Seven Figure Consultant with Jessica Fearnley

This month we're showcasing the best episodes from The Seven Figure Consultant Podcast Archives! This episode was originally episode 107.

I'm going to let you in on a secret: you don't have to be a Seven Figure Business Owner to start thinking like a Seven Figure Business Owner.

You might have done a double take at that, and thought, 'but Jessica, that gorgeous country house with a swimming pool isn't going to buy itself'. Or, 'it's all very well for you to say that, I'm currently in the low six figures'.

I get it but this isn't about spending cash you haven't got yet. Getting to seven figures can sometimes feel like you have a mountain to climb. Some things you want might seem a long way off. One of the biggest hurdles you will face on the journey to seven figures is you.

This week on the podcast, I'm talking about getting acquainted with your Seven Figure Future Self and how that will help you build your business more easily.

I discuss:

• What really needs to change for you to achieve the lifestyle you want
• Dealing with overwhelm in your consultancy business - and what not to do
• A technique I use when dealing with negative self-talk
• How to use your future self to move you on when you are stuck
• What I do to make myself feel better when I feel wobbly in my business

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This month we're showcasing the best episodes from The Seven Figure Consultant Podcast Archives! This episode was originally episode 100.

Many of the women I speak to come to the topic of building a team from a really negative place. There are lots of reasons for that but if you have aspirations to grow past 7 figures, you are going to be working with a team.

Often we are thrown into leadership situations without any preparation or experience. As you transition from a solo consultant to a CEO your leadership style and performance will be something you intentionally work on.

But how do you know who to recruit? Who is going to be a good fit for your consultancy?

In this week's episode I am sharing two questions about building a team that have been blowing my clients' minds this quarter.

I talk about:

• Learning to build a team
• Limiting beliefs around recruiting for your small business
• Identifying what you need to bring other people in to do for you
• What you need from your team at different stages of your business
• Enabling your team to be more productive

This is episode 100 of the podcast! Thank you for listening. I am super excited for our NEXT 100 episodes as I feel like we are only really just scratching the surface of what it takes to get to Seven Figures as a Woman Consultant.

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This month we're showcasing the best episodes from The Seven Figure Consultant Podcast Archives! This episode was originally episode 095.

Did you know that a business can have up to 50 employees and still be considered a small business? Or that a small business is defined as having a turnover of less than $50 million?

When you think about how 'big' a small business can be, it puts quite a different lens on what for many women consultants can seem a lofty dream - reaching Seven Figures.

So much of the online business world is geared around getting to Six Figures. But it all gets a bit vague after that. There's not much information out there about hitting your first $1 million and beyond.

That's why in this week's podcast episode, I wanted to lift the lid on what changes when you hit Seven Figures in your consulting business. It's important to be able to visualise the next chapter in your business if you're going to make it happen.

I discuss:

• What you will need from your team
• Having more visibility as CEO
• Keeping control of cash flow
• How we are all a bit weird about money
• Your identity as a Seven Figure business owner

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This month we're showcasing the best episodes from The Seven Figure Consultant Podcast Archives! This episode was originally episode 056.

When I first set up my business I quickly discovered some great Facebook groups for women business owners. It always jarred with me a bit that there was a real new-age spiritualism that often accompanied this. I didn't have a problem with other people going down this route – it just didn't particularly chime with me.

I bundled money mindset up with all this talk about spiritualism and manifesting and the law of attraction and I found it a bit 'much'.

But over time I've really come to appreciate how valuable it is to talk about money mindset, because like mindset and particularly, scarcity mindset, it has a huge impact on how we do life and because of that – how we do business.

This week on the podcast I am talking about money mindset and the part it plays in your consulting business.

I talk about:

• How my life looked great on the outside, but actually I was broke
• How I burst into tears when I suddenly made £4k in one month
• The beliefs we have around money
• What you can do to change how you think about money

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You Are A Badass At Making Money by Jen Sincero

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Are you feeling some degree of burnout in your consulting business?

You have taken all the actions you think you're meant to take to build your business so that you can achieve the freedom you want. And yet, your working life still mirrors your corporate life. You wanted to move away from that when you started out. Why are you back here again?

Old habits die hard. You've accumulated them as you strived for success at school, university and in your corporate career.

So much of high performance in a corporate workplace can revolve around having to keep significant parts of ourselves hidden. That can include your interests, feelings, and point of view. You're used to trying to fit in and that often means making yourself smaller.

In today's podcast episode I am talking about allowing your authentic self back into your consulting business

I talk about:

• How I handle all the ideas I have for my business
• Giving time to the leadership of your business so you are clear on your focus
• How we create a version of ourselves and that is the face of our consulting business
• What happens when we airbrush out the things that make us who we are
• Bringing elements of your personality back into your consulting business

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Have you found that full-time corporate life just doesn't work for you? Long hours, commutes, expectations that you will be available at all times when it really isn't convenient for you, stress.

There can be many reasons why the rigidity of corporate jobs does not suit women. And when that happens you can feel like you have been effectively thrown on the scrapheap.

You invested all that time and energy on building your career and suddenly it can feel like it counts for nothing.

This is the experience of many women when they have a baby. They will try to negotiate better terms and find that they get turned down, or that despite having been told they can 'have it all', actually, work and family aren't as compatible as they had hoped. It's a harsh experience to go through.

And this needs to change. Women need to be able to build life on their own terms. In this week's podcast episode I am talking about why I am so fired up about this fight.

My guest is Jane Johnson, the founder of Careering Into Motherhood. When she returned to her role as global director at a major bank she negotiated a job-share. She was the first person at her level to do so. This was successful but when she looked for the next step in her career, recruiters weren't interested in talking about flexible working.

Jane went on to found a highly successful recruitment business helping women to find senior roles that offered flexible working. She was inundated with candidates and could not meet demand, so rather than turn away women who wanted to work, she started the Careering into Motherhood community in 2019. It began as a Facebook group and membership has grown to more than 8,000 women.

Jane has run mentoring programmes for 60 women, online coaching programmes during lockdown, launched the award-winning Careering into Motherhood podcast, She was invited by 10 Downing Street to advise the Department For Business (BEIS) on flexible working.

We talk about:

• Challenges women face about wanting to have a career and being around for their family
• How coaching is an enabler for building a life that works on our terms
• The importance of financial independence for women
• How women building businesses and negotiating better terms builds a more inclusive society
• Making workplaces less toxic for women
• Women being able to make choices that work for them

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Entrepreneurs often say we've rendered ourselves unemployable. Getting a corporate job is seen as a last resort.

But is it there in the back of your mind as a kind of backup plan? When the going gets tough and you have to face the next challenge in your business, do you consider updating your résumé? You're on LinkedIn after all. What's the harm in looking at your options?

That's your Plan B. Oh, if this launch doesn't work or if I don't get this contract, I can always get a job. I'm highly qualified and experienced after all!

However, there is a point in your business where you realise that you can't go back to a corporate job, even if you wanted to.

In this week's podcast I am talking about going past the point of no return and why that Plan B isn't helping you.

I talk about:

• How being an entrepreneur changes you
• How thinking of employment as a fall-back option slows your growth
• What's led to you feel frustrated in your business
• What happens when you commit to growth
• How my Work Less Earn More 4 Stage Framework will benefit you

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What does your brand say about you and your consultancy business?

When I talk to a lot of women about their branding, they say, 'Ugh, it's on my website, but don't look at my website. It doesn't really reflect what I do. And I don't really like the colours anymore. It's what I chose like five or six years ago.' Would you say the same?

If so, then this week's episode of the podcast is for you. I'm talking to visionary branding strategist Tiffany Neuman about creating a Legacy BrandTM and the incredible impact this can have on your growth. When you do deep branding work you get really clear on who you are and who you want to work with. It enables you to step into your Seven Figure self and make your vision tangible.

Tiffany helps highly-motivated entrepreneurs and influencers up-level their businesses. After 15 years in the corporate world, working with brands like FedEx, Stoli Vodka and Burt's Bees, she left to establish a revolutionary branding business that stays one step ahead of trends. Using a unique, hands-on approach that views branding as a self-development process, Tiffany now works with clients across the globe to help them 10x their sales and shine even brighter in their niches.

She is a contributor for Entrepreneur and has appeared in media outlets including Forbes, The She Did It Her Way and The 3-Day Workweek Podcast. Tiffany is a professor of design and branding, as well as the co-founder of the KCAD Third Eye XR virtual reality lab, at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan. When she's not helping clients create their legacy brands, she's spending quality time with her husband and two daughters.

We talk about:

• How branding is about so much more than your logo and colours
• When the time is to invest in a Legacy BrandTM
• How working on your Legacy BrandTM creates a quantum leap in your growth
• Why branding is like a slow down to speed up process
• Being specific about who you are and what you do

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Do you want to see growth in your business but feel like you're stuck in resistance?

You might not have realised that was what was happening at first. But then you started noticing that you weren't taking the action you know should to uplevel your business.

I talk to women I work with about this a lot. You will have come up with all kinds of reasons why you can't do what you want to do right now. You can kid yourself about what matters and what you need to be doing but you won't get those excuses past your coach!

In this episode I'm going to give you clarity on why we stay stuck despite wanting to grow. And be warned, there's some tough love in there as well. I want you to take that aligned action that you've written down and not done anything about yet!

I talk about:

• How to stop focusing on the pain of change
• The pressure we can put on one idea or action
• How we convince ourselves it's better to wait
• What's really going on in our brains when we come up with a good idea and then don't follow through with it
• A key question to ask yourself when you are not doing what you said you wanted to do

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Are you wondering what makes a 7 figure business so very different from a 6 figure business? Apart from the extra 000s as you progress from low 6 figures upwards?

I sometimes get asked why I've built my brand, Seven Figure Consultant, around a money goal. And it's not because it's all about the money. The central issue is who we are, the impact we can have in the world, and the money shows up when we allow ourselves to show up with authenticity and without holding back.

You will experience 'getting to 6 figures' and 'getting to 7 figures' differently. Both involve their own challenges and discoveries.

Whether you are just starting your consulting business, have made your first 20, or 50 thousand in revenue, or you are well on the way to 7 figures and beyond, this episode highlights what happens during those stages.

What gets you to 6 figures as a consultant, won't get you to 7 figures.

I talk about:

• Challenges facing women consultants building 6 and 7 figure businesses
• Taking aligned action to build your business
• An uplevelling secret that has made a huge difference to me
• The difference between women entrepreneurs and women consultants like you
• Hitting capacity and avoiding burnout
• Why I don't give the same advice to all my clients

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