This week’s guest is Gretta Scholten, a certified life and time management coach. She helps women overcome overwhelm, procrastination, analysis paralysis so they can create habits and routines they love and feel productive and fulfilled every single day. 

What I love about Gretta and her story is her resilience and tenacity around money which comes through so clearly when you talk to her. As a breadwinner and dealing with moments of having a negative account balance, Gretta shares how even despite such challenging times, she’s been able to coach herself and adopt the mindset necessary to create money in her life.

I found Gretta’s grounded energy to be very calming and reassuring. I’m impressed by Gretta’s rapid transition from Occupational Therapist to Life & Time Management Coach and how she’s managed to deal with the financial pressure on a new business in such a calm, rational and spiritual way. 

Gretta shares so much valuable insights about:

• How to go for what your heart wants (also known as desire) and to start before you’re ready even though your brain’s always going to talk you out of it because it’s trying to keep you safe.
• How money can be easy instead of always feeling difficult. Gretta shares openly about how she deals with scary moments of a negative account balance.
• How not to throw money at problems thinking that money will solve them. Learn the process that Gretta uses to ensure whatever money she spends helps her deal with a problem.
• The key to getting the things that are important to you done and how to develop self-trust to become the person who always follows through.  
• And so much more!

A big thank you to Samantha Siffring @samanthahms as well for the introduction to Gretta. I connected with Gretta through Samantha’s podcast and coaching program - both which I highly recommend!

Resources

• Gretta’s website
• Gretta’s Instagram is @gretta_scholten
• Brooke Castillo’s Self Coaching Scholars Program
• Episode 024 with Samantha Siffring - Hear how “Mama to CEO” Founder, Samantha Siffring, Took Her Business from $40 to A Million Dollars in 12 Months
• Samantha Siffring’s Podcast Interview with Gretta Scholten

Don’t forget to let Gretta know how what she shared has helped you. Take a screenshot of the podcast episode and tag Gretta (@gretta_scholten) and me (@sharonsinghsidhu) on Instagram and tell us what you did differently after listening to the podcast!

Finally, if you found this episode useful, please share it with someone you think would benefit from it, and follow the show on Apple Podcast and leave a review.

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!

Finally, if you found this episode useful, please share it with someone you think would benefit from it, and follow the show on Apple Podcast and leave a review.

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