Making Sense of Entrepreneurship with Erin Boerema

Hey there business owners and entrepreneurs, I’m your host - Erin Boerema - and I want to wish you all a super warm welcome and thank everyone for tuning in to another episode of the Making Sense Of Entrepreneurship podcast.

I want to introduce a very very special guest on the podcast tonight with me this evening who is going to be talking with me tonight...

Kimberly Spencer is an award-winning high-performance coach and trainer, Amazon best-selling co-author, international motivational speaker, and the founder of CrownYourself.com and the Princess and the B podcast, helping visionary leaders build their empire and stand out in their full potential in their bodies, businesses, and relationships. From her entrepreneurial beginnings at five selling bags of glitter-water to her neighbors, to becoming an award-winning screenwriter, certified Pilates instructor, Miss Congeniality, and six-time WEGO Health Activist Award nominee, Kimberly is proof that it's better to make your own mold than to conform to someone else's. She's also the former executive of a national e-commerce startup and was the owner of the private Pilates studio, Fitness with Kim in Los Angeles, CA. Her journey into the world of mompreneurship with her husband was featured in the 2017 Netflix docuseries, Being Dad. Her work has been featured on The CW, ESPN, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and NPR, and in Thrive Global, CNBC, and Forbes. Her premiere solo book, Mind Full Meals: How to Dethrone Food Fears and Reign in a Body the Rules debuts in 2020. 

To learn more about Kimberly Spencer, Crown Yourself, or The Princess and the B podcast, visit www.crownyourself.com 

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Oh - and by the way to all you guys listening out there… seriously, if you haven’t already, go ahead get your coffee, maybe grab some headphones, get out your notebook and a pen and get ready to take down some notes because I would definitely recommend doing that cause she is fixing to drop them golden knowledge nuggets, you guys!

To learn more about Carly Taber and her business strategy/coaching programs, visit www.carlytaber.com or check her out on IG @carlytaber to see more about her life, business, and how she helps people get confidence, clarity, and strategic steps to growing their business.

In Memoriam Of Danny Jo Edgar - We Love You, DJ. 

When your working for someone else, as an employee, 9 times out of 10 there are already established rules as to how business is supposed to be done within that organization. However, as you go from working as an employee to working for yourself as an entrepreneur, you become the one responsible for SETTING those ground rules for your business and the expectations and boundaries that come with how your business functions and how it should be run. 

As an entrepreneur, having gone through the motions of this process myself, I can assure you that setting CLEAR expectations and REALISTIC boundaries with clients during the onboarding process is the ONLY way to eliminate misunderstandings, stress, and the burnout for your business that you would feel if you don't layout these ground rules with your clients, to begin with. This is something that I have struggled with in the past, especially if the client was a friend or family member. I thought it would be great to share what I’ve learned thus far or to recommend my best advice and honestly I had to find the confidence in own expertise, my offer, and the advice I offered forth to my clients, to begin with, to realize there were plenty of other reasons why we as entrepreneurs can benefit from clearly defining expectations and boundaries with our clients, like the fact that clients will be far more assured of their investments, and comforted even by you laying these things out in the beginning too. 

Educating clients on what you expect of them, what they can expect of you, when and how you’re going to be available, and how you can best communicate with one another is going to set your relationship up with a precedent for success and ensure that you don’t get burned out and worn out by an out of control client with unreasonable requests and last-minute demands and changes to your original scope of work.

By setting clear expectations and being upfront about what your client will need to do for you and what they can expect FROM you, will make them feel so much more comfortable in the long run, and taking the time to set expectations also reinforces the fact that they are working with a professional service provider and not an employee, buddy, or team member and that you should be taken seriously as that professional, who they hired to provide the expertise and knowledge that you have within your realm of genius. 

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"It’s hard when you’re finding success for your business and you’re starting to feel a little drained and want to unwind and be free to just relax, it’s hard to be able to DO that and not be scared that your growing success and that your business’ progress is going to be the same way as you left it once you are ready to return to it."

Even well-seasoned entrepreneurs make mistakes, especially early in the journey of entrepreneurship... I am sharing 5 of the early mistakes I made as a newbie in the world of business and as an entrepreneur so that you can make sure you avoid making the same mistakes as I did when I first got started on your own entrepreneurial journey.