Chill & Prosper with Denise Duffield-Thomas

get something out of today's podcast episode.   I'm talking about the pros and cons of being the breadwinner of your family, and you know I'm going, to be honest about how this works in my own family.   I share about the pressure, the power, and the mistakes I've made along the way and provide a glimpse into how Mark and I navigated the expectations and pressures that come with providing for our family.    From speaking to thousands of people about this, I know there's a lot of energy and fear around this idea of being the primary income earner.   The fears we have about being a breadwinner are often similar to those of growing or making more money or doing something different and going past our perceived limitations.    It is important to acknowledge these fears to start moving past them, so let's dive in. 

You know I’m an oversharer – but I just LOVE answering your questions about my work and money.    In this episode, I answer listener questions about everything!

The speaker talks about selling their dream beach house and manifesting their next one. They discuss staying positive, visualizing goals, and being selective in opportunities. They emphasize the importance of refining desires and being open to possibilities. They also promote pursuing dreams and being okay with change.

Getting ghosting sucks.    Whether it’s the person you’ve been enjoying getting to know romantically, or a huge lead for your business, a sudden stop in communication is a punch in the gut.    But to be honest, in your business people are going to ghost you. They will flake on you, change their mind, and sometimes be pretty rude about it.    But you can’t take it personally!   Today on the Chill and Prosper podcast, I cover how to get yourself into a mindset of abundance to close the deal (and the steps to take when you don’t).

People ask me all the time, “Denise, how long does it really take to make a million dollars?”   For me, the magic number was five years.    Five years from starting my business to pushing over the threshold of $1 million in annual revenue.    But that’s not the whole story.   Because truthfully, I was waiting in the wings for years before starting my business. Listening and learning – gathering all the information I needed to be successful.   I didn’t wake up one day and think, “I’m going to make a million dollars!” and then five years to the day later had a huge check in my hands.   But maybe that could be your journey.    Today on the Chill and Prosper podcast, I share the struggles I faced when scaling my business, from my first try at nine years old to everything I have today.

Small words of wisdom for this week:   Just because someone is succeeding in addition to you, doesn’t mean they are succeeding instead of you.   There’s nothing new under the sun, right? It can be nerve wracking to put your ideas out there because what if it looks like you’re trying to copy someone else.    Or even worse, what if someone ends up copying you and making even more money.    How can we be original when the world around us is moving a mile a minute?  Let me tell you a story …  A few years back, I published a blog post about spotting money leaks in your business.   I had batched the content months before, but it just so happened that the week I picked to publish that post, a peer of mine published the exact same post!!   Was it just a coincidence?    Today on the Chill and Prosper podcast, I’m talking about copycats, making your own path, and being original in your business (plus what happened with that blog post). 

I am doing another episode of Ask Me Anything.    It keeps me on my toes because I’m answering a question every couple of minutes!

This podcast explores the impact of clutter on mindset and discusses Marie Kondo's KonMari Method. They highlight how decluttering can reduce stress, increase productivity, and help make more money. The chapters cover the power of decluttering for manifestation, upgrading life through decluttering, decluttering for manifestation, and the power of decluttering for attracting positive things.

Can you believe we’re already in the third week of the New Year?   Have you flown into January and already have multiple new projects up and running? Or are you just getting round to opening your emails and working on your plan for the year? Either way is totally fine.    The perfect time to plan out your year is whenever you actually do it!    Mark and I like to start planning things out in December to give ourselves space for the year ahead, but if that’s not your vibe, don’t force it.    You can make your plan any time. Sometimes, we don’t really get to it until February, which is Lunar New Year … so it totally still works.    At its core, our planning process is very simple.    Listen to this episode, where I share how to avoid scheduling burnout without compromising my goals.

The podcast discusses strategies to stop worrying about money, including knowing your financial situation, making a plan, and creating abundance in your life. It emphasizes the importance of taking action, voicing your fears, and maintaining a positive mindset