This is not your typical reflection episode.

2020 sucked. I mean it just did. In a lot of ways, it straight up was a miserable year. I don’t need to remind you of all the reasons why.

But without all the chaos, all the challenges, all the stretching of boundaries, can you really say you’d be here today?

Do you think you would have started your business?

Do you think you’d have dared to dream a better life for yourself?

Or would you have stayed stuck?

Stayed in your excuses?

Stayed in your comfort zone.

(we know nothing transformative happens there)

I’m willing to bet, you would have.

Now 2021—it’s all about hope

It’s about taking everything you’ve learned in 2020 and building on it.

It’s the year you quit your 9-5

Start your business

Scale your business

It’s the year you finally say YES to yourself and stop putting your dreams on hold.

And in true New Year’s Eve fashion, I want you to take a moment with me today to take stock of everything 2020 was—what worked and what definitely could have gone better, and everything you want 2021 to be, and let’s reflect on it.

Sound good? Hit play and enjoy. Cheers to a thriving 2021. :)

Show notes:

www.angelamastrogiacomo.com/blog/episode39

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Kimberly Olson (or The Goal Digger Girl as you may know her) is a name you're going to want to know. Not only because she's on Rachel Hollis' radar (Girl, Wash Your Face and Girl, Stop Apologizing) but because she has built an EMPIRE through The Goal Digger Girl, helping female entrepreneurs with their sales and marketing.

You know I love to get pretty real with my guests, talking about those moments that make and break us, and Kimberly brings it all, along with sharing her strategies for overcoming limiting beliefs, building an audience (and selling to them) on social media, and building the business and life of your dreams.

Hit play on today’s episode—you’re gonna love it.

Find Kimberly at:

https://thegoaldiggergirl.com/

Show notes:

www.angelamastrogiacomo.com/blog/episode37

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I am SO excited to be answering all your questions about starting a business, scaling a business, and all the little things that get you there! I am answering YOUR questions about:

-How do I find clients

-How do I get high ticket clients

-How do I network?

-Who do I hire in my business first? a VA? An OBM? Someone else?

-What systems should I use?

-How do I niche down?

-What's the best way to do lead generation?

-How do I start or scale my business while working a full-time 9-5?

-How do I go live?

-How do I come up with content ideas?

-How do I grow or scale my 1:1 coaching business?

and soooo much more! I can’t wait for you to hear this one (and I am SO excited to finally have the opportunity to do this! It was so much fun!)

Hit play, and enjoy! :)

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Show notes:

www.angelamastrogiacomo.com/blog/episode36

As always, I appreciate every single review (they put a huge smile on my face!) and would love to read yours. Please leave a review on iTunes

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Did 2020 kind of leave you with a bad taste in your mouth? Do you feel like, despite keeping busy, putting in the time, and wanting this more than anything, you ultimately ended up in the same place you started?

It’s easy to blame it on the pandemic or a million other things but let’s be real—when you want something you make it happen. The good news? This is your business. You can shift gears any time you want and every day truly is a fresh start.

So let’s get real and see what went wrong and how you can give it a refresh in 2021. I want this to be the year you ditch your 9-5 and become a full-time CEO in your own business.

So let’s do it, ok?! Hit play, toss your ego at the door, and let’s make this happen.

Show notes:

www.angelamastrogiacomo.com/blog/episode35

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You know how when you first get into entrepreneurship it feels like everyone is always talking about how tired they are, and how much they’re working, and how they can’t fit it all into their day? And here you are, just starting your business, super excited for all the possibilities, and then all of a sudden…you start to feel like that. You feel overwhelmed. You feel endlessly busy. And everywhere you look, everyone else is constantly busy and complaining about being busy and yet never really getting any further in their business.

And you think, “this can’t be it, this can’t be what entrepreneurship is, I didn’t sign up for this.” And before long you’re buying into the whole “hustle mentality” and no matter what you try, you feel like you can’t catch a break. You feel the freedom you so desperately wanted slipping away and you start to feel stuck.

Sound familiar?

I have news for you—it does not have to be this way.

Listen, I will never tell you being an entrepreneur doesn’t require some hard work and sacrifice, especially in the beginning. It isn’t easy. You have to work at the things you want, get creative with planning, and break boundaries. But it should never burn you out. It should never make you feel worthless.

And the problem with this “always busy” culture we’ve created around entrepreneurship is we make our self worth tied to how busy we are (note: not how productive) and that is a recipe for disaster.

What I love so much about this interview with Pascale is that we break that myth that you have to hustle 24/7 and talk about how learning to relax and step back is actually incredibly beneficial to your business and personal growth. We talk about the lighter side of entrepreneurship and how you can start to implement these strategies (and break free of the hustle mentality) so you can focus on productivity and progress—not just busy work.

I hope you love this episode as much as I do!

Show notes:

www.angelamastrogiacomo.com/blog/episode34

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2020 didn't go as planned? You are not alone. This year has posed a lot of challenges BUT it’s also created a lot of inspirational new stories, including the businesses you all started this year!  And that’s something to celebrate.

I have seen so many of you chasing your dreams this year, making this the year you say “yes” to living the life you want and making your dreams a reality and I don’t know that would have happened without the challenges.

That said, I think. I speak for everyone when I say, bring on the magic of the new year! There’s just something so special about this time of year—fresh slate, new beginnings, and you know I can’t resist a chance to pull out my journal and get to work planning and dreaming.

Whether you’re like me and you love to plan or it feels like the most daunting thing ever, you’re going to find this episode really helpful as we dive into a step by step on goal setting for the New Year. So grab your journal and hit play—this step-by-step goal setting guide is going to give you exactly what you need to start 2021 off right.

P.s. If you remember in episode way back in episode 9 I did a 6-month goal check-in which was enlightening because i had pivoted so much, and I talked about why it was ok to let some goals go. If this sounds like the year you had, be sure to check that one out.

Show notes:

www.angelamastrogiacomo.com/blog/episode33

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Have you ever looked at someone hitting 5k, 10k, 20k months and wondered—what is their secret? You’re convinced if only you had what they had you too could hit those income milestones. But the truth is, there is no one secret to a 5k/month business. But there are key qualities, habits, and strategies between the entrepreneurs that hit them, and that’s what we’re talking about on today’s episode.

What does it take to hit 5k+ months and how can you start doing it?

You’re about to find out. :) Hit play and enjoy!

Show notes:

www.angelamastrogiacomo.com/blog/episode31

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Soooo….this year did not go as planned, did it?

And yet, you’re still here. Many of you started your business this year, took a leap of faith, and dared to dream of a life different than the one you’re living right now.

You started to see the possibilities and now you’ll stop at nothing to make them happen.

For today’s Thanksgiving themed episode, I wanted to mix reflection with practicality in an episode I’m calling “10 Things Future You Will Thank You For.”

It’s all about the little things you can begin doing today, to set you up for the tomorrow you’re dreaming of. Small, but powerful actions that will help you quit your 9-5 and be a full time entrepreneur in the new year.

I also have a little something special highlighting YOU (yes, you!) at the end, so stick around for that. ;-)

From the bottom of my heart, thank you for making this year so special. I’m incredibly grateful for you. <3

Show notes:

www.angelamastrogiacomo.com/blog/thanksgivingbonus

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Mindset is a tricky thing. In fact, it’s one of the things that took me the longest to wrap my head around as an early-stage entrepreneur. Give me all the strategies, the tactile things I could do and I was on it. But when it came to mindset—that intangible thing, to be honest, I just wasn’t about it. It made me think of super woo-woo practices and nothing against that, but it wasn’t my thing. I felt silly saying affirmations or thinking a simple shift in the way I thought about things could really make a difference. To be totally blunt, I was living in a victim mindset, and victim-mindset me, was not interested in changing her frame of mind even if it meant more sales, more clients, more happiness. Because it was comfortable.

Looking back, I feel embarrassed saying that out loud. Because fast forward and 8k+ month me knows that mindset has played a HUGE role in my success and yet for years I stubbornly avoided that. Think of how much time I wasted. How much money was left on the table. And the really big one—how many lives I could have changed.

In this episode, I chat with Jennifer Henderson, who teaches women to operate their lives like a business. I LOVE that. And true to her word, we talk about everything from money mindset to relationship mindset and intentional living.  And don’t worry, I make sure to ask Jennifer the tactile strategies for implementing these mindset shifts, because if you’re anything like me, you need a little something to grasp onto. I’ve got you. :)

Hit play on today’s episode and enjoy!

Show notes:

www.angelamastrogiacomo.com/blog/episode31

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About a week ago, I had one of those days where it just feels like everything is going wrong. And no matter how many times you try to course correct, you find yourself chaotically scrambling from dawn to dusk, so that when the day finally ends you collapse into a giant heap of exhaustion on the couch and pray that it doesn’t ever happen again.

Which of course, it does, because that’s life. Some days are just straight up a mess. Some months are more challenging than others. It’s going to happen. The key though, is how you show up to those moments, and how you continue to show up long after they’ve passed.

That’s what this episode is all about—how to show up even (and especially)  when you feel like a hot mess. So if you’re thinking “heck yes, I’ve been there and I need this ASAP” then hit play on today’s episode. :)

Show notes:

https://www.angelamastrogiacomo.com/blog/episode30

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