Happy Productive with Jennifer Dawn: Grow Your Business Without Giving Up Your Life

Amy Feind Reeves is the founder and CEO of Job Coach Amy and shares the wisdom she has gained in the workplace from her 25 years as an executive hiring manager. She discusses the struggles in today’s job market and how management and employees have become too detached. What’s more, fewer people seem to be applying for jobs in the aftermath of Covid due to being shell-shocked and burned out from the way the workplace has evolved. The new generation of employees feel under-appreciated and are experiencing a lack of opportunities to grow within their workplace. To bridge the gap between management and employees, organizations must begin to build a culture of respect and value that facilitates opportunity and advancement with constructive feedback. Avoid management by least resistance and create a dedicated and passionate workforce for your business!

👱‍♀️ Amy Feind Reeves recently published a book called College to Career, Explained - which explains tools, skills, and confidence for your job search. 01:33
3️⃣ The job always goes to the person who wants it the most: you need 3 things at any stage of the job search process. 10:45
📊 Millennials may skew a little bit towards money, but the statistics show that feeling valued, validated, and respected are big drivers: there are specifically targeted packages that can be purchased to set you apart from other employers. 21:29
👩‍💼 Millennials have a different approach to work because they were raised differently: the biggest management mistake is falling into “management by least resistance.” 27:31

Links:

  Connect with Amy: www.jobcoachamy.com

  Join our Academy: www.jenniferdawnacademy.com

  Connect with Jennifer: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com

  Retreats: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com/our-retreats

You can't find success until you stop comparing yourself to others and realize your true values. Dr. John Demartini is a renowned self-development author and shares his knowledge and wisdom on how to be accountable to your most authentic, successful self. Every time you put another person on a pedestal, you are depreciating yourself and misaligning yourself from your true values. The truth is that everybody has their own intelligence and areas of success based on their unique, core values, and our judgment of other people only obscures this. The key to success is self-accountability, owning your personal goals, and aligning the actions you make in life to your values. You are not missing what you see in others, so stop judging yourself and discover what’s important to you!

🫶 Stop being narcissistic and altruistic - maximize economic growth and self-worth: when we compare ourselves to others we set ourselves up for injected values from outer authorities and end up judging ourselves. 02:30
❤️ Nothing is missing in you, but the moment you are fooled by the facade of others and compare yourself to them, you start to exaggerate or minimize yourself: everything you admire in others is on the outside. 08:25
✅ Drop the judgment of others: you have the same intelligence in a different area. 14:49
❗ The second you compare yourself to others and create a fantasy of who you should be and you undermine the magnificence of who you are. 21:22
✌️ You have 2 choices: set goals that match your values, or change your values to match the goals you say you want. 22:40
💯 Most people are passively following their values in life instead of taking command: the wealthiest people look for how they can be of service to more people. They value maximizing the efficiency and effectiveness of their work, saving and investing, and creating a financial cause that leaves a legacy. 29:59

Links:

  Connect with Dr. John: https://drdemartini.com

  Join our Academy: www.jenniferdawnacademy.com

  Connect with Jennifer: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com

  Retreats: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com/our-retreats

Investing your money in the right places can unlock passive revenue streams. Andrea Cwik is a real estate investment expert who shares her wisdom on how busy business professionals can find sources of passive income. There are so many places out there to invest your money, but finding the best opportunities requires research, networking and getting educated. Thankfully, there are investment strategies that allow you to use your money efficiently but don’t require active engagement. For the busy entrepreneur, commercial real estate and working with syndications are excellent strategies for adding hands-off investments to your portfolio. Shift your mindset and make your capital work for you!

🏢  Andrea manages over 180 million dollars in real estate portfolio assets: leaving California for Texas was a great opportunity to learn about investments and real estate. 02:31
💲 Find someone who knows more about investing than you: syndications are similar to crowdfunding. 06:45
🏥 Commercial real estate is a great investment for the busy business owner: working with a syndication company you trust will bring the opportunities to you. 09:17
💵 Andrea and her team built relationships with passive investors: the typical minimum investment is $50-100.000. 11:29
💰 Investors get quarterly cash flow and the appreciation play: COVID didn't affect the real estate business. 14:37
📈 Assets typically turn around in four to six years: after selling the building, money goes back to the investor. 16:57
❗ Andrea shares a few tips on how to start as an investor. 19:35
✅ Let your capital work for you so you can concentrate on what you want to do. 22:14

Links:

  Connect with Andrea: https://goodgoodinvesting.com

  Join our Academy: www.jenniferdawnacademy.com

  Connect with Jennifer: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com

  Retreats: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com/our-retreats

Learning to understand your brain/body connection is essential for success. Lee Chaix McDonough, founder of Coach With Clarity, shares her wisdom on using our intuition to unlock a more successful business and fulfilling life. Many of us suffer from internalized messages that prevent us from taking steps forward in life and business, and the key to overcoming these obstacles is to trust our intuition. Our brains and our “gut” don’t always agree, and we’re often held back by our brain trying to protect us from stepping outside our comfort zone. Learning to distinguish our brain from our intuition isn’t easy, so don’t be afraid to seek help from a coach or a therapist if you’re feeling stuck. Lift the restraints of your comfort zone and learn to trust your intuition!

🌺 Lee was a psychotherapist for almost 15 years before she started coaching. 02:03
🔸 Follow your intuition to save yourself from a lot of heartaches. 04:33
💮 You can feel intuition in your body: pay attention to the sensory experience. 06:38
🔹 Mindset is how we relate to our internal experiences: we can differentiate mindset chatter from intuition by creating a space between the thought and the self. 09:33
☺️ We each have an upper limit for the amount of joy we feel safe holding and expressing: excavate your internalized messages. 15:10
🔹 How to decide if you should be working with a coach or a therapist. 20:46
💡 You have to define what progress is in order to get results: if it's not working, change your supportive partner. 26:21
🔸 A coaching relationship takes both people coming together to create a synergy, but the work is your responsibility. 28:53
🌸 Whether you choose a coach or therapist, the center of the experience is the relationship. 30:55

Links:

  Connect with Lee: www.coachwithclarity.com 

  Join our Academy: www.jenniferdawnacademy.com 

  Connect with Jennifer: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com 

  Retreats: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com/our-retreats 

Integrating fitness into your personal life can improve your work life. Sebastien Lagree is the CEO and founder of Lagree Fitness and shares his journey through creating an industry-shaping workout routine and keeping a positive mindset. Every business has its obstacles and challenges, and a positive attitude is a way to move forward with success. Engaging in physical activities like fitness helps us work off anxieties and stress, giving us the emotional, spiritual, and mental benefits of self-love. Making time for physical self-care and taking time off to refresh our mindset sets us in a positive frequency and allows us to attract more positivity into our lives. Start your fitness journey and learn to vibe on a different level!

Timestamps:
⭐ Sebastien wanted to be an actor, but he found his calling in the fitness industry: when life is showing you a different path. 01:27
🌌 If you do what you're supposed to and follow your own path, you are aligned with the universe. 20:45
🦈 Even Sebastien sometimes doubts himself - he goes diving to step out of negative energy: when you're having a hard time, go take a fucking vacation. 25:07
🤝 Fitness connects people - when you work out together and sweat together, you're the same: the connection between our frequency and our success. 31:21
🤸‍♀️ You can't separate your work from your personal life, so why can't fitness affect your work?: fitness helps you do the hard work on the days that you have to dig in.
✅ Sebastien plans a trip to the Amazon: we're not programmed to be happy, but we can choose to be happy, try better, and do better. 40:00

Links

💪  Lagreefitness: www.lagreefitness.com

🎓  Join our Academy: www.jenniferdawnacademy.com

🌸  Connect with Jennifer: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com

✨ Our retreats: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com/our-retreats

Operate your business with compassion to regain a healthy connection to the world. Blaine Bartlett is the CEO of Avatar Resources, a global leadership consultancy that provides the resources and services to foster compassionate capitalism. Today’s capitalist society is filled with toxic workplaces centered on wealth accumulation and competitive values. To reconnect with business more positively and soulfully, we must interrupt these toxic patterns and focus on being distributive and supportive. Connecting your business to the market compassionately breeds healthy workplaces where employees and consumers can grow and thrive. Business is born out of connection, so make those connections compassionate!

🌱 Blaine consults advisors and coaches globally: he grew up on a farm that taught him nature is probably the only truly free market economy that exists. 02:19
🤝 Competition is rooted in a mindset of scarcity: compassion is impossible to experience without connection. 09:12
✅ The purpose of business is to enhance the likelihood of thriving on this planet: If purchasing my product or service helps you thrive, you will beat a path to my door. 14:47
❣️ Love what you're doing: Observe people from the perspective of the story you're holding in your mind. 16:57
‼️ It's easier to blame external circumstances: responsibility is not the blame - take responsibility. 21:40
🟢 "Without the play of the imagination, nothing of consequence has ever been produced" - Jung. 25:20
👉 Get yourself centered and design an environment that feels good to be there. 28:26
🍃 Anytime you interrupt a pattern the process stops: there is nothing in nature that serves as a center of accumulation - everything is a center of a distribution. 33:18
📖 Blaine's book about how capitalism is conducted today: how compassion gets translated into a practical business process. 38:10
📊 A study showed that companies with compassion built into the system outperformed all other companies by not just a little bit - it was a huge differential. 41:50
🔴 Balance compassion and profit: people think of compassion as soft and squishy - genuine compassion has a very hard edge to it. 44:59
🌻 The nature of life is to grow: finding business opportunities during COVID. 50:05
💚 Life happens in conversation. 52:43

Links:

  Connect with Blaine: www.blainebartlett.com

  Join our Academy: www.jenniferdawnacademy.com

  Connect with Jennifer: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com

  Retreats: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com/our-retreats

Managing finances during a divorce can be much less stressful if you are prepared. Lisa Wohlleib is a financial analyst and founder of assetPARTNERS, a company that works with lawyers and individuals to help resolve financial disputes during divorce proceedings. It’s no secret that divorce is a stressful and awful experience, but there are steps you can take to make the process easier. One way to prevent stress is by agreeing to equalize access to finances during divorce so one partner is not locked out during or after the separation. Be aware of all your assets, keep individual copies of tax returns, and understand that any assets you hide from your partner will be uncovered during a divorce. Alleviate future hardships and stress by staying informed and ready.

Show notes timestamps:
💍 Lisa's company works with law firms and high-net-worth individuals to help resolve complex financial disputes during divorce proceedings. 02:15
💰 Try to equalize both partners' access to cash because many games are played when one partner has unequal cash access. 04:18
❗ If you want to maintain separate assets or exclude them from division, the time to do that would be before marriage or shortly after. 06:27
💲 Lawyers do global lawyering, and Lisa is focused strictly on the financial piece: she identifies fraud and uncovers lost or hidden assets. 09:35
🧑‍⚖️ It's foolhardy to attempt to lie to a judge about assets in 2023. 12:43
💠 The best part about Lisa's work is that she can create a more accurate and fair situation: the worst part is the stress that clients experience. 14:48
📄 Have a copy of the documents you sign: more information is always a real benefit. 18:29

Links:

 👉 Connect with Lisa: www.assetpartnersinc.com

🎓 Join our Academy: www.jenniferdawnacademy.com

🎯  Connect with Jennifer: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com

🌲  Retreats: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com/our-retreats

Making fitness a part of your daily routine is easier than ever. Heather Perren is the senior master trainer for Lagree Fitness and shares her passion for fitness as an accessible activity that everybody should integrate into their life. Lack of money and time is no longer a deterrent for people who are seeking to begin their fitness journey because there are so many free and accessible resources available online. The key is to make your fitness fun by finding activities you enjoy so that working out will never feel like a chore. Making fitness a part of your routine will help to relieve your work stress and tension, and you will gain more energy to tackle the important things in your life. Reclaim your physical fitness, and make it fun!

🌸 Heather is a former teacher who enjoyed fitness and took a leap of faith and became a fitness instructor: online fitness continues to be popular after the pandemic. 01:55
🟣 Start with baby steps - hold a plank for a minute a day: get creative with how to fit physical fitness in your day. 06:58
🥊 Training can be free, but make it fun: Jennifer loves boxing. 11:34
🤰 Heather is a mom of triplets and is now in the best shape of her life: being in shape before and during pregnancy makes for a quicker rebound. 13:55
👔 Exercise can play a huge role in helping business owners with mental clarity and stress relief: we see much better results from business owners who care for their health and vitality. 17:04
🟪 Lagree fitness is a high-intensity, low-impact workout: it keeps your joints and body safe and has a really slow tempo. 20:29
💓 Get out there, move your butts today, and do something to reclaim your physical fitness. 24:05

  Connect with Heather: https://lagreefitbyheather.com

  Join our Academy: www.jenniferdawnacademy.com

  Connect with Jennifer: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com

  Retreats: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com/our-retreats

The wounds we carry can be holding us back in the business world. Angela Ficken is a psychotherapist with an online educational system that offers accessible resources for dealing with stress and anxiety. There is a lot of stigma around seeking therapy, but it can be a crucial step toward success if you are a struggling entrepreneur. Overcoming obstacles and dealing with stress and anxiety is a normal part of life and business, but if you cannot handle stress with grace, it may be due to unhealed trauma. Putting yourself in a vulnerable position and finding a therapist who works for you may be a leap of faith, but overcoming your trauma is a profound and freeing experience that makes it worth the risk and investment. Start your healing journey today and get on the life-changing path toward success.

Show notes time stamps:
🌷 Angela is a psychotherapist and online educator - she knew she wanted to be a psychotherapist at 10 years old.  01:37
✅ Entrepreneurs are surprised that they can't handle everything but feel like they should: therapy can offer strategies to help us think more clearly and less based on stress and anxiety. 05:55
🟣 What you grew up with and carry around is influencing you now in your business: be willing to go back and work on yourself. 11:48
❣️ Part of growing is learning and making mistakes: therapy is a risk that can pay off with the right therapist, just don't quit if you have a terrible experience with the first one. 15:17
💡 With contrast comes clarity - a bad experience helps you know what you want: tell your therapist what's triggering you in their work approach. 22:09
🔷 It's scary to be vulnerable with someone: be curious about why you're not being completely honest - it will help you in your life and relationships. 27:54
🌼 You only have to heal once. 30:28

Links

 👉 Connect with Angela: www.instagram.com/progresswellness

🎓  Join our Academy: www.jenniferdawnacademy.com

🌸  Connect with Jennifer: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com

🏕️  Retreats: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com/our-retreats

If you are working towards a happier life, ensure that you do it from a place of power and abundance. Being happy is a universal goal, yet it seems to remain inaccessible to so many of us. When we are not thankful for the things we already have and feel victimized by our situations, we are approaching the journey toward happiness from a powerless standpoint and making it a conditional goal. We must put in the hard work to heal ourselves, face our negative emotions, and adopt a positive, thankful attitude, and happiness will naturally follow. Stay in control of your power to achieve a positive and productive mindset!

Show Notes
🖐 "Happy Productive" comes from creating that happy place where we can make the most of our time being productive: 5 mistakes that make you suck at being happy. 00:53
💸 Mistake #1 - Giving our power away by chasing goals and putting conditions on happiness. 03:30
💗 Mistake #2 - Forgetting to practice gratitude: set goals from a place of abundance, power, and gratitude. 06:15
❗ Mistake #3 - Victim mindset: you have control over your reality. 11:13
✅ Mistake #4 - You're not healing your crap: fight, flight, and freeze reactions show us crap we didn't recover from yet. 14:13
📖 ‘Best Journal Ever’ was created to be a great tool for a healing journey. 19:28
⚠️ Truth mirroring can show us that what we're so mad at another person for may be a reflection of what's going on in ourselves. 22:43
❣️ Mistake #5 - We don't do the hard work: happiness lives at the other end of hard. 24:59
🏃‍♀️ Unbreakable Retreats combine a Spartan Race with business and life coaching: doing things you think you can't do builds strength and mental toughness. 27:22
📉 Personal walls and justifications can block your business development. 29:30
🤗 Use these tools today and join the 90-Day Breakthrough Challenge if you're interested in further development. 32:54

Link:

🎓 Join our Academy: www.jenniferdawnacademy.com

🌸 Connect with Jennifer: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com

🏕️ Retreats: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com/our-retreats

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