The Anna Nelson Show

Ever had an idea, executed on it and then decided that maybe you've changed your mind about it? Well this is episode 59 and the last episode in this particular series.

This week I discuss "identity" and how recognizing that the context of your life has changed is helpful when learning to lean into your new life.

If you've enjoyed this podcast please let me know what topics you'd like discussed in the next season of podcasts!

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Dani Page is a Launch Copywriter for digital entrepreneurs.

She writes high-converting sales pages, email sequences, and launch campaigns - helping entrepreneurs create the sales, impact, and freedom they vision for their business and their lives.

In this podcast interview, we cover:

_ How writing a blog post for $35 led to quitting her day job to become a copywriter

_ Which aspects of her business were inadvertently built around what she was already good at

_ Dani learned more about her "core differentiators" as a copywriter

_ Which strengths show up when she's doing research for her client's sales pages

_ How her strengths make for an inviting and valuable group coaching program

_ What strengths show up with perfectionist tendencies and how to get past that

If you want to get to know Dani, check out her guide to help entrepreneurs add more personality to your sales page: https://offers.danipaige.com/personality-poppers

Follow her on Instagram: @danipaige.online

If you want to learn more about building a business and team around your strengths. Click here: https://www.annaynelson.com/superpowerstrengthspackage

My guest today is EC Synkowski, a nutrition and fitness coach who's the founder of OptimizeMe Nutrition which delivers B2B and B2C educational nutrition programs without the dogma and gimmicks that saturate the current nutrition market.

She's the founder of the #800gChallenge®, in which users add a healthy-daily dose of fruits and veggies each day without any diet eliminations. Yes! Nutrition can be simple, sustainable, and effective. Over 900 gyms have run the challenge for members and more than 15,000 individuals have participated.

In addition, EC is a TEDx speaker and has her own podcast called The Consistency Project.

In this episode we talk about:

_ Simple constructs for nutrition

_ Keeping honest when it comes to sticking with an diet

_ How the 800 gram challenge came into being

_ How consistency is the key

_ Nutrition doesn't have to be a drudge, it can be fun as well

Follow EC on Instagram and Facebook @optimizemenutrition

Website: https://optimizemenutrition.com/

And while I can't help you with your nutrition goals, I can help you have a healthy team. To find out more, go to https://www.annaynelson.com/contact and let's have a 30 minute call.

Emily Reagan is mom of four, Air Force wife, digital marketing consultant and founder of The Digital Media VA Crash Course. She calls her Digital Media VA Crash Course graduates "unicorn VAs" because they have all the resourceful qualities, online insight and implementation skills that online business owners are looking to hire first... aka that total magical package.

In this episode we talked about:

How to know when to hire (hint: earlier is better)

Why having a team (even a team of one) helps you get those dreaded tasks done

How Emily's strengths show up in her business and how she's implemented changes in her business because of her new strengths knowledge

How much of an expert in doing all the things you, the business owner, need to be before hiring a VA

What are the tasks that you shouldn't be doing if you have a team member

How to hire your own highly trained VA from Emily's program

And how to become your own VA unicorn

Connect with Emily here:

Instagram: emilyreaganpr -- https://www.instagram.com/emilyreaganpr/

FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/digitalmediava

For business owners:

Submit your job opp >> http://emilyreaganpr.com/virtual-assistant/

For anyone curious about working as a digital marketing service provider:

How to Work Online Masterclass >> https://courses.emilyreaganpr.com/masterclass

And if you want to learn more about building a business and team around your strengths go to: https://www.annaynelson.com/contact

If you love journals and you know your strengths this episode is for you. Dana Williams is a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach who created The Strengths Journal after she left corporate America working in marketing.

As a fellow entrepreneur we discuss how Dana has learned to use her strengths to do things on her own whereas before she had a team of people in her previous job.

Follow Dana at the following locations:

​​Instagram- @danawilliams; @thestrengthsjournal

Email – [email protected]

Website- www.thestrengthsjournal.com www.danawilliamsco.com

LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/danawilliams2/

Podcast –https://podcasts.apple.com/tw/podcast/dominate-your-day/id1557794953

And if you want to learn more about building a business and team around your strengths go to: https://www.annaynelson.com/contact

Alyse Ellman is a fellow Gallup Certified Strengths Coach who worked for years in the hospitality industry as an operational and human resource executive.

She helps companies get to their Next Act through by designing, building and implementing strategic projects that focus on growing talent within the organization.

Examples of projects include:

• Employee Engagement
• Performance Management
• Succession Planning / Career Laddering
• Talent Acquisition Strategy
• Talent Development Curriculum and Instructional Design
• Culture Building through Team Initiatives
• Customer Service Improvement

In this episode learn:

_ How even strengths coaches have to learn how to be self-reflective

_ How this strategic entrepreneur built her business around her strengths

_ How this entrepreneur picks who she wants to work with by picking out what she wants to work on

_ How strengths helps you recognize that people are motivated by different things

_ How serving people might actually mean eliminating self-inflicted competition with others

_ How deeply understanding her strengths meant that she was able to communicate more effectively with her team and others

_ And we even had a minor coaching session towards the end.

I was watching the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off recently and I thought to myself that Ferris is probably strong in the CliftonStrengths domain: Influencing.

The Influencing domain is all about the ability to move people to take action. Helping other people's voices get heard.

The entire movie is based on Ferris's ability to get people to take action. Whether it's to skip the day at school, rally kids around a cause (saving Ferris because they think he's sick), and doing out-of-their-comfort-zone things that stretch those closest to him.

I've coached people In the online entrepreneurial space who lead with the Influencing domain. And it's amazing how they're able to influence their clients to take action. To do things they've never done before.

If you know that that's your superpower, you're going to build your business differently. You're going to look for a certain type of client who needs you to help them move forward, to take action.

You're going to care about your client's success, but you're okay not being best friends with them. You do want people to like you, so you'll be sure not to ruin any bridges, but that's also how you get people to buy in to making change - by inspiring them.

Now, not all business owners high in Influencing behave or show up in the same way. Each of us is super unique in our strengths. Which means that it's up to you to find out how you inspire people to move forward.

This week fellow Gallup Certified Strengths Coach Micah Lorenc and I have a meta conversation about building our different coaching businesses through the lens of our different strengths. For example, he loves coaching teams. I love coaching individuals.

In this episode, learn how:

_ Strengths and learned skill sets are different

_ Knowing your strengths can change your life

_ To break the status quo by using your strengths

_ Different strengths coach coach differently based on how they're wired

_ Coaching is applicable for different stages of your life

_ Someone with few relationship building strengths makes friends

_ Your strengths is your money maker, but how they can also hold you back

_ You can build a strengths-based business

_ Your strengths can lead to success and the things that are important to you

Has anyone ever asked you for tips on how to do something and you couldn't believe they were asking you? There's a reason for that. You're extremely good at something that they're not and they recognize it. The key is to understand how you think, feel, and behave differently than others and then build your business and life around that. This episode discusses the four areas in which you might think, feel and behave. I hope you'll recognize yourself in one of them.

Sometimes we have to go out on our own to learn that we're missing our other business half.

In this week's podcast episode I walk with Bobby Klinck and Katie Chase about their entrepreneurial journeys both on their own and how they discovered they were a business match made in heaven.

Hint hint: their strengths had something to do with it.