The Classy Career Girl Podcast

There’s a lot of misconception about blogging and whether you can make an income from it and how long it will actually take. It takes a long time and you can’t just plan to earn you money the next month. Instead, you have to be very strategic. There are a lot of ways to make money on your blog. But, to get enough money to quit your day job from your blog income is going to take a lot of work. Are you ready to put a ton of work into your blog? I’m talking mornings, weekends and nights? That’s what I did. And I am not talking about studying and learning. I am talking about actually taking action. That’s the ground rule. You have to work really hard to make an income from your blog. If you are ready to work hard, keep on reading. Here are four ways you can make an income from your blog. I have made income doing each of these, so I’ll give you my behind the scenes and also share with you my #1 suggestion at the end.

Today we are talking about the Strengthsfinder assessment. My good friend Becky Hammond gives me a mini-coaching session and I promise you that you are going to learn so much! The most important thing about today is that you remember that the only way to move forward is to look inward first. So carve out some time and self-reflect. You will learn how you can develop your strengths more in your work and life.

Recently I was chatting with one of my clients who I have been working with over the last two years. I was remembering what it was like when she first came into our Corporate Rescue Plan program. She was a financial planner with a successful business already BUT she did not have freedom and she had a lot of stress. She also didn’t have any of these three things that I am going to share with you today which I believe are even more important than social media. It’s not about how many followers you have on Instagram. Here’s what you REALLY need to be focused on if you want to build your business.

Question: “How did you start networking boldly? I am an introvert by nature and I feel like I am bugging people when I ask for their time.” -Char

Recently, one of our members in The Corporate Rescue Plan said that she made a commitment to start her business and now has clients coming at her left and right. Great, right? Wrong! Now, she’s overwhelmed and second guessing herself. She has the employee mindset where everything would be solidly planned out over the next 6 months. She even asked me if she should say no to clients to wait until she has it all planned out.  What do you think I said? No! You learn by doing and taking action. I never had it all together when I started. I sold my first online course before I created it and it got my butt moving forward. I got prepared. I created the content. I created my business with my clients and improved and improved and improved. When you are an entrepreneur, things change SO much from month to month, especially when you are just starting out. Only now can I say that I have a solid one year plan ready to go way ahead of schedule (yep! 2017 is already all planned out! Woohoo!) But, when you first start, that

Feeling stuck? There are 3 big obstacles which are the most common in holding people back from launching their dream careers. It’s best if you can figure this out and then become really aware of your roadblocks. Once you know what is holding you back, then you can tackle it and move forward. Easy, right? Let’s get started.

Today I am taking you on a trip down memory lane and sharing some things I have never shared before. I remember just a few years ago when I had so much stress and anxiety going to work that my stomach would hurt driving in. I would just sit in the car until the last possible minute before I would have to waste my life away and walk through the doors. I couldn’t relax or enjoy the weekends because I dreaded Monday morning. Sunday blues literally hit as soon as I woke up on Sunday and then the whole day I was just stress.. Here's my entire story.

Want to find happiness in your career and find your purpose and passion? The irony is that it isn’t something you need to search for. The whole concept of trying to figure out what you are passionate about or finding a shortcut to your right career path is really about stepping into your calling to be the best you can be. This means creating the best work you can do. Being as productive as you can be and serving others by sharing your gifts with the world. This podcast will dive into how to find your passion and purpose.

Sometimes it feels like Facebook is a ghost town and it's so hard to get engagement!! And who wants to pay a ton of money for ads right? This podcast will guide you through what you need to know to increase your facebook engagement without spending money on Facebook Ads.

Today I am thrilled to present a video training session I recorded with CRP Member, Mary Ellen Roth! If you have ever thought about turning your knowledge and expertise into an online course but just don’t know where to start, this is definitely for you!

This podcast will dive into some self-reflection exercises to help you determine what your calling is. You'll learn the 3 components that factor into your calling and an important warning. This training is a sneak peek of our Love Your Career Formula membership site.

Today we are diving into career satisfaction and confidence modules of our Female Leadership Academy. If you want to be more confident as a leader at work, this podcast will guide you through the necessary self-reflection questions to help you achieve the success you want. This training is a sneak peek of our Love Your Career Formula membership site.

2017 is upon us. I want to talk about something that changed everything for me when it comes to annual planning. How I used to plan for a new year was on January 1st I would sit down and start to create my resolutions for the year. It would be overwhelming and I would not normally reach any of them because it was so long and I always changed my mind on a monthly basis anyways. Annual goals just really didn’t work for me. When I discovered creating more of a 90-day plan, that’s when everything changed. I had less stress trying to complete goals for 90 days. Previously, I didn’t know how to break down my annual goals into milestones and actions.

A vision board is a wonderful tool to help you get clarity on your goals, a guide to help you make decisions that will support your dream life, and an elegant representation of your why- why you’re taking the time and effort to make a change for the better! I am super excited to share to you all what our guest expert, Chrysta Bairre, shared when she gave a special training for the women in my course about creating intentional vision boards and she really knows her stuff!! She has some great tools to help us clarify what we want in our work and to figure out the type of life we are trying to create. Here is how you can have your own vision board workshop.  

I wanted to do this topic because I love getting the behind the scenes and diving in deep into what other entrepreneurs are doing and what actions are they taking. I wanted to talk about our business here and how we go about creating our annual plans. I want to walk you through that process because when I was starting seven years ago, I had no idea how to create an annual business plan and I had a new idea every month. I was all over the place. So let's get you a little bit more focused for 2017!  

Today's episode is on one of my absolute favorite topics!! Pinterest!  I used to write consistent content on my blog. I knew it was great content that needed to be read by a lot more people. It was such a bummer to write so much and spend so much time blogging but then not have many people read my content. I was also getting 10-20 email optins each day but I really wanted to grow my email list so that I could grow my business.  Everything changed a year ago when I decided to focus all of my attention into Pinterest. I basically became a student of the platform. I spent hours each day working and studying Pinterest and really understanding what works and what doesn’t. The time I put in during 2016 really paid off because we have seen so much business growth this year.  It’s really pretty exciting.  What are the results we’ve seen this year? Yesterday we received 422 email optins in one day!! YES! And in one year we went from 100,000 page views per month to 500,000 page views per month. Our traffic from Pintere

We recently had a big mileston to celebrate at Classy Career Girl. 500K page views per month!! It's something that definitely did not happen overnight or was it easy. It required a lot of studying tracking and figuring things out. But there are some foundational things we did in 2016 that really set us up for some major success and I am going to cover them today. The main things we did to get 500K page views per month without guest posting which is what most other online marketers believe is the way to increase your traffic. I kind of don't and you'll learn why in this podcast. I created an online course all about how to get the same website traffic results as I have at CCG. The is called The Website Traffic Blueprint and right now the only way to access the blueprint is by joining Corporate Rescue Plan. Doors close Jan 11th so depending one whether or not you are listneing, we may or may not be open. Check out crp.com to get the Website Traffic Blueprint and join our membership community or add your name to

We are looking forward to publishing a whole lot more content on our blog this year in 2017 and if you've seen our 2017 social media plan on our blog recently, you know podcasting is one of our top priorities here at CCG. Why? Because we love that itunes has no algorithm and if you are subscribed (thank you by the way) we know that you will be able to get our content unlike facebook or instagram. So thank you for listening and we will do our best to bring you the very best we have to offer in 2017! So let's get into today's episode. Today we are featuring a Q&A training I did all about creating your offer and the Freedom Roadmap. If you don't know what the Freedom Roadmap and you have a dream to start or grow a business then I highly recommend signing up for our Freedom Workshop that is going on now through January 11th, 2017. Today's podcast is all the questions participants in the workshop had about websites, blogging and lead magnets. So let's dive in and answer your questions!

Hi it's Anna and welcome to our very first episode of 2017.  I am excited for some fun and exciting things for our podcast in 2017 including a rebrand and re-launch coming soon! We are so thankful for all of you who take the time to listen to our weekly podcasts and I want to say thank you to each and every one of you. In 2016 we published over 32 podcast episodes and reach 86,000 downloads of our podcast which is so much more than we could have hoped for. So we really do hope that this podcast encourages and inspires you. If you are enjoying our podcast of course as always we would love a review on itunes as well So let's get into today's episode. Today we are featuring a Q&A training I did during our Freedom Workshop which is a free training series to help you start and grow your business in 2017 and make more of an impact in the world.  If you want more freedom and less stress, I would highly recommend getting this entire workshop. It's completely free and you can sign up at www.corporaterescueplan.com

Does business ideas spinning around in your head right now and not sure what business to start? Sometimes when I was starting everyday it seemed like I had a new idea. It’s called bright shiny object syndrome and entrepreneurs get it the worst. It means it is hard to focus and you can all of a sudden find yourself pulled in a million different directions without succeeding in just one. Here’s How to Figure Out What Business to Start