Profitable Joyful Consulting

“Executive presence is how we're showing up fully." — Bofta Yimam

Executive presence leads to more confidence, authority, and credibility — which brings increased engagement, increased interest, and potentially increased revenue.

We can’t talk about being a woman and having executive presence without talking about our appearance. Whether it benefits us or causes discrimination against us, how we look when we show up to clients and potential clients is a factor in our businesses. 

In this episode of the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, we confront the issue head-on instead of pretending it doesn't exist. Tune in to this episode with Marketing Strategist and Visibility Expert Bofta Yiman to learn how to develop your executive presence and be authentically visible.

Key areas discussed:

0:00 Introduction  4:12 How Bofta empowers women through her work 6:54 How Bofta helps clients get more visible, tell their stories, and develop executive presence   8:22 Weaving the personal and professional together to grow your business 15:48 What executive presence means and why it matters 20:52 Finding the gaps that aren’t helping you feel how you want to feel in this world 25:14 Visibility as the combination of story, message, look, and feel 34:38 Inspiring people by showing up authentically 38:09 What Bofta notices when she’s consistently visible 48:15 Who makes a really good client for Bofta

Learn how to share your message and play bigger than you ever have before in this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/n7jHpqCq6eQ or your favorite podcast app:  www.SamanthaHartley.com/blog-podcast.

Connect with Bofta on her website and LinkedIn.

 #Visibility #Consulting #ExecutivePresence

“I want you to command prices that are commensurate with the value you are bringing your clients.”

I see male consultants charging $300,000+ for an engagement, but I’ll see a woman consultant really struggle to say a number like $30,000 for similar work.

There are tons of reasons for that (which we’ll get into in this episode), but the bottom line is: I want you to charge what you want for your services. I want women consultants to ask for hundreds of thousands of dollars and get it. And you can. I know this because I’ve done it, and I help my clients do it, too.

In this episode of Profitable Joyful Consulting, I’m sharing some brutally honest observations when it comes to gender disparities in charging what our worth is work and what women can do to charge the price they’re looking for. 

So much of this is kept secret, but it doesn’t have to be that way. 

Key areas discussed:

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nl5gv3fAnqA or listen on your favorite podcast app: www.SamanthaHartley.com/blog-podcast.

 #Consulting #Pricing 

“We want to be able to be at choice with money.”

Financial risk is a part of life and business, but we need to be smart about those risks. 

This week’s episode of the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast is all about empowering you to prepare better for the five most common financial risks we as women business owners may encounter. 

Inside, my guest Jen Sapel shares how to protect yourself, your family, and your business. Her stories are riveting. And the statistics? Ugh, they’re eye-opening: We already know that 50% of marriages end in divorce. 

But how about this one: “In our adult working life, there's a one in four statistical likelihood of having a long-term disability lasting 90 days or longer.” Yikes! 

Key areas discussed:

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/w5d5toVS6lo or listen on your favorite podcast app: www.samanthahartley.com/blog-podcast to learn how to protect yourself and your business against risk. 

Connect with Jen at UTORWealth.com.  

Episode Hashtags: #FinancialManagement #PersonalFinance #FinancialRisk

For more tips to help you create a profitable, joyful business without exhaustion​, follow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthahartley/ or https://www.facebook.com/samantha.hartley.71/

P.S. Here are 3 ways I can help you grow your consulting business:

🎧 Subscribe to my podcast, Profitable Joyful Consulting 

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💜 Connect with me on social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthahartley/ or https://www.facebook.com/samantha.hartley.71/, https://www.instagram.com/samantha.hartley.71/ where I share tips to help you create a profitable, joyful consulting business.

💡 Work with me to multiply your revenues without exhaustion.

Ready to add $150-750K to your business? Click here to book a 12-minute call with my Growth Strategist.

"So many of us are taught to be hidden gems and to wait for someone else to choose you.” - Lisa Bragg

Do you struggle to talk about yourself, share your amazing work, ask for testimonials, and share your success stories? Way too many women do - and it affects their ability to get clients, charge higher prices and earn more. 

It shouldn’t be that way! 

Talking about the good you do can feel like bragging. It often feels unnatural. 

It comes up against cultural programming about what we are and aren't supposed to do, be and say as women.

Well, I say: ENOUGH! It’s time to claim your successes and speak up about them.

** As we all know, if you don’t, no one else will. **

Lisa Bragg is the author of a new book called Bragging Rights on how to talk about success. Lisa joined me on this episode of Profitable Joyful Consulting to flip the cultural script and share how to talk about your work using purposeful self-promotion. 

Key areas discussed:

Get inspired to be your biggest self possible in this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/z9Syo2FEWuw or your favorite podcast app: www.SamanthaHartley.com/blog-podcast.

Download Lisa’s free bragging rights riff tool ➡️ https://www.lisabragg.com/listener-love 

Buy her book, Bragging Rights ➡️ https://www.lisabragg.com/braggingrightsbook-1 

Episode Hashtags: #SelfPromotion #Consulting #BraggingRights

“You can’t sustainably do everything yourself.” 

How do we ask for help? Why is it so hard to do that? And how can we do so without destroying credibility, making ourselves feel weak, or making others think we’re unreliable?

I work with a lot of fiercely independent women who are absolutely killing it. Many of them are telling themselves the same stories I used to tell myself about why I shouldn’t ask for help: I don’t want to look like I can’t handle it. I don’t want to ruin my reputation, make myself too vulnerable, or be needy. 

But you're going to get yourself to a point beyond which you can't really grow. You have to be able to ask others for help and lose some pieces of control. In this episode of Profitable Joyful Consulting, learn how to ask for help in letting go of control (like having someone help you do things so you’re doing less).

Key areas discussed:

Tune in to this episode of Profitable Joyful Consulting to learn why (and how) you should ask for help in your business. Watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/c2x-FJ2lKWg or listen on your favorite podcast app: www.samanthahartley.com/blog-podcast.

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For more tips to help you create a profitable, joyful business without exhaustion​, follow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthahartley/ or https://www.facebook.com/samantha.hartley.71/

P.S. Here are 3 ways I can help you grow your consulting business:

🎧 Subscribe to my podcast, Profitable Joyful Consulting 

You know who subscribes to my podcast? My clients. — On YouTube and your favorite podcast app.

💜 Connect with me on social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthahartley/ or https://www.facebook.com/samantha.hartley.71/, https://www.instagram.com/samantha.hartley.71/ where I share tips to help you create a profitable, joyful consulting business.

💡 Work with me to multiply your revenues without exhaustion.

Ready to add $150-750K to your business? Click here to book a 12-minute call with my Growth Strategist.

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“Do you tend to give away your power? And if so, to whom?”

I grew up in an environment where women were very much in competition with one another, and I told myself it was easier to deal with men. It was super destructive, but empowering other women wasn’t always a priority for me. 

It took time, but eventually I realized how much I had internalized misogyny and patriarchy (and how much I believed those were my own ideas). It’s not about competing, it’s about raising other women up together. 

From time to time, I’ll see little pieces of internalized misogyny and patriarchy creeping up on myself and my clients. In this episode of the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, we’ll explore the ways we tend to give our power away and how we can empower other women in our work.

Key areas discussed:

Dive in to all things empowerment in this episode on YouTube: LINK or your favorite podcast app: LINK.

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WATCH ✅Shift to an Abundance Mindset for Consultants  ➡️ https://samanthahartley.com/shift-to-an-abundance-mindset-for-consultants/ 

WATCH ✅Bring Your Inner Child to Work ➡️ https://samanthahartley.com/bring-your-inner-child-to-work/ 

READ ✅The Definitive Guide to Winning Six-Figure Clients ➡️ http://6figureclients.com/  

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For more tips to help you create a profitable, joyful business without exhaustion​, follow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthahartley/ or https://www.facebook.com/samantha.hartley.71/

P.S. Here are 3 ways I can help you grow your consulting business:

🎧 Subscribe to my podcast, Profitable Joyful Consulting 

You know who subscribes to my podcast? My clients. — On YouTube and your favorite podcast app.

💜 Connect with me on social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthahartley/ or https://www.facebook.com/samantha.hartley.71/, https://www.instagram.com/samantha.hartley.71/ where I share tips to help you create a profitable, joyful consulting business.

💡 Work with me to multiply your revenues without exhaustion.

Ready to add $150-750K to your business? Click here to book a 12-minute call with my Growth Strategist.

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#Empowerment #Consulting

“Don't wait until some point in the future to enjoy financial freedom and independence.”

Like so many of my clients, before working for myself I had miserable jobs that made me feel trapped, frustrated, and depressed. When I left corporate, I vowed that I would never put myself in that position again. 

But too often, we become our own bad bosses - overworking, underpaying ourselves, saying yes to the wrong things and keeping ourselves stuck. In my business, the freedom to choose what I want to do is absolutely key. There’s no amount of profit that’s more important than that. 

I want you to experience freedom in your business, too. Tune into this special Independence Day episode of the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast to learn how to build financial freedom and independence in your business.

Key areas discussed:

My wish is that you experience financial freedom, whatever that number means for you, and that it’s an internal state you can bring into yourself right now. Learn how to feel more financially free and expansive in your business in this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9oxYqSCJr6M or your favorite podcast app: www.SamanthaHartley.com/Blog-Podcast.

Episode Hashtags: #Consulting #FinancialFreedom #MoneyMindset

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P.S. Here are 3 ways I can help you grow your consulting business:

🎧 Subscribe to my podcast, Profitable Joyful Consulting 

You know who subscribes to my podcast? My clients. — On YouTube and your favorite podcast app.

💜 Connect with me on social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthahartley/ or https://www.facebook.com/samantha.hartley.71/, https://www.instagram.com/samantha.hartley.71/ where I share tips to help you create a profitable, joyful consulting business.

💡 Work with me to multiply your revenues without exhaustion.

Ready to add $150-750K to your business? Click here to book a 12-minute call with my Growth Strategist.

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“What we're trying to do with a guarantee is make it okay to reverse the risk, or at least mitigate the risk, so that people can trust saying yes to you.”

I have a number of clients who guarantee the outcomes of their consulting work. But should you? Do you need to offer a guarantee in order to be legitimate in your business? 

Tune in to this episode of the Profitable Joyful Consuming podcast to explore types of guarantees, the pros and cons of offering them, and everything else you should consider before offering guarantees.

Key areas discussed:

Dive in to guarantees and learn how to decide if they’re right for your business in this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/vGXziLhCiYw or your favorite podcast app: www.SamanthaHartley.com/blog-podcast.

Episode Hashtags: #Consulting #Guarantees

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WATCH ✅ Delivering Client Work With Ease‬  ➡️ https://samanthahartley.com/delivering-client-work-with-ease/ 

WATCH ✅ Get Better Results & Profit More With Transformational Engagements ➡️ https://samanthahartley.com/get-better-results-profit-more-with-transformational-engagements/ 

READ ✅ The Definitive Guide to Winning Six-Figure Clients ➡️ http://6figureclients.com/  

DOWNLOAD ✅Shield App for LinkedIn ➡️https://www.shieldapp.ai/?via=samantha  

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For more tips to help you create a profitable, joyful business without exhaustion​, follow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthahartley/ or https://www.facebook.com/samantha.hartley.71/

P.S. Here are 3 ways I can help you grow your consulting business:

🎧 Subscribe to my podcast, Profitable Joyful Consulting 

You know who subscribes to my podcast? My clients. — On YouTube and your favorite podcast app.

💜 Connect with me on social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthahartley/ or https://www.facebook.com/samantha.hartley.71/, https://www.instagram.com/samantha.hartley.71/ where I share tips to help you create a profitable, joyful consulting business.

💡 Work with me to multiply your revenues without exhaustion.

Ready to add $150-750K to your business? Click here to book a 12-minute call with my Growth Strategist.--------------

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“When you are an advisory board member, you're being tapped to fill a skill gap to help connect that management team to particular communities or networks or people, or maybe help them secure some type of contract that can really make the difference for the company.” -- Breen Sullivan, The Fourth Effect

Being on an advisory board can help you make an impact, elevate your career, and maybe even get equity in a company or get paid. But the stats for women — and women of color — on boards are dismal. 

We need more women on advisory boards. But most of us just don’t know how it works since it’s been done behind closed doors or through an “old boys’ network.” Learn how the process works and how to get on for-profit advisory boards with my guest Breen Sullivan in this week’s episode of Profitable Joyful Consulting. 

Key areas discussed:

Watch this episode on YouTube: LINK or listen on your favorite podcast app: LINK.

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CONNECT  ✅with Breen on LinkedIn ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/breensullivan/ 

EXPLORE ✅ The Fourth Effect ➡️ https://thefourtheffect.com/ 

WATCH ✅ Consulting Skills: How to Give Advice Effectively  ➡️ https://samanthahartley.com/consulting-skills-how-to-give-advice-effectively/ 

WATCH ✅Should I Take On this Gig, Project or Client? ➡️ https://samanthahartley.com/should-i-take-this-client-or-speaking-gig/ 

READ ✅The Definitive Guide to Winning Six-Figure Clients ➡️ http://6figureclients.com/  

DOWNLOAD ✅Shield App for LinkedIn ➡️https://www.shieldapp.ai/?via=samantha  

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For more tips to help you create a profitable, joyful business without exhaustion​, follow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthahartley/ or https://www.facebook.com/samantha.hartley.71/

P.S. Here are 3 ways I can help you grow your consulting business:

🎧 Subscribe to my podcast, Profitable Joyful Consulting 

You know who subscribes to my podcast? My clients. — On YouTube and your favorite podcast app.

💜 Connect with me on social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthahartley/ or https://www.facebook.com/samantha.hartley.71/, https://www.instagram.com/samantha.hartley.71/ where I share tips to help you create a profitable, joyful consulting business.

💡 Work with me to multiply your revenues without exhaustion.

Ready to add $150-750K to your business? Click here to book a 12-minute call with my Growth Strategist.

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#AdvisoryBoards #Consulting #WomenInBusiness #WomenOnBoards

“At the heart of this is: be yourself and be authentic on LinkedIn.”

LinkedIn isn’t about profiles or posts. It’s about branding. It’s about telling people’s stories. Platforms like LinkedIn, as my guest Donna Serdula says, are simply great places to do that. 

Tune in to this episode of the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast to learn what builds your brand on LinkedIn more than anything else, how to put your soul in your bio, and how to get clients on LinkedIn. 

Key areas discussed:

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zqBYHr8Qdto or listen on your favorite podcast app: www.samanthahartley.com/blog-podcast.

CONNECT ✅ with Donna ➡️ LinkedIn-makeover.com 

FOLLOW ✅ Donna on LinkedIn ➡️  https://www.linkedin.com/in/todonna/ 

EXPLORE ✅ Donna’s LinkedIn post ideas generator ➡️  https://www.linkedin-makeover.com/tools/linkedin-post-ideas/ 

Episode Hashtags: #LinkedIn #SocialMediaMarketing #LinkedInMarketing 

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WATCH ✅LinkedIn Lead Generation with Direct Outreach ➡️ https://samanthahartley.com/linkedin-lead-generation-with-direct-outreach/ 

WATCH ✅ Storytelling for Business ➡️ https://samanthahartley.com/storytelling-for-business/ 

READ ✅The Definitive Guide to Winning Six-Figure Clients ➡️ http://6figureclients.com/  

DOWNLOAD ✅Shield App for LinkedIn ➡️https://www.shieldapp.ai/?via=samantha  

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For more tips to help you create a profitable, joyful business without exhaustion​, follow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthahartley/ or https://www.facebook.com/samantha.hartley.71/

P.S. Here are 3 ways I can help you grow your consulting business:

🎧 Subscribe to my podcast, Profitable Joyful Consulting 

You know who subscribes to my podcast? My clients. — On YouTube and your favorite podcast app.

💜 Connect with me on social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthahartley/ or https://www.facebook.com/samantha.hartley.71/, https://www.instagram.com/samantha.hartley.71/ where I share tips to help you create a profitable, joyful consulting business.

💡 Work with me to multiply your revenues without exhaustion.

Ready to add $150-750K to your business? Click here to book a 12-minute call with my Growth Strategist.

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