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If you don't have a clear vision or if you're feeling disconnected from it and you're not feeling fulfilled by what you're doing, it's going to be really hard for you to wake up with that clarity of mind and the motivation to be the leader that you need to be.
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is just a thing. Same old thing. Like I got. Oh yeah, hun, it's just a thing. Hello, bold CEOs. Welcome to the land of the bold and free. My name is Megan Taylor and I'm your podcast host. This is a podcast for entrepreneurs who are growing businesses that change the world for the better. And you know that changing the world starts with being in your fullest potential and power. I'm a former corporate manager turned CEO and I left corporate because I knew in my soul
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I wanted to make a bigger impact and to live a life of deep freedom. And now I help my clients do the same. I'm a business strategist and a personal development mentor for six and seven figure brands. And I'm here to teach you a little bit more each week about how to master the soul, the strategy and the support needs of your business so that you can experience sustainable success and wealth. I'm also excited to host my sexy successful friends on here to get you excited and lit up, to take bold risks
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of your design. So with that, let's get started. Hi guys, welcome to episode two. So I'm here to sit down with you almost as if we were just sitting together over coffee and we're gonna do a deep dive audit of your business. Sounds really sexy, right? But trust me, it's sexy when you are making more money, when you have a sound business foundation that you can build and grow off of and to have a true business that you can scale.
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Throughout this podcast, I'm here to teach you how to master the soul, the strategy, and the support needs of your business so that you can scale and in a way that's sustainable for you. I can't tell you how many entrepreneurs that I talk to who are secretly feeling overwhelmed and are struggling with burnout behind the scenes, and I'm just not here for that. I'm here for your success, and I really am here for you to be in deep enjoyment and fulfillment of your experience of being a business owner, of being an entrepreneur.
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You know, I think business, it's like, let's make business fun again, you guys. And so hell yeah, we're going to make an audit sexy. And I'm going to be asking you four questions today to help you get real about where you really stand with your business and what you need to do to tighten up your business foundations so that you can scale. So let's go ahead and dive right in. So question number one is on a scale of one to 10, how fulfilled do you feel in your business?
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On a scale of 1 to 10, how fulfilled do you feel in your business? Where 1 is like, oh my gosh, I'm so anxious, I want to crawl into a hole, I'm waking up and I'm dragging my feet, and I know there's things that I need to be doing to move the needle forward on my business and I'm just not doing them, and I'm not even sure I know why, but it's just not happening. And I'm thinking about, like, this question of whether I'm even cut out for entrepreneurship. Okay? And a 10 is like, I feel on fire.
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I am so connected to my vision, I'm excited about what I'm building, and I wake up every day and I know exactly what to focus on, and I feel lit up and turned on by what I'm building, and I feel internally motivated to wake up and put one foot in front of the other every day to continue building this empire and expanding my impact and my income. Okay? So whatever that number is, it's perfect. Just don't overthink it, come up with a number, boom, that's the number.
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And then from there, we're going to work together to incrementally improve and increase that number for you. Because, you know, as the leader of your business, as the CEO, you are the leader, you are the visionary, you are the one who is looking ahead to what you're creating with your business. And if you don't have a clear vision or if you're feeling disconnected from it and you're not feeling fulfilled by what you're doing, it's going to be really hard for you to wake up with that clarity of mind and the motivation to be the leader that you need to be.
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for your team and for your clients or customers, okay? So your fulfillment matters, your fulfillment matters. So let's just make that known. All right, so that's question number one. Question number two is about the soul of your business. And there's many different aspects to the soul of your business, but the one I wanna look at today is what is the impact or the legacy that you're here to leave through your business?
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What is the impact or the legacy that you're here to leave through your business? Oftentimes what I find is that when entrepreneurs are feeling burnt out or overwhelmed and that fulfillment number is low, it's oftentimes because they are at some level disconnected from the soul of their business. Now, when I'm talking about the soul, I know it can sound kind of woo, but here's what I really mean.
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You know, people don't just buy what you do, they buy who you are and how you make them feel. And your business is here to solve a problem through your products or services. You know, that's what the market does through supply and demand. And so you're here to solve a problem. Yes. But what is the underlying impact and legacy that you're here to leave through the way that you do that? Okay. So as an example, I am a business strategist and a personal development mentor.
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for entrepreneurs who are scaling their businesses to six and seven figures and beyond. And the way that I do that is by helping them step into the role of CEO, how to structure their businesses to be able to scale, and how to hire and manage a team. That's what I do. But what am I really selling? Well, I'm selling financial freedom.
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I'm selling time freedom and I'm also fundamentally selling power. I'm selling confidence. So the soul of my business is all about freedom, power.
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and confidence. And so as I go about running my business and in my marketing and in my branding, as I am embodying my brand, I talk about brand embodiment a lot with my clients, we need to walk our talk. And so the way that I go about connecting to the soul of my business is by being in my own confidence, being in my own power and looking at anything that is blocking me from claiming my own sense of freedom. That's the soul of the business. It's the feeling.
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what I cause my clients to feel when I meet with my clients when we're done working together, it's like I watch their shoulders drop an entire inch and their faces start glowing because when they find their power, they find their confidence, they find their well-being and it's all about infusing that way of walking in my business in everything that I do. That's the
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That's me walking my talk and then I can sell power and confidence and the strategies for achieving that you know include Leadership include how to structure your business how to structure your offers how to monetize your shit how to monetize your gifts and that is the underlying
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That is the how, but we have to go back to the why, to the soul of the business in order to really connect to people at a feeling-based level, because a lot of buyers, especially women, tend to buy based on feeling as well as logic. So that's how I do my business. But then additionally, why? Why help people with their confidence? Why help entrepreneurs be in their personal power? Well, I believe that we need more empowered leaders
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difficult world problems to help be the leaders that can help shine the way for new ways of being in the world for leaders who can create positive company cultures that have a positive rippling impact for their employees and their contractors and to continue to create more jobs and because I simply just want to help empower people to claim their capacity for building wealth and freedom for themselves and for their families.
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in the American dream. I love capitalism and I love being an entrepreneur and I wanna help other entrepreneurs be able to succeed in that way. So this is my underlying soul of my business. You see, it's deeper than business strategy and personal development. It's about empowerment and confidence and it's about the rippling impact that I'm able to make when I empower people that are here to make a rippling impact. Does that make sense?
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soul of my business, that is my why, and it's what helps motivate me to get up every single day to do the dang thing, to record the podcast, to do the Instagram reel, to email my email list, to do another strategy session with a new client. It is because I get to practice the joy of being in my own power and my own confidence while also having a rippling impact by empowering other leaders to do the same for themselves, for their businesses, for their families, for their clients.
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and for their employees. So that's what drives me. That is the soul of my business. Hi, entrepreneurs. A quick pause on the podcast so I can ask you a few questions. Have you been seeking to grow your business, but you've been hitting your head up against this income ceiling? And maybe you show up on social media as if you're confident, but secretly behind the scenes, you're feeling overwhelmed, overworked, and a little shaky on your vision for your business. Okay, so if that's you,
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to the show notes and take a look. There's a few different ways for working with me right now. This is for you if you are the entrepreneur who knows that your next level of impact and income is really about embodying that true CEO role with confidence and really setting the strategy and the business foundations of a true business. So when we work together, we work on gaining clarity on what is your vision for your business and really setting the strategy for growth and
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focus on right now. We're gonna nail your product suite, we're going to upgrade your pricing if that's what we need to do, and this is about calling in that next level of client. So if this is sparking your interest, I love doing this work. I actually am opening a handful of single sessions. These are single strategy sessions where we hop on Zoom together and these are for new clients only. I also have one VIP mentorship that is for three months and it is just so so
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after doing this mentorship because we do the inner work and we also focus on the business strategy and so your life and your business change as a whole. So if that sounds like you, go over to the show notes and you'll see how to get in touch with me and how to start the conversation. Alright, back to the episode. Connecting to the soul of your business is about connecting to your deeper purpose and why it all matters and if you can take the time to do that, if you need to go for a walk, you know...
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get back into your meditation practice, whatever it is to reconnect to why it is that you do what you do. You're going to be light years ahead of others because you're going to be able to wake up with that internal motivation to do the things that you need to do to feel internally aligned to your mission to be able to make decisions from a place of clarity and also to just continue to drive up those fulfillment numbers for yourself.
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And when you get clear on that, you're also going to be able to use that underlying soul connection to infuse a lot of your purpose into your marketing. And this is what allows you to draw in clients who are a perfect fit for you because they get why your business exists, they get why you're doing what you're doing. Okay? So that was question number two is what is the soul of your business?
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What is the impact and the legacy that you're here to leave? All right. Question number three is what is your strategy for growth? So your strategy for growth is really simple. It just comes down to being the fucking best at what you do, whatever it is, creating the most luxury client experience and making it unbelievably easy and enjoyable for your clients your customers to get the results that they're desiring.
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So when I'm talking about luxury, you know, I'm not just talking about expensive or wealthy. I'm talking about luxury in the terms of what your ideal client wants. So luxury for some people can mean I want it fast. Luxury for other people can mean I want it customizable. I want to be able to do it my way. Luxury for other people can mean I want to feel like you care about me.
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So a part of your strategy is just getting really in tune into what does your ideal client really want and then fine tuning your designed client experience to deliver just that and then doing it in the most efficient way possible so that you can do it with less resources. And we do that through the design of the tech that you're using, your process flows, your policies, all of this can help create a stronger, more cohesive.
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client experience. Then the strategy becomes about how do you then scale that solution? How do we serve even more people? How can we intake more volume into the business? So it really depends on what industry you're in, but I'll give you some examples. So with the coaching consulting industry, for example, I can only do so many one-on-one consultations or strategy calls in a day, but if I want to scale and serve more clients, then
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I can launch a scaled group program, which is what I did with the bold CEO. So that allows me to be able to serve upwards of, you know, 20 clients in the same timeframe that I could serve one client in the cleaning industry. For example, you know, you can only clean so many houses in a day. And so the way that we scale that is by hiring employees and getting them trained up on how to.
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how to clean, how to maintain proper quality in the cleaning process, but also how to do customer service in a high quality way. Then we can build out crews or teams of people to be able to cover different neighborhoods, and you can even actually franchise that model. So it really depends on what industry you're in, but the end game is how do you be the fucking best at what you do, and then how do you serve more people, and how do you drive
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operational efficiency into how you deliver on that experience. So that is question number three is what is your strategy for growth and scaling? And then question number four is, do you have your dream team? So the more that you grow and scale, the more that there is to do usually. And the more that you grow, the more that you want to really refine and hone in on
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mastering the various areas of your business. You know, when you first start your business, a lot of people kind of Frankenstein and MacGyver their business together and they're like, oh my God, I wonder if this is gonna work. And then when it does, you're like, holy shit. Then as you grow, like you just have so much to do. And sometimes there's some catch up. And I want you to know, you know, every single business from small to Fortune 500 has some dirty laundry going on.
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There are, you know, invoices that have not been collected on there are bills that are unpaid. There is some sort of a certification or an insurance that you need, trademarking, rebranding that website. There's always something that as you grow kind of takes the back burner. And when it comes to hiring your dream team, it's really about staying in your zone of genius as the CEO of your company.
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You know, doing what you do best that allows you to continue to lead the vision of your company while also doing the things that really, you know, bring in the bacon for the business. Whether that is maybe you're amazing at sales or maybe you're amazing at client care, then your role is to do that really well and then surround yourself with other people who can be in their zones of genius and support you with the aspects that maybe you're not as proficient at, or you're not as excited about, or
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that take you a long time to do or learn. Time is money and that's for real. And so I really want for you to have a dream team that you can count on. Maybe you have a rockin' team, but you have maybe just been so busy that you haven't really been able to give them what they need in order to succeed. So it can be about, you know, organizing your task list so that you can actually delegate things or getting processes documented so that you can train your team.
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or maybe getting your team the right equipment if they are employees then you're responsible for that. So wherever you are, I just want you to make note of, you know, do you have your dream team? Do you have the support that you need in order to continue to grow and to feel supported? And if not, what are the steps that you need in order to course correct that? All right. So those are your four questions for your sexy audit today.
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I'm going to repeat them for you so that you can write them down and reflect on them further on your own time. Question number one is on a scale of one to ten, how deeply fulfilled do you feel with your business? Question number two is what is the impact and the legacy that you're here to leave through your company? Question number three is what is your strategy for growth and scaling? And question number four is do you have your dream team?
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and if not, what steps do you need to take in order to course correct that? Okay? So I know that that's kind of a lot, but you know, when I work with my clients one-on-one, one of the things that we do is every single week we make a CEO priority list of the things that are top priority for this week. Because there's always more work than you could possibly get accomplished. So...
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You know, as the CEO, a big part of that self-leadership piece is about getting clear on what the priorities are. And this week, these four questions are the things to prioritize. You know, take a look at what you need to de-prioritize so that you can make room for these things. Because if you don't have a sense of fulfillment in your business, if you don't have clarity on your vision, if you don't have a strategy for growth and you don't have a team you can count on, you are really going to be struggling. My friend.
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and I'm not here for that. I'm here for your success, your fulfillment, and to help you expand your business so you can make the impact you're here to make. So, you know, do what you got to do to carve off some time for yourself and answer these questions. And if you want further support, you can reach out to me on Instagram at Megan W. Taylor and we can talk about what supporting you might look like. There's a number of different ways to work with me and I'm happy to help you figure out what would be most aligned for you.
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So I hope that you found today's episode helpful and supportive. If you did, I love a five-star review and please also go ahead and share this on your stories. If you have Instagram tag at Megan W. Taylor and I will see you on the next episode.
