There’s no denying it, making mistakes is a messy, uncomfortable experience. No one likes to make mistakes. But there’s also no one who can ever avoid making mistakes. If someone tells you they’ve never made a mistake, they’re probably lying.
Read MoreI spent a lot of my life embarrassed that I didn’t feel like the rest of society and no one understood the way I think.
I’ve often joked that I’ve been a “professional chameleon” my entire life. Being able to act the part of wherever I’m at with whoever I’m around. But in doing so, I hid the real me for a very long time.
Read MoreMoney is one of those touchy subjects that most people simply avoid talking about. More often than not we grew up in certain environments that affected our relationship with money.
We may not even be aware that we have unconscious beliefs about money. This can severely impact and affect the relationship we have with money if we leave it unchecked.
Read MoreAnd everyone wanted to know her secret. So she began sharing with her clients her self-love principles.
She shared about how she was taking care of herself and making herself a priority every single morning. She emphasized that it’s not selfish to take care of yourself.
Read MoreHowever, I am the queen at minimizing my own pain and simply brushed it off as being part of the appointment. I even asked the chiropractor for another adjustment after taking a minute to regain my composure. After the second adjustment, I was in a lot of pain and could barely move around.
Since I had experienced pain after previous appointments, I didn’t think too much of it and went home.
Read MoreThere’s no denying that confidence is important. Not only in our day-to-day lives, but also in our businesses.
While knowing that is important, actually HAVING confidence is a completely different story.
Maybe you’ve found the confidence to implement something new in your business once or twice, but you can’t seem to stick with it or stay accountable to yourself
Read MoreLet’s be honest, investing in yourself is really nerve-wracking. Jodie isn’t shy to admit that she was a little anxious to invest in herself.
Before Rock Your Business, she had only invested in marketing education. She had taken a few Instagram courses, and some marketing theory classes, but had never invested in anything to help her put structure in her business.
Read MoreStepping out of your comfort zone is the key to getting to the place you want to go. You’re never going to feel ready. I don’t want you to wait until the moment that you feel “ready” or the moment when everything is “perfect”, because, friend, you’ll be waiting forever.
There is never going to be a perfect time or scenario, there’s never going to be a way to predict the results.
Read MoreFor Lauren, part of her journey to six figures was creating boundaries in her business. Not only is she working less, but she’s earning more than when she was double-booked.
She’s found her own definition of success and is totally crushing it.
Read MoreThe thing is, I didn’t really understand finances. Although I knew I was putting money aside to pay for my taxes as a self-employed business owner, I didn’t really know much about it at all.
It was just like all of a sudden I got this MASSIVE tax bill for $20,000 and I didn’t have that money.
Read MoreLet’s be honest, money can sometimes feel dirty (and I don’t mean literally, although that’s definitely true…). How often have we been taught that “money is the root of all evil”?
And part of that sleazy feeling around money has to do with the fact that nobody talks about it. And when nobody talks about it, it makes us think we’re entirely alone in it.
Read MoreI want you to remember that you never want to stop attracting ideal clients and that your ideal client will change as your career grows and changes too.
Your ideal client isn’t necessarily going to be the same person that it was at the very beginning of your career. This is the main reason why you need to look at your career as a cyclical process and not a linear one.
Read MoreMeg believes that beauty professionals have a tendency to use their anxiety to get stuff done and view it as a "super-power" that enables them to multitask and do all the things that need to be done.
On the flip side, it can also be extremely detrimental to a business. As Meg discovered when her concept salon failed miserably.
Read MoreI spent too much time in my life trying to be someone I wasn’t. Trying to “hustle” to the top, only deeming myself worthy if I was “working myself to the bone”. I was so busy and my ego loved it.
But it wasn’t sustainable. By pushing myself to the extreme I landed myself in a hospital bed with a stress-induced panic attack.
Read MoreWe’ve been told lies for a very long time about what it means to be successful and I’m here to tell you that none of it is true.
It’s frustrating to look back at the times I’ve fallen victim to these completely false narratives I was taught about my career.
Read MoreLet's be honest, sometimes we just wish someone else would make the decision for us, am I right? That's why I'm bringing you this very special post all about decisiveness.
Read MoreYou just need to get comfortable stating the facts and practice is a great way to get there.
Remember, having a policy is not going to magically make people never late-cancel or no-show, the policy is in place to protect the revenue of your business.
Enforcing your policies is part of the process and the only way to get more comfortable is just to get started.
Read MoreIt will never be TOTALLY easy. I’ll admit there are still moments in my business where I get nervous, but I grow each and every time I do it.
But every time, it gets a little less scary and I get stronger and I gain tools to deal with it better each time.
Read MoreWe know this is a fundamental step of building a building, but why don’t we realize it about our businesses?
You’ve got the talent and skill, absolutely, but what’s holding you up when a storm comes in? Have you laid down a solid foundation that you’re building upon? Or are you trying to make a skyscraper on a bed of sand?
Read MoreI just got increasingly more and more frustrated with my clients as time went on.
I started to add up the amount of money the no-shows and late-cancellations were costing me, which helped to fuel my frustration, but still didn’t motivate me to actually do anything about it.
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