Things you need to create your dream business

In today’s episode of the podcast I talk about how you can create your dream business by focusing on 6 main areas. I tell you more about my Dream Business Growth Path and the free Dream Business Workshop I am doing, PLUS hear some stories about my amazing members who have created their dream businesses.   KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST   Let’s all be kind right now. The main 6 areas of focus in your business – Sales, Emails, Social Media, Teams & Systems, Content and Community. You need a clear plan of what you are going to work on next to take your business to the next stage. To sustain a business you need the 6 key areas in place. My growth path gives you a clear, actionable plan to follow to get to the next stage.   THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER ABOVE ALL ELSE…   To create your dream business you need to work out what you want, make a plan to get there and work on your mindset.   HIGHLIGHTS YOU SIMPLY CAN’T MISS   My new quiz and how it works How my Dream Business Growth Path works Stories about my amazing members who have created their dream business   RESOURCES MENTIONED   FREE Dream Business Workshop – Wednesday 16th March 12pm GMT Take my quiz Becci – BeHeardSocials Ben – Shoutable Agency Becci – Blossom Academy   TRANSCRIPT   Hello and welcome to this week's episode of the podcast. How are you doing? So I'm still recording these a little bit on the fly, which is still very frustrating, but we've had so much going on in the business and so many new things coming out and changing that I just to try and plan too far ahead at the moment, seems a bit difficult, but soon things will calm down. And so, uh, hopefully I will get back into the swing of things. So this last few weeks have been a little bit tricky in terms of what's going on in the world. And, and I guess I've not really said a huge amount about it. And I guess I just wanted to address it on here in case you're sat there thinking what should you do? How should you show up in the world? And one thing that has really surprised me is how strong some people's opinions are about, you know, what's right and wrong and what you should and shouldn't do during times like this. And it's tricky. It's really, really hard. Now I know as a business owner, we have a different position, I suppose, than a person that's just using their own social media. But also honestly, I can tell myself in and out of this completely, which is probably why I haven't said a great deal. I guess I should caveat this whole conversation with the fact that you know, or you may or may not know that my husband was in the military for 25 years and his life was spent flying in active war zones. That that was what he did. He's come under fire at times. They've flown into the most scariest places, probably on the planet in very hostile environments. And like I said, this is a world that, that he is more than used to. So I guess, you know, when it comes to stuff like this happening and what do I do publicly and outwardly I look at him and I look at how we manage things. And I just think at times like now we just need to be kind, we need to be accepting that people deal with things in different ways. I have got people in my world that and me included, actually, I'm not a big watcher of the news because as I've talked about in this podcast where I get anxiety and, and I can pretty much cause myself a lot of anxiety without seeing anything extra. So I personally, um, in fact we have this kind of thing in my house that my husband, Paul, he will watch the news and look at it on his phone and all that sort of thing. And if there's anything that I really need to worry about, he'll tell me. And obviously I know vaguely what was happening in the world at most points. But I think at this point, like I said, I was really hesitant to mention it really. But I've also seen stuff that basically people said, if you don't mention it you're in support of Russia, which obviously is not the case, I am definitely not in support of what is going on, but just because I don't choose to constantly share about it doesn't mean that's the case. Also, the other thing that's interesting is that I am no expert. I am, you know, granted my husband has a firsthand account of this sort of thing, but I am no one in this world's talk about this sort of thing. So I choose not to that doesn't mean I don't support them. It doesn't mean I don't do things in private. Again, I've seen people, who've posted pictures of what they've donated and it's like, yeah, I don't feel the need to do that. So, like I said, in my, my opinion on all of this is we're all doing the best we can. We all have different views and thoughts and opinions, none of them, right and none of them wrong. We deal with things differently. And just because someone doesn't show up the way you expect them to show up, doesn't mean that they're wrong. You know, this, this subject in particular can be very triggering, especially for someone who's been in war zones. You know, especially for someone who might have anxiety for someone who have a family there that you just don't know about. So you just don't know. So I think. I think my advice if, if you wanted it, and if you asked for it would be that you do what you need to do. Um, the one thing I do know more than anything else is that we all still run businesses and we all still have to pay the mortgage and pay the ever-increasing electricity bills and the ever increasing fuel bills. And so therefore as much as it might feel in bad taste and might seem to some people in bad taste, we do also have to earn money. You know, restaurants still serving food. Tesco's is still putting food on the shelves. And, you know, so we've, we've still got to carry on. So I know that, you know, this is a real tricky time. And like I said, it wasn't necessarily what I was going to come on, talk about today. But like I said, I just wanted to address it just to say. You know, these are my thoughts, but my thoughts are very much, everyone's doing the best they can, and you choose to deal with it, how you choose to deal with that. And, and I think the big thing here and the thing I have seen an awful lot of is shame that people are shaming others, that if you don't do this, you are this. If you do this, you are wrong. And I think that's the one thing we need to get away from. No one needs any extra shame in our lives. And like I said, you, you know, when I think about the people who have said that they don't know what's behind other people in their responses. So like I said, you know, no one has actually commented too much on my stuff in terms of what I have, or haven't said, I've shared a few things on my stories of like good posts that other people who are far smarter than me have posted that I've shared to show my support. But also again, there's a lot of other wars going on as I'm far too aware of given the fact that my husband was in the military. So again, I just, like I said, kindness, kindness is the thing that I am opting for at this moment in time. Okay. Let's get on with today's podcast. So lots of things to talk about, uh, first thing is I am doing a free live workshop around creating your dream business. Now, what I've done is I've thought about like, seriously, I never stopped thinking about this stuff. I never stopped learning. I never stopped sort of educating myself. And you know, when you do something and you feel it like everything just slots into place and you feel so happy about how it looks and the outcome and all that sort of thing. That's exactly how I feel right now about this whole sort of stuff I'm doing in terms of the quiz. So if you haven't taken the quiz, do go and check that out that's teresaheathwareing.com/quiz. And basically this is all so beautifully linked. I just love it. And I think in this episode, I'm going to talk about this whole process and, and where it's leading and what it looks like and how it works in order to give you a bit of insight behind the scenes, but also to explain the need for this in terms of, for business owners. So the first thing you would see that if you did the quiz, the quiz basically is a number of questions, some fun, some very direct that I'm getting answers from you on. Where basically at the end of that quiz, I tell you that you're one of three things, the one or three things that are holding you back in your business, it's called bind your number one business blocker. And basically we look at one of those three things, and I then say to you, your business blocker is this, and this is the place you want to focus on. And on the thank you page after the quiz is a video of me and I talk through it. But the best thing about the quiz for me is what I wanted to do is I wanted to give you a personalized report. I find, I know I've talked about this a lot recently. Honestly, I can't tell you how excited I am about it all. So I wanted to create this personalized report. So I find three of the main questions that tend to be the biggest stumbling blocks or the biggest points in your business in which you need to action in order to move forward.