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How to Become a Magnet For Good Things in Your Life

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Find Your Clarity of Purpose on She's Got Moxie with Joy ChudacoffToday I talk about how you can become a magnet for good things in your life. It seems like everyone I speak with lately is struggling to find a sense of peace so today I’m going to talk about something that I know will help:

Certainty of Purpose. Do you have it?

Once we master clarity in our business and life, we can see the effects spill over into our personal lives and the lives of those we work with. We become magnets for good things in our lives. There is a great power that comes with activating clarity and harnessing this power is necessary if we want to lead with ease. In this episode, I share my own definition of clarity and explain how to find it — both in your business and your personal life. I also talk about the certainty of purpose and how valuable it is as you attempt to stay on track.

Listen in to learn how you can learn to lead with ease, why you should prioritize getting clarity of purpose, and tips for finding your certainty of purpose.

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If you really and truly understand what clarity means at its core, everyone would spend time doing this.” – Joy Chudacoff

Show Notes:

  • What Clarity REALLY means on a deeper level
  • My definition of CLARITY
  • How to find your certainty of purpose
  • How to LEAD with ease
  • What you must ACTIVATE Daily
  • How to Become a MAGNET of Energy
  • The SECRET to PROSPERITY
  • How to make PRICE Never the Issue
  • Ways to know if you’re getting off track in your business
  • 3 STEPS to Clarity
  • The CRUCIAL Question
  • All Roads Lead to a BLESSED Life when you have Clarity
  • How to become a magnet for good things

When you become a magnet for good and you have a product or service, price is never the issue.” – Joy Chudacoff

Finding Joy Masterclass: The Battle Worth Fighting

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http://FindingJoyMasterclass.com

During my 5-Day FREE Masterclass you’ll learn:

  • The ONE simple, easy, time-saving tip that will open the door wide to your highest level of CREATIVE Thinking
  • 7 “hidden triggers” that may be sabotaging your efforts and the tools to release these triggers (once & for all)
  • The Essential questions to zero in on your deepest desires for your business & life
  • How to create a Vision for What Matters Most
  • How to create a 90-day plan of ACTION (one that actually keeps you on track to cross the finish line with your goals)

Join my Free 5-day Masterclass on Zoom beginning May 16 and I’ll personally walk you through how to experience more JOY & ALIGNMENT in your business & life.

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Fran Maier – From Match.com to BabyQuip

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Fran Maier on She's Got MoxieFran Maier’s advice is gold. As the CEO & Founder of BabyQuip, the country’s leading baby gear rental service, Fran is a powerful female entrepreneur and established trend-spotter, so she has a lot of great information to impart.

In this episode, Fran opens up about her experience pitching on the television series Shark Tank and explains why “change is always a catalyst for opportunity.”

Listen in to learn how Fran makes day-to-day decisions, why timing is crucial in business, and how confidence and vulnerability go hand-in-hand.

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Don't solve tomorrow's problem today.” – Fran Maier

Show Notes:

  • How Confidence & Vulnerability pair well together
  • The ONE Thing that gives your Biz The EDGE
  • Why understanding TRENDS are key
  • How Babyquip went from idea to over 650+ cities across the US
  • The Early days at BabyQuip
  • Her experience on SHARK TANK and What Happened Next
  • How she moves through the TOUGH Times
  • Her “5 Things” Strategy
  • Her Super Power
  • Her advice on successful CROWD-FUNDING
  • Bootstrapping versus Fundraising

I know how to build trusted brands.” – Fran Maier

Connect with Fran Maier:

LinkedIn | Instagram | Twitter | BabyQuip

Timing really makes a difference.” – Fran Maier

Courtney Feider – Unpacking the Power of Enneagram

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Courtney Feider on She's Got Moxie with Joy ChudacoffHave you heard of Enneagram? I had not until recently and today’s guest, Courtney Feider, is here to talk about how key this is for entrepreneurs and leaders. Courtney is an executive coach and the co-founder of Wild Enneagram Love and its WEL Method. In this episode, she shares the theory and assessment of enneagrams and how they can work for individuals and even couples. She also opens up about her big turning point when an unfortunate carjacking led her to a career in coaching.

Listen in as Courtney discusses what she relishes about her most difficult days as an entrepreneur, her favorite outlets, and the reason why she spends so much time outdoors.

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I know for a fact that I've gotten in my own way over the years.” – Courtney Feider

Show Notes:

  • How a CARJACKING led Courtney to coaching
  • What is Enneagram anyway? (There are 9 Types)
  • How AWARENESS is key to decision-making
  • Why knowing your Enneagram NUMBER can help the growth of your business & leadership skills
  • Courtney shares what “my” number MEANS
  • Courtney’s biggest challenge as an Entrepreneur
  • How Courtney handles her toughest days
  • Why you need BOTH Expanders & Containers in your business
  • And much, much more

We wanted to really make emotional intelligence tangible.” – Courtney Feider

Connect with Courtney Feider:

LinkedIn | Instagram | Courtney Feider| Wild Enneagram Love

It set me on a course of clearing away what didn't matter and getting very specific about how I was going to show up in my own work by first showing up as myself.” – Courtney Feider

 

Renee Fraser – Founder & CEO of Fraser Communications and Advocate for Women on Boards

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Renee Fraser on She's Got Moxie with Joy Chudacoff

Today’s guest Renee Fraser is the CEO of Fraser Communications and host of The Deciders radio show and podcast. Fraser Communications is an ad agency with clients including Lexus, Hyundai, USC, East West Bank. As the CEO of the leading woman-owned and woman-led agency in Southern California, Renee is a dedicated advocate for women in leadership and force for good who is active on the 20/20 Women on Boards in Los Angeles initiative.

Renee is a pioneer and tireless advocate for getting more women on boards. In this episode, she and I talk about the event that made her start her own advertising and marketing company 23 years ago and how she prioritizes family. She also shares advice for women in corporate who are thinking about leaving their jobs and why women struggle with the juggle.

Listen in to Renee and I talk about why it pays to make friends with everyone, how women are making a difference sitting on boards, and how it’s changing the world.

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Most of the perspective that has been shared has been from white men.” – Renee Fraser

Show Notes:

  • From Zero dollars to 35M all while raising three daughters
  • The Wake-Up Call at her daughter's 3rd Birthday
  • Excellent (No Cost) Tips to Generate Consistent Referrals
  • Coping Skills for moving through the really tough days
  • A 65M business loss and how she pulled through
  • Sage wisdom on building a business while raising a family
  • The question she asked her ‘twenty-something’ daughters and the SILENCE while she waited for the answer
  • The Importance of the dinner table (besides eating dinner)
  • The statistics on what happens to a company when they have women on their boards

I decided I wasn't going to focus on video games, beer, or motorcycles.” – Renee Fraser

Connect with Renee Fraser:

LinkedIn | The Deciders | Blog | Fraser Communications

I wanted to do well by doing good.” – Renee Fraser

Jen Cox – The Tie-Dye Ninja & Founder/CEO of Momma Osa

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Jen Cox on She's Got Moxie with Joy Chudacoff

Today’s guest Jennifer Cox has been dubbed the Tie-Dye “Ninja” and Denim Wash Specialist. She spent a highly successful 20-year career in corporate America as a Wash Specialist for Abercrombie & Fitch, Mossimo Supply at Target, and other private label denim brands. She’s made & designed clothing for everyone from Nordstroms to Macy’s, Target, and Walmart.

Jen accomplished all of this as a single mother of two sons before being laid off in early 2020. In this episode, she and I discuss the guts it took for her to bet on herself in a big way. She shares her journey into entrepreneurship during the pandemic. Jen is the Founder & CEO of Momma Osa, a company that creates tie-dye kits for Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom’s, Lands’ End, and more. Her kits have been featured on Good Morning America. She shares what led her to cash out her 401k to buy 40,000 masks and the worst advice she was given when she started out on her own.

Listen in as Jen and I talk about the early steps to starting your own business, our favorite growth strategies for entrepreneurs, and why she doesn’t believe entrepreneurs have to focus on one project at a time.

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You just have to start. It doesn't have to be pretty.” – Jen Cox

Show Notes:

  • The Brilliant (BALLSY) move she made the day Gov. Newsom declared California to go into a Safer At Home State
  • Simple tips on the FIRST STEP to take with a new Business Idea
  • How she got STARTED (it all took place between Christmas & New Year’s)
  • How she pulls through the really TOUGH DAYS – the ones where the wind has been knocked out of your Entrepreneurial sails) This was a REAL, RAW Transparent share
  • Details on a DECISION she made that many of her close friends didn’t agree with (she followed her intuition and it paid big dividends)
  • GROWTH strategies for entrepreneurs
  • What she ALWAYS BETS On
  • And so much more!

I trusted my gut and talked to every single person I knew about the idea that I had.” – Jen Cox

Connect with Jen Cox:

Etsy | Momma Coxie & Co. Instagram | Facebook | Momma Osa

There's so many people out there that want to help you grow your business. You just have to find the right combination of people to help you do that.” – Jen Cox

JJ Ramberg – From MSNBC to GoodPods, JJ Ramberg’s Entrepreneurial Journey

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JJ Ramberg on She's Got Moxie with Joy Chudacoff

Today’s guest on She’s Got Moxie is an entrepreneur, public speaker, podcast host, and former anchor at MSNBC’s Your Business show. For 12 years, JJ Ramberg interviewed small business owners to find out what worked as they grew their businesses before entering into the entrepreneurial arena herself. Most recently, she co-founded Goodpods, a new social podcast app connecting friends with exciting audio content.

She and I sat down to talk about her favorite interviews from her time at MSNBC and the hurdles she had to surpass when she started her entrepreneurial journey. She also opens up about her motivation to launch the online platforms Goodshop Give and DogDog.org which incorporate an added philanthropic component into their basic search functions.

In this episode, JJ shares her tips for how to move through the tough days as an entrepreneur, the worst entrepreneurial advice she has heard, and why, above all, she continues to rely on her friends.

You can Subscribe and Listen to the Podcast on Apple Podcasts. And be sure to leave me a Rating and Review!

I really love the smaller stories.” – JJ Ramberg

Show Notes:

  • How filling in as a Reporter for CNN landed her a 12-year anchor position at MSNBC
  • The LIGHTBULB moment for her Goodpods idea
  • Why Goodpods is committed to “raising all voices”
  • Her GO-TO solution for the really tough (fetal position) days
  • Her SOLUTION that’s helping Dogs in need (Visit DOGDOG.org)
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It's going to be hard sometimes.” – JJ Ramberg

Connect with JJ Ramberg:

LinkedIn | Instagram | Twitter | JJ Ramberg

I love talking to strangers.” – JJ Ramberg

Michelle Seiler Tucker – Exit Rich – How to Sell Your Business Like a Boss

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Michelle Seiler Tucker on She's Got Moxie with Joy ChudacoffEarly on in her career, Michelle Seiler Tucker, took the Corporate America approach to her career recruited by a Fortune 500 company, and still felt like she couldn't get anything accomplished due to the slow moving culture. She decided it was time for a change. Today, with 20 years experience in mergers and acquisitions, she is an expert at buying, selling, growing, and fixing businesses and is the Founder & CEO of Seiler Tucker Incorporated.

In this episode, Michelle discusses the six P's of selling your business, why it takes forever to create change in corporate America, and why relationships are our most valuable commodity.

You can Subscribe and Listen to the Podcast on Apple Podcasts. And be sure to leave me a Rating and Review!

It's not what you know that gets you in trouble in life, it's what you don't know.” – Michelle Seiler Tucker

Show Notes:

  • How being “The Best Kept Secret” was COSTING her too much in lost Revenue
  • Her GAME CHANGER Moment – One Action that caused her business to EXPLODE
  • The VERY BEST time to Sell
  • When your business should be VALUED for the purpose of Selling
  • The Most COMMON CHALLENGE Business faces when getting ready to Sell
  • How She moves through the really TOUGH Days
  • The SIX P's of selling your business
  • Her FIVE YEAR QUESTION – this has become her Guiding Principle
  • Why Trusted RELATIONSHIPS are everything in Business
  • And much, much more!

The biggest issue is business owners working in the business not on the business.” – Michelle Seiler Tucker

Connect with Michelle Seiler Tucker:

LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Seiler Tucker 

Your network is your net worth.” – Michelle Seiler Tucker

Celebrating Our Four Year Anniversary with the Best of She’s Got Moxie

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4 Year Anniversary on She's Got Moxie with Joy ChudacoffCelebrating Four Years of bringing you women who are Flexing their Moxie Muscle when it comes to business success! (G.I.V.E.A.W.A.Y. Read Below!)

I’m so excited to share this episode with you Today! In honor of our four-year Anniversary, my team has created clips from our MOST listened to episodes for you to enjoy!  You’ll hear from dynamic women like:

  • Janice Bryant Howroyd of the ACT 1 Group: the largest minority & woman-owned business in North America (started with a $900 loan from her Mom)
  • Julie Deane, Founder & CEO of Cambridge Satchel:  listen in as she tells you about the “incident” with her manufacturer & 16,000 bags on back order
  • Raegan Moya-Jones: over 100M…selling Baby Blankets
  • Gail Schenbaum of the Umergency App: she created the APP after a traumatic incident involving her daughter while she was away in college
  • Mignon Francois, CEO & Founder of The Cupcake Collection: She took $5 and turned it into 10M baking cupcakes
  • Cindy Eckert: the GENIUS behind the Female VIAGRA

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There is still this notion that for women to be successful in business that we have to be more like men and I think that is just a huge load of rubbish.” – Julie Deane

Everybody wants to be great, but nobody wants to wake up at dawn.” – Mignon Francois

Victoria Song – Making the Impossible Probable

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Victoria Song on She's Got Moxie

My guest today, Victoria Song, is the author of the new book “Bending Reality: How to Make the Impossible Probable”, out on August 24th. She’s been recognized by Forbes in the TOP 30 Under 30 Women to Watch, studied economics at Yale and leadership at Harvard Business School before becoming a leadership advisor to CEOs in Silicon Valley. We had a great discussion about why our intuition is so important right now, the most common challenge for CEOs, and why both masculine and feminine qualities are valuable in the workplace.

Listen in as Victoria talks about contraction versus expansion, how to avoid what she calls The Drama Triangle, and why we should let our emotions get in the way.

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I grew up in an environment where we all used success as a distraction.” – Victoria Song

Show Notes:

  • The Difference between Contraction and EXPANSION (& why it’s essential for Leaders to know)
  • How to avoid “The DRAMA Triangle”
  • Why it’s ok to let our EMOTIONS get in the way
  • Easy, SIMPLE Tips on how to experience more Expansion
  • How to reach peak professional PERFORMANCE
  • Big Girls DO and CAN Cry – she SHATTERS the glass on this decades old myth in the workplace
  • And much, much, more!

When we're in contraction we tend to be motivated by very toxic feels.” – Victoria Song

Connect with Victoria Song:

Instagram | LinkedIn | Victoria Song

Anything you can't label or put in a box feels threatening when you need to control everything around you.” – Victoria Song

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