Make Your Way

In this episode, we share our biggest fears about our businesses. We open up about our fears of failure, fears of dropping the ball, and fears of being trapped on a career path. We talk about challenges of growing sustainably, testing out new skills or services, setting pricing, and dealing with imposter syndrome.

We answer:

• What are our biggest fears for our businesses?
• What does failure mean to us?
• Are we afraid of people not having good opinions of us or our work?

• What are the things that you’re afraid of in your professional life? What is the deep rooted thing you’re afraid of that may be affecting your business?
• What are your fears now, and what were they 2 years ago? How have you grown and how have your fears changed?

• Go for a walk and reflect!
• Anything Worthwhile Takes Time - Video – Debbie Millman – When you do good work consistently, it will add up to something, even if you don’t know what that thing will be.

• Katie’s YGT episode about keynote pricing
• Katie’s YGT episode about talking with clients about money

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Find Sara at @DrLangworthy and Katie at @Katie__Linder.

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In this episode, we discuss the pros and cons of staying with a full time job and keeping the side hustle going strong, or leaving the solid paycheck to be self-employed full time.

Sara shares how her mental health was a key factor in deciding to jump into full time self-employment. Katie addresses the challenges and opportunities of having a full-time job while growing her side business. We talk openly about the logistics and financial considerations that go into make the decision to stay or go. We discuss the question of how everything we’re doing professionally “fits” to create a cohesive professional story, and the role of trusted advisors, colleagues and friends to help us understand and thrive in our professional journeys.

We answer:

• When did you decide to jump into self-employment full time?
• How do you keep the balance with full time work and growing a side business?
• How do you understand your own cohesive professional story in the work you’re doing?
• What are the financial logistics and considerations of leaving your full time job?
• How do you do it all on your own? Do we ever take time off? How do we maintain balance?

• Rock your Web Design Business – Emily Thompson – Online course on the behind the scenes aspects of a web design business. Calculation of how much work you can do with the time you have and the money you need to make.

• Katie’s books & podcasts
• Reinventing You – Dorie Clark - How do you pivot your professional branding and understanding of your work and professional path.
• Exercise – Identify 3-5 good (meaning supportive and positive!) friends or colleagues and ask them to identify and talk about what THEY see as your strengths and skills.
• Being Boss Podcast - a podcast for creative entrepreneurs

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Find Sara at @DrLangworthy and Katie at @Katie__Linder.

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In this episode we discuss goal setting and the metrics we use to measure the success of our businesses. We share our different approaches to goal setting - Katie with multi year plans, Sara with more regular mid-year shifts in direction - and how we respond to changes in our professional and personal contexts that require us to shift our metrics of success. We also discuss the challenges with trying to generate consistent revenue, and the ever-present goal of doing good work to breed future opportunities.

We answer:

• What kinds of things do we think about when we think about goal setting?
• How do we approach goal setting?

• Better Than Before – Gretchen Rubin
• The Four Tendencies – Gretchen Rubin – A personality framework to understand accountability.
• Get to work book by Elise Blaha Cripe – Planner that’s great for creating lists

• Rock your web design business course
• Sara’s YouTube Channel – Developmental Enthusiast

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In this episode, we talk about the process of starting an LLC and share some of our mistakes and things we’ve learned along the way. We discuss how and when to hire lawyers, accountants, bookkeepers, and how to open business bank accounts, deal with quarterly taxes, and whether or not to get business insurance.

We answer:

• How did we start our LLCs?
• Do we have lawyers? Accountants?
• Do we have business insurance? Bank accounts?

• What did we miss? What did we not talk about? What are other things we should talk about with respect to starting a business?

• Getting Started in Consulting – Alan Weiss – Introduction to consulting, what do
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• Katie’s YGT podcast episode on imposter syndrome

In the next episode, we talk about how we set goals for our businesses, and our process of setting benchmarks and project plans for the year.

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We answer:

• Does Sara still feel super icky about marketing and sales?
• What shifts have we made with our marketing and sales tactics?
• How do marketing tactics change as a business matures?
• How do we use testimonials in our businesses?
• What kind of sales information do we provide on our websites?
• How do we decide when to say no to new business?

Mentioned in this episode:

• Sara's services on online virtual events
• Katie's coach training program
• Katie's Coach to Coach podcast
• Katie's Slow Hustle mastermind program
• Katie's podcast episode on projects and life practices

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