Unleashed Podcast

Kristina Sjolund
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UNLEASHED, for a no BS approach to building a business and creating the results required for success! Hot business tips, Growth Mindset tips, Self-Care techniques, Interviews with the best + brightest women in the industry, all with an Unleashed Real Straight Talk approach!

  1. 05/12/2021

    72-Starting Over ~ Life Edition

    •   My advice, the only advice I can give is what worked for me. Now, maybe that doesn't work for the next person. Maybe, you know, one of the people who came to me, maybe they don't have that kind of faith in God, maybe they don't have that kind of relationship. Maybe they don't have that kind of trust. Maybe, I don't know. All I can do is say, This is what worked for me. I handed it over, I've had people say, How do you even hand it over? What does that even mean? I can tell you what it means to me, and I can tell you how I told my kids how I taught them how to hand it over in situations that was too much for them.  (4:18) •    What is your definition of giving up? Because you still have to go on... You still have to wake up every day. You still have to put one foot in front of the other, is it rolling over and letting whatever happen take over and beat you, or is it to rise above it and create a plan and recreate something more than you had before? So what would you choose? We've talked about the 90-day plan and we've gone into detail with it, I've provided a download for it on my website as well, this isn't just for building a business plan, it can be for anything, any goal you have, it is a road map to a goal, now, there are a lot of people, especially entrepreneurs. When you think goals, you think of business goals... Well, that's how we operate. However, guess what? There's more to life than business. (6:45) •   And there is life after divorce, so to be able to tell someone, don't waste time dwelling on the past. Embrace your memories. Embrace the good times. Here's another thing that I feel is really, really important, when I say, don't dwell on the negative things of the past, learn from them, make sure that you don't repeat any behaviors or repeat things fall into traps.  (13:44) •    I knew that I was worth it. I knew that I was the example for my kids, and I knew that they watched me and our kids become a product of their environment, and we've got to create that environment wisely, so start recognizing the things that make you happy. And you'll be surprised what you find out. It most likely is not gonna be necessarily something that you want, it may be something that you already have for me, it's my deck, it's my backyard, it's my sanctuary outside where I'm able to get in touch with myself, I'm able to sit in that quiet. (18:48)   LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED... • Kristina's Website: https://kristinasjolund.com • Unleashed Facebook Group: http://unleashedinsiders.com • Kristina’s Instagram: @kristinaunleashed   WHEN DOES IT AIR... MAY 12, 2021

    21 min

  2. 05/05/2021

    71-Encore: Don’t Live DOWN to a Label, Live UP TO Your POTENTIAL

    KEYNOTES DISCUSSED: •  We go through our lives and we have these dreams, we've got these expectations of our lives, and we sit here and we wonder, how do we get there? How do we reach this goal? Now, believe it or not, there are some people who don't have those kind of visions, those kind of dreams, but most likely those people aren't listening to this podcast. Because they just, they don't have visions like you do. You have visions of something that you want to happen in your life, you've got a place, you've got somewhere that you want to go...a goal to get to. (02:16) •  That's the kind of world that we live in now, everybody labels and the world of social media is vicious. Social media, it has helped a lot of people. It's helped me. If I didn't have social media, I wouldn't have been able to reach the people that I've been able to reach to build my business and create the connections that I've had that have moved me forward in my life. But I'll tell you this, that social media can be just as vicious, and what I want you to do is break the chains of that, I don't want you living in the chains of the labels. And I don't care who it is, I don't care if it is your family, your friends, your spouse or your kids. (04:11) •  If you're listening to this, I hope that you are a believer. I am a believer, I have faith, I know that God is real, I know that. I will tell you something, we have been blessed beyond measure in my family, and I know why, I know why, I don't live by somebody else's labels, I don't live by somebody else's judgment, I'm only judged by one, and that's not even me. Even though sometimes I sit here, and I might make judgments about my pictures and stuff like that, but that's not truth. (5:28) •  I'll never forget that. I am mad that I did believe it, but also it drove me to be more... It drove me to be more than that. It drove me to be something that I was told that I couldn't be successful. But whose idea of success are we living up to? Is it our idea of success, is it somebody else's idea of success? Because let me also tell you this, that once you reach a level of success, you're then criticized by a lot of the same people who told you that you couldn't do something, who told you that you couldn't do just that, and then you did. (8:09) •  It doesn't even take money, your faith is free, your faith and your belief in yourself is free. It doesn't cost you anything to move forward, you've got to take action though, if you want to be successful in any way. If you want to be able to pay your bills. Okay, that to me, there's a success right there. If you can pay your bills with comfort and still be able to breathe and enjoy your family later on, that to me, my friends, is success, winning. Continue winning. I love winning. (10:32)   LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED… • Kristina's Website: https://kristinasjolund.com • Unleashed Facebook Group: https://.unleashedinsiders.com • Kristina’s Instagram: @kristinaunleashed   WHEN DOES IT AIR… MAY 05, 2021

    15 min

  3. 04/28/2021

    70-What Would You Do If You Lost Everything?

    •   So it's something that you're going to have to keep going back to, it's the map. It's what you do. It's kind of like throwing spaghetti against the wall, you can just kind of go with things any way, but you're going to really want to have this foundation and do this every time with every business that you build. (4:38) •  What type of business is it, and why does it exist? So your mission statement, or your mission statement is your business's reason for existing, and what it represents. So if you think about Tesla, Tesla, their mission statement is to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy. Tesla and Elon Musk, they've got their vision and they're working towards it every single day. The dude doesn't stop...he literally does not stop. (7:39) •  You have to set boundaries. So I won't sacrifice my important time with my kids, all time with my kids is important. Right? But I remember there was our 20-year class reunion, and I was supposed to go... I hadn't been... I think I missed my 10 year, and I was supposed to go to the 20-year. I was really looking forward to it, but my daughter had a race, she raced quarter midgets, and I was like, Man, I really don't want to miss this race because she gets really excited about it and everything. Okay, so I did not go to the reunion, and thank God I didn't, because that was her first race that she won that day, had I gone, I would have missed that. (12:32) •  So, you're going to use social media, messenger, posts, groups, wherever you're going to have your contacts, share posts and whatnot. You can use phone. Now these, these are just five ideas, these are not set in stone, if you've got other ways to be able to do it, write those down. Whatever it is that you're going to be launching. These are just ideas. Alright, so phone, where you're going to use your phone for texting, person-to-person voice calls, communication apps such as Marco Polo, that's like a video texting service, voice texting, but your best way is to have an actual live conversation. (17:51) •  While you're building that up and dripping in and the social media design, map out your messages. So I had in the beginning, I had eight podcast subjects, eight subjects that I wanted to speak on, and then I just started mapping those out, I started creating the message for each of those, and then go ahead and work on strengthening your business plan because the stronger your foundation, the better. And the stronger and longer it's going to be around. Don't feel the need for it to be perfect, you just need it to be there. You've got to just have that vision to start with, and remember why you're doing it. (24:10)   LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED... • Kristina's Website: https://kristinasjolund.com • Unleashed Facebook Group: http://unleashedinsiders.com • Kristina’s Instagram: @kristinaunleashed   WHEN DOES IT AIR... APRIL 28, 2021

    30 min

  4. 04/21/2021

    69-Staff Pick: Encore of Indicators for Business and Life with Kelly Cardenas

    •  And it really started with my mom, my mom wrapped us up with love, we didn't have the most traditional upbringing, but she wrapped us in love, so it almost gave us the rose colored glasses to our whole entire life, and the things that they constantly said, I've paraphrased now, but it's a phrase that I use with my kids, which is, I'm perfectly wonderful, made in the image of God. (02:43) •  I don't believe that my parents believe that I could do anything, they believed in who I was as an individual, and I think that this was probably the most instrumental thing, that for me, because they didn't ask me to be my brother, they didn't ask me to be in those things, and my daughter said it to me the other day, which is awesome. I said, Be yourself, always. (04:48) •  It was desperation, it wasn't like an entrepreneurial spirit, it was like, we got free lunch at school, so we are got five tickets for free because we didn't have enough money to be able to get lunch, and then me and my brother would sell them and then we would buy the kind of lunch that we wanted. (8:24) •  I want to write it like I talk... When you read the book, and my take on this, I like when you read a book, it's like we're having a conversation like and I may not win a A in  how to write a book, but that was me, it came from my voice, and so I had wanted to do it for so long, and then my wife literally said, Why don't you shut up and go do it. (11:49) •  It's like when they're out of sync makes things a little bit difficult and you have little challenges, and it's about adaptability, and when things start changing what we're in now, we need to adapt to the world. I don't like the whole new normal thing, it makes me a little bit crazy, but we do have to roll with it. (16:05)   LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED... • Kristina's Website: https://kristinasjolund.com • Unleashed Facebook Group: http://unleashedinsiders.com • Kristina’s Instagram: @kristinaunleashed • Kelly Cardenas' Website: https://www.kellycardenas.com   WHEN DOES IT AIR... April 21, 2021

    24 min

  5. 04/14/2021

    68-Encore Presentation: Who Inspires Me - My Interview with Danelle Delgado

    ABOUT DANELLE: The now serial entrepreneur Danelle Delgado began her journey when faced with raising her three small children on her own. Forced to make a change she went from working three jobs, 80-90 hours a week, and struggling to survive, to award-winning success in business by persisting her way in to align with some of the world’s most renowned business experts and gained them as her personal mentors. After years of high-level learning with them, she built some of the fastest growing online business training companies to date. She is a known online influencer and has made a massive impact around the globe from her international speaking career, best-selling book, “I Choose Joy” and her unmatched skills guiding entrepreneurs both online and off to scale their companies to a million and their lives to ultimate fulfillment. From her renowned elite retreats and online training platforms to her wit and skill training from the stage, Danelle has become a household celebrity name training entrepreneurs to become high performers like few ever will. Although her work is her heartbeat, her dream is now a reality as she lives blessed beyond measure with her three kids, boy & girl twins age 11, and daughter 13 in Colorado, teaching them to live the life they are capable of as well. Join me and learn more...   SHOW NOTES: •   First of all, I want you to share your story with everybody who's listening, because I feel like there's a lot of people who see very successful people, and they think that those people just have always been successful. They've always had money, or they've always been in that top percent, and I want you to share where you came from, where your situation when you decided, I'm not going to stay in this place.(03:27) •   Because I feel like it's similar to where I grew up, I never really knew anything outside of go to school, get a job, work your way up, do everything you can to impress your family, make them proud of you serve, serve, serve. I was raised in the church, and I just tried to always follow the rules, so I think the turning point for me was when I followed all the rules, and life still tanked that I knew something had to be wrong with the rules. It's kind of like what's going on in the world right now. Everybody's just wondering and following a set of rules that they stood by for so long and they don't realize that sometimes they need to find their own. (05:11) •   It was everything I knew and believed in, so I was determined to make it work. So, I got involved with network marketing, and I was officially the worst human they'd ever seen, I was so afraid and so broken down, and I sucked at sales. I knew nothing about sales, I was doing phone TV, internet as electricity, I was disconnecting people's phones, I was screwing it up, royally. People are like, we've had this phone over in our family for generations, I'm like, Well, isn't it nice to bring in the new year with new, and they're like, No, it's not. And I was like, I'm really sorry. So I was really, really bad. Even my mentors who were some of the top 10 in the world, I think it was just a gift they were given to me, were like, Honey, you're not great at this, like maybe you should seek other avenues and work on this on the side for the next decade and see if it'll work. (09:20) •   I really think I build their bravery enough to where they're brave enough, and we can have this conversation, the pin drop. And I'm like, I can build a business around that. So it's really helping someone be confident enough in that inner idea for a moment, and if they give me a moment, I can lay out a plan and a strategy for almost everything. Because my life was like three kids on my own having to do everything school, sports, house, everything, and I had to be so strategic in my every move that I can see someone's strategy from a mile away. They're like, it's the how I've got, it's the what that I need your help with.  (16:17) •   You've got the ripple effect. But a big one, and I feel like there are... How do I phrase this? So now I watch your Friday night lives and your posts and everybody, and all of the comments, and I think because I know you, and that it's not that I take it for granted, but I know how special you are, and not just me but to me and my girls, and I see all of those people who see you and you're such an inspiration to them, and I know that you inspire them so much and they just want to be in your presence. (36:31)   LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED... • Kristina's Website: https://kristinasjolund.com • Unleashed Facebook Group: http://unleashedinsiders.com • Kristina’s Instagram: @kristinaunleashed • Danelle Delgado’s Website: https://danelledelgado.com   WHEN DOES IT AIR... APRIL 14, 2020

    44 min

  6. 04/07/2021

    67-Josh Wilson Founder of Glory Apparel

    • So if you go really back to the beginning of where I have come from, I've come from absolute poverty, and I come from a place of absolute brokenness, not just financially or economically, but really mentally and emotionally, so the journey has been an amazing one, and it's been a long one, and it really does start with being in a place of desperation. (4:20) • They're dealing with financial fears and ramifications, what's going to happen with the housing market, there's just so many different things, and I think that's one thing that I've been able to really find us that hope, and I just want to encourage everybody today that... Number one, there is hope, there's hope for you in your situation, there's hope for you no matter what, if God can take me from where I was a broken strung out meth addict, shooting up at 19 years old, weighing 122 pounds. And it introduced me to an encounter with Jesus, a real tangible encounter, and it took me where I am today; to a stable father, husband, servant, entrepreneur that can help do something from my generation. There's absolutely no reason you can't do it for each and every one of us. (5:25) • It was something that maybe you didn't have growing up, so that's something that we call grace, and there's a reason that that's important today is because you have received grace, Kristina, I have received tremendous grace, we are both products of grace and transformation, and that very idea is why, I felt moved to start finding ways that I could do something to touch a generation. (6:36) • We're building, or we just built a 41000 litre water tank in an area within Tanzania, and near that school, in the vicinity of the region that has never had fresh water before, now, the fresh water itself is a massive impact, they literally drink water out of three massive holes that are dug in the ground, when it rains, but keep in mind, it's a drought area, so it doesn't always get rained, so water is limited. Water is dirty. So this water thing that we're building, I want the help of some of our supporters and some of the local business community is a life-changing thing. (16:17) • You know what, not everybody is called to go to Tanzania and build a water source, but not everybody is called to go down to South America and do a bunch of work down there, but you know what we've got? We've got a humanitarian mission field every day when we walk out the front door, and if we can just be intentional about encouraging somebody, lifting somebody up, finding a need and filling it. And I know that sounds so cliche, but it's really true. Gotta look beyond ourselves, and sometimes in our greatest trials, in our moments of grief and struggle financially or with COVID or whatever it might be, I think that sometimes the key is stopped fighting for yourself and release that and begin to fight for somebody else.  (22:17)   LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED... • Kristina's Website: https://kristinasjolund.com • Unleashed Facebook Group: http://unleashedinsiders.com • Kristina’s Instagram: @kristinaunleashed   CONNECT WITH JOSH WILSON... • Josh's Website: https://www.gloryapparelbrand.com   WHEN DOES IT AIR... APRIL 07, 2021

    27 min

  7. 03/31/2021

    66-Habit Hacking: Control Your Time So It Doesn’t Control You with Special guest Amanda Hodgson

    •   How are people to grow if they don't have somebody there who's going to be straight up with you? You know what I do? I struggle with it because it's obviously quite confronting, so you have to find a way to communicate with people that suits them, that they'll hear it. (3:08) •  What's a big goal? Whether that's health, business or other things, and then map it out and don't even worry about it. Like your goal is there, if you follow this plan, you will get that all you need to do is check off these boxes every day, every week, every month, and that will be yours in the time that we allocated.    (5:37) • Start to become very self-aware, and know the layer of that is a lot of people don't trust themselves to know what's good for them, for themselves. So it teaches you self-trust and you start to make decisions and say what you follow through on and what you've done it, and you can start to listen to yourself a little bit better, so it actually works on many layers.  (10:53) •  So I think that this is an accumulation of my mindset strategies from, I played basketball for a really long time, so knowing how to last the longevity of a game, or what happens when you're down, and what happens when you're out? How do you protect your lead? How do you gain momentum? How do you get to where you need to be by the end of the third quarter?   (14:35) • So my job is to come in and go, Well, let's just strategize, how can we make that model? What if we strategize that so you could sit on the couch and be with you girls and not think, I've got a 100 things to do. It doesn't sound sexy, what I do isn't sexy, and it's not hard to understand. But it's challenging and confronting.  (19:44)   LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED... • Kristina's Website: https://kristinasjolund.com • Unleashed Facebook Group: http://unleashedinsiders.com • Kristina’s Instagram: @kristinaunleashed   WHEN DOES IT AIR... MARCH 31, 2021

    27 min

  8. 03/24/2021

    65-Network Marketing: How to Know if it's Right for You

    •  You are going to people with a solution, and I am really big about being a product of the product, I'm not going to go out and sell something to somebody and not know about it, I'm no going to sell something to somebody just to put some money in my pocket,  and I'm not  going to be a product of the product. I am going to share my story with someone, I'm going to share what this did for me. And in hopes of being able to solve an issue for that person, I'm hoping that this can do for them what it did for me, and that goes for the product and for the opportunity. (4:45) •  So these are the things I want you to ask yourself, did they look down on that person who they bought that Tupper Wear, Or that Pampered Chef item from... So what makes you think that they're going to look down on you? You're just trying to make something better. You are doing what it takes in order to better your financial position, you should be applauded. And someone who is not applauding you should be ignored, you should not put any merit to what they are saying.  (9:12) •  No, not even talking about the financial aspect of it. I'm talking that I am friends with some of the best people on the planet, and I am blessed with their friendships. People all over the planet. I've got friends in England, I've got friends, one of my good friends is in Australia. I mean, people are all over the place, but most of all, it can give you freedom, it can give you so many different types of freedom, it can give you the time freedom... That is the biggest thing for me. Time freedom, where I am able to spend time with my kids. (16:19) •  My concentration was on my kids in my business, books, you're going to be wanting to read or listen to books... Whatever works for you. Whether you like the audible books, oh my gosh, there's so many of them. There are so many of them, you're going to want to be reaching out to people, you're going to be wanting to grow your network of contacts, you're going to be wanting to meet new people all the time. You've gotta be growing your network at all times, you're gonna probably be putting in more hours than what you expect. Because there are a lot of people who get into network marketing and they think that it's just going to happen, they think that they can be home with the babies and not have to do anything. You've got to put in the work.   (18:56) •   There are going to be some obstacles you're ging to have to overcome, you're going to have to figure out the urgency with this, what is your why? How fast do you want to get your goals?  What are your goals? Keep them in mind, keep them in the forefront of your mind all the time. And most of all, you're going to have to be coachable and you're going to have to learn a lot... I know, I did. I remember when I first started this, I thought I knew because I had been in other companies before, when I started with this one, I thought I knew everything, Oh my... was I wrong. So that really makes me laugh thinking about that, I'm like, Wow, yeah, I have come a long way in my knowledge, so it's going to take a lot, it's going to take dedication, but you absolutely deserve it.  (20:39)   LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED... • Kristina's Website: https://kristinasjolund.com • Unleashed Facebook Group: http://unleashedinsiders.com • Kristina’s Instagram: @kristinaunleashed   WHEN DOES IT AIR... MARCH 24, 2021

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  • Creator
    Kristina Sjolund
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2021
  • Episodes
    72
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2020 Unleashed Podcast. KatrinaSjolund.com
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