Small Business Straight Talk

I give you a behind-the-scenes tour of my personal, color-coded calendar as I divulge the detailed strategies I use to schedule my time that helps me keep my life in balance and my business running smoothly. What You'll Discover In This Episode: ✔ My Underlying Scheduling Methodology ✔ Why I Schedule In Three-Month Increments ✔ The Crucial Time Block Preventing Me From Being A Bottleneck ✔ The Hol...

I sit down with Coach, Speaker, & Entrepreneur Rob Cressy to discuss how you can show up with the intention to live by design instead of by default and make everything you do a creation-of-you instead of a have-to-do, thus accomplishing self mastery which can only benefit your business and overall life. What You'll Discover In This Episode: ✔ What Self Mastery Is & Why It's A Huge Component Of You...

I dive into strategies to fall back in love with your business because let's be honest… just like a romantic relationship, your love for your business can fizzle out if you don't put the work in. What You'll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Why It's Important To Love Your Business ✔ How To Create A Business You Want To Be In Every Day ✔ What You Should Be Focusing On Changing Up ✔ The Secret Sauce To L...

I sit down with Luxe Your Business Mentor and creator of the LuxeSales System, Shayla Boyd-Gill, to dive into how you can truly sabotage your business if you fail to equip yourself with a CEO mindset and couple it with sound business strategy. We go on to discuss having radical faith in your ability to succeed to open up all sorts of possibilities and desired outcomes for your life and business. ...

I dive into the topic of habits, how they show up in your life and business, and go on to discuss how to identify whether the habits in your rinse & repeat routines are serving you well or sabotaging your success and what to do about it. What You'll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Why It's Necessary To Get Off Auto-Pilot ✔ The Best Way To Determine If Your Habits Are Serving Or Sabotaging You ✔ How To...

I dive into one of the biggest reason business owners are constantly overwhelmed - they're simply taking on too many projects, meetings, partnerships, team members, and clients that aren't a 'hell yes,' which forces them to spend too much time, energy, and money trying to make them work - and discuss what to do instead.  In this episode of Productivity Straight Talk , I dive into the issue of taki...

I sit down with Certified Life Coach Victoria Albina to discuss how to stop codependent, perfectionist, and people-pleasing thought patterns from making you feel anxious and stuck and how to transform such thoughts to improve your relationships and your business. What You'll Discover In This Episode: ✔ What Codependent Thinking & How It Shows Up In Your Business ✔ Ways To Break Free From Codepende...

I sit down with the Co-Founder of MeasurementMarketing.io, Chris Mercer, to dive into the world of analytics and discuss how you can effectively measure your marketing to tune into exactly what your customers want.  What You'll Discover In This Episode: ✔ What Metrics You Should Be Measuring & Why ✔ Strategies For Arming Yourself With Analytics ✔ Why To Use Google Analytics Specifically ✔ The Most...

I provide strategies for creating, implementing, and abiding by a Word Of The Year so you can consistently take intentional action on your goal throughout the new year and beyond. What You'll Discover In This Episode: ✔️Why You Need A Word Of The Year ✔️ What To Do Once You've Chosen It ✔️ Strategies For Getting The Most Out Of Your Word ✔️ Tips For Staying Laser Focused On It ✔️So Much More! I ho...

Planning your year is one of the most important activities you can do as a business owner because it helps you set the overall direction of your business and determine the actions you must take to achieve your goals. It can lso be a very difficult activity if you aren;t sure what you're doing! That's why I created the Business Blueprint Full-Day Workshop in which I help you plan your entire year i...

I  walk you through how I recently used the insights feedback loop to figure out what I don't want to do in my business in 2022, what I want to double-down on, and what I want to try. The insights feedback loop is a major component in my strategic business planning and I'm confident it could help you get unstuck and execute a solid business plan, too! What You'll Discover In This Episode: ✔ What M...

I dive into the reality that you can't show up as your best and most productive self for your business if you can't keep your eyes open and discuss what you can be doing instead to gift yourself more energy, less stress, and greater focus throughout the holiday season and the rest of the year! What You'll Discover In This Episode: ✔ How You Sabotage Yourself Throughout Holiday Season  ✔ What You S...

I dive into how taking time to gain clarity on what hasn't been working in your business  this year and cleaning the slate of that baggage this month can help you start fresh in 2022.  What You'll Discover In This Episode: ✔ An Easy Way To Reclaim A Lot Of Time & Energy ✔ 3 Powerful Questions To Ask To Gain Clarity  ✔ What You Need To Leave In 2021 ✔ Ideas For How You Can Start Fresh in 2022 ✔ So...

I sit down with wealth and abundance coach for entrepreneurial women, Emily King, to dive into how your money mindset blocks may be holding you back from building an amazing relationship with money, and what you can do about it to make lots of money, not feel guilty about it, and live your best life ever. What You'll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Common Mindset Blocks Small Business Owners Experienc...

I sit down for a Zoom chat with my closest business owner friends to record our 2nd annual Friendsgiving episode. Join Amanda Berlin, Carol Cox, Hilary Hendershott, Jamie Lieberman, LuAnn Nigara, Jessica Rodriguez, Vita Vygovska, and me around the virtual Friendsgiving table as we indulge in a friendly conversation about all things business and different perspectives and experiences come into play...

I sit down for an entrepreneurial case study with the owner, president, and Principal Architect for Montebello Architecture & Design, Michael Costantino, to learn about his business, discuss the lessons he's learned, and dive into the leadership strategies he used to crush all of his 2021 goals by February. What You'll Discover In This Episode: ✔ The Challenges Experienced When He Grew His Team  ✔...

I dive into the reasons so many entrepreneurs feel alone in their businesses despite being surrounded by a team and what they can do about it to minimize the overwhelm, reduce the loneliness, and get the support they need to run a thriving business. What You'll Discover In This Episode: ✔ How I Know You're Not Alone ✔ Ways To Get The Support You Need ✔ The Biggest Change You Need To Make In Your B...

I dive into tips for auditing, purging, and filling gaps in your tech stack so it stops overwhelming you, you stop wasting hard-earned money on apps and programs you don't need, and you're able to run your business more efficiently and productively. What You'll Discover In This Episode: ✔ The Benefits Of A Tech Stack Detox ✔ A Simple System That Will Set You Up For Success ✔ How Often You Should A...

I dive into the importance of having a vision for your business and a vision for your personal life.  I also discuss everything you need to know about creating a vision board to effectively inspire you on your good days and stressed-to-the-max days, and keep you on track toward your goals! What You'll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Ways Vision Boards Can Successfully Transform Into Your Reality ✔ How...

I walk you through better ways of managing your projects and ideas so you can get unstuck, accomplish everything your business needs from you more efficiently, and achieve greater success. What You Will Discover: ✔ 3 Reasons You're Taking On Too Many Projects ✔ What Ripples That Causes Throughout Your Business ✔ A Big Lie You Should Stop Telling Yourself ✔ Strategies To Take Your Projects To The F...

I sit down with a leading global expert on organizational culture, engagement, and retention, Corry Robertson, to dive into effective leadership strategies that deliver results, build strong corporate cultures, and make change work. What You'll Discover In This Episode: ✔ The Intersection Between Self-Awareness And How We Show Up As Leaders ✔ How To Fill Your Trust Tank For More Effective Delegati...

If you're a regular listener of Productivity Straight Talk , you might have noticed that no episodes have been published for a long time. I know from emails, direct messages, and reviews that many of you love listening to this podcast first thing on Monday mornings to start your week off on a productive high note. If you were disappointed by the lack of new episodes showing up in your feed, I'm ve...

I sit down with PR and Marketing Consultant Lauren Salaun to discuss her journey from exhausted workaholic to successful entrepreneur that enabled her to fit her work into her life (instead of the other way around) while following her passion and presenting herself authentically. Lauren dives into business lessons she learned, energy tapping, pitching strategies, and all the ways your greatest vis...

I dive into some of my favorite task management strategies I use in my business and discuss how they can easily be implemented into your personal life to reduce stress and accomplish more. What You'll Discover In This Episode: ✔ 5 Fundamental Task Management Strategies For Your Personal Life  ✔ What Those Strategies Look Like In Your Business ✔ Easy-To-Implement Ideas For Streamlining Personal Tas...

I dive into the common mentality among business owners all or nothing, now or never and flush out how as paradigm shift on that kind of thinking can greatly serve you and your business by helping you make progress in the gray area which stands between where you are now and where you want to be in relation to your goals. What You'll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Ways All Or Nothing, Now Or Never Show...