The Blair Badenhop Show

Ever suspect that your own thoughts and beliefs are holding you back from making progress in your business? When we have around 60,000 thoughts a day with the majority of them being carried over from the past, it makes sense that we all need to take inventory of what we're telling ourselves. Especially since we know our thoughts influence our actions and our actions inform our outcomes, right? In today's episode, we're shining a light on the kind of thought that 1000% holds every human back so we can not only build awareness but start to release ourselves from its grip. What is that thought? "I can't." Listen for the simple exercise you can do to figure out which I can't statements are holding you back from showing up fully in your business. To submit your question, visit the show notes. Follow Me On: Facebook Instagram

I'd like to officially welcome you to a brand-new series inside the Brand Yourself podcast --- Mini-Masterclasses, essentially a potent conversation with an expert that will offer you actionable insight that will help you authentically pursue your purpose on the planet and build your business. And today's topic is a hot one: SOCIAL MEDIA. Social media marketing and content creation can feel like a moving target, and I know so many of my clients feel lost about where to put their time, energy, and focus on these platforms. Well, I've got the perfect person to put you at ease and her name is Allie Mason. Allie is an Instagram expert, researcher, and experienced copywriter and content producer having worked across government, journalism, wellness, radio and television production, and entrepreneurship for almost 15 years. She is also the CEO of Something Greater School of Social™, a social media consulting and coaching agency specializing in cross-platform optimization for purpose-driven experts and celebrities who want to make their messaging and marketing more ethical, authentic, and sustainable without sacrificing results. As you'll hear, Allie and I met on a trip in Tuscany years ago and became fast friends and colleagues. She is a WEALTH of knowledge about content creation, social media strategy, and so much more and has worked with some of the most successful entrepreneurs in the wellness industry, including some celebrities. In this mini masterclass, she shares how she became an expert in these platforms, launched a social media management company, and evolved into a highly sought-after content educator, her top social media tips and strategies for 2023, including how to approach creating magnetic content for your audience, why letting go of the desire to "beat" the algorithm is essential for your success and your sanity, and so much more! Be sure to get your notes ready because Allie drops so many helpful nuggets of wisdom. To learn more about Allie Mason and the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes. Follow Me On: Facebook Instagram

In today's episode, I jump back into my Biz Wisdom series where I offer you a slice of insight as it relates to pursuing your purpose and mindfully growing a business. And today's topic is all about building community IN REAL LIFE. There are a few reasons I wanted to address this: I'm seeing more and more people reduce their social media usage for business – and experience growth without it. So many of us are tired of these platforms and crave the nourishment and joy only in-person connections offer. When you've got a solid presence in your local community, you can really anchor yourself as the go-to for what you specialize in. So, I'll be sharing 5 practical tips for how to go about doing this even if you're more introverted like me. To submit your question, visit the show notes. Follow Me On: Facebook Instagram

Amy Duncan is a healthcare industry veteran with 15 years of experience ranging from biotech and medical device sales to telegenetics and psychedelics. She is the founder of both Mowellens, a CBD company, and the recent co-founder of EDIT, an LA-based regenerative healthcare company and clinic that offers a variety of therapies including ketamine, vitamin infusions, and more. After navigating life as the caregiver of her late husband who battled glioblastoma brain cancer, she found herself in a state of depression, and through a variety of therapies including ketamine, she was able to find peace and healing. So, Amy is an incredible human being – if you listened to our first conversation in episode 56, you already know how she is both brilliant and someone who leads with heart. In this episode, we chat about how she navigated her husband's passing while running a business fulltime, her experience with psychedelics and why they were the catalyst for her healing, what it was like to co-found her second company, fall in love with her co-founder, and become pregnant, how she juggles her roles in multiple companies and why she believes psychedelics are the future of medicine, and so much more! To learn more about Amy Duncan and the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes. Follow Me On: Facebook Instagram

Brand Yourself is BACK after a 5-month break – I'm just now emerging from the baby bubble after giving birth to our Jack. It has been a wild ride being in the newborn phase again, healing from childbirth, adjusting to life to life as a mama of two, and creating space to reconnect with myself and my work again. In this kickoff episode of the 2023 season, I open up about: How my business is evolving as I step into this new season of life What you can expect from the show this year My birth story and how we've been finding our new normal as a family of 4 I'm really excited to reveal how I'll be deepening my work and more! To learn more about how you can work with me, visit blairbadenhop.com/offerings. Follow Me On: Facebook Instagram

Here we are – nearing the end of another year! And as a business owner, you may be shifting your focus from the here and now to planning for 2023. This episode is designed to help you do just that – specifically in planning out the first quarter of the New Year. Inside, I share my signature quarterly planning formula so that you can create aligned, intentions, goals, and tasks to move yourself forward. I also open up about: How I feel right now as I'm about to become a mama of two My biggest lessons, challenges, and wins of 2022 What I'm most proud of accomplishing this past year And more I hope this formula and my transparency about my own business helps you feel seen, supported, and less alone on the journey. Because – truth is, we are always figuring it out as we go. Happy Holidays! B. P.S. Be sure to check out episode 218 if you haven't completed the Sacred Reflection Ritual I share with you. It's a must-do before you shift into 2023 planning mode. P.P.S. If you want your Brand Yourself fix between now and when the show returns in Spring 2023, be sure to subscribe to my email list where I'll be sending a weekly episode recommendation. Just head on over to blairbadenhop.com/list to subscribe. To submit your question, visit the show notes. Follow Me On: Facebook Instagram

Elizabeth Earnshaw is a renowned Gottman therapist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Clinical Fellow of The American Association of Marriage & Family Therapy (MA), and influential Instagram therapist who has helped transform countless relationships. She is a co-founder of OURS, where she works to make couples counseling mainstream and accessible. She also owns A Better Life Therapy in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, supporting clinicians who are helping couples every day. Elizabeth is the author of I WANT THIS TO WORK, a trustworthy guide to navigating the most challenging relationship issues we face. Culturally inclusive, LGBTQIA+ friendly, and written for both married and unmarried couples, this book brings an accessible guide to healing relationships and creating enduring intimacy. So, Elizabeth is AWESOME and I'm so excited to have her on the show. Because she's not only built two thriving businesses, but she's been actively pursuing work she loves for over a decade and has brought so much heart and soul into that process. If you're a therapist or take a therapeutic approach in your business, or you want to scale to a multi-practitioner company, this episode is for you. In this episode, we chat about her professional career path and why she left behind her role as a schoolteacher and become a therapist instead (hint: she saw a sign), what it looked like for her to start her own practice and set her sights on building a team of practitioners, how her ambitious, go-getter mindset helped her be incredibly scrappy as she built her client-base and made a name for herself, why she has always been drawn to family and couples therapy specifically - and how she developed her world-renowned therapeutic approach, what it's been like to run her own thriving practice alongside her other business venture, OURS, and lead the development of a super accessible and modern therapeutic process for couples, how she's found a balance between being a public figure on platforms like Instagram and a therapist and kept the ethics of therapy in mind, and so much more! To learn more about Elizabeth Earnshaw and the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes. Follow Me On: Facebook Instagram

Jadah Sellner is a bestselling author, business coach, international keynote speaker, TEDx presenter, poet, and host of the Lead with Love® podcast. She's the author of SHE BUILDS: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life. She's also the co-author of the best-selling book Simple Green Smoothies where over one million people have embraced this simple and healthy habit. As the founder of Jadah Sellner Media, Inc. and She Builds Collective, Jadah helps women build their businesses and their lives in a way that works for them—–with love. She has been featured in Forbes, O, The Oprah Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. So, this is Jadah's second time on the show – our first conversation was back in 2018, episode number 27. Way back in the beginning of this podcast. And I'm so excited to have her on again because this woman has had such an influence on me and how I run my business. In this episode, we chat about her transition from co-owner of a wellness business to being a full-time business mentor, why her journey with burnout was what got her curious about how to do business differently, her process for developing the Build with Love methodology that invites entrepreneurs to prioritize their actual life, joys, and wellbeing right alongside their businesses, the beliefs about success that so many of us carry, where they come from and how they limit us as we pursue work we love, how to course correct if you find yourself caught in a cycle of pressure, comparison, competition, and a desire to succeed ASAP - so that you can build your business consciously, why she wrote her amazing new book She Builds, what it was like to take this big project on, and how she applied her own methodology to do it well, and so much more! To learn more about Jadah Sellner and the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes. Follow Me On: Facebook Instagram

Now that we're officially approaching the end of the year, and the chaos of the holiday season is just weeks away, now is truly the perfect time to reflect on the past 10 months. So, I want to offer you a little exercise to do to slow down and take a look at everything you've accomplished – lessons learned, business wins, noteworthy moments, and more. While also acknowledging the things that were hard and didn't go as planned. It's so easy to kind of tuck away those things and move on to the next, especially as you gear up for a New Year. But truly, assessing the past, is essential for taking aligned steps in the future. So, in this short and sweet episode, I gift you 8 questions to help you fully acknowledge what has happened for you in 2022 as an entrepreneur and provide you with a detailed ritual to follow so this writing exercise is sacred. I also share that the 2022 season of Brand Yourself will end in a few weeks and the next season will start in Spring 2023. If you want your Brand Yourself fix between now and then, be sure to subscribe to my email list where I'll be sending a weekly episode recommendation. Just head on over to blairbadenhop.com/list to subscribe. To submit your question, visit the show notes. Follow Me On: Facebook Instagram

Africa Brooke is a globally recognized consultant, mentor, speaker, and writer who specializes in helping people in and out of the public eye move through self-censorship, and other forms of self-sabotage. Her work takes a close look at the complexity, mess, and glory that is the human experience, and she makes a strong case for why we need to accept discomfort as an essential part of the growth process. Oh my goodness, I could not be more excited to have this incredible woman on the show. I came across Africa and her work back in 2020 - and was instantly drawn to her message and position on authentic self-expression. Her posts on Instagram have resonated with me deeply ever since, and having her on the show is a dream of mine. If you don't already follow her work, do it immediately - her IG handle is @africabrooke. She is such a powerful, kind, brilliant leader, and I can't wait for you to sink into our conversation today. In this episode, we chat about: - how her sobriety journey awakened her to a passion for researching and understanding self-sabotage, and ultimately led her to become a mentor and coach who specializes in freeing people from it, - what it looked like for her to start taking on clients in the very beginning and how her company steadily grew into what she does full time - why 2020 was the year she both solidified her message and strengthened her voice - all of which helped her business explode with growth - how she became so anchored in herself and her truth and why it has given her a deep confidence to speak about big political and social topics - her biggest recommendations for how to avoid self-censorship and self-sabotage in your own business - and how doing so ultimately empowers you to make your unique mark - the structure and spaciousness she has created in her life to avoid burnout and allow play, relationships, and health be the top priority - and so much more! To learn more about Africa Brooke and the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes. Follow Me On: Facebook Instagram