The Bad B*tch Entrepreneur

You can create a successful, sustainable, soul-inspiring business and it doesn't have to be built on a capitalist framework. That shit is ready to burn to the ground, and you don't have to burn yourself out following toxic dude-bro tactics.

Megan Kierstead is joining me to give you a behind the scenes look at how we create successful launches, business that we love, and use all of our experiences to create badass feminist businesses.

Here's what you'll get out of this episode:

• Some behind the scenes deets of 6-figure launches
• Why venture capitalism and dude-bro entrepreneurship create burn out
• How Megan & I are burning down the capitalist framework to create a feminist biz framework + what that looks like
• How chronic illness & ADHD work to our advantages
• What women are socialized to believe about $ and business success
• How to take time off & actually rest while doing it

… 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!

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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 Megan?

Meg Kierstead is a certified multiple six-figure life coach with ADHD, chronic illness, and cool hair. She is a badass at helping multi-passionate rule-breakers detox toxic capitalist, neurotypical nonsense, so they can create a playful relationship to getting shit done in partnership with their unique nervous system.

Meg's coaching incorporates over a decade helping tech leaders build better products, as well as deep expertise in human behavior and social science research. She's a big nerd (especially about neuroscience and the human mind), and lives in Sonoma, California with bunnies and lots of glitter.

You can find her here on Instagram: @megkierstead

© 2022 Melanie Childers

Making more money doesn't mean working more hours. This week I'm joined by my friend Becca Pike to talk about her journey from a workhorse mindset to CEO mindset while working less and making more.

We also discuss:

• How to authentically position your brand in your market for massive impact
• The differences and similarities of brick and mortar and online business
• How to know if you're working ON your biz or IN your biz
• Why it's so important to step into the CEO role
• How Becca works less but makes so much more in her business now
• A simple successful scaling strategy you can use for your biz today

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 are open! Get all the deets here.

Want to get to know Becca?

Becca Pike is a wife and mom of 4 young kids as well as an avid athlete and wine lover. At age 25, Becca found herself still bartending and scraping pennies together to sustain her less-than-exciting lifestyle of non-stop double shifts and restaurant over-time. After hitting an emotional and financial rock bottom, Becca turned a new leaf and dove headfirst into learning everything she could about business-owning. 7 years later, she finds herself the owner and founder of a 7-figure/30-employee service-based business as well as the Owner/Founder of a multiple six figure online business-coaching company. She resides in her dream home in Lexington, Kentucky with her husband, Mark, and children.

You can follow her on Instagram or check out her website!

© 2022 Melanie Childers

Are you ready to sell in a way that doesn't feel needy, graspy, or gross? Learn to collaborate on sales calls instead! But first, you have to get through sales reluctance.

Selling in your business is necessary if you're going to grow your business, and it can actually feel GOOD. It just takes practice to break through the dude-bro, patriarchal bs that we're used to seeing in selling.

In this episode I'm sharing with you some of what I teach inside the Bad Bitch Mastermind when it comes to selling your services. So if you're ready to learn how to sell without pressure, this episode is for you.

• How the reluctance to sell shows up
• How to get over your fear of selling
• How to have a LOT of folks willing to help you get better at selling
• What to practice in your sales convos
• How to evaluate your consults to get better & make sales

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 are open! Get all the deets here.

© 2022 Melanie Childers

We all learn from our mentors, and that's a good thing. What's not a good thing is thinking whatever approach they use is the ONLY way to sell and market for YOUR business.

What you bring to the table for your clients is something truly unique and badass, so why shouldn't your approach to your marketing be unique and badass as well?

Today I'm sharing from my own experiences to help you bust up perfectionist mindsets that might be holding you back from creating the marketing that is going to help you serve your clients and grow your business.

• 3 ways you might be cockblocking your content creation
• How I burned all the perfect launch strategies, had more fun, and a 6-figure pre-launch
• How to stop being a perfectionist
• 3 things to focus on create authentic in-service content that feels like you

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.

And hey - applications for the August 2022 are open! (oh hi, you're welcome). Get all the deets here.

© 2022 Melanie Childers

We've talked about taking breaks in business, but what about taking breaks for things like having a baby? What does that look like in a feminist business?

Today I'm talking to Carina Groombridge about how she not only took time from her business to welcome her new baby, but also came back to a waitlist of "fuck YEAH" clients ready to work with HER.

We're taking a look behind the scenes and sharing what's possible when you build a business with feminist values that keep clients coming back for more.

• The 4 things that create 'f yeah' demand for your services
• How Carina filled her 1:1 practice while taking 3 months of maternity leave
• How you can have both a full client load and a new baby without overworking
• How to plan ahead to keep your business running when you take leave
• How to give yourself permission to actually rest
• What happens when you believe you have demand without proof - and what happens when don't believe it at all
• BBMM early bird apps are open this week only! Apply today to make sure you save your seat and get your bonus VIP Day!

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.

And hey - applications for the August 2022 cohort open May 19th & 20th for early birds who love Bonus VIP workshops (oh hi, you're welcome). Get all the deets here.

Want to get to know Carina more?

Carina Groombridge is a Mindset and Success coach who supports moms to start and scale their businesses so they can make more money and create a flexible schedule that works around their family life.

Carina started her business with three kids under 3yrs old and a full-time corporate job. Today, she's returning from maternity leave with baby number 4 to an almost fully booked roster of amazing clients who were happy to wait for her return.

She offers one on one tailored support to her clients that transforms the way they do business. You can find her on Facebook, Instagram, or visit her website.

© 2022 Melanie Childers

I have a special announcement for you today! Bad B*tch Mastermind applications are officially open! You have until Friday, May 27th to submit your application. Apply early on May 19th & 20th to get your bonus VIP Day.

To apply, visit my website at melaniechilders.com/mastermind, where you will find the link to the application.

In 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.
• 10 reasons you should join the August cohort

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

We are now taking applications for the Bad B*tch Mastermind until Friday 5/27. This is your last chance to join in 2022. Send in your application today!

© 2022 Melanie Childers

Feel like your success is a fluke? Afraid to take more clients because you might feel overwhelmed? Not marketing until you have something to sell or space available for new clients? These are sabotaging your business success.

In today's episode I'm joined by my client and friend Callie Croken to share how she made $50K in just 4 weeks and what helped her make $130K last year then go on to make the same amount in just 4 months this year.

We dive into growing the capacity to receive WAY more money than you ever have before and the discomfort of that experience, why success can feel like a fluke, and how to create the inner safety to make multi-6 figures without self-sabotaging your success.

• How Callie made $50K+ in 4 weeks
• How the Bad Bitch Mastermind helped Callie go from $130K last year to $130K in Q1 this year
• The #1 thing that stops 6-figure earners from making more
• How to grow your capacity to receive big money without self-sabotage
• How to create self-love and inner safety to be successful
• What to do when you're afraid your success is a fluke
• The most important thing you need to scale to the multi 6 & 7-figures

...and so much more!

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.

And hey - applications for the August 2022 cohort open May 19th & 20th for early birds who love Bonus VIP workshops (oh hi, you're welcome). Get all the deets here.

Want to get to know Callie more?

Callie is a Life & Business Coach for Entrepreneurs that want to feel confident as they make their first 100k and beyond. You can connect with her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/calliecroken or Instagram https://www.instagram.com/calliecroken.

© 2022 Melanie Childers

If you've felt intimidated, frustrated, or just icky about marketing, it's probably because of how dude-bro tactics have been the norm for marketing and selling for so long. This old norm centers around false urgency and talking down to your audience.

It doesn't have to be this way.

Empowered Marketing sounds like something that should be complicated, right? As much as this might blow your mind, it's actually not.

Empowered marketing is about speaking to your audience without speaking down to them, providing solutions that help them feel empowered, and leave them saying "Fuck Yeah!" to your services. It is simply telling your clients that you can help them by offering a new perspective or solution to their problems and talking to them like they're whole, powerful, badass humans.

In this episode I'm sharing:

• 3 things dude-bro marketing gets wrong about selling
• The #1 skill to master to create tons of organic demand
• How to think about your audience to collaborate with their highest selves and deepest desires
• How to call in your 'Fuck Yeah!' raving fan clients right now
• My simple and effective 3 step marketing formula
• 3 areas you must have certainty in to make your marketing feel empowering for yourself
• And hey - applications for the August 2022 cohort open May 19th & 20th for early birds who love Bonus VIP workshops (oh hi, you're welcome). Get all the deets here.
• ...and so much more!

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 cohort open May 19th & 20th for early birds who love Bonus VIP workshops. Get all the deets here.

© 2022 Melanie Childers

Feminist management and leadership is about what we bring to the table and how we lead, starting with your own thoughts and yourself. It also means delegating and handing control to your team so that they can grow and move forward. Today I'm talking with feminist leadership coach Emily Feairs about how to empower your team through skills that you can practice in your own business.

This can mean mistakes get made, but that's where growth happens.

Enough with the perfectionism and micromanaging - let's build something better.

In this episode you'll learn:

• The key concepts of patriarchal business culture that create unhealthy work cultures and burnout
• Why women leaders tend not to delegate enough
• How to help your people bring their genius to the table and truly collaborate with them
• How to normalize failure so your team can learn, grow, and rise together
• How leading through a feminist lens creates a thriving growth-mindset culture
• How to lead yourself better if you don't have a team yet

...and so much more!

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.

Get full show notes and more information here.

© 2022 Melanie Childers

Does looking at your money make you freak out, throw up, just say fuck it? Or maybe deep down you think that you're not supposed to have a lot of money or financial safety.

The Patriarchy loves it when you believe that you can't have money and security, and they're perfectly happy to see you underearning.

So today we're breaking down common thoughts about making and having money, fears attached to those thoughts, and how to rethink your approach to making money in your business.

In this episode you'll learn:

• How women are socialized to think about money
• How to quell the shame around money and rethink your relationship to it
• What tamara learned from 90 free consults in a year
• How to find the daily workflow that works for you
• Tamara's top lessons from the Bad Bitch Mastermind that helped her create 3 back-to-back $10K months and how you can do it, too
• BBMM applications open again May 23-27. Get on the email list to get your early bird sign up bonuses.

...and so much more!

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 the ground running in 2022 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.

Get full show notes and more information here.

Want to get to know Tamara?

Tamara is a Money Coach who helps women thrive in their money life through straight-forward and tender money coaching. Over a series of weekly conversations, she witnesses, guides, and cheers on women as they transform from a life burdened by disempowering money stories into a money reality they never dreamed possible.

To learn more about Tamara's work or to schedule a free discovery call, click here.

Additionally, you can follow Tamara on Instagram and Facebook: @tamaraleecoaching. And if you're wanting inspiring money vibes to hit your inbox regularly, click here to sign up for her newsletter.

© 2022 Melanie Childers