The Determined Fempreneur®

It can be exhausting researching tools for your business. A lot of us get stuck in that very research process and end up never making decisions that move our business forward!

Are you in a constant state of unrest because you overwhelm because you don’t have systems in place to keep your business systems organized as your client list grows?

Well Sis, look no further because Honeybook has everything your business needs for you to get things done!

With Honeybook, you can ditch the: 

• Burnout and Overwhelm.
• Disorganization and intense stress
• Missed opportunities to scale due to lack of clear systems, processes, and streamlined client management?

You would also be able to alleviate: 

• Constantly feeling bad about stepping into your purpose;
• Your fear of making big changes and strategy moves because you are worried about making mistakes;
• Stagnant business growth and development due to you not consistently showing up for yourself and your business.

Ready to learn how Honeybook helps entrepreneurs like you book your ideal client easily and with little to no legwork?

Today, I will discuss how Honeybook—which is an all-in-one client management software—can help to streamline your business so you can book clients with ease and get paid quicker. This software will help you manage your customers and business from inquiry to invoice. Additionally, as a cloud base software, you can access it on any device–including the Honeybook app on your phone!

What You’ll Learn From this Episode: 

• Honeybook can help you scale your business
• How to book your ideal clients using Honeybook with fast and with ease
• How Honeybook can make your life as a CEO easier and more stress free

Featured on the Show: 

• Ready to play it big and scale your business? Click My Affliate Link to get a free trial of Honeybook
• I would love to hear from you! – Send me a dm via IG @drnaieema. 

• Ready to get unstuck from $5k-15k months and earn $30k+ months in 90 days; Apply to work with us in The Determined FemPreneuer Program  
• Follow Dr. Naieema on IG @drnaieema 

Do you ever feel like you’re your own worst critic? 

You want to give new ideas a go, you want to try something new, but that little voice inside your head keeps stopping you, keeps making you question yourself and your abilities and makes you hesitate. 

It doesn’t matter how smart, attractive, or successful you are - when you lack confidence, you will be falling short of your own potential.

Tell me if any of these sound familiar to you:

“You always fail at everything you do.” 

“You could be doing so much more with your life.”

“If you get rejected, it’s because you’re not good enough.”

“Other people your age are much more successful than you.”

“If you’re in a bad spot, you have no one but yourself to blame.”

Feeling motivated yet?

Are you tired of letting your inner critic run your life?

Today, I, Dr. Naieema along with my guests, Coach Lisha, Success Coach for High-Achieving Millennials who want less stress and more success and joy, discuss tips that can help you break free of  the endless cycle of criticism, insults, and self-defeating thoughts that keep you feeling stuck in your business and in life. 

What You’ll Learn From this Episode: 

• The impact that your inner critic can have on every aspect of your life; 
• Some tools you can use to help quiet your inner critic 
• That struggling from low self-esteem doesn’t make you weak! With the right support, therapy and coping techniques, you can scale your business to unimaginable heights and change your mind set for the better!

Featured on the Show: 

• Are you ready to silence your inner critic and boost your own voice instead? I would love to hear from you! Send me a DM @drnaieema
• I would love to hear how listening to the podcast has helped you! Please write a review.
• Ready to get unstuck from $5k-15k months and earn $30k+ months in 90 days; Apply to work with us in The Determined FemPreneuer Program. 
• Follow Dr. Naieema on IG @drnaieema
• Find Coach Lisha @ Coach Lisha

Every small business should be using Standard Operating Procedures!

SOPs are a highly effective tool for managing your team and reducing stress and overwhelm.

If your business doesn’t have any SOPs in place, I’m almost certain that you are a CEO silently struggling with intense levels of stress? 

While also dealing with: 

• Insomnia;
• Social Isolation;
• Severe self-care neglect due to an inability to focus on your own care and rejuvenation.

Which can also lead to: 

• Overall poor physical and mental health;
• Makes you susceptible to higher levels of uncertainty, anxiety, powerlessness, and responsibility for what's truthfully out of our control;
• You detaching from your own needs, disconnecting from friends and loved ones, and sacrificing other sources of meaning such as relationships, parenting, travel and play because you are always working and worrying.

How is this working for you and how long do you think you can sustain this?

Today, I seek to empower women entrepreneurs to implement SOPs in their business operations. This will allow you to get new employees up to speed faster, keep veteran employees accountable, and prevent you from having to spend countless hours having to personally delegate every task. My goal is help you see the many benefits implementing SOPs can have for your business and your mental health!

What You’ll Learn From this Episode: 

• The tremendous benefits SOPs can have on the health of both you and your business. 
• How creating SOPS can lead to greater compliance and higher performance from your employees.
• How SOPs can free of time for both you and your employees which leads to less stress and overwhelm.  

Featured on the Show: 

• Are you a CEO struggling to create SOPs for your business? I can help! Send me a DM @drnaieema
• I would love to hear how listening to the podcast has helped you! Please write a review.
• Ready to get unstuck from $5k-15k months and earn $30k+ months in 90 days; Apply to work with us in The Determined FemPreneuer Mastermind. 
• Follow Dr. Naieema on IG @drnaieema

Small business owners wear many hats, especially when they’re just getting started. 

Marketing is your avenue to engage with customers and nurture them. 

There are lots of opportunities to find and market to potential clients—you just need to know where to start!

What is holding you back from mastering your brand and emerging as a leader?

Maybe you: 

• Feel uncomfortable in the spotlight;
• Don’t fit into typical gender stereotypes;
• Insecurities about physical appearance and overall lack of confidence in your ability to capture the attention of your target audience.

What it also leads to: 

• Low brand visibility; 
• Stagnant marketing ideas due to lack of ownership and vision;
• Copycat marketing that doesn’t distinguish your brand from others;
• A branding and marketing scheme that doesn’t serve your or your clients.

Are you sick of playing it safe and are ready to step into your purpose?

Today, I, Dr. Naieema along with my guests, Cassandra Alexis (CEO of Opulent Outcomes), gives you advice on how to master your stories, so that you can show up as the face of your business! If you are ready to stop hiding and start emerging as the leader of your brand and your business—you must tune in! We discuss the importance of a personal brand and using your lived experiences to attract your ideal clients and build a brand that is authentic, and tailor made to you and your target audience! 

What You’ll Learn From this Episode: 

• How to overcome your fears to increase visibility for your business
• 6 Prong Approach to Improve your Marketing Strategy 
• Branding is organic, it’s ever changing, requires constant updates and work to make it better—be kind to yourself!

Featured on the Show: 

• Ready to get unstuck from $5k-15k months and earn $30k+ months in 90 days; Apply to work with us in The Determined FemPreneuer Mastermind. 
• I would love to hear how listening to the podcast has helped you! Please write a review.
• Follow Dr. Naieema on IG @drnaieema 
• Find Cassandra Alexis at @CassandraAlexis

Did you know that selling isn’t about pitching or bringing others around to our ideas but instead about starting a conversation? 

Sales is about asking the right questions so that you can get to the root of a potential client’s problem and show them how your business is a solution. 

Success in sales doesn’t come down to the ideas you offer, but in the service you provide.

The challenge isn’t to out-talk your lead by sounding like an oily used car salesman, but how to sniff out customer problems before they arise and offer solutions before they’re needed.

Are you struggling to generate consistent revenue from leads due to being completely afraid of the sales process?

Does any of these apply to you: 

• You are afraid to contact a potential lead? 
• Freeze up as soon as you hear a sales objection?
• Are afraid to raise your prices because you don’t think your client base will be able to afford it?

If you answered yes to any of the above, did you know that this behavior ultimately leads to:

• Stagnant growth; 
• To high stress levels, burnout, depression, and overwhelm.
• You to doubt your purpose and your ability to scale your business;

If you never learn how to find your groove during the sales process, what would your business look like in 1 year…5 years…would your business still exist?

Today, I will discuss the mistake we make as women entrepreneurs when we view the sales process as upselling to our clients instead of providing them with a resource that will improve their lives. I will give you the tools you need to understand that you are doing your potential clients a disservice when you let your fear and anxiety around pricing and sales prevent you from serving your clients through your programs. 

What You’ll Learn From this Episode: 

• How to overcome your fear the sales process
• How to use Dr. Naieema’s advice about overcoming your money blocks to close sales without the fear, anxiety, and overwhelm.
• How to grow comfortable handling sales objections with ease so that you can grow your business to astronomical heights while serving the community that needs you most!

Featured on the Show: 

• Don’t forget to tag @drnaieema in your To Sell is to Serve Posts on social media #ToSellis2Serve
• Want to learn more about my SLAY System for Generating Consistent Leads? 
• Ready to get unstuck from $5k-15k months and earn $30k+ months in 90 days; Apply to work with us in The Determined FemPreneuer Mastermind . 
• I would love to hear how listening to the podcast has helped you! Please write a review.
• Follow Dr. Naieema on IG @drnaieema 

It’s a myth that protecting intellectual property (IP) only benefits larger businesses and is unsuited to smaller companies.

A strategic handling of a company's intangible assets can catapult small, local businesses toward greater global recognition.

In fact, the evidence is that small serviced based businesses that apply for patents, trademarks or designs are more likely to grow quickly and succeed than those that do not!

Are you a serviced based entrepreneur struggling to scale your business due to lack of knowledge on intellectual property?

Which results in: 

• Stress and overwhelm;
• Stagnant Business Growth; 
• Inability to hire needed staff;
• Lack of Access to Capital and Funding;
• The potential for intellectual property theft due to you not properly securing you brands, systems, and processes.

What it also leads to: 

• Increased levels of stress;
• Potential business failure;
• Burnout due to constantly having to work to find positive streams of income to funnel into your business.

This can’t be life Sis!

Today, I, Dr. Naieema along with my guests, Erin Austin (Consultant and lawyer who uses her 25+ years of practicing law, including roles as COO and general counsel at IP-driven companies, to help founders of expertise-based businesses turn their income generators into scalable, saleable wealth builders), discuss the importance of Intellectual Property creation and acquisition for  small businesses. We spill the tea on the benefits of growing license sales and royalty revenue by trademarking your brand, logo, and processes to help you make bank by creating and sustaining a positive cash flow so that you scale your business and continue to build generational wealth. 

What You’ll Learn From this Episode: 

• The value service-based businesses gain from protecting their IP assets
• How a strategic handling of your company’s intangible assets can catapult it toward greater global recognition.
• Steps you must take to build you business’ IP, maintain positive streams of income, and how to use them to help scale your business with ease. 

Featured on the Show: 

• Ready to get unstuck from $5k-15k months and earn $30k+ months in 90 days; Apply to work with us in The Determined FemPreneuer Mastermind. 
• I would love to hear how listening to the podcast has helped you! Please write a review.
• Follow Dr. Naieema on IG @drnaieema 
• Find Erin Austin at linkedin.com/in/erinaustin/ 

Your business growth stalled. 

You’ve suddenly reached a growth plateau in your business. 

You’ve noticed little changes in your cash flow, sales and revenue, customer acquisition, employee hiring and on-boarding.

You are frustrated!

You haven’t implemented any operational changes, yet you’re not reaching the level of revenue consistency you’ve experienced for years.

Right now, growth is flat, and you’re frustrated. 

Own it.

What should you do to reignite growth?

Today, I, Dr. Naieema and my co-host, Daisy Lopez—the Liberated Latina-- discuss the challenges of being Women of Color entrepreneurs trying to scale our businesses while dealing with patriarchy, sexism, and racism. We shed light on the struggles of business growth plateau brings challenges, and how you can turn them into opportunities to take your business to the next level of growth. We discuss the potential causes of stalled business growth and give solutions for breaking through those challenges. 

What You’ll Learn From this Episode: 

• How to overcome stalled sales/plateaus 
• Tips for recognizing the potential causes of stalled business growth
• How you can move past your frustration, take action. And reach your financial goals

Featured on the Show: 

• Ready to get unstuck from $5k-15k months and earn $30k+ months in 90 days; Apply to work with us in The Determined FemPreneuer Mastermind . 
• I would love to hear how listening to the podcast has helped you! Please write a review.
• Follow Dr. Naieema on IG @drnaieema 
• Daisy Lopez - @TheLiberatedLatina

According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, most businesses that were destroyed by the pandemic were women owned!

As of May 2021, more than 37% of small businesses have closed their doors.

Women-owned businesses have borne the brunt of this economic devastation.

Want to know how the ones who made it to the other side survived? 

They did so by thinking out of the box to find new ways to Generate Consistent Leads.

Are you struggling to generate consistent leads outside of social media for your business?

This means that: 

• You’re using the wrong/same broken strategy; 
• Your follow through isn’t effective; 
• Content that is lacking substance;

Which Leads:

• Stagnant growth; 
• To high stress levels, burnout, depression, and overwhelm.
• You to doubt your purpose and your ability to scale your business;

If you never learn how to use other methods the don’t include social media to generate leads, what would your business look like in 1 year…5 years…would your business still exist?

Today, I will discuss other ways to find leads that DON’T include social media to generate leads and scaling your business to six figures and beyond. I will also give you some useful alternative sources that you can use that speak directly to the heart of your client so that you can close your sales with ease—and without relying solely on social media channels. 

What You’ll Learn From this Episode: 

• Other ways to find leads that don’t include social media; 
• How to use Dr. Naieema’s 3 Tips networking in your community—locally, nationally, and globally—that will open up new channels for generate consistent leads.
• How to grow comfortable in these new spaces so that you can grow your business to astronomical heights while serving the community that needs you most!

Featured on the Show: 

• Want to learn more about my SLAY System for Generating Consistent Leads? 
• Ready to get unstuck from $5k-15k months and earn $30k+ months in 90 days; Apply to work with us in The Determined FemPreneuer Mastermind . 
• I would love to hear how listening to the podcast has helped you! Please write a review.
• Follow Dr. Naieema on IG @drnaieema 

Are you someone that starts a new project or business every time you have a new idea? 

Do you find that you have so many passion projects and businesses that you sometimes find it hard to fully focus on original purpose of your business?

You're energized by new ideas and projects—but, that also means that you're constantly starting new projects and business ventures—which may actually be causing more harm to both you and your business!

While this may seem like a great path to success, it also means that you rarely have time to get anything done because you have your hands in too many jars at once!

This leads to: 

• Inability to focus and follow through with a project/vison.
• Sabotaging a project due to boredom and inability to focus on important tasks. 
• Too many ideas with unrealistic optimism which leads to unrealistic goal that can have negative impact on capacity, resources, people, and profitability. 

What it also leads to: 

• Poor attention to detail which can quickly lead to disastrous outcomes.
• Poor mental health due to overwhelm, lack of rest, and poor time management.
• Increased feeling of overwhelm due to a growing pile of unfinished projects and poor planning of your ideas and client messaging. 

How is this working for you and how long do you think you can sustain this?

Today, our guest, Henrietta Danel, Strategic Business Coach, discuss how she has helped female business leaders and entrepreneurs attract clients without trying to do everything. Henrietta discusses her 4 strategies for attracting more by taking complicated strategies, dissecting them and putting them back together in such a way that it is easier to understand and implement. With greater clarity come better focus and plan that attract more clients and leads to greater visibility and financial growth.  

What You’ll Learn From this Episode: 

• How trying to accomplish too much can negatively impact your business.
• Henrietta Danel’s 4 strategies for consistently attracting more clients
• Recognizing that your time is valuable and how you use it effects your overall wellbeing, happiness, and productivity.

Featured on the Show: 

• Ready to get unstuck from $5k-15k months and earn $30k+ months in 90 days; Apply to work with us in The Determined FemPreneuer Program. 
• I would love to hear how listening to the podcast has helped you! Please write a review.
• Follow Dr. Naieema on IG @drnaieema 
• Find Henrietta Danel on IG @HenriettaDanel

Marriage and Family Life can get messy and overwhelming at times.

Adding Entrepreneurship to the mix creates its own unique strains and stressors.

Are you struggling to successfully juggle your roles as a wife, mom, and entrepreneur without all the guilt and overwhelm?

This leads to: 

• Anger
• Resentment
• Unsupported by your spouse
• Constant need for validation from your spouse

Which can also lead to: 

• Stagnant business growth.
• Feeling like the lines between business and home life could use some definition.
• Life feeling like one big circus, putting out one fire after another with no time to connect and enjoy each other.

How is this working for you and how long do you think you can sustain this?

Today, I, Dr. Naieema along with Lacey Taylor, Army vet and CEO of The Melanated Millennial Homemaker discuss what it really takes to create a marriage that supports your business and a business that supports your marriage. Because, no one should ever have to choose between their dedication to their family and their passion for their business!

What You’ll Learn From this Episode: 

• Unique challenges that women entrepreneurs who are homemakers face while trying to scale their businesses
• Tips to create a household routine that gives your family the consistency they need while also allowing you time to home in on your purpose and scale your business without the overwhelm!
• How Lacey was able to make bank while creating a 1 hour a day work schedule. 

Featured on the Show: 

• I would love to hear how listening to the podcast has helped you! Please write a review.
• Ready to get unstuck from $5k-15k months and earn $30k+ months in 90 days; Apply to work with us in The Determined FemPreneuer Mastermind. 
• Follow Dr. Naieema on IG @drnaieema
• Find Lacey Taylor @ @melanatedhomemakers