Guest featured in this episode:

Sadie Smiley is the founder of Passive Income Pathways, a financially-accessible coaching membership that teaches people how to turn their blogs into six figure businesses.

She is a philanthropist who lives in Mexico with her husband, Kevin. She absolutely LOVES helping people get out of their own way, get unstuck, and drop the BS to achieve their financial goals and dreams!

Things you will learn in this episode:

• How Sadie was able to overcome homelessness and build a multiple six figure blogging business

• Resources that helped her mindset transformation

• And so much more…

How Being Lazy Can Improve Your Life

When I was younger, I thought being lazy was bad, I thought I needed to work my butt off in order to see results. Although hustling did work for me and brought me success in early life. However, it also led me to burnout. Society brainwashes us that if we are not hustling, we are being lazy. But today I want to debunk this myth and say that there’s always both sides to a story and when we look at things with a different perspective, we become open to accepting new opportunities and an improved life. I think the truth is there are definitely benefits to laziness and that being lazy can even help you improve your life. 

Now first I need to say we must rule out that the so-called “Laziness” I’m talking about here and the lack of motivation are not red flags of underlying health disorders. Certain physical causes such as high blood sugar or depression or chronic inflammation of course can lead to laziness but when you are in good health and feeling lazy, don’t hate yourself for feeling that way. 

Of course we all know that being lazy has a bad reputation, we see so many billionaires or CEOs talk about how they wake up at 5am and are always working hard. But did you know there is also scientific data that backs up the idea that those with higher IQ actually get bored less easily and therefore leading them to be less active physically and spend more time in their thoughts. Bill Gates has been quoted many times that he chooses lazy people to do hard jobs because lazy people will find an easy way to do it. 

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerburg are known to the public as prolific gamers, they enjoy their down time playing video games but that doesn’t make them lazy at all, and on the contrary they are even more productive when they are working and coming up with new ideas for their company. So if you love to binge watch TV, go ahead, that doesn’t make you lazy, it just means you will have to find a way to be even more productive when you are actually working. 

Life is made up of all our decisions and our decisions lead to our life experience.

Being lazy is now my intention and decision because I choose to be a strategic thinker.

I’m all in when it comes to taking imperfect action towards my ultimate goals because success loves speed, but I’m against wasteful scattered actions.

I prefer fun and efficient processes so that I can be lazy and also enjoy all activities that bring me joy. 

So I will continue to be lazy so that I can find the quickest ways to do things.

I will continue to be lazy for the tasks that I rather have someone else do the work for me aka delegating without guilt.

I will continue to be lazy so that I get to do what I want instead of what is required by society.

So as you can see, in all these ways, laziness has actually helped me improve my life and I hope that anytime you feel lazy in the future, don’t beat yourself up about it, but instead, reflect on how this situation can actually help improve your life. 

Guest featured in this episode:

As a kid, Jennifer watched her parents and other successful business owners reach a high level of success by working their butts off… ALL.THE.TIME.  When she became an entrepreneur in 2013, she thought that was the only way to reach success.
Jen hustled hard and worked long hours. Until she cracked the entrepreneurial success-code with her Sales Success Formula. Jennifer now teaches these strategies in her Breakthrough Sales Coaching Program and Mastermind.

Jennifer co-hosts the Sell or Die podcast with her husband Jeffrey (almost 3 million downloads), and has a podcast entitled Breakthrough Babe. She has written a best-selling book entitled Sales in a New York Minute that contains 212 pages of real-world, easy to implement sales strategies.Her mission is to help entrepreneurs create time and financial freedom – to help them build a business that supports their dreams, rather than building their lives around their business.

When she’s not coaching entrepreneurs, podcasting, or running her business, you’ll find Jen playing tennis or hanging out with her amazing step-daughter and husband, Cavalier King Charles fur babies, and family.

Things you will learn in this episode:

• How she got into sales coaching
• How she gained confidence to sale
• What is the most difficult sale you have made and lessons learned?
• What’s the best way to handle rejection?
• How do you know when to stop following up?
• Top common mistakes in sales 
• tech hacks to help people make more sales
• And so much more…

Guest featured in this episode:

Julia Beauchamp Kraft is the founder of the public speaking training company, Speak To Inspire. Founded in 2014, Speak To Inspire has trained 1000’s of entrepreneurs and professionals as well as 100’s of companies like Linked In, Salesforce, ZScaler, Twitter, etc. She is passionate about helping smart professional women who are experts at what they do but tend to freeze up, shrink down and get self-conscious when the spotlight turns to them.

She helps them to cultivate comfort in their skin, come across as the authority they are and turn high-quality information into inspiring presentations.

Things you will learn in this episode:

• How to overcome tendency to shrink down
• What should introverted women be doing regularly to cultivate
  Confidence
• How can women be seen as leaders without acting like men?
• Mindset shift when you don’t feel your story is inspiring
• And so much more…

Guest featured in this episode:

Conversion copywriter. Copywriting coach. Word slinger. Wing woman.
No matter what you call her, Erin Ollila’s job is to step in and show the world just how incredible her clients truly are.

With over 15 years of publishing experience and an MFA in Creative Writing, she gets what it takes to ideate, create, and implement smart SEO website copy and strategic content campaigns.

When Erin’s not cheering on creatives and service-based entrepreneurs or hosting the Talk Copy to Me podcast, you can catch her indulging in ice cream and spending time with her family in southeastern MA.

Things you will learn in this episode:

• From copywriter point of view, What makes a good customer testimonial?
• Get the timing right. When is the best time to get this testimonial?
• Provide multiple options to make it easy for them.
• Customize your template.
• Give them the option to keep their testimonial short and sweet.
• Pose simple questions that yield nice customer quotes.
• Give customers a reason to say yes.
• Prepare a testimonial page on your website.
• And so much more…