Focus & Freedom For Entrepreneurs

Robyn McTague joins us to discuss the importance of understanding relationships, psychology and communication styles in entrepreneurship. She emphasizes how tools like the Enneagram can improve decision-making, team functioning and business growth.   Highlights From This Episode: The biggest communication issue is looking at things from different perspectives and understanding other people’s points of view can help. Having a deeper understanding of relationships in business can lead to exponential growth and business impact. Building relationships and communication systems for better team functioning. Conflict resolution through curiosity and understanding. How Enneagram helps in understanding leadership styles, communication issues and different ways of dealing with pain and loss.   Links & Resources From This Episode: Learn more:  A Life of Choice  Robyn McTague Resources:   ‘The Road Back To You’ An Enneagram Journey. Ian Morgan Cron Quote:  ‘We can’t have a business that’s really heart-centred if we

In this episode, Laura Doman, Professional Voiceover Artist and Actress, joins us to dive into effectively communicating your message through video and voice. As well as a voiceover expert, Laura coaches non-actors on how to become more comfortable and effective on camera.   Highlights From This Episode: The importance of video in social media content marketing. A conversational and authentic approach to marketing. Outsourcing voiceover and finding the right voice actor. Tips for recording high-quality audio from home. The power of mistakes and bloopers in making you more relatable and engaging to audiences.   Links & Resources From This Episode: Read more:   Laura's upcoming book 'The Most Amazing Marketing Book Ever' Learn more:  Laura Doman   More About Laura Doman Laura Doman is a professional voiceover artist and on-camera actress with credits in film, TV, commercials, industrials, and corporate narration. A former corporate IT sales exec, she bridges the worlds of business and entertainment with

Kitti Andrews, Virtual Decluttering Expert, joins us to share how clearing your space can get you unstuck and out of a state of overwhelm. She explains the importance of breaking tasks into smaller pieces, avoiding negative content and seeking help when you feel overwhelmed.   Highlights From This Episode: How a clear space affects mental clarity. Breaking down tasks into smaller, manageable pieces. Consistency and creating micro habits are key to achieving success. Information overload and its impact on the brain. Overcome overwhelm by asking for help.   Links & Resources From This Episode: Learn more:  Kitti Andrews and Declutter The Brain Resources:  ‘The Compound Effect’  Darren Hardy   More About Kitti Andrews For over 20 years Kitti Andrews has been helping people to get unstuck and out of a state of overwhelm by getting their physical and mental surroundings under control by helping them to declutter their space and brain.   Awesome FREE Resources for YOU!Clear Entrepreneur Toolbox Special access

In this episode, Joe Matz, Certified Professional Coach, shares how business is an adventure on a journey and compares it to his climb of Mt Kilimanjaro. Joe assists entrepreneurs in developing a plan for success using a systematic approach to create a unique business that stands out from the crowd, delivers results and transforms a business into a money-making machine.   Highlights From This Episode: Entrepreneurship is a journey of challenges and everyone is on their own individual path. To develop a successful business, focus on an excellent joyful customer experience. Look at business and life as an adventure and you’re on a journey. Owning your experience and solving big problems is key to closing gaps in your programs. It’s important to transmit your vision to your team and actively work on implementing it.   Links & Resources From This Episode: Learn more:  Joe Matz & Apex-Able   More About Joe Matz Joe Matz works with small and medium sized businesses helping with niche market identification

In this episode Christine Campbell Rapin joins us to chat about audience building. To become the must-hire of choice we need to focus on creating demand through quality audience building, engaging in intentional conversations, fostering intimacy, and building a community of aligned individuals, while incorporating play and fun.   Highlights From This Episode: Your business is built on strangers. Building an audience is essential for business and creating demand for services. Focusing on one step, one person, and one conversation is the key to building business momentum. Building a community of like-minded individuals who are in alignment with your values and goals. Play and fun at the center of entrepreneurship helps stay present and creative.   Links & Resources From This Episode: Learn more:  Clear Acceleration   More About Christine Campbell Rapin Christine Campbell Rapin is a business mentor and consultant. As the owner of CLEAR Acceleration Inc., she has a no-nonsense approach to helping business o

Tina Kadish, Business Coach, joined us to talk about empowerment and finding joy in what you do. Tina empowers women unhappy in their careers by helping them gain clarity, overcome limiting beliefs and find joy through intentional living. Tina inspires others with her award-winning speech on mental strength and optimism.   Highlights From This Episode: Finding passions and starting a business for flexibility and freedom Empowering women involves helping them get clarity and direction Finding joy and fulfillment requires living with intentions Creating a framework and structure for business success Inspiring others to overcome challenges and make an impact   Links & Resources From This Episode: Read more:   ‘F.R.E.E.D.O.M.: Seven Steps to Thrive in Life and Business’  ‘From Pain to Peace: A Mother’s Heartbreaking Journey’   Tina Kadish Learn more:  From Job to Joy   More About Tina Kadish Tina Kadish is a Business Coach, Author and Speaker and is the owner of “From Job to Joy”. Tina’s mission is to impac

Heather Cameron, Strategist and Coach, joins us to talk about the best ways to leverage your business that gets people to see you and how to exponentially grow your audience intentionally.    Highlights From This Episode: Map it out. Sell it. Then build it. Leveraging other people’s audiences is the best way for people to see you. Host your own event to capture leads and establish yourself as an authority. If you start targeting buyers, your language will change and your intention will change because you're helping people to take that next step. Plan how much you want to grow your audience. Be intentional.   Links & Resources From This Episode: Learn more:  Ignite Your Market Resources:   20 Lead Magnet Ideas that Convert Followers to Paying Clients Design Your Profitable List Build Event   More About Heather Cameron Heather is a Client Attraction Strategist and Business Coach. She's passionate about helping people create thriving businesses. She combines her engineering, and coaching background with

Candy Motzek, Coach to Coaches, joins us to talk about doubt, courage, self-confidence and mindset. Candy shares that we are one shift in a thought away from looking at our life completely differently and when we see our lives differently and have that clarity anything is possible.   Highlights From This Episode: We are one shift in a thought away from looking at our life completely differently Instead of chasing confidence, cultivate courage, and then confidence is the by product. Emptying the junk door of your brain helps in a mindset shift thoughts are essentially just a series of words that are on replay in your brain. Instead of getting all caught up in our self-doubt, just allow it. Listen to it. Listen to ourselves. and then it will just dissolve. And then, before you know it. You've got a nice, clean brain, and off you go do the things that you wanted to do.   Links & Resources From This Episode: Learn more:  Candy Motzek website Resources: Candy's Free Gift   More About Candy Motzek Candy is an

Sabrina Victoria, CEO of Human Better 365, joins us to share about making big changes in our lives and how energy peaks and the best time to focus on your top 3 or 4 priorities works best to make those changes. She also talks about procrastination being a forever thing and that is okay.   Highlights From This Episode: People think that in order to change you have to all of a sudden change everything in your life If you are looking for massive success just do the 1% different than everybody else Procrastination is a forever thing. If you say yes to one thing you are saying no to everything else in your life Where is your energy? Morning, afternoon, evening? Where do you have your boost of energy? Write down your 3 or 4 priorities that you need to be doing to move yourself forward in your businesses   Links & Resources From This Episode: Learn more:    Sabrina Victoria Resources:   Her Version Podcast   More About Sabrina Victoria From a struggling single mom, to escaping a 13-year narcissistic abusive r

Kat Polsinelli joins us to chat about ‘sifting through the noise’ in business and life. Her focus is to help others succeed and grow their business. Kat’s passion is to share her message with those that may have dealt with abuse or any trauma in their life that may be holding them back and to bring connection, support and understanding to those who may need it most and or may be hiding and suffering silently.   Highlights From This Episode: Simplifying the overwhelm Sit down with your business, break it a part, create the organized piece inside each and put the puzzle back together Sifting through the noise and taking apart all those thoughts It takes quite a few years for one piece of trauma to be dealt with A lot of people don’t deal with what the subconscious holds onto and it will come out at the most inconvenient time   Links & Resources From This Episode: Learn more:  Kat Polsinelli LinkedIn     Agent Services Plus   More About Kat Polsinelli Kat Polsinelli is an entrepreneur, podcaster, speaker,

In this episode, Val Low shares about Fortifying Your Castle. What does it take to build something that’s solid and strong and serves you in your business and life. A castle is a great image of this. Whether it’s your business, your life, your team or your relationships. Fortify your castle and be the Queen or King that serves in a greater way.   Links & Resources From This Episode: Learn more:   Connect with Val Low   More About Val Low Val Low is a MAP IT Creator & Brand Strategist and takes entrepreneurs to their next level of growth and impact. Through visual business mapping, Val works with entrepreneurs to take their dreams and business ideas out of their head and bring them to life. Val provides strategy on creating a message and brand to stand out in a noisy marketplace and implements the strategy so the entrepreneur can make bigger revenue and bigger impact in their expertise.    Awesome FREE Resources for YOU! Entrepreneur Toolbox Special access to reports, books and resources provided to yo

Barry Moulsdale joins us to chat about building leaders to learn the tools to a compelling environment that leads to employees feeling appreciated, be engaged and can't wait to get back to the office and feel that energy that's been missing in their lives. Barry formed Anfield Business Consultants to bring joy to people's work lives and guide them on their journey to reach the pinnacle of leadership.   Highlights From This Episode: We call it business culture and it really is compelling environments Ultimately the environment is the responsibility of leadership The shift in jobs recently and the shortage of service and skilled labour Magic happens when leaders learn the tools to a compelling environment that leads to employees feeling appreciated The best-case scenario to measure using a different mindset and creating a better environment is … sales and profits go up, employee engagement goes up exponentially and turnover almost entirely goes away   Links & Resources From This Episode: Learn more:   Con

Jennifer Neal joins us to share how we can hack the Facebook algorithms to get more leads. Jennifer believes that activating the content you already have is the key to your online success as well as having things that show up when people go searching for you.   Highlights From This Episode: Algorithms penalize you when you try to take traffic away from the platform The Traffic Trifecta and getting the perfect traffic Have things that are going to show up when people go search for you When you combine organic SEO content with organic, social and paid, they all work together Route everything to one boosted post and boost it for 5 bucks a week   Links & Resources From This Episode: Learn more:   Formula Done   More About Jennifer Neal I'm Jennifer (Jenn) Neal – the CEO and Founder of Formula Done, creator of Content Activation, tech geek, marketing expert, wife, and Formula 1 racing fan all bunched up into one! Over the last several years, I have developed, tested and successfully launched products in and

Sophie Lechner joins us to deep dive into LinkedIn. She shares how posting leads to engagement, which leads to conversations about their challenges and then to if you are a good fit for them. Sophie works with mission-driven solopreneurs to help them find their audience and engage with them so they can share their message and grow their business.   Highlights From This Episode: You have a lot of things coming into your feed that you can customize it to follow the people that are interesting When you post people will engage on your content and this engagement is what leads you to have conversations Get into a conversation about their challenges to see if you’re a good fit as a solution for them The biggest mistake is that people make with LinkedIn is they treat it like a to-do list Really know who your audience is and talk to them. LinkedIn can really help you in zero in on your audience. Centre on your why. Bring your heart into it. Engage with people. Be a solution for their challenges.   Links & Resou

Nancy Giere joins us to share all about turning your expertise into high profit courses. Create something that holds people’s attention and gets them results.   Highlights From This Episode: Turn your expertise into profitable courses. One of the problems with all of these recordings is they can be kind of flat. They're boring. They're too long. What can you do when you're producing something so that people are going to want to continue with you in some form or fashion. So by the end of this course what is my client going to be able to do that they couldn't do before. Start with the outcome rather than the introduction and write your introduction last   Links & Resources From This Episode:   Read more:     ‘Bundle Your Brilliance’ with Nancy Giere   Learn more:    Nancy Giere.com Quote:   Steven Covey ‘Begin with the end in mind’   More About Nancy Giere Nancy Giere is a course creation expert.  She works with businesses of all sizes from solopreneurs to Fortune 100 companies turn their expertise into

Phyllis Nielsen, Certified World Class Speaking Coach, gives us many nuggets for creating a presentation that is effective and will make a lasting impression on your audience. Phyllis also shares her surprising story which led to Speech911.      Highlights From This Episode: Phyllis shares her surprising background which led to Speech911 Nailing down the content that's essential and getting rid of all the fluff. Never turn down an opportunity to speak. 7 seconds for your audience to decide if they like you. Start with a bang. Get their attention. Be memorable. The first thing to write is your introduction and ask yourself one question, what do you want your audience to think, feel, or do?    Links & Resources From This Episode:   Learn more:   Connect with Phyllis Nielsen Speech911 - Rescue Your Speech Resources:   Toastmasters International   More About Phyllis Nielsen Phyllis Nielsen, Certified World Class Speaking Coach, promises immediate relief for anyone who is required to speak in public.  In her

Meredith Taylor is the founding coach of Redbird Coaching, an executive coaching firm for individuals looking for an outside partner to help them raise their self-awareness and reach their potential. As a lawyer, Meredith spent 20 years with Walmart in Ethics & Compliance. We have a fun chat about ethics, paying attention to your intuition and having a trusted outside partner.   Highlights From This Episode: Meredith shares the interesting story of why she calls her business Red Bird Coaching Ethics is about behavior and encouraging good integrity, good business behavior It's really about teaching people how to think and giving them options Figuring out how to not get triggered and really pay attention to that first half a second and have that space to make a decision you choose to make versus just kind of reacting A trusted outside partner and the importance of confidentiality   Links & Resources From This Episode: Learn more:   Red Bird Coaching   More About Meredith Taylor Meredith Taylor is the

Marshal Stern, Leadership Coach, joins us for the first podcast of the new year. Marshall shares his ‘Why and What’ and what it takes to be a successful leader. We discuss leadership and just showing up being of service. And, of course, we are ringing in the new year with excitement and lessons learned from the past few years.   Highlights From This Episode: I think we're better prepared this time around. There's a huge opportunity for small business owners to really do something special. And then one day you're going to start to reap the rewards of these consistent daily actions. Why don't we try to have a to be a list? Know your Why and the What. Sometimes we think too much with our head, not enough with our heart.   Links & Resources From This Episode: Read more:   ‘The Compound Effect’ Darren Hardy Learn more:    MarshallStern.net   More About Marshall Stern Marshall Stern is a husband and father of 2 teenagers. Over the past 35 years he has started and led several small businesses and even had time

Shannon Peel has brought together all her skills, talents, and passions to create a brand storytelling platform under the MarketAPeel umbrella. She works closely with her clients to tell their stories to their audiences on various platforms.    Highlights From This Episode: Create an appealing story and an appealing brand. Engage with your audience where they are. Put people in their problem. Shine a light on the thing that they're scared of. Understanding which stories you tell. Choose 5 key words you want to associate with your brand.   Links & Resources From This Episode: Learn more:   ShannonPeel.com Resources:   Creating MarketAPeel   More About Shannon Peel Shannon Peel has brought together all her skills, talents, and passions to create a brand storytelling platform called MarketAPeel. Under the MarketAPeel umbrella she publishes a monthly digital magazine called APeeling, a blog called UnPeeled, and a podcast called BrandAPeel. She works closely with her clients to tell their stories to their a

Zack A Knight, of Be A Tactical Leader, focuses on leadership and service in his business. Zack joins us to share his story of trauma, healing and learning. He began his career as a metro-Atlanta police officer then infantry leader in the Army. Zack uses his experiences to help others know that they aren’t alone and can heal from their own traumas and become a stronger person who can look in the mirror and confidently say “I LOVE YOU”.   Highlights From This Episode: Making a shift … My mind is broken. I can fix it. The tactics to create a leader. The journey to self mastery first step is awareness. Look in the mirror. I realized the only person that beat myself up enough to say you couldn't do it was the guy looking in the mirror. Get the awareness and challenge yourself to do the thing you think you can't do because, guess what, you surely will.   Links & Resources From This Episode: Read more:   ‘Legacy of Love’ A Journey of Self-Mastery by Zack A Knight Learn more:   Be A Tactical Leader   More Abou