The Thoughtful Entrepreneur

Josh Elledge · UpMyInfluence.com & PodVerified.com
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Apr 3, 2022 • 22min

1153 – Truly Impactful Wealth Transition Planning with Interchange Capital Partners’ Ahmie Baum

In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks to the founder and CEO of Interchange Capital Partners, Ahmie Baum.Interchange Capital Partners works in a specialized area of transition planning by unlocking a lifetime of work. They work with business owners, medical professionals, accountants, and other professionals in order to help them manage their financial affairs and generational wealth building with optimum efficiency. Making mistakes with wealth building can impact generations of your family, and getting it right requires a different model and approach than what’s considered the standard. Interchange Capital Partners has worked with hundreds of business owners and professionals to help them ‘get it done right’. Josh and Ahmie explore how business owners tend to have the bulk of their wealth tied up in their business. This is typically because they want to retain control and stay away from risks like the stock market. It’s a common phenomenon and an important challenge to overcome so that business owners can diversify how they structure their wealth.  Family businesses tend to be even more complex, especially when it comes to wealth structuring. There are stages and different systems that have to coexist and interchange between one another. Any one system by itself can have different values, stakeholders, and missions. This leaves room for significant conflict, which makes it by nature incredibly complex. Interchange Capital Partners focuses on alleviating these challenges, especially for family businesses. As a business owner, you have to be objective enough to be able to work through the significant number of issues that come with a transition for a family business owner. According to their website, Interchange Capital Partners applies data-driven strategies to help their clients increase the likelihood of successful transitioning. Through their collaborative and comprehensive process, they help clarify a business owner’s current situation and develop a clear vision for achieving their desired future.Most exits happen internally between the family and management, Ahmie shares. Exit, succession, and transition planning should be done from day one. This is so you can be prepared for the inescapability of a liquidity event. If you prepare for this often, it’s simply good business. Oftentimes, people don’t pull back and assess where they really need to spend the time to optimize their wealth and finances. If there isn’t clarity around the business owner and the family’s ownership, succession planning cannot go smoothly. You have to infuse business principles into your succession plan through clarity, understanding, and action. Want to learn more? Check out Interchange Capital Partners’ website at https://interchangecp.com/. Check out Interchange Capital Partners on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/interchange-capital-partners/. . Check out Ahmie Baum on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmiebaum/. Don’t forget to subscribe to The Thoughtful Entrepreneur and thank you for listening. Tune in next time!More from UpMyInfluence:✅ We are actively booking guests for our DAILY Entrepreneur Success Podcast. Schedule HERE.✅ Are you a 6-figure consultant? Let us fill your sales schedule and move you to 7-figures. Learn more here.✅ Check out our free Authority Transformation Masterclass.
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Apr 2, 2022 • 16min

1152 – Disruptive Thought Leadership Through Tax Consulting with Meyer Tax Consulting’s Jackie Meyer, CPA, CTS, CTC

In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge talks to the founder of TaxPlanIQ, the founder of Meyer Tax Consulting, and CPA, CTS, and CTC, Jackie Meyer. Jackie does a lot, she shares. She’s an entrepreneur through and through and has owned a boutique CPA firm for high net worth individuals and their family offices since 2010. Because of her success around tax planning and thought leadership in the space, she became a speaker and coach by happenstance. She also became a SaaS software developer by providing project management solutions for CPAs. Josh and Jackie explore Jackie’s calling to help and coach other accounting firms. Around 2016, Jackie completely converted her own practice to value pricing around tax strategy and planning. She ultimately tripled her company's revenue and equally reduced her time spent doing so. She knew she could take this experience and help other firms see the same success and growth and this is what led her to become a tax planning coach.At the end of the day, it's a choice to either stay in the grind or graduate as a tax professional. Jackie excels at helping other CPAs transform their practices for the better. In an innovative, thought-leading move, Jackie is hosting a CCA Busy Season Reunion during the busiest tax days of the year. She shares this is one way in which she pushes her own practice and her clients’ practices to not conform to the set expectations of ‘busy season’. Jackie also offers consulting services and masterminds. She teaches a few core tenants to other tax professionals. The truth? Everything tax professionals have been taught is backwards. CPAs need to have healthy boundaries with their clients while still providing top notch value. It takes proper education, discipline, and making the choice to go to the next level. Jackie and her coaching services offer the support to help get tax professionals to that next level. They assess the front and back ends of practices, pricing, value ads, and more. Jackie transforms practices by reframing each of these aspects individually so that the professionals she coaches can focus on what really matters and have healthy work life boundaries in the process. According to her website, if you’re a CPA or tax professional, Jackie’s coaching services can help transform your practice so that you can demonstrate your ROI to your accounting clients, add 35% more revenue for your firm with tax planning services, and streamline processes starting with sorting your email inbox, with your team, with operations of your firm, and more.Want to learn more? Check out TaxPlanIQ’s website at https://www.taxplaniq.com/. Check out Meyer Tax Consulting at https://www.meyertax.com/. Check out TaxPlanIQ on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/taxplaniq/. Check out Jackie Meyer on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackiemeyercpa/. Don’t forget to subscribe to The Thoughtful Entrepreneur and thank you for listening. Tune in next time!More from UpMyInfluence:✅ We are actively booking guests for our DAILY Entrepreneur Success Podcast. Schedule HERE.✅ Are you a 6-figure consultant? Let us fill your sales schedule and move you to 7-figures. Learn more here.✅ Check out our free Authority Transformation Masterclass. 
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Apr 1, 2022 • 21min

1151 – Use a YouTube Channel as a Passive Income Generator with Chris Zissis

In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks to YouTube growth and viral expert, Chris Zissis. Chris helps entrepreneurs and investors create passive income through having a YouTube channel. An investor can diversify their portfolio by investing in a YouTube channel with the intention of generating revenue through viral content. But what are the elements of creating a viral video? Chris explains that yes, there’s a little luck when it comes to creating viral videos, however, it can be repeatable. Chris has been building these channels for several years now and knows typically what works and what doesn’t when it comes to building large, successful channels. News oriented videos are quite popular, but you can work with anything that has an audience. These audiences will watch content about their niches daily, over and over, for hours. These elements come into play when building successful YouTube channels. There are many ways to generate revenue with YouTube videos, with digital ads and video sponsorships at the top of the list. Where people go wrong with YouTube, Chris shares, is that users don’t look at the platform as a business. At the end of the day, YouTube is an amazing audience aggregator organically. Why wouldn't you build audiences through well made, viral-tuned content? Chris and his expertise assists these investors and entrepreneurs with a fully-managed YouTube channel that generates revenue totally passively.  Josh and Chris explore what to produce content around if you want to start your own channel. If you want to generate revenue, choose a niche that gets a lot of daily views. Chris suggests one tool, SocialBlade, which can give you an idea of the daily views of specific channels. See what niches accumulate views quickly and consider picking something in that vein. Chris shares that if there’s an audience for it, people will consume it if it’s good quality content. Social Blade is one tool that can provide these types of insights, but there are many more. Chris’s business model revolves around taking the work and headache out of managing a YouTube channel for his clients. His business offers a done-for-you channel that’s maintained and optimized completely on behalf of his clients. YouTube is a fascinating way to diversify your portfolio and generate meaningful content. There is a lot of power that comes with influence and being able to generate content on a platform like YouTube is an amazing opportunity to connect with real audiences. You directly benefit from this positive type of engagement and generate tons of revenue at the same time. Go where the audiences are and monetize strategically to see viral results.Want to learn more? Check out Chris Zissis on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/itschriszissis/?hl=en. Check out Chris Zissis on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulrakovichceo/. Don’t forget to subscribe to The Thoughtful Entrepreneur and thank you for listening. Tune in next time!More from UpMyInfluence:✅ We are actively booking guests for our DAILY Entrepreneur Success Podcast. Schedule HERE.✅ Are you a 6-figure consultant? Let us fill your sales schedule and move you to 7-figures. Learn more here.✅ Check out our free Authority Transformation Masterclass.
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Mar 31, 2022 • 21min

1150 – Cutting Edge, Creative Paid Ads with Clicks and Clients’ Paul Rakovich

In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks with the founder and CEO of Clicks and Clients, Paul Rakovich. Clicks and Clients is a full service digital marketing agency that works across different channels and verticals to take businesses to the next level. Clicks and Clients partners with businesses that face complex marketing challenges who need a team that’s as invested in their success as they are. Paul and Josh explore what the source of unnecessary frustration is in the paid ad space. One source is expectations, one is strategy, and one is execution. If your expectations aren’t realistic and feasible, you won’t actually go anywhere. This is likely because there is a poor strategy around the paid ads and their targeting. This will ultimately lead to poor execution. These are the three issues Paul sees constantly within the paid ad space.Paul shares what he likes to see in a good agency. He loves disruptors who bring new ideas to the table. Agencies should always be on the cutting edge and look out for what’s next for their clients. You need to always be on top of new trends and studies and bring those to the table for your partners and clients. Josh and Paul also discuss the impact of the iOS update that occurred last year on the paid ad space. The evolution of Facebook has made it so that you have to craft messages creatively and carefully. The volume and efficiency of paid ads has dropped and it's costing more to generate effective ads. You need to always have fresh, creative approaches to your ads to see results. Diversification is important, Paul says, and you can’t put all your eggs in the Facebook basket, so to speak. Facebook can work to reach audiences, but you have to balance your channels and not rely solely on it. Josh and Paul also talk about how ‘hustle’ culture has flooded the marketing space. You need a strategic, calm, and steady agency guiding you through the tumultuous changes in the paid ad space. Paul shares a key practice he and his team use with their clients; they try to steal their own clients. Every so often, Clicks and Clients will look at the ways another agency could take their clients’ business and they bring those fresh ideas to the clients. Clicks and Clients is dedicated to keeping their clients’ ads cutting edge, creative, and streamlined.Want to learn more? Check out Clicks and Clients’ website at https://www.clicksandclients.com/. Check out Clicks and Clients on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/clicksandclients/. Check out Paul Rakovich on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulrakovichceo/. Don’t forget to subscribe to The Thoughtful Entrepreneur and thank you for listening. Tune in next time!More from UpMyInfluence:✅ We are actively booking guests for our DAILY Entrepreneur Success Podcast. Schedule HERE.✅ Are you a 6-figure consultant? Let us fill your sales schedule and move you to 7-figures. Learn more here.✅ Check out our free Authority Transformation Masterclass.
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Mar 31, 2022 • 22min

1149 – A Revolutionary Unstructured Data Platform with Indico Data’s Slater Victoroff

In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks to the founder and CTO of Indico Data, Slater Victoroff.Indico Data is an AI powered bionic arm for the modern knowledge worker. They offer a modern application that pairs with your business to generate AI solutions to maximize efficiency. But what is ‘unstructured data’? Slater explains that unstructured data is data that doesn’t fit well into pre-structured “columns” of interconnected data. This is data that’s miscellaneous, such as strings of text or media. AI, roughly, is anything humans do today that machines will do tomorrow. The definition of artificial intelligence has fluctuated since its conception. But how does unstructured data fit in?Slater shares that deep learning is very useful for a specific set of tools that relies on unstructured data. AI is not autonomous. It's essentially a bionic arm for the digital worker, as Slater puts it. AI is an assistant in your day to day work. According to their website, Indico Data is purpose-built for unstructured data. It combines robust data analytics, advanced artificial intelligence and ML technologies, deep learning capabilities and highly efficient process automation, enabling enterprises to maximize opportunity, reduce risk, and accelerate revenue.Slater explains the misconceptions he had about AI when he was a college student. He believed deep learning was dead – but this was due to the industry climate at that time. Very few organizations did research on deep learning back in 2012. Deep learning is an amazing technology in a constrained environment. It took a lot of time and hard work, but this is how Indico Data was born. Josh and Slater explore how Indico didn’t hire a CEO initially. At some point, this team of engineers needed to choose someone among them to be the CEO. Slater was the CEO for some time, but he considered leaving the role. Once his team caught wind, he ultimately went back on his intuition and stayed in the role. While the company stayed afloat and was doing alright during Slater’s time as CEO, it couldn’t scale and grow. Ultimately, he pushed his team to allow him to step aside so they could seek another CEO. This meant that Slater and the team were on the same side of the table to find a new executive. He was put in the wrong role, plain and simple. When they found the right roles for both Slater and the new CEO of Indico Data, it was able to thrive and flourish. Want to learn more? Check out Indico Data’s website at https://indicodata.ai/. Check out Indico Data on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/indico-data-solutions/. Check out Slater Victoroff on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/slatervictoroff/. Don’t forget to subscribe to The Thoughtful Entrepreneur and thank you for listening. Tune in next time!More from UpMyInfluence:✅ We are actively booking guests for our DAILY Entrepreneur Success Podcast. Schedule HERE.✅ Are you a 6-figure consultant? Let us fill your sales schedule and move you to 7-figures. Learn more here.✅ Check out our free Authority Transformation Masterclass. 
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Mar 30, 2022 • 22min

1148 – Relationship Marketing and B2B Sales in 2022 with Wayne Moloney

In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks with the co-author of the international award winning sales novel The Wentworth Prospect: A Novel Guide to Success in B2B Sales, Wayne Moloney.Wayne and Josh explore some of the biggest issues in B2B sales today. Wayne shares that people are forgetting the basics. There are a lot of snake oil tricks returning to this space and it’s becoming more prevalent and annoying than ever. Spam bots generate blatantly faked “personalized” messaging and blow up our inboxes inordinately. The basics haven’t changed, Wayne shares. The technology and tactics have changed, but a strong foundation starts with the same basics. The first basic principle is to build strong relationships. Many sales “gurus” say relationship selling is dead. Relationship selling is about building strong and trusting relationships that come with tangible outcomes. You’re not just a ‘business-to-business’ organization, you need to be ‘business-for-business’. Sell your prospects tangible outcomes via strong relationships. One method Wayne uses is traditional snail mail. You might delete everything that came into your email inbox, but it’s not likely that you’d throw away personalized, written correspondence. If you want to break through and forge relationships with decision makers, send a letter. The next basic principle is to facilitate good planning. So many B2B business owners don’t actually plan for their goals and ambitions adequately. You need methodical steps and actionable tactics, not just a vague idea and a dream. Marketers flock to great ideas until they’re ruined, Josh says. If you want to do phenomenal business, you can’t automate relationships. That’s a basic principle of marketing. Scripts ruin authenticity. You need to set objectives for a discovery call, but you should never have a memorized pitch. You need to sell what your prospect actually needs. Referrals are some of the best ways to generate revenue, but you’ll only get those referrals if you’re authentic and have real relationships with your clients.  As fat as prospecting is concerned, you need to start with clearly defining your ideal customer profile. Who is it you can work with that you really deliver value to? Can you teach them something they truly don’t know that can change the game for them? You need to qualify your prospects by ensuring they will benefit greatly from your offering. You need quality prospects over a large quantity of them. Less is more, go for quality over quantity and you will close more deals.  Check out Wayne’s website at https://waynemoloney.com/. Check out The Wentworth Prospect: A Novel Guide to Success in B2B Sales on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Wentworth-Prospect-novel-guide-success-ebook/dp/B09DPDL9FX. Check out The Wentworth Prospect on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-wentworth-prospect-edvance/. Check out Wayne Moloney on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/waynemoloney/.   Don’t forget to subscribe to The Thoughtful Entrepreneur and thank you for listening. Tune in next time!More from UpMyInfluence:✅ We are actively booking guests for our DAILY Entrepreneur Success Podcast. Schedule HERE.✅ Are you a 6-figure consultant? Let us fill your sales schedule and move you to 7-figures. Learn more here.✅ Check out our free Authority Transformation Masterclass.
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Mar 30, 2022 • 17min

1147 - A Holistic Approach to Communications and Marketing with Demonstrate's Joey Hodges

In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge talks with the CEO of Demonstrate, Joey Hodges. Demonstrate is a full service marketing and communications firm. They specialize in outsized ideas and amplifying those ideas. They work in PR, social media, influencer marketing, and paid media services. They were founded under the premise of brand storytelling and so Demonstrate approaches communication and marketing holistically. Joey shares that it’s more important now than ever to have the foundation of your communication in place. If you find yourself with deteriorating revenue because you’re struggling to reach your B2B audience in a meaningful way, you need to return to basics and restructure messaging. Demonstrate’s strategy is to build brand belief and purpose to communicate effectively with the end user. Josh and Joey explore how PR has evolved, especially since COVID began. Joey explains that having stories to tell is an important key element. The first thing they do with new clients is to dive into the brand, its identity, and its mission. This first step gets Demonstrate to the root of a company’s messaging. This 4-6 week period helps Joey and his team discover the core audience they need to reach for a company and what their story is. From there, they use a bespoke approach to firmly address and solve the weaker points of a company’s existing marketing strategy. According to their website, Demonstrate believes that influence is earned, and that brand communications have evolved. Forget about “brand building,” it’s time to focus on growing your influence — brands need to play a role within culture to be successful. Joey shares that Demonstrate had to pivot how they talked about their branding clients online – they had to go cutting edge and digital when it comes to connecting with their core audiences. At this point, real physical events and experiences aren’t the standard anymore. This pivot to creating an excellent digital strategy is key when it comes to adapting to the new normal of the post-COVID world. Joey’s goal in founding Demonstrate was to provide a solution that wasn’t siloed or broken apart – he brought each communication work stream together to create a holistic approach. Marketing and communications should always be operated closely as they go hand in hand. If one team doesn’t know what the other is doing, how can messaging create an effective impact? You need a holistic approach to make your marketing, messaging, and communications effective and impactful. Want to learn more? Check out Demonstrate’s website at https://www.wearedemonstrate.com/. Check out Demonstrate on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/wearedemonstrate/. Check out Joey Hodges on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/joehodges/. Don’t forget to subscribe to The Thoughtful Entrepreneur and thank you for listening. Tune in next time!More from UpMyInfluence:✅ We are actively booking guests for our DAILY Entrepreneur Success Podcast. Schedule HERE.✅ Are you a 6-figure consultant? Let us fill your sales schedule and move you to 7-figures. Learn more here.✅ Check out our free Authority Transformation Masterclass.
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Mar 29, 2022 • 22min

1146 - The Evolution of Mergers and Acquisitions with M&A Science's Kison Patel

In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge talks to the CEO and founder of M&A Science, Kison Patel. M&A Science solves M&A industry issues using science. According to M&A Science’s website, traditional M&A processes are highly inefficient and antiquated. The industry operates in silos, and everyone has their own approach. Deals fail to deliver anticipated value because important deal processes, such as diligence and integration, are being poorly conducted and without proven techniques for success. The industry needs a platform to share knowledge and identify proven techniques. Teams execute better when they have a science-based approach to follow. M&A’s typical clients are 8-figure market cap companies that conduct three or more acquisitions a year. They also work with investment banks and corporations. Mergers and acquisitions have changed over the last few years, and tools and intel has certainly improved, but this doesn’t fix the lack of standardization and siloing commonly associated with the space. Josh and Kison explore the last five years of the industry’s evolution. The strategies used are very finance focused and it takes tactical integration to merge companies successfully. The biggest shift Kison has observed is that you need to use a people focused M&A approach to drive success. This pushes collaboration and teamwork between both organizations, and when you’re only focused on the finance side, there’s so much team value lost. The first step to approaching a merger or acquisition with a people focused mindset is to know what steps it will take to achieve results and share that with the appropriate teams. Executives need to be encouraged to participate beyond the close. Understanding the values of a company and a team is also important. Both organizations need to be respected for their approaches to create value, so understanding that can also unlock a deeper leadership understanding. This can help to bridge the gap between company values and operating standards. When both teams approach things with a collaborative mindset, solutions reveal themselves much faster. If you want to create a culture of responsiveness, you have to put people first and execute integration plans with both teams involved and respecting one another’s differences. Making sure that acquisitions are successful for your employees across the board is integral for both efficiency and effectiveness. Put people first when operating in the mergers and acquisitions space instead of leading with transactional, financial ambitions. Dedicate the merger to making sure teams and missions are aligned and you’re more likely to see true success.Want to learn more? Check out M&A Science’s website at https://www.mascience.com/.  Check out M&A Science on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/mascience/. Check out Kison Patel on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/kisonpatel/. Don’t forget to subscribe to The Thoughtful Entrepreneur and thank you for listening. Tune in next time!More from UpMyInfluence:✅ We are actively booking guests for our DAILY Entrepreneur Success Podcast. Schedule HERE.✅ Are you a 6-figure consultant? Let us fill your sales schedule and move you to 7-figures. Learn more here.✅ Check out our free Authority Transformation Masterclass.
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Mar 29, 2022 • 20min

1145 - How High Achievers Find Real Purpose and Fulfillment with Jan Broders

In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks to executive life coach, Jan Broders. Jan helps executives achieve fulfillment in life by helping them find happiness outside of their business success and achievements. Jan explains that he utilizes Maslow’s hierarchy of needs in order to help these executives determine where they actually are in life. This will indicate where their wellbeing and mental health are – especially relating to the success they have achieved. Jan works with the executives who are controlled largely by the responsibilities and demands of their success. Josh and Jan explore how high business achievers get where they do because they have high standards for themselves. Jan shares that he’s noticed that high achievers burn out eventually, which definitely doesn’t feel like success to the person experiencing it. Everyone has unique strengths they play to, but high achievers tend to also be perfectionists, which ultimately becomes their greatest weakness. When things aren’t perfect, sometimes burned out executives have trouble coping with that. When your focus on perfection is that consuming and obsessive, it is a weakness. Jan also stresses the importance of boundaries and self care. You need to let yourself do the things that bring you peace. Jan explains that self care goes beyond good lifestyle habits. You have to make an effort to actually walk away from work during the day and you need to push yourself to take breaks. Habit changes can help, but this can also cause you to feel more stress. You need to do some deep, mindful self assessments to figure out where your stress relating to work stems from. Josh and Jan also talk about how money doesn’t actually solve your problems. Yes, it can certainly improve certain circumstances, but the misconception is that money is the key to fixing any issue. The reality is that your problems scale with your income. Money is great, but if you’re losing sleep, experiencing health issues (especially relating to stress), and you’re not spending time enjoying life with your loved ones, then you still have serious issues. Jan says that each individual sees the world differently. People can look at the exact same situation in all different ways; each person perceives life, success, and happiness differently. Our reality is programmed by our experiences and surroundings, especially how success functions, relationships work, and our roles and expectations for ourselves within that reality. Having this mindfulness is the first step to reframing your life and feeling at peace in your reality. Want to learn more? Check out Jan Broder’s website at https://janbroders.com/. Check out Jan Broders on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/janbroders/. .  Don’t forget to subscribe to The Thoughtful Entrepreneur and thank you for listening. Tune in next time!More from UpMyInfluence:✅ We are actively booking guests for our DAILY Entrepreneur Success Podcast. Schedule HERE.✅ Are you a 6-figure consultant? Let us fill your sales schedule and move you to 7-figures. Learn more here.✅ Check out our free Authority Transformation Masterclass.
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Mar 28, 2022 • 17min

1144 - Living a More Creative, Bespoke Lifestyle with Angela Santi

In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks with The Dolce VITA Leadership and Lifestyle Designer, Angela Santi. The Dolce VITA Lifestyle is a bespoke, Italian signature lifestyle. Angela shares that this means focusing and committing yourself to hard work. However, it also means having a lighthearted approach to all facets of life. Whether you're working hard or it’s the weekend, you shouldn’t put your life on hold. Have fun and connect with people, and seize the day, Angela explains. Angela says that you should strive to live in the moment. In America, we don’t vacation very often. According to the Italian mentality, you have to take lots of breaks and vacation to allow yourself the time and space to rest, digest, and to let good ideas percolate. If you’re burned out, you’re far from your creative peak. When you’re rested and relaxed, you bring your best work to your company and to your team. Josh and Angela also explore how to set boundaries for yourself at work. Set notifications on a timer and don’t have them on all the time. You have to seize the moment in a functional way. Devote time to work – answering emails, reading Slack messages, whatever it is, but then fill the rest of your time with restful activities. Your mind simply can’t function optimally without time to recoup from work, especially if you’re an entrepreneur.When you don’t let go of your need to have eyes on everything at all times, you don’t recharge. As a business owner, you need to relent control and let go of the anxiety attached to your business. You’re operating off of fear and fight or flight when you attach these emotions to your job. You have to break down your own desire to feel busy and be willing to walk away sometimes for your own mental health. When you’re an anxiety-based workaholic, you’re training your brain out of creativity. You can’t think creatively while under immense stress. Don’t undermine your own ability as a business owner and set your own guilt-free boundaries, Angela shares. These boundaries will be your lifeline, and you have to be disciplined and dedicated to letting go. It seems counterintuitive, but in truth, this lifestyle will only help your creativity and mental health as a business owner flourish. Commitment and organization serve very important purposes, and there is a balance you have to strike. You have to balance how you focus on the present and caring for yourself and how you focus on the future and growing your business. Want to learn more? Check out Angela Santi’s website at https://angelasanti.it/. Check out Angela Santi on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/thedolcevitalifestyledesigner/. Don’t forget to subscribe to The Thoughtful Entrepreneur and thank you for listening. Tune in next time!More from UpMyInfluence:✅ We are actively booking guests for our DAILY Entrepreneur Success Podcast. Schedule HERE.✅ Are you a 6-figure consultant? Let us fill your sales schedule and move you to 7-figures. Learn more here.✅ Check out our free Authority Transformation Masterclass.

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