“What’s the highest level I can serve?” That’s one of the driving questions that today’s guest, Melissa Hughes, helps business owners answer while building companies and making an impact on the world with grace and ease. She believes that the more of us who can shine our lights unapologetically, the better off we all are.

In this conversation, Melissa shares how she knew it was time to leave corporate, launching and later shutting down her brick-and-mortar spa business and the “blessing wrapped in sandpaper” of declaring personal bankruptcy. She shares how she started rebuilding by leaning into intuition, her philosophy on giving from the overflow and backing it all up with practical systems that serve your values.

More About Melissa: With us today is Melissa Hughes, founder of Live Rich, Spread Wealth—a business (and movement) that is all about helping people live richer lives as a result of becoming their best selves. Melissa is a best-selling author, speaker, and master business coach who became a self-made millionaire by the age of 31. Known as The Guru of Implementation®, Melissa’s success, and that of her clients, is a result of her practical, proven systems for business and life success.

🌟3 Key Takeaways:

Work Yourself Out math: How much revenue does your business need to generate to justify hiring someone to do one of the task areas on your desk?
Finding and pursuing your Divine Assignment means being in purposeful alignment. When you’re there, you can use your gifts, be in flow and be of service to others.
Systems for the sake of systems don't work. They need to be designed to specifically support your (and your company’s!) values and what you’re trying to accomplish.

📝Permission: Understand that whatever you want wants you, too. It can be both/and: Look at what’s working for you and lean more into that unapologetically. Allow yourself to explore new possibilities.

✅Do (or Delegate) This Next: Take a page from Melissa’s reframe book. Instead of referring to exercise as “working out,” she calls it “snatching your sexy back!” Reframe (or restructure) something that feels like a chore by turning it into a life-giving system that serves you.

📘Books Mentioned: Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

🔗Resources Mentioned:

Melissa on the web, Instagram: @IAmMelissaHughes, Facebook, LinkedIn, Live Rich Spread Wealth, YouTube
Documentary: Live Rich, Spread Wealth
Video: Join the Live Rich Spread Wealth Movement

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Pivot 204: Radical Alignment: Getting to Hell Yes with Alex & Bob

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