Lessons From Rebellious Entrepreneurs Part 5

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Show Notes:

This is part 5 in a podcast mini series featuring rebellious entrepreneurs.

This is a treat. I’ve roped these four wonderful entrepreneurs into showing up and sharing their stories with you. You’re about to hear about the programs beyond private practice they’ve each created, and one lesson each person learned in the process of creating and marketing their program.

These lessons cover everything from mindset to marketing strategy.

Introducing Alice Huff, Dr. Vanessa Freeman, Melissa Susman, and MereAnn Reid.

Alice Huff is a holistic healer and creator of the integrative Mind-Body-Space Method. She combines her training and experience as a psychotherapist, yoga instructor and interior decorator to help women restore balance and create calm in their mind, body and physical and energetic spaces.

https://www.mindbodyspacemethod.com

I know that the most successful business that I create is the one that feels most authentic and exciting to me. This awareness really helped me when I was trying to narrow down my niche, which was not an easy process.

Dr. Vanessa Freeman is a licensed psychologist with a passion for supporting Black women in learning to access ease, joy, and pleasure. She is excited about creating a group coaching program that fosters community and teaches Black women that a different way of being in the world is possible.

https://www.coachingwithvanessa.org

I'd been having this conversation so often with so many women that I thought, wouldn't it be great if I could create a program ….where black women can come together to not only talk about their experiences, but also learn about a different way of...

Melissa Susman is a psychotherapist, art therapist and mindfulness practitioner specializing in somatic therapies for the resolution of trauma. JoyWork, her online training course, is her life work--an online training program for people with chronic illness that helps folks to discover how to find meaning, purpose and joy in the presence of suffering.

https://www.joywork.me

If you're thinking about starting a business, be ready for some growing pains and be prepared to kind of go to that place of: I don't know. And let yourself be surprised. For me, the wonderful surprise was that despite the growing pains -in the...

MereAnn Reid has been running parent groups for 6 years and loves mentoring families to figure out new strategies for easing BIG behaviors. She works with preschool and elementary parents to create more connection with their kids and listen to their gut, especially when typical parenting books don't match their experience.

https://www.familyzest.com/

The best way that I found to communicate with the general public about my workshops is by doing free webinars. And I started out doing them once a month. That got some good interest from therapists around the country and now I have those...

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