Mentor MashUp

Online and in-store sales guru, Mel Robbins, tells Anne how to take your product to market and price it right to grow your successful retail or wholesale business.

Don't miss this one!! Melissa has built multi-million dollar businesses and helps people like you grow to 5 figure profitable monthly sales.

Listen out for Mel's 3 takeaways!

1.     Get pricing right  Action: know exactly the cost of the product

ACTION: Make sure you are not guessing anything.  Get accurate information about the cost of your goods and use a spreadsheet!

2.     Understand who your customer is: Action: Find out Where, what and who are your customers

ACTION: Do your research, ask questions and be curious.

3.     Spread your eggs across baskets: Action: Start with one channel, then after that create more

ACTION: Don’t restrict yourself to one sales channel ongoing. Diversify with at least 2 as early as possible. This will help with consistency in sales.

Learn more about Melissa Robbins

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Imagine a world where you confidently embrace your unique strengths, and operate at the bubbling point of your true potential. With the magic of that X factor that sets you apart, you have a clear vision of the impact you want to make and a strategy to do so. Our mentor today is none other than the amazing Janine Manning sharing the secrets to creating your own brand powerhouse.

Your 3 Actionable Takeaways

1.    Your Core Values sit at the heart of who you are and are vital to feeling grounded and strong. Connect with them and use them to guide you in making important decisions in your career, business and personal brand. 

ACTION:

Download Janine’s Free Compass Values Workbook

2.  Your Strengths bring you flow, mastery and confidence. Identify them, maximise them, and always do more of them. Your Strengths are where your best work comes from and what your personal brand will become known for. 

ACTION:

Visit the Gallup website and take their Clifton Strengths Assessment – the report and resources are world-class and will help guide you through exploring your Strengths. 

Take the Gallup Clifton Strengths Assessment here.

3: Make Balcony moments a daily part of your routine as it creates a space to pause, connect with your inner thoughts, and get some distance from the day for greater clarity. It’s the perfect way for micro realignments to make aligned decisions that work for you and your personal brand.

ACTION:

Place a reoccurring calendar date in your diary every day and use that time to pause and reflect on how fulfilled your values are today, how to use your strengths better, ponder an intention, or unpack a situation you are working through.  

Learn more about Janine here

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Anne interviews Digital Marketer, Leanne O’Sullivan encourages a shift beyond demographics to consider where your audience engages online and what they aspire to achieve. Underscoring the importance of having digital knowledge to make informed marketing decisions, Leanne also shares first hand her own stories and struggles and encourages self-compassion.

Your Actionable Takeaways

1. Who are you speaking to? (identify the ideal audience and what they want, then how what you sell aligns with what they want and where they play online.)

This is critical to be very clear on. We often get the wobbles with it, especially when cash flow seems to dictate direction. On Leanne's profile page you can access this tool which might be helpful with this process.

Please go beyond thinking about demographics and lean into where people play, what they read and what they are striving for -

2. Improving your digital literacy 

We recommend my ebook - the Digital Compass, to help get your head around a framework to be applied across your unique digital ecosystem. Here’s her ebook how to have a successful marketing strategy is on her page.

Whilst we don’t all need to be digital marketers, in today’s digital-first world, we do need to have understanding and some skills to make better decisions around what we might do with our marketing and what we are better placed to outsource. You can’t expect a VA to have all your answers when you aren’t asking the right questions.

3. Don’t be so hard on yourself (we are clever sometimes; we need to sit back and respect that).

As a fellow digital immigrant - I understand that it might seem like digital natives have the edge when it comes to digital marketing, but we often might also think that these young guns have the answers. Know that you, too, have the answers, especially if you have something that can’t be bought: experience. No matter the platform, the people remain people; we need to dip into that when we leverage digital tools.

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From a global career to establishing herself as a sought after business growth specialist for small business, Fiona Clark's story is both informational and inspirational.

Your host, Anne Wicking, delves into Fiona's secrets and business strategies - as a business owner you will enjoy her take on growing your sales!

'Been there done that' - Fiona Clark speaks from her own experience in starting up and scaling up many small to medium businesses - including her own!

Specialising in sales & marketing, Fiona explains how the right systems, in the right order, will attract your best clients and streamline your operations. This strategic sequencing will not only grow your business but prevent burnout from overwhelm and the interminable ‘juggling’ many women find themselves having to do.

AND... say goodbye to old fashioned sales systems and scripts - sales doesn't have to be hard!

Listen for Fiona's 3 Actionable Takeaways.

1. Make each day and month count

2. Keep up with your sales and marketing

3. Get help

Connect with Fiona Clark

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Wow, listen to this interview with top global 50 speaker and mentor, Amanda Gore!  

Amanda shares secrets, stories and strategies to connect with your audience (and yourself) to find joy, authenticity, and balance - both on and off stage 

Listen to Amanda share Key Elements for Leaving a Lasting Memory:** Watch and engage with the audience, using non-verbal cues such as face, voice, body, and location. Mastering hand gestures, strategic pauses, and looping back to close all points made in a speech is vital. 

Amanda and Anne discuss key elements for engaging with your audience, using non-verbal cues, tapping into the group's ‘vibe’, and connecting heart-to-heart through genuine engagement.

Amanda shares how she underwent deep personal work to slow down, recover, and rediscover inner energy. This allowed her to align her stage persona with her off-stage self, resulting in a deeper audience connection and response.

Key Takeaways

1. Give yourself permission to stop and rejuvenate yourself! To relax and recover.

Recognise how you are feeling. If you are exhausted or beyond exhausted, then work out a way for you to have 5 or 10 minutes minimum on your own in silence to just breathe. IF you cant do that then breathe more often! Big breathe in and all the way out!

2. Be Present

Be here – right here, right now. If you find yourself thinking about the past or the future, you are not present! Come into your body and focus on what is in front of you. No multi-tasking!

3: Stay in your heart – catch yourself when you are stuck in a head loop and your mind is going a million miles an hour! Yell STOP IT to yourself! And then focus on your heart and consciously be in your heart space.

Observe your thinking and be aware of how you are feeling – when you are in your heart you will be more peaceful.

Connect with Amanda Gore here

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Discover how embracing imperfections can actually skyrocket your business sales. Listen to the stories, secrets and strategies of celebrity chef turned business strategist, Natalie Tolhopf, and how her business failure actually brought her success.

In this episode, Natalie unravels the secrets behind powerful self-belief and authentic selling strategies. 

Learn how transparency about imperfections creates an irresistible connection with your audience, setting you apart from the competition.

Actionable Takeaways

can you go and ask for the sale?

Send a direct email to follow up someone who

enquired with, “Would you like to go ahead?”

“Would you like to work together?”

2. Start being your inner mentor - instead of asking for

feedback from others. 

Start by asking yourself instead. “What do I feel and know is the right next step?”

3: Choose a belief or a thought you don’t want anymore.

EG: ‘I am not good enough.’

“Spend the day or an hour looking for evidence that the opposite is true.Ie: A testimonial that raved about your skills, received a referral, someone asked you for feedback.

Connect with Natalie Tolhopf

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Anne dives into an enlightening conversation with Pauline, a seasoned nurse and food coach who shares her insightful journey towards understanding the profound impact of diet on women's health. 🍏🤰

Key Highlights:

1. 🔍 Rise of Type 2 Diabetes: Pauline highlights the significance of diet in managing and preventing health issues like gestational diabetes.

2. 🥗 Back to the Roots: Pauline advocates a shift back to eating whole, natural foods - just like our ancestors and grandparents did. Fresh, unprocessed, and homemade is the way to go!

3. ⚠️ The Rise of Modern Health Issues: Pauline draws a clear line connecting the surge in obesity, autoimmune disorders, and cancers to the last century's spike in processed food consumption.

The episode also delves deep into:

🔥 The Role of Inflammation: Discover how our diet can either fuel or fight inflammation, which is at the heart of many diseases.

🍞 Rethinking Dietary Guidelines: Pauline challenges popular dietary norms like the food pyramid, citing their heavy reliance on grain-based foods leading to excessive carbohydrate intake and related health complications.

Listen for Pauline essential takeaways!

1. We are what we consume…Food, skin & household products and the clothes we wear.

Keep everything as natural and as close to nature as possible. Real whole unprocessed food, cleaning products and clothing.

2. Manage your stress

Learn strategies to help manage your everyday stress, and the stress of modern life.

Learn to give yourself time to connect with yourself and nature.

3. Sleep well

Modern life can affect our sleep. Sleep is important, because when we sleep we heal. “Cleaning up” the other aspects of our lives can positively impact how well you sleep.

4. Eliminate all seed oils from your diet and home

They are rancid and highly toxic to your Body.

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Connect with Pauline here

🚀 From Finance Exec to Business Owner: Discover how one woman's career shift ignited her mission to empower women financially. 🌟

Finance guru, Melissa Meagher, shares stories, secrets & strategies...

1. Big Leap: Trading corporate life for entrepreneurship revealed the real game-changer: our mindset about money. 💡

2. Beyond Numbers: Financial savvy isn't just about experience; it's unraveling the psychology behind our money habits. 🔗

3. Gender Gap: Unpacking how societal scripts can hinder women's financial confidence and control. 👩‍💼✊

4. Breaking Myths: Time to ditch the old tales—women are more than capable of mastering and controlling money matters! 🚫

5. Aha Moment: Even top businesswomen can overlook personal finance, a sign that change isn't just about skills but mindset. 🤯

🔗 Embrace the power of mindset to transform your financial future—because when women thrive, societies prosper. 💪💰 

Key Takeaways:

Flex Your Financial Muscle!

1. Get clear what makes up your Money Pot:

2. Understand how your relationship with money impacts your motivations and behaviours every…single…day!

Start observing your internal dialogue and self-talk around money…and what comes out of your mouth.

3. Open up the space to discuss, love and embrace all things money!

Organise to have a regular Money Date with your partner and/or a trusted friend (you might even like to start a Money Club)

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Imagine going from paralysing anxiety and zero confidence to a life transformed through the power of the mind!

Zoe unpacks the magic behind hypnotherapy, revealing how it dives deep into our subconscious to rewire those patterns holding us back.

Whether it's weight reduction, battling anxiety, stress, addictions, or even defeating that lurking imposter syndrome – Zoe has seen it all and has the stories to prove it.

Dive into this episode as Anne has Zoe sharing her incredible journey from not even being able to drive due to anxiety to discovering the game-changing world of hypnotherapy.

Hear captivating tales of rapid transformation that have reshaped lives in mere hours!

Stay tuned until the end for some solid gold takeaways.

And guess what? Zoe has a special gift for you – a FREE online abundance hypnotherapy session! Don't miss this!" 🌟🎧🧠

1. Thirty second habit.

This shows your subconscious mind that you do keep promises to yourself.

Think of a 30 second action you can tag on to your morning routine.

Examples:  Drink water before your cuppa -  Run on the spot -  Tidy a drawer.

If you do more than 30 seconds, the next day you only need to do 30 seconds you do not have to increase it.

When the new habit is part of your routine you may add a new 30 second habit.

2. Squeeze Your Fingers

3. Nine Day Negative Thinking Fast

After doing this challenge you will have changed the hard wiring of your mind and find it automatic to switch your thoughts.

⁠Connect with ⁠Zoe

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Motivating! What do you want 5 years from now? How do you achieve your vision? Listen to Anne extract the strategies and secrets from Lois Weinblatt on how to map and action your career, business and life visions. Here's how to head in the right direction purposefully and intentionally to achieve your driving purpose!

Actionable Takeaways:

1. Clarify your Timeframe

Do you feel like you want to gain clarity for the next 5 years of your life?  If 5 feels too far out, how about 3 years?  If the thought of 3 years feels overwhelming, how about clarifying *your* definition of success for the next 90 days?  Listen to your instincts and go

2. DON'T Start with the End in Mind

When I say the word “Vision”, most people think of “future”. And while Visioning is about clarifying *your* definition of success at a specific point in the future, “starting with the end in mind” can actually backfire.  Before you start trying to figure out what you *really* want for the next stage of your life, you’ve got to understand how you got to where you are, then you’ve got to be honest with yourself and take stock of where you are now. After that point you’ve peeled back enough layers to clarify the non-negotiables for your next chapter and use those to help you write your Vision.  So rather than feeling overwhelmed with jumping straight to your future, start by connecting the dots on the patterns that have led you to where you are now.

3. Carve Out and Protect "Visionary Time"

Connect with Lois

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