Insights From America: My Top 5 Takeaways for Online Businesses

Today’s episode marks 300 episodes of the podcast, which feels amazing... it's not quite the special one I had planned (that's coming soon!), but it is still a must listen, especially if you're an online business. In it I am giving you the inside info and sharing my key takeaways and themes from my trip to America, where I spoke at a seven figure mastermind for women owned businesses in Nashville, and attended the Kajabi Conference in Austin, which was filled with amazing speakers. If any of these takeaways give you a particular lightbulb moment, please share on your social media, and let me know! KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST The key marketing tool that all online businesses need to be taking seriously Why you need to take a critical look at how you spend your time Why you shouldn't constantly be creating new things or trying to reinvent the wheel LINKS TO RESOURCES MENTIONED IN TODAY’S EPISODE Believe It by Jamie Kern Lima Find out more about Kajabi Connect with Teresa on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter Transcript You are listening to Your Dream Business Podcast, and as always, I am your host, Teresa Heath Wareing and welcome to episode 300. I have done 300 episodes of this podcast and sometimes it feels like I've done 30 and other times it feels like I've done 30,000. Hopefully it doesn't feel that bad to you. Now I'm recording this episode and my dog is at my feet. This is, we've been together a long time. I'm very relaxed about this stuff, as you well know. So I apologize now if you can hear my dog moving or making a noise or whatever. But this is kind of, this is the real life. I am dashing in and out doing things and therefore I wanted to make sure my dog had some chance to see me and he sat by my feet. So I apologize if you hear these things. Now. I wanted to plan something super special and amazing for episode 300. If you have listened for a while, you'll know episode 100 I had my husband down and we were interviewed by my very dear friend, BizPaul. And episode 200, I have my husband back on again. Cuz it's kind of nice just to do some kind of personal conversations. And, you know, I, I guess it's kind of a little bit behind the scenes, but back then my husband used to work more in the business and since then he has retired from the Air Force and got himself a proper job. So, unfortunately, He is not in the business as much cuz he is actually, I was gonna say actually doing work. I mean, when he was in the Air Force, he used to do some big scary stuff, but when he was around, he'd be around for days and days and days, but then he'd be gone for days and days and days. So it was like, I while, he was here he could do stuff in the business. Anyway, he doesn't anymore. So I decided a while ago I wasn't gonna have him in for episode 300, and I had some other thoughts and the timings just weren't right. So I do have a special episode coming up. It's not recorded. I haven't decided what, what episode it's going to be. It won't be a million miles away, but it's not episode 300. So I'm really sorry, but this is just a normal episode of me talking to myself. So I apologize if you were hoping that we'd have some really cool different stuff. Now, what I am gonna give you in this episode is if you have been following me along, if you follow me on Instagram, you will know for the past like almost six weeks. I have been in and out of home and I've been at various different speaking places. I've been at various different conferences. I've run two of my own events, and I thought I would just give you a little bit of a roundup of some of the things and themes that I've heard over the last six weeks. Because obviously, not only have I been speaking and attending things, but I have seen some amazing speakers too. And I've met some amazing people. So I just thought I would take a really quick episode to tell you kind of some of the themes that were coming up. And lots of the things I guess that I've got for today's episode or some of the stuff I wanna say to you are based on online businesses, because one of the big things I did in these travels was I went to the Kajabi conference in Austin. And obviously the Kajabi product is the product I use for my online business, and therefore everyone at that event had an online business and therefore all the speakers were focused towards online businesses. So some of those things are gonna be online, but I still think they're good messages even if you don't have an online business. So let's start with the first thing I did. I spoke in Nashville at a Seven Figure Mastermind for females, and it was awesome. I have to say I was very nervous. I was thinking these are seven figure businesses. I am not a seven figure business. And I was a little bit intimidated by who they might be and what they might know and whether my content and I would be good enough for them. And I am super glad to say that actually it was lovely and they were lovely and very down to earth and it was really inspiring to be sat in a room with them. But I also didn't feel at all threatened by them, which was lovely or felt like I wasn't good enough, which just proves surrounding yourselves with the right people, no matter what level they're at. And actually for me, it was really lovely to be surrounded by people who were at a stage beyond me so that I could be inspired by them as well as speaking for them. And I picked up a couple of things from there, which I think is, really interesting. So one of the first things I picked up was the fact that these women were all about diversifying their income. So they, and, and actually this goes to contradict something I heard later on, at Kajabi, however, I still think it's important. So they talked a lot about having different revenue streams coming in. So they weren't putting all their eggs in one basket. They weren't going, I've got this one thing and this is all I'm gonna do and all I'm gonna sell. Or I've got this one client now I have to say as well the predominantly the businesses there. Now, they weren't all but predominantly they were in, real estate. So either they bought properties and rented them out, or they did short term rentals and that sort of thing, or they flipped properties. So that was really interesting for me to see that, that, like I said, it was, they were all about different revenue streams. The other thing that kind of really inspired me was some of these women had jobs, right? Which blew my mind. They not only had businesses that were hitting the seven figures, but they still had jobs because they were still in their own mind, getting to a point where they were comfortable enough to go, I can now leave my job. But what blew me away more than anything is these women were working their backsides off. Right? They were literally, Working so hard because they were working a full-time job. And I dunno whether, you know, obviously if you're in the States, you will know, but you might not know that in the UK we get considerably more annual leave than you do. So vacation time, so I was talking to one woman who works and runs her business and she gets 14 days annual leave a year. 14 days, right? So I then started having a conversation with her about, well, how do you even divide that time up? What do you use it on? And she's like, I was get, she's getting married, so she's using five for that. So I was like, well, what about your honeymoon? Well, I just won't have one. And then she, and then I'm using four or five for Tony Robbins, and that again, blew me away. So not only did she have very limited holidays, she had a business on the side of her. Actual employee job. And then she was using her most valuable time to go and do personal development stuff. And I have to say, they all made me kick myself up the backside a bit cuz I thought these women are killing it. And, and I know there's about balance and I know we wanna live our lives and you know, I am totally about that. But it made me kind of had a bit of a hard, long look at myself and go. Am I working as hard as I could be? Am I showing up as much as I could be? Or am I making excuses for myself? Now. I'll talk about something that Brendan Brichard said later at, at the Kajabi event, but that kind of coincides with this, but, and it's not about beating yourself up going, well, you should be working harder. No, only you can decide that. I sat there and looked at these women and thought, wow. Like one, I could look at Diversing diversifying my income, and it was a lot about investments and things like that. And two, I could ask myself, am I really working as hard as I could be? So that for me was really, really awesome to hear kind of those women and how they work. So that was the first thing. The other thing that I really liked,...