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How to Find Your Purpose — And Go For It!

Ask yourself, what do I you love? What do I enjoy? Sometimes we make identifying our purpose a science experiment, when it isn’t. Recall what brings you joy in your life or in your work in some past experience. Start there.

How to Find Your Purpose

You might be trying to figure out your purpose or next steps in your career and maybe you aren’t really sure where to start. What you might be thinking you want to do, might not even be something that you’ve ever seen before and you are wondering if your idea is possible.

I have written this article for anyone struggling with finding their purpose. You might have a sketch of your idea but have no real plan on how to make your vision take flight. Here is my story.

Sixteen years ago, I became a mother to my first child. Before becoming a mom I had no idea of what to expect or how much being a mother would influence my work, career and life. Sure I had ideals about what I wanted my life to look like but still I had no idea of how to “have it all” or create a life including all of what I wanted. Heck, I was struggling with defining what “all was” to begin with like so many people.

My professional background is in training and development. I love to teach and inspire! I remember wanting to figure out a way to combine the three things that I loved most and that made me feel alive (teaching, training and being a mom) when I was pregnant with my second child.

I realized that there really were no examples of a “mom strategist” for me to follow, but this is what screamed to me inside my soul whenever I was among other women who were mothers. I would experience every day that people would ask me for advice or strategy about how to make motherhood work. I learned that my gift was that I teach “The How To in Motherhood”. Sure we all want balance but at the end of the day it isn’t wanting balance or hearing someone talk about it that changes your life — it is a strategy that can be applied that produces a successful outcome that moms really want. My gift was that I understood how to teach mothers successful strategies that consistently changed their lives for the better.

I remember saying to my husband one night at bedtime that I wanted to go to work as myself and he replied, “I hope someone pays you to do that.” We laughed but the truth is that I felt very alone about my lofty goal. There wasn’t anyone to share my vision with about mom coaching.

This is what I recommend to find your purpose:

1. Ask yourself, what do I you love? What do I enjoy?

Sometimes we make identifying our purpose a science experiment, when it isn’t. Recall what brings you joy in your life or in your work in some past experience. Start there.

2. Don’t ask others to validate your dream because they can’t. If it inspires you, commit to find a way to make it happen. I meet so many people who want to get a permission slip from others before they move forward for what is best for them. See a need and fill the void.

3. Start small with your ideas and have fun with it.

I had no idea that combining my love of training and motherhood would result in personally coaching hundreds of women in both their life and business. I started working with one client at a time and perfected my craft.

4. Get a mentor.

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I hired a business coach who wasn’t a mother however she ran a very successful six figure coaching business and showed me how to do the same. She owned her time and taught me how to build a business that allowed me to have both lifestyle and freedom.

5. Give yourself credit, you know more than you think.

Sometimes we choose paralysis or inaction because we are afraid of making a mistake. The only way to learn is to try. Trust yourself and listen to that small voice called inspiration. Let it guide you.

6. Fine tune as you go.

You will eventually learn from what works and be able to create systems from it. Perfection prevents us from being vulnerable and taking risks. If you find yourself always seeking the perfect moment or need others to stroke you before you can move forward. Stop it. You are enough.

7. Get started.

I run a wonderful coaching program for moms called Core Moms Accountability. The moms in this program have gone from having a basic idea just like me to monetizing their dreams in just a few weeks. Just recently we had three participants write and publish their books within two months, two got corporate partnerships and one got a television contract within three weeks. They had success because they made time for their goals every day and took the right actions to support their results.

8. Surround yourself with a community of doers.

I run a free goal setting group on Facebook called Mom Strategy — Actions, Systems and Results to inspire women to take consistent actions each day. I’m inspired each day by the women who find that just being consistent with other goal oriented women they can accomplish so much.

9. Be patient with yourself.

I kept my vision in front of me but I was never deflated by my mistakes and failures. I saw my mistakes as opportunities to readjust my direction.

10. Success will find you when you do what you love.

While I’m still waiting for my call from Oprah for my own show, I have built an amazing business doing what I love and you will also. I’ve found that living out my calling has positioned me and my life with countless opportunities that support my vision.

I now have three children and have been a full-time life and business coach for the last eight years. My work has allowed me to support hundreds of women with designing a business of their dreams. 49 of my clients have written books, several garnering corporate partnerships, national media, bestselling books, restored marriages and improved life systems. I have had the privilege to coach families live on The New Ricki Lake show, and join the cast of the Emmy nominated show America Now for their 4th season in addition to writing several Amazon #1 bestselling books and leading a coaching movement for moms nationwide through Time for Mom-me groups in partnership with national brands like Corner Bakery Café and Panera Bread Company.

This all started from an idea to combine what I love to do into a business. I want you to understand this and be inspired to shoot for your goal from my story. No matter where you are right now, I want you to know that you can start. It is so easy to look at the success of others and not know how to begin with your big idea. I hope my story has encouraged you to begin and know that you can have amazing success. You can do this! Let me know if I can support you?

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Social Media: 4 Strategies for Growing Your Online Network

According to Pam Dryer in her article “How Women Use Social Media,“ 53 percent of American women regularly use social media. 75 percent of them use it to connect with friends and family, 57 percent use it for fun and entertainment, and 52 percent use it to “connect with others like me.”

Maybe you’re in that last 52 percent looking for like-minded women. If not, you’re probably in a large minority regularly surfing Facebook, uploading photos and commenting on your friends’ and family’s status updates. But beyond that, you haven’t tapped into the huge potential for social media to grow your business, extend your professional network or find new people who think and live like you do.

“Social media networking is powerful and so new to the marketplace,” said Dabney Porte, co-founder of Social media Girlfriends Productions, LLC. “None of my friends or neighbors could relate to my work and so it was easier for me to find meaningful connections and networking online with other women doing the same thing.”

Porte, along with Britt Michaelian, created their company to help women and businesses build stronger online connections. They met online via Twitter and became friends and business partners. Together they have helped thousands of women connect by virally sharing videos and positive messages that help promote community and resource-sharing to help one another.

I have successfully utilized social media to find members for my Iron Moms Triathlon team on Facebook and Twitter. After asking all of my friends and family — with no takers — it was much easier for me to seek interested team members using social media. The best part of this process has been the new friendships that I formed with other individuals interested in the exact same things as me.If you are like me, sometimes it is exhausting to continue to ask the same group of friends to join in and participate.

Here are a few strategies that you can use to enhance your online connections:

1. Be clear about the kind of connections that you want to establish using social media

You might be interested in meeting other women working in your profession, or women interested in losing weight, or those seeking certain types of hobbies of interest to you.

2. Get in the conversation and be an active participant on your wall and page.

Instead of waiting to see who is talking about what is interesting to you, lead the discussion by posting question of interest on your feed.

3. Expand your view of social media.

It is hard for some of us to make the leap and accept the idea of using this resource as a resource for making friends. Try it. I’ve made 14 new (non-virtual) friends using social media.

4. Explore all that social media has to offer.

Don’t stop at Twitter and Facebook. LinkedIn, for example, is a site for professionals in a wide range of fields to find networking opportunities. And there are many more sites. There are blogs for every possible topic that interests you. Blog writers are usually happy to interact and respond to your questions and comments. And, if by chance there isn’t a blog about a topic of interest to you, start your own!

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How to Make Money With Your Ideas

Make Money with IdeasIf you find that you spend way too much time working with people who simply want to “pick your brain” and you are struggling with generating profit in your business, you are going to LOVE my three simple R’s of creating and monetizing your products with your ideas.

Over the years I’ve taught hundreds of “mompreneurs” on how to take their great ideas and leverage them into profitable programs, products, and services to help their target market. I love heart-centered entrepreneurs, but the problem is that many of us never ever make the conversion from free business to designing systems and models that are profitable. As a result, we often find ourselves out of business in no time.

If you are spending your time, expertise, and talent supporting others with solving problems and creating solutions to improve their lives, then it is your responsibility to charge for your services.

How to make money with your ideas

Here are my three simple Rs of creating and monetizing your products with your ideas:

Record what you know

— Use your phone or purchase a digital recorder and start recording your speaking engagements and free consultations with your friends. Use those recordings to create products for your business.  Before booking your next complimentary consultation with non-paying clients who want to “pick your brain” tell them that you are building content for your business, and would love to work with them complimentary in exchange for the opportunity to record the call to create content for your business.

Repurpose what you say

— Take that amazing content you have been giving away for free and transcribe the recordings to create products. You could easily take a one-hour call and create an e-book/workbook to accompany the recording as a product for your business. Keeping a record of your content puts you in a great position to generate valuable giveaways for your target audience while also getting a sample of your core message in front of them.

Rebrand and reposition yourself with amazing content

— Sometimes small business or newer entrepreneurs struggle to monetize their business because they have branded themselves as  “free” coaches, consultants, and service providers. When you begin to package your products and services you will rebrand your intellectual know-how and allow your perspective clients to see the value of what you offer in a completely different way.  This also allows you to redirect those people who want to “pick your brand” to a quality tool that can support them and allow you to begin to generate profit in your business.

Mia is a strategy life and business coach for mompreneurs.  Mia Redrick, The Mom Strategist mentor, entrepreneur, life-style brand and a best-selling author of Time for Mom-Me:5 Essential Strategies for A Mother’s Self-Care and Time for Mom-Me: 365 Daily Strategies for a Mother’s Self-Care empowers moms to live fully.

She has worked as a nationally syndicated segment host on the Emmy nominated show America Now. Mia is an expert that teaches “how to” strategize the demands of motherhood and still “rock your life and business”. She believes that when moms are fulfilled they are better mothers. Additionally, she has been seen coaching clients live on Emmy award winning The New Ricki Lake Show teaching America how any overwhelmed  family can reclaim order and love. Mia’s goal is to support one million of moms with reclaiming their lives.

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Top Five Ways to Hit $10,000 or More in 30 Days!

Are you struggling to earn $10,000 a month or more in your business? Are you looking to grow your business revenue? Here are five strategies that have worked for me and my clients over the years.   

monetize what you know

You are just one idea and one implementation away from changing your business. Here are the effective ways to structure your business to earn $10K or more in 30 days:

1. Create a premium product offer.

If you want to hit your goal, understand that it is in direct correlation with helping someone else hit their goals. Some entrepreneurs fail because they only focus on themselves and their own financial gain. They don’t make their customers’ results their number one priority.  

You need to put your customers’ results first to get amazing results for your business. This is possible by providing a premium product that delivers amazing transformation for your audience.  Package what you are amazing at, and offer your customers the product that will deliver results quickly.

2. Market only to your ideal audience.

Market your product to people who have the problems that your product can solve. Get in front of your ideal audience. Make your business be about solving their problem(s). If you have a formula for a problem, provide the formula to those who need it. The solution that you provide for them will speak of how effective your product is. This will gain more clients who have the same problem that you can definitely solve.

3. Only work with people who are investors.

Only work with people who are in the position to afford you. Providing value to your ideal clients doesn’t mean that what you are offering needs to be free or discounted. Work with people who are investors in solving their problems. How can you find them? Your ideal client will reach out to you because they want the transformation that you provide.

Remember that effective marketing means that you are positioning yourself in front of your target audience. Your ideal audience will take steps to connect with you to learn more about the solutions you provide for their problems. Your ideal customer doesn’t have to be convinced; instead, they will find you if you properly position your message.

4. Only sell premium products.

Stop selling low ticket stuff. You are not earning what you desire because of how you are valuing your products and services. People associate results with a brand. Your prices are a reflection of the value, results and transformation you can create for your customers.   You would want to be known for the results that you create for customers, and not for the discount. Make sure that all your products are talked about because of the satisfaction they deliver.

Provide excessive value for your audience. This way, your product will stand out among other similar products when they are compared. Offer more than what everyone else gives by providing premium service and by being generous with your clients. If you over-deliver for your clients, you will have raving testimonials and proof.

5. You’ve got to have no less than 15-25 sales conversations every week.

Numbers 1-4 won’t work if you don’t get this one done. You need to speak to 15 – 25 potential clients per week. Are you consistently having sales conversations? If not, I recommend that you work on your marketing funnels to ensure that you are bringing in new leads each day.  Make a commitment to share your business with new people each week. Why don’t most people have consistent sales conversations? People are afraid of sales conversations because it requires consistency, ongoing leads and practice.

When you decide that you want to sell, you must also work on your mindset. Most entrepreneurs never work on how they think, and because they don’t, it is hard to handle rejection when it happens from selling at times. You are not going to get a ‘yes’ for every sales conversation you will make. If you haven’t done the inner work, it can become difficult to take on these rejections. You need to rise committed to the next one every single time, or you’ll soon stop. Selling is a learned skill. You can master it with practice.

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Why Women Need Permission

 

Why Women Need Permission

I’ve worked professionally as a life and business mentor to mom entrepreneurs for so many years. I’m the mother of three gorgeous children. I built my business while my husband was on dialysis for five years, and never used the fact that my children were young or that my husband’s health was compromised as an excuse to not honor my goals. My husband had a successful kidney transplant. Through it all, I gave myself permission to do exactly what I wanted including three triathlons, building a successful business, joining a nationally syndicated television show, building a huge national brand, and taking excellent care of my family.

I work with women who have goals that they want to realize, and I support them by creating systems to realize those goals without compromising their quality of life. The one common trait I see among my clients is their need for permission to invest in themselves without excuses. I wanted to share with you five key areas that I see over and over again among women regarding their need for permission to live their best lives

Mia Redrick on The New Ricki Lake Show.

1. Lack of Role Models

— I believe that women need permission because they haven’t experienced enough female role models and mentors who have been unapologetic about their wants, dreams and desires. Instead, many of the women in their lives have made excuses about being successful and accomplishing their goals as a mom. They turn it into a conversation about convenience and waiting their turn — as if success has ever been convenient and the “right time” will simply present itself.

2. Fear of Judgment

— Women seek permission, because oftentimes they judge other women when those women have chosen to give a voice to their dreams and acknowledge that motherhood alone will never fill the thirst of self-worth and esteem. The “permission seekers” haven’t learned that surrendering their lives to being a mom and not acknowledging their own “me” in mommy will leave them resentful of their children and spouse, or feeling left behind and clinging to the days when their children were little.

3. Unrealistic Expectations for Themselves

— We seek permission because we often say yes to things that our partners never asked of us like putting them and our children on the calendar but leaving ourselves off, all in an effort to keep everyone happy. We live by a list of “shoulds” and “oughts” and in the end question why we never just showed up for ourselves, understanding that our family benefits when we add value to ourselves.

4. Guilt and Shame

— We need permission because some of our own mothers guilted and shamed us into believing that “doing it all” is easy, and that we should simply be grateful for our home, healthy children and the dream of happiness. Instead, it would be more beneficial if daughters knew what their mother’s silent struggles were such as putting their lives on hold, or saying yes when they wanted to say no. Instead, some of our mothers felt powerless because no one else expressed their true feelings about being supermom and how unhappy that made them.

5. We Don’t Want to Appear Weak

— We seek permission to admit that we are tired after working 40+ hours a week, picking our children up from school, child-care and extracurricular activities, piles of laundry, meals to make, etc. We want someone (anyone) to recognize that we need help like an occasional laundry service, groceries delivered, childcare help, etc. Seeking help shouldn’t make us feel incompetent regardless of how effortlessly and seamlessly some women make it appear.

The happiest mothers I know are the ones who aren’t looking to escape from their lives with a spa appointment, get-away or vacation, but those who have said, “Damn it, I give myself permission to design a life, business and work that I want to come home to and that I deserve!”

The most fulfilled women I know are the ones who have given themselves permission to be vulnerable enough to say they need support, and who have the clarity to ask for exactly what they need without seeking approval from anyone else.

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