012: Climb the Ladder from Employee to CEO of Your Business
Release Date: 03/26/2018
Elevate Your Brand, Elevate Your Business with Kate DiLeo
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Episode Summary: Kate DiLeo is an incredible branding expert and a tenacious actualizer who enables organizations of all sizes to realize their vision. Kate believes that business is a conversation and a relationship, not a transaction. Therefore, effective branding should create compelling common ground with your customers. In this episode, Alissa and Kate discuss the Kate’s entrepreneurial journey, from side hustle to full-time job. They expound on the importance of having the right competitive mindset, being intentional and the power of saying ‘No’ to anything that does not align with...
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The Universe Has Our Back with Liza Lomax
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Episode Summary: Liza Lomax is a life coach who specializes in body image coaching. She helps women eliminate their negative self-talk so they feel beautiful and confident at any weight. Liza coaches from a place of both expertise and personal experience, helping her clients achieve their goals. In this episode, Alissa and Liza discuss the inspiration to start Love Your Body Coaching and how Liza built it into a career, the value of friendship and the secret to manifesting what you want in your life. Key Takeaways: 00:57 – Alissa welcomes to the podcast Liza Lomax, who shares her journey to...
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You're not alone - Keep Being Frickin' Awesome
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Hey there! Well, we are in interesting times, aren't we? We'll all taken a proverbial pause, maybe freaked out a little, and questioned how you'll move forward. And now... let's take back control of what we can control. What we feed our minds, how we care for ourselves, and our inner game. Let's do this together.
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From Self-Doubt to Self-Love
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As Alissa has said time and again, we're all perfectly lopsided puzzle pieces, a part of this larger puzzle, or threads in the larger tapestry. We have just relaunched this show and what better and more-fitting episode to start with than to invite Kari Romeo as our opening guest because she is everything that this show embodies. Kari is no stranger to limiting beliefs, fears, and self-doubt. Before all the success, she's dealt and struggled with insecurities—much like we all do. Today's episode is truly inspirational and a real testament that what you believe, manifests. I hope that by the...
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035: I’m (We're) Back! Revamp. Transition. Emergence.
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Welcome to our Comeback episode! As what the title says, this episode is dedicated to the introduction of someone who is going to take the reins of hosting this podcast soon. We will also be talking a little bit about what’s in store and what have we been doing in the months that we weren’t airing. This change could not have come at a more perfect time than now. I am truly excited for what’s ahead. Stick around as we usher in a new beginning of an even more awesome podcast for you. About Shawnell Miller Shawnell is an expert in staffing and recruitment having worked in the...
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034: Bring Your Business to a New Level with Financial Prowess
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As small business owners, when we start our business, the ultimate goal is to hit a certain figure and be successful, which is what we had always imagined it to be. Anytime that happens, we celebrate and give ourselves a tap on the back for a job well done. But mind you, celebrations can often be short lived, and soon we find out that while we were still high on the success, the stress and challenges were keeping up too. New level, new devil—as I’d like to say. This episode today tackles the issues and challenges that a seven or six-figure business deals with. I asked my friend Chris to...
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Focused on Hiring Long Term? Rethink What’s Possible
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In this episode of live coaching, I had the wonderful opportunity to sit down with someone who has had massive success in her career. I’ve had the surprise of my life discovering that her niche actually really does exist. I assure you guys that you’d be amazed by the discovery as you listen through today’s episode as well. Now, our guest was in on an exciting discovery as well by the success of something that she just started doing and just seeing if it would work. She’s been astounded with the amount of success she’s had and so quickly. However, having that success so...
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032: Transitioning Your Business from Part Time to Full Time
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Have you ever had the feeling that you are just bouncing off like a ball trying to get your business established? Our guest today surely has. Starting a business is a challenge, and even more so when you have very limited knowledge on the business side of things, add to it keeping a day job, offering an instructional coaching and working with schools at the same time. Our guest today is torn, for the last three years, between marketing her business or staying focused on her clients that will eventually enable her to reach the ultimate goal. In today’s session, we are going to walk Trish...
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031: How to Create a Financial Margin to Give Back
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This live coaching session today has dealt with a lot of pain points and I am 100% certain that you are going to get a lot out of this. Today’s episode discusses a lot of obstacles that an entrepreneur faces, whether established or just starting out. Janene has a big dream for giving back. Her plans include that of a lifestyle change where she can take two months off and render volunteer services to the less fortunate. But—yes, there is a but—she isn’t in that position to do so, just yet. We help Janene today on the steps she can take to achieve that goal she’s focused on. Get your...
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029: Doubling Down on Your Gifts to Move Through Technology
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Let’s be honest, technology can be difficult to navigate, especially if you’re like our guest today who says she is not a spring chicken. She jokingly says that she’s just a “chubby grandma” and feels like technology isn’t for her. While I do agree that technology can feel quite complicated, we are living in the digital age, and we have to learn to navigate the online space to keep up. If you find yourself strongly resonating with our guest today, stay tuned in as we deep dive into how you can lean on your own strengths to get you across that barrier that can impede the success of...
info_outlineOur guest today is someone who's struggled between being a good mom and running a business. This is very much an all too familiar territory for a lot of moms, not just our guest today. In this episode, we will open doors for you and make you realize that having a family to attend to whilst wanting a successful business shouldn’t be a cause for guilt. I am sure that we will learn a lot from someone who's been through what most of us have. Let's go get our learn on from Dana's nuggets of wisdom.
About GUEST
Dana Malstaff is the CEO and Founder of Boss Mom. She is a mother, author, business strategist, podcaster, blind spot reducer, and movement maker. She is the author of Boss Mom: The Ultimate Guide to Raising a Business & Nurturing Your Family Like a Pro.
Dana’s Top 5 StrengthsFinder Themes:
- Activator
- Woo
- Strategic
- Ideation
- Communication
Key Takeaways
- Get up in the morning and do what you’re happy doing.
- Understand that a course is not a business.
- It’s not enough to get one person’s feedback about a new course, product or service. “You need different settings, and different mediums, and different times with different people giving you the same answer.”
- Get in, get your hands dirty, do coaching, do talk with people, connect with people, help people.
- It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been in business or how much money you’re making, you can still know your ideal client better.
- Understand what you’re delegating before you delegate it.
- You will find that it’s very hard to get negative feedback when you approach everybody with respect.
Time-Stamped Show Highlights
- [02:43] Dana’s 30-second history of how she came to be the Boss Mom.
- [09:51] Dana shares with us her brilliance in designing her courses that actually meet the community’s needs.
You have to know where your course content supports in the line of what your business does.
- [15:23] Alissa gives us a rundown on what Dana’s Strength Themes are and emphasizes what strength themes really are.
Your strength themes are not your what, not your why, it’s how you go about doing whatever it is you do.
- [16:28] Alissa learns a concept from Dana herself.
Don’t farm out all of your strategy of who you are and what you’re doing to some person who isn’t you.
- [23:46] Dana can do almost all things except this one non-strength she discovered through epic fails.
- [28:59] The point in hiring a life coach.
- [30:30] The things Dana tells everybody when it comes to videos.
Come into it with respect, humility, and recognize that it’s not about you.
- [32:08] Alissa shares Brene Brown’s biggest teachings
Respect is so important. remember that everyone is just human.
- [35:33] Dana’s take on Brene Brown’s vulnerability talk.
The biggest driver to success in people is the feeling that they are deserving of love
- [38:15] Dana’s turning point that made her own amazingness.
When you value yourself more, you’re gonna value everybody else and their time.
- [42:18] An exciting announcement for all dads.
- [44:41]Podcast recommendation of the week
Selected Links for This Episode
- Dana’s Website
- Connect with Dana on Facebook
- Connect with Dana on LinkedIn
- Connect with Dana on Instagram
- Brene Brown: The power of Vulnerability TED Talk
- Podcast of the Week: Fatherhood for the Rest of Us with Brandon Handley