Episode 90: Reflections: Addiction to Progress
The Fierce Factor with Kaeli Lindholm
Release Date: 01/10/2022
Episode 114: Bonus: Why Leaders Ignore National Averages
The Fierce Factor with Kaeli Lindholm
This week’s bonus session demonstrates a bit of a core philosophy over here at KLC: “Disrupt the status quo”. As we are on a mission to help 100 inspiring and intentional women cross the next million dollar milestone in their business this year, we are supremely intentional about who we link arms with. Meaning, if someone comes to us and is asking questions about how to simply stay afloat they are likely not going to be the right fit for our community. Never am I asked to help someone become average. But if I had a dollar for everytime I’m asked ‘what most people do’ I’d be...
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Episode 113: What Your Practice Manager Needs From You
The Fierce Factor with Kaeli Lindholm
Today I want to flip the script in a very loving and supportive way for you business owners out there who are responsible for supporting a significant number of employees and also for those of you who are thinking about bringing on a manager to oversee staff management and your day to day operations. So often a business owner wears so many hats. She has built her business doing brilliant 1:1 work with her patients, she is focused on clinical outcomes, client experience, and developing her brand. And because of this the management side of things tends to get overlooked. Not because...
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Episode 112: Hiring PTSD
The Fierce Factor with Kaeli Lindholm
It’s time for us to talk about the REAL reason many of us are having trouble finding great people after the so-called “great resignation”. In some cases, it’s not because of the sudden lack of qualified candidates, our limited budget to hire world class team members, or our ability to lead. Instead, many of us are stagnant in our hiring because we have become plagued with what I lovingly refer to as “Hiring PTSD”. I am witness to daily experiences with clients who have suffered severe and often repeated trauma with hiring. The experience of hiring the wrong people again and again,...
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Episode 111: The 6 Stages of an Aesthetic Business Lifecycle
The Fierce Factor with Kaeli Lindholm
I recently saw a mom of three kids chasing her toddler around while carrying a baby during her oldest son's baseball game. The experience took me back to the days of raising my now 10 and 13 year old boys, and the realization that they have really grown up and the way I parent and interact with them has taken a 180 turn. Not only have they changed, but so have I! And gosh, raising kids through the developmental stages of life is so much like raising a business. Who our business needs us to be when it’s a baby business is dramatically different from its requirements as it matures. Today’s...
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Episode 110: The Inner Workings of a $1.2B Business Leader
The Fierce Factor with Kaeli Lindholm
With an influx of private equity seeking investment opportunities in our booming industry, one current hot topic among aesthetic providers is “how do I prepare my business become attractive to a buyer”? Most of the time our clients start their businesses with no thought of their end game. They are following their passion, living out their mission, making a transformative impact on their patients. In this week’s Fierce Factor podcast episode I would like to introduce what we at KLC refer to as a “champagne exit” through a powerful case study of Jamie Kern Lima- entrepreneur,...
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Episode 109: Success Begins and Ends With You
The Fierce Factor with Kaeli Lindholm
According to 2021 data published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), approximately 20% of new businesses fail during the first two years of being open, 45% during the first five years, and 65% during the first 10 years. Only 25% of new businesses make it to 15 years or more. And in the aesthetic industry, a hyper saturated market with an influx of business owners selling the same services as their competitors, these numbers are even higher. And I don’t share these statistics to scare you, but instead to reinforce how critical it will be as you advance in your business to become...
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Episode 108: Your Proprietary Aesthetic Method - The Retreat
The Fierce Factor with Kaeli Lindholm
So often a business owner who is also the main service provider of their business has an approach that is so customized that only they can do it. While this customization is so impactful to patient outcomes, it can be very challenging to teach this approach to someone else. The dilemma so many of our clients face when they come to work with us is being able to offer a consistent experience for patients as they scale their business through other providers, and to leverage this experience as a brand differentiator that “calls” patients to them versus needing to “sell” patients on getting...
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Episode 107: Fierce Women in Aesthetics: Alisha Rose Merlo
The Fierce Factor with Kaeli Lindholm
This week I am sharing a special Fierce Factor Encore episode with Alisha Rose Merlo, Senior Director of Professional Relations at Colorescience and Founder of The Inspo Zone on LinkedIn. She joins us to share her journey to the aesthetics industry, the importance of elevating others and how to be the most authentic version of yourself. Leaving New Jersey to attend school for a Degree in Speech Language Pathology, Alisha knew three things: she was never getting married, never having kids and never driving a minivan. Looking back now, a married mother and grandmother of two, Alisha’s biggest...
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Episode 106: How to Know When It's Time to Hire
The Fierce Factor with Kaeli Lindholm
In this week’s episode we have a vital conversation for anyone in any industry who is desiring to expand their output in their business in any capacity. Meaning, you may be a solopreneur who is wondering “where do I go from here”, do I continue as is, do I scale up, or do I sell? Or you may be fully staffed in your current model but preparing for your expansion or exit and thinking about who you need to help you tackle that next move. I have conversations weekly with business owners who ask themselves this question. Is now the right time to hire? How do I know? And while the...
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Episode 105: Reflections: Six Pack Abs
The Fierce Factor with Kaeli Lindholm
This week’s Fierce Factor podcast episode is a moment to reflect on growth, new milestones, the new outlook for our business and the trajectory for our clients, and how together we have evolved over the past few months through the experience of sharing my own personal and professional journey with you, leader. I’ve shared quite a bit in previous episodes about my college soccer days. But I haven’t talked a lot about the years leading up to that. In this episode, I share a story about the year I discovered my six pack abs and how my journey can be used as a parallel to raising...
info_outlineIn this week’s Fierce Factor episode let’s address the elusive ideology that we aren’t always the ones in control and how we as business owners don’t always have the ability to see through the clearest lense.
I routinely use the analogy that you can’t see the bottle from inside the label. Or the picture from inside the frame. It’s a perspective thing. That is why it is extremely valuable to bring someone you can trust in from the outside who understands your industry and your ambitions to help you see the bigger picture.
So often, we have a distorted view of what is actually going on in the business because we are in the eye of the storm. We are the eye of the storm.
Think about a hurricane… The eye of the hurricane feels completely justified and in control, it’s powerful, its magnetic, its commanding, it’s slowly executing its purpose. But what’s happening around it is chaos. A flurry of disruption that is creating a domino impact. Yet it’s all happening so organically that seems almost indestructible, in fact at times it seems purposeful. And so relating that back to your business, think about the central focus of your business. Similar to the experience of this client, it can be eerily deceiving that the things that once brought you value or you believe still are, are in fact the things that are becoming your biggest barrier to growth.
Success is a double edged sword. It’s so interesting that often the tools, strategies, and mindset that brings success will ultimately become the thing that needs to change to stimulate next level growth in the future.
And it makes sense. Because as business owners we are growing as humans. If we aren't really embracing and investing in this journey of personal growth, our business will never grow beyond us.
Too many times, I’ve witnessed strong, commanding, purposeful business owners become victims to their own storm they have created for themselves because they lose focus. They overlook or misvalue the importance of slowing down and really evaluating their business model.
As I’m reflecting on the past 15 weeks, this is a central idea for me. How can I create meaningful impact in the world that allows me to have freedom, influence, and autonomy at scale?
As you are planning for the future leader, I hope I can inspire you to think about your role in your business and the way you have shown up for your business in the past as a beautiful stepping stone to who are capable of becoming in the future.
Tune in to hear a powerful story of success, growth, and opportunity and how your addiction to progress may be both the catalyst AND the achilles heel to your ultimate fulfillment in business and life.
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