Ep# 123: Announcing 5 Days of Deals! New & Best Offers (+ How I’m Selling This Black Friday)

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Episode Summary

Ever wonder how some people seem to bounce back Want in on Jenna’s best offers of the year, and the thinking behind them so you can strategize your own offer suite?

It’s the most magical time of the year! Jenna has completely new offers available and never-before accessibility for working together. But it’s only for a limited time, so listen up to get all the details, plus behind-the-scenes strategy that you can apply to your own business.

In this episode, you will:

1. Get the full scoop on 5 delectable new offers I’m releasing so that you have plenty of time to think about which one or ones are right for you

2. Learn exactly how the sale works so you won’t miss out

3. Find out how to think through and strategize your own Black Friday offers

Don’t miss out on these exclusive Black Friday deals and the benefits they’ll bring to your business—press play and unlock the steps to working wiser, not harder in 2025!

Links:

Get on the waitlist for Black Friday and receive an exclusive gift with purchase you’ll love https://www.theuncommonway.com/BlackFriday 

Visit the Black Friday offers "catalog" to start choosing your favorites
https://www.theuncommonway.com/daysofdeals 

Sign up here to get on the waitlist for Power & Potency, the new mastermind for highly accomplished women entrepreneurs, and hear all new information as it's released: 

 https://www.theuncommonway.com/waitlist

Leave a voicemail for Jenna and get her personalized advice for your business: 

 https://www.theuncommonway.com/talk

Find Jenna on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/theuncommonway/

The Uncommon Way is led by business coach Jenna Harrison, who helps women entrepreneurs feel confident, find their ideal clients effortlessly and avoid overwork so they can manifest money and abundance in their business and life.

This podcast empowers female entrepreneurs to overcome imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and limiting beliefs through somatics, mindset, and spirituality, create 7-figure offers, and build an online coaching business with clarity and alignment.

Episode Transcription

I've got a really magical week of both deals and splurges for you starting next week for Black Friday. Plus, I'm breaking down the strategy and thinking behind the scenes in case you're running your own Black Friday promotion.

You're listening to the Uncommon Way business and life coaching podcast. The podcast that helps women entrepreneurs get clear on signature offers and strategies that sell themselves so you can lean back and stop the hustle. You will learn to maximize your mindset messaging. And strategy and step into the uncommonly successful business and life you are creating.

Here's your host, top ranked business coach and reformed over analyzer turned queen of clarity, Jenna Harrison.

Welcome, welcome back to The Uncommon Way. I have to tell you, I have been having such deja vu today. I keep remembering the time when I was studying abroad in college and then secretly I had scrimped together enough money for a reduced price flight back to the States to see my family for Christmas. It was so hard for the month or so prior not to let the cat out of the bag.

Finally, finally, oh my gosh, it took so long, but finally the day arrived when I got to walk through the door of our home and say, Surprise! And oh my gosh, my mom's tears and all the festivities that followed. It makes me tear up now just thinking about it. But, anyway, flash forward to today, and I've somehow managed to keep these really delectable new offers that I have a complete secret, even from my clients.

And they know I'm an open book and I hide nothing. So whew, I am patting myself on the back. Good job, Jenna. I'm so proud of you. And today, I can finally unveil everything to my email list. So, since everything's out in the open, I can talk about them here, too. So, in this episode, you will get the full scoop on five delectable new offers that I'm releasing, so that you have plenty of time to think about which one or ones are right for you.

I'll tell you exactly how the sale will work so you don't miss a thing, cause I have no plan to offer any of these again. So if you want them, get them. And since I know that you might be planning or considering your own Black Friday offer, I'll be sharing the thinking and strategy that went into it all so you can clarify your next moves and set yourself up for success.

Okay, we've been working on this for over a month now, and the reason is that I am in a mood to play. So it's a very light hearted energy of what could be really fun, and why not? I don't typically do a lot of Black Friday anything, but I am a manifesting generator after all, so I need to keep things really fun.

I need to keep things fresh for myself. Now, I don't recommend it as a long term strategy for you that you kind of get an idea and then you just run with it necessarily. But for short little bursts, hell yes, yes, your business, your rules. At the same time, I've been thinking about you and what you would really want and need because of course we need to find that want match with our ideal people.

It's interesting because I shared what I was doing with a coach and she advised against it. She said, Black Friday is really all about the sale, like how highly can you discount your existing products, but she has a very different audience than I do. So when I felt into the energy of my people, Black Friday isn't really about how cheaply can I get something that maybe I don't even care about that much.

Instead, it's about the excitement. itself and the splurge and the fun of it all. It's the kickoff to the holiday season after all, and that's when we relax the rules and take it a bit easier on ourselves and just enjoy the magic of the season. But it's also when we kind of start evaluating and thinking about how we're going to reinvent ourselves in 2025.

What is next for us? So it's just, it's the right time. It's, it's so fun. And that is how the five days of deals were born. So throughout the whole week, we're going to be releasing a deal a day. Now I know I love to know in advance what the possibilities are because that's half the fun, right? It's like circling toys in the catalog when you're a kid.

So we're doing the same thing with this quote unquote catalog release that I was doing for my email list. The way the sale will work is starting Monday, November 25th, you'll get an email with the day's deal. And if you want it, you need to purchase it that day. At midnight Eastern, the offer goes away and the next one goes hot for a total of five days, five offers.

If you see one or two that you like, then you need to mark your calendar, so you make sure not to forget, and keep in mind that some of them have limited availability, like limited to three spots or something. So the earlier you purchase in the morning, the better chance you have of snagging that deal.

Now, there is a great gift with purchase available if you sign up for the Black Friday waitlist now. It's at theuncommonway. com Black Friday, all one word, and we'll link to it in the show notes, but you've got to sign up. Don't tell me later that you meant to sign up and didn't get a chance to sign up.

Cause for the first time I'm peeling back the curtain on exactly how I've been able to create consistent multiple six figure years in my business without ads, without posting on social media, without hustling after clients, it has allowed me to create my 30 hour work week, move overseas. And help my husband retire early.

I'm calling it SEO Magic. Again, you must be on the wait list and make a purchase to be part of this. Okay? Ready to find out which of these deals has your name on it. Hot off the presses. Here are the deals. On Monday, November 25th, I am releasing the Aligned Action Blueprint. So this is for entrepreneurs that are feeling overwhelmed by too many options and ideas, and they want clarity and a decision about their path forward.

Plus, they want to know how to actually create those results this time. I can't tell you how many women I speak with who've been spinning in circles, holding back, and knowing that they are getting in their way, but they also don't want to waste time on the wrong things so they feel caught. Around here, of course, we want bold, decisive, but aligned goals.

And I'm teaching you how to create those and how to figure out what those are, but we also know it's not just about setting goals. I mean, how many resolutions and intentions fall by the wayside and mastering that, that final piece, that is the path to success. It's really not the people who set the most goals, who are the most successful.

It's the people who set strategic goals and actually accomplish them. We have a completely uncommon way around here of setting goals instead of the hard, masculine, smart goals that maybe work okay if you have some extrinsic motivator, like, you know, a class that you need to pass, but in terms of sustainability.

In terms of something you can bring into all areas of your life and be successful with, they tend to fall flat. Our approach is very holistic and it gives you so many paths to success that the success rates skyrocket. So we'll help you whittle down all of your brilliant ideas into the goals or the lines of effort that you want to focus on.

I'm sharing my best strategies for cutting through the noise as a woman with ADHD who struggled with clarity questions for over two decades and who has subsequently worked with hundreds of women who experienced similar issues. This is a passion topic of mine because I can't help thinking about how much productivity Greatness and power, really, is lost when so many women are caught in this trap.

My heart aches over it, really, especially nowadays. We need women in their power more than ever, making moves, changing things more than ever. Can you imagine a world where women were super clear headed? Focused, head down on exactly what they're accomplishing next, slaying their goals, if you'll allow some bro language to slip in here.

But seriously, not just killing it, but really walking through the world as confident women who are decisive and calm and focused. The world needs that now more than ever, because these kind of women. They're dangerous. You know, they change the world. So this deal is yours for 50 percent off one day only normally 97, but now 47.

So it's pretty much a no brainer. Okay. Let's talk about day two. That was just day one for day two. Okay. Decisive action. Yes. Total game changer, but in business you have to be able to tell people why you and why your offer. All the marketing in the world doesn't make up for a lack of clarity, which is why we're offering the Irresistible Sales Conversations Through Effortless Aligned Seeding mini course.

That's a mouthful, but it's a total game changer. Because I hear all around me how entrepreneurs at all different levels of business, I hear them saying sales are down, so I really need to ramp up X. Right? Maybe it's, I really need to, I've been ramping up social media. You know, the algorithm's getting a lot more demanding.

I need to be on there five days a week, plus stories, plus go live, plus, plus, plus, plus. I need more outreach. I need to be doing more. But can you see how we get sucked into overworking so easily? But if the things you say aren't landing, Why are you going to do more of it? The opposite. You need to take a beat, reassess and say, okay, what's missing here?

What's going on? So this offer is for women who know that how they say what they say to their people is something that can always be upleveled and that every once in a while. You need to change out the throw pillows and freshen things up. It's also for those who maybe have spent time learning copy tricks, but you've never really dived deep into messaging into what really moves people through their buyer's journey and how to feel safe buying this offer that you of course know is going to be a game changer for them.

Or, you do have a pretty good handle on your messaging, but you don't know how to deliver it without sounding like you're trying to prove yourself and convince them of something, or feeling like you're tricking people, or clamming up and forgetting how to get the words out. The words that you worked on so well in your office, right?

But then when you're out and someone's there and asking, what do you do? You're just like, bleh. What makes this mini course special is that it teaches you the most important elements that you need to incorporate in your messaging, the key essential things. If you miss these, you are leaving money on the table because you're not painting as clear a picture for your people.

You're just not helping their brain feel the safety that any buyer needs to feel. In order to say yes. And with this offer here, there's a simple plug and play method for incorporating all of these elements into your sales conversation. And once you've learned to do that, I can show you how to casually drop them into normal conversations you're having with anyone.

Because that person might end up being the ambassador for your brand when they're talking to their friend, or they themselves might become a client, but that kind of spontaneous or viral client creation simply doesn't happen without it. Great messaging or a really great unique offer. You want to see whiplash when you're talking to people.

When they're like, wait, huh? That is such a good point. Oh yes, that's so true. Or that's so me. Okay, how can we work together? When can I start? Now for this offer, you also get a significant discount. But I was trying to think about what would really be the most helpful for implementing what I'm teaching you.

And I realized that a bonus would be fantastic because I could audit your work. We all need objective eyes on our work because we're just so in it, especially when those eyes have created close to a million dollars in income and helped others create millions of dollars in income. So if this sounds like a great opportunity at only two 97.

down from 4. 97. Mark your calendar for Tuesday. Now, I promised to share my thinking behind the offers too. And both of the ones that I just talked about came from me asking myself, what is the sweet spot where something is very easy for me to deliver and the highest CastingWords For someone who hasn't experienced my work yet, because of course, my clarity accelerator clients get my help with these things and more on the daily.

And you can see them talking about what these specific things have been able to do for them and their businesses on the sales page that we're setting up for these offers. So, as I thought about it, these were the two clear winners. Since they're part of the Clarity Accelerator curriculum anyway, they just needed some touch ups to make them applicable for someone that hasn't begun that connect the dots process that I teach.

For aligned businesses, right? I wanted this to be wildly helpful for anyone and everyone. Anyone can use this. So now let me ask you, what are the simplest things for you to deliver that would be of highest impact to your audience? If you can pull something out of a preexisting offer, that's great because then it's already tested and you know, your people will get great results.

But for a promotion like this, you want light? And ease, because otherwise you probably won't really want to sell a lot of it if you're like me. Now, if it's something you've been wanting to create anyway, and now here's the perfect moment to really birth the thing and have people, you know, to know people are waiting for it, then great, but be careful of over stuffing your bra.

That is when you have some scarcity thinking telling you that people won't pay X price unless you add more, more, more. Like those cheesy old commercials, right? But wait, you also get the meat cleaver. No, that's not what we're talking about. We want simple, clear, high impact, high value. People don't want to watch 30 trainings when they buy a Black Friday offer.

The holidays are coming up. They're busy. They want to set themselves up for success in 2025, but with something they can just implement easily and have time to enjoy, then they're, you know, with their family or they're going on vacation, whatever they're doing, right? As it should be. Hey, if you want true clarity about your secret sauce, your people, your best way of doing business, and how you talk about your offer, then I invite you to join us in the Clarity Accelerator.

I'll teach you to connect all the dots, the dots that have always been there for you so that you can show up like you were born for exactly this. Come join us and supercharge every other tool or tactic you'll ever learn from Facebook ads to manifestation. Just go to the uncommon way. com slash schedule and set up a time to talk.

I can't wait to be your coach. Okay, let's move on to the third offer. These next three are slightly different than the first two. Dropping Wednesday, the 27th, it occurred to me that there are people who would really like a taste of working with me, Jenna. And so I've created a coaching bundle where you not only get the Aligned Action Blueprint and the Irresistible Sales mini course, but you get personalized coaching from me for a full two weeks.

And you get all of this at a price much lower than if you bought them all separately. To the tune of 78 percent off full price. Y'all the total price is 795. This is for sure. The most cost effective way to work with me privately that maybe has ever been. Well, yeah, maybe has ever been think about it. But since there's only one of me, of course, I am limiting this offer to four people.

This is for entrepreneurs wanting in depth help. and highest level implementation. So maybe you wanted to purchase the first two offers, but you want my help to really dial in all the benefits and ring out all the potential of those offers. So you'll get my eyes on your work and are being able to talk it through together, to actually get it done and get it done really well.

I'll be able to draw things out of you in terms of messaging and goals that you probably never even considered for yourself. But this is also for you if you're like, I feel confident that I can implement both those offers, but I want two weeks to strategize with Jenna to add a nice end of year sales boost to my business or troubleshoot the number one obstacle I'm having in business now, or map out my strategy for 2025.

We can accomplish a lot in two weeks of intensive focus, and the great news is that you can use this in December or January, whatever suits you best. I'll be on vacation from the 20th through the 6th, but other than that, it is very customizable. That's how I want the one to one relationship with me to feel.

Like it's all about you. It's very bespoke. Me and my team really are here to set you up for maximum success. Because yes, we're all smart and capable of implementing, right? We don't need hand holding. Who doesn't want it? Who wants to spend months or years learning the hard way? You know how I feel about time being our most important resource.

This is why I always have a coach to show me what I can't possibly know in advance because I just haven't tread that path yet or even considered that possibility. So often, it's not about what you know, it's about how you implement it into your business. And for that, coaches are next level help. So you and I will be talking on WhatsApp each day to make sure you can fully leverage everything we're talking about into your most successful year yet.

I have so many things in my business that just continue to grow. Continue to make me money, continue to make me money, and I can trace them back very directly to some interaction I had with some coach. It is the difference between listening to a podcast or course that's directed for. Everybody versus having the author create something individual for you.

One of my clients even described the WhatsApp experience with me as having little mini bite sized podcasts created just for her and said that if I stopped doing individual coaching at any time, that real time feedback in between calls is what she would really miss the most. Again, I'm only opening up four slots for this.

So set your alarm early or late. If you want to stay up until midnight Eastern, this deal goes live at 1201 AM Eastern on Wednesday, November 27th. Now going back to the thinking behind these offers, if you're wondering about pricing and bonuses for offers, you can of course discount, but you don't have to.

You'll see that my day four offer and day five, they're not discounted, but they have other desirable characteristics. It's something. Well, day four, especially it's something brand new that people have actually been asking about. So I know there's demand and it's also in limited supply, but you can also offer a bonus rather than discounting your price, which is what I'm doing for my fifth offer.

Here are some of the questions you want to consider. Who's the offer for? Is it for somebody new who doesn't know you that well? Or somebody who's already used to getting high value from you? What is the potential lifetime value of the client who has this opportunity to establish more trust with you, really see what you're about, and potentially come on as a client or be a great testimonial who tells their friend about you?

Or maybe they were going to buy from you anyway, but by having this early touch point into your method and your way of thinking, they come on sooner or as a much better client prepared to get even better results. And is it an information product or is it you, your magic, your special sauce, you as a limited resource?

All of these answers will influence your pricing decision. Okay, on day four, the day four offer is something I am really excited about. I think it's the one I've been most excited to talk about. Actually, it's something I've dreamed about doing ever since I had the idea of moving to the Mediterranean. I didn't know where exactly I'd be, but I knew the energetic imprint of the person who would be visiting me, and I knew the clothes I'd be wearing.

Isn't it funny how our brains work? But this is where I'll be opening my little island home to you for a full day VIP intensive. In essence, you get to ride off your 2025 vacation to Mallorca with 20. 24, or euros, or whatever currency. And while you're here, I'll be treating you to some luxurious experiences like lunch at this gorgeous hotel I love.

It's overlooking the water, surrounded by olive and pine groves. It is, it's like another world. Or, maybe I'll send you to the spa the day before in ancient Roman baths. I mean, we'll see, depending on your interests. This is very, very customized to each person that will sign up. Plus, we'll spend a full day on your business and we'll create our plan in the month leading up to it, right?

Is your highest leverage opportunity a rapid reinvention? Is it to really understand and feel a calmer, slower way of being? Or is it you and me hashing out your new webinar funnel? Let's not put a box around it now. This offer is meant for those who are saying yes to themselves with a high level of trust in their intuitive hit about how life changing an experience like this can be.

And my intuitive gifts are always in hands when I'm physically near someone. So leave the possibility open that you don't even know fully what this trip to Mallorca will actually end up being about for you. Maybe you've been thinking about becoming an expat too, and once a local shows you around, you see that this, or something like it, is the place for you.

Who knows? Often, it's not about the plans we make. It's about the rooms we put ourselves into and the opportunities that we open ourselves to. All you need to decide is that on the other side of this time together, you are different in some way. And what will the ripple effect of that be in your life and business throughout the years?

So, if you've got a little voice inside saying yes, then mark your calendar for Thursday the 28th, otherwise known as Thanksgiving Day in the U. S., because there are only three spots available. This is 4, 000. Alright, we have arrived at Day 5, the actual Black Friday day, and the jewel of the crown in this suite of offers.

It is my flagship mastermind, but with an eye popping bonus that I have never offered before. This is for those of you who know you want to join. You're already convinced it is the best out there. The place for really comprehensive, you know, comprehensive one stop business coaching, but you've just been waiting for that right moment.

Maybe you have been finishing up another program. Maybe you've been waiting for some kind of sign in some way to say yes to what you deep down know is next for you. You probably recognize that drive you have to keep pushing to work harder, to learn all the sales, conversion techniques and Instagram content strategies and everything else that people are saying you must do.

But now you've realized that it is not sustainable. You want a better way, and you're figuring out that alignment really is the assignment. That there is an easier path to seven figures and beyond that isn't going to burn you out, and you're not going to despise. You are daring to say that you can have it all.

So for that, I applaud you, right? Very few of us are brave enough to say, I believe I can have the ideal clients. I love, I believe I can be recognized for my zone of genius, that I can be having clients that get great results, that I can have rising business revenue without working all of these hours or always stressing about how the business is going.

You know, there's a way to work wiser, not harder. You just aren't sure how to do it. Luckily, you don't have to look far for a solution. It is right here for you. The Connect the Dots method that I teach is a proven process for drawing out those key insights that help you really realign your business and magnify your impact And the desirability that people feel for your offers.

You'll create those signature offers that do the heavy lifting for you. You'll really understand and come to believe in your differentiator or secret sauce. You'll really get to know who your best fit clients are and really uplevel your thinking. About who you deserve to work with, not just in terms of price, but just in the quality of the type of person that ease and the joy of working with them, you'll learn exactly how to speak to them all while reinventing yourself.

In the process, because these kinds of declarations, they don't happen from the same headspace as the old you, the old you, who is driven by fears and driven by worries. It takes a bold, fresh way of thinking and being. And every day that you delay Thank you. on your journey to become her, to become that woman, because she is definitely there.

It's only a question of when and aligning your business practices to what is meant for you. Every day, more and more and more women and men are stepping into this new way of thinking, this new way of being, and you are right there on the cusp. But the delay is costing you, right? You know it costs you. It costs you in health, in relationships.

In your energy levels, in the way you think about yourself and your bank account. And you've come to understand that doing more isn't the answer. If you've been listening to this podcast, you know, there is overwhelming scientific evidence for that truth. So imagine that 2024 is the last year that you operate like this.

In 2025, you reinvent yourself and. your business. You join me and the other amazing women in the Clarity Accelerator. If you join on Black Friday, in addition to the normal benefits and bonuses of the program, like a personal meeting with one of the best copywriters around, you'll also get supported and get to be part of this community for an entire extra month.

I'm just going to pause. For a second. And did you hear that? I just want to make sure, because I have never offered anything like this before. It's what a 1, 600 value, I think, at least. What exactly could you do with an extra month? A full month of coaching from me and the input and support of a small group of values oriented, high achieving women, right, to put yourself in a room like that.

But you know the drill. It only happens if you purchase on Black Friday. So, you've got about a week to think through all of these, re listen to the episode if you like, and then get ready to do some fun shopping that does not just sit in your closet, but dramatically up levels your business and reduces your tax liability.

I am really excited to see who's going to sign up for what. And as always, very excited to talk to you here again next week. If you have any questions, go ahead and write us, support at theuncommonway. com. Don't forget to sign up for the Black Friday wait list. And I will see you in your inbox next week.

Thanks for joining us here at The Uncommon Way. If you want more tips and resources for developing clarity in your business and life, including the clarity first strategy for growing and scaling your business, visit the uncommon way.com. See you next time.

Ep# 122: Turn Catastrophe Into Triumph in 3 Steps: What We Can Learn From the U.S. Election

Episode Summary

Ever wonder how some people seem to bounce back stronger after life’s toughest blows?

In this episode, you’ll uncover the hidden strategy that allows you to channel setbacks into breakthroughs, showing you how to move from feeling terrible to creating your greatest moments in both life and business.

In this episode, you will:

1. Get the exact strategy I’ve used with hundreds of clients to help them transform their darkest moments into incredible results

2. Discover a surprising yet powerful first step that most people overlook when handling emotional turmoil that sets the foundation for real clarity and resilience.

3. Learn how these three phases transform not just your personal resilience but your entire approach to business and life, helping you emerge stronger and more aligned.

Listen now to start your journey from major setbacks to powerful gains with actionable resilience-building strategies

Links:
Get on the waitlist for Black Friday and receive a free gift with purchase valued at $197 https://www.theuncommonway.com/BlackFriday 

Episodes mentioned:

Ep #76: The Key to Making It Through the Holidays and Other Challenging Times

Ep #43: How to Win at the Game of Entrepreneurship

Sign up here to get on the waitlist for Power & Potency, the new mastermind for highly accomplished women entrepreneurs, and hear all new information as it's released: 

 https://www.theuncommonway.com/waitlist

Leave a voicemail for Jenna and get her personalized advice for your business: 

 https://www.theuncommonway.com/talk

Find Jenna on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/theuncommonway/

The Uncommon Way is led by business coach Jenna Harrison, who helps women entrepreneurs feel confident, find their ideal clients effortlessly and avoid overwork so they can manifest money and abundance in their business and life.

This podcast empowers female entrepreneurs to overcome imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and limiting beliefs through somatics, mindset, and spirituality, create 7-figure offers, and build an online coaching business with clarity and alignment.

Episode Transcription

📍 What if you knew the secret to bouncing back from any big shock or setback better than ever? Hey, welcome! Welcome back to the Uncommon Way. Today we're talking about how you can become one of those people who seem to really bounce back stronger after life's toughest blows. I created this episode to respond to what many women in my community are feeling after the results of the U.

S. presidential election, but it really applies to any big setback in business or life. Maybe that's a failed launch. Maybe it's not hitting your revenue goals. Maybe it's heartbreak. Maybe it's losing a loved one. We all get affected by different things in different ways, and there's no judgment. So today we won't be doing the typical format of a tactical tip, a mindset tip, and an energetic tip, because I have a process that I want to take you through.

But in this episode, you will get the exact strategy that I have used with hundreds of clients to help them transform their darkest moments into incredible results. You'll discover a surprising yet powerful first step that most people overlook when handling emotional turmoil that sets the foundation for real clarity and resilience.

And you'll learn how these three phases transform not just your personal resilience, but your entire approach to business and life, helping you emerge stronger and more aligned. But first, have you gotten onto the Black Friday wait list yet? If you have not done so already, you need to do it now. It's The Uncommon Way.

com forward slash Black Friday. All one word, and we'll link to it in the show notes. Now more than ever after these election results, women need the autonomy, the power, and the freedom that businesses provide. We need financial freedom to be able to make choices in the best interest of ourselves and our families, and we need the freedom to pursue vocations that are deeply meaningful so that we have more capacity to deal with everything else coming at us.

Throughout many points of catastrophe, since I started my business, I have been able to go back and think at least I have this as I'm getting up in the morning. At least I have this business that is so deeply meaningful to me. It is not just a money generator. I believe it's important. I believe it makes a difference in the world and there's nothing that can take that away from me.

And I am here to encourage you to create the total picture as well, the business and the life. So don't miss this opportunity to get on the wait list for these really cool offers that have never been released before. Because you will get a free gift with purchase only if you're on the wait list and you don't want to miss it because it's going to expedite your growth to this kind of business in life.

Okay. Before we dive into the actual steps and process here, there's one, like really important belief point that you need, and that is the concept of post traumatic growth. You can Google this. There's been a lot of research done on this, but we were all familiar with post traumatic stress, right? Ways in which a previous trauma would play out in our lives in the future and continue to inhibit us.

In some way. Now, if you think about that, that's almost like the trunk of a tree getting an axe to it, and each time it becomes weaker and weaker until it finally topples. Post traumatic growth, however, is showing that people that have been through trauma, often come back stronger than ever. So because there has been a cut in the tree, it actually rebuilds itself with an even stronger, I don't know, I'm not a horticulturalist, but a stronger cellular structure.

And I actually do not know if this is true for plants, but this is just the image that I want you to have in your mind about the difference between post traumatic stress and post traumatic growth. So before any of the other things that I'm going to say to you will actually land with you, you have to believe that it's possible to suffer some great blow and that that actually helps you in the long run, not saying that all tragedies are good things or that we want to experience these things, but if they do, at least, you know, you have the capacity to regenerate in a stronger way.

Got it? Okay. So when I woke up, and actually it was just yesterday, and I saw the election results, I felt that feeling of having the wind knocked out of you. I mean, we were this close for the second time to having a woman president. Both times, they get defeated by that guy? Of all the guys? Not to mention that even if it had been two men running, I personally believe that having Trump return to the office will be much worse for the country and the world, especially in the long run.

So what did I do? I paused. I first thing went and paused social media. First of all, the content that I had scheduled, it did not feel in integrity with me. It did not feel appropriate for where I'm at at this moment. And it also didn't feel appropriate for my clients. And also because I wanted to walk my talk.

I believe in taking a pause, and we'll talk about that more in a second. And then my thoughts turned to others. All the women who don't have the same tools that I've gathered to move through these kinds of hard knocks. And so I invited my clients and everyone on my list to hop on an impromptu call so we could, first and foremost, feel the togetherness of other women, to feel community and to not feel alone, but also to pause together.

And process in a space where nothing is wrong. So often we're told, Oh, isn't that a little dramatic? Everything will be fine. Or shouldn't you be focused on this instead? But when you're in one of these moments, having this human experience, it is not about logic. It's just, this is the emotion you're feeling.

Even if you're not feeling much emotion, right? If you're just numb. That's real. That's what you're feeling. Someone on the call said, just thinking that it's okay to feel whatever it is that I'm feeling is already helping a lot. Now the power of the pause is totally underrated. It's also downright avoided.

Why? Usually either because we're avoiding the feelings that we're feeling about the thing, or because we're afraid that if we open a tiny little opening to those emotions they will totally overcome us and we'll get stuck there. Maybe because in the past some emotions did seem to overcome us and we just stayed there wallowing and we didn't have the tools to move through them, or because our nervous system is activated.

It's either activated into fight mode, where we want to do do do do away the problem, or freeze mode, where we avoid the problem by curling into a ball in front of Netflix and eating cookies as a buffer to our discomfort, or moving into victimhood and wallowing in the futility of everything anyway and our powerlessness to change anything.

But when we react to the fight response and we skip into action, we put on a brave face, we repress, where that gets you is just a lot of internal stress, sometimes sickness. Often we're creating neural pathways that get wired in. And so when there's a similar trigger, we act out in certain ways. And almost always, these are not your highest level activities.

And so the action you're doing is very ineffective. And often misread by your audience. We of course have less time for the things in life that really matter to us because we're so much in the doing. We can become even more stressed and snap at people we love. I mean, it just goes on and on. And when we react with a freeze response, where that gets you is really diminishing your power.

It's impossible to move forward from an empowered place when you are in a victim state. And you can be victimized without being in a victim state. I know that's a bit of a brain twist, but think about it for a second. But you also end up self sabotaging because, whatever, maybe your business isn't moving forward, or if you are overeating or overdrinking, that's not doing you any favors either.

Rarely do any of these two reactive ways of being lead to your highest level moments. So instead, Pause. Pause. That's the first step of this process we're outlining here today. There are so, so many reasons to pause. I'll give you five. Number one, it lets your nervous system regulate so you're in a less reactive space.

Once you're more regulated, you'll have access to so many more parts of your brain than you do right now. The highest level problem solving and creative and compassionate parts. If you can just breathe through it, like you're temporarily holding a very challenging yoga pose, you'll soon be having a completely different experience.

So see your discomfort, witness your desire to fight or freeze, to give in to that reactivity, And be the watcher, watch the human you who is so in it at the moment, witness the big emotions, the big shock, and just be there, breathe, observe. This is a hard thing to do at first. This one step can change your life, though.

Second reason. It gives you a beat to process the emotions. Why would we want to do that? Why would we want to do that thing? These emotions feel awful. Yes. That's exactly why you don't want remnants of them lingering around. And honestly, it tends to make the feeling less acute after just 30 seconds or so if you process it anyway.

Often it even surfaces the other deeper emotions underneath. So when you knock down that domino, the other ones just don't hold up anymore. So if you're feeling lots of rage, chances are underneath that rage is a lot of fear or a lot of grief. And once you process that, the rage doesn't have the same texture either.

And if you're not sure how to process emotions, I've got you. We've linked to an episode in the show notes about that very thing. Number three reason to pause. It gets you in touch with you, your values, what you really care about. So yes, it is nice that your emotions aren't quite so painful when you process, but that's not the only reason we do it.

We do it to learn from what those emotions are telling us, to get closer to our truth and what really matters. Why are you so sad? What's driving all of it for you personally versus the other sad person down the street? And why are you choosing to go forward anyway? Why is it important? All of that will later create the clarity in your offers and your marketing, and also the creative canvas of you.

of the woman you are creating. She doesn't become who she is without walking this path, without having these realizations, these experiences. Do not let the opportunity to know yourself pass you by. The pause is where your greatest work begins. This is why sometimes the most powerful action you can take is to pause. It's to pause, to feel, breathe, and let your next steps reveal themselves. Now, you don't need to force the clarity of what that will be.

We're still in the pause, but it'll come. All you need to do is kind of get curious, observe. You are creating the conditions for those seeds to germinate. And that won't happen if you're repressing all of your emotions or avoiding them or leaving little fragments that get triggered at inopportune times into outsized behaviors in response times.

To whatever stimulus happens to remind your brain of that specific event. Number four, getting in touch with your emotions also builds emotional resilience, which is the number one most important skill for your entrepreneurial journey. So we'll link to a podcast episode that goes more into that as well.

When you learn to tolerate big emotions, it makes them not so scary. Which means you're more likely to do the brave, scary things that might lead to failure your first time, or your fifth time around, and generate all those big feels. This is what gets you to be braver. You won't let yourself get extremely visible if you know that you can.

Any hater is going to make you shake and quiver in the corner for three months. And then you'll think, Oh, I don't ever want to experience that again. So you totally change your business model or pivot your business to something safer. Just cause you haven't learned to handle those emotions. No, an emotion is just a sensation in the body.

It doesn't kill you. Your skin doesn't feel off your face and agony has one of my mentors used to say. It's just a slightly icky feeling that goes away pretty quickly if you deal with it. And yet people change their lives to avoid a single emotion. I certainly did, waiting decades to start my business and then hiding behind blogging for a year because I so desperately did not want to experience failure.

Come on girl, do not repeat my mistakes. You can do this. Learning to navigate emotions like this will change your business in life. You'll bounce back so much faster. You'll create such bigger results. It's what they used to call having a thick skin. And having a thick skin comes from knowing yourself so well, having your own back, keeping your eyes on the prize, And not letting emotions cripple you.

And number five, a pause allows you to be present to what's around you. Moments like these crack you the fuck open. You're knocked off of your autopilot. You notice things that you otherwise wouldn't have. You become extremely grateful for the things that matter most. How many times have you had something big happen and what you know for certain in that moment is that your family is the most important thing, and no matter what, you have them.

Or you might become mindful and present to the little things in a way that you normally aren't. I was telling the ladies on the call how that day, yesterday, I took Skye for a walk and I felt the sun on my face in a completely different way, and the gorgeous 70 degree weather. It was like, Uh, no matter what, I have this.

Now one thing I've seen with many women is that they block themselves off from pleasure when they're in pain, and lots of other times too, because they think they don't deserve it, or it's wrong to feel it, or they don't want the pain to go away, really. You might have felt this if you had a loved one pass.

Or maybe with the election, you know, a lot of people who feel physically scared, maybe worrying that hate crimes will increase and you think they're suffering so much, so much more than me, I shouldn't be thinking about how nice it is for me and all my privilege to be celebrating the sun in Spain, but as souls, we are here to experience all All of the emotions.

This doesn't mean that we tune out and forget what everyone else is going through. It just means that as humans, we are here for all of it. And we have been experiencing all of these same emotions that we're feeling in this moment, and we will continue to feel them. We are human. Zooming out, no matter what, there is always rage.

There is always disappointment. And there is always love. There's always gratitude and deep generosity. These wake up moments help you tap into that universality. And in so doing, You joined together with so many women from the past, so many women in our future, so many children and grandparents before us and yet to come.

And now, here you are, in your human experience, living and surviving. and thriving. But to experience it all, you've got to pause once in a while, and you've got to become comfortable with the paradox of having all of these different emotions. We can feel despair and delight. We are that complex and neuroscience has shown that delight actually helps us regulate our nervous systems and gain access to more brain capacity.

So it doesn't just make you feel better. It's a smart strategic move. Now, those are just five of the reasons that I help my clients take sacred pause over and over and really Dig into this shit when their brains instead want to rush ahead or buffer away with Netflix and cookies. Maybe it's after a failed sales call, or a failed launch, or a hater came up, or something in their personal lives.

And this is why they become such emotional ninjas. So strong and resilient. And they bounce back faster and in much higher quality ways than others who aren't. doing this. They've created a military grade mindset where they are undeterred by the things that make most humans quiver in their boots. Okay, so we talked all about the pause.

That is stage one of turning catastrophe into triumph, and you cannot skip it. Luckily, it moves you naturally into the second stage, which is clarity. This is when you feel more regulated and you're no longer in foggy headed shock and you just take the next step with all the things that started bubbling up during the pause and you transform all of that knowing into tactics.

Okay, so what does this mean about what I'm going to do? What does it mean about who I'm going to be? What specific actions am I going to take? Am I getting involved with this cause? Am I going to retool my messaging and offers? What's the so what? Now, there's no pressure to make any change at all necessarily, but changes are something that get born from this.

Because when you grow, which you have, you are different. And different people have slightly different thoughts and feelings than they used to. So they take different actions, and they show up differently, and they aspire differently, and they create different results. And that, my friend, is the third phase.

Create. Go. Do. The. Thing. Don't just think about it and talk about it. Put it on your calendar. Reach out to the organization. Send the check. Create the podcast, say what you think. Believe me, I know what it is to be a busy mompreneur with an active social circle and family requirements and personal goals and all the things.

I'm not trying to add more to your plate. In fact, if you and I had a conversation, I'd most likely be coaching you to take things on board. Off of your plate, cut out the noise. But this helps with that, not detracts from that. It puts you more in touch with what really matters, with what you really want to prioritize, so you can realign and cast off the things that really don't.

When you are more aligned and moving in your zones of genius in precisely the way that you are here to do, You change your life and the lives of those around you, and enough people doing exactly that, that changes history. Look, it took enough people in health crises to create the market for organic foods.

I remember when they used to be super hard to find and super yucky. And super expensive, but enough people were committed because of health problems or other very strong incentives that companies started to see an opportunity and they started producing and then they started competing with each other.

And now in the U S at least we have great organic foods everywhere so that even people who aren't that committed can easily make that choice and start investigating why they'd want to make that choice. And then children are healthier and the planet gets healthier, et cetera, et cetera. Now, a word of comfort.

I very strongly believe we don't always need to have the big health scares or the big failures or the heartbreaks or catastrophes to move us forward. If we are staying very conscious and aligned and tapped in. It's the concept of comfy constant growth, which is the why of how we do things here at The Uncommon Way.

This lets us avoid some of those harder knocks, but hard knocks still happen sometimes, whether it's your mind perceiving a normal thing as hard or something outside of your control totally taking the wind out of your sails. but the key takeaway here is that turning setbacks into triumphs isn't about pushing harder.

Okay. It's about giving yourself the space to reconduct with what truly matters. The path from catastrophe to clarity isn't a sprint. It's taking a moment to realign, giving yourself the chance to create something new, and then letting yourself be amazed with how quickly your changes can come and your renewed energy. can come Now in this episode, you've learned the three stages. of transforming catastrophe into triumph.

You know that you need to pause, and use that time to process and tap into you, and that that generates your clarity so you can go out and create. You know how important that first step is, and how powerful it is, and how it sets you up not just for this clarity and creation, but true resilience. True resilience.

Bravery and transformation in your life and how possible it is for you to emerge stronger and more aligned over and over again. Okay, my friend, hang on because I have got a really exciting and different thing coming up for you next week. I can hardly keep the cat in the bag, but I will. So make sure not to miss that episode.

I'll see you next time.

Ep# 121: 3 Uncommon Tips to Choose Your Niche for Women Entrepreneurs at All Stages of Business

Episode Summary

What if your ideal niche was hiding in plain sight, just waiting to launch you into abundance?

For women entrepreneurs, finding the right niche can feel impossible when traditional advice falls flat—this episode unveils a fresh approach to align with your purpose and unlock success.

In this episode, you will:

1. Learn how to recognize and attract people who align with your purpose and energize your business, rather than drain your resources.

2. Discover the untapped layers of your ideal audience, so you’re not just speaking into the void but connecting directly with those who truly resonate with your message.

3. Explore ways to move into a space where you set the rules, creating a business that allows you to stay true to yourself without compromising for financial gain.

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The Uncommon Way is led by business coach Jenna Harrison, who helps women entrepreneurs feel confident, find their ideal clients effortlessly and avoid overwork so they can manifest money and abundance in their business and life.

This podcast empowers female entrepreneurs to overcome imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and limiting beliefs through somatics, mindset, and spirituality, create 7-figure offers, and build an online coaching business with clarity and alignment.

Episode Transcription

Jenna Harrison: [00:00:00] What if your ideal niche was right under your nose, and dialing into it set you up for abundance? Perhaps immediately,

you're listening to the uncommon way business and life coaching podcast, the podcast that helps women entrepreneurs get clear on signature offers and strategies that sell themselves. So you can lean back and stop the hustle. You will learn to maximize your mindset, messaging, and strategy, and step into the uncommonly successful business.

and life you are creating. Here's your host, top ranked business coach and reformed overanalyzer turned queen of clarity, Jenna Harrison.

Welcome. Welcome back to the uncommon way. This episode is about choosing your niche. But not in the way where you have to [00:01:00] figure out what kinds of magazines she reads, and definitely not in the way where you narrow down her profession and zip code. Oh my god, I used to hate that stuff when I was in business programs.

You too? Well, don't worry. Today, you'll be getting some uncommon tips that you definitely won't hear elsewhere, but these concepts are responsible for the success of my business and my client's successes. These bits of wisdom hold true for entrepreneurs at every stage. Because just because you choose the niche when you first begin does not mean that later on, you don't need to refine that niche or even pivot that niche as you evolve and your business evolves.

Most of my clients had no idea just how murky or flat or Or wrong, their niches were before we started working together. And [00:02:00] if you are talking to the wrong person, all of the work that you're putting into your marketing and your offers is like at half power. It's as if you are on the highest gear of your bike.

Spinning and spinning, and it's the source of so, so much overwork and under earning. So we will be moving away from our common format where we share one tactical tip, one mindset tip, and one energetic tip. And just give you straight up the three, my three top tips for choosing a niche in order to make this episode as concise as possible.

And you can move into action as soon as possible, but what you will get out of this episode is learning how to recognize and attract. The people who align with your purpose and amplify your business rather than depleting your energy, and you'll discover [00:03:00] the untapped layers of your ideal audience. So you're not just speaking out into the void, but talking directly to those who get your message and are eager to respond.

And we'll talk about how you can move into a space where you set the rules and no longer have to compromise who you are or how you are for money. But first, how are you? How have you been? Can you even believe that it's November already? Hopefully your business is booming and 2024 is turning into a record year over here.

We're having so much fun getting things together for a. Big surprise at the end of the month, something new at a very accessible price point. That's going to be very quick for you to implement. I've received so many requests over the years for offers like these, with these two characteristics, [00:04:00] shorter and lower priced.

And until now, I didn't see how to do that with integrity because I know the results that my people want are big, which is why we devote six months minimum to them in the Clarity Accelerator, but I've had these flashes of insight over the last few months, and I, I just can't keep it to myself. I'm so excited.

I can't give you the details just yet, but I am going to share this. so much. If you head to TheUncommonWay. com forward slash Black Friday, that's one word and you get on the wait list and then end up making a purchase, you will get a free gift valued at 197 that is only for you. Really just a thank you for sharing my excitement and for tuning in to this.

So, if you're curious, don't miss out, head over to the [00:05:00] link, we'll link to it in the show notes, and sign up to hear all the details. Okay, today's episode is short and sweet. We are hopping up to Italy for a few days tomorrow for Dylan's October school break. I mean, how cool is that, that we can hop up? The one and a half hour plane trip to Milan, it's longer than the two hour drive to Lake Garda, which is where we're going.

We're taking Dylan to an amusement park there for Halloween. Cause it's, it's really the first holiday that we've celebrated here. That's just going to be very, very different from what he's used to back in the States. And we've been wanting to ease the transition for him. So, and I mean, come on, of course, twist my arm going up there.

There's a lot in it for me. And then too, we get the amazing food and the scenery and wineries. So it's going to be really fun. And I've been reflecting on how you do not get here [00:06:00] by playing small. And so for any of you out there that are kind of facing something that feels like a little, like a stretch, you know, I just, I'm just, I'm just.

Really rooting you on because I'm so thankful to the earlier me who kept betting on herself, despite derision from certain in laws and many, many of my own doubts. Still, I kept leaning in and I'm, I'm really, really enjoying where I am today and how my earlier self set me up for this. And one of the things to which I credit my success and the success of my client's businesses.

It's the alignment we've created between ourselves, our superpowers, and ourselves. And our people, our niche, really. So this episode may be short and sweet, but these concepts alone will completely change your business if you [00:07:00] implement them and really allow yourself to lean into them. Because it's there for all of us.

It's just that a lot of us don't do it. So the first tip is this. Go deeper. Skip the superficial stuff. We spend so much of our energy thinking about the age or the profession of our person rather than the psychographic commonalities of what connects our ideal clients. Now, that was just a mouthful, so I'm going to break it down with you.

When I was working in fashion, we'd hire top Madison Avenue consulting and advertising agencies to advise us on brand direction. And part of that was always getting clear on who your customer is. I clearly remember sitting in a conference room in New York City when I first learned the term psychographics.

And it was like the heavens opened for me. It's what I had always believed to be [00:08:00] true in my heart of hearts, too. Because you, like me, were probably more familiar with demographics, which is the age, the race, the sex, the zip code, the profession. The word demographics is literally how we record people, how we drill down to their most obvious cursory statistics.

Psychographics, on the other hand, is about a person's psychology. So here's a story about what happens when you stop focusing on the data, and you go deeper, and you think about what they care about, and what drives them, and what their attitudes are, and their perceptions. I had a client who was helping people lose weight.

And when we first met and I asked her about her people, she described them to me totally in terms of demographics. They were a certain age, certain professions, whether or not they had kids, all the details. And that was going so poorly for [00:09:00] her that she actually came to me for clarity help on switching to a totally different kind of business.

She no longer wanted to be a health coach. It got her to open up her vision of what was possible, and then she started actually talking to the people she would want to work with and getting more precise. She found out that when they thought about it, it just hadn't been a priority for them. Lose weight.

They'd been busy with careers and other things in life. But now it was. And so they wanted to do it. Before she'd been talking to them about why they could do it, why they should do it, and she was really thinking about the person who had the biggest pain point that she could possibly imagine because she was told that that's the way to make the most money.

But these people were also a little burnt out from trying things. And many of them had deep underlying [00:10:00] issues of why they hadn't been able to lose weight. Now, when you think about who Crystal ended up working with, and by the way, she ended up selling out her group program right away when she changed to talk to these people.

But you see how it didn't matter if her person was a 29 year old investment banker who was just been living on junk food and had put a on some pounds or a 55 year old empty nester who'd been so busy raising kids that she hadn't prioritized her health. It didn't matter what the demographics were because they had a similar psychographic profile, right?

In a nutshell, they perceived the same kind of problem and imagined the same kind of solution. So I'll say that again. They perceived the same kind of problem. Like that it hadn't been a priority and so that's why they'd packed on these extra pounds and now they wanted to get rid of it and they imagine the same kind of solution, someone they trusted who could cut through the noise and all the different [00:11:00] conflicting advice out there and give them an action plan to just get it done.

They knew that they were the kind of people that when they set their mind to something, they just get it done. So they just wanted someone to walk them through it. And obviously they shared other similarities, like how they were willing to spend money on themselves and they valued their time rather than trying to DIY it all alone.

I have such a keen understanding of my people and how they think and talk that it drives my contractors crazy sometimes. Like my social media team. I'm always the one who's like, no, no, that's not how they'd say it or they'd be so bored with that or no, we really need to do this angle because that one's going to bring out their fears that blah, blah, blah, and they'll just tune out.

So they love that. I know who I'm talking to, but it does make their job a little more difficult. So if you want more on this on being able [00:12:00] to really know your person in this way. Check out my podcast with a client named Geraldine. We'll link to it in the show notes. Hey. If you want true clarity about your secret sauce, your people, your best way of doing business and how you talk about your offer, then I invite you to join us in the Clarity Accelerator.

I'll teach you to connect all the dots, the dots that have always been there for you so that you can show up like you were born for exactly this. Come join us and supercharge every other tool or tactic you'll ever learn from Facebook ads to manifestation Just go to the uncommon way comm slash schedule and set up a time to talk.

I can't wait to be your coach Okay tip number two sell to people who if they join forces with you are Most likely to help with what you are here to create in the world A lot of the women entrepreneurs I work with, when we [00:13:00] really get down to it and they actually think about how they came to be targeting the people they're currently targeting, they see that the choice might have been conscious, but it wasn't very intentional.

Maybe they're focused on who really needs them. Or What the smart thing to do is, because these people have more disposable income, or the people that someone told them to focus on, or whatever people were willing to hire them, and they figured, hey, at least I'm getting paid. But here at The Uncommon Way, we believe that our businesses are most successful when we find alignment.

When we're working with the people we're meant to work with, The ones who not only recognize and value our specific superpowers, but the ones who help us step into our purpose in the same way we help them step into theirs. Again, not how we'd ever be taught to think about this in business school. So [00:14:00] I think it's fitting that I dropped out of business school long before I settled into any of this.

So let me give you an example of how this works. If I am here to help women live uncommon lives of their choosing, it makes sense that I work with entrepreneurs rather than people in corporate who are tied to just two weeks of vacation and a capped salary. People could make a really strong case for how people in corporate have consistent disposable income and maybe how they really need me.

Maybe how LinkedIn is one of the most. Favorable algorithms, and that's where they hang out. So I could focus my efforts there, but I wouldn't have been as fulfilled or successful. Alignment brings abundance. I've recorded an interview with my client cat, which I'll link to. She had a very successful multiple six figure business, but was having such a difficult time [00:15:00] deciding who to say yes to and who to say no to before we dialed in her niche.

She had tons of clients who were really only scratching the surface of the value she could have been bringing to them. And now she has a handful of quality clients and earns many times what she used to, and they appreciate her deeply and they want to keep working with her and tapping into more of her superpower.

And there's another client. She's a business coach who. Also earning multiple six figures, but was working from eight until five, sometimes 30 sessions a week. Maybe she'd get a 15 minute break here and there because she wanted to be there for her people. So she gave everything of herself. She was totally exhausted.

She had zero time for herself or her family. And when we pivoted her niche, she was able to bring in ideal clients who felt amazing to work with. And she was able to raise her price and work with [00:16:00] fewer people as well. And she had some resistance to this at first. She was like, anybody can do that thing that we're saying is my superpower, Jenna, like nobody's going to pay for that.

But as soon as she connected with these people, they said yes to her new price without blinking. She was like, what just happened? Okay, third tip and most important one. Get out of the passive energy where you're trying to fit yourself into someone else's box where you're trying to be everything to everybody, or you're having to hide who you are or what you truly desire because, for instance, they'd never pay for that, or these are the people you have to work with instead, move into an active, creative energy where you call the shots.

You can create a business around whatever and whomever you want. You're a rock star, deep down you know it. And as long as you shy [00:17:00] away from that, as long as you're staying in a more passive energy, you will block yourself from seeing just how good your life can get. So I ask, what would it take for you to believe that there are people, whom you are dying to work with, that are also dying to work with you?

That your superpowers are valuable enough to them to pay you abundantly, that you can call the shots and not only create what you desire, but something that fulfills the purpose that you've been tapped for, the thing that you are called to do. What would it be like to say, unashamed, I am here to create more of this in the world.

And even if I weren't getting paid, I couldn't not do it because it's just who I am. But interestingly enough, when I am aligned with this and not rejecting it, I don't seem to have money problems. This is all available to you. You [00:18:00] just need to dial in your niche, which is so much simpler once you understand what you're really here to do and your highest leverage superpower.

Luckily, I am very gifted at helping people connect these dots. That's my superpower. And we can get started on this make over for your business once you take the step of joining me in the Clarity Accelerator. It really is that simple. The link is in the show notes. It is all there for you, my friend. Okay.

In this episode, you learned that choosing the right niche isn't about demographics. It's about finding the people who resonate with your purpose and amplify your impact. Your business thrives when you stop trying to fit into others boxes and start creating from your own vision. We want you setting the rules and never again compromising who you are, how you [00:19:00] are, or what you do for money.

And the right clients don't just need your work. They align with your mission, deep down, even if they would never express it in that way. They are Call to it as well as you are, and they elevate your success. Thanks so much for tuning into this episode. I've got a really fun one coming for you next week as well, and I can't wait to talk to you then.

Thanks for joining us here at the uncommon way. If you want more tips and resources for developing clarity in your business and life, including the clarity first strategy for growing and scaling your business, visit the uncommon way. com. See you next time.

Ep# 120: The Scientific Formula for Women Entrepreneurs to Scale a Business and Build Teams With Confidence and Clarity

Episode Summary

What if just one formula could unlock clarity, confidence, and real results in your business, regardless of where you are in your entrepreneurial journey?

Many high-achieving women entrepreneurs encounter hurdles that slow business growth, creating cycles of burnout and self-doubt; this episode reveals how to scale confidently without falling into “mind drama” and overwhelm, guiding you toward the clarity and confidence needed to elevate your business and life.

In this episode, you will:

1. Walk away with the specific formula, step by step, that works for all entrepreneurs regardless of where they are in business

2. Discover the one single thing that is keeping your business from feeling as easy and natural as breathing

3. Unlock the secret to achieving results faster through aligning your energy with your goals, or vice versa

Tune in now to master this formula and bring clarity and ease to your business growth!

Episodes Mentioned:

Ep# 119: How Women Entrepreneurs Can Use Intuition to Drive Business Success

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This podcast empowers female entrepreneurs to overcome imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and limiting beliefs through somatics, mindset, and spirituality, create 7-figure offers, and build an online coaching business with clarity and alignment.

Episode Transcription

Jenna Harrison: [00:00:00] What if you could rapidly scale your business confidently and with full clarity on your next steps through the use of just one proven formula.

You're listening to the Uncommon Way business and life coaching podcast, the podcast that helps women entrepreneurs get clear on signature offers and strategies that sell themselves so you can lean back and stop the hustle. You will learn to maximize your mindset, messaging, and strategy. And step into the uncommonly successful business and life you are creating.

Here's your host, top ranked business coach and reformed over analyzer turned queen of clarity, Jenna Harrison. Welcome. Welcome back to the uncommon way. Today, we're talking about an absolutely proven method for growing your business. Whether[00:01:00]

you are just starting out. Or beyond seven figures, as always, I'll give you the tactical how to, but also the mindset and energetic perspectives that will be like a lightning fuel for the effectiveness of what I'm sharing. And more specifically in this episode, you will walk away with a specific step by step that works for all entrepreneurs, regardless of where they are.

You'll discover the one single thing that's keeping your business from feeling as easy and natural as breathing, and you'll unlock the secret to achieving results faster through aligning your energy with your goals. Or vice versa. But first, a quick announcement. I have some really fun surprises on the way.

Some new offers, including some very accessible price points that I have never offered before. I've told you that while I've been moving in these last months and working [00:02:00] less, the ideas have been really percolating and brewing. Well, now it's time to bring them to fruition. We're going to release a bunch of them during the week of Black Friday.

So if you want to get in on those, you need to sign up for the wait list at theuncommonway. com forward slash Black Friday. That's one word. And kind of along those lines, because we realized that Black Friday would be the perfect time to release, we're postponing the SEO magic workshop that I talked about before.

But don't worry, it's still on the way. And just make sure you're on my list to be in the know about the timing of that. Probably December. And another quick PSA. Never try to source a birthday cake in Mallorca that's just plain vanilla cake and plain vanilla frosting. Dylan was very adamant. He did not want chocolate.

He did not want carrot cake. And there are three others that I guess are very typical in, in Spain. And [00:03:00] that's what all of the places were offering. And so we finally had to pay 120 euros. Yes. Believe it or not. That's like 130. In order to get this, this cake made for his birthday, of course, it by then was like close to the last minute.

And I just, I had to be like, okay, whatever, fine. But if you ever want to start a business in Mallorca, then a cake business would be a great one. But actually, it's all good. We are actually It's really settling into life here now, and just like feeling that routine and that rhythm that we were really longing for back in August, maybe, and it just feels very deeply fulfilling to have accomplished this goal and made it here, which I've been dreaming about for so long.

So now let's shift [00:04:00] gears and talk about getting you into the dream of what you've been waiting for. Um, whatever that might be for you at this moment in your business, maybe you do want to become a digital nomad. Maybe you want to just sign your first client. Maybe you want to work less and really like release control to your team and stop doing all the heavy lifting yourself.

What we're going to talk about today is circumstance agnostic. It does not matter what's going on. Just works. Now, I have to admit there was a little bit of clickbait in the hook, right? When we opened the podcast and it is true, it's one simple thing, but it has nothing to do with what you might've been thinking about, like a specific funnel or this specific tactic.

And I used this way of framing it. Though, [00:05:00] to really capture your attention because this is what everyone wants as a business coach. I know it. I talk to women about it all the time. Everyone's looking for one magic pill and you know, I am right there with you, right? Like I've talked before about how much money and time I spent chasing so many different things.

Even when I had a coach who was kind of telling me what I needed to be doing, I was investing in all these other coaches and courses and methods, right? Determined to find the one that would finally have me skyrocketing forward. But the thing that actually works, other than, of course, Like, good skill sets, and great mindset, and great energetic alignment, but the simple thing that I'm about to share is the one, like, step by step thing that just, rinse and repeat, always works.

And we're [00:06:00] going to lead into it by diving into the mindset portion first. So deep down, we all want to be the phenom, as in phenomenon, like a true phenomenon, right? The example that first came to mind when I was thinking about how to talk about all of this with you is like the great American novelist, Now, for those of you who are outside the U.

S. and not familiar with this term, it's an archetype where the artist works diligently in solitude, right? Often unrecognized or underestimated. Maybe this person's your local barista. Or something, but at night they're working on writing this novel, the great American novel. And it's like this masterpiece finally gets sent to an editor and the editor is like, Oh my God, where has this been my whole career?

This is it. This is going to be the [00:07:00] breakthrough. And then it goes on to win just all of this critical acclaim and, of course, great riches. And it goes down in the canon as like the quintessential American novel. It's sort of like a J. K. Rowling story, right? Where from obscurity, we just burst forth. Or a slightly different version of the phenom is just the super high performer, right?

The person who just like blows it out of the park. I had a very young client who was really determined, like she had to hit certain revenue goals by a certain age. It was maybe like 23 or 25 or something. Definitely before 30 because once she'd passed 30, like that wouldn't be a big deal anymore. Anyone at 30 can have a business, but if she were a 23 year old that accomplished all this, like, wow, that would really [00:08:00] be something.

She'd really be on the magazines. And I get it. I was exactly the same way, but I'm just sharing these different examples so you can feel into it, right? And ground into like, that is what we want. We want to step out of the shadows, and suddenly everyone's like, Oh, this coach is amazing. Where has she been?

Or I've never read a blog like this before, or I've never read an article like this before, or I've never seen a natural born leader like this. How did she hit seven figures in her first year? She phenom. What a brain for business, but it backfires. When our expectations don't immediately match our reality.

And it kicks up all of this mind drama about the discrepancy between what we wanted and what we're actually seeing. And maybe you [00:09:00] start thinking, well, maybe I'm not meant to be a coach. Of course, it's not just coaches, right? That was just an example. Any kind of business owner, business provider, maybe I'm not meant to be an entrepreneur or.

They hate me, I suck, I'm not cut out for this. What am I doing wrong? Why can't I get it? And then you get this shrinking feeling and suddenly the actions you're taking are at like 20 percent of what they were, or maybe they're at 200 percent because you're trying to compensate. But then there's this desperate energy driving it, right?

Or this needing to prove yourself or needing this next win because of all of the meaning that's hanging on it about, you know, whether you're worthy or not, or whether you're good enough, which leads to guess what? Your results totally suffering. And then that just confirms your suspicions that you [00:10:00] are.

Not as great as you thought you were. And so you beat yourself up and you try to be perfect and you think, think, think about the problem to come up with the right way because obviously this was the wrong way. Oh, and you beat yourself up for every dollar you ever invested in your business. And also every pie in the sky thought that told you maybe you could actually pull this whole business thing off.

And then you are just so exhausted and your coach tells you to go try again and you're like, fuck you, you didn't give me the magic potion. You're the one who's making this so hard. My friend, building a service business is not hard. It's one of the easiest, most natural things for women because it's just about finding a solution to someone's problem.

That's it. Think [00:11:00] about it. It's what we naturally do anyway. Day in, day out. Since little girls, we've been taught to attune to the needs of people around us, and then satisfy them. You can do this in your fucking sleep. You can do it backwards in heels. But you know what makes it fun? Feel hard, drama, mind drama.

That's it. All the meaning we make about every step of business growth. Hear me. When I give you this mindset takeaway, think of yourself less as the phenom and more as the scientist, this will change the game. Game for you and make your experience of growing your business. So, so, so, so, so much more pleasurable.

Hey, if you want true clarity about your secret [00:12:00] sauce, your people, your best way of doing business and how you talk about your offer, then I invite you to join us in the Clarity Accelerator. I'll teach you to connect all the dots, the dots that have always been there for you so that you can show up like you were born for exactly this.

Come join us and supercharge every other tool or tactic you'll ever learn from Facebook ads to manifestation Just go to the uncommon way comm slash schedule and set up a time to talk. I can't wait to be your coach a Scientist never expects to be right from the get go. They make a hypothesis They test it by running the experiment, they tweak something, they run it again.

There might be disappointment in that, right? They're human. But there's not tons of drama. It's just how science is done. So instead, there is neutrality. Instead of drama, neutrality. It [00:13:00] doesn't mean you suck. It means the experiment didn't work and needs to be tweaked. So when you go home at night, guess what?

You can decompress. You can feel totally capable, still and calm and curious, meaning you have more access to creative inspiration. So you're going to reach your desired result more quickly. You show up the next day, still at 100% And the day after that, now you have been in the online business world for a minute.

You know, you're not supposed to get so emotional about a failed sales call or a failed launch or how your employee doesn't like you or doesn't meet your expectations. So then Why are you still so caught up in it? Why are you so worked up and bouncing back and forth in your mind and feeling knocked out of the game for a few days?

And like, you've just been through battle and you need to recuperate. [00:14:00] Why are you making it all about you and suffering through all of these emotional highs and lows? It feels like you're on a roller coaster. The answer is simple. You haven't learned yet how to discharge emotions. All of these things are driven by big feelings.

Some of the dejection you feel has absolutely nothing to do with that potential client saying no or that team member quitting. I mean, honestly, they weren't the best fit anyway, but it has everything to do with the fact that you weren't invited to that party in grade school, or you learned at an early age that failure meant ridicule, or it meant the withholding of love.

Now, luckily, you don't have to unearth all those painful memories to discharge those emotions. Don't worry. I'll talk about how to do it in a second. But I [00:15:00] want you to know, when you're feeling that rush of emotion, your nervous system is getting triggered and there are actual chemicals flooding your bloodstream in these moments that you cannot control.

These things are not your fault. Sure, you can get good at putting on a brave face, all of us do, but that actually makes the problems worsen, not lessen. When you suppress it like that, and in that activated state, you have lots of access to the parts of your brain that control your skepticism and negativity, and very little access to the parts that control positivity and creative problem solving.

So you're stuck in this loop of poor performance. I'm just going to say it, with love, because I was the queen of poor performance for many years. Nobody would have thought that from the outside looking in, right? I am [00:16:00] a high achiever, but in retrospect, I can see it. And deep down, I felt it. I saw this amazing documentary.

I believe it was Netflix, of course. But it was about high performing athletes and their coaches. And specifically there was one on Serena Williams, which I will never forget. And she was having a meeting, she was looking for a new coach and she was having a meeting with a coach and they're interviewing the coach about that meeting.

And he said, yeah, I just told her that she was Operating way below her potential and really underperforming and then he kind of laughed and he said, of course she was, and this is where my memory gets a little fuzzy, but I think she was like the U. S. Champion at that point, or she'd been. Yeah. Already one, like, I don't know.

She was amazing. She was like Serena Williams. And she was so shocked [00:17:00] because no one says this to Serena Williams that she's underperforming, but he could watch her game and know that she was sloppy. He could see the point she was giving away. He could tell. tell that by, you know, looking at what she did well, he could tell how much more potential she had in her.

And this is true for you, I believe. It has to be true for you if you are still operating with a lot of the mental drama. Because that always slows you down. Now, like I said, you do not have to unearth all the painful memories, right? In order to discharge the emotions that are associated with them. A lot of times you won't even know why that emotion's coming up.

You can't even get to that memory. Now, if they do come up, that's fine. So if you're going to work with a coach or a therapist for this stuff, then definitely find someone you trust who's going to be able to hold [00:18:00] nonjudgmental space for whatever comes up. Like, I can't tell you how many times I've been having a conversation with someone and they're like, I mean, I know you're a business coach, but I feel like this might be relevant.

And I'm like, it's relevant. Like just, it's all relevant. It's all one big thing. It's so personal building a business. You don't need to go digging for them. It's okay if you don't recall that one specific memory. You just need to learn what to do with the triggered emotions when they arise. I tell my clients, stimulus, response, stimulus, response.

What that means is, you have a stimulus. You have something that happens, and it triggers these neurons to fire. That's all that's happening, right? This certain thing happens and these neurons of like shame or embarrassment [00:19:00] or needing to perform better, whatever it is, right? These are the ones that fire.

You have a specific way of thinking and reacting in response to a stimulus. Certain patterns you've built up over time. Until you learn to interrupt that pattern and associate a different response with that same stimulus, right, different neurons that fire with that same input, you're going to be repeating yourself like Groundhog Day.

The change when a business owner learns to do this is almost indescribable, but we're going to try. I have an upcoming podcast with a client about this and we'll go back and we'll link to it in the show notes once it comes out for anyone who's listening to this episode in the future, but it really is like night and day.

So your tactical tip for scaling your business and really doing so with confidence and clarity [00:20:00] This scientific formula. You ready? It's absolutely 100 percent proven method that will not steer you wrong. Come up with a hypothesis about what will work. Test it. Do the thing. Then evaluate your results.

Decide one thing that you're going to change so you are really controlling your variables. And then retest. Were the results closer or further from what you were hoping for? Right? What can you glean from this to make your next experiment even better? Use that information for your next experiment. So, if you're creating an ads funnel, this is the formula you use.

If you're learning to delegate to your team and release control, this is the formula you use. You iterate, iterate, iterate. Iterate. You come up with your hypothesis, you try it, you evaluate the results, and then you tweak something. [00:21:00] You release the idea of getting it all right immediately, and you focus on the long game.

You focus on the growth, on the learning, on the getting better. On the fun challenges to overcome as you figure out this really cool puzzle. That is what no former employee or formal pupil wants to hear ever. It like, it's like fingernails on a chalkboard, right? But it's what every successful entrepreneur knows.

Look, my most challenging clients are doctors or lawyers. When I see one come through on a discovery call intake form, I am like, Okay, roll up my sleeves, this is gonna be fun. Because they have been in school for so long, with such prescribed formulas about what to do, and how to get the A, with all the [00:22:00] textbooks, and the guidelines, and the very clear progression.

And when they get to entrepreneurship, they're like, no, no, where's my protocol to follow? We can't just wing it. But guess what? Madam Curie, she was winging it. This is what scientists and entrepreneurs do. They try stuff. Yes, of course, a coach can save you steps and help you avoid pitfalls. Oh, here's how you isolate a protein, by the way.

That will help speed things up for you. Or no, no, no, no. Don't combine those chemicals because in every experiment run before, there's been an explosion. So you don't want to do that thing. But ultimately, what will work best for you and work best for your clients? What is your best leadership style and the best composition of your team?

Where do you create the highest [00:23:00] leverage in the way that you love best? That is your uncommon way. Nobody can decide that for you or tell you what it is. They can only reflect back to you, give you insights, show you what they're seeing, remind you what they know to be true about you and what you have told them in the past.

But you need to experience it in your body to know for sure and you need to see it in your results and how that makes you feel and where you're led to go next and what your intuition tells you. I just did a podcast on intuition and using it more in your business. So I'm going to link to that in the show notes.

Because the truth, truth, truth, truth is that you don't really want the magic pill. The cookie cutter formula, even if it existed, yes, when you're feeling [00:24:00] down and like, oh, frustrated, and you just can't get the solution to the problem, like, you're like, give me the magic pill. But, You know, deep down, the truth is you want to find your thing, your well honed art, not something that's just a cookie cutter template or box that you're fitting yourself into.

And this is the path that you've chosen. Entrepreneurship, it's the best thing ever created. And again, because of our mind drama feels really hard for so many of us. For all of us, so let's talk energetics, the fastest, most easeful way to create the ideal meeting point between you and your clients, or you and your trusted team who are here to bring your vision to the world, or you and your best method for creating your greatest intellectual property, it's [00:25:00] alignment.

It's the difference between the feeling you get when you're just throwing spaghetti at the wall, hoping something sticks, and when you get an inspired hit and you feel in flow. Imagine someone who's born to be a baseball player, but everyone's forcing that person to play soccer. Probably do pretty well because they're naturally athletic.

Oh my God. I actually just realized that I am talking about my son Dylan right now because they don't have baseball here for him. But anyway, it won't be the same as if he were in the sport he's naturally inclined to play. The same is true in business. So often the equivalent of soccer is the way others are doing it or the way you think it should be done or when you're ignoring your secret sauce and what you're really here to do.

But when you move into alignment. You still have your, you have to work at your sport. You still honing the [00:26:00] skills, but it's all so much easier. Likewise, let's say you're making moves in order to reach your goal, like a revenue goal or a move so that you can reduce the number of hours you work. But if energetically, you're actually resisting that, let's say you kind of, Don't want to earn that much money because you're a little freaked out by what that will mean, right?

Or you're a little freaked out by stepping back from the business in that way. Then that push pull energetic It's going to be showing up in your results, delaying your progress to the goal and making that goal seem unattainable. That's why for the fastest fruition of your dreams and desires, you need to make sure the goals are aligned with what you truly want, what you're truly ready for.

If there's energetic interference, it's not the end of the world. The universe will lead you to opportunities. To work out all [00:27:00] the kinks, don't worry, but it is like being in a rowboat with an anchor down, rather than in the sailboat with full wind in your sails. So you might need to shift your energy around certain things, or you might need to change your goals to match where you are.

But as with everything, alignment is the assignment, and if you to Deeply desire to feel the wind in your sails. If you're looking for the kind of coach that Serena Williams had, who can take you from what seemed like great performance to what was truly legendary performance, then let's talk. And if you're not sure about the legendary thing, cause you are honestly feeling a bit fried at the moment.

And what you really want is just to learn to create results without all the exhaustion, then we also need to talk. Sign up through the link in the show notes or go to theuncommonway. [00:28:00] com forward slash schedule right now. Because delay just results in less than optimal results, lost time, And honestly, unnecessary suffering, if I were to offer any of my clients, their money back in return for them going back to their stressed out, unhappy, less confident cells.

They would laugh at me. They're not just building businesses and feeling lighter and better, but at the same time, they are so much tougher and much more ready to take on the big things. But they're also, Better moms and better partners, and they treat their body better and everything changes when you change yourself.

So book that call right now so we can get down to business. Okay. In this episode, [00:29:00] you got the very specific formula, hypothesize, test, iterate that works for all entrepreneurs, regardless of where you are in business. You discovered that the one single thing that's keeping your business from feeling as easy and natural as breathing Is the mind component, the mental drama, and you unlocked the secret really to achieving results faster by creating alignment energetically with your goals.

Oh, I love this topic so much. I hope you enjoyed this too. And I've got a great episode for you next week. That is kind of a continuation of this. It will be the perfect compliment. So make sure you tune in. I'll talk to you then.

Thanks for joining us here at the uncommon way. If you want more tips and resources for [00:30:00] developing clarity in your business in life, including the clarity first strategy for growing and scaling your business, visit the uncommon way. com. See you next time.

Ep# 119: How Women Entrepreneurs Can Use Intuition to Drive Business Success

Episode Summary

Have you ever wondered if there's a better way to make business decisions—one that doesn't rely solely on data and logic, but taps into something deeper?

If you've ever struggled with second-guessing yourself or feeling disconnected from your gut instincts, this episode will show you how to tune into that inner voice and let it guide you toward success as a woman entrepreneur.

In this episode, you will:

1. Get a simple 3-minute practice to make faster, more efficient decisions in your business without second guessing yourself -- even if your intuition doesn’t speak to you much at the moment

2. Walk away with specific prompts to help you start attracting the right clients, partnerships or revenue leaps 

3. Learn an important perspective shift so you can stop feeling weak or delusional for making choices based on intuition

Rewire your wealth mindset starting today. Listen to this episode and get actionable steps to align your mindset and energy with greater financial returns.

Episodes Mentioned:

Ep #32: Should I Say Yes or Should I Say No? (Tapping Into Intuition)

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The Uncommon Way is led by business coach Jenna Harrison, who helps women entrepreneurs feel confident, find their ideal clients effortlessly and avoid overwork so they can manifest money and abundance in their business and life.

This podcast empowers female entrepreneurs to overcome imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and limiting beliefs through somatics, mindset, and spirituality, create 7-figure offers, and build an online coaching business with clarity and alignment.

Episode Transcription

Welcome. Welcome back to The Uncommon Way. Today, we're diving into a topic that I am incredibly passionate about, and I know you are intrigued by, or that you love yourself. We're talking about intuition in business, and specifically, how women entrepreneurs can harness their natural intuitive abilities to make smarter, faster, and more aligned decisions. It's that quiet voice inside you that has the power to lead you to your biggest breakthroughs.

We're always being told to follow the data and listen to the experts. But today I am going to challenge you to view your inner voice as equally powerful, if not more so. Now, for some of you, this might sound a little woo woo, but stick with me because intuition is actually an underutilized superpower in business and does have scientific explanation. Now, in this episode, you will get a simple 3 minute practice to make faster, more efficient decisions in your business without second guessing yourself. Even if your intuition doesn't speak to you much at the moment, you'll walk away with specific prompts to help you start attracting the right clients, partnerships, or revenue leaps, and learn an important perspective shift so you can stop feeling weak or delusional for making choices based on intuition.

As always, I'm going to give you one tactical tip, one mindset shift, and one energetic practice you can start using today to bring intuition into your business decisions and watch how things start to flow. Let's get into it. First off, how are you doing? I feel impolite if I don't check-in with you each week even if you can't answer me back. Maybe it's the culture I'm in?

Although I think I've always been this way, I have a new housekeeper, cleaner, and every time he writes me, before he asks the question, he always has like, hi, Jennifer. I hope you're having a good day, blah blah blah. There's always, like, 2 or 3 little WhatsApp messages before we get to what he's actually going to ask me. It is so sweet. I have been relying on him a lot lately because I've been doing, I 2 weeks a little less than 2 weeks of solo parenting, broken up within the month.

And it's funny, I have a client who also does a lot of solo parenting, and each time when we get on a call and one of us is in that situation, we just start the call with solo parenting. Yep. I get it. So I just really want to take my hat off to any single moms or dads who happen to be listening. Because there's a lot of stuff to do.

We also have Dylan's birthday this week, so I've been or his party I've been running around planning that in a foreign place. Who knew you cannot get just like a vanilla cake with vanilla frosting? That's impossible from every bakery I've talked to so far. The cupcakes also were a no go. I had to buy these little muffin things and then spread syrup on them and put little sprinkles.

Luckily, Dylan is rolling with it, but, there's been a lot going on, a lot going on, and I just want to keep it real that we all have weeks like this in business. But luckily, if we can rely on our intuition, then it doesn't have to seem so hard. It's not such a big terrible thing in your business if you do kind of get thrown off one week. So let's just really briefly talk a little bit more about that, about why intuition even matters. The other day, I was on a call with one of my clients, let's call her Megan.

She is a brilliant woman with a growing business, but she kept finding herself stuck in decision making paralysis. She'd analyze every detail, crunch the numbers, and still feel unsure. She was so focused on the data and what looked good on paper that she couldn't hear what her gut was screaming at her. Sound familiar? So I asked her, Megan, when have you made a decision based purely on instinct and had it turn out to be the right one?

Her answer, a huge smile. She realized that many of the most important breakthroughs in her life and even in her business had come from moments when she trusted herself, not second guessing or waiting for the perfect moment. Those were the times she felt most alive and can look back on and say, thank God I went that way or did that thing. Here's the thing. As women, we have a leg up when it comes to intuition.

We're more attuned to our emotional intelligence, on aggregate, and our ability to read subtle cues. We literally have more sensation in the gut, physically, than men do. Although many of my clients don't feel intuition in their gut specifically, but that's a conversation for another time. Yet, so many of us ignore it, especially in our business. And unfortunately, the more we ignore it, the quieter it gets.

We get caught up in the noise, in the industry trends, the spreadsheets, the opinions from everyone but ourselves, and forget that sometimes the best decision is the one that feels right even when it doesn't make logical sense right away. People have lots of different ways of explaining intuition. Someone spiritual might say that it is spirit moving through you or speaking directly to you. A neuroscientist would say what's actually going on is that you have amassed so much information and experiential knowledge throughout your life that your consciousness doesn't have immediate access to, but it's all there. And when you're confronted with a decision or situation, there's tons of processing going on behind the scenes.

It comes to you as a gut feeling, a simple knowing, but it's actually extremely complex. In fact, it's more thorough than the current momentary snapshot that you have right now, which might be influenced by something you heard most recently. Now, you get to ascribe it to whatever source you prefer. I do not judge. But intuition or gut knowing IS real, and it's accessible.

And that's what I'd like to help you access and act on through the help of this episode. So let's get tactical. I am all about giving you tangible steps to work with. So here's one simple thing to help you start building trust in your intuition. Create a daily intuition check-in habit.

Every day, take 3 minutes, literally just 3, to sit quietly, breathe deeply, and ask yourself one simple question, what do I know to be true about what I need to do today? Now you can also get more specific if there are specific areas of your business that you're focused on, such as what do I need to know today? If you're thinking about intellectual property or some deep problem that you're trying to move through. Or you might ask, I'm calling in my next aligned client or aligned partner, and I'm open to guidance on ways to facilitate us coming together. I look forward to hearing from my deepest intuition rather than any part of me that believes I need to hustle or convince.

Or you could say, there's so much abundance available to me, and I'm ready to create a new leap up in revenue. What is my next step? Now this next part is important. Don't judge or analyze what comes up. Sometimes your answer is actually the thing that scares you the most.

OBVIOUSLY, that's why you've been avoiding making a decision. Or, that's why you've been doing the exact opposite even though a voice inside has been screaming at you, No, no, do this instead. So don't overthink it. You don't have to take action on anything that comes up. Don't worry.

Just sit with the information and let it be. Sometimes it will be a strong yes or no, and sometimes it might just be a quiet subtle nudge. Sometimes you'll get nothing at all, and you learn to ask your question in a different way. Sometimes the answer actually comes to you later in the day, like you magically stop the scroll at one post and there's your answer. But over time, you'll start to become more comfortable with that voice, and you'll get more confident in trusting those instincts.

And then you can start taking action on things that feel lower risk, and then move up to higher and higher, more consequential seeming actions. I spent most of my adult life being far removed from my intuition. Or so I thought. I thought I just didn't have it. And I remember watching a video, a YouTube video from Marie Forleo where she was going on and on about how you really have to trust your intuition.

And oh, I just felt so triggered. I felt so angry. I'm like, but what about those of us that don't have a strong intuition just telling us what to do all the time? What do we do? But what it took for me was deciding that maybe it was there, maybe I just hadn't been listening, and really beginning a practice just like the one I'm suggesting to you, because then things started to change.

I started asking and really getting quiet enough to listen. You cannot hear when you're running around doing a million things like a chicken without its head. And really, this was an early early foray for me into mind management. I was directing my mind, hey, pay attention to this from now on, it is important. And then I started acting on some of that guidance, and then on some more and some more.

Here's how I like to think about times where you have not been in touch with your intuition or even when it seems to kind of go radio silent once in a while. Imagine a friend who always comes to ask for your advice, but never actually implements your advice. At some point, you have no motivation to share, so you kind of shrug and say, I don't know, you'll know best. Have you ever had this situation? Like, I had a friend who always wanted to complain about her husband when we were together.

And she was always saying, do you think I should leave him? You know, do you think I should leave him? And I would tell her, it sounds like you wanna leave him. From what you're saying, yeah, leave him. But every time we'd come back together, she'd just do the exact same thing again, and our conversations never progressed.

They never moved into, okay. I should, but here's why I'm afraid to, or This is what I was thinking next. Right? It was just like Groundhog Day. And so I just stopped saying anything when she'd asked that question.

I'd just kind of shrug, and I'd be like, I don't know. And that is how our intuition is, too. When I first started inviting more intuition into my way of doing business, it felt awkward. I was so used to relying on logic and reason that listening to my body's quiet cues felt VERY foreign. But here's what's interesting.

Those gut feelings were almost always spot on. Whether it was a decision about a client I wasn't sure about, a business opportunity that seemed good on paper but felt off, or even just when to take a break. I began to trust that voice more than I trusted my spreadsheets or course materials. So again, you can start small with decisions that aren't make or break. Maybe it's what to prioritize that day or whether to reach out to a potential partner, and then as you get more comfortable, use it with bigger decisions.

I promise you, you'll be amazed at how your business transforms when you start working from alignment rather than pressure. Now for the mindset piece. Here's the big shift I want you to consider. Intuition is not some magical rare thing that only a few lucky people have. It's not a fluke or something that shows up once in a blue moon.

Intuition is a skill. It's one that you can develop and strengthen over time. We've all had those moments where we knew something deep down, even when we couldn't explain why. But what happens next is key. If you're like most women, you probably second guess it or you push it aside in favor of something more acceptable.

Whatever that means, right? Acceptable to whom? But what if instead of questioning your intuition, you trained yourself to honor it? What if every time you had that gut feeling, instead of saying, this doesn't make sense, you said, this feels right? The more you practice trusting yourself, the stronger that muscle gets, and the stronger your intuition becomes, the more confidently you'll navigate the ups and downs of entrepreneurship.

So the problem really isn't finding your intuition, it's LISTENING TO IT and having the courage to act on it. Because when you give it a chance it WILL start talking loudly and clearly, sometimes with things you really don't want to hear. In fact, I think that's why we block it off in the first place. We want to play it safe. But deep down, we know what it's going to tell us.

We know what's next for us. Now, there is one really important caveat. Sometimes our fears masquerade as intuition. I have a popular podcast episode on feeling into this difference, and we're going to link to it in the show notes. But it's very important.

I can't tell you how often I speak to women who say, Oh, and I just know intuitively that this strategy isn't for me, or this platform isn't for me. But when I question them on it, it turns out they have some deep fear of visibility or some belief that this one way will burn them out, but this other way will magically lead to stellar ROI within 3 months. But those nudges aren't always intuition. They're reactions. Okay.

Enough said on that for this episode. Go listen to the other one if you wanna kind of understand more about the texture of those two sensations. Okay. Now let's talk about the energy of tuning in your intuition versus what you might be currently doing. The principal reason that most of my clients tell me they don't feel comfortable relying on their intuition is because trusting that feels like surrendering control, and they want to be in control, which I totally get.

We think that if we gather enough external evidence, then we can be insulated from any future problem. And if there are problems, we can't be faulted, because, hey, I did my research, or that's what so and so said to do. Plus, we are raised to think that this is what adults do, right? And it's better, it's superior, in fact, to rely on data and logic, and push aside ridiculousness and delusions like feelings or nudges. Maybe, like me, you were exposed to some toxic femininity and it came to represent weakness and powerlessness for you.

Have you seen the movie Inside Out? There's this character named Sadness, and she cannot be proactive because she keeps crumbling to a heap on the floor and has to be dragged around by one of the other characters. So it's no surprise that you'd be like, Hell no, I don't want to be that. We're bombarded by images like this so frequently. However, you actually step INTO your power, not away from it, when you claim your authority.

So on the one hand, you can be scared, you know, uncertain, skeptical, controlling, needing to follow all the rules. On the other, you're confident, you have your back, you make moves that others find shocking and yet they pay off for you beyond expectations? Feel into the textural differences between those two energies. In fact, you know what, I want to take that part off the table, what I just said about the things paying off for you. Even if we don't know the results of those two states, I want you to just feel the difference between them.

Which is more magnetic? Which is a creator energy? And which is a follower energy? Now, in full transparency, I love me a good dataset. Love, love, love to analyse and research and all the fun stuff, but at the end of the day it's just information.

It's there to help you make a decision, not to be the decision. And if you haven't tapped into your decisive inner queen, you, my friend, are operating at a loss. If you've been listening for a while here, you'll know I believe in balancing the masculine and feminine energetics. But if you have been fully operating from the wounded masculine, like I was, when you first course correct, masculine, like I was, when you first course correct, you'll need to really get in touch with those other powers you have, this other side of yourself, before you can then come back to the middle and blend the 2 like a sorceress. Speaking of sorceress, have you been watching Bad Monkey on Apple TV?

So good. You know the character the Dragon Queen? I love her. But we learn that all of her toughness in the beginning is really being fueled by imposter syndrome. It's the role she thinks she NEEDS to play to command respect.

Later, she has a different persona with a much deeper sense of knowing, and that's when her power is really unleashed. Right? And then watch out, everyone. True power. That is what I'm inviting you to step into, where you align with your own uncommon way of creating business results and creating a kick ass life, utilizing your highly tuned intuition aided by your brilliant mind.

So to wrap this up, I wanna remind you of something really important. Your intuition, it's a gift. It's a built in guidance system that's always there to help you navigate the twists and turns of entrepreneurship. When you start listening to that quiet voice, whether it's during your morning check-in, when you're analyzing a big decision, or in the middle of your next yoga class, open yourself to the possibility that it's guiding you towards what's best for you and your business. This is the magic sauce that can turn a good business into an extraordinary one.

This has been the key to so many unexpected gifts for my clients. Everywhere from a social media post that brings a new client that very day, to an idea for a challenge that brought more sign ups and qualified leads with aligned clients than ever before, to the deep knowledge about how to position herself during a launch that her people went crazy for and she ended up having her most successful launch yet. I mean, really, I could go on and on. It is very fun to witness. So in this episode, you got that simple 3 minute practice to make faster and more efficient decisions without needing to second guess yourself.

You have specific prompts for different things that you might be focusing on, like finding aligned clients or creating revenue leaps. And you've learned the really important perspective shift where you don't need to feel weak or delusional for making choices based on intuition. There's scientific backing for it and or spiritual backing for it, however you choose to look at it. And I hope you now feel inspired to start leaning into your intuition more and using it as a real tool for success. If you want more tips on how to blend strategy with soul, make sure you are subscribed and tune in each week.

Until next time, trust yourself and keep creating a business and life that feels aligned and truly yours.

Ep# 118: Energetic Baselines: How to Create More Income Without Burnout, Hustle or Stress

Episode Summary

What if you could raise the amount of income you receive to a new setpoint, kind of like turning up a thermostat?

Many high-achieving women entrepreneurs hit an income plateau and think they must significantly increase their efforts to increase earnings, but this episode reveals how to invite more abundance—without the extra hustle.

In this episode, you will:

1. Uncover why your current income level might feel like a frustrating “setpoint” you can’t seem to move beyond

2. Discover a new strategy for growing your revenue that doesn’t involve burnout, hustle, or stress.

3. Get a surprising mindset shift that will make “more” feel safe and sustainable

Rewire your wealth mindset starting today. Listen to this episode and get actionable steps to align your mindset and energy with greater financial returns.

Episodes Mentioned:

Ep #6: How Entrepreneurship Made Me Woo

Ep# 117: The Secret Science Behind Manifesting “Quantum Leaps” of Abundance Over and Over in Business as Women Entrepreneurs

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The Uncommon Way is led by business coach Jenna Harrison, who helps women entrepreneurs feel confident, find their ideal clients effortlessly and avoid overwork so they can manifest money and abundance in their business and life.

This podcast empowers female entrepreneurs to overcome imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and limiting beliefs through somatics, mindset, and spirituality, create 7-figure offers, and build an online coaching business with clarity and alignment.

Episode Transcription

Jenna Harrison: [00:00:00] What if you could raise the amount of income you received to a new set point, kind of like turning up a thermostat.

You're listening to the Uncommon Way business and life coaching podcast, the podcast that helps women entrepreneurs get clear on signature offers and strategies that sell themselves so you can lean back and stop the hustle. You will learn to maximize your mindset, messaging and strategy and step into the uncommonly successful business.

And life you are creating here's your host, top ranked business coach and reformed overanalyzer turned queen of clarity, Jenna Harrison.

Welcome, welcome back to the uncommon way. Today, we're talking about raising your energetic set point for income. And allowing in more abundance without needing to [00:01:00] burn yourself out. If you found yourself in a pattern of thinking, well, if I want to earn twice as much as I am now, I'm going to have to do twice as much.

Then this episode will really be a mind bender. Just so we're all on the same page, the energetic baseline or set point that I'm referring to, it's just the amount of income or wealth that you typically have and the level that you seem to stay at, right? And return to over and over. What I'd like to help you decode is how to raise that level.

So you have a new baseline. A higher baseline that soon you probably won't even think much about because it will become the status quo. Now, as always, I'll be giving you one tactical tip, one mindset tip, and one energetic tip. So you can start putting this into motion today. And in addition, in today's episode, you're going to uncover why your current [00:02:00] income level might feel like a frustrating set point that you can't seem to move beyond.

And you'll discover a new strategy for growing your revenue that doesn't involve burnout, hustle, or stress. Plus, you'll get a surprising mindset shift that will make more. and sustainable. Okay. So good. The other day I was announcing a workshop that I was going to be doing in the Clarity Accelerator called SEO Magic, which by the way, I will be giving publicly in November.

So get on my list now, if you want to be part of that, but I was also asking what other trainings they'd be interested in. And somebody asked me to do a training on how I've created an energetic baseline for myself. She knows that I'm at a quarter of a million dollars in revenue yearly, and she'd heard me talk about energetic baselines of [00:03:00] income.

And so she wanted to know how I'd done that. And I figured it'd make a great podcast episode. So of course, if you are a client, after you listen to this, then come bring any questions that arise into our chat group or to a call. And we can expand on it and apply it to your specific circumstances, right?

And then, and then we'll create the roadmap for what you're going to do specifically to raise yours. If of course that goal makes sense for you right now. We can think about energetic baselines in many ways, but when it comes to income, we're usually either talking about a revenue number or a wealth number.

So you can choose what you want to focus on today. But first, how do you know what your economic baseline is? You simply observed, like, what tends to be true for you? How much do you tend to bring in monthly or yearly? How much do you tend to have in the bank and [00:04:00] assets, minus debt, of course? That shows you your income baseline or wealth baseline, respectively.

Now, I've known many people with high income baselines. Doctors and attorneys who bring in a lot of cash each month with low wealth baselines because they're perpetually in debt and living paycheck to paycheck. Now compare that to some working class people I know who have very low income baselines, but surprising wealth baselines.

So think about this for yourself and think about if there's a temporary windfall or setback, is there a level that you tend to return to when we're going about our daily lives? It seems like the baseline is just what it is, but actually we're doing a lot to keep ourselves right. There, just write exactly what we know and therefore are comfortable with.

When I was a single girl living my corporate life, I was one [00:05:00] of those people earning well, but living hand to mouth. It seemed like no matter what I did, I never got ahead. Now, in retrospect, I can see how much I contributed to that. I owned a studio in the East village, but then I lost all of that equity when I entered into an abusive relationship and I accrued tons of debt and it forced me to sell that apartment in order to pay it off.

But on the other hand, even in the depths of all of that instability and low self esteem, I remember applying for a job and I got And offer for that job with a particular salary. And even then I responded to them and said that I knew I would not be comfortable working for that. And so I would need to decline.

Now they ended up coming back and offering me the salary that I was asking for, but it just shows that. There was a lot that went into that, that had me taking those [00:06:00] actions. If I had been at a different baseline, then I probably would have looked for and or accepted a much lower paying job. But then swinging back to the other side, there were lots of spending decisions.

Even after I lost the loser boyfriend, lots of like blowing through cash. Lots of me telling myself, but I deserve it. And then the way I deserved it was by spending money on meaningless things that weren't really contributing to my dreams. But I can also see some ways where I did not directly contribute.

And this is where I think it really speaks to the energetic imprint of really repelling or attracting. So I contributed diligently to my IRA. I always matched with my employer when possible, and yet it never really seemed to grow very much. When Ben and I married and we are the same age, he had much more than [00:07:00] me.

Obviously it was better invested, but still energetically, I wasn't accruing lots of wealth. And by the way, at this time, my parents had hardly any savings either. Very often our baselines are similar to those of our family of origin and or to the people surrounding us. But anyway, when you have a lower baseline, It won't even occur to you to go after certain jobs or request a certain salary or make that move in your business when you do try to create wealth through entrepreneurship, you're likely under earning in just the same way as if you accepted a lower salary, but when you have a higher baseline, you'll find it easier to do the things you know, many people who transition from higher paying jobs into having their own business.

Mhm. Are able to return to similar levels of income much more easily because of their baseline [00:08:00] than their counterparts are, who maybe were social workers before they started their business now, without a doubt, for some of us, it's going to be more challenging to raise our baseline than for others. For instance, if you're a person of color living in the United States and you come from a poor family, then chances are, then instead of your income going to support you or your nuclear family, it's being used to help a broader range of family members.

You may have less access to credit, fewer job opportunities, you may have taken on a greater level of school debt, and especially your identity is likely tied up in being a have not rather than a have. Again, a naturally much steeper and bigger hill to climb, but these tips and tactics, they apply to you too.

So let's get down to what I have for you today. The process of [00:09:00] raising your energetic baseline is really like stretching or building a muscle. You need to acclimate to a different status and that has to become your new normal in a way that it flows through all of your decisions and actions. And the opportunities you see and the things that you choose to take advantage of.

And yes, through your energetic vibration too. Now that's a concept I totally would have rejected years ago, but, um, I'm going to link to an episode called how entrepreneurship made me woo if you want to hear about that journey. But let me give you an example of how this works. It's not with money, but with.

Weight loss, so I have a client that struggled with her weight, but through all of the work She's been doing and the reinvention specifically that she's been doing we were on a call the other day And she said you know I actually Now know that I am meant to be [00:10:00] healthy. I know that I'm meant to weigh less.

And this is just part of my purpose. And the work I'm doing in the world is to have those levels of energy is to feel that way in my body. So there are money baselines, like we've been talking about, but there are also weight. Baselines. And again, her being able to see it so clearly and feel so certain about it and feel that shift is because, uh, she has done the work and now as her beliefs change, then her actions are changing.

The way she talks to herself is changing. The decisions that she makes are changing. Your current set point always reflects your current beliefs. As you move into new territory, your brain is going to throw up all sorts of conscious and subconscious resistance because it is doing its job. That's [00:11:00] completely natural.

It's keeping you safe in exactly what has worked to keep you alive up until now. So that resistance might look like you consciously deciding you don't want a bigger business because having a bigger business is going to change you. And you really just want to match what you were making in corporate, or it could be subconsciously when you conveniently get so busy with a client or three that you, whoops, never did pitch that head of industry or launch that podcast or whatever it was.

My tactical tip for you today, therefore, is desensitization. You need to like, write that on your forehead, because Remember, your brain reacts to new. That's what creates the conscious and subconscious resistance are the new things, the scary things, the things that aren't normal. [00:12:00] Desensitization is the process of making what is new seem normal.

Like when we were in Pennsylvania, there was this bridge that we had to cross over whenever I walked my dog and it crossed, uh, at this really pretty stream with a bunch of rocks and it was a tiny little waterfall and the bridge was not, it was a see through, right? You could actually see through it.

There were like holes that you were walking over and this used to scare my dog so much. Poor thing. So, what did I do? Did I just find a different route so that she'd never have to experience that? No, quite the opposite. I worked on desensitizing her to it, slowly and surely, with lots and lots of little treats, of course, so that the process was enjoyable, until we got to the point where it was no big deal for her and she would just cross the bridge as if nothing.

When I was increasing my baseline to its current level, which I have now maintained [00:13:00] for a few years, I put a post in my makeup drawer where I would make sure to see it each day. And it just said 250, 000 is normal. Now notice I did not say a quarter of a million dollars because that to my brain at that time would have seemed like a lot of money.

It would have somehow been scarier than just seeing, like, digits and commas. But over time of not only seeing this, but actually thinking about it, integrating it, it got to feel natural and safe. And it needs to be, otherwise you will never maintain That level. So I purposely chose language and a way of thinking about it that was really accessible to me.

Now, one of the easiest and most effective ways to make things really accessible and natural for you is to get into a group of people who [00:14:00] are earning more than you and or who are all very certain about their earning potential. And the ability to increase these baselines, their thoughts and their ways of being will become like second nature to you.

This is a wonderful evolutionary tendency of the brain that we can use as a hat for ourselves. But don't stop there. I challenge you to get really creative about what you can be doing to desensitize yourself. You know, what will that future self be doing that you can normalize now and kind of grease the wheels for yourself?

This does not mean that you blow the bank and run yourself into tons of debt necessarily. Although that might be a strategic choice you make for whatever reason, but it could be something like, uh, one of my earliest clients wanted to take his family to Portugal for a sabbatical, but [00:15:00] really couldn't quite give up the identity of being a top performer in a tech company.

So one of the things that we had him start doing was to just come home and listen to Portuguese music while drinking a glass of Portuguese wine and kind of sitting up on a balcony and looking out over scenery. It was just a daily simple thing he could do to acclimate himself to this future that he wanted to create.

Maybe yours looks more like going into a high end store. Or something, and when you do that, of course, you don't want to go in looking at all the price tags and making judgments about them and lamenting that you can't buy the things because no, that is going to be totally counterproductive and to keep you where you are even longer.

You want to just. Walk around and be in that energy and keep reminding yourself that this is normal. This is safe. Nothing has gone wrong [00:16:00] here. Maybe in the future, you see yourself being able to, I don't know, buy a surprise gift for your son or something, and in your mind, you're imagining that as something.

Expensive and luxurious, but in the practice of today now, what can you be buying that gives you that same feeling, right? That can help you remind yourself of this future to come, telling yourself that it's safe. Like when I had my last client retreat. I specifically chose to take them to a really amazing hotel, overseas hotel, that was all inclusive so that they could not only be in beautiful surroundings with top notch service, but that they would get used to just whatever they wanted.

They just pick up the phone and ask for it, right? And it is theirs. Now, I'm sure there were a couple of them when they were looking at this international [00:17:00] flight and the price tag of the hotel that were thinking, Can't we just do something cheap in the States, maybe at a Marriott, but no, absolutely not.

Our theme for this retreat was creating quantum leaps, which you can hear more about in the last episode that I, that I just did, but there was no way that we could talk about creating quantum leaps without also talking about these, this income raising that we would need to do and starting the desensitization process.

Now, so, the good news is that desensitizing works, but the bad news is that because it works, when you get there, you're probably not going to be like, woohoo, I'm rich! This feels amazing! You'll literally be like, this does not feel like I anticipated. It actually feels very normal. Unexpected. Okay, here's what I've got for your mindset [00:18:00] tip.

You've got to understand your current baseline, use it to gather needed data, and then do the work to break through that metaphorical glass ceiling that's there for you right now. We hear about a glass ceiling for women, but so much of what I do is helping women break through their own glass ceiling, the internal glass ceiling.

Unless you do that, you're never going to truly live your uncommon way because that requires unbinding from everything that's getting in the way of your true desires, your true intention, your true potential. So let's use this time together right now to start the process. Are you ready? I'm going to give you some prompts and I want you to think about them.

Who are the people that really deserve money? What are they like? What have they done? What's the story of how they acquired their ridges? [00:19:00] What did they do to get there? Now, remember, these are the ones that really deserve it. And you can pause this if you want to, if you want to journal or you just want to walk and reflect on it, and then come back to me.

Hey! If you want true clarity about your secret sauce, your people, your best way of doing business and how you talk about your offer, then I invite you to join us in the Clarity Accelerator. I'll teach you to connect all the dots, the dots that have always been there for you so that you can show up like you were born for exactly this.

Come join us and supercharge every other tool or tactic you'll ever learn from Facebook ads to manifestation Just go to the uncommon way comm slash schedule and set up a time to talk. I can't wait to be your coach All right, whatever you have come up with just now then that my [00:20:00] friend is what you Currently will need to do or what you'll need to be in order to have money In order to have this new baseline that you want, because you probably, you're not going to let yourself have it if you don't deserve it.

Maybe you'll have to work hard, or you'll have to be totally honest and in integrity, or you'll have to always put others first. I suggest, after you've gathered that data about your brain, that you question all of those. Not in the sense that you should be lazy or dishonest or self centered, but you should think about how that manifests in your actions.

Are you creating more work for yourself? Maybe probably unnecessarily. Are you so consumed with speaking with integrity that you actually hold back on talking about what's [00:21:00] possible with your offer? Just in case one person doesn't get those results. Do you want to be so fair to everyone else that you are undervaluing your time and expertise?

Do you give, give, give to serve others until you're totally depleted and sometimes resentful? Been there. The good news is that if you change those beliefs, you don't have to do all of those things. So it's going to be much easier to establish the new baseline. Your baseline reflects your current beliefs, not what you wished you believed, not what you think you should believe, but what you truly deep down think and believe.

They show what you think is acceptable and normal and safe and expected. And it always reflects your deepest core beliefs. So if on the one hand, You believe that you should be earning lots of money because you've been in [00:22:00] business for five years now dammit and people who've been in business for five years earn X amount.

But then you have a deeper belief that if you earn a lot of money, you'll become totally out of touch with the world and the people around you and possibly become really greedy and entitled and corrupt. Then guess which belief is going to win out. Yes, so you need to shift your way of thinking so that the number you want your baseline to be aligns perfectly with what you really think is acceptable and normal and safe and expected.

This is the work that I've had to do and that my clients do each time they move into a new income bracket and are able to sustain those wins. Now, sometimes when we're trying to raise the baseline, we're like, uh, why isn't it happening? I'm saying affirmations out the hoo ha. I'm doing all the tactical things Jenna told me to do.

It's not [00:23:00] working. It's probably because of belief. Do you really believe that you can break in that level of income right now or in the time frame you've decided and maintain it? Not in some imaginary five year timeline, but immediately. And. Not just people in general, but you, you personally. This is why, these are the reasons why, in the Clarity Accelerator, we don't just talk tactics and strategy and analysis and skill building, and we don't just talk about energetics and manifestations and stepping into your fuller purpose.

We cover those, and we clean up the mind. Imagine you had a garden with beautiful plants, but then weeds start growing there too, until the point that they are hogging the soil, and they are blocking the light, and the original plants start to wither. [00:24:00] Those plants are your truth, and the weeds are the baggage and traumas and unhelpful conditioning you pick up over time.

You've got to tend that garden if you truly want to reap the benefits and gobble up all that juicy fruit that is what the plants naturally produce. They don't even have to try. If they are left unencumbered. All right, let's move on to energetics now, shall we? I've said that your baseline aligns with your beliefs.

Well, the byproduct of belief is certainty. When you believe something to be true, it feels certain. Now, it might seem like I'm splitting hairs here, but energetics is so much about nuance. So trust me, this is a very important distinction. If you really believe that you were going to bring in that level of income right now, or in the timeframe you've decided, and then it [00:25:00] was totally safe for you to do so, you know, it wasn't going to mess up your life in any way, and it would all be super joyous and uncomplicated, or at least low enough complications that you are perfectly happy to deal with them.

And maybe if your future self had come back and said, look, this is like a crystal ball. I can show you, you are definitely going to be reaching this new energetic baseline in the next six months. Then what would you be doing? You'd probably be just doing whatever final things need to get done to create that reality.

You'd just be going for it, full hilt. You're pitching that person, or you're speaking and writing with that person. New conviction and ease, and you're listening to your intuition for inspired action because you know you are so tapped in. Remember, revelations precede results. You feel certain, [00:26:00] not because the results came to you already.

You feel certain, and then the results come, and when you're feeling certain, you're taking action. The action thing is something that people get really wrong about energetics. They think that manifestation is separate from action, but it's not really. It's not that any specific action is required for manifestation.

There are probably plenty of rich people who have never even heard of an affirmation, but both of the two things, action and manifestation are natural byproducts of certainty. They're just what naturally happens when you have cleared away the weeds. So, while it might seem surprising for me to be talking in the energetics portion of this episode about action, to me, it actually makes perfect sense.[00:27:00]

And I want to encourage you to take a cool, hard look at your current actions. What do they tell you? What does the type of action and the quality of those actions display when your belief is low, that you are capable or ready for that next level of success, or your belief is low, that those that you desire to work with will want to work with you, or you deep down think that the universe can't be trusted, or, or, Whatever else is coming up to block the rightness of you living happily in your next baseline, then you're not going to be taking bold action in the direction of your dreams.

That awareness of that fact might not be available to you consciously. The fact that you don't fully believe, but the frequency you're putting out doesn't lie. The universe, it's the universe is like the mom who catches you at something and you're like, how did you [00:28:00] know that? And she's like, ah, I have eyes in the back of my head.

So consciously, what you might notice is that you're spending lots of time thinking about the color scheme of your rebrand, or you're sticking your foot in your mouth during sales conversations, or you're just desperately throwing out any and every kind of action, even if they feel totally unaligned.

All the time. Often what's going on is that you are not seeing the baseline materialize, and so you are feeling overwhelmed and disappointed, but look overwhelmed and disappointed. They're just emotion you feel when you're asking for more, then you're able to let in. Otherwise when things are moving along in flow, it just feels like the one next thing and then the next thing and things are just happening.

So typically we try to alleviate those uncomfortable emotions with [00:29:00] lots of doing this, right? We're either overthinking or overworking, but it's definitely not the aligned action that I was talking about earlier. It is compensatory busyness. But there's not enough action in the world to compensate when there's a misalignment between what you're asking for and what you are allowing.

Abraham Hicks has this metaphor of moving a vacuum around the room, but the vacuum is not actually plugged in. And they say, but all the marks are on the carpet. Look, but of course it's ineffective. It doesn't actually create change. So very simply, the next time you're working, I want you to pause, take a deep breath, and then tune into the vibration underlying the action that you are taking at that moment.

Does it feel grounded and calm and powerful? Or is there a slightly frenetic or desperate or even [00:30:00] annoyed or frustrated quality to it? Please believe me when I say there is no shame about whatever comes up for you. I know what it is to feel so sad and disappointed that it feels like grief in your body.

It is grief when your expectations are met with a very different reality. And I know what it is to have a brain that feels so tired from spinning in, in second guessing or problem solving something that seems unsolvable until it is a literally exhausted you. But for some reason you still can't sleep because you're also all spun up.

I mean, I'm the girl who fell on the floor and had a tantrum because I set a goal for 100 members in my Facebook group, and I only got 99. And it just confirmed all of my worst fears about whether success was truly [00:31:00] possible for me. I can see now that I was in a very, very like dysregulated nervous system, sleep deprived.

But that was a true story that did happen. It did feel very, very real at the moment. But I also know that just because it seems hard at times, It is totally within your reach to have a business that makes you want to pinch yourself. It's so good where you hear others talk about standard conversion rates from cold traffic and you're like, wait, huh?

Mine are way higher than that. What is going on here? And where people are asking you how you do it. How did you. Create that and where the actions you take, they do, they have such powerful leverage that it all seems almost too easy, except that you totally get it because [00:32:00] of course, this makes total sense and where you feel safety and trust and calm and held the majority of the time.

But also totally badass and self sufficient at the same time because you're such a powerful creator. All of this is your birthright. This is meant for you and available to you. The universe knows all of that. It's just wondering if you know all of that too. All right, my friend, if you want help increasing your energetic baseline faster, better, and easier, then click the link in the show notes to book a free call with me.

Like right now, your thumb is so close up a wonderful week and I'll look forward to talking to you next week.[00:33:00]

Thanks for joining us here at the uncommon way. If you want more tips and resources for developing clarity in your business in life, including the clarity first strategy for growing and scaling your business, visit the uncommon way. com. See you next time.

Ep# 117: The Secret Science Behind Manifesting “Quantum Leaps” of Abundance Over and Over in Business as Women Entrepreneurs

Episode Summary

What if creating massive quantum leaps in your business was more predictable than you thought?

This episode demystifies sudden business breakthroughs, providing high-achieving women entrepreneurs with the clear, repeatable process to consistently achieve growth without needing to rely on luck or gut instinct.

In this episode, you will:

1. Get insider knowledge of a concept and framework that I’ve previously only shared with a select few private clients, leading to incredible results

2. Discover the hidden secret behind quantum leaps of growth and abundance in your business

3. Learn to harness both your masculine and feminine energies to manifest unstoppable momentum

Click play now to learn how to take your business to the levels you’ve seen other entrepreneurs achieve, without having to rely on luck!

Complimentary Episodes:

Ep# 110: Fail-safe Strategies for Supercharging Your Business Growth While Still Having a Life

Ep #42: Time and Money: When to Dial It Back

Ep #30: Creating Exponential Change in Your Business with Ale Garnica

Ep #62: How to Accelerate Business Growth

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Episode Transcription

Jenna Harrison: [00:00:00] What if creating quantum beliefs in your business was a process you could repeat again and again?

You're listening to the uncommon way business and life coaching podcast, the podcast that helps women entrepreneurs get clear on signature offers and strategies that sell themselves so you can lean back and stop the hustle. You will learn to maximize your mindset, messaging, and strategy. And step into the uncommonly successful business and life you are creating.

Here's your host, top ranked business coach and reformed Over Analyzer turned Queen of Clarity. Jenna Harrison,

welcome. Welcome back to The Uncommon Way. It is so great to talk to you again. Today, we're breaking down the science of what's known as a quantum leap in business. When [00:01:00] your business suddenly takes off and you reach a new levels of success and abundance so that you understand it in a different way and you can reliably reproduce it like a science experiment.

But if you are someone who really loves the woo and you kind of feel your skin prickling when I talk about the science, don't worry, you will be at home here too. This episode is for everybody at any and all stages of business growth. In this episode, you will get insider knowledge to a concept and framework that I've previously only shared with a select few private clients.

Leading to incredible results, you'll discover the hidden secret behind quantum leaps of growth and abundance that you've seen others achieve so that you can as well. And you'll learn to harness both your masculine and feminine energies to manifest unstoppable momentum. Oh, how are you? [00:02:00] I know the States has experienced some catastrophic weather, and I hope that you and your loved ones are safe.

I really only heard about it through my clients. It is eerie being here on the other side of the world, and especially because we've been having the best weather yet. The skies are ridiculously clear. The temperature is perfect. Seriously, if you want to visit Majorca, the end of September, early October is your time.

And so I've been going on lots of hikes and hanging out with friends and you'll start seeing that beautiful footage in the next few weeks if you follow me on Instagram. And overall just feeling very, very abundant, which led me to consider creating this episode for you. I have not covered this topic before on the podcast.

First, I only did it in a retreat. And then recently, I've seen how much a couple of my private clients have needed it. [00:03:00] So now I'm making it more accessible for you to take advantage of as well, because I want you to have everything that can help you. Now, since there are some new concepts here, you might want to listen to it a couple of times.

I encourage you to really take your time with it because these concepts and this way of thinking can radically change your business. There's a lot of talk in the Woo space about quantum leaps. It's like kind of thrown around like candy, like, Oh, quantum leap your business, do this, do that. We don't necessarily always get the full picture of what that really means or how to do it.

The term quantum leap comes from quantum jump, which is a scientific term meaning when something like an electron or a molecule abruptly moves from one energy state to another. And maybe you have felt this yourself in business, right? In business, it feels like [00:04:00] opportunities rushing in. It feels like you can't lose, like clients can't say no and money just keeps flowing in.

And then you reach a new baseline and then there's a little bit of growth. And then you reach a new baseline. Or maybe you've witnessed this from the outside with other people and you're thinking, how did that person do it? How'd they blow up so quickly? All of a sudden they're everywhere. I'm seeing them everywhere.

Or how did they earn that much revenue so quickly? So suddenly I remember them when they were, you know, just like somebody in a cohort with me. And now all of a sudden they're. And so I think because of all of this, we really think of quantum leaps as something magical and unmanageable. You know, it's just a burst of luck or it's when the stars align and sometimes they are right.

For instance, if you get fired or [00:05:00] something and you are all of a sudden in a completely different state or re examining everything. Sometimes they're really unexpected and it's like the saying goes, God just gave you a promotion. And of course there is magic and mystery in the universe. I am not negating that at all.

It's beautiful and amazing, but there's also something else, especially when it comes to these quantum leaps in business. I am going to argue that there's actually structure to it. There is science and you can reproduce results. This is actually a lot of what we do here at The Uncommon Way, straddling both the science and the woo.

We make the woo empirical. We gather data and evidence for the woo. I had a client once who was saying that to me. She's like, it seems like really what you're doing is you're taking all of these things that seem woo, right? That we don't understand yet, that we haven't cracked the code for yet. [00:06:00] And you're really creating kind of the science behind it or the data behind it.

But I now want to help you crack the code and see that these kind of leaps are reproducible like a scientific experiment. Hey. If you want true clarity about your secret sauce, your people, your best way of doing business and how you talk about your offer, then I invite you to join us in the Clarity Accelerator.

I'll teach you to connect all the dots, the dots that have always been there for you so that you can show up like you were born for exactly this. Come join us and supercharge every other tool or tactic you'll ever learn from Facebook ads to manifestation. Just go to the uncommon way. com slash schedule and set up a time to talk.

I can't wait to be your coach. Like think about how this shows up in history. There's this common conception of change in https: [00:07:00] otter. ai But it is not. It is always in little bursts, in these little quantum leaps. Like before the civil rights movement took off, which from the outside looks like this explosion, this burst, there were actually many pieces coming together to create the conditions for that propulsion of social change.

We think of these things as just kind of happening, but they are almost always tipping points. There is a science of accumulation, uh, coming together of all these necessary foundational conditions before that leap can take place, and it makes the leap inevitable. Like, if you apply heat to water, it turns into vapor.

And long before oxygen was available to nourish life, there were particles hurtling through space and there was galaxy formation and atmosphere [00:08:00] formation. And then finally, Oh my God, there's life. But no, it wasn't just like that. And so I believe in business as well. There's no overnight success in the sense that it just kind of happened upon you.

It's actually an accumulation of many things, often before you even started business. And so while it might seem overnight, it's not really overnight. Something went into creating that. And so what I am always scanning for with my clients is what are the pieces that are that still need to click into place so that these conditions make a quantum leap inevitable.

And after years of doing this with different types of women, I've seen these pieces again and again. And so therefore it's really easy for me to see when there's still a gap. So for instance, someone will come to me and they'll have created some copy that they're going to write. And the copy itself, like if you were going to look at [00:09:00] it from a copywriting perspective is amazing, right?

It's so scintillating and they've Obviously built the skill of writing copy. And it really pulls you in and like on all it just checks all the boxes, except what I can read when I'm in there is like the energy behind the copy is maybe there's a lack of belief, or maybe there's a self sabotaging thought that's still playing out.

And you know your days of scrimping are over, or you know you're done with having to scrimp by, or something, but I know that they're actually wanting to call in a different type of client that is paying, for instance, more premium prices. I'll know that they aren't truly talking to that new client yet.

There's something still that is drawing them to an older type of client. And then it's time to go to work on either the belief, the breaking, the habits, the understanding that new type of client, and then I'm able [00:10:00] to. Zero in on it and be like that, this is your next step. And so now I want to share some of those, those different components, those different things that I see with you so that you can keep it on hand for yourself and reference them and evaluate them.

But first, I just need to clear up this potential misconception that might be forming. Because I was realizing I just talked about galaxy formation, so you might be thinking that this all takes a long time. But time is actually not a necessary constant here. So maybe you need mindset work to create your quantum leap.

And that could be one really deep coaching session that leaves you forever changed. So, although the thing needs to click into place, it doesn't have to take a long time. It doesn't have to be, I worked on this for one year. You know, if you ever hear someone saying, if you ever hear me saying, it took me years to release the [00:11:00] belief that harder was better than ease or something like that, that doesn't mean it'll take you the same amount of time.

In fact, I hope that my clients will never take as long as I did. So, okay, we nipped that in the bud, these creating the conditions for quantum leap. It's not about time, but it is about thoroughness. So let's continue. I'm going to list out some things that you will typically need to come together in order to create these leaps.

You might want to grab a pen and paper or your notes file on your phone. And if you want more on any of these topics, I have a podcast episode for you for sure. What are we now? We're at 117. Yeah, I have something for you. So check the show notes. We'll link to a few of them. All right. In order to get where you're going on the other side of this quantum leap or the crest of this quantum leap, you probably have acquired certain skills in your business that you do not currently have.

Right? All of these [00:12:00] things I'm about to mention are going on the premise that if you had all of these things, if you were your future self, you would be creating those results. You aren't creating those results, therefore there's a gap, right? And that's what we're looking to identify here. So there are some skills that you have not yet built yet.

And by focusing on building those skills, right? You're creating those right conditions. So what are those skills? What about practiced thoughts? What are the thoughts that you are more practiced at thinking in that future state that you really aren't now? What are some of the beliefs that have to come together?

What about habits that you've built? What about capacity that you have? Like you're capable of producing whatever, a podcast a week or having this many clients, right? Before, you know, often I'll hear a client say, I just really want to be booked out or I want to have a full group. And I [00:13:00] just always need to make sure first, do they have the capacity, the mental capacity, the time capacity, everything to actually hold that.

What about tolerances? As you're wanting to bring in that many yeses, can you tolerate that many no's that you'll have to receive as well in order to create that many yeses? Can you tolerate the visibility? Can you tolerate the success? What new levels of clarity will you need? Clarity drives your business on all levels.

Your clients know what you're about. You're creating offers just for them. You're speaking just to them. It's supercharging your manifestation always because otherwise you're calling in chaotic results rather than laser focusing on what you desire. So are there new levels of clarity? What about your ability to make decisions and the quality of the decisions made?

What circumstances are established? That could be something like [00:14:00] audience size, or the website is done, or you have assets and collateral in place. And what is your thermostat set point? Like, what are you So, what is your willingness to receive? Quantum Leaps are always about first laying the groundwork and then opening to actually receiving it, because that is a new level for our nervous system that feels different and scary, right?

So, we need to create the conditions in our bodies, right, and in our, emotional state and in our energy to receive this thing that we're asking for? And is there really alignment here? Are you becoming like, I've used the, the dating hands analogy, where you're dating someone and on, with one hand, you're beckoning them closer, closer, but with the other hand, it's like, don't come too close.

As you think through these things, I encourage you to think about both small levers and [00:15:00] large levers that will, of course, create massive leverage, massive change in your business. So I learned this vocabulary of small levers and large levers from Elizabeth Salazar. So I want to credit her here because it has been so game changing for me.

So what does it actually mean? Most of us, when we think about how our business will change, and when we are going through the categories that I just gave you, our minds jump straight to the large levers and large levers are things like a new funnel or a new social media platform or a completely new belief, right?

Maybe if you are suffering from imposter syndrome. And so the belief right now is like. I can't do this or I'm, I'm not good enough at this. And then the new belief is, you know, hold my beer. I am a complete badass or I am a, I'm the [00:16:00] best one for this job. And we think that these really large things are the only ways to create this new way of being in the business.

But sometimes it's really the small levers that make the biggest difference. Maybe it's learning to make decisions twice as quickly, or thinking that one self sabotaging thought only half as often. Because when you're not thinking that thought, you're not feeling that feeling that's really holding you back.

And leading to your actions all being very less than optimal, creating suboptimal results, right? If you could just half the time not be thinking that thought and be thinking other thoughts, what could that do for your business? Those small levers can move mountains, because I am not joking, this overall knowledge about quantum leaps and the framework that I've shared of all these things that come to place, [00:17:00] right, is vastly, vastly valuable.

After taking my most recent client through it, she underwent a huge identity shift. She got herself an office in a hip part of downtown. She's interacting with vendors and colleagues completely differently. And she's having to clear her plate because of the influx of business that is inevitable. And after years of charging low hourly rates for her services, she just pitched a 45k contract to a woman who didn't bat an eye.

Over it. This work changes you. Please take it and run with it because you have it in you. If you pause and you take this seriously and you do the planning and you constrain yourself to what is the next step, right? And it's really a case of slowing down to speed up, but luckily it's things you can think about in the midst of everyday activities, like going [00:18:00] for a walk.

It's really about creating presence and an analytical viewpoint. So your tactical tip for today is when you are starting this work, first look to the past, think about leaps that you've had in your own life and get curious about what preceded that. Right. And get curious about in the path of your business.

What is now established as a given in your business that was not before, right? How are you getting there? And we do this, we go to the past in order to help build the brain muscle of thinking this way. Because it's hard when you've never thought new things to then just go think in a new way, right? Or think about things you haven't considered.

But when you can do it for your own past, you're able to pull out real gems of wisdom and build the habit of thinking like that. And then we can project that into the future and literally reverse [00:19:00] engineer our next quantum leap. It's like rewinding the clock, because after all, time is not linear, so you have already created this quantum leap, and now I'm getting into energetics, so let me pause.

What you need to watch out for as you're doing this are the mind games that'll have you elongating your journey to that next quantum leap, or derailing your efforts, or making it harder than it needs to be. You need a process for making it easier and simpler and a roadmap for what to work on in what order, and you need to constrain your efforts so that you actually check all of these things off your list rather than diffusing all of your efforts and energy and then feeling like you haven't actually created forward movement.

Now we're going to have to leave the process of working through all of that for another episode. Though, of course, if you are dying to start the work right [00:20:00] away, I feel you I'm exactly the same way. Patience is not my highest virtue and you don't have to wait. Of course, you can become a client as soon as this week.

Just click the link in the show notes and sign up for a free call with me. And I can say this without blushing and without shame that it will be the best money you've ever spent on your business or yourself. Your Mindset Tip. Is that it doesn't need to take long, that these are accumulations of conditions and factors that just need to get into place in order to catalyze the reaction you're looking for.

I want you to feel this level of certainty. In your bones, right? Rather than thinking of having to wait for something that really puts us in a receiving place of kind of a passive energy. There I go again with energetics is a very energetic concept, but rather than waiting, which [00:21:00] is the thing has to happen to you.

Think of accumulating. You are going out. You are sourcing these things. You are creating these things. So you're about to make a cake and you're gathering the ingredients. You're knowing that when they're together in the circumstance of an oven, they will inevitably produce cake. You're not spending your mental energy wringing your hands and worrying about how it might not become cake.

No, you're gathering the ingredients to make your cake. Period. Quantum Leap. Check. Compare that to the way we often tend to operate, right? Where we're flooded with doubt, and we're backtracking, and we're trying different things, and we're not creating the momentum, and there's tons of self blame, and comparisonitis, and taking action.

But deep down, we know we've also got, like, only one foot in the action, saying we want this, but we're also terrified that we might get it. Ugh. Ugh. It is [00:22:00] exhausting just thinking about it. It's the antithesis of the calm, cool headed CEO who's balanced in her feminine and masculine sides. And that brings us to the energetic.

What I've really done here in this episode is just balance the masculine and feminine energetic. We've taken our unlimited potential Um, where we could go in our business, where we could go in our life, which is considered a feminine principle in almost all spiritual traditions. And we've applied structure in order to make it manifest.

Think of let there be light right out of the primordial nothingness and everythingness of potential. There was a thought, there was an intention and a structure that were applied, and that vibration was held until the world became manifest. This is the wisdom of our ancestors speaking, [00:23:00] because versions of this story repeat themselves in so many traditions.

Think of Maui pulling the islands out of the ocean. I adore myth because they're, they're representations of abstract truths that we humans have been able to tap into. So structure is the masculine energetic that we all need. And we all have both. We have the masculine and the feminine. And when we utilize both, that's when things get really sexy.

That's when things get insanely easeful and abundant in our businesses and lives. It's actually a struggle to create results just in the masculine or just in the feminine because the shadow sides of those are being dogmatic and harsh on one side or being completely indecisive and ineffectual on the other.

If there were no riverbeds, the water just gushes out and evaporates into the sand. We can't nurture our crops. So we [00:24:00] utilize the masculine very strategically so that our feminine magic, our limitless potential, has the ability to manifest. in an organized way, as is necessary in the 3d world. So in this episode, you learned a concept that I have not shared with you before.

And I haven't shared anywhere outside of private coaching circle. And it's about the fact that what seems like quantum leaps on the outside Are actually an accumulation of some different components that make success inevitable and ignite this transformation that leaves other people wondering how you did it.

You've learned that when you see it in other people, it's not just a stroke of luck or some stars aligning. It is a really an accumulation of different things that had to come together in order to. Make the conditions [00:25:00] available for that, what seems like rapid transformation and you've learned to harness both your masculine and feminine energies to manifest unstoppable momentum and why you really need to do that if you want to be operating at all cylinders.

All right, my friend, I look forward to a DM in my inbox telling me what you use this for and all the really exciting results you were able to create. I hope you feel much more powerful than you did at the beginning of this episode. And that I'm able to connect with you next week in this same place.

Thanks for joining us here at the uncommon way. If you want more tips and resources for developing clarity in your business in life, including the clarity first strategy for growing and scaling your business, visit the uncommon way. com. See you next [00:26:00] time.

Ep# 116: Breaking From Scarcity: 3 Powerful Tips for Women Entrepreneurs Rewriting Their Money Story from Lack to Abundance

Episode Summary

Breaking From Scarcity: 3 Powerful Tips for Women Entrepreneurs Rewriting Their Money Story from Lack to Abundance

Do you feel like you always need to hang onto money, or does money always feel tight no matter how much you hustle? What if the real issue isn't the amount of money you have, but a hidden root cause that blocks your abundance ?

Many high-achieving women entrepreneurs deal with scarcity—whether it’s a lack of money, clients, or time. By addressing how you view and value these resources, you can unlock the flow of abundance and attract wealth along with opportunities needed to grow your business.

In this episode, you will:

1. Tap into powerful mindset shifts that even billion-dollar companies rely on.

2. Discover practical tips for how to call in what you want, whether it’s a type of circumstance, more clients, or just more time for what truly matters.

3. Hear real stories of people who transformed their money mindset and created unexpected opportunities, and find out how you can make those same shifts in your own life.

Press play now and start using these mindset tools to break free from scarcity and create the lasting financial success you deserve!

Episode Mentioned:

Ep #25: From $65/hr to a $6k Offer with Carrie Coffin

Ep# 114: The Psychology of Manifesting Simple Business Success Through Reinvention for Women Entrepreneurs (Stage 4)

Additional Resources: 

Book: The Soul of Money (Lynn Twist)

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The Uncommon Way is led by business coach Jenna Harrison, who helps women entrepreneurs feel confident, find their ideal clients effortlessly and avoid overwork so they can manifest money and abundance in their business and life.

This podcast empowers female entrepreneurs to overcome imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and limiting beliefs through somatics, mindset, and spirituality, create 7-figure offers, and build an online coaching business with clarity and alignment.

Episode Transcription

Jenna Harrison: [00:00:00] If you hold back or make compromises because you fear not having enough money or losing the money you have, or if it just feels like money's always tight, then there's a root problem we need to talk about. And it's not money.

You're listening to the Uncommon Way business and life coaching podcast. The podcast that helps women entrepreneurs get clear on signature offers and strategies that sell themselves. So you can lean back and stop the hustle. You will learn to maximize your mindset, messaging and strategy and step into the uncommonly successful business and life you are creating.

Here's your host, top ranked business coach and reformed over analyzer turned queen of clarity, Jenna Harrison.

Welcome, welcome back to The Uncommon Way. [00:01:00] How are you feeling headed into quarter four? Abundant, I hope, in which case you might be listening to this as a refresher and the reinforcement you need to take your success to the next level. But if that's not you, that's okay, too. You are in the perfect place to start leaving scarcity and lack behind.

A scarcity is not just about money. It can also be about a scarcity of clients or of time or respect or acknowledgement. But money is the most common entry point to this conversation. And I have talked a lot about time scarcity or overworking and staying busy. And I've talked a lot about not having as many clients as you'd like.

So today we're going to focus on money, but the tips that I'm going to give you, they work universally for any kind of scarcity. You just adjust them as needed. Okay, now scarcity shows [00:02:00] through in all of your decisions and how you show up And it's also going to be reflected in the people and circumstances that come back to you.

I can see it right away in someone's pricing structure on their website. I can spot it in the way they talk to their customers. And I know their customers can feel it when they're having a sales conversation with you. And when you're doing all that, when it's really embedded into the way you talk and your messaging, then you're going to start attracting people who resonate with that.

And chances are, they don't have enough to pay you, and they want to nickel and dime the offer, and they try to get more from you than the amazing value you're already giving. Or even if they do, you don't end up selling because they can feel your neediness. So you end up creating less money. I have an interview [00:03:00] with a client on this podcast about this very subject.

I'm going to link to it in the show notes. And the title is about how she went from charging, I think, 65 an hour to a 6, 500 offer. So she completely changed her money mindset. But when we first met, she thought she was coming to me for one thing, but I could see from everything she was writing and putting out that really, this was a core issue that was keeping her from really going forward in her business.

Given that this is also important, I wanted to create this episode, and in this episode, you will tap into powerful mindset shifts that even billion dollar companies rely on. You'll discover practical tips for how to call in what you want, whether it's a circumstance you want, more clients, or just more time for what truly matters.

And you'll hear real stories of people who transformed their money mindset and created [00:04:00] unexpected opportunities and find out how you can make those same shifts in your own life. But first I want to share a very exciting life change for me. I now have a housekeeper or rather a fractional housekeeper because he comes one day a week And this is not just someone to clean my house.

This is somebody who will fold laundry, iron, go out and rake in our backyard, cooks us dinner, cooks a couple meals for the week every time he comes, cleans the house too, yes, and so many other just fun, delightful surprises. Like last time he was here, he cleaned up my son's room, which was just, he had stuff Just piled onto his desk so high, all sorts of toys and random scraps of paper, and it just feels like.

beautiful feng shui in the house. It just feels [00:05:00] like now that energy can flow. And when I sit down to a nutritious, well cooked meal that I haven't had to prepare, it is bliss. I feel so taken care of, so supported. And I share this because I don't believe we celebrate money enough and what it actually brings to our lives, why it's so important, because, yes, on Instagram, you'll see private jets and yachts and whatever, and people talking about maybe what they want.

Want to spend their money on or a thing that they spend their money on without talking about How it makes them feel and why they are buying that thing, right? Why they're choosing to prioritize That thing in their budget and when you talk about how it affects you and you're honest and not ashamed Talking about it It gives [00:06:00] other people different options and perspectives.

And that's how I first heard about house managers, and I'm so grateful, which is like the enhanced version of a housekeeper, because they do everything that the traditional housewife used to do, like thinking ahead about holidays and. making doctor's appointments. And it wasn't until someone else talked about it and talked about it in a way that seemed exciting and also made sense for me that I was then able to prioritize it and create it for myself now.

And specifically, I loved realizing that Before, right, with the old division of labor, when one person was working and one person was taking care of the house and kids combined, they were working a certain amount of hours. But now you find both partners working. And if you don't hire someone to fulfill the role of the person that used to stay home, [00:07:00] then both people end up working 50 percent more.

And this is crazy when we're working more hours, but when we are in scarcity, we don't perceive these as appropriate options for ourselves. Options that actually allow us to earn more and grant us a sustainable work life balance that we deserve. And let us focus on what we most love. Because instead, our brain quickly categorizes it as self indulgent, or only meant for other people, or whatever other judgment it has been conditioned with.

And hear me when I say this, you are never just saving money. Never, ever. You're saving money and spending time. I'll say it again in a different way. This is really important. You're always [00:08:00] spending something or giving up something. And people who have a scarcity based relationship with money are almost always valuing money over time.

They just don't always realize they're making that choice. And the sad thing is that then they so often end up spending the money anyway in bursts of retail therapy rather than making calculated decisions about their money and time. Hey, if you want true clarity about your secret sauce, your people, your best way of doing business and how you talk about your offer, then I invite you to join us in the Clarity Accelerator.

I'll teach you to connect all the dots, the dots that have always been there for you so that you can show up like you were born for exactly this. Come join us and supercharge every other tool or tactic you'll ever learn from Facebook ads to manifestation. Just go to the uncommon way. com slash schedule and set up a time to talk.

I can't [00:09:00] wait to be your coach. Like, when billion dollar companies like Meta or Berkshire Hathaway choose to take on debt in the form of bonds, rather than wait to save up the money they would need for some new investment, They're doing it because the time cost would be too great to wait. For them, time really is money.

They have bean counters who crunch the numbers, and the numbers don't lie. It makes more sense to take on some debt, use somebody else's money, and then pay back a little bit of interest. Because they know they can invest it in ways which over the long run will generate more than that interest repayment.

Yes, they're spending on that interest, but they're saving time and in so doing become even richer more quickly. So they're making a concerted [00:10:00] decision not to spend time and it works because they come out ahead and their debtors come out ahead with that decision. So it's win win. I mean, really, even if you just invested the money in an S& P fund, you could likely make more than the interest payments.

But for me, I believe that the very best investment there is, is a highly driven woman. So I would bet on her any day of the week. She will far surpass the stock market. What these companies know, and what they don't know. People with a more abundant mindset have come to understand is that time is actually your most limited resource.

Not money, because money is a renewable resource. You can make more of it, and even entire economies tend to grow over time. If you look at like the 20 year spread. Or the 200 or even 2, 000 [00:11:00] year spread. Countries tend to get richer and richer. There is no cap on wealth in the long run. And right now we're poised, we are about to go into a huge society changing expansion into space.

That's going to add massive, massive amounts of money to the world, like computing did decades ago, and like the space race did decades before that, which created the computing, which created the capacity for us now to go into space, we're constantly finding new ways to create more and more wealth. So you have got to start bringing time into your calculus when you're making decisions.

That is your mindset tip for today to help you break from scarcity. I always give you a mindset tip, a tactical tip and an energetic tip for those who are interested. And when it comes to mindset, just [00:12:00] how you're thinking going forward, Don't make the decision solely on the basis of money. This will grant you more objectivity and allow you to reinvent yourself by changing your brain's defaults.

So simply ask yourself, what does this cost me in terms of money? And then what does this cost me in terms of time? Bonus points. If you include something like your wellbeing or your pleasure. As a third measure, but I know that's tricky when you're up against a lot of money scarcity because your brain's telling you that you will die without money, but you're not going to die without pleasure, but in sacrificing our well being, unfortunately.

Tragically, many of us do live lives or at least live through years that we wouldn't choose to live. If we were deciding on purpose, I was talking to someone the other day who'd gone back to school. [00:13:00] This was, she was like later in life to be a therapist. And she said, I figured I could work for another 15 years.

So it was worth it to do the three years of additional studies that she had to do. But then she goes. If it had been five years, that probably wouldn't have been worth it. And I was thinking to myself, well, you'd still get 12 years of your life in your dream career. Why isn't that worth it? And possibly more, right?

Who's to say 12 years, if you end up loving it that much, nobody's going to force you to retire. Me, I do a lot of things in exchange for setting my future self up for 12 plus years of contentment, but that's me. I really value my pleasure and wellbeing. But just going back to time and the inclusion of the time factor, whenever you're making money decisions, how much is an hour of your time?

Worth to you an hour of your [00:14:00] life that you'll never get back. How much is that worth? And then use that to help you prioritize. And then as you're using that, you might see that you stop writing those companies for refunds. leaking your time away in little ways to save a few dollars here, or a few dollars there.

You stop talking about going back to a corporate job you hate, selling your time for money so that someone else can get rich off of your time, off of your hours worked. This is one life we have. I mean, maybe we have multiple lives. I don't know for sure. But I choose to live this one right now as if I only had one, because I have found it to dramatically increase my experience and my mindfulness.

So when you start evaluating your decisions like this, you'll notice your perspective changing too. The truth you [00:15:00] took for granted before no longer seems like the only way to think about that situation or that decision. Because when it comes down to it, scarcity is about perspective. It's a mind thing.

That's not what our brains tell us. Our brains say that it's a fact. I just do not have enough money. I just need more money. Fact. It's a circumstance, but how do we know it's not really about the circumstances? It's really about thoughts and perspectives. We know because there are plenty of poor people around the world who feel less scarcity than you.

And there are plenty of rich people who feel even poorer. I recommend reading the book The Soul of Money by Lynn Twist if you have not read it yet. She traveled around the world working with the poorest of the poor and the richest of the rich, and saw both [00:16:00] scarcity and abundance firsthand, and she has just drawn so many beautiful and striking insights.

From that, we're going to link to it in the show notes, but here's something I'd love for you to consider. If you are an American or European listening to this, even if you're struggling for money, you are likely much richer than most of the world. 90 percent of the adults in the world hold about 15 percent of its wealth.

You are most likely among that 10 percent that own the 85 percent of wealth. Now, no, you are not Bill Gates, but you are still much better off than literally billions of people. So for most of the people listening to this, scarcity is perspective and it's very, very relative. So a client might say to me, I don't have enough time, but I'm just curious if you want a [00:17:00] dinner tonight with Glenn Powell, you couldn't find the time or Willow Smith, whoever floats your boat.

Or they might say to me, I can't afford that, but I have a feeling that if your child needed emergency dental surgery, you would figure something out. Now it doesn't mean that you need to spend on whatever I'm suggesting, but it does mean that we want to watch our words and how we talk about things.

Because that's reflecting how we think about things. So why do we feel like we don't have enough, or we might lose what we have around the next bent? How did we get here? It stems from the famous negativity bias. I've talked about it before, it's a natural part of our psyche. Built into our brains. Thanks to evolution, I'm going to link to a recent episode on this subject.

If you want to dive into it more and how to shift that negativity bias, but bottom line, it's [00:18:00] biology, not your fault. It's not a character flaw. We have this biology and then we have our society, which of course is made up of humans with negativity biases. And soon we're collectively bemoaning and reinforcing the perspective of scarcity, some societies more than others, until you are literally growing up in a sea of scarcity.

Your own negativity bias is amplified by the words and the actions and the decisions of those around you, expanding your own fears and your not enoughness. And your brain dutifully keeps gathering more and more evidence for you of how true it is that you don't have enough and how precarious your situation is.

Now if you're not careful and save every penny and work hard enough, you will surely die penniless under a bridge. This is why it is so important to be in community with people who [00:19:00] are moving away from this type of thinking that you've grown up with, rather than reinforcing it. And here's the Scarcity can also be a way to circumvent Our own truth.

Scarcity is so accepted in our society that it allows us a free pass from having to make the hard, countercultural decisions that we're afraid to make, and to saying the hard things that we don't want to say. So we get to say, I don't have enough time, instead of saying, I don't want to prioritize that, and then own it.

Because we're not just, just trying to be polite with those around us, we tell ourselves that same thing too. And it's great because we get to say, I can't afford it, instead of, I don't want to spend money on that. Or, I don't want others to judge me for spending money on that so I prefer to stay in a box that feels [00:20:00] acceptable to everyone.

Or, I don't want to feel bad for spending money or worry that I've made a mistake because I don't know how to process those big emotions and manage my mind around it. Or, I'm afraid I won't actually be able to create the results I want within the amount of time that my brain has arbitrarily decided is acceptable, so I'd rather not do anything at all and fail ahead of time.

Because at least then, I don't have the shame of trying and failing. And heaven forbids spending money on something and then failing. Because then, of course, it will just reinforce everything I was taught to believe and that I kind of believe myself, which is that I'm terrible with money and can't be really trusted with money decisions.

But when you expose these thoughts and, or, Expose your desires and priorities and preferences. [00:21:00] That's when you start making conscious choices. It's when you create the friendships you want to have, and you use your time in the way that really lights you up, so that you can look back on the week and realize you loved it, and by extension, you love your life.

And when you do double down and commit to your goals and dreams, you shift from, I can't, to, let me find a way. Getting real with yourself is how you grow. You learn from obstacles and experiences. You're not stuck in the status quo of Falsehoods and half truths and trying to be what everyone else wants you to be.

And worst of all, being led around by an illusion of scarcity that's really just a glass half empty story. Now, that actually leads us perfectly into my tactical tip for you. Actually, no, it doesn't quite, because I have to give you some backstory, but I had a client who was telling me that it [00:22:00] was so hard because she just couldn't walk into a store and just buy what she wanted to buy.

And Christmas was coming up and she couldn't buy her loved ones, the kind of gifts that she wants to buy them. And it occurred to me to share a story with her, which is that my very favorite sweater is from Target. And it's like gray and kind of bushy. I found it in the pajama section. So it's like extra, extra soft and cozy.

And it's like roomy and cuddly. And there's a word in Scandinavia, I know this. I've forgotten it for this, this type of sensation. All of my Scandinavian listeners are like, hello, it's. Whatever, whatever, I just can't think of it right now. Higa? Is that it? Okay, now I just have to look it up. Yes, but I'm probably totally destroying the pronunciation.

Anyway, that is a total tangent, [00:23:00] not relevant to this, but the thing is, I love the sweater, and so I just wanted to suggest to her that sometimes what you're really looking for, for instance, with that. That coziness is something that isn't going to cost you a lot of money and is completely accessible to you with the budget that you currently have.

Now, you'll be happy to know that this same client now has a totally different experience with money. In fact, she quit her day job a month or so ago, and she has a less disposable income than she has been recently used to. And yet, the other day, she said she feels so abundant and life is so amazing that she decided not to take on another client right away.

Whereas before, that would have been something that never occurred to her. It would have been, of course I need more clients right away, because if not, it means all sorts of terrible things will happen. But getting back to the point and to the glass half full, there are so many things that are available to you [00:24:00] at any budget that have the essence of what you really desired.

You need to ask yourself why you want that thing you want. What do you really think that it's going to bring you? Is it a sense of belonging? Is it a sense of treating yourself and indulgence? Is it a sensation you want to experience? Is it a way you want to feel? What is it? And then once you know, you can call that in, in a way that fits with your budget.

The deeper core of what you want is available to you, right here, right now, always. That is what you want to imprint in your mind. It's here for me already. So going back to the sweater example, instead of focusing on, I can't just go shop and buy any sweater I want in the store that I want, and that is so frustrating to me, and I'll never be able to find the kinds of [00:25:00] things that I want, open yourself to, the sweater I'm desiring is out there.

I'll know it because it's so soft and fits so perfectly. And I'm just staying aware for when it crosses my path. And then you go into stores you can afford, without attachment. You don't have to scour the sales racks, don't worry. Just go about your business, maybe looking for something else you need, or accompanying a friend, whatever.

Trust me, your brain will start scouting for you. subconsciously, and you'll find an amazing sweater. Though, of course, if you're doing that exercise, but all the while you're telling yourself, this is ridiculous. I'll never find a sweater that I want in a store like this. Then your brain will keep showing you evidence of substandard sweaters.

Now there's an energetic concept underlying all of this too. Which is the concept of sufficiency, meaning that you have enough. Now, usually [00:26:00] we all hear about scarcity and we all know about abundance, which is having more than you want, but not so much about this beautiful in between spot, which is sufficiency.

So, if you've been trying to rewrite your money story, but the progress is hit or miss, it's probably because you've been trying to jump from scarcity to abundance, and it's just too fast for your brain. Like when someone really wants to work with me, but they don't have the money, I don't tell them to think about abundance, because they're in a place of not enough.

So I'm not going to tell them to believe they have more than enough, or see that they have more than enough. Right. I'm not going to tell them, Oh, there's an escrow account waiting for you. And you just need to tap right into it. It's all there. Although I do actually believe that I would describe it differently, but fundamentally I, I do believe that.

But what I suggest to people is to just light a candle. Get into a, [00:27:00] you know, relaxed state where they've given themselves this time away from anything that they have to do, and they just start to reflect on how it's always been true throughout their life, that when they really needed something, they've had enough, that they've managed to get their, their basic needs met.

And when they really needed or wanted something, it's come through. And then I ask them only when they're in that place of sufficiency, to start thinking about ways that they maybe could create the money, or in fact, do already have it. I've told the story before about someone who realized they were a classically trained musician and they had this instrument in their closet that they just weren't using anymore, and that they could sell that.

I never would have thought to ask them if they had that in their closet. And it only came to them. Because they could get themselves into a place of seeing, of searching for [00:28:00] possibilities. I have had clients that have accessed grants, that have received surprise inheritance from someone who'd already passed, but they didn't know had left them any money, who realized that, They could actually make it work in their budget after all who've used it as the kick in the pants they needed to go out and make enough offers to create the money whose credit score had magically improved so they could qualify for a 0 percent interest credit card.

You realize that they really didn't need the security of that chunk of money sitting there in savings? There's so many stories. But what happened, energetically, was that shift from scarcity to sufficiency. You create the sufficiency in your interior world, and then you can see it reflected in your external world.

Revelations precede results. I'm not saying that they all necessarily lit the candle and had their epiphany right away [00:29:00] or received a call from their lawyer at that minute, but some were sooner than you would expect and others held the vibration and the intention until their solution made its way to them.

Or I guess you could say they made their way to the solution, which was always there. That's probably the better way of describing it. And this is available to you too. I want you to try these three simple tips and then tell me what changes for you and buckle in because it can lead to dramatic changes.

So to recap what we talked about today, it really comes down to just three questions to remember to ask yourself in order to start rewriting your money story and to break from scarcity. Number one, what does this cost me in terms of money? And then what does this cost me in terms of time? This is a very effective [00:30:00] way to shake things up for yourself and begin to rewrite all of that default programming.

And it leads to a powerful unleashing of your truth, which is like rocket fuel for your growth and abundance. Number two is why do I want this thing, really? And then show yourself how the deeper core of what you want is available to you right here, right now. And three, how is it true that I've always had what I really needed?

That I've had enough? And then when you're in that energy of sufficiency, then move forward with whatever it is you're going to do, whether it's looking for a sweater or heading into a sales call. All right, my friends, that is our episode for today. Thank you so much for tuning in. And I'll see you next week.

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Ep# 115: How I Moved to Spain and Navigated Spain’s Digital Nomad Visa: Personal Experience and Tips for Women Entrepreneurs Who Want to Move Abroad

Episode Summary

Are you curious about my move to Spain and how it's been going? Maybe because you are also thinking about moving to Spain? Or just 'cause you love those kinds of details! Either way, this episode is for you.

In this episode, I share my personal journey of moving to Spain, while offering valuable insights and tips for anyone considering a life-changing move abroad. Whether you're contemplating an international move or just curious about the realities of living in another country, this episode will guide you through the process and possible challenges.

In this episode you will: 

1. Learn the step-by-step process for moving abroad, including how to navigate the tricky Digital Nomad Visa process.

2. Discover the creative workarounds used to overcome obstacles—from building a makeshift recording studio to managing international logistics.

3. Gain insight to determine if a move to Spain (or anywhere) is the right decision for you and your family.

Tune in to this episode now and gain the confidence to take the first steps toward your dream life abroad!

Resources mentioned: 

Digital Nomad Visa assistance https://movetospainguide.com  

Employer of Record assistance https://www.oysterhr.com/ 

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The Uncommon Way is led by business coach Jenna Harrison, who helps women entrepreneurs feel confident, find their ideal clients effortlessly and avoid overwork so they can manifest money and abundance in their business and life.

This podcast empowers female entrepreneurs to overcome imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and limiting beliefs through somatics, mindset, and spirituality, create 7-figure offers, and build an online coaching business with clarity and alignment.

Episode Transcription

Jenna Harrison: [00:00:00] Are you curious about my move to Spain and how it's been going? Maybe because you are also thinking about moving to Spain? Or just 'cause you love those kind of details, then this episode is for you.

You are listening to The Uncommon Way Business and Life Coaching Podcast. The podcast that helps women entrepreneurs get clear on signature offers and strategies that sell themselves so you can lean back and stop the hustle. You will learn to maximize your mindset, messaging, and strategy. And step into the uncommonly successful business and life you are creating.

Here's your host, top ranked business coach and reformed overanalyzer turned queen of clarity, Jenna Harrison.

Welcome, welcome back to the uncommon way. I have a [00:01:00] very personal episode for you today and very real time in my life. As I've been coming back online and sharing more about the fact that I've moved, I received a lot of questions. And some of them are from people that say they too want to move to Spain or to some other country, often in Europe, and they're wondering how I did it.

Or it's just from maybe friends I haven't spoken to in a while, or people that have been following me for a while that are just really curious about the details and, and want to hear how it's going. So, um, So in this episode, you'll learn how you can transition from the life you're currently in into the life of your future, which I do think I did really well.

I'll also share what I would recommend if I were to do it again, so that you don't have to go through some of the little road bumps that I did. And I'll also share about daily life so you can see if it might be a fit for you or not. [00:02:00] But first, I have to tell you something that I have not shared yet.

When I moved over here, I realized that podcasting was going to be a little bit of an issue. And it's because, whereas back home, I would record in my closet, which I talked about several times on this podcast, because all of those fabrics make for really great acoustics. The aesthetic is very minimalist, and when you don't have a lot of upholstery and fabric, it means that you're, the noise is echoing and bouncing around and can really sound tinny, which was what was happening with my first episodes when I arrived.

So the solution I came up with. Was to actually construct this pillow fort around me. I record these episodes inside my makeshift pillow fort. So I just thought that'd be a fun detail to start this off with because it didn't really fit in my other [00:03:00] episodes, but it's perfect for this one because that is what everything has been like moving to Spain and It's been about getting really creative and coming up with solutions that you never anticipated.

Now I'll go through this in kind of a Q and A format for some of the top questions I've been getting. And the number one question has really been, how'd you make the transition? Like, how did you think about it and choose that place and get the ball rolling? What we did is we started taking one month a year.

To go overseas. We knew that we wanted to be in the Mediterranean. And so we also knew that if we were just going for a week or two weeks, and for instance, staying in a hotel, we really wouldn't get the true experience of what it was like to live there. So we definitely wanted to. Find an air bnb and shop at the local grocery store and do everything [00:04:00] that we could to kind of feel like a local during that time and then we'd really be able to pick up a lot of information.

Of course, there's a lot we wouldn't pick up on because we weren't. Um, you know, signing up for our own utilities and right there, a lot of missing pieces, but as best as we could get, we wanted to really feel what it was like for a month. So we experimented with a few different places, Greece, Italy, Spain, all in the Mediterranean because that is the area that we really, really love.

And when we came to Mallorca last year, which is where we ended up settling, the truth is we didn't necessarily even know that we were going to move here full time. We were still thinking that we'd split time between some home base in the United States and then a little place here. But what we started to realize is that housing prices had skyrocketed so much in the States and they had over here as well.

And because Dylan would be in [00:05:00] school most of the year, it really didn't make sense for us to have two places. Like, we would rather just have one place where we live and then go rent an Airbnb at the other one. So when we started doing the, like, calculations, Emotional calculations really about whether we wanted to live here or we wanted to live in the States.

We came to the conclusion that we were just going to go cold turkey after Ben retired, rip off the bandaid, so to speak, and all in one fell swoop, we would retire from the military and move over to a different country. And we did everything we could to prepare in advance as much as possible. We were, you know, doing, um, I think it was babble on online for Dylan to start learning some Spanish.

We were speaking with attorneys, speaking with CPAs, trying to gather all the information. And that I will say was a very [00:06:00] rocky period because there was a lot that went into getting Digital Nomad Visa, which is what we wanted to attain in order to come over here. In hindsight, I would recommend going with a company that really helps you start to finish.

And we just, we didn't find them. We didn't know about them. So I'm going to link to one. That several people have used. I have not had personal experience with them, but some people here on the island have used and I can just see how easy the process has been for them. And so I'm going to recommend them to you all for anyone coming to Spain.

They work with all different locations in Spain. And there's also this thing that I didn't know about, which is called employer of record. And the company specifically that I spoke with about this, when I was kind of already on my way to the digital nomad visa. So I did not pursue this route, but what they do is they hire you on [00:07:00] the books.

So they have a Spanish entity and that company hires you. And then from there, you're able to come in and As an employee, as if they were finding skilled labor that they wanted to bring in. And so I think that would have also been a really nice opportunity, but I just didn't know about it. So the way it worked for me is that because I have an S corp, which means even though it's my company legally in the United States.

It's seen as its own entity, and that entity hires me as an employee, and then I am basically sent over to go work in Spain, and that's how I'm able to get this visa granted. Now, there are some exceptions. Challenges with that. So I'm just going to kind of leave it with that and tell you that there were several loops that I had to go through that you won't have to probably, if you work with one of these [00:08:00] companies, I'll make sure you have all your ducks in the row.

But if you definitely want specifically to do a digital nomad visa on your own for any reason, then I would recommend really actually honestly getting on Reddit. And looking through some of the forums, because you'll see people start talking about the problems that come up specifically between the Spanish and the U S government, and then the Spanish immigration department, and then the taxation department in Spain, their equivalent of the IRS.

And so there are several issues that aren't like counter logical where one organization really wants this, but then it's impossible. So for instance, they want somebody to come in that has their social security taken care of in their home country. So they won't actually be joining the Spanish social security system, but the taxation people in [00:09:00] Spain, because this is a big issue.

Very new visa. It's really only been around for a year. And a lot of the details haven't been ironed out. And the social security people in Spain actually really do want you to start paying into the social security system. And so it's like one department says this, but another department says that. And so you definitely are going to need to get help.

You're never going to be able to file the paperwork on your own and make sure that you do everything that you're supposed to be doing. You're probably going to have to work with several people, but at least if you start off with one of these companies that start to finish, sees you through, you'll really have a leg up.

So I'll give you another example of how that was true. We were working with a local attorney to help us with our visa local to Mallorca. And one thing that he didn't tell us. Was that there's a magical number that you really need to have here for everything in order to set up a [00:10:00] bank account in order to buy a car in order to get a phone number.

I was just arranging a birthday party venue for my son and they said they needed this magical number of mine. In order to do so, so even if you want to rent a venue for your child's birthday, you need this magical number. Well, it turns out you can get this magical number in the U S before you even leave by going through the Spanish consulate.

But we didn't know that. And now there are so many people wanting to move to Spain that their systems here in the country are really, really, like, waterlogged. They just have so many people coming through that there's A delay. And so it wouldn't have made sense for us to try and get this number because if we got granted residency, we would automatically be issued the number.

So it was just better for us to go through the residency process and then get it. But what that [00:11:00] meant was all the things that we thought we would have to do to set up to settle in here, like get a car, like I'm all the things I just mentioned a phone number. Since we were not able to do so, we had to find workarounds for all of them.

We had to find international phone plans that would work in Spain. We had to find, um, a car leasing service that would allow, that would lease out their cars. Even though we just had our U. S. driver's license and a passport. So rather than just going straight in and doing all the research on the thing that we would ultimately stay with, we had to find all of these interim workarounds first, and then we got granted residency.

Yay. And got our magical number. Yay. And so now we're restarting the process, basically, but for real this time, of course, this is going much faster because we have so many lessons learned from the past one. So what I anticipated would be [00:12:00] about one month of time, I knew that there'd be just a A month where I was doing a lot of the settling in process.

I'm the only Spanish speaker as well, which is not as big of a necessity here in Mallorca because it's such an international community. And so English is really just like the second language here. Many people use it to communicate with each other if they're from a different country, but I have still had to, to step in.

Quite a bit and do a lot of the either research, or I've had to be the translator in a lot of situations. And so I thought this would take about a month, but it's actually, I think, when it's all said and done, it's going to be about 3 months. It feels challenging when you're going through all of it, but if you think about it in the grand scheme of things, is that worth it for you?

And that's just such an analogy for business too. I just have to [00:13:00] say, I was talking to someone the other day, right? And she said that she's constantly having to re decide if she wants to stay in her business or not. And I, we were talking about the like mental drain that that is. But I told her that before she would be a great fit for my program, right, the thing that I would, one of the things I'd want to see is for her to really, when she's not thinking of all of her fears and worst case scenarios, like, When she really thinks about the possibility and the fact that this could come to pass, is there enough desire for that?

Is she feeling enough passion for that to get her through this period that will inevitably happen right now, as she's in this phase of growth in her business? Because if not, it's only going to delay the process and it may even completely curtail the process. Whereas once she's fully [00:14:00] committed and she's in it to win it, right, she and I will be having a much different conversation.

And so that's also true with a move. I think like this, you have to know, and I didn't know, I just underestimated what it would, the time that it would actually take, but you have to know that it's going to be rocky and there's going to be a lot of like settling in and a lot of frustrations. And you just need to decide beforehand, is that worth it for you?

So I think one of the best things that Ben and I did was we decided before we even left that no matter what, we were staying here for two years. And we anticipated that there'd be some culture shock in the first year and there'd be, we'd be, you know, establishing new friendships and relationships and a new, you know, kind of daily rhythm for weekly rhythm for ourselves.

And so we really wanted to give ourselves a commitment of that [00:15:00] second year to really live it. Like, to really be in it and then be able to decide, is this really the best place for us? Um, especially with, with Dylan and, you know, his needs with school and all sorts of things. So because of that, we're never re deciding right now.

We're never saying, Oh my gosh, did we make the wrong decision? Should we go back? The decision was to come for two years and that's what we're doing and we don't have to re decide that we may not stay here forever, but we don't have to make that decision right now. We just have to figure out how to stay here for two years.

Another important thing to be aware of is that a lot of people are talking about that the fact that the Spanish medical system is really great. And so it's a great place to live for that reason. One thing you need to know, if you're American coming over, Is that there's a period where you're not on, you're not able to [00:16:00] be in the public system.

And so you need private insurance, but it turns out that the private insurance companies will not cover preexisting conditions. And so that's a huge problem because you either have to have insurance. That from back home that will cover part of your bills, or you need to be able to self finance. Now, as for the daily life, to be honest, it has changed a bit since I lived here 30 years ago.

So 30 years ago, it was pretty much what you read about where kids are always out playing in the plazas and. Everybody young to old is kind of doing, uh, you know, passeando, just strolling back and forth along these promenades. And you're greeting everybody and out and about and seeing your friends while you're having some tapas.

And now what I'm finding that may still be true in a lot of Southern [00:17:00] Spain, I'm not sure, but much of Spain, especially in the cities has really become More insular when it comes to children specifically, so they enter the school fairly early, they leave fairly late and they tend to do a lot of their activities, either with a few playmates from school or with their cousins with family.

And with organized activities. So a lot like is going on in the States now, and you don't really have that free range atmosphere where they can run and play, which of course is what we were really lucky to have in the military base because it was so secure and the kids could just be kids. But that said, people do spend a lot more time on the street here than they do back home in the U.

S. So we're always seeing people running along the water, or they'll be playing volleyball on the beach, or they're out at cafes and restaurants, they're [00:18:00] out walking around at night. And while we aren't really doing that yet on the weekdays, because like I said, we're getting up early for Dylan, and he has such a full school day and activities day, it's not just academics, but there's all sorts of, he's doing like, Capoeira class, and a robotics club, and learning tennis, and every day after school he has some activity that he does, which is so fun.

So we pretty much just bring him home, let him decompress, and then it's time for bed. But on the weekends we're just having a really nice time heading out to the beach, and then Having lunch at, you know, a little salad or some seafood right there and not being in any rush whatsoever. And then just exploring all different playgrounds.

They have, this is just not a litigious society. So there are all sorts of things that would just never be allowed back home, like playgrounds where kids could get hurt. [00:19:00] Or informal situations like case in point when we drop off my son, it's in a residential area and there's not actually parking for the school.

And so we just have to kind of park on the sidewalk or in somebody's driveway or like next to the fire hydrant or we're not supposed to park. And then just put on your hazards and then walk up the hill and, and drop them off. And everyone knows that, well, but this is just the school drop off. This is just, of course, there'll be cars parked in weird places because they need to drop off their children.

And I remember once, Actually, when we were in Italy, my brother and sister-in-law came to visit and we were talking about this kind of situation where you don't really have to feel rushed at a restaurant, right? You can, once you sit down, that can be your table or the afternoon and so many other situations.

And the word that my [00:20:00] sister-in-law used was micro stressors and that we don't quite realize. When we're back home, how many micro stressors there are throughout the day that we're always anticipating? Like, is this, you know, server getting upset with me because I'm not ordering something else to drink right now or are, you know, is someone going to give me a ticket for doing this thing?

I mean, you still get tickets in Spain, but there's a different mentality around where kind of these boundaries are. And it lends itself to relaxation, it lets you let down your guard a little more and feel safer. Of course, I feel very safe sending my son to school, I feel very safe in my home, there's very, very little violent crime here, and really, people are nice.

This is not true everywhere that you travel. As you know, especially when there's a large influx [00:21:00] of immigrants, and I don't know if you've heard, but there are a lot of anti tourism protests going on in Spain because the tourism is off the charts. I've mentioned before here in Mallorca, there is a population of 1, 000, 000 that blows up to 20, 000, 000.

In August, the island is very overloaded with everything with trash with pollution, and, you know, everyone is very echo minded here. So that's a big, like, source of contention for people. And so there are a lot of anti tourism protesters, but what they're protesting are specifically um, uh, me. The governments that are taking tax money and not thinking about the ramifications of their decisions of allowing in so many flights and all the private hotels that are bringing people in and, you know, all the construction that's allowed to happen to create more hotels.

And [00:22:00] so while in some cities they are actually kind of, I don't know, targeting tourists by holding up signs or, you know, throwing Paint. And this is mostly Barcelona, but, um, that's very rare. And I actually haven't seen that here in Mallorca, but really it's about not about the people that are moving there.

The immigrants. It's about the, like, massive, massive tourism machine that's happened. Spain. is the country in Europe that has the most tourism and makes the most money off of tourism. And so there's just a kind of political disconnect going on right now. But when it comes to actually living here and from what I've seen, really accepting that all sorts of different people are going to live here, that has been true for many, many, many years in Mallorca.

So I remember even, you know, 30 years ago when I lived in a neighboring island, everybody knew that [00:23:00] that so many, you know, Germans lived in, in Majorca. And now that's just only broadened, I think there are 83 nationalities in my son's school, and it's a tiny school. But what happens is they are, you know, there'll be like one parent from this country and another parent from this country.

So these kids are already dual language at home, and then they come to school, which is an English school, and they're speaking English, but they're learning Spanish and Catalan four days a week. Catalan's the local dialect here. And so they are overflowing with languages. And yet everyone seems to think it's normal, and it's wonderful.

I love it. But yes, apart from Spanish people, like we've become friends with a family that lives in our apartment complex, and there's a Colombian woman married to a man from the Canary Islands. And then we [00:24:00] have some friends from Dylan's school that we've made. There's a woman who's Brazilian. And a man who's from Seychelles, and then there's an Australian, I think married to a, I'm honestly getting confused at this point, but there's just such a mix of cultures and a kind of respect for cultures.

And, um, it just makes for a really fun place. The weather is beautiful. The scenery is beautiful. There is a lot of congestion in the summer and the country absolutely shuts down in August. So don't do what we did and move here in the end of July because anything that needs to happen will be happening in August, except that it won't because very few people are working or they're working limited hours.

And I just love that I have higher trust in what is in the food here, that I can look out my window of the [00:25:00] stairwell and see all sorts of like, olive trees and hibiscus, but also rosemary and pine, and it just creates this very delicious smell. And that at one moment, I can be in the city going to fun, trendy coworking spaces and fun cafes.

And then in another, I can drive 20 minutes and be in the middle of nowhere or go up into the Or to the sea, everything feels very accessible. And I know for sure that that always translates to your mindset. When you are in discovery and exploration and newness, it changes your mind. It changes how your brain works, and it opens up your creativity.

I have not been working a lot here. I Maybe start work around noon, usually sometimes a little later, and I [00:26:00] tend to have maybe one or two calls in the afternoon, mid afternoon, because that's when clients are waking up in the States, or that was, you know, our old legacy calls for my European clients.

That's when we were used to meeting. So we've kind of continued to meet at that time. And then I welcome my son home and go pick him up. But even though I haven't been working, it is working for me. And this is actually a concept I teach frequently, which is you do need to, at some point, believe that rest things like rest uncommon things like adventure, exploration, pleasure.

Are actually very important business activities and very lucrative business activities because I have so many ideas and so much energy and so many good vibes about what's ahead in my company, but it's all [00:27:00] due to the fact that I've tackled some obstacles, right? But I've really created like some great wins for myself and I'm always Out exploring and in new environments.

There's very little that feels like, I mean, there is safety and security and some routine, but I'm constantly changing and challenging. And so my mind is scanning in a different way and looking in a different way. So for those of you who are wondering, is it worth it for me? It's worth it for any entrepreneur.

Even just if it's, you know, a couple of years or even if it's just a month and I believe we can take these same kind of micro breaks even close to home or even within a staycation. How often have you had a friend come to visit and they've said, Oh, have you ever been to this place? And you say, Oh no, I've been meaning to get there.

We tend to over index [00:28:00] on the quote unquote business activities without realizing how valuable it is for our business. To be in new surroundings and new environments. So there you have it, how we made our transition, what the main lessons learned were, and what life is actually like over here. I hope you are having a wonderful September wherever you are, and I can't wait to be back with you next week.

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Ep# 114: The Psychology of Manifesting Simple Business Success Through Reinvention for Women Entrepreneurs (Stage 4)

Episode Summary

Have you ever wondered why some high-achieving women entrepreneurs seem to create success with ease while others work harder but see fewer results?

If you have been pushing hard in your business but aren't seeing the results you desire, this episode is your turning point. By understanding how to recreate your mindset, you can start seeing the outcomes you want far more easily.

In this episode you will: 

1. Unlock the secrets to easeful success that the people who “make it look so easy” already know

2. Learn 4 simple mental exercises to rewire your brain for optimal performance and deep satisfaction

3. Flip the switch on your biggest challenges (Hint: It’s not them, it’s you.)

   Tune in now to break free from the everyday hustle and start creating a business that aligns with ease and abundance—your success might just be a mindset shift away!

Episodes Mentioned: 

Episode 111: The Psychology of Manifesting Simple Business Success Through Reinvention for Women Entrepreneurs

Episode 112: The Psychology of Manifesting Simple Business Success Through Reinvention for Women Entrepreneurs (Stage 2)

Episode 113: The Psychology of Manifesting Simple Business Success Through Reinvention for Women Entrepreneurs (Stage 3)

Chavonne’s podcast Podcast Episode Created Realities with Dr. Chavonne Perot 

Episode 56: Finding Your Way Out of the 'Ick' with Kat Haugh

Episode 78: Meditation for Closing the Past and Creating the Future You Desire: Business Strategy For Becoming Successful

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The Uncommon Way is led by business coach Jenna Harrison, who helps women entrepreneurs feel confident, find their ideal clients effortlessly and avoid overwork so they can manifest money and abundance in their business and life.

This podcast empowers female entrepreneurs to overcome imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and limiting beliefs through somatics, mindset, and spirituality, create 7-figure offers, and build an online coaching business with clarity and alignment.

Episode Transcription

Jenna Harrison: [00:00:00] You're listening to the uncommon way business and life coaching podcast, the podcast that helps women entrepreneurs get clear on signature offers and strategies that sell themselves. So you can lean back and stop the hustle. You will learn to maximize your mindset, messaging, and strategy. And step into the uncommonly successful business and life you are creating.

Here's your host top ranked business coach and reformed over analyzer turned queen of clarity. Jenna Harrison.

Welcome. Welcome back to the uncommon way today. I'm bringing you part four of a series dedicated to helping you understand and adopt the psychology behind simple business success These are the stages that you absolutely must move through in order to achieve it. And we're laying those out one by one, [00:01:00] because even though it can be hard to put into practice that desire of yours to let business be simple with us, Out sacrificing success.

If you understand the psychological stages, you'll always have a roadmap for what you need to be working on. So in this episode, you will unlock the secrets to easeful success. If you've ever wondered why some people seem to reach their goals with ease while others struggle despite hard work, this is the episode where you'll discover that surprising mental shift.

That makes success feel easeful and how you can start implementing it today. No matter where you are in your journey, you will learn how to rewire your brain for optimal performance and satisfaction. Cause did you know that your brain is biologically wired towards the negative? In this episode, we explore why.

And more importantly, how you can flip the switch to activate higher brain function, [00:02:00] increase neuroplasticity, and transform obstacles into opportunities with just a few simple mental exercises. You'll also discover the key to long lasting business success, because what if the biggest barrier to your business growth isn't external challenges?

But internal limitations. This episode reveals how a simple mindset shift could be the game changer you've been missing, allowing you to set bigger goals, stay resilient, and ultimately become unstoppable in your business. It's going to be so good. How are you, my friend? How's your September going? As I talk, I am surrounded by boxes, which is a wonderful, wonderful thing.

Because it has been three months and eight days, but who's counting, since we have not had the, all of our clothes and most of our most beloved [00:03:00] household items. And finally they've arrived here. I was joking with a client of mine that about these four shirts, like I've had four shirts and four pairs of pants.

Not really, but basically, um, you know, living out of a suitcase all this time. And she's like, I'm so dying to see like these, this ensemble, you know, the pieces were, and I'm like, Oh yeah, it's very French. It's just like quality over quantity. And I have to say, now that the other things have arrived and I'm looking at them, I got rid of so many clothes before we moved and I still have way too many clothes.

So definitely helping myself try and move towards a more sustainable wardrobe mentality where I just have a few key pieces and they're really, really amazing, luxurious fabrics that I love. Anyway, I'm completely digressing here, but that is just to update you on, on how things are going and they really are moving along.

It's so lovely that every single day. Now we're able to check [00:04:00] something off our list, like the Spanish bank account check. Spanish phone. Check. Box has arrived. Check. Dog is here. So just feeling really, really good and juicy. And I've heard from a lot of my clients as well, and a lot of people around that they're also having amazing Septembers.

So I hope you're included in that. All right, let's briefly recap the previous episodes in the series. So the first psychological stage of manifesting simple business success through reinvention is the psychology of new things, opening yourself to the belief that a new way of doing things can actually be better than the way you've been successful until now, and that working less and stressing less can lead to better results.

Stage two is the psychology of letting things come easily, like money, support, and accolades without resistance, believing that that's okay, because you're never going to [00:05:00] create simple business success if deep down you're feeling safer with another way of being or guilty about this way of being. And stage three is the psychology of hard understanding that hard often comes from your thoughts and knowing how to neutralize that mental pressure.

And now, once you've understood that hard comes from your thoughts, the natural progression is to really get a handle on those thoughts and take extreme personal responsibility for what your brain is thinking and acting and actually shift those into something more personal. And that is where you finally move into the fourth stage, the one that we're talking about today.

And the fourth stage is a psychology of positive focus, which is where you relentlessly orient yourself towards the positive, or at least towards a neutral place so that success can start to feel effortless rather than so damn [00:06:00] hard, like we talked about in the last episode. When things don't feel as hard.

it will feel easier. And the beauty is that then it will actually start to become easier over time, too. It's a virtuous cycle. Now, if you're new around here and thinking, wait, is she saying if I sit on the sofa and think happy thoughts, that's all I need to do in my business? No. We love taking action. We love implementing effective strategy around here.

We love taking But your mindset comes first, and we always know that. And then the actions and results follow organically. And if you're finding a little voice saying, Oh, easy for you to stay positive, Jenna, because you're making money and you have a team. I get it. But let me tell you. I had to start reorienting myself to what was working before I could then create these kind of results.

It's [00:07:00] exactly the same as one time when I was talking about how I made an investment decision. And of course the decision was not based on the cost of the service. And someone told me, Oh, I can't wait until I can invest like that. And I told them that I started making decisions that way first, believing in the long term potential of my business before I had the actual business results to show for it and the disposable income that I now have, because your revelations come before your results.

I'll say it again. Revelations come before results. I had the revelation that, wow, this seems like a big investment now, but someday I'll make that in a year or a month or a week or a day. And then I started showing up with that seriousness and certainty, and then it came true. I've made more in a day than that Mastermind cost me.

Now, revelations come before results. [00:08:00] And I shifted my mindset significantly before I had a consistent business that I could count on. One where I consistently felt positive and easeful. And then I created the consistent, easeful business that I have. In fact, I can remember the exact moment you've had these, right?

It's like a before and after there's the switch, like. Yes, maybe you've known the thing logically, but you've never really been able to fully implement it or fully integrate it. And then some one day something lands for you suddenly in a new way. Well, that's how it was for me when it comes to positivity and really looking towards what's working in my business, because I think your business can be the trickiest area to implement this in because it's so tied to money, which is tied to survival and also your sense of worth and accomplishment.

And that's how it was for me. So I remember that area of my life kind of lagging where I wasn't [00:09:00] feeling really happy about what was going on with my business. And I remember sitting in a parking lot and I had something to do, but I just could not turn off this podcast I was listening to. So I'm going to link to it in the show notes.

It's called created realities with Dr. Siobhan Perrault. She's now a friend of mine, which is so fun, but go take a listen. You will love it. Everyone I've ever recommended it to absolutely loves it. And it's really about this topic of when you take ownership of your thoughts and just like radically reframe everything in a way that your brain is not inclined to think naturally.

So Did you know that when you are looking at the glass half empty, with the negativity, the stress, the fears, all that is, is just the amygdala taking over your brain, kind of hijacking your brain for a minute. It's a simple response to a stressor. It does not mean any of those thoughts or fears are true.[00:10:00]

You know this on a logical level, but I'm going to slow down here and say it again. Just because your brain goes down the rabbit hole of what this might mean or what might happen does not mean any of those thoughts are true. It's pure conjecture. It's like a fairy tale. Now, this type of conjecture is a survival tactic.

It's helpful for us in one level. And it even has a name. It's called a negativity bias, which means that our brains are biased towards a more negative orientation and perspective. It's wired in through evolution. And that's because if you have two humans and you're wondering which one is more likely to survive when you're on the savanna and you're facing constant threats of predators, then chances are the one who's a little more skeptical, a little more concerned about what might go wrong [00:11:00] is the one that's going to survive.

So you had some ancestors that were playing it safe and lived long enough to reproduce. And it kept amplifying. And now here you are today. But this is not the world we live in anymore. Thank God. But to your brain, the, uh, oh, when you feel, when you see a decline in likes, it's very similar to the, uh, oh, you feel when maybe that shadow is a tiger.

And so it activates. The same fight or flight response. Actually, it's fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. So let me be clear that this is not your fault, right? You're not, there's no character deficiency because you're a negative person, right? Or because you're always worrying. There's no weakness in that. This is biology.

And then those patterns have been reinforced and further wired in when you were younger, or in response to a trauma or a trying [00:12:00] circumstance, when you didn't have tools to properly deal with it, right? To keep that pattern from really setting in. You didn't know how to keep it from happening. So, uh, Now when there's a specific type of stimulus, then right away, these neurons over here in your brain turn on.

I'm like waving my hand around my head as if you can see it, but It's like a string of Christmas lights, right? And we want to redirect that and say, no, no, no, no, no. Turn on this string of lights instead when this stimulus happens. Our brains just were not built to function optimally and withstand the society in which we find ourselves, but it's okay because we, meaning the more sentient self as the executors of our internal world, can do and should do the lifting required.

of giving ourselves a reality check and getting back into a more positive frame of thought. Now you might be wondering, is this really a big deal, [00:13:00] Jenna? So I'm a little stressed and hypervigilant and I, I get worried about what could go wrong, but it keeps me on my toes. So, so what? Well, the why behind why we want to curb your inner Eeyore and shift to a more positive outlook is pretty damn compelling.

Hold onto your seats. You ready? Ready? Hey. If you want true clarity about your secret sauce, your people, your best way of doing business and how you talk about your offer, then I invite you to join us in the Clarity Accelerator. I'll teach you to connect all the dots, the dots that have always been there for you so that you can show up like you were born for exactly this.

Come join us and supercharge every other tool or tactic you'll ever learn from Facebook ads to manifestation Just go to the uncommon way comm slash schedule and set up a time to talk. I can't wait to be your coach When you're stressed you reduce your [00:14:00] IQ by as much as 40% You damage your DNA, you shrink higher brain networks, and unfortunately, wreak havoc on your results in business, your relationships, and your enjoyment of this one precious life.

It makes you see yourself as the victim of the circumstances around you, and victims don't have a lot of power when they're being victimized. Negativity and stress are the worst. are serious. They are life threateningly serious. It's not something that we wait to fix some other day. How many stories have we heard about people who look back and question why they spent so much time working?

Now here they are on their deathbed, alienated from their loved ones. No pressure. Look, I understand the thinking of, Really, this is just until X, or it's, it's just now because of Y, right? It's just because I'm getting my business off the ground and it's so hard, or it's [00:15:00] just because I'm in this scaling period to seven figures and the economy is so bad and people just aren't buying.

Right? I get it. I used to live there. I remember people talking about being positive and practicing gratitude and I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, Pollyanna, talk to me when you have a real problem. I even had friends break up with me because of my negativity. And I thought they were the ones that had the problem.

I remember thinking, I can't focus on this now. I've got problems to solve and I'll focus on that stuff. Maybe when things aren't quite so crazy someday, right someday, then I can be happy. Then I won't have to worry. Then I won't have to overthink. Then I won't be so consumed with this right here, right now.

It's not how it works. I wish that we could just get past the thing, but the way we do something is the way we keep doing the thing. And your [00:16:00] decision to perpetuate this pattern means that it will take you longer to get to that promised land. Why would you do that to yourself when all it takes is learning a different way?

You can do this with some simple cognitive and somatic interventions. A positive mindset is not a luxury of those who have made it. It is a necessity for everyone who's interested in high performance and everyone who just doesn't believe in making things 10 times as hard for themselves and they want to get where they're going faster, better, and easier.

Positivity, appreciation, and even neutrality make you believe that the sky is the limit, that love and peace and success are here for you now, right now, and that you are bigger than and fully equipped for a variety of circumstances in the canvas that is life. People with a positive mindset are more likely to set and achieve [00:17:00] goals because their emotional cup is full.

So they're able to even consider new challenges and they'll keep going when faced with difficulties because it improves resilience, right? It's strengthening your emotional endurance. It's allowing you to approach setbacks as temporary challenges rather than Insurmountable obstacles. It increases the neuroplasticity of your brain, letting your brain reform and build, strengthen new areas.

It's turning on higher brain function. It's stimulating the growth of new neural connections. This adaptability leads to improved problem solving, learning, cognitive flexibility. It reduces the production of cortisol, so your brain's protected from the negative effects of prolonged stress, like memory loss or impaired cognitive function.

I mean, ask me how I know. Four and a half decades, stress the fuck out, now I can't remember a thing. Just kidding. [00:18:00] Sort of. It also gives you enhanced dopamine and serotonin production, so it regulates your mood, right? It contributes to feelings of happiness and well being. It improves your hormonal flow overall.

These chemicals, they improve focus, they improve memory, and they improve overall mental clarity. So, just to call it out one more time. Focusing on solutions and opportunities and appreciation creates a foundation for simple, sustainable business success. It activates parts of the brain that help with decision making and innovation and goal achievement.

So you can excel in your business in ways you are only dreaming about right now. You're challenging yourself with big goals. You keep going, you keep overcoming obstacles. Your magnificent brain is firing on all cylinders. And you're becoming an unstoppable badass. The good news is you don't even have to be [00:19:00] 100 percent positive all the time.

Just aim for 51 percent of the time and you will see your world change. You will see how vastly different it is to what you're living now and what most humans are living now. A positive mindset, you can think of it like wind, if it really feels a sail, right? And then your business can't help, but move forward and like glide through the beautiful Mediterranean ocean.

And then it can't help but glide through the beautiful Mediterranean Sea. It really harnesses that momentum, right? It pushes your company forward and towards its goals. But a negative mindset is like trying to sail against the wind, right? You keep trying to push harder and harder, but progress is slow, right?

And it's draining your energy and resources. It's resistance and stagnation rather than a natural organic [00:20:00] flow speeding you towards success. Now, there's one thing I haven't mentioned yet about the benefits of shifting your mindset in this way, and it's very, very important, right? But women tend to deprioritize this and instead focus on the needs of everyone else around them.

But this is what it is. It's a greater Life satisfaction. It's greater enjoyment, right? And happiness and emotional balance. And those are things we so often just kind of stuff under the cushions, rather than declaring like, I want this. My needs are important. I want to enjoy this life. Because this really is what you want in life, ultimately.

And all the things you're doing are trying to get you to this point, right? Whether it's like taking care of your family, and then that will make you feel happy and fulfilled, right? Or if it's having a business, and then [00:21:00] that's going to lead to the thing. And you, you want to enjoy it, you want feel good, not that shiny object, right?

That you think will give you the satisfaction, happiness. That's not what you really want because once you reach that shiny object, your brain's going to find something new to covet, which I think is a great thing. By the way, I love that humans desire and strive and seek and grow. I love that about us.

But I'm not going to delude myself into thinking that the thing outside of me is going to give me anything that I can't give myself right here and right now. All the good feels, they come from me, not from something outside of me. And likewise, the negative feels tend to come from me rather than any outside circumstance, which is what we were talking about last week.

Now, luckily, if this is you and you know your mind skews more to the negative still, the good news is that [00:22:00] brain change can happen very quickly. Sometimes it happens in a flash, just like that, like what I was talking about with the podcast. Sometimes it's, uh, like forming a new habit where it takes like four weeks.

Now, sometimes it takes years, but isn't it cool that it can happen so quickly? Like it might just be right around the corner for you. I just had a kickoff call, which is something that I do with my private clients after three months of coaching and the results that she wanted to accomplish in those three months were that seven to 80 percent of the time she would feel less shame.

And that she would be giving appropriate airtime to kind of all of the negative voices and by appropriate, meaning not letting that overtake her anymore, that she just kind of like, listen to it, be there, right. And then be on her way. Now these after three months are the results that she actually is noticing.

First of all, yes to both of those goals [00:23:00] accomplished, right? She's feeling less shame. But she also went to describe in more detail that she is. Spinning out less from thoughts on or spinning out less thinking about what's going to be happening that week. She's really able to handle big emotions, allow them to be there and not have them be a big thing and move on.

She is less left brain and more sensitive to intuition and her higher self. She is able to rest. This is so cool. big thing for this. My clients are high achievers, right? And so really allowing herself to rest and she's had like some family trips and just really being present with family and not thinking about work.

That's really new for her. She's focusing on the important things. Her self trust is growing leaps and bounds. She's allowing herself to receive recognition, which is also something that used to feel wildly uncomfortable. She's valuing herself as a thought leader and describing herself [00:24:00] that way. Now it just feels more natural.

She's getting less stuck in her head. She's like, okay, this is what I've decided to do. I'm just going to do it. And then when inspiration strikes, she's just putting it putting it out there, right? She, she hasn't really been afraid to experiment. And she's also a woman who has allowed her process to crystallize.

And now she's signing clients from that when she talks about it. And these people say, that's exactly what I need. Yes, that, that is what I need. And she also notices that when she evaluates certain results in her business that are neutral or even negative, the way she evaluates that is far more neutral.

She's doing it like a CEO. So again, these changes can happen quickly. I have another client I was talking to yesterday and she is noticing that how quickly she changes her mindset now when her mind starts to get rowdy. That's how she describes it. Right. And she's able to kind of watch herself and then think about things [00:25:00] differently.

And when she does, she just says, thanks, Jenna, having a voice in your head, right. It can help you with that. And the Transcribed The great thing is that you can do that yourself right now. Like imagine that I'm there asking you, how else could you be thinking about that? And the two of us, as we were talking about this shift, we were reflecting on how it's just a split second.

It just takes a split second to reorient your thoughts, but it changes everything. Everything can change the rest of your day. And so she has completely changed her business. She's an interior designer and she used to work with small residential jobs, and now she's doing predominantly commercial work, which are larger jobs.

She has her own office. She's raised her rates. She's charging flat fees rather than having to do all of this like hourly accounting. And she's getting referrals left and right, and they become new clients without hesitating. It's interesting because there's another interior designer [00:26:00] that she's been collaborating with, and that person was commenting to her that she doesn't hire photographers to photograph the work afterwards because she never makes enough on a project to really have room to hire a photographer.

Now, if that's true, you know that woman is focusing on the negatives and the what ifs. Right. And that's why she's not charging appropriately rather than really leaning into possibility. Of course, when you finish a commercial project, you should have enough buffer to be able to take photos of it and show that on, you know, put it on your website, put it on social, show it to the next people who might be considering working with you.

That is your product. Anyway, women, and I've been there myself, right? We, we really cut ourselves short so often. I have to tell you a funny story though about this client. We were getting clear on her priorities for the next six months and I asked her, okay, what are three emotions that you really want to lean into in these, in these next months, [00:27:00] right?

Or that you really want to carry forward. And she said, number one is like contentment. She wants to be really content in herself and that things are working out. And another is brave, right? Having faith that she can handle it. And then the other one, she couldn't exactly come up with a word for it. She's like, it's kind of like you're really rooted, but at the same time, like a tree, maybe you're growing and you're changing and adapting, but it's both things at the same time.

And so we're like, okay. Being tree like, right? We started joking. We're like, no, it's like a radish, right? You're like in the ground, you're creating movement through the soil. And so if you ever need to just adopt that word of like, what emotion do I want to be feeling right now? If you want to be feeling like a radish too, you are welcome to take that and run with it because having a good laugh is really part of this.

Whole thing that I'm talking about today, right? It is that positive mindset. [00:28:00] And if you listen to the other thing she was talking about, right? The contentment, right? The feeling brave. That's everything we've been describing in this episode. That's everything that starts to happen naturally in your brain when you do this work.

And so this is how we want to move through the world, but we've been so conditioned by the hustle culture that the emotions we think we should experience are often quite different than those. Now, to be clear, positivity is not about ignoring challenges. It's about consciously choosing thoughts that empower you rather than drain you.

It's also not about gaslighting that everything's fine. Like is, I've been going through this move. I know it's not fun. The, some of the things we've had to deal with all the appliances breaking and I know it's been challenging. So do I vent about that and pout once in a while? Hell yes. But the [00:29:00] majority of the time I'm actually kind of laughing about it, right?

I'm, I'm able to see it as like, uh, as things that are outside of me. And that I'm fully equipped to deal with and most importantly of all, I have 100 percent believe that it's going to resolve and be fine. I don't let myself get rattled by a month or 2 of craziness in my life or even a specific area of my business that I haven't figured out yet.

or whatever it is. I have the deeper, not just like the immediate positive orientation of, Oh, it's wonderful that my buzzer has stopped working in the house, you know, from the downstairs door and we're missing all of these packages that are being delivered. But the long term orientation of I am absolutely okay.

I've completely got this. This is a temporary thing that I'm working through. And that is a [00:30:00] difference that I see between myself and my clients. Very often when they're in kind of a downswing in their business, they're creating a lot of meaning about that and it's really throwing them off their game. Me, I tend to brush it off and think it's just like something that's going to pass, like a little, uh, rain shower or something, like not a big deal.

So let's talk about some tactics for you. Let's talk about some tools for this positive reorientation. It requires reinvention. This is new for you, right? But it's also new for most people around you. I had a coach that used to say showing up positive and satisfied to social interactions is a radical act, and it can often feel like an isolating.

Act. Because unfortunately, we can bond through misery and we get in the cycle of, of, and it feels good for us to vent, right? So we often get together with the people [00:31:00] we're close to or we love or even acquaintances and we all just kind of take turns venting. But have you ever noticed so often you leave feeling even more negative than when you started?

If you are in a cycle of negativity with someone, invite them into a change. Why not try? Right? You could share this podcast with them and then ask them to point it out to you when you are veering towards the negative so that you can catch yourself. Catching yourself may be a little challenging at first and all the help you can have, whether it's a support group, a friend, a loved one, a coach, a mentor, that is going to be wildly helpful.

Our attitudes and beliefs, they tend to reflect the people around us. And that is why The programs here at The Uncommon Way, we all have a group component built in because so much of this gets absorbed by like osmosis and you don't have to work at it [00:32:00] as hard if everyone around you is in this same kind of mindset or at least journey into this different way of being.

Thank you. So you must start to catch yourself in the moment and then redirect your thoughts. It's funny, Dylan now, my son, he's like, I just can't do that, mama. I can't think of something else. My thoughts just bounce straight back to that thing. At this particular moment, he is quite afraid of rodents of unusual size.

from the movie, The Princess Bride, poor little guy. And he keeps thinking about these rodents of unusual size. And I try to help him think about other ways he could think about it. And he's like, I can't think about it that way. My brain goes back to this way, but a lot of adults. Two, get really fatalistic about the fact that they can't control their thoughts, right?

They can't change the way they are, but I promise you, you can. In fact, you are the [00:33:00] only one who can control your thoughts or let your thoughts be controlled. I had a client who was like trying to do this work and she was saying it, it isn't working. Like, can you give me another tactic because this, this one just, it's really not working for me.

And I'm like, is it not working? Or are you just not doing it? There's a difference there. And by the way, this is one of the same clients I mentioned earlier whose brain now shifts quickly into new thinking. So I promise you, this can be you. You just need to keep going back to What is another way that I could be thinking about this?

And so in the podcast that I liked so much, one of the, the ways that she was talking that I loved was when, for instance, we get into a period where we don't see as many whatever sales calls coming in or haven't signed as many clients. We can tend to spiral out in that negativity, but Siobhan was saying, Oh, wow.

No, like here's, [00:34:00] um, you know, a friend called me. Well, that's a sign that clients are coming. Well, here's a billboard saying something positive, right? That's a sign. Things are turning up, right? And she was just showing us in real time. This radical practice. Of thinking about things a different way, of looking for the positive, looking for the signs, rather than looking for the negative.

I've had clients say, I just don't feel clear enough. I'm not as clear as I want to be. And I'm always bringing them back to what are you clear about though? What have you become more clear on? Like, where are you going each day? Or I'll have clients that are in a somatic cycle, which is like a body led cycle of, of hustle of busyness.

And it's because it's not really anything where they think they should be doing it or believe that they're a better person if they need to do it. It's just that their body is so conditioned to that stress response [00:35:00] that it moves itself back in. It tries, it feels uncomfortable. You feel uncomfortable when you're not.

In busy work, right? And so as they've been trying to break that cycle or been trying to think about it, they're like, I just don't, I don't see this changing. And I am always bringing them back to what is a one thing that you did differently today, right? Where's one place that you've changed? How is it true that in fact you are already changing?

I remember when I first had coaches to be completely real with you. I remember them saying things like that to me. And I remember thinking in my skeptical way that they were really just trying to prove to me that their coaching was working. But now I see that it is not about that at all. Coaches, especially successful coaches could really care less if you know that you believe that the coaching is working because they are able to see so clearly right from the perspective what's working and what's not.

And really their job is to [00:36:00] help you start seeing it and start understanding it. Living into it and embodying it so that you can accelerate your progress even further, right? Rather than like an anchor, actually, since we talked about sales earlier, really an anchor that keeps pulling you back into the negative, even though the boat has drifted forward, right?

It's your mindset. That's like, no, but I'm not there yet. No, but I'm not clear enough yet. Oh, the rodents of unusual size. And so, I just really want you to know that within your brain, the voice with the most conviction always wins. So if you are dead set to like, this is not working, it's not working in my business, I don't know what I'm doing, I don't know how to scale to this level, I don't, right, and you're so, have so much conviction around that, that is where you will stay.

But when you can shift forward, even if you just start with like, maybe it's possible that I have grown, maybe it's possible [00:37:00] that I'm working through this every day and that I'm closer than I think. I remember once when I was feeling like something wasn't working, a coach described this beautiful metaphor to me, which was that a pot is a boiling and when you first put the fire onto, you really don't see anything happening, but that doesn't mean that nothing's happening.

It's absolutely happening and it just needs to reach the boiling point before you will actually be able to see it. So, remember, when this negativity comes up for you That it's not you, right? That negativity is not you. Your higher self does not want you to think terrible thoughts about yourself and to really come to terms with the fact that you're never going to be able to create your dreams.

That is a different part, right? So the negativity, it's in me, but it's not me. And you can just, you can listen to positive [00:38:00] podcasts like this one, or, or you can even record them for yourself and listen to them over and over and over. You kind of want to brainwash yourself because when you are listening to an input, uh, you like this, it's hard for you at the same time to be thinking really negative thoughts if you indeed are focused on this audio.

So you can even create it for yourself about why things are going your way, right? Why things are absolutely positive. You can listen to positive podcasts. You can, uh, have, you know, your support groups around you. With others who are really serious about changing their mindset, you can be journaling on it, redirecting your brain to it.

And you can also just turn your mind. Like if you start feeling negative, or is this really working? Maybe I shouldn't be hustling less because what if my business falls apart? You can just take that opportunity to just think about something else. So for instance, just think about [00:39:00] CEOs. That have really used this type of thinking, right?

To create really amazing business success. So I'll give you some examples. Now, read Hastings. He was the CEO of Netflix, you know, in the early 2000s. Netflix was all DVDs, and you would rent them by mail. And there was another store, a physical store called Blockbuster, that was their main competition. But all of a sudden, things went digital, and you really didn't need a physical CD to be mailed to you anymore.

And so this seemed like the death of both Blockbuster and Netflix. But what do we know to be true? Blockbuster is not here anymore. But Netflix has soared. And so even though it seemed like an existential moment, I mean, I guess it was an existential moment, but it seemed like something that could lead to their demise.

Hastings really saw this [00:40:00] as an opportunity for change, right? And he transitioned the entire business to align with the future rather than the past. And being able to pivot boldly like that and see it as an opportunity has created billions of dollars. I'm looking it up right now. Netflix has a market cap of 292 billion, just from staying positive.

Here's another one. Howard Schultz at Starbucks during the financial crisis in 2008, All of a sudden, nobody wanted to buy expensive coffee. And so they were really seeing just plummeting sales and profit margins. He stepped back in as CEO and really envisioned this crisis as an opportunity to reinvent.

Starbucks, and he started improving the customer experience in stores, and he was retraining baristas to make their coffee [00:41:00] better. And he embraced digital innovation, right? He made mobile ordering really easy and payment systems really easy. And he just really turned it very customer focused. And as we know, it's also a thriving company.

I'm sure we could look it up, but I'm just not going to do it right now. And then there's Steve Jobs, right? He was actually ousted from the company that he founded. Imagine that he could have gone and curled up under a rock and we never would have heard about him again. But instead he went on, he founded a new company and he was able to spearhead like such innovative software that that when Apple acquired that company, it brought him back on as CEO.

And of course that's when with that real like fire under him and that confidence having gone through that, that he started bringing out the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad. So instead of drowning in negativity, [00:42:00] he really went towards possibility, reoriented his thoughts and the rest is history, most profitable company in the world.

Are you seeing a trend here every single time it's the CEOs having this military grade mindset who can be like, Oh, here's a challenge. Great. Let's turn this to our advantage. Where is the opportunity? So I encourage you to practice these methods and really start reflecting on the results they are bringing you.

You don't have to take my word for it. You can become very empirical about this and you can spend one month in positive and just see what results start changing in your business. Right? Catching and redirecting thoughts, right? Remembering the negativity is not you. It doesn't mean it's true. Surrounding yourself with positive minded people and turning your focus to external role models or [00:43:00] other things you can think about until the day when you become the role model in this regard for others.

All right. Now let's talk energetics, because I always like to throw a little something in for the people that love this stuff, like I do. When you are in a negative place, you can also ask yourself, Is this even mine, right? Or is this unhelpful, fearful energy coming from maybe someone around me, or my ancestors, or something else?

That alone, just realizing that energy is something that we absorb, but also something we can give back, can be wildly helpful in you making this shift. And secondly, when what's around you does feel less than optimal, because of course it will at times, and you're following your desire into something else that maybe hasn't materialized yet, you just need to be able to [00:44:00] hold the vibration long enough for your reality to catch up with that energy.

As soon as you spin off into it's not working, you create. It's not working. It's a very chaotic energy that brings back chaotic results. And it's okay if there's a lag time, right? Once you refocus and you get back on track, whenever you make a change, you're setting new wheels in motion. A new type of client has to find you now, or a new set of happy coincidences needs to be created.

That doesn't mean it's not working. Right? It's like the pot boiling. There's a lot going on behind the scenes that you can't see. And the quickest way for you to manifest what you want is to stay in alignment and hold that energy, hold that positive energy of what you're creating. This is a big difference that I noticed between myself and my clients, or at least my earlier clients when they first come on with me, right?

If they go through maybe a period of [00:45:00] declined sales or not selling. It means a lot to them. It's a big deal. Everything has to be re examined, right? There's a big, big problem. Me? I just don't even think about it. I was on the phone with a client of mine and I heard this drip, drip, and then drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip.

And I was like, can you just hold on a second? I think I hear dripping water. I need to go check. And I looked outside the door and sure enough, there was like this torrent of water coming down from the ceiling, which is where the air conditioning unit is for, for my office. And I'm like, hold on, hold on, I just need to get a towel.

And I'm like, running around getting a towel. And I came back in and I was telling her the story of how we've had issues with this, these air conditioning units. And now this new one has broken. And she was just shaking her head. She's like, and yet you're talking about letting it be easy. All of these upsets going on in your life.

And the [00:46:00] thing is, you can still let it be easy in the face of turmoil, but you don't have to, right? You can say that this is not optimal. You can say that things are realigning, right? They're not manifested yet. They haven't materialized yet, right? Like this, this very beautiful life of easeful living for me in Spain, to be honest, has not materialized yet, but It will absolutely.

And this isn't just me thinking positively. It's through experience that I say this over and over. And when I didn't have the experience, I just practice saying it right. Just practice leaning into the belief. But now I have lived this in my life over and over and over, whether it's a pivot in my business, Whether it's a move, right?

Whether it's a little chaotic time, I don't know, Mercury retrograde. Who knows when these periods like pass and maybe it's Saturn coming back in and shaking things up, right? So that I can [00:47:00] reorient. Who knows? The point is that what I do know is Is that I'm going to be fine. This is definitely coming to pass because that is the power of my mind and soul as creative entities in this universe.

So hold the vibration, my friend, hold it long enough. And let the materialization happen, right? Let it come into this 3D space and then keep desiring, keep allowing yourself to just hold the next layer and the next level as you create this life that is yours, right? That you love that doesn't necessarily look like anyone else's.

But it's your uncommon way. All right, let's summarize the key takeaways for this episode. You have learned how shifting your mindset towards positivity, even just 51 percent of the time, activates higher [00:48:00] brain function. It vastly improved your life and allow success to flow more effortlessly in your business.

So you're really mastering the power now of this positive focus. We explored how your brain is wired with a negativity bias and how you can rewire it for success by focusing on solutions. You're increasing neuroplasticity and you're reducing the impact of stress hormones like So you've really understood the biological science behind Mindset.

And you've learned to apply simple, actionable strategies for transformation. You have tools now to catch and redirect negative thoughts, to lean into optimism, and to surround yourself with positive influences, laying the groundwork for lasting success, both personally and professionally. So remember, positivity isn't just about feeling good.

Although feeling good should be one of our main goals. But [00:49:00] it's about optimizing performance and creating the life and business that you truly want. Thank you so much for tuning in. It's been a pleasure having you here as always. This episode now concludes this four part series. Next week, I've got something completely new for you.

See you then.

Thanks for joining us here at the uncommon way. If you want more tips and resources for developing clarity in your business in life, including the clarity first strategy for growing and scaling your business, visit the uncommon way. com. See you next time.

Ep# 113: The Psychology of Manifesting Simple Business Success Through Reinvention for Women Entrepreneurs (Stage 3)

Episode Summary

What if mastering the psychology of manifesting a simple and effective business is the key to unlocking the success you’ve always envisioned?

Many high-achieving women entrepreneurs believe that success means constantly overworking and pushing themselves to the brink. However, by making a key psychological shift, you can redefine your entrepreneurial journey, achieving your highest effectiveness and success with far less hustle.

In this episode you will: 

1. Find out the surprising and often overlooked source of your stress and exhaustion, and how addressing it can transform your entrepreneurial experience.

2. Learn the secret behind how some CEOs stay calm and focused under pressure, enabling you to lead your business more peacefully and productively.

3. Understand why working less isn't always the solution, and gain clarity on the essential step to take before reducing your hours or making changes in your business.

Tune in now to transform your approach and elevate your business to one of ease, efficiency and growth!

Episodes Mentioned: 

Episode 46. Mental Toughness (it's a girl thing)

Episode 112. The Psychology of Manifesting Simple Business Success Through Reinvention for Women Entrepreneurs (Stage 2)

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The Uncommon Way is led by business coach Jenna Harrison, who helps women entrepreneurs feel confident, find their ideal clients effortlessly and avoid overwork so they can manifest money and abundance in their business and life.

This podcast empowers female entrepreneurs to overcome imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and limiting beliefs through somatics, mindset, and spirituality, create 7-figure offers, and build an online coaching business with clarity and alignment.

Episode Transcription

Jenna Harrison: [00:00:00] You're listening to the Uncommon Way business and life coaching podcast. The podcast that helps women entrepreneurs get clear on signature offers and strategies that sell themselves so you can lean back and stop the hustle. You will learn to maximize your mindset, messaging, and strategy. And step into the uncommonly successful business and life you are creating.

Here's your host top ranked business coach and reformed over analyzer turned queen of clarity. Jenna Harrison

Welcome welcome back to the uncommon way today I am bringing you part three of a series dedicated to helping you understand and adapt Dubbed the psychology buying simple business success. There are stages that you absolutely must move through in [00:01:00] order to achieve that. And we're laying those out one by one because we all want to lean back more and hustle less in our business.

We don't want all that stressing or striving or overworking. We want to feel like all the dots connect for us very meaningfully and things actually click and bring revenue. But trying to put that into practice is a whole different beast. But the good news is that if you really understand these psychological stages that you absolutely must move through in order to accomplish this type of life, you will always have a roadmap for what you need to be working on.

And you will know that if you do work on it, then you will reach your destination. If you are called to this, it is because you are here to usher in a new way of being and working in the world. And I hope you take it really seriously that you have the [00:02:00] opportunity to do so. And you don't just keep white knuckling and pushing through.

Generations before you shrugged their shoulders and said, well, That's just the way it is. And they waited for the gold watch at retirement, or they waited to relax on vacation once a year, but not you. I am here to help you make your transition into this new way of living and working faster, better, and easier.

Now, in this episode, you are going to find out the surprising truth about the relentless stress and exhaustion you're feeling. And discover the true source of “hard” in your business. It's something you're likely completely overlooking and will transform your experience of entrepreneurship. You'll also learn the secret of how some CEOs remain calm and clear headed, even in the face of constant pressure so that you [00:03:00] can lead your business in a more peaceful and productive way.

And you'll come to see why working less isn't always the answer, even though I talk about it a lot in this podcast. And you will know what to do first before you cut back hours or make other changes to your business. I can't wait to dive into that with you, but first, how are you? How's your September starting off?

Mine is going smashingly well. The biggest best news is that we have been awarded Spanish residency, which has been quite an emotional rollercoaster. But it all worked out and I, I just feel really proud actually, that, that, um, my company and I were able to do this, you know, the Spanish government didn't consider any other assets or income or employment situation.

Other [00:04:00] than my companies to really grant this visa. So I'm just giving my business a huge hug for taking care of me in this way, and really showing this, this government just how secure and established it is. But sometimes things aren't so rosy and things don't feel so safe and resolved. And that is what we're going to talk about today.

Now to quickly recap the first parts of this series, in order to create simple business success, you need to pass through four key psychological stages. The first is opening yourself to the belief that a new way of doing things can actually be better than the way you did it. been successful until now.

So working less stressing less might actually bring you better business results than you're currently experiencing. Not that you can't work hard or shouldn't work hard temporarily when you want to, [00:05:00] but you don't need that as a status quo in order to be successful. The second stage is letting things come easily.

Things like money, support, accolades. Most of us actually resist that. We have a conscious or subconscious attachment to suffering or to things being hard or to things taking a long time or to controlling everything and worrying about everything. So you're never going to create simple business success if deep down you're feeling safer with another way of being.

And the third stage, the one that we are talking about today is the psychology of hard. It's where you come into full understanding about what really, really, really truly makes things hard. It's where you know. Um, where hard most often comes from and where it most often does not [00:06:00] come from. And when you really absorb this, you will be adopting a key aspect of the military grade mindset that I've spoken about before, which is what will help you be the calm, clear headed CEO who doesn't get ruffled.

Even when it feels like there's incoming fire from your three o'clock and you're butted up against some obstacle at your nine o'clock, you still know what you have to do. So you can go back and listen to episode 46 on mental toughness for more on that subject if you're interested. Okay, let's get into this.

I was on a call with a client the other day who's having a really stressful time in her business at the moment. And she told me that something has got to change because she's spending about 80 percent of her energy on her business. It feels relentless and that makes it so draining and she notices herself feeling down and unhappy and that is not who she is.

[00:07:00] She's afraid it's going to affect her health. If she continues, so the way our brain usually tries to solve a situation like this, well, if you're an action taker, anyway, of course there are people who will just sit and complain about it. But if you are in problem solving mode, then you're going to be like, okay, I am going to need to work less.

Or, I need to talk to these other people and get them to do more, or I need to hire better team members, or as my client was saying, I just need to set aside my dreams and my ambition for a bit. I can't work more, so I need to stop here. But what the brain is doing is blaming all different circumstances in case that's where the heart is coming from.

Right. It's trying to problem solve to remove discomfort via the hours you work or the people you're working with or the industry you're in. But unfortunately, because your mind is [00:08:00] having the subjective experience of being your mind, what it won't naturally see and consider Is its own way of thinking and how its beliefs and biases play into the situation and actually make it so much worse.

What I pointed out to my client is that we have 112 wakeful hours in the week. If you're getting eight hours of sleep per night and of those, she works about 30 to 32. So about 27 percent of that time. So why is that consuming 80 percent of her energy? Hey, if you want true clarity about your secret sauce, your people, your best way of doing business and how you talk about your offer, then I invite you to join us in the Clarity Accelerator.

I'll teach you to connect all the dots, the dots that have always been there for you so that you can show up like you [00:09:00] were born for exactly this. Come join us and supercharge every other tool or tactic you'll ever learn from Facebook ads to manifestation. Just go to the uncommon way. com slash schedule and set up a time to talk.

I can't wait to be your coach. What we discovered is that she's been thinking, It's all on me. And I have to prove myself. And if this doesn't go well, I won't get rehired and make money. And this, my friend, is where hard really comes from. It comes from the pressure you put on yourself, from your fears, from your worry, all the overthinking, all the mental should I, shouldn't I, all the complaining and bemoaning the situation, all the anxiety, making sure you remember the things and are keeping out ahead of situations, all the judgment you feel about yourself, about the situation, about [00:10:00] life.

All the things you don't say or don't do because you want to be liked. This makes things hard. Creating offers and sales isn't that hard, but this stuff, this is hard. It feels hard to us and it's a very draining and in a nutshell, hard comes from your thoughts. I'll say that again. The majority of the time, hard comes from your thoughts, and those thoughts drive all sorts of behaviors that aren't really serving you.

And so things become even harder. This is why, if you don't really get to the point where you understand in your brain, Bones that hard is usually coming from you. Then you won't create simple, useful business success because you keep trying to solve for the wrong thing, and in fact, you make matters worse.

You won't ever be [00:11:00] solving for the root of the problem and recording a reel for Instagram this week where I'm just kind of sitting there lounging, and then the caption's gonna say. This is how entrepreneurs relax, or this is how small business owners relax. And then it's like, tuk, tuk, tuk, tuk, tuk, tuk, all the things that are going through your mind.

And it's tongue in cheek. It's fun. But this is what makes entrepreneurship hard. The brain. You feel tired when you've been using your brain in a way that you don't when you've been using your body. In fact, intense extended thinking causes byproducts to build up in the prefrontal cortex. We now know, and this alters your decision making as cognitive fatigue sets in.

It causes a shift towards actions that require less effort. So all of a sudden you don't feel like doing that workshop, you decide you'll postpone your launch. You decide you're going to [00:12:00] work less from now on, or you'll turn down that speaking invitation. This is why when I'm working with a client and I tell her to go rest or go do something extremely pleasurable, and she's like, I can't rest yet.

I have class. This goal I'm working on, or I have this thing I have to accomplish first. I'm just way too busy. I don't even have a spare moment. I'm like, Oh, you think I'm telling you to rest? Cause I feel bad for you or because I'm running some sort of crazy town fantasy land thing here. No, no, I'm telling you this because I want you performing at maximum and right now you can't.

Working 32 hours in your zone of genius is not taxing. Often it even gives you energy, but working 32 hours with a brain that's going a mile a minute with an ongoing activated stress response, that's a whole other story. It is [00:13:00] exhausting. It is soul sucking. I've spoken to many women who wonder, maybe I'm not cut out for this type of business or this big of a business or being a mom and having a business or, or, or, and it breaks my heart because their own internal landscape is exhausting them.

Not so much the industry or the volume or what's going on in their day. Those things can all be solved for easily and even completely reframed. Once you're in a different mental state, and I'm on a mission to bring this mental toughness training to every single woman so that she can accomplish all that she's capable of.

Now, I do want to pause here and say that what I'm describing demands a lot of personal responsibility from you. And while that's an amazing stance for growth, it can also be triggering with good reason. [00:14:00] If I'm saying maybe this hard thing doesn't need to feel so hard, and maybe you are making it harder, that can be very dismissive of your circumstances, right?

Of your experience. And so often women and girls as they're growing up are told, Oh, you are, you're being hysterical. It's no big thing. And then we start to question our view. And we start to question our experience, and that is amplified if there's any intersectionality. For instance, if you're also a person of color, and then here I am as a white woman in a position of privilege as the sole voice on this podcast, telling you to get over it.

Now, I'm not actually going to say that, but you can feel attacked or shamed as if I had. And I am aware of this to the extent that I can be aware of it, but I am still going to speak what I believe will serve you [00:15:00] because I've seen how effective and powerful it is when women can learn to manage their minds and control their thoughts while acknowledging, of course, that not all of us have the same circumstances.

And in the last episode, too, where I was talking about ease. It's easier for some of us to let things be easy than it is for others. But I do believe in entrepreneurship ease is possible for all of us women, as is a military grade mindset. However, if you do feel triggered and you want some help integrating what you hear here worldview, Or if you have any questions come up or anything that you want to say to me and reflect back to me, then I invite you to contact me directly.

You can either reply to one of my emails or DM me through Instagram. Okay. Resuming. Look, you are an adult. You are the CEO of your business. And if you want to [00:16:00] react and change things, when you feel discomfort, rather than examining your thoughts about the situation that might be driving the discomfort, you are fully in your right to do so.

I change things sometimes if they're an easy fix, right? Sometimes I don't want to work on new beliefs, but if you are seeing patterns that keep cropping up for you, you As is the case with my client, or if you find yourself thinking, oh, when I finally reach the specific revenue goal, then I won't have the story or when I finally have a team, or when I finally have the right team, then that's when things won't be like this anymore.

Then you are. Chances are misleading yourself when you earn seven figures, you are still going to have your brain and the way it tends to think inside your head. You're not going to be able to get rid of it. You will always get into situations where your thoughts are your main problem, where [00:17:00] you. And there's no shame in that it's just part of how our brains work, and we are all overcoming our conditioning and our negativity biases and all the wiring survival wiring in our brain.

Our brains are just trying to keep us safe and be anxious, just in case, and make sure we don't burn out, just in case, and make sure we look good to people, just in case, and make sure we don't fail, just in case. And when you are deep in a pattern, you probably won't even see it because you're so used to that lens, you'll tell yourself, you're just a high performer, or that it just kills you to have typos, or that you got burned once and never again, or whatever.

And you've subconsciously gathered so much evidence for that specific lens and that perspective that you take it as a given, like it's just a fact, [00:18:00] which is why we all need someone outside our brain to help us see what we're not seeing. Even a brain surgeon can't do surgery on herself. And the good news is that as you do this.

As you clean up your thinking and learn the mental agility of examining situations from various angles and neutralizing those charged emotions, you also build your capacity so that things that would have gotten you all exhausted and seemed so hard before You just don't know my very simple business, a business that so many other entrepreneurs would kill for would have completely stressed me out just a few years ago.

But it doesn't seem hard to me because of how I manage my mind and how I've set up my business. Now, you know, you know, I'm in favor of helping women work less. And [00:19:00] dial in the pieces of their business so that sales come easier and they're working with people that are deliciously simple to work with. We need to reinvent our businesses when we're on this path.

We do need to make some changes. Because the business was likely built in some misaligned ways and it isn't showcasing your true superpowers to your true super fans. But you also need clarity on how you are perpetuating the behaviors and patterns that aren't working for you. If you're ever truly going to create change, you have got to understand that usually hard comes from your thoughts.

Sometimes you might have a health issue that creates fatigue or a past trauma that gets triggered every time you encounter a specific situation. But most of the time hard comes from your thoughts. And so whenever you're feeling discomfort before changing anything like cutting back on hours or [00:20:00] whatever, first examine the thoughts and behaviors driving the hard, uncomfortable status quo.

All right. You ready to talk tactics? Let's do it. One of the most helpful things you can do when you are in a situation is to have a conversation with yourself where you say, okay, brain, I recognize that you think it's the circumstance, but really it's this thought I'm thinking that's driving all of this discomfort.

So for instance, I felt this now in Spain. I've just had so much to do with the settling in and researching different things that, you know, it really is like, imagine you have to start your life all over again from scratch. So every time you've researched, like, which bank to use, or what kind of car to get, or what kind of TV to get, or like, [00:21:00] All the thing, all your vitamins, everything.

You have to do that all again. Most of those brands don't exist. And so you're starting like brand new with everything. Plus trying to figure out the legal system and the financial system and, and all the things. So there's a lot to do. But when I noticed myself go to the hard, right, to the tired, the exhausted and the thoughts that this is relentless, or I just don't have enough time.

I can see that I have all of these behaviors and actions that would stem from that. Cause of course I've seen this and I've done this work on myself and with others so frequently that, you know, I'm feeling hopeless and then it's leading to rushing through things and maybe making mistakes and then having to redo the work.

And then I may be, you know, You know, staying up too late and all the different things that leads to and this hopeless [00:22:00] feeling. And I can be in that and stop myself and say, Oh, I get it. Like my brain thinks it's because of moving to Spain that all of this is happening. But really it's my thought that I just don't have enough time.

to do it all, right? Or that it's just so overwhelming or whatever I'm thinking that's then driving this sensation of spinning, spinning and hopelessness and relentlessness. So the next time you notice that for yourself, how can you just pause and just be like, Oh yeah, okay, interesting. What are all the ways?

Like when I'm thinking this, what do I tend to do? How do I feel? And then how do I act? Even just doing that can change so much for you. It can kind of break that pattern and disassociate from those strong feelings and get into a more neutral [00:23:00] cerebral place. But if you want to, you can take it a step further and say, Okay.

And now what else is available in terms of the way I would think about this situation? And sometimes it's helpful to say, how would someone else think about it? It could be someone, you know, someone you look up to, you know, when people used to say like, what would Jesus do? Or I guess some people still say, what would Jesus do?

It's just this process, right? It's just helping you adopt new thoughts that your own brain wouldn't normally think, right? And help you move into a different way of being. And it really helps land in the understanding that, okay, this is my subjective experience, but it's not the only way that I could be experiencing it.

All right, now let's talk energetics, since I always make sure to include a little something about this in every show. Now, energetically, what you focus on grows and what you resist [00:24:00] persists. Now, that is an energetic concept, but it's also just psychology 101. If you're focusing on the negative, thinking about the negative, your brain is naturally going to find more evidence for the negative.

You're going to be in a, everything we just described and in a less positive feeling state, and it's going to affect your actions. And even your decisions, as we talked about earlier. So, if you really truly don't want the thing that's hard in your business, then you've got to stop giving it so much of your attention.

If you keep thinking, I'm not making enough, I'm not making enough, it leads to you not making enough. Your resistance to what is, is making your brain totally stuck on the topic. So here's something you can do. I just learned this the other day and I wanted to bring it to you right away. I'll Alright, think about all of these things that are feeling hard that are coming at [00:25:00] you, right?

And feel that sensation in your body as if you were in the ocean and it was, and these waves were coming at you and you were kind of bracing against them, right? You're trying to be strong. You're trying to keep moving forward or whatever it is, right? You're just getting hit by this. Feel that in your body.

Okay, now imagine that instead, the waves are just like rolling over you. You are in the water and floating and these things are passing, right? You're in it, but you have a different relationship to them. You're not fighting them. Now feel already in your body how that changes things. It's just that acceptance and flow.

And then if you want to kick it up a notch, you can even imagine yourself on a [00:26:00] surfboard, right? And everything is just the next wave and you're good. It's all bringing you to shore. It's all okay. In fact, it's even kind of fun to be able to manage these waves and let them go. All right. I hope that was helpful for you.

I, I just really liked it. I thought it's a really quick way to just move into a completely different energy. So my friend, if you would like to develop the military grade mindset that lets you really reach the heights you're going after, then come join us in the Clarity Accelerator because you'll come out a different person and these lessons will serve you in every aspect of your life for decades to come.

Plus, we'll dial in the pieces of your business, right? We'll create those signature offers and strategies that showcase your superpower. There's a link in the show notes to schedule a call with me and [00:27:00] answer all of your questions. All right. In this episode, you got the lowdown on the third psychological stage of creating simple business success.

You discover that most often the true source of hard situations in your business are your thoughts, your worries, and your beliefs. And now you know why some CEOs can remain calm and clear headed, even with more constant pressure than you are currently facing. And you've learned why just working less isn't always the answer, nor is just changing your clients or just changing your offer.

Or just doing anything that you think will somehow move you from discomfort to comfort without taking into account that you're bringing your brain with you. That's it for today. I can't wait to talk to you next week when we talk about the fourth stage. I hope you have [00:28:00] a great week. Bye.

Thanks for joining us here at the uncommon way. If you want more tips and resources for developing clarity in your business in life, including the clarity first strategy for growing and scaling your business, visit the uncommon way. com. See you next time.

Ep# 112: The Psychology of Manifesting Simple Business Success Through Reinvention for Women Entrepreneurs (Stage 2)

Episode Summary

What if just understanding the psychology behind manifesting a simple yet successful business is the key that helps you finally unlock your ability to create it? 

High-achieving women entrepreneurs often face internal barriers that make business success feel harder than it needs to be. Learn how shifting one key aspect of your internal world can lead to a more sustainable and abundant business.

In this episode you will: 

1. Identify which of 6 common mental blocks are holding you back from a simpler, more easeful business and how to reverse that line of thinking

2. Learn the 10 second daily practice that lets you receive abundantly and naturally without that icky feeling of “ugh too much make it go away!”

3. Unlearn a toxic misunderstanding that you might have picked up in the manifestation space that can actually keep you from the abundance that wants to flow your way.

Tune in now to break free from the everyday hustle and start creating a business that aligns with ease and abundance—your success might just be a mindset shift away!

Episodes Mentioned: 

Episode 35.  Reinventing Who You Are with Lindy Schmid 

Episode 111. The Psychology of Manifesting Simple Business Success Through Reinvention for Women Entrepreneurs 

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The Uncommon Way is led by business coach Jenna Harrison, who helps women entrepreneurs feel confident, find their ideal clients effortlessly and avoid overwork so they can manifest money and abundance in their business and life.

This podcast empowers female entrepreneurs to overcome imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and limiting beliefs through somatics, mindset, and spirituality, create 7-figure offers, and build an online coaching business with clarity and alignment.

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Jenna Harrison: [00:00:00] What if just understanding the psychology behind manifesting a simple yet successful business is the key that helps you finally unlock your ability to create it?

You're listening to the Uncommon Way business and life coaching podcast. The podcast that helps women entrepreneurs get clear on signature offers and strategies that sell themselves so you can lean back and stop the hustle. You will learn to maximize your mindset, messaging, and strategy, and step into the uncommonly successful business and life you are creating. Here's your host, top ranked business coach and reformed over analyzer turned queen of clarity, Jenna Harrison.

Welcome, welcome back to The Uncommon Way. Today, I'm bringing you part two of a [00:01:00] four part series dedicated to helping you understand and adopt the psychology behind manifesting simple business success through business reinvention. You want a business where you lean back more and hustle less. You want to leverage alignment and the value you provide to the people who want it most rather than leveraging hustle and overwork.

The problem is that a lot of things can get in the way of that, but the good news is that if you really understand the mental stages that you absolutely must move through in order to accomplish this type of business, you'll have a roadmap for what you need to work on next. And that way you'll not only create the results faster, but you'll also stay positive and focused rather than spinning in confusion or blame or needlessly wasting time that could be better spent living an amazing life.[00:02:00]

So in this episode, you will identify which of the six common mental blocks are holding you back from a simpler, more easeful business and how to reverse that line of thinking. You'll learn the 10 second daily practice that lets you receive abundantly and naturally without that icky feeling of, ugh, too much, make it go away.

And you will unlearn a toxic misunderstanding that you might have picked up in the manifestation space that can actually keep you from the abundance that wants to flow your way. But first, how are you? If you're in the states, I hope you had a lovely Labor Day and you're feeling refreshed for a more focused September and fall.

Actually, if you're in the northern hemisphere, I hope you're feeling ready for a more focused September. I am really nervous. Feeling that way myself, we've had [00:03:00] kind of a lot of chaotic energy here in the summer and I just, I'm looking forward to a really like a much calmer space in September, and I'm really excited today in particular.

Because my puppy Skye arrives tomorrow, and we've been waiting for her for, gosh, a month and a half now, and we've missed her terribly. She's actually on her way to the plane right now, and so I hope, I hate to think of her being scared, but hopefully it's all worth it, because we'll be together soon. And on the very same day, it turns out we are receiving the things that we ship to ourselves from the U.

S. So, I will finally have more than three t shirts, and my son will get all his toys, and yeah, all the goodness. It's just all happening on the same day. But enough about me, let's get down to business, shall we? Our [00:04:00] last episode was about the first stage in the psychology of manifesting a simple business, which is really about opening yourself to the belief that a new way of doing things can be even more successful for you than the way you have been doing things.

And if you aren't open to that, you'll never let yourself go there. You might say you want it. You might say you're trying to do it, but you'll never really do it. Think about it. If deep down you think that the way you created past successes in life is the best way to also create your future successes, then it would seem really scary and dangerous to try anything different.

Now, that is not a simple stage to move through by any means. I have very successful clients who are overworking and they keep butting up against that very logical seeming thought that there's just no way they could make more by working less. And so they keep [00:05:00] working more full transparency, but if you can open yourself to it, and I gave you some tips in the last episode for how to do so, then you're one step closer to a totally uncommon way of living and working.

And hopefully through your efforts, you can make it more common, which is what we want. Because when women are earning money and living with more fulfillment and joy and relaxation, the world changes. They show up differently and can make more powerful decisions and create a ripple effect that positively impacts their family, their friends, their communities, both physical and online.

So then what is the next stage? You've got to be wondering. The second stage is the psychology of letting things come easily. Things like money, support and accolades without breaking your back. And unless you were raised in very special circumstances, This [00:06:00] will probably not come easy for you. Throughout our lives, we absorb lots of negative and unhelpful interpretations of how it is that things come to us and how exactly we create results.

You might have heard money doesn't grow on trees. You have to work hard to get ahead. Idle hands are the devil's workshop. And consciously, you might think, I don't really believe that. But do you realize that in almost every movie you watch, you're absorbing that story? And as people you know relay stories to you, they're doing it through that very lens.

Because we're all raised in the same soup, right? And it's amplified for women because there's a concurrent story that Good women work so hard and are so selfless and they always put themselves last so that everyone in the family or the community can feel good. Just imagine a family reunion where one woman is jumping up to serve [00:07:00] everybody and another woman is sitting at the table with the men, letting herself be served by that woman.

Okay. Which of these women is the good woman and which is the not so good woman? You feel me, right? So it's going to take active work to rewrite that for yourself. This is a very necessary reinvention where you throw out the past and you reinvent as something new. Not so that you can be the self centered asshole that lets everyone cater to you, but so that you can take up the task.

Like, have a balanced view of what's actually going on. And it all starts with awareness of what your story even is. I call it the fishbowl. It's that clear glass that keeps you confined unwittingly, but from your point of view, you can't even see it. So I've got [00:08:00] six ways that I see this play out for women.

Six different variations of fishbowl, if you will, which I will share in a second. But you might be noticing an objection pop up in your mind right away. And I want to address it. That says, so what I just sit back and do nothing and just let all this money come rolling in. And I just want to invite you to be careful about black and white thinking.

It's very, very common and natural, but we want to catch ourselves in it whenever we can. And so what we'll do is If something is going against what we typically think, then we'll jump clear to the other side, like to another extreme. And that's how we don't have to fully examine that point of view. And that's not what we want to do here.

We just want to kind of try the, this new way of thinking on if this does seem new to you. Maybe you've also heard it [00:09:00] many, many times and you just want more help integrating it. And so you're listening to things like this again and again. Both are good, but in both spaces, you just want to kind of be open and curious and see how this really lands for you after a day or two after listening to it.

Now you might also be saying, but Jenna, having a business really is hard. Me thinking happy thoughts won't make it easier or make me richer. It's hard to find clients. It's hard to get them to see the value of what I'm offering. It's hard to get everything done in a day. But for all of these, hard is an interpretation.

If I were speaking to a woman in a sweatshop from the industrial revolution, she might not think that what you're doing is so hard. Not to diminish that it genuinely feels hard. That's [00:10:00] absolutely your experience. I just use that example to show you that interpretations change based on perspective. It's not a set fact that this is hard, that having your business is hard, that having your business while you've got X, Y, and Z going on in your life is hard.

But the circumstances that are leading to your interpretation of hard, guess what? They often stem from the way that you're thinking. Maybe the fact is that you aren't prioritizing. Right. And that's why it's impossible to get everything done in a day, or you haven't yet created the way to find clients differently.

And so that's why finding clients is hard. But when you're thinking that things are just hard period, it's going to be challenging for you to see this and find solutions. So this is the first way that I see women blocking themselves from ease. It's that they have a thought error about [00:11:00] what is causing the problem.

The hard part. And there is a podcast that we're going to link to in the show notes. It was episode 35 with a client of mine named Lindy. And she came to me because she said everything in her business just felt like dumpster fire. She was always putting out dumpster fires, but it turns out when we started to dig into this a little deeper, she also had a belief that.

That her zone of genius was really kind of being down in the weeds, you know, being able to roll up her sleeves and, you know, get down and dirty. And that actually she felt like maybe she didn't have what it takes to be the kind of visionary big picture thinker that would be required of her, right? That would be her CEO role if she weren't so busy doing all of these little things.

This is what we want to watch out for, that we think we're overworking because of X, [00:12:00] but really it's because of Y. Hey! If you want true clarity about your secret sauce, your people, your best way of doing business and how you talk about your offer, then I invite you to join us in the Clarity Accelerator.

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I can't wait to be your coach, but for you, there might be something else going on. Um, maybe you've believed that women are at a disadvantage. So to get ahead, you've got to work twice as hard as any man. And this is the second block that I see because while that might be true and we're not going to argue that in this podcast, entrepreneurship is [00:13:00] different unless you're looking for venture capital and maybe you will find yourself up against some of the same prejudices.

But with independent service businesses, you make the rules now. Just because you have a past pattern of creating success through working hard, doesn't mean that you need to keep doing it. So go back and listen to episode 111, which was the first part of this series, so that you can work through that. The third block is that you really shouldn't receive.

I tell a story about how my mom came to visit me when I was in Greece. At one point with my son. And when she arrived, she was going to get some water. And I said, Oh, there's water in the fridge. And she said to me, Oh, I don't want to drink your good water. And in that instant, when I realized that even though she had been flying for 24 hours and she had done so much, and You know, out [00:14:00] of her way and was coming to help me at this time, and yet she didn't want to take my good water.

She wasn't able to receive that because it just, it felt wrong for her. And she'd rather drink water from the tap that came from a cistern and had this really funky smell. Right in that instant, I realized, Oh, this is where I get it. Now I see this line of thinking. So you find it uncomfortable to receive, right?

That you should be able to do it without receiving it this way. And in fact, you're probably more worthy if you are suffering like, Oh, look at how hard she's working. Now she deserves success in her business. And you've got to divorce yourself from this line of thinking. It is holding you back because if you have a human brain, you probably also have a [00:15:00] small voice telling you that you'll never be quite good enough.

So it keeps you in this loop and in this mode of striving, but never arriving. Some of this is fueled by a rather toxic thought, personal opinion here, that is especially pervasive in manifestation and coaching circles. And this reasoning says that you just have to give selflessly and not think about getting anything in return.

And this is how you will finally receive abundance. As if money or the universe were judging you on how good and worthy you are. I vehemently disagree with this. Because if that's true, why are arms dealers so wealthy? Why is Putin so dang wealthy? Money does not flow to the good. Unfortunately, but the good can learn to create money and receive [00:16:00] money.

And when money is wielded by the good, I believe it is especially powerful. The fourth block I see is when women create a false dichotomy between ethics and money. So for most of the women I work with, our integrity is of highest priority for us. And then somehow letting things come easily gets conflated with being unethical or immoral.

Maybe it's a sign of immoral sales tactics if I'm doing too well, or maybe I'm selling something that holds little value or I'm selling it in a way that's manipulative or charging too much for it. Somehow it's just not quite right to make money in this way. If you make money easily, there must be something dirty about it.

Again, these are things that we don't just go saying as if they're fact, but they kind of, if you feel [00:17:00] into it on a deep level, there's like a little pang of resonance of truth to it. The fifth block is that it's just unfair for it to come easily. It's not necessarily immoral, but it's unfair. And the women that I work with also tend to be highly empathetic.

And sometimes we can start thinking, Hey, you know, is it really fair? I've had certain privileges. And now on top of all that, I'm not going to have to work as hard as other people, or as hard as my parents did, or as hard as my partner is currently working. That just seems, it just seems wrong. And I just want to say to you, heart to heart, is it tragic that our great grandmothers and beyond worked so hard?

Yes. And that other women of other races or ethnicities also worked even harder? Yes. And that so [00:18:00] many women still do? Yes, yes, yes. But if that's true, then do things differently. Find a wiser way to create. In the world to create a beautiful life and do it in all the right ways that feel in integrity in ways that all these other women past and present would be so proud of and then with all your extra time and money, go make things better in the world.

Which, it has been shown again and again that women do. Because dimming your light helps nobody. And finally, the sixth block that I see is avoidance. This can show up if you're Thinking secretly, deep down, that maybe if you worked less, you would feel honor bound to spend more time with your children and you really don't want to.

Or that then you'd be responsible for your [00:19:00] extended family and you really don't want to be. Or that it would create rifts with your family members and you don't want that. You don't want to lose your friends. The bottom line is that these thought errors are costing you tons of money, tons of time of your precious life, your emotional well being, your energy levels, the experiences you could be living into, and being a role model to those around you.

I really can't think of one good thing that comes from you overworking and under earning. I can't. So let's get tactical about how to start reversing these patterns. It really comes down to normalizing the feeling of receiving and amplifying or expanding that feeling. Because no matter what secretly or consciously driving your overwork, if you've [00:20:00] been doing it for a while, your body is used to it.

It is used to operating that way. So what I'm saying is that it will feel normal, and when you start to take your foot off the gas, when you start to do things differently, there will be little subconscious alarm bells that'll sound. Like, have you ever noticed on vacation that you just get an urge to touch base with your team or check in on how your social media accounts are doing?

You don't really want to be overworking on vacay, but you're feeling kind of this. Low grade agitation, and you know that if you, if you just do this thing, then it'll feel better. Like, then you can enjoy your piña colada. Well, that's exactly what I'm talking about. It is your biology at play, and you can literally feel it happening in your body.

It's like needing a hit. Of some sort. And so you've got to practice the feeling of not needing that. You've got to practice the feeling of [00:21:00] receiving easily and abundantly. And it's really just takes 10 seconds, 15 seconds. It's like the 10 second daily practice that will completely change your life. And that way, when you actually do receive, you don't have that like, Resistance to it and kind of that, that icky feeling of like, oh, it's just, it's too much.

Make it go away. Like the accolades just, it just feels wrong, right? Or the success or the money or the support, like everyone doing everything for me. It just feels wrong. But if you. Take a moment of either a past memory when you were feeling when you were really just receiving, or you're imagining you could imagine something into the future, or you're in that moment right now.

Just pause and let it go. Imagine like holding it in [00:22:00] your body and also expanding that feeling outward or like dialing up that feeling there. That's a different way to think of it, but you want to intensify it and start making this a new baseline for yourself. Start making it a new normal so that it feels comfortable and normal in your body, and you won't have kind of the knee jerk reaction to subvert that, right?

Or to change that and to move back to anything different. It'll start to feel comfortable for you. The more and more normal it feels, the more you can accept it, then the easier it will be to create change in your life. Okay, let's talk about the energetics of letting it be easy. It comes down to this. You are already worthy of being paid abundantly just for your zone of genius.

And when you believe that it's valuable, full stop, and that it's okay and safe to receive an energy exchange for [00:23:00] that, you will. And your targeted precise actions that you take in your business are actually a manifestation of your belief, whereas you're hustling overworking actions are a manifestation of the exact opposite, your scarcity and your disbelief.

There's absolutely no reason that you need to feel bad for receiving. Or anything that you need to do to be worthy of receiving. Think of this like a water hose. There's this water hose coming towards you of abundance. It's just very available in the universe as is so much possibility and potential.

It's just there for you. There's plenty of it in the world. It's flowing towards you. And then what we do is we take our fingers and we pinch this hose. Um, we stem the flow of abundance, but the truth [00:24:00] is it can be your new normal. You can get paid abundantly, even though it's easeful. I just got back from an Island called Foreman Tara, where I was meeting up with this dear friend of mine that I hadn't seen in over a decade.

And we were having, oh my gosh, the most scrumptious meals. And We were sitting and these meals were not cheap. They were very expensive on this kind of small exclusive island. And we were sitting there at one point and I had wanted to invite her to a meal for her birthday. And in that moment, right? While this is all happening and I'm ordering the check, I just, I was struck remembering an earlier time in our lives where she was taking me to Portugal.

Long story, I was living in Spain, this was before the EU, and I needed to travel to another country in order to renew my tourist visa. And so, she had a [00:25:00] car, and she was driving me there, even though we did not have, like, even, I don't know, a passetta, almost, between the two of us. But she went out of her way for me, and we were so broke, both of us, that we bought an entire bag of white bread.

And then we made tuna fish, and we layered the bread, you know, to make sandwiches, and we just filled up this bag with tuna fish sandwiches, and she had a daughter, so the daughter came along with us as well, and the three of us just ate these tuna fish sandwiches on this, like, multi day trip to Portugal.

Because we didn't want to pay for restaurant food. And now here we are, fast forward a couple decades or more anyway, and we're eating just at this amazing restaurant. And it struck me about, you know, what we are able to manifest in one life. [00:26:00] And both of us were unable to acquire wealth when we were younger.

And then both of us had to hit a point where we decided that we deserved it and it was okay. And so now she is a very successful business owner. I'm a successful business owner and we get to take these really fun, luscious trips that are filled with so much celebration and joy. We don't have to work to the bone in order to create that.

All right. In this episode, you learned about the second psychological stage of creating simple success in your business through reinvention. That second stage is the psychology of letting things come easy. So you learned about the top six mental blocks to easeful business, and how much thought errors and mental attitudes can [00:27:00] prolong our passage into and beyond this stage.

But you also learned how critical it is to pass through this stage. If you want to create a more uncommon way of living, or you have a business that lets you lean back more and hustle less. And on top of the mindset primer, I gave you the tactical step of feeling into this sensation that is. Um, new and something that we often reject and actually dialing it up or expanding it so that you can normalize it for yourself and welcome it more and more into your life.

And I shared the energetic perspective that abundance really is like a hose and we are the ones that tend to pinch it, but that is completely up to us. We don't have to do that. As always, it was such a pleasure. I look forward to meeting up again next week, and we're going to dive into the third stage that you will need to understand in order to [00:28:00] create an elegantly simple business.

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Ep# 111: The Psychology of Manifesting Simple Business Success Through Reinvention for Women Entrepreneurs

Episode Summary

What if understanding the psychology behind manifesting a simple yet successful business is the key that helps you finally unlock your ability to do so? 

As a high achieving woman entrepreneur, you know the challenges of balancing business growth with personal well-being. Discover how unlocking the principles of simple success can transform your overwhelming hustle into a streamlined, fulfilling entrepreneurial journey tailored just for you.

In this episode you will: 

1. Learn exactly what to do in which order--including the critical first step that most people miss--to give you more time to enjoy the life you’re about to build. 

2. See what surprising revelations the latest discoveries in neuroscience reveal about your unchecked decision-making.

3. Cultivate actionable strategies to identify and focus on the highest-leverage opportunities in your business, ensuring every effort counts toward your growth and well-being.

Transform your business today – play the episode now and begin your journey towards uncommonly successful living!

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Episode Transcription

Jenna Harrison: [00:00:00] What if just understanding the psychology behind manifesting a simple yet successful business is the key that helps you finally unlock your ability to do so?

You're listening to the Uncommon Way business and life coaching podcast. The podcast that helps women entrepreneurs get clear on signature offers and strategies that sell themselves. So you can lean back and stop the hustle. You will learn to maximize your mindset, messaging and strategy and step into the uncommonly successful business and life you are creating.

Here's your host, top ranked business coach and reformed over analyzer turned queen of clarity, Jenna Harrison.

Welcome, welcome back to the uncommon way. I'm so happy you're here today. I'm bringing you part [00:01:00] one of a series dedicated to helping you understand and adopt the psychology behind manifesting simple success. Through business reinvention. Now, if you're like me, your brain slips into belief much faster when you understand how things work and why they work.

And I know you really want to heed the call to create a different kind of life. So I am happy to make it as believable and easy for you as possible. In this episode, you will unlock the hidden psychology behind effortless success. You'll learn the surprising science behind why we clinging to ways of acting and being that no longer serve us, and you will be able to reinvent your business without starting over.

Yes, . So how are you? How's your summer been? I've got a special shout out to the moms who've been [00:02:00] managing business and school breaks. Well done, mamas. I'm still in a bit of an emotional roller coaster with my overseas move. On the one hand, my sister in law and niece have been here visiting, so we took a day and we went for breakfast in Palma's old town.

We went to this Beautiful hotel where I actually did a photo shoot. If you've seen me on Instagram, drinking a coffee, that's the place. And then afterwards we had a beach day and we rented this paddle boat and it has a slide attached to it. So Dylan and of course me and the rest of us had just such a blast sliding down into the lovely blue water again and again and again.

It's actually something I've been dreaming about since I saw them last summer here. But he couldn't really swim then, so I was waiting, laying in wait for that slide. But on a not so good note, I'm also in a shock, a [00:03:00] bit of shock, actually a lot of shock. If you've been listening for a while, you know that we sold all of our furniture, almost all of our furniture to an estate sale auction house.

And we got the check back from them and you guys, it was 1, 800. 1, 800 for our whole house. I mean, we have like this beautiful bar that we got in Europe and it was imported and it's. Inlaid with, like, I don't know, some sort of oyster shell or something and very, very intricate and gorgeous had all these little doors that you could open up with different compartments for decanters and different glasses that would hang in there.

It was so beautiful, but it also weighed a ton and we just didn't think it would really fit over here in a house. So we decided to release it. And have [00:04:00] someone else find a good home for it. But we lived in the middle of nowhere. And one of the fears was that, you know, no one would appreciate these things that we had gathered through decades of moving around the world in the military.

So, my first thought was, well, Jenna, you know, we had an amazing, like, weight lifted off our shoulders that we didn't have to sell the things ourselves, and at least we got some money out of it, and I watched myself trying to, like, placate this surge of emotions that was going on, and then I realized, it's not the moment yet for calming.

Myself. It's the moment for feeling. And so I went through and it was like anger and then blame and regret and then guilt. And then I finally got to sadness. And so frequently, those initial emotions like anger, they really are covering [00:05:00] up much more vulnerable ones of sadness or grief or fear. And you know, I'm really glad I did that because now that I am more practiced at being okay with big emotions, they really come and go through me, that kind of roll through me rather than lingering around.

And wreaking havoc, so I'm still in the processing phase, but I have, you know, a lot of faith that I'll be able to. Take this all with a lot of calm before long. So there's your PSA, don't be afraid of feelings. They're just feelings and never, ever, ever sell to an estate sale place in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Okay, but let's get down to business, shall we? I see a very clear progression of four key psychological steps that women need to move through in order to lean back more and hustle less in their [00:06:00] businesses and in order to create businesses that can support that. And then overall step into alignment and letting things flow and be simpler.

And the first psychological building block is what we're going to talk about today. And it comes when you can lean into the psychology of new things, creating this kind of uncommon business will be new and different. You don't get there. If you don't reinvent yourself and your business. How do I know this?

Well, if it were familiar, you'd already be doing it. The whole world would already be doing it. Nobody's going to experience the joy of a business like this, and then decide to go back to being busy or stressed out or tired or overthinking or overcomplicating or all of the above, but getting there [00:07:00] requires breaking with the past and burning some bridges.

And here's why. You have got to override an important bias that is literally wired into your biology. Here it is. The bias is that whatever is currently working is the best way and the safest way. Got it? So not just a way that you have chosen in the past, but the very best way. Now hear me out, because if you're thinking, Jenna, come on, I know that stressing myself out is not the best way.

It could probably make me sick if I don't watch out. But I can't tell you how often I have conversations with clients who say, you know, Jenna, I've just got to admit, I don't see how my business can grow if I work less. That just, it just doesn't compute for me. I don't quite believe it. You know, when I'm.

[00:08:00] Not working, then I'm not making money and if I just throw my hands up and I don't worry and I say everything's gonna be fine Then everything is for sure gonna fall apart I'm the one keeping all the balls in the air So, you can see how we've all got a bias toward past success. It's hard to even contemplate that another way might be better, and that maybe all this time you've not only been doing more than you need to, but in doing so, you've curtailed your revenue.

And you are not naturally going to see that because your brain has an imperative to keep you alive. And the only proof it has of success in aliveness is to repeat lessons learned. Any other way, Probably means death. Now, it seems like an exaggeration to say that, but it is actually true. And [00:09:00] it accounts for so much of our self sabotage.

Your brain's job is to protect you full stop. If you're trying to survive on the Savannah, it's very important that you are alert to so many things. You're. Alert to the conditions that create the greatest likelihood that you'll survive. So that could be a particular smell or a facial expression of your fellow tribe members or the direction of the wind, which means that certain animals will or won't pass this way.

There are thousands of little micro cues that you don't even have to think about, but your amazing brain has cataloged away. If you do something different or experience something different or even think about doing something different, it's your brain's job to alert you and send out enough uncomfortable feeling neurochemicals and enough logical arguments to make you reverse [00:10:00] course and go back to what is obviously best and what is already proven to work.

Hey! If you want true clarity about your secret sauce, your people, your best way of doing business, and how you talk about your offer, then I invite you to join us in the Clarity Accelerator. I'll teach you to connect all the dots, the dots that have always been there for you, so that you can show up like you were born for exactly this.

Come join us and supercharge every other tool or tactic you'll ever learn, from Facebook ads to manifestation. Just go to theuncommonway. com slash schedule and set up a time to talk. I can't wait to be your coach. There is a phenomena of the brain. called prediction error that keeps you conforming. It has been studied extensively in the prefrontal cortex, but actually prediction error signals are found in many parts of the brain.

We cannot get away from [00:11:00] them. Before you ever take action, your brain is predicting what will happen or what the right thing to do is. If that prediction turns out to be wrong, it's as if a buzzer went off in front of a large audience. Buzz! You will feel these negative sensations that will stimulate you to take the quote unquote correct action next time so that that never happens again.

That whole phenomenon, it is wildly helpful for, you know, learning arithmetic or learning to predict where the tiger will be hiding. But since we so dislike that sensation, and since that has continued in our biology to present day, we spend a lot of our brain energy avoiding that buzz. For lack of a better word, that, that concoction of, of bad feelings, bad thoughts.

It's really the [00:12:00] feeling of having done something wrong or having guessed wrong, and then it leads to things like feeling ashamed or feeling fearful or a lot of other things that we know how to articulate and describe more succinctly than the base function of prediction error. That's the way our brain interprets this phenomenon that happens.

I highly recommend checking out our podcast, episode number four, the science of nonconformity with Dr. Vassily Klucharov. We really drilled down into the neuroscience of this. And at the time I interviewed him, I was thinking about conformity with groups, like with group norms versus being willing to swim against the stream.

And Create your own uncommon way, but now I see so clearly how much we also conform to our own norms and beliefs over and [00:13:00] over and over. So prediction error keeps us repeating past behaviors and decisions, but it also. Get this, has been shown to interfere with our memory of past events, so that these past events seem to conform with our current understanding and beliefs and predictions.

So if you deep down believe that hard work and anxious overthinking is the key to your success, then you'll remember events from your past in ways that prove the theory. And the more true it feels, the more challenging, because whenever your actions deviate from that buzz, buzz, and there, oh, then comes that oh shit feeling.

My husband has anxiety and sometimes will lay awake at night, especially when we're going through a move or something where there are lots of details and he'll lay awake at night and in the morning he'll tell me, Oh, I remembered that we have to do [00:14:00] X. And he'll say, you know, that's like the upside of my anxiety is that I remember these details.

And when I try to say, maybe you don't need to lie awake all night in order to have come up with that, he says, Oh no, no, no. Cause you remember, you remember like two months ago when I was lying awake and that's how I remembered we had to do X. So, All of his memories conform to the way of thinking that he really needs to be hypervigilant.

Otherwise things will like slip through the cracks. Whereas it's also completely possible that he could have gotten a wonderful night's sleep. And then in that really restored state, maybe as he was taking a walk or in the shower, who knows, the same thought or even a better thought could have come to him.

I mean, it is possible. Now, of course, our beliefs are often a reflection of the group of people who surround us, especially if we have a really strong error signal, [00:15:00] we're more likely to adopt the wrong. Their ways of being. So my husband was surrounded by lots of detail oriented, often micromanaging military people.

And after nearly three decades, that has to have an effect. It's the same reason that all of my coaching containers offer a group component. It's so my clients can surround themselves with. other women who are doing or have done what they want to do. And it's why I always seek out group coaching myself, because I want to make prediction error work for me.

I want help proving my old predictions wrong and prove different ways can be right. I want all the hacks. All the direct routes, all the easier paths, because time I spend learning things the hard way is time I don't spend sliding down a slide into the Mediterranean with my son who will never, ever be six again.

So what [00:16:00] if, just what if, simple success is the natural order of things? That yes, due to our society, we've been raised thinking, oh, it's too good to be true, or whatever version of that you were raised with. But it actually makes perfect sense. And then reinvention doesn't have to be something scary and disruptive, but something that aids the process, the process of you aligning with a cleaner, more straightforward way of running your business.

Tactically, the phrase that you want to work with is this. Things can be simple. Things are becoming simpler for me. If, when you say that, it feels like 0. 5 percent true, then you can kind of ladder belief your way in. You can take a step away from it and say, I believe I could believe things could be simple.

And my business is becoming simpler, right? Or the things are [00:17:00] becoming simpler for me. Remember, beliefs are thoughts that you've thought over and over and have absorbed to the point that you start seeing evidence of its truth all around you. But when you're actively trying to create a new belief, you do often need to go out of your way.

Unless you have a group of people that you trust that are just helping bombard your head with it. But usually you have to go out of your way to find evidence. You're going to have to Google simple businesses or stories of people that have created very simple businesses. Or you can ask in your own groups.

There are so many ways to create evidence, but don't give up. It may not be presented to you at first because your brain is used to sourcing a different kind of information for you, but it is there. One of the main objections that I hear regarding reinvention and learning to do things differently is, ugh, I don't want to start over from [00:18:00] scratch.

I worked hard to establish all this. Funny note. I hear this from people who've been in business for 10 years and people who've been in business for six months. It's always a perception of the mind. The truth is that now is always the right time to move yourself into greater alignment with your desires.

Forget about the sunk cost of the thing in the past and look to your future. But the good news is that when you switch to things are becoming simpler, if you can really absorb that line of thinking and start to see it playing out in your life, you start to see that you are never starting from zero.

You're never starting from scratch. You're taking your vast wealth of experience and everything you've learned and channeling it into a more efficient, elegant life. It's like, of course you were learning all of [00:19:00] those things, and that's why now you can do it differently. So what if things will always become simpler if you let them, if you don't keep yourself in inefficient behaviors and ways of being?

It's kind of like when you are writing a term paper in college and all of a sudden your computer crashes or something happens and you learn, you lose the entire term paper and at first you think, Oh my God, my life is over. There's no way that I can recreate that in time. It will never be as good as it was.

This is the end of the world. But once you eat your Ben and Jerry's or whatever your college thing was and you get back on the horse, you realize that actually you are able to ride it again and it's faster and even better than the first time you end up eating the damn thing. And the same [00:20:00] is true with pivots or what I like to call upgrades in your business.

Now am I saying that there will be zero learning curve, zero road bumps? Absolutely not. I always want to be completely transparent about that, but typically what I see is that those road bumps are less acute than what your fears are leading you to believe. So now it's time to move through that first psychological building block, getting more comfortable with the psychology of new things.

And you can think about how is it true that the ways that have worked for you in the past might not be the best ways. And if you do want to move towards simplicity, how is it true that things are already becoming simpler and you are just in the flow of that progression? You can pause this episode here if you want to journal on that or reflect on that, because I'm about to share my thoughts [00:21:00] on the last question.

And I know a lot of people, they want to work through it first before they hear an idea from someone else. But if you're ready, I'm ready. You ready? Okay. When you take a look at the universe, it seems that the most fundamental guiding laws are elegantly simple. E equals MC squared, right? And the most simple, obvious solution is often the solution.

The things that seem messy and confusing are that way because we haven't yet found the The elegant thing underneath. And I believe that as our souls evolve towards greater consciousness, we are also evolving towards simplicity. If you're already curious about simplicity and about creating a different way, and you're still listening to the episode all the way to the end, then you are.

It's already caught in that gravitational pull, so to speak, [00:22:00] of that progression. It's a direction that your soul wants to go, and you can try and resist it, but that little voice will keep nudging you, keep saying that maybe it's possible. The truth is that you have the power to create what you want. So go create it, starting with what you've learned here.

To recap, you learned how behind effortless success, you will find reinvention. And behind reinvention, you'll find a break with the bias that whatever has worked for you in the past is what will continue to work best in your future. And you learned how prediction error guides us to avoid getting it wrong, and how building evidence of the phrase, things can be simple and things are becoming simpler for me, will help you unlock a new you and a new business.

All right, my friend, I will see you back here next [00:23:00] week for part two in this series as we move through the psychology of what really helps us create this elegantly simple success through reinvention.

Thanks for joining us here at the uncommon way. If you want more tips and resources for developing clarity in your business and life, including the clarity first strategy for growing and scaling your business, visit the uncommon way. com. See you next time.

Ep# 110: Fail-safe Strategies for Supercharging Your Business Growth While Still Having a Life

Episode Summary

What if the secrets to supercharging your business growth will actually promote greater personal well-being, too?

In a world where hustle culture is glorified, many entrepreneurs feel that they must do more to achieve more. This episode challenges that notion by revealing powerful alternatives to help high-performing women entrepreneurs regain their lives and see better business results while leaning back and letting your business thrive rather than doing more.

In this episode you will: 

1. Learn exactly what to do in which order--including the critical first step that most people miss--to give you more time to enjoy the life you’re about to build. 

2. See what surprising revelations the latest discoveries in neuroscience reveal about your unchecked decision-making.

3. Cultivate actionable strategies to identify and focus on the highest-leverage opportunities in your business, ensuring every effort counts toward your growth and well-being.

Don’t spend another day making your business more difficult than it has to be -- press play now  to start working wiser and living better.

Episodes mentioned:

Episode 2 -- theuncommonway.com/2 

Episode 22 --  theuncommonway.com/22 

Episode 108 –  theuncommonway.com/108

Schedule a call with Jenna about joining the Clarity Accelerator to dial in signature offers and strategies and a first-rate mindset.    

https://www.theuncommonway.com/schedule 

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 https://www.theuncommonway.com/waitlist

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 https://www.theuncommonway.com/talk

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The Uncommon Way is led by business coach Jenna Harrison, who helps women entrepreneurs feel confident, find their ideal clients effortlessly and avoid overwork so they can manifest money and abundance in their business and life.

This podcast empowers female entrepreneurs to overcome imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and limiting beliefs through somatics, mindset, and spirituality, create 7-figure offers, and build an online coaching business with clarity and alignment.

Episode Transcription

Jenna Harrison: [00:00:00] What if you are this close to the next level of growth that you want to see in your business? And the way you'll get there is the very thing that lets you actually have a life.

You're listening to the Uncommon Way business and life coaching podcast, the podcast that helps women entrepreneurs get clear on signature offers and strategies that sell themselves so you can lean back and stop the hustle. You will learn to maximize your mindset, messaging, and strategy. And step into the uncommonly successful business and life you are creating.

Here's your host, top ranked business coach and reformed over analyzer turned queen of clarity, Jenna Harrison.

Welcome, welcome back to the uncommon way. Today we are talking about what it actually takes [00:01:00] to lean back more and hustle less while still blowing your own mind with better business results. Which sounds nice, but if you're like I was and most of my clients are, you're a little skeptical. Because you have to do more to make more, right?

More content, more showing up, more networking, more, more, more. It turns out that there's a path to business growth that isn't all about doing. And, it's also the very thing that frees you up to actually have a life. In this episode, I'll be breaking that down, and of course, sharing a tactical tip, a mindset tip, and an energetics tip, if you're into that, so that you can really wrap your mind around all this and the key concepts and philosophy that those of us practice who are creating in an uncommon way.

In this episode, you will learn exactly what to do in which order, [00:02:00] including the critical first step that most people miss. You'll discover what the latest discoveries in neuroscience prove about the effectiveness of your decision making if left unchecked, and you'll be able to quiet the noise and zero in on the highest leverage opportunities for your business.

So, how are you doing today? It is mid August in the time of this recording, which is full tourist season here in Mallorca. The population of Mallorca is about 1 million, but in summer it jumps to 20 million. No, do not. I repeat, do not visit in August. And you probably don't want to move here and be settling in right in August either, as I'm finding out.

Case in point, we got a note from my son's school that said, come try on the new school uniform so you know what size your child [00:03:00] wears. Come in Um, during the month of August on Mondays and Wednesdays from 10 to 12. So on Monday we went there at 10 o'clock and there was no one there. There was a janitor working and he said, yeah, they're, they're all on vacation.

So apparently vacation just goes through August 15th and we should have known that when they said August, they didn't actually mean the whole month of August. Cause you know, vacation. And then we went instead to a supermarket that we were told we had to go to buy our new house cleaner, because apparently they have the best house cleaning products of any other market.

It was like this kind of, you know, very crowded street. And with all of this tourist traffic where we just couldn't see the like. in. And so we missed it. And because there are all these one way [00:04:00] streets, we had to go clear around. This trip took us hours and we also have these issues at the house specifically with condensation because when it gets hot, of course, and we're trying to cool things down.

So our fridge, it's basically crying. Overflowing with water, but everyone's on vacation , and so we can't get anyone to fix it. We have towels on the floor, and I share this with you, not to moan and groan about my problems of privilege, but to say how grateful I am to have a business where I can be absent for a while and grateful to have a mindset that assures me it's totally okay.

My business results. aren't correlated with the time I'm putting in, but with the value that I put out. And that tees us up well for today's episode, where I would like to begin with mindset. [00:05:00] The way to supercharge business growth, while also supercharging your personal well being, Is by working wiser, not harder, and that requires getting very clear about certain key aspects of your business and also tapping into your intuition and trusting that guidance more frequently.

I will get very tactical about that in a minute, but if you don't make this your first step, adopting the mindset that wiser is more effective than harder, then you'll never really change. Despite all your productivity hacks and timers, you've got to believe that it's more beneficial to change than to remain the same.

So for now, you can just try on this idea like you are trying on a new outfit to see how it feels. Now, that perspective, it might feel a little weird because it's not what you've been taught. You've been taught that you [00:06:00] need to make things happen for yourself with good old elbow grease, acting like a logical adult.

Logic has built such a great brand for itself. To be fair, the logic making centers of the brain are literally a feat of nature. They are amazing, and I know they've gotten you far. We use them a lot in the Clarity Accelerator, because we choose a really balanced approach to business. But. They are not the only amazing part of your brain, and they are fallible.

We're not robots. We carry around a ton of thought errors, baggage that you've picked up through how you were raised, the society you move in, and the meaning you've made from life experiences. And that stuff can lead you astray. When it comes to your business, it can seem very logical to double your work in order to double your revenue or [00:07:00] target this market, because.

Maybe they're more likely to pay or to not even start a business in the first place because too many other businesses fail. The latest discoveries in neuroscience are showing us that as humans, we have competing systems that are all vying to win within our brain. You've heard of survival of the fittest.

Well, this is survival of the fittest idea. Unfortunately, the voice with the most conviction usually wins. If you haven't learned the skills of managing your mind and seeing what's going on and tapping into a deeper, more steady kind of knowing. So when one voice in your brain says that in order to double your business, you need to do twice as much, there might be another part that says, But I don't want to do twice as much.

Well, if the action voice is more convincing, you're going to do twice as much and you'll [00:08:00] develop a rationale that sounds logical and convincing to explain your behavior. I had a client that wouldn't let herself take vacation because she was convinced she needed to work harder, but it was only because of market conditions, you know.

And hell, I was this very person too. I remember once I had a trip planned with a friend and we were going to, I think Glacier National Park and it was so beautiful. It was going to be so relaxing. We were going to do wonderful hiking, but then they unfortunately had a large forest fire there. And so, We had to cancel our trip.

And do you know what? I was so relieved. I was so relieved because I told myself that I just needed to reach six figures and then I could relax. And I couldn't really, it was just going to create more stress for me to go on this trip than it would have been to just keep doing the work [00:09:00] and like stay with my perfect, you know, um, what is this word that we love?

A consistency schedule. Yes. But what if the resistance voice is louder for you, the one saying you don't want to work harder? Well, then you won't work harder and you might even self sabotage by putting arbitrary caps on your growth because that seems like the logical way to ensure you won't get caught in the trap of working harder.

I had a client who had spent years under earning because deep down she was afraid of sabotaging her health and relationships if she were to grow her business. Little did she know that if done right, your health, relationships, and fulfillment all grow as your business grows. So you really want to get away from the Chicken Littles and Eeyores and Mr.

Spucks that are running around in your mind that will masquerade as logic. [00:10:00] Don't expect to supercharge your business if you're taking action from the part of you that's in scarcity or hustle or comparisonitis or trying to get the gold star, because those always color your results. And if you'd like more on how that's actually true, check out episode 22 on the model and how your thoughts affect your life.

But by the same token, methods and actions taken from your wiser self act like a superconductor between you and your ideal clients, even though they might not seem directly logical. Just recently, we had somebody in the Clarity Accelerator who was moved to create a post about something that was In no way directly related to her clients, typical pain points and that specific post brought her a new client.

And there's another member who stayed with a corporate client, even though it wasn't really a perfect fit, but she kept getting an undeniable hit to continue. [00:11:00] And then months later, turns out she has an opportunity to leverage this into something very lucrative for her company. The moral here is that consciously, we rarely have access to perfect information.

You know, each time I talk with a prospective client, they tell me that when they think forward about the future, they want more space and free time to just have some coffee in the morning, to be outdoors, to travel, to spend time with friends and loved ones, where you're not just thinking about all the things you have to do.

You want a simpler, calmer, more authentic life, but we keep getting pulled back into these habits of do, do, do, overthink, overthink, overthink. And your brain always has great logic for this. Maybe you just need to hit that revenue goal. And then you'll make different choices, or then you'll act differently, or maybe [00:12:00] your clients just really need you now and you can't let them down.

But if you don't course correct, you're going to wake up with a seven or eight figure business using the exact same excuses. The circumstances that we are in don't change our thought patterns. The only thing that can do that Is us. You change your thought patterns, period, and then you start showing up differently and making different choices and creating different results.

To be clear, I am not trashing hard work. I'm not afraid of hard work, but where we run into problems is when a hard becomes the ongoing status quo. When you become so dependent on your logic that your intuition atrophies. The old mindset of, I need to work hard to get ahead and I can't believe anything until it has finally materialized in front of me.[00:13:00]

That's like saying, let's perpetuate a messed up legacy just because that's the way it's always been done. No, you owe it to yourself and we owe it to the women who came before us and those who will come after us to find a different way, an uncommon way. And you might be thinking, okay, Jenna, all this sounds very flowery and wonderful, but how do you actually do it?

How do you tap into this supposedly wiser part of you and cut out all the noise? So you're only focused on the things that truly matter. Well, let's talk tactics. Tactically, to be real, you are going to need to practice hearing your intuition, because it is a muscle that you build, and that everyone can build, and that will take repetition to build.

But I want to give you something you can act on immediately. It is the keys to the universe, as far as I'm [00:14:00] concerned. Are you ready? What if all of your ineffective overwork and overstressing and overthinking stems from the fact that we're all taught to make decisions incorrectly? Look, I struggled with starting this business for two decades.

I had some other businesses during that time. In fact, I was just talking about that period of my life in episode 108, if you want to go back and listen, but those businesses felt like placeholders. They weren't something that had me saying, yes, this is what I'm here to do, or this is what I really care about.

And I want to devote to. So I told myself, if I could only get clear on what kind of business to start, then watch out world. But I finally realized something, and this applies to anything in your business where you're feeling unclear or undecided or unaligned. When I was trying to choose a type of business, it was as if I were looking for the perfect [00:15:00] leaf on a tree.

I would pull this leaf over here. And compare it to that leaf over there and think, well, maybe I should have a jewelry making business, or maybe I should make artisanal soap. And I would go leaf by leaf, which will take forever. And that's really how we're taught to make decisions. We're taught to take two decisions and list out the pros and cons and then compare and contrast.

And that works really effectively when you have two decisions and just a few pros and cons. But if you're like me and my clients, you can come up with all sorts of decisions and probably hundreds of pros and cons. And when you're trying to analyze all of that, It just sends your brain into gridlock. Our brains are not designed for that type of computing.

So what if instead looking for that perfect leaf in that way by going [00:16:00] leaf by leaf by leaf, instead you just started at the base of the tree and then as the tree started to branch off into branches, you continued on with the. thickest branch. And then when that split, again, you continued with the thickest branch, and you just followed that forward until you found your perfect leaf.

It would be a much simpler and more straightforward way of finding your way there. So then the next question is, how do you find what the base of that tree is for you? I give a few different ways of arriving at this in episode two. It's called the decision tree. But today I want to tell you about my connect the dots method, because it is what worked for me, and it's what most of my clients end up using.

And it's based on the idea that in hindsight, you can always connect the dots. Even though they didn't really make sense at the time, you can now see that this thing led you to this [00:17:00] thing, led you to this thing, and that it all brought you right here to exactly where you are. And I started to think, if that's true, then the dots are there right now in front of me.

It's just that I don't have the lens to see them like I would in hindsight. But what if I could, what if I could identify what those dots are? And I started thinking about memories in my life that had had kind of the that just kind of stuck in my brain. A lot of them had a, you know, kind of an emotional charge, but a lot of them weren't huge life events.

They were just little things that were stuck there. It turns out that our brains create meaning and then they latch on to certain experiences because we're trying to figure things out. And you know that you can Live through an experience with another person, maybe when you were [00:18:00] younger, for instance, they may remember that, but you've completely forgotten it.

Meanwhile, you might remember something else and they would completely forget that. So what is it about those things that stick with us? Like why did that exact thing stick with us? And I really believe that all of us are so unique and different, and we are wired differently, we've had different experiences, we've grown up in different ways.

And if you want to believe this, you maybe came to this earth with a specific purpose as well. And all of this comes together to help your brain focus on your life events in very distinct and unique ways. And if you start to pay attention to why that thing really mattered to you, why it was there, right, why it meant something to you, then you'll start to see that that thing that happened when you were [00:19:00] seven has a lot in common with what happened when you were 17.

And you can see that actually kind of the umbrella theme of those two events is X. As you do this throughout your life, what you'll notice is that if you keep whittling down, you arrive at about three to five, what I call meta themes. These are the core currents moving through your life that your brain is fascinated by and keeps going back to again and again.

And to really zero in on the trunk of your tree, you need to ask yourself to make a powerful decision about right now, what is the one that feels the most charged for you? And what's the one that, heaven forbid, if you were on your deathbed three years from now, you'd be able to think back and say, at least I threw my hat in the ring.

For this, [00:20:00] for making this kind of change in the world, or bringing more of this. And then you just keep connecting the dots through the other key decisions of your business. Because this is a killer decision making hack. Whenever you reach a decision point, you just ask yourself, Which direction is more likely to bring me closer to that, to fulfill that in my life and in the world?

And so often, you immediately know the answer. You don't always like the answer because sometimes it's the thing that feels more difficult. Often means that you show up in a bigger way, but you know what the correct answer is. That main meta theme of yours really brings to light your secret sauce, the special way that you think about things and move through the world, the experiences you've [00:21:00] gathered, and the way that you work through problems and find solutions.

Your brain has spent its entire life trying to better understand that theme. And then from there, you want to ask yourself, who are the best people to bring that vision to fruition? Because your ideal clients, they want that vision too, deep down. So now you're no longer looking at an infinite possibility of niches.

You are looking at just the ones closest to you that are best aligned for you. And then from there, after really getting to know those people. You will understand, well, basically they will tell you their ideal offer because you understand them in a way that's different than other people do and what they really need and want.

You're able to really tailor a very, very unique [00:22:00] standout offer that's unlike anything else out there. And then that dot leads you to the next one, which is your messaging. And then that one leads you to your most effective strategies. In the Clarity Accelerator, we group these lines of effort into three different parts, which I believe is really all that's needed for any successful service business.

And those are know yourself, know your people, and then marry those two by tying it all up in how you communicate about what you're offering. So we typically spend a couple of months doing that. And then the rest of the six month is applying it to your specific business. Maybe we're creating your pinned posts on Instagram, or we're evaluating how you felt about these people that responded to your messaging and deciding if you want to tweak it, or if you want to highlight or amplify a certain portion of it, or we're tightening up [00:23:00] your sales process.

And this is the difference between a course where you receive information and then you're on your own versus a boutique coaching container where you can ask anything, anytime and receive answers from a coach who knows you and your business and your mastermind sisters who also know you and your business and have amazing insights.

I think both of these kinds of containers are great for different things. You just need to decide. which kind you want and are willing to invest in for your next specific goals. But I digress. The connect the dots method is a surefire way for creating an aligned business where each piece stacks on the one supporting it.

And now you know how to do it from your secret sauce all the way through to your people, your offer, your messaging, and your most effective strategies. If you do this, If you are willing to make some powerful decisions [00:24:00] and realign some key pieces of your business, you will be set up for success. Creating this clarity is the path to supercharging your business growth and your personal well being.

This is how you stop hopping from initiative to initiative, overdoing it, and losing momentum by scattering your efforts and barking up the wrong tree, and instead settle into a calmer, more leaned back energy where you are laser focused, and your efforts produce more impact and value, and of course, generate more wealth.

Listen, everybody needs more clarity. I need more clarity. Because it's as if we think we're swimming in an ocean of possibilities, but really we're in a fishbowl in the ocean. And that fishbowl is the limitations of our mind. It's impossible to be outside of our mind. Even a surgeon can't do [00:25:00] surgery on herself.

And that's why it's so helpful to have a coach or other people to help you see what sometimes you're just too close to see. I have a client who is a very successful business coach. But, she's known that she needs to tweak some things in her offer to both be more aligned and to give her the lifestyle that she would really like to move into now.

And so, as we were working through this, and we all hear what is coming out of her Connect the Dots work, it has become very apparent to many of us what her secret sauce is. But, it has been challenging for her to really believe that that is Anything worth selling, that people can't do that on their own, that they would think that that is something they'd want to pay a coach for, it is just so much a part of how she lives and breathes, that for her it's like saying, Hey, you want me to [00:26:00] teach you to breathe air?

Everybody could breathe air, but it's just not true. It's just that you're too close to see it yourself. For all of us, the next breakthrough is right around the corner. And whether you realize it or not, you are undecided about something in your business, or you've decided, but you're not really taking action on it.

And you don't quite know why, or you're taking action, but it's not as effective as you'd like it to be. And you really need to get clear on why. But if you begin this work and you commit to making changes and then sitting in stillness to evaluate how that lands for you, you will move into alignment. And of course, if you want to accelerate that alignment, then join us in the Clarity Accelerator.

But the thing to remember here is that alignment is clarity. And clarity is alignment. [00:27:00] And those things ignite your manifestation abilities too. So let's talk energetic for those of you who are interested. You and your business are a match for your ideal clients. When you and your business are in alignment, when your offers and strategies are centered around the meeting point of your secret sauce and the deep needs and desires of your most aligned clients, if you're here to bring widgets to the world, then you are here to connect with the people who need your widgets.

What you want wants you to, they might not consciously know they need a widget. Maybe they do. But when they get pulled into your orbit, they are like, Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, because it's such a fit and it facilitates growth for both of you. It's an energetic match. So imagine how confused they are when instead of selling [00:28:00] widgets, you're selling gizmos.

Although, they probably won't reach a point of confusion because they may never even hear about your gizmos. And if they do, their eyes will kind of glaze over because deep down what they really need, and their higher self knows they really need, is a widget. Now obviously when I say widget, what I really mean is Is your signature offer or offers the way that you package up your secret sauce and offer that value to the world?

And calling in is what you do through your signature strategies, the methods that best facilitate you and your people coming together and creating that meeting of minds and souls. The final product of dialed in offers and messaging is a thing of beauty. It's like flow and art. But you know what's almost even more important?

It's all the belief and clarity work that went into [00:29:00] creating the offer. Because each time you contemplate tweaking your offer in a certain way, or talking about it in a certain way, there's an immediate gut check of, Ooh, do I really believe that? Can I really promise that? Will people really buy that? And then you have to work through why or why not.

And that is what opens you energetically. and allows abundance. You finally create such certainty that the universe is like, Oh, good, clear direction. That's what I've been waiting for. Okay, here you go. Cause otherwise it's kind of like if you're dating someone and you have one hand where you're beckoning them closer, but then with the other one, you're telling them stay back.

And the universe is like, wait, I'm confused. What exactly do you want? This is the way to truly create flow in your business. Where there are no blocks or [00:30:00] impediments and no unclear message. Where clients come to you and they're already wanting to work with you. That's the experience I have with people who find me through Google or through this podcast.

But if you're not in alignment, it's always going to be an uphill battle in some way. Often, the universe is actually trying to help you gain the clarity that you still need. You're like, Oh, God damn it. Why isn't this working? Why do you hate me? And the universe is like, I'm trying to help you, woman. Take off the satin eye pillow, will you

Because the you that the universe is trying to help is your higher self, not the human who has limited vision and wants to stay in old ways of being. So, that's the good news. If there's an area of your business that feels a little sticky, or especially troublesome right now, congratulations. The universe is [00:31:00] giving you an opportunity to increase your clarity, your wisdom, and step into greater alignment and receptivity.

All right, my friends, if you enjoyed today's episodes, but you're thinking, well, I, I just feel anxious when I try to take my foot off the gas. It's like, it's like, I don't know how to slow down. Then I have got so many episodes that you will love both about the mind patterns and the nervous system patterns that us high achievers accumulate over time.

So scroll back within the last five or so episodes and just choose one that you can check out. But today you got up close and personal with the connect the dots method and all of the philosophy that ties into it. So I've given you a roadmap for creating your next aligned shifts in your business, the highest growth opportunities.

And please don't forget that in order for that to really land, you've [00:32:00] got to start with the mindset piece where you open yourself to the idea that you'll get farther by working wiser than you will by working harder. This is how you will supercharge your results. Why leaning back more so you can have a full and delicious life that includes your business and so much more.

Thanks for joining us here at the uncommon way. If you want more tips and resources for developing clarity in your business in life, including the clarity first strategy for growing and scaling your business, visit the uncommon way. com. See you next time.

Ep# 109: Mindful Entrepreneurship: Strategies for Cultivating Peace in a Busy Business World

Episode Summary

Are you constantly feeling overwhelmed by the never-ending demands of your business? What if the secret to true productivity isn't about doing more?

In today's fast-paced business world, it's easy to get caught up in the hustle, thinking that the more you do, the more successful you'll be. This episode dives into practical tools and life-changing mindset shifts that will transform you into the present and grounded CEO you’d like to be. 

In this episode you will: 

1. Learn the simple 20-second a simple habit that lets you effortlessly prioritize what truly matters and eliminate unnecessary stress.

2. Uncover the surprising truth behind your addiction to busyness.

3. Discover a powerful mindset shift that can turn you into the CEO of your mind, allowing you to achieve your business goals with confidence and ease.

Ready to unlock a more peaceful, productive way of working? Press play now and start reclaiming your time, sanity and fulfillment!

Schedule a call with Jenna about joining the Clarity Accelerator to dial in signature offers and strategies and a first-rate mindset.    

https://www.theuncommonway.com/schedule 

Sign up here to get on the waitlist for Power & Potency, the new mastermind for highly accomplished women entrepreneurs, and hear all new information as it's released: 

 https://www.theuncommonway.com/waitlist

Leave a voicemail for Jenna and get her personalized advice for your business: 

 https://www.theuncommonway.com/talk

Find Jenna on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/theuncommonway/

The Uncommon Way is led by business coach Jenna Harrison, who helps women entrepreneurs feel confident, find their ideal clients effortlessly and avoid overwork so they can manifest money and abundance in their business and life.

This podcast empowers female entrepreneurs to overcome imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and limiting beliefs through somatics, mindset, and spirituality, create 7-figure offers, and build an online coaching business with clarity and alignment.

Episode Transcription

[00:00:00] What if all it takes to feel calm and spacious in your business are a few simple tweaks?

Welcome back to the Uncommon Way. Do you feel like there's so much going on in your business and your industry that it's almost impossible to keep up? And you keep thinking, well, when I just finish X or I get through Y, then I can take a breath, except that there's always something else that crops up.

Well, in this episode, you are going to discover the 22nd habit that lets you effortlessly prioritize what truly matters, and you will uncover the surprising truth behind your busyness addiction. And you'll discover a powerful mindset shift that can turn you into the CEO of your mind, allowing you to achieve your business goals with confidence and ease.

Now that we are in Spain, and we're putting so much effort into just getting established, I'm really working less than ever. [00:01:00] Yesterday, it took me two and a half hours just to go to the store and find my way around and find about, oh, I guess 50 percent of what I was looking for. But it's okay. My business is fine and will be fine despite the fact that there's a lot going on.

And if I choose to tune into it, I could open up my feed right now and see all sorts of things happening in the industry, but I don't. And being in this place and watching this happen, it's inspired me to create this episode with strategies for women like you who want to cultivate peace, even in the busy business world.

So to set the stage, it actually is impossible to do all that could ever be done in entrepreneurship. If you haven't figured this out yet, then here's the spoiler. You will never reach the end of your [00:02:00] list. You'll never get the gold star in the army. They did a study and realized that if you were actually to implement.

All of the trainings that were required and all of the must-do's that it would actually take up more time than is available in a year. And so what that meant is that it really fell on the commander to decide what are the command priorities? What are we going to prioritize? What are we not going to prioritize?

And if there's a problem, know that you made that decision. And you're accountable, but that that's really what you get paid for or why you were put in this area of responsibility was so that you could make the tough decisions. And the same is true in business. So you have got to step off the hamster wheel.

You've got to change your way of thinking. Thinking and your way of being in the face of infinite possibility of infinite choice, because our brains are not designed to compute in that way, analyzing [00:03:00] all those possibilities for the best course of action while navigating your own brain wiring that of course is going to attract you to what's most urgent or what's most interesting rather than what's most important.

And of course, you've got this subconscious that keeps you self-sabotaging yourself with the best of intentions naturally in the name of, of protection and safety, but it keeps you potentially people pleasing or keeping up with the Joneses or trying to be superwoman or just keeping yourself busy enough that you won't really ignite that greatness that deep down, you know, is inside of you.

There was a Soviet. Psychologist named Eric from, I don't know if I'm pronouncing that correctly, but he wrote a book called escape from freedom. And it was really about the tyranny of choice, how we want lots of choice, lots of possibility, but when we're faced with it, it [00:04:00] leads to a lot of anxiety and a lot of.

Yeah. Ineffectiveness. And then I had an economics professor at Swarthmore named Larry Westfall, who really developed this further with his work on choice theory. And it turns out that, like I just said, our brains are not wired to compute in this way. And that actually about three choices are what we're able to navigate in terms of making a good, solid decision.

Obviously we have far more choices and far more possibilities available as we're even working through one day in our business. So as always, I've got some tactics for you, some mindset tips and energetic tips for those who are interested. So, the tactical advice for this episode is to purposely limit your choices.

This goes for things you're doing and for things that you're thinking because we disconnect from our life when we're in [00:05:00] either of those things. Now, of course, that's going to be challenging because you're not used to doing this yet, but it is totally doable. And here's how to do so in a way that won't have you rebounding later, like someone who's been on a super strict diet and then binges or gives up altogether.

Right? We want you to actually be able to move into a life where you don't feel stressed all the time, where you can actually enjoy a morning routine or break for lunch with your husband and gain some serious momentum in your business to kick ass because you're working. On the right things and giving them enough time and attention that they need with a brain that is open and relaxed and can provide you with the creative hits that you truly need to do more with less.

Now, here's what it is. You ready? All you do is you pause before and [00:06:00] after each thing you're doing, and you notice where you are in space and time, right? You notice how your body feels, what the temperature feels like. This can all be done in just a second, and then take some time for awe, that sense of gratitude or wonder.

And this whole thing is really just 20 seconds. It's just a little pause in the moment, and you definitely have time for this. There's no way you don't have time for this, even though I understand my brain also likes to tell me I don't have time for this. But this alone, this small practice can completely change your life, thanks to brain chemistry and to its effect on the nervous system.

It is a pattern interrupter that breaks the neural loop that your brain was just engaged in. It takes you out of that moment [00:07:00] and it puts you into this present moment. It's like too often we like to compartmentalize. I'll work now and I'll work really hard and get it over with. And then when I'm not working, I'll be present in life, but no.

How you do one thing is how you do everything, be present in all of it, take breaks for joy throughout all of it. Right now, one of my favorite things is my stairwell. The windows open out to this beautiful garden courtyard. It's not a really manicured garden, but they happen to have all sorts of. Like a variety of beautiful Mediterranean plants.

So you have a palm tree, but then you also have an olive tree and there are rosemary bushes, but you also have bougainvillea and hibiscus bushes. And somehow these plants and flowers. all release their scents and it makes the most delicious smell. And whenever you walk up the stairs, the [00:08:00] windows are always open and the cross breeze always brings in all of this very warm gorgeousness.

Ooh, I forgot pine, Mediterranean pine is in there as well. And this is what we want. In our life, these are the moments that we want to notice that, you know, moment with your child or with your loved one, or even just, you know, cutting up a fruit, it seems inconsequential, but it actually completely changes everything, because when you create some mental distance, some space, That's when you can ask yourself.

That's when you have a clearer perspective. And so when you're taking this break, you can then just ask yourself this thing that I was doing, or this thing that I'm about to do, is this really a priority or serving my highest intentions? Why did I say yes to this? And you don't want to ask these questions from judgment.

But from curiosity, [00:09:00] even if you go a whole week without making a single change to what you're doing, just being in this space of curiosity, you are gathering tons of information for the future. This practice that I'm suggesting helps you build your self-awareness and also your intuition muscles so that you can really zero in on what truly matters.

What are those priorities? And start saying no. to more things. Now, I do practice what I preach. I talked about using these sacred pauses myself in episode 71 of how I structure my 33-hour work week. And by the way, the takeaway from that is that even though I was filling my days and doing things, it didn't feel like busyness.

It didn't feel like doing, doing, doing, or hustle or rat race because of how I've conditioned my body to move through the day. So when you're clear on your true priorities, you can [00:10:00] start to plan out your days in advance. This doesn't have to be complicated. In fact, I recommend that it not be, especially when you're first starting this protocol.

You simply choose a few things a day that you need to do, and you decide in advance that once those are done, you are going to call it a win. You're going to feel satisfied, and then practice noticing that satisfaction. You could even reward yourself with something when you're done with those, that one thing, or those three things so that you can create a positive feedback loop that will entice your brain to want to do that again the next day.

Just this last year, I was working with a client who was so caught up in overthinking and she had a ton of ideas for how to grow her business and kept going back and forth on options. So it was definitely not conducive to a sense of inner peace. And when we got clear on our highest leverage activities and created those clear priorities, which I'll tell [00:11:00] you, it is so much easier to create these kind of signature strategies and then stick to them when your business is.

is aligned, right? When the top matches the bottom you know how the dots connect and how they're going to connect in the future. So we tabled everything else in her possibilities list. And afterward, she felt such a relief and ended up feeling so much more focused and motivated than she had in years.

In the end, she brought on more clients and revenue, blowing her mind with how different her business could be than how it had been. This is the surprising truth about busyness. It's usually totally counterproductive, and it keeps your business growth from skyrocketing. But I am sorry to tell you, I need to be completely transparent that in the short term, it isn't always a feeling of being freed.

A lot of [00:12:00] us, you know, our brains won't initially let us feel satisfied when we just focus on a few things, which really leads us into the mindset portion of this episode. Your brain might tell you that you don't get to feel satisfied until you've crossed everything off your to-do list, that you definitely could have done more, that you should do more, that you should feel guilty for not doing more, but tell it that you are in training right now, and you'll soon add in more things step into being the CEO of your mind where you decide what's going to go down rather than reacting to whatever emotion it happens to feel.

You need to be the CEO of your mind in order to truly be the CEO of your business. If you need help sticking to your schedule, you can try apps or timers. One of my clients had success with an app called TickTick, as in a clock ticking. TickTick. And there's an AI app called Motion that looks [00:13:00] really interesting to me.

I haven't tried it yet, though. And no shame if you do have trouble sticking to whatever you set out to do. Right? Many entrepreneurs have ADHD, first of all, but even if you don't have ADHD, very powerful forces are at play here in your brain to preserve the status quo. That does not mean that you can't change.

It just means that you need to keep applying energy to the changing until it becomes a new normal. And if you do that, things will change. You have an amazingly plastic, adaptive brain, and you get to use that to your advantage. Look, you need to realize that you have to detox from busyness and the deeper state that it brings about, which is the state of being on autopilot, i.

e. not being present and mindful in your life. That is built up over time, and you're going to [00:14:00] feel the effects of taking that away from your normal. Now, I've got a lot more to say on this topic of detoxing, and you can find out how to detox the key parts of your business and mine that are necessary for you to step into the next level of results and revenue by going to my homepage and signing up for the free training there.

We're going to link to it below, but when it comes to doing this in your business, know that it is a literal addiction on many levels because of the dopamine hits you get from completing tasks or being on social media. And Because of the ego strokes you get. You get those from being able to manage everything like Superwoman, or from someone being happy with you because you did something they wanted you to, or because your sense of FOMO is appeased.

Or because you get to feel like a responsible adult or a quote-unquote, real business [00:15:00] person or because your anxiety thinks you're now slightly less likely to end up under that bridge and lose everything. Or, you're less guilty for having found your way into earning a living where you don't have to work as hard as your parents did, or their parents did, or other people in the world still do.

Or, you get to feel worthy because your entire sense of self-worth has tied into how much you work. Or I have a client whose brain doesn't argue in those particular ways, but it tells her that anything she'd do outside of work is wasting time. So it makes more sense for her to focus on this stuff. When you've been in that state of disconnection from yourself and the world that you're in, your immediate present world, it's going to take some redirection to change that status quo.

So, But you can do it. You can do it by [00:16:00] increasing your awareness daily, and then making a change, and then being present with whatever comes up when you do. Remember, just cause your brain offers up a thought doesn't mean it's true. If my brain tells me I'm not doing enough, I tell it, interesting. And then I sit there for 30 seconds with not enoughness.

I feel what that feels like in my body. I completely let it be there. And I just kind of watch it with curiosity, you know, like a compassion, like a child who's having a tantrum and then it passes. It usually just passes through, or sometimes I help it pass through with some movement, like, like shaking out my hands.

Once I've actually given it some stage time, some presence, and then I continue with my day. Because it's just a human brain being human, with all of its lovable doubts and opinions, I no longer react to it anymore. And you can change your beliefs too. Beliefs are just thoughts that you [00:17:00] think over and over, so choose to redirect your thoughts to what you've intentionally decided to think.

Really, the voice in your head with the most conviction wins. I heard this from an old coach of mine. I love that saying, and I found it to be so true for me and my clients. So yeah, basically, don't make yourself wrong if your habits don't change overnight. Because, you know, habits, by their nature, linger.

So be gentle, but consistent, and watch for the self-sabotaging thought, this isn't working. Whenever you hear that, flip it to, Oh no, this is definitely working and ask your brain to come up with one example. Brains love to answer questions and solve problems. So have it come up with one example. It could be something like, You know, today you didn't just drop what you were doing because of something that a client or a [00:18:00] team member brought up, or it could also be awareness of what did lead you to drop everything.

That's a win to one of my success killers is the thought. Oh, I'll just do this first. It sounds so innocent, right? How could you argue with it? So logical, just get it out of the way. But luckily I've gained awareness and I gained awareness by failing at something, failing at something important that I wanted to do because I'll just do this first.

So that is a win. Even though it may feel like a failure, whenever you can gain awareness, you are a step closer to change. So now when my brain offers up the thought, Oh, I'll just do this first. I'm not surprised. And I can act very intentionally with it. Sometimes that's just a pattern interrupter of some sort, right?

Which really helps create those new neural pathways. Like I mentioned before, I have a client who was trying to think of a [00:19:00] pattern interrupter. And we just, for some reason started using the sound

It was just enough to be funny enough, but also, I don't know what's the word, like unorthodox enough to really do the trick and kind of snap her out of something that she was in. So if that's what works for you, you are free to borrow it, my friend. All right, let's talk energetics. When it comes to the energetics of this pattern, it is all about trust.

When you're tuning out what's around you, when you are indulging in doing this or indulging in the busyness of the mind, it stems from energetic unease. We can't trust or accept, so it's up to us to make things happen or rather to not let bad things happen. If you trusted that your business were going to grow to the extent that you want, regardless, would you [00:20:00] be hustling?

Probably not. If you trusted in your next investment or strategy move, would you be playing the mental tennis of do I, don't I? or do I do it or don't I do it? No. Your brain tricks you into thinking that if you just get these things done or just think this through enough, then you'll be able to take a breather or then you'll feel safe.

But that is not true. Your sense of safety comes from trust, from trusting in yourself or in the universe or in the fact that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Finding your grounding point, right? What you can trust can start to change everything. And that is the key to recalibrating energetically.

What can you trust about this specific situation that you're in? Is there something you can trust about yourself or about other people or about patterns in your life or in your [00:21:00] relationship with the universe? If you keep aligning yourself with the areas in which you do already have trust and safety, and then you keep building up the areas that still have some growth potential, this is how you move into a different frequency that creates new circumstances and opportunities.

What you resist persists and what you focus on grows. So let's just give a little window of air time to where you do trust, where it is. It is certain where it is calm and where things are working out and live from that place a little more frequently so that you can look up, gaze around you and absorb this wild, beautiful ride that you're on.

So in this episode, you learn to prioritize what truly matters so that you can free up time to be present in your life and how to remain mindful throughout your workday [00:22:00] so that you can actually counter logically, though it may seem to skyrocket your business and move forward with confidence and more ease.

All right. I hope you have a fantastic week and I will see you next time.

Ep# 108: My Uncommon Story: Effects of Unguided Entrepreneurship and an Unmanaged Mind

Episode Summary

Have you ever felt like you're waiting for the perfect moment to take the next step in your business, but that moment keeps being slightly beyond your grasp?

In this episode, Jenna delves into how to overcome the mental barriers of creating a business concept or any new business idea, and explores the challenges of doing so without guidance or the skill of managing your mind’s doubts, fears and overthinking. Discover the transformative power of different kinds of coaching focuses and how they can propel your business to new heights and help you reach your true potential.

In this episode you will: 

1. Learn what happens when you base your business solely on passion and how to overcome this common pitfall.

2. Understand the thought patterns that keep you switching from one idea to another and how to establish real momentum and success instead.

3. Discover why a comprehensive coaching approach is the most effective and how it creates the necessary conditions for success in business and life.

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The Uncommon Way is led by business coach Jenna Harrison, who helps women entrepreneurs feel confident, find their ideal clients effortlessly and avoid overwork so they can manifest money and abundance in their business and life.

This podcast empowers female entrepreneurs to overcome imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and limiting beliefs through somatics, mindset, and spirituality, create 7-figure offers, and build an online coaching business with clarity and alignment.

Episode Transcription

You're listening to the Uncommon Way Business and Life Coaching Podcast, the podcast that helps women entrepreneurs get clear on signature offers and strategies that sell themselves so you can lean back and stop the hustle. You will learn to maximize your mindset, messaging, and strategy, and step into the uncommonly successful business and life you are creating. Here's your host, top-ranked business coach and reformed overanalyzer turned Queen of Clarity, Jenna Harrison.

Jenna:
Do you feel like you should be able to figure out business on your own and you shouldn't really need a coach? Or you're stuck in the chicken and egg thing of wanting to wait until certain things happen until you move forward, but then the thing doesn't happen because you don't have someone helping you make it happen? Then this episode's for you.

Hey, welcome back to the Uncommon Way. This is episode 108, which is such an auspicious number. Fun fact, in India, when you need to call in an emergency, you dial 108. Anyway, I have definitely been feeling the auspicious shift, feeling a lot of good energy, seeing it with clients as well, so hopefully you are too. And at minimum, at least this episode will help you start making some really good decisions.

So this episode is part of a series where I share the great lessons I've learned and the mistakes I've made in life, so you can see the context behind what I say in all other podcasts. And luckily, now we're at a turning point in my journey where I begin to focus on entrepreneurship. So there will be a direct tie to your business, and I hope, I sincerely hope, you can learn from my pretty massive mistakes. This is definitely a case of do what I say and not what I've done.

So in this episode, you're going to find out what happens when you try to base your business solely around something that you're passionate about. And you'll learn what it is that keeps us switching business ideas and not doubling down to gain momentum. You'll get the behind the scenes on why I practice and believe so strongly in such a comprehensive style of coaching. And I do want to give you a spoiler alert that in this episode, we are going to be talking about depression, suicidal ideation, and infertility.

We're picking up at a point in my life when I'm in my early 30s, living in Miami Beach, and I have just exited an abusive relationship, and I have the space to think about me. So naturally, my thoughts turn to freedom and entrepreneurship. I had spent my whole life, really, as long as I can remember, thinking I would give anything to just know what I'm here to do, right? What would really fill me up? What would give me meaning? Why have I been placed here on earth? The big questions. And that answer was always so elusive for me.

Anyway, I've talked about that in past episodes, but that's where my mind turned, because that's where my mind always turned. And when I lived in New York City, I'd had a business. It was just taking off. I was doing computer-assisted jewelry design for jewelry manufacturers. But now I look around at that industry and I thought, wow, everything has changed. It's only been a few years, but this is the way I'm perceiving it, right? Software has changed. Processes are different. There's lots of competition now before no one else was doing it. Now lots of people are doing it. So obviously, that is now a terrible business idea.

Nowadays, I know that all of those things prove there's lots of demand and there's still plenty of time for me to get in on the ground floor. And even if I didn't get in on the ground floor and there is lots of competition, I can definitely have a successful business if I focus on creating an offer that's perfect for my specific clients and unlike anything else that they can find anywhere else. So this is just one of many examples of what happens when you don't have business experience and you're just going off of whatever your brain wants to make up. And if you don't have the perspective to know that your brain just makes things up, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's right.

Now to be completely transparent, I notice my brain now a lot in the present, too. That doesn't necessarily stop. My relationship to what it's saying to me has changed. Like, for instance, right now, my family and I are about one month into our move to Spain and my brain keeps telling me how hard things are. But now I think just because it's hard doesn't mean that it's not worth it. Whereas before, I would have thought, okay, the universe is definitely showing me that this is not the path for me, or this is not the way, this is the way things will always be, and I don't want them to always be this way, so I have to find something different.

If you've listened to episode number 64, it is also part of the My Uncommon Story series, and it's called Sex, Drugs, and Flamenco. You know that that is a big part of why I left Spain the first time. Things were really hard. Now, obviously, a lot's changed now. I have a lot more stability and financial cushion, for example, but things are still hard. There are things that money does not insulate you from. It doesn't insulate you from you get to the fully furnished apartment and they're in really hard beds and everybody's sleep deprived. It doesn't insulate you from not being able to buy or lease a car because your attorney didn't tell you you'd need a special identification number for foreigners that you could have gotten before you left the country, but now they're so backed up that it's going to take you forever to get that number here.

It doesn't insulate you from a clerical mistake by your accountants that end up causing you months of problems and jeopardizes your residency application, and it definitely doesn't insulate you from the family dynamics when you're all pent up together and frustrated and jet-lagged. But what has changed the most is that I have tools that I didn't have. I have emotional and mindset tools, and those are the kinds of tools that can change not just the experience of your life, how you're feeling as you're going through hard times, though that alone is something I would trade my house for if I didn't have it, but it can change the direction of your life, right? That is how powerful they are.

The old me would have cut and run. The new me knows exactly why I decided to do this. I can breathe through and manage the obstacles. I can see them as road bumps and not make them mean much more than that, and that's why only now will I end up creating the life that my 23-year-old self longed for.

But back to Miami in my 30s. So after freeing myself from that traumatic relationship, it was time to heal. I'd sold my apartment in New York, I'd purchased the most adorable little bungalow in Miami Beach, and I let myself soak up all that beauty, that tropical vegetation, the sun, the sea, and for the first time had a really large group of friends, men and women, who were just loving life as much as me.

But you know what else I needed? I needed a safe return to sexuality. And in Miami, they show lots of skin, right? I could walk along in a bathing suit top and a skirt on my way to a hot yoga class, and nobody would think anything of it. I could dance the night away at salsa clubs, and I was free to be in my body and have my body be safely appreciated by others. And I didn't realize it at the time, but this was actually critical for my future development because I didn't have the vocabulary for it. I never would have thought of it in this way, but I'm convinced that this is where my understanding really began of how our nervous systems influence our actions, right? And how important it is to be able to be present in your body if you're ever going to tap into your intuition and your wisdom and your true desires, especially in the US, right?

We run around in such a hyped-up fight or flight activity that we miss our genius and we self-sabotage our power. But what I was really longing for and missing as I came back online in myself was travel and freedom. I was enjoying my job as an executive assistant for a top fashion company. I talked about that in the last episode. And my role was very quickly changing there because it was becoming apparent that I was being underutilized. So I was moving into different roles, but it was still a daily corporate grind like I'd had in New York City in my 20s. And I described that before where I was sitting under fluorescent lights and looking out a window and feeling like I should be out there rather than in here.

My longing for freedom and travel was so large, especially after everything I'd been through that I thought about just quitting my job and going around the world and putting up flyers and saying free yoga class and gathering whatever money I could from donations. And I remember I was sitting once having dinner with a friend and I said, yeah, I'm thinking, I don't know, I really am longing to get back to the Mediterranean, maybe Italy or something and just enjoy that living. But I also really want to be furthering my yoga studies in India. And I've just been dying, always called to go to Bali. And I'm thinking, maybe I'll just write a book about that as I travel. And she looked at me and she said, oh, you haven't heard of Eat, Pray, Love, have you?

And I was like, Eat, Pray, What? It had just come out and I had not heard about it, but it was the book that I wanted to write. Not a divorce, but an abusive relationship as the impetus for it. Anyway, I also realized at the same time, though, that my growth edge was really to stay where I was. I'd grown up in the military. I was used to moving every few years. Even as an adult, I'd continued that pattern. And I understood that I needed to learn to move past boredom and to not just change outside circumstances all the time. To keep seeking what I now know is like the dopamine rush and the learning curve and the getting, you know, fitting, settling in and figuring things out and finding new friends. And I'd learned to love that process, which is great. It was a survival technique. I needed it growing up, but I also wanted to not need to keep changing, obviously.

So I really was channeling my energy then into thoughts of entrepreneurship. Remember, I was dismissing this business of computer-assisted jewelry design, but I thought, okay, what I really want is to actually work the gems and the fine metals. So I spent a small fortune on metals and gemstones and started trying to sell them and quickly discovered how challenging it is to manage inventory and manage cash flow with expensive inventory and to be sourcing sales channels and work with their delivery schedules and all the things. So I closed up that business. And then I spent money on becoming a yoga instructor. And I did pick up a regular class or two, but I had no idea how to turn that into full-time income.

And so I'd fill up mountains of journals with lots of ideas for businesses that I'd get really excited about until I'd see all the reasons that business would fail or my brain would get really clever and I'd just come up with a better idea. You see what I'm doing here? Those of you who, like me, have struggled with clarity will feel my pain. And this is what happens when you have an unmanaged mind and you don't realize that just because your brain has a thought, whenever you're trying to change something, those thoughts are usually going to be fear-based or stem from your inner critic. Because there's a part of you that really doesn't want to create change, it wants to stay with what it knows. So just because your brain has a thought does not mean the thought is true. And that acting from those shitty thoughts will never produce the results that you really want.

If my brain told me, you can't do that, then I would believe it. I took that at face value. I guess it can't be done. But no, figure it out. Make it work. You create your own results. And I was very emotionally reactive, which meant that if I had a strong emotion, I reacted in some way to make that go away. I remember once I was asked to substitute a yoga class in a well-known yoga school that I liked to attend and I freaked out. I know in hindsight that I freaked out thinking about failing in front of people that I knew. And so I said no. I actually convinced myself though that I just needed more experience for a while. Seems so reasonable, right? So logical. Like we'll just put it off for a little while until this thing happens. I gain more experience. I gain clarity. I have more money, right? There's so many things that our brain puts up as a reason why we should wait. Oh, I have more time. I've fallen victim to that one before too.

But it's pure emotional reactivity. A circumstance presents itself. You feel an emotional activation and then return to baseline, right? We go back into our cave. So when it comes to this pattern of switching things and really not doubling down to gain momentum, it's really one of two things. It's either this unmanaged mind, right? An emotion that I've talked about or it's a lack of alignment. Something deep within you knows that that's not the right path for you, right? Your brain is getting in the way trying to put you on that path but you know that you're meant for something else. And of course my clients learned to reverse both of those and come out on the other side, clear, decisive and successful, which is where we all want to be. And it only takes having the right tools to get there.

But luckily it wasn't all negative for me because what I was doing was learning so much about business, about different industries, different businesses, what was common amongst them, what you have to think about in different ways and how you build skills that can transfer as you move from business to business. I didn't see it then but of course now I can. And you may be thinking, why didn't you get a coach or a mentor? I honestly had no idea that these people existed. I had never heard of coaching. I'd never heard that you could pay someone to help you build a business. It never occurred to me. But stick around because in a few minutes I'm going to be telling you about when I did learn about these things and still did not take action on it.

I can see now in hindsight, so clearly. I know I keep saying that, I can see in hindsight, I can see in hindsight. And that's really the premise of my whole connect the dots method because the truth is that those things are there for you to see even when you're going through them and you don't necessarily have to wait for hindsight to connect those dots. But usually if we aren't searching for them, we will have to wait for hindsight. And I definitely was not searching for them. But I can see that really I was deeply afraid of failure. And I had no idea because I considered myself so confident. I'd moved to different countries, move states, start over fresh. And I interviewed really well. I mean all the signs were pointing to the fact that I must have total confidence.

But it turns out that when it came to something I really cared about, like whatever I was going to dedicate myself to, I was scared to death that I was going to fail. And so it was, I would get all the accolades. I'd still get people saying, oh, Jenna, she has so much potential, right? Or if only she could figure out what she wanted to do, watch out world. So I still got all those props, but I didn't actually have to go out and take the risk. So this lack of clarity was a perfect place for me to stay and hang out because it was so win-win.

So this is about the point when I met Ben, my now husband. And since I do get more personal in these episodes, and since he's going to play a very important role as my development as a coach in the way I think, I'm going to segue now. I'm going to tell you two funny stories about meeting him. And then I'll resume the entrepreneurship story.

So I was in Miami Beach. He was stationed in Korea. And we met on an old dating site, one of the first called eHarmony. You had to fill out this huge long questionnaire, like 40 minutes. It was supposed to be a personality assessment. And then it was going to match you with people that were really great matches for you. So I remember I would get invitations, so-and-so wants to connect, so-and-so wants to connect. I was actually talking to one man that I was convinced was Mr. Right. And so I was not answering these invitations until I saw Benjamin from Korea wants to connect. And I thought, it caught my eye, right? I now know from social media copy, it's a pattern interrupter. It stopped my eyes from scrolling through the emails and it was so like unexpected. Benjamin from Korea, so I had to click it open.

And then I found out that he was a soldier stationed there in Korea. Well, I grew up in the military and I was feeling so bad for him. He was, I don't know, mentioning something about, I don't know, I don't remember how it came to pass, but he was on the DMZ in the winter and I was feeling so bad for him that I thought, oh, he really needs a pen pal. Like, of course I'm not going to turn down his request to connect. We joke now, like that's the start of our relationship was my pity for him. But as we got to, and the good thing is, we had six months to get to know each other over email and phone before we actually met, which was so perfect for me because I was a little skittish coming off of that other relationship. A few years had passed since then by that point, but I was still pretty skittish. And so I had built up so much trust with him by the time we actually met in person.

And the funny thing about meeting in person was he ended up then getting stationed in Texas, which is about an hour and a half flight from Florida. And so we were deciding, is he going to come out to Miami, which of course is a much more fun place to hang out than in the middle of Texas where he was stationed at Fort Hood, which is outside of Austin. And so we were thinking about it, but I had this fear in the back of my mind, he could just be a serial killer, right? And so I didn't want him to find out any information about where I hung out or where I live.

Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the Uncommon Way. I hope you found today's story inspiring and informative. Remember, your journey to clarity and success is unique, and sometimes it takes navigating through mistakes and lessons to find your true path. If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review and share it with someone who might benefit from our message. Until next time, keep striving for your uncommon way of success.

Ep# 107: How to Overcome the Fear of Letting Go and Facing Negative Consequences Using ‘Flexible Frame’: a Strategy for High Achieving Women Entrepreneurs’ Deep Fear

Episode Summary

Do you ever feel like taking your foot off the gas in your business will make everything fall apart?

This episode dives into a common thought pattern that keeps high-performing women entrepreneurs overworking and overstressing. Discover a top-ranked business coach’s favorite strategy for helping her clients shift their mindset in this area and create successful businesses and balanced lives without the constant hustle and deep-seated fears.

In this episode you will: 

1. Identify and break one of the principal thought loops holding you back from achieving your full potential.

2. Discover a powerful and simple technique to help anyone, from clients to family members, achieve major breakthroughs.

3. Cultivate a mindset that supports a thriving business and a fulfilling personal life.

Don't wait—play this episode now to gain insight on overcoming hustle culture and mastering a more fulfilling business approach!

Schedule a call with Jenna about joining the Clarity Accelerator to dial in signature offers and strategies and a first-rate mindset.    

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The Uncommon Way is led by business coach Jenna Harrison, who helps women entrepreneurs feel confident, find their ideal clients effortlessly and avoid overwork so they can manifest money and abundance in their business and life.

This podcast empowers female entrepreneurs to overcome imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and limiting beliefs through somatics, mindset, and spirituality, create 7-figure offers, and build an online coaching business with clarity and alignment.

Episode Transcription

[00:00:00] Do you secretly feel like if you aren't working constantly in your business, or at least stressing constantly in your business, that everything will fall apart, and therefore you should have been more responsible? Then this episode is going to rock your world.

You're listening to the Uncommon Way Business and Life Coaching Podcast. The podcast that helps women entrepreneurs get clear on signature offers and strategies that sell themselves. So you can lean back and stop the hustle.

You will learn to maximize your mindset, messaging, and strategy, and step into the uncommonly successful business and life you are creating. Here's your host. Top ranked business coach and reformed over analyzer turned Queen of Clarity, Jenna Harrison.

Welcome back to the Uncommon Way. I'm recording [00:01:00] this from my new office in Spain. So for those of you who've been around here for a while, you know that this project is a year in the making. It's years in the dreaming, but one year in the making, because a year ago we were visiting here in Mallorca and decided that we were going to make it our home.

And now it is. So I'll tell you about that more in a personal episode, tell you how it's going here, but today I'm going to share something from a recent coaching call, because it's something that everyone needs to hear. In this episode, you will gain visibility on the common thought loop that keeps you overworking, overstressing, and playing small in life.

You will vastly increase your personal power with just one shift in how you think. And for those of you who are coaches or do any kind of coaching in life, which actually everyone does, whether it's with [00:02:00] your children or employees or bosses, or sometimes friends and family, you'll walk away with a powerful and easy technique to help create massive epiphanies and new results.

Now, I've toyed with the idea before of taking excerpts from coaching calls and placing them here so that you can all hear it in action. And that is actually a very, very effective way to really help people decide if you're the coach for them. But I've always held back because I want my clients to feel like it's a great opportunity.

fully private area and they can be completely vulnerable and let it all hang out. I mean, I can't tell you how many times I've heard people say, you know, maybe this isn't a business coaching topic, but the thing on my mind is, and really there is no separation. We don't separate life from business because everything affects everything.

So instead [00:03:00] of playing recordings what I'm gonna do is just tell you the story and paraphrase the story from my point of view 

So I was on a call with a client and was saying, well, I don't know if you've heard me talk about my client Allie, who had a really fantastic launch, and throughout the whole process, she was out snowboarding, and wasn't even looking at her results.

She'd always had a goal of reaching 500 members in her membership, but had been at around 450, and just couldn't really break through that last level. And in this launch, she ended up blowing past that goal. I think it was 550 or something, 545.

And when my client heard that, she said, yeah, but you know what I think about when you say that is, but what if the launch hadn't gone well? What would that have meant? Now I hear similar questions to this so often at each stage of business, right? If I take my foot off the gas a little and then I lose [00:04:00] sales, what would that mean? But if clients get disappointed or they don't get the results, what does that mean?

But if I lose followers or my audience gets angry, or I'm no longer respected, then what does that say about me?

Or what does that say about this decision, or this way I've been working in my business? And as a coach, you always need to listen to what your client is saying, of course, but you really need to listen to what they are not saying, because that's going to highlight the limitations of their beliefs and their understanding.

And when my client asked me that question, what would it mean if the launch had flopped while the other client was out snowboarding, the thing she's not saying, the deep underlying belief is, I believe it can only mean one thing. As if everyone around could look at this objectively and all agree, Allie was irresponsible and outplaying [00:05:00] and it's her fault for being so silly because obviously you can't have a successful launch that way.

Now this is why we need coaches to help us see what we're not seeing because we will never on our own. See it. This is why I will never be without a coach, because I'll never be outside of my own brain. As much as I try, damn it, I will never be outside of my own brain. And even a brain surgeon can't do surgery on herself.

So here's what you can do if you notice that someone you're coaching or speaking to is trapped in a fixed frame meaning like this. I had her walk through what other meanings Allie might have come up with if, you know, that launch were less successful than anticipated. And not everyone is able to just spit out other ways of thinking about a topic, right?

Sometimes you will be in that position where your brain has gone into [00:06:00] gridlock and you just cannot see beyond that one meaning that probably you were brought up to believe. But in this case, she did. She was like, well, If I were her, I guess I could think, maybe my expectations of how many people would buy were off.

So there was nothing actually wrong with the launch, it was just my expectations. Or maybe there was something else wrong with the launch and it really had nothing to do with the snowboarding.

So I said, okay, so it sounds like the question isn't what would it have meant, but what might she have chosen to make it mean? Knowing that she is the only one, ultimately, who can create that meaning for herself.

And we talked about that for a bit, and then I gave her some possibilities that she hadn't thought of yet, because that type of thinking is new. And when you're not used to thinking a certain way, your brain's not just going to come up with it automatically. 

After all, we are not taught [00:07:00] to work wiser, not harder.

 Of course, hustle culture seems to be increasing. It seems to be endemic. I'm seeing it here in, believe it or not, even in Spain in certain places.

But also, I was reading, I get this, I have this thing called the baby app, and I got it when my son was a newborn, but they still send me emails every week or so, talking about my child's stage of development based on his age. And there was one article that came out recently, maybe some of you moms, if you're on it, you saw it too, but it was talking about gifted children.

And saying how so often, We want to be careful to say, Oh, you're in this class because you're so smart or because you're really gifted, because then they can feel like if they fail that, Oh, what if I'm not as smart as everyone thinks I am? I actually experienced that exact thing for myself when I was growing up.

So the app suggested instead that you say to them, You're in this class [00:08:00] because you worked harder than everybody else. Now I see where it's coming from, right? It's coming from Carol Dweck's seminal work on fixed versus growth mindsets. However, what we are also unconsciously doing is teaching our children that working harder is the key to their success.

I, of course, want to teach my child that working wiser is the key to his success, and choosing his priorities and where he wants to focus his effort, and which talents he wants to develop, and which ones he really doesn't.

But that's not how I was brought up.

I was brought up that hard work pays off, and you probably were too.

So some of the meanings that I suggested were what if she had made it mean that she just hadn't learned to do it yet in that way?

She hadn't learned to have [00:09:00] a successful launch while she was also letting herself go to the slopes each day for a little bit. So what if there is no one right way to run your business? I know, this freaks out my clients who are doctors and lawyers, because they are like, no, there must be a textbook to tell me how to do this, and there isn't.

So scary.

I was speaking with someone the other day, a lawyer, and she was saying, yes, it's like I am building the plane while it's flying and not letting it crash. I'm like, yep, you are doing it right.

So if there's no one right way to do things, then maybe doing things with less hustle is just a skill that you need to master, rather than an irresponsible way of doing business, or the lazy way, or whatever word your inner critic wants to use. Some people might feel a little prickly about creating a more leaned [00:10:00] back business.

But what you may not realize is that if you can do this. You can do anything. You've learned to mold reality to what you want it to be. You've learned that what your mind tells you isn't necessarily true. And that you have power to create your uncommon way just with your mind. If you understand how to manage your mind and you've learned the skill of creating results.

Any result. Because while I love having a coach to help me see what I'm not seeing and help me with little lightbulb realizations. Oh, those are so fun, aren't they? The real reason I have a coach is because I want to be continually growing my power. My personal power. And we forget that the only person who decides meaning is us.

We totally give our power away when we slip into fixed frames [00:11:00] of meaning. We give it back to our parents, or our teacher, or magazines, or the news, or whoever's criticizing us, or whatever part of our brain happens to be criticizing us, rather than cultivating our power. So if this is you, if you know that you too would have heard Ali's story and then in the next instant a part of you would have felt that danger signal and said, oh, that sounds risky because what would it have meant if the launch had failed?

Then mental agility is the number one skill you need to learn because it affects literally every decision you make and everything you do. Imagine the difference between someone believing there's one specific meaning about snowboarding during a launch, and then having low numbers, and someone who doesn't.

The first person probably goes into a shame spiral,

and then [00:12:00] ends up creating even lower numbers, 

a far less pleasing life. The other person rolls up their sleeves and gets to work. Think about how it affects person A's stress levels, how they then write copy, how they then show up for their clients, how their personal relationships look, how their health starts to look, what kinds of clients they call in when their underlying vibrations are fear and scarcity.

Think about how that accumulates over time versus person B, who's moving forward confidently and calmly, like a boss, and the positive results that you can create in all of those same categories. Everyone worries about the one way they might mess up if they change, rather than all the ways they're currently messing up by not changing, by not thinking outside of the box.

But not you. You obviously are called to do things differently or you wouldn't be here [00:13:00] listening still. So, if you've ever thought about how you wish this podcast were two way so that you could have me reflecting back what you are not seeing and you could ask me questions directly and get my mentorship directly and I could teach you to manage your mind and show up more powerfully Oh, and of course, we'd also create some kick ass messaging like we did for Allie and her lunch that allowed her to go out and snowboard.

 I invite you to be part of our world here at The Uncommon Way.

I'll teach you how to create the life you want and the business you want, rather than to keep repeating the patterns that currently exist.

We begin enrolling for our new mastermind power and potency in August. We'll link to that page in the show notes. And if you're not sure if that's the best way to coach with me, then just schedule a call with me and we'll talk it through. [00:14:00] I'm 100 percent invested in you working with me in the way that's the highest value for you.

working Okay friends, in this episode you learned to upend fixed frame meaning to create more personal power and a far more exciting self directed life. I hope you enjoyed it, and now I am off to the beach. Talk to you next week. 

Thanks for joining us here at The Uncommon Way. If you want more tips and resources for developing clarity in your business and life, including the Clarity First strategy for growing and scaling your business, visit theuncommonway. com. See you next time.

Ep# 106: How to Break the Pattern of Difficult = Successful for High Achieving Women Entrepreneurs

Episode Summary

Have you ever felt like a part of you feels more worthy when things are difficult, and maybe you’re contributing to the overwhelm and chaos in your life? What if you could detox that pattern and create a totally different life?

In this episode, you'll hear from Lauren, a former engineer turned interior designer who was experiencing overwhelm and chaos while her business suffered the consequences. Her story is truly inspiring and will resonate deeply with anyone who has ever felt like they're not fully achieving their potential despite their best efforts.

In this episode you will: 

1. Learn to detox your life and business to create a smoother, more successful workflow.

2. Gain confidence in your decision-making to help propel your business forward.

3. Understand how high-achieving women unknowingly self-sabotage by creating difficult situations, and how to reverse that tendency.

Don’t spend another day making you business more difficult than it has to be -- press play now to detox your life and business, and start making powerful, confident changes today!

Schedule a call with Jenna about joining the Clarity Accelerator to dial in signature offers and strategies and a first-rate mindset.    

https://www.theuncommonway.com/schedule 

Sign up here to get on the waitlist for Power & Potency, the new mastermind for highly accomplished women entrepreneurs, and hear all new information as it's released: 

 https://www.theuncommonway.com/waitlist

Leave a voicemail for Jenna and get her personalized advice for your business: 

 https://www.theuncommonway.com/talk

Find Jenna on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/theuncommonway/

The Uncommon Way is led by business coach Jenna Harrison, who helps women entrepreneurs feel confident, find their ideal clients effortlessly and avoid overwork so they can manifest money and abundance in their business and life.

This podcast empowers female entrepreneurs to overcome imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and limiting beliefs through somatics, mindset, and spirituality, create 7-figure offers, and build an online coaching business with clarity and alignment.

Episode Transcription

[00:00:00] What does it really look like to move from feeling like a hot mess to feeling capable and powerful?

You're listening to the Uncommon Way business and life coaching podcast. The podcast that helps women entrepreneurs get clear on signature offers and strategies that sell themselves. So you can lean back and stop the hustle. You will learn to maximize your mindset, messaging and strategy and step into the uncommonly successful business and life you are creating.

Here's your host. Top ranked business coach and reformed over analyzer turned Queen of Clarity, Jenna Harrison.

Welcome back to The Uncommon Way. I've got a really fun show for you today where you'll hear from my client, Lauren, who has detoxed so many things that just weren't serving her and is really transforming her business to make it [00:01:00] work for her and flow more easily. Lauren, welcome. I'm so glad you're here. Let's talk about what was going on with you that even had you looking for a business coach. so much. Oh, it was like one of those middle of the night things.

Um, I had a rather dramatic entree into this period of my life. We all go through phases in life and mine involved a lot of like personal strife and I don't know, anxiety and antidepressant. And I had been a practicing interior designer before that period of my life and COVID hit and there was a lot of things that including having two kids.

And We had moved to Oregon and I was like ready to start my business again, and I just could not get traction. I was super frustrated. I had tried a number of different resources to really try to jumpstart the process, and I was not succeeding and not [00:02:00] getting the clientele that I wanted, though they were lovely.

They were just not the direction I was trying to go. And it really was like a middle of the night, okay, so there's something has got to give here. And I think I've mentioned this to you before. I think you were like the second or third page based on the search criteria that I had used. Right. Which I couldn't tell you now, but I found you and I read your website and I was like, it was like a full body.

Yes. Like everything in me was like, this is my person. This is who I need to talk to. And so I sent you a message. I don't think I even sent messages out to any other coaches and you got back to me and it was like, okay, this is. It's crazy and I'm not making enough money in my business to like pay for this.

And yet I'm going to figure it out and I'm going to do it because it's like this or I just have to go out and get a job because either this or I have to give up on being a business owner and an entrepreneur. I remember you [00:03:00] had a very keen awareness at the beginning, even when you were filling out the questions before our call, where you knew that you were the thing getting in your way.

It's And not everyone has that understanding. It's like you're walking down a road and you see this giant boulder sitting in the middle of the road. And you're like, what do I even do here? Like the woods are dense on either side. What on earth is happening? And you look up and you're like, why does that look familiar?

And you look around and you're like, Oh, why is my face carved in that rock? It's literally me. I am the person. I cannot pass through here because I am literally the person standing in the way. Yeah.

How do you think things that you haven't thought and do things ways you haven't done them and just get out of your patterns and ways of being? I think it's great to let people know that you are a person that they can absolutely relate to because you went from being this high [00:04:00] achiever, engineer, doing all the right things to then taking a step in the direction of your own self interest and what was actually moving and meaningful to you by moving into a more creative path, an interior design, Then there was still this legacy thinking that we needed to start detoxing in order for you to really blossom in your own way of being.

Hey, if you want true clarity about your secret sauce, your people, your best way of doing business and how you talk about your offer, then I invite you to join us in the Clarity Accelerator. I'll teach you to connect all the dots, the dots that have always been there for you, so that you can show up like you were born for exactly this.

Come join us and supercharge every other tool or tactic you'll ever learn, from Facebook ads to manifestation. Just go to [00:05:00] theuncommonway. com slash schedule and set up a time to talk. I can't wait to be your coach. Yeah, engineering was hard. So I became a materials engineer. I specialized in titanium. It's terribly nerdy and I loved it, but I worked in aerospace manufacturing.

And for any woman out there who is working in a business that is not friendly to women, believe me, I know where you are coming from. And I spent two years trying to figure out what that lateral move was going to be, because I knew I wanted to leave engineering. And my husband actually was like, why don't you do interior design?

And I was like, what am I going to pick out, Kurt? Like, what is this thing? And we lived in LA at the time. And so I took a class and it happened to feed into this certificate program that fed into a master's program. And I took one class and I called him and I was like, okay, so I'm done. Like, this is what we're doing now.

It's like finding your website. Clearly there's a pattern here. [00:06:00] And four years later, I had my master's in interior architecture. And yet, like you, that's not the end of the story, right? That seems like the happy ending to the story. And yet, then I went through the process of trying to learn how to become an entrepreneur.

And that education, that ongoing education is insane and humbling and incredible. So well said. Because we do. We're so used to just Achieve whatever checkmark you need to achieve now. And then we get into entrepreneurship and we're like, what is this? What is this mess? Yes. Which is why it's such an amazing journey because we really get to find out who we are and how we want to do things and step into a really, a more powerful orientation 

each of us in our own ways are going through multiple individual experiences of overwhelm that maybe in a singular form would be fine to handle, but you [00:07:00] still have to feed yourself and do the laundry and take care of the dog and mow the lawn and manage the people and plan the retirement party.

It's exhausting. Yes. So for you, I think what had happened was you and I had been working on Reinvention work, specifically, and detoxing some of these patterns that we were recognizing weren't helpful, and stepping into what would be possible and what you could create, what you could call in terms of really thinking bigger.

And then there was this point where it all just started, like you call it a flow on effect, where it all just started happening. We started seeing evidence of it start popping up. Can you talk about that? So I have primarily been a residential designer working with people on their homes and I have had amazing success with some of my clients.

I still have clients in LA though I am currently in Portland and have loved that part of it. [00:08:00] But I had a friend reach out to me, I had done some work for him and his wife who's also a very good friend of mine on their home and he decided to build his own plastic surgery practice and he was like, I have a designer that I'm working with who does doing the space planning.

But. This is a high end plastic surgery practice and it needs to be reflected as such. And so he and I started working together and built out this design that was just like amazing. I don't know, like it's rocker ish, we're using like black granite, but it just is so aligned with his vision. He started out with, I want this particular style and the more he and I talked about what his personal brand was and like who he wanted to be in this practice.

It became something completely different and it was a really amazing learning experience for me because I was stepping into commercial design, but also because it made me realize that I [00:09:00] had this really special way of handling my clients in that I was able to, even in the commercial space where it can feel very, everything's like copy paste, really nailed down what his personal style was and help him reflect that in his practice.

And that space is under construction now, and it's going to be so amazing, I'm so excited about it. I love that because I'm helping you step away from the shoulds for you and really create something very cool and interesting and powerful, and then you're helping your clients step away from the shoulds and create something really unique for them and individual and powerful.

Yes. Yes. And it ripples out. Yes. Yes. Yeah. So there were other ways too. So you were bringing on different clients. I remember you had told me, we just got on a call and you're like, Oh, and I decided to systematize all of the backend procedures for my business. Yes. I [00:10:00] signed up for Dub Sotto and I've started creating all of these emails and it was such a huge break and departure from what before would have been.

The hot mess, challenged mom who's running around with like, whatever food, and just doing her best, and I remember once you had this really powerful image of you being at a park talking to another mom, and like, you had one child on one hip doing one thing, and the other one's being crazy, running around doing something else, and like, you were in the middle of this chaos, just, yep, this is just the way it is.

And we started playing with that, right? We're like, what if that no longer is the way it is in my life? And who would that woman be? What would she be putting into place? And then I remember, yes, there was that day where you came back and you're like, oh, and I've just decided to completely systematize everything and make this.

And I'm like, that is what future Lauren would do. Yeah. And it like so much of the work that we did [00:11:00] created in me a willingness to. Lean into the possibility that it could be easier. I no longer felt the need to make things difficult as a sign of success. And I realized that it's okay for me to automate things that can be automated well, to reflect my brand properly, to communicate with clients, especially those who are onboarding easily with a minimum of effort so that I can focus.

on the ways in which I bring the most value, which is doing the design work. It's not sending out the welcome email. And being in your most creative place when you do that high end design work. Yes. So it really, I feel like so much of the work that we did created the room for the possibilities of it being different.

Like it wasn't necessarily that we laid out a plan, right? We just literally played with the idea that I [00:12:00] could. Do things differently, and that could be better than where I am now, even if I can't imagine it that way, it just, it could be, maybe it'll be terrible, but maybe it'll be amazing. And that amount of breathing room was exactly what my brain needed to start spinning off in all directions.

And I have really spun into many directions. Like, you know, me, I love tech. I love the nerdy, like, how do I make this work? Well. There's always a different app every time you talk. I always have an app. Every time. I'm like, have you seen this app? Have you seen this app? But what it has created is, I realized that I was willing to invest financially in certain things.

But somehow I wanted to cheap out on creating the proper flow for my business, which is silly. Like it was such a mental block. Right. Because that's what a person who's running around in hot mess and a [00:13:00] part of you potentially wanting to perpetuate that hot mess ness would never organize the shit out of the back end of their business.

Who wants to pay for software that works? I mean, honestly, that sounds like a terrible idea. So yeah. Yeah. Okay. And that's what I love seeing with you all, are those little breakthroughs when the evidence starts coming back in terms of what you've integrated. Not just what you've thought about, uh, hypothetically maybe, but when it starts sinking into your bones and you're like, it maybe started with the way you were showing up with your kids or it started with the way you were, I remember doing your hair and getting dressed, but then all of a sudden you're just making decisions in your business.

That align with that future person and like confidently making them like I might need to change this later but this is the right decision for me right now and Confidently making business decisions for me was like an unattainable unattainable [00:14:00] dream It felt very unachievable It felt like I was constantly skating on this really thin ice and I could never see where I might break through and plunge down into the water.

Making any sort of business decision confidently was a weird experience for me. And yet, because we had created room for the possibilities of so many positive things, once it finally clicked and it happened, it was like, Oh, Of course, I would do that. Of course, I would take care of this part of my business.

Of course, I would serve my clients in this way. And of course, I would then find that I feel that I am worth more to my clients. And of course, I would then reflect that in my prices. That's right. You've raised your prices. Significantly. In fact. Yes. Yes. Really had no pushback on that. No friction. None. Who knew?

Literally nobody is like, that's too expensive. Everybody's like, oh, where [00:15:00] do I sign? I'm like, clearly should have done this a while ago. 

We've had so many conversations, Jenna, and like the bits that you remember sometimes are very different than the bits that I remember. So, I remember this moment of clarity where you said, my ideal clients are the ones who want their house to look like what two years from now will be all over Instagram, or three years from now will be all over Instagram.

So not the ones that want to look like everybody else, and I just think that anyone that's drawn to this podcast and the name The Uncommon Way is really looking to, so a lot of those people. Want help with their homes and the space that surrounds them and they should talk to you. That's what I'm trying to say Please talk to me.

That's great Also, like my drive for design has always been how do I take this individual? this imperfect and beautiful and [00:16:00] incredible individual and make their house feel like You walk in and you're like, Oh, this is you in your like most ideal state in that state where you have had the coach and you have done the work and you've built this great life that you are proud of and comfortable in.

And that's the space that you walk into. We have such different businesses, but we're all doing the same work. It's all, it's all the work of people. And life, and individuality, and success, and artistry, and growth. And authenticity, and growth, and stepping into who you're here to be, and, oh my gosh, so awesome.

And generally being badasses. I mean, let's be honest. Oh, Lauren, it was so great having you on. Thank you for taking the time. Thank you again for having me. It's always wonderful to talk with you.

Thanks for joining us here at The Uncommon Way. If you want more tips and resources for developing clarity in your business and life, including the Clarity First strategy [00:17:00] for growing and scaling your business, visit theuncommonway. com. See you next time.

Ep# 105:Why Contemplating What Might Have Been Is The Key To Becoming Who You Want To Be

Episode Summary

Have you ever found yourself repeating the same patterns and not seeing new results?

This episode of the Uncommon Way dives deep into why your current mindset might be holding you back and how shifting your thinking can untangle patterns and create new results.

In this episode you will learn:

1. The secret process for reinventing yourself and accelerating your business growth.

2. The practical steps to expand your mind and consider new possibilities you never thought possible.

3. Gain insights into breaking free from limiting beliefs and conditioning that have kept you playing small.

Tune in now to transform your mindset and elevate your business to the next level—click play and start your journey today!

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 https://www.theuncommonway.com/talk

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The Uncommon Way is led by business coach Jenna Harrison, who helps women entrepreneurs feel confident, find their ideal clients effortlessly and avoid overwork so they can manifest money and abundance in their business and life.

This podcast empowers female entrepreneurs to overcome imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and limiting beliefs through somatics, mindset, and spirituality, create 7-figure offers, and build an online coaching business with clarity and alignment.

Episode Transcription

[00:00:00] How do you get outside of your head when your brain, by default, is inside your head? 

You're listening to the Uncommon Way business and life coaching podcast. The podcast that helps women entrepreneurs get clear on signature offers and strategies that sell themselves so you can lean back and stop the hustle. You will learn to maximize your mindset, messaging, and strategy, and step into the uncommonly successful business and life you are creating.

Here's your host,

Hey, welcome back to the Uncommon Way. Let's dive into it. Today, I want to share the sequence of how I walk clients through their reinvention process. Here's [00:01:00] what we'll be covering. Why you can't create new results with the same brain you have today, so you have got to start with changing yourself, or you'll drastically decelerate your timeline for whatever you would like to accomplish.

You'll learn how, tactically, to start expanding your mind to think about possibilities you have never considered. And finally, how to bring these radical shifts into your business in the most strategic ways we all think that we are swimming in an ocean of possibilities. But the truth is, it's like we're in a fishbowl. In the ocean. And that fishbowl is the way that we've been thinking, the way that we're used to thinking, and the way that we narrow our possibilities through that frame of reference. I see examples of this every day.

And I know that even a brain surgeon can't do surgery on [00:02:00] herself.

Now, the biology of the human brain is to run on autopilot. We couldn't possibly get through the day if we were having to process every bit of information and analyze and make new decisions. So, our brain tries to help us out by cataloging knowledge that it knows and helping us create these lenses and these filters so that we don't have to do so much heavy lifting with every decision and every thought.

Unfortunately, when we're trying to create something new, it's challenging because we have this propensity to stay with the status quo and keep seeing things the way that we've been seeing them. Because, statistically, for survival, it made more sense to err on the side of caution and to keep running on the assumptions that we've always had.

But that is not the way of creators and visionaries who want new things and want to stretch themselves. And [00:03:00] so just like the examples I gave you before, Typically, when we break down the most effective ways to move forward for my clients and really reach that next level that we're seeking, it becomes obvious that something we've been holding near and dear or that we just think is such a part of us or the thing that guarantees our success is really inhibiting progress.

And I believe that is because Entrepreneurship is the greatest spiritual and personal development journey for women. We always run smack into the parts of us that most need to heal or be released or be transcended. It's par for the course when women have so much conditioning that runs directly contrary to the most necessary entrepreneurial traits and skill sets, like taking up space and owning your gifts.

And charging money rather than just giving everything away for free. Developing [00:04:00] risk avoidance. All of those are what a good woman does. And so it's challenging to flip the script. And that's why when we look at studies and statistics that tell us things like Women are less inclined to apply for a job interview, for which they are partially qualified than a man is, or only 2 percent of women owned businesses are seven figure businesses, whereas 30 percent of male owned businesses are seven figure businesses.

A fantastic book that will just hit you over the head with all of these very well linked studies that demonstrate this type of conditioning is Rachel Rogers book, We Should All Be Millionaires. Really just the first chapter or two. Where she's laying all of this out is mind blowing. And you start realizing, oh, when I think maybe I'm not business savvy, there may [00:05:00] not be any basis to that.

It is interesting that women outperform men with investment performance. But we've inherited all these beliefs, and they don't serve us, and they keep us playing small. There are many personal experiences that form our own fishbowl, too, right? Maybe something that happened in junior high. Maybe behavior that you observed from your parents. So what are the beliefs and ways of being that serve me rather than serve society or serve the patriarchy?

Or serve my parents. What serves me? But before anything, you gotta be willing to let your old way of being go. Even though that feels threatening, like you may not succeed if you do that. You've gotta invite reinvention rather than staying with what has worked until now. It's not that it was necessarily wrong.

It got you where you are. It's just not where you're going. I've [00:06:00] found this reinvention process to be such rocket fuel for women's success that I've created an entire new module in the Clarity Accelerator for it. It's now the very first work you'll learn to do in that program. It used to be the work that I was doing with my private clients, until I saw such consistent mind blowing change, women blowing past membership goals that they'd had for a decade, building their business in record time.

Creating the new business they'd been holding off on, or the seven figure business they'd dreamed of. And it became apparent that I needed to get this into the hands of more women. 

So to sum up, there is a huge ocean of possibilities available for you in your business, and by the nature of your brain, you're only scratching the surface of what's available. And your life can get so much richer, better, bigger, but you need to be the one to seek it out and do the work to step into it.

And don't worry. It's time to get tactical. [00:07:00] So now I'm going to give you two really powerful prompts that are going to grease the wheels and get your mind used to stretching into these directions that it's not used to and really build that muscle for yourself. Hey, if you want true clarity about your secret sauce, your people, your best way of doing business and how you talk about your offer, then I invite you to join us in the Clarity Accelerator.

See I'll teach you to connect all the dots. The dots that have always been there for you. So that you can show up like you were born for exactly this. Come join us and supercharge every other tool or tactic you'll ever learn. From Facebook ads to manifestation. Just go to theuncommonway.com/schedule and set up a time to talk.

I can't wait to be your coach. Okay. Number one is, what are five possibilities from your past that you never considered? Now, in hindsight, you [00:08:00] can see it was possible, but it just never crossed your mind. I like to use the example of Rodeo Clown. It never occurred to me that I could have been a Rodeo Clown.

Now, a lot of my clients tend to go a little deeper with this, but really do stretch your brain. Just see, like, you could have skipped college. Maybe you could have been into polyamory rather than the monogamous marriage you have now. Maybe there's some athletic pursuit that you never even considered for yourself because you had a belief that you weren't athletic.

Go ahead and pause this. And take a minute to come up with three to five examples of possibilities that you did not live. Great. Okay, why did we start with the past when we're talking about reinventing the future? It's because you know more now. You are a different person than you were then. And I want you to see how much you've [00:09:00] already changed and broadened your perspective.

So if that change is possible in the ten or however many years between now and then, Why can't it happen much more quickly for you going forward? We know it's going to happen, but let's help accelerate it. And let's choose intentionally, again, rather than being on autopilot. And then there's another reason we went to the past, and that's that it's a lot safer for us.

We can't change the past. It's already happened. So we're not really going to do the things. What's the harm in playing? But now, I'm going to ask you to do the same for future possibilities. You don't have to pause, right? You can just reflect on it while you're brushing your teeth. Mindset work doesn't have to take work. You don't have to block out time in your day for it. You just have to open yourself to musing over it. Um, in the shower or when you're walking your dog or brushing your teeth. [00:10:00] And try to let yourself be equally as open with what's possible in the future as you were in the past.

Again, we're just building this muscle right now. And you don't have to do any of those things, obviously. But that form of thinking will lead you to more creative, visionary, out of the box ways of being. 

Alright, here's your second prompt, which helps really bring that possibility more directly into your business today. Let's just imagine you were a sorceress who could wave a magic wand and work with any type of person you want to. This person's already a big fan, there's zero convincing required, they're just the most exciting kind of person you can imagine working with, and they are hanging on your every word.

Now, what would you say to them about the work you're going to do together? You can imagine this as a conversation, or imagine writing a letter, or creating a social media post. But [00:11:00] in this ocean of possibility, where these clients exist, what would you say to them about what comes next? Oh! I'm giving myself tingles here!

I hope you're getting them, too. Because this is the basis of everything else you'll create. Before you can reverse engineer the copy, the offers, the strategy. You need clear vision. You need to be open to what's possible, and you need to desire it enough to be willing to make some changes to the status quo, which leads into our third tip of the day, which might seem a little out there for some of you, but that's okay because this episode is all about stretching possibility.

We tend to walk through our businesses in a series of have tos. Well, because this is what's possible. I have to do this because these are my acquired skills. And this is what I imagine the most that people will pay for, and these are all the resources I have at this moment, I [00:12:00] have to have this business, or target these people, or use this strategy.

I just got off the phone with a client of mine who was thinking about her next iteration, and she was talking about creating websites, and in her frame of reference, she lives up in the Seattle area, so it was either the tech savvy startups, Or, it was the small kind of mom and pop business owner that would be her two clients.

And I just said, but what about all of these other ones that also have this really strong vision and mission, but they just don't know how to express it visually? They just know how to bring it forward. And I started naming off a few, like this Burst company. Have you heard of this? It's all dental products. It cracks me up.

It's refillable dental floss so you don't need to keep buying plastic containers over and over. And it's also like black and with charcoal in it and there are all these different reasons why [00:13:00] they have up level dental floss. And all different dental hygiene products. I love it so much. I'm such a gimmick girl. And these are businesses that might have had , a strong vision and a strong way of thinking about what they wanted to bring into the world, but not known how to do that visually 

 we tend to filter our decisions through this lens, right? And it's a lens that's inherently limiting. It's like when we're looking for the perfect leaf. And for those of you who don't get that reference, you can listen to my episode number two, The Decision Tree, which talks about the incorrect way that we are taught to make decisions and how to start making much more powerful, easeful, and aligned decisions.

Is that we tend to try and find a perfect leaf on a tree by going leaf by leaf and then comparing and contrasting and thinking, I could do this, but I could also do that. Well, here are all the pros, here are all the cons. And it [00:14:00] really sends our brains into gridlock, and I believe goes against our nature.

Versus, what is the trunk of that tree, right? What am I really trying to create? And then, when the branches split off. You just go with the strongest branch. And then when those split off, you go with the strongest branch. And you keep following this until you get to your leaf. It's just a completely different way of moving through your decision making process that feels just completely different.

So when you leave behind the have tos and you open yourself instead to what you want and what is possible for you. And you're willing to work towards that, of course, because we only want to use the smartest of business strategies to bring this into existence, right? This is not just about hoping and crossing your fingers at all.

But when you start from here and you flip the [00:15:00] script from, what do I have to do? Into, what if I can create whatever I want? You step into what I call Yes, and energy. And you unleash a torrent of personal power, it gives you tremendous energy and capacity to go kick ass, but it's also magnetic because people want to be around the brilliant, confident person that you are showing up as.

And it's manifestation catnip! Because you are in full receiving mode. If you keep telling the universe, this is all I get, this is my lot, you'll keep getting that. When you say, yes and, more please, why not me? You get the same in return. And this invariably transform your business. It can't not. You start thinking through, if I could do anything, what do I really want to do from that place of power? And then from there, [00:16:00] who would my people be?

If I could, again, wave my wand and have ideal clients, who are these ideal clients do I dare to dream? What offer will they need to be able to say emphatically, yes, what is something I can create so purposefully for them that it's like no other offer is available to even settle for because this is so clearly what they need.

And then from there, continuing to connect the dots, how am I going to talk about that to them in a way that really ties together both me and what I'm here to do knowing myself and them and what they're really about knowing them, and just creating very clear, concise messaging and copy that helps them feel really safe and [00:17:00] really excited.

Okay, my friend, time for you to move into yes and energy. Time for all women to move into it, actually. But time for you to be one of the groundbreakers paving the way, the uncommon way. I will see you back here next week, and remember, you know who you are. Each day, you are stepping further into what you're here to create.

Thanks for joining us here at the Uncommon Way. If you want more tips and resources for developing clarity in your business and life, including the clarity first strategy for growing and scaling your business, visit the uncommon way.com. See you next time.

Ep# 104: How To Destress Like A Boss

Episode Summary

Have you ever felt like stress was hijacking your ability to think creatively and make the best decisions for your business?

This episode dives deep into how chronic stress affects your brain and hampers your entrepreneurial success.

By understanding and addressing this issue, you can unlock higher productivity, creativity, and joy in both your business and personal life.

In this episode, you will:

1. Learn practical strategies to regulate your nervous system and access your most creative and analytical thinking.

2. Discover the crucial role of dopamine in maintaining motivation and how to harness it for goal achievement.

3. Gain insights into transforming stress patterns and stepping into your full potential as an entrepreneur.

4. Listen to this episode now to learn how to break free from stress and operate at your peak performance!

Schedule a call with Jenna about joining the Clarity Accelerator to dial in signature offers and strategies and a first-rate mindset.

https://www.theuncommonway.com/schedule

Sign up here to get on the waitlist for Power & Potency, the new mastermind for highly accomplished women entrepreneurs, and hear all new information as it's released:

https://www.theuncommonway.com/waitlist

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https://www.theuncommonway.com/talk

Find Jenna on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/theuncommonway/

The Uncommon Way is led by business coach Jenna Harrison, who helps women entrepreneurs feel confident, find their ideal clients effortlessly and avoid overwork so they can manifest money and abundance in their business and life.

This podcast empowers female entrepreneurs to overcome imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and limiting beliefs through somatics, mindset, and spirituality, create 7-figure offers, and build an online coaching business with clarity and alignment.

Episode Transcription

You know when a lot is piled on your plate, and you're trying to keep your cool, and then something else gets dropped on you, and then you're starting to lose sleep, and you notice yourself falling into the victim cave? Well, this episode is for you.

You're listening to the Uncommon Way Business and Life Coaching Podcast, the podcast that helps women entrepreneurs get clear on signature offers and strategies that sell themselves, so you can lean back and stop the hustle. You will learn to maximize your mindset, messaging, and strategy, and step into the uncommonly successful business and life you are creating. Here's your host, top-ranked business coach and reformed overanalyzer turned queen of clarity, Jenna Harrison.

Now some of you might be thinking, duh, I hate being stressed out, of course I want to move out of this situation. But for many of us, myself included, it's not just an innocent ebb and flow of life where things get a little crazy now and then, it's actually a habituated pattern that we ourselves contribute to. And there's a reason, because deep down, we might think this is what makes us succeed, or makes us more worthy, or many other things. So to help that part of you release its grip a little bit more, I want to show you what's available on the other side.

It is now very well established in the field of neuroscience that stress states cause us to lose access to the parts of the brain that you most need to access as an entrepreneur. Because obviously, if you're being chased by a tiger, you don't want to sit there and analyze the pros and cons and think creatively about the most creative solution that you could leave the tiger's path. So many other parts of our brain really just aren't needed in that moment. We need to zero in, we need tunnel vision, we need to get the hell out of there, and we need to not be thinking a lot. But as an entrepreneur, you do need those faculties, you desperately need them. You want access to your most creative thinking. You want access to long-term visioning. You want access to problem-solving. You want to be analytical. You want to think abstractly about the meaning of it all and create compelling intellectual property.

And as people who are serving others and collaborating with others, you want to have the most empathetic parts of your brains lit up, the parts of you that can really connect with other humans, that feel good seeing other humans, that get excited about your interactions with these people, that feel a sense of trust, that feel camaraderie, that feel more like collaboration instead of competition. Think about it. If you are in a high-stress situation, you want to have the most skeptical part of yourself, the potentially most aggressive part of yourself, available to defend yourself against a threat. So again, our brains have been wired in ways that make complete sense. They just don't fully serve us quite frequently. The parts of you that you really want are only fully online when the brain is in what is called a responsive state, which is when your nervous system has regulated, when you're not stressed out, when you're at your baseline.

But you know what else you want access to? Dopamine. Not just because it feels good, like that little hit you get when you're like, ooh, but because recently so much research is showing how critical dopamine is to us seeking out, to us going after big things, to setting goals and sticking to our plan and really continuing with what we say we're moving towards. You know how when you're stressed and you reach a point where you're like, ugh, why even bother? Did you just think that was a coincidence? It is not. And dopamine is released with a variety of activities that tend to happen when you are in your most relaxed, regulated states. Can you imagine where we would be if we were all more regulated and had been in the past? What different innovations might be around? What new ways of being? I mean, we need more people more fully tapping into their genius.

Now I bring on a lot of hard-charging powerhouse women who sometimes, especially in the beginning, really resist when I tell them to get some sleep or whatever the advice may be in the moment, because they've got to do more, not less, with everything going on. So I tell them, oh, I'm not suggesting this because I have some biased agenda of a simple, easy business. It's because for where I know you are going, I need you operating at P Performance, and this is not it. Luckily, the resistance goes away once they start seeing results.

And so this is why when we're looking to really reinvent ourselves, really engage in mindset work and an overhaul of sorts, it's not an in-and-out process. It's sort of like getting into the pool where you dive in, but then if you jump right out, you never really acclimated to the water and you actually need to be in that for a while, be in that soup for a while so that it just starts to feel normal. But again, back to the movement of some sort, something that really gets your heart rate up. It could be a good run, it could be a great orgasm, however, whatever floats your boat. But you know, right, you've been in times where maybe you've had a great yoga class, and then afterwards, you're reflecting on all these things that you had and you're like, you know what, it's really not as big a deal as I was making it into, right, or oh, I know how to, what I'll do, I'll just delegate this or whatever comes up. That is the power of helping your nervous system re-regulate and being able to tap into that higher thinking.

All right, now I want to share the mindset tip. So you've got so much that it feels overwhelming. Hey, if you want true clarity about your secret sauce, your people, your best way of doing business and how you talk about your offer, then I invite you to join us in the Clarity Accelerator. I'll teach you to connect all the dots, the dots that have always been there for you, so that you can show up like you were born for exactly this. Come join us and supercharge every other tool or tactic you'll ever learn, from Facebook ads to manifestation. Just go to theuncommonway.com/schedule and set up a time to talk. I can't wait to be your coach.

Okay, good. You are in a capacity-building phase. You are stretching yourself to be able to hold more than you have previously. That might look like more content that you're creating now. It might be more plates that you're juggling. It might be more emotions you're experiencing or heightened emotions than you've typically carried in the past. It might be more patience or more tolerance that you're being called to hold, but it's okay. We can do hard things, right? Now, this advice is not for you if you are in a continually stressed-out state. If it's sustained, there's likely something else going on, and you want to move heaven and earth to work with a coach or another mental health professional to really get to the root of that. This advice is for you if you have overall a more balanced, sustainable baseline, and then things spring up. Because what's not helpful is the thoughts of, oh no, I'm regressing, or I should be beyond this, or I'm a hot mess, or why can't I ever get ahead, or why does this always happen to me?

No judgment. I have thought every one of those. I've thought every one of those countless times. We are all on a journey shedding that mentality, that old mentality that gets us nowhere. I like to think instead about what is waiting for me on the other side. What if this thing right now, what if that were a breeze? What if my husband were asking me, so what's your day like tomorrow? And I was saying, meh, pretty mellow. But it was exactly what I have to do today. What if my future actually looks nothing like this at all? But because of the muscles I've built, the sheer capacity I've built, when that live webinar before was a big thing, well, now I'm on stage in front of thousands, and it's manageable because of all of that back then.

We don't get to there, right? We don't get to our future goals without passing through discomfort. All of those big dreams you have, have you thought about what it would feel like if you had to do it tomorrow? Walk out on that stage, or whatever it is, hold that retreat, or have the booked out client roster, wherever you might be. Yikes, right? When things are far in the future, all we feel is anticipation. We aren't thinking about any of this other stuff, typically. But the stretching required along the path to that place probably won't feel great, all the time, just because of how we're wired.

So along the way, you might find yourself, you start dragging your feet. And of course, really smart, how could you even argue with them ways, naturally? Which leads you to take longer than you need to on your path to where you're going. Or you might just have heightened negative experiences of these growth phases, both of which are great reasons to work with someone that can give you outside perspective and help you get where you're going faster, better, and easier.

So what if you are down for the growth when necessary, but you really want to make sure that you don't attract more of this by accident? Well, just the mindset tip that I gave you is helpful, because what you're doing is you're turning your attention to the future desired state, rather than the current stressed-out state. But there's more. Because how you deal with what's going on right now matters, too. You want to deal with the things efficiently, but without creating huge emotional space for it or drama. I love this metaphor that I heard from Danielle Eiman. These circumstances are like something blowing in through the screen door to your house. And you want to just open the back door, the back screen door, and let it pass through. Because often what we tend to do is keep that back door shut. So it's sticking around and reverberating, and our increased attention very easily attracts more of its kind.

So remember, it's not not thinking about it. Don't think of a pink elephant. Instead, it's very gently choosing to spend your mental energy on what is working, what is going well, what you are learning. Not in a gaslighty, spiritual bypassing way, but in the way where you give your brain the task of finding where you do have things that you believe are positive in your life. Or at least even if they're neutral in your life, other things you can focus on. And this is really why gratitude, I mean the genuine gratitude where you're really feeling it, is so powerful.

Okay, my friends, that is it for today. Was it helpful? If so, share this with someone who could use it. And remember, you know who you are, and each day you are stepping further into what you're here to create. Thanks for joining us here at The Uncommon Way. If you want more tips and resources for developing clarity in your business and life, including the clarity first strategy for growing and scaling your business, visit TheUncommonWay.com. See you next time.