The Blair Badenhop Show

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

France Brunel is a Hatha yoga teacher, an in-training Ayurvedic practitioner and the founder of Yoom: a wellness company that helps you personalize your diet & self-care using Ayurveda. Yoom takes the guesswork out of wellness by offering services like virtual tongue readings, customized wellness plans, Ayurvedic consultations and functional foods & self-care solutions. As you’ll hear, this woman leads with so much integrity and has worked her butt off to bootstrap this business. And I can’t wait for you to hear how she’s done it. In this episode, we chat about her experience with major digestive issues, insomnia, and eczema, why traditional medicine didn’t help her, and how Ayurveda was the healing modality that changed her life, why this experience ignited a deep love and passion for Ayurveda, and a desire to make it as accessible as possible to everyone, what it looked like for her to launch her platform Yoom, why it started as a blog, and how it’s evolved into a much more robust content platform, her idea to launch a product - a traditional Ayurvedic Kitchari - and what it’s taken to develop it and sell it, the ways that she honors the origin of Ayurveda in every layer of the Yoom brand from having traditional Ayurvedic practitioners on her advisor board to educating her audience about traditional practices, how she has bootstrapped Yoom while running another business - and how creating this platform has been a HUGE personal growth experience for her, and so much more   To learn more about France Brunel and the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes.   Follow Me On: Facebook Instagram

Ever feel… Totally lost about which tasks to prioritize or which projects to get started? Confused about where to focus your energy when you sit down to do work? Unsure how to structure your schedule as an entrepreneur so you get a lot done? If yes, this week’s episode is for you. The truth is – it’s so easy to get caught in the weeds when we start and run businesses; essentially wasting time on tasks and to-dos that don’t move us towards our goals. But with the right shifts to time management and productivity, you can become a pro at getting things done in a way that moves your towards your desired goals And it starts with the 5 elements I teach you about in today’s episode. These are the practices and tactics I integrate into every single day, week, and month that allow me to work 4 days a week, 6 hours a day, and still make $15,000 - $30,000 per month. I hope it helps you integrate some key processes into your work time so you feel grounded, centered, and on target.   To submit your question, visit the show notes.   Follow Me On: Facebook Instagram