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Woman Owned: The Growth Podcast for Women Entrepreneurs

Get inspired as Eleanor shares transparent insights about her own journey bootstrapping a media and coaching company from a $5K business loan to millions in revenue. A practical business and leadership podcast for the established woman entrepreneur who wants to go from good to great. Woman Owned brings you case-study style interviews where leading entrepreneurs and CEOs share detailed breakdowns of specific growth strategies, how they implemented them and the financial results. Host Eleanor Beaton goes beyond pop psychology and woo to deliver hard-hitting insights on how social conditioning impacts women leaders and CEOs and what to do about it. Tune in weekly for practical growth playbooks on sales, marketing, wealth building and leadership. This show holds over 1.6 million downloads and a global top 1% ranking.
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Oct 29, 2024

Are you considering a pivot in your business? Maybe you want to change your niche, your offers, your message, or your entire strategy. Before you make any big moves, it's crucial to ensure you're pivoting for the right reasons.

 

 

Join Eleanor this week as she walks you through three essential questions to ask yourself before making a pivot. These questions will help you explore your motivations and make sound decisions as a leader and CEO, and by the end of this episode, you'll have a framework for evaluating potential pivots and ensuring they align with your long-term business goals.

 

 

 Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO22

Oct 22, 2024

Eleanor is always on the lookout for great reads that will help her learn, grow, and gain exposure to the ideas of influential leaders, and in this episode, she gives you her essential reading list for every aspiring or existing seven-figure woman CEO.

 

 

Join Eleanor this week as she shares the top seven books that have helped her as a woman CEO and working mom to grow Safi Media into the top 1% of women-owned companies globally. From making peace with power as a woman leader to building a saleable business, these books offer invaluable insights and strategies that will skyrocket your business. 

 

 

 Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO21

Oct 15, 2024

Have you ever wondered how to leverage Instagram to skyrocket your business growth? What’s the secret to creating compelling content that attracts your ideal clients and generates real revenue? 

 

 

In this episode, Eleanor sits down with Jenna Harding, the Instagram expert behind @jennaspaige to uncover her secrets to Instagram success. Jenna shares her incredible journey from being an overworked, underpaid social media manager to building a thriving seven-figure business using her signature Insta-booked formula. If you’re currently marketing on Instagram, you’re going to want to pay close attention to today’s case study.

 

 

Tune in this week as Jenna breaks down the key components of her Instagram strategy and reveals how you can implement them in your own business, even if you don’t have a huge following right now. 

 

 

Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO20

Oct 8, 2024

Do you have a powerful vision statement for your company? Many of you have a vision for your brand but aren’t articulating it clearly. 

 

 

Join Eleanor this week as she shows you why having a million-dollar vision statement is one of the most important things you can do to build your personal brand, and how being able to articulate your vision will help you scale to the multi-million dollar mark. 

 

 

Get full show notes, transcripts, and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO19

Oct 1, 2024

Do you feel like your time management system just isn’t cutting it anymore? Like you're constantly working for everyone else, leaving no space for what truly excites you? I’ve been there too. But what if you could take back control of your calendar and build a thriving business while working far less than the typical 40-hour workweek?

 

 

This week, I’m joined by time management expert and founder of The Pink Bee, Megan Sumrell. Join Megan as she shares how she scaled her seven-figure business with a lean team, focusing on what matters most. She'll also break down the exact strategies she's using to grow her email list and boost revenue effortlessly through her branded app.

 
 
 
Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO18
Sep 24, 2024

Have you ever felt torn between your mission as a business owner, the amount of money you want to make, and your role as a mother? Can women really have it all? What could increasing the number of women entrepreneurs earning seven figures and beyond really do for our world?

 

These are some of the questions Eleanor dives into with Jackie Serviss on her podcast, The Jackie Serviss Show. Jackie is a seasoned HR leader and Executive Coach with a passion for driving sustainable business growth through the power of people.

 

Listen in this week as Eleanor and Jackie discuss why so few women entrepreneurs break the million-dollar mark, and the shifts that need to happen to change that statistic. 

 

 

Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO17

Sep 17, 2024

Do you dream of building a seven-figure business without a big team? Is it even possible to do it alone? Eleanor’s guest this week is a solopreneur who doesn’t have any employees and doesn’t consider herself a leader, but she’s built a seven-figure business doing what she loves.

 

 

This week, Eleanor is joined by award-winning copywriter, founder of Talking Shrimp, and author of Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You’re the F-Ing Worst, Laura Belgray. Laura has cracked the code on using email to generate over a million dollars in annual sales, and in this episode, she gives you the fundamentals of email marketing and her secrets for crafting compelling emails your audience can’t wait to read. 

 

 

Listen in as Laura reveals how she built her seven-figure solopreneur company from scratch using email. 

 

 

Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO16

Sep 10, 2024

One of the measures of success and abundance for many women owners is not just money, but time. As a leader, it's critical that you spend your time focusing on growth-oriented tasks that will really move the needle. Growth comes down to what you’re doing every single day, which means you need a daily protocol that you can lean on to produce results like clockwork.

 

 

Join Eleanor this week as she shares her five-step daily checklist that helps her grow seven-figure results in under 90 minutes per day. You’ll hear why these tasks are literally worth $10K per hour to your bottom line, the reason following a checklist like this must happen daily, and how this can create freedom and peace of mind for you as CEO.

 

 

Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO15

Sep 3, 2024

One of the key things that has transformed Eleanor’s guest this week into one of the most well-recognized, respected, and successful business coaches for women entrepreneurs is her ability to successfully refine her ideal client, and she’s here to give you a masterclass in niching.

 

Sigrun is an award-winning business coach, international speaker, bestselling author, and top podcast host. If you’re currently resisting niching out of fear of limiting your potential, tune in to hear Sigrun reveal why the riches are in the niches, and how she continuously refined her ideal client to exponentially scale her impact and income.

 

Listen in today to hear the step-by-step process Sigrun used to niche down and propel herself to multiple seven-figure growth year after year - a rare feat for women-owned businesses. 

 

Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO14

Aug 27, 2024

Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed and unsure of what to focus on next in your business? A major part of your role as CEO involves constantly identifying and releasing constraints, which is necessary to scale your business… but that’s not sexy and people often don’t want to hear about it.

 

In the process of actively consulting with hundreds of businesses a year, Eleanor has identified a tool that helps her clients unlock increased amounts of revenue without ever feeling like they have to work harder. In this episode, she shares the exact quarterly planning process she uses to drive consistent 30% growth in Safi Media and recently helped a client achieve a whopping 50% revenue increase in just 90 days!

 

Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO13

Aug 20, 2024

Ever wondered how to launch a new offer and generate six figures without sending a single email or running paid ads?

 

Linda shares the ingenious community-driven launch strategy she used to generate over $300,000 in sales for her new program, The MixerMind, with zero emails and no paid advertising. By leveraging the power of peer-to-peer invites and allowing her existing community members to take ownership, Linda was able to fill her program with over 100 highly aligned members in a matter of days.

 

If you're looking for a fresh approach to launching that puts relationships and community at the forefront, this episode is a must-listen. 

 

 

Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO12

Aug 13, 2024

Do you feel like you're constantly drowning in your to-do list with no time left to actually grow your business? Imagine what you could do with an extra 29 hours to work ON your business instead of just IN it.This week’s episode outlines a very high-level and strategic approach to managing your time so that you can have plenty of open, unscheduled time in your calendar.

 

 

If you're ready to take back control of your calendar and finally focus on the high-leverage activities that will catapult your business forward, this episode is a must-listen. You’ll learn why open, unscheduled time in your calendar is a sign of an effective and valuable leader, the changes that had the biggest impact on Eleanor’s calendar.

 

 

Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO11

Aug 6, 2024

How much should you pay yourself as a woman business owner? This is a question that plagues many entrepreneurs as they try to balance fairly compensating themselves with reinvesting profits back into the business. If this is you, you're in luck because this week, Eleanor gives you the ultimate guide for deciding on your salary and distributions as a woman CEO.

 

 

Listen in this week as Eleanor equips you with some timeless principles that will help you think critically about your own compensation. You’ll learn what is required of you to have a well-financed business, and become a well-financed woman who has the fuel you need to feel protected, weather challenges, and have an abundant life.

 

 

Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO10

Jul 30, 2024

What’s the secret to hosting live events as a way to not only connect with and serve your audience, but also generate insane revenue? Eleanor’s guest this week made $1.2M in three days through her live event, and she’s here to share everything she’s learned about the keys to success in selling in-person and virtual events. 

 

 

Dr. Darnyelle Jervey Harmon is an award-winning business advisor, speaker, strategist, and the founder of multi-million-dollar company, Incredible One Enterprises: a minority woman-owned Inc. 5000 company specializing in combining business growth strategy with mindset and spiritual alignment principles. 

 

 

Tune in this week as Dr. Darnyelle pulls back the curtain on how she generates multiple seven figures per year, largely driven by event marketing. 

 

 

Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO9

Jul 23, 2024

If you want to drive huge profits in your business, you must focus on retention. Eleanor’s guest this week is a personal development powerhouse who has nailed down what is necessary to drive industry-leading client retention rates, and she’s here to give you a masterclass in advanced retention strategy.

 

 

Tracy Litt is a former HR executive who took the leap from corporate to the woman-owned world to build her personal development empire. Her company, The Litt Factor, rapidly crossed the seven-figure mark, a move Tracy says largely came from their outrageous retention rates. Her approach to client retention is what elevated her company into the top 1% of woman-owned businesses, and you get to hear exactly how she did it today.

 

 

Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO8

Jul 16, 2024

This week, you’re hearing Eleanor’s conversation with Ellen Yin, over on Ellen’s Cubicle to CEO Podcast. Since Q4 of 2021, Eleanor has successfully hosted 14 roundtables, which generated over $884,000 in revenue plus thousands of new email subscribers over two years, and she’s letting you in on the logistics behind hosting roundtables so you can replicate her strategy in your own business.

 

 

Tune in to hear Ellen quiz Eleanor on how Safi Media was able to add $884K in revenue through roundtable discussions. Eleanor breaks down everything you want to know, from the logistics of inviting and attracting speakers, to what mediating roundtables looks like, and how to best approach new leads that come through these types of discussions.

 

 

Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO7

Jul 9, 2024

There are lots of individual components involved in building strong personal branding, but Eleanor’s guest this week believes speaking is the best way to leverage your brand. 

 

 

Monique Bryan is a personal branding coach for entrepreneurs, where she helps small business owners who haven’t quite figured out how to get people to take notice of their brand market themselves better. Monique has learned how to maximize the long-term marketing and brand-building firepower of speaking gigs, whether it’s a podcast, virtual event, or live on stage, and she’s giving you a masterclass in elevating your marketing. Listen in this week as Monique offers her four-step speaker protocol that helps her make $60K in additional revenue from unpaid speaking gigs.

 

 

Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO6

Jul 2, 2024

Your email list continues to be one of the most lucrative assets in any modern business. Social media shoutouts are great, but people’s email lists deliver way more leads and sales. Having a powerful asset like this gives you a growth runway and new people you can sell to, and this episode outlines an insanely simple way to begin growing your email list.

 

 

If you’re convinced by the power of building an audience that pays you, you’re in luck this week because Eleanor is here to share the three Ps of list building, and a simple two-step process you can get started on today to accelerate your audience and impact while enriching your network at the same time.

 

 

Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO5

Jun 25, 2024

It’s every entrepreneur’s dream to start a meaningful company, build up a great team, and create innovative tech that has an impact on the marketplace, so much so that someone comes along wanting to acquire your company, leading to you and your investors getting paid. This is Sreejata Chatterjee’s woman-owned story, and it’s a case study full of gems.

 

 

Sreejata Chatterjee is a self-professed nerd, programmer, and computer science genius who co-founded LeadSift in 2012 and then sold it in 2021. LeadSift helps B2B companies fill their pipelines using intelligence from publicly available data from places like social media, and in this interview, you’ll hear exactly how Sreejata secured her multi-million dollar exit.

 

 

Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO4

Jun 18, 2024

The decision to hire a full-time staff for your business is a huge commitment. A 2019 survey found that 55% of all entrepreneurs have gone without pay for at least six months in order to pay their staff, but unless you want to stay stuck doing everything on your own, you must figure out how to grow your team without going broke.

 

Join Eleanor this week as she gives you five fundamental rules for being an empathetic, compassionate, and great business owner to work for while ensuring a profitable and lucrative business. You’ll learn practical, actionable steps you can put into place to make sure you aren’t draining your company of profits, and tips for hiring employees who generate wins for your business.

 

Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO3

Jun 11, 2024

In this rather riveting second episode, we delve into the inspiring journey of Amanda Tress, who redefined her career path to build an empire. Amanda's story is rooted in over a decade of experience in the marketing and fitness world. By 2018, she was managing a 7-figure digital marketing agency while running a fitness and nutrition company on the side. Shortly after giving birth to her third child, Amanda made the powerful and painful decision to cut her lucrative marketing agency to focus solely on her fitness business, The FASTer Way to Fat Loss. Her story is a true testament to the power of focused ambition and drive.

 

 

Tune in this week to learn how Amanda Tress turned a side hustle into a multi-million dollar business. Discover her scaling strategies, the importance of focus and ruthless prioritization, and how she leveraged her expertise to build a digital fitness empire. 

 

 

Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO2

Jun 4, 2024

There has never been more support available for women entrepreneurs than there is today, and yet, women founders are still hugely misunderstood. If you wonder what you really need at each stage of growth, or how to take the correct action at the right time to drive more sales, profits, and impact, you’re in the right place.

 

In this very first episode of Woman Owned, Eleanor shares 16 game-changing data points that will put your growth challenges into perspective. This comes from the research Safi Media has gathered over the last seven years, and is derived from Eleanor’s work coaching over 700 women and her own experience as a founder in the top 1.7% of all women-owned businesses globally. She’s revealing what you’ll typically see at each of these 16 data points and why, and how to take empowered action to grow.

 

Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO1

May 28, 2024

With over 500 episodes and close to two million downloads under her belt, Eleanor has learned some major lessons about how to create, launch, and sustain a podcast that brings a financial return.

 

 

After multiple iterations of her podcast and 18 months of producing Anchored Intelligence, Eleanor is closing the door on this amazing chapter in honor of new starts. In light of a brand new show for women founders coming to you next week, she’s here to share five things she’s learned as a content creator that you can use as an anchor if you’re considering starting a podcast or already have one in the works.

 

 

Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/ai43

May 21, 2024

Not hitting your goals is part and parcel of the entrepreneurial experience, especially if you want to become a high-growth leader. While this is a relatively common experience for entrepreneurs, you might be layering extra pain and suffering on top of your perceived failure, when in reality, you’re making major leaps forward just by setting and pursuing these big goals.

 

 

Tune in this week to learn the magic of setting big goals, even when you don’t meet them. Eleanor is showing you why setting goals you don’t achieve isn’t a problem and the three main side effects of pursuing big goals.

 

 

Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/ai42

May 14, 2024

Ever wonder what feminists mean by “the patriarchy?” It’s presented as the boogeyman in our culture, but what is it really and where did it come from? If you’ve always assumed this is just the way the world has always been, but you’re tired of being a “good girl” and instead crave being a whole, fully expressed woman, this episode is for you.

 

To unpack this concept, Eleanor is joined by Elise Loehnen, author of the New York Times Bestseller, On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good. They’re exploring its historical roots, how it manifests in modern women’s lives, and the true cost of constantly playing by society’s rules - rules that weren’t built for women in the first place.

 

Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/ai41

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