Profitability Beyond Hustle Culture with Ashley Gartland

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11/22/21 • 43 min

Flaunt Your Fire

The online business and marketing spaces are flooded with messages that bigger must be better. But is it?

What if that focus on scale and expansion isn’t aligned with your values or what makes you happy?

Ashley Gartland and India dig into what it means to be better than big, being profitable without the never-ending hustle, and how a subtractive approach can create simplicity and ease in your business.

In this discussion:

Why focusing solely on growth and scale can create complexity and overwhelm
How a subtractive approach creates simplicity and ease
How to implement subtraction in your business
What is means to be “Better Than Big”

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The online business and marketing spaces are flooded with messages that bigger must be better. But is it?

What if that focus on scale and expansion isn’t aligned with your values or what makes you happy?

In this discussion:

Why focusing solely on growth and scale can create complexity and overwhelm
How a subtractive approach creates simplicity and ease
How to implement subtraction in your business
What is means to be “Better Than Big”

Connect with Ashley Gartland

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Healthy Competition in Life and Business with Dr. Kim Perkins

Knock it out of the park. Crush the competition. Why do we use so many sports metaphors in the workplace?

And is that competitive atmosphere actually helping? Or is it damaging our ability to make supportive connections and build strong teams?

Dr. Kim Perkins joins India to discuss competition in the workplace and beyond. They’ll dig into competition on social media, how it can turn toxic at work, how a spirit of competition can be used as a tool for building relationships, and more.

In this discussion:

How the language of competition shows up at work and in our lives
Why people tend to either love or hate competition
How competition can turn toxic at work, and ways it can bring teams together
How competitiveness and rivalries manifest and what to do when you get caught up in it

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So many of us are held back by beliefs that we’re too much, or not enough, to pursue our dreams and passions and make them reality.

We absorb messages about being too old, too fat, too skinny, too white, too Black, too smart, too dumb, just too much, but what if we said “eff it” and went after our dreams anyway?

Jetty Nieuwenhuis and India discuss why now is the perfect time to create the roadmap to the future you’ve always deserved, the stories Jetty has rewritten in her own life as a result of her rebrand with Flaunt Your Fire, and why it is never too late to choose who you want to be.

In this discussion:

Why Jetty kept the Trujetty name through a major career shift
How to cultivate your &+$# It Factor
Being an influencer over 40
Why it’s never too late to make the impossible possible

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