Happy Productive Podcast Episodes

We all intuitively feel like we should be doing better, bigger, serving in a greater capacity. David Conway is the founder of Conway Consulting, a sales and mindset mentor and coach, and he teaches entrepreneurs how to achieve any result that they desire by developing their minds so that we can all live up to our life's full potential. Through leveling up their mindset, business, and results, Dave helps his clients with an action-oriented approach to mindset and sales mentorship. Dave shares h...

Transformation is the change, but we usually get stuck in how to do it. Cindy Carrillo is the CEO of Finding Your Nxt, a business coach, and a rancher. She shares her journey from being an entrepreneur working with Fortune 500 companies to completely changing her lifestyle by buying a ranch in Colorado. Cindy started her business, Work Options Group, in the 1980s to help employees balance work and personal life, offering caregiving services that became widely successful over 20 years. Afte...

Overwhelm often comes from over-scheduling and bad planning. Katy Allen is the CEO of Artful Agenda & co-founder of Adulting App. She built her business based on her need for a better time management tool and her love for paper planners. Creatives and business owners manage a lot of things at once, and proper planning is crucial for productivity, but also for creativity. Katy and Jennifer share their experiences in creating business planners and which tips and tricks you can use to make the b...

The secret sauce to success is in being accountable. Founder of OwnersUP, Tanya Alvarez, helps B2B service-based founders solve their biggest challenges through facilitated peer groups. Tanya realized the power of a well-set accountability system when she founded her first company which grew to $1M in its first year. Accountability is not sexy, nor fun for most entrepreneurs. They feel ashamed and burned out, and usually avoid holding themselves accountable. As Tanya explains, no one can d...

Addressing internal issues will help achieve external success. T. Mark Mayer is a psychotherapist, master of NLP, and consultant specializing in conflict resolution, authentic management, and business coaching. He shares his journey of pursuing success through various high-profile corporate roles and starting his own companies, only to find that his unhappiness comes from trying to live up to the expectations of others. This led him to become a psychotherapist, which helped him realize the im...

- Reflect on a recent challenge or setback in your business and identify the lesson or opportunity for growth. - Share one way you can embrace and enjoy your entrepreneurial journey more fully, even amidst challenges.

- Reflect on a recent challenge or conflict in your business where you could have responded with more compassion. - Identify one way to lead or communicate more compassionately in your business moving forward.

- Assess an area where you've been focusing too heavily on tactics at the expense of emotional well-being. - Create a plan to balance tactical action with emotional intelligence and self-care in this area.

- Recall a time when you felt completely in the zone and aligned with your business goals. - Identify the conditions that helped you achieve this flow state and brainstorm ways to create more of them.

Day 3: Embrace Financial Abundance - Reflect on your current beliefs and attitudes towards money in your business. - Identify one limiting belief about money and reframe it into an affirmation of abundance.

Day 2: Simplify and Realign - Identify one aspect of your business that has become overcomplicated or misaligned with your values. - Create a plan to simplify or realign this area with the inherent good you want to provide. - Record a podcast episode - business coach told me my biz was too complicated, and he was right! How can you simplify your business?

Day 1: Rediscover Your Spark - Reflect on what originally inspired you to start your business and what you love most about it.

If you don't heal, you can’t make the money. Dr. Linette Montae is a top-tier strategic and profitability partner specializing in scaling the authority, profitability and legacy of underrepresented CEOs, leaders, and entrepreneurs. She is the NSBA Leadership Council, CEO, speaker, and author. Dr. Lynette shares her 40-year journey in entrepreneurship, consulting for various businesses, including major corporations like Marriott and Avis. Being a woman of color in male-driven industries was...

Marketing is about building relationships. Nikki Nash is the CEO of Market Your Genius, a speaker, consultant, author, and podcaster. As a veteran marketer with expertise in helping businesses attract and retain clients online, and experience working with Fortune 100 companies, Nikki explains what is needed for a good marketing strategy. Her extensive experience with both the consumer side and the B2B side of business made her realize that having one clear front-end offer is key. She shares he...

If you want to tame the business chaos, use the process. Yuri Chu Su is an Online Business Manager (OBM) with a passion for transforming business operations through effective processes and systems. Yuri shares her journey from a corporate CPA and auditor to a successful entrepreneur. Her journey was not easy, but she took time to reflect on her life and wishes before she stepped into the new career path. Jennifer and Yuri discuss the critical role of processes in business success and how t...

Thinking about what you want for your life can be scary! Dena Jansen, author, speaker, and coach, with a background in corporate leadership, began her adult life in accountancy and as a farmer’s wife. Making the transition out of corporate to entrepreneurship, Dena walked into a different space in her career and within her marriage. Dena’s book, Soul Farmer, is a book of self-reflection, which guides the reader through giving yourself time to be with yourself - remembering to invest in you...

You cannot solve a problem if you don’t admit that there is one! Tiffany Sauder manages 3 businesses and 2 careers with her husband, with whom she shares 4 children. Watching her father start his own business, Tiffany grew up with an understanding of risk and a healthy dose of curiosity. Having graduated with a degree in finance and starting a career in the corporate world, Tiffany convinced her dad to buy a small business, which went on to amazing success. However, Tiffany eventually foun...

Success is closer than you think! Michelle Rockwood, author of Joyful Selling, unintentionally became a sales coach. She realized she had something others did not; a skill, a passion, and a joy for sales coaching. Michelle believes strongly in creating a connection with people we are supporting and coaching, in making offers to people who really need them, and in ensuring we are prepared as we work in sales. There is a distinct difference in masculine and feminine sales energy, and Michelle re...

We can only control ourselves - we cannot control how someone responds to us. Lori Crooks, CEO of CADRA, began her working life crunching numbers and auditing in accounting, before life as an IT auditor and working with companies to ensure that they comply with security standards and apply best practices. Many businesses are simply overwhelmed and unsure where to turn; Lori ensures that companies have the guidance they need to comply and for their IT environments to be secure. Lori encourages w...

When you get committed, solutions appear. Amy Kemp is the author, owner & CEO of Amy Kemp, Inc. After deciding that she did not want to work as a teacher, Amy started her own business which grew faster than she ever thought it would. Amy now helps leaders and business professionals understand how deeply thought habits impact every part of their work and lives. Mindset and habits are two things that are foundational for any result in our lives. We usually want to bypass each of these and pu...

When you let go of something, you create space for something new to show up. Danielle Sunberg, a former Big Law attorney turned wellness entrepreneur and expert in the art of conscious living and award-winning author, shares about asking and answering the big question: Who am I? Having been diagnosed with depression, Danielle realized that where she thought she was on top of everything, with plenty of zeros in her bank account and being on top of the corporate ladder, she wasn’t in tune with w...

When you force yourself to do something, your energy shifts to lower emotions, but there is a solution to beat the Monday Blues. Monday mornings usually start with: “I don't want to deal with my job, I don't have enough clients, I'm in a lot of debt, my marketing is terrible” But when you're taking inspired action, and you feel excellent about it, and you're pouring your love and your joy into it. The goal is to always feel inspired. Jennifer shares one trick how to inspire yourself with the ‘...

If you are investing your money in hiring a virtual assistant, you really want them to be able to pay for themselves. Gina Cotner, CEO of Athena Executive Services, began her business by becoming a virtual assistant herself. Encouraged by an employer to start up a business finding the right assistants for business owners and CEOs, Gina found herself hiring her own VA and realizing the freedom it brought. Time zones and internet reliability are two considerations when hiring a VA outside the US...

Creating a winning day plan is possible in just five minutes! In this podcast, Jennifer explains 4 steps on how to do it. It starts with the right mindset and then organizing your tasks. Business owners, tend to forget important stuff and that is themselves, so don’t forget self-care to ensure your dream can come true. If you need additional help with organizing your day, check out the webinar and Best Plan Ever.com. Notes: 👓 Get your mindset in the right mindset: read your vision statement. 0...