The Balanced Business Owner

How will you know when your business vision changes? In my experience, it starts with feeling less motivated to work in your business. Which leads to feeling unclear and confused about what you’re doing in your business. Which leads to doing less marketing and sales, signing less clients, and seeing a drop in your revenue. Ultimately, it leads to feeling stuck in your business.  When this sta...

The transition between summer and fall can feel really hard for many business owners, especially if there are kids living at home with you. That’s why I highly recommend you take a vacation (or staycation) every September.  Listen to this podcast episode to learn how this benefits you, your business, and your clients. You’ll also learn different things you can do during your time off to rest,...

We all have frustrations in our lives, but when we feel that way about the same things over and over again, it can feel extra frustrating. The good news is, you can do something about this. In your business…maybe you’re having trouble finding clients, finding time to work, or taking a profit or income regularly.  In your family…maybe you’re having trouble finding activities that everyone enjo...

Interested in scheduling an amazing date with your spouse? Listen to this podcast episode for inspiration as I share a recent surprise date I planned for my husband and I doing something a bit uncommon, yet romantic and relaxing.  You don’t have to let the boring daily life stuff take over and keep you feeling stressed out. Instead, you can intentionally step back from all of that and truly e...

You can find balance between your business, your family, and yourself. In order to find that balance, I recommend six very specific steps for you to follow. Listen to this podcast episode to learn the six steps to achieve work-life balance and maintain it in the long run.   These six steps are the exact steps I teach inside the Balanced Business Owner Coaching Program, which you are invited t...

You are working hard to create a successful business and provide for your family, but you might not feel like you’re enjoying yourself on a daily basis. Listen to this podcast episode to learn three tips that will help you enjoy the life you worked so hard to create. We’ll talk about schedule management, simplifying and systematizing your business to hire help, and mindset management. All three of...

The words ‘schedule management’ sound boring to most people. I get it. But if you want to achieve work-life balance, you’ve got to get control over your schedule and how you spend your time.  Listen to this podcast episode to learn 4 ways to effective schedule management. We’ll talk about your preferred way of doing things, your vacations, time off, and appointments, normalizing and communica...

Considering a business pivot? Listen to this podcast episode first. I share some important lessons I’ve learned over the past several weeks in my own business. The lessons I’ve learned will help you make the right decision for you. I have been focusing on work-life balance coaching for the past year and a half, and I started to pivot my business over the past several weeks towards helping people c...

When you’re in the process of actively growing your business, it requires more from you mentally, physically, and emotionally. That’s why I highly recommend you reduce the negative noise in your life during business growth phases, or maybe even forever! If your social media feed or podcast app is filled with negativity, it could cause you to feel pretty terrible, which could also cause you to slow...

Did you feel like a different person when you worked in the corporate world? Many people felt that way. I definitely did! Some corporate environments “train” employees to fit in and do things their way. But when you become a business owner, it’s important to shed that programming and get clear on who you are and how you want to operate your business. When you lean into your own strengths and inter...

You already have a lot going on in your life and business, and when you decide to begin the process of creating your first scalable offer, you’ll have even more going on in your life and business. It’s important to plan - in phases - your sales funnel, so you can manage everything without overwhelm.  In my own business, I recently planned my sales funnel for my group coaching program in two p...

When you want to grow your business by creating a scalable offer, you will feel self-doubt and imposter syndrome. But those emotions don’t have to stop you in your tracks.  Start by reminding yourself that creating a scalable offer isn’t your only option. There are four main ways you can grow your business…you can raise your prices, sign more clients, hire people and build a team, create your...

One of the biggest complaints I hear from business owners is the amount of time and energy they spend on creating content for their marketing - more specifically, content they feel like no one is seeing. This can feel very frustrating! Listen to this podcast episode as Andrea talks with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Consultant Stephen Gardner. Stephen shares some of his vast knowledge of techno...

There are a million different ways you could grow your business. There isn’t one right or wrong way. But if you’re following other online business owners who have reached the level of success you want to reach, and they’re teaching you the step-by-step way they did it, you might be trying to build your business in the exact same way they did. Like a business-in-a-box or plug-n-play situation.&nbsp...

When you don’t have the capacity to work with another private client, you will start to look for new ways to continue growing your business. You could increase your prices, increase the number of clients you work with, hire help, or create a new scalable offer.   Listen to this podcast episode to hear my advice on when to create a new scalable offer and exactly how to do it. My advice on this...

You never have to feel frustrated or confused about styling yourself or shopping for new clothes again. Listen to this podcast episode as Andrea talks with Advanced Certified Life and Style Coach Sheri Brasier about how to create your own style personality and style statement - and how knowing them will make shopping easier and more fun. Listen to this episode to the very end, because you’ll learn...

There are times in our lives when we have a lot of open projects and things going on. In my own life right now, I’ve got several house projects open (including a kitchen remodel), I’ve got young kids who will be home a lot this summer, and I’ve got several business projects I want to get done. I can easily feel overwhelmed, if I let myself, and so could you.  Listen to this podcast episode as...

You’ve got your own emotions to deal with, your spouse’s emotions, and your kids’ emotions. It can be really hard! As a business owner, you also have another layer of emotions to deal with when it comes to your business, which can feel like you have an additional family.  Listen to this podcast episode to learn one life coaching tool that can make your emotional life better on a daily basis....

How many thoughts each day do you have about food, beverages, your body, your weight, or anything along those lines? If you have more thoughts about these things than you want to have, intuitive eating could be the answer for you. Listen to this podcast episode as Andrea talks with Intuitive Eating Coach Victoria Yates. You’ll learn what intuitive eating is and how it can make your life easier, so...

Is work-life balance important? Sometimes our brains ask questions like this over and over again, which can exhaust us mentally and emotionally. When this happens, the only way to make us feel better is to actually answer the question, but it’s not always as simple as a yes or no.  If you find yourself wondering this, you’ll definitely want to listen to this podcast episode, because I answer...

If you want to hire a Virtual Assistant (VA) to help you in your business, listen to this podcast episode first. There’s a few things I recommend you do, which will either change your mind about hiring a VA or help you prepare your business and set your new VA up for success. The process of hiring someone to help you in your business and getting them trained to do so is a sign of business growth a...

You make (what feels like) a bazillion small and big decisions each day - from when to exercise and what to eat for dinner to how to grow your business. All these decisions can feel exhausting!  Listen to this podcast episode as Andrea and guest and Decision Coach Kirsten Parker share a tangible process you can use to make decisions quicker, easier, and less tiresome.  What You’ll Learn...

Your time is limited and precious. The way you spend your time must match your values and priorities as a person, or you will feel like something isn’t right. You will feel like you’re wasting your time. I don’t want you feeling that way, because it’s completely fixable, which is why I created this episode for you. If you want to create a weekly schedule that feels right to you, and doesn’t have y...

You can achieve work-life balance no matter how busy or overwhelmed you are, and it can be much simpler and quicker than you might think if you are intentional about it.  Listen to this episode to learn my simple system to achieve work-life balance. I don’t hold anything back in this episode. You will hear my entire system with real life examples and you can apply everything you learn to your...

Unexpected things happen in life sometimes that force us to throw our schedules in the trash. Sick kids, us getting sick, accidents, issues with our cars or houses, emergencies, whatever. It’s no fun when these things happen, but we still need to find a way to deal with it.  In all honesty, I had a different topic planned for this episode today, but one of my sons was sick and had to stay at...