Podcast appearances and mentions of megan flatt

Megan Flatt is a business growth strategist on a mission to make entrepreneurship easier. She believes you can have a thriving business, a community, and a life — and you don't need more time, you need more focus. She's the founder of Focus Sessions and the author of Focused: Reclaim Your Time, Ditch Overwhelm, and Do Less Better.  Besides helping women and business owners focus, Megan is obsessed with lattes, post-it notes, and romance novels. Outside of work, you will find her focus turned to her husband and two kids, probably near the water, in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Megan and I met when we were in a business coaching group together years ago.  You know when you meet someone who is annoyed by the same things as you and loves the same things as you - magic, right?!  That's Megan and me.  We don't talk often enough.  But, whenever we have the chance to reconnect it's gold.  You'll hear that in this conversation today! Listen in to hear Megan share: Book: Focused: Reclaim Your Time, Ditch Overwhelm, and Do Less Better How building a business as new mom led her to see the danger of chronic hustle culture for women and moms How hustle culture and norms around productivity & time management are a product of the Patriarchy Her philosophy of “do less better” Her process of getting into the focus flow when she leads focus sessions How to reframe and reclaim your power in your boundaries around volunteering The science of focus: focus is a skill that can be learned The importance of understanding your hormones in order to hone your focus Links mentioned: Connect with Megan and try a complimentary Focus Session: focus-sessions.com Learn more about Megan and her work: letscollective.co Get Megan's book: Focused: Reclaim Your Time, Ditch Overwhelm, and Do Less Better  Megan on IG: https://www.instagram.com/meganflatt/ Focus Sessions on IG: https://www.instagram.com/focussessions/ We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://shamelessmom.com/sponsor Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at sales@adalystmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You have exactly the time you need to focus.   If you're an entrepreneur, you're probably familiar with hustle culture. You've probably even been sucked into that place of hustle - doing all the things all at once with little to no rest, hoping for extraordinary results. Oftentimes, only find fatigue, burnout, and wondering where we've gone wrong.    What if instead of hustling harder, we focused more?   What if it's not about getting more done?   What if we actually did less, but did it better?   These are the questions posed by Megan Flatt in her new book,  Focused: Reclaim Your Time, Ditch Overwhelm, and Do Less Better.    Megan is a dear friend, client, and collaborator of mine that I'm thrilled to introduce you to. She is a business growth strategist who's on a mission to make the entrepreneurial journey a whole lot easier! Megan firmly believes in having it all—a thriving business, a tight-knit community, and a well-rounded life. And guess what? She knows that the secret isn't about having more time; it's about having more focus.    Her book is all about showing you how to be more impactful in your work, relationships, and day-to-day actions while celebrating your wins.    This episode is full of strategies and practical tips to apply today to deepen your focus to make a bigger impact by doing less. As always, I want to know your thoughts on everything we're talking about in this episode. Be sure to leave a comment or head over to Instagram to let me know.    In this Episode:  What leads to burnout Time vs. To-do list: impact > busy What actually belongs on your to-do list? Strategies to find your focus   Connect with Megan focus-sessions.com   letscollective.co   @focussessions.

In this interview, you'll learn about how to stay focused on your important work. Megan Flatt is an author and entrepreneur who wants to help people improve their focus. I really enjoyed the story of how she focused on what matters to her during the crazy pandemic times. Highlights from the interview: Megan shares her origin story.Why she wanted to help people with their focus.My son interrupts our podcast.Her passion for Mama CEOs.How the pandemic changed everything for her.Pesky inner voices that cloud our judgment.Shutting down her business and shifting her career.How she fosters her relationship with her inner voice.How her parents' expectations forged her personality.Dealing with imposter syndrome.Understanding the various slices that makes up our lives.Using the different seasons in our lives.Thinking in smaller chunks.“You don't have to see the full staircase to take the first step.”How changing our schedules can help us accomplish our goals for a short amount of time.Limiting certain activities when we are doing important work.Saying “No” to important events that creates FOMO.Crafting goals that help you get to where you want to be.Creating an SOP that allows you to creat your operating systems for a specific period of time.Tips on getting a goal accomplished.The app she uses to track the time she uses doing each part of her business.How to make a “To Do” list that actually works.Why ranking our focus helps us learn about our focus and how to improve it.Giving yourself permission to do the things that might usually make you feel guilty.Most recommended book and podcast. You can learn more about Megan over at Focus Sessions. You can also connect with her on LinkedIn. Check out her book Focused on Amazon. And as always, if you have any questions or want to submit a guest for the podcast that you think would be amazing, just reach out to me on the Dig to Fly website, and I'll do my best to get them on. If you enjoy the interview, please take 30 seconds to rate the Dig to Fly podcast on your favorite platform. Thanks!

“Productivity is a byproduct of focus. If you prioritize focus, productivity will follow.” –Megan FlattWriting a book takes focus. Ask Megan Flatt, the author of Focused: Reclaim Your Time, Ditch Overwhelm, and Do Less Better. The book answers the questions: What if instead of hustling harder, we focused more? What if it's not about getting more done? What if we actually did less, but did it better? Megan says she used all the tools she shares in the book to write the book.We talk about getting big projects done, why checking things off the list isn't necessarily the main goal, and napping without guilt. We can't just prioritize getting stuff done. That's hustle culture talking. “But I want to get stuff done!” you say. Don't worry. You can, but if you prioritize focus instead of productivity, everything shifts.It's like wellness. If you focus just on the number on the scale, you don't get the full picture. You might get where you want to go, but not actually be healthy. If you focus on moving and choosing healthy foods, you move toward your goal, gaining benefits along the way. It's the same with productivity and your business.We also talk about: The fact we aren't supposed to focus all the time. That means your work day has periods of focus and periods of rest or non-focus. Scheduling time for your important but not urgent activitiesUnderstanding that your highest contribution shifts and setting boundaries to protect time for what you deem to be most importantWhether you are making time for the $10,000 / hour tasks or just the $10 / hour tasksMapping your energy and creating your own daily, weekly, and seasonal rhythmHow to make time for focus 3 ways: schedule it, plan it, set itABOUT MEGANMegan Flatt is a business growth strategist on a mission to make entrepreneurship easier. She believes you can have a thriving business, a community and a life — and you don't need more time, you need more focus. She's the founder of Focus Sessions and the author of Focused: Reclaim Your Time, Ditch Overwhelm, and Do Less Better. In Focused, she shows you how to find your focus, what to focus on, how to make the time for focus. Megan started Focus Sessions, a science-backed system to provide dedicated, distraction-free virtual coworking to help people get their most important work done. The monthly membership helps you find your focus, create a solid plan and stay out of overwhelm. Megan's favorite affirmation is “you have exactly the time you need.” Besides helping business owners focus, Megan is obsessed with lattes, post-it notes and romance novels. Outside of work, you find her focus turned to her husband and two kids, probably near the water, in the San Francisco Bay Area. You can catch up with Megan at focus-sessions.com or letscollective.co or @focussessions.LINKSFocused book: http://focus-sessions.com/focusedbookWebsite: https://www.focus-sessions.com/Instagram: @focussessions +...

Megan Flatt is the CEO and Founder of Let's Collective, a business growth strategy firm devoted to making entrepreneurship easier and helping women-owned businesses scale. Megan and the team at Let's Collective formed Focus Sessions, 90-minute virtual co-working sessions designed to enhance productivity through distraction-free, science-backed methods.  Megan has dedicated her career to making entrepreneurship easier and enabling business owners to maintain a work-life balance. She believes people don't necessarily need more time to succeed but a greater degree of focus. Her philosophy led her to write Focused: Reclaim Your Time, Ditch Overwhelm, and Do Less Better, a comprehensive guide to boosting productivity and minimizing overwhelm. In this episode… Do you ever feel there's never enough time in the day to accomplish everything you want? Entrepreneurs often grapple with staying focused and managing time effectively, and it can seem like an uphill battle. But what if the secret to business growth lies in enhancing your focus and productivity? Megan Flatt, an entrepreneur, productivity strategist, and author, honed the art of helping others streamline their workflows. Megan has developed systems and strategies that effectively enhance focus and productivity, not just to do more but to do what matters most. Her insights will revolutionize how you approach your day-to-day responsibilities, making you more efficient, more effective, and ultimately more successful. In this episode, host John Corcoran of Rise25 joins Megan Flatt, CEO and Founder of Let's Collective and Focus Sessions, to discuss how leveraging focus and productivity can spur growth. They delve into Megan's unique time-blocking strategy, how understanding your biological rhythm can optimize productivity, and the importance of recognizing and prioritizing high-value tasks. Plus, Megan introduces her virtual program, Focus Sessions, which promises a new approach to co-working and optimizing your time.

Megan Flatt's book, Focused: Reclaim Your Time, Ditch Overwhelm, and Do Less Better, comes out today, and she's here to give us the inside scoop on it!If you've listened to any of our podcast episodes with Megan Flatt, you know that one of her main goals in her work is to help entrepreneurs do less, BETTER.Megan (she/her) is on a mission to make entrepreneurship easier. She's the founder of Focus Sessions and the author of Focused: Reclaim your time, ditch overwhelm and do less, better. Outside of work,she is obsessed with lattes, Post-it notes and romance novels. Catch up with her at focus-sessions.com or letscollective.co or @focussessionsIn this week's podcast episode, we talk about how you can be more intentional about the way you use your time and the things you're putting on your calendar. Her book is all about not needing more time, but needing more FOCUS. Megan goes through various topics you'll be able to read about in her book, and she also delves into her book-writing process.Give this episode a listen if you're struggling with productivity and want to learn how to be more impactful with your work.Relevant Links/Resources:Learn more about Focus SessionsGet her book, Focused: Reclaim Your Time, Ditch Overwhelm, and Do Less Better Let's CollectiveSupport the show

“There's a difference between productivity and focus. There's a difference between getting more done and getting the right things done.” –Megan FlattWhat if it's not about being productive? What if it's about being focused? I've got business coach Megan Flatt back on the show to talk about focus and rethinking all of our ideas about productivity. Wanna get stuff done? Don't worry. We'll talk about how getting clear on how we want to feel and finding our focus lead the way.We aren't meant to focus all the time, but most of us feel like we should. The idea that starting early, pushing hard, and getting a lot done is a virtue that's deeply ingrained in us. We're pushing back against capitalist and patriarchal ideas. We're looking at new ways to own our time.What would you do if you had 90 minutes to focus? Our to-do list culture often has us doing a lot of unimportant things. They are things that keep life running, but they don't help us step into our greatness or do our most important work. We dive into how to change that.We talk about: Being focused and productive in short spurtsLetting go of the idea that you need to work all the time or at a certain timeKnowing your own best focus time and saving it for your most important workUsing focus for deep work, planning, and clearing the deckHow your to-do list might be sabotaging your productivity (or getting clear on goals, projects, tasks)Getting out of overwhelm by getting more overwhelmed for a minuteBIOMegan Flatt is the CEO of Let's Collective, a business growth strategy firm devoted to making entrepreneurship easier. She is also the founder of Focus Sessions, a virtual coworking and accountability membership to get your most important work done. Let's Collective's mission is to help small businesses scale without burning out through strategic planning, revenue focused decisions and science backed accountability.Megan is obsessed with lattes, post-it notes and helping women make money. When not doing that, she's hanging with her husband and two kids, probably near the water, in the San Francisco Bay Area. You can catch up with Megan at letcollective.co or focus-sessions.com.LINKShttps://www.focus-sessions.com/MENTIONED LINKFocus with Megan FlattWell Planned Holidays with Megan Flatt and Mama CEO PanelSticking to Your Weekly Workflow on the Well Planned Series with Megan FlattStarting a Business after “Momming” with Megan Flatt and Mia MoranStarting a Business on the Well Planned Series with Megan FlattSystems & Support on Well Planned Series with Megan Flatt

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I participated in the challenge to write 50,000 words during the month of November for National Novel Writing Month - NaNoWriMo.And I met that goal of 50,000 words! I wanted to share with you how my first year of participating in NaNoWriMo went, how I had to rearrange my schedule (and my life!) to be able to complete this challenge, how I planned ahead, and some of the other things I did to be able to write 50,000 words of a novel. My fellow business-ownin friends Megan Flatt of Let's Collective and Focus Sessions, and Stacy Spensley of Semi-Crunchy Mama also participated in NaNoWriMo, and they're here with me to discuss their experiences as well.In this episode, we go over seven (7) marketing and business lessons the three of us learned from NaNoWriMo.NaNoWriMoLearn more about Stacy Spensley (Semi-Crunchy Mama)Let's Collective by Megan FlattFocus Sessions by Megan FlattFor the full show notes and transcript, visit socialslowdown.comSupport the show

In this episode of Good Enough for Now, we hear from entrepreneur Megan Flatt about how the impact of life stage and external forces shifted her priorities. As a result, she's transformed her approach to work; choosing to focus on impact over productivity. Devoted to making entrepreneurship easier, ​​Megan launched Let's Collective, a business growth strategy firm. Tune in to hear more about her new brand, Focus Sessions, a membership and science-backed virtual coworking group for productivity and accountability, and get tips on how to build and sustain your own advisory board.  Three reasons why you should listen to this episode: Transform the relationship you have between your time and productivity  Learn how to optimize networking to build your own advisory board Give yourself the liberty of making the decision to not make any decisions Follow Good Enough For Now on Instagram.  Check out the show notes for this episode here. 

You aren't alone if running a business during the pandemic has left you feeling burnout, misaligned in your business, and asking what's next. In this episode, Emily chats with Megan Flatt, founder of Let's Collective and Focus Sessions, about how making a pivot in your business can help you find more alignment. They discuss defining the right success metrics for yourself, removing societal should's from your decision-making, and what inspired Megan's upcoming Best Week Ever Summit.Get full shownotes for this episode here >>—Listen to more Being Boss shows on our website, on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.Follow Being Boss on Instagram: @beingbossclubJoin the Being Boss Community: beingboss.club/community

You aren't alone if running a business during the pandemic has left you feeling burnout, misaligned in your business, and asking what's next. In this episode, Emily chats with Megan Flatt, founder of Let's Collective and Focus Sessions, about how making a pivot in your business can help you find more alignment. They discuss defining the right success metrics for yourself, removing societal should's from your decision-making, and what inspired Megan's upcoming Best Week Ever Summit.Get full shownotes for this episode here >>—Listen to more Being Boss shows on our website, on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.Follow Being Boss on Instagram: @beingbossclubJoin the Being Boss Community: beingboss.club/community— Listen to more Being Boss shows on our website, on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.Follow Being Boss on Instagram: @beingbossclubJoin the Being Boss Community: beingboss.club/community

This week's episode is all about virtual coworking.You may remember Megan Flatt from Episode 15 which was all about using personal outreach to grow your audience. Today, I'm speaking with Megan again, more specifically about her online virtual coworking space, Focus Sessions. Focus Sessions are timed, structured, virtual sessions where you can get important tasks done with the accountability of other people. There's something about the human brain that functions better when we have other people there along for the ride with us - and Megan's got the science down - even to the number of minutes!In this episode, Megan will talk all about what Focus Sessions are and why they're helpful for people who work from home - and how they're especially great for getting those important but not necessarily urgent tasks done. If you struggle to get tasks done while working from home, give Focus Sessions a try at focus-sessions.com You can even try a session for free! For the full show notes and transcript, visit https://www.socialslowdown.com/virtual-coworking-with-megan-flatt/

Today I'm here with Megan Flatt, a business growth Strategist at Let's Collective and Focus Sessions talking about personal outreach (or what I like to call, shoulder tapping).In this episode, we discuss one of the easiest, most underrated ways to get clients: reaching out directly. Sometimes we just forget that we can send an email to someone we already know to ask them to work with us. And these warm contacts are a GREAT way to get your first clients or maybe even continue working with them long term!How do I know this works? It's how Megan and I first began working with each other in 2014.So if you're wondering what kinds of businesses this works for, how you can use it to retain or bring back previous clients, or how to use personal outreach to get your first clients and even grow a larger audience, this episode is for you!Let's Collective: http://letscollective.co/Focus Sessions: https://www.focus-sessions.com/For the full show notes and transcript, visit https://www.socialslowdown.com/

Earlier this week, I spoke with Tara Newman about how to make more revenue in your business, and next week, I'll be releasing the episode with Megan Flatt where we talk about personal outreach. So I wanted to take some time in between these two episodes to talk to you about three marketing metrics that you hear about all the time - that don't really matter: followers, listeners, and traffic.In this episode, I'll be talking about the four levels of commitment your audience can fall into, and what those levels mean for your business. We'll reshape the way we think about our marketing strategy to focus less on quantity and more on quality and connecting with your audience.Listen to  Ep. 13: How Much Money Do You Need to Make? + How to Price/Sell With Tara Newman: https://www.socialslowdown.com/how-much-money-tara-newman/For the full show notes/to see the visual of the four levels of commitment, go to https://www.socialslowdown.com/revenue-leads-traffic/

When you run an online business, you really do need to roll with the punches. The online space saw more changes in 2021 than in the previous five years before. Crazy right?! Businesses were thrown for a loop and scrambling to determine their next move.    Needless to say, being flexible in your business and willing to pivot when needed is a vital trait to have if you want to be successful in business these days. In this episode of the Empowered Business podcast, I brought on my very first business coach, Megan Flatt, to talk about finding success through pivoting.    Megan Flatt is the CEO of Let's Collective, a business growth strategy firm devoted to making entrepreneurship easier. She is also the founder of Focus Sessions, a virtual coworking and accountability membership to get your most important work done. Let's Collective's mission is to help small businesses scale without burning out through strategic planning, revenue-focused decisions, and science-backed accountability.   Megan is obsessed with lattes, post-it notes and helping women make money. When not doing that, she's hanging with her husband and two kids, probably near the water, in the San Francisco Bay Area.    Megan knows first-hand the impact that you can have on your business by being open to new ideas and not being afraid to learn something new and go for it. It is so important as an online business owner that you can shift into something new when what you're doing doesn't work anymore.    Tune in to hear her share her tips for shifting from a high-ticket business model to a low-ticket business model, how she plans ahead by working backwards, and so much more.  Resources Mentioned:  Try out Focus Sessions and get $10 off your first month with special code “EMPOWERED” Follow Focus Sessions on Instagram Follow Megan on Instagram Check out Built To Sell: Creating A Business That Can Thrive Without You   I would love to connect on Facebook or Instagram! Show notes available at www.monicafroese.com/52

We are giving away 12 days of gifts. The idea is that we create a bridge from the Winter Solstice to the New Year! We chose 12 tools, ideas, and strategies that are all about ending this year and planning next year. Each day, we will release an episode, and many of the days will have fun (and very useful) printables! DAY 9 – 5 Dates to take that will change how you think about money So often I hear from women who are not moving towards their dreams because of money. So often I hear from entrepreneurs at this time of year who are super stressed about biz numbers that are different from what they thought, or are starting to stress about taxes. Each year in FLOW365, taxes, and the dread that comes with that task for many takes over and becomes an obstacle in moving towards goals.  So this year, I want everyone to have a plan to make the system of money easier!!!! Here is the thing… women who have money will change the world!!! Our partner and friend Megan Flatt from https://www.instagram.com/letscollective.co/?hl=en (Lets Collective) reminded FLOW entrepreneurs of this last week when we were planning what we want to earn in 2022. I think one of the most actionable talks I have ever hosted on money and entrepreneurship is with LuSundra Everett, EA https://www.instagram.com/homebiztaxlady/ (@homebiztaxlady) at camp this summer.  YOU WILL FINISH WITH SOME IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR CALENDAR!!!

We all get caught up in the hustle, the busyness, the millions of things that need to get done. And we get pulled away from that important work that moves our business (and our lives) forward.  –Megan Flatt On this episode of the PlanSimple Podcast, I'm really excited to talk with Megan Flatt, founder of Focus Sessions, about getting things done 90 minutes at a time — and how this fits with the goals and planning we do in FLOW365. Focus Sessions are hosted virtual co-working sessions to get done the important things that move you towards your goals. In FLOW365, we used to do something similar called Get It Done sessions, because it's easy to have a plan, but get distracted. Focus Sessions take advantage of something called social effervescence. We perform better when others around us are doing a similar thing. Add in a flow to get you focused and some accountability, and Focus Sessions really help people get things done. We talk about:  The difference between physical co-working spaces and virtual co-working (and how you could use Focus Sessions in a co-working space) How to prepare to focus The power of declaring and sharing what you are going to do Choosing a bucket for your focus session—Deep Work, Planning & Visioning, or Clearing the Deck—and why each is important Creating a container to get things done — and scheduling when you will do things Finding what's working and not working in our focus and productivity so that we make adjustments BIO Megan Flatt is the CEO of Let's Collective, a business growth strategy firm devoted to making entrepreneurship easier. She is also the founder of Focus Sessions, a virtual coworking and accountability membership to get your most important work done. Let's Collective's mission is to help small businesses scale without burning out through strategic planning, revenue focused decisions and science backed accountability. Megan is obsessed with lattes, post-it notes and helping women make money. When not doing that, she's hanging with her husband and two kids, probably near the water, in the San Francisco Bay Area. You can catch up with Megan at http://letcollective.co/ (letcollective.co) or http://focus-sessions.com/ (focus-sessions.com). LINKS https://www.focus-sessions.com/ (https://www.focus-sessions.com/) https://plansimple.com/flow365 (https://plansimple.com/flow365) Doable Changes from this episode: CHECK OUT FLOW365. If you're intrigued by the idea of Focus Sessions, check out https://plansimple.com/flow365 (FLOW365). Focus Sessions are part of this year-long program because we know it's not enough to have a goal and a plan — you need time to do the work too. And when you can do it with other people and accountability, you'll be even more productive. SCHEDULE TIME TO DO DEEP WORK. If you aren't a FLOW365er or Focus Session member, you can still schedule time to do Deep Work. Block off 90 minutes on your calendar. Turn off notifications. Put up a do not disturb sign. Take some deep breaths to settle in. Then declare exactly what you are focusing on. Text it to a friend for some accountability. Set a timer and begin. CLEAR THE DECKS. When you're overwhelmed with a to-do list that's out of control or your desk is so chaotic you can't think, it's time to clear the deck. Clearing the deck clears mental space and energy for other work and may help replenish and refresh you to do your deep work and visioning. Set a timer and do a bunch of tasky items—filing, making appointments, powering through emails, declutter your desk.

Megan Flatt is the founder of Let's Collective, a business growth strategy firm devoted to making entrepreneurship easier. Let's Collective helps their clients make revenue-focused decisions and then create a strategy to get there. Megan recently launched a sister brand, Focus Sessions, providing dedicated, distraction-free virtual coworking to get your most important work done. Megan is obsessed with lattes, post-it notes and helping women make money. When not doing that, she's hanging with her husband and two kids, probably near the water, in the San Francisco Bay Area. You can catch up with Megan at letcollective.co or focus-sessions.com. "It's okay for me to pivot. I can grow, I can change and gather data. It's all okay.” - Megan Flatt   This Week on the Get Paid Podcast: Megan runs how many coworking sessions per week? What a coworking session looks like and how they can help entrepreneurs. What COVID did to Megan's confidence as a business coach. Pivoting from high-end masterminds to affordable coworking sessions. Megan's original exit strategy — it cracked me up, but it was my original exit strategy, too! How do you know when it's time to burn it down? Why Megan planned a New Year's launch, but waited until June to officially launch. How she used her network to have a bigger, better launch. The strategies Megan is using to sell spots in Focus Sessions. Strategic advice for Focus Sessions directly from Claire. The surprising things that gave Megan confidence boosts when she needed it most. Connect with Megan Flatt: Let'sCollective.co Focus Sessions Let's Collective Instagram Focus Sessions Instagram Megan Flatt Linkedin Let's Collective Facebook Focus Sessions Facebook Let's Collective Email Focus Sessions Email     Step up Your Facebook Ads Game   This episode of the Get Paid Podcast is sponsored by Claire's free training, the 5 Ad Formula for Selling Online Courses on Autopilot.    Right now, people are spending way more time on Facebook and Instagram, which has significantly lowered ad costs for anyone currently running ads. Make sure you take advantage of this opportunity to grow your audience for cheap - go watch the 5 Ads Formula masterclass, and get at least ONE ad running ASAP. If you need extra help, Claire and her team of coaches have your back inside their signature ads course, Absolute FB Ads. Get all the details when you sign up to watch the masterclass at clairepells.com/5ads   Now it's time to GET PAID.   Thanks for tuning into the Get Paid Podcast! If you enjoyed today's episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, rate, and leave your honest review. Connect with me on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram, visit my website for even more detailed strategies, and be sure to share your favorite episodes on social media.   Now, it's time to go get yourself paid.  

Most business owners want to build their business to support their life, crafting the ideal work/life balance. But as we go along this entrepreneurial journey, things often begin revolving entirely around our work. In this episode, join Emily and her business bestie, Megan Flatt, as they talk about entrepreneurship, motherhood, and what it takes to build a life that supports your business.  Get full shownotes for this episode here >> —Listen to more Being Boss shows on our website, on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Follow Being Boss on Instagram: @beingbossclub Join the Being Boss Community: beingboss.club/community— Listen to more Being Boss shows on our website, on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.Follow Being Boss on Instagram: @beingbossclubJoin the Being Boss Community: beingboss.club/community

Most business owners want to build their business to support their life, crafting the ideal work/life balance. But as we go along this entrepreneurial journey, things often begin revolving entirely around our work. In this episode, join Emily and her business bestie, Megan Flatt, as they talk about entrepreneurship, motherhood, and what it takes to build a life that supports your business. Get full shownotes for this episode here >> —Listen to more Being Boss shows on our website, on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Follow Being Boss on Instagram: @beingbossclub Join the Being Boss Community: beingboss.club/community

This week, my business mentor, Megan Flatt joins us to talk about starting a business.  Perhaps you've always thought about starting something on your own, but you don't know what you'd do, or even where to start. Megan shares her wisdom on how to find the right business, and how to set yourself up for success.  visit youreverydaystyle.com/episode84 for full links and resources from today's episode

Connections are an important part of growing as a business owner, so Emily's business bestie Megan Flatt is on this episode to talk about networking, how to share resources and knowledge, recognizing when relationships aren't a good fit, and how you can find your own business bestie. Get full show notes for this episode here---Follow Being Boss on Instagram: @beingbossclubFollow Being Boss on Twitter: @beingbossclubFollow Being Boss on Facebook: facebook.com/beingbossclub

How do you get through the holidays as a mom and business owner?   On this episode of the Plan Simple Meals Podcast, we have a special treat. I’m talking with Megan Flatt and four other Mama CEOs about how they find flow between business and family and keep things sane during the holiday season. Since we’re talking about work and family, let’s introduce ourselves, what we do and our kids ages. I’m Mia Moran. I help people plan their days. It means spending a lot of time in front of the computer while my 15, 13, and 9 year old are in school. It’s busy, so slowing down is hard for me.   With me today: Megan Flatt is a Mama CEO, a business growth strategist, and a planning pro who helps mom entrepreneurs grow and scale so they can reach their business goals and be present for their families. Her kids are 7 and 10. Stacy Spensley is a coach for parents of young kids through coaching classes and community. Her kids are 5 ½ and 2 ½ and she’s having a third in a few weeks. Sara Barry is a content strategist, client success manager, and a writer. She uses words to help people make connections. Her kids are 10 and 8. Erika Tebbens is a consultant who provides sales strategy for  passionate motivated women entrepreneurs. She shows them that sales doesn’t have to suck. Her son is 14. Sonia Ruyts owns a brick and mortar yarn store and is a coach to creative small business owners. She has kids who are almost 4 and 9. I love that we have a variety of kids and ages from 0 to 15. We have kids not in school and in school and home schooled. We have a range of business experience here. We also have people who love the holidays and others who really down play it. Hopefully something will speak to you.   We talk about: Setting boundaries—Try setting boundaries around your work time, even if you are not good about it during the rest of the year. Schedule some down time. Think about doing one thing a day (or less as suits you). Talk about boundaries around gifts with your family. Consider the “a want, a read, a wear, a need” criteria to simplify things. Setting priorities—What’s most important to you and your family? Ask your kids what they really want to do. Make sure those things have a place and then let the other things go. Putting your big rocks in place early. Get your work schedule and the kid’s school schedule on the calendar. Know what things have to happen at certain times and what things you want to make sure happen. Get those on the calendar and let other things flow around that. Knowing your business. Is this a time to push for your business or a time to scale back and set yourself up for a strong January? For retailers, it’s a busy time, which can affect how you schedule other things. Choosing things that are meaningful to you. Sara creates an Advent calendar of holiday books that helps her slow down and read with her kids and get in the holiday and giving spirit. Erika has something they do over the course of the winter to extend the feel of the season and does some volunteering. Sonia loves taking her family to her big, local light display and getting silly. Stacy gets Christmas jammies every year. Slowing down. Find out the way of slowing down that works for you, which may mean setting a day of home/down time or make choices about what you do or focusing on teaching kids about baking rather than pushing to get everything done. It could mean choosing to celebrate with extended family on a different day instead of trying to run around to many places on the actual holiday. Consider pacing the excitement by opening gifts as they come—then you can put things away when the shine wears off and take them out again later. Deciding what you want for you family. Getting really clear with yourself and your spouse with what you want for the holiday season. Then work with other people, like grandparents, who may want to see you.             LINKS Meganflatt.com Stacy Spensely, Semi-Crunchy Mama Sara Barry, Content Strategist & Copywriter Erika Tebbens Consulting Sonia Ruyts, Creativity Coach   Doable Changes from this episode: GET YOUR BIG ROCKS IN PLACE. Get any big work days on the calendar. Pick the key things that you want to do as a family during the holiday season. Put those on your calendar now. Get used to saying no to other things that pull you out of the holiday feel you want. SCHEDULE SLOW DOWN TIME. Schedule down time for yourself or your family. That might me a Sunday when you all sit around and read Christmas stories or setting aside every Friday for a holiday movie night or choosing not to go to another holiday party. Take an afternoon to browse in your favorite book store instead of braving the mall. Spend time baking cookies or crafting. Cross something off your list undone and take a holiday stroll. Mark off some time on your calendar for this and hold it sacred. SET BOUNDARIES AROUND GIFTS. We talk a lot about scheduling and being busy, but there is also an overabundance of “stuff” this time of year. Set boundaries about gifts and share them with family members. Consider going with just “a want, a read, a wear, a read” or encouraging family members to share experiences, like tickets to an event or a museum membership, instead of stuff. Think about when you want to open gifts—will you do it all on Christmas morning? Will you open them at different events throughout the season? Will you open them as they arrive at your house? Decide and communicate to your family.

How do you stick to your weekly flow? We’re back for another episode of Well Planned, a Plan Simple series with Megan Flatt. Megan is a business growth strategist who works with female entrepreneurs, specifically mom entrepreneurs. She helps women build thriving businesses that they can feel good about and sustain them while still being actively present in the day-to-day lives of their kids and their families. One of her secret weapons is the Weekly Workflow, which we talked about on a our Systems and Support episode. I like to call it time blocking. A weekly workflow is different from your schedule, but it’s what helps you schedule all the important stuff. For example, you might have certain days you see clients and certain days that you work on creating content or record your podcast and certain days that you do other things. You assign certain blocks of time to particular task buckets—then you fit specific tasks into those buckets. We discuss making a plan (even if you aren’t a planner), and sticking with it. We also talk about how to stay on track when stuff comes up—a kid emergency or something else that causes you to change your plan. Because stuff always comes up. So what do you do about it? We talk about: Making sure there is enough buffer space to let you shift things around, for example to reschedule calls if you have a sick kid or to keep moving on a project if you are in a groove or even if something fun comes up that you want to do—if you schedule every week down to the minute you lose that necessary flexibility Having a framework and then plotting out the week OR just taking the time to plot out the week, whichever is working for your life right now Creating rules and boundaries, like saying I don’t see clients on Fridays, for yourself to help make things easier Using a framework for home and selfcare stuff as well as business stuff (like Mia’s food rhythm or Megan making sure she eats lunch every day) Deciding whether or not your plan is realistic and what needs to happen for it to be realistic—and getting realistic about how we are actually spending our time Accounting for transitions between activities—you need time to stretch or get more water or switching gears mentally Knowing your own personality and what kind of accountability or motivation you need We touched on motherhood and balance and being the default parent, but we’d love to talk about it some more Have a question for Mia and Megan?Go to plansimplemeals.com/ask. You will get prompted to record your question and we’ll try to answer it. Or just email your question to mia@plansimplemeals.com Megan Flatt is a Mama CEO, a business growth strategist, and a planning pro. She’s been working with clients for years to create strategic growth plans in their business that allow them to scale while still being present for the important moments in their families’ lives. She shows Mama CEOs with big vision and great ideas how to get those big CEO ideas into a day-by-day plan where they actually happen.   LINKS Meganflatt.com Systems and Support episode So Money The Four Tendencies Better Than Before The Happiness Project   Doable Changes from this episode: ADD BUFFER TIME. Try adding buffer time into your day. Think of this as transition or runway time, the time you need in between activities. This might mean 10 minutes between client calls to use the bathroom and refresh your water or 5 minutes before you need to leave the house to gather things you need. Then add buffer time to your week. Know that if you have a sick kid one day or a project runs over that there is some extra time build into your week to absorb at least some of that. SET ONE HABIT. Pick one thing that you will make a habit. It could be filling your car with gas on the same day and time every week or putting your phone in the other room when you are focusing on writing. Pick ONE thing and start to do it regularly until it becomes routine. TRACK YOUR TIME. We tend to underestimate how long it takes to do things and how long we are distracted sometimes. Start jotting down when you start a task and when you finish it. Then start using this data when you plan. If week after week it takes you an hour and a half to write a blog post, stop trying to give yourself half an hour to write it. If you are going to write for three hours and halfway through you go to write a Facebook post and get lost in there for an hour, note that. Start to see where you are actually spending your time. 

Do you have a checklist for launching or any advice about launching and still being a very hands-on mom?   We’re back for our 6th episode of Well Planned, a Plan Simple series with Megan Flatt. Megan is a business growth strategist who works with female entrepreneurs, specifically mom entrepreneurs. She helps women build thriving businesses that they can feel good about and sustain them while still being actively present in the day-to-day lives of their kids and their families. She has a lot to say about our question today. Today, our question comes from a mom with an eight year old and a eleven year old. She’s been a stay at home mom, and now she is about to launch a business dedicated to helping highly sensitive women thrive. She asks for advice, or even a checklist, for launching—and specifically how to launch while being a mom and still needing to put a lot of time into that. We start with some high-level advice, but we’ll get to the details and the checklist, promise! Some of our key takeaways are: Clarity comes from action. Megan suggests getting your idea or your product or your business out as quickly as possible and then wearing your researcher hat to test, tweak, and polish from there. Don’t hide or get lost in creating a website and the perfect logo and all that. Everything we create can evolve with us. Nothing is set in stone.   Do less better. Aks yourself, “What is the next right decision for me?” Then pick one social media channel or one product or one ideal client to focus on. There are so many things you could do, but you’ll get further by doing less better. Create systems to control your content. One way to do less better is to not feel like you have to recreate the wheel constantly when it comes to content, but if your content is on Facebook and Instagram or another social platform, make sure you have it in a file you control too. That makes it easier to find when you want to adapt or reuse content and helps protect you as social platforms continue to evolve. Write it all down. Writing down your plan helps you see get really clear on what you are doing. It also helps you see where you are trying to do 4 months worth of work in 6 weeks. You can also save space for an idea that isn’t the right idea for right now. Say you want to start a podcast, but right now you are focused on launching your new Mastermind, you can put your podcast plan into Q3 of next year. Start with the end result. Before you start mapping out steps 1, 2, 3, think about the end result you want. It’s easy to get sidetracked by the things we think we should or need to do, if you really tap in into what you want and what your goal is now, most likely you can figure out how to get there. It’s often simpler than we think if we stay focused on the results we want.    

"Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you." -Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos On this episode of the Plan Simple Meals Podcast, I’m really excited to talk with Megan and explore a question about launching a store. We talk about “flow” vs. balance. Especially how sometimes you flow a little more to the family side and sometimes you flow a little more to the business side. We even acknowledge that a little bit of chaos is okay too—and even necessary to get things done sometimes. And then there’s selling stuff. Usually when we start a business, we go into it because we are passionate about doing something or something we make. We want to share our skills or our product with people and make their lives better. But to do that, we need to sell it, and that’s hard for a lot of people. Selling doesn’t have to feel slimy, but we need to unpack our feelings about selling and learn to do it. We talk about: The mental shift of saying “I have something to offer” rather than thinking about sales Embracing who you are and what you bring to the table Focusing on one thing and really leaning into it—and using that focused effort as research to see what works Telling people you are there and what you do Megan’s “so that” exercise to get crystal clear on why you do what you do and what you really sell Thinking about sorting not selling and not taking it personally when people don’t buy Have a question for Mia and Megan?Go to plansimplemeals.com/ask. You will get prompted to record your question and we’ll try to answer it. Or just email your question to mia@plansimplemeals.com Megan Flatt is a Mama CEO, a business growth strategist, and a planning pro. She’s been working with clients for years to create strategic growth plans in their business that allow them to scale while still being present for the important moments in their families’ lives. She shows Mama CEOs with big vision and great ideas how to get those big CEO ideas into a day-by-day plan where they actually happen. LINKS Meganflatt.com AugustTable.com Doable Changes from this episode: GET REALLY CLEAR ON WHAT YOU DO. Use Megan’s “so that” exercise to gain clarity on what you’re really selling. Fill in the blanks: I sell ___ so that ___. You may need a few rounds of “so that” before you get to the emotional response you are looking for. Keep this answer front and center when you think about selling. TELL PEOPLE WHAT YOU DO. Let people know you are there. Every day, make a point of sharing your website, a product, a blog post … something at least once. It could be telling your neighbor that you do health coaching. It could be emailing an old client to let them know what are doing these days. It could be sharing your website on Facebook. There are lots of possibilities, and even if you feel like you talk about what you do all the time, there are people who have no idea. Tell them! FOCUS ON ONE THING. It’s easy to get overwhelmed with all the things you could or should do to sell your product or service, but try this instead. Focus on one thing. For the next six weeks, double down on Facebook ads or pushing a challenge by email to your list or reaching out individually to your best prospects. Whatever it is, stay the course and see what happens. If it’s working, keep going. If not, pivot. But take the time to see before you jump all over the place.

Choose a boundary that feels really luscious and feels really nourishing and feels really exciting. Don’t choose the boundary that feels like it’s punishment. I’m back again with my friend and former business coach, Megan Flatt. Today is a lesson in Plan B. Normally we answer questions from listeners, but the system to take questions got hacked, so we’re going to dive into talking about boundaries this week and get back to your questions next time. Boundaries came up last week when we were talking about systems and support, and it’s a great topic to go deeper with. Being a mom and being an entrepreneur are both 24/7 roles. You don’t clock in or out of either role, which makes it really easy to start feeling like you should be doing something as a mom or for your business ALL the time. That’s just not sustainable. That’s where parameters and boundaries come in. Megan shares how she uses a guiding word to help set boundaries (right now she’s working with abundant ease). And we discuss how having boundaries provides structure—and more actually gives you more freedom. We talk about: Creating a meal rhythm and how I actually ate more variety within this structure Decision fatigue and how to cut down on decision making The importance of setting work hours (even if they change week to week) Creating work blocks and using them to shift tasks and restructuring our time to be more effective Using boundaries to make conscious decisions and be in charge of your day (even when it’s messy) Working with our own cycles instead of thinking things have to be the same all the time (or that our work days and weeks have to look like anybody else’s) Have a question for Mia and Megan?Go to plansimplemeals.com/ask. You will get prompted to record your question and we’ll try to answer it. Or just email your question to mia@plansimplemeals.com Megan Flatt is a Mama CEO, a business growth strategist, and a planning pro. She’s been working with clients for years to create strategic growth plans in their business that allow them to scale while still being present for the important moments in their families’ lives. She shows Mama CEOs with big vision and great ideas how to get those big CEO ideas into a day-by-day plan where they actually happen. LINKS Meganflatt.com Well Planned: Systems and Support Well Planned: Overwhelm vs. Laziness Well Planned in 90-Day Cycles Creating a Meal Rhythm Spinning Plates with Megan Flatt Living in Your Box with Sarah Jenks Pleasure Is Productive with Janna Denton-Howes Doable Changes from this episode: CREATE A MEAL RHYTHM. Identify different “nights” for your rhythm (soup night, grain bowl night, bean night ... ). Keep it simple by making a list of foods you already eat that fit each night; get creative by checking cookbooks or online for other recipes to try. Set up one week of meals with your rhythm and add any ingredients you need to your shopping list. Look to see how your rhythm can help you move forward, (e.g., you can chop veggies for soup and your lunchtime salad at the same time). SET WORK HOURS. Pull out your planner or a week calendar page and block off your work time. Think about what hours work for you to work—that might mean when you are most productive or when you have childcare or something else. Don’t judge yourself or think you should work certain hours. This week, hold yourself to those boundaries and see how it feels. TRACK YOUR CYCLES. Start noticing your energy levels throughout the month (your personal cycle). Pay attention to your energy and interests throughout the year. Instead of judging your reaction when you seem less productive, just notice and record. As you get more in tune with your own rhythms, you can adjust your schedule to better suit you.  

I need to create system to save time and make me more efficient for every patient I’m seeing  and helping. Also, when should I think about getting some help to make my documents looking better? On this episode of the Plan Simple Meals Podcast, I’m back with my friend Megan Flatt for Well Planned, the series where we answer your questions about planning. Megan is a business growth strategist who focuses on helping business owners scale and grow their businesses while also being present for all the other important things in their lives like their kids and families. Today we have a two-part question from Ellen about creating systems and outsourcing. Ellen asks this in reference to her business seeing and healing patients, but we’re going to talk about how to use both of these tools for business and home. Megan’s number 1 tool is the weekly workflow. I love that word and it fits so much better than weekly schedule. For a weekly workflow, you might have certain days you see clients and certain days that you work on creating content or record your podcast and certain days that you do other things. One key piece is having some fluidity or “buffer time.” This allows you to spend a little more time on a project you are super inspired on or to deal with something at comes up. Check out the link below for Megan’s weekly workflow worksheet and video. We dive into: Setting boundaries and work hours to improve your business and your quality of life Documenting things you do again and again, from writing up answers to the questions you get all the time to documenting a process you go through again and again—and then using some of this documentation (create a video or handout) to add value to your clients Setting up systems for home (example meal planning, grocery shopping, or carpooling), which gives us a sense of more time Setting up systems to make it easier to outsource Working in focused two-week sprints to build momentum and cut down on “runway” time needed for multiple projects Progress over perfection, or not letting a lack of perfection stop you from launching or sending things out When and what to outsource and that just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you need to be doing it either at all or you need to be the one doing it in your business or at home Have a question for Mia and Megan?Go to plansimplemeals.com/ask. You will get prompted to record your question and we’ll try to answer it. Or just email your question to mia@plansimplemeals.com Megan Flatt is a Mama CEO, a business growth strategist, and a planning pro. She’s been working with clients for years to create strategic growth plans in their business that allow them to scale while still being present for the important moments in their families’ lives. She shows Mama CEOs with big vision and great ideas how to get those big CEO ideas into a day-by-day plan where they actually happen. LINKS Meganflatt.com Megan’s Weekly Workflow   Doable Changes from this episode: SET BOUNDARIES AROUND YOUR TIME. When do you start working and when do you stop? What days do you work and what days do you not work? What are your non-negotiables? Maybe you decide you don’t work on the weekends or after you kids are in bed, or perhaps you don’t respond to client emails or texts after 5 PM. Simply starting to set boundaries around these things will improve your quality of life. You can take this one step further and create your weekly workflow. SYSTEMATIZE ONE THING. Pick one thing to systematize this week. It could be creating a meal rhythm and setting aside time to make a plan each week or deciding that you always fill up your gas tank on Thursdays after school pick up. You could create a prepared response to a question you get asked all the time; think of it as a template that you can customize for each person, but the key information is ready to roll. Pick one thing for your home or business and systematize that. USE BIGGER WORK BLOCKS. Instead of setting up to work on 12 projects during the next 90 days, choose two and focus on them for the next two weeks and try to complete them. By focusing on fewer things, you waste less time switching between tasks or have less “runway” time for each project and you build momentum by finishing things which can lead to greater productivity.  

Could you discuss the difference between the feeling of overwhelm of taking on too much versus just being lazy and needing to get up and get stuff done? On this episode of the Plan Simple Meals Podcast, I’m back with my friend Megan Flatt for Well Planned, the series where we answer your questions about planning. Megan is a business coach who focuses on business growth strategies for female entrepreneurs — specifically mama entrepreneurs—women who are running thriving businesses while still maintaining the “home fire” so to speak. She Post-it notes and planning as much as I do. Today we have a question from Maggie, a mom of four small kids who has one side business with her husband and is trying to start another one. She asks about the difference between overwhelm and taking on too much versus just feeling lazy about getting stuff done. First we want to take out the idea of being lazy. As a mom you are taking care of people, that’s not lazy. Megan reframed the issue as: Is this a situation where I need to get my act together and put a plan in place and take action—or am I overwhelmed because I just have too much going on? So often we tell ourselves we need to be better at time management or be more productive, but really we just literally have too many things happening. We dive into getting clearer on what you feel and why, plus tools for dealing with the feeling that you just can’t get stuff done. We talk about: Checking in with your body and trusting your intuition Knowing your stress or overwhelm triggers The power of doing a brain dump, but not making it your to do list Getting really clear on the end goal so we know why we’re pushing to do something—and how this helps us take down time (which by the way doesn’t mean you are being lazy!) How to use Post-it notes to stay focused on our end goal (or as Megan likes to say, Do less better) Checking in on basic self-care like sleep, food, hydration Not letting overwhelm be a habit Have a question for Mia and Megan?Go to plansimplemeals.com/ask. You will get prompted to record your question and we’ll try to answer it. Megan Flatt is a Mama CEO and a business growth strategist. She’s been working with clients for years to create strategic growth plans in their business that allow them to scale while still being present for the important moments in their families’ lives. She shows Mama CEOs with big vision and great ideas how to get those big CEO ideas into a day-by-day plan where they actually happen. LINKS Meganflatt.com Jess Ryan Doable Changes from this episode: KNOW YOUR STRESS TRIGGERS. Look back on the last few times you felt stressed or overwhelmed. (Do this at a time when you are not in the thick of feeling that way.) What really caused you to feel that way? Were you over tired? Had you skipped lunch or had too much coffee? Were you afraid you were forgetting something? Was your to do list too long? Had you been bombarded with needs as soon as you walked in the door? Was a messy space causing you stress? Knowing what causes you stress helps you find the tools to defuse it. Megan gets stressed when she feels like she might be forgetting something or doesn’t know all the things she needs to do, so she does a big brain dump. Somebody else might get stressed when they skip exercise, so they know they need to get to the gym or go for a run when things start pressing down on them.   CHECK IN ON BASIC SELF CARE. There are a lot of things that come under the umbrella of self care, but soo many times we miss the basics. Next time you are feeling overwhelmed or like you just can’t motivate to do something, check in on the basics. Ask yourself: Have I slept? Have I eaten? Have I had enough water? Have I moved my body today?   POST-IT NOTE PLANNING. Try Megan’s practice for doing less better with Post-it notes. Start by defining the results you want. I could be the amount of revenue you want to earn from a launch or how you want to feel at the end of the weekend with your family. Think of three things that need to happen to get you to that result. Then do a brain dump putting each idea on a separate Post-in. Once you have all your ideas down, you start to organize them under your three ideas. If any of your Post-its don’t fit, put them to the side. These are things that you may want to eliminate, delegate, or save for another time.

It’s another part of our Well Planned series on the Plan Simple Podcast. I’m talking again my friend Megan Flatt, a business coach to Mama CEOs and pro at planning. We’re taking on a question from the audience today. Angela is getting back into her business and blog and feeling really overwhelmed — and like she needs to be making some money. Megan and I agree that getting all your ideas out on paper helps when you’re facing overwhelm. Once it’s down on paper, you stop worrying about the things you might forget. Plus you can start to make sense of things—figure out what has to happen now (hint: It’s not everything), what you can hold off on, delegate, or let go of all together. We dive into getting past overwhelm, dealing with breaking back in after a break, and both practical and mindset approaches to the money piece. We talk about: Writing down the stories in your head and seeing if they are even true Using a brain dump to get out all your ideas and a 90-day plan to make sense them Starting with the results you want The importance of grounding yourself so that you can listen to your intuition Making the right next decision instead of getting paralyzed by all the steps Doubling down on what works   LINKS meganflatt.com plansimplemeals.com/well-planned-in-90-days-cycles-with-megan-flatt/ Questions for Mia and Megan? Go to plansimplemeals.com/ask. Click the play button and record your question. Or email mia@plansimplemeals.com. Doable Changes from this episode: KNOW THE RESULTS YOU WANT. Before you take the next step or even create a plan, think about what results you want. If you know where you are headed, you can make better decisions about how you choose to spend time, money, and other resources. So right now, get clear on your results. MAKE THE RIGHT NEXT MOVE. Are paralyzed by all the things you could do or feel like you should do, or by all the steps to get to your goal? Make one decision. What is the one next thing you need to do? Decide that and do it today. Then repeat. LISTEN TO YOURSELF. Most of the time, even when you are overwhelmed or feeling really uncertain, you know what you want and need to do. We offer a few of ways listen to yourself. Try getting really quiet. This might mean meditating or going for a walk or doing a big braindump and then covering it up so you can breathe into the space in your head. Listen to what your intuition tells you. Say what you are going to do and notice how your body feels—do you tense up or light up? That’s a clue. Or literally listen to yourself. Megan suggests talking to a good friend, one who can listen without advising, because sometimes just hearing yourself say an idea aloud gives you clarity. Pick one of these tools and try listening to yourself the next time you feel overwhelmed.  

Our lives are not compartmentalized so the support we get can’t be either. – Megan Flatt On this episode of the Plan Simple Meals Podcast, I’m really excited because we’re starting a new series that we’re calling “Well Planned.” I have my friend Megan Flatt, an expert planner and business coach to Mama CEOs here with me for this 10 week series. We have similar planning ideas, but I tend to focus more on food and lifestyle, while Megan tends to focus more on business. What I’ve found is that no matter what issue you are dealing with, you usually need a holistic approach, so we’re bringing our perspectives together. This week we talk about 90 day cycles or seasons and why 90 days is the ideal amount of time for a plan. We talk about: The importance of recognizing the different seasons, big transitions, and energy shifts in our lives and how 90 day cycles honors those Using 90 day planning to focus now — and set goals for later The refreshing idea that you can start a new 90 days anytime—and your 90 day cycles can even overlap some (in a way that feels helpful, not overwhelming) The difference between dreams and goals and projects Starting with how you want to feel and then aligning what you do with that Doing a braindump and then organizing all the idea about things you want to do BIO Megan Flatt is a Mama CEO and a business growth strategist. She’s been working with clients for years to create strategic growth plans in their business that allow them to scale while still being present for the important moments in their families’ lives. She shows Mama CEOs with big vision and great ideas how to get those big CEO ideas into a day-by-day plan where they actually happen. LINKS MeganFlatt.com Spinning Plates with Megan Flatt on the Plan Simple Podcast Questions for Mia and Megan? Go to plansimplemeals.com/ask. Click the play button and record your question. Or email mia@plansimplemeals.com. Doable Changes from this episode: DO A BRAIN DUMP. Megan and I both agree in the magic of getting things down on paper. If you are feeling overwhelmed or ready to create a plan, start with a brain dump of all the things you want/need to do. You can write each one on a separate Post-it note, do this on the Master List pages in your FLOW planner or just do it on paper. Once it’s all down, you can start to see which ideas are for now and which can wait for another 90 day cycle TURN A GOAL INTO A PROJECT. Goals are big and overarching and sometimes we get stuck because we put a goal onto our To Do list. Try turning a goal into a project and then breaking it down into action steps. For example, maybe you want to break out of overwhelm or feel more spacious. One project to help you get there is to clean out the basement. Then you can break that down into action steps or tasks: Schedule one day a week to work on the project. Go through one bin each day. Drop off donations and trash, etc.   CHOOSE YOUR FOCUS. One of the beautiful things about 90-day cycles is that they can start any time. What if your 90 days starts now? Choose what you will focus on in the next 90 days. I like to pick one focus for each of these areas: Food, Lifestyle, Om (spirituality and selfcare), and Work. The goal is to narrow your ideas down and focus on one thing per area so that you can really get it done (instead of being overwhelmed or scattered by all the things you could do.  

Being a mom is a full-time job and Megan Flatt understands that. Women make great business owners because they are mothers, not in spite of. In Episode 6 of the Time to Be You podcast, Megan details the importance and logistics of time management, creating a weekly workflow, and efficiently splitting up time between your kids and work and self.   Megan describes how she transitioned from a career in pre and post-natal fitness to a business growth specialist for female entrepreneurs who want to leave their corporate jobs, with an emphasis on moms. Whilst deconstructing the misconception that working moms are selfish, she gives us her tips to leading thriving businesses while keeping the balance of the rest of their lives intact.   ---   Questions asked on this episode: 1. Give us a brief background on how you started your business? What did you do prior? 2. What was your ah-ha moment? 3. What type of women do you help? 4. Do you think socially it's becoming a norm that mothers can run businesses and raise children? 5. For a CEO mama, that is having a hard time balancing work and kids - what would be the first daily thing you'd recommend them to change or adjust?     ----   BIO: Megan Flatt is a business growth strategist for female entrepreneurs, specifically mom entrepreneurs, who want to lead thriving businesses while remaining present for all the other important things in their lives. Megan believes women make great business owners because we are mothers, not in spite of it. You can almost always find her with a latte in hand, a stack of post-it notes at the ready and a random lego figure in her pocket. You can learn more about Megan and create your own Weekly Workflow at http://meganflatt.com   ---   Resources: http://meganflatt.com http://www.instagram.com/Meganflatt https://www.facebook.com/meganflattpage/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/themamaceoclub/ - Free Facebook group   ---   Follow me at @laura_loveandfit on Instagram!  

This week, I am thrilled to bring you a conversation with the brilliant mama CEO, Megan Flatt. Megan is a business growth strategist for mom entrepreneurs who want to lead thriving businesses while remaining present for all the other important things in their lives. Megan takes a powerful stand for her message about motherhood being an asset in entrepreneurship, however, getting there was no easy feat. Get full show notes and more information here: https://michellebarryfranco.com/episode7

Megan Flatt is a Shameless Mom to her son Brady who is 9.5 and her daughter Rylan who is 7.  She is also a business growth strategist for female entrepreneurs, specifically mom entrepreneurs, who want to lead thriving businesses while remaining present for all the other important things in their lives. Megan believes women make great business owners because we are mothers, not in spite of it. You can almost always find her with a latte in hand, a stack of post-it notes at the ready and a random lego figure in her pocket.  Like me, Megan had a come-to-Jesus kinda moment when her children were very small and she realized she needed to make some changes in her professional life, as well as get over some long-standing beliefs she held around being a stay at home mom vs working mom.  This conversation is fun and inspiring.  I am so delighted to be connected to Megan.  I love her mission and message and I think it will resonate strongly with so many of you.  Get ready – Megan is going to get you fired up about your mama superpowers! Listen in to hear Megan share: Our mutual love of school supplies, post-it notes, and organizational ideas Her dream of being a SAHM vs her reality All about the Mama Advantage and the data supporting it How to find and protect your Grade A time How (and why) to build a platform, not a pedestal How to manage your Decision Budget Links Mentioned: Connect with Megan: Meganflatt.com Freebie: Manage your week on your terms with Megan’s workflow template Thank you to our sponsors: Canvas People: To get a FREE 11x14 canvas print (just pay shipping) of any of your photos, text SHAMELESS to 99000. Canidae: We talk about families, and your pet is an important part of your family and they deserve the best. Go to www.canidae.com/podcast to try CANIDAE for free by requesting a free sample and get other special offers! Weebly: Build a beautiful website and a successful online business with Weebly. Go to Weebly to get 15% off your first purchase.

Megan Flatt or, as I like to call her, The Mama CEO Whisperer, is a business coach and strategist who helps mama CEO’s grow their businesses and balance being a mother at the same time. She is also the host of The Mama Advantage Podcast and she says she’s never had a traditional 9-5 job […] The post Megan Flatt | How to Be a Mama CEO appeared first on Smart Business Revolution.

Becca Piastrelli and Megan Flatt are two bomb women who are kicking @$$ and taking names. Becca is a creative coach and Megan is a coach to MamaCEOs. They've both built their businesses on creativity, and this episode is all about how to evolve out loud, how our Type A sides can both support and hurt our creativity, and how we as creatives can practice taking up more space (eek vulnerability!). 

Today I’m chatting with Megan Flatt a business growth strategist committed to showing Mama CEOs that it is possible to  build a thriving business while staying present for the other things that matter in our lives (like our little roommates.) You’ll almost always find a stash of post-it notes in her bag, a latte in her hand, and at least one lego figurine in her pocket. Megan is a planning and calendar expert. If you don’t own a business or don’t ever have aspirations of owning one you will still get so much value out of the chat today. Megan and Beryl have been business BFFs for a long while - they even dabbled in some co-teaching projects and joint retreats back in 2014. Today Megan and Beryl connect over so many topics including The place where business and creativity meet and how they are closely related to one another. Why the idea of BALANCE is a myth as a mom and what you should seek instead How creating structure in your life can lead to less guilt And the importance of scheduling PLAY into your days. HOMEWORK: Snap a photo that shows how you're SCHEDULING IN PLAY this week. Come follow 'recaptureself' on Instagram. Use the #recaptureself hashtag when you post. Beryl will share out some of your posts this week!  If you're ready to get your next big idea into the world while keeping your sanity as a mom, download Megan's free guide "Launch Like a Mother" here. http://meganflatt.com/launch Did you know we also have a completely free community group? Our 52 Moments Recapture Self community is a place where photography, creativity, and motherhood collide. Join the community at this link, say hello, and look for our live video chats each Wednesday and new weekly photo prompts every FRIDAY: http://www.berylaynyoung.com/community

Business strategist Megan Flatt joins us to share a behind-the-scenes of her business where she works with moms to help them build their businesses. Give this episode a listen to hear about how Megan’s always been an entrepreneur, how she finds her clients and how she shows the real behind-the-scenes of running a business and having a life.   Show notes: www.scoopindustries.com/episode27.

Running a business while juggling the crazy, hectic schedules that come along with motherhood can be a challenge – to put it mildly. From rushing kids to soccer practice to rushing to launch a product or service on time, we all often feel stressed, overwhelmed, or simply aren't sure how to do certain things we want to do to scale our businesses. Megan Flatt is a business strategist who works almost exclusively with female entrepreneurs – or more specifically, mom entrepreneurs. She joins me on the show today to share some of her personal experiences with being a Mama CEO, how she helps other mompreneurs, and some of the challenges she has faced head on while launching a new product.

This is an episode filled with scheduling tips where Miatalks to Megan Flatt — a consultant for mama CEOs. They talk about thedifference between “juggling” and “plate spinning” which will make every momwant to learn about plates! They talk about making choices to do the things weactually want to do as moms.  They talkabout the little things you can do to fit things like exercise and shopping into your week — itis as simple as changing your mind and doing simple actions. Megan shares the idea of a weekly workflowand making realistic lists of what you can actually get done, so you end thedeal feeling accomplished, and how to use post-it notes to group your buckets. Megangoes into summer and how you we can have a good one where you stay in line with your family values. Download Megan's free guide "Launch Like a Mother" http://meganflatt.com/launch/.

If you feel like the Sweedish Chef when it comes to projects and tasks in your life (like I do), this episode will change your life. Life systemization expert Megan Flatt teaches simple life management strategies that can clear your overwhelm, cut your anxiety and allow you to live with a new freedom.    Once we become parents, the influx of schedules to balance, stuff to manage, and tasks to juggle can cause undue stress. We have high standards for what we should get done and how our lives should look. But we don’t give ourselves the space to actually learn HOW to do all of this!   When you give yourself time to look strategically at the day-to-day process of your life, you can start to chip away at stressors in a real way. Listen to this episode to take back the drivers seat on the amount of stress that you allow in your life.   Learn more about Megan and to sign up for my free online series - 3 Minutes to Zen: Show Notes Page  

Are you struggling to find the time to get it all done? On the elusive quest for perfection and balance, we often find ourselves in a constant state of overwhelm, guilt and the feeling that there just is never enough time. These thoughts can be crushing to our inspiration and our passion toward our work and our lives. In the latest interview on the Inspired Woman Project, Megan Flatt (meganflatt.com) explains how we can have it all by working on the emotional and logistical challenges of getting it all done.

Although Megan has always been an entrepreneur, it was after she had her first child, where she really had to start thinking about finding a better way for her family.   She dabbled in a few online businesses, but really found her way when she started helping Moms find their grooves in starting their own businesses.  Megan now makes a living through coaching and courses, teaching other moms how to start a business, yet still be present with their children.