Smart Business Show

Welcome to the Smart Business Show! I am excited to introduce you to today’s guest, Leah Gervais!Leah is a business coach and mentor for entrepreneurs and Founder of Leah Gervais Coaching, where she helps her clients start and scale their dream side hustles into full-time opportunities.After 6 months she was making more money with her blog than her 9-5 as a paralegal so she submitted her resignation and turned what was a side-hustle into her now 7-figure coaching business.In this episode, Leah challenges the fear and paralysis that holds most aspiring and founded entrepreneurs back from scaling and proves you can do it without it even being a full-time job right away. Leah shares that there is no one size fits all approach to scaling, but the most important thing is to determine the right scaling method to get the results you want. This is one reason why working with coaches can be so vital to getting your idea off the ground!You don’t want to miss her insight on why you should start off with providing a serv

I am super excited for you to hear from today’s guest, Kamelia Britton! She has an inspiring and emotional journey you won’t want to miss!Kamelia Britton is the Founder of Freedom and Fortune, a business and mindset coaching business, for high achievers who are passionate about helping female entrepreneurs scale without burnout by fixing broken systems!After being a nurse for 17 years and feeling burnout, Kamelia found her dream life as a full-time travel and lifestyle influencer. One day everything changed overnight, she got a diagnosis of a rare and fatal breast cancer that had to be treated super aggressively, which left her unable to travel for a full year.This left her having to really lean into the coaching side of her business during chemo, so she mastered the systems to put into place so that she didn't wear herself out. Kamelia now helps clients set the right systems and boundaries in place that they need in order to actually enjoy the freedom and fortune that they are working so hard for. Her n

I am happy to introduce you to today’s special guest, Makenzie Conklin!Makenzie is the Founder of Makenzie Co and creator of the Unlimited Mastermind where she is a confidence coach and entrepreneur mentor that helps her clients reach all-new levels of confidence, wealth, and creating a life that they deeply enjoy. Makenzie mostly works with early-stage female entrepreneurs and helps them realize they’re deserving, capable, and worthy of fulfilling their dreams of being successful and wealthy. Mackenzie shares how self-belief and trust HAVE to come first and that’s where she starts with all of her clients. She helps her clients combat the fear, shame, and uncertainty that is holding them back by digging into why they do not feel worthy of wealth, and what they need to do to make the shift to believe they are worthy of it. This episode is for anyone that has hesitation and fear surrounding their money story’s and wants to change the narrative within themselves to unlock newfound confidence in their lives and b

Today’s special guest is a long-time friend that I am excited to introduce you to! Here is Nicole Montez!Nicole is the CEO and Founder of the Brave, Fearless, and Free Life and the coinciding BFF community, as well as a best-selling author, and certified coach whose passion is to equip women to live brave, fearless, and free lives.Nicole authentically shares part of her healing journey that helped her reach a whole new level of mastery in her emotions, thinking, and mind that have aligned to consistently bring her results in business and life. She discusses how you can have the same success and freedom by turning what has happened in your life into a message and by focusing on that area of genius and simply finding ways you can add focus and talent.This episode is for every female entrepreneur that does not want to compromise and wants to be wholeheartedly present with both their work and family --- learn how it is possible to do it all and still be human!Enjoy and don’t forget to share with a friend! If you

Today’s talk is a real treat that I am happy to share with you! Let me introduce you to Laura Murillo, Founder of Confident Conversions, a mindset coaching business where she helps entrepreneurs get their minds right so they can take their business to the next level. Today, Laura talks about how she helps her clients with their money mindsets and more importantly, their mindset blocks and how she has helped them get over them. We get very real and authentic as Laura shares how our upbringing can affect our approach to money and business. She gives examples of how she walks her clients through a self-awareness journey to identify these beliefs that are causing mindest blocks and slowly starts to retrain their brains.This episode is for anyone that feels that their beliefs or mindset towards money are holding them back in sales, relationships, business...you name it! I am excited for this discussion to encourage you to look back at your own beliefs and value system to see if you have been running into any block

Today I get to introduce you to our special guest, Elle Crawford!Elle is the Founder of Social Selling Lab and is a fiery business coach that focuses on selling through social media, specifically through stories, live videos, and killer content marketing strategy.Elle started off in corporate but after completely unfulfilling, half-frozen roast beef (you’ll have to hear her story!), she turned a side business into 6 figures in 90 days! This same framework is what she teaches her clients to this day!In this episode, Elle talks about how people watch 500 million stories every day and how you can leverage this with content marketing and attraction marketing methods to get the engagement that turns followers into dollars. Get a sneak peek into some of the tips and tricks Elle shares with her clients, like what to be posting 3-4 times a week, how to speak to the camera and show you’re relatable, how you can keep the balance between building relationships and selling, and so much more! This episode is for anyone th

Hey guys! I am here to introduce you to my friend, Mary Massey!Mary Massey is the Founder of Mary Massey Coaching, a wellness coaching business that helps entrepreneurs who want to elevate their business and wellness. She also has a group fitness license and her Zumba license!Mary started working in web design for a big publishing company, and while on maternity leave had built up a side web design business. Her fitness journey started when her father passed away, who passed on the same Latino, entrepreneurial drive to provide something good for her family.In this episode, Mary shares her holistic approach to entrepreneurship and wellness, the common problems she sees in most of her high-achieving, entrepreneur clients, and the importance of maintaining a healthy diet as an entrepreneur. This episode is for every entrepreneur that struggles with home-work-life balance and finds themselves low on energy, motivation, and focus. Mary walks us through how her step-by-step approach removes the overwhelmingness of

I am pumped to introduce you guys to my next special guest, Monica Fuentes!Monica is the founder of Flow Self, a life and mindset coaching business that helps entrepreneurs align their businesses with their purpose. Monica has lived quite a life! Going from living in Costa Rica, the States, Italy, and Brazil, to marrying a “Dutchy” and moving to Amsterdam with a 1-month-old.Monica shares how her concept of flow, being in alignment with your purpose and doing that thing, helps her clients reach higher levels of frequency within their lives and businesses. She even goes into detail about how she walks her clients through setting their quarterly goals by reverse engineering how they want to feel at the end. Don’t miss this! This episode is for any entrepreneur that wants to learn more about energetics and how you can see it cultivate the happiness, joy, and abundance that you want to see in your family, your business, and yourself. I am excited for you to hear Monica’s playful approach to setting goals, finding

Hey guys! Today I have the pleasure of introducing Suzanne Chadwick!Suzanne is the Founder of Brand Builders Academy, Amplify Mastermind, and author of Play Big, Brand Bold. Suz started out in recruitment, but got introduced to branding while working at her corporate job and never looked back! In this episode, we discuss building a BOLD brand and understanding your audience at such a deep level that you know their desires, what they want to be and do, and how it’s our job as business owners to connect with them on that much deeper level. This episode will transform the way you view your branding. Don’t miss Suzanne sharing the biggest differences she has seen working with her clients between those who win and those who struggle in building out their brands!I hope you walk away from this episode eager to position your brand with a clear, tactical strategy in a way that will raise you to the top. You can connect with Suzanne and see her BOLD brand on her website: suzchadwick.com and on Instagram, Facebook, Twit

Hey guys! Super excited to introduce today’s guest, Natalie Levy!Natalie is the founder of Biz Magic Mastery, a business coach, community builder, and entrepreneur. She also happens to currently be based out of my favorite place ever: Tulum, Mexico. Natalie’s focus in her business is helping her clients find their starting point. She has found that business owners often don’t know where to start and find that simply starting is the hardest part. She really does bring the “magic” by not only focusing on strategy, but tapping into mindset work, intuition, and what it means to manifest your vision. This episode is for anyone that is looking for practical ways to bring your business into alignment with your vision and push your vision forward on a daily basis. I am excited for you to be encouraged and inspired to know that you can create a life where you can work with ease and flow. See how Natalie makes that happen for her clients!For when you want to connect with Natalie further, you can find her on Instagram a

Today I get to introduce our special guest, Lindsay Maloney!Lindsay Maloney is the CEO and Founder of Stand Up Coaching Academy, where over the last 10 years she has helped women scale their online businesses. She’s from a small town of 700 people in North Dakota, homeschools her three kids, and still enjoys working her 9 to 5. Lindsay is probably one of the highest achievers I’ve had on the podcast and it’s impressive getting to hear about not only what she does, but how she can keep up with that capacity!Having started her business during nap times in between homeschooling and her 9 to 5, Lindsay shares how she mentally simplifies her life so that she can grow her business and never miss bedtime stories with her kids. You do not want to miss her walk-through of what a typical day looks like, and how she plans out her week!This episode is for anyone looking to get off the emotional rollercoaster of distractions and losing focus to growing your business at your own pace. I am excited for you guys to walk away

Hey, what’s going on! Adam here, and I am excited to introduce our special guest, Kelsie Langhor.Kelsie is the Founder of Fit Biz Business Academy where she helps fitness entrepreneurs find growth in their businesses and build their own lifestyle of freedom.Kelsie shares how defining success and freedom is different for everyone, but the secret is staying present. Something she lives out in her own business and shares with her clients is how you have to both be okay with where you are while at the same time having clarity on where you are wanting to go. In this episode, Kelsie discusses this freedom and identity she found in entrepreneurship and how she creates space for gratitude, staying present, and appreciating the smaller things.I hope you walk away defining what freedom and success looks like for you and remember to give yourself credit for how far you've come already. For everyone listening and loving this conversation, you can connect with Kelsie on Instagram at @fit_bizbabes or online at www.kel

Today I am super pumped to bring you a special guest to the show, Sabah Ali.Sabah Ali is the founder of Brands That Sell where she is a business coach to entrepreneurs helping them scale and grow their businesses through organic marketing… she is a master of the organic marketing strategy!Ali is also a TEDx speaker and published her first hit bestseller book on Amazon at just 20 years old.In this episode, Sabah Ali is sharing GOLD with you as she is diving straight into her actual real organic marketing strategy that she uses with her clients and sharing it with you today. This episode is for anyone who wants to grow their business through organic reach, but especially if you don’t have a ton of dollars to invest in advertising.Ali opens with the questions you need to ask yourself to make sure your audience is your ideal client and then moves into her 3 phases of organic marketing that she teaches and follows: build, nurture, and convert… She is sharing so much here from collaborations, partnerships, and even

I am happy to introduce you guys to Liz Illg, a specialist in scaling businesses who runs multiple businesses from digital to brick and mortar. I brought her on to discuss systems you need to put into place to really help you grow because the reality is with every vision, you can only get so far before you need to scale and duplicate. Liz opens up and shares her backstory of leaving her corporate job to opening up her first brick-and-mortar store to now opening 6 locations from that one brand -- she shares her process from going from being a one-woman operation to having a team that is now empowered to run without her.Her best advice: invest in your systems and processes before you invest in people. Taking an entire year to write down every question and answer that came her way, Liz was able to create a standard operating procedure or a training manual that laid the foundation for the processes of her entire business enabling her to scale in a huge way.She now gets to invest in the people, coaching them one o

On the show today, I am so excited to interview guest, Meagan Ruppert, who is CEO of Scale Up Business Consulting and Founder of LadiesWhoScale.com. Ruppert has been an entrepreneur for over 13 years, building a coaching company from the ground up into an 8 million dollar enterprise along with her partner, Athena Quinones. Meagan specializes in helping female coaches get out from under their businesses and scale their revenue without working more.In this episode, Meagan shares her story on how she became a big player in the coaching space as well as the ways she helps her clients identify their true North and become fearless in pursuing the things they want in life. If you’re a solo entrepreneur, struggling with being the entire operations team yourself, this will be especially helpful for you as Meagan is sharing some of her high impact strategies she uses with her clients on scaling up as well as how to deal with limiting beliefs such as “No one can do it as well as I can.”This episode will definitely fire

I want you to be 100% honest with yourself about this question...When you really look at the bottom line of your business, does the revenue you're generating reflect the amount of time and effort you put in on a daily basis?If you're completely satisfied and believe your efforts are paying off in a big way, then hats off to you and keep up the great work!But...If you're thinking any of the following, then this may be for you:I'm posting content every day on social media consistently, but the return on my time is little to none...I'm doing everything the experts are recommending to me, yet I haven't seen any results...I've built a small email list that I send emails to regularly, but open rates are low and I haven't seen much progress there...I'm doing live streams and Instagram lives to connect and engage with my audience, yet my following remains the same and my online presence remains low...I work hard every day on my business, but often feel discouraged because

Unless you need your stimulus check to pay for rent, food, or car payment. I don’t recommend using your money to pay off your credit card bills unless you don’t do anything I’m about to share with you.With that said...The most important question you can ask yourself is "How Can I Leverage My $1,200 Stimulus Check, That'll Allow Me To Cash Out On An Even Bigger Payday."Tune into today's podcast as I share 5 creative ways you can leverage your stimulus check for more CHA-CHING.

[Disclaimer]: I am not a financial advisor. Views shared within this podcast are solely my opinion. Please seek a professional financial advisor before making any investment decisions.In this episode I'll be covering HOW to invest in stocks, WHY now is a great time to invest in stocks, and WHAT to look for when searching for your next stock to invest in.Subscribe and leave a 5-star review if this podcast was helpful in any way!

As entrepreneurs, we often hear the phrase "Purpose Driven," but what exactly does this mean?I believe it's those who have a big heart and desire to help and serve people in the world. Right now, you have everything within you to begin fulfilling your purpose.Today's episode I'll be diving deep into the "Top Ten Questions" you MUST ask yourself to fulfill your purpose!

What i’ve noticed is that most entrepreneurs have great products and services, but haven't positioned their offers for maximum profitability. Most service-based entrepreneurs are either charging per session or by the hour. By the way, you NEVER want to charge by the hour! The goal is to focusing your packages on the results you bring, which will justify to your customers why they should pay more for your services.