Yes to Entrepreneurship: Helping you build a better business

What is branding? How is branding different from marketing? Is branding different from marketing? Why crafting a brand identity for your business is so important and how to own your own business while also being a mom.

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What's the best career advice you have ever received?

This is not about fame. It's about impact.

"Fake it til you make it.' It’s a thing we say. It’s meant to be encouraging: “you got this, it’s doesn't have to be perfect, act as if and the rest will follow...” Great. But, in my experience, humans have what it takes. We don’t need to fake it. Confidence comes from knowing who you are and knowing when you don’t know what you need to know, but feeling good about asking for help, being curious about new possibilities. 

Running this company, I’m continually confronted with ideas, needs wants of clients and their brand. Our job is to make it, with humility and grace, confidently making the next good decision. You don’t have to fake it. You’ve got what it takes. And when something new comes up, develop curiosity and ask for help.

What is your proudest career accomplishment and why?

Being able to impact the businesses of other entrepreneurs. It's something that I get to engage in daily, and it's a privilege so see how creating small spaces for change can help them propel to their next level of success. It's like that saying goes, when the tide comes into the harbor, all boats rise. I believe that is our role as entrepreneurs.

What has been the hardest career moment and how did you overcome it?

The place of growth. How did I overcome it (see my favorite quote)

Favorite quote:

DO THE WORK. I say it at least 10 times daily.

Also, "Your work is an expression of who you are. So go out there and do that work.”

Connect with Bianca at:

https://BiancaBroos.com

https://www.facebook.com/BiancaBroosCompany/

https://www.instagram.com/biancabroos/

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Resources to help you just START:

1. Join the Yes to Entrepreneurship Network

2. Get seen online through Business Gone Live

Discover the power of a Mighty Network, the platform you should be aware of here in 2020, for building your online community – it will take your business to the next level! Also, find your big purpose and reframe how you look at selling!

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Gina Bianchini is the Founder & CEO of Mighty Networks. Her mission at Mighty Networks is to usher in a new era of creative business built on community. Mighty serves “creators with a purpose” selling experiences, relationships, and expertise to their members via community, content, online courses, and subscription commerce–all offered in one place under the creator’s brand.

Before Mighty Networks, Gina and Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen launched Ning, a pioneering global platform for creating niche social networks. Under her leadership, Ning grew to ~100 million people in 300,000 active social networks across subcultures, professional networks, entertainment, politics, and education.

In addition to Mighty Networks, Gina serves as a board director of TEGNA (NYSE: TGNA), a $3 billion dollar broadcast and digital media company, and served as a board director of Scripps Networks (NASDAQ: SNI), an $12 billion dollar public company which owns HGTV, The Food Network, and The Travel Channel that merged with Discovery Communications in 2018.

Gina and Mighty Networks have been featured in Fast Company, Wired, Vanity Fair, Bloomberg, and The New York Times. She has appeared on Charlie Rose, CNBC, and CNN. She grew up in Cupertino, California, graduated with honors from Stanford University, started her career in the nascent High Technology Group at Goldman, Sachs & Co., and received her M.B.A from Stanford Business School.

Connect with Gina online at www.mightynetworks.com and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/mightynetworks

Looking to start your own Mighty Network? Check out my referral link here https://www.mightynetworks.com/?via=ed

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Resources to help you just START:

1. Join the Yes to Entrepreneurship Network

2. Get seen online through Business Gone Live

In this episode, we talked about speaking on stage, VA hiring, marketing, how to ask yourself those tough questions you need to be asking right now, how to stand out in Facebook groups, why niching down is so important and how it will save you money. Bonus, learn how Trivinia grew a 7 figure business while working a full-time job.

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What's the best career advice you have ever received?

“You’ll never fully embrace being a CEO as long as you’re acting like an employee for someone else.” - Todd Herman

What is your proudest career accomplishment and why?

Growing a business to 7 figures while still working nearly full time. It took tenacity, grit and a lot of perseverance to deliver high quality for my clients, and create a business that I loved.

What has been the hardest career moment and how did you overcome it?

Hands down the worst day in business and one of my biggest learning lessons came when I lost one of our biggest clients because he lost funds. I had to tell 13 VAs that they no longer had a job. This several years ago and I was so excited because this client was a good portion of our bottom line.

It forced me to innovate and find new solutions and products to offer so I could continue to provide job opportunities to these women I’d come to admire.

My team and I quickly came up with products to sell that we could delegate to the VAs who just had a blow to their income.

Favorite quote:

“If you don’t have an Executive Assistant, you are one” - Cameron Herold

Connect with Trivinia at www.priorityva.com

https://www.facebook.com/priorityva 

https://www.instagram.com/trivinia/

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Resources to help you just START:

1. Join the Yes to Entrepreneurship Network

2. Get seen online through Business Gone Live

In this episode, get to know how Jill and her husband Josh Stanton started their business and what lead them to Screw the Nine to Five. What obstacles did they have to overcome? Are these obstacles similar to ones you are facing right now? What is "the plan" and did they have one in place? 

This episode is packed full of golden nuggets – everything from getting started in business to how to grow your business through testing and pivoting along the way! Bonus, get an inside peek into what’s in-store for Screw the Nine to Five in 2020!

“You are 100% responsible for everything you become, do or have -- which means you can create MAGIC if you learn how to upgrade the way you think.” - Jill Stanton

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What's the best career advice you have ever received?

James Wedmore -- he said, “You can start to predict your future by looking at your thoughts, feelings and actions you’re taking today.” It rocked my whole world and kicked my ass into gear!

What is your proudest career accomplishment and why?

I would say it was one of our most recent promotions where we hosted a killer free challenge that changed SO many lives (which lights us the F up) and was the biggest promotion we’ve ever done -- with over $675,000 in revenue overall and $293,000 in commissions for us.

What has been the hardest career moment and how did you overcome it?

Creating and launching a course back in 2013 that sold ZERO! It was so humiliating at the time but is the best thing that ever happened to us as it brought us to where we are today!

Favorite quote:

Anything is possible 100% of the time

Connect with Jill at www.screwtheninetofive.com

Find her on Facebook and Instagram

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Resources to help you just START:

1. Join the Yes to Entrepreneurship Network (formerly known as the Hey Ed Network)

2. Get seen online through Business Gone Live

Learn how Veteran Navy Rescue Swimmer Kristina Hoyer turned her life around after health issues forced her to leave her dream job behind. This is a powerful, jam-packed episode – everything from mindset shifts, self-doubt, opening the doors of availability to your audience, investing in yourself, emotional tolls we go through, giving yourself permission and so much more!

Struggling to find your next client? Find out how Kristina landed her first client – the location might surprise you.

Learn about Kristina’s 5 pillars of wellness and how you can live a healthier lifestyle and what you should be doing with your social media accounts – trust me, this feels so good!

Be sure to listen all the way through so you can find out the 1 question you should be asking your clients! Plus, we dive into some organizational tools too!

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What's the best career advice you have ever received?

The best career advice I have ever been given was that "you just have to be a sophomore to the freshman" and it was from my business mentor Ann Vertel. What she meant was: you don't need to know everything, you just need to know enough to get someone to where you are now. By the time you do that for enough people, you will have moved onto or learned enough to educate them to the next level. You will never EVER know everything and the more you know, the more you realize you don't know. So, if you can bring someone from a place you used to be, to where you are now, you know enough to have a business and charge for your services.

What is your proudest career accomplishment and why?

My proudest career accomplishment was transforming my pain of discharge from the service into this mission-driven business. That is my biggest accomplishment because I had a choice: fall and stay down or make something of myself regardless of the situation. It was a profound moment of change for me and one I will never forget.

What has been the hardest career moment and how did you overcome it?

My hardest career moment was when I received my official letter of discharge from the Navy. I overcame it by allowing myself to sit with every emotion that came up for me at the time, the sadness, the rage, the disappointment, the frustration, everything and I allowed myself to be in that space as each emotion came. This enabled me to actually process what was going on and to allow the light to breach through the cracks of the darkness.

Favorite quote:

My lifelong favorite quote is: "Be the change you wish to see in the world." - Ghandi

Connect with Kristina Hoyer at mshoyer.com and on instagram.com/ms_hoyer

Grab her freebies at

mshoyer.com/networking

mshoyer.com/morning

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Resources to help you just START:

1. Join the Yes to Entrepreneurship Network

2. Get seen online through Business Gone Live

In this episode, we talk about quitting a full-time job, selling everything to travel around the world and run your business on the go. Find out what was a game-changer for Lindsay in her business that every entrepreneur needs to hear as well as what an online course really should be for all you course creators out there you better tune in!

Also, find out how you can turn what you love doing into a business and how you can hire support.

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What's the best career advice you have ever received?

Do what feels good.

What is your proudest career accomplishment and why?

Creating BBB and serving over 300 students. I LOVE helping people launch WAAAAY faster than they ever thought possible because of bad advice from marketers ;)

What has been the hardest career moment and how did you overcome it?

Having to let a team member go. I realized that there were possibilities for BOTH of us after they left.

Connect with Lindsay at www.lindsaympadilla.com

Find Lindsay on Facebook and Instagram

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In this episode, we talked about going from a TV producer to this “corky thing” called entrepreneurship. Discover why Roshanda left her full-time job, what she is doing now, and what social media tool has been a game-changer for our businesses.

Tune into this episode and start being seen today!

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What's the best career advice you have ever received?

My father would make me as a 4th grader watch the news. He told me as an American citizen its my responsibility to know what's going on in my country and community. My father's advice has helped me for 20 years cover stories that impacted my community and nation as my responsibility and not a privilege.

What is your proudest career accomplishment and why?

My proudest moment is covering stories that put my station in the national spotlight from the removal of the confederate flag to the Charleston church shooting. Tough stories but I helped to write history.

What has been the hardest career moment and how did you overcome it?

The moments when you can't help, even as a journalist. I will never forget the grandmother who called the station after losing her grandchildren in a fire. She felt the fire department was at fault. But it could not be proven. It was hard to here this grandmother weep and feel hopeless yourself.

Favorite quote:

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” - Mark Twain

Connect with Roshanda at www.therosholive.com

Find Roshanda on Facebook and Instagram

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In this episode, we talk about the struggle of working a full-time retail job with inconsistent hours, life and trying to run an expensive side gig (an MLM). Find out what Roseanne did to fight the overwhelm and what she’s doing this time around that is different for her business, not another MLM business.

“Giving a piece of yourself.” - Roseanne Nichols

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What's the best career advice you have ever received?

Do what you love and you will never work a day in your life :) - My dad

What has been the hardest career moment and how did you overcome it?

Being able to walk away from something that no longer served me despite what others told me I would be losing out on.

Connect with Roseanne on Facebook

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Be sure to tune into Adelle's first episode, YTE 036, first then come back to listen to this one. 

In this episode, we talk about Adelle being forced out of her location for wanting to build up her community for the better. Every business owner needs to hear this. Understand that marketing is vital to your success and the success of those around you.

“Your business is you.” - Adelle Stoll

Connect with Adelle at www.adellestoll.com

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In this episode, we talked about owning your creativity and embracing it as your unique superpower. We also talked about owning a retail store, the challenges one faces, how to overcome a huge loss of inventory, and why it’s so important to look at what you’ve accomplished!

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What's the best career advice you have ever received?

Architect Tom Kundig gave a talk in Santa Rosa a few years ago when I was acting as an architect on a design-build project. He advised me to embrace the problems of a project. He said that the best designs hit challenges that drive them to be great. I use this idea as fuel in everything I create.

What is your proudest career accomplishment and why?

With no restaurant experience, I created a successful and profitable restaurant concept. I wrote a menu, bought wine, created all marketing, waited tables, tended bar, covered the chefs days off and created a profitable biz right outa the gate. It was where I learned that I can do anything!

What has been the hardest career moment and how did you overcome it?

My biz flooding nine months after opening was by far the hardest thing to overcome. Thankfully my community showed up to support me and get me through.

Favorite quote:

“My pricing is based on my talent and not your budget.”

Connect with Adelle at www.adellestoll.com

Find Adelle on Facebook and Instagram

Be sure to check out the bonus episode, YTE 037, with Adelle

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Join The Yes to Entrepreneurship Network where we pair you up with the right resources – people, community, tools, and support – that help you START and we that make scaling your business online easier!