Mindful Millionaire with Leisa Peterson

Today, I am interviewing Matt Champagne, PhD. We're discussing client and prospect surveys and the pioneering research that he's done over 25 years on maximizing the uses of customer feedback to grow your business and your profits. We're sharing ideas and ways to use surveys in your business in more ways than you've probably considered. Using them to become more in tune with your ideal client's needs so you can help them in bigger ways and be able to capture their attention with your communications. I took copious notes and I'm sure you will too. Enjoy. Dr. Matt Champagne shares: And when we got to the end of the period and stuff, we got all this email from these travel agents. Where's the survey? When is the next survey coming? And they're like - how strange is that people asking for the survey? When we asked them later, would you like to do this again? 97% of the audience said - "Yes, send me another survey". And we asked them why. They said, because I made a difference. I made an impact on the cruise line industry. I felt like my voice was heard, what I said made a difference. And I'm thinking to myself, what you did was go online and click a button and hit submit. That's what you, in reality, that's what you did. You went and you typed in a form and you click the button. But in their minds, the psychology behind it is they felt like they were helping the cruise line industry - make decisions on how to run the protocols and how to get people back onto cruises. It just felt that close. That's the power when you do surveys correctly, closing the loop and sharing the results and continuing the conversation… For 28 years, Dr. Champagne has been a researcher, university professor, and serial entrepreneur. He was named "Technology Visionary" by SURVEY Magazine for his pioneering work merging psychology and technology to create never-before-seen customer feedback solutions. When not teaching, Matt can be found SCUBA diving or on-stage playing keyboard in his rock band. Learn more about Dr. Matt: Click here for a free gift for Mindful Millionaire listeners - (the 9 Principles infographic referenced on our episode): https://matthewchampagne.com/millionaire Description and access to The Survey Playbook (best source to quickly create the perfect survey): https://matthewchampagne.com/book/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattchampagne/

Today, I am interviewing Stephanie Breedlove of Breedlove Capital. Stephanie co-founded Home Pay, a full-service company that helps families process, payroll, and taxes related to their household employees. I heard from John Warrillow about Stephanie's experience with selling her company for over $50 million to Care.com. Super inspiring to hear about some of the struggles that she had to go through all the way to what she's up to now. Many of us who are founding companies deal with all sorts of things that can come up and it can be easy to get distracted by the small stuff when in reality, the potential can be so much bigger than we realize. When you hear her story and how she niched and how that played out for her success, it is very inspiring and will likely give you some ideas about how you can increase the value of your own company. Enjoy! Stephanie shares her insights: - "I will say the number one thing that I have become is more self-aware and, I think that's really hard for people. And, when you are an entrepreneur, I do think that you are more successful if you can look in the mirror and recognize the warts and work on them, which none of us like to do. On the flip side, recognize the great moments that have happened. And, you're the one leading that ship and those moments and pat yourself on the back. So I feel like one of the gifts that come to me in this journey is the highs and the lows that come with self-awareness. And, I will say, I think that makes you a better person." - "Absolutely nothing can replace the value of hard work and sacrifice. As long as it's, you know, burning you out and you're finding balance in that process, nothing replaces that hard work, the sacrifice, the compromise. And I love this adage, that failure is a learning for something next. And that's something next may be the greatest thing you ever do. And that's what makes you feel like a rock star? I mean, that those risks, the hard work, the compromise, the failures, all these things that sound like negative terms, you know, they turn you into a rock star to think that you're really good at, and that feels good." Stephanie is a career entrepreneur. Growing a business from idea to scale to long-term value is where her best talents are exercised, and she has been passionately dedicated to the success of small businesses for nearly 30 years. In 1992, Stephanie co-founded HomePay by Care.com (formerly Breedlove & Associates), the nation's leading firm dedicated to making household employment payroll and tax compliance easy for busy families and their caregivers. After more than two decades focused on quality growth, building value, and earning industry leadership, the company joined forces with Care.com, the largest online marketplace for finding in-home care. Stephanie is continuing her entrepreneurial journey as co-founder of Breedlove Capital, a family office focused on acquisition of small businesses with big potential. Entrepreneurs are the creators of new businesses and generate 80% of new jobs each year. They are instrumental to the growth and strength of the economy, and Breedlove Capital is dedicated to playing a role in smart progress for the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Stephanie's community work is a natural extension of her entrepreneurial passion. She is a mentor, board member, and investor to early-stage companies. Her best-selling book, All In, provides example and strategy to encourage female entrepreneurs to grow companies of scale. Stephanie and her family are also dedicated to giving time and resources to the things they value most (besides entrepreneurship) - education, the outdoors, and family. Learn more about Stephanie: Company websites: https://www.breedlovecapital.com/ https://www.care.com/homepay https://linkedin.com/in/stephanie-breedlove-862537a https://twitter.com/BreedloveSteph https://www.facebook.com/BreedloveSteph

Today, I'm interviewing my good friend Steven Morris. We're talking about art, business, new paradigms, and ways to think differently about business. Steven's new book, The Beautiful Business recently came out and I couldn't wait to share more about Steven's reflective approach to capitalism and the future of work with you. Enjoy! Steven Morris is the president of Matter Consulting, Inc. He is a brand and culture advisor, author, and speaker. He works with business leaders to mine, articulate, and activate their driving belief system to create organizational integrity, evolved leaders, connected cultures, and unignorable brands. His upcoming book is entitled The Beautiful Business (which publishes in October of 2021 by Conscious Capitalism Press) that focuses on how businesses of all sizes can build integrity, belonging and magnetism through their brand and cultures. His previous book is The Evolved Brand: Why and How to Build a Brand with Soul and Humanize Your Marketing. Through his widely read blog (25,000+ subscribers) and as a contributing writer to Retail Observer (monthly column), Business Week, Brand Week, Conscious Company Magazine, Communication Arts, HOW Magazine and MarketingProfs, Steve writes about the intersection of brand, culture, business, innovation, and wholehearted living. Steve is also an artist who shows his paintings in galleries across the US, a long-time surfer, and a beekeeper. Steven shares with us his insights: - "You know, it's interesting. Meaning comes from struggle. Meaning comes from us, confronting the challenges of life. And as we talked about earlier, there is no going through life without some trauma, without some challenges, without some difficulty. It's how we address those things that defines what meaning we make behind those things. So the leaders that come to me typically in the world of business, they've had that version of awakening. It could be, again, any different versions of it. It could even be a spiritual awakening. And now all of a sudden they want to reclaim a larger version of themselves and they want to actually do what I didn't do in my business, which is put more wholeness into their work and not just do it for themselves. But they're called in some way, shape or form to do it in a broader context and affect the people around them." - "The way that things used to be is that when we asked the kid, what do you want to be when you grow up? The question really was what profession do you want to be? And, you know, it starts with, I want to be a fireman or policeman, you know, if you're a young man or, you know, whatever, a nurse or a doctor or whatever. But now it's what kind of human do you want to be? And how do you want to contribute to the world? How do you want to live your life? And now all of a sudden our work story, our personal story, our… our spiritual story. All these stories are beginning to meld together. And I think what's beginning to happen is that it's not work first. It's life first or integration first. And we're looking to live a fulfilled life, or what I call would call a beautiful life in a business that we feel like we're a belonging member, a contributing member. Where our full self is invited to show up and shine in that environment, not just the mastery that we have in our vocation, but really the human being that we are. And we raise our hand, we join those people and we contribute towards something greater than ourselves, which is all what we all want to do as human beings contribute to something that's greater than simply us." - "They can ask themselves, what does a beautiful life, what does running, shaping, or working for a beautiful business actually mean to me? I want them to have that first private conversation with themselves that determines what is my value system. What is the greatest expression of my own humanity that can show up in my vocation that is in align with my integrity of the way I am as a human being my personal life. And so what I hope the book does is it really helps individuals and lots of them ideally. Claim their own version of human artistry and think deeply about what matters in my life and how can I utilize my own time on this planet, this precious time in this planet with the greatest acts of imagination that I possibly can to live in to that fullest version of my life." Learn more about Steven: Website: MatterCo.co LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenmorris111 Twitter: @StevenMMorris Instagram: @stevenmorrisart

Today, I'm interviewing Astrid Mueller. I invited her to share about her experience over the past year of being diagnosed with cancer and how that changed her life. Astrid recently released her new book that helps you give yourself permission to sparkle which we dive into during our chat. Enjoy this conversation - it's absolutely beautiful… Astrid Mueller helps spiritual entrepreneurs, creative entrepreneurs (and people who really need it) make their life and business more MAGICAL. Clients hire her for Design alchemy, Brand Strategy consulting, and workshops that empower, heal, energize + bring joy. She wrote a book called "Permission To Sparkle" with a fun intuitive card game. She's a breast cancer thriver and learned how to sparkle through any life challenges. She believes that anything is possible always with the right ingredients. She started healing rapidly, and she said that it's because she's focused on joy, and her sparkle principles and that even within big challenges like cancer, she started living more and more of her dream life fulfilled from within. Astrid says - So ground yourself, first. ...then just give yourself a moment of love and start there. And then see if you can find faith somehow ...for me I found a full belief in knowing that I will be okay, and (that setbacks) are only temporary, so any kind of faith helps. So if you're like - 'Do I really - I still want to do things here', so please connect with that and then find our own connection to spirit and ask. 'Even I don't know what you are but help me and I want to do this, I want to stay' - helped me find what I need to find so I have a spirit connection. And then, the game begins with a spark of them to curiosity, and so, how I want in every moment like - hmm... I wonder what I can learn here; hmm... I wonder if this is aligned; hmm... what if this was possible?; what if what the doctor says isn't true… So always listening to, you know, to your height and what feels right to you because we have our own inner wisdom that our pure guidance is right here; and we're supported by my spirit in walking that so we can really walk strong that way. Learn more about Astrid: Website: www.astridmueller.com Book - https://astridmueller.mykajabi.com/offers/Xyay4hMs/checkout FB: astridmuellerlife LinkedIn: astridmueller

Today, I'm sharing a beautiful conversation with my friend, Tracy Crossley about overcoming self-sabotage. Tracy's written a book called Overcoming Insecure Attachment and we're discussing what it is and how to help yourself if you have tendencies that get in your way from being your best self. Tracy's popular weekly mental health podcast, Overcome Insecure Attachment offers listeners a different perspective when it comes to breaking the cycle of unhealthy behaviors that keep them stuck repeating pain-inducing actions on auto-pilot. The podcast addresses folks who want to deal with their emotional baggage and get unstuck, happy, and have a clear mindset. Tracy mentions: "So we take a deep dive and it's kind of a long process, but anyways, we take a deep dive and I'll just wrap it up with, you know, we have to go to the awareness, the feeling and emotionally risky action. And that's what we have to lead people through. So it's more of, it's a linear thing. But it's not like you can go - okay, I did step one. Now I've got to use step two because we deal with emotions and how they live in the body and how to break a pattern this way. And once people can learn how to break a pattern permanently, they can do it anywhere in their life. They can, they can just know, okay, I've got to maybe work through this resistance. I have to do it. But once I do, then I can break the pattern." Tracy Crossley is a Behavioral Relationship Expert, Author and Podcast Host, who specializes in treating individuals with unhealthy LIFE and relationship patterns. Tracy helps clients transform, impostor syndrome, insecure attachment, negative belief systems, breaking the cycle of narcissistic damage, destructive self-talk, and more. With a background in psychology, an innate emotional intuition, which draws from her own personal experience. Tracy shows her clients how to PERMANENTLY change the repetition of the unhealthy, unhappy and unfulfilled cycles personally and professionally. Learn more about Tracy: In bookstores now: Overcoming Insecure Attachment - 8 Proven Steps to Recognizing Anxious and Avoidant Attachment Styles and Building Healthier, Happier Relationships Instagram: tracylcrossley FB: @TransformativeCoach Twitter: @TracyCrossley TikTok: tracylcrossley