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So far this month, we've covered a variety of topics around technology and what it's doing to our families and our businesses, the good and the bad. 

So today, I want to outline a process that's going to help you tame the “tech jungle” and make sure you are intentionally using it as a positive tool that it's meant to be, and not slipping into habits that are going to make you wonder how you or your kids ended up there.

Today’s episode is about finding your path and your approach to a good relationship with technology within your family and your business.

Let's raise them up right!

IN THIS EPISODE, WE COVER:

[1:55] How to Strike a Balance

[4:02] The Values 

[6:20] The Boundaries 

[11:50] The Phone Etiquette 

[14:34] The Warning Signs 

[15:42] The Agreement 

[16:37] The Danger

SHOW NOTES: https://luminaryleadershipco.com/episode143  

RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE:  

1. To establish your values, download our True North Exercise here!
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Can you build a successful online business WITHOUT social media?

If this thought ever crossed your mind, you’re going to love today’s conversation. My guest today is Shanna Skidmore, a former Fortune 100 financial advisor who turned into a business consultant helping entrepreneurs dig through the data, optimize the metrics and get a firm grasp on the finances (something most of us don't like to do). 

On top of all that, Shanna has also built her incredibly successful business and she's done it off of social media. You read that right, she's built a successful online business off social media. Is that even viable? Is that even an option? Did she sacrifice millions of dollars in doing that? Well, today we're digging into it. We're going to ask her all the questions about how she did it, when she made that transition, what it looks like and how you can do it too. 

Let's dive into it!

IN THIS EPISODE, WE COVER:

[3:20] Social Media Independent Business

[13:35] Detoxification Process 

[24:20]  The Vulnerability of Social Media

[33:28]  The Phased Approach 

[42:14]  You Need the Right Audience 

[47:06]  It is Possible 

SHOW NOTES: https://luminaryleadershipco.com/episode142            

RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE:

• Visit Shanna’s website: https://shannaskidmore.com/ 
• Connect with Shanna: https://shannaskidmore.com/newsletter 
• Listen to Consider The Wildflowers podcast: https://shannaskidmore.com/consider-the-wildflowers/ 

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We’ve already talked about how, as entrepreneurial families, technology might affect our kids a little bit differently than those parents who hold more traditional jobs. When it comes to creating boundaries and limitations around technology for our kids, it’s important that we know what's at stake. And that’s what today’s episode is all about!

Having the information at hand will give you the backbone you need to stay firm. The use of technology is just getting bigger and more prevalent, so it’s critical that you have all the information you need that allows you to have those conversations and make educated decisions as a family. 

Let's raise them up right!

IN THIS EPISODE, WE COVER:

[2:06] What Technology Is Doing to Our Brains 

[4:11] The Main Points 

[12:56] Let's Clear the Clutter

SHOW NOTES: https://luminaryleadershipco.com/episode141      

RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE:  

• The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains 
• Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World 
• Hannah Brencher’s 1000 Unplugged Hours Challenge
• Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked 
• Go from Frazzled to Focused with my free 30-minute game plan!
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Do you ever feel like you are just going through the motions and working so hard but you aren’t getting to where you want to be? Or you are getting to those points but you don’t feel satisfied?

Let me introduce a tool to help you gain clarity and vision for what is next in your business and for your family. Listen into this bonus episode and hear all about the Founder Family Playbook!

This is for you- our listeners! Those of you who have founded your own business, who have a family, and who want to excel in both. You don’t have to sacrifice one for the other!

This is a tool we use with our high-level clients or those who join our high-level masterminds and we have extracted it and created this Founder Family Playbook to take you through the same process so you can have clarity in your business and at home.

With the Founder Family Playbook, we help you identify who you are called to be, what impact you want to make (both in your business and your home) and then we strategically help you craft the blueprint to get there. This isn’t just a feel good type of tool- it is a tool that brings BIG results.

Head on over to luminaryleadershipco.com/playbook to get your hands on the Founder Family Playbook at the lowest rate it will ever be!

Today, we are continuing with our technology series!

Technology is our reality. It is out there. It is boisterous. It is loud. And, it’s something that is so prevalent and so important, especially in the lives of entrepreneurs.

We have to know how to raise babies and raise businesses in a technological era. It's pretty common to just go through life conforming naturally to what comes next. But being informed is different from conforming. And being conscious of how technology targets us and targets our kids, making the decision as business owners to how and when we will use and leverage tech ourselves in our own marketing, and where we're going to draw the line and what's ethical to us is so important. 

So today, we're sharing some pretty enlightening (and kinda scary) data and information to help you make more conscientious decisions for your family, for your business, for yourself. How are companies actively targeting you and your children? What is really going on that we're not being told and what to do about it?

Let's dive into it!

IN THIS EPISODE, WE COVER:

[3:13] Going Off the Grid? 

[5:25] Target Advertising and Your Moral Compass 

[7:54] Facial Recognition Advertising

[13:23] The Reality of Today 

[16:44] Conversations You Need to Have

[20:31] Advertising to Teens and Kids 

SHOW NOTES: https://luminaryleadershipco.com/episode140       

RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE:

• How targeting advertising works: https://stevens-tate.com/articles/does-targeted-advertising-work/ 
• Facial recognition advertising: https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/15213-walgreens-facial-recognition.html 
• Using camera to collect data/advertise:  https://listverse.com/2018/05/27/10-creepy-ways-companies-collect-data-for-targeted-ads/ 
• How advertisers are targeting your teens: https://screentimelabs.com/blog/how-advertisers-target-your-teens-smartphone-and-how-to-cope/ 
• Advertisers targeting kids: https://thegrowthpartnership.com/advertisers-targeting-your-kids/ 
• Your phone is listening, and advertising to you! https://www.vice.com/en/article/wjbzzy/your-phone-is-listening-and-its-not-paranoia 
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How do you raise children alongside technology?

I see so much content out there around technology and our kids. And it’s either total doom and gloom; or it is what it is, just let it be. There's no happy medium, there's no discussion around this. 

As entrepreneurs, we need to be intentional about how and when we introduce technology to our kids, the way we talk about it, the way we model it, because the reality is - in some capacity, our businesses do depend on tech and also, our kids are growing up in a tech era. On top of that, my guess is that our kids see us on our devices more than the average kids, because we are running our businesses and our businesses are constantly with us. So, it's kind of inescapable. But this doesn't mean we're helpless.

I'm going to spend the next month talking about a few big topics around this idea to help us be more informed and make an intentional plan that's best for our entrepreneurial families. So, armor up! Because this is not an easy conversation, but it's a necessary one. 

Let's raise them up right!

IN THIS EPISODE, WE COVER:

[2:45] We’re Fighting a Different War

[6:39] Team Work 

[9:08] Have the Right Discussions

SHOW NOTES: https://luminaryleadershipco.com/episode139        

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How many people do you know right now that just don't feel great?

Sadly, an all too common theme among entrepreneurs especially, but really people across the board, is navigating illness. And when I say illness, I mean the absence of thriving; a lot of the things we face are just symptoms we chalk up to working a lot, or having young kids, or being postpartum, or whatever it is - when oftentimes, it goes deeper than that. 

Whether it's a multi-year struggle with intense symptoms and very few answers, like I've been walking through, or a diagnosis that you’re up against and have to battle, too many of us are some version of sick. So, today's episode is both an update as I've learned more about my own struggles recently, and a chance to share my heart with those of you who might be building your dreams alongside some pain.

IN THIS EPISODE, WE COVER:

[2:14] It’s All for a Reason

[5:15] The Gift of Suffering 

[9:05]  The Update

[22:56]  Pieces of Wisdom

SHOW NOTES: https://luminaryleadershipco.com/episode138        

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Today's episode is going to be a powerful one!

I know we all feel called to raise these incredibly confident kids. But at the same time, we want them to have humility, too and have the right perspective on the world. As entrepreneurs, we are naturally pretty confident people otherwise, we wouldn't take the leaps that we do take. We are sure of who we are, we know what we stand for and we are confident in our own ability to do something or to figure out how to do it. But, how do we raise confident people? 

Is this a learned skill? Is it modeled? Is it in our DNA? And where does humility come in? How can kids be both/and? Today’s episode is an important conversation around raising humble, confident kids.

Let's raise them up right!

IN THIS EPISODE, WE COVER:

[2:09] Confidence and Resilience 

[3:40] Open Conversations 

[7:05] Show Them the Power of Entrepreneurship 

[9:51] The Balance Between Humility and Confidence 

SHOW NOTES: https://luminaryleadershipco.com/episode137           

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Are you trying to keep up with the Joneses? 

Today we're talking about a phenomenon I've seen across the board in entrepreneurship that I think is preventing people from achieving their true potential in both business and in life and that is the need to keep up appearances.

This is stripping entrepreneurs from the possibility of the satisfaction that they're craving, so they keep pushing and trying to achieve things without ever actually feeling that fulfillment. It's used to put up whatever façade necessary to look successful, like you have this amazing life or thriving business. When in reality, you're human, like everybody else, and there are ups and downs to the journey. And with the rise of social media, there's this extra pressure and a stigma that comes with running a front-facing business.

Today, we’re talking about why I took a break from joining a mastermind myself and how to break free of the “smoke and mirrors” culture that is creating a lot of curated squares but very shallow businesses and vapid business owners.

IN THIS EPISODE, WE COVER:

[2:54] Why I Took a Break from Masterminds

[12:43] Growth Comes from Awareness 

[18:23]  The Damage This Can Do 

SHOW NOTES: https://luminaryleadershipco.com/episode136       

RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE:

1. Check out our Luminary Leadership Incubator for more information!
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Entrepreneurial parent, family-first entrepreneur, founder family - these are all the phrases that capture the essence of what matters to you. You're not just an entrepreneur, you're not just a parent, you're this beautiful combination of the two. And we’ve put a little definition together to continue to paint the picture of what that means. 

To us, a founder family captures the entrepreneurs who have successfully integrated their family and business into one powerful mission in life together, and it results in fulfillment, freedom and legacy. We're raising luminaries, the people who will go on to inspire and influence others and who are prominent in their sphere. And in many ways, we're raising ourselves up to be luminaries as well. 

If this sounds like you or who you aspire to be, today's episode is going to give you a few key shifts to becoming and working towards being that family-first entrepreneur. Because it's all about being a work in progress, the little decisions we make, those small 20 minute increments of our day that lead to the big picture, vision and legacy that we're craving and creating in our minds.

Let's raise them up right!

IN THIS EPISODE, WE COVER:

[2:35] Growth Happens in a Trusted Place

[5:26] Leaders Raise Leaders 

[7:13] Show Them the Power of Entrepreneurship 

[8:27] Break the Rules  

[10:02] Business and Family 

SHOW NOTES: https://luminaryleadershipco.com/episode135          

RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE:  

1. Snag our FREE 30 minute game plan Frazzled to Focused to help you gain clarity and reduce overwhelm!
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