She Built This®

As entrepreneurs, we spend a lot of time working in our businesses. The key to grow your business faster as an entrepreneur is to carve out quality time to work on your business too. 

A CEO Day allows you to focus on strategy for your business and the tasks that will move the needle forward. 

In this episode, I share with you: 

• Why you probably need a CEO day (even if you think you don't) 

Three Ways I Can Help with Yours: 

1. Book me for a 90-minute Strategy Session: what’s working and not working in your content strategy, messaging, and overall aspects of your marketing, plus an action plan to move forward.
   

BONUS Episode! 

This week, I'm bringing you the journey of LaFortune Djabea, President and Owner of Mola Foods in Nashua, NH.

This is an inspiring success story of How She Built This, from when she first came to the U.S. in the year 2000 with just $200 in her pocket to now having her products in many retail locations through New Hampshire. 

In this episode, Lafortune shares her story of entrepreneurship, and what NOURISH means to her. I hope this episode and conversation inspire you as much as me! 

Key Takeaways: 

• Don't stop believing yourself and your dream

Links Mentioned: 

She Built This Website

Mola Foods Website

When you hear the word "sales" does it make you want to run for the hills and never return? 

A lot of people associate selling with an "icky" feeling. They don't want to come across as pushy, shiesty, or gross to their buyer. 

Just like there's no one magic formula to selling (despite what anyone on the internet tells you), there's no right or WRONG way to sell except for in a way that feels inauthentic and misaligned for YOU. 

In this conversation, my guest Lisa Dadd and I get into: 

• How approaching sales through the lens of your soul's natural language can help the selling process feel a whole lot easier 

Links Mentioned: 

She Built This Website

Lisa Dadd's Website (check out her FREE download to start discovering your own archetype) 

Lisa Dadd on LinkedIn 

About Lisa Dadd

Lisa Dadd spent 15 years in the competitive industry of corporate healthcare, mastering strategic sales, marketing and management skills, from the world’s largest pharmaceutical company.  In addition to the success, climbing the corporate ladder offered, was a deep sense her greatest potential was yet to be realized.  It took years as an independent consultant, and an intense training in leadership development and social emotional learning, to uncover an innate way to access that potential.

Leveraging a diagnostic tool called Soul Language, Lisa now works with innovative leaders to integrate an awareness of who they are at their core, into the way they do business.  The success of her process is particularly related to her unique approach to sales training.  Soul Sales teaches the art of creating buy-in, through the enrolling language of one’s natural essence.

“I’ve done the thing, I’ve arrived... why do I feel so terrible?” This is the question my guest, Cait Donovan, spent almost seven years asking herself and working to get to the root of.

Why did she feel exhausted all the time? Resentful of people asking her to do things? And mad at people she loved? 

She’d heard of burnout affecting hospital workers and corporate workers, but not someone who’d done their own thing and built their own business. 

Cait made it her full-time job to heal from her burnout and figure out what to do with what she was feeling. In today’s episode, she shares what she did to start her journey towards feeling NOURISHED again and how she helps others do the same. 

In our conversation, we talk about: 

• The internal and external causes of burnout 

Links Mentioned: 

She Built This Website 

Connect with Cait

Follow Her on Instagram 

Fried the Burnout Podcast

Her Website

Resentment Journal Mini Course 

About Cait: 

Cait Donovan is a Keynote speaker, one of New York City’s leading burnout experts, host of “Fried – The Burnout Podcast,” and author of the book "The Bouncebackability Factor". Her creative burnout recovery solutions have been featured on podcasts and online magazines such as “Forbes”, “NPR,” “Thrive Global,” and “The New York Post”. Cait and her husband spent 12 years living in Europe, but now make their home in New Jersey. When Cait is not speaking or coaching on burnout, you can find her with her husband and pup outside: hiking, rowing, golfing, or cross-country skiing.

Ever try to meditate and feel instantly like your itchy from head to toe? Or that your brain suddenly starts to cyclone with ideas and thoughts no matter how hard you try to stop it? 

My guest, Terri Hamilton, talks about how meditation used to be hard for her too and what she did to help! She shares the power of incorporating mindfulness into our every day, with simple habits, tips, and practices you can start doing the second the podcast ends! 

Tune in as Terri shares: 

• How more mindfulness is attainable for everyone and is accessible to us every day! 

Links Mentioned: 

She Built This Website

Terri's Website

Connect with Terri:

Instagram

Facebook 

LinkedIn

Terri is a mindfulness and positivity coach who helps busy women, parents, and teenagers live a healthier and more gratifying life. In her 10 years at Apparent Connection, Terri now works virtually with entrepreneurial and ambitious women, parents, teens, and small groups on mindfulness and positivity. She believes in personalizing every coaching call based on your unique aspirations, thoughts, and situation to find positivity techniques that will work with your life.

Are you waiting for clarity or confidence before getting started or taking a step forward? 

You're not alone. So many of us wait until we feel "ready" before taking action. In this week's episode, I'm joined by Andreea Sandu, High Performance Coach and author of The Introvert That Could.

Andreea generously shares wisdom and strategies around how to stop overthinking, and turn obstacles you're facing into strategies for success. 

With less fear, overwhelm, and procrastination.

We get into: 

• How Andreea's willingness to dive in and follow the breadcrumbs of life brought her to where she is today 

Links Mentioned in the Episode: 

She Built This Website

Andreea's Website

Pre-Order Your Copy of Andreea's Book The Introvert That Could 

About Andreea Sandu 

Andreea is a Certified High Performance coach, helping entrepreneurs and leaders improve their productivity, influencing skills, and confidence, and cope with the high demands of their role. She’s an ex software engineer and has worked for corporations like Microsoft and Amazon in both leading and individual contributor positions.

Wanting to have more impact, she decided to move on to entrepreneurship and started multiple ventures including a profitable fitness blog, an online yoga studio, and a coaching practice. Currently in the process of publishing her first book, Andreea is dedicated to showing people that they can make time for everything they want to do and be successful both at work and at home.

She considers herself a "visible introvert" and in her book, "The Introvert That Could", she explores the middle ground between staying in the introvert comfort zone and being able to lead and succeed in what seems to be an extroverted world.

Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/by_andreeasandu/

Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theandreeasandu/

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If you or someone you support tends more towards the introverted side, this episode is a must-listen! 

You'll walk away from this one with a lot of takeaways and aha's of how to live in alignment to your true nature and build your business through more ease-filled actions that feel right to you.

Jen Jones is a successful introverted entrepreneur who has built both a thriving real estate agency and a coaching practice for others just like her - the intropreneur!

When growing your dreams, introversion can be used as a strength and superpower and doesn't need to hold you back from building a successful business or creating meaningful connections and relationships with others.

In this conversation, we get into:

• How Jen discovered she was an "intropreneur" and what she decided to do about it

Links Mentioned in this Episode:

She Built This Website: www.shebuiltthis.org

Jen's Website: www.connectandelevate.com

Energy Toolkit Freebie

Jen's Connect and Elevate Free Facebook Group

Connect with Jen via Email: [email protected]

About Jen:

Jen Jones is a REALTOR®, author, speaker, and an entrepreneur. She has been an entrepreneur for over 20 years and has successfully scaled businesses by building deep, meaningful relationships with her clients that inspire repeat business and referrals. She lives by the motto go deep not wide. She recently wrote Intropreneur: Strategies for Building a Business as an Introvert Entrepreneur.

Jen guides her clients through the four-step process to harness their introvert/authentic self, have more energy awareness so they can align their business and life with meaningful connections, elevate relationships, which produce more referral and repeat business with the right people.

As the mom of three kids, she gets how important it is to balance family and a fulfilling business that doesn’t drain your battery and burnout. When she’s not showing houses, helping clients or volunteering, you’ll find her enjoying her alone time, yoga, honing her intuition skills, meditating, and journaling.

What if being a better person was easier than you think? 

My guest, Kate Hanley, shares how we can start becoming a better person in just a few minutes a day with some simple steps, intentional decisions, and upgrading our actions and habits. 

We keep being a better person simple in this episode and talk about: 

• What being a better person really means

Links Mentioned: 

She Built This Website 

Kate Hanley's Website

Kate Hanley's Podcast

Connect with Kate on Instagram 

Connect with Kate on Twitter

Decision-Making Matrix (scroll to bottom of Kate Hanley's website and click "I want clarity!" 

About Kate 

Kate is the host of the "How to Be a Better Person" podcast, and the author of How to Be a Better Person, Stress Less, and The Anywhere, Anytime Chill Guide. Her work has been featured in Inc., Fast Company, Women’s Day, Fortune and the Harvard Business Review. Kate also appeared on the “Today Show”, where she noticed seconds before the cameras started rolling that her sweater was on backwards (it was the perfect opportunity to practice what she preaches.)

Kate lives in Providence, RI, with her husband, two kids, and a rescue dog named Cookie.

One simple question can help you focus on QUALITY over quantity and keep space on your calendar that isn't cluttered with events you said "yes" to because of:

• FOMO

In this week's episode, Kristin Hardwick shares her journey with Minimalism in running two businesses and how keeping it simple can help you do MORE. 

Kristin shares: 

• About her recent decision to pivot away from a business and what she's doing instead 

Your website can be working for you behind-the-scenes even when you're sleeping, on vacation, or walking your dog. By harnessing the power of SEO, you can structure your website content in a way that naturally attracts your ideal audience. 

There are people out there searching for exactly what you're offering, and want to choose YOU as the solution to their problems.

SEO is the direct path to helping them find YOU without you needing to be the one constantly ON and actively working to create that bridge all the time. 

In this episode, Danielle Gagnon and I discuss: 

• What SEO is and how to use as a marketing tool for your business 

Links Mentioned: 

She Built This website 

Content Cash Machine Bootcamp

Website

Social Media Links

About Danielle: 

Danielle Gagnon is a search engine optimization specialist and lover of all things content creation. After years of working as journalist and then marketing manager,

Danielle started her own business in 2018. Today, she helps female entrepreneurs grow their business organically - and massively - through SEO and content marketing. She is the creator of the Content Cash Machine Bootcamp, a 5-day mini course that teaches small business owners highly actionable SEO

basics. Danielle’s podcast, the Content Cash Machine Podcast, is an extension of her one- on-one client work, connecting her audience with the best experts and top tips to level-up their marketing and use their content to grow their audience, get more leads and make more money.

Danielle is a mom of two young kids, is married to her high school sweetheart and is passionate about reading, spending time outdoors and learning new things.