Success with Soul

You don't have to look too far to see how often entrepreneurs who are practitioners of one kind or another transition to creating a mentoring business to help other practitioners in their field. I've done it (and love it!), and o ur guest today is another example of someone who has made the move from practitioner to mentor — and who has learned how to create a whole other thriving branch of her bu...

There is no getting around it: building and leading a team is hard, hard work. Even if you're a charismatic people-person. Even if you've managed people inside a corporate environment before. Even if you understand in concept what makes a team great. There's just so much energy and emotion that goes into creating this group of people who are helping you carry out the vision of your business, and w...

One of the unofficial mantras of Team KK and the work we do with women entrepreneurs is, We're not meant to do this alone. We need each other, and we need a solid team we can depend on.  And perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than what goes into finding and hiring a Chief Operations Officer (COO).  Your COO is really your right-hand woman — the person who keeps things running, who makes hiring...

Team values are easy to think of and post on your website or in job descriptions. But they can be tough to actually live out and embody — especially if your team is spread out across multiple continents.  In today's episode, you'll meet Olivia Blase, our Operations Assistant who joins us every day from Madrid, Spain.  Olivia and Indira dive into what it takes to build a healthy remote team culture...

There tends to be a kind of wonderful synchronicity to finding the right people for your team. And often, I don't even find them. They find me — which feels like even more of a gift. That's how it worked with Rachel Silves, who is currently our Program and Marketing Coordinator at Team KK. Rachel brought more than a decade of entrepreneurship with her when she decided to make the transition to bei...

As y'all know, vulnerability and transparency are some of my top core values. And I have not been shy about my struggles with learning how to be a leader. I have had to learn how to hire and onboard and train and retain good people. Building a team culture and making sure we have all of our systems in place — SOPs, project management, communication tools, how to delegate properly, how to make sure...

Welcome to the Success With Soul podcast! Today we're talking about a topic we've never talked about before: how to sell an online service business. So if you've got a service-based business that you're thinking of selling, or you just want to know more about how to build a sellable asset — today's conversation is for you!  I've talked about the emotional journey of feeling "done" with my first bl...

Today, we're republishing one of my most-listened-to episodes about course creation. So if you're wondering what it's REALLY like to create and launch an online course, this one is for you. I have tried, failed, and succeeded — and today I'm re-sharing what I learned. And hopefully these insights can help you when it's YOUR turn to launch an online course! PLUS — this is it: the cart is closing on...

Welcome to the Success With Soul podcast! In honor of Digital Course Academy opening up, we've been doing an amazing series all about online courses for the last few weeks. Today we're featuring a brand new conversation with Amy Porterfield. And this time, we're diving into the mental game of creating and selling courses: letting go of perfectionism, getting out of your own way, and giving yoursel...

Welcome to the Success With Soul podcast! Today I'm re-sharing an episode from last year all about how to create passive income using online courses, an evergreen sales model, and finding the right tools to help you reliably put elements of your biz on autopilot. I had always heard about the magical allure of the evergreen model. The possibility of not having to live launch sounded amazing .  An e...

Curious about how to create an online course that actually sells? Today we're re-sharing a conversation with the world's top expert on online courses, Amy Porterfield. She offers her best tips on how to build and launch a digital course, why the time is NOW, and why the teacher should be YOU (yes, you)!  So you've heard all about the benefits of creating and selling digital courses: they boost you...

Welcome back to our regular Success With Soul Podcast series! This week we're sharing a conversation I had with Amy Porterfield last year about how to create online courses that feel great to make, natural to share, and easy to sell. She shares her wisdom on how to determine which approach to selling is right for you.  When you're considering offering an online course, you need two big things.  Fi...

Welcome back to our regular Success With Soul Podcast series! This week we're sharing a conversation I had with Jacques Hopkins last year about how to reliably generate passive income by strategically using online courses and evergreen funnels. While online courses certainly aren't the only way to generate passive income, they do offer a unique way to serve your target audience and build your busi...

Welcome back to our regular Success With Soul Podcast series! This week I'm sharing a powerhouse conversation with some of the most alive, wise, and capable women in business that I know: Tarzan Kay, Jordan Gill, Lattice Hudson, and Ashley Gartland. In this conversation, we get to the heart of what it is to build a business that truly works for you by designing one-of-a-kind hybrid offers that dee...

Welcome back to our regular Success With Soul Podcast series! This week I'm sharing a special recording of a VIP roundtable discussion I had with Molly Cahill, Caroline Fausel, and Sara Jane Sandy. These are three of my favorite women in business who are also early adopters and students in the Success With Soul Incubator.   If you've ever wondered what brings women to the Success With Soul Incubat...

Welcome back to our regular Success With Soul Podcast series! You probably hear the term a lot, especially in the online biz world — but what IS organic traffic? Today I'm sharing a popular training that shows you how you can use organic traffic and other outside-the-box techniques to sustainably scale your business, without burnout, exhaustion, or "hustle."    There's a lot of understandable conf...

Welcome back to our regular Success With Soul Podcast series! Today I'm sharing a popular training I did a while ago called Six Systems for Six-Figure CEOs. In it, I go over the foundational pillars of successful entrepreneurs — and how you can implement them now in your online business to start earning real money in a way that's sustainable, reliable, and sane. A lot of women think that there are...

Welcome to our new Soulpreneur 411 series — where I answer your questions about building a business that serves your whole life. Today I'm answering a question about how I got into business development and marketing as an entrepreneur.   This week's question comes from Alicia.   She asks, How did you get into this business development world? How did you figure out that that was what you were great...

Welcome to our new Soulpreneur 411 series — where I answer your questions about building a business that serves your whole life. Today we're taking an honest look at something that a lot of entrepreneurs naturally struggle with. We love novelty and new challenges. It's normal to feel bored with work sometimes. How should we handle it?    This week's question comes from Jessica Cha of Basic Sunday....

Welcome to our new Soulpreneur 411 series — where I answer your questions about building a business that serves your whole life. Today we're looking at the viability of blogging in this current economic environment and if it's still possible to make money from blogging.    This week's question comes from Giselle.   She wants to know: I hear a lot of stories, including yours, of bloggers who are ma...

Welcome to our new Soulpreneur 411 series — where I answer your questions about building a business that serves your whole life. Today we're tackling the age-old struggle for women entrepreneurs: How do we find time to get our businesses off the ground while tending to all of the other invisible labor that so many women do every week?   This week's question comes from Ana, who is a student in our...

Welcome to our new Soulpreneur 411 series — where I answer your questions about building a business that serves your whole life. Today we're talking about why I am such a huge fan of Kartra as an all-in-one marketing platform, even when you're just starting out. This week's question comes from Traci at TraciNicoleSmith.com .  She says: I started my learning portal on Kajabi. And I noticed that you...

085: [Soulpreneur 411] How much content do you need to launch the website you're working on?   Welcome to our new Soulpreneur 411 series — where I answer your questions about building a business that serves your whole life. Today we've got a recording of a live coaching call! We're talking about how to know when you have enough content to "go live" with your blog and all the pressure we put on our...

Welcome to our new Soulpreneur 411 series — where I answer your questions about building a business that serves your whole life. Today I'm offering tips on email marketing to your list after you've been radio silent for a while.   This week's question comes from Stacy Karen of No Fuss Natural.  She wants to know: How should I approach emailing my list after I've been MIA for a really long time? Do...

Welcome to our new Soulpreneur 411 series — where I answer your questions about building a business that serves your whole life. Today we're talking about batching work, creating a schedule, and using an edit calendar to manage your blog posts so you can get out of stress mode when it comes to regular creation and production.  This week our question comes in from Amanda .  She wants to know: What...