We are very proud to feature our Wonderful Web Radio Rising Star interview. In this segment, we speak with Joanne Newell.

Joanne Newell, the founder of Rich Life by Design, is a compassionate, insightful and practical money-mindset coach for female business owners. To start your journey towards a healthy money mindset, register for Joanne’s free video series called ‘The 3 Foundations of an Empowered Money Mindset’, at http://www.richlifebydesign.com/.

Transcript of the Interview

Announcement: Welcome to Rising Stars Radio, where we share the stories of ordinary people taking action to create extraordinary changes in their businesses. They are the true rising stars to watch. Get ready to take notes around no fluff, cutting to the chase, 20 minute interview.

Janet: Hello and welcome everybody to Rising Stars Radio. This is Janet Beckers here, and I’m really excited to introduce to a lovely member of ours, Joanne Newell, from “Rich Life by Design.” Wonderful to welcome you hear, Joanne.

Joanne: Thank you very much, Janet. It’s fantastic to be here.

Janet: Now, I just want to acknowledge everybody that’s taken the time to be here. Our intention today, Joanne and I, is to be able to give you some really actionable steps that you can go and use in your business this week. You can even use them today. That is our intention to honor the time that you’re trusting us with to make it so that you can actually make some changes now. To do that, we are aiming to be able to help you in about 20 minutes, to see how much maximum value we can give you in that time. We’re going to dive straight in. Joanne, would you mind sharing with us who it is that you help, and how do you do that?

Joanne: I help female business owners to create a money mindset that really works for them. I found during my first coaching years that was general life coaching, a lot of women, more and more women, were coming to me with the same issue cropping up, and it was to do with money mindset, and their business. I thought, “Okay, universe. This is what I’m meant to be helping people with at this stage.” That’s what I do, and I help them through a beautiful VIP day, called a “Dynamic Money Mindset VIP day”, and we follow that up if they choose ongoing coaching to keep their mindset going and to implement everything that we put in place, that we uncovered, and worked on, during that VIP day. That’s the main work that I do with people, helping them grow their businesses that way, as well as implementing practical marketing and business strategies.

I’ve recently, very recently, started adding a “Write That Book” service, a book publishing consultancy service for female business owners, again, because again, in listening to the universe, kept getting the signs, “This is what you’re meant to help people with”, and I used to be a book editor, and have written 3 books myself, so definitely know the industry and combined it with money mindset, it’s hugely powerful, and it’s just so rewarding for me to be able to help people in that way.

Janet: Yeah. That’s excellent. I love how what you’re doing has evolved from you actually working with people, and listening to what it is that they wanted, and what they needed, and responding.

Joanne: Yes. Crucial.

Janet: Yeah, that’s brilliant. Well, let’s have a look at our connection. What programs have you done of mine that’s meant that we’ve connected?

Joanne: MeTV. That was a couple of years ago. You were at Goddess On Purpose event, and spoke on stage about how easy it was to make videos. That was very achievable, and very doable, and although I have a kind of background in presentation from a film and TV point of view, I did film and TV at high school. I did a diploma of film and video production in the early 90’s, back when it was VHS, remember?

Janet: Yeah, wow.

Joanne: The old tape. We used to go in the editing suite over night and edit things, and also, presenting, I’m very comfortable with doing that, but I just knew that in this modern age, showing my age now, I really needed more guidance on the technical aspects and on the online marketing, and upload and things like that. When I heard you present, I just thought, “Yes, you’ve been doing it recently, and you’ve got systems in place, and you can show me what to do with that side of things.”

Janet: I love … That’s really nice to hear from somebody that’s actually got a background to do with film, because a lot of times, because you’ve studied something in the past, it’s very tempting for people to go, “Oh, that’s all right. Look, I know this myself”, and the other one is to go, “Look, I can work all this out. I don’t really need to actually learn from anybody else.”

Joanne: That’s the thing, yeah.

Janet: It’s actually really refreshing to hear somebody that can go, “Okay. I actually recognize that there’s got to be cleverer ways for me to be able to do this.”

Joanne: Exactly. There is a lot of free information out there on the Internet, but it’s accessing it. It’s knowing who’s worth listening to, it’s trying to find it all. It’s very time consuming, so to have everything packaged up, that’s really specific, that’s explained so clearly, and that’s what I love about your audio’s and tutorials, they’re just so clear and step by step. It’s like, “Oh, I don’t need to find this bit and then that bit.” It’s all together, and that’s exactly what I was after. It meant I was able to leap in when I was ready to start doing videos for the newer incarnation of my coaching business, so I felt really prepared and so glad that I invested in the training.

Janet: Oh, that’s great. Thank you. It’s really nice to know that the step by step works, because that’s a reflection of the way that my mind works is that very much systematic and I …

Joanne: I think even for people who haven’t got a logical mind, or they feel confined by structure, I think everybody needs some structure, and a bit of step by step, even if they rail against that from their personality point of view. It just helps guide you to where you need to get to go, and even if you adapt things, and there’s things that I’ve taken from the course that I’ve then run with and found more about, and experienced myself and tweaked to suit me, but I started with that framework, and that has just served me so well.

Janet: Actually, that’s a really good point. I love the way that you put that. Your language around if people feel constrained by a system. I can tell you’ve got that lovely language that comes from working with different people coaching. It’s a nice way of putting it, because I have found that people who tend to be more organic in their approach to the way they like to do things in business and life, by having some kind of step by step structure then allows you to use your creativity because …

Joanne: Exactly.

Janet: … You’re actually using your creativity on the right things.

Joanne: Yes, and you’re not getting lost, and you’re not self sabotaging by procrastinating and putting things off because you don’t know the next step, which I think can be a kind of a voidance thing. If you can’t avoid it when you’ve got the step by step, because then you have to start taking some action, and it’s all laid out for you, so it’s not like there’s stress involved wondering what the next step is, because it’s all there. If you choose to have a break from it, and go and do something else, that’s fine, but of course, if you can come back to again, and again, when you’re ready for the next stage.

Janet: Yeah, that’s great. Tell us, what did you do? How did you then apply this in your business using the video?

Joanne: Well, I watched Paul’s videos about technology, the cameras to use now, because I really haven’t done any of that digital recording. We had a little old digital video camera, but it wasn’t anything terribly flash, and I didn’t feel like my phone would give the best, or my webcam would give the best for the result that I wanted, so I went with the camera recommendation that he gave and got that revision about lighting setup, which I had learned from my early days. It was so good to hear it again. I got the equipment, and it wasn’t like I spent a lot of money