Fierce Feminine Leadership

You’re a driven leader who is accustomed to setting goals. But let’s be honest, they probably don’t always pan out. Is it a willpower issue? Are your targets unrealistic? Do you maybe need a new approach? Why does success remain elusive?    To answer these questions, Eleanor sought out the insight of a world-renowned researcher on the topic of setting and achieving goals. Dr. Emily Balcetis is an American social psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychology at NYU. Her research focuses on people’s perception of the world and how our motivations, goals, and emotions influence it, and she’s here today to shed light on the science behind setting and achieving goals.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/ai37

Having a solid money mindset is essential when it comes to growing and scaling your business. Being a CEO and founder requires a comprehensive skill set that includes great financial management practices. However, Eleanor is here this week to talk specifically about your relationship with money.   Tune in this week to hear the money beliefs that may be sabotaging your business and why you must examine if your money beliefs are helping or harming you. Eleanor hopes this list helps you see where you might already share in these beliefs, or find an opportunity for you to practice new beliefs.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/ai36

What does it take to be a remarkable person? In an age where there’s such a fascination with personal brands, how do you become labeled a remarkable person? And is it possible to do so without trying?    To answer these questions, Eleanor is speaking to Silicon Valley legend, Guy Kawasaki. Guy is the chief evangelist of Canva, host of the Remarkable People podcast, executive fellow of the Haas School of Business, adjunct professor of the University of New South Wales, and author of 15 books. His newest release, Think Remarkable, explores his philosophy on what it takes to be a remarkable person, and he’s here to share his insights.   Join Eleanor and Guy on this episode as they discuss what people get so wrong about cultivating an identity as a remarkable person, and Guy’s three-part framework for building a remarkable personal brand without trying.    Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/ai35

Eleanor is exploring the art of unstoppable success inside a ‘boring’ business this week. Think businesses like vending machines or laundromats. Eleanor’s guest today is a globally recognized entrepreneur who built a laundry and dry cleaning company from nothing, self-funded it, and franchised it, and she’s here to tell you all about it.   Rechelle Balanzat is the founder and CEO of Juliette: a fast-growing laundry and dry cleaning service. She’s a visionary who has revolutionized the world of laundry, and she’s regarded as one of the most influential leaders in her category. Rechelle is offering her expertise on what it takes to create unstoppable success, and her top tips for entrepreneurs who have an idea brewing inside of them that they want to bring to market.    Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/ai34

Have you ever been in a room with powerful women and started to feel less than? Why does it feel terrible when you see someone else’s success take off? Do you judge or feel the need to compete with other women who have become successful?   Listen in this week to hear five ways scarcity uniquely manifests for women and how it sabotages your growth. You’ll learn the overarching beliefs in a patriarchal society that are keeping you mired in scarcity, and what it takes for women to get over their scarcity thinking and truly uplift one another.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/ai33

Turning your passion into a scalable business is the path most entrepreneurs follow, but there are other ways to engineer a scalable business model. Eleanor’s guest this week is a master at uncovering scalable ideas.   Eric Lam is the founder of the popular newsletter Exploding Ideas where he helps his 10,000+ subscribers discover startup ideas in million-dollar niches. Exploding Ideas is a market research and growth firm that specializes in data analytics and digital marketing to identify and capitalize on tailwind opportunities.    Tune in this week to hear Eric share his tips for building your own mailing list and how entrepreneurs like you can begin leveraging market research to engineer scalable business ideas.    Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/ai32  

Your scalable offer is a key piece of infrastructure that allows you to create more cash, influence, and freedom in your business, but what happens when you create one that isn’t selling? How do you figure out what’s wrong? And what do you fix first?    If you’re running into the very common problem of your scalable offer not selling the way you hoped, listen in this week. Eleanor is here to walk you through her internal process for addressing the issues you might be facing if your offer isn’t selling.    Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/ai31  

Do you find personal finance confusing? How can you manage your money more effectively to achieve financial freedom? And how can you turn your business into a potential source of generational wealth for you and the people you care most about?    To explore the topic of generational wealth this week, Eleanor is joined by certified financial planner Rachael Camp. Rachael is the founder of Camp Wealth: a financial planning firm that helps high-earners and entrepreneurs build and preserve wealth, and she’s here today to share bite-sized nuggets of wisdom on how you can start thinking about building generational wealth. She’s sharing her top tips on transforming your relationship with money, and touching on topics like diversification, profitability, monitoring your cashflow, and emergency funds.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/ai30

One of the challenges that comes with scaling your company is when you’re faced with clients who don’t want to work with your team; they only want to work with you. The ability to scale to the point that your clients get as much out of your team as they would with you creates a huge boom in your advancement as an entrepreneur.   Nancy Duarte is the CEO of Duarte Inc., a communications expert, the author of six best-selling books, and a legend in Silicon Valley. For over 35 years, Nancy and her team have worked with the highest-performing brands and executives in the world, but to do this, she had to transform her brand from a one-woman show into a recognized house of experts. If you’re ready to go from working directly with your clients to stepping back to become a full-time visionary CEO, listen in to hear Nancy’s wisdom on growing and scaling your company in this way.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/ai29

One lucrative way to provide value to your email list is through quiz funnels which perform 2-3x better than static content. My guest this week happens to be an expert on quiz funnels and is breaking them down for us.   Chanti Zak is a quiz funnel strategiest, a growth consultant, and a coach who is obsessed with psychology, interactive marketing, and getting brag-worthy results for her clients. She has crafted high-yield quizzes for some of the top women entrepreneurs in the online space. In this conversation, she walks us through the psychology behind quizzes, the types of businesses they are best-suited for, and the three things it’s best to have in place before you create a quiz.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/ai28  

To be a successful entrepreneur, you have to be willing to consistently work on your priorities. You need sustained focus and urgency, and something I like to call aggressive implementation.   Tune in this week to learn what aggressive implementation is, why it’s crucial to your entrepreneurial success, and the five steps to becoming an aggressive implementor. The time to aggressively work towards your goals is now, and this episode will show you how.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/ai27  

Do you feel called to write, publish, and sell a book that makes consistent bank and has a huge impact over the long term? Or maybe you feel sick and tired of marketing, just want to sell, make an impact, and rest on your laurels. Either way, this episode Rob shares all the tips that will help you do just that.   Rob Fitzpatrick is the real deal when it comes to creating books, workshops, courses, and products that turn people into super-fans. Rob has been running businesses for the past 20 years and has authored three books about his learnings along the way, which have sold over 250K copies. Listen in this week as Eleanor quizzes Rob on how to create an evangelical customer base whose word-of-mouth does the work of selling for you.    Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/ai26  

If you’re a service provider who wants to build a scalable and sustainable business, this is the episode for you. The reality is there aren’t many resources available out there on navigating the transition from a service-based offer to a scalable one.    To minimize undue suffering, Eleanor is here this week to share a powerful five-step process for effectively cutting back on one-on-one work so you can scale your business without running into any cashflow crunches.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/ai25  

If you’re a founder who’s tired of cookie-cutter marketing solutions that don’t work, and want to take a more sophisticated approach to marketing in 2024, this is a must-listen episode.    According to Eleanor’s guest this week, marketing is one of the most deeply misunderstood functions in modern business. Emily Kramer helps startups build marketing through her companies, MKT1 Capital and MKT1 Community, where she acts as an educator, newsletter writer, course creator, and investor. She’s here this week to highlight how founders have the completely wrong marketing mindset, and to offer a wealth of expertise on optimizing your marketing funnel.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/ai24

Are you ready to bring a spirit of all-in commitment, unwavering dedication, and no-quit energy to your vision, goals, and relationships in 2024? The reality is that most entrepreneurs show up with half-committed energy, which doesn’t just slow down progress, but subtly blocks it altogether.   Join Eleanor this week as she walks you through what’s required of you to create the future you want and strategies that will help you transform half-committed, self-doubting, second-guessing energy into the pure power of total commitment.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/ai23

Despite the continuous stream of advice available on tackling the gender pay gap, progress in this arena remains frustratingly slow. So, what’s the real culprit behind this persistent disparity?   To delve into the underlying forces driving the gender pay gap, Eleanor is joined by Dr. Claudia Goldin, a leading authority in this field. Dr. Goldin is a Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard. Listen in as Dr. Goldin draws from her extensive research spanning decades to highlight why the gender pay gap exists at a deep fundamental level, debunk the prevailing myths about the gender pay gap, and identify the key levers we can activate to change it.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/ai22

To scale your business without working harder and without unnecessary complexity, you must create scalable offers. To do that, you have to package your knowledge into assets, also known as intellectual property. And when it comes to packaging, protecting, and leveraging your business’s intellectual property, Eleanor’s guest this week is the expert.   Andrea Henry is a Cambridge-educated lawyer with over 15 years of experience working with business owners at every stage of the entrepreneurial journey. Through innovative legal structures and a wealth of experience, she helps entrepreneurs leverage their intellectual property to create the life and legacy they want. Tune in this week to learn how to package, protect, and leverage your business’s intellectual property.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/ai21

Are you currently working on the big projects that you know will set you up for long-term success? Or are you distracting yourself by prioritizing the little bitty things that feel predictable and safe, but leave you exactly where you are?   Join Eleanor on this episode to discover what doing the work that truly moves the needle entails, and how a certain type of procrastination is preventing you from putting big projects into motion. You’ll hear the role of personal alarm systems in per-day and per-project procrastination, and Eleanor’s tips for putting an end to procrastination that’s keeping you stuck.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/ai20

What does powerful leadership sound like to you? Is it loud and booming? Can it sound soft and steely? Are you using your voice as an instrument of communication in your leadership?   This week, Eleanor is speaking with vocal coach and author of Permission to Speak, Samara Bay. Samara has been a Hollywood dialect coach for over a decade with clients all over the world, and she joins Eleanor to discuss why most of us have learned to speak from a fear-based place, how to harness a love-based approach in using and trusting your voice, and the powerful leader you become when you anchor in your message.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/ai19

Join Eleanor on this episode to discover the three main side effects of pursuing a big goal. You’ll hear why setting goals you don’t always achieve isn’t a problem in business, how you might be making the experience of not hitting goals more painful than necessary, and the major wins you’ll experience just by pursuing goals.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/ai18