The Boss Mom Podcast

70% of Americans don't like their day jobs. This statistic could apply to stay-at-home moms too, not just those who work outside the home. On this episode: speaker, author, and coach Christy Wright shares valuable insights on these topics. Why is it smart for women to create something that allows them to put their talents to good use? How important is it to step back from all the action in your business so you can actually formulate a plan? Why is it so easy to fall into the trap of all the sporadic, brilliant information that's out there? You will achieve more in life when you start by simply assuming that you can. If you assume that you can't, you're not even going to try. -Christy Wright 3 Things We Learned From This Episode Always assume that you can (06:31 - 06:57) It's better to move through life believing that you can do whatever you set your mind to, because you will always be willing to try. If you believe you can't, you won't even bother to challenge yourself or try something new. If you wait for permission, you'll wait forever (07:51 - 08:11) Before trying something new, a lot of people wait for permission from someone else or for proof that they'll be successful. Don't wait for these things. Make sure you have a long term vision for your business (11:38 - 12:25) If you don't know what your vision is for your business, and you don't give it a little thought, you'll end up going in a direction you don't want. You'll also compare yourself to everyone else and start becoming someone you're not. Whether you're an introvert or an extrovert, we all experience fear. Nothing neutralizes fear like the willingness to try something new, even if you fall flat on your face. You don't have to be perfect or delusionally confident when you've never done something. You just have to be willing to give it a chance. When it comes to your business, it's so easy to get caught up in all of the activities and tasks, but it's crucial to make sure you actually have a plan for your business. The world is filled with lots of brilliant tidbits of information, but if it's not organized in a plan, you might find yourself lost at the end of it all. Guest Bio Christy is an author, Certified Business Coach and a Ramsey Personality. Go to https://www.businessboutique.com/ for more information.

One of the ways we can help our businesses grow is being visible. Getting featured in an article or on podcast is one of the best ways to do that. What are the things you need to do? How does collaboration help you get featured more? How do you come up with your movement story? On this episode I talk about the 5 things that will increase your chances of getting featured. The idea of being visible is being a very bright star, in the right place where the right people are looking. -Dana Malstaff 3 Things We Learned From This Episode Your movement story is the story that's going to get people to stand up and rally with you. The better you know your target audience, the more you know where they will be. Find your supplementers: people who add value to what you do, while you also add value to what they do. Collaborate with your supplementers because you won't feel like you're competing with them It's hard to really move the needle on your business when you don't have any visibility, and that's why getting featured needs to be one of the components of your business plan. First, develop a compelling movement story. What you've done is what will move people to want to be a part of what you're doing. Next, make sure you know who you're targeting and find people you can build mutually beneficial relationships with. Be willing to collaborate and actually reach out to people.

We are all constantly faced with challenges in our lives, both big and small. We constantly talk about how to move past challenges, but rarely talk about how to build up the skills that allow us to be resilient in the first place. Why is resilience necessary, and how do we build it up? How can you bounce back from challenges? On this episode, speaker, author and resilience mentor, Sandra Younger joins us to talk about surviving a traumatic fire, how that built up her resilience, and how we can build ours up too. "We can--on our own, by our own choice-- build our resilience." -Sandra Younger 3 Things We Learned From This Episode Be proud of committing time to your kids 07:22 - 07:56 A lot of women who decide to stay at home and raise their children feel like they won't be able to make up the time that could have been spent focusing on a career. You're not going to get those years back in your career, but you're not going to get them back with your kids either. Resilience practice starts with gratitude 13:37 - 14:45 When you want to practice resilience, the very first step is to have gratitude. It is the antidote to all of our negative emotions, and it's a big part of the healing process. It also keeps us from being stuck in resentment and a general life of misery. The ComeBACK Formula 17:13 - 20:41 Be patient with the process and the pain, and believe that you can come back from it. Accept help-- don't think it's weak to do so. Ask when you need it. Choose your story. We don't always get to choose what happens to us, but we can choose our response. Keep moving, forgive, and lose attachment to how things need to be. Life is not easy, and we have to overcome a lot of difficult things. Resilience is something we were born with, and it gives us the ability to overcome challenges. We can open ourselves up to possibilities and opportunities on the other side of adversity or disaster, but there are steps we have to take. Practice gratitude, be patient, ask for help, choose the story you attach to an occurrence, and then keep moving forward by forgiving. We can practice all of this and build it like a muscle.

Many entrepreneurs spend a lot of time building up content, but they miss out on building programs people can pay for. Why is it so mission critical to have these programs? How can you go about actually creating them? On this episode, I talk about the importance of turning what you offer into something that can help you make money. As you get better at what you do, what you know is going to be worth more. -Dana Malstaff 3 Things We Learned From This Episode If you have opt-ins and you don't have a structured paid program, get one together ASAP! One-on-one programs are important. You always have to keep your finger on the pulse, and you can't do that in a group. At some point in your paid programs you're going to see that there is a bell-curve where your pricing will create a new ideal client for you. A lot of entrepreneurs think they can only start launching paid programs once they're much bigger, but you can start now. We make money by selling things, and the things we sell must have structure. The nuances with which we deliver our programs are just as important as the kind of effort we put into marketing, words and sales pages. Whether you offer one-on-one coaching, set up a live event, or create paid content, setting up this kind of program will boost your business in a major way.

Our culture struggles to allow women to be simultaneously motherly and sensual. What do we get so wrong about our understanding of sexuality? What happens when your vibration rises? Why should we be willing to face pain? On this episode, I have a powerful conversation with coach Allana Pratt who shares the journey she's taken to an open heart. The internal always creates the external. The masks don't work, and our strength is in our vulnerability. -Allana Pratt 3 Things We Learned From This Episode Sexuality isn't just sex (07:36 - 09:00) Our culture doesn't know how to deal with the fact that women can be mothers and still be sexy. We have forgotten that sexuality is literally sacred life force energy. It is sexual, creative, life force energy, and we have wrongly compartmentalized it into genital copulation. Connect with little you (11:16 - 12:39) So many people seek approval through touch, sex, and relationships. What makes them feel good is from the outside-in, but it should be from the inside-out. You have to mentally go inside to "little you": the child who is alone, and scared. Learning to soothe that person is a powerful step to inner peace. When you get to know yourself, expect a lot of changes (14:44 - 14:59) Be warned: if you're going to really dive in and get to know yourself, be prepared to not like every thing you have put in your life. Be ready to be strong enough to change those things. There are consequences to finding and reclaiming yourself. As you rise in your vibration, whatever is of the old vibration won't fit anymore and will fall away. It takes great bravery and great courage to make the changes that come with a change in your vibration. That's why it's so important to have a solid relationship with yourself. Remember: we have to experience both joy and pain for us to truly be who we are. There's so much power in having communion with yourself, your truth, your body, and your heart. Guest Bio Allana is an intimacy expert who inspires open hearted living, with delicious sass. Featured on CBS, TLC & FOX, this cum laude graduate of Columbia University is the Author of 3 books. She's a coach to celebrities is and the Host of the sexy empowering show "Intimate Conversations LIVE". Go to http://allanapratt.com/ for more information.

On your website, a "thank you page" should be the first thing a person sees after they've said "Yes!" to you about something. If we fail to provide more ways to interact or connect with us, we're missing out on huge opportunity. We want to guide people to the next step while they're open, energetic, and excited about us. In this episode, I'll explain how powerful your thank you page can be, how it can help you create die-hard fans, and share some tips on exactly how to build it! "It's not 'salesy' to offer them an additional step to get closer to what they want" - Dana Malstaff 3 Things We Learned From This Episode A thank you page is a great way to allow a person to continue their journey with you, especially if you have more to offer that can improve their life. Don't assume that people don't want to dig deeper into what you have to offer. Give yourself the depth and potential to have die-hard fans A professional-sounding video is a great way to strike a chord emotionally, and communicate who you are in a way that text can't. Start the message of your page by thanking them for specifically what they did (or the form in which they said "yes" to you). Speak to their frustration, and propose an alternative. Let them know they're in the right place, and provide the source of a solution. Setting this up in a way that resonates with your target audience is a powerful way help them find you, connect with you, and share you!

Trauma can be defined as something that has severe emotional consequences. Why is it sometimes so hard to identify the source of your trauma? How do techniques like EFT, NLP and hypnotherapy help people change limiting beliefs? What is the first step you can take towards mental freedom? On this episode Mindset Mentor, Jacqui Letran shares the answers to these questions and more. If there's a desire that you have to change your belief system, you can make that change incredibly fast with the right tools. -Jacqui Letran 3 Things We Learned From This Episode Not all trauma is easily identifiable (09:23 - 09:35) 90% of people are wrong about the traumas that hold them back. If you've experienced a trauma like rape, a car accident or witnessing a death, we can clearly recognize where things changed. The difficult part is identifying when a trauma affected you when you don't think the event was actually traumatic. Change is possible and swift for the person who wants it (12:41 - 13:10) It's impossible to change a person's limiting beliefs unless they really want to. If you're equipped with the right tools and really want something different, it will happen for you. Use EFT to release trapped negative energy (13:54 - 16:08) The premise of EFT (emotional freedom technique) is that we are all made of energy, and when we have emotional trauma, it stays with us for the rest of our lives. Your mind processes information and delivers to you things that match your belief system. To break free from this, you can use methods like EFT to reset the beliefs you have stored within. A lot of us give up our power and control so easily when we let past events, people and things dictate how we feel and react. You can change this by being 100% responsible for all your happiness and not giving other people permission to ruin your day or change how you feel about yourself. Breaking from negative limiting beliefs is all about changing the tapes that are playing automatically in your mind. Remember, the stories you're replaying aren't what's happening right now. Your belief system can be wrong, and should be challenged. Accepting this brings you one step closer to happiness. Guest Bio Jacqui is a Mindset Mentor specializing in helping teens and young adults take control of their lives by taking control of their minds. Go to jacquiletran.com for more information or email author@jacquiletran.com.

Sales funnels are a hot topic right now, and for good reason. They are a great way to generate awareness and excitement around what you have to offer, ultimately leading people from your free content to your paid service. In this episode, I'm going to explain the crucial (but simple!) pieces of an effective sales funnel that you can feel good about, and will ultimately bring your audience to an easy "yes". 3 Things We Learned From This Episode A funnel provides a clear route for those who are a good fit for your business It's important to be engaging and give a preview as to what you're all about. You don't have to sell people in a way that feels bad if you bring them down the nurturing cycle of a free-to-pay journey A sales funnel is a streamlined way to attract the people who are right for you, while filtering out those who aren't. A resonant "Aha!" moment combined with an easy opt-in can make the jump from "cool" to "commit" a natural progression. If you have an offering that can make a person's life easier, getting that easy "Yes!" can be as simple as showing them the way.

Breaking through to new levels in your live and business require 3 elements: Discipline, Consistency and Persistency. Misfit Entrepreneur Dave Lukas joins us to share how to take control of your life, build daily routines that work for us, and why we should all stop trying to be a jack of all trades. Click HERE to access the show notes for this episode and don't forget to leave us a rating and review if you enjoyed the show today! Want to make sure you never miss an episode? Hit that "subscribe" button in your favorite podcast app and click HERE to join our email family so you'll be notified whenever a new episode is released. Thanks so much for joining us today - we heart your face!