She Means Business Show

Every single one of us has the ability to live the most epic, abundant and successful life. So why is it that in reality, most people never go on to experience that? Far from living their best life, so many people find themselves so stuck. This is what we talked about and made breakthroughs on last week in the Package Your Brilliance challenge I hosted with the amazing Gina DeVee. The challenge was about how you can take your ideas, knowledge and passion and turn them into offers and packages that your ideal clients will love to buy, so that you can build a successful business doing something you love. At the beginning of the challenge, so many of the women who took part felt like they didn’t deserve to live an epic life - and I know that this limiting belief is so common. I was so inspired by the transformations we saw during the challenge that in this episode, I wanted to talk to you about: The reason why so many people don’t believe that they deserve to live an epic life. The excuses we all tell ourselves that keep us playing small and hold us back from creating success. How I kept myself stuck for years going round in circles and the realisation I had that changed everything. The new decisions I made and the challenge I created for myself that transformed my life and my business. A simple exercise you can do today to help you condition your mind to create success. Mantras to help you create more abundance and clarity in your life. If you loved this episode and you know you’re meant to create a successful business and live that epic life, I’m collaborating with the incredible Gina DeVee on a transformational program called Perfectly Packaged. Click here to dive into the details and join us there https://divineliving.com/perfectlypackaged Over 10 weeks, Gina and her amazing team of coaches will help you take your ideas, knowledge and unique brilliance and turn them into a successful coaching or service-based business. If you’ve got a burning desire to create success, but you feel like you’ve been teetering on the edge of what could be possible; if you want to go on a transformational journey alongside like-minded women with the best mentoring, support and guidance….this program is for you! Carrie xx

If you have no motivation to work right now... or do anything, don't worry, you're not alone :) it happens to all of us and it's perfectly normal. There have been so many times when I've had no motivation to work... I just felt so uninspired, lost and I couldn't be bothered with anything. When I feel like this, there are some things I always do to get me back on track and I'm sharing them with you in this video :) I hope they help you lots whenever you feel like you have no motivation!

How do other entrepreneurs make it look so simple to grow your visibility, attract leads and grow their business, when you feel like you’re on a marketing treadmill and not seeing the results you’re working so hard for? If you’ve been asking yourself this question, you’re going to love this episode of The She Means Business Show! This week I’m joined by online business consultant and digital marketing strategist, Gemma Went! Gemma previously created two incredible masterclasses for us inside the Members’ Club, all about social media and creating an automated marketing system and her strategies are amazing! Find out more about the Members’ Club and Gemma’s masterclasses right here: femaleentrepreneurassociation.com/gemmawent In this episode she’s sharing more about her evergreen ecosystem, that will help you grow your visibility and attract more leads, without having to constantly hustle! In this episode we talk about: Gemma’s favourite sources for marketing inspiration and her best recommendations to help spark ideas. How signing her first client when she was 4 months pregnant made her realise she needed an automated marketing system. Gemma’s evergreen ecosystem and how she creates online journeys that turn leads into customers. How she plans her content and balances automation with human connection and building trust. Gemma’s top tips for increasing visibility and conversions. If you would like to find out more about Gemma, head over to www.gemmawent.co.uk Links mentioned in this episode: Gemma Went’s masterclasses, exclusively for the Members’ Club: Neil Patel’s Digital Marketing blog: https://neilpatel.com/blog/ Social Media Examiner: https://www.socialmediaexaminer.com I hope you love this episode and before you leave... If you’re a coach or run a service-based business, I have an invitation especially for you! We’re running a free challenge in collaboration with the incredible Gina DeVee called Package Your Brilliance! Find out more right here: https://femaleentrepreneurassociation... Gina will be giving 5 live training sessions inside our pop-up Facebook Group and helping you understand where you can get started with packages, how to get to $10k months, how to know what to charge and how to find your ideal clients. Carrie xx

My amazing friend Gina DeVee is taking over this episode of the She Means Business Show and if you’re a coach or service-based entrepreneur, you’re going to love it! Gina is the founder of Divine Living and she’s an expert when it comes to creating and selling high-end packages for consistently profitable months. If you’d like to find out more about this, check out the FREE 5-day challenge I’m collaborating on with Gina called: Package Your Brilliance! Turn your knowledge into offers that are simple to sell. Find out more and join the challenge here: femaleentrepreneurassociation.com/packaged If you’re interested in adding packages to your current business or even if you’re just starting out, in this episode Gina will show you how doable it really is and how any coach or service-based business can follow this formula for impact, income stability and success. In this episode Gina shares: Her journey from being a broke, struggling psychotherapist (with $75,000 of debt!) to building a multi-million dollar business through high-end packages. Why being scared to raise her prices and charge her worth was actually doing a disservice to her clients. How she created her first packages, raised her prices and started generating even better results and transformations along the way. Why excessively over-delivering doesn’t really add more value. How she tried to manifest $30,000 (and ended up manifesting $60,000 instead!). How one of her clients went from charging $42 to $5,000 with a perfectly put-together package. Gina has so many amazing, fun stories and this episode is such an eye-opener to the power of packages! And because I know how transformational they can be for your business, I really don’t want you to miss our upcoming free challenge, Package Your Brilliance! Gina will be giving 5 live training sessions inside our pop-up Facebook Group and helping you understand where you can start with packages, how to get to $10k months, how to know what to charge and how to find your ideal clients. Claim your spot now before we kick the challenge off on September 14th: femaleentrepreneurassociation.com/packaged

This episode is about something that I believe is more powerful for your business than any marketing or sales strategy.  I’m joined by the amazing Susan Ferraro, creator of the Easy Peasy Law of Attraction System and an expert when it comes to the Law Of Attraction. Susan also created a masterclass all about the Law Of Attraction for the Members’ Club and it’s one of our most popular masterclasses! Check out Susan’s masterclass and learn more about the Members’ Club right here >> In this episode Susan and I chat about the internal work it really takes to create more success, live our best lives, build successful businesses and achieve amazing things in a way that is aligned with our true selves.  When you put this into practice - the success, inspiration, ideas and opportunities that flow from it are huge and something that both Susan and I have experienced in our lives.  In this conversation Susan and I talk about:  How Susan discovered the Law of Attraction and used it to move out of the corporate career that had burnt her out and made her miserable.  The key to understanding the Law of Attraction and making it work for you.  Why alignment, self-love and reflection are the keys to creating success in your business.  How to get into a state of flow, let go and let inspiration lead the way.  Susan’s 6 step system to manifesting your financial goals.  This is such an amazing episode that I know is going to get you fired up and inspired to tap into the power of the Law of Attraction!  Connect with Susan on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamsusanf/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iamsusanf/

In this amazing episode of the She Means Business Show, I’m joined by my good friend Brandon Lucero!  Brandon’s expertise when it comes to creating scroll-stopping content is incredible and this episode is a value-bomb of some of his best content tips and strategies. If you’re so ready to create content that captures your audience’s attention and gets them to recognize you as the go-to expert in your industry - you’re going to love this episode! And if you want even more help taking your content game to the next level, Brandon recently created an amazing masterclass for our Members’ Club called Creating Videos That Convert.  Creating content is so important because our businesses are about our ideas, messages and stories.  But so many entrepreneurs feel stuck on the content treadmill simply because they’re churning out content for the sake of it.  So in this episode Brandon and I chat about being strategic with our content, and creating stuff that will actually generate results for our businesses. In this episode we talk about: Why creating content is the best strategy to get people to know, like, trust...and most importantly, buy from you.  Why failing (and even sharing crappy content when you’re first starting out!) will actually help you to become a more successful entrepreneur.  How to avoid becoming the “unheard entrepreneur” that gets lost in the noise and the competition. How to craft your message and create the hard-hitting, powerful type of content that will help you grow your audience and become an authority in your space.  How to find your own voice and be authentic with your content. I know you’re going to love this episode and I can’t wait to see the amazing content this inspires you to create! 

Over the past few years of working with thousands of female entrepreneurs I’ve noticed something that holds back so many people with amazing ideas: feeling like they need a specific qualification to start the business they dream of.    If this sounds familiar, I want you to know that I understand exactly how you feel.    Before I started FEA, I sat on the idea for 3 whole years because I kept thinking to myself, “Who am I to create this?!” and “Who will take me seriously if I have no business qualifications!”.   I wasted so much time hanging on to this false belief before I finally plucked up the courage to get out of my own way and take the leap anyway.   I don’t want that to happen to you! I want you to recognize that you don’t need a qualification to share your experiences, your skills, talents, passion and expertise.    So in this episode I want to share with you:   What I DID have instead of a qualification, that was so much more important to help me build my business. How my friend Allie Casazza built a hugely successful 7-figure business with no qualifications (You can listen to that episode right here). The impostor syndrome I felt while writing my first book (and how this fear came up again now that I’m thinking of writing a 2nd book!). Why your experiences and skills are just as valid as any qualification and how to use them to create a valuable offer.  My best tips to help you build your confidence and go for your dreams if not having a qualification has been holding you back.    If you’ve been holding yourself back from going after your dreams because you don’t have a specific qualification, we’ve created a fun “You’ve Got This” certificate you can download by clicking right here! - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1blmgj-uyhuUxTP5SEfPCCipnpmBFFWCY/view?usp=sharing   And if you’d like more support with starting your business, I’ve got just the thing to help you: a new course I’m creating called Create & Sell!    In it I’m going to teach you how to take your knowledge, expertise or passion and turn it into a valuable offer that you can sell! Join the waitlist now to be the first to hear more: femaleentrepreneurassociation.com/createandsell

Hard work is part of the entrepreneurial journey and it’s crazy to think that it isn’t. I was recently having a conversation with a friend about how so many people online seem to portray that building a business should be easy and that it doesn’t require too much hard work. Part of me gets really angry with this because it puts out a false message to those who are at the beginning of their entrepreneurial journey. It makes so many people feel that if they are struggling and working really hard, it means that something must be wrong. But it takes hard work, discipline and dedication to achieve amazing results in absolutely anything in life! I feel like it’s so important to talk about this because when I realised that it’s ok to struggle, that this was going to be hard work - I finally gave myself permission to stop thinking I wasn’t doing it right by working so hard. So in this episode I chat to you about: Why it might look easy and effortless for other people (but in fact no one has it all figured out!) The mindset breakthrough I had when I accepted that building a business was going to be really hard work (and how to have that same breakthrough) My favourite tips for overcoming the struggle and pushing through to create success when it all feels like too much. If we want to be good at anything in life, excel and create success - there’s always going to be a level of work, dedication and practice that has to go into it. What are your thoughts on this? I’d love to know! Share with us in the comments below your experience with overcoming struggle and comparing yourself to other business owners. And if you want more support with turning your dreams and ideas into a wildly successful business, make sure you become an FEA Insider! You’ll be the first to hear about new episodes, exclusive content and latest news - femaleentrepreneurassociation.com/insider Carrie xx

“There’s no such thing as a unique message, only unique messengers”.    I heard the amazing Jadah Sellner say this quote in a masterclass she created for our Members’ Club a few months ago and it really stuck with me.  As business owners, entrepreneurs and people with lots of big ideas that we want to turn into successful businesses - we are in fact messengers.  Our stories, personalities and experiences make us who we truly are and shape our unique message. But so often we feel like we need to emulate successful people we admire, or that we’re not “interesting enough” to be ourselves.  So we end up listening to everyone else’s ideas and putting messages out there that are generic, inauthentic and really don’t connect with our audiences.  And then our message doesn’t convert into sales, customers and raving fans. #sofrustrating I know this is something so many entrepreneurs struggle with, so in this episode I share with you:  My own struggle with being myself when I first started FEA (and how I felt like I had to be serious and professional...which really didn’t fit my personality!). How I discovered who I wanted to be to my audience and found my authentic voice.  Why it’s so important to make business decisions based on your own intuition (rather than always following everyone else’s ideas, advice and style). My 3 best tips to help you get back to who you truly are if you’ve been feeling a little lost.  I hope this episode helps you to see that the more we can embrace who we truly are and the more we can infuse that into our business, the more success we can create.

One of my favourite quotes has always been “Don’t compare your Chapter 1 to someone else’s Chapter 20”.  And being a few chapters into my entrepreneurial journey now, I see so many people get stuck on their own Chapter 1 because they’re too scared to create a crappy first draft of their work.  When it comes to our business, so many of us expect perfection from the very beginning. But you wouldn’t expect to sit at a piano and play like Chopin from day 1!  So why do we put this kind of pressure on ourselves and hold ourselves back from becoming creators, even if it’s messy to begin with?  A few days ago I came across a box full of things I had created in the really early days when I first started FEA and it really took me back to that time. I wanted to share what I found in these boxes with you because so many times, when we scroll through social media, listen to podcasts or watch videos online, we base our comparison on those carefully selected highlight reels.  But we rarely get to see the journey that got people there, or the struggles behind the scenes.  So in this episode I share with you: The crappy first draft I ever created of my now bestselling book, She Means Business (I had no idea what I was doing and none of the content ever even made it into the actual book!). The first inspirational quote wall prints I ever created for myself.  The one thing that keeps most entrepreneurs stuck in ideas mode (and how to get out of it!) How to dive into the creation process (even if it’s really crappy to begin with!). How to move on and improve from that crappy first draft.  A journal entry I wrote years ago, which eventually made it into my book. I hope this episode serves to show you that everyone starts out from Chapter 1. No one has it all figured out from the get-go, so don’t pressure yourself into the pursuit of perfection, just become the creator!