Profitable Mindset

Charlotte Smith
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Profitable Mindset

You may be the farmer or married to the farmer - this podcast will help you balance family and merge your personal needs with your farm demands. You can have a profitable biz AND a lovely, fulfilled life. I teach you personal development tools & strategies to finally conquer overwhelm and the feeling that you're not doing enough in your family or in your business. You'll learn step-by-step how to create the results you want in life!

  1. 48 MIN. AGO

    #225: Four Essential Strategies Every Farmer Needs for Long-Term Success (Plus Actionable Tips!)

    Let's Meet HERE to See if Farm Marketing Boot Camp is for you. I remember vividly the early years on my farm - between kid-wrangling and cow-milking —   Or, keeping up with housework and dahlia digging…   Plus, the thousand other to-do’s…   …who’s got time for dreaming and planning???   I barely had time for a shower some days.    Yet, sooo many research studies show us that the most effective farmers learn to plan the things that move them toward their goals and dreams.   So many of us get caught up doing the daily chores that we put off dreaming and planning, hopeful it’ll happen at some future time.    Totally understood -- and okay!!    But let me invite you to consider a bitter truth I’ve learned.   What you’re doing TODAY is what you take forward with you tomorrow and in the future.   So if you want a more managed, calm, balanced, financially abundant tomorrow, where you reach your goals and dreams for your life and farm -   And you want to move toward those dreams and goals daily, with calm and ease and drive and excitement…   Then you’ve got to make at least one intentional redirect today.   And today’s episode of the Profitable Mindset Podcast outlines four simple redirects to help you with this.   I want to encourage you that if you’re buried in to-do’s and projects and financial worries, even just ONE listen to this episode will help you. 2025 can be your best year yet. Give yourself that gift.   Big hugs and all my support -   Charlotte   PS: If you’d like my help figuring out the missing link in your farm and life that dramatically increases profit and fulfillment, book a strategy session with me to see if Farm Marketing Boot Camp will work for you.   Book with me HERE to see if it’ll work for you.

    24 min

  2. NOV 14

    #224: The Top Five Beliefs of Successful Farmers

    Let's Meet HERE to See if Farm Marketing Boot Camp, My 12 Week Coaching Program, Is For You What if having a successful farm could be as simple as choosing to think differently? You may be tempted to doubt, but please hang in here with me for a minute. Today, on the Profitable Mindset Podcast, I shatter some of the biggest myths about what makes a successful farm. For a decade now, I've interviewed and studied the successful farmers inside my coaching program. I've made notes of what they're doing that's different from the mainstream. The BIGGEST difference between those who have calm and profitable farms and everyone else is that balanced, calm, profitable farmers consistently think and, therefore, act differently. No matter how small or how big their farm. No matter where they're located or what kind of website they have. They've curated a set of beliefs through coaching that allows them to build sustainable, profitable farms. In today's episode, I outline these beliefs that will create your success, too. The farmers I study know without a doubt that the unique methodology we use inside the coaching boot camp is why they were able to let go of outdated beliefs that kept them stuck and believe useful and productive thoughts instead. If you'd like my support in applying this unique methodology,​Click HERE to see if you qualify.​ Here's to your farm success,🎉 Charlotte

    25 min

  3. NOV 7

    #223: Five Mistakes that Prevent You From Ever Making Money on Your Farm

    Let's Meet HERE to See if Farm Marketing Boot Camp is for you. I met with a farmer this week who said he’s never paid himself on his farm.😔   He raises beef cows, pigs and chickens.   Right afterward, a flower farmer asked for coaching because she’s paying everyone else BUT herself - and she’s doing most the work.🙅‍♀️   These two farmers are both making the same five mistakes a lot of farmers makes, no matter how many years they’ve been farming.   And there’s a good chance you can relate to them, too.   If you’re not yet profitable…   If you’re not paying YOURSELF for your farm work, including the business side of things…   Then Episode 223 of the Profitable Mindset Podcast will help you.   And here’s what I know    The sooner you fix these five things, the better.   The longer you wait to fix these things, the harder - and more costly - it is to turn them around.   We clear up these five mistakes in Farm Marketing Boot Camp.   Curious if Farm Marketing Boot Camp will work for you?   Let’s meet and see.   Click HERE to book a free strategy session with me.    We’ll chat on Zoom about your farm and what roadblocks you might be experiencing, and I’ll show you the path through those blocks.   Remember - your community needs and wants the wonderful farm products you produce. I’ll help you get them into their hands.   Thank you for being here and allowing me space in your world.   Hugs,   Charlotte

    26 min

  4. OCT 24

    #222: Four Simple Steps to Create More Time and Profit on Your Farm: Free Master Class

    This free master class is happening online October 28th, 10 AM PT — don’t miss out! ​>>Click HERE to save your seat now​ Raise your hand if you think or say the following: I never stop or sit down - I feel guilty, like I should be doing something productive because there's so much to do! I'm overwhelmed daily with all that needs to be done on the farm and in the house. I want to be "present" with my family, but I'm constantly thinking about what I should be doing instead. I'm exhausted, burned out, and need a break, but I don't see how that's possible. Then, I beat myself up, self-sabotage, for all the above. :( Good news - I've got help for you. There are four steps I'm teaching on Monday, October 28th, that will help you learn the skill of eliminating the overwhelm that most farmers find themselves in. You can't overwork and hustle your way to a profitable farm. That will never work. Instead, you've got to learn the skill of managing your mind in a way that creates calm and focused productivity... ...instead of constantly reacting, scrambling, and overworking. It starts with learning the Four Steps. ​Click HERE to Join Me Live Monday, Oct. 28th.​   If you can't attend live, sign up anyway, and you'll receive the limited-time replay. I'm looking forward to meeting you! Charlotte Plus, you'll hear about my Master Your Time/Master Your Life Coaching Program, where farmers eliminate overwhelm, find 10-20 hours per week.

    5 min

  5. OCT 16

    #221: The Simple Time Management Exercise The Most Successful Farmers Swear By

    Let's Meet HERE to See if Time Management For Farmers: Six-Week Boot Camp is for you. It truly sucks to wake up each day, and you can’t get started on new things because you’re still catching up on yesterday’s unfinished tasks. Or last week’s. Or last season’s unfinished tasks and projects and goals. I get it! That used to be me - and it’s okay if this is you. But here’s the problem: You won’t ever become profitable if you haven’t mastered using a calendar. Yes. It’s that crucial of a skill. The most successful farmers I work with have learned to prepare before the week starts. If you’re trying to prepare when you’re in reaction mode because you’ve started the day responding to all that needs to be done, you’re already behind the ball. I’ve got two resources today to help you. This resource is free and is today’s episode of the Profitable Mindset Podcast. Listen now. It’s a simple time management exercise the farmers in my program do to create huge success. 2. Sign up for my free time management training for farmers: ​How to create MORE time and MORE money on your farm.​ Success won’t happen if you don’t learn how to master calendaring and then master your follow-through of the calendar. If calendaring, planning, and scheduling sounds confining - it’s NOT. The farmers I work with will tell you it’s the most freeing thing they do because things get done, and their free time is totally free. It might seem like such a complete fantasy now. But this IS possible for you, too. Life’s too short for you to be spinning in overwhelm. Today’s resources will move you ahead and help you WIN at life. Imagine going to bed each day and then waking up each morning feeling accomplished. Complete. Free. In control. And productive. This skill is available for you, too. Let me show you.

    20 min

  6. OCT 10

    #220: Julia's Farm Journey: From Resentful to Fulfilled, Well-Paid, Full-Time Mom

    Let's Meet HERE to See if Time Management For Farmers: Six-Week Boot Camp is for you.  Julia Bell knows firsthand how grueling it is to show up to farmers markets week after week…   …when you’re not making money.   She wanted to give up and quit several times in their 9-year farm journey.   She felt resentful of working for years, not paying herself a dime.   She just wanted to be a wife and mom to her three young boys.   Julia worked so hard in my program these last few years and she’s finally reached her dream.   In Julia’s words: “There’s no shortcut to the top.”   “And there’s no quick fix to anything worth having long term.”   So many farmers think the solution to making money is to just work harder on the farm.    But please hear me - that’ll never get you there.   You can’t work hard enough to overcome not knowing the skills of money making, time management, and mindset. What I call the “three pillars of a profitable farm.”   Julia put in the hard work - coaching with me for years - to learn and implement money-making, time management and a profitable mindset.   “We’ve used your program to build a sustainable and profitable farm.”   “We pay people to do the hard labor so I can do the things only I can do - be a wife and mother.”   “And I’m well-paid for the marketing work I do for our farm.”   “Now I have a feeling of peace, I’m present with my kids, in my home, where I want to be, and money’s coming in.”   “This is how good it can be when we do the scary things you teach of raising our prices, hiring the help, training the help, and managing our own mindset around it all.”   It used to be impossible for them to get away on vacation. But today, Julia and Blake, and their boys take multiple camping trips each summer as a family and several other vacations throughout the year.   Julia’s finally living the life she only dreamed of and for years did NOT think it was possible.   Hear Julia’s farm journey to get their farm profitable over the last few years.   And please know - this is for you, too.   Julia says, “Farm on your own without coaching and be miserable and overworked and feel like a lost fish.”   “OR, you can use this program to have all the resources you need to build a profitable farm and a fulfilling life.”   For Julia, that fulfilling wife means she's:   A mother. A wife. A farmer. Making money. With peace and fulfillment.   Please listen to her powerful story of hope on the Profitable Mindset podcast today.   And know - if you’re looking for something to get you profitable NOW or in a month or two… it’ll never work.   Farms become profitable when the owners take time to grow and learn the marketing and mindset skills to do it.   If you’re interested in building the peaceful and fulfilling life Julia has, let’s meet up on Zoom HERE and see if we’re a good fit.   Warmly,   Charlotte

    35 min

  7. SEP 19

    #219: How to Stop Resenting The Overwhelm of Farm Life

    Find 10-20 Hours in Your Farm Week: Meet Me HERE and Learn About Time Management For Farmers: Six-Week Boot Camp Are you tired of just "surviving" life?  It's not just you. I meet so many overwhelmed and stressed farmers. It IS the nature of the business we signed up for.  But if we don't learn to manage for the overwhelm and stress... ...we start to resent the people, animals, kids, customers - anyone who demands our time.  I remember being so desperate to get out of overwhelm that I'd daydream about the farm disappearing, and I'd wake up in a studio apartment with a simple 40-hour-a-week job. I knew it was bad and affecting my health, but I didn't know how to get out from under it all. I learned, and now I teach farmers the same time and life-management strategies and mindsets that saved me six years ago when I felt like I hit bottom. Listen to Today's Episode of the Profitable Mindset Podcast Overwhelm prevents us from making money, and more importantly, it's making us sick. Then, we end up beating ourselves up for it all. Well, I say, “No more!” Today’s episode is about learning to drop the guilt and start creating space for you to get out of overhwhem. I hope you’ll try the exercise I teach on the podcast today. I’ve been right where you are. And when I implemented this, my whole life changed and I had to share with you. Now, I spend my life teaching farmers how to make money. And it starts with learning to manage your time. And step one in learning to manage your time… is the skill I teach today. Tune in and give it a try! Warmly, Charlotte Interested in finding 10-20 hours in your week? That's what farmers do in my Time Management for Farmers Boot Camp.  It's a six-week coaching program that includes my Master Your Time/Master Your Life online course, plus live coaching. It's life-changing. ​Click HERE to meet me on Zoom and see if it's right for you

    32 min

  8. AUG 28

    #218: How This English Teacher Quit Her Day Job to Farm Full-Time

    Click HERE to Sign Up for my Free Live Training: 3 Crucial Pillars for a Profitable Farm When we start our farms, we often have this secret thought...   "Wouldn't it be great if we could support ourselves full-time on the farm and quit our day jobs?"   And then you get further into the business and realize how expensive it is. How hard the work is. How stressful it is. And you start to doubt.   Today you're in for a treat that’ll curb your doubts and give you hope.   Brooke Palmer, a winter tulip farmer near Ithaca New York, is sharing her success story on the Profitable Mindset Podcast.   She joined my program two years ago, frazzled, teaching during the day and squeezing in farming every other moment of the day and night.   She didn't enjoy selling. She didn't even know how to sell - her process was stressful and time-consuming.   Once she joined Farm Marketing Mastery, she studied and implemented the three pillars I teach over the year. She raised her prices. She started selling efficiently and calmly.   She sold out. She re-joined for a second year. She continued getting my feedback and coaching, improving her selling and time management.   This year Brooke fulfilled her dream of quitting her high-school teaching job to farm full-time.   She learned the skills I teach so her farm could replace her income.   Please know that she's no different than you and I.    Brooke's here to share her journey so you can have hope and confidence that you can build a profitable farm, too.   Perhaps you want to quit your day job, retire your spouse, or just make enough to contribute financially to the household.   You can.    I interview my students regularly on the podcast, so you can know this is available to you, too.   Building a profitable farm is a learned skill.    Please, let that sink in. When you learn the skill of creating time, money and mind management, you will notice huge financial growth.   Farm Marketing Mastery is opening up soon.   If you're considering joining and have any hesitations or questions - let's meet on Zoom. This is not a sales call. This private meeting is so I can get to know you and your needs and see if the program is a good fit.    You can schedule that 25 min. 1-1 with me by clicking HERE.   I would LOVE to meet you!   Hugs,   Charlotte

    46 min
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You may be the farmer or married to the farmer - this podcast will help you balance family and merge your personal needs with your farm demands. You can have a profitable biz AND a lovely, fulfilled life. I teach you personal development tools & strategies to finally conquer overwhelm and the feeling that you're not doing enough in your family or in your business. You'll learn step-by-step how to create the results you want in life!

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  • Creator
    Charlotte Smith
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2024
  • Episodes
    232
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    © ProfitableMindset.com
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