Consulting Matters

Have you hit the top of your profession or exceeded your business goals and wondered what's next?  Tune in for insights and tips on taking the daring leap into your second act and the dramatic change that can lead to greater success, significance, and happiness.  I have big news, on May 14th, I got married to the absolute love of my life!  We went to Nantucket for our honeymoon, whe...

Explore the connection between learning and having a learning mindset that drives exponential success with my guest, Katie Anderson. Katie is a leadership consultant, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and best-selling author. As your virtual mentor – I encourage you to listen to the conversation with Katie from a couple of angles. First, she offers some tips on creating learning organizations and lea...

How can you use your strengths to land more clients and earn what you're worth?  Leslie Lyons and I do a deep dive into the Enneagram tool and how to use it to sell more effectively and overcome the issues and challenges that cause us to sabotage ourselves and play small. Today, I'm wrapping up my "Owning Your Strengths" series with a powerhouse conversation with my powerful guest Leslie Lyon...

Get ready for on-air coaching on pivoting your brand and business from pair of hands to sought-after expert with my guest Dianna Deeney. In today's episode, you'll be a fly on the wall as Dianna and I tap into her ideal business model (which isn't what she initially had), her unique superpowers, and how she can stand out for the clients she wants to serve. We also brainstormed different ways to po...

How do you build a brand? If you've been listening to my series on "owning your strengths," you want a high-income and high-impact coaching or consulting business that leverages your superpowers! Strengths are the key to helping you activate your passion and purpose in the world. If you're reading this, you're convinced that you deserve the time and control over your earning power. Most consultant...

In today's episode, Jahaan Blake explores how she let go of the "shoulds" and "ought to's" to become the champion of her dreams. I was Jahaan's first business mentor when she started her business. We worked through her brand positioning as a consultant to the sports industry who transformed front-line teams into brand ambassadors, which made logical sense given her experience working for the Red S...

Do you have your own business? Does it bring you joy?  Or are you thinking seriously about starting your own business and want one that brings you joy? Do you need a push of encouragement to make this happen? Get ready for actionable inspiration from Jennifer Starns. She is a seasoned software professional turned career mentor to aspiring software consultants. Over the past year, we've been w...

Is your business aligned with your superpowers? If not, get ready for some actionable tips and guidance from Renee Brauns to make that happen. In today's episode, Renee shares her story about what she did to discover her superpowers and the important work she did to align her business model to them. At times, scarcity fears set in that told her she needed to offer everything and the kitchen sink t...

Are you ready to find your superpower? Even though you've taken personality tests and can easily list your strengths, you may still be unclear about what you do that makes you unique and intensely valuable to the people you want to serve. You might even know how your approach to consulting or coaching differs from others, but you can't isolate that point of differentiation or w...

Big changes in your career or taking risks with your business can be scary. But it's also an opportunity to reverse engineer your fear and step into something great! Today, on Enough Already, I continue my conversation with Roy Bell. Roy helps high achievers explore the intersection of the mind-heart connection, spirituality, and mindful systems thinking.  In my last episode, we had a powerfu...

Get ready for a powerful conversation about why letting go of the business you think you should have IS THE WAY to the business that is meant for you.  Last week I started my series on Owning Your Strengths, and in my previous episode, I explained why it's such a challenge for consultants and coaches to see, let alone own, their strengths.   I'm super excited to have Roy Bell on my...

Do you have a hard time seeing and valuing your strengths?  I'm super-excited about this brand-new series I'm starting - Owning Your Strengths. You'll discover why this is a common challenge, especially for consultants and coaches. You'll also get practical first steps on how to jump this hurdle and get to your zone of genius.  I hope you get out of the series what my clients love the mo...

Do you struggle with a fear of being seen and showing up online?  I planned to wrap up my series on "Getting Seen and Paid as an Expert" by sharing best practices around how to position yourself with a potential client who expresses interest in working with you and how to set the right price.  Instead, I realized what I needed to talk about was the challenge that solopreneurs, especially...

Jared Nichols has always been an independent thinker and never wanted to work for someone else.  I met Jared several years ago when we both worked with a company helping us build our online platform and get our start with creating content.  Initially, I wanted to have Jared on the show because he has done a fantastic job carving out a unique position in the market as a specialized futuri...

Roberta Matuson is an expert in helping organizations identify, acquire, nurture and retain the best talent in the world. I have known Roberta for over ten years. I have witnessed her remarkable journey from a start-up consulting business owner to an established expert with five published books and author of articles featured in Fast company, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Forbes. I...

Dan Weedin, a treasured colleague of mine for over ten years, is an experienced entrepreneur, thought leader, author, and award-winning speaker who has a passion for consulting, coaching, and mentoring other entrepreneurs and business professionals. When I first met Dan – he and I were learning how to set up our consulting business for increased profitability and scale.   I've had a fron...

Do you want to know the number one strategy I've used to position myself as an expert and get clients to come to me? Come with me back to 2010. It was a couple of years after I left Disney. I got some consulting gigs as a freelancer and decided it was time to commit to my business. So I invested in a partnership with Chad, a web designer/business mentor who had a passion for content and thought le...

One of the big things on my to-do list this week is finding safe, reliable cars for my daughters, one of whom is leaving for college in a couple of weeks, and the other is graduating. Seriously – what happened to the time? So I need to figure out what to buy. I asked around, and I got consistent responses when I said I was looking for safe, reliable, inexpensive cars - Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla,...

Ready out to stand out and be seen in the market as an expert worth premium fees? Let's do this! Then let's do this. Let's make 2022 the year that you, once and for all give up playing small and marketing small. Instead, own your power and that you're already an expert.  The heart of what I do is help my clients position and language their zone of genius in the market to get seen and pai...

Do you want to set goals for 2022 that stick? Entrepreneurs are not always the nicest bosses to themselves. And my theory is that we don't have personal performance standards that are explicit, clear, or what we buy into. And without those standards, we compare ourselves to others and forget that a big driver for wanting to leave our jobs and start our businesses was to create greater success on o...

How can you make this holiday season your best one yet – even if your results aren't exactly what you hoped for and you're wrestling with big questions about your consulting and coaching business? This is what I talk about with forgiveness coach and speaker Brenda Reiss. She is an expert in helping people let go of hidden resentments so that they can activate their highest potential in their caree...

More and more leaders are ditching corporate for the time freedom that having your own consulting and coaching business offers. Therefore, it makes sense that one of the biggest questions aspiring entrepreneurs have is around how long it will take to make money and have a profitable business. I tackle this topic in today's episode and go over the answers to your time questions: How long does it ta...

In this episode, Jen and I help you get clear on the finances involved with starting and running a profitable consulting and coaching business so that you make the most of both your money and time. If you're anything like me, money questions are a constant companion at each stage of the entrepreneurial journey. So raise your hand if angst around how quickly you can replace your salary with busines...

Get ready for a powerful conversation on the journey from C-Suite executive to C-Suite consultant with my guest Adam Schwartz. When Adam was unexpectedly laid off from his role as Sr. VP of Communications for Wyndham Vacation Ownership, he knew that more was going on for him than just a career transition. So he didn't blindly accept opportunities for C-level positions in other companies he receive...

How would you like to fast-track your timeline to your consulting and coaching success while saving yourself years of expensive trial and error?  Spoiler alert - it's not a  mad rush to results. In this episode, I’m joined by my client Heather Havey, affectionately known by her clients as the “Efficiency Queen.” She is a former Disney leader turned consulting business owner and just laun...