251: Year End Wrap Up 

Joining me on the podcast today is Ceil DiGuglielmo. You probably recognize Ceil as she has been with me multiple times since 2018. She is the owner of the Curtains and Soft Furnishings Library and the host of the Sew Much More podcast. Every year, Ceil and I get together to talk about what has happened over the last year. We share our business and life experiences, our highs, our lows, what we're most proud of, and what we're looking forward to the next year. We hope that this authentic conversation that you can listen in on between the two of us will spark an interest in you to have that special someone that you can share some of your business highs, lows, and what's happening with as well. Enjoy the podcast.

Topics Mentioned:

• Work life balance

• Definition of success

• For Now

Key Thoughts: 

• When life has struggles in it, you do need a little decompression from that, too. As high performers, I think we just keep going. We just keep going. Ceil DiGuglielmo 

   

• It's been a year of recognizing the exhaustion from those things and learning how to set those things down. Michele Williams 

   

• I love that the mindset has changed, and I love that people are dropping statements like, yeah, cash flow is a big problem for me and that's because I just did this or just did that. Ceil DiGuglielmo

   

• When we are in business and the impostor syndrome kind of rears up, we need to stop and say to ourselves, wait a minute, I was never tasked with knowing everything. I was tasked with having a company that would do research and development to find the answer. Michele Williams 

Contact Michele:

• Email: [email protected]

• Facebook: Scarlet Thread Consulting

• Instagram: @ScarletThreadATL

• Website: ScarletThreadConsulting.com

• LinkedIn: Michele Williams

Contact Ceil:

• Website: The Sew Much More Podcast

• Website: The Curtains and Soft Furnishings Resource Library

• Facebook: The Sew Much More Podcast

• Facebook: The Curtains and Soft Furnishings Resource Library

• Instagram: @ceildi

• Instagram: @csf_resource_library

• Email: [email protected] 

References and Resources:

• “The Gap and the Gain” by Benjamin Hardy and Dan Sullivan

• “How to Grow Your Small Business” by Donald Miller

• “Unreasonable Hospitality” by Will Guidara

• “Getting Things Done” by David Allan

• “Buy Back Your Time” by Dan Martell

• “Strong Like Water” by Aundi Kobler

• “Try Softer” by Aundi Kobler

• CFO2GO

• Work with Me

• Metrique Solutions

• Financial Courses with Michele Williams including “Understanding Your Financials”, “Master Your Profit”, and “Pricing Without Emotion”