The Gutsy Boss with Becky Mollenkamp

Nicole Amos started her career as a Product Manager in the tech field. She became an accidental career coach when people kept asking her how she did this or found that and kept referring other people to her. She didn’t know other people were doing this, or could do this, or were getting paid to do this. Years later, she had a 3 a.m. revelation that maybe she should be charging for this service. Going down a Google rabbit hole showed her how much she could charge.

With a layoff on the horizon, Nicole viewed it as an opportunity to give full-time entrepreneurship a try. However, she struggled with a lack of productivity, some personal issues, and comparing her insides to other people’s outsides. After realizing that she was trading time for dollars, and working harder than she had in her corporate job, she decided to get a “real” job again. As she puts it, “It’s hard to focus on your business when you can’t pay your bills. And it’s perfectly fine to get a job.”

More in this episode…

• The surprising reaction to Nicole’s Facebook Live about returning to “real” work
• How she faced the stigma around having a job
• The different forms a job can take, and why it’s not either/or with your business
• How to translate your entrepreneurial skills to a resume or LinkedIn profile
• Why “my own business” doesn’t need to be a gap on your resume
• The unanticipated benefits of being different.
• Scarcity mentality, and how people trying to encourage you not to quit your business are propagating it
• Why Nicole stopped doing “businessy” things and what she’s doing with her time instead

Nicole Amos is a Product Manager in tech by day and side hustling as a career coach. She loves providing insider tactics and emotional boost to advance your career. Her no-BS approach accelerates your growth so you can focus on what truly matters.

RESOURCES

• Nicole Amos, The Career Oasis

• The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks

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Host Becky Mollenkamp is a mindset coach for small business owners who have tried tactics and strategies but still feel stuck. She helps them identify and break limiting beliefs so they can finally level up in life and business. For mindset tips and tricks, visit Becky's website at beckymollenkamp.com.

Reesy Floyd-Thompson begins her story in a Philadelphia courtroom in 2005, when her husband was sentenced to 12½ to 25 years in prison. Prior to that, Reesy felt she needed a man to complete her and care for her. She learned how to be Mrs. GE-6309, but the real struggle came in learning how to be herself with or without a man.

More in this episode:

• How she set herself and her needs aside to ensure her husband’s well-being
• When she realized she didn’t know who she was and what her reaction was to that realization
• How an Olympic baton made all the difference in Reesy’s life
• What founding a club for women with incarcerated spouses meant
• Becoming more than “just” a prisoner’s wife
• How her club spread across the nation, and how trolls pushed her out of the spotlight
• Storytelling as an act of marketing to let people get close to you
• Why “take the emotions out of business” is nonsense to Reesy
• The power of “what you say about me is none of my business”
• Giving yourself grace to get through the hard moments, no matter how you have to get through the hard moments

Reesy Floyd-Thompson is the owner of The Digital Wonder Woman, a firm that teaches women business owners, entrepreneurs, authors and creatives how to use the internet to make money and how to tap into their experiences—their wonder—and market that.

RESOURCES

Reesy Floyd-Thompson: Website | Instagram

Entrepreneur article about Reesy

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Becky Mollenkamp believes women deserve to feel powerful and fulfilled. As a certified business mindset coach, she helps her clients dream and play bigger, while also finding contentment in the here and now. Learn more about Becky at beckymollenkamp.com.

Business mentor Becky Mollenkamp discusses the topic, "why is my small business stagnant," sharing one key reason why an entrepreneur may find their business stalled.

For more mindset tips and tricks, visit Becky's website at beckymollenkamp.com

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Becky Mollenkamp is a mindset coach for small business owners who have tried tactics and strategies but still feel stuck. She helps them identify and break limiting beliefs so they can finally level up in life and business.

Dancing brought Erin Stutland unlimited joy when she was a schoolgirl. It quickly turned to pressure, however, when she majored in it during college. Her world was further rocked in the second semester of her freshman year, when her mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

Soon, Erin was overwhelmed and in the throes of depression. A therapist recommended antidepressants, but Erin had a different idea. Her mother was dealing with chemotherapy through tai chi and meditation, and Erin soon discovered she could change her thoughts.

Mindfulness became Erin’s passion and calling. Today she creates programs and writes books that help others discover the power of healthy, thoughtful movement.

More in this episode:

• How Erin’s mom found comfort through her cancer diagnosis
• Where Erin started with her own mindfulness practices
• How mindset work helps when you’re piecemealing your life together
• Why Erin started pairing mantras with movement
• The reality about huge, life-changing events
• Erin’s morning routine and how it helps her
• What one resource Erin recommends, and exactly how to use it
• The huge number of thoughts you have daily and the startling percentage that are the same as you had yesterday

Erin Stutland is a mind-body wellness and fitness expert, and the host and coach of the new weight-loss transformation TV show Altar’d on Z Living. Stutland is the creator of several mind-body fitness programs including her signature “Shrink Session” workout and “Soul Strolls”. Erin has appeared on the Rachel Ray Show, Fox News, KTLA, Glamour Magazine, Shape, Yoga Journal, Real Simple, Reader’s Digest, US World and New Report, Weight Watchers Magazine and more. She has collaborated with thought leaders like NY Times best selling authors Kris Carr and Jessica Ortner helping to bring healthy movement to the masses. She is AFFA certified (along with training certs in several fitness programs) and holds a BFA in Dance and Kinesiology.

RESOURCES:

Erin Stutland

Website | Book | Instagram | Facebook

“The Greatest Salesman in the World” by Og Mandino

Patricia Moreno

“The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron  

Morning Pages from Julia Cameron

Becky Mollenkamp believes women deserve to feel powerful and fulfilled. As a certified business mindset coach, she helps her clients dream and play bigger, while also finding contentment in the here and now. Learn more about Becky at beckymollenkamp.com.