The Missing Link Podcast

After my interview with Per Andreasen on why mindset strategies sometimes don't work with people who have ADHD (episode #111), I was flooded with comments from people who felt like they had been seen for the first time. People who have various challenges from anxiety to being on the spectrum - and how that impacts them in both business and in life. I personally have struggled with anxiety and pani...

It's the end of the year and inevitably you've already started to think about what 2023 is going to look like. Maybe you've even planned out what you're going to be doing in this upcoming year and you have some big goals set up. But here's the thing - too many of us forget to look backward before we plan our businesses forward. Maybe it's because we don't want to face the reality of what we see -...

Time is one of the biggest struggles every single person faces - it doesn't matter if you're a business owner, an employee, a corporate executive, there isn't a single person I've met in the last year that hasn't at some point said they needed more time. But the truth is that many of us just can't make the rigid rules of time management work. And there's a good reason - I've often said that the pr...

You know those people that you instantly connect with and know you'll get along with in ways you never thought? That was today's guest for me. Rachel Greiman and I met in a mastermind several years ago and what struck me was how open and honest she was, funny and that she had struggled with money in a bit of an untraditional way - you see Rachel had no problem setting up her business to make money...

A few months ago I had this epiphany. I realized that I had spent my life pushing open some really heavy doors. What do I mean by that? Well, if I wanted it and I didn't get it, I would work harder - more diligently to get it. But after years of pushing open heavy doors just to get what I want, I realized that maybe, just maybe, I have been doing it all wrong. On today's episode of The Mindset Fir...

I often talk about how there is an entrepreneurial ceiling that many business owners struggle to get past. They are able to get their business up and running, but inevitably hit a financial plateau and find themselves working too hard, not having the freedom they want and still unable to invest in the resources they need to grow bigger. It's often where business owners get stuck, start to resent t...

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we all only had one limiting belief we had to tackle in order to move on and be great? Like if I only had my stupid belief to contend with I'd have been fine a long time ago. And if that belief didn't have tentacles and layers to it that drove my fears, my unconscious commitments and my actions - wouldn't life be grand? Well, yes. The truth is that we have more than jus...

Do mindset strategies work if you have conditions such as ADD or ADHD? The truth is that it absolutely can. But what's worse is that if you're someone who hasn't recognized that you have ADHD until adulthood, chances are you've been carrying around some stories about who you are - misbehaved, unorganized, unmotivated or undisciplined and that can impact how far you really go in business and in lif...

This is an episode I've been excited to share for some time. And as an extrovert this might seem like a bit of a funny one for me to deliver - actually I think I might categorize me more as an ambivert because I do love my alone recovery time as much as I love my energizing time out with people. But, here's something I've noticed. There are people out there who might be incorrectly diagnosing them...

I wanted to invite my friend, Kira Hug back to the podcast because Kira is someone I have observed intentionally work on getting to know herself and the shifts I've seen in her as a leader. Kira has always been thoughtful, caring of others and very deep - but as she gets to know how the world actually impacts her and how she wants to show up, I've seen her get more intentional about how she serves...

I sometimes hear from business owners who tell me that they don't dare put their vision for their business (or life) on paper because they don't want to be disappointed if they don't get it. They fear that if they put it on paper it means they won't get it - or alternatively, if they put it on paper and they do get it - that they then have to manage the dream. Both options can be scary, but the tr...

The last time I had Jude on my podcast, it turned out to be one of my favorite conversations and one of the reasons I wanted this season of the Mindset First Podcast to go deeper. Jude helps business owners leverage the power of storytelling to grow his business - but somehow we don't ever really get to that topic because this time I invited Jude back to talk about what it means to have relentless...

You've been told to stay away from politics in your business, right? Well, I know that as someone who does have some strong opinions - this one has been hard for me. I struggle with my own personal values, the fact that I spent most of my life as an advocate and then also respecting the idea that my business is a separate entity that may not carry some of the same opinions. This can be a mindset s...

So, if you've hung out with me and listened to this podcast before, you know that I love talking about fear. Not because I have some dark fixation around it - but really because I know how much fear can dictate choices and limit growth. I personally struggled with so many fears that held me back from really achieving my full potential for years and years - so, once I understood how to break free -...

Welcome to this week's episode of The Mindset First Podcast. I'm excited to share with you my friend Bryan, and Bryan and I have a great conversation in this episode about how to use existentialism to move your business forward. It really is about how do you use existentialism to make better choices... And Bryan got me thinking even how. I sometimes haven't stood in the power of my choice making....

Today's topic is one I wanted to tackle because it keeps coming up more and more in the groups I lead and the conversations I hold with clients - can childhood bullying impact your business growth. Sometimes it's hard to see the connections of our childhood pains to our current business predicaments, but this week on the podcast I wanted to address how deep wounds that result from childhood bullyi...

So, when I was revamping my podcast to have more meaningful conversations about mindset and how we can truly become greater versions of ourselves, I immediately knew I wanted to have my friend, master coach and best-selling author Nancy Levin come back to the podcast. She has just released a new book called The Art of Change and I've invited Nancy back to talk a bit about what it really takes to c...

After a month hiatus, the Mindset First podcast is back and it's being revamped to help you go deeper to uncover your mindset blocks, experience shifts and share the stories from others like you who have conquered their mindset challenges. On this episode, I talk about why I've decided to shift my focus a bit on the podcast and some of the things I've been experiencing that are driving me to have...

Welcome to the 100th episode of the Mindset First podcast! I'm so excited to have reached this milestone and share with you this week someone I met a few years back when I was still doing marketing strategy and copywriting. Janet Davis is a retired chief of police from Three Rivers, California who helps executives further their career by focusing on authentic leadership. When Janet and I met a few...

This past weekend I attended a conference in Orlando where I had the honor of delivering the keynote speech on redefining success and optimizing your business. But before I ever began the speech, I asked business owners what they most wanted for their business in the next year and what they thought got in the way. Overwhelmingly, people wanted a business that generated more money and flowed better...

As a service provider who directly works with clients one-on-one, the time in exchange for money game can get tiring. But should you add digital products to help you create other means of revenue? The truth is that it feels like every service provider now also has a digital product to help create so-called passive revenue. But how do you know what's right for you? And how do you deal with some of...

On this week's episode of the Mindset First Podcast, I tackle an important topic - unconscious commitments. The reality is that many business owners will say they want next level growth in their business - but find themselves taking steps back, self-sabotaging and not taking action in important areas of their business. It can be a constant source of frustration for some - and pretty confusing beca...

On this week's podcast episode, I dive into the topic of owning your voice in making an impact. I think these days as our personal lives and business lives blend more and more as entrepreneurs (especially service based online business owners), it can be extremely difficult to discern your own voice from others and how far to take your own voice. I won't lie - in the face of the Supreme Court decis...

So, how do you succeed in business when no one else looks like you in your industry. That's the question my guest Samar Owais tackles on today - she is a self described brown, Hijabi wearing, non-native English speaking Muslim woman who has found some impressive growth in her field, but it hasn't always been easy. Today we talk about the unique challenges she's faced in business, her own head tras...

A few years ago, Carol Dweck introduced the idea of growth mindset versus fixed mindset in her appropriately named book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success . She pointed out that when we have a fixed mindset it becomes harder to reach our goals and achieve the success we want. And while many of us would like to think we have a growth mindset or have achieved a more flexible growth mindset in ou...