One Year From Now

In this episode Voice Actor, Melanie Scroggins talks about how she's rapidly grown her business after experiencing several coaching breakthroughs back in March.

We often describe clarity and confidence as something that happens to us. We feel or experience it as a result of something external. But I think that POV is pretty useless. It keeps us from being in charge of our own results (being clear on a strategy or your offering is the result here). So let's think about clarity and as a deliberate practice. Something you have control over and create for you...

What if, instead of planning what we want 5 or 10 years down the line, we focus on what we want one year from now? This is the question that entrepreneur, Hailey Thomas, has built her system of career coaching around. In this episode, Hailey is joined by Emmaline Chappell, a personal stylist who specializes in helping entrepreneurial women with individualizing their wardrobe and look. In this epis...

Hailey is joined by Essence Turner, a radical forgiveness and self-love coach, for a special extended conversation about emotions and feelings. In this episode, Essence gives Hailey and her listeners a valuable lesson about where our feelings come from, why they matter, and how we can all strive to feel our feelings productively.  This episode discusses topics like:  Understanding how feelings fit...

SHOW NOTES   What We're Talking About: Wanting vs Having   The belief that we can't actually have what we want.  Our beliefs can make or break all of our efforts.  When we want out of lack . Feelings we avoid and how they hold us back. Challenging our brains to work differently. Building up the capacity to "have" so our brains have evidence of results.   What To Do Next:    Schedule a clarity call...

SHOW NOTES What We're Talking About:  It's ok to mourn change and transition in business (hello, global pandemic!) Deciding to move on and commit to a new vision Using "planning" mode as a form of procrastination to not do the things Utilizing a digital platform for a service that is usually an in-person offering Fear of change and potential success  Phoning a friend when the mind drama is overwhe...

SHOW NOTES What We're Talking About:  The possibilities scaling a business can bring. Spending time understanding the market and who can be served. The importance and beauty of community. Allowing flexibility to pivot to a new product or service.  Embracing iterations instead of moving on to a completely new product or service. Links:  Momtography  Teentography Momtography on Insta Momtography on...

This week on the podcast, I'm speaking with Susan Boles, the owner and CEO of Scale Spark. Susan Boles is also the host of the podcast Break the Ceiling that digs into unconventional strategies to help people break through growth ceilings. We're talking to Susan about optimizing time for what really matters, treating your work schedule as one big experiment, and the ebb and flow of identities and...

Today on the podcast we're speaking with Prerna Malik. Prerna is a copywriter and runs her business, Content Bistro, with her husband. In this episode, we discuss decision making from your CEO brain vs your individual brain, sticking to a plan and being open to its evolution, and learning to be unapologetic about the non-negotiables you set in place both personally and professionally.  --- Links: ...

What do you want your online business to look like one year from now? Host, Hailey Thomas, gets the answer and more from a variety of online entrepreneurs - the exciting, the scary and everything in between. Be a fly on the wall for candid conversations + mini-lessons from those in the trenches. We're on a mission to normalize (and laugh about) the behind-the-scenes truth that comes with acting to...

This week, I wanted to share some of my thoughts on things I've seen with my clients when it comes to finding and setting up accountability.  Most people need outer accountability and guess what - it's okay! This episode I share insight and observation about the role accountability plays in goal execution as a small business owner. Most people are what Gretchen Rubin would call "Obligers". They re...

Today, Mel and I are taking over the podcast and talking to you about worktreats! What is a worktreat? Why would someone need one?  We're going to cover all of the basic questions and more today on the show.    A worktreat, or working retreat : time for CEOs to reflect, plan, and execute on high level priorities.   When we talk about CEOs, we're talking about people that own service-based or produ...

This week, we're talking to cartoonist and creative mentor, Jessica Abel - founder of the Creative Focus Workshop. She works with ambitious mid-career creative pros and businesses to escape the hamster wheel of busyness and carve out the deep focus needed to finish—and launch—the game-changing work they want to be known for. Jessica is the author of Growing Gills: How to Find Creative Focus When Y...

In this episode, I have a conversation with Natasha Vorompiova over at Systems Rock, about doing less for bigger wins in business. Now before you go rolling your eyes and move on to another episode, we get it . Do less. Delegate. give it away. It's all overused and simplified business advice that gurus just love to give. Mainly because it's easy to say and there is some grain of truth to it. Doing...

Today's guest has spent the last three years purposefully experimenting with risk and reward in her business. Stephanie Stiavetti is an online cooking teacher on a mission to change the relationship that her students have with cooking. She helps them to go from hopeless and fearful to confident kitchen ninjas.   As you'll hear in our conversation, there are so many lessons and learning to be a com...

This week we're chatting with business coach, Luisa Zhou. Luisa has an incredible coaching business built on the idea of helping everyone become a little bit more entrepreneurial. Whether it be by transitioning out of your corporate job and starting your own business, or staying in your 9-5 and creating a course to help you share your expertise, she has got you covered.   Luisa is internet famous...

This week, we're chatting with financial strategist Iyanna Vaughn of Lovely Financials Group. Iyanna helps six and seven figure business owners understand their finances and then use that data to make strategic business decisions.   We all know we're supposed to be looking at our numbers and tracking things like revenue, profit, and costs of service, but most of us have at least some, if not a who...

Today, we're talking to THE Val Geisler of Fix Your Churn about the many iterations her business has undergone over the years from being a general virtual assistant to one of the top authorities on customer retention for subscription based businesses.   I love Val's story because it's a case study on a variety of the transitions that a business can undergo in a short amount of time, but also about...

Today, we're having an open and down to earth conversation about a pretty serious topic. We're talking about trauma and how it affects your relationship with your business. My guest, Nicole Lewis-Keeber, is a licensed therapist and social worker turned business coach.   She focuses on the way  Small T  trauma (we'll talk about  Small T  and  Big T  trauma) can deeply affect the businesses we choos...

Today, I'm chatting with Luz Donahue. Luz is an accomplished abstract painter and a really accomplished Facebook ads consultant. Two topics, which, on the face of things, seem to be at odds with each other. Today, Luz shares her story of becoming an entrepreneur and how she goes about nourishing both sides of her business: one that requires great analysis and one that requires great levels of crea...

How to know when you've overcommitted:  1. You have more projects, tasks, and other things you've raised your hand to than you have hours in a day. 2. Having so much "stuff" on your brain it's hard to do anything else. It's a significant barrier to work-life balance and productivity. So, what can you do about it?       We are going on a break for the rest of July!   But don't worry, we'll be back...

Today, I'm chatting with Dr. Alane Presswood. Lanie is a professor, and the Director of Oral Communication, at Hollins University. Additionally, she's also a public speaking consultant to  entrepreneurs and online business owners.  I worked with Lanie earlier this year on my TedX talk, and I was so wonderfully pleased to have found someone who understands where online business, entrepreneurship, a...

We're changing things up this week! Today's episode is a very special one. Instead of the guest interviews, I'm sharing a TedX talk I gave earlier this year on defeating burnout. The theme for my talk is near and dear to my heart - it's all about. BURNOUT. What causes it? How can we defeat it? Today I'll share my three-step plan.  In true Hailey fashion, there are several corny superhero jokes. I...

Today, I'm chatting with the always hilarious, and very talented, conversion copywriter Lianna Patch. Lianna runs Punchline Copy where she helps her clients sell more stuff by infusing humor into their website copy, sales copy, and emails. She'll share how she came to develop such a strong brand and the business as it stands today. We also discuss how she managed six weeks of travel and speaking w...

Today, I'm chatting with Janelle Allen, the instructional design guru and founder of Zen Courses. Janelle is a learning designer at heart so she knows that the most important part of the online course creation process is the students' transformation. We talk about Janelle's career transformation including how she grew an agency, had employees, had to let them go, and then rebuilt her business into...