Super vulnerable share time! I failed! Then adjusted and learned SO much. I'm sharing all that with you today after launching the 5th round of the Bad Bitch Mastermind. It's so important to share successes, but even more important to share our failures and what we learn from them, so I'm sharing it all with you!

I've had more fun and felt more relaxed this time around - even though I had Covid for 3 weeks! Does that mean that everything in my plan worked? Nope, not even close. Is that a problem? Not at all! I had fun launching this round and you get to hear how in this episode. Hint: mindset is a big part of it.

Today I'm sharing a look into my latest launch including the mistakes I made, what happened when life threw a wrench into my plans, and how I decided to handle all of it without freaking out. Hey, shit happens!

In this episode…

• What I've learned from launching the group Mastermind 5 times
• What happened when I didn't hit my goal & why it's so important to share that
• The 3 biggest mistakes I made
• How I course corrected without freaking out (much)
• The top 3 things that made $160k launch fun and easy

& so much more!

Your guide to Consensual Sales Conversations goes live 9/1/22! Get it the hot second it's ready by hopping on my email list at www.melaniechilders.com.

If you've loving this episode, share your biggest takeaway & tag me @melaniechilderscoaching on IG!

Thanks for listening! Haven't left a review yet? All you gotta do is head here.

How to connect with Melanie:

Ready to hit your biz goals without hustling, pressuring, and racing? I created a FREE 3-day training and workshop just for you! Check it out here.

Interested in Melanie's mastermind for feminist entrepreneurs building hustle-free 6+ figure businesses? Get all the details and join the waitlist here.

© 2022 Melanie Childers

Here's the thing - being an entrepreneur can be like a rollercoaster. And like a rollercoaster, navigating the ups and downs is a lot more fun when you aren't having to do it on your own. This is why I think you should have at LEAST one Biz Bestie. At least.

Today I'm talking with my dear friend and Biz Bestie Maggie Reyes about what it's like having a bestie who's with you from the start - from your first $10k to your first million. This is a FUN conversation that you won't want to miss out on!

It can get lonely when you're running your own business, and sometimes you just need someone there to bounce ideas off of. This is NORMAL. Having a Biz Bestie can actually help you grow your business faster.

So tune in to hear about ...

• Our biz bestie relationship & why you need one yourself
• How we supported each other from $10k to $1 Million
• How and why we went from working with clients 1:1 to groups
• The power of healing in community & why you need to be surrounded by bad biz bitches
• Why resting more leads to more creativity and curiosity
• Why it's so important to deprogram the cult of productivity from your mind
• Where do you land on the Rest Spectrum?

& so much more!

Your guide to Consensual Sales Conversations is about to go LIVE! Get it the hot second it's ready by hopping on my email list at www.melaniechilders.com.

If you've loving this episode, share your biggest takeaway & tag me @melaniechilderscoaching on IG!

Thanks for listening! Haven't left a review yet? All you gotta do is head here.

How to connect with Melanie:

Ready to hit your biz goals without hustling, pressuring, and racing? I created a FREE 3-day training and workshop just for you! Check it out here.

Interested in Melanie's mastermind for feminist entrepreneurs building hustle-free 6+ figure businesses? Get all the details and join the waitlist here.

How to connect with Maggie:

Maggie Reyes is a Life Coach and Modern Marriage Mentor who specializes in helping driven, ambitious women have better marriages, without waiting for their partners to change or adding more work to their lives.

She is the creator of The Marriage MBA Program, a 6-month mentorship in creating a successful marriage using principles from positive psychology, cognitive science and simple coaching tools that you can learn today and apply tomorrow.

Maggie is the author of the best-selling "Questions for Couples Journal" and the host of the Top 100 "The Marriage Life Coach Podcast." You should also check out an episode we did together on her podcast!

When she isn't teaching or coaching, she loves reading obsessing over Bridgerton, reading fan fiction, and watching superhero movies with her hubby.

If you want to learn how to stop doing the things that poison the love in a relationship and start doing the things that make love stronger, you can find the tools to start becoming your best loving self at MaggieReyes.com.

https://www.instagram.com/themaggiereyes/

© 2022 Melanie Childers

Making a lot of money doesn't always require the right strategy. Often it's the right thinking - about yourself, your audience, and your offer. Today I'm joined by my friend and client, Lisa Sharp, to talk about the mindset shift that created $64K in 30 days.

As human beings, we like goals. Goals feel good when we hit them. The problem though is when we think hitting some goal means we're more worthy (or just good enough) as a person. Guest what? Goals don't mean shit about your worth. What the world needs is more of YOU being your whole ass self, whether you hit your goals or not.

Today I'm joined by my friend, colleague, and client Lisa Sharp to talk about what it took to blow past her monthly goal, what personal worth really means, what the day to day running of our businesses looks like behind the scenes, and how we show up with the CEO energy that makes running our businesses FUN.

• How one mindset shift helped her make $64K in 30 days
• Her story from $25K to over $300K in just 2 years
• The strategic difference between being confused about your to-do list and being uncomfortable with what's on it
• Why you should aim to over-deliver on your services + how to do that
• The overlooked value of slowing down to speed up
• How to inject WAY more fun into your business every day

& so much more!

Your guide to Consensual Sales Conversations is about to go LIVE! Get it the hot second it's ready by hopping on my email list at www.melaniechilders.com.

If you've loving this episode, share your biggest takeaway & tag me @melaniechilderscoaching on IG!

Thanks for listening! Haven't left a review yet? All you gotta do is head here.

How to connect with Melanie:

Ready to hit your biz goals without hustling, pressuring, and racing? I created a FREE 3-day training and workshop just for you! Check it out here.

Interested in Melanie's mastermind for feminist entrepreneurs building hustle-free 6+ figure businesses? Get all the details and join the waitlist here.

How to connect with Lisa:

Lisa Sharp is a coach who helps feminist business owners make more money, get fully booked and work LESS. Oh, and have a fucking life too. Because hustle ain't happenin' on her watch. It's not necessary and it's keeping you from getting what you TRULY want.

You can find out more on her website https://lisasharpcoaching.com/ or follow her on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lisasharpcoaching/

© 2022 Melanie Childers

It's so easy to create a whole list of things we think we SHOULD be doing in order to be successful, and sometimes that green smoothie or yoga class looks like self-care. But if you're just adding to your work-load instead of actually turning off your brain and resting, you're turning self-care into a weapon against yourself.

For those of us socialized as women, this idea can show up in endless self-sacrifice that serves only the Patriarchy and harms the rest of us.

Today I'm talking with Bryn Bamber about how to change the way that we think about selfishness and self-care.

Tune in for…

• How to stop hiding your real self in your biz
• Why Bryn runs a witchy business & what that means
• How we've been taught to weaponize self-care and what to do different
• How your marketing can be healing and nourishing (and FUN)
• Why being more selfish can actually make you more money

…and SO much more

Get your copy of Consensual Consults the hot second it's ready by hopping on the email list at www.melaniechilders.com.

If you've loving this episode, share your biggest takeaway on IG. Make sure to tag me @melaniechilderscoaching!

Thanks for listening! Haven't left a review yet? All you gotta do is head here.

How to connect with Melanie:

Ready to hit your biz goals without hustling, pressuring, and racing? I created a FREE 3-day training and workshop just for you! Check it out here.

Interested in Melanie's mastermind for feminist entrepreneurs building hustle-free 6+ figure businesses? Get all the details and join the waitlist here.

How to connect with Bryn:

Bryn lived for years as a sensitive perfectionist with anxiety coursing through her veins and, through Core Energetics, she began to find the root cause of why she's so anxious and take steps to drastically reduce her suffering.

She works with artists, healers and entrepreneurs to help them overcome imposter syndrome and make more money with their gifts through healing childhood habits, patterns and trauma.

Her story about the path to healing has been featured on Tiny Buddha, Introvert Dear and the CourageMakers and Rare Birds podcasts.

You can learn even more by visiting her website, listening to her Sacred Goals podcast (join the free challenge here), or connect on Instagram and Facebook.

It can be easy to think that business should be hard, a struggle, and stressful. This is so far from what the truth for your business CAN be. What if it was fun, easy, and even felt MAGICAL to run your business?

Today I'm talking with Chris Hale about how to have FUN in your business, and what to do when it's hard to show up, and how to feel safe when you do show up. Intuition can be a powerful tool to create the kind of magic in your business that keeps your audience coming back for more.

Are you showing up as yourself to serve your audience? This means getting real and having FUN in a way that makes your future clients say "F*ck yeah!"

Are you ready?

• How to bring play and magic into your biz so it feels easy
• Why all creators deserve to get paid BIG
• How being more YOU brings in more money
• 3 other success metrics to measure aside from money
• How to create your ideal weekly schedule that feels GOOD for your biz

…and SO much more

Get your copy of Consensual Consults the hot second it's ready by hopping on the email list at www.melaniechilders.com.

If you've loving this episode, share your biggest takeaway on IG. Make sure to tag me @melaniechilderscoaching!

Thanks for listening! Haven't left a review yet? All you gotta do is head here.

How to connect with Melanie:

Ready to hit your biz goals without hustling, pressuring, and racing? I created a FREE 3-day training and workshop just for you! Check it out here.

Interested in Melanie's mastermind for feminist entrepreneurs building hustle-free 6+ figure businesses? Get all the details and join the waitlist here.

Applications for the August 2022 Mastermind are open! Get all the deets here.

How to connect with Chris:

Chris is a certified life coach, master dance educator, and host of the "You Need a Coach Bitch" podcast.

Chris helps LGBTQ+ creatives and artists take their passion, turn it into purpose, and get paid. They help their clients learn to silence the internalized noise that zaps their self-confidence as LGBTQ+ folx and stops them from playing big and taking up space.

You can follow Chris on Instagram, Facebook, and check out their website and Podcast!

© 2022 Melanie Childers

Ready to build a feminist biz & make more than ever? Your last chance to join the Bad B*tch Mastermind in 2022 is THIS WEEK. Applications close on 7/21/22! You won't get another opportunity to join until December for the February 2023 cohort, so get your booty over to melaniechilders.com/mastermind to apply TODAY.

This episode you will learn:

• Who the Bad B*tch Mastermind is for – and if it's the right next step for you.
• When the next round starts and details about the LIVE kickoff event.
• What is included, the support you'll get, and the AMAZING results my current clients are having.

Get ready to create your lit up feminist AF biz and earn more money without sacrificing your personal life or hustling.

To apply, visit my website at melaniechilders.com/mastermind, where you will find all the deets & the link to the application. Applications close 7/21/22. See you there!

© 2022 Melanie Childers

In this episode I'm joined by my friend, colleague, and client, Christina Kwan to talk about what it looks like when we stop letting likes, comments, followers, and income dictate how we feel about ourselves and start growing our self-worth no matter what the business data says.

When you're not reliant on the data and vanity metrics to make you feel motivated, excited, inspired, etc., you have so much more capability to keep going when times are tough.

That means you have to be willing to feel hard feelings and keep going (without trying to power through a to-do list and need the dopamine hits from that all the damn time), even when it feels like you're failing.

This week we're talking about how slowing down to feel is feminist AF and how to run your business without running yourself ragged, why your perfectly human imperfection is actually endearing for your audience and…

• Why feeling difficult feelings is important in running a feminist business + how to do it
• How to stop gaslighting yourself and denying how you really feel
• How to cultivate an authentic sense of self in your branding and marketing
• The most underrated hack for creating relationships online & making more money
• How to talk to yourself when you have $0 months
• How Christina used the BITCH Squad concept to grow her self-worth and stop using money metrics to define her success

…and SO much more

Get your copy of Consensual Consults the hot second it's ready by hopping on the email list at www.melaniechilders.com.

If you've loving this episode, share your biggest takeaway on IG. Make sure to tag me @melaniechilderscoaching!

Thanks for listening! Haven't left a review yet? All you gotta do is head here.

How to connect with Melanie:

Ready to hit your biz goals without hustling, pressuring, and racing? I created a FREE 3-day training and workshop just for you! Check it out here.

Interested in Melanie's mastermind for feminist entrepreneurs building hustle-free 6+ figure businesses? Get all the details and join the waitlist here.

Applications for the August 2022 Mastermind are open! Get all the deets here.

How to connect with Christina:

Christina Kwan is a life coach and former suicidal depressive who helps people get rid of their depression forever. She figured out the formula to feeling good enough and erased depression from her life forever. After saying goodbye to her corporate career in 2019, she began a lifelong commitment to helping the world's people live long, fulfilling lives. She helps high-functioning depressives overcome their insecurities and love themselves truly and completely. Get her free e-workbook designed to build up your confidence (called "The Confidence Catalyst") at her website theroaduncovered.com. Follow her on Instagram @theroaduncovered or catch her on the How to Be Good Enough podcast on Spotify.

For any questions or requests, email her at [email protected].

© 2022 Melanie Childers

The fury and pain of the overturn of Roe v Wade and the impact on anyone who is NOT cis, het, white dudes is raw and palpable. So, how do we move forward now? How do you channel that energy into action? In this episode, my friend and colleague, Dr. Melissa Bird is joining me to talk about what to do now.

The curse of the Patriarchy is Perfectionism. That ideal is what holds so many of us back. In reality, life is messy, and we live in the messy middle. That is where the magic happens.

And guess what? There's no such thing as perfect.

Are you ready to learn more? We're going to talk about . . .

• How to get calm if you're feeling overwhelmed after the overturn of Roe v. Wade
• Why you need to use your voice now more than ever
• The #1 way to direct your righteous fury to make a difference
• Why you should connect with people who disagree with you right now
• Are you finding your purpose OR claiming it? Know the difference and claim YOURS.

…and SO much more

Get your copy of Consensual Consults the hot second it's ready by hopping on the email list at www.melaniechilders.com.

If you've loving this episode, share your biggest takeaway on IG. Make sure to tag me @melaniechilderscoaching!

Thanks for listening! Haven't left a review yet? All you gotta do is head here.

How to connect with Melanie:

Ready to hit your biz goals without hustling, pressuring, and racing? I created a FREE 3-day training and workshop just for you! Check it out here.

Interested in Melanie's mastermind for feminist entrepreneurs building hustle-free 6+ figure businesses? Get all the details and join the waitlist here.

Applications for the August 2022 Mastermind are open! Get all the deets here.

How to connect with Missy:

As a life coach, lay preacher, author, and keynote speaker, Dr. Melissa Bird is a world class presenter who has appeared before audiences at universities, conferences, and religious institutions around the world. Her combination of education, real life experience, and practical advice makes her a powerful force of change in the lives of the people she connects with. Past audience members have described her speaking as "fierce," "revelatory," "life-changing," "enthusiastic," and "inspirational."

Dr. Bird creates the genesis for a new brand of leadership and graceful revolution. Her unique life purpose is to use her talents to help others dismantle perfection, tap into their intuition, and heal from grief and loss. Her words awaken revolutionaries, trailblazers and powerful innovators who are seeking deeper connection and expansive growth. When she's not speaking on stages around the world, she can be found reading trashy novels, drinking fine whiskey, playing mom to three amazing humans, and loving her punk rock scientist James Thomas Kelly.

Awaken your own graceful revolution and connect with Dr. Bird at naturalbornrebel.com and on Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram @birdgirl1001.

© 2022 Melanie Childers

Have you found yourself feeling hesitant when it comes to investing in your business? You're not alone. The Patriarchy teaches that it should be stressful and hard work to earn money, and that debt is bad.

In this episode I'm breaking down the mindsets that hold us back from not only earning more but investing in our businesses. When we learn how to invest in our businesses, we are able to grow our businesses and smash the "old rules" that the Patriarchy wants us to believe.

• How those socialized as women have been taught to think about money
• Personal debt vs business debt
• Your financial worth vs your personal worth
• Scaling your bank account without scaling your ego
• Top 5 limiting patriarchal beliefs about money
• Why you making more = more good in the world
• #1 thing to invest in to make your biz unfuckwithable …and SO much more

Get your copy of Consensual Consults the hot second it's ready by hopping on the email list at www.melaniechilders.com.

If you've loving this episode, share your biggest takeaway on IG. Make sure to tag me @melaniechilderscoaching!

Thanks for listening! Haven't left a review yet? All you gotta do is head here.

How to connect with Melanie:

Ready to hit your biz goals without hustling, pressuring, and racing? I created a FREE 3-day training and workshop just for you! Check it out here.

Interested in Melanie's mastermind for feminist entrepreneurs building hustle-free 6+ figure businesses? Get all the details and join the waitlist here.

Applications for the August 2022 Mastermind are open! Get all the deets here.

© 2022 Melanie Childers

Are you ready for a party? I'm talking with my friend and longtime "Biz Bestie" Serena Hicks, and wow do we cover a lot in this episode! You'll get to listen in as we talk about "failures," why we love connecting to our audiences, getting over the fear of podcasting, our individual superpowers, and how we got started.

The list could go on and on, so here are some of the juicy highlights that you're going to hear about:

• Why the Law of Attraction's "high vibe" mentality isn't sustainable, and how you can grow your business anyway
• Why you should treat a lower turnout like a private party, not a pity party
• How the only way to integrate what you learn is ACTION
• How connection can make you unstoppable
• How to show up for your audience/listeners/followers even though you're afraid of messing up
• How to believe that whatever YOU have to offer is valuable even if it's imperfect …and SO much more

Get your copy of Consensual Consults the hot second it's ready by hopping on the email list at www.melaniechilders.com.

If you've loving this episode, share your biggest takeaway on IG. Make sure to tag me @melaniechilderscoaching!

Thanks for listening! Haven't left a review yet? All you gotta do is head here.

How to connect with Melanie:

Ready to hit your biz goals without hustling, pressuring, and racing? I created a FREE 3-day training and workshop just for you! Check it out here.

Interested in Melanie's mastermind for feminist entrepreneurs building hustle-free 6+ figure businesses? Get all the details and join the waitlist here.

Applications for the August 2022 Mastermind are open! Get all the deets here.

Want to get to know Serena?

Serena Hicks believes that making and having #BIGHappyMoney is a social justice issue. As a biracial businesswoman, who went from bankruptcy in 2008 to BIG Happy Money based on her realization that the Patriarchy hates a well-resourced BIPOC, woman and/or non-binary individual. She offers that your money making is HOW we change the world; financial freedom is indeed a powerful thing.

You can learn more on her website or follow her on Instagram!

© 2022 Melanie Childers