Business Mindset Mastery
By Heather Gray
Business Mindset Mastery Jun 03, 2019
What are You So Afraid Of, Really?
Fear gets a lot of airtime, energy, and oxygen in the personal development space and most of it is needless and enabling. Sometimes, we just need a reframe. Consider this your reframe.
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When They Ask for Money
The dirty side of success can sometimes be that your inner circle sees you as their personal bank. Setting boundaries on how you are willing to help and how much you are willing to help can feel messy. Communicating your limits can feel even messier. Here's how to manage it with more ease.
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Telling Clients Hard Things
As service providers, it can feel like clients have the power. It can feel like our livelihoods and our reputations depend on their satisfaction. That's not true, though. As professionals, we are responsible for our expertise and informing clients of hard things is a part of the job. Here's how to do it with less anxiety.
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How to Show Up for Yourself
The entrepreneurial space loves this phrase: Show up for yourself. But what does it even mean? Where do you start?
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When Good Enough Stops Being Good Enough
When you have been coasting and things have been moving swimmingly, how do you know if it's time to make a move toward growth? How do you know whether or not you want to grow and, if you choose growth, how do you know the right direction to take?
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How to Believe Your Worth
The personal development space spends a lot of time teaching self-esteem but how do you start to absorb it for yourself so you can actually feel worthy?
Getting to the heart of the matter, here.
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You Can Say Hard Things
How much time are you wasting avoiding a ten minute hard conversation? Here's how to get out of your own way and on with it so you can get to the other side of hard.
Shout Out to Stacie Speaker for the thought provoking question
Shout Out to Mark of Beaver Hardwood for being able to have a hard conversation with me and for designing killer custom furniture.
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When 3 out of 10 Request a Refund
What do you do when you have failed to deliver? If you are a service provider and your clients have failed to achieve their promised results, a lot comes rushing at you. Today's listener had a third of his program request a refund. Here's how he can get to the other side of this unfortunate time in his business.
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How to Respond to Desperate Times
When sales and revenue are decreasing and when doing your best isn't enough, things can start to feel desperate. Often, desperate feelings lead to desperate actions that only make everything worse. So, how do you represent yourself with integrity when you don't feel like you are worth that much and how do you show up for your business without giving everything away for less than you deserve? Listen in for tips on staying true to you during really reactive moments.
Question for the show? Heather@heathergrayconsulting.com
Avoiding the Meltdown After a Win
We've all been there. Something awesome happens and suddenly we're doubting ourselves, twitching, and second-guessing ourselves, before we even allowed ourselves a chance to celebrate.
Here's how to make sense of it all.
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How to Charge Your Worth with Confidence
Every business and sales coach tells you to do it: "Charge Your Worth" but what the heck does that even mean and how do you do it without feeling bad about it?
Listen in.
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Setting Realistic Expectations Without Playing Small
How can you tell if you're playing safe by hiding behind your non-negotiables? How do you know if you are setting yourself up to fail because of unreasonable expectations? This mindset stuff gets tricky sometimes. Allow me to unpack it so you can get on your way.
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Ridding Yourself of Shame
When you've really gone and messed it up and have taken a wrecking ball to your life, it can be easier to ask others for forgiveness before you consider asking yourself. Shame festers. An inability to have self-compassion numbs you, affects your mental health, and limits the positive impact you can have in your own life and in the lives of others. Talking about shame isn't easy. Listening to advice about managing shame isn't on the top of most people's lists but self-compassion and self acceptance are crucial for healing, recovery, and fresh starts.
Stuck in a shame spiral? Feeling held back or limited by your past? I can help and we should talk. Sooner, rather than later.
How to Finally Sit Still
First world problem, right? An inability to sit still? Perhaps. But it is a problem and an inability to sit with yourself without doing anything or an inability to relax is a problem. It's a prescription for burnout, really. If you keep going and going, you will eventually run out of drive and motivation. Your physical and mental health will start to suffer and your relationships will feel the strain, too. Listen in to learn a new perspective.
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How to Connect With Your Team
How are you connecting with those who serve you? We spend a lot of time talking about client acquisition, nurturing leads, and creating meaningful connections with those we serve. When it comes to connecting with, managing, and leading a team, many bosses think they're just supposed to know what to do and they fear asking for help, concerned that their leadership will be questioned. Your relationship with your team is the most important relationship you have in your business. Listen in to learn how to be purposeful and intentional in how you relate to your team.
This is work I do with business owners. If you would like a consultation with me, we should chat. Here's a link to my schedule. I am happy to help.
The First Steps for Starting Over
What do you do when you built a business that you don't want? How do you start over? How do you choose a new direction when you are war torn and tired? Listen in for tips on starting over.
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Business Mindset for Introverts
When it comes to running businesses, Introverts, it's time to stop limiting yourselves by this self-identifier. Your introversion is not something you have to overcome. It's not something that is going to hold you back. You just need to learn how to use it to better set yourselves up for success. Tune in to listen how.
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Listening to Burnout the First Time
Burnout tends to crush people when they don't see it coming. Here's how to hear the whispers and respond when it first starts to whisper at you instead of when it starts to scream.
In a stage of burnout? I'd like to help. Here's a link to my schedule so we can talk.
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How to Stop Fearing Success
What if it all goes right? Fearing success isn't something people talk about and it can be hard to put a name to but it's just as real as imposter syndrome or fearing failure. You are being called to rise and become something bigger and if this hasn't happened to you before, you will find yourself in unfamiliar territory. The temptation will be to fight, flight, or freeze but if you can ignore those impulses, you will find where you are meant to be. I've tackled this tricky subject before and today, I am highlighting two episodes from the archives to get you out of your own way and on with your successful self.
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How to Set Next Level Goals
When you've gotten as far as you planned, or as far as you dared to dream, how do you decide what's next? How do you pick a new goal or decide a new dream to chase? Don't believe the entrepreneurial implications that you're just supposed to know. You're not and it's more than ok that you don't. Here are some first steps to consider and ways to walk yourself through the process so you don't just jump into something impulsively.
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Mindset Masterclass: From Stuck to Successful
Need a mindset reboot? Get what you need here. Maybe you're having a hard time tuning back in to yourself or your business after an adventure-filled summer. Perhaps you're stuck in your own head and having a hard time getting out of your own way. Whatever you are bringing to the table, I've got you. Grab a pen, paper, or your laptop. This is chock-full of actionable advice you are going to want to write down.
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How to Make the Big Decisions
Putting this show on hiatus through the summer was a really big decision. While it wasn't one that I took lightly, it also wasn't one that I planned completely through before acting on. As business owners, we are called to this very thing often: making big decisions we hadn't necessarily anticipated. How do we do that with confidence? How do we trust our guts? When should we check with the peanut gallery, when do we need more research or more time, and when do we need to simply stop and act?
Today, I am using my decision with this show as an opportunity to walk you though the decision-making process so you, too, can make the decisions that are right for you and for the future of your business.
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How to Prevent Failure
When you see something in your business heading off course or in the wrong direction, how do you stop it? This is not the time to "let go of the outcome". It is time to control the outcome. Failure does not have to be inevitable if you're willing to make the BOSS decision.
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Mindset for a Sold Out Program
It's not over until it's over but when your launch seems to be tanking, it's so tempting to pack it in and hide with your gin (HA! See what I did there?) Here's how to stay the course.
Mentioned in this episode:
Emily Murnen of Wild Elm Events.
My Journey to Here
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"My Business Doesn't Need Me"
When you get to the point where your business can run effectively without out you, or with very little from you, what do you do next? How do you chart your path? Listen in to figure that out.
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Getting Teams to Grow With Your Business
You're ready to grow and scale while your team is afraid of what comes next. You can get their buy in or your can part ways. I explore both options with you here.
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Introverts BOSSing Without Shaking
You can be a BOSS and an INTROVERT without getting the shakes. Here's how.
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Motivation Isn't the Problem
We blame slumps on a lack of motivation but that's not why you're stuck. Listen in the find both the culprit and the solution.
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Gut Instinct or Just Fear Talking
How can you tell if you're reacting to something out of fear and you just need to work through it or if it's your gut telling you that it's a really bad idea? Self-awareness is everything but when we feel up against it, we can lose sight of our judgment and of what feels right/best for us. Here's how to navigate this sticky terrain.
Question for the show? Heather@heathergrayconsulting.com
How to Stop Numbing Out
We all phone it in from time to time and run on autopilot but businesses cannot last if we stay in that same place, doing the same thing. Once we have been checked out, though, it can be hard to check back in. This is is how.
It's Time to Get Lost
Needing to have all the answers you start is one of the biggest mindset blocks. We all want to know where we're going but sometimes, to get to where we want to go, we have to be willing to get lost. Here's how a tift with my husband turned into a really important business lesson.
Strategy for Quick & Immediate Wins
How do we set ourselves up for success? Sometimes, it's a long game but you can get a quick win or two in by doing this one thing.
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Mindset for Self-Promotion
People can't buy from you if they don't know you exist and you can't just keep telling people who you are. You also have to show them. I had a hard time with that. Here's what I learned and how I got over a THREE YEAR mindset block.
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Sharing Your Story Without Feeling Sleazy
Who are you? What do you stand for? How has your life influenced those beliefs? Does your audience know? Do they know you? If they don't know you, can they buy from you? When was the last time you showed people who you are through your story? Listen in for thoughts on getting started and why it can help you beyond your bottom line.
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Mindset Blocks Unlocked
Mindset blocks are real and they exist. Here's how to get out of one without reading a 300 page book or watching a TED talk.
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Selling Solutions to Pain Without Feeling Gross
You don't want to pimp their pain for profit but they are hurting and you have the solution. How do you let people know that you are here to ease their suffering without feeling like an ambulance chaser? Listen in to find out.
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When You Outgrow Your Network
When you start out on the same playing field as everyone else but then find success faster than they do, you are suddenly playing a whole different game. What do you do when they want to meet up for coffee but you no longer see value in staying in touch? How do you move on with grace and without sounding like or feeling like an a-hole? It's one heck of an awkward conversation. Here's how to have it.
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When You Piss Off Your People
I stepped in it last week. I said some things here on the show and on social media that offended people who follow me. I talk about it here and hopefully model how to address the dust ups that will inevitably occur if you're truly going to be authentic and speak your truth.
Memberships Without Burnout
Memberships and subscription products are the holy grail for business owners but behind the curtain, they are a lot of work. Owners put tremendous pressure on themselves to over-deliver in a misguided attempt to avoid churn. There's a way to make your membership work for you without sucking your soul but you're going to have to stop working so hard and start working differently. Get started here.
How to Fire Them Without Burning Your Business
Sometimes, it just doesn't work out. Here's how to have a hard conversation with more ease.
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How to Engage Customers
You only have one chance to make a good first impression. Here's how to connect, engage, and invite customers in for more.
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Starting & Ending Your Days With Intention
How we do one thing is how we do everything, right? That includes how we start and end our days. I recently got off track and back pedaled a bit. Here's what I learned and how I got back on track.
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Mindset for Competition
If you want to own a business, dealing with competition is non-negotiable. Listen in to learn how to rise to the occasion like the BOSS that you are.
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When You Get Jealous
We all know about staying in our own lane. It doesn't stop us from feeling what we feel when we look left or right and see someone with the life or business we want. Here's how to manage the discomfort and use it to your advantage.
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Quit Working for Free
Here's how to stop working for free. Maybe you're tempted to give people a taste test of what it would be like to work with you. The exposure carrot may be getting dangled for you...you're being told that helping others will get more eyes on your business. You might be afraid to be the bad guy, to say no to a request for help out of worry about how it might look. Regardless of how you find yourself here, listen in to learn how to get out.
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How to Get Motivated
You've got to get it done but you're just not moving. Here's how to figure out what's really up with your inaction and how to get back on track.
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Caregiver & BOSS
When someone you love needs you and your business needs you, it can feel like the walls are caving in. I've been there. Here's how to find your way with it all. Lessons from my experience. Hope it helps.
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Mindset: An Inconvenient Truth
What's the real deal when it comes to mindset? I have to warn you, it has nothing to do with believing that you are a badass or washing your face. Ready to get honest with me?
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When You Share Too Much
"Authenticity" is the the new "hustle" but it's also unchartered territory for many entrepreneurs. When you share something, you end up managing your consumer's reactions to your story. If your emotions haven't been unpacked yet, that can be a lot on top of an already heavy load. Here's how to clean up from the fallout after you have shared more than you were ready to publicly deal with.
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