Lead Your Team

Kris talks with Angela Kim, founder and owner of Savor Beauty. They discuss what motivates Angela and what has been the most challenging aspect to growing and scaling her business.

As a visionary, you have tons of ideas all the time. But in order to up-level your business, you have to focus on your zone of genius instead of your zone of excellence. Here’s how.

In order to move past those stuck spots as an entrepreneur, you have to be willing to work on yourself & do some stretch assignments in your mind about what’s next. Here are some questions to think about as a woman who is leading a business and a team.

Kris talks with Laura Patrick, founder of Kids Physio Group. They discuss what it’s like being a solopreneur with one location and evolving into a leader managing five clinics and 35 employees.

There are several qualities that drive you and your entrepreneurial spirit. Here are some suggestions for avoiding wasting your brain space and your time dragging people along because they can’t handle working with you.

Thinking about your employees as human capital instead of an incurred expense will totally change the way you run your business and the results you achieve.

I coach female entrepreneurs and help them overcome their challenges. I have found that there are five key things that entrepreneurs struggle with. Here they are - along with their solutions.

Vanessa Van Edwards is Lead Investigator at Science of People where she unlocks the formulas and patterns behind human behavior for hundreds of thousands of students in over 200 countries. She is the national bestselling author of Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People, available in 14 languages around the world. Her work has been featured on CNN, NPR, BBC, and Fast Company and dozens more.

Despite all kinds of proof that your accomplishments are justified, do you still feel like a fraud in the work that you’re doing? This is totally normal. Here are a few things to help you overcome that feeling.

You’re everyone else’s coach and guru, so why aren’t you always able to solve your own problems? It’s not reasonable to expect that you can coach your own brain the way a great coach would. Here’s why:

Do you sometimes find yourself in a kind of air bubble where it’s hard to find resources because you don’t fit in? It could be because you’re an exceptional woman. Here’s what I mean by that.

You and your business are intertwined. When you’re stressed because employees aren’t doing their jobs, you suffer and, therefore, your business suffers. Here’s how to get clear on accountability:

What qualities are required for a person to thrive in your business? Giving this conscious attention helps you create conscious culture. Think about this from a marketing perspective. Take some time and be reflective. Who are you trying to attract as a team member?

Are you feeling frazzled and experiencing your business a little bit more like a burden? It’s possibly because your expertise is in offering a product or service and not necessarily in managing people, etc. Remember these few things in order to get centered and clear again.

Feeling terrible is something we all go through at times, especially women who own their own businesses. The difference between women who reach the pinnacles of success and those who don’t is a willingness to move through the discomfort.