Back when I was a baby entrepreneur (aka: 2014/2016 and sometimes it feels like just yesterday), I had a belief that you are only successful if you start one business and build it into 6 figures and beyond.

I’m not sure where this belief stems from - but I can bet a large part comes from entrepreneur culture - the culture that praises those “succeed” and who says you can’t “hack it” if you do something different.

Entrepreneur culture talks a lot about the 10 year timeline as a contribution to overnight success. You know - the people who get rich seemingly overnight and then point back to the 10 years before when they first started - when they pivoted, changed, and changed some more.

I prefer to think of this timeline as a 100 year timeline - it’s a lifetime timeline if you are an entrepreneur.

There will be times while you’re an entrepreneur that you pivot - from one career to another, to something that’s totally different, to adding services, tweaking them, and maybe even going back to where you started from.

Pivots = growth. If you’re not pivoting, you’re not growing.

So the next time you find yourself lamenting how long something is taking you - consider it a lifetime timeline - and maybe you can enjoy the next step instead of wondering when you’ll get there.

This month on the podcast, I’m diving into 4 things I wish I knew before becoming an entrepreneur aka things I would tell my younger self!

In other words: I’m gonna challenge some entrepreneurship myths!

In Episode 113, we’re talking about diversifying income, taking ALL income (from a part-time job, full-time job, or other side hustle) and treating it equally and just as good as any income that comes from your business.

I think of this as redefining entrepreneurship success! Language and what we say has power. How we talk about our business: side hustle, hobby, etc. has power. How we talk about the money we make and where it comes from has power.

I believe it’s incredibly powerful to treat all income as great incoming. There’s a myth in entrepreneur land that ONLY if you generate all your money from your business THEN you’re a successful entrepreneur and I’m gonna call bullshit on that.

It’s an outdated myth that is causing more harm than good.

Because you can do these things and that still makes you a successful entrepreneur:

Go listen to this episode and tell me if you’ve ever experienced this and what you think!

What do you get when you meet two of your biggest financial goals, a needy need for clients, and not having expanded to accommodate your newest upper limit?

You get an ULP - an upper limit problem that looks like ghosting clients.

Inside this week’s podcast episode, I share this amazing concept - Upper Limit Problems - coined by Gay Hendricks and walk you through what happened when my biz was going well - what problems I ran into, what that looked like, the belief I had around his, how I released it and 4 practices I do regularly to expand my own capacity for love joy and abundance.

I had a belief that if I had a lot of money, I would spend it irresponsbility. My upper limit was to then limit my money!

The Masucline / Feminine actions in this week’s episode are SO good  you’ll want to adopt them immediately!

Here they are - what to do when your biz is going well!

This episode comes with some back homework - to listen to Episodes 72-76! In those episodes, I walk you through a process of evaluating your business when something’s not working.

In this episode, we use that as the backbone to find beliefs that don’t serve us, release them, and identify the masculine / feminine actions to take moving forward.

This episode comes full circle to the first in this series when I share my transition from 1:1 coaching, to course to membership to make to couse - and the tweaks I had to make along the way when I wasn’t seeing the results I wanted or intended.

One of my favorite analogies is that entrepreneurship is like the heart EKG - if it’s going up and down, you’re living. If it’s flat lined (or stable or predictable) you’re actually dead. While we think we crave a stability, in entrepreneurship it’s the ups and downs that actually mean life!

Your M/F Actions

This episode is JAM PACKED - here are the cliff notes!

Inside this episode I get unexpectedly emotional + vulnerable as I share an integration I had during my NLP training in Chicago.

I had to release a belief that told me I had to work 24/7. A belief that was keeping me playing small, and allowing me to buy into the “hustle / productivity” culture instead of the planting seeds culture.

I share 3 masculine / feminine practices I use that you can take away from.

TBH this episode has so much juicy goodness I couldn’t even remember it all for this write up.

Go listen!

You know the quote: “If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life”?

After watching so many of my entrepreneur friends work late night, struggle, contemplate going back to a 9-5…

✖️ I’ve realized that this is just not true.✖️

‼️ And the reason it’s not true is because doing what you love when you run a business IS ACTUALLY HARD WORK.

Like… it’s just hard! You are constantly learning new things. You’re operating and doing jobs that you’re not naturally talented at and often know nothing about! You’re working long hours to build something.

You love what you do… and it’s hard! These things can coexist.

✨ And you can learn how to adapt and move through the hardness. Because it’s giving you a lesson.

🎤 On this week’s podcast I’m sharing what to do when it gets HARD in your business - whether that’s because business itself can be hard or because you are also experiencing a specific HARD situation in your life - when that happens - OOOOF - it can become even harder to run a business.

🎤 I share two personal stories whenI experienced both types of hardness in my biz and the masculine + feminie actions I took to work through these.

🎤 Listen to this episode if you’re going through a hard time NOW or if you want to just fortify yourself for the future.

✨ You can love what you do and have it be hard. It’s okay and normal!

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Self-doubt is a sneaky little rat. 🐀

👀 Because often it doesn't stand up and announce its presence like “Yo, I’m totally doubting myself today!”

How it CAN show up -  is in more subtle ways, like:

On this week’s podcast, i’m sharing:

👉 WHAT TO DO WHEN you’re doubting yourself

👉 How doubt can show up

👉 What unresourceful belief you may be believing that you need to release

👉 PLUS 3 masculine + feminine actions you can make to release this belief

Ready to shake off that self doubt and instill a 🔥  of confidence?

DM me to snag one of 2 1:1 coaching spots before the price increases or click the link in my bio to get on the group program wait list.

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We’re wrapping up this series with the last Myth of all the myth that:

Myth #4: People Don’t Want Virtual Styling

Questions for ya:

Your Reframe: what do YOU want to do and how do you want to work with people?

If you want to offer virtual services and you’ve busted through all the other myths, then you need to make the case for how virtual styling services will be a benefit to your clients!

Here are a few reasons for why some people will want virtual services!

If you believe it, it will be true. Whether that is you believing the myth or choosing to believe something different.

Work with me:

🙋 I’m inviting ready to work, committed stylists to apply to work with me in my 1:1 Create Your High Dollar SIgnature Service program. Is this you? Apply here. I have 2 spaces left at the current price. The 1:1 price goes up June 1, 2022.

💃 The May class group is CLOSED and full! Want to be in on the Fall class? Get on the waitlist to be notified of everything first.

The 2nd biggest thing I hear from stylists as to why they can’t have virtual services is that they can’t charge as much.

Your questions:

Your Reframe: Virtual does not equal cheaper.

Repeat after me: Virtual does not equal cheaper.

Do your skills + experience disappear or dissolve when you’re across a screen with someone?  I don’t think so! So why should you charge any less for an exert service and transformation that you’re giving?

It IS up to you to communicate the value + transformation that your clients get so that you can charge accordingly.

Work with me:

✌️ Ready to join the Accelerator and create your high dollar signature service in just 12 weeks? ENROLLMENT IS OPEN! Submit your application here! (Closes 4/20)

🙋 I’m inviting ready to work, committed stylists to apply to work with me in my 1:1 Create Your High Dollar SIgnature Service program. Is this you? Apply here. I have 2 spaces left at the current price. The 1:1 price goes up June 1, 2022.

Maybe after last week’s blog post, you’re convinced that virtual services are not actually harder.

But now you’re running into a different problem - you believe they are not as impactful.

Of course I have some questions for you!

Your Reframe: Virtual styling services are impactful, they are impactful in a different way.

Think back over the past 2 years during the pandemic - what have you done virtually that you formerly did in person? What online courses have you taken? How has the virtual component of it made it impactful? Would you have even been able to do that course if it was only offered in person?

I joined a course called Alive OS in 2020. The first iteration of that program was for 20 women in Texas. Then it went online and the first class was 300, then 500, then 700 students. If that program had only stayed in person, the impact Suzy would have had, would have been SO much less!

Your options and possibilities OPEN UP for major impact when you consider and implement virtual - anything!

If you’re like me, you have big goals for the impact you want to make. You keep yourself SMALL if you aren’t open to virtual styling services.

Your reach + your income has the ability to GROW far more than if you stayed in person.

How are you thinking differently about virtual styling services now?