The Balanced Mompreneur Podcast

I am so excited to share today's Mompreneur Success Story with you friends. Rhonda Noordyk is a wife, mom of three female teenagers, and CEO of the Women's Financial Wellness Center. Her mission is to help alleviate financial vulnerability for women going through divorce.  Rhonda saw need for women in the financial industry and has grown a successful business by niching down, despite people in her industry telling her not to.  She shares her marketing insights and a behind the scenes look at how she grew her mission-focused business from the ground up.  You are going to love this conversation. 

Key points discussed: 

- How she used her expertise in the financial industry and gift of empathy to fulfill a need for women going through divorce

- Why niching down, despite nay-sayers, was the best thing she ever did

- How her company helps women navigate the process of divorce

- The difference between low impact, moderate impact and high impact marketing and how they work together to create a successful marketing plan

- The financial health of her business at 3 years, 5 years and 7 years 

- How she challenged the status quo of divorce and the financial industry, despite fear 

- How God has played a role in the success of her business

- How her teenage daughters perceive her and her business 

Connect with Rhonda and the Financial Wellness Center

Does January already have you feeling burnt-out? Or maybe you are struggling to keep your New Year's Resolutions and create the habits necessary to reach your goals. It's a common mis-conception that balance doesn't exist. While a perfect 50/50 work-life balance will never exist, it is possible to feel more balanced in your life. Today, I am explaining the 3-step process I use to find balance, prevent and overcome burnout and create habits to become the best version of myself. This is an effective method that I use in my own life and with my coaching clients. 

Key Highlights: 

- What is balance? 

- The foundation to finding and maintaining balance

- The #1 thing that will throw you out of balance 

- How going through this 3-step process will help you curb the mom guilt preventing you from investing in yourself and your business 

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Join me for a Mompreneur Success Story with Tori-Ann Perkey.  Tori-Ann is a homeschooling mom of four kids (ages 15-21) who is a recruiting guru and online business management expert. As co-founder of IntegrateUp, she helps people who want to work online get hired by visionary CEOs looking to build their dream teams. She believes that every person who wants to deserves the freedom and flexibility to build the life they want while working remotely.

Key Discussion Highlights: 

- Balancing homeschool, working and volunteering

- How she failed forward to the successful business she has now

- Why and how she pivoted away from her first business Homeschool to Homeschool 

- How having a business partner helped her find the business success she was lacking

- The importance of teaching kids how to entertain themselves 

- Finding remote work as a service-based entrepreneur

- How a solopreneur who is ready to hire their dream team can find the perfect match without encountering the costly mistakes of hiring the wrong person

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Today I am pulling back the curtain on my own business in order to inspire you and help you feel less alone in your business journey. 

I will share with you: 

- The internal thoughts and barriers I had to overcome in order to increase my prices

- What prompted me to 10x my prices 

- Why I pivoted from offering courses, programs and memberships to 1:1 Coaching

- The 3 common reasons people will say yes or no to your product, service or offer

- Why your prices are not the barrier to people saying no 

You are going to love this Mompreneur Success Story with Michelle Vroom of Vroom Communications. She is a mom of 3 boys (all under the age of 6) who grew her business to 6-figures and is projected to hit 7 figures in 2022.  Michelle is a business coach with more than 15 years of marketing & PR experience with nonprofits, agencies, and big corporations. Now she helps small business owners grow to 6-figures with more freedom and peace. Michelle believes every woman entrepreneur should be able to get clients whenever she wants. She understands the challenges of limited resources and time, and shares her proven methods for visibility and relationship building to get clients and grow your business."

Key Points We Discuss: 

- How going all in on one offer, one message and one platform helped her grow to 6 figures

- What it took to get to 6-figures (it wasn't working tons of hours per week)

- What she is doing differently to scale to 7 figures

- Why less is more

- How she balances being a wife, business owner and mom of 3 boys

Connect with Michelle

In today's Mompreneur Coffee Chat, I talk with podcast host of Front Porch Life, Rachel Steel. Rachel is a wife, kindergarten teacher and mom of two girls. We talk about why she started her podcast and how she balances it all. 

Rachel is a wife, mom of two girls, kindergarten teacher, podcaster and worship leader.  She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio where she enjoys camping, reading, biking with her family, and reading.  Rachel's podcast, Front Porch Life, is a platform for women to share their stories and talk about the topics surrounding motherhood, postpartum, and faith.

A few key points we discuss:

- Post-Partum Depression/Anxiety

- Balancing being a podcast host while working part-time, being a teacher, wife and mom

- Taboo topics in motherhood that people don't talk about

- Starting something, even if you don't have it all figured out

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 "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results". This is my favorite quote by Albert Einstein and one that motivates me to make changes in my life. In today's episode we explore why we get stuck in the same patterns over and over and how to break out of those patterns to build a new habit. 

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In today's episode we will talk about the real reason we play small in business and life and how to overcome it. I will share my own story of playing small in hopes to inspire you to take a deeper look into what's holding you back from reaching your dreams. 

Do you feel like you are just going through the motion's, day in and day out? Are you lacking the joy and fulfillment you desire in your business, job, marriage, and/or motherhood journey? I have found myself there in all of those areas. Join me in today's episode as I walk you through my own journey of going from surviving to thriving. 

Key Points Discussed: 

1. What is the difference between surviving and thriving?

2. What is the true meaning of thriving? (it may not be what you expect)

3. What does it look like to thrive?

4. How do you shift out of survival mode?

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This is a solo episode where I help you identify if your need for money, love, success, etc is bigger than your need for God. What areas in your life are taking over your relationship with God and how do you overcome it?

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In today's Coffee Chat I talk with mom and Mental Health Therapist, Carrie Pearson.  We chat about all things motherhood from post-partum depression, foster care, Down Syndrome and advocating for your special needs child. 

Carrie Pearson M.A. LMFTA, LMHCA is a mother, special needs mother and advocate, foster parent, AND Mental Health Therapist.  She owns a private practice and loves the flexibility it allows in her motherhood journey. She is working towards a certification in Perinatal Mental Health. The official letters behind her name stand for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Associate and Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associate. She has a passion deep in her heart for moms because of her own first perinatal journey.  She had a birth diagnosis of Down syndrome with her second bio son, and has a special place in her heart for fellow special needs moms. Her and her husband became foster parents this year and have felt God calling them to grow their family through foster care and adoption. 

You can follow her social media account on Instagram where she advocates and brings awareness to the public about Down Syndrome. 

Today, I get to introduce you to my friend, Natalie Dawn Hanson. Natalie has such a heart to help moms thrive by teaching them how to lean into God first and foremost in all areas of their life. You will get to hear her incredible story of how God unexpectedly met her during a time in her life when she felt overwhelmed by motherhood. 

Natalie is married to a farmer, has four boys ranging from 9-14 and lives in rural Minnesota. She is a Speaker, Coach, and Author of Made to Soar, Natalie is passionate about encouraging, equipping, and empowering moms to find freedom, joy, and purpose through Christ so they can soar in the beauty of their divine purpose and boldly pass on faith to their children.

Key points we discussed: 

- Why surrendering to God is vital in motherhood and life

- Committing time to journal and pray

- The S.O.A.R method 

- How to raise faith-filled teens and kids

- How to reach teens with a faith approach

- What teens are truly seeking when they pull away

Tiffany Coryell, who goes by the pen name Tiffany Tutu, had a dream from 2nd grade to become a Children's author but it always got put on the back burner. With the desire to have a positive outlook on 2020 she decided to finally do it. Today I get to interview Tiffany about the entire process and give you a behind the scenes look of the self-publishing world.  Tiffany is such a light and inspiration and I know you will lover her as much as I do. 

Key points we discuss: 

- The cost of self-publishing 

- The cost of hiring an illustrator

- How self-publishing works

- Why she chose self-publishing 

- How her son helped her write the book

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Today I am interviewing Rachel Figg about how to take the stress out of homeschool and make it fun for everyone.  She is a homeschool mom of four. She is the creator of The Hands-on Homeschool Virtual Co-op-  an online program that provides self-paced, done for you classes in the enrichment areas of Music, Art, STEM & PE. She is passionate about partnering with parents to provide the best, most well-rounded education possible to homeschooling families. Rachel and her husband Chris live with their four children in the upstate of South Carolina.

Key Points Discussed: 

- Why flexibility and pivoting to meet your kids needs is so important

- Why trying to keep up with other people's homeschool methods doesn't work

- The importance of hands on learning and why it works

- How the Hands on Homeschool Virtual Co-op simplifies homeschool and enriches learning at the same time

In today's episode I share with you my Priorities Over To-Do Lists method for reducing overwhelming and increasing productivity as a Mompreneur.

If you find yourself saying "I don't have time" often, this episode is for you. 

It will teach you how to increase your time for the things you want to do (e.g. self-care, exercise, working on your business..) instead of spending your time on the things you feel you should do (e.g. dishes, laundry..). 

Today's solo episode is a follow up to Episode 1 "Leaning into God when You are at Max Capacity". On September 1st, I started my second 45 day challenge.  I share about where we are at in launching our RV trip, insights of what I am focusing on for my second 45 day challenge, and the revelation/vision God gave me, so I could release my stress.  I know you will find it helpful too.

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Today I have the privilege of interviewing former client and fellow business coach Hillarie Thole.  Hillarie was my very first client in the Burnout to Balance Program and now she is a coach within the program. You will get a glimpse of her journey in the Burnout to Balance Program and hear some real, raw behind the scenes conversations.  It's a long one but I know it will enlighten you and inspire you. 

Things we discuss: 

- How she went from 6-figures and burnt-out, to fulfilled and balanced

- The good aspects and hard aspects of fully transitioning into her zone of genius  

- How leaning into her zone of genius has helped her become more present as a mom and wife

- Her struggles with faith and where she is at now

Hillarie Kay is an Enneagram and Business Coach who helps small business owners and organizations decrease overwhelm and increase both internal and external communication with sustainable strategies guided by the Enneagram.  She’s a third generation small business owner and has previous experience working in marketing agencies, and as the Director of Marketing in corporate America before branching out on her own in 2016. When she’s not coaching or training on the Enneagram, she spends time with her husband, 2 sons, 3 step-sons, splitting her time between Southeast Missouri and the Raleigh/Durham area of NC.  She’s obsessed with the 60s and you can often find her thrifting around antique shops on the weekends!

Today, I have the honor of sharing with you a hot seat coaching session I did with online business manager, Lydia Vickery, to help her decrease her overwhelm and burn out. 

Lydia Vickery is a fellow mompreneur. She is raising two boys (2.5 years old and 2.5 months old) and has been running her own business for about 1.5 years now. Lydia serves multiple clients in the role of Online Business Manager/Virtual Assistant. She completes various tasks including social media management, project management, database/client management, etc. Lydia began her own business so she was able to financially contribute to her family while also staying home and raising their children. She found that with one child she was able to find a balance between work and family life, but when her new baby was added to the mix she was feeling overwhelmed and burnt out.

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In today's episode I share a personal story of how God called me to lean into Him more in order to reach an income goal. I also share my Kickstarter Campaign story of raising $6500 in less than 6 hours by having an unwavering peace and trust in God. 

It is a known fact that it takes 21 days to break or build a habit, but in today's episode, I talk about the significance of 40 in the Bible and the history of how God used 40 days or 40 years to bring His people closer to him. 

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Welcome to the Balanced Mompreneur Podcast. In today's episode, I share with you my background and why I decided to start this podcast. Join me each week for Casual Coffee Chats, Mompreneur Success Stories, and tips and tricks for growing a sustainable, profitable business without burnout and without sacrificing your family. 

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