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The Happy Productive Podcast is for business owners looking to scale to 7-figures without sacrificing their personal life. It's your go-to resource to develop leadership skills, achieve business goals, practice healthy habits, master your emotions, and use time wisely. You CAN have the business of your dreams and Jennifer will show you how. Jennifer Dawn is a Business Coach who has grown three 7-figures companies and helped others do the same. She's also the founder of Best Planner Ever and author of The Joy Guide: Finding Your Joy In A World of Crap. Learn more at JenniferDawnCoaching.com

Happy Productive with Jennifer Dawn: Grow Your Business Without Giving Up Your Life Jennifer Dawn

    • Business
    • 5.0 • 22 Ratings

The Happy Productive Podcast is for business owners looking to scale to 7-figures without sacrificing their personal life. It's your go-to resource to develop leadership skills, achieve business goals, practice healthy habits, master your emotions, and use time wisely. You CAN have the business of your dreams and Jennifer will show you how. Jennifer Dawn is a Business Coach who has grown three 7-figures companies and helped others do the same. She's also the founder of Best Planner Ever and author of The Joy Guide: Finding Your Joy In A World of Crap. Learn more at JenniferDawnCoaching.com

    Triumph Through Transformation: Mastering Your Mindset for Business Success with Amy Kemp

    Triumph Through Transformation: Mastering Your Mindset for Business Success with Amy Kemp

    When you get committed, solutions appear. 

    Amy Kemp is the author, owner & CEO of Amy Kemp, Inc. After deciding that she did not want to work as a teacher, Amy started her own business which grew faster than she ever thought it would. Amy now helps leaders and business professionals understand how deeply thought habits impact every part of their work and lives. 

    Mindset and habits are two things that are foundational for any result in our lives. We usually want to bypass each of these and push through to a result we are looking to achieve. However, we end up realizing that there was no foundation and therefore things begin to collapse. Amy explains how structure is not a restrictive cage but rather a path to freedom if used properly.

    The power lies in embracing the gentle structures within our business and when we allow flexibility and unexpected things to happen. Allowing ourselves and others to recharge and shift perspective, brings in a space for change.

    You cannot always be in the space of problem solving - give yourself time and space to recharge so your creativity (and productivity) can blossom. 
    Notes👩‍🏫 Growing a business in the laundry room: from teaching high school to direct sales business. 01:14🙃 Tutoring 1000 independent sales consultants: a message Amy kept hearing and a sentence that changed her life. 03:09▶️ Habit finder coaching: starting a new business. 05:45🤓 Jennifer’s story on the most powerful exercise she did: a flip side of habits. 07:25📘 Amy’s book: observe your resistance - if you dig underneath it, you will find unhealed pain. 09:54🪷 Lower the bar and go easy on yourself: Keep structure flexible to make it work and try with gentle structure. 14:07🦜 When neglecting and pushing the structure away because you think it's a cage, you end up in the cage. 20:39📈 Structures needed for business growth: embracing structure but in the middle of the pendulum. 23:36🚦 Slow down: you can't outwork your thought habits - schedule guilt-free play time during your day. 26:47☯️ Inspired ideas come when we give ourselves a break and time to replenish and relax. 29:52🚗 Business is just a vehicle to create a life. It's not the life 32:06📚 “I See You” book is a guide for women who want more influence, impact, and income without more work.  35:31
    Links:
    Website: www.amykemp.com
    Book: www.amykemp.com/book
    Connect with Jennifer: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com
    Retreats: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com/our-retreat
    Join our Academy: www.jenniferdawnacademy.com 

    • 39 min
    Danielle Sunberg - Your Professional Growth is Defined by Your Personal Development

    Danielle Sunberg - Your Professional Growth is Defined by Your Personal Development

    When you let go of something, you create space for something new to show up.

    Danielle Sunberg, a former Big Law attorney turned wellness entrepreneur and expert in the art of conscious living and award-winning author, shares about asking and answering the big question: Who am I?

    Having been diagnosed with depression, Danielle realized that where she thought she was on top of everything, with plenty of zeros in her bank account and being on top of the corporate ladder, she wasn’t in tune with who she was herself.
    Allowing yourself to be vulnerable causes a step into real leadership. Peeling the layers away allows for an acceptance of who you really are and allowing yourself to take up space. 

    Hitting burnout is not always a bad thing - as long as you use it as a chance to change everything!
    Notes:👩🏻‍💼 Danielle was an accomplished corporate litigator for a big law firm in Washington, DC. 1:59🥀 Despite her success, she felt empty, personally. 3:43😞 She felt nothing when hearing the news about winning a case, and she just quit. 5:34❓ Danielle needed to answer the question: Who am I? 8:14✌ ️ Burnout is not just a bad thing: a chance to change everything.  13:31😍 Burnout requires you to say: I've tolerated enough suffering here, and I'm actually going to make a change. 18:33🤗 Mastering the art of being, which is what is left when we stop all of our doing. 22:06🎯 The biggest changes that happen are clarity, confidence in decision-making, and relationship dynamics. 23:40🥅 What needs to be addressed is creating safety, with others and within yourself. 27:11🎯 When we can be vulnerable, we are stepping into real leadership. 29:00⚠️ Vulnerability doesn't mean that you have to tell everybody all the dirty details. 32:03
    Links:
    Website: www.daniellesunberg.com
    Connect with Danielle: www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-sunberg 

    • 35 min
    Your Solution To Beat The Monday Blues

    Your Solution To Beat The Monday Blues

    When you force yourself to do something, your energy shifts to lower emotions, but there is a solution to beat the Monday Blues. 

    Monday mornings usually start with: “I don't want to deal with my job, I don't have enough clients, I'm in a lot of debt, my marketing is terrible” But when you're taking inspired action, and you feel excellent about it, and you're pouring your love and your joy into it.

    The goal is to always feel inspired. Jennifer shares one trick how to inspire yourself with the ‘Flow and Go” game. This is a practical and inspirational tool to shift a negative mindset and increase productivity. This game will help you recognize your negative emotions and shift them intentionally towards positive outcomes. The concept of this game is to align thoughts, emotions, actions and results into a positive feedback loop and take action.
    The Go and Flow game can be played whenever you need it to get in the flow and start getting the results that you want in your business and your life. Check it out!
    Notes:🐌 Monday is not a very productive day: most heart attacks happen on Mondays. 01:46📅 Having issues getting started after the weekend: don’t over-schedule your first working day. 02:27✌🏼 The Flow and Go game: emotional states and physical relations, so it is important to think of different thoughts to move the flow. 04:14🤔 Dreams and outcome thoughts: pivot on your thoughts to feel better as all good things happened already and then go. 08:27🎯 Aligning with your dream, practicing your dream, and taking action. 10:16
    Connect with Jennifer: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com
    Retreats: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com/our-retreat
    Join our Academy: www.jenniferdawnacademy.com 

    • 17 min
    Maximize Your Productivity: Unveiling the True Value of Virtual Assistants with Gina Cotner

    Maximize Your Productivity: Unveiling the True Value of Virtual Assistants with Gina Cotner

     If you are investing your money in hiring a virtual assistant, you really want them to be able to pay for themselves.
    Gina Cotner, CEO of Athena Executive Services, began her business by becoming a virtual assistant herself. Encouraged by an employer to start up a business finding the right assistants for business owners and CEOs, Gina found herself hiring her own VA and realizing the freedom it brought.
    Time zones and internet reliability are two considerations when hiring a VA outside the USA. Gina stresses that while you could ask a VA to do anything for you, it’s worth remembering that they are not experts in the same subject as you. Hiring a VA through an agency, such as Athena Executive Services, allows peace of mind that VAs have already been screened and vetted; an agency is likely to pair you well with the right VA.
    Having the right person for your business will make a massive difference to your life, as you find you no longer have to deal with the minutia!
    Show notes:🏡 Gina became executive assistant due to divorce issues: her journey to entrepreneurship. 01:26😒 Feeling tired and grouchy: you might need a Virtual Assistant to free you up. 04:39🤔 Why you should not hire a VA: some business owners can’t work with assistants from the Philippines. 07:20⚠️ Things to think about when hiring overseas and even in the US. 08:49🌞 What you can ask your VA to help you with: getting a shoulder-to-shoulder business partner in VA. 12:52🌸 Executive assistant world and VA’s world are very similar: nomenclature doesn’t exist and VA is a part of a huge garden of skills.14:59🆚 Agencies vs. individual hires of VAs: rates and challenges that you might come across. 17:30⚡ Vetting, screening, and paying VAs: what questions to ask agencies. 20:51🩹 Athena helps entrepreneurs with tips if you don’t know what your business needs. 22:56
     
    Links
    Dive into EA world: www.athenaexecutiveservices.com
    Connect with Gina: www.linkedin.com/in/athenaea
    Connect with Jennifer: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com
    Retreats: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com/our-retreat Join our Academy: www.jenniferdawnacademy.com 

    • 26 min
    How to Plan a Winning Day in 5 Minutes

    How to Plan a Winning Day in 5 Minutes

    Creating a winning day plan is possible in just five minutes! 
    In this podcast, Jennifer explains 4 steps on how to do it. It starts with the right mindset and then organizing your tasks. Business owners, tend to forget important stuff and that is themselves, so don’t forget self-care to ensure your dream can come true. If you need additional help with organizing your day, check out the webinar and Best Plan Ever.com.
    Notes:👓 Get your mindset in the right mindset: read your vision statement. 00:53✍️ Different ways to create Vision Statements: what you don’t like about your life? 02:37🔠 Map your day to do priority stuff: divide the day on the ABCDE tasks of productivity. 05:45🤩 Don’t overschedule yourself: time blockings are important. 08:043️⃣ Step three: self-care is crucial - schedule it! 08:36🌸 Best Planner Ever and how to use it. 10:15👉 Take Back Your Time Workshop. 12:06
    Links:  Join our Academy: www.jenniferdawnacademy.com
      Connect with Jennifer: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com
      Retreats: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com/our-retreat

    • 16 min
    Find Fire For True Growth Within Your Core, with Dr. Michael Matucci

    Find Fire For True Growth Within Your Core, with Dr. Michael Matucci

     Growth requires you to change right down to your core.
    Dr Michael Matucci, PhD, is a founder of Encompass Life, is on a mission to ignite the truth of who we really are and what we are really doing here.
    Until you go into your own core and shift things at the soul level, as in, your emotions, will, and subconscious mind, then it will continue to perpetuate itself no matter how powerful you are. You have a universe inside of you, and you have the emotional power to deal with anything that may come your way and to act in the most profound way possible.
    Stepping into your core being and soul level may be uncomfortable and cold, but ultimately you will find treasure!
    Notes:🤩 Creating miracles inside and outside of us.  01:19😎 Michael’s path of personal growth and spirituality: the Navy SEALs of spirituality. 05:12🪞 Everything is happening inside of you: people around you are reflecting you, all the time. 07:244️⃣ Extreme Ownership: blame, shame, guilt, and hate are 4 emotions that keep us stuck. 11:26🌞 When you realize you don’t like some things in your business: you undergo spiritual bypassing to heal and grow. 15:54🥋 Internal Judo and mastering your inner world: carrying baggage vs finding your inner divine. 21:16🤯 When you numb yourself down: unconscious emotions and their connection to issues and illnesses. 26:04🌞 Jennifer’s experience with water fasting and cleaning pockets of emotions. 34:58⚡ Explore the message your inner voice has for you: trust life and your powers. 36:59💎 Spiritual work and miracle stories on Michael’s clients. 41:36💥 You can facilitate miracles: you are the changemaker. 44:22
     
    Links:
    Special link: www.encompasslife.com/breakthrough 
    Connect with Dr Michael www.linkedin.com/in/michaelmatucci
    Website: www.michaelmatucci.com 
    Join our Academy: www.jenniferdawnacademy.com
    Connect with Jennifer: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com
    Retreats: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com/our-retreat 

    • 48 min

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