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Here there. Suzi here. I have a confession. There are some days when I don't trust myself. Days when I can't seem to make a decision… to get a resounding YES to a question that I'm asking myself.

In those instances I have to pull myself out of indecision and take the next step.

How much do you believe in yourself, and value your:

• Skills
• Experience
• Knowledge
• Intelligence?
• And, all that you've learned

When you trust yourself, you can more confidently take steps forward even when things in the world might seem unstable.

In this episode of the HerBusiness podcast I dive into how self-trust impacts your ability to grow your business.

We look at how trusting yourself helps you play a bigger game, stop procrastination and even charge more for your services.

Listen to this episode to hear:

• Three ways to back yourself and build your self-trust
• How to build trust with your team, family and customers
• What NOT trusting yourself looks like in real life
• What other women say THEY would do if they trusted themself more
• How self-trust leads to playing a bigger game in business
• How indecision keeps you stuck
• How trusting yourself helps you speak up more, take action faster, and live a life that is more ideal for YOU.

Mentioned in this episode:

Episode 141 - Take Charge of Your Money and Your Life with Kim Kiyosaki

• How to Bring More Inspiration Into Your Life and Business
• Playing the Inner and Outer Game of Business Success
• How to Start a Daily Journaling Habit (and What to Write About)
• How Clarity Leads to Powerful Actions

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Was it for financial freedom, freedom of time or because you simply don't like being told what to do?

Whatever your reason, one of the advantages of starting a business and becoming a business owner is that you can create wealth. You can generate as much income as you want, and it can come through your business.

An important question is:

Are you self-employed or are you a business owner?

Because there is a difference, and this difference has a big impact on whether you achieve the goals you set out to meet in the first place.

And, if the money side of your business is worrying you, it's definitely possible to put those worries to rest and never lose sleep over money again.

In this interview with Kim Kiyosaki, a world-renowned speaker, entrepreneur and author of Rich Woman: Take Charge of your Money: Take Charge of Your Life!, you'll learn the difference between being self-employed and being a business owner — and why it matters.

Hear Kim talk about why women-owned businesses grow slower than those owned by men and what you can do to accelerate your business growth.

• Why women-owned businesses fail to grow
• The difference between being self-employed and a business owner, and why it matters
• How focusing on serving people can make you more effective
• How to never lose sleep over money again
• Why the purpose of business is problem-solving
• Why you can't be successful without an inner game
• How consistent challenges can help grow your business and yourself

Get your copy of Kim's book, Rich Woman – Booktopia | Amazon (US) Get a copy of Kim's book, It's Rising Time – Booktopia | Amazon (US)

• Nothing Compares 2 U
• Time to Make New Plans
• Do the Best You Can With What You've Got
• Playing the Inner and Outer Game of Business Success

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When we play the comparison game in business, it only leads to frustration and disappointment.

So what can you do to stay mentally strong when self-doubt creeps in?

Any time we step outside of our comfort zone, we are vulnerable to failure, to criticism, to falling flat on our face.

These feelings are made worse when we also start comparing our success and our progress with that of others.

We look at someone's successful sales promotion and maybe we feel bad about our sales.

We look at their gazillion followers they have on social media and feel horrible about our small audience.

We see them getting opportunity after opportunity and deem ourselves not as good.

What's wrong with me? We might ask.

Or, maybe we feel great for them.

We are happy to celebrate their success.

And while we are celebrating them, we still ask: "Why can't I have that level of success?"

If you've felt that way, you're not alone.

Listen to hear:

• Why nothing compares to you
• How to move past the comparison game
• Why your unique talents and strengths might be being diminished
• The power of real statistics to show you your progress
• How to move from self-doubt into action and reflection

Also mentioned in this episode:

• Prince - Original version of Nothing Compares 2 U (1984)
• Join the HerBusiness Network here

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• Meant for More, with Lisa Sasevich
• Playing the Inner and Outer Game of Business Success
• How to Start a Daily Journaling Habit (and What to Write About)
• How Clarity Leads to Powerful Actions

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Maybe you created a great plan for this year.

Maybe you were one of the business owners who, like me, made grand plans, mapping out the whole year's activities and promotions.

Maybe COVID 19 turned things upside down for you.

The live event that you were doing has been postponed or cancelled.

Your piano-teaching school or your yoga studio had to close down for a while.

You've had the kids at home and so it's been hard to focus on anything.

I think we are all going to be stronger and better for what we've recently experienced.

Our capacity and abilities as businesswomen expanded.

Now, it's time to start to dream about what we want business to look like the next six months.

If we wait till all restrictions are lifted we'll be late off the blocks.

So today is the day to start making some new plans.

And, I have some tips for you.

• Why your personal goals should precede your business goals
• The eight essential areas of business that create stability and sustainability
• How to took 10 weeks away from my business in 2019
• Why breaking down your projects to the finite details is an important step BEFORE you get started with any new project
• The planning framework that HerBusiness Network members are using to get their goals faster and easier
• How to be first in line when the doors open to the HerBusiness Network

• Join the FREE HerBusiness Network Community on Facebook
• Request your invitation to join the HerBusiness Network
• Listen to last week's episode with Mike Michalowicz

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If you feel like you're spinning in circles because you're worried about declining sales, staff turnover or unhappy customers, and you're trying to address everything at once—STOP.

You're simply NOT going to be able to fix all these problems at the same time. Instead, you need to work out what issue to focus on first.

Many entrepreneurs believe that more sales are the answer, but this isn't always true. In fact, increasing your sales could actually make your problems worse.

How do you work out which problem to start with?

Just like us, your business has a hierarchy of needs too. Applying the business hierarchy of needs to your business will give you a simple system to eradicate your frustrations and get your business back on track.

In this interview with Mike Michalowicz, author of Profit First, Clockwork and The Pumpkin Plan, you'll walk step by step through the five levels of your Business Hierarchy of Needs.

"The biggest challenge entrepreneurs have is knowing what their biggest challenge is." – Mike Michalowicz

Learn how applying the levels in the hierarchy can help you identify the most imminent or vital issue that needs to be addressed first.

Recognize the 25 core needs for your business, including profitable leveraging, that will help you create stability and longevity for your business.

Discover how having every aspect of your business rely on you alone can impact your sustainability.

Listen to hear Mike talk about:

• The 5 levels in your Business Hierarchy of Needs
• How to use Mike's hierarchy system to get your business moving forward, fast
• How to find the true root cause of your business problem
• How bringing order to your business will accelerate your business growth
• Why the fastest and strongest businesses are those with a greater purpose
• How to avoid the "double helix trap" for revenue goals, and why bigger is not better
• Using the "OMEN" formula to fix your core problem and make progress consistently in your business

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Or, if you had better social media skills, how it'd be so much easier to make sales.

Or, if you had the right contacts, how doors would open up so much faster for you?

I get it.

The problem with this way of thinking is that it can get us stuck.

In this episode, Suzi Dafnis talks about not letting what 'could be' stopping us from doing the best we can what we can with what we already have.

• Meant for More, with Lisa Sasevich
• Playing the Inner and Outer Game of Business Success
• How to Start a Daily Journaling Habit (and What to Write About)
• How Clarity Leads to Powerful Actions

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Fear can leave you feeling stuck and unable to take the next step in your business, and in your life.

So, what do you do? Do you wait until the fear has gone? Do you keep doing the things that keep you small because that's where you feel comfortable?

The truth is, the fear may not go away, but you can definitely take control of it and still achieve your goals.

Fear is NOT the boss of you

In this interview with Jennifer Allwood, you'll discover how to acknowledge your feelings of fear and just do stuff anyway.

"We have a responsibility to show up for our life and do the things that we both want to do and feel called to do." — Jennifer Allwood

Listen to this interview to discover:

• How to accomplish your dreams even when you're scared
• How to know when fear is keeping you stuck and how to get unstuck
• Why perfectionism and self-sabotage gets in your way and how to break free
• How to influence others by overcoming your fears
• The power of vision and how it guides your journey in business
• Why the magic is in the doing and figuring it out as you go

Hear how you can accomplish your dreams even when you're scared and avoid the self-sabotage that keeps you from pursuing better results in your business.

• Meant for More, with Lisa Sasevich
• Playing the Inner and Outer Game of Business Success
• How to Start a Daily Journaling Habit (and What to Write About)
• How Clarity Leads to Powerful Actions

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Something that you love doing, that you're really good at and that you just can't stop helping others with?

This is your unique value.

It's the gift, the talent and the knowledge that you can use to make a difference in the lives of others. And, you can turn it into a business that makes money without needing to be pushy or salesy.

For so many women, the thought of pursuing sales can be so overwhelming that they don't make that leap. You don't ask for the sale, or you bungle the opportunity sometimes undervaluing what you do, or not making a compelling offer.

But instead of pursuing sales, what if I told you that you could invite pursuit?

You can package up your expertise, the thing you're really known for, and turn it into a profitable business that you love.

Listen to this episode to hear Lisa talk about:

• Making your offer irresistible
• The formula for getting past perfection
• Two simple exercises for uncovering your "Million-Dollar Value"
• How living an inspired life can accelerate your growth
• Why organised knowledge is critical to scaling your business
• Why making peace with sales and learning to invite pursuit is how you can get more out into the world in a much bigger way

• Playing the Inner and Outer Game of Business Success
• Tick. Tock. What Are You Waiting For
• How to Start a Daily Journaling Habit (and What to Write About)
• How Clarity Leads to Powerful Actions

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And something interesting is happening to every single one of us.

And, that is that the chinks in our armour are showing.

These chinks don't matter too much when times are good.

When the money is flowing.

When customers are plentiful.

When the sun is shining on our business.

But, when the economy gets turned around.

Or what used to work no longer works.

Perhaps we are forced to close the doors on our store.

Or we are forced to cancel that live event.

Or to stop treating clients face to face.

Or to look for new revenue streams.

The chinks become gaping holes that leave us feeling very vulnerable.

Our Achilles heel becomes exposed.

Many business owners who were working from home anyhow, now have the added pressure of not having access to their usual services, or they have kids at home that require homeschooling, partners at home that are also trying to work. The chinks can feel really big - like craters.

In this episode, Suzi Dafnis looks at the chinks that are showing up most commonly and how to take actions towards repairing them and creating new possibilities for you and your business even if right now the future seems unclear.

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• Joana Neales - B Anderson Roofing
• Aerlie Wildly - Aerlie Wildly: Systems Strategist Consulting

• Playing the Inner and Outer Game of Business Success
• Tick. Tock. What Are You Waiting For
• How to Start a Daily Journaling Habit (and What to Write About)
• How Clarity Leads to Powerful Actions

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Create Superfans.

Superfans are the first people to read your blog post, excitedly wait in line (or jump online) to grab your new product and sign up to your online course without even reading your sales page.

Want to know the best bit?

Your Superfans will help you grow your business by generating warm leads through referrals and recommendations.

How do you create Superfans?

While you can't expect to have Superfans overnight, you can definitely move people towards Superfan-dom using Pat Flynn's strategies.

Start by connecting with people by having an impact on their world.

When you create Superfans, you have a connected community supporting you and people showing up for your business, no matter where you take it.

In this interview with Pat Flynn, author of Superfans: The Easy Way to Stand Out, Grow Your Tribe, and Build a Successful Business, you'll hear how we don't need to create the next big thing, we just need to change someone's world.

"Superfans are the most important part of your business, and you don't need very many to do some amazing things for you." – Pat Flynn

Listen to this episode of the HerBusiness Podcast to hear Pat Flynn talk about:

• Why now is the perfect time to build your tribe
• Why Superfans are insurance for your business
• The "pyramid of fandom" and how it can turn your audience into Superfans
• How sharing more of your uniqueness helps your brand stand out
• Why involving and rewarding your audience pays off for your business
• How showing "behind the scenes" can bring people closer to your brand
• How personal moments help build your Superfans, your tribe and your business

Get Pat's ascension strategy for transforming your casual audience into a connected community who support each other and your brand.

Learn how to involve your audience more to build connections, increase your Superfans and ultimately grow your business.

Discover how creating amazing moments in your business will help you convert your customers, subscribers and listeners into Superfans.

Enjoy!

• How to Bring More Inspiration into Your Life and Business
• Stop Winging It and Start Planning for Your Success
• Tick. Tock. What Are You Waiting For

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