The Aligned Female Entrepreneur Krissy Leonard

I want to share with you a little trick that saves me hundreds of hours and makes me thousands of dollars each week. And it's this.
 
I take a daily walk...
 
I know it sounds so small and seemingly insignificant when it comes to building a six-figure business, but I find when I move my body, I unleash so much more creativity, energy, and clarity. 
 
Somehow, a simple walk in nature transforms the rigidness that can happen when I'm sitting in front of my computer and "trying to get things right." 
 
When we're trying, pushing, and striving, we're often out of alignment. 
 
But when you can align your energy, whether that's through deep breathing, taking a walk, practicing yoga and meditation, whatever it is for you, you'll instantly be creating from a place of alignment. 
 
And chances are, you're going to create much better content, attract many more clients and do only the things that are most important in your business. 
 
When we're feeling tight... when we're feeling scattered... when we wake up and start scrolling through emails or spend 20 hours in front of the computer without a break…we are not creating from a place of alignment; we create from a place of desperation. 
 
And when you can create from that place, you energetically cap your productivity, your inspiration, and ultimately your income. 
 
What is that one thing that you do that instantly brings you back to your center?
 
To that place of alignment, clarity and connection?

In today's episode, we are talking about how to hire your first or next employee.
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I heard that going from zero employees to one is just as difficult as going from 1 to 20. 
I find this to be true. 
I had so much resistance around hiring somebody in my business.
Would I have enough money to pay them?  What if they think I'm a fraud once they see how messy my business is behind the scenes? What if I don't know what to say, or what to have them do?  What if I don't know where all my passwords are? What if I'm not established enough? Who do I think I am to have an assistant or a team? I'm just getting started... But I can tell you that the year I hired my first employee was the same year that my business TRIPLED.
In our hustle culture, it sounds really convincing when the ego tells us that we can “do it all ourselves.” 
That we are the only ones who can do our business and the way that we do it that we're the best, most qualified or the only ones who can ensure our success. 
But the truth is, it's when you are able to grow your business beyond yourself, when you're held accountable to someone or to something bigger than how you're feeling that day, when you push yourself to organize yourself enough to teach somebody how it's done. You're able to expand your capacity tenfold. 
As always you can find me in the comments of this episode at krissyleonard.com, DM me on instagram at @Xokrissyleonard, or send me an email at info@krissyleonard.com

As women, we’re often told we need to choose... 
 
-between being a successful career woman, or a good mother.
 
-between doing work we feel passionate about and making enough money.
 
-between getting to be thin or enjoying pleasure and all of its forms.
 
-and that to be of service to our communities, we need to lower our standards, our prices, or our yearly income.
 
But I am a firm believer that we get to have BOTH.
 
I'm committed to helping women achieve all that they want in their relationships, their career, their finances, and their life. 
 
When we stop sacrificing as a default and start looking for better SOLUTIONS  of how we can hold both with grace, we start to experience radical shifts in our mind and our energy and our lives.
 
I want you to think of somewhere in your business or life where you feel stuck and notice if you might be saying to yourself that you don’t get to have what you REALLY want. That you couldn’t possibly have both.

But what if you could?
 
So next time you find yourself saying... I don't get to have this...or it must be nice for some people who get x y and z. 
 
Practice with me: 
 
I get to have it all. 
It's safe to want what I want.
 
I don't have to choose! 
 
#yestoeverything
 
Let me know in the comments if you agree.
 
As always you can find me in the comments of this episode at krissyleonard.com, DM me on instagram at @Xokrissyleonard, or send me an email at info@krissyleonard.com

I am so excited to welcome Alex Schumann of the Nomadic Kitchen to the podcast today. Alex is a dear client and also the mastermind behind the Nomadic Kitchen, Vermont's first marshmallow confectionery. She is also affectionately known as “The Marshmallow Girl”.
Alexx is on track to scale her business to a quarter million dollars (in just year four!), but what is even more impressive is the way she shows up in her business + community leading from a place of ease, authenticity, and pure delight in what she does.
In this episode, Alexx shares...
How she was able to grow her business to six figures while still taking a month off to travel every year. Why feeling “fear" in your business is a good thing and how to discern between what is scary, but right, and what is not aligned. How to navigate the highs and lows of entrepreneurship with grace so that you can keep going even when times are tough. How "not doing everything herself" and resting more allowed her to grow her business astronomically.  

You can find her at her website: https://www.nomadic-kitchen.com/ and on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/nomadickitchenconfections/

Today we are going to talk about how to recession-proof your business in 2023 and how to use tough times to make yourself and your business even more resilient and profitable than ever before.

So excited to welcome Erin Jackman Bookkeeping, Profit Advisor and Conscious Wealth Coach to the podcast today! 
Most creative, soul-centered entrepreneurs' eyes glaze over when I talk about things like taxes, audits, receipt tracking, etc... because it's not really considered the "sexy" side of entrepreneurship. 
But I promise we will make this as fun and simple for you so that you can set up your business to handle tax time with grace, avoid the financial pitfalls most entrepreneurs make,and feel confident making more and more money... because you know what to do with it! 
In today's episode, we cover:
How to set yourself up in your business to handle tax time gracefully (and NOT need to stress eat a bunch of cookies like I share I did in the episode :)) What is "bookkeeping " and why would you need it? Is this something you can do yourself?  What are the essentials for setting up “good enough” financial systems in your business when starting out? How do you track income if you haven’t set up your business/LLC yet? Do you need a separate bank account for your business expenses and income - why/why not? What is the best way to handle your business taxes if your business is still a side hustle? How do you pay yourself? When do you need to start paying taxes in your business? How do you report your income come tax time and where does that money come from? And SO much more! This is definitely a MUST LISTEN episode.
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