drama for sure. 

As a single female entrepreneur, there is a lot of fear that comes up for me around safety and security. Hear my journey to face my money beliefs and the organize the physical dollars head on with my wealth coach, Robin Hanover

To learn more about working with Robin visit https://robinhanover.com. I cannot recommend her highly enough to help you with a wealth-building strategy for retirement and your business while supporting you with coaching. 

👋We're Food Business Success®. We mentor early-stage founders with real coaching, strategy, tools, and systems to help them avoid common pitfalls and build a brand that lasts. We're also home to the Launch & Grow Accelerator.

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I hear it all the time...I hope to make a profit this year (and it's year 3 of their business).   I want you to start a real business (not a hobby) and set up habits that prioritize profit. Because you are going to work way too HARD to not bring home something for yourself to delight in. And if you never have any monetary reward, most people quit in the first year or two.

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👋We're Food Business Success®. We mentor early-stage founders with real coaching, strategy, tools, and systems to help them avoid common pitfalls and build a brand that lasts. We're also home to the Launch & Grow Accelerator.

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Maybe you are starting out with a more complex product and you want to launch into larger sales channels or you are ready to move from farmers markets to the next step. Every time you scale up, even just a little bit, there is an investment of money that you will need. So where do you get this money when you are still pretty small and definitely not ready for investors? My guest on the podcast is Marie Peters is the Fund Director of B Side Capital. She is an expert in helping early stage entrepreneurs find funding to help them get to the next level.

B Side is located in Colorado. Marie mentioned in the podcast a directory to find other non-profit lenders in your state. Here is the link.

If you want help doing this work to be ready to approach a bank or an investor, Master Your Business is the program for you! Be ready to feel confident in your numbers no matter who asks. Learn more here http://masteryourbiz.co 

👋We're Food Business Success®. We mentor early-stage founders with real coaching, strategy, tools, and systems to help them avoid common pitfalls and build a brand that lasts. We're also home to the Launch & Grow Accelerator.

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Have you thought about starting that delicious dream, but aren't quite ready to make a large investment of time and money? A Cottage Food Business is a wonderful way to start and test the waters of entrepreneurship. On today's podcast, I talk with Lisa Kivirist, co-author of the book Handmade For Sale and co-host of the Home-based Food Entrepreneur Virtual National Conference  April 10-13, 2023.  Get yourself registered if you have a Cottage Food Business or are thinking about starting one. I will be presenting a workshop on financial considerations including taxes and profit. 

We discuss how to create a business you love by starting at home and some of the do's and don'ts as best practices for home-based entrepreneurs to have the most fun and create the most profit from the experience. 

👋We're Food Business Success®. We mentor early-stage founders with real coaching, strategy, tools, and systems to help them avoid common pitfalls and build a brand that lasts. We're also home to the Launch & Grow Accelerator.

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We put a lot of expectations on our business to make us feel happy, successful and love for it. But what if it isn't our biz's job to make us feel love for it? What if we get to decide that we we love it as the the vehicle that gives us opportunities for connection, service, doing hard things and being proud of ourselves. Write a love note to your business on this Valentine's Day and keep it close by for all the times your business gets hard (because is will some days). 

Listen in on how I do this with my business - from loving my clients, the colleagues around me, the transformation of coaching, the satisfaction from creating value and the growth of myself. And then go record or write your own love note to your business. 

👋We're Food Business Success®. We mentor early-stage founders with real coaching, strategy, tools, and systems to help them avoid common pitfalls and build a brand that lasts. We're also home to the Launch & Grow Accelerator.

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This month I am talking money with some amazing guests, both in mindset, but also the tactical strategy for finding the money you need to launch and scale your business.  My guest on the podcast this week is Michael Movitz, co-founder of Brandjectory. He's kind of a big deal in the industry (he wouldn't say that, but I will 😊), especially around raising money in the CPG space.

And he is also one of the coolest people I have connected with recently. There are a lot of really cool people in this industry!

 We talk about how to know if you are ready to take on investors to scale your business. It is not something a brand does lightly and you need to be prepared. It is like a marriage - until exit do you part. 

Grab the 5 page guide Michael put together for you here to get the steps to take on investors successfully. 

👋We're Food Business Success®. We mentor early-stage founders with real coaching, strategy, tools, and systems to help them avoid common pitfalls and build a brand that lasts. We're also home to the Launch & Grow Accelerator.

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Just because you want a business doesn't mean you have the right fuel to get it off the ground. Wanting doesn't create it. Commitment, determination and consistent action do.  Tune in to today's podcast to learn the nasty fuels you need to stop adding to your tank and the best fuel to get you what you want!

👋We're Food Business Success®. We mentor early-stage founders with real coaching, strategy, tools, and systems to help them avoid common pitfalls and build a brand that lasts. We're also home to the Launch & Grow Accelerator.

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I hear so many stories from you about waffling on whether to start your business, or to make the next level of investments to grow it. Indecision is a decision, but not one you make on purpose.  It robs you of your joy and keeps you spinning out in "I don't know" land.

You miss opportunities when you don't make decisions and ultimately regret creeps in as you wish you had acted sooner. On today's podcast I explain why indecision is fatal for entrepreneurs and offer you some tools to become a person who makes decisions and has their own back...no matter what. You get to decide that after all 😉.

Register for the upcoming free Whip Up A Business Workshop here.

👋We're Food Business Success®. We mentor early-stage founders with real coaching, strategy, tools, and systems to help them avoid common pitfalls and build a brand that lasts. We're also home to the Launch & Grow Accelerator.

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There will for sure be external obstacles that come up that will slow us down in our pursuit of our goals. It's a question of when, not if. And it is good to have a strategy of self-compassion and problem-solving ready to go when they do. But the most insidious obstacles are actually internal. You are the problem. You are the one who slows you down most. But the good news is you are the solution.

On today's podcast I share with you the most common internal obstacles I see in my clients and members and some strategies and hacks to put in your tool belt ahead of time so that when the obstacles come up you move through, around and over them so much faster.
 
You know what you "should" do in your business to really close the gap on your big 2023 goals. Don't let yourself get distracted by the urgent. Instead commit to the do the important, CEO-level, planning with my help.  Join the Master Your Business 10 Week Program to change the trajectory of your 2023 and beyond. 

👋We're Food Business Success®. We mentor early-stage founders with real coaching, strategy, tools, and systems to help them avoid common pitfalls and build a brand that lasts. We're also home to the Launch & Grow Accelerator.

[Learn more about coaching] | [Explore Launch & Grow]

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