It’s 2021, FINALLY. ????

I’m pretty confident that I’m not alone when I say I’ll be glad to wave goodbye to 2020. In a lot of ways, it was taken away from us.

But not this year. This year, it’s time for us to take back our OWN in 2021 and for you to really take care of your WHOLE YOU?

That being said, I want us to take this time to set our intentions for this year. 

Sooo try this exercise with me today. ??????

#1: Pick one desire.

Take a minute to think about one thing you’ve been trying to make happen in your life. It could be a new job you’re after, a shift in your relationship or a health goal. Whatever it is (big or small), write it down.

#2: Get absolutely clear about what you want. Be specific.
Ask yourself, “What do I want? Why do I want it? What goodness will it bring to my life? How will I feel when it happens?” Write down those details as if you’re placing your order.

#3 Now release your desire.

Now that your intention is positive and clear, it’s important to become calm and still. If you meditate, that’s an ideal space in which to plant your seeds of intention. Quiet your mind and body. And then let your intention go.

As a small business owner, have you ever thought about Brand Values?

Brand values are basically what define your brand’s personality. How does your brand treat people? How does it make people feel? What promises does your brand make? What does your brand refuse to compromise on? What does your brand fall on the sword for?

I chose resilience. ???

Why “resilience”?

Because giving up is not an option.

As a mom to a child with special needs, I don’t have a choice to give up. I need to SHOW up for Zachary. I need to be a role model for him that hurdles only make you stronger.

So resilience is at the core of everything I do.

Your turn –

What are your brand values? Quality? Value? Passion?

Today I’m going to share some cool strategies on how to move forward in 2021 when unplanned an unexpected happens. 

We should all be professionals of unplanned and unexpected because that’s exactly what 2020 did for us. 

Tune in and let me know who is ready for 2021!

 What do we want to celebrate in 2020? What did we totally didn’t exepect? What did we learn about ourselves in 2020?’

I learned so much about myself in 2020. 

I’m resilient. 

Put down what you learned about YOURSELF.

What I really learned about myself is that I was created for this. The unexpected. To know how to pivot. I have pivoted my whole life. 

The behind the scenes : I just got a reach out last night to participate in another interview selected out of couple thousands to share my journey of my experience with Tony Robbins and Dean Graziosi. 

Why did I decide moms? Because to me I’ve always felt like we are purposed and passioined for specific thing and I always feel like if I’m going to live my truth – learn through things and go back and help people then I want to go back and help me. Then I want to go back and help me too so that others who are just like me can also move through their steps. So they asked me to come on and share where I am now as a result of usinig the program and show up as myself. And I’ve learned that trying to be anyone, or anything else is so not me. and that’s the best part of 2020 is really owning the imperfect me . really teppinig into my own self. I’m going to be talkinig more about that as some of you come to the vision board party in Jan.

Part of the conversation in the interview, we tapped into what I learned and who I am and how I show up – was that continue to show up no matter what – through the unplanned. When your in one thing you can’t be everywhere else, so like many other panelists, I went longer than expected. We shifted with grace and ease.

How is it I’m able to juggle the million things I do – I schedule, I have structure, I create a system where there is support and I also invest in strategies so I can learn quicker. The most important thing is to give myself grace and ease when things are thrown off schedule. So my end of the year message which was totally created  – as we’re moving in 2021 and creating strategy about how we’re going to take over 2021- is it going to be easy? Absolutely not. But you can get yourself aligned, and set up with system and structure so you’re not doing this alone. 

Today you are in for a special treat. We are going to 3 keys things to get you clear on the direction you are headed in your business- it’s that TIME. 

Why we decided to do this episode today? We are coming off a hiatus after Mompreneurs on Fire 2.0. For those of you who don’t know me I’m Dr. Ali Griffith, and people around me helped me create Mompreneurs on Fire- a movement where we are helping other moms who are starting businesses or recently started businesses to stay IGNITED and keep going without giving up on themselves. I notice when I first started and I didn’t’ have support and I was doing it by myself, and I noticed raising my son, who required a lot out of me, and a lot of my moms who are like me out there, we start a business and then…we stop. 

We start, we start going in circles, we pause, we fall, we slow things down and we lose our fumes. We lose the fire, the flame, we lose the fumes, and my goal became to help Mompreneurs stay ignited. To help them understand how to make this happen and prove that we can do it – we were created for IT. 

Thinking through the lessons I’ve learned- each lessons I’ve been through, challenges, raising Zachary- I started to realize each lesson, each challenge, each breakdown (and as a special needs parent, we go through A LOT of breakdowns, almost every day), and with those we began to learn how are we still surviving? How are we still making it through those breakdowns? And I started to realize that we as moms, CEOs of oursevles and businesses, we have the ability to use a lot of those strategies to keep us going. We don’t stop mom-ing, taking care of the kids, making sure they’re okay, why is that we stop with our business?

At times we need help, and we have to figure out how to move forward with getting help. One thing that always comes up is that a lot of moms feel that they need clarity. They feel they are in a place where they’re feeling confused, they’re not sure how to serve, how to show up, and when you’re not clear on how to show up, or what your purpose is – that’s what leads to the lack of action. 

Tune in to the Dr. Ali Griffith show to find out how to move forward! 

Start with, Who am I? Where am I going? How do I get there? and listen for more.

When women are in the beginning stages of building profitable businesses, it takes a special type of woman to coach them to success.

It takes a life and business coach who helps them to get clear on what they should be doing in the world. A strategist who sees systems in her sleep. And a keep-going kind of woman who can fight through life’s unexpected and exceptional challenges—every day—and be an example for women to do the same.

It takes Dr. Ali Griffith.

Dr. Ali’s desire to create the income and freedom that her life, as a single mom to an autistic son, required led her to entrepreneurship. Juggling a full-time career as an audiologist and speech pathologist, as challenging as her life was, she knew she had a choice—to crumble or climb. Always choosing the latter, Dr. Ali became a leading voice for parents of special needs children, quickly growing a small consulting company into a global platform. From launching a hit podcast, The Dr. Ali Griffith Show: Mindset, Meditation, Motivation, to consistently landing five-figure speaking deals, she is the rock star in every room she enters. As she leveled up in her own business, Dr. Ali has gone from student to sensei, training and leading the sales teams for personal development and media titans such as Lisa Nichols.

With an incomparable blend of business strategy, personal development tools, and God-given grit, Dr. Ali has dedicated her career to helping women to start profitable businesses and create wealth on their own time. Masterful at making what’s complicated simple and what’s unachievable possible, she shows women how to achieve laser clarity and implement systems that maximize their time and profitability. With Dr. Ali, women get rapid results in their businesses and lives.

They are richer. They are stronger. They are running businesses and living lives the only way they should be—on their own time and their own terms.

Learn more about Dr. Ali and opportunities to build an extraordinary business and life at www.draligriffith.com.

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I’m super excited to come at you with another episode of the Dr. Ali Show! Today we are going to be talking about intellectual property. 

If you want to find out more how it is to protect your brand, identity, thoughts, ideas, concepts, words, phrases your genius that is inside of you – if you’re starting a business or going to be starting a business soon you’ll want to tune in!

The reason I want to tackle this topic is because I’ve been having a lot of conversation with clients who are sitting on ideas, who have amazing thoughts, we’re letting ourselves stop us – I remember wanting to start a martial arts program (I’m a black belt in jiu jitsu) and I have a son on the autism spectrum and I kept looking for a program for him because I knew how much martial arts made a difference in my life in learning self control, self discipline and learning how to really tap into my body and surrounding areas, and I knew with his levels of not being regulated that this would be the ideal program or exercise that would help his state of mind to help him navigate when he didn’t know how. Unfortunately, a lot of the program I saw had a lot of children inside and he has difficulties attending and weren’t a good match- as an audiologist and speech pathologist I wanted something were he could communicate with other kids in a nice small environment an they would help him in attending and regulating his body and socialize. I would look for programs and there were some but it didn’t fit everything I wanted, so I had this idea to create this program where he could learn and get what he needed. AS a parent and a mom we’re always looking at what can help. 

Of course, I was a punk. I walked around with this idea for a year or two…it kept coming back, I would try a different program and it just didn’t have everything I needed. It was one day I was having a conversation with a very close friend, and I was telling her about my idea “SoSmartKids”, the program I later created, and she told me, “Ali, this is genius, why aren’t you doing this?” and I was like “Well I don’t really have the space, I don’t know how, I don’t know if this is even possible? Would people even come to it?”

She was like “Why don’t you ask the person who owns our do-jo our fitness professor” and I said, “ummm” and I sat on that for a while because once again, I didn’t want to ASK. I was afraid of looking silly. I was thinking once again,  here we a re with this idea, and no one is going to see what this thing really is. I remember working out and training with another sensei and he was talking about his nephew having autism, and I said how do you feel if we had a program and I could help him with communication and socialization and we could do something with Zachary? And he was IN!

So confirmation again.

So how many of you are sitting out there with these ideas, with these beautiful intellectual property, with these concepts that sound amazing but a) yo don’t know how to go about it b) you’re scared c) you think people are going to laugh at you. 

This episode is to let you know that your ideas is how many amazing companies are formed. So, if you’re sitting on this genius that is inside of you, let me just share how does this help you. 

It helps you increasing visibility: Fast forward, I did end up starting so smart kids. I did go out there and do all the due diligence and it was an AMAZING experience. We helped hundreds of kids, we were using our skills and we were using what we were already loving to help someone else. Many people became to know us as helping people and families with Autism, they now knew us in this capacity. 

Fast forward, when I went to trademark “Aumazing” ,  I was always saying the word “Amazing”. And then I thought, I want Zachary to think of autism as something that is not something negative, so I held onto the word Aumazing and checked the trademark and it was available, and I had one of my amazing moms who was recently a speaker at my Mompreneurs on Fire event- the legally chic, Toni Moore. She was able to help me through the process. The trademark distinguished my brand and helped me stand out. So that idea that you’re sitting on there, protect it and be sure it’s available and it’s YOURS. 

Through the process, when you’re ready between the 0-3 years, find it out what you need to do to protect your idea, genius and creativity. 

The last reason is because we really want to get to a point now where w’ere avoiding risk. If someone else is using it, they can come after us. So start our business right ya’ll. For those of you who are sitting on your business ideas, I have a gazillion programs to help you get started. Once you have access to me, you get access to all my POWER friends.