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Episode #75 Simply Smart Business with Gemma Went

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Today I am happy to have Gemma Went with me. Gemma and I have been friends online for quite some time, but we don’t get to spend much face time together, so we were so excited to have this chance to speak over video! Gemma Went is a Digital Marketing & Online Business Consultant who works with small business owners to help them bring their dreams to life online. She won an entrepreneur of the year award for her first business 10 years ago, a digital marketing agency, before becoming the Social Media Director at two London agencies. She regularly speaks and writes on the topic of business strategy, social media and digital marketing.

Our conversation today is focusing on how Gemma got her start in online business. She’s had more than one business, but she started her current business 3.5 years ago when she was pregnant and found herself without a job. She really had to make things work. We also talk about the importance of having multiple income streams when you are self-employed and Gemma’s suggestions for getting yours started.

To check out Gemma’s Academy go here. To sign up for the waitlist for her next mastermind, go here.

Quotes 

  • “I’ve got a real passion for small businesses and mums that want to make it themselves, because that’s how I got started.” – Gemma
  • “For me it was about really understanding how much I needed [for childcare and living expenses] and I started there.” – Gemma
  • “No one’s going to stop a mum with a plan, right?” – Gemma
  • “I find launches quite overwhelming and stressful, so I want to streamline [my launch process] and find something I’m really comfortable with.” – Gemma
  • “I think one of the hardest parts of online business is going from having the idea to actually making The Thing.” – Jen

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Resources 

Denise Duffield Thomas on The School of Self-Mastery with Adrienne Dorison

Bushra Azhar’s Sold Out Launch Framework

gemmawentGemma Went is a Digital Marketing & Online Business Consultant who works with small business owners to help them bring their dreams to life online. She won an entrepreneur of the year award for her first business 10 years ago, a digital marketing agency, before becoming the Social Media Director at two London agencies. She regularly speaks and writes on the topic of business strategy, social media and digital marketing.

She recently launched The Simply Smart Business Academy, an online membership site that teaches small business owners everything they need to create, manage and grow a business online.

To connect with Gemma, check out her website, her Facebook page, her Twitter, and her LinkedIn.

Episode #72 Manifest Your Awesomeness with Jennifer Trask

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Today I am so happy to be speaking with the wonderful Jennifer Trask. Jennifer is a seasoned entrepreneur, having been in business for nine years. Jennifer Trask is a mindset coach and business advisor for coaches and healers. Through her private coaching practice and online programs, Jennifer helps her clients break out of lack and manifest abundant mindsets so that they can grow their businesses and become the catalysts for change they came to be.

In our conversation, we cover in detail the evolution of Jennifer’s career. She came from a entrepreneurial family, so it was a natural direction for her to head in, but she’s got some great advice for first time entrepreneurs too. We learn about what to do when you a reach a plateau or grow stagnant in your dreams and how to manifest the life and business you are looking for.

Quotes 

  • “The best thing that happened to me in MBA school is that I went into the mentorship program.” -Jennifer Trask
  • “A social media plan is part of a marketing plan, but it’s not necessary the be all end all of [your marketing strategy].” – Jennifer Trask
  • “Now that so many people have personal brands, exactly following someone else’s blueprint isn’t the right thing for your brand.” -Jen Turrell
  • “I wanted the freedom to be who I wanted to be, go where I wanted to go, and make my own decisions, and I really didn’t like this idea of someone telling me what do to, and where to go.” – Jennifer Trask
  • “While I was traveling I was maintaining my business, it wasn’t growing, it was maintaining. And that caused me to grow stagnant.” – Jennifer Trask
  • “Happiness in life doesn’t come from staying where you are too long.” – Jennifer Trask
  • “People make big change when they are either in deep pain or highly inspired, I was in deep pain and I was like ‘it’s sink or swim’” – Jennifer Trask
  • “No matter who you voted for, the reactions from around the world show that a lot of people need coaching. “ Jennifer Trask
  • “Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.” – Jennifer Trask
  • “This election is such a good example of the Law of Attraction in action. What you focus on is what you attract, and what you focus on expands.” – Jennifer Trask

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Resources 

Abraham Hicks

To connect with Jennifer, check out her website, Facebook page, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube channel. Specifically, she’s sharing a video series called “Break Out Of Lack & Jump Into Abundance” Check it out here: http://jennifer-trask.com/abundance

jennifertraskJennifer Trask is a mindset coach and business advisor for coaches and healers. Through her private coaching practice and online programs, Jennifer helps her clients break out of lack and create abundant mindsets so that they can grow their businesses and become the catalysts for change they came to be.

After her first business failed, Jennifer overcame her own limiting beliefs and was able to successfully create a full-time coaching business that now enables her to travel the world as a digital nomad. Jennifer has now traveled to 27 countries and lived in 8 of them for an extended period of time. With customers and clients in over 5 continents and reaching over 7,500+ coaches and healers online, Jennifer is living her passion of helping others profitably live theirs.

Jennifer has a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing and an MBA in International Business. She is a Huffington Post blogger, a featured contributor in the award-winning book, ‘Living College Life In The Front Row’ by celebrated coach Jon Vroman, and has been featured in publications such as Inspired Coach Magazine and Upwork Digital Nomad series. When she is not traveling the globe, Jennifer calls St. John’s, NL, Canada home with her wonderfully nutty family, including her six nieces and nephews.

Episode #70 Build Your Hustle-Free Business with Amy Birks

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Today’s episode is a Book Club episode! I’m here with Amy Birks, author of The Hustle-Free Business: A Simple 7-Step Plan to Grow, Get Results, and Have FUN!. Also known as The Strategy Ninja, Amy uses her GPS brain to help mission-driven, heart-centered coaches create customized strategies to grow their businesses and get the results that matter to them FAST, and with fun, ease and purpose.

In our conversation, we cover her wildly popular Motivation Mondays, how they make participants blush, (you have to be there), a huge shout-out to the inimitable Yola, (who I can put you in contact with, just send me an email), and the finer points of what it takes to get a hustle-free business.

Quotes 

  • “I make it my life’s mission that everyone knows the most epic version of themselves, and everyone around them knows that as well.” – Amy
  • “We need to set the intention to start with ourselves to be the best we can be, and then it trickles down into all the different parts of our lives.” – Amy
  • “What is that thing that comes so easily to me that I would just discount that nobody can do it?” – Amy
  • “If you aren’t sure what you want the business model to look like, let’s see what you want your life to look like and let’s create a trajectory to get to that.” – Amy
  • “I know what I’m doing now is helping to get more eyes on people in my community who are doing really powerful things and don’t necessary have the platform themselves yet.” – Amy
  • “Without financial equality, [women] will never have all the other kinds of equality we need.” – Jen
  • “The Western Woman Modern Entrepreneur is going to save the world.” – Amy
  • “You gotta be really clear on who you are, and then create a strategy based on you.” – Amy

To grab a copy of The Hustle-Free Business head over to hustlefreebusiness.com/jen. To connect with Amy, check out her website, her facebook page, and her instagram.

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Resources

Amy’s Book: The Hustle-Free Business: A Simple 7-Step Plan to Grow, Get Results, and Have FUN!

Marie Forleo – B School

To contact Yola for energy work and/organizing help email Jen at Jen@jenturrell.com

Adrienne Dorison

Todd Herman – 90 Day Year

amy-2016-bouganvilla-4Amy Birks can see the future. No, she doesn’t use a crystal ball or some time-travel device. Amy was born with the ability to see the biggest, brightest, most vibrant potential in everyone and everything she encounters. Also known as The Strategy Ninja, she uses her GPS brain to help mission-driven, heart-centered coaches create customized strategies to grow their businesses and get the results that matter to them FAST, and with fun, ease and purpose. Her new international-bestselling book, The Hustle-Free Business – a 7 Step Plan to Grow, Get Results, and Have Fun!, is the purposeful entrepreneur’s secret weapon for growth.