The Missing Link Podcast

One of the first things you'll hear from experts about scaling your business is that you need a team. But where do you start? Who do you hire first? And how do you find the money to make it all worthwhile? More than any other area of scaling - building a team can bring on head trash and a lot of hesitation because the truth is that who you hire can have a great impact on how you grow your business...

It's easy to push business strategies off to the side - especially when life and business get busy. You tell yourself you'll get to it later, only to push ideas off to the side repeatedly as your incompletions list grows. You tell yourself you wish you had more time, but nothing really changes. Later becomes never, and your business stalls. This is the time where satisfaction and joy starts to tak...

When it comes to launching your products or services, there is a ton of talk in the marketing world about what you should do during your launch to maximize your sales. But there is this period before the launch that most business owners forget about or neglect - or to be honest, don't know what to do with, so they simply focus all their efforts around messaging and nurture to the launch. And that...

Although I'm a big fan of saying no to things that sap your time, I'm also a proponent of experimenting in your business and saying YES to things that help you grow, excite you and push you out of your comfort zone. This week I dive into why so many of us stay attached to all of our shoulds and don't say YES enough to the things that we would love to be doing more of in our business. The idea of e...

On today's episode I invite back Harvard law Grad turned entrepreneur, Bobby Klink to talk about how we can all get better at writing emails that our subscribers WANT to read. He actually built his multiple six figure business selling something pretty boring - legal templates. But he did so through his email process and has built a cult following because his emails are actually fun to read.    Peo...

Have you ever reached that point in your business where you feel stuck? Where you're unsure which direction to take, whether to shift your niche or focus, or how you really want to take your business to the next level? The truth is that most business owners can say yes to all of these questions. And on today's podcast, I share why having a success blueprint can be essential when it comes to gettin...

On today's Mindset First Podcast I sit down with someone who I personally hired to help me rebrand my business (I haven't yet revealed it to the world as of the date of this recording) and can easily say that Sarah has become a kindred spirit and friend. Sarah Ashman is the founder, brand strategist, creative director and stylist of Public Persona Studio a small multidisciplinary brand consultancy...

It's a question we all ask - how do I become more successful? But instead of asking what success really means or looks like for us, we tend to skip to the doing part and look at how we can make more money - faster. Few of us look beyond money as a definition of success and fewer of us reach a satisfying level of success that gives us the things money is supposed to bring.   So, in this episode I t...

In this episode I take a closer look at the story of my own mindset journey. One that kept me from even looking at what was going on in my own life and perpetuating bad patterns and habits long after I knew I was avoiding something. The truth is that many of us are scared to look at mindset - instead of working on our mindset we TRY anything else. We implement strategies to avoid, we collect new s...

As a business owner or marketer, you've likely heard of the hero's journey as a way to connect with your audience. Revised and reignited, the hero's journey popular a few years back by Don Miller and the StoryBrand method as a way to guide your audience (the hero) to your services. It's a common story telling device that involves a hero who goes on an adventure, is victorious in a decisive crisis...

This is one of those topics I could address on my own, but I wanted to bring someone else in to talk a bit more in depth about how much mindset and specifically your core limiting beliefs impact your business growth. I decided to invite my own daughter to sit down and talk about this because she offers the perspective of a young, newer business owner and also employee (something we all need to con...

On this week's podcast, I want to talk about something that I see more of as a repetitive cycle in many of our businesses rather than a state of being - and that is burnout. We hear a lot about burnout from entrepreneurs and that's because burnout is really something that is associated with our work stressors more than anything else - and the truth is that when we get to burnout, all we want to do...

On today's podcast I sit down with two people who started out as my mentors and have now become partners in helping people grow their business and manage their mindset. Rob Marsh & Kira Hug are the founders of The Copywriter Club, an organization that supports over 14,000 members to help them launch and grow their own businesses in the copywriting field. They also host a series of programs includi...

If you have a book idea that's been sitting inside you ready to get out, then I know today's guest can help you launch your ideas. Today Dr. Cindy Childress, expert ghostwriter and book editor shares how writing that book will help you grow your business and bring in the clients you desire - but you got to get it on paper. I talk to Cindy about the head trash that gets in the way for most business...

I don't always talk about subjects that are bright and sunny on this podcast because sometimes when we face the truth about how we feel in our business or about our business - we can finally make the changes we need to inspire growth and improve our lives. The truth is that we're so used to being uncomfortable or dissatisfied in the current state of our lives or business that we don't talk about s...

On today's podcast I sit down and talk with solo business owner mentor and female leader, Fabienne Fredrickson about the power of female leadership in uncertain times. Fabienne focuses on taking stressed out women (and heart centered men) and shows them how to leverage their business and financial growth while making the impact they want. This is a discussion for both men and women to truly embrac...

One question every business owner asks themselves over and over is how can I be more successful? And the truth is that the answer we seek is often in the doing and gathering of information, but in the end, accumulating information and staying busy, doesn't have anything to do with real leverage growth. You have to first clear the head trash that's blocking you and to create a mindset first strateg...

It used to be that working abroad was reserved for expats of large companies like Motorola or other tech firms. I can actually remember being in my 20's working for Motorola before I went to law school - watching families pack up their lives and move to amazing places like Hong Kong or Singapore for a few years and experience something that few of us could even imagine. Working abroad for the aver...

This episode has been one that's been in the making for some time. For years, I've been building courses - for myself and for others. Something many of you don't know is that I have participated in the development of an online life coach school and am responsible for the development of the business curriculum along with my partner. The one thing that has always impacted me is how so many courses f...

Do you remember what it feels like to dream big. When we're young, we're told to dream big and go after what we want - only when we try to do that, we have people knocking us down, judging our choices and urging us to play safe. It's no wonder that after a couple of tries, you give up on your dreams and follow what others tell you to do. It can be easy to lose our inner compass and think we don't...

One of the biggest challenges for competent business owners is how do you take your ideas and turn them into statement pieces that will captivate your audience and draw people in. On today's episode, I'm excited to share with you Hillary Weiss who I can only describe as having monster creativity and magnetism that you'll want to experience yourself. Hillary and I talk about how so many of us strug...

For this last episode of the year, I share with you a practice I engage in every year and invite my clients to do the same. Instead of engaging in picking New Year's resolutions or swearing things will be different in the upcoming year, I encourage you to refocus on your business vision and pick a single word that will help you bring that vision to life. A single word can be a powerful tool to hel...

Today on the Mindset First Podcast, I'm excited to share with you a woman I recently met live (I had been on her email list for a couple of years). Jessica Rasdall is a public speaking strategist who has such an easy manner that you can't help fall in love with her - off stage and on. I wanted to have Jessica on to talk about how to use speaking to scale your business because it's a tool that so m...

On today's Mindset First podcast, I want to tackle a topic I often address in private and group coaching sessions and my vision program but don't always remember to talk about - and that's stage of life. When it comes to building a business, most people talk about investing time, energy, money and more and it's often talked about as equal - the ability to do so. But the truth is that your stage of...

If you've ever experienced the loss of a loved one, you know how disorienting it can be. For me, the last 11 years were marked with the loss of loved ones. My husband and I lost all four of our parents. I experienced the loss of people who were dear to me when I was young and also the loss of some hopes and dreams that my husband and I might be able to expand our family. Each one of those losses w...