Happy Productive with Jennifer Dawn: Where Business Success Meets Personal Fulfillment

As an introverted entrepreneur, proper scheduling is the key to avoiding burnout. Jodi Lasky is the Introvert Founder, and she coaches a wide range of neurodiverse entrepreneurs and helps them develop sustainable strategies for their success and well-being. If you are an introverted entrepreneur, it can be hard to schedule your time in a way that is not energy-draining when big to-do lists are overwhelming, and new ideas can derail you from a productive workflow. The solution is to work backward from your future dreams and create a comprehensive list of the tasks you need to complete every week to make progress toward these long-term goals. Measuring their size and priority, curate this weekly list of tasks from your giant to-do list, and don't let anything distract or derail you from these weekly achievements. Save yourself from the overwhelm and energy drain of entrepreneurship and make yourself a strategic schedule today!

Notes:
⭐ Jodi is an entrepreneur, a coach, a speaker, and a writer with a lot of experience in government work and tech: she's an introvert and has ADHD - introversion is not shyness. 01:24
🎯 The biggest difficulty for an introvert is trying not to be one: extroverts get energy from networking, but introverts should choose networking events carefully because they drain energy. 04:44
✅ Pre-COVID, many people were forcing themselves to try to be extroverts, and they paid for it on the back end: introversion and extroversion aren't necessarily a fixed binary. 07:03
📋 Even if ideas are flowing, that doesn't mean they're good: Jodi has a process based on agile software development that helps you with your to-do lists. 08:45
💎 Jodi shared two big life lessons: people say many things, but it's not their actual opinion - use your time intelligently, even when networking. 16:17

Links:

Connect with Jodi: https://introvertfounder.com

Agile productivity framework: https://introvertfounder.com/define-your-goals/

Join our Academy: www.jenniferdawnacademy.com

Connect with Jennifer: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com

Retreats: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com/our-retreats

Businesses suffer when their owners do not prioritize their health.

Ellen Goldman, M.Ed., NBC-HWC, PCC, is a wellness coach, healthy lifestyle and weight loss coach, speaker, and author. She is passionate about serving others and helping them achieve their health and wellness goals.

Ellen explains that the real challenge lies in behavior change. Many people attempt to overhaul their lifestyles, but this approach often leads to burnout and failure. The key is mindset and motivation, which serve as the foundation for lasting change.

Ellen introduces her MAP framework—Mindset, Awareness, and Preparation—as the blueprint for sustainable health habits. The first step is shifting your mindset from "I don't have time for self-care" to "I make time for self-care."

Ellen also explains success in weight loss differently. It is a result of correcting overall lifestyle imbalances—such as stress, sleep, and exercise—rather than simply restricting food intake.

Start with small, manageable changes and embrace a mindset of long-term health; this will lead to both personal fulfillment and business success.

Show notes:

🤓 Ellen always knew she would end up working in health and wellness. 02:18

⚖️ Her mom's challenges with weight and how they affected her. 03:49

👩‍💼 Every business owner is the CEO - the Chief Everything Officer. 08:17

🧠 You have to start with a mindset: the first thing that has to change is your approach. 11:35

⚠️ You can have the best time management, but if you do not have the energy to execute, nothing will change. 13:51

🎯 Your motivator which will become the nonnegotiable, has to be connected with your values. 16:07

🕵️‍♀️ The awareness comes from watching your habits. 18:52

😇 Using your strengths to solve problems: what works for me may not work for everybody. 23:39

🌟 Create a business that fits into the lifestyle you want, so you can have more freedom. 26:48

🌸 Ellen's course is geared around weight loss: weight gain is the result of a lifestyle that's out of whack. 29:50

Links:
Website: www.EllenGCoaching.com

Course: https://www.ellengcoaching.com/migclass/

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Connect with Jennifer: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com

Retreats: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com/our-retreat

Join our Academy: www.jenniferdawnacademy.com

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.

Today I am joined by Bobbi Kahler, who was given a 2% chance of living when she got sick and collapsed 17 years ago. Cut to today where she is a speaker and trainer with over 20 years of experience. She’s built a coaching career where she has worked with over 3,000 people and has become an entrepreneur, author, podcast host, workshop leader, avid athlete and resilient survivor.

Through her own personal transformation journey she has learned that no matter what we are facing, thriving is absolutely possible. We are the authors of our stories and it is our choices, day in and day out, that dictate what kind of life we are able to live. Bobbi is no stranger to adversity having faced childhood abuse, and needing to work multiple jobs at 23 just to say afloat. But through her perseverance, resilience and life lessons she’s learned, she rewrote her own narrative. 

In this episode Bobbi and I share an insightful conversation on how important our choices are, how much power we actually have over our lives, and how you can change your life starting today.

Valuing excellence in your business is fundamental for your success as an entrepreneur. Nida Leardprasopsuk is a business strategist who helps elevate business owners and the standards in their industry. Many of us have felt the burn of purchasing a service that didn't act with integrity, so it's easy to understand why it's so important in a business. Your integrity in business is all about the standards by which you run your business and offer your services, and raising your standards above and beyond your competition is an excellent strategy for differentiating yourself in your industry. Don't be afraid to remove the scarcity mindset from your practice because when you stick to your values and your passions, and offer a premium service, you will attract premium customers to your business. When you raise your standards, the customer wins, the industry wins and your business wins!

Show Notes:
⭐ Nida is a serial entrepreneur, top-tier business consultant, self-identity reinvention coach, and former Fortune 500 executive with more than two decades of experience in business, psychology, and personal development: she works with highly exceptional coaches, consultants, and experts who want to build a truly innovative businesses that stand out from the rest. 02:13
✅ Being an entrepreneur is really about solving someone's problem better than anyone else: you need to really dig into the problem that people are experiencing, and that requires a lot of research. 05:16
❗ Nida gets higher quality clients by making it harder to buy: if you're happy with the product/service, you'll tell only a few people, but if you're very dissatisfied or angry, you'll tell a ton of people. 11:47
👉 Nida never believed in charging super low fees for her coaching services - she started with a high price point and quickly elevated her fees: her inspiration came from being a frustrated consumer, and integrity helped her elevate the industry. 17:21
🟢 Create a process to filter out people who are not serious: a high price doesn't necessarily mean people are committed to doing the work. 22:24
🧲 You can magnetize people similar to you by talking about values, passions, and beliefs: always operate from an abundance mindset. 24:46

Links:

Connect with Nida: www.nidaleard.com

Join our Academy: www.jenniferdawnacademy.com

Connect with Jennifer: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com

Retreats: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com/our-retreats