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

Instagram: www.instagram.com/conwayconsulting
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Transformation is the change, but we usually get stuck in how to do it.

Cindy Carrillo is the CEO of Finding Your Nxt, a business coach, and a rancher. She shares her journey from being an entrepreneur working with Fortune 500 companies to completely changing her lifestyle by buying a ranch in Colorado.

Cindy started her business, Work Options Group, in the 1980s to help employees balance work and personal life, offering caregiving services that became widely successful over 20 years. After realizing it was time to move on, she sold her company and decided to pursue a long-held dream of living in the country. Cindy found a 35-acre property in the "Little Switzerland of America," built a home from scratch, and developed the sustainable, animal-friendly lifestyle she dreamed of.

On her ranch, Cindy hosts retreats, and one-on-one business coaching sessions that are more effective since nature allows us to more easily connect to our awareness and our whys. Cindy found her dream and is living her values while she helps others find their alignments.

Show notes:
👩‍💼 Cindy was in the caregiving network business in the 90s: working with big companies and helping people for 20 years. 01:48
👠 Selling the company and having a specific exit experience: from high heels to cowboy boots in the Rocky Mountains. 05:00
⚠️ How do I want to live - designing her lifestyle: sharing the ranch with guests and friends. 10:55
🌻 Coaching from the ranch is so much easier: getting through the blockages and finding one’s path. 16:02
🌟 Jennifer’s retreats for business owners: it all starts from inside. 20:37
🎯 Transformation requires challenging the status quo and seeking outside help. 22:44
📗 Cindy’s book explains her journey of building a ranch and sharing lessons learned and insights gained. 24:17
▶️ Building businesses with intention: designing your business around your whys. 29:16
✨ Aligning is the head, the heart, and the gut: paying attention to alignments. 35:06

Links:

Website: www.findingyournxt.com

Book: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DBTKZ2V4?

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Overwhelm often comes from over-scheduling and bad planning. Katy Allen is the CEO of Artful Agenda & co-founder of Adulting App. She built her business based on her need for a better time management tool and her love for paper planners.

Creatives and business owners manage a lot of things at once, and proper planning is crucial for productivity, but also for creativity. Katy and Jennifer share their experiences in creating business planners and which tips and tricks you can use to make the best out of your day, week, and year. They also discuss why gentle structure in scheduling your day is important and allows creativity to flow naturally.

Every day, you must ask yourself what can move the needle in your business, and should be addressed with priority, what can be done later or by someone else? These are all critically important because over-scheduling can damage the business. Use time blocking as a tool to more realistically maintain daily goals and avoid over-commitment.

And don’t forget, if your current methods aren't working, try new ones! Jennifer’s Best Planner Ever is an amazing paper option, and Artful Agenda is an incredible digital option! Both planners are there to help you tailor the planning system that will fit your unique needs and work style. Never stop planning!

Notes:
📒 Katy created Artful Agenda in 2018: a planner for busy women. 01:17
💡 From idea to app: needing a cool planner herself, and creating an online paper-appealing planner. 02:03
🌸 How Jennifer created her Best Planner Ever: a paper planner with an amazing design. 05:12
🧁 Custom aesthetics and choosing your layout in the planner: all satisfaction elements Katy uses of task lists, master lists, and stickers. 08:03
😇 Pick a system: choices are numerous; start by using any system so you can get better productivity. 12:05
🌟 ‘Task A’ moves the needle: priority lists are important to get done first and achieve satisfaction in the work you do. 16:14
🤓 Tips for having better productivity during the day: how to make tasks visible for yourself. 18:21
🤹 The power of loose time blocking: having days full of tasks and how to deal with them. 21:58
🔠 Jennifer’s ‘gentle structure’ and ABCDEF system: why rigidity kills your fun and creativity. 24:05
✌️ Being overwhelmed is real: overscheduling and how to use a calendar to properly plan tasks ahead. 29:04

Links

Artful Agenda www.artfulagenda.com

Connect with Katy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artful-katy/
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The secret sauce to success is in being accountable.

Founder of OwnersUP, Tanya Alvarez, helps B2B service-based founders solve their biggest challenges through facilitated peer groups. Tanya realized the power of a well-set accountability system when she founded her first company which grew to $1M in its first year.

Accountability is not sexy, nor fun for most entrepreneurs. They feel ashamed and burned out, and usually avoid holding themselves accountable. As Tanya explains, no one can do this work on their own. She has a different blueprint for accountability that avoids shaming. Her accountability groups help people have work-life balance, achieving goals and even finding the right partners.

She shares stories and tips on setting accountability correctly to shift mindset, overcome perfectionism, and facilitate groups in a supportive way. Community, celebration, and sharing of experiences make accountability more do-able and effective.

Show notes:
🤩 Growing her business from college at 25: her first million $ in just one year.
⚠️ Accountability is not shaming: the key is getting your accountability structure properly. 02:13
🙃 Tanya’s alternative approaches to accountability. 04:15
💍 Accountability coaching with the help of accountability groups: Tanya’s experience with finding her husband with this method. 05:57
😇 Why accountability coaching is easier to do in a group than one-on-one. 09:06
🪹 Isolation and lack of celebrating achievements in entrepreneurship. 11:26
🫂 The same problems we are facing but not knowing about it: vulnerability connects us. 14:05
🌟 How groups are facilitated is very important in group coaching. 16:30

Links:

Connect: www.linkedin.com/in/alvarezt

Website www.ownersup.com

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Addressing internal issues will help achieve external success.

T. Mark Mayer is a psychotherapist, master of NLP, and consultant specializing in conflict resolution, authentic management, and business coaching. He shares his journey of pursuing success through various high-profile corporate roles and starting his own companies, only to find that his unhappiness comes from trying to live up to the expectations of others. This led him to become a psychotherapist, which helped him realize the importance of connecting with his authentic self. This journey inspired him to help others with his work and the book "The Art of Being Authentic."

What is the power of language and changing our ‘I have to’s’ towards more positive ‘I choose to’s’ and why trying different systems is not helpful without working within yourself? Why goals must have a meaningful purpose beyond just achieving another goal.

Business success really depends on personal development even some business owners might be skeptical about it. Mark and Jennifer explain how their lives and businesses have changed and how to find authentic selves to pivot both in business and personal life.

Show notes:
😍 Trying to live upon what his surroundings expect of him: Mark went to psychotherapy training and then he changed his life. 02:00
💎 Training from the inside out is the best way to change your business and life. 05:53
🚩 People are looking for tech solutions to their problems. 07:21
⚡ Jennifer realized how much power lies in the words we use: NLP and reframing your point of view. 10:19
📘 Why Mark wrote a book: unhappiness comes from the gap between being your authentic self and trying to live up to the expectations of others. 16:15
😇 The intention is a very crucial thing to have the right outcome. 19:10
💲 Why working on yourself is very important for business owners? 21:30
⚠️ Business owners have to re-check the purpose of their goals: having a lot of goals is not the purpose. 24:03

Links:

Website: www./tmarkmeyer.com

Book: https://www.amazon.com/1544542070

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- Reflect on a recent challenge or setback in your business and identify the lesson or opportunity for growth.

- Share one way you can embrace and enjoy your entrepreneurial journey more fully, even amidst challenges.