The Bold Money Revolution

On this week’s podcast, you get to listen in on a typical chat between me and Josh Kreitzman, my friend and business partner.

I’ve been frustrated lately listening to some painful stories from business owners and friends. It seems that so many people aren’t listening to advice or even asking for it. Josh and I just sat down and talked, and we invite you to listen in. 

We share some opinions about self-employment as a fad in recent years and how so much content tells everyone they can be their own boss. But that’s just not the reality.

Unless you’re just working a side hustle and have a consistent source of income, you can’t just dabble in your business. You need to go all in. Especially in a recessive economy, there are challenges and things you need to be prepared for.

We spent some time chatting about that and some of the benefits of being a business owner.

The conversation ends with our advice for all small business owners or anyone considering starting a business. 

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I'm noticing that a lot of business owners that I've been talking to need me to take them by the shoulders very firmly and remind them of who they are. I want to remind you of who you are because your confidence matters greatly to your ability to make sales and build wealth in your business.

Allow me to present you with some truths to remind you of who you are so that we can take your confidence up a couple of levels.

Let's do a confidence check-in.

On a scale from 1 to 10, 10 being the most, how confident do you feel right now? Give it a number.

Maybe you're in a moment where you're feeling really confident. Think about on average, where do you fall? What's the number? Because the more confident you are, the more money you will make.

I always tell my clients the best time to go make a sale is right after they have already made a sale. Go take advantage of feeling awesome, of feeling accomplished, of feeling abundant, and go make that sale. 

Here are the things I want to remind you of...

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Have you ever wanted to hear the behind-the-scenes, the real results, nothing that is hyped up, glitzy, and glamorous? As we closed out 2022 we recorded more than a dozen case stories of women from The Bold Profit Academy because I noticed exactly this trend. 

You wanted to know what it looks like to get results as a mom with kids, as a single person with no partner involved with maybe working a full-time job and doing it on the side. You wanted to start hearing from some of these typical results instead of the atypical results. 

This year, once a month, we're going to share these case stories. I'm going to continue to record them this year. I'm very excited to introduce these women to you. They are very real, they are getting some of the most amazing wins on a weekly basis.

I'm excited for you to get to know my work and how I am in relationship with the women in The Bold Profit Academy. I'm hopeful and hoping that hearing some of these women's stories are inspiring to you. I also hope that they get you off the fence to join us in The Bold Profit Academy. I hope that they make a difference in your decision-making journey.

Today I'm taking you behind the scenes of the testimonial process, I'm calling this my testimonial transparency policy.

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We are doing a special series, a case study series on the women who are in The Bold Profit Academy and we are doing this to bring you the real tangible, not fluffed over, not glitzed and glamored results that real experts like you who are listening or watching this now are really interested in getting.

Some of these results are going to be really amazing big results and some of them might seem a little smaller but they are all valuable and important on your journey as a small business owner. I'm excited to have with me today Sarah Bronstein.

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If you have been around a while, you may or may not know that I start the year, the first quarter of the year planting seeds. We take the women in The Bold Profit Academy through this in our Revenue Acceleration Curriculum. We're talking all about finding leads even though they feel like they might not have any and really planting those seeds. One of the ways that I plant these seeds, and I encourage the women in The Bold Profit Academy to do this, is to have listening calls.

I have free calls where I'm just here to listen, you get on my calendar, you have to be somebody who is brave enough and courageous enough to start a conversation with me. If you start a conversation with me, I'm more than happy at this time of year to offer you some of my time. What I do is I listen to what everybody's saying. I listen for themes. I listen for trends. I listen for patterns. I combine all of that data and pull those themes out.

I like to think one of the greatest services that I can provide, one of the greatest values that I can provide not just to my clients, but my community, is the fact that I have access to a tremendous amount of small business owners, either through my community online or offline, family, friends, and I'm a researcher at heart. 

Today I’m sharing with you some of what I'm hearing on these listening calls and some of what I'm going to call predictions, and guidance. This is an opinion, this isn’t fact, These are going to be my opinions based on my 20-plus years of experience, weathering a number of economic downturns.

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My first podcast episode of every year is really about setting the intention, setting my intention for the year. That's what this podcast is all about because I value your time, your energy, and money in a noisy world where we have 26 seconds to capture attention, you being here is not lost on me.

If you're like me, you might have been noticing your capacity isn't what it once was. 

My family who got sick three times, three of us actually, I don't know how much dirt my son must have eaten in his childhood, but he did not get sick at all, however, three of us got sick three times. I did this back-of-the-napkin math, I realized we lost over 18 weeks to illness.

Do you hear that, parents? Eighteen weeks, that is wild to me. It has really changed the way I'm thinking about life, work, family, scheduling, and all the things money going forward. Instead of trying to figure out how to do more with less, we need to be able to discern what is worth our energy and what isn't. That is why I'm doing this podcast. 

This year is about even greater transparency where I show up as explicitly as possible because we don't have time to waste.

We might be navigating all different normal ups and downs of life and then we might be navigating illness, some kind of family crisis, some kind of health issue, or whatever, so we need to learn how to be more discerning. This year for me, it's about transparency, leaning into what I think is already a superpower for me, and being even more explicit. This way, you know if you should continue to tune in on a weekly basis or whether you want to be even in a reciprocal relationship with us.

The one thing that I see missing the most in small businesses today, especially if they're doing business outside of their local community and online is that feeling of “main street”. The reason why “main street” works for businesses, and the local community works, is because you're in relationship and you're being reciprocal.

I'm trying to bring that back into what I do and taking a stand for that. The only reason why you'd be reciprocal is that you're gaining value. You're the right person here with us. Especially if you're considering working with me, you need to be sure you have the problem we solve, you need to be able to tell if now is the best time to do this work, if I'm the right fit, and if what I teach will work for you.

The quickest way I know how to do this is to be direct, honest, and speak in plain language. Nothing flowery, sexy, or internet market-y. 

I'm going to tell you right now.

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I want to talk about the concept of an online business.

As we're kicking off the new year, as new folks have been finding us, as many of you are deciding on the direction that you want to take your business, whether you are excited about that or whether you are frustrated by it, I think this episode is actually going to be really helpful for you. 

I think it's a good time for me to say I don't believe in the concept of online business. I'm going to share why.

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I’m SOOOO excited to talk about goals with you today BECAUSE I usually avoid talking about them. As someone who has studied goal setting pretty extensively, I get frustrated and ranty listening to how some people teach goal setting.

But I love goals and I think I’ve gotten to the point in my own personal growth that I can add some serious value to this conversation without being judgy, snarky, or ranty – or too academic.

I will also admit that I work with A LOT of people who are let’s say – goal-challenged. They have a lot of “ish” when it comes to setting goals. In the past, I have sidestepped and baby stepped and given alternate ways to set goals, but really what’s needed is an honest conversation and a way for you to think about this differently.

In this episode we are going to cover:

• Why you shouldn’t set SMART goals
• The benefits of having BIG goals
• Why big, hairy, audacious, goals (BHAGS) might not work for you

And if you are a person who has struggled with setting goals, I’m giving you a new framework for you to dig into.

Some of what I’m presenting to you here today like the new framework has come from the book Performance Coaching: A complete guide to best practice coaching and training by Carol Wilson.

Let’s start with the problem with SMART goals.

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This year we're running a special series with our clients around having them tell their story.

We're doing case stories of what it looks like to actually tangibly realistically succeed in a year or in a period of time because not everybody who has come on has been with us for a full year.

We're really looking to show the honest and transparent results that people get no matter how big or how small they are and really unpack what was going on in their business when they decided to ask for help because we understand that asking for help is often the biggest barrier, and then what transpired after they were supported through The Bold Profit Academy.

We are kicking off with Marie Parks of North Star Messaging. Marie sat down to share about her year, including how she and her business partner shifted from three figure offers to a six figure offer, and how the support inside The Bold Profit Academy helped.

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This process is the anti-budget for all of you who might struggle to budget, save, and invest your money. It is the antidote to scarcity thinking and survival mode, which I know all too much about from our earliest days as business owners way back in 2005 with our first business, where we suffered, we were in survival mode during the great recession and then ultimately went bankrupt. Working through that and coming to a place where I was able to start this business, provide for my family, hire an amazing team, and invest in growing our wealth year over year over year. 

This Thrive List has come out of the totality of that experience. 

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