My Purposeful Life

Today is a hypnosis for chakra alignment.

Disclaimer: This podcast is to educate and inspire you on your journey towards health, peace and happiness. It is not intended to replace care best provided by qualified professionals and it is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. 

Save this episode! Take notes! Put it on your favorites playlist! Do whatever you need to so you can come back to it the next time you find yourself saying “yes” to too many things.

Because today, we’re going to be talking about how to kindly, but firmly say, “No.”

Specifically, we’re diving deep on how to gracefully say “no” when you get an email or a DM from someone asking you if they can meet you for a cup of coffee or a glass of wine and “pick your brain.”

It’s called the “Yes-No-Yes” method of saying no as outlined by author Michael Hyatt in his book Free to Focus.

If you’re ready to say “no” in a way that extends grace to the person reaching out and protects your time, then friend, you need to press play now!

Resources mentioned in today’s episode:

1. Win a free distance or in-person Reiki session with me!

Step #1 ~ Write a positive review of this show on iTunes. 

Step #2~  Email your name and a screenshot of your review to [email protected]

That’s it! You’ll be entered to win.

I’ll pick a new winner every month, and your name will stay in the drawing until it’s chosen. 

Your free Reiki session can take place in-person in Sioux Falls, or it can be a distance session from wherever you’re located in the world.

And if you’re wondering what exactly is Reiki, head to https://mypurposeful.life/blogs/blog/what-is-reiki to learn more. 

 2. Free to Focus by Michael Hyatt ~ https://michaelhyatt.com/books/

Did the pandemic drop a bucket of ice water all over your goals and plans for 2020?

Yep, me too!

But guess what, friends. Life shakes us up. All the time. Pandemic or not.

And no matter what, your goals should take your breath away.

They should light you up and give you goosebumps just thinking about them!

If they don’t, it’s time for some new goals.

In today’s show, I’m walking you through how to set and reach the goals you really want post COVID.  Press play now!

Resources mentioned in today’s episode:

1. Win a free distance or in-person Reiki session with me!

Step #1 ~ Write a positive review of this show on iTunes. 

Step #2~  Email your name and a screenshot of your review to [email protected]

That’s it! You’ll be entered to win.

I’ll pick a new winner every month, and your name will stay in the drawing until it’s chosen. 

Your free Reiki session can take place in-person in Sioux Falls, or it can be a distance session from wherever you’re located in the world.

And if you’re wondering what exactly is Reiki, head to my website at https://mypurposeful.life/blogs/blog/what-is-reiki to learn more. 

 2) Cultivate What Matters Goal Setting Powersheets (with goal refocusing worksheets) - www.cultivatewhatmatters.com. 

Today is a hypnosis for anxiety and fear.

This script has been adapted from the book Spiritual Hypnotherapy Scripts for Body, Mind and Spirit by Holly Holmes-Meredith.

Disclaimer: This podcast is to educate and inspire you on your journey towards health, peace and happiness. It is not intended to replace care best provided by qualified professionals and it is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. 

Show Notes:

If you’ve ever taken on more work to avoid dealing with a hard season in life, this one is for you.

2020 has been a difficult, complicated, gut-wrenching year. 

But I’ve also learned more about myself and grown in ways I never have before. 

I’m grateful for 2020 because it showed me what grace feels like. And that’s something I never want to forget.

Tune in to reflect on what you’re grateful for this year. 

Resources mentioned in today’s episode:

• Win a free distance or in-person Reiki session with me!

Step #1 ~ Write a positive review of this show on iTunes. 

Step #2~  Email your name and a screenshot of your review to [email protected]

That’s it! You’ll be entered to win.

I’ll pick a new winner every month, and your name will stay in the drawing until it’s chosen. 

Your free Reiki session can take place in-person in Sioux Falls, or it can be a distance session from wherever you’re located in the world.

And if you’re wondering what exactly is Reiki, head to my website at https://mypurposeful.life/blogs/blog/what-is-reiki to learn more. 

• “What if 2020 isn’t cancelled?” Poem by Leslie Dwight: @lesliedwight.

We’re baaackk! I’m kicking off Season #3 of the podcast with some exciting news:

Underneath the Clothes is now My Purposeful Life!

Join me in today’s episode as I talk about what this change means for you as a woman in leadership, what I’ve been up to since the pandemic, and what you can expect from this podcast going forward.

2020 has been quite the ride. It’s brought more challenges and changes than we could have imagined. That’s why it feels amazing to be back at the mic hanging out with you again. I can’t wait to finish this year together. 

Press play now!

Resources mentioned in today’s episode:

1. Win a free distance or in-person Reiki session with me!

Step #1 ~ Write a positive review of this show on iTunes. 

Step #2~  Email your name and a screenshot of your review to [email protected]

That’s it! You’ll be entered to win.

I’ll pick a new winner every month, and your name will stay in the drawing until it’s chosen. 

Your free Reiki session can take place in-person in Sioux Falls, or it can be a distance session from wherever you’re located in the world.

And if you’re wondering what exactly is Reiki, head to my website at https://mypurposeful.life/blogs/blog/what-is-reiki to learn more. 

Episode Show Notes:

If I could meet each and every one of you for a face-to-face coaching session and teach you my hiring process, girl, believe me when I say: I would be there in a second with the coffee on! 

But since there are only so many hours in a day :) I did the next best thing:

I’ve taken everything I’ve learned, and coached to others, about hiring the right people and put it into an online course: The Hiring Blueprint!💃💃🙌🙌

If you’re working around the clock in your business and feeling exhausted, I made this course for you. I want you to be able to delegate some tasks off your plate & get back to working only in your strengths and giftedness!

If you’re working in a business that will crash into the ground once you leave, because you are the driving force behind every single thing that happens, I made this course for you. I want you to have freedom! Freedom to be able to step away from your business if you need to, or want to, and to know that it will still keep going without you. 

If you’re working hard and loving what you do, but barely paying yourself because you’re trying to make a go of it, I made this course for you too! As weird as it may sound, you have to hire people to do some of the “in the business things” so you can work on the business and increase your profit. 

This course is anything but the same corporate, stuffy, HR hiring process that you’ve already heard before.

You can hire the right people and get your freedom back - freedom to love your business, love your life, and have control over how you spend your time. I would be honored to support you on that journey with The Hiring Blueprint. Press play to learn more about how this course can serve you!

PS - Get the course outline freebie HERE

Have you ever heard the saying, “You create the content you need to hear?” 

Isn’t it true that when you’re looking to feel encouraged in your own life, you find yourself uplifting others through a post on social media, or by sending a text to a friend cheering them on? 

Or when you’re feeling like you need to get motivated, suddenly you find yourself creating a list of goals for your day or week. (This is a huge one I think for a lot of us now that we are deep into February and that initial excitement of our New Year’s goals is almost two months behind us!)

This thought that you create what you yourself need really resonated with me!  I realized that while I have been spending a lot of my time recently creating an entire podcast season and an online course dedicated to teaching women business owners how to hire the right people, I have also been right there in the trenches alongside all of you! 

Over the past few months, I have been hiring in my own business and making some notable hiring blunders too. 

Since I talk to so many women entrepreneurs and coaching clients who share their hiring successes and failures with me, I thought today’s show would be the perfect opportunity to flip that script and let you in on my 7 biggest hiring mistakes that I’ve made within the last year. 

You guys know I am a huge believer in learning by failing forward. Failing when you own a business (or do anything really that is worth doing!) just comes with the territory. 

I can honestly say that with each of these mistakes that I am going to share with you, I learned so many valuable lessons that have only made my team and hiring process all the better going forward. 

My goal is for you to learn from my hiring mistakes too, so you can hopefully avoid having to go through them yourself. 

So if you’re ready, let’s tackle some of my biggest hiring mistakes and learn from them together.  Press Play Now! 

P.S. Where are my purpose-driven women entrepreneurs at?! If this is you and you’re ready to hire right in your small business, but not sure where to start, I made an online course that will walk you step by step through the entire hiring process. I want to make sure you hire the people who will love your business as much as you do. Sound amazing? Click here to get more info on my course, The Hiring Blueprint. 

I wanna know, who started this claim that we have to “do it all” in order to run a successful business? 

Have you ever thought, “If I just push a little bit harder, then I’ll be able to get XYZ done,” or 

“If I just work late three days this week and maybe a little bit on Saturday, then I’ll finally, maybe, be caught up.” 

I know I totally have, and maybe you have too.  It’s so easy to get caught up in this thinking that if you push through a little more, or work a few more hours, or sacrifice more of your personal life for your business, that you’ll reach this place of feeling accomplished and content. 

You're even more likely to fall into this mindset if you really love what you do. You’re passionate, hardworking, and more often than not, you say “yes” to giving more of yourself to others.    

I know all of this VERY WELL. If you weren’t passionate about your business, there’s no way you would’ve had the courage to start in the first place!

Adam Grant, a research professor, author of workplace psychology books, and famous TED Talk presenter reworked a famous quote and I kind of like it. You may know the famous line, "Do what you love and you'll never WORK a day in your life.” He remade it into, "Do what you love and you'll kind of work all the time.” And it’s true! If you love something you’ll get rather obsessive with it and it can quickly consume you.

But if you are the woman who feels like you’re constantly working but not really getting anywhere. Or the woman who loves her business but is feeling more and more completely exhausted by it that you’re thinking of giving it up. Then pay attention my beautiful, passionate friend, because I have some thoughts for you!

In my 10 + years of being a small business owner, I have felt the most in control, and the most empowered, not on the days when I had my hand in every single part of my business, but on the days when I stepped back and let my team take ownership. 

I’ll repeat that for you ladies in the back: 

The key to taking back control of your business is to quit doing it all, relinquish control & empower others to take on some of the ownership. 

Letting go is not weak, it’s actually really really powerful! 

It means getting back your time and energy, and igniting that fire that you had when you first started your business and were so excited about it every single day.

It also means having the freedom to step away from your business if you need to because you have an out-of-this-world team at your back handling everything until you return. 

You are amazing and you deserve to wake up each day and love what you do. So if you’re ready, let’s dive into today’s show and find out how to get off the hamster wheel and start letting go. Press play now!

P.S. If you’re craving more conversations on hiri

We’ve all heard the saying, “Hire slow and fire fast.” But did you know this also applies to you as the owner of your business? 

I know you’re thinking, “Well, that’s cute Chelsea. But I can’t fire myself! I mean, I created this business. I built it from the ground up! So if I’m not the right person for this job, then tell me - who is?!” 

Firing yourself does sound crazy, right?! But think about it. If you had an employee who kept putting off tasks and not getting things done every week, would you be okay with that? 

You would address this if you saw it happening within your business, right?

But think about your own behavior in recent months.

Do you have tasks that you keep pushing off until tomorrow - and then the next day,  and then the next - because you dread doing them? You know the tasks I’m talking about here, and I’m sharing mine with you in this episode! 

These are the tasks that when you finally get around to doing them, after shoving them aside for days, maybe even weeks, it takes you so long to finish them.. that by the time you’re done, you have zero energy left to do anything else for the day.

We’ve all had this happen to us! 

It is a feeling of defeat and it happens to the best of us and while yes you got those tasks done, in the back of your mind you know it didn’t actually do much to serve your customers or move your business forward, even though it required a lot of your time and energy. 

If this is resonating with you, then it is time to fire yourself.

But this doesn’t mean you have to close up shop and quit your business.

Not at all!  

It means it’s time for you to automate, eliminate, or delegate some tasks to other people so you can get back to being productive, and not just busy!

I’m going to help you determine if it is time to fire yourself and find out what you can do about it on today’s show. So if you’re ready to let yourself go and get your business back on track, press play now!

MY HIRING COURSE IS NOW LIVE:
If you're ready to hire right in but not sure where to start, I made an online course that will walk you step by step through the entire hiring process. I want to make sure you hire the right people who will love your business as much as you do. Sound amazing? Click here to get more info on my course, The Hiring Blueprint.