Business Finances Through the Lens of Your Natural Strenghts - Chaos to Peace with Conny

There seems to be a steady stream of papers and files coming into our life and business. If  we don’t have a system and a process in place to deal with these files we're feeding them to the File Monster. On the other hand, when you invest some time and effort into setting up simple structures and an easy process you can tame the File Monster, which will free up so much of your time and energy...

Part of having solid foundations and supportive structures in place is having a workspace that is setup for success. When I work with my clients, whether it's in person or over Zoom, one thing I always notice is that their office and desk is quite the mess. Now I am not saying you need to strive for an Instagram worthy office space and desk - those photos are staged, nobody works like this. B...

Getting organized and clearing clutter is self-love, but it also needs self-love to get organized.  I have Katie Allen as a guest, she has a podcast called Self-love ignited and coaches people, mainly women, around self-love and body image. She shares with us her story from self-loathing to self-love and gives us very practical tips how to start our own journey to self-love. She's also unpack...

With this episode I am here to tell you to not feel bad if you are not feeling full of spunk and mojo yet to start 2022. Nature is still asleep, the dark is still longer than the light in a day, your body might be just mine still wanting to hibernate,  that's our nature. Let your mind still contemplate and your hearts still being fuzzy and warm instead of brave and outgoing. Now that doesn&ap...

Most people don't realize the significant role that their environment (home and work) plays in their life experiences.⁠⁣⁠⁣⁣ Your environment can either support you, or it can sabotage you and hold you back.⁠⁣⁠⁣⁣ How can you find out? One part is awareness, how do you feel, for example are you often frustrated or stressed because of your environment? So awareness is key, the other thing that c...

Have you ever wondered how to become and stay confident as a business owners?  My guest is Julie deLucca Collins, her business is called Go Confidently Services and we talk about:  what help us to become more confident what mindset helps with confidence whether or not you can lose confidence once you have it  what role intention plays in Julie's life her take on why we can't rely on will...

Lets talk about the clutter that comes up during the Holidays.  And as always I am not just talking about physical clutter but also mental, emotional and social clutter.  I invited Linda Binns to chat with me because I love her perspective as a Feng Shui and energy expert. This is  from a Youtube Live on my channel and we are talking about  the difference between active chaos and passive chaos the...

We are both not your typical bean counters and we want you to listen to Ean's story, the success of your business and life could depend on it.  Ean Price Murphy, is the founder of Moxie Bookkeeping, and she teaches successful entrepreneurs a dead-simple cash management system that works with their natural habits so they don't have to learn accounting to become profitable. We talk about h...

With this short episode and the free upcoming Zoom call I want to help you set intentions , which is similar to resolutions and goals. You might have heard me saying it before, or if you follow me on Instagram you have seen my posts where I say that New Moons are ideal for setting intentions.  And we have a New Moon coming up on December 3rd or 4th depending on where you are in the world and the m...

Welcome to the From Chaos to Peace with Conny Podcast, this is episode 100 and instead of the planned celebration I am taking you on a journey through the last 99 episodes and give you a bit of an outlook of what's to come as far as I know it already. I want to thank you if you have been part of this wild ride of me having a podcast. If you are a loyal listener and especially if you have been...

Evelien's passion and mission in life is to inspire her audience and clients to transform their life and feel their inner power of being and focus on what really matters. She published her book "Be Relentlessly Yourself" in both English as well as Dutch during the pandemic.  We talked about:  why some people are very successful but don't feel successful  how we can figure out w...

How about you could be happy on purpose and manifest what ever you want, would you be intrigued? If yes, don't miss this episode with Lauren G. Foster,  who is the best-selling author of "Happy and Free on Purpose: Daily Practices to Live and Love Your Life" Lauren is on a mission to help one million women learn to be Happy and Free on Purpose before 2025. I love love love the &apos...

My guest, Kim McIntyre, is a certified laughter leader and certified stress reduction specialist who shows people how to laugh more and stress less, so they can enjoy life NOW. She helps people to reclaim joy and savor the sweetness of life — even if they’ve been through unexpected tough times that have knocked the wind out of their sails. In our conversation we talk about:  a key piece to know so...

I have invited Samantha Paternoster as a guest today to help us get from chaos to peace and through our mental blocks and mental clutter around writing for business, i.e. branding, website copy, email newsletters etc.  We talk about  the benefits of journaling and gratitude how do we find the right words for our website and brand the best advice she got around writing and how that looks like pract...

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and this October my friend Michelle Hanton OAM is back on the podcast because she's not just a 23-year breast cancer survivor but also co-authored a book called Internationally Abreast – Exercise as Medicine   a story of hope and courage.  Breast cancer is an insidious disease. Yet, among those diagnosed is a global network of breast cancer paddlers co...

After building, growing, and then selling a multimillion dollar business, Rhianna Campbell  started assisting entrepreneurs across the world define and find business freedom. On her website it says 'increase your profits, reduce your stress' and Rhianna knows what she's talking about. As a busy business woman she was at the point of burnout, she says, and had to learn new ways of ho...

Libra Season is about relationships, partnerships, fairness, justice, balance and beauty and this week is also New Moon in Libra so it's the perfect time to identify and deal with your social clutter and setting some intentions for a more balanced social life and creating healthier relationships. Now clearing social clutter can be tricky territory and I am of course not suggesting that you de...

Mercury went retrograde September 26 or 27, 2021 (depending on where you are in the world)   and I cover what it means for you, your life and your business and what it has to do with your clutter.  We all have heard what sounds like you need to put your life on hold and stay in bed for 3 weeks while Mercury is retrograde, but of course that makes no sense.  While there are some things that are mor...

Today's episode is about emotinal clutter and my guest is Sheila VanZile.  Sheila wrote a book called "My Waterfall of Awakening - How loss can bring you home to the life you want".  It is kind of an autobiography about the relationship she had with her love-withholding mother and how she explores forgiveness, trust, faith, self-love, grief,  hope and much more after her mothers pas...

If you have clutter in any area it's because of unmade decisions. The more you have a habit of not making a decision, to postpone a decision, to procrastinate, the more clutter you will have, either in physical form in your home or office, in  your files and also in your finances. You'll find the full show notes and a transcript at https://connygraf.com/podcast/90 Other ways to connect:...

Yes, not having healthy boundaries can lead to clutter in your life, for example:  physical clutter in form of gifts or inherited items that you don't love but feel obligated to receive or keep.  In form of mental clutter as limiting beliefs or beliefs that other people's wishes and feelings are more important than our own in form of emotional clutter by not acknowledging but surpressing...

In this episode Jen and I are talking about the "other pandemic", the mental health challenges that came out of the social distancing and restrictions due to the Covid-19 virus. You know Jen Robinson from episode 72 The Power of Community , she is both a life coach and business mindset coach. She is also the creative force behind the wellness brand Peaceful Living Wellness, her online ma...

The motivational triad explaines how our brain can keep us from decluttering or achieving any other goal. These are three principles: seek pleasure, avoid pain, and be efficient.  Animals and humans were all designed with these three principle motivations. These three motivations have made sure that we were properly nourished, that we procreated, and they have helped us minimize and even avoid thr...

My guest today is Sarah Lascano, an energy medicine practitioner and the owner and founder of RayZen Energy. She has helped hundreds of clients around the world recover their health and reclaim their life and in this episode we talk about how it all started with her own health challenge.  We talk about what is energy medicine  why and how it works how energy medicine can help us while decluttering...

Intention setting is like planting a seed in the ground, we can't then ignore the seed, we have to water it and nurture it to become a seedling and eventually a plant. It's the same with our goals that we want to achieve. We can't just set the intention at the best time (i.e. New Moon) and then forget about it. We have to nurture the intention on a regular basis so we can achieve wh...