Power + Presence + Position with Eleanor Beaton

Around the fall of last year, I started thinking more deeply about how I was using my time and if there were better ways to spend it. The kind of leader I wanted to be was one who could serve her mission, team, and community at the highest level, but my current calendar didn’t reflect that.

To show up as the energized and connected leader I wanted to be, I needed to make some shifts to how I was spending and scheduling my time. I know so many of you are feeling drained, overwhelmed, or exhausted by your calendars, and I can totally relate.

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Your biggest asset as a female founder is your time. Talking about how you use it can inspire other women to think about how they use theirs and even help them make some empowered decisions to create changes. I’m hoping that what I share today empowers you to look at your time differently.

In this episode, I’m giving you a behind the scenes look at my work week, schedule, and calendar. There are some key shifts I made to my calendar that have significantly improved my ability to show up as a leader. I’m sharing these shifts, some things for you to consider if you want to make these shifts too, and the amazing results I’ve observed since making these changes.

Today on the Power + Presence + Position Podcast:

• What your 30% open time could be used for.
• What I realized I wanted my calendar to look like.
• How to transform your expertise into assets.
• What I’ve noticed since making changes to my work week.
• Why you have to consider what your business requires of you right now.

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• To receive weekly written gold in your inbox, make sure you sign up for my email newsletter.
• Connect with me on LinkedIn.
• Learn how to nail your niche, clarify your message, and scale your business in the Power + Presence + Position Business Accelerator!
• Learn how to build a seven-figure foundation in The Incubator.
• Sign up for the free workshop I’m hosting, Scale Your Way to a Fortune with Asset Thinking!

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There’s no doubt that growing a business is one of the most epic personal and professional development journeys you can take in life. Besides the cash, influence, and autonomy that is there to be gained as an owner, having the collection of skills that a seven-figure company demands you acquire will set you up for life.

As I look back at my journey as a founder, there are a handful of skills I’ve worked tirelessly to bring into my repertoire. And as I cast my mind back, there’s a very specific order in which I needed to build them in for them to feed off of one another.

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While you’re using all of your leadership skills at once, building them all simultaneously is incredibly difficult. So, in this episode, I’m identifying the skills that you need to be an effective and successful CEO, and I’m laying out how to strategically build those leadership skills.

Tune in this week to discover the skills that every founder needs to build, and why, especially in the early days, you are your business’s most valuable asset. I’m sharing the secrets to making strategic investments in your every area of your development, and the dangers of narrowing your focus instead of elevating your capacity for every skill your business requires of you.

Today on the Power + Presence + Position Podcast:

• Why you are the most important asset your business has.
• How strategic investments in your personal and professional growth will lay the foundation for even bigger assets.
• The importance of building your skills in a way that meets the needs of your business at each stage of its development.
• Why you need a baseline level of skill in operating every single area of your company, at least in the early stages.
• A cautionary tale of the pitfalls of only focusing on one area of your development.
• The specific skills every founder needs and the order in which I recommend you build them.

Resources Mentioned:

• To receive weekly written gold in your inbox, make sure you sign up for my email newsletter.
• Connect with me on LinkedIn.
• Learn how to nail your niche, clarify your message, and scale your business in the Power + Presence + Position Business Accelerator!
• Martha Beck
• Brené Brown 
• Sign up for the free workshop I’m hosting this month, Scale Your Way to a Fortune with Asset Thinking!

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One of my favorite sayings that I’ve heard from lots of different people is that pain is inevitable and suffering is optional. And no matter how many female founders also believe this saying, I still see so many of you going through unnecessary suffering in your businesses.

Last week, I shared how to do a pain audit of your business so you could see where your pain points are and what problems in your business are waiting for strategic solutions. Today, I’m sharing what to do once you’ve identified those pain points.

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When you get the results of your pain audit, the next step is to build growth assets that will set you free and help you build a business that delivers cash, influence, and autonomy. I know that’s what so many of you are longing for, so listen in. 

In this episode, learn how to follow up your pain audit with some simple steps to get past your growth ceiling and create growth assets that allow you to move through the pain. If you’ve been trying to hustle through the pain, this is your invitation to try something new. The steps I share today will help you end the suffering, identify the pain, and come up with growth-producing solutions.

Today on the Power + Presence + Position Podcast:

• How to transition from a consultant to a CEO with no growth ceiling.
• What an asset actually is.
• How to get past your growth ceiling.
• The difference between hustling through pain and asset-creating through pain.
• How to use your pain points to create growth assets.

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• To receive weekly written gold in your inbox, make sure you sign up for my email newsletter.
• Learn how to nail your niche, clarify your message, and scale your business in the Power + Presence + Position Business Accelerator!
• EP482: The Pain Audit

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As entrepreneurs, we’re raised in a culture that says more is better. You need to hustle and grind your way to the top. But if you’ve been listening to this podcast for any length of time, you know that I am not about that life.

There is definitely a time and place for us to get our hands dirty and work hard. It’s when that level of intense work becomes the norm that we become numb to our pain and the things that bother us.

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While there will be times in your business when you need to “suck it up” and use your grit, it can’t be all the time. And the tool I share with you today will help you make sure of that.

In this episode, I’m sharing a tried and true tool that I use to identify my pain points as I grow my company. The Pain Audit is an exceptionally useful tool for seeing where your inner genius is guiding you and what the next steps you need to take are. This episode will help you realize the type of support you might need and what shifts you need to make, so break out a pen and paper and let’s go!

Today on the Power + Presence + Position Podcast:

• The dark side of the grit you need to have as a founder.
• Why “sucking it up” too much curbs your growth.
• How to use the Pain Audit tool.

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• To receive weekly written gold in your inbox, make sure you sign up for my email newsletter.
• Learn how to nail your niche, clarify your message, and scale your business in the Power + Presence + Position Business Accelerator!

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Do you struggle to get outside your comfort zone in business? Maybe you know your fear is holding you back from fulfilling your highest potential and from growing your company’s influence, impact, and cash. If this sounds like you, you need to hear this episode.

Being bold and getting outside your comfort zone can be scary, but it’s something all successful entrepreneurs have to do. In the words of today’s guest, “You have to take bold steps, be fearless, and be willing to fail.”  And when you do, extraordinary things happen on the other side.

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My guest today is the incredible Dr. Karen Wilson, director of West LA Neuropsychology and founder of ChildNEXUS. Using her background as a neuropsychologist and tenured professor, Karen took the bold step of leaving her tenure to start a business that would multiply the impact she would be able to have.

In this episode, Dr. Karen walks us through her path of comfort to discomfort, and what it was like going from a psychologist in an academic setting to a startup founder pitching for venture capital. I know Karen’s experience of getting uncomfortable to attain extraordinary results will be inspiring to so many of you, and I can’t wait to hear about the bold steps it leads you to take!

Today on the Power + Presence + Position Podcast:

• How Karen’s upbringing shaped her into the entrepreneur she is today.
• How Karen started her practice and began scaling it.
• Karen’s experience of crowdfunding. 
• The thing that isn’t talked about enough among female entrepreneurs.
• How she has changed between 2017 and now.
• What it’s been like working with us at Safi Media.

Resources Mentioned:

• To receive weekly written gold in your inbox, make sure you sign up for my email newsletter.
• Learn how to nail your niche, clarify your message, and scale your business in the Power + Presence + Position Business Accelerator!
• Learn how to build a seven-figure foundation in The Incubator.
• Dr. Karen Wilson ChildNEXUS | Podcast | West LA Neuropsychology
• AMEX 100 for 100
• Forbes Next 1000
• EP354: Baller Moves

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Are you a fan of the Power + Presence + Position? If the tips and interviews we share in each episode have helped you gain the confidence and inspiration to become a better, more powerful leader, head on over to Apple Podcasts, subscribe to the show and leave your honest review to let us know!

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