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If you have been struggling with how to increase revenue, I want to teach you how you can increase revenue in your business without extra hustle or driving yourself crazy. 

If you've been in business for a while, most of us coaches will come along and tell you to increase your prices. Sometimes that’s the right answer; sometimes it’s not. 

So, let’s talk about what you can actually do to increase revenue without increasing your prices:

Look at your expenses

There is so much money flying out of business accounts and personal accounts. Ask yourself, Where are you spending money on subscriptions, and where are you spending money on software? 

You can also look at things you’re spending on that aren’t necessary. Here’s an example: When I had a new client sign up for a new program, we would send huge, expensive packages all the way around the world. We loved them. But it was so much money going out.

Instead, for people who don't live inside the United States, we decided to send them gift cards to their favorite local store so they could pick out things themselves. It ended up really decreasing our expenses, and it actually increased the joy in most of our customers.

Where are your customers and clients failing

Deconstruct where your customers and clients are failing. An example from one of my recent clients was to deal with late cancellations and late shows to her one-on-one sessions. This did two things: One, it did end up increasing her revenue, and two people started showing up on time, which actually benefits everybody.

The other thing is a late cancellation fee. If someone has decided at the last minute not to rehire you for a subscription or to renew their contract with you, but they said they would and changed their mind. Similarly, you can put a fee into your contract. If they're signing the contract for six months and for some reason they choose to leave early, that's fine. But here's a cancellation fee of 50% to 100%. Make sure it is very clear in all of your documentation.

Remember as the business owner, you have the discretion whether or not to charge that fee. 

Work you’ve already done.

Most of the time, just talking about what you have for sale will end up increasing sales. It may not increase sales for the one specific thing you were offering, but people remember you, and they may come back and purchase something else.

Has there been a marketing campaign that didn't work as well as you wanted? Go back and tweak it, and try it again. The benefit is that it won’t take you weeks or months to put together.

Also, reach out to past clients. How are they? What's been happening in their business? Ask them for referrals if they're not ready to work with you again right now, or if they're not looking to buy something new from you right this minute. They may know somebody who is.

Listen in for the final tip!

Mentioned in this episode: Save your spot in The Abundance Academy: https://sarahwalton.typeform.com/to/X8lEWujM 

What’s Causing the Results You Have Right Now?: https://sarahwalton.com/causing-results/ 

Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:

Test That Marketing Tactic to Accelerate Your Business: https://sarahwalton.com/test-marketing/  3 Easy Tips for Your Sales Conversations: https://sarahwalton.com/sales-conversations/ 

You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton  

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Limiting beliefs are everywhere, and they can sound very subtle. They can sound like, I'm too old to do that. I should have done that by noon, and now it's 2 p.m. I can't make that much money. That’s a big one and today's guest goes deep, as she shares her own personal story about how much money she didn't think she could really make.

Molly Claire is a Master Coach Instructor and founder of Holistic Master Coach Training inside The Masterful Coach Collective.  She helps coaches develop superior coaching skills so they can guarantee results for their clients, while designing a simple, profitable business model. Molly says she was born with entrepreneur blood. As a kid, if she wanted something, she had to figure out how to earn the money. In adulthood, she was a stay-at-home mom, but was always looking for the thing -- the thing that is going to allow her to use her gifts and help er feel alive and help others, and also have that balance in her life.

Molly found coaching at a crisis point in her life. She had three kids, and had just been diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome. She was depressed, her marriage was struggling, and she couldn’t be the person she wanted to be. Molly did a coaching session and it blew her mind.

“I remember thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, this is really something.’ And number one, wow, there's more possibility in my life. And number two, this is something I want to do. I want to help other people have this experience,” says Molly.

Molly says we all have limits because we have perceptions of the world. We have these ways that we see what's possible and what's not. We could all think today about what things you believe that you are limited in, just in small ways. Then ask yourself, is this really true? 

One of her own past beliefs centered on money. At the time, she was launching her business and going through a divorce. With three children, she wanted to provide well, but she was terrified of finances.

Her own coach asked her, “well, why don’t you just make as much money as your husband does?”

The question was absurd to Molly. Her answer, a limiting belief, said to her, “well I can’t because I’m a woman.”

“I didn't want to claim it. And yet there it was, clear as day that I had a belief that as a woman, I could not make as much money as a man,” says Molly.

She started collecting evidence that her belief was a lie. She found women who made more money than her husband -- meaning her goal to make $250,000 was possible.

As you’re collecting evidence, it’s important that we pay attention to who we're listening to and what we're giving credence to. The narrative starts to become part of your normalized conversation.

“As women, when we are building a business and we believe that our business and our personal life are in conflict with each other, it lends itself to us always feeling spread thin, overwhelmed, guilty,” says Molly. “I should be here. I should be there. It's not useful. What I believe is that your personal life and your business are two parts of a bigger picture, which is your ultimate way of existing and living in the world.”

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Connect with guest Molly Claire: https://mollyclaire.com/ 

Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:

How to Let Go of the Bully In Your Brain: [add link]

You Deserve the Money: https://sarahwalton.com/bookkeeping-for-women/ 

You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton  

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Are you mean to yourself? It seems like a strange question to ask. I’m so stupid! Ugh, I can’t believe I did that! You know what I’m talking about. Those moments where we attack with negative self-talk.

Today’s guest, Allison Guibault, helps women release self-doubt and deal with what she calls high functioning anxiety. She has made it her job on planet Earth as both a therapist and a coach, to help women let go of doubt, shame and limiting beliefs so they can reconnect to their confidence, reclaim their empowerment and realign with their intuition and highest power. Allison was stuck in a corporate job that she was successful at but didn’t really like. She was burnt out and exhausted. One day, she snapped and said she rushed to her therapist’s office. 

“I spent the next few years really trying to rework my entire life, and it was really hard,” says Allison. “There wasn't a lot of messaging out there that I was connecting to about, you know, things you talk about like abundance, mindset, the ability to change your mind.”

But she did it. And she hopes her work coaching helps other women shorten the learning curve in seeing there’s another way to work hard, keep all their core qualities and find fulfilment in life.

The truth is, we’re really impressionable. Allison thinks back to all the messaging we receive as girls, as simple as, “Don’t speak up in class, you’re going to come off as bossy,” which taught us to quiet ourselves. Whereas a boy in class doing the same thing might hear that he’s a leader. 

Overtime, we start to collect all of these stories about what life is supposed to look like. Allison says it’s important to ask yourself where this thought came from? 

“Shifting our thoughts from something that's really negative to something positive -- and it doesn't even have to be positive,” says Allison. “We can land on neutral. Like I'm just not going to bully myself today.”

It does come down to science. The more you think something, the easier it is to access that thought and the more you start to apply it.

It could be as simple as saying, “I’m allowed to have needs.” This will chemically shift your brain, and you’ll become more likely to believe that. 

Allison likes to offer a 30-day challenge. When you’re brushing your teeth, practice saying something – literally anything – that isn’t negative. 

“I get a lot of resistance,” says Allison. “Like someone who's not used to saying nice things to themselves. Even neutral things to themselves. They're in that mind chatter that's really negative. This is going to feel weird and uncomfortable.”

Healing is powerful. Personal growth is incredible. Change is transformative. But you can’t get to any of those steps without some discomfort. Some fear. Healing usually means letting things go – whether it’s old patterns or a relationship, which can be really difficult for people.

“To take those steps, we need to resecure our safety. We need to feel supported because we don't usually do that work like blindly and alone.”

Sign up for Allison’s newsletter: https://www.anotefromyourtherapist.com/innercircle  Connect with Allison : https://www.instagram.com/anotefromyourtherapist/ 

Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:

Overcome Societal Expectations of ‘You’re Not Enough’  https://sarahwalton.com/societal-expectations-for-women/ 

What to Do When ‘You Can’t Do Anything Right!’  https://sarahwalton.com/negative-thoughts/ 

You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton  

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We are talking all things marketing -- now, if your hair just stood up on end … or you're thinking you already know everything there is about marketing … or you can chat GPT your way through,  I want you to hang on to your hats and glasses and listen to today's conversation.

Alicia Branham, the marketing powerhouse with a story beyond business savvy. Her journey reflects adaptability and determination, traits cultivated during her formative years when her parents uprooted her to Uruguay. Navigating the challenges of a new language and culture, Alicia not only embraced the unfamiliar but thrived in it. This early experience laid the foundation for her ability to connect with diverse audiences and approach marketing from a truly global perspective.

And the reason it is so important to invest in marketing, it is SO LOUD now. We must be able to stand out so that the people who are looking for us and need our help are going to be able to find us.

Alicia helps brands crush their visual presence with her background in design and marketing. 

When she started, she ran an in-house marketing department for a large valve manufacturer. It was the sort of behind the scenes – or your wall – reason that people have clean water in their faucets and can bathe their babies. She learned what it entails to buy an American-made product and the pressures put on people requesting her services to help them succeed.

She works with a lot of second- and third-generation businesses to freshen up or rebrand their services to help them gain recognition in their industry. 

“At some point, you have to care about how you look and represent yourself to the world, even if you are a small business,” says Alicia. “It's no different than walking out of the house and running a brush through your hair and putting on some clean clothes.”

Alicia says the one thing she wished more business owners did is to create a marketing plan for themselves – no matter what product or service they provide. How are you going to attract any new business and grow if you don't invest in your business's marketing plan? 

“Wouldn't you want someone that maybe specializes in your industry to bring you some new insights and some new data … and help your business really stand out? A lot of people think that they have to do it alone,” says Alicia. “You don’t.”

She points to using contractors, who can help fill a need. One of the first people Alicia hired was a bookkeeper.

Alicia says a mistake she made in her business was not getting her monthly numbers. Alicia says her life changed when she started looking at her numbers. It also makes you a stronger business owner, even if you're a solopreneur, it gives you all the tools and the information that you need to make educated decisions.

If you’re looking to start investing in marketing, the first step is to really understand your end user, your client or your customer and the spaces they occupy.

“What's your message? What are you trying to get across? Who are you trying to attract? And then start building a conversation around your clients ... providing value in the form of either blog posts or articles,” says Alicia.

“Marketing and just everything in general is just is changed so much, but you shouldn't be afraid of it.”

Connect with Alicia Branham: https://www.aliciabranham.com and https://www.getbran.com  Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:

Test That Marketing Tactic to Accelerate Your Business https://sarahwalton.com/test-marketing/ 

Marketing Not Working? Human Design Could Help https://sarahwalton.com/human-design-adriana/ 

You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton  

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If you really feel in your heart, “I can't wait till my kids grow up,”-- what you mean to say is how, do I solve for the and? How do I solve for joy with my children and the thing that fuels me so that I can be available for the joy with my children moments? 

Tiffany Sauder is a wife, mom, entrepreneur, CEO, board member, investor, podcast host and keynote speaker. She founded the marketing agency, Element Three, 18 years ago and ever since she and her husband have been building their companies and their family on the exact same timeline. That means four kids, three businesses and two careers, all building towards one abundant life.

We are going to talk about what happens inside a household when a woman is truly ambitious. Be sure to listen to the full recording to get her tips about implicit expectations vs explicit agreements and how she found herself “marrying” the same man twice!

Tiffany says entrepreneurship is just this massive process of discovering yourself – your real motivations, your real, a real understanding of your talents and gifts. She says she loves the pressure the business environment affords her. 

“You talk about putting more money in the hands of women. I feel like my job is to, like, show that you can do this,” says Tiffany. She would often hear an exhausted “I feel so out of balance.”

Tiffany recognized there were seasons in her life where she slept four or five hours a night, but no part of her felt tired. And she started to realize that balance wasn’t connected to time.

Her definition of balance is the intersection of your priorities and your values, and being “out of balance is when we begin to behave in ways that are not aligned with our priorities. For example,  let's say, health is a priority, but you’re having trouble eating foods that are real. You're not making time for movement. You're not making time for personal reflection. You begin to say, “I am so out of balance.”

But what if you said to yourself more specifically, “I am not honoring in my choices, my priorities.”

“When I'm just like ‘I'm so out of balance’ that feels like I'm a reactive victim to this concept that other people are sort of putting on me instead of saying if I fell out of balance, it probably means I am violating a priority, or I'm pursuing a priority at the expense of a value,” says Tiffany.

She says it doesn't mean the choice to choose this priority was bad. It means that you’re doing it to a degree that is violating what you really care about. In that sense, balance isn’t about time or having more of it.

“I think what you want is to say, I want to be doing things that are moving towards the things I care about. The adventures I want to have. The stuff I want to create value around,” says Tiffany. 

“The causes I want to serve, the people I want to have adventures with, and I want to do those in a way that are aligned with who I am as a human being, which is our values.”

The waitlist is open at the https://LifeOfAndAcademy.com for Tiffany’s four-week course to help two-career families get on top of the life of and, and begin living in a way that feels free and abundant and present.

Mentioned in this episode: The Nordic Theory of Everything : https://amzn.to/4av6MFs  

Connect with Tiffany Sauder: https://www.tiffanysauder.com 

Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:

How to Deal With Mom Guilt and Balance https://sarahwalton.com/albiona/ 

How do I Find Work-Life Balance? https://sarahwalton.com/find-work-life-balance/ 

You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton  

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Have you ever been stuck in a job you hate? Have you been nervous that there's only one possible path for you to take to use your college degree, and that everything else is off limits? Keep your head down. Put in your dues. Everyone raising their hands? Me too.

Today’s guest, Lata Hamilton, is on a mission to help other millennial women carve their own paths for a change in career, leadership and life, and find the confidence and authenticity to truly earn their worth.

Lata was born in India and lived in an orphanage before her Australian parents adopted her. It was the 80s and the orphanage was filled with girls – girls Lata says weren’t valued. 

“I always grew up knowing that I was adopted (…) it's really made me realize just what a big impact that actually was,” says Lata.  “It doesn't matter where you start, it's where you're going and the lives that you change along the way that really matters. And so, for me, that's what I'm always looking to do. It's almost like living up to my full potential.”

She watched her father, the breadwinner, work at one company getting promotion after promotion and raise after raise. She says on an unconscious level, she thought that was the path to success.

Lata went to university and pursued a creative industry – media and communications. When she received her salary offer for her first job in advertising, she realized she could have skipped university and stocked supermarket shelves for the same pay.

“I went into the corporate space because at some level I was like, ‘well, corporate is the way that you go in order to get a bigger salary,’ ” says Lata. “But that's not what happened because I'm not my dad. I'm not a 50-year-old white man.” 

In the first years of her corporate career Lata says she felt stuck and stifled as she came up against people saying “you’ve got to do your time.” She wasn’t getting promotions. She did graduate training for leadership and was offered an entry-level role. It was frustrating.

She did some coaching and moved to a new company that boosted her pay by $20,000 and it was there that she found change management, which had the variety, flexibility and challenge that she wanted.

“We're not going to work for fun,” says Lata. “Otherwise, it would be a hobby, or it would be volunteering. We actually want to go to be compensated.”

Lata loves to share her salary and salary progressions openly because she wants to inspire people about what’s possible. As women, we often don't want to talk about money. But often, that means we don't understand what is possible out there for us.

For Lata, change management was a career path presented to her only once she was in the corporate world. She says if you’re looking to make a change, have the courage to talk to people around you. She suggests that it doesn’t have to be your leader or manager at work; it can be a neutral third party like a colleague or someone outside the company. 

“There are so many ways of doing things, and often we just don't have that information, or we're not aware,” says Lata.

Get Lata's free "Underpaid and Overlooked Coaching Action Guide" with her 5-step formula to change careers with confidence and earn your worth: https://www.latahamilton.com/worthit

Connect with Lata Hamilton : https://www.linkedin.com/in/latahamilton 

Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:

Let Your Ambition Fly: https://sarahwalton.com/ambition/ 

Why Zigzagging Your Path Means More Success : https://sarahwalton.com/susan/    

You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton  

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Do you know how much money you should be saving from your business? Do you know how to create wealth from your business? These are the tougher questions that can enhance your work especially if you're starting to get a handle on your business numbers.

This episode will have you think about all the different ways you can start building wealth for your business and have your money work harder for you.

Kaitlyn Carlson is the Founder & CEO of Theory Planning Partners, a boutique wealth creation firm for the top female entrepreneurs in the United States. Kaitlyn saw her uncle lose his restaurant. She saw her grandfather have to sell his home. She saw the financial stress in her family and felt responsible as the oldest child to learn and create a better future. She graduated with a major in psychology and took her first job in asset management.

“How do they create wealth?” asked Kaitlyn of her clients. “It became very clear to me that in order to create wealth, you need to know the rules of the game, and you need to know how to play the game.”

When people start their business, Kaitlyn says the one thing she wishes business owners do is calculate their financial freedom number. 

“Context leads to intention,” says Kaitlyn. “When I was working with average Americans that were getting ready for retirement, the majority of them were not prepared for retirement, and it was because they didn't have this information earlier in time.”

She says the wealth creation journey is like ascending and descending a mountain. A lot of business owners will put one foot in front of the other without having any idea of where they are.

For emergency funds, Kaitlyn recommends three months’ worth of expenses in cash. Personal emergency funds are similar, anywhere from three to six months of living expenses in a cash reserve.

“Wealth is not a specific number; wealth is the luxury of choice.”

Kaitlyn says it’s ok not to force yourself to love the numbers. If you don’t love doing the bookkeeping, then become successful enough to hire a bookkeeper and delegate.

“Business owners that really start to rise above are the ones that are great delegate and recognize this is always going to be a weakness for me,” says Kaitlyn. “That's where I've really seen the breakaway between, you know, the five figure and then the multi six, seven and eight figure is they're a fantastic delegators.”

To start building wealth, you need to secure the recurring profitability of your business. A mistake entrepreneurs might make is when their business has eclipsed their former salary and can cover their living expenses, they’ll enter a period of lifestyle creep. They’re making more money than they’ve ever made before and they’ll just go out and start spending it – neglecting the financial freedom number that needs to be funded.

“So we really try to catch people when they get to that point of, okay, now my business is doing really well. I'm starting to make more money than it costs to live my lifestyle. This is where I need to stop and assess what my plan is, what my intention is,” says Kaitlyn.

Quit Like A Millionaire: https://amzn.to/490Ny9G  Plan for Profit: https://sarahwalton.com/freedom/ 

Connect with Kaitlyn Carlson : https://theoryplanning.com/ 

Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:

Are You Protecting Your Assets? https://sarahwalton.com/protecting-your-assets/ 

Debt Doesn’t Have to Be a Dirty Word https://sarahwalton.com/debt-for-business/ 

You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton  

Thank you so much for listening. I’m so honored that you’re here and would be so grateful if you could leave a quick review on Apple Podcasts by clicking here, scrolling to the bottom, and clicking “Write a review.” Then we’ll get to inspire even more people!

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Photos are the gateways to our stories. They are the gateway to learning more about our ancestors and where we come from – even if you have a broken family or past; photos can help you heal and understand your stories from a different perspective.

Haleh Shoa is the Founder and CEO of Picturli, a photo organization, curation, archiving, and design studio that helps families, individuals, and businesses transform their photo mess into one sortable digital library.  Haleh firmly believes that our family histories and personal memories are some of the most valuable treasures we can have and that preserving and sharing them is essential for future generations. Today's episode is going to inspire you to listen to the nudges and look at what makes you happy, because you really can start a business based on anything.

Haleh was working as the Director of Operations for Jaguar/Land Rover and was flying around the globe. She loved it. But it made her wonder if she could do it for herself. She started working with a life coach, who asked her what she loved doing the most.

They dug deep, and Haleh realized she loved photo books and creating gallery wall art. Haleh started her business in 2016 and was questioning herself – was she doing the right thing? 

Her passion for photo organizing stems from her family’s history of being uprooted by the Iranian Revolution in 1979. While they were unable to bring most of their belongings to the U.S., they did manage to bring all of their photo albums and memorabilia.  Now, the only memories that remain from Haleh’s childhood are through her family photos and the stories shared with her through the collection she has preserved. “I would take my photos into work and start scanning them,” says Haleh. “Because of the revolution, I have family in four continents. … And it really would get my cousins calling going, ‘Where did you get these photos? We've never seen them.’” Haleh says anytime you start a business, you have to go with the energy of its growth and changes. Haleh’s first client had a house full of 45,000 photos that needed to be organized and archived. While she knew she wanted to do photobooks, this client needed the organization and archival aspect first. She listened and led with service. “It's so incredible to learn someone's story and for them to be able to not now have access to it,” says Haleh.

The first step is to gather all the items – photos, albums, scrapbooks, films and videos, and then to have a goal. That’s where curation comes in.

“We learn about their family birthdays, passings, weddings. And we do a family chart,” she says. Once everything is organized, her team digitizes, renames, and redates all the files. 

Haleh still works on the creative side, designing curated photo books. One of her recent projects involved creating a book that a client used to propose to his girlfriend.

“We're not just the scanning agency. We make sure that we understand your story, and we apply that to your assets.”

To contact Haleh Shoa at Picturli or to download the 7-step guide to archiving and downloading your photos, visit https://www.picturelifecurated.com 

Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:

Does Your Story Matter? (More Than You Know) with Catherine Nikkel https://sarahwalton.com/your-story-matters/ 

How to Make Money as an Artist with Miriam Schulman https://sarahwalton.com/make-money-as-an-artist/ 

You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton  

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Have you ever felt that you just don't look right? That You’re not enough. You should take up less room. Be quieter. Most women really tend to feel this is when it comes to food and weight. Today's guest helps women heal from all of the societal expectations thrown at us.

Ali Sempek is an Internationally Certified Wellness Coach and Founder/CEO of her own women’s empowerment company, Ask Coach Ali. After a decade of disordered eating, she’s changing the narrative of what healthy looks like by helping women transform their relationships with food and who they see in the mirror.

Ali says we live in an action-based society. Do this and get something in return. You do this diet and you'll get this fat loss. You do these things in a relationship and you'll get married. What happens when you do and do and do and do, and you never get the result that you want, or one that's not long lasting?

“If you're not getting what you want, you've got to go all the way back and say, how am I thinking? What is my mindset around this,” says Ali. “Whether it's about limiting beliefs or it's about how I'm showing up in the world or what I think we've been even capable of.”

Ali asks her clients to look at who taught them, or what experience taught them. Your thoughts impact your feelings, your feeling impact your actions, you actions impact your results.

We have become a society that is starting to be more open to mental health, to therapists, to psychologists, to that realm. But there is no one that's in the middle. There's no one that says, “Yes, you might have a lot of areas we need to work on, but you can also love yourself in the interim.”

You're allowed to have the “and” not just the “either or.” Ali says as a coach, she looks at right now to find the reason you're not getting what you want. She recognizes as a wellness coach the reason is probably painful, restrictive or punishing in some contexts. 

“I'm going to say something that might be a little triggering to some people. I find it hilarious that as women, we outsource our intuition to men,” says Ali. “We're outsourcing to men who are trying to help with our hormones, with our relationship to our bodies, our relationship to food. And I just want to shake everybody and go, but they're not a woman. They haven't had the same experiences that you are having.”

We are constantly being told as women what we should be, what we shouldn't be, how we should eat, how we should act, how we should talk. Society is constantly telling us what's wrong with us. And then offering, saying, “here, but buy this and we will help you fix it.”

It teach us that it's our fault, that we are the broken ones, that we need to be fixed. And the only way to be fixed is to buy into the system. But why would it ever want to heal you, Ali asks.

“Investing in yourself is the only knowledge and tool and resource that no one can ever take away from you,” says Ali. We can’t avoid the pressure that is thrown at us. We can't avoid the truth of those conversations and the impact that it's had on each of us.

“I always say curiosity over judgment, always,” says Ali. “You cannot feel curious and judgmental at the same time. Rather than judging yourself, why did I do that? … Get curious about who you are and where that's coming from because that's going to give you a lot more feedback for the future rather than continually keep you stuck.”

Connect with Ali Sempek: https://www.askcoachali.com  

Mentioned: You Are a Goddess by Sophie Bashford: https://amzn.to/3SdDaWy 

Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:

What’s Causing The Results You Have Right Now? https://sarahwalton.com/causing-results/ 

Demand What You Need https://sarahwalton.com/demand/ 

You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton  

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Content warning, this episode includes references to sex trafficking and abuse. 

Megan Camille is a psychic and intuitive business consultant who's built seven- and six-figure businesses from scratch, relying on her intuition and inner guidance.  As a mother with no college education, Megan really understands firsthand the challenges that come with starting a business from the ground up while raising children. She firmly believes that business is 80% energetics and 20% strategy. Her clients have gone on to leave their corporate careers and create successful multiple six figure businesses, add additional streams of income, and enjoy their first million dollars.

Megan loves her work; it has provided a beautiful, full, luxurious life for her and her family. She has five kids and is happily married. But the need to generate her money came after she was sex trafficked as a teenager and spent four years as a prostitute in Vegas and L.A.

When she tried to apply for jobs, she was unemployable. She had a record of having been trafficked. In the adult industry, the punishment falls onto the women and not necessarily those who are abusing or exploiting them.

“I had to learn how to do it a different way,” says Megan. “I started using, you know, my own intuition. And that has really guided me through my entire life.”

“And I don't mean this in an airy-fairy kind of way,” says Megan. “This is where the grit comes in. Oftentimes, it's much more difficult to listen to your intuition than it is to listen to your husband, or to listen to your mother, or to listen to the outside world.”

Megan says it was during her teen years that she really learned the difference between the nervous system, human chatter, emotions, desire, and intuition. 

“My human desire wanted to be with this person who was dangerous, abusive, hurtful, exploitive. …  But my intuition was always “go home, go home, go back to your mom,’” says Megan. “My intuition was always there, but the humanness wanted instant gratification.”

Megan says that experience plays out in business where you want to feel safe – be it seeking approval or thinking you can’t invest in yourself.

If you’re feeling scared about deviating from the plan or what feels safe and secure, Megan suggests getting comfortable with the worst-case scenario. 

Most entrepreneurs and business owners wait for confidence before they take big action. It’s the big action that brings in great results – and confidence comes from those results. 

“Your entry point is in courage. Courage is what you need, not confidence. Confidence comes after courage,” says Megan. “So sometimes it's about just doing it.”

Megan suggests developing a process to move through the feeling of being afraid and spinning your wheels. That’s where the worst-case scenario comes in. 

“Most people are actually more committed to the mediocrity than they are to this big vision. I will actually keep this 40 to 50 hours a week, not spending much time with my family, feeling a little burnt out because at least I know I'm not ‘failing by society’. And worst-case scenario says what does failing actually mean to you?” asks Megan.

Connect with Megan : https://www.megancamille.com  Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:

Top Strengths of the Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur https://sarahwalton.com/highly-sensitive-person/ 

What it Takes to Go From 6 to 7 Figures with Sigrun https://sarahwalton.com/scaling-seven-figure-business 

You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton  

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