When I started this business, I decided that I was going to do things differently.

So many coaches seem to focus on giving you as much information as possible and while that is great, I know that real change happens in your business when you take action. So I put a ton of focus on making sure that you are able to actually implement what you are learning... and we do it in a way that you don't feel overwhelmed.

In fact, we do it in a way where you are able to get more done (and earn more income) while working fewer hours.

As I started planning Momentum Live, I looked at it the same way... I was going to do something different. This wasn't going to be like every other event or conference out there. And once again... a big reason for that is that it is strategically designed to get you taking action and implementing right away.

We actually have implementation time built into the calendar for you.

I could go on and on about why this is so important, but I'd rather you hear from one of the attendees.

Meet my client Susan Rose.

Susan has attended Momentum Live twice, and she's coming back for a third time at the end of the month. I sat down with Susan to talk about why she decided to attend, what she got out of it, how it helped her navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, and why she's decided never to host another event that doesn't include implementation time.

I hope you'll take some time to listen to our chat. She shares some really great insight.

Please comment below. I really want to hear from you.

I saw a Facebook post earlier that made me laugh. It was a post shared by the mother who was sharing the story of taking her kids out for ice cream. While they were there, a family came into the shop with a toddler. Dad lifted the toddler up so he could see all of the different ice cream choices. He was amazed just seeing all the options in front of him… but it got even better when he discovered that he could get little pink spoon samples to taste.

My friend who was telling the story shared the joy this toddler had in getting these little tastes of ice cream. He was so thrilled with the sample that he could have left perfectly happy without getting his own ice cream cone.

That got me thinking about the value of a sample… a little taste.
Maybe you might like a taste of what Momentum Live attendees will be learning during our 2 days together?

Wanda Turini is one of our featured guest speakers and she will be teaching us all about How to Laser Focus Your Lead Generation Game When Time or Money Are Tight.

Wanda is a powerhouse full of marketing know-how and she’s got some simple technology to share that can turn your talks - anything from speaking at an event, an online summit, or even just a Facebook Live - into a lead generating machine.

I invited Wanda to give a little sneak peek of her talk and share a bit about how you can start generating more leads with laser focus.

Take some time to check out our 20-minute conversation...

Wanda will be diving really deep into this lead generation strategy at Momentum Live. I’ve seen first hand the power of her Ketch program and I can’t wait for you to learn more about how it can make a difference in your business.

Please comment below. I really want to hear from you.

Do you know what Dopamine does?

According to Web MD, “Dopamine is a type of neurotransmitter. Your body makes it, and your nervous system uses it to send messages between nerve cells. That's why it's sometimes called a chemical messenger.
Dopamine plays a role in how we feel pleasure. It's a big part of our unique human ability to think and plan. It helps us strive, focus, and find things interesting.”

I’ve been reading the book Atomic Habits by James Clear and he talks about that the “Dopamine hit” is at its peak just before you open up a gift or a package.

It’s almost time for Momentum Live so we are ramping up the Dopamine hit as everyone gets ready to open up the package that is Momentum Live. I’ve been getting the swag boxes filled with goodies and mailed out to our virtual attendees.

One of our guest presenters, Sensei Victoria Whitfield joined me on FB LIve today to give a little preview of the session she’ll be teaching at Momentum Live. Her presentation is called "Unstoppable Clarity: How to Activate Momentum with Shamanic Vision Journey Meditation" and I can not wait for you to see it!

One of my favorite quotes from this interview is when Victoria said, “When more good people make good money, more good happens in the world.”
Victoria and I are a bit like two sides of the same coin. Time and time again we’ve seen that people who work with and learn from both of us get such amazing results. It’s like our work compliments each other so well that the results from both are amplified exponentially.

Take a few minutes and check out this interview...

Victoria shares how she is going to help Momentum Live attendees to discover the one thing holding you back from growing your business (and I promise you, the answer is not that you are getting in your own way!).

She also shared her favorite things about attending Momentum Live including the diversity of attendees (this is not your typical women’s coaching event!), the networking opportunities, collaboration in the room, time for implementation, and so much more!

Please comment below. I really want to hear from you.

Have you ever wished that you had more qualified leads at your fingertips? Or wondered why you are attracting tire-kickers rather than ready-to-buy prospects who value your expertise?

Cat Stancik from Action Incubator is known as the Lead Boss. Cat helps her clients to fill their pipeline with qualified, ready to buy leads in an hour (or less) per day so that they consistently sell out their high-ticket programs and services. I invited Cat to join me for a conversation about how you can generate more qualified leads in your business.

Cat shared some really great advice for how to generate more leads and bring in more revenue for your business. Some of the things we discussed include:

• Why you are probably still be "one funnel away" despite creating multiple funnels already
• The thing you may not have realized about all those fancy funnels
• Are people still buying high ticket offers in the current environment?
• If they are buying, is it ethical to be selling high ticket offers right now?

Find out more in our 10-minute conversation right here.

You can find the entire series of interviews on YouTube in this playlist. There are some amazing resources! Each interview is less than 15 minutes long so it is easy to fit them into your day.
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Please comment below. I really want to hear from you.

Everything that has happened in 2020 so far has definitely been a challenge for small business owners and leaders in all areas. It has definitely separated the good leaders from the great leaders (not to mention exposing those who maybe shouldn't be leading at all!).
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Candice Kingston is a leadership coach who works with small business owners and high level professionals to help them grow personally and professionally. Candice's approach is unique in that she uses energetic leadership coaching techniques to help uncover roadblocks that may be holding you back from reaching your true potential. Curious? I know I was.
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I invited Candice to share with us what every small business needs to know right now about leadership.

Candice shared some really great advice about how to bring your full self to your leadership role and help your team achieve peak performance for your business. Some of the topics we discussed include:

• reactive leadership vs. responsive leadership and why that difference is so important
• how conscious leaders respond differently
• how the current pandemic situation is an opportunity for innovation
• bringing your whole self into your leadership role to be a more effective leader

Find out more in our 10-minute conversation right here.

You can find the entire series of interviews on YouTube in this playlist. There are some amazing resources! Each interview is less than 15 minutes long so it is easy to fit them into your day.

Please comment below. I really want to hear from you. :)

"Stories Sell" - I'm sure you've heard that advice. Storytelling is the latest trend in marketing right now, and for good reason. Storytelling allows your ideal clients to get to know more about you, your expertise, and your business in a very relatable way... and we all know that people do business with those they know like and trust, right?

Joey Held from Ink Communications joined me for an interview where he shares his advice on how to use Storytelling to build your credibility and get more clients and customers for your business...

Joey shared some really great advice for how to share your message through storytelling. Some of the things we discussed include:

• What makes storytelling so powerful
• What every story should include
• How to bridge storytelling into generating more money in your business
• How to hone your message effectively
• How businesses can use podcasting to promote their products and services

Find out more in our 10-minute conversation right here.

You can find the entire series of interviews on YouTube in this playlist. There are some amazing resources! Each interview is less than 15 minutes long so it is easy to fit them into your day.

Please comment below. I really want to hear from you. :)

Ask any business owner where there best clients and customers come from and they are likely to tell you referrals. Most business owners think about referrals from existing or former clients, creating partnerships with other businesses who serve the same ideal clients can be an amazing source of fantastic, ready-to-buy referrals.
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Elizabeth Dodson from Home Zada is an expert at finding those referral partners and she was kind enough to share some of her best strategies with me in this interview...

She really didn't hold anything back! I love it when my guests share really actionable ideas and Elizabeth definitely did not disappoint. Some of the topics we cover include:

• Where she finds her most powerful partnerships.
• What makes an ideal partner?
• The keys to building an effective and successful partnership.
• Why partnerships are so important right now.

​Find out the answers in our 10-minute conversation right here.

You can find the entire series of interviews on YouTube in this playlist. There are some amazing resources! Each interview is less than 15 minutes long so it is easy to fit them into your day.

Please comment below. I really want to hear from you. :)

As a parent and a business owner, I often feel like I am directing traffic at a massive (and busy) intersection. Think spaghetti junction.

I’m constantly evaluating what, or who needs my attention. That’s part of the beauty of being self-employed though, isn’t it? We have the flexibility and freedom to control our schedules as needed.

Normally I’m pretty darn good at managing everything if I do say so myself, but sometimes things go amiss.

A couple of weeks ago I had one of those days. If you have kids, I know you can relate.

I had met with Cat Stancik (one of my coaches) the week prior to plan out my goals and vision and I was fresh from a retreat with Victoria Whitfield that left me feeling energized and aligned. My plan was to get up before the kids to work on my 9 Principles of Sustainable Business Success, but my motivation was low.

Self-employment didn’t feel so beautiful that morning and it continued throughout the week.

I wasn’t sure when I would have to toss all my plans out the window and focus on my family. I was motivated to take action on my business but the chunks of time were getting smaller and smaller.

By the end of the week, there was only enough energy to handle existing client work and putting out fires. There are probably a few smoldering fires left lingering right now.

“Pause, plan, move forward” wasn’t working. It was more like, “pause, plan, put out fire, pause, plan…” repeat ad nauseum.

The challenge? Even though I’m normally great at directing traffic, the intersection of family and business had become a 16 car pile up.

I needed a hard reset. The kind where the police, fire trucks, tow trucks, ambulances all come to disentangle the cars, clear the intersection and get the traffic moving again. Perhaps installing a traffic light would help to manage the flow in the future.

But the beauty of the situation is that as the owner of my own business, I get to create the flow. I can direct how much traffic comes from my business or my family life.

And when traffic starts backing up on one side, I can put more time there until I get back to a state where cars flow from each direction in turn, balanced.

I had to let go and realize that week was going to be a full stop on business to let the family flow through until the cars had cleared out. The following week I was able to get back to a more balanced approach.

When you are standing in the middle of the chaos, tt’s easy to believe that the 16 car pile-up is happening to you instead of for you, but the reality is that these moments are a great reminder of the opportunity you have because you are in business for yourself.

As the chief traffic controller, you can engineer a system that works for you.

Once I noticed the pile-up, it was in my best interest to not add any more cars to it. How do you handle the intersection? There are so many options and variations. What works for you?

Please comment below. I really do want to hear from you. :)

I can't wait to share this interview with you! I got so excited about the concepts Jason Howell shared about what every business owner needs to know about personal finance.

Jason was listed as a TOP Wealth Adviser by WASHINGTONIAN magazine. He is also President of Jason Howell Company a family wealth management firm that develops regular net worth parents into patriarchs and matriarchs. He does that by walking them through decisions and a unique family governance process.
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You'll definitely want to take a few minutes and listen to this interview...

Jason shares so many insightful bits of advice that are crucial for your financial well being. Some of the topics we cover include:

• All financial advisors will tell you to "know your numbers," but in the current environment, Jason says there is one thing you need to pay even more attention to.
• What you need to know about the CARES act.
• The 3 things business owners need to do (and NOT do) to go from regular net-worth to high net-worth in one generation.

Find out the answers in our 10-minute conversation right here.

P.S. You can find the entire series of interviews on YouTube in this playlist. There are some amazing resources! Each interview is less than 15 minutes long so it is easy to fit them into your day.

With everything happening in the world today, we’ve all been reminded of how important it is to take some time to re-evaluate things and look at them from a different perspective.

I get this reminder often from the most amazing source… my daughter.
You see, my daughter has anxiety. One of the things that helps her is for us to work on ‘black and white thinking.’ You see examples of black and white thinking all over right now… things are either 100% or 0%... good or bad… pass or fail… win or lose… us or them.

The problem with black and white thinking is that life rarely fits neatly into those two boxes. There are multiple sides, stories, angles, perspectives, experiences, options, and choices that beautifully color our world.

Every day my daughter and I work to challenge our black and white thinking. We have conversations about, “what else could be true?”

I’m proud to say she has become a star at unraveling this thinking and I have learned a lot from her as I help her through the process. Now that I am more aware of this “thinking trap,” I guard myself now against it (although I’m human so I do often make mistakes!).

How often do you find yourself stuck in a mindset that only gives you 2 options? Where you can either win or lose with no middle ground?

You may think the ‘middle ground’ is a compromise. That you have to make concessions in order to solve the problem before you. The issue here is that in compromise you may end up with a half solution that no one loves.

Instead, what if you held a new belief entirely. Not only 2 options but always an infinite number of options. How might that look?

This happens often with business owners. We are so wrapped up in our businesses, and so close to the problems and challenges, that we often get stuck thinking that we have limited options available to us.

That is almost never the case… but it can be hard to see it on your own.
Getting a fresh perspective from someone else can change everything and unlock new resources, ideas, and connections that you were completely unaware of before (even if they were right under your nose! They might ask the right question or give the perfect nudge to help you see “what else could be true” about the problem you are faced with.

It’s often these small shifts in perspective and focus that lead to the biggest changes.

I see it all the time in my 90-Day Productive Profits Intensive. My clients see major shifts happen in their businesses in a span of 3 months. They are accomplishing goals they thought would take all year to accomplish, and they are knocking them out of the park in 90 days.

Take Sonya for example… she had her first (but certainly not last!) $37,000 month during our time together! Fantastic, right? But that's not the full story... you see Sonya got those amazing results while working even less than she normally did.

Not only did she have record breaking revenue, but she got her life back in the process. How awesome is that?

I’m getting ready to start a new round of the 90-Day Productive Profits Intensive and there are only a few seats available. If you are ready to add another $100,000 to your bottom line this year, and you’d like to know more about the Productive Profits Intensive, hit reply and let’s chat.

I’ll be happy to share some info about the program with you, and if it sounds intriguing, we can hop on the phone and chat a bit more about it.

Sound good?
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​PS - Isn’t this image cool? It was taken as my daughter 'climbed' up a fallen
tree, one that was laying parallel to the ground, how many new perspectives exist here?