Flow Rising

Routines Make Business Better, Start and Stop Your Day With Habits How you do anything is how you do everything. Habits rule your life and using them in your favor makes you a powerful force.  Mary Gaul, a productivity expert, shares her favorite way to get through a day the habit-building way.  She explains, "So one of the things that I've been talking to several clients about this mont...

Three Ways to Keep Your Talks Fresh   Stepping up on stage to give a talk can be super scary and thrilling all at the same time. The first few times you give a talk it's easy to keep it upbeat and fresh, but what about the 100th time?    Amanda Fuel, a transformational talks coach, shares her favorite ways to keep your same old talk new on each delivery.  She muses, " I th...

Setting Expectations at Home Will  Free Your Time for Business The episode is a continuation of a previous conversation I had with money expert, LeAndra Foster. We chat about how having a family, especially for women business owners, often disrupts the flow of money in business.  LeAndra shares some of her personal ah-ha moments after she read the book Fair Play by Eve Brodsky.  She...

Getting it Right From the Start Matters  Starting a business is an exciting time and one that's full of possible pitfalls.  Knowing where you could fall down before you get going helps keep the nasty what if's at bay.   Attorney Brian Hanning shares a few thoughts on where to get started when you are thinking of opening a business.   He says, "the first thing that I'l...

When You Listen, You'll Hear the Sale Before It Even Happens    Selling is more about them than it is for you. Yes, that's right, you really have nothing to do with the sale because you're there to help and offer not hound and pound.  Alison Proffit offers her thoughts about how listening moves you into more sales conversations.  She says,...thinking about when you're doing tha...

Is Your Mind In The Way?    Time, Energy, and Confidence are All Part of the Equation  Owing your own business is amazing and a big goal for many.  If you're on the business path you know all too well how your mind can get in the way of things.    LeAndra Foster shares a very personal ah-ha she had recently about how she's getting in her own way with the success...

No Need to Go It Alone.  Collaborating With Others Gets You Farther, Faster.  Writing long form content is a wonderful way to present yourself as an expert in your field. From articles to books you can put more information in front of your potential clients.  While writing may seem simple, the editing process can be time consuming.   Mike Woeckener, a content expert, share...

Business and Sales Don't Have to Wait Until You're Perfect It's easy to think you have to have everything perfect before you go make sales. Well, our sales expert Alison Proffit disagrees.  In this chat she shares how showing up messy and imperfect will lead to more sales.   Why is that? Alison muses, "I think that it is more connecting for you to just be real to like, share the thi...

Gamify Your Money and Uncover Your Money Stories Through Play   Playing games is more than just a great way to kill time. When you play games with your money you uncover things lurking in the shadows.   Our cash flow expert, LeAndra Foster, talks about her love of money gams and what she learned recently during a game exercise.  She shares, "Well, money games help you uncover y...

Messaging Is Not About You. Learn To Speak To, Not At, Your Customers    When it comes to talking about what you do it can be easy to just say it in a way that you get. That may not work for your audience or potential customers.   Stephen Krausse, a business operations expert, shares his experience with missing the mark on messaging.   He explains that when you share...

No matter what your life will show up in your sales   Even the most professional human has stuff that takes them out of the game. Alison Proffit, as a sales expert, shares her thoughts on how to integrate your life and business. She shares," So dealing with conflict and helping guide people through working, when things are not going well in the rest of their life is something that I had to do...

Align Your Actions In Business to Your Goals   It's easy to have a full calendar in your business and still have zero clients. How is this possible you ask, well it happens when you take action for action's sake.   Mary Gaul, our productivity expert, shares how to better align your action to your goals. She muses, "[When] We're busy, we're taking actions, we're doing things in our b...

When you Use Your Money to Buy More Time You Are Really Buying Happiness.   As a small business owner you know that the work life is never over when you get home. In fact you have to hop into the family work so fast there's no time to breathe. What if you could have more time in your day? Would you be happier?  LeAndra Foster, a business cash flow expert, shares her ah-ha moments ar...

A Smaller Market Means Higher Quality Service   The term niche is thrown around a lot these days. All it really means is finding the best fit for your business. It's where your skills and your customers match the best.   Stephen Krausse, a expert on running businesses, shares how a niche helps you in more than just marketing.   He states,"But operationally, narrowing...

Business is Not About Business All the Time   You didn't start a business so you can work and be grumpy all the time. In this conversation between Alison Proffit and Flow CEO Megan Anderson, Alison opens up about why play is key to success.   She shares, "Don't look at your goal. And then think to yourself, oh, if I don't sit here and work, I'm not going to hit that goal. Um, becaus...

Consistency in Posting Starts One Step at A Time   A great social media strategy includes making a plan for posting regularly. Amanda Mundo, as a social strategist, cautions to start slow so you don't burn out before your strategy takes hold.    Her warning is, "The reason why we do that is that we see all of these amazing social media, people who like literally spend day and n...

Why Do You Connect to People?  It takes just a little bit of planning to do it right  Going to networking and meetings is a great way to meet people, but not all meetings are the same.  Some people are your clients and others are just, well, people.   Mary Gaul talks about her favorite way to have good follow up.  Her tip, "it's great to have kind of a little checklis...

Your Website is The Door to Your Business, So Make A Website People Want to Visit.   When was the last time you updated your business website? Well, there is more to it than just information on a screen these days.   Sabene Georges, our website expert, talks about how to use a website to serve your company.   She shares, "Besides purveying information, what is the pur...

Keep it Simple for Maximum Impact   When you write a social media post for your business, do not forget to include a Call to Action. A simple statement that pulls your audience into doing more with you.  Our writing expert, Mike Woeckener, shares his thoughts on what makes a good call out.   One tip he shares is, "You don't want to use the word click.  If you're doing...

Life Doesn't Stop For Business, But You Can!   Owning your own business is an amazing experience, and from time to time it's easy to forget you're a human not a machine.  Sometimes things in your personal life will happen and the business just needs to be paused for a day.   Alison Proffit, our sales expert, shares some deeply personal experience about how life can bring pauses...

Adulting is Hard Make it Easier, Change Your Money Story when You Get A Money Education.  Even research shows that only a few things really make you feel like an adult. LeAndra Foster, our cash flow expert, shares her thoughts on the taboos around money.   Leandra muses, "So, and the thing is, like, what makes us feel like adults? Well, we're allowed to have sex or you have money. O...

It's Ok to Take Time For You   Going into a sales call can be a nerve racking experience. You need your full self to be fully present or the sale will just fall apart.   Our sales expert, Alison Proffit, shares her feeling around how to handle a sales call when you're not feeling it.   Her advice, " Don't, don't sell when you're sad. Or you know, fill in the blank of...

Press Releases Are For Businesses of All Sizes  Are you launching a new product or holding a big event?  Major events in your business need a big splash of media.   Amanda Mundo shares her thoughts about using press releases as part of a big marketing campaign.    She shares,"we know people what they read the newspaper, they go to their local news stations website, an...

Your Customers Want to Know What Other's Think   Chatting on her favorite topic, Sabene Georges shares tips around what to put on your website.    Her favorite tip is to remember to include social proof. Sabene shares, "this usually comes in the form of reviews, you know, from Google, from the Better Business Bureau from, you know, any of those sorts of review sites that come o...

Make Your Writing Easy, Just Keep It All The Same   Ok, go ahead and get the groan out.  Feel better?  Being consistent is such a hot topic and one that causes, you guessed it, lots of groaning among business owners.   Mike Woeckener, our content expert, shares why it's important to show up the same everywhere.  "...you'll find if you're if you stay congruent and...