The Classy Career Girl Podcast

Many times entrepreneurs know that they want to have their own business but they get stuck at one point, figuring out what to sell and how to sell it! What type of product should I sell? What service should I offer? How do I narrow down all my ideas?  Today’s podcast will help you figure it all out. As you know we are opening doors very soon to Corporate Rescue Plan so every week on this podcast, we’ve been very focused on getting you ready to join our community and giving you sneak peeks at the great training and support we have inside. If you are ready to take these trainings you’ve been listening to each week and actually learn how to implement all the stuff we’ve been telling you that you need to do, well you need our step by step guides in CRP where we break down exactly the ONE thing you need to do each and every week to succeed in the phase of entrepreneurship you are in right now.  You don’t want to miss out when doors open so. Check out corporaterescueplan.com to add your name to the waitlist and you

I wanted to behind the scenes today and share my business with you. I want to share with you some of the crucial business decisions I made this year that completely changed our business and life. Because to be real, a year ago I was a little scared. Things were a bit up in the air and I changed our business model. There is so much that is possible. I wish you could see all the decisions I have made in the past 6 years. Some of them were pretty crappy decisions. But some of them were life-changing.  

I want to go over the most common mistakes for people who want to start their business and quit their day job.... I have made these too. You aren’t alone. This is really the foundation, the mindset. These are the things that might be in your way of making your dream business happen. Check out corporaterescueplan.com to add your name to the waitlist and you’ll be notified when we open doors very soon!

When you are growing a business, it’s easy to get distracted by bright, shiny object syndrome, right? Oh this new tool, and this new course and that new website plugin.  Yeah, that’s why you need a roadmap so you know what the most important things you should be focusing on in your business are. In today’s podcast we are going behind the scenes in my Corporate Rescue Plan program and John and I will be giving you tips on how to simplify you business. We will help you decide what products or services to sell in your business, what to price your products and how to grow and scale from there. I think this is the first time John makes an appearance on the podcast so that is pretty exciting too.  This is a topic that actually he explains better than me today so make sure you wait for that part where he gets to speak. And if you like this training you’ll love Corporate Rescue Plan, an affordable community for women who want business coaching but want the same coaching and advice for the fraction of the cost. Check

You aren't going to find your dream career if you are feeling like there is not enough time in the day. In order to be able to master your next career transition, you have to be able to master your life right now. That's what this lesson is all about. First, we will help you master your time and productivity so your calendar and to-do list actually make you happy, not stressed. Then, we will dive into some mandatory self-care strategies and ensure that you feeling in control of your life and career. This is mandatory. Do not proceed until you have completed this section. And come back to this lesson over and over again when you need to in the future as well. You will learn something new each time you do! These strategies I am teaching you today to help you master your personal life and career will change your life. And a little hint, if you want more training just like this, there is plenty more in our career change membership community, Love Your Career Formula, for women who want to figure out what their id

If you want to have a business that impacts and changes the world and where you are living your dream life, did you know that there are five phases that you have to go through to successfully reach your goal? In my work in our Corporate Rescue Plan for years following the lives of women going from employee to entrepreneur, I have pinpointed five specific phases with milestones that need to be completed in each phase. If you miss one of these phases, it’s going to take you week, months even years longer to figure this out and cause you a lot of stress.   So get ready to identify today what phase you are in in your journey of going from employee to entrepreneur and exactly what steps you need to take to get to the next phase and reach your goals a whole lot faster. If you are excited about this training that I recorded for members of our Corporate Rescue Plan community, I would highly recommend getting your name and email address on the waitlist for when we open doors to CRP again. You can add your name at www.

I did a lot of homework for you all on today’s podcast. If you are currently job searching, this is a must to listen to.   Over and over again, if you do this ONE thing, you will get the results you want. You will get hired at your dream job but I feel like no one is doing it.   You’ll learn what that is on today’s podcast as well as how to succeed in informational interviews and at job fairs.   This is a special bonus recording for member’s of our Love Your Career formula community but I wanted to give you a sneak peek and what goes on behind the scenes in our membership site and the types of training and content that is available. If you’d like to add your name to the waitlist for the next time we open up our doors, you can add your name and email at www.loveyourcareerformula.com. It’s my goal to decrease the overwhelm in the job search process and not let any question go unanswered in our community, so it’s the place you need to be if you want results for a fraction of the cost of working with an individua

If you are an ambitious professional woman and are looking for a better way to balance the most important aspects of your life without having to sacrifice yourself, you'll love today’s podcast. How do YOU balance it all? Let's share our secrets. Today you’ll meet Sarah Argenal, a Lifestyle Strategist at Working Parent Resource. Sarah helps working moms find a more meaningful balance between their career, a loving marriage, quality time with their kids, and their own health and well-being. You definitely want to check out her resources at www.frazzledtobalanced.com after you listen to her today. Today’s podcast is a recording of the presentation we did at Classy Career Girls Night Out in San Diego a few weeks ago so if you couldn’t join us live, here is the next best thing right! So let’s get started!

Struggling to find clients is one of the top issues for entrepreneurs. But it truly doesn’t have to be that difficult.   The first step to actually getting more clients is being 100% prepared. That means getting your mind and your systems are ready to actually help those clients that need you this month! Remember, money is the by product of your service. That’s why you need to take the focus off the fear and instead put your focus on helping as many people as you possibly can. Because you have a difference to make in the world, right?   If you don’t find people to pay you, you have a hobby not a business.   The biggest thing standing in the way of you now and a successful business is your mindset and belief that you have everything you need to make your business happen.   You have to believe that you actually CAN do this! You have to be 100% in it. You have to share that you have a business and are helping people.   Your ideal clients need you right now. So let’s find them and help them over the next 4 weeks,

If you want to build and grow your business but you don’t know where to start, this podcast is for you. In my work in the Corporate Rescue Plan helping hundreds of women quit corporate and launch their business dreams, there are five keys that you need to have built into your business plan before you take the leap. Most of the time I see women have 1 or 2 of these clarified and then they get stuck and struggle. It’s so important to have all five of these planned out and ready and then when you actually get to the Side Hustler phase, you know exactly what you should be doing! I am all about decreasing overwhelm and stress as you start and grow your business and that’s exactly what we do in the CRP. If you want less stress and are sick of searching online for the exact steps you need to take, make sure you add your name to our waitlist for when we re-open our membership community. at corporaterescueplan.com. Today, let’s take a peek inside our community and listen in on one of my favorite CRP trainings. This la

Ok, I have been putting this off for August. Every month I hop on a podcast and report my actions for August. Well, August was not the normal month of action and I so want to skip it but I also want to be very real with you. I have heard from many of you that our monthly action reports are your favorite part of this podcast. So I couldn’t just skip a month because I was embarrased by my lack of action. Ever had a month you wish you got more done? I met with a client last week and actually met her in person for the first time. She told me, You know Anna what your impression is from the outside. This is what people think of you. You are the most productive woman on the planet. You go-go-go. Get things done. Do this and do that. Wake up at 5am and go! It stopped me in my tracks because that is not the impression that I want to report in August. It’s actually the opposite.  

Have you ever wondered what steps you need to take in your career to get to where you want to go years from now? Have you ever wished you could work with a career coach to just get a career check-up and figure out what you need to do right now?  Well, today we are going to give you a career check-up and we are going to cover one of the trainings in our Love Your Career Formula membership community.  We’ll dive into the The 3 Phases of Your Career and How to Succeed In Each. Also, note that depending on when you are listening to this, our Love Your Career formula membership community may be open. We only open it at select times per year but if you love what I teach her in this podcast and want to dive deeper and get my specific action plans each week to determine what your ideal career is and then find it, Love your career formula is definitely for you. You can learn more and add your name to the waiting list www.loveyourcareerformula.com.  

Today we are diving into our second day of the Fall in Love With Your Work and Life challenge. I had a ton of great questions that came in about how to figure out what step to take first when you are making a career transition. This podcast today shares exactly what you need to do that will make all the difference in creating amazing results for your career success. Today’s podcast is a previously recorded Facebook Live but I hope you enjoy the informal nature of these podcasts because I get to be myself a little more. I hope you realize I am just like one of you. I started where you are and just took baby steps to getting the knowledge and expertise that I needed to launch my dream career. So hopefully you get to see the goofy fun side of me in these Facebook Live recorded podcasts too. That is my hope!! Also, note that depending on when you are listening to this, our Love Your Career formula membership community may be open. We only open it at select times per year but if you love what I teach her in this p

It is here! Our Fall in Love With Your Work and Life challenge is HERE! And the podcast today kicks off the first day. If you are feeling a change is in the air and you are ready to uplevel your career and life before 2017 hits, please join me and 2,000 other women in the challenge. You can learn more about at www.classycareergirl.com/challenge. To get access to the workbooks and videos. This challenge only happens once a year and it’s truly the work that I am most proud of in my business.  So let’s dive into some Q&A today about passion and purpose in your career, one of my absolute favorite topics! So today’s podcast is a previously recorded FB Live event so there are questions coming in from the audience and I am answering them in real time so it’s fun and exciting and I hope you enjoy it!  

Things are about to get really busy around here at CCG Headquarters. Our Fall in Love With Your Work and Life Challenge starts on September 6th and then our Love Your Career Formula 2.0 programs finally re-opens again on September 9th! I am so excited for September and to serve you all the best that I can but before we start all these fun festivities this month, I wanted to make sure I had all your questions answered. Over the last month we have had a lot of questions come in at CCG. So I decided to dedicate an entire hour to answer your questions last week on Facebook and today I am sharing the recording just in case you missed it. And if you are feeling a change is in the air and you are ready to uplevel your career and life before 2017 hits, please join me and 2,000 other women in the challenge. You can learn more about at www.classycareergirl.com/challenge. To get access to the workbooks and videos.   Alright let’s dive into your questions today!  

I wanted to give you a peek inside one of the trainings I am most proud of. It’s the first training in Love Your Career formula 2.0 Prep School that is designed to help you get your mindset ready to launch your dream career or business. As you may know, our mission at CCG is to help 2,000 women launch their dream careers and businesses by 2018. If you listen to this podcast today, you can be one of them! So enjoy this sneak peek of our Love Your Career Formula 2.0 membership community which is actually closed at the moment but will be opening up again for a few days in September and we hope you will join us.  So today…let’s dive into how  how successful people think….

Have you ever wanted to reinvent yourself and start all over? I know when I was back in my corporate days and feeling totally stuck, I wanted a brand new life. I was also going through some personal issues at the time and the prospect of reinventing myself was something I needed like yesterday. But the truth is reinventing yourself and transitioning your life and career does not happen overnight. It’s tough and that’s why I wanted to make sure I got this interview I did with Linda Rossetti, author of Women and Transition on the podcast today. Get ready for a special Career Transition Workshop where you’ll find the necessary tools you need to successfully progress from one transition to the next.

Today we are diving into the world of entrepreneurship.   It’s getting noisy out there, huh? Hard to stand out and make an impression if you are starting your own business or creating your own brand. As Classy Career Girl just celebrated our six year anniversary, I can’t help but be a little jealous of how things used to be a few years ago. Less hype. Less drama. More giving. It’s a different world online these days.   I try to stay out of the noise. I try NOT to consume everyone else’s stuff. I unfollow people like crazy every single day and I absolutely can’t stand when people invite me to their Facebook groups repeatedly. I have my few mentors that I don’t miss, but that’s it. I am creating my own stuff and trying to not be overtaken by the noise. I try to stay positive and do it how I want to do it, not like everyone else.   But, it really got to me this week. The online business world and what is happening got me down after a few experiences with new entrepreneurs in this online business space. I got bum

If you have an idea for a new business, there is always one place you should start. Gathering feedback from your potential future clients so you can identify the frustrations that they are facing, what their goals and dreams are and how you can help. The best way to get this feedback is either by talking to them or by doing a survey. Today I am excited to introduce you to someone who has worked on the Classy Career Girl team and who helped me re-design and re-launch our Love Your Career Formula 2.0 program in September-15. She created an AMAZING survey for all of the clients who had been through the program previously and gave me an improvement plan that I used during the entire launch to make the 2.0 program better than ever for our participants. Since helping me, Rebecca has also actively gotten involved in our Corporate Rescue Plan membership community and officially launched her business, Creative Habitat, to help busy moms and mompreneurs carve out time to invest in their creativity. I couldn’t be more p

Here is every action we took in our business in July 2016. What worked and what didn’t work and all our lessons learned. I would love to hear and if you are enjoying this Classy Career Girl podcast, please leave a review for us on iTunes as well. I would really appreciate it, thank you!  Why am I doing this? There are a lot of bloggers out there sharing their income reports. I have decided to start a different type of monthly post, an action report. Everywhere we look online these days we hear about someone’s six figure launch and how someone else made a million dollars on a course, etc. Am I the only one completely fed up with this? I have been growing an internationally recognized online career platform for 6 years. Telling you what I earn after 6 years of growing my business in detail isn’t going to help you as you start a business. Why? Because the only way my business has grown each year is through ACTION and self-reflection. That’s why I want to help you take the action you need to take to create the dr