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Biz Buddies Episode #9 — Musings on Money

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Today Jen and Niamh are talking about Money. Not just any money, but Jen’s Mastering Money Matters Program. This episode was recorded in the midst of Jen doing her very first launch for a special offer for MMM.

While we talk about money, let’s talk about fear of failure, insecurity, and the way imposter syndrome comes up around putting yourself out there to talk about a topic that you don’t have a certification in.

Jen tells the story of being suddenly confronted with massive medical bills when her daughter was diagnosed with Autism in 2010, back before ACA, when she had an individual family insurance policy that had an autism exclusion. This threw her finances into a giant jumbled mess between high, unexpected medical bills and irregular income from self-employment. In the midst of all of this financial confusion and while trying to set up an autism program for her kids, Jen had a medical bill sent to collections, not because she didn’t mean to pay it, just because she got confused. Then she missed a bill and had a late payment, then an overdraft charge. That was when she realized that she had to do something if she was going to get through this without bankrupting her family. What she learned through research, reading, taking courses and eventually talking with other women on her Financial Fluency podcast and working with women in small groups and one-on-one, is what is now in the Mastering Money Matters program.

Niamh also talks about her experience in the program herself, the changes she has made and the effects those changes have made in the past year and a half.

Listening to this episode before Oct 10th? Then you can still check out the free 3-part video series Untangling Your Money Mess. After Oct 10th? Here is the direct link to Jen’s Mastering Money Matters program.
I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi

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Biz Buddies Episode #7 — The Lure of Learning

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Today Jen and Niamh talk about the Lure of Learning, how important it is to keep on learning and growing year by year, but also how you can get lured into thinking that you need to learn more before you take action, which can stop you. Sometimes learning more can be a procrastination tool too.

In 2015 Niamh did a #100booksayear challenge and in that year everything in her business changed because of all of the stuff she learned. Once she knew so much more, she couldn’t just sit back and keep doing things the way she was doing them now that she knew a better way.

This year Jen and Niamh are both doing a #100booksayear challenge and both try to intersperse fiction with all of the nonfiction because of the way our brains process fiction in a different way and sometimes it spurs different kinds of creativity.

There is also a lot of discussion about what works and doesn’t work in courses and challenges. Including Niamh’s fantastic Ignite Video Challenge!

A few of the books and authors we mentioned:

Write, Publish, Repeat

Fiction Unboxed

Iterate and Optimize

Joanna Penn

Write Your Novel from The Middle

Take Off Your Pants!

Ask.


Resources:

Jen’s new free guide Happy Money Habits with funnel connected! Check it out here.

Jen’s Podcast Power Planning Session– yes Jen finally got a sales page up!

Terra Milo– Tech Girl

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Biz Buddies Episode #6 — What’s Up September?

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In today’s episode Jen and Niamh jam about the kids going back to school, the school commute, schedules changing, the rhythm of the school year and the pains in the butt that come along with it, as well as the ease once we get back in step with it all.

Niamh is doing her fantastic 30-day Ignite Video Challenge! Want to join in Jen’s circle so she can watch your videos every day, comment on them and support your through the journey? Here is the link to join and be in Jen’s Circle! It’s never too late to start!

We also talked more about the results from Niamh’s Challenges With Impact Program. This will be available to the public in October, after the current crop of live students finish and after the Ignite Video Challenge is over. So if you want to learn how to create Challenges With Impact too, stay tuned for when this becomes available to you!


Resources:

The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks

Jen’s Podcast Power Planning Session

Jen’s Mastering Money Matters program

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