I’m joined by Megan Baker, CEO and Founder of MegKCo, to cover the essentials of your first permanent hire and what that looks like from a perspective of diversity and equity. MegKCo’s specialty is helping socially conscious online business owners during every step of the hiring process and Megan takes her time to walk through those steps with me so my listeners can better understand how to navigate the difficult journey of small business hiring. 

In this episode, Megan and I cover:

• Being a socially conscious business owner in hiring
• Accountability and transparency in a company’s culture
• Managing your nervous system during uncomfortable conversations in hiring
• Hiring as a long term project
• One Year from Now Vision for MegKCo

In 2020, a client of mine inspired the concept of the Armor of Excellence, a way of using excellence as means of protection or safety. As tough and protective as armor may seem, it can also be extremely heavy and restrictive, preventing us from doing all that we might want to do and keeping us rigidly meeting someone else’s standards. 

In this episode, I cover:

• How the concept of this armor came to be
• Where and who this armor may come up 
• Excellence and its proximity to whiteness and masculinity
• Armor and its weight in entrepreneurship
• Appreciating what the armor gave you and knowing when to put it down

The start of a new year is all about reflection and growth, and I kick off my 2022 with a reflection on my past year in my coaching business. Through transparency in both my numbers and my process, I show you what I assumed and what I learned about this past year as a business owner, as well as explain how you can go about mapping out some reflections for yourself so that we can begin a prosperous 2022 together. 

In this episode, I cover: 

• What were my original plans and goals? What projects were I looking forward to? 
• Did I achieve those metrics/goals? Why or why not? 
• What did I do? What would I do differently? 
• What were my top 3 business and non-business experiences? What felt easy?
• What do I want to do more of? What do I never want to do again?

For our final Note to Self, Nicola and I discuss the essential rhythms of our lives, the outside factors that can impact our rhythms, and how we can best optimize them through personal boundaries to produce higher quality levels of joy and care. 

In this mini-lesson, we cover: 

• Discovering we were born with this rhythm
• Understanding that re-finding your rhythm isn’t a “one and done” process
• Finding rhythms of care and joy in your past, present, and future

I used to think the concept of “enough” made people soft-- and for a good reason. At the time, the thought that I didn’t have “enough” kept me safe by keeping me moving. It kept me out of despair and into action. Now, as I move through multiple six-figures, it’s no longer a helpful thought. I do have enough, at least for now, and I want to help you unlock that belief, too. 

In this episode, I cover:

• Thinking of resting and what that really looks like
• Resisting the idea of having “enough”
• Walking myself through a bridge thought that felt more believable
• Escaping the vicious cycle of “not enough” and the lies that come with that
• Finding measurable ways to know when you’re in “enoughness”

In this Note to Self, Nicola and I encourage entrepreneurs to seek collaborative partnership opportunities with other businesses in their industry and to understand their value as agile, skilful individuals with experience taking risks. 

In this mini-lesson, we cover:

• Entrepreneurs are always needed and will always be needed
• Making your own list of companies that can be partners instead of competitors

This week, I explain “self-concepts” and the massive impact they can have on our mindset, thoughts, and actions. As we head towards a time of reflection in the new year, I reflect on my own self-concept: the Battle Queen, and how embodying a strong, graceful, and confident mindset has helped me on my entrepreneurial journey. 

In this episode, I cover: 

• Defining self-concepts 
• Explaining the importance of mindset work 
• Integrating a self-concept actively into your everyday life 
• Showing the concept that’s helped me the most in 2021
• Defining the Battle Queen 

This is Note to Self, a series of mini-lessons from two high-impact entrepreneurs to their former, present and future selves. As entrepreneurs ourselves, my co-host Nicola and I understand how genuinely triggering entrepreneurship and business ownership can be to our nervous system, and set out to find a way to cope with that in this week’s episode.

In this mini-lesson, we cover:

• The triggering reality of entrepreneurship 
• Regulating your nervous system in real-time

After experiencing a 6-month group coaching mastermind, I developed a higher understanding of the importance of a well-structured group, what it meant to be involved in an advanced room, and how to best take advantage of the opportunities that presents to us as entrepreneurs. With my own group coaching session, One Year From Now: The Residency, quickly approaching in the new year, I wanted to explain 10 rules I have practiced myself so that you can get the most out of any advanced room you find yourself in. 

This is Note to Self, a series of mini-lessons from two high-impact entrepreneurs to their former, present and future selves. Through the lens of the work of Dr. Saundra Dalton Smith, my co-host Nicola and I discuss the importance of rest and the solidified place it needs to have as a part of your life as an entrepreneur. 

In this mini-lesson, we cover: 

• Seven types of rest, and the forms of rest beyond sleeping
• Defining rest within your own life 
• Actioning on rest in your day-to-day schedule