Profit Is A Choice Michele Williams | Business Coach | Podcaster |Speaker

259: The Power of Feasibility  Robyn Thomas is joining us today on the podcast. Robyn has an architecture degree from Auburn, and she has merged that education with her love of design to provide a one-stop architecture offer specializing in design completion and optimization. She calls it the master of done. I love that so much. Today we're going to delve into feasibility, what it is, why it's needed, and when is the right time for the conversation around it. Enjoy the podcast.
Topics Mentioned: Metrics
Processes
Project Management
Teamwork
 
Key Thoughts:  We sometimes get so enamored with the result that we don't look at the result and then backpedal our way through it to get to the beginning   Robyn Thomas 
 
I'm all about feasibility... It's really saying, what are the resources available and how can we best use them?  Michele Williams 
 
There are indicators and metrics that we can pull into our discovery call, or consultation process that we want to introduce early, way before we get into what color are the walls.    Robyn Thomas 
 
I think that in feasibility, sometimes people again have the idea that they're fighting against you to get something done, even though it's not you, it's what you're bringing up, the budget, the timeline. You're the representation of those things.   Michele Williams 
Contact Michele: Email: Team@ScarletThreadConsulting.com
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Contact Robyn: Website: www.robynstudios.com 
Facebook: rs.homeguidestudio
Instagram: @rs.homeguidestudio
Email: robyn@robynstudios.com 
Pinterest: robynstudiosga/ 
References and Resources: CFO2GO
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258: 4 Strategies to Stop Being Underpaid  I am so excited to be talking to you today. I'm actually so excited that I didn't wait and get all dolled up to be on the video part of the podcast. I decided in the middle of my work session just to stop and go ahead and share this message. So, I hope you are excited as I am, because we are going to talk about four strategies that will stop you from being underpaid. Do you know what it means to be underpaid? It means a high tolerance for low pay. I think that it is a problem, especially for creatives and certainly in the interior design industry. Now, some of you may be listening to this podcast and you may be thinking, hey, no problem here, I get paid all the time. But my question would be, do you take the money out of the company with ease, without feeling stressed? Some of you may be listening to the podcast and thinking, oh yeah, I have a high tolerance for low pay. Instead, I'm a people pleaser and I want to do great things for other people. Stay tuned because we're going to talk about the four strategies that will help you not be underpaid, but to be paid fairly and to be able to have a profitable company - at the same time 
Topics Mentioned: Value
Worth
Pricing strategy
Career path 
Key Thoughts:  People are paying you for what you know, or they're paying you for what you have the ability to learn and to know. Michele Williams
 
People are willing to pay you for what you know.  Michele Williams
 
Time is a currency that we spend in our calendar, and people will pay us for the time that we have available to devote to their project. Michele Williams
 
We're all looking at what we can hand off to somebody else's task list. Stress relief is a big deal. Michele Williams
 
Understanding pricing and understanding your attitude around it is really going to allow you to move forward with confidence and not cockiness. Michele Williams
 
Contact Michele: Email: Team@ScarletThreadConsulting.com
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257: Design the Life You Want Nicole Comis is a life and mindset coach, and she's passionate about helping driven professionals achieve their career goals without sacrificing their personal lives. She's certified by the International Coaching Federation and she's also a neurolinguistics programming master coach. Nicole's goal is for those that she works with to recognize that success comes from living a happy, healthy, and balanced life, whatever that might look like for them. If you're feeling tired or overwhelmed or not sure what to do next, this is the podcast for you. 
Topics Mentioned: Health
Success
Balance
Mindset 
Key Thoughts:  The reason why we burn ourselves out and the reason why we work our butts off is because it's our programming. Whether it's a fear or a limiting belief or that's what dad did, that's what mom did. We are programmed to think that that's what we need to do, whether it's, I need to prove myself, I need to prove I'm worthy or not, that's just what is done, or you've got to work your butt off to make money. Nicole Comis 
 
That makes me think of what grace has been bestowed upon me and upon my life and upon those I love or those I'm watching. Seeing the grace that we get every day, that is what makes me joyful. Michele Williams 
 
The more that you can identify your fears and your limiting beliefs and understand where those come from, the more aligned you feel, and I do tell my clients, too, to really practice making decisions based on your vision and your values. Nicole Comis 
 
When other people's ideas and influence get like that, we have to turn it off, and then we've got to be intentional about the influences of the people that we let speak into us. Michele Williams 
Contact Michele: Email: Team@ScarletThreadConsulting.com
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Contact Nicole: Website: https://www.nicolecomis.com
Facebook: NicoleComisCoaching
Instagram: @nicolecomis
Email: nicole@nicolecomis.com
LinkedIn: nicolecomis
Tic Tock: @nicolecomis
References and Resources: CFO2GO
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Necessary Endings by Dr. Henry Cloud 
Life Fulfillment Exercise
Sew Much More Podcast
Podcast with Jennifer Looney: Creating a Board of Directors that Support You 

256: One Size Does Not Fit All One size does not fit all. Okay, I just said it. I know that's going to be hard for some of you. But in our haste to get things done, to keep moving, to provide a service, often we're looking for that shortcut to success. We're looking to ride the elevator to the top instead of taking the stairs. Today, we will explore how to choose the right offer for our company and ultimately, for our customers. 
Topics Mentioned: Templates 
Metrics 
Problem Solving 
Business Solutions 
 
Key Thoughts: I've used templates. I have templates. I think they're awesome, but they're only as good as they know how to be used and how to be tweaked.  Michele Williams
 
Simply purchasing a template without a complete understanding of the problem that it's solving is just going to create more busy work for your team, leave you lacking in the outcome desired, and it's honestly going to cause frustration.  Michele Williams
 
Our goal here is to help you truly understand the challenge that you have and the problem that you're solving.  Michele Williams
 
What we are dedicated to is empowering you to know how to read the signs, know how to determine what's needed, and knowing how to adjust your systems, whether they're purchased systems or created systems so that they can grow with your company.  Michele Williams
 
Contact Michele: Email: Team@ScarletThreadConsulting.com
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LinkedIn: Michele Williams
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255: Ignite Your Passion in Your Business With me on the podcast today is Jacqueline Green of Behind the Design company. Jacqueline is a coach, and she helps people move from a hobby into the business that they want that can be profitable. We're going to have a very robust conversation today on how to identify areas that we're passionate about and how to give ourselves the freedom to move from one direction to another, not to stay stuck. I hope you enjoy the podcast. 
Topics Mentioned: Passion
Pivot,
Growth
Mindset 
 
Key Thoughts:  As you build wisdom, as you build your knowledge base, what was important to me in my 20s versus what's important to me in my 50s is completely different. That's what's so unique and fun, is really seeing what could this really be. And getting out of whatever mindset that we were kind of stuck in from our past. Jacqueline Green 
 
Giving ourselves the freedom to even go through that discovery process, I think is really what you're inviting us to here, is to not feel that we have to be stuck, no matter how far we're in business, no matter where we are. Michele Williams 
 
It's giving yourself permission to put yourself first on occasion to really look at what you really want in life and how you are going to get there. Jaqueline Green 
 
I see one thousand opportunities within this industry to build a business, doing the parts that we always have, parts we don't love, but focusing on what you love. Michele Williams 
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Contact Jaqueline: Website: www.behindthedesignco.com 
Facebook: behindthedesignco
Instagram: @behindthedesignco/
Email: jgreen@behindthedesignco.com 
LinkedIn: behind-the-design/
LinkedIn: jacquelinereed/
References and Resources: CFO2GO
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Financial Courses with Michele Williams including “Understanding Your Financials”, “Master Your Profit”, and “Pricing Without Emotion”
Growth Mindset by Carol Dweck
Necessary Endings by Dr. Henry Cloud 

254: CFO2GO for Your Business On the podcast today, we're going to consider the work of a CFO or a chief financial officer. Given that most of our businesses are too small to hire this as a full-time position, we've begun to see the rise of fractional offerings in this space. Today, we're going to talk about what a CFO does, and if you need one.
Topics Mentioned: Financial Planning
Budgets
CFO
Metrics
Key Thoughts: What does it mean to hire fractional? It means to share time. So that's really all that we're saying is you're sharing time with another company to have someone come in and perform those services. Michele Williams
 
But as we know, all CFO services are not the same, just like all design services are not the same. Michele Williams
 
Why would we name it CFO2GO? Because our goal is to help you understand how to do this work and then let you go do it, not to hold you tied into some long-term engagement. Michele Williams
 
There's nothing worse than either not knowing how to pay yourself, having the money in the account, not knowing if you can take it out, not knowing what it's meant to do, and not having a plan. We can help you solve every bit of that. Michele Williams
 
Contact Michele: Email: Team@ScarletThreadConsulting.com
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Website: ScarletThreadConsulting.com
LinkedIn: Michele Williams
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Profit First by Mike Michalowicz