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Racheal Cook MBA: Small Business Owner, Entrepreneur, Business Growth Strategist
If you're fed up with the non-stop solopreneur grind… I'm so glad you've found The Promote Yourself to CEO Show! Each week, join host Racheal Cook MBA for candid conversations about stepping into your role as CEO of your business, the hard lessons learned along the way, and practical, profitable strategies to grow a sustainable business without the hustle and burnout. Listen in to the latest show and connect with Racheal at http://www.theceocollective.com or on Instagram @racheal.cook to continue the conversation!
36: The 100 Women Project with Tami Hackbarth
Send us a textSix months ago, Tami Hackbarth began what she called the 100 Women Project. Hear how she gained insight and validated her biz with this brilliant and brave adventure!
37:2816/02/2017
35: If I Had to Start My Business Over in 2017
Send us a textOne of the most popular questions around each new year, and each 5-year milestone, I'm answering what I would do if I were starting my business from scratch in 2017!
53:4410/02/2017
34: How to Keep Moving Forward when the Sh*t Hits the Fan
Send us a textIn this minisode, Racheal pauses to acknowledge the drama in the world today and how smart entrepreneurs can keep their eyes on the prize and minimize distraction.
31:3803/02/2017
33: Break Free From the Feast or Famine Cycle
Send us a textAre you still struggling with a dramatic ebb and flow of clients and cashflow? A business trapped in the feast or famine zone is not designed for growth!
21:1819/01/2017
32: Why Your Business Isn't Growing
Send us a textDoes it suddenly feel like your new business isn't growing? Today I'm sharing three areas of focus that can help your biz transition to a whole new level.
21:4612/01/2017
31: Is Your Business Ready for Growth?
Send us a textAre you focused on the right strategies to grow your business? From your offerings to your marketing, it all depends on which stage of business you're in.
18:3705/01/2017
30:: How to Avoid Shiny Object Syndrome & Stick to Your Plan
Send us a textIs shiny object syndrome holding you back in your biz? Learn my top 3 strategies to help you consolidate your ideas, prioritize, and stick to your plan!
18:2029/12/2016
29: Vision, Goals, and Creating an Action Plan for the New Year
Send us a textCreating an action plan for your small business can feel overwhelming. This post breaks down three specific ways to help you rethink goal setting for good. RachealCook.com/episode29
26:2515/12/2016
28: A New Spin on Setting Your Big Goals for 2017
Send us a textWe’re in the home stretch of 2016, so it’s natural to be looking ahead. But before you make even one new resolution for your biz, it's best to press pause, look backward, and do your Year in Review.
24:5408/12/2016
27: What if You Really Could Have It All?
Send us a textMore and more working women are stepping away from the corporate ladder, and instead blazing their own path into entrepreneurship. How can you make sure to achieve all the success you want while working for yourself?
21:4801/12/2016
26: Does Your Business Have a Gratitude Practice?
Send us a textIn this episode, Racheal shares a very special email and invitation she received from fan Shannon Siriano Greenwood to attend an annual Thank You Party, and the surprising impact that gratitude practices can have in your business!
22:2923/11/2016
25: How to Reduce Your Stress to Dollar Ratio
Send us a textFor every single offering that you have, there is an amount of time, energy, and complexity that you commit to in order to bring that offering to your clients. Putting it simply? A degree of stress is involved. By understanding your Stress to Dollar Ratio, you can better prioritize your offerings, market you business, and lay the groundwork to provide more value with less stress.
26:5817/11/2016
24: Top 5 Lessons From a 35K Rebrand
Send us a textIn this episode of Uncomplicate Your Business, I'm sharing my year long journey {it's almost complete!} to a huge rebrand, why it was so darn expensive, and my top 5 lessons that you can take away without spending a penny.
24:2310/11/2016
23: We're Back! Announcing Uncomplicate Your Business!
Send us a textWe're back! And the Get Fired Up & Focused Podcast is getting a makeover. In this episode, I'm kicking things off with a peek behind the scenes of this podcast evolution into Uncomplicate Your Business and sharing what's coming in this weekly podcast!
07:1710/11/2016
22: Celebrate Your Sweet Success!
Send us a textIt's so exciting and bittersweet that you've wrapped up The Fired Up & Focused Challenge. I know you've experienced a TON of growth, not only in your productivity and biz skills, but in flexing those CEO muscles!Just because the challenge is over, doesn't mean that growth stops.Consider this challenge the launching pad. And I'm here and ready to help you take your biz to new levels in the coming months {and years}!As you float down from your Fired Up & Focused high…:: Your final challenge! What was the BEST a-ha-OMGosh moment of the Challenge, for you? What surprised you the most? Come and share it with the official Fired Up & Focused Challenge Facebook Group; join us at firedupandfocused.com.:: Send me feedback {lovebombs welcome too!} so others can know what to expect from the Fired Up & Focused Challenge!:: And finally, if you haven't yet, please take a minute to rate and review the Podcast. I've heard it makes a difference in iTunes, but more importantly, it means a lot to me whenever I hear from you. Thanks for listening!
10:3331/08/2015
21: Why You’ve Gotta Show {Not Tell}
Send us a textThe heart-centered entrepreneur’s dilemma:: How do you let people know how awesome you are without coming off like an arrogant, egotistical, megalomanic? Love your community, and THEY will let EVERYONE know!
17:5831/08/2015
20: Generosity is the Best Business Strategy
Send us a textSo most business "gurus" say that you should stair-step your offerings so that people gradually buy into bigger more high value services/programs. Your time and your people’s time is worth more than that! Today is all about helping your dream peeps put a ring on it by delivering an amazing IFO {Irresistible Free Offer}.
26:1431/08/2015
19: Stop Marketing + Start Resonating
Send us a textWe modern entrepreneurs are often uncomfortable with traditional marketing tactics. Even after understanding the psychology behind why scarcity + urgency work, these strategies may not resonate with you. Resonance is key. Today’s challenge will help you find your Entrepreneur Sweet Spot Theme: YOUR key to resonating with your perfect-for-you audience and dream clients.
16:0731/08/2015
18: Why Your Marketing Isn’t Working
Send us a textI’m taking you straight to an inspiration of mine today, someone who cuts to the chase on making marketing a MINDFUL + ETHICAL conversation between you and your community. The best part? You’re probably well-practiced in mindful marketing and may not even know it!
15:5431/08/2015
17: Uncomplicate Your Business
Send us a textI know you entrepreneurs have tons of new ideas swimming around... and trying to figure out the RIGHT idea to start with can feel overwhelming. Paralyzing even. That's why I'm giving you a simple framework to figure out which idea is the RIGHT idea for right now!
30:0631/08/2015
16: The Difference Between a Hobby & a Business
Send us a textThis challenge is an introduction to The Business Sweet Spot Method {which we dive DEEP into inside CBD}. The questions may seem simple enough - but it's the nuances of each core element of your Business Sweet Spot that help you stand out from your peers! A hobby is 100% about YOU... but if you're gonna be in business, it's 100% about the unique value YOU OFFER to your peeps!
21:4431/08/2015
15: Breaking Through Your Upper Limits
Send us a textSometimes, our successes in business stack so high that we prepare ourselves for a fall, and an irrational fear of failure can grip us so hard that we end up sabotaging ourselves. With the right mindset of always being open to opportunity, success, and the light your work is bringing into the world, you can prevent upper limits from ever overshadowing your accomplishments!
12:3031/08/2015
14: Money Flows Where Your Attention Goes
Send us a textToday's challenge is one of my absolute FAVORITES that has made a huge impact on my own relationship with money. The first step to creating a CEO mindset around money doesn't have to be painful, shaming, or overwhelming. It can start with awareness, gratitude, and an incredibly simple daily practice.
14:2531/08/2015
13: The Problem with Goal Setting
Send us a textIf you want to create more ease and less stress in your business, you'll love today's perspective on living into your painted picture without stressing over all-or-nothing goal setting.
13:1031/08/2015
12: Begin with the End in Mind
Send us a textNow that you're FIRED UP about your biz... it's time to get LASER FOCUSED. Us entrepreneurs... we are idea machines. But when you're not wearing your CEO hat, you can spin out into idea overload and getting distracted by shiny new ideas at every turn. If you want to create a profitable + sustainable business, it's time to focus your attention to the ideas that will help your business move in the direction of your dreams.
18:2631/08/2015
11: Steal This System
Send us a textAre you running your biz…or is your biz running you? I know LOTS of entrepreneurs resist creating systems because they feel like they need more flexibility…but the truth is when there aren’t systems to support you, you get in your own way. You become the bottleneck, and your biz starts to run you. Learn what systems you can create NOW to streamline and simplify your biz.
19:5631/08/2015
10: Experience is Everything
Send us a textHow EASY is it to work with you? Are you asking peeps to jump through a million hoops to book an appointment? Do you find yourself chasing after clients so you can get paid? Are you on top of how many sessions clients have left or when their next payment is due? You can duct-tape it all together -- or you can upgrade your client experience.
23:0131/08/2015
09: End Email Overload
Send us a textEmail isn't the sexiest topic - BUT it's an essential element to any modern business {and the FIRST thing you can outsource!} This challenge is all about streamlining your inbox + simplifying your follow-up process.
28:0631/08/2015
08: Your Definition of Success
Send us a textThis generation is bombarded with the idea of “having it all;” then we {especially women} are hit with shame over thinking we can! I’m here to tell you, if you create a vision of your work/life balance and your ideal day, you can set yourself up for exactly the success you want!
23:0931/08/2015
07: Burning Out? You Need a Business Savasana!
Send us a textSavasana has been called the most important pose in yoga. Pure relaxation that allows you to soak up all the benefits of your practice. Turns out... it's good for your biz too! Isn't it nice knowing that relaxation is so powerful? One of my favorite pieces of homework to give my private clients is to take a business savasana. A day AWAY from your biz. It might sound completely counter intuitive - but the truth is your brain needs a break! If you are in "biz mode" 24/7 - you will slow down. Your work won't reflect your best. And soon... you'll be on the road to burnout.
18:2631/08/2015
06: Ready for Less Working & More Living?
Send us a textWe as a culture need to eradicate the notion that long hours = badge of honor. The truth is, working 80+ hours a week rarely leads to doing your best work. And if you're not taking the time to nurture other important areas of your life, what are you really working FOR?
23:1631/08/2015
05: Creating a Sacred Workspace
Send us a textIs there a direct correlation between your environment and FEELING like a successful CEO of your biz? I think so! This challenge draws from my yoga practice, and helps you make your work time and workspace work FOR you!
18:4231/08/2015
04: End Procrastination and Get Things Done!
Send us a textDo you find yourself putting off the tasks and projects you KNOW would move your biz forward? This crazy simple strategy that can help you get HUGE results in very short periods of time. Remember - working SMARTER isn’t about being busy for the sake of being busy! It’s about getting into the zone where you get your best work done more efficiently!
11:4031/08/2015
03: Are You Mind-FULL or Mindful?
Send us a textThis is one of my favorite strategies for reigning in the overwhelm. So simple and so powerful! There are 2 parts to this challenge - make sure you do BOTH {just a warning 'cause the first part is known to make some anxious, but the second part brings sweet sweet relief!}
16:5231/08/2015
02: From Solopreneur to CEO
Send us a textWe’re kicking things off with my favorite framework to help you shift from busy worker bee to QUEEN bee {aka CEO} in your biz. This simple shift is the key designing a biz that works FOR YOU {instead of you slaving away for your biz!}
21:5331/08/2015
01: Getting the most of the Get Fired Up and Focused Podcast
Send us a textEver wish a productivity expert would swoop in and help you create more ease and less stress in your biz?How about if a life coach would give you a {loving} kick in the pants when you’re procrastinating and can’t seem to get yourself into action?And then a business strategist could help you design your business completely around your desired lifestyle… and with an action plan that turns your To-Do list into an It’s DONE list?You Get Laser Focus, Turbocharged Productivity, and Bigger Results FASTER with The Fired Up & Focused Challenge.You’ll get excited about your business again – because you’ll kiss stress and busywork goodbye. You’ll be doing the right things … at the right time … the right way.
23:0114/08/2015