Sincerely, Future You

This ONE question — How can I make this part of business more fun? What do my people need right now? What would inspire them? What are they confused about? By asking “how can I make my business more fun?” I discovered that the rules of *professionalism* and money-making are all made up. In this week's minisode, let's dive in to make your business fun.   Join the waiting list for Hayppyning Se...

This ONE Question — to ask yourself to help you reach your business and life goals.  Am I trying to out the action a bad thought? Am I hoping that by reaching my goal, I will feel better? Am I giving the circumstances of my life all the power over how I feel? Reminder - Our Circumstances just exist. What our clients say. If our employees show up. Join the waiting list for Hayppyning Sessions...

This ONE Question — to ask yourself to help you reach your business and life goals.  Last week on Sincerely, Future You, we asked the high-quality question: Am I willing to be wrong to get what I want? That’s safe enough. After all - it’s just US being wrong. But what about other people?  What about your friends? What about your clients? What about that person who wrote you a bad review...

This ONE Question — to ask yourself to help you reach your business and life goals. Our brains want to be right. Makes sense. But what doesn’t make sense is that we’d rather be RIGHT than get what we want. Jessica McKinley has the ONE high-quality question entrepreneurs should ask themselves: I’m willing to be wrong to access a creative solution to whatever their obstacle is. Connect with her on I...

This ONE Question Entrepreneurs often struggle with the idea of raising their prices. So much so that even at times they feel guilty when informing their clients. If you find yourself doubting if you should raise your prices or if your clients could afford it, Jessica McKinley has the high-quality question you should be asking yourself instead: How is what I’m delivering an undercharge? Connect wi...

An episode of all the soon-to-be parents out there, or those just trying to take some time off as an entrepreneur. Jess explains how you can keep your business running and growing while giving yourself time for your new child... even when it can seem like an impossible task. Episode Highlights Taking months off from your business while still cutting yourself an honest paycheck: it can be a complex...

We all fail from time to time, but the important thing is how we handle the failure. Jess guides us on the proven way to turn your history of failure into inevitable success. Do you have a history of starting things, but not finishing? Jess breaks down how to re-wire your thinking to follow through to completion. The dangers of the "Failure Spiral." Being a leader in your industry or starting a bu...

Good and bad things happen to everyone, but how we react to them — positively or negatively — is in our hands. You can turn every circumstance into something that works for you instead of against you, and learn how to change your situation for the better. Today, on Sincerely Future You, Jessica McKinley talks about how in every situation you have options to create a plan and commit to a path forwa...

Bearing full responsibility for a company’s success or failure can cause many CEOs to take control and micromanage every single aspect of their business. Therefore, they don’t leave any room for improvement and growth. However, continuous improvement and asking high-quality questions is vital to becoming a masterful CEO. Today, on Sincerely, Future You, Jessica McKinley discusses different thought...

Boudoir photographer Melissa Miracolo talks with Coach Jess about the mindset shift that helped her create a successful business. She shares the thoughts and skills that helped her continue moving forward in the growth of her business when fear was telling her to retreat. They talk about scheduling to meet revenue goals, pivoting, and…overcoming the urge to “buffer.”  3 thoughts that helped M...

I think you might be confused. You know that when you start a business, you’re not supposed to be “good at the business part”… right? You’re just supposed to be an amazing florist Or artist Or photographer Or have a killer product Be the best YOU in your industry. But the way to make lots of money and still have a life you have time for? That part is just math. There is a process: To scheduling. T...

The Kardashians, Elon Musk, Warren Buffett—they’re all Titans in their own respective lanes. So how did they do it? Surely, not by staying inside the norm. In this episode, Coach Jess breaks down why your future self is not just fantasy. Here, Coach Jess explains why we dream, how we should reevaluate plans that don’t go as planned, and how we can use our fantasy and math brains as a combo. In thi...

So you're not selling enough. You're nowhere near your goal yet. What does that mean? Well, there shouldn't always be a meaning to it, and Coach Jess explains why. After getting married and a little recap of a recent nighttime brainstorm, Coach Jess helps us understand why you need to 'baby' your business, why some people grow fast while others grow incrementally, why you need to approach your goa...

When you’re willing to fail, you allow the chances of a failure. But, in that chance is also the possibility of you succeeding spectacularly. For Happster Sarah Klein, when it comes to ‘investing,’ she always gets nervous. And she felt just that when she thought about getting coached after experiencing a slow period in her business. After signing into Coach Jess’ Happyning Sessions , Sarah quickly...

“Celebrate small wins!” We hear that everywhere. But Coach Jess believes otherwise. After a shout-out for our Happster of the Week—Chelsea, Coach Jess shares a little about how she connects to her “mom-ness” as we draw nearer to mother’s day. After that, Coach explains what failure collection is, what its objectives are, and the reason why she doesn’t include celebrating the achievement of small g...

Procrastination affects most of us every day. It lags progress down. But you’d be surprised how differently procrastination influences our entrepreneurs out there. After sharing what we can learn from Sabrina’s experience, our Happster of the Week, in this episode of the Sincerely Future You, Coach Jess goes over how our brains sneakily procrastinate through buffering with productivity, going “IDK...

When you’re a CEO-Mom, how do you mother a child, and how do you manage a business simultaneously? After giving a shoutout to our Happster of the Week: Sarah Kaye, Coach Jess welcomes Kelsey Smith to talk about how you can design systems around your business and household as you welcome a child into your life. Here, Kelsey shares how she struggled in business as a new mom, the importance of suppor...

If you’re clueless about where your numbers lie on a monthly basis, for Coach, it’s just as good as leaving money on the table. In this episode of the Sincerely, Future YouPodcast , after shouting out, Erika—our Happster of the Week—Coach Jess explains how knowing your numbers in business actually helps make you more money. Coach Jess explains how earning more money isn’t the only way to become a...

Are you ditching the driver's seat and leaving too much of it on your tools? After giving a shoutout to the podcast's listeners—who aren't clients yet—and the Happster of the Week, Coach Jess raises the questions that will keep you away from self-sabotaging. Here, Coach Jess reinforces how you can safeguard yourself from analysis paralysis, where perfectionist tendencies come from, and the type of...

In this episode of the Sincerely, Future YouPodcast , Coach Jess talks about three examples of how people-pleasing is sneaking up on you and affecting your scalability. After listening to one of the podcast’s episodes, one listener was shocked by what Coach Jess discloses in her podcast. So, are we revealing salaries on the podcast now? Here, Coach Jess also talks about how vital transparency to b...

There’s been a monumental shift in the workplace in recent years; people are quitting their jobs to start their own business. In fact, according to Google search queries in 2021 “the world searched for how to start a business more than how to get a job”. However, leaving your corporate job can be scary. Today, on the podcast Jessica speaks with Happester who just launched her own entrepreneurial j...

In this episode of the Sincerely, Future YouPodcast , Coach Jess sits down with Emily Fitzgibbon to break down how mindset plays in your branding in the digital space. Branding is what you and your clients feel about your presence on the internet or in person. If you’re having difficulty pinpointing that feeling, that may already be a signal for something. Today, Emily explains the areas of brandi...

In this episode of the Sincerely, Future YouPodcast , Coach Jess talks about three common reasons and examples why someone's thoughts aren't matching your thoughts. After giving a quick and important announcement on the closing of her Happyning Sessions , Coach Jess explains what time mastery and money mastery are and what's unnecessary to achieving them. Later, she also explains why it's importan...

He was 12, his mother was murdered by his father: He asked his future self for help. Today, Jessica McKinley is joined by Collier Landry, the host of the true-crime podcast, Moving Past Murder . They talk about what it means to have integrity and resilience while facing trauma. And how someone can navigate the boundaries between a personal story and business, and the angles that show how the impac...

Is hiring a bookkeeper still necessary if you’re already personally tracking your finance? In this episode of the Sincerely, Future YouPodcast , Coach Jess is joined with Natalie Wainger to talk about how to best work with a bookkeeper. After Coach Jess shares a toothbrushing experience that we can relate to how we handle business and finance, Natalie explains how mindset and numbers work together...