Woman Owned: The Growth Podcast for Women Entrepreneurs

This week, discover the gift and power of giving yourself space to grow. You'll discover how embracing open time will allow you to get in front of your company and lead it from that place, and three strategies that will help you create the space you need to grow.   Get full show notes and more information here: http://www.eleanorbeatonpodcast.com/516

Entrepreneurship is a deeply creative act, and today, we're tackling the topic of making time for your creativity. I'm joined by creative powerhouse, Liz Kimball. Liz is a creativity coach, writer, and speaker who is dedicated to helping the next generation of women creators produce the major creative works of their lifetime, and she's here to offer practical steps you can take to be more creative...

To become a true visionary thought leader requires that you have time and space to think deeply. However, in the often urgent, full-on, full-contact sport that is entrepreneurship, the central question then is, how do you find time to do that? Today, I'm talking with client and seven-figure entrepreneur Alison Nail Malone and we're exploring what it takes to create and protect time for thought lea...

Time is one of our most precious assets, especially as our companies grow. Join me on this week's episode to hear about why time is so important, how you can navigate the complexities of being a boss that try to steal your time, and the three things you can do to - you guessed it - make more time.   Get full show notes and more information here: http://www.eleanorbeatonpodcast.com/513

Listen in as I introduce you to a tool I call The Daily Debrief. I'm offering four questions you can answer to stay anchored in the present moment and recap your day, as well as four questions your team can sit with every day, and how having this simple shutdown routine can help you be present, reflective, and bring an overarching sense of peace to your life.   Get full show notes and more informa...

This week, bestselling author, speaker, and nationally-recognized purposeful productivity expert Tanya Dalton gives us a masterclass on how you might approach a social media detox for yourself. She's sharing how she arrived at the decision to step away from social media, what she has turned to instead to grow her sales, and her top tips for evaluating how you're currently showing up.   Get full sh...

Join us this week to hear the story of Moe Carrick, an in-demand, well-paid, but time-starved consultant who decided to finally take control of her calendar, reinvent her company, and scale past seven figures while taking a month-long sabbatical. She's sharing the key pieces that have allowed her to create the time freedom she has craved for so long, and what she found challenging along the way.  ...

This week, discover why understanding what season of business growth you're in helps you manage expectations and work towards your goals with a strong game plan. We're exploring how to know which season you're in, how to align your initiatives with the correct season to get maximum results, and the downfalls of not pinpointing exactly where you are right now.   Get full show notes and more informa...

If you're ready to tap into the $18 trillion dollar female consumer opportunity, this episode is your how-to guide. You'll discover why so many companies have failed in their attempts to appeal to the female market, and three strategies for building trust with, connecting with, and selling to women buyers.   Get full show notes and more information here: http://www.eleanorbeatonpodcast.com/508

Join me this week as I show you how to strategically build your leadership skills, and why investing in your development in this way is the best gift you can give yourself. You'll learn the order in which I built the skills of becoming a founder, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of narrowing your focus.   Get full show notes and more information here: http://www.eleanorbeatonpodcast.com/507

In this replay episode, we're digging into a topic that not only cannot be ignored, but one that honestly drives me absolutely crazy. Why? It's the difference between setting yourself free versus producing more headaches for yourself as an entrepreneur.   The terms "growth" and "scale" are often used interchangeably in the business world, but here's the central idea: they sure as hell aren't the s...

When I was running my consulting business and first started my coaching practice, each one of my clients had specific, varying needs. For this reason, every proposal or solution I offered was custom-tailored to fit them like a glove. They always got exactly what they needed to solve their specific problems, but there's just one problem with this approach.   When you create bespoke, custom-built se...

So often in the work I do with my clients, I see women leaders doing highly valuable, complex work selling packaged services, coaching products, or intellectual property. However, when the market wants us to provide customizable, made-to-order contracts and offerings, there's a huge labor and cognitive strain involved.   Go back 10 years in my business and you'll see that everything I did was cust...

As women founders and leaders, we talk often about making money, and lots of it. But are we using the money we make to create the kinds of changes that we want to see in the world? I like to say that money is power, but only if you make it so. Your money becomes a powerful force when you use it in a way that advances your mission, aligns with your values, and brings your vision to life. And this w...

Welcome to an incredibly special episode because this week, I've got a returning podcast guest. Not many women founders have been featured on the podcast more than once, so you already know you're in for a jam-packed episode full of amazing nuggets of wisdom that will help you take your business further faster.  Keep reading Pamela Slim is an author, business coach, and co-founder of Main Street L...

Are you being the kind of founder and leader that a seven-figure company truly requires? Is your relationship with your business mature enough to continue taking it to new heights?   If you think about your human relationships, especially with children if you have them, you'll understand how your relationship with them has to evolve. Without the level of maturity that you bring to the table, their...

You are listening to the 500th episode of the podcast this week. Whether you've been here since the beginning, listening along for over five years, or you're a new friend here, I honor and appreciate you for showing up.   As I personally celebrate 500 episodes, close to two million downloads of the show, and the reach it has set up for me to influence and empower thousands of women founders around...

I talk to many business owners who are in the process of shifting their business models from a one-to-one model to one where they have the ability to sell to many people at once. This is one of the classic ways we scale up a service or knowledge-based company, and lots of entrepreneurs are trying to figure out how to package up what they do to offer to multiple people at once.   For some reason, i...

Why are you feeling hesitant about raising your prices? If this is something you've been wanting to do but haven't yet, you've likely been told that it's because you have a scarcity mindset around your business. While this messaging often comes from a place of good intention, it's actually totally off the mark.   You probably have legitimate questions and reasons for why you're not raising your pr...

Are you overpricing or underpricing your offers? This is a question that has many of my clients spinning in circles, completely confused and lost. Figuring out how much to charge is a really important decision any CEO or founder is going to make, and pricing strategy is something that comes up a lot in my work.   In a world where business rules have been written by men, how do women like us create...

The most important emotional state for entrepreneurial achievement is not motivation, commitment, or dedication. It's willingness. When you cultivate within yourself a state of willingness, you are equipping yourself with the emotional juice required to transform at a deep level.    Willingness allows you to reinvent your future one project, one experience, and one result at a time. However, many...

As women entrepreneurs, we live and breathe in the results economy. We are not paid for the amount of time and effort that we put into a project. We are compensated based on the value that we create in the marketplace and the tangible results we create for other people. And when we put half-done work out into the world, we're not compensated at all.   Over here at Safi Media, we're all about creat...

About 18 months ago, I was having a conversation with a wise mentor of mine about the vision I had for my company and how I saw our position in the world. It was big, exciting, and I had confidence and trusted myself, but I kept butting up against a ceiling in terms of my own ability.   This is when my mentor said, "Eleanor, unlocking the next level of your vision isn't about what you do. It's abo...

If you want to use your business as a vehicle to make the world a better place, this episode is for you. When you are a changemaker and a visionary, entrepreneurship is a powerful container for driving impactful change at all levels, and my guest this week is the perfect person to speak on this.   Carrie Freeman is the Co-Chief Executive Officer at SecondMuse. She knows a thing or two about using...

As women founders and entrepreneurs, we've been fed a lot of advice about the power of staying open-minded. We're told to stay open to external feedback, ways of doing things, and challenges that come our way. Being a good leader, we're told, means staying open.   I've spent the first part of my life, as I'm sure you have, honing my skills on openness. It's one of my core values, and the periods i...