Time to Level Up Andrea Liebross

Things might be heating up with summer approaching, but do you feel drained instead of energized right now?
Things in your life and business feel like a heavy lift. You’ve delayed projects that you thought would be great for your business or have something on your to-do list that never got done, and it’s weighing you down mentally.

Sometimes you need to do a little spring cleaning--of both the physical and non-physical kind--to access what’s zapping your energy, eliminate it, and help you get some of your energy back.
In this episode of Time to Level Up, you’ll learn about several areas in your life and business where saboteurs can be sucking away your energy right now. I’ll also teach you some strategies for spring cleaning your life and small business of these annoying energy zappers so you can feel re-energized.
6:14 - The 1st place to look for energy zappers in your life and business
8:09 - Guilty of this? The 2nd thing that can be zapping your energy
11:01 - Another area where things might not be working for you anymore
13:20 - Does this area of your business still reflect who you are?
16:08 - A common place where things can pile up in your business and take away your energy
19:33 - The last piece of the puzzle to re-energize your life and business
Mentioned In What Is Zapping My Energy? Spring Clean To Re-Energize Your Life and Business
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Are you a CEO who avoids the truth of your numbers?
Maybe you’re afraid to find out. And by the time you do, it might be too late. But when you really start to understand what cash flow is, your revenue goes up and your anxiety goes down.
So how do you turn this from something that makes you fearful to something that gives you empowerment? I’ve invited author and CPA Melissa Houston to the Time to Level Up podcast to help you better understand numbers and money and how to create profit in your business.
And if you think this has to be complicated, then you’re in for a surprise. People have it completely backward when it comes to managing money. And once you know why, you’re a step ahead to becoming a more cash confident CEO.
So in this next installment of the “Business Audit to Create Business Awesome” series, you’ll learn the five steps in Melissa’s cash confident system to generate more revenue and profit in your business. She’ll also teach you about the three people you need to make sure you get a grip on your numbers.
2:58 - Why Melissa started her business
5:00 - The 1st step and where the disconnect between money and numbers comes from
8:03 - A quick rundown of steps 2-5 of Melissa’s framework and the small thinking of many women entrepreneurs
11:45 - How bookkeepers and accountants differ and what a CFO does
16:28 - The most important business number to track and what to do before you calculate your profit
19:08 - The importance of having a financial plan and how it helps your cash management
23:14 - If you’re just starting your business and feel anxious about investing any capital into it
25:23 - What happens when business owners adopt the five steps and really put them into action?
Connect with Melissa Houston
Melissa Houston is a CPA, speaker, author, and is the founder of She Means Profit, a podcast and blog that teaches successful business owners how to increase their profit margins so they keep more money in their pocket and increase their net worth. Melissa is the author of the Simon & Schuster book Cash Confident and a contributor at ForbesWomen.
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Mentioned In 5 Steps To Being a More Cash Confident CEO with Melissa Houston
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Summer’s coming. This is one of those times of the year when people get really busy. And ironically, when you’re already busy, you feel inclined to want to be even more productive, even start something new.
But the kids are home from school now. Your aging parents might need greater care. Or you might just be making summer travel plans. And as a mom, a daughter, a friend, etc., you want to be in the present with those you care about. You want that work/life balance you fear won’t achieve.
But what if you could shift your thinking to the whole idea of work/life balance? What if you adopted a new frame of mind to put less pressure and stress on yourself to pull away and focus on other things in your life?
In this episode of Time to Level Up, you’ll learn about three things you need to consider that’ll help you reframe the whole work/life balance concept. I’ll also teach you what helps you create what you’re looking for when preventing burnout.
7:44 - How striving for work/life balance can lead to burnout
9:38 - What you need to stop believing and forgive yourself for
11:18 - How fear gets mixed up in your attempts at work/life balance (and what it really means when it happens)
16:45 - What you need to protect (and might need to revisit)
21:03 - What really helps you tackle the guilt about work/life balance and eliminate decision fatigue

Mentioned In How to Reframe Work/Life Balance So That It Works For You
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As humans, we tend to want to follow what’s been done before. But when you think outside the box, other people often want to talk you out of it or warn you away from it.
Let’s say you have a vision for who you want to serve in your business or how you want to structure it. But that vision is... unusual (perhaps even brand new) for your industry.
Jill Hart is a certified real estate specialist and real estate consulting company owner. For a while, she worked with various age groups. But she had a vision of specifically catering to senior citizens--helping them sell their homes and manage every aspect of their move more easily.
However, she realized that others in the industry couldn’t really see the value in her vision. So for the past two years, she and I have worked together, culminating in her senior real estate consulting company. 
In this episode of Time to Level Up, you’ll learn through Jill’s story about how the determination to do things your way (no matter what others say) helps give you the business and lifestyle you really desire. She reveals how she acted on her vision so it could come to fruition and the internal and external obstacles she had had to overcome along the way.
4:09 - Jill’s journey as a real estate entrepreneur and why she wanted to work with senior citizens exclusively
9:04 - What giving yourself permission to outsource can allow you to do
14:35 - How focusing only a sellers helps Jill with business and lifestyle design
17:02 - A mindset Jill had that might be holding you back too
19:13 - How I helped Jill organize her ideas into a doable list
22:40- The difference between having a coach within your industry and working with an outside coach
25:38 - The value that Jill provides her client
28:45 - Jill’s advice on leveling up

Mentioned In Commit to Your Vision of the Business and Lifestyle You Want with Jill Hart
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Dreaming and looking ahead kind of gets overlooked as a fluffy topic sometimes. Some people might even call it a little woo-woo.
But everything that exists now (or will exist in the future) started as a dream--a vision--for someone. The iPhone in your hand, the car you drive to and from the grocery store, even the chairs you sit in while working or watching TV--all of it was in the mind of someone like Steve Jobs before it became something you could experience in reality.
Not all visions involve the invention of revolutionary devices, of course. But having a dream drives us all when it comes to your life and business. What’s involved in creating a vision that’ll light you up and satisfy your soul?
While I’ve talked about visioning and thinking ahead before, today I want to talk about it in a slightly different way. So in this episode of Time to Level Up, you’ll learn why goals and visions aren’t the same, how internal family systems can influence your relationship with your vision, what to do to make the achievement of your dream faster and easier, and much more!
3:49 - How a vision is different from a goal
5:56 - What is your vision for the future?
9:14 - How you think and feel about your dream
11:51 - Your relationship with your vision and the positives of sharing your vision
14:50 - Nurturing a healthy relationship with your dream
16:58 - What makes achieving your vision a whole lot easier
19:47 - What’s your dream going to be? (And what it doesn’t have to be)
Mentioned In How to Create a Vision for the Future of Your Life and Business

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In your business, there isn’t just you. There are the people you serve (your clients or customers), but there’s also your team (colleagues or employees).
Every person on your team is a reflection of your values. So you want to make sure you have the right people serving their roles. But how can you ensure you have the right people, and what do you do when you discover someone on your team who isn’t?
My podcast guest today, Nikki Lewallen Gregory, has a principle she calls “right people, right seat.” And in this continuation of the “Business Audit to Business Awesome” miniseries, she’s here to help you discover who the right people are for your business and explore what it means to have them on your team.
If you have the right people and can effectively leverage them, you create tremendous growth and way more freedom in your business. It’s the key to opening up more time, money, and brainpower than you might have otherwise.
In this episode of Time to Level Up, you’ll learn about this team and leadership aspect of the people component of your business and how to discover and best utilize the important attributes of your team members. Nikki will also teach you what culture code is, why it’s such a workplace gamechanger and more!
3:33 - Nikki introduces herself by revealing her “why”
5:44 - How to ensure you’re working with the right people
10:58 - How Nikki describes corporate, business, and organizational culture
15:04 - Why you hold onto people too long (and why you’re not doing them any favors when you do)
17:00 - A recent example of how not to let go of people
18:56 - What is culture code, and what does it look like?
23:58 - How Nikki recently leveled up and what leveling up means to her
Mentioned In Having the Right People In Your Business with Nikki Lewallen Gregory


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