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268. Savvy Business and Health & Wellness Tips and Journey to Overcoming Infertility with Laura Jean Bell   1 Corinthians 10:31 NIV "So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God."   Today's episode includes some thematic material. I want you to be aware before you listen in the presence of little ears.    *Transcription Below*   Laura Jean Bell is a believer, storyteller, writer, wife to her high school sweetheart and mama to three miracle babies.   She is a published author of You Can Always Come Home by Laura Jean Bell, in addition to being a Business and Social Media Coach.    Laura also overcame stage 3 endometriosis by taking the road less traveled and now she spends countless hours helping other women take that road with her!    Connect with Laura on Instagram: @laura_jean_bell   Laura Jean Bell's Website   Questions and Topics We Discuss: What are a handful of practical tips you can offer others, especially as it relates to digital marketing? Will you share your research on Minerals: How do we even determine what minerals we need?  Will you leave us with a few more social media tips?   Thank You to Our Sponsor: Midwest Food Bank   Other Episodes Related to This Topic from The Savvy Sauce: 48 Pursuing Health, Not Vanity Before and After Childbearing with Blogger, Speaker, and Coach, Megan Dahlman 33 Pursuing Health in the New Year with Functional Medicine Specialist, Dr. Jill Carnahan 68 Hormones and Simple Changes to Feel SO Much Better with Functional Medicine Expert, Dr. Jill Carnahan 70 Energy to Spark Success in Your Business with Best-Selling Author, Speaker, and Podcaster, Christy Wright 76 Conflict Resolution, Infidelity, and Infertility with Licensed Psychologist and Certified Sex Therapist, Dr. Jessica McCleese 77 How 2 Questions Can Grow Your Business and Change Your Life with Author, Pastor, and Podcaster, Jeff Henderson 132 Pursuing Your God-Given Dream with Francie Hinrichsen 256 Gut Health, Allergies, Inflammation and Proactive Solutions with Emily Macleod-Wolfe 266 Female Sex Hormones, Periods, and Perimenopause with Emily Macleod-Wolfe   Connect with The Savvy Sauce on Facebook, Instagram or Our Website   Gospel Scripture: (all NIV) Romans 3:23 “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,”   Romans 3:24 “and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.”   Romans 3:25 (a) “God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood.”    Hebrews 9:22 (b) “without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.”    Romans 5:8 “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”    Romans 5:11 “Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.”    John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”   Romans 10:9 “That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”    Luke 15:10 says “In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”   Romans 8:1 “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus”   Ephesians 1:13–14 “And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession- to the praise of his glory.”   Ephesians 1:15–23 “For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.”   Ephesians 2:8–10 “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God‘s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.“   Ephesians 2:13 “But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.“   Philippians 1:6 “being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”   *Transcription*   Music: (0:00 – 0:10)   Laura Dugger: (0:11 - 1:25) Welcome to The Savvy Sauce, where we have practical chats for intentional living. I'm your host, Laura Dugger, and I'm so glad you're here.    Today's episode includes some thematic material. I want you to be aware before you listen in the presence of little ears.    Thank you to an anonymous donor to Midwest Food Bank who paid the sponsorship fee in hopes of spreading awareness. Learn more about this amazing nonprofit organization at MidwestFoodBank.org.   Laura Jean Bell is my guest today, and she is a Jesus-loving author and also a business and social media coach. So, not only is she going to share some of her best savvy social media and business tips, but also the conversation takes a detour into health and wellness, and she has an abundance of wisdom to share there as well, even including practical tips that we can implement today for our own flourishing in health and well-being. Here's our chat.   Welcome to The Savvy Sauce, Laura.   Laura Jean Bell: (1:26 - 1:27) Hi, thank you for having me.   Laura Dugger: (1:28 - 1:34) I'd love for you just to start us off by giving us a snapshot glimpse of your current life right now.   Laura Jean Bell: (1:35 - 2:27) Oh, my goodness, my chaotic life. Actually, it's a sweet, beautiful thing, but I am a wife to my high school sweetheart. We have been married, this year will be 11 years, and we have three kiddos. Emmylou, who is six. She literally just turned six. My son Oaks, who is three, and my youngest is Lottie, and she just turned nine months. So, my life is very full. I own my business, I am a published author, and I have three very, very needy children, right? I'm in a season of life where I'm very, very, very needed, and that's a beautiful thing, but it can be a very overwhelming thing at times. So, that is a little snapshot about my day-in and day-out life.   Laura Dugger: (2:27 - 2:43) That sums it up well. Gorgeous kid names, by the way. Oh, thank you. But I'd love to hear more about your business, too. Would you mind just explaining the work that you get to do as a digital marketer and online income mentor?   Laura Jean Bell: (2:44 - 4:58) Sure. Okay, so, this has been such a fun journey for me, and just to maybe explain it in like a Reader's Digest version, because I think that there's so much on the internet right now that's like, make $5 million in four minutes. But what I do is actually help business owners.    So, like the average woman who maybe is wanting to build an income or find her place online, that was where I started. That's where I began, like really helping those women be like, “Hey, I can be a business owner, too.” I can actually have like a mark and a place in this space, which I think is often really hard for women to like grasp, because we're so inundated with influencer culture.    But as the business began to expand and grow, I really started to lean into how do I help business owners actually market their business and make it really profitable online? Because a lot of times there's business owners that have these great businesses, but they don't actually have the marketing piece to actually sell the thing that makes their business a business. And some of them have a brick and mortar, and they're brick and mortar as well, but they'd love to increase their income.    How do you do that? You get online; you make sales online. And so, what I do is I teach female business entrepreneurs how to scale their business using Instagram.    I do not focus on any other platforms. My main focus is Instagram and teaching them how to use their messaging to make sales consistently. And so, I help them figure out their messaging and then write it.    Actually, I write content for a lot of my clients. And then I teach them consistency and speed so that their life isn't just consumed by the internet, which is like what all of us feel, right? Like, once you get on, you're like, how do I do this?    And I have to create this, I have to edit this, I have to do that. Like, it becomes very overwhelming. And so, what I do is I just eliminate the overwhelm.    I simplify it and I help entrepreneurs really find their messaging.   Laura Dugger: (4:59 - 5:15) Wow, that's incredible. So, you clearly have a gift for communication and articulating different things. Is there anything you want to just give us a little peek into practical tips if somebody is running their own social media?    Any tips you'd have for business owners?   Laura Jean Bell: (5:17 - 6:59) I think that the biggest, the greatest understatement that's happening right now online is followers and views mean absolutely nothing. They are like the beginning of Instagram, the beginning of social media. It was all about like, how many friends do you have?    And then it was how many followers do you have? And you know, how many views are you getting on your stories? And you get all these interactions on your reels.    And like, while that is the mental game of social media, and that is the thing that everybody is going for, because it actually fuels this like dopamine hit in your brain. But the reality is, is that there are people with thousands upon thousands of followers that are making $0 on the internet. And what they need is the actual messaging that says, “Hey, this is how I serve this pain point, and give you the life you want.”   And so, the biggest thing is, if you have five people in one day that view your stories, and three of them actually buy from you, like, that's over 50%. So, you're looking at, while everybody is freaking out about the number, it really is about your messaging in order to convert to sales, you can have a bunch of eyes on you. But if you're not serving the people that are following you, and serving them towards a sale, it doesn't mean anything.    So, don't focus on the numbers, focus on your messaging, focus on your brand, focus on what it is that you are serving your people with. And you will make money, you just will. It's how it works.    So, I hope that answers your question. Well for you.   Laura Dugger: (6:59 - 7:26) But yeah, I love it, because it's so unexpected, I would have never known. And I've also heard you encourage people to share their stories rather than just stating facts. And you share your own story, both online and in your book, You Can Always Come Home: Following the Breadcrumbs of Your Past to Find the Hope for Your Tomorrow.    So, Laura, how can we all incorporate stories into our own work so that we can better serve others?   Laura Jean Bell: (7:28 - 8:59) That's such a good question. And I think the biggest thing is, what story do you want people to know? What story is it that like, you really think like, you've been pricked, right, by the Holy Spirit, like, this is the story that I need you to tell.    This is why you walked through this experience. This is why you're doing this thing. Because oftentimes, we can negate the things that we've walked through, and act as if like, those things didn't, weren't that big of a deal because you survived it, right?    Like, oh, well, you know, it wasn't anything, it was a big deal, right? And so, what are the things that you actually feel are important, they keep showing up, they keep becoming the things that people are asking you about? And how do you tell that story to where somebody hears the messy middle, and then the beautiful resolve, the beautiful ending to that story, because there is, right, the beginning, the middle, and the end.    And that's what makes stories so impactful. Facts tell, right? Like, anybody can tell you that, like, a carrot is orange.    But like, if somebody tells you the story of how the carrot became orange, or how this, like, what the soil does to all of this, and how it adds these nutrients, doesn't that make you like, appreciate a carrot more, want to eat a carrot more, want to go buy the carrots more, right? And so, the same goes with our story, like, what is it that actually happened to create this specific result?   Laura Dugger: (9:00 - 9:11) That's so good. Well, and speaking of stories, are you willing to walk us through a little bit of your own story with your health journey? Yeah, absolutely.    Ask me anything.   Laura Jean Bell: (9:11 - 9:16) I'm an open book. It might scare some people. I'm an open book about it.   Laura Dugger: (9:17 - 9:33) I appreciate that. Yeah, just, you're clearly a very healthy woman. But I know you've had a whole past that you've walked.    So, has health always been important to you? Or at what point of life did you start to make some changes because it wasn't working?   Laura Jean Bell: (9:35 - 14:24) Yeah, you know, it's so interesting. When I reflect on something like that. Um, you know, I grew up in a home, I always start with this, like, my mother was not a dieter.    Like she didn't diet all the time. She wasn't always like, on some workout trend or not eating carbs or not doing this. Like it was never that.    My mom is naturally like very, very, very thin. And so, like that wasn't a part of the conversation. My mom was always obsessed, though, with, like eating food that's good for you.   Like, and in the 90s, like that was really tricky, right? Because they were so many messages about like, what's good for you? What's not that is bad.    Like there's all these things. And while our household, I say was probably much healthier than the average household in the 1990s and early 2000s. I don't think that I ever like cared about my health.    I still ate the Hot Pockets and the Easy Mac and ramen noodles and every opportunity that my parents actually let us eat out like I was chowing down. So, when I reflect on like my years, like 0 to 18, all I cared about was just consumption. I was like, nobody could stop the amount of food that I could consume.    I'm five foot eleven (5' 11”). I was growing like crazy. You can ask my family like I could out eat anyone.    It was kind of unbelievable. So, that part of my life, like, that was not an unhealthy thing. College is when things began for me.    And when I went to college, I for most of my life, I was a competitive dancer. So, like, I was consuming but I was burning like it was like calories in versus calories out. I had no concept of that.    I did not know how to read a nutrition label on the back of a box until I was like, well into college, like, literally remember learning how to do it in a college health class. So, I go to college. And I noticed that I started gaining weight, right?    Like, I'm eating all the fast-food options that are in our student center. And then the cafeteria food. This isn't my mom's home cooked meals anymore.    This isn't the mostly healthy option anymore. And I start gaining weight. So, when that happened, I started hearing other girls talk about what they were doing.    Like, oh, well, you just eat less than exercise more. And like, I had no concept of like, what, what did that mean? Right?    Like, do you just not eat like I love to eat, right. And so, what I started doing, I didn't know how to like lift weights or do anything. So, I started running, because I thought, okay, I have endurance, I danced forever, like, you have to have that endurance with that.    So, like, I'll run. So, I start running. And I completely gave up meat.    I was like, well, I can just eat. I thought meat somehow made you fat. I don't know.    That was just some weird thing that I had in my head. And I stopped eating meat, and I ate less. So, like, I just kind of narrowed down what I was eating, and then ate less of it kind of thing.    And that was when my health problems began, was when I began doing that. Which is really interesting, right? I was probably eating roughly like 1000 to 1200 calories a day, but I was running four to six miles a day.    So, like, I was not fueling what I was burning. Although I was losing weight. So, like, calories in versus calories out, like the concept of like, just eat less than exercise more, it was working.    I was 19. Like, I was young, I had a like, everything was working right, you know. But all of a sudden, my body was like, you're depriving me.    And I'm not only being deprived of actual calories, I'm being deprived of nutrients. And what began to happen is it started to show up in my hormones, with my cycle, started breaking out in hormonal acne on my chin, I started having very short cycles. So, like, for any woman listening that maybe doesn't have a concept of this language, because oddly enough, so many women don't, and it's like about us.    But like, a woman has a cycle, your period isn't your cycle, it's the full month that's your cycle. And I was instead of 28 days, I was having 18 day cycles. And the pain during my period was excruciating.    It was so painful. And I'd never experienced that before. So, those were the things that began to show up.    But I just kept going with what I was doing. And just thought I just had bad periods. I had family members that had bad periods, this just must be genetic. And I just have to live with it and pop ibuprofen every 18 days, right. So, that was kind of where it where it started.   Laura Dugger: (14:25 - 16:04) Let's take a quick break to hear a message from our sponsor. Midwest Food Bank who exists to provide industry leading food relief to those in need while feeding them spiritually. They are a food charity with a desire to demonstrate God's love by providing help to those in need.    Unlike other parts of the world where there's not enough food, in America the resources actually do exist. That's why food pantries and food banks like Midwest Food Bank are so important. 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Was that the point that led to what you call your year of rebellion? Or did that come later?   Laura Jean Bell: (16:05 - 23:39) No way that that was just the start of basically, roughly eight years of undiagnosed endometriosis. So, what started happening is in college, I would have these what I call episodes where I would be roughly like a day or two before my period would start. And I would have this unbelievable pain that would come over me.    And I could feel it literally my lower abdomen, so much pressure, so much discomfort. Oftentimes, it would involve vomiting, passing out, so painful. To this day, I've had an unmedicated birth.    And I'm here to tell you that the pain of pushing out an almost 10-pound baby, and that were roughly the same thing. It was unbelievable, excruciating pain. I would go to the doctor, they would not give me ultrasounds, they would not check anything, they would not even do my blood work, they did nothing.    They would just say you have really painful periods, and we'll give you birth control. That was every year from 2010 until 2017. This was what was given to me.    And so, in 2017, I was on my way to work, and I had one of those episodes. And I called the doctor, they bring me in, and I said, I want an ultrasound, like I will sit here all day, I need an ultrasound. And so, they did an ultrasound and found two cysts on one ovary, one on the other, and they were six and seven centimeters and six centimeters.    I mean, it was just crazy, these large cysts. And they were like, you more than likely have endometriosis. This is, you know, they started explaining all the things.    And fast forward, I ended up having two laparoscopies, which is the surgery to remove endometriosis in 10 months, the average woman can go 18 months between surgeries, and I had mine in 10 months. That's how reoccurring rapidly it was growing and spreading in my body. And I felt zero relief from the surgeries, which everyone promised, like, you'll feel amazing, you'll, you know, you'll get pregnant. I couldn't get pregnant. I was in so much pain, and I go through another cycle of it.    And it's like, these doctors are like, yeah, you're probably just not going to be able to have children. We recommend you getting on birth control, or getting a hysterectomy, like, these are your options. And so, what I did is I went to see a fertility specialist, like anybody would do like, I'm not going to just stick with my OB. I'm going to see if I can actually have kids. And so, I see a fertility specialist, I go through multiple, multiple, multiple rounds of fertility treatments, and I wind up getting pregnant with my first daughter, Emilu.    So, she is a product of folly stem stimulation and an IUI. And lots of trigger shots and lots of synthetic progesterone. I did all of it.    And after my daughter was born a year postpartum, I got pregnant again, and I miscarried that baby. That baby was miscarried March of 2020, which is when everybody went crazy, right? 2020, like who has their 2020 story, right?   And so, my daughter was little, I mean, she was like 14 months old, when I had this miscarriage. And I remember watching, I watched this video, it was called The Pandemic. And a lot of people like didn't actually see it because it was taken off the internet for misinformation.    And it was a woman that was explaining what was really happening with the pandemic, which is funny, because all of it's true now. But it was taken down like, she's crazy. This is a horrible pandemic, nothing was created in a lab, all of that.    And I was like, I went to watch it again, because I thought this woman must be crazy. Like there's no way that this would actually happen. And I went to watch it again.    And it was taken off the internet for misinformation. And this thought came over me, which is so bizarre now. Like, I know more about Kim and Kanye's divorce, than I know about what's happening with this pandemic.    Yet, Kim and Kanye's divorce information is there for me to see. And they're not letting me look at this. Why?    And it was this very strange thing that came over me. But everything that came out that was like, don't take this medicine to help COVID, don't do this, actually, like saturated fats are bad for you, like all of these different things that were popping up. And people were saying, it's misinformation.    I was like, I'm going to research that. I'm going to research that. I'm going to research that the fertility doctor that did my DNC after I had a miscarriage. They actually said to me, you will never again, have another pregnancy.    But if you do, you will not have a normal child. That is what they discovered and decided about me, according to the results from that DNC, what happened to that baby, why that baby wasn't developing, why I lost that baby. It literally like, and him saying that to me, I was like, why?    And it was almost like he couldn't explain to me the reasons why, but that I just never would. And this is what I needed to do next in order to stay healthy and keep endometriosis away. And so, I went on this journey for one year and I committed to one year where I was like, everything that is misinformation, I'm going to research it.    Everything that I have been told is good for me or is the best choice for me because of my condition. I'm going to actually look at what they're giving to me and like, why? Um, every time somebody told me like endometriosis is incurable.    Okay. But like, what is endometriosis? Nobody actually explained to me what it was.    They just told me I had it and that it caused what it caused, not actually what caused it. And so, when I went on this journey, I began to discover and unfold so many things that absolutely blew my mind, broke my heart, made me very angry because as I began to implement the things that I discovered, I healed and I got better. And all of a sudden I don't have endometriosis anymore.    All of a sudden I'm pregnant with a very healthy baby. All of a sudden, like everything is better. How is it that the things that the providers that were working with me, what they were doing for me was keeping me sick.    And as I branched out and did all the things that they said was absolutely crazy. I had one of them literally looking at me and he was holding topical progesterone and he was like, this stuff, like with all due respect to this functional doctor that talked to you, this stuff doesn't work. And unfortunately they sell things to people like you, young women who are desperate for answers.    They sell this stuff to you to make so much money and it's not going to do anything for you. Guess what? Topical progesterone changed my life.    So, anyways, that is kind of a little bit of like my year of rebellion and what happened. I'm happy to go into details for you, but I feel like I'm getting long winded with it.   Laura Dugger: (23:39 - 24:13) No, that's incredible. I do want to do a deep dive into it because I think it's such a blessing after you've spent over a year researching this and then living this for multiple years. I think it can be such a benefit to each of us.    And I'm recalling this story specifically about toxins where people were saying that means nothing. But in that fertility clinic, somebody told you, there was a sign that said their employees were not allowed to wear certain toxins because quote, it could inhibit the fertility process.   Laura Jean Bell: (24:14 - 24:14) Yes.   Laura Dugger: (24:15 - 24:16) Can you elaborate on that?   Laura Jean Bell: (24:17 - 26:18) Yes. You know, what's really funny is I went to the health department to get some paperwork and stuff for my kids the other day. And, um, there was a sign up that was like any and all women that are getting mammograms, if you're getting a mammogram, do not wear perfume or deodorant for a mammogram because of the radiation mixed with the toxins.    I asked the woman that was sitting there, I was like, why did they say that? And she explained it to me and I was like, oh, okay. So, why aren't you telling us to stop wearing it altogether?    Um, but when I went to the fertility clinic, I was going through fertility. I was like an avid Daisy by Mark Jacobs perfume where I don't know. I still love the way that smells.    It's the yummiest, but I would wear it all the time. And I went in and the woman that was there, she was like, you smell so good. And I was like, it's Daisy by Mark Jacobs.    She was like, I wish I could wear perfume to work. I'm not allowed to. And I was like, why not?   And she was like, oh, because like the people that are working on women who are going through fertility, getting their IU eyes. So, it's like when they're actually inseminating you, like we, it could inhibit the fertility process. She was like, have you ever noticed we don't have any candles?    Like we're not allowed to bring candles here, all of that. And I was like, why aren't you telling me to stop doing that? Is that not interesting to anyone?    Like why is no one paying attention to the fact that like, I'm walking in here with perfume on to get an IU eye that's going to fail because it inhibits the, for the fertility process, like the one that works. Uh, guess what? I wasn't wearing any perfume.    So, it's like, it's one of those things that like, when I heard that, I thought, well, what is it that messes with the fertility process? Like what, what is that? And this was honestly, when I heard this information, this was before my year of rebellion.    So, like, I remember her telling me that and I kind of stopped wearing it to the sessions because I thought, well, I don't want to get this messed up anyways.   Laura Dugger: (26:18 - 26:29) So, yeah, pretty wild. That's incredible. And okay.    So, from that year of rebellion, what other tweaks did you make small and large?   Laura Jean Bell: (26:30 - 29:38) Oh man. Um, some big things like I removed toxins from my home. So, that looked like removing Clorox wipes and, um, detergents that are just like your average detergents that you buy from the store.    Um, I stopped burning candles and started burning, not burning, but diffusing essential oils. Um, from there, what I really started focusing on was my protein intake. Um, I spent so many years vegan, vegetarian, refusing meat, refusing proteins.    And those were the years that things were really bad for me. When I started to reincorporate animal proteins and quality animal fats, my cycles went from 18 days to 29 days. I started having painless periods.    My hair started growing more. Um, my nails wouldn't break. Um, my, even my vision got better.   And so, what was really interesting is I started learning that if you are protein deficient, you will be progesterone deficient and progesterone is the pregnancy hormone. This is the hormone you have to have in order to conceive. I always tell it like this progesterone equals pro gestation.    So, if you don't have enough progesterone, your baby cannot survive the first 12 weeks. That's what the baby lives on before the placenta is formed. You have to have progesterone in order to balance out the estrogen progesterone balance.    If it's imbalanced, that's where you have pain, mood swings, acne, discomfort, the growth of endometriosis and PCOS. These things are really important. Progesterone is so important for your mental health.    If you are mentally low, like think about your progesterone levels. Think about how much you're sleeping. If you're sleeping in complete darkness, that raises your levels.    If you eat at least 80 grams of protein a day, it raises your progesterone levels. These are two really basic things. Like it's really simple.    It's not complicated. So, that was probably the biggest thing for me was learning how to eat because for years we're told, at least all of my life, like fat is bad. They would rather you eat hydrogenated oils and I can't believe it's not better than actually eat grass-fed butter.    Why? Why is it bad for you? When you really uncover the work that was done in the studies that were given for explaining that fat is bad, it was all paid for.    It was all paid for by the medical industry, by big pharma in order to push this agenda. They said that it was bad for our hearts, but get this, in the years after they told everyone that it was horrible for heart health, heart disease skyrocketed as people began to eat less animal protein and less animal fats. So, anyways, just to give like a little, some of the things that I discovered and changed, that's the main thing, which really and truly is like not that complicated.    Wow.   Laura Dugger: (29:39 - 29:45) Yes. Focusing on what you're intaking. What about cortisol? What did you learn about that?   Laura Jean Bell: (29:46 - 32:21) So, cortisol is like your get up and get crap done hormone. Okay. And when you are living in a state of fight or flight, where basically you get up in the morning, I'm going to give you an example of what a lot of women do.    And they end up having issues with cortisol and eventually stop producing it altogether. So, a woman gets up in the morning, she wakes up, she drinks a cup of coffee with no food on her stomach. And she goes and does a 30-minute cardio workout.    And then she comes in and she eats maybe like a protein bar, like a little, like some type of granola bar, another cup of coffee. She goes to work. She works all day or she's home with her kids all day.    And by the time she's got her work done, or she's taking care of her children and fed her children, doing all of these things, you're going all day long. All of a sudden it's three o'clock and you haven't eaten anything and you're in a bad mood and you're really tired. And so, maybe you go get a snack and another cup of coffee.    And then by the time you get to dinner, it's the only meal that you've really sat down and had for the day. Okay. So, what has that done to you?    Your body believes because your body and your brain don't know the difference between a bear chasing you or you running strictly on caffeine and doing too much cardio. And so, all of a sudden she is moody. She's exhausted.    She's running on all this tension. Her hair starts to fall out. She gets acne.    Her skin's doing some weird stuff. Her nails are kind of brittle. All this, you're always moody.   You're always in a bad mood. It's because your cortisol is doing this. It's like, and it's like on, it's like high.    And sometimes when you keep doing this, you actually can get a lot of energy. And then all of a sudden your adrenals, because your adrenals are what produced cortisol. Your adrenals are like, actually we're done.    Like stop running from the bear. Just die. Like literally it like can't do anything for you anymore.   And you go into what a lot of people call, or doctors call adrenal failure, which is where your body doesn't even produce cortisol anymore. And so, that is when you can't get out of bed in the morning. You're so exhausted.    Um, you can't lose weight. You, no matter what you do, you're winded. You're overwhelmed.   Um, but you don't have energy for anything. You have so much brain fog, um, so much bloat and inflammation. It's because your body's not producing cortisol.    So, you don't have the energy to get anything done. Um, does that answer your question?   Laura Dugger: (32:21 - 32:45) Yeah, this is so interesting because I feel like there's a whole health movement right now. So, there's a lot of buzz about all of this and people, I think, especially after 2020 people are waking up. So, love gathering perspectives as you're talking about inflammation then too, with cortisol, have you researched much about grounding, like actually barefoot on the earth?    Yes, girl. Are you kidding me? Absolutely.   Laura Jean Bell: (32:46 - 35:48) Um, so, something that was really interesting, I went to see a specialist, um, when I was really healing my adrenals, because a fun fact for you, like when your adrenals are just in overload, if you are experiencing high cortisol, you're constantly up here. Guess what? Your body's going to throw out the window fertility because what in the world is safe about a body that is running from a bear?    Like, no, your body is preserving you because it's not safe for you to host a life. So, I was seeing a doctor who was really helping me. Um, it's called muscle testing.    So, they test each organ according to how your muscles respond. And, um, I was in adrenal failure. And at this point I'd already had my second child and was experiencing a lot of inflammation.    I couldn't lose weight. I was like so tired. I was irritable.    And, um, I did this long session with him and I was in St. Pete, Florida doing this session. And he said, you have an assignment for the rest of the day. And I was like, okay.    And he was like, you need to go to the beach, like go somewhere and actually lay your entire body down on the sand. He was like, I know, like nobody wants to get sandy, but like lay on the sand. And I was like, tell me why.    And he was like, if you lay on the sand, it's your body touching the earth. And God gave you the earth as a battery pack. And this battery pack literally is going to shoot energy back into your body that your body has been deprived of.    And like, there's, he started going into all the studies for it, but he was like, don't you ever know the difference? Like, and how you feel when you've been cooped up at work all day. And then like, you go on a vacation to the beach and you sit on the beach and you put your feet in moving water.    He was like, it's literal living water. This living water moves and it heals and rejuvenates what happens to water that stagnant. It gets disgusting. Yeah.    It turns to mold, right? It actually goes toxic, but that moving water is healing. It's living.    It's rejuvenating. It's very biblical, right? And then you have the earth that God gave you is this battery pack.    There are people, this is going to sound crazy, but there are who have done LSD, like psychedelic drugs that talk about the vibrations of the earth. When they're on this drug, they are seeing the way. And they talk about there's a magnetic field.    They like, you can read, you can watch videos. You can see studies of people who did LSD, who literally can see the energy that the ground gives you. I mean, it's crazy, but isn't it like the Lord, right?    To give us what we need in nature, like magic.   Laura Dugger: (35:49 - 37:17) Yes. Where we're going back to the way that he designed, whether that's eating whole foods or getting outside in his beautiful nature. There's countless benefits, but I think it's just amazing that taking your shoes off and being on the earth, even for 30 seconds is beneficial.    When was the first time you listened to an episode of The Savvy Sauce?   How did you hear about our podcast? Did a friend share it with you? Will you be willing to be that friend now and text five other friends or post on your socials, anything about The Savvy Sauce that you love?    If you share your favorite episodes, that is how we continue to expand our reach and get the good news of Jesus Christ in more ears across the world. So, we need your help. Another way to help us grow is to leave a five-star review on Apple podcasts.    Each of these suggestions will cost you less than a minute, but it will be a great benefit to us. Thank you so much for being willing to be generous with your time and share. We appreciate you.    You had also talked about previously with your health journey, being deficient in minerals, I think you said as well, or just not getting the nutrients. So, are there any minerals that we all are likely lacking or any that you would recommend from your research and experience?   Laura Jean Bell: (37:18 - 39:36) Yeah, I would, I mean, every mineral. The most underrated mineral right now is potassium. The amount of women who are potassium deficient and need more potassium is unreal.    But magnesium is huge. You have to have magnesium for your body to even naturally produce vitamin D. Like vitamin D is a hormone, but you have to have magnesium for your body to produce vitamin D.    How many have gone to the doctor and they're like, you are very low in vitamin D, right? Well, get in the sunshine more, take the supplement, but like, where's your magnesium, right? And so, magnesium, potassium, potassium is huge, especially for your mental health.    This is really going to help you in like balancing out, like you're removing the brain fog, really. Sodium, which everyone's like, eat less sodium. You need less sodium chloride.    You need less table salt. You don't need less salt. Your body has salt.    Your body needs salt. Think about what your t-shirt looks like when you drenched in sweat. It dries and what does it have?    Salt. It's salty, right? When you're sweaty, it's salty.    And it's because your body actually needs sodium. It has to have it. And so, stop using white table salt, like iodized salt.    Go get some quality Celtic salt, like really simple, but put that in your water. Like first thing in the morning, drink some water with some Celtic salt, like get those electrolytes back in your system. So, potassium, magnesium, sodium, and calcium, like your body needs calcium and you can get calcium in multiple ways, um, multiple ways, but calcium is going to support your bones.    It's going to help support your muscles. Cause if you are working those muscles, your body needs the strength. And so, calcium is going to give you that balance as well.    It's fantastic. So, all of them, but like, I think the make sure you're getting magnesium, just like if you just need to start somewhere, just get a magnesium supplement. I recommend magnesium glycinate because it's kind of the overall magnesium.   Laura Dugger: (39:37 - 39:44) So, it's great. Okay. And you said you can get calcium multiple places.    Do you take that as a supplement or where do you get your calcium?   Laura Jean Bell: (39:45 - 41:04) So, I actually do adrenal cocktails. So, that is, um, coconut water, orange juice and Celtic salt. That's it.    And just do a little adrenal cocktail in the morning. And in the afternoon, make sure that you have had protein before you drink it, because if you're anything like me, it'll spike your blood sugar. Um, if you're not balanced, so, you need to be balanced.    Um, I've always been very sensitive to things like orange juice, apple juice. Like as a kid, I would feel really bad in the mornings and I just thought breakfast made my stomach hurt. And actually it was like, my blood sugar was dysregulated from the cup of orange juice and the cinnamon toast that my mom gave me.    Right. So, like, it's like butter, sugar, white flour, orange juice, like eat this for a nutrient dense breakfast. And I like would feel horrible after because my blood sugar was off.    So, um, make sure you get some protein on your stomach and drink the adrenal cocktail. Like my parents, my parents swear by it. My dad's like, this has changed my life.    I'm your mom's going to make me one of those little cocktail things that you tell, I tell her about all the time. It's hilarious. And I'm like, it's just juice and coconut water, but it's got the minerals.    That's why it makes you feel so good. It's because it's giving your body the nutrients that it needs.   Laura Dugger: (41:05 - 41:17) That's incredible. Are there any other biohacks, health hacks, even the role of light that it plays or movement or anything else that you want to recommend with your extensive research?   Laura Jean Bell: (41:18 - 43:19) Um, I'll give two things. Uh, number one: if you can get up as the sun is rising or a little bit before and actually go outside and stare at the red light. The actual, morning sunrise, and then watch the sunset. If you can get your eyeballs on just like the surroundings where that red light is hitting, that will do wonders for the production of melatonin in your gut.    It's going to help you sleep. It's going to help you sleep really good at night, which is going to help you with your progesterone levels. So, that is great.    Number two is weightlifting. If you can incorporate at least two days a week of heavy weightlifting into your routine, it's going to do wonders. And the reason I say that is that estrogen, toxic estrogen, not the estrogen that's good for you that you need to like make you female, but like the toxic estrogens you're getting from perfumes and food and plastics and all the things it stores itself in fat, in visceral fat.    And so, the best way to burn fat and build muscle is by lifting weights. And so, if you want to keep toxic estrogens out of your body, step number one, get rid of fat, like fight hard for like, I mean, I'm still postpartum. I'm still burning off like weight that I gained in pregnancy.    But the number one thing that motivates me is not like, I want to look better, which of course I want to look better. Of course I want to fit back into my clothes, like all of that. But like Laura toxic estrogens store themselves in this fat.    And so, what, when you are lifting weights, you are burning fat and building muscle to support your family and not be burdened by the imbalance of your hormones. Like right there. That is the reason why.    So, lift weights. It's so good for you. It protects you from so many other diseases, but like that alone, women do not understand the power of that.    It's going to do wonders for you.   Laura Dugger: (43:20 - 43:47) Okay. This is so helpful. And then I'm thinking it's beneficial to have a specific plan.    So, as we think about where you talked about laundry detergents or limiting toxins, will you share a few of your personal favorite products? And then also what are some recommended things we can actually eat? Like when you walk through a healthy breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, what would you share?   Laura Jean Bell: (43:49 - 45:22) Okay. So, some favorite products. I started out using Thieves household concentrate.    Young Living sells it. And it's like $26 for a bottle of the concentrate. That concentrate can be household cleaner.    So, like it can clean any surface in your home. It can be used as dishwasher detergent. So, we use thieves instead of like pods in our, in our dishwasher.    And I'm here to tell you, I think Young Living just came out with dishwasher pods, like Thieves dishwasher pods. We don't use it. We still use the concentrate.    But we use that. You can use it in your laundry so you can wash your clothes in it. And so, we alternate with that.    Sometimes we use that. Sometimes we use Molly's Suds. Those are like little pods.    You can get them on Amazon. It's a non-toxic option. You can also wash your clothes and like baking soda and vinegar, like just be old school.    Your clothes won't smell like vinegar. Don't worry. Like the vinegar gets rid of the odor.    That's like how our grandparents did it. So, those are some really simple hacks. Just because that's inexpensive.    Like you can make 16, I think it's 16 bottles of household concentrate, like spray with the one bottle. So, like you buy the one bottle, it takes a cap full and then you fill the rest of the way up with water and it cleans anything. It's fantastic.    It smells great. You'll love it. What else did you ask me?   Laura Dugger: (45:22 - 45:28) Food? Yes, food. Like a sample menu. Okay.   Laura Jean Bell: (45:28 - 47:02) Something that I love to eat. I love to just really enjoy my food. Like if you're on the go, like I'll give it an example.    If you're on the go, I recommend like boil some eggs. Okay. Take like three boiled eggs.    Get like a chopstick to get your protein and like an RX bar. RX bars are going to have the carbs, but it's also going to have more protein. You'll get six grams of protein per egg and then about 10 grams in your chopstick.    So, it's like 18 grams of the eggs plus 10 is 28 grams plus the RX bar. You're going to get over 30 grams of protein and then you'll have some carbs. I do recommend getting a little bit more carbs, but if you're on the go and you're in a hurry and you need to feel balanced, that's a good start.    If you're home, like I love doing scrambled eggs and air frying sweet potatoes, peppers, and onions. It is delicious. Just trust me and season it with garlic powder and salt.    It's so simple. Some avocado oil and literally just allow, like think about all the carbs, all the protein, everything. The best hack though, that I learned with eggs is do two regular, like the full egg and then do two egg whites and then add cottage cheese to your eggs, blend it in a blender and then cook them and just thank me later.    So, you're getting extra protein, it's creamier, it's so good. And then eat that with sweet potatoes and peppers and it's primo.   Laura Dugger: (47:02 - 47:12) Okay. This sounds amazing. I love it.    And this is my post recording meal, the RX bar. I love it on busy days.   Laura Jean Bell: (47:13 - 48:27) Yes. For lunch, I mean lunch, I honestly, I keep like ground beef patties just ready. And my air fryer stays on. I literally use it for every meal.    Sometimes if I don't have it ready, I just pat it out, put it in the air fryer, it cooks. Do that with a bunch of veggies, get lots of fruit, mainly berries, like berries, apples, and just adding that in is your carb. You can do, if you need a snack, I highly recommend doing Greek yogurt and mixing in your favorite protein powder and mixing that up.    It's so good. The Greek yogurt gives you the carbs, the fats and protein, and then you add the extra protein in it. And so, it's excellent.    For dinner, our favorite meal, we eat a lot of grass-fed beef because we buy cow every year. So, we'll do bowls and we'll do like a bed of rice, sweet potatoes, peppers and onions, and then ground beef. And then we drizzle the Japanese barbecue sauce over it.    And we call it Japanese barbecue bowls. It's literally just like a bunch of vegetables and meat with sauce, but it's really good.    So, there's some meal ideas for you.   Laura Dugger: (48:28 - 48:49) That's incredible. Thank you for just rattling those off. We've got a plan now.    And I love how this conversation took a turn toward health. So, before we leave that section, any other healthy rhythms or best practices or ways you've simplified your life that you would recommend? Just sleep.   Laura Jean Bell: (48:49 - 49:34) I know that sounds ridiculous, but people aren't sleeping and go to bed without your phone. You're going to be okay. You really are.    If your kids can go to bed without their phones, without a phone in their face, you can do it too. It's not the best way to turn your brain off. So, go to bed.    When you lay in a dark room without any blue light, you actually are helping your nervous system reset itself. And it needs a moment to rest and digest. So, get in the bed without a blue light and close your eyes and go to sleep.    You can do it, but it's so simple. And try to get eight to 10 hours of sleep a night. Truly, it's so important.   Laura Dugger: (49:35 - 49:54) That's so good. And you're all about simplifying. You even help people simplify their digital marketing.    So, as we turn it back to business, I know you can't give away all of your secrets, but will you share just a few more business or social media tips with all of us?   Laura Jean Bell: (49:55 - 50:43) Oh, man. I think the number one thing that I would tell anyone who's wanting to do anything in the online space is don't spread yourself across every platform. It's not worth your time.    And the more you hone in on one thing, the more of that thing you will sell, like plain and simple. And you will make way more money. You will spend way less time working on it.    You will enhance the lives of the people that choose to work with you. That is what you will gain.    If you simplify your offers, number one, sell less. Just sell more of one thing and stop spreading yourself thin across all the platforms. It's just too much work.   Laura Dugger: (50:43 - 51:03) That's wise counsel. And will you also tell us, I mean, I'm amazed as I'm thinking of all this research that you've done. You're living a healthy lifestyle.    You're raising young children, consulting with others as their coach. Also, you wrote a book. Can you share a little bit about that?   Laura Jean Bell: (51:03 - 52:50) I wrote my book. I actually have it right next to me because I was like, if somebody is going to ask you what this book is about, it's a book of short stories. And it sounds really simple, but it's a book of short stories that really draws you back to who you are in the Lord and understanding your place, like your identity in Christ, your belonging, fighting against fear and really coming home to who God created you to be.    And so, this book is a compilation of short stories of my own life where these things were very disrupted. My identity, like a total identity crisis, like not just having so much fear, learning how to come back to who God made me to be, but really writing out the moments of when I was living in that season and the people that helped me kind of find my way out and the things that God really showed me in that journey. And so, have it right here.    You Can Always Come Home: Following the Breadcrumbs of Your Past to Find the Hope for Your Tomorrow. It's really what my heart was and I learned a lot when I left my hometown and I moved to small town, North Alabama. And although this is where my dad is from, this was not where I was raised.    And I walked into a total identity crisis when I moved here. And I write a lot about that and about the moments when I was living in that season. How the Lord would reveal to me, like, remember when this happened, or remember when this happened and how you handled it or what that person said to you. And I wrote those stories in here.    And so, the goal of this book is for anybody who reads it to know that God's on your side and everything's going to be okay.   Laura Dugger: (52:51 - 53:06) Thank you for sharing that, Laura. And we'll certainly add a link for that in the show notes for today's episode, but also what links can we give for your social media? And then if somebody wants to reach out and work with you, what would that process look like?   Laura Jean Bell: (53:07 - 53:47) Yeah, so, my Instagram is Laura_Jean_Bell and Jean is J-E-A-N. And if you want to work with me or reach out, you can email me at laurabellwrites@gmail.com, or you can literally go to my Instagram account and click the link in my bio where I explain what I do. And it offers an ability to hop on a call with me where we can talk together and see if we would be a good fit to work together.    So, those are the ways that you can contact me. I have a website, laurabell.co, and you can contact me through that as well.   Laura Dugger: (53:48 - 54:07) Wonderful. Thank you for adding that. We will make sure it's accessible for everyone.    And Laura, you may be familiar with why we're called The Savvy Sauce, which is because savvy is synonymous with practical knowledge. And so, my final question for you today, Laura, what is your Savvy Sauce?   Laura Jean Bell: (54:09 - 56:38) For life in general? You got it. Okay.    Well, I have two of them. And so, one of them is kind of silly and one of them is not. So, I'm going to go with the non-silly one.    Oh, share both. Yes. But I will say like this, there was this line that I heard, and I don't know who like trademarked this line, but it was very simple.    It said, “You are the CEO of your life.” And it was very simple, but it changed everything for me because for so much of my life, like if your knee jerk reaction to things not going your way is to blame someone else, you're not living as the CEO of your life. And I have spent a lot of my life, like when something doesn't go my way, I look for a person to blame instead of looking at myself and my own flaws. Being able to see that, “Hey, sometimes Laura, you're to blame and like, it's okay.”   You're the CEO of your life and you get to see what you did wrong, see how you messed up, see how you needed to shift something and then move on. And I think so many of us, whether we want to believe it or not, we can fall victim to that and live our lives so attached to this idea that somebody else is always to blame. Somebody else did this to me.    Sometimes things do happen to you that are not your fault. Sometimes you are a victim of horrible crimes and horrible things happening to you. But the question is, what are you going to do about it?    Who are you going to talk to about it? Are you going to go to the Lord and ask Him what it's actually supposed to look like for your life moving on from this place? Are you going to stay in a mindset that's small and traumatized, small and victimized?    Or are you going to say, “I'm the CEO of my life and I'm going to link arms with the Holy Spirit and keep moving forward.” And so, that was a huge thing for me to learn. And I feel like it's kind of been my savvy sauce in the last probably year, because 2024 was a year of a lot of things happening to me that weren't my fault.    And finally, one day I thought, you know, Laura, you can sulk in this, but it's not going to change your circumstance. What's going to change your circumstance is you saying, “I'm in charge of my life and I'm going to pick up the pieces of this and I'm going to ask God what to do with it.” And so, anyways, you're the CEO of your life and it's time to take charge of that.    So, yeah.   Laura Dugger: (56:38 - 56:42) I love it. And now you've got to share your silly one as well. You've left us curious.   Laura Jean Bell: (56:43 - 57:01) What is The Savvy Sauce? Let me just tell all of my, all of my geriatric millennials out there, you need to put castor oil on your face. Okay.    Just know that like castor oil, you need to look like a glazed donut when you go to bed and your skin is going to be, your skin will thank you. Just trust me.   Laura Dugger: (57:02 - 57:26) That's incredible. I was so grateful you shared. And Laura, I can see why clients are so drawn to work with you.    It is so delightful to have conversations with you. You are gifted in so many different arenas. And I think what really stands out is your generosity and just your willingness to share all of this with us.    So, thank you so much for being my delightful guest today.   Laura Jean Bell: (57:26 - 57:29) Oh, it's such a gift talking to you. Thank you for having me.   Laura Dugger: (57:30 - 1:01:12) One more thing before you go, have you heard the term gospel before? It simply means good news. And I want to share the best news with you, but it starts with the bad news.    Every single one of us were born sinners, but Christ desires to rescue us from our sin, which is something we cannot do for ourselves. This means there's absolutely no chance we can make it to heaven on our own. So, for you and for me, it means we deserve death and we can never pay back the sacrifice we owe to be saved.    We need a savior, but God loved us so much. He made a way for his only son to willingly die in our place as the perfect substitute. This gives us hope of life forever in right relationship with him.    That is good news. Jesus lived the perfect life. We could never live and died in our place for our sin.    This was God's plan to make a way to reconcile with us so that God can look at us and see Jesus. We can be covered and justified through the work Jesus finished. If we choose to receive what he has done for us, Romans 10:9 says, “that if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”    So, you pray with me now. Heavenly father, thank you for sending Jesus to take our place. I pray someone today right now is touched and chooses to turn their life over to you.    Will you clearly guide them and help them take their next step in faith to declare you as Lord of their life? We trust you to work and change lives now for eternity. In Jesus name we pray.   Amen. If you prayed that prayer, you are declaring him for me. So, me for him, you get the opportunity to live your life for him.    And at this podcast, we're called The Savvy Sauce for a reason. We want to give you practical tools to implement the knowledge you have learned. So, you're ready to get started.    First, tell someone, say it out loud, get a Bible. The first day I made this decision, my parents took me to Barnes and Noble and let me choose my own Bible. I selected the Quest NIV Bible and I love it.    You can start by reading the book of John. Also get connected locally, which just means tell someone who's a part of a church in your community that you made a decision to follow Christ. I'm assuming they will be thrilled to talk with you about further steps such as going to church and getting connected to other believers to encourage you.    We want to celebrate with you too. So, feel free to leave a comment for us here. If you did make a decision to follow Christ, we also have show notes included where you can read scripture that describes this process.    And finally, be encouraged. Luke 15:10 says, “in the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” The heavens are praising with you for your decision today.    And if you've already received this good news, I pray you have someone to share it with. You are loved and I look forward to meeting you here next time.

Kimi Chadwick chats with us about running a pumpkin patch without any farming experience! Kimi is the co-owner of Craven Farm, winners of the Best of Snohomish County two years in a row. She and her husband are incredibly savvy business owners who are utilizing vertical integration in nearly all aspects of their business, including a fleet of in-house concessions and floral design. It's no surprise that on the day of our interview, they closed on the purchase of Whitewall Brewing Company, a local brewery that had been considering shutting down. They will be able to breathe new life and energy into the brewery, while also expanding on their existing offerings by possibly bringing Whitewall Brewery to their farm. Kimi is smart, yet incredibly humble, and I absolutely love her and her husband's innovative business approach.Subscribe on Apple Podcast , Spotify or other major streaming platforms.Let's connect!Subscribe to my newsletter: Time To Live: Thriving in Business and BeyondWebsite: https://www.annemcginty.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annemcgintyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/annemcgintyhost

What is up everyone, I'm your host Coach Joe Strong here to bring you another great episode of the Business of Strength podcast.  Where you can hear the interviews, tips, and tools to turn your passion for strength into a profitable business.   Don't forget our Next LIVE two-day workshop “Marketing Your Gym” is May 9-10 here at VH HQ in NY.  We will give you THE LOCK-DOWN Gym marketing Blueprint.  How to create a brand strategy, how to use email, how the develop long-lasting Joint ventures, how to secure your defense with referrals, reactivations, and upgrades.   In this episode I'm chatting with my brother Devin Gage. Devin has been a friend for years and had a super successful gym.  One day he decided to scale…and scale big.  Now he's on track to open 100 gyms across the country.   …and I KNOW he'll do it!   Some topics include… What needs to happen in gym #1 in order to scale  The mindset required for scale The “Ideal” model  How he's changing the game and offering real careers  His hiring process  His launch process  Kizen Mentality The Little Gym Big Heart Podcast  A LIFE offer to his team MORE MORE MORE!    The best place to check Devin out is his Instagram @littlegym_bigheart Let's get it dialed in!  This is the Business of Strength  Coach Joe

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I'm all about working smarter, not harder, and the holy grail of working less and earning more is passive income. I mean, what's more efficient that making money in your sleep? But what do most passive income experts not mention? Setting up a passive income stream can be lot of work. Like.. A LOT of work (especially when you're doing it for the first time). And although I'd still recommend putting in the work to create those passive income streams, I also want to share an easy win. There's one passive income stream every business owner should have, and it doesn't take endless hours to set it up! It's not sexy, in fact, it's incredibly boring! But it's a small way that you can earn more money, without having to put in a whole lot of extra work. The easy win? A bank account with APY terms that help you add extra cash to your bank account every single month. (I told you it wasn't gonna be sexy!!) In this episode, I'm sharing more about why I decided to switch to new banks, what I looked for, and why I ultimately landed with SoFi and BlueVine. Tune into this episode and start making smarter money moves today!   SHOW NOTES: https://jadeboyd.co/blog/business-minimalist-podcast/the-passive-income-stream-every-savvy-business-owner-should-have/   LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: SoFi Banking BlueVine Banking   CONNECT WITH JADE Website Instagram Organize your Business Template FREE Task Batching Workbook FREE Weekly Review Checklist My Productivity Course Waitlist

Jonathan Pritchard is the founder of several consulting companies, a multiple author, world-traveling entertainer, and public speaker for high stake businesses. His client list includes BP, Discover, State Farm, United Airlines, and more. His journey has taken him from doing 19,000 performances at Universal Studios to appearing on America's Got Talent to entertaining United States troops stationed all over South Korea.  His unique perspective of working with thousands of audiences has given him powerful insights into the art & science of communication, influence, persuasion, and high stake negotiations.  This makes him not just a thought leader but a genuine mind reader. Now his mission is to empower more than a million business people to accomplish their most ambitious goals in less time than they ever thought possible.  He does this through workshops, keynote presentations, consulting, as well as ‘hands on' experiences at tradeshows and beyond. His motto is “Change your mind; change your life.” https://www.jonathanpritchard.me/press-kit Twitter: @thezavant   2:09 "Being the bottleneck as a source of feeling important." -Jonathan Pritchard 6:05 "It's kind of like asking, 'How do you learn Kung Fu?'" -Jonathan Pritchard 12:24 "'I like my problems just the way that they are.'" -Jonathan Pritchard 14:05 "None of us - when we're talking to other people - we're not talking to them, we're talking to our own ideas of them." -Brian Keith 22:50 "You learn how to do this thing that's amazing, but when you know how it works you go, 'That's it?'" -Jonathan Pritchard 24:19 "It's a miracle level skill if you can accurately understand somebody's thinking." -Jonathan Pritchard

In this bonus episode, co-producer Geoff Govertsen introduces a new show to the Mirasee FM podcast network. In Soul Savvy Business, Katy Valentine explores the intersection of business and spirituality. Her guest in this episode is transformational coach and self-described ex-vangelical Justin Tang.

In this bonus episode, Melinda introduces a new show to the Mirasee FM podcast network. In Soul Savvy Business, Katy Valentine explores the intersection of business and spirituality. Her guest in this episode is holistic healer and coach, Dr. De'Nicea Hilton Harper.

In this bonus episode, Course Lab co-host Danny Iny introduces a new show to the Mirasee FM podcast network. In Soul Savvy Business, Katy Valentine explores the intersection of business and spirituality. Her guest in this surprising and fascinating episode is course creator Rebecca Cuevas.

In this bonus episode, producer Cynthia Lamb introduces a new show to the Mirasee FM podcast network. In Soul Savvy Business, Katy Valentine explores the intersection of business and spirituality. Her guest in this episode is the host of Once Upon a Business, Lisa Bloom.

Michelle and Lauren are often asked how they started their lifestyle brand, how they keep it running, and how they monetize their platform. Whether you have a small business of your own, a home to manage, a side hustle, or are just eager to learn some business tips and tricks to help you manage your own situation, this episode is a must-listen! Hot Topics: Management and workflow apps, brand style guide, headshots, and so much more! If you love Cozy Conversations with The Sister Project and would like to show your support for the content created, please visit Anchor.com (link in show notes) for more information. Thank you! Resource Links: The Sister Project Blog: 16 Business Tips The Sister Project @thesisterproj Become A Supporter --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cozy-conversations/support

The Dark Side of Public Relations, Understanding the Spin with Emily R. Bergh Emily Reynolds Bergh is a New York native, Nashvillian by choice. Emily has garnered more than ten years of marketing and public relations experience through owning her own business, R Public Relations Firm. While helping businesses and brands flourish is Emily's passion — with degrees in Psychology and Philosophy and a Master's in Social Work — empowering her clients and her employees is what drives her. Emily can proudly say that each client she signs is one she admires and knows is helping the world become a better place. www.rprfirm.com Myths & Mishaps Job Applicants Make When Applying for Jobs with Bill Amirault Bill Amirault is a faith-based career development coach/business owner with 30+ years experience in Marketing, Sales, Advertising, Consulting, and Coaching. As a competitive athlete, author, and choral performer, he combines these traits to create 1-on-1 programs to help his clients find a new role or make a strategic career change. Bill's vision is to support 1,000,000+ people in finding their highest career goals in line with their faith, because I firmly believe "God put us all here for many reasons, career is one of the most important, so we need to define and manifest these in the best way we can!" https://www.linkedin.com/in/billamirault/ Build Your Business… God's Way, with Melvin Pillay Melvin Pillay is an East Indian, born in poverty during the deep years of Apartheid in South Africa. His mother, a recent convert to Christianity, kept her family fed during those lean times – not by scrounging for food or begging, but through prayer. A major turning point occurred when Melvin discovered a Zig Ziglar cassette tape in the Auckland library. He rented it with his last two dollars (instead of eating that day) and dug into it with fervor. www.melvinpillay.com

Mort Fertel CEO of SudShare, How 50,000 Sudsters are Changing How we Do Laundry Mort Fertel is a serial entrepreneur who started his first business at 18 years old. He has a private equity portfolio that consists of SudShare, 2 other businesses, and real estate holdings. SudShare's goal is to change how America does laundry (well, doesn't do laundry as they can leave it to the Sudsters), giving people back two to three hours a week away from the washing machines, free to spend time doing things they actually like doing, instead of sorting socks. www.sudshare.com The Electoral College, Should we Keep it or Drop it with Dr. Robert M. Hardaway, Professor of Law Robert M. Hardaway is a professor of law at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law where he teaches evidence and civil procedure and election law. He has been voted the best professor by his students. He has contributed to public media such as CNN, MSNBC, and numerous public television and radio stations as well as the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, AOL News, and local news publications. AMERICA SECOND: How America's Elites are Making China Stronger with Isaac Stone Fish Isaac Stone Fish is the founder and CEO of Strategy Risks. He is also a Washington Post Global Opinions contributing columnist, a contributor to CBSN, an adjunct at NYU's Center for Global Affairs, a visiting fellow at the Atlantic Council, a columnist on China risk at Barron's, and a frequent speaker at events around the United States and the world. His book, America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger, details the deep web of Beijing's influence in America -- and how to push back without being McCarthyist or racist (Knopf, February 2022). www.isaacstonefish.com

Save Your Asks: Evolve Your Networking Currencies. Grow Your Influence. Triple Your Business with Chris Tuff Chris Tuff was one of the first advertisers to work directly with Mark Zuckerberg in 2006 and filmed one of the first “viral” videos, which landed him on the front page of The Wall Street Journal. Tuff's natural ability to connect with his nearly 80% millennial and Gen Z workforce led him to publish the national bestselling The Millennial Whisperer in 2019. www.christuff.me and get social with Chris on IG | FaceBook | Twitter | Linkedin! The Value Equation: A Business Guide to Wealth Creation for Entrepreneurs, Leaders & Investors with Christopher H. Volk Christopher H. Volk, author of THE VALUE EQUATION, has been instrumental in leading and publicly listing three successful companies, two of which he co-founded. He eventually created an award-winning video series on the topic while at STORE Capital. A 2019 regional winner of EYs' Entrepreneur of the Year award, Volk is a frequent university lecturer and serves on multiple non-profit boards. He resides in Paradise Valley, Arizona, and Huntsville, Alabama. www.thevalueequation.com Tips for Successful Bootstrapping, with Chas Sampson Seven Principles CEO Chas Sampson is an Iraq War veteran and the founder of several companies. Monikered after the seven Army values (Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage), Seven Principles empowers veterans transitioning out of the military by assisting with the VA claims process, appeal cases, entrepreneurship, and more. Chas currently serves as board chairman for the Partnership for Children of Cumberland County, a 502(c)(3) nonprofit that works to improve early childhood education, health, and family support. www.sevenprinciples.com

Why are Anxiety Rates Rising Across the World? with Jesse Giunta Rafeh Jesse Giunta Rafeh is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and certified success coach, who has spent 15 years working over 15,000 hours treating clients—primarily young adults. Giunta is a TEDx speaker and international best-selling author of Life Launch: A Roadmap to an Extraordinary Adulthood. https://www.jesse-giunta-rafeh.com/ Speed Reading: A Little-Known Time-Saving Superpower with Abby Marks Beale Abby Marks Beale is America's #1 Speed Reading Expert. She is a published author of 10 Days to Faster Reading (now available also as an ebook and audiobook). Abby is the creator of the interactive online course Rev It Up Reading: Getting Up To Speed With What You Read. This course is based on her 25 years of teaching speed reading to thousands of people. Abby's newest ebook coming out in March 2022 called Speed Reading: A Little-Known Time-Saving Superpower. www.RevItUpReading.com Sitting too Much? DESKERCISE! with Dr. Haley Perlus Dr. Haley Perlus knows what it takes to overcome barriers and achieve peak performance. As an elite alpine ski racer, she competed and trained with the best in the world, pushing herself to the limits time and time again. Now, with a PhD in sport psychology, Haley continues to push boundaries and drive peak performance, helping athletes and Fortune 100 executives reach their goals. www.drhaleyperlus.com

Brave, bold, fiercely savvy, powerfully calm, family-focused …and a stunningly beautiful and wise woman (and …possibly my new BFF?) Jen Ziegler is a business woman with a successful Real Estate business in Kitchener-Waterloo. She is in the relentless pursuit of her own healing and self-development, challenging herself to grow and equally authentically connect with positive, open people, and celebrate and support negotiating abundance for their future - through real estate. Congratulations on winning the Lifetime Achievement award from Re/max at age 36! A true sage! Jen raises the bar (on herself, her team, women in her community) and she will offer a challenge for you too … about triggers and people who trigger us! Learning and guidance that has influenced Jen, she shares as her best advice for life and in leadership: Take it off your plate! Redefine your own success. Love yourself! Float and see where life takes you! Leaders, invest in the incredible humans around you! Stand on your second mountain – of service. Convert the pain into your gifts. This is life's adventure! Collaborate with other successful women and celebrate them, let's join together!Could you go bigger? Jen suggests, lean into that person (that inner voice and inside control-freak) and inform her (thank her) and let her know that you trust this next, new adventure. Appreciate the guidance (and fear) then show up, be fearless, step into your awesome strengths and get to the next level! Go big!Connect with Jen today:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jen-ziegler-74917846/Website: https://www.jenziegler.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/jenziegler.realestate/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jenziegler.realestateLet's connect!Website: https://peoplebrain.ca/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/overflow_podcast/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-j-snider/Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/overflow-with-kimberly-snider. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A New Method to Train Like an Olympian with Sheila Thelen Sheila Thelen is President of Vestibular Training Services and Master Rated Figure Skating Coach. She applies these world-class vestibular training tools (patent pending) to improve the brain's balance and cognitive processes. Sheila speaks about using world-class athletic training tools to the general population to achieve remarkable results. Vestibular Training Services provides training products to develop and improve vestibular awareness in aspiring athletes. www.SpinYourBrain.com PRTCL Products Thriving in Male-Dominated Industry, with Donna Burke Donna Burke saw a need for women to be seen in the sports nutrition arena and brought to market an entire line of fitness supplements for women, made by her and a team made up of 90% women. Today Donna will share how PRTCL Products broke into the male-dominated industry and have thrived, and Donna will share best tips for women looking to find the perfect protein power product. www.prtclproducts.com Reintegrating Children Back to School and life with Dr. Shauli Mukherjee With a purposeful career in the education space spanning over more than 20 years, Dr. Shauli Mukherjee has dedicated her life towards promotion of child-centric and activity-oriented education. Dr. Mukherjee ardently believes that the purpose of meaningful education is to develop lifelong learners, creative thinkers and responsible global citizens who are confidently equipped to face the challenges of an uncertain and constantly unfolding future. LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-shauli-mukherjee-2b1a4b89 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/misti.banerjee.1806 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.shaulimukherjee

Schmooze, What They Should Teach at Harvard Business School with Cody Lowry Cody Lowry has been a successful marketer for thirty years, building a multi-million dollar ad agency from scratch. How did he overcome his past to achieve such success? He took on life with a unique perspective, executing bold ideas, making others laugh, and being ever mindful of the little guy. myschmooze@gmail.com The Economic Social Impact of Childhood Hunger on Society with Roger Thurow Roger Thurow joined the Chicago Council on Global Affairs as senior fellow on global food and agriculture in January 2010 after three decades at The Wall Street Journal. For 20 years, he was a Journal foreign correspondent based in Europe and Africa. He's the author of "The First 1,000 Days" and "Beyond" www.thurow1000days.org Why We Should be Concerned with the Current State of Christianity with Pastor Ed Malone Ed Malone has been serving as a pastor for forty-eight years. Along with being a pastor, he enjoys raising Black Angus cattle, carpentry, and writing. Author of three Christian books. We also discuss Ed's latest book: “Three Simple Words” and the current state of Christianity in the United States. www.christscommunity.com and http://www.edmalone.org

STEEL TOES AND STILETTOS: A True Story of Women Manufacturing Leaders and Lean Transformation Success with Kathy Miller and Shannon Karels Kathy Miller and Shannon Karels founded OPSisters, a training, consulting and coaching organization in 2020. They work with companies, teams and individuals interested in improving business performance results through proven lean principles and inclusive cultures. www.opsisters.com Canine Dementia Disorder, with Veterinary Surgeon Dr. Terry Fossum Dr. Terry Fossum is a Board certified veterinary surgeon with 35 years of experience as a clinical surgeon, researcher, academic administrator, and entrepreneur. Dr. Fossum's company has recently released a new product, CogniCaps to help dogs with Canine Dementia Disorder, which is basically doggy Alzheimer's Disease. www.drfossums.com Mindset Shifts Leading to a Sustainable Healthy Lifestyle with Bill Yeager Bill Yeager is an award-winning success & transformation specialist, speaker, author, and fitness entrepreneur. Known for his personal, mental and physical transformation, he became a Body-For-Life Challenge Champion. In 2018, he launched “Bill Yeager's Transformations” www.billyeagerstransformations.com/ Creating a Culture of Safety in the Cockpit, with Mark Baier Mark Baier is an aviation safety expert. For the past decade he has served as the CEO of AviationManuals & ARC Safety Management, top-rated safety management systems. Mark is a second generation business aviation professional, and he is pleased to be able to continue to support the great people in the aviation industry. aviationmanuals.com and arcsky.com

Why More Women Are Saying No To Motherhood with LiLi Roquelin LiLi Roquelin is an internationally acclaimed, multi award winning composer, record producer. Her goal is to help and inspire young women to become aware they have a choice and to speak up about their decision and her mission to normalize a woman's choice to live a happy, childfree life. www.liliroquelin.com Vitamin Deficiencies & Tips to Combat COVID, with Dr. Aaron Hartman, M.D. Dr. Hartman graduated Summa Cum Laude from Virginia Commonwealth University, earned his MD from Medical College of Virginia.  www.RichmondFunctionalMedicine.com   BIG IMPACT - BIG PROFIT, Positive Mindset to yield Amazing Results in 2022 with JV Crum III Named by Inc Magazine as one of the Top 13 Business Shows, JV Crum III hosts the Conscious Millionaire Podcast and Radio Network; with over 1,800 episodes and heard in 190 countries. In today's episode we discuss JV's first Mastermind and upcoming workshops to help businesses explode their growth in 2022. bit.ly/mindsettomillions

One-bedroom to Multi-million-Dollar Global Company, with NataliePlain CEO/Founder of Billion Dollar Beauty NataliePlain is the CEO/Founder of Billion Dollar Beauty, a company she started 18 years ago out of her one-bedroom Los Angeles apartment using credit cards and a whole lot of tenacity. Today BDB is a multi-million-dollar global company. www.bossnationbrands.com Boss Nation Brands, Pet Gut Health Nutrition with Vasili Nassar Basel “Vasili” Nassar started Boss Dog Brand, after he adopted a dog named Kelby who refused to eat. Kelby was a picky eater and had digestive issues, so Basel, understanding the yogurt industry, created a yogurt full of probiotics for dogs. Kelby loved it and soon the company began in late 2018. www.bossnationbrands.com Fixed. How to Perfect the Fine Art of Problem Solving, with Amy E. Herman Amy Herman is a lawyer and art historian who uses works of art to sharpen observation, analysis, and communication skills. She developed her Art of Perception seminar in 2000 to improve medical students' observation and communication skills with their patients. www.artfulperception.com 5 Steps Every Manager Can Take To Improve Work Culture with Sumit Gupta Sumit Gupta is a serial entrepreneur and founder of DeployYourself.com. Over the last decade, he's developed a coaching and leadership philosophy that he has used to lead, coach, and train hundreds of people.

Why Are 70% of People Quitting Their Jobs, with Ira S. Wolfe Described as a the World's 1st Chief Googlization Officer, a “hire authority,” and “certified prophet” of workforce trends, President of Success Performance Solutions and author of “Recruiting in the Age of Googlization, Ira S. Wolfe has emerged as one of HR's most visionary thinkers. www.irawolfe.com Building a Heart-Centered Business with Christan Hiscock Christan is on a personal mission to change the conversation in the business world, moving away from the pursuit of success, to focusing on fulfillment instead. Christan Hiscock Co-Founder and CEO of Kardia and leader of 14 flourishing companies. kardiacommunities.com 3 Tips on How To Nail A Podcast Or Radio Interview with Hollie Boodram Hollie Boodram is a publicist at OtterPR. She prides herself on building a trusting relationship with her clients and constantly evolves communication goals to support their evolving brand. Today Hollie and I delve into how to nail that perfect podcast or radio interview. OtterPR.com

If you're like most people, you love to talk about yourselves. But when you listen to others talk about themselves, they like you. And when they like you, they'll buy from you. They'll follow you. And they'll grow your business for you. Steve Smith owns a successful coaching firm that teaches people leadership, business ownership, and confidence. And the main skill he shares with you is how to be an effective listener. In this episode, discover how you can become a better leader for your company by being a better listener. Show highlights include: Why working for a company that files for bankruptcy springboards you into repurposing content into your own business (1:49) Why wasting money on recruiter fees paves the way for you to be in leadership positions (2:48) The "College Preparation Method" that teaches you decision making and independence (3:52) Why listening to people lets them like you (4:51) How being clear about what you don't want formulates a plan that skyrockets your business (9:24) If you found a golden nugget of wisdom in this episode, share it on social media with the hashtag #ResultsLeaderFM to help spread the word. If you loved what Steve revealed in this episode, you'll find more of him online at https://www.growthsourcecoaching.com.

It's Not Always Right to Be Right: And Other Hard-Won Leadership Lessons, Hamish Thomson A New Zealander from birth, Hamish Thomson is a seasoned global leadership executive. Hamish shares his new book:  It's Not Always Right to Be Right: And Other Hard-Won Leadership Lessons   Releasing Ourselves From Collective Fear, with David Neagle David Neagle is the founder of the multimillion-dollar global coaching company Life Is Now, Inc, helping thousands of entrepreneurs, experts and self-employed professionals gain the confidence and find the right mindset to increase their revenue, turning their endeavors into seven- and eight-figure ventures.

Christina Rivera has undergone a personal journey of self-discovery transitioning from accounting to the stage! Christina is host of the Savvy Business podcast and author of the book “Having Made IT” where she examines how she finally found her purpose. Now, having found her purpose, she is here today to help you find yours by analyzing and uncovering many of the old-world myths that hold us back.   Guest Bio: Christina is a corporate accounts receivable  consultant, speaker, and internet podcast host of Savvy Business, Life  Unscripted. Her background in corporate finance extends beyond  twenty-five years.   Guest Contact Info: WEBSITE:  https://savvybusinessradio.com/ LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/savvy-biz/ PARLER: https://parler.com/#/user/SavvyBroadcasting MEWE: https://mewe.com/i/savvybroadcasting/ MINDS: https://www.minds.com/savvybiz/ YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/SavvyBroadcasting FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Unleash-Your-Story-Podcast-100170728901320 SPREAKER: https://www.spreaker.com/show/unleash-your-story-podcast BITSCHUTE: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/r5AFKCt9wctS/     Thanks for listening to the show! It means so much to us that you listened to our podcast! If you would like to continue the conversation, please email me at allen@drallenlycka.com or visit our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/drallenlycka.    We would love to have you join us there, and welcome your messages. We check our Messenger often.   As a big thank you for listening to our podcast, we'd like to offer you a free copy of Dr. Lycka's bestselling book. The show is built on “The Secrets to Living A Fantastic Life.” Get your free copy by clicking here: https://secretsbook.now.site/home   We are building a community of like-minded people in the personal development/self-help/professional development industries, and are always looking for wonderful guests for our show. If you have any recommendations, please email us!   Dr. Allen Lycka's Social Media Links Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/drallenlycka Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/dr_allen_lycka/ Twitter:  https://www.twitter.com/drallenlycka LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/allenlycka YouTube:  https://www.YouTube.com/c/drallenlycka   Subscribe to the show We would be honored to have you subscribe to the show – you can subscribe to the podcast app on your mobile device.   Leave a review We appreciate your feedback, as every little bit helps us produce even better shows. We want to bring value to your day, and have you join us time and again.  Ratings and reviews from our listeners not only help us improve, but also help others find us in their podcast app. If you have a minute, an honest review on iTunes or your favorite app goes a long way! Thank you!

Christina Rivera has undergone a personal journey of self-discovery transitioning from accounting to the stage! Christina is host of the Savvy Business podcast and author of the book “Having Made IT” where she examines how she finally found her purpose. Now, having found her purpose, she is here today to help you find yours by […] The post A Journey of Self-Discovery appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

How Fitness Premier 24/7 Clubs Have Flourished While Others Gyms Have Closed, with Jason Markowicz Franchise executive, Jason Markowicz and his franchisee-focused corporate team, Fitness Premier differentiates itself in the fitness arena with great people, culture, and systems. Exploring Concepts of Narrative & How Stories Shape Our Lives with Frank Rose Frank Rose is the author of The Sea We Swim In and The Art of Immersion, a landmark book on tech and narrative. Can a Corporation Own the DNA that Exists Inside Every Person on the Planet? - Jorge Contreras Jorge L. Contreras riveting new book, THE GENOME DEFENSE: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA, Jorge, one of the nation's foremost authorities on human genetics law takes a deep dive into the many legal, ethical, and moral layers of this controversy. Keep your Business in Order with The Neat Company's President and CEO, Garrett Baird The Neat Company's President and CEO, Garrett Baird joins us to share how NeatBooks can help your business thrive and grow in 2022.

Never Give Up! on What you are Here to DO! with Dennis Welch Dennis is currently the President and CEO of Articulate, a company specializing in PR and Communications.   Dark Side of Social Media with Heather Carter Heather Carter was born and raised "all over" the West Coast.  Heather battle with Leukemia in 2015 prompted her to capture what she referred to as  "soul-selfies" — candid snapshots of her inner being.   Pet Rights Legislation, the Unforeseen Legal Issues Mark Cushing, Esq. Author of PET NATION: The Inside Story of How Companion Animals Are Transforming Our Homes, Culture, and Economy (Penguin Random House; September 21, 2021) tells the story of how pets in the last 20 years went from being left out in the cold to being the little spoon in bed with us – and the economic, media, legal, political, and social dramas springing from this cultural transformation and seismic shift.

On this episode of Savvy Business Radio we have guests Tom Severini, Melinda F. Emerson & Gloria Felt

Emma Dowd managed to overcome one of the biggest hardships in her life back in 2020 which changed her dynamics and identity forever. Despite the fear she stood up and took control of her life and stepped up when her family and friends needed her the most. That gave her the idea to not only focus on art, music and entertainment but the stories we all have inside. We've all overcome some obstacles and defeated the odds, those stories can inspire others. Emma throws no punches, she uses her show as an equal opportunity platform for those to express their stories. She gives equal chances for both the left and right to vent, a safe place for the LGBTQ to come to light and tell their stories AND she even talks about her own birth situation being born “46 XX Chromosome Intersex”

You attend a marketing workshop, get interviewed on a podcast, Or you're being interviewed for a podcast and the host says, "So let's start with this question: What's your story?" How would you answer this question?   Would you find yourself stopped cold, wondering what to say? Would you bring up your tried-and-true rags to riches hero's journey story? You have a window of opportunity to showcase your strengths...or convince your followers you're a flake. Here are 2 tips to choose a story that makes the sale.  Learn more with my FREE report- 3 story mistakes most business owners make (and how to avoid them): http://CathyGoodwin.com/mistake

Becca will inspire you about her journey and share what she has learned as a mother of child who have navigated the college process. Becca lives in Cincinnati and I cannot wait to be her new best friend!

In this episode, Amy and Maia talk about why traditional business plans are not relevant to bookkeepers today. We show how a client-centric business plan helps you understand your client's problems better. By following this process, you can attract better clients, better staff and have more profit in your business to reward yourself. Listen in to learn the following tips on how to Plan for Growing or Starting your Bookkeeping Business: What's included in the Savvy business plan What's included in Bookkeeping Business Foundations eCourse Why our business plan is so different from a traditional business plan How doing business in the right order can save you time, stress and help you earn more Useful links: Learn more about Savvy's 6 Step Business Plan and related programs: thesavvybookkeeper.com/businessplan See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Interview Christina Rivera and Dina Marais - Removing the Veil of Fear I had the privilege to speak to Christine Rivera, a very inspiring woman! Christina Rivera is an author, speaker, consultant and internet radio show host of Savvy Business, Life Unscripted. Christina comes from a background in corporate finance and has more than twenty-five years of experience in the field of corporate finance and accounts receivable. Since the conception of her show, Savvy Business, in 2012, she has interviewed over 1000 businesses, foremost experts and successful individuals of walks of life. March marks the launch of my first book: Having It Made: A Journey of Rediscovery and Purpose You can find Christina here: Website: https://savvybroadcasting.com/ Social Media: Parler: https://parler.com/#/user/SavvyBroadcasting MeWe: https://mewe.com/i/savvybroadcasting Minds: https://www.minds.com/savvybiz/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/savvybroadcasting/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/savvy-biz/ FaceBook: New Savvy Series: Unleash your Story About Dina: Dina Marais is a coach, speaker, author, and host of the Consistent $10k Months Coaching Business Podcast. Dina is the founder of the SoulPurpose Business Bliss System and Membership Program. She supports coaches and experts, who are starting out or struggling in their business, to establish a solid foundation and create a SoulPurpose Business they love, providing them with the tools and best practices to stabilise and scale their income and impact. She is a co-author with 20 women of the #1 Amazon International Bestseller, Love Unboxed by Placida Acheru. Dina's contribution was about self-love. FIND THE FREE CONSISTENT $10K MONTH & BEYOND FREE FRAMEWORK AT https://bit.ly/10kframework Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dinamarais1/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/abundantbusinessentrepreneurs Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dinamarais/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coachdinamarais/message

"Melville ‘Andy' Anderson is a results-driven, tech-savvy business development professional and consultant. Known for his elite interpersonal skills and warm, charismatic approach to building and maintaining relationships, Andy has earned a reputation as a trustworthy, competent resource for creative solutions." Check out his website to know more about him:  https://www.7linksolutions.com/   Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melvilleanderson/

Join Dr. Madeline Ann Lewis in a conversation with Alyson Rae Lawson, who is the Chief Executive Officer of RaeLawson Enterprise, RaeLawson Enterprise 2.0, and a Franchisee/Operator of not one, but two 7-Eleven Convenience Stores with a gas station. Ms. Lawson is a Generation Y entrepreneur that possesses an extensive business acumen, with a true passion and ability to connect with people. Email: raelawson.7eleven@gmail.comSuccess 4 Women is broadcast live Thursday's at 2PM ET.Success 4 Women TV Show is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com).Success 4 Women Radio Show is broadcast on W4WN Radio - Women 4 Women Network (www.w4wn.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com).The podcast is also available on Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com).

Christina Rivera is an author, speaker, consultant, and internet radio show host of Savvy Business, Life Unscripted, and has over twenty-five years of experience in corporate accounting. Since the conception of Savvy Business, in 2012, she has interviewed over 1000 businesses, foremost experts, and successful individuals of walks of life.

Christina Rivera is a corporate accounts consultant, speaker, and host of the Savvy Business, Life Unscripted podcast. After a restructuring process at her former corporation left Christina without a job, she decided to overcome her fear and use her extensive corporate finance experience to start her own business. The Savvy Business podcast began as a way of drawing people to her company. It rapidly grew into an exciting platform where business owners, experts, and prominent individuals share their knowledge and tips for success. In 2020, Christina published her book, Having it Made, highlighting her personal journey and how she discovered her purpose.   Visit https://Jasonlinett.com/18/ now to view the complete show notes, watch the video podcast, and access a complete transcription.   Today, Christina shares her story about how her life changes made her reevaluate what was essential and helped her overcome her fears. She explores how the change in her fear-based language and new attitude brought about new opportunities and why that made her go on to start her own business. She explains the common obstacles new business owners have to overcome and how mentors helped her at the beginning of her journey. She also shares the many lessons she has learned over the years, in her own business and from her clients, and the triggers you need to get past to have financial success.   "Being in the fear is more uncomfortable than moving out of it." - Christina Rivera   "If you are not willing to start looking at things that are not working, and making even slight, maybe minuscule changes to start, you're really not going to grow".  - Christina Rivera   "Anything out there that might be challenging that you just put on the side, go do it today." - Christina Rivera     This week on Hypnotic Language Hacks Podcast:   The turning point that made Christina change her fear-based language and actions How the change led to new opportunities in all aspects of her life Why Christina started her own business Everyday things that people have to overcome when launching a business How mentors helped Christina in the early days of her company How Christina learned to value herself and be more comfortable with putting a value on her services Lessons Christina has gained throughout her career Emotional triggers you need to overcome to be more successful in your finances   Resources Mentioned:   Having it Made by Christina Rivera   Connect with Christina Rivera:   com Savvy Business on LinkedIn Savvy Business on Twitter Christina Rivera on Instagram   Connect with Jason: Jason Linett’s Website Subscribe on YouTube Jason Linett on Instagram Jason Linett on Twitter Jason Linett on Facebook Jason Linett on LinkedIn   Continue the conversation in our FREE Business Influence & Persuasion Facebook Community. Inspire People to Take Action… Even BEFORE You Make an Offer. If you want to easily grab people’s attention, naturally build authority, and organically have your prospects wanting more from you even before you make an offer, then I’ve created a step by step strategy to help you to do just that! I call it: BUSINESS INFLUENCE SYSTEMS This is your opportunity now to visit JasonLinett.com to get a free behind-the-scenes tour of the exact hypnotic persuasion strategies you can ethically use to better start-up or scale-up your business. If you want a proven framework to boost your confidence, attract premium clients, and inspire more people to do take action with you, get Business Influence Systems now at JasonLinett.com.   Unlock the Secrets of Hypnotic Influence for your Business   Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of Hypnotic Language Hacks Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts.   Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | GooglePlay | Stitcher | Spotify   Share your favorite episodes on social media to help me reach more hypnosis professionals, like you.   Join me in the Business Influence & Persuasion Facebook Group or follow me on Twitter, Instagram,  YouTube, and LinkedIn. For more exclusive content and information, visit my website.  

In Being a Legally Savvy Business Owner, we will discuss how to spot legal issues, what to do when you spot them, and how to seek out and follow competent legal advice. Join us!

Christina Rivera was born in Germany but grew up in the heart of New York City.  She was taught that after high school comes the world of work.  She has instilled a very disciplined work ethic from early on.  From very humble beginnings of working in a coffee shop to over 25 years working in corporate finance and account receivables, she is a perfect example of what can happen through perseverance. In addition, she now has her own show,  Savvy Business, (2019) to which she has now interviewed over 1000 businesses. This past March 2020, she published her first book, "HAVING IT MADE: A JOURNEY OF REDISCOVERY AND PURPOSE." She explains to us that sometimes faith and a dream are all we have to make it to our next level.

Christina Rivera was born in Germany but grew up in the heart of New York City. She was taught that after high school comes the world of work. She has instilled a very disciplined work ethic from early on. From very humble beginnings of working in a coffee shop to over 25 years working in corporate finance and account receivables, she is a perfect example of what can happen through perseverance. In addition, she now has her own show, Savvy Business, (2019) to which she has now interviewed over 1000 businesses. This past March 2020, she published her first book, "HAVING IT MADE: A JOURNEY OF REDISCOVERY AND PURPOSE." She explains to us that sometimes faith and a dream are all we have to make it to our next level. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/odell-glenn-jr/support

Podcast: Business Made Simple with Donald Miller (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: #229: Elida Field—How to Go From “Starving Artist” to Savvy Business OwnerPub date: 2020-11-30Many artists think sheer talent and creativity are all they need to turn their art into a lucrative business. Sadly, here's what usually ends up happening: they realize talent alone isn't going to cut it so they resort to being a “starving artist” and never really achieve the type of success they once dreamt possible. Elida Field could have easily fallen into the same trap, but her focus and determination propelled her into a profitable career she loves. In this week's episode, she'll share her process for how she defeated the “starving artist” phase and built a profitable career as an artist. If you're a creative and need a plan to help you monetize your art and build a successful career, this episode will help! The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BusinessMadeSimple.com, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Many artists think sheer talent and creativity are all they need to turn their art into a lucrative business. Sadly, here’s what usually ends up happening: they realize talent alone isn’t going to cut it so they resort to being a “starving artist” and never really achieve the type of success they once dreamt possible. Elida Field could have easily fallen into the same trap, but her focus and determination propelled her into a profitable career she loves. In this week’s episode, she’ll share her process for how she defeated the “starving artist” phase and built a profitable career as an artist. If you’re a creative and need a plan to help you monetize your art and build a successful career, this episode will help! 

Why It is Important to Have a Tech Savvy Business Attorney, with Almeta E. Cooper, The AECooperGroup John Ray: [00:00:00] And hello, everyone. I’m John Ray with Business RadioX. And I’m here with Almeta Cooper. And Almeta is principal with her own firm, The AECooper Group. And Almeta, our question for you is, why is […] The post Why It is Important to Have a Tech Savvy Business Attorney, with Almeta E. Cooper, The AECooperGroup appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

How one woman helps people leverage their best selves to find success This week’s guest is someone I respect more than anyone else in the entire world. My admiration for her as a woman, wife, human, entrepreneur, and thought leader goes deep—and I don’t say that about just anyone. Cathy Savage is an incredible multi-million-dollar business owner, world-renowned wellness coach, and lives every aspect of her life in complete integrity. Listen to this episode to hear wisdom and advice on how to shift your views to abundance, how to serve in the hardest of times, how to show up as your best self when it feels impossible to do so, and how to identify the very things that make you unique—and leverage them. Listen now Recognizing her gift and an unmet need We start this episode discussing how Cathy’s entry into the health and wellness world, how she worked in corporate America and turned to competitive fitness to as an outlet. She shares how she brought dance to the gym and as it was an evolving sport, she began realizing that people needed help and there were no coaches to fill that need. Living every aspect of life in integrity She describes how this led to her first multi-million-dollar business, how she moved online to try and meet demand, and offers advice on how to always put family first while growing your own business and staying truly aligned with who you are. She shares the importance of not compartmentalizing your life and how this shapes everything when raising children. We delve into how she helps people find what their good at, what makes them unique, and how to leverage this to bring success. We talk about how putting others success in front of yours and getting rid of ego is the most fulfilling and rewarding way to run a business. She shares how she does just that, and how she helps people win in all aspects of life. Cathy Savage Cathy Savage is an internationally recognized Fitness and Life Management Strategist who is located in Boston. She has been featured on MTV, ABC News and Fox News and she has been a contributor and board member of theprestigious advisory panel for Oxygen Magazine and Strong Magazine. Since the early 1990s, Cathy has been the pioneer in successful coaching for women from allover the world. Her online nutrition and wellness program are the first and most prominent all-inclusive global training program of its kind. Cathy has coached and mentored celebrities, athletes, television personalities for lifestyle changes and business strategies as well. Her clients span the globe from the US, Australia, Asia, Europe and throughout North America. As a Boston College graduate, Cathy has used her education and experience of building a wellness empire, to develop into a women’s empowerment service where she coaches women on life strategies, and how to be money savvy. Quotes:1:49When we actually believe in somebody it is with all of our being.8:10The greatest coaches did exactly what you said, they listened. They listened for what was needed.12:32 (Cathy)It is not putting one over the other, it is letting it all flow together in synchronicity and it works.15:07 (Cathy)As a parent your child needs to know, now more than ever, that there is that safety blanket of unconditional love that you are going to be there for them.17:48 (Cathy)For some reason we think that now it’s just everything is uncertain, when in reality, nothing ever was certain.19:00I think that the strategy for everybody is to just enjoy the simplest of things right now.19:37So you really have the choice to look at this as a gift of time where clarity can happen or you can just coward down.24:36My faith is "service for others always".31:31It's leveraging our true power of, whatever makes us so unique and running with it.43:02I am not going to be a cheerleader but I'm going to be the professional coach that brings you to the finish line.

FYID NYC's soul-searching podcast Identity is back with another episode as hosts Tarik Aimour and Caleb Kelch continue the show's month-long series about entrepreneurship and technology during the times of COVID. With this week's show, the topic is Tech-Savvy: Business Meets the Future and focused on different topics such as the COVID workplace, incorporating COVID into the business, and posing the question on how technology has defined us today!

The Jeff & Heidi Show Jeff Heggie is an entrepreneur and business development coach www.JeffHeggie.com | www.JeffHeggieCoaching.com Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jeffheggiecoaching/ Facebook fb.me/JeffHeggieCoaching LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffheggie/ Heidi Anderson is an entrepreneur and founder of ECI Business Financial Strategies www.ecibfs.com | www.ecisecurepay.com LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/heidianderson0426/ Episode 006: The Jeff & Heidi Show with Melissa Ambers Melissa is the President and Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) of Behind The Scene Expert, LLC. As an extraordinary covert guru and project manager with over twenty years of experience, she and her team offer tools and expert advice to produce top quality work. Behind The Scene Expert, LLC team offers sensible solutions to eliminate the frustration and overwhelming reality of working in the back office with endless tasks. Many small business owners and solopreneurs are looking to hire Behind The Scene Expert to take a systematic approach to grow their business. Their proficiency with tools and systems ensures that you and your team will stay efficient so that everyone meets their deadlines and can focus on growth and profitability. She is a two time International Best Selling Author of Set Yourself Apart: Become An Efficent Assistant Utilizing Devices & Online Tools and Coffee Sugar Cream: An Effective Guide To Manage Business Processess . Melissa has received a Proclamation from the Mayor of Houston, Texas, April 18th is named “Melissa Ambers Day” and May 11th BOSS Day (Building Opportunities Savvy Solutions). She is known for being efficient and boosting productivity wit her clients. Providing solutions are essential to Melissa to ensure that clients and their staff are adequately trained. Clients like Judge Lucia Bates on her Campaign and back office, RBY Ministries, Ferrell's Photography, KANO Productions, RW Couture, BY Publishing, and many others have seen a tremendous change in the day-to-day operations. Melissa has been the Event Director for various prodigious events like The Freedmen's Town Exhibit, 20th Year Legacy Gala for Domestic Violence, and Faith Awards. As the Event Director, she has worked with organizations to provide efficient and effective solutions to decrease cost and develop new processes to allow time to work with clients. As a Chief Administration Officer or an Event Director, Melissa is known for utilizing her devices and online tools to ensure efficiency. Technology changes almost every day, and Melissa is so intrigued by today's technology that she stays on top of what works best for her clients. www.behindthesceneexpert.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Episode 010: Efficiently Using the Hours in Your Day to Build Your Ecommerce Business   Episode Summary:  Most ecommerce website owners are balancing so many competing demands between work, family, and maybe some self-care. It's the nature of small business! In this episode, Julie discusses practical strategies for using time efficiently and keeping all the balls in the air.   Episode Links: https://www.canva.com/ https://asana.com https://trello.com/ https://basecamp.com/  https://www.lastpass.com/ (password manager) https://savvybusinessmethod.com/  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAHt2LynOZylOjlIz878okg https://fb.me/savvybusinessmethod    Episode Transcript:   Announcer: Are you looking to take your online business to the next level? Well you're in the right place. Welcome to The Savvy Business Method with your host Julie Feickert.   Julie Feickert: Hello and welcome to episode 10 of the Savvy Business Method podcast where we talk about how to plan, start and grow your small business online. I'm Julie Feickert and my goal is to help you build practical business skills so you can provide a better life for your family. Okay before we get started today a couple of quick things. The transcript of the show is in the show notes along with the lengths to the resources I'll talk about today. And I think there's going be a decent number of links. So you'll be able to go back and find those pretty quickly. Also be sure and come on over to Facebook and check us out. I'm posting there a couple times a day and there are videos and links to the podcast. And then just some fun things I find are on the internet to help us all stay focused on this idea of growing our business online. Alright so today's topic is efficiently using the hours in your day. I am getting the distinct impression from those of you I've heard from. That many of you are in the same position that I was when I first started my online business 10 years ago. And to be honest to an extent, the same position I'm in now. And that is being very busy and having to fit your work in around your family, around your other commitments, working from home. This seems to be a really common. A common theme for a lot of you. It's like why don't I take this episode to talk with you about some of the things that I have learned over the last 10 years. In terms of how to better structure my days, my weeks, my months. So that I can be as effective as possible at growing my businesses. While also being able to be there for my family okay. So let's think about this for a moment. Do you ever lay in bed at night and insist that you will do more tomorrow? That you're somehow going to find more hours in your day or you're going to accomplish more tomorrow. I know I do this. I'm guessing a lot of you do this and today's episode is really about making that conversation with yourself more productive. So you can be more efficient and effective with your time and grow your business to reach your goals and take care of all these other responsibilities that you have. You know being ridiculously busy seems to be an inherent part of our culture at this point. And we can probably all agree that this is not a healthy situation. But I would wager that you don't feel like you have much of a choice and neither do I. You know you may have kids, relationships, social commitments. Your house probably should be clean at some point. You have food to cook. Maybe you could throw some self care in there on a good day. You know what is self care? And all of that on top of having one or more businesses that you need to grow and run. Meanwhile our families are depending on us. So it's not like we can just flop down and say I give up. It's a lot and so let's dive in and talk about some of the strategies that are out there for better managing this busy situation that we have. And making the most of the time that we do have. Alright strategy number one is to be honest about the time that you do have. Alright now I have no doubt that if you suddenly had twice as much time during the day. Five times as much time. Ten times as much time that you would find ways to fill that time. And be productive and continue to grow your business. You didn't get to this entrepreneurship thing by accident. That's probably part of who you are. But having huge slots of time isn't a reality for most entrepreneurs. And so we need to be realistic about what time we do have. So for example maybe you are in a position where you get to work during business hours. You're getting to work eight, nine, ten, twelve hours a day on your business. This may be less of an issue for you if you're able to spend that really large concentrated time on your business. You still need to organize your time but still you're in a little bit better position. But for many of you listening I'm guessing based on the feedback I've gotten. That many of you are doing this at night. You do it on weekends. You're doing it during nap time for your kids. And I just want to tell you I really understand. You know my first business my spouse worked full time plus then some. I had two little kids, they were two and under. And I worked in five to fifteen minute bursts while my little kids played. And I've got to tell you my now much older self has absolutely no idea how I did that. Clearly I did and clearly it worked but it is a hard way to live. And I realize now the only reason I was able to develop my business is because I did make the most of those small amount of time that I had available. And so accepting what time we do have instead of constantly wishing for more time and trying to pretend like we have more time. Just owning up to this reality of our situation makes easier to at least make the most of the time that we do have, okay. Strategy number two. It's really helpful if you always know what needs to be accomplished. When it needs to be accomplished and how it needs to be accomplished. Now most things that we do as small business owners and website owners can kind of be divided into two camps. There are things that we are just one off. That task that just need to get done. So maybe you need to put it in order for something or you need to answer a customer service email. But most of the priorities and tasks that you have are going to be what I call dependent task. And that means that there is a series of events that have to take place in more or less a certain order in order for you to get that task done. So I'm going to use an example of this podcast. Okay so in order for you to be listening to this podcast right now. At some point I had to come up with a topic for today. I had to outline it. I had to run through it usually at least twice to look for any holes because I value your time. And I want to make sure that if you're gonna sit down and listen to this or listen to while you are making dinner, that you are getting the best information possible so I don't want to be leaving major things out. I then have to record it which is a small problem because that requires quiet. And I have four children and I do work from home. So I have to plan that carefully. I also edit this, I have to lay it out with the intro and the outro. I have to send it out for some wonderful soul to transcribe it so that you have those show notes. I then have to write up the show notes and the links and then get it posted to the distribution service. And then I have to get it posted on the Savvy Business website. And I had to schedule it on Facebook. Okay, so this is an example of a set of dependent tasks. Like I can't do a whole lot with the order of those. Those have to be done in a specific order. And if you start thinking through the tasks you have as an entrepreneur. You'll probably find that most of your tasks are these types of things. Where you're going to have to line up sub-tasks in a certain order to make them happen. And this has been one of the most important things that I have had to work on. As someone who works from home. As someone who has multiple businesses is making sure that I always know what my tasks are that are out there. And what is the next thing I have to do for each of those tasks. Alright so, even if you sit down and you outline all of these things that you need to do. I'm going to take a guess that it's probably still way too long of a list and way too many things. So next up you're going to need to do some prioritizing. And I would recommend a couple of things to be thinking about as you're prioritizing. One, you want to be thinking about how successful something is likely to be. We as entrepreneurs can come up with so many really cool things we want to try to promote our business, to improve our business. But we have to be honest about what are the things that are concrete good ideas likely to succeed. Likely to be something that we can actually do and pull off? And what are the things that are more. Boy, someday I'd really like to try that. It might work, it might not type of thing right. So that's really important. I'd also encourage you to think about the time that any particular task is going to take. Or the financial investment and what that trade off would be for rewards. There are things we do as small business owners that can be huge for us. For example, I truly did not understand the power of the email marketing. Until I made a major change in my email system. And this was many years ago. But that time I spent at the time it seemed like I was gonna spend a lot of time on it. The amount of financial reward for that decision was huge. And so it's really about trying to identify those things that yes. They may take us some time but the rewards are significant. I'd also prioritize your list based on what has to be done in blocks of time? So if you have a block of time in your schedule. If you have small children. Maybe your spouse comes home and can watch them or while they're sleeping at night or something like that. Maybe if you can get a block of time how do you be more efficient with a certain set of tasks then you might otherwise be? So it's just some things to think about. I've also found it really helpful to organize my tasks by daily, weekly and monthly to do lists. So I actually keep separate to do lists of the things I need to accomplish. I also keep separate lists or I mark on my list things that can be done in quick moments. So for example when I'm tired and I don't have. Maybe at night I'm tired and I don't have the ability to really focus on something. My quality is probably not going to be great if I'm trying to come up with a complete outline for a podcast. Or a brand new marketing campaign for my e-commerce business okay. But I can for example, I often work on improving an outline like when I'm sitting in my car waiting for my kids to get done with some appointment. I can sit there and work on Evernote on my phone and improve my outline and get that done. You know cause those small moments can really add up. So if we always have things on our mind that oh, when I get a free minute and I'm just sitting there. I can quickly that. You can actually get a lot accomplished that way. Alright, strategy number three. Any of you who are parents are going to laugh at me but strategy number three is to find some quiet. And I know that is way easier said then done isn't it. So I just wanted to put out a few ideas here for you. One is to think about getting some noise canceling headphones. Obviously this only works if there's not something you need to hear. Like an emergency or the alarm for dinner going off or something like that. But noise canceling headphones make a great Christmas gift. Ask me how I know. And they could be really helpful if you're working from home. And there's just that noise factor that you're dealing with. Or alternatively you need to be working at a coffee shop or something having noise canceling headphones can be amazing. If quiet space is rarely an option for you. Again, you want to prioritize those tasks that have to be done in that moment. So for example I save all of my podcast recording and my video recording for when my spouse is out running errands with the kids and my house is momentarily quiet. And I'll get a couple of blocks a week like two hours each and that's when all of my recording has to be done. And so that just means that I have to have all those other dependent tasks done first right. So organizing my schedule around when quiet will be available is pretty important. Alright, strategy number four is to get organized. More organized than you already are because having our own businesses is both a blessing and a curse right. So one hand we get to have this scheduling flexibility because we are our own boss. But on the other hand if you're not naturally the kind of person to be very organized and driven about your work. No one is standing there to make sure you do it. And so this was something that. Especially the organization piece is something I really struggled with early on because I was used to having my work come to me. And like I know my spouse was really struggling with us two being self employed. His job was all about people bringing him problems all day and he would solve them. And to suddenly be in a position where you are the one who has to decide what's going to get done and in what order. That is a huge mental shift. So if that's something that you're working on be encouraged. You know being more organized can be really helpful for that. So let's talk about a few things that you could do to kind of get in that mindset. One thing that I personally found really helpful is having a computer set up in a specific place in my house. With a set up that works well for me. So for example for me that's having two different monitors so I could have a bunch of things open at once. And for me that means not having to constantly drag equipment around to try to find a place to work and set up. It also keeps my equipment safer because I have small children including a toddler. So now that doesn't mean, I do of course have a laptop and I can go somewhere else and work. But for me I can be faster and more efficient at my computer that's set up the way that I work best. We talked earlier about having this to do list right. The daily, weekly, monthly to do list. Focus versus non-focus tasks. And I would encourage you to keep your notes and your to do list some place that you could access them from anywhere. I personally really like Evernote. It's inexpensive. It can be on my computer. It can be on my phone. Everything is synced so I can sit in the car and update an outline for a podcast. Or I could be writing up copy for some ads for my commerce business. All of that gets saved and I can access it later. Some people find project management software really helpful especially if you're working on very complex tasks, dependent tasks. Or if you're working with multiple people. I personally have used Asana quite extensively. I have friends though who love Trello. I have someone I know who loves Basecamp. So those are some options for you for project management software. There are often free plans or very inexpensive plans. So if you're working by yourself and you just want something that's going to set everything up where you know it or you have to do stuff. And what date everything is due. Those systems can be really useful. Now remember back in episode five when we talked about data security and I was encouraging you to go make sure all your data is secure. And you're backing up all your systems. So I just want to revisit really quick that having a good password manager like I talked about in episode five is really important. You could be much faster about your work and more efficient with your work if you're not hunting around for your passwords. Also I talked in episode five about getting a scanner. Don't waste your time digging through your paperwork. You should know where everything is at all times. Alright strategy number five I have to tell you is one of my personal favorites. And some days feels like the key to whatever success I am marginally managing to achieve at any given moment. So strategy five is to batch work whenever you can. Okay so what does that mean? So batching work is about bunching up a bunch of similar tasks together and getting them done all at once. Because here's the thing. Those tasks take start up time so once you're in the mode. You can often get more done more quickly by just doing it all then. Okay so what does this look like. These are some of the examples of the ways that I use this. I typically will set up several weekly newsletters at once. Like I'll set up month worth of newsletters at once because by the time I sit down. I log into my email service provider. I pull up my editorial calendar where I keep all my ideas and what I'm planning on doing each week. By the time I do all of that the newsletter itself doesn't take very much time. And so it might take me an hour to put together one newsletter or it might take me two hours to put together four newsletters. Another option is to make multiple rounds of ads at one time. So back in episode four I think it was. I talked about preventing ad fatigue and how you need to have multiple ad sets so that you can switch these out pretty regularly. Don't make one ad set at a time. Sit down, get your system open. I use Canva which I love and I'm dragging and dropping in my graphics and my texts. And I can make four or five rounds of ads in an hour or two. Which is so much more efficient and then I have ads for the next few months. And then I don't have to worry about doing that again. Also you know plan out any social media ad testing you're doing. If you're running Facebook ads you probably have figured out a huge part of that is constantly testing new copy, new images, new offers. You know sitting down and planning out to the next few rounds of that versus suddenly going oh no. My ads are expiring today and I need to come up with something new. It's more efficient to sit down and do that at once. If you're going to be getting on Facebook and scheduling your organic Facebook on your page. Plan out one to four weeks at a time. Facebook has a great scheduling option, use it. You know sit down in front of the TV at night for background noise if that's helpful to you. Grab a glass of wine and plan another month of Facebook. And then if you're doing any sort of audio or video component of your company. Especially if that involves for you doing your hair and makeup. I would really encourage you to make as many videos and podcasts at once as you possibly can because it is way way more efficient. And then you could also batch your editing right and your uploading and you rendering and all that. Alright well our last strategy for today is number six. And that's to be kind to yourself. And I realize that this is probably the hardest thing I have talked about today. Right up there with trying to find quiet right. I can tell you from experience after doing this for 10 years. And during that 10 years I have given birth to 3 babies. I have lost an enormous amount of sleep. I have had a ridiculous amount of stress involved with starting and growing companies. And I can tell you that it takes a really strong toll on you physical and mental health. And both your physical and mental health need to be in good shape. If you're gonna be effective and efficient with this whole building a business idea. And so I wanted to just give you a few things that have really helped me over the years. And just really encourage you to be thoughtful about your work habits. So that you are not burning yourself out. The biggest thing I think has been really helpful to me lately is learning to work in 25 minute cycles with five minute breaks. Now there's research to say that this is really effective and I can say personally that I have found that I am much more efficient if I do this. Now, that's easier said then done because I get in a mode and I don't want to stop. Like I'm recording two podcasts back to back today because I am in a mode and I want to talk to you about these things. And so it's hard for me to remember to take a break. But let's talk about as a practical matter what this looks like. So you can use something like a Tomato Timer. Just Google Tomato Timer. I'll put a link in the notes. There's a little timer on it it's free. It's a little web browser timer that you click when you start working and then it beeps to remind you to take a break. You can use something like Music to Code By. I'll put this link in the show notes too. I love Music to Code By. It is 25 minutes. I don't remember all of the details, it's on their site. But the music is such that it really helps keep your brain calm yet alert. And it's organized in those 25 minutes sequences so that when the music ends you need to get up and take a break. And when I say a break I mean don't look at your computer. Don't look at your phone. You just physically get up, walk around. Stretch, do some squats or some push ups. Go change the laundry. I'll go use the bathroom. Get a drink of water or a snack. Do something that doesn't involve looking at your computer because then when you come back your brain is ready to engage in whatever it is you're doing again. So this is just something that lately has been really helping me. So I wanted to share that with you. Burn out is very very common among entrepreneurs. I know a lot of entrepreneurs. I don't know very many who haven't at some point faced very serious burn out. And just to be honest it happens more to women too than men. So if you're a female entrepreneur just be aware. Surround yourself with other female entrepreneurs who can encourage you and know the signs. And can really help you if you kind of start entering that cycle. That they can be there for you to help prop you up and help you find solutions. Because burn out doesn't serve you. It doesn't serve your family. It doesn't serve your business. So please try to be kind to yourself. Entrepreneurship, you know this whole idea of starting an online business. Growing an online business. It is a marathon. It is not a sprint but I got to tell you some days it feels like a never ending series of sprints. And that could be exciting and fun. It can also be exhausting. So sometimes we need to make those adjustments to make a big difference on how productive we are and how we feel. Alright well that's it for today. I will be back in your feed on Monday for episode 11 where we'll talk about designing return and refund policies for our websites. It's a great way to really think through some of the important issues. So that you can keep any return and refund processes smooth for your customers and also keep your credit card processes happy and all of the people in your life happy. But in the meantime thanks so much for joining me today. I hope this information will help you make excellent decisions for your own business. If you have feedback ideas for future shows you can find me at SavvyBusinessMethod.com as well as on Facebook and YouTube. Please be sure to hit that little subscribe button in iTunes and Stitcher. I don't want you to miss any episodes and I really do consider it a great favor if you can rate and review this show. It helps other people find it and I really love reading your reviews. So I will see you Monday for episode 11. And in the meantime I hope you have a productive yet restful weekend. Bye for now.   Announcer: Thanks so much for listening to this episode of The Savvy Business Method with Julie Feickert. If you enjoyed today's episode please leave a review and subscribe. And for more great content and to stay up to date visit SavvyBusinessMethod.com. And Savvy Business Method on Facebook. We'll catch you next time.   Episode 010: Efficiently Using the Hours in Your Day to Build Your Ecommerce Business

Episode 000: About The Savvy Business Method Podcast   Episode Summary:  In this episode, meet host Julie Feickert and discover her journey from starting a tiny home-based business to building a multi-million dollar company as well as her passion for helping small business owners plan, start, and grow an online business of their own so they can create a better life for their family.   Episode Links: There are no links for this episode.   Episode Transcript: Announcer Are you looking to take your online business to the next level? Well, you're in the right place. Welcome to the Savvy Business Method, with your host, Julie Feickert. Julie FeickertHello, welcome to the Savvy Business Method podcast. My name is Julie Feickert and I will be your host. I'm so glad you're joining me today because I am passionate about helping small business owners plan, start and grow an online business. I have been there myself. Ten years ago, when I first started my online company, I didn't know a great deal about running an online business. I mean, I'd gone to business school, but that was a whole lot of theory, which can be great, but not much in the way of the practical skills. When I first started, I had this tiny website my husband built, and I had about 10 products. And my goal was to supplement our income so I didn't have to go back to teaching at the college at night. I had just had a baby and I was having a hard time with the idea of getting dressed up, putting my makeup on, driving in rush hour traffic, to teach for four hours until 10:00 at night, just to come home and get up and do it again the next day. So I thought surely I could start a small business online, right? Like lots of people do that. And in the beginning there, I did every single job myself. I answered every customer service email, I shipped every order, I did all the marketing. And much to my husband's amazement, my business started to grow. And it kept growing. And when I passed it off to a new owner a year ago, we had hundreds of products, millions of dollars in sales each year and a team of about 30 people. And along the way I learned two really important things. First I learned that running a successful online company is a combination of having practical knowledge and skills, putting in the work, and making good decisions along the way. See, I'm a realist. The idea of get rich quick schemes, that doesn't appeal to me at all. I have a family to support and I don't need any more stress in my life than absolutely necessary. My goal is always to build a business that is stable and sustainable. Second, I gained a better life for my family, one with more security and flexibility and for that, I will always be grateful. But something else started happening during those years too. When I would meet customers at shows, or people would email me, they'd often tell me how much they loved the company. And then they would tell me, "Oh, but I could never do what you've done." And that broke my heart. See, here's the thing, it's not true. I believe in the depths of my soul that many people can do what I've done. It's a matter of acquiring the knowledge and skills and doing the hard work and making good decisions along the way. What I did seems like a big thing. But it's really not. You don't do it all in one day, I promise. It's about waking up each day and doing the next thing and doing it well. So my goal with this podcast is to help you gain the knowledge and skills you need, so you can start and grow a successful business online. Maybe your goal is a side gig, to supplement your budget. We're going to talk through how to set systems up so you can be as efficient as possible and work on your schedule. I get it. You may have to do this on nights and weekends or during the kids nap times. Maybe your goal is to replace your family's income like I did. We will talk through how to grow the company while setting it up so you can manage it long term. Maybe you have big plans. Maybe you want to grow even further and provide jobs in your community. Well, I've got good news for you. The skills you need to run a company with up to say, 25 employees, really doesn't change greatly. And we'll talk through the ways it does so you can build those extra skills you need along the way. I am so excited to share this time with you. Please be sure to hit that little subscribe button in iTunes or Stitcher so you'll be notified with each new episode. I'd love to hear from you, and the questions you have about planning, starting and growing your business online. If you want to learn more about me and the Savvy Business Method, please be sure to check out savvybusinessmethod.com and visit me on Facebook and YouTube. See you soon. Announcer Thanks so much for listening to this episode of the Savvy Business Method, with Julie Feickert. If you enjoyed today's episode, please leave a review and subscribe, and for more great content and to stay up to date, visit savvybusinessmethod.com and Savvy Business Method on Facebook. We'll catch you next time.   Episode 000: About The Savvy Business Method Podcast