Fierce Feminine Leadership

If you want to know the first and most critical factor driving your ability to scale to seven figures in annual revenue, listen in. You’ll discover how working with the Safi Media team will leave you 6X more likely to scale to this level than the typical North American numbers for women-owned businesses, and the three activities that will dramatically free you up to lead your company.   Get full show notes and more information here: http://www.eleanorbeatonpodcast.com/517

This week, discover the gift and power of giving yourself space to grow. You’ll discover how embracing open time will allow you to get in front of your company and lead it from that place, and three strategies that will help you create the space you need to grow.   Get full show notes and more information here: http://www.eleanorbeatonpodcast.com/516

Entrepreneurship is a deeply creative act, and today, we’re tackling the topic of making time for your creativity. I'm joined by creative powerhouse, Liz Kimball. Liz is a creativity coach, writer, and speaker who is dedicated to helping the next generation of women creators produce the major creative works of their lifetime, and she’s here to offer practical steps you can take to be more creative in your business.   Get full show notes and more information here: http://www.eleanorbeatonpodcast.com/515

To become a true visionary thought leader requires that you have time and space to think deeply. However, in the often urgent, full-on, full-contact sport that is entrepreneurship, the central question then is, how do you find time to do that? Today, I’m talking with client and seven-figure entrepreneur Alison Nail Malone and we’re exploring what it takes to create and protect time for thought leadership, and how to honor the sacredness of open time, even if it feels terrifying right now.    Get full show notes and more information here: http://www.eleanorbeatonpodcast.com/514

Time is one of our most precious assets, especially as our companies grow. Join me on this week’s episode to hear about why time is so important, how you can navigate the complexities of being a boss that try to steal your time, and the three things you can do to - you guessed it - make more time.   Get full show notes and more information here: http://www.eleanorbeatonpodcast.com/513

Listen in as I introduce you to a tool I call The Daily Debrief. I’m offering four questions you can answer to stay anchored in the present moment and recap your day, as well as four questions your team can sit with every day, and how having this simple shutdown routine can help you be present, reflective, and bring an overarching sense of peace to your life.   Get full show notes and more information here: http://www.eleanorbeatonpodcast.com/512

This week, bestselling author, speaker, and nationally-recognized purposeful productivity expert Tanya Dalton gives us a masterclass on how you might approach a social media detox for yourself. She's sharing how she arrived at the decision to step away from social media, what she has turned to instead to grow her sales, and her top tips for evaluating how you're currently showing up.   Get full show notes and more information here: http://www.eleanorbeatonpodcast.com/511

Join us this week to hear the story of Moe Carrick, an in-demand, well-paid, but time-starved consultant who decided to finally take control of her calendar, reinvent her company, and scale past seven figures while taking a month-long sabbatical. She’s sharing the key pieces that have allowed her to create the time freedom she has craved for so long, and what she found challenging along the way.   Get full show notes and more information here: http://www.eleanorbeatonpodcast.com/510

This week, discover why understanding what season of business growth you’re in helps you manage expectations and work towards your goals with a strong game plan. We’re exploring how to know which season you’re in, how to align your initiatives with the correct season to get maximum results, and the downfalls of not pinpointing exactly where you are right now.   Get full show notes and more information here: http://www.eleanorbeatonpodcast.com/509

If you’re ready to tap into the $18 trillion dollar female consumer opportunity, this episode is your how-to guide. You’ll discover why so many companies have failed in their attempts to appeal to the female market, and three strategies for building trust with, connecting with, and selling to women buyers.   Get full show notes and more information here: http://www.eleanorbeatonpodcast.com/508

Join me this week as I show you how to strategically build your leadership skills, and why investing in your development in this way is the best gift you can give yourself. You’ll learn the order in which I built the skills of becoming a founder, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of narrowing your focus.   Get full show notes and more information here: http://www.eleanorbeatonpodcast.com/507

In this replay episode, we’re digging into a topic that not only cannot be ignored, but one that honestly drives me absolutely crazy. Why? It’s the difference between setting yourself free versus producing more headaches for yourself as an entrepreneur.   The terms “growth” and “scale” are often used interchangeably in the business world, but here’s the central idea: they sure as hell aren’t the same thing. Not establishing the difference between these two terms is contributing to the confusion and stress you’re experiencing, and I know that’s not what you’re after.   Keep reading   This is a rampant problem, especially for women entrepreneurs and leaders who all have a greater mission in common. Cash is great, but we want more than that. We want influence, autonomy, and to make an impact. To do that, you need a business that’s simple to run and that doesn’t require all your life force to grow it.   Tune in this week to discover the difference between “growth” and “scaling,” and why this distinction matters.

When I was running my consulting business and first started my coaching practice, each one of my clients had specific, varying needs. For this reason, every proposal or solution I offered was custom-tailored to fit them like a glove. They always got exactly what they needed to solve their specific problems, but there’s just one problem with this approach.   When you create bespoke, custom-built services, you morph what you offer around what your client needs. This makes marketing and selling super easy. However, what isn’t easy is getting back the hours you spend essentially reinventing the wheel with each and every client, which not only creates so much complexity in your business, but also sucks all your time and energy. Keep reading   For those of you who want to stop being the linchpin in your company the way you are now so you can finally create more time and freedom, the solution here is a scalable offer. At Safi Media, we believe in the power of a scalable offer that increases your income without havi

So often in the work I do with my clients, I see women leaders doing highly valuable, complex work selling packaged services, coaching products, or intellectual property. However, when the market wants us to provide customizable, made-to-order contracts and offerings, there’s a huge labor and cognitive strain involved.   Go back 10 years in my business and you’ll see that everything I did was customized. This meant that I was stuck at $250K a year at an absolute maximum. The truth is you can choose to hustle in this way, but like me, you’ll experience an earning ceiling that seems impossible to break through, and not only that, you’ll be intellectually exhausted. Keep reading   If you’ve been experiencing a revenue plateau, it might be time to audit the complexity in your business and release it. When you can create an offer that doesn’t require extra legwork from you to deliver, whether you’re selling $500K or $5K worth of that offer in a year, you’ve created what is known as a $500K Offer. And on this epi

As women founders and leaders, we talk often about making money, and lots of it. But are we using the money we make to create the kinds of changes that we want to see in the world? I like to say that money is power, but only if you make it so. Your money becomes a powerful force when you use it in a way that advances your mission, aligns with your values, and brings your vision to life. And this week, I have someone who is a living example of what’s possible when you’re intentional about how you generate wealth and use your money to advance the causes you believe in. Keep reading   Tanja Hester has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and CNBC, just to name a few. As the author of Work Optional and Wallet Activism, she’s been widely recognized for her thought leadership in the area of wallet activism. She also spent a long career in political consulting until she retired in 2017 at the age of 38, and she’s offering her insights on her road to retirement on this episode too. Join us this

Welcome to an incredibly special episode because this week, I’ve got a returning podcast guest. Not many women founders have been featured on the podcast more than once, so you already know you’re in for a jam-packed episode full of amazing nuggets of wisdom that will help you take your business further faster.  Keep reading Pamela Slim is an author, business coach, and co-founder of Main Street Learning Lab. Her newest book, The Widest Net is based on a fascinating approach to what she calls ecosystem marketing, and since my work is all about helping founders like you create seven-figure ecosystems, I think you’ll find our work dovetails beautifully.   In this day and age where there’s a massive demand for constant production of content and having face time with your people, you’re not alone if your company’s marketing feels exhausting and depleting. Ecosystem marketing is the key to creating a growth model that feels nourishing and that is truly sustainable for the long term, and Pamela is walking us thr

Are you being the kind of founder and leader that a seven-figure company truly requires? Is your relationship with your business mature enough to continue taking it to new heights?   If you think about your human relationships, especially with children if you have them, you’ll understand how your relationship with them has to evolve. Without the level of maturity that you bring to the table, their growth and development gets stymied. And the same is true for your relationship with your business.   Keep reading   What I’m offering to you this week is that you don’t own your business as much as you partner with it. The cash, influence, and autonomy you want to create through your business requires a mature partnership, and what I see too often in my work is women founders having an immature relationship with their company, which makes producing powerful results impossible.   Tune in to hear how a mature partnership with your business might be the missing piece right now. I’m showing you how we’re using the rise

You are listening to the 500th episode of the podcast this week. Whether you’ve been here since the beginning, listening along for over five years, or you’re a new friend here, I honor and appreciate you for showing up.   As I personally celebrate 500 episodes, close to two million downloads of the show, and the reach it has set up for me to influence and empower thousands of women founders around the world, I want to let you in on a secret that has helped me generate millions upon millions of dollars in my business.   Keep reading   If you think this has required complicated marketing tactics and obsessively trying to figure out how to grow my audience, think again. Sure, that can help, but what truly works for raking in millions isn’t fancy, trendy, glamorous, or even particularly fun. However, if you want to set up a financial fortress like I have, it’s necessary. And it’s called showing up.   Join me this week as I show you how you can make millions as a founder if you’re willing to show up for your dream

I talk to many business owners who are in the process of shifting their business models from a one-to-one model to one where they have the ability to sell to many people at once. This is one of the classic ways we scale up a service or knowledge-based company, and lots of entrepreneurs are trying to figure out how to package up what they do to offer to multiple people at once.   For some reason, in the process of making this shift, I watch brilliant women founders make the leap of logic that they must now become excellent digital or social media marketers. They believe this is the only way to rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the only way to build a million-dollar business selling scaled-up services.   Keep reading   Many of you have fantastic networks and have always been great at relational marketing, but you’re struggling with digital marketing, and you can’t figure out how those entrepreneurs advertising on Instagram or LinkedIn are getting it to work so amazingly for them. So this raises the

Why are you feeling hesitant about raising your prices? If this is something you’ve been wanting to do but haven’t yet, you’ve likely been told that it’s because you have a scarcity mindset around your business. While this messaging often comes from a place of good intention, it’s actually totally off the mark.   You probably have legitimate questions and reasons for why you’re not raising your prices. Being told we have to cultivate an abundant mindset is just one of the ways women’s thoughts are weaponized against us because if you want to charge premium prices but aren’t doing it, your mindset is not the problem here.   Keep reading   Instead, there’s often more systemic issues happening inside your business. If you want to charge premium prices, it’s because you know profit is power. The more profit you have, the more resources you have to invest in making your vision real. So today, I’m introducing you to the best tool for guaranteeing and growing your profit.   Listen in this week as I show you why char