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Hey! Have you been wanting to grow your coaching business but can't seem to make progress? I feel you! The fact is, it's not easy or intuitive to make money as a life coach or to create a life coaching business model. There are very real business skills we all need to learn!
In this episode I'll highlight the differences between coaching and business skills, emphasizes the importance of mindset, and share crritical steps for finding and nurturing leads, converting clients, and staying consistent with your business so that you can make a difference and impact the world as a life coach.
There IS a way to make money (and impact) as a coach, and it doesn't have to feel impossible.
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00:00 Introduction: The Struggles of Building a Coaching Business
00:38 Understanding the Dual Skill Sets of Coaching and Business
01:30 Step 1: Mastering the Customer Journey
05:04 Step 2: Managing Your Mental Stories
10:41 Step 3: The Power of Consistency
13:26 Conclusion: Embrace the Journey to Success
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We women of faith have so many strengths when it comes to building a business, but one of our weaknesses is a tendency to take the failures and success of our business very personally.
It makes sense - when we pour our hearts and souls into creating something that we know can help change people's lives, it can be hard not to take it personally when things don't go according to plan. But letting the highs and lows of our business dictate our emotions is a recipe for misery.
Let's explore how to create a healthy emotional distance between who we are personally and what we're creating in our businesses. Not only will it ensure better success in life and business, but it will also make it all a lot more FUN!
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01:04 Why Women Approach Business Differently
03:31 Separating Personal and Business Identities
04:56 Understanding Control in Business
07:26 Viewing Business as a Science Experiment
17:22 Signs Your Business is Too Personal
21:07 Maintaining Fun in Business
22:16 Conclusion and Next Steps
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Sometimes building a business can feel akin to trying to open a lock using the wrong key. Nothing fits, everything's hard and you just feel stuck. The challenge comes from the fact that your business is uniquely yours, and no one has ever built one like you yet!
This episode will walk you through a few signs that will tell you how to know if you're cutting the right business "key" and if not, how to tweak the things that aren't working. I'll also teach you how to know when you DO have the right "key" but you just need to turn up the volume and do more of what's working.
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00:28 Welcome to Burning Brightly
00:52 The Perfect Key Analogy
02:19 Trial and Error in Business
04:22 Identifying a Broken Key
08:57 Signs of a Working Key
09:23 Identifying the Right Audience and Offer
10:10 Crafting Clear and Concise Messaging
10:33 Building a Detailed Coaching Program
11:07 Passion and Free Content
12:03 The Role of a Business Coach
12:32 Scaling Your Business
13:07 Attracting and Nurturing Leads
15:37 Conversion Strategies
16:53 Perfecting Your Business Key
17:47 Final Thoughts and Encouragement
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Many Christian women in the entrepreneur space never set out to be a boss or a mogul initially. Most of us just saw a need and wanted to help people. But the quicker we can embrace and step into the energy that comes from being a true boss in our business, the quicker we'll create (and become) something truly amazing.
Being a boss means so much more than just hiring employees - in fact, I suggest everyone step into this boss energy WAY before ever hiring your first team member. It looks like embracing confidence, respecting your own and other people's time, it looks like trusting your intuition and building something with God by your side.
Your audience desperately needs you to take charge and help them to change their lives. And this episode will help you get started!
Mastering Confidence and Balance in Parenting and Business Leadership
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00:16 Motherhood and Intuition: A Personal Journey
01:05 Questioning the Experts: Curating Information
01:59 Parenting: Trusting Your Own Expertise
03:02 You Are the Boss: Embracing Business Leadership
04:17 Knowing Yourself: Leveraging Personal Expertise
07:19 Seeking Help: When to Rely on Experts
10:47 The Power of Being in Charge: Embracing Leadership
13:22 Embodying Boss Traits
13:40 Choosing Confidence
14:46 Practicing Compassion
15:38 Setting Boundaries
16:10 Prioritizing Your Business
17:06 Committing Fully
18:19 Showing Up as a Boss
22:44 Eliminating Insecurity
25:08 Final Thoughts on Being a Boss
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If you're a mother, then you know all about the different seasons of life and how each requires different time and energy. There are times of life when we can work full time, times when we are way busier than we'd like to be and seasons when we're barely hanging on.
It can be tempting to try to start or grow a business during a season of life that isn't particularly conducive to extra obligations. Conversely, it can be easy to dismiss a call from God asking us to do something new because we think we're "just too busy".
This episode will help us determine if and when might be the right time to scale a business, start something new or just be patient and "wait upon the Lord".
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00:44 Understanding Times and Seasons
03:21 Classifying Life Phases
04:19 Determining Readiness for Business
05:24 Self-Reflection and God's Guidance
07:20 Practical Questions to Consider
10:07 Balancing Business and Personal Life
14:16 Spiritual Growth Through Business
16:12 Final Thoughts and Encouragement
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I've been podcasting for almost 6 years now and it's one of my favorite means of communicating with my audience and disseminating expertise, encouragement and coaching.
If you've been dreaming of a podcast of your own, this episode will give you a high level overview of the steps you'll need to put in place in order to launch a show yourself.
Learn how to find a purpose for your show, create a title (and possibly a tagline), intro, outro and cover art, choose a hosting platform and music, as well as build a launch plan that's doable for you.
Becoming a podcaster is a goal that's a lot closer than you think!
Check out a very robust launch plan here.
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00:22 Introduction to Burning Brightly
00:48 Why Start a Podcast?
01:18 My Podcasting Journey
02:35 Defining Your Podcast's Purpose
05:46 Essential Elements for Launching
07:38 Crafting Your Podcast Title and Tagline
10:14 Creating Your Intro and Outro
12:38 Recording and Editing with Descript
14:37 Designing Your Cover Art
16:09 Planning and Recording Episodes
18:46 Choosing a Hosting Platform
21:31 Creating a Launch Plan
24:40 Final Tips for Podcast Success
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Are you a coach or content creator with niche drama?
Let's be honest, you probably have niche drama. We all do at some point! You're definitely not alone but this part of building your business doesn't have to be hard!
When I became a certified life coach, I went all in a niche for several months, and eventually learned through testing (that we talk about in this episode) that it wasn't going to be a good fit for the kind of business I wanted to build. So I pivoted and now make money coaching people with a real problem on a topic I LOVE.
If you're still worried, overthinking or otherwise stressed about your business niche, this episode will calm your mind. There IS a perfect money-making niche for you, one that maximizes your passion, your skill and market demand!
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00:31 Understanding the Importance of a Niche
01:05 Defining Your Niche
02:54 Testing Your Niche
03:45 The Three P's of a Perfect Niche
08:11 Crafting Your Elevator Pitch
12:53 Gauging Reactions and Getting Feedback
21:30 The Importance of a Narrow Niche
24:56 Conclusion and Next Steps
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If you have kids at home and are building a business, this episode is for you! It's taken me years and years to develop and implement a work-at-home schedule that works for me and my (very large) family.
In today's episode, I'm sharing my own current schedule, showing you how to decide what's most important in creating your own, and walking you through the process. By the end of this show, you'll know exactly when you want to schedule regular working time on your business and how to make it happen even around family and household obligations.
I'll also share some common places that moms can let go of additional home management duties to free up time and energy.
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01:03 Balancing Business and Family Life
01:49 The Importance of Focus and Boundaries
04:22 Implementing Block Scheduling
05:45 Creating a Flexible Schedule
12:49 Tips for Prioritizing and Delegating Tasks
18:19 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
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What do you feel when you hear the word "failure?" Does it make you cringe? Worry? Stress or shiver? Most people have only negative connotations to the word "failure", but when building a small business, we have to get up close and personal to this concept and start to reexamine it.
Instead of seeing our business building adventure as a series of small failures, instead I want us to look at it as a series of experiments. This is how every business is built and getting comfortable with these experiments is critical if you're going to succeed.
But sometimes, it IS time to fail, or in other words, close our doors or do a major business pivot. What will we make THIS mean about us as entrepreneurs? Will we let it affect how we view ourselves? Does the success or failure of our business mean that we ourselves are either successes or failures?
We're going to talk all about this concept today, and teach you how to reframe failure in a way that will serve you in your business and in life, forever.
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00:30 Understanding Failure in Business
02:04 Reframing Failure: Lessons Learned
02:44 Reality vs. Expectations
03:36 Applying Lessons from Failure
05:55 Separating Personal Identity from Business
14:20 Commitment and Timeframe for Business Success
18:40 Evaluating Your Business: What Works and What Doesn't
19:43 Seeking Divine Guidance in Business Decisions
22:16 Making Fearless Choices in Your Business
26:11 Redefining Failure and Success in Entrepreneurship
30:41 Personal Story: The Journey of Novalie
33:42 Embracing Failure and Moving Forward
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Today, we're talking about the concept of success and exploring how we can define and recognize our own success in business and life. I'm going to challenge conventional notions of success, and teach you how important it is to set personal goals instead of chasing other people's ideas of success.
We'll start with what success means like for us, discuss how critical it is to manage our own expectations, and teach you the magic of how to start feeling successful NOW without waiting for external validation or financial milestones. We're going to learn how to prioritize what truly matters to you and to find joy and contentment in your current circumstances, even while working towards the business of your dreams.
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00:31 Defining Success: A Personal Journey
01:57 The Dictionary's Take on Success
03:21 Personal Definitions of Success
04:16 The Subjectivity of Success
04:56 Setting Personal Success Goals
11:24 Money and Success: Finding the Balance
15:32 Living Your Success Now
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In this episode we're exploring the benefits of networking and how to do it in a way that feels good and genuine as an online business owner. We'll talk about what networking means, and I'm sharing my personal journey and struggles with this skill, especially when it felt salesy and/or disingenuous.
We'll redefine 'networking' to make it a more authentic, service-driven approach and I'll give you three key strategies for successful networking: listen before speaking, build trust through vulnerability, and offer help without expecting anything in return.
Let's look at the importance of genuine connections and how these can be cultivated in both our personal and professional lives, plus I'll give you real tactics for how to network at an event.
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00:30 Personal Struggles with Networking
01:18 The Misconceptions of Networking
04:46 The Right Way to Network
05:34 The Wrong Way to Network
09:03 Building Genuine Relationships
11:30 Three Keys to Successful Networking
16:56 Applying Networking Principles to All Relationships
19:08 Conclusion and Call to Action
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In this episode, I'm discussing the significance of honoring the Sabbath and how it has completely revolutionized my business and personal life.
Through biblical references and personal anecdotes, I'm going to show you how dedicating a day to God not only fosters spiritual growth but will also improve productivity and creativity in your business.
I'll give you some suggestions for implementing Sabbath day observance in your own life, and share some of the transformative benefits of keeping this day holy, even while it's not always easy. This episode is for Christian moms who want to build a business in a way that's pleasing to God, by setting boundaries and prioritizing rest and spiritual connection.
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00:00 Introduction to Episode 58
00:34 The Importance of Honoring the Sabbath
00:57 Biblical Foundations of the Sabbath
01:53 Personal Commitment to the Sabbath
04:43 Why Keeping the Sabbath is Hard
08:34 How Honoring the Sabbath is Easy
14:36 Practical Tips for a Holy Sabbath
19:14 Conclusion and Encouragement
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In this episode, we're exploring the struggles many women face in loving and appreciating their bodies as they are. I strongly believes this challenge is largely due to societal pressures and skewed perceptions of beauty, constantly thrown at us through advertising and social media.
Today, I'm sharing my personal journey of overcoming body image issues and giving you actionable advice on changing your own thoughts and feelings to foster a positive relationship with your body.
Takeaways include understanding that all bodies are miraculous and valuable, the importance of gratitude, and the effect of diet and exercise on your mental and physical well-being. I'll also teach you how to better treat your body with respect, acknowledge its strengths, and embrace the inevitable process of aging. This episode will help you in combatting the temptation to waste time and energy hating or criticizing our bodies!
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00:29 The Struggle to Love Our Bodies
01:01 Miracles of the Human Body
03:29 Society's Unrealistic Standards
04:45 Personal Journey to Body Acceptance
06:21 Changing Negative Thoughts
12:03 Practicing Gratitude for Your Body
15:32 Overcoming Physical Limitations
16:20 Changing Thoughts and Feelings
16:47 Transforming Actions: Diet and Exercise
19:41 Challenging Your Body's Potential
22:08 Rest, Recovery, and Gratitude
25:37 Embracing Aging and Acceptance
28:28 Final Thoughts on Body and Soul
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In this episode, I dive deep into the importance of understanding the reasons behind our actions and their impact on our lives. I'll explain the significance of aligning our reasons with our values to ensure long-term motivation and integrity.
Listen in as I share examples that I'm sure you can relate to, like weight loss and business building, to illustrate how the right reasons can lead to more meaningful and sustainable results. I'll also give you practical exercises to help you evaluate and adjust your own reasons to better support your goals. Tune in for insights and inspiration on how to navigate the highs and lows of building a business with purpose and passion!
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00:47 Understanding Our Reasons
01:57 The Impact of Different Reasons
02:58 Aligning Reasons with Values
05:17 Examples and Personal Stories
06:03 Three Key Benefits of Liking Your Reasons
11:53 Integrity in Business and Personal Life
14:40 Practical Exercises and Final Thoughts
21:27 Conclusion and Next Steps
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I recently gave this presentation to a local coworking space and I wanted to share it all with you! In it, I explores how our brains unintentionally sabotage our dreams and goals.
In this review of how our brain approaches new experiences, I explain the motivational triad and its impact on entrepreneurship and goal setting. We'll learn insights into common emotions like fear, overwhelm, frustration, blame, and playing small, detailing how they hinder our progress.
With practical examples and the "head-heart-hands" model, I’ll offer strategies to reframe thoughts and drive actions that will help us accomplish our greatest business dreams. This episode is perfect for women starting coaching businesses, launching side hustles from home, or anyone striving to achieve their dreams!
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00:00 Introduction to Brain Sabotage
00:43 Meet Your Coach: Bonnie Wiscombe
01:32 Understanding the Brain's Role in Goal Setting
02:25 The Motivational Triad Explained
03:41 Survival Brain vs. Higher Brain
09:51 The Life Coaching Model: Head, Heart, Hands
11:41 Overcoming Fear in Business
15:03 Dealing with Overwhelm
17:53 Handling Frustration
21:24 The Blame Game
24:07 Avoiding the Trap of Dreaming Small
27:57 Conclusion and Final Tips
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In this episode, we'll learn seven proven strategies for making money online as a content creator!
We categorize content creators into influencers, educators, and entertainers, and then delve into how each can monetize their presence through the 7 most common ways of making money online, including affiliate marketing, brand partnerships, digital products, physical products, coaching or consulting, platform-specific programs, and ad revenue.
With over 10 years of experience as a blogger, podcaster, course creator, vlogger and ecommerce owner, Bonnie provides valuable insights and emphasizes the importance of diversifying income streams. She also offers a free mini course to guide aspiring content creators in starting their online businesses.
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00:00 Introduction to Making Money Online
00:31 Understanding Content Creation
01:08 Seven Ways to Monetize Your Content
02:57 Types of Content Creators
03:54 Influencers: Affiliate Marketing and Brand Partnerships
09:04 Educators: Sharing Knowledge and Selling Products
11:26 Entertainers: Making Life Fun and Profitable
13:22 Platform-Specific Programs and Ad Revenue
15:08 Summary and Final Tips
16:22 Free Mini Course Offer and Conclusion
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In this episode, we dive deep into the science of goal achievement. Discover how to transform your mindset and leverage the power of your brain to reach any personal or professional goal.
1.Understanding the Brain’s Role in Goal Achievement
- The importance of changing your brain to achieve goals.
- How the brain creates paradigms and belief systems to keep us safe and comfortable.
- The impact of new and unfamiliar experiences on our brain.
2. The Power of the Reticular Activating System (RAS)
- Introduction to the reticular activating system and its functions.
- How the RAS connects the subconscious brain with the conscious brain.
- Practical examples of how the RAS filters information and focuses on what matters most.
3.Changing Beliefs to Reach Your Goals
- The process of choosing new beliefs to support goal achievement.
- How our brain looks for evidence to support existing beliefs.
- Steps to introduce and reinforce new beliefs for personal growth.
4. Practical Applications
- Strategies to shift negative beliefs about aging, health, and business success.
- Techniques to build bridge thoughts and ladder thoughts for progressive belief changes.
5.Inspiration from Successful Entrepreneurs
- Book recommendation: "Worthy" by Jamie Kern Lima.
- Insights from following entrepreneurs who have achieved significant financial success.
- How to use their journeys as evidence to support your own goals.
6. Overcoming Cognitive Dissonance
- Understanding the discomfort of confronting new evidence.
- Ways to gently guide your brain to accept new beliefs.
- The importance of exploring new paradigms for personal and professional growth.
7. Action Steps to Achieve Your Goals
- Believing in the possibility of your goals.
- Actively seeking evidence to support your new beliefs.
- Encouraging your brain to explore and accept empowering beliefs.
Take Action
Start by following people who inspire you and align with your aspirations. Share this episode with someone who needs a boost in their goal-setting journey, and don't forget to subscribe for more insightful episodes!
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Today, we're diving into the thrilling highs and lows of the business roller coaster. I'll guide you through the inevitable ups and downs of entrepreneurship and help you find the courage to keep going, even when it seems like “nothing is working”.
Here's what we cover:
Understanding the Dunning-Kruger Effect: Why we often overestimate our abilities early on.The Five Stages of Business:Uninformed Optimism: The initial excitement and confidence.Informed Pessimism: Realizing the challenges ahead.Valley of Despair: The toughest phase, where many feel like quitting.Informed Optimism: Gaining traction and seeing early successes.Achievement: Reaching your goals, but with new challenges ahead.I also share strategies to push through the tough times, emphasizing the importance of self-coaching, compassion, and persistence. Remember, every entrepreneur goes through these phases, and the only way to fail is to quit. So, let's embrace the journey and keep moving forward.
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Welcome to episode 51 of Burning Brightly, where we're tackling the (often unspoken) emotion of envy. I’m Bonnie Wiscombe, your host, life coach, and fellow mom entrepreneur. Today, we’ll dive deep into understanding and overcoming envy, particularly in the context of business, and how it can be a surprising catalyst for growth and clarity in your journey.
Key Points:
Understanding Envy: Envy is a natural human emotion that can feel terrible but also serves as valuable information about our desires and aspirations.Learning from Envy: Instead of judging ourselves, we can use envy to identify what we truly want and add it to our goals and vision boards.Moving Past Negative Feelings: Addressing the darker sides of envy like disappointment and self-criticism, and transforming them into productive emotions.Celebrating Small Wins: Recognizing and celebrating every milestone, no matter how small, helps maintain motivation and appreciation for the journey.Trusting God's Plan: Embracing the belief that God’s plans are greater than ours and that He knows the perfect timing for our dreams.Join me as we explore practical tips and heartfelt advice on turning envy into a stepping stone towards your dreams. You’ll learn to process and release envy, celebrate your unique journey, and keep faith in God's plan. Don’t miss this episode—it's packed with insights to help you shine even brighter!
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You're in for a treat with this latest episode of Burning Brightly. We had the amazing Denita Bremer on to discuss something so important yet often avoided: feeling our negative emotions.
As Christian moms building businesses, we can get caught in the trap of thinking we need to be positive and grateful all the time. But the truth is, avoiding the hard feelings actually holds us back from creating the impact and income we desire.
Here are a few key insights Denita shared:
- Feeling negative emotion doesn't mean you're doing something wrong - it's just part of the creative, messy process of building something new
- We often self-sabotage when we start feeling good because feeling bad is more comfortable and familiar
- Trauma from our past can make it very difficult to sit with uncomfortable emotions in the present, so having support is crucial
- The key is developing the capacity to just feel the sensations in your body without judging or attaching stories to them
Denita gave such a powerful perspective on why leaning into our uncomfortable feelings is ultimately what allows us to grow into our biggest, brightest selves. Her vulnerability and wisdom were truly inspiring.
You won't want to miss hearing all her insights and personal experiences on this topic. Hit play to prepare yourself for doing the work required to shine your light in this world!
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