Create Your Purpose

We all want to find purpose in our lives. Perhaps you are at a crossroads right now, stuck in the same spot and unsure what to do next. If you are feeling exactly this way, then this episode is just for you.

In today’s episode I would like to introduce you all to Laura Neff. She is a brand photographer, business coach, and serial entrepreneur, as well as a member of the “Create Your Purpose” collective. Just like you, she too was stuck in this crazy journey we call life, working a job she didn’t enjoy. She eventually made the decision to quit her job and start multiple online businesses that ended up changing her life.

Today she’ll be discussing how she started these businesses, her struggles, and her vision for the future. I hope the story she shares with you today inspires you to also build a purposeful life just like she did!

 

About Laura Neff:

Laura Neff is a brand photographer, business coach, and serial entrepreneur. Her mission in life is to turn purpose-driven entrepreneurs like you, live up to your potential and find freedom and success in a way that feels aligned to you.

Originally, Laura graduated from college as an interior designer and immediately had a job offer. She initially thought this job would be her dream but then that dream turned into her absolute nightmare. It was at this lowest point of her life where she got the chance to shoot her first wedding and that changed everything. She eventually quit her day job and went all in on photography. 

This photography journey of her’s led her to a new path and today, Laura runs three businesses with the purpose of helping people discover, pursue and live out their passions as well as build a life and business they love. 

 

Connect with Laura Neff:

• Website 

• Instagram 

 

Episode Highlights:

• Laura’s early life and how she got to where she is now 
• What Laura’s connecting thread is 
• How Laura set up her website
• Laura’s struggles, and visions for her future
• Laura’s thoughts on success 
• How Laura has integrated reflection in building her business 

 

Earlier in the episode, I mentioned that the Create Your Purpose challenge is happening again. If you’re looking to move your business forward and create a simple system to ground your dreams in reality, join us here! 

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📝 Show Notes: https://bit.ly/mason-jar-burnout 

🎉 CYP Challenge starts July 6th! Sign up now: http://create-your-purpose.com

Do you believe in magic? Marisa Mohi - writer, creative coach, and tarot card reader - does! Although Marisa may be a bit "woo-woo," she's also *super* grounded in reality... and I lover her for it!

Listen to this interview to find out how Marisa navigated quitting her job right before the pandemic hit, how she creates systems to protect her creativity, and why we agree that bringing ideas to life is like REAL LIFE magic!

📝 Show Notes: https://quinntempest.com/podcast/marisa-mohi

✨ Sign-up for the Collective waitlist (applications open in July!): https://quinntempest.com/create-your-purpose/collective/waitlist/

🤳 Follow Marisa: https://www.instagram.com/themarisamohi/

Leadership in business doesn't just involve other people, it includes SELF-leadership, too! No one understands this better than Tianna Tye so listen in to learn from her about what it takes become a good leader - for both yourself and others.

Letting go is much harder than it seems– when we re-examine how much of ourselves we’ve poured into projects, it can be a real challenge to finally let go and move on with something you find much more fulfilling. This is how I started to feel about my business before, where I would build up other people’s brands, their reputations; and I was struggling in the background trying to keep up with the day to day grind.

It was scary to think about what I needed to do. Where would I even start? Would I be okay without my best clients? And my main source of income? Little did I know that I just needed to meet the right people at just the right time.

Join me in this conversation as I share with you guys how I got the ball rolling for myself!

 

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

• My honeymoon, and the people I met that inspired change
• Finally realizing that I was unfulfilled in my business
• Taking that first step and building my own brand
• Acknowledging that my past business helped me ready myself for a new journey

 

Earlier in the episode, I mentioned that the Create Your Purpose Collective waitlist is re-opening! If you’re interested in joining a community with over 50 supportive women entrepreneurs, then check it out here!

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Education– the key that opens up opportunities and should be a universal right to any and all children across the world. On this episode today, I’ve invited Komal Shah to share with us her journey to raising conscious children through education– all inspired by one child she met by chance in India during a holy pilgrimage.

Hope you stay and listen in on how Komal found her purpose, so you too can find your way to fulfillment!

About Komal Shah:

After growing up in a closely knit Indian-American community, Komal decided to take Biology at UC Irvine, but then began to question her career– unsure if she really wanted to be a doctor. After she met a young girl on a trip to India, she had an epiphany that sparked a new purpose in her.

Upon her return to the United States, she applied for Teach for America, and that shifted everything in her life for the positive, an experience she will never look back on, teaching her to step into her power as a teacher.

Connect with Komal Shah:

• Website
• Twitter
• Instagram

Episode Highlights:

• Komal’s education, where she started
• Education and how it should contribute to future fulfillment
• Schools catering to training kids for the workforce, not their wellbeing
• The problems in the public school system
• Finding her purpose by joining Teach for America

Earlier in the episode, I mentioned my Purpose Quiz to help anyone identify their entrepreneurial purpose, you can check that out here!

You can also join me, Komal, and many other purpose-driven women entrepreneurs inside my Create Your Purpose Collective – the waitlist is open now!

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From a young age, Bryana was aware of often being the only Black person in predominantly white communities. That didn’t change when she took on various marketing roles in the Agribusiness industry.

What it DID do was light a spark of passion within her to help organizations, places of worship, and individuals create brave spaces to have TOUGH CONVERSATIONS about race.

That led her to get her Master’s in Anti-racism in Urban Education with UNC Charlotte and found 1619 Consulting LLC to help organizations in the agribusiness space have tough discussions about race and inclusivity without causing harm or overwhelm.

Bryana’s purpose is to ignite the power within others to make authentic change and that purpose has come to life SO powerfully in unique ways throughout her entrepreneurial journey. Enjoy this episode!

In this episode, we talked about:

• 4:33 ~ How the past year for Bryana has been really “weird”
• 7:00 ~ Her journey from agribusiness to racial equity consulting
• 12:00 ~ How she’s navigated building a purposeful business
• 15:23 ~ Why she’s exploring how her anti-racism work can evolve
• 17:40 ~ Her 5-year vision to become a voice of credibility in agribusiness
• 20:39 ~ My question for Bryana about the privilege of being an entrepreneur + her answer
• 25:00 ~ Bry’s thoughts on speaking up even when it feels uncomfortable
• 28:19 ~ Her race equity 3-step framework: knowledge, introspection, and action
• 33:00 ~ Why Bry isn’t trying to change racism, she’s trying to change hearts
• 34:33 ~ What a “brave conversation about race” really is
• 43:25 ~ Rapid-fire question round!

Connect with Bryana

• Website: https://bryanaclover.com
• 1619 Consulting: https://www.1619consulting.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bryanaclover/

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I have a podcast…. maybe?!

I listen to podcasts alllll the time but I never seriously thought about putting one together myself.

Frankly, it just felt like “another thing” I needed to do in my content efforts, and just thinking about it felt overwhelming!

But then, I figured – hey, I LOVE listening to podcasts… why can’t I do something simple to test out the idea and see if my audience likes it? After all, I teach entrepreneurs to be curious and run little experiments in their business, so it’s time I practice what I preach.

So, let me introduce you to the Create Your Purpose® Conversations!

My vision is to share inspiring women with you – the kind of women who are doing the work to build their businesses and lives with purpose and on purpose.

It was a no-brainer to begin with Cherilyn Yazzie, owner and founder of Coffee Pot Farms. She is a Navajo woman who founded her farm in Dilkon, Arizona to provide fresh food to her community, something that is hard to come by because of the remoteness of the reservation.

Cherilyn is also a member of my Create Your Purpose Collective so I’ve been privy to her journey behind-the-scenes to build her business and man am I inspired!

Will this be a real, consistent podcast updated consistently? No idea! But, I’d love to know if you’re interested in that (comment below!).

Oh, and this episode was lovingly recorded from my bathtub. The pandemic work-from-home situation ain’t easy! So please know that this episode is FAR from perfect (and as a recovering perfectionist, this is hard for me to admit) and I hope to continue to get better over time with the technical aspects of it all.

In this episode, we talked about:

• 5:50 ~ How she began Coffee Pot Farms and why
• 10:00 ~ Her fear of leaving her full-time job to begin a farm
• 14:52 ~ Why advocacy and activism is integral to her business
• 20:52 ~ The routines + rituals that keep her sane
• 26:07 ~ The ways Cherilyn and her husband hold each other accountable
• 28:30 ~ The importance of social media for her business during the pandemic
• 31:10 ~ Rapid-fire question round!

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