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Episode #126 — Finding Balance with Shelia Heard

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Is it a constant struggle to find balance in your life? Today on Financial Fluency, I have Shelia Heard with me. Shelia is a retired Army veteran and the founder of My Life. My Terms Movement. On the show, Shelia will help provide tips to help keep things more in balance.

Shelia tells me that she originally didn’t plan to retire from the Army and jump right into her business. Sadly, one family tragedy after another came year after year for Shelia. First, her daughter got sick and lost her eyesight and mobility. After that, her youngest son was diagnosed with a mental illness. And the year after, her oldest son passed away and her younger son was charged with the murder.

Shelia works with all kinds of women to help them find awareness to get them to understand where (and why) they are now. To her, shifting your mindset is the first step to change.

Quotes from the Show

“This is my life. I need to be responsible for it.”

“You can’t see everything. You have to listen to the coach…who is it that you want to be like? Who is it that you want to become? What can you do to have that life that you want?”

Shelia’s Personal Message

“Control self, control your life. Pain is unavoidable, suffering is a choice. Why: The storm can blow you any way but loose; however, you can position yourself to blow every which way and still come out focused and ready to take the next step despite the odds.”

To learn more about Shelia, visit her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/livingthejoyfullife/


#126 — Finding Balance with Shelia Heard

Shelia Heard, a retired Army veteran and founder of the My Life. My Terms™ Movement is notorious for refusing to give up on self despite the circumstances. Her resilience will inspire you. You will feel power boiling up inside your gut, until it bursts open, freeing you from the control suffering and sorrow once had over you. That’s because Shelia believes that while pain is unavoidable, suffering is a choice. She will invite you to choose freedom, to choose happiness, to choose life…on your own terms.

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Let’s Keep the Conversation Going

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Jen x

Episode #125 — Crushworthy Branding with Minling Chuang

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Branding is more than the website, logo, and graphic. Branding is perception. How you are perceived by others. So instead of focusing on the visuals, start by focusing how you can emotionally connect to your audience and building a strong bond with your potential clients and customers. This will help you build loyalty and become known as an authority brand.

On this episode, Minling tells the story of her crush on Tom. Tom is so amazing. He cares about others, he gives back every day and when Minling is with him she feels like a better person too. Who is Tom? It’s actually a brand. A shoe brand that gives away one pair of shoes for every pair purchased. The way Minling feels about Tom’s brand is exactly the way we all want our clients and customers to feel about us and our brands. Mingling talks about what individuals and companies can do to help create that kind of connection and feeling with customers.

Minling also shares the story of her journey from doing marketing for big brands through an agency, to trying to start her first company and eventually coming back to her love of branding for small businesses.

You can connect with Minling Chuang via her website at http://brandfameschool.com.

http://facebook.com/minlingchuang

http://instagram.com/minlingchuang

And you can get a free Branding Masterclass right here: http://brandfameschool.com/masterclass


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#125- Crushworthy Branding with Minling Chuang

Minling Chuang has 8+ years of experience in branding and marketing, working on top brands such as Nestle Toll House, Lean Cuisine, Toyota, and UBM. While at Nestle, Minling launched a $54 Million product for Lean Cuisine that also won Product of the Year. Minling holds an MBA from Indiana University and a BA from the University of Southern California. She has been featured in the Huffington Post.

If you enjoyed this episode you can subscribe to Financial Fluency here on iTunes and listen every week. If you like what you hear, don’t forget to subscribe, rate and leave an awesome iTunes review.

Let’s Keep the Conversation Going

If you’re enjoying the podcasts and something has lit a fire for you, carry on the conversation over on the Financial Fluency Facebook Group. And if you are interested in creating some Happy Money Habits, check out my free PDF here!

Jen x

Episode #119—Loving to Be Me with Katie Kozlowski

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How would you look at yourself differently if you were hit by a taxi while walking home? For Katie Kozlowski, it was a wakeup call for her on that tragic night, and the accident made her recognize that she had a lot more to do with her life. Katie has now dedicated her life to guide both herself and her clients to self-love and mindfulness. In addition to coaching, Katie is the creator of Loving to Be Me. She also does voice acting for children shows, advertisements, and much more as well.

On the show, Katie brings up her background and how she has been singing and performing her whole life. Before her taxi accident, she was a brand ambassador for a liquor company. Katie mentioned she had destructive behaviors in the past, too. She grew up with alcoholism in her family and that subconsciously affected her into her adult life.

At the time of her accident, she wasn’t in a great relationship, and she felt herself spiraling down. One night, she got stood up by her boyfriend and started thinking suicidal thoughts “Does any one care if I die?” Seconds later she got hit by a taxi. And she had a chance to reassess how she was living and thinking, and that’s when she got on the track of mindfulness. She asks listeners on the show to think about this: “Are the things you’re doing self-loving or destructive?”

Katie tells me that once she started sharing her story, she began to inspire people. She never intended to build an empire, but Katie wanted to make something of her mess and use it for good.

Powerful Quotes from Katie

“Truth resonates so powerfully because what you’re saying is true…Anything you’re looking for you have inside. You don’t need to go into debt to find it.”

“Once you find it inside of yourself—it shows up.”

“When it comes to sales and running a business, you have to learn to charge and own your value.”

“If you have negative space (emotions or a bank account), don’t run away from it or cover it up. Sit it in and think about what you’re going to fill it with.”

To learn more about Katie, visit her site: www.lovingtobeme.com or follow her on social media:

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Join a 7-day creative journey with Katie at  www.lovingtobeme.com/p/expressyourtrueself it’s held on the second week of each month for free.

Katie’s voice over work can be found at her SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/katiekozlowski

 

#119 Loving to Be Me with Katie Kozlowski

Katie Kozlowski is a self-love and mindfulness coach and the creator of Loving To Be Me. After being hit full on by a taxi at 30 years old and walking away completely unharmed, Katie received her “wake up call” from God and dedicated the rest of her life to teaching others the value and importance of loving yourself as you are. Katie combines personal experience, NLP, EFT, and other cutting edge mindfulness technique help people recover from trauma, personal challenges, and low self-esteem to create a more loving relationship with the self.

If you enjoyed this episode you can subscribe to Financial Fluency here on iTunes and listen every week. If you like what you hear, don’t forget to subscribe, rate and leave an awesome iTunes review.

Let’s Keep the Conversation Going

If you’re enjoying the podcasts and something has lit a fire for you, carry on the conversation over on the Financial Fluency Facebook Group. And if you are interested in creating some Happy Money Habits, check out my free PDF here!

Jen x