How do you earn respect?
We often hide behind credentials, but genuine respect is earned by those bold enough to solve problems, lead with intention, and communicate effectively.
On this episode of IMPACT, Meghan is joined by Sam Horn, an accomplished author of 9 award-winning books, an impactful speaker and expert in powerful language who has coached entrepreneurs all over the world. Sam believe one of the best ways we can disrupt the way we do business is to disrupt the way we communicate and together with Meghan, redefines what it means to be a "powerful leader."
Respect is never demanded, it’s earned. How you communicate outweighs what you are communicating. Every interaction either builds a relationship or undermines it. Proper communication can empower you and your audience.
Can you summarize your vision in 60 seconds? That’s how quickly you lose the attention of your audience! Sam teaches you how to get attention and hold it and how to harness your power through her leadership framework.
Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn from a master of intrigue about earning the respect you deserve and becoming a leader with impact!
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[7:40] Who is Sam Horn?
[10:20] Infobesity into Intrigue
[18:00] Earning respect
[21:00] Intentional vs accidental
[24:00] Honoring the room
[25:35] Leadership framework
[27:00] Create space for nuance
[32:35] Resentment to rapport
[36:40] Mastering the delivery
[40:25] Powerful language and respect
[44:00] Ink it when you think it
[46:45] Talking on Eggshells
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MEMORABLE QUOTES
“Use the word imagine. The word imagine pulls people out of their preoccupation because they’re picturing your point! They’re not distracted, they’re seeing what you’re saying.”
-Sam Horn
“We can either reflect what is happening or we can direct what is happening, and if we are paying attention to the nuance, and to what we do want, instead of what we don’t, we often can say something that will facilitate that.”
-Sam Horn
“In the real world, there are times we are the messenger of bad news, and we can’t change the bad news. We can change the way we deliver the bad news, so at least people know that we care, instead of shrugging our shoulders, not my fault, don’t blame me, nothing I can do.”
-Sam Horn
“Richard Branson said, time is the new money. And I think that time is a new trust and the clock starts ticking the second we stop talking. So if we hit the ground running, then people's eyebrows go up and we have earned their respect because we've already delivered value.”
-Sam Horn
"A huge part of leadership is about listening and reading the room."
-Sam Horn
“The language we use is so important, as it can either create a sense of powerlessness or empowerment in ourselves and others.”
-Sam Horn
"The through line from power to powerful and the thing that enables the zipline from one to the other is work on or acknowledgement of your self-worth. And the deeper your self-worth goes, the easier it is to move towards places that make you powerful as opposed to hanging onto power."
-Dr. Meghan Walker
"When we have a rising tide mentality, power is just defined as the ability to get things done. And if we want to get things done, then the more we enlist people and cooperate with them and make it a win for them, the more they will want to do this instead of they have to, or they're being paid to or they're being told to."
-Sam Horn
"Our role and goal in life is to be a peacemaker and to see how we can use language and set an example so other people respond in kind."
-Sam Horn
This week, Meghan is bringing the heat with a paradigm-shifting episode of IMPACT that will transform the way you approach your business. It’s a jam-packed episode that's filled to the brim with 5 game-changing boss moves to help you achieve your full potential as a CEO and leader.
From the very start of the episode, Meghan will challenge your limiting beliefs and mindset blocks that may be holding you back. You'll learn how to get crystal clear on your vision, tap into your inner confidence, and ditch the need to constantly prove yourself to others.
But that's just the beginning! Meghan dives deep into the practical side of running a successful business, providing actionable tips and strategies to help you maintain a strong work ethic and cultivate consistency to build long-term success.
And the best part? Meghan delivers this wealth of knowledge in a way that will leave you feeling energized and inspired to take action.
So if you're ready to accelerate your success and transform the way you approach your business, you won't want to miss this powerhouse episode of IMPACT with Meghan!
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[2:00] Holding space for your power
[6:00] Get clarity on your goals and values
[8:40] Trust your own decisions
[10:00] Speaking from authority
[12:00] Rise above the prove it energy
[12:49] Self-authorized state
[16:00] Fear of judgment
[19:30] Committing to consistency
[24:00] The Impactful CEO
[26:00] Design your Care strategy
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MEMORABLE QUOTES
“You have to be very clear on the values you bring to the table so you know whether you have alignment from the person across from you.”
-Dr. Meghan Walker
“If you are constantly asking for proof itself or you're finding your patients are constantly asking for proof when they walk into your office, I want you to check in around where the fracture is with respect to trust.”
-Dr. Meghan Walker
“If you are curious about where you might be sabotaging your own success, one of the places I would look at is how consistently you have followed through on your commitments.”
-Dr. Meghan Walker
“A self-authorized state is the consequence of trusting yourself. Trusting that you are in the right place at the right time. Doing the work so that you have the power, and strength to hold a presence in a particular room. Whether that is across from your client or whether that is in decision-making in your business. This ownership of authority is sometimes something we have not been socialized to have.”
Dr. Meghan Walker
“If you make the decision to hand power to this lateral validation crew, then what happens is, you are giving permission to their opinions to set your standard for success.”
Dr. Meghan Walker
“If you decide that the opinions of your colleagues matter, then what happens is, you’re going to be held back to the lowest common denominator level.”
Dr. Meghan Walker
This week on IMPACT, Adele Tevlin is shaking things up with a conversation that may trigger some female entrepreneurs. It's time to stop reacting and start setting boundaries that protect your values.
Are you struggling to express your boundaries? Adele has a powerful message for you. When it comes to contracts, there must be mutual love and respect for each other's non-negotiable values. Adele will shift your understanding of contracts and reveal what happens when you cross boundaries in business.
As a holistic nutritionist and mindset coach for female entrepreneurs, Adele understands the power of contracts as a sacred tool that upholds a code of conduct, even when emotions run high. When you fall out of alignment with the divine feminine and begin acting from the wounded feminine, you may fall into destructive patterns.
In business, anger is a destructive force, but Adele has the solution. By formulating a contract that protects your values, you can avoid toxic behaviors like manipulation and aggression with your associates. Setting boundaries is an act of love for yourself and those who enter into a contract with you. It's time to start operating with integrity and create a sacred contract that truly supports your success.
Ready to become solution-oriented and balance your boundaries with empathy? Don't miss this enlightening conversation with Adele Tevlin.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[4:00] The wounded feminine
[7:45] The energetics of how women do business
[10:00] Adele’s come to Jesus moment
[15:00] The shadow side of the fractured feminine
[20:00] Contracts provide clarity when you question yourself
[24:30] Boundaries are an act of love
[31:00] Your word is law
[34:00] Balancing boundaries with compassion
[36:00] Conditioned responses
[39:40] Boundaries versus a standard
[42:00] Navigating difficult conversations
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MEMORABLE QUOTES
“When a woman is in her healthy feminine, she’s powerful. When she’s in her divine feminine, she’s grounded, she’s powerful, she’s full of integrity, she’s in her most mature state, but when a woman is in her fractured feminine, and she’s got her back against the wall or she’s triggered, she goes into things like being a victim. She goes into behaviors like manipulation.”
Adele Tevlin
“It’s all unicorns and rainbows when you’re happy, but the minute something goes wrong, all of us are primordial minds that will go into defensiveness or reaction, so intelligence is actually low. The contract is there to serve as that sacred template, no matter what the circumstances are.”
Adele Tevlin
"Boundaries are compassionate. Boundaries are an act of love. Boundaries are a communion between two people that says, "I respect you, you respect me."
Adele Tevlin
“What am I telling my consciousness if I don't uphold my contract? My contract means nothing. And for me, my word is law.”
Adele Tevlin
"When we can heal collectively as women we have the power to really change not just the world but the fabric of how women do business together and the impact that we can have.”
Adele Tevlin
"Most people operate their business with standards rather than boundaries."
Adele Tevlin
"There's a part two of this conversation which is how to have difficult conversations cuz we're not good at that. So I think sometimes we resort to manipulation because it saves us from having to have a challenging conversation. And in our own mind it reconciles the situation to make it the other person’s fault.”
Dr. Meghan Walker
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Debt! The conversation no one wants to have but nearly everyone is a part of. This week on IMPACT, host Meghan Walker welcomes back Mary Shores, a 2nd generation debt collector and author of Conscious Conversations. Whether you’re in debt or struggling to recoup payments from clients, this episode will give you insight into the emotional aspect of debt collection and impact your approach to finances within your family and business.
Mary teaches entrepreneurs how to approach the conversation of debt with empathy while still being firm on their expectations. Debt collection is not sexy but is vital to your company’s survival. In this episode, you will hear about the challenges small business owners face when clients fail to uphold their end of the sacred contract.
This episode is a reminder that you are dealing with human beings who may be facing financial hardship beyond their control, and how you approach them could be the difference between recouping your money or taking a loss. For the clients on the other end of the conversation, this episode will shift your perception of debt collectors who are simply trying to make a living.
This is a conversation that everyone needs to hear. So tune in and get ready to uproot your opinion of debt and your responsibility within The Sacred Contract.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[6:45] Embodying spirituality in debt collection
[9:10] Shifting the collective consciousness
[10:17] The psychology of debt from both sides
[14:15] The Sacred Contract
[17:00] Engaging in conscious conversations
[23:00] Preventing delinquent accounts
[25:50] The Fear of the freakout
[29:00] Every patient, every time, everywhere
[34:20] Debt is not the enemy
[37:40] Teaching kids about finances
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MEMORABLE QUOTES
Debt is not the enemy. It's not bad to owe money. You can look at debt as an investment. If you take on debt because it's an investment in yourself or in your business that should be looked at as a very healthy thing. That is a resource that we have a privilege to have, but we shouldn't make the loan the bad guy.
-Mary Shores
“It can feel like someone has taken advantage of us. It can feel all different kinds of ways, but I think we don’t talk about it, and what we really need to do is have solutions in place, understand this as a business function and a business role, make plans for it accordingly, but more importantly, learn to let go of it!”
-Mary Shores
“When you talk to someone, you're asking them questions, you’re getting them to open up. You’re getting them to discuss the emotions of it, and what we know from social psychologists is that discussing the emotions behind a feeling helps those feelings dissipate.”
- Mary Shores
"There's a deep shame associated with owing money."
- Mary Shores
"When I engage with someone and deliver a service for someone, this is like a sacred act of my life's work. Like it's not a flippant transaction for me. It is deeply meaningful."
- Dr. Meghan Walker
"How do you approach these difficult conversations?... It will get easier with practice."
- Dr. Meghan Walker
“Higher collections through stronger connections.”
- Mary Shores
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You officially have permission to be lazy! Yes, you read that right. On this episode of IMPACT, we scientifically dismantle the myth that hard work yields the best results and teach you how to optimize your human potential! This week’s guest is the father of biohacking, Dave Asprey. With the help of his revolutionary time-saving approach to health, he has authored 4 New York Times best-selling books and is well on his way to his fifth with his latest book Smarter Not Harder!
If you want to maximize your IMPACT, Asprey’s protocol will eliminate hours of unnecessary work and will actually make you more productive than ever. As an entrepreneur, your time is valuable, and fighting your body's natural propensity for laziness is actually hindering you in the long run.
The harder you push yourself, the deeper your body goes into survival mode rendering your vigorous exercise and perfect diet useless. Your body cannot distinguish exercise from survival stress, so those intense workouts convince your body that your life is at stake. Asprey teaches you how to quickly trick your operating system into fight or flight mode and then efficiently reset back into rest and recovery. This quick transition mimics the body's natural rhythm of short bursts of high stress balanced by long-lasting laziness. You really only need a 5-minute exercise a few times a week to produce the best results possible!
Imagine all that you can achieve with all that extra time available to you! In this episode, Dave Asprey, is true to his word and teaches you how to work Smarter Not Harder!
Listen now and get ready to challenge everything you thought you knew about productivity.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
[7:00] People want to help you and allowing them to do so is an act of service
[8:30] The hero’s journey into biohacking
[11:50] The nonsensical surgical approach to children’s health
[13:50] Combining the medical mindset with the hacking mindset
[14:30] The separate intelligence controlling your body
[16:10] Mitochondria are assessing your reality and deciding your fate on a cellular level
[20:20] Changing the way your system interprets reality so you can be calm and achieve more
[22:00] Manifestation is the process of interfacing with your operating system
[25:10] Your lag time on reality gets slower as you age
[30:16] Slope of the curve biology: returning to baseline quicker
[35:10] Very brief bouts of pain spike dopamine and make you happier
[38:00] Focus on building your energy because doing the work without energy is torture
[43:20] The difference between the operating system of a man versus a woman
[51:25] You gain courage when you lose your fear of dying
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MEMORABLE QUOTES:
“First thing I would've said would be to understand that people actually want to help you and when you let them help you, you are performing an active service. That would've been really, really helpful cuz I was toiling under the mindset that I had to do everything myself because no one would help me or wanted to help me.”
-Dave Asprey
“When you look at the human body, there is probably a separate intelligence running your meat, that is not you and is faster than you!
-Dave Asprey
“There is no one who wants to be healthy as their first thing except people who are incredibly sick like I was when I had chronic fatigue. When you can’t get out of bed because you’re sick, when you think you might die, that’s when you want your health back.”
-Dave Asprey
“When you really learn how to manifest what you’re doing is, you’re interfacing with your operating system and you’re getting in alignment and you’re telling it that it is safe and should expect to see something, and when it expects to see something, it will see it and when it sees it, it’s real.”
-Dave Asprey
“Your immune cells the mast cells, they’re looking for potential threats and when they find one they explode and release all sorts of mitochondrial signaling molecules called inflammatory cytokines, so if you were to just look at mast cells and look at mitochondrial function, you would solve about 90% of what’s going on in medicine.”
-Dave Asprey
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The age of transactional care is coming to an end! Artificial Intelligence is disrupting every industry and medicine is no exception. On this episode of IMPACT, host Dr. Meghan Walker tested this theory and asked ChatGPT to create a plan for menopausal women and it formulated a program that could easily replace the first 4 visits with most doctors. What does this mean for care providers? It means that you need to provide more than just the essentials, you need to provide transformational care!
You won’t help people by lowering costs, if you want to truly help your patients you need to innovate what you offer. Creating a signature system in your clinical practice, not only helps your patients but also future proofs your business against AI innovations.
Meghan maps out how to design a transformational care plan using her A.C.T.I.O.N framework, just 6 steps that will take your practice to a whole new level to attract clients and keep them. To provide life changing care, you need to be specific about exactly who you intend to transform and how you’re going to do it. Serving everyone usually serves no one, so commiting to a niche is an important step in crafting your signature system.
By stepping outside the norms of care, you will set yourself apart from practitioners who are strictly transactional. Creating a system aimed at transformation gives patients emotional support, resources and a deeper understanding of what is happening in their own body.
Want to take this A.C.T.I.O.N framework, break it down to the granular level and build out your signature approach to care? Then join Meghan on March 9th at her Signature Care System Implementation Lab. By the end of the day, you'll have gotten actual work done to create a unique care plan that will attract clients, add another barrier between yourself and a technology like ChatGPT, future-proof your business, and move it away from a series of transactions and into a transformational experience.
Listen to this week’s episode and register for The Signature Care System Implementation Lab with Dr. Meghan Walker on March 9th from 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m EST at signaturesystem.biz.
Let’s set a new standard for care and take your business to a whole new level!
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[4:10] Is Artificial Intelligence an existential threat to humanity?
[7:30] How AI is quickly going to disrupt every industry, even the medical industry
[12:00] AI is increasing it’s intelligence at a compounded and exponential rate
[13:30] How to mitigate your risks against AI within your practice
[15:10] Leaving the old model behind and forging a transformational approach to care
[20:00] Designing a care plan that enables patients to transform
[23:40] Identifying the niche that you are offering transformation to
[27:50] Moving away from appointment setting based on blocks of time into the function of it
[31:40] Tapping into the A.C.T.I.O.N framework
[44:30] March 9th: Designing your signature care system
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Signature Care Implementation Lab with Dr. Meghan Walker
March 9th 10 - 4 EST - signaturesystem.biz
MEMORABLE QUOTES
“This is not because I am sitting her with massive amounts of data and evidence that your particular industry, medical practitioners, naturopathic doctors, functional medicine docs, TCM practitioners, all of you are necessarily going to be threatened by this but I can say it is likely to disrupt what you are doing.”
Dr. Meghan Walker
“When you are delivering a transformational experience, when you design your own signature care system, you create another barrier between yourself and a technology like ChatGPT.”
Dr. Meghan Walker
“When you’re designing out transformation and you are delivering it as the strategist, I want you to think of it as a hat. Any clinician can wear any type of hat. It’s the strategist who earns the most because it’s the strategist who has the most responsibility. It’s the strategist who designs and refines the transformational process.”
Dr. Meghan Walker
“For patients, when they can get a more comprehensive, insightful understanding of what’s happening in their body, it significantly elevates compliance.”
Dr. Meghan Walker
“I want to examine this topic from a really objective place because I think one of the thinking traps we could move into on this is that, oh, I've got time because I'm in one of these impenetrable vocations that's not necessarily gonna be on the first target hit list for artificial intelligence.”
Dr. Meghan Walker
“One of the cool things that we see when we move someone from a transactional system of care to a transformational system of care is we actually see those patients and those practitioners working with one another three times longer. There is a financial benefit to that because you are interacting with that patient three times longer.”
Dr. Meghan Walker
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Do you feel disempowered by your assumptions around money? This week on IMPACT, Dr. Meghan Walker is busting the money myths and mindset mistakes that are dictating your relationship with money so you can break free from limiting beliefs and take control of your financial future.
Throughout the episode, Meghan breaks down the four levels of her money mindset framework, so you can assess where you are in your relationship with money. Building your future state begins with being ruthlessly honest and truly acknowledging where you are and where you would like to be. Once you know what level you’re playing at, you can adjust your mindset and take on a new course of action to change the trajectory of your finances.
Your parents' attitude towards finances, your past financial blunders, and your expectation around money heavily influence your beliefs of what is financially possible. This is why Meghan also breaks down the 7 tools you need to shift your relationship with money into a higher vibration to toss aside your limiting beliefs and grab hold of the financial situation you desire.
And what if we treated and committed to our relationship with money the way we do our other relationships? Then what might be possible?
Tune in to this week’s episode to find out!
Oh and FYI, you’re going to want to make sure you’re in front of your keyboard, ready to go in your notes section on your phone or with paper and pen in hand to capture all the crucial information Meghan lays down to shift your relationship with money today.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[2:00] When the mind decides that something is impossible
[5:20] Your ardent belief that it is not possible is the only thing keeping it from happening
[7:30] The psychology of money and the dangers of categorizing yourself with limiting beliefs
[9:40] Understanding what your origin level is within the framework of quantum wealth
[11:40] The lie that money comes from outside forces and is unattainable
[15:35] Hoarding your money clocks the fluidity of money and shuts off financial creativity
[21:23] Knowing what game you’re playing and honestly accessing the level you’re at
[24:30] Building a skill set and a strategy to deploy your investment into your growth
[28:10] Be ruthlessly honest with yourself and acknowledging your current financial situation
[29:25] Get clear on what you need to earn, what you want to earn and understand why
[33:25] Identifying your money leaks, so you can put systems in play to form a better outcome
[34:50] Categorize the money myths from your childhood and creating alternative possibilities
[37:30] Describe your new relationship with money and take responsibility for your part in it
HOW TO CONNECT WITH DR. MEGHAN WALKER
https://www.instagram.com/drmeghanwalker/
https://www.facebook.com/drmeghanwalker
https://linktr.ee/drmeghanwalker
https://www.impactmedicinebook.com
MEMORABLE QUOTES
“When it comes to achieving a future outcome, losing weight, building wealth; the part of our brain that protects us from putting in too much effort only to be disappointed, it is fully lit up in both of these paths.”
Dr. Meghan Walker
“Shift the mindset pieces, so that you are open to making different decisions, and when you make different decisions and align them with different actions, you get a different outcome. That’s just the way building a future state works.”
Dr. Meghan Walker
“The more we say “I'm not like them”, without actually understanding what they are like, we encase ourselves in the energy of the work, win windfall vibration, and it is a vibration and it’s a very disempowering vibration frankly, because you have no control of your financial destiny.”
Dr. Meghan Walker
“If you don't believe your actions are actually going to warrant any kind of outcome for you, you're not gonna take them in the first place. And so we have to shift that belief system and to shift that belief system, what we really need to do is we have to lift the veil on the story.”
Dr. Meghan Walker
“The core thinking trap that defines that “win work windfall” level is that money comes from other sources, money comes from work, money comes because I want it in a lottery or money comes because I inherited it. And if those things don't happen for you, it's like you just can't see that there are any other ways that money may come into your life.”
Dr. Meghan Walker
“I can't wait to help you change more lives, have more impact, and put more money in your pocket along the way.”
Dr. Meghan Walker
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Get ready for a game changing episode of IMPACT! You’ve certainly never heard an episode like this before.
This is for two reasons.
One, because host Dr. Meghan Walker drops powerful truths about entrepreneurship and reflects on her own experience with burnout at the end of 2022. Meghan loves her work and this feeling of burn out was not a result of work overload. It was actually the result of client relations that had failed to honor their sacred contract. After some self reflection, Meghan realized she was stuck in self created resentment because she failed to set and uphold her own boundaries. She was taking ownership of others' emotional issues which prevented them from following through on their agreed upon financial responsibilities. By allowing others to negate their own commitments, she denied them and herself the opportunity to grow.
A much needed break over Christmas and the New Year resulted in the perfect time to recognize that leading to the next level meant setting clear boundaries and by holding people accountable to their commitments she was elevating how they operate in the world of business.
And two, because Meghan sets the stage for the trajectory of the podcast in 2023. And it’s massive. It’s exciting. And it is definitely going to lead to major IMPACT.
Meghan has committed to focusing on the concept of a "worth ethic" - the activities, commitments, and decisions that elevate our value as leaders and help us avoid burnout. That expands our capacity for contribution, for vision and where we can go next. And so this year, the content of the IMPACT podcast is going to focus exactly on this!
Meghan will pursue ideas that take us to the fringe, explore concepts that might make you feel uncomfortable and discuss topics that in an instant are going to shed from you, the stories and the limiting beliefs that have been holding you back.
Follow along with the IMPACT podcast and you can expect to master your worth ethic and thrive as a leader in 2023!
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[2:30] For the first time Meghan experienced burnout. She had nothing left in her and felt unmotivated
[4:30] Gaining perspective on the things that were holding her back
[5:50] Gaining clarity on the things driving her burnout
[7:20] How resentment was the culmination of poor boundaries
[8:30] Meghan’s resentment
[9:25] Taking ownership and letting clients off the hook for their emotional state
[10:50] Manipulative conversations that left her feeling responsible for clients negligence
[11:50] Realizing it was her duty to set and hold boundaries
[12:40] The sacred contract and enforcing compassionate boundaries
[13:45] Holding people accountable to their commitments elevates how they operate in business
[17:20] Committing to worth ethic: the decisions that expand our capacity as a leader
[18:20] Redefining your worth ethic in 2023
HOW TO CONNECT WITH DR. MEGHAN WALKER
https://www.instagram.com/drmeghanwalker/
https://www.facebook.com/drmeghanwalker
https://linktr.ee/drmeghanwalker
https://www.impactmedicinebook.com
MEMORABLE QUOTES
“Resentment, for me, was always accompanied by having poor boundaries in a particular area. When I become resentful of someone or a situation it is usually because I was not clear in articulating or because I didn't know what my boundaries were at any given moment.”
Dr. Meghan Walker
“I was witnessing, in real time, how I was enabling other people to sabotage their own commitments, with respect to money, and I too was acting out a pattern that I had become familiar with in my own life.”
Dr. Meghan Walker
“I was just sort of in denial. I was in denial of acknowledging it. I was in denial of how I was gonna have to address it. And then even as I turned on my mic to record this, I was in denial of having to admit it to my listeners.”
Dr. Meghan Walker
“I am an empathetic person and I am an empathetic person with boundaries in progress.And one of the things I realized I was consistently doing is I was taking ownership for what was happening in their emotional state and the way I was taking ownership of it, which is really none of my business to do, and not part of what my sacred contract with these clients is all about. I was letting people off the hook for having to pay and follow up.”
Dr. Meghan Walker
“It also enabled me to get really clear on this idea of a sacred contract. This idea that when you engage in business with someone or you make a commitment to someone, that you give them your word. And when you give someone your word more than checking that box in the terms of conditions or any other pieces, this is a reflection of your integrity and your brand.”
Dr. Meghan Walker
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Join host Dr. Meghan Walker on this week's episode of IMPACT as she sits down with Dr. Neeta Bhushan, a world-renowned speaker on grit and resilience, co-founder of the Dharma Coaching Institute and co-founder of Global Grit Institute, a mental-health training platform for leaders. Together, they explore the importance of facing our negative emotions head-on, instead of hiding them away as we strive for success.
As high-achievers, we often want to hide our emotions and push them away as we strive for the next level of success. However, this is an unhealthy way to deal with negative emotions, and it can ultimately take a toll on our psyche, well-being, and even our sense of self-respect and self-worth.
In this powerful and inspiring conversation, Dr. Bhushan provides valuable strategies for dealing with negative emotions and overcoming challenges. She explains that it's important to feel the emotions, identify the limiting beliefs and then reframe the stories in our heads to learn from our mistakes, setbacks, and failures. By facing our negative emotions head-on, we can turn them into opportunities for growth and cultivate the mindset of a resilient person.
Dr. Bhushan also shares her personal journey and the insights she gained from her own experiences, including the lessons she learned from writing her latest book, "That Sucked, Now What?".
Tune in to IMPACT and discover the secrets to turning challenges into opportunities for growth and resilience.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[6:05] “Suck” moments in Neeta’s life
[8:13] Imposter syndrome felt by Neeta
[18:34] Toxic positivity
[20:24] How to process the heaviness
[30:30] Having intentional audacity
HOW TO CONNECT WITH OUR GUESTS
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MEMORABLE QUOTES
“It's so much easier in our culture to shove it under a rug, put it in the back seat, fake it till we make it. But what about just feeling it to heal it.”
Dr. Neeta Bhushan
“The capacity to take that pain and not suppress it or move it deep into the holding tanks of your emotional toes, but to actually face them head on.”
Dr. Neeta Bhushan
“Many times we tend to overwork ourselves and distract ourselves because we're running away from things that are so deeply wounded in our own personal life. And that was my bandaid.”
Dr. Neeta Bhushan
“I wasn't even 30 yet and had all of these trappings of success, but internally, I was spiritually dead.”
Dr. Neeta Bhushan
“We're so afraid of diving into the depths of that pain to really uncover and sit with the beauty and the magic of what comes up as a result of it that can truly change our life.”
Dr. Neeta Bhushan
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Unleash your inner power and with host Meghan Walker as she dives into the world of female leadership, financial health, and wealth on this week's episode of IMPACT! Meghan sits down with three accomplished women: Mary Shores, Adele Tevlin, and April Stroink who share their insights on how to embrace your feminine energy, overcome confidence gaps, and cultivate self-love to achieve financial and personal success.
As women leaders, it's essential for us to embrace our feminine energy, not just our masculine energy. This means leading from a place of empowerment using collaboration, empathy, and compassion. This can be difficult to do when we're surrounded by men in similar roles, but cultivating self-love and a sense of abundance is crucial when it comes to our ability to achieve our goals.
The discussion also touches on the importance of keeping emotion out of money decisions and realizing that health and wealth go hand in hand. Financial health is one of the pillars of our overall health, and when we're successful financially and have a healthy relationship with money, we're able to serve people in our communities and have a greater impact.
This week's episode of IMPACT is a must-listen for any woman looking to improve her leadership skills, achieve financial success, and build a healthy mindset. Don't miss out on this valuable conversation and tune in now to benefit from the wisdom and experiences of these powerhouse leaders.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[3:06] Background on Adele Tevlin
[8:08] Background on Mary Shores
[14:50] Background on April Stroink
[19:58] Why the gender gap is really a confidence gap
[23:33] Why it’s important to have policies and procedures
[41:48] Tips on asking for money
[52:57] Handling household finances
[59:14] Two ways to pay yourself
HOW TO CONNECT WITH OUR GUESTS
https://www.instagram.com/adele.wellness/
https://www.facebook.com/adeletevlinceoblueprint
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shoresmary/
https://www.instagram.com/mary_shores/?hl=en
https://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Communications-Mary-Shores-ebook/dp/B071K9ZM9Y
https://www.facebook.com/AprilStroink
MEMORABLE QUOTES
“For women in leadership, I sometimes feel like I'm walking the plank and I'm alone. It’s my own limiting beliefs.”
Dr. Meghan Walker
“I believe in the power of empathy and compassion in order to create an ultimate rapport and connection with your patients.”
Mary Shores
“We have to drop this emotional charge we have over the people that owe us money. We need to be able to let that go.”
Mary Shores
“You build up your container, you fill yourself up, you fill up your capacity to lead and to love, and then you're overflowing with it because love is infinite.”
Adele Tevlin
“We all have a masculine and feminine energy, or part of us, it's kind of like the ying and the yang.”
Adele Tevlin
“The biggest mistake that I see business owners make is chasing the top line and really getting away from the core of their business.”
April Stroink
“Part of being a female leader is about balance. When you self care, mentally, emotionally, and physically you actually expand your capacity for all the pieces. That is why it is a limiting belief, ladies, that you don’t have time for yourself. The secret to being able to do more is actually to do more for yourself.”
Dr. Meghan Walker
“There's a part of your brain that when you visualize, it's actually using the same neural networks as if you are actually practicing it. So visualization is key.
Adele Tevlin
“Understanding financial health and how to get there and how to wrap your mindset around it is absolutely going to distinguish you when it comes to how you're working with your patients.”
Dr. Meghan Walker
“I so often see that the business is running the owner versus the other way around.”
April Stroink
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This week’s episode of IMPACT is one for the books! It combines interviews with two of Meghan Walker’s previous guests whose insight and knowledge surrounding mindset and self-authorization is astounding.
Dr. Shyamala Kiru, a registered psychotherapist and family and couple therapist works in particular with high-performing, high achieving women and mothers who are juggling multiple roles and identities. She discusses with Meghan that to navigate our relationships and improve our quality of life we must master our ability to communicate assertively. When each person in a relationship is responsive and not reactive, where they can make choices from an informed and self-regulated place, the relationship will thrive. When we access our emotional intelligence we have the capacity for incredible impact.
David Bayer, a motivational coach, digital entrepreneur and author of MindHack.com is one of the emerging thought leaders in the evolution of mindset. He believes that using your mind to rewire and reorganize the brain is the linchpin of human evolution. There are two states of being – powerful and primal. Powerful states include happiness, joy, calm and curiosity. Stress, anxiety, overwhelm and fear being primal states. If we give ourselves permission to feel good enough, then we exist in the powerful state. The fears diminish and happiness and abundance rule, giving us the opportunity to have a greater impact in the world. Live in your joy, calm and peace to have that powerful living experience.
We need to identify the things we can control and the things we can’t, and take radical responsibility for our own happiness and mindset. The journey is about knowing yourself at a deeper level and removing the resistance that’s there in the form of thinking so that you can decide to do something new moving forward.
Appropriately enough, what each conversation boils down to is that self-authorization and a healthy mindset leave room for impact. If you’re ready to see the lies in the untruth that you've been telling yourself then this is an episode you cannot afford to miss.
Tune in now and get ready to take responsibility for your mindset and happiness!
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[2:11] Background of Shyamala
[4:45] Background of David
[11:24] Shyamala’s struggles being a new mom
[13:19] David’s two states of being: powerful and primal
[15:52] Why we need to take radical responsibility for our own mindset
[26:30] One of the biggest sources of stress conflict in couples
[30:04] The psycho cybernetic loop
[35:05] How to change the experiences of your life
[41:48] Positioning your business in the marketplace
HOW TO CONNECT WITH OUR GUESTS
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https://www.instagram.com/davidbayer33/?hl=en
https://www.facebook.com/coachdavidbayer/
https://www.instagram.com/iam.drshyam/
https://mobile.twitter.com/shyamalakiru
https://www.facebook.com/dr.shyamalak
https://twitter.com/shyamalakiru?lang=en
MEMORABLE QUOTES
“I have seen time and time again the correlation between our ability to really master our mindset, our ability to communicate assertively or communicate with confidence and how that really feeds into our ability to navigate our relationships well.”
Dr. Shyamala Kiru
“We are focused on helping as many people in their personal suffering as possible so that we can collectively create the future of the world that we all share.”
David Bayer
“This next evolution of personal growth, which is defined as utilizing the mind to rewire and reorganize the brain, is the linchpin of the evolution of the entire human species.”
David Bayer
“When we're in rest and reconnection and recharging, that's when we're connected to inspiration and creativity and flow states and an intelligence that is greater than ourselves.”
David Bayer
“The only two things we can control are what we think and what we do.”
Dr. Shyamala Kiru
“When we look at the couple's system, it is actually strongest when each individual is executing at their fullest potential. So when each individual partner is executing in a way where they have a hold of their mindset, where they're really able to be responsive and not reactive, where they're really able to make choices from an informed and self-regulated place, that is when relationships are at their strongest.”
Dr. Shyamala Kiru
“In my opinion, we can't talk about relationship strategies, whether it's parenting or whether it's around intimacy, unless we talk about the mindset piece.”
Dr. Shyamala Kiru
“We need to take radical responsibility for our mindset and own happiness because if we don’t do that we can’t be there for our kids, we can’t navigate our relationships and we certainly can’t show up as our professional selves.”
Dr. Shyamala Kiru
“Your thoughts are an extension of your core beliefs. And then you experience those thoughts as feelings. So your beliefs produce your thoughts, your thoughts you experience as feelings. Those feelings motivate or demotivate action or activity. And the action and activity produce results. And then those results reinforce the core belief. And so this is referred to as a psycho cybernetic loop.”
David Bayer
“That whole journey is about coming to know thyself at a deeper level and removing any of the resistance that's there in the form of thinking and seeing the lies in the untruth that you've been telling yourself while knowing that you can decide something new moving forward.”
David Bayer
On this week's episode of IMPACT, host Meghan Walker explores the intersection of sexuality and inner wisdom with guests Katrina Bos and Susan Bratton. Together they discuss how embracing your passion and authenticity can lead to greater success in all areas of your life.
Sexuality is an integral part of our lives. It fuels our bodies, businesses, and creativity. Susan Bratton, an expert on how to reclaim our relationship with out own sexuality, emphasizes the importance of slowing down and planning dates for lovemaking and erotic play in order to achieve sexual fulfillment, especially as we age and may experience challenges like vaginal lubrication issues, loss of sensation, and incontinence. Bratton believes that by embracing and prioritizing our sexuality, we can tap into a deeper level of passion, creativity and focus.
Renowned author, Katrina Bos, reminds us that the only thing of value we have is time, and not to waste it. She advises trusting in a greater consciousness and not letting our brains make all the decisions, and encourages finding a spiritual foundation and redefining one's life according to one's own truth. Bos believes that by embracing our inner wisdom and authenticity, we can create a more harmonious and radiant life, not just for ourselves, but for those around us.
With insights from both Bratton and Bos, this week's episode of IMPACT is sure to inspire and empower women to reclaim their sexuality and tap into their inner wisdom in order to live a more fulfilling and authentic life.
Tune in now and get ready to elevate your mind, body, and spirit.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[2:19] Why Susan calls herself an orgasmanaut
[6:06] The patriarchal way of having sex
[7:59] Background of Katrina
[19:19] How Einstein’s brain worked
[28:08} Difference between male and female in sex
[29:16] Clitoral erections
[34:11] The spirituality of Africa and India versus the U.S.
[48:56] The role of toys in sex
[49:40] Women’s and men’s best vibrators and sex toys
HOW TO CONNECT WITH OUR GUESTS
https://personallifemedia.com/
MEMORABLE QUOTES
“We need sexual pleasure to reboot our nervous systems from the stressors of daily life.”
Susan Bratton
“Our sexuality is our life force. It's our vitality. It's what keeps us wanting and lusting for life, going forward with desire to create.”
Susan Bratton
“There's 20 kinds of orgasms a male and a female can have.”
Susan Bratton
“When you get squished, there's something new to learn about yourself and you actually do expand in that struggle.”
Katrina Bos
“It's all about the merging of the masculine and feminine, the merging of the right and left brain. That's where magic happens.”
Katrina Bos
“I actually had to learn that my brain wasn't my greatest asset and it definitely couldn't make important life decisions.”
Katrina Bos
“The great mathematicians historically were philosophers because they were looking out at the world and looking for patterns, and they were literally trying to map God with numbers.”
Katrina Bos
“What women need is much more slow, delicate touch and penetration, and we don't need to be rammed like a piston, which is what you see on pornography.”
Susan Bratton
“And the problem is, in our society, if you get stuck in the rat race of just, it's all about the money, it's all about the work, it's all about the house, it's all about the this - by the time you are 60, you've actually lived the same year 60 times.”
Katrina Bos
Are you tired of feeling held back by negative emotions and limiting beliefs? It's time to take control of your mindset and emotions and live a life you love!This week on IMPACT, we've got just the guests to help you do that! Meghan Walker sits down with the dynamic duo of Dr. Joan Rosenberg and Susan Hobson.
Dr. Rosenberg is a world-renowned psychologist, consultant, and media expert who knows a thing or two about achieving a life you love. Her book, 90 Seconds to a Life You Love, is a must-read for anyone looking to improve their mental wellbeing. And Susan Hobson? She's a neuro-linguistic programming coach who works with top executives, athletes, and other high achievers to help them break through their mental barriers.
Confidence is crucial when it comes to building a strong foundation of self and getting past imposter syndrome. But true confidence isn't about trying to be perfect or competing with others. It's about knowing your own limits, showing up, and doing the best you can at any age and stage of life. It's about knowing your worth and the value you bring to the table.
So how do you build confidence? By cultivating self-awareness, not avoidance. When you're faced with negative emotions, it's important to name them and allow them to pass. Most feelings only last 90 seconds, so don't let them hold you back. And when you lean into your feelings, you can gain valuable insights and use them to make better decisions or take action.
But it's not just about managing your emotions. You also need to examine the root of your limiting beliefs and identify where critical self-talk is coming from. By confronting these beliefs and challenging them, you can navigate around them and open yourself up to new possibilities.
A change in thinking can have a big impact, and self-awareness and clarity on your values are key to being true to yourself and performing at your best. So don't miss this episode of Impact with Dr. Joan Rosenberg and Susan Hobson – start mastering your mindset and emotions today!
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[2:14] What is it that makes someone confident and why is it so difficult to face unpleasant feelings
[5:40] Imposter syndrome
[8:21] What to do when you feel imposter syndrome
[10:24] Calibrating language
[12:53] The formula: one choice, eight feelings, 90 seconds
[14:11] The eight feelings
[21:27] Three reasons why feelings linger
[26:16] Effects of harsh self-criticism
[31:59] Difference between happiness and inner peace
[36:29] Asking for help
[39:26] Moving through vulnerability
HOW TO CONNECT WITH OUR GUESTS
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheMentalGym/
https://www.Drjoanrosenberg.com
https://www.facebook.com/drjrosenberg/
https://www.instagram.com/drjoanrosenberg/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanirosenbergphd/
https://twitter.com/DrJoanRosenberg
MEMORABLE QUOTES
“Confidence is the deep sense that you can handle the emotional outcome of whatever you face or whatever you pursue.”
Dr. Joan Rosenberg
“People come through my door for the first time with imposter syndrome because they're realizing that the success that they've achieved has been created on a false foundation of self.”
Susan Hobson
“No amount of victories or wins are enough when you're coming from a false foundation of self, meaning that you have a belief system or a mindset that you're faking it.”
Susan Hobson
“Whether you're opening up your door for the first time or you've been doing it for a long time, really examine and unpack the mindset of what is enough.”
Susan Hobson
“We're co-creators with life. Many of us don't realize that and are at the level of awareness where we still think life is doing something to us.”
Dr. Joan Rosenberg
“The one choice is choosing into awareness, not avoidance.”
Dr. Joan Rosenberg
“When thoughts, feelings, words and actions all match, then one feels congruent. That's the foundation of confidence and it is also the foundation of inner peace.”
Dr. Joan Rosenberg
“When I can be with my vulnerability, that is actually when I'm at my greatest strength.”
Dr. Joan Rosenberg
“If anybody really peels back the layer on perfection, they’d see that it's a race that they'll never win. What I like to teach my clients is that if you're a perfectionist, that's a goal you’ll never reach.”
Susan Hobson
“There's not any one of us that enters this world or leaves this world a different way. We all enter it and we all leave it the same way. We're from the same fabric. And when we can adopt that and live from that place, then our whole whole human experience can change. So healing the rupture that we're different and being able to come together is such a crucial part of healing.”
Dr. Joan Rosenberg
On this week's episode of IMPACT, host Meghan Walker is joined by two experts in women's health - Dr. Stephanie Estima, a chiropractor and expert in functional neurology, and Dr. Anna Cabeca, a world-renowned, triple-board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist who helps women transition through the various hormonal phases of their lives. Meghan’s guests share their insights on navigating the hormonal changes that occur during perimenopause and menopause.
Dr. Estima discusses the role of the ketogenic diet in supporting brain function and reducing inflammation during these stages of life. She notes that the effectiveness of the keto diet can vary for women compared to men, and that it's important to individualize the approach.
Dr. Cabeca emphasizes the importance of women taking control of their own health and being proactive in understanding their bodies and how to support their well-being. She advises women to be mindful of their diet, particularly avoiding excess carbohydrates which have been linked to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, stroke, and cancer. Instead, she recommends focusing on whole foods, incorporating plenty of greens, and limiting processed and sugary foods. Dr. Cabeca also advocates for detoxification and intermittent fasting, as well as getting enough sleep and incorporating flexibility into daily routines.
In addition to diet and self-care, the importance of checking urine pH as an indicator of overall health and well-being is emphasized, as well as eating small, early dinners before 7 pm to support longevity. Starting each day with gratitude, prayer, or meditation will set a positive foundation for a day of clarity and focus.
Overall, Dr. Cabeca and Dr. Estima emphasize the importance of taking a holistic approach to supporting the body's natural desire for homeostasis, balance, and health during perimenopause and menopause. By taking control of our own health and being proactive in understanding and supporting our bodies, we can better navigate these stages of life and maintain optimal well-being.
This episode is beyond beneficial so make sure to tune it and absorb all that these experts have to share.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[1:49] Dr. Anna Cabeca’s own story of trauma and why she pursued her degree
[11:29] Dr. Stephanie Estima’s personal story, recap of last 2 years
[14:06] How Stephanie decided to start her podcast
[16:29] The key elements women need to have in place for hormone balancing
[20:16] The Betty Body explained
[29:03] What intuitive eating is
[30:44] Magic Menopause program
[38:47] Why checking urine pH is important to see alkaline levels
[43:07] The secret to living a long life
[50:49] Stephanie’s favorite health hack
HOW TO CONNECT WITH OUR GUESTS
https://www.instagram.com/thegirlfrienddoctor/
https://www.facebook.com/Drannac/
https://twitter.com/annacabeca
https://www.youtube.com/user/cabecahealth
https://www.pinterest.com/drcabeca/
https://twitter.com/dr_stephanie?lang=en
https://www.youtube.com/c/DrStephanieEstima
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/541557923949701972/
https://www.instagram.com/dr.stephanie.estima/?hl=en
MEMORABLE QUOTES
“Where there weren't solutions for me, I created solutions for others.”
Dr. Anna Cabeca
“If you've been heavy and lost the weight and then all of a sudden you start gaining the weight again, you're like, when will it ever stop? So I had that fear and that took me into embracing the ketogenic lifestyle.”
Dr. Anna Cabeca
“As we enter menopause, we become less able to use glucose for fuel in the brain because it's an estrogen dependent process. So switching to ketones at least periodically really powers up our brain.”
Dr. Anna Cabeca
“We can powerfully use behaviors to control our physiology and empower physiology to improve our behaviors, so they're combined.”
Dr. Anna Cabeca
“I feel as though there has been no further sophistication in thinking other than if you’re premenopausal we’ll just stick you on the pill and if you’re postmenopausal we’ll put you on hormone replacement therapy and this whole endocrine thing, it's really not that complicated.”
Dr. Meghan Walker
“I say, don't give me the control over your health. Take control of your own health because you have to discern what's working for you and what's not.”
Dr. Anna Cabeca
“The resources out there for women are not plentiful. And the conversations by men are not inclusive.”
Dr. Meghan Walker
“If you can pick it, peel it, fish or hunt it, milk it or grow it, then for the most part you can eat it, you know, staying with real food.”
Dr. Anna Cabeca
“Getting rid of the shame and guilt that we have as women that we carry because we can't act exactly like men or do the things that men can do I think is really important.”
Dr. Stephanie Estima
“Oxytocin's a powerful alkalinizer, so that hormone of love, bonding and connection is important.”
Dr. Anna Cabeca
On this week’s episode of IMPACT, host Meghan Walker is joined by two guests -- John Jackson who works for Hustle 2.0, an organization that helps people who are incarcerated in the U.S. through holistic rehabilitation, and Sammy Taggett, entrepreneurial wizard and founder of Evolved Podcasting.
Sammy Taggett began his entrepreneurial journey in humble beginnings, starting out as a door-to-door salesperson and even working as a mint-and-napkin guy in a nightclub bathroom. It was in this unlikely setting that he seized the opportunity to become a DJ and learn about inspiring and educating people as an entrepreneur. According to Sammy, one key to success is finding your "zone" and building a supportive team around you. He also stresses the importance of having big dreams, having fun, and seeking out supportive individuals.
John Jackson, on the other hand, had a difficult upbringing. His mother was murdered at a young age, and he ended up living with his aunt, a drug dealer. In order to save her from incarceration, John took the rap for her and spent many years in prison as a gang member. After being released, he now helps younger people who have been in prison by teaching them leadership, resilience, and determination, leading them down a path of positivity and purpose.
Despite their different backgrounds, both Sammy and John are inspiring examples of how to turn difficult circumstances into a new and better life through self-belief and a focus on the possibilities around them.
Don't miss this empowering episode filled with insights and lessons on how to turn challenges into opportunities. Enjoy listening!
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[1:21] Sammy Taggett’s story
[4:19] The game-changing piece of entrepreneurship for Sammy
[6:37] John Jackson and Hustle 2.0
[8:57] How John Jackson ended up in prison
[12:54] What a reticular activating system is
[13:40] How Sammy Taggett became a DJ
[16:03] When imposter syndrome set in for Sammy
[18:48] Life in prison for John Jackson
[24:53] Three things that Sammy learned as a DJ to bring impact to the world
HOW TO CONNECT WITH OUR GUEST
MEMORABLE QUOTES
“I learned rejection so quickly, but no one really understands how good it is to get 30 no’s right away, and just have the perseverance to keep going.”
- Sammy Taggett
“When it comes to the journey of entrepreneurship, it's a day-to-day kind of discovery of what you can do and what you're resilient for, and then ultimately what your zone and genius is.”
- Sammy Taggett
“I spent 18 years in prison, but I choose to look at that and say, I can use that pain and I can show it to other people and show them that they can come out the other side and still do amazing things, and they can have an impact with their story or with their pain. That it didn't happen for nothing.”
- John Jackson
“She (my aunt) watched as I was handcuffed and placed in the back of a cop car at 17 as a kid, and the person who was supposed to protect me, who promised to protect me, watched as I went to jail at 17 years old, and she praised me for it.”
- John Jackson
“When imposter syndrome hit me the most was when I felt like I had the most to lose.”
- Sammy Taggett
“The best way that I could describe prison is you just have to kill your feelings and stuff them down and act as if they do not exist. I don't have to tell you that it doesn't work.”
- John Jackson
“The biggest lesson that I learned from all those folks is they never did it alone. And to have a compelling vision that's so big that it pulls you.”
- Sammy Taggett
“The dreamers really do compel and pull the future forward, and that's what I love to be around, and I don't know how I got lucky to do that.”
- Sammy Taggett
“No one will really actually remember what you say. They'll rarely remember what you did, but they'll always remember how you made them feel.”
- Sammy Taggett
“They just needed somebody to say, hey, I see value in you, I see worth in you, and you can do better, you can do more if you want to. And I'm gonna give you the opportunity to do it."
- John Jackson
On this week’s episode of IMPACT, host Meghan Walker wraps up The Future Of Health series by laying out the upcoming 2023 leading trends in healthcare and wellness from the Global Wellness Institute.
One trend will be increasing connections between our own health and the health and diversity of our environment. The second trend is around technological wellness and the effect of blue light from our devices. More conversations about how technology needs to be managed will be necessary as we move closer to optimal states of wellness.
We will also see more innovations in independent living and home care for seniors to maintain and prolong their quality of life. Wellness travel will also become more popular, incorporating activities like meditation for deep emotional and physical healing along with adventure travel.
A revolution in women’s health will be another big trend, especially with the use of artificial intelligence to make decisions about the specific needs and nature of women. And urban bathhouses and wellness playgrounds will become more popular as community centers, instead of local bars, for example.
Another trend will be health coaching, where we can use a health coach to hold us accountable for our health and wellness. And count on the metaverse – the digital world – to transform our healthcare practices through sharing of information and strategies that can be brought back to the real world.
IMPACT medicine and the delivery of care and health optimization will be a major trend in developing eco-systems of possibility for clinicians to help people take their health to the next level.
This Future Of Health series wrap up episode contains advantageous information about the trends that will start to shift health care globally over the next 12–18 months. We can all benefit from the detail included in this episode about these trends so take a listen and be prepared for the Future of Health!
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[2:44] The definition of IMPACT Medicine
[4:21] The opportunity for entrepreneurs in the healthcare industry
[6:45] Trend 1: The environment
[7:54] Trend 2: Technological wellness
[9:42] Trend 3: Senior living spaces and independence
[11:26] Trend 4: Wellness travel
[13:41] Trend 5: Focus on women’s health research using AI
[15:57] Trend 6: Urban bathhouses and wellness playgrounds
[17:32] Trend 7: Health coaching
[19:27] Trend 8: Role of the metaverse in optimal health
[22:08] Bonus trend: IMPACT Medicine
[24:04] What Impactful CEO program is all about
HOW TO CONNECT WITH OUR GUEST
https://www.instagram.com/drmeghanwalker/
https://linktr.ee/drmeghanwalker
https://www.clinicianbusinesslabs.com/
The Impactful CEO
https://go.clinicianbusinesslabs.com/the-impactful-ceo-1
IMPACT Medicine Book
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MEMORABLE QUOTES
“As we look to the massive global industry, there are some keywords that continue to come up with consumers of healthcare on the wellness side of their journey. One of the core words is the word ‘better’.”
“We help more people not by lowering the cost of expensive one-on-one care, but by innovating our offering.”
“In the next era of healthcare, better health will be accessed not through the confined doors of practitioners, but through an opportunity for people to hold health in their own hands.”
“Impact medicine is the delivery of care and health optimization that happens on the opposite side of the line of fine.”
“There's going to be more and more conversations around how our technology use needs to be managed to move closer to optimal states of wellness and health.”
“I think the Metaverse is going to afford an opportunity for people to explore ideas of health and mental health in a way they might not be able to access emotionally or financially in our regular physical world.”
On this week’s episode of IMPACT, we’re joined by Dr. Sherry Walling, a clinical psychologist, entrepreneur and an expert on handling grief. She is also the author of Touching Two Worlds about the duality of joy and grief.
All of us experience pain and grief at some point in our lives because it’s a very normal and important part of human relationships and human emotion. But some of us get stuck in grief and hold trauma in our bodies, especially entrepreneurs and high performers who seldom slow down.
Grief is not linear – it may go away for a while and then months later, resurface in a different way. Grief can show itself through anger, anguish, sadness, and stillness. But it can also be fuel, passion and the determination to change something or advocate for a cause. This is all part of the grief process.
It’s important to tell stories of loved ones who have passed on to share the reality of grief. The deeper work of grief is internal storytelling so that the role of that person in your life doesn’t get glossed over.
The holidays are a great time to acknowledge the joy a loved one brought while honoring their memory with family, children, and friends.
This episode is special. It is for everyone. There are things that we are ALL going to experience in our lifetime… and grief is one of them.
Grief is complicated but giving space for all that comes with grief is important. What does this involve? Listen to this week’s episode to learn more.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[1:32] How Dr. Walling became a grief expert through family loss
[6:22] Similarities to losing a loved one and going through the pandemic
[6:41] The Great Resignation
[10:42] The negative and positive manifestations of grief
[15:10] Integrating grief into our lives
[18:26] The importance of talking to kids about grief
[23:29] Deeper work of storytelling in grief
[27:47] The importance of talking with your family about end-of-life wishes
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Books on Amazon: Touching Two Worlds and The Entrepreneurs Guide to Keeping Your Shit Together
MEMORABLE QUOTES
“Grief is a very normal part of human relationship and human emotion, and one that has all of these sort of riches and depths instead of like an ailment that needs to be treated.”
“Integrating the body and movement into a course of working through grief is now absolutely central to how I think about what humans need when they're grieving.”
“The unique thing about helping entrepreneurs or high performers grieve is that we're really good at not grieving. Our lives are really full, so it's very, very difficult for us to give the time and space to grief that it may warrant.”
“The deeper work of grief is the remembering. It is the storytelling internally so that the role of that person in your life doesn't get sort of glossed over.”
“I also think this idea of grief as sadness is not super helpful because grief is many, many things. It can be anger, it can be anguish, it can be sadness, it can be stillness, but it can also be fuel, it can also be passion. It can be the determination to change something, fix something, advocate for something that's all part of a grief process. And so I think grief can be fiery as much as it can be blue. And so giving space to all the parts of grief I think is really helpful.”
The Future Of Health series continues on IMPACT with guest Harry Massey, a forward-thinking bioenergetic researcher who owns several companies that build bioenergetic tools to quantify what’s happening in the energetic field.
Massey talks with Dr. Meghan Walker about some of the ways energy can be leveraged for healing and prevention to create a higher quality of living in the future. His efforts were born out of severe disability in his twenties after climbing accidents, which built up toxins and autoimmune viruses in his body.
After that, he and a colleague mapped out the energy and information of the human body field as an energetic control system, to see how energy works within different tissues and cells. Ideas from physics were also combined with alternative holistic medicine.
The body acts on two systems – the chemical system and the communication system, which is instantaneous. 70 trillion cells in the body are operating in their own function every single second. How can this help your health? Information can be directly inputted into your operating system so get different tissues and cells to respond in certain ways to improve their condition.
Environment also plays a huge role and Massey believes that 90% of your health outcome is your environment, not genetics. Massey’s company, NES Health, has created a Biogen Wellness System where you can basically scan the energy of your organs through your different meridians and mind-body connection and then recommend pharmaceuticals that will trigger a healing response for injuries and pain.
Emotions play a significant role as well – with gratitude, intention, surrender and trust being paramount in your daily practice. The more you’re in those heart-centered states, the more the universe will respond to your intentions.
Harry Massey is such a proponent of the future of health and this fascinating conversation provides valuable information about bioenergetics. It offers lots to consider. Take a listen!
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[7:35] Harry Massey’s personal story
[16:23] Two types of control systems in the body
[18:52] Energy of the plant kingdom
[19:30] The five-element theory
[23:57] Covid studies to help healing
[32:59] Biogen Wellness System
[39:37] Energy preservation and emotional triggers
[41:02] The importance of gratitude, intention, surrender, trust and other positive emotions
[44:18] The convergence of pharmaceutical and bioenergy fields in the future
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MEMORABLE QUOTES
“The cutting edge is really looking at how information that's carried within, what we're calling this energetic control system or field-based control system -- the effects that information can have on the body.”
- Harry Massey
“What you're actually doing in your habits and how you're living is actually more important than your genetics.”
- Harry Massey
“Einstein said the sole governing force of the particle is the field. What he meant by that is this fundamental information actually governs energy, which in turn is actually creating the physical reality.”
- Harry Massey
“I see healthcare and health as being one coin and there's two sides. The chemistry side is totally legitimate, but the bio side should be its equal partner.”
- Harry Massey
“If your use of energy is more efficient, then you end up with a higher level of energy available. You know, what we would call “body battery.” Then you have more energy left over for healing and living longer.”
- Harry Massey
“The universe will bring in your intentions, but it doesn't necessarily do it in a way that you might see as logical. It might come with a little bit of conflict, but that's really where the surrender and trust comes in.”
- Harry Massey
The Future of Health series continues on IMPACT as Meghan is joined by Kristi Holt, the CEO and co-founder of Vibeonix, a company that quantifies voices to give us insight into emotional intelligence, using AI and data points.
Analyzing your voice frequencies helps to make you aware of where you are emotionally so you can change it in the future. Vibeonix has created a unique algorithm to help users not just understand emotional intelligence but actually improve it and apply it to daily life.
It works by measuring resonance, tone and intonation in the voice, as well as the frequency of what is carrying the information. With this knowledge, we can start predicting emotional patterns, therefore predicting different diseases in the body to prevent it from ever happening.
This technology is all about being more aware and smarter about ourselves as human beings to bring us back to ourselves. From that space, we can create anything -- we can heal and empower ourselves to embody who we want to be. We can IMPACT.
Check out this episode to learn more about this groundbreaking technology and business.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[5:28] Who Kristi is and her entrepreneurial history
[11:44] Kristi’s decision to have children
[15:11] How quantifying emotional intelligence through voice works
[20:21] How Vibeonix came up with their patented algorithm
[24:06] How the voice is measured for emotional intelligence
[28:56] How technology and AI can help us with interconnection in health in the coming decades
[34:18] Vibeonix 2.0 as a business-to-business program
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MEMORABLE QUOTES
“When I heard that your voice is literally carrying the resonance of your energy systems inside of you, it was a mind blow for me, and something so profound told me that this was real.”
- Kristi Holt
“Our goal as a company, and this is what aligns with my values most, is to reflect it back to the users. So users can understand their emotional intelligence, see it, quantify it, and improve it.”
- Kristi Holt
“We can measure emotional intelligence through resonance in the body and then how the body is projecting that resonance.”
- Kristi Holt
“Tone and intonation is part of it, but it's so much more than that. We're measuring the frequency, and frequency is what carries information. We are also able to measure how much control you have and how much you're actually expressing emotion.”
- Kristi Holt
“We can start looking at the body and find correlation to the voice, to the emotion, then we'll be able to start predicting emotional patterns, therefore predicting different diseases in the body.”
- Kristi Holt
“I think technology's going to help us remember the power within.”
- Kristi Holt
“Why I love emotional intelligence is it brings you back to you. And then from that space you can create anything. You can heal, you can empower, you embody.”
- Kristi Holt
“When we ignore, suppress and avoid emotion, we are ignoring, suppressing and avoiding our ability to live. And we're here to live. We're here to experience and all of these emotions are for us to experience. They are not who we are.” - Kristi Holt
“People are challenging the system that we've been told is the truth.”
- Kristi Holt
On this week’s episode of IMPACT, Dr. Meghan Walker is joined by Dr. Sachin Patel, an innovative leader in functional medicine, founder of the Living Proof Institute and author of the best-selling book, Perfect Practice. He believes that every patient can become their own doctor to help heal themselves.
So many of the poor health conditions and diseases that people face today are preventable, but most people just don’t know the basics of preventive care and good health. With the right tools and capacity for empowerment, patients can have a role in reversing the symptoms of disease themselves.
Dr. Patel believes the things that are sabotaging people’s health are not detectable through lab tests. They are things like relationships, the lighting in their home, their lack of connection with nature, not knowing how to breathe intentionally and not getting enough restful sleep. It’s important to recognize the factors that are making you unhealthy so that you can turn them around and find solutions.
It all comes down to wearable technology where patients can see how they’re getting better and increase their own self-awareness and positive reinforcement. And doctors can coach their patients better by looking at the data from the technology. Patients love it because now they’re being held accountable, and doctors love it because they have more data points to work with and show the power of what they do.
Wearable technology can help in reducing weight and pain, hypertension, diabetes and so much more. It’s also important to learn how to breathe intentionally, realign your circadian rhythms and get restful deep sleep. Taking care of the body in these ways leads to transformational change, not just in your physical journey but also in your mental and emotional journey.
Enjoy listening to this episode which leaves you with so much to consider.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[4:20] How HRV works
[4:49] The importance of deep sleep
[8:37] 30 Ways in 30 Days Program
[10:40] 3 key pillars to focus on
[12:40] How we can love more by taking away pain and scarcity
[22:59] How to “do you” and stand in your highest vibration
HOW TO CONNECT WITH OUR GUEST
https://perfectpracticementorship.com/application-2022
https://www.instagram.com/thesachinpatel/
MEMORABLE QUOTES
“The big thing for me is focusing on how to help people become their own practitioner and live a life that unleashes that. And what we realize is that can actually be systemized because as unique and as different as we are, there's some basic foundational things that we all need as human beings.”
- Sachin Patel
“We don't need more doctors, practitioners, nurses, or even functional medicine practitioners. We need more healthy people. We don't have to wait until they get sick to unlock their potential.”
- Sachin Patel
“A really important thing for people to understand, even as practitioners for us to understand, is that the things that are sabotaging people's health, there are no supplements or lab tests for.”
- Sachin Patel
“Now you can wear an aura ring or other devices and you can get amazing information about yourself with such a short feedback loop so you can make decisions in real time.”
- Sachin Patel
“Many people don't know how to use their breath to override their stress response and get into a parasympathetic state, where we heal, repair, regenerate every cell tissue organ in our body.”
- Sachin Patel
“You become the purveyor of intergenerational health when you can teach just one person how to make that transition.”
- Dr. Meghan Walker
“I'm not doctoring you back to health, I'm just teaching you the basics of how your body works, and then you can make informed and educated decisions about if you want to do that or not. You can become a healing machine.”
- Sachin Patel
“There's no system of healthcare that can save you from yourself.”
- Sachin Patel
“My job is not trying to save you money. I'm trying to help you live an amazing life so that you can spend your money on the things you want to spend it on.”
- Sachin Patel
“As practitioners, we need to first and foremost discover who we are so that we can show up in our most powerful way and that's gonna attract the right people and it's gonna repel the wrong people.”
- Sachin Patel
Welcome to another episode from “The Future of Health” series. This series will explore and discuss new ideas on the horizon in the healthcare industry. Energetic medicine is the focus of this week’s episode as Meghan is joined by Dr. Jesse Pierce, a licensed naturopathic doctor who uses frequencies to treat complex chronic illness. Meghan and Jessie discuss how we are bombarded by frequencies daily and how this influences the electromagnetics of our cells in negative and positive ways.
A frequency is something you can’t see; it’s basically the rate at which sound or current is produced and registered in the body. We have frequencies running through our bodies constantly. By improving the body’s energetic frequency, we can help our bodies heal from a multitude of problems and calm inflammation.
Frequencies are delivered by sound, in water or through current that runs through the body to help it heal. Acupressure is one way to tap into those frequencies. By inserting small needles, the energy in certain meridians can be moved and blockages cleared.
Dr. Pierce also uses a tiny box with wires attached that sends out specific microcurrents. This can help shift the brain from trauma or shift the body from inflammation stemming from mold, Lyme disease, autoimmune conditions and more. Such microcurrents can also reset our genetics to improve how well our body can function over time.
Frequency medicine is additionally used to treat acute injuries and physical pain. It can aid in anxiety and depression, fatigue, fibromyalgia and even weight loss. The more we feel healthy, aligned and balanced on an energetic level, the better off we all are.
Energetic medicine is the new frontier in healing. Listen to this week’s episode to learn why!
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[3:29] Why quantum energy is difficult to accept for some people
[9:21] Different ways to deliver frequencies
[14:01] Different conditions that can be treated through frequencies
[15:50] An example of using frequency to help someone with psychological trauma
[23:19] Things that can lower your frequency or vibration
[24:22] Why blue light is hard on our bodies
[32:00] Example of a woman who lost weight by listening to a song
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MEMORABLE QUOTES
“We can only see 3 - 5% with our vision of everything that exists. So accepting quantum energy and quantum physics as a way to help us heal is really hard to understand for some.”
- Dr. Jesse Pierce
“You may not be aware of it, but we're actually picking up on frequency at all times, 24/7.”
- Dr. Jesse Pierce
“You can't just use frequency and expect to get a hundred percent better. You always have to look at the underlying cause of why things got dysregulated in the first place.”
- Dr. Jesse Pierce
“The vagus nerve really does help play a role in controlling the terrain of the gut.”
- Dr. Jesse Pierce
“Anxiety, depression, when people are struggling with moods, especially teenagers, I can shift them really quickly using this form of energetic medicine.”
- Dr. Jessie Pierce
“Einstein himself said, ‘the future of medicine will focus on frequencies’ and we are just starting to tackle that.”
- Meghan Walker
Food really is medicine, but sometimes staying away from food is even more healing. That’s the idea behind intermittent fasting. In this episode of Impact, Meghan talks with Cynthia Thurlow, a nurse practitioner and internationally known women’s health expert whose TEDx Talk has received more than 10 million views.
Intermittent fasting is eating within a prescribed time period, and not eating within another prescribed time period. Why does it matter? It has to do with our metabolism. Metabolic flexibility is critically important to our health, and intermittent fasting promotes such flexibility by allowing your body to be more effective at using different types of fuel. Chronically overfeeding the body is what contributes to metabolic disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, infertility issues, polycystic ovarian syndrome, and so much more.
Fasting improves our insulin sensitivity so our bodies can access stored fat as a fuel source instead of stored sugar. And when we're using fat as a fuel source, we don't get hungry in between meals and we’re able to lose weight much more easily. It also allows our body to get rid of diseased and disordered cells, like taking out the garbage.
Many women who do intermittent fasting also are able to come off blood pressure and diabetes medications. They have fewer digestive issues, less bloating and more regular bowel movements. It can also help to lower the risk for certain types of cancers, dementia, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.
Our bodies are designed to be challenged, so it’s important to make changes as you get older. Intermittent fasting can be one of those changes to keep your body healthy and optimal.
Cynthia Thurlow is so conversant with the topic of intermittent fasting and there is much to take in from this episode. So have a listen and learn more!
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[2:42] How she came to intermittent fasting
[10:58] Different types of fasting
[13:03] Insulin sensitivity and how fasting can help
[16:07] Myriad benefits from intermittent fasting
[20:50] The effects of perimenopause and how fasting can help
[32:14] Getting good sleep and the factors that detract from it
[32:21] The effects of alcohol on the body and brain
HOW TO CONNECT WITH OUR GUEST
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MEMORABLE QUOTES
“Intermittent fasting is based on an ancestral health perspective. It's not new or novel. I took the idea, the concept of being able to integrate this work into what I was doing with my patients.”
- Cynthia Thurlow
“Metabolic flexibility is critically important to our health. I would say without a doubt, it is the most important thing to our health.”
- Cynthia Thurlow
“When we're talking about the key proponents, the key benefits of intermittent fasting were really speaking to improving insulin sensitivity so our body can access stored fat as a fuel source and not just stored sugar.”
- Cynthia Thurlow
“If you're struggling with weight loss resistance, it's more often a byproduct of being insulin resistant. We start thinking about the fact that you have energy slumps. It is not normal to eat a meal and feel like you need to go take a nap.”
- Cynthia Thurlow
“Perimenopause and menopause is where fasting can be a really good way to help fine tune not just the exterior of our bodies, but more significantly improve things that can help potentiate longevity.”
- Cynthia Thurlow
“Lifestyle changes are not meant to be easy. They are designed to be challenging because we are going to make a change that's not just today and tomorrow and next week, but long term.”
- Cynthia Thurlow
“Our bodies are designed to be challenged, and I'm not saying you have to go run an Iron Man. I'm just saying you need to get off the couch.”
- Cynthia Thurlow
What does thinking like an entrepreneur mean?
In this week’s episode of IMPACT, Meghan unpacks this very question with her guest Kelsey Abbott, a serial entrepreneur and triathlete who is unapologetically invested in helping people unlock their true potential.
Meghan and Kelsey discuss the mechanisms of thinking that define us as entrepreneurs which brings us to the final episode of this series and the final letter of the IMPACT acronym, the ‘T’, which stands for thinking like an entrepreneur.
Meghan and Kelsey believe one of the best qualities of an entrepreneur is being decisive and grabbing on to an opportunity when it presents itself. However, they stress that the “how” is really less important than having the clarity of what you want to attract as an entrepreneur. Life can unfold almost magically if you set your intention on your entrepreneurial goals.
The foundation of your business is you, so you have to take care of your physical, mental and spiritual self first to be able to help others. Make yourself available to others because entrepreneurs don’t meet their clients sitting at desks; they meet them when they’re out in the world being their best selves.
Get rid of your negative thought habits and the story you’ve been telling yourself. Picture your ideal clients and go after them. Be excited to do it differently and when people say no, don’t take it personally. It’s not about you at all, it’s about the universe guiding each person -- including you.
Want to learn more about the ‘T’ in IMPACT?
Then tune in to this week’s episode!
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[5:20] How Kelsey left her government job and ended up on another path
[12:50] Kelsey’s morning routine
[14:21] Why exercise is the most important thing in Kelsey’s business
[16:56] How to move beyond thought habits and “play in the penthouse”
[19:40] The process of how Kelsey gets her clients
[23:25] Why it’s not about you, it’s actually the universe
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MEMORABLE QUOTES
“When opportunities come in, knowing where you wanna go and being able to triage whether or not this is the right thing, that is a core skill of entrepreneurship.”
- Meghan Walker
“My business is play, which is my top priority. I want to bring joy to other people. I wanna help them have permission to play.”
- Kelsey Abbott
“The how is so much less important than having clarity on where you wanna be and the outcome and the feeling and the experience that you want to attract into your life.”
- Meghan Walker
“I get paid to talk to people to help them remember who they are, to help them see how amazing they are, to help them clear away all of the beliefs that aren't serving them so they can live their best life.”
- Kelsey Abbott
“I gotta be the best version of me so that I can give the best version of me to my people. And I feel like that's thinking like an entrepreneur.”
- Kelsey Abbott
“We don't meet our clients when we're sitting at our desks. We meet them when we're out living our lives, amplifying our sparkle, being our best selves, taking care of ourselves.”
- Kelsey Abbott
“Being decisive, clear in where you want to go, not taking the outcome personally. These are all skills in the arsenal of entrepreneurship.” - Meghan Walker
In this episode of Impact, Meghan talks with April Stroink, a money coach and financial advisor who specializes in helping entrepreneurs create financial clarity, ease, and abundance in their practice.
Throughout their discussion, Meghan and April continually tie their conversation back to the analogy of a financial storm. The storm could represent a shift in the financial market or something that could potentially throw your business off course. Whatever it may represent, Meghan and April discuss that storms are not necessarily meant to swoop us out to sea. Those who will fare the best are the ones who can acknowledge the trajectory of the storm and make decisions in alignment with what is coming their way. When you see the storm coming, there are decisions that you can make to help protect your home, and in the case of this analogy, to protect your business and financial situation. When your business is future proofed you will be able to capitalize and move momentum in the direction of opportunity.
But future-proofing your business and adding additional revenue streams can be challenging. Many entrepreneurs have self-negating attitudes about how they make money, or perhaps believe that they don’t deserve to make abundant money for the services they offer. Meghan and April unpack this idea of quantum wealth, which comes from a mindset of abundance, not scarcity.
As Meghan has mentioned in previous episodes, she is completely over allowing the energy of scarcity to be pervasive in this community. And this episode will certainly be helpful in stopping the cycle of scarcity as it exposes some of the mindset and thinking traps that practitioners are finding themselves in. Techniques and strategies are provided that can be deployed in your business which will leave you in a position to take advantage of the opportunities that lay before you.
Want to be prepared for the storm and minimize your risk moving forward? Then you won’t want to miss this episode.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[2:15] Creating a framework around quantum wealth
[7:27] How to take responsibility for your business to have maximum impact
[11:26] April Stroink’s professional experience
[13:24] Why finances are the number-one source of stress for entrepreneurs
[22:48] Why it’s important to work your plan
[28:38] How much gross revenue you should keep
[33:36] The number-one thing entrepreneurs do wrong
[41:03] Why multiple streams of income is key
[47:56] Transformation vs. transaction values
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MEMORABLE QUOTES
“Have a plan so that when the storm comes, and it will, especially if you are entrepreneurs, that you have a solid plan to fall back on.”
- April Stroink
“This notion of developing acumen around money, we're kind of scared of the feeling. But the more acumen you develop, it's like the better you get at tennis. The more tennis lessons you play, the more fun it is to play tennis.
- April Stroink
“Believe in yourself. Believe that you can be financially well and it is your right.”
- April Stroink
“You've got to be able to spit out your financial why. If you were in my office right now, you would see it on post-it notes everywhere. You gotta know that number.”
- April Stroink
“You've got to be comfortable with the uncomfortable to get on the other side of impact.”
- April Stroink
“Dare to pay yourself.”
- April Stroink
“What I'm seeing done wrong over and over again is that they're putting into practice either products or services without doing the math to see what the gross profit is. They're putting into practice products or services that may not be viable and then because they haven't looked at the viability they spend and invest a lot of money to go down a wrong path”
- April Stroink
“If we can create a secondary stream of income that is not based on seeing patients, we are significantly reducing the risk associated with our business model.”
- Meghan Walker
On this week’s episode of IMPACT, Meghan Walker is joined by Elise Darma, a Canadian entrepreneur, marketing coach and expert in creating effective social media strategies for businesses, to discuss the “A” in IMPACT medicine - attraction.
As an entrepreneur, the task of constantly creating and posting can feel daunting and unbearable. How do you attract and capture that target audience when your video comes up in their feed? Elise answers this question and so much more in this episode as she and Meghan discuss how to use the various social media platforms efficiently.
Tik Tok is great for keeping up on trends, but don’t forget Instagram and Twitter, and even Pinterest, YouTube shorts and LinkedIn. And although there is an overwhelming amount of platforms, Elise points out that you can repurpose your videos on different sites.
The key to slowly building your audience is to be consistent. Short-form video is the best free tool you have to generate sales and grow your business. The ideal short-form video either entertains or educates or ideally does both, depending on your niche. A really effective first sentence or headline in your caption will grab viewers attention. And to keep their attention, cut clips tight and talk fast, removing any dead air or pauses. Using props is another great way to draw viewers in.
Talking-head videos that share a tip are also effective marketing tools but be sure you set them up to collect an email address at the end.
These are just a few of the many tips Elise discusses in this episode. She is a fountain of knowledge when it comes to all things social media so make sure to tune in to this episode to hear all of the strategic and tactical information she has to share.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[5:35] Elise’s story of entrepreneurship toward multi-million-dollar brand
[11:35] How to make sales as you grow
[18:37] What forms of social media to use and not use today
[24:53] Why adding animation is important
[26:36] Cutting out pauses and dead air on videos
[28:54] How to incorporate calls to action
[30:52] Importance of using props
[51:33] What Elise would like her legacy to be
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MEMORABLE QUOTES
“In 2013, it was the wild, wild west of Instagram. In six months we were able to go from 10,000 followers to over a hundred thousand followers, mostly through influencer marketing.”
- Elise Darma
“So the good news is, that as a business owner, I believe you can be really efficient with your content creation and repurposing is a big part of that.” - Elise Darma
“I believe people do business with people. And so even if you're showing up in a more entertaining way, it doesn't mean that they're gonna not take you seriously. They're just gonna actually connect with you a little bit more human to human.” - Elise Darma
“We all think that everyone is concerned about us, but they're not, they're concerned about themselves. So I am just going to put myself out there.” - Elise Darma
“I realized that I could actually educate business owners on how to do this for themselves, and they didn't have to waste their time trying to be an influencer, trying to be Instagram famous.”
- Elise Darma
“I think that the video has to hook people in the first second or two. With your caption, the first sentence or headline has to hook people in because especially on Instagram, people have to tap to read the caption in full.”
- Elise Darma
“Find an animation. It could be an animated sparkle to a quote card that you've made. Save it as a video, upload it as video. You're going to get way more views and legs.”
- Elise Darma
“Figure out why you are unique and different, it could be your experience in your industry, it could be any awards or accolades you've earned.”
- Elise Darma
“I would like to leave a legacy of having helped women specifically feel like they've been able to empower themselves by earning their own money.”
- Elise Darma