04/25/2023

Together We Can Do So Much!

I was reminded of this quote by a friend recently and it really resonated – it’s a quote from Helen Keller and it goes “Alone we can do so little, but together we can do so much!” Seeing as this is Episode 11 – get it – 1-1 this couldn’t have come at a better time. This Episode is all about breaking out of your Entrepreneurial Bubble, surrounding yourself with others like you so you can build connections and move forward faster in your Business. I’ve spent a lot of years working alone in my business, so I have a few stories about that and a bit of what is available for you inside The Inspired Hub Membership to help you create 1-1 or 1-50 connections to help you break out of the loneliness. Being an Entrepreneur… It can really be a lonely road and you can feel really isolated. Your family may not understand you, your friends may not get it – we tend to beat to our own drum! Over my 23 years it’s been a long road of working by myself – not really having other Entrepreneurs to turn to, to bounce ideas off of, to gain support and accountability. Thankfully in 2019, I found the Ignite Bermuda Family and was accepted into Cohort 3, stayed on as a Resident Advisor for Cohort 4 and now work out of their Co-lab space alongside other similar Entrepreneurs! Entrepreneurs tend to understand each other better than most – and through the Inspired Hub Membership my goal is to bring others together to be able to very quickly bounce ideas off someone, for accountability, for brainstorming and for feedback. We are in week 7 now with the Inspired Hub membership and Members are so encouraged to connect with each other and learn from each other. With my years of Marketing, Social Media and Website experience, members can book 1-1 Free 15 Minutes to bring questions, get solutions and move forward quicker. In addition 1 hour and 3 hour breakthrough sessions have just opened and they are at an amazingly reduced rate for Members. If you can’t join the Membership – try to get yourself out there, find a business group, take a course, go to a coffee date or find social happy hour that you can join and connect with other Entrepreneurs – I promise it will be a game changer. Thank you for tuning in, and I'll see you in the next episode. ............................................................... Join The Inspired Hub Membership - https://inspired.bm/membership Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inspiredbermuda/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredBermuda/ Website: https://inspired.bm/

03/28/2023

LET'S WORK ON - Saving You Time!

LET’S WORK ON – Saving You Time! Hey there Entrepreneur! Welcome, you have come to the right place my friends! This episode marks the first of many training style podcasts where I'll be sharing practical tips that you can implement right away to grow your business. I know for a fact, that we are all looking for more of two things in our life, the first being more money, the second, of course, being MORE TIME. In this episode, I'm going to show you how you can take one piece of easy content and create 10 different social media posts. It's an excellent way to increase your social media presence and generate more posts, without spending hours creating new content. It’s going to save you a load of time trying to think about different things to post through the week! Now, let's dive into the technique. The first step is to decide on 3 ITEMS that bring value to your audience and educates them on something that you can provide to them. This can be something like three top tips, three amazing benefits, or three products. Once you have these 3 items figured out, you have the basis to begin to create your ten different social media posts. For the 1st POST, I want you to create a single graphic that highlights the 3 items. Keep it concise and easy to read, so your audience can quickly understand the value you're providing. In the caption, you can elaborate further on the topic and provide more context. Your 2nd POST will be an expanded version where you’ll create a carousel post with five graphics that provide more detail on each tip or benefit. The carousel format is ideal for showcasing multiple images and has been gaining popularity on social media lately. In your carousel post, the first graphic should be an introduction headline – like “3 Benefits for Inspired Hub Members”, followed by three graphic slides, each containing 1 of your tips or benefits. The final graphic should be your call-to-action, such as "Visit my website" or "Follow me for more tips." Giving you a total of 5 slides in your carousel. Once you have posted your carousel you can have a very easy 3rd POST – simply share your carousel post into your stories. Add a link (if you have a call to action) or gif to add excitement. Your 4th POST is a little more tricky as you are going to create a REEL! Find an audio that works for your 3 tips – you can film yourself or use another video but highlight your 3 tips in the reel and add details in the caption. For POSTS 5 & 6, we are going to expand on the 3 individual items. I want you to hop onto your stories and film yourself talking about your first tip – 60 seconds max to describe it! Make sure to add captions and download this to your phone as once you share it in your stories, you can hop over and post it as a REEL! Repeat this for each tip over several days – this will give POSTS 7 & 8 and 9 & 10! You can use this technique to use over 1 week or spread it out over 2 weeks! If you hop onto my Instagram page the link is below) You can follow how I am doing this all week - starting on Tuesday 28th March! I hope this technique helps you create more social media content efficiently and saves you time. FREE WORKBOOK AVAILABLE - If you are interested, I have an amazing FREE Workbook that goes along with this episode to help you work through your 10 posts! Hop over to https://inspired.bm/save-time-freebie/ to download it! Remember, our Inspired Hub membership has a wealth of resources to help you grow your business even more with our Social Media Basics Masterclass and collaborative 2-hour co-working Social Media Strategy Session on the last Tuesday of each month. Thank you for tuning in, and I'll see you in the next episode. ............................................................... Join The Inspired Hub Membership - https://inspired.bm/membership Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inspiredbermuda/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredBermuda/ Website: https://inspired.bm/

03/16/2023

Let’s Talk About COURAGE!

Let’s Talk About COURAGE and the Courage to make it happen! In this episode I’m taking a look at something that is at the forefront of my mind this month and that’s COURAGE – specifically do we have the courage to stick with it to see things to the end game. After a LONG year of talking (and talking, and talking some more) about the Inspired Hub Membership, it’s taken a HUGE amount of courage firstly to move past feeling defeated about not having it launched yet after about 8 different launch dates and talking about it non-stop and second to actually DO IT… stop talking about it and take the leap to actually build and launch the Membership to the world. Maybe it’s the negative voices in our head that hold us back, or imposter syndrome that tells us we aren’t good enough to do it. Or maybe were watching others instead of focusing 100% on ourselves, and our greatness! Whatever it may be for you – I know for sure that it takes a huge amount of COURAGE to get things to the end game. To launch a new business or relaunch your existing business or that new product. To put yourself out there and really make a go of it! Have a listen to this episode where I take you a little bit behind the scenes on the launch of the Membership and the courage that it took to get there. I hope you’ll enjoy this episode and let me know what you’re doing to bring courage into your business! ............................................................... Join The Inspired Hub Membership - https://inspired.bm/membership2 You can also sign up on our mailing list and get more like this every week including my weekly INSPIRE YOUR BUSINESS Podcast, invites to entrepreneur events and access to bootcamps and courses as they are available - https://inspired.bm Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inspiredbermuda/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredBermuda/

03/08/2023

Welcome BACK - The Inspired Hub Membership is OPEN!

Hello, My Inspired Friends! I am so excited to be back with you with my Inspire Your Business Podcast. Those of you listening in, thank you so much. It's taken me a long time to come back to this podcast and I was missing it and missing connecting with you. In this episode we take a look at my brand new, Inspired Hub Membership, which launched on Thursday 23rd February. I can't be more excited and more tired about the whole process to be completely honest with you!! The concept of creating a collaborative working solution for social media came to me about a year ago, and why not offer it through a membership where I could provide a load of other amazing resources as well. In this podcast, I dive in and break down for you all that is involved inside the Inspired Hub Membership, what you're going get as a member. And then I'll talk to you a little bit about what's going on right now leading up to Friday March 10th! Firstly, monthly MASTERCLASSES - coming at you on the 1st of every month! These are short one-hour courses that are made-up of smaller bite size lessons which are easy to follow and are available to members to refer to anytime they need them. The second main feature of the membership is that there is a monthly two-hour CO-WORKING SESSION designed around our social media strategy. In this session we will determine what are our goals for the month and then how are we tracking our statistics to see if we're actually meeting those goals. We will then work together with other Entrepreneurs to brainstorm amazing ideas for your social media plan with the goal of walking away with your social media plan and calendar for the upcoming month. There is a MID-MONTH Q&A SESSION where you can ask all the questions you may have about anything within the month’s Masterclass. You can also send in your unique business questions, and we can tackle them during this session – all designed to help you remove any roadblocks you may be facing and to help you move forward faster! You can join the CLOSED MEMBERS ONLY FACEBOOK GROUP! This is a private community of like-minded individuals who are also looking to grow their businesses. This is where you can connect with other business owners, share experiences, offer support and get feedback when ever you need it. My biggest goal is to help you to move forward faster in your business. These PRIVATE 15 MINUTE BREAKTHROUGH SESSIONS are designed to help you move past any road blocks that you may be facing. These session are exclusively offered to Members only! As an Inspired Hub Member, you will receive DISCOUNTED MEMBER RATES on 1:1 one hour and three hour deep dive sessions to set you on the path for success. You can also take advantage of preferred rates for help with things like - your Social Media Implementation, Website Design and Marketing. The Inspired Hub Membership is open and is accepting its first FOUNDING MEMBERS with a special lifetime discounted membership of $37/month – this special offer closes at 5:00pm EST on Friday 10th March! After that the Membership will remain open at its regular membership rate of $55/month. I welcome you to join today! ............................................................... Join The Inspired Hub Membership - https://inspired.bm/membership2 You can also sign up on our mailing list and get more like this every week including my weekly INSPIRE YOUR BUSINESS Podcast, invites to entrepreneur events and access to bootcamps and courses as they are available - https://inspired.bm Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inspiredbermuda/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredBermuda/ Website: https://inspired.bm/

08/24/2022

Stay Focused - here are 4 Tips I'm doing that can help

It's week 2 as I prepare to launch, and I've got 4 TIPS to share that are helping me to stay focused. What do you do as you’re preparing to launch that new service, or maybe you’re repurposing your business to grow – and everything keeps getting in the way? With only 5 weeks to launch and slow progress so far, it's time to up my game and really stay focused and committed! This week I'm talking about 4 amazing things that I am doing that are helping me to make progress and keep the focus to get to the finish line as I work to launch The Inspired Hub Membership! It is HOT, HOT, HOT here in Bermuda – and thing are also heating up for me over here while I’m working to launch the Membership. Things have been a little slow going so far. It’s been a bit of a struggle with summer, kids out of school, camps etc… and I caught myself. I remembered a conversation I had with a friend relating to low numbers in my Zumba class (check out inspired.bm/fitness if you are interested). It seems at any time in the year we can find excuses – it’s too hot, it’s too cold, it’s back to school, end of school, it’s daylight savings and so on. We can find excuses at any time so let’s stop and recognize and avoid doing that! I’ve really been focusing on 4 things this week to help to keep me focused and I wanted to share them with you: Batch Working – we can get deep into this but it’s the concept of allotting time to sit and focus on 1 type of task. Take something like your Social Media and you take 2 hours to do nothing else but produce and post 2 weeks’ worth of content. Or maybe it’s sales and you assign 3 hours to do nothing but that. Whatever works for your business. Finding Extra Time in My Day – It’s been a summer of working 9:30-3:30 it seems, with camp drop offs and pick-ups. To make more progress I’ve focused on finding more time in my day. Waking up a little earlier to get an hour in and making time in the evenings to spend an hour getting ahead. Prioritising Healthy Habits – Getting intentional about this and really focusing on a few that will help keep up my energy as I go through this time. The main one being SLEEP! A few others being cutting out alcohol (as best I can) and making healthier eating choices. Eliminating Distractions – Removing things that are causing you stress, anxiety, or make you feel inadequate. It’s not worth the distraction of watching or concerning yourself with what others are doing. Unfollow social accounts, step away from friends that may be causing issues and really prioritise you and your goals. I hope these 4 things may be a little help for you in your business. Please continue to join me on this rollercoaster of a ride over the next 5 WEEKS as I countdown to launching The Inspired Hub Membership on September 23rd. I’ll continue to fill you in on my progress and take a look at the reality of what it takes to get to the finish line! I would love to hear what you road you are on as an Entrepreneur so get in touch - comment, reach out with a personal message or email me jen@inspired.bm and let’s stay inspired together! ............................................................... Join The Inspired Hub mailing list and get more content like this every week including my weekly INSPIRE YOUR BUSINESS Podcast, invites to events and first access to Founding Member discounts when the Membership launches https://inspired.bm/membership/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inspiredbermuda/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredBermuda/ Website: https://inspired.bm/ #entrepreneur #entrepreneurlife #entrepreneurmindset #entrepreneurmembership #smallbusinesssupport #smallbusinessnetwork #inspiration #motivation

08/16/2022

What's Holding You Back?

Following on from Episode 5… where I talked to you about my struggle with severe procrastination surrounding important things in order to launch The Inspired Hub Membership. I may have done the thing but that was about it! I put a hold on this podcast, felt like I’ve made no progress and really decided to take a well needed break to assess the situation. Coming back now to finally bring The Inspired Hub Membership to life has had me really taking a good look at exactly what has been holding me back. I spent the past weekend resting, relaxing and mentally preparing to enter a zone of action and a few crazy things happened as a result. On Monday, I got back into my morning routine of reading for at least 10 minutes with my coffee before I get into the craziness of the day. I had been reading one of my fave’s You are a Badass by the amazing Jen Sincero and if you’ve read it (go get it if you haven’t) you know she is all about channeling your Source Energy, raising your frequency and manifesting awesomeness. I happened to turn to Chapter 4 – The Big Snooze – the EXACT chapter I needed to read right now. Jen talks about the Big Snooze (BS) AKA everything that is holding us back including our limiting beliefs about what we can achieve in our lives. She talks about how when we take the big leap and do something to massively improve our lives, BS always steps in to try to sabotage our progress, we crash the car, our computer bows up, our partner cheats on us or ok not as bad (and I kid you not this happened right after I finished reading the chapter) your kid decides to use the broom handle to turn on your phone and cracks the super sensitive home button……!!!!!!!! Talk about the Universe providing exactly what you needed to hear at the exact right time. I know I am not the only Entrepreneur struggling with growth and launching and making amazing changes in our businesses. That’s why I am inviting YOU to join me on my journey over the next 6 WEEKS as I countdown to launching The Inspired Hub Membership on September 23rd. Let’s talk about the head game of Entrepreneurship. I’ll fill you in on my progress more so look at the reality of what it takes mentally to get to the finish line! I know I can do it and I know 100% that YOU can as well, so come along with me and let’s stay inspired to do amazing things!! I would love to hear what you road you are on as an Entrepreneur so get in touch - comment, reach out with a personal message or email me jen@inspired.bm and let’s stay inspired together! ............................................................... Join The Inspired Hub mailing list and get more content like this every week including my weekly INSPIRE YOUR BUSINESS Podcast, invites to events and first access to Founding Member discounts when the Membership launches https://inspired.bm/membership/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inspiredbermuda/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredBermuda/ Website: https://inspired.bm/

07/19/2022

Just Do It Already!

Lose the fear, DO THE THING and move your business forward! Lately I have been struggling with severe procrastination surrounding important things in order to launch The Inspired Hub Membership. It’s things that I 100% know I need to do - but I just seem to find 100 other things to do instead. So I know I am not alone in this and it's had me thinking – what is it really that holds us back from doing the game changing things that we know we need to do to move forward? Is it the dreaded Imposter Syndrome that makes us constantly question if we are good enough, maybe it’s the fear of failure, maybe it’s the genuine fear of becoming visible publicly and putting yourself out there? For me I'm sure it’s a mix of all of the above. Those who have hung out with me professionally lately know that there is 1 thing that’s been on my TO DO list for months… and that is setting up my ECommerce payment gateway with the bank. It’s almost like once I submit it, it all becomes real and I have to launch the membership!!! Even though that’s completely what I want to do I’m continuing to do everything thing to not DO THE THING!! So this week’s episode is all about JUST DOING THE THING! In the effort of pushing past my fears and everything that may be holding me back, I have decided to put aside 2 hours of time on Tuesday morning to focus and do absolutely nothing else but the THING! Perhaps for you it’s creating your first podcast episode… or maybe it’s making a final selection on which platform to use for something you’re developing… whatever it may be for you, I invite YOU to join me and put aside some time to move past your fears and dedicate this week to DOING THE THING that will move you and your business forward! If I can do it - so can you! I would love to hear what you made happen this week so comment, reach out with a personal message or email me jen@inspired.bm and let’s stay inspired together! ............................................................... Join The Inspired Hub mailing list and get more content like this every week including my weekly INSPIRE YOUR BUSINESS Podcast, invites to events and first access to Founding Member discounts when the Membership launches https://inspired.bm/membership Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inspiredbermuda/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredBermuda/ Website: https://inspired.bm/

07/07/2022

5 Game Changers!

It's time to BREAK OUT OF YOUR ENTREPRENEUR BUBBLE! In this episode I'm bringing you my top 5 GAME CHANGERS that really have helped me to break out of my bubble and I wanted to share them with you in the hopes that you can implement a few into your game plan for your business. For so SO many years I ran my businesses as a solo owner, most times with a team of staff, but all the while feeling completely alone and isolated as an Entrepreneur. When you are stuck in the bubble of your business, it can feel extremely overwhelming and like your drifting off without a paddle at times. When you stay in this zone nothing good can come of it, and it took me YEARS to realise this! Too long really. In 2018/19 after a huge failure in my business I realised ok - that's enough - and I finally began to break out and really started to connect with other Entrepreneurs. I quickly realised that many of the struggles I was facing - everyone else was as well! HERE ARE MY 5 GAME CHANGES: 1. Use your Social Media - Don't let your social platforms use you! Go seek out others like you in your area of business or other business owners that are similar to you. Reach out and connect with them! 2. Attend Industry Events - find conferences, talks, business related events related to your industry or that are for Entrepreneurs and attend them. Get out there and grow your Network! 3. Take a Course - find a course in your area that would be a benefit to your business. If it's an in person course even better! The chances are you'll meet other Entrepreneurs like yourself that you can connect with. 4. Find a Small Business Incubator/Accelerator in your area - these programs are designed for Entrepreneurs and you'll be able to connect with others in ways you couldn't before. 5. Find a Great Membership Club - maybe it's one specifically for your area of business or one designed for Entrepreneurs (shameless plug for The Inspired Hub Membership 😀). Memberships are typically built around creating a community and you will likely find many others similar to yourself that you can connect with. Have a listen to this episode as I go into detail on each of these 5 things that I have personally done, and the impact that they have had on me over the past few years! Try one out and I know it will be a game changer for YOU! ............................................................... Join The Inspired Hub mailing list and get more content like this every week including my weekly INSPIRE YOUR BUSINESS Podcast, invites to events and first access to Founding Member discounts when the Membership launches https://inspired.bm/membership/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inspiredbermuda/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredBermuda/ Website: https://inspired.bm/

06/16/2022

The Long Road - An Entrepreneurs Journey

This week I wanted to bring you a little bit of my 22 year journey as an Entrepreneur. It's insane for me - thinking back over 22 years of running a business, some things feel like they may have only happened last week but were half a lifetime ago. Starting out in the Hospitality Industry, the world of Marketing and running a business was just a little idea in 1999. Finding myself at an extreme low point in my life at the ripe age of 23 and quitting a management role at a popular local restaurant, a little website development company was born. With many stories to tell along the way, of failed partnerships, of great success, of incredible failure, and many, many times questioning what I was doing! In this episode I take a look back to walk you through (as quick as I could) the path that has lead me to think... hey - how about creating an amazing online platform and community designed specifically for Entrepreneurs? Where I could facilitate connections, bring my years of knowledge and make it accessible and affordable! And The Inspired Hub Membership was born! ............................................................... Join The Inspired Hub mailing list and get more content like this every week including my weekly INSPIRE YOUR BUSINESS Podcast, invites to events and first access to Founding Member discounts when the Membership launches https://inspired.bm/membership/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inspiredbermuda/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredBermuda Website: https://inspired.bm/ #entrepreneur #entrepreneurlife #entrepreneurmindset #smallbusinesssupport #smallbusinessnetwork #inspiration #motivation

06/09/2022

How Are You Showing Up?

This episode has turned out to be slightly different to what I thought it would be. I had intention of telling you all about my journey to The Inspired Hub and my 22 years as an Entrepreneur. The sudden loss of a dear friend on Tuesday, after already trying to come to terms with the loss of another dear friend in April has left me thinking about a LOT of things including - how we are showing up - for ourselves, for each other and in our business. Who would have thought only 2 episode's in were having tears already but showing up was more important to me than not. In this episode I share some thoughts about life - without getting to dark and down the "why are we here" path... these recent losses have had me thinking a LOT about how we are living our lives and what we are doing day to day to bring passion to our business and our life! Are we trudging along day to day doing the same thing that's maybe ineffective or just not bringing us joy anymore? Looking back on life I realise - this has been me for YEARS - just going through the motions! Bringing passion and really showing up to be impactful is so front and centre with driving the changes I am making for Inspired as I transition the business to a membership platform designed for Entrepreneurs. In this episode I talk a bit about the design of the membership, why the idea came to me and some of what you will get as a member! ............................................................... Join The Inspired Hub mailing list and get more content like this every week including my weekly INSPIRE YOUR BUSINESS Podcast, invites to events and first access to Founding Member discounts when the Membership launches https://inspired.bm/membership/

06/01/2022

Stay in Your Lane!

Let’s talk about STAYING IN YOUR OWN LANE… How does this phrase make you feel? For me, the stubborn headed - you can't tell me what to do - side of me kicks in. But jokes aside, this episode is all about the question - are you paying attention to what you’re doing or are you paying more attention to what everyone else is doing around you. This past week has been a nothing but lessons in this for me in STAYING IN MY LANE: • Watching football and Liverpool's end of season drama... I found myself saying to a friend... "I'm going to watch the rival team" and it really made me stop and think - why would I focus on the competition and not my team??? • At my son's sports day last week I joined the mums in an egg and spoon race and was in the lead then what did I do... glanced over at the competition and go came 5th. When it comes to our business, it's so easy to get caught up in our own heads as we see others doing all the "things". It can result in holding back from putting ourselves out there and showing up for our own business. In this episode I have some thoughts about staying in your lane because the reality is - no one is going to do your business like you are so stay true to YOUR path! ............................................................... Join The Inspired Hub mailing list and get more content like this every week including my weekly INSPIRE YOUR BUSINESS Podcast, invites to events and first access to Founding Member discounts when the Membership launches - https://inspired.bm/membership/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inspiredbermuda Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredBermuda Website: https://inspired.bm/ #entrepreneur #entrepreneurlife #entrepreneurmindset #smallbusinesssupport #smallbusinessnetwork #inspiration #motivation

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Together We Can Do So Much!

LET'S WORK ON - Saving You Time!

Let’s Talk About COURAGE!

Welcome BACK - The Inspired Hub Membership is OPEN!

Stay Focused - here are 4 Tips I'm doing that can help

What's Holding You Back?

Just Do It Already!

5 Game Changers!

The Long Road - An Entrepreneurs Journey

How Are You Showing Up?

Stay in Your Lane!

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