30 episodes
Go Live Your Story Podcast Courtney Elko
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5.0 • 4 Ratings
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Welcome to the Go Live Your Story Podcast, with your host Courtney Elko, a former journalist turned entrepreneur who believes your story is your superpower.
The Go Live Your Story Podcast is where you’ll hear all kinds of stories. Business stories, stories of overcoming struggles, travel stories, funny stories and soul stories.
Inside the episodes, you will hear from Courtney who has plenty to share from her days as a journalist, a woman in business, a traveler and as a storyteller who doesn’t do fake very well. Along with her guests who are entrepreneurs, experts and people with a great story to share, the Go Live Your Story Podcast is about sharing experiences with the world in order to connect on a deeper level.
Courtney is on a mission to help you see that stories empower not only those who hear them, but those who share them. Because when you share your stories, you share more of your whole self, and allow people to see past your identifying label and see more of your personal brand.
So take a sip from your emotional support water bottle, hit play and get ready to be empowered by storytelling.
Don’t forget to subscribe, rate and review, and to share your story!
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Scaling to $500K While Also Feeling Like an Imposter with Meghan Lamle
Sales expert Meghan Lamle invested her last $200 into starting her business and turned it into $200K in sales before she burned it all down after she grew quickly and burnt out. She took a break from business, worked on her mental health and is back 4 years after that initial $200 investment scaling once again.
Meghan talks about how imposter syndrome is always lurking, no matter how much revenue you bring in. She works on her mental health with therapy, hypnotherapy, mindset and breath work and nervous system regulation in order to squash her feelings of perfectionism. She learned to believe in herself and has been on a journey of unraveling her imposter syndrome while rebuilding her business to even bigger revenue successes.
Inside the episode we talk about:
How that first investment is the scariest
How trying to figure it out by yourself doesn’t work
How monumental growth also can create massive burnout
How she closed her coaching business and went back to corporate
How she rebuilt her coaching business while battling imposter syndrome, and massively increased her revenue despite feeling like an imposter
How revenue does not fix imposter syndrome
How imposter syndrome will make you keep investing in skills you already have
The benefits of hypnotherapy and investing in your mental health
Here’s where you can find Meghan Lamle:
IG: https://www.instagram.com/meghan.lamle/
Website: https://meghanlamle.com/
https://meghanlamle.com/scale-to-5k
https://meghanlamle.com/overflow
Connect and Work with Courtney
Follow @goliveyourstory and @thecourtneyelko on Instagram!
Want to receive my stories and words of wisdom in your inbox? Join my email community here.
Are you on the content struggle bus? Join the waitlist here for my content-focused membership, the Content Collective.
Drop your email here if you’d like to know more about my 1:1 business coaching!
Do you want to tell better stories? Click here to receive a free, recorded webinar in your inbox on How to Tell a Better Story. -
Let’s Get Uncomfortable
Getting uncomfortable isn’t fun! It’s not easy and it can hurt sometimes, but getting uncomfortable also pushes us to our next level. It’s important to move outside of your comfort zone because it allows you to learn, grow and expand.
On this solo episode, I talk about the things that made me uncomfortable and how if I hadn’t done them, and continued to do them, I wouldn’t have businesses or a podcast today!
Inside the episode I talk about:
The importance of getting uncomfortable in order to move to your next level
My hate of running and why I’m running
How speaking live and hosting presentations once made me very uncomfortable, but I continued to do them and succeed in them
How when you work on one aspect of your life, it trickles into all aspects of your life and business
Connect and Work with Courtney
Follow @goliveyourstory and @thecourtneyelko on Instagram!
Want to receive my stories and words of wisdom in your inbox? Join my email community here.
Are you on the content struggle bus? Join the waitlist here for my content-focused membership, the Content Collective.
Drop your email here if you’d like to know more about my 1:1 business coaching!
Do you want to tell better stories? Click here to receive a free, recorded webinar in your inbox on How to Tell a Better Story. -
Finding a Female Community in a Male-Dominated Industry with Kim Fischer
SEO Expert and Agency Owner Kim Fischer went from finishing Grad School to bartending to entrepreneurship. She had been living abroad in the UK when the pandemic hit, and decided it was time to return home and start her SEM Agency 13 Emeralds Marketing. She was a woman in tech, and wanted to build a female-first agency that was for women and built by women.
Kim talks about how she wants female entrepreneurs to feel comfortable asking tech questions because when she was first starting her business she turned to Facebook groups for advice and the predominantly male tech groups made her feel less than for not having all the answers. She ended up seeking out a more female-driven community and found the support she needed to build her business into a success.
Inside the episode we talk about:
Starting a business in a pandemic
Being a female in a male-dominated industry
Finding a supportive community
The weird things people search on google
What type of content to have on your website to boost your SEO
Here’s where you can find Kim Fischer:
IG: @13emeraldsmarketing
Website: https://13emeraldsmarketing.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-fischer/
Meet Dr. Megan Daley, host of Human on the Daley Podcast:
Human on the Daley Podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/human-on-the-daley/id1687235238
Dr’s Megan Daley’s Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/moveonthedaley
Connect and Work with Courtney
Follow @goliveyourstory and @thecourtneyelko on Instagram!
Want to receive my stories and words of wisdom in your inbox? Join my email community here.
Are you on the content struggle bus? Join the waitlist here for my content-focused membership, the Content Collective.
Drop your email here if you’d like to know more about my 1:1 business coaching!
Do you want to tell better stories? Click here to receive a free, recorded webinar in your inbox on How to Tell a Better Story. -
Mindset Was Missing From My Business: Mistakes I Made in Year 2
August marked the second year of my coaching business! Woohoo! Two years into entrepreneurship and I’m running two businesses - my coaching business online and my local pet sitting business – and it has been quite a journey. A journey with some mistakes along the way!
Mistakes happen in business, no matter what year of business you’re in. I don’t consider business mistakes to be a bad thing because I believe you only learn and grow from each one. And that makes your business even stronger.
I made one critical mistake in my second year of business, but I also corrected that mistake in the same year. I waited far too long to dig into mindset work and instead focused on strategy thinking I needed to learn “how” rather than learn how to BE.
Inside the episode I talk about:
Business mistakes I made in my second year as an entrepreneur
The importance of learning and growing from mistakes
How I thought strategy was more important to learn over mindset
How I learned to BE a business owner
How I learned there are layers to mindset work
The Catch-22 of not having the money to hire the coach, but needing the coach to receive the money
How we don’t need to know “how” it’s going to happen, we can just believe it will
How working on my mindset with my Empowerment Coach Andrea Crisp has changed my life and business
Meet Andrea Crisp, host of The Couragecast Podcast:
Andrea Crisp’s Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/andreacrispcoach
The Couragecast Podcast:
https://www.instagram.com/the.couragecast
https://www.andreacrisp.ca
Connect and Work with Courtney
Follow @goliveyourstory and @thecourtneyelko on Instagram!
Want to receive my stories and words of wisdom in your inbox? Join my email community here.
Are you on the content struggle bus? Join the waitlist here for my content-focused membership, the Content Collective.
Drop your email here if you’d like to know more about my 1:1 business coaching!
Do you want to tell better stories? Click here to receive a free, recorded webinar in your inbox on How to Tell a Better Story. -
Accountant to Energy Healer: How to Restore Yourself After Burnout with Jenn Bieri
Jenn Bieri was on the executive track at her accounting firm with a clear path to where her life was “supposed” to go, but she was continuously hitting burnout. She tried to pivot down different corporate avenues, changing the size or the type of firms she worked for, but her struggles of burnout only increased.
After numerous panic attacks that landed her in the hospital, she found the energy side of yoga practice. It helped her stress level but the golden handcuffs of her career, salary and benefits held her tight in the corporate space until the pandemic gave her a wake up call, and she decided it was time to start her own business.
Now, Jenn is an energy healer, yoga teacher and coach and she helps her clients with chronic stress and burnout restore their mind, body and soul with balance and healing.
Inside the episode we talk about:
Pivoting out of the security of the corporate space
Ignoring burnout because of a paycheck
Learning how to slow down (even when you don’t want to)
How yoga is more than an exercise routine
The benefits of restorative yoga
Learning how to manage your mind in the silence
Here’s where you can find Jenn Bieri:
IG: @movewithjennn
Free Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/behappyandfree
Meet Natalie Barnett, host of The Embodied Entrepreneur:
The Embodied Entrepreneur Podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-embodied-entrepreneur-podcast-with-natalie-barnett/id1665763758
Natalie Barnetts’s Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/nataliebarnett/
Connect and Work with Courtney
Follow @goliveyourstory and @thecourtneyelko on Instagram!
Want to receive my stories and words of wisdom in your inbox? Join my email community here.
Are you on the content struggle bus? Join the waitlist here for my content-focused membership, the Content Collective.
Drop your email here if you’d like to know more about my 1:1 business coaching!
Do you want to tell better stories? Click here to receive a free, recorded webinar in your inbox on How to Tell a Better Story. -
Do You Want to Learn or Implement?
Both micro offers and long-term coaching are great options to enjoy when you’re seeking guidance in your business. Each offer type has value and purpose to the season you are in. But the expectations and results you get from each type of offer are vastly different, and in this solo episode I talk about how micro offers are for learning and long-term coaching is for implementing the things you’ve learned.
I talk about my own experiences of wasting time and money and expecting results that weren’t possible because I wasn’t clear on what I had invested in.
Inside the episode I talk about:
Benefits and differences between micro offers and long-term coaching
How and what you learn inside micro offers
How long-term coaching helps with the doing and implementation of what you’ve learned
The importance of knowing what you want, and your expectations before investing in a program
Boost Your Business Collective, my intimate group coaching program, which is a program that includes the learning and implementing
Find More Info About Boost Your Business Collective Here:
https://goliveyourstory.mykajabi.com/offers/Uwncm4Bs
Connect and Work with Courtney
Follow @goliveyourstory and @thecourtneyelko on Instagram!
Want to receive my stories and words of wisdom in your inbox? Join my email community here.
Are you on the content struggle bus? Join the waitlist here for my content-focused membership, the Content Collective.
Drop your email here if you’d like to know more about my 1:1 business coaching!
Do you want to tell better stories? Click here to receive a free, recorded webinar in your inbox on How to Tell a Better Story.
Customer Reviews
Inspiring to newbie entrepreneurs
Really enjoying listening to Courtney’s podcast. I’ve been following her on IG throughout her journey and it’s awesome to get to listen to her advice in a different format.