She Means Business Show

In this episode I share with you: The lies I kept telling myself that stopped me from pursuing my idea to create FEA for 3 whole years, and the realisation I had that then changed everything.  Why “unbecoming” is such an important first step to creating success. The questions you really need to ask yourself to get clear on what’s holding you back from making your dreams happen and stopping abundance from flowing into your life. The kind of empowering thoughts and mantras we all need to tell ourselves on a daily basis to elevate our lives.

There are a number of key things that I learned in my journey to making my first million, and I wanted to share those with you.  So many of us have this goal to reach a million $ in revenue and this is a dream that I shared a few years ago. I want to take you back to 2009... That year I created this challenge for myself called “Mission To Make A  Million in 365 days”. I was completely set on this idea that I was going to figure out how I was going to make a million in 365 days. I created a website and I was going to document it and share my journey. I ended up completely falling off the bandwagon with this challenge. It was only when 2011 came around, and I recalibrated my goals to what I called my "Mission: Success Challenge" that I actually began to make progress towards that first million. And it took a fundamental mindset shift to get me there. So in this episode, I'm going to tell you all about my journey, how I achieved that mindset shift and impart my best advice for how you can do the same. I hope you love it :) xx

When I started my business I knew that if I could build an audience of people who absolutely loved what I was doing and found value in it, then I could make it a success.  For the first 2 years, I threw myself into building my email list and growing a following on social media - I wanted to grow a community of raving fans who loved FEA and what it was all about.   I’ve since built an email list of over 150,000 subscribers, which has completely changed my business! But like everyone else, I started from zero! I know how frustrating it can feel when you’re starting from square one, but I also know that this kind of success is possible for every single one of us! So in this episode I want to take you behind the scenes and share with you the best lead magnets we’ve used over the past few years to grow this list and how exactly we marketed them to attract subscribers. Links & Resources: The ASK Method - Ryan Levesque Bucket.io  KingSumo Giveaways How To Get Your First 1000 Email Subscribers - Grow Your Email List Fast Email List Building - 3 Steps for an Incredible 2020 Marketing Strategy 4 Ways To Grow Your Email List FAST Our list-building masterclasses - femaleentrepreneurassociation.com/listbuilding

Every single business needs a business plan, but when we’re just getting started, it’s difficult to know how to go about planning everything that goes into creating success!  So I wanted to share with you how I created my own Business Success Plan, which helped me grow FEA to multiple 7-figures. In this episode, I give you the exact steps you can follow so that you can plan out your own journey to success.  It’s a simple plan, but that’s exactly what makes it so incredibly effective!  In this episode I share with you: What you need to do before you even sit down to create your Business Success Plan. The first essential details you need to include in your Business Success Plan that will help you stay on track. How to create a simple yet powerful marketing plan to attract as many potential customers as possible. The easiest way to create a plan for generating revenue in your business and hitting your financial goals. The most important element in the success of your business and how to become the person you need to be to take action on your plan. How to anticipate and plan for the challenges that might come up and hold you back. Your business plan doesn’t need to be complicated! In fact, the simpler your strategy for growth when you’re just starting out, the more quickly you’re likely to level up and make a breakthrough. So keep it simple! If you go all in and take action on your plans success will follow! Head over to femaleentrepreneurassociation.com/successplan to download my simple Business Success Plan template, which will help guide you through this process!

It’s one thing to have an idea or a dream of starting a business... but it’s something completely different to have the courage to turn that dream into a successful and profitable business that you love.  The truth is that we all experience resistance when we have an idea to try something new. And it’s not just something we struggle with at the beginning... I’ve experienced periods of this struggle throughout my entire entrepreneurial journey - whenever I come up with a new idea or have a new dream to get to another level, that resistance creeps back in and gets in my way! As entrepreneurs, we need to become masters of overcoming resistance, even when it feels like there’s no option but to stay stuck.  So in this episode, I wanted to share with you my 5 top tips for doing exactly this. These are the powerful strategies I always turn to whenever doubts, fears and worries flood my brain and cloud my willingness to keep pushing through.  I’m sharing with you: Why it took me 3 years from coming up with the idea for the Female Entrepreneur Association to actually launching it. The most common resistance we all face when it comes to putting ourselves and our ideas out there and the #1 thing we need to do to overcome this. The self-coaching exercise I use every time resistance comes up that helps me uncover the truth behind what’s really going on in my head. How to rewire your brain and flood yourself with positivity and motivation.  How to tap into the foresight of your future self to guide the decisions you make today. How to stop letting everyday distractions hold you back. How to manifest more of what you want into your life If you’re dreaming of taking your life or your business to the next level right now, but you’re feeling weighed down by resistance -  I know that these powerful strategies will help you break through to the other side. 

Before 2015, Allie Casazza was an overwhelmed mum of 4, battling to get through every day, counting the minutes till bedtime and dreading having to start all over again the next morning. The advice she was getting that “you’ll just get through it” just wasn’t t the way Allie wanted to show up in her life and her motherhood. Allie says that one day she stood in her driveway in the mountains of Arkansas, hating her life and struggling to make ends meet and just chose to step into a different energy. She decided what was going to happen in her life and believed with certainty that success was hers for the taking. Since then Allie has built a multiple 7-figure business and she’s even had a $70,000 day selling a $99 product! Allie is the host of The Purpose Show podcast, which has over 6 million downloads and also runs a Facebook Group of over 50,000 highly engaged women!  The main thing that Allie says has helped her achieve huge success in her business has been her ability to grow an engaged community of super fans who absolutely love what she does.  So in this episode, Allie shares her 5-Part Party Cocktail, which is her fun framework for building a tribe of ideal customers. And definitely stay till the end, as we chat about the power of visualisation, which also played a huge part in Allie’s transformation and success! Find out more about Allie at femaleentreprenuerassociation.com/allie Check out Allie on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/allie_thatsme/?hl=en

With everything that’s going on in the world right now, creating a membership site for your audience means that you can grow a stable and successful business that generates recurring revenue.  But regardless whether it’s a membership site, a course or an e-commerce website, the majority of people never even get their idea off the ground. So many of us are guilty of this: we get into our own heads and we get hung up about having tons of content and everything looking “perfect” before we even try to share our idea with the world.  It’s the difference between those who stay stuck and those who go on to create successful businesses: success comes from finding the courage to launch way before you have it all figured out! This happens because we compare our chapter one to someone else’s chapter 20, so in this episode I wanted to give you a look at my own chapter one.  I want to take you back in time and show you how much I really didn’t have things figured out when I first launched the Members’ Club and how far it was from perfection! I hope this episode shows you that if you have an idea or a desire to create success, then you have to find the courage to just go for it, before you even feel ready to take the leap! Check out the video version at https://femaleentrepreneurassociation.com/79 Go check out our 28 Business Blueprint, if you want to start and grow your wildly successful business - http://femaleentrepreneurassociation.com/28days Go and get involved on the She Means Business Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/shemeansbusinessbook/ And check out out over on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/femaleentrepreneurassociation/ Carrie :) xx

One of the biggest misconceptions about having a successful launch is that you need a huge audience of thousands of email subscribers and social media followers. But this couldn’t be further from the truth! Making 5 or even 6 figures in your next launch depends a lot more on the quality and engagement of your audience than it does on the number of followers you have. My amazing friend Michelle is proof of this, having scaled her business to six figures over the past few years with a small audience and no paid ads. Her story shows what’s possible for all of us when we just find the courage to stop hiding and put ourselves out there, even when we only have a small audience. In this episode, Michelle Rohr, who is the founder of the Secret Owl Society, shares behind the scenes of her most recent launch. Along with her business partner Aimee, Michelle recently launched her newest product to an email list of just 3,800 subscribers and an Instagram following of 2,000 followers. Selling a simple $50 digital template kit with a $7 order bump, they generated $16,000 in revenue within a few weeks and the orders just keep coming in! If you’d like to find out more about Michelle and the Secret Owl Society, check out these links that Michelle mentioned throughout the podcast: Secret Owl Society website The Digital Planner Template Kit  The Michelle And Aimee YouTube Show

In this podcast you’ll discover: Why having a small audience actually gives you an advantage when it comes to launching a membership site. Why keeping your content quick and simple will actually help your members stay longer and achieve better results (and keep you off the constant content treadmill!) 5 content ideas that make up the Publisher Model, which will help you create content that is easy to digest for your members and that will help them take more action and generate more results. This conversation with Stu is brimming with nuggets of wisdom, not just in terms of building a successful membership site, but also about understanding what type of content is most helpful for your audience (and it’s so much simpler than you think!). You’re going to love it! And if you’d like to learn more about how to build a successful membership site and create recurring revenue for your business, then join us inside our free pop-up Facebook Group, Membership Mentoring with Carrie Green & Stu McLaren. Stu and I will be going Live and answering your questions in there, so definitely don’t miss out!

Over the past couple of years I’ve been facing a serious challenge to grow my business. From the outside, you couldn’t really tell what was going on, but behind it all, I’ve been struggling on a personal level. So in this video I wanted to give you an honest glimpse into the reality that often hides behind the “picture perfect” highlight reels we see on social media. It has been a messy and crazy journey, but throughout it all, even when I was feeling the most stuck and confused, my business continued to grow and thrive. And the reason that my business has continued to generate over six figures per month through this really difficult time is down to one thing: recurring revenue. Recurring revenue is the most amazing thing you could create for your business! So in this episode, I wanted to give you some fun ideas to get your creativity flowing and help you see all the possibilities for adding a recurring revenue stream to your business. In the world we’re living in today, business stability is such an important thing. And along with that, we’re all craving human connection online more than ever, so for these two reasons, there’s never been a better time to dive into creating a membership for your business! In the video I share: > Some amazingly inspirational success stories that my friend and mentor Stu McLaren shared with me from students of his incredible membership course: TRIBE. > The tops 3 types of membership sites you should consider if you decide to create one for your business > 5 types of content you can deliver to your members, how to make it really simple to deliver monthly content and also how to take content creation completely off your shoulders. Over the next few weeks I’ll be hosting a free pop-up Facebook Group called Membership Mentoring with Carrie and Stu, with my good friend and mentor Stu McLaren. Stu is the top industry expert when it comes to building membership sites and I couldn’t have grown the Members’ Club as much as I have without his incredible insight. Stu will be joining me for some amazing live sessions so that we can answer your questions and help you understand how to build a membership site. Stu also has an amazing free video series coming up, where he’ll dive deeper into membership strategies and how to build your own membership site. Recurring revenue has honestly been a blessing for my business and has helped me build so much confidence, stability and success. I know for sure that if I can build something like this, you can too! So make sure you watch the video and then join Stu and I inside the Facebook Group!