She Means Business Show

Welcome to the 100th episode of the She Means Business Show! Woohoo! When I pressed publish on that first episode back in January of 2017, I had so many ideas about what I wanted this podcast to be like. I wanted to interview successful female entrepreneurs and inspire others to start their own wildly successful businesses with amazing tips, inspiring stories and meaningful conversations. From that very first episode, the podcast has now grown to over 610,000 downloads, countless success stories and so much inspiration for so many women around the world who are walking in the direction of their dreams! To mark this special 100th episode occasion, we're doing something completely different! Team FEA had a fun idea to put together a collection of clips and videos going all the way back to 2011, when I first started FEA - I haven't seen these clips yet and what you're going to watch (or listen to) is my first-time reaction! I'm so excited to take a trip down memory lane with you and to show you that we all just start off with a dream and an idea… no flashy videography, no huge audiences, no clue how to make it happen! But with determination - it's absolutely incredible what we can achieve! Let's dive into this together! Carrie xx

Every single one of us has the ability to live the most epic, abundant and successful life. So why is it that in reality, most people never go on to experience that? Far from living their best life, so many people find themselves so stuck. This is what we talked about and made breakthroughs on last week in the Package Your Brilliance challenge I hosted with the amazing Gina DeVee. The challenge was about how you can take your ideas, knowledge and passion and turn them into offers and packages that your ideal clients will love to buy, so that you can build a successful business doing something you love. At the beginning of the challenge, so many of the women who took part felt like they didn't deserve to live an epic life - and I know that this limiting belief is so common. I was so inspired by the transformations we saw during the challenge that in this episode, I wanted to talk to you about: The reason why so many people don't believe that they deserve to live an epic life. The excuses we all tell ourselves that keep us playing small and hold us back from creating success. How I kept myself stuck for years going round in circles and the realisation I had that changed everything. The new decisions I made and the challenge I created for myself that transformed my life and my business. A simple exercise you can do today to help you condition your mind to create success. Mantras to help you create more abundance and clarity in your life. If you loved this episode and you know you're meant to create a successful business and live that epic life, I'm collaborating with the incredible Gina DeVee on a transformational program called Perfectly Packaged. Click here to dive into the details and join us there https://divineliving.com/perfectlypackaged Over 10 weeks, Gina and her amazing team of coaches will help you take your ideas, knowledge and unique brilliance and turn them into a successful coaching or service-based business. If you've got a burning desire to create success, but you feel like you've been teetering on the edge of what could be possible; if you want to go on a transformational journey alongside like-minded women with the best mentoring, support and guidance….this program is for you! Carrie xx

If you have no motivation to work right now... or do anything, don't worry, you're not alone :) it happens to all of us and it's perfectly normal. There have been so many times when I've had no motivation to work... I just felt so uninspired, lost and I couldn't be bothered with anything. When I feel like this, there are some things I always do to get me back on track and I'm sharing them with you in this video :) I hope they help you lots whenever you feel like you have no motivation!

How do other entrepreneurs make it look so simple to grow your visibility, attract leads and grow their business, when you feel like you're on a marketing treadmill and not seeing the results you're working so hard for? If you've been asking yourself this question, you're going to love this episode of The She Means Business Show! This week I'm joined by online business consultant and digital marketing strategist, Gemma Went! Gemma previously created two incredible masterclasses for us inside the Members' Club, all about social media and creating an automated marketing system and her strategies are amazing! Find out more about the Members' Club and Gemma's masterclasses right here: femaleentrepreneurassociation.com/gemmawent In this episode she's sharing more about her evergreen ecosystem, that will help you grow your visibility and attract more leads, without having to constantly hustle! In this episode we talk about: Gemma's favourite sources for marketing inspiration and her best recommendations to help spark ideas. How signing her first client when she was 4 months pregnant made her realise she needed an automated marketing system. Gemma's evergreen ecosystem and how she creates online journeys that turn leads into customers. How she plans her content and balances automation with human connection and building trust. Gemma's top tips for increasing visibility and conversions. If you would like to find out more about Gemma, head over to www.gemmawent.co.uk Links mentioned in this episode: Gemma Went's masterclasses, exclusively for the Members' Club: Neil Patel's Digital Marketing blog: https://neilpatel.com/blog/ Social Media Examiner: https://www.socialmediaexaminer.com I hope you love this episode and before you leave... If you're a coach or run a service-based business, I have an invitation especially for you! We're running a free challenge in collaboration with the incredible Gina DeVee called Package Your Brilliance! Find out more right here: https://femaleentrepreneurassociation... Gina will be giving 5 live training sessions inside our pop-up Facebook Group and helping you understand where you can get started with packages, how to get to $10k months, how to know what to charge and how to find your ideal clients. Carrie xx

My amazing friend Gina DeVee is taking over this episode of the She Means Business Show and if you're a coach or service-based entrepreneur, you're going to love it! Gina is the founder of Divine Living and she's an expert when it comes to creating and selling high-end packages for consistently profitable months. If you'd like to find out more about this, check out the FREE 5-day challenge I'm collaborating on with Gina called: Package Your Brilliance! Turn your knowledge into offers that are simple to sell. Find out more and join the challenge here: femaleentrepreneurassociation.com/packaged If you're interested in adding packages to your current business or even if you're just starting out, in this episode Gina will show you how doable it really is and how any coach or service-based business can follow this formula for impact, income stability and success. In this episode Gina shares: Her journey from being a broke, struggling psychotherapist (with $75,000 of debt!) to building a multi-million dollar business through high-end packages. Why being scared to raise her prices and charge her worth was actually doing a disservice to her clients. How she created her first packages, raised her prices and started generating even better results and transformations along the way. Why excessively over-delivering doesn't really add more value. How she tried to manifest $30,000 (and ended up manifesting $60,000 instead!). How one of her clients went from charging $42 to $5,000 with a perfectly put-together package. Gina has so many amazing, fun stories and this episode is such an eye-opener to the power of packages! And because I know how transformational they can be for your business, I really don't want you to miss our upcoming free challenge, Package Your Brilliance! Gina will be giving 5 live training sessions inside our pop-up Facebook Group and helping you understand where you can start with packages, how to get to $10k months, how to know what to charge and how to find your ideal clients. Claim your spot now before we kick the challenge off on September 14th: femaleentrepreneurassociation.com/packaged

This episode is about something that I believe is more powerful for your business than any marketing or sales strategy. I'm joined by the amazing Susan Ferraro, creator of the Easy Peasy Law of Attraction System and an expert when it comes to the Law Of Attraction. Susan also created a masterclass all about the Law Of Attraction for the Members' Club and it's one of our most popular masterclasses! Check out Susan's masterclass and learn more about the Members' Club right here >> In this episode Susan and I chat about the internal work it really takes to create more success, live our best lives, build successful businesses and achieve amazing things in a way that is aligned with our true selves. When you put this into practice - the success, inspiration, ideas and opportunities that flow from it are huge and something that both Susan and I have experienced in our lives. In this conversation Susan and I talk about: How Susan discovered the Law of Attraction and used it to move out of the corporate career that had burnt her out and made her miserable. The key to understanding the Law of Attraction and making it work for you. Why alignment, self-love and reflection are the keys to creating success in your business. How to get into a state of flow, let go and let inspiration lead the way. Susan's 6 step system to manifesting your financial goals. This is such an amazing episode that I know is going to get you fired up and inspired to tap into the power of the Law of Attraction! Connect with Susan on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamsusanf/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iamsusanf/

In this amazing episode of the She Means Business Show, I'm joined by my good friend Brandon Lucero! Brandon's expertise when it comes to creating scroll-stopping content is incredible and this episode is a value-bomb of some of his best content tips and strategies. If you're so ready to create content that captures your audience's attention and gets them to recognize you as the go-to expert in your industry - you're going to love this episode! And if you want even more help taking your content game to the next level, Brandon recently created an amazing masterclass for our Members' Club called Creating Videos That Convert. Creating content is so important because our businesses are about our ideas, messages and stories. But so many entrepreneurs feel stuck on the content treadmill simply because they're churning out content for the sake of it. So in this episode Brandon and I chat about being strategic with our content, and creating stuff that will actually generate results for our businesses. In this episode we talk about: Why creating content is the best strategy to get people to know, like, trust...and most importantly, buy from you. Why failing (and even sharing crappy content when you're first starting out!) will actually help you to become a more successful entrepreneur. How to avoid becoming the "unheard entrepreneur" that gets lost in the noise and the competition. How to craft your message and create the hard-hitting, powerful type of content that will help you grow your audience and become an authority in your space. How to find your own voice and be authentic with your content. I know you're going to love this episode and I can't wait to see the amazing content this inspires you to create!

Over the past few years of working with thousands of female entrepreneurs I've noticed something that holds back so many people with amazing ideas: feeling like they need a specific qualification to start the business they dream of. If this sounds familiar, I want you to know that I understand exactly how you feel. Before I started FEA, I sat on the idea for 3 whole years because I kept thinking to myself, "Who am I to create this?!" and "Who will take me seriously if I have no business qualifications!". I wasted so much time hanging on to this false belief before I finally plucked up the courage to get out of my own way and take the leap anyway. I don't want that to happen to you! I want you to recognize that you don't need a qualification to share your experiences, your skills, talents, passion and expertise. So in this episode I want to share with you: What I DID have instead of a qualification, that was so much more important to help me build my business. How my friend Allie Casazza built a hugely successful 7-figure business with no qualifications (You can listen to that episode right here). The impostor syndrome I felt while writing my first book (and how this fear came up again now that I'm thinking of writing a 2nd book!). Why your experiences and skills are just as valid as any qualification and how to use them to create a valuable offer. My best tips to help you build your confidence and go for your dreams if not having a qualification has been holding you back. If you've been holding yourself back from going after your dreams because you don't have a specific qualification, we've created a fun "You've Got This" certificate you can download by clicking right here! - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1blmgj-uyhuUxTP5SEfPCCipnpmBFFWCY/view?usp=sharing And if you'd like more support with starting your business, I've got just the thing to help you: a new course I'm creating called Create & Sell! In it I'm going to teach you how to take your knowledge, expertise or passion and turn it into a valuable offer that you can sell! Join the waitlist now to be the first to hear more: femaleentrepreneurassociation.com/createandsell

Hard work is part of the entrepreneurial journey and it's crazy to think that it isn't. I was recently having a conversation with a friend about how so many people online seem to portray that building a business should be easy and that it doesn't require too much hard work. Part of me gets really angry with this because it puts out a false message to those who are at the beginning of their entrepreneurial journey. It makes so many people feel that if they are struggling and working really hard, it means that something must be wrong. But it takes hard work, discipline and dedication to achieve amazing results in absolutely anything in life! I feel like it's so important to talk about this because when I realised that it's ok to struggle, that this was going to be hard work - I finally gave myself permission to stop thinking I wasn't doing it right by working so hard. So in this episode I chat to you about: Why it might look easy and effortless for other people (but in fact no one has it all figured out!) The mindset breakthrough I had when I accepted that building a business was going to be really hard work (and how to have that same breakthrough) My favourite tips for overcoming the struggle and pushing through to create success when it all feels like too much. If we want to be good at anything in life, excel and create success - there's always going to be a level of work, dedication and practice that has to go into it. What are your thoughts on this? I'd love to know! Share with us in the comments below your experience with overcoming struggle and comparing yourself to other business owners. And if you want more support with turning your dreams and ideas into a wildly successful business, make sure you become an FEA Insider! You'll be the first to hear about new episodes, exclusive content and latest news - femaleentrepreneurassociation.com/insider Carrie xx

"There's no such thing as a unique message, only unique messengers". I heard the amazing Jadah Sellner say this quote in a masterclass she created for our Members' Club a few months ago and it really stuck with me. As business owners, entrepreneurs and people with lots of big ideas that we want to turn into successful businesses - we are in fact messengers. Our stories, personalities and experiences make us who we truly are and shape our unique message. But so often we feel like we need to emulate successful people we admire, or that we're not "interesting enough" to be ourselves. So we end up listening to everyone else's ideas and putting messages out there that are generic, inauthentic and really don't connect with our audiences. And then our message doesn't convert into sales, customers and raving fans. #sofrustrating I know this is something so many entrepreneurs struggle with, so in this episode I share with you: My own struggle with being myself when I first started FEA (and how I felt like I had to be serious and professional...which really didn't fit my personality!). How I discovered who I wanted to be to my audience and found my authentic voice. Why it's so important to make business decisions based on your own intuition (rather than always following everyone else's ideas, advice and style). My 3 best tips to help you get back to who you truly are if you've been feeling a little lost. I hope this episode helps you to see that the more we can embrace who we truly are and the more we can infuse that into our business, the more success we can create.

One of my favourite quotes has always been "Don't compare your Chapter 1 to someone else's Chapter 20". And being a few chapters into my entrepreneurial journey now, I see so many people get stuck on their own Chapter 1 because they're too scared to create a crappy first draft of their work. When it comes to our business, so many of us expect perfection from the very beginning. But you wouldn't expect to sit at a piano and play like Chopin from day 1! So why do we put this kind of pressure on ourselves and hold ourselves back from becoming creators, even if it's messy to begin with? A few days ago I came across a box full of things I had created in the really early days when I first started FEA and it really took me back to that time. I wanted to share what I found in these boxes with you because so many times, when we scroll through social media, listen to podcasts or watch videos online, we base our comparison on those carefully selected highlight reels. But we rarely get to see the journey that got people there, or the struggles behind the scenes. So in this episode I share with you: The crappy first draft I ever created of my now bestselling book, She Means Business (I had no idea what I was doing and none of the content ever even made it into the actual book!). The first inspirational quote wall prints I ever created for myself. The one thing that keeps most entrepreneurs stuck in ideas mode (and how to get out of it!) How to dive into the creation process (even if it's really crappy to begin with!). How to move on and improve from that crappy first draft. A journal entry I wrote years ago, which eventually made it into my book. I hope this episode serves to show you that everyone starts out from Chapter 1. No one has it all figured out from the get-go, so don't pressure yourself into the pursuit of perfection, just become the creator!

Back in 2011 I made a decision that completely changed my life. Since making that decision and building the Female Entrepreneur Association, I've become obsessed with understanding what makes some people achieve huge success while others stay stuck when it comes to turning their ideas into a successful business. I've come to realise that one of the biggest reasons they stay stuck is because they never truly make the decision to commit and go all in. They teeter on the edge but never really take the leap to allow success to flow into their life. The good news is that opening ourselves to the opportunities and abundance that are available to all of us is a choice we can all make! And it all starts with that decision. So in this episode I want to share with you: The decision I made back in 2011 that changed my life and business (and why this is the essential first step we all need to take to create success). Why making that decision changes absolutely everything (and what you can expect to see when you go all in). The one thing I always do to push through the resistance that comes up whenever I make a new decision. How we can all become intentional creators of our lives (and attract the abundance we deserve). After you dive into the episode, drop me a comment below and let me know: what's one big decision you know you need to make right now to bring your vision to life? I hope you absolutely love this episode and If you'd like to dive deeper into this topic, make sure you check out our other episodes of the She Means Business Show right here >>>

In this episode of the She Means Business Show, I am talking with the amazing Heather Chauvin. Heather was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer when she was just 27 years old. This traumatic change in circumstances forced Heather to drastically reevaluate her situation. She started to listen to "the knowing" inside of her, which was telling her what she needed and what she needed to do in order to become the person she knew she was meant to be. In her own words, the universe "finally had my attention". In this episode, Heather tells us all about her experience, and how it forced her to shift from a state of learning to a state of doing; to stop simply consuming self-development content and to start acting on it. I hope you love this episode, and if you want to learn more about Heather's story, head over to femaleentrepreneurassociation.com/heather . Carrie :) xx

In today's episode I share with you: How one of our members, Lucy Griffiths, has sold over 30,000 courses online. How my good friend Michelle Rohr generated over $100,000 selling printable PDF products on Etsy. Loads of ideas for how to tap into the power of the internet to make money doing something you love. The 6-phase process we use inside the FEA Members' Club to walk you from idea to wildly successful business. The thing we all need to tap into to create the business of our dreams.

In this episode I share with you: The lies I kept telling myself that stopped me from pursuing my idea to create FEA for 3 whole years, and the realisation I had that then changed everything. Why "unbecoming" is such an important first step to creating success. The questions you really need to ask yourself to get clear on what's holding you back from making your dreams happen and stopping abundance from flowing into your life. The kind of empowering thoughts and mantras we all need to tell ourselves on a daily basis to elevate our lives.

There are a number of key things that I learned in my journey to making my first million, and I wanted to share those with you. So many of us have this goal to reach a million $ in revenue and this is a dream that I shared a few years ago. I want to take you back to 2009... That year I created this challenge for myself called "Mission To Make A Million in 365 days". I was completely set on this idea that I was going to figure out how I was going to make a million in 365 days. I created a website and I was going to document it and share my journey. I ended up completely falling off the bandwagon with this challenge. It was only when 2011 came around, and I recalibrated my goals to what I called my "Mission: Success Challenge" that I actually began to make progress towards that first million. And it took a fundamental mindset shift to get me there. So in this episode, I'm going to tell you all about my journey, how I achieved that mindset shift and impart my best advice for how you can do the same. I hope you love it :) xx

When I started my business I knew that if I could build an audience of people who absolutely loved what I was doing and found value in it, then I could make it a success. For the first 2 years, I threw myself into building my email list and growing a following on social media - I wanted to grow a community of raving fans who loved FEA and what it was all about. I've since built an email list of over 150,000 subscribers, which has completely changed my business! But like everyone else, I started from zero! I know how frustrating it can feel when you're starting from square one, but I also know that this kind of success is possible for every single one of us! So in this episode I want to take you behind the scenes and share with you the best lead magnets we've used over the past few years to grow this list and how exactly we marketed them to attract subscribers. Links & Resources: The ASK Method - Ryan Levesque Bucket.io KingSumo Giveaways How To Get Your First 1000 Email Subscribers - Grow Your Email List Fast Email List Building - 3 Steps for an Incredible 2020 Marketing Strategy 4 Ways To Grow Your Email List FAST Our list-building masterclasses - femaleentrepreneurassociation.com/listbuilding

Every single business needs a business plan, but when we're just getting started, it's difficult to know how to go about planning everything that goes into creating success! So I wanted to share with you how I created my own Business Success Plan, which helped me grow FEA to multiple 7-figures. In this episode, I give you the exact steps you can follow so that you can plan out your own journey to success. It's a simple plan, but that's exactly what makes it so incredibly effective! In this episode I share with you: What you need to do before you even sit down to create your Business Success Plan. The first essential details you need to include in your Business Success Plan that will help you stay on track. How to create a simple yet powerful marketing plan to attract as many potential customers as possible. The easiest way to create a plan for generating revenue in your business and hitting your financial goals. The most important element in the success of your business and how to become the person you need to be to take action on your plan. How to anticipate and plan for the challenges that might come up and hold you back. Your business plan doesn't need to be complicated! In fact, the simpler your strategy for growth when you're just starting out, the more quickly you're likely to level up and make a breakthrough. So keep it simple! If you go all in and take action on your plans success will follow! Head over to femaleentrepreneurassociation.com/successplan to download my simple Business Success Plan template, which will help guide you through this process!

It's one thing to have an idea or a dream of starting a business... but it's something completely different to have the courage to turn that dream into a successful and profitable business that you love. The truth is that we all experience resistance when we have an idea to try something new. And it's not just something we struggle with at the beginning... I've experienced periods of this struggle throughout my entire entrepreneurial journey - whenever I come up with a new idea or have a new dream to get to another level, that resistance creeps back in and gets in my way! As entrepreneurs, we need to become masters of overcoming resistance, even when it feels like there's no option but to stay stuck. So in this episode, I wanted to share with you my 5 top tips for doing exactly this. These are the powerful strategies I always turn to whenever doubts, fears and worries flood my brain and cloud my willingness to keep pushing through. I'm sharing with you: Why it took me 3 years from coming up with the idea for the Female Entrepreneur Association to actually launching it. The most common resistance we all face when it comes to putting ourselves and our ideas out there and the #1 thing we need to do to overcome this. The self-coaching exercise I use every time resistance comes up that helps me uncover the truth behind what's really going on in my head. How to rewire your brain and flood yourself with positivity and motivation. How to tap into the foresight of your future self to guide the decisions you make today. How to stop letting everyday distractions hold you back. How to manifest more of what you want into your life If you're dreaming of taking your life or your business to the next level right now, but you're feeling weighed down by resistance - I know that these powerful strategies will help you break through to the other side.

Before 2015, Allie Casazza was an overwhelmed mum of 4, battling to get through every day, counting the minutes till bedtime and dreading having to start all over again the next morning. The advice she was getting that "you'll just get through it" just wasn't t the way Allie wanted to show up in her life and her motherhood. Allie says that one day she stood in her driveway in the mountains of Arkansas, hating her life and struggling to make ends meet and just chose to step into a different energy. She decided what was going to happen in her life and believed with certainty that success was hers for the taking. Since then Allie has built a multiple 7-figure business and she's even had a $70,000 day selling a $99 product! Allie is the host of The Purpose Show podcast, which has over 6 million downloads and also runs a Facebook Group of over 50,000 highly engaged women! The main thing that Allie says has helped her achieve huge success in her business has been her ability to grow an engaged community of super fans who absolutely love what she does. So in this episode, Allie shares her 5-Part Party Cocktail, which is her fun framework for building a tribe of ideal customers. And definitely stay till the end, as we chat about the power of visualisation, which also played a huge part in Allie's transformation and success! Find out more about Allie at femaleentreprenuerassociation.com/allie Check out Allie on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/allie_thatsme/?hl=en

With everything that's going on in the world right now, creating a membership site for your audience means that you can grow a stable and successful business that generates recurring revenue. But regardless whether it's a membership site, a course or an e-commerce website, the majority of people never even get their idea off the ground. So many of us are guilty of this: we get into our own heads and we get hung up about having tons of content and everything looking "perfect" before we even try to share our idea with the world. It's the difference between those who stay stuck and those who go on to create successful businesses: success comes from finding the courage to launch way before you have it all figured out! This happens because we compare our chapter one to someone else's chapter 20, so in this episode I wanted to give you a look at my own chapter one. I want to take you back in time and show you how much I really didn't have things figured out when I first launched the Members' Club and how far it was from perfection! I hope this episode shows you that if you have an idea or a desire to create success, then you have to find the courage to just go for it, before you even feel ready to take the leap! Check out the video version at https://femaleentrepreneurassociation.com/79 Go check out our 28 Business Blueprint, if you want to start and grow your wildly successful business - http://femaleentrepreneurassociation.com/28days Go and get involved on the She Means Business Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/shemeansbusinessbook/ And check out out over on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/femaleentrepreneurassociation/ Carrie :) xx

One of the biggest misconceptions about having a successful launch is that you need a huge audience of thousands of email subscribers and social media followers. But this couldn't be further from the truth! Making 5 or even 6 figures in your next launch depends a lot more on the quality and engagement of your audience than it does on the number of followers you have. My amazing friend Michelle is proof of this, having scaled her business to six figures over the past few years with a small audience and no paid ads. Her story shows what's possible for all of us when we just find the courage to stop hiding and put ourselves out there, even when we only have a small audience. In this episode, Michelle Rohr, who is the founder of the Secret Owl Society, shares behind the scenes of her most recent launch. Along with her business partner Aimee, Michelle recently launched her newest product to an email list of just 3,800 subscribers and an Instagram following of 2,000 followers. Selling a simple $50 digital template kit with a $7 order bump, they generated $16,000 in revenue within a few weeks and the orders just keep coming in! If you'd like to find out more about Michelle and the Secret Owl Society, check out these links that Michelle mentioned throughout the podcast: Secret Owl Society website The Digital Planner Template Kit The Michelle And Aimee YouTube Show

In this podcast you'll discover: Why having a small audience actually gives you an advantage when it comes to launching a membership site. Why keeping your content quick and simple will actually help your members stay longer and achieve better results (and keep you off the constant content treadmill!) 5 content ideas that make up the Publisher Model, which will help you create content that is easy to digest for your members and that will help them take more action and generate more results. This conversation with Stu is brimming with nuggets of wisdom, not just in terms of building a successful membership site, but also about understanding what type of content is most helpful for your audience (and it's so much simpler than you think!). You're going to love it! And if you'd like to learn more about how to build a successful membership site and create recurring revenue for your business, then join us inside our free pop-up Facebook Group, Membership Mentoring with Carrie Green & Stu McLaren. Stu and I will be going Live and answering your questions in there, so definitely don't miss out!

Over the past couple of years I've been facing a serious challenge to grow my business. From the outside, you couldn't really tell what was going on, but behind it all, I've been struggling on a personal level. So in this video I wanted to give you an honest glimpse into the reality that often hides behind the "picture perfect" highlight reels we see on social media. It has been a messy and crazy journey, but throughout it all, even when I was feeling the most stuck and confused, my business continued to grow and thrive. And the reason that my business has continued to generate over six figures per month through this really difficult time is down to one thing: recurring revenue. Recurring revenue is the most amazing thing you could create for your business! So in this episode, I wanted to give you some fun ideas to get your creativity flowing and help you see all the possibilities for adding a recurring revenue stream to your business. In the world we're living in today, business stability is such an important thing. And along with that, we're all craving human connection online more than ever, so for these two reasons, there's never been a better time to dive into creating a membership for your business! In the video I share: > Some amazingly inspirational success stories that my friend and mentor Stu McLaren shared with me from students of his incredible membership course: TRIBE. > The tops 3 types of membership sites you should consider if you decide to create one for your business > 5 types of content you can deliver to your members, how to make it really simple to deliver monthly content and also how to take content creation completely off your shoulders. Over the next few weeks I'll be hosting a free pop-up Facebook Group called Membership Mentoring with Carrie and Stu, with my good friend and mentor Stu McLaren. Stu is the top industry expert when it comes to building membership sites and I couldn't have grown the Members' Club as much as I have without his incredible insight. Stu will be joining me for some amazing live sessions so that we can answer your questions and help you understand how to build a membership site. Stu also has an amazing free video series coming up, where he'll dive deeper into membership strategies and how to build your own membership site. Recurring revenue has honestly been a blessing for my business and has helped me build so much confidence, stability and success. I know for sure that if I can build something like this, you can too! So make sure you watch the video and then join Stu and I inside the Facebook Group!

In these strange times when so much of the world's population is in lockdown at home, many of us are facing uncertainty and fear that we weren't facing just a couple of months ago. For a lot of us, that includes uncertainty around our jobs, business and income. But this lockdown has also created opportunities. More than ever before, people are at home, shopping online, browsing in search of online solutions, services and learning. So with the internet now being our key connection with the outside world, there has really never been a better time to tap into the power and opportunities of this platform that is open to every single one of us! I always think it's fascinating to get a glimpse into how people make money online, especially if they're doing something they're really passionate about! So a few days ago, I asked the members of our Members' Club to share all the incredible ways in which they make money online and I've put together a list of ideas that I think will spark loads of inspiration! Regardless of whether you already have an online business or not, these money-making ideas will help you see how much is possible... from adding a new income stream, turning an idea into income, starting a side hustle or even creating a completely new business from scratch! If you would love to discover the step-by-step process for turning your ideas into income, then click below and check out our "Make Money Doing Something You Love" bundle, which includes an audio programme, workbook and guided visualisation!

Recently I got to do something I've been wanting to do for a really long time… interview my dad! He's been my biggest business inspiration and the person who's had the most impact on helping me to create the success I have. I turn to him for business advice all the time, especially when I'm facing challenges or uncertainty. So I asked him if he'd come and share his words of wisdom with you… and it's turned out to be the MOST inspiring interview I've ever done! I've never known anyone to work as hard as my dad and I've never known anyone to have as much grit and determination as him. He has the ability to keep going, even when things seem impossible and he's constantly learning new things to help him create success – from cosmic ordering, to daily meditation and his favourite mindset books – we talk about so much. I hope this leaves you feeling so fired up and uplifted! Leave me a comment and let me know what your biggest takeaway is. Carrie xx

We're facing some crazy things in the world right now that are leading to a lot of uncertainty, fear and challenges. So I really wanted to do something for this amazing community to help us all during this time. I had a good think about what I do when I'm struggling with uncertainty, challenges and fear and I realised that I turn to some incredible people to help me through. So I reached out to these people and asked if they would be up for doing a Facebook live with me to share their amazing wisdom with you. This is the first of 5 Facebook Lives and it's with my husband, Kelin. He's the first person I turn to when I'm feeling uncertain or full of fear, so I thought it would be fun to chat with him and share how we stay positive together. This Facebook Live was inside our Members' Club private Facebook group, but I really wanted to share it with you too. In it we talked about: Specific things we do together to stay positive How we get intentional about creating a happy and positive vibe at home I share questions from a workbook I made for us to fill out when we got married to help us build a solid relationship And how we're coping working from home with Kasey, our one-year-old! (We had to ply Kasey with treats and Peppa Pig to keep in quiet as we went live haha. Obviously, he still wanted to be heard and at the end he makes a very cute appearance!) I don't normally do such personal videos and interviews, but given the nature of everything going on right now, we're all feeling the impacts of it on a deeply personal level. There's so much emotion and it's such a testing time that I wanted to get personal about how I'm dealing with it. Enjoy and stay safe. With love, Carrie xx

For the past six years I've focused almost exclusively on building a membership site. My membership site now has over 5,000 active members, with the membership fee costing $47 per month. I'm a big advocate for membership sites as they can be an incredible asset for your business, so in this post I'll be sharing how you can get started with building a membership site that can generate passive income for you every single month. If you would like to dive deeper and get more help with building your membership site, make sure you check out my course, Start & Grow Your Membership Site, where I share the blueprint of the process I followed to build the Members' Club to over 5,000 active members.

We all go through periods where we feel completely stuck in a rut and it can feel so frustrating when you just can't seem to move forward. If you've been feeling frustrated because you just can't seem to be the person you need to be to create the business and life that you dream of, then this guide is going to help you turn that around in a few simple but powerful steps. The tips I'm sharing in this post have helped me time and time again throughout the past few years, giving me the fuel I need to start moving again whenever I've felt stuck, lost or frustrated. Finding powerful ways to shift myself into a growth mindset has been one of the most important things I've ever done that has completely transformed my life. From 2008 all the way through to 2011 I was stuck in a massive rut, feeling completely lost as to where I wanted my life to go. I had this feeling deep down inside that I wasn't living the life I was meant to be living. I felt like I was playing small, like there was so much more meant for me. I just wasn't living up to my potential and if you've ever felt like that, you know how annoying it can be. If you want help, guidance and support to achieve a big goal this March, make sure you join our free Mission For March challenge, where we'll be working together to take the action we need to take to make a big goal happen! Click below to sign up and get your free workbook! THE TURNING POINT I knew that things needed to change and in 2011, I got to a point where I was completely fed up with my own excuses and I finally decided to do something about it. I realised that I was the problem and that my own mindset was the only reason that I was feeling so stuck. I knew I was also the only person that could get myself out of it. I had to change who I was being, the thoughts I was thinking, the way I was showing up every day and the habits I was practicing. So I did some simple things that had a really profound impact and since then, I've been repeating these same steps and they've worked for me every time, so I know they can do the same for you.

Every single day we each get 86,400 seconds and what we decide to use those seconds for literally determines our entire lives. So how do we use our time to become really productive, without just becoming busy fools, without procrastinating and without drifting aimlessly? What does it take to become as productive and successful as people like Bill Gates and Sarah Blakely? In this post I'm going to share with you some amazing productivity hacks and some powerful tools so that you can become your most focused and productive self.

As soon as she returned to work after having a baby, Lorraine soon realised that she was being held firmly back by the glass ceiling. She had been dabbling with creating a side-income for herself, so when the opportunity came up to take over the online course company she had been enrolled in, Lorraine took the plunge. She had seen it simply as a side-hustle, but it turned into so much more than that. A few years and a lot of hard work later, Lorraine has grown her business, Formula Botanica, into a global success, with almost 9,000 students across 161 countries. Formula Botanica is an online training school for people who want to learn how to make their own organic skincare or haircare and how to then turn those products into a viable and profitable indie beauty brand. In this podcast, Lorraine and I discuss: How being held back at work after having a baby pushed her to start her own business. Her journey from being a student in her own online education business to buying and taking over the company. All the changes, updates and processes she had to put in place to revive and grow the business, the steps she took and the things she focused on. The successful launch that helped her realise she could quit her job and work on the business full-time. How she used customer feedback to change and improve the business. How she juggled growing the business and raising two children and the lifestyle she has managed to create for her family. The struggles she faced with getting herself and her business out there and what she did to overcome her fear of being visible. Winning The Digital Achiever of the Year Award from Google among beauty industry giants. How she got started with video and how her skills have improved over time. The kind of success her students have achieved. All the exciting plans she has ahead of her this year. Lorraine's top tips for success are: Don't be scared of being visible - just do it and keep doing it until you feel comfortable with it. It will get easier the more you try! Be really consistent in whatever you do. Be realistic in what you commit to doing and then keep showing up! Find what drives you and gives you your passion as that's what will get you through the hard times. Find out more or connect with Lorraine Website: https://formulabotanica.com Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/FormulaBotanica/ "Join Lorraine and over 5000 other incredible women in business over in our Members' Club here >>

Before I started making money from home I remember wondering if all these people who were claiming to be making money from home were just chatting nonsense. I couldn't believe that you could make so much money just sitting in your living room wearing your pyjamas! But since stepping into the world of online business myself, I've managed to build a multiple 7-figure business online being able to work from home or wherever in the world. There are so many incredible ways you can make money from home in this episode I'm going to share with 5 you high earning businesses you can start from home if you simply have a laptop and internet connection!

From interviewing celebrities like Nicole Kidman to reporting from Iraq, Lucy Griffiths has had a really, really exciting career. So after realising that she wanted a more "normal" life away from the jet-setting adventures she had lived out for so many years, Lucy set up an online business turning her passion and expertise into profit. She has now built a multi-six-figure business helping people use video more confidently, and has sold more than 20,000 courses! She's also in the process of setting up two more businesses and is regularly approached by big brands and businesses to consult and help them do the same! She has been an FEA member for some time now and says one of her favourite things about the Members' Club is the community of people she can work with and who she trusts. Everyone involved in getting her three current projects off the ground is a fellow Members' Club member! In this podcast, Lucy and I chat about: The struggles she has faced running her own successful business along with setting up two more businesses and how she's making it work whilst also being a mum. Her incredible journey from journalism, to coaching, to creating an online course business. What her schedule really looks like as a successful entrepreneur and mum. The success she has had with Pinterest (where she was gaining a million views a month) and how she changed her strategy when she realised it was her biggest driver of traffic. How she deals with being a solopreneur and working from home whilst pitching to boards of directors and big businesses. The strategy she used to grow her email list, make her Facebook Ads profitable and increase her visibility. Her suggestions for getting started and growing your email list if you don't have a big budget for ads. Find out more or connect with Lucy Website: lucygriffiths.com Instagram: lucygriffithsdotcom

One of the biggest reasons that many entrepreneurs struggle to build the business they want is because they're not in the right mindset to create success. It's that simple and for such a long time I was that person and it was so frustrating. One day I decided that I really needed to have a mindset shift and when I did this, it literally changed my entire life. So in this post, we'll be going through four simple steps to help you have that mindset shift that will help you build a wildly successful business. These strategies have really helped me shift my mindset and have been crucial in helping me achieve some of the biggest goals I had on my vision board. Step 1: Create awareness around where you're at right now. Any sort of change starts with awareness and clarity, so this is all about getting clear about where you're at and what your mindset is like right now. There's a powerful intuitive journaling exercise that I love to do that really helps me create awareness around what's going on in my life and how i'm feeling right now. Take some time somewhere quiet with a pen and a piece of paper and give yourself permission to tune in with yourself and write about what you're feeling and what's going on internally. I love the question, "How am I feeling right now and what's my mindset like?" Just start writing without filtering or thinking too much. Allow the words to flow out on paper and don't really think as you go and create awareness around what you're currently thinking: the good, the bad and the ugly. This is all about being really honest with yourself. Step 2: Take a look at what shifts you need to make. As part of the intuitive journaling exercise, write down what your biggest struggle is right now, what your biggest mindset challenge is right. For example, maybe you've realised that you've got this deep-seated feeling that you're not good enough. Maybe you're stuck because you feel embarrassed to put your idea out there and you're scared of being judged. Whatever is bubbling to the surface for you in terms of a mindset block, a doubt, worry or fear, focus on that and ask yourself "Why do I feel like this?" and write that down. Keep asking yourself to peel back the layers and to get to the root of the problem and what's really going on. You need to figure out why you're feeling the way you are so that you can do something about it. So often we think our feelings are the problem, but when you do an exercise like this, it often brings up issues you didn't even realise were affecting you that are often the real problem. It could be something that happened 3 years ago that you didn't even realise is having a huge impact on how you're actually feeling and the mindset you're keeping today. Doing this exercise helps you uncover what is really going on. Kee asking "but why" to dig deeper and deeper so that you can uncover why you're feeling the way you're feeling or why you have a certain fear, doubt, worry or challenge that you're facing at the moment. Step #3: Discover the shifts you need to make.

Caroline's earliest memories are of her mum and dad sitting around the table talking business, so already from a young age, she knew she wanted to pursue business and that this was the right path for her. After quitting a university course that just wasn't right for her, Caroline threw herself into her mum's card and gift shop, where she managed the business and worked with other local entrepreneurs to introduce initiatives in her town to help high street businesses. From working in the corporate world to growing two brick-and-mortar businesses, Caroline joined the Members' Club and couldn't get rid of this niggling feeling that she wanted to start an online business that would help decipher marketing for other small business owners. This led her to set up Golden Treasure Business Consultancy, which helps entrepreneurs in early stages understand what marketing is, how to stand out and get their voice heard. In this podcast, Caroline and I discuss: Her journey from following her parent's lead into business and setting up multiple successful businesses to focusing on what she does best and making an impact. How a local council initiative put her in the lead and helped her discover her passion for helping small business owners. How an unexpected, last-minute talk she had to give landed her the first client for her consultancy business. The biggest challenges she has faced and the scariest parts of becoming the face of her new marketing brand and sharing her story. How she's managing to juggle motherhood alongside running two businesses and how she divides work and family time. Her goals for growing the business and taking it to the next level and the importance she's putting on the impact aspect. How she's using the feedback she's gathering from her audience and from Facebook Groups such as the Members' Club to build her online course module after module. All about learning to be flexible, improving and pivoting as you go along and not letting challenges defeat you. Caroline's top tip for success is: Don't try and be everywhere, on every platform, and don't forget the offline world. We all spend so much time online that we often forget what else is out there and the offline marketing strategies we can put to good use. Find out more or connect with Caroline Website: https://www.goldentreasureconsulting.co.uk FB: https://www.facebook.com/goldentreasurebiz/ Click here to download your freebies >>>

Tip #1: Make it easy on yourself I remember when someone told me at the very beginning of my business journey that I needed to build an email list. I had no idea what that even meant or where to start! It felt so overwhelming and made me feel paralyzed because it seemed like there was so much to do. In the end, I just made it easy for myself and started off with a really simple form on my website to attract subscribers. I didn't even have an email service provider at this point! I was just copying and pasting addresses into my own personal email and then emailing people whenever I thought I needed to. After a while I discovered Mailchimp and from there I began to build an email list using a pop-up on my website that simply said "Sign up to receive a weekly dose of inspiration from me". That was it! The number one most important step you can take is to get started, so don't let anything hold you back! Just get started in the simplest way possible and then build and improve from there. Tip #2: Get clear on what you're going to be emailing to your list Once you're all set up to attract subscribers, the next step is to get clear on exactly what you'll be emailing them on a weekly basis. What types of emails will you send to your list to nurture those relationships and provide value? Create a simple plan of what you could send out every week and remember that it doesn't have to be some complicated piece of content, like a video, podcast or a really long blog. You could simply send out a tip, an inspirational quote, a piece of advice or a story you can share that somehow provides value. Once again, keeping things simple plays a huge part in rapidly creating success and then building on that. Make this doable or you likely won't do it consistently. Tip #3: Tell people about your email list! People actually need to know about your email list in order to want to join it! Start out with a goal of getting 100 people on your list, even if this includes all of your family, friends and people who are not likely to be your customers. Knowing that people are actually receiving and reading your emails, maybe even replying, is a hugely powerful mindset shift and builds momentum. Remember to just take it step by step We all have to start out with a goal of getting our first 10 subscribers and then our first 100 and then 200 after that and so on. So many of us never start because we're on step one and we get frustrated that we're not on step ten. Make it as simple as possible for yourself, stay consistent, be patient and go through each step as it comes along and before you know it, you will have built a list of thousands of subscribers, potential customers and one of the most powerful and profitable assets for your business. If you want more help building your email list from zero or you have an existing list and you'd love to skyrocket your momentum and growth, then you definitely need to check out Amy Porterfield's amazing masterclass for the Members' Club! The masterclass is called How To Hop Off The Struggle Train: List Building With Intention, and in it, Amy teaches her five-pillar framework for building your profitable email list in a simple but incredibly powerful way - https://mc.femaleentrepreneurassociation.com/fea/waitlist/ Download the free 28 Day Business Blueprint here! https://femaleentrepreneurassociation.lpages.co/smb-free-audio/

When Niki Hutchison realised that her corporate job did not accommodate working mums, she knew something had to change. And after returning to work following a health scare, her decision was made: She needed to quit that job and take her career and her lifestyle into her own hands. Niki has now been an entrepreneur for eight years, after starting a hip-hop dance school for kids based in Edinburgh. But after a few years she realised that what she really wanted was to develop a business where she could work from anywhere. She credits a fellow Members' Club member for opening her eyes to the opportunities that starting an online business would afford her. So with a background in marketing, Niki decided to become a marketing strategist and set up Niki Hutchison Ltd. Click here to download your freebies >>> In this podcast, Niki and I discuss: Why she decided to quit the corporate world and start her first business. How she realised that it was her marketing skills that were the true value. The journey she went through to find the confidence to step back into a marketing role and set up her second business. How a Members' Club member opened her eyes to the opportunities of online business and the possibility of having the freedom to work from anywhere. How she overcame obstacles and used her online business to fulfill her lifelong dream of spending her Summer living and working in Ibiza with her family. Her goals, plans and dreams for the next few years and what she's focusing on right now to make it all happen. The importance of having clarity around your business strategy before diving in. The biggest challenges she has had to overcome throughout her entrepreneurial journey. Niki top tips for success are: Think about your overall business goals first of all before jumping in or spreading yourself too thin across too many social media platforms. Be strategic and use your specific goals to create your own strategy. Once you have your strategy in place, make sure that you're regularly checking in on the results so that you can keep doing what's working and eliminating what isn't. Make sure you're clear on which of your revenue streams are actually bringing in the most revenue. If looking at your competitors is sending you spiralling into a negative mindset, just mute that out and focus on your own work. Get clear on your own goals and what you would like your own business journey to look like. Find out more or connect with Niki Website: www.nikihutchison.com Freebie: The Ultimate Small Business Marketing Plan

Try our Start and Grow Membership Course and build an incredibly successful membership site of your own! https://femaleentrepreneurassociation.com/start-and-grow/ You've seen me and so many other experts out there going on and on about the power of membership sites, and that's because developing a membership program really is transformational for your business and brand. If you've been growing your audience for a while, maybe selling products or services to them, and you're wondering whether a membership community is what your audience needs, then this episode will give you a whole new perspective on the power of building a membership program. So in this post, I want to share with you the 2 things that should sway your decision if you've been unsure if you should build a membership site for your audience. Lesson 1: Recurring revenue means peace of mind and financial freedom! So many entrepreneurs take the leap from earning a steady income through a 9-5 job into the "uncertain income" that comes with building your own business. When you're jumping from month to month, constantly worrying about generating enough leads, converting customers and making that next $1, it feels like an exhausting, emotional rollercoaster. Just think about how many of the things we buy into nowadays come in the form of monthly subscriptions. From tv, music and data storage to food, vitamins and beauty products. Companies are falling over themselves to switch over to a recurring revenue model because it brings certainty, stability and scalability. If you'd love to have a really clear idea of how much revenue your business will generate this month, next month and the month after that, building a recurring revenue model (such as a membership site) is absolutely the way to go! Just think...how transformational would it be if you had… 100 members paying you $37 per month and generating $3,700 in recurring revenue? 350 members paying you $37 per month and generating $12,950 in recurring revenue? 5,000 members paying you $37 per month and generating $185,000 per month in recurring revenue? Lesson 2: Building a membership means building a community of super fans The essential foundation to build and grow absolutely any type of successful business is to build an audience that loves what your business is all about. We all know the essentials of building an audience… growing an email list, finding followers on social media, driving traffic to the website, networking and collaborating. But what's even more powerful is building a community of SUPER FANS. Super fans are on a completely different level to subscribers on your email list or your followers on social media. These are the people that are most likely to be the first to take you up on your offers when you release new products, the first to leave you a review, the people who will go and tell everyone they know about what you're doing. They will support you and cheer you on every step of the way. Super fans know for sure that you can help them and believe in what you're about. A membership is a space for you to cultivate and nurture your super fans. It is a place where people can truly belong to your community and get to connect with you (and your other super fans) on a much deeper level. Download the free 28 Day Business Blueprint here! femaleentrepreneurassociation.lpages.co/smb-free-audio

After a career in corporate PR, visual communication and branding, Vicki decided to use her expertise to build her own business and live life on her own terms. She joins me in this episode of the She Means Business podcast to tell me all about her entrepreneurial journey and what being a member of the Members' Club has done for her business. Vicki is now a branding designer for female entrepreneurs, corporations and retail businesses, helping them build a great presence, increase visibility and improve consistency so that they can fascinate and captivate their audiences. Vicki says she felt a little bit lost when she first made the transition from corporate to entrepreneurship and that's why she joined the Members' Club, to understand what she needed to do to step up her game. Joining was, in her words, "game changing". She says surrounding herself with the right type of people was an essential part of her success. In this podcast, Vicki and I discuss: The day that made her decide to take the leap from the corporate world into entrepreneurship. How she felt making that transition, the challenges she faced and the transformations she experienced throughout her journey. The importance of surrounding yourself with like-minded individuals as a solopreneur, joining communities and groups. The flexibility she found running her own business. The importance of the mindset shifts she made throughout her entrepreneurial journey. How she finds a lot of her clients and collaboration opportunities through the Members' Club community. Vicki's top tips for success are: Don't get stuck and procrastinate to start your business. Go all in, take the leap and just do it straight away rather than sitting on the idea! As you run your business, always continue to develop your ideas. Ask questions when you get stuck or ask someone for help because people are almost always willing to help! Find out more or connect with Vicki: Website: www.vickinicolson.com facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vickinicolsonbranddesigner/ Download the free 28 Day Business Blueprint here! https://femaleentrepreneurassociation.lpages.co/smb-free-audio/

Creating a compelling brand is so important for developing the story of your business and, ultimately, winning customers. But there's more to it than simply choosing your fonts, colour palette and art style. Here is my breakdown of the questions you need to ask yourself and the actions you need to take in order to develop a successful, compelling and incredible business brand: 1 - The brand is the personality, the heart and soul, the feeling of what a company is. 2 - If you position your brand's values clearly, it creates a platform for customers to identify with. 3 - Ask yourself what values you actually want to infuse into the essence of your business. 4 - Be clear with the voice of your brand; this will help customers to emote and identify with it. 5 - Ask who your audience actually are. Build a brand according to their perspective. 6 - Create avatars of your ideal customers. Who are they? How do they live? What are they like? 7 - Who is this person in relation to who your company are? How can you help to serve them?. 8 - There is no such thing as a unique message, only unique messengers. 9 - Get involved with designing; as the founder, it is your vision. 10 - If your strength is not in creative thinking, outsource the design tasks to an amazing creative. 11 - Don't compare your Chapter One to someone else's Chapter Twenty! 12 - Use tools like Canva to do a lot of the heavy lifting for you when designing. 13 - Put together a brand mood-board so your design style is consistent and in line with your voice. I hope these tips really help you to create the brand of your dreams. I know that for me, building a brand has been one of the most exciting and fun aspects of developing the Female Entrepreneur Association, and I really hope you get as much joy from the process as I did! Carrie xx Download the free 28 Day Business Blueprint here! https://femaleentrepreneurassociation.lpages.co/smb-free-audio/

There's no denying the powerful truth that we all have an intuitive, creative and incredibly capable "wise woman" within us. But in today's fast-paced world, it's so easy to lose touch with our true inner self and purpose. In this episode of the She Means Business podcast I chat to the amazing Haulwen Nicholas, as she takes me through her journey of discovery and how she built and now runs two different businesses. Haulwen is the founder of the Magical Mojo Coach, where she helps women to reconnect with their inner wise woman and find the magic and wonder in the world. Her second business is called The Packaging Oracle, where she helps big businesses and entrepreneurs make decisions about their packaging. Haulwen is a member of our Members' Club and she says that when she first joined, she found the inspiration she needed to launch her own business after burning out in the corporate world. Her favourite part of being a member has been the community, where she's made some great friends who she meets regularly. Haulwen says the Members' Club has been an essential tool for her as being an entrepreneur can be such a lonely experience. The Members' Club is that safe space where she can talk about her business with others who are on the same journey. In this podcast, Haulwen and I discuss: Her career in the packaging industry after studying Environmental Biology at University and how she saw this path as the perfect opportunity to help shape the industry to be more environmentally-friendly. How burnout, dealing with several medical conditions, chronic pain and a highly stressful job left her desperate to escape her lifestyle. How managing teams throughout her career helped her discover her love for coaching and training. How training to become a coach also ended up becoming a journey of self-discovery for her. The journey to launching her business and how she manages the struggle of running two businesses at the same time. Why she made self-care her priority and how it helped her business blossom. How reconnecting with her true self and her purpose helped her find her energy, good health and spirit again. Why reconnecting with your inner wise woman is so essential to long-term wellbeing and success. Haulwen's top tips for success are: Stay curious and recognise that the majority of things that make us who we are are free. We don't need material possessions, it's just about reconnecting with the world and people around us and loving ourselves more, which so many of us don't do. When we start reconnecting with that inner voice, we suddenly start to realise what we truly love about our lives and the people around us. Make self-care your number one priority! You need to make sure you're energised to be your best for yourself, your family and to help your business thrive! Find out more or connect with Haulwen The Magical Mojo Coach: https://www.themojocoach.co.uk/workwithme Packaging Oracle: https://www.packagingoracle.com Download the free 28 Day Business Blueprint here! https://femaleentrepreneurassociation.lpages.co/smb-free-audio/

In this podcast, Caz and I discuss: How she comes from an entrepreneurial family and learned an entrepreneurial attitude at a young age from her mum. How she moved to the US and got an office job in Las Vegas working in corporate marketing but soon realised that it wasn't as fun as she anticipated it to be and how she realised she wasn't suited for the corporate world and she felt stifled. How Tim Ferriss' book, The 4 Hour Work Week, opened her eyes to this different way of looking at work + discovered FEA in 2017 and decided to join FEA instead of continuing to focus on her corporate career. First thing she did: she looked into her company's policy on starting a "side hustle", thought about the lifestyle she wanted, wanted flexibility, fit the lifestyle. Honed in on her marketing skill and how badly she wanted to leave. Identified why she really wanted to quit and what she needed to do to make it happen. Biggest ways FEA has helped her: seeing the community and how other women did it inspired her. The monthly calls and visualisation. How she managed her schedule building a business around her busy 9-5 and family commitments. How she visualised the feeling she would feel and the music she would play driving away from her office for the last time. How she feels looking back and having come so far and overcoming the challenges of juggling both her job and her business. How she started finding most of her clients from the FEA Members' Club. Caz's top tips for success are: You can learn any strategy, but mindset is the thing that will make or break you! Go out and make sure that your business is what your audience wants and don't wait until you have a business to start building your audience. You can start a Facebook page today! If you're networking in Facebook Groups and putting yourself out there, people will look for you online! Share what you're doing, build your audience and don't give up! Find out more or connect with Caz Website: www.thesuccessrecipes.com Free Mindset & Marketing Planner: www.thesuccessrecipes.com/planner Podcast: The Success Recipes Podcast Download the free 28 Day Business Blueprint here! https://femaleentrepreneurassociation.lpages.co/smb-free-audio/

Do you ever wish that as an entrepreneur, you would get to go up on a podium, get cheered and applauded and given a medal every time you had a win in your business? Because it's never an easy journey and every single challenge you overcome and every single win is worth acknowledging and celebrating! In this episode of the She Means Business podcast I'm joined by the amazing Laura Robinson, founder of Worditude, who went from corporate job to building a successful copywriting business. Laura shares with me all about her journey, restructuring her family life to make room for her business, fulfilling her dream of taking her kids to Disneyworld and celebrating all the little "Gold Medal moments" along the way! When she first went self-employed, she started out doing by-the-hour freelance work for agencies that were all run by men and was so lonely she joined FEA. In this podcast, Laura and I chat about: Her journey from corporate jobs, into freelancing agencies and finally managing her own successful business and fulfilling her goal of taking her kids to Disneyworld. The gap in the market she identified in the copywriting industry and how she discovered a way to serve people in a more effective (and profitable) way that also made her happier. How she first got started and discovered that she had to charge more. Her struggle with feeling like other people seemed to be achieving success so much more quickly and easily than her. All the friends she made through the Members' Club and the part they have played in her life and business. How she restructured her family life to make room for her business and what her day looks like now. Her dreams and goals and how she balances between dreaming big for the future and being grateful for what she has created up to now. Her love for sport and how she celebrates and acknowledges her little wins through "Gold Medal Moments". Laura's top tips for success are: Don't panic if you feel like everything around you is going the wrong way, it's not a sign that you're failing. A lot of times if you're tired or overwhelmed, you're looking at things from the wrong perspective and you just need to take a break or talk to someone about it who understands (like your online business friends!). Don't read too much into it when you feel like "I can't do this anymore". Give yourself a break and things will seem a lot better when you come back to them with fresh eyes. Download the free 28 Day Business Blueprint here! https://femaleentrepreneurassociation.lpages.co/smb-free-audio/

When I was a kid growing up, my dad used to tell me, "Decide what you want and write it down", and so I created a Goal Folder! My Goal Folder became a storage space for all of my biggest dreams as a teenager. I would write down the things that I really wanted at that time, without limiting myself by what was "realistic" or "sensible", and then use cuttings and illustrations to create a physical scrapbook of what I wanted my life to look (and smell) like. I just see this as a bit of fun, but it's a bit of fun that's actually very powerful. My goals have changed a bit since creating this first goal folder, but the point is that it's all about intention-setting. You need to get really aligned with your personal and business goals; articulate them; get them out of your head and into the physical world and then use them as your North Star, so that you have something tangible to work towards. This is something that I would highly recommend doing to anyone with big dreams. This is how I would go about it: - Have a dreaming day and connect with what you want to make happen in your life. - Get proactive. Write down the things that you want. - Create an energy of success around your goal folder. - Keep coming back to your goal folder to remind yourself of the things you want to achieve. Download the free 28 Day Business Blueprint here! https://femaleentrepreneurassociation.lpages.co/smb-free-audio/

Sometimes life throws you a curveball bigger than you could ever imagine and even just holding on, let alone thriving, seems impossible. In this episode I'm joined by the truly inspirational and incredible Christine Tylee, who is a seven figure entrepreneur and has built multiple successful businesses. Christine is the founder of Direct Sales Inspiration, which provides knowledge, inspiration and training for members of the direct sales industry all around the world. Her wildly successful has been running for 17 years and has been a multi-million dollar business for 10 of those years. Over the past few years Christine has had to deal with two potentially terminal health scares, one involving her daughter (who was diagnosed with acute leukemia but is now thankfully in remission!) and another scare involving herself. Through both these horrific experiences, Christine's unbelievable positivity, mindset, strength and desire to share her stories and knowledge with the world has helped her get through this unimaginable hardship and come out having built a meaningful and wildly successful business! You'll love her story of how she worked her way through every single masterclass in the Members' Club while sitting at her daughter's bedside in hospital and how her business was the beacon of positivity she needed to make it through. She is truly an inspiration and this episode will give you a completely different perspective on things and a huge dose of gratitude! You're going to love it! In this podcast, Christine and I discuss: How she got started in the direct sales industry with the Body Shop at Home, to running a multi-million dollar direct sales business and building a community to train others in the same field. Her journey from starting out slow to creating so much success after she realised what was possible and stopped looking at it as a side-income and hobby. The biggest things she did when she started out that helped her make so much progress, including not being afraid of hearing the word "no" and getting rejected. Her ethical and collaborative approach to business and how this helped set her apart in her industry. The tragic diagnosis her daughter received a few years ago and how Christine maintained a six-figure income throughout the entire ordeal, while witnessing other parents in the same situation having to quit their job and dealing with financial disaster. How this made her realise that she wanted to share her expertise and message on a much bigger scale, make a difference to more people and establish her second business to train others. How she turned that horrible time into a positive and made the most of her time spent in the hospital, by working her way through every single masterclass in the Members' Club while sitting at her daughter's bedside. She says focusing on building a second meaningful business became her positive outlet among the distress she was facing. The opportunity to be noticed that she identified on Pinterest and how she grew her account and has made it her most valuable traffic source after working through the Become A Pinterest All-Star Masterclass. The importance of working on her mindset to grow her businesses, especially while her daughter Sophie was unwell, including the little things she did to stay positive and strong. Her more recent health scare and how all her mindset practices helped her get through another ordeal all over again.

Sometimes even a job you once loved is no longer the right fit. This is exactly what happened to Louise Luton, who, after 20 years of teaching art and drama, started struggling with the pressure she was facing and having to deal with crippling anxiety. She decided she had to make a change, and despite the common misconception that you can't make money as an artist, Louise was an artist at heart and decided she would figure out how to make it work, so she set out to build her business, Louise Luton Art. Louise started seeing a return and her business going from strength to strength within six months. She later decided she needed to uplevel her business again and that's when she read She Means Business and eventually joined the Members' Club. Saldy, the tragic loss of her father stopped her in her tracks and she went through a period where she felt she couldn't go on growing the business. This is where Louise says the community and support she received from the members of the Members' Club was indispensable, helping her realise that she was strong enough to keep going, step by step, growing the business and honouring her father through her art. In this podcast, Louise and I chat about: Her beautiful art and how she has created multiple sources of revenue through her website, art galleries and by visiting art fairs. How being a successful artist means you also have to manage the business aspect. Louise shares how she managed to make it work when she first started and the important part that the Members' Club has played in keeping her going and growing. The crisis of confidence and the mindset struggles she faced when she first started, being scared to approach galleries and charging too much for her art. The three essential aspects of her business and how she manages each one. The struggle she faced to continue working on her business after the loss of her father and how the support of other members from inside the Members' Club helped her make it through. How she adapted the traditional business plan for her own needs and how she uses the Members' Club monthly Goal Setting and Planning workshops to review and plan ahead. A recent business award she won, which has continued to increase her confidence and encourage her to grow the business further. Her exciting plans for the year ahead, including an inspirational trip to Kenya and being featured in galleries in major cities in the UK and US. Louise's top tips for success are: No matter what you're facing, remember the importance of working on your business "little and often" - accept that you can't do everything today, but you can do SOMETHING today so just keep chipping away at your idea until you get there Once your business is up and running, make sure you're reviewing your results from month to month. Identify the patterns in your own business and use them to make better decisions and create more success. When you're just starting out, focus on one social media platform rather than trying to be on multiple platforms all at once. If you have an idea you love, the timing will never be right so you just have to take the plunge and give it a try now! Join a community that can give you the support you need now - you don't have to wait until you're on top, join when you really need the help!

Download the free 28 Day Business Blueprint here! https://femaleentrepreneurassociation.lpages.co/smb-free-audio/ A single decision can change your entire life. I realised 10 years ago that I had to create change in my life. I was feeling so stuck and low and needed to find my purpose again. 10 years on, I have built a wildly successful business which serves female entrepreneurs all over the world, just like me. And it all started with me making a few simple decisions. Remember that the choice is always yours; the choice to decide to take that bold leap and move your life in the direction that you want, or to stay stuck in a place you don't want to be. So make it your mission to make hard decisions every day, even if they scare you, to start moving towards your dreams.

If you've gone from business idea to business idea and still struggling to make it work, then this podcast episode will give you all the motivation you need to hang in there and keep persevering. In it I chat with Kc Rossi, one of our amazing FEA members, who worked her way through an incredible nine different business ideas in four years, only for the 10th idea to finally take off! Kc is a business coach who helps female entrepreneurs (mostly in the Holistic field) create online courses so they can have a bigger impact and make more income, as well as building a business around their life so they can avoid burning out. She started her entrepreneurial journey at just 19 years old, when, along with her business partner, she tried everything from jewellery to house painting. After almost giving up, she decided to give it one final go, starting a handmade confections company, which took off and grew beyond her wildest dreams to hit seven figures. Kc joined the FEA Members' Club in order to be part of an engaging community of thriving women who truly support one another. She says she has made amazing connections and loves using the accountability partner feature to meet women with the same mindset, that get as excited as her when it comes to chatting about conversion rates and lead magnets! Sold it in 2011 and she started looking at other businesses in interests she likes. She became a certified aromatherapist and a certification for mind-body eating. In those realms she noticed that there were wonderful people that were going from a corporate job into a passion project. They would graduate from these certification courses without any business skills and land into a "now what?" phase. In this podcast, Kc and I discuss: Her journey through nine different business ideas before she managed to make the 10th one work and what happened when it all took off. The importance of giving your ideas and projects time to grow and gain momentum. How she found a gap in the market for her next idea after selling her first successful company, that revolved around her passion. The fear she had to deal with when transitioning from being behind the scenes of a brand and part of a partnership to being the solo face of her business. How this helped her break out of her shell and drop the "introvert" label, which she had hidden behind for so long. Kc shares the personal and spiritual work she had to do to get out of her own way and how she dealt with the fear of "Going Live" every day. Overcoming that internal tug-of-war when you discover your potential but can't seem to do anything about it and you're standing in your own way. How struggle is simply an inevitable part of the process for most solopreneurs and how it helps us develop empathy, clarity and gratitude. One of her biggest wins with recently landing a dream client. How to respect the hustle at the beginning of building a business and the need to then look at ways of reducing the workload to avoid burning out. Find out more or connect with Kc Website: www.kcrossi.com

The New Year is nearly here, and one of the things I most love to do before I start a new year is to create a mantra for the year! It's so helpful to have a go-to saying for the year that you can keep coming back to when things get difficult and you're struggling to remember the purpose behind what you're doing. The idea is to centre your thoughts around one phrase that can help you to keep pushing forward in order to create the success that you want over the course of the year, but it can also just be a lot of fun to play around with creating your own mantra! I'd really encourage you to give this a go yourself - think about what's been most bothering you or holding you back in 2019 and have a go at creating a mantra in response to that problem. And if you're struggling with the exact wording, feel free to pinch one of the mantras that I've given here! Download the free 28 Day Business Blueprint here! https://femaleentrepreneurassociation.lpages.co/smb-free-audio/

If you've ever dreamed of starting an online business so that you could live and work from a remote, tropical island heaven, then this episode will give you some serious inspiration! In it I catch up with an incredible member from the Members' Club, Sophie Le Brozec! Sophie and her husband decided to leave London in search of sunnier climes, and with the knowledge that they could run their online businesses from anywhere in the world, they moved to the gorgeous island of Mauritius. Sophie is the founder of Life Reboot Camp, an online program and community that helps women get the most and the best out of their life. When she was 17, Sophie would joke that her dream was to live on a French-speaking tropical island. Fast forward to the present day, and she now lives that exact dream! With a little help from her husband, who was always interested in entrepreneurship, Sophie shed her mindset that a traditional, "stable" job is best and that building your own business is "dangerous". She started with a mummy blog during her pregnancy in 2012 and from there, discovered the limitless opportunities of the online world. That's when she joined the Members' Club, which Sophie says helped her stumble upon her current business idea, which had always been the missing piece of the puzzle. She launched her business two months after joining and has since created amazing success! In this podcast, Sophie and I discuss: Her journey from living in the South of France, on to London and then to running an online business from Mauritius. The epiphany she had a month after joining FEA and how she launched her business idea only a month after that. How she surrendered control before she had clarity around her business and simply trusted that the information she needed would come to her. The fears she had to overcome as she started putting herself and her business out there and being really vulnerable with what she was sharing. The incredible way her business has grown since launching in February 2018 and how she has since written a book and hosted a retreat in the UK. The reaction and self-assurance she had after the first sale from someone she didn't know! The internal work she had to do on herself when all she wanted to do was run and hide shortly after launching her business as she feared being judged. Why having an online community of like-minded women is so important to her. Her incredible journey to writing her book: How To Be Happy...No Matter What Sh!t Life Throws At You, which talks about all the difficult experiences she's gone through and the tools she learnt to overcome unhappiness. Sophie's top tips for success are: Anything bad that happens is there for a reason - it's a learning experience or something that you need to go through to experience something better. When you're trying to figure out what the next step is, don't get too consumed with what other people have done and what the "right" thing is - think about what YOU want and how you're going to make it happen. Don't listen too much to other people's thoughts, many times they are simply projecting their own insecurities onto you. Don't accept "societal norms" if you are unhappy. Life is not about sitting up and putting up, because that's "just the way it is". You have complete control of your life and your happiness so decide what will make you happy and do it. Website: www.sophielebrozec.com