SDH 380: Achievement Addiction With Shauna VanBogart

Today's guest is Shauna VanBogart. Shauna helps small business owners build, run, and scale sustainable service-based businesses that feel as good as they look. After completing a graduate degree in Communications and Leadership Studies, building four businesses from 0 to over six and multiple six-figures in annual revenue, and 10+ years mentoring business owners running everything from start-ups to multi-million dollar brands, Shauna knows precisely what it takes to evolve a business and elevate its income.Shauna utilizes her graduate degree, a decade of business experience, and her certification in Hypnosis to work one-on-one with clients to refine their business model, scale their expertise, and develop an online presence to increase revenue and create sustainable, soulful success.In this episode, you will...Get tips in transitioning from your job to your own businessHear about the high-level version of how Shauna started her journeyLearn how you can evolve together with your businessListen to Shauna's experience in image consulting and how she uses that experience to help small business ownersHear about why she let go of her online magazine which was already successful and had massive potential to turn into an excellent publicationIdentify the sabotaging roadblocks from your subconscious placeDiscover about the "achievement addiction" pieceHear about her challenges on sponsorship which doesn't align with her brandDefine what is your achievementHow to find that spark of inspiration from within youand so much more! Insights:"I'm feeling like I'm missing something that's mine, exclusively mine, and what feels, you know, so good to me. So I keep coming back to self-development.""I kept hitting these bigger and bigger milestones in my career, yet I felt less and less fulfilled. It was like the law of diminishing returns.""The only way that you can get those beautiful answers and sparks of inspiration from inside of you is to filter out that noise. Stop being externally referenced. Stop comparing yourself go inward, do that deep self-reflective work to see where do you really like strive and thrive? Where is your zone of genius, and to step into it, versus constantly looking outward and go, Okay, I need to strive for that." Resources:SHAUNA VAN BOGARTJust Being PodcastBusting Loose From the Money Game: Mind-Blowing Strategies for Changing the Rules of a Game You Can't Win