My guest today, Sally Hogshead, is passionate about helping brands discover – or rediscover – what makes them fascinating to the people around them. Sally started her career in the advertising industry. In her early 20s, she skyrocketed to the top of the advertising profession and by the age of 24, she became the most award-winning advertising copywriter in the United States. She has worked on numerous advertising campaigns including Mini Cooper, Nike, Godiva Chocolate, and Coca Cola and her work has been displayed in the Smithsonian of American History.

By the age of 27, Sally opened her first advertising agency. Drawing on her remarkable branding legacy, she created The Fascination Advantage Assessment and wrote the book Fascinate: How to Make Your Brand Impossible to Resist. The Fascination Advantage Assessment is the first algorithm to measure how the world views personal brands.

Sally has appeared frequently on national news media – including NBC’s Today show and The New York Times. She joins me today to share why she created The Fascination Advantage Assessment, how it can help you identify what makes you and your brand fascinating, and how identifying what makes you fascinating can help you market your business with more authority.

“You are fascinating. You don’t have to change. Just find those qualities and do more of it.” – Sally Hogshead

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• We have all killed off parts of our authentic selves in favor of playing it safe
• When you shut your authentic-self down – you are denying the world that “spark”
• How The Fascination Advantage Assessment can help you rediscover your “spark”
• How identifying how you are different and what you do best can help you develop and improve how you market your brand

Sally’s Advice to Fierce Feminine Leaders:

The world is not changed by people who sort of care. The world is changed by people who passionately, irrationally, excitedly care. It is changed by you. In order to do that, you have to know how the world sees you. Once you know how the world sees you – it’s game on!

Get Your Fascination Advantage Assessment Today!

Visit Fascinate.com/you and enter the secret code: FIERCE17 (not case sensitive) to claim your free Fascination Advantage Assessment today!

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Explore your path and discover how you can be the fiercest lady-boss possible. Visit EleanorBeaton.com/Discover.                      

A Special Thank You to Our Sponsors                     

This episode was made possible by our wonderful sponsors, BMO – Bank of Montreal – The Bank for Women.                   

Join the conversation at BMO for Women to gain the insight, knowledge, and support you need to succeed and to truly understand how to manage your money!    

Today’s episode is all about the mansplainer. As you listen to today’s show, I want you to ask yourself: “Am I a mansplainer?”

Mansplaining has become a commonality throughout our lives and cultures. In fact, research has shown that female doctors are twice as likely to be interrupted by their patients as male doctors. Until recently, mansplaining has affected primarily women, but today, the tables are beginning to shift as more and more women begin to assert themselves professionally.

So, how do you know if you are a mansplainer?

5 Signs You Are A Mansplainer

1. You lack the self-awareness to recognize – even after you’ve learned the description – whether or not you are a manslplainer. (For example: you’ve heard my description of a mansplainer, and still haven’t asked yourself if you fall into this description.)
2. You automatically think you know more than women and it is your place to mentor, guide, and advise them? #HeresYourSign
3. You frequently interrupt women on a regular basis.
4. Women around you are not coming to you with their thoughts and ideas.
5. You don’t ask many – if any – open-ended questions.

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My guest today is an award-winning entrepreneur, Yasmina Azhari. Yasmina is the Founder, Owner, and General Manager of Mira Trading, LLC, the Vice President and Partner of Trade Coordination Office, and the founder of her newest company, Al Yam International Commercial Brokers. She has been recognized as one of the Top Entrepreneurs in Syria and is the Honorary Council of the Netherlands in Syria. This powerhouse businesswoman and entrepreneur built a highly successful career for herself – until her country broke out into a civil war, forcing her to flee the country and seek safety in another country where she decided to pick up the pieces of her amazing career and start all over.

Today, Yasmina shares her story of starting her entrepreneurial journey over, what it was like, and what motivated her to continue moving forward to achieve success once again. She also shares some valuable insight and tips on how to reinvent yourself – or your career path – as an entrepreneur to achieve success.

“Try and fail, but never fail to try.” – Yasmina Azhari

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• How her fortune wasn’t in her bottom line – but in her network
• Why you can’t sit back and wait for opportunities for success
• You never lose. You have to win or learn. It’s all experiences
• How she built and leveraged her network to create success
• Networking isn’t about the quantity of people on your It’s about the quality of people on your list.
• The challenges she faced – and overcame – while working in a male-dominate industry
• What she means by “imposing ”
• The role that charitable work plays in her life

Yasmina’s Top 3 Success Tips to Reinvent Yourself as an Entrepreneur:

1. Teach yourself and learn how to love what you are involved in – even if it’s not what you dreamed.
2. Make your choice. Have your voice Tell your story.
3. Whatever you decide – jump.

Connect with Yasmina Azhari:

• Yasmina Azhari on LinkedIn

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And, if you really want to ramp up your fierceness…                     

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Explore your path and discover how you can be the fiercest lady-boss possible. Visit EleanorBeaton.com/Discover.                     

A Special Thank You to Our Sponsors                    

This episode was made possible by our wonderful sponsors, BMO – Bank of Montreal – The Bank for Women.                  

Join the conversation at BMO for Women to gain the insight, knowledge, and support you need to succeed and to truly understand how to manage your money!   

Today, I want to share with you some tips on how you can glean information from those frustrating moments in your life and business as well as how to make these moments your best friend while growing your business.

“Frustration is completely inevitable, but frustration is also a source of some incredible information.”

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• Coping with “mini-failures” and using them as a source of information
• How to use pain points in your business to discover your next steps
• Using your frustrations to map your forward momentum
• How frustration is a sign of growth and helps challenge your limits
• Why it’s important to learn h ow to get comfortable with the discomfort
• Leaning into your frustrations, but looking at them with interest

3 Critical Pieces of Information from Frustration:

1. Frustration shows you where you need to go
2. It paints a picture of your progress
3. It teaches you where you need to approach your life with a greater level of acceptance

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Reach out to us for a free 30-minute Bold Women in Business Makeover Session with me or one of the fabulous coaches on my team!                    

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A Special Thank You to Our Sponsors                  

This episode was made possible by our wonderful sponsors, BMO – Bank of Montreal – The Bank for Women.                        

Join the conversation at BMO for Women to gain the insight, knowledge, and support you need to succeed and to truly understand how to manage your money!  

Jas joins me on the show today to share her story of overcoming some of the biggest challenges in her life – including being discharged from the military, being diagnosed with an aggressive form of head, neck, and throat cancer, as well as losing her home during Hurricane Katrina. She explains how these experiences motivated her to start her organization and dedicate herself to helping over 2,000 female military veterans each year find safe, suitable housing.

“I realized no one was RSVP-ing to my pity party.” – Jas Boothe

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• Coping with a devastating cancer diagnosis after losing her new home to Hurricane Katrina
• Finding motivation to change the outcome of her situation – and the situations of others
• The birth of Final Salute Inc and its mission to serve the women who have served
• Services and programs available to homeless female veterans and their children
• What it was like to talk with Oprah
• How she transformed the leadership skills she learned as a soldier to become a successful business woman

Connect with Jas Boothe:

• Final Salute Inc
• Final Salute Inc on Twitter
• Final Salute Inc on Facebook
• Jas Boothe on LinkedIn
• Jas Boothe on Twitter

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A Special Thank You to Our Sponsors                  

This episode was made possible by our wonderful sponsors, BMO – Bank of Montreal – The Bank for Women.                       

Join the conversation at BMO for Women to gain the insight, knowledge, and support you need to succeed and to truly understand how to manage your money!  

Today, I want to share with you my top 10 favorite tools and apps that help me put certain tasks within my business on virtual cruise control – and make some of the more challenging or easy-to-forget tasks much easier.

My Top 10 Tech Tools to Get Things Done:

1. Pipeline Management App – PipeDrive
2. Receipt Storage App – Receipt Bank
3. Guided Meditation App – HeadSpace
4. Communications Tool - Slack
5. Password Storing App – Last Pass
6. Trip Planning App – TripIT
7. Video Conferencing App – Zoom
8. Audio & Video Recording App – Ecamm Recorder
9. Cloud Storage Apps – Google Drive and DropBox
10. Graphic Design Tool – Canva

Additional Resources Mentioned:

• LiveCA LLP – Canadian virtual CPA firm

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A Special Thank You to Our Sponsors                   

This episode was made possible by our wonderful sponsors, BMO – Bank of Montreal – The Bank for Women.                 

Join the conversation at BMO for Women to gain the insight, knowledge, and support you need to succeed and to truly understand how to manage your money!  

Today, I’m talking with Joy Chudacoff. Joy is a highly-acclaimed, sought-after business strategist for female entrepreneurs. She primarily works with already established and successful female business owners that are looking for ways to reach their next level of success, but aren’t quite sure what their next steps should be to get them there. She is the leader for Business Lifestyle Design for Women and has been an entrepreneur for over 20 years.

Joy is the founder of a business consultant company called Smart Women, Smart Solutions, and for the last 12 years, she has been serving women as a professional, certified coach and consultant. On today’s episode, she shares with us what it is that keeps women from achieving their million-dollar goals and the different strategies they need to help push them to achieve that goal. She explains that the strategies you used to get you to where you are today may not help you reach your next level of success – and the key areas you need to focus on to help you reach your success goals.

“What got you here won’t take you there.” Joy Chudacoff

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• The process and mindset of taking the leap from the entrepreneur maverick role into the CEO role as a woman
• Joy’s entrepreneurial journey
• The most significant turning point in Joy’s coaching business
• Examples of how keeping your message and what you offer consistent and how it can help lead you to success
• Strategy vs intuition
• Being able to delegate – not micromanage
• Falling in love with your numbers
• Being decisive and overcoming perfectionism and analysis paralysis to help you reach your goals

Key Numbers Women Entrepreneurs Should Monitor Daily, Weekly, and Monthly

• Your sales numbers
• Your cost per sale
• Your expenses

Joy’s Strategy for Creating Success:

1. Ask yourself: What am I pretending not to know?
2. Stay clear on what is absolutely necessary and essential for you to do every day.

Connect with Joy Chudacoff:

• Smart Women Solutions
• Joy Chudacoff on Facebook

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And, if you really want to ramp up your fierceness…                    

Reach out to us for a free 30-minute Bold Women in Business Makeover Session with me or one of the fabulous coaches on my team!                    

Explore your path and discover how you can be the fiercest lady-boss possible. Visit EleanorBeaton.com/Discover.                    

A Special Thank You to Our Sponsors                   

This episode was made possible by our wonderful sponsors, BMO – Bank of Montreal – The Bank for Women.                 

Join the conversation at BMO for Women to gain the insight, knowledge, and support you need to succeed and to truly understand how to manage your money!  

My guest today is Tara Marino. Tara is the creator of the Femme Types, an internal technology helping women realize their full potential while receiving their beautiful life. She is the owner of Elegant Femme, a company dedicated to helping women around the world live a life of beauty, travel, and soul. She joins me today to share why she believes it’s so important for women to structure their day around the three core traits that ever woman possesses. She explains what those traits are – which she calls the Femme Types – and how identifying and honoring each of them every day have helped her move out of depression and into a beautiful life she enjoys living.

"If we are not honoring who we really are, that affects us.” – Tara Marino

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• Integrating your human experiences, aligning it with your soul’s calling, and how it can help you overcome obstacles and adversity
• How journaling has helped Tara through the depression of losing her first child
• The Femme Types – what they are and why you should honor them every day
• The “Fo-Types” – what they are and how they counteract the balance of the Femme Types – if you let them
• What is Femme Flow and what it looks like for Tara
• Staying disciplined and structuring your day around your Femme Flow
• Why Tara decided to move to Paris – and how she made her dream a reality
• The power of saying “little yeses” in the direction of your desires

Tara’s Words of Wisdom:

1. Slow down and think about the circumstances in your life and how it might assist you in recognizing who you really are. Ask yourself: What if this was to serve me in some way? How would I choose to have it serve me? Really go into that space inside and feel the possibility of expansion.
2. Ask yourself: What is that dream inside me? You’re here for your unique expression of who you are in the world. Go all the way!
3. Be truly present and aware of how far you have come. Look around your life and really let it soak in. Celebrate what you have accomplished so far.

Connect with Tara Marino:

• Elegant Femme
• Femme Type Assessment Quiz
• Live You Fully 9-Day Challenge

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Explore your path and discover how you can be the fiercest lady-boss possible. Visit EleanorBeaton.com/Discover.                   

A Special Thank You to Our Sponsors                  

This episode was made possible by our wonderful sponsors, BMO – Bank of Montreal – The Bank for Women.                         

Join the conversation at BMO for Women to gain the insight, knowledge, and support you need to succeed and to truly understand how to manage your money! 

I recently received an email from a dear friend and fierce follower asking about my team – and if I really had one. So, today, I want to share a “behind the scenes” glimpse to introduce you to my team, the amazing work they do, and provide tips and advice on hiring your own amazing team to take your business to the next level.

“Solo-entrepreneurship is a great way to get started, but if you really want stability, if you really want to grow, you need a team to help you do that.”

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• Why building a team is critical to growing a sustainable business
• Who is on my team and the tasks and roles they perform – personally and professionally
• My journey to building this team
• The exact job ad I used to secure my Operations Manager and the exact process I used to hire her
• The positions I’m looking to fill next to help me reach my goals

My Personal Team:

• Shauna Forsyth of Maritime Strength & Conditioning
• My amazing housekeeper

My Professional Team:

• Adrianne Alexander – My Podcast Content Producer
• Kate Astrakhan of Audio Adrenaline Studio – Full Service Audio/Video Post-Production Company
• Operations Manager
• Online Business Manager
• Head Enrollment Coach
• Website Design
• Graphic Designers/Art Directors

My Challenge to You:

1. Take a look at your life and career right now.
2. Think about where you need to bring in the help and support you need.

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Reach out to us for a free 30-minute Bold Women in Business Makeover Session with me or one of the fabulous coaches on my team!                  

Explore your path and discover how you can be the fiercest lady-boss possible. Visit EleanorBeaton.com/Discover.                  

A Special Thank You to Our Sponsors                 

This episode was made possible by our wonderful sponsors, BMO – Bank of Montreal – The Bank for Women.                    

Join the conversation at BMO for Women to gain the insight, knowledge, and support you need to succeed and to truly understand how to manage your money!

My guest today is author, public speaker, and career and business strategist, Jenny Blake. Jenny helps people move past the “burnout” phase and into careers they love. Today, we discuss how to seamlessly and continually double-down on your strengths, interests, and experience to approach career changes from a powerful place. We also discuss how to identify new opportunities that will help you develop new skills and how to run “pilot” experiments to help you figure out what to do next.

“Not all pivots have to be big and dramatic. Sometimes, it’s just about mapping your next move within whatever you’re currently doing.” – Jenny Blake

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• How company pivots have impacted individual and millennial pivots
• Individual ideas of “what is working” and how it evolved over generations
• The basis of Jenny’s 4-step framework process
• Getting traction within your organization for your pilot projects
• Pilot examples for small business owners and entrepreneurs
• Dealing with anxiety and a lack of clarity
• Transitioning from intrapreneur to entrepreneur
• Recharging habits and routines

Jenny’s 4-Step Pivot Framework:

1. Step 1 – The Plant Phase – Setting the foundation
2. Step 2 – Scanning – Looking at what’s out there related to your strengths and one-year vision
3. Step 3 – Pilot – Small experiments to help you assess the 3 E’s: Enjoyment, Expertise, and Expansion
4. Step 4 – Launch – The “all-in” moment

Pivoting Questions to Ask Yourself:

1. What’s already working for me?
2. What are my strengths?
3. What are people asking my advice on the most?
4. What do I enjoy the most?
5. When do I feel the most “in the zone?”
6. How am I already earning an income?
7. Who do I already know?

Connect with Jenny Blake:

• Pivot Method Toolkit
• Pivot Method Coaching
• Pivot Method Momentum
• Pivot: The Only Move That Matters is Your Next One book
• Life After College: The Complete Guide to Getting What You Want book

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Are you a fan of the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast? If the tips and interviews we share in each episode have helped you gain the confidence and inspiration to become a better, more powerful leader, head on over to iTunes, subscribe to the show and leave your honest review to let us know! Each month, one lucky podcast reviewer will be selected to receive a free coaching session with me – Eleanor Beaton!                         

What are you waiting for? Head on over to iTunes, subscribe and leave a review to enter your name into this month’s drawing!                 

And, if you really want to ramp up your fierceness…           

Reach out to us for a free 30-minute Bold Women in Business Makeover Session with me or one of the fabulous coaches on my team!                 

Explore your path and discover how you can be the fiercest lady-boss possible. Visit EleanorBeaton.com/Discover.                 

A Special Thank You to Our Sponsors               

This episode was made possible by our wonderful sponsors, BMO – Bank of Montreal – The Bank for Women.              

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Today, J.J. joins me on the show to share her thoughts on self-efficacy and the challenges women in the tech industry often face today. We also discuss what women can do to advance their careers while following their passion within their organization, or how to start your entrepreneurial journey the smart way.

“If you’re not really clear on where you are and where you want to go, it’s very difficult for other people to help you.” – J.J. DiGeronimo

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• Why you need to assess your professional network – and how.
• The difference between how men and women network with others.
• What is self-efficacy and how can you learn it.
• How learning self-efficacy can help you discover new opportunities.
• How to get the most out of organized networking events.
• How career coaching is different from mentorships and sponsorships.

J.J.’s Top 3 Success Tips for Women Making the Entrepreneurial Leap:

1. Get the right people around you.
2. Make sure you know who your customer is and what problem you are solving.
3. Make sure you are marketing yourself and pricing yourself appropriately.

Connect with J.J. DiGeronimo:

• jjdigeronimo.com
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• YouTube
• Google+

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And, if you really want to ramp up your fierceness…                     

Reach out to us for a free 30-minute Bold Women in Business Makeover Session with me or one of the fabulous coaches on my team!           

Explore your path and discover how you can be the fiercest lady-boss possible. Visit EleanorBeaton.com/Discover.           

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A Special Thank You to Our Sponsors          

This episode was made possible by our wonderful sponsors, BMO – Bank of Montreal – The Bank for Women.        

Join the conversation at BMO for Women to gain the insight, knowledge, and support you need to succeed and to truly understand how to manage your money!     

Ulrike’s career spans 5 geographic regions and she’s a multi-lingual, award-winning entrepreneur who has been named one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women for two consecutive years, a WCT Wave Maker, a Top 50 CEO by the Atlantic Business Magazine, as well as one of the 40 Top Change Makers in Canada by Canadian Living. She has also received the esteemed Progress Women’s Excellent Award.

Ulrike has over 20 years of global experience in the information and communications technology industry and on today’s episode, she shares her story of how she went from a background in artistry to one of the most successful female leaders in the digital technology industries. She also shares the top three most powerful skills she believes every female leader needs to truly succeed in business, in life, in order to shatter the glass ceiling, overcome gender bias, and pave the way for true gender equality and diversity.

“Entrepreneurship is an attitude and a mindset.” – Ulrike Bahr-Gedalia

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• The three key elements of successful female leaders
• Having a natural tendency to confront and conquer challenges
• Assessing yourself – honestly and frequently – and the impact it can have on you as a leader
• Handling feedback
• Reframing big challenges as opportunities
• Overcoming gender bias

Ulrike’s Advice to Fierce Feminine Leaders:

• If you see something that you feel is too big for you – it might not be too big. Just go for it.
• Find your way. Always learn and interact with people to understand and ask questions.
• Don’t take things personally.

Ulrike’s Top 3 Success Tips to Emerging Feminine Leaders:

1. Have a positive attitude.
2. Be authentic. Be yourself.
3. Be adaptable. Those that are most adaptable survive – not those that are most intelligent.

Connect with Ulrike Bahr-Gedalia:

• Digital Nova Scotia
• Digital Nova Scotia Events
• Digital Nova Scotia on Twitter
• Digital Nova Scotia on Facebook
• Digital Nova Scotia on LinkedIn

 Download the Tip Sheet with Ulrike's Insight's here.

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Are you a fan of the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast? If the tips and interviews we share in each episode have helped you gain the confidence and inspiration to become a better, more powerful leader, head on over to iTunes, subscribe to the show and leave your honest review to let us know! Each month, one lucky podcast reviewer will be selected to receive a free coaching session with me – Eleanor Beaton!         

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And, if you really want to ramp up your fierceness…         

Reach out to us for a free 30-minute Bold Women in Business Makeover Session with me or one of the fabulous coaches on my team!         

Explore your path and discover how you can be the fiercest lady-boss possible. Visit EleanorBeaton.com/Discover.         

A Special Thank You to Our Sponsors        

This episode was made possible by our wonderful sponsors, BMO – Bank of Montreal – The Bank for Women.        

Join the conversation at BMO for Women to gain the insight, knowledge, and support you need to succeed and to truly understand how to manage your money!   

Today, I want to discuss what it means to “kill your darlings” and why taking this step is often one of the hardest for many entrepreneurs and female leaders. I also want to share the positive impact that letting go of what’s not working can have on your business or organization once you get past the emotional aspect of “killing your baby” and begin pruning it to perfection as well as share some key questions you should ask to help identify what is working, what’s not working, and what your next steps should be.

When you’re willing to kill off the darlings to preserve the body of strength of your work, you will find that not only do you develop a deeper sense of confidence, but your relationship with your tribe and overall effectiveness is greatly enhanced.

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• The emotional aspect of killing your darlings
• Why it’s important to prune what’s not working to make room for things that work
• Utilizing feedback from “fussy” clients and customers

3 “Darling Killing” Questions You Should Be Asking:

1. What should you keep doing because it’s working?
2. What should you stop doing because it is not working?
3. What should you start doing because it would be even more helpful?

Click here for the free How to Kill Your Darlings worksheet

Love the show? Let us know!       

Are you a fan of the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast? If the tips and interviews we share in each episode have helped you gain the confidence and inspiration to become a better, more powerful leader, head on over to iTunes, subscribe to the show and leave your honest review to let us know! Each month, one lucky podcast reviewer will be selected to receive a free coaching session with me – Eleanor Beaton!        

What are you waiting for? Head on over to iTunes, subscribe and leave a review to enter your name into this month’s drawing!        

And, if you really want to ramp up your fierceness…        

Reach out to us for a free 30-minute Bold Women in Business Makeover Session with me or one of the fabulous coaches on my team!        

Explore your path and discover how you can be the fiercest lady-boss possible. Visit EleanorBeaton.com/Discover.        

A Special Thank You to Our Sponsors       

This episode was made possible by our wonderful sponsors, BMO – Bank of Montreal – The Bank for Women.     

Join the conversation at BMO for Women to gain the insight, knowledge, and support you need to succeed and to truly understand how to manage your money!  

On today’s episode, my guest is personal stylist Maegan Watson. Maegan is a dear friend and colleague of mine and the founder of Watson Style Group – a group dedicated to creating wardrobes that help people feel the way they want and love the way they look. She has over 10 years of experience helping women transform their wardrobes and put an end to the seemingly unending question: “What should I wear today?” Maegan shares her thoughts on how style is different from fashion and the insights she has learned from conducting hundreds of in-depth conversations and interviews with women about their style and how it affects their overall view of themselves and how they feel.

“When we have a wardrobe or an outfit that reminds us of what we want, they become an anchor.” – Maegan Watson

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• Style is creating the image that is going to make you know yourself on a deeper level.
• All women want the same things when it comes to style – they all want to be able to reflect something about themselves.
• Reflecting your personal and professional mission through your style and wardrobe.
• Addressing the idea that style is frivolous or meaningless and why it’s important.
• The process Maegan uses to personalize wardrobes for her clients.
• The dynamic approach her team uses to support her clients wardrobe transformations.

Maegan’s Tips for Enhancing Your Style:

• Stop focusing on how you look. Focus on how you feel in outfits.

Connect with Maegan Watson:

• Watson Style Group

Love the show? Let us know!    

Are you a fan of the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast? If the tips and interviews we share in each episode have helped you gain the confidence and inspiration to become a better, more powerful leader, head on over to iTunes, subscribe to the show and leave your honest review to let us know! Each month, one lucky podcast reviewer will be selected to receive a free coaching session with me – Eleanor Beaton!     

What are you waiting for? Head on over to iTunes, subscribe and leave a review to enter your name into this month’s drawing!     

And, if you really want to ramp up your fierceness…     

Reach out to us for a free 30-minute Bold Women in Business Makeover Session with me or one of the fabulous coaches on my team!     

Explore your path and discover how you can be the fiercest lady-boss possible. Visit EleanorBeaton.com/Discover.     

A Special Thank You to Our Sponsors    

This episode was made possible by our wonderful sponsors, BMO – Bank of Montreal – The Bank for Women.  

Sue’s company, Bennett Design, started with a vision to build a better design firm; one that focused on delivering “detail-driven design.” Today, it is one of the largest interior design firms in Toronto with over 40 people on staff. Her company has developed proprietary software for workplace strategy and project management to provide her clients with the absolute best service available.

On today’s episode, she shares her story of how she got started in business and her journey to success, her secrets of scaling – not one, but two – highly successful businesses, and what she identified as the turning point in her career that helped her on her journey to success.

“Every time you grow, you need to make sure you are considering the people working, what’s working for them, and what’s not.” – Sue Bennett

Today on the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast:

• Being curious and how following your curiosity can be a huge success factor for your business.
• The critical nature of having self-belief an its role in achieving success.
• Evolving your business to keep pace with the modern workforce.
• Strategies to improve your workplace and work environment.

How to Scale Successfully & Thoughtfully:

• Create a business plan and write it down.
• Don’t scale just for the sake of scaling. Have intentional growth.
• Hire slow, fire fast.

Connect with Sue Bennett:

• bennettdesign.ca

Love the show? Let us know! 

Are you a fan of the Fierce Feminine Leadership Podcast? If the tips and interviews we share in each episode have helped you gain the confidence and inspiration to become a better, more powerful leader, head on over to iTunes, subscribe to the show and leave your honest review to let us know! Each month, one lucky podcast reviewer will be selected to receive a free coaching session with me – Eleanor Beaton!   

What are you waiting for? Head on over to iTunes, subscribe and leave a review to enter your name into this month’s drawing!   

And, if you really want to ramp up your fierceness…   

Reach out to us for a free 30-minute Bold Women in Business Makeover Session with me or one of the fabulous coaches on my team!   

Explore your path and discover how you can be the fiercest lady-boss possible. Visit EleanorBeaton.com/Discover.     

A Special Thank You to Our Sponsors  

This episode was made possible by our wonderful sponsors, BMO – Bank of Montreal.  

From the onset of BikiniLuxe, Candice realized she needed to leverage her wealth of knowledge about the swimsuit industry as well as the connections she had made during her modeling career to get BikiniLuxe off the ground. That coupled with her strong skillset in sales and customer relations laid the foundation for her success.

More about BikiniLuxe

• They sell over 4000 swimwear products for women and men through the site.
• Most of the brands represented on the site have demonstrated a corporate social responsibility in which they give back to the community.
• Entering into their third year they’ll hit $5 million in sales.

Candice’s Advice to Entrepreneurs...

• Be open to new ideas and push the boundaries
• Leverage your connections to gain legitimate information and to gain new connections
• When making connections make the highest connection you can possibly reach.
• Don’t spend too much time on one thing.- pitch 20 people rather than spending a lot of time on one person
• Look to large scale businesses to see what they are doing wrong and try and do it better
• Be persistent
• “Don’t spend your time or money on being boring.”

Candice on embracing controversy and being galvanizing in expressing your views.

• Attention spans are short- people are one click away from scrolling by you and your content. Controversy can help keep people focused on you and your message. 
• Controversy can be leveraged into massive social media reach.

Connect with Candice

www.Bikiniluxe.com

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Her focus is on helping entrepreneurs turn online lookers into online buyers with persuasive writing. Today Sarah will demonstrate to us the wealth of opportunity inherent in the world of online business for women entrepreneurs.

More about Sarah Grear….

• Sarah has been a speaker at many events, including social media week in Los Angeles
• Her DIY online writing class has over 1000 students
• She was previously a travel blogger
• After doing several online videos, Sarah was offered many speaking opportunities. People saw her confidence and authority shine through the camera and realized her potential. 

The online world helps you close the income gap for earning online, and changes the possibilities from what you were told could not be possible to reality. There is no ceiling for how much you can earn within the online world.  

According to Sarah, many of her female clients have closed the income gap and been successful in their online businesses by leaning into their strengths. Being clear on what you are good at and building a strong team to fill in the gaps where you have weaknesses is crucial.

3 power moves that Sarah implements to help her be more successful:

1. Celebration- Sarah celebrates every step of her business. All the little things need to be celebrated. No matter the results you have got out of your launch or event, you should still celebrate.
2. Learn how to upgrade your thoughts-You need to learn how to look at things in a positive light, and look at them as upgrades.
3. Learn how to be playful. Learn to be playful, even when there are a lot of moving parts around you. This will allow you to stay grounded and focus on your goals.

Mentioned this episode

The Well Fed Writer

Connect with Sarah Grear

 https://www.sarahgrear.com/