Ever feel like your business is like a job you are tied to?  

If you don’t set your business up as a business to run without you, then it will really feel like the worst job in the world where the projects are so never-ending that you start to lose joy in the things that you love.

In this episode, Dr. Monikah and Amy talk about having a job versus a business lifestyle. They talk about what it takes to make your business run without you and for your business to really function as a business versus a job. 

•  Document your processes
• Make sure everybody knows what everybody else’s job is.
• Think of the worst thing that can happen 
• Be willing to not be the best in your team.

It doesn’t take much to put a business under. It takes only one good lawsuit to take away everything you have built if you are not legally protected. 

Today in Your Circle of Influence Podcast, Toni Moore, Esquire joins Dr. Monikah and Amy. In this episode, they talk about how to legally protect a business idea. Toni Moore shares some tips on how to protect your business.  

1. Formalize your business 
2. Legalize your business
3. Organize your business 
4. “Armorize” your business 

Toni Moore is an attorney and business strategist with over twenty years of business structuring, real estate, asset protection, and estate planning experience. For more than 15 years, Toni has created companies, restructured companies, developed and assessed Corporate Compliance Plans to ensure compliance with applicable rules and regulations. 

With only a few days left before the year ends, what goals are you pushing for? What are you doing to lay a foundation for you to be successful next year? 

In this episode, Dr. Monikah and Amy talk about creating a balance between knowing what you need to do to finish the year strong and laying the foundation for you to succeed next year. They also discuss what you need to do when things don’t go exactly the way you planned them and what you need to do with the goals that you still want to accomplish. 

• Find your wins and celebrate them.  An Important part of growth and progress is celebration. 
• Create a more holistic version of success.
• Keep a distinction between your dreams, goals, and action plans. 

The word authenticity has now become a buzzword. We’re told it’s what consumers want. But how do companies achieve it? How do you let your personality and the personality of the team behind your business shine through in a way that doesn’t feel forced?

Today in Your Circle of Influence, Dr. Monikah and Amy are joined by Brooke Elder, founder of Social Tenacity. They discuss what authenticity is and how to use it as fuelling ground for growing your business, your marketing, and messaging. 

Brooke shares some tips on how you can start your journey in discovering your authentic leadership:

• Know your strengths.  
• Find people that complement your strengths.
• How to collaborate where your zone of genius meets theirs for a winning combination.

REFERENCES: 

www.socialtenacity.com/strengthfinder

www.facebook.com/socialtenacity/

With the holiday season just around the corner, have you started to plan you’re your marketing campaign? 

If you haven’t started to plan your campaign yet, now is the time to get started!

In this episode, Dr. Monikah and Amy talk about when is the best time to plan your holiday marketing campaign, the different levels of audience and how to engage with them, and the different holiday sales strategies you can use. 

• Adjust how you sell during the holidays.  
• Keep it relevant.
• Adjust your sales conversations. 

Whenever there is a challenge there is an opportunity. You can either cry or whine over the problem or try to find an opportunity to rise above it. Which way you choose is up to you.  

With the pandemic going on, a lot of business owners nowadays are thinking of building an online brand or taking their businesses to another level. 

Lisa Leiberman-Wang joins Dr. Monikah and Amy in today’s episode of Your Circle of Influence. Lisa helps entrepreneurs to take actionable steps to generate more revenue and take yourself and your business to the next level. 

• Identify what your customers need and want
•  Always swim against the stream

REFERENCES: 

https://brandyoubecometheexpert.com/

https://lisaliebermanwang.com/

Tired of too much drama in the world?

While some people might enjoy drama, for most of us, it gets old quickly. Stop accepting that it’s just a part of life. Sure, no one can avoid drama all the time, but there are ways to manage it.

Today in Your Circle of Influence, Dr. Monikah and Amy talk about the definition of drama and they give tips on how to keep your life free of unnecessary internal and external drama.  Listen to this episode to know how to have a drama-free and happier life. 

• Have your own safe space to vent like having a journal. 
• Don’t spend too much time on things that are not going to change.
• Recognize that there are times when you need to unplug to recharge.
• Face the drama, do not run or avoid it. But at the same time do not swim on it. 

In this episode, branding expert India Jackson joins Dr. Monikah and Amy with a thoughtful discussion about how to integrate social causes that matter to us with our thought leadership and brand. 

Customers WANT the businesses they buy from to take a stand in the world about issues that matter to them. Where do you say that you're passionate and committed, but your results show you that you're not doing much and revealing your apathy?

India takes us through some questions to clarify how to use your platform to enact social change. 

Do you have a holiday grand plan? 

In this episode, Amy shares her tips for planning a holiday. 

• ask what meaningful experience you want to have. 
• cross out social commitments that are not important. 
• do your shopping online for one day. 
• set a budget and stick to it. 
• don't forget to take a personal day to reward yourself.  

In this episode, Kris Putman,  a consultant for philanthropist joins Dr. Monikah and Amy to talk about women in philanthropy and how to get involved. She also shares the mistakes that people make in a crisis. 

•  Step back. Donors fear that people will ask for money and donation.  
• Wait and see. Donors and business leaders should clarify their strategy. 
• Be agile and innovative. Seize the crisis to improve or build a business. 
• Divert resources to the crisis 
• Respond to the immediate needs.