Sales expert Meghan Lamle invested her last $200 into starting her business and turned it into $200K in sales before she burned it all down after she grew quickly and burnt out. She took a break from business, worked on her mental health and is back 4 years after that initial $200 investment scaling once again.

Meghan talks about how imposter syndrome is always lurking, no matter how much revenue you bring in. She works on her mental health with therapy, hypnotherapy, mindset and breath work and nervous system regulation in order to squash her feelings of perfectionism. She learned to believe in herself and has been on a journey of unraveling her imposter syndrome while rebuilding her business to even bigger revenue successes.

Inside the episode we talk about:

• How that first investment is the scariest
• How trying to figure it out by yourself doesn’t work
• How monumental growth also can create massive burnout
• How she closed her coaching business and went back to corporate
• How she rebuilt her coaching business while battling imposter syndrome, and massively increased her revenue despite feeling like an imposter
• How revenue does not fix imposter syndrome
• How imposter syndrome will make you keep investing in skills you already have
• The benefits of hypnotherapy and investing in your mental health

Here’s where you can find Meghan Lamle:

IG: https://www.instagram.com/meghan.lamle/

Website: https://meghanlamle.com/

https://meghanlamle.com/scale-to-5k

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Getting uncomfortable isn’t fun! It’s not easy and it can hurt sometimes, but getting uncomfortable also pushes us to our next level. It’s important to move outside of your comfort zone because it allows you to learn, grow and expand.

On this solo episode, I talk about the things that made me uncomfortable and how if I hadn’t done them, and continued to do them, I wouldn’t have businesses or a podcast today!

Inside the episode I talk about:

• The importance of getting uncomfortable in order to move to your next level
• My hate of running and why I’m running
• How speaking live and hosting presentations once made me very uncomfortable, but I continued to do them and succeed in them
• How when you work on one aspect of your life, it trickles into all aspects of your life and business

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SEO Expert and Agency Owner Kim Fischer went from finishing Grad School to bartending to entrepreneurship. She had been living abroad in the UK when the pandemic hit, and decided it was time to return home and start her SEM Agency 13 Emeralds Marketing. She was a woman in tech, and wanted to build a female-first agency that was for women and built by women.

Kim talks about how she wants female entrepreneurs to feel comfortable asking tech questions because when she was first starting her business she turned to Facebook groups for advice and the predominantly male tech groups made her feel less than for not having all the answers. She ended up seeking out a more female-driven community and found the support she needed to build her business into a success.

Inside the episode we talk about:

• Starting a business in a pandemic
• Being a female in a male-dominated industry
• Finding a supportive community
• The weird things people search on google
• What type of content to have on your website to boost your SEO

Here’s where you can find Kim Fischer:

IG: @13emeraldsmarketing

Website: https://13emeraldsmarketing.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-fischer/

Meet Dr. Megan Daley, host of Human on the Daley Podcast:

Human on the Daley Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/human-on-the-daley/id1687235238

Dr's Megan Daley's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moveonthedaley

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August marked the second year of my coaching business! Woohoo! Two years into entrepreneurship and I’m running two businesses - my coaching business online and my local pet sitting business – and it has been quite a journey. A journey with some mistakes along the way!

Mistakes happen in business, no matter what year of business you’re in. I don’t consider business mistakes to be a bad thing because I believe you only learn and grow from each one. And that makes your business even stronger.

I made one critical mistake in my second year of business, but I also corrected that mistake in the same year. I waited far too long to dig into mindset work and instead focused on strategy thinking I needed to learn “how” rather than learn how to BE.

Inside the episode I talk about:

• Business mistakes I made in my second year as an entrepreneur
• The importance of learning and growing from mistakes
• How I thought strategy was more important to learn over mindset
• How I learned to BE a business owner
• How I learned there are layers to mindset work
• The Catch-22 of not having the money to hire the coach, but needing the coach to receive the money
• How we don’t need to know “how” it’s going to happen, we can just believe it will
• How working on my mindset with my Empowerment Coach Andrea Crisp has changed my life and business

Meet Andrea Crisp, host of The Couragecast Podcast:

Andrea Crisp’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andreacrispcoach

The Couragecast Podcast: https://www.instagram.com/the.couragecast

https://www.andreacrisp.ca

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Jenn Bieri was on the executive track at her accounting firm with a clear path to where her life was “supposed” to go, but she was continuously hitting burnout. She tried to pivot down different corporate avenues, changing the size or the type of firms she worked for, but her struggles of burnout only increased.

After numerous panic attacks that landed her in the hospital, she found the energy side of yoga practice. It helped her stress level but the golden handcuffs of her career, salary and benefits held her tight in the corporate space until the pandemic gave her a wake up call, and she decided it was time to start her own business.

Now, Jenn is an energy healer, yoga teacher and coach and she helps her clients with chronic stress and burnout restore their mind, body and soul with balance and healing.

Inside the episode we talk about:

• Pivoting out of the security of the corporate space
• Ignoring burnout because of a paycheck
• Learning how to slow down (even when you don’t want to)
• How yoga is more than an exercise routine
• The benefits of restorative yoga
• Learning how to manage your mind in the silence

Here’s where you can find Jenn Bieri:

IG: @movewithjennn

Free Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/behappyandfree

Meet Natalie Barnett, host of The Embodied Entrepreneur:

The Embodied Entrepreneur Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-embodied-entrepreneur-podcast-with-natalie-barnett/id1665763758

Natalie Barnetts's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nataliebarnett/

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Both micro offers and long-term coaching are great options to enjoy when you’re seeking guidance in your business. Each offer type has value and purpose to the season you are in. But the expectations and results you get from each type of offer are vastly different, and in this solo episode I talk about how micro offers are for learning and long-term coaching is for implementing the things you’ve learned.

I talk about my own experiences of wasting time and money and expecting results that weren’t possible because I wasn’t clear on what I had invested in.

Inside the episode I talk about:

• Benefits and differences between micro offers and long-term coaching
• How and what you learn inside micro offers
• How long-term coaching helps with the doing and implementation of what you’ve learned
• The importance of knowing what you want, and your expectations before investing in a program
• Boost Your Business Collective, my intimate group coaching program, which is a program that includes the learning and implementing

Find More Info About Boost Your Business Collective Here: https://goliveyourstory.mykajabi.com/offers/Uwncm4Bs

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Empowerment Coach, Badass Unicorn and Empowered Millennial Angela Gentile had been stuffing down her authentic self for decades, and had been trying to fit her life into a box that her environment told her she “should” live. She had a reckoning after her dad passed away and realized she had to break out of the box and live outside of the status quo.

Angela explains how as a millennial she lacked an emotional toolbox to deal with her grief and emotions, and couldn’t find a space that allowed her to both be angry and tranquil in order to open herself up to solutions so she could take action. So she created her own space where she and her clients can zen, rage, heal.

Angela talks about how it’s important to support and celebrate ALL life events, big and small, and not just marriage and kids. Because by celebrating the small things, they turn into big shifts and changes in your life.

Inside the episode we talk about:

• Being a trailblazer and breaking away from the norm
• How to find a new environment, when you don’t “fit” in your current environment
• How to open yourself up and realize that you control your choices
• How celebrating small victories should be the norm
• How getting uncomfortable, allows for big shifts

Angela’s business has evolved and rebranded since this episode was recorded and is now called The Empowered Millennials. Sweat Remix still exists but the name of her IG and podcast have changed since this recording. Find them all linked below!

Here’s where you can find Angela Gentile:

IG: https://www.instagram.com/theempoweredmillennials/

Website: https://www.sweatremix.com/

Podcast: https://www.sweatremix.com/podcast

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Burn out doesn’t always look like an explosion, and oftentimes looks more like little singes or little fires everywhere. Intentional Living Coach Tiffany Leader explains how burnout is often a build up of the little things, over an extended period of time, that we continue to ignore and numb out with Netflix or alcohol rather than deal with. It’s not always a giant emotional breakdown.

In this episode, Tiffany explains how to recognize the little singes so you don’t reach breakdown level. Because no one wants that! You don’t have to accept burnout as normal and can learn to take care of yourself first.

Tiffany talks about identifying what brings you joy and it can be something as simple as going outside. Tiny house living has been a passion for her because she loves having experiences with people more than she wants to collect stuff. So Tiffany has found joy in the RV lifestyle and enjoys traveling the country in an RV with her husband, and getting outside as much as possible.

Inside the episode we talk about:

• The definition of burnout
• How to have a rhythm of joy and work
• How you have to make changes and stop saying it will get better “when”
• How your body talks to you before your brain does
• The signs of burnout and how you’re coping with it
• How she decide to live a tiny house lifestyle while also starting her marriage
• Her travels as a full time RV-er

Here’s where you can find Tiffany Leader:

IG: https://www.instagram.com/tiffany.leader/

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