Diamond Effect - Strategies to Scale Your Service Business as a Sellable Asset

There is no one ideal way to acquire and master the skills you need to grow a successful business long-term. There are many ways and each one of them is effective. Some work better for you than others depending on your current knowledge, how critical the skill is to your success, your ability to apply it without support, your commitment, and the urgency of you acquiring it. In this episode, I shar...

Outside of the fact that "hustling" has an illegal connotation as a word (who knew??), it means busy, forceful, rushing - who would want to act & feel like that in their business? I know I don't. Neither do my clients. High-performance means being effective, proactive, calm and grounded. This is a much better choice. In this episode, I'm inviting you to consider joining the...

Through my Dream-PLAN-DO journal, I established a  daily gratefulness practice.  Each evening I write down 5 things I'm grateful for.  This allows me to keep a healthy perspective on my life. It reminds me how blessed I am every day being healthy, surrounded by a loving family and supportive people, living in a wonderful country, Canada. And yet there are still things I sometimes take for gra...

My view on accountability? As a leader of yourself and your business - you're your best accountability partner. Being able to follow through on your decisions is one of the most powerful skills you can develop for yourself. This episode will tell you more about why and how. I also invite you to join me in y newest free training - a one-hour webinar where you'll learn 5 Steps to Making Mo...

Leading your business intentionally creates more of what you want faster and without overwhelm. Ready to align the key things in your business for better results? Register here for a free webinar 5 Steps to Making More Money Without Overscheduling Yourself . Dates: March 8, 9, or 10, 2022 at 11 am EST

I'm sure whoever invented a to-do list meant well. They wanted people to pick top priorities, not forget and do them, and then feel great marking them DONE on the list. Somehow the to-do lists became the never-ending list haunting entrepreneurs down, making them feel busier than ever. This episode will show you why your to-do list is not effective and my upcoming free webinar will offer a mor...

Angel Hicks is the CEO of the most supportive women's networking group I know, Evolve Women's Network . In this interview, Angel shares her journey from being an owner of an Executive Assistance business to leading Evolve while being an introvert. She also shares actionable tips on being strategic about your networking and making the most of the opportunities it offers. And if you want t...

Growing a thriving business is not complicated. Our brains like to think the opposite and reject simple solutions. And yet the simple solutions are the most impactful, create the best results, and allow us to focus on what's most important. This episode will walk you through my simple 3-step Diamond Effect process for exceeding your business goals. Challenge yourself to see how it could work...

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result THIS will prevent that in your business

When I tell people what I do, how much I accomplish in a week, month, a year, most of them look at me like I have three heads.  Especially when I tell them my recent journey (past 3 years) through completing an executive MBA starting a coaching business and at the same time, doing both of those things part-time while still working a demanding corporate leadership position and having a young family...

We go through 80% of our days' thanks to the power of our habits. Some of them serve us and some don't. Just imagine if you slowly started replacing the ones that don't with the good ones. You could scale your business with less work and more calm. Ready to start ONE Good Habit for GOOD? E-mail me at maggie@stairwaytoleadership.com

Just like with learning a foreign language to become fully bilingual, becoming a high-performing CEO, an industry thought leader, takes time.  It's a journey with distinctive stages.  Since I'm a trilingual person, I looked for similarities in learning a language and acquiring business skills as an entrepreneur. And guess what? There are a few! Because in both cases we're learning a...

“It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.” - Mahatma Gandhi

If there was only ONE thing you could grow about yourself this year, make it self-confidence.  Studies after studies show that self-confident people are much more likely to achieve their goals. Why that's the case? What is self-confidence anyway? How do I build my self-confidence? I answer all these questions in today's episode. 

If you're feeling like an imposter going after what you want, know you're not alone. In fact, this fear is normal (unless you're a narcissist :)). In this bonus episode, I share some advice to help you overcome this fear.

Making strategic and effective decisions is the #1 skill of every successful business leader. And the more of them you can make the faster your business grows.  Listen to today's episode that teaches you 5 key components of such decisions. 

Starting your business as a hobby or part-time has many benefits. However, once you expect it to generate an income like a professional business, you as its leader need to uplevel first. This 3-episode series on self-leadership will help you with that. There's no better way to get started on achieving 2022 goals than up-leveling yourself as the CEO of your business. If you're still in th...

In this episode, I'm sharing the five most impactful lessons, reminders and A-HA moments I had this pivotal year for me. Graduating with honors from my executive MBA, leaving my 13-year provision corporate career to focus on my coaching business full time presented some great shifts and transformations opportunities for me that I want to share today with you. And if you're ready to take...