Episode 138 Keeping it Personal with Teri Johnson

John talks with Teri Johnson — entrepreneur, keynote speaker, business coach, mastermind facilitator, and author of the book Overcoming the Nevers: By Gardening Your Life and Nurturing Seeds of Truth, wife, and mom. Teri specifically works with women entrepreneurs, business owners, and sales professionals to help them start, grow, and strategically scale their businesses. Listen to this episode to learn more: [00:00] - Intro [01:48] - Teri's backstory [05:27] - The reason Teri wrote her book Overcoming the Nevers [11:33] - Teri's sobriety journey [12:47] - The reason she helps women and how she does it [18:45] - The importance of combining life coaching with business coaching [24:53] - The best advice about parenting Teri received [30:48] - Best and worst parts of Teri's job [32:53] - Marketing and selling simplified [38:33] - How Teri builds significant relationships at home — being present [41:43] - Who's investing in Teri right now [45:24] - Productivity retreats for women business owners [47:41] - Get a free signed copy of Teri's book Overcoming the Nevers [49:29] - Books Teri is reading that are helping her grow [52:46] - About Teri's podcast Keeping It Personal Show NOTABLE QUOTES: "The people who are doing something meaningful, who are making a difference in life, every single one has that painful moment that they had to work through. And not soothed over, not pretend like it wasn't there, but had to actually put in the hard work, do the things that needed to be done in order to get from the pain to the purpose." "The more that we live and experience, the better we get at picking up the tools that we've learned. But we still trip up and we still get hurt." "Stressed work is not your best work." "Compartmentalization makes meaningful relationships very difficult for men. Because they don't know how to let go and truly be who they are, especially in front of other men. Because they think they have to be a certain type of person around all these other men. Otherwise, they're somehow less of a man or less of a person rather than just being."  "Prepare your kid for the path, not the path for your kid." "The caterpillar has to struggle in the cocoon in order to become the butterfly that can actually fly away. If it doesn't struggle, that thing isn't gonna live, let alone thrive." "Selling is serving. And if you are serving your people, they never feel sold to." "Marketing is just storytelling. Most businesses get it wrong. They tell the wrong story. That's the problem. Most of them try to tell their own story. People don't care about that. The stories we need to be telling are about the people we've helped. We need to tell their stories." "The most valuable asset that we can give anybody is our gift of time because we can't get it back." BOOKS MENTIONED: Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman (https://tinyurl.com/TractionBookGW) EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches by Dave Ramsey (https://tinyurl.com/EntreLeadershipBook) USEFUL RESOURCES: https://keepingitpersonal.com https://keepingitpersonal.com/become/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/terilynnjohnson/ https://www.instagram.com/teri.johnson/?fbclid=IwAR3ic59fr4imwlZQNYbSR0WeZzcBL3bHcJF55V4fafMrCJ35zYAVJXX7iMg https://www.facebook.com/terifitchjohnson https://twitter.com/teri_johnson?fbclid=IwAR1sPpTLhnDTP8wWyxDtjuMpPuJ6tEeLCLeTOs0S4p5gofutUqb0Gr32Xyc https://pod.keepingitpersonal.com https://keepingitpersonal.com/monetize/ CONNECT WITH JOHN Website - https://thejohnhulen.com   Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/johnhulen   Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/johnhulen   Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/johnhulen   LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhulen   YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLX_NchE8lisC4NL2GciIWA   EPISODE CREDITS Intro and Outro music provided by Jeff Scheetz - https://jeffscheetz.com/