How She Did That

When you hear the word “branding,” do you automatically think of color palettes and font pairings? I have to admit that I do, but my guest today, Caroline Pigott is going to share with us why your brand message needs to come before all the pretty things. She is an Ideal Client Attraction Consultant and Business Coach whose passion it is to help service-based businesses feel excited about their vis...

Dubsado is all the rage in many virtual support circles. We’re going to find out from today’s guest, Carrie Flynn of Virtual Simplicity, what she loves most about this CRM and how best to use it. She helps entrepreneurs and business owners who are overwhelmed with #allthethings learn how to simplify their businesses and lives. Carrie is obsessed with all things systems and automation and loves hel...

Niching down is one of those things that everyone is asking about. It is something that can improve your business all around. My guest today, Sharice Enis, recently niched down into her target market. She is the tech-savvy content creator, strategist, and entrepreneur behind Sharice & Co. She helps coaches, consultants, and service providers turn their knowledge into online courses and more. W...

When I first started my business, taking a vacation was really hard. When you’re not in your business, you feel like you’re not serving your clients and have to figure out a way to continue working while on vacation to keep them happy. I want to help you figure out what will work best for you to take vacations, so you don’t feel chained to your desk and you have the opportunity to take a break whe...

One of the biggest ways to stand out as a Virtual Assistant is through providing new clients with a client welcome packet. We’re going to talk to my guest today, Amy Demone, about the importance of a client welcome packet. She has designed marketing plans, built sales funnels, strategized webinars, acted as a customer service unicorn, created membership websites, and so much more. Creating a stell...

If you are a teacher, or someone who is building your virtual assistance business and not looking to make it your full-time job, then this is the episode for you. My guest today is Stacey Ogden, founder of Side Hustle Teachers and creator of Side Hustle Summer Camp. Her mission is to help teachers build businesses outside of the classroom, to provide them with financial security, alternative means...

When faced with an all too common decision to stay home with her new baby or return to a fast-paced and demanding career that she loved, my guest today knew there had to be a way to have both. Shannon Miles is an advocate for people to have the career and flexibility they crave to keep their priorities in a healthy order. She is the CEO and co-founder of Belay, a staffing company that serves busin...

You don’t need to create brand new content all the time, because not every single eyeball is on your content all the time. Repurposing your client’s content will become your best friend! My guest today, Tamika Auwai is the CEO of Orisha Creative, a full-service digital marketing agency serving 7-figure business owners in the personal growth and personal development field. Tamika is here to talk ab...

April was one heck of a month at The Launch Guild! In this BONUS episode, I'm not only celebrating our success but also sharing with you some of the key lessons I learned from experiencing our highest grossing month ever! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today, Lanie Lamarre from Miss #GSD, helps overwhelmed service-based bosses quit crying in the shower. She shows her clients how to use systems in a way that their time, energy, and focus are aligned to their actual goals and desires. One of the ways she helps her clients with this is by using Airtable. If you’ve never heard of Airtable, in short, it’s a system that allows you to see all...

Profit First is a business financial management system that has taken the world by storm. My guest today, Lynne Somerman, is going to share with us how to start implementing this simple technique into our own businesses in order to improve our profit margins. She is a financial coach who helps entrepreneurs feel less stupid and sad about money by teaching practical skill building, habit changes, a...

For many virtual support professionals, sales conversations are not second nature. My guest today, Renee Hribar, explains how there is something missing when it comes to online sales, and what we can do about it. She is a sales coach who has sold millions of dollars worth of products and services and has also trained thousands to sell for the first time. She is known in her industry as a fun, ener...

Are you ready to pack everything up and take it on the road? My guest today, Esther Inman, is a full-time digital nomad currently living with her son and veteran husband in Bali, Indonesia. She runs a 6-figure agency, with a team of eight virtual workers, and provides online training programs that help other women launch their virtual work life too. Esther is going to share her journey to living a...

Creating content that attracts and nurtures your ideal client can be a lot easier than we sometimes make it. My guest today, Abby Herman, is a content strategist and content creator for service-based B2Bs and is passionate about helping businesses grow their own online visibility with the right content at the right time. She and I met at a mastermind retreat where Amy Porterfield mentioned that wh...

We have an amazing opportunity to use our businesses and platforms to do so much good. However, we oftentimes get stuck in not knowing how to show up in the world and be the change we want to see. My guest today, Kelly Ruta is a psychotherapist turned personal mastery expert for female disruptors. Kelly tells us what a disruptor is and explains how we can become change agents in the world, to brea...

Asana is a powerful task and project management tool that is one of the most widely used in the online business space. My guest today, Emma Perols, is an Online Business Manager who runs Get Organized with Emma. She helps her clients go from reactive to relaxed through the simple, but effective, business systems and helping them manage their daily operations. Simply put, Emma is a systems powerhou...

You may be wondering what sales strategy and money mindset have to do with one another. A lot of the times when we make money, we feel like it’s not safe to do so because of what we learned about money when we were younger. My guest today, Erin Lindstrom, is here to explain what sales strategy has to do with money mindset. Erin is a sales strategist and money mindset coach for high-vibe female ent...

As service providers, we often spend so much time improving our clients’ businesses, that we forget to take care of our own. We get overwhelmed and are not sure where to start. We are so great at supporting others that we don’t realize we need to get support and be strategic for our businesses as well. My guest today is Natalie Gingrich, an Operations Consultant, and Certified Project Manager. She...

After graduating from college with honors in communication studies and securing a well-paying corporate job, Kara Fillion started seeing ads on Facebook about people working from their laptop and traveling around the world. She found herself determined to make this her own reality and started putting in the hard work. Less than a year later, she hit a monumental milestone in her business and had h...

I have a super special guest today...my husband! Scott and I have been married for almost 2 years now and together for almost 4. When I first started my online business, he was pretty foreign to the whole thing but, he's always been super supportive. I wanted to have him on the podcast today, firstly, because it's Valentines Day and #HandHearts, #Sweetness, but secondly, because I get asked pretty...

Can you imagine running your business while homeschooling AND working a 9-5 job?! I sure can’t but our guest today, Tarin LaRoux does just that. I know that the word “supermom” sometimes gets a bad however, I think Tarin has earned that cape. You’ll hear from our episode how Tarin keeps everything organized and “how doing all the things” doesn’t mean you have to do them alone. (we get to talk a lo...

The land of Pinterest has busted wide open as an online platform brimming with opportunity for business owners looking to find other ways to target their ideal clients. And where there’s opportunity for business owners, there’s also opportunity for the virtual team who supports them. My guest today, Monica Draudt took her own love for Pinterest, learned what it could do in the world of business, a...

I recorded this episode out of an abundance of joy over the relationships built and communities I've become a part of over the last two years in my business. I believe that, if you want something in your biz, you gotta go and get it and that includes friendships. Let's face it, the online space can be a lonely place and so today's episode is all about how I found my tribe of friends online and bui...

When it comes to mindset for online business owners, Heather Gray is the swift kick in the pants we all need. Heather Gray is a clinically trained Mindset and Leadership coach at Choose to Have it All.com who I have had the pleasure of hearing her speak on multiple occasions. Her “tell it like it is approach is always encouraging (even if it stings a bit at the time). In this episode on Imposter S...

This month marks exactly one year since I went into business full time for myself and, while there have been many "unexpecteds" in my entrepreneurial journey, one of the biggest ones is how going from working a full time 9-5 to working from home would effect my body. One thing you may not know about me is that, before I started The Launch Guild, I was the full time Health and Well Being Director f...