The Get Paid Podcast: The Stark Reality of Entrepreneurship and Being Your Own Boss

Welcome back! I am incredibly excited about today’s guest, the “Troop Leader of Love” and founder of League of Adventurous Singles, Kira Sabin. Kira is a life and love coach specifically for singles looking for help navigating the crazy world of dating. She works primarily with female clients – with a few men sprinkled in for a bit of added flavor, and she helps her clients navigate their love life and the dating scene in a rather interesting and unique way. Today, she breaks it down for us, answering all of my uncomfortable questions, including how she gets paid – and how much she has made so far this year. She also allows me to pick her brain a little on the types of mistakes she has made over her 8-year career as a “love coach” and shares a bit of advice for other life coaches and business owners.

This week, I am excited to have the opportunity to interview Dan Norris, co-founder of WP Curve - a service-based company specializing in helping entrepreneurs fix WordPress problems - and the author of “The 7-Day Startup” book. Dan explains his rocky road to success, starting (and failing) several startup businesses throughout the years before collaboratively working to create WP Curve. We talk about the ups and downs in his business journey, suggestions and advice that he received before launching WP Curve, and the many lessons that he feels every aspiring startup business owner should know before starting their business. Dan also shares a little information about his Australia-based craft beer brewing company and how starting this business is very different from developing a successful online startup. He explains his idea of “differentiation,” the difference between a startup and a full-fledged business, and provides tips on what he believes new startup business owners should focus on and what they should “forget about.”

Finances and budgeting are significant and crucial parts of running a business. I’ll admit, it is not my favorite part of being a business owner – but it is too important to ignore. In today’s episode, I am joined by Shannon Lee Simmons, finance, and money management coach and founder of New School of Finance based in Canada. She shares her “rags to riches” story with us, her business model, and the services and products that her company offers. We also get down to the nitty-gritty details on her personal and professional finances, discussing how much she charges for each of her products and services as well as her company’s net profit last year on each of her courses and services.

Running a business while juggling the crazy, hectic schedules that come along with motherhood can be a challenge – to put it mildly. From rushing kids to soccer practice to rushing to launch a product or service on time, we all often feel stressed, overwhelmed, or simply aren’t sure how to do certain things we want to do to scale our businesses. Megan Flatt is a business strategist who works almost exclusively with female entrepreneurs – or more specifically, mom entrepreneurs. She joins me on the show today to share some of her personal experiences with being a Mama CEO, how she helps other mompreneurs, and some of the challenges she has faced head on while launching a new product.

If you are a coach, consultant, thought-leader, or service provider and are wondering how you can ramp up your business over the next six months, then you are in for a treat today. Our high-earning guest today is Russ Ruffino, a business coach who teaches other coaches, consultants, and service providers how to “create the right clients at the right, premium price – anytime." He shares a wealth of information with me on today’s episode, including his internal system and method for growing a successful coaching business that consistently generates a 6-figure income on a monthly basis as well as how you can tap into his proven method and see similar results.

Welcome back to the Get Paid Podcast! I am super excited about today’s guest, founder of Lucky Bitch, and author of the Get Rich, Lucky Bitch book, Denise Duffield-Thomas. Over the last few years, I have become a huge fan of Denise’s, and I am incredibly excited that she has agreed to be on the show today. On this episode, she answers some of my toughest questions, including how much she gets paid, what she does to get paid, and why she continues to host certain events even when they aren’t particularly profitable. She gets completely transparent with me on the show and shares her tips, insight, and favorite motivational quotes with you to help you advance your business to the next level and learn what it takes to run a million-dollar business.

This week I interview one of the most inspirational women in the entrepreneurial world, Liz DiAlto. You know, it is always music to my ears when a guest on the show says “I’m an open book” and is willing to answer some of the most challenging, personal questions that I try to ask. Liz is one of those “open book” kind of people and in this episode, I ask those questions that I am sometimes too shy to ask others – how she gets paid, how much money she makes, and what service is her top-earner. Liz also shares a lot of valuable tips that can be incorporated into your business as well as fun facts about herself, her life before business, and why she feels her business and life intertwine so seamlessly that working doesn’t really feel like “working” to her.

Today I am ecstatic to interview Chase Reeves, co-owner of the Fizzle show! Since I began podcasting, I’ve always known that I wanted to get inside Chase’s head; talk to him about his goals, dreams, aspirations, and accomplishments. My dream finally came true today! I speak with Chase about the Fizzle podcast show, his views about business and feeling successful in this crazy business world, as well as ask him some very intimate, personal questions about life as a business leader.

Imposter syndrome, imposter complex – whatever you want to call it, it affects thousands of successful business owners, entrepreneurs, and executives each and every day. I first heard the term “imposter complex” after listening to another podcast interviewing Tanya Geisler, leadership coach and my guest on the show today! I was blown away with the realization that I wasn’t alone in these feelings, tons of other successful entrepreneurs are experiencing it, and that there is actually a term for it! Today, I talk with Tanya about the imposter complex, what it is, and how it can be both good and bad for our businesses.

If you’ve listened to the show for any length of time, you know by now that I am a huge fan of Fizzle. Fizzle has literally helped me develop and grow my business from its inception. On today’s show, I had the opportunity to interview the CEO of Fizzle, Corbett Barr. Although I’ve heard his story about how Fizzle was developed several times before, I still had a few questions that I wanted to be answered. Listen as he shares his story, lessons that he has learned from a previously failing business, and how he used those experiences to make Fizzle the fabulous online community that it is today.