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. 

Stop the endless research and overwhelm! Know exactly what each sales channel looks like for success and create a roadmap for your unique business - it's all inside the Sales Channel Challenge https://www.foodbizsuccess.com/challenge

When you are ready to make the leap, get the support and accountability you need to create a beautiful business!

• Get Food Business Success to launch and scale to $100K guaranteed
• Scale your existing business to $300K in 2025 with the financial and operational foundations and become the CEO of your biz in Master Your Business

Pick up your copy of "Key Ingredients" on Amazon here.

Check out my YouTube channel at www.foodbiz.tube for how to videos to start and grow a packaged food business.

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!

Stop the endless research and overwhelm! Know exactly what each sales channel looks like for success and create a roadmap for your unique business - it's all inside the Sales Channel Challenge https://www.foodbizsuccess.com/challenge

When you are ready to make the leap, get the support and accountability you need to create a beautiful business!

• Get Food Business Success to launch and scale to $100K guaranteed
• Scale your existing business to $300K in 2025 with the financial and operational foundations and become the CEO of your biz in Master Your Business

Pick up your copy of "Key Ingredients" on Amazon here.

Check out my YouTube channel at www.foodbiz.tube for how to videos to start and grow a packaged food business.

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.

Stop the endless research and overwhelm! Know exactly what each sales channel looks like for success and create a roadmap for your unique business - it's all inside the Sales Channel Challenge https://www.foodbizsuccess.com/challenge

When you are ready to make the leap, get the support and accountability you need to create a beautiful business!

• Get Food Business Success to launch and scale to $100K guaranteed
• Scale your existing business to $300K in 2025 with the financial and operational foundations and become the CEO of your biz in Master Your Business

Pick up your copy of "Key Ingredients" on Amazon here.

Check out my YouTube channel at www.foodbiz.tube for how to videos to start and grow a packaged food business.

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. 

Stop the endless research and overwhelm! Know exactly what each sales channel looks like for success and create a roadmap for your unique business - it's all inside the Sales Channel Challenge https://www.foodbizsuccess.com/challenge

When you are ready to make the leap, get the support and accountability you need to create a beautiful business!

• Get Food Business Success to launch and scale to $100K guaranteed
• Scale your existing business to $300K in 2025 with the financial and operational foundations and become the CEO of your biz in Master Your Business

Pick up your copy of "Key Ingredients" on Amazon here.

Check out my YouTube channel at www.foodbiz.tube for how to videos to start and grow a packaged food business.

There is a big difference between a true entrepreneur and a maker who has a business. Most of the time we have created (or will create) a business from an maker state of mind. You just want to make your product and you wish you had other people to do all the other things.

I hear it ALL THE TIME.

It is somewhat easy to start a packaged product business, but creating one that lasts and doesn't require you to do all the things requires new skills and stepping into new roles that are outside of your comfort zone. 

But that doesn't mean you avoid it. You can't! This is not a hobby. This is a business. You must look at your finances, know your numbers, create a vision and plan your year and quarters strategically. To create a business that makes money even if you aren't there toiling away requires you to fall in love with entrepreneurship as much as making your product. 

In today's podcast I explain the three roles you MUST perform for your business to work and how most people are only performing one of them. If you aren't willing to step into the other two roles, your business will run (or ruin) you. I've seen it over and over again and I don't want that to be your story. 💔

Stop the endless research and overwhelm! Know exactly what each sales channel looks like for success and create a roadmap for your unique business - it's all inside the Sales Channel Challenge https://www.foodbizsuccess.com/challenge

When you are ready to make the leap, get the support and accountability you need to create a beautiful business!

• Get Food Business Success to launch and scale to $100K guaranteed
• Scale your existing business to $300K in 2025 with the financial and operational foundations and become the CEO of your biz in Master Your Business

Pick up your copy of "Key Ingredients" on Amazon here.

Check out my YouTube channel at www.foodbiz.tube for how to videos to start and grow a packaged food business.

It's the first podcast of 2023! I know there is a lot of excitement and motivation in the new year to make resolutions about what you will do in the next 12 months. You will finally launch that business or grow it to $x in sales. But the reality is that most resolutions made with the spirit of "want to" just don't actually happen.

On today's podcast, I am sharing with you a different phrase that will change your life. Instead of hoping you will achieve it, you can make this year's goal a foregone conclusion. And then get to work.

Have you been avoiding all of the CEO boss parts of your business? It is common for makers to do so because you don't know how...yet. Anyone can learn these systems and skills so you can run your business like a boss and make a profit! Get inside the Master Your Business 10 Week Program to change the trajectory of your 2023 and beyond. 

Stop the endless research and overwhelm! Know exactly what each sales channel looks like for success and create a roadmap for your unique business - it's all inside the Sales Channel Challenge https://www.foodbizsuccess.com/challenge

When you are ready to make the leap, get the support and accountability you need to create a beautiful business!

• Get Food Business Success to launch and scale to $100K guaranteed
• Scale your existing business to $300K in 2025 with the financial and operational foundations and become the CEO of your biz in Master Your Business

Pick up your copy of "Key Ingredients" on Amazon here.

Check out my YouTube channel at www.foodbiz.tube for how to videos to start and grow a packaged food business.

Routine, habit and consistency serve us in a lot of ways, but if we aren't purposefully seeking out new challenges and first time experiences, we are missing out on so much. Neophilia, the pursuit of novel experiences, has amazing benefits including living a happier and healthier life. And we get a little rush of dopamine when we experience a first which lights up our brain and strengthens long-term memory and our ability to learn.

There is nothing like the thrill of starting a business to drop you feet first into uncertainty. And with a mentor and community, you will learn the skills of overcoming challenges and problem solving in a way that builds your confidence and resiliency.

Take a moment to review your 2022 - was it filled with first time experiences? If not, I am challenging you to get out of your comfort zone and go after more firsts.

Want to create a first of showing up and running your business like a boss instead of it running you? Get registered for the Master Your Business 10 Week Program to change the trajectory of your 2023 and beyond. 

Stop the endless research and overwhelm! Know exactly what each sales channel looks like for success and create a roadmap for your unique business - it's all inside the Sales Channel Challenge https://www.foodbizsuccess.com/challenge

When you are ready to make the leap, get the support and accountability you need to create a beautiful business!

• Get Food Business Success to launch and scale to $100K guaranteed
• Scale your existing business to $300K in 2025 with the financial and operational foundations and become the CEO of your biz in Master Your Business

Pick up your copy of "Key Ingredients" on Amazon here.

Check out my YouTube channel at www.foodbiz.tube for how to videos to start and grow a packaged food business.

What makes for a "rich" life? I find this term makes some people uncomfortable, but we use rich in all kinds of ways from money to describing fabric or characterizing a dessert. I think of a rich life in terms of time and experiences as well. 

On this episode, I share with you some examples of ways you can start to feel more rich in your life now, so that you can create more of it in the future. And I give you a tool called a Dream Jar that has created more wealth (money, time, experiences, love and purchases) in my life and it can do the same for you. 

Want to start your own dream jar? Email me at [email protected] with the subject line: Wish Slips and your name and address and I will pop them in the mail for you at no charge while they last!

Stop the endless research and overwhelm! Know exactly what each sales channel looks like for success and create a roadmap for your unique business - it's all inside the Sales Channel Challenge https://www.foodbizsuccess.com/challenge

When you are ready to make the leap, get the support and accountability you need to create a beautiful business!

• Get Food Business Success to launch and scale to $100K guaranteed
• Scale your existing business to $300K in 2025 with the financial and operational foundations and become the CEO of your biz in Master Your Business

Pick up your copy of "Key Ingredients" on Amazon here.

Check out my YouTube channel at www.foodbiz.tube for how to videos to start and grow a packaged food business.

How are you feeling about your goals for 2022? How about setting new goals for 2023? If you are feeling a little discouraged and pessimistic, as I was, it is probably because you are doing it the hardest way.  In today's episode, I share with you two ways to set goals. The push method, which is what most of us have been taught, and the pull method. The pull, or desire, method is how really amazing goals are achieved. It is the more fun, easier and less stressful way of accomplishing BIG things in your life and business.

It's not too late to join me live (or get the replay anytime) for the Go Big in 2023 Using Your  Future Self Workshop for just $19
(https://www.foodbizsuccess.com/future) if you aren't already in Food Business Success.  It's included for all members!

Stop the endless research and overwhelm! Know exactly what each sales channel looks like for success and create a roadmap for your unique business - it's all inside the Sales Channel Challenge https://www.foodbizsuccess.com/challenge

When you are ready to make the leap, get the support and accountability you need to create a beautiful business!

• Get Food Business Success to launch and scale to $100K guaranteed
• Scale your existing business to $300K in 2025 with the financial and operational foundations and become the CEO of your biz in Master Your Business

Pick up your copy of "Key Ingredients" on Amazon here.

Check out my YouTube channel at www.foodbiz.tube for how to videos to start and grow a packaged food business.

Are you sabotaging your future self with your current actions. Most of us do. It isn't your fault (blame your primitive brain), but you can easily override it and start to become the person you need to be to achieve the goals you want in your life and business.

In today's podcast episode I share with you a simple concept I have been using to get huge compounding results called hooking your future self up! Start doing this today and see results this week.

Register for the Future Self Workshop for just $19
(https://www.foodbizsuccess.com/future) if you aren't already in Food Business Success.  It's included for all members!

Stop the endless research and overwhelm! Know exactly what each sales channel looks like for success and create a roadmap for your unique business - it's all inside the Sales Channel Challenge https://www.foodbizsuccess.com/challenge

When you are ready to make the leap, get the support and accountability you need to create a beautiful business!

• Get Food Business Success to launch and scale to $100K guaranteed
• Scale your existing business to $300K in 2025 with the financial and operational foundations and become the CEO of your biz in Master Your Business

Pick up your copy of "Key Ingredients" on Amazon here.

Check out my YouTube channel at www.foodbiz.tube for how to videos to start and grow a packaged food business.