Unleashed Podcast

This is your host, Kristina Sjolund. I appreciate you listening in and taking that time out of your day because I know how precious your time is. So how's everybody hanging in there? How's it going? We're in pretty uncertain times, aren't we? This is crazy, right? Well, what I wanted to cover today, it's really been weighing on my heart lately because I see so much fear and I see panic, and man, what's up with the toilet paper guys? Everybody's gonna react differently. But what I really wanted to reach out to my people and say is, be the calm in the storm. All right? What I mean by that is, I'm such a visual person, and I think of things being like, okay, you're in a burning building and you need to know which direction to go. And there's somebody who's panicking and freaking out and flailing. Or if there's somebody who's cool, calm, and collected, maybe they don't know exactly where they're going to go, but you can tell that that person is calm enough where they're not going to get rattled. They're gonna probably lead you or maybe create a team and find a way out. You need to be that calm, cool and collected person because you've got people watching you.

Do you have kids? Those kids are watching you. I want to share with you my daughter's reaction. I picked my kids up from school the other day and through this whole ordeal, you know, this whole Coronavirus thing, I picked my kids up from school because our governor closed schools for six weeks. There's a lot of people freaking out about that and through this whole thing, I've told my kids, just relax.

Make sure you're washing your hands. Don't be touching your face, use a napkin or your sleeve or something to open up doors, don't be sharing drinks with anybody. So I just kept telling them, just don't worry about it. Don't stress, it'll pass.

Thank you for taking the time out of your day to listen to me. Today I promise, that by the end of this podcast, your going to have a better understanding of what you need to focus on in your life. This is going to be different then most of the other ones that I have done, let me share with you the inspiration of where this podcast came from. So in the past week, like I told you before, I get so many messages every week from many of you listeners, you've sent me these messages, that sometimes bring these tears to my eyes. I'm like, Oh my gosh, I have to look up because if I don't, these tears are going to drip down my face. The messages are amazing, of how they have touched you in some way, but two in particular this past week, and you'll both know who you are when you're listening to this.

So, this friend of mine, she's a teacher, she brought my podcast to her students, she was telling me about these students and how they were stressed out because it's the end of the trimester and they've got their tests, and you know the anxiety of all of this. And I remember as a student, I know it was a really long time ago, but I remember as a student all of that stress, and I also have two young girls at home who they experience stress as well. Then I got another message from another friend of mine saying how she wants her daughter to be listening to this podcast, and she's I think about 13 years old, 14 maybe. And she says she wants her daughter to listen to it because she thinks that it would help her. Listen, I'm going to share her story at the end.

Welcome back to the Unleashed Podcast. I'm your host, Kristina Sjolund. I want to thank you for being here today and tuning in. I am so blessed to have you as part of my audience today. I feel like you're going to have to be wearing your big girl, or big boy, panties today. I'm going to talk about, well, to put it blunt, stop whining and start winning. So what makes us, what builds our character? What causes us to grow? Well, you know what kind of things make us better people? What makes us want more? What creates the kind of person that we are? Challenges. Things that happen in our lives, things that happen to us. We learn how to deal with these things. We learn how to get past these things. This is what makes us grow. How many times did you come across struggles growing up, whether it be through your elementary years or your teenage years? What kind of crap got handed to you and what did you do with it?

Did you sit there, lay down and take the loss and wallow in your sorrows? Most likely, if you're listening to this podcast, the answer is going to be no. You didn't sit there and let the crap happen and just not take it as a growing opportunity, not take it as some way to move forward in your life. So challenges, adversity, struggles, whatever you want to call it. If you sit there and accept that crap, that's all you're going to have. So why would you want to settle for that? Especially when you're made for so much better. You deserve so much more. So take your challenge and that's exactly what it is, it's a challenge. Take it and turn it into a win.

I want to talk to you about the hardest part of entrepreneurship. When I talk to people about this, nearly 85% of the comments and the responses that I get all fall under this category, doing what you don't want to do. It's the hard part. It's the stuff that really sucks. It's that hard work. But as entrepreneurs, we know what we want, we know the outcome that we want, right? And we're going to do whatever it takes to get that outcome. Well, I don't know about you. I'm very results driven. I don't change my course very often. I definitely don't change my goal, my vision, whatever it is.

I do whatever it takes to get there. I don't quit on it. We stay on course, we don't change that just because something's hard, because when you change, it's still going to take hard work. It's still going to take the same kind of work and the same kinds of things that you don't want to do to make it happen. But we might be afraid of the reactions of other people. We might be afraid of the negative remarks. There's haters out there. There's haters everywhere, and I think I've come to the conclusion that people on social media, you know, that don't have anything else to do with their lives, they just really are looking for something to complain about.

They don't really want all of the peaceful rainbows and unicorns that they say that they want because they're going to seek out something that they don't like about somebody. They're going to seek out something that somebody's doing and they're going to try to take those people down. So make sure that you rise above that. Whatever you do, it's going to be a gamble and gambling takes risks, right? That's what it's all about. You are an entrepreneur who are going to take risks. It may work out, may not, but you know what is the WHY for you.

Hello and welcome back to the Unleashed Podcast. I'm your host, Kristina Sjolund, and I thank you for tuning in today. Today I am going to tell you my story, which is a little bit weird for me because I typically like to be talking about other people. I like to be lifting other people up. I love to be talking about business and business ideas, and everything. So for me it's a little bit, it's out of my comfort zone, but that's okay, right? Because we talk about getting out of the comfort zone, and great things happen outside of your comfort zone. So here I am. I'm jumping out of that zone.

Hey there and welcome back to the Unleashed Podcast. I'm your host, Kristina Sjolund and I have a question for you. Do you ever feel lonely in business? Do you ever feel like nobody gets you, nobody understands your thought process? Like you're talking to your friends and they kind of look at you crazy? You share with them an idea that you were thinking about or an opportunity that you were looking into and they kind of shoot you down? Or, how about when you're, this is what I experience, I don't experience that anymore because I don't share my ideas with my family anymore, but when you're sharing your ideas with your family, do they ever interrupt you completely, like right in the middle of your sentence? And they changed the subject 180 degrees, and they start talking to you about somebody that you don't even know? That's what I used to experience.

Now, I just don't even share my ideas with those people that are in my life anymore. Entrepreneurship, yeah. It can be a lonely place if you don't find your community. It's kind of like being in a foreign country. I'm talking about before you find your community. It's sort of like being in a foreign country and not knowing the language. Like you can't communicate. There's a language barrier and then you kind of, you're walking along and you find this bar. You go into the bar and all of the patrons speak your language. You don't even want to leave because they get you. Like everyone's having a great time. They're hooping it up. Sharing their ideas, like attracts like. You need to surround yourself with other people who think like you, who take risks, who celebrate your wins. They give you high fives, they help you add to your ideas and they encourage you to get out of that zone.

Welcome back to the unleashed podcast. I'm your host, Kristina Sjolund. Are you on your way to work? Or maybe you're thinking about work tomorrow, or maybe you're stuck in traffic right now. There's something that is holding you back from going for that vision that you have as an entrepreneur. I know that entrepreneur is probably an overused word right now. However, there are so many people who have dreams, they've got visions, they've got things that they want to do, things that they want to accomplish and they want to work for themselves, but they're stuck. There's so many people who are those kinds of entrepreneurs that are sitting at a desk right now. They're sitting in a job that they're miserable in, they hate where they're at. They've got this brilliant idea. They've got something that they've got to share with the world and they don't know how to get it out there.

They're not sure where to start. Maybe you're listening to this podcast right now and you've got that seed in you. You're like, I know I've got something to do with this. We're going to talk about this right now. And what I'm hoping is that with this, with listening to these words, these spark you to go create more with that seed, go make that seed flourish into something huge that's going to bless the world. So in order to be fruitful, in order to have success, you've got to find that seed within you. It starts with you, it starts at home.

Hello and welcome back to the unleashed podcast. I'm your host, Kristina Sjolund. Today we're talking about the F word. The F word. How many came here thinking, Oh my gosh, is she going to say it? Fear. It's a different one. It's a different one, but it's just as bad. It's just as negative. It's just as bad. It's so negative. It's terrible, it holds us back. Everyone has experienced it. Everybody still experiences it probably every day, to a certain extent. Now what I ask is, when you were little, were you afraid? Were you afraid to walk? No. You just did it. You were learning. How many times did you fall down? You don't know because it didn't matter. It never held you back. You didn't care about falling. That was a form of failing, but it never held you back. It never stopped you from walking.

You always got right back up and you kept at it and you never gave up. And then once you learned how to walk, you learn how to run. How many times did you bite it? How many times did you fall flat on your face? You don't know exactly. Your goal was just to run. So let's talk truth. We all have fears, but it's how you face it that makes all of the difference. So for some it's public speaking. There's failure and some people are scared of success. Like, what is that about? Maybe they're scared of success because they're scared of it reaching a level of success and then losing it. Who knows? Yup. They're scared of loss. What you should be afraid of is not growing. It's not moving forward in your life right now. If you're an entrepreneur, this is something that's very familiar to you.

You see opportunity everywhere you go, but maybe your fears hold you back from it. Do you know what I was scared of? I was so scared of doing this podcast. It was my first one that I recorded. Do you know how bad I was sweating? And nobody was even on, because I was recording it. I didn't do anything live. I was so scared. Why? Do you know how many times a day I talk to people? Do you know how many times a day I work with people, whether it is helping them out in their business, growing their business? Today I worked with somebody building her business plan for 2020. Why would I be afraid of that? Okay, we're all afraid of something, and what we have to do is, we just have to push through it.

Hello and welcome back to the Unleashed Podcast. I'm your host, Kristina Sjolund and I am really excited to share something with you today. Well, I'm always excited to share things, but there's something that really took a huge effect on the way that I ran my business quite some time ago. I think it's going on two years, and I think about it almost on the daily. And I thought, you know what, somebody out there needs this, somebody needs to hear this because if it affects you the way that it did me, it's going to push you forward and push you harder. And when I'm coaching somebody privately or in a group, I do this a little bit differently because I typically have you write this down and I typically would have you take the time to write it out, get the feeling into it, you know, like really, really, really get into it. And today, because we're doing this in the podcast, we're going to do it a little bit different.

This is why I'm starting out with this, instead of like doing it at the very end. So here's what I want you to do, guys. I want you to think about that person who you feel deserves success the most. Who in your life deserves success the most? Who do you want to succeed more than anything? Probably your kids. Maybe you feel that way about your parent or your spouse. I want you to think about that. I want you to think of all of the things that you want for them. Now, think about that success for you. We were created for more. We need to be more. Every person has some kind of success brewing inside them.

Hey there and welcome back to the Unleashed Podcast. I'm your host, Kristina Sjolund, and today we're going to be talking about clear vision, because you know why, we are in a new decade! It is 2020, and I want to talk to you about what that really means. Clarity, clarity in what you want to go for.

We've talked before about vision boards. We've talked about setting your goals, we've talked about organization. These things are tools that help you see clearly. And I want to share with you this quote, and honestly I can't remember where I got this quote from, but it speaks so much volume, "Clarity is momentum that has no resistance". Think about that. Immediately my mind goes to, I'm a very visual person so when somebody explains something to me, I start picturing it. And if I don't understand something, I need to see it in front of me so that I can make sense of it.

When I saw this, I was like, Oh my gosh, because it makes me think of murky waters, of you jump in a Lake that is, you know, it's definitely not the ocean. In the clear Caribbean ocean where you can see all the way down to the bottom, but it's that murky water. You can't see where you're going. So it's going to take a while. You're not very comfortable with it. You're not quite sure where to step may, I dunno what's in there, I don't know what you know, you can't see. So that clarity, you create a momentum with that and you can move forward through anything. You're in that clear turquoise water that you can see straight through. You can see the fish below, you can see your feet in the sand in there and you don't have to worry about not knowing what you're going to step on.

You don't have to worry what's lurking below that water. Well, maybe you should have to worry about what's below the water, if you're not paying attention. Okay. You know what I'm saying? It's that clarity. You can move, you can move faster than what you're going to move if you're in that murky, muddy water, right? So you can create a momentum and it has no resistance because there's nothing holding you back. When you have your eye on the prize and you have your clear path forward, you've got your all made out, you're on it. So what I have learned with the different mentors and trainings that I have taken, I'll set three goals and I choose the who, when, why, what, and how...how I'm going to reach those goals. And so that's my clear path. And so I have that clear vision. I've mapped it out.