Made for More with Amanda Kolbye

In today's episode, we're diving into the natural and raw aspects of the mindset at things that entrepreneurs struggle with at every single level.    Our guest expert Topsie VandenBosch is a mindset and emotional intelligence expert. She will be talking with you today about her different opinions and experiences on these matters.    Topsie is not only a mindset and emotional intelligence coach but also a clinical therapist and has her master's in social work. She's on a mission to help high achieving six and seven-figure entrepreneurs and business owners, as well as corporate executives, destroy their negative thought patterns and behaviors using emotional intelligence and mindset strategy so that they can live happier, healthier, successful lives.    In this episode, we cover… Identifying the blocks that contribute to a turmoil perspective Managing emotions at hard times  How to refocus yourself  What pressures are you holding yourself to that you get to release? Separating yourself from your business Rapid Fire Questions   "The whole "Oh, I scaled, and I hit my first, you know, $200,000 month," that's fucking incredible. I want to be very clear, what I think is not incredible is how you beat yourself up when you feel like you're not hitting that each month. But it's looking at what you have to do to hit that $200,000? What did you have to do? And do you want to keep doing that? And if so, why?"   "So I think it's about allowing it to get quiet. I believe that so many of us struggle with the quiet. We're constantly scrolling because what would happen if I just allowed my thoughts to wander? Where would they go? What would I think about, and what would I worry about? Right? So a lot of entrepreneurs are worriers. And so it's beneficial to have an online business because you get to distract yourself from the truth."   Thanks for listening 💕!   If you like what you've heard, I would greatly appreciate you 📲 shaing this episode with your friends or on your Instagram stories (and tag @laptop.lifestyle.co)! There are so many amazing women who need to hear this message and who are working to build their dream lifestyle, and I'd love you to help me spread the word.    Resources and links mentioned in this episode: Laptop Lifestyle Co Links: Website Instagram Tik Tok YouTube Channel   Topsie VandenBosch Links: Website Instagram Podcast

In these "Mini Moments" we pull some of my favorite and most impactful mini lessons from past episodes of the Made for More Podcast to give you a quick digestible lesson in under 10 minutes. If you liked this mini moment, check out the rest of this full episode here - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-laptop-lifestyle-podcast/id1529443551?i=1000558588676  Summary There are two big things that hold people back from getting what they want: priorities and assessment/fear of risk. We often tell ourselves we really want something but our actions say otherwise in that we are likely not truly prioritizing the actions needed to change. So they hard question becomes not just "how bad do you really want this?" but "how bad do you really want this in regards to what you will have to trade or sacrifice to prioritize and achieve that thing?" Lastly, we provide a new way to think about risk, because most people only think about risk from one side. Our Favorite Quotes “Being decisive is one of the most successful traits of being a business owner.” If you want significant results, you've got to make big moves; risk-taking and taking action! No matter what level of entrepreneurship you're at, if you are a six-figure business owner or considering leaving your 9-5 job to start a business, you will be assessing the risk of what it takes to achieve your goals.  “We live in the emotion, we don’t dismantle this narrative that’s controlling us.”    Thanks for listening, and if you like what you've heard, I would greatly appreciate you shaing this episode with your friends or on your Instagram stories (and tag @laptop.lifestyle.co)! There are so many amazing women who need to hear this message and who are working to build their dream lifestyle, and I'd love you to help me spread the word.    Resources and links mentioned in this episode: Laptop Lifestyle Co Links: Website Instagram Tik Tok YouTube Channel  

As business owners, we find we are usually lacking a very key component in life: time. I found myself drifting into a sea of chaos and the one thing I knew I needed was a break.  Breaking away from your current reality to focus on your mental and physical well-being is completely acceptable. I've readjusted my priorities A LOT and did a lot of healing during this time - being stable was helpful and doctors were easy because they were familiar but insanely expensive! Today we are diving into the that sea of chaos and I’m sharing the tips I’ve learned during my 9 month break.  In this episode, we cover… How my 9 months in America went Future plans and priortites What defines the image of success? Business changes, offers, and shifts continuing in 2023 My biggest takeaways from living back in America “I really lost my identity, I was really struggling with mental and physical health and I got to this point where I was so freaking lost, we had hit 1 million dollars a couple months prior in 2021 in the business. It was exciting, but I just couldn’t keep going anymore.”  Thanks for listening, and if you like what you've heard, feel free to share this episode with your friends! There are so many amazing women waiting to discover the Laptop Lifestyle, and I'd love you to help me spread the word.  Don’t forget to screenshot this episode and share it on your Insta stories! Resources and links mentioned in this episode: Laptop Lifestyle Co Links: Website Instagram Tik Tok YouTube Channel

For the past 2 years I’ve been struggling with major burnout but it was also more than that. I realized I had actually fallen back into addiction for the 3rd time in my life. No one could help me. I could not help myself: I had completely lost control. And while most people don't neccessarily end up in addiction cycles, there is a scary truth among so many high achieving entrepreneurs happening BTS that we need to talk about... In this episode, we deep plunge into my struggles and the answers I have acquired a long my journey. In this episode, we cover… Struggles, hardships and major burnnouts  My methods of getting "unstuck" BTS of a "functioning" entrepreneur The ways I found to escape from my emotional stress Action steps to take for a better future and successful business “Until the fall, I let go. I let go of everything, I had to and I had to reprioritize myself. So, dipping into this..what happened? Now looking back after going through a lot of healing processes this year, what was wrong?”  “I am absolutely still on my healing journey, working through things, and learning more. Going deeper and learning more especially about regulating nervous systems and brain function and now can see how impactful it really really is.”  Thanks for listening, and if you like what you've heard, feel free to share this episode with your friends! There are so many amazing women waiting to discover the Laptop Lifestyle, and I'd love you to help me spread the word.  Don’t forget to screenshot this episode and share it on your Insta stories! Resources and links mentioned in this episode: Laptop Lifestyle Co Links: Website Instagram Tik Tok YouTube Channel  

POV: You're washing off the day in a relaxing bubble bath. Your phone notifications go off; someone on the other end eagerly wants to purchase a five-figure package from you.    This is the beauty of high-ticket sales and the reality for our guest Jessica Sealy. Jessica is a sales + leadership coach on a mission to build financially independent leaders who make a wild income + impact in the online space. Since starting her biz in January 2019, she's served over 150+ women, has generated over half a million in business sales, and has helped her clients achieve outstanding results like 6 figures in 6 months, multiple resignations from full-time jobs, massive multiple 5 figure launches, and more.    In this episode, we cover… Booking $15,000+ packages from a bubble bath How to start expanding into high ticket sales Selling high ticket vs. low ticket How to stand out in this everchanging space Common fears around selling high-ticket   "At the end of the day, when it comes to selling high tickets again, whether you've done it before or not. Trust is the number one factor you need to bring into a high ticket sales model."   "Many people expect to roll in and build this super-profitable, successful business on day one. But it's like you do have to respond and listen, and you can have the perfect strategic game plan in place, like whatever you can have it all laid out. And then notice that no one is responding, even though you're doing all the work. You're doing the mindset work, and you're following the strategy. And it's like, Where are the people? You have to be flexible, and you have to be open to adapting and open to shifting and open? Well, you must also ensure your basic needs are met." Thanks for listening, and if you like what you've heard, feel free to share this episode with your friends! There are so many amazing women waiting to discover the Laptop Lifestyle, and I'd love you to help me spread the word.    Don’t forget to screenshot this episode and share it on your Insta stories to win a free coaching call with me!   Resources and links mentioned in this episode: Laptop Lifestyle Co Instagram Laptop Lifestyle Links   Amanda Kolbye Instagram  Amanda Kolbye Links

Many of you in my audience have been expressing feeling stuck in one way or another. All of us in this entrepreneur online space have also been experiencing many changes within the industry. Even if it's not that, this is a natural season of entrepreneurship, and sometimes it's a day, sometimes it's a week, sometimes it's months.     In this episode, we will talk about what it means to be stuck, what's happening with us in those times, and why and how many of us end up stuck. There are many different ways, so one of them will relate to you. And then lastly, we're going to talk about how to move out of being stuck. So if you're someone who's feeling pretty stuck in your business or just in one area of your business, you need to hear this episode.   In this episode, we cover… What does it mean to feel stuck? Letting go of situations, we have no control over Setting up your business for growth How overwhelm and burnout play into feeling stuck Recognizing underlying contradictory beliefs Navigating this stuckness  "Sometimes, this is just a label for a period where not much is happening. It doesn't necessarily mean something is wrong or you're not capable of doing what you could do before."   "Many of us tend to freak out and feel like, " Oh my gosh, okay, I don't have the same momentum or sales as I was before, you know, so I must be stuck. And that almost creates the reality that didn't exist for you."   "The definition of stagnation is continuing to do the same things. And being very hesitant to change and essentially adapt as you go right."   "Comparison makes you feel stuck. It doesn't mean you are stuck."    "The mentality of being stuck is almost always what is fueling 99% of your stuckness. Right?" Thanks for listening, and if you like what you've heard, feel free to share this episode with your friends! There are so many amazing women waiting to discover the Laptop Lifestyle, and I'd love you to help me spread the word.    Don’t forget to screenshot this episode and share it on your Insta stories to win a free coaching call with me!   Resources and links mentioned in this episode: Laptop Lifestyle Co Instagram Laptop Lifestyle Links   Amanda Kolbye Instagram  Amanda Kolbye Links

Today's guest Ashley Pollard has over ten years of working experience in corporate in the cutthroat fashion industry in New York City. Now Ashley runs an agency that helps female-led businesses to grow to six and seven figures. She also has a wellness company and two podcasts.    In this episode, we chat all things productivity, growth, data-driven decisions, and, more importantly, some perspectives from outside the entrepreneurial bubble.   In this episode, we cover… The importance of planning ahead BTS of what building a brand and business looks like How to utilize Data as a tool in your business Things that contribute to fast business growth  Productivity Hacks   "I think entrepreneurs have so many ideas. And what I tried to do is say, what if you can only do one? Well, per quarter, right? So if you can only do four great ideas this year, that's cool. You can do other ones next year. It helps you prioritize what your ideas are."   "Now that I've run enough of these live launches, and I say three to four are the basement of the bare minimum, to average one and two are just like gathering information, but not reacting to it. Once you have that three or four times. Now I know okay, well, I want to make 50 grand from this launch, which means I have to have X amount of people sign up, which means I have to have X amount of people at the webinar, which means I have to tell this many people about it. Because my analytics have been, you know, pretty similar each time. I've now had a little bit more of a proven model where I can tweak and adapt and adjust. So that's even another thing that you could do is try one thing multiple times, and see if you're getting the same result with the same messaging and all of that kind of stuff." Thanks for listening, and if you like what you've heard, feel free to share this episode with your friends! There are so many amazing women waiting to discover the Laptop Lifestyle, and I'd love you to help me spread the word.    Don’t forget to screenshot this episode and share it on your Insta stories to win a free coaching call with me!   Resources and links mentioned in this episode: Laptop Lifestyle Co Instagram Laptop Lifestyle Links   Amanda Kolbye Instagram  Amanda Kolbye Links   Team AP Consulting Instagram Ashley’s Instagram

Let's say you strip away all of the labels you use to describe yourself and that society uses to describe you... who are you? A substantial question to try to unpack, but we've got some excellent angles and perspectives.    Labels have alot of power over us, which we will be diving into in this episode. I want to discuss the importance of recognizing the labels we identify with, uncovering how this makes us feel, and how to rewire our thought patterns to release any potential negative blocks in our behavior that could be caused by how we identify with ourselves.    In this episode, we cover… The difference between your identity and personality Defining and identifying our behavior with labels  How labels fit into our identity and personality Stripping back these labels Deciding who you are   "Your identity is more so what you give yourself it is how you see yourself, And it's also more so who you are. Versus personality is more of how you portray yourself or live out your identities, it's how you behave, not always who you are. So when we label this, one of the easiest ways I've looked at this is identity is who you are, personality is what type of person you are or how you show yourself to the world. This is an important distinction to make because a lot of who we currently think we are, is just learned behavior."   "When we change our identity, it is guaranteed, and it is natural that your behaviors are going to change as well in accordance and in alignment with the identity that you're choosing."   Thanks for listening, and if you like what you've heard, feel free to share this episode with your friends! There are so many amazing women waiting to discover the Laptop Lifestyle, and I'd love you to help me spread the word.    Don’t forget to screenshot this episode and share it on your Insta stories!   Resources and links mentioned in this episode: Laptop Lifestyle Co Links: Website Instagram Tik Tok YouTube Channel   Amanda Kolbye Instagram  Amanda Kolbye Links

With today's guest, we are diving into a little something else that I genuinely think is the ultimate superpower for you to tap into in literally every area of your business. Feelings are the basis of marketing, sales, and client delivery. Feelings are what magnetize your desires. Feelings will let you know if you are headed in the right direction.    Jackie Simek boldly believes that feelings are the pathway to your profits, inviting women to reclaim their wholeness and harness the innate power society conditioned them to repress. Jackie is a speaker, EFT practitioner, and mentor to women leaders who find themselves stuck in their heads. Her entrepreneurial clients go from running ~ $40k businesses that feel heavy and hard to leading multiple six-figure movements they love. In this episode, Jackie discusses how she helps women focus more on the feelings they are experiencing, the sense of day to day, how to tap into those feelings, and utilize these techniques.   In this episode, we cover… Jackie's Journey and what lead her to reach this point The emotional freedom technique  How thoughts and feelings can misdirect us  Tapping into your feelings and using them as a superpower Approaching scarcity and abundance from a coaching and finance background   "I can admit, like when I started my business, I had this 100% push, push, push energy. Then there started to become more conversations around, you know, burnout and everyone's like pushing themselves to this certain limit and strategy's not, you know, being necessarily like the secret in the vault that you need next on your Journey."    "Women are often told not to be emotional, don't let your feelings get involved with business. This conditioning has women not only denying so much of themselves. It is suppressing their superpower."   Thanks for listening, and if you like what you've heard, feel free to share this episode with your friends! There are so many amazing women waiting to discover the Laptop Lifestyle, and I'd love you to help me spread the word.    Don’t forget to screenshot this episode and share it on your Insta stories to win a free coaching call with me!   Resources and links mentioned in this episode: Laptop Lifestyle Co Instagram Laptop Lifestyle Links   Amanda Kolbye Instagram  Amanda Kolbye Links   Connect with Jackie! Jackie’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jackiesimek/ Monthly Tappy Hour:  https://jackiesimek.ac-page.com/SignUpTappyHr Apply For Partnership Coaching:    https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?appointmentType=6448079&owner=15657425 Download Quantum Pussy for free with a code FREEGIFT: https://jackiesimek.thrivecart.com/quantum-pussy/ Tapping for Entrepreneurs: bit.ly/3TappingsForEntrepreneurs

The way that people are buying and making purchasing decisions is changing. Not only is the entrepreneur bubble that we're in going through massive shifts, but overall, people are shifting how they are responding to marketing and sales tactics. We will unpack this with today's guest, who is an expert on revolutionizing how we treat marketing sales and money mindset, especially with my women entrepreneurs.   Melanie Aubert is a corporate dropout turned multi-seven figure CEO. Over the past three years, she has helped hundreds of women entrepreneurs rise to six- and seven-figure incomes by dismantling outdated marketing and sales tactics. Coining the phrase "where massive impact meets big checks," Melanie has introduced a uniquely feminine, soul-led approach to business.   In this episode, we cover… The new era of selling Shifts to make if you're feeling unaligned with your selling The critical difference between circumstantial power and personal power Where most entrepreneurs get stuck  Actionable steps around money mindset   "The new era of selling, and what I'm referring to when I say that is we've entered a phase in the digital space where we are now buying what we want and not what we need. This is why people don't invest in the fitness coach and buy the new iPhone, right? People will buy the $1,000 pair of sneakers and not pay their mortgage or rent. We go above and beyond when it comes to desire. Then we don't do the things that we need to do."   "When we're in a state of trying to recalibrate, relearn, grow and scale our business, we are gonna have moments of absolute fear where your brain will try to seek out and grab on to something predictable that from the past, like a failed launch, or, you know, someone calls you stupid, or whatever that thing is. We'll try to place that in the future to make it feel like it knows what to anticipate."   Thanks for listening, and if you like what you've heard, feel free to share this episode with your friends! There are so many amazing women waiting to discover the Laptop Lifestyle, and I'd love you to help me spread the word.    Don’t forget to screenshot this episode and share it on your Insta stories to win a free coaching call with me!   Resources and links mentioned in this episode: Laptop Lifestyle Co Instagram Laptop Lifestyle Links   Amanda Kolbye Instagram  Amanda Kolbye Links Connect with Melanie:   Melanie's IG https://www.instagram.com/itsmelanieaubert/ Melanie's Offers: CASH Converting Content: https://sales.melanieaubert.com/cash-converting-content-hco/ MMM: https://sales.melanieaubert.com/mmm/ New Era: https://sales.melanieaubert.com/the-new-era/