Alaska Tracy Podcast

Today I had the opportunity to interview my (little) brother Gregg Roesch, co-owner of GT Supplies. My brothers and both their wives are business owners and I thought it would be a good inspirational story to share how Gregg and Todd (my older brother) created a business starting 23 years ago by painting dumpsters. Their business, GT Supplies has grown to a company of 36 employees with many different services within the company.  Refurbishing dumpsters being the largest service offered.   The reason I wanted to interview Gregg was to hear how Gregg and Todd took a small idea and created a large corporation. They sought out opportunities in their community to fulfill the community's needs. Starting out in business or looking to create a business, we often get wrapped up in the 'romance' of business thinking we have to be passionate about what we are doing from our core. Passion is great and if there is not a need for your passion, you have no business.  Finding and fulfilling a need can open the doors to opp

What a gift to bring you the last podcast episode of 2020! We made it folks and what a year it has been. Happy New Year to each of you!!!  Enjoy this episode as I share what has helped me and countless clients I have been fortunate enough to work with to keep moving forward through all the obstacles this year.  Check out - Alaska Tracy YouTube Channel Thank you in advance for clicking subscribe! It's that time of year for the Annual Pay What You Want Women's Virtual Vision Mapping Workshop  If you are listening to this at a later time, please feel free to check out my offerings and or book a free coaching discovery call at https://www.alaskatracy.com/ Thank you for your support and feel free to download your free gift: 5 Tools for the Balance Beam of Life

Sandra De Freitas is a Certified Digital Marketing Professional who helps entrepreneurs grow, engage, and monetize online communities. She has had her hands in over 300 Facebook Groups, been part of 6 and 7 figure launches, and been an online entrepreneur for 16 years! Sandra is a wealth of knowledge in the tech space and used her knowledge to become known as The Facebook Group Queen.   Sandra shares her story and journey of entrepreneurship including making the decision in 2005 to start her first business. With oodles of hard work and determination, she was able to quit her full-time job in 2006 to start WP Blog Sites. As an entrepreneur, Sandra was willing to do what was necessary to make this work. She fearlessly reached out to leaders in the digital space to offer her expertise which gained her tremendous respect and knowledge.   Sandra's hard work and perseverance led her to the creation of her second business (and where I met her), Groups for Entrepreneurs. Sandra was growing two businesses and also sta

This episode is with Lisa Bloomfield coowner of Wasatch CPA Services Wasatch CPA specializes in offering accounting and tax services to businesses, with a specialty in construction and real estate businesses. A significant focus is on accounting CFO services for project and segment profitability, job costing, bondable financial statement profitability, and communication to management and owners about long-term decisions necessary for the growth of the business. Lisa shared tips and tools for you business owners from her almost 2 decades of accounting experience working with private practice CPA's and being a self-employed accountant. 10 years of that was as an employee then partner in a firm specializing in accounting services to small municipalities. Lisa finished her Master's Degree in Accounting in 2010, Bachelors in Accounting from the University of North Texas in 2008. She held her IRS Enrolled Agent certification from 2004-2008. Lisa has a ton of experience including all bookkeeping duties, fund and

Linda Roberts is a lifelong animal lover, and passionate about all animal's emotional and physical well-being. Linda was a school teacher with three degrees when life's obstacles challenged her to tap into her heart. She was moved to connect to power outside of herself through meditation. She self-taught herself how to meditate and was guided to Shamanism, Reiki, and Animal Communication. Linda's successful journey began 11 years ago when healing her own health and spiritual issues. Linda learned to heal by opening up her throat and heart chakras. This was life-changing.  Linda teaches healing powers through meditation and Reiki and uses these healing practices on animals as well.  Linda was reluctant to tap into her animal communication abilities until she had no other choice. Linda's horse, Howie helped her focus on this natural ability, called, animal communication.  How?  Well, he had digestive issues, referred to as colic. Colic can be life-threatening to horses so Linda wanted to make him feel better.

In this episode, I got to interview Debra Eckerling who I met on Facebook and joined her Write Online Group. One of the reasons I wanted to interview Deb is because she is aligned with my business of guiding entrepreneurs on their success pathway. Deb helps people to determine what goals they really want to focus on and then how to create a plan to get to that goal. Her motto is ‘Goal Setting Simplified’. Debra is the author of Your Goal Guide: A Roadmap for Setting, Planning, and Achieving Your Goals and founder of the D*E*B METHOD®. DEB stands for Determine Your Mission, Explore Your Options, Brainstorm Your Path. A communications specialist and project catalyst, she works with individuals and businesses to set goals and manage their projects through one-on-one coaching, workshops, and online support. Deb is also the founder of Write On Online, a website and community for writers, creatives, and entrepreneurs, as well as host of the #GoalChat Twitter chat and #GoalChatLive on Facebook.  What a delightful

Interactive Health Alaska has been helping to heal me off and on for years! I first went to see (owner) Chiropractor Leslie Morris for a knee injury. Leslie and Weston Hopkins (licensed Chiropractor) helped to relieve the pain and allow me to hike in the mountains again.  The technique they use, Active Release Technique is best described (by me) as a sort of deep tissue work. Acupuncturist, Brian Yelverton has been helping me to walk through some anxiety issues. This is my first time doing acupuncture and now I am a firm believer in it! In the previous Podcast Episode, #51 I share my terrifying experience and walk through anxiety. It is within this process of overcoming the anxiety that I started working with Brian. Brian shares his story of how he became an acupuncturist to heal an injury he had and how he helps people to live their best lives.  Brian shares a few tools that may help you if you are struggling with pain in your mind and or body.  When I asked Brian to define success, he said, "success is a

Fear can actually propel us to live a life beyond our wildest dreams if we are willing to embrace the fear.  This episode is all about one of the most fearful events that happened to me five months ago.  This event terrified me and evoked tons of health issues.  I felt like I was dying as I had never experienced anxiety in my life.  I did not even believe in anxiety before this happened. First, I share about creating a structure with this Podcast and I invite you to listen in to some other episodes to hear guests share wonderful tips and tools to help calm your soul. These guests appeared because of this experience I had. They are a gift. After many many tests, blood work, doctors, and other modalities to 'fix' myself, I found help. With this help has come new freedom and happiness.  The biggest aha was all the fear that was bottled up inside of my soul.  Finding freedom from this fear has been an incredible journey and a gift from God. My experience has been that pain often has to be so bad in order for m

This is a special episode for Alaska Tracy Podcast, Episode #50, and, with my dear friend and mentor Tandy Wallack!  Tandy shares her amazing journey as a successful business owner and how spirituality plays a part in every aspect of her life including her business.  I met Tandy almost 22 years ago and she offered me the gift of mentorship. I had no idea at the time of our meeting how instrumental Tandy would become in all areas of my life. The very first thing I learned from her was how to trust another and ask for help. Tandy guided me with Grace to take actions that would lead me to leave a career-making oodles of money to start my first business. I was single and had just purchased my very first home at the time. Trust, work, and love helped me take this leap of faith into the world of entrepreneurship 20+ years ago. Tandy has been instrumental in all of the businesses and in my life throughout the years.  Her story is one of service to others, meditation, prayer, and allowing the Universe, God, whome

What a thrill to interview my current accountability coach Richard Ralston!   I met Richard in a course I took to create and grow my membership site. Visions to Profits, a Women's Success Community.  Women seeking calmness, clarity, and prosperity are guided on a success pathway using my Vision Mapping Framework.  Each week I offer Focus Forward meetings and I was struggling with expectations of getting the participants to attend.    Richard has been instrumental in helping me to see that I had put unrealistic expectations on them. He showed me a simple process of creating a system to get people to show up.  It is brilliant and working.   Richard's focus is on helping people step forward each week to complete one task on the long list of to-dos. I think of him as a Chief Encourager. His specialty or superpower is helping course creators and membership owners to set up Accountability Groups (Pods) that help their members make progress faster so they can get the results they desire sooner.   Thanks for

What an honor to interview Dawn Pensack.  She shares her story of how she arrived in the business she has today and how she has achieved inner peace.  Dawn attributes her success to the people in her business and life that she is accountable to. As a former, stressed-out teacher, Dawn left the classroom to figure out how to heal after burnout and a few mysterious illnesses.  Finding EFT/Tapping (Emotional Freedom Techniques) was the catalyst for her healing and after finding health and peace again, Dawn became trained and certified and is on a mission to bring EFT to as many people as possible. Dawn is passionate about helping people find alternative ways to stay healthier and happier. In her spare time, Dawn loves reading, chai lattes, and spending time with her family. When it’s not muddy or icy, Dawn can be found exploring new trails with her horse, Chinook, or enjoying time outside. EFT is a powerful tool to help with stress and illnesses.  After this interview, I shared with Dawn something in my life t

Measuring Fitness Through Happiness What a gift to talk to Carlo and Jaclyn Pastena about fitness, business, structure, and a positive mindset. Carlo is the owner of Carlo’s Crew LLC here in Anchorage, Alaska, and Jaclyn is pursuing an Occupational Therapy career and serves as a support to Carlo’s Crew. In this episode, Carlo and Jaclyn share their story of obstacles and determination. By adding structure into their business and lives, they are achieving their definition of success which is, “to change the world one day, one person at a time.”  As a young couple, they have made tremendous steps to pursue their visions of business growth, marriage, and happiness. Recently, adding a business coach has helped them to gain clarity and more focus to reach their goals. You can connect with Carlo at www.Carloscrew.com  If you are in Anchorage, Alaska check out this free Total Fitness Giveaway, (limited time only) loaded with goodies from RDRX Nutrition, Elevated Oats, The YMCA, Precor Fitness, Pure and Pressed J

What an honor to interview Helen McGlynn and to discuss the topic of structure. Helen is the owner of The Baby and Newborn Photography Network She is also a Mom, Foster Mom, and has been a business owner since graduating from college.  You will want to hear her stories of business ownership in this wonderful episode! In adding structure to all that she does, Helen lives a full rich life and offers FREE tools to help all of us to grow and succeed.  Each month in my Visions to Profits Women’s Membership I offer the Membership Community a theme and then focus the tools around that theme.  This month’s theme is Structure.  Adding structure into business and life can provide inner freedom and even more time to do the things we love.  As I was working on the monthly content for the membership and shoulding myself about giving the community more and shoulding about letting my podcast sit idle for 3 months, it occurred to me to add structure into the mix.  I immediately reached out to a group of 2000 business leade

Steph’s story is one of hope and inspiration and it was an honor to interview her! You will want to hear her wonderful story. Steph shares about being a Mom of 5, a Real Estate Profession, and recreating herself and her business.  She has taken her passion for helping others and turned it into reality as a successful entrepreneur. Connect with Steph and subscribe to her podcast, The Second Hand Success Stories at StephEssary.com Want to be a part of an amazing community and add calmness, clarity, and prosperity to your life? Visions to Profits Women's Membership will soon be opening our doors for enrollment, be the first to know when and more goodness click -->Visions to Profits Women's Membership Remember to SUBSCRIBE to this podcast for the next amazing episode!

Have you ever switched paths right before you were going to reach your goal? You know that feeling, you have created a workable plan and have started taking actions.  Then, things start to get 'messy' and negative voices get loud.  We have 2 choices, switch gears and look for the easier pathway, or stay the course and push through the messy. Which have you taken? What results have you achieved?  Listen in as I share experiences and tools to keep moving forward ... oh, and a story about leaving 5 minutes before the miracle! Can you relate?  To waitlist and or enroll for Visions to Profits Membership ---> https://www.alaskatracy.com/ Thank you for listening, subscribing and sharing this episode with your friends.  p.s....if you know someone that has a story of inspiration or a thriving business and they would like to be interviewed for the Alaska Tracy Podcast, please send them my way. AlaskaTracy@AlaskaTracy.com THANKS!

Welcome to Episode #42!  Mel and I were taking a course to enhance our business offerings and met at the end of the course conference in Toronto! Mel Savage is a Career Happiness Evangelist and CEO of The Career Reset.  Mel is the host of The Career Reset Podcast, where her goal is to build a happier world by empowering people to create happiness in their careers. Side note, I had the opportunity to be on her amazing podcast!  Mel spent 20+ years in the Corporate trenches working with companies like McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, General Motors and Ford, working both in Canada and the UK where she spent 1000s of hours honing her knowledge of how career happiness does and doesn’t work.   Her mantra is You can achieve whatever you believe. So believe something spectacular. Mel is a good ol' Canadian gal who is fun, apologetic, and earnest. She is now a Corporate Career Coach inspiring others to believe and achieve greatness!  Mel's story is one of deciding to leave the corporate world, taking lots of courses to fin

Do you know your numbers?  I meet with clients all the time who have no idea of their profits and losses from month to month.  It took me a long time to understand the importance of knowing my numbers in business. Numbers tell the truth. They tell us if we should proceed with the business or shut the doors.  I had been in business for several years, owned my own home and met my husband, Bobby. I came flying in the door one day and proceeded to tell him how awesome I was! Ha! I said, look how much I made this month as I showed him my PNL (profit and loss statement) from my bookkeeper! I increased by $2000! I was overjoyed.  Bobby, who is a CPA, is very business savvy. He did not miss a beat, he pointed to the number on the bottom of the sheet, the NET and said no you didn’t, look what you spent. You spent this amount, therefore you made less than last month. I was SHATTERED . . . and guess what? I did it again with him until I was able to calm down and have him show me how the PNL actually worked. I will neve

Accountability is key for achieving all things of greatness in life. My experiences and those I consult and mentor have proven this to be true. Sometimes, I take this piece of the equation for granted. After falling and smashing my face and body into a rock, accountability once again proved to be key for staying the course... or in my case... taking a rest.  I am beyond grateful for all the women in my life that help me to rest and remember my mantra which is 'Slow my Roll so I can Serve Others'. Are you interested in adding accountability into your business and life?  Alaska Tracy's team is offering you a relief map to your success. July 28th the doors open for you to sign up for Visions to Profits - A Women's Success Community .   This community will be instrumental in helping you map your Visions, create clarity, navigate actions to reach your results, and stay the course.  Early bird info: Email: AlaskaTracy@alaskatracy.com You will be the first to know when doors open and early bird goodies! As always

Welcome to Alaska Tracy podcast.  I am thrilled that you are here and so excited to share this episode with you. I was following a lady on Instagram and became very intrigued with her photos as well as seeing that she had just written a cookbook . . . lo and behold, this is her fifth cookbook in print. So I asked her for an interview and she said yes! I had no idea what to expect when I started the interview with LaDonna Rose Gunderson. When I clicked on “video,” LaDonna and her husband Ole were sitting in their car in the Ketchikan harbor smiling back at me. They said this was the best place for reception in Ketchikan. Come to find out LaDonna and Ole have one of the most amazing stories!!!  I had tears in my eyes in the first 5 minutes! Their story is one of adventures, overcoming challenges, and an amazingly beautiful marriage of 34 years. They spend all their time together and a lot of it working side-by-side on their 32-foot aluminum fishing boat in Southeast Alaska. So the interview ended up being wa

“Live your life on purpose.” —Crystal Paine With the help of an amazing community and mentor in my life (and a super supportive husband), the new business logo and tagline is completed! The logo that was in use in the past was geared toward social media marketing which the company was helping businesses with from 2011-2016. In 2016 the business shifted to Vision Mapping, essentially helping business owners to create an intentional 12-month plan for success. It blossomed into workshops, retreats, working with management teams and women’s retreats, all with a common purpose: to guide businesses and individuals through a detailed system I created over my 20 years as an entrepreneur.  This system is a visually written plan with actions, accountability, and success tracking. It serves as a compass to achieving the desired results. The finished product (compass) is strategically built so that when life happens, the specifics, e.g., dates, times, who, what, when, where, and how will encourage one to get back on t