Thriving Entrepreneur

Success in business is something we all want.  Isn’t it? And yet so many people in business never really reach the level of success they hope for.  Why do you think that is?  One of the key reasons many people fail is because they do not have a plan to succeed.  We wake up in the morning and just expect that success with have miraculously shown up overnight.  That couldn’t be less true.  It has been said, “Successful people do every day what other people aren’t willing to do”.  The truth is success takes work!  From performers to business people the ones who succeed are the ones who work at it – diligently. But there are some very solid things you can DO to succeed.  These are the kinds of things we can’t do by accident these are things we need to have planned out (and then follow them) So today I am delighted to be joined by a phenomenally successful women one of THE go to people that I know for business advice.  The founder and CEO of eWomen Network, the one, the only, the amazing – SANDRA YANCEY!

Food!  No matter who you are and no matter what you do, you have to eat.  For some food is not an issue in their life and for others food may be the single most difficult part of every day.  Food should be the fuel that allows us to do all that we were created to do and to be, but are we fueling our success or are we unintentionally keeping ourselves from living at our maximum level of success all because of the way we are fueling our efforts? We all know what it is like to get a bad tank of gas in our car.  Many of us even have certain gas stations we don’t go to or specifically do go to because of how it impacts our cars ability to get us to where we are going.  And yet when it comes to filling our own tank what are we putting in it. Now I have been very upfront about my own lifestyle changes and about taking better care of myself and I am learning to how to make better choices, but to help us really get some understanding around food and how much it effects our lives and our businesses Thriving Entre

Have you ever watched a little child wake up on their own, not a teen but a small child still full of wonder who has just spent the night dreaming magical dreams. They pop out of bed ready to go, their little minds are filled with joy and wonder at each little thing that happens.  They are happy, excited and completely FULL of energy!  Have you ever heard someone use the expression, “you have to get up early to keep up with that kid”?  Were you the child they used to say it about? So what happens?  Why aren’t we still that way?  Why do we sometimes give in to living a life of emptiness?  A life where the promise of a better tomorrow seems like a distant if not forgotten memory.  We need help.  We all want to THRIVE in our lives and in our business. Today we are going to help you explode JOY and fulfillment back into your life Host Steve Kidd is joined by fulfillment specialist, author, and life coach April Adams. Together we are going to help you release the excited child in you back to living lif

I don’t know why they didn’t buy?   Or how about, “I really thought they were going to buy”? Have you ever said that? Why don’t we know?  Wouldn’t it be great if everyone who wanted our product has a sign saying, “I want to buyt”! What if they do and we are just missing it? Customers give us signals.  They rarely are going to say, “Hey!  Let me buy your stuff!”  But in many ways the things they do and say are saying exactly that.  These are called “Buying Signals” We know how to build the like, admire and trust with a person. We know we have a product they want and need.  Maybe we even thought they were going to get it..and … then … they didn’t Today we are going to learn how to not miss it anymore.  How to recognize buying signals our customers are giving them and then just simply invite them to do business with us/ Host Steve Kidd is joined by Award winning Sales executive and founder of Sales Maven Nikki Rausch.  They wull teach us today what we need to learn a simple and powerful skills to increase

You can feel it inside of you.   There is a message in you that is longing to come out.  So why do you hold back?  We were born with a purpose and a passion, but often our own thoughts and fears get in the way of us releasing the message we have been given to the world.  We say to ourselves that our lives aren’t that interesting.  We have bought into a belief that we are less than others. Have you ever said to yourself:  “I am just a ___________”? In truth who would you rather learn about how to be a good mom from, a doctor with no kids, or a mom of 3?  Who would you rather learn about being a great business person from, a person who has seen hard times in business and come through them or a person with a degree? No matter what you have been through in life there is a message that has been born out of that journey.  The road you have already travelled is a road someone else is just getting ready to step out on. What we often need is some help.  Someone who can step in and help us get out of our own way

What should I do next?  Have you ever felt that in life?  Have you ever read a really good book and wanted to read the next one in the series?  Have you ever purchased something from the store and couldn’t wait until the next time you could get more of it? On the flip side; have you ever gotten lost in a store trying to find something or gone to where you thought it should be and couldn’t find it?  Have you ever not done business with someone because you were too confused to make a decision? When was the last time you bought something you didn’t intend to buy because you happened to see it on your way to or from what you came to get? We have discussed on Thriving Entrepreneur many times before about not selling a customer but simply sharing what they need or are looking for with them.  What we want to do is create a relationship with our clients.  We need to develop a process to take the relationship with a potential client all the way to a GREAT repeat customer.  Normally we start with a free offer,

What do you see when you look in the mirror?  Do you see the amazing, vibrant, talented person you are?  OR Do you concentrate on the blemishes and your hair length, color, or style? Not liking ourselves is such an easy trap to fall into and a VERY hard cycle to get out of.  We are often taught that we need to smile and be gracious when someone compliments us, but very rarely taught how to take in what the person is saying and it embrace that message rather than the negative message that constantly is playing in our head. Today I have some news for you – YOU ARE AMAZING!  Now before you shrug that off let that land and take a minute to let that sink in.  You see true humility it having a right perspective of yourself.  And again I have news for you – you are EXACTLY and PERFECTLY who you were made to be.  There is NO ONE in the world that can be you! So why is this important to your business?  Because in order for our business to grow and for our marketing to be effective we have to START from the place

What do the people you want as clients think of you?  Do they see you as a member of their group or as an annoying outsider that is always trying to sell them something?  OR  do they recognize your name but have no idea what you do? When we think of approaching our potential clients, often we get it wrong from the start.  We need to truly be a contributing member of our “tribe”.  Our tribe is the group of people just like us that could be our potential clients.  However people don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.  We all know the type of person we don’t want to be perceived as.  That person who enters a room and immediately begins selling you something.  The kind of person who corners you in a social situation to “pitch” you.   You know you don’t want to be this person! You know you don’t want to be that person everyone avoids. LOL  Now ask yourself; how is my approach and presence on social media?  What we want is to be the person everyone seeks out. How do we do that?  To sta

Do you avoid speaking with your tech people?  How many times have you felt like your computer hated you?  Do you ever find yourself screaming at the computer screen because a program won’t do what you want it to?  For the average person technology is complicated and something most people try to avoid as much as they can. When we try to get help often we are made to feel stupid.  Worse is when the person you ask for help seems to literally be speaking a whole other language.  But you do need to know and embrace the importance of technology in our business in the 21st century.  You need to have the ability to be digitally fluent.  To communicate, collaborate and connect using the tools that are now available to us.     Sadly for an entrepreneur the failure to embrace technologies, especially the things like social media and your online presence can be the death of your business.  In order to not just survive but THRIVE in your business you need to speak geek.  You need to be digitally fluent.  In other words

Putting things off.  Are you an expert at that? I will do that tomorrow!  Have you ever said that? How often do you feel overwhelmed?  Do you find yourself putting off a project because even thinking about it stresses you out?  We all of things in our life we put off.  Maybe it is health issues.  Maybe you know what your business needs to succeed but you keep putting it off.  Maybe it is something you always going to start tomorrow.   Maybe it is because it is something you don’t excel. OR maybe you have even subconsciously created chaos in your life to keep you from dealing with something.  A phenomenal women and the owner of The Daisy Chain Group, Trudy Simmons brings these questions to us: Do you love what you do and feel you’ve found your calling in life?Do you have an abundance of great ideas? But also some pressing demands?Do you have the energy and resources to invest in your business, but need help knowing where to focus or what to do next?  As Henry Ford said “If you think you can or you think yo

As an entrepreneur, what do we do when a crisis comes?  When we have issues that come up in our lives the most common thing we want to do is to avoid it.  We hope that maybe if we don’t deal with it then it will go away.   The more empowering AND TERRIFYING  approach is to take an issue that comes up in our life and face it.  And then there is our willingness to accept help from others, even the people who love us.  We don’t want to be a burden, we are afraid that if we ask for help.  The truth is that our true empowerment comes when we bring all of us to everything we do.  This is the most true when we learn to ask for help when we need it. There are people who want to help!  Steve Kidd is joined by two amazing ladies who help women during perhaps one of the most difficult and frightening things that can happen in life – being diagnosed with breast cancer.  Their organization gives help and support not only to women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer but also to their families and support system. 

Do you know how much your health effects everything you do?  As a women running a small business you probably know that if you are sick that your company will suffer and I think all of us know how much less we can do when we are really sick, but what about in our day to day life?  How much of what we struggle with can be traced back to a health problem we don’t even know we have? We may know that every day we don’t take care of ourselves we don’t live our best possible life.  But what about the things we doing even know about, how do those effect us? Our business could be better, our marriage could be stronger, even our emotions will be better when we take the time to take good care of our health and to know better how to take good care of ourselves. Whether it is something you truly just need to understand, or it is simply a matter of taking our health seriously in order to be our best, we need to invest in being at our best.  It isn’t enough to have the information or to know how we can live healthy we

The host of Thriving Entrepreneur, Steve Kidd has been in business literally all of his life.  Steve began selling door-to-door at age 5, was a sales manager by 19 and has been coaching businesses and business people since 1988.  And today he is here to help YOU! The son of a minister and the grandson of a one as well, Steve has travelled the world offering help and insight to people from many different walks of life.  His unique gifting for taking things that are seemingly impossible and framing them in such a way that they become exciting opportunities has made him a favorite person to turn to for answers to question in both life and business. Today Steve will take a rare opportunity to answer questions that have come up including things like: What should I name my business?Why is a “free” website not always so free?How can I really be my complete passionate self in all I do?I always compliments everyone else but no celebrates me, how do I change this?Do I HAVE to sell? No really do I have to?What is the

We can tell you that almost all businesses are losing money every day.  Don’t let your business be one of them! We can show you a way for you to: Get more clientsMake more profitHave a bigger company What if you could do ALL of this without doing any more work than you already are. Would you be interested?  The low hanging fruit for money and profit in our business is all of the work you have already done.  Within every Tweet, every FaceBook post and each of your blog posts you have already written there is just sitting there screaming for you to use it again CONTENT.  A Book is already written by you waiting for you to put it together.  All you need to do it to repurpose the content you already have and put it all in one convenient easy to access place.  Learn: Why everyone in business SHOULD be creating booksWhere can you can find content for your bookHow to get my book published  How to get started on your book today    You are a writer!  Now you just need to get published.   Host Steve Kidd is joined

Live the best version of yourself.  Whether you are listening to this live or years from now TODAY is your day to get real, get inspired and get all of who you are into your life and business.  In order to grow your business, in order to be profitable, in order to sell people want to know the REAL you.  So as of today we are going to embrace our lives and our complete real story.  All of what has been has brought you to where you are but DOES NOT define where you are going, how much you can succeed, how high you can climb or how far you can make it! Host Steve Kidd will lead the way by sharing some of the challenges he has faced. We are joined by super special guest celebrity trainer and the founder of NN90 Coach Anthony Elfonzia. Coach Anthony CAN show you how to transform your mind, your body and your spirit.  Lisa Nichols (The Secret) recently exposed her very personal struggle with her weight on the Steve Harvey show.  She announced the brand new Non-Negotiable 90 Day Challenge (NN90) that features Coac

When it comes to marketing fundamentals do you feel overwhelmed or confused? There are SO many voices saying "do this", "do that", and the dangerous trap is to try them all! You hear someone share what worked for them so you run to your office and implement it and then before it even has a chance to work you hear another great idea…so you change everything. Does this sound familiar? Are you ready for a change? Today I am joined by my friend Dr Minette Riordan who is an expert at helping women remove the fear, doubt and lack of clarity from their business and develop real freedom in their life and business. Together today we are going to help you eliminate the confusion and overwhelm you feel about marketing and breakthrough to a place of freedom and growth in your business Steve and Minette will help us understand what it means to market your business, how to know what marketing will work for your company, whether or not you need money to make your marketig work. Join us and get 1-3 tips you can start u

Managing people can be a difficult task.  Doing it gracefully can seem nearly impossible some days.  Surprising though, even worse than the difficulty of managing people is the trap of doing it all ourselves.  We need to remember the importance of letting go.  As an entrepreneur it is so easy to always see every task as being something we have to do.  The truth though is much different.  All distractions are equal and in your business the distraction of busyness can be the worst.  We need to learn how to identify not only our strengths but also our weaknesses.  Then as we have said many times, we need to STOP DOING WHAT YOU SUCK AT!  Let your brilliance shine and allow others a place where their brilliance can shine as well. We need to discover how to assign people where they will shine and then lead them with grace.  It is our job as the owner of our company and the CEO of our business to create an environment of empowerment.  By allowing our people to shine and creating a graceful place for accomplish

The use of video in our business can be one of the most dramatically impactful marketing efforts for our business, but more importantly may be one of the most empowering things you can do for yourself! There are those who grew up dreaming of being a star and just can’t wait to get in front of the camera, and there are those of you who are terrified at the thought of being filmed.  You know who you are. On the topic of video I can’t stress just how amazing you are enough to you.  Let me assure you, I get where you are coming from!  I do! For YEARS the main image for my online presence was this awesome picture of a dog using a laptop. I LOVED IT.  But it took me a long time to realize… I was hiding.  So I have begun to embrace all that I am and allow ALL of me to be available for you.  My desire is for you to learn and grow.  The best way I can help you with that is by modeling it.  So no matter where you are and what the thoughts of being on video are for you, from excited to terrified and every

What we think about money and how we plan our financial life has a HUGE impact on our business.  It is imperative as business owners that we don’t just let our money be controlled by our accountant or worse yet be out of control. Money loves to work within a plan.  Whether it be planning for retirement or having a plan to make sure the bills are paid on time, your money can only thrive when it is working within a plan. Thriving Entrepreneur host Steve Kidd is joined today by Hilary Hendershott. Hilary is a 2nd generation financial planner who has worked with some of the wealthiest people in America.  Hilary has taken all of her experience as a financial planner, as well as all the training her father gave her to develop a plan for you to know how your money behaviors impact you and how to break through to a place of real financial growth which will lead to financial freedom. Today we will learn: ·     How important it is to have a money plan ·     Why as a business owner you need to understand what is hap

Motivation.  Inspiration No matter what kind of work you do you need to be inspired, you need to be motivated in order to bring the best you every day.  We all need inspiration in our lives to drive us to achieve more, to climb higher and do better.  This is especially true if you own your own business.  As an Entrepreneur, you need to know what inspires you and how to keep yourself motivated. Thriving Entrepreneur host Steve Kidd strives to make every episode one of your sources for not only knowledge and skills, but also for motivational ideas and the inspiration we all need to keep our business growing. If you are looking to better your life.  If you continually reach for everything you do be driving yourself to that next level.  Then todays episode is for you! Today Steve is joined by his good friend Ernie Villanueva.  Ernie is a master salesman with record shattering sales, but more importantly he has dedicated his life to travelling the world and inspiring people to do more, be more and see just how