In this episode, I chat with Radiance Harris, Trademark Attorney & Author. She owns the firm Radiance IP Law and they help small businesses protect, monetize, and leverage profitable brands with trademarks.
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In this podcast episode, I share five action-steps for how to build new habits that stick this year. These steps can be applied to new habits that you want to pick up to get to where you want to be in your business, health, and even relationships.
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In this episode, I chat with Susanne Mariga, Certified Public Accountant. Susanne shares her business journey and what inspired her to go from corporate accountant to starting her own accounting firm. And she also opens up about juggling her business and her family and how raising her rates was crucial for her to bring more work/life balance to her life as an entrepreneur. She also shares financial strategies that are crucial for new business owners to implement to achieve financial success in their businesses.
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In this podcast episode, I reflect on my top five business lessons of 2020. This year was my second year in business full-time. And it was a year of transition for me, as I was working on transitioning from a service-based business to a course business. I learned lots of lessons (some the hard way!) as I worked to keep the business going and to make a transition during a pandemic year.
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In this episode, I chat with Shade Dixon, Attorney to the Creatives! During the episode, Shade shares her entrepreneurship journey and how she started her law practice right after graduating from law school. She also talks about how she merges her passion for creativity, including the arts and music, with her love for law by serving creatives with her services. And she opens up about various mindset blocks that sometimes come up for her and how she overcomes them, so she can continue putting in the work to make her business a success. To close out the episode, Shade shares legal best practices that should be used to protect your business and your intellectual property!
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Creating a full-time online business is really simple when you choose to specialize in running a service-based business. That’s because creating a full-time service-based business is the BEST and fastest type of full-time business to build, when you sell your service at a PREMIUM rate. Selling services allows you to quit your job without taking huge financial risks with becoming an entrepreneur because you’re using the knowledge and skills that you already have to generate income for yourself, which is FREE to do!
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In this episode, I chat with Renee Jael, owner of her own photography, graphic design, and styling company. Renee opens up about how she got on the path to running a business that aligns with who she is as a person and her natural strengths and talents. She also opens up about mindset challenges that have come up for her, from time to time, as she’s been working on growing her business — particularly during the pandemic. She also shares strategies and advice for new entrepreneurs to help them start businesses that they love and to help them overcome the fears that can come with being a new business owner!
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In this podcast episode, I open up about challenges I’ve had along the way, as I’ve been working in my business full-time over the last two years. It’s really taken a LOT of persistence to keep going as various obstacles came up. And I know for a fact that if I wasn’t persistent and if I was the type of person who gave up easily, I’d probably be back in a corporate job I’d hate right now.
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In this episode, I chat with Desiree Adams, Productivity Expert and Founder of Divine Inspirations. Danielle uses organization strategies to help business owners achieve their goals, work less, and make more money, so they can spend time with their families and do things they enjoy in their free time.
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When you keep doubting yourself or allowing fear to stop you from taking action, your progress in entrepreneurship will be extremely slow! Self-doubt is basically an invisible barrier between where you are now and where you want to be in your business. So it’s crucial that you learn how to overcome it so you can grow your business and step into the life you deserve!
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Not booking your ideal clients can be frustrating, I get it. Sometimes it can feel like you’ve tried everything and nothing seems to be working. And it can make you feel like your dream of having a profitable business selling your services is basically impossible! But really, the only thing standing between you and the clients you want, could just be a simple mistake that you’re making without realizing it.
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Here, I’m sharing what it takes to get clients who pay you MORE. When you’re getting started with selling your services, it’s nothing to get a person to pay you $30 or $50 or even $100 for what you do. But that type of money doesn’t put you on track to create a full-time business that has the potential to leave your 9-5 job. To become a full-time service provider (faster!), without having to burn yourself out by taking on too many clients) all you need to do is to book 2 or 3 clients per month at a premium rate, charging $1,000+ for your services.
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In this episode, I chat with Lauren Gall, Co-Founder of Va Va Virtual Assistants. Her company provides back office support for small business owners and busy professionals. Lauren shares the story of how she got her business idea while working in her 9-5 job in sales. And she opens up about how she started the company 8 years ago. She shares how she acquired her first clients as a new business owner in the early days. And she discusses how she’s overcome certain challenges along the way to grow a full agency of 45 people.
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In my 20s, I was that employee who hated my ALL of my jobs and I felt stuck in a life that wasn’t what I really wanted. I’d look around at work and I’d always feel like I wasn’t supposed to be there. But I felt stuck and I wasn’t sure if there was another path that I could take in life. I felt like I had all this untapped potential inside of me that was waiting to be unleashed, and I knew it wasn’t going to happen in the 9-5 corporate sales jobs I was working in.
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In this episode, I chat with Natasha Samuel, Founder of Sol Studio, a social media studio that specializes in Instagram strategy for small businesses and creative entrepreneurs. Natasha tells the story of how she started her business, while she was still a college student. She did quite the juggling act of balancing classes while growing a business, but it paid off because she was able to skip the 9-5 world to take her business full-time, once she graduated!
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Last month, I passed the $100,000 in revenue mark, since making the decision to leave my 9-5 in late 2018. I don’t share the number to brag or anything like that. But I wanted to open up about how I did it with the hope that it inspires more black women and men to take their entrepreneurial aspirations seriously…because when you take YOURSELF seriously, your results will show for it.
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In this episode, I chat with award-winning Wedding Photographer, Elizabeth Austin-Davis. Elizabeth opens up about how she strategically positioned her business as a boutique, luxury photography studio to better serve her dream clients, while creating sustainable income from her services. She also talks about how she got into photography and why she chose to specialize in shooting weddings. And she shares how she’s working to create more diversity in the wedding photography industry through her imagery.
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Are you having a hard time juggling your business with your 9-5 job? That’s a struggle that we ALL go through at some point. So in this new podcast episode, I get transparent about my experience and struggles with juggling my business on the side during my corporate days.
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In this episode, I chat with Transformational Coach & Clinical Hypnotherapist, Kierra Turner. Kierra offers a signature program that helps women heal, align, and manifest, using her H.A.M. Manifestation Method. She takes women through a process of healing their inner child, their money story, and the negative beliefs around success and money that may be holding them back. She also offers one-on-one hypnotherapy sessions and an online metaphysical boutique.
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In this episode, I open up about how I found my first few clients online as a new service-based business owner, during my corporate days. I also share specific psychology-based marketing strategies that you could start using today to build your brand and attract clients of your own online, too!
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