Business Pathfinder

Today's episode is different that the usual ones. It’s not a coaching session or an interview but rather, it’s an exploration. In this episode, you’ll have the opportunity to explore ways to find calm and peace in the middle of running a busy business or navigating a stressful life - or both!  You may even feel more relaxed than you did before listening. Enjoy!  This episode's show notes page: www.KristinMorrison.com/podcast57 Get Kristin Morrison's new book: 30-Day Social Media Challenge. Find out more about webinars and workshops with Kristin Morrison. Apply to be coached on the podcast. Visit Kristin's website, leave Kristin a voicemail or follow on Instagram.

The Business Pathfinder podcast is a year old this month! Woo hoo! 🎉 If you’ve been along for the ride the past 12 months, you've noticed I released an episode each week, and sometimes even more than one episode a week.  It’s time to switch gears so, going forward, I’ll be releasing one episode every other week.  I’m making time for some life adventures including writing a business book I'll be releasing later this year. But first: a few days ago I released a book called The 30-Day Social Media Challenge.  The new book is a step-by-step book and workbook to revamp and revitalize your social media.  To find out more about the new book, you can go to this episode’s show notes page: www.KristinMorrison.com/rich. Recently a podcast called “The Courage to Be” reached out to interview me on their podcast. The focus of the interview was on how the book ""Think and Grow Rich" has influenced my life and as you’ll hear from this interview, Tania and I spoke about how that meant much more than money! Enjoy this interview that Tania did with me on the Courage to Be podcast! Visit the show notes page to find out more: www.KristinMorrison.com/rich. Get Kristin Morrison's new book: 30-Day Social Media Challenge. Find out more about webinars and workshops with Kristin Morrison. Apply to be coached on the podcast. Visit Kristin's website, leave Kristin a voicemail or follow on Instagram.      

Veronika lives in Prague and is a intuitive 'reader' who works with individuals and groups. Her business is successful in the Czech Republic but she'd like to expand her reach to be an international business. Her biggest dream is to sing and teach her "Light Language" which is similiar to sound healing. According to Veronika, Light Language helps heal and soothe the nervous system. (You'll hear her sing her Light Language on the episode, it's such a treat!)  I invite you to relax and enjoy this coaching session with Veronika. Visit the show notes page to find out more: https://kristinmorrison.com/podcast56 Find out more about webinars and workshops with Kristin Morrison. Join the Business Pathfinder community on Facebook. Apply to be coached on the podcast. Visit Kristin's website, leave Kristin a voicemail or follow on Instagram.        

Today’s coaching session is with a PR expert. Mercedes is a PR expert who has a niche of helping consultants gain publicity. Specifically, she helps coaches and consultants determine where and how to reach out to journalists and pitch themselves and their businesses to increase their credibility and their reach. She is sometimes able to turn sales calls into clients, but it seems to be hit or miss. Mercedes wants to learn how to refine her sales skills, so she has an even better track record when it comes to converting discovery calls into actual clients. There are some simple but effective ways she can change the sales calls and you’ll learn, alongside Mercedes, how to get new clients through sales calls. Visit the show notes page to find out more: https://kristinmorrison.com/podcast55 Find out more about webinars and workshops with Kristin Morrison. Join the Business Pathfinder community on Facebook. Apply to be coached on the podcast. Visit Kristin's website, leave Kristin a voicemail or follow on Instagram.  

Rachel has a money-lending company, and she has also owns rental properties.  The challenge Rachel is bringing to this session is she’s wanting to make double the amount from her rentals, (double the current amount), but what quickly becomes clear is that she has a fear of mistake, and also some imposter syndrome, which is keeping her stuck. Her fear also causes her to procrastinate which causes her to feel even more stuck!  High achievers like Rachel often have really big fear too. Rachel’s coaching session is an example of that common entrepreneur challenge. In this session, you’ll hear us untangle this very common challenge for Rachel and for a lot of entrepreneurs. Buckle up, it’s a wild ride!  Visit the show notes page to find out more: https://kristinmorrison.com/podcast54 Find out more about webinars and workshops with Kristin Morrison. Join the Business Pathfinder community on Facebook. Apply to be coached on the podcast. Visit Kristin's website, leave Kristin a voicemail or follow on Instagram.

This is the second coaching session with Boston software developer and educator, Ebaad, who is orginally from Pakistan. You’ll hear me work with Ebaad around his perfectionism as it relates to running his business and living his life. When I reached out to him a few days after the coaching session to ask him to sum up his synopsis of what he gained from this second coaching session, here’s what he wrote: “Kristin, the sessions with you were really helpful. I have decided to try things, without worrying about how it is received. This has been helpful in getting out of my head. I have also been trying to connect with my past self a little more and connect with him with the strength I have today. I plan to launch my first blog post this week and also my work project in the coming weeks. I am really excited for what the future holds!” Visit the show notes page to find out more: https://kristinmorrison.com/podcast53 Find out more about business and well-being webinars and workshops with Kristin Morrison. Join the Business Pathfinder community on Facebook. Apply to be coached on the podcast. Visit Kristin's website, leave Kristin a voicemail or follow on Instagram.

Today’s coaching session is an unusual one. In this session, I am working with Ebaad who is originally from Pakistan, now in Boston, where he is a software developer and instructor. In this episode, we unexpectedly explore a topic that is rarely discussed in business circles: childhood trauma and how it can fuel ambition and perfectionism, often to the detriment of the ambitious and high-achieving business owner. Visit the show notes page to find out more: https://kristinmorrison.com/podcast52 Find out more about business and well-being webinars and workshops with Kristin Morrison. Join the Business Pathfinder community on Facebook. Apply to be coached on the podcast. Visit Kristin's website, leave Kristin a voicemail or follow on Instagram.    

This is Stephanie’s third and final coaching session in this episode series.  Her first coaching session is Episode 137 and her second session is Episode 138. If you haven’t already heard the prior sessions, it’s recommended you listen to those before before listening to this, her third and final coaching session. (This episode builds upon those episodes and will make a lot more sense if you’ve listened to those episodes first.)  In this final session with Stephanie, we discuss workaholism and how to create success with grace, ease and joy. How to drop the compulsive hustle and work grind in order to truly enjoy life while still creating sustainable financial success. It IS possible to create a work life that gives you both a happy life and financial abundance! No need to choose one over the other. As you listen to this coaching session, think about your own life and business and, like Stephanie, you may also gain insight and guidance on how to create a life you love to live as a business owner. Visit the show notes page to find out more: https://kristinmorrison.com/podcast51 Find out more about business and well-being webinars and workshops with Kristin Morrison. Join the Business Pathfinder community on Facebook. Apply to be coached on the podcast. Visit Kristin's website, leave Kristin a voicemail or follow on Instagram.

This is Stephanie’s second podcast coaching session. Her first business coaching session on the podcast is Episode 49. If you haven’t already heard her first session, listening to that episode first is rcommended. Since the first coaching session, Stephanie has stopped spending time on social media since that took so much time and energy away from working on her passion project (the new business venture she discussed in Episode 49).  She’s now only posting on social media when she’s accomplished something in her business! In this way, social media is supporting her to be accountable instead of distracting her from the startup tasks she wants to do to launch her new business. As we explore what else is taking up her time and energy, we determine three major areas of her life and work right now that are consuming her energy and time: 1) parenting her 5-year-old son, 2) running her dog walking business and 3) teaching at a university.  When she thinks about adding her passion project business to her already-full schedule she feels very overwhelmed.  So, given all that she has going on her life and work, where does she go from here? What does she need to step away from in order to feel less overwhelmed and to focus on what matters most to her?  You’ll find out in this coaching session with Stephanie!  Visit the show notes page to find out more: https://kristinmorrison.com/podcast50 Find out more and sign up for the  28-Day Business and Life Bootcamp for Badass Women. Join the Business Pathfinder community on Facebook. Apply to be coached on the podcast. Visit Kristin's website, leave Kristin a voicemail or follow on Instagram.

Stephanie has had a dog business for many years. Though she wants to continue growing her business, she also wants to create a new online business that is targeted to pet owners. She is thinking that an online business could be a good “branch” off her current pet business.  She has questions about the logistics of creating an online business and how to balance both an in-person service business with an online business. At the end of this session, we dive deep into Stephanie’s mindset. She has a profound awareness of how she feels like she never has enough. She also feels like she isn’t doing enough in her business and in her life. You’ll hear more about this in the next coaching session I do with Stephanie in Episode 50, which is focused on Stephanie working on her mindset.  Visit the show notes page to find out more: https://kristinmorrison.com/podcast49 Find out more and sign up for the  28-Day Business and Life Bootcamp for Badass Women. Join the Business Pathfinder community on Facebook. Apply to be coached on the podcast. Visit Kristin's website, leave Kristin a voicemail or follow on Instagram.  

This is my second coaching session with Elliott. You can hear the first coaching session with Elliott on Episode 47. It’s recommended to listen to the earlier session with Elliott before listening to this episode because this sessoin builds upon that episode.  Elliott is a business owner who lives and works in Toronto, Canada.  Elliott is a coach who works with artists, writers and other creatives. He developed an accountability co-working online platform called Project Lab to support creatives with a distraction-free zone to help them stay focused on their artistic projects.  Elliott also incorporates includes mindfulness and freewriting exercises in Project Lab to help creatives dive more fully into their projects and to assist them in leaving distraction behind. In this second coaching session, Elliott has questions about how to turn interested people into paying customers, how to educate people on what it is he does since he has such an unusual business, how to balance the freebies he gives out to help those interested to experience the value they can get from participating with how to then charge for what it is he’s offering with Project Lab. Visit the show notes page to find out more: https://kristinmorrison.com/podcast48 Find out more and sign up for the  28-Day Business and Life Bootcamp for Badass Women. Join the Business Pathfinder community on Facebook. Apply to be coached on the podcast. Visit Kristin's website, leave Kristin a voicemail or follow on Instagram.  

“The world is not designed for you to practice your instrument. It’s designed for you to vegetate, eat bad food, watch CNN, and that’s what our mainstream world is designed for.” -Elliott’s guitar teacher  Elliott is a deep, insightful business owner who lives in Toronto. He’s an introvert who is a skillful conversationalist. There were so many ideas we covered in this coaching session that I decided to work with Elliott again after this for a second session. You’ll find the other session I did with Elliott on Episode 48. It’s recommended that you listen to this episode first, if possible. Elliott is a coach who helps artists, writers and other creatives. He developed an accountability co-working online platform called Project Lab. He developed Project Lab to support creatives with a distraction-free zone to help them stay focused on their work projects. His intention with both ventures is to assist artists of all kinds in their artistic endeavors. Project Lab also includes mindfulness and freewriting exercises to help participants move more fully into their projects and leave distraction behind.  Elliott has several business questions including how to get more clients and how to inspire his coaching clients and other creatives to join the Project Lab online community so he can more fully support their artistic projects. Click the show notes page to find out more: https://kristinmorrison.com/podcast47 Find out more and sign up for the January 2024 interactive goal setting workshop. Click to learn about the 28-Day Business and Life Bootcamp for Badass Women. Join the Business Pathfinder community on Facebook. Apply to be coached on the podcast. Visit Kristin's website, leave Kristin a voicemail or follow on Instagram.  

This is Part Two of my coaching session with May, a financial coach in the UK who works with individuals, and also runs a non-profit. It’s recommended that you listen to Part One first (Ep. 45) before listening to this session as this one builds upon the first session. May has taken action since the last session, including raising her rates.  Now she’s wanting to explore what may be underneath her negative money beliefs so she can move beyond them and begin to make monumental changes in her business and financial life. In this session, you’ll hear us unpack May’s early life when she unconsciously took on some of her parent’s beliefs about money. Unless we bring negative beliefs to consciousness, these beliefs can continue to impact our business and life. May is courageously willing to explore this so she can free herself from these beliefs that don’t serve her today. Join me and May as we bring to light her unconscious beliefs about money so she can choose whether to keep them or let them go. It’s always a choice. As you listen, I encourage you to reflect on beliefs you may have taken on that no longer serve you in your business and your life today. Please note: This is Part Two of my business coaching session with May. Part One is Episode 45. It’s recommended that you listen to that episode first since this session builds upon the first session. Click the show notes page to find out more: https://kristinmorrison.com/podcast46 Find out more and sign up for the January 2024 interactive goal setting workshop. Click to learn about the 28-Day Business and Life Bootcamp for Badass Women. Join the Business Pathfinder community on Facebook. Apply to be coached on the podcast. Visit Kristin's website, leave a voicemail or follow on Instagram.

Do you want to write a book or are you having trouble finding time and motivation to complete your book? Or… does writing a book seem like a monumental task you can’t even imagine taking on even though one of your goals is to write a book? A couple months ago, podcaster Lisa Shaughnessy interviewed me about how my book writing process on her podcast, Your Writing Retreat Connection. I’ve written six books and my seventh book for all types of business owners will be released in 2024. (More information about that book to come about in the coming months.) Lisa usually limits her interview guests to workshop retreat hosts (which I am not!) but she wanted to offer a fresh perspective for her podcast listeners who prefer writing in solitude, rather than a structured writing retreat with other writers. You probably don’t know this about me: I wrote 70% of my first book in two 3-day weekends. That’s right, 70% of my first book was written in just 6 days! In this episode, you’ll hear how I created the perfect environment to spark my creativity and finish most of my first book in two long weekend solo writing retreats. You’ll also hear me share how writer's block threatened my ability to complete my book and how I changed course to get past my blocks and finish my book. Listen as Lisa and I discuss how to create a writing process that works best, doing what's right for you, and how and why I’ve written books as part of my business growth strategy.

May is a financial coach in the UK who works with individuals, and she also runs a non-profit. Like a lot of business owners, she has difficulty determining what her rates should be and raising her rates and this is impacting her ability to take her business to the next financial level. As we untangle into May’s money history, it becomes clear that part of the reason for her money challenges is that she’s currently on financial aid due to her son’s disability and she feels guilt charging her clients who have similar challenges. And another part of her difficulty is because of some ingrained negative beliefs about money. These naturally arose from witnessing her first financial role models, her parents, and how they dealt with money. Join me and May as we explore some money hang-ups she has – and you may be able to relate to them too! Please note: This is Part One of my business coaching session with May. Part Two is my second session with May on Episode 46. It’s recommended that you listen to this episode first before going to Part Two. Click the show notes page to find out more: https://kristinmorrison.com/podcast45 Find out more and sign up for the January 2024 interactive goal setting workshop. Join Kristin Morrison and other business owners at the  28-Day Business and Life Bootcamp for Badass Women. Join the Business Pathfinder community on Facebook. Apply to be coached on the podcast. Visit Kristin's website, leave a voicemail or follow on Instagram.

Liz is a therapist who is eager to pivot her therapy business in new ways, but she is feeling stuck. She feels pulled in a few different directions and wants clarity as far as what to pursue and where to put her energy and actions. She is someone who gets excited about a new venture in the beginning and then finds her energy waning after starting it. Liz wants to find the inner and outer motivation to not only begin the new ventures she’s excited about now but also to maintain that momentum so she can follow through and turn her dreams and visions into reality.  Join me and Liz in this coaching session as we tease out her business challenges and help her arrive to a place of clarity and motivation. Click the show notes page to find out more: https://kristinmorrison.com/podcast44 Find out more and sign up for the January 2024 interactive goal setting workshop. Learn more and sign up for now for the  28-Day Business and Life Bootcamp for Badass Women. Join the Business Pathfinder community on Facebook. Apply to be coached on the podcast. Visit Kristin's website, leave a voicemail or follow on Instagram.

Nicole developed The Needs Languages personality communication model. Using this system, she has created workplace programs that focus on belonging. She has also given three TED talks, written a few books and created online courses - plus a lot more! Nicole is a powerhouse entrepreneur. Like so many highly creative business owners, she’s got a lot of irons in the fire and her creative brain is often brimming with business ideas. This makes it very hard for Nicole to determine what she should focus on and where to put her attention, so she sometimes ends up feeling scattered, stressed and overwhelmed. On top of that, she’s also grieving a recent loss and finding it hard to generate energy for her many work tasks. Click the show notes page to find out more: https://kristinmorrison.com/podcast43 Find out more and sign up for the January 2024 interactive goal setting workshop. Click to learn about the 28-Day Business and Life Bootcamp for Badass Women. Join the Business Pathfinder community on Facebook. Apply to be coached on the podcast. Visit Kristin's website, leave a voicemail or follow on Instagram.

Samantha is a lawyer on a mission to help first generation business owners become  millionaires by doing everything in her power to make sure their businesses become sustainable wealth generators. She has created a legal firm that supports these entrepreneurs and lives part-time in the United States and part-time in Brazil. Samantha has outsourced some of her tedious business tasks to a virtual assistance team who supported her business going to the next level but recently that trusty VA team suddenly went out of business. Experiencing this loss has been understandingly challenging to Samantha and, because she’s got a lot on her work plate, she hasn’t had the time or energy to find a new team to help her. In this coaching session I explore with Samantha how she can go about the search for the right VA support. We also discuss what she needs to do to find the right to people to support her business and where she may be able to find the right team. We tease out what important skills these team members need to have to support her legal business. Click the show notes page to find out more: https://kristinmorrison.com/podcast42 Find out more and sign up for the January 2024 interactive goal setting workshop. Click to learn about the 28-Day Business and Life Bootcamp for Badass Women. Join the Business Pathfinder community on Facebook. Apply to get coached on the podcast. Visit Kristin's website, leave a voicemail or follow on Instagram.  

In this bonus episode, Julia Neumann interviews Kristin Morrison on the Radically Alive Women podcast. In this interview, you’ll hear Kristin share her passion for listening to her clients and what she’s listening for to bring voice to what is not spoken by her clients and how listening to what isn’t being said can often remove roadblocks to inner and outer challenges. You’ll also hear how you can converse with your business to find answers to your stuck places, especially when other avenues have failed to provide you clarity. With coaching clients on the podcast and in private coaching sessions, Kristin sometimes use an effective modality called “Active Imagination” to support her clients in nonlinear ways to support them to find solutions. You’ll hear Kristin describe how this process works and why business can be a powerful portal for transformation. Julia and Kristin also touch upon the vision for business that goes beyond profit and a comfortable life for the individual. Click the show notes page to find out more: https://kristinmorrison.com/edgecast Join the Business Pathfinder community on Facebook. Apply to get coached on the podcast. Visit Kristin's website, leave a voicemail or follow on Instagram.

Today’s podcast coaching client is Kristen. Her business is boarding dogs in her home. Kristen has three sons and she's going through a divorce and her soon-to-be ex-husband supported most her financial needs and now she needs to make more money in her dog boarding business. What becomes apparent as we begin this coaching session is that she needs to get clear how much she needs to make each month. We discuss the gifts that can happen when she does financial tracking and the best way to track business and personal numbers. We also explore the goal setting process and why it’s important for Kristen, how her financial goals may positively impact her net profit, and the glass ceiling and what can help her move beyond her current financial blocks. On a personal level, one of Kristen’s barriers that has affected her self-esteem (and earning) is that her prior partner didn’t support her and in fact, put her down a lot. She experienced a lot of belittling from him, and it really wore down her self-esteem. Now that she’s out of that relationship and can see clearly, she needs to strengthen herself internally, cultivate confidence and self-esteem both while living her life and running her dog boarding business. Click the show notes page to find out more: https://kristinmorrison.com/podcast41 Join the Business Pathfinder community on Facebook. Apply to get coached on the podcast. Visit Kristin's website, leave a voicemail or follow on Instagram.