The Time Is Now

In the last few weeks, I have watched the war in Ukraine with shock and horror. I know many of you have too. I also know that there are many other places in the world where there is fear, violence and conflict right now.

It can be hard to focus on running and growing our business in moments in times like this. I know many of you are questioning whether this is the right time to launch a product or to celebrate a success.  I know many of you feel fear, anxiety or are triggered by your own past traumas.

So if you care, if you feel hurt, if you feel that empathy and even that anxiousness and fear, I want you to turn it into action for yourself first, then your community and then for the world, to make it a better place.

It is definitely not business ‘as usual’ but I want to be very clear on this - business does need to go on. Life needs to go on.

We need to show up now more than ever - for our families, our community and in the hope that we can make a difference to our world.

In this week’s episode, I explain how we can continue to do business in a way that is respectful and mindful of what is going on around us.

What you will learn:

How to process your own reaction

Why business needs to go on and how it must go on

What you can do for your customers and community

Resources and inspiration:

Resources to support Ukraine

Listen to episode TN161: Three reasons you should not stop selling now

Listen to episode TN163: How to create your recession proof business now! – Part 1: Assess

Listen to episode TN165: Create a recession-proof business – Part 2: Pivot

Listen to episode TN167: Create a recession-proof business – Part 3: Super Serve

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None of us like to feel like we’ve failed. When something goes wrong in your business, it can be very hard to separate that from you as a person. We feel it deeply.

With so much of the conversation around business focusing on how to be successful, this week we’re taking an alternative look at success – what do you do when your best plans go wrong?

In this episode, Annette Van Der Feltz reveals the benefits of disappointment and how it is possible to shift your thinking to embrace them. She shares the real value of rejection and fear, offers insightful tips to get through any disappointment and explains the advantages that it can bring to your business and to you personally.

The things that went wrong and the failures don’t define me. I can choose how I let external events influence me and my confidence.

By the end of the episode, Annette will have you looking forward to your next rejection and disappointment!

Annette Van Der Feltz is the founder of Dutch American Connection, and an intercultural coach and facilitator helping Dutch companies and expatriates be successful in the US. She supports Dutch entrepreneurs expanding in the US to understand and leverage the differences between the American and Dutch ways of doing business. Annette lives in the United States and she travels regularly to The Netherlands where she is originally from.

What you will learn:

The value of rejection and ‘failure’ when building your business

How to allow yourself to learn from your disappointments

Why it is important to record when your best plans go wrong

Find Annette Online:

Homepage: www.dutchamericanconnection.com

LinkedIn: Annette van der Feltz

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Most women are full or part-time caregivers. Their free labor allows organizations and businesses to be more effective, create value and increase profit. Financial vulnerability and dependence should not be their reward.

If you want to grow your business or take it to the next level but struggle to do so because you are a mother or a caregiver, and that prevents you in various ways from creating your own source of revenue, know that this challenge is part of a much bigger problem in our society.

However, there are things you can do about it at your own micro level to feel more empowered in your entrepreneurial journey.

“It is not only time for unpaid work to be recognized in our society, but also for players at all the levels of our society to share the ‘caring’ burden so that women can have the bandwidth to achieve their own dreams, create their own financial freedom and break the glass ceiling.”

In this episode, I want to share with you my take on this challenge and some inspiration to help you not only have the bandwidth to take your business seriously, but also be part of a movement to break the glass ceiling for women, without being broken.

What you will learn:

How I see this societal issue play out in the day-to-day life of women who want to grow a successful portable business while being present for their loved ones

What conversation you can have with yourself to make your business a priority

What conversation you can have with your family to make yourself a priority

Resources and inspiration:

Find out more about The Equal Care Day

Read the article: Household work would make up 30-50% of GDP—if it were included

The OECD Development Centre: Unpaid Care Work: The missing link in the analysis of gender gaps in labour outcomes

The World Bank: This is how COVID-19 has affected women's employment

Susan Hyatt’s IG posts:

Weaponized Incompetence

3 ways to address your partner performing weaponized incompetence

The book: Boundary Boss: The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen, and (Finally) Live Free

Learn more about the nonviolent communication method

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An expat horse and portable business owner walk into a new life. It sounds a bit like the beginning of a joke doesn’t it? Yet, it describes the amazing story of Jaizel Selleslaghs, a Dutch woman who moved to Peru with her husband and her horse and became a successful entrepreneur working with dressage riders around the world.

Jaizel is proof that you can build a successful portable business out of anything. In this episode she talks about how she started her business from her greatest passion and how consistency and planning have helped her to maintain her particular business niche.

“I think the most important thing is that you keep working on your business. When you don't feel good about it, you want to quit, or you need a break, take your break, pack yourself together and continue again with your business.”

She also shares how important the Portable Business Accelerator™ course has been in developing her unique business and completely reinventing what is traditionally an in-person profession.

Jaizel Selleslaghs was born in The Netherlands and currently lives in Peru with her Belgian diplomat husband. Her biggest passion is horses – so much so that she moved her own horse from The Netherlands to Peru to continue their lives together.

While training horses in Peru and teaching horse riding to Peruvians, Jaizel also started her own portable business PLANtastic Dressage, in which she designs personalized training plans for dressage riders around the globe.

What you will learn:

How you can make a portable business out of anything!

How consistency, planning and following expert guidance help to develop your business fast.

First-hand experience of the benefits of the Portable Business Accelerator course

Find Jaizel Online:

Website: www.plantasticdressage.nl

Instagram: @plantastic_dressage

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If you feel discouraged about the energy that creating content requires from you and therefore struggle to do it consistently or have even given up, this episode is for you!

I will share with you the reasons why you feel so drained and demotivated about creating content.

Starting your content strategy from social media is the reason why you feel so discouraged about creating consistent content.

Most importantly you will learn the simple shifts you need to make things so much easier and simpler for you!

Indeed, once you are able to share your free content consistently, you will finally be able to grow your audience, take your business to the next level and attract more clients!

What you will learn:

Why you are stuck with content creation

How you can make things much simpler and easier when creating content

What the most important mindset shift you need is to be able to gain joy in building consistent content

Resources and inspiration:

Listen to episode 95: How to create free content that will grow your portable business

Read the blog post: How to set yourself up as the go-to expert in your field

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We all experience a range of complex emotions which we navigate every day. As entrepreneurs our true potential can become blocked by fear, stress, and self-doubt; all very real struggles when growing a business. There are, however, powerful, yet simple solutions to help you thrive and not just survive.

In this episode, Yvonne Hendrych shares the practice of Positive Intelligence - how to create awareness around difficult emotions and harness your inner saboteur patterns and self-limiting beliefs to live the life you want. Yvonne talks about her own experiences of burnout in a previous career and recently during Covid of not coping with separation from loved ones. Listen in to learn how you too can discover your self-sabotaging behaviors and then apply simple techniques to transform you into your best self.

Yvonne Hendrych is a Positive Intelligence Coach and a Life Designing Expert. Her passion is to support people to create and live the best version of their lives. After a 10-year career as a lobbyist in Brussels that has ended with an emotional and physical burnout, Yvonne quit her job and moved to Brazil. She hopped on a self-healing and self-exploration journey which led her to start her coaching business. Yvonne strives to support other women on their journey of re-aligning their values and dreams with their professional and personal life goals.

What you will learn:

How to harness your negative emotions to get the best for yourself

The difference between your ‘survival brain’ and your ‘thriving brain’

Techniques to help you move through your emotional triggers

Resources and inspiration:

Find the PQ Training here

Find Yvonne Online:

Website: www.workinbalance.org

Instagram: @yvonnehendrych

LinkedIn: Yvonne Hendrych

Facebook: Workinbalance

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Are you allowing yourself to dream big? Can you still dream like you did when you were a child and allow yourself to imagine the infinite possibilities ahead of you without worrying how you would get there?

Day to day life as an adult including dealing with the essential aspects of growing a business can distract us from our big dreams, even though those dreams are probably the reason why we even started this entrepreneurial journey.

Your dreams are within you. Deep inside you know what you really want, but you might be too scared to say it out loud.

I truly believe that when you dare to dream, and dare to dream without limitations, you welcome abundance into your life and into your business, you intuitively do the right things and develop the right mindset to welcome great opportunities.

In this short episode I want to share with you some simple things you can do to dare to dream again and dream big, even when you don’t know how you will make it happen.

What you will learn:

Why embracing your dreams is crucial to your success in business

The reason that you might not allow yourself to dream big

What you can do if you are not sure what your big dream is

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Juggling your biggest goals and ambitions with your family life and parenting, while feeling aligned with who you are can be a challenge. Add in also being a successful entrepreneur and it might feel like there’s little time left for you.

As Camilla Quintana shares this week, the answers lie in ambition. She talks about it as a healthy and powerful path of growth and why it is important to look at our mindsets and reframe the narrative to reach our goals. Camilla also offers practical tips about why your own internal purpose is critical to your success and happiness.

You can absolutely love your children more than your own life and make your own dreams and aspirations. – Camilla Quintana

Camilla Quintana is an Expat Empowerment Coach and Podcast Host. She helps global women embrace their distinctiveness and step into next level confidence, so they can leave their special mark in their workplace, home and community.

Originally from Vienna /Austria, she currently resides in Bilbao/Spain with her husband and 3 sons. When she’s not nurturing her family or clients, you can find her making up exotic recipes to the sounds of Gloria Estefan or contemplating life with loved ones - glass of red wine in hand.

What you will learn:

How to embrace ambition as a healthy and powerful path of growth

Why internal goals are a ‘must’ and how they impact your motivation

Ways to juggle business, family and self-care to achieve your dreams

Resources and inspiration:

Find the book: Awaken The Giant Within - Anthony Robbins

Find Camilla Online:

Website: www.camillaquintana.com

Facebook: Camilla Quintana - Expat Coach

Instagram: @coach.camillaquintana

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What is the reverse side of “stuck”? Hint, it is not “getting unstuck”, it is making decisions!

Avoiding making decisions can lead to your business failing!

It is so important to overcome the mindset barriers that can stop you from making decisions and moving forward in your business, and even in your life!

Don’t be afraid of making mistakes. It is the wrong decisions you’ll make that will lead you to the right decisions. Whereas not making decisions at all will lead you nowhere.

In this week’s episode, I am breaking down those barriers and giving you practical tips on how you can overcome them, get ‘unstuck’ and work through the big decisions that you need to build a successful portable business.

What you will learn:

Why it is important to make decisions even if it is the wrong decisions

Why people get stuck when making decisions and how you can turn this around

What the 9 strategic decisions are that you need to make to reach your revenue goals.

Resources And Inspiration:

Get your FREE workbook: The 3C™ system to revenue and impact

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Do you feel that you can’t work or run a business now because you’re on the move or need to focus on other personal needs, such as raising young kids? It’s time to think again!

In this episode Alexandra Paucescu invites you to imagine differently. You will learn why starting with small actions and projects can lead you to something bigger down the road and how it helps keep your resume relevant for your future business or job.

“If you do something with pleasure you can move mountains”

– Alexandra Paucescu

In sharing her story and success, Alexandra will inspire you to truly believe in yourself and explain how important self-belief is to achieving your goals.

Alexandra Paucescu is a Management graduate with a Masters in Business. She studied cultural diplomacy and International Relations, has published a memoir book and a children's book, contributes to several magazines and gives intercultural communication lectures. Alexandra has also volunteered for United Nations Women's Guild (UNWG) and UNICEF and is currently a member of the International Women's Association (IWA) in Bucharest. She lived in USA as an exchanged student and in Austria and Germany as a diplomatic spouse. She currently works as Executive Business Manager for a construction company in Bucharest.

What you will learn:

Why little steps create big achievements

How to create meaningful and professional continuity whilst on the move

What building a supportive network really means and ways in which to reach out

Find Alexandra Online:

Web: Alexandrapaucescu

Instagram: @alexandra.paucescu

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