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Can social conditioning, past experiences, and external pressure affect the way we explore figuring out our Sparketype? Or, for that matter, any metric we might look to, as a way to help figure out what drives us? And how do we turn down the volume on social conditioning and perceived expectations, determine what our “truest truths” really are, and express ourselves in a more aligned way? Today's listener, Sarah, asks these interesting questions, after re-taking the Sparketypes Assessment a year later and getting a result she felt was much closer to who she really was.  In today's episode we're in conversation with: SPARKED BRAINTRUST ADVISOR: Jadah Sellner | Website Jadah is a multi-time founder and CEO of Jadah Sellner Media, the co-creator of the Simple Green Smoothies social and business phenom, sought-after advisor to entrepreneurs, and bestselling author, including her new book, ‘She Builds: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life', now available here. LISTENER: Sarah - Sparketype: Sage (Primary), Scientist (Shadow), Advocate (Anti) QUESTION: Today's listener, Sarah, shares her experience of supporting multi-billion dollar retail businesses, as the head of change management and helping people and businesses work through transformations. She has been the right hand to many high level execs and spearheaded big results and impact but like so many of us, done so at her own expense and with a lot of burnout. It brings her to her main question - can your past experiences, especially challenging or traumatic ones, distort your view of yourself and therefore affect your Sparketype results? Can social conditioning and external feedback interfere with finding work and expression that is more aligned for us - and if so, how do we reduce its impact or even eliminate it altogether? Host: Jonathan Fields, creator of Good Life Project podcast and the Sparketype® Assessment, More on Sparketypes:  Discover Your Sparketype | The Book | The Website Presented by LinkedIn. Coaches & Leaders: Tap a Game-Changing Credential - The Certified Sparketype® Advisor Training.  Differentiate yourself as a certified professional with a powerful command of the Sparketype® body of knowledge, professional-level tools, processes, engagement formats, and strategies, while equipping yourself to guide individuals, groups and teams through change with confidence and clarity. Learn more & apply to the Certified Sparketype ® Advisor Training and Certification today.   Presented by LinkedIn.

In today's episode we're revisiting a listener question posed to Jonathan Fields and one of our rotating lineup of wise and kind mentors - the SPARKED Braintrust. SPARKED BRAINTRUST ADVISOR: Jadah Sellner | Website Jadah is a multi-time founder and CEO of Jadah Sellner Media, the co-creator of the Simple Green Smoothies social and business phenom, sought-after advisor to entrepreneurs, and bestselling author. LISTENER: Heidi - Sparketype: Advocate/Warrior | Anti Maker QUESTION: Listener Heidi, poses a big question that is very pertinent to this moment in time. She shares her devotion to advocacy particularly around climate activism and asks how do you harness your skillset to show up in work and life and make a meaningful difference? Heidi is hopeful that a lot of us are also asking the same question when it comes to the climate crisis and asks how do you know where to focus your energy to have the biggest impact? YOUR HOST: Jonathan Fields Jonathan is a dad, husband, award-winning author, multi-time founder, executive producer and host of the Good Life Project podcast, and co-host of SPARKED, too! He's also the creator of an unusual tool that's helped more than 650,000 people discover what kind of work makes them come alive - the Sparketype® Assessment, and author of the bestselling book, SPARKED. How to submit your question for the SPARKED Braintrust: Wisdom-seeker submissions More on Sparketypes at: Discover You Sparketype | The Book | The Workshop | The Website Presented by LinkedIn.

For moms juggling businesses and family, the pressure to "do it all" doesn't just feel overwhelming—it feels impossible. The push to work faster, harder, and longer leads to exhaustion, frustration, and a sense of failure when life doesn't go according to plan.  For years, we've been sold the idea that hustle = success. But the more we embrace the hustle culture, the more we sacrifice our health, relationships, and happiness. There's a better way to build your dream business, one that doesn't leave you feeling drained. How would your life and business look if you didn't have to do everything all at once? What if slowing down and focusing on fewer things actually made you feel happier and more successful? In this episode, I welcome back published author, keynote & TEDx speaker Jadah Sellner, who shares her “anti-hustle” approach to growing a business that nourishes your life instead of depleting it. If you've been feeling the pressure to juggle every role at lightning speed, this episode is your invitation to pause.   Things You'll Learn In This Episode  Why hustling isn't the only path to success Hustle culture tells us to go faster, do more, and never stop. But what if slowing down actually helped you achieve more? How to build a business that fits your life You can create a business that makes you happy and doesn't leave you feeling tired all the time. How can you enjoy your work without feeling overwhelmed? Why saying "no" is important Not everything is worth your time. Learning to say "no" helps you focus on what really matters. What can you let go of to make more room for what's important? Guest Bio Jadah Sellner is a bestselling author, business coach, international keynote speaker, TEDx presenter, poet, and host of the Lead with Love® podcast. She's the author of SHE BUILDS: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life. She's also the co-author of the best-selling book Simple Green Smoothies where over one million people have embraced this simple and healthy habit. As the founder of Jadah Sellner Media, Inc. and She Builds Collective, Jadah helps women build their businesses and their lives in a way that works for them—–with love. She has been featured in Forbes, O, The Oprah Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal.  When Jadah's not speaking on stage, you can catch her dancing to Beyoncé in her living room or sipping on a Chai tea latte by a cozy fireplace. She lives in the San Francisco bay area with her husband, daughter, and dog Beesly. Follow Jadah on Instagram Connect with Jadah on Facebook Join Jadah's professional network on LinkedIn Grab your copy of She Builds and start growing your business while nourishing your life. Visit shebuilds.com for more information. Join Jadah's supportive community for women entrepreneurs at the She Builds Collective, an Anti-Hustle Support System to scale your business & sustain your life. Get access to Jadah's Vision Planning Workshop for FREE using our exclusive promo code, BOSSMOM. Head to shebuilds.com/vision to claim your spot and start crafting your dream life and business. Learn more about Jadah's exclusive retreats for women entrepreneurs at jadahsellner.com/retreat. Join a community of inspiring women to create a plan for your big mission and vision!   Check out this episode on our website, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify, and don't forget to leave a review if you had a blast listening to this show. Your review will help our show grow and help us connect with more amazing people like you. Thank you for being awesome!   

This week on the SPARKED podcast, we invited a listener to share what's going on in their work & life, then pose a specific question to Jonathan Fields and a rotating lineup of wise and kind mentors - the SPARKED Braintrust.  In today's episode we're in conversation with: SPARKED BRAINTRUST ADVISOR: Jadah Sellner | Website Jadah is a multi-time founder and CEO of Jadah Sellner Media, the co-creator of the Simple Green Smoothies social and business phenom, sought-after advisor to entrepreneurs, and bestselling author. LISTENER: Quentin - Sparketype: Primary: Nurturer, Shadow: Advisor, Anti: Performer QUESTION: Listener Quentin asks a very interesting question, can your interests and therefore your Sparketype, change over time? Or is it a matter of understanding what your primary impulses are and how they are best expressed in different seasons of life, and shifting around them? Quentin puts forward a query we often get at Sparketype HQ - can you do your Sparketype assessment more than once and will it change over the course of your life? But there are some bigger, deeper questions embedded once we dive into what's really going on here. YOUR HOST: Jonathan Fields Jonathan is a dad, husband, award-winning author, multi-time founder, executive producer and host of the Good Life Project podcast, and co-host of SPARKED, too! He's also the creator of an unusual tool that's helped more than 850,000 people discover what kind of work makes them come alive - the Sparketype® Assessment, and author of the bestselling book, SPARKED. How to submit your question for the SPARKED Braintrust: Wisdom-seeker submissions More on Sparketypes at: Discover Your Sparketype | The Book | The Website Find a Certified Sparketype Advisor: CSA Directory Presented by LinkedIn. This episode was originally published in June 2022 and shares context relevant to that time period.

Jadah is a bestselling author, business coach, international keynote speaker, TEDx presenter, poet, and host of the Lead with Love® podcast. She's the author of SHE BUILDS: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and NourishYour Life. She's also the co-author of the best-selling book Simple Green Smoothies where over one million people have embraced this simple and healthy habit. As the founder of Jadah Sellner Media, Inc. and She Builds Collective, Jadah helps women build their businesses and their lives in a way that works for them—–with love. She has been featured in Forbes, The Oprah Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and more… In this episode we chat with her about how entrepreneurship found her, the reality of burnout and why she's sharing how to lead with your heart. SHOW NOTES 00:00 Intro 00:43 Yala Sponsor Ad: get 20% off using SHEDESIGNS code 01:29  Who is Jadah Sellner?  2:32  Entrepreneur not by accident, but by necessity  (the entrepreneur journey) 5:27  The Hustle Culture 8:03  Burnout 12:36  Creating a Support Squad 18:46 Refilling your well: tools for depletion 23:00 Golden Nugget (energy audit & define your enough number) 26:36  Future visioning process       Find Jadah here:  Website- https://jadahsellner.com/ Lead with Love Podcast- https://jadahsellner.com/podcast/ She Builds book- https://www.amazon.com/She-Builds-Anti-Hustle-Business-Nourish-ebook/dp/B09RWWHXHD   JADAH'S LISTENER'S GIFT: Build Your Vision Workshop (self guided course)  https://jadahsellner.com/build-your-vision-sales-page/ Coupon Code: SHEDESIGNS   Join our community! Follow this podcast and share with a friend! Follow us on Instagram and let us know what you'd like for us to cover and any nominations for guests Sign up for our newsletter to get the latest updates on episode and exciting events Live your life by design. 

If you're thinking of making a career change then you're in the right place. In each episode I chat to ordinary people who have made extraordinary career changes. I hope you enjoy this conversation and if you're feeling stuck in your career, let me help. I'm Yesim Nicholson and I work with people all over the world who have lost the joy in their work. Sometimes it will take a radical change to find work that feels meaningful to you. Other times it's small tweaks to your existing situation. Together we'll work out what's best for you! Connect with me https://www.linkedin.com/in/yesimnicholson/

Ever feel like you've just outgrown your surroundings, and your environment is actually limiting your growth? Like the desk, room, studio, space that got you here just isn't working for you any more? Maybe, it's even working against you? Our workspace has a profound effect on us, our work, and even our wellbeing, relationships, and interactions. It impacts our ability to show up as our best selves, and do our best work. Yet, we rarely ever get genuinely intentional about it.  If your surroundings have started to limit your growth, you're not alone. Question is, how do we recognize these moments? And, more important, once we do, what can we do about it? In today's episode we're digging into: Reimagining physical spaces for creativity and growth   Creating intentional work environments that support wellbeing Outgrowing previous spaces due to personal evolution Designing multi-use spaces for flexibility and collaboration  Leaders rethinking office spaces to bridge remote work divide And we're in conversation with: SPARKED HOT TAKE WITH: Jadah Sellner | Website Jadah is a multi-time founder and CEO of Jadah Sellner Media, the co-creator of the Simple Green Smoothies social and business phenom, sought-after advisor to entrepreneurs, and bestselling author, including her new book, ‘She Builds: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life', order a copy here. YOUR HOST: Jonathan Fields Jonathan is a dad, husband, award-winning author, multi-time founder, executive producer and host of the Good Life Project podcast, and co-host of SPARKED, too! He's also the creator of an unusual tool that's helped more than 650,000 people discover what kind of work makes them come alive - the Sparketype® Assessment, and author of the bestselling book, SPARKED. How to submit your question for the SPARKED Braintrust: Wisdom-seeker submissions More on Sparketypes at: Discover You Sparketype | The Book | The Website Find an Certified Sparketype Advisor: CSA Directory Presented by LinkedIn.

“Don't put a timeline on your dreams, put a timeline on your action.” ~ Jadah Sellner   In this episode of The Widest Net Podcast, Pam is joined by the esteemed Jadah Sellner. With a wealth of experience, Jadah cracks the code of sustainable success, avoiding the pitfalls of hustle culture. An accomplished author of bestsellers like Simple Green Smoothies and SHE BUILDS: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life, Jadah offers insights into cultivating businesses that align with nourishing life principles. Beyond her writing, Jadah is recognized internationally as a keynote speaker and TEDx presenter, enriching her reputation. As a business coach, she specializes in helping women delicately balance their professional endeavors with personal fulfillment—an insight she shares on her podcast, Lead with Love. By underlining the value of embracing seasonality, Jadah encourages entrepreneurs to harmonize with the ebb and flow of business and personal life, rather than working against it.   Here's what you can expect from this episode:  Navigate the complex terrain of hustle culture and its opposing philosophies, uncovering novel pathways to success that don't lead to burnout Absorb how in-person activations and retreats can significantly enhance the solidification of your business ideologies Figure out the seemingly complex relationship between seasonality in business and personal life, and its ultimate influence on your growth curve Unravel Jadah Sellner's "LOVE" framework and understand how it strengthens a strong business base Acquire skills to mend your relationship with your business, focusing on maneuvering around the dark shadow of burnout Remember we all need each other - life and work is better together.   Resources mentioned in this episode:  Free Gift: Build Your Vision Workshop, USE code WIDESTNET to get it for free - shebuilds.com/vision  Book: SHE BUILDS: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life Jadah Sellner Media Inc Jadah Sellner - LinkedIn Jadah Sellner - Instagram Jadah Sellner - Facebook The Widest Net Book by Pamela Slim   Connect with The Widest Net Podcast If you haven't done so already, subscribe to the podcast. Published episodes will come directly to your favorite podcast app.  If you enjoyed the show, please rate it on Apple Podcasts with a short review. Doing so will help me reach more entrepreneurs and small business owners just like you.  Connect with Pam directly on LinkedIn

This week on the show I interview Jadah Sellner, bestselling author, business coach, international keynote speaker, TEDx presenter, poet, and host of the Lead with Love podcast. She's the author of SHE BUILDS: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and NourishYour Life. She's also the co-author of the best-selling book Simple Green Smoothies.As the founder of Jadah Sellner Media, Inc. and She Builds Collective, Jadah helps women build their businesses and their lives in a way that works for them—–with love. The book she's reading: Come as You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski The Well Woman Show is a media partner for the following conference and I'm really looking forward to it. Join me! The 4th SCORE Women In Business Conference is Thursday September 21st in Santa Fe: It's called Doing Well While Doing Good - Flexible Solutions for a Collaborative Future and it helps local business people explore solutions at every stage of their business. and will feature a collection of thought leaders and visionaries ready to build a stronger and more resilient business environment. Featured speakers include: ● Victoria Price moderates the conference. Inspirational speaker, author, blogger, consultant, coach. ● Patricia Quintana - Owner & operator of Rancho La Fina Lamb and Wool and De La Tierra Consulting LLC, Taos, NM ● Jadah Sellner - Motivational Speaker and author of: She Builds: The Anti- Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life ● Erin Wade - Farmer, entrepreneur and founder of Vinaigrette & Modern General restaurants, new author, releasing her first book early 2024. Join me 9:30-2:30 Thursday September 21 at the Scottish Rite temple in Santa Fe. HOW MUCH: $40.00 Registration includes casual lunch. Reserve your spot: https://score.tfaforms.net/17?EventID=a105a000009oJBE Also, you can join Jadah Sellner at an intimate evening event that same day! A She Builds Community Event with Jadah Sellner ]( A She Builds Community Event with Jadah Sellner ‌ A gift from Jadah: shebuilds.com/vision use code: wellwoman to get the workshop for free (usually $97) The Well Woman Show is thankful for support from The Well Woman Academy at wellwomanlife.com/academy. Join us in the Academy for the community, mindfulness practices, and strategy to live your Well Woman Life.

Have you ever felt like you're on a hamster wheel, constantly running, but not getting anywhere? It's easy to get caught up in the day-to-day routine of life and business, losing sight of the bigger picture. But what if you could hit pause and take a moment to reflect on the past year and plan for the future? In this Sparked Hot Take episode, Sparked Braintrust mentor, Jadah Sellner, and I explore a powerful practice, built around an annual family retreat that integrates personal and business goals. Jadah is a multi-time founder and CEO of Jadah Sellner Media and the She Builds Collective, the co-creator of the Simple Green Smoothies social and business phenom, sought-after advisor to entrepreneurs, and bestselling author.  In this episode, Jadah details her annual family retreat and the prompts she uses to create a thoughtful experience that integrates personal and business goals. You'll discover the ground rules for the retreat, including negotiation and decision-making processes. You'll also learn about the exercises and strategic planning involved in identifying priorities and action items. But it's not all work and no play. The retreat also includes rest and restoration, and it's the perfect opportunity to recharge for the year ahead.  Jadah and her family have been practicing this retreat since 2017, and it has transformed their lives. The retreat involves reflection, celebration, and planning for the future, and it's not just for families. Jadah uses this process with pretty much all of her business clients as well, and the revelations and sense of purpose and direction are always powerful. So, if you're ready to hit pause and take a moment to reflect on the past year and plan for the future, then this episode is for you. You'll learn about the process of dreaming and planning for the next six months, and how to create a "next level vision" for your life and business. And who knows, maybe you'll even be inspired to start your own annual family retreat.  SPARKED HOT TAKE WITH: Jadah Sellner | Website Jadah is a multi-time founder and CEO of Jadah Sellner Media, the co-creator of the Simple Green Smoothies social and business phenom, sought-after advisor to entrepreneurs, and bestselling author, including her new book, ‘She Builds: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life', order a copy here. AND HOSTED BY: Jonathan Fields Jonathan is a dad, husband, award-winning author, multi-time founder, executive producer and host of the Good Life Project podcast, and co-host of SPARKED, too! He's also the creator of an unusual tool that's helped more than 650,000 people discover what kind of work makes them come alive - the Sparketype® Assessment, and author of the bestselling book, SPARKED. How to submit your question for the SPARKED Braintrust: Wisdom-seeker submissions More on Sparketypes at: Discover You Sparketype | The Book | The Website Read more on the Sparked Newsletter on LinkedIn. Connect with Jonathan Fields on LinkedIn. Presented by LinkedIn.

Smoothie Queen Meg Kennedy stops by to make us drink our green veggies! She tells of her decades-long love of all smoothies and how the book Simple Green Smoothies inspired her.Rob makes some resolutions and calls his dad. Josh admits to hating chia seeds and wonders about a different life.Originally Aired January 24, 2019MGS (Meg's Green Smothie)1 cup Spinach1 cup Almond or Coconut Milk1 cup Antioxidant Frozen Fruit Blend From Target1 Banana3 tbs Chia SeedsCamelot Cooler3 oz Coconut Rum1 cup Spinach1 cup Coconut Milk1 cup pinapple1 Banana1/2 Cup of Almond MilkPoured into popsicle molds and frozen

Can social conditioning, past experiences, and external pressure affect the way we explore figuring out our Sparketype? Or, for that matter, any metric we might look to, as a way to help figure out what drives us? And how do we turn down the volume on social conditioning and perceived expectations, determine what our “truest truths” really are, and express ourselves in a more aligned way? Today's listener, Sarah, asks these interesting questions, after re-taking the Sparketypes Assessment a year later and getting a result she felt was much closer to who she really was.  Jonathan & Jadah offer: How to acknowledge what you've already uncovered Avoiding the trap of comparing ourselves to our past selves when our seasons of life change Asking ‘where is the social conditioning coming from?' Two ways to gather information and come to an answers Why we should build in unstructured and unscheduled days/time How to know if your sparketype is right for you? In today's episode we're in conversation with: SPARKED BRAINTRUST ADVISOR: Jadah Sellner | Website Jadah is a multi-time founder and CEO of Jadah Sellner Media, the co-creator of the Simple Green Smoothies social and business phenom, sought-after advisor to entrepreneurs, and bestselling author, including her new book, ‘She Builds: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life', now available for pre-order. LISTENER: Sarah - Sparketype: Sage (Primary), Scientist (Shadow), Advocate (Anti) QUESTION: Today's listener, Sarah, shares her experience of supporting multi-billion dollar retail businesses, as the head of change management and helping people and businesses work through transformations. She has been the right hand to many high level execs and spearheaded big results and impact but like so many of us, done so at her own expense and with a lot of burnout. After becoming a new mom in the depths of the Global Pandemic, she resigned from her executive position. Now Sarah is at a crossroads with a solid foundation of skills and accomplishments but this time wants to create a chapter of work that is more aligned with her innate impulses. She shares that she has achieved success in the past with hustle and no spark and this time wants to find more flow and bring back the spark. To do this she wants to have a deeper understanding of her Sparketype, especially since she received a different result having retaken the assessment after all the above shifts. It brings her to her main question - can your past experiences, especially challenging or traumatic ones, distort your view of yourself and therefore affect your Sparketype results? Can social conditioning and external feedback interfere with finding work and expression that is more aligned for us - and if so, how do we reduce its impact or even eliminate it altogether? YOUR HOST: Jonathan Fields Jonathan is a dad, husband, award-winning author, multi-time founder, executive producer and host of the Good Life Project podcast, and co-host of SPARKED, too! He's also the creator of an unusual tool that's helped more than 650,000 people discover what kind of work makes them come alive - the Sparketype® Assessment, and author of the bestselling book, SPARKED. So what is your Sparketype? Turns out, we all have a unique imprint for work that makes us come alive, this is your Sparketype. When you discover yours, everything, your entire work-life- and even parts of your personal life and relationships - begins to make sense. Until you know yours, you're kind of fumbling in the dark.  How to submit your question for the SPARKED Braintrust: Wisdom-seeker submissions More on Sparketypes at: Discover You Sparketype | The Book | The Website Presented by LinkedIn.

As Boss Moms, we tend to bite off more than we can chew, and say yes to whatever comes our way even if it doesn't align with where we want to be. Toxic hustle culture holds us to an unhealthy standard, leaving us with less time for the things that truly energize us.   It takes work to build a business and raise a family, so how can we track our time so that it's spent doing the things that matter to us? Can we break away from hustle culture and reclaim our energy so that we are more energized to work on our passions?   In this episode, best-selling author and TEDx speaker Jadah Sellner returns to discuss some important aspects of her book She Builds: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life which shares a new entrepreneurial model for women, one that focuses on reclaiming your time and energy and doing business on your own terms. We also chat about toxic hustle culture and how to break away from it.   For decades we've been reading business books that don't reflect our truth. -Jadah Sellner   3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode   How to embrace working at your own paceHow do we work in a way that doesn't deplete us and build and grow the way we want? Detoxing from hustle cultureWe tend to hold ourselves to a metric of success that hustle culture pushes. Why should we not compare ourselves to the standards set by hustle culture? How to start reclaiming your timeHow can we track how we spend our time so that we can prioritize the things that energize us?   Guest Bio   Jadah Sellner is a bestselling author, business coach, international keynote speaker, TEDx presenter, poet, and host of the Lead with Love® podcast. She's the author of SHE BUILDS: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life. She's also the co-author of the best-selling book Simple Green Smoothies where over one million people have embraced this simple and healthy habit.   As the founder of Jadah Sellner Media, Inc. and She Builds Collective, Jadah helps women build their businesses and their lives in a way that works for them—–with love. She has been featured in Forbes, O, The Oprah Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. Learn more at jadahsellner.com or follow her on social media at @jadahsellner   When Jadah's not speaking on stage, you can catch her dancing to Beyoncé in her living room or sipping on a Chai tea latte by a cozy fireplace. She lives in the San Francisco bay area with her husband, daughter, and dog Beesly.   Visit https://shebuilds.com/  Find Jadah's book on Amazon She Builds: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life

Can magic strike twice? As we learn in this episode, it most certainly can. Charlie welcomes Jadah Sellner, best-selling author, business coach, and the host of the Lead with Love podcast. Jadah shares wisdom from her own experience of going from the “green smoothie girl” to an anti-hustle and pro-sustainable leadership business coach. Jadah talks more about her #shebuilds movement, which helps founders build sustainable businesses without burnout, some tips on moving forward when you feel like you've outgrown your current situation, and how we can apply anti-hustle productivity in our personal and professional lives. Jadah and Charlie talk about their creative process of book writing, moving from fear to love, and how we can define our “enough” to move through the world more intentionally.Key Takeaways:[3:41] Jadah talks about co-founding Simple Green Smoothies with her then-business partner Jen, and the interesting journey to have the conscious uncoupling not only with a business partner but with an identity of a body of work that she built.[5:20] Can magic strike twice? The answer is yes.[5:58] What should you do when you feel stuck in a pattern, yet your heart and soul call you in a new direction?[10:08] Sometimes we need separation to rebuild on our own and find our way.[10:52] Jadah shares a few people and situations that helped her create her own skill set and tools to pull from in her current life.[11:13] How is She Builds different from anything Jadah has done before?[12:17] Pay attention to where your natural curiosity and interest lie.[14:31] Jadah is an immersive creator, and she talks about giving herself the space to process and creatively cocoon while she is going through the process of creative writing and output.[17:41] Things flow much more easily when we embrace the fact that each project brings a new creative process.[23:15] The core message behind She Builds is that hustle culture isn't working for women.[32:51] Sometimes advocating for yourself also means having to push back deadlines and be honest with yourself and others that things may not happen on the exact day you plan for them to happen.[38:55] How can we move from fear to love? Jadah breaks down her definition of “L.O.V.E.”: lead, optimize, visualize, and expand.[41:23] In a world where your to-do list can be a bottomless mimosa, it's important to have an intentional and practical relationship with your to-do list.[48:47] Jadah's growth edge now is being in a creative process with her book.[50:43] Jadah's challenge: define your “enough” number. It is personal for everyone and can help move you out of hustle culture.Mentioned in this episode:Productive FlourishingStart Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done, by Charlie GilkeyThe AcademyMomentum AppJadah Sellner@jadahsellnerLead with Love PodcastShe Builds: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your LifeElizabeth GilbertNeil GaimanToni Morrison

In 2015, when Mother's Quest was still a dream in my heart, I heard an interview with an inspiring mother, Jadah Sellner, on the Good Life Project Podcast. She and her partner had co-created what became in a short time a viral phenomenon and seven figure flourishing business, called Simple Green Smoothies, built on a premise: add greens to a smoothie each day and see how it could spark change within. From that moment forward, I found inspiration in Jadah's journey and know that her quest planted seeds for me to pursue mine. I noticed that she led with heart and followed her dreams while staying committed to being present for her daughter. I learned from her as I watched her bring forward the Simple Green Smoothies book that became a best-seller, as she took to the TEDx stage integrating her spoken word poetry into her message, as she made the difficult decision to leave Simple Green Smoothies when she realized it was no longer fulfilling her, and when she pressed pause on her work to grieve and heal after a series of profound personal losses.  Today, as the founder of Jadah Sellner Media, Inc., and She Builds Collective and host of the Lead with Love Podcast, Jadah helps women build their businesses and their lives in a way that works for them—with love. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, daughter, and dog, Beesly. And this week, she culminated another journey that spanned years, that she allowed to slow cook in its own right timing, with the release of her new book published by Harper Collins, She Builds: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life. In this conversation, with each E.P.I.C. Guidepost we explore, Jadah shares with heart, humor, metaphor and tangible examples, how she brings an ease-filled, anti-hustle approach to engaging with her daughter, to pursuing her purposeful impact, to investing in herself and to building deep relationships, a practice she learned as an adult, when she changed childhood patterns and decided to bloom where she is planted. Every chapter of Jadah's new book and every EPIC guidepost exploration in this episode is an invitation for us to choose an intentional empowering and nurturing perspective for living our E.P.I.C. lives.  If you've been seeking a more sustainable path, free from burnout and rooted in your well-being, I hope that Jadah's book and this conversation help you claim a new way forward. Because as Jadah says,  “Collectively we know that the hustle culture isn't working for us. We build differently; we Build with L.O.V.E.” About Jadah Sellner: Jadah Sellner is a bestselling author, business coach, international keynote and TEDx speaker, poet, and host of Lead with Love podcast. She's the coauthor of the bestselling book Simple Green Smoothies and has been featured in Forbes; O, The Oprah Magazine; and the Wall Street Journal. As the founder of Jadah Sellner Media, Inc., and She Builds Collective, Jadah helps women build their businesses and their lives in a way that works for them—with love. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, daughter, and dog, Beesly.   Connect with Jadah: Website | jadahsellner.com/about/ Facebook | www.facebook.com/jadahsellner/ Twitter | @JadahSellner Instagram | @jadahsellner  LinkedIn | www.linkedin.com/in/jadahsellner/   Topics Discussed in this Episode: The gift of pursuing her creativity that Jadah's mother gave to her The moment when Jadah disrupted childhood patterns and decided to bloom where she was planted  What Jadah is most on a quest for today…learning how to receive love as much as she gives Jadah's suggestions for creating no-judgement spaces to help our children to open up and express themselves The slow cooker vs. pressure cooker analogy approach for how to detox from hustle culture in life and business Different approaches in different seasons of your life: pausing, pivoting, or accelerating push The importance of investing in yourself by gathering your support squad 5 minute suggestions for “state change” you can feel in your body Masterminds and how they help generate ideas and solutions from one person to another Simple practices to try when life starts to feel out of alignment   Resources Mentioned: She Builds: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life www.amazon.com/She-Builds-Anti-Hustle-Business-Nourish-ebook/dp/B09RWWHXHD Simple Green Smoothies: 100+ Tasty Recipes to Lose Weight, Gain Energy, and Feel Great in Your Body www.amazon.com/Simple-Green-Smoothies-Recipes-Weight/dp/1623366410 Episode where I first heard Jadah on the Good Life Project Podcast. https://www.goodlifeproject.com/podcast/jadah-jen-simple-green-smoothies/ The Mother's Quest Manifesto Challege Self-Guided Course which links to a FB live recording Jadah shared  in the Mother's Quest Community.    This Episode's Challenge:  Nurture your life by cultivating relationships. Jadah challenges you to 10 seconds of bravery. Find a way to connect with someone you want to go deeper with; send them a text or an audio message, invite them to a cafe or a walk, send them an email. Try letting someone know how they have impacted your life without expecting anything in return.    This Episode is dedicated by Jennifer Kem Jennifer Kem is a San Francisco Bay Area-based brand building and leadership expert who gets entrepreneurs seen, heard, and paid for being themselves.  She's the creator of the Master Brand Method: a framework to develop powerful brands that win customers' hearts, which she uses in strategic consulting for emerging entrepreneurs, celebrity brands like Oprah Winfrey Network and Steve Harvey, and major corporations including Verizon, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Bank of Hawaii.  She is a successful owner of three multimillion-dollar businesses and the proud mother of three children. Title: Brand Futurist and CEO of Master Brand Institute    Links Website: https://www.JenniferKem.com YouTube: www.JenniferKem.com/YouTube Instagram: @jennifer.kem // https://www.instagram.com/jennifer.kem/ Facebook: @JenniferKemComm // https://www.facebook.com/JenniferKemComm/ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jenniferkem Twitter: https://twitter.com/_JenniferKem_ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jenniferkem/   Gift from Jen for the Mother's Quest Community JenniferKem.com/MOTHERSQUEST - gives you full access to her signature Brand Archetype Assessment, a $250 value.     Mother's Quest is a podcast and community for moms who are ready to live a truly E.P.I.C. life. Join in for intimate conversations with a diverse group of inspiring mothers as they share how they are living an E.P.I.C. life, Engaging mindfully with their children (E), Passionately and Purposefully making a difference beyond their family (P), Investing in themselves (I), and Connecting to a strong support network (C). Join our community of mothers to light the way and sustain you on your quest at www.facebook.com/groups/mothersquest  

Imagine, after years of struggling to find your way in different careers and trying out business ideas, you created something that exploded in the best of ways. A business serving thousands of people, a great living, security, possibility, an amazing channel of expression. And, then, over time, you realized you'd bought into a way of doing things that went against the essence of who you were. And, you started to feel called to do something else?Would you walk away from that success, trusting once again, that joyful lightning could, in fact, strike twice, without even knowing what your next move would be? That is exactly the question today's guest, Jadah Sellner, faced. After co-founding and growing Simple Green Smoothies into a viral phenomenon and a flourishing 7-figure business in an astonishingly short period of time. She did the unthinkable. She exited the business, selling her interest, and bet on herself, and her belief that she could figure out how to craft her living, once again, in a way that better fit her evolving values, lens on life, and approach to service. Leaving behind the never-stop-working hustle culture approach and betting on creativity and love.Jadah Sellner is a bestselling author, business coach, international keynote speaker, poet, and host of the Lead with Love podcast. Her new book, She Builds: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life, uncovers a framework for women entrepreneurs to create a business on their own terms.You can find Jadah at: Website | InstagramIf you LOVED this episode you'll also love the conversations we had with Jen Sincero about being a badass at money and life.Check out our offerings & partners: My New Book SparkedMy New Podcast SPARKEDVisit Our Sponsor Page For Great Resources & Discount CodesIndeed: Connect with your talent audience so you can make more quality hires faster. Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to sponsor your job post at Indeed.com/GOODLIFE. Offer good for a limited time. Terms and conditions apply. Need to hire? You need Indeed.Scribd: The world's largest digital library. Enjoy millions of eBooks, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts, sheet music, and documents. Get inspired by Keith Boykin with Quitting today with a FREE 60-day trial at try.scribd.com/GLP. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today I have my friend Jadah Sellner back on the podcast. The last time I had Jadah on the show, she and I discussed how she created Simple Green Smoothies with her partner Jen Hansard. But since then, Jadah has exited that company and is now on a mission to help others build sustainable small businesses without burning out. In this episode, you’ll learn how to build a business you love. What You’ll Learn The dark side of entrepreneurship How to create a business that suit your life How to apply Jadah’s love method to business Other Resources And Books […] The post 431: The Dark Side Of Entrepreneurship And How To Build A Business You Love With Jadah Sellner appeared first on MyWifeQuitHerJob.com.

When it comes to building a business, we've long heard entrepreneurs talk about the value of hustling, grinding, and working 80-hour weeks to “get sh*t done”. And while this might result in success, it also often ends in burnout. What if there were another way? One where you could build a business from your feminine essence, where you allow yourself to pivot and follow your joy, and where you surround yourself with a team of people who want to see you flourish. Well, loves, in this super inspiring episode of The Brave Table, my guest Jadah Sellner has so many nuggets of wisdom for all you ambitious women out there building your empire — and how to do it on your terms with ease and flow.  Jadah Sellner is a bestselling author, business coach, international keynote speaker, TEDx presenter, poet, and host of the Lead with Love® podcast. She's the author of SHE BUILDS: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life. She's also the co-author of the best-selling book Simple Green Smoothies where over one million people have embraced this simple and healthy habit.   Here's a taste of what we get into… - Finding and honoring your limits of “enough”  - How to cultivate bravery in just 10 seconds - Using social media to build your community - Saying NO to hustle culture  - Following your instinct when it's time to pivot - How to find your support squad and cope with “micro-rejections” - And so much more If you loved this episode, make sure you check out…  - Jadah's new book, SHE BUILDS, at www.shebuilds.com  - Find her on Instagram @jadahsellner  - Visit her website at https://jadahsellner.com/ - Episode 42: Taking Ownership of Your Life and Reframing Your Reality with Emily Hirsh - Episode 70: How To Be Brave in Creating Deep Friendships and Meaningful Support Circles - Episode 82: Shifting Identities, Discovering Your Brand, and Balancing Motherhood With Being a Boss with Jennifer Kem P.S. We talk about finding your support squad in this episode, and I have just the tool to help! When you pre-order 3 copies of my upcoming book, That Sucked. Now What? You'll get my FREE how-to guide for creating deeper friendships & leading your own Support Soul Posse. Grab your copies and juicy bonuses here, available for a limited time!

Jadah Sellner is a bestselling author, business coach, international keynote speaker, TEDx presenter, poet, and host of the Lead with Love® podcast. She's the author of SHE BUILDS: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life. She's also the co-author of the best-selling book Simple Green Smoothies where over one million people have embraced this simple and healthy habit. As the founder of Jadah Sellner Media, Inc. and She Builds Collective, Jadah helps women build their businesses and their lives in a way that works for them—–with love. She has been featured in Forbes, O, The Oprah Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. So, this is Jadah's second time on the show – our first conversation was back in 2018, episode number 27. Way back in the beginning of this podcast. And I'm so excited to have her on again because this woman has had such an influence on me and how I run my business. In this episode, we chat about her transition from co-owner of a wellness business to being a full-time business mentor, why her journey with burnout was what got her curious about how to do business differently, her process for developing the Build with Love methodology that invites entrepreneurs to prioritize their actual life, joys, and wellbeing right alongside their businesses, the beliefs about success that so many of us carry, where they come from and how they limit us as we pursue work we love, how to course correct if you find yourself caught in a cycle of pressure, comparison, competition, and a desire to succeed ASAP - so that you can build your business consciously, why she wrote her amazing new book She Builds, what it was like to take this big project on, and how she applied her own methodology to do it well, and so much more!   To learn more about Jadah Sellner and the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes.   Follow Me On: Facebook Instagram

So many people have said yes to the quest to blaze their own paths in business over these last few years, whether founding a company, a private practice or any other endeavor. When building a business from scratch, it can feel like we need to wear all the hats. All the time. So how do we do that when not everything is a natural talent or drive or impulse? Often, we yearn to do just parts we're good at, and that light us up. And we want to run from all the other necessary, but emptying work. But there's no one else to do that work. Jonathan & Jadah discuss: How can you reframe what sales means to you What do you actually need to start a business Reimagining ways of getting more support Coaching in a field you once worked in Giving yourself grace as a beginner In today's episode we're in conversation with: SPARKED BRAINTRUST ADVISOR: Jadah Sellner | Website Jadah is a multi-time founder and CEO of Jadah Sellner Media, the co-creator of the Simple Green Smoothies social and business phenom, sought-after advisor to entrepreneurs, and bestselling author, including her new book, ‘She Builds: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life', now available for pre-order. LISTENER: Natalie - Sparketype: Nurturer/Advisor QUESTION: Listener, Natalie, shares her story of the past year and all the big shifts, including a personal journey into wellness, healing modalities and mindfulness while working as an ICU Registered Nurse and then losing her job due to a medical issue. She reframed that moment as an opportunity to follow her emerging passion and build a business as a wellness coach and a meditation teacher. And she's wondering how to stand in the work that lights you up when you're starting something new and, by the very nature of a new business, you have to do so many other things that don't play nice with what Sparks you? Are there unique ways we can approach structure, process, technology, marketing, sales, systems and more that bring less resistance and more ease to the experience? YOUR HOST: Jonathan Fields Jonathan is a dad, husband, award-winning author, multi-time founder, executive producer and host of the Good Life Project podcast, and co-host of SPARKED, too! He's also the creator of an unusual tool that's helped more than 650,000 people discover what kind of work makes them come alive - the Sparketype® Assessment, and author of the bestselling book, SPARKED. So what is your Sparketype? Turns out, we all have a unique imprint for work that makes us come alive, this is your Sparketype. When you discover yours, everything, your entire work-life- and even parts of your personal life and relationships - begins to make sense. Until you know yours, you're kind of fumbling in the dark.  How to submit your question for the SPARKED Braintrust: Wisdom-seeker submissions More on Sparketypes at: Discover You Sparketype | The Book | The Website Presented by LinkedIn.

Jadah Sellner, along with a co-founder, took the business “Simple Green Smoothies” to six- and seven-figure success. But although their work was built on love, fun, creativity, and connection, they gradually lost sight of why they built their business and were soon overly focused on metrics. This all came at a high cost to their relationships, health, and families. It took Jadah selling her half of the company in order to heal, redefine her ambition, and decide where she was willing to put her energy. Taking this step back helped her find a different way to build a business, which is where the inspiration for her book, She Builds, came from. In this episode of “Authors Who Lead,” I talk with Jadah about her journey in writing her book, She Builds: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life. If you haven't listened to our prior conversations about Jadah's book and her entrepreneurial journey, you can listen here on Episode 47, Episode 138, and Episode 182. Want to become a published author? Visit us at: https://authorswholead.com/

“We need people to lean on when things don't go as planned because we're gonna spiral down to the bottom. But then we're going to recover, when we have the processing and sharing in the disappointment, the sadness, the frustration. Naming that when it does happen and it doesn't work out and allowing that part of you to be seen from a safe person is really helpful for you to then get back and try something else again.” Every week on the SPARKED podcast, we invite a listener to share what's going on in their work & life, then pose a specific question to Jonathan Fields and a rotating lineup of wise and kind mentors -  the SPARKED Braintrust.  In today's episode we're in conversation with: SPARKED BRAINTRUST ADVISOR: Jadah Sellner | Website Jadah is a multi-time founder and CEO of Jadah Sellner Media, the co-creator of the Simple Green Smoothies social and business phenom, sought-after advisor to entrepreneurs, and bestselling author. LISTENER: Brandi - Sparketype:  Primary: Nurturer, Shadow: Advocate, Anti: Performer QUESTION: Listener Brandi, sets up a really relatable scenario where as a visionary in her industry she feels frustrated by the slow moving pace of systemic progress. She wants to find a home for her Sparketype drives to Nurturer and Advocate, but feels unfulfilled and bogged down in the day-to-day tasks of her job and volunteer roles. She poses the question, how do you find a way to spotlight a yearning for helping others in a way that feels more impactful and step away from the minutiae of day to day tasks in a culture and system that doesn't easily support a different approach? YOUR HOST: Jonathan Fields Jonathan is a dad, husband, award-winning author, multi-time founder, executive producer and host of the Good Life Project podcast, and co-host of SPARKED, too! He's also the creator of an unusual tool that's helped more than 650,000 people discover what kind of work makes them come alive - the Sparketype® Assessment, and author of the bestselling book, SPARKED. So what is your Sparketype? Turns out, we all have a unique imprint for work that makes us come alive, this is your Sparketype. When you discover yours, everything, your entire work-life- and even parts of your personal life and relationships - begins to make sense. Until you know yours, you're kind of fumbling in the dark.  How to submit your question for the SPARKED Braintrust: Wisdom-seeker submissions More on Sparketypes at: Discover You Sparketype | The Book | The Workshop | The Website Presented by LinkedIn.

Every week on the SPARKED podcast, we invite a listener to share what's going on in their work & life, then pose a specific question to Jonathan Fields and a rotating lineup of wise and kind mentors - the SPARKED Braintrust.  In today's episode we're in conversation with: SPARKED BRAINTRUST ADVISOR: Jadah Sellner | Website Jadah is a multi-time founder and CEO of Jadah Sellner Media, the co-creator of the Simple Green Smoothies social and business phenom, sought-after advisor to entrepreneurs, and bestselling author. LISTENER: Heidi - Sparketype: Advocate/Warrior | Anti Maker QUESTION: Listener Heidi, poses a big question that is very pertinent to this moment in time. She shares her devotion to advocacy particularly around climate activism and asks how do you harness your skillset to show up in work and life and make a meaningful difference? Heidi is hopeful that a lot of us are also asking the same question when it comes to the climate crisis and asks how do you know where to focus your energy to have the biggest impact? YOUR HOST: Jonathan Fields Jonathan is a dad, husband, award-winning author, multi-time founder, executive producer and host of the Good Life Project podcast, and co-host of SPARKED, too! He's also the creator of an unusual tool that's helped more than 650,000 people discover what kind of work makes them come alive - the Sparketype® Assessment, and author of the bestselling book, SPARKED. So what is your Sparketype? Turns out, we all have a unique imprint for work that makes us come alive, this is your Sparketype. When you discover yours, everything, your entire work-life- and even parts of your personal life and relationships - begins to make sense. Until you know yours, you're kind of fumbling in the dark.  How to submit your question for the SPARKED Braintrust: Wisdom-seeker submissions More on Sparketypes at: Discover You Sparketype | The Book | The Workshop | The Website Presented by LinkedIn.

Every week on the SPARKED podcast, we invite a listener to share what's going on in their work & life, then pose a specific question to Jonathan Fields and a rotating lineup of wise and kind mentors - the SPARKED Braintrust.  In today's episode we're in conversation with: SPARKED BRAINTRUST ADVISOR: Jadah Sellner | Website Jadah is a multi-time founder and CEO of Jadah Sellner Media, the co-creator of the Simple Green Smoothies social and business phenom, sought-after advisor to entrepreneurs, and bestselling author. LISTENER: Quentin - Sparketype: Primary: Nurturer, Shadow: Advisor, Anti: Performer QUESTION: Listener Quentin asks a very interesting question, can your interests and therefore your Sparketype, change over time? Or is it a matter of understanding what your primary impulses are and how they are best expressed in different seasons of life, and shifting around them? Quentin puts forward a query we often get at Sparketype HQ - can you do your Sparketype assessment more than once and will it change over the course of your life? But there are some bigger, deeper questions embedded once we dive into what's really going on here. YOUR HOST: Jonathan Fields Jonathan is a dad, husband, award-winning author, multi-time founder, executive producer and host of the Good Life Project podcast, and co-host of SPARKED, too! He's also the creator of an unusual tool that's helped more than 650,000 people discover what kind of work makes them come alive - the Sparketype® Assessment, and author of the bestselling book, SPARKED. So what is your Sparketype? Turns out, we all have a unique imprint for work that makes us come alive, this is your Sparketype. When you discover yours, everything, your entire work-life- and even parts of your personal life and relationships - begins to make sense. Until you know yours, you're kind of fumbling in the dark.  How to submit your question for the SPARKED Braintrust: Wisdom-seeker submissions More on Sparketypes at: Discover You Sparketype | The Book | The Workshop | The Website Presented by LinkedIn.

Every week on the SPARKED podcast, we invite a listener to share what's going on in their work & life, then pose a specific question to Jonathan Fields and a rotating lineup of wise and kind mentors - the SPARKED Braintrust.  In today's episode we're in conversation with: SPARKED BRAINTRUST ADVISOR: Jadah Sellner | Website Jadah is a multi-time founder and CEO of Jadah Sellner Media, the co-creator of the Simple Green Smoothies social and business phenom, sought-after advisor to entrepreneurs, and bestselling author. LISTENER: Nida - Sparketype: Advisor/Advocate QUESTION: Listener Nida shares how she's in a moment where literally every part of her life - her work, her marriage, even the country she's living in - is in a state of profound change, but along the way, she's discovered a passion to help people find their voices, but she also feels like, before she can do that, she need to find her own again. YOUR HOST: Jonathan Fields Jonathan is a dad, husband, award-winning author, multi-time founder, executive producer and host of the Good Life Project podcast, and co-host of SPARKED, too! He's also the creator of an unusual tool that's helped more than 650,000 people discover what kind of work makes them come alive - the Sparketype® Assessment, and author of the bestselling book, SPARKED. So what is your Sparketype? Turns out, we all have a unique imprint for work that makes us come alive, this is your Sparketype. When you discover yours, everything, your entire work-life- and even parts of your personal life and relationships - begins to make sense. Until you know yours, you're kind of fumbling in the dark.  How to submit your question for the SPARKED Braintrust: Wisdom-seeker submissions More on Sparketypes at: Discover You Sparketype | The Book | The Workshop | The Website Presented by LinkedIn.

Every week on the SPARKED podcast, we invite a listener to share what's going on in their work & life, then pose a specific question to Jonathan Fields and a rotating lineup of wise and kind mentors - the SPARKED Braintrust.  In today's episode we're in conversation with: SPARKED BRAINTRUST ADVISOR: Jadah Sellner | Website Jadah is a multi-time founder and CEO of Jadah Sellner Media, the co-creator of the Simple Green Smoothies social and business phenom, sought-after advisor to entrepreneurs, and bestselling author. LISTENER: Becca - Sparketype: Nurturer (Primary)/Advisor (Shadow) | Scientist (Anti) QUESTION: Once you've found what makes your life meaningful, how do you make it sustainable, how do you monetize it AND be careful about the monetizing of it not dipping into the joy that it brings? YOUR HOST: Jonathan Fields Jonathan is a dad, husband, award-winning author, multi-time founder, executive producer and host of the Good Life Project podcast, and co-host of SPARKED, too! He's also the creator of an unusual tool that's helped more than 650,000 people discover what kind of work makes them come alive - the Sparketype® Assessment, and author of the bestselling book, SPARKED. So what is your Sparketype? Turns out, we all have a unique imprint for work that makes us come alive, this is your Sparketype. When you discover yours, everything, your entire work-life- and even parts of your personal life and relationships - begins to make sense. Until you know yours, you're kind of fumbling in the dark.  How to submit your question for the SPARKED Braintrust: Wisdom-seeker submissions More on Sparketypes at: Discover You Sparketype | The Book | The Workshop | The Website Presented by LinkedIn.

It is so important to build real relationships and trust with your peers and community in order to have a business that lasts the test of time. When you nurture a community of people who love what you do, you can create so much success and impact! Even though everyone seems to talk about community building these days, creating an engaged audience is easier said than done when you're competing for small attention spans in the digital world. Join us today to talk about how to build an online community with heart, and in a way that creates genuine connection, authentic engagement, and raving fans! My guest today, Jadah Sellner, is the host of the Lead with Love® podcast, Business Mentor, and a TEDx speaker redefining the future of work for female founders. As the co-founder and author of Simple Green Smoothies (featured in Oprah's O Magazine, the Wall Street Journal and CBS's The Doctors TV Show.), serial entrepreneur and business strategist, Jadah built a community of 355,000 email subscribers and 415,000 Instagram followers. With a simple and inspiring model, Jadah dedicates her time consulting companies and personal brands to build a business and life with love, service, and impact.    What you'll learn in this episode: The importance of connection and building community, and how Jadah built two businesses from scratch How to unhook your self worth from your net worth Why love over metrics is so important How to use free challenges to grow your email list and sell digital products   Subscribe and Review Thanks so much for joining me this week. If you liked what you heard, please leave an honest review for The Success with Soul Podcast on Apple Podcasts so we can improve and better serve you in the future. Plus, you could be featured on a future episode during our listener spotlights. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them. And finally, don't forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts to get automatic updates. My goal for this podcast is to inspire those who seek flexibility and freedom in their lives by making something happen with holistic, soulful, step-by-step strategies from me and other experts.   Links + Resources Mentioned in this Episode:  Don't forget to join the free Success with Soul Facebook community here! We have follow up conversations about the podcast episodes and I often go live to answer your burning questions. 018: Marketing Advice for Your Myers-Briggs Type with Brit Kolo Get Jadah's free 5 Step Challenge Roadmap here! Check out Jadah's She Builds Advisory Program for female founders Essentialism: Do Less But Accomplish More, Guide to Identifying the Essential Things, Focus On and Getting Them Done By Martin Hell Learn more at JadahSellner.com and follow her on social media @jadahsellner Follow me on Instagram @katekordsmeier and @rootandrevel   More Ways to Enjoy Success with Soul Download a transcript of this episode Download on Apple Podcasts Email me new episodes Don't forget to join our free Success With Soul Facebook community for follow-up conversations about the podcast episodes and where I also often go live to answer your burning questions. Hangout with like-minded bloggers and heart-centered online business owners exchanging priceless feedback, encouragement, and other golden insights from the trenches.   EPISODE CREDITS: Produced by Danny Ozment at https://emeraldcitypro.com  

Do you have that rock solid someone who supports you through hard emotional decisions or when you're putting big meaningful work out into the world? In this episode of the Lead with Love podcast, you'll learn one of my secret weapons for birthing big ideas without exhaustion, overwhelm or burnout. In this conversation, I get cozy with my dear friend and personal life coach of over 5 years Rebecca McLoughlin.  Rebecca helps ambitious women hone and balance their “big energy” into focused action and feminine flow. As a Certified Life Coach with a Master's in Counseling Psychology, Rebecca is able to support clients in doing the deep inner work needed to gain insight and free themselves from patterns of procrastination, self sabotage and burn out.  Rebecca's been in my corner both personally and professionally for over 5 years. She was a big catalyst of support in 2016 when I was exiting my company Simple Green Smoothies. She's helped me move forward with numerous big ideas, including my published book coming out in 2022.  In this episode, we talk about the behind the scenes process of how Rebecca has supported me in bringing my book forward as I bring it to the finish line.  What you'll hear (and don't want to miss!): ::  What “big energy” means to Rebecca and how that translates into business practices  :: The ways that she was able to help me change directions when it came to the workflow for writing my latest book :: Tips for fighting resistance you may be facing on your project, and how to break the cycle of guilt ::  The power of retreat and the necessary time with yourself to combat overwhelm :: When to show up for your deadline, and when it's ok to allow it to expand You can find the full show notes from this episode over at jadahsellner.com/187 

Are you curious about all the things that go into writing a book and pouring your heart onto the page?  In this episode, I get cozy with my friend and personal book coach, Azul Terronez, host of the top writing podcast Authors Who Lead™. We're having another behind-the-scenes conversation about my book writing process (and Azuls' process too). You can listen to part one of our conversation here at jadahsellner.com/156 and part two at jadahsellner.com/179 to get caught up. Azul helps authors, entrepreneurs and leaders write and publish books that people love, so they can reach more people, grow their brand, and share their message in an authentic way. He's been called a book whisperer.  Azul walks his talk because his TEDx talk “What Makes a Good Teacher Great” has been viewed over 2.7 million times. Azul's clients have included Wall Street Bestseller, Pat Flynn from the Smart Passive Income Podcast, Jadah Sellner co-founder Simple Green Smoothies (that's me!) and Dana Malstaff the founder of Boss-mom.  What you'll hear (and don't want to miss!): :: Azul's journey of writing a book and coming up with the BE W.I.L.D. framework :: Why it's key to give yourself the time and space to allow the pages of your writing to rest and breathe  :: Azul's tips for finding the right core message to teach the reader of your book  :: Why we write as if we're proving something to someone and learning a different way to approach writing a book  :: What is really holding authors and would be authors back from writing a great book that impacts others :: The single biggest mistake the Azul sees authors making today You can find the full show notes from this episode over at jadahsellner.com/185 

MZD Podcast – Ep 94   Welcome to the Mountain! Well how are you feeling today? Are you the picture of health you always dreamed you would be? Today we're going to talk about cultivating one of the most important aspects of your being – Your Health. Our bodies are tied into our entire being and affect not only the way we feel, but our mind and the way we see the world and interact with everyone around us… that is, our relationships. Have you ever been “hangry”? Then you know what I mean! You're not necessarily mad at the world or angry at the people around you. You're just hungry with low blood sugar and it's affecting your mood at that very moment. For Pete's sake, (everyone else's around you), eat something! Not only are our minds and emotions and relationships affected by our health, but our spiritual well-being is as well. You see, we cannot divide ourselves into fragments of being – saying things like, “Well, we are Spiritual beings, so the Spirit is the only thing that matters!” or, “The Mind is the most important thing, because without thought, there is no being”, or, “No, only the body matters because when the body dies, you die”. The truth is, we are all of those things, Body, Mind and Spirit, and the well-being of each affects the other. Alternative medicine advocate Deepak Chopra tells us in his book, Ageless Body, Timeless Mind,   “The biochemistry of the body is a product of awareness. Beliefs, thoughts, and emotions create the chemical reactions that uphold life in every cell. An aging cell is the end product of awareness that has forgotten how to remain new.”   But how do we remain new? It's a question posed daily, coming at us from every angle through ads and promotions offering anti-aging products, promising that if you buy this or try that, you will look younger, feel better, be sexier, and on and on. Books and magazines and TV show and movies glorify youth and beauty, jumping to the superficial rewards of taking care of yourself; things like glamour and popularity, sex-appeal and even fame, while apparently ignoring the underlying importance of health, well-being and longevity. So back to the question. How do we “remain new”? This is a very deep and involved subject that has been studied and written about in many articles, books and journals filled with hundreds of thousands of pages of research, tests and observations, breaking down the biology of the human body and how it ages, and what it needs for optimum health and performance. I know this is going to sound obvious or over-simplified, but in a nutshell, the answer is simply to live a healthy life. Our bodies were created to regenerate billions of new cells daily, and have been doing it since the day we were born. We know how to, we have simply forgotten that the way to cultivate health is to simply live by health principles. And don't lie to yourself, you KNOW how to do it. Let's dumb it down into seven simple steps: Simply put, get plenty of sleep, eat healthfully, drink plenty of water, abstain from unhealthy ingredients and activities, and exercise regularly. And the two we are primarily here for today, Daily Meditation with Time Spent in Nature. More specifically, here's a quick bullet-point checklist with a few pointers: Sleep – 7 to 8 hours a night. Keep in mind that the hours before midnight are typically the most productive in healing and body repair. Ad avoid erratic sleep times and hours.   Diet – Make it your aim to be a Nutritarian. This means you eat for nutrition, not just flavor, or what seems healthier than just “the bad stuff”. Stay away from processed foods. A quick list of the good stuff might include Greens – Broccoli, Kale, Spinach, Bok Choy and other leafy greens. Fruits like bananas, oranges and lemons pineapple and grapefruit. Berries, like blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and cherries. Eat Onions, Mushrooms, Beans and Seeds like Pumpkin Seeds, Sunflower Seeds, Flax Seeds and Chia Seeds. Daily portions of each of these categories are known sources of full nutrition for a healthy body. And don't forget healthy fats like avocados and nuts, especially walnuts, almonds and pecans. While I really enjoy eggs for breakfast, I replace cow's milk with almond milk and non-fat, plain yogurt with berries or bananas and cinnamon. Other favorites include oatmeal and quinoa. And remember yogurt is a great source of healthy bacteria important for gut health. Now I'm no doctor or health expert, and this is not a comprehensive list, but it's a great place to start the next time you're at the grocery store. By the way, don't forget your vitamins and minerals and things like ginger, turmeric and fish oil. A great book Melissa and I would recommend is Eat Smarter by Stevenson Shawn, where he teaches how to use the power of food to reboot your metabolism, upgrade your brain and transform your life. A wonderful place to start in educating yourself in nutritional health. Another favorite of ours is the website Simple Green Smoothies with Jen Hansard, offering plant-based recipes and ideas for delicious smoothies. Yum!   Drink plenty of water. 64 ounces, or 8 tall glasses a day is recommended. First thing in the morning when I wake up, I like to bath my inner body with a tall glass of water, chased by another half cup of water filled with 3 or 4 splashes of Organic, Raw, Unfiltered Apple Cider Vinegar. The kind with the “Mother” included which contains strands of proteins, enzymes, and friendly bacteria.  It may take a bit getting used to the taste, but it's a great way to lower your blood sugar in the morning, setting the tone for developing a hunger for only healthy foods at the start of the day.   Stay away from things you know are bad for you – tobacco, drugs, excessive alcohol, sugar and processed foods, AND destructive, negative thoughts and behaviors.   Simply put 10,000 steps per day, along with get-your-heart-pumping cardio 3 to 5 times per week. So much more can be said about this but I think you know what this means. Move! By the way, Green Exercise, that is, exercise outdoors is all the better if you can do it. More on this in upcoming episodes.   Meditate daily. This will help you maintain a positive, healthy outlook on life, which influences and affects your entire being dramatically.   And finally, Get Outdoors in Nature, breathe fresh air, walk in beautiful, natural surroundings and fill your heart with the sights, sounds and full-sensory experience if Nature. It has been scientifically proven to: Significantly reduce your stress levels Lower your blood pressure Improves cognitive functioning Control your thoughts and behaviors Improve your relationships Increase your confidence Boost your health in a plethora of ways including, Elevate your mood, happiness & outlook on life So there you have it. All you need to know about how to cultivate health, given in under ten minutes! Remember, if you want to have the energy that it takes to create momentum and change in your life, there is nothing more important, (or irreplaceable) than your health and well-being. Let's revisit Chopra's statement, “The biochemistry of the body is a product of awareness. Beliefs, thoughts, and emotions create the chemical reactions that uphold life in every cell. An aging cell is the end product of awareness that has forgotten how to remain new.” We set up our body by living with healthy principles, and then we help it remember how to remain new through awareness and meditation. So if you're ready, let's begin cultivating health today by integrating our body into the entire experience through today's meditation.

This week on Mind Body Success, we explore the topics of mindset and mindfulness with the CEO of Authors Who Lead, Azul Terronez. We talk about releasing our expectations and turning inwards to gain the necessary confidence to take the leap in starting a personal project. Azul also shares his own journey from educator to best-selling author and book coach, and how his shift in mindset has helped him achieve his lifelong goals. If you want to learn how to incorporate mindfulness and personal development into your everyday life, this week's episode will divulge some of Azul Teronez's best kept secrets on living a more productive and well-balanced lifestyle. Azul Terronez is a former educator, best-selling author, book coach, and CEO of the six-figure company Authors Who Lead. He has coached Wall Street CEOs, health and wellness gurus, and Emmy award-winning producers to help build their confidence, improve their productivity, and increase their visibility within a company. Join us on this week's episode as we learn more about Azul's personal journey from teaching in the classroom to finding the courage by taking the leap in writing his first book. He even shares some of his personally favourite authors who have shifted his mindset and have helped him along his journey. We talk through the best tips, tools, and strategies to overcome challenges and live a life of prosperity and abundance. Buckle-in for an exciting episode on how you can gain the inner confidence and mindset you need to help you reach your lifelong goals! Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on your favorite podcast platform. Topics Covered: Building the necessary self-confidence to help you achieve your goals. Incorporating a positive mindset and achieving mindfulness in your everyday work. Learning how to shift away from the ‘editor mindset' in order to begin a personal project. Exploring whether creativity is something that is innately human or a process that is teachable. Finding and creating unique ideas that have the ability to ignite an inner passion . Resources Mentioned: Authors Who Lead The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level by Gay Hendricks The Joy of Genius: The Next Step Beyond the Big Leap by Gay Hendricks Conscious Luck: Eight Secrets to Intentionally Change Your Fortune by Gay Hendricks and Carol Kline What Makes a Good Teacher Great? TedxSantoDomingo, Azul Terronez The Smart Passive Income Podcast with Pat Flynn The Art of Apprenticeship: How to Hack Your Way into Any Industry, Land a Kick-Ass Mentor, and Make A Killing Doing What You Love by Azul Terronez Will it Fly? by Pat Flynn Authors Who Lead Summit Guest Info Connect with Azul on his website Authors Who Lead or join the Authors Who Lead Summit to learn more. Follow Us: Apple Podcasts Spotify Transcript Alison Swerdloff: [00:00:00] Welcome to Mind Body Success with your hosts Alison Swerdloff and Dr. Liesa Harte. Listen along as we take you on a life-changing journey into creating success by incorporating mindfulness, self-care, mindset, and personal development. Open your mind, let your adventurous side out, and allow us to motivate you to remove the hustle and overwhelm while shifting your current reality to the life of your dreams. Through conversations with high achievers, you will learn tips, tools, and strategies to overcome challenges and live a life of prosperity and abundance. Let the adventure begin! Welcome to Mind Body Success. Liesa and I are happy you've joined us today for this conversation with Azul Terronez, a former educator, best-selling author, book coach, and CEO of the six figure company Authors Who Lead. In his capacity as the CEO of the company, Azul has enabled Wall Street CEOs and health and wellness gurus sell tens of thousands of books. He's the host of the podcast Authors Who Lead and serves as a creativity coach with CEO's and Emmy award-winning producers to build their confidence, improve productivity, increase their visibility within their companies. Following two decades in education, where he served as a teacher, principal and founding faculty member of High Tech High Graduate School of Education—I will personally want to hear more about that—he has been a keynote speaker and hosted a TEDx talk entitled “What makes a good teacher?”. Azul, thank you so much for joining us today. Azul Terronez: [00:01:48] Thank you so much Alison for having me and you as well. Dr. Liesa Harte: [00:01:52] So, I loved your TEDx talk. Azul Terronez: [00:01:56] Thank you. Dr. Liesa Harte: [00:01:57] I have six children and this is my, you know, so very inspiring. And then I realized when I was preparing that that is a former chapter. And then now you're a creativity coach and have this successful business. So, I was wondering what caused you to shift from being a classroom teacher? And, I realize now that you were principal and school founder also, but it seemed like you really loved the classroom—to now being a creativity coach. Azul Terronez: [00:02:28] Yeah. Well, that's a great question. I think along the way, because I went into teaching in-between things, you know, it's sort of the thing where I couldn't find a job and I was working in television at the time and television jobs come and go, you try to get a job. And I had some background directing children's theater, and I saw a job meeting someone that could speak Spanish, at least mildly, and to be able to work with kids. I didn't ever have a degree in education nor any teaching credential, but they were desperate and they hired me. And, uh, I stayed there for a year and then realized that I had to go back to school and I was like, I'm not sure I'm ready to go back to school again. I had just finished graduate school in a totally different field, so I wasn't necessarily planning to stay, but the kids just kept me there. Man, they taught me more than any of those degrees ever did and so that was really the reason I stayed. Education has its, I have my own, you know, discrepancies with the way it's done, but what I did learn and pushing back on the things that I thought needed to change as the kids were the ones that had all the answers. So, one of my students, we were doing a book fair. When I got into publishing about 2007/2008, my goal was to help every young person that was in my classroom; every eighth grader would graduate as a published author. So, I started publishing students and I had a fair one day of all their books. So it was a book fair, but it was of their published works and people were coming to see their books. And one of the students came to me and said, Mr. Tarnas, where's your book? I want to put it out. And for a second, I thought, you know, I could just lie here and say I was too busy. I focused all about you. And the truth was, I was just scared, and I told them, I said, look, I'm just really afraid to put myself out there. And he said, you don't need to be afraid. And he shrugged his shoulders and walked off. And that's when I realized that I had been telling kids, you can do anything you want, anything you put your mind to, but I wasn't accepting it for myself. So, I started after that to write books, I no longer just talked about it and worried about it, spending 24 years thinking about writing a book, I finally wrote it in 30 days because of that sort of bigger 'why', and that changed my life. And that's where I met Pat Flynn and The Smart Passive Income Podcast, who was also like, wow, you wrote a book in 30 days? We need to talk because I want to know how you did that, and so my life shifted from that moment. It was really an internal shift that came from a kid. Alison Swerdloff: [00:04:51] I want to learn how you did that. Azul Terronez: [00:04:56] You know, I'm glad this is about mindset because honestly it was a mindset. It wasn't that I didn't have the knowledge. You know, I was very skilled in helping people publish books; I knew what it would take, I knew how to run things on Amazon, that wasn't my issue. My issue was believing that my voice was worthy, that it would be any good, could I really get it done? I started before, but never finished. Would anybody read this? Mm-hmm, which is what was in my head. And that's why, I tell you, kids do the most amazing things by just calling you out in a really beautiful way, which is you don't need to be afraid. And the shift was for me, why am I doing this? My 'why' was I really want to figure out how these wonderful people make a living online and travel the world and work from their laptop. I'm in education, locked in a cage, it felt like. I had no idea how people were doing this. So my shift was, I was determined, and I only spent an hour a day. I wasn't spending, you know, 10 hours a day writing a book. I've built a system that realized I had to undo all the training that I had in my mind from schools about what a book is and what it isn't and that's what really helped me. Alison Swerdloff: [00:06:01] So when did you publish your first book? Azul Terronez: [00:06:03] Uh, it was 2014, um, in the fall 2014 was the first book that I published as, under my name, that I wasn't a ghost writer. I've written other books, which is great when they're all, they become number one and have 605-star reviews. But if you're not the one with your name on it, it's easy to just hide behind that. I still struggle with it, to be honest, I have to remind myself how important it is to shine. Alison Swerdloff: [00:06:26] What led you to starting your podcast? Azul Terronez: [00:06:29] You know, it was a little bit selfish in some regards. I wanted to have conversations with authors because I've only had conversations with teachers and educators and I spoke and train teachers all over the world, from Barcelona to Shanghai to Canada to Chile. So, I've had an incredible education life, but I didn't really know too many people out of education. So, I wanted to start interviewing authors and ask them, how did you get here? Did you really write this book? Is your, your name's on it, did you write it or are you just the author? I wanted to know. I wanted people to hear that it wasn't as hard as they thought, or it was every bit as hard as they thought. And my goal, ultimately, was starting. I wanted to be able to interview Gay Hendricks of the book The Big Leap because I really admired him. And, I thought, I'm going to stick at this until I interview him, at least, you know? And, after the first time, I thought I quit. I was so tired of doing it already 10 episodes in. And I was like, there's no way, but I had one author on my show who was a coauthor with him, and I asked, could you ask if he'd be on my show? And she said, yes. So, I, you know, that was, that happened a few months ago. That was amazing. So that was, I've gotten to interview such amazing authors, but like being able to interview him was a goal. So, that was really the main reason. Now, I do love to serve people and help them, but at the beginning, I was motivated from within. Alison Swerdloff: [00:07:54] Now, how do you incorporate mindset and mindfulness in your work with your clients? How do you help them shift their mindset and work with mindfulness? Azul Terronez: [00:08:06] Ya, so that's a great question. So, what I've noticed and part of it was, I was part of the problem, is that we in schools don't teach people to be writers and we definitely don't teach them to be authors or have author mindsets. We teach them to be editors. And what I mean by that is we know we're going to get a grade; we know there's a certain criteria, rubric, thing you have to follow to get the grade, and we edit to the grade. I'm an A student so I will do what it takes to get an A. I'm a B student, what I need to get is a B. So, we type, we edit, we write, we edit it, we delete, we edit, our minds constantly editing towards, will this be good enough for the teacher? And so, we have an editor's brain, so we've been trained to be editors. So that part of your brain is that left side of your brain is really useful to correct and make corrections to pieces of work. It's really poor for creativity. So, what I do for my mindful thinking is I don't let my students or my clients think about writing as words. I make them draw their book first. I say, I want you to draw your book. And a lot of them are resistant. You could imagine doctors, lawyers, dentists, really struggling with this. They're like, I can't draw. I'm like, good. You think you can't draw? So, we're gonna work with that. So, draw me what, you know, use a picture of symbols colors, or show me your book idea. And that is really valuable because it allows them to detach them from having to be right. Um, and that's one of the mindful practices, if you can stop attaching to this 'it's gotta be good' or 'it's gotta be right', and then you actually start to find your way through your story, your truth. If not, what creeps in is what people know as imposter syndrome or writer's block—which isn't a thing, writer's block is a made-up thing. Uh, we don't get plumber's block or carpenter's block or hairstylist block, right? We don't. We get writer's block because it's so much easier to say that there's something I can't do, and really, it's a mindfulness practice that needs to shift. So drawing your book helps you start to talk about a book and see it's real. Words are just the things you put there because you can't be there with the person—reading their book, you know, reading your story, you know, talking to them. And I tell people, people want to be with you. Your words are just part of that. So, once they can detach from their words, they can actually start telling their story. And I don't let them write for a long time, like six weeks into our programs, because I want them to figure out their message. Why are they the unique messenger? I don't want them to focus on the words. That's because their editor brain constantly wants to try to make something right before it's even an idea. And the best books are not the books that are even read or memorized. The best books are the ones that people talk about. Hey, hey, Alison, you look like you're very cheerful and you're upbeat these days. What's going on? You're like, gosh, I've been reading this book, Happiness and Cheerful, Mindfulness, whatever the book is. You're like, I think that's great. I should get that book, right? That's how books have a life, but too many authors are worried about the words and the words are just slightly the best you can do, because if I had a chance to sit and have lunch with Oprah and talk to her about her life and how she got here, I'd much rather do that than read her book about her life. And that's the truth for every human being. We'd much rather be in-person learning about who they are. And so, that mindfulness shift helps authors release all this expectation that it's supposed to be something big. And once they do that, they actually can start showing up on the page. Alison Swerdloff: [00:11:28] Interesting, that's my thought process on writing the books that I've been talking about writing for a year. Azul Terronez: [00:11:37] Ya, because if you believe your book is already in you, then you won't worry about, I have to create a book. You're not creating anything. It is in you, mainly in you, who you are a human. Again, where I learned this was from children. So, as you know, when you get along in years and you start to teach other people, they call you a master teacher, which is just sort of silly. You really don't know anything more than when you started, but I would go do demonstration lessons in classrooms, and I would go in to teach writing and authorship to kindergarten classes and I'd hand out the paper. You remember that paper that has that brownish paper? And I'd hand out colors and I said, okay, everyone, we're going to write a book! And those kids would get so excited, we're going to tell stories and I'd say, you ready? Set, go. And they would just start going. And the teacher was like, oh, we don't have, they don't have writing skills yet, just some of them know the alphabet. I go, don't worry. And they were writing and scribbling, drawing. And then I'd say, time's up and I'd go over to Jose. Jose, show me your, let's go over your story. And it'd be scribbles, I mean, not even pretending like it's writing, but really not much. I said, Jose, what's this about? Well, this is a story about a young aunt who on the way home from school got in trouble. He got lost. Oh, my goodness. And so his mom, who's an elephant, also went looking for him and she got lost. She got stuck in a tree and Jose would go on and tell this beautiful story. And he would fall along on his pictures, falling the doodles, he had it perfectly visioned out and then he would have a beautiful ending. And I said, that's quite a wonderful story. Stories live in you. Words are just the thing you use so that you can pass them on. So, I try to tell people, stop trying to write with words, words aren't the thing, you are the thing. Your imagination, your creativity, your unique view of the world is the thing. And once you start to understand that you stop having all this anxiety because you can't be wrong, how can creativity be wrong? So even if we're writing a very serious book, a very technical book or a memoir, it still has that same principle of it's within you—that the book comes not from your head alone. Not just words, you know, grammatically correct words, that's just what we're trained and that's unfortunately why most people who graduate with a degree in English and/or creative writing don't ever publish a book because they're trained in a way that makes it difficult to believe that they are the ones meant to share their story. Alison Swerdloff: [00:14:01] Very interesting. You've sparked something in Liesa, I can see it in her face. Dr. Liesa Harte: [00:14:13] My first question that came to me when I found out that you are a creativity coach, I'd never heard of a creativity coach. So I was going to ask you, can you really coach creativity, but obviously you can, you've already described it so beautifully, oh my gosh. I mean, I could almost cry. It's like this is so wonderful. Everyone needs to hear you, so glad you're here. Azul Terronez: [00:14:35] I was asked by the co-founder of the Stanford Design School, which was designed, built for engineers to have a more empathetic look at design, the human element. He said, Azul would you be interested in the project teaching creativity? I said, possibly, tell me more. He says, we want to see if we can teach AI (artificial intelligence) to be creative. Well, we're not going to destroy the earth, are we? What are we talking about here? He's like, no, we're just curious about this notion we've, anything mathematical or logical, we've been able to have computers learn. Creativity, we're wondering is that something that innately human or is it teachable? I said, I'm wondering that the biggest problem with, when I go into organizations that are wondering about innovation or creativity and I look around, I said, oh, you don't have a creativity problem. You have a curiosity problem because creativity comes from curiosity. And I don't see any evidence of questions or curiosities anywhere in here and that's your problem. So, where's the opportunity to be curious? And so, my wonder about artificial intelligence is can you teach artificial intelligence to be curious? Because curiosity doesn't have a reason to exist. It just, it's a notion that just lives in you, right. So, I don't know about that, but what I've learned is that I'm not training people to be creative. I'm retraining them to connect to the part of their body and their brain that is creative without them. You don't teach kids to be creative; schools basically undermine creativity and teach them to be compliant, which is different. Sir Ken Robinson talks a lot about schools being the result of killing creativity. I would agree, and it's intentional, it's not a mistake. It's not that we don't know we're doing it in education, we want them to stand up when the bell goes off, we want them to sit down, get their pencil out, we want them to have the behaviors of workers. We don't want them to pause, stop, reflect, question. Alison Swerdloff: [00:16:25] Right? Azul Terronez: [00:16:26] And that's where creativity comes from. Alison Swerdloff: [00:16:28] You know, it's interesting you say that because my daughter is an elementary school teacher, and she has always said she does not want to work with kids above third grade. Part of it, you know, they start getting personalities. And the other part is, she is young at heart. And her mindset is always the creative aspect of things and once you get above third grade, creativity goes out the window. Azul Terronez: [00:16:58] Yeah, well think about it. So, we're all expected to be able to read by third grade and at least have the beginnings of writing, basic writing. And after that, if you don't cling onto it, you're sort of out of luck. That was my problem. I'm pretty severely dyslexic. I don't, I couldn't read at third grade, I flunked freshman English at UCLA. I had to take it again, even though I have a master's degree from UCLA. Ironically, I became an English teacher and a book coach and a creativity coach, but it wasn't because I was good at reading. What I was really good at is everyone else was focusing on the words and I was focusing on what's really happening underneath the surface? What's the subconscious thing that people are thinking here. What's my observation? Why would this be happening? And I'd get, they'd stop me say, okay, did you read that paragraph? What'd you get from it? And I would say something totally right, but it wouldn't be because of the words. I was trying to process this other thing. So, it's just a, it was an intuition built up out of necessity because I couldn't catch up and read the words. I'd go read the book three times just to be able to process what they were doing, but it became a superpower because it's the thing that helped so many kids because I couldn't teach them to the way everyone else was teaching them. I taught them to be authors at a young age. So, when my students walked out as 13-year-olds to maybe have their first job, I said, don't worry about experience. Just write your name on the application and staple it to your book and say, see attached. And that's all, you'll be fine. You'll get whatever job you want. And, so I help them just be more successful, that was more valuable outside of school than it was in, being a published author at 13. And I feel like, yeah, so it was just a switch in the way I was thinking in creativity, you know, it has to be reignited in people. So many people, so many adults that I coach, when they're working on something, whether they'll be YouTubers, I help with YouTubers, which is interesting because I'm not a YouTuber, to be more creative. And part of it is an undoing the blocks that sit in their head to keep them from being the person they're trying to be. So, I say, I'm not teaching you how to do anything. I'm teaching you how to be. That's a different thing. Alison Swerdloff: [00:19:07] Hmm, so you are basically teaching them how to be the best forms of themselves, without changing their thought, without changing them. Azul Terronez: [00:19:15] Right, without judging them too soon. I'm okay to be critical about your work, but don't do it before you create it, do it after. It's okay to go, hmm, I could have done that differently. I will next time. But don't do that while you're creating the thing because you'll never finish or you'll never feel proud or you'll never get the thing that's so important out of you that it's actually not just good, not just great. But, like, the only thing that, you're the only one that could be creating this, there's no other way, there's nobody else like you on earth. So don't create the thing that everyone else can create, create the thing that you stand for and that's uniquely you. And the reason I say that is, you know, in the world outside, we're all basically selling sunshine, right? What I mean by that is, authors are focusing on content. Oh, if I get really good content then I'll be worthy. If it's good, unique, different, and... my friend Jadah Sellner who is a co-founder of Simple Green Smoothies says, how so? There's no unique messages in the world. There's just unique messengers. And I would agree. You're not creating anything new. So, stop trying to tell people your sunshine's better than the sunshine down the street. You know, what's important is that you think about you. So, when I was a kid, I got a science kit. You know, you got a telescope, microscope, and a magnifying glass. And I love the magnifying glass because quickly figured out besides seeing things up close, that I could burn my friend's leg. That was really cool. Just the right angle, right. And you could start a leaf on fire, or unfortunately I burned a few ants I owned so karma for, but what I learned from that was that ordinary sunshine, which just warms your hand, if it goes through a lens, can ignite. So, most of my authors come here wanting me to talk about their sunshine, their thing they're creating and I want to focus on them. I said, you're the lens. You're the only thing that's going to ignite this, not the content because if you write the book on 101 ways to, you know, use butter, someone will just come around and write the 102 ways. You're never going to beat someone on content, but if you're unique and show your shine through you, there's no one else that can be you. And it will be so magnificent because your uniqueness is the gift. So is this a lot of reframing and mindset work with authors to give them confidence to do the thing that they're meant to do. Alison Swerdloff: [00:21:33] Very interesting. Do you work with clients just one-on-one, or do you do groups? Azul Terronez: [00:21:38] Yeah, I do both. So, I got a lot of one-on-one clients at the moment and it's hard because I can't keep up. I can only have so much time in the day, but I do group programs. So, I built a process around this method that basically helps people utilize that skill to be creative. And we've called it the Diamond Method where you basically, just like a diamond has carrots and all the different parts, the four Cs to get clarity and all the things that... we have the same thing for our programs. Because the people get clarity, then they commit to it, they create, and they crystallize. That's how they make a message. So basically, my group program is following my method and then we have author success coaches that coach them through it. Mainly, it's the writers that come to CSR and group programs. I do coach creatives, one at a time: actors, comedians, screenwriters. It's interesting who comes to find me and how they find me. I don't always know. But what they're trying to do is find that breakthrough, that thing that they're trying to get through. So those group programs are great because you follow a method, but you also have accountability, which is the other part. You can't just think about it. You have to do the thing. Alison Swerdloff: [00:22:45] Right. You actually have to walk the walk and do the… and talk the talk. Azul Terronez: [00:22:49] Yeah. Words have to show up on a page, right? Just because you have a good idea. I do love the premise of the TED organization, ideas worth spreading, and that's basically an important thing to keep in mind. And when I've coached TEDx speakers, they'll come to me and will say, I really want a great idea, a big idea. And I say, well, I think that's a misunderstanding. There are no big ideas. And they're like, wait, what do you mean? I said, well, I think what you're talking about is an idea worth spreading. And they're like, yeah, that's it. I said, well, think about this. You have to think about something you've noticed that other people have walked over and just walked by, like at an Easter egg hunt where they had eggs or some treasure hunt, everybody was looking, and they walked right by it. But you stopped and found it somehow, you said, hey, did you guys notice this? And like, oh my gosh, I've never noticed that. That's interesting. That's a small idea, teeny idea that you notice that other people just didn't notice or pay attention to. So, big ideas are really just small ideas that more than one person talks about. And the more people talk about it, the bigger it seems, but the truth is it's every great idea is a small idea. Alison Swerdloff: [00:23:56] Very interesting. Now I have a question for you, how do you keep your mindset focused on your passion? Azul Terronez: [00:24:04] You know, part of my practice is morning meditation because, to be honest, I live in my head just like everyone else if I'm not careful. So, my mindful practice starts with meditation. It starts with, you know, some of the work that I got when I met Gay Hendricks, focusing on the things that I'm trying to put into the world. And then also, having a creative part of my day. I don't try to force my creativity to be something specific, but it might be today. I'm learning the ukulele, which is something I've tried. I'm trying to rewire my brain to be like a kid who can do things because they believe they can. So, at 50, picking up the ukulele and going, okay, this is going to be a journey. It's part of that creative practice. So having creative time every day, that has no, like, there's no purpose. Right, I'm not trying to do anything that's separate from writing. Writing to me is a doing activity for me cause it's part of my business. But I really try to just have that time of expression, Gay Hendrickson and his book Joy of Genius talks about it as how much time in the day are you wanting to live your life in that zone of genius, being the creator? And if you're not doing it, then ask yourself why? And then ask yourself, how much will I give myself today to be a creator? So, I sit and played the ukulele or draw or read or be in my creative zone for half-hour and every day I add a little bit to it. My goal is to spend four hours a day being creative. I'm not there yet because I haven't quite got my zone of genius kind of cranking, but it's getting more and more easy to make a living and then not worry about the rest, that four hours of creativity, that has nothing to do with my business is really what's fueling it because I find myself more able to do things I couldn't do when I was trying to do the work of a business. Alison Swerdloff: [00:25:54] How long have you had your practice? Azul Terronez: [00:25:55] 2015 is when we started. My husband and I both were working traditional jobs; he was in healthcare and worked in executive leadership and development. And I was in the teaching position, I was an instructional coach. When he decided to leave and went from making the six figures to driving Lyft for $12 an hour, and Uber. And then I got a job in Shanghai and shifted, and then I left that and said, you know what, we're going to make a go at this. And we were empty nest at the time and thought, well. We packed up everything we owned into two suitcases and sold or donated everything else and spent several years traveling the world, living in our suitcase, in different parts of the world. That was amazing, and that's how we started our business because we had so little, we didn't have cars, we didn't have a mortgage. We just, you know, let's live in Portugal this year, this month, let's go to Italy, let's travel, let's do whatever our heart desires. And that's when the business actually thrived when we were actually living our truest life. So, yeah, that was about, that was 2015 and 2017 when we both left our jobs, we had no other income besides our jobs. So that was, besides our business, so that was a huge shift for us. Alison Swerdloff: [00:27:10] That's great. Now, what did you do? You were mentioning about your learning, your education, you know, doing the ukulele or things like that, but when you're not focused on your work or helping others, what do you personally enjoy doing for fun? What are some of your hobbies? Azul Terronez: [00:27:26] Yeah. You know what, I love doing yoga. I realized I was storing a lot of my, maybe angst or anxiety in my body—not trying to, but I think that's where it lives. I didn't realize that. So, I didn't start yoga until I was almost 40 and realized that I was able to do a lot of work that was internal by moving my body different. I coached an author who was an Ayurvedic practitioner to write a book a few years ago, and I learned a lot about your whole body, how it's connected and how it can heal itself. And one of the ways that she talked about was yoga. So, that's something I love to do. I like to read and because of my podcasts, I, you know, I read every book that comes to my podcasts. I read a lot of books. Ironically, because I'm dyslexic, I learned to speed read so I could read very fast. So, I might get through a book in an hour or two. It might take five, so that's fun. I like to read. And when the world was open, I like to participate in Alison Swerdloff: [00:28:24] I like that terminology. Azul Terronez: [00:28:25] Right, I don't know how else to say it and stay in the positive vibe. I would participate in the story slams, which are things like The Moth, The Moth Organization, where you have to tell a story in five minutes or less. And so, yeah, it's really great. There's a podcast also they do. But you put your, you basically go to these live events and there are judges and there's a topic and you put your name on a piece of paper and throw it in the hat and they call your name. You tell a story and then you get juried. You get judged, crazy pressure and exhilarating at the same time. So, I like storytelling, I miss that going to those things and putting my name in the hat, which means I have to constantly be working on stories in my head. And, lastly, travel. Travel is one of my passions, you know. When we left, we didn't have a home. For awhile, for several years, our kids would go, okay, where's Christmas this year? Where's the Thanksgiving this year? I was like, wow, we're going to be in Paris. We're going to be the south of France. We're going to be, you know, Asheville, North Carolina, wherever we decided that we'd be. So, travel is great. And our kids also love travel. So that's something else that really fuels me and allows me to visit, meet people I've met on the road and stay with them, visit them. That's pretty amazing. I didn't really travel until I was later in life as well. So, having friends all over the world is pretty amazing. Like, I could call up somebody, I want to be in South America, and I could probably find two or three people I could visit while I'm there. I think that's incredible. Alison Swerdloff: [00:29:55] Very cool. Liesa, do you have any further questions? Dr. Liesa Harte: [00:29:56] No, I'm just mesmerized. I'm so excited to know you now. Azul Terronez: [00:30:00] Oh, Liesa, thank you so much. I wasn't sure what to expect when I saw that you asked, I'm always a fan of helping podcasters out because I know it's hard to get guests that you care about. Especially getting started, and I was very fortunate enough to have Pat Flynn as my first guest. And I really appreciated that he took that time to do that. And so whenever people ask me, I try to make time for it because it never hurts. Alison Swerdloff: [00:30:23] Actually, I do have one further question: with everybody that, all the books you've read, what stands out as one of your favorites and why? Azul Terronez: [00:30:33] You know, more recently, one of my favorite books, there's a couple, but one of the most recent I am biased towards Gay Hendricks was his book called Conscious Luck. It's a more recent book. The reason it stands out, the reason it stands out to me is that the idea that there is good fortune and poor fortune, good luck and bad luck, and you can choose which one you have and there's science behind it. And there's evidence that go-lucky people, if you ask them, they're just lucky. If you ask them, they tell you I'm lucky. And I changed my fortune completely because I'm incredibly lucky. And I think that changed everything about the way I see the world. I've always known it, but it just helped reaffirm, like, oh no wonder, great things happen to me. You know, I was interviewing the creator of the game, board game Pictionary. Maybe you've heard of that? Incredible game. I met him, we got connected. He was on my podcast and he told his story how he was a 26-year-old waiter who basically had an idea for game, didn't know anything about business. There was no internet at the time, took a risk and built this game, assembling them by hand at first. Became the most popular games of the world. We were chatting and then we got offline, and he asked me, hey, would you coach me? Would you spend some time with me? And I was thinking, who am I? And I was like, oh, I'm incredibly lucky. That's it, I'm just lucky. That's why these things happen to me. So, I just, that, that book really struck me. And another book that's really struck me early on was this book called Bluefishing. It was about this idea of this bricklayer who, basically, is sort of like the guy that can make anything happen. You want to get married at the Vatican? He could make it happen. If you want to parachute on the stage, play in a journey concert, he can make it happen. It's just an interesting premise. And I thought the way he does it is by delighting people more than you expect to be delighted. That people that he connects with, the celebrities, the hosts, these incredible people, and also the people that he serves. He has a really high niche, people with lots of money use of service. You can imagine, hey, I want front row tickets and I want to meet Mariah Carey at a music award—he makes it happen. But I thought it was fascinating because I just, that's a world I don't know anything about, but I thought it was fascinating. And I really loved, and I'm biased again because helping Pat Flynn “Will It Fly?” was really great because I learned about how to build a business while helping someone write a book. So that was like amazing to me. So, I got the benefit of being the first one who had all this content, the first one to read it, the first one to have the first copy, but it proved itself out because my life is the way it is because of that book. So, another incredible book for me. Alison Swerdloff: [00:33:08] Great. Azul, thank you so much for joining us. This has been a wonderful conversation. I know Liesa and I have both learned a lot from you and we've thoroughly enjoyed it. Now, if the people listening to this interview want to get in touch with you or reach out to you or learn more about your business, how would they do that? What is your website or email address? Azul Terronez: [00:33:28] Yeah, they go to authorswholead.com. That's where you have stuff about our programs, about my podcasts. It's great to listen to podcasts. That's something I think anybody who wants to be an author, you can hear first-time authors talk about what it was like, and also very seasoned authors, New York Times best-selling authors. That's what I love about it, is it's a mix. That's a great place to go. And if they really want to hear more behind the scenes and they want to learn from these people, they could go to the authorswholeadsummit.com and it's a free summit where I interviewed 35+ authors—authors agents, book, marketers, anyone he could think of in the book industry. And they can hear over 40 hours of teaching around what it is to write a book. So, it's sort of like all contained in one spot and they can do that for free authorswholeadsummit.com. Alison Swerdloff: [00:34:18] That's excellent. Thank you again. I know I'm going to go to the, to your website and look at that. I've always been interested in that area of things. So, it would be very interesting to listen to the summit. Azul Terronez: [00:34:31] Awesome. Well, it's been lovely. Thank you so much for having me. Alison Swerdloff: [00:34:34] We've enjoyed it as well. Thank you for joining us and have a wonderful afternoon. And thank you again. Azul Terronez: [00:34:40] Thank you both. 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Growing up, what were your family’s eating habits? Fruits and vegetables? Canned spaghetti and doughnuts? At our house, once in a while we’d have pizza, and maybe once a year for a crazy treat we could pick out a sugary cereal -- Booberry was my fav. But for the most part, we were a junk food-free house.Fast forward quite a few years, and now when I go home to visit, it’s like I’m entering Candy Land. Brownies, cookies, pies staring me in the face. Even though I don’t have much of a sweet tooth, I find these treats hard to resist, and I usually don’t, which is why my clothes felt a little too close for comfort after my last visit.So, I decided to try the Fresh Start: 21-Day Cleanse created by Simple Green Smoothies co-founder Jen Hansard. This was exactly the reset my body needed. I lost weight, gained a ton of energy, and my mind felt clearer. As we begin a new year, I thought you might be interested in a fresh start, as well, so I invited Jen onto the Part of Something Greater podcast to talk about how to improve your quality of life through clean eating. I also talk about what the Stoics think about eating well to improve your character, mind, body, and spirit.I liked Jen's cleanse so much that I became an affiliate partner for her. This means that if you purchase her Fresh Start plan through my link, I could get a small commission at no extra cost to you. This is a great way to support the podcast. Of course, I only recommend products and services I love.Visit sarahmikutel.com to get in touch about how we can work one-on-one together to help you achieve more peace, happiness, and positive transformation in your life.Looking for a guide to help you discover your Enneagram personality type? Book your Enneagram typing session by going to sarahmikutel.com/typingsessionWant to connect on Insta? Find me here

Jadah Sellner is the founder of several companies including the company she sold in 2016, Simple Green Smoothies, which generated over $1 million and 1 million followers in the first two years. Today Jadah is a bestselling author, business mentor, TEDx speaker, and host of the Lead with Love® Podcast. She's been featured in O: The Oprah Magazine, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, CBS's The Doctors TV, and on the cover of Women's World. As an advisor to founders and mission-driven companies, Jadah provides the strategic roadmap you need to execute your vision and grow your business to the next level without sacrificing what matters most to you. This is a powerful conversation about turning adversity into an opportunity and how breaking all conventional marketing rules enabled Jadah and her co-founder to build a massively engaged community online. Enjoy this powerful conversation! Mark Shownotes: www.theunconventionalists.com/episode/148 Learn more at JadahSellner.com and follow on social media @jadahsellner This week's episode was brought to you by: The Podcast Revolution: https://theunconventionalists.com/launch-a-successful-podcast-from-scratch - Use code "PODCASTTRIBE" to get 20% off the entire course.

Growing up, what were your family’s eating habits? Fruits and vegetables? Canned spaghetti and doughnuts? At our house, once in a while we’d have pizza, and maybe once a year for a crazy treat we could pick out a sugary cereal -- Booberry was my fav. But for the most part, we were a junk food-free house.Fast forward quite a few years, and now when I go home to visit, it’s like I’m entering Candy Land. Brownies, cookies, pies staring me in the face. Even though I don’t have much of a sweet tooth, I find these treats hard to resist, and I usually don’t, which is why my clothes felt a little too close for comfort after my last visit.So, I decided to try the Fresh Start: 21-Day Cleanse created by Simple Green Smoothies co-founder Jen Hansard. This was exactly the reset my body needed. I lost weight, gained a ton of energy, and my mind felt clearer. As we begin a new year, I thought you might be interested in a fresh start, as well, so I invited Jen onto the Part of Something Greater podcast to talk about how to improve your quality of life through clean eating. I also talk about what the Stoics think about eating well to improve your character, mind, body, and spirit.I liked Jen's cleanse so much that I became an affiliate partner for her. This means that if you purchase her Fresh Start plan through my link, I could get a small commission at no extra cost to you. This is a great way to support the podcast. Of course, I only recommend products and services I love.Visit sarahmikutel.com to get in touch about how we can work one-on-one together to help you achieve more peace, happiness, and positive transformation in your life.Looking for a guide to help you discover your Enneagram personality type? Book your Enneagram typing session by going to sarahmikutel.com/typingsessionWant to connect on Insta? Find me here

If you’ve wanted to take a peek behind the curtain of writing and publishing a book, then this episode is for you.  In this episode, I get cozy with my friend and personal book coach, Azul Terronez, host of the top writing podcast Authors Who Lead™. We’re having another behind the scenes conversation of my book writing process. If you’d like to listen to part one of this conversation that happened over a year ago, head over to jadahsellner.com/156 to get caught up. Azul helps authors, entrepreneurs and leaders write and publish books that people love, so they can reach more people, grow their brand, and share their message in an authentic way. He’s been called a book whisperer. His signature coaching program is built around the idea that creating books is about building the conversation that you want to own. Azul walks his talk because his TEDx talk “What Makes a Good Teacher Great” has been viewed over 2.1 million times. Azul’s clients have included Wall Street Bestseller, Pat Flynn from the Smart Passive Income Podcast, Jadah Sellner co-founder Simple Green Smoothies (that’s me!) and Dana Malstaff the founder of Boss-mom.  What you'll hear (and don't want to miss!): :: A surprise that can happen when you look at writing a book as a creative process, and not just a task to achieve  ::  Why the content isn’t the book - and what really is  ::  How becoming an author is different, and so much more, than just writing a book  ::  The role that my season of loss and grief has played in the writing of my next book  ::  An update on where I am right now writing the upcoming book, and the big decision and shift I made to allow it to be happen  ::  What Azul says is needed in all books, but is often misunderstood by many authors You can find the full show notes from this episode over at https://jadahsellner.com/behind-the-scenes-part-2-azulterronez-179

It is so important to build real relationships and trust with your peers and community in order to have a business that lasts the test of time. When you nurture a community of people who love what you do, you can create so much success and impact! Even though everyone seems to talk about community building these days, creating an engaged audience is easier said than done when you’re competing for small attention spans in the digital world. Join us today to talk about how to build an online community with heart, and in a way that creates genuine connection, authentic engagement, and raving fans! My guest today, Jadah Sellner, is the host of the Lead with Love® podcast, Business Mentor, and a TEDx speaker redefining the future of work for female founders. As the co-founder and author of Simple Green Smoothies (featured in Oprah's O Magazine, the Wall Street Journal and CBS’s The Doctors TV Show.), serial entrepreneur and business strategist, Jadah built a community of 355,000 email subscribers and 415,000 Instagram followers. With a simple and inspiring model, Jadah dedicates her time consulting companies and personal brands to build a business and life with love, service, and impact.    What you’ll learn in this episode: The importance of connection and building community, and how Jadah built two businesses from scratch How to unhook your self worth from your net worth Why love over metrics is so important How to use free challenges to grow your email list and sell digital products   Subscribe and Review Thanks so much for joining me this week. If you liked what you heard, please leave an honest review for The Success with Soul Podcast on Apple Podcasts so we can improve and better serve you in the future. Plus, you could be featured on a future episode during our listener spotlights. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them. And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts to get automatic updates. My goal for this podcast is to inspire those who seek flexibility and freedom in their lives by making something happen with holistic, soulful, step-by-step strategies from me and other experts.   Links + Resources Mentioned in this Episode:  Don’t forget to join the free Success with Soul Facebook community here! We have follow up conversations about the podcast episodes and I often go live to answer your burning questions. 018: Marketing Advice for Your Myers-Briggs Type with Brit Kolo Get Jadah's free 5 Step Challenge Roadmap here! Check out Jadah's She Builds Advisory Program for female founders Essentialism: Do Less But Accomplish More, Guide to Identifying the Essential Things, Focus On and Getting Them Done By Martin Hell Learn more at JadahSellner.com and follow her on social media @jadahsellner Follow me on Instagram @katekordsmeier and @rootandrevel   More Ways to Enjoy Success with Soul Download a transcript of this episode Download on Apple Podcasts Email me new episodes Don’t forget to join our free Success With Soul Facebook community for follow-up conversations about the podcast episodes and where I also often go live to answer your burning questions. Hangout with like-minded bloggers and heart-centered online business owners exchanging priceless feedback, encouragement, and other golden insights from the trenches.   EPISODE CREDITS: Produced by Danny Ozment at https://emeraldcitypro.com

This week on The Op-Ed Page with Elisa Camahort Page: 1. #2020 Turnout President Obama on 10/21/20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQnlnk6Y7Kk Lincoln Project YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9NvNUekBOg Turnout: 2. Quibi Closing announcement: https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/quibi-confirms-shutdown-jeffrey-katzenberg-meg-whitman-1234812643/ 3. Quick Takes: My Octopus Teacher: https://www.netflix.com/title/81045007 Cobra Kai: https://www.netflix.com/title/81002370 Halt & Catch Fire: https://www.netflix.com/title/70302182 Song Explore Podcast: and TV Show: https://songexploder.net Strong Songs Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/strong-songs/id1443417194 Simple Green Smoothies: https://simplegreensmoothies.com Green Chef: https://www.greenchef.com Look for a review of the TheraGun soon: https://www.target.com/p/theragun-prime-handheld-percussive-massage-device/-/A-79858325 Upcoming events and where to find me: Remotely Annual Membership 50% off code: ElisaCamahortPage50off Link: remotely.global/join Every Tuesday and Thursday at 5PM PT my colleague Ashwini Anburajan and I do a FB Livestream talking about the previous 24-48 hours in #2020 politics: https://www.facebook.com/elisac Friday October 23: How to Be an Activist Leader, a conversation with Anita Jackson from Moms Rising and Brandi Riley from The Influencer Activist toolkit: RSVP Free here: https://remotely.global/event/fireside-chat-being-an-activist-leader/ Friday October 30: Articulating Your Value, a fireside chat with Potentialist and Aspiring Fairy Godmother, Joanna Bloor RSVP Free here: https://remotely.global/event/fireside-chat-joanna-bloor-and-elisa-camahort-page/ Thanks to my podcast host Messy.fm Thanks to Ryan Cristopher for my podcast music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/ryan-cristopher/1479898729 Road Map for Revolutionaries by me, Carolyn Gerin and Jamia Wilson: https://roadmapforrevolutionaries.com Social media handles: Twitter: @ElisaC @OpEdPagePodcast Insta: @ElisaCP Web: elisacp.com Please share, subscribe, rate and review!!

In this episode Jadah Sellner and I dive into her experience building the Simple Green Smoothies community from zero into a seven-figure business with over 400,000 Instagram followers and 355,000 email subscribers.  Jadah shares some amazing strategies for building a really engaged community and growing your business by focusing on loving up on your people rather than the metrics, numbers and followers. I hope you love this episode! :) xx

In this episode Jadah Sellner and I dive into her experience building the Simple Green Smoothies community from zero into a seven-figure business with over 400,000 Instagram followers and 355,000 email subscribers.  Jadah shares some amazing strategies for building a really engaged community and growing your business by focusing on loving up on your people rather than the metrics, numbers and followers. I hope you love this episode! :) xx

Hey hey, welcome to the Human Connection podcast, I'm your host Brittney Lynn and today's interview is with book whisperer Azul Terronez of Authors Who Lead. Azul helps leaders write and publish books that people love so they can create their brand, grow their audience, and increase their influence. Azul's TEDx talk “What Makes a Good Teacher Great” has been viewed over 1.6 million times. Azul's clients have included Wall Street Bestseller, Pat Flynn from the Smart Passive Income Podcast, Jadah Sellner co-founder Simple Green Smoothies and Dana Malstaff the founder of Boss-mom. Guys...I never thought I would ever entertain writing a book (I actually share a story about this at the top of the episode and a conversation I had with Azul when we first met) but….there might be something there. Who knows! Maybe your girl will become an author one day. Also, at the top of the episode I share all about my new program that's opening up, The Amplified Expert Academy. If you're ready to be seen as a known, go-to expert in your industry but don't know how to position yourself to relevant media outlets and are looking for a done-WITH-you offering, this is one you won't want to miss. Tune in to hear more about it and click the link below to learn more and submit your application. Let's get to the episode details!   In today's episode, you'll find out: The most common fears people have with writing a book and what holds most people back from ever putting pen to paper Advice for anyone who has a dream of writing a book but doesn't feel “ready”  What to do when you have too many ideas How to get out of your own head and get clarity on why you're writing your book What to do when you feel like you have writer's block How to untrain your editor brain    Full show notes at: http://brittneyllynn.com/humanconnection  Links mentioned:  Apply for my new program, The Amplified Expert Academy Smart Passive Income  Start With Why by Simon Sinek I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou  The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Follow Azul on Instagram Authors Who Lead website Sign up for their free virtual summit  Follow me on Instagram   Like the show? There are several ways you can help! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify or Google Play Leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts. The ratings and reviews help for two reasons: 1) Most importantly, I get to know you, the listener, and what content you enjoy the most. 2) The more reviews the podcast has, the better chance it has at getting in front of new listeners. Follow on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram Grab my free pitch templates here

Failures are good learning lessons, but are willing to put yourself out there knowing that you literally don’t have something financially to support your dreams? In this episode, I am really excited to have Jadah Sellner with us. I have not met her personally, which is weird for most of my guests, whom I have personally met, but I have listened to her stories, which I really love. Jadah Sellner is an author, international keynote speaker, poet, and the creator of Love Over Metrics™ Business Growth Incubator & Build Your Challenge™. You may also know her from her work as co-founder and co-author of Simple Green Smoothies. Coming from a place of lack, Jadah was able to overcome challenges to growing her business through a social media platform that grew to 355,000 subscribers and 415,000 followers. This episode is going to be really heavy with inspiration and it will speak to you from the heart.    So, get ready to listen through your heart! REMEMBER - Don't put a timeline on your dreams, put a timeline on your actions. This week's tip is to enhance prosperity in your life. Would you like to add some more prosperity into your life? I would recommend enhancing your home with two different types of plants. One is called a lucky bamboo plant, which is a long Chinese one with little twirls on the top of it. And the other is the jade plant, also known as the money plant. To attract more money and prosperity into your life, focus on bringing upward growing plants like the lucky bamboo plant and the jade plant into your home. And you will see having more prosperity in your life. HIGHLIGHTS OF WHAT WE COVER DURING THIS EPISODE: How to overcome the feeling of not knowing where you fit, where you belong? How to monetize our passion and have the flexibility of time to home with our family  How did she start - from failure to launch It all started from a Green Smoothie blog How she grew the Simple Green Smoothies community to 355,000 subscribers without  paid advertising? Challenges in the Pivots Book Jadah Sellner is reading   CONNECT WITH JADAH SELLNER: jadahsellner.com/ jadahsellner.com/podcast/  - Lead with Love Facebook Instagram   CONNECT WITH ME Website

Azul Terronez has been called a book whisperer  He helps leaders write and publish books that people love so they can create their brand, grow their audience, and increase their influence.His signature coaching program is built around the idea that creating books is about building the conversation that you want to own. Azul is the CEO of Authors Who Lead™ and the host of the top writing podcast Authors Who Lead. His TEDx talk “What Makes a Good Teacher Great” has been viewed over 1.6 million times. Azul's clients have included Wall Street Bestseller, Pat Flynn from the Smart Passive Income Podcast, Jadah Sellner co-founder Simple Green Smoothies and Dana Malstaff the founder of Boss-mom. He lives in Austin, Texas.You'll LearnHow to travel the world, do something you love and make moneyHow to discover your passionHow to overcome your fears to follow your dreamsHow to make the leap and leave your comfort zoneHow to leverage your superpower to create personal successWhy a personal transformation leads to more fulfilled lifeHow to find balance with your career and personal lifeResourcesAuthors Who LeadTEDx talk “What Makes a Good Teacher Great”The Art of Apprenticeship: How to Hack Your Way into Any Industry, Land a Kick-Ass Mentor, and Make a Killing Doing What You Love, by Azul TerronezCory Calvin's personal websiteSign up to receive podcast updates 

Remaining heart centered and tapped in during challenging times of loss and uncertainty isn't easy. In this episode Jadah Sellner and I discuss how to adapt and what we can learn from the painful and confusing experience of loss, grief, and emotional bypassing.  Jadah Sellner is the host of the Lead With Love podcast and the creator of the Love Over Metrics Incubator. She is an incredible model of how to show up heart-centered in motherhood, family, community, and business. You don't want to miss this episode. Jadah Sellner is the host of the Lead with Love® podcast, creator of the Love Over Metrics Incubator, and a TEDx speaker redefining the way we work and scale love in business. As the co-founder of Simple Green Smoothies (featured in Oprah's O Magazine, the Wall Street Journal and CBS's The Doctors TV Show.), serial entrepreneur and online community growth strategist, Jadah built a community of 355,000 email subscribers and 415,000 Instagram followers. With a simple and inspiring model, Jadah dedicates her time consulting companies and personal brands to build communities with love, service, and impact. Learn more at JadahSellner.com and follow on social media @jadahsellner WDS talk: jadahsellner.com/wds TedX talk: jadahsellner.com/tedx LOM retreat video: https://vimeo.com/361820585

Do you struggle with trying to execute too many projects at the same time and not get traction? Perhaps your goals are narrowly focused on work and you don't get to other important areas of your life-- starting the business, traveling, letting go of the weight. In this episode of the Daily Success Show, I share exactly how to plan out your year so that you have time for all areas of life and not just work. We also have a short interview with special guest Jadah Sellner, Tribe of World changers and co-author Simple Green Smoothies, who shares how she plans the year and helps clients reach financial targets for their business. This week's action guide is the 90 Day Project Year. Complete this guide to get a better picture of what priorities you should work on and when. You can make all your dreams happen, just not at the same time. Get instant free access to the action guide at dailysuccessroutine.com/ep2. If you enjoyed today's show give us a rating and review We love listener questions. Submit yours here. Have ideas for the show? Send feedback via email Success is more fun with friends. Share the Daily Success Show with yours!   The Daily Success Show is available on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Spotify, Player FM, iHeartRadio and Listennotes.  

Today we’re talking about a very practical way to help our families eat healthier that will please even the the picky eaters among us. I’m here with Jen Hansard who’s the co-founder of Simple Green Smoothies. I bet you’ve probably heard of it. It’s a gorgeous and really popular website dedicated to, you guessed it, green …

Today we’re talking about a very practical way to help our families eat healthier that will please even the the picky eaters among us. I’m here with Jen Hansard who’s the co-founder of Simple Green Smoothies. I bet you’ve probably heard of it. It’s a gorgeous and really popular website dedicated to, you guessed it, green …

In Episode #67 on The Jen Mavros Show we are joined by the heart-centered world-changer, Jadah Sellner. "Leading with love means you're in it for the long game, not the quick win or quick ROI, but that you're building things intentionally and pouring time and energy into each piece of the puzzle." YASSSS!!!  You might know some of Jadah's work by following the enormous instagram community, Simple Green Smoothies, she co-founded the company and now helps creative CEO's, visionary entrepreneurs, and social change companies build communities with love, so that they can connect to their bigger vision, reach more people, support their family, and grow their income while NOT adding more work. In this heart-full conversation, Jadah and I discuss imperfect action taking and having a deep trust in yourself. Feeling over formulas, putting people first and leading with love and the numbers will follow. "You want a business to be profitable but not at the cost of your integrity, not at the cost of your relationships, not a the cost of your health or your sanity." If you have your own business, THIS is an episode to tune into without a doubt. You can feel Jadah's compassionate soft presence radiating with love and intention and equally her powerful skilled force. If you ask me, Jadah is a force of nature and anytime she jams on biz, you can bet my ears are listening. Hop on over to onwardcourse.com to gain instant access to learn how you can use Divine Manifestation to radically up-level your life and your business. I'll be revealing the two biggest, missing secrets that you absolutely must know to soulfully manifest the life and business you desire. It's filled with so much love and sprinkled with infinite possibility. Go get FREE access now, sista! Here's the link.

Welcome to episode 009 of The Blogger Genius Podcast. My guest is Rachelle Doorley from the blog, TinkerLab. Rachelle has been blogging for over seven years. She is an author and arts educator and helps kids and parents become creative inventors. In this episode we talk about how to build a successful course, how she wrote her first book, why she thinks it's valuable to work with other bloggers in her space, and why she's writing another book. Resources: TinkerLab TinkerLab: A Hands-On Guide For Little Inventors Art Start Challenge MiloTree  Transcript -  #008 How to Build a Successful Course with Rachelle Doorley Intro: [00:00:04] Welcome to The Blogger Genius Podcast brought to you by MiloTree. Here's your host, Jillian Leslie. Jillian: [00:00:00] Hi,welcome to the show. Today I have my friend, Rachelle Doorley, from the blog, Tinkerlab. So welcome, Rachelle. Rachelle: [00:00:11] Thank you so much, Jill. I'm very happy to be here. Jillian: [00:00:15] Let me first read what it says about you on your blog. Jillian: [00:00:20] You are a maker, a teacher, an arts educator, a mom, a Girl Scout leader, a traveler, a sketchbook collector, a creativity enabler. I love it. Jillian: [00:00:40] So can you tell me how you started with Tinkerlab because we met... I was thinking about it... six years ago. And you had launched TinkerLab and you were growing it. So can you talk about what inspired you and the evolution of TinkerLab? The evolution of TinkerLab Rachelle: [00:00:57] Absolutely. I can't believe it's been six years, so that was actually shortly after I started it. So Tinkerlab's been around for about seven years now a little over seven years. So basically what it is it's a website, it started as a blog, and it's a hub for parents and educators or grandparents or after school teachers who want to support creativity in young children through art and science and tinkering. Rachelle: [00:01:27] And we do that by providing free content through our blog, and we also have a free five day art challenge where families can download art activities that are really simple to do with your kids. We also have classes both in person and online. And so we deliver this content in lots of different ways. Rachelle: [00:01:46] And you know this all started when my older daughter, I have two girls, and when my older daughter was one and a half and she started just drawing. She started making marks on paper with crayons. And up until that point I was an art educator I worked in schools... Jillian: [00:02:09] I have to interject. I have to say that you have a master's from Harvard. Rachelle: [00:02:14] Yes. OK. [00:02:16] And so I was teaching in schools and museums and I had worked with children from kindergarten all the way up through adults. When I started TinkerLab I was in the middle of training docent program at a really big local art museum. So I worked with people of all ages but I never worked with one and a half year olds before. Rachelle: [00:02:36] And so my challenge became how do I apply all this cool stuff I know about best practices and arts education to my own child's experience. And I started hunting around for ideas and found some blogs and some books that guided me. And then I realized I had to kind of put my own flavor on it and figure it out for myself. Rachelle: [00:02:54] How do I create this home tinkerer lab experience and basically turn my home into a lab? And my daughter became my key subject and then I just grew a passion for it. It became this really big thing for me and I stopped working at the art museum and really focused 100% on creating experiences for other people like me who were also looking for ways to foster creativity with their kids. Jillian: [00:03:19] What I love about your content, and you could tell me how you feel about this. Your philosophy... which is everybody can be creative. It's not about instructing kids, it's really about allowing them their creative freedom. Rachelle: [00:03:43] Yeah that's exactly right. So for the most part I really try to present experiences that are open-ended and that encourage children to think creatively and build their self-confidence. Rachelle: [00:03:54] And so by having a prescriptive art experience that says this is exactly what you have to do, and here are the five steps to do it, isn't really going to get them there. But you know something like that's not bad, it can definitely teach them skills. But what I'm really trying to get at is helping families or teachers set up experiences that really encourage children to ask big questions, to think creatively, to you know find their own passion for whatever questions it is that they're trying to pursue. And that can really be done through open ended art experiences. How she wrote her first book Jillian: [00:04:27] And then you've you've written a book that I love with pictures of your kids going through of lots of fun art experiences and now you're also writing your second book. Can you talk about how that happened? Rachelle: [00:04:43] Yeah. So I had this one and a half year old and I wanted to do art with her, and I started hunting around and finding all these resources in the process of trying to figure it out. I found some books, then I thought... I'd really love to write a book. Rachelle: [00:05:00] But at that point, I'd never written a book. I wrote didactic panels in the museum which are like vinyl things you see on the wall. And I wrote a newsletter that went out to our teachers every week, and I think that was like my introduction to blogging. I'd written papers in grad school, but I'd never written a book. Rachelle: [00:05:19] And so it became this quest for me, like I want to write a book on this topic. And I couldn't find exactly what I was looking for out there, but something that's really about how to encourage how to build and support this home environment that support open-ended creativity. Rachelle: [00:05:37] And so I just realized I can chip away at this 1 blog post at a time, and I just started building these arsenal blog posts and then over time I developed a voice, and got a lot of feedback and realized what kinds of things people were interested in learning about, and what things they weren't. And after a couple years, I had enough content to make a book, and I was lucky enough to find a publisher. Rachelle: [00:06:01] And then the book happened. It got published and now I'm finishing up my second book. Jillian: [00:06:09] Wait, so the first book is called TinkerLab: A Hands-On Guide for Little Innovators. Rachelle: [00:06:16] Little Inventors. Jillian: [00:06:18] I'm sorry. Rachelle: [00:06:18] It's funny, we actually went back and forth: should it be innovators, should it be inventors. They are both really good. And so that book is great, and I've gotten a lot of great feedback on it. And it's you know it's designed for kids ages 2 to 6 and it has all kinds of ideas in it that parents can implement right away with very simple materials and so now I'm working on two more books. Book writing thing really stuck. Jillian: [00:06:47] Although I have to say I remember a conversation after the first book, where you're like I don't know if I could do this again. Rachelle: [00:06:56] It's like giving birth. Jillian: [00:06:57] OK so what inspired you to do it again? Rachelle: [00:07:00] You know I had enough space from it, and when you start something you've never done before, you're blind and you don't know exactly what you're getting yourself into. And so having gone through it one time, and having a little bit of space, I could see that I could just be a little bit more strategic about my second book, and I could set up things in my life that would make it more doable, and not so willy nilly and Helter-Skelter. Jillian: [00:07:29] So what's the second book about? Rachelle: [00:07:32] I can't talk about it just yet. Jillian: [00:07:34] Really. OK I got it. Rachelle: [00:07:35] I'm not at liberty to talk about it, although I will say that it is a creativity book for kids who are in a little bit of an older age group, so ages 8 through 12. So moving up into a different age and it's in the world of calligraphy, handwriting, that kind of thing. But I can't say too much more. Jillian: [00:07:56] And when will it be out? Rachelle: [00:07:58] It's supposed to come out in the summer of 2018. We shall see. Jillian: [00:08:04] Yeah OK. Now can you talk about the evolution of your blog because you started writing blog posts and that turned into your book. And then you started creating courses, right. And like how did that happen? Rachelle: [00:08:22] Writing is such a fulfilling experience. And obviously I'm sticking with it and I loved doing it. It's not a huge moneymaker. And I realize that I just needed to diversify my income and figure out other ways to really get my word out, and get my ideas into the world, but also now pay my rent and keep food on my table. Rachelle: [00:08:53] So obviously I'm continuing with the book writing but my website is monetized in lots of different ways. Jillian: [00:09:01] Do my mind walking through the different ways? How to monetize your blog Rachelle: [00:09:03] Not at all, and then I'll circle back to this question. So money comes in through book writing. And then one of the nice things now is that, I've had a book that's been out for a couple of years, I still got residual checks for my book. My book that's already been out for a while. So people keep buying it and money still comes in. That's really lovely to have that passive income. Rachelle: [00:09:24] And then there is advertising on my website and that's nice. Also passive income. And I have an affiliate agreement with Amazon. And so that's a little bit of money. Jillian: [00:09:38] And that's like Amazon Associates? Rachelle: [00:09:41] Correct Amazon Associates. So you know if somebody goes onto one of the blog post and they are like, what kind of painter are you using? And they click over. Then I get a percentage for that. And let's see there's something. Oh sponsors. So if we find really good sponsors that are a good fit with our brand, then we like working with them, and they might send us products and we can review it or something along those lines. And those sponsorships can work through our blog or through our social media. So that's another way I think there are five different ways. Rachelle: [00:10:14] And so what I was realizing is that all these different ways, aside from the book writing, that we were monetizing the website, were not really in our hands. Right, so if Amazon changes their terms next week then our percentage could drop, and we could make less money, which is actually happened this past year. And the same goes for advertising, and the same goes for sponsorships rights, and money can dry up. Rachelle: [00:10:36] So I think it's really important to diversify where your income is coming from, and then realizing that I really wanted to have some products on our site. So I had been selling little products here and there, like downloadable PDFs. How she figured out what course to build Rachelle: [00:10:57] I really wanted to teach a class right. I come from a teaching background. And so I ran a beta test and kind of figured out what the class would be about. Jillian: [00:11:05] So explain what that means. One thing that I know about you is you are very close with your community and they talk to you and give you feedback. Rachelle: [00:11:19] Right. Right. Right. So feedback is really important. Rachelle: [00:11:29] So I should also say, it's like a piece of advice for those of you who don't already have a newsletter. It's super important to get some kind of pop-up or something on your website where people can sign up for your newsletter because then you can. Jillian: [00:11:43] You can use MiloTree. Rachelle: [00:11:45] Yes, and I love MiloTree. So actually this is something I wish was something I started from day one, was having a newsletter. It's ok. I have one now and I've had it for a while, but why I mention it is is because you can get directly in touch. I mean there's lots of benefits to it, but one is you can get in touch with your fans right away and you can survey them and ask them what they're looking for. Right, what do you want or what's your pain point, and how can we help you solve it? Running a class prototype Rachelle: [00:11:45] And so I ran a survey, and I've done actually a number of surveys asking different kinds of questions and just try to get to the root of it, like what people want, what's the format they want, what problems can I help them solve, and then from that data, I pulled this class together, and I ran it as a beta, meaning that it was a prototype, and I wanted to have people join me who were willing and interested and excited about the content, but also willing to be guinea pigs and help me through trouble shooting some of the problems that might exist with it. Jillian: [00:12:47] So did you charge for it? Rachelle: [00:12:51] I would recommend anyone who's running a beta, I would definitely charge them. I was actually invited to be in a beta for for free program someone was running, and they said it's free. And it's funny, because it was free, I did not have an investment in it, and I just failed to show up and it was no fault of the class the. Actually it was probably really good. Rachelle: [00:13:14] I think it's really important that people have that financial investment because then they're on the hook, and they actually want it. They're not just giving you lip-service, sure I'll do it, I will help you out of it. It's something that they actually want. So I did charge, but I didn't charge the full amount, I made it very reasonable but still enough that people, when they signed up they felt like they needed to be there. Yeah. Jillian: [00:13:37] And there is something that is true that people value things they pay for more than things they get for free. Rachelle: [00:13:44] Absolutely. Yes so I ran the beta and then because I gave them this discount, they were willing to give me their feedback. Rachelle: [00:13:56] And so along the way we had a private Facebook group and they would share their thoughts with me and I also ran this post survey at the end and got more feedback from them on what they liked and what they didn't like. Launching her online course Rachelle: [00:13:56]  And then from there, I launched the class officially and I charge more money. And oh the other thing I offered my beta class, which I think is a nice thing to do, is I offered them lifetime access, so every time I run the class they can retake it if they want to. And I think they really appreciated that and it's also really great for seeding future classes. So you know they're my diehard fans and if they want to take the class again, they'll show up and they'll give feedback to people and they'll be present. So they're that "launch party" basically, that comes along with you. Jillian: [00:14:49] Right. And I talk about this, but really to build a business you need about a thousand fans, raving fans. And there you are building that, you know, who will buy your next book, who will take your next course, who will talk about you on social media. It's like it doesn't take millions. It's actually a much smaller number than people think. Rachelle: [00:15:17] And you know it's a good reminder too that I always feel better at the end of the day when I connect one on one with someone. So if somebody reaches out to me, or they want to have a conversation and they're in one of my classes, or they've done something with me, I always have such a good feeling. It's a much better feeling than like, Hey I sent a newsletter out to thousands of people today. No one got in touch with me. It's like, oh that's nice. Did I affect anyone today? I don't really know. Can you get rich from creating a course? Jillian: [00:15:45] Right. Right. Now here's the question: Is creating of course a get-rich-quick scheme? Rachelle: [00:15:54] That's a really good question. Jillian: [00:15:56] Because I get tons of emails saying I just created this course and it's a six figure course and stuff like that. So my instinct is that that is not true. But I don't want to put words in your mouth. Rachelle: [00:16:11] I don't know if I'm well positioned to answer that question. For me it has not been a get rich quick scheme, but it is also my biggest source of revenue. So I think it just depends on what your goals are, and it depends on your niche and how much you're solving for people, and how much they're willing to pay for that. Rachelle: [00:16:34] And it probably has a lot to do with how you deliver the concept. I guess the other piece of it is your commitment. So what I can say is that I've launched the class now three times, and each time I launch it, it's a bigger. It's bigger than the previous time. And so that wouldn't be necessarily getting rich quick, but it's definitely a growth opportunity. Rachelle: [00:16:57] The only thing I see kind of happening in the class space is that it's reaching that... it's starting to reach that saturation point, which is something that's going to happen anywhere online right. You know people start getting excited about it, they hear about it, and people start selling courses on it. Rachelle: [00:16:57] And so the market is definitely getting saturated, and I think it's making it harder to get rich quick. But there are people out there who are making those six figure incomes off of their classes, and so I think it's... I think it's still an exciting place to be and to invest time into, as long as you have a passion for it, and you're excited to show up every day and commit to it and keep going with that. Lots of potential for teaching courses online Rachelle: [00:17:37] There's a lot of potential, there's a lot of potential for teaching classes, and I mean the beauty of it that I see, and I've always had this in me, is that you can reach so many people with one experience. So when I was teaching elementary school art I had a class of 30 children at a time. I was actually teaching a bunch of classes, but say just 30 kids. And I was teaching a workshop one weekend, we had 30 teachers in the room, and I was like, wait a second, all these 30 teachers in the room, each teaching 30 kids let's say. So right now I'm teaching this class to these 30 teachers and this is going to impact 900 students. And that was such a powerful moment for me when I realized I can do something one time, and have the potential to reach so many more people. And I was teaching in Los Angeles Unified School, just directly with kids who didn't have access to a lot of things, and it was really powerful for me to think that I had this ability to impact people who need it so much, who might not get it otherwise. Rachelle: [00:18:39] So you go and teach a class online and it has that same exact potential, which is exciting. So if you get excited about that potential, and you really feel like you can serve a lot of people, and you want to, I think the sky's the limit really. Right. And it's I think some people are going to nail it and should, and other people won't. Rachelle: [00:18:59] And it just kind of depends on, again, what the niche is and their passion and their commitment to it. Jillian: [00:19:05] I think that is so right on. I think the idea that if you have something inside that you want to teach other people feel that authenticity. They feel that you're an expert in your field and they want to learn from you, and that you can reach thousands and thousands of people. Rachelle: [00:19:28] Yeah absolutely. And again if it does go back to that need. So in serving your audience, finding out what they really need, and if you're just doing something that you think is fun and important, but nobody really wants it, then you're not going to make millions of dollars doing it. Jillian: [00:19:43] What was surprising? What did you find out that surprised you as you were building your course? Rachelle: [00:19:55] Well that's a really good question. Taking me back to when I was designing the course. I guess one of the things that surprised me was how far reaching it was. You know I live in California, and to see people sign up for the class from all over the world, and I know that I have a blog following of people from all over the world. Rachelle: [00:20:20] But it was kind of amazing for me to see people show up in our forum or a shared group, from Belgium and from Australia and from Portugal, speaking all different languages, but showing up in this place and showing examples of their kids doing the work, in all these different places and all the different interpretations of the same set of rules and it was also such a beautiful surprise to see the world get a little bit smaller, with all these people coming together. Jillian: [00:20:56] Yes. And I would say that every day I am running online businesses, I feel that the world is small. Rachelle: [00:21:05] It is. It is. Jillian: [00:21:07] You know and that and that especially as moms, we all want the same things for our kids. Rachelle: [00:21:15] We definitely do. Jillian: [00:21:17] So in terms it's like the nuts and bolts like social media. How do you see social media? How has it changed for you? What's working for you now? How to use social media to grow your blog Rachelle: [00:21:27] Yeah great question. Social media has changed a lot obviously since I started it, you know seven years ago. Pinterest didn't even exist when I started. And so I think it is so important to stay as much as you can on top of what's happening, what those changes are in the last year. I've had a lot of personal issues going on with my family. My mom was really sick. And so you know I just had to turn off a lot of social media. I've lost track of what's happened. Things have changed a lot. That said, when I started, Facebook was really strong. That was a place where I put in a lot of investment and a lot of time and I still think there's a lot of growth potential in Facebook, and where I'm putting all my effort right now is a trifecta of Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram. Rachelle: [00:22:15] And you know going back to when I started, I think what helped me probably more than anything, content is important, but it's the community, and it's not just my community, not just the people that show up for me who like my content, but it's also people who are running in the same space as me, or running in similar niches as me, whom I became friends with and we help each other. And so I'm seeing a lot of that happening on social media. Rachelle: [00:22:48] On Instagram, there are Instagram pods, where people will work together to help each other's Instagrams grow. Are there are Facebook pods, where someone will post, Hey I posted something today on Facebook, and everyone pops over and likes it or comments on it to help them out. Why you want to work with your competitors as collaborators Rachelle: [00:23:04] And so that that kind of thing is still alive and well, and I think that that kind of community support, and finding people that you love, and that love you, and that can really help you grow, and seeing yourself as part of a community. No one can grow on their own. And you know even though I largely work by myself, I know I would not be where I am now, if it weren't for the support and friendship of other people. And your social media is a big place for that. Jillian: [00:23:34] Yeah, the Internet is really big. And I always say, befriend your competitors because you can help each other. And that you are not exactly in competition with them. There's room. Rachelle: [00:23:49] Yeah exactly. No you're not. You're not. Everyone has their own spin on things, and your readers or your viewers or your listeners are going to come to you for your specific taste. Right. And what you are serving up on your menu will be a little bit different. Rachelle: [00:24:04] And you know it's like two Italian restaurants can exist on the same street because they're not identical. Jillian: [00:24:08] Exactly. And I think it also creates a feeling of abundance rather than scarcity. Rachelle: [00:24:15] Yeah yeah. And you know the other piece of it was that when I started, I had two really little kids and I was feeling very isolated, and I was looking for a community. And so to find all the other people who were doing things similar to what I was doing, my world felt a lot smaller, and I could connect with them and we could understand each other. And you know this is how you and I met we were. You know, we bonded immediately because we had you know we were both building businesses, and we both had little kids. So finding other people is so important and it just helps. It helps you get through the day. It's all about the people anyway. Jillian: [00:24:57] Moms in my preschool had no idea what I was doing being a blogger, building an online business. But to find other people online doing it was so comforting. Rachelle: [00:25:13] Yeah yeah. It can be really comforting and you can help each other too. It's like the other day one of my online friends, she shared how she does video with a certain kind of light. And I was like, that looks like a really cool light. I went and ordered it right away. And we do the same. I did the same thing back and I'll share, this is a resource that I'm working with and I really like it. Rachelle: [00:25:35] So yes, you can be a constant help to each other in a number of ways and it can be, you know, I'm having a hard day. Talk me off the ledge.Or how do you grow your newsletter list, and what's that trick that you're doing and how can that work for me too? How many hours a week do you work on your blog? Jillian: [00:25:50] And how many hours a week would you say you work? Rachelle: [00:25:54] You know, I'm really trying to be a mom first. To whatever extent I can, so I pick up my kids from school everyday and that's what my work day, it's kind of work backwards from that. So how many hours do I put in my day. It is about my week and that's about 25 hours per week. And you know, I try to leave a little bit of time in there open for meeting with a friend, or getting errands done. And so probably ends up being like 20 hours a week. Jillian: [00:26:21] Got it. So that's very doable. Rachelle: [00:26:23] I think so. It's been different at different stages. So like when I was finishing up my first book, it was very very intense and so my husband would come home early and I would go to the coffee shop and write. And so I think during that season, my hours probably went up. Right. Two or three times. And so it's seasonal for sure. Like there are sometimes things that come up and the hours go up and I have to work on the weekends. So I also run live workshops in my studio, and so sometimes like a Saturday, I'll be out for four hours, or Thursday night, I'll be out for three hours and my husband covers me so it probably averages about 25 maybe even 30 hours a week. Jillian: [00:27:09] What about your business at this moment are you most excited about? Rachelle: [00:27:14] What about it am I the most excited about right now. That's a great question. So I've been doing this for so long, and I'm still so in love with the idea of everything that I'm doing. So I feel like I'm excited about all the pieces I have been running, this online class, and I'm excited about launching another side of it. So the ways I have been doing it is with launches. Rachelle: [00:27:48] So what I mean is I'll have a quarterly launch, so I'll say it's January and I'm going to launch my online class, and then I'll do it again in April, and again in July, and again in October,. But I'm working right now and making that course evergreen. How to get people into your funnel Rachelle: [00:28:04] So I'm working on getting people into a funnel so when they sign up for my newsletter, they get some free content that gets them excited about what it is that TinkerLab is about, and that moves them through my free challenge and I could talk about that as well. And then from there they will be given the opportunity to sign up for my class. Rachelle: [00:28:04]  And so rather than run these launches four times a year, it would just be this ongoing funnel, where as people join my website, they will get the opportunity to take the class, and the class would be there all the time, and I'm doing that because we're finding that people want to take the class in February. Like well, it just started last month. I'm sorry you'll have to wait till April. But that's not when they want to take it. And then by the time April rolls around, they're on to something else. So that's not helpful to anyone. So I want to be more helpful and more useful. Jillian: [00:28:58] Explain your free course and how that rolls into your paid course. Rachelle: [00:29:03] Yeah absolutely. So the free class I run it as a five day challenge. I have a mentor named Jadah Sellner who is amazing, and she ran a website called Simple Green Smoothies, and they did these challenges, and I've followed along for years and loved how they did it. Rachelle: [00:29:21] And I was like, I really want to do a challenge, and the way the challenge works is it's like a free course. I do five days of free ART content basically. And you got essentially a menu, like a meal plan, and it gives you five activities to do with your kids over the course of the week, and it gives you a list of supplies that you buy ahead of time, or you gather ahead of time, and a lot of them are things you can find around your house, so it's not too difficult. Rachelle: [00:29:54] And then each day for five days, you set up one of the projects with your young children, and then do it and then we have this online forum, a group on Facebook where people can share what they're doing and it becomes a really beautiful community of people who are having this shared experience of creativity with their kids and feeling supported and nurtured and energized by it. Rachelle: [00:30:16] And then at the end of the five days, if they really love it and they want to continue, then they can sign up for five more weeks of it and every week for five weeks, they'll get you know more projects and the support group will continue. Rachelle: [00:30:29] And from that, I've actually received a lot of feedback from people that they want even more, so I'm thinking about, well how can I expand that and make that into a bigger program that's longer than five weeks, and so that's something that's also brewing in the back of my mind. But if you're interested in checking it out you can go to look at Tinkerlab Art Start and it'll take you to sign up for the Art Star challenge. So right now they're happening quarterly. But you know maybe by the time someone listens to this, it'll have the evergreen setup and it'll just leap you right into it and you'll get it in your inbox right away. That's the goal. Jillian: [00:31:06] Oh that's wonderful. So now if you had one piece of advice that you wish someone had told you when you were starting your business what would that be? Technical advice and theoretical advice for bloggers Rachelle: [00:31:19] So I have to have one that's a technical piece of advice, and one that's a little bit more a little more theoretical. Is that ok? So the technical thing is that I get most of my traffic through organic search, and I wish I had known about search engine optimization or SEO earlier. So I found out about it right in the beginning. There was actually a mom in my daughter's preschool who was an expert. Rachelle: [00:31:51] She was like a consultant and I didn't even know what it was. It took maybe two years to really understand that people are finding me organically. And there's actually strategy behind that. And so I wish I had done that right from the beginning. If you haven't been doing SEO, you can be like me and you can fix it. You can go back and you can put Yoast onto your website and you can sign up for a keyword tool finder. And it's definitely doable. But I wish I did that from the beginning. Jillian: [00:32:24] So Yoast is a plugin your WordPress that helps you optimize your posts. Rachelle: [00:32:32] Exactly. So if you're on WordPress, I think maybe it's on other sites too, but on WordPress you can get Yoast. It's so great because it'll give you the greenlight if everything looks exactly how it should, and will be a yellow light if things were almost there, red if it's terrible, and it gives you all kinds of areas where you just plug things in. What is your keyword that you're trying to go after and you have to write out the description of the content, and it tells you that you need to have more keywords inside of your post, and it just guides you through the whole thing very very very simply, and makes it really easy for you to get those keywords in there and to optimize your posts the best way you possibly can. Rachelle: [00:32:32]  And then the other tool that I recently discovered, Google used to have this keyword finder that sort of changed over the years and it became less useful. But I found a new one I paid for it, but I like it a lot. It's called Mangools. I think it's spelled M-A-N-G-O-O-L-S. It's a keyword finder and it's just really comprehensive and you can actually test it for free. Rachelle: [00:33:39] I'm not an affiliate. I wish I was right now. But but you can test it for free. And I like it. I think it's obviously good enough. I decide to pay for it. Jillian: [00:33:48] Yeah I use one called KWFinder. I find them really useful. Rachelle: [00:34:05] Yeah it's definitely worthwhile. It's definitely is because you know people are searching for things and it's a great way to find people and that's how I get people in my newsletter. They come to my website and they like what they see there, and they'll sign up for my newsletter. But if they don't ever find my website, they won't sign up for my newsletter so that's important it's great. Jillian: [00:34:26] Now what is the other piece of advice? Rachelle: [00:34:29] So the other piece of advice is to think about how important it is to be in this for the long haul, and to see it having a long plan for yourself, and to make sure that whatever it is you're doing, that you can be passionate about this thing for a really long time, because burnout is so inevitable. Rachelle: [00:34:29] There have been so many moments where I just I haven't wanted to throw in the towel. But I've been exhausted absolutely exhausted. Like someone hacks into my site or my web site's overloaded and things are shutting down or there's just some kind of technical problem, and when those things come out those are the things I hate, obviously, those are the things that really get to me. Rachelle: [00:35:17] I can be techie but I'm not that techie. And so when the techie things happen, I just love what I do so much, that I'm motivated to figure it out and it doesn't burn me out and stress me out and kill me. And I can keep going, so just to make sure that whatever it is you're doing, you love it enough that when stuff hits the fan which it will, that you're still motivated to do it. Because that's the thing that's going to drive you to get through the hard times. So that would be my advice. Jillian: [00:35:49] And I totally agree. It is because you love it. Rachelle: [00:35:53] It's because I love it. Yes it is. Absolutely. You know so I went back to my mentor Jadah. She runs this program called Love Over Metrics and I just love that. That phrase says that metrics are important, and we're running businesses, so you want to quantify what you're doing, want make sure that you can put food on your table. Rachelle: [00:35:53] But the love has to come first, you know to be a love for what you're doing, and love for your audience, and just really believing in your content. And that's going to drive you and that's going to keep you happy and enabled and confidants and connected to your audience. Jillian: [00:36:38] Absolutely. Rachelle: [00:36:39] And they'll see right through you if that's not there. Jillian: [00:36:45] So OK. Rachelle, how can people find you? Reach out to you? Learn more about you? Start in your in your classes? Rachelle: [00:36:56] Yeah absolutely. So if you go to TinkerLab.com. So "tinker" like you know, tinkering in your studio. "Lab" it's all one word. T-I-N-K-E-R-L-A-B you can find my website, and if you wanted to try out this Art Start Challenge, you could just do a forward slash "art start" and loop right into that five day challenge that will hopefully be evergreen. On social media everywhere I'm TinkerLab. And so you can just search for TinkerLab or you can look for my name anywhere. Rachelle: [00:37:30] And if you wanted to reach me by email I'm Rachelle at TinkerLab.com. My name is spelled R-A-C-H-E-L-L-E at TinkerLab.com. Jillian: [00:37:40] Thank you so much for being on the show. Jillian: [00:37:43] It was such a pleasure. And I just adore everything that you're doing and I just want to support you however I can. And I love that you're running this show. It's awesome. Jillian: [00:38:30] If you're trying to grow your social media followers on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Pinterest, plus trying to grow your email list. Definitely check out MiloTree. It is the smart popup you add to your blog or your site, and it asks your visitors to follow you on social media or subscribe to your list. Jillian:[00:38:52] Just a couple of things… it's super easy to add to your site. We offer a WordPress plugin or a simple line of code. It's Google-friendly on mobile so you don't have to worry about showing pop-ups on mobile. It's lightning fast, it won't slow your sight down and you can grow multiple platforms at once, so check it out MiloTree.com. Sign up for MiloTree now and get your first 30 DAYS FREE!

Jadah Sellner first rolled onto the internet scene as co-founder of Simple Green Smoothies - which grew their audience very quickly in its first year in business. They attribute a lot of that success to how they built their community and tribe using Instagram and a 30 day challenge. Cut to today - Jadah has started a new venture where she helps entrepreneurs build their own communities using metrics some may shrug off but have really been at the core of how she does everything. In this episode we talk about: ▪Finding the best place to spotlight your talents so your audience can find you ▪What to do once you do find this “dance floor” ▪Love Metrics - What are they and why they are so important to your business? ... Plus Jadah teases some of the things she's working on including the following 2 projects: Loveovermetrics.com Buildyourchallenge.com We agreed this is a part one of a series of conversations with Jadah! Got questions on how to build your list once you're dancing on your dance floor? Visit - http://annesamoilov.com/146  to weigh in, live some love for Jadah, and tell us what else we should cover in the next installment of this inspiring conversation!

Crushin' It vs Being Crushed Jadah Sellner is an author, international keynote speaker, poet, and the co-founder of Simple Green Smoothies –– the #1 green smoothie online resource. She and her friend, Jen Hansard, host the wildly popular (and free) 30-Day Green Smoothie Challenge at simplegreensmoothies.com. Their “healthy obsession” with green smoothies has become a global movement where over one million people have embraced this simple and healthy habit. In 2009, Jadah became an entrepreneur and now helps creatives, bloggers, and small business owners build communities with love, impact, and world-changing ideas at jadahsellner.com. When Jadah's not blending spinach, you can catch her reading Shel Silverstein poems at the dinner table, having epic dance parties, and helping dreamers change the world. Jadah lives in the San Francisco bay area with her husband, George, daughter Zoe, and their little “chiweenie” dog, Clementine. Jadah is a beautiful example of what it's like to LOVE your work and empower your children to see the inspiration in that. She shares some of her best scheduling, mindset and boundary tips here with us on this episode!  And don't miss out on all the happenings during the Crushin' it vs. Being Crushed Parenthood Series by signing up here!