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Today I’m bringing you behind the scenes to show you what it’s like day-to-day in my life and business. 

I think it’s so interesting to see how other people live and go about their days.  These peeks behind the curtain can help us to get to know that person better, of course. (And you’ll certainly get to know a bit more about me today.) 


They can also give us a new perspective that helps us clarify what our ideal daily life really looks like. That way we can get even more passionate about getting outside of our comfort zone to grow and work toward that goal.

Today I’m going to explore the things I’m most grateful for, the things I’m working to change in my current routine, and what it’s really like for me to navigate work and motherhood.

Along the way, I’ll share the things that help me stay balanced so that you can get some ideas for how they can help you too.

So, let’s get to it!

“I think it’s important to really be grateful for what I do have. And there are things that I really love about my routine. But also to think about, okay, how can I make this just a little bit closer to what that ideal day looks like for me?”

In This Episode We Explore:

• What a “dream day” exercise is and how it can help you find the aligned (and misaligned) parts of your day-to-day
• How to align your dream day with your bigger vision and goals
• What I love about my current routine and how I’ve taken steps to make those things happen
• What I’m working to shift in my day-to-day and why I’ve decided to make those changes
• How I experience the benefits of “work from home mom life” in my day
• Why I don’t compromise when it comes to health and sleep

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READY TO STEP OUTSIDE YOUR COMFORT ZONE AND MAKE A BIGGER IMPACT?

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Rohana Olson is a wedding photographer based in Minnesota and has been photographing weddings for just shy of five years. She has the heart to serve and encourages others to chase their dreams. When she isn’t out photographing love stories, recording podcasts, or mentoring new business owners, you can find Rohana whipping up a new recipe while dancing in the kitchen to Frank Sinatra with her husband or playing snuggle monster with her little girl, Rohana specializes in documenting a couples unique love story through romantic photographs, capturing unforgettable moments and treating all of her clients like they’re apart of her family.

What I loved so much about our conversation was that, as you’ll hear in this interview, there were a lot of challenges that took Rohana outside of her comfort zone. These were times when she really had to break through while still staying true to herself and her business.

We explored so much about building genuine relationships and creating space for the real deep work in our businesses over the course of this episode and I’m excited to share it with you.

Let’s get to it!

“You want to build a relationship with whoever you’re working with so that they feel seen and heard and valued. And not just from a client perspective, like we all are humans. We want to feel that connection.”

In This Episode We Explore:

• How to create real connection opportunities for yourself and your business
• Practical ways to foster genuine relationships as a business owner
• The approach Rohana uses to get the most out of networking events
• How certain key business and financial practices help Rohana grow her business 
• What piece of guidance Rohana gives each of her mentees when it comes to boundaries, planning, and navigating those inevitable business challenges

Connect with rohana olson

You can connect with Rohana on Instagram at @rohanaolson and on her website here: comfortandcashmere.com

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Ready To Step Outside Your Comfort Zone And Make A Bigger Impact?

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If you’re anything like me you may have traveled for work before, perhaps to a conference or to a client meeting. But a solo business retreat is completely different. I did my first solo business retreat in 2019 and it brought so much clarity to my business that I really wanted to share exactly how I did it.

So, in today’s episode, I’m talking about taking a solo business retreat and giving you practical tips for planning, executing, and returning from your retreat that will help you to get the greatest impact from the experience.

From clearing your calendar to selecting the location to prioritizing “to do’s” to reflecting on your accomplishments with gratitude and grace, we’ll explore how to make your first (or next) solo business retreat one that helps you move the needle on your big goals.

Let’s get to it!

“I can’t think big in little pockets of time. One of the greatest benefits is being able to think bigger and strategize with big projects and larger chunks of time than you have in daily life.”

In This Episode We Explore:

• Why you’ll want to plan your next business retreat ASAP if you want to make big moves in your business
• What to do if you need to keep your retreat low key and local right now
• How to make the most of your retreat time 
• Why taking a solo business retreat gives you a better chance of getting those big tasks done than just scheduling them during normal business hours
• What to do before you leave for your retreat
• How to ensure you return feeling refreshed and energized to keep moving forward with confidence

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READY TO STEP OUTSIDE YOUR COMFORT ZONE AND MAKE A BIGGER IMPACT?

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Sophia Sunwoo is the founder of Ascent Strategy, where she helps female founders ranging from artisans to health coaches get their companies off the ground. Through her work, she accelerates the success timelines of womxn and POC entrepreneurs so that they can build sales engines for their businesses faster and catch up in a male-dominated startup scene.

She is a 3x startup founder — she sold her first company when she was 22, helping scale the brand to 250 retailers worldwide and attract celebrity clientele before her exit. Sophia’s second business helped bring clean water to over 80,000 people in India and Cameroon and has been recognized by Forbes, African Business Review, and ELLE Magazine.

Sophia is also a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, a Fred Alger Finance Award winner, and named one of the world’s 100 most inspiring women by Salt Magazine and Diageo.

And I’m so excited to share our conversation with you today because we’re exploring how stepping out of your comfort zone to get creative, experimental, resourceful, and visible can help to transform your business and elevate the impact you have on the world.

Let’s get to it!

“I’m a huge advocate that you should let your brain play outside of the business world, because that’s actually where you hit innovation” 

In This Episode We Explore:

• How experimentation in your business allows you to really step into your full potential
• What it means to be resourceful in your business and how this can have a major impact on how you reach your goals
• How to choose mentors and why those mentors that challenge us to grow our mindset will help us grow our bottom lines too
•  Why it’s important to challenge the status quo when it comes to being a woman business owner and why being visible is so vital to our work

Connect with sophia sunwoo

You can find the challenge that Sophia mentioned in this episode on her website at https://www.ascent-strategy.com/makemoresales
and check her out on Instagram @ascentwithsophia

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Check out The Profit Playbook, a template that will help you create a roadmap to reach your business goals. 

Best of all:  It is for free over at www.100degreesconsulting.com/profit

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Today, I am talking with my friend Rachel Bearbower. She’s a coffee lover, a fundraiser, a former nonprofit executive director, and founder of Small Shop Strategies. She’s an executive coach living in rural Iowa and she’s passionate about creating meaningful relationships, maintaining an upbeat attitude, and serving alongside though she leads.

Rachel has been in the very same situation many of us find ourselves in at some point: working diligently in an underfunded, systemless organization. 

And she knows firsthand the stress, overwhelm and frustration it can cause. Let’s just say that she is scrappy or resilient and resourceful. She is the one we turn to for our systems, structure, and plan. And once those are in place, she knows that you’ll have more time to serve those who mean the most to you and your organization. 

And when she’s not hanging out over on Instagram stories and coaching small shop nonprofit executive directors, she is living on a farm where she’s a farmer in training (With six acres to tend before the next Zoom call!). 

In our conversation, we explore how Rachel’s business journey, which had an unlikely start, led her all the way to creating her business after running a nonprofit.

We also explore how Rachel serves her clients, nonprofit executive directors, how she manages her numbers, and what guidance she’d offer any entrepreneur or leader who’s feeling overworked, underfunded, and overwhelmed. 

So, if those feelings sound familiar to you, you won’t want to miss what Rachel shares with us today.


Let’s get to it.

“It starts with you. And it starts with your mindset. So, once you decide that you can reframe your mindset, have maybe a better attitude, and then real change can happen.” 

In This Episode We Explore:

• How creating and working on her first nonprofit allowed Rachel to see an area of need that she addresses with her own business
• The common challenges that people, especially executive directors who work in the nonprofit sector need to navigate and how Rachel helps change the game
• How to navigate imposter syndrome and a scarcity mindset in your business
• Why women entrepreneurs having money and numbers conversations is so vital and why making money is a form of self-care
• What it means to start trusting your gut, shifting your mindset, taking risks, and getting a handle on your finances with confidence

Connect with rachel bearbower

You can find Rachel on her website at www.smallshopstrategies.com and check out her membership program at www.smallshopstrategies.com/beproductive

Want more of the 100 Degrees of Entrepreneurship podcast?

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Check out The Profit Playbook, a template that will help you create a roadmap to reach your business goals. 

Best of all:  It is for free over at www.100degreesconsulting.com/profit

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Today on the podcast I’m sharing with you one of the most important lessons I’ve learned as an entrepreneur: What it takes to bounce back after a tough misstep or challenge. 

Being burned can look like a client who doesn’t pay, a vendor who under delivers (or fails to deliver at all) or someone who’s just not meeting expectations. And whether you’ve been in business for a while or are just starting out, this episode is an excellent reminder that these “burns” happen no matter how amazingly we do our jobs or serve our clients.

When you’re making an impact and growing your business it takes strength and resilience to overcome difficult times and to allow them to be happening “for us”, not simply “to us”.

If you’re wondering how to bounce back from being burned, you’ll find my practical, go-to strategies and helpful mindset practices in this episode and I know they’ll serve you as well as they’ve served me. 

So let’s get to it.

“This isn’t happening to me. This is happening for me.”

In This Episode We Explore:

• What true entrepreneurs do when they take a hit in business
• What mindset practices and key mantras can help you reframe and re-approach challenges in your work life
• The one thing I would do differently if I could start my business over again and why it’s so vital when things don’t go according to plan
• Why legal and financial foundations are the most important parts of your business, especially when you meet a challenge or need to recover after being burned

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Ready to get a little uncomfortable so you can grow your business? Let’s get to know your numbers.
Check out The Profit Playbook, a  template that will help you create a roadmap to reach your business goals. 

Best of all:  It is for free over at www.100degreesconsulting.com/profit

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My guest on today’s episode, financial planner Amy Irvine, is passionate about three things: family, finances, and wine. Amy holds a master’s degree in financial planning and is a certified financial planner with over 26 years of financial planning experience. She’s the founder and owner of Rooted Planning Group, formed in 2016, which now includes five other planners and three part-time staff members. 

Amy has been recognized by her financial planning colleagues as a disruptor, a title she proudly holds close to her heart. And at the age of 44 she decided to not only start her own company but to act on what she defined as her perfect life. She now splits her time between western New York and Florida. In 2018 she decided it was time to take the stigma out of finances by combining her passion for finances and wine. She started a podcast called Wine and Dime which highlights a different wine and financial topic each week. And she released her book combining those same two passions titled Uncork Your Finances.

Today Amy and I talk about pivoting your business with purpose and how she helps her clients make their dreams a reality, not just “someday” or “when they retire” but right now.

So if you’re wondering if that life you’re desiring is really possible, and you want to know how to get there, this episode is for you. 

Now, let’s get to it.

In This Episode We Explore:

• How your mindset impacts the possible solutions you see when you’re faced with a decision
• How pivoting with purpose can help you act now in ways that get you to the future you truly desire and how to handle the resistance that might come up when you do so
• Why “Well, when I retire…” isn’t the way to grow or move forward and what Amy helps her clients do instead
• Why pivoting your mindset around delegating is essential to preserving your business’ greatest resource: your time
• The tough but necessary questions you can ask yourself when you feel a pivot in your life or business just might be the next right move

Connect with amy irvine

You can connect with Amy on her website at: Rootedpg.com

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Check out The Profit Playbook, a template that will help you create a roadmap to reach your business goals. 

Best of all:  It is for free over at www.100degreesconsulting.com/profit

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Your team is one of your greatest assets.

I know for me, this year my team grew in big ways and I was excited for that expansion and that chance to grow my impact. But I also wanted to ensure that the people who were growing with me felt supported.

So, I planned a virtual team retreat.

And with many of our businesses operating online, these virtual team experiences are what a lot of CEOs and other leaders (myself included) consider the new reality for those of us with remote teams.

So on today’s episode, I’m giving you 8 impact-driven results-focused, and team-supporting tips for making your first (or next) team retreat a successful one.

From exploring your role in the process to making sure time is spent wisely to making things fun and engaging so that the experience is one your team will look forward to in the future, I’ll give you the best next steps to move forward with your team’s virtual retreat confidently.

“Make sure you’re using your time wisely, and make sure that everybody has actionable things that they can do after the retreats to, again, make that time worthwhile.”

In This Episode We Explore:

• How to plan ahead for your team retreat so you have the people and resources you need to make the most of your time together
• What role you can and should play in the experience and why
• What you can do to create opportunities for your team to engage, feel supported, and feel like an essential, special part of your organization during the retreat 
• What makes a virtual team retreat powerful and actionable and how to make sure that impact continues beyond the day itself

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Ready to get a little uncomfortable so you can grow your business? Let’s get to know your numbers.
Check out The Profit Playbook, a  template that will help you create a roadmap to reach your business goals. 

Best of all:  It is for free over at www.100degreesconsulting.com/profit

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What does it take to be a successful, multi-passionate entrepreneur?

My guest Kari Roberts is here to share her insight on this concept and I could not be more excited.

Kari Roberts is a business coach and online business manager for creative, small business owners. She helps them figure out time management and systems that allow them to grow their business, while still having enough time and energy for work, business, and home life. Kari knows all about being a multi-passionate entrepreneur. She has been working as a physical therapist for 17 years, a freelance makeup artist for nine years, and a business coach, online business manager for three years. She’s been a featured speaker for the Creative at Heart Conference, 2021 Planathon, HoneyBook as well as multiple virtual summits. She’s also the host of the Finding Freedom with Simple Systems podcast and the creator and host of Overwhelmed to Organized The Summit

We covered a lot of ground in our time together, touching on how to make clients feel at ease working with you when you operate multiple businesses, understanding how to manage your time and where to invest when you have multiple passions, and of course, knowing your worth when you’re connecting with potential clients.

Let’s get to it.

“If you’ve got all of these different passions, figure out the commonality…Try to find what that thread is and then talk about that thread often.”

In This Episode We Explore:

• The strategy Kari uses to help clients feel more confident in working with a multi-passionate entrepreneur
• How Kari makes decisions about investing in her businesses 
• What to consider if you feel the call to multi-passionate entrepreneurship
• What you should know as you navigate entrepreneurship if you identify as “Type A”
• How Kari moved past scarcity and got uncomfortable to help her business grow
• What it means to know your worth as an entrepreneur

Connect with kari roberts

Connect with Kari on Instagram: @karirobertscoaching
Or visit her website: https://www.karirobertscoaching.com/

Want more of the 100 Degrees of Entrepreneurship podcast?

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Check out The Profit Playbook, a template that will help you create a roadmap to reach your business goals. 

Best of all:  It is for free over at www.100degreesconsulting.com/profit

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Let’s talk numbers. 

No. Not in an overly technical sense. But in a truly purposeful sense.

Today on the podcast I’m sharing how I spend money in my business. Because the truth is that where we spend our money says a great deal about what we value. 

Whether it’s using our money to build an amazing team, investing in furthering our professional education with trainings and courses, or investing in a consistent branding and marketing plan to make sure our message gets out more effectively, we make value-based decisions with our money every time we spend. 

And we also need to get to know our numbers so we can tell if an investment is giving us a return that’s worth it.

So today I’m bringing some clarity to how I make money-related decisions in my business and giving you a strategy for making better, more aligned spending decisions in yours.

Let’s get to it.

“We want to make sure that what we’re spending on is attached to a goal that we have, or a value that we have, or something that’s really important to us.”

In This Episode We Explore:

• How what we spend money on is connected to the values we hold within our business
• Where I spend money in my business and how I’ve made those decisions
• How I’ve made decisions about larger investment opportunities like masterminds, full-time employees
• How to dig into your profit and loss statement for insight on whether those investments are paying off

Want more of the 100 Degrees of Entrepreneurship podcast?

Follow me on Instagram: @stephanie.skry (Tag me in your screenshots of the podcast and I’ll be sure to share!)

Ready to get a little uncomfortable so you can grow your business? Let’s get to know your numbers.
Check out The Profit Playbook, a  template that will help you create a roadmap to reach your business goals. 

Best of all:  It is for free over at www.100degreesconsulting.com/profit

Ready To Step Outside Your Comfort Zone And Make A Bigger Impact?

New Podcast Episodes Drop Each Week. 

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