

Profitable Mindset
Charlotte Smith
You may be the farmer or married to the farmer - this podcast will help you balance family and merge your personal needs with your farm demands. You can have a profitable biz AND a lovely, fulfilled life. I teach you personal development tools & strategies to finally conquer overwhelm and the feeling that you're not doing enough in your family or in your business. You'll learn step-by-step how to create the results you want in life!
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Sep 15, 2022 • 24min
#131: The Top 3 Mistakes Farmers Make Selling Direct to Consumer + How to Fix Them
Your farm looked successful on paper (or in your mind, at least.) Raise what you know people want Look at what the market will bear and price accordingly, so it's a steal, you know you'll sell out. Post consistently on social media - ALL the places! Then reality sets in. But the money does NOT. Click the link above to Avoid (or fix) the Top 3 Mistakes Sometimes what seems like the most obvious things to do on your farm are the things that will do your business in - FAST. There's a bit of a time crunch to get cash flowing in your farm business sooner rather than later. This is because farming is a business where there are LOTS of financial inputs up front. If you don't get cash flowing from sales, it can be a downward spiral of debt and anxiety. Then overwhelm sets in and you can't see a way out. So you expand. The problem most farmers make, though, is they expand the wrong way and at the wrong time. Today's episode will outline the mistakes most farmers are making so you can get back on the right track to building your sustainable, profitable farm. See you in Episode 131 of the Profitable Mindset Podcast! Click the link above to listen. Warmly, Charlotte

Sep 8, 2022 • 24min
#130: This is the Strategy Farmers Are Using to Make Farm Life More Manageable
5X Your Farm Sales Waitlist – HERE If you're a farmer, some days it feels like nothing's going right. Case in point, last week I coached on the following: Lost half my flower crop to spider mites The butcher closed suddenly & unexpectedly, leaving us with lower quality options We sold half our cattle herd at auction due to drought And more. At first glance, it seems these things shouldn't be happening; they cause such negativity. Thank goodness all these farmers have a mindset coach to help them immediately manage for the feelings of overwhelm, defeat, hopeless. Click the link above to find out how>> Because you see... Being a farmer means you can expect circumstances like these. Circumstances that might bring you to your knees on your average Tuesday. Bring you to your knees, that is, if you don't know how to manage your brain. That is what coaching is. YOU learn how to manage your thoughts. So you stop wasting valuable time and dollars trying to fix things that are a normal part of farming. Because signing up for farming means you're signing up for crop & animal loss, drought, flood, destruction, people quitting, etc. When you learn to manage your thoughts around these circumstances that are a part of farm life, you will never be derailed again. Today's episode of the Profitable Mindset Podcast will get you started overcoming these circumstances that previously took you down for days or weeks. Yes, you can fix all of that and learn to manage farm life with ease. Click the play button above and learn to live farm life with ease. Enjoy, Charlotte PS: 5X Your Farm Sales opens up for registration in October - be ready to jump inside the program, rewire your brain, and finally start farming and living with much more ease.

Sep 1, 2022 • 29min
#129: 2 Crucial Steps The Most Successful Farmers Add To Their Days
Click HERE for 5X Your Farm Sales Waitlist I was raised to believe that I had to "earn" or "deserve" time off. I was taught I had to get it all done, or most of it, or get everything/everyone taken care of... ...before I could take a break. And I hear it in the way you talk about your life that you may have been raised the same way. It took me 50 years of overworking and exhausting myself, making myself sick, to figure out how to change that belief and start giving myself a break. ==> Click the link above to learn two things that will make you feel delighted to give yourself a break <== If you don't learn how to turn this around - that belief - that you have to earn or deserve time off - is going to keep you NOT making money on your farm. Not to mention, keeping you feeling unfulfilled, wondering if this is all there is, or if you're missing something. I teach hundreds of farmers a year how to create 10-20 more hours in their week. Not by overworking the rest of the week -- and then falling into exhaustion. But 10-20 more hours in their weeks -- while feeling spacious and abundant. And it starts with the last 2 steps on the podcast today. These skills my clients learn to do to create more time in their lives are probably the exact opposite of what you think is going to work. ==> Click HERE to learn two things that will create MORE time in your day <== You might not believe that it's this simple. But my clients tell me every day in emails or in the Facebook group that it's MAGICAL that they actually created lives where they have a luxurious amount of time each week. I want this for you, too. Listen to Episode #129 of the Profitable Mindset Podcast and change your life. Enjoy, Charlotte

Aug 25, 2022 • 21min
#128: The Simple, Focused Practice Farmers Use to Finally Complete Their To-Do Lists
Sign Up for Farm Marketing Week – Free Marketing Coaching – HERE This week I'm diving in to Step 2 of "4 Simple Steps to Create More Time." Today's simple but life-changing exercise is one my clients in 5X Your Farm Sales learn to implement the first week of class. It's one of the key shifts that create huge progress in their businesses. It's how they produce MORE in 2 hours than they used to struggle with completing in a week. Click the link above to learn this simple practice. You see, there's something about the way you write down your to-do's that's keeping you unfocused. You know when you sit down to your desk because it's time to "work on marketing" and you research to feel inspired, but when it's time to get up you still haven't produced much of anything? Ya, well, that's how I used to be, too. Until I learned the 4 steps I'm teaching you during this time management series to create way more time in your days. The farmers in 5X Your Sales post in the Facebook group regularly, "It feels so luxurious to have free-time everyday, I'm still getting used to it!" And this is for you, too. THIS is the work I do daily, with farmers. Dive into the episode today and do this work with me and free up some space in your busy day. Not only will you free up space, but you'll start to feel incredibly accomplished throughout your days, too, when you incorporate the practice I talk about in today's episode of the Profitable Mindset. Listen and learn by tapping the link at the top. Warmly, Charlotte

Aug 18, 2022 • 28min
#127: The Cutting Edge Practice my Clients Use to Make Farm Life Way More Manageable
Sign Up for Farm Marketing Week – Free Marketing Coaching – HERE You may know logically - Worry will never make you feel better. Hustling will never make you feel more peaceful. Self-criticism will never make you feel good about yourself. Trying to do it all will NEVER make you feel productive or accomplished. And though you may know this to be true, most people don't know how to stop doing it. I can help. And I'm working with farmers daily teaching them how. These four things don't work to make life manageable. They actually move you backward in your life and business. Click the link above to learn the first step of the solution to creating more time I'll spend the next few weeks giving you the antidote to this problematic thinking. Then you will use what you hear on the podcast to gradually rewire your brain to STOP the unproductive/unuseful thinking. When you give what I offer a try, you'll notice you start to default to useful thinking that solves problems. The worry, hustle, self-criticism and overwhelm will start to be replaced with calm, balanced and self-confidence. How do I know? I've done it myself AND my clients in 5X Your Farm Sales report this is what's happening to them regularly. Over our year together, they're learning to STOP the four un-useful habits above and life starts to be so calm and even fun for them. Sometimes, for the first time in their lives. Give it a try. Click The Link Above to Listen. Charlotte

Aug 11, 2022 • 31min
#126: The Four Biggest Time Wasters in Your Day
Sign Up for Farm Marketing Week – Free Marketing Coaching – HERE Imagine how luxurious it would feel to have 2-3 extra hours every day of your life. It's not just an impossible dream... stay with me here, and you'll start to see possibility for this. ==> Click the link above to Learn the 4 Biggest Time Wasters <== You know I can teach you how to make more money. And I can teach you how to attract all the customers you need. But what I can't do for you is create more hours in the day than the 24 we all have. However, my clients report finding 10-20 more hours in their weeks after coaching with me. I know - it may seem impossible for you right now. But please know, with some focus on a few key things, this is available for you, too. Farmers coaching with me create more time with a combination of learning how to manage their time more productively. AND, the other side of that, they learn how to stop wasting immense time in their days. You've got to address both - stop wasting time + learn to manage it in a useful way. Next week I'll start teaching you the steps to creating more time, but first, before those will work for you, you've got to learn how these common time wasters. I outline the 4 Biggest Time Wasters we don't know we're doing - in today's episode of the Profitable Mindset Podcast. Click the link above to Learn to Eliminate the 4 Biggest Time Wasters Just becoming aware of these 4 things will make it easier for you to change them. Awareness is the FIRST step in creating calm, balance and peace in your lives that my clients report feeling for often what is the first time since starting their farms! So, step 1 of creating more time is becoming aware of how you're wasting time. Nothing else will work until these are eliminated. See you in Episode 126! Charlotte

Aug 3, 2022 • 21min
#125: The 7 Specific Tools I've Created That Will Get You to Success and Profit
5X Your Farm Sales is Open For Registration Click HERE to Learn This week you saw me offer feedback on several farm websites that I know from experience, when you implement the coaching I offered, will be the start of you 5X'ing your farm sales. That's just one coaching session. We do this EVERY week inside the coaching program. The farmers I'm giving feedback to each week are selling out in ONE email what used to take them months. They're selling more in ONE WEEK than they used to sell the whole season. They're raising their prices to finally make a 40%+ profit. Join Now and Begin 5X'ing Your Farm Sales AND Your Life All because they're committing to doing the work of working on their mindset and their marketing for one year. Not only are they making more money, they experience this: No longer feeling burned out Working reasonable hours Setting firm boundaries Making daily time for themselves Feeling present with their family every day You've got to know, though, 5X'ing your farm sales is not all about the money. It never is. Yes, money solves a lot of immediate problems. We solve those for sure! But then, 5X'ing their farm sales becomes about so much more. Paid off mortgages. Husbands and wives able to quit day-jobs and be home full-time on the farm. Healed marriages. Healed relationships with parents and in-laws and kids. No more juggling bills each month because there's always enough in the bank. Finally taking a family getaway during the busiest months of summer... with NO guilt. And more. INFINITELY more. The average person will 5X their sales. Some less, some more, depending on how committed you are to the coaching. And then you find - The more profit your farm makes, the more you are able to do for your community, your family, and yourself. It’s the difference between being stuck at the computer trying to make the numbers work and being able to hire and help a bookkeeper make a living so you can improve the soil. It’s about working hard and seeing your customers have better health and better lives because of your farm products. It’s about having time for yourself again and having more time with your family, instead of constantly working and worrying about being able to pay the bills. And I know you’re no stranger to hard work, so if you’re willing to put in the effort to make these outcomes happen for you, sign up for my program, 5x Your Farm Sales Coaching Program for Farmers. Inside, you’ll get one year of: Advanced Marketing Strategies for your specific marketing pieces. Focused feedback every week. Learn the 5 Day Focused Sales Launch Access to three of my best courses designed to help stop the overwhelm, structure your farm for profit, and increase your sales Access to a Facebook group where you’ll meet and learn with fellow farmers on the same path as you Weekly group coaching with me where you can bring any problem, marketing, business, or life challenges, that comes up for you along the way and be supported in your growth Click here to learn more. Enrollment just opened and will only be available until this Friday, August 5th, at midnight PT. Plus, inside I give you a marketing system that is so simple and easy to execute, you’ll probably spend less time in the office than ever before. Don’t miss this, Charlotte P.S. That marketing system I talked about? Here’s what it does: "I learned to determine how much my time is really worth. I no longer feel guilty. I feel confident I’m ALWAYS doing exactly what I’m supposed to be doing. And I made 50% more revenue this year." Click here to check out 5x Your Farm Sales, a Marketing and Mindset Course for Farmers. PAYMENT PLAN: I had several requests for a payment plan this week - Click HERE for the payment plan.

Jul 29, 2022 • 44min
#124: How This Mom of 6 Went From Frazzled to Fulfilled Farming With Family
Click HERE to Read All About 5X Your Farm Sales Coaching Program Today is a very special story of transformation of an extended farm family. -Click the link above to hear about how Rachelle, her husband and her father-in-law have improved their lives dramatically on the farm.- Rachelle has 6 kids UNDER 7. As if that's not a big enough job, she often milks cows in the afternoons. She farms with her husband - they own the farm 50/50 with her in-laws, so there's the added pressure of doing business with extended family. Before she came to me for help, they were exhausting themselves, doing all the farming and selling, working hard chasing every dollar. She had no boundaries with her husband, family, or customers and found herself in constant reaction mode, running all over the place doing deliveries and anything that demanded her time. Rachelle knew that at this pace, they'd NEVER get caught up and would never have enough time to do what they needed to do to build a sustainable life and business. Rachelle knew she needed better time management. She also knew she needed to learn to value herself more to take better care of herself and her family. (So many of us as women are taught NOT to value ourselves; instead, everyone and everything else comes first - this keeps us feeling terrible in life.) Fast forward 16 months or so later, and Rachelle looks, sounds, and feels like a new woman. The other farmers inside the 5X Coaching program have witnessed her growth and change and the calming down of her life, too. Rachelle is an inspiration for ALL of us. She's an example of what's possible when you decide to shift your thinking and learn to create NEW results in your life. Click the link above to learn the crucial mindset shifts she made that have shifted her husband and father-in-law for the better.

Jul 14, 2022 • 28min
#123: The Crucial First Step to Creating More Time in our Busy Farm Days
Sign Up for Farm Marketing Week – Free Marketing Coaching – HERE Most of us consider time to be our most valuable asset. Our 24 hours in a day is so precious! But here's what I know to be true - *I teach you how to create more money. *I teach you how to get all the customers you want **But I can't teach you how to make more hours in the day than the 24 we're all given. But I CAN teach you how to create more time in the 24 hrs you already have by making a few subtle but powerful shifts. Click the play button above to learn the first step to getting way more peace AND productivity in your 24 hours I don't mean that you're going to do more - I'm not telling you that you have to be more productive. Chances are you're already running on all cylinders - me telling you to "just do more" is NOT going to help. Instead, you're going to learn to shift the way you think about time. You'll learn to create a new way of thinking about the time you do have that will free up hours. I will teach you the first steps in learning the skill of managing your time differently in your mind - in a way that serves you instead of overwhelms you. Based on my experience coaching hundreds of farmers, when you learn the skill of managing your mind around time, you'll free up 2-4 hours per day. Today's podcast is step one. When you stick with me and learn to Master Your Time & Master Your Life, you'll get more done PLUS have time set aside daily for your own personal care. I know!! That's a new concept for most people - daily time for ME??? Because you can't create more hours in a day, it is crucial you learn this first step of getting MORE out of the hours you do have - MORE accomplished and produced and more rest time. Click the play button above to learn to create more time in your day.

Jul 7, 2022 • 31min
#122: How Expecting Others to Act a Certain Way Keeps You Stuck - and How to Fix This
Sign Up for Farm Marketing Week – Free Marketing Coaching – HERE Many farmers move through their days disappointed by others' actions or lack of actions. In my farmer coaching group, farmers show up frustrated with thoughts like - "my husband should be supporting me in quitting my job." Or, maybe your farm partners don't want to work as hard as you think they should. And since farming and personal life are often intertwined, even personal expectations stop you up, such as - "my ex should be keeping me informed of the kids' activities." The problem you create for yourself is - when you feel disappointed or frustrated others aren't doing what you want, you keep yourself stuck NOT doing the things in your business you need to move ahead. Soon, you're not only feeling terrible, disappointed, frustrated - now you're not making money. This compounds the negative feelings - now you're feeling stressed and anxious about your sales or lack of income. Even if the thing you expect the other person to do is logical and rational, they still may not do it (because they're autonomous adults with agency). You're thinking some version of, "people aren't doing what they're supposed to and we're not making money." But there IS a solution - and it all lies within your ability to shift your mindset. Mindset coaching teaches you how to shift your thoughts from what's NOT working to thoughts that create successful, profitable results. Today's episode of the Profitable Mindset Podcast will teach you how to start shifting from un-useful/unproductive thoughts that keep you stuck not making money... ...to thoughts that will drive the actions needed to build your profitable farm. Click the link above to start creating successful results.