The CEO Sage

When women have their own money (and lots of it), they have a voice and a choice. Through financial security, women are no longer indebted to anyone and can change the world. Their superpowers are set free by not being beholden to anything. It's time for women to claim more of a place in this world.

For this episode, I'm beyond thrilled to have Fabienne Fredrickson with me to discuss all this, along with some of the how behind making it happen. As a celebrated business coach for over 21 years, Fabienne has been helping thousands of female entrepreneurs scale their businesses to 10K a month and beyond. Through her signature program, The Leveraged Business, Fabienne and her team help take the overwhelmed woman from being controlled by her business to controlling her business. A woman in the place of financial freedom and security can open and follow the path of getting everything else back as well: her life, her body, and her sanity!

When more women feel unapologetically safe and powerful, there's nothing they can't do. – Fabienne Fredrickson

What You'll Learn

• Why it's crucial for women to make their own money
  • Controlled or in control
  • Stepping into your rightful place
  • Why you absolutely must work less for business growth
• The biggest mindset shift
  • Rejecting societal constructs
  • Femininity with power
  • Feminine energy versus masculine energy
• Crucible moments
  • Getting out from under the thumb
  • The only choice
• Universal spiritual laws around making money
  • As above, so below; as inside, so outside
  • Work through your incongruence
• Entrepreneurship thrives on feminine energy
  • Planning your energy
  • Worthiness
  • Being unapologetic

Meet Fabienne Fredrickson

Fabienne Fredrickson is a powerful mentor for solo business owners who seek to make the greatest impact they can in their work, all while creating certainty in their business and financial security in their lives. She believes that when women make their own money (and lots of it), they experience a profound feeling of safety in their life.

As the founder of TheLeveragedBusiness.com and Boldheart.com, Fabienne has been a mentor to tens of thousands of women business owners over more than 20 years. Her predictable process, taught in The Leveraged Business program, practically guarantees that a business owner will multiply their results with more downtime, once implemented fully. Her company has repeatedly been recognized by the media, and Inc. Magazine has named it one of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies for three consecutive years.

She is the celebrated author of The Leveraged Business: How You Can Go From Overwhelmed at Six Figures to Seven Figures (and Get Your Life Back) and Embrace Your Magnificence: Get Out of Your Own Way, and Live a Richer, Fuller, More Abundant Life.

Her Tedx Talk on Activating Your Potential for Greatness has gone viral. Fabienne is an inspiring speaker - sometimes even speaking to audiences as large as 7,000 attendees - and has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc., FastCompany, Amex Forum, and the New York Times.

In addition to teaching women (and heart-centered men) how to get out of overwhelm, and reach a million or more in their business with their life back, Fabienne sprinkles self worth and mindset principles onto all of her teachings. In everything she does, she teaches you to fight self-doubt, become infinitely more confident, believe in yourself, value your unique brilliance, and then get out of your comfort zone so you can create a magnificent life you love.

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Whether good or bad, a leader is one who inspires others to follow. Beyond this definition, however, there are deep questions. What, exactly, makes a leader powerful and effective? What is the element that goes beyond strategies, methods and competency and taps into hidden CEO magic?

A big component is the currency of energy. To understand the existence of the currency of energy and to use that is huge. It releases the magic we all need and want. That, in turn, releases what I hold to be the most important leadership characteristic. I invite you to join me as I explore and share that magical characteristic in this episode.

What You'll Learn

• The currency of energy
  • Magic, hope and the power of your mind
• Making sense of the unseen
  • Spirituality
  • Leading and creating your business
  • Attracting followers
• The most important leadership characteristic
• When it's hard
• Choosing, no matter what comes

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When people feel heard, they feel known, valued – and this is desperately needed in our modern culture. It is, perhaps, an even deeper need for women in powerful leadership positions. Others listen to accomplished, successful women for the express purpose of acquiring knowledge for their own gain. But who truly hears and sees the strong, powerful women, herself, who is dispensing said knowledge?

Out of this reality comes the wisdom that all need to be truly seen and heard. To not be is quite lonely. As women especially, we naturally possess the ability to listen and alleviate this need, if we are intentional to sharpen our skill. Leaders who do so will draw others to themselves who are at the same level, which is both desirable and mutually beneficial. Through this episode, I hope to ignite in you the desire to awaken the deep, pure magic of being a leader who truly listens and sees.

What You'll Learn

• Why we typically feel unheard
  • Pursuit of knowledge
  • Self-focused society
• The magic of listening
  • Connect with people at the same level
  • Hold others in high value
  • Some proofs you're truly listening
• Cultivate being listened to yourself
• Find people who see and hear you

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Holding others accountable, especially employees, is one of the biggest and most common issues leaders face. Why is it so hard to get people to do what you want or assess performance and address issues? Why is holding people responsible so uncomfortable? I believe the core issue is this: We associate accountability with punishment.

Borne from the traditional masculine authority figure dynamic, we anticipate or associate a penalty exacted for an offense. We see this throughout society in various forms. And although punishment is a form of accountability, it isn't the type needed nor desired in business. It is neither relevant nor applicable. What we need and desire from those we lead is ownership, obligation, and investment in the outcome. We need proper accountability. So how do we nurture that desired environment of personal responsibility? To start, we must disassociate punishment from accountability.

What You'll Learn

• Defining proper accountability
  • The origin of punishment within accountability
  • Emotions and personal investment triggers
• Dirty vs clean accountability
  • Remembering the purpose of having employees
  • Divorcing emotion: loyalty, love and poor performance
• Accountability is professional commitment
  • Being held to account for ability is rare
  • The uncomfortable place of being the first
  • Clear expectations, clear agreement, and not meeting them
• Earning their way up? or earning their way out?
  • Neutral, not personal; steering clear of punishment
  • Navigate with maturity and addressing commitment
  • Sort your emotions before acting

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We tend to be organized, especially as a society. Structured, linear thinking is expected and natural. This leads to us believing not only do we know what will happen but also why. And therefore, we believe we have control over things. This control thought-pattern then breeds a constant stream of how. How are we going to do this, how are we going to do that?

But what if not investing all our energy into the how frees us to lean into belief? Frees the magic of the creative process and fuels success for our vision? Let's recapture the what we've been kissed with through embracing the magic of NOT knowing how.

What You'll Learn

• Why we lose the magic

  • Vision getting lost

  • Not knowing the how

• An example from my life

  • Absolute clarity, without any idea of the how

• Loving what you do releases the magic

  • Lean into joy

  • Commit to being more of you

• The missing piece

  • How versus the energy of truly believing

  • More than just tactics

• Worry robs us

  • Increased capacity

  • Release your need to know

• Ways the how generates more easily

  • Nurture what you've been kissed with

  • Refuse anxiety triggers

  • Be healthy, thriving, open, free

  • Achieve through proper work

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Does how you do things as a leader really matter? I absolutely believe it does. The typical CEO is tired and overwhelmed, and this often results in unwittingly creating problems. But CEO magic leadership can be the solution. It can take your business from just surviving to thriving. But how, exactly, do you learn to possess and dispense CEO magic?

In this episode, I talk briefly about CEO magic. It all starts with correctly identifying the root of problems, and properly addressing the mindset that perpetuates them. From there, you begin to grow, thrive, be filled with joy, and drive yourself and your team in a more positive direction. From that magical place of leadership, success abounds. After sampling the basics I cover in this episode, I invite you to consider diving deeper through my program, How To CEO. I've helped many leaders find their magic, and I cherish the opportunity to help you find yours.

What You'll Learn

• Confusing leadership and management
  • Evolution of your own growth
  • Properly assigning blame
  • Mistakenly perpetuating problems
  • Correcting your mindset
• How to CEO in 8 Weeks
  • Power of a thriving leader
  • Wield emotional fortitude
  • Triage immediate needs
  • Implement right changes
  • Increase your revenue
  • Identify repeating patterns
  • Supportive team = Magic
  • Resolve issues
  • Deliver on your promises
  • Clarity attracts the right people

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Do you truly celebrate your business wins? Or do you tend to just blow right past them and move on to the next goal? Yes, it's important to look forward, make plans, to do all the things to move yourself and your business forward. But might I suggest one additional but ultra-important thing to do? Let me encourage you to do what feels good. That is, celebrating yourself and your successes!

As humans, we create things first in our minds. Magical things happen when we imagine them, then make them reality. Through that process, we feel. And great things come to us through feeling. That's why giving space to celebrating, leaning into accomplishment, and allowing pride, joy and wonder to manifest will foster even more success. Celebrating your success breeds more success!

What You'll Learn

• Make your list of magic
  • What are the wins you didn't roll around in this past year?
  • Feel your wins deeply
• Explore why one success really hit you but another did not
  • Is there unnecessary guilt or shame?
  • Are you mistakenly building an entitlement environment?
• Stop. Start. Continue.
  • Thoughtfully choose
  • Create from feelings
  • Connect with feelings and allow yourself to feel…
    • Wise, competent, brave
    • Loved, worthy, valued
• Trust your own wisdom
  • Honor your success
  • Use visuals to hold that space

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Happy New Year! How are you?! I love the energy whenever the new year comes around! It's a great time to pause and focus on your goals, intentions, whatever, right? So, I thought that, following the theme of CEO Magic, I would do a different kind of episode that would encourage you (as female entrepreneurs) to invest in yourselves and your wisdom. I saw that there were no affirmations for female entrepreneurs so I thought I would create some for you. Take from these what resonates as you launch into this new year.

What You'll Find in This Episode

1. Information about the upcoming cohort of How to CEO, the next Advanced Leadership Coach certification class, and the Sage CEO program. 2. Affirmations that will empower you into the new year.

Should you pay a year end bonus and give your employees extra? We expect certain results from the people we hire, and we pay them a salary for those results. Not for their time. Not for their experience. We can give them a bonus for just the simple joy of giving a gift or we can give them a bonus based on their individual results/ extra work. Making payment commitments to employees is a serious decision to make and should be greatly considered. A gift can turn into an expectation for your employees and a headache for you. No matter how you decide to pay your people it is an important thing to consider.

What You'll Find in This Episode:

1. Having a consistent payment philosophy is key. 2. Bonuses are extra pay for extra results (or they're gifts). 3. Paying a bonus out over a year is a good way to ensure that the bonus won't be wasted.

You, as an entrepreneur, have to be an optimist, right? You take risks and believe that something will work out and you cultivate that vision to get your team through the frustration and on to the next thing. Being a leader (as you are), you set the tone for your team. So, why not set an optimistic one?

What you'll find in this Episode:

1. There is a lot we need to appreciate and not take for granted.
2. Entrepreneurs are resilient and optimistic.
3. Optimistic leaders hire optimistic employees.
4. Why believe in something awful when you can believe in something cool?