She Did It Her Way

Hello my beautiful listeners! Welcome back to another episode of the She Did It Her Way podcast. This episode is going to be a little bit different in that I have some news to share and I am going to do it in a very full-circle way, joined by my very first podcast guest ever and dear friend, Shauna VanBogart. This news has been some time in the making and while it certainly is bittersweet and definitely not the easiest to share it’s important to remember that sometimes the things that aren’t the easiest are actually the most necessary. The purpose of having Shauna on the show is that she will actually be interviewing me and pulling some things out of me, as opposed to me being on the other side of the mic, so to speak. I hope that this episode gives you permission to pivot, or potentially close a chapter that no longer feels aligned with you, no matter how challenging the transition may be. Especially when you know, in your gut, that it's time for a change. As always, my beautiful friends, keep doing it your way. INSIGHTS: * “Oh, she’s gonna do this.” * “Go inward. Stay out of your head. Stay in your heart and your gut.” RESOURCES: * Check out how you can use Podia [https://shediditherway.com/podia] in your business * Get more info about working with Shauna VanBogart [https://shaunavanbogart.com]

Hello everyone, welcome back to another podcast episode. This week I am joined by Emily Mills [https://www.instagram.com/emily_a_mills/?hl=en]. Emily [https://sketchnoteacademy.com] is an illustrator, designer, business owner and author. We're going to dive into how she started her business as a side hustle and decided to make her ultimate leap, leaving her corporate job in the rearview mirror and building out her business to what it is today. Emily describes herself as an illustrator - a big umbrella term covering all of the amazing things she does. Alongside her husband in their business, Emily does animation, whiteboard explainer videos, live event illustration and is the founder of Sketchnote Academy [https://sketchnoteacademy.com]. Inside Sketchnote Academy Emily is a coach and teacher, teaching others how to do something called ‘sketchnoting’. Sketchnoting is basically writing and drawing at the same time. It helps with memory retention and it’s creative, fun, and overall really fun to look at. > “I never planned on niching down like that. But it turned out that it was a really good melding or marriage of all of my personal passions and skills.” HER STORY Early on in her journey, Emily found herself working at a church as a graphic designer. It was her second job out of college and she was already feeling the internal struggle of changing jobs and relocating every few years because of the recession. At one point she joined a Facebook group with an author who wrote books about starting your own business and believing in yourself. At first, her goal was to pay off debt and she achieved this through freelancing her graphic design services, because working at a church doesn’t pay much. Through her freelance work she was able to pay off her car as well as her credit cards and realized that she could just keep going and see what happens. Eventually Emily relocated again to Nashville for a different job, and again, was disillusioned with just how the corporate world is. > “I knew that it wasn't a great fit for me and my personality and my goals and my values.” Emily found herself double-dipping, so to speak. Her day job offered flex time so she would work 7am-3pm (no lunch break) then head to a co-working space and work on her freelance business until roughly 9pm. In a new city this was a great opportunity to meet people and grow her side hustle at the same time. She eventually got to the point where she was using her vacation time from her day job to go do freelance client work and when she was almost out of vacation days she decided it was time to make a big decision. After praying over it and fate stepping in, Emily was forced out of her day job and she took it as a sign to make her ultimate leap. As soon as she made that leap she landed her highest paying gig and it continued to snowball and grow from there. Emily believes in rolling with what falls into your lap. While she loves planning, she has learned that if she simply follows the things that fall into her lap she will have a lot more success and be able to live in the moment. > “I'm just going to do it. It's going to be scary, but everything's going to be okay.” Emily has achieved some incredible things but one of the things she is most proud of and excited about is Sketchnote Academy. WHAT DOES 2022 LOOK LIKE FOR EMILY? > “My biggest goal [for 2022] is kind of shifting the balance needle on client work versus sketchnote Academy. I'm really excited about the things that are happening with sketchnote Academy, it grew a ton this year, more than any other year, and I'm just really excited about maintaining that growth and excitement and reaching more people. So I'm excited to do new courses, I'm excited to keep the community going and maybe even break into coaching and do more small groups or one on one teaching. There's just so much opportunity out in the world and when you start seeing those doors open, it's just really exciting.” EMILY’S FINAL NOTE > “I believe everybody has the potential to make the leap and create their own business and I'm excited for all the great things that the world is going to have because you're in it.” You can connect with Emily on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/emily_a_mills/?hl=en] (@emily_a_mills) and find out more about Sketchnote Academy [https://sketchnoteacademy.com] on her website. Until next time, keep doing it your way! INSIGHTS: * “I never planned on niching down like that. But it turned out that it was a really good melding or marriage of all of my personal passions and skills.” * “She eventually got to the point where she was using her vacation time from her day job to go do freelance client work and when she was almost out of vacation days she decided it was time to make a big decision.” * “I believe everybody has the potential to make the leap and create their own business and I'm excited for all the great things that the world is going to have because you're in it.” RESOURCES: * Connect with Emily on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/emily_a_mills/] * Learn how to Sketchnote [https://sketchnoteacademy.com] with Emily * Grab your copy of The Art of Visual Notetaking [https://www.amazon.com/Art-Visual-Notetaking-comprehensive-communication/dp/1633226220/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the%20Art%20of%20Visual%20Notetaking&qid=1639090945&sr=8-1] by Emily Mills * Find out more about how you can use Podia [https://shediditherway.com/podia] in your business

Hello friends! Welcome back to another episode of the She Did It Her Way podcast! In this episode I’m diving into how, and why, you need to learn to start tapping into and trusting your intuition and how doing this can get you to become the best version of your future self, right now. WHAT IS IT? Tapping into your intuition can also be known as listening to your inner voice. It is knowing. Rather than looking outside of ourselves for answers, we instead go inward. It isn’t necessarily what we hear, rather what we feel. It’s that gut feeling. Scientists have said that your intuition can make a decision so quickly that it doesn’t register at the conscious level. Sometimes it feels like knowing that logically, it may not make sense but intuitively it makes all the sense. Learning to tap into and listen to your intuition is something that everyone is capable of. I believe it to be just like exercising a muscle. Over time, we can expand our capacity to trust our intuition by increasing the exercises and ability to listen and trust. Sometimes you may be nudged to do something and you don’t know why but rather than resisting the nudge because it doesn’t make logical sense, you follow it. You say yes to it. Tapping into your intuition is something that most people struggle with at first because as humans we can be extremely logical in wanting to know everything and understand why. It requires us to let go of logic, going within ourselves, and trusting. WHY AND BENEFIT? Following those nudges can help us align ourselves with our passions, life goals, outcomes, the way we live our lives, and so much more. Imagine if you kept getting the feeling or nudge that something was off about your career. But you keep pushing because that’s what you think you should do, until one day you’re overworked, exhausted, burnt out, and finally have a breakdown. It is possible that your intuition nudged you but you didn’t hear it or didn’t want to hear it. Oftentimes we get these nudges but choose to ignore them because listening to them can be scary. It can be where we come face to face with our reality. The benefit of listening to our intuition can help us align ourselves with the present in order to align us with our future self of tomorrow. Sometimes we don’t know exactly what our life may look like in 6 months or a year but if we can make decisions today that are intuitively led then we can trust that where we are right now is where we should be. HOW TO START? 1. Create space. Part of the challenge of listening to our intuition is that there is so much noise that exists around us that it often makes it difficult to even hear. Sometimes it is about tuning out, to tune in. Limit input; whether that be a social media detox, news detox, reduce time on your cell phone, or creating constraints for less interruptions. 2. Listen. Listen and wait for those nudges. They can be as simple as deciding what to eat. If you’re not sure what to eat, ask yourself what feels right for you in that moment. 3. Feel, trust and follow your gut. When you listen, trust, and follow your gut you start to build up capacity and strengthen that muscle. Until next time, keep doing it your way! INSIGHTS: * “Scientists have said that your intuition can make a decision so quickly that it doesn’t register at the conscious level.“ * “Tapping into your intuition is something that most people struggle with at first because as humans we can be extremely logical in wanting to know everything and understand why.” * “Following those nudges can help us align ourselves with our passions, life goals, outcomes, the way we live our lives, and so much more.”

Hello my beautiful friends! In this podcast episode I’m sharing all things about why creating consistent content is important and I’m sharing my 5 step process on how to exactly do it without the overwhelm! In this episode, you will... * Learn how to break down weekly content * Follow a process in producing content that will not overwhelm you * Know about my step by step process when creating content * Discover the importance of SEO * Be more efficient when delivering your content and more! INSIGHTS: * "The sooner you get ready to be ready, the more you're going to get the process into your world, into your life, and into your business." * "Timer is your best friend." RESOURCES: * She Did It Her Way Training Vault [https://www.shediditherwayshop.com/she-did-it-her-way-training-vault]

Hello friends, I hope your week is off to a great start! This podcast episode is going to be short and sweet and was inspired by the conversion I shared with Jack Born from Deadline Funnel [https://shediditherway.com/interviews/how-to-create-urgency-with-your-offers-with-jack-born-from-deadline-funnel] a few weeks ago on the show. Today, I’m diving into how you can find your ‘quick win’ - how you can get yourself into action, and continually take steps to move forward without getting caught in the cycle of overthinking or overwhelm. Regardless of where you're at in your online business journey or in your life, the goal of this episode is to teach you how you can get out of your own way and really find that quick win in that moment to help move you forward to that long term goal. I define a quick win as something that gets you closer to your final destination or your goal. And while it’s typically very simple, it's not necessarily the immediate default action step. Really what stops us from finding our quick win, or achieving our goals, is that our primitive brain loves to overcomplicate some of the things that are very simple. Also, we've been conditioned that success ‘should’ be difficult. Our primitive brain is designed to protect us and to overthink. Stalling out is one of the things that it can do in the event that it wants to protect us and really what I know to be true is that our primitive brain really wants to know all of the steps in order for you to even get started. This is something that I've had to personally work through and coach myself on, and took time for me to build, knowing that it's totally okay to not know every single step. Actually, not knowing every single step is an indication that I can take one step forward because I know that if I am taking one step forward, then steps two, three, four, and five will unveil themselves because I took that first step. I want you to find one thing you can do to move that needle forward. Whether it’s something as simple as signing up for a free webinar and actually attending live or using your network to reach out to an ‘expert’ in the field you’re interested in. Then, let the next steps unveil themselves. Taking these small steps allows you to feel light about your movement, rather than heavy and constricted. > “Think about your quick win and get into action. Release the ‘how’ by not trying to overthink your way through it.” Until next time, keep doing it your way! INSIGHTS: * “I define a quick win as something that gets you closer to your final destination or your goal.“ * “Stalling out is one of the things that it can do in the event that it wants to protect us and really what I know to be true is that our primitive brain really wants to know all of the steps in order for you to even get started.” * “Think about your quick win and get into action. Release the ‘how’ by not trying to overthink your way through it.” RESOURCES: * Listen to Episode 470: How to Create Urgency with Your Offers with Jack from Deadline Funnel [https://shediditherway.com/interviews/how-to-create-urgency-with-your-offers-with-jack-born-from-deadline-funnel]