Life with Leyla - 30. I Don’t Miss the Hustle | Living Life Without Certainty | Impact Founder Kristin Darga on Pivoting Your Business & Life During COVID-19 & Beyond

30. I Don’t Miss the Hustle | Living Life Without Certainty | Impact Founder Kristin Darga on Pivoting Your Business & Life During COVID-19 & Beyond

05/28/20 • 67 min

#30: There is something in this episode for everyone, but especially so if you’re a founder, entrepreneur, parent, or business owner. I hope you enjoy it!

Kristin Darga is the Founder of Impact FounderTM, a keynote speaker, award-winning author, performance, and executive coach. She has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs, many teams in companies, and as a four-time founder, she understands the highly satisfying yet distressing road of entrepreneurship. After there were two suicides of startup founders and the sudden death of a third, Kristin Darga created Impact Founder to do whatever she could to help alleviate the feelings of inadequacy, isolation, stress, depression, and suicide among founders by sharing real stories of real entrepreneurs’ struggles and successes.

In this episode, we talk about pivoting your business and life during the pandemic and what that can look like, how Kristin has dealt with the many changes & setbacks that happened as a result of our current situation, how life has never been certain, like ever. Today, we are hearing over and over again how we’re living in “uncertain times.” Among the gems you’re about to hear, one of them is about not missing the hustle and how things used to be. I will say amen to that!

Things We Mentioned In the Episode & Kristin Darga’s Links:

Jacki Carr, Goal Coach - BUSY = Because U Said Yes
Beauty Counter: Flawless in Five & Countertime Line
Kristin’s book: Impact Founder: Inspirational stories of entrepreneurs who risk everything for what they believe in https://www.amazon.com/Impact-Founder-Inspirational-entrepreneurs-everything/dp/0996169245
Her organization, Impact Founder https://www.impactfounder.com/
To connect with Kristin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristindarga/
To connect with Kristin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristindarga/
To connect with Leyla (host) on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/LeylaSarper

#30: There is something in this episode for everyone, but especially so if you’re a founder, entrepreneur, parent, or business owner. I hope you enjoy it!

Things We Mentioned In the Episode & Kristin Darga’s Links:

Jacki Carr, Goal Coach - BUSY = Because U Said Yes
Beauty Counter: Flawless in Five & Countertime Line
Kristin’s book: Impact Founder: Inspirational stories of entrepreneurs who risk everything for what they believe in https://www.amazon.com/Impact-Founder-Inspirational-entrepreneurs-everything/dp/0996169245
Her organization, Impact Founder https://www.impactfounder.com/
To connect with Kristin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristindarga/
To connect with Kristin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristindarga/
To connect with Leyla (host) on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/LeylaSarper

Previous Episode

29. How to be a Better Listener with Kelsey Harbert | How Reflective Listening can make a Big Difference.

#29: In this episode, I talk with my dear friend Kelsey Harbert. Kelsey is a neuroscience student at the University of Colorado. Kelsey is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to all things neuroscience, the study of the brain and its impact on behavior and cognitive functions. What we discussed for the podcast is how to be a better listener! Something literally everyone could improve on if we’re being honest. I know I need a lot of help in this area. And I feel that those around me do too. What about you?

Kelsey will explain the practice of Reflective Listening and how it can really help improve your listening skills and relationship with your partner, or anyone else for that matter. Kelsey has been practicing this with her partner for a while now and she can attest to how much it’s made a difference in her life.

Especially now, during quarantine and social distancing, where we are spending so much more time at home, it’s important to improve our communication skills. Listening is a major part of communication, but it’s something we’ve never really been formally taught how to do effectively. Plus, add smartphones and streaming tv, it can feel like even when we are speaking to someone, the person on the other end might be glancing around, totally distracted. I dunno about you, but it feels awful when it’s being done to me. And then, I must admit, I do this to others!

Here is what you can expect:

What Reflective Listening is.

The overall goal is to create an environment that’s a safe space for you and your family - where you don’t feel alone - and heard and listened to.

The different ways to categorize it: 1) For you and your partner 2) For you, yourself

The signs that you’re not listening to others

The signs that you’re not listening to yourself

Which responses should we avoid when listening to someone?

Not problem solving, pity, saying something like, “that’s crazy that’s happening to you” because these actually make people feel alone.
You just want to be heard - people just want to be heard and listened to.

To connect with Kelsey: www.instagram.com/askelseydoes/

To connect with Leyla: www.instagram.com/leylasarper/

Thank you for checking this episode out! If it brings you any value, please share with a friend, or maybe pass it along to your partner as a HINT ;)

Love you! Xo Leyla

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31. Angel Martinez, Denver’s Go-To Skin Care Guru On Her Covid-19 Business Realizations | Your Entrepreneurial Spirit Will Get You Through + Expert Skin Care Tips from Angel Aesthetics

#31: In this episode, I sit down with Denver’s skincare expert, Angel Martinez. You might know her from Instagram from her account @MissAngelRenee where she’s constantly dropping the best skincare tips, behind the scenes from her business, Angel Aesthetics, and lots of business and personal motivational content.

You’ll get to hear in-depth about Angel’s personal story, how she launched Angel Aesthetics during a difficult time in her life, as well as tons of skincare tips you need to hear. We chat about how she and her team got creative and got themselves through being closed for almost 3 months by offering video call consultations and at-home peels, they called, “Quarantine & Peel” Angel is always inspiring and motivating her Instagram community and we talk about where she draws her own motivation from and how she keeps the haters & trolls online at bay.
To Connect with Angel Martinez, click HERE
To Connect with Leyla (show host), click HERE
Visit Angel Aesthetics at https://skincarebyangel.com/
Notes/ Products / People We Mention in the Episode:
Benjamin Fuchs / Truth Treatments / Vitamin C Serum (the best one ever!!!)
Balance Athletica - Taylor Chamberlain Dilk & Chloe Chamberlain
Erica Cobb, Daily Blast Live
Lourdes, SturdyUSA
Gary Vaynerchuck, @GaryVee
Our Girl, Ally G!
The one and only Lexi
If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with a friend! Thank you for your time. Love you, stay safe, and be well! XO Leyla