Small Business Straight Talk | Time Management, Productivity & Business Strategy

I dive into strategies to fall back in love with your business because let's be honest… just like a romantic relationship, your love for your business can fizzle out if you don't put the work in.

What You'll Discover In This Episode:

✔ Why It's Important To Love Your Business

✔ How To Create A Business You Want To Be In Every Day

✔ What You Should Be Focusing On Changing Up

✔ The Secret Sauce To Loving Your Business✔ So Much More!

To access resources and links from this episode, click on https://AmberDeLaGarza.com/228.

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I sit down with Luxe Your Business Mentor and creator of the LuxeSales System, Shayla Boyd-Gill, to dive into how you can truly sabotage your business if you fail to equip yourself with a CEO mindset and couple it with sound business strategy. We go on to discuss having radical faith in your ability to succeed to open up all sorts of possibilities and desired outcomes for your life and business.

What You'll Discover In This Episode:

✔ What A CEO Mindset Is

✔ The Impact Your Mindset Has On Your Business

✔ 3 Limiting Myths CEOs Must Confront

✔ What Will Happen If You Believe In Yourself

✔ So Much More!

To access resources and links from this episode, click on https://AmberDeLaGarza.com/227.

P.S. Grab your spot in Leverage Lab® to get business coaching, training, and accountability to take your business and life from surviving to thriving => https://AmberDeLaGarza.com/LeverageLab

I dive into the topic of habits, how they show up in your life and business, and go on to discuss how to identify whether the habits in your rinse & repeat routines are serving you well or sabotaging your success and what to do about it. What You'll Discover In This Episode:

✔ Why It's Necessary To Get Off Auto-Pilot

✔ The Best Way To Determine If Your Habits Are Serving Or Sabotaging You

✔ How To Easily Set A Better Tone For Your Day

✔ Slip-In Habits To Consider Adding To Your Routines

✔ How To Get Into The "Paradise Zone"

✔ So Much More!

To access resources and links from this episode, click on https://AmberDeLaGarza.com/226.

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I dive into one of the biggest reason business owners are constantly overwhelmed - they're simply taking on too many projects, meetings, partnerships, team members, and clients that aren't a 'hell yes,' which forces them to spend too much time, energy, and money trying to make them work - and discuss what to do instead. In this episode of Productivity Straight Talk, I dive into the issue of taking on too many projects, meetings, partnerships, team members, and clients that don't align with your vision of success' and talk about raising your standards by setting the bar at 'hell yes' for everything you choose to undertake.

What You'll Discover In This Episode:

✔ How To Raise Standards In Your Business And See Immediate Results

✔ What Happens When You Settle For 'I'll Make It Work'

✔ Tips For Hiring Your Next Team Member

✔ What To Do When A 'Hell Yes' Becomes A 'Hell No'

✔ How My Client Sidestepped A Potential Disaster

✔ So Much More!

To access resources and links from this episode, click on https://AmberDeLaGarza.com/225.

P.S. Grab your spot in Leverage Lab™ to get coaching, training, and accountability to take your business and life from surviving to thriving => https://AmberDeLaGarza.com/LeverageLab

I sit down with Certified Life Coach Victoria Albina to discuss how to stop codependent, perfectionist, and people-pleasing thought patterns from making you feel anxious and stuck and how to transform such thoughts to improve your relationships and your business.

What You'll Discover In This Episode:

✔ What Codependent Thinking & How It Shows Up In Your Business

✔ Ways To Break Free From Codependent, Perfectionist, & People-Pleasing Thoughts To Reclaim Joy

✔ How Expressive Journaling Can Help You Tap Into Feelings & Change Behaviors

✔ Simple Ways To Set Empowering Boundaries

✔ Steps You Can Take To Be More Intentional WIth Your Time

✔ So Much More!

To access resources and links from this episode, click on https://AmberDeLaGarza.com/224/

P.S. Grab your spot in Leverage Lab™ to get coaching, training, and accountability to take your business and life from surviving to thriving => https://AmberDeLaGarza.com/LeverageLab

I sit down with the Co-Founder of MeasurementMarketing.io, Chris Mercer, to dive into the world of analytics and discuss how you can effectively measure your marketing to tune into exactly what your customers want.

What You'll Discover In This Episode:

✔ What Metrics You Should Be Measuring & Why

✔ Strategies For Arming Yourself With Analytics

✔ Why To Use Google Analytics Specifically

✔ The Most Important Step People Skip in Analyzing Data

✔ How To Have The Best Grasp Of Your Marketing Machinery

✔ Chris' #1 Productivity Tip: TBV

✔ So Much More!

To access resources and links from this episode, click on https://AmberDeLaGarza.com/223/.

P.S. Grab your spot in Leverage Lab™ to get coaching, training, and accountability to take your business and life from surviving to thriving => https://AmberDeLaGarza.com/LeverageLab

I provide strategies for creating, implementing, and abiding by a Word Of The Year so you can consistently take intentional action on your goal throughout the new year and beyond.

What You'll Discover In This Episode:

✔️Why You Need A Word Of The Year

✔️ What To Do Once You've Chosen It

✔️ Strategies For Getting The Most Out Of Your Word

✔️ Tips For Staying Laser Focused On It

✔️So Much More!

I hope you enjoy my episode on your Word Of The Year and encourage you to strongly consider what word should represent your intention for the new year. Now let's jump right in and get to the straight talk!

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Planning your year is one of the most important activities you can do as a business owner because it helps you set the overall direction of your business and determine the actions you must take to achieve your goals. It can lso be a very difficult activity if you aren;t sure what you're doing!

That's why I created the Business Blueprint Full-Day Workshop in which I help you plan your entire year in a day!

In this full-day virtual workshop, I will help you take the guess-work out of what next steps to take to plan your year and rid you of the overwhelm that often accompanies strategic business planning. You'll walk away with a full completed business plan that you just need to execute on.

📅 Join us on January 3rd from 8 AM - 3 PM PT for the Business Blueprint: Plan Your Year In A Day Full-Day Workshop for only $695 and go into 2022 with a clear, actionable plan for your business! Need more details! Tune in to this episode!

I walk you through how I recently used the insights feedback loop to figure out what I don't want to do in my business in 2022, what I want to double-down on, and what I want to try. The insights feedback loop is a major component in my strategic business planning and I'm confident it could help you get unstuck and execute a solid business plan, too!

What You'll Discover In This Episode:

✔ What My Insights Feedback Loop Is

✔ Why It Works To Improve Your Business

✔ Strategies For Using The Insights Feedback Loop In Your Own Business

✔ What Didn't Work, Did Work, & Could Work In My Business in 2021

✔ The Project Timeline I Seriously Underestimated

✔ Why My New Coworker Is Not Working Out

✔ So Much More!

To access resources and links from this episode, click on https://AmberDeLaGarza.com/222.

P.S. 📅 Register to join us on January 3rd from 8 AM - 3 PM PT for the Business Blueprint Full-Day Workshop where you'll plan your year in a day and go into 2022 with a clear, actionable plan for your business!

I dive into the reality that you can't show up as your best and most productive self for your business if you can't keep your eyes open and discuss what you can be doing instead to gift yourself more energy, less stress, and greater focus throughout the holiday season and the rest of the year!

What You'll Discover In This Episode:

✔ How You Sabotage Yourself Throughout Holiday Season

✔ What You Should Be Pausing To Do Several Times A Day

✔ Ways To Gift Yourself Self-Care Throughout The Year

✔ Why You Should Not Be Treating Yourself & What To Do Instead

✔ So Much More!

To access resources and links from this episode, click on https://AmberDeLaGarza.com/221.

P.S. 📅 Register to join us on January 3rd from 8 AM - 3 PM PT for the Business Blueprint Full-Day Workshop where you'll plan your year in a day and go into 2022 with a clear, actionable plan for your business!