When our society often expects perfection, it may be surprising to get advice to just take imperfect action. But at Success with Soul, that is often what we advise our clients when they are letting fear and perfectionism keep them from taking any action at all. 

Today’s guest, Incubator client Ximena Borges, has adopted that advice as her new mantra in life and business. Co-founder of Juliet and the Elf (a resource for parents to learn how to use music during different brain development stages of their children) Ximena and her business partner, Margo, have learned during their time in the Incubator how to take imperfect action to achieve sustainable results. 

But Ximena wasn’t always in a season of life to invest in business coaching, and even when she did, she found that she was only receptive to learning the practical steps to growing her business. Now, more than a year later, she has advice for other business owners when it comes to making a financial commitment to coaching, how to embrace sustainability, and the power of taking imperfect action. 

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• What taking imperfect action means and why it’s revolutionary

• How music plays an important role in the brain’s development stages 

• Why investing in business coaching can take your business to a new level 

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Links + Resources Mentioned in this Episode: 

• Join the Success With Soul Membership program!  

• Angie Trueblood - podcast interviews as pillar content.

• Follow me on Instagram @katekordsmeier

• Discover the new secret parenting hack from Juliet and the Elf!

• See Ximena's recommended books and toys

• Connect with Ximena Borges on Instagram

• Free to Focus by Michael Hyatt

• Free to Focus Planner

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Today’s podcast guest is a leading expert in SEO – he actually created a popular SEO keyword search tool, Ubersuggest. Neil Patel joins us to talk about all things SEO, 2023 trends, and artificial intelligence in this episode.  

Anyone who follows my work will know that I am a bit of an SEO fan – I ditched social media for it and have had amazing success driving organic traffic to my site and building a business with SEO. 

Top experts talk about the vital role that SEO plays in building an online presence. But why is SEO so important? Neil says that it allows essentially anyone to compete with big corporations by continually driving organic traffic to your website. 

With the rise of artificial intelligence, Neil Patel’s SEO tips and advice for 2023 and beyond couldn’t be more timely. 

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• What is Ubersuggest and how to use it to outrank your competitors 

• Why SEO is more powerful than social media at attracting customers

• The role that artificial intelligence plays in SEO and traffic

• Tips for gaining backlinks to your website 

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• Get Ubersuggest

• Principles by Ray Dalio

• Use Code Canyon to create tools

• Follow me on Instagram @katekordsmeier

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This week we are going behind the scenes on another Incubator coaching call where Kate and clients talk about how to narrow your offer and business focus and the power of sharing your story to connect with potential clients! 

Talking about yourself – especially with your business – can be scary. Is there actually anything that powerful about sharing it, anyways? 

The simple answer to that is YES. Statistics show that stories are more memorable to the human brain and that customers and clients want more stories from brands and companies.  Whether you share your story or that of someone else impacted by your work, it’s the personal connection piece that others want to know. 

But one of the biggest hurdles of storytelling in business – especially when building your own business – is how people receive or perceive your story. While you can’t control how others think, what you can control is your narrative and the decision about whether sharing your story is worth the potential criticism.

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• How to harness the power of your story to narrow your offer

• The impact of sharing your story to connect with potential clients

• How to let go of fear of others’ perceptions

• Recognizing what is in your control and how to use that for your benefit

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This week we continue giving you an exclusive listen inside the Incubator mastermind in another live Q&A session between Kate and clients. 

In Part 3, we are talking about where our work and businesses fall in our list of life priorities, and how easily we can let that list get jumbled up. When we actually think about what matters to us, most often work is not first on the list, yet can so easily consume most of our time and attention. 

As we take an intentional look at that list, we also dive into how we can get sucked into cycles of self doubt when we don’t hit our goals or meet our metrics – or when others’ opinions affect us a little too much. 

The ultimate question that we wrestle with in this episode is: from where do I derive my self worth? Sometimes being honest with ourselves about these questions and topics, as you will hear, is the first  step to breaking cycles and replacing them with a more holistic way. 

So have a listen and let me know what you think!  

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• Knowing the difference between being passionate about our work and letting it define us 

• The unhealthy metrics we use to measure success and how to replace them 

• How we get sucked into a cycle of self doubt…and how to get out of it 

• Creating healthy boundaries when it comes to others’ opinions

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• Join the Success With Soul Membership program!  

• Follow me on Instagram @katekordsmeier

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Every business owner is going to have periods of real frustration and discouragement.

This can be a season where no sales are coming in. It can be a big life transition like moving, or a divorce, or pregnancy, or leaving your stable corporate job, or raising little kids. It can just be a sense of feeling overwhelmed and not knowing what to do next.

It can be easy and pretty damn natural to have negative self-talk and all kinds of limiting beliefs pop up in these seasons of uncertainty.

So, what can we do about them? How can we reasonably reframe negative thoughts without bypassing or pretending? How can we be honest about our limiting beliefs and still keep room for new, more life-giving beliefs to take root in our hearts and minds?

That's what we're talking about today in this inside peek into our Incubator mastermind call.    

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• The ways in which limiting beliefs can be more subtle than we think
• A great tool for transforming limiting beliefs over time
• Looking at what might actually be at the heart of slow sales
• A practical way to build confidence in what you’re selling

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• Email me new episodes
• Don’t forget to join our free Success With Soul Facebook community for follow-up conversations about the podcast episodes and where I also often go live to answer your burning questions. Hangout with like-minded bloggers and heart-centered online business owners exchanging priceless feedback, encouragement, and other golden insights from the trenches.
• Download a transcript of this episode

Links + Resources Mentioned in this Episode: 

• Join the Success With Soul Membership program!  
• Thought Ladders PDF worksheet from Kim Witten
• Amy Porterfield
• Follow me on Instagram @katekordsmeier

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Today we're shaking it up and sharing something very special with you: an exclusive listen inside an Incubator mastermind Q&A session. 

In Part 1 of this recorded conversation, we're diving into the concept of choosing our feelings (yes, choosing), and how the self-talk we opt for based on those feelings — whether it's positive self-talk or negative self-talk — correlates directly to the actions we take and the outcomes we experience in life and business. 

We often don’t think of our feelings as things we choose. Rather, we think of them as things that kind of just happen to us. 

But I was listening to The Life Coach School podcast with Brooke Castillo, and she made a really powerful distinction inside of this concept of choice that I think will be really valuable for our listeners. 

So have a listen and let me know what you think!  

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• What it means to choose our feelings
• How feelings our feelings and the resulting self-talk affect outcomes
• Why you have to let go of perfectionism if you’re going to make any progress
• Why I think it’s great to get honest about your disappointment 

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• Leave an honest review for The Success with Soul Podcast on Apple Podcasts so we can improve and better serve you in the future. I personally read each and every one of them, and they are super important for rankings, which help us continue to produce free content just for you! You may even be featured on the episode in our listener spotlight! 
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• Email me new episodes
• Don’t forget to join our free Success With Soul Facebook community for follow-up conversations about the podcast episodes and where I also often go live to answer your burning questions. Hangout with like-minded bloggers and heart-centered online business owners exchanging priceless feedback, encouragement, and other golden insights from the trenches.
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• Join the Success With Soul Membership program!  
• Clockwork, by Mike Michalowicz
• Amy Porterfield
• Marie Forleo
• Mariah Coz
• Rachael Rogers
• Follow me on Instagram @katekordsmeier

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It's not uncommon for business owners to seek out networking organizations for the connections. That is, after all, a key way that a business women's network can practically support one another.

But Danielle Wiebe wanted something different when she first imagined what would become the Business Babes Collective in 2015.

She wanted less corporate and way more fun. She wanted connections that were based on authentic relationships, not just professional opportunism. She wanted women to expand their idea of what strategic partnership and collaboration could look like.

And perhaps most of all, she wanted a place where women could embrace an abundance mindset when it comes to their success. 

Danielle found that when women can trust that there really, truly is enough money, clients, opportunities, and achievements to go around — that's where the magic happens. 

In this conversation between guest host Indira Shakti and Danielle, you’ll hear and feel how a stance of openness and generosity is so intimately connected with success with soul. 

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• How entrepreneurs can utilize strategic collaborations and partnerships to scale their exposure and revenue

• Why having an abundance mindset versus a scarcity mindset can really help us to find ways to collaborate with those that we view as “competition” 

• Why reframing rejection and failure in our journey as entrepreneurs is key

• Danielle’s biggest failure so far in business — and what she learned

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• Leave an honest review for The Success with Soul Podcast on Apple Podcasts so we can improve and better serve you in the future. I personally read each and every one of them, and they are super important for rankings, which help us continue to produce free content just for you! You may even be featured on the episode in our listener spotlight! 

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• Email me new episodes

• Don’t forget to join our free Success With Soul Facebook community for follow-up conversations about the podcast episodes and where I also often go live to answer your burning questions. Hangout with like-minded bloggers and heart-centered online business owners exchanging priceless feedback, encouragement, and other golden insights from the trenches.

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Links + Resources Mentioned in this Episode: 

• Join the Success With Soul Membership program!  

• Business Babes Collective website

• The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy

• Follow Danielle on Instagram @danilivinglife

• Follow me on Instagram @katekordsmeier

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Our guest today is  functional nutritionist, women’s health expert, and extraordinary Incubator client Sarah Jane Sandy! 

Sarah had a somewhat unusual experience as a new business owner back in the early 2000s: it was actually pretty easy for her from the start. 

She grew up in a family that understood her business niche and had built successful businesses themselves in the holistic wellness space. She started out as a fertility expert inside a holistic  business collective, which made marketing and attracting new clients fairly easy. She had great luck early on with a web designer who built a site for her with excellent SEO and easily drew organic traffic. 

Even though she was a hard worker, she also didn’t really know what was going on in the background of her business. She’d stumbled on a business strategy that was working — but she didn’t realize at the time how or why it was effective. 

In 2020, COVID hit, and she also had a baby. Her life changed dramatically in just a few months. And the economy and tech industry were also changing rapidly. Because Sarah wasn’t familiar with the inner workings of her business, she didn’t know how to respond to the shift in her energy, her focus, and the strategic needs of her business. 

By 2021, her business was in trouble. 

Today Sarah is sitting down with guest host Indira to share her story of hitting a major slump and what she transformed about her approach that has transformed her business in just two years. 

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• How Sarah found her unique niche

• Why she experienced early business success with relative ease

• What caused her business to decline unexpectedly

• What she learned inside the Incubator that finally turned things around

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• Leave an honest review for The Success with Soul Podcast on Apple Podcasts so we can improve and better serve you in the future. I personally read each and every one of them, and they are super important for rankings, which help us continue to produce free content just for you! You may even be featured on the episode in our listener spotlight! 

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• Download a transcript of this episode

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• Join the Success With Soul Membership program!  

• Get Sarah's freebies: a Daily Fertility Checklist and the Heal Hormonal Chaos eBook

• Questions for Sarah? You can contact her here.

• Follow Sarah on Instagram @sarahjanesandy

• Follow Sarah on Facebook

• Atomic Habits by James Clear

• Follow me on Instagram @katekordsmeier

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Produced by Dave Visaya at https://www.podcastengineers.com/

Many people carry a ton of preconceptions and judgments about tarot card reading.

They write it off as silly or associate it with tented rooms, crystal balls, and prediction. 

We can all probably conjure scenes from movies or TV shows where someone walks in and gets a mysterious message from the Great Beyond about when they're going to die, or get married — some very particular thing about their future.

But Desi Domo has a totally different perspective about tarot and its purpose.

She sees it as a mirror. A way to look more deeply at your present moment, or to view the past as a way to understand your present more richly, so that you can move on to create a future that's more meaningful for you.

In this way, for Desi, doing a regular tarot card reading is an act of real self care. 

You'll love this conversation about how Desi got into tarot, how she uses it as a daily self-care ritual, why self care is important to be successful, and how she helps her clients find clarity, confidence, and peace.  

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• Seeing tarot in a different light

• Why self care is so important for women entrepreneurs

• How to use a daily tarot ritual as a form of self care

• Getting creative when it comes to setting aside time to truly care for ourselves 

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Links + Resources Mentioned in this Episode: 

• Become a founding member of the Success With Soul Membership program! (and lock in your low price forever)

• Get Desi's freebie

• Learn more about Starcheology and Desi on her website

• Follow Desi on YouTube

• Become a supporter on Patreon (and get special deals on tarot reading online from Desi!)

• Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

• 78 Degrees of Wisdom by Rachel Pollack

• Follow me on Instagram @katekordsmeier

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Lacey Sites is a disruptor and a change maker in the coaching industry. 

She’s got the education, experience, and business intuition to figure out what’s going to work for her, and she’s not afraid to take risks and do things no one else is doing. 

One of the most exciting ways she’s disrupting the coaching industry is with her revenue sharing model. Simply put, Lacey’s business earns money through sharing revenue with her clients. So rather than a package rate, or hourly rate, or any other traditional coaching model, Lacey gets paid a percentage of her clients’ revenue. 

This is not an uncommon practice in other industries, but it is in the business coaching world, and it’s working out fantastically for Lacey: In 2021, her business A Lit Up Life made over $1 million in CASH using just their partnership and 1:1 coaching model. 

So if you're curious what sharing revenue could do for your coaching biz, or if you just want to hear more about how out-of-the-box thinking can serve you as a business owner, then you're going to love this episode. 

I've been implementing some of Lacey's ideas, as well, and I think her boundary-pushing mindset will really inspire you to let go of "should" and do what feels right for YOU.  

I can't wait for you to hear all about this!   

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• What the Revenue Share model is and how it works
• Who are the best clients for revenue share?
• Why it's so important to make time for self-care (hint: you get the best downloads!)
• How to take maternity leave when you have revenue share clients
• Creative ways to do Revenue Share if you’re not a business coach
• The MSE Framework Lacey created for her coaching clients

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• Leave an honest review for The Success with Soul Podcast on Apple Podcasts so we can improve and better serve you in the future. I personally read each and every one of them, and they are super important for rankings, which help us continue to produce free content just for you! You may even be featured on the episode in our listener spotlight! 
• Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to get automatic updates.
• Curious about our group coaching program, the Success With Soul Incubator? Check out our behind the scenes tour here!
• Email me new episodes
• Don’t forget to join our free Success With Soul Facebook community for follow-up conversations about the podcast episodes and where I also often go live to answer your burning questions. Hangout with like-minded bloggers and heart-centered online business owners exchanging priceless feedback, encouragement, and other golden insights from the trenches.
• Download a transcript of this episode

Links + Resources Mentioned in this Episode: 

• Become a founding member of the Success With Soul Membership program! (and lock in your low price forever)
• Find Lacey and learn more about her work at A Lit Up Life
• Unbound by Kasia Urbaniak
• Follow Lacey on Instagram
• Follow Lacey on Facebook
• Unbound by Kasia Urbaniak
• Follow me on Instagram @katekordsmeier

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Produced by Dave Visaya at https://www.podcastengineers.com/