Do you think you're just too small – barely a blip on the radar – and that selling your business isn't an option? In this episode, we talk with Lorraine Ball, corporate dropout turned marketing agency owner turned acquisition negotiator extraordinaire! Learn all about what it really takes to build an agency and plan an exit strategy and retirement plan by selling your business. 

We all got into business for ourselves for similar reasons, believe it or not. Many of those reasons are exciting and uplifting, but many other reasons are scary, ugly, and sad. Your business is an extension of you, and – according to our guest, Nicole Lewis-Keeber – it's an entirely independent entity that you're in a relationship with. If you don't want the little "t" traumas of your past to repeat themselves in your life, it's time to heal and build a healthier relationship in your business. Listen in as Nicole Lewis-Keeber shares her powerful exercises of healing and talks about her work with Brené Brown in this week's episode. 

Raewyn Guerrero knows first-hand what burnout feels like – as you likely do, too. It wasn't until she dropped out of the corporate world that she was able to see what was draining her energy from the inside: her gut health. Now, she's devoted her professional life to helping entrepreneurs and executives reclaim their health, joy, and vitality with proper gut health and her unique "DRESS" model of success. 

Let's face it... being a creative entrepreneur isn't easy when you have work piling up, deadlines creeping in, and you just don't feel like being creative. What you produce as a creative is strongly influenced by your mood; so how do you produce good work – or get any work done at all – when you're not in the mood? Listen in as Rai discusses working when you don't feel like it – through depression, PTSD, anxiety, or even just a rainy day. 

Readiness vs. willingness: Is there a difference when it comes to changing your vibration frequency that will advance your life and business? Find out why it is so important to be on the right frequency of life to attract the things that you want. Tammy Braswell discusses how your frequency may keep changing channels despite your best efforts due to your past and energy being emitted from the inner most parts of you, and how to keep your frequency dialed in to the right channel.

Do you have the courage to call yourself an expert in the things that you do well but at the same time granting yourself the opportunity to learn more? In this episode, fitness and nutrition expert, Nate Palmer, discusses the importance of allowing ideas time to percolate, keeping the good and bad content put out there by your business, and above all, forward momentum. It could be that “consistent effort overtime” is the missing key to unlocking your inner-expert and the successful business that you so crave, find out more on this episode of the Soar! Podcast. 

“Have you already decided things can’t get better or are you open to a new possibility?” Merit Kahn poses a question that could revolutionize an industry, turning the average everyday sales pitch into a selection process with a mutually beneficial outcome for both freelancer and client. A personal touch could make all the difference, there is a way to have a transactional business in a relational way - listen to this podcast episode to find out how! 

In a constantly changing hyper-digital world, is your voice loud enough to be heard? Misty Milioto took a risk and became a successful freelance travel writer. In this episode hear how she got started, helpful tips for beginning freelancers, and ways to build meaningful professional relationships where your voice can be heard.

It's easy to do what you do well in your business – whether that's writing, designing, problem-solving, tasking. The business-y stuff of being a self-employed creative is where it starts to get far more difficult and far less sexy. Join us for this episode where we get a breakdown of when you should be a sole proprietor, an LLC, or an S-Corp (or, god forbid, a C-Corp!) with The Freelance CFO, Katelyn Magnuson. Inside, you'll learn about the smart factors you'll want to consider to save big at tax time, plus a number of financial knowledge bombs you'll want to pick up. 

Are you dialed in to the right frequency to benefit your business?  How do you cope with shifting energy and the things that tank your energy levels? In this episode, Michelle Clarke explores helpful suggestions that could cleanse your energy, realign your energetic field, and cut what no longer lights you up.