Stacking Your Team | Leadership Advisor for Women Entrepreneurs

Natalie Eckdahl , CEO and host of the award-winning BizChix Podcast, joins Shelli Warren as they coach and train women entrepreneurs to grow their business and create more profit. On today's episode they join forces to uncover 5 major mistakes they help their clients course correct through their methods, frameworks, and guidance.  The members of the Leadership Lab are course correcting mistakes an...

Dr. Traci Baxley is a consultant, coach, and educator.  She is dedicated to supporting families, organizations, and corporations in developing inclusive practices. She is also the founder of Social Justice Parenting and as an educator for over 30 years, her philosophy embraces and teaches others to adopt a full-on radical love approach to parenting, for themselves, their children, and humanity. Be...

Running a successful business, a team, a home, and schooling for your kids is a lot to handle right now. Your kids are resilient. They will recover from this unusual year of pandemic upset. But what about you? As you're planning what support you'll need for your family this fall, don't forget yourself. Now is the time to invest in a coach! But before you spend a dime on a coach or join a group coa...

Carrie Meo is a CEO of 2 businesses and a VP of another. At first glance you'd think her businesses wouldn't have any similarities, but they actually do.  Her leadership spans across a legacy car dealership with 13 locations, to a lovely day spa, to property development in the Bangor, Maine area.  In this episode, Carrie shares how she's been able to lead her teams through the many pandemic challe...

Annie Mori is the owner of PlaySense, a service that provides occupational therapy for kids in Los Angeles' South Bay Communities. She is also a member of the Leadership Lab. Like many business owners, she has been focused on her pandemic pivot and setting up team structure. This has allowed her to have the time and the energy to expand her second business, one where she mentors other therapists o...

Meet another member of our Leadership Lab. Rachelle Davis is a fully-licensed Speech Pathologist and the CEO of Speak Speech Therapy, a Staffing Agency for SLP's. She comes from a long line of entrepreneurs. There are many impressive things about how Rachelle has built her business. One of which is how she has consistently gotten clients without building a website. She instead focused on the quali...

In this episode, I shine a light on Marsha Hansen, one of our Leadership Lab members. Her manifesto is the idea of "starting out with the end in mind" which has led her to be the CEO of a successful medical billing company. She also wants to pay it forward and is branding herself as the go-to mentor for others that want to start their own medical billing business.  Stay tuned as she shares the str...

Colleen Ganjian is a seasoned educational consultant and a nationally-recognized authority in the field of college admissions. Her company, DC College Consulting, works with students and parents to navigate their way through today's college admission process. She is also a member of Leadership Lab. In today's episode, she shares how the pandemic has affected her revenue and how goodwill has been t...

No one enjoys hosting tough conversations but as a business owner, you know that it's not only important but a requirement to effectively lead your team.  In this episode, I share about how opening up about your frustrations during those tough conversations can lead to progress for you and your entire team. Be sure to check out the tips and language prompt to get you started. Join the BizChix Comm...

For most entrepreneurs, having a waitlist is a dream come true. But what do you do when you have more clients than time, and you find yourself working longer and longer hours to accommodate your client? One solution is to delegate. But how do you ensure the same level or service and maintain the same goodwill and relationship? Natalie Eckdahl is my co-host this week. She and I have a unique insigh...

Jessie Ginsburg is joining me today as my co-host and together we are sharing our recommendations.  We are going deep into a revealing conversation about personal development including fun stuff like documentaries, candles, speed reading, apps and more. Join the BizChix Community Jessie's Book Recommendations: Are You Fully Charged? By Tom Rath Limitless by Jim Kwik Essentialism: Your Guide To The...

Los Angeles native Stephanie Pitts is a podcaster, a traveler, mom to two wildly popular furbabies, and she's been building her team. She also happens to be my longest client, since January 2019. Listen in to this week's episode as we talk about how she's leaning into providing feedback to her team and expanding her capabilities to serve even more clients all while keeping a keen eye on hitting he...

During this pandemic, you've been taking care of your family and your business, but now that the restrictions are starting to lift in your area, are you ready to welcome everyone back to your business? We're talking more than PPE and hand sanitizer here. Use this primer to kickstart you into creating your doors open plan. I'll also give you a visualization technique to help you find the gaps in yo...

Have you ever seen someone you know featured on TV and wondered how you too can up your publicity game so you can elevate your brand presence?  On today's show, we have a mass-market media expert, Amanda Berlin joining us. She helps people craft their stories and position themselves as someone people need to know across a variety of media platforms.  Are you wanting to expand your reach beyond you...

She's a mom of two toddlers, an advocate for children on the autism spectrum, a Quickstart, and a book lover. Jessie Ginsburg talks to Shelli about her journey, the ups and downs, and how she is repositioning her business during the pandemic.  Jessie started her practice right after grad school going against the advice of her professors. Six years into operating her practice, she was all set to ma...

Leading through change can be tough. I imagine you're having some good days and some bad days, and some days where you don't even know how you're doing. All of this change and the notion that you have to be the one with answers is so draining on your mental health, your physical health, your spiritual health and of course the health of your business. On today's show, Shelli serves up some discover...

When your three-year-old twins are only 10 months older than your business, you're mostly a solo mom, you've surpassed the multi-seven figure mark, your team needs some restructuring, and you need to sleep , what should you do? Well, you ask for help. On today's show, you'll meet a one-to-one client of Shelli's who is leading an incredible Pediatric Therapy clinic in San Diego. She's young, she's...

Readjusting your business model, your team, and how you lead has been the forefront of your focus lately, but what do you do with all this new information and new insight? On today's show, Shelli walks you through a method that we use extensively in the Leadership Lab. This tool provides clarity and a roadmap to follow, even during these unpredictable times where everyone is doing the "pandemic pi...

How are you fairing right now? Are you feeling like you're walking around with wobbly knees because of this disruptive shift in your business that you did not ask for? Are you exhausted trying to juggle eldercare, childcare, customer care, and suddenly, virtual team care? It's a fact that some businesses are thriving, while some businesses have been turned on their head. People are buying, people...

Has the current pandemic hit your bottom line and now you find yourself in that uncomfortable situation where you believe you need to downsize your team? It's not what you planned for. You've hung on as long as you could. You may even have gone into debt to cover payroll for a while now, and it's time to make changes to your team. On today's show, Shelli talks about a variety of ways you can reduc...

We are celebrating 100 episodes by sharing a behind the scenes look at BizChix and how we've leaned into defining core roles for everyone i n our team, and why you should too. It's a mini-training on core roles today that answers that age-old question of " how can I get my team members to stop thinking like employees and start thinking like business owners? " Don't forget, you can now listen to th...

We're going to talk about the simplest way to give feedback to your team members. Our clients often tell us that not knowing what to say is usually the first stumbling block that keeps them from giving feedback and confronting their team members. So, in this episode, Shelli shares a few examples of real-life situations where the leader needs to give coaching to their team member. You'll learn what...

You've got a business, you've got a team helping you grow the business, you've got things you need to tell your team, and they have things to share with you and their peers. Conversations, project plans, customer problems, staffing issues, questions and answers, follow up from action plans… it can all be overwhelming, but it doesn't have to be. There are tools that can help you nurture self-suffic...

Hosting your first team meeting can be scary, especially if you have been "making it all happen" through emails, voice recording apps, or quick conversations in the hallway. But how effective are those "drive by" meetings? Our guess is not very! Well, don't worry. Shelli is here to help you with a mini-training session just for YOU, that leader who has not yet hosted a team meeting… but you're rea...

What should you listen for when interviewing a candidate? What kind of questions should you ask? Shelli is serving up some of her favorite, compelling interview questions. These questions will help you use facts along with your intuition to shortlist your candidates. She also shares some insights about what you should be listening for in the interview – what your candidates don't tell you is just...