Welcome to the Catalyst Conversations podcast, I’m your host Jennifer Maggiore.  For some of us, being in business is like eating glass every day, but that’s what it’s like being in business, right? Have you ever felt like maybe you just aren’t cut out to cope with the emotional demands of being an entrepreneur? Or if you can be successful AND spiritual? Or maybe you’ve been told that you’re “too sensitive” to hack it in business.  Well get ready, because you’re probably actually “highly sensitive” – a highly sensitive entrepreneur that is!  In this episode I talk with Heather Dominick - a woman who is impressively successful, and highly spiritual I might add.  She’s appeared on Lifetime Television and was published in several books including Stepping Stones to Success alongside Deepak Chopra. She’s been recognized with the 2015 Best of Manhattan Coaching Award and she's the creator of the 2014 Stevie Award winning virtual event A Course In Business Miracles®: 21-Day Discovery Series that attracted close to 6,000 registrants from around the world. Heather is also the founder and leader of the Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur® movement. She helps the 20% of us who are born “highly sensitive” to make sense of our feelings, strong intuition, empathy, and deep thoughts, and feelings when it comes to self-employment. She has helped thousands of clients create solid, sustainable, high level financial success building on the personality traits they once thought of as weaknesses.  She tells us about the coping mechanisms HSEs use – a cycle or fear, pushing and or hiding, and soothing that leaves us mentally, physically, spiritually, and financially drained. She also explains some of the strengths HSEs have, and how they’re different from entrepreneurs who are not highly sensitive. If any of this resonates listen in because you, like me, may be a Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur. 

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Are you a Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur? With Heather Dominick

Maureen Jann is a veteran B2B marketer whose career in Digital Media has grown up with the Internet. She is currently the Founder and Managing Director of SuperDeluxe Marketing, a marketing, content, and thought leadership strategy agency on the outskirts of Seattle. In this episode we talk about how: + she manages time for herself and her family while operating three businesses + how those businesses are what she calls her “insurance policy” + an unconventional lifestyle have made she and her husband happier and more successful We also find out about her dislike for Phil Collins and the month of February  Show Notes + Resources: https://brandwithcatalyst.com/time-management-busy-entrepreneur

An Unconventional Lifestyle: Time Management and the Busy Entrepreneur

Ellia Harris is a Mindful Organization and Productivity Coach. Through her company Mindful Organizing, she works with professionals who are stressed by their messy homes, managing caretaking, and balancing work and family. Working either virtually or onsite, she helps them figure out what to change so they feel confident juggling their busy lives.    As an international speaker, her expert topics are mindful goal-setting, creative problem-solving, clutter-busting, and productivity. Ellia is a member of the NAPO (National Association for Productivity and Organizing Professionals) and is a member of the NAPO Education Committee. We talk about: + knowing your organizing style – are you an “inny” or an “outty” + setting priorities for organizing and focusing on what’s important for success today + Marie Kondo-mania – do you really have to get rid of most of your stuff to stay organized? Show Notes + Resources: https://brandwithcatalyst.com/mindful-organization

Mindful Organization, Marie Kondo-mania, and Productivity with Ellia Harris

Kiola George is a NYC based producer and tech entrepreneur. She has over ten years of media experience with Walt Disney Co. and Screenvision Media. Her latest venture, Heybor™️ is a mobile app that allows users to rate and review residential properties across the US. In addition to her business and career achievements, Kiola is also a mother to 5-year old Zoe. In this episode we talk about how + in spite of her success, she still sometimes suffers from imposter syndrome + she juggles a successful career, a growing business, and parenting her daughter + Heybor is changing the way we find new places to live and connect with our neighbors Kiola has great insights on keeping it all together while growing a business – I’m happy to share them with you.

The Heybor App: Innovating the Way We Connect With Community

Lanette Veres is truly one of my greatest inspirations. She was a top-performing banking relationship manager before she was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 1998 after months of headaches and fatigue. Despite going on to have 5 brain surgeries she founded the Gray Matters Foundation, which serves to bring a smile and hope to patients diagnosed with brain tumors around the world.   We talk about: + the important of knowing you aren’t alone and the gifts that can come from trauma + the challenges she faces in caring for the brain tumor community + how she overcomes deficits caused by her surgeries – that aren’t the same that many of us founders experience - and doesn’t let them hold her back   Show Notes + Resources: https://brandwithcatalyst.com/caring-community Learn more or donate at https://www.graymattersfoundation.org/

Caring for a Community and The Challenges and Gifts in Our Traumas

Katherine Metzalaar is a registered dietician and nutrition therapist, and founder of Brave Space Nutrition and the Body Image Badass Group. She works with clients, many of them burnt out women entrepreneurs who sacrifice themselves and their health for their businesses. She helps them to understand that they are complex beings with unique relationships with food and their bodies – there is no “one size fits all” prescriptive answer to a healthier body.   We talk about: + ditching the diet mentality and unlearning years of unhealthy eating habits from childhood and messages in the media + what intuitive eating is and why it’s so important. + decreasing the stress and anxiety around our food choices + how healing our relationships with our bodies starts with no  longer using weight as a parameter for defining success or failure   Show Notes + Resources: https://brandwithcatalyst.com/self-care-healing-relationships

From Burnt Out to Bad*ass: Self-Care and Healing Our Relationships With Our Bodies

Tish Times is a sales and networking expert, speaker, trainer, author and the founder of Tish Times Networking and Sales. She helps business owners and sales professionals generate more revenue with her process for staying top of mind and closing sales with ease. Tish’s books include Networking is Not a One-Night Stand and 10 Super Simple Networking Steps for Career Success. Most recently Tish has developed the Unstoppable Confidence Sales Academy, a business school that teaches a systematic, sincere, and effective approach to networking and sales to produce lucrative bottom-line results. We talk about: + the one game-changing strategy you can start using today to increase sales + what a repeatable sales process really is and how to create one + why follow up activities are rarely successful -- and how you an change that for your business   Show Notes + Resources: https://brandwithcatalyst.com/sales-strategies

This is Not a One Night Stand: Game Changing Sales Strategies

In this episode, I have the privilege of speaking with my friend and client, Karen Barno, a retreat leader and international motivational speaker. Karen is the CEO of a highly successful organization, is a mentor for women who get to mid-life and wonder “is that all there is?,” and is a certified Shaman and Reiki Master. She shares with us her story of going from broke and homeless to a recognized business leader. We also talk about: + how she overcame abuse as a child, and being incorrectly labeled as “special needs” + when she knew that her drinking was getting out of hand + how her fear of success held her back so many times + the challenges she had to work through to support a successful organization while building her own successful business   Show Notes + Resources: https://brandwithcatalyst.com/broke-and-homeless

Broke + Homeless to CEO + International Motivational Speaker – With Karen Barno

Amanda Welch was always interested in art growing up. By the time she attended the University of Alabama, design was a natural choice, leading her to earn an interior design degree. Today, she works in Seattle, helping high-end clients to create the beautiful, comfortable homes they’ve always wanted. In this episode we talk about: + how the jobs she liked the least over her career taught her the most + the challenges of communicating the value of her work -- and my tip for doing just that + breaking through industry stereotypes and differentiating herself + her tips for women entrepreneurs, including how she learned to trust her gut and why her mentor has been instrumental    Show Notes + Resources: https://brandwithcatalyst.com/value-in-mentoring

The Value in Mentoring, Menial Jobs, and Proving Your Merits

Stephanie Sims is a “recovering” investment banker, speaker, author and the founder of Finance-Ability. She gives founders the knowledge, tools and self-awareness they need to find the right money for them, and has helped her clients raise over $30M to grow their businesses.    We talk about: + overcoming our fear of the numbers (and why we don’t want to know what’s happening in our businesses financially to begin with), the types of funding available and how to know which is the best for your business. +  what Stephanie calls the “Business PII (pronounced PIE)” – profitability, intention and independence + bootstrapping, borrowing and betting – and which funding source is best in different scenarios   Show Notes + Resources: https://brandwithcatalyst.com/business-finances

Overcoming Numberphobia: Taking Control of Business Finances and Finding the Right Funding For You

In this episode, I speak with Jessica Culligan, operations expert and Operations Director for Cocoknits.com. She is a prolific maker and business logistics guru who is passionate about helping female entrepreneurs bring their vision into reality   We talk about: + what operations is and why it’s important to document your systems + the red flags that your operations aren’t effective + the value of standardized processes (even if you’re a solopreneur) + forecasting and the numbers you need to look at regularly   Show Notes + Resources: https://brandwithcatalyst.com/operations-101

Operations 101: Red Flags, The Value of Standardized Systems and Forecasting For Smooth Sailing

Dr. Alysondra Duke is a Seattle-based Psychologist, Women’s Empowerment Coach, and Founder of Seattle Lady Bosses.   In this episode we talk about: + what entrepreneurship entails for women from a spiritual perspective and how self-employment holds a greater opportunity for processing our self-doubt and challenges with relationships, money and worthiness. + what she’s learned from working with women entrepreneurs + how she helps her clients overcome fear and self-doubt – both of which she battles herself + why she founded Seattle Lady Bosses and why she thinks it has been explosively successful + the common topics discussed in the group, including how to have difficult conversations, balancing motherhood or illness with entrepreneurship and so much more   Show Notes + Resources: http://www.brandwithcatalyst.com/process-self-doubt

Entrepreneurship vs. Everything: Self-employment as an Opportunity to Process Self-doubt and Challenges With Relationships, Money and Worthiness

Kavita J Patel is a renowned relationship coach who has studied ancient eastern philosophy for 20 years, and combines those practices with her studies and experiences in family systems and human behavior to create her own transformational process, called The Parent Work™. She shares that our relationships with lovers, spouses, kids, money, and our bodies, are all affected by things that happened between us and our parents or those that raised us in our childhood.   We talk about + How your parents impact your decisions, and your relationships at home and at work + The 3 questions you can ask your parents – and yourself – for more insight on why you are where you’re at in adulthood + How focusing on your relationship with your parents and your kids can help you move through the fears and blocks that are holding you back in your business   Show Notes + Resources: http://www.brandwithcatalyst.com/how-parents-impact-success

The Parent Work: How Parents Impact Our Success and Relationships

I’ve had the privilege of meeting some extraordinary women through the course of recording this podcast, and Ashlee Piper is no exception. Ashlee is a political strategist turned eco-lifestyle journalist, and the author of the recently released sustainable living book, Give a Sh*t: Do Good. Live Better. Save the Planet (Hachette, 2018). She shares her passion for easy sustainable living, how she transitioned from politics to becoming a successful television personality and author – the road was bumpy along the way.   We talk about: + why a sustainable lifestyle is so important -- Ashley shares tips for easy steps you can take today + how she got started pitching major publications and TV outlets  (and how you can, too!) + the entire process she went though to publish her first book, from beginning to end   Show Notes + Resources: brandwithcatalyst.com/successful-media-pitching

The Power of Persistence – Successful Media Pitching, Publishing a Book and Changing the World

Jarrett is the self-professed Nonprofit Nerd. She and her company, The Rayvan Group, have been working exclusively with nonprofits across the US since 2009 and have helped them raise millions of dollars since. Jarrett holds an MBA in business and a Certificate of Grant Writing from The Grantsmanship Center Institute, and her accolades include being named an AZ Central Who's Next Nominee, and a Greater Phoenix Athena Nominee, and she received the Global Women's Summit Leadership Award just to name a few highlights. We talk about: + why she is so passionate about serving the non-profit sector + the keys to her success as she scaled her business from start up to six figures AND she did it as a single mom! + the common thinking and challenges that plague non-profits + her top tips for non-profit fundraising success Show Notes + Resources: brandwithcatalyst.com/self-care-for-success

The Non-Profit Nerd: Start Up + Scale, Strategy, and Self-Care for Success with Jarrett Ransom

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