Woman Owned: The Growth Podcast for Women Entrepreneurs

Tunnel-vision. It is one of the biggest obstacles many successful women in business face. And, not just women – men also become so highly focused on their niche, industry, or job function that they are unable to see the value in other people's insight.

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My guest on the show today, Charles Chang, is entrepreneur and founder of the Vancouver, B.C., Canada-based company, Vega. Charles literally built Vega from the ground up, staring out in his basement in 2004 and financed the business from his life savings, getting a second mortgage on his house, using 4 credit cards, and selling his truck.

The small plant-based nutritional supplement product company grew rapidly and in 2015, Charles sold the company to White Wave Foods for a cool $550-million dollars. Shortly after selling his company, he decided to give the Simon Frazier University it's largest gift ever - $10-million to found the Charles Chang Institute for Entrepreneurship. The institute provides training for students of all disciplines, not only in business, so they can learn more about and receive a certification in innovation and entrepreneurship. He is also the founder of Lyra Growth Partners, a company that provides capital and coaching services to emerging consumer brands that are looking to create explosive growth in the marketplace.

Charles joins me on the show to share his insight, wisdom, experience, and advice with my Fierce Feminine Tribe and share his strategies of success that has helped him quickly and successfully grow his business.

"If we have the ability, we should also have the responsibility." – Charles Chang

Here's a Breakdown of Today's Show:

• Charles explains how he got started as an entrepreneur.
• He explains how he created Vega.
• He explains what he feels were his top, core skills in growing his company.
• He talks about the challenges he faced financially while growing the company from the ground up in its early stages.
• He tells us how long it took him from self-investing in the business to a period of where it became profitable.
• He talks about his strategies and whether they evolved over time or were based on "trial and error."
• He explains how he was able to find or create a work/life balance that worked for him and his family.
• He explains why he decided to help other entrepreneurial-minded individuals and why doing so was significantly important to him.
• He talks about what Lyra Growth Partners is and how he helps other entrepreneurs.

Charles' Powerful Advice for FFL Entrepreneurs & Intra-preneurs:

• Personal accountability
• Set goals like you mean it and really go after them
• Internalize – look for internal reinforcement instead of external.

Connect with Charles:

• http://lyragrowth.com/

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Do you ever notice yourself forsaking your personal health and happiness in order to please other people? Perhaps you go into work on a day that you're not feeling well. Thousands of smart, professional, fierce feminine leaders simply grit their teeth through personal discomfort, illnesses, anxiety, depression, and stress under the assumption that they need to in order to be successful in their job, career, or business.

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Ladies, it's time to follow the lead set by the successful actress and music artist, Selena Gomez. Recently, Selena decided to make a bold decision to cancel a series of concerts, essentially clearing her schedule for the rest of the year, so that she can focus on her health and happiness.

Selena is at the top of her game, but she cleared her calendar due to being diagnosed with Lupus and the associated psychological affects – depression, anxiety, and severe stress. In a recent media statement, she said:

"I want to be proactive and focus on maintaining my health and happiness and I decided that the best way for it is to take time off. I know that by sharing this, I hope it will encourage others to address their own issues."

Despite the negative media attention this has caused and the angry fans this has riled up, I applaud Selena for making such a bold decision.

So, what can we learn from Selena Gomez and how can we develop the courage to be equally bold in our business and career?

Here's a Breakdown of Today's Show:

• Research shows that women experience significantly higher levels of workplace stress than men.
• Harvard Business Review Research published a study on "stereotype threat" – defining it as occurring when a woman is aware of the stereotype that women perform poorly compared to men at given tasks. As a result, she fails to perform up to her ability.
• Simply knowing about a stereotype threat can cause a woman to become subconsciously apprehensive about confirming the stereotype – leading to a reduction in cognitive ability, impaired concentration, and increased stress and anxiety.

My Challenge to You:

• Spend time noticing when and where you forsake your health and happiness out of a desire to please other people and be more successful.
• Think about whether you need to make a bold move in your life or career.
• Be inspired by the actions of Selena Gomez

Are you ready to be more courageous, focused, and FIERCE this Fall?

Are you interested in stepping into the Fall season with more courage, more focus, more direction, and more fierceness?

We would love to help you!

Reach out to us for a free 30-minute Bold Women in Business Makeover Session with me or one of the fabulous coaches on my team!

Explore your path and discover how you can be the fiercest lady-boss possible.

Visit EleanorBeaton.com

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Have you ever wondered: how can we create a better world if fear and doubt constantly creep up on us? How can we create businesses that are solid enough to really get our message out into the world and truly make a meaningful impact in the world?

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Last week, I attended a Google Hangout with several other thought leaders. These people are powerhouse individuals that will be speaking at the Global Wealth Leaders Conference on September 9th, along with myself. One of the speakers brought a powerful message to the Hangout, talking about how fear and doubt can repeatedly sabotage our best intentions.

I work with countless fierce feminine leaders every year and one of the patterns I've noticed throughout my career is that these beautiful, intelligent, successful women often let their fears and self-doubt get in the way of executing their amazing ideas. So, today, I want to share with you a helpful tool I use and you can begin using to help you get over your fear and self-doubt.

Your fear is the most boring thing about you. Your creativity, ideas, and skills – now we're talking!

Here's a Breakdown of Today's Show:

• Fear and doubt are like weeds. They crop up everywhere.
• When you nurture the fear and doubt, you let the boring trump the fabulous.
• Nurture your seeds.
• In order to really deal with fear and self-doubt in the moment, engage in a pattern interrupt.
• It's not about banishing fear and self-doubt. It's about recognizing it and dealing with it like a pro.

What Are Your Seeds?

• Your Skills
• Your Creativity
• Your Ideas
• Your Passions
• Your Hope
• Your Resourcefulness
• Your Energy to Execute

My Challenge to You:

Try This Pattern Interrupt Next Time You See Your Weeds

• Yell STOP IT!
• Clap your hands.
• Stand up
• Think about something more positive. Take a relaxing walk, sit on the porch, do something to put your mindset in a more positive place.

Join me on the Global Wealth Leaders Conference Google Hangouts!

The Global Wealth Leaders Conference is quickly approaching and I can't wait to talk with so many powerhouse entrepreneurs! If you're unable to attend the conference taking place on September 9, 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia – you can join us in Google Hangouts – FOR FREE!

To register for free access to the Hangouts, go to eleanorbeatonpodcast.com/63

I can't wait to see everyone in my Fierce Tribe there!

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Have you ever felt like you've been knocked down, beaten up, or unhappy in your business? Perhaps you're not making as much money as you thought you would by this period in your career are just unsatisfied but can't really put your finger on why.

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Hundreds, if not thousands, of smart, successful, high-achieving women in business go through a phase like this and in today's society, there's a lot of attention on finding "quick fix" solutions.

Ladies, I'm here to tell you today that, in reality, there is no quick fix solutions in building a business. You need to be resilient and motivated!

On today's episode, I talk about the importance of resilience – of getting back up after being knocked on your butt to get back on that horse. I'm also going to share the number one "short cut" to building your resilience so you can be more prepared the next time you feel like you've fallen off the horse.

Here's a Breakdown of Today's Show:

• It is critically important to cultivate resilience in ourselves and our businesses
• There are no "quick fix" solutions in building a business
• When people are unhappy despite everything else in their life going right and being successful, it is often due to a major focus on themselves.
• When people are connected to a vision that is greater than they are, they tend to be happier and exhibit much more resilience.
• Make your motivation bigger than just you reaching your potential.

How to Reconnect To Your Business' Vision and Gain Resilience:

• Remember your "why." Why are you in this business? What motivated you to create this vision? What drives you in the day to day practices of running your business and working with clients?
• Think about the opportunities you'd like to create and present for your family and how your earning potential is closely related to those opportunities.

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Are you struggling to get more clients? Have you gone into debt in order to launch your business – an idea you are incredibly passionate about and are finding it difficult to achieve success or grow? You may be thinking to yourself, "If I keep an abundance mindset, it will all work out in the end."

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Ladies, having an abundance mindset is a crucial element in building your business, but if you don't have a strong business strategy in place, your business cannot grow!

On today's show, I want to discuss the abundance mindset and why you can't 'abundance mindset' your way into a smart business strategy. Growing a business requires a variety of tasks and having this mindset can certainly help – it is not the "be all, end all" solution to building a successful business and career.

If you build your business on an 'abundant mindset' without a solid plan, you're building it on very shaky ground.

Here's a Breakdown of Today's Show:

• It's critical that you have a positive relationship with money and cultivate an abundance mindset, but it is not the only thing you need to build a solid, successful business.
• Business is like a language. You have to know how it is structured.
• When it comes to the critical success factor in your business, it comes down to sales and marketing.
• Business is a game of strategy.
• You can't grow your business by continually investing in your technical skills or becoming super tactical about everything.
• There are three ways to grow a business. If you choose one of the three, you will experience geometric growth. If you choose two or more, you will experience significant growth.

The 3 Ways to Grow a Business:

1. Get more clients.
2. Increase the average unit of sale or average transaction. (i.e.: increase your rates)
3. Increase the frequency of purchase.

My Challenge to You:

• Focus on strategies that help you execute on one or more of the three ways to grow your business.
• If you do not have a clear path to one of those three strategies starting tomorrow – stop what you're doing and focus on clearing that path.

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Have you had the idea that you wanted to create an amazing app? Maybe you had an awesome idea for an online software program that could help thousands of people around the world with a specific task? Today's guest, Katelyn Bourgoin, has been there and done that. She is the founder of Vendeve, an online business network for women entrepreneurs and a powerhouse in the technology industry. She has helped bring women together to network, share ideas and insight, and collaborate and she joins us today to talk about what her experience has been like.

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Growing a tech company wasn't easy, according to Katelyn. Her first business model was unsuccessful – but she learned many valuable lessons from that experience to pivot her business model into a highly successful company. Katelyn has been quoted numerous times in online publications such as Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Inc. Magazine and is recognized as a powerhouse lady-boss in the technology field.

"The faster you can figure out if people even want what you want to offer and the cheaper you can do it, the better your core product will be." –Katelyn Bourgoin

Here's a Breakdown of Today's Show:

• Katelyn explains what Vendeve is and how women entrepreneurs are using it to build their businesses by building powerful connections with other female entrepreneurs
• She shares what inspired her to create her company and the lessons she has learned from her previous business failures
• She talks about how deep in her first business model she was before she realized it wasn't working and she needed to pivot
• She explains the ways she could have tested her first product before becoming heavily invested
• She shares what she feels her biggest mistakes and challenges were while building her first business and making the leap from being a service provider/agency to building a tech company
• She talks about why it is so important to have the ability to paint the vision for what is possible and the impact it can make on your business
• She gives us a sneak peek into her Premium Membership Squad project
• She shares her biggest mindset strategies that help her run and pivot her business

The Importance of Saleswomanship for Entrepreneurs:

• It doesn't matter what business you're in. You need to be able to sell yourself.
• Take the time to get comfortable with selling yourself.
• Separate you your feelings about selling.
• Find a way to sell that feels authentic to you.

Connect with Katelyn Bourgoin:

• Vendeve

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EP59 Transform Your Money Mindset with Kathleen Burns Kingsbury

Do you think you could be sabotaging your earning potential simply by the mindset you have about money? Could your attitude, beliefs, and relationship with money affect your revenue potential? On today's episode, I'm joined by wealth psychology expert and founder of KBK Wealth Connection, Kathleen Burns Kingsbury. Kathleen's mission at KBK is to teach financial service professionals how to connect, communicate, and collaborate more effectively with their clients, to help them increase client retention and improve profitability.

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She is a highly sought-after keynote speaker covering topics related to women and wealth as well as couples and money. She has presented at the Million Dollar Roundtable as well as Barons Top Women Advisor Summit and many other events and conferences. She is the author of several books in the women and couple's money mindset niche.

Kathleen has kindly agreed to join me on the show today to share her insight and experience in the financial industry and how the female mindset can affect our earning potential. We discuss her personal experiences with mindset limitations and how she overcame that challenging obstacle and she shares tips and strategies for women about breaking into the corporate market and book publishing as well as common myths and misconceptions people have about money.

"When you get knocked down as an entrepreneur – you gotta get back up." – Kathleen Burns Kingsbury

Here's a Breakdown of Today's Show:

• Kathleen shares her story on how she built her business.
• She explains how she transformed her own money mindset to explode the results in her business and how you can duplicate her strategy.
• She explains how she became a subject matter expert in the money mindset field and why she decided to build her business around it.
• We talk about honing in on a specific niche and why she chose this specific niche so early in her career.
• She shares tips on how women can break into the corporate market
• She provides insight into how to get your book published, and whether or not you should self-publish your work.
• She explains what her biggest challenge was while building her business
• She defines "Wealth Psychology" and debunks several myths around money.
• She shares her top three success factors that have helped her throughout her career.
• She gives us a sneak preview into what we can expect to see from KBK over the next few years.

3 Practical Tools To Develop Your Money Mindset:

1. Identify it.
2. Determine how each of those thoughts and beliefs are serving you and how they are getting in the way.
3. Continue to do the work to improve your mindset.

Kathleen's Words of Wisdom:

• It's okay to be profit-motivated like a man.
• Finding a specific niche and sticking with it not only helps you become more referable – it also helps you keep your sanity.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Kathleen's book: How to Give Financial Advice to Women
• Kathleen's book: How to Give Financial Advice to Couples
• Kathleen's Workbook: Creating Wealth from the Inside Out Workbook
• The Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge book, by Ted Klontz, Rick Kahler, and Brad Klontz

Connect with Kathleen:

• KBK Wealth Connection
• Breaking Money Silence Podcast
• Twitter
• LinkedIn

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Have you ever found yourself saying "This shouldn't be this difficult?" Have you ever caught yourself feeling frustrated while trying to make an important decision or find a solution to a problem?

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One of the most exciting things I experience as a coach while working with clients who are fierce, high-performing feminine leaders is that each month I can almost always spot a trend. This month's trend with many of my clients have been that these fierce, strong, capable women are experiencing a phenomena called "Limiting Thought."

So, today on the show, I want to share a story with you. A story about something that happened to me not too long ago that made me realize that I, too, was experiencing the 'limiting thought' phenomena. I'm going to share with you what I did to overcome it, and why it is so important that you connect with your own inner tough love mentor during times when you are experiencing the limiting thought phenomena.

Here's a Breakdown of Today's Show:

• The phenomena called "limiting thought" is a specific belief or belief system that blinds you – paralyzes you – to what is actually possible. It makes you believe a false sense of reality.
• Our beliefs are by far the greatest limitations we face.
• Hard things often fool us into believing that you no longer want what you said you wanted.
• Don't live the lie that you don't want something just because it's hard. Doing hard things builds character, gives you experience that others don't have. If you want something – give it your best effort. You can do hard things.

My Challenge to You:

• Think about a time in your life when there was something that you really wanted, but you pushed it off because it was hard.
• Clearly identify what it is that you want and determine why you want it.
• Find your inner Shaniqua – do what it is you really want to do, regardless of fear or limiting thought.

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There is a lot of content created and published across the internet that is meant to help women, business executives, and entrepreneurs find a higher sense of success; to inspire and empower them to achieve their dreams. But there's one piece of advice that is fundamentally important, yet rarely talked about.

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Owning what you know. Living with conviction.

Dolly Parton defined it best when she said that the life of conviction "is about figuring out who you are and doing it on purpose."

Today, I want to share with you why knowing who you are, knowing what you know, and projecting confidence, conviction, and staying clear on your point of views is vitally important to the overall success of your life, your business, your career.

Here's a Breakdown of Today's Show:

• The state of knowing has a deep impact on your ability to break through and uplevel your business and career.
• Owning what you know is the fundamental key to having greater impact and influence with your clients, colleagues, and other influencers.
• Influential people want to hire, promote, and buy from women who project confidence, conviction, and have a clear point of view.

When You Own What You Know:

• You feel less overwhelmed
• You project greater energy
• You are seen as a credible expert in your field
• You have a broader impact
• You are able to command more money and access to more opportunities

My Challenge to You:

• Let go of the things that are holding you back from owning what you know.
• Be clear about what you want – and go after it.

Special Announcement:

This Fall, I have two private coaching spots open!

If you are ready to:

• Own your ambitions.
• Transform your sense of self to make room for success and self-significance
• Create & CRUSH your goals to create a legacy you are proud of

I encourage you to reach out to us! Fill out this brief form to apply for a coaching session with me, Eleanor Beaton!

Let's turn your dreams into a reality – together!

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I speak with countless Fierce Feminine Leaders every day. These are highly successful, motivated, driven women with great achievements under their belt, but often feel stuck in whatever it is they are doing.

They may be unhappy because they want to achieve greater things; they yearn for something more, something different, something meaningful, but they struggle with making the decision to go after what they want.

Ladies, I've said it before and I'll say it again – we give our power away when we avoid making decisions.

On today's episode, I want to talk to you about how to get "unstuck" in your life, your business, your career. I want to help you move past whatever is holding you back, whatever has you feeling stuck. I want to empower you to determine what it is that is holding you back, and figure out how to get out of the quicksand that is limiting your sense of success.

Areas where women often give their power away:

• Deciding to start a side business
• Deciding to pivot their business into a new area
• Deciding to invest in a new training program
• Deciding to take a sabbatical
• Deciding to go on a trip or on vacation
• Deciding to recommit to their health
• Deciding to train for a marathon

Take a look at where you're making decisions – or not making decisions. Then, close the loops. – Eleanor Beaton

Ask Yourself:

• Where in my life right now am I not making decisions?
• What do I really want?
• What limiting beliefs or mental thoughts do I need to declutter, let go of, and close the loop on?

My Challenge to You:

• Get quiet with yourself
• Think about where in your life you are not making decisions or avoiding making decisions
• Get out there and make a decision around it.

The quality of your life and your experience is directly connected to your willingness to make decisions – and own them!

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