Sharon Singh Sidhu

This week’s guest is Kelsey Kerslake, CEO, Creative Director, and Business Coach at Pinegate Road and the Aligned Business Academy.

Over the last decade Kelsey has helped hundreds of online business owners build their brands and online presences. She believes deeply that everyone has the potential to make their dreams a reality and has a passion for supporting online service providers, coaches, and educators to help them lead business and live lives that are fulfilling AND profitable.

We talked about how Kelsey turned her fun side hustle into her current branding agency while working a corporate job at American Greetings before deciding to strike out on her own as a business owner when she started earning more from her side hustle than her full-time job. 

This was such a valuable lesson in financial mindset, decision making, taking risks, overcoming fears and so much more!

Some of the things we talked about were:

• How to make decisions from your ‘future self’ instead of from fear.
• How to run a profitable business even without having any formal business training or background and how she grew her team to help her continue to grow her business while working her full-time corporate job. 
• Kelsey’s time management process by working from her ideal schedule.
• How to charge the ‘right’ price for your services or products. This was a fantastic crash course by Kelsey on Pricing! I loved this portion of our chat getting business advice from Kelsey including the mindset needed to succeed at this level of financial success
• Getting over the fear of taking risks financially for her business.
• The peace that comes from being financially free.
• And more!

Resources

• https://pinegateroad.com
• https://pinegateroad.com/academy/
• Instagram @kelseykerslake
• The Aligned Business Podcast

Don’t forget to let Kelsey know how what she shared has helped you gain a new insight or try something new - like charging the price you really want instead of what you think people will pay!

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In this episode, you’ll learn a simple and powerful technique to be less stressed out and tense about money. 

The key takeaway from this episode is to understand that your thoughts are just thoughts and not reality. Your thoughts are also not ‘you’, because you’re the creator of your thoughts.

So how do you differentiate between your thoughts and who you are as a person or being?

Listen to today’s episode as I share how you can apply mindfulness to your financial situation, no matter how difficult it may be so that you can regain your calm, peace and clarity of thought and action to move forward towards your financial goals.

This episode takes you through my process of figuring out what is a true need versus a deep desire and want and how to tell the difference between.

It’s important to be able to tell true needs and wants apart, and then take the appropriate action to meet them. We all know about taking care of our needs, but wants and desires have to be taken care of too, this brings us pleasure in life and we’re all here to have fun with life too!

It’s not always clear what is your true need that must be met and what’s really a want. Sometimes, our brains can rationalize and convince us that a want is really a need, and that’s how we can end up making bad financial decisions or decisions in general. So learning to tell them apart is important. And not just tell them apart, but also being able to prioritise which need and want you’ll meet first and gathering your strength and courage to defer other less pressing needs and wants.

As mentioned in the episode, the worksheet is available HERE.

Looking at my money through the lens of spirituality is the one thing that’s helped me experience greater financial peace. In this episode, I share how my growing awareness that there is so much more than just our individual physical bodies, and that we’re all part of a greater collective has helped me to feel less stressed out and worried about ‘not having enough money’. If you find yourself stressing or worrying about money constantly, I hope this episode will help expand your perspective and bring you peace.

‘Don’t give up!’

‘Winners don’t quit! Quitters don’t win!’

Don’t you ever sometimes feel so sick of hearing so much ‘ra-ra’ motivational talk?

Especially when you’ve been giving your all, pressing on, never giving up...until now.

You feel like you’ve had enough, and you just want to throw in the towel.

Well, that might actually be a very good idea!

What? 

Yes, in this week’s episode, I talk about how giving up actually helped me achieve my goals.

When you feel like you’ve had enough, it may just be a sign for you to give up the fight.

I mean give up fighting and resisting the current situation you find yourself in.

As much as you don’t like it, and wished you were somewhere else, thinking like that is precisely what’s preventing you from achieving your goals and dreams!

Listen to this week’s episode to learn how to ‘give up’ so that you can actually get what you want.

This week, I talked to Kate Kordsmeier, writer, educator, and creative entrepreneur.

For nearly a decade, Kate was a full-time, freelance journalist for over 125 magazines, newspapers and websites, including USA Today, EatingWell, Cooking Light, Travel + Leisure, The Washington Post, Forbes, Esquire, Women’s Health, Clean Eating, Wine Enthusiast, SELF and Real Simple. She’s also the author of the cookbook Atlanta Chef’s Table: Extraordinary Recipes from the Big Peach.

In October 2015, after being diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), Leaky Gut Syndrome (IBS), and hypothyroidism, and subsequently healing her symptoms naturally, Kate created Root + Revel, a holistic wellness blog with a focus on true mind-body-soul health.

After turning the blog into a profitable, six-figure business, Kate started getting questions from people nearly daily about how she did it. So she started The Six-Figure Blog Academy, her digital course where Kate empowers her students with actionable advice and inspirational content to help them make their dreams of being their own boss a reality. 

We talked about Kate’s journey from journalist to blogger to running her 6-figure business, the tactics and strategies, and more interestingly, the money mindsets needed to grow your business and income. 

Listen to the episode here: https://twopointzero.me/kate-kordsmeier

Resources

• Kate’s website and podcast
• Kate’s Instagram
• Get your free gift from Kate
• Root & Revel

What would you do if your job was costing you your health?

How would you transition into the next phase of your professional and personal life?

This is what we discussed in this episode with Cara Chace, former Special Agent, Metalhead, and a Pinterest Expert and most recently, helping business owners find balance between their business and their personal life.

Cara helps online entrepreneurs triple their Pinterest traffic so they don’t have to market their business 24/7. Talking to Cara, I felt like she was the embodiment of work-life balance!

Every move in her business has been focused working smarter, not harder, whether it’s through her work of helping business owners use of Pinterest as a marketing tool or with her latest venture, Work Better, Live Well

Cara has been balancing her aversion to rules and bosses with the need for structure since 2013, when she had her first child and took on the role of social media manager for Megadeth and their 13 million online fans. After realizing being a work-from-home entrepreneur was the best fit for her life, she built a digital marketing agency from scratch, had another kid, navigated constantly shifting priorities and life demands...and made it her mission to Work Better Live Well.

Listen to this week’s episode to learn how you too, can begin to put systems in place in your life to work better and live well!

https://twopointzero.me/cara-chace

Amber Bruseke is a Registered Nurse, Personal Trainer, Crossfit Level 1 Coach, the founder of MACROS 101 and the host of the Top 15 nutrition podcast: Biceps After Babies Radio. Amber is also a wife and a mom to 4 kids. Amber works with women who need to jump start their fitness goals, from losing fat, gaining muscle, or simply developing a better relationship with food.

We talked about how Amber transitioned and evolved from stay-at-home mom to becoming a one-on-one personal trainer and now, a 7-figure entrepreneur running her business, Biceps After Babies.

Find out how in order to achieve success you sometimes have to go ‘backwards’ before you can move forward, what the biggest thing Amber had to do to grow her business to 7-figures and more!

Connect with Amber @bicepsafterbabies on instagram or her website at https://bicepsafterbabies.com

Do you know what’s the number 1 predictor of love, success and happiness? 

It’s your relationship with money.

That’s what several studies have found.

Your relationship with money predicts how likely you are to stay happily married or end up in divorce. 

It’s also the number 1 predictor to financial success or failure.

On the podcast this week, I talk about your relationship with money, what exactly is a relationship with money and how to begin mastering it, so that you can live happier, more fulfilled lives.

Such a life is filled with financial calm, confidence and certainty. It’s how we experience financial peace of mind, knowing that our true needs and our loved ones are taken care of, no matter what happens.

Do you think it sounds unrealistic or unattainable?

I once felt that way too.

Until I created my own path to achieving financial wellness and success. 

I share my simple yet impactful 3-step framework on this week’s episode to get you started on the path to a healthier relationship with money. This is also the framework that I go into much greater detail in my new online program, Stop Money Stress. 

If you want to create a life where you’re financially calm, confident and certain, I want to invite you to join me in the program during this very special pre-offer stage. 

As a Founding Member, you’ll receive the course content weekly from August to October 2021. Thereafter, you get access to the full course and all future updates at no additional cost. Membership has its privileges!

And most attractive of all, you get to enjoy a whopping 80% discount on the program because I’m launching now to only a very small group of Founding Members. I want to keep it small and intimate so that I can really work closely with you to make this the best program it can possibly be for you and all future students! This also means you’re practically getting 1-to-1 coaching with me at a heavily discounted group price too!

Sign up by 1 August 2021 and you get to lock in this special Founding Member’s price at USD44. 

The price goes up to USD267 from 2 August 2021 and on all future launches. 

So don’t miss out on this very special rate.

You can find out more and sign up here: Stop Money Stress

I hope you enjoy listening to this week’s episode and I definitely hope to see you in the program!

RESOURCES

• Stop Money Stress
• The One Number That’s Eerily Good At Predicting Your Success In Love
• This Common Behaviour Is the Number 1 Predictor of Whether You’ll Get Divorced
• What is Your Relationship With Money?
• The Number One Factor in Financial Success - or Failure
• Money Beliefs and Financial Behaviours - Development of the Klontz Money Script Inventory
• Financial Recovery - Developing A Healthy Relationship with Money
• MoneyGrit