I was surprised by her response. She was a woman I had met at a conference in my town a few years ago and had the pleasure of having a connection call with her. She had built her $1Million+ consulting business from the ground up, after letting go of years in a cushy corporate job in computer technology. (I could relate after leaving my cushy Wall Street career and starting my own businesses from scratch.)

No one to pat her on the back when she did a good job.

No one to pick her up when the chips fell.

No one to tell her she could give herself a raise.

No one to tell her that she could spend that amount of money on marketing efforts.

She was on her own.

And it was lonely at the top.

But she had control. The main reason she went out on her own.

I could 100% relate.

But when I asked her what was the one thing that stuck out that had made all the difference in reaching that 7 figure threshold. 

I was surprised by her response.

Her eyes met mine and she slowly answered in three words:...

When you started your business, you most likely had to wear ALL the hats. Because the income wasn't or you weren't sure who to bring and what you needed. 

Or you didn't know how to receive support. 

(A BIG issue I see in women not making the money they want!)

Those first years in business require you to lay the financial foundation for the confidence and clarity to create recurring revenue.  

Stepping into next level income generation and leverage is about making your money work for you and that requires having a Financial VISION and connecting to it often.  

You do have a Financial Vision, right?

Holding a strong, clear financial vision as the leader requires you to keep tending it. Which is easy to say, but hard to do when you are running all over the place to keep your business going. 

To get back to tending your financial vision, you have to delegate the things outside of your zone of genius. You know that. You’ve heard it before.

I have...

Ready for an unpopular opinion coming from a money coach? 

Money is a terrible motivator.

Therefore, from this point on, I give you permission to stop focusing on the money. 
This week in Letting Go to Let In, we are looking at next-level feminine financial leadership through the lens of mindset. Money mindset, of course.

“Money mindset” is a buzz phrase in personal and professional development circles for good reason.

Your money mindset, as I define it, is divided into three parts:

• your energy of money
• your beliefs around money 
• and a whole lotta emotion thrown in for good measure. 
  

Your money mindset drives your decision making, how you attract (or repel) money flow into your life, and it will have a big impact on whether you achieve your financial and business goals. 

AND, for this week, I want you to let go of thinking about money. 

If you have a big financial goal, a quarterly revenue number you want to hit, or an annual profit number you...

Stop doing the 80% of things that are only bringing in 20% of your revenue. 

It’s the 80/20 rule you’re familiar with, but let me say it in “letting go” terms. 

Let go of the 80% of things you are doing in your business right now that are only bringing in 20% of your revenue.

And if you feel those things are still important to get done, we’ve got a plan for that. 

Oh, but you are not sure what those “80%”  things are? 

They are most likely your “D’s,” D for DRAINING, things from last week. 

So you probably have a good idea, but this week in Letting Go to Let In, we will anchor into those things and create the space for powerful decision making to hand off some or ALL of these things to your TEAM.

Or get rid of them altogether.

I will walk you through a time-tested technique that most entrepreneurs and business owners will not sit down to do, BUT it makes such a huge impact. Make a little time to do...

Let’s agree as a community to stop doing this ladies. 

Stop being a people pleaser. 

Yep. I said it. 

Being a people pleaser eats up more than your time, it eats up your capacity to create and attract.

When you get to a certain level in your business, your time is more valuable than squeezing every second for every last dime. 

(And well, isn't it always? But it becomes more apparent, when you realize there is so MUCH you WANT to do in your business and only 24 hours in a day. That ain’t changing anytime soon.)

Your time becomes that much more precious as you scale your business and income, and that means you’re going to have to say a lot more “No” than “Yes”. 

This week in the Letting Go to Let In challenge, if you haven’t guessed it, I am talking about the art of saying NO in your business. 

No. No, thank you. Nope. Nada. Not today.

This email to you is arriving in your inbox on a Tuesday.

Most likely,...

When it comes to money, most women equate money with safety, security, and/or freedom. 

Security was, and still is, a huge value in my family. 

I am the only entrepreneur in my family, so when I decided to start my own business, I remember excitedly sharing with my dad that I had graduated from coaching school, passed the exam, had all the hours and was ready to go out on my own as a coach.  His reply: “Does that come with a pension?”

Haha… not funny Dad.

I thought about his response for days, telling myself, “No it comes with nothing. I am starting with nothing.” And I dropped into that familiar feeling of worry, fear and doubt that had plagued me for most of my life.

I had put the coaching program on a credit card, a hefty amount. I had no clients, and I was apprehensive about paying my monthly bills.

The story was reinforced that... 

Money = Security.

And it does to a certain extent.

BUT there is something else that is even more important...

There is an incredibly repellent energy out there that slows down money coming to you.

It is steeped in desperation, future fears, lack, and comparison.

I had it for years.

Decades.

I don’t know where it came from, and I don’t care.

I just knew at some point, I had to look at it.

What is it?

Impatience.

Impatience is a big repellent energy of money.

Impatience breeds resistance.

And if you are in resistance to money you are not in FLOW with money.

Flow and resistance are mutually exclusive.

How do you know if you are an impatient person?

• Often thinking some future moment/experience will be better than the present moment
• Often saying “I don’t have enough time” or “I don’t have enough money.” And I mean often.
• Perhaps, short attention span or inability to focus for lengths of time on a present moment
• You have burnt your tongue on a bowl of soup because you were too impatient to eat it.

How do I know this?

I am a reforming impatient...

Hey my friend… Do you know how much I have been thinking of you and how I can serve you?

A LOT!

Why? Because at one time, I had no one to talk to about my money, because I was embarrassed, ashamed, and thought, “Who would want to hear my problems?”

That is why I am here. I want to hear your money problems.

And an undercurrent of many of the money problems I hear from women like you is…

Underearning.

Not a topic most want to talk about and I believe it is a missing link to making the money you really want to make.

What is Underearning and are you an Underearner?

Underearning is when you earn less than you know you are capable of earning and you really desire to earn more.

You are not underearning if you are completely and honestly happy in the amount of money you make. Key word being honest.

If you are justifying underearning because you feel having more money will make you greedy or its not virtuous to make more money or you don’t need a lot.

That is...

I don’t think the word abundance came into my vocabulary until my 30s when I realized the opposite and brought this into my awareness: 

I was living in scarcity.

Scarcity was the foundation of my core operating system for most of my life up until that awareness.

And when I noticed it was everywhere.

Scarcity was the perspective I took when I lost my job, when I lost my house, when I thought I was going to be homeless on the street, when I looked at my bank account.

It was the lens I looked at life through. Not a fun way to experience life as it produces fear, worry, and doubt and many of you may be feeling that way too right now.

Even when you want to make more money. Even when you want better in your life.

A scarcity mindset runs underneath it all and can sabotages your efforts.

So, what is a girl to do?

That Abundance is your birthright.

You may be aware of scarcity in your life.

You may not have labeled it as such, like I did, but when we have one end of the spectrum...

When my brother and I were kids, one of Our favorite summer trips was a day at Great Adventure in New Jersey.

We counted the days down on my dad’s calendar, we knew what we were going to wear and who we were bringing with us.

AND what RIDES we were planning on going on.

For me top of the list was Rolling Thunder: Great Adventure’s premier roller coaster.

For some being on a roller coaster at a theme park is exciting. (maybe it was a kid thing?)

For many of us being a financial roller coaster is downright no good. (possibly the most opposite of exciting.)

The financial roller coaster shows up in two ways and there are two ways to go about stepping off it and stepping on to the magic money carpet.

Let me walk you through the rest here…

The first financial roller coaster is the one in your bank account and is connected to how much money you bring in from month to month. The up, the down, the boom and the bust.

It is the one you SEE month to month.

It is frightening...