6 savvy business secrets from a mom boss millionaire, Lindsay Teague Moreno {book review}

This post breaks down 6 savvy tips and tricks I learned from the book Boss Up by Lindsay Teague Moreno.

There is just an unspoken bond between women who are moms and are also passionate about building a business. Blissful Entrepreneurship is my biggest passion

Just because you have a baby doesn’t mean you automatically become someone who forgets all about her own passions. That has certainly been the case with me. So, when I come across a woman who admittedly feels that way about her own life, I couldn’t help but feel connected to her.

That’s what happened in the first few pages of reading Boss Up by Lindsay Teague Moreno. My girlfriend let me borrow this book because this quarantine I’ve been on a reading spree.

It’s important that women in business and in motherhood prioritize their time to get better, learn and grow so that you can come out on the other side of it, up-leveled.

Because I loved the book so much, I felt like I should share my notes of inspiration and 6 of the tips I highlighted in this the book.

Related reading: 12 of the best business books for women entrepreneurs

6 tips from a mom boss millionaire:

1. Finding Your Why might be the most important thing in your business.

There is a Japanese word for your “why” called your Ikigai. Your Ikigai is the “reason you get out of bed in the morning.” If you don’t know your why, you are less likely to succeed through the long term. In business, there are ups and downs.

Right now is the time that everyone is pivoting, shifting, having to shake things up in order to stay busy. I have been doing this myself, working on really focusing my business around my “why”.

So, what gets you up out of bed every morning? What pushes through the thoughts of worry, failure and fear? What keeps you strong enough to pivot, restructure and step up in an even bigger way?

This is how she teaches you to find your why. Ask yourself 3 questions. What do you do? How do you do it? Why do you do it? Then get really honest and specific with the answers. Then take it even deeper….Who are you outside of being a mom, wife, friend, etc? What do you want your legacy to be? What do you want to experience in life? After you thoroughly have done this, begin to share your “why” with everyone. See where that takes you and your business.

2. Network Marketing is a a great opportunity for a new mom, or stay at home mom.

Listen, I know a lot of people have a high resistance to MLM’s or other network marketing companies. Think of the essential oil businesses, Arbonne, Monat, etc. These are all companies that provide a business model for making money off of your downline, teams and their sales.

I don’t know why people hate on this type of company so much. How I see it is, your friends are making money off you, not the big box retailers. It’s empowering to see the people around you succeed and you can all enjoy it together. It creates a supportive community around you and moms need that more than anyone.

I’m all about supporting my friends in MLM’s. With the right training on how to market and sell, you can create an amazing, lucrative business for yourself! On the flip side, I’ve seen people hate the business because they tried it and failed. Well, they probably didn’t have the proper training and weren’t able to step outside their own head and market properly.

Listen ladies, if you are in an MLM or want to be , call me! I’ll help support you in how to grow that business online). Lindsay Teague Moreno wrote this really descriptive re-cap of her first year in her MLM business, read it here if you want to get some motivation + inspo.

3. Standing out and Being Different is a requirement to succeed in your business.

Do not be afraid to do different things. A huge part of this is pushing past your fears of being alone and been criticized. I personally think it’s difficult to keep up with being different. I have an easy time coming up with unique and innovative ideas but they are always shortly followed by someone else. For example, when I put together my vision board method that in my opinion was different, brilliant and actually gave people wildly successful manifesting results, I saw someone had copied it and sold that method on their website within a few months.

For me, it hurt because I knew the person but I also believe in karma. And I knew that spirit would bless me with new ideas. Which showed me that in order to be successful, you have to continually be innovative and come up with your own things.

I know it can seem impossible to constantly keep up new idea but this is why your connection with your spirit, your creative flow, is SO IMPORTANT. Your innovative ideas are what will set you apart so you need to be plugged into your higher self to continue to overflow with those ideas that are unique to you.

Don’t be discouraged if you don’t think you are creative like that. You have those ideas inside of you, they just may be blocked. If you are blocked in your creative ideas, you may want to look at your home office Feng Shui.

4. Determine your business model.

Are you a freelancer or an entrepreneur? A freelancer is someone who gets paid for their work and time. An entrepreneur is someone who trains others to do what they do to scale and grow the business. Which one are you and which one do you plan to continue for the long term?

I’m the girl with vision, with ideas but I’ve always had a hard time hiring people to do what I do because the things that I do, because I love doing them so much.

Here is an example in my own personal life: In my jewelry business, Love Ashlina, I’ve really been working on that. There just isn’t enough time in the day for me to create my crystal bracelets, I love making them for each person.

However, the demand outweighs my ability to supply them for those who need/want them. So, this is where I need to get outside of my own head and take my side business to the next level. I’ve got to train someone to do what I can no longer do. Is there a way you could grow an aspect of your business in some way?

5. Great Leaders Inspire Action.

How good are you at telling your story? You want to learn the art of storytelling in order to lead people to join your tribe. Watch this Ted Talk X Simon Sinek. He does a great job articulating how effective a story can be. People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.

In your business, how can you get better at telling stories. For an interior designer, how can you start telling the story of your services?

For me, it took years…which is what led me to finally incorporating Feng Shui into my work. Instead of advertising, I began telling the stories of my clients and how their lives improved after my design services.

We worked on so much more than just decorating their home, we worked on their lives. Then I made it a requirement for my clients to be open to working on themselves in addition to decorating their homes. Then they told that story to their friends about the experience.

That’s how my business continued to grow. I told my clients the story of themselves. And then, I began to train other designers on how to incorporate personal growth into their business model through my course The Paid Decorator.

This is how telling a story, grew my business. How can you stop selling your services and add story telling into your business? Maybe you can just begin telling your story on your website and social media outlets. (Hint: read the book Build a Story Brand)

Here is the framework of a story:

-Exposition (introduce the characters).

-Rising Action (introduce the conflict).

-Climax (emotion & action taken to resolve conflict).

-Falling Action (the resolution of the conflict)

-Resolution (moral of the story).

6. Get comfortable with your desire for money.

The Boss Up Book Tip: Get comfortable spending money on investing in yourself and your business, pay people for their services and get comfortable asking people to pay you for your services. This is such a true point that really resonated with me.

We all have a complicated relationship with money. The reality is we take on our parents and grandparents relationship with money. I actually spent 2,000$ on a coaching service that specifically helped me to heal my relationship with money. I know that sounds like a lot of money and it is but it was totally worth it to me because of what I was looking to get out of it.

I needed to shift up my energy around money, I had serious money blocks. When it came down to it, I figured out that it wasn’t difficult for me to manifest money, I always did, I could always pay my bills, etc. I could Feng Shui money for my needs all day. But I wanted to break through my block on making more money, getting to the next level of financial freedom.

My personal block was around releasing money. I would hold onto things and not throw them away because I was thinking of the “money” they cost (like ill fitting clothes or shoes). This is where Feng Shui really helped me work on my relationship with money in a practical way. I began to remove anything I was just holding onto because of the “money”.

Once I did that, I made space for more money to come in and it always did. So, to the level that I am able to spend or release money, is the amount of money I was able to manifest and call in. I advise you to really learn this principle.

In addition to this, you need to get comfortable paying for a business accountant to take a look at your financials, too. In every area of your business where money is concerned, form a better relationship with money. Respect other people and their efforts to make money too. Tip well, pay people well for their time and pay up front and on time for whatever you buy from them. And as you spend the money, have good energy around that. Everything is energy, don’t forget.

Okay, I will leave you with that for now. I hope you enjoyed this post as much as I did reading the book and writing about it. If you enjoyed this post, you may also like this one too.

Love you, Ashlina

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High Vibe Home: 10 everyday Feng Shui habits that will bring you balance and bliss

Last night I had the most incredible Instagram Live call. I shared a bunch of my favorite Feng Shui tips and answered some really interesting questions. It seems to me that while most people are intrigued by Feng Shui, they feel overwhelmed and intimidated by it.

The truth is, there is A LOT of information out there and it can seem like a very overwhelming, complicated philosophy. People get lost in the different modalities of Feng Shui. Much like yoga has ashtanga, vinyasa, bikram, etc. There are different approaches and points of view. How do you know if what you are doing is right? Which direction is what? Does this really work? Etc.

YOUR INTUITION KNOWS FENG SHUI.

You hold all of the answers to everything you desire to know. The work is usually in removing the blocks that are in the way from finding your truth. You know what color your walls need to be painted, your intuition knows exactly what color vibration it longs to be surrounded by. However, most of us get lost in the doubt, the hesitations, the commitment, the fear, etc. If your soul wanted to live in an all black home (hello, me), I’d bet money that you would question it to death, ask friends for their opinion, look at Pinterest to see how it looks in someone else’s home. You aren’t just trusting your internal compass.

All of that energy is the OPPOSITE of true Feng Shui. That’s why I’d like to be able to rename the whole thing and call it, “how to have a high vibe home”.

There are two truths I totally feel called to share with you today because I want to help you see that Feng Shui is easy, its approachable and its not just a way to place furniture, its a lifestyle.

1. It’s never done. Our brains crave change, in fact we need it and our homes need it too. Nothing is ever meant to be the exact same, in every single moment, we are manifesting, we are choosing new and we are evolving. We aren’t the same person we were 5 minutes ago. The same is true for our home, we need to constantly be moving the energy around our home to keep it fresh and aligned with who we are becoming. So you can’t ever get it wrong. For example, if you want to paint a wall a certain color but hesitate because you may hate it, you can always paint it back. Nothing is stuck, unless you force it to be.

2. Everything is energy. How you feel about your home means so much more than the perfect layout. Feng Shui is represented by the flow between you and your home, the way it feels to walk through and vibe with your space. The goal is to LOVE your home, like be in love with it. You don’t have to spend $30,000 renovating and redecorating your space to love it. Sometimes, it’s just about making simple, everyday shifts that can change the entire vibe.

HERE ARE 10 EVERYDAY FENG SHUI HABITS THAT WILL HELP BRING YOU BALANCE AND BLISS

1. Your front door is where the energy enters. That represents opportunities. You want opportunities to feel welcomed, unobstructed and clean. Treat your front door like the doorway to your dreams.

2. Drop your loose change inside a gold dish (the color of wealth) every time you come in. Letting wealth/money accumulate at your front door combines money with your opportunities flowing in. It’s a powerful combination of energy you really want to call in.

3. Fresh air brings renewal, it cleans, it purifies so things don’t go stale. Let in fresh air often to keep out lower vibes and allow the energy of new to come in!

4. Opportunities can get flushed down the drain or the toilet. That’s why you always want to keep the toilet seat down.

5. Air purifying plants have countless benefits, you can read my favorites here. Not only do they represent growth and bring new life in, they help to combat the harmful radiation of all your electronics.

6. Your stove is the generator of wealth in your home. The thing to remember is that if you are able to cook on your stove, that means you have food to eat and its a wealthy blessing! Using your stove is a practice of gratitude for the fact that you are able to eat. When you switch to this Feng Shui mindset, your energy of gratitude puts you in the vibration of abundance and wealth.

7. Fresh flowers boost your mood so you want to be sure to keep those beautiful mood boosters around. As soon as they wilt or die, they need to go. You don’t want dying energy in your home. Thank the flowers before you throw them out for the joy they brought in and let them go.

8. If there is an area of your home that you don’t visit often, be sure you take care of it by making sure there is zero clutter in that area. Discounted areas of clutter often show up in your life in other ways. If you have an area with a bunch of unopened bills you keep forgetting to get to, that comes back in blocked financial increase. You can use crystals to help you enhance these areas and protect the energy. Read how to Feng Shui with crystals here.

9. Your bed is where you spend most of your time at home, so you want to be sure it is in the optimal position. Make sure that you can see your door when you are lying in bed. This allows you see what is coming, giving you more control over your life and a sense of ease. This makes for optimal rest.

When you make your bed, you are putting the energy of excellence into your day which is optimal Feng Shui. If you miss a day, that’s okay. Feng Shui isn’t going to punish, just try again tomorrow. It’s more about creating the joy of coming home, getting into your bed with ease and calm, not a messy and chaotic energy.

10. Candles represent the FIRE element, which is the element of manifesting your desires! I love using candles in the home because it activates my intentions. Every time you light a candle, speak your intentions into the flame. This helps you to lock in your goals, dreams, desires and activates your home as a powerful ally in all of your manifestations. Thus, helping you fall more in love with your sacred space.

Hope you enjoyed these high vibe home tips. If you would like to learn more, come join me in my new course, High Vibe Home. Inside I share every single detail of what I do to set up my home to get it in alignment with the things I want to manifest. It’s specific, it’s essential, it’s like magic!