by alishagri3 | Jul 6, 2022 | Business, Career, Uncategorized
Today, I scheduled an interview with one of my fellow mompreneur at the academy. In case you don’t know, our tribe focuses on a certain amount of public relations touches each month. It’s part of our strategic plan (Hence, the reason why I want you in there).
So how do you handle no-shows? When you have things scheduled – whether they’re clients, whether they’re interviews, whether they’re people who you’re supposed to meet up with. How do you deal with the moment of rejection? Because honestly, that’s what it feels like. I remember when I first got into this game of being an entrepreneur, being out there increasing my visibility that initially when I would get the no-shows. And you know what? I would take that as a shot to my heart, like a shot to my heart literally which left questioning myself “Oh my God! What’s wrong with me? Is there something wrong with me? Did my breath smell?” It’s like I’lI be ready and then when no one shows up I begin to question myself (let me know if this has happened to you too).
It’s also the reason why I posted it on all of my social media and here on my website. (I’ll be real, I never posted it because I didn’t think it was a teaching lesson.) And I also realised today that you all need to know that I get “no-shows” too. That I would schedule things, I’d clear my calendar, I’d shift things around (skipping my morning bike-ride), and shifting my whole life aside for this interview that did not show. So I’m going to keep it real with you, I was salty. I was like: “I ain’t rescheduling, this is unprofessional, they should’ve at least let me know in an email.” But I’ve also learned that things happen and that we have to have a forgiving spirit to a space where we don’t take everything so personally. So how do we handle it when it happens? Here’s some 3 tips on how you can handle it:
First, don’t take it personal. It’s not anything directed towards you, it doesn’t mean you’re a horrible person, it doesn’t mean that there’s something wrong with you. It’s just on the other end, unexpected things happen.
Second, have grace. Have grace in space because sometimes it’s you. I literally have grace in space because sometimes it could be me. Like I remember from my show “Dr Ali Griffith’s Mindset Meditation and Motivation” when I am revamping it this summer, (somebody holds me accountable) I want to record 20 recordings over the summer (21 if I’m feeling froggy). Aside from revamping, I also want to theme-launch Legacy Brand Academy because our Anthology is coming out! So I say all that to have grace with the space because I remembered when I was a host and unexpected things happened. I’d have to cancel those things I planned in advance and sometimes I may not even be near a space where I can send an email. I really feel horrible at those times…
This happens also for my clients when I had my sessions. I mean, I would like to say my hit rate in terms of making my sessions for my clients is about 90%. So when the person who was on the other end didn’t show up, I followed up with them and try to make adjustments to make up for our lost session. I don’t play with their sessions unless something has happened in my life, I shifted some sessions during our family — going through the process with my papa Roy. But other than that, I honor time. I think I honor time so much that if I tell you I’m going to be someplace, I’m going to be someplace. I’m not that person you have to double check to see if I’m coming. Once I say I’m coming, once I put it into my calendar I will be there. But life happens and when life happens I want people to have grace with me. So if I want them to have grace with me, then I have to have grace with them.
Lastly, redirect the time. Once your face is beat, once you’re feeling ready for it then record your own stuff. Now is the time for you to turn on the camera, create those reels, create that landing page video, create that thank you page video, there’s a whole list of videos that we all should have a standard video. Go to that list and start creating, because you’re already ready, and now you can’t use the excuse that you don’t have time, because you had a whole half an hour blocked out in your schedule for that interview, so now get to it! “Get to it!” that’s what I tell myself, “Get to it, get to it Ali!” So y’all go see a tiktok with this dress on, you’re going to see a video with this dress and earrings — look at it now. Because we’re going to repurpose the time. So a no-show is not necessarily a no-go, it is time for you to focus on you, and focus on your brand, and what can you do with that at the same time.
by alishagri3 | Jun 29, 2022 | Business, Career
Let’s talk about Summer Readiness, how we can get our life and business prepared for success even during summer. I’m super excited about this because I still think we have time, right? Many of us are feeling like we’re running out of time, like “Oh my God, it’s summer already” and I still think that we can set up our business for success.
If you haven’t started already then you need to jump on the bandwagon now, you need to understand that all successful businesses are prepared for summer. Each business looks different during each season and we need to start getting really fine-tuned to what our business looks like during different seasons. Some of the things we need to understand are: What our ideal audience are doing during summer?
How can we still attract, appeal, and connect to them?
Eventually, how can we convert leads to be our clients even during summer time?
Now, let me know in the comments below “Is summer a high-peak time? Or is it a low-peak time for your business?” And I do believe that it’s super important to understand.
For my audience, which are mostly moms and moms (like me) are usually super busy in the summer because we have to do more things with our kids. We’re usually planning vacations or going on vacations, and our open-times are “very” very limited. I feel like our times are always limited BUT more so in the summer!
So, the idea is that I will put together/produce something that will incorporate and include for doing things with your kids. (And/or doing things in the nighttime after the kids are down, right?) It’ll include short bursts because I do understand some of us will be going out of town for certain weeks, but it’s not going to be the entire summer that we’re going to shut the business down. We can’t shut the business down for the whole summer and if you are? Let me know in the comments. Then, some of us are actually going to launch something during the summer. So if you’re going to launch something during the summer, what are you going to launch? And how could we get ahead so that you could have a successful launch?
Now, please remember launches are not literally putting things out and “Okay, I produced the book. Here’s the book” – It’s not like that. There’s a whole process behind having a successful launch. I showed you a lot of that when I did Zachary’s book launch, when I did my podcast launch, and for those who have been around: most recently is when I’ve done my retreat’s launches, it talks about how it takes a lot of time and the process behind it.
So what I wanted to do this summer is actually create like a launch camp, where we can kind of launch together. Especially understanding the process and knowing that when we launch together, we have better success because we are able to promote each other, support each other, and go through challenges together.
We’ve done it before and I’ve wanted to open it up! So that if you want to join us in the Academy, (For those in the Academy, we’re going to start it after the July 4th week.) If you know you want to launch something or some things throughout the year then JUMP IN!
So we can launch some of the things together. We’ll do it once, we’ll probably do it on the second time for Black Friday. Get ready for Black Friday so we can do it a second time during Q4 – for those who choose to continue to try and redo it. Because the more you launch together the more success you get together, right? The more we launch together, the more success we get to have together. I’m super excited because it was a last-minute idea. Meaning, that I didn’t know it was delivered and I’m trying to be receptive to the mood of it and make sure that I’ve provided for those out there who needed it. I know for me, I know for my other CEO sisters when we got together over the weekend that one of the things we spoke about was “We love when we launch together.”
One of the things my clients ended up telling me this week was ” They like it when we launch together”. So I was like “Okay, God, I hear you loud and clear apparently we’re going to be launching together”. So let’s spend some time and launch together over the summer, those who are already in the Launch Your Own Brand Academy or Elite Mastermind, we’re going to start setting it up.
For those of you who are not, feel free to join us in the Academy! Let me know if you’re interested so you can finally get a chance to launch with me and the tribe. All I want you to know is that this summer is about still being active! Summer is still about creating a plan. It’s still about showing up. Most of all? Summer is tweaking your readiness. It’s tweaking the way you are going to present yourself and understanding what the changes look like during different seasons in your brand. I’m bringing it because I want to highlight it to you. As we highlight it in our office and we’re doing it as a team, I want to make sure that I’m including you guys so that I’m not growing alone. I want you to understand success leads tip, success leads clues, and we need to follow what is successful and tweak it to what works for our people and our audience, does that make sense?
That’s all for summer biz preparedness and how you can get ready. If you would like to join us as we are launching together – I don’t have the full name for it but just join us in the Academy, and we’ll put a name together for it. We’ve done it before on Launch your own brand Academy, and probably within a day or two we’ll know the name for it. And you know what? It really shouldn’t matter the name for it right now. Right now, what matters is your success, what matters is you have support, what matters is you have faster results, what matters is your need to get support which is huge when it comes to launching and especially during the breakdowns and the challenges. So we’ll have weekly touches with it as a group unless you need to work one-on-one with me and just have a conversation, but this is as a group so that we get what we want, the results we want and we have fun. It’s more fun when we can do it together, it is “absolutely” more fun when we can do it together!
by alishagri3 | May 14, 2022 | Business, Career
In my experience as a business owner, one thing I’ve noticed is a common pattern in excuses as to why people can’t do things. One of the most common is they can’t find time to work on their businesses.
The question then becomes, how do we do it? How do we find time to grow our businesses and keep moving forward? What are some of the ways you find time?
I always get asked this question “Dr. Ali, how do you find the time?” I have four profit businesses, a Business Coach. I have a non-profit business as a co-founder of Smart Fit Fam, and I’m also an #autismmom, Author of Professional Audiologist and Speech Therapy Pathologist. And the list goes on.
I feel that most moms, we wear most of our hats in many ways. So I just learned how to create more harmony in my life to really allocate the time towards what we really feel good and to what’s important to me.
And as a business owner, I make sure to take care of the top priorities first. The things that bring revenue-generating space wherein my business will continue to flow, so I operate in CEO mode! But I also make sure to be a human in the process. Now, it doesn’t have to be the same amount of time, but it does have to be in allocated energy towards being present when you are doing that time. Being aware of the things that must be done to be successful is clear, having a plan is clear. But most importantly, for me, to manage it all is to have a clear flow.
by alishagri3 | May 13, 2022 | Business, Career
Why are business values important?
Having a clear set of values helps your team and clients understand what you stand for.
It’s important to take the time to get your business values together so you can build your business successfully!
I have helped many CEO Mompreneurs launch their legacy brand!
My Top 3 Business Values are:
First: Be Authentic, we need to be authentic in everything we do. If you’re going to have a business people connect to and relate with your authentic self
Second: Being Resilient. In business there are going to be things that throws you off, comes in and challenge you and most likely will make you fall. A resilient person will learn how to get back up, bounce through and pivot when those moments pass through, being resilient is what still has me in the game.
Lastly: Being trustworthy. You want to have that space so that people will come in and speak to you, they can feel they can honor you, they can have a relationship with you, connect with you, that they can trust you. When people can trust you, they can invest in you. So take a time-out to provide that space where you can create a trustworthy relationship.
by alishagri3 | May 2, 2022 | Business, Career
When you enroll in Legacy Brand Academy, you’re beginning an exhilarating, empowering, and fun journey that will allow:
☀️Monthly Live Group Coaching Sessions With Dr. Ali
I’ve walked the same path that you’re navigating right now. I’ve been through the struggle of balancing the needs of my child and other loved ones with my own goals and aspirations. I’ve felt the frustration and confusion that’s so common in the personal business landscape.
That’s why, once a month, you’ll have the opportunity to join a live group coaching session with me. I’ll share what works and will use my lived experience to help you move past your challenges and achieve results. Together, we’ll build inspiration, confidence, and progress!
☀️Live Sessions With Guest Experts
As much as I love talking with and getting to know each and every person in my programs, I know I’m not the only one out there with wisdom to share.
LYOB Academy will give you the chance to hear from several different experts, so you can benefit from a wide range of views and experiences. You’ll be able to ask questions and get inspired—plus, you’ll get access to some free gifts and tools from people who have stood in your shoes.
☀️Lifetime Access To Course Materials
Time is precious, and there never seems to be enough of it. I know that sometimes, despite our best efforts, life happens—and I don’t want anyone to miss out on achieving their goals because of bad timing.
☀️Weekly Live Q&A Sessions (Legacy Leaders)
Even with access to all the necessary tools, building a brand is a challenge. It’s easy to get confused and discouraged while you’re deep in the trenches of developing and executing your vision.
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by alishagri3 | May 1, 2022 | Business, Career
When building your brand, social media plays a huge part of growing your online presence, getting your brand vision and story out there!
Creating content can be overwhelming if you don’t have the tools. I just recently wrapped up a tour of content creation. i traveled to a few cities and did live hands on sessions about content creation.
It’s not just about content creation, there are so many stages you have to go through when launching your brand.
Why not have a place where you can go to, to learn everything you need to know to launch that Legacy brand!
So go do two things for me:
Join our tribe over at the CEO Mompreneurs group.
And
Apply to grab a spot in the Launch Legacy Brand Academy!
The time is now!
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