Episode 2: Four Steps to Get Started: Reenergizing Your Small Business

The Brilliant Creative, Business Coaching for Creatives with Ang Stocke

Welcome to The Brilliant Creative Podcast!

Are you ready for a REFRESH in your creative business? After the past 18 months, I imagine a REFRESH or even a RESTART might be helpful. As a creative business coach, I know how empowering it can feel for my clients to look at their business and find a couple parts of it to “shine up”. Or even to “rebuild” or “recreate”. My clients are finding all of these RE words to be helpful right now. And so am I!

Join me for a chat on how to REVIVE, RESTART and RE-ENERGIZE your current business. Almost everyone is ready for some fresh, new energy...listen in and learn how!

About this podcast:

Some businesses thrived during the COVID-19 pandemic, was yours one? If so, you might be exhausted!

Or, was it one of the most difficult times in business you’ve ever experienced? If so, you too might be exhausted!

Either way, I’d like to humbly suggest it might be time for a REBOOT.

If you are a small business owner, or an almost small business owner, looking for some inspiration to get you back on track after the past year and a half, you have come to the right place. Whether your business did well, or whether your business suffered….everyone is ready for a restart!

In today’s episode I share the four-step process that I have developed to help you re-energize your business! Whether you are a sole proprietor or you employ a brilliant team, this simple method works for all types of businesses. Here’s a little info on the 4 steps.

• Step 1 is believing that your business is worth it, still valuable, and that your clients are still out there waiting for your product or service. Listen in to all the fresh MINDSETS you can adopt here.
• Step 2 is to make a decision. Lots of entrepreneurs get stuck simply because they haven’t made a DECISION.
• Step 3 is to brainstorm and determine WHAT you want to do to RE-ENERGIZE your business
• Step 4 Choose which items to do and when...commit, visualize and go!

Join me as we look forward in your business and take simple and positive steps to get you where you want to be!

In this Episode:

[0:00:11] Where you can find a cheat sheet to follow along with today’s episode.

[0:03:10] Elements that set me apart in the business coaching industry.

[0:03:04] The focus of today’s episode.

[0:04:04] Reenergize: what it means to me and why it is so important right now.

[0:05:26] Think about how “re” words make you feel.

[0:06:19] Different impacts that COVID-19 has had on small businesses and their owners.

[0:09:24] Whatever position you are in right now, there is always room for a reboot.

[0:10:00] The world still needs you; postponed doesn’t mean cancelled.

[0:10:55] Step 1 in the re-energize-your-business process: Think empowering thoughts (and 11 examples of what these can sound like).

[0:13:13] Mindsets of the small business owners whose businesses thrived during the COVID-19 pandemic.

[0:14:15] Step 2 in the re-energize-your-business process: Make a decision.

[0:15:15] The importance of figuring out what it means to you to re-energize your business, and the various ways that you can do this (this is step 3!).

[0:18:44] What it means to grab low-hanging fruit.

[0:20:07] Step 4 in the process helps you choose which of your reenergizing tasks you are going to start with.

[0:20:55] A brief recap of today’s episode, and what you can exp