Firm Foundation, Thriving Business (Julie Fleming)
Entrepreneurs frequently operate from a place of purpose and passion, launching a business based on a fabulous idea or a desire to serve a particular group. Without appropriate attention to business fundamentals, though, the new venture can’t succeed. At best, it will stay a hobby that doesn’t generate prosperity; at worst, the entrepreneur will have to close the business, depriving others of the contribution that the new business might have made.
Julie shares:
- The 5 “P”s of business success
- How to determine when you should consult an attorney and when you can safely proceed on your own
- How to find and work well with a lawyer, including how to manage expenses
- What you must do consistently to keep your business in good health
- The cycle of marketing failure and the cycle of marketing success
About Julie Fleming
Julie A. Fleming, JD works with small business owners, helping them to build profitable businesses with an appropriate legal structure and a full client pipeline. Her clients create a robust income while fulfilling their purpose in a business built on a solid legal foundation. Before transitioning to consulting, Julie practiced law (specializing in patent litigation) for more than a decade. She now serves an international clientele and is a highly-regarded speaker on topics such as marketing and work/life integration and is the author of The Reluctant Rainmaker: A Guide for Lawyers Who Hate Selling and the forthcoming book Ignite It! How to Fire Up Your Business with a Firm Foundation and Full Client Pipeline. Julie lives in Atlanta with one demanding cat and two spoiled German Shepherds, and spends as much time as possible in Wyoming. For more information please visit JulieFleming.com.
Julie’s Success Tips
1. Know your values and your priorities.
2. Find your purpose. (Talk with Jory!)
3. Know what success looks like for you and what you’re willing to do to attain it. Then do that, accepting no excuses.
4. Engage with the people and activities that you’re passionate about, and decide what’s a hobby or recreation and what’s a business. Never confuse the two.
5. Strategy + consistency = marketing success
Julie’s Favorite Quote
“When it’s over, I want to say: All my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened or full of argument.
I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.”
~Mary Oliver, “When Death Comes”
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Overcoming Underearning… and then what? (Barbara Stanny)
September 14, 2010 by Jory · 2 Comments
Do you chronically underestimate your earning potential? Do you have a high tolerance for low pay? Barbara Stanny, the Leading Authority on Women and Money, talks with Jory and Beth about the biggest mistake women make concerning money. Her five essential steps to financial independence bring a message of hope and empowerment to those who struggle with underearning. Barbara also speaks to those of our listeners who sense there’s more to success than making lots of money. She discusses how to merge a higher income with a higher calling and announces her brand new seminar, Sacred Success™. Listen and learn how Barbara beautifully blends financial success with making a significant difference in the lives of others.
About Barbara Stanny
Barbara Stanny is a woman on a mission–a mission to motivate women to become financially empowered. Barbara grew up relying on her father (the ‘R’ of H&R Block), then her husband, to manage her money. A devastating financial crisis became her wake-up call. Her first book, Prince Charming Isn’t Coming, grew out of her interviews with financially savvy women. Her next two books, Secrets of Six Figure Women and Overcoming Underearning®, focused on helping women go from financial survival to financial stability. Her current focus is on helping women move from stability to affluence with a new body of work she calls Sacred Success™. Barbara defines Sacred Success™ as doing your Soul’s work for your own bliss and the benefit of others while being richly rewarded.
Barbara’s background in business, her years as a journalist, her Master’s Degree in psychology, her extensive research, and her personal experience with money give her a unique perspective and make her the foremost expert on women’s financial issues.
Barbara’s Coaching Suggestion
Barbara suggests that we think of our earliest memory of money and freeze it in our minds like a photograph. Now ask: what was going on in my life at that time? The answer to that question will give us a wealth of information regarding our beliefs about money.
Barbara’s Quotes for the Day
“Go where you fear because that’s how you grow.” ~Barbara Stanny
“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”
~Frederick Buechner
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Even the Lone Ranger had Tonto! (Kate Steinbacher)
Going it alone is old fashioned and self centered and, frankly, makes life difficult! Kate believes in working smarter NOT harder and has discovered that collaboration is the way of doing it. Do you want to learn to work less and accomplish more? Join us for this fun and engaging conversation and go away with tools for your success!
About Kate Steinbacher
Kate Steinbacher, PCC: is a consummate entrepreneur, collaborator, and agent for fun and change as well as a coach, speaker, and prolific writer of self-development articles. She’s enjoyed being a corporate HR manager for a fortune 100 company as well as a Cruise Director on board luxury cruise ships. A business team manager and speaker/emcee for American and International groups, Kate has also served as an active Business and Personal Coach since 2001.
“Coach Kate” has owned, operated, and marketed four successful small businesses. Currently she is a principal in The Coaching Advantage and Co-Founder of The Coaches Console along with her business partner Melinda Cohan.
Change and action have always been allies for Kate’s success. Not only is she passionate about people and business and fostering positivism and possibility, but also about fostering individual and corporate greatness through the use of professional coaching skills. Part of Kate’s driving force is her passion to get the world coached and her sense of fun.
Kate’s Coaching Suggestion
1) Kate suggests that we examine our lives to discern where we are going it alone—and why. Do we have to go it alone or can we delegate the job in ways that allow others to shine and that allow us to learn new ways of accomplishing the task?
2) She also suggests that we review our connections and contacts to discover who might be our “Tontos” in the work place and/or at home. We should then evaluate their strengths and discuss with them how we can collaborate to accomplish more with less effort.
Kate’s Quote for the Day
“Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.” ~Katherine Hepburn
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