Running the business with the end in mind improves its future saleability and also enhances how the business operates today.

Laurie Barkman, is the CEO of The Business Transition Sherpa, adjunct professor of entrepreneurship, and podcast host. She is the former CEO of a $100 million revenue company that was sold to a Fortune 50. Her expertise in business transition, succession, entrepreneurship, marketing, and M&A has been spotlighted in various media like Newsweek, Forbes, Yahoo! Finance, WTAE/abc, and more.

After going through an acquisition herself, she recognized the importance of helping business owners with succession planning and building value proactively. Many business owners don’t consider exit planning early enough and that is a crucial step not only for later-stage companies. The usual scenario is selling when the company is in bad shape is the worst option. Lori offers examples of how business owners can make their business more attractive to buyers and some might be weird to most owners. But the process of preparing your business for sale allows you to leave on your terms, ensuring your legacy continues while you reap the rewards of your hard work.

Show notes:
👠 Laurie's career transition led her to doing transition work with business owners. 2:21
👩🏻‍💼 As a marketing leader for 25+ years, Laurie focused on three pillars: growth, innovation, and transition. 4:18
💲 When should you sell your business? Having a perspective of where you're headed. 7:07
⏰ Timing is everything: Ensure your business is ready to sell at any time. 13:05
⚠️ A business that's too dependent on its owner can't successfully transition to another owner. 17:43
🤓 Make your business an asset: the power of clear identification, documentation, and systems in place. 20:32
🎯 Transition planning: personal readiness, business assessment, and a financial perspective. 23:26
👉🏻 The differences between exit, contingency, and succession. 25:39
🍼 People create their identity around their business: "My business is my baby." 30:11

Links:

Website: www.thebusinesstransitionsherpa.com

Free Book: "The Business Transition Handbook” https://bit.ly/business-transition-book

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It's not about fixing emotional eating—it's about loving yourself through it.

Marla Mervis Hartmann, is a coach, TedX speaker and creator of Love Your Body, Love Yourself. She shares her personal journey of struggling with restrictive dieting, over-exercising, and body dissatisfaction despite having a healthy physique. Women face societal pressures and diet culture that often lead to a cycle of criticism and control, particularly as the body changes through different life stages like menopause.

Marla says that all women should practice self-compassion and avoid being overly critical of our bodies. Healing involves slowing down, tuning into what the body truly needs, and addressing underlying fears of acceptance and authenticity. It is very important how we speak to ourselves, what we push into ourselves emotionally because that will reflect on the eating habits.

Personal stories in this episode are heart-touching and "Death by chocolate," captures the emotional complexities tied to food. Marla shared tips for cultivating self-love and body acceptance. We are all in different shapes and sizes, but what matters is the peace and love you give to yourself.

Show Notes:
🍇 Marla struggled with a lot of restricting dieting: she was orthorexic, and her food had to look absolutely perfect. 2:59
⚠️ For a lot of people, accepting your body feels like giving up, but acceptance means changing the whole game. 5:42
🤯 Diet culture pushes the narrative that something is wrong with us if we have extra fat. 11:06
🪞 We want to be in control of our bodies in a way that is loving: mirror fasting. 13:19
😇 It's powerful that we can love our bodies as they are: it's not okay to normalize being mean to ourselves. 19:10
👵 How Jennifer's grandma dealt with food. 22:32
🍫 Food helps us deal with our emotions, but it shouldn't be the only thing. 25:57
🍨 We want to change the pattern of jumping over the emotions to get to the food: the reasons we do it. 29:59
⚡ With her clients, Marla would slow down and find the root of the punishment. 34:37

Links:

Website: www.loveyourbodyloveyourself.com/

Free Course: www.goloveyourbodyloveyourself.com/emotionaleating
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We all intuitively feel like we should be doing better, bigger, serving in a greater capacity.

David Conway is the founder of Conway Consulting, a sales and mindset mentor and coach, and he teaches entrepreneurs how to achieve any result that they desire by developing their minds so that we can all live up to our life's full potential. Through leveling up their mindset, business, and results, Dave helps his clients with an action-oriented approach to mindset and sales mentorship.

Dave shares his very painful journey into personal development, which began when he attended a talk by Bob Proctor at the age of 18. However, despite being exposed to these ideas, Dave struggled for 15 years to convert his knowledge into success. Then in 2017 everything changed.

Dave shares how he transformed his life by applying these principles, transitioning from a carpenter earning $5,000 a month to running a successful consulting business making over $4 million annually. He shares his tips on what we can do in just two steps, to get clarity in our thoughts. For every entrepreneur, freedom is crucial, and Dave offers a different view on what freedom means for each business owner. So go get productive and work towards your freedom

Notes:
☹️ Seeing Bob Proctor at 18: intuition, manifestations, and universal laws that didn’t work for Dave. 01:39
🔀 Concept of being Top Heavy: Dave’s complete transformation in just one year. 03:27
👷‍♂️ Dave missed the memo on paradigm and self-image in his life: you can't outwork your belief system. 06:58
📈 Carpenter turned to speaker and coach: earning $400 vs. $20,000 per day. 08:20
🌌 The law of attraction is the binding force of the entire universe: the science behind the law of vibration. 10:32
🤯 The Law of Attraction got destroyed or mixed up by misunderstanding: examples of people using the law to their success. 14:01
⚠️ Playing the blame game: if you don’t have it mentally—you don’t have it. 16:45
☯️ Changes in Dave’s life are huge: James Allen’s thoughts on changing the inside. 18:16
🧠 How to use the power of your mind in 2 steps: how do you want to live—write it down in 14 days to see patterns 19:38
2️⃣ Two states we live in: inspiration means being in spirit and who do you inspire in one day? 23:15
⚡ Law of relativity and the law of attraction: levels of understanding and levels of operating of it. 25:29
👔 Processes of refinement in your business: all have their time of revealing. 27:09
😇 The pain of living 15 years without the courage: when all started collapsing. 28:27
👉 Building a successful life can take you out of your comfort zone: how do you know when you're in trouble? 32:11
🫂 The deceptions of an entrepreneur: what is the true freedom of entrepreneurs? 35:20

Links:

Connect with David: www.linkedin.com/in/davidjconway/?

Website: www.conway.consulting/meet-dave

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