How to Attract High-Quality Clients with Shayla Boyd-Gill

Want to attract more high-quality buyers? You’ll learn how on today’s episode, as we’re joined by entrepreneur and mentor Shayla Boyd-Gill. Shayla created the Luxe Your Business sales system which helps women scale their six-figure business so they can make a great impact and income. Shayla went from bankruptcy to a multiple six-figure business—all while homeschooling her six children. We hear all about her experiences as she touches on the important aspects of building a business. She also provides valuable tips on how to attract the high-quality clients that you desire to your business. On this episode of the Live. Love. Engage. podcast: The experience that inspired Shayla to homeschool her kids. How Shayla made her first six figures as a natural childbirth educator and doula. Shayla’s experience in filing for bankruptcy. How she landed on teaching women to start and scale businesses. Why it’s important to have an abundance mindset in business. The common myth around landing high-quality clients. Why you should build a business that works energetically for you. How to use language to attract the clients you want. How to serve clients who are not the right fit for you. The power of saying no. Why focusing on money alone can hurt your reputation. The successful way to approach a business plan with your partner and family. How your proof is your doing. The ways entrepreneurship can influence your children. The biggest lesson Shayla learned in her own entrepreneurial journey. How you can embrace who you are in business and why it matters. Connect with Shayla Boyd-Gill Website: https://shaylaboydgill.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shaylaboydgill/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shayla.boydgill/ TRANSCRIPT Quick Links: Join the Live. Love. Engage. Community Intuitive Business Coaching The Live. Love. Engage. Book Support the Podcast with BuyMeACoffee.com Enjoying what you're hearing on Live. Love. Engage.? Subscribe on Goodpods or your favorite podcast platform, and click here to leave a 5 STAR Review. You can also watch the conversation on YouTube. TRANSCRIPT You're listening to the Live love Engage podcast. On today's show, why attracting high quality clients can help you work fewer hours and make more money. Stay tuned. I am Gloria grace, Rand, founder of the love method and author of the number. Want Amazon best seller live love, engage how to stop doubting yourself and start being yourself. In this podcast, we share practical advice from a spiritual perspective on how to live fully love, deeply and engage authentically so you can create a life and business with more impact, influence, and income. Welcome to live love, engage Namaste and welcome back to another addition of live love, engage, and I'm delighted to have a woman joining us from, uh, Maryland today. And her name name is Shayla Boyd-Gill, and I wanna welcome you first off Shayla to live love and engage. Well, thank you so much, Gloria. I'm so excited to be here with your community today. Well, thank you. And I'm excited too, because this is a powerhouse woman. So let me, let me just give you a little glimpse of a little bit of about what she has accomplished and, uh, and that she's gonna share more details, of course. Um, but she has juggles being an entrepreneur, a wife of 24 years, a mom of six homeschooled children. I've like bow you right there. Um, number one, having six kids and then homeschooling them, oh my gosh, I could not have, you know, matter that I was enough with two. Um, she's also went from bankruptcy to a multiple six figure business, and now she's a family freedom and affluent mentor and creator of the luxury business sales system. And she really helps well shows women entrepreneurs, how to have it a all family, freedom and affluence while doing what they love. And I really want to hear all about this, uh, because it's something that I know a lot of women entrepreneurs struggle with and to be able to really, to, to do that, to be able to run a business, to be successful, to have a family. So tell me a little bit about your story and how is it that you, you know, went from bankruptcy to multiple six figure business and at the same time you're homeschooling, um, kids as well. That's so It's a wild story. It's, it's definitely a wild story. And just to give you a little bit more history behind the scenes, I left corporate America in 20, um, 2003. And when I left, I literally had to say to myself, what are you gonna do? How can you make this different? Because my family did depend on a two family income. The biggest reason for me leaving was having a meeting with my first son's, um, teacher. He was in the first grade and she said, he's such an amazing student. He's really smart, but we don't have enough support for him. He should be in the third grade, but he's not emotionally prepared for the third grade. You know, he's ahead and he's bored. And her biggest concern was we're gonna dumb him down if he stays in this system. So you have two options, you can put him in private school or you can homeschool him. So what I love to tell people is the way my budget was set up in 2003, private private school, wasn't an option for us. And so I feel like the universe literally just said, you're gonna have to take a radical leap. And I had to not be an educator, just throw myself into the world of homeschooling. And so I decided we're gonna do this homeschooling journey and I still need to make money. I need to figure out how we can maintain what we have and not be in a place of struggle. And so I looked at my husband, I was like, what's something I do really well. He was like, oh, you know, you have this skill. You good with math? You good with that? I'm like, yeah, but what do I really do well? And after we kind of thought about this, the running joke in my house was I'm really good at having babies. No one says this, Gloria, okay, no one. I said, look, I believe you can monetize anything. And what I, the reason I said that Gloria is because what I understood is the women in my community were having pretty traumatic birthing experiences. And I couldn't understand why I was like, I don't understand it. I had such beautiful experiences at this point. I had three children and I'm like, I, you know, the experience with every woman's experiences, her experience. But when you compare and they're like, oh, whoa, everyone has a war story about birth. And I felt like I was on the opposite end. And I said, well, what did I do different? I realized I had, um, the, I had a class for birthing classes, but it was a natural birthing class. I had a doula, I had a midwife. I'm like, that's the missing piece? Yeah. We kind of go with the routine of things, but we didn't realize there were resources available. I just happened to stumble across them. And so what I did is I became a natural child birth at educator and a doula because I said, if I can give this back to my community and other women and educate women, this teach women how to be able to advocate for themselves. I can make a difference. That's where I made my first six figures. I really positioned myself and didn't realize it. I understood how to do business. I remember sitting with clients, going for an interview to see they would take me on as their doula. And they're like, you're the only one showing up as if it's a business. They said, are you a part of an agency? I'm like, well, I am the agency, but I had my collateral together. I understood how to have a conversation that converted. I understood how to help them feel like they were valued. I didn't show up. Like we had, we, our running joke in our industry. He's like, we all wore Birk stocks and something like that. But I'm like, I could be on Nara, but still have a business. And I said, this is something I could do. I did it. And I gave until I could give anymore, but I didn't understand how to manage the money of the business. So here's what I love to tell people. And this is where this gets into your question. Why bankruptcy? What I love to tell people is if you have a hundred thousand dollars and you spend 101, What is that? Yeah. That, that doesn't work. Yep. Unfortunately Something's broken there when your eye is not staying on the prize. When you're not managing what's going on around you, you can be an ultra giver. You can make decisions that are not conducive. And I had to really just say, you made some Royal mistakes. It ended up in bankruptcy. I was going through that guilt cycle. I felt really bad. I'm like, how can I be homeschooling? I'm supposed to be smart. I'm supposed to be this. I'm supposed to be that. And I'm like, no, you made a mistake, but you're gonna learn a lesson missed mistake. So from there I learned how to really reach out guest support. I had my own coaches. I learned how to do money differently. I learned how to do more effectively. And when I was burning out of the birthing cycle, I said, how can I still support and advocate for women? A lot of my moms, they had babies. They didn't wanna go back to work. Huh. But what do you do really well? I started teaching them how to start a business. And that was in 2012. And since then, I've not only taught women how to start businesses, but they've grown and I've been able to elevate my message. So that's where we've gotten to the point where we're teaching women, how to scale business and, or build sellable businesses. So that's how I got here. Love that. That is so many great lessons there, but I think the, the most important, well, there's a couple really important ones. Number one, you had a supportive spouse who, you know, brainstorm with you to try to figure out what, what you were good at. And I think that's so important that not everybody necessarily has when they're starting a new business. Um, and,...